Our Guests-of-Honour

Jay Kristoff

Jay Kristoff is a #1 international, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of fantasy and science fiction. He is the winner of eight Aurealis Awards, an ABIA, has over two million books in print and is published in over thirty-five countries, most of which he has never visited. He is as surprised about all of this as you are. He is 6’7 and has approximately 11,000 days to live.

He does not believe in happy endings

Madison Lee

Madison’s passion is bringing stories to life. She's a professional illustrator, fine artist, writer, and designer based on the South Coast of NSW. She specialises in hand inked, Manga-Surrealist fusion artwork and loves to create pieces that are so detailed you can "read" them as you would a story. 

Madison’s influences include Junji Ito, Shaun Tan, James Jean, and CLAMP and her dream is to create her own manga series.  She is currently focussed on book illustration and has had the pleasure of working on projects spanning from graphic novels to early readers, oracle cards all the way to picture books, and is currently working on her own hand-inked horror manga.

Logan Timmins

Logan is a queer and trans TTRPG designer living on unceeded Wurundjeri Country in newly-named Australia. His design work focuses around themes of connection and self-reflection, expanding and retracting to include more or less themes like the tides on a beach. Outside of designing TTRPGs, Logan also runs an award-winning podcast (Lyrical Ludology), consults, mentors, and freelances for the likes of Evil Hat Games, Hatchling Games, and fellow indies. His autobiographical tabletop game LOGAN is a winner of an Australian Role Play Industry Award. His favourite bird is the Dusky Moorhen.

MC Adam Richard

Adam Richard is a television writer (Hard Quiz, Hard Quiz Kids, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, Outland), radio and television presenter (Spicks and Specks, Whovians, Fox FM Melbourne) podcaster, and stand-up comedian (Hey Hey It’s Saturday, Rove Live, Melbourne International Comedy Festival). Adam attained a Bachelor of Communications (Creative Writing) with First Class Honours from UTS in 2025, and has embarked on a new career as a writer of speculative fiction.