Twisted50 vol 2 Authors

Jane Badrock // Writer of The Violin Case
By the age of twelve, my writing career was assured, thanks to a diet of grandma’s James Bond books and Horror anthologies…
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Lee Betteridge // Writer of Anglerfish
I am an amateur writer from Cumbria, England, who enjoys working in different styles, genres, and for all platforms. I am currently enjoying screenwriting…
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Richardo Bravo // Writer of For The Record
Ricardo is an energy consultant with a very long commute and a vivid imagination. Avid movie goer and movie trivia master…
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Jessica Brown // Writer of Ice Cream Van
Jessica is a writer and artist who lives in rural Somerset. She has a passion for horror and…
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Richie Brown // Writer of Market Search
Richie, an ex-Civil Servant, lives in Cambridgeshire, England, and is a dabbling writer of horror stuff, weird stuff, and bonkers stuff. Richie has work accepted by Twisted 50 Volumes 1 and 2, The Singularity, Aphotic Realm, and Weirdbook.
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Lee Burgess// Writer of Brain Drain
I am an award-winning writer originally from Dorset, England. My first short story Them Darn Checkens…
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Kendall Castor-Perry // Writer of One Step, Two Step
Life-long sci-fi fan. Silicon chip architect and Filter Wizard by day. Writer of screenplays and stories by…
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Phil Chard // Writer of Exquisite
41 Years old, a newish father who will be married for the first time in 2018.
Phil was inspired to write horror stories after reading Clive Barker’s Books…
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Dee Chilton // Writer of Target
Nicholl & AustinFF Semi-Finalist. Winner Stage 32 New Blood Competition. Selected for Black List/AthenaFF NYC Lab…
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Simon Cluett // Writer of Dead Comedians
A lifelong passion for films led me in the direction of screen writing…
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Jacky Dahlhaus // Writer of Rumour Has It…
I was almost fifty years old, had two university degrees, and no job. Being supported by my loving husband for over twenty years, I had tried every hobby a good…
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Karen Davison // Writer of Caring For Mother
Karen Davison grew up in Bedfordshire, England. She has been both an avid reader and a lover of animals since early childhood…
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Freya Eden-Ellis // Writer of Distant Percussion
The urge to write has followed me throughout my life. I had notebooks full of poetry as a kid and wrote stories mostly based on my love of Lord of the Rings…
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Maryna Gaidar // Writer of Cassandra’s Beasts
It seems now I’ve been writing all my life, novels, short stories, poems and finally scripts….
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Les Grice // Writer of Murmuration
I began to put pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, in earnest, after a USA friend I met encouraged me to write a blog about the weeks holiday we spent in Sicily and…
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TR Guest // Writer of No Waste
TR Guest writes screenplays, plays and prose. He currently has an optioned screenplay in pre-production, a short film in development and was recently commissioned to write an opera…
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Lucy V Hay // Writer of Super Nits
I have written and been paid for magazine articles – mostly film reviews and interviews, text books…
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Rachael Howard // Writer of Pot Holing
The dark and treacherous Lake District and Fells are my home. Beautiful but deadly. They inspire a lot of my writing…
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Fiona Hunnisett // Writer of Saignant
Fiona is a reformed lawyer now writing words of fiction instead of fact…
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Stephanie Hutton // Writer of Mummy Molly Pudding Club
Stephanie Hutton is a writer and clinical psychologist in Staffordshire, UK. Her first short story was written and submitted for Twisted50 first edition in 2015…
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Maggie Innes // Writer of Trauma One
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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Chris Jeal // Writer of A Killer Evening
Chris Jeal is a nice guy who writes nasty shit…
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Fiona Leitch // Writer of Tinder
Fiona Leitch is a writer with a chequered past. She’s written for football and motoring magazines, DJ’ed at illegal raves and is a stalwart of the low budget TV…
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Matt George Lovett // Writer of Knucklebone Blues
Matt George Lovett is a London based writer, filmmaker and musician…
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SV Macdonald // Writer of The Remains
I have been a full-time writer for just two years and I have published seven ebooks and several…
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Dean Marriner // Writer of Count To Ten
Father of two, husband of one, director of a branding company. 52 years going on 25. Born in the north east of England and always on the odd side of the tracks…
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Ben Marshall // Writer of Milly and Max Go Trick or Treating
I have been active as a screenwriter for a number of years and my short script has…
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Scott Merrow // Writer of Me Again
Scott Merrow has been writing short fiction as a hobby since retiring from the Air Force ten…
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Robbie Mori // Writer of The Anniversary
Robbie’s first introduction to horror was watching ‘Salem’s Lot’ far too young, but she has never looked back…
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Tom Nolan // Writer of Overlooked
I live in Birmingham, England with people, animals and other excuses for not matching Stephen King’s output…
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Steve Pool // Writer of Repeater
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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Andy Perry // Writer of Ingrowing
Andy is an estranged Northerner, now living in London. He has always had a passion for writing, but a career in IT took hold and refused to let go. After becoming a mature student and graduating…
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Emma Pullar // Writer of WORMS
Emma Pullar is a writer of dark fiction and children’s books. Her picture book, Curly from Shirley…
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Lewis Rice // Writer of Ring Fingers
A dedicated husband and father, who despite working full time and looking after my son as well…
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Ann Richardson // Writer of Gramma’s Issues
Ann Richardson is an award-winning audiobook narrator. She works for publishers such as Audible, Harper Audio, Recorded Books…
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Leo X. Robertson // Writer of The Art is Absent
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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Penegrin Shaw // Writer of Black Ink
Writer of sci-fi and horror, laced with dark humour and Talisker. Obsessed with near-future, alt world and pissing past boundaries of taste…
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Paul Shearer // Writer of Teddy
Writer and Director of the short film “South East Cleaning Services” (2010).
Edinburgh International Film Festival Programmer for fiction feature films.
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Juliet Sneed // Writer of The Azrael
Juliet Sneed hoards books the way dragons hoard gold. The Azrael is her first published story…
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Madeleine Swann // Writer of Drink To Forget
Madeleine Swann’s collection, Fortune Box, will be released by Eraserhead Press in June 2018…
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Melissa Szydlek // Writer of Wholesale Flesh Club
Melissa Szydlek lives in the United States. Originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she survived Detroit for many years and has settled into a quieter life in North…
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Phill Town // Writer of Strategem
Writer of short stories and screenplays, often with a dark touch…
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Hillier Townsend // Writer of Mumma Says
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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Bruce Thomas // Writer of Delayed Departure
Programmer by day, filmmaker, writer by night. I write because I must.
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Milethia Thomas // Writer of A Night With Lucille
Mam to a bonny bairn; communication support worker/teaching assistant. Every spare moment, I write. I love to tap dance…
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N.W. Twyford // Writer of The Four
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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Mark Walker // Writer of Tunnel
I am a new writer in my 40s, living in Gloucestershire with my family. I have been writing screenplays for around 5 years…
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Eileen Wilson // Writer of Deviance
Eileen is a Scottish writer who swings between writing comedy and tragedy. Her stories ‘Run for It’ and ‘Freehand’ were short-listed for ‘The Singularity’, whilst her comedy drama ‘Once Bitten’…
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Nick Yates // Writer of The Rookery
Became disillusioned with journalism. Now I write for the simple pleasure and magic of seeing…
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