Meet the recommended writers of June 2024
Our twenty-seventh group of recommended writers was another great group mixing new and returning writers.
Check out the wonderful writers, poets and more for this month now!
(Returning) Trevaughn Malik Roach-Carter
Young Adult Writer
TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter is a Queer Black writer from California currently living in New York. He is a fiction Editor for The Ana Literary Magazine and the Digital Editorial Assistant at Publishers Weekly. He hold an MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University. His work has been featured in Ramblr Magazine, Tayo Magazine’s special issue: SOFT, Transfer Magazine, BAD EGG Magazine, Borderless Magazine, Stellium Magazine, and Querencia Press. He is a recipient of the Leo Litwalk Literature Award, a Browning Society Award, and a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the African American Literature category. He is the author of the Young Adult novel The Aziza Chronicles: Awakening, published by Deep Hearts YA in 2022, and the nonfiction short story collection Her Daughters, published by Fourteen Hills Press in 2023.
(Returning) Thomas Simpson
Scottish Horror Writer
Hailing from the gritty heart of the East end of Glasgow, Scotland, Thomas Simpson is a horror writer. His love affair with the macabre began at a young age, with a core memory of the paperback cover of Salem’s Lot giving him nightmares. The bad dreams also came from TV with Nightmare on Elm Street, a film he was too young to see. It ignited a spark within him and a flame that still burns today. A natural storyteller, Simpson’s creative flair was evident from a young age. School was a playground for his imagination, where he immersed himself in comics and short stories. With pen and paper as his weapons of choice, he conjured up terrifying tales and brought them to life with his own illustrations. In his twenties, he traded written words for moving images, directing a series of short films that showcased his talent for creating unsettling atmospheres. His work garnered attention, with several projects premiering at the prestigious Glasgow Film Festival. With a return to prose, he unleashed a new wave of terror. He adapted his unproduced screenplays into prose, resulting in his debut novella, One of Us. This marked the start of his writing career, with the subsequent novel, Blackened, solidifying his position as a rising star in horror. Simpson’s love letter to horror, Unknown Pleasures: 13 tales, 13 Nightmares, is a collection of short stories that pays homage to his greatest influences. With each tale, he delves deeper into the shadows, exploring the darkest corners of the human psyche and the twisted machinations of fate. His Glasgow upbringing has infused his work with a brutal honesty, a relentless exploration of the darkness that resides in us all. With each new story, he invites readers to step into the abyss, to confront their own nightmares, and emerge changed.
(Returning) Evvie Grey
Poetry and Quotes Writer
Mrs Mona Hemant Bakshi was born and brought up in Saharanpur a district of Uttar Pradesh, India. At a mere age of twenty she got married to a businessman and started a new beginning in Lucknow - city of nawabs. Though she used to write since her teens but never cherished her write ups. She was encouraged by her three kids and husband to portray her write ups on social media. She joined Your Quotes in 2019 and Instagram in 2020, and after 2019 it was never looking back for her. Although she has participated in few Anthologies but her first solo book published under Notion press is Waves of emotions. Be true to your heart in expressing your self. Never change your style and try to copy other authors. Instead learn to be honest with your style. She is always motivated by my husband and kids, a beautiful trait inherited from my late mother. She tries to encourage her fellow writers and love to read their feedback.
(Returning) Elicia Roper
Writer of heartwarming and emotional novels with mental health rep
Elicia Roper is an Amazon bestselling author.
She is a black indie author who lives and writes in Canada. Elicia writes heart-warming and emotional stories. "All That You Are" is her debut novel. Her love for reading and writing started when she was in elementary school.
Writing has been therapeutic for Elicia, an outlet for her to finally say the words she could never say out loud. It is Elicia's hope that this book heals you, in the many ways that it has comforted and healed her too.
Elicia loves to hear from her readers and can be reached on all these social media accounts. Hearing your feedback has motivated Elicia to write and stay inspired on her journey of becoming an author. If you have read (or plan to read!) All That You Are, please leave a review on Amazon. Nothing sells books more than a good word of mouth, and Elicia would be so, so grateful to any words you might be willing to leave!
(Returning) Bridget Van der Eyk
Contemporary Romance Writer
Bridget Van der Eyk is an up and coming contemporary romance author - “10 Dates” is her debut novel. She lives in country NSW, Australia on a 5-acre property with her husband (Josh), 2 children (Zoe and Max), and 2 dogs (Kevin and Stella).
When Bridget is not working a full-time teaching job or binging Korean zombie shows on Netflix, she is busy writing her next novel.
Bridget loves writing smart, strong, and sassy female characters that have little parts of herself embedded in them! #girlpower
(Returning) Meagan Pringle
Romance Author
My name is Meagan Pringle. I am from South Africa. Outside of writing I am studying teaching and I work part-time at a school. From a young age I developed a love for reading and writing. After spending years reading stories, I decided to write my own. What started as cringy fanfiction has slowly blossomed into original works in a variety of genres. My dream is to one day see my books on the shelves and to inspire readers with my words and my stories.
(Returning) Clive Britton
Thriller Writer
I based my first novel ‘Some are evil’ on a period in my late twenties when my other identity first revealed itself. At the time, I thought it was the alcohol that caused me to stray from the boundaries of normality, and I’m sure it helped by suppressing the anxieties that might have stopped the – somewhat warped adventures from actually playing out.
The thing that did help the spirit inside me to immerge was the shelter from the stage; after all – we are but the actors in somebody else’s play… We have to live up to the identities on the script, but off stage – in a secret wilderness – away from the audience, anything is possible.
My childhood years were troubled… My father died when I was fifteen after a long battle with his demons, and my mother suffered from severe depression, I remember the worry of whether she would still be alive when I got home from school or if she had managed to play out the deed that she yearned for. I spent my early teenage years in a my-own depressed state.
(Returning) Megan Alexandria
Romance & Fantasy Writer
Megan Alexandria is a Spicy Romance Author for readers who enjoy Fantasy and RomComs. She’s known for her love of making you ask, ‘How much worse can it get?’ And from werewolves and witches to historical, forbidden love, there’s something for everyone who likes to hurt for their Happily Ever Afters. When she’s not writing, she’s knee-deep in musical instruments, iced chai lattes, and her office, a.k.a. book trove.
(Returning) Erin Curran
Irish LGBT+ Writer
Erin Curran is an unapologetically queer, neurodivergent writer from Northern Ireland. Having fostered a passion for creative writing at a young age, Erin is rarely seen without two things: a cup of tea and a pen. She won the English Millennium Cup in High School and went on to have her now self-published novel, The Seven, longlisted for a GALA award in 2020. Her goal as an author is to contribute to normalising LGBTQIA+ characters and stories, bringing them into the mainstream where they belong. When not writing, Erin is either reading; drawing; video editing or listening to Queen. Not necessarily in that order.
(Returning) Aaliya Shahreen
Wordsmith
Aaliya Shahreen is an Indian author, who is professionally studying medicine, whereas for hobbies she works on different things, from writing to drawing. She has been quite interested in reading and writing but didn't plan onto getting published, but with "Lost" her debut novel which portrays a story of a teenager she made her book available globally. Then published a poetry collection, that says a story "LOVE? YET TO BE WRITTEN." AND she looks forward to write more and reach more people.
(Returning) Tome Hall
Independent Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Author
T. A. Hall (Tome) is a Manchester-based author who has spent most of their life studying storytelling. The non-binary writer grew up in Rochdale, reading fantasy and science fiction and playing games like Dungeon and Dragons and Zelda.The Epilogue of a Storyteller is their second publication, after their first book; Vixen: The Goblin and the Fox, has found moderate success on TikTok and in small local circles.