by Rhed Morgan | Nov 1, 2024 | Announcements, Food and Drink, Information
Tomorrow the host hotel block opens for booking! So today I wanted to take the time to tell you a little bit about the Crowne Plaza Atlanta Perimeter at Ravinia.
1. Either valet or self parking is available on site. In the past, the hotel has offered a reduced daily rate for JordanCon attendees. Parking is in a garage under the hotel. In 2024, an alternate parking garage was available as well, around the corner from the hotel.
2. Food is available on site. The Crowne Plaza offers a grab-and-go convenience food selection, a coffee shop, two bars (upstairs and down), light eats upstairs, and a full-service restaurant open for breakfast and dinner. With JordanCon in the hotel, breakfast that in the past consisted of a buffet meal, usually eggs, potatoes, meat(s), and a breakfast bread like pancakes or waffles, plus the usual continental items as well.
3. If you smoke or vape, there’s an area to the far left of the hotel entrance (turn left as you go out the hotel doors). There are at least three picnic tables there, along with butt cans and a trash can. Remember to help keep this area clean!
4. Behind the hotel is a beautiful park area. It’s a great place to take your food delivery (no eating in the hotel lobby), or to get away from the bustle of the con for a bit with a book. The park has some great places to take photos, and you can bet all the pro photographers at the event know the best spots!
5. If you’re a mermaid, there is a pool. It’s indoors on floor 2 and heated, so if you want to take a dip, you have that option.
6. The area surrounding the hotel boasts a ton of places for you to grab snacks and beverages for the room (Target and Publix are close by), or to go out to have a meal outside the hotel. UberEats, Grubhub, and the like are also available should you just want to chill in your room with some Chinese food.
7. Lastly, staying at the host hotel enhances your JordanCon experience. You have a place to store purchases from the Vendors Hall, a place to escape the crowds, a room to go back to with your ConSuite lunch, and a bed to stumble toward when you’re exhausted from a long night of dancing or gaming.
Tl;dr? The host hotel is the place to be for JordanCon 2025. The link opens November 2 at noon, so watch social media and your email to book.
by Rhed Morgan | Jul 12, 2024 | Announcements, Charity Events
Written by Paige Vest, Anthology Director
For the past several years, JordanCon has produced a short story anthology with stories written by former and current attendees and guests of the convention. We eventually added art to the anthology, and now the books contain a beautiful mixture of art and stories. Featuring elements of science fiction, fantasy, or horror, we have had some stunningly good submissions over the years.
Each year, the proceeds of the anthology sales go to the convention’s chosen charity, the Mayo Clinic. This is where our dear Creator, Robert Jordan, was treated for his rare illness, amyloidosis. We lost Jordan on September 16, 2007, and with the inception of the convention the following year, we’ve donated to the Mayo Clinic each year.
We hope that you choose to support the convention and our charity in 2025 by submitting art or stories, or by purchasing an anthology, or both. Our theme for the anthology is Heroes, and we anticipate lots of wonderful content. You’ll soon be able to preorder the anthology on the JordanCon site, and it will also be available to purchase at the convention, which takes place April 25-27, 2025. The paperback edition will be available to order on Amazon beginning April 25, with a Kindle edition to follow soon after. And remember, authors and artists who are accepted into the anthology receive not only an honorarium for submitting, but also receive a complimentary copy of the anthology.
We can’t wait to read the wonderful stories and see the amazing art that our participants will submit! Find guidelines and deadlines for submissions here: JordanCon Anthology 2025 submissions.
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash
by Rhed Morgan | Mar 2, 2024 | Announcements, Programming
It’s March, and that means the JordanCon 2024 schedule is out! You can now start planning your panels for each day. Keep in mind the wheel is still weaving, so things may change between now and JordanCon.
You can find the schedule here: jordancon2024.sched.com
For easy access, you can also download the Sched app, and the JordanCon schedule will be publicly available. If you want to customize it so you know what you plan to attend when, keep reading!
Mobile App
If you don’t already have Sched on your device, you should download it. Click Sign Up or Sign In, depending on if you created an account last year.
You’ll see a typical sign up page asking for name, email, and password.
Once you’re signed in, do a search for JordanCon and click on JordanCon 2024.
You’ll see this:
Tracks are color-coded so you know at a glance what track each panel is associated with. For example, above you see that Main Programming is lilac, Wheel of Time is pink, and Fantasy is light blue.
Now, to add a panel to My Sched (your personal to-do list), click on the box with the panel listing, and it opens up to this:
At the bottom, click Add to Sched. When you’ve added some events, you can click on My Sched and it will look something like this:
Now, if you want to easily navigate between days of JordanCon, you simply click the day whose schedule you want to see. That will take you to the top of the day’s events.
This feature works the same in My Sched.
Web Access
You can also access Sched via the web. Go to jordancon2024.sched.com, and you’ll see this:
The blue arrows point to Sign up and log in.
The green arrow shows the color coding of the various tracks; you can also use this to filter!
The red arrow shows where you can change how the schedule appears. “Simple” is what appears above, with everything sorted by time. “Grid” sorts things into—you guessed it—a grid. “Expanded” shows all the details included in each listing, and “By Venue” sorts everything by where it’s located. If you want to attend a lot of Sanderson track panels, for example, you may want to sort By Venue, and that will show you what time each panel is.
When you sign up via web, you’ll have the option of signing up with Google, Facebook, or email.
Once you’re signed in, you’ll see circles next to every event. You can click that circle to mark it as to-attend, and a checkmark will appear next to it, as seen in the purple circles below.
In the bottom left, you’ll see how many panels or activities you have saved to My Schedule.
If you click My Schedule in the bottom left, you’re taken to your personalized agenda, and it looks like this:
Further Support
If you need any further info or support, you can check out Sched’s how-to page, here: https://sched.com/guide-category/guide-for-attendees/
We can’t wait to see you in April!
by JordanCon Marketing | Feb 6, 2024 | Announcements, Art Show
The annual Art Show is one of the highlights of our convention, and this year we’re adding something for our younger attendees! Last year we had a spare panel in the show and decided to offer it as a place for kids to show off their art skills. It was such a success that we decided to include it as an official part of the Art Show moving forward. So if you’re between the ages of 0-18, the Kidz Corner is just for you!
As long as you fall within the age range above, you can submit anything you want to show off at JordanCon 2024. Whether you practice a traditional art (drawing, painting, etc.), a fiber art (knitting, crocheting, weaving, etc.), or something less traditional (painting miniatures, lego builds, etc.), there is a place for you in the Kidz Corner. Once you drop off your art with us, we will make each project its own display card. Aradani has also donated some mats and backboards that fit 8.5″ x 11″ pictures, so we will add those to any projects that will fit.
Please keep in mind that art in the Kidz Corner will not be for sale and it will not be stored after the convention ends. That means you need to be sure to pick your art up before the convention is over to be sure it makes it back home with you.
If you don’t have any art prepared, that’s no reason to miss out on participating in the Kidz Corner. We will have crayons and colored pencils next to the Aradani booth, so feel free to stop by and make something new!
If you have any questions, please reach out to our Art Show director at artshow@jordancon.org for help.
by Kevin A Davis | Feb 1, 2024 | Announcements, Authors Workshop, Programming, Writer Workshop
Friday Night Writer’s Workshop
Writers – this is your event! Industry professionals and your peers will read and critique 1000 word submissions.
You’ll get together in small groups with a couple guests and a few peers in a casual setting. This is an awesome chance to not only get feedback on a few pages, but give it as well.
Space is limited, so get your submission in early. Word documents only, double-spaced with default margins and readable font, so we can print them out for each critique pod. One submission per person. If you must revise and resubmit, it will change your place in the queue. Plan half an hour per reading so this will be a late Friday event which can last two hours or more. We’ll cutoff submissions when we reach capacity.
Scheduled for 8:30 p.m. Friday April 19, 2024 (results may vary so check the schedule when you arrive).
Submit here
by Anthology | May 3, 2023 | Announcements, Charity Events
Calling all Authors and Artists!
The JordanCon 2024 Anthology Submissions are now open!
Every year JordanCon publishes an Anthology featuring guests and attendees of the convention. All proceeds from the sale of the anthology go toward supporting the JordanCon Charity. We are looking for short fiction (under 7500 words), novellas (12,000-20,000 words) and full color, interior art.
- Fiction submissions are due by September 15, 2023. (This due date was extended.)
- Art submissions are due by November 1, 2023.
The title of the JordanCon 2024 Anthology is A Magnificent Display of Marvelous Wonders. We are looking for stories and art positively centered around extraordinary performers and fantastical displays. Acrobats, trick-shots, feats of strength, mysterious artifacts, rare creatures, magical or far-flung wonders. These are only broad examples and non-exhaustive. We cherish creativity on theme. Stories and art must also fall within the categories of Science Fiction, Fantasy, or Horror, meaning that it must contain elements of one or more of these genres.
There are three submission forms, so please check the eligibility requirements to make sure you are using the correct form. Full submission guidelines are in the forms. Please be sure to read them. If you have any questions, please email anthology@jordancon.org.
If you have never been a Guest of the convention, nor were you in the 2023 Anthology as an author, you can submit here:
2024 Attendee Author Submission Form
If you have been a Guest of the convention before, or you were in the 2023 Anthology as an author, you can submit here:
2024 Prior-Guest Author Submission Form
If you are submitting art, you can submit here:
2024 Artist Submission Form
