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Erini Loucaides is an Australian-Cypriot writer and teacher with a BA in English from the University of London. She has been shortlisted for Bridport 2020, Fresher (Bournemouth Prize) 2018, Sydney Morning Herald Young Writer 1988. Longlists include Mslexia 2020, Fish 2019, and top 15% First Pages International Prize 2020. Her work has been featured in the Fresher Anthology, 100 Words of Solitude, Cadences Literary Journal, In Focus, Royal Society of Literature’s Only Connect project, and Mslexia. In 2020, she was one of three Cypriot writers selected by the Commonwealth Foundation for a one-to-one summer mentorship with Jennifer Makumbi.

Erini lives in Cyprus with her husband and two sons. Greek myths, wild storms, and houses in the middle of nowhere greatly inspire her.Read More →

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Serene Conneeley is an Australian writer with a fascination for history, travel, ritual, and the myth and magic of ancient places and cultures. She’s written for magazines about news, travel, health, spirituality, entertainment, and social and environmental issues, been editor of several preschool magazines, and contributed to international books on history, witchcraft, psychic development, and personal transformation.

She’s the author of the original Australian faery tale The Swan Maiden, the Into the Mists and Into the Storm trilogies, and the non-fiction books Faery Magic, Mermaid Magic, Witchy Magic, Seven Sacred Sites, and A Magical Journey, and creator of the meditation CD Sacred Journey.Read More →

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John McGuire is a writer of comic books and novels. Since the release of his debut novel, The Dark That Follows, he has gone on to co-write the Dark Fantasy series Hollow Empire with J. Edward Neill, and the Science Fiction novel The Echo Effect. On the comic book side, he is the creator/writer of the Gilded Age series from Terminus Media as well as the co-writer of The Crossing from 133art with Robert Jeffrey II.

He writes a weekly blog at www.tesseraguild.com where he talks about writing, movies, comics, and anything else that happens to pop into his head. John currently lives in Suwanee, Georgia, with his wife Courtney and two cats: Westley and Inigo.

He maintains that he would have been a marine biologist if not for the movie Jaws.Read More →

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Imelda Almqvist is an international teacher of Sacred Art and Seidr/Old Norse Traditions (the ancestral wisdom teachings of Northern Europe). She has published three books: Natural Born Shamans: A Spiritual Toolkit for Life (Using shamanism creatively with young people of all ages) in 2016, Sacred Art: A Hollow Bone for Spirit (Where Art Meets Shamanism) in 2019, and Medicine of the Imagination – Dwelling in Possibility (An impassioned plea for fearless imagination) in 2020.

She has presented her work on both The Shift Network and Sounds True. She appears in a TV programme titled Ice Age Shaman, made for the Smithsonian Museum, in the series Mystic Britain, talking about Neolithic arctic deer shamanism. Her fourth book, about the pre-Christian spirituality of the Netherlands and Low Countries, will be published in 2022. She has started her fifth book about the runes of the Futhark/Uthark. In response to the 2020 pandemic, she has opened an online school called Pregnant Hag Teachings to make more of her classes available online.Read More →

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A. A. Jeffery is an attorney and educator who splits time between Northern California and Mason County, Washington. Her background includes teaching students at all levels from kindergarten to college. She wrote for several years as a columnist in the Sunday Morning News in her hometown.

An Oakland, California, native, Jeffery began to write illustrated stories while she was a student at U.C. Berkeley and she continued to write after graduating from Vanderbilt University Law School. Jeffery enjoys learning foreign languages, playing piano, and spending time with family, friends, and a Chihuahua-pug.Read More →