The Fall Plus-Size Event Calendar, and What You Can Actually Confirm Before You Pay

Going to one of these is rarely a local decision. A convention in Atlanta or an awards night in Queens means a flight or a long drive, a hotel, a Saturday, and a few hundred dollars committed weeks before the doors open. Which makes the listing page a practical document rather than a promotional one. Here is what two of this season's larger plus-size events will actually tell you before you hand over money — and what they won't.

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THICKCON returns to the Westside Cultural Arts Center in Atlanta on Saturday, October 17, 2026. The programming runs to fashion presentations, panels, a vendor marketplace, networking and live entertainment, with a performance by Arleisha Marshall. Two honorees are named: Gwen DeVoe, who founded Full Figured Fashion Week and is being recognised for more than two decades of building runway and hiring opportunities for plus-size designers and models, and the actress and entrepreneur Nzinga Imani.

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General admission was listed at $45.00 on THICKCON's own site — which, as of August 21, shows general admission sold out. That same site does not state the date. It does not state the venue either. Both come from The Curvy Fashionista, which discloses that it is an official media partner for the event — so the two facts you need in order to book a flight are, at the point of sale, available only through a partner outlet rather than from the seller.

Queen Size Magazine marks its fifteenth year with a two-day event at the Jamaica Performing Arts Center, 153-10 Jamaica Avenue in Queens. Friday, November 6 runs 5:30 to 9pm and is billed as a night of fashion honouring the magazine's anniversary; the awards themselves run the following evening, 4 to 8pm. The Saturday date is not given on the listing. Neither is any ticket price, at any tier. The refund policy is stated, and it is two words: no refunds.

Date, venue, price, refund terms. Between two events, three of those four are absent from at least one seller's own page, and the one that is always present is the one that protects the organiser. This is not a scandal and it is almost certainly not deliberate — these are small operations with thin staff, and the information usually exists somewhere, on an Instagram post or in a partner's write-up. But "it's on the flyer somewhere" is a different proposition when the ask is a flight and a hotel room, and an attendee who cannot confirm a date without cross-referencing a media partner is being asked to carry a risk the organiser could remove with one line of text.