Contributors | Seaside Gothic

Ezra Alice is a queer nonbinary autistic writer of fantastical stories and serious articles. They drink a lot of coffee, watch a lot of horror, and are really into film soundtracks.

Charlotte Ansell

Charlotte Ansell’s third collection Deluge was a 2019 PBS winter recommendation. Her work has appeared in magazines, anthologies, and competitions. She was the recipient of a Royal Society of Literature Award 2020. She is a member of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen collective.

Lynda Scott Araya

Lynda Scott Araya is a short fiction writer from New Zealand and the mother of two sons, the oldest of whom has passed away. She writes about the quirkiness of everyday life as well as some more serious topics.

D. Arifah

D. Arifah is a passionate photographer captivated by the silent stories the world tells. She hails from Indonesia and wears her camera like a glove.

Lucy Arnold

Lucy Arnold is a writer and academic living and working between West Yorkshire and Worcestershire. Her writing and research is interested in what it means to be haunted, by ghosts of all kinds, what persists and what is forgotten, and how long it takes for echoes to die away.

Karen Arnold

Karen Arnold is a writer and psychotherapist living in Worcestershire.

Paul atten Ash

Paul atten Ash is the pen name of Bristol-based poet Paul Nash. His work has been published by Boudicca Press, Deep Adaptation Forum, Envoi, Free Verse Revolution, Ginkgo Prize, International Library of Poetry, Luain Press, Oscillations, Raw Edge, Tandem, the6ress, Tiny Seed, and Visual Verse.

J. M. Ávila

J. M. Ávila is an autistic historian currently working toward their PhD. Their realm of scholarship includes imperial history and genocide studies. Frequent visits to their parents’ homeland of Puerto Rico provide an ideal backdrop for creative writing, and Ávila’s short stories appear in several literary journals.

Adnan Bader

Adnan Bader is a Palestinian poet and engineer based in London. He is a regular attender of local poetry open mics and events and has recently been added to JawDance’s comp list. Alongside writing poetry and short stories, Adnan is studying for a doctorate in materials design and engineering.

Megan Baffoe

Megan Baffoe is a freelance writer currently pursuing English Language and Literature at Oxford University. Her work is particularly concerned with family, food, and fairytale.

Juno Baker

Juno Baker is a writer in the not-for-profit sector and once interviewed Dolly Parton. She won the 2023 Global Novel Award and has been shortlisted for the VS Pritchett Award, Exeter Short Story Prize, and Novel London. Her stories have appeared in Mslexia, Litro, and Unthology, among others.

Rachel C. Birchley

Rachel C. Birchley is a Portsmouth-based writer studying for a PhD in creative writing, working on a thesis which blends psychogeography, memoir, and nature writing. Rachel also writes poetry, short fiction and music reviews, which have been published in anthologies and online.

Anniken Blomberg

Anniken Blomberg is a Norwegian born writer and translator living in Edinburgh. Her fiction has been published in various places and she has performed at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Satya Bosman

Satya Bosman is the founder and co-editor of the Black Cat Poetry Press. Her poetry was commended in the Kent & Sussex Poetry Society Folio competition in 2023. She has been featured in several publications, most recently 14 Magazine, Fawn Press, and upcoming in Dreich.

E.J. Bramble

E.J. Bramble enjoys writing weird things. She lives in England and likes being by the sea.

Bethany F. Brengan

Bethany F. Brengan is a freelance writer and editor who splits her time between the US Pacific Northwest and the internet. Her poetry has appeared in Ninth Letter, Channel, The Gordon Square Review, and CV2: The Canadian Journal of Poetry and Critical Writing.

Ed Brickell

Ed Brickell writes poetry that has most recently been shared or will be shared soon in Flint Hills Review, Susurrus, Book of Matches, Hiram Poetry Review, Hedgerow, and others. He lives in Dallas, Texas, but visits Cape Cod often.

Elle Brown

Elle Brown is a writer from Newcastle with a master’s degree in Medieval Literature. Her poetry has been featured in The Projectionist's Playground, The Cannon's Mouth, Foxtrot Uniform, and Runcible Spoon. She also has a series of online nonfiction articles published with Society19.

Nathaniel Burrett

Nathaniel Burrett is a photography graduate from Manchester School of Art. His work tends to span genres, with a focus on LGBT+ documentary photography and uncanny landscapes. A main feature of his works is seeing things from an alternative perspective or in a different light.

Michael L Butkovich

Michael L Butkovich is a graduate AA in English from San Antonio College 2016, BA in English from UTSA (University of Texas at San Antonio) 2018 receiving Honor Roll (twice) and Dean’s List, and was inducted into the Sigma Tau Delta International English Honors Society 2018.

Madeline Byrne

Madeline Byrne is a writer and graphic designer based in Meanjin (Brisbane), Australia. Since 2019 she has worked for an acclaimed university press on marketing campaigns for Miles Franklin Award-winning authors. Her fiction has been published in Aurealis Magazine and 2023 Best Small Fictions.

Fija Callaghan

Fija Callaghan has been featured in podcasts, recognised by international short story competitions, and nominated for Best of the Net. Her stories can be found in venues like Gingerbread House, Mythic Magazine, and Corvid Queen. Originally from the Cascadia region, she now lives in Dublin.

Melita Cameron-Wood

Melita Cameron-Wood is a freelance journalist, editor, and voice-over artist who writes poems and short stories. Particularly interested in nature and everyday human interactions, Melita uses writing as a way of processing thoughts and surroundings.

Sophia Carlisle

Sophia Carlisle is a graduate with work in Diet Milk Magazine and Erato Magazine. She enjoys wistful stories of all kinds and has a particular soft spot for the ghosts we let linger.

Eve Chancellor

Eve Chancellor is an English Teacher in Manchester. She has studied in Liverpool, Melbourne, and Glasgow. Her poetry is featured in multiple collections, including Apricot Press, Dream Catcher, Green Ink Poetry and Hyacinth Review. Her short stories appear in East of the Web and Reflex Press.

Martin Charlton

Martin Charlton is a published author of nonfiction, poetry, and short fiction. He has written for True Crime Magazine, The New Writer, Bygone Kent, Thanet Times, and more recently The Isle of Thanet News and Margate Bookie’s Reset zine. He lives in Ramsgate.

Dannye Chase

Dannye Chase is a queer, married mom of three who lives in the US Pacific Northwest. Her short fiction appears in the anthologies Dark Cheer: Cryptids Emerging from Improbable Press, Queer Weird West Tales from LIBRAtiger Press, and Clamour and Mischief from Clan Destine Press.

Rita Ciresi

Rita Ciresi is author of the novels Bring Back My Body to Me, Pink Slip, Blue Italian, and Remind Me Again Why I Married You; the story collections Sometimes I Dream in Italian and Mother Rocket; and two award-winning collections of flash fiction, Female Education and Second Wife.

JD Clapp

JD Clapp is a writer, fisherman, and photographer based in San Diego, CA. His work has appeared in Free Flash Fiction, Wrong Turn Literary, Scribes MICRO, Café Lit, and Sporting Classics Magazine. His story ‘One Last Drop’ was a finalist in the 2023 Hemingway Shorts Literary Journal Competition.

Kathie-Louise Clarke

Kathie-Louise Clarke is a British-raised writer living in Oakland, California. She has written throughout her life for pleasure and for work. She is inspired to write about the human condition, with a focus on love, loss, and the beauty of the natural world.

Julia Clayton

Julia Clayton lives in the Victorian seaside resort of Southport. After teaching Classics for many years she is now doing a PhD in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University. Her short stories and travel pieces have been published in various outlets, including Fairlight Shorts and The Telegraph.

Elizabeth Cooper

Elizabeth Cooper is an academic researcher by day, and amateur poet by night. British born and bred, in her adult life she has lived in various countries and cities, but always next to water. She is currently based in the Netherlands, where she swims in the canal every morning.

Lyndsey Croal

Lyndsey Croal is an Edinburgh-based author. She’s a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee, British Fantasy Award Finalist, former Hawthornden Fellow, and a LOHF Writers Grant Recipient. Her novelette Have You Decided on Your Question was published in 2023 by Shortwave Publishing.

Oscar Csonka

Oscar Csonka is a Dutch author with a love for the weird, the wonderful, and the unexplained. His stories often carry a hint of something strange. Through writing, he strives to find the beautiful in the bizarre and the special in the mundane.

Rebecca Cuthbert

Rebecca Cuthbert writes dark speculative fiction and poetry. She is the author of In Memory of Exoskeletons (Alien Buddha Press, 2023) and Self-Made Monsters (Alien Buddha Press, 2024). Her poem ‘Still Love’ earned Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations (Nocturne Magazine).

Madalena Daleziou

Madalena Daleziou is a Pushcart and Rhysling-nominated writer from Greece, currently living in Liverpool. She holds an MLitt in Fantasy Literature from the University of Glasgow. Her work has previously appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Deadlands.

Susan Darlington

Susan Darlington regularly explores the female experience through nature-based symbolism and stories of transformation. Her poetry has been published in Northern Gravy, Dreich, Dream Catcher, Anti-Heroin Chic, and Hedgehog Press. Her latest chapbook is Never Wear White (Alien Buddha Press).

Zoe Davies

Zoe Davies lives with her husband and son in a beautiful but run-down coastal town in Kent. She has had articles, poetry and short stories featured in local and international publications. When she isn’t working she can normally be found curled up with a book in one hand and a coffee in the other.

Ade Davies

Ade Davies stands by the principle that every person has their own story to tell. A photograph records just a brief moment in that story, and it’s the meld of these moments that makes us what we are. Primarily a portrait photographer, Ade has been published internationally numerous times.

E. J. Dawson

E. J. Dawson writes scifi, fantasy, and horror, with a dash of the paranormal. Behind the Veil is her first book with Literary Wanderlust, a gothic paranormal with a touch of romance. She also has a fantasy NA with Literary Wanderlust, Echo of the Evercry, and two self-published series.

Viviana De Cecco

Viviana De Cecco is an Italian writer and translator. Her works can be found in Tint Journal Poets’ Choice, yovoice.org, ParABnormal Magazine, Pressfuls Digipress, Grim&Gilded, and The Polyglot Magazine. She writes short stories and photo essay of mysterious places for La Soglia Oscura.

Martins Deep

Martins Deep is a poet of Urhobo descent, a Taurus, a photographer, a digital artist, and currently an undergraduate student of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

Steve Denehan

Steve Denehan lives in Kildare, Ireland with his wife Eimear and daughter Robin. He is the author of two chapbooks and four collections. Winner of the Anthony Cronin Poetry Award and twice winner of Irish Times’ New Irish Writing, his publication credits include Poetry Ireland Review and Westerly.

Rebecca Dietrich

Rebecca Dietrich is a photographer from Atlantic City. She has published photography in Welter, Wild Roof Journal, and Third Street Review. Her photograph ‘Cliffs of Moher’ was awarded Special Merit in Light Space & Time’s 14th annual Seascapes art exhibit.

Timothy Dodd

Timothy Dodd is from Mink Shoals, West Virginia. Forthcoming publications include the short story collection Small Town Mastodons and poetry collections Galaxy Drip and Orbits 52. He is coeditor at Southernmost Books and is a visual artist primarily exhibiting in the Philippines.

Setareh Ebrahimi

Setareh Ebrahimi is an Iranian-British poet. She published her first pamphlet, In My Arms, in 2018 and her full-length collection, Galloping Horses, in 2020. Setareh obtained her Master’s in English and American Literature from The University of Kent.

Luke Edley

Luke Edley is a speculative fiction author, darkly comic story writer and poet who lives with his wife and three children in the seaside town of Margate, Kent. He is fond of writing satirical tales of derring-do, but also interested in sci-fi, horror, black humour, and tales of the supernatural.

Ejiro Elizabeth Edward

Ejiro Elizabeth Edward is a bipoc female artist. She is the winner of Antoa Poetry Contest 2021. She has been published in Hoax, Down River Road, Isele, Poetrycolumn, Consequence Forum, and Native Skin. She is a reader for Chestnut Review.

Chris Edwards

Chris Edwards (1955–2021) had a lifelong passion for wildlife photography. He enjoyed cooking and exploring the outdoors. He spent ten years in the Royal Navy as a weapons engineer and sailed the world. His work has been published in National Geographic, newspapers, and galleries.

Amy Elizabeth

Amy Elizabeth is a photographer who has been published throughout the UK and Europe. She specialises in landscape and observational photography, considering architecture and wildlife to explore the often uneasy equilibrium between humanity and nature.

George Evans

George Evans is a querulous nuisance from Birmingham, Alabama. When he isn’t teaching English (and sometimes when he is) he writes high-falutin tirades. You can find him on Substack at Fourth Castle on the Left.

Muriel Falak

Muriel Falak grew up in New York City and Buenos Aires. She has studied Art History, Comparative Literature, and Dramatic Literature at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Her poetry is often written in Spanish and she translates herself. She is fluent in English, Spanish, and French.

Ashley Fale-Olsen

Ashley Fale-Olsen is a resident of Oregon, a state that boasts a long, beautiful, and somewhat dreary coastline. She also lived in Norwich and took weekend trips to Cromer. She is currently in a teacher’s education program and is working on her writing and photography with her a trusty Pentax K1000.

Kirsty Louise Farley

Kirsty Louise Farley is a writer, poet and editor born and raised in Thanet. Her work can be found on Thanet Writers, in Shoal, and in the Thanet Poetry Journal. She was Poetry Editor for Thanet Writers and the agony aunt for the Broadstairs Beacon.

Barry Fentiman Hall

Barry Fentiman Hall is a writer based on the Medway Delta, who comes originally from other mud. His works include The Unbearable Sheerness Of Being, England, My Dandelion Heart, and Sketches, which are all available from Wordsmithery. He is also the editor of Confluence Magazine.

Emily Fletcher

Emily Fletcher is a writer from the North East of England currently completing a masters degree in English Literature with an interest in the Gothic. Her favourite Gothic novels turned TV shows are The Haunting of Hill House and The Turn of the Screw.

Cheryl Freedman

Cheryl Freedman is inspired by JG Ballard and Ottessa Moshfegh, amongst others. Her story ‘My Other Real Life’ was runner-up in the 2020 Pen to Print competition. She likes unpopular beaches, weird walks, and recording lo-fi music.

Susanna Galbraith

Susanna Galbraith is from Belfast. Her poems have appeared in New England Review, Berlin Lit, Banshee, Propel Magazine, Cyphers, and The Tangerine. Her first pamphlet is forthcoming with Nine Pens Press. She’s a 2023 Poetry Ireland Introductions selectee and an editor of Abridged.

Robbie Gamble

Robbie Gamble (he/him) is the author of A Can of Pinto Beans (Lily Poetry Review Press, 2022). His poems and essays have appeared in The Post Road, Salamander, The Sun, and Tahoma Literary Review. He divides his time between Boston and Vermont.

Jendia Gammon

Jendia Gammon is the author of novels and short stories spanning several genres. She is also a science writer and artist, and writes under the pen name J. Dianne Dotson, including her short story collection The Shadow Galaxy.

Rosie Garland

Rosie Garland writes long and short fiction, poetry and sings with post-punk band The March Violets. Her collection What Girls do the Dark (Nine Arches Press) was shortlisted for the Polari Prize 2021. Her novel The Night Brother was described by The Times as “a delight.”

Marie Gethins

Marie Gethins lives in Cork, Ireland and splashes about in the Atlantic on a regular basis. Her work has been selected for BIFFY50 2020, Best Microfictions 2021, and Best Small Fictions 2023. She is an editor of the Irish flash ezine Splonk and critiques for the Oxford Flash Fiction Prize.

N Godsell

N Godsell writes things down and files them away until they are needed. Some of these texts get published (like poems and short essays) and some remain stowed away (like lists of words, notes on true crimes, and step by step processes), because society needs to reassess its value system.

Amelia Gorman

Amelia Gorman lives in Eureka where she spends her free time exploring forests, tide pools, and fostering dogs. Her chapbook, the Elgin-winning Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota, is available from Interstellar Flight Press. Her microchapbook, The Worm Sonnets, is from The Quarter Press.

Lauren Goulette

Lauren Goulette is from the wider Minneapolis area. Her pieces often reflect nostalgia, ancestry, and experiences growing up in Wisconsin. She is founder of her school’s Women In Literature Club and an alumni winner of the class of 2020, 2021, and 2022 Scholastic Arts And Writing Awards.

Alex Grecian

Alex Grecian is the New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, including The Yard and Red Rabbit, as well as novellas, graphic novel series, and a great many short stories. He lives in the American Midwest with his wife, their son, their dog Princess, and a tarantula named Rosie.

Elizabeth Guilt

Elizabeth Guilt lives in London, in the United Kingdom, where history lurks alongside plate glass office buildings and stories spring out of the street names. Her fiction has appeared in Briefly Zine, Electric Spec, and The Colored Lens.

Nikola Hall

Nikola Hall was born in London and studied piano, guitar, and clarinet at an early age. She now lives by the sea.

Maggie Harris

Maggie Harris has published six collections of poetry, three collections of short stories, a memoir, Kiskadee Girl, and appeared in several journals. Awards include The Welsh Poetry Award, the Guyana Prize for Literature, and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

Anthony Incollingo Harwan

Anthony Incollingo Harwan is from New Jersey and lives in Philadelphia. He’s descended from sea and mountain folk and because of this he makes a mean stew.

Joanne Hayden

Joanne Hayden has short fiction in The Dublin Review, Ambit, Banshee, Crannóg, and Splonk, and has been broadcast on RTÉ radio. As an Emerging Writer in Residence for Dún-Laoghaire Rathdown she facilitated Seawords, a series of workshops that investigated and celebrated the sea.

Karin Hedetniemi

Karin Hedetniemi photographs and writes from Vancouver Island, Canada. Her atmospheric images appear in CutBank, Parentheses, Invisible City, Barren Magazine, on the cover of Pithead Chapel, 3Elements Review, The B’K, and have been nominated for Best of the Net.

Mattea Heller

Mattea Heller is a high school English teacher and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Western Connecticut State University. Her work appears in several literary magazines, the horror podcast Thirteen, and the podcast Creepy.

Jen Herron

Jen Herron is a teacher, writer and journalist from Larne, Northern Ireland. Her work has been featured in The Irish Times, The Belfast Telegraph, The Honest Ulsterman, Bowery Gothic, Hearth and Coffin, and on BBC Radio Ulster. She won the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2022.

Amelia Hodsdon

Amelia Hodsdon is a writer and editor based in Gloucestershire, and has just finished an MA in nature and travel writing at Bath Spa. She likes finding out the why of places, particularly those that seem forgotten.

Joe Hoeffner

Joe Hoeffner is a writer and critic who currently lives in New York. He received his MLitt from the University of Stirling in 2023.

Mark Holihan

Mark Holihan is a writer and artist. He was the winner of the Phalen Award for short fiction and poetry, and shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. His first collection, There are No Foreign Lands, was published by Cultured Llama in 2016.

Terry Holland

Terry Holland grew up in England and lives in Utrecht, the Netherlands. His work has been published by Almond Press, the Bath Flash Fiction Anthology, Stukah!, Full House Literary, Free Flash Fiction, Stereo Stories, Daily Drunk, Voidspace, Ellipsis Zine, and Pure Slush.

Sarah Hymas

Sarah Hymas lives by Morecambe Bay, England. Her writing appears in print, multimedia exhibits, as lyrics, installations, and on stage. She also makes artistbooks and immersive walks.

SM Jenkin

SM Jenkin has work in publications including Anti-Heroin Chic, As Above So Below, Bloody Amazing, Boyne Berries, City Without a Head, Confluence, The Interpreter’s House, The Mermaid and Please Hear What I Am Not Saying. Her debut collection Fire in the Head is available from Wordsmithery.

Megan Jones

Megan Jones is a reader, writer, and linguistics graduate from Yorkshire. Her writing has appeared in Reflex Fiction, Writers’ Forum, Aôthen Magazine, and Boats Against the Current. Her work is concerned with narratives centring the body, identity, and coming-of-age experiences.

Emma Jones

Emma Jones is an essayist and arts writer. Her main focus is photography, and she regularly writes reviews and artist profiles for online, magazine and book publications. In 2023, she was the lead writer for the photography festival Peckham 24.

Gaynor Jones

Gaynor Jones has won a Northern Writers Award and an Arts Council DYCP award for her work, and has been widely published in print and online. She is represented by Laura Williams at Greene & Heaton and is currently working on a folkloric seaside novel.

Dylan Keeling

Dylan Keeling grew up in Holland and America and England. He’s a citizen of nowhere and proud of it. He likes to write and did very well in music at school and university. He had two poems published by Thanet Writers and a short story published in Twisted50, an anthology of horror shorts.

Jemma L King

Jemma L King is the winner of the Terry Hetherington Award and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Wales Book of the Year Prize for her debut publication, The Shape of a Forest (Parthian). Her following book The Undressed (Parthian) sold out on the first day of publication.

Rebecca Klassen

Rebecca Klassen is co-editor of The Phare. She has won the London Independent Story Prize, and was shortlisted for the Oxford Flash, Cranked Anvil, Alpine Fellowship, and the Laurie Lee. Her stories have featured in Mslexia, Burningword, Riggwelter, Borderless, Ellipsis Zine, and on BBC Radio.

Bridget Klein

Bridget Klein is a writer and environmentalist who can never seem to keep her feet still. She has been featured in podcasts and radio specials, and her work has been published in The Environment, In Living Color, and 365 Tomorrows, among others.

Tim Knight

Tim Knight is a Cornish-based photographer whose muse is the more remote beaches of Cornwall and Scotland. He trusts in serendipity to provide him with gifts and experiences of a second childhood in rock pools and sea caves, and he is fascinated by pareidolia.

Tara Knight

Tara Knight is a writer who lives in Northern Ontario, Canada. Tara’s work has been published in Literary Hatchet Magazine, Gleam: Journal of the Cadralor, Star*Line, and Synkroniciti. Her creative non-fiction won 2nd place in the Toasted Cheese Midsummer Writing Contest 2023.

Margaret Koger

Margaret Koger is a retired teacher with a writing habit. She lives near the river in Boise, Idaho, and writes to help add new connections to the wayward web of life. Her poems have appeared in Ponder Savant, Amsterdam Quarterly, Thimble, and Tiny Seed Literary Journal.

Neethu Krishnan

Neethu Krishnan is a writer from Mumbai, India. She holds postgraduate degrees in English and Microbiology. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in The Spectacle and a short story is in the anthology Dark Cheer: Cryptids Emerging from Improbable Press.

Andrea Ferrari Kristeller

Andrea Ferrari Kristeller is an Argentinean teacher, writer, and naturalist (who knows in what order). Many of her poems have been published by several American, Canadian and British magazines, as well as three of her short stories.

Catherine Law

Catherine Law is the author of six historical romantic novels set in the first half of the 20th century, inspired by the tales our mothers and grandmothers tell us and the secrets they keep. Her latest book, The Officer’s Wife, is published by Boldwood. She lives in Margate near the sea.

Janna Layton

Janna Layton used to live near the ocean in San Francisco, but now lives near a mountain in Walnut Creek, California. Her poetry and fiction have been published in various literary journals, including The New Yorker’s Daily Shouts, Apex, Zone 3, The Pinch, and the fourth volume of Made in L.A.

Anthony Levings

Anthony Levings is the founding member of the Kent Sea Swimmers. He writes for the Broadstairs Beacon, has been consecutively shortlisted for three years for the SaveAs Writers International Writing Competition (second-place runner up in 2019), and was a contributing editor to Thanet Writers.

Katie Limnlowe

Katie Limnlowe is a flash fiction writer and occasional poet with a short attention span. Her work has been published by Stripes Mag, Molecule, and Red Penguin. She is currently residing in Margate and enjoys swimming and reading, although not at the same time.

Avra Margariti

Avra Margariti is a queer author, Greek sea monster, and Rhysling-nominated poet with a fondness for the dark and the darling. Avra’s work haunts publications such as Vastarien, Asimov’s, and Glittership. The Saint of Witches, Avra’s debut collection of horror poetry, is available from Weasel Press.

Laura Marsh

Laura Marsh is a Kent based photographer who focuses on the connection between humans and nature, primarily the natural structures and forms that mirror the human body. She works in education, has a Masters degree in Photography, , and is an Associate of The Royal Photographic Society.

Lannah Marshall

Lannah Marshall is a speculative fiction author with works such as an eclectic array of published short stories under her belt including ‘Waterways and Dreamscapes’ which was shortlisted for the The Nature of Cities 2099 competition in 2019.

C. T. Mason

C. T. Mason writes weird fiction and plays. His stories have appeared in Sentinel Literary Quarterly and The Pygmy Giant. He has collaborated with theatre company Genius Sweatshop on the show Lab Rat. He also enjoys wandering the coast of his native Essex.

Saskia McCracken

Saskia McCracken is a Glasgow-based writer. Her pub-lications include Imperative Utopia (-algia press), Cyanotype (Dancing Girl Press), The King of Birds (Hickathrift Press), Common Name (Osmosis Press) and Zero Hours (Broken Sleep Books). She was shortlisted for the Bridport Flash Fiction Prize.

Cassie McDaniel

Cassie McDaniel has published poetry and fiction in Capsule Stories, Human Parts, Split Quarterly, Cider Press Review, and Sylvia, among others. She lived in England and Canada for a decade before moving home to Orlando. She is working on her first poetry collection, Letters to Dead People.

Nuala McEvoy

Nuala McEvoy is from North West England but has lived abroad for many years. During the pandemic she started writing and painting, and since then has had her work published in several online journals and has participated in podcasts. She currently has an art exhibition in Münster, Germany.

Ivan McGuinness

Ivan McGuinness is a poet living in Oxford. He has an MA in Creative Writing from The Open University. He has previously been published in Obsessed With Pipework #98.

Rosemary McLeish

Rosemary McLeish (1945-2020) was a prolific poet and artist who was widely published including in two collections from Wordsmithery: I Am a Field, which consists of poems about place and nature, and Defragmentation, a collection of poems written about dying of breast cancer spread to the spine.

Mari Molen

Mari Molen just finished her MFA degree at BYU. Her literary work has been published in Inscape, Grim & Gilded, Welter, and the Appleseed Podcast. Due to legal reasons, she cannot confirm whether or not she has met a real mermaid.

Ophelia Monet

Ophelia Monet (she/her) is an educator, mother, and storm chaser, living in Kentucky with her husband and their son. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Free Verse Revolution, Maudlin House, Loud Coffee Press, Heimat Review, The Orchards Poetry Journal, The Inflectionist Review, and more.

Cathryn Moore

Cathryn Moore lives on the coast in the middle of nowhere in Devon, England. She fell in love with both the sea and the written word from a very young age. She can often be found writing when she should be working.

Melanie Mulrooney

Melanie Mulrooney lives in Atlantic Canada where she spends her time writing, reading, volunteering, and hanging out with her gaggle of children. Her favourite days are the ones where the fog rolls in so thick you can barely see, and everything smells like the ocean.

Matthew Munson

Matthew Munson is a published fiction writer living in Broadstairs with his son. He also writes a weekly column for The Isle of Thanet News, blogs on parenthood and other causes, and co-hosts a fortnightly podcast on disability and social commentary.

Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos

Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos works as an Editor-in-Chief for a romance publishing house in the day. At night, she writes whimsical horrors, uncanny desires, and fever dreams inspired by Greek folklore and myths. Her short fiction can be found in The Deadlands, Inner Worlds, and Alternative Milk.

Christi Nogle

Christi Nogle’s fiction has appeared in publications such as Pseudopod, Vastarien, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and Three-lobed Burning Eye. Her debut novel, Beulah, is coming in 2022 from Cemetery Gates Media.

June O'Sullivan

June O’Sullivan lives on an island off the coast of southwest Kerry. She is currently working on her first full-length novel and she has also written a number of short stories.

Mateo Omar

Mateo Omar is a writer, photographer, and artist currently based in San Diego county, California. So far his writing and poetry have been published in Mixed Mag, Gypsophila Zine, and Rise Up Review. His written work is often autobiographical and deals with themes of identity and coming of age.

Katie Ondris

Katie Ondris is a writer, SUNY New Paltz student, and barista from New Jersey. Her work has been previously featured in Young Writers USA and ENTROPY magazine. She has a passion for both writing and film and aspires to be a journalist.

Carolyn Oulton

Carolyn Oulton is the project lead for kent-maps.online and author of Down From London: Seaside Reading in the Railway Age (Liverpool University Press). Her latest poetry collection is Accidental Fruit (Worple). She teaches on the Creative and Professional Writing BA at CCCU.

Sonia Overall

Sonia Overall is a writer, psychogeographer, and academic living in East Kent. Her writing includes novels, poetry, non-fiction, and academic articles, many of which touch on psychogeography, spirit of place, and aspects of the weird. Sonia’s novel Eden was published in 2022.

Jimmy Packham

Jimmy Packham is a writer and academic. He writes about the deep sea, whales and whaling, ghosts and ghostly voices—sometimes separately or in various combinations. He co-runs the Haunted Shores research network and, with Laurence Publicover, writes on the human history of the seafloor.

Ryszard Paszkowski

Ryszard Paszkowski is a portrait and landscape photographer who is internationally published in magazines such as MVIBE, Mod Style, and Integrity Magazine. His style varies from set to set but usually sets a tone, whether that be dark and moody or light and romantic.

Alex Dal Piaz

Alex Dal Piaz is a writer from New York City and is currently querying a first novel.

Marisca Pichette

Marisca Pichette has work in Strange Horizons, Fireside Magazine, Room Magazine, Channel Magazine, Ligeia Magazine, SNACK, and Plenitude Magazine, among others. She lives in Western Massachusetts, collecting fragments.

Raegen Pietrucha

Raegen Pietrucha writes, edits, and consults creatively and professionally. Head of a Gorgon is her full-length poetry collection, and her debut chapbook, An Animal I Can’t Name, won the 2015 Two of Cups Press competition. Her photography has been published in Olney and Acropolis Journal.

Seb Reilly

Seb Reilly is an award-winning published writer, fiction author, poet, and occasional musician. He is Editor of Seaside Gothic. From 2015–2020 he was Editor-in-Chief of Thanet Writers and in 2021 he was named Kent Columnist of the Year for his column in The Isle of Thanet News.

Kathryn Reilly

Kathryn Reilly teaches by day and spins speculative tales by night, and her rescue mutts Savvie and Roxyrazzamatazz hear all the stories first. She has poetry in Shadow Atlas, Last Girls Club, and Blink Ink, and fiction published by Tree and Stone, Elly Blue Publishing and Oddity Prodigy Productions.

Christine C. Rivero-Guisinga

Christine C. Rivero-Guisinga works for a humanitarian organisation. A member of the SEA Lit Circle, she maintains an informal gallery of amateur photography and short poetry inspired by the haiku form on Instagram.

JB Rockwell

JB Rockwell once chased dreams of being the next Indiana Jones, until an unforeseen series of twists and turns led her to a career in IT. She authored three novels in the Serengeti series as well as a stand-alone novel, Forgotten Stars & Distant Seas, all published by Severed Press.

Caroline Ross

Caroline Ross is a marketing professional taking her first steps into literary publishing. She lives with her husband and pets in Scotland, daydreaming about the seaside, Norse mythology, and martial arts training.

Alison Ozawa Sanders

Alison Ozawa Sanders has worked as an Assistant District Attorney for almost twenty years. She lives in Santa Cruz with her husband and three children, and when she’s not writing, working, or chasing children she can be found either running through the redwoods or gazing out at the Pacific.

Mesa Schumacher

Mesa Schumacher is a writer, and an award-winning scientific and medical illustrator. Her art has appeared in National Geographic, Scientific American, books, articles and science journals. Her writing is published in Intima, and she is an alum of the Tin House writer’s workshop.

Mervyn Seivwright

Mervyn Seivwright writes to balance social conscious-ness and poetry craft for humane growth. A Spalding MFA graduate from a Jamaican family born in London, his work appears in AGNI and The American Journal of Poetry. Mervyn was a 2021 Pushcart Nominee. He lives in Germany.

Raffaella Sero

Raffaella Sero was born and raised in Southern Italy. Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The Honest Ulsterman and Cunning Folk. Her co-written play, ‘The Other’, opened at the Drayton Arms Theatre in London in March 2022. She lives in Cambridge.

Allen Shadow

Allen Shadow has been a cook, a cabdriver, a correspondent, and a composer. His gritty-yet-lyrical style has been forged by the streets of New York. His work has been cited by Library Journal for its “startling imagery” and has appeared in The New York Times.

Cara Smart

Cara Smart is a priest, mother, wife, musician, and poet. She has long-covid, making trips to the beach places to now sit and enjoy the sound of the roaring waves as her two dogs chase each other through the water.

Julia Ruth Smith

Julia Ruth Smith is a mother and teacher with writing published in a number of places, most recently Versification, Zero Readers, and Sledgehammer Lit. She lives by the sea in the South of Italy.

Deborah Spaulding

Deborah Spaulding has been writing rhyming poetry since childhood. She was published in The Elementary Writer, 1964 and in McCalls Magazine, 1969. Life got in the way and writing was laid aside, but the author is now anxious to resume poetry writing to prove that quality rhyming poetry still exists!

Rosa Stevenson

Rosa Stevenson is from Glasgow, writing predominantly in Scots. She has been published in publications such as Gutter Magazine and Razur Cuts Magazine. She is studying a Masters in creative writing at the University of Glasgow. She seeks to amplify the horror and hilarity in the voices around her.

Lee Stoddart

Lee Stoddart has been shortlisted for the HG Wells Short Story Competition in 2013, 2015, and 2021. His writing has featured in several anthologies, including the national award-winning Green (2020), and has also been published in The Blue Nib and Le Menteur literary magazines.

Zusana Storrier

Zusana Storrier is from Scotland and writes mostly short stories and flash fiction focused on hidden disadvantage and silent rebellion. Her work flits between realism, magical realism, and speculative fiction, and can be found in British and American anthologies and literary journals.

Matthew Stott

Matthew Stott has written for BBC TV & Radio and is now focusing on prose. He is the author of the middle-grade book A Monstrous Place, and runs the Tales from Between micro-press, which publishes fantasy and horror short fiction. He lives in London with his partner and two children.

Sarah Tait

Sarah Tait is a Poet, beach-walker, and Carer from Ramsgate. As well as having been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies, Sarah enjoys performing her work. Sarah also facilitates Writers Unleashed/Poetry Club—a monthly writing group in Ramsgate.

Christopher Tang

Christopher Tang is a Writing MA student at Warwick University, where he also writes for The Tab and was appointed Editor-in-Chief at The Tab Warwick. Specialising in poetry/non-fiction, he intends to pursue art and entertainment journalism in the future, and later publish a poetry collection.

Colette Tennant

Colette Tennant has three books of poetry: Commotion of Wings, Eden and After, and Sweet Gothic, recently published. Her poems have won awards and been published in journals including Prairie Schooner, Rattle, and Southern Poetry Review, Fish Anthology, and Poetry Ireland Review.

Maria Garcia Teutsch

Maria Garcia Teutsch is an American poet and playwright living in Berlin, Germany.

Shelley Thomas

Shelley Thomas is a teacher and writer living in Atlantic Canada. A lifelong beachcomber, she has a deep love and affinity for the ocean, its creatures, and their preservation. Her favourite time to comb is just before sunrise, with the promise of a freshly laid beach, and a tide that begins to recede.

Matt Thompson

Matt Thompson is an experimental musician and writer of strange fictions. His work has been published at Interzone, Black Static, PseudoPod, Best of British SF anthology series, and many more worthy venues.

Melissa Todd

Melissa Todd is a writer and performer with weekly columns in the Thanet Extra and Love It. Her first novel, My Body is My Business, was published in 2021, while a short story collection, The Experiments, appeared in 2023. She lives in Broadstairs with her husband and two cats.

Quen Took

Quen Took is a writer, performer, and Gothic scholar based in Manchester. Their work explores disability, queerness, love, and grief through the Gothic lens. Quen is studying for a Master of Fine Art at Manchester Metropolitan University, and working on their debut novel.

Eleanor Trigg

Eleanor Trigg is a writer and timber frame building designer from Birmingham. Her stories have been published in Lucent Dreaming and the Floodgate Press anthology Night Time Economy. She is working on her first novel.

Beulah Vega

Beulah Vega is a writer, poet, and theatrical artist living and working in California’s Bay Area. Her poetry has been published in The Literary Nest, Sage Cigarettes, Walled Women, and Blood & Bourbon, among others. Fae Corp Publishing published her first book of poetry A Saga for the Unrequited.

Zoe Walker

Zoe Walker worked as a music journalist in Australia then feature writer and editor in the UK before moving into corporate communications. She has an MA in Early Medieval Literature and lives in Thanet with two children, two dogs, two rabbits, two budgies and a widowed gerbil named Peter Parker.

Sand Walker

Sand Walker inherited her father’s writing desk. She writes because she is more herself when she does. It helps her know where she came from, where she’s now, and the beach she might walk along next.

Ruth E. Walker

Ruth E. Walker is a novelist, editor, and poet, whose prize-winning fiction and poetry can be found in Canadian, US, and UK journals and magazines. Ruth lives and writes in a small city east of Toronto, Ontario. Her novels are represented by Ali McDonald of 5 Otter Literary.

Sarah Wallis

Sarah Wallis is based in Scotland. Her publications include Medusa Retold with Fly on the Wall Press, Quietus Makes an Eerie with Dancing Girl Press, Precious Mettle with Alien Buddha Press, and How to Love the Hat Thrower with Selcouth Station Press.

Lesley Warren

Lesley Warren is a translator by day and an author by night. A languages graduate, she has always been fascinated by the power of the written word. Her poetry and prose explore the themes of alienation, otherness, and family secrets.

Kel Warren

Kel Warren is a writer in New England

M. Brooke Wiese

M. Brooke Wiese has work most recently in The Road Not Taken, The Chained Muse, and in Pulsebeat Poetry Journal. Her chapbook, Memento Mori, has recently been accepted by Finishing Line Press, and her sonnets have been taught by poet Billy Collins to his college students.

Emma Willsteed

Emma Willsteed is a writer living in Sussex. She won the Bradt New Travel Writer of the Year 2023 and recently completed an MA in Nature and Travel Writing at Bath Spa University. She likes to explore unseen edges and layers of meaning.

Alex Woodcock

Alex Woodcock is a writer and stonemason from the coast of Sussex. His non-fiction and poetry explore the atmospherics of place, the sea, historic buildings and carved stones. His latest book, King of Dust, is published by Little Toller.

Brenda Yates

Brenda Yates is a Los Angeles resident and the prize-winning author of Bodily Knowledge (Tebot Bach) with poems, reviews, interviews and hybrids published in journals and anthologies in Australia, Canada, China, England, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the US.

Jenna Ziegler

Jenna Ziegler is a poet from Northern California. Inspired by the craggy Pacific coast, her work often explores themes of grief, hope, chronic illness, and the dark underbelly of what it means to be human. When she’s not writing, you can find her playing volleyball or reading with her cat, Newbert.

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