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!

Shelly Jarvis began working on speculative fiction thanks to a writing assignment in Mrs. Bettijane Burger's eleventh grade English class, but her passion for writing developed at seven when she wrote a Halloween tale about a witch and a ghost who became best friends.

An avid science fiction and fantasy reader, Shelly spends a large portion of each day dwelling in other worlds. She gives credit to Madeleine L'Engle for her introduction to the genre, J.R.R Tolkien for expanding her world, George R.R. Martin for killing all the darlings, and Patrick Rothfuss for blowing her mind.

​Shelly enjoys spending time with her wacky spouse, her wonderful nephews, and her rescue pups, Gimli, Butters, Fergus, and Pickles. She currently resides near Charleston, West Virginia, in the wild and wonderful mountains that have her heart.

Learn more at www.shellyjarvis.com or by following on Twitter @shellyjarvis

Gregg Cunningham 50, born Scotland currently serving out his time in the largest penal colony on earth.

So far I have had 20 short stories published over the last 5 years, each tale a greater challenge than the one before.Competition out there is tough so my rejection list seems to be getting even longer! All the more time to practice, and produce something special.

Mostly I try humour/horror/ science fiction- tongue firmly in cheek dead pan humour. My first story was picked up by 559 publishing and printed in 13 Bites volume III - titled "Stacey" which was about a seance that goes horribly wrong and a horny teen who has to deal with the bloody aftermath. A few good giggles in that one.

I've scattered a few breadcrumbs in many anthology books, some tales carrying on from other stories hidden away.

One such story is "War Pig" picked up by Zombie Pirate Publishing in their anthology 'World War Four'. My tale follows the life of an old time travelling pilot as he battles enemies above the mining craters of our Moon, before finding himself lost in time, a reluctant prisoner of war caught while trying to steal the very secret enemy technology that began his adventures.

Some technology just ain't worth the blood spilled to capture.

Or is it?

Another tale follows Sydney, a young girl lost in space and trying to survive against the stacking odds against her as her Oxygen supply leaks away.

'The Lucky One' can be found inside Deep Space Volume 1 Black Hare Press.

-UPDATE- Her latest Adventure out August 2021 finds Sydney teaming up with a very familiar Mechanical Medical mech as they battle a common foe.

look out for 'Jonah' in Black Ink Fiction's Space Opera Anthology.

Scruddin' Awesome that one!

My First Novellete release in 2020- WARDENCLYFFE is a tongue in cheek daring doo adventure following Captain Swarley Paxmore as he battles monstrosities over the Atlantic ocean onboard the infamous Titanic.

Swarley's second adventure Loves great adventurer is Published soon with Breaking Rules Europe releasing their Adventure Awaits Anthology late 2021.

I hope you read a few of my short tales on your own travels, and enjoy the yarns.

Thanks for stopping by.

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“Never ignore coincidence. Unless, of course, you’re busy. In which case, always ignore coincidence.” Matt Smith AKA the Doctor.

Eddie D. Moore travels hundreds of hours a year, and he fills that time by listening to audiobooks. When he isn’t playing with his grandchildren, he writes his own stories. His stories have been published by Kzine, Alien Dimensions, Black Hare Press, Nomadic Delirium Press, Fantasia Divinity Publishing and by dozens of online publishers. You can find a list of his publications on his blog, eddiedmoore.wordpress.com. Be sure to pick up a copy of his mini-anthology Misfits & Oddities.

Talking about myself is much harder than writing a book. You'd think a wordmistress wouldn't have such a problem, but I do. Let me rework a flat scene any day.

Simple background: I'm married, have lots of pets, still work full time, and grew up in Las Vegas.

But there's so much more to a person than that.

Writing is more than just words on paper to me. It's a passion, an incessant need, a deep-seated drive to be a storyteller. I knew I wanted to be an author as far back as high school. Writing may have taken a backseat a few times, but I finally made it.

My stories have bite because I'm a little different, and like slightly different things. No shock horror here, or cheap gimmicks meant to offend, or pandering to the latest trend. My vampires love human blood, my dragons hunt people, and my elves are magical and arrogant.

Romance and darkness will always go together for me. Love really can get you through anything, as I know from personal experience. My characters will always have that glimmer of new love, that bond with a soulmate, and will do anything to be with their one and only.

When I'm not busy having things killed. Being deeply romantic doesn't mean I'm not also a violent or twisted writer. Fight scenes, bloodshed, dark magic, and triumphant villains all have their places in my tales.

I'll never apologize for who I am. Sometimes abrasive and uncouth, full of contradictions and juxtaposition, I am merely who I am.

And what I am is a storyteller wanting to craft new entertainments for you.

Stephen Coghlan is a burgeoning author who hails from the oft-frozen national capital of Canada. When not attempting to create worlds and describe characters, he can be found constructing buildings, entertaining his children, or annoying his long-suffering wife.

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.

I grew up in the Barossa Valley, an area of South Australia predominantly settled by German immigrants. As a dark-haired, tanned little English girl (remember Britain was at one stage occupied by the Romans), I was very different and mercilessly teased.

I remember the struggle to learn to read – painfully stringing three letter words together – there was Sam and Pam and a ball. Sometimes there was a fat cat on a mat or dog with a ball. Reading was a slow process until one birthday, I sat down with my gift, a Famous Five book by Enid Blyton. The mystery story was so exciting, I finished it in one session and I was a fast reader from that moment onwards. I loved Enid Blyton, her Wishing Chair stories, Magic Faraway Tree stories, fairy-land and toy-land stories as well as the mysteries.

A couple of years later, I discovered The Lion, Witch and Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. It was so amazing, I read it seven times in a row! Eventually, I discovered there was a whole series… I survived on this sort of fair until I was sixteen and read The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien. That gave me a taste for mature fantasy. In search of more riveting reading, I discovered Stephen King and James Herbert. Stephen King’s Danse Macabre led me to H.P. Lovecraft, on whom I completed a Master’s project.

My Thesis entitled: THE LITERARY MANIFESTO OF H.P. LOVECRAFT: A WRITER IN SEARCH OF A THEORY (1993-1994) was completed as a reseach project which replaced several subjects in my Master of Arts through the Univeristy of New South Wales. The last chapter was considered to have the most appeal to fans of Lovecraft's work and was extracted and published as “Symbolism of Style in `The Strange High House in the Mist'", Lovecraft Studies 31, edited by S.T. Joshi, pp.11-15. (Published under the name of Cecelia Drewer).

In 1988, I wrote my first full length fictional manuscript, often scribbling on the train as I travelled from Newcastle to Sydney to attend post graduate study at university. In the year 2000, I brought my second full length manuscript into being and 2004 saw my third full length manuscript. All are very different genres and all are waiting for readers! I have always been clever at creating dialogue and in 2010, a Nativity Play I wrote was produced by a local church.

In 2016 I wrote an online course on “Poetry Appreciation and Analysis Skills” on Open Learning. The course can be found at: https://www.openlearning.com/courses/poetry-appreciation-and-analysis-skills

I also write for Weekend Notes (an online magazine) and Hubpages. My Poetry can be found on Poetry Soup at: https://www.poetrysoup.com/poems_poets/best/85098/cecelia_hopkins-drewer

Books by Cecelia Hopkins Drewer include:

Silver Springtime (The Silver Springs University Series #1) by Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer - 2017

Faith and Love (The Silver Springs University Series, #2) by Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer - 2018

All For Love: on the charity dating show by Cecelia Hopkins - 2018

Mystic Evermore (The Nevermore Parables, #1) by Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer - 2018

Saints and Sinners (The Nevermore Parables, #2) by Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer - 2018

Autumn Secrets (The Nevermore Parables, #3) by Cecelia Hopkins-Drewer - 2018

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'

J.W. Garrett is a multi–award winning author and has been writing in one form or another since she was a teenager. Her love of the Fantasy genre goes all the way back to elementary school when she read The Hobbit for the first time - she's been hooked ever since. Her works include novels and poetry as well as short stories.

When she's not hanging out with her characters, her favorite activities are reading, running and spending time with family.

Check out Remeon's Quest, the latest book in her fantasy scifi series, Realms of Chaos.

Visit her website at www.jwgarrett.com to subscribe to her newsletter and find out the latest updates regarding new releases and works in progress.

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C.L. Williams is an independent author from central Virginia. He is a writer of poetry, short stories, recently released his first novel, and is a contributor to multiple anthologies. When C.L. Williams is not writing, he is reading the works of other independent authors

Charlotte O’Farrell is a horror writer. A lifelong fan of the genre, she writes about all manner of the weird and wonderful. Her stories have appeared in anthologies and podcasts.

She writes daily flash fiction on Twitter (@ChaOFarrell) and Facebook (@AuthorCharlotteOFarrell). She lives in the East Midlands of England with her husband, daughter and cat.

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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.

Jo Seysener is a mum of three crazy kids, and a rambunctious (if affectionate) GSD living near Brisbane, Australia. When she's not exposing her kids to cult story books from her childhood she can be found tending a dying range of kitchen herbs. She adores alpacas and is building her own alpaca park. She writes romance as USA Today bestselling author Sofia Aves.

www.joseysener.com

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

Dawn DeBraal lives in rural Wisconsin with her husband Red, two small dogs, and a cat. She has discovered her love of telling a good story can be written. 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. She was one of the Falling Star Magazine's 2019 Pushcart nominees, has 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." in 2016

Sue Marie St. Lee writes tales that challenge your imagination and poems that touch your heart — one way or another. She has featured in several international horror anthologies including Black Hare Press releases. Her poems and prose can be found on Spillwords Press. A short fantasy tale, Unseen Magic, appears on The Paper Djinn. Her most recent work, Rhapsodie de Claire, appears in an anthology inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and is available on Amazon.

Mason H. (Hal) Hilden is a Bluenoser, who currently resides in Saint John, New Brunswick, with his wife Stacy, daughter Hayley, Sy the dog, and Foo the cat.

Over the last 20 years, Hal has written comic-books, including one professional work, Political Power: Stephen Colbert, for Tidalwave Productions. He has also dabbled in mini-biographies, interviews, baseball articles, and animation scripting.

Hal recently began writing fiction, and believes that Black Hare Press may have created a monster by accepting his submissions.

He goes by Hal while writing comics, and Mason H. when penning fiction.

Rhiannon Bird has a passion for words and storytelling. She has her own quotes blog; Thoughts of a Writer. She has had multiple works published online and in anthologies which vary between short stories and poetry. Her favorite genres tend to be fantasy or young adult, but she has a complicated relationship with genres and will often jump around to whatever she feels like at the time.

Brandi Hicks was born and raised in West Virginia, where she still lives as a single mom with her two incredible children. Her works so far have been with Black Hare Press, but has a few stand alone books in the works. She finds motivation and inspiration through her friends and family. She loves everything from dark and twisted to romance and supernatural.

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Jennifer Shelby hunts for stories in the beetled undergrowth of fairy infested forests. She fishes for them in the dark space between the stars.

Jensen Reed is a published author and poet living in Minnesota with her husband of ten years, their two boys, and cats. She’s the lead admin for Writing Bad, an author PA, and beta reader. She dabbles in reading and writing genres but particularly enjoys feeding characters to zombies and making readers cry.

You an also follow her on Amazon, Goodreads, Litsy, TikTok, Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and MeWe at beacons.ai/AuthorJensenReed

Peter got locked in a bookstore as a child and has been reading his way to freedom ever since.

His first tales developed from Dungeons & Dragons campaigns that never got played, and watching Babylon 5 on repeat. After having several dozen short stories published through various publishers, Peter has switched to longer forms of writing.

The science fiction “Consensus” novels depict one family’s struggle in the face of alien invasion, and the “Vol’kris Chronicles” are a series of standalone tales that explore humanity’s misadventures in a world ruled by insects.

Where to find Peter:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/peterjfooteauthor/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/PeterJFoote1

Newsletter: https://www.subscribepage.com/c3j4h4

Website: https://peterjohnfoote.wixsite.com/author

N. M. Brown is a married mother of three who has taken the horror community by storm this year. She has lived in St. Augustine, Florida for her whole life and took creative writing in high school.

Her ability to create, terrify, and drive home stories is insurmountable. Whether you are a parent, spouse, animal lover or anyone even remotely susceptible to fear, this is your girl.

Brown's published works can be found in multiple anthologies for all to read, but be forewarned, if you do... you may want to call your therapist after, her stories are terrifying, disturbing and devilishly unsettling.

She is not only a fright in print, but also has a creepy tentacle in horror podcasting as well. This Sinister Sweetheart writes, voice acts and is the media director of the Scarecrow Tales podcas