Crochet Your Own Octo

The Octo crochet pattern has been updated for 2025! Why not crochet your very own member of the Octo collective? Basic crochet knowledge required. Download the crochet pattern (PDF).

Octocon Presents at Reconnect: Unreliable Narrators and Other Tricks (and Our Fan Table)

Are you going to be at this year’s Eastercon, Reconnect, in Belfast? If so, check out our Octocon Presents panel, featuring a stellar cast of former Octocon guests and guests of honour, and moderated by this years’ co-chair. The panel was first run at Octocon 2022. Octocon Presents: Unreliable Narrators and Other Tricks Saturday 19…

T.L. Huchu  – Online Guest

T.L. Huchu’s work has appeared in ‘Lightspeed’, ‘Interzone’, ‘Analog Science Fiction & Fact’, ‘The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021’, ‘Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine’, ‘Mystery Weekly’, ‘The Year’s Best Crime and Mystery Stories 2016’, and elsewhere. He is the winner of a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (2023), Alex Award (2022), the Children’s Africana Book Award…

#OctosDayOut at Dublin Comic Con 2025, Spring Edition

Octocon Team at DCC: Front: James, Kat, Declan; Back: Karina, MaryBrigid, Colm with Octo; Photo by Mark

On a sunny weekend in March, Octo arrived at Dublin Comic Con and set off with our Comms Team on a grand adventure. Intrepid explorer Octo visited traders and fan clubs, found last year’s Co-Chair, faced off Klingons and Storm Troopers, performed with the Muppets, barely survived the Gremlins’ House … … and finally, swapped…

Chairs for Octocon 2025

Paul here! After two years working as Chair, and four on Committee in total, I’m stepping away from ConComms for a while. It’s not an easy decision to make, but it’s made easier when I know who’ll be stepping into my role for Octocon 2025. Kat Dodd will be remaining as co-Chair, to be joined…