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Ryan Vance Author & Editor

Ryan Vance is a writer, editor, designer and general literary busybody, with a penchant for speculative fiction and queer representation. His debut collection of short stories, One Man's Trash, is published by Lethe Press, and his work has appeared in Gutter Magazine, New Writing Scotland, Terraform, F(r)iction, and Out There: An Anthology of LGBT Writing.

Michael Lee Richardson is a BAFTA Award-winning writer and filmmaker based in Glasgow. Michael is passionate about telling rich, authentic stories about queer and working class lives and culture, and has written for film and television, as well as prose, poetry and radio drama. Outside of writing, Michael likes 80s makeover montages, witches, and going to the shops.