Queer Fantasy

Juno Dawson is a bestselling novelist, screenwriter, whose books include the global bestsellers, This Book Is Gay and Clean, and The Sunday Times bestselling Series Her Majesty’s Royal Coven. She Won The 2020 YA Book Prize for Meat Market. She also writes for television and her journalism has been featured as a columnist for Attitude, in Glamour, The Pool, Dazed and the Guardian. She has appeared on Pointless Celebrities, BBC Women’s Hour, Front Row, ITV News, Channel 5 News, This Morning and Newsnight. An occasional actress and model, Juno appeared in the BBC’s I May Destroy You and Holby City.

Samantha Shannon is an award-winning New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling fantasy author. At the age of 21, she published The Bone Season, the internationally bestselling first instalment in a seven-book series of fantasy novels. Her first book outside the series, The Priory of the Orange Tree, has sold over a million copies in English worldwide. Its prequel, A Day of Fallen Night, hit shelves in February 2023, becoming an instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller. Her most recent book, The Dark Mirror, the fifth installment in the Bone Season series, was published this year.

Tasha Suri is the award-winning author of The Isle in the Silver Sea, The Books of Ambha duology, The Burning Kingdoms trilogy, What Souls Are Made Of, and Doctor Who: The Cradle. She has won the Best Newcomer (Sydney J. Bounds) from the British Fantasy Society and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Once a librarian, she is now a part-time writing tutor and a full-time cat and rabbit wrangler. She lives with her family in a mildly haunted house in London.

TJ Klune is the #1 New York Times and #1 USA Today bestselling, Lambda Literary Award–winning author of The House in the Cerulean Sea, Under the Whispering Door, In the Lives of Puppets, the Green CreekSeries for adults, the Extraordinaries Series for teens, and more. Being queer himself, Klune believes it's important –now more than ever – to have accurate, positive queer representation in stories.