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Suyi @suyidavies.com · 1d

It's @canconsffh.bsky.social next weekend! I'm excited for: snazzy new venue; time with friends old & new; dope panels & events + fave Toronto bookstore @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social; the thrill of enthusiastic readers; copious beers; etc.

Thankfully, I have a slim schedule this year. See below!

Graphic showing author Suyi Davies Okungbowa's schedule for Can Con 2025 (Friday 17th October to Sunday 19th October, 2025). Text reads:

3 panels, 1 signing
Sat 18, 10-10:50 AM, Mainstream: Slow Fiction with Ada Hoffmann, Luke R.J. Maynard, Sienna Tristen (moderator)
Sat 18, 3-3:30 PM, Newbridge: Book signing! FREE bookmarks for all signees!
Sat 18, 7-7:50 PM, Leaders: Lived Experience as Story Fodder with A. D. Sui, D.G. Valdron, Susan Forest (moderator)
Sun 19, 11:30A-12:20P, Traders: The Continuation of Epic Fantasy with S.M. Carrière, Anuja Varghese, Y.M. Pang (moderator)

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E. L. Chen @elainechen.com · 1d

If you're coming to @canconsffh.bsky.social next weekend, I hope you like stickers! I'll be leaving some on the freebies table and will have them on me to give out too. Really happy with how these turned out.

A glossy sticker showing an illustration of a hand with red-painted nails, holding a bloody kitchen knife. A red ribbon beneath it reads, "SOCIETY OF FINAL GIRLS", and the slogan "THE HORRORS PERSIST BUT SO DO WE" sits around the hand in a circle.

A glossy sticker of an illustrated key with a red old-school diamond-shaped motel tag. The tag reads, "LOCK YOUR DOOR" and is spattered with blood.

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 2d

Yayyyyyyyyyy

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 2d

Bakka Phoenix should have it!

They have all your dreams.

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 2d

From the perspective of a geological time scale, it's basically happening RIGHT NOW!

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 2d

Oh no

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 2d

The thing about selling patent medicine remedies was a joke, right?

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 2d

There is also still space in our Friday Master Class sessions!

We have: 'The Plot Toolkit' with Kim Abrahamse of Firefly Creative, a Zine Workshop with Derek Newman-Stille, and you can Write a Story in a Weekend with David Schultz and Brandon Butler!

Register: www.can-con.org/master-classes

Master Classes — Can*Con

www.can-con.org

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 2d

Premee

Please don't do this to our lawyers

You promised

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 2d

Gosh we're all going to learn so much next weekend!

Cal Black @thatcalamity.bsky.social · 2d

Fun blacklight facts brought to you by many years of working laser tag: Highlighter glows brilliantly under blacklight even after you wash the visible ink from your skin.

The kids loved my exam seasons because my hands lit up like stars.

best glows: yellow > green > orange > pink.

Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 2d

What else do we got? Would you enjoy ... a Glow Party?

Allllll our bioluminescent friends are gonna get down on Saturday night!

We will break out the Emergency Strategic Can*Con Glow Stick Reserve for this one.

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 2d

In case you missed it earlier, GoH Kate Heartfield has also created a Can*Con 2025 Starter Pack so you can get inextricably linked with all your favourite Can*Con minds and gestalt consciousnesses!

Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 22d

Speaking of @canconsffh.bsky.social , last year's starter pack for panelists, vendors and volunteeers was popular, so I made a new one for this year. Please tell me if you're on programming or helping out with Can*Con this year and would like to be added, or if you'd like to be removed.

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dinsdale press @dinsdalepress.bsky.social · 19d

If you’re going to @canconsffh.bsky.social in October, we’d love if you joined us for the first launch of our first book! The emcee will be Derek Newman-Stille, multiple Prix Aurora Award–winner of Speculating Canada. It should be a blast! #SFF #CanLit

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Little Ghosts Books @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social · 3d

The Little Ghosts are at @canconsffh.bsky.social ! Oct. 17-19th in Ottawa, come visit us and attend a whole list of great panels and programming.

We’ll also be set up in the dealer’s room with our usual array of local books, in house publications, & merch

You don’t want to miss it, see you there!

An infographic of the Little Ghosts Schedule! It says… Little Ghosts will be at CanCon in Ottawa ON on Oct.17-19th.

Phi will be on the New Perspectives in Space Travel Panel on Saturday at 2:30.

Chris will be at the Publisher’s Party Friday night 7-9pm. Saturday he will be on the Anthology Building 101 Panel at 5:30pm. Sunday he will be on the Platforms for Indie Publishing Panel at 11:30am.

Jay will be signing in the Vendor’s room Saturday at noon. He’ll be on the Poor Coping Skills panel on Saturday at 7:00pm. He’ll be moderating the Bam, POW, & Thwack your Way into Comics Panel Sunday at 10am.

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 2d

What else is happening this weekend at Can*Con?

SOME things are TOO SECRET to tell you - even now - but we're gonna have a play-as-you-wish Star Trek Adventures RPG experience run by our friend 'Nathan Burgoine!

... try not to get thrown in the brig.

'Nathan Boo-goine 👻 @nathanburgoine.bsky.social · 3d

Hey, so next week is @canconsffh.bsky.social, which is awesome. Also? This year, I’m going to be running a (modified) version of @modiphius.bsky.social's awesome Captain’s Log game to beam you aboard the USS Ottawa (NCC-61325), if you’d like to report for duty.

#StarTrekAdventures #CaptainsLog

The TNG/VOY/DS9-era cover version of Captain’s Log, the solo roleplaying game from Modiphius. It’s got the combadge from Voyager-era Trek against a mostly black background with swoopy red circular thingies.

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 2d

Premee, no three card monte.

We DISCUSSED this.

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 2d

We will be excited to launch people into space all weekend!!

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 2d

We will be celebrating Canadian Small Presses at the Small Press Party Friday Night!

This is going to be a great event for readers and writers who love our precious small (but shiny!) publishers and want to show them the love!

Presses are awkward to hug but the people who run them ... less so!

A graphic for the Canadian Small Press Party, 7pm October 17th in the Celtic Room. Text: "Canadian Small Press Party: Chat with authors, editors, and guests of honour, enter the raffle to win cool prizes, and have a drink as we celebrate Canadian small press book pubishers!"

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 2d

What else do we got? Would you enjoy ... a Glow Party?

Allllll our bioluminescent friends are gonna get down on Saturday night!

We will break out the Emergency Strategic Can*Con Glow Stick Reserve for this one.

A graphic for the Can*Con Glow Party, 9pm October 18th in the Celtic room. Text: "Glow Party: We've got a dance floor and we're not afraid to use it. Wear your best neon or glow-in-the-dark, grab a drink from the pop-up bar, and shine bright (almost) all night."

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 2d

You can still join us for all or part of the weekend, including orbiting gently around Guests of Honour @kateheartfield.com, @ourmankoto.bsky.social, and @premeemohamed.com, by jetting over to the website: www.can-con.org !

We are so excited for our first con in our new venue!

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 2d

Not yet! We just raised the roof to allow more people to jump aboard!

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 2d

We have New Perspective on Space Exploration! We got a Murderbot panel! We have Non-Logical Worldbuilding! We have Robot Lovers! We have Tragic Horror! We have Dragon Romance! We have Zombie Biology! We have something called Maggot Story Hour!

JOIN USSSSS!

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 2d

HOWEVER THAT MAY BE we are nearly there, friends!

And the Program of Myriad Excitements (tm) is LIVE!

Checkit: www.can-con.org/schedule

Schedule — Can*Con

www.can-con.org

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 2d

CATS ALIVE IT IS ONE WEEK TO CAN*CON!

First of all, apologies for the relative silence from this account as we have been dealing with Certain Matters, although the Rumours of a Goblin Rebellion are at best Exaggerated and Scurrilous.

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 18d

Can*Con approacheth but you can already be making plans for after and LOOK AT THIS AWESOME CON IN HALIFAX IN MAY!

This is a rad lineup of guests and this looks to be a great time!

TriCon @tricon-hfx.bsky.social · 18d

Introducing TriCon! ✨May 15-17, 2026 in Kjipuktuk | #Halifax. Celebrating spec fic, we couldn't be prouder to have @amalelmohtar.com @englelaird.bsky.social and @kurestinarmada.bsky.social joining us as our Guests of Honour. Earlybird tickets available now! 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/tricon-the...

Blue graphic stating that Earlybird Tickets for TriCon: The Trident Conference for Soeculative Fiction are on sale now. Lower right corner says Kjipuktuk | Halifax, May 15-17 2026

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Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you so much for creating this, Kate!

The hour approacheth!!

Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 22d

Speaking of @canconsffh.bsky.social , last year's starter pack for panelists, vendors and volunteeers was popular, so I made a new one for this year. Please tell me if you're on programming or helping out with Can*Con this year and would like to be added, or if you'd like to be removed.

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