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WFC 2025 author guest of honour Suniti Namjoshi, MC Sarah Pinborough, and horror laurate Ramsey Campbell will be interviewed by Farah Mendelsohn, Allen Stroud, and Ann Landmann. They will then each give a short reading from their work.
Suniti Namjoshi (she/her): Suniti Namjoshi is a fabulist, a poet, a satirist and a feminist. She was born in Mumbai, India and lives in the southwest of England. Her books include Feminist Fables, Building Babel, Saint Suniti and the Dragon, Goja, The Fabulous Feminist, Suki, Aesop the Fox, The Good-Hearted Gardeners and most recently Matriarchs, Cows and Epic Villains.
Sarah Pinborough (she/her): Sarah Pinborough is a New York Times bestselling and Sunday Times number one and Iinternationally bestselling author and screenwriter who is published in over 30 territories worldwide. Having published nearly thirty novels across various genres, her recent books include Behind Her Eyes, now a smash hit Netflix limited series and Insomnia which she adapted herself for Paramount+, Other books currently in development that she is adapting include The Death House, 13 Minutes and A Matter of Blood. Her next novel, We Live Here Now, is out in the summer of 2025. She lives in the historic Buckinghamshire market town of Stony Stratford with her dog Ted. Find out more about Sarah on her website. Or follow her on Instagram or Bluesky.
Ramsey Campbell (he/him): The Oxford Companion to English Literature describes Ramsey Campbell as “Britain’s most respected living horror writer”, and the Washington Post sums up his work as “one of the monumental accomplishments of modern popular fiction”. His awards include the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association, the Living Legend Award of the International Horror Guild and the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2015 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University for outstanding services to literature. Ramsey celebrated his 60th Anniversary of his debut publishing in 2024, meaning that his work and influence spans the 50 years, both as an author, the longest running President of the British Fantasy Society (1977–2013) and his inimitable presence at Fantasycon in the UK. Find out more about Ramsey’s role in WFC here or follow him on Bluesky.
Farah Mendlesohn (Farah/they/she): 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. Find out more about Farah on their website. Check out their books here.
Allen Stroud (he/him): Allen Stroud is a writer, lecturer and researcher. He has worked in computer games, roleplaying games, novels, short stories and scripts. He has worked with the Ministry of Defence on strategic planning and resilience in the 22nd century. His Fractal Series, published by Flame Tree Press now consists of three novels, six novellas and an album of music with more stories coming out in late 2025. Publisher’s Weekly said about the series – “this raises fascinating questions about the politics of space exploration.” Stroud was the 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2023 chair of Fantasycon, the annual convention of the British Fantasy Society, which hosts the British Fantasy Awards. In June 2019, he became Chair of the British Science Fiction Association, taking over from Donna Bond, stepping down in June 2025. Stroud continues to write academic papers, reviews, articles and fiction in science fiction, fantasy and horror. He lives in a messy house with three cats and his partner, Karen. Find out more on Allen’s website. Get his books here.
Ann Landmann (she/her): Growing 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 is little surprising that Ann Landmann is now the founder and director of Cymera: Scotland’s Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Writing. Some might say it’s a cunning ploy to feed her addiction to those genres. In her spare time she sells books for one of Scotland’s publishers and moonlights at other people’s book festivals. Find out more about Cymera.