DragonCon Atlanta 2025
Thu, Aug 28
|Atlanta
Dragon Con is the largest multi-media, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction & fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film in the universe. Call us a phenomenon, call us one of the most well attended pop-culture conventions in the country, call us the most fan fun you


Time & Location
Aug 28, 2025, 12:00 PM EDT – Sep 01, 2025, 6:00 PM EDT
Atlanta, Hotel District, Atlanta, GA, USA
About the event
Discover more about DragonCon hotels, events, guests, fellow professionals, workshops, and more here: https://www.dragoncon.org/
DragonCon: The Origin Story
There was a time, before Dragon Con, when every convention focused on its one genre. Gaming conventions were for gamers, literature shows were for readers, and comic book shows were retail events. The established conventions were successful, and the organizers stuck to their formulas.
But most fans had multiple interests. It was certainly true for Dragon Con’s founders. They were all science fiction fans, but some of them also enjoyed gaming while others liked comic books. They could go to any convention and have a good time, but only for so long before boredom set in.
And that gave them an idea: Combine fandoms and genres into a single convention for fans who, like them, were interested in different things. In the early going, that meant bringing a science fiction convention and…