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Laura Kate Dale
Laura Kate Dale is a video game critic, video creator, podcaster, author, and all around maker of things. Laura is co-host on the Podquisition Podcast, a cast member on the D&D Podcast Dice Funk, half of Queer & Pleasant Strangers, the former News Editor at Kotaku UK, former UK EIC at Destructoid and freelance contributor…
Sword & Board
Sword & Board LLC is an IP management and content creation company. Its mission is to support and create new, inclusive intellectual property for use in media, primarily novelization and gamification. They believe in diverse, independent storytelling and providing a means for publishing that may not otherwise be available to creators. They believe that it’s…
Kameron Hurley
Kameron Hurley is the author of the upcoming Sci-Fi/Fantasy titles Losing Gravity and Future Artifacts: Stories (2022) as well as The Light Brigade, The Stars are Legion and many other titles. Hurley has won the Hugo Award, Locus Award, Kitschy Award, and Sydney J. Bounds Award. She was also a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Nebula Award, and the Gemmell Morningstar…
K Tempest Bradford
K Tempest Bradford is a writer, podcaster, teacher and activist. She writes Afrofuturist and AfroRetroFuturist fiction for kids and adults that reflects her multiple identities, including her Blackness and Queerness. Her short stories have been published in magazines such as Strange Horizons and Electric Velocipede and anthologies such as Sunspot Jungle and In The Shadow…
hologramvin
hologramvin is a writer, poet, illustrator, game creator, musical artist, and transsexual. They frequently illustrate covers for zines and albums, and they’ve released their own sci-fi story and game expansion on Itch.io. Their projects include two minibooks, a sci-fi audio story, and some music. Most of their science fiction writing involves lesbianism and nonbinaryness and…
Sarah Rhea Werner
Sarah Rhea Werner is the creator of Write Now with Sarah Werner, a weekly podcast for writers and creators (aspiring to professional) looking to find a healthy work/life/writing balance. Get the encouragement, honest advice, and inspiration you need to pursue your passion and write every day. Recurring themes include books, coffee, rainy days, truth, beauty,…
MariNaomi
MariNaomi is a queer mixed-race Japanese-American visual storyteller and community organizer who’s published four graphic memoirs, a graphic novel trilogy called Life on Earth, and many many gags, strips, diary comics, essays, and more. They’re also the creator and administrator of the Cartoonists of Color, Queer Cartoonists, and the Disabled Cartoonists databases. These resources, which feature thousands of comics creators, are free…
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…