TusCon Science Fiction Convention

08/30/2026

Have you purchased your ad in the TusCon 53 Souvenir Program Book? We still have space available. Deadline is October 16. More here: https://tusconscificon.com/program-book-advertising/

08/29/2026

Wanna help spread our social media hashtag? Are you at WorldCon this weekend? Find a TusCon author at World Con this weekend and get a photo with them or their books. Or, if you find our ad in the souvenir book, get us a photo! Tag us and use the hashtag!

Our Featured Guests list is live on the website.
https://tusconscificon.com/featured-guests/

To make it easier, you can visit Brick Cave Media at WorldCon for a guaranteed TusCon guest encounter.

08/21/2026

Keep an eye out for dispatches from the lemurs! We have some great panels in the works!

08/09/2026

Had a great time playing games at MOD Pizza Midtown in Phoenix! There is still time to make your purchase count towards our fundraiser today. Just use THE MODGIVES25 promo code on your in store or online order TODAY ONLY at participating Arizona locations for 25% if your order to be donated to TusCon!

08/09/2026

Today is the day! Head out to any participating Arizona MOD Pizza location or order online. Use the Promo Code MODGIVES25 and 25% of your order will be donated to TusCon!

If you're feeling social, come out and see us from 11am to 2pm today at two locations:
In Tucson - Ina & Thornydale
In Phoenix - Osborn & 7th ave

08/06/2026

Several of TusCon's authors are coming to Mesa on Aug 15th for the Mall Crawl Book Faire hosted by our friends and supporters at Anthology.org
Head on out there in the air conditioned comfort of Superstition Springs Center, meet some authors, buy some books (all the books!) and pick up a TusCon bookmark.
Share pics of your books, TusCon bookmarks, and selfies with authors by tagging us and using hashtag on your socials. We love seeing our community connecting outside the convention.

Be sure to add the 2026 Mall Crawl Book Fair to your to-do this THIS month! Great books, indoors out of the heat at Superstition Springs center in Mesa, AZ: https://arizonabookcoalition.com/index.php/jomsocial/events/viewevent/28-2026-mall-crawl-book-faire?groupid=21

08/05/2026

Another star has gone out in fandom.
Last Friday, another TusCon family member passed away.
Kumie Wise was an amazing, vibrant, brilliant woman, and loving wife and parent. She could instantly set folks at ease with her engaging and friendly personality, and was an enthusiastic supporter of fandom in all its manifestations. She frequently attended TusCon with her husband, David Lee Summers and became part of our family.
Kumie succumbed to complications from sudden onset metastatic breast cancer on Friday July 31, 2026.
She is already terribly missed.

Our love and condolences go out to her family.

We will have a memorial set up for Kumie in the Fountain ballroom at TusCon this year. If you have photos of Kumie you'd like to be displayed, please let us know. You can message here or email our chairperson, Wendy Trakes at [email protected]

07/31/2026

Psst! Our fundraiser is in just over a week! On August 9th, visit a participating MOD Pizza location and use code MODGIVES25 to raise some dough for us! 🍕

Second slide has the list of participating locations.

07/24/2026

The August 1st deadline is coming up quickly! We have limited spaces available in our Vendor Hall. Now's your chance to apply!
https://tusconscificon.com/vendors/

05/04/2026

May the 4th be with you!