AUTHORS
Aliya Chaudhry
Book: Every Version Ends in Death
Aliya Chaudhry is a fiction writer and journalist. As a journalist, she has covered music and internet culture for publications including Alternative Press, The Daily Beast, Kerrang!, MTV, NME, Slate, Stereogum, The Verge and VICE. She has lived in the United Kingdom, Pakistan, the United States and Kenya and is currently based in London. Her short story, "The Ghost of Creek Hill," an extract of what became Every Version Ends in Death, was previously published in Haunt Publishing's May 2022 anthology When Other People Saw Us, They Saw The Dead. This is her first novel.
Alvar Theo
Book: Benothinged
Alvar Theo lives in Wolverhampton with a cat who does not let them write and a dog who doesn’t let them do anything. They have been writing their entire life, a mixture of screenwriting and prose. Their work has been featured in podcast sketch shows. In 2022, they were one of the winners of The Literary Consultancy’s LGBTQ+ Free Reads Scheme. They have a degree in Psychology and Creative Writing. They have previously worked as a bookseller, library attendant and administrator. At the time of writing, they are horrendously unemployed.
Anna Cheung
Book: Where Decay Sleeps
Anna Cheung is a poet based in Glasgow, Scotland. Her poetry has been published in Dark Eclipse and Dusk and Shiver and by Haunt Publishing and Zarf Poetry. She has a forthcoming publication in Dreich Magazine. Her poem ‘Survival of Solitude’ was included in From Them, To You, an illustrated book by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (published by Speculative Books) gifted to breast cancer patients in the UK to help improve women’s body confidence and mental health. Aside from poetry, she has written reviews for Bearded Magazine and Musicovered.
Joanna Corrance
Book: The Gingerbread Men
Joanna is an author and solicitor living in the Scottish Highlands. She has always been fascinated by Gothic horror and dark speculative fiction, and her debut science fiction novella, John's Eyes, was published by Luna Press Publishing in 2020. As a child, Joanna would tell spooky bedtime stories most nights at her little sister's request and her family have a tradition of telling ghost stories in front of the fire on Christmas Day. She loves to write about the strange and the frightening, telling stories that linger long after reading.
Heather Parry
Book: This Is My Body, Given For You
Heather Parry was born in Rotherham and lives in Glasgow. She has won the Bridge Award for an Emerging Writer, Cove Park's Emerging Writer Residency and the Laxfield Literary Launch Prize. In 2021 she was a Hawthornden Fellow and her first novel, Orpheus Builds a Girl, was released in 2022.
ANTHOLOGY CONTRIBUTORS & EDITORS
Haunted Voices Anthology Contributors
Haunted Voices – a bold and ambitious anthology in both text and audio – showcases some of Scotland’s best oral storytellers, from archived stories of past masters to the work of contemporary performers, and their most disturbing tales of terror.
They Saw the Dead Anthology Contributors
When Other People Saw Us, They Saw the Dead is a BIPOC anthology of Gothic short stories. The book includes 25 eerie stories by contributors hailing from around the globe
Unspeakable Anthology Contributors
Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology contains eighteen Gothic tales with uncanny twists and characters that creep under your skin. Showcases the best contemporary Gothic queer short fiction.
Unthinkable Anthology Contributors
Unthinkable: A Queer Gothic Anthology collects nineteen original Gothic tales primed to unsettle and entertain. Features stories from a fresh batch of authors, showcasing the depth and breadth of queer Gothic literature.