Register for 2023 Workshops

We’ve launched a new registration page so you can reserve your spot for workshops that require materials or materials fees. Sign up below to ensure the workshop hosts have enough materials for your attendance! Note: only workshops that require signups for materials are listed here. Other workshops are open to drop ins. https://clockwork-alchemy-signups.netlify.app/signup

Splendid Teapot Racing 2023

Join us for Clockwork Alchemy’s Splendid Teapot Racing Competition.   On your mark, get set, go!  Get your teapot racers ready, dastardly or otherwise!  Spots are limited so be sure to arrive at least 15 minutes early to fill out the registration form. The goal of Teapot Racing is to remotely drive your racing teapot around …

Behind-the-Scenes with our Maker Guest of Honor: SteamyTech!

Clockwork Alchemy is delighted to present facts, figures, and fun from Greg and Lora, the geniuses of SteamyTech. We interviewed Greg and Lora Price of SteamyTech and got all the nitty, gritty, and pretty you could hope for. Read on to meet our Maker Guests of Honor for 2023! Q: What was your first effort …

Featured Maker: Buck Potter

We are pleased to have costume maker Buck Potter in attendance this year! He does fabulous superhero costuming, including mashup Mandalorian and Star Lord. Buck will be wearing and displaying his creations at the con in April. If you want to learn more, look for Buck’s panels during the con! Facebook Page: Buck Potter Instagram: the.mandalordian …

Aether Orb Hunt

Polish up your quizzing-glasses and bring your bonny baskets to celebrate Aether Sunday on April 9, with Clockwork Alchemy’s inaugural Aether Orb Hunt! Search the halls, nooks, and crannies of the convention space for hidden orbs stuffed with candy, jokes, and goodies from Clockwork Monster Millinery! A special kids-only outdoor courtyard section will be reserved just for …

Accepting Fashion Entries for the Clockwork Alchemy Fashion Show

Hello, All Fashionistas! Be ye Villian or Hero Now accepting Unique Entries. Dive deep into your Villainous or Heroic self and produce a new character to share on the Runway. Tell us your unique inner Villain or Hero story. Take us on a trip through your very own Steampunk mythos or alternative history. Participation is …

2023 Author Guest: Dover Whitecliff

Dover Whitecliff is an author, an artist, an analyst, and a jack-of-all-trades who creates fiction and art in a multiverse of fusion. Her books include mashups of different genres: sleuthing and superheroes (the upcoming Murder by Spandex), cybersteam and spies (She-Wolf in Shorts), haiku poetry and coloring pages (Haiku Hedgehogs), and a steampunk take on …

2023 Author Guest: Michael Tierney

Michael Tierney writes steampunk-laced alternative historical fiction stories from his Victorian home in Silicon Valley. After writing technical and scientific publications for many years, he turned his sights to more imaginative genres. Trained as a chemist, he brings an appreciation for both science and history to his stories. He has completed “Where Treasures Lie”, the …

2023 Author Guest: Sumiko Saulson

Sumiko Saulson is a Bram Stoker nominated poet and award-winning author of Afrosurrealist and multicultural sci-fi and horror. Author of the Bram Stoker nominated The Rat King: A Book of Dark Poetry (Dooky Zines). LOHR Reader’s Choice Award-winning collection Within Me Without Me (Dooky Zines), and the novel Happiness and Other Diseases (Mocha Memoirs Press). …

2023 Author Guest: BJ Sikes

BJ Sikes is a 5’6″ ape descendant who is inordinately fond of a good strong cup of tea, Doc Marten boots, and fancy dress. She lives with one large cat, two sweet teenagers, a menagerie of chickens, and one editor-author. She is the author of the alternate history novel, The Archimedean Heart, a mix of …

2023 Author Guest: T.E. MacArthur

T. E. MacArthur is an author, artist, historian, amateur cat whisperer, and parapsychologist wannabe living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She wrote the Steampunk series, The Volcano Lady and the Gaslight Adventures of Tom Turner, as well as the Noir-punk mystery, Lou Tanner, P.I.: A Place of Fog and Murder. She has also written …

2023 Author Guest: Madeleine Holly-Rosing

Madeleine Holly-Rosing is the writer/creator of the steampunk supernatural prose, graphic novel, and audio drama series, Boston Metaphysical Society. Winner of the Sloan Fellowship for screenwriting, and the Gold Aurora and Bronze Telly for a PSA produced by Women In Film, she has also won numerous awards while completing the UCLA MFA Program in Screenwriting. …