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Alex Brown’s Evergreen Wishlist!

Across Adult, YA, and MG, I am particularly drawn to: Final Girls who are also monsters, diaspora stories, horror of any kind, stories that will make her laugh/cry/wonder if something is lurking in the darkness, anything that hints at what might be hiding in the ocean, witches, rom coms, witchy rom coms, women/enby/POC-lead thrillers that … Read more

Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong’s Dying To Find…

I’m absolutely dying for anything that fits the following criteria: Adult Fiction from Native American Authors. Bonus points if the setting is in Oklahoma Adult Mysteries in the vein of the GHOST HUNTER series by Victoria Laurie or the WITCHCRAFT MYSTERIES by Juliet Blackwell, but with a strong “will-they-or-won’t-they” romantic sub-plot. Bonus points if it … Read more

Short Middle Grade Horror by Canadian Citizens or Residents

I’m now looking for submissions for our new series, Orca Shivers. Guidelines are below but in particular I’m looking for horror inspired by diverse storytelling traditions from writers connected to those traditions. Give me Ifrit, Golem, Banshee, Nine-Tailed Foxes, Wendigo tales or anything else from the rich and varied scary story traditions from around the … Read more

My MSWL

Esty Loveing-Downes holds a BFA in creative writing from Ringling College of Art + Design and an MFA in fiction from Queens University of Charlotte. Aside from serving as a daily editor for the Southern Review of Books, she was first mentored by the teams at Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Inc. and Tobias Literary … Read more