Meet the committee for World Fantasy Convention 2025.
Chair, Logistics
Karen Fishwick
Karen has a professional background in volunteer management and community projects having worked in this area for over 15 years.
She is currently writing education modules for Mindful Business Services.
She loves to read genre books, does a little proof reading and writes an occasional review.
She is on the British Fantasy Society (BFS) committee as the Archivist.
Karen is a disabled woman who is passionate about access and supporting marginalised voices.
Co Vice-Chair, Programme
Allen Stroud
Allen Stroud is a university lecturer, researcher and Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer from Bedfordshire, England.
He the is Chair of the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA).
Stroud’s Fractal Series (Fearless, Resilient, Europa, Ceres, Lagrange Point, Luna, Terra and Jezero) is published by Flame Tree Press.
Co Vice-Chair
Stuart Maher
Biography coming soon.
Programme
Anna Smith Spark
Anna 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 House of Sacrifice; the standalone A Woman of the Sword; and A Sword of Bronze and Ashes, book one of her folk horror high fantasy series The Remaking of This World Ruined.; as well as a number of short stories and novellas.
She has a BA (Hon.) in Ancient World Studies, an MA (Distinction) in modern cultural and social history and a PhD in English Literature/Victorian Studies.
Programme
Russell Smith
Biography coming soon.
Programme
Ann Landmann
Biography coming soon.
Art Show
Jenni Coutts
Jenni Coutts is a British Fantasy Award winning artist, speculative fiction writer and NHS doctor based in Glasgow, Scotland. She is the art editor for BFS Horizons and is also WFC’s art show lead. She has had artwork featured on the covers of both UK and international publications, and was nominated for a best of the net award in 2022. In her free time, she enjoys boxing and weight lifting.
Find her on instagram @jennicouttsart or twitter @jenni_coutts.
Website
Beth Faulds
Beth Faulds is the webmaster for the British Fantasy Society and founder of Bibliotta.com, which offers writers services and e-learning on how to build an author website.
She also writes as E.M. Faulds.
Hosting
John Stabler
Biography coming soon.
Social Media & Tourism
Farah Mendlesohn
Farah Mendlesohn is a con-runner, a retired History Professor, a charity manager, co-editor of the Hugo Award Winning Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, author of the Hugo nominated The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein and is currently working on a short book about Joanna Russ’s The Female Man. Farah has chaired three Eastercons, has served in various capacities in Worldcons and Eastercons, and is part of the World Fantasy 2025 team.
Streaming and Tech
Grant Woolcott
Biography coming soon.
Streaming and Tech
Simon Woolcott
Biography coming soon.
WFC Board Advisor
Jo Fletcher
Biography coming soon.
Brighton Liaison
Ali Baker Brooks
Biography coming soon.
Operations
Pat Maher
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 Operations and other back-of-house areas. He generally keeps a con ticking over by solving all its little problems.
This will, however, be his first World Fantasy Convention, although he has done several UK Fantasycons, several World Science Fiction Cons, and a plethora of sci-fi, gaming and anime cons over the years.
Redcloak Captain
Chloë Yates
Biography coming soon.
Registration
Babs Neinhuis
Biography coming soon.
Registration
Marleen Welbergen
Biography coming soon.