M. Aaron Brady

Currently studying Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University, they enjoy writing weird short stories, strange poetry, and taking odd photographs of curious things.

kymi // @doodlesanddat

An artist from Liverpool.

Aubrey Marić // @tripl.3.threat

Aubrey Marić is an American-born, Northwest-based illustrator who describes her work as always beginning “in a dark embryonic space.” She is inspired by nothing in particular, and states her art is simply a result of enjoying the creative process.

“Making art to me is like raising a child- if I try to dictate what it will become in the end, it loses the potential to become the best version of itself. Drawing and painting feels more like sculpting; coaxing vague shapes out of the darkness and pulling them into the light. I never aim to make an end product, only to lose myself in the process of creation.”

She is looking for connections to help work towards a Global Promise visa so she may continue the life she’s built in the UK.

Morgan Medway

Morgan is a London based poet who has loved writing and literature for as long as she can remember. Their work is largely reflections on various life experiences; their latest projects explore themes of religion and abuse of religious ritual, female place and power, and mythological neurodiversity. Morgan is thrilled to be published in a Flesh and Parchment collection for the second time.

Mai Wallace

Mai Wallace is a caffeine fiend whose creative output is dictated by how close she senses death to be. She is currently studying for her MA in Creative Writing at UEA, where she flits between writing poems, short stories and screenplays that float, untethered, around the internet. Sometimes she lifts her head from her notebook to go to sleep.

becca midghall // @gutzywrites

A writer and poet who draws on her own life experience, her work explores how she navigates the world as a neurodivergent woman. She writes about body image, mental health, neurodivergence, and misogyny.

Gary Lambert // @thegarylambert@glamgigpics

An artist who seeks to show the beauty and nuance in working-class life, and the importance of art and culture in enriching everyone’s experiences regardless of wealth.

Asha Pacey

Asha Pacey is a writer and poet whose work explores female hunger, transformation, and the monstrous possibilities of the human body. Inspired by folklore, ritual, and the grotesque, her work often reimagines natural phenomena through a human lens. She is a practicing Wiccan and is interested in exploring the intersection of folklore, myth and the constraints of the human body. This is her first publication with Flesh and Parchment.

Dalia Delahoz // @lunaymiel

Dalia Delahoz is an unpublished Mexican American author who spins tales of high emotions, inner (and outer) horrors, and veiled critiques of the world. Her main genres are speculative fiction, magical realism, and poetry. When she’s not writing, she’s probably reading, crafting, or on the road with friends.

KITTY // @pixie_poizen_

Kitty enjoys anything strange, dark, or unusual and has been writing since they were a little worm. The horror world has always inspired them, from classics like The Thing to campy horror like Lisa Frankenstein.

Alongside writing, they love fibre crafts, doing nails, and getting into drag—basically anything creative is their cup of tea.

Slater.

A Liverpool-based multi-tool ink artist whose work focuses on international folklore and the inner workings of the body. Much of their inspiration comes from what they find around them—often quite literally from the floor. They enjoy blending mediums and creating new beings from everyday items, and are currently working on a Celtic folklore catalogue.

Toni Burns // @toniscuriositycabinet@toniscuriositycabinet

Toni Burns (she/her) is a quiet seeker of language, newly leaning into the rhythms of poems and the architecture of thought. After years of hesitation, she now follows her curiosity with gentle boldness, sharing what she finds on her Substack — a cabinet of wonders where ideas unfold slowly, in their own time. She is also the co-host of Past and Picture, a podcast where film, history, and philosophy meet in conversation, tracing meaning through image and memory.

Frankie Reed // @frankenstiens.curios

Frankie Reed is a poet and visual artist whose work explores history, the divine, and the mysteries of the body—both in life and in death. With a background in the arts and historical inquiry, they work across media to unravel the emotional and symbolic threads that connect us to these states of being.

Allison Lee // @_allisonsarchives

Allison Lee was born and raised in Malaysia but is currently residing in Manchester after completing her degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. She works in marketing by day and is a creative writer by night. Her works largely take the form of essays and proses, and are centred around her identity as a daughter, an immigrant, a lover, and a writer. Voluntarily, Oxford commas and hot cocoas are her vices. You can sink your teeth into more of her writing at allisonlcj.com.

Luxx Alastair // @luxxpinx

Luxx is a young Black femme creative director and photographer based in Charlotte, North Carolina. A self-described film freak with a deep love for Surrealism, many of her concepts and shoots explore uncomfortable expressions of feelings and motivations, often centred on the female experience.

For directing and photography inquiries, contact Luxxalastair@yahoo.com.

J. Wycie

J. Wycie was, is, and will be a void into which ideas churn, concocting whimsies that play with imaginative interpretation to create meaning through word and sound. They enjoy pondering the nature of reality, truth, and what it means to be alive.

Cleo // @ghoulsfoldd

Writer and poet based in Liverpool with works surrounded trauma, grief, love and healing.

Meda Jurėnaitė // @figmother

Meda Jurėnaitė is a Lithuanian journalism student interested in culture, art, and every nook in between. She also plays around on her Lithuanian radio show and runs a Substack, where she shares fictional short stories about deranged women in a Clarice Lispector haze alongside think pieces on culture through a semi-personal lens. Her writing often reflects her culture and what she describes as “the soil of her soul,” and she fights every day for the right to remain fluid.

Holly Thorpe// @hol.thorpe@voiceboxwxm

Holly Thorpe is a Welsh poet, author, and facilitator whose work is often drawn to strange and funny points of connection (which for some reason often seem to involve questionable foods). She’s a board member of Voicebox Wxm and also runs writing workshops, with her latest exploring how to make ad taglines into absurdist set-ups.

If you have any workshop enquiries you can message Holly via her Instagram or visit her website hollythorpe.com.

judas almodovar // @lovcxii@lovcxii

judas almodovar is a multi-disciplinary artist, focusing on surrealist prose, photography, and fine art. his work is rooted in themes of personal identity, healing, and memory, almodovar approaches art as both a reflective practice and a catalyst for healing.

dhyasa morgan // @dhyasawrites@smudgetheory

Dhyasa Morgan is a UK based author-illustrator who currently daylights as a woman in STEM. Growing up as a first-generation immigrant in the UK, Dhyasa’s creative portfolio centres on feelings of diaspora, identity, and self-acceptance. She has recently self-published her own children’s book ‘Saanvi and the Beast’ and is working on a Hindu-mythology inspired fantasy novel ‘The Effulgence of Shadows’. In her poetry, Dhyasa explores themes of desire and belonging through the natural world- particularly through food and the nature of digestion. Her Substack is a space for her more esoteric and languid pieces of prose which engage with her experiences of life and art.

E.N

E is a kid poet, mediocre at best. She has her work published in a handful of places, and will never stop writing more.

reux z. qualm // @marshfaerie@marshfaerie

reux z. qualm is an empathic and versatile artist who writes with a quirky but poignant tone emblematic of a diy basement venue fantasia.

their oeuvre epitomizes a broken childhood reclaimed in adulthood, gender dysphoria & the effects of forced femininity, late- & undiagnosed neurodivergence, radical relationships with nature, and a love for jeff buckley so powerful it's physically painful.

reux has worked as an educator, organized with local coalitions to further justice for marginalized folks, and is currently pursuing their second master's degree in english rhetoric. they are a freelance editor and active in word tonic's gen-z copywriting community.

Adam L. Murphy

A writer who dabbles in both poetry and prose, their work is more a product of impulse and flow than careful reasoning or planning. They aim to create writing that feels fleshy and alive—poetry concerned with muscles and skin, veins and arteries, something vivacious and writhing.

J. Camarena // @persephonesprose@persephonesprose

J. Camarena is a published author with pieces featured in various literary magazines. Her days are spent with far too much coffee, and fiction worlds. She is currently writing her first novel.

Soffie May // @soffiebites

Based in Birmingham, Soffie May is back perusing writing and poetry as a means to explore and come to an understanding of their own life experiences. She is a lover of all cultures and critical theory and strives to celebrate the words they want to put into the world without regards to perfectionism.

Heavy Digestations

Heavy Digestations define their multidisciplinary practice as "culino-philisophico-autobiographical," a quote borrowed from The Debt to Pleasure by John Lancaster. Their visual work and words can be candid accounts of their inner worlds, tongue-in-cheek ruminations, or grossly exaggerated as they play with fiction and reality, on and offline. Their work allows for intervention through the use of broken cameras, free software, facilitation, collaboration, ongoing research, and lived experience. Using low-resolution and low-culture mediums and aesthetics, they build speculative post-humanist worlds that act as examinations of food, technology, erotics, and the performance of the self. Finding meaning in the mundanities, they data-mine private and public ritual to determine and define authenticities. Their prognostications speak of redundant flesh in digital landscapes and the liminality of ancient practices.

Sára Borbála Antal

Antal Sára Borbála is a twenty year old Hungarian aspiring poet whose main inspiration circles around topics like obsession, the bittersweet experience of loving and food. And sometimes fish. And other odd phenomena found in nature, kitchens and the flaws in perfect systems.

Tereza Justína Vaneková

Tereza Justína Vaneková is a 20 year old aspiring artist from Prague. In her often processual work, she explores themes such as repetition, alienation and bare contact.

Grace Lehnardt // @virginlitmag

Grace Lehnardt is a writer/creative based in Kansas City. She mainly publishes personal narratives contemplating sex, women’s roles, and the psyche, but is also currently working on a full-length fiction novel. Her most recent project is an independent literary magazine, “VIRGIN”, featuring lewd stories about a lost and lonely degenerate, exploring sex and love like she’s never known shame. Nothing is left unsaid, except, of course, his name.

Apeksha Lal // apekshalal.com

Apeksha Lal is a South Asian artist based in New York City, primarily working with painting, relief printmaking, and digital illustration, drawing inspiration from Indian mythology, gothic horror, vampires and fantasy.

estella

mixed media artist & writer, currently experimenting mainly in sculpture & poetry.

Annahita Armaan

Annahita is a writer who sees writing as a way to make sense of the world and their place within it. They write to give life to emotions, capture fleeting moments, and explore the endless complexities of being human.

They have recently been working on a novel and a screenplay, both inspired by dark psychological themes. Their writing often delves into love, grief, and loss, drawing on both personal experiences and the world around them. Through their work, they hope to connect with others on a deeper level, offering a glimpse into the rawness and beauty of our shared humanity.

Cormac Gould // @vaguesensations

Wandering slightly, confused mostly, Cormac is a writer and musician from Belfast. He is interested in identity, technology, sound and culture. If the expression “all research is me-search” is true then, according to his current browser tabs, Cormac is also the following: a set of 1960s office furniture, a German conceptual artist, a disappointed Irish rugby fan, an AI who doesn’t believe he is real, a 19th century trapper suffering from Mal de Caribou, a foreign policy advisor, a medieval peasant who pays his rent with eels, a Youtube addict and/or someone interested in poetry. Feel free to talk to him about any of the above, afterall what creative type doesn’t love talking about themselves. Unsurprisingly, he is not very good at bios, self promotion or consistency.

Elinor J Boult // @elinor.j.boult

Elinor is a poet, playwright, and dramaturge from the Wirral. Her work explores women, whimsy, and big feelings. She has been writing for around ten years, and more recently began performing her poetry, embracing the chance to share her work in a more intimate and immediate way.

In 2025, she won the Homotopia Writers Award for her play The Days Between Spring and Summer.

rae woods // @out.of.the.woods.poetry

At time of writing, Rae is 25. They ate a lot of paint as a child and have been making things, on and off, ever since—an ongoing attempt to get it out. Back then they were small; now they’re not much bigger. As for the paint habit, don’t worry about it.

Last year, they started sharing poems again. Some are about them, others are about you. At least one is about eating soil. Everything, ever, is about finding a way out of the woods. Maybe they’re heading in the same direction. Maybe you could walk each other home.

olayemi z. ade // @olliep0cket

Ollie Ade, published as Olayemi Z. Ade, credited as Yemi Adebisi, and DJing under the moniker YEMAYA, is a Nigerian-Moroccan-British, neurodivergent queer creative based in Liverpool.

They write plays, prose, screenplays, and poetry that merge horror and culture, and also work in the sustainability sector for film and television.

Katherine Chiemi // @katherinechiemi‍ ‍@katherinechiemi

Katherine Chiemi is a movement artist, archivist, and poet.

Freyja //@freyja306020

Freyja is a 22 year-old student writer hailing from the U.S.A. She has never been published before and is working on more poetry to be published as a full manuscript.

Sarah James Roman // @fruitflycake

Sarah James Roman is an interdisciplinary artist based in Chicago, working primarily in painting, mixed media, fiber, and sculpture. She attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign before moving to Chicago to continue her BFA at the School of the Art Institute. Originally from the Chicago suburbs, she draws her ideas from navigating queer identity and Asian diaspora in the suburban gothic landscape of Americana. Her art delves into themes of femininity, queerness, desire, and consumption, inviting viewers into a world where beauty collides with the grotesque and the obscure.

Madalyn Whitaker //@madswhitaker

Madalyn Whitaker is a writer who writes early in the morning before her full time corporate job starts, and--for most of the year--before the sun rises. She's based out of Chicago, Illinois. Her work has appeared in other publications in the past.