Wondering what the finished version of Eat the Rich might look like? Wishing you knew where our decision-makers fall on the cannibal to kaiju spectrum? Well, worry no more, because our first readers are here to tell you the meals they’re placing their orders for!
Ria Hill is a writer, librarian, and nonbinary horror. They spend their non-work hours maintaining their recreational spreadsheet collection and interrupting their spouse’s train of thought with deeply worrying story pitches. Their work has appeared in The Book of Queer Saints: Volume II and Escalators to Hell: Shopping Mall Horrors, and is forthcoming in A Coup of Owls (Spring 2024), and It Was All a Dream 2. If you see them in the wild, they are very unlikely to eat you. They promise. They can be found at RiaHill.Weebly.com and on various social media platforms @RiaWritten.
Jim Horlock is a writer from Wales with a deep fascination for all things dark and weird. You can find his work at places like the NoSleep Podcast, Crystal Lake Publishing, Eerie River, and many more. He has previously judged short story competitions for Parsec and Endless Ink Publishing. His own collection, Changes, is coming this summer from Quill & Crow Publishing House. Jim collects ghosts, enjoys a good hat, and describes himself as a cryptid enthusiast.
M. Lopes da Silva (he/they/she) is a non-binary trans masc author, artist, and critic from Los Angeles. He writes pulp and poetry. Dread Stone Press recently published his first novelette What Ate the Angels — a queer vore sludgefest that travels beneath the streets of Los Angeles, starring a non-binary ASMR artist and their vore-loving girlfriend — in Volume Two of the SPLIT SCREAM series. Weirdpunk Books is scheduled to release his collection of heartbreaking and exquisite queer horror stories, Infinity Mathing at the Shore and Other Aberrations, Spring 2024.
Avra Margariti is a queer author, Greek sea monster, and Rhysling-nominated poet with a fondness for the dark and the darling. Avra’s work haunts publications such as Strange Horizons, The Deadlands, Podcastle, and Reckoning. You can find Avra on Twitter/Bluesky (@AvraMargariti).
Melissa Ren is a Chinese-Canadian writer whose narratives tend to explore the intersection between belonging and becoming. She is a prize recipient of Room Magazine‘s Fiction Contest, a grant recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts, an editor at Tales & Feathers, and an audio producer at khōréō magazine. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Factor Four Magazine, Fusion Fragment, DreamForge Magazine, and elsewhere. Find her at linktr.ee/MelissaRen or follow @melisfluous on various socials.
Demonic shape-shifter Violet Schwegler has been writing absurd stories for over ten years, but from behind the eyes of a decoy for just about all of them. Her time withering in the void is over.
Eirik Gumeny is the editor of Atomic Carnival Books and blah, blah, blah.
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