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Morgan Argor is an Active Member of both the SFWA and the HWA. Their stories have appeared in many eerie and enchanting venues, most recently the Worlds Long Lost anthology (Baen Books), Cosmic Horror Monthly and Tales to Terrify. They already have an official author page on Simon and Schuster’s website. If you’re still craving the whispers of war-torn, dead galaxies, check out their website: http://starless-imperium.com/. You can also find them on Twitter at @TheLastGrimKing.

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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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Jay Caselberg is an Australian author and poet whose work has appeared in numerous places such as Interzone, Aurealis, The Third Alternative, Fangoria and various anthologies among others. He has a number of novels including the Jack Stein series first published by Roc Books. His stories, novels and poetry have been shortlisted for awards such as The Australasian Shadows Award, The Aurealis Award and the British Fantasy Award. He currently resides in Germany and can be found at https://www.caselberg.net

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Nebula Award-nominated Beth Cato is the author of A Thousand Recipes for Revenge from 47North (released in June 2023) plus two fantasy series from Harper Voyager. She’s a Hanford, California, native now residing in the Driftless Area, usually with one or two cats in close orbit. Find out more at BethCato.com or on Twitter and Bluesky at @BethCato and Instagram as @catocatsandcheese.

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M.C. Childs is an architect, urban design consultant, and the author of multiple articles, poems, and award-winning urban design books including The Zeon Files, Squares, and Urban Composition. His book Foresight and Design (Routledge) is scheduled to be published in the fall of 2022. He recently served as interim dean of architecture and planning at the University of New Mexico.

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Shikhar Dixit is a writer/illustrator whose two newest stories in print can be found in Weird Horror #1 and Space & Time #139, both magazines available on Amazon. He has sold over thirty stories and one hundred illustrations to such venues as Dark Regions, Strange Horizons, Not One of Us, The Darker Side (anthology edited by John Pelan), Songs From Dead Singers (anthology edited by Michael Kelly) and two Barnes & Noble anthologies. He lives with his family in the deep, dark heart of New Jersey, where he is currently at work on his first novel. To learn more, visit his website at SlipOfThePen.com

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Oladosu Michael Emerald (he/him) is an art editor at Surging Tide magazine, a poet, a writer, a digital/musical/visual artist, a photographer, a footballer, and a political scientist.

His works have been published or forthcoming in many magazines and won numerous awards in writing and art; few to mention: Better Than Starbucks, Flash Frog, Icefloe Press, Undivided magazine, Feral, Afrocritik, Providus bank anthology, Oriire, Necro magazine, spill word web, Paper lantern lit, the maul magazine, Zoetic, penumbric, native skin, Nymph, Naija Reader's Buffet, Terror house magazine, Spring word web, Third Estate Art magazine, thehearth magazine, kalonipa, and elsewhere. Say hi to him on Twitter @garricologist and Instagram @garrycologist

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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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Brian Hugenbruch is a speculative fiction writer and Rhysling­ nominated poet living in Upstate New York with his wife and their daughter. He enjoys fishing (but only in video games); Scotch (but only in real life); and he spends his days trying to teach quantum cryptography to other nerds. His poetry has also appeared in Dreams & Nightmares, Abyss & Apex, Eye to the Telescope, and Apparition Lit. His fiction has appeared most recently in Analog, Translunar Travelers Lounge, and Escape Pod.

You can find him online at https://the-­lettersea.com, on BlueSky @the-lettersea, or on IG / Threads @the_lettersea. No, he’s not sure how to say his last name, either.

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Julie Allyn Johnson is a sawyer's daughter from the American Midwest whose current obsession is tackling the rough and tumble sport of quilting and the accumulation of fabric. A Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee, her poetry can be found in Star*Line, The Briar Cliff Review, Phantom Kangaroo, Lyrical Iowa, Cream Scene Carnival, Coffin Bell, The Lake, Haikuniverse, Chestnut Review and other journals.

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Richard Magahiz tries to live an ordered life in harmony with all things natural and created but one that follows unexpected paths. He wrangles computers as a day job but imagines a time when life might center around other things. His work has appeared at Star*Line, Dreams and Nightmares, Sein und Werden, Chrome Baby, Bewildering Stories, and Eunoia Review. His website is at https://zeroatthebone.us/



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Tabitha Marsh is a UK-based illustrator specialising in ink, watercolour, and digital drawings. She graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Lancaster University in 2018 and has been working freelance ever since, mainly in publishing, but also exhibiting work at galleries in London and Leamington Spa.

In 2019 she was shortlisted for the Stratford Literary Festival/Salariya Children’s Book Prize, and since then she has illustrated several books and had her work published in a wide variety of magazines (details of which can be found on her website at www.tabithamarshillustration.com ). Alongside this, she has been the illustrator in residence at the multi-award-winning independent bookshop Kenilworth Books since 2017. You can find more of her work on instagram (@tab_marsh).


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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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Katie McIvor is a writer from the Scottish Borders. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in magazines such as The Deadlands, Uncharted, and Little Blue Marble, and her three-story collection is out now with Ram Eye Press. You can find her on Twitter at @_McKatie_ or on her website at katiemcivor.com.

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Linda McMullen is a wife, mother, daughter, diplomat, and homesick Wisconsinite. Her short stories and the occasional poem have appeared in over two hundred literary magazines.

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Matteo Moretti was born in Rome on 22 July 1990. His first novel, Una Goccia di Tenebra, was published in 2018 by La Caravella Editrice. "Our Love is Here to Stay" is his first work published in English. He likes movies, novels, comic books, video games and tabletop RPGs. He doesn't like happy endings.



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Mike Morgan was born in London, but not in any of the interesting parts. He moved to Japan at the age of 30 and lived there for many years. Nowadays, he's based in Iowa, and enjoys family life with his wife, two young children, and two even younger kittens. If you like his writing, be sure to follow him on Twitter where he goes by @CultTVMike or check out his website: https://PerpetualStateofMildPanic.wordpress.com.

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Marisca Pichette is a queer author based in Massachusetts, on Pocumtuck and Abenaki land. Her work has appeared in Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, Vastarien, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and others. She is the winner of the 2022 F(r)iction Spring Literary Contest and has been nominated for the Best of the Net, Pushcart, Utopia, and Dwarf Stars awards. Their speculative poetry collection, Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair, is out now from Android Press. Find them on Twitter as @MariscaPichette, Instagram as @marisca_write, and Bluesky as @marisca.bsky.social.

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Mia Ram is a fantasy and horror writer from Huntersville, North Carolina. She has previously had her work featured in The NoSleep Podcast, Metaphorosis Magazine, The Devil Who Loves Me, and other publications.

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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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Michael Rook is not cursed. Sure, he was named after a ghost, doesn’t sleep, and writes to release the thing in his head, but he definitely doesn’t blame his parents. Find his stories in The Last Girls Club newsletter, Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, After Dinner Conversation, and the anthology Dark Corners of the Old Dominion, for which he also served as an editor. More tales are coming soon. In the meantime, check out his Instagram (@michaelrook10) and website www.michaelrookwrites.com, home to his occasionally interesting blog.

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Novyl Saeed can be found on Instagram and Twitter under the username @lyv0n.

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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 also exhibited in the Mount Dora and The Leesburg Centers for the Arts. Carl is currently a co-editor with ILA Magazine and was the art editor for Minute Magazine. He was nominated for two The Best of the Net Awards (2021-22.)

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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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SJ Townend is an author of horror, sci-fi, speculative, and dark fiction. She has published with Brigids Gate Press, Ghost Orchid Press, Gravestone Press, Gravely Unusual Magazine, Dark Matter Magazine, and Timber Ghost Press to name a few. Right now, the Bristol, UK-based writer is compiling her first collection of horror stories under the working title, Sick Girl Screams. EIC: www.bgaofbonespress.com Find her on Twitter: @SJTownend or hiding behind that sentinel oak in the woods.

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Dustin Walker is a former journalist, a current marketer and a perpetual writer of dark, gritty fiction. His short stories have appeared in Shotgun Honey, Rock and A Hard Place, The NoSleep Podcast, Pulp Modern and other publications. He was also the winner of Flash Fiction Magazine's quarterly writing contest in 2021. Dustin lives on Vancouver Island, B.C., with his wife and daughter.

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