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Furry Weekend Atlanta finished its gathering in the first weekend in May and announced a total of 17,736. This currently makes FWA 2025 the largest in person furry convention on record by a narrow margin overcoming Anthrocon 2024’s attendance count of 17,639.

Overall growth had slowed by half from 4,693 attendees between FWA 2023 and 2024 to only having 2,715 more in 2025 than 2024. Factors at play are economic slowdown due to instability from government policies revolving around tariffs, along with a slow down of overseas visitation to the United States given concerns of more aggressive border control policies have caused concerns and issues for travelers.

No I did not secretly made my way to FWA. But the news that came out of that blew my mind.

WE HAVE A NEW #1 Fur Con FWA

They beat Anthrocon by 97, that isn’t a joke that is based upon real numbers.

Here I was expecting the numbers to be lower, why was simple given all the border issues the USA is having with the entire planet. To this….

With 17,736 clearly makes it a 3 way race between FWA, AC and MFF all of whom have topped 16,000.

Frankly I am unsure about AC and MFF even though I know AC is a little over a month away. I say this because on average MFF and AC gets a good percentage of foreign travelers. Verses FWA

Only time will tell

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Thank you to all 17,736 of you that joined us for #FWA2025!

Join us next year May 7th-10th for FWA 2026: Nowhere Inn Between, as we uncover the truth behind the rumors surrounding the Nowhere Inn.

Registration for #FWA2026 opens July 1st, 2025.

Voting is closed for the Cóyotl Awards. The counting machine has been cleared of shed fur and we have tabulated the totals. Thanks to the Furry Film Burrow for hosting the announcement of winners this year–a venue that we may use for future awards announcements too!

The winners of the 2024 Cóyotl Awards are:

Winner for Best Novel
Far Flung – Utunu

Winner for Best Novella
You Look Lost, Pup – Rob MacWolf

Winner for Best Short Story
“Houses of Stone” – Utunu (in The Heavens Within Our Grasp)

Winner for Best Anthology
The Heavens Within Our Grasp – Furry Historical Fiction Society

Winner for Best Other Work
Voice of Dog – Rob MacWolf

Congratulations to the winners! A big thanks to everyone who worked to bring their work to publication this year. We as a fandom are so lucky to have writers, editors, publishers, and readers who are so generous with their time and talent. Truly, we couldn’t do this without you.

Sincerely, 

• The staff of the Furry Writers Guild

Note: It came to our attention after voting started that Kyell Gold’s novel Squeak Thief is over 70,000 words. While this word count qualifies it as a novel by the Cóyotl Awards, we chose not to change it while the process was ongoing. Our main concern was to not invalidate the votes already cast. Based on the votes, the change in category would not have changed the winner in either category. While this might seem like a minor issue, we felt that being transparent in this process was the right way to go. Thank you to everyone who nominated and voted.

August 1-3, 2025 – Delta Hotel, Ottawa

For more Info https://www.canfurence.ca/home

First look at ‘Breaking Bear’, which follows a family of bears who go full criminal to stop frackers, mobsters & a wolf pack from destroying their home.

Brendan Fraser, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Annie Murphy, Elizabeth Hurley & Josh Gad will star, coming soon to Tubi.

Tubi is a free streaming service