During the last two decades, Henry Snider has dedicated his time to helping others tighten their writing through critique groups, classes, lectures, prison prose programs, and high school fiction contests. He co-founded Fiction Foundry (est. 2012) and the award-winning Colorado Springs Fiction Writer’s Group (1996-2013). Thirteen years to the month from founding the CSFWG, he retired from the presidency. After a much needed vacation, he returned to the literary world. While still reserving enough time to pursue his own fiction aspirations, he continues to be active in the writing community through classes, editing services, and advice. Henry lives in Colorado with his wife, fellow author and editor Hollie Snider, son – poet Josh Snider and numerous neurotic animals, including, of course, Fizzgig, the token black cat.

Stacey Jaine McIntosh was born in Perth, Western Australia where she still resides with her husband and four children.

Although her first love has always been writing she once toyed with being a Cartographer and subsequently holds a Diploma in Spatial Information Services.

In 2011 she had her first short story Freya published in an anthology, since that time more stories have followed.

Stacey dedicated her novel Solstice to her mother who passed away unexpectedly in 2008, and she is currently working on several other novels simultaneously.

When not with her family or writing she enjoys photography, genealogy, history, Arthurian myths and witchcraft.

DJ Tyrer is probably best known as a horror writer, but has written in many other different genres and styles, as well as being behind the Atlantean Publishing small press.

Pedro Iniguez is a speculative fiction writer and Rhysling, Pushcart, and Best of the Net-nominated poet.

His fiction and poetry has appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Shortwave Magazine, Helios Quarterly, Worlds of Possibility, Tiny Nightmares, Star*Line, Space and Time Magazine, Speculative Fiction for Dreamers, Savage Realms Monthly, and Hexagon Magazine, among others.

Apart from his personal work, he has also been a sensitivity reader and has ghostwritten for award-winning apps and online clients.

He resides in Los Angeles, where he is currently working on his second novel.

David is a practicing physician who lives to write instead of writing to live. He is a split class writer/academic surgeon with several cat-familiars and a wife. He tries to follow Monty Python's advice by always looking on the bright side of life, but has only needed to be rescued by the Judean Peoples Front on rare occasions. His website can be found at: https://davidmhoenig.wordpress.com/about/

He's working on his first novel, which is close to completion of the latest revision, and is about halfway through his next.

I was born and raised in small town Texas but currently reside in Oklahoma. I'm the author of several short stories, flash fiction and microfiction of horror and contemporary that have appeared in magazines/anthologies such as Long Story Short, One Forty Fiction, Trembling With Fear, Speculative 66, and A Medley of Fiction. One of my proudest work was a story entitled "Tornado Luck" published in a charity anthology benefiting hurricane victims called Stories of Strength which also included writings from Orson Scott Card, Jenna Glatzer and Wil Wheaton. I completed the "Basics of Writing" course from Long Ridge Writers Group in 2008. My latest work appeared in Chronos: An Anthology of Time Drabbles and have work forth coming in DeadCades Anthology, Nothing's Sacred Vol 4 Magazine and Drabbledark II Anthology.

Kevin J. Kennedy is a horror author, editor, and anthologist. He is also the owner of KJK Publishing.

He lives in the heart of Scotland with his wife and his three cats, Carlito, Ariel and Luna. He can be found on Facebook most days if you want to chat with him.

Eddie D. Moore travels hundreds of hours a year, and he fills that time by listening to audiobooks. When he isn’t playing with his grandchildren, he writes his own stories. His stories have been published by Kzine, Alien Dimensions, Black Hare Press, Nomadic Delirium Press, Fantasia Divinity Publishing and by dozens of online publishers. You can find a list of his publications on his blog, eddiedmoore.wordpress.com. Be sure to pick up a copy of his mini-anthology Misfits & Oddities.

JM Ames is an award-winning multi-genre speculative fiction author native to Southern California. He has multiple publications dating back to 2016. One thing holds true throughout all of his stories - you can Expect the Unexpected.

When not working his day job or enjoying his fatherly adventures, he writes short stories and novels, including an upcoming series.

You can follow him on the following platforms:

Website: https://jm-ames.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JMAmesAuthor/

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Peter got locked in a bookstore as a child and has been reading his way to freedom ever since.

His first tales developed from Dungeons & Dragons campaigns that never got played, and watching Babylon 5 on repeat. After having several dozen short stories published through various publishers, Peter has switched to longer forms of writing.

The science fiction “Consensus” novels depict one family’s struggle in the face of alien invasion, and the “Vol’kris Chronicles” are a series of standalone tales that explore humanity’s misadventures in a world ruled by insects.

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David Bowmore was born on a winter’s night with the sound of thunder and the flash of lightning welcoming him into a brightly painted Gypsy caravan. Forty-five years later he started writing fiction. After a steep learning curve, his short stories and flash fiction began to appear in various collections.

A classically trained chef, a personable teacher and unqualified landscape gardener, David has lived here, there and everywhere, but currently dwells in Yorkshire with his wonderful wife and a small white poodle.

David tends to write thrillers and mysteries as well as stories with a touch of the supernatural about them. He focuses on character and the oddities of being human, sometimes with humour, but more often with dark unreality.

When he was younger, he had a love of science fiction and fantasy. In adult life his reading tastes veered towards thrilling mysteries, particularly Golden Age crime. You know the sort of thing – country house murders where everyone is a suspect, impossible locked room mysteries with more red herrings than your local fishing hole.

David is an admirer of many authors including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Eric Ambler, Patricia Highsmith, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Elmore Leonard, Stephen King, and P.G. Wodehouse.

Since his first published story, 'Sins of The Father' appeared in Vortex, published by Clarendon House in 2018, David has featured in more than seventy-five short story anthologies, journals and magazines.

In 2020, The Magic of Deben Market was enacted by BookStreamz with actors from across the globe comparing his work to 'Tales of The Unexpected' and 'Inside No. 9'

J.W. Garrett is a multi–award winning author and has been writing in one form or another since she was a teenager. Her love of the Fantasy genre goes all the way back to elementary school when she read The Hobbit for the first time - she's been hooked ever since. Her works include novels and poetry as well as short stories.

When she's not hanging out with her characters, her favorite activities are reading, running and spending time with family.

Check out Remeon's Quest, the latest book in her fantasy scifi series, Realms of Chaos.

Visit her website at www.jwgarrett.com to subscribe to her newsletter and find out the latest updates regarding new releases and works in progress.

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Thomas Vaughn writes speculative fiction and dark magical realism. He emerged from the debris field of rural Arkansas. He uses his fiction to mediate the delusional realities generated by a culture that is growing increasingly psychotic. When he is not writing fiction he works as a college professor with a research focus in apocalyptic rhetoric.

M. M. MONTELIONE is a horror writer and historian born and raised on Long Island in New York. His work has been published in "HATE: A Dark Drabbles Anthology" and "Retro Horror," among other titles.

For a young Scott Harper growing up in 1970’s Southern California, the world was just a tad dull and unimaginative. He found a creative outlet in the world of Marvel Comics, fervidly devouring the monthly adventures of Iron Man, Hulk, and Captain America. Later, his tastes turned toward the Marvel black and white magazines’ more esoteric horror province, faithfully following titles such as Dracula Lives! and Tales of the Zombie. Influenced by these works and such great authors as Bram Stoker, John Steakley, and Marv Wolfman, Scott’s unique writing style combines horror and fantasy elements with superhero-style action. When not writing, Scott spends his time either reading, working out at the gym, adding to his model collection, or walking his two dogs. He lives in California with his wife and son.

Check out his web site at https://www.scottharpermacabremaestro.com/

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Dawn DeBraal lives in rural Wisconsin with her husband, Red, a rescued dorky dog, and a stray cat. Dawn also writes under the pen name of Garrison McKnight. Along with the books on these pages, Dawn has been published in many online magazines, was runner-up in the 2022 Short Story Horror Contest, Author of the Month Spillwords x2, Member of the Month in The World of Myth x2, Your Daily Poem contest winner, 2000. She was nominated by the Falling Star Magazine for the 2019 Pushcart Award, a song published in the House of Harmony, International Habitat for Humanity Song Book, and, was a finalist in the "Great American Song Writing Contest." 2016.

Amber M. Simpson is a dark speculative fiction writer from Northern Kentucky with a penchant for horror and fantasy. Her fiction has been featured in multiple themed anthologies as well as online. She has acted as Assistant Editor for Fantasia Divinity Magazine since 2017, where she's gotten to work with many talented authors from all over the world.

While she loves to create dark worlds and diverse characters, her greatest creations of all are her sons, Maxamus and Liam, who keep her feet on the ground even while her head is in the clouds.

To learn more, visit: https://ambermsimpson.com.

Neen Cohen is an Australian Sapphic Speculative Fiction author, and lives in Brisbane with her partner, son and fur babies. She has a Bachelor of Creative Industries from Queensland University of Technology and is a member of the Springfield Writer's Group. She's had a multitude of 'day jobs' to pay the bills but her heart has always been in the art of marking dead trees with squiggles of ink and graphite.

When she’s not running after her son, spending time with her partner or working at the current 'day job', she can often be found writing while sitting against a tombstone or tree in any number of graveyards. She's also discovered a new found passion for throwing sharp objects at thick pieces of wood and tries to squeeze at least 30 hours in to each day because sleep is for the weak.

Ximena is an emerging Author of short stories and poetry.

Originally from Chile, she is the author of a translation into Spanish of the Broadway Musical "The Wizard of OZ" (2011), and of an original adaptation of the same, "Navidad en OZ" (2018). Having started a family in the UK 2005, it took her a while to feel confident enough to write in English, despite speaking it since childhood. In the meantime, she ran her own business teaching extra-curricular Spanish in primary schools, and telling "traditional stories with a twist", in schools and festivals, with "Pie in the Sky Storytellers". Though her degree in Communication Science set her aspirations on writing for the screen, she has, since resuming writing in 2018, devoted her time to poetry, short stories and micro fiction. Whilst her first novel waits to be written, she is enjoying every minute of this exploration through different literary genres.

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and twitter @laximenin

Derek Dunn is an author of speculative fiction whose works have appeared in various anthologies. He’s been a musician and film enthusiast for many years and received a bachelor’s degree in Media Arts Studies. Derek grew up in Middle Tennessee but now resides in Kansas with his family, dog, cats, and fish.

An Amazon bestselling author of horror and dark fiction, Drew Starling is a husband and dog dad who loves strong female leads, martial arts, and long walks in the woods with canine companions. He would like to think his plots are better than his prose, but strives to make his words sound both beautiful and terrifying at the same time. He listens to Beethoven, Megadeth, and Enya when he writes, and all of his work can be found at drewstarling.com. His only rule of writing: the dog never dies.

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Chris Bannor is an LGBTQIA+ speculative fiction writer who lives in Southern California. Chris learned her love of genre stories from her mother at an early age and has never veered far from that path. You can find her serial novels on Kindle Vella. Chris has also been published in over 50 anthologies. Her stories range from horror and science fiction, to romance, fantasy, and steampunk.

When Chris isn’t writing, she enjoys movie marathons, binge-watching TV shows, musical theater, and road trips with her family. Otherwise, she is a general homebody who lives with her two teenagers, a cat, and two dogs. You can follow Chris on Facebook @chrisbannorauthor or at her homepage at www.ChrisBannor.com

J. M. Meyer ( Jacqueline Moran Meyer )is a writer, artist and small business owner living in New York, where she received her master’s degree from Teachers College, Columbia University. Jacqueline loves to read short stories, especially by O. Henry, Alice Munro, and Ray Bradbury. She also enjoys time with her family, hiking with her dog, and watching scary movies.

Michael D. Davis was born and raised in a small town in Iowa. A high school graduate and avid reader he has aspired to be a writer for years. Having written over thirty short stories, ranging in genre from comedy to horror from flash fiction to novella some of which have been published in Out of the Gutter Online, Near to the Knuckle online magazine, Horla, Fiction on the Web, Sirens call, and The Dark City mystery and crime magazine. He continues in his accursed pursuit of a career in the written word and in his hunt Michael's love for stories in all genres and mediums will not falter.

Emma K. Leadley (she/they) is a UK-based writer, creative geek, and devourer of words, images and ideas. She's had over 30 pieces of speculative flash fiction and short stories published by independent presses, including Fox Spirit Books. She was a Grindstone Literary 2019 Microfiction Winner with her 144-word story, "Nothing to Lose" and Publishers Weekly described one of her stories as 'standout'. She lives in Nottingham, with her husband and a pampered rescue greyhound. Visit Emma online by searching "autoerraticism".

K. B. Elijah is a speculative fiction author from Brisbane, Queensland. To date, she has appeared in over 30 anthologies and has published two collections of her own: The Empty Sky and Out of the Nowhere.

Her latest work, Whispers in the Dark, a horror-fantasy novella, is available now.

Nicola Currie is a writer and poet from Cambridge, UK. Her poetry and short stories have been published in various magazines and anthologies. She has also been longlisted for the Bath Children's Novel Award and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Her first speculative fiction novel, Those of the Light, is publishing on September 24th 2021 and is available for digital pre-order.

Matthew A. Clarke writes horror, bizarro, and anything in between.

He has authored and published 6 novels, 2 novellas, and one collection. He has also had many short stories published, ranging from humorous to the horrific.

Bibliography

Coffin Dodgers, Self-Published, 2021

Things Were Easier Before You Became a Giant F*cking Mantis, Self-Published, 2021

The World Has Gone to Turd and the Only Way to Save It Is with a Big Ol’ Battle Royale, Self-published, 2021

Beyond Human, Black Hare Press, 2021

Those That Remain, Black Hare Press, 2021

Sons of Sorrow, Planet Bizarro, 2022

Dead Hard, Planet Bizarro, 2022

Ebola Saves the Planet! And Other Wholesome Tales, Planet Bizarro, 2022

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Facebook: www.facebook.com/matthewaclarkeauthor

Tim Mendees is a rather odd chap. He's a horror writer from Macclesfield in the North-West of England that specialises in cosmic horror and weird fiction. A lifelong fan of classic weird tales, Tim set out to bring the pulp horror of yesteryear into the 21st Century and give it a distinctly British flavour. His work has been described as the love-child of H.P. Lovecraft and P.G. Wodehouse and is often peppered with a wry sense of humour that acts as a counterpoint to the unnerving, and often disturbing, narratives.

Tim is the author of over one hundred published short stories and novelettes, seven novellas, and two short story collections. He has also curated and edited several cosmic horror-themed anthologies.

When he is not arguing with the spellchecker, Tim is a goth DJ with a weekly radio show on The Feelgood Station, and the co-presenter of the Innsmouth Book Club Podcast & Strange Shadows: The Clark Ashton Smith Podcast. He currently lives in Brighton & Hove with his pet crab, Gerald, and an ever-increasing army of stuffed octopods.

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My name is Andrew Kurtz and I am a horror author.

I have not published any novels as of yet, but am in numerous anthologies, which you can view by going to my author link.

As a child I have loved horror, whether it was watching a horror film or reading horror literature.

I am a comic book collector and have an extensive library of book, mainly horror and science fiction.

If you ask me what my favorite horror film is, I can not answer because there are so many that I love.

Jason Voorhees murders at CAMP CRYSTAL LAKE, Michael Myers slaughters in HADDONFIELD, Freddy Kruger causes nightmares on ELM STREET, and I write horror short stories.

My vampires do not drink blood, they devour it. The werewolves in my stories do not resemble four legged dogs, but bipedal monstrosities that have an undying bloodlust during the full moon.

If you are looking for happy endings then do not read my stories because will be disappointed.

My characters die in the most gory manner possible and whether the are new born infants or 90 year old does not matter.

We all love dogs and cats. In my stories they are torn to pieces while still alive.

My human monsters are not who they seem to be because my tales of terror are full of twists and turns.

Nikki DeKeuster invites you to sit with her around the fire as she weaves you dark tales of mischief, mayhem, and mad love. Stories that stick to your ribs long after the lights have been doused and your head hits the pillow.

She enjoys crunching leaves underfoot while exploring the bluffs of Lake Michigan with her daughter and husband.

Stalk her at NikkiDeKeuster.com

Hannah Retallick is a twenty-six-year-old from Anglesey, North Wales. She was home educated and then studied with the Open University, graduating with a First-class honours degree, BA in Humanities with Creative Writing and Music, before passing her Creative Writing MA with a Distinction. She was shortlisted in the Writing Awards at the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2019, the Cambridge Short Story Prize, the Henshaw Short Story Competition June 2019, and the Bedford International Writing Competition 2019.

Blog: https://ihaveanideablog.wordpress.com/

Owen Morgan writes science fiction, fantasy, and alternate history, and lives in the fishing port of Steveston, British Columbia.

Evan Baughfman works in a very scary place: a middle school! (He’s a teacher.) He writes all genres, but horror is where he’s most comfortable. His horror fiction has been published in numerous anthologies, including titles from Improbable Press, 4 Horsemen Publications, No Bad Books Press, and Grinning Skull Press. Evan has penned a collection of 13 short scary stories titled THE EMACIATED MAN AND OTHER TERRIFYING TALES FROM POE MIDDLE SCHOOL, published by Thurston Howl Publications. His spooky novella, VANISHING OF THE 7TH GRADE, is now available from D&T Publishing. D&T will publish Evan's first full-length novel, BAD FOR YOUR TEETH, in April 2023.

Evan has also adapted a number of his short prose works into screenplays, of which "The Tell-Tale Art," “A Perfect Circle,” and “The Creaky Door” have won awards in various film festival competitions.

Additionally, much of Evan's writing success has been as a playwright. He’s had many different plays produced across the globe. His children's play, “R.O.M.3.O. and Julia” (Romeo and Juliet with robots) has been published in PLAYS Magazine. His play for young adults, “Lipstick and Heroics,” is available through YouthPLAYS, as is Evan's all-ages script, "Sprout Wants Out". In addition, his middle grade play, "Percy Pangolin Wants to Go Viral," is published by Heuer Publishing. Heuer has also published Evan's play, "A Taste of Amontillado"(an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado") and his script, "Untragically Ever After". Next Stage Press has published Evan's horror-plays-for teens, "Fear Pressure" and "The Dodo Challenge".

Online theater education resource, Drama Notebook, has added many of Evan’s children’s plays to its catalog. His plays can also be found at New Play Exchange.

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Jim is an award-winning author whose stories and poems have appeared in nearly four-hundred online and print publications. His collection of short stories Resilience was published in March 2021, by Bridge House Publishing. Short Stuff a collection of flash fiction and drabbles was published in October 2021, by Chapeltown Books. Periodic Stories and Periodic Stories Volume Two were published in July and September 2021, by Impspired. Dreamers a collection of short stories was published in March 2022, by Clarendon House Publishing. Something Better a dystopian adventure novella was published in July 2021, by Dark Myth Publications. Most recently, Periodic Stories Volume Three – A Novel was published in April 2022, by Impspired. His short story “Aliens” was nominated by The Zodiac Press for the 2020 Pushcart Prize. His story “The Maple Leaf” was voted 2021 story of the year for Spillwords. He lives in a small-town west of Minneapolis, Minnesota. All of his work can be found on his blog at www.theviewfromlonglake.wordpress.com.

Writer of speculative fiction with a suspicion of the supernatural.

A bookish allotmenteer. Owned by a cat.

From Liverpool. U.K.