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Events and Conventions

Exhibitions

Until 23 August 2026 • Fairy Tales, British Library, London
Until 8 September 2026 • Star Trek at 60, Science Museum, London
Until 13 September 2026 • Cracking Exhibition Gromit: 50 Years of Aardman in Bristol, Bristol
Until 15 November 2026 • Inside Aardman: Wallace & Gromit and Friends, Young V&A, London

2-5 July 2026 • MetropolCon (Eurocon), Berlin, Germany
11 July 2026 • Frances Hardinge Symposium, King's College, London [venue change from Birmingham]
16-17 July 2026 • Current Research in Speculative Fiction (conference), Liverpool
Sold out 17-19 July 2026 • Fantasy Forest (cosplay, reenactment), Cheltenham
18-19 July 2026 • Weird Worcester (film festival), Worcester
24-27 July 2026 • Continuum (RPG), Cranfield
25 July 2026 • Small Press Day, various UK, Irish and online venues

1 August 2026 • Northern Horizon 2 (Blake's 7; home), Newcastle upon Tyne
1 August 2026 • Rebel Base North East (Star Wars; home), Newcastle upon Tyne [same venue as the above!]
Sold out 7-10 August 2026 • Discworld Convention, Hinckley
7-9 August 2026 • MCM Comic Con, Birmingham NEC
15-16 August 2026 • Caption (small press/comics), Oxford
15 August 2026 • Stars of Time (comics), Weston-super-Mare
22-23 August 2026 • For the Love of Fantasy (media), ExCel, London
27-31 August 2026 • Frightfest (film), London
27-31 August 2026 • LAcon V (Worldcon), Anaheim, CA, USA
28-31 August 2026 • Asylum 16 (steampunk; home), Lincoln

On hiatus October 2026 • Edinburgh Horror Festival, Edinburgh – no event this year
2-4 October 2026 • The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Bowness-on-Windermere
3 October 2026 • Oh!Con, Stornoway, Lewis and Harris, Outer Hebrides
Hybrid 3-4 October 2026 • Octocon, Cork
8-11 October 2026 • Grimmfest (film; home), Manchester
9-11 October 2026 • Fantasycon, Glasgow
17 October 2026 • PictCon2, Perth, Scotland [Ticket sales here]
23-25 October 2026 • Festival of Fantastic Films, Manchester
23-23 October 2026 • MCM Comic Con, London
24-25 October 2026 • BristolCon, Bristol
25 October 2026 • Stars of Time (comics), Swansea
30-31 October 2026 • Frightfest Halloween (film), London
30 October - 1 November 2026 • Steampunk Halloween, Lincoln

1 November 2026 • Comic Con (comics), St Helens, Merseyside
6-8 November 2026 • Armadacon, Plymouth
6-8 November 2026 • Novacon 55, Buxton
14-15 November 2026 • For the Love of Horror, Manchester
14-15 November 2026 • Thought Bubble Comic Con (comics), Harrogate [part of November comics festival]
Online 21 November 2026 • Tolkien's Invented Languages (Tolkien Society seminar)
28 November 2026 • Dragonmeet (gaming), London

3-4 April 2027 • Horrorfied 3 (horror) – venue to be announced
10 April 2027 • Bedford Who Charity Con, Bedford
16-16 April 2027 • Portmeiricon (Prisoner), Portmeirion
17-18 April 2027 • Sci-Fi Scarborough, Scarborough
22-25 April 2027 • Dead by Dawn (horror film festival), Edinburgh [returning after a long absence since 2019; further details to be posted in late 2026]

23-26 September 2027 • Eurocon Lisbon 2027, Lisbon, Portugal
24-26 September 2027 • Fantasycon, Birmingham [to include the World Fantasy Awards presentation. Non-Facebook website anticipated at HWS Events or elsewhere]

Bid withdrawn 13-17 July 2028 • Nuremberg in 2028 (Worldcon), Nuremberg, Germany
27-31 July 2028 • Brisbane in 28 (Worldcon), Brisbane, Australia [changed from 24-28 August]
Bid withdrawn 23-27 August 2028 • ConKigali (Worldcon), Kigali, Rwanda [was Kampcon, Kampala, Uganda]
2-6 August 2029 • Dublin in 2029 (Worldcon), Dublin, Ireland
2029 • Eurocon in Warsaw, Poland – Avangarda club bid
19-23 April 2030 • BSFA Eastercon/Eurocon, Birmingham – initial proposal
2030 • Edmonton in 2030 (Worldcon), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2031 • Texas (Worldcon) – reported here
2032 • Maastricht, Netherlands (Worldcon) – reported here

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