We are proud to be able to host this year’s Guests of Honour (GoH) is the American speculative fiction author Catherynne M. Valente and British television creator Dominic Mitchell.

Catherynne M. Valente

Catherynne M. Valente is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than forty works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, including Space Opera, Deathless, Palimpsest, The Past Is Red, and the Fairyland series. Among others, she is the winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Lambda, Sturgeon, Tiptree, and Locus Awards. She’s been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award and a runner-up for the Ursula K. LeGuin Prize. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with her child, three cats, and her garden.

Dominic Mitchell

Dominic Mitchell is a BAFTA winning script writer for television. Mitchell is the creator of the cult show “In The Flesh” and was a supervising producer / writer on the hit show HBO’s “Westworld” (season 1).