Colleen Anderson is a multiple award nominee, with poetry widely published in six countries, in such venues as Andromeda Spaceways, Lucent Dreaming, the award-winning Shadow Atlas and Water: Sirens, Selkies & Sea Monsters. Her poem "Machine (r)Evolution" was chosen to be part of Tenebrous Press’s 2023 Brave New Weird collection. Colleen lives in Vancouver, BC and is a Ladies of Horror Fiction, Canada Council and BC Arts Council grant recipient for writing. Her fiction collection can be found in A Body of Work, Black Shuck Books, and her poetry collection, I Dreamed a World, is available from LVP Publications. The Lore of Inscrutable Dreams is due for release in 2023 through Yuriko Publishing.

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Sydnie Beaupré is more than just a girl: they're an openly LQBTQ2IA author that lives in their own imagination: a post-apocalyptic, zombie-inhabited world, where magical creatures and supernatural occurrences are simply the mundane.


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Gustavo Bondoni is a novelist and short story writer with over three hundred stories published in fifteen countries, in seven languages. He is a member of Codex and an Active Member of SFWA. His latest novel is a dark historic fantasy entitled The Swords of Rasna (2022). He has also published five science fiction novels, four monster books and a thriller entitled Timeless. His short fiction is collected in Pale Reflection (2020), Off the Beaten Path (2019), Tenth Orbit and Other Faraway Places (2010) and Virtuoso and Other Stories (2011).

In 2019, Gustavo was awarded second place in the Jim Baen Memorial Contest and in 2018 he received a Judges Commendation (and second place) in The James White Award. He was also a 2019 finalist in the Writers of the Future Contest.

His website is at www.gustavobondoni.com

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Nicola Brayan is a young, aspiring artist from Sydney, Australia. She has rediscovered her passion for art during the pandemic. She uses vivid colours and contrast to capture emotions and expression. Her work is a love letter to what it means to be human. More of her work can be found on Instagram at @an.aesthetic.mirror.

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Harman Burgess studies psychology at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He has published around thirty short stories in various magazines and anthologies including in Flame Tree Press' Newsletter, Etherea Magazine, and After Dinner Conversation; he also has a play in development with a Sydney based theatre company.

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Rodo Buscaglia (1974) is a comic artist from Argentina. He has loved comics since he can remember. He started to study with prestigious Argentine comic artists such as Oswal and the Villagrán Studio. He has been working as an assistant to Horacio Domingues, and as a freelancer for almost two decades.

Lately he illustrates the series "The Harlem Shadow" for the Soulhammer publishing house.

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Barbara Candiotti is a former High Tech Worker who now focuses on photography, art, and writing.

You can find her website at www.candiotti-art.com




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William Couper is a writer from Scotland. As well as horror, he writes fantasy, and science fiction. He will even do some non-fiction when the fancy takes him and has had work appear on Gingernuts of Horror. His fiction has featured in anthologies including Cthulhu Lies Dreaming, In the Blink of an Eye, and Built from Human Parts, as well as the periodicals Cosmic Horror Monthly, The Horror Zine, and Schlock Webzine.

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Shikhar Dixit’s stuff has appeared in such venues as Weird Horror, Space & Time, Dark Regions, Journ-E, Strange Horizons and Not One of Us. His fiction has been printed in several anthologies, including The Darker Side, Songs From Dead Singers, and Barnes & Noble’s 365 Scary Stories. He lives with his wife somewhere in the deep, dark heart of New Jersey. To learn more, visit his website at SlipOfThePen.com.

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Gwynne Garfinkle is the author of a novel, Can't Find My Way Home (2022), and a collection of short fiction and poetry, People Change (2018), both published by Aqueduct Press. Her work has appeared in such publications as Fantasy, Escape Pod, Strange Horizons, Uncanny, Apex, Climbing Lightly Through Forests, and Other Covenants.

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Jon Hansen (he/his) is a writer, librarian, and occasional blood donor. He lives about fifty feet from Boston with his wife, son, and three pushy cats. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in a variety of places, including Strange Horizons, Daily Science Fiction and Apex Magazine. He enjoys tea and cheese, and until recently spent entirely too much time on Twitter.


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Ai Jiang is a Chinese-Canadian writer, a Nebula Award finalist, and an immigrant from Fujian. She is a member of HWA, SFWA, and Codex. Her work can be found in F&SF, The Dark, Uncanny, among others. She is the recipient of Odyssey Workshop's 2022 Fresh Voices Scholarship and the author of Linghun and I AM AI. Find her on Twitter (@AiJiang_) and online (http://aijiang.ca).


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R. Mac Jones is a writer and visual artist. His work has appeared in venues such as Dreams and Nightmares, Star*Line, Strange Horizons, and Daily Science Fiction. He has a website, https://rmacjoneswrote.com/, that is always in need of updating.



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E.E. King is an award-winning painter, performer, writer, and naturalist. She’ll do anything that won’t pay the bills, especially if it involves animals.

Ray Bradbury called her stories, “marvelously inventive, wildly funny, and deeply thought-provoking.”

She’s been published in over 100 magazines and anthologies, including Clarkesworld, Daily Science Fiction, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Short Edition, and Flametree. She’s published several novels. Her stories are on Tangent’s 2019 and 2020 year’s best stories. She’s been nominated for a Rhysling and several Pushcart awards.

She’s shown at paintings at LACMA, painted murals in LA and is currently painting a mural in leap lab (https://www.leaplab.org/) in San Paula, CA.

She also co-hosts The Long Lost Friends Show on Metastellar YouTube and spends her summers doing bird rescue.

Check out paintings, writing, musings, and books at: www.elizabetheveking.com and amazon.com/author/eeking

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Mary Soon Lee was born and raised in London, but now lives in Pittsburgh. Her latest book is The Sign of the Dragon, an epic fantasy told in poems, winner of the Elgin Award. She hides her online presence with a cryptically named website (marysoonlee.com) and an equally cryptic Twitter account (@MarySoonLee).


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Alina Măciucă lives in Bucharest, which she loves to capture in highly imperfect photos. Sometimes, she posts those on her social media. She thrives in big cities and aeclectic communities, and her needs are often met during her travels. So far, her work has been published in Space and Time Magazine and Vastarien.


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A former writer and editor for several sports publications, Patrick McEvoy has had stories included in various comic book anthologies such as Emanata, Continental Cryptid, Uncanny Adventures, Indie Comics Quarterly, and GuruKitty’s Once Upon a Time and Gateway to Beyond. Illustrated stories have also appeared on Slippery Elm's website, Murder Park After Dark Vol. 3 and in New Plains Review. A short story has also appeared on Akashic Books’ website. In addition, short plays he wrote were chosen to be performed at the Players Theatre in New York as part of their various festivals (Sex, NYC and BOO) in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2019. And he wrote and directed a short play for Emerging Artists Theatre's New Works series in 2021. A play anthology called What May Arise was also streamed June 30-July 6th 2022 as part of the Rogue Theater Festival. He also wrote and directed Directions, which appeared in the 2022 Dream Up Festival. Photography has also been exhibited with the Greenpoint Gallery, Tiny Seed Literary Journal, Molecule, riverSedge and Good Works Review.

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Antony Paschos is a Greek author with short stories in Galaxy’s Edge, Metaphorosis, HyphenPunk and other magazines. He has also published two books and several short stories in Greek. He is a member of the Athens Club of Science Fiction, and lives in Athens.

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Judith Pratt's varied experiences—actor, director, professor, fundraiser, and freelance writer—inspires her novels, stories, and plays. Some recent writing wins: In 2019, her play Maize was selected for the Louisiana State University SciArts Prize, and her novel Siljeea Magic was indie-published. Recently, her stories and essays have been published in Fiction Junkies, Stars and Staffs Magazine, Golden Walkman podcasts, 365 Stories, Hags Fire, and Synkroniciti Magazine. Her play Losing It appeared in Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2020. Her current novel, The Skill, is under contract with Pegasus Productions.

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Carl Scharwath has appeared globally with 150+ journals selecting his poetry, short stories, interviews, essays, plays or art photography (His photography was featured on the cover of 6 journals.) Two poetry books, Journey To Become Forgotten (Kind of a Hurricane Press) and Abandoned (ScarsTv) have been published. His first photography book was recently published by Praxis. Carl is the art editor for Minute Magazine, a competitive runner and 2nd degree black-belt in Taekwondo.

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Lorraine Schein is a New York writer and poet. Her work has appeared in VICE Terraform, Strange Horizons, NewMyths and Mermaids Monthly, and in the anthologies Wild Women and Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana del Rey & Sylvia Plath. The Futurist’s Mistress, her poetry book, is available from Mayapple Press. Her new book, The Lady Anarchist Cafe, is out now from Autonomedia.

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Christina Sng is the three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Collection of Nightmares (2017), A Collection of Dreamscapes (2020), and Tortured Willows (2021). Her poetry, fiction, essays, and art have appeared in numerous venues worldwide, including Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Interstellar Flight Magazine, Penumbric, Southwest Review, and The Washington Post. Visit her at christinasng.com and connect @christinasng.

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Carla Stein’s poetry and illustrations have appeared in a wide variety of publications including Sustenance, Stonecoast Review, Pocket Lint, Please Hear What I’m Not Saying, Sea and Cedar Magazine, NonBinary Review, The Belladonna, Centipede-Cha-Cha, The Lotus Tree Review, and Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine, among others. Her work is forthcoming in Watch Your Head and The Starlight SciFaiku Review. Carla contributed to a renku in 2022 which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is an associate member of the League of Canadian Poets and the current artistic director of Wordstorm Society of the Arts. Carla makes art and writes poems from her home in Nanaimo, B.C. View her artwork at: www.roaeriestudio.com.