Our next monthly hangout will be Sunday 13th September from 4pm to 5:30pm IST It’s our last Zoom hangout before Octocon happens – come along and chat about what you’re looking forward to this year, and meet some of our fellow members too. There will be some teasers about what’s going to be on the…
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Jean Bürlesk – Online Guest
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…
Octothorpe: John Coxon – Online Guest
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…
Octothorpe: Alison Scott – Online Guest
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…
Octothorpe: Liz Batty – Online Guest
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.
Day Memberships for Cork Are Now Available!
Octocon day memberships for the Clayton Hotel Cork City are now available. All our weekend and day memberships also include full weekend online access.
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…