Elisenda Solsona

Invitado de Honor

Elisenda Solsona (Olesa de Montserrat, 1984) is a writer and secondary school teacher. She holds undergraduate degrees in humanities, from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), and audiovisual communication, from the University of Barcelona (UB). She also studied for the Master’s in Writing for Television and Cinema at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and has taken several writing courses at the Obrador de la Sala Beckett and the Ateneu Barcelonès School of Writing. She has published Cirurgies (Surgeries) (Voliana Edicions, 2016), Satèl·lits (Satellites) (Males Herbes, 2019) – which won the 2020 Imperdible Prize for Best Fantasy Book in Catalan and the 2020 Ictineu Prize for Best Anthology and Best Short Story in Catalan – and Mammalia (Males Herbes, 2024), which was shortlisted for the 2025 Òmnium Prize for Best Novel in Catalan and won the Ictineu Prize for Best Fantasy Novel in Catalan. She has contributed to the anthology Autòctones (Natives) (Comanegra, 2023) and to The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories (Valancourt, 2020) with the short story ‘Mechanisms’ (translated by Mara Faye Lethem from ‘Engranatges’, originally published in Satèl·lits).

Other activities involving the participant:

Unique motherhoods
Maps of a world yet to come: narratives of speculative fiction
Bad mothers

Fer Rivas

Invitado de Honor

Fer Rivas (Barcelona, 1994) is a writer, stage director, playwright and bookseller. She is co-founder of the theatre company laMare, with which she directed her first play, staged at Teatre Tantarantana, the Festival Terrats en Cultura and Sala Trono in Tarragona. She has also worked as assistant director on several productions at Sala Beckett, Teatre Goya and the Grec Festival in Barcelona. In recent years she has combined writing and theatre projects with her work as a bookseller. Jo era un noi (I Was a Boy) is her first novel. She is currently working on its stage adaptation.