Eric Brown is a British science fiction author. His career took off in the late eighties with a succession of short stories in Interzone and other publications. His story The Time-Lapsed Man won the Interzone readers’ poll for the most admired story of 1988, and an Eastercon short text award in 1995. He was voted the Best New European SF writer of the Year in the early nineties and has subsequently won the British Science Fiction Award twice.

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Leslie Glasser (What) is a writer of fantasy and literary fiction and nonfiction. She grew up in Southern California and attended Santa Ana College, and earned a certificate in Vocational Nursing. She also attended California State University Fullerton and received her MFA in Writing from Pacific University in 2006.

She began publishing in 1992 with a story for Asimov’s Science Fiction. In 1999 she won the Nebula Award for The Cost of Doing Business, published in Amazing Stories.

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Shira Lipkin has managed to convince Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Stone Telling, Clockwork Phoenix 4, Interfictions 2, and other otherwise-sensible magazines and anthologies to publish her work; two of her stories have been recognized as Million Writers Award Notable Stories, and she has won the Rhysling Award for best short poem.

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Elise Moser holds an Honours BA from McGill and is the current president of the Quebec Writers’ Federation. Her short stories have been published and broadcast in Canada, the U.S. and across the Commonwealth. Her stories “Malke’s Baby” and “Advanced Pilates Tickle Trunk” have won the CBC/QWF Short Story Competition in 2004 and 2006 respectively.

She was president of the Quebec Writers’ Federation between 2009 and 2012. She presently divides her time between Montreal and Sauk City, Wisconsin.

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Pat Murphy has used the ideas of the absurdist pseudophilosophy pataphysics in some of her writings. Along with Lisa Goldstein and Michaela Roessner, she has formed The Brazen Hussies to promote their work. Together with Karen Joy Fowler, Murphy co-founded the James Tiptree, Jr. Award in 1991.

With her second novel, The Falling Woman (1986), she won the Nebula Award, and another Nebula Award in the same year for her novelette, Rachel in Love.  Her short story collection, Points of Departure (1990) won the Philip K. Dick Award, and her 1990 novella, Bones, won the World Fantasy Award in 1991.

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More authors?  Ask and ye shall receive!

Fabulous talents are ready to submit a story if we get funded.  All we need is the crowd to respond…

But for now, four more brilliant folks!

Jeffrey Thomas is a prolific writer of science fiction and horror, best known for his stories set in the nightmarish future city called Punktown, such as the novel Deadstock (Solaris Books) and the collection Punktown (Ministry of Whimsy Press), from which a story was reprinted in St. Martin’s The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror #14. His fiction has also been reprinted in Daw’s The Year’s Best Horror Stories XXII, The Year’s Best Fantastic Fiction and Quick Chills II: The Best Horror Fiction from the Specialty Press. He has been a 2003 finalist for the Bram Stoker Award (Best First Novel) for Monstrocity, and a 2008 finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Deadstock.

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Don Webb is best known for weird, experimental, and offbeat fiction, as well as works inspired by H. P. Lovecraft and according to Locus Magazine, he has published many stories, essays, interviews and other writing materials. His short stories have appeared or been referenced in numerous anthologies, including The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Eleventh Annual Collection, Asimov’s Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. His story “The Great White Bed” (F&SF May 2007) was nominated for the International Horror Critics Award.

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Richard Chwedyk is a science fiction author. In 2003, he won the 2002 Nebula Award for Best Novella for his story “Brontë’s Egg.” Chwedyk’s first published story was “Getting Along with Larga,” which was the first winner of the ISFiC Writer’s contest in 1986. In 1988, he won the contest again with his story “A Man Makes a Machine,” which went on the be published as Chwedyk’s first professional sale in Amazing Stories in November, 1990.

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Michael J. Martinez spent nearly 20 years as a professional writer and journalist, including stints at The Associated Press and ABCNEWS.com. After telling other people’s stories for the bulk of his career, he is happy that he can now be telling a few of his own creation. He is also a member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America.

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