Here you will find a a list of alle the guests at Fantasticon 2026. We are really proud of the wide variety of guests who will join us this year and will make the convention possible.
If you want to join us in 2026, send us an email.
Guests of honor
Evgenia Triantafylloy
Eugenia Triantafyllou is a Greek author and artist with a flair for dark things. Her work has won the British Fantasy and the Shirley Jackson Awards and has been nominated for the Hugo, Ignyte, Locus, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards. She is a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop. You can find her stories in Reactor, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, Apex, and other venues.
She currently lives in Athens with a boy and a dog. Eugenia can be found online at eugeniatriantafyllou.com
Sarah Pinsker
Sarah Pinsker is the author of over sixty works of short fiction, one novella, two novels, and two collections. Her work has won four Nebula Awards (Best Novel, A Song For A New Day; Best Novelette, “Our Lady of the Open Road,” Best Novelette, “Two Truths And A Lie,” Best Short Story, “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather,”), two Hugo Awards (“Two Truths And a Lie” and “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather”), the Philip K Dick Award, the Locus Award, the Eugie Foster Award, and the Theodore Sturgeon Award, and been nominated for numerous Nebula, Hugo, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards. Her fiction has been translated into almost a dozen languages and published in magazines including Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Uncanny and in many anthologies and year’s bests.
Sarah’s first collection, the Philip K Dick Award winning Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea: Stories, was published by Small Beer Press in 2019, and her first novel, A Song For A New Day, was published by Penguin/Random House/Berkley in 2019. It was followed by We Are Satellites, published in 2021. Her second collection, Lost Places, was published by Small Beer Press in 2023. Tordotcom novella Haunt Sweet Home appeared in September 2024.
She is also a singer/songwriter with four albums on various independent labels (the third with her rock band, the Stalking Horses). She lives in Baltimore, Maryland and can be found online at sarahpinsker.com
Chris Beckett
Chris Beckett was a social worker prior to becoming a science fiction writer. He started writing short fiction in the 1990s. In 2004 he published his first novel, The Holy Machine, with themes of religion, science and rationality. His next two novels, Marcher and Dark Eden were both based on earlier short stories. The latter, a novel set on a far away colony planet, won the Arthur C. Clarke award for best science fiction novel of 2012. Beckett contiued to write short fiction while working on his later novels. His ninth novel Tomorrow is from 2021, about a man trying to write the ultimate novel. Beckett lives in Cambridge, East Anglia, UK with his wife.
can be found online at chris-beckett.com
Other program guests
Anne-Marie Vedsø Olesen er en dansk forfatter. Hun er aktuel med romanserien Vølvens vej, der forankret i nordisk mytologi udfolder et brutalt og eventyrligt univers om skæbne, magt og ære i dansk jernalder. Første bind af Vølvens vej, Snehild, vandt DR Romanprisen, og serien er oversat til otte sprog og solgt til filmatisering. Til september udkommer det femte og afsluttende bind, Flammesværdet.
Anne-Maries forfatterskab har bevæget sig på tværs af de fantastiske genrer; hun har vundet Niels Klim-prisen for den dystopiske kortroman Månen over Øen og prisen Årets Danske Horrorudgivelse for romanen Lucie.
Asta Jersø (f. 1994) kan lide horror, og gerne den klamme af slagsen. Hun indrømmer gerne at hun er lidt ensidig i sin smag, men horror er bare så skønt! Om det er hjemsøgte huse og hjerner, romantiserede kannibaler, eller sjæleknusende tortur, så har hun plads på den meget trængte bogreol.
Flemming R.P. Rasch is a science fiction fan and occasional writer of short stories. He has been involved in organizing Fantasticon in most years since 2006. Other fan-activity includes publishing a few anthologies, editing books and magazines and translating short stories. He has a broad interest in the genres, from cosmic horror to hard sf, and from new wave to new weird.
Jane Mondrup writes various kinds of speculative fiction, for adults as well as children. So far, she has published the novel Zeitgeist and the children’s novel Vattes vandring plus a few short stories, and more on the way. In 2025, her science fiction novel ZOI will be published in English as well as Danish. Apart from writing, she’s in the con committee for Vilde Universer in Aarhus.
Jesper Rugård Jensen is a writer, science fiction-, fantasy- and horror-fan. Jesper has also been the chair for Fantasticon since 2022.
Klaus Æ. Mogensen har været professionel fremtidsforsker i mere end 20 år og har beskæftiget sig med science fiction og fantasy i 40 år, bl.a. som redaktør af tidsskrifter, senest fantastik-magasinet Himmelskibet, og lejlighedsvis som forfatter. Indenfor fiktionen er det blevet til en roman og en novellesamling. Han skriver pt. på sin anden roman. Læs mere om Klaus Æ. Mogensen her: cifs.dk/da/personer/klaus-ae-mogensen/
Lea Thume er cand. mag i engelsk og oversætter og korrekturlæser, og så elsker hun con’er. Hun har engang været formand for SFC og været det hun kaldte Standmor på SFC’s stand de første mange år sfc var med til bogforum… Hun elsker Terry Pratchett og har faktisk engang mødt ham til New York Comic-con i 2012… Lea har også været med til at arrangere Eurocon 2007, og har elsket at læse Terry Pratchetts bøger lige siden hun blev introduceret til dem som 22 årig.
Fotograf Michael Pilgaard
Mariane Mide (f. 1987) har en række af noveller bag sig indenfor horror, science fiction og fantasy. Dette efterår udkommer hun med tredje og sidste bog i serien Dødemagersken på forlaget Krabat. Som forfatter håber hun at kunne stille spørgsmål til læsernes grænser og moral gennem vold, blod og morbide idéer.
Mide er fra Nordjylland og giver en helt ny betydning til udtrykket “Det mørke jylland”.
Maria O. Larsen (b. 1992) finished her degree in scriptwriting but got sidetracked by the event and concert industry. Now she is back on track writing scripts and event planning is taking a back seat as a hobby. Her main interest is in magical realism and urban fantasy and she’s hoping to make Danish cinema realise it’s okay to make movies that embrace the supernatural.
Saija Kyllönen enjoys travelling around for SF conventions. She likes to participate in con running and is a member of Archipelacon II concom. Administration is also close to Saija´s heart, so she has been the vice chair of ESFS for 12 years.
Sanna Bo Claumarch er sff fan og underviser unge i cosplay, håndarbejde og LGBTQIA+ fag. Hen debatterer gerne fordelene ved transformativt fandom og producerer selv transformativ fanfiction i lydbogsform, såkaldte podfics. Sanna er en aktiv del af nordisk og dansk fandom.
Sarah Stoltze is part of organising Fantasticon, and has been involved in fandom for a few years.
She recently started branching out to cons elsewhere in the world, like Worldcon in Glasgow and Eastercon in Belfast.
When not reading or attending cons, she crochets quite a bit, helps with running a creative club, and does some tabletop RPGs when she can get a group of (more or less) willing victims together.
Sidsel Pedersen is a science fiction and fantasy fan and active in the international con community. She has been part of the organisation of Fantasticon and is the chair of the con Vilde Universer in Aarhus. Sidsel has a cand. mag in history and social stories, which influences her reading of speculative fiction.
Tobias Backman writes fiction and fantasy. His short stories have, amongst others, appeared in online magazines such as Daily Science Fiction and Stupefying stories.
Tue Sørensen is a lifelong fan of science fiction, movies and comics and has been a part of organized fandom for many years. He is an aspiring writer of fiction and non-fiction projects, where utopian and anti-capitalist visions are key. He is part of the organizer group for this year’s Fantasticon and the annual comics market Nørrebronx Tegneseriedage.
