Angela Acosta is a bilingual Latina poet with a Ph.D. in Spanish from The Ohio State University. She is a 2022 Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Writers Finalist, 2022 Somos en Escrito Extra-Fiction Contest Honorable Mention, and Rhysling nominee. Her work has appeared in Eye to the Telescope, Radon Journal, Space & Time, and Shoreline of Infinity. She is author of Summoning Space Travelers (Hiraeth Books, 2022) and Fourth Generation Chicana Unicorn (Dancing Girl Press, 2023).

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When not reading and writing speculative fiction, Len Baglow is an Australian activist campaigning on issues of poverty, refugees, injustice and the arms trade.




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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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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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Nebula Award-nominated Beth Cato is the author of A Thousand Recipes for Revenge from 47North (June 2023) plus two fantasy series from Harper Voyager. She’s a Hanford, California, native now residing in a far distant realm, usually with one or two cats in close orbit. Follow her at BethCato.com and on Twitter at @BethCato.


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Marilee Dahlman grew up in the Midwest and now lives in Washington, DC. Her other stories have appeared in The Bitter Oleander, Cleaver, Metaphorosis, Molotov Cocktail, Mystery Weekly, Orca Literary, Saturday Evening Post and elsewhere. She can be found on Twitter @Marilee_Dahlman.


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Binod Dawadi, the author of The Power of Words, is a master’s degree holder in Major English. He has worked on more than 1000 anthologies published in various renowned magazines. His vision is to change society through knowledge, so he wants to provide enlightenment to the people through his writing skills.

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Melissa Ridley Elmes is a Virginia native currently living in Missouri in an apartment that delightfully approximates a hobbit hole. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Black Fox, Haven, Star*Line, Eye to the Telescope, Spectral Realms, Poetry South, and various other print and web venues. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Science Fiction Poetry Association's Dwarf Star and Rhysling awards for best shorter speculative poem, and her first collection of poems, Arthurian Things, was published by Dark Myth Publications in 2020 and nominated for the 2022 Elgin award.


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Louis Evans was raised by lawyers. It's kind of like being raised by wolves, only with more Latin. His work has appeared in Nature: Futures, Analog SF&F, Interzone and more, and has been longlisted for the BSFA Awards. He's online at evanslouis.com and on twitter @louisevanswrite


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David Far studied economics and philosophy. As a national champion debater, he enjoys discussing hypothetical worlds featuring wizards, robots and moral quandaries. Now he writes about those topics. David lives in New York City. He enjoys listening to his children spin stories from the secret places adults have almost forgotten. You can find out more at davidfarbeyond.com.

I will be donating all payments for “New Friends” to the Autistic Self Advocacy Network. You can find out more and donate here: https://autisticadvocacy.org/

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Maxwell I. Gold is a Jewish American multiple award nominated author who writes prose poetry and short stories in cosmic horror and weird fiction with half a decade of writing experience. Four time Rhysling Award nominee, and two time Pushcart Award nominee, find him at www.thewellsoftheweird.com.


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My name is Andrew Graber and I was born and raised in the United States of America. Besides creating art, I also like to write short stories and poems.






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Mariel Herbert’s poetry and fiction have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, Liminality, and Star*Line, among others. She lives in Northern California with her family and runs a few speculative reading groups. She can be found online at marielherbert.wordpress.com.


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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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Native New Yorker LindaAnn LoSchiavo, a four time nominee for The Pushcart Prize, has also been nominated for Best of the Net, the Rhysling Award, and Dwarf Stars. Elgin Award winner "A Route Obscure and Lonely" (Wapshott, 2019), "Women Who Were Warned” (Cerasus, 2022), Elgin Award, Firecracker Award, Balcones Poetry Prize, Quill and Ink, Paterson Poetry Prize, and IPPY Award nominee "Messengers of the Macabre" [co-written with David Davies] (Audience Askew, 2022), "Apprenticed to the Night" (UniVerse Press, 2023), and "Felones de Se: Poems about Suicide" (Ukiyoto Publishing, 2023) are her latest poetry titles.

She is a member of SFPA, The British Fantasy Society, and The Dramatists Guild.

In 2023, her poetry placed as a finalist in Thirty West Publishing's "Fresh Start Contest" and in the 8th annual Stephen DiBiase contest.

Twitter: @Mae_Westside
LindaAnn Literary: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHm1NZIlTZybLTFA44wwdfg
"Messengers of the Macabre" online: https://messengersofthemacabre.com/

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Megan Denese Mealor echoes and erases in her native land of Jacksonville, Florida. A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a 2023 Best of the Net candidate, her writing has been published in literary journals worldwide, most recently Across the Margin, Brazos River Review, The Wise Owl, and The Disappointed Housewife. Megan has authored three poetry collections: Bipolar Lexicon (Unsolicited Press, 2018); Blatherskite (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, 2019); and A Mourning Dove's Wishbone (Cyberwit, 2022). She also serves as a reader for Suburbia Journal, Autumn House Press, The Upper New Review, Fractured Literary, The Common, Uncharted, Random Sample Review, The Malahat Review, and After Dinner Conversation. A survivor of bipolar disorder, Megan considers it her mission to help remove the stigma from problematic mental health. She lives with her husband of 11 years, their 9-year-old son, who was diagnosed with autism at three, and three mollycoddled rescue cats in a cozy, cavernous townhouse ornamented with vintage ads for Victorian inventions.

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Melissa Miles was born in the US, but was raised and lives in NZ, where, after many life iterations, she writes, in an old cottage overlooking the sea. She is working on her third novel, and will see the publication of her first children’s book Terri the Taniwha, by Downingfield Press. It will be available this Christmas.

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Fiona Moore is a three-time BSFA Award finalist, writer and academic whose work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Asimov, Cossmass Infinities, and four consecutive editions of The Best of British SF. Her most recent non-fiction is the book Management Lessons from Game of Thrones. Her publications include one novel; numerous articles in journals such as Foundation; guidebooks to Blake’s Seven, The Prisoner, Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who; three stage plays and four audio plays. When not writing, she is a Professor of Business Anthropology at Royal Holloway, University of London. She lives in Southwest England with a tortoiseshell cat who is bent on world domination. More details, and free content, can be found at http://www.fiona-moore.com, and she is @drfionamoore on all social media.

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Ryan Owen writes among the glacial erratics and waist-high stone walls of New England. Ryan's prose springs from the whispers of antique typewriters. Resurrecting these art deco relics, Ryan weaves tales where history meets the speculative, and the imaginative waltzes through time's tapestry. Ryan's work has been published in Merrimack Valley Magazine and shared with writing groups across the US Northeast. Follow Ryan at forgottennewengland.com

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Rickey Rivers Jr was born and raised in Alabama. He is a Best of the Net nominated writer and cancer survivor. His work has appeared in Stellium Literary Magazine, the Nightlight Podcast and Cosmic Horror Monthly (among other publications). Twitter.com/storiesyoumight. His vignette collection titled Sensurlon is available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09XDHZXHB.

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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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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.