World Fantasy 2025
@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social
World Fantasy Convention, Brighton UK
Dates: Thursday 30th October - 2nd November 2025
Venue: Double Tree by Hilton Brighton Metropole
Website: https://worldfantasy2025.co.uk
#WorldFantasyConvention2025 #WorldFantasy25
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Dates: Thursday 30th October - 2nd November 2025
Venue: Double Tree by Hilton Brighton Metropole
Website: https://worldfantasy2025.co.uk
#WorldFantasyConvention2025 #WorldFantasy25
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Um, yes, please...
A million times, yes. 💙📚🩸
"From British and World Fantasy award-winning writer and editor Dan Coxon, Come Sing for the Harrowing is an uncanny folk horror collection for fans of John Langan and Robert Aickman."
A million times, yes. 💙📚🩸
"From British and World Fantasy award-winning writer and editor Dan Coxon, Come Sing for the Harrowing is an uncanny folk horror collection for fans of John Langan and Robert Aickman."
November 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Um, yes, please...
A million times, yes. 💙📚🩸
"From British and World Fantasy award-winning writer and editor Dan Coxon, Come Sing for the Harrowing is an uncanny folk horror collection for fans of John Langan and Robert Aickman."
A million times, yes. 💙📚🩸
"From British and World Fantasy award-winning writer and editor Dan Coxon, Come Sing for the Harrowing is an uncanny folk horror collection for fans of John Langan and Robert Aickman."
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Robin & David were joined before World Fantasy by #joehill whose new novel #kingsorrow is his 1st in 9 years. Chat inc. #lockeandkey, 2000AD, banned books, dragon tattoos, Stephen King, Dark Academia & next years' novel.
#bfslss #sffh #podcastepisode
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#bfslss #sffh #podcastepisode
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November 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Robin & David were joined before World Fantasy by #joehill whose new novel #kingsorrow is his 1st in 9 years. Chat inc. #lockeandkey, 2000AD, banned books, dragon tattoos, Stephen King, Dark Academia & next years' novel.
#bfslss #sffh #podcastepisode
britishfantasysociety.org/blog/bfs-pod...
#bfslss #sffh #podcastepisode
britishfantasysociety.org/blog/bfs-pod...
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I am so looking forward to reading this book. I was glad to be at the launch during @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social and hear Stew read from it.
Project Hanuman is here. I hope you'll take a look as I think it's a pretty good space opera - no hero's journey here - this is about community, how we build back better and, of course, mind bending space battles in sentient ships.
#spaceopera #scifi #projecthanuman #writing #SFF #sciencefiction
#spaceopera #scifi #projecthanuman #writing #SFF #sciencefiction
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November 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I am so looking forward to reading this book. I was glad to be at the launch during @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social and hear Stew read from it.
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Once again, I find myself enthusing about how much I enjoyed @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social ...
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World Fantasy Con 2025 - That Was a Lot of Fun
One fantasy fan among a thousand having a great time in Brighton.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Once again, I find myself enthusing about how much I enjoyed @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social ...
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On the weird fiction panel at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social I talked about how weird fiction can sometimes be like holding a joke until it enters that uncomfortable, unheimlich space. I Say (I Say, I Say) by Robert Shearman (in @datlow.bsky.social Best Horror 12) is a beautiful example of that.
November 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
On the weird fiction panel at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social I talked about how weird fiction can sometimes be like holding a joke until it enters that uncomfortable, unheimlich space. I Say (I Say, I Say) by Robert Shearman (in @datlow.bsky.social Best Horror 12) is a beautiful example of that.
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I have just had a brilliant time launching a new science fiction convention in Scotland. PictCon1 in Perth, with guest of Honour Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social was a blast. Join us next year in October 2026. Link below. And do follow the new account!
November 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I have just had a brilliant time launching a new science fiction convention in Scotland. PictCon1 in Perth, with guest of Honour Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social was a blast. Join us next year in October 2026. Link below. And do follow the new account!
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The BFS and Waterstones Covent Gdn is excited to bring you Kill the Gods: Epic Fantasy Religion on Thursday 13th November at 6pm.
Ticket: tinyurl.com/bfswatgod
@stewarthotston.com @abeaumontbooks.bsky.social @annasmithspark.bsky.social @justmarvewrites.bsky.social @willwiles.bsky.social
Ticket: tinyurl.com/bfswatgod
@stewarthotston.com @abeaumontbooks.bsky.social @annasmithspark.bsky.social @justmarvewrites.bsky.social @willwiles.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The BFS and Waterstones Covent Gdn is excited to bring you Kill the Gods: Epic Fantasy Religion on Thursday 13th November at 6pm.
Ticket: tinyurl.com/bfswatgod
@stewarthotston.com @abeaumontbooks.bsky.social @annasmithspark.bsky.social @justmarvewrites.bsky.social @willwiles.bsky.social
Ticket: tinyurl.com/bfswatgod
@stewarthotston.com @abeaumontbooks.bsky.social @annasmithspark.bsky.social @justmarvewrites.bsky.social @willwiles.bsky.social
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New book from me! The sequel to The Executioner's Blade, another fantasy murder mystery full of monsters & intrigue.
🚨COVER REVEAL🚨
For the final time in 2025, feast your eyes on a new Northodox cover!
Sequel to the incredible The Executioner's Blade, The Executioner's Price by Andrew Knighton is coming 27th November!
Do not miss this!
Preorders and details here:
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For the final time in 2025, feast your eyes on a new Northodox cover!
Sequel to the incredible The Executioner's Blade, The Executioner's Price by Andrew Knighton is coming 27th November!
Do not miss this!
Preorders and details here:
share.google/byM73OhMI6c5...
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
New book from me! The sequel to The Executioner's Blade, another fantasy murder mystery full of monsters & intrigue.
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I hope the airport is fine with my putting my World Fantasy Award into my carry-on because I do not want to risk losing it in checked luggage.
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I hope the airport is fine with my putting my World Fantasy Award into my carry-on because I do not want to risk losing it in checked luggage.
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I saw/heard the author of this forthcoming book @joanneanderton.bsky.social talking about it on a panel at World Fantasy Con and it sounded ace. I’m really bad at taking notes/remembering things from cons (must be the bar…) so glad to be reminded of the title here.
Can a person haunt a ghost? @joanneanderton.bsky.social explores the question in PIXERINA: A Haunting, coming from Bad Hand Books in April of 2026.
"Beautifully, gently haunting.”
—Angela Slatter, award-winning author of The Crimson Road
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"Beautifully, gently haunting.”
—Angela Slatter, award-winning author of The Crimson Road
bookshop.org/p/books/pixe...
Pixerina: A Haunting
A Haunting
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November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I saw/heard the author of this forthcoming book @joanneanderton.bsky.social talking about it on a panel at World Fantasy Con and it sounded ace. I’m really bad at taking notes/remembering things from cons (must be the bar…) so glad to be reminded of the title here.
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This time last week I was packing to leave @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social. It was a strange con for me as I was deep in bereavement, but the support of so many wonderful friends and loved ones kept me going.
Here are a few highlights, and there will be a load more on my Ida Keogh FB page.
Here are a few highlights, and there will be a load more on my Ida Keogh FB page.
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 AM
This time last week I was packing to leave @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social. It was a strange con for me as I was deep in bereavement, but the support of so many wonderful friends and loved ones kept me going.
Here are a few highlights, and there will be a load more on my Ida Keogh FB page.
Here are a few highlights, and there will be a load more on my Ida Keogh FB page.
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I keep forgetting about you Bluesky...
Thank you, World Fantasy Convention 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social @hws.bsky.social. It was a great experience as a first-time art vendor.
I met lovely attendees and other vendors, learned some stuff, acquired some stuff, & am inspired to DO more STUFF!
Thank you, World Fantasy Convention 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social @hws.bsky.social. It was a great experience as a first-time art vendor.
I met lovely attendees and other vendors, learned some stuff, acquired some stuff, & am inspired to DO more STUFF!
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I keep forgetting about you Bluesky...
Thank you, World Fantasy Convention 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social @hws.bsky.social. It was a great experience as a first-time art vendor.
I met lovely attendees and other vendors, learned some stuff, acquired some stuff, & am inspired to DO more STUFF!
Thank you, World Fantasy Convention 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social @hws.bsky.social. It was a great experience as a first-time art vendor.
I met lovely attendees and other vendors, learned some stuff, acquired some stuff, & am inspired to DO more STUFF!
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Such an interesting panel
Home from World Fantasy, really enjoyed chatting with @lyndseycroal.bsky.social @tanaudel.bsky.social and Cécile Cristofari on the Nature Writing in Fantasy panel and getting to read these fab books 😊🌿
November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Such an interesting panel
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Thrilled to share audience photos I was sent from the @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social "Fantasy Economy" panel.
Thank you again to the panelists, and to attendees for packing the room on a Sunday when lesbians, horror, and Discworld were the competing topics!
I'm so glad people enjoyed it. ❤️
Thank you again to the panelists, and to attendees for packing the room on a Sunday when lesbians, horror, and Discworld were the competing topics!
I'm so glad people enjoyed it. ❤️
November 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Thrilled to share audience photos I was sent from the @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social "Fantasy Economy" panel.
Thank you again to the panelists, and to attendees for packing the room on a Sunday when lesbians, horror, and Discworld were the competing topics!
I'm so glad people enjoyed it. ❤️
Thank you again to the panelists, and to attendees for packing the room on a Sunday when lesbians, horror, and Discworld were the competing topics!
I'm so glad people enjoyed it. ❤️
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Many thanks to the small audience who turned up for my reading of The Coronet at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social — I feel quite self conscious wearing my glasses but might as well plough on.
Thanks to Ann for organising and to @bingewriting.bsky.social for a memorable (if not disturbing) performance
Thanks to Ann for organising and to @bingewriting.bsky.social for a memorable (if not disturbing) performance
November 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Many thanks to the small audience who turned up for my reading of The Coronet at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social — I feel quite self conscious wearing my glasses but might as well plough on.
Thanks to Ann for organising and to @bingewriting.bsky.social for a memorable (if not disturbing) performance
Thanks to Ann for organising and to @bingewriting.bsky.social for a memorable (if not disturbing) performance
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I've almost finished setting back at home after @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social. I'm still getting up hours too early and I still have a stack of books waiting to be shelved. The fact that the shelves are already full isn't helping ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
November 6, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I've almost finished setting back at home after @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social. I'm still getting up hours too early and I still have a stack of books waiting to be shelved. The fact that the shelves are already full isn't helping ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Thirty hours door to door, from the hotel in Brighton (UK) to my house in Sydney. A beautiful day here, with Snufkin demanding I immediately take him out for a walk. WFC was fun, great to see lots of people, but there’s no place like home.
November 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Thirty hours door to door, from the hotel in Brighton (UK) to my house in Sydney. A beautiful day here, with Snufkin demanding I immediately take him out for a walk. WFC was fun, great to see lots of people, but there’s no place like home.
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Gareth was amaaaaazing. Stairwell gushed like a fangrrrl at meeting Joe Hill. Ali Sparkes seemed to be everywhere at once. 4 other Stairwell authors helped run stall. Exhausting, exhilarating, fun. Join us at EasterCon '26 in Brum! @susiewilliamson.bsky.social @ruthaylett.bsky.social
@worldfantasy2025.bsky.social begins a week today. My first WFC as a published horror/fantasy writer and i cannot wait. There for the duration and very privileged to be both reading and included on this panel. New novel dropping in April 2026. ‘To Those from Below’ @stairwellbooks.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Gareth was amaaaaazing. Stairwell gushed like a fangrrrl at meeting Joe Hill. Ali Sparkes seemed to be everywhere at once. 4 other Stairwell authors helped run stall. Exhausting, exhilarating, fun. Join us at EasterCon '26 in Brum! @susiewilliamson.bsky.social @ruthaylett.bsky.social
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I submitted something I wrote on the fly during WFC. Maybe my inner spring is filling up again.
November 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I submitted something I wrote on the fly during WFC. Maybe my inner spring is filling up again.
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Saying goodbye to Brighton and World Fantasy Con, but realizing I barely took any photos 😅
But it’s a sign of the incredible, meaningful connections I formed with other folks in the community, conversing and laughing with friends old and new. Thank you all for a beautiful few days!
But it’s a sign of the incredible, meaningful connections I formed with other folks in the community, conversing and laughing with friends old and new. Thank you all for a beautiful few days!
November 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Saying goodbye to Brighton and World Fantasy Con, but realizing I barely took any photos 😅
But it’s a sign of the incredible, meaningful connections I formed with other folks in the community, conversing and laughing with friends old and new. Thank you all for a beautiful few days!
But it’s a sign of the incredible, meaningful connections I formed with other folks in the community, conversing and laughing with friends old and new. Thank you all for a beautiful few days!
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So this is 50: grateful to be back home, but also grateful to have met so many wonderful people at WFC.
November 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
So this is 50: grateful to be back home, but also grateful to have met so many wonderful people at WFC.
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Remembering the pure ferocity of the wind at the Brighton beach shoreline, and how it awakes the ferality and liminality within me: contained rage without and without. You respect the wind and the rolling waves that come in.
November 6, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Remembering the pure ferocity of the wind at the Brighton beach shoreline, and how it awakes the ferality and liminality within me: contained rage without and without. You respect the wind and the rolling waves that come in.
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New blogpost! A brief reflection on World Fantasycon, an anthology update, and details of two events where you can see me later this month! www.mikebrooks.co.uk/2025/11/worl...
WORLD FANTASYCON! November events, and Wrath Month - Mike Brooks
It was a very long, very busy, but very good weekend at World Fantasycon, held at the Doubletree by Hilton Metropole (or some other arrangement of those words) in Brighton. Credit as always to the tea...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
New blogpost! A brief reflection on World Fantasycon, an anthology update, and details of two events where you can see me later this month! www.mikebrooks.co.uk/2025/11/worl...
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When I received the World Fantasy Award on Sunday, I was exhausted. A week away from home will do that to you. So here's a sanitised version of my acceptance speech, for those of you who missed it. Plus, you get to see the award. Again.
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World Fantasy Awards 2025 - Best Anthology, Heartwood: A Mythago Wood Anthology #worldfantasyawards
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November 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
When I received the World Fantasy Award on Sunday, I was exhausted. A week away from home will do that to you. So here's a sanitised version of my acceptance speech, for those of you who missed it. Plus, you get to see the award. Again.
www.youtube.com/shorts/9p6jR...
www.youtube.com/shorts/9p6jR...
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Had a super chilled time at the World Fantasy Con in Brighton last weekend. Registration was simple, the events I attended ran smooth allowing plenty of breather time in-between, and the panels were excellent. Many thanks to the organisers and the guests for a great convention.
November 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Had a super chilled time at the World Fantasy Con in Brighton last weekend. Registration was simple, the events I attended ran smooth allowing plenty of breather time in-between, and the panels were excellent. Many thanks to the organisers and the guests for a great convention.