* Founder of Create50

* Author of The Guerilla Filmmakers Handbooks series.

* Filmmaker with four features and an Oscar shortlisted short under his belt.

* Creative director at the London Screenwriters’ Festival

* Founder of TEDxEaling

Passionate about all things film, Chris has spent his life watching movies, making movies and helping others make their movies. His major projects include action thriller ‘The Runner’, serial killer thriller ‘White Angel’ and paranormal horror ‘Urban Ghost Story’.

Chris co-created and authored The Guerilla Film Makers Handbook series, and currently there are eight editions. He also made the multi-award winning and Oscars shortlisted film ‘Gone Fishing’.

Chris runs the London Screenwriters Festival, TEDxEaling, as well as other training masterclasses for creatives.

In 2014 he completed the crowd created 50 Kisses feature film which entered the Guinness Book Of Records for most screenwriters on a feature film.

In 2016 he released the first Create50 book, Twisted50, available in soft back and Kindle which raced to number one on Amazon on the first day.

Chris runs regular film making workshops for filmmakers with low price points so that everyone can attend and get making their projects.

Right now Chris is developing the feature film ‘Rocketboy’ and running more Create50 projects.

Read his blog at www.ChrisJonesBlog.com

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Patrick Ryder is the author of numerous short stories, most of which appeared in small-press magazines in the nineties.

His first full-length novel is entitled 'Crossed Shadows' and is available on Amazon and Smashwords. 'Crossed Shadows' sits on that tense boundary between horror and science fiction, beginning with a misguided experiment at the CERN particle accelerator in Switzerland. 'When death lurks in your own shadow, where can you hide?'

He is author of 'Spiders in your Mind I', the first of a series of anthologies of new dark fiction. If you prefer your scares served cold, these stories are for you. Not recommended for reading at bedtime because no one hears your cries when you're lost in the night-time world...

His new short story, 'Regression', is set fifty years in the future, at the point when AI inevitably surpasses the capabilities of its human creators. 'The Singularity 50' is now available in Kindle and paperback format on Amazon.

He is a professional software engineer. For several years, he worked on video games, including the successful 'Broken Sword' series. He lives in the Howardian Hills, just outside York with his wife, Jillian, and telepathic dog Odie.

I write short stories and collaborate in publishing them with Janet Rawson, my writing partner.

I love to read, and I love to write too, but I have to be in the mood. My parents were both librarians so I guess that's where I got the bug. My favourite genre is science fiction but the stories I write tend to be more about relationships at the moment. What's that about?! Currently excited about Angels With Bruises, our latest short story collection, now on sale.

Janet also loves to read and of course write. As well as short stories she's a published playwright, and her play Mopsy Flopsy and Death has been performed both in the UK and Europe. Being a glass half full person her material often shocks close friends and family.

I've got a story recently published in The Singularity50 collection, now on sale. And I'm currently working on a dark dystopian novel, working title "The Last Normal Day."

Tara Basi is a novelist, playwright and scriptwriter. His work has achieved recognition through national award schemes, with Masterminders being shortlisted for the Novel Prize in 2012. His play "15" was performed at London's Lyric Theater in summer 2014. Two of his short stories have been shortlisted for the Singularity 50 compendium.

Seven at Two Past Five was awarded 4/4 stars at OnlineBooks.Org.

Tara has six novels available.

The Blocks Trilogy

Masterminders

Seven at Two Past Five

The Orb

Coming in 2019:

Frank

Claire Rye’s self-assessment as an "old-school head banging, vegetarian, nature loving, history fan and sci-fi geek" captures the eclectic nature of her interests and influences.

Understandably, her self-published novels are diverse in genres. Ranging from fantasy, science fiction, mystery to erotica.

Claire’s non-conformist writing style means each book is unpredictable. However, regardless of the category of story, the quirky yet relatable characters and surprising revelations make for a rewarding journey.

Claire Rye started to explore the world of writing in 2015 when her flair for the written word was discovered accidentally. She kept an informal blog while travelling through the United States and Europe. Claire found that her love of the unconventional helped her to look beyond the superficial. She discovered the ability to see ‘the story behind the story’ of the people and places she encountered.

An overwhelmingly positive and excited response to her travel blog triggered a curiosity that lead to an expansion of her story telling.

Claire Rye was born in Sydney Australia and currently lives on the Gold Coast. She continues to travel and develop her writing skills. You can find out more about Claire Rye and her works at www.clairerye.net

Clive has spent over 20 years working in technology: as a software developer, entrepreneur, industry analyst, and most recently CTO of SECUREAID - a humanitarian SaaS platform . He's written extensively about technology for a variety of publications. At Howard/Baines, the consultancy he co-founded with Jeremy Baines, he created the UX Lifecycle methodology that is outlined in his book, "UX Lifecycle: The business guide to implementing great software user experiences". Clive has combined his passion for technology and sci-fi to write "The Agency of Ellis", part of The Singularity anthology.

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Nick Yates spent 10 years as a newspaper journalist, scouring the land for stories of human suffering, success, hardship or heroism.

He now writes everything from corporate communiques to exclusive dinner invitations, while continuing to develop his passion for creative writing, particularly horror.

Nick has travelled and worked across the world; living in the UK, Isle of Man, Australia, Sweden and Belize. He is currently based in Northamptonshire with his wife Emily and their sons Stan and Flynn..

Follow him on Twitter: @Nick_Yates1

Or Instagram: @themistralblows

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Hello! I'm Steve Pool, an comics, urban fantasy, and horror writer. I am the creator and writer of the fantasy adventure comic book series "Taurs". I'm also an avid rpg gamer and オタク (otaku). I live in Portland, Oregon with my wife, Robin.

Emma Pullar is an award-winning and bestselling writer of dark fiction and children's stories.

She's also a supporter of Bang2write, Into the Script, and The London Screenwriters' Festival.

Follow Emma on Twitter @EmmaStoryteller or Instagram @emmapullar_storyteller or fb page Emma Pullar or visit her website www.emmapullar.com

Mark, lives, writes and produces in the north-west of the United Kingdom, slap bang in the Twilight Zone between Manchester and Liverpool.

Mark's short stories, 'Fear' and 'No Title' were published in An Eclectic Mix Vol 7 alongside several international competition winners. His sci-fi short story 'Automatic Drive' was published in The Singularity50, while another short horror story 'Ragnarok' was included in SNAFU: Resurrection published by Cohesion Press. His short sci-fi/fantasy story, 'Battelborg' will be published in SNAFU: Punk'd due out in October 2023.

As a screenplay writer, Mark has won several awards. Most recently, he won best short screenplay at the Austin Film Festival. He is also the winner of the inaugural Inroads Screenwriting Fellowship and Euroscript's Screen Story Competition.

Mark has written and produced three award-winning short films in transatlantic collaborations and also helped produce a web series called So Dark and a short horror film called The Dollmaker, which currently has over 24 million views on YouTube.

Website: www.mark-renshaw.com

Twitter: @markyrenshaw

Carmen has spent most of her life with ink on her fingers and a dangerously high pile of books and newspapers by her side.

She has worked as a newspaper reporter on two continents and always dreamt of becoming a novelist and screenwriter.

When she found herself crouched under her dining table, typing away on a novel between two earthquakes in Christchurch, New Zealand, she realised she was hooked for life.

The shaken but stirring novel made it to the longlist of the Mslexia competition, and her next book and first mystery, The Case Of The Missing Bride, was a finalist in the Malice Domestic competition in a year without a winner. Since then she has penned several more cozy mysteries, including the Jack and Frances series set in the 1930s.

Carmen now lives in Italy with her human and her four-legged family.

Links:

Website - www.carmenradtke.com

Facebook - www.facebook.com/Carmen-Radtke-1958399947738868/

Twitter:@CarmenRadtke1

Email - Carmenradtke01@gmail.com

Christopher Stanley is the author of numerous prize-winning flash fictions, the darkest of which can be found spreading misery and mayhem in his debut collection, The Lamppost Huggers and Other Wretched Tales (The Arcanist, June 2020). He’s also the author of the horror novelette, The Forest is Hungry (Demain Publishing, April 2019). Follow him on Twitter @allthosestrings or visit his website: christopherstanleyauthor.com

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Tom J Hingley, like Noel Coward,writes out of a desperate need for approval. Also like Coward, he can take any amount of criticism, provided it is unqualified praise. He claims that is where the similarity ends and vigorously denies all rumours do to with cravats, smoking jackets and very good sherry. He has had short stories published in Worcester Literary Festival Flash Fiction 2012 and 2018 and has been shortlisted in other writing competitions. He has also had material broadcast on Newsjack BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2017. His Singularity 50 story Eve and Adam, combines interests in science, religion and to paraphrase dear Noel, the strange potency of popular music. The middle initial is said to distinguish him from the rock star of the same name and has nothing to do with literary affectation.

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David Jacobson was born in London, UK but has never really occupied this world. A fantasy and science-fiction writer as well as a filmmaker, he writes stories that aim to capture imaginations and build worlds more fantastical than our own.

You can follow him on Twitter:

@BasicallyDave

And check out his latest Sci-Fi film:

https://www.facebook.com/thewatchersshort/

Carrie is a Seattle-based screenwriter, video editor, and dog lover. Learn more about Carrie at www.BitingOwl.com.

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Bethany grew up writing stories. The first one she remembers writing was about her cousin's dog (why not?) and now she's writing about complex women across as many genres as she can.

She studied screenwriting at the University of York where her work was first produced, including her first commissioned short film Shelf Life, and she had several short stories published through one of their student magazines, The Yorker, where she was later Film and TV section editor and Deputy Editor for Content.

Since graduating in 2018, she has been published in sci-fi anthology The Singularity and has co-founded film production company Dark Avenue Film, where another of her scripts in in pre-production. She is absolutely bursting to get more stories out into the world. Watch this space!

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Susannah Heffernan is an emerging author of literary speculative fiction. Susannah’s stories explore ‘what if’ scenarios and possible worlds. Her short stories have been published in Open Pen magazine and she appears in the Create 50 anthology, The Singularity. Susannah’s micro-collection, Speculize will be published May 2020.

If you enjoy the worlds of M John Harrison, Margaret Atwood, China Mieville or Philip K Dick, there’ll be something here for you.

Industrial psychologist, researcher, and marketing writer by day, writer of all things dark and disturbing in her free time.

Don McVey has worked for over 20 years in the Film and TV industry. After winning the H.G. Wells award for his short story 'Transference', he decided it was time to get round to writing a novel. His debut novel Karakorum will be released in May 2023.