some UK slash cons

[julesjones]

Something I was asked for in the m/m romance chat at Literary Nymphs yesterday -- copy-n-paste from my email this evening in reply:

Okay, as asked for yesterday by some of the UK crowd:

the UK slash con that is definitely running this year is Connotations,
Newcastle, England, October 3-5 2008
The website hasn't been updated, but they have an LJ:
http://community.livejournal.com/connotations/
I've never been to it because it started after I left the UK, but some of my friends have and seem to like it.

I have a vague memory of seeing something about another one being revived after some years in hiatus, but I need to track down the details, and they don't like being talked about in public anyway. (Ah -- they're on in July this year, in Leicester. Email me for the link.)

Redemption isn't a slash con, but it is slash-friendly and usually has some slash-orientated panels and workshops in the programme (including the ever popular "realism in slash" panel). Next one's 20-22 Feb 2009, in Coventry:
http://www.conventions.org.uk/redemption/index.html

Comments

[desperance.livejournal.com]

So are you coming to Connotations? I won't be attending (probably), but, y'know. Newcastle...

[julesjones]

Probably not, because odd though it may sound, I'm not a general slash fan. I watch very little tv and I don't read much canon in the popular bookslash fandoms (only read Harry Potter 1-4 because predatrix insisted I beta-read her Potterverse fanfic), so fandom-specific panels hold no interest for me unless they're Blake's 7 orientated. And Torchwood, now. :-) And I've been burnt by cons that appeared to have lots of panels of more general interest but had all the general panels hijacked by the vocal members of some fandom I'd never heard of.

So the interest to me is socialising with friends, and such friends as are likely to be at that one are also likely to be at Redemption (which started as a B7/B5 con). But if I do go, I will endeavour to be around an extra day and come to visit. :-)