Pete Barnstrom is an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker whose projects have played at theaters and film festivals all over the world. He's shot documentaries in Greenland for the National Science Foundation, edited a feature for the Blair Witch guys (not that one), and seen one of his films screened at the Smithsonian. His experimental short films earned a grant from the Artist Foundation, and Amazon Studios bought a family film screenplay from him. He lives quietly in Texas and loudly elsewhere. You can find him on Twitter at @MistahPete and on Instagram at mistah.pete.

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Jay Bechtol likes to write, so he does. Recent short stories have appeared in Uncharted, Crystal Lake, and Rock and a Hard Place. His first novel, The Great American Coward, was released by Golden Storyline Books in October 2021. He can be found on line at www.JayBechtol.com and on Twitter @BechtolJay. He can be found in person in Homer, Alaska.

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Mark Bilsborough is based in England and mainly writes science fiction which invariably involves time travel, dimension hopping or both. His stories are dotted around the internet and he’s working on a novel. www.markbilsborough.com and @MarkBils are places you can find him.

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Nicola Brayan is a young, aspiring artist from Sydney, Australia. She has rediscovered her passion for art during the pandemic. She uses vivid colours and contrast to capture emotions and expression. Her work is a love letter to what it means to be human. More of her work can be found on Instagram at @an.aesthetic.mirror.

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Frank Coffman is a retired professor of college English, Creative Writing, and Journalism. He has published speculative poetry and fiction in a variety of magazines and anthologies. His poetic magnum opus, The Coven's Hornbook & Other Poems (2019) has been followed by his rendition into English Verse of 327 quatrains of Khayyám's Rubáiyát (2019). A second large collection of poetry, Black Flames & Gleaming Shadows, was published in March of 2020. All are available from Bold Venture Press and on Amazon.

A traditional formalist in his poetic work, he is especially interested in exploring and experimenting with the patterns of verse found across the world’s cultures and ethnicities and across time from ancient to modern. His special love of and interest in the sonnet has led to invention of several cross-cultural meldings of various traditions with the 14-line restriction of the sonnet form.

His third poetry collection, Eclipse of the Moon, was published in May 2021. A collection of seven of his occult detective stories, Three Against the Dark, will be published in early 2022, and a collection of weird and supernatural short stories, In Terrorem: Tales of Horror and the Supernatural, is also projected for 2022.

He has published speculative short fiction in Test Patterns, Black Veins I, Hell’s Empire, Eldritch Tales, and elsewhere.

A member of the Horror Writers Association and the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association. He established and moderates the Weird Poets Society Facebook group. See his Writer’s Blog at https://www.frankcoffman-wordsmith.com.

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Marc A. Criley avidly read fantasy and science fiction for over forty years before deciding to try his hand at writing it. He has since been published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Galaxy's Edge, Abyss & Apex, and elsewhere--rest assured it is never too late to start writing. Marc and his wife “manage” a household of cats in the hills of North Alabama, where he tweets about writing, space, Alabama, and other shiny things as @That_MarcC. Marc maintains a personal website and blog at marccriley.com.

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Holly Day (hollylday.blogspot.com) has been an instructor at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis since 2000. Her writing has recently appeared in Hubbub, Grain, and Third Wednesday, and her newest books are The Tooth is the Largest Organ in the Human Body (Anaphora Literary Press), Book of Beasts (Weasel Press), Bound in Ice Music (Shanti Arts), and Music Composition for Dummies (Wiley).




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Author Susan diRende writes primarily fantasy and science fiction. She has won awards for her writing including the Philip K Dick Awards Special Citation for Excellence for her book Unpronounceable. Her stories have appeared in anthologies by Drangonsinger and Sweetycat Press, and periodicals such as Three Crows Magazine, Pine Hills Review, and The Gaze Journal. Her comic fantasy novel, Knife Witch, has been acquired by Aqueduct Press for publication in mid 2023.


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Shikhar Dixit’s stuff has appeared in such venues as Weird Horror, Space & Time, Dark Regions, Journ-E, Strange Horizons and Not One of Us. His fiction has been printed in several anthologies, including The Darker Side, Songs From Dead Singers, and Barnes & Noble’s 365 Scary Stories. He lives with his wife somewhere in the deep, dark heart of New Jersey. To learn more, visit his website at SlipOfThePen.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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Brian D. Hinson abandoned all semblance of a career in 1999, opting for part-time gigs and visiting 40-some countries backpacker style. He recently slowed life even further to settle in rural New Mexico, USA with his wife Kathleen Eickholt and three pitbulls to gaze at sunsets and write science fiction.

Recent credits include: “Shearing” in Summer 2022 Shoreline of Infinity; “Acuity Score: High” in March 2022 Andromeda Spaceways; “Ornamental Refugee” in Spring 2022 ParSec; “The River, The Road, The Moons” in Vol 12, Longshot Island; and “Eternal Rotation” in Winter 2021 The Colored Lens.


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R. Mac Jones is a writer and visual artist. His work has appeared in venues such as Dreams and Nightmares, Star*Line, Strange Horizons, and Daily Science Fiction. He has a website, https://rmacjoneswrote.com/, that is always in need of updating.





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Gerri Leen lives in Northern Virginia and originally hails from Seattle. In addition to being an avid reader, she's passionate about horse racing, tea, and collecting encaustic art and raku pottery. She has work appearing or accepted by The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nature, Strange Horizons, Galaxy's Edge, Dark Matter, Daily Science Fiction, and others. She's edited several anthologies for independent presses, is finishing some longer projects, and is a member of SFWA and HWA. See more at gerrileen.com.

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Michelle M. Mead is a writer from NY's Hudson Valley. She's edited two zines, been published in various print (Polluto, Trespass, Words@Deakin Press, Capsule Stories, Montana Mouthful, Chronogram, Blinking Cursor, Planisphere Q, Thirty First Bird Review, Renascence/Yellow Arrow Pub.), and ezines (Poetic Sun, Fahmidan Journal, Tigershark, Last Leaves, Apparatus, EMG-Zine, Under the Juniper Tree, Gutter Eloquence, etc). Her work/interview, can be seen at @MMMeadWriting on Facebook.com, as well as on Poets and Writers Directory (https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/michelle_m_mead).

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Debasish Mishra, a native of Bhawanipatna, Odisha, India, is the recipient of the Bharat Award for Literature in 2019, the Reuel International Best Upcoming Poet Prize in 2017, and a nominee for the Rhysling Award in 2022. His recent literary poems have appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, Penumbra, California Quarterly, The Headlight Review, Quadrant, and elsewhere. His speculative writing has been published or is forthcoming in Star*Line, Amsterdam Quarterly, Enchanted Conversation, Liquid Imagination, Spaceports & Spidersilk, Space & Time, and parABnormal, among other places. His first book, Lost in Obscurity and Other Stories, was recently published by Book Street Publications, India. A former banker with United Bank of India, he is presently engaged as a Senior Research Fellow at National Institute of Science Education and Research, HBNI, Bhubaneswar, India.

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Jesper Nordqvist, aka ’Ragathol’, is a comic artist and illustrator from Sweden, specialized in fantasy and SF comedy and drama. He’s been making a lot more comics since creating Mondo Mecho, most of which are available at gumroad.com/ragathol.

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Desmond Rhae works as an Editor and Illustrator at Starward Shadows eZine. His work has been featured by Cosmic Horror Monthly, Burning Light Press, and Florida Roots Press. Desmond 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. You can find out more at www.theinksphere.com.



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James Rumpel is a retired mathematics teacher who has enjoyed spending some of his free time trying to turn some of the many odd ideas in his brain into stories. He lives in Wisconsin with his wonderful wife, Mary.



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Ron Sanders is an L.A.-based author, poet, and illustrator.





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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.

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Nora Weston is a Michigan based writer/artist. Her work has appeared in Bete Noire and James Gunn’s Ad Astra.

Currently, work has been published by Star*Line, Green Ink Poetry, Crow Toes Quarterly, and Strange Horizons.

Work has been accepted by Timber Ghost Press.