The Montréal 2027 Worldcon bid filed its official bid to host the 2027 Worldcon with Seattle 2025 on December 7, 2024, and the bid was accepted by Seattle 2025. See the Worldcon Bids Page for links to the documents in the bid filing.

On the same day, the Tel Aviv 2027 Worldcon bid sent an announcement to SMOFCon 41 for presentation to the Worldcon Q&A session announcing that the bid is suspended. Tel Aviv in 2027 bid chair Guy Kovel wrote: “Regrettably, due to the situation in Israel, we would have to push our bid to a later year, we have not yet made an announcement as we are still in internal discussions as to what year we would be able to bid for.”

The deadline for filing bids to host the 2027 Worldcon is February 14, 2025. Instructions for filing a 2027 Worldcon bid are on the 2025 Worldcon website.

Note: The author of this post is a member of the Montréal 2027 bid committee and the bid’s parent non-profit corporation.

Past and current Worldcons and bids for future Worldcons gave presentations and took questions from the members of Glasgow 2024: A Worldcon for Our Futures, the 2024 Worldcon, on August 7, 2024 in Glasgow, Scotland. Courtesy of Glasgow 2024, we have uploaded video of all of the presentations to YouTube Worldcon Events channel.

There were presentations from the following Worldcons and bids:

• LA in 2026, Montreal in 2027, Tel Aviv in 2027, Brisbane in 2028 bids
• Seated 2025 Seattle Worldcon, Dublin in 2029 bid

None of the other bids that have previously announced interest and that are currently listed on our Worldcon bids page had representatives at SMOFCon 40.

According to the June 5, 2023 edition of the Seattle in 2025 Worldcon Bid newsletter, the Seattle bid to hold the 2025 Worldcon August 13-17, 2025 at the Seattle Convention Center was the only bid filed with the Chengdu 2023 Worldcon committee before the filing deadline. This means that Seattle will be the only bid listed on the ballot. Write-in bids can file up until the end of the election, which will take place at the 2023 Worldcon in Chengdu, China.

Seattle has posted their filing documents on their web site.

In an announcement posted on their website on July 25, 2020, the Worldcon bid for Nice, France announced that they are postponing their bid to host the World Science Fiction Convention. They initially were bidding to host the 2023 Worldcon. No new target date has yet been announced. Their announcement follows:

After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to postpone our bid for hosting the 2023 World Science Fiction Convention in Nice, France.

The impacts of COVID-19 are extensive and have far reaching consequences, as various industries and sectors are affected by the aftermath of the pandemic. Our daily lives, employments and businesses are severely disrupted, and we find ourselves unable to keep the 2023 target.

This has been and still is a challenging time for everyone, and we want to thank you all for your support, open discussions, understanding and encouragement.

We’re genuinely upset and disappointed, but we fully intend to host the WSFC later in time. We will be working to finalize the details and will share more information about our plans in the coming months.