Meet the recommended writers October 2022

We wish them all the best and there are no hard feelings.

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Ani Talwar is an author who writes both fiction and non fiction. She specialises in writing about the environment, having written over 50 articles across multiple magazines/blogs about how to make sustainable decisions or different topics she’s researched. Ani writes fictional mystery and adventures with an environmental theme, and has one published novel you can buy called Atro-City The Flood published when she was a teenager, and is writing her second manuscript. Ani’s passion is with the Earth and literature, and she works full time in the environmental field as well, having studied Environmental Science at university. She now runs her own blog where she talks about decisions in books an author actually DOES consider, and also carries on environmental research.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kathryn Holeton is a Brand Designer for Creatives, multi-published poet, author, songwriter and lyricist. She has worked with clients across multiple creative industries. She has recently launched a blog dedicated to highlighting rising creatives on their creative and branding journey. In addition to what Kathryn already does, she is also a nature and urban photographer, traditional artist, jewelry maker and a notebook and pen collector. She lives in Knoxville, TN with her family.

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Sarah Neofield is an Australian writer of literary satire, a linguist, and world traveler.

She writes books that make you laugh – and then think!

Her debut novel, Number Eight Crispy Chicken (2020) follows the misadventures of an immigration minister stranded in a foreign airport.

Propaganda Wars (2021) is the tale of an advertising executive and a propagandist who trade places for a week – and discover that things over the wall are nothing like they imagined.

In Sarah’s most recent novel, AutoCEO (2022), a powerful executive who boasts of the number of jobs he has managed to outsource and automate away discovers that he has been replaced – and must prove, in a court of law, that he is more human than a machine.