These highly rated lesser-known authors may not be familiar to some members of the general public, but they’ve all been highly praised by readers, and the literary community. They’re all published authors, with some receiving nominations for prestigious literary awards. Several have been the recipient of numerous nominations, while others have won major literary prizes for their exceptional work.
This list includes critically-acclaimed poets, novelists, as well as those specializing in short stories, prose and flash fiction. Writers of nonfiction are also represented below.
Take a moment to search out the noteworthy work of these talented folks. You might discover a favorite new short story, poem, or novel. If you’re lucky, perhaps you’ll find a new favorite author whose entire body of work resonates with you.
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A.A. Abbott (Lies Between Friends; Flat White Lies; Run For Your Lies; Lies at Her Door)
AJ Aberford (The Car Horn Revolution; Bodies in the Water; Bullets in the Sand; The Last Bird of Paradise; Fire in the Mountain; Hawk at the Crossroads)
Millicent Borges Accardi (Quarantine Highway; Through a Grainy Landscape; Only More So; Injuring Eternity; Woman on a Shaky Bridge)
Jean Marc Ah-Sen (In the Beggarly Style of Imitation; Grand Menteur; Kilworthy Tanner)
Kathryn Aldridge-Morris (Hope is The Thing: An Anthology; Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness)
L. R. J. Allen (On the Moor; Summerside Lake Massacre)
Maurice X. Alvarez (The Trouble With Thieves: Return to Averia; The Trouble With Thieves, Book 2: Trials of Halgarin; The Trouble With Thieves, Book 3: Elmar of Tranquility; The Trouble With Love)
Robert Nazar Arjoyan (Drunk in the Graveyard; Beneath the Shadow of a Butterfly)
Judith Arnopp (The Book of Thornhold; A Song of Sixpence: The Story of Elizabeth of York and Perkin Warbeck; A Matter of Time: Henry VIII, The Dying of the Light; A Matter of Conscience: Henry VIII, The Aragon Years; The Kiss of the Concubine: A story of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII)
Pierre C. Arseneault (Maple Springs; Oakwood Island; Sleepless Nights)
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Sudha Balagopal (There are Seven Notes; A New Dawn; Missing and Other Stories)
Alan Bardos (The Assassins; The Dardanelles Conspiracy; Enemies & Allies; Rising Tide; Hunter Class)
Hilly Barmby (From My Cold Dead Hands; The Pact; Got What Was Coming; Life Lessons)
David Barrick (Nightlight, Incubation Chamber; Two Dreams: Stratford and The Copyist)
François Bereaud (San Diego Stories; A Question of Family)
Jerome Berglund (Bathtub Poems: drum beats on a typewriter; Funny Pages; And Mash: Warm Rejections)
Laura Besley (100neHundred; (Un)Natural Elements; The Almost Mothers)
C. Anthony Biron (After Oxygen; Atlas Arch; Ouch! Brain Splinters)
Frances Boyle (Openwork and Limestone; This White Nest; Seeking Shade)
Teresa Tumminello Brader (Letting In Air and Light; Secret Keepers)
Ruth Brandt (No One Has Any Intention of Building a Wall)
Ann E. Brockbank (On a Distant Shore; Waiting for the Harvest Moon; The Blue Bay Cafe; Mr de Sousa’s Legacy; A Gift from the Sea; The Path We Take; The Glittering Sea; The Hand that Wrote this Letter; Somewhere Out There; Past, Present & Future)
Melissa Llanes Brownlee (Bitter Over Sweet; Kahi and Lua: Tales of the First and the Second; Hard Skin)
J. Drew Brumbaugh (Child of Prophecy; Key to Tirumfall; War Party; Bula Bridge; Shela; Shepherds; Fall of the Western Kings)
Christopher J. Burke (A Bucket Full of Moonlight; In A Flash 2020; Burke’s Lore Briefs: I See What You’ll Do There; Burke’s Lore Briefs: Portrait of a Lady Vampire and Other Vampiric Cravings; Burke’s Lore Briefs: Tomorrow’s Heroes; Burke’s Lore Briefs: Yesterday’s Villains)
Keith Burke (The Last Goodbye)
Rex Burke (Orphan Planet; Star Bound; Twin Landing)
Jane Burn (Be Feared; A Thousand Miles from the Sea)
Dave Buzan (In the Lair of Legends; In the Wrath of Legends)
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Mary Camarillo (The Lockhart Women; Those People Behind Us)
Eibhlís Carcione (Welcome to Dead Town Raven McKay; The Midnight House; Black Gables)
Kevin Carey (Junior Miles and The Junkman; Olympus Heights co-written by Colleen Michaels)
Scott Carlin (A Falling Of Snow; After The Snow Melts; You Have No Idea)
Katya Cengel (From Chernobyl with Love: Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union; Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back; Bluegrass Baseball: A Year in the Minor League Life)
Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar (Morsels of Purple; Skin over Milk)
Rob Chapman (Drum; Unsung : Unsaid: Syd and Nick in Absentia; All I Want Is Out Of Here; Ad Lib: Repeat To Fade)
GL Charlebois (Frik’s Needle: Book One of The Freehilt Chronicles; Virtuous; The Old Woman and Her Children: Book I of The Blessed, A Novel of Montreal; The Postulant; The Soldier; The Refugee; Two Sisters; Drummer at the Hôtel du Passé; A Dog’s Blog; Year One—The Mooks)
Lucian Childs (Dreaming Home)
John Chrostek (Boxcutters; Feast of the Pale Leviathan; founder of Cold Signal Magazine)
Christopher Citro (If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun; The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy)
David Clensy (For Those In Peril; The Mighty Ocean; In Danger’s Hour; Prayer in Time of War; Island Life: A History of Looe Island)
Gary Cockaday (Full Circle; A Moment’s Madness)
Michael Amos Cody (Avalon Moon; Streets of Nashville; Gabriel’s Songbook; A Twilight Reel)
G G Collins (Dead Editor File; Reluctant Medium; Skinwalker Medium)
Annie Cowell (Birth Mote(s); Splashing Pink co-written with Sam Szanto)
Sandra Cox (Silverhills; Return to Silverhills; Silverhills’ Rescue; Geller’s Find; ThunderTree; TumbleStar; Mateo’s Law; Keeper Tyree; Montana Shootists; GWEN SLADE, Bounty Hunter)
Cormac Culkeen (The Boy With the Radio)
Rebecca Cuthbert (In Memory of Exoskeletons)
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J. Dalton (John Marsh) (Words from a Broken Heart; The Gates to the Galaxies; The Tales of Mordratha; The Dead Ship; Planet of Diamonds)
César L. de León (Speaking With Grackles by Soapberry Trees)
John Deal (Under a Blood Moon; Beautiful Death; All the Natural Beauties)
Daren Dean (Shelter Me; I’ll Still Be Here Long After You’re Gone: Stories; Far Beyond the Pale; The Black Harvest; This Vale of Tears; Roads)
Steve Denehan (A Quarter Dead and Half Alive; Taillights Disappearing; After Midnight, Still Warm; The Streets, Like Flowers, Come Alive In The Rain; As if it Meant Something; Days of Falling Flesh and Rising Moons; Miles of Sky Above Us, Miles of Earth Below; Living in the Core of an Apple; Of Thunder, Pearls and Birdsong)
Kit Derrick (Lorelei; The Raven Sound; Hope Is A Six Letter Word)
Shiksha Dheda (The Tragedy of Touch; Washed Away: a collection of fragments; We Are All Pretty Bizarre: Ramblings About the Movies)
Stuart Dischell (The Lookout Man; Good Hope Road; Children with Enemies; Backwards Days; Dig Safe; Evenings & Avenues)
Chris S. Dixon (Death Is My Reward; Buried Secrets; Dead and Buried; Dead of Night; The Cabinet; The Forest; Terror Beach; Shadow; Vengeful; Gateway of Death; Still Life; Fly on the Wall; Walter Worm finds a friend)
Dave Dobson (Got Trouble; Daros; Kenai; What Grows From the Dead)
Jenzo DuQue (The Best American Short Stories 2021; Best Microfiction 2022; The Rest of Us)
Jonathan Edward Durham (Winterset Hollow)
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Tara A. Elliott (Whorl)
Angele Ellis (Arab on Radar; Spared; Under the Kaufmann’s Clock)
Mark Ellis (The French Spy; In the Shadows of the Blitz; Dead in the Water; The Embassy Murders; Death of an Officer; A Death in Mayfair)
Bronwyn Elsmore (These Islands Here: Short Stories of the South Pacific; Rushton Roulette; Every Five Minutes; Backwards Into The Future; Like Them That Dream: the Maori and the Old Testament; Mana from Heaven: A Century of Maori Prophets in New Zealand)
Suzy Eynon (Terrestrial; Being Seen; Commuting)
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Deirdre Fagan (Phantom Limbs; Find a Place for Me: Embracing Love and Life in the Face of Death)
Ivanka Fear (The Dead Lie; What Lies in the Cornfield?; Where is My Husband?)
Jeff Fearnside (Ships In The Desert; A Husband and Wife Are One Satan)
Jack Finn (It Pierces; Wilson; Prey Upon The Lambs; The Seven Deaths of Prince Vlad; They Come When You Sleep; Culling of the House of Boars; The Desolation of Hunters; Red Queen, Yellow King)
Joel Flanagan-Grannemann (Talia: Heir to the Fairy Realm; Talia: On the Shore of the Sea; Fairy Court in Exile; Mother of Exiles)
Fiona Forsyth (Death and the Poet; Poetic Justice; The Third Daughter; Blood and Shadows; The Emperor’s Servant; Rome’s End)
Tim Frank (Delusions To Live By)
Darren Freebury-Jones (Shakespeare’s Borrowed Feathers; Shakespeare’s Tutor: The Influence of Thomas Kyd)
Matthew Freeman (I Think I’d Rather Roar; Dopamine and the Devil; Exile: Poems)
Suzanne Frischkorn (Whipsaw; Fixed Star; Girl on a Bridge; Lit Windowpane; Spring Tide; Red Paper Flower; American Flamingo)
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Allan Gaw (The Shadows and the Dust; The Silent House of Sleep; To the Shades Descend; The Moon’s More Feeble Fire; Love & Other Diseases; The Sounds Men Make)
Adam Gibbs (Existentialism at the Wheel; Dumb Luck)
Stephen J. Golds (Shadows Slow Dancing in Derelict Rooms; Say Goodbye When I’m Gone; I’ll Pray When I’m Dying; Always The Dead)
Phil Goldstein (How to Bury a Boy at Sea)
Diane Gottlieb (2023 Best Microfiction; editor of Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness)
Helen Grant (Atmospheric Disturbances; Jump Cut; Too Near the Dead; Ghost; The Sea Change & Other Stories; The Antiquary and the Crocodile: Writings about the stories of M.R. James; Silent Saturday; Demons of Ghent; Urban Legends; Wish Me Dead; The Glass Demon; The Vanishing of Katharina Linden)
Iain C.M. Gray (The Ruined Road: A Collection of Short Stories; Doctor Oadwin: The Making of a Maniac; Zombies Wha Hae)
Shannon Frost Greenstein (An Oral History of One Day in Guyana; Through the Lens of Time)
Drew Gummerson (Saltburn; The Lodger; Me and Mickie James; Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel)
Kari Gunter-Seymour (Alone in the House of My Heart; Dirt Songs; Serving)
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Bex Hainsworth (Walrussey; Circulaire)
Guy Hale (All Our Yesterdays; The Croaking Raven; Sleep No More; Killing Me Softly; Put Out The Light; All The World’s A Stage; Blood On The Tracks)
Justin Hamm (Drinking Guinness with the Dead; The Inheritance: Poems and Photos; American Ephemeral; Lessons in Ruin)
David Hankins (Death and the Taxman; Grimsworld Tales; Death and the Dragon)
David Hay (Doctor Lazarus; A Spontaneous Prayer; On the Edge of the Asylum; How High the Moon: Saxon Suite)
Jon Herrera (Emma and the Minotaur; Emma and the Prince of Shadows)
Carolyn Davidson Hicks (Short Stories and Tall Tales: A Fireside Collection; The Cabin: And the ghost of Ira Thomas Roark; Gold’s Landing: An Inheritance To Die For; House of Secrets: The McGuire Mansion; Eli, In Times Like These; Hot Spot Thirteen; Ziri: Life Force A.I.)
Peter “Pedro” Brown Hoffmeister (American Afterlife; Graphic the Valley; Too Shattered For Mending)
Laura Reece Hogan (Butterfly Nebula; Litany Of Flights; I Live, No Longer I; O Garden-Dweller)
Richard Holeman (The Boy Who Glowed in the Dark; The Firefly Lantern; Gypsy Leathers: Biker Poetry and Other Rhymes; Evergreen Christmas)
Lucy Holme (Temporary Stasis; Blue Diagonals)
Stephenson Holt (Alien Affair; What Katie Didn’t Know; No Reason To Rhyme; Evolution In Sand: Poems and short prose)
David Harrison Horton (Necessary; Model Answers; A Country Funeral; Maze Poems)
Nick Horvath (Sledge vs. The Labyrinth)
Damon Hubbs (Venus at the Arms Fair; The Day Sharks Walk on Land; Coin Doors & Empires; Charm of Difference; The Railroad Poems; Fly Creek)
Allan Hudson (The Alexanders; Father; Shattered Lives; Code Name: Iron Spear 1941; Code Name: Iron Feather 1942; Completely Shattered)
Celso Hurtado (The Devil’s Promise; The Ghost Tracks)
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Pedro Iniguez (Fever Dreams Of A Parasite; Echoes and Embers: Speculative Stories; The Fib)
John Ironmonger (The Wager and the Bear; Not Forgetting the Whale; The Coincidence Authority; The Many Lives of Heloise Starchild; The Year of the Dugong; The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder)
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Michael Jecks (Fields of Glory; Blood on the Sand; Blood of the Innocents; Act of Vengeance; The Last Templar; Templar’s Acre; Treaty of Blood; One Last Dance Before I Die; The Piazza Murders; Death Comes in Threes)
Lloyd Jeffries (A Portion of Malice: Ages of Malice, Book 1; A Measure of Rhyme: Ages of Malice, Book II; Embers of Shadow: Ages of Malice, Book III; The Tempests of Time: Ages of Malice, Book IV)
James Jenkins (Sun Bleached Scarecrows; Parochial Pigs; Life in Dirt: Stories)
Jane Jesmond (Gone To Earth; On The Edge; Cut Adrift; Her; A Quiet Contagion)
Strider Marcus Jones (Pomegranate Flesh; Wooded Windows; Aspects Of Love; Inside Out)
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Vipanjeet Kaur (Surreal Morning: Poems)
Marie Keates (Obsession; Time & Tide; Siren Song; King & Country; Missing; Plagued; Land Fit For Heroes; Seventh Daughter; A Dish Best Served Cold; The Luck Of The Draw)
Alex Kenna (What Meets The Eye; Burn This Night)
Winona Kent (Ticket to Ride; Cold Play; Jason Davey Mysteries)
Carmella de Keyser (Chasms; The Liminal Light of the Night)
Shawn M. Klimek (Hungry Thing)
Bob King (And & And; And/Or)
Koss (Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect)
Jonathan Koven (Palm Lines; Below Torrential Hill; Mystic Orchards)
Gary Kruse (Ruins; Badlands; Bleak Waters; Mistress of the Crows)
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Gopal Lahiri (Return to Solitude; Selected Poems; Responsive Reviews: Books; Anemone Morning and other poems; Tidal Interlude; Crossing the Shoreline; Living Inside; Silent Steps; Alleys are Filled with Future Alphabets)
Lynne Jensen Lampe (Talk Smack to a Hurricane)
Huw Langridge (The Tolworth Resonance; The Tolworth Beacon; Hoodwink’s Folly; The Sapling Method; The Axiom Few; The Train Set: Six Ghost Stories)
Dr. Chris Laoutaris (Shakespeare’s Book: The Story Behind the First Folio and the Making of Shakespeare; Bleed and See)
Scott Laudati (Play The Devil; Bone House; Camp Winapooka; Hawaiian Shirts in the Electric Chair)
Maud Lavin (Push Comes to Shove; Cut with the Kitchen Knife; Clean New World)
G. Lawrence (The Last Queen: Book One of The Chronicles of Cleopatra; The Worm and the Fledgling: The Phoenix Trilogy: Story of Jane Seymour; The Mind’s Evil Toy; The Bastard Princess: The Elizabeth of England Chronicles; The Swan Maiden: Surface and the Deep, Story of Anna of Cleves, Book 2; Shadow of Persephone (The Story of Catherine Howard); No More Time to Dance (The Story of Catherine Howard Book 2); Daughter of the Sun: Story of the Young Eleanor of Aquitaine)
Whiskey Leavins (Low Angle Shot; A Turkey Danced Death; Murder in Greasepaint: A Rock Cobbler Case; The Busker War: A Sarah and Jess Adventure)
Richard Leise (Being Dead; Dry The Rain)
Carol Ann Lloyd (Courting the Virgin Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and Her Suitors; The Tudors by the Numbers)
Douglas Lumsden (In Deep Coprolite; The Blood Moon Feeds on My Dreams; A Specter Raps on My Windowpane; A Hag Rises from the Abyss; A Witch Steps into My Office; A Nymph Returns to the Sea; A Night Owl Slips into a Diner; The Demon’s Dagger; A Troll Walks into a Bar)
Ken Lussey (A Tangled Web; The High Road; Bloody Orkney; Hide and Seek)
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Andrew Cyril Macdonald (op.cit./urbes; Poetic cityscapes collected)
Gary J Mack (The Secret Magpie; Impossible Fruit; The Ghostly Menagerie; The Raven’s Message)
Mary Mackey (In This Burning World: Poems of Love and Apocalypse; Creativity: Where Poems Begin; The Village of Bones; The Year The Horses Came)
Gifford MacShane (Without the Thunder; Whispers in the Canyon; The Winds of Morning: Donovan Family Saga The Prequel; The Woodsman’s Rose; Rainbow Man)
Bryce Main (Love & Coffee; A Time for Dying; Heaven Help Us)
Frank Malley (The Hit List; The Killing Circle; The 13th Assassin)
Axl Malton (Tapped; Dead Man’s Heart; Cries of Joy)
Aoife Mannix (Heritage of Secrets; The Trick of Foreign Words; The Elephant in the Corner; Growing Up An Alien)
David E. Manuel (Molly Malice in Alterland; Killer Protocols; Thunder Road of the Cosmos: and other oddities)
Alec Marsh (Cut and Run; After the Flood; Ghosts of the West; Rule Britannia; Enemy of the Raj)
Helen Matthews (If I Were You; Lies Behind the Ruin; After Leaving the Village; The Girl in the Van; Girl Out of Sight; Facade)
A-M Mawhiney (Spelldrifts; Spindrifts; Fugitive Rifts)
Jahmal Mayfield (Smoke Kings)
Catherine McCarthy (Death of a Clown; The House at the End of Lacelean Street; Mosaic; A Moonlit Path of Madness)
Ronald McGillvray (The Candy Witch; Cutter’s Deep; Tales From The Parkland; James’ Journey To Dreamland)
Chris McGinley (Once These Hills; Coal Black: Stories; Hail Holy Queens)
John McKay (In For The Kill; Target Arnhem; Operation Codicil; Hell and High Water; The Sun Will Always Shine; The Absolution of Otto Finkel; Codename: GREYMAN)
N L McLaughlin (American Nomads; Lost Boys; Imaginary Dragons; True North)
Paul McMahon (Bourdon; The Devil at the Door; The Glasshouse; The Blueprint)
Tom Mead (Cabaret Macabre; The Murder Wheel; Death and the Conjuror: A Locked-Room Mystery)
Cyndee Melzow (When Tender is the Heart)
Tom Mock (Moon Song & Other Stories; The Long Nights)
Tim Moder (All True Heavens; The Angel of Coincidence; American Parade Routes)
Steven Gonzalez Monserrate (Sordidez written under pen name E.G. Condé)
Dede Montgomery (A Map of Her Own; From First Breath to Last; Humanity’s Grace; Beyond the Ripples; Then, Now, and In-Between: Place, Memories, and Loss in Oregon; My Music Man)
Jack Moody (Crooked Smile; The Monotony of Everlasting; Dancing to Broken Records)
Lawrence Moore (The Breadcrumb Trail; Aerial Sweetshop)
Ellen Birkett Morris (Beware the Tall Grass)
R. N. Morris (Cover Story; A Gentle Axe; A Vengeful Longing; A Razor Wrapped in Silk; The Cleansing Flames; Law of Blood)
Thomas Muller (Four Corners; Indestructible; Rusty; The Kelleher)
Harrison Murphy (The Girl in the Tower; Chrysalis; Dandelion; Elephant)
Joy Mutter (Making Contact; The Trouble With Liam; Living With Postcards; Caravan of Nightmares and Other Short Stories; A Sunny Day In Oldham; The Hostile; Holiday For The Hostile; The Hostile Game; Confronting The Hostile; Potholes and Magic Carpets; Her Demonic Angel; Random Bullets)
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Rasheed Newson (There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood; My Government Means to Kill Me)
Wayne Ng (The Family Code; Letters From Johnny; Johnny Delivers)
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Rohan O’Duill (Cold Rising; Cold Blooded)
Robert Okaji (Buddha’s Not Talking; My Mother’s Ghost Scrubs the Floor at 2 a.m.; From Every Moment a Second; I Have a Bird to Whistle)
Elaine L. Orr (Broken Ornaments Healing Holidays; From Newsprint to Footprints; Demise of a Devious Neighbor; Demise of a Devious Suspect; Trouble on the Doorstep; Appraisal for Murder; Mountain Rails of Old; Least Trodden Ground; Unscheduled Murder Trip; Rekindling Motives; Any Port in a Storm; The Unexpected Resolution; Behind the Walls)
Patricia M Osborne (The Woodhaerst Triangle; The Woodhaerst Women; The Woodhaerst Reunion; House of Grace: A Family Saga; The Granville Legacy; The Coal Miner’s Son; The Oath)
J T Owens (Dodgy Dogs and Bent Bookies; The Fisherman Returns; Greedy Grifters and Lunatic Lies)
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Jean Paetkau (Blood on the Breakwater; The Sinking of Souls)
Aimee Parkison (Body of Evidence; Refrigerated Music For A Gleaming Woman; Girl Zoo, co-authored with Carol Guess)
Frances Peck (The Broken Places; Uncontrolled Flight)
Maurice Perkins (“I think he’s dead!” and other funny stories; Born in Stockport – Grew up in the Royal Navy; Revenge; Quest)
Ed Perratore (The Knock from Nobody; Hindred Spirits; The Coven Tree; One Man’s Journey: A Walk Along the Croton Aqueduct Trail)
M. P. Powers (The Initiate; Hallucinogenic Dragonfly Intermezzo; Fortuna Berlin)
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Scott R.S. Raphael (Spruce Road; A Little Slice; The Hill at the Top of the Mountain; Asher’s Palace)
Catherine Raven (Fox and I)
Jonaki Ray (Firefly Memories; Lessons in Bending)
Caroline Rebisz (A Mother’s Deceit; A Mother’s Loss; A Costly Affair; The Café at Kate’s)
Niles Reddick (Drifting Too Far From The Shore; If Not for You & Other Stories; Road Kill Art and Other Oddities; Reading the Coffee Grounds and Other Stories)
Tony Riches (Drake – Tudor Corsair; Essex – Tudor Rebel; Raleigh – Tudor Adventurer; Penelope – Tudor Baroness; Frances – Tudor Countess; Bess – Tudor Gentlewoman; Owen – Book One of the Tudor Trilogy; Jasper – Book Two of the Tudor Trilogy; Henry – Book Three of the Tudor Trilogy; The Secret Diary of Eleanor Cobham)
Ron Riekki (Blood / Not Blood Then the Gates: Poems; U.P.: a novel; We Look Down At The Body; Posttraumatic: A Memoir; My Ancestors are Reindeer Herders and I Am Melting In Extinction: Saami-American Non-Fiction, Fiction, and Poetry)
Heather Robinson (Wall of Stone; Juno’s Peacock)
Rod Carlos Rodriguez (A History of Echoes: Poems; Exploits of a Sun Poet; Cantos, Incandescent; Lucid Affairs; Native Instincts)
Jen Rouse (Riding with Anne Sexton; A Trickle of Bloom Becomes You)
Barry Ryerson (The Magic Circle; The Child of Fire and Earth)
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Michael J. Sahno (Whizzers; Jana; Miles of Files; Brothers’ Hand)
Elizabeth St.John (The King’s Intelligencer: The Discovery of the Missing Princes in the Tower; The Lady of the Tower; The Godmother’s Secret; COUNTERPOINT: Barbara, Lady Villiers; COUNTERPOINT: Theo, Earl of Suffolk)
Greg Santos (Ghost Face; Blackbirds; The Emperor’s Sofa; Rabbit Punch!)
D.N. Schmidt (The Screaming Void; Inspiration Overdose; The Doom Tapes: And More Science Fiction Stories; The Proper Care and Feeding of Humans; They Ate The Waitress?; William and the Clockwork Devil; The Stolen Planet; Silverfish)
GJ Scobie (The Kill Chain: This is the Digital Dark Age)
Heidi Seaborn (tic tic tic; Marilyn: Essays & Poems; An Insomniac’s Slumber Party)
Andrew Sharp (The Guardian Of Magic, The Power Of A Connected)
Alex Shenstone (Elegies for People, Feelings, and Other Mortal Shit; The Deep: An Anthology of Dark Microfiction)
Michael Shotter (The Nemesis Legacy; The Nemesis Effect; Mr. Perkins Goes to Hell; 309; 500; Big Man Down; 8: Tales of The Big Men from The Nod/Wells Timelines; Shards: A Short-Fiction Anthology; The Spiral and The Threads: A Short-Fiction Anthology from The Nod/Wells Timelines)
Kathryn Silver-Hajo (Wolfsong; Roots of the Banyan Tree)
Diane Simmons (Bereft of Reason; William Prichard & Co; A Tricky Dance; An Inheritance; Finding a Way)
Anne M. Smith-Nochasak (A Canoer of Shorelines; The Ice Widow: A Story of Love and Redemption; River Faces North; River Becomes Shadow)
C. Matthew Smith (The Ones in the Corner; Twentymile; Mickey Finn: 21st Century Noir Vol. 3)
Nick Snape (Hostile Contact; Return Protocol; The Wrecking Squad; A Dragon of the Veil; A Queen In Blood)
Adam Staten (Blood Debt (Honour Bound Book 1); Oath Breaker (Honour Bound Book 2); Crusader (Honour Bound Book 3))
Caleb Stephens (Feeders; The Wallpaper Man; The Girls in the Cabin; If Only a Heart)
Cheryl Skory Suma (Habitan: The Parallel Place; gods Playground: 201’s Account)
Daniel B. Summerhill (Mausoleum of Flowers; Divine, Divine, Divine)
Eleanor Swift-Hook (The Fugitive’s Sword: Lord’s Learning Book 1; The Soldier’s Stand; The Mercenary’s Blade (Lord’s Legacy Book 1); The Traitor’s Apprentice; The Devil’s Command; The Physician’s Fate; The Alchemist’s Plot; The Cavalier’s Oath)
Sam Szanto (If No One Speaks; Splashing Pink co-written with Annie Cowell)
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Ann Christine Tabaka (Pondering the Shoreline of Existence; I No Longer Hear You Sing; Children Of The Storm)
Will Tinkham (The Packard Salesman; If I Lie in a Combat Zone; The Adventures of Hank Fenn; The Teddy & Bara Show; The Reluctant Nazi; The Great American Scrapbook)
Scott Austin Tirrell (Duke Rhime of the Spire; Koen: Quills from the Raven’s Nest; The Novice of Thanatos; Noonday in the North: Thornes of Ice; Dawn of the Lightbearer: Counsel of Steel; Destiny of the Daystar: Shattered Circles)
Peter Topside (Preternatural: A Psychological Horror Book: Preternatural Evolution; Preternatural Reckoning; Last Meal: A Deliciously Paranormal Horror Story)
Manny Torres (Dead Dogs; Father Was A Rat King; Perras Malas; Cabrones Perros)
Rebecca Turkewitz (Here in the Night)
Mark Turnbull (Charles I’s Private Life; Prince Rupert of the Rhine)
S.S. Turner (The Last Toll Collector; The Connection Game; Secrets of a River Swimmer; Golden: A Novel)
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John A. Vanek (Heart Murmurs: Poems; Deros: A Father Jake Austin Mystery; Absolution; Miracles; Bedeviled; Epiphany)
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Tim Walker (Guardians at the Wall; London Tales; Thames Valley Tales; The Trials of Arthur Whitty; Perverse; Abandoned; Ambrosius: Last of the Romans; Uther’s Destiny; Arthur Rex Brittonum; Arthur Dux Bellorum)
Linda Watkins (Storm Island: A Kate Pomeroy Mystery; The Tao of the Viper; Abducted; The Empty Space; The Blood of the Viper; Platform Shoes: A Steve Daniels Mystery; Tainted Wine; Mateguas Island; Return To Mateguas Island; Ghosts of Mateguas)
Charles Welch (Killer of Killers; Laughers; I’m Still Here: A Dystopian Horror Novel; Coming Up Short: A Psychological Horror Series)
K. R. Wilson (Call Me Stan: A Tragedy in Three Millennia; An Idea About My Dead Uncle)
S. L. Wilton (Queen of Crows; Crows and Wyverns; On Orion’s Shoulder)
P.S. Winn (100 NA; Legends of Lore; The Earth Watcher; Pacific Passage; House of Lies; Correlations; Heartfelts; Hypnagogia; Wings to Whispers; Mammoth Cave; A Gradual Decline; Parallel Adventures: Into The Caves; Parallel Adventures: Secrets Revealed; Parallel Adventures 3: Strange Happenings; Spooks and Spirits: Parallel Adventures 4)
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Larry Yoke (Soul Pieces; Second Chances; Broke Girl: A Detective Gloria Ramos Novel)
John Reid Young (The Journalist; The Skipping Verger and Other Tales; A Shark in the Bath and Other Stories)
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Stephen Zimmerman (The Missing; The Holiday Killer)