John Callow is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Suffolk, UK, who has written widely on early modern witchcraft, politics and popular culture. His latest book is: The Last Witches of England: A Tragedy of Sorcery and Superstition (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021).

Shami Chakrabarti (Baroness Chakrabarti CBE PC) is a human rights lawyer and campaigner, Labour Peer and was Shadow Attorney General, 2016 to 2020. She was the Director of Liberty from 2003 to 2016 and a panellist on the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics after the phone-hacking scandal. She was the Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University and of the University of Essex and served on the Board of the British Film Institute (BFI) for many years. Shami has written and broadcast widely and is the author of two books; On Liberty (2014) and Of Women (2017).

Malcolm Gaskill is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History at the University of East Anglia. One of Britain's leading experts in the history of witchcraft, his works include the highly-acclaimed Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans. In 2010, Malcolm was a visiting fellow in North American studies at the Eccles Centre of the British Library, where he conducted research for his book Between Two Worlds. In November 2021, Allen Lane published his most recent book The Ruin of All Witches.

Marion Gibson is Professor of Renaissance and Magical Literatures at the University of Exeter. She is the author of seven books on witches in history and literature including: Reading Witchcraft (Routledge, 1999), Possession, Puritanism and Print (Pickering and Chatto, 2006), Rediscovering Renaissance Witchcraft (Routledge, 2017) and with Jo Esra Shakespeare’s Demonology (Bloomsbury, 2014). Her latest book Witchcraft A History in Thirteen Trials was published by Simon & Schuster in June 2023.

Alexander Lock is Curator of Modern Archives and Manuscripts at the British Library.. He was lead researcher for the British Library's highly acclaimed exhibition Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy (2015) and a curator of the Library's sell-out exhibition, Harry Potter: A History of Magic (2017-2018), which later toured to New York (New-York Historical Society, 2018-2019).

Kirsty Logan is a writer of novels and short stories. Her latest book is Now She is Witch, is a medieval witch revenge quest. Her other books include Things We Say In The Dark, The Gloaming, The Gracekeepers, A Portable Shelter, and The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales.

Juno Dawson is a #1 Sunday Times best-selling novelist, screenwriter, journalist, and columnist for Attitude Magazine. Her books include the global bestsellers, This Book Is Gay and Clean. She won the 2020 YA Book Prize for Meat Market. Her first adult fantasy trilogy Her Majesty’s Royal Coven launched in 2022, becoming an instant best-seller.

AK Blakemore is the author of two full-length poetry collections: Humbert Summer (Eyewear, 2015) and Fondue (Offord Road Books, 2018). Her work has appeared in magazines and journals including Poetry London, Ambit and Magma. Her debut novel The Manningtree Witches won the Desmond Elliot Prize in 2021.

Stacey Thomas studied English & History at Mount Holyoke College and is a staff writer for Bad Form Review. She is an alumna of the Curtis Brown Creative novel writing course and in 2023 her debut novel The Revels was published by HarperCollins.

Rebecca Rideal is an historian of early modern England, and the director of the history festival, HistFest. She is the author of 1666: Plague, War and Hellfire and host of the history podcast Killing Time. As a former television researcher and producer, she developed the Emmy award-winning David Attenborough’s First Life and the BAFTA-winning Flying Monsters with David Attenborough. Rebecca has lectured and tutored at University College London, Bath Spa University and Oxford University.