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Happy #InternationalTranslationDay! Did you know that Sir #TerryPratchett's books have been translated into more than 30 languages worldwide -- with lots more still to come! Many translated editions have their own bespoke cover art. Which is your favourite? #Discworld #DiscworldConvention

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The text reads "International Translation Day" above three Discworld book covers: Equal Rites translated into Catalan, Simplified Chinese, and Russian.

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 27/09/2026

It's World Tourism Day! Who was the Discworld's very first tourist, and which books do they appear in? #Discworld #DiscworldConvention #TerryPratchett #InternationalDay #WorldTourismDay

Black text on a pale yellow background with a black Art Nouveau border. The text reads "World Tourism Day" above a digital graphic of a signpost pointing to four different Discworld cities: Ankh-Morpork, Lancre, Pseudopolis, and Überwald.

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 24/09/2026

Two Discworld birthdays on the same day! Wishing many happy returns to Ian Stewart - co-author of the Science of the Discworld series and long-time Convention guest! #Discworld #DiscworldConvention #DiscworldBirthday #TerryPratchett

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The text reads "Happy birthday Ian Stewart!" above a black single-line drawing of a birthday cake with candles.

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 24/09/2026

Wishing a very happy birthday to Rob Wilkins (@terryandrob.bsky.social) - Sir Terry Pratchett's assistant, business manager, (official) biographer, and friend. We hope you have a wonderful day! #Discworld #DiscworldConvention #DiscworldBirthday #TerryPratchett

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The text reads "Happy birthday Rob Wilkins!" above a black single-line drawing of a birthday cake with candles.

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 21/09/2026

Wishing a very happy birthday to the specQUACKular Pat Harkin (@dwauctioneer.bsky.social), our long-suffering Auctioneer and Maskerade MC! #Discworld #DiscworldConvention #DiscworldBirthday #TerryPratchett #QUACK

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The text reads "Happy birthday Pat Harkin!" above a black single-line drawing of a birthday cake with candles.

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 19/09/2026

Arrrr, it be Talk Like A Pirate Day, me hearties! Which #TheColourOfMagic actor played an iconic fictional pirate in a 1996 Muppet movie? And who was the pirate in question? #Discworld #DiscworldConvention #TerryPratchett #InternationalDay #TalkLikeAPirateDay #HimToo

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The text reads "Talk Like A Pirate Day" above a monochrome image of a tattered black skull-and-crossbones flag.

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 14/09/2026

Wishing a very happy birthday to Ian Mitchell (@DiscworldShoppe) - long-time Convention guest and enterprising Emporium proprietor! We were sorry not to see you at this year's #DiscworldConvention. Two Emporium birthdays in a row! #Discworld #TerryPratchett #DiscworldBirthday

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The text reads "Happy Birthday Ian Mitchell!" above a digital black single-line drawing of a birthday cake.

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 13/09/2026

Wishing a very happy birthday to Bernard Pearson - long time friend of STP, official "piss off" announcer, and beloved Convention guest for many years! We missed you very much at this year's Convention. #Discworld #DiscworldConvention #DiscworldBirthday #TerryPratchett

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The text reads "Happy birthday Bernard Pearson!" above a digital single-line drawing of a birthday cake.

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 12/09/2026

Convention-goers! Yesterday's newsletter had some important updates from us, including the Safeguarding feedback survey and the iconography consent form. If you can, please fill both out! dwcon.org/311 #Discworld #DiscworldConvention #TerryPratchett #News

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 11/09/2026

We know many of you have been looking forward to seeing the photos taken by our official #DiscworldConvention iconographers! However, lots of people still haven’t given us permission to use their photos. If that's you, please complete the form below! #Discworld #TerryPratchett #News

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The text reads: "We need your consent to share any Convention photos with you in! No form? No photos!"

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 05/09/2026

Happy International Bacon Day! Sam Vimes is famously fond of a bacon butty or three -- much to Lady Sybil's disapproval. But what makes a sandwich a "Vimes BLT"? #Discworld #DiscworldConvention #TerryPratchett #InternationalDay #Bacon #InternationalBaconDay

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The text reads "International Bacon Day" above a digital graphic showing a bacon butty (a sandwich using bacon in the middle of a round white bun).

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 01/09/2026

Today marks the beginning of World Alzheimer's Month. Sir #TerryPratchett was a patron of Alzheimer's Research UK and had a form of #Alzheimers himself. At this year's #DiscworldConvention, we raised over £30,000 for charities -- including Alzheimer's Society! #Discworld #WorldAlzheimersMonth

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The text reads "World Alzheimer's Month" above a digital illustration of three pale blue forget-me-not flowers -- the symbol for Alzheimer's Disease.

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 31/08/2026

Each year, on August bank holiday weekend, people gather to carry out an age-old task. With buckets of chalk, protective gloves, and hammers, they scour the hillside to keep this majestic horse showing its glory for another year. #Discworld #DiscworldConvention #UffingtonWhiteHorse #TerryPratchett

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The text reads "Uffington White Horse Scouring Weekend" above line art of the white horse -- a prehistoric figure carved into the chalk slopes of a hill.

"T'aint what a horse look like, it's what a horse be"

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 28/08/2026

Wishing a very happy birthday to the marvelous Isobel Pearson, from everyone at the International Discworld Convention! We hope you're having a fantastic day! #Discworld #DiscworldConvention #DiscworldBirthday #TerryPratchett #DiscworldEmporium

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The text reads "Happy Birthday Isobel Pearson!" above a black single-line drawing of a birthday cake with candles.

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 26/08/2026

Just 24 hours after our last post, everyone at the #DiscworldConvention is extremely saddened by the loss of Tim Curry. Tim played Trymon in the 2008 Sky One TV adaptation of Sir #TerryPratchett's #TheColourOfMagic - while in 2010 the Convention staged the Rocky Horror #Discworld Show! #GNUTimCurry

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The text reads "GNU Tim Curry" above a glittery oval photo frame. Inside the frame is a colour photo of Tim Curry as Trymon the wizard in The Colour Of Magic, wearing red velvet robes and a giant red pointy hat with yellow stars on it. He also sports a frankly magnificently villainous black moustache/beard combo.

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton would have wanted you to read a book. Go make her proud today. Go read a book Consider donating to imagination library: imaginationlibrary.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTiu...

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 25/08/2026

Everyone at the #DiscworldConvention is deeply sorry to hear of the death of the wonderful Dolly Parton. Not only one of the greatest singer-songwriters of all time, Dolly gave away over 332 million books to children around the world through her Imagination Library. #GNUDollyParton

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The text reads "GNU Dolly Parton" above a black-and-white photo of a young Dolly in a glittery golden oval frame. Dolly is wearing a denim shirt and giant hooped earrings, looking dreamily over her shoulder, and looks (as always) utterly beautiful.

We will always love you, Dolly!

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 17/08/2026

The #DiscworldConvention may be over but the show must go on! Check out today's #Newsletter to find out how to give us feedback, how to volunteer for 2028, lost and found at the convention... and a spectacular charity update! dwcon.org/310 #Discworld #TerryPratchett #News

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 16/08/2026

Lost property from DWCon2026! See something that’s yours? Email membership@dwcon.org to discuss how we can get it to you. Items not claimed by 31 August will be donated to charity or chucked.

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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 14/08/2026

Gods bless this thing, it was up there on the stage shimmering, and I was staring at that going "...what *is* that? *Wait...* is that what I *think* it is??!" Ah cripes. 🙂#GNUTerryPratchett #GNUTerrysDrive

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Heather Wallace @burntcopper.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

Huey as the tooth Fairy, esme, magrat and nanny,, the prettiest feegle (amazing hair), Huey's latest iteration of Twoflower, complete with hogswatch'd camera.

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Heather Wallace @burntcopper.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026

Discworld con. As ever, Huey the knitted hall token accumulator gets his own posts (ratcatcher from the Amazing Maurice) he even has remy and roland the rat and finger mouse in there.

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Rob (the ergonomist) Cotterill @robcotterill.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The mortal remains of Terry Pratchett's hard drive, encased in a block of resin. #DWCon2026

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President Weesey of A.R.S.E HQ/BildaddyMyBeloved/GOJail she/her @baddie48ofarse.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

#ARSE #DiscworldCon2026 HOW have I only just discovered that the official Discworld Con have an account on here?! @dwcon.org Thank you to all of you for a fantabulous weekend. It was my first Discworld con and I very much want to attend again! It was a pleasure seeing @terryandrob.bsky.social ++

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Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It's #DWCon time again! As Terry used to say, Discworld Convention time is it's own bubble so we all just restart our conversations where we left off last time. 30 years ago seems just like last week...

Mounted behind a bar, next to cabinets of bottled beer, is a Triumph motorcycle. Astride it, looking like he is having a great time, is a grinning skeleton wearing a black cape and a leather jacket.

A metal pin badge, in a plastic packet. The backing card says 'Terry Pratchett's Discworld' at the top, and 'Discworld Convention 30th Anniversary' at the bottom. The badge itself is a tricornered shield surrounding a circle, surrounding a turtle in the centre. The circle has text reading 'Discworld Convention' and two ribbons, 1996 - 2026. The turtle has 30 written on its back. In the corners of the shield are three small icons: a book, a beer tankard, and a duck. (what duck?)

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Ailbhe @ailbhe.ossifrage.net · 08/08/2026

#DWCon2026 I've been learning to crochet a rose! If this worked, the next bit should be easy.

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David Wake @davidwake.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Here. Dawn and I at the #Discworld Convention, this weekend. I'm expressing my inner Tintin. A Dragon in the Title is going down well. #booksky.

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Adrian Ogden @ade-on-drums.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Feegles at #DWCon #DWCon2026

Three chaps and one lady dressed as Feegles, ie. tiny blue folk with red hair and tartans. To preserve the illusion of size they carry a large scroll and a 6ft pencil with which they were having other con-goers sign it.

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DannaLB Golan's Mom @dannalb.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

He is missed, many stories are told this weekend at the @dwcon.org GNU Sir Terry #discworld

Terry Pratchett's black hat on a red cushion with lilac bloom at the discworld convention

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Alisdair Calder McGregor @acmcgregor.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Closing Ceremony at @dwcon.org announces we raised over £30,000 for the charities #dwcon #dwcon2026

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DannaLB Golan's Mom @dannalb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Do you find yourself wanting to "Quack!" at odd silent moments of a meeting? Are you quoting "Tradition !" at your kids asking "Why?" Do you want to hug an Orangutan? These may be sign that you came back from the amazing @dwcon.org #discworld #TerryPratchett #GNUSTP

Orangutan plush toy sitting on a covered badge of the discworld convention with a discworld convention lanyard and pin, a round pin that says "yes I ballet sponsored Stephen" and badge banners of many colors including
a red "Ahahahaha! Ahahahaha! BEWARE!!!!!"
Purple "went to ops"
yellow green blue with " Ecce! An agro ubi nascuntur mei furnicati Ecce! Sterilis est"
Purple "Beer! Beer! Beer! Beer! I like to drink lots of beer!
White "CMOT Dibbler Catering - on your own risk"
Brown I do this on two continents with a robot and discworld turtle and map (with the same images in the black Guild of Fans: Farpoint chapter)
And red "Truth! Justice ! Volunteering! And a hard boiled egg!"

All on a tablecloth of sunflowers

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 10/08/2026

And so Agnes has finally sung... the International Discworld Convention 2026 is now (officially) closed! We have loved seeing you all, and hope you've had just as much fun as we have. Here's to 2028! #Discworld #DiscworldConvention #TerryPratchett #GNUSTP

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 07/08/2026

We're delighted to announce that the #DiscworldConvention 2026 is OPEN! Have a wonderful weekend, everyone! Don't forget to check the app for the latest programme updates, and when in doubt: Go To Ops! #Discworld #DiscworldConvention #TerryPratchett #News

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The text reads: "The Discworld Convention is now open! Have a quack-tastic weekend!"

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 05/08/2026

Our final Guest Spotlight is in loving memory of Peter Morwood. Peter was a fan, nerd, author and long-time #DiscworldConvention Guest along with his wife, Diane Duane He will be very much missed. Please share your memories of Peter in the replies <3 #Discworld #TerryPratchett #GNU

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 04/08/2026

The #DiscworldConvention is just days away! This morning's newsletter sees some last-minute reminders from the Committee, lots of useful information... and yes, when packing, please do remember your toothbrush! dwcon.org/303 #Discworld #TerryPratchett #News

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The text reads: "Don't forget your toothbrush! And other final reminders from our Committee"

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 03/08/2026

If you’re staying at the Leonardo hotel for the #DiscworldConvention, you will soon be offered online check-in. When checking in, DO NOT select extra breakfast! If you are unsure what to do or are confused about the online check-in, do NOT check in online. You can check in in person at the hotel.

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The text reads, "Important Update: If you're checking in online, do NOT add on extra breakfast! Breakfast is included in your standard Convention hotel rate."

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 02/08/2026

Will you be arriving at the #DiscworldConvention hotel on Thursday? If so, please check out today's Newsletter to find out everything you can get up to the night before the Convention! dwcon.org/302 #Discworld #TerryPratchett #News

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 01/08/2026

It's #WorldWideWebDay! Did you know that August 2026 marks 35 years since the launch of the very first website? WWW Day celebrates the impact of the internet on the lives of people around the world. What is the #Discworld's 'internet' and who were its first hackers? #DiscworldConvention #GNUSTP

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The text reads "World Wide Web Day", above a navy blue image of the Globe. Around overlaid are lighter blue lines and dots to symbolise the interconnectivity of the world wide web.

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 28/07/2026

Today's Guest Spotlight is Professor David Lloyd! A good friend of Sir #TerryPratchett, David co-wrote the introduction to the Penguin Modern Classic Night Watch. David is unable to attend this year's #DiscworldConvention, but will deliver a virtual session nonetheless. #Discworld #ConventionGuest

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The text reads "Guest Spotlight: David Lloyd"

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 27/07/2026

Today is our last Charity Spotlight! The third charity we will be raising money for at the #DiscworldConvention is... TransActual! Run by trans people for trans people, TransActual works for a UK where all trans people can live safely and in dignity. #Discworld #TerryPratchett #News

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 26/07/2026

Yes folks, it's the time you've all been waiting for... The #DiscworldConvention Programme and App are now LIVE! Also in today's #Newsletter: - Volunteering - Unofficial events - Signing sessions - What the heck IS a Hedgehog Party, anyway? dwcon.org/301 #Discworld #TerryPratchett #News

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The text reads: "The Discworld Convention's Programme and App are now live!"

The words "programme and app" are twice as large as the rest of the text, because if ConCom see it, we might just believe it too.

Very faintly, behind the words, is digital art of a mobile phone (which is totally not an iPhone), showing its apps screen.

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 25/07/2026

It's National Wine and Cheese Day! What is the name of the sentient cheese accidentally created by Tiffany Aching, who first appears in #Wintersmith? #Discworld #DiscworldConvention #TerryPratchett #Wintersmith #InternationalDay #NationalWineAndCheeseDay

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The text reads "National Wine and Cheese Day" above a picture of a glass of red wine, a round of cheese with a slice taken out of it, and a bunch of purple grapes

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 24/07/2026

Just two weeks today, the #DiscworldConvention will be in FULL SWING! :O As such, today's #Newsletter is full of guidance for a safe and fun Convention (which doesn't get hotel furniture covered in body paint). Give it a read! dwcon.org/299 #Discworld #TerryPratchett #News

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 23/07/2026

Our second Charity Spotlight for this year's #DiscworldConvention is... the Orangutan Foundation! Another cause close to our hearts (and our Librarians), the Foundation has been helping to protect orangutans and their forest habitats since 1990. Find out more about their work at the Convention!

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 22/07/2026

Today's Guest Spotlight is another long-time friend of the #DiscworldConvention, Ian Stewart! Ian is an internationally-renowned mathematician and writer who is a co-author of the #ScienceOfDiscworld series alongside Jack Cohen and Sir #TerryPratchett. Welcome back for 2026, Ian! #Discworld #News

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 22/07/2026

Can't make the #DiscworldConvention after all? Got a hotel reservation you can't use? :( Let us know and we'll try to help! Lots of people are currently looking for hotel rooms. If you won't be using yours, tell us by 23:59 on Thursday 23 July! Email our team at hotel@dwcon.org with the details.

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The text reads: "Can't make the Convention after all?" (Two crying emojis) "If you have a Convention hotel reservation you can't use, we might be able to help -- let us know by 23:59 on Thursday 23 July!

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 21/07/2026

Today's #DiscworldConvention newsletter has updates on our Programme and a very special guest: @rhi.bsky.social! Rhianna and Gabrielle Kent will be signing Tiffany Aching's Guide To Being A Witch, so ensure you pre-order by 30 July! dwcon.org/298 #Discworld #News

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 21/07/2026

At this year's #DiscworldConvention we are proud to be supporting three fantastic charities. All of them will have stalls and presentation slots at the Convention where you can find out more about the great work they do. We will also be supporting them with our Charity Auction!

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Discworld Convention @dwcon.org · 19/07/2026

Still choosing the name that will go on your #DiscworldConvention badge? You have just over 24 hours left to make your choice! Choose wisely: some people have found that their badge names become their nicknames for many Conventions to come... #Discworld #TerryPratchett #News

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