On a hot weekend in August, the Octocon Team arrived at Dublin Comic Con. We brought Octos, flyers, bookmarks, Octo-stickers and chocolates to tempt unwary travellers. By Sunday evening, most of our chocolates, stickers, bookmarks, flyers, and travellers softly and silently vanished away. Happily, our Octos got to come home with us. On Sunday afternoon,…
Category: Octocon 2025
Octocon Presents at Dublin Comic Con: Andor and the Parallels to the History of Irish Rebellion
Octocon is delighted to announce that we’ll be back at Dublin Comic Con on 10-11 of August, with a fantable and a panel! Panel Time: Sunday 11 August @15:00 Panel Description: It’s easy to romanticise violence, especially if we deem the cause worthy, but in Star Wars Andor, we see the toll that rebellion takes…
Khan Wong – Online Guest
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…
Fenek and Przysto – In-person Guests
Fenek is a dedicated cosplayer and costume maker with 7 years of experience, currently studying Textiles and Fashion with a passion for crafting. Her main focus is on video game cosplay, but she’s also a huge fan of books and anime. Always eager to meet new people and help fellow cosplayers with their projects! You…
Francesca T Barbini – Online Guest
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…
Crochet Your Own Octo
The Octo crochet pattern has been updated for 2025! Why not crochet your very own member of the Octo collective? Basic crochet knowledge required. Download the crochet pattern (PDF).
Octocon Presents at Reconnect: Unreliable Narrators and Other Tricks (and Our Fan Table)
Are you going to be at this year’s Eastercon, Reconnect, in Belfast? If so, check out our Octocon Presents panel, featuring a stellar cast of former Octocon guests and guests of honour, and moderated by this years’ co-chair. The panel was first run at Octocon 2022. Octocon Presents: Unreliable Narrators and Other Tricks Saturday 19…
Jo Zebedee – Online Guest (unable to attend)
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 Michael Anson – Online Guest
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 – Online Guest
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…