A physicist by training and a mother of two girls, I started writing to entertain my older daughter with stories, thus opening the flood gates on a suppressed passion. Today I have written over 36 children's stories, and I blog on various parenting and feminist issues.

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Ell P (Lakshmi Priya) is a writer, artist and Leadership coach from Bangalore, India. She has over the years studied in thirteen different schools and colleges and moved across India and Europe. With an MBA in Marketing and Finance, she makes her money coaching and training people in Leadership skills.

But really, her true passion has always been spinning a damn good yarn. Her writing career began in August, 2014 when she became an integral part of the Write Club Bangalore. An avid reader and writer since childhood, she rediscovered her calling in writing fiction when Litlatte was born, a publishing platform created by Ell P and four other writers.

Apart from publishing anthologies and books, she regularly writes for the monthly edition of Write Club Magazine.

Ell P also attempts her hand at wall art and lifesize murals through www.m-artini.com.

Tina Sequeira wears many hats, including author, marketer, blogger, founder, and mentor. Winner of the Rashtriya Gaurav Award (2019) in association with the Government of Telangana for Bhumi (2019), the Orange Flower Award (2017) by Women’s Web, Literoma Nari Samman Award (2020), and GrandQueens Leadership Award (2020) by Lions Clubs International, Women Lit of the Year Award by I.N.S.P.I.R.E Beyond Motherhood, and more, Tina has published several short stories and poems in international anthologies and literary journals. She is also the founder of ‘Write Away,’ a creative writing workshop. ‘The Tina Edit’ is among the Top 100 Writing Blogs & Websites for Authors in 2020 in the world and Top 100 Indian Lifestyle Blogs by Feedspot. Find her at http://www.thetinaedit.com or on most social media spaces @thetinaedit.

Varadharajan Ramesh read his first book when he was eight, an unabridged version of Oliver Twist, and has been enamored by the art of storytelling from then. His first attempt at writing was an aborted story about an explorer in the 1800’s Africa, which he wrote when he was ten. Varad wrote his first complete short story when he was thirty-five and he hasn’t looked back after that.

He self-published a collection of short stories called ‘Tales with a Twist’ in 2019 and has written a lot of stories for various online platforms. Presently, he is working on his debut novel.

Varad is an entrepreneur and lives with his wife and two boys in Bangalore.

Srivalli Rekha (she/ her) is a BIPOC author from India. An MBA graduate, she, also has an MA in English Literature. A freelance content writer during the day, she devours books at night and loves to review them on her blog and Goodreads. Books and music are her favorite companions.

As a pagan, she believes in the beauty of nature worship and loves to learn the secrets of the universe the Indic way. She is a budding tarot reader fascinated by the intricacies of astrology.

Srivalli is a co-founder and managing partner of The Hive Publishers, an indie publishing collective. Her works have been a part of several Indian and international anthologies (eBooks and paperback publications). Violets in Hand, The House of Justice, and Pebbles in the Grass, her self-published eBooks, are available on Amazon.

Her solo anthology, Forests and Faeries, is a middle-grade fantasy collection of short stories published by ArtoonsInn Room9 Publications.

Her works (short stories and poems) have been a part of several anthologies:

● Sweek Flash Fiction Book 1 & 3, SweekStars 2018 Book,

● Tales From the Cliff, Tales From the Toybox, 72 Hours of Insanity: Anthology of the Games Volume IV, VI, & VII, and Way Words Vol 1, Issue 2, and Tales from the Other Side by Writer’s Workout,

● Hawk’s Nest, Hawk’s Flight, and Rewind by ArtoonsInn Room9 Publications,

● The Way We Were by Poetry Planet Publishing House,

● Arise from the Dust and Airavata anthologies by Let’s Make Stories Dino,

● Indian Summer in Verses by Plethora Blogazine and Writersgram

● Metaphorphosis by GMGA Publishing

● Around the World: Landscapes & Cityscapes: 200 Poems from Poets Around the World by Sweetycat Press

● Route 13: Highway To Hell, Blood Runs Cold, Tea with a Drop of Honey, #Love, and Trail XIII: Path to Perdition by The Hive

● Shared Roots Anthology by Indica

I knew I was meant to be a story-teller when my best bed-time stories as a child were the ones I made up myself. And I could barely read then! I would just let my vivid imagination take over. Not much has changed. Even today, I enjoy creating fascinating characters and plots.

I find myself drawn to the supernatural and paranormal. I am both scared and fascinated. Who knows, maybe that’s where my next book will come from!

Sarveswari Saikrishna is a short story writer, currently working towards her MFA Creative Writing degree from Writer’s Village University. Her stories are published in the literary magazines Third Lane, TMYS Review, Meanpeppervine etc. She was a finalist in the mentorship project offered by Writers Beyond Borders.

She is proud to be a part of several anthologies published by Artoonsinn and Hive and has articles published in The Open Page, The Hindu.

Her stories are available in Artoonsinn website ( https://writers.artoonsinn.com/members/sarveswari-sai-krishna/submissions/ ) .

She lives in Chennai with her family and dreams of a day when she can write without interruptions.

Currently living in the ‘city of Joy' Kolkata, Sreeparna Sen is a Banker by profession and finds her solace in writing. A Computer Engineer by education, she is a voracious reader.

She has authored the book Tales of Wizardencil and co authored few anthologies like Hawk's Nest, Sweek Flash fiction Book Part 2 and 4 and Sharing Lipstick.

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The Hive is a platform dedicated to publishing anthologies of short stories, a category typically underestimated by traditional publishers. We aim to bring out anthologies of short stories, every year, starting from 2020.

Being ardent readers of short stories, we also realized the dearth good anthologies out there. So, for the love of storytelling, we decided to co-create The Hive, a non – traditional publishing collective, focusing at this point only on anthologies.

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C. D. Kester is an author of fiction who does most of his work in the horror genre. He lives in Kingwood, Texas with his wife and two children. Kester recently published his first full length novel, Chasing Demons with Alien Buddha Press. His first self-published work is a novella titled The Bunker. He has also had many stories published in anthologies, ezines, and read in podcasts and YouTube videos. You can follow him on his blog at cdkester.wordpress.com and twitter @cd_kester (https://twitter.com/CD_Kester) / Instagram @cdkester (https://www.instagram.com/cdkester)