Octocon day memberships for the Clayton Hotel Cork City are now available. All our weekend and day memberships also include full weekend online access.
Category: Octocon 2026
S. M. Hallow – Online Guest
S. M. Hallow is a speculative fiction author who loves history, fairy tales, and Frankenstein. Her short fiction has received various award nominations and has appeared in the anthology The Best of Fantasy, Volume 3. Her longer fiction includes the novella How to Survive This Fairytale—a finalist in 7 categories for the 2025 Indie Ink…
#OctosDayOut at Dublin Comic Con 2026, Summer Edition
In August 2026, We brought the Octo Collective to Dublin Comic Con. This time, we set up up on the 2nd floor by the escalators. Our Vice-Chair Kat Dodd began crocheting the newest Octo in our collective. Accessibility Officer Declan helped out with both the Octocon and Dublin 2029 table next to us. And our…
Community Fund Donations
It’s come to our attention that when we added an option to donate to the Community Fund while buying your Octocon 2026 membership, the donation field was set as mandatory instead of optional. We have now updated the registration form so you can select to not make a donation when you get your membership. We…
Octothorpe – Online Guests
We welcome the Octothorpe podcast team as our online guests for 2026! Octothorpe is a podcast about science fiction and science fiction fandom which has been released fortnightly since The Great Podcast Commencement of March 2020. The podcast is hosted by John Coxon, Alison Scott, and Liz Batty: three British fans who wanted to talk…
Charity Partner 2026: Cork Penny Dinners
Octocon is delighted to announce our charity partner for 2026: Cork Penny Dinners. Cork Penny Dinners has been providing homeless support in Cork for over 137 years! In 1888, inspired by a growing movement in London where a single penny could buy a hot, nourishing meal, a group of women in Cork took action to…
Ruth Ennis – Online Guest (Sunday)
Due to personal circumstances, Ruth Ennis is now attending online. Ruth Ennis (she/they) is a writer from Kildare. Her work has been published in The Irish Writer’s Handbook (Books Ireland) and I Am The Wind (Little Island). Ruth’s debut novel Shorelines (Little Island) is a young adult verse novel retelling of The Little Mermaid, told…
Octocon Presents: Adrian Tchaikovsky with Green City Wars
Monday 20 July, 2026 @ 8pm IST Join us live on YouTube for a reading and interview with one of our 2026 Guests of Honour, Adrian Tchaikovsky. Octocon 2026 & 2025 members are invited to join us on Zoom after the streaming ends (8:45) for a private Q&A. An email with the invite link will…
Premee Mohamed – Online Guest of Honour
Premee Mohamed is a Nebula, World Fantasy, Ignyte, Locus, and Aurora award-winning Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She has also been a finalist for the Hugo, British Fantasy, British Science Fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Crawford awards. In 2024, she was the Edmonton Public Library writer-in-residence, and she has…
Octocon 2026 Trade Hall Applications Are Now Open!
Interested in trading at Octocon? Trade applications are now open for Octocon 2026. Applications close Monday 17h August. This year, we are in-person for two days (Saturday October 10th and Sunday 11th) but will be potentially offering one day spots for those interested, pro-rata. Traders can also have an online presence during the convention on…