‼️REMINDER‼️If you haven’t signed up yet, be sure to do so! 🎲🧩

Come check out our Poet Laureate
@sumikoska.bsky.social ‘s Book release + Signing party this Sunday April 12th! 📚📖✍️

Speculative Poetry Feature: Staring into the Abyss: A Look at Horror Poetry by Sumiko Saulson locusmag.com/feature...

Thank you to all who came and visited our wonderful staff as they tabled at two great events this past weekend, @furlingame.bsky.social and smclibraries Small Press Comics Expo Hosted by ssflibrary !! Our staff had a great time and hope to be back in future! 🎉😁

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At @furlingame.bsky.social ? Stop by and say HI! As some of our amazing staff will be there tabling right outside the Dealer Den!

Progress Report 2 is out now for your reading pleasure! 🧐📖

Inside: an update from our Chair, two new Guests of Honor, LOCUS magazine comes on as a sponsor, and more! Go to baycon.org/progress-reports/ to read about our progress on BayCon 42/Westercon 78. And don’t panic!

Stop by our table and see what activities, crafts and goodies we have in store😁🖍️🎨

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Join us this SATURDAY APRIL 4TH at The South San Francisco Library from 10am-4pm as we’ll be tabling at @smclibraries Small Press Comics Expo ! 🎉

It’s a free event with over 40 independent artists tabling and selling their own original content, special keynote speakers, screen printing, and more!

Want to chair the next BayCon?

Bid submissions are open for BayCon 2027 and BayCon 2028 and due by May 31. Find out how to submit a bid at baycon.org/get-involved/bidding/

Have a favorite tabletop, board or card game? 🧩🃏🎲

Want to share it with others? You can submit your ideas here: form.jotform.com/260077489687....

Thank you to all who visited our shared booth at CarrierCon ! BayCon had a great time with The Royal Manticoran Navy , what a fun event! They’ll be joining us at BayCon as well, so be sure to buy your tickets as you won’t want to miss out on the fun !

Yes! Its a great event thats been around for a couple years now 😁

BayCon joins forces with The Royal Manticoran Navy HMS Medusa this weekend at CarrierCon , pop culture & anime con on board the USS Hornet in Alameda! 🚢🌊

Come by our table and get some goodies along with a discounted badge to BayCon 42/Westercon 78! See you at the museum!

@locusmag.bsky.social

,horror, and young-adult publishing field, with extensive reviews and listings of new books, short fiction, and magazines.

We’re working on some special branded spaces which we’ll go into detail in the near future. Please help welcome them onboard by getting your badge today!

BayCon 42 / Westercon 78 is pleased to welcome Locus Magazine as an “Ultimate Answer” sponsor of our convention weekend!

From locusmag.com: Locus is a non-profit review and trade journal, covering the science fiction and fantasy field since 1968. Locus publishes news of the science fiction, fantasy

‼️REMINDER‼️

Want to speak or moderate a panel at BayCon? Programming is still accepting submissions until APRIL 2ND, 2026. Go to baycon.org/get-involved/panelists for information on how to submit!

BayCon 42 / Westercon 78 The Answer

Also stop by baycon.org to book your hotel room and be close to the action all weekend! 🏨🎉

Happy St. Paddy’s Day🍀🇮🇪!

Earth may not have been lucky but fortunately for intrepid space travelers like yourself, there is still something to celebrate! Use code LUCKY42 for $10 off a full weekend badge to BayCon 42/Westercon 78.

✨ @sumikoska.bsky.social “Dance of the Necromance” Poetry Book Launch (on Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/42158...).

See our Guests of Honor before BayCon for events this March and April! 🗓️

✨ @annaleen.bsky.social , “Privacy’s Defender” book launch w/Cindy Cohn March 12 (eff.org/post/3mfrocuaklo2h).

✨Jenay Marontate aka Kitchen Witch, “Tea and Magic” talk, March 21 at the Goddess Festival, Sacramento, CA.

@sumikoska.bsky.social @annaleen.bsky.social @charliejane.bsky.social

Wishing all our Women and Non-Binary Guests of Honor, past and present, a Happy International Women’s Day!
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#internationalwomensday #womeninsciencefiction #womeninfantasy #womeninspeculativefiction #womeninspiringwomen

Writing Contest Visit the post for more.

The winners will be announced during Opening Ceremonies at the convention and will receive $100 and a free day badge to accept their prizes.

Link for Info + Apply: baycon.org/writing-cont...

BayCon 42 / Westercon 78 is excited to announce the Society for the Promotion of Speculative Fiction’s short story writing contest! 📝✍️

Stories must draw inspiration from this year’s theme.Story submissions will be accepted from MARCH 1ST - MARCH 31ST, 2026.

Kitchen Witch Gourmet | Store We offer Loose leaf tea and specialty spices. Teas for sleep, teas for love, and of course we also offer the "Spice of Life". Enjoy our delicious world magick.

or you can shop any time at KitchenWitchGourmet.com.

a gold award in Divination, and a silver in Witchcraft.

Today Jenay resides in Lodi, CA with her family, this is where her beloved tea company Kitchen Witch Gourmet manufacturing warehouse is located. You can find her wares in the BayCon Marketplace and in our Divination Room

proper started in New Orleans when she had her tea leaves read for the first time.

This opened the door to not only a love affair with tea but a dedication to Tea Magic.
Jenay’s book Tea Magic received two awards from the Academy Coalition of Visionary Resources (COVR),