Deborah Sheldon is an award-winning author from Melbourne, Australia. She writes short stories, novellas and novels across the darker spectrum of horror, crime and noir.

Her award-nominated titles include the novels Body Farm Z, Contrition and Devil Dragon; the novella Thylacines; and the collections Figments and Fragments: Dark Stories and Liminal Spaces: Horror Stories. Her collection Perfect Little Stitches and Other Stories won the Australian Shadows ‘Best Collected Work’ Award, was shortlisted for an Aurealis Award and longlisted for a Bram Stoker.

Deb’s short fiction has appeared in many well-respected magazines such as Aurealis, Midnight Echo, Andromeda Spaceways, Island, Quadrant, AntipodeanSF and Dimension6. Her fiction has also been shortlisted for numerous Australian Shadows Awards and Aurealis Awards, translated, and included in various ‘best of’ anthologies such as Year's Best Hardcore Horror.

She has won the Australian Shadows 'Best Edited Work' Award twice; for Midnight Echo #14, and for the anthology she conceived and edited Spawn: Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies.

Deb's other credits include TV scripts such as Neighbours, feature articles for Australian, US and UK magazines, non-fiction books (Reed Books, Random House), stage plays, poetry and award-winning medical writing.

Visit her at http://deborahsheldon.wordpress.com

Mark Towse is an English award-winning horror writer living in Australia. He would sell his soul to the devil or anyone buying if it meant he could write full-time. Alas, he left it very late to begin this journey, penning his first story since primary school at the ripe old age of forty-five. Since then, he's been published in over two hundred journals and anthologies, had his work made into full theatrical audio productions, and has penned fifteen novellas, including Nana, Gone to the Dogs, 3:33, and Crows. Chasing The Dragon, his debut novel from Eerie River Publishing, was released in March 2024.

Geraldine Borella writes fiction for children, young adults and adults. She's had over thirty stories and poems published in anthologies, magazines, online and in podcast. She loves working in the speculative fiction realm where the impossible becomes possible, but she also likes to play with contemporary fiction too. She lives in Far North Queensland, Australia, on Ngadjon-Jii land—think rainforests, volcanic crater lakes, the reef—and as a young adult she almost burned down her house. (Yes, reading can be dangerous!)

To find out more, go to: https://geraldineborella.com/about/ https://www.facebook.com/geraldineb4/ or https://mobile.twitter.com/geraldineborel2

Antoinette Rydyr is a writer and artist, who works with Steve Carter to form the creative team known as S.C.A.R. Their strange and eclectic works incorporates anything from sci-fi and horror fantasy to surrealism and weird satire. All of it has a strong element of the bizarre and a healthy dose of experimentalism. They create in a variety of mediums – prose fiction, illustration, comic books, screenplays and even music, which they produce with their experimental band TeknoSadisT. All albums can be heard on Bandcamp. https://teknosadist.bandcamp.com/

They have recently published a series of graphic novels including: the steamy jungle adventure “Savage Bitch”, a collection of fantastic beasts and antediluvian freaks titled “Bestiary of Monstruum”, the out-of-this-world anthology “Weird Worlds – Subversive Science Fiction Stories”, Australia’s most controversial comicbook resurrected in the graphic novel “Phantastique – Tales of Taboo Terror”, and the extremo “Weird Sex Fantasy – Tales of Sex and Death for the Totally Jaded”. Plus many more…

Their original screenplay “Curse of the Swampies”, a horror sci-fi film, won “Best Feature Film Screenplay” at the A Night of Horror International Film Festival 2010.

A collaboration with Ethan Somerville saw the creation of their steampunk western novel, “Weird Wild West” parts one and two published in 2018 by Bizarro Pulp Press.

More grotesque delights can be viewed on their website: www.weirdwildart.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/.