One glance at the "Best Related Work" ballot for this year's Hugo Awards reveals a rich collection of voices from the SFF community. Chief among those are two genre conventions: FIYAHCON, an online convention "centering the perspectives and celebrating the contributions of BIPOC in speculative fiction," and CoNZealand Fringe, an offshoot of 2020's WorldCon. FIYAHCON is a rising star in the convention scene, and CoNZealand is a response to what many community members considered gaps in the official CoNZealand programming.(FIYAHCON's own fringe equivalent has recently been rebranded as BonFIYAH, and has been welcomed by the larger conference as a partner in boosting BIPOC stories and voices in the SFF community. "In short, we were given a seat by the fire," wrote BonFIYAH coordinators, Iori Kusano and Vida Cruz. "FIYAHCON did everything in its power to ensure that we were not Fringe but a mainstage event in our own right.")ConZealand Fringe was developed by Claire Rousseau, Adri Joy, C @ The Middle Shelf, Alasdair Stuart, Marguerite Kenner, Cheryl Morgan, and Cassie Hart. To help tell its story, I invited Adri Joy to write about her experience, the importance of grassroots fan movements, and the effort they undertook to transcribe over 150,000 words worth of panels.Editor's note: The opinions below belong to Adri Joy, and don't necessarily reflect hose of the CoNZealand Fringe team or its individual members.