Wild North (Wild North) 2026 is scheduled for Sep 18-21, 2026 in Chester-le-Street, United Kingdom. The announced theme is Age of Heroes.
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Reaching a 14th-century castle requires slightly different logistics than a city-center hotel:
Curated stays near Lumley Castle Hotel, Chester-le-Street, United Kingdom.
The housing setup is central to the convention's appeal:
Wild North 2025 took place in the historic 14th-century Lumley Castle, hosting a capacity crowd of 100 attendees. The "Haunted Halls" edition raised £1,083.39 for Little Paws Ferret Rescue.
Historical data and growth track record
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| Year | Dates | Theme | Attendance | Charity Raised | Guest(s) of Honor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2027 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | None Announced |
2026 | Sep 18-21 | Age of Heroes | TBA | TBA | None Announced |
2025 | Sep 26-29 | Haunted Halls | 100 | £1,083.39(Little Paws Ferret Rescue) | None Announced |
2024 | TBA | The Enchanted Forest | 60 | TBA | None Announced |
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Sleeping in the castle: Castle Classic vs Courtyard Classic rooms
Wild North is one of the very few furry conventions where the attendee tier ladder is also a room-allocation ladder inside a medieval fortress. Lumley Castle Hotel offers two distinct room blocks, Castle Classic Double rooms inside the historic 14th-century keep (the prized inventory) and Courtyard Classic Double rooms in the modern adjunct wing, and registration explicitly pairs you with a room partner via a "sharing group" on the reg system.
Conbook open-call: bind your art or writing into the printed book by 30 June
Wild North runs an annual attendee-contributed conbook rather than a staff-produced program guide. Anyone registered can email stories, poems, songs, paintings, or illustrations to [email protected] by 30 June and have their work bound into the printed book for that year's edition. Mascot Twizell anchors the theme brief, the 2026 Age of Heroes run frames Twizell-and-friends as the recurring cast attendees write into. It folds the program guide and the art zine into one artifact, distinctive against the badge-pack + printed-schedule norm at peer UK cons.
Bluesky-and-Telegram-first comms, no /news page on the main site
Wild North runs no /news/ page on wildnorth.uk at all. Canonical announcements flow exclusively through @wildnorth.bsky.social and the @WildNorthComms Telegram channel, with separate on-topic and off-topic Telegram groups to keep signal clean. The marketing site is a Wix SPA (curl and Wayback can't parse it) and the registration portal is a custom Vite + three.js app at reg.wildnorth.uk that handles the "sharing group" room-partner mechanic, the one-day "Trading Post" dealers' track is applied for via the same reg portal rather than a separate vendor form.
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