NaNoCon 6

Montgomery Bell State Park
near Nashville, TN

Get ready for NaNoCon 2025!

** July 26, 2025 – all weekend **  

We're a friendly secular event: A fun get-together of new connections, supportive experiences, great ideas, and high fives!

NaNoCon is a gathering for non-religious people in the South -- now back for our 6th year

Click for the awesome Speakers at our most recent event... Here's just a few of who's coming in 2025, with more announcing soon:

Seth Andrews

The Thinking Atheist podcast host, author, speaker, former Christian radio host

Candace Gorham

President of American Humanist Association, author, counselor, The Clergy Project 

 

April Ajoy

Author of "Star-Spangled Jesus," content creator on Christian nationalism, LGBTQIA+ rights, comedy

Dan Barker

FFRF co-president, author, former preacher & evangelist, debater, songwriter

Got a cool Workshop or Panel you'd like to host for 2025?  Propose it here!
Hiking, boating, nature by the lake,
golfing, sun by the pool  
BBQ dinner & cash bar, on an evening terrace with secular friends, overlooking the beautiful lake. 

Let us know you're coming!

The Lodge at Montgomery Bell

1000 Hotel Avenue, Burns, TN 37029 

Montgomery Bell State Park, just 50 minutes West of Nashville, is a beautiful resort on a lake, and this year the Lodge is reserved just for us!  For the first time, we're taking over the whole resort - it'll be a hotel full of secular friends, just happy heathens hanging out by the lake.

The Lodge is a top-notch conference space with hotel rooms and great summer entertainment options.  


 What is NaNoCon?

NaNoCon is a gathering for all of us happy heathens living in the Bible Belt. We do it in Tennessee because Nashville is awesome, and because, well, here’s where it started!  There's typically not a lot here in the South for us non-religious types, so we figured we'd just have to start something ourselves.  Our first event was on March 5, 2016, and over 400 people showed up from a 6 state region, so we decided to keep it going.  Now, after our fifth successful in-person event in 2022, we're gearing up for NaNoCon 6 in 2025!  

We call it the Nashville "Nones" Convention -- this refers to the answer people like us give on surveys when asked to select our religious preference, and we pick "None of the above."  Turns out there are actually quite a lot of us... one in four, maybe more.  In fact, according to the survey people at Pew Research, apparently we're the fastest-growing group in the country.  So, there might as well be something like this, by us and for us, to help us get connected.  

What started out in 2016 as just a good idea among friends has since become a thing that has helped lots of people to connect, support each other’s journeys, and share experiences, ideas, and high fives. 

Check it out, spread the word, let's build something cool!

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