Octocon is delighted to announce our 2026 venue and guests of honour!
Clayton Hotel Cork City and Online
Saturday 3rd October – Sunday 4th October, 2026
On the weekend of 3rd and 4th of October 2026, we’re heading to the Clayton Hotel Cork City, centrally located on Lapp’s Quay and convenient for public transport. We will also continue our tradition of holding Octocon both in-person and online – both days!
Guests of Honour: C.E. Murphy and Adrian Tchaikovsky
C.E. (Catie) Murphy
C.E. (Catie) Murphy was born and raised in Alaska, where she held the usual grab-bag of jobs usually seen in an authorial biography, including public library volunteer, archival assistant, cannery worker, and web designer. She has something in the region of eighty books out, under a startling variety of names and genres, ranging from fantasy and science fiction to cozy mysteries to paranormal romance, and probably some dabbling in other things that she’s forgetting.
Catie now lives with her family in her ancestral home of Ireland, a magical place where it rains a lot but nothing one could seriously regard as winter ever actually arrives. Her hobbies include making jam and fudge, and also…writing. She has been told she does not really understand the concept of ‘hobby’, and accepts that as very likely.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Adrian Tchaikovsky is a British science-fiction and fantasy writer known for a wide-variety of work including the Children of Time, Final Architecture, Dogs of War, Tyrant Philosophers and Shadows of the Apt series, as well as standalone books such as Elder Race, Doors of Eden, Spiderlight and many others. Children of Time and its series has won the Arthur C Clarke and BSFA awards, and his other works have won the British Fantasy, British Science Fiction and Sidewise Awards.