BristolCon 2025 Pocket Timetable
Last Updated: 16/10/2025 12:48:26
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Main programme items start on the hour and last 50 minutes. The numbers shown in brackets for these items refer to the programme item in the main programme book where you will find full details of the item and the panellists involved. Book readings are in the ten minute slot before the hour; authors are given in italics. Rooms that are not available in a particular timeslot are greyed out.
Saturday October 25th 2025
| Time | Panel 1 | Panel 2 | SGS 1 | SGS 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:45 | Welcome Ceremony | Welcome Ceremony | ||
| 09:50 | Jo M Thomas / Journeymouse | |||
| 10:00 | Pets In Space (1) | My First Con (11) | ||
| 10:50 | Emma Newman | Kevlin Henney | ||
| 11:00 | Worldbuilders Assemble! (2) | Loss of the Everyman? (12) | Pete Ellis: It's not life as we know it, Jim. (20) | |
| 11:50 | J E Hannaford | C. M. Kuhtz | ||
| 12:00 | GoH Interview: J E Hannaford (3) | Fat Comic Relief, Fat Villains, Skinny Heroes (13) | Zoe: Rise of Monster Romance discussion (21) | Carolyn Dougherty: Exploring the Tarot (26) |
| 12:50 | Stephen Oram | Dan Batchelor | ||
| 13:00 | SF As Activism (4) | Editors - Who Needs Them And How Can You Tell? (14) | David Alexander Angus: New Earth (22) | Jonathan L. Howard: ATOMFALL AMAWR (Ask Me Anything Within Reason) (27) |
| 13:50 | ||||
| 14:00 | Remembering David Gullen (5) | |||
| 14:50 | J A Mortimore | Ben (B J Mears) | ||
| 15:00 | Rogues In Fantasy (6) | Sea Journeys – Are they just the Cruise Holidays of Speculative fiction? (15) | Cavan Scott: So you want to be a comic book writer? (23) | Stephen Oram: How do we find the readers who enjoy SF but don't realise it? (28) |
| 15:50 | Johannes T. Evans | |||
| 16:00 | GoH Interview: John Higgins (7) | Has Social Media Killed The Promotions Game (16) | Nige Furlong: The Weird and Wild World Of Emergency Management (24) | Rosie Oliver: Putting Science into Science Fiction Workshop (29) |
| 16:50 | Jaine Fenn | Helen Claire Gould | ||
| 17:00 | How Many Degrees Of Separation (8) | Languages In Speculative Fiction (17) | Sabine Furlong: Crafting circle (25) | Stephen Cox: More confidence promoting discussing your book (30) |
| 17:50 | Piotr Swietlik | Jason Whittle | ||
| 18:00 | Location Location Location (9) | Team Jacob and Team Nosferatu (18) | ||
| 18:50 | Joel Cornah (They / Them) | |||
| 19:00 | Um, Actually... (10) | SPFBO (19) | ||
| 19:50 | ||||
| 20:00 |
Sunday October 26th 2025
| Time | Panel 1 | Panel 2 | SGS 1 | SGS 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:45 | ||||
| 09:50 | ||||
| 10:00 | What Potions Can't Heal (31) | Science Fantasy - The Black Sheep Of Our Family (37) | ||
| 10:50 | Joel Cornah (They / Them) | The Legend that is Richard Stephenson | ||
| 11:00 | Where's My Utopia? (32) | Mainstream sell-out or cultural buy-in? (38) | John Higgins: Jackson Pollock or Chesley Bonestell (43) | Pete Sutton: Editorial LIVE! (47) |
| 11:50 | Stephen Cox | |||
| 12:00 | GoH Interview: Ben Jeapes (33) | Thieves And Ethics (39) | TBC: Was Sherlock Holmes An Alien? (44) | Piotr Swietlik: DIalogue in genre fiction (48) |
| 12:50 | Juliet E McKenna | Adrian Tchaikovsky | ||
| 13:00 | Lost Cities And Legends (34) | Magical / Sci-Fi Assistive Devices (40) | Joanne Hall She / Her: How to get through the Slush Pile (45) | Helen Claire Gould: Performance Reading (49) |
| 13:50 | Pete Ellis | Rosie Oliver | ||
| 14:00 | Two Genders? That's All? (35) | Copyright And AI (41) | Emma Newman: How to overcome the fear of writing and finishing a book (46) | The Legend that is Richard Stephenson: Poetry open mic (50) |
| 14:50 | Jonathan L. Howard | Tim Kindberg | ||
| 15:00 | Your planning application for a lair has been declined. (36) | What's in a name - A Ro'se by any other name would smell as sweet! (42) | TBC: Knit n Knatter (51) | |
| 15:50 | Closing Ceremony | |||
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