MEET OUR AUTHORS
UNCOMFORTABLY DARK WELCOMES...
Authors that deal with the darkness in a variety of way and process it through written words and verse.
Uncomfortably Dark Welcomes Our New & Returning Authors
for the 2025-2026 Publishing Year!
The Uncomfortably Dark Authors
Meet our incredible talented authors & poets - Masters of their craft
We are proud to work with such an amazing group of diverse individuals such as the folks below. They are wonderful people to work with, talented in all aspects of their craft, and are truly the kind of people that represent the personal motto of the creator of Uncomfortably Dark, Candace Nola, to "be the kindness in the dark."
Rei Alyssa Murray
Award-nominated Author & Poet
Rei Alyssa Murray is a trans writer located in western Pennsylvania. She has written two dark poetry collections, Cries to Kill the Corpse Flower and Lost Letters to a Lover’s Carcass, the former of which was nominated for the Elgin Award and both of which were nominated for the Wonderland Book Award. Her poetry has appeared on Ellen Datlow’s Best Of lists, and she is the author of the short horror fiction collection, Where the Dead Don’t Die.
M. Ennenbach
Author & Poet
m ennenbach is a poet. a fool. a writer of strange tales. stripped down and raw, not limited by genre, m writes emotions unflinchingly.
P.M. Raymond
Award-Winning Author & Screenwriter
P.M. Raymond is an award-winning author from New Orleans, Louisiana who knows a thing or two about good gumbo, grits, and café au lait. She is a 2025 Horror2Comic Quarterfinalist, the Sisters in Crime 2024 Eleanor Taylor Bland Award Winner, 2024 Claymore Award Finalist, and 2024 Killer Shorts Screenplay Competition Top 10 Finalist. She was named to the 160 Black Women in Horror in 2023.
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Patrick Tumblety
Author & Poet
Patrick Tumblety is an author of horror, science fiction, and poetry. He has been featured in numerous anthologies, including Tales of Jack the Ripper from Word Horde Press, The Dead Inside from Dark Dispatch, and Sincerely, Departed, created by Cat Voleur and Angel Krause.
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Kathryn Tennison Author
Kathryn Tennison is a horror and speculative writer whose work has been published by Bag of Bones Press, Timber Ghost Press, and more, as well as in several anthologies. She received her MFA in creative writing from Butler University in Indianapolis.
Fredrick Niles
Poet & Author
Fredrick Niles is the author of the dark fantasy novel Ash Above, Snow Below. He can be found in St. Paul, MN where he collects good books and bad whiskey.
Jason Nickey
Author
Jason Nickey is a horror writer from Charleston, West Virginia. He works mostly in short fiction ranging from quiet horror to extreme. He is best known for his extreme novella, Rural Decay, and his psychological novella, Wreckage.
Nikolas P. Robinson
Award-Winning Author & Poet
Nikolas P. Robinson was born in Saint Paul, MN in December of 1978 but spent most of his life in and around the Black Hills of South Dakota where he remained until September of 2022 when he relocated to the Pacific Northwest.
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Peter O'Keefe - Author
Peter O’Keefe is a writer and filmmaker, born and raised in Detroit, now living in Racine, Wisconsin. His first novel Counted With the Dead was released by Grendel Press in June of 2024.
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Amanda Headlee - Author
Amanda Headlee is the author of Till We Become Monsters, Madness and Greatness Can Share the Same Face, and several short stories.
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Brian Bowyer - Author
Brian Bowyer has been writing stories and music for most of his life. He has lived throughout the United States. He has worked as a janitor, a banker, a bartender, a bouncer, and a bomb maker for a coal-testing laboratory.
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Nathan Ludwig
Author - Filmmaker
Nathan is a writer and filmmaker, producer of feature films such as Worst Laid Plans and Trucksquatch through his production company GenreBlast Films. He is the founder & director of the GenreBlast Film Festival, which has a permanent home at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Winchester, VA--recently named one of Moviemaker Magazine's Top 50 Genre Fests In The World.
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Radar DeBoard-Author
Radar DeBoard is the author of the grief horror books Drowning in the Drink and How Am I Not the Monster as well as the microfiction collection A Year Spent in Horror. Find them on TikTok, Instagram, and Bluesky.
Frank Duffy
Author
Frank Duffy is the author of five short story collections, including The Signal Block and Distant Frequencies, one novel, The
Resurrection Children, and three novelettes collected in
one volume, Mountains of Smoke.
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SUBMISSION INFORMATION
CURRENTLY CLOSED UNTIL FALL 2026
Please do not send any submissions before or after the posted dates for each period. They will be ignored.
Marginalized voices include all minority and LGBTQ+ authors. Only these voices may submit in October. All other authors are welcome to submit in November.
*Submission periods are for BOTH UNCOMFORTABLY DARK HORROR & BLOOD MOON POETRY
*Novels-Novellas-Collections accepted.
*Must be full manuscripts or at least 50% complete with full outline.
*Please refer to FULL GUIDELINES at link below.