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A.E. Bross is an author and librarian who spends their time not only writing their own books but also making sure everyone around them has access to the books that make them feel seen and heard. They write queer fantasy and science fiction, often with neurodiverse characters, and always brought together by love, be it romantic, platonic, or found family. They have written high seas adventure and romance, modern paranormal romantasy, and even fairy tale retellings in cyberpunk settings. They’re always looking for new ways to craft their stories and bring their characters to life.

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Genres: Romantasy, High/Low Fantasy, Urban Fantasy.

Queer Rep: Asexual (including bi & panromantic), Gay, Sapphic, Pansexual, Bisexual, Trans (binary), Trans (nonbinary), Lesbian, Queer Questioning.

Disability Rep: Mental health, neurodivergence, chronic illness.

BIPOC Rep: African American, Latine, additional Fantasy/SciFi world BIPOC.

Steph loves cats, long city walks and cooking Tex-Mex during blizzards. She writes action-packed urban fantasy with the motto, “low spice, lotta banter.”

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Genres: urban fantasy

Queer Rep: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Other Queer.

BIPOC Rep: Asian, Latine

Barry Ryerson is now retired due to ill health, but this has allowed him the chance to write the stories that have plagued his mind for years. He enjoys blending genres to create his own, unique style that includes gender-fluid dragons, intersex main characters, scifi military action along with shapeshifting and magical powers; all of which are sprinkled with a bit of humour and life.

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Genres: SciFi, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller.

Queer Rep: Bisexual, Other Queer, Queer Questioning

Disability Rep: physical disability (leg).

BIPOC: black and mixed Jamaican & Scottish heritage.

Alina Lee is a freelance writer residing in Asia. She writes fiction in her spare time, leaning towards fantasy but drawing inspiration from East Asian culture, eldritch horror, and general strangeness. Repository of all sorts of useless information. She keeps mostly to herself.

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Genres: low fantasy, soft sci-fi, urban fantasy.

Queer Rep: Asexual (including bi & panromantic), Lesbian, Sapphic, Bisexual.

BIPOC: Fantasy/ SciFi world BIPOC.

May writes magical stories where everyone can find themselves in, exploring queer & platonic relationships in Fantasy.

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Genres: cozy fantasy, sci-fantasy, urban fantasy.

Queer Rep: Aromantic, Asexual (including bi & panromantic), Sapphic, Trans (nonbinary).

Disability Rep: Neurodivergent.

BIPOC Rep: Fantasy Latinas.

Veo Corva writes neurodiverse, queer speculative fiction with warmth and weirdness ranging from slice-of-life sci-fi to cosy fantasy to subterranean necromantic towns. Nothing light without conflict, nothing dark without hope.

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Genres: cosy fantasy, slice-of-life, space fantasy.

Queer Rep: Asexual (including bi & panromantic), Bisexual, Pansexual, Trans (nonbinary), Queer Questioning, Lesbian, Sapphic.

Disability Rep: autism, mental health, ME/CFS, chronic illness, low vision/blind, limb difference.

BIPOC Rep: secondary world BIPOC.

Formats: include audiobook.

Kit turned their passion for storytelling and horses into their fantasy world filled with magical equines and a diverse cast of characters often with disability, neurodivergent, and queer representation.

The world of Radio Arcanum is our own world filled with magic and mythology where characters are finding their place amid their own found families.

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Genres: cozy, cozy-adjacent, equestrian, animal companions, naturecore.

Queer Rep: Lesbian, Gay, Aromantic, Trans

Disability Rep: neurodivergent, mental health, chronic illness, mobility issues, chronic pain.

BIPOC Rep: Fantasy/SciFi world BIPOC.

Cara is an author of sapphic and bisexual fantasy and romance books. After meandering through a writing degree, different genres, and several languages, she eventually settled on the romantic side of fantasy. Their work revolves around capable, kind and courageous women, who just so happen to love other women and also sometimes ride dragons. It aims to let queer women be seen in genre literature, and celebrate the joy of living your life openly just the way you are.

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Genres: Fantasy, romantasy, cosy, sword & sorcery.

Queer Rep: Lesbian, Sapphic, Bisexual.

BIPOC Rep: Fantasy/SciFi world BIPOC.

C. R. Collins is a tree hugging indie author with a passion for nature and wildlife. Her Tales of Ardonna series offers fairy tales for adults: eco-friendly, hopepunk, epic fantasy adventures set in an improbable world with norms outside the familiar status quo. Diverse characters deal with everyday life issues disrupted by outlandish complications. All books, save the trilogy, have standalone main plots.

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Genres: epic fantasy, fantasy adventure.

Queer Rep: Gay, Lesbian, Pansexual, Bisexual.

Disability Rep: mental health.

BIPOC Rep: Fantasy world BIPOC.

They are a queer, neurodivergent, PoC writer who writes sci fantasy books and high fantasy books set in queernormative secondary worlds.

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Genres: Queer Fantasy, Urban fantasy, high fantasy, political fantasy, epic fantasy.

Queer Rep: Aromantic, Asexual (including bi & panromantic), Gay, Lesbian, Sapphic, Bisexual.

Disability Rep: Neurodivergent, mental health, injury related issues, blindness for one PoV character in the Jaya! series.

BIPOC Rep: Asian (Indian), secondary world BiPOC.

Elise is an Aussie, queer and neurodivergent, restless adventurer and passionate educator, with an endless list of ‘what if?’ questions to explore in Epic Fantasy and SciFi-Fantasy. They write adventures with strong threads of mystery, in which the found families saving the world just so happen to be queer and neurodivergent, for readers who may age, but will never get old.

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Genres: Epic & Portal Fantasy, SciFi-Fantasy.

Queer Rep: Nonbinary, Gay, Aro-Ace (including panromantic), lesbian.

Disability Rep: autism, ADHD, CPTSD.

BIPOC Rep: Aboriginal Aussie, Vietnamese-Aussie, Fantasy/ SciFi world BIPOC.

Issy is a trans woman author from New Zealand (yes, that island country that is often missed off maps ^^), who likes to write fantasy/urban fantasy with queer casts and trans woman mc’s, usually sapphic, and often with more than a little romance too.

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Genres: Epic Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Paranormal, Romantasy

Queer Rep: Lesbian, Sapphic, Pansexual, Trans (binary)

Claudie Arseneault is an easily-enthused aromantic and asexual writer with a never-ending cycle of obsessions but an enduring love for all things cephalopod and fantasy. She writes queer fantasy that centres platonic relationships and blend high stakes and cozier, warm moments, and is equally known for editing several aromantic SFFH anthologies.

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Genres: High Fantasy, Cozy Fantasy, Epic Fantasy.

Queer Rep: Aromantic, Asexual (including bi & panromantic), Trans (nonbinary), Queer Questioning.

Disability Rep: ADHD (Nerezia), Asthma (Baker Thief).

BIPOC Rep: Fantasy world BIPOC.

Burgundy is a queer, neurodivergent, non-binary author and environmentalist who loves to garden and pet cats. Vir stories range anywhere from short stories to unwieldy sagas of absurd proportions, to speculative fiction, memoir, environmental writing, poetry or even some mixture of all of the above. These works overwhelmingly touch upon many hard topics. Vi also produces vir own audiobooks.

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Genres: Dark fantasy, high fantasy, action.

Queer Rep: Aromantic, Asexual (including bi & panromantic), Trans (binary), Trans (nonbinary), Sapphic, Lesbian, Gay, Pansexual, Bisexual, Other Queer.

Disability Rep: neurodivergence, autism, mental health, chronic illness.

Formats: include audiobook.

Nicole Hidalgo is a video game and book writer with a passion for the fantastical. She writes dark fantasy in queernormative worlds filled with magic, (often gory) fighting, and slow-burn lesbian romances. Found family, non-human characters, and legendary weapons also have a special place in her heart and in her tales.

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Genres: Dark fantasy, lesbian romance, slow-burn romance.

Queer Rep: Lesbian, Sapphic, Trans (binary)

Disability Rep: Neurodivergent

BIPOC Rep: Fantasy/ SciFi world BIPOC.

Rien is a nonbinary, butch, and intersex author of sapphic romance, fantasy, and horror. Their current series, Out of True, is a queernorm and lesbian interpretation of Arthuriana myths and legends, following the knights in service to a transfemme King Arthur.

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Genres: fantasy, horror, romance.

Queer Rep: Asexual (including bi & panromantic), Lesbian, Sapphic, Trans (binary), Trans (nonbinary), Other Queer, Bisexual.

Disability Rep: Autism, PTSD, blindness, limited mobility.

BIPOC Rep: Fantasy BiPOC – Asian, Black, MENA.

Kenneth Feller is a cave troll from the South Island of New Zealand. Strange and reclusive, it will only venture from its burrow to forage for cocoa beans and attend death metal concerts. Its works of humorous dark fantasy has an Australasian/Oceanic flair, and includes queer and neurodiverse characters.

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Genres: Dark Fantasy, Gaslamp, Humorous Fantasy, Anti-epic Fantasy.

Queer Rep: Aromantic, Asexual (including bi & panromantic), Queer Questioning.

Disability Rep: Neurodivergent, PTSD, Mobility issues.

BIPOC Rep: Fantasy/ SciFi world BIPOC.

Rob MacWolf was last sighted somewhere in North America, waiting for the world to end. He writes magical realism, in an attempt to make reality a little more managable. He is winner of Coyotl, Leo, and Ursa Major literary awards, a founding member of the Furry Historical Fiction Society, and host of the Voice of Dog audiofiction podcast.”

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Genres: magical realism, queer romance, fantasy, ergodic literature.

Queer Rep: Gay.

Disability Rep: neurodivergent.

BIPOC: Fantasy/ SciFi world BIPOC.

R. A. Meenan was born in the steampunk Victorian London era during the golden age of science fiction, but somehow time traveled to the Modern Era and started writing fantasy fiction. They write queer-normative magepunk with flashy elemental magic, found family, inner-demon battles, and creative swears. Rise up, Defenders!

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Genres: magepunk, action/adventure, contemporary fantasy.

Queer Rep: Aromantic, Asexual (including bi & panromantic), Gay, Lesbian, Pansexual, Bisexual, Trans (binary), Trans (nonbinary), Sapphic

Disability Rep: ADHD, Autism, blindness, PTSD, prosthetic limbs.

BIPOC Rep: secondary world BIPOC (aliens).

Formats: include audiobook.

P.J.C. Cahill is a husband, author, and gamer, who explores sci-fi and fantasy settings with large, inclusive casts that mingle often-absurd action with deep and loveable characters.

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Genres: space opera, contemporary fantasy, paranormal romance.

Queer Rep: Asexual (including bi & panromantic), Lesbian, Sapphic, Bisexual, Queer Questioning.

Disability Rep: Prosthetics, neurodivergence, intense social anxiety/depression.

BIPOC Rep: Fantasy/SciFi world BIPOC, and non-white characters in contemporary settings.

Patrick is a mad scientist, mildly rational technician and occasionally lucid author. Their books are always LitRPG, frequently steampunk, and quite often contain positive depictions of rats. They’re books for people who think normal is boring, and would rather walk on the wild side.

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Genres: LitRPG, Steampunk, Magepunk, VRMMO.

Queer Rep: Asexual (including bi & panromantic), Aromantic, Trans (nonbinary).

Disability Rep: paraplegia/ wheelchair usage, PTSD, bulimia.

BIPOC Rep: Vietnamese.

JD loves everything weird and cute, consumes cooking shows as if it were its own competition, and was indoctrinated into the speculative fiction life as small kid with fairy tales. They write stories straddling different genres, always queer, always fantastical, always with a dash of romance. Often with characters trying to figure out the world around them, while collecting people, they will call family, on the way.

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Genres: romance, adventure, horror, magic inclusive (even the SciFi).

Queer Rep: Gay, Bisexual, Trans (binary).

Disability Rep: anxiety, mental health.

BIPOC Rep: Fantasy/ SciFi world BIPOC.

Formats: include audiobook.

Janina is a nature-loving story-addict who may have tea and chocolate running through her veins. She writes character-led stories in a variety of genres for those who need a little escape from real life.

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Genres: Fantasy, SciFi, Adventure, thriller and romcom.

Queer Rep: Aromantic, Asexual (including bi & panromantic)

Disability Rep: PTSD and neurodivergence.

BIPOC Rep: Hispanic, African descent and fantasy BIPOC.

G.M. Nair is a nerd, comedian, and general nuisance who can’t stop running his mouth. He writes science fiction/mystery/fantasy/adventure/comedies which sounds like a lot, because it is.

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Genres: Sci-fi, mystery, fantasy, comedy.

Queer Rep: Bisexual, Gay.

BIPOC Rep: Black, and mixed Asian & caucasian.

Joyce Ch’ng is Singaporean Chinese. They write SFF, kidlit and things in between. The Fire Heart duology is a sapphic YA fantasy with swords and learning about one’s worth.

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Genres: Fantasy, SciFi, General Speculative Fiction, Kidlit.

Queer Rep: Sapphic, Lesbian.

Disability Rep: Anxiety

BIPOC Rep: Fantasy BIPOC.

Aimee Cozza writes and illustrates science fiction, fantasy, and horror, usually with a bittersweet twist or ending. Her series The Machines follows traumatized robots and cyborgs as they find themselves through love, friendship, and an unbridled desire to be free to be themselves.

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Genres: Cyberpunk, soft science fiction.

Queer Rep: Gay, Lesbian, Asexual (including bi & panromantic), Aromantic, Bisexual, Pansexual, Trans (nonbinary).

Disability Rep: neurodivergent and chronic illness.

Emma Burnett is a researcher and writer. She has had over a hundred short stories published in dozens of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and literary magazines. You can snag a copy of her first book, Ex Partum, at emmaburnett.carrd.co. Emma’s stories centre on themes of power, justice, care, family, food, and oddity. They’ve been told that their stories are unhinged, and it’s hard to think of a better compliment.

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Genres: near-future dystopia, sci-fi, speculative fiction.

Queer Rep: Trans (nonbinary), Bisexual.

Disability Rep: Mental health, post-partum depression, sleep deprivation, care fatigue, new parent, capitalism pressures.

Sadhbh loves exploring myths and legends through a modern queer lens. Her stories feature trans characters in science fantasy situations.

Societas Aenigmatum, her main series, follows preternatural investigators fighting against an extra-dimensional invasion.

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Genres: paranormal fantasy horror, weird science.

Queer Rep: Aromantic, Asexual (including bi & panromantic), Lesbian, Pansexual, Trans (nonbinary), Trans (binary).

Disability Rep: ADHD, chronic depression.

BIPOC Rep: Ecuadorian American lead detective.

Andrea is an aroace nonbinary person who likes making it gay and making it weird. They like mashing together genres and styles, but focuses on exploring the boundaries of mystery, fantasy, horror, and science ficition, all with a touch of humor. Because while things can be dark, you always need a little humor to make it all bearable.

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Genres: mystery, horror, urban fantasy, science fiction, comedy.

Queer Rep: Gay, Lesbian

Disability Rep: Mental health

BIPOC Rep: Mixed race character in the Infected series.

A.Z. Louise is an author, poet, and artistic nuisance living in a cheese lover’s paradise. In their spare time, they are a collector of fountain pens, impractical hobbies, and useless facts, all of which they are guilty of inserting into their written works. Those written works include science fiction, fantasy, horror, romance, and post-apocalyptic Shakespeare retellings under the pen name T.O. Tate.

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Genres: sci-fi, fantasy, horror, post-apocalyptic.

Queer Rep: Sapphic, Bisexual, Trans (nonbinary).

Disability Rep: neurodivergence, mental illness, chronic illness.

BIPOC Rep: Black

Dan is a sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writer and alleged cryptid currently residing in the Scottish Highlands. He likes going for walks, strong coffee, queernormative settings, and intricate, maximalist prose that’s as much a character as any of the people in his books.

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Genres: Space Opera, Swords and Sorcery, Adult Fiction, Horror

Queer Rep: Asexual (including bi & panromantic), Pansexual, Trans (nonbinary), Gay, Lesbian, Sapphic.

Disability Rep: neurodivergent.

BIPOC Rep: SciFi world BIPOC.

Kay is a lover of cats, robots, and music on physical media, whose particular passion for machines that click and whirr informs much of her writing. She is an author of tragic, intense, and deeply personal sci-fi horror, with a specific focus on flawed and human trans lesbian protagonists who hurt, and struggle, but survive, perhaps even finding renewed hope in the end.

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Genres: Horror, Sci-Fi.

Queer Rep: Lesbian, Trans (binary).

Disability Rep: Neurodivergent, mental health, psychosis, dexterity issues, nonverbal.

BIPOC Rep: Black, sci-fi world BIPOC.