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We are grateful to the many contributors who have shared their stories, poems and visual arts with our readers. If our planet is attacked by evil aliens intent on enslaving or eating us, we ask that these names be placed on the Protected Scrolls. Thank you for contributing and please come back for more!

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Notable Contributors

January 2023

Andy Graber

Fiction Contributor

Andy Graber was born and raised in the northeast part of The United States.

Currently, living in the Western part. Besides writing stories and creating various types of art, He finds magicians and illusionists to be very fascinating. He is also a big fan of most sports. And enjoys playing chess, and solving riddles. He has been known to sing. Rumor has it he was actually born and raised in another galaxy in our never ending mysterious universe. Recently, he packed all of his belongings, and moved

Ben Coppin

Fiction Contributor

Ben Coppin has written a number of short stories published and is working on the third draft of his first novel. In 2007 he published and edited an online science fiction magazine, Darker Matter, which ran for five issues.

Steven French

Fiction Contributor

Steven French is a semi-retired academic, living in Leeds UK. 

He’s been a fan of science-fiction for over fifty years but has only recently started writing stories himself. 

Assorted examples of his speculative fiction have appeared at eastoftheweb, Bewildering Stories, Land Beyond the World, Liquid Imagination, 365Tomorrows, Literally Stories and Idle Ink. 

You can follow him on Twitter @StevenFrench4

Alex Foster

Fiction Contributor

Alex Foster was born and bred in Melbourne, Australia. 

He has experienced everything from living overseas, to being nearly blown-up in a car. Alex has been known for hosting parties and where cops have been called in… uninvited. 

Alex currently is a first year student at Deakin University where he studies both journalism and history, and hopes to go volunteer in South America soon-ish as a newspaper intern.

Greg Bear

Fiction Contributor

Greg Bear was the author of The Unfinished Land (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021), Killing Titan (Orbit 2015), Hull Zero Three (Orbit 2010), City at the End of Time (Del Rey 2009), Mariposa (Perseus paperback November 2010), Halo: Cryptum, Halo: Primordium, and Halo: Silentium (Tor, 2011, 2012, and 2013). He was the father of two young writers, Erik and Alexandra, and is married to Astrid Anderson Bear, who has written for San Diego Noir. Sadly, he passed away in November 2022. 


October 2022

John Grey

Poetry Contributor

John Grey is Australian born, US resident, poet. Has been published in numerous magazines including Weird Tales, Space and Time, Speculative Poetry, Christian Science Monitor, Greensboro Poetry Review, Green Mountains Review, Prism International, Poetry East, Agni, Poet Lore and Journal Of The American Medical Association. 

Winner of Rhysling Award for short genre poetry in 1999. 

J. W. Benford

Fiction Contributor

J. W. Benford's last publication was for the literary magazine Occam's Razor. He won 2nd in the Helen Jackie DeClercq competition that same year. He lives, works, and writes in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia where camel meat is a delicacy and the princes are handsome.

Eddie D. Moore

Fiction Contributor

When Eddie D. Moore isn’t playing with his grandchildren, he is driving and visiting strange new worlds via audiobooks, or he is lost in his imagination writing his own tales. Pick up a copy of Misfits & Oddities today! You’ll be glad you did. 

John Rodzvilla

Fiction Contributor

John Rodzvilla teaches in the Publishing and Writing programs at Emerson College in Boston. 

His work has appeared in Harvard Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, gorse, DecomP, Verbatim and Bad Robot Poetry.

D.M. Woolston

Fiction Contributor

D.M. Woolston enjoys writing the wrongs he finds while trekking across the only planet he knows as home. He is also the indentured webmaster for his local writer's group, so that keeps his hands from becoming too idle. You can find his small slice of the Universe at 


July 2022

Cass Richards

Poetry Contributor

 Born and raised in the South of France, Cass Richards has been living and teaching in Toronto, Canada, for the last 17 years. 

Even though they have dozens of unfinished stories in French, it was during a creative writing course that they realized that writing in English was much more enjoyable. 


Using different pen names is also a way for them to discover more about their identity beyond the limitations of their “imposed” and established self (work, family, friends). 


Avram Lavinsky

Fiction Contributor

 Based on Boston’s South Shore in the USA, Avram Lavinsky writes character-driven novels, short stories, and creative nonfiction. 

He has placed in the Writers of the Future contest and was a recent semifinalist in Ruminate Magazine’s VanderMey Prize competition. 


His work has appeared in or has been accepted to appear in Boston Literary Magazine, the San Antonio Review, and Mystery Tribune. 

Tim Minneci

Fiction Contributor

Tim Minneci is a Columbus, Ohio-based writer, musician, and personal assistant. 

He co-hosts the weekly 1990s alternative music-centric podcast ‘Dig Me Out’ and spends as much time in the garden as possible.

Michael Fowler

Fiction Contributor

 Michael Fowler has contributed stories and humor to countless zines and webzines that now are mostly defunct, among them Kittenpants and Raging Face. 

He has short science fiction stories upcoming in Schlock! and Piker Press. 

K. A. Williams

Fiction Contributor

K. A. Williams has published over 110 speculative, mystery/crime, and general fiction stories in many magazines including Theme Of Absence, 365 Tomorrows, Aphelion, Mystery Tribune, Yellow Mama, Trembling With Fear, Corner Bar, Altered Reality, and The Rockford Review winning one of their Editor's Choice Awards for prose in 2009. 

In 2010, the North Carolinian began submitting poetry which was published in various magazines such as Nuthouse, The Creativity Webzine, Tigershark, and others.

Anthony Redden

Fiction Contributor

Anthony D Redden is a science fiction and horror writer from England. He has been writing for over twenty-five years building up a list of publishing credits including Ether Books, Kyanite Publishing, Schlock webzine, Crystal Lake Publishing and Terror Tree Publishing to name but a few. 

He works nights as a therapy assistant and carer, and in his spare time managed to graduate from the University of Teesside in 2018 with a Masters Degree in Creative Writing. 

Jamal Hodge

Poetry Contributor

Jamal Hodge is a multi-award-winning filmmaker and writer who is a sitting Board Member of Harlem Film House and Axs Lab. Since May of 2016, Jamal Hodge's films have been an official selection in over 100 Film Festivals, and have won over 50 awards including The Vanguard Award (Best of The Fest) at the Hip Hop Film Festival (2020), Best Director at The Chelsea Film Festival (2020) and Best Director at GenreBlast (2020), screening at Tribecca Film Festal, Sundance, and others.


April 2022

Devin Vandriel

Fiction Contributor

Devin Vandriel has been or will soon be published in Academy of the Heart and Mind; Down in the Dirt; Children, Churches, and Daddies; an Essential Anthology; and, The As You Were: The Military Review Literary Journal. 


She recently graduated with degrees in English and Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. 


Although dyslexic, she was encouraged to write by her 8th-grade history teacher. 


Check out her website at DevinVandriel.com

Thomas Koperwas

Fiction Contributor

Thomas Koperwas began his professional teaching career in the high arctic working several years in Canada's Northwest Territories. 


He is at present a retiree living in Windsor, Ontario with his wife (his # 1 editor) and enjoys writing short stories of horror, crime, fantasy, and science fiction. 


His work has appeared, or is forthcoming in: Anotherealm; Jakob’s Horror Box; Literally Stories; The Literary Hatchet; Literary Veganism; Bombfire; Pulp Modern Flash; Savage Planets; Blood Moon Rising Ma

Emma Louise Gill

Fiction Contributor

Emma Louise Gill is a British-Australian speculative fiction writer and coffee addict.


  She has two cats and two kids, all of whom strive to sit on her keyboard way too often, so she is usually found writing in random cafes instead.


Emma's short fiction has been published in AntipodeanSF and Flash Fiction Magazine, and is forthcoming in Curiouser Magazine and others.


She blogs at emmalouisegill.com and procrastinates on Twitter @emmagillwriter.

Mike Waller

Fiction Contributor

Mike Waller is a multi-award winning author and independent publisher who has written in some form or other for many years in relation to other occupations, but has only recently turned to writing fiction. 


During his life, he has been many things, ranging from public servant to computer programmer to boat designer, and has now decided to do that for which he has a great passion. His books FALCON'S CALL and HAWK: HELLFIRE are B.R.A.G. Medallion Honorees in the genre of Science Fiction 2019 and 20

Paul Ballard

Fiction Contributor

Paul Ballard is an author and security professional who writes fiction and non-fiction. 


He was born in New England and holds formal degrees in the fields of History, Security, and Law. 


Ballard’s favorite genre is Speculative and Science fiction but enjoys and practices writing in any genre.


He can be contacted at: pkb954@outlook.com

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