Paul Mannering is an award winning New Zealand writer who has recently relocated to Canberra, Australia, where he now lives under an assumed identity as a functional adult.

Author of:

The Tankbread series (published by Permuted Press)

The Drakeforth Series: Engines of Empathy and Pisces of Fate, Time Of Breath (IFWG Publishing)

Hell's Teeth, EAT, and The Trench (published by Severed Press)

Numerous short stories

Podcast audio dramas (produced at BrokenSea Audio).

Lee Murray is an author, editor, poet, and screenwriter of speculative fiction and horror from Aotearoa-New Zealand. A USA Today Bestselling author and four-time Bram Stoker Award winner, she is her country's only recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award for psychological horror. She lives in the sunny Bay of Plenty with her well-behaved family and a naughty dog.

Marty Young (www.martyyoung.com) is a Bram Stoker-nominated and Australian Shadows Award-winning writer and editor, and sometimes ghost hunter. He was the founding President of the Australian Horror Writers Association from 2005-2010, and one of the creative minds behind the internationally acclaimed Midnight Echo magazine, for which he also served as Executive Editor until mid-2013.

Marty’s first novel, 809 Jacob Street, was published in 2013 by Black Beacon Books, and won the Australian Shadows Award for Best Horror Novel. His novel was also given an Honorable Mention in Shelf Unbound's Page Turner competition.

His short horror fiction has been nominated for both the Australian Shadows and Ditmar awards, reprinted in Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror (‘the best of 2008’), and repeatedly included in year’s best recommended reading lists. Marty’s essays on horror literature have been published in journals and university textbooks in Australia and India, and he was also co-editor of the award winning Macabre; A Journey through Australia’s Darkest Fears, a landmark anthology showcasing the best Australian horror stories from 1836 to the present.

When not writing, he spends his time in the deep dark jungles of Papua New Guinea as a palynologist, whatever the heck that is.

Grant Stone's fiction has appeared in Shimmer, Strange Horizons, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Semaphore, The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror and have twice won New Zealand's Sir Julius Vogel Award. Podcasts of his stories can be found at StarShipSofa, Tales from the Archives and Wily Writers.

His novella "The Last" was published as part of Paper Road Press' Shortcuts series.

Grant lives in Auckland, New Zealand

Matt Cowens is a high school English and Media Studies teacher. He lives in New Zealand on the Kapiti Coast. A writer of speculative fiction, he is a member of SpecFicNZ.

In 2010 he was shortlisted for the prestigious Tessa Duder award, and his 2012 short story collection Mansfield with Monsters was named in the New Zealand Listener's Top 100 books of 2012.

Jane Percival lives with her husband, Ben, at rural South Head, adjacent to the Kaipara Harbour.

The notion of the unpredictability of the natural world is a thread that runs through many of her short stories, and in keeping with many New Zealand writers, her narratives often touch on a person’s feelings of loneliness and isolation, and explore the ways that people interact with their surroundings, which in turn, can shape their thoughts and actions.

Jane’s first introduction to speculative fiction was an Edgar Allan Poe anthology discovered on her parents’ book shelf when she was young, and as a teenager and young adult, she devoured with relish, any fantasy, horror, or science fiction story she could lay her hands on.

Jane has an occasional blog, which can be found at https://heni-irihapeti.com/

Bibliography

Grandma’s House (27/12/2016), Micro Madness, In Flash Frontier December 2016: Micro, http://www.flash-frontier.com/december-2016-micro/

Around the Block (23/04/2016). In Flash Frontier April 2016: Slow, http://www.flash-frontier.com/april-2016-slow/

Moonshine Road (01/11/2015) Crab Fat Magazine http://crabfatmagazine.com/2015/11/moonshine-road/

The Bookshop (31/10/2015). In SpecFicNZ Shorts. New Zealand, Speculative Fiction NZ. (SpecFicNZ Shorts is a free e-book. Links to where it can be downloaded can be found here.)

The Pouākai (30/10/2015). In L. McNeur & L. Nunns (Eds.), Headland Issue 4. The Maisonette Trust. ISSN 2422-9016.

(Headland Issue 4 is available from Amazon. A link to the purchase page can be found here.

The Mysterious Mr Montague (2015). In A. Pillar (Ed.), Bloodlines (pp. 117-133). Australia, Ticonderoga Press.

Blue (22/06/2015), Micro Madness, National Flash Fiction Day NZ, https://nationalflash.wordpress.com/micro-madness/

Red Blood Cell Deficiency (23/04/2015). In Flash Frontier April 2015: Iron, http://flash-frontier.com/2015/04/23/april-2015-iron/

Water Baby (16/11/2014) Fiction on the Web UK, http://www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/2014/11/water-baby-by-jane-percival.html

The Tobacco Tin (01/06/2014), 2nd Prize, WWI Centenary Competition, Speculative Fiction NZ, http://specfic.nz/2014/06/01/world-war-i-centenary-competition-winners/

(also published on Fiction on the Web UK, on 13/01/2015, http://www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/2015/01/the-tobacco-tin-by-jane-percival.html)

Dan Rabarts is the winner of New Zealand’s Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best New Talent, 2013. His horror, dark fantasy, science fiction, and steampunk short stories can be found at Beneath Ceaseless Skies and midnightecho.com, in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Aurealis Magazine, SQ Mag, and in the anthologies Bloodstones, Dreaming of Djinn, Ministry Protocol, Regeneration, and Insert Title Here, among others. The horror flash fiction anthology Baby Teeth - Bite-sized Tales of Terror, which he co-edited with Lee Murray to raise funds for children’s literacy charity Duffy Books in Homes, won the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Collected Work, and the Australian Shadows Award for Best Edited Work. His stories have been podcast on the StarShipSofa, Tales to Terrify, Tales from the Archives and Wily Writers’ podcasts. Find out more at dan.rabarts.com.

Tracie McBride is a New Zealander of Maori and European descent who lives in Melbourne, Australia. Her debut collection Ghosts Can Bleed contains much of the work that earned her a Sir Julius Vogel Award, with a second collection - Drive, She Said - published by IFWG Publishing in 2020. Her stories and the anthologies they have appeared in have won or been shortlisted for several awards including the Stoker, Aurealis, and Australian Shadows Awards. Visitors to her blog are welcome at http://traciemcbridewriter.wordpress.com/.