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We can’t wait to see you at the Locus Awards Weekend, to be held June 19-22, 2024 in Oakland, California!
WEDNESDAY – FRIDAY: We’ll kick off the event with a series of online readings in the evenings starting Wednesday, June 19, with several readers each evening and a Q&A, and an online meetup.
SATURDAY: Saturday will have several panels (in person and online), a catered reception with food by Havana Restaurant plus SWAG, and the awards ceremony (in person and online) at our beautiful location at the historic Preservation Park in downtown Oakland CA, featuring our awesome MC Henry Lien and special guest Cory Doctorow and we’ll have books and merch for sale! We look forward to a great afternoon mingling with our fabulous local SFF community and celebrating the finest works of 2023.
For those traveling to the Bay Area, hotel rooms are available for Locus Awards attendees at a discounted rate Thursday June 20-Monday June 24, 2024, from $149 a night, at the new AC Hotel Oakland Downtown located at 1431 Jefferson Street Oakland, CA 94612. A hot breakfast is included in the nightly rate. Click here to book: Marriott Event Reservations. Please book by Thursday May 30, 2024 to obtain these rates. Note there are no awards events on-site at the hotel.
There will also be a one-day Locus Bay Area Writing Master Class with Gail Carriger on Sunday, June 23, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., on Career & Comedy, located at Preservation Park near the awards venue. The event will be ticketed separately and workshop ticketing is open! For more info: Locus Bay Area Writers Workshop: Writing Master Class with Gail Carriger, June 2024
Also, our friends at SF in SF are hosting a reading with Robin Sloan, Rudy Rucker & Clara Ward at the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco, Sunday, June 23, 2024. Make a science fiction weekend of it and attend both events!
The 2024 Locus Awards finalists have been announced: 2024 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists
Virtual+Live Awards memberships are $95 and include the virtual readings and meetup, plus the Saturday in-person panels, live awards ceremony with MC Henry Lien, a catered reception (party!) with SWAG, and more, taking place on Saturday, June 22 in the historic Nile Hall at Preservation Park in Oakland, California.
Live-only Awards memberships are $75 and include the Saturday in-person panels, live awards ceremony with MC Henry Lien, a catered reception (party!) with SWAG, and more, taking place on Saturday, June 22 in the historic Nile Hall at Preservation Park in Oakland, California. (Price increases on June 1.)
If you’d like to support us as a top-tier donor and be thanked in our event program, you can purchase a special $350 Friend of Locus membership which entitles you to attend all digital and in-person events, plus the Locus Awards 2024 T-shirt, a VIP tour of the Locus offices, a special backer gift, and our eternal thanks. (You don’t have to attend in person to support at this level.)
You can add on the limited-edition 2024 Locus Awards T-shirt to any order for $35 at checkout, or other Locus swag. Join in the fun! We can’t wait to see you, whether virtually, live, or both.
LOCUS AWARDS SCHEDULE
Wednesday, June 19 JUNETEENTH!
4:00 p.m. PDT – Online Reading: Charlie Jane Anders and Uchechukwu Nwaka
5:00 p.m. PDT – Online Reading: Henry Lien and Connie Willis
6:00 p.m. PDT – Online Reading: Darcie Little Badger and Tobi Ogundiran
Thursday, June 20
4:00 p.m. PDT – Online Reading: Tananarive Due and Kelly Link
5:00 p.m. PDT – Online Reading: Rachael K. Jones and Nghi Vo
6:00 p.m. PDT – Online Reading: Thomas Ha and Naomi Kritzer
Friday, June 21
4:00 p.m. PDT – Online Reading: Cory Doctorow and Eugenia Triantafyllou
5:00 p.m. PDT – Online Reading: Ai Jiang and Premee Mohamed
6:00 – 6:30 p.m. PDT – Online hangout: Meet Locus Awards Organizers
Saturday, June 22
Doors open 12:30 p.m. PDT
1:00-2:00 p.m. PDT – Panel (in-person & on zoom)
“Technology & Futures: The important thing isn’t what the gadget does, it’s who it does it to and who it does it for“, with Cory Doctorow, Liz Henry, and Audrey T. Williams (m)
2:15-3:15 p.m. PDT – Panel (in-person & on zoom)
“Singing the Undersung: Singing the praises of works you may not have heard of — but should have”, with Micaiah “Huw” Evans (m), Emily Jiang, Henry Lien, and Jacob Weisman
3:30-4:30 p.m. PDT – Panel (in-person & on zoom)
“From the Shadows: Horror, the Darker Side of Speculative Fiction”, with Alex Brown, Shane Hawk (m), Sumiko Saulson, and Maggie Tokuda-Hall
4:30-6:00 p.m. – Pre-Awards Reception catered by HAVANA RESTAURANT featuring CARGO CULT BOOKS and FLY BY NIGHT with books for sale and informational tables from local groups East Bay Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Meetup and Afrosurreal Writers Workshop.
4:45-5:15 p.m. – (online only) Ursula K. Le Guin’s Space Crone: A Conversation with Sarah Shin, So Mayer, and Theo Le Guin (private YouTube link)
6:00 p.m. – LOCUS AWARDS CEREMONY
with MC Henry Lien and Special Guest Cory Doctorow
Additional info: We ask members to test for COVID if possible prior to attending for the safety of the community, and masking is strongly encouraged. There is no dress code for the Locus Awards. Wear whatever makes you happy! From geek chic to dressy casual to full red carpet regalia, we like it all. We’ve even had people show up in full dinosaur gear and we did not say “no.” T-shirts are an add-on, and will be shipped to your door (extra shipping fee outside of the US). All the above memberships include a set digital subscription to the magazine, from our February 2024 issue (our Year-in-Review issue with Recommended Reading List and Poll and Survey) to August 2024 (with the Locus Awards photo coverage and writeup) and everything in between. Member subscription is non-transferable and does not affect or extend existing subscriptions. Thanks as always for all your support and for attending the Locus Awards.
Here is a link to our 2023 Locus Awards writeup, where you can see how the awards events went last year!
SLIDING SCALE MEMBERSHIP: We are offering a sliding-scale membership starting at $15 for digital attendees who would otherwise be unable to afford to attend. This is a online-only membership, with access to all online Locus Awards events, but not a subscription or print program.
Locus Supports Inclusivity! Thinking of attending? Please do. We encourage people of color, women, people with disabilities, older people, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people to attend. We welcome people of any gender identity or expression, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, age, size, nationality, religion, culture, education level, and self-identification.
Our Code of Conduct is available here: Locus Science Fiction Foundation Code of Conduct.
Location for Live Events: The Saturday, June 22 programming will take place at Nile Hall in Preservation Park: 665 Thirteenth Street in Oakland CA 94612. It’s a large dark-colored building near the fountain.
Public Transportation. If you plan to take public transit, Preservation Park is a 5-10 minute walk from the 12th Street/Oakland City Center BART station. The nearest bus stops are: 12th Street at MLK and 11th St at Jefferson. To plan your trip, use Google Maps.
Building Access. The entrance to the park is on 13th Street at MLK Jr. Way. The building is located inside Preservation Park on Thirteenth Street, just a short walk from the main entrance. There is a ramp for the building, signage will indicate the ramp entrance. Link for map of campus.
Parking is available inside the park on 13th and Preservation Park Way, and at City Center West Garage, located across the street from the park at 1250 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way, Oakland, CA 94612. This parking garage entrance is located on Jefferson St. or MLK Jr. Way, directly across the street from the main entrance to Preservation Park. Metered street parking is also available at your own discretion.
Introducing Locus Awards 2024 Sponsors:
The Henderson Family Foundation
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation is pleased to announce The Henderson Family Foundation as a Locus Awards and LSFF sponsor.
Cal Henderson is the co-founder and was Chief Technology Officer of Slack. The day-to-day work of Locus Magazine is currently coordinated exclusively through our very busy Slack account, so we are grateful for the venue! Cal oversaw Slack’s world-class engineering team and set the technical vision for the company.
In 2019, he was named a Fortune 40 Under 40 honoree and recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader.
Previously, Cal built and led the engineering teams at Flickr, through its acquisition by Yahoo. An experienced technology leader and a popular speaker on engineering scalability, he authored the best-selling O’Reilly Media book Building Scalable Websites. Cal was also a pioneer in the use of web APIs, and created the basis for OAuth and oEmbed, now used by YouTube, Twitter and many others.
Co-Founder of LinkedIn, co-Founder of Inflection AI, and partner at Greylock, Reid is an accomplished entrepreneur, executive, and investor. He has played an integral role in building many of today’s leading consumer technology businesses. In 2003 he co-founded LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking service. In 2009 he joined Greylock. In 2022, he co-founded Inflection AI. He currently serves on the boards of Aurora, Coda, Entrepreneur First, Microsoft, Nauto, and a few early stage companies still in stealth. In addition, he serves on a number of not-for-profit boards, including Kiva, Endeavor, CZ Biohub, New America, Berggruen Institute, Opportunity@Work, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and the MacArthur Foundation’s Lever for Change. He is the host of Masters of Scale as well as Possible, a podcast that sketches out the brightest version of the future—and what it will take to get there. He is the co-author of five best-selling books: The Startup of You, The Alliance, Blitzscaling, Master
