The Wee Con

During the Wee Con, we want to showcase the work of podficcers! But for that, we need you to submit 1 or 2 snippets of a podfic you're proud of through this form! 

boy | happydaiz will take all the snippets and edit them together into one long audiofile of ± 30 minutes. 

The audiofile will be available to the attendees of the Wee Con, including our online attendees, until the 15th of November.

Due to the rooms we have, we won't play the audiofile at the con, but everyone will be able to enjoy the audio at their own convenience. 

Your deadline for submission is 15th of October 

You can submit 1 or 2 snippets

Depending on the amount of submissions and the time, we'll include both

Snippets can be 2-3 minutes long

This is your advance notice that if you would like to be a trader at our art/craft fair, we will be opening the form for Calypso's Floating Market in around 10 days.

Anyone who is attending the event can apply for a slot at the market.

For transparency, as this will be a smaller event with less rooms than last year, the marketplace will not be running constantly through the duration of the whole event, but will have designated timeslots instead. Once we know how many merchants to expect, we will be able to give you more details.

For digital attendees, we'll be delighted to host your art as well. However, because of increasing customs duties and frequent delays clearing customs into the UK, we will need all physical items to be shipped by early October at the latest.

Happy Saturday to one and all. This is the ten day countdown to submit your workshop for The Wee Con 2026!

Would you like to share a craft or do a talk on how to create a fic? This is the spot for you :) Simply fill in this form.

To mark the end of our month, we're delighted to announce a couple of wee treats for our pirates!

Article 1! For one week only, all tickets - in person and online - will be 15% off! Simply enter the discount code piratepride and 15% will be deducted from the total.

Pop over to http://ourflagmeans.community for details about the event and the link to our ticket portal :D

Article 2! We will be giving away five free online tickets! Simply comment with "MINE!" (seagull gif from Finding Nemo optional) to be entered into a draw. We will pick 5 names at random two weeks from today!

We've received a fantastic selection of panels and workshops so far and have plenty of shenanigans planned to keep us busy for the weekend.

Don't forget that if you want to run a panel, the deadline for submitting your panel details is 30th June! You can submit your panel here!

Time for a quick update of our progress with another month chugging by and we're snugly over our tech and AV costs! 🥳

Hello hello, to one and all!

We've had a lovely selection of subjects for our panels and now, it's the chance of our artisans, writers and crafters to submit workshop plans.

If you don't have all the details ironed out quite yet, that's fine. Just provide as much information as you can and let us know as soon as you have ducks in a row :)

As promised, we are opening submissions for panels for The Wee Con 2!

What to know:

if you want to submit more than one panel, we need a form for each one

you need to be attending TWC in-person or online

We will be opening submissions for workshops in two weeks time. This form is only for panels and will close at the end of June.

All panel materials to be displayed on the screen will need to be submitted no later than two weeks before the event for digital prep.

Hello hello, lovelies! We're almost 6 months away from our event and thought it was about time to give you a little update on our current status for TWC 2. We're well on our way already, with the biggest expenses already covered ❤️

Thanks to all of you who have grabbed tickets already, we have covered the cost of the main theatre area and the social space for hanging out.

Tech costs and AV for the live streams are the next target and after that, additional rooms and swag 🥰

We'll keep you updated with our progress!

Hail and well met! We will be opening the submissions for panels on June 1st, so have a think about what you would like to present on!

This year, we’re having a variety of panel lengths, so if 45 minutes seemed a bit overwhelming, have no fear, we will also have our shorter ED and NED Talks at a maximum of 20 minutes.

We’re also opening slots for “Little Bits” – 5-minute slots to wax lyrical about your chosen topic.

We will also be opening submissions for workshops on a separate form, which we will drop a few days after the panels one to save on confusion. Each one will be announced on the release :slight_smile:

Pay-it-forward tickets are donated by fellow OFMD fans to give people who might not otherwise be able to come a chance to attend the event 😊 We have a bit in the kitty now if anyone would like to apply. To submit a request for a ticket, pop over to our form here.

Meanwhile, tickets are available now through our portal!

Since the store is now live - we have a couple of t-shirts that are in-person only, but due to popular demand, we've made a couple of items available for people who aren't able to attend in person. This is a little information about how it will work!

Said shirts/totes can be ordered now, but they will not be available until shortly before the convention, when we get the whole batch done together. It won't be immediately dispatched.

There will be shipping charges in addition to the cost, but to keep these as low as possible we have a plan: Our attendees come from all over and we have folk willing to be our couriers to take batches the US, mainland Europe and for general shipping further afield, depending on where these little fellas need to go.

It will also be quicker to ship internally than to have all of them go through customs.

Our ticket portal is now open :)