News - International Wizard of Oz Club
Return to Oz with Ryan Jay
Ryan Jay is a nationally syndicated entertainment journalist and Wizard of Oz historian. He can be seen Fridays on NBC-Milwaukee’s “The Morning Blend” and on Saturday morning newscasts, reviewing what...
Cindy Ragni receives the 2026 L. Frank Baum Memorial Award
Oz Club Vice President Cindy Ragni received the L. Frank Memorial Award July 25. Cindy, who has been a devoted Oz reader since childhood, joined the Club two decades ago. Since then she has written fo...
Enter the Oz Club annual contests; winners announced at TeslaCon
The Oz Club has sponsored a fiction writing contest especially for TelsaCon, but our three annual contests will also be a part of our weekend. We traditionally display entries at our annual convention...
Balloons, Airships, and Ozoplanes: Fanciful Flights Above and Around Oz
L. Frank Baum launched his most famous heroine into the air in the first chapter of the first Oz book. Since then, a fantastic array of characters and vehicles has populated the Ozian skies. Please en...
Copper and Tin: The Life and Adventures of Two Metal Men
Judy Bieber is a Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. Her day job consists of teaching and research about the history of Spanish America and Brazil. In her free time, she enjoys explo...
Jay Thomas performs at TeslaCon
Jay Thomas writes sensual music with beats and string arrangements that evoke fantasy and escapism, while addressing grief, trauma, and human rights. His androgynous voice travels from gentle and soot...
Above the White City: An Aerial View of the 1893 World’s Fair
Join aeronaut O. Z. Diggs for a sky-high tour of the wondrous World’s Fair of 1893. We’ll take a bird’s eye view of the fairgrounds and swoop down into the White City (have your colored spectacles rea...
Origins of Oz: Suffrage and the White City
Break out your Votes for Women sash, don your green glasses, and join Chris Glasgow, Curator of the Oz Museum in Wamego, Kansas, for a look at two profound influences on L. Frank Baum’s vision of Oz. ...
Join the Conversation; Oz Book Panels with Ryan Bunch
Ryan Bunch President of the International Wizard of Oz Club, joins TeslaCon to moderate book discussion panels about the book that started it all, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Thursday 11:30am) and The...
The Master Key (1901): L. Frank Baum’s Electrical Fairy Tale
Author L. Frank Baum supported his son Robert’s fascination with electricity with interest and pride. An emerging technology in 1901, the 14-year-old was eager to explore its power through his home ex...