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Panels & Schedule
Plan your convention schedule for each day and each location!
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Thursday–Vern Burton
Drop in to a casual meet-up and roundtable discussion of real-life Sasquatch sightings and experiences. Share your story or come and listen. Snacks provided!
Make your own zine in this hands-on workshop with local artist and comic book author Cammry Lapka. Take your art home or leave your pages to contribute to the first-ever collaborative Squatchcon zine. Supplies provided, but feel free to bring more!
60+ local artists and artisans including independent comics and game creators, jewelry and costume designers, pop artists, student artists, and more. Food and drink vendors onsite.
Build skills, community and confidence with other teen writers! Participants will learn about strategies for character creation and storybuilding. Draw/sketch and brainstorm ideas as a group or as an individual following a brief presentation. Hosted by Oak Herbelin, author of Middle Ground Collection.
This fun presentation explores the history of “Eddie,” our resident sea serpent of the North Olympic Peninsula. Using eye witness accounts, art work and other data, we dig into this mystery to try to solve the riddle of Eddie once and for all. With David Brownell, Executive Director, North Olympic History Center
Regional author and poet Tamara Kaye Sellman leads a wacky, MadLibs-inspired poetry building workshop using our beloved Sasquatch as a central figure. Hear some real poems dedicated to PNW cryptids, then venture to write some of your own after a sample round. Choose between Bigfoot, the Kraken, the Tree Octopus, the Lady of the Lake; or, Northwest-ify your favorite classic creature (Hint: The Hurricane Ridge Were-Marmot). If there's time, we'll share a few! Fun for all ages; poetry templates and pencils provided! No poetry experience necessary.
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Thursday–Field Hall
Meet other Kpop fans in a quick and casual get together in the Sunset Lounge at Field Hall prior to a sing-along screening of Kpop Demon Hunters. Bring photocards to show off or swap! Food and drinks available to purchase; no food or drink allowed in the theater.
The supernatural musical sensation KPop Demon Hunters has taken the world by storm, and now it's your chance to see it on the big screen! Dress up in your themed look and feel free to sing along to your favorite songs. This special screening is presented by Field Hall with support from Anime Kat in celebration of Squatchcon 2026!
Welcome to a special LIVE edition of Fermented Fiction, the show where we drunkenly debate the best movies, books, and shows in the genre fiction realm based upon the will and whimsy of the Dice Gods. This weekend, our topic is the international smash-hit K-pop Demon Hunters. Live in the Sunset Lounge, our debaters will roll two D20s. The high roll shall defend, the low roll shall attack, whether they love this movie or not. After the showdown, we'll break down our true feelings, explore the writing and filmmaking crafts, and get a little tipsy with our signature, themed cocktails. With hosts Clay Vermulm and Jeremy Hudson, featuring special guest debaters Lish McBride and Kendare Blake.
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Thursday–Studio Bob
Join us for a free, all-ages cosplay drawing event! Cosplayers pose for three 20-minute life drawing sessions. Drawing supplies are available or bring your own. Doors open at 6:30PM: beer, wine, soft drinks, water and light snacks available for purchase.
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Friday–Vern Burton
60+ local artists and artisans including independent comics and game creators, jewelry and costume designers, pop artists, student artists, and more. Food and drink vendors onsite.
Zine and alt-comix icon Donna Barr shares the shocking, silly, and sentimental stories from 30+ years of conventions and events. Donna is joined virtually by friend and fellow alt-comix trailblazer Roberta Gregory. Bring your questions… and your popcorn.
Whether you’re writing from a speculative lens or from a place of deep-seated belief, spiritual faith, or research and hard evidence, writing a story involving folklore, mythical creatures, and cryptids carries with it a unique set of challenges and requisite considerations. Join our panel of publishing writers from different walks of the literary world to explore the different facets and foibles of any writer who wants to approach this well-trodden path for their story, whether it be fiction or non-fiction. With Josh Cutchin, Kat Richardson, Kendare Blake, Lish McBride, moderated by Clay Vermulm.
Always have ideas for stories or novels floating around your head but not sure where to start? Teens 12-18ish will learn how to turn big ideas about Characters, World, and Plot into a cohesive story. This workshop includes lots of real time creating so bring your favorite writing tools! Hosted by local author and speaker Sally Bays.
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Friday–Studio Bob
Sequined jackets, assorted fabrics, theatrical shoes, thrifted treasures, bags of yarn balls, and so much more! Squatchcon’s annual Free Octopus Cosplay Swap is back and bigger than ever. Bring what you have - take what you like! This year the swap is open for extended hours at Studio Bob. Drop in to browse or connect with a cosplay pro for tips and tricks!
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Saturday–Vern Burton
Want to start an RPG but don't know where to start? Come talk with our experienced panel of DM's about tips, tricks, and boundaries to set early. Hosted by local author and speaker Sally Bays.
60+ local artists and artisans including independent comics and game creators, jewelry and costume designers, pop artists, student artists, and more. Food and drink vendors onsite.
Zine and alt-comix icon Donna Barr shares the shocking, silly, and sentimental stories from 30+ years of conventions and events. Donna is joined virtually by friend and fellow alt-comix trailblazer Roberta Gregory. Bring your questions… and your popcorn.
Whether you’re writing from a speculative lens or from a place of deep-seated belief, spiritual faith, or research and hard evidence, writing a story involving folklore, mythical creatures, and cryptids carries with it a unique set of challenges and requisite considerations. Join our panel of publishing writers from different walks of the literary world to explore the different facets and foibles of any writer who wants to approach this well-trodden path for their story, whether it be fiction or non-fiction. With Josh Cutchin, Kat Richardson, Kendare Blake, Lish McBride, moderated by Clay Vermulm.
Always have ideas for stories or novels floating around your head but not sure where to start? Teens 12-18ish will learn how to turn big ideas about Characters, World, and Plot into a cohesive story. This workshop includes lots of real time creating so bring your favorite writing tools! Hosted by local author and speaker Sally Bays.
Long before you ever submit to agents and publishers, or if you go the indie route, hit publish on your distribution platform of choice, there are many, many steps towards getting your creative work to where you want to share it with the entire universe. It can be very intimidating and many authors never progress past this point. This panel is determined to help you avoid this stall-out. We hope that, throughout discussion and your questions, we can help all of you authors out there get those stories out of your own desk drawers and onto the desks of those who will take them to the next level, whether that be freelance editors, critique partners, agents, publishers, or a reliable and objective group of critique partners. With Tamara Sellman, Kat Richardson, Jen Flanagan, moderated by Brian Blackwood.
60+ local artists and artisans including independent comics and game creators, jewelry and costume designers, pop artists, student artists, and more. Food and drink vendors onsite.
Whether you love sci-fi, fantasy, horror, or even romance and erotica the creature feature has the potential to make an appearance in your favorite genre and to be amongst your favorite chapters of whatever IP you’re engaged with. Lord of the Rings had Shelob, the epic Hyperion Saga has the Shrike, and Sasquatch Erotica is more successful than anyone might have ever predicted. This panel will analyze and discuss why readers, viewers, and audiences of all kinds love monsters and the motifs they bring along with them into our favorite stories.
With Lish McBride, Kendare Blake, Kat Richardson, Clay Vermulm, moderated by Josh Cutchin.
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Sunday–Vern Burton
Despite the ever-evolving landscape of the creative industries one question often remains at the forefront of emerging author’s minds: do I go indie or traditional for my book? In this panel we will explore the benefits, boons, and pitfalls of each publishing method, the difficulties and rewards inherent in each, and the paths to publishing success down each path. With Kendare Blake, Tamara Kaye Sellman, Brian Blackwood, Kat Richardson, moderated by Lish McBride.
60+ local artists and artisans including independent comics and game creators, jewelry and costume designers, pop artists, student artists, and more. Food and drink vendors onsite.
Whether you prefer live theater, film, prose, poetry, or music, some stories are just a certain fit for a particular medium. But how do you know which medium would be the best fit for the story you’re creating? In this panel we’ll analyze the specific angles and analysis you can use to objectively analyze the story you want to tell and put it in the right format for success. We will also talk about the various considerations and limitations across various creative formats. With Erik Keevan, Josh Cutchin, Kendare Blake, Lish McBride, Cammry Lapka, moderated by Tamara Sellman.
What makes a compelling literary relationship? Can we avoid tropes? What does a "good sex scene" look like? This workshop will breakdown what it takes to build and maintain narrative tension within the relationships in your stories, answering the questions above and more! (Contains mature content) Hosted by local author and speaker Sally Bays.
What do tabletop campaigns, strategy games, and role playing systems have in common with city councils, county commissions, and planning departments? More than you might think! Join Port Angeles City Council member Drew Schwab, Clallam County Commissioner Mike French, and Forks City Attorney and City Planner Rod Fleck for a lively conversation about how their gaming backgrounds influence the way they approach public service. From systems thinking and collaboration to rule design and ethical decision making, this panel explores how games help build skills that matter in real world governance and where the metaphor breaks down. Perfect for gamers, civic nerds, and anyone curious about how gaming and governance intersects in Clallam County.
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