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Events and Conventions
2025
- Until 7 December 2025 • Celebrating 75 Years of AWE, West Berkshire Museum, Newbury [10am-4pm Wed-Sun; last admission 3:30pm; allegedly features The Leaky Establishment by D. Langford]
- 8 April - 30 September 2025 • Cats!, Cartoon Museum, London
- 10-12 and 17-19 January 2025 • Horror-on-Sea (film), Southend
- 28 January 2025 • Vampires: from Monster to Mister (Fortean Society), London
- 7-9 February 2025 • Contabile 35 (UK filk; home), Norwich
- 7-10 February 2025 • ScotiaCon (furry), Glasgow
- 8-9 February 2025 • The Great Conjunction (Dark Crystal), Elstree, London
- 21-23 February 2025 • UK Ghost Story Festival, Derby [also online 14-16 February]
- 22-23 February 2025 • Surrey Steampunk Convivial, Stoneleigh, Epsom
- 1 March 2025 • Picocon 42 (ICSF home), Imperial College, London [web presence awaited]
- 6-8 March 2025 • Frightfest (film), Glasgow
- 7-9 March 2025 • MinamiCon 28 (anime), Southampton
- 15-16 March 2025 • Dublin Comic Con, Dublin
- 20-23 March 2025 • Camp SFW, Great Yarmouth
- Online 25 March 2025 • Tolkien Reading Day, repeats every year
- 30 March 2025 • Bloomsbury Ephemera Fair, London [sometimes incorporating the Paperback and Pulp Book Fair, but apparently not this time]
- 5 April 2025 • Bedford Who Charity Con, Bedford
- 11-13 April 2025 • Corflu 42, Newbury
- 18-21 April 2025 • Reconnect (Eastercon), Belfast
- 19-20 April 2025 • Horrorfied (horror), Farnborough
- 26-27 April 2025 • Sci Fi Scarborough, Scarborough
- 3-4 May 2025 • Portsmouth Comic Con, Portsmouth
- 17-18 May 2025 • HorrorCon UK, Sheffield
- 23-26 May 2025 • Jodiworld (Jodi Taylor), Coventry
- 24-25 May 2025 • Lawless (UK comics), Bristol
- 24-25 May 2025 • Peter Cushing Celebration Weekend, Whitstable [NB same programme both days]
- 24-25 May 2025 • Surrey Steampunk Convivial, Stoneleigh, Epsom
- Hybrid 6-8 June 2025 • Cymera Festival, Edinburgh and online
- 7-8 June 2025 • EM-Con, Nottingham
- 19-22 June 2025 • Sci-Fi London (film), London
- 21 June 2025 • Stars of Time (comics), Swindon
- 26-29 June 2025 • Archipelacon 2 (Eurocon), Mariehamn, Åland, Finland
- 5 July 2025 • Comic Con Aintree, Aintree Racecourse
- 18-20 July 2025 • Fantasy Forest (cosplay, reenactment), Cheltenham
- 2-3 August 2025 • Surrey Steampunk Convivial, Stoneleigh, Epsom
- 8-10 August 2025 • TFnation (Transformers; home), Birmingham NEC
- 13-17 August 2025 • Seattle Worldcon 2025 (Worldcon), Seattle, WA, USA; official blog
- 16 August 2025 • Stars of Time (comics), Weston-super-Mare
- 26-28 September 2025 • The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Bowness-on-Windermere
- 27-28 September 2025 • Nor-Con (tv/film/comics), Norfolk
- 17-20 October 2025 • Irish Discworld Convention, Cork, Ireland
- 25-26 October 2025 • BristolCon, Bristol
- 25-26 October 2025 • Surrey Steampunk Convivial, Stoneleigh, Epsom
- 30 October - 2 November 2025 • World Fantasy Convention, Brighton
- 31 October - 2 November 2025 • Armadacon, Plymouth
- 7-9 November 2025 • Novacon 54, Buxton
- 8 November 2025 • PictCon1, Perth, Scotland [was 18 October 2025]
- 22 November 2025 • Stars of Time (comics), Weston-Super-Mare
- 29 November 2025 • Dragonmeet (gaming), London
2026
- 22-24 May 2026 • Satellite 9 (home), Glasgow
- 2-5 July 2026 • MetropolCon (Eurocon), Berlin, Germany
- 27-31 August 2026 • Los Angeles in 2026 (Worldcon), Anaheim, CA, USA
Future Convention Bids
- Easter 2026 • Iridescence (Eastercon 77), Birmingham NEC
- Easter 2027 • An Eastercon in Glasgow (Eastercon 78), Glasgow
- 2-6 September 2027 • Montréal in 2027 (Worldcon), Montréal, Canada
- 2027 • Tel Aviv in 2027 (Worldcon), Tel Aviv, Israel [postponed/suspended]
- 27-31 July 2028 • Brisbane in 28 (Worldcon), Brisbane, Australia [changed from 24-28 August]
- 23-27 August 2028 • ConKigali (Worldcon), Kigali, Rwanda [was Kampcon, Kampala, Uganda]
- 2029 • Dublin in 2029 (Worldcon), Dublin, Ireland
- 2030 • Edmonton in 2030 (Worldcon), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- 2031 • Texas (Worldcon) reported here
- 2032 • Maastricht, Netherlands (Worldcon) reported here
General/Other
- Eastercons (UK); more
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