Meet our Authors

Irish military science fiction writer, Co-founder and administrator of British & Irish Writing Community and of Bard of the Isles, also current committee chairman here at Bard of the Isles.

Author of Big Red and Blood Red Sands.

Sword wielding, guitar playing writer of fantasy, Co- founder and administrator of the British & Irish Writing Community and of Bard of the Isles, also executive manager here at Bard of the Isles.

Author of The Dead Sagas fantasy horror series, including the novels A Ritual of Bone and A Ritual of Flesh.

Administrator of the British and Irish Writing Community and of Bard of the Isles, also executive manager here at Bard of the Isles.

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Wrestler of words, builder of worlds. J E Hannaford is powered by coffee, dragons and whisky. She teaches biology in the real world and invents fantasy beasts to populate her own. She writes fantasy novels and weird short stories.

Pizza loving writer of dark fantasy, co-founder of British & Irish Writing Community and Bard of the Isles.

Antler Overlord, multi award losing author and pretty much the opposite of facts. Professionally ill. Bit of goth.

Author of the stunning Godblind Trilogy. A sword wielding writer of epic, gritty, grimdark fantasy and all-round lovey lady. Published with Harper-Voyager.  

Previously with Games Workshop, Matthew also wrote novels for FrostGrave, and an author of many other speculative fiction and horror titles. His latest novel Legacy of Ash is out now.

He is the author of the War for the Rose Throne series, beginning with Priest of Bones, the Burned Man series, and numerous short stories for Warhammer's Black Library.

A Glasgow based swordsman, gamer, enthusiast of archaeology and history and fine ale drinker

G.D. Penman is the author of the Witch of Empire Trilogy, Dungeons of Strata and many other books. He lives in Scotland with his wife, children, dog and cats… just so many cats.

Creator of the Ordshaw series of urban fantasy novels

Author of The Wildfire Cycle, including the novels Kingshold and Ioth City of Lights

Steven McKinnon is an independent writer living in Glasgow. His first book, Boldly Going Nowhere, was released in 2015. He is currently working on an epic fantasy trilogy called The Raincatcher's Ballad, the first book of which - Symphony of the Wind - was released in 2018, and was selected as finalist in the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off of that year.

Author residing in Cumbria, who's short stories have been featured in the Blackest Spells Anthology.

Author of the Sundered Crown Saga and Empowered Ones Series

Cooking up stories and brownies in the South of England.

Author of the Dark Oak Chronicles and The Ravenmaster’s Revenge: The Return of King Arthur

Psychiatrist, Traveller, Writer. Not always in that order

Genre busting author. Some crime, some thrillers and a dash of supernatural

Writer of The Soulseer Chronicles trilogy with a new series on the way very soon

Born in Dublin and now residing in Co. Kildare, Ireland. His latest book is Hard Choices, a novella featuring ex-MI5 agent Rogue. Hard Choices is Book 1 in the ROGUE crime thriller series.

Alex S. Bradshaw has worked in publishing for seven years working with one of the biggest publishing companies and award winning independent publishers. He is also a fantasy writer currently working on a novel about Viking superheroes. He is obsessed with fantasy stories and dinosaurs and can be found lurking on Twitter entirely too often.

Queen Timy, Book Blogger, SPFBO Judge.

Timy is the blogging force behind, and creator of RockStarLit Book Asylum

Cybersecurity consultant by day, aspiring author, cat enthusiast, and pub frequenter by night.

Lincoln based author, old fart, influenced by R E Howard. Lover of Historical Martial arts, LARP and Tabletop roleplay. Chief instructor at Wolfshead Western Martial Arts.

Author of The Transcendent Saga series, contemporary epic fantasy

UK based Editor offering a range of editing and proofreading services

Reviewer and Book Blogger of Radzy Writes, Reads and Reviews.