Wednesday 5th October 8pm Irish time (UTC+1) on our Twitch channel Juliet E McKenna launches her latest novel, The Green Man’s Gift, with the assistance of Cheryl Morgan of Wizard’s Tower Press. A teenage boy has turned up in Snowdonia, barely conscious and babbling about beautiful women and fairy feasts. The authorities blame magic mushrooms.…
Category: Octocon Presents
Octocon Presents: What’s in Your Cosplay Toolkit? (a workshop)
Friday September 23rd 2022 @ 7 – 8:30pm IST on Zoom We’re delighted to run this workshop as part of Culture Night Dublin! For the first time ever, we’re having a Cosplay Parade and Competition as part of Octocon and we’d love you to come along in your cosplay! Register to take part. To help…
Octocon Presents, September 2022: Julia Meitov Hersey
Tuesday 20th Sept 2022 @ 8pm IST In advance of her appearance as an Octocon 2022 online guest, award-winning translator Julia Meitov Hersey reads from novels she has recently translated, introduces us to the Dyachenkos, and chats to Cheryl Morgan about her career and experiences. Watch back on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/videos/1596455605 Participants: Julia Meitov Hersey, Cheryl Morgan Participant…
Octocon Presents, August 2022: Rags to Stitches – Create Your Cosplay
Thursday 18th August 2022 @ 7pm IST Missed the panel or want to see it again? Watch it back on Twitch! Do you want to build a cosplay? It doesn’t have to be a cosplay. Wait…what even is considered cosplay? Are you worried that you don’t know where to start or that you won’t get…
Octocon Presents – July 2022: The ABCs of IrishComics.ie
Arts grants, a Birthday, and Comics. A year into IrishComics.ie, we join the founding members to discuss the Irish comics community and the site’s hunt of monsters and for arts grants funding. The team discuss their roles on the site, the creation of a webcomics hub, and their individual processes for writing, drawing and publishing…