CoNZealand Fringe is a Hugo Finalist for Best Related Work

We're so honored to accept this nomination, a huge thank you to everyone who cast their ballot in support. Thanks also go to our panelists, our hosts, our transcriptionists, and the many hands seen and unseen who helped make this event possible. Congratulations as well to all our fellow finalists -- we see and appreciate everything you bring to our communities.

- Claire, Adri, C, Alasdair, Marguerite, Cheryl and Cassie

The Hugo Awards will be presented at the 79th World Science Fiction Convention, DisCon III, in December 2021.


A series of complementary genre fiction programming at European-friendly times.

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In the tradition of Edinburgh Fringe and other international collateral events, CoNZealand Fringe has been created as a complementary programming series to the annual science fiction convention Worldcon. All our livestreams take place outside core CoNZealand programming hours and are not official CoNZealand programming items. CoNZealand Fringe is not endorsed by CoNZealand.

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The Fringe was a project developed by Claire Rousseau with Adri Joy, C @ The Middle Shelf, Alasdair Stuart, Marguerite Kenner, Cheryl Morgan and Cassie Hart.

Our host channels were: • Claire RousseauNoria ReadsKitty GBree Reads BooksSkiffy & FantyEmiloidBetime BookwormThat's So PoeCheryl MorganThoughts on TomesKalanadi

Thank you to Pablo Defendini, Forestofglory, Susan, Ira Alexandre, Sarah Waites, Bree @ Bree Reads Books, Melanie Harding-Shaw, Benjamin C. Kinney, and to everyone across our various slacks and discords who pitched in with help and advice.

And a special thank you to all of our panelists across the week!

Program Schedule

Transcripts of the panels are now available. Expand the panel entries for links.

Tuesday 28th July

Wednesday 29th July

Thursday 30th July

Friday 31st July

Saturday 1st August

Sunday 2nd August