Lindz McLeod is a queer, working-class, Scottish writer, poet, and editor who dabbles in the surreal. 

She was the Competition Secretary of the Edinburgh Writers' Club from 2019-2023, and was elected as their Club President in 2023. Her work has been taught in schools and universities, made into avant-garde opera, and has been displayed in the Victoria & Albert Museum in Dundee. Lindz is an experienced freelance editor and writing coach for both fiction and non-fiction, as well as an experienced workshop host. 

In addition to fiction and non-fiction, Lindz is currently at work on several screenplays. She is represented by Laura Zats at Headwater Literary Management for her literary work: laura@headwaterliterary.com 

She is represented by Kim Yau at Echo Lake for film/TV: kim@echolakeentertainment.com

In her spare time, Lindz is a keen but mediocre archer, a devoted cinephile, and enjoys performing at live literature events. She is available for readings, submission invites, hosting duties, writing workshops, and events—contact her at lindsey.mcleod@hotmail.co.uk or on Twitter/bluesky @lindzmcleod

S. M. Hallow is a speculative fiction author whose short stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Microfiction. Hallow’s short stories have appeared in Baffling Magazine, Best of Fantasy Vol. 3, CatsCast, Seize the Press, and Taco Bell Quarterly, among others. Books include How to Survive this Fairytale (Hedone Books, 2025) and The Halls of the Dead (Harper Voyager, 2026). Hallow is represented by Laura Zats of Headwater Literary Management. Go to www.smhallow.com for more.

Shelley Lavigne (they/them) is a fine purveyor of moist literature, usually queer erotic horror. Their fiction has appeared in many places including Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Gamut, and others. They’ve also been nominated for a Pushcart. Their corporeal form is located in Ontario, Canada where they wander their neighbourhood in search of bugs and haunted houses. Their mind is elsewhere.

WEBSITE: shelleylavigne.com | INSTAGRAM: @shelley_lavigne

Z. K. Abraham (she/her) is a writer and psychiatrist. She has been published in Clarkesworld, The Rumpus, Fantasy Magazine, FIYAH Magazine, JMWW, and more. She will be a Royal Literary Fund Reading Round lector for 2024-2025. She is represented by Carleen Geisler at ArtHouse Literary Agency.

Ashley Michele is your neighborhood queer little witch. She likes snark, stuffies and dark, fantastical things. She also enjoys writing about mixed latina plus sized babies such as herself getting to live out their best lives with queer and kinky loving.

She has a BA from Florida State University that she still hasn’t opened. When she’s not doing library things or sending hour long voice notes to someone she loves she can usually be found in her hammock between the trees of her swamp or laying out, listening to an audio while she paints and catches some sun.

You can find her all over the internet, here: https://linkr.bio/ashleymichelelx

LOR GISLASON (they/he) is a non-binary writer focusing on body horror who hails from Vancouver Island, Canada.

For more information visit https://lormaggot.ca/

Amy Oliveira (she/her) is a Brazilian immigrant writing love stories in her second language in a small town in Ireland. She wrote her first book at nineteen and was rewarded with a chair at the Academia de Letras de Piracicaba, making her forever part of Brazilian Literature.

Her most recent works include  Keepsake, a grant recipient of Audio in Color and The Final Rose.

Amy is drawn to complicated characters and difficult dynamics. Her words will make you cry, even her smuttiest books.

Gwendolyn N. Nix is a fantasy, science fiction, and horror author. Her works include the new weird west supernatural horror I Have Asked to Be Where No Storms Come, the post-apocalyptic science fiction Sharks of the Wasteland, and the Celestial Scripts trilogy (The Falling Dawn and Seams of Shadow). Her new urban fantasy horror, Bone Knuckles and the Rose Scavenger will release in Spring of 2025. Her short fiction has appeared in StarShip Sofa, and in anthologies such as Symphony No. 1, Where The Veil is Thin, Apex: World of Dinosaurs, and The Sisterhood of the Blade.

A born seeker of adventure, she saw her first beached humpback whale on a windy day in New York, met a ghost in a Paris train station, and had Odin answer her prayers on a mountain in Scotland. As an editor, she is always on the lookout for fresh voices, heart-breaking prose, and incredible new worlds. She lives in Missoula, MT with her partner, young son, and wild Labrador.