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OliveOilCorp
OliveOilCorp is Olivia Stephens, a graphic novelist, illustrator, and writer and graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. Olivia has created work for a number of sites and publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. Her debut graphic novel, Artie and the Wolf Moon, came out…
Rowan MacColl
Rowan MacColl is a freelance illustrator/comic-artist who’s currently working on a webcomic called Kingfisher. Kingfisher is a popular occult mystery series, set in the 1920’s, about wannabe scholar Seymour and his friend/roommate/bodyguard Gabriel trying to survive in a strange city while deciphering the secrets of an even stranger puzzle, the Kingfisher Box. Together, they hunt…
Stephanie Williams
Stephanie Williams is content creator, comic editor/writer, and pop culture critic for notable publications such as SYFYFANGRRLS, Marvel, The A.V. Club, Nerdist, Den of Geek, and Rotten Tomatoes. You can hear her pop culture commentary on podcasts like The Lemonade Podcast and get a taste of her comic book expertise on the first two seasons…
Write or Die Podcast
Write or Die, hosted by authors Claribel Ortega and Kat Cho, is a weekly podcast that aims to share the real stories about what it takes to become an author – the gritty, infuriating, pull your hair out because it’s been years stories of writers who didn’t give up despite it all, and are now…
NIGHTLIGHT
NIGHTLIGHT is an award-winning audio drama podcast featuring horror written by Black authors and performed by Black actors. NIGHTLIGHT was started because Black horror writers have been around as long as horror has, but they don’t get the exposure they deserve. NIGHTLIGHT wanted to change that and to make sure the writers got paid for…
Ana Mardoll
Ana Mardoll is a writer, known for the Earthside book series (modern paranormal-romance books set in Texas) and Rewoven Tales, as well as many published short stories and xer Ramblings blog, Shakesville pieces, Twitter rants, Furiosa review on The Mary Sue, or “that one Ross Geller post I wrote which went briefly internet-viral.” Mardoll is a a self-described “fat, physically disabled, mentally…
Black Girl in Maine
Black Girl in Maine is Shay Stewart-Bouley, the creator of BGIM Media, a digital space for in depth discussions on racism and white supremacy, a podcast series and public talks, centered around the belief that we need to look at who creates the narratives that we read and believe. Says Stewart-Bouley, “In most places, the narratives are fed to…
Liana Kangas
Liana Kangas is a full-time freelance comic artist and illustrator working in both digital & traditional formats. Her work includes drawing the creator-owned comic She Said Destroy, written by Joe Corallo and published by Vault Comics, co-writing Seeds of Eden with Joe at TKO Studios with artist Paul Azaceta, and her hugely successful Kickstarter for…
Lindsay Buroker
Lindsay Buroker is a fantasy and science fiction author who writes lots of books. Because of the many books they write, they get a lot of new ideas and often stray off to work on them. This often leads to different books becoming whole series. It’s a huge advantage to be enrolled in the exclusivity…