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Caitlin Bowden

Caitlin Bowden

Having grown up in the North of Ireland, and earned her MA in Creative Writing, Caitlin Bowden is passionate about telling queer stories, and about leaning into aspects of queer characters less palatable...

Richard Sgaglio

Richard Sgaglio

Richard Sgaglio, author of When the Road Narrows is a native New Yorker, born in the Bronx and raised on the outskirts of New York City. He is a marketing expert with over 25 years of experience in the...

Bob Sennett

Bob Sennett

Bob Sennett is the author of ‘The Music Teacher’ (nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Best Debut Fiction) as well as several books about Hollywood and photography. He loves doing research and spinning...

Ashley Nova

Ashley Nova

Ashley Nova is a sci-fi and fantasy author and professional astronomer. When she isn’t studying the intricacies of galaxy evolution and artificial intelligence, she’s plotting out and writing character...

Wes Diggory

Wes Diggory

Wesley Diggory is a trustee of Chester Pride, Digital Content Coordinator and Host of Chester Pridecast Podcast.

He was inspired to write "Confessions of an Acronym" following the popularity of the dilemmas...

Cai Cherry

Cai Cherry

Cai Cherry is a lawyer specialising in litigation and regulatory advice. They are also an LGBTQ+ leader and an award-winning disability advocate. He dedicates a great deal of his time to pro bono legal work...

Annabel den Dekker

Annabel den Dekker

Annabel den Dekker (she/her) is a queer author from the Netherlands. Ever since she was a little girl, she has been making up stories and writing them down. After years of creating numerous short stories...

Morgan Park

Morgan Park

Morgan Park is a Library Media Specialist and teacher by day and writer by night. She’s on a mission to fill the world with more heartfelt woman-loving-woman narratives. Her writing celebrates life's...

Asha Rebel-Lammersen

Asha Rebel-Lammersen

My name is Asha Rebel-Lammersen. I was born in India, but grew up in The Netherlands, where I currently live with my diverse, beautiful family. From an early age I've been fond of reading, and spent hours on...

Tatum Schroeder

Tatum Schroeder

Tatum Schroeder was born and raised in the upper midwestern United States, and currently resides in the Atlanta metro area with his partner and two cats. From the age of four, he knew he wanted to be a...

Alex Brianson

Alex Brianson

Alex Brianson is a cisgender gay man who writes novels poached in the LGBTQ+ experience of life, the neurodivergent experience of life, or both, because why skimp on marginalisation? Diagnosed autistic in...

Glenn Quigley

Glenn Quigley

Glenn Quigley is an author and artist originally from Tallaght in Dublin, Ireland, and now living in Lisburn, Northern Ireland with his husband.

His first novel, The Moth and Moon, was published in 2018...

Max Austin

Max Austin

Max Austin has many passions in his life; his husband, his two children, his writing and his work as a nurse. Oh, and not to forget the family dog of course! He lives with his husband, two children and dog...

Marie Will

Marie Will

During the day, Marie Will is a primary and secondary school education worker for languages and liberal arts and at night, a writer of LGBT+ fiction. She holds a degree in English and German Philology and a...

Charlotte Rowan

Charlotte Rowan

Charlotte Rowan is a translator based in Edinburgh and now an author of queer fiction, with a passion for endless pining and characters with feelings bigger than them.

In her spare time, she can be found...

S.E. Smyth

S.E. Smyth

S.E. Smyth is writing away as much as she can. She is inspired by history and stories that have not been told, pulling words from true events, her lived experience, and education in history. S.E. has...

Dougie K Powell

Dougie K Powell

Dougie K Powell is an author, journalist and stand-up comedian. They write LGBTQIA+ romance stories, mainly for a young adult audience. Their goal is to create stories that are both empowering and relatable...

Rick R. Reed

Rick R. Reed

Rick R. Reed is an award-winning and bestselling author of more than fifty works of published fiction. He is a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Entertainment Weekly has described his work as "heartrending...

Laury A. Egan

Laury A. Egan

Laury A. Egan is the author of fifteen novels, ranging from literary, psychological suspense, comedy, to romance, including Wave in D Minor, Doublecrossed, Turnabout, Once, Upon an Island, The Swimmer...

Adriana Sargent

Adriana Sargent

Long time writer and full-time bourbon connoisseur Adriana Sargent creates character driven, emotion inducing, fantasy novels that are guaranteed to transport you to another world. Her characters, while...

Rachel C. Neale

Rachel C. Neale

Rachel C. Neale writes queer fantasy and sapphic romance. She released her debut novella, Beyond the Grove, in 2022. She is passionate about capturing storylines driven by female leads who go against the...

JS Gray

JS Gray

J S Gray was born in the North East of England. After graduating from the university of Huddersfield with a degree in Fine Art, he moved to the picturesque island of Jersey, where he began to write...

Matti McLean

Matti McLean

Matti McLean is a multidisciplinary artist and writer working in Toronto, Ontario.

As a creator he has healmed several creative projects including the body painting project “The Human Canvas Initiative”...

Richard May

Richard May

Richard May’s short fiction has been published in his story collections Gay All Year-a Story for Every Month, Inhuman Beings: Monsters, Myths, and Science Fiction, and Ginger Snaps: Photos & Stories...

Michael Alenyikov

Michael Alenyikov

Michael Alenyikov is the pen name for the author of Ivan and Misha, which received the Northern CA Book Award for Fiction and the Gina Berriault Award from San Francisco State U. It was a Finalist for the...

Rob Loveless

Rob Loveless

Rob Loveless is a communications professional, author, and podcaster, and currently resides in Pittsburgh, PA. An avid reader from a young age, he has been influenced by authors such as Dan Brown and Dean...

Vincent Traughber Meis

Vincent Traughber Meis

Vincent Traughber Meis grew up in Decatur, Illinois where he got his start writing plays for his younger sisters to act in for a neighborhood audience.

He graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans...

M.D. Neu

M.D. Neu

M.D. Neu is an international award-winning inclusive queer Fiction Writer with a love for writing and travel. Living in the heart of Silicon Valley (San Jose, California) and growing up around technology...

JC Compton

JC Compton

JC Compton is a non-binary author with an international background, being born in France and now living in the USA. They have a degree in East Asian Studies and are particularly passionate about Japan and...

Rowan MacKemsley

Rowan MacKemsley

Having grown up in the rural Cotswolds, Rowan’s love of aviation led to a private pilot’s licence at seventeen, and subsequent career in the aviation industry. Marrying a military man means lots of moving...

B.J. Irons

B.J. Irons

BJ Irons works in the field of education. Many of his personal experiences as a gay man, have contributed to his books.

Being a part of the LGBTQIA+ community himself, BJ hopes to continue to bring...

Silencio Marquez

Silencio Marquez

Silencio Marquez lives in the great northwest of the United States with her dog Winnie. Silencio has always had a love of vampires and loves to write about them. She’s a huge fan of the show Supernatural.

Chris Bedell

Chris Bedell

Chris Bedell's previous publishing credits include Thought Catalog, Entropy Magazine, Chicago Literati, and Quail Bell Magazine, among others.

Gemma Johns

Gemma Johns

Writing is a passion of mine, and was actually one of the reasons I ended up in my day job – as a Professor. I love to write and I write non-fiction books and academic articles as part of my work.

Clayton Manning

Clayton Manning

With thirty years in the hospitality industry, working up and down the country, I have been fortunate to meet an amazingly varied and diverse cross-section of people.

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