Paul D. Brazill is the author of A Case Of Noir, Guns Of Brixton & Roman Dalton- Werewolf PI. He was born in England and lives in Poland. He is an International Thriller Writers Inc member whose writing has been translated into Italian, Polish and Slovene. He has had writing published in various magazines and anthologies, including The Mammoth Books of Best British Crime 8,10 and 11, alongside the likes of Ian Rankin, Neil Gaiman and Lee Child. He edited the best- selling anthology True Brit Grit – with Luca Veste.

Liverpool lass Tess is now settled in the far north of England where she roams the fells with a brolly, dreaming up new stories and startling the occasional sheep. Tess writes a distinctive brand of British comédie noir and her short stories have darkened the pages of various anthologies and magazines. Her latest book, comedy noir 'Embers of Bridges' is set in Birmingham and features the Live Hard Die Young gang, a series of robberies and a bizarre getaway on a canal boat. Darkly comic crime romp ‛Gravy Train’, published by All Due Respect, and dark psychological noir 'Raise the Blade' are also both available. You can follow her ramblings (both literary and literal) at her blog: http://tessmakovesky.wordpress.com/ .

Redfern Jon Barrett is author to novels including Proud Pink Sky, a speculative story set in the world’s first LGBTQ+ country (Amble Press, 2023) and The Giddy Death of the Gays & the Strange Demise of Straights – which was a finalist for the Bisexual Book Awards. Redfern’s essays and short stories have appeared in publications including The Sun Magazine, Guernica, Strange Horizons, Passages North, PinkNews, Booth, FFO, ParSec, Orca, and Nature. Born in Sheffield in 1984, Redfern grew up in market towns, seaside resorts, and post-industrial cities, before moving to Wales and gaining a PhD in Literature from Swansea University (Prifysgol Abertawe). They are nonbinary queer, and currently live in Berlin with their two boyfriends.

James Bennett is a British Fantasy Award winning author. Raised in Sussex and South Africa, his short fiction has appeared internationally. His acclaimed debut 'Chasing Embers' came out in 2016, the first of the Ben Garston Novels, a series in which mythological creatures fight for dominance in the modern world. Other works include the well-received 'The Book of Queer Saints' and his latest stories can be found in The Dark magazine, BFS Horizons and Occult Detective magazine. A short story collection 'Preaching to the Perverted' should see the light of day in 2024. James lives in the South of Spain where he's working on a new novel. '...Inventive and vivid... This is smart action storytelling...' Publishers Weekly on RAISING FIRE (starred review) The Ben Garston Novels are available in all good bookshops.

Chloë Yates got her first taste of success in May 2012 when her prose piece “Don't Do it, Salvador” won the inaugural Postcard Fiction Contest, published at: http://katewombat.blogspot.ch/2012/05... Then in October 2012 she was one of the winners of Fox Spirit Books’ International Talk Like a Pirate Day Flash Fiction contest with her story “Leave the Pistol Behind” http://www.foxspirit.co.uk/wp-content... and her first published short story can be found in the anthology Weird Noir http://www.amazon.co.uk/Weird-Noir-eb... . You can find her humorous, if somewhat macabre, poetry at http://www.short-humour.org.uk/6write... and her occasionally vitriolic, sometimes sentimental blog at: http://chloe-yates.blogspot.ch/. Chloë currently lives in Switzerland with her bearded paramour, Mr Y, and their disapproving dog, Miss Maudie. They live where they can see the mountains and are, as everyone should be, surrounded by books.

My first novel, RELEASE, was published by Nightscape Press in 2015. I'm also the author of a number of short stories, including "I Love You Mary-Grace", as featured in The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Eleven (ed. Ellen Datlow, 2019). This story was also audio-adapted by Jason Hill, of Chilling Tales' Horror Hill podcast, and can be listened to here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5xBr... Some of my stories can be read online, including: "The Bridegroom" (stand-alone ebook, published by The Book Smugglers, also available for free on their site: http://thebooksmugglers.com/2015/10/t...) "Blue Highway" (Yen Magazine #65; winner of their first short story contest; available to read for free online: http://www.yenmag.net/artery/blue-hig...) "These Blasted Lands" (After The Fall, ed. Alex Davis; available to read for free online: https://boohoobooks.files.wordpress.c...)

Maker of weird artsy things. Writer and purveyor of crazy talk. Bringer of the wrong. A selection of my articles on comics (and film) are collected in The Cultural Gutter. With the help of illustrator and author Evan Munday, I revealed The Secret Diagrams of Mantis Fist. A variety of my short stories have been anthologized. Most recently, my story, "The Astartic Arcanum," appears in Fox Spirit Books' Respectable Horror, edited by K.A. Laity. Evil Overlord and Comics Editor for www.theculturalgutter.com. Editor and contributor for the late lamented Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness and Vanguard Program blogs.

Richard Godwin is the author of critically acclaimed novels Apostle Rising, Mr. Glamour, One Lost Summer, Noir City, Meaningful Conversations, Confessions Of A Hit Man, and Paranoia And The Destiny Programme. He is also a published poet and a produced playwright. His stories have been published in numerous paying magazines and over 34 anthologies, among them The Mammoth Book Of Best British Crime and The Mammoth Book Of Best British Mystery, as well as the anthology of his stories, Piquant: Tales Of The Mustard Man. Richard Godwin was born in London and obtained a BA and MA in English and American Literature from King's College London, where he also lectured. You can find out more about him at his website www.richardgodwin.net, where you can also read his Chin Wags At The Slaughterhouse, his highly popular and unusual interviews with other authors.