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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Lisa Beebe lives in Los Angeles, where she sometimes talks to the ocean. Her stories have appeared in Indiana Review, Psychopomp, Vestal Review, and Five South, among others. Find her online at lisabeebe.com.

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Christopher Collingwood was born and raised in Sydney Australia. He completed university in Sydney and graduated with a degree in business studies. Chris has devoted his spare time to writing, with works published in Andromeda Spaceways, Hexagon, Shoreline of Infinity, Dreamforge Anvil, Smoke in the Stars anthology, Qualia Nous Vol 2 anthology, and illustration in JOURN-E 2.1, among other dimensionally unstable places.

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Jennifer Crow's poetry and prose have been published in a wide range of venues over the past quarter-century. Her poems have appeared in Analog, where two were finalists for the AnLab reader awards; Asimov's Science Fiction, Uncanny Magazine, and others. Curious readers can learn more about her and her work on Twitter, where she posts as @writerjencrow.

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Rubella Dithers lives in a swamp. They're studying space law, which isn't as cool or interesting as it sounds.



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Tim Hildebrandt is a writer in Indianapolis, Indiana. His short stories have appeared in Consequence Forum, the Boston Literary Magazine, Pandemic Magazine, Bending Genres, Corvus Review, and others. You can see his work at: https://www.instagram.com/ax_beckett

Tim has a bootless BFA, he lived in San Francisco in '68, traveled Europe from Amsterdam to Africa, and survived combat in Vietnam. hildebrandt343@icloud.com

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Jamal Hodge is a multi-award-winning filmmaker and writer who is a sitting Board Member of Harlem Film House and Axs Lab. Since May of 2016, Jamal Hodge's films have been an official selection in over 100 Film Festivals, and have won over 50 awards including The Vanguard Award (Best of The Fest) at the Hip Hop Film Festival (2020), Best Director at The Chelsea Film Festival (2020) and Best Director at GenreBlast (2020), In 2018 he directed the first season of Investigation Discovery Channel's Primal Instinct and came on as a Producer on the animated feature film Pierre the Pigeon Hawk (starring Will.I,.Am, Jennifer Hudson, and Whoopi Goldberg) raising half a million dollars of investment. He is currently co-directing/producing a PBS docu-series called Southern Storytellers (2022) with Peabody-winning producer/director Craig Renaud.

As a writer, Hodge is an active member of The Horror Writer's Association and The SFPA, being nominated for a 2021 Rhysling Award for his Poem "Fermi's Spaceship," while his poem "The Silence of God" placed in the 2021 Horror Writer Association Showcase. His screenplay "Mourning Meal" won 5 awards (including best short screenplay at NYC Horror Film Festival 2018) while his poetry is featured in the historical all-black issue of Star*line Magazine (issue 43.4) and has been featured in Space and Time Magazine, Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, and in the Chiral Mad 5 anthology alongside such greats as Linda Addison, Sharee Renee Thomas, & Josh Malerman.

Motivated by his accomplishments, Hodge has blossomed to take his talents to the next level. Jamal's tone of work, or what he calls, "Inspirational Darkness," can be described as a melding of genres. The Psychological Horror, Thriller, and Inspirational genres are Jamal's usual forte of filmmaking. His mission is to add value to people’s lives through his unique brand of cinema. He’s excited to continue to grow outstanding partnerships to create memorable and impactful cinematic experiences for audiences across the world.

www.writerhodge.com

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Janis Butler Holm served as Associate Editor for Wide Angle, the film journal, and currently works as a writer and editor in sunny Los Angeles. Her prose, poems, art, and performance pieces have appeared in small-press, national, and international magazines. Her plays have been produced in the U.S., Canada, Russia, and the U.K.

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Olaitan Humble is a writer and editor. He has been nominated for the Rhysling Award, Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Award.



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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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Denny E. Marshall has had art, poetry, and fiction published. Some recent credits include cover art for Typehouse Magazine Jan. 2022 and interior art in Dreams & Nightmares Magazine Jan. 2022 as well as poetry in Page & Spine April 2022. Website is www.dennymarshall.com.

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Lyra Meurer is a sentient muscle spasm with a restless hunger for writing. They live in Colorado with their husband, pet rats, and ever-growing stacks of journals and books. They have short fiction published in Heartlines Spec, Tree & Stone, Cosmic Horror Monthly and several anthologies.

Lyra's contemplations on Taco Bell soothsaying, early 2000s television, worldbuilding, and other bizarre phenomena, along with pictures of their doodles, can be found at https://lyrameurer.blogspot.com/.

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David Powell has taught school, directed plays, and portrayed zombies, but now writes full-time, seeking out pockets of chaos in the corners of the grid. You can find his writings in magazines such as Calliope and First Line Literary Journal, and anthologies such as Shattered Veil and Georgia Gothic. You’ll find a complete list, as well as free reads, on his website, davidlpowell.net.

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Desmond Rhae has spent his whole life exploring a deep interest in art, writing, and music. After earning a college degree in graphic design, he’s focused on independent work as a writer and artist. Alongside writing his sci-fi novel, he also works as Editor and Illustrator at Starward Shadows eZine. His pieces have been selected for publications such as Cosmic Horror Monthly. You can find out more at www.theinksphere.com.

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Elby Rogers is a self-taught artist of the macabre hailing from the, by now, famous state of Delaware in the United States.

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A freelance journalist and photographer, Sonali Roy wears several other hats including painter, 3-D art designer, music composer, and singer though the sudden demise of her 8-yr old canine friend Fuchoo baffled her. Devoted to vegan diet, Sonali enjoys brainstorming healthy recipes in the kitchen. She also loves creative writing.

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Carl Scharwath has appeared globally with 175+ journals selecting his writing or art. Carl has published three poetry books and his latest book, Ebb Tide Reflections, features poetry, short stories and photography (World Inkers, NYC.) Carl has four photography books, published by Praxis and CreatiVingenuitiy. His photography was exhibited in the Mount Dora and The Leesburg Centers for the Arts. Carl is currently a co-editor with ILA Magazine, art editor at Glitterati and former editor for Minute Magazine. He was nominated for three The Best of the Net Awards (2021-23,)and a 2023 Pushcart Nomination for work in Ebb Tide Reflections.

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Christina Sng is the three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Collection of Nightmares, A Collection of Dreamscapes, and Tortured Willows. Her poetry, fiction, essays, and art appear in numerous venues worldwide, including Interstellar Flight Magazine, New Myths, Penumbric, Southwest Review, and The Washington Post. She currently serves as Vice President of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association. Visit her at christinasng.com and connect at @christinasng.

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Gordon Sun is a surgeon and clinical informaticist exploring the interstitial spaces within healthcare, science, and technology. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in If There’s Anyone Left, Daily Science Fiction, The Dread Machine, NewMyths.com, After Dinner Conversation, TOWER, The Lorelei Signal, Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, Daikaijuzine, and other publications.

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Nathan G. Thompson is a fresh graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University with a B.F.A. in Creative Writing. He has poems published in HUMID-14 and HUMID-15 and currently lives in Dallas, TX.




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Luke Walker has been writing horror and dark thrillers for most of his life after finding a copy of Lovecraft’s stories that his eldest brother left in the bathroom. From there, he went on to his dad’s collection of Stephen King books and hasn’t looked back since. His novels include The Kindred, Pandemonium, The Dead Room, The Unredeemed, Ascent, Die Laughing, Dead Sun and Winter Graves. Several of his short stories have been published online and in magazines/books. While writing, he has worked in a library, a hospital (disposing of severed legs) and a record shop (back in the distant past). He is currently working on new novels and short fiction. His next book, The Ninth Circle, will be published in 2024.

Luke is (too) active on Twitter/X and Bluesky and loves to hear from people who want to talk about books.

He is forty-six and lives in England with his wife, cats, too many bad films and not enough books.

https://linktr.ee/lukewalkerwriter

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T.D. Walker's latest poetry collection is Doubt & Circuitry (Southern Arizona Press, 2023). She produces programs for shortwave radio featuring poets reading their work. Find out more at https://www.tdwalker.net




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Eric Wampler lives in Madison, Wisconsin. He writes fantasy, dark fantasy, and science fiction (though if he’s honest, it’s probably more science fantasy than science fiction). He has had short fiction accepted for publication in Electric Spec, Etherea Magazine, and Piker Press.




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Kim Whysall-Hammond lives in southern England and is an expert in obsolete telecommunications arcana. Her Grandad told her bedtime stories about the Morlocks with lasting effects. Her poetry has appeared in Andromeda Spaceways, Eternal Haunted Summer, Fantasy Magazine, Kaleidotrope, On Spec, Star*Line, The Future Fire, and Utopia SF. She also has poems in anthologies from Wild Pressed Books, Milk and Cake Press, Palewell Press and Brigids Gate Press. She can be found at https://thecheesesellerswife.wordpress.com/

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Subodhana Wijeyeratne is a writer of speculative fiction living and working in Lafayette, Indiana. He is the author of over twenty short stories, a collection of short stories, and a novel, The Slixes. His next novel, Triangulum - described by Publisher's Weekly as a 'layered and rewarding space opera' -- will be published by Rosarium Publishing in January.

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After completing his degree with the University of Winnipeg, Morgan Wyman has spent his free time writing, revising, and writing again (though he swears he has other hobbies too). He is grateful for a vast network of family and friends.