JordanCon
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 JordanCon 2010 Flyer |
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| Status | Active |
| Genre | Wheel of Time |
| Venue | Crowne Plaza Ravinia |
| Location | Atlanta, Georgia |
| Country | United States |
| First held | 2009 |
| Organizer | Jennifer Liang, Chair |
| Filing status | For-profit |
| Attendance | 250+ [1][dead link] |
| Official website | http://www.jordancon.org/ |
JordanCon is a North American convention held annually in Atlanta, Georgia that celebrates Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time fantasy book series.
History
JordanCon was announced at Dragon Con in 2007. Flyers debuted at Chattacon in 2008. The first JordanCon was held at the Alpharetta Embassy Suites, in Alpharetta, Georgia, April 17-19, 2009. The Guest of Honor was Harriet McDougal, widow of Robert Jordan. Fan Guest of Honor was Wilson Grooms, and the Toastmaster for the weekend was Jason Denzel. Guests also included writer Brandon Sanderson, and publisher Tom Doherty. Performances by The Lost Boys and Big City Burlesque rounded out the weekend. Over 250 people attended and over $3,000 was raised[why?] on behalf of the Mayo Clinic.
Programming highlights included a recording of Robert Jordan dictating a portion of the prologue to The Gathering Storm. [2][dead link]
JordanCon 2010 was held at the Crowne Plaza Ravinia April 23-25th. Guests included writers Brandon Sanderson, Jana Oliver and David Wong. Toastmaster for the weekend was Matthew Hatch. Attendance was approximately 300 people. [3][dead link][4][dead link]
JordanCon 2011 was held April 15-17 at the Crowne Plaza Ravinia. The Guest of Honor was author David B. Coe. Additional guests included Eugie Foster and Brandon Sanderson.
JordanCon 2012 was held April 20-22 at the Doubletreee Hotel in Roswell, Georgia. The guests of honor include author Mary Robinette Kowal, artist Sam Weber, and toastmaster Melissa Craib Dombrowski. They were joined by Eugie Foster, Emilie P. Bush and Dr. Michael Livingston.
JordanCon 2013 will host DeepSouthCon 51, an annual roving Southern US regional science fiction convention.[5] The Guests of Honor will be artist Michael Whelan and author Seanan McGuire
References
- ^ "JordanCon Round Up". Archived from the original on 2011-07-23. http://web.archive.org/web/20110723003348/http://www.ageoflegends.net/?p=73. Retrieved 2012-01-30.
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- ^ [3] Age of Legends JordanCon Listing
- ^ Mitchell, Petrea (October 7, 2011). "JordanCon Gets DeepSouthCon For 2013". con-news.com. http://con-news.com/?p=6673. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
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