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4-513: It was founded in 1975 by Grant Stone , with the first convention held in 1976, and has been run annually since. It is generally run by different committees of volunteers each year, and committees bid for the right to run the convention two years in advance. In recent years it has been run as a project of the Western Australian Science Fiction Foundation (WASFF), with that year's committee reporting to

8-645: The Australian National Science Fiction Convention in 1980, and has done so relatively regularly since. In 2011, SwanCon hosted the 50th Australian National Science Fiction Convention , including guests Ellen Datlow , Justina Robson and Sean Williams . The Tin Duck Awards are the Western Australian science fiction achievement awards. They are given out annually at SwanCon and voted on by members of

12-666: The WASFF board. The convention is frequently run at Easter, but has been run at other times, though typically in the first half of the year, and is generally held in a hotel. It generally attracts 250–300 attendees. It will normally have guests attending including at least one international author, and international guests have included Robert Silverberg , Bob Shaw , Anne McAffrey , Terry Pratchett , Neil Gaiman , Brandon Sanderson , Charles Stross , and David Zindell . Australian guests have included John Birmingham , Marianne de Pierres , Kim Wilkins and Kate Forsyth . SwanCon first hosted

16-724: The convention. They were first presented in 1980 at SwanCon 5. The Tin Duck design, after which the Awards were named, was by Rob McGough. Grant Stone Grant Stone is an Australian librarian. He was the founder of Swancon . He was a radio presenter on the radio station RTRFM of the Faster Than Light Radio Show , as well as being the main force in the Murdoch University library special collections of popular culture material. In 1996 he

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