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Events and Conventions

2024 | Bids | London

2023

Exhibitions &c.

Until 19 February 2023 • The Horror Show! (exhibition), Somerset House, London
Until 4 May 2023 • Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination (exhibition), Science Museum, London

3-6 February 2023 • ScotiaCon (furry), Glasgow
16-19 February 2023 • UK Ghost Story Festival, Derby
17-19 February 2023 • Sci-Fi Ball (media), Southampton
Cancelled 24-26 February 2023 • Redemption (multimedia sf), Sheffield
25-26 February 2023 • Surrey Steampunk Convivial, Stoneleigh, Epsom

10-12 March 2023 • Frightfest (film), Glasgow
10-12 March 2023 • MinamiCon 28 (anime), Southampton
11 March 2023 • Picocon 40 (ICSF home), London
16-19 March 2023 • Camp SFW (was Sci-Fi Weekender), Great Yarmouth
18 March 2023 • Bedford Who Charity Con, Bedford
25 March 2023 • East of England Comic Con and Gaming Festival, Peterborough
Online 25 March 2023 • Tolkien Reading Day, repeats every year
31 March - 2 April 2023 • Corflu Craic (Corflu), Belfast

7-10 April 2023 • Star Wars Celebration, ExCeL, London
Hybrid 7-10 April 2023 • Conversation (Eastercon), Birmingham NEC
7-10 April 2023 • Star Wars Celebration, ExCel, London
14-16 April 2023 • Conpulsion (gaming)
22-23 April 2023 • Sci Fi Scarborough, Scarborough

6-7 May 2023 • Portsmouth Comic Con, Portsmouth
Online 10-12 May 2023 • GIFCon 2023: Boundaries and Margins (conference)
13-14 May 2023 • Steampunk Fairytale, Belvoir Castle
20-21 May 2023 • HorrorCon, Sheffield
26-28 May 2023 • Satellite 8 (home), Glasgow
27-28 May 2023 • Lawless (UK comics), Bristol

Hybrid 2-4 June 2023 • CYMERA: Scotland's Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Writing, Edinburgh
2-4 June 2023 • Jodiworld (Jodi Taylor), Coventry
8-11 June 2023 • Konflikt (Eurocon), Uppsala, Sweden.
10-11 June 2023 • EM-Con, Nottingham
24-25 June 2023 • The Town That Never Was (steampunk), Blists Hill

Hybrid 2 July 2023 • Tolkien Society Seminar, Leeds
8 July 2023 • Edge-Lit 9, Derby
14-16 July 2023 • Fantasy Forest (cosplay, reenactment), Cheltenham+
28-31 July 2023 • Continuum (RPG), Oadby

11-13 August 2023 • TFnation (Transformers; home), Birmingham NEC
Postponed 16-20 August 2023 • Worldcon 2023 (Worldcon), Chengdu, China [Now October]
19-20 August 2023 • Stars of Time (comics), Weston-super-Mare
25-28 August 2023 • Asylum-XII, Lincoln
31 Aug - 2 Sep 2023 • Oxonmoot (Tolkien Society), Oxford

10 September 2023 • Popcorn (media), Sheffield
15-17 September 2023 • FantasyCon 2023, Birmingham
23-24 September 2023 • Nor-Con (tv/film/comics), Norfolk
29 September - 1 October 2023 • The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Bowness-on-Windermere

October 2023 • Octocon, ?Croke Park, Dublin [registration is open but the dates and venue have yet to be announced]
18-22 October 2023 • Worldcon 2023 (Worldcon), Chengdu, China [moved from August; new venue (under construction) and hotels]
19-22 October 2023 • Celluloid Screams (horror film festival), Sheffield
20-22 October 2023 • Festival of Fantastic Films, Manchester
20-23 October 2023 • Irish Discworld Convention, Cork, Ireland
21 October 2023 • BristolCon, Bristol
26-31 October 2023 • Edinburgh Horror Festival, Edinburgh

3-4 November 2023 • 16th Starfleet/Klingon Banquet, Peterborough
10-12 November 2023 • Novacon 52, Buxton

2-3 December 2023 • For the Love of Sci-Fi (media), Manchester

2024

29 March - 1 April 2024 • Levitation (Eastercon), Telford

31 May - 2 June 2024 • FunCon One, Buxton

August 2024 • Erasmuscon (Eurocon), Rotterdam, Netherlands
8-12 August 2024 • Glasgow 2024 (Worldcon), Glasgow; publications

Future Convention Bids

Worldcon bids round-up

2025 • Seattle in 2025 (Worldcon), Seattle, WA, USA
August 2026 • Los Angeles in 2026 (Worldcon), Los Angeles, CA, USA
1-5 September 2026 • PharaohCon (Cairo, Egypt)
2026 • Orlando in 2026 (Worldcon), Orlando, FL, USA
2027 • Tel Aviv (Israel) in 2027 (Worldcon), Tel Aviv, Israel
23-27 August 2028 • Kampcon (Worldcon), Kampala, Uganda
2029 • Dublin in 2029 (Worldcon), Dublin, Ireland

General/Other

Eastercons (UK); more
Eurocons (European SF Society)
Shoreline of Infinity Event Horizon (Scotland)
Tolkien Events
UK Comic and Sci-Fi Conventions
UK Convention Badges at eFanzines
UK Filk Events
UK/Irish Gaming Cons
UK/Irish RPG Cons
Worldcons

Frequent commercial or media events

Alex Davis Events (mostly writing courses and workshops)
Anime League
Doctor Who Exhibitions (UK)
Massive Events
Showmasters (Destination Star Trek, Film & Comic Con, Collectormania)
Starfury

Fanzines

General

Past Fanzines

Apparatchik ed. Andy Hooper, Victor Gonzalez & carl juarez
Aspidistra ed Susan Wood (and more)
Cheap Truth ed. Bruce Sterling
Convention Newsletters (UK, early 1990s)
Critical Wave (second series) ed. Steve Green & Martin Tudor
Drilkjis ed. Dave Langford & Kevin Smith
eFNAC ed. John Foyster
Emerald City ed. Cheryl Morgan
The Fantast ed. Sam Youd ("John Christopher") and others
Gegenschein ed. Eric Lindsay
Hyphen ed. Walt Willis, Chuck Harris et al
It Goes on the Shelf ed. Ned Brooks
Mimosa ed. Nicki & Richard Lynch
Novae Terrae
Plokta: the Journal of Superfluous Technology ed. Steve Davies, Alison Scott et al
Prolapse ed. Peter Weston
Quipu ed. Vicki Rosenzweig
Science Fiction Five-Yearly ed. Lee Hoffman et al
Twll-Ddu ed. Dave Langford
Who Killed Science Fiction? ed. Earl Kemp
Ylem ed. Kim Huett – reprinting notable fanwriting
Zenith, Now & Then and other Harry Turner fanzines

Some Current Fanzines

The Agony Column ed. Rick Kleffel
Ansible ed. David Langford
Argentus ed. Steven H Silver
Banana Wings ed. Claire Brialey & Mark Plummer
Challenger ed. Guy H. Lillian III
Chunga ed. Andy Hooper, Randy Byers, & carl juarez
Cloud Chamber ed. David Langford
Discworld Monthly
Doctor Strangemind ed. Kim Huett
The Drink Tank ed. Chris Garcia
File 770 ed. Mike Glyer; blog
SF² Concatenation ed. Jonathan Cowie, Tony Chester & (the late) Graham Connor

Past Newszines

Newszines at Fanac.org
1940-1942 Futurian Observer ed. various, Australia
1940-1945 Futurian War Digest ed. J. Michael Rosenblum
1942-1946 British Fantasy Society Bulletin ed. D.R. Smith
1948-1960 Science Fantasy News ed. A. Vincent Clarke
1959-1971 Skyrack ed. Ron Bennett
1965-1968 SF Weekly ed. Andrew I. Porter
1971-1979 Checkpoint ed. Peter Roberts
1974-1978 Karass ed. Linda Bushyager
1979-1987 Ansible First Series ed. Langford
1990-2007 Fans Across the World ed. Bridget Wilkinson

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