Eastercon people!! I am so looking forward to our reunion next week! I'm on a number of panels and would love to see you there (or at the bar, I'm not picky) 🍻
Who's going to be there? Show of hands! @easterconuk.bsky.social #eastercon
Convention time for Europe/London, shown in bold. Saturday, 4 April 2026 12:00 David Green SJ Groenewegen David Lascelles (moderator) Finn McLellan The panel talk about neurodiversity in the world of writing, opportunities and challenges, creating neurodivergent characters and the representation of autism in media.
Slightly failed to post this earlier due to continued house-moving, but hey, here's the info for the panel I'm on at #Eastercon
(We will have *just* finished moving house by then, so I suspect I'll be a wee bit more caffeine-powered than usual xD)
Book cover of The Sky Slayer by Joel Cornah. Outline of a dark skinned man dressed as a pirate. Within the silhouette we see a frozen mountain and the shapes of a group of people escaping across the ice.
Are you going to #EasterCon? @wtpress.bsky.social will be launching my new novel, The Sky Slayer there!
A prison break, a high seas heist, and talking penguins. It’s got everything you could want!
#fantasybooks #lgbtqbooks #queerauthors
Given that my stock order of The Derring-Do Club #hardbacks has arrived in time for #Eastercon, here's a pic of a happy fan with a full set. #booksky.
My schedule for Eastercon 2026: Iridescence. 3 to 6 April. Saturday, 4 April 2026 09:00 to 10:00 Considering Anne McCaffrey. Sandringham. 10:30 to 11:30 Writers' Workshops and Critique Groups. Sandringham. 12:00 to 13:00 Neurodivergence, own voices and portrayals. Gladstone-Churchill. 16:30 to 17:30 The Wrong Side of the Law. Balmoral. Sunday, 5 April 2026 13:30 to 14:30 Imagining Ourselves Out from the Dystopian Present. Sandringham. Monday, 6 April 2026 10:30 to 11:30 Writing in a Collaborative Universe. Gladstone-Churchill. www.sjgroenewegen.co.uk
Herewith, a schedule of panels I'll be on for Eastercon 2026: Iridescence.
I'll probably also be on a fan table or two, or in the fan lounge, or at one of the bars.
#Eastercon
My schedule - SFF and the age of sail & the RJ Barker book club on Friday, interviewing Emma Newman and the Romantasy panel on Sunday, Writing in a collaborative universe on Monday
And here's my Eastercon schedule
Also my dragons will be in the art show, with prints on sale too
#eastercon
#eastercon2026
#iridescenceeastercon
#dragons
Iridescence Programme Guide Friday, 3 April 2026 18:00 Breaking News from Gondor Gladstone-Churchill,Starts: 18:00 Duration: 60 mins Gwen Frazer Judith Mortimore Finbarr O'Reilly Daniel Walsh (moderator) Literature,Panel,Fantasy,Science Fiction,Worldbuilding,Film & TV, What fantasy or science fictional world would you most like to publish a newspaper or other news broadcast service from? Is there a call for news publications in our favourite fantasy or sci-fi universes? Is there a conspicuous lack of good faith - or even bad faith - reporting in our favourite worlds? Should Starfleet have a journalist in their crews? Who got to write the biggest exposés on the Death Star? What need do elves, immortal as they are, have for a daily news cycle?
On programme. Looking forward to this.
#Eastercon
guide.eastercon2026.org/id/1037
Covers of six books titled Uncertain Sons & Other Stories, Black Friday, The Black Fantastic, Blood & Bricks, Who Will You Save, and Creative Futures
Still gobsmacked & delighted that The Black Fantastic is a nominee for the @bsfa.bsky.social BSFA Awards #Eastercon #Iridescence
If you're a member, vote!
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Doris the Bloody Diplodacus was rescued 3 times this last weekend alone at #BEDFORDTABLETOPEXPO *, she’ll be rescued twice next weekend at #Airecon. She’s almost certain to be rescued at #Victrix, the #Eastercon SciFi convention and into May at the #STEAMPUNKWALES event in Portmerion.
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Für alle, die auch mal den Blick über den Ärmelkanal wagen: die Shortlist für die BSFA-Awards ist online. Die Gewinner werden auf dem EasterCon in Birmingham bekanntgegeben. Link: www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-... #sfcd #bsfa #sciencefiction #award #Großbritannien #eastercon
Heading to Eastercon 2026: Iridescence and want to be on the Programme? Big deadline is tomorrow night UK time. See quoted posts for details.
#Eastercon
#Iridescence
Ida holding a micro canvas of a violet robot sitting on a hill pointing at the moon
A circular canvas of robots floating in bubbles
Captain Henrik Krakenson, space octopus, all in blue with a gold and silver space helmet, floating against the background of a green and purple nebula.
A copper collar with twisting loops of copper supporting a large blue labradorite.
It's official - my debut art exhibition will be at this year's @easterconuk.bsky.social 🥳 Come and see fun UV paintings, space octopuses and adorable robots. I will also be selling some jewellery and clay pieces.
#eastercon #art #spaceart #wirewrap
The outline of the science fiction version of the Unconfined convention logo. A silhouetted skyline of Glasgow in dark blue is arced across the top. There is a mirrored skyline below in dark green of a science fiction city skyline. In the centre it reads ‘Volunteer for Unconfined 2027!’. The top line is green and the bottom line blue.
We’re looking for volunteers! Eastercon is entirely volunteer-run, and we need people like you to make it happen ❤️
#volunteering #eastercon #eastercon2027 #glasgoweastercon
A photo of an Asian man wearing a zip-up Unconfined hoody. The hoody is off-white with the logo over the right of the chest. The logo is a silhouetted skyline of Glasgow in dark blue is arced across the top. There is a mirrored skyline below in dark green of a science fiction city skyline. In the centre, between the two horizon lines is the word ‘Unconfined’ in green capital letters.
A black woman wearing a dark grey zip-up hoody with the logo in white over the right of the chest.
A white woman wearing a light blue pull over hoody with the coloured logo across the chest.
A photo of a white man wearing a blue pullover hoody. The Unconfined logo is in white across the chest.
Chase away those January blues with our new hoody designs - they come in up to 9 different colours with zip-up and pullover options!
easterconglasgow.org/shop/
#eastercon #eastercon2027 #merch
Heads up, #Eastercon people - I found Monday's "hotel bookings about to open" email in my Gmail spam folder. If you're a member or a non-member signed up to the mailing list and haven't seen an email check your spam folder.
I love my SF con tee shirts, but I already have too many of them. I wonder if there are enough fannish #FountainPen fanciers to commission something like this nib for #Eastercon or #Worldcon swag? (Or has someone already done this and I just live under a rock?)
Or maybe you'd rather signed copies of the Vigilauntie Justice series?
www.32auctions.com/organization...
#EasterCon #TransRights
Some great stuff being added to this auction. For example, how about signed copies of the Starship Teapot series?
www.32auctions.com/organization...
#EasterCon #TransRights
Me dressed in a sea themed suit, sitting on the throne of swords, a stained glass window in the Glass of Thrones series in Belfast
It's just over a week since Eastercon in Belfast, and what a glorious time it was! Tons of photos over on my FB author page, but a few here in this thread for my awesome panels:
#Glassofthrones #Eastercon #Booksky
Meme-Free Zone and Other Lies by Marcus L. Rowland: "Eastercon, Dragonmeet"
https://ffutures.dreamwidth.org/2381613.html
#EasterCon #DragonMeet
five people sit behind a table with a white covering, organised in an alternating boy-girl-boy pattern. The man on the left appears to be speaking and the others are looking in his direction.
Last weekend I went to Eastercon in Belfast, where among other things I appeared on a David Lynch memorial panel. We had a lot of fun talking about Lynch and his work. I also got to say "Heineken - fuck that shit" to a room full of people.
#Eastercon #Eastercon2025
And here's my haul from #Eastercon
Example of a card from the Scottish Suffragette Trumps game created by Protests and Suffragettes featuring Shetland suffrage activist Harriet Leisk
At #EasterCon I met a person doing amazing things for Scottish Suffragists and Suffragettes. I haven't unpacked yet or I'd show you my card. But they came up with a cool idea.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
The name of the prolific woman writer I was trying to remember was almost certainly M E Francis. Considered one of the best known writers. #Eastercon #Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._E._F...
Damn it, I've lost the other person's name. If you were at #Eastercon and you spoke to me after the Feminism in SFF about #wikipedia and I haven't said hi here or there, please give me a bell.
4 bookmarks featuring sunset over an old building, The Lair of the White Worm, Gothic arches, and birds sitting on vegetation.
Haul of amazing bookmarks from @swanriverpress.bsky.social at #EasterCon!!!
Packet of TAYTOS, a convention badge for Jeannette Ng, a tea towel from the Linen Hall Library, two short stories titled SATAN IS REAL, books: the Cleaving, I want that Twink Obliterated, the Needfire, Red Sword, The Shining Girls
My various books and mementos from #EasterCon and also Belfast as unpack
Morning, a wee post #Eastercon reminder that I have a story in an anthology that is currently doing the Kickstarter tango here www.kickstarter.com/projects/sci...
Sounding like it will be full of good stories and it's made its goal, so it guaranteed to get to you.
Morning, a wee post #Eastercon reminder that I have a story in an anthology that is currently doing the Kickstarter tango here www.kickstarter.com/projects/scifiandfantasy...
Sounding like it will be full of good stories and it's […]
One of my dragons is in this auction! And lots of other cool things from cool people
#eastercon #transrights #dragon
