At DisCon III Seattle 2025 launched its membership drive, announced our first-refusal agreement with Visit Seattle, and showed off pictures from our hard hat tour of the Summit addition to the Washington State Convention Center, still under construction but destined to be the home of Worldcon in 2025. The two representatives we had onsite were not enough to host a room party, but we distributed ribbons and sold travel mugs and umbrellas while having dozens of conversations per day about Seattle (and working staff jobs to boot!). We were impressed at the level of enthusiasm for the bid and made it to the end with no competitive bids forming against us. The talk of DisCon was the selection of Chengdu, China to host Worldcon in 2023, our site selection year.

It takes resources to throw a Worldcon. Our parent organization, Seattle Genre Alliance, is a newly registered nonprofit corporation in Washington State, with 501(c)(3) status pending. We have a bank account, an updated website, and are ready to accept your donations. You can support us at Tall ($50), Grande ($150) or Triple Shot ($300) levels, with a dollar-for-dollar credit towards an adult attending membership to the Worldcon if our bid is selected. Triple Shot supporters will receive special tokens of our gratitude at unexpected times!

All of this and more can be found at https://www.seattlein2025.org. Click now! We’ll wait.