David Cleden is an award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction. As a fiction writer, David won the 2016 James White Award for his short story "Rock, Paper, Incisors" and also the Aeon Award for "When The Last Telepath Left Town" both of which have been translated into Italian and have appeared in the "Mondi Incantati" anthologies for 2016 & 2018. Subsequently, David was a first-place winner in the "Writers of the Future: Volume 35" short story competition with "Dark Equations of the Heart".

He is a Bid Director and consultant with more than 25 years experience of the public services IT sector. In addition to writing bids and successfully delivering complex projects for a wide range of commercial clients, he writes widely on a variety of business-related issues. His book, "Bid Writing for Project Managers" is a popular guide to proposal-writing success published by Routledge. David's previous book, Managing Project Uncertainty, was the first title in the Routledge series on "Advances in Project Management". He also contributed a chapter to "Advances in Project Management" edited by Darren Dalcher.

As he is quick to point out, he tries hard not to muddle up his fiction and non-fiction writing.

J. J. Roth lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she writes science fiction and fantasy stories when not schlepping her two young sons and working at technology company. Her stories have appeared in Nature, Urban Fantasy Magazine, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and a number of small press venues.

Peter Ryan is a writer and sociologist living in South Bend, Indiana. His short stories have appeared in Into The Void, Chantwood Magazine, Abstract Jam, The Colored Lens, and elsewhere.

I am an Australian speculative fiction author currently writing short stories.

I live on the south coast of Western Australia.

Mark Bilsborough learned his craft on Brunel University ‘s creative writing Master’s programme and the Odyssey Writing Workshop, where he also discovered how to avoid the comma splice. His published works are mainly science fiction with occasional forays into fantasy and can be found in various places online and through his Amazon page. He is currently working on a time travel novel which, ironically, is going to require time travel for him to find the time to finish it.

Born in the UK to Sri Lankan parents, Subodhana Wijeyeratne has been writing for nearly two decades. His work has appeared in Expanded Horizons, Liquid Imagination, Lamplight Magazine, Future Fire, Mythaxis, Bewildering Stories, and the Colored Lens, as well as in various anthologies. His short story 'They Meet in the Wall' won the 2018 Mariner Award.

His chief influences are Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. LeGuin, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Cormac McCarthy, and Octavia Butler, amongst others. You can follow his latest work at www.subowijeyeratne.com.