Get Ready for Flame Con 2025!

August 16 & 17

The world’s largest LGBTQ+ comics and pop culture convention is back for another electrifying year! Come spend 2 days of queer, geeky fun with us this summer.

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dave ring

dave ring is a queer editor and writer of speculative fiction living in Washington, DC. His short fiction features in publications including Podcastle, Fireside, and Lightspeed. His novella The Hidden Ones was published in fall 2021 by Rebel Satori Press. He is the Ignyte- and World Fantasy Award-nominated publisher and managing editor of Neon Hemlock Press, and the co-editor of Baffling Magazine. A frequent anthologist, dave edited the Shirley Jackson Award-winning Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness (2021) and, most recently, The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread (2024). Find him online at dave-ring.com.

Sharang Biswas

Sharang Biswas is a writer, artist, and award-winning game designer. He has won IndieCade and IGDN awards for his games and has showcased interactive works at numerous galleries, museums, and festivals, including Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, and the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. His novella The Iron Below Remembers (Neon Hemlock) came out in March 2025. His writing has also appeared in Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, Baffling Magazine, Eurogamer, Dicebreaker, Unwinnable, and more. He is the co-editor of Honey & Hot Wax: An Anthology of Erotic Art Games (Pelgrane Press) and Strange Lusts / Strange Loves: An Anthology of Erotic Interactive Fiction (Strange Horizons).

Bradley Clayton

Bradley is a GLAAD and RINGO award winning illustrator who lives in Brooklyn making comics(DC/Dark Horse/Abrams). You can find them indoors with their cat reading or gaming.

To catch up with their work, check out the award-winning anthology Young Men in Love, Killer Queens 2, and West Hollywood Monster Squad!

Sina Grace

Sina Grace is the USA Today bestselling, GLAAD award-winning writer and artist best known for his run on Iceman at Marvel, Superman: The Harvests of Youth at DC, and West Hollywood Monster Squad at Abrams. His career is one big love letter to Los Angeles, highlighted especially in the Boom series Ghosted in LA, being collected in one volume this November.

Latest Updates

dave ring

dave ring is a queer editor and writer of speculative fiction living in Washington, DC. His short fiction features in publications including Podcastle, Fireside, and Lightspeed. His novella The Hidden Ones was published in fall 2021 by Rebel Satori Press. He is the Ignyte- and World Fantasy Award-nominated publisher and managing editor of Neon Hemlock Press, and the co-editor of Baffling Magazine. A frequent anthologist, dave edited the Shirley Jackson Award-winning Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness (2021) and, most recently, The Crawling Moon: Queer Tales of Inescapable Dread (2024). Find him online at dave-ring.com.

Sharang Biswas

Sharang Biswas is a writer, artist, and award-winning game designer. He has won IndieCade and IGDN awards for his games and has showcased interactive works at numerous galleries, museums, and festivals, including Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, and the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. His novella The Iron Below Remembers (Neon Hemlock) came out in March 2025. His writing has also appeared in Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, Baffling Magazine, Eurogamer, Dicebreaker, Unwinnable, and more. He is the co-editor of Honey & Hot Wax: An Anthology of Erotic Art Games (Pelgrane Press) and Strange Lusts / Strange Loves: An Anthology of Erotic Interactive Fiction (Strange Horizons).

Bradley Clayton

Bradley is a GLAAD and RINGO award winning illustrator who lives in Brooklyn making comics(DC/Dark Horse/Abrams). You can find them indoors with their cat reading or gaming.

To catch up with their work, check out the award-winning anthology Young Men in Love, Killer Queens 2, and West Hollywood Monster Squad!

Sina Grace

Sina Grace is the USA Today bestselling, GLAAD award-winning writer and artist best known for his run on Iceman at Marvel, Superman: The Harvests of Youth at DC, and West Hollywood Monster Squad at Abrams. His career is one big love letter to Los Angeles, highlighted especially in the Boom series Ghosted in LA, being collected in one volume this November.

Quick Links

There are many ways to engage with Flame Con! For your convenience, here is a collection of links that will help you do so in a variety of ways.

Book Your Hotel

You can book at the host from August 15 – 17, 2025 at an exclusive rate starting at $210/night while availability lasts using the following link.

Gaymer Lounge Application

Want to apply for a Gaymer Lounge event? Click here for the NYC Gaymers programming application!

Donate to Our Non-Profit

Flame Con is a venture of the completely volunteer-run 501(c)(3) non-profit, Geeks OUT. Please consider donating to help Flame Con continue to run and grow.

Become a Flame Con Volunteer

Volunteer Applications Close July 15, 2025

Interested in volunteering at Flame Con? Apply here for the chance to join our team.

Press Pass Application

Press Pass Applications Launching Soon

Do you want to cover Flame Con for your media outlet? Apply for a press here.

Featured Cosplayer Application

Interested in being a featured cosplay guest at Flame Con?

SparQ Program

SparQ applications close
May 30, 2025 at 11:59pm ET

SparQ aims to amplify the work of marginalized voices in the comics community by offering selected applicants acomplimentary artist’s table at Flame Con. Trans and non-binary creators are encouraged to apply.