Our 2025 Guest of Honour Francesca Barbini of @lunapress.bsky.social will be the guest of honour at #Pictcon1 taking place in Perth, Scotland. Be sure to check out the details below.
#scifi #fandom #gaming #ReadingCommunity #books
05.11.2025 17:56 — 👍 15 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
Hi all! If you attended #Octocon2025 and have subscribed to our newsletter, you'll know we are looking for feedback on our event.
Be sure to follow the link in our newsletter and make sure your voice is heard.
#octocon #SciFi #fantasy #fandom #readingcommunity #scificonvention #cosplay
03.11.2025 08:30 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Me, to myself: if I'm gonna be Captain Pike at @octocon.bsky.social I'll need someone with the skills to make ALL of my hair stand up instead of just the front
Me: well, @gailsimone.bsky.social could do it
I need you all to now imagine my eyes ejecting from my head & turning around to stare at me.
31.10.2025 10:28 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
I've set a goal of reading it all before @octocon.bsky.social next October.
01.11.2025 22:21 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Poster stating: Happy Halloween from all at Octocon, Image includes pumpkins and our mascot, Octo the Octopus
Happy #Halloween to all our members and friends. Hope you have a #spooky and safe night and weekend!
#Octcocon #MonsterMash #Samhain #ReadingCommunity
31.10.2025 18:04 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Check out this #Octobook book review of Archibald Lox - The Missing Princess by Darren Shan. A portal fantasy you can get lost in. Fans of Shan should definitely give these books a read.
#Octobooks #Octocon #PortalFantasy #YAFantasy #MiddleGradeFantasy #BookSky #ReadingCommunity
20.10.2025 20:09 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
So I am delighted that she is one of @octocon.bsky.social guests of honor for next year. She is a long time attendee of #Octocon always generous with her time, esp on panels and her cosplays have been excellent.
18.10.2025 18:53 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Would love to see you there @emmanewman.bsky.social
14.10.2025 10:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cork City FC crest. Background flag is Green and red with a white stripe cutting through diagonally.
Inspiration for #Octocon2026 poster @corkcityfc.ie
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13.10.2025 07:34 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Delighted to have you, Paul! Looking forward to seeing you next year for #Octocon2026
13.10.2025 07:20 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Poster states: Octocon 2026. Saturday 3rd October – Sunday 4th October. Clayton Hotel Cork City and Online. Guests of Honour: C.E. Murphy and Adrian Tchaikovsky. www.octocon.com. Poster includes images of the guests of honour, the octocon logo and our mascot, Octo the Octopus.
We are delighted to announce that #Octocon2026 will be taking place in Cork City with special guests @cemurphy.bsky.social and @aptshadow.bsky.social.
Find out more at
https://2025.octocon.com/announcing-octocon-2026/
#Octocon #Fantasy #SciFi #Fandom #ReadingCommunity #SciFiConvention #CorkCity
12.10.2025 21:01 — 👍 54 🔁 29 💬 3 📌 6
Such a fun panel to speak on! Thank you to @cometarytales.com for moderating!
My final contribution to @octocon.bsky.social 2025
12.10.2025 16:29 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Online panel entitled Small Press, Big Books with Catherine Sharp, Francesca T Barbini, Cheryl Morgan and Khan Wong.
Just after attending a great panel entitled Small Press, Big Books. Thanks @csharpwords.bsky.social , @lunapress.bsky.social , @khanwong.bsky.social and @cherylmorgan.bsky.social for putting on a great panel.
#Octocon #Octocon2025 #SmallPress #Fantasy #SciFi #ReadingCommunity #WritingCommunity
12.10.2025 16:09 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks @eoindooley.bsky.social . You were a fantastic moderator!
12.10.2025 16:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Done my panels on @octocon.bsky.social hoping people enjoyed them
12.10.2025 13:19 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Fun time at @octocon.bsky.social. Nice vibe about the place, and lovely review to catch up with lots of people including @ianmcdonald.bsky.social and Entity :)
12.10.2025 11:47 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I had a blast running this workshop at @octocon.bsky.social yesterday!
12.10.2025 12:58 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
![National Musem of the American Indian - Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke) portraits - Sarah Grandmother's Knife (Apsáalooke [Crow], age 10), wears an elk-tooth dress and sticks her tongue out playfully toward the camera](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dda5gmpnle5ohymqiep7mr43/bafkreih7lw2tfdcy3bk37gc52hdsfcr2lgixnaf3auzgioqnizj74iak2i@jpeg)
National Musem of the American Indian - Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke) portraits - Sarah Grandmother's Knife (Apsáalooke [Crow], age 10), wears an elk-tooth dress and sticks her tongue out playfully toward the camera
Cool photo from the @octocon.bsky.social Panel discussion on Historical Myths and How to (Not) Use Them
National Musem of the American Indian - Sarah Grandmother's Knife (Apsáalooke [Crow] age 10).. sticks her tongue out playfully
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#Octocon #SciFi #Ireland
12.10.2025 11:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Glad you enjoyed it @paulmara.bsky.social !
12.10.2025 10:14 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks @sakura2miaka.bsky.social. Hope to catch you next time 😊
12.10.2025 09:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Octocon 2025 Programme Guide
Octocon, the National Irish Science Fiction Convention, is a weekend celebration of our favourite stories from books, comics, TV, films and games; from science fiction, fantasy, horror and beyond.
Kicking off today, we have three panels - Perfect is the Enemy of Done - Star Trek: A New Hope - and Meet the Author: @shaunalawless.bsky.social
Find out more at prog.octocon.com
#Octocon #Octocon2025 #Fantasy #SciFi #OnlineConvention
12.10.2025 08:46 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A photo from the hotel bar. 11 people are sat around a long rectangular wooden table with drinks, smiling and waving to the camera.
Had a great time meeting everyone at @octocon.bsky.social yesterday - looking forward to seeing you online today!
12.10.2025 08:14 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
It's time to get ready for #Octocon again. This time, we're all online. Get your cupa whatever ready and favourite slippers on, and let's get cosy!
#Octocon2025 #OnlineConvention #Fandom #SciFi #Fantasy #Comics #ReadingCommunity #Booksky
12.10.2025 08:15 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The Other Skies, Same Airspace: Military Uses of the Nonhuman in Speculative Fiction @octocon.bsky.social talk with Cristina Diamant and Iuliia Ibragimova was really cool
Beserkers! Sentient ships. Post-human. Cyborgs. AI. Cloned intelligence. Chrono-normativity ..more
#Octocon #SciFi #Ireland
11.10.2025 17:41 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Ruth Frances Long teaching Coptic Bookbinding at Octocon
Ruth Frances Long teaching Coptic Bookbinding at Octocon
I survived the Bookbinding workshop at @octocon.bsky.social ! #Octocon25 (next time 2 hours!)
11.10.2025 17:45 — 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Mary-Brigid Turner, Ruth Frances Long, Shauna Lawless, Deirdre Thornton, and Sarah Rees Brennan.
Historical Myths and how (not) to use them just starting now.
#Octocon #Octocon2025 #Fantasy #Mythology
11.10.2025 16:33 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Elektra assassin.
Last sketch of the day.
11.10.2025 14:47 — 👍 58 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Saturday, October 11, 2025 16:00
(2000) A-D: Discussing Comics with Michael Carroll and PJ Holden
Shannon 2 + Alpha Stream, Duration: 60 mins
Michael Carroll
Paul Carroll (moderator)
PJ Holden
In-person only, Panel, Comics, Creatives,
Two much-beloved Irish comic creators, Michael Carroll and PJ Holden, sit down to be grilled by Paul Carroll on the A- D (and probably other letters, too) of comics and their careers.
A photo of the pannel (2000) A-D: Discussing Comics with Michael Carroll and PJ Holden
On the pannel table:
Michael Carroll
PJ Holden
Paul Carroll (moderator)
On now @octocon.bsky.social (2000) A-D: Discussing Comics with Michael Carroll www.michaelowencarroll.com and PJ Holden @pauljholden.com
Paul Carroll of @limitbreakcomics.bsky.social moderating.
11.10.2025 15:22 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
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📆 23-24 August 2025
📍 Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin
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A podcast about storytellers, story lovers, and philosophy. Each episode, we read a story & chat about the philosophical themes with the author. Come for the story. Stay for the philosophy.
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The bid for the Dublin 2029 World Science Fiction Convention 🇮🇪
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A one-day SFFH event held on August 14, 2025, in Seattle, WA. Built and run by humans who may also be sparkle unicorns.
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