Ghostlore – Episodes and Line-Up Announcement!

Cormack Baldwin is a speculative fiction writer and editor who emerged from the Alaskan bush one day and mosied down to Oregon. He is the head archivist/Editor-In-Chief of his analog horror and found-document fiction magazine, Archive of the Odd. If you’d like him to tell you fun facts about extinct invertebrates, long-dead people, or the deep ocean, say hello on Twitter @cormackbaldwin. If you’d just like to find his other work, check out cmbaldwin.carrd.co. 

Amy Boucher is a writer and folklorist who focuses on her native Shropshire. Her emphasis is primarily on the interplay between Folklore, history and the paranormal, as well as perceptions of the past through the lens of folk beliefs. She is a passionate advocate of Shropshire’s folklore, ghostlore and local history, and the role these play in preserving memory and heritage. She is currently collating ghost stories from the area, as well as writing an audio drama based on the intrinsic link between the Shropshire landscape and Satanic Folklore.’

E L Crocker is a writer from Manchester. He cut his teeth in horror stories, but in recent years has turned to writing fantasy novels. He recently signed with an agent for Lightfall, the first book in his epic fantasy series which he describes to non-fantasy friends as “Game of Thrones with vampires and werewolves”, which isn’t completely accurate but honestly saves so much time. When not writing he can be found playing video games, watching horror films, and reading and reviewing SFF, horror and murder mystery – and trying to be witty on Twitter (@ELCrocker3) 

Zoe Gilbert’s first novel, Folk (Bloomsbury), was shortlisted for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and adapted for BBC Radio (read by Samantha Spiro) and a libretto which will premiere in 2023. Her second novel, Mischief Acts (Bloomsbury), is released in March 2022, and is inspired by the past and future of the Great North Wood, which used to cover a large swathe of South London. Her short stories are published widely, including with Comma Press, The Stinging Fly, Mechanics’ Institute Review, and the British Fantasy Society Journal. Some of her stories have won prizes, including the Costa Short Story Award. Zoe is also the co-founder of London Lit Lab with Lily Dunn and the co-editor with Lily of A Wild and Precious Life (Unbound 2021), an anthology of writers in recovery.

Ai Jiang is a Chinese-Canadian writer, an immigrant from Fujian, and an active member of HWA. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in F&SF, The Dark, PseudoPod, Jellyfish Review, Hobart Pulp, The Masters Review, among others. Find her on Twitter (@AiJiang_) and online (http://aijiang.ca). 

Gessica Sakamoto Martini is a writer from Italy. She has a PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology from Durham University. Her research involved the study of the evolutionary history of Cinderella. Her writing has been published in Corvid Queen and featured in Alternative Stories podcast. On her twitter page @GJMartini she tweets weekly about folklore and fairy-tales symbolism.

Anna Orridge is a short story writer who lives in Croydon. Once an EFL teacher, she now works for an academy trust in London, promoting sustainability in education. Her work often falls into the genre of cli fi. You may remember ‘Backdrop’ – a previous Alternative Stories production, which was adapted from one of her short stories. Anna has always been fascinated by ghosts. With miners on both sides of her family, in Wales and Yorkshire, she is especially drawn to the rich folklore connected to work underground. In ‘The Accordionist’, she explores the distinctively Cornish legend of the Knockers.

Maria S. Picone/수영 is a Korean American adoptee who won Cream City Review’s 2020 Summer Poetry Prize. She has been published in Tahoma Literary Review, The Seventh Wave, Fractured Lit and more including Best Small Fictions 2021. Her work has been supported by Lighthouse Writers Workshop, GrubStreet, Kenyon Review, and Tin House. She is a 2022 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Kundiman Fellow and Chestnut Review’s managing editor. She is also the poetry editor at Hanok Review and associate editor at Uncharted Mag. Her work explores hybridity, identity, languages, and pop culture. Her website is mariaspicone.com, Twitter @mspicone.

Tamara Rogers writes mainly dark, surreal tales with a touch of science fiction. Her stories have appeared in Daily Science Fiction, The Arcanist, The Molotov Cocktail, and other publications. Her pre-apocalyptic dystopian novel Grind Spark was longlisted for the Bath Novel Award 2014. She is interested in all things weird in the world of psychology, artificial intelligence and armageddon. You can find her on Twitter @tamrogers, or at www.thedustlounge.com where there’s a strong possibility she’ll be talking about cats.

Cat Voleur is a writer of dark, speculative fiction and co-host of the Slasher Radio podcast. Her day job consists of script writing for ever-growing YouTube channels focused on media breakdowns. She currently resides in a house with her army of rescue felines. In addition to her writing, she can often be found reading, gaming, or pursuing her passion of fictional languages.