Category: Online Guests

Jean Bürlesk is a storyteller. He writes, he reads, he acts, he makes jokes nobody understands. He would sing and dance, but he has no sense of rhythm or melody. Sometimes he still sings and dances. As a Luxembourger and a lover of words, he expresses himself in five recognizable languages, as well as the…

John is a scientist by day, working on the interaction between the solar wind and Earth’s magnetic field, and won the Royal Astronomical Society’s Fowler Award. By night, he co-hosts the Octothorpe podcast. He is a keen tabletop gamer and GMs regularly; in all the other parts of the day, he alternates between feeling guilty…

Alison Scott is a London-based SF fan, and one third of the Hugo-winning podcast Octothorpe. She’s also won awards in the past for her fan art, as well as the fanzine she co-edited, Plokta. She’s worked on too many conventions to count and can often be found in the bar. In 2026 she is playing…

Liz is a fan, conrunner, and podcaster who started attending conventions in 2003 and has had strong opinions about them ever since. She is one-third of the Octothorpe podcast, launched in 2020 to cover fandom and interesting fannish topics. When she isn’t podcasting she researches tropical diseases in Thailand. 

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…