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Montgomery Bell State Park
near Nashville, TN
Next year's NaNoCon dates!
Next year's NaNoCon dates!
** August 1, 2026 – all weekend **
** August 1, 2026 – all weekend **
(July 31 - August 2, 2026)
We're a friendly secular event: A fun get-together of new connections, supportive experiences, great ideas, and good times!
Thanks everyone for a wonderful event in 2025!!
Thanks everyone for a wonderful event in 2025!!
The Thinking Atheist podcast host, author, speaker, former Christian radio host
President of American Humanist Association, author, counselor, The Clergy Project
Author of "Star-Spangled Jesus," content creator on Christian nationalism, LGBTQIA+ rights, comedy
FFRF co-president, author, former preacher & evangelist, debater, songwriter
Trans Activist, Host, Producer, and Editor for The Line on YouTube, Reptile Mom, Owner of @epiclootexotics
Founder of Recovering from Religion and Secular Therapy Project, author The God Virus and Sex and God
Former charismatic pastor, now a content creator on religion & culture, runs Bridge City Global
Artist, model & entertainer in Las Vegas, deconstructed Southern Baptist, feminist, polyamory advocate
Comedy trainer. Producer. Writer. MC of comedy at the debut Friday Night Special! Host of "Growing Up Fundie" podcast
Exec Director of Tennessee Advocates for Planned Parenthood, organizer of Power Together (Women’s March)
(Elliott Martin) Talk show host (The Atheist Experience), Conversation Coalition, Secular Rising US (SeRiUS) organizer
American Atheists director of strategic communications & policy engagement, activist, writer
Have a Workshop or Panel idea you'd like to propose for 2026? Send it in! Details here at the Propose a Workshop page.
BBQ dinner & cash bar, on an evening terrace with secular friends, overlooking the beautiful lake (vegan options too!)
Let us know you're coming!
Let us know you're coming!
1000 Hotel Avenue, Burns, TN 37029
1000 Hotel Avenue, Burns, TN 37029
Montgomery Bell State Park, just 50 minutes West of Nashville, is a beautiful resort on a lake, and the whole Lodge is reserved just for us! Once again, we're taking over the entire resort - it'll be a hotel full of secular friends, plus awesome new options for 2026: six CABINS! Book here.
Montgomery Bell State Park, just 50 minutes West of Nashville, is a beautiful resort on a lake, and the whole Lodge is reserved just for us! Once again, we're taking over the entire resort - it'll be a hotel full of secular friends, plus awesome new options for 2026: six CABINS! Book here.
The Lodge is a top-notch conference space with hotel rooms and great summer amenities. * Note: If you try to reserve directly with the venue, it will show as "sold out" -- because all the rooms are blocked for us! Use this button below to access our special reduced rate, plus a new option for this year: six CABINS!
What is NaNoCon?
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. After our sixth in-person event in 2025 was a resounding success, now we're gearing up for our 10-year anniversary in 2026!
We call it the Nashville "Nones" Convention -- this refers to the answer people like us give on surveys when we're 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 one of the fastest-growing groups 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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