Category: Octocon 2025

S.L. Dove Cooper (she/they) is a queer author and editor. She spends her time exploring asexuality and aromanticism in literature, finally having found a good use for her MA. She has been chasing stories in some way or another since she was old enough to follow a narrative. Find her at:

Khan has a past as a poet, cellist, arts funder and internationally known hula hooper. His debut novel, The Circus Infinite, was published by Angry Robot Books in 2022. It was longlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Best Novel category, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. His second novel, Down in…

Francesca T Barbini is the founder and director of Luna Press Publishing. She is an award-winning editor, and a translator, born and raised in Rome, Italy. After years of volunteer work around the world, she completed a MA Honours in Religious Studies at New College, Edinburgh University, focusing on the Ancient Near East and the…

Jo Zebedee is the author of 7 novels, most set in and around her native Northern Ireland. She also runs The Secret Bookshelf, in Carrickfergus, and finds herself dreaming about books in all their various stages of completion. She is currently working on the sequel to her cult hit, Inish Carraig. She can be found…

Marve has been writing for over a decade and has self-published a thriller, His Dark Reflection, to critical acclaim. Her debut fantasy novel, Firstborn of the Sun, is the first in a trilogy being published by Penguin Michael Joseph in October 2025. This novel also placed her as a finalist in many competitions, including the…

T.L. Huchu’s work has appeared in ‘Lightspeed’, ‘Interzone’, ‘Analog Science Fiction & Fact’, ‘The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021’, ‘Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine’, ‘Mystery Weekly’, ‘The Year’s Best Crime and Mystery Stories 2016’, and elsewhere. He is the winner of a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (2023), Alex Award (2022), the Children’s Africana Book Award…