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2026 TAFF winner

Locus notes the 2026 Trans-Atlantic Fan Fund winner - TAFF still runs on community donations to send a fan across the Atlantic for Worldcon-style cross-pollination without personal wealth tests.

The fund is old-line SF infrastructure: volunteer-run, transparency-heavy, built on the idea that conventions shouldn't be paywalled to the already comfortable. If you wonder how fandom survived before corporate sponsorship, these travel grants are part of the answer.

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Locus Magazine