Born in the Year of the Dragon, Vonnie Winslow Crist is author of award-winning short stories, poems, and books. An active member of the Horror Writers Association, Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association, Society of Children's Book Writers & illustrators, and National League of American Pen Women - she taught creative writing for the Maryland State Arts Council for 10 years.

"Beneath Raven's Wing" is winner of The International Edgar Allan Poe Festival's Saturday Visiter Award and a Finalist for the Imadjinn Award. "The Enchanted Dagger" is a Compton Crook Award Finalist and Maryland Writers Association Book Award Winner. Both "Owl Light" and "The Greener Forest" are eFestival of Words Short Story Collection Award Winners. "The Greener Forest," "The Enchanted Dagger," and "Owl Light" were voted among the Top Ten books for Young Adults in the P&E Reader's Poll.

As an illustrator, she's had over 1,000 illustrations published in books, magazines, and calendars.

She is an avid JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis fan, and a firm believer in the magical world that surrounds us! A clover-hand who has found so many 4-leafed clovers she keeps them in jars, Vonnie is quite fond of Harry Potter & Hogwarts, The Hunger Games, A Song of Ice & Fire, Star Wars, Star Trek, and everything Faerie!

Stuart Conover is a father, husband, rescue dog lover, blogger, published author, geek, entrepreneur, and horror fanatic. He works IT during the day and tries to battle the urge to sleep with a healthy consumption of caffeine.

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.

Rennie St. James shares several similarities with her fictional characters (heroes and villains alike) including a love of chocolate, horror movies, martial arts, yoga, and travel. She doesn’t have a pet mountain lion but is proudly owned by three rescue kitties. They live in relative harmony in beautiful southwestern Virginia (United States). In 2023, her first series, the Rahki Chronicles, will be re-released as Amazon exclusive available in KU. Rennie's completed Guardian trilogy is also available in KU as part Fred Shernoff's Atlantic Island Universe. Please join Rennie on Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, and Instagram as she loves to interact with fellow bookworms and authors.

The Rahki Chronicles

Azimuth (#1)

Coppe (#2)

Lamassu (#3)

Nadya's World (#3.5)

Mercury (#4)

Yen (#5)

Zanhin (#6)

Atlantic Island: Guardian Trilogy

Jaguar Warrior (Book 1)

Place of Fear (Book 2)

Blood of Trees (Book 3)

Visit https://writerRSJ.com for additional information.

Terry Miller is a Rhysling Award-nominated poet and author living in Portsmouth, Ohio. His work has been featured in Sanitarium Magazine, Devolution Z, Jitter, Rhysling Anthology 2017, Poetry Quarterly, Sirens Call Ezine, The Horror Tree's Trembling With Fear, SpillWords, Organic Ink Vol. I, Curses & Cauldrons Anthology from Blood Song Books, Forest of Fear from Blood Song Books, the Dark Drabble Anthology Series from Black Hare Press, 100 Word Zombie Bites from Reanimated Writers Press, Scary Snippets, Guilty Pleasures & Other Dark Delights, 100 Word Horrors 3, and O Unholy Night In Deathlehem from Grinning Skull Press.

R.A. Goli is an Australian reader, writer, gamer and sometime hiker. She writes horror, fantasy, speculative fiction and erotic horror. Hobbies include bugging her pets and husband.

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Eric Fomley is a short fiction writer from Garrett, Indiana. His fiction has been published in places like Galaxy’s Edge, Daily Science Fiction, Flame Tree Press, and The Black Library. You can follow Eric on his website ericfomley.com or on Twitter @PrinceGrimdark.

Pamela Jeffs is a speculative fiction author living in Queensland, Australia. She has been nominated for several awards including Aurealis Awards, Ditmar Awards and has also been noted for her work in the Writers of the Future Competition. She is also a member of the Queensland Writers’ Centre. For further information, feel free to visit her at www.pamelajeffs.com.

Stephen is an IT Geek, writer, actor and film maker based in Canberra Australia. He has been writing for over twenty years and has completed a couple of dodgy novels, sixteen feature length screenplays and numerous short stories and scripts.

Stephen was very successful in this year’s International Horror Hotel screenplay competition, with his scripts TITAN winning the Sci-Fi category and Dark are the Woods placing second in the horror category.

Last year two of his short stories Death Spores and We came in peace were published in Sproutlings – A compendium of little fictions and his short story Alone was published in the Hells Bells Christmas horror story anthology published by the Australasian Horror Writers Association.

This year Stephen is elated be published in The Body Horror Book and to have his story Andromeda appear in Anemone Enemy both through Oscillate Wildly Press. His stories Eyes of Glass, Pig Man and The Carollers have been chosen by OzHorror.Con for inclusion in their Below the Stairs, Trickster’s Treats and Shades of Santa anthologies.

In 2018, Stephen’s story The Curious Case of the Sleeper will appear in the anthology Sherlock Holmes in the realms of H.G. Wells.

Alanah Andrews grew up with a steaming mudpool in her back yard – so it’s no wonder that she writes speculative fiction! Alanah has won several awards for short stories, including the Avid Reader’s Flash Fiction Prize, Birdcatcher Books Short Story Award and Sweek Short Story Competition.

Her work has been published in anthologies such as Hammond House’s ‘Eternal,’ Lane Cove Literary Awards Anthology and Birdcatcher Books’ ‘Mosaic.’ Her writing has been recognised internationally, including being read aloud at LitFest Pasadena, California, as a finalist for the Roswell Award.

Alanah specialised in creative writing at Monash University where she studied a BA in Professional Communication. She also has a Master of Teaching and loves being able to foster a love of reading in her students. She currently teaches English in Australia.

Alanah has published a book of short stories ‘Beyond,’ and has a YA dystopian novel coming out in August.

Rebecca Fraser is an award-winning Melbourne-based author who writes genre-mashing fiction for children and adults. Her work has won, been shortlisted for, and honourably mentioned for numerous awards and prizes. Rebecca’s publications include over sixty short stories, poems, and articles in Australian and international anthologies, journals, and magazines. Her longer works include a middle grade fantasy adventure 'Curtis Creed and the Lore of the Ocean', and a collection of dark fiction 'Coralesque and Other Tales to Disturb and Distract'. The first in her middle grade trilogy 'Jonty’s Unicorn' (Book 1 of The Irrawene Chronicles) will be released in 2023 (all titles: IFWG Publishing Australia).

Rebecca holds a MA in Creative Writing, and a Certificate of Publishing (Copy Editing & Proofreading). To provide her muse with life’s essentials she copywrites and edits in a freelance capacity and operates StoryCraft Creative Writing Workshops…however her true passion is storytelling.

Say G’day at www.rebeccafraser.com Facebook: @writingandmoonlighting or Twitter/Insta @becksmuse

I was born the year Steven Spielberg made moviegoers everywhere terrified of sharks, namely 1975. I lived the first twenty or so years of my life in Oxford, and am pleased to have spent so much time in the place where some of my favourite writers wrote their greatest works (including JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, and Philip Pullman). Things went gradually downhill from there as I attended University in Southampton and afterwards managed to muddle my way into television where I have worked ever since. I like to think I can write a diverting story, and as a result I have penned a few novels and short stories. I currently live in Plymouth in the UK, and am married with two children. I am presently brainwashing them with the same books that I loved growing up.

To contact Simon Dillon, please email: uncleflynn@gmail.com

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.

Melanie Harding-Shaw is a speculative fiction writer from Wellington, New Zealand. Her short fiction has been widely published, including in Strange Horizons, Analog, Daily Science Fiction, and The Best of British Fantasy.

You can follow her on Twitter: @MelHardingShaw, Instagram @MelHardingShaw and Facebook: @MelanieHardingShawWriter

Her website is: www.MelanieHardingShaw.com

Jefferson Retallack is an Australian writer of speculative fiction. He is based in Adelaide. His work draws influence from linguistic science fiction, the new weird and Australia’s big things. Outside of the literary world, he skateboards on the weekends and spends afternoons on the beach with his partner, their son, and their Pomeranian, Tofu.

On April 02, 1976, the boy that should have been Gregory Dean Manuel was stolen by local trolls and a changeling was left in his place. The changeling, assuming the identity of the stolen child, fostered Chaos in his home and the schools he attended. Eventually, he decided that he needed to reach a wider audience, so he began to write stories. He disciplined himself enough to complete a work and now he waits with steepled fingers and a maniacal laugh at the ready for his plans to reach fruition.

If you have any questions or comments, drop me an email at gdeanmanuel@gmail.com

Kevin has dabbled in many genres over the years. A few of his stories have been contest/award winners, and Kevin’s work has appeared in more than twenty anthologies. You can learn more about Kevin by visiting his website at http://www.kmhopson.com.

SHAWN M. KLIMEK is the award-winning poet and author of more than 240 published poems and short stories in several genres, including the illustrated, poetic fantasy tale, “Hungry Thing”. He travels the globe with his military nurse wife and their Maltese. Follow him on Facebook @shawnmklimekauthor, on Twitter @shawnmklimek, or via his blog, https://blog.jotinthedark.com/.

AR Johnston is just a small-town girl from Nova Scotia, Canada, looking to share her tales with others. She is known to write mostly urban fantasy, though she goes where the muses lead her and you never know where that may be. She is a lover of coffee, good tv shows, horror flicks, and a reader of good books. She pretends to be a writer when real life doesn’t get in the way. Pesky full-time job and adulting!

DM Burdett was born in the UK, roamed as an army brat, and now lives in Australia where she spends her days avoiding drop bears and killer spiders.

She has published a Sci-Fi series, had success with short stories, and is currently working on a YA dystopian series.

She has worked in software development for three decades and has published two children’s series on the subject.

A life of roaming the shores of Australia in her teardrop caravan calls to her but, until then, there always seems to be just one more software project to complete.

Visit her website : www.dmburdett.com

Umair Mirxa lives and writes in Karachi, Pakistan. His first published story, 'Awareness', appeared on Spillwords Press. 'Anonymous' in Zombie Pirate Publishing's anthology, 'Flash Fiction Addiction', is his first story in print.

The publication of these stories is the realization of a lifelong dream he first saw as a kid after reading 'Adventures of a Wishing-Chair' by Enid Blyton. The early dream, a casual hope of one day telling stories to the world himself, became a goal when his mother bought him the two-volume set, 'Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and it had transformed into a burning ambition by the time he'd finished reading 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' by J.R.R. Tolkien.

He remains a massive Tolkien fan, loves everything to do with mythology, fantasy, and history, and wishes with all his heart that dragons were real. When he's not writing, he enjoys reading novels and comic books, playing video games, listening to music, and watching movies, TV shows, and football as an Arsenal FC fan.

A.S. Charly writes speculative fiction from her home 1,100m above the sea. To date, her works have been published in various online literary outlets and appeared in more than 50 print anthologies. When she’s not dreaming up new worlds, she's busy running the European half of Starry Eyed Press.

Find her at: www.starryeyedpress.com or https://www.facebook.com/A.S.Charlydreams/

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'

Sheri Velarde lives in New Mexico with her husband and their two dogs.

Being an avid reader since an early age, she’s wanted to be a writer for as long as she can remember. She has been writing all her life, but only recently started to actually try to pursue her dream of writing for a living. She specializes in all things paranormal and that go bump in the night. Her heart truly lies in exploring unknown worlds or adding the supernatural to our world. If it goes bump in the night or has magical connotations, Sheri writes about it.

Sheri writes in various romance genres, including erotic romance, and is expanding into horror, fantasy and science fiction. She simply refuses to pick one genre!

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.

Jim Bell, writing under the name J.D. Bell, had a nearly thirty-year career crafting creative copy in advertising. After he retired, he began to explore the world of writing fiction. He is currently an award-winning, internationally published, author of flash fiction and short stories. He has works published in the mystery, humor, fiction, horror, and science fiction genres. His works have appeared in anthologies published by Clarendon House Publications, Pure Slush Books, Black Hare Press, Blood Song Books, Raven and Drake Publishing, and numerous online publications.

Facebook: jim.writes.stories

Twitter: @JimBell58

When not penning the next novel, J.E. Feldman focuses on mentoring authors and raising money for charity. The literature world is merely one facet of her life. Feldman haunts car shows, anime conventions, medieval fairs, and whatever else catches her attention. She enjoys road trips ripe with history, crocheting blankets for the homeless, and can be found reading in cramped bookstores.

Author Page: http://www.facebook.com/dragonqueen321

Website: http://www.jefeldman.com/

Digital Autographs: https://www.authorgraph.com/authors/Dragon_Queen321

Short-fiction author, and poet, Nerisha Kemraj, hails from Durban, South Africa. She is the mother of procrastination, and two beautiful girls.

Brandy Bonifas currently resides in Ohio with her husband and son. When she isn't busy reining in her rambuctious preschooler, she spends late nights at her laptop working on her next story. Her speculative fiction spans several genres and her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in anthologies by Clarendon House Publications, Zombie Pirate Publishing, and Pixie Forest Publishing. To find out more visit her at http://brandybonifas.com where you can also subscribe to her blog for updates on her current projects and releases.

Patrick Winters is a graduate of Illinois College in Jacksonville, IL, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Creative Writing. As a student, he was a two-time co-editor in chief of the college's literary and art magazine, Forte, and is a member of the international English honors society, Sigma Tau Delta.

Winters is now a proud member of the Horror Writers Association. His works have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines and have been featured on various web-based offerings, including the Horror Tree, the Sirens Call, Deadman's Tome, Fantasia Divinity Magazine, Sanitarium Magazine, and many more. While appreciating an array of genres, his favorite to both read and write in is Horror, because he's just plain weird like that!

Winters is an avid listener of all things hard-rock and heavy-metal, a compendium of comic-book knowledge, can (and will) do a perplexing array of voice impersonations, and can bend his thumbs further back than any person should have the right/capability of doing. It is all quite odd . . .

A full list of his publications can be found at: http://wintersauthor.azurewebsites.net/Publications/List

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Copper Rose perforates the edges of the page while writing unusual stories from the heart of Wisconsin. She has been known to play well with others. She has a fascination with fences and other barriers. She understands there really is something about pie. About every third day she has a good idea. Chocolate is not safe around her, and she is highly aware that our current news is broken and we may never be able to fix it.

Kathleen Halecki possesses a B.A. and M.A. in history and a doctoral degree in interdisciplinary studies. She currently resides in a seventeenth century home in New England.

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.

Victor Krulle spent the second and third decades of his life travelling the globe and depositing the many sights and sounds that he experienced along the way into the repository that he now draws on when writing tall tales. A West Virginia native, Krulle now lives on the east coast of Australia and spends his days managing an Italian restaurant. He enjoys writing in his spare time (or late in the evening when his wife and daughter are asleep) and is a fan of horror fiction.

Follow him on Twitter at @victorkrulle

Michael Anthony Lee was born in Kingston, Ontario Canada. His fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies throughout the world. He currently lives in the countryside of Ontario.

Austin is a Australian writer of speculative fiction, a lover of language, literature and ’90s TV.

Armed with a psychology degree, he went out into the world to study humanity, and now prefers the company of his wife and their greyhounds.

He grew up in Victoria’s high country, and despite living in Melbourne for the past decade, feels more at home amongst the mountains. You’ll often find mountains in his stories, whether sci-fi, fantasy or alternative history.

Desmond White writes strange and speculative fiction in Parker, Colorado. He is also the editor-in-chief of the flash fiction website Rune Bear and is assistant editor for Rune Bear.

David Rae lives in the West of Scotland. He lives in a world of his own; a world of wonder, a world where hoards of workers spill out of factories, a world were fog and smoke shroud all kinds of creatures, a world where ruined castles, factories and houses were haunted by ghosts, gangs and memories. He lives in world where witches have been burned at the cross and martyrs have been hung on the Gallowgreen. He writes poetry and short stories and reads every trashy novel, every children’s book and every comic that comes his way.

He studied Botany, Architecture, Mathematics, Computers, Geography, and Ecology. He worked in a sweetie factory, as a scaffolder and ditch digger. He worked as draftsman and as an ecologist, as a statistician and as a policy maker. H is married and has four children, lovely children and now lovely grandchildren. And He continues to read and to write and marvel at the world He live in.

He his first novel CROWMAN, a dark fantasy novel is available now, CROWTOWER book two of the series is coming in June

Rich Rurshell is a writer of Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction. From his home in Suffolk, England, Rich likes to ponder the existence of the sinister, the fantastic, and the downright terrifying. He likes to explore the darker side of life and what lies within us, and celebrate the beauty in the world and what lies beyond.

Jeanine Goodrich (Mason) is a newly self-published author, originally from Sault Ste Marie, MI. Her debut novel, Celestial Souls, was published last November and is available on Amazon in paperback, e-book, and is free in Kindle Unlimited, under her pen name J.M. Goodrich. Jeanine currently resides in Gwinn, MI with her husband, two sons, and their cat. In her spare time she enjoys reading, spending time with her family, and continues to write fantasy novels.

Cindar Harrell loves fairy tales, especially ones with a dark twist. Her writing is often fairy tale inspired, but she also loves mystery and horror. Her stories can be found in various anthologies from publishers such as Black Hare Press, Iron Faerie Publishing, and Fantasia Divinity. Traveling is a passion for her as it inspires her imagination to run wild, especially in places that have a mystic presence in the air. She regularly moonlights as another human, but no matter who she is, she is always writing. Her novella inspired by The Snow Queen is set to release in 2020. You can follow her on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/CindarHarrell/ which she promises to try and update more often.

I am a congenital heart defect survivor who finds joy and peace through the expression of writing. I twist fairy tales into thrillers, horrors, or light-hearted mysteries. My husband and I spend our free time wrangling two children and playing video games in our busy California lifestyle.

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