Romantasy with Bea Fitzgerald, Molly X. Chang & Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson & Isabella Silvers

About

The fastest growing genre has really grown some legs in the last couple of years.

Can we really take this genre seriously? Let’s explore together what happens when you suspend the rules of romance novels.

Brighton Book Festival invites you to meet the authors who are throwing out the rule books and writing the genre that everyone is talking about.

Isabella Silvers is a multi-award winning journalist and editor, passionate about inclusivity.

Bea Fitzgerald is a Sunday Times bestselling author and content creator who has swiftly become one of the UK's biggest YA stars. Her bestselling debut Girl, Goddess, Queen was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and won the Romantic Novelists’ Association Fantasy Romance of the Year. Her work has been translated widely across the globe. When she's not writing, she's entertaining her followers on TikTok and Instagram with her mythology-themed comedy account @chaosonolympus.

Molly X. Chang is the bestselling author of To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods. She’s a first-generation immigrant born in Harbin, China.

Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson is a science-fantasy author and co-founder of the organisation Impact of Omission. Winner of the inaugural Gollancz and Rivers of London BAME SFF Award in 2020, now known as the Future Worlds Prize, her writing is invariably about Black people dismantling space empires, travelling through time, and saving the world - often simultaneously.