GenreCon 2025: Alchemy – turning your art into business.

GenreCon is Australia’s leading conference dedicated to genre writers, featuring an impressive line-up of leading names in Australian and international genre fiction across a weekend of panels, seminars, and special events.

GenreCon 2025: Alchemy is headlined by bestselling New Zealand-based author Steff Green (Steffanie Holmes), with a special focus on turning your art into business.

Keynote Speaker – Steff Green

Under her pen name Steffanie Holmes, Steff Green is the USA Today bestselling author of over 50 kooky, spooky romance novels. Her books feature clever, witty heroines, secret societies, creepy old mansions, haunted villages, and supernatural men who usually fall somewhere on the "morally grey" spectrum.

Legally-blind since birth, Steff is passionate about providing readers with positive disability representation. She received the 2017 Attitude Award for Artistic Achievement.

Steff lives in New Zealand with her husband, a horde of cantankerous cats, and their medieval sword collection.

Accessibility Information

GenreCon 2025: Alchemy will be held at State Library of Queensland – for more information on the venue’s accessibility please view State Library’s Access & Inclusion policy.

Contact us if you have any access requirements, or questions regarding access to events and services as part of the Conference.

For more information about Queensland Writers Centre’s Program of Events and answers to FAQs, please visit: www.queenslandwriters.org.au/program-info