Special Guests

Josh Malerman

Josh Malerman
Josh Malerman
Josh Malerman is the New York TImes best selling author of Bird Box and Goblin. He’s also one of two singer/songwriters for the rock band The High Strung, whose song “The Luck You Got” can be heard as the theme song for the Showtime show “Shameless.” He lives in Michigan with his fiancee, the artist/musician Allison Laakko.

Naomi Kritzer

Naomi Kritzer
Naomi Kritzer

Naomi Kritzer has been writing science fiction and fantasy for over twenty years, and has won the Hugo Award, Lodestar Award, Edgar Award, and Minnesota Book Award. Her newest book is Chaos on CatNet. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, with her spouse, two kids (when the college kid is home from college) and three cats. The number of cats is subject to change without notice.

John Wiswell

John Wiswell
John Wiswell
John Wiswell is a disabled writer who lives where New York keeps all its trees. He is a Nebula winner, and a World Fantasy and Hugo finalist for his short fiction. His work has appeared in venues including Uncanny Magazine, Diabolical Plots, and Nature Futures. His debut novelette, “That Story Isn’t The Story,” will appear in the November/December issue of Uncanny Magazine.

Andrijana Rabrenović

Andrijana Rabrenovic
Andrijana Rabrenovic
PhD Andrijana Rabrenović, journalist, director of the Local Public Broadcaster Radio Bijelo Polje, from Bijelo Polje, Montenegro
President of the Academy of Social Sciences (NGO).One of founders and organizers of Regional Festival of Fantasy Literature REFESTICON – the first and the only Fantasy Festival in Montenegro.
Coordinator of the Education programme and Youth programme at Refesticon.
Editor of radio series about Fantasy literature, movie and music.
Editor in Chief of web portal for SF, Epic fantasy, movie, comics.

Dragić Rabrenović

Dragic Rabrenovic
Dragic Rabrenovic
MSc Dragić Rabrenović is a journalist and writer, assistant director of the Ratkovic’s nights of poetry (Public institution).
One of founders and organizers of Regional Festival of Fantasy Literature REFESTICON.
Coordinator of the festival’s Literature and art programme and representative at Balkan network of festivals and on EUROCON (The European SF Convention).
Editor in Chief of the regional Books of short stories collection (SF, epic fantasy, horror).
More than twenty of  his short stories are published in anthologies and collections published at festivals in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and Montenegro.