Find Your Next Favourite Author
If you’re looking for your next read, check out these authors and their work.
Catch new releases, find your thing.
You will find the most recent interviews below, and as more are scheduled, this page will be updated with an A-Z list on the right.
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Author Spotlights 2025
Author Spotlight Series 2026
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Poetry
- Pixie – poetry collection
SFF
- Abell, Astrid – SFF
- Ames, Alexis – Sci-Fi
- Bells, Nadine – Gothic Fantasy
- Bross, Addy – SFF
- Carter, Stefanie (writing as Wayward Sparx / Fox N. Locke) – Queer Cyberpunk Sci-Fi
- Clark, Chloe – Sci-Fi
- eskay – video game lit
- He, Tasha – Sci-Fi, post-apocalyptic
- Verner, Anna – SFF
- Wrightson, Thomas – Sci-Fi books & Horror audio drama
Horror, Paranormal, & Thrillers
- Alleva, PD – Gothic Horror Thriller series
- Bells, Nadine – Gothic Romantasy
- Kaiser, Nikoline – Gothic Weird
- Maria, Jillian – Ghost Horror
- Mack, S.M. – Paranormal Ecohorror
- Walker, Laura Clarke – Gothic Paranormal Mystery
- Wemakor, Liza – Sapphic Vampires
- Wrightson, Thomas – Sci-Fi books & Horror audio drama
2026
Discover new-to-you authors, and get to know others a little better! Explore a diverse range of creative voices and genres from all over the world, and share their interviews widely so others can find them too!
These author bios are in chronological post date order. Scroll through to see who has been posted already and who is coming next!
Chloe Clark (07 Jan)
Chloe N. Clark (she/her) is the author of Collective Gravities, Escaping the Body, Patterns of Orbit and more. Her next collection, Every Galaxy a Circle, is forthcoming from JackLeg Press. She is a founding co-EIC of Cotton Xenomorph. Find out more at www.chloenclark.com
Thomas Wrightson (14 Jan)
Thomas Wrightson (he/him) has spent much of his life creating narratives and characters. Home schooled, he currently lives on the island Ynys Mon in Wales, surrounded by beautiful scenery and unpredictable weather. Find out more at thomaswrightson.co.uk
eskay (21 Jan)
eskay (no pronouns/eskay) is a queer millennial who has successfully managed to turn a hobby of reading visual novels on YouTube into a hobby writing original fiction. eskay works as a proofreader and editor for video game writing. Check out eskay on Itch.io: 8pr.itch.io
Anna Verner (28 Jan)
Meet indie fantasy & horror author Anna Verner (she/her). She published her first book The Assassins Raven about a female assassin in 2025, and has had one short story and one flash fiction published in magazines in 2026.
Nadine Bells (04 Feb)
Nadine Bells (she/her), is a Gothic fantasy & horror author with a passion for whimsical, romantic and magical stories. Born and raised in the South of Germany, she draws a lot of inspiration from medieval castles, dark forests and classic fairytales. Find out more at nadine-bells.com
PD Alleva (11 Feb)
PD Alleva (he/him) is a native New Yorker, award winning author, psychotherapist and hypnotist writing profound, in-depth horror, scifi, and psychological thriller stories. Find out more at pdalleva.com.
Tasha He (18th Feb)
Tasha He (they/them) is a speculative fiction author, disability advocate, and founder of Disenfranchised Writers’ Voices, a nonprofit supporting low-income and disabled writers. Follow them on Insta @hethe.author
Alexis Ames (25th Feb)
Alexis Ames (she/they) is a speculative fiction writer with short fiction in publications such as Pseudopod, Radon Journal, and Escape Pod. The Chamos Project is her first novel. Check out their linktree for more information: linktr.ee/alexis.ames
Astrid Abell (04 Mar)
Astrid E. Abell (they/she/zhe/fae) is an autistic and ADHD author with a passion for storytelling, drawing, and languages. They have a bachelor’s degree in Asian Studies with a minor in Japanese.
Find out more at: astridabellauthor.com
Jillian Maria (11th Mar)
Jillian (she/her) is a sapphic author who loves stories with big feelings and a lot of heart — even if that heart is a little bloody and bruised. When not writing, you can usually find her doting on her cat. Find out more at: byjillianmaria.com
March is Women In Horror Month: I’ve got a dedicated page for the responses here!
Stefanie Carter / Wayward Sparx (18th Mar)
Stefanie Carter (they/them) is an AuDHD trans femme enby from the UK, who writes queer genre fiction under the pen names Fox N. Locke and Wayward Sparx. They are an on again off again journalist, poet, comms professional, and amateur romancer of mech pilots. Find out more at foxenlock.com
Addy Bross (25Mar)
COMING SOON
Laura Clarke Walker (01st Apr)
Laura Clarke Walker (she/they) is a writer, teacher, and lover of all things Gothic. When she’s not immersed in the world of Coldharbour, she can be found drinking espressos darker than the night, listening to podcasts in other languages, and running around her local lakes. Find out more at lauraclarkewalker.com
S.M. Mack (08th Apr)
S.M. Mack (she/her) is a 2019 MFA recipient in popular fiction from USM Stonecoast, the 2017 first place winner of the Katherine Patterson Prize for Young Adult Writing, and a Clarion 2012 grad. Find out more at whatsmacksaid.com.
Pixie (15th Apr)
COMING SOON
Nikoline Kaiser (22nd Apr)
Nikoline Kaiser (she/her) resides in Denmark, and writes short stories, novels and poetry. She has published several pieces in both English and Danish, and been longlisted for the Lee Smith Novel Prize. Find out more at nikolinekaiser.dk
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