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Who will be attending World Fantasy Convention 2025.
Please find below a list of members who have agreed for us to share their details. Click on the links to find out more about them and their creative work.
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A.Y. Chao:
Programme ParticipantAlice is a Taiwanese Canadian fantasy writer resident in the UK who enjoys exploring the intersections of identity and belonging in her writing. A rec…
Abie Longstaff, Author:
Programme ParticipantAbie Longstaff is a children’s author, and Chair of the Children’s Writers and illustrator Group at the Society of Authors. She has written over 50 …
Adrian Tchaikovsky:
Programme ParticipantAdrian Tchaikovsky is a British science-fiction and fantasy writer known for a wide-variety of work including the Children of Time, Final Architecture…
Ai Jiang:
Programme ParticipantAi Jiang is a Chinese-Canadian writer, winner of the Bram Stoker®, Nebula and Ignyte Awards, and Hugo, Astounding, Locus, and BSFA Award finalist, an…
AK Faulkner:
Programme ParticipantAK is the author of the award-winning Inheritance series, a queer urban fantasy saga which begins with Jack of Thorns. The best way to their heart is …
Alex Adsett:
Programme ParticipantAlex Adsett is an Australian literary agent with near 30 years’ experience working in the publishing industry. She has managed Alex Adsett Literary …
Alex Makepeace:
Alex Makepeace was raised in London and began his career as a journalist before moving into international aid and public health, where he learned that…
Ali Baker:
Programme ParticipantAlison Baker is a lecturer at University of East London in initial teacher education. She is a researcher in Children’s Fantasy Fiction. She has pub…
Ali Sparkes:
Programme ParticipantAli Sparkes is the multi-award winning author of more than 60 books for children and young adults. Her sci-fi classic Frozen In Time won The Blue Pete…
Alice “Huskyteer” Dryden:
Programme ParticipantAlice Dryden writes stories and poems about talking animals. Most of these are published in the furry fandom under the name Huskyteer, but occasionall…
Alicia Wanstall-Burke:
Programme ParticipantAn Aussie author living in the UK, Alicia’s first fantasy trilogy, The Coraidic Sagas, began in 2018 with Blood of Heirs, followed by Legacy of Ghosts…
Alison Buck – Elsewhen Press:
Author, artist, and co-founder in 2011 of Elsewhen Press, a small indie press specialising in speculative fiction, based in SE England. Especially pro…
Alison Littlewood:
Programme ParticipantAlison’s latest novels, published as A. J. Elwood, are The Other Lives of Miss Emily White and The Cottingley Cuckoo. Her first book, A Cold Season,…
Aliya Whiteley:
Programme ParticipantAliya Whiteley writes novels and novellas, usually strange ones. They have been shortlisted for multiple awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke award,…
Allen Ashley:
Programme ParticipantAllen Ashley is the author or editor of 19 books and is a British Fantasy Award winner. His works included the Elgin-nominated poetry collection “Echo…
Allen Stroud:
Programme ParticipantAllen Stroud is a university lecturer, researcher and Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer from Bedfordshire, England. He the is Chair of the British Sc…
Amanda Rutter:
Programme ParticipantCommissioning Editor for Solaris Books, dog mum to three hell hounds, keen knitter and crocheting….
Amy de la Force:
Programme ParticipantAmy de la Force is the debut author of A KISS OF HAMMER AND FLAME, book 1 in the Fated For Hael fantasy romance series published by Canelo (DK, Pengui…
Amy King:
Andi Ewington, Author:
Programme ParticipantAndi Ewington is a writer known for numerous comics, including Rogue Trooper, Forty-Five45, S6X, Sunflower, Red Dog, Dark Souls II, Just Cause 3, Free…
Andrew Freudenberg:
Andrew Hook:
Programme ParticipantAndrew Hook has had over 200 short stories published, together with twelve collections, a handful of novellas, and a few novels. 2o25 should see publi…
Andrew King:
Andrew Knighton:
Programme ParticipantAndrew Knighton is the author of the Forged For Destiny trilogy and The Executioner’s Blade, as well as assorted short stories, comics, novellas, an…
Andrew Watson:
Angela “A.G.” Slatter:
Programme ParticipantAngela “A.G.†Slatter is the author of seven novels, including All the Murmuring Bones, The Path of Thorns, The Briar Book of the Dead and The Cri…
Ann Landmann:
Programme ParticipantGrowing up in East Germany on a steady diet of Grimms and Russian Fairy Tales until falling under the thrall of Tolkien and Pratchett in her teens, it…
Ann Marie Rudolph:
Anna Smith Spark:
Programme ParticipantAnna Smith Spark is the author of the Empires of Dust grimdark epic fantasy series The Court of Broken Knives, The Tower of Living and Dying and The H…
Anna Stephens:
Programme ParticipantAnna Stephens is the author of the epic fantasy Godblind and Songs of the Drowned trilogies, and also writes for Black Library in their Age of Sigmar …
Anna Tizard:
Anna Tizard writes award-winning contemporary/ weird fantasy. She’s also obsessed with the surrealist game of Exquisite Corpse, which scrambles word…
Annie Czajkowski:
Ant @ SFBook:
Programme ParticipantOwner of SFBook.com, freelance writer & reviewer of all things speculative. Employee of Future publishing….
Ariana Weldon:
Ashley Stokes:
Ashley Stokes is the author of Gigantic (Unsung Stories, 2021) and The Syllabus of Errors (Unthank Books, 2013). Short fiction has appeared in Interzo…
Ben Carey (He/Him):
Beth Wagner:
Programme ParticipantBeth Wagner is a micro-publisher, comic creator, artist and writer, living in Burnaby, British Columbia on the West coast of Canada. She began drawin…
Brad Towers:
Programme ParticipantBrad Towers is the author of the Ethasar Chronicles, a unique epic fantasy series where seven powerful kingdoms clash in a war for the fates of their …
Brenda Carre:
Programme Participantbio information can be found on my website….
Cardinal Cox:
Programme ParticipantWriter and broadcaster, been having work (mostly poetry) published in zines/small-press for 40 years. Has been poet-in-residence of a Victorian Cemete…
Carl Allery:
CAROL M. SALTER:
Carol M. Salter is a prolific reader and writer of fantasy, dark fantasy, paranormal and Sci-Fi novels. Author of eleven books so far, with three fant…
Caroline Mersey:
Programme ParticipantCaroline Mersey cosplays as a grown-up. When not attending or running book events, or talking about books, she binges on the latest box set while maki…
Catherine:
Programme ParticipantLong-time fantasy fan, currently co-hosting Dining Table Discworld podcast. Formerly a book reviewer and award judge for BFS. Been known to do some wr…
Catherine Cavendish:
Programme ParticipantFollowing a varied career in sales, advertising and career guidance, Catherine Cavendish now writes haunted house, ghostly, witchy novels, novellas an…
Catherine Finch:
Cathy Green:
Catriona Silvey:
Programme ParticipantCatriona Silvey was born in Glasgow and grew up in Scotland and England. After collecting an unreasonable number of degrees from various universities …
Cheryl Morgan:
Programme ParticipantCheryl Morgan is a writer, editor, and publisher. She is the winner of four Hugo Awards and is the owner of Wizard’s Tower Press. Her non-fiction ha…
Chris Harlow:
Chris Marble:
American convention fan. Somewhat new to WFC, 2011 was my 1st, but been volunteering at Cons for over 40 years. Poorly organized in real life but ha…
Cindy Squires:
CJ Hooper:
CL Hellisen (they/them):
Claire Cartwright:
Corinne Leigh Clark:
Programme ParticipantCorinne Leigh Clark is a Canadian author who loves to read and write dark Gothic stories with strong, enigmatic female characters. She is a graduate o…
CraigBookwyrm:
Avid reader and reviewer from Wales. Contributor for Fanfiaddict blog….
Cyril Simsa:
Dan Coxon:
Programme ParticipantDan Coxon is an award-winning editor and writer from London, UK. He has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Awards and the British Fantasy Awards …
Dan Satchwell:
I’m a passionate fantasy reader who loves everything from grimdark epics to cosy tales. Excited for engaging panels and eager to connect with fellow e…
Dave Brzeski:
Dave Caunce:
Dave Jeffery:
Programme ParticipantDave Jeffery is an award-winning writer and screenwriter. He is primarily known for his dystopian ‘a Quiet APOCALYPSE’ series. As a member of the …
David Cartwright:
Programme ParticipantDavid Cartwright was born in 1981, and raised in a Golden Age of Saturday morning cartoons. From that time and forever more he has been an avid watche…
David Cleden:
David Green:
Programme ParticipantDavid Green is a neurodivergent writer of the epic and the urban, the fantastical and the mysterious, and cosy….
David Mann:
David Streek. Author.:
David Thomas Moore (he/him):
Programme ParticipantDavid Thomas Moore is the Hugo Award-nominated editorial director at Rebellion Publishing Ltd. A lifelong roleplayer, fantasy fan and geek, he lives i…
Debbie/Owlphabetical:
Derek Drake:
Di Smith:
Artist and Art teacher currently running an outdoor education centre in Norfolk UK….
Diana Alsobrook:
Diane:
Dirk Strasser:
Programme ParticipantDirk Strasser is an Australian writer and publisher of fantasy, horror and science fiction whose most recent novel is the historical fantasy Conquist….
domin-IKA:
Dr. Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran:
Programme ParticipantCeallaigh S. MacCath-Moran holds a PhD in Folklore from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Work from her two fiction and poetry collections has been…
Duncan:
E. A. (Beth) Brenner:
Programme ParticipantE.A. (Beth) Brenner lives in Salem, MA in an sometimes-haunted house. She writes fantasy and quiet horror that trend contemporary. Recent obsessions i…
E.M. Faulds (Beth):
Programme ParticipantE.M. Faulds writes fantasy and science fiction and won the 2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. Find out more at https://emfaulds.com…
El McInerney:
Programme ParticipantEl McInerney is the author of the epic fantasy series, The Unraveling. The first book, Soulstealer was a semi-finalist in the SPFBOX self-published fa…
Eliza Chan:
Programme ParticipantEliza Chan is a Scottish-born speculative fiction author who writes about East Asian mythology, British folklore and reclaiming the dragon lady. Her S…
Ella Summers:
Programme ParticipantElla Summers is a bestselling author of 30+ books. She writes fantasy fiction that blends magic and romance. Ella has lived in various cities all o…
Ellen Datlow:
Programme ParticipantEllen Datlow is an award-winning editor & anthologist who’s been editing sf/f/h short fiction for over 4 decades, currently acquiring short stor…
Ellen Starsmore (she/her):
Ellen Starsmore (she/her) has been an avid fantasy reader since her teens, inspired by quests through wondrous worlds. These days, she writes fantasy …
Elliot Craggs:
Em Hallewell (they/them):
Emily H. Wilson:
Programme ParticipantEmily H. Wilson is the author of the Sumerians trilogy, a series of fantasy novels set in Ancient Sumer, the world's first civilisation. All thre…
Emma L. Adams:
Emma spent her childhood creating imaginary worlds to compensate for a disappointingly average reality, so it was probably inevitable that she ended u…
Erin Hardee (MK Hardy):
Programme ParticipantErin Hardee, together with wife Morag Hannah, writes under the penname MK Hardy. With backgrounds ranging from museum interpretation to web design, an…
Erzebet Barthold:
Erzebet is a writer, publisher, and owner of a specialist bookshop dealing in science fiction, fantasy, and tabletop gaming. Publishing interests incl…
Farah Mendlesohn:
Programme ParticipantFarah Mendlesohn is a con-runner, a retired History Professor, a charity manager, co-editor of the Hugo Award Winning Cambridge Companion to Science F…
Fay Brown:
FERGUS BEADLE:
Fjóla:
Frances White (She/Her):
Programme ParticipantFrances White is the Sunday Times bestselling author of Voyage of the Damned, a queer fantasy murder mystery at sea. she has a soft spot for writing u…
Francesca Barbini – Luna Press Publishing:
Programme ParticipantFrancesca (writer, editor and translator) is the founder of award-winning Luna Press Publishing….
Franklin Coleman:
Frasier Armitage:
Programme ParticipantPart-time robot. Full-time nerd. Author of Yestermorrow, New Yesterday, Time’s Ellipse, and A Stitch Between Worlds. Reviewer for FanFiAddict Hos…
Gagan Kaur:
Gareth Wood:
Programme ParticipantA working-class writer of horror and SFF, I was born and raised in Birmingham, UK. I have written thirteen genre novels, the most recent of which – &…
Garth Nix:
Programme ParticipantNew York Times bestselling novelist Garth Nix has been a full-time writer since 2001, but has also worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, b…
Gavin G. Smith:
Programme ParticipantGavin Smith is the author and co/author of 14 books, a couple of novellas and multiple short stories. His books include (but are not limited to) Veter…
Gavin Williams:
Programme ParticipantGavin Williams’ screenwriting début, AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS, was a Critic’s Pick in the New York Times. He’s had work commissioned or optio…
Gay Haldeman:
Programme ParticipantGay Haldeman has managed SF Grandmaster Joe Haldeman’s career since it began in 1969. She’s taught Spanish and then writing for 30 years in the W…
Geoff Holder:
Programme ParticipantGeoff Holder is a Welsh author & screenwriter based in France. He’s published more than 30 non-fiction books on the paranormal and weird stuff, …
Gillian Chan:
Programme ParticipantI’m English by birth but have lived in Canada for the last 34 years. I have had nine books published for young people and these range from stories o…
Giovanni De Feo:
I was a literature teacher at International Baccalaureate schools. I have been publishing novels in Italy since 2003. I trained as an oral storyteller…
Graeme Dixon:
Graham Millichap:
Grant:
Guido Eekhaut:
Writes crime books and thrillers, speculative fiction, literary fantasy and the weird, in Dutch and English. Winner of the Hercule Poirot Award for cr…
Gwen Casey:
Gwen Frazer:
Programme ParticipantI’m Gwen, an avid sci-fi and fantasy enthusiast with a love for reading and exploring literary realms. I’m on a journey to enhance my communication an…
Helen Marshall:
Programme ParticipantDr Helen Marshall is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Queensland. She has won the World Fantasy Award, the British Fant…
Henke:
Hildur Knútsdóttir:
Programme ParticipantHildur Knútsdóttir was born in ReykjavÃk, Iceland. She writes fiction for both adults and teenagers, as well as plays, screenplays and short fictio…
Ian Green:
Programme ParticipantIan Green is a writer from Northern Scotland with a PhD in epigenetics. His short fiction has been widely published. He won the BBC Radio 4 Opening Li…
Ãñigo Montoya Reviews:
Fantasy sucker with a taste for grimdark and a lack of skill to shut the fuck up when books are mentioned….
J C Duncan:
J J Ernest:
Aspiring fantasy author, writer of Crawl (found on Royal road and my site) The Devil’s tongue (short), published in The Book of Demons and Charlie (…
Jacey Bedford:
Programme ParticipantJacey Bedford is a British writer of SF and fantasy. Her 7 novels are published by DAW in the USA. Her short stories have appeared on both sides of th…
Jackie Duckworth:
Programme ParticipantI am a printmaker and illustrator based in Cambridge. I’ve attended and exhibited at many SF cons but this is my first Fantasy Con!…
Jackson Ford:
Programme ParticipantJackson Ford is the author of the bestselling Frost Files series, beginning with The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind. His newest book is also h…
Jacqui Greaves:
Programme ParticipantJacqui has 18 short stories and poems published in various places. As well as Rose Moon, a novella, and Letters From Elsewhere, a collection of specul…
James Barclay:
Programme ParticipantAuthor, Gamer, Actor. Lover of sport and dogs, consumer of TV, books and film, including a peculiar fascination with zombies I have fourteen novels …
Jamie-Lee Nardone:
Jason Whittle:
Programme ParticipantJason is a multi-genre author and editor specialising in crime fiction and SFFH. He has been on the Con scene since attending the 2010 World Horror Co…
Jenna Scott:
Jenni Coutts:
Programme ParticipantJenni Coutts is a British Fantasy Award winning artist, speculative fiction writer and NHS doctor based in Glasgow, Scotland. She is the art editor fo…
Jenny Campbell:
Jess Hyslop (she/her):
Jilly Paddock:
Jo Fletcher:
Programme ParticipantJo Fletcher has been a Fleet Street journalist, publisher and editor; she is a published poet, writer and ghost-writer of fiction and non-fiction. She…
Jo Lindsay Walton:
Programme ParticipantJo Lindsay Walton is an academic at the University of Susesx, editor-at-large of Vector (British Science Fiction Association), and SFF author….
Jo Randall:
Joanna Corrance:
Programme ParticipantJoanna Corrance is a lawyer and author from the Highlands of Scotland. She writes mostly dark speculative fiction, horror and science fiction; her pub…
Joanne Hall (she/her):
Programme ParticipantJoanne Hall is an author and editor who has previously been shortlisted for BFS awards for novels and short stories. With Roz Clarke, she has recently…
Joe Haldeman:
Programme ParticipantJoe Haldeman has won five Hugos and five Nebulas and is an SFWA Grandmaster. His best-known book is THE FOREVER WAR. His latest novel is WORK DONE FOR…
Joe Smith:
John Berlyne:
John Tarrow:
Programme ParticipantJohn Tarrow is a storyteller, award-winning author and creator of Britain’s most extraordinary home; Talliston House & Gardens. Author of The…
Jonathan Prinz:
Jordan Acosta:
Jukka Halme:
Julia Kitvaria Sarene:
Reviewer for Fantasy-Faction, fantasy and audiobook addict….
Julia Rez (she/her/root):
Programme ParticipantQueer SF writer / music botherer / Girl techno DJ / thing builder / femme unix top. she/her/root. BFS award winner, weirdly enough. (stories in …
Juliet Mushens:
Programme ParticipantLiterary agent at Mushens Entertainment and President of the British Fantasy Society…
Justin Waine:
I have been writing fantasy and science fiction novels for almost as long as I have been reading them. Having spent two decades in the investment indu…
K A Standlee (They/Them):
Kevin Standlee was co-Chair of the 2002 World Science Fiction Convention in San Jose, California and Chair of the 2022 Westercon in Tonopah, Nevada. H…
Kalie Reid:
Programme ParticipantKalie Reid is a fantasy author living in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her debut romantic fantasy novel THE SACRED SPACE BETWEEN about an exiled saint an…
KATE FORSYTH:
Programme ParticipantDr Kate Forsyth is an award-winning author and performance storyteller best known for Bitter Greens, a reimagining of ‘Rapunzel’ which won the Ame…
Kate Scott:
Kate Towner:
Programme ParticipantKate is a general purpose nerd with interests in literature, fanfic and crafting. She co-leads a daisy book club. In her spare time she is Director of…
Katherine Haynes:
Founder member of A Ghostly Company. Has published over 60 short stories to date. Debut collection ‘Daydreams and Nightmares’ won The Dracula Society’…
Katie Bruce she/her:
Programme ParticipantKatie Bruce is a writer and Virtual Assistant, based in Yorkshire. She writes fantasy, which often features the wonderful moors and hills that decorat…
Kiera Nixon:
Programme ParticipantKiera Nixon has always been fascinated by the ways words can be used to twist insanity into perfect sense, and thought she better take some responsibi…
Klara Lammers:
Krista Wallace (she/her):
Programme ParticipantKrista is a fantasy writer, musician, actor, audiobook narrator, podcaster, mum, Gran; a lover of pie, dark chocolate, and fine single malt scotch. Sh…
Laura Bennett:
Programme ParticipantLiterary agent at the Liverpool Literary Agency….
Laura Elise Jenkins:
Laura Langrish:
Programme ParticipantLaura is co-founder (along with creative director Ivan Carić) and lead writer for interactive experience company, Lemon Difficult. Laura has had a lo…
Lauren McMenemy:
Programme ParticipantLauren McMenemy wears many hats: Editor-in-Chief at Trembling With Fear for horrortree.com; marketing for the British Fantasy Society; curator of the …
Lee Murray:
Programme ParticipantLee Murray ONZM is a writer, editor, poet and screenwriter, a Shirley Jackson and five-time Bram Stoker Award® winner. A USA Today bestseller with ov…
Linda van der Pal:
Lindsay R. Taylor:
Lindsey Duncan:
Lisa Fransson:
Programme ParticipantLisa is a bilingual writer and literary translator living in Shoreham-By-Sea, England, with her husband and three teenagers. In her native Swedish, Li…
Liza Groen Trombi:
Lorraine Wilson:
Programme ParticipantA conservation scientist and third culture Scot, Lorraine lives by the sea writing stories influenced by folklore and the wilderness. She is a multi-a…
Lucy Holland:
Programme ParticipantLucy Holland is the bestselling author of Sistersong, which reimagines the folk ballad ‘The Twa Sisters.’ The book was a finalist for the Goldsbor…
Lydia- Genki Gear:
M H Ayinde (she/her):
Programme ParticipantM. H. Ayinde was born in London’s East End. She is a runner, a lapsed martial artist, and a screen time enthusiast. Her debut novel A SONG OF LEGEND…
Madeleine E. Robins:
Margaret Eve:
Programme ParticipantAuthor of short stories "What You Hear Whispered", "Something in the Water", and "Too Be Needed." Author of historical …
Margaret Menzies:
I’m an avid fiction reader with absolutely no writing aspirations. I enjoy meeting authors of favorite works at conventions, hearing about new autho…
Marie O’Regan:
Programme ParticipantAuthor of the novel Celeste, collections Mirror Mere, The Last Ghost and Other Stories, In Times of Want and Other Stories and editor (anthologies inc…
Marieke van Mil:
Marieke is a writer of fantasy and science fiction. After living in the Netherlands and Germany and finishing my MA in Writing I have settled in Leeds…
Mariëlle:
Marilyn Gallagher:
Mark Chadbourn:
Mark Chadbourn is a Sunday Times bestselling novelist, screenwriter with the BBC and journalist for The Guardian, Times and others. He’s also a two-…
Mark L. Van Name:
Programme ParticipantMark L. Van Name is a writer, technologist, and spoken word performer. As a science fiction author, he has published five novels (One Jump Ahead, Slan…
Martin Owton:
Fantasy author, 4 novels published -secondary world and contemporary fantasy. Holds a PhD in Chemistry, recently retired. Cochlear implant user….
Marve:
Programme ParticipantMarvellous Michael Anson has been writing for over a decade and has self-published a thriller, His Dark Reflection, to critical acclaim. She was short…
Mary G. Thompson:
Programme ParticipantMary G. Thompson is the author of the sci-fi novella One Level Down and several novels for children and young adults. Her short fiction has appeared i…
Matt Cavanagh (Womble):
UK Book Blogger accused of Booktempting…
Melissa M Miller:
Micci Trolio:
Mike Brooks (he/him):
Programme ParticipantMike Brooks is a queer, partially-deaf author of science fiction and fantasy, based in Nottingham, UK. He has written the Keiko Series of grimy space-…
Mike Chinn:
Mike Chinn lives in Birmingham with his wife Caroline and their tribe of guinea pigs. He’s written fiction that runs from Westerns to Sword and Sorc…
Mina Ikemoto Ghosh:
Programme ParticipantMina Ikemoto Ghosh is a British-Japanese author-illustrator based in Surrey, UK. She wrote and illustrated the YA Japanese fantasy mystery 'Hyo t…
Mjke Wood:
Mjke is a UK-based writer of Sci-fi, fantasy and horror. Short stories have appeared in Analog, Pseudopod, Intergalactic Medicine show and many others…
Morag:
Morag Hannah (MK Hardy):
Programme ParticipantMorag Hannah, together with wife Erin Hardee, writes under the penname MK Hardy. With backgrounds ranging from museum interpretation to web design, an…
Natalie Nielson:
Nathan Philpott:
Programme ParticipantNathan Philpott is an author, artist and hobbyist game developer living in Warrington. He has published a couple of novels online (Assessment Day and…
Neil Citrin:
Neil Williamson:
Programme ParticipantNeil is a writer and musician from Glasgow, Scotland. His multi-genre books and stories have been shortlisted for British Science Fiction Association,…
Nick Gloaming:
Nigel Ramsey:
Programme ParticipantAuthor of the novellas The Witching Hour and The Nightwalker. His short stories have appeared in Weird Tales, The Magazine of Fantasy and Horror, Midn…
Nina:
Ninja Hobbit:
Northern Magpie Art (Lizzie):
Programme ParticipantNorthern Magpie Art is a queer, Scottish artist focusing on wood-burning (pyrography) and wood carving to create fantastical and nature-inspired work….
Oliver Arditi:
Programme ParticipantOliver is a writer, worldbuilder, conlanger, mapmaker, librarian, and recovering musician. He’s been building a fantasy world for 15 years or several …
Ollie:
Pat F:
PatM:
Pat is a con junkie. He has been involved in them for over 30 years, starting as an attendee, then a volunteer, then an organiser. He specialises in …
Paul Finch:
Programme ParticipantPaul Finch is a former cop and journalist turned full-time writer. He cut his literary teeth penning episodes of the British crime drama, The Bill, an…
Paul Kane:
Programme ParticipantPaul Kane is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author/editor of over 100 books – such as Hooded Man, Wonderland (a Shirley Jackson Award finalist) a…
Penelope Hill:
Programme ParticipantWriter, crafter, gamer, and guardian of cats and dragons. Keeper of the Known Kingdoms, Maven of the Esoteric Sciences, and dabbler in textile arts  
Pete:
Programme ParticipantPete W Sutton is a writer and editor. His two short story collections – A Tiding of Magpies and The Museum for Forgetting – were shortlisted for B…
Peter Buck – Elsewhen Press:
Co-founder in 2011 of Elsewhen Press, a small indie press specialising in speculative fiction, based in SE England. Especially proud to be delivering …
Peter McLean:
Programme ParticipantAuthor of the War For The Rose Throne series and the newly released Paved With Good Intentions….
Phil Williams:
Programme ParticipantPhil Williams is an author of fantasy, horror and dystopian fiction, including the Blood Scouts epic military fantasies, the Ordshaw urban fantasy thr…
Philip A. Suggars:
Programme ParticipantI’m a neurodiverse writer from a working-class background. My work has appeared in Strange Horizons, The Guardian and Interzone and on many podcasts…
Philip Palmer:
Programme ParticipantI am the author of five novels published by Orbit Books, including RED CLAW and VERSION 43, and one self published novel HELL ON EARTH. I have written…
Philip XP Talbot:
Unassuming computer programmer by day. Exciting and dynamic reader of speculative fiction by night. I was Time Magazine’s Person of the Year in 2006….
Phillip Irving:
Programme ParticipantPhillip Irving is a writer and editor in Leicester, UK. He's had short fiction published by Flame Tree Press and Space Cat Press, as well as feat…
PS Livingstone:
Programme ParticipantPS Livingstone writes epic contemporary fantasy while also working as a ghostwriter and editor. She’s the Online Event Co-ordinator for the BFS and …
Q. C. Terence:
Programme ParticipantQ. C. Terence is a fantasy and science-fiction author of little renown. His works have appeared in Broadswords and Blasters, and on his Substack, wher…
Ramsey Campbell:
Programme ParticipantHorror Laureate The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes Ramsey Campbell as “Britain’s most respected living horror writerâ€,…
Randee Dawn:
Programme ParticipantRandee Dawn is the author of the Amazon bestselling funny, fantastical pop culture novel Tune in Tomorrow (Solaris). Her latest story, “The Fifth Hors…
Raven Dane:
Programme ParticipantRaven Dane is an Irish writer, currently living in the UK. Her published work includes novels in horror, dark fantasy, science fiction, comedic fantas…
Rebecca E Treasure (she/her):
Programme ParticipantRebecca is the managing editor at Apex Magazine. Fueled by cheese-covered starch and corgi fur, she writes stories exploring the relationship between …
Renee Babcock:
Rhian Streek:
Rhiannon A Grist:
Programme ParticipantRhiannon A Grist is a Welsh writer of Weird, Dark and Speculative fiction. Her dark fantasy, folk horror THE QUEEN OF THE HIGH FIELDS (Luna Press, 202…
Ric Cooper:
Co-founder of South Hants SF Group. Hemulenish 1970s time traveller marooned in 2020s. Tom Bombadil wannabe but insufficient chill….
Rich McAllister:
Richard:
Richard Swan:
Programme ParticipantRichard Swan is a critically acclaimed British genre writer. His debut fantasy novel, The Justice of Kings, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller and…
Rick Danforth:
Programme ParticipantRick Danforth is an author from Yorkshire, England, where he works as a Systems Architect to fund his writing habit. His short fiction can be foun…
Rissa Andrews (They/Them):
I am but a reader and reviewer from a small town called Sheffield…
Rob J Hayes:
Programme ParticipantRob J. Hayes has been a student, a banker, a marine research assistant, a chef, and a keyboard monkey more times than he cares to count. But eventuall…
Rob Potter:
Robin CM Duncan:
Programme ParticipantRobin is a Civil Engineer by profession, he has written since 1980, but seriously only for the last 12 years. His debut novel The Mandroid Murders pub…
Rosemarie Cawkwell:
Programme ParticipantAutistic book reviewer who can't deal with humans most of the time, and prefers books. And dragons. I read, I write, sometimes I do research. Oft…
Roy Gray:
Ruth EJ Booth:
Programme ParticipantRuth EJ Booth is a multiple award-winning writer and academic of Fantasy based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her poetry and fiction can be found in Black Stat…
Ruth Frances Long / Jessica Thorne:
Programme ParticipantRuth Frances Long / Jessica Thorne writes romance and fantasy from the heart which often strays into weird and wonderful liminal places. She works in …
Ryan Cahill:
Programme ParticipantRyan Cahill is the award-winning author of the bestselling epic fantasy series, The Bound and The Broken. Born and raised in Ireland, Ryan now resi…
S Naomi Scott (she/her):
Programme ParticipantAuthor, book blogger, veteran tabletop gamer, irregular PC gamer, and qualified cat herder. Will accept and/or give hugs if required. Still waiting fo…
S Slottje:
Programme ParticipantThe author of Wayward Wings grew up in The Netherlands and moved to Gloucestershire (England) at the turn of the millennium. Her writing explores the …
Sam Z.:
Samantha Lee Howe:
Programme ParticipantSamantha Lee Howe is a multi-award-winning screenwriter and a USA Today! bestselling author. She is the author of over 30 novels, which includes Thril…
Sandra Unerman:
Programme ParticipantSandra is the author of two fantasy novels, Spellhaven and Ghosts and Exiles. Her most recent short story is Castle Rules in the anthology Whimsy from…
Sandy:
Sara Jayne Townsend:
Programme ParticipantI am a writer of horror and crime fiction. Published horror novels include SUFFER THE CHILDREN, THE WHISPERING DEATH, OUTPOST H311. I am fond of ca…
Sara Sultane:
Programme ParticipantSara Sultane, is the author of the fantasy romance novels To Take a Soul and To Defy an Oath. She's daydreamer and storyteller who thrives on cra…
Sarah Cole:
Programme ParticipantA creator of TTRPGs and boardgames under the banner of Patchwork Fez, as well as a Creative Technologist and Information Consultant. I’ve recently pr…
Sarah Pinborough:
Programme ParticipantMC Sarah Pinborough is a New York Times bestselling and Sunday Times Number one and Internationally bestselling author and screenwriter who is…
Sharon Joss:
Award-winning author Sharon Joss writes science fiction, fantasy and horror. The author of eight novels (including the Hand of Fate series) and dozens…
Shayne Easson:
Shona Kinsella (she/her):
Programme ParticipantShona Kinsella is a multiple-award-nominated Scottish fantasy author. Her works include The Heart of Winter, The Vessel of KalaDene series, The Flame …
Silas A. Bischoff:
Programme ParticipantAuthor of A Crow Named Torment. Reads and writes dark stuff. Self-publishes under the imprint Morbid Taste Publishing. Fascinated by the weird and the…
Simon Bestwick/Daniel Church:
Programme ParticipantSimon Bestwick is the author of nine novels, most recently The Ravening, as by ‘Daniel Church.’ His first Daniel Church novel, The Hollows, was sh…
Simon Clark:
Programme ParticipantAuthor of the Blood Crazy Series, Night of the Triffids, Vampyrrhic, Big Finish scripts, co-screenwriter of the feature film The Protos Experiment. Si…
Simon Yarwood:
I look forward to being in the traders hall as Brown Jenkin Books, where my spare shelf fillers can find new life and new homes and fund my next book …
SJ Groenewegen:
Programme ParticipantSJ Groenewegen BEM wrote the novels The Disinformation War (GoldSF, 2023), Lethbridge-Stewart: A Most Haunted Man (Candy Jar, 2022), and Lethbridge-St…
Sophie Essex:
Sophie Essex is a twice BFS-award shortlisted editor for the anthologies “Dreamland” (Black Shuck Books) and “At The Lighthouse” (Eibonvale Press). Sh…
Soumya Shyam:
Stephen Alsobrook:
Stephen Aryan:
Programme ParticipantStephen Aryan is an award winning fantasy author. He has written two trilogies, the Age of Darkness, and the Age of Dread, plus a prequel novella, Of …
Stephen Cox:
Programme ParticipantAuthor Our Child of the Stars and Our Child of Two Worlds, Arcadia. Warm, heartfelt, smart SF. Querying a spooky Victorian murder mystery and two n…
Stephen Gallagher:
Programme ParticipantDoctor Who, Eleventh Hour, that creepy gene-splicing monster thing you may remember… GoH World Fantasy 2020, Stoker and World Fantasy Award nominee,…
Stephen Laws:
Programme ParticipantStephen Laws is a UK horror novelist whose prize winning work (including the BFS AWard) has been published all over the world. Also a columnist, inter…
Steve McHugh:
Programme ParticipantSteve is a bestselling author of Urban Fantasy. His book, Scorched Shadows, was shortlisted for a Gemmell Award for best novel. Steve was born in a…
Steve Saffel:
Programme ParticipantSTEVE SAFFEL has been an editor at Marvel, Del Rey, Perseus, and Titan working on SF, fantasy, horror, and licensed fiction, focusing on the author’…
Steven Poore – he/him:
Programme ParticipantSteven Poore is Sheffield’s own Epic Fantasist. He is presently the Lead Judge for the annual BFS Short Story Competition. His novels Heir to the Nort…
Stine Z.:
Suniti Namjoshi:
Programme ParticipantAuthor Guest of Honour Internationally acclaimed author Suniti Namjoshi is an important figure in contemporary literature in English. A writer…
Susan J. Morris:
Programme ParticipantSusan J. Morris is an American fantasy novelist and the author of Strange Beasts (Oct 2024 Hodderscape UK; Bindery US)….
Susie Williamson:
Programme ParticipantSusie Williamson is the double award-winning author of the fantasy series ‘Blood Gift Chronicles’. The series begins with ‘Return of the Mantra’…
Tao Wong:
Programme ParticipantTao Wong writes in the exciting scifi and fantasy sub-genres of LitRPG and xianxia predominantly, whilst dabbling in other sub-genres like cozy fantas…
Teika Marija Smits:
Programme ParticipantTeika Marija Smits is a UK-based freelance editor and the author of the speculative short story collections, Umbilical (NewCon Press) and Waterlore (B…
Tej Turner:
Programme ParticipantTej Turner is travel-blogger and SFF author published by Elsewhen Press. His debut duology (The Janus Cycle & Dinnusos Rises) were contemporary an…
Terri Windling:
Programme ParticipantTerri Windling is a fantasy writer, editor, artist, and folklorist. She has published over forty books for adult and young readers, receiving ten Worl…
TezzaRudge:
Just a fantasy book nerd. Can be found on Instagram – Tez_hobbknobbooks…
TH Dray:
Thomas D. Lee:
Programme ParticipantThomas D. Lee is a Sunday Times bestselling fantasy author, and a visiting lecturer at City St. George's University of London. His debut novel PE…
Tiffani Angus:
Programme ParticipantTiffani Angus (PhD) is a multi BSFA- and BFS-award finalist for her debut novel Threading the Labyrinth, and (as co-author with Val Nolan) Spec Fic fo…
Tim Major:
Programme ParticipantTim Major’s books include Jekyll & Hyde: Consulting Detectives, Snakeskins and three Sherlock Holmes novels. His stories have appeared in Best o…
Tim Shannon:
Todd S. Jordan:
Todd S. Jordan (he/him) is the author of The Flesh I Want, an adult literary horror novel coming soon from Titan Books. He writes about monsters hidin…
Tom Lloyd:
Programme ParticipantAuthor of the TWILIGHT REIGN and GOD FRAGMENTS epic fantasy series, plus the SF novel FALLING DARK and the first in a new contemporary fantasy series …
Tristan Gray:
Programme ParticipantTristan Gray is an immigrant Scottish author and a latecomer to Scotland who moved to the north from Jersey in 2014. Outside writing he works as a …
Vanessa Jae:
Programme ParticipantVanessa Jae writes horrifically beautiful anarchies and edits poetry at Strange Horizons. She also collects black hoodies and bruises in mosh pits on …
Victoria Hayward:
Victoria Hayward is a historian by training, publicly funded artist and author. ​ Her first novel, Deathworlder, was published by Black Library (S…
Vincent Chong:
Artist Guest of Honour Vincent Chong is a freelance illustrator and designer from the UK, specializing in the horror, fantasy and sci-fi genre…
Vincent Docherty:
Programme ParticipantVincent Docherty is a fan & con-runner, who co-chaired the 1995 & 2005 Glasgow Worldcons. He had an early interest in SF&F, Space and Scie…
Vivienne Spence (arlena_reads):
Wendy Metcalfe:
Programme ParticipantWendy Metcalfe is a hopepunk science fiction and cosy fantasy writer. She is the author of The Thunderstrike Diaries series of science fiction novell…
Willow Woods:
Programme ParticipantWillow is a fantasy and historical fiction author with an MA in Historical Research (and thanks to a previous job with free studying as a benefit!) an…
WOLE TALABI:
Programme ParticipantWOLE TALABI is an engineer, writer, and editor from Nigeria. He is the author of the World Fantasy award nominated novel SHIGIDI AND THE BRASS HEAD OF…
Ysabeau Wilce, she/her:
Programme ParticipantYsabeau Wilce is a graduate of Clarion West and has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, the James Tiptree Award, the Locus Award, and won a Ne…
Zed Badowska:
Programme ParticipantZoë Badowska is a self-confessed nerd who enjoys sneaking elements of real-world science into her stories. She writes speculative fiction as Zed Bado…
Zen Cho:
Programme ParticipantZen Cho writes fantasy and romance. Her works have won the Hugo, Crawford and British Fantasy Awards and the LA Times Ray Bradbury Prize, and been sho…
Zena Wilde: