Jeff is a British/Australian prizewinning author of dark fiction, fantasy and horror. His stories have reached the finals of the Aurealis Awards, the American BookFest Awards and the National Indie Excellence Awards. He has been awarded an ‘Honourable Mention’ in the Robert N. Stephenson competition for short fiction in horror and is the winner of the 2023 Asylumfest Mayday Hills Ghost Story Competition. Jeff’s writing runs from horror, to magic realism, to haunted love stories and is inspired by folktale, mythology, and the notion that the old gods still walk among us. Jeff lives and writes in Sydney.

Clare Rhoden is a writer, blogger and book reviewer from Melbourne Australia. She writes historical fiction, science fiction and fantasy, and is a scholar of WWI literature.

There are many animal characters in her work, who seem to know much more than the humans...

Leanbh Pearson (Any) lives on Ngunnawal Country in Canberra, Australia. An award-winning artist, LGBTQI and disability author of horror and dark fantasy with writing inspired by folklore, fairytales, myth, history and climate. Leanbh’s judged numerous awards and is an invited panelist and avid book reviewer. Leanbh has been awarded ASA, AHWA and HWA mentorships and 2023 HWA Diversity Grant. Leanbh’s alter-ego is an academic in archaeology, evolution and prehistory. A museum devotee, insomniac and photography enthusiast, Leanbh is always aided by the canine assistants | https://link.tree/leanbhpearson

Black Ink Fiction is a female-led, US-based based speculative fiction imprint focused on releasing exciting horror, sci-fi, and fantasy. Check out our upcoming works at www.BlackInkFiction.com.

Nat Whiston is from Birmingham, England. She published her first short story, What's Eating You on Godless Horrors, and did a collaboration story with Ash Ericmore - Your Move. She has the two novels of her three-part Extreme Horror/Dark Fantasy series, called Death Walks with Me and Time is Fleeting currently out. She has published the popular body horror short 'Feel Her Pain' and has a kid's series with Little Cape Publishing called Niko's Nightmare Portal Pet. She also does Nat Whiston Reviews to support other authors in the Indie Horror Community with co-host Creepy Bunny. Her favorite author is Clive Barker.

Tim (Timothy) Law, is a proud librarian from a little town in Southern Australia called Murray Bridge.

He only recently discovered the world of online publishing in late 2019 and hasn’t stopped submitting stories since.

His stories have appeared in Black Ink Fiction, Black Hare Press, The World of Myth Magazine, Inner Circle Writer’s Magazine, Spillwords, Short Story Avenue, Sweetycat Press, Short Story Town, Pure Slush, Academy of the Heart and Mind and narrated in The Poet’s Lounge—a channel on YouTube.

Tim has a host of stories and poems published in anthologies of various genres, his favorite being fantasy. He was awarded June 2021 Spillwords author of the month and was included in “Who's Who of Emerging Writers 2021.” His stories are inspired by everything and anything. For more about Tim you can check out his blog at https://somecallmetimmy.blogspot.com

As a linguist working in data analysis, Aveline has always loved patterns and words. Drawn to narratives emphasising time and place, she creates speculative fiction flavoured by history and geography. Her greatest desire is to time travel –until then, writing and regular travel will suffice!

Aveline has visited more than 70 countries, but during lockdown spent her travel money collecting a splendid library of illustrated books, inspiring her to write more. Her stories have been published in ASF’s Zodiac series "Leo" and "Sagittarius", Black Ink Fiction’s "Fantasy on Four Feet", and PS Publishers’ "From the Waste Land" – a forthcoming centenary tribute to the T.S. Eliot poem.

After many years in the most liveable city of Melbourne, she is now based in the never-tiring city of London, where she lives in an open relationship with her books.

Follow her explorations at www.travellinwithAveline.com.

More than anything, I am a lover of stories. To tell them, to be told, to listen to, to watch, to play, to read, to write, there are so many ways for stories to be conveyed and I have yet to find a medium I don't enjoy. Stories are a huge part of my life, and being a nerd has exposed me to some of the best. Whether it's Asimov, King, Bradbury, Jacques, Tolkien, Crichton, Adams, Abnett, Ross, or any of the other uncountable storytellers I've been so lucky to witness, I am inspired and awed by those who have come before me.

I live in southern Iowa with my wife, our two dogs, and a herd of four cats.