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Montgomery Bell State Park
near Nashville, TN
Get ready for NaNoCon 2025!
Get ready for NaNoCon 2025!
** July 26, 2025 – all weekend **
** July 26, 2025 – all weekend **
We're a friendly secular event: A fun get-together of new connections, supportive experiences, great ideas, and good times!
NaNoCon is a gathering for non-religious people in the South -- now back for our 6th year
NaNoCon is a gathering for non-religious people in the South -- now back for our 6th year
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
Exec Director of Tennessee Advocates for Planned Parenthood, organizer of Power Together (Women’s March) in 2017
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
Former evangelical pastor, in 2019 diagnosed with ALS disease, author about living fully & dying as an atheist
(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
Sociologist, Emotional Intelligence trainer, community builder at Humanists of Tennessee
Pick your favorites from 18 engaging and helpful Workshops and Panels on both Friday & Saturday! (click here for details)
BBQ dinner & cash bar, on an evening terrace with secular friends, overlooking the beautiful lake (vegan options, tickets still available)
Full set by the brilliant atheist musical artist Candi Carpenter on Saturday evening, details here!
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 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. Book here.
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. 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!
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. 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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