Twisted50 vol 1 Authors

John Ashbrook // Writer of The Spider Taketh Hold
I have written and been paid for magazine articles – mostly film reviews and interviews…
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Geoff Bagwell // Writer of Aftermath
Short story writer and Bloomsbury Books New Children’s Author 2015 runner-up…
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Neil Bebber // Writer of Meat
Neil has received Guardian reviews for his plays CUL DE SAC (Exeter Bikeshed) and STRAIGHT (Tactile Bosch, Cardiff) and has had work performed in Cardiff and London…
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Sasha Black // Killer Heels
British writer who escaped to Amsterdam, works in the corporate world by day, writes by night. Close to completing my first gothic romance novel with an erotic twist…
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Susan Bodnar // Writer of Five Days
Susan lives in Sheffield, UK, teaches creative writing and is currently working on a collection…

Richie Brown // Writer of The Cyclist
Richie, an ex-Civil Servant, lives in Cambridgeshire, England, and is a dabbling writer of horror stuff, weird stuff, and bonkers stuff…
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Jessica Brown // Writer of Gooseberry Pie
Jessica is a writer and artist who lives in rural Somerset. She has a passion for horror and…
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Jacqui Canham // Writer of Trying on Tobias
Jacqui Canham is a scriptwriter, journalist and writer of creative fiction. She has worked on a diverse range of projects including a Nigerian TV series, a film about corrupt..
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Kendall Castor-Perry // Writer of Bite
Life-long sci-fi fan. Silicon chip architect and Filter Wizard by day. Writer of screenplays and stories by…
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Thomas Cranham // Writer of The Left is Sinister
Living in the Derbyshire countryside in the middle of England with my beautiful wife Nicola and crazy terrier Annabel…
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Richard Craven // Writer of Lolitasaurus
Lapsed Doctor of Philosophy Richard Craven with exquisite literary style skewers the low things writhing in the gutter. It is much as if Trollope had penned The Naked Lunch…
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Bartley Cryan // Writer of Flight 404
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Shirley Day // Writer of The Biggest Fear
I am a writer / director for film and theatre and was nominated for the BAFTA breakthrough Brit award 2015…
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Stephen Deas // Writer of The Lizard King
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Troll Dahl // Writer of doG liveD
I’m a multi award winning writer/director of 40 short films. I currently have an optioned feature film screenplay which I am attached to…
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Duncan Eastwood // Writer of Our Tormentor
Both written and in every day conversation, language and the art of storytelling is very important to me. I love to tell and hear good…
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G.P.Eynon // Writer of True Fear
I usually write science fiction, but l’ve recently uncovered a rather dark place in the depths of my brain where I stumble upon the odd horror story or two…
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Marie Gethins // Writer of The Sugarloaf and the Red Shoes
Marie Gethins’ work has featured in anthologies and literary magazines published…
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Lucy V Hay // Writer of The Retribution Of Elsie Buckle
I have written and been paid for magazine articles – mostly film reviews and interviews, text books…
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J.M Hewitt // Writer of Fingers
Published author of two novels. Member of the CWA. Avid reader and writer…
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Rachael Howard // Writer of The Beating Of My Heart
Rachael lives in the Lake District and this inspires her writing. She loves the dark and dangerous reality of the area rather than the chocolate box illusion…
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EJ Hughes // Writer of Sum of My Memories
I have always wanted to write stories – when other children were watching the latest tv shows I was scribbling in note books, although my teachers were always quick to point…
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Maggie Innes // Writer of Second Chance
I’ve been a journalist, horoscope writer, book reviewer, short fiction writer (magazines) and currently focusing on radio and TV Drama while also teaching creative writing…
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Jonah Jones // Writer of Keeping a Head
Nine stage plays, two radio plays, three short stories produced. Also sketches for TV and radio. Short stories published…
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Dylan Keeling // Writer of Food Bank
I’m a writer, director, and jobbing musician who has lived in New Jersey, The Netherlands, London, and currently Margate, Kent…
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SV Macdonald // Writer of Witches
I have been a full-time writer for just two years and I have published seven ebooks and several…
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Charles Maciejewski // Writer of Feedback
First serious attempt at writing short stories. Learning a lot in the process. Like reading anything that keeps me engaged…
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Adam Millard // Writer of A Change Too Far
Adam Millard is the author of twenty novels, ten novellas, and more than a hundred short stories, which can be found in various collections and anthologies…
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Christopher Patrick // Writer of Deadlands
I have written and been paid for magazine articles – mostly film reviews and interviews, text books (again, on film), a smattering of radio comedy and festoons of radio ads…
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Leo X. Robertson // Writer of The Audition Altar
Leo X. Robertson is a Scottish process engineer and emerging writer, currently living in Oslo, Norway. He has stories published by Fiction on the Web, Creepy Campfire Quarterly…
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Steve Pool // Writer of Silver Load
I am an urban fantasy and horror writer, photographer of nouns – people, places, & things – and gaming geek. I live in Portland, Oregon with my wife Robin.
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Steven Quantick // Writer of Helper
I live in Cardiff with my wife, who beautifully supports my writing habit…
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Diana Read // Writer of Beyond the Flesh
A journalism student who not-so-secretly hopes that one day, she will ascend to the sky-scraping, literary heights achieved by her favourite authors…
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John Read // Writer of Summer Sky
I started writing in the 1970s. My work has been seen in Television; Radio; Newspapers & Magazines from Ireland to Australia…
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KJB Rickards // Writer of Spellings
Born in 1977 at the local mental health institute. Writer of fables, the fantastic, the fun and the Fortean…
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KK Rickcord // Writer of Paper Cuts
Kim Rickcord was officially recognised as a disease in 1984. Symptoms include urges, spasms and blackouts. Treatments include a cold shower, a stiff drink…
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Joshua Saltzman // Writer of A Curious Boy
I’m a TV writer who sometime lives in Toronto and sometimes lives in New York. I’ve written for animated shows like The New Inspector Gadget (on Netflix now!) and Fangbone…
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Penegrin Shaw // Writer of Bloated
I have written and been paid for magazine articles – mostly film reviews and interviews, text books (again, on film), a smattering of radio comedy and festoons of radio ads…
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Karen Sheard // Writer of Itch
Karen Heard lives in London (UK) and writes dark fiction in a range of genres, including Gothic, ghost and mystery stories. Whatever genre she writes in…
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Caroline Slocock // Writer of Insects
I admit it. I love the angst and the frustration and the madness that come from trying to find the right words. The elation when you do find them makes it all worthwhile…
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Steven Stockford // Writer of The Ballad of Liam and Chantelle
TV producer, currently involved in cartoons. Sold a screen play to ITV though I have…
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Alex Thompson // Writer of Do Blastocysts Dream Of Foetal Sheep?
Alex Thompson lives in the south of England and works in the glamorous world of vacuum science..
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Hillier Townsend // Writer of Us
Hillier Townsend is a sixty-three-and-a half-year-old grandmother with a dark streak that gets wider every year…
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N.W. Twyford // Writer of Sodor & Gomorrah
Owing to an ancient Mayan prophecy, people have been trying to kill N.W. Twyford for many years before he was born…
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Stephanie Wessell // Writer of The Beholder
I’m a fiction writer between periods of work as a factual television producer and director, and continuous work as a mum of three…
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Drew Williamson // Writer of Project Approved
I am a writer of screenplays, comics, novels and short stories…
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Nick Yates // Writer of What’s Yours Is Mine
Became disillusioned with journalism. Now I write for the simple pleasure and magic of seeing…
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