Please join us for this virtual panel event, featuring contributors to Death In The Mouth Vol 2, a horror anthology showcasing BIPOC and other ethnically marginalized writers and artists from around the world!

Death in the Mouth features 20 stand-alone prose stories spanning from the mythic past to the far future, cross between real and fictive worlds, and explore unique and unsettling manifestations of horror. Each story will also be accompanied by an original black and white illustration by a unique artist.

Sloane Leong is a cartoonist, illustrator, writer, and editor of mixed indigenous ancestries. Through her work, she engages with visceral futurities and fantasies through a radical, kaleidoscopic lense. She is currently living on Chinook land near what is known as Portland, Oregon with her family and three dogs.

Cassie Hart identifies as: stalwart badass, SFF writer, collaborator, active day-dreamer, Māori/Pākehā, she/her. She has too many ideas, and not enough time to write them all - but she’s doing her best! just-cassie.com

Riot Bones (he/they) is a queer Filipino illustrator and comic artist with a passion for men, monsters, and everything in between. Visit his website at riotbones.com.

J.A.W. McCarthy is the Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award nominated author of Sometimes We’re Cruel and Other Stories (Cemetery Gates Media, 2021) and Sleep Alone (Off Limits Press, 2023). Her short fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including Vastarien, PseudoPod, Split Scream Vol. 3, Apparition Lit, Tales to Terrify, and The Best Horror of the Year Vol. 13 (ed. Ellen Datlow). She is Thai American and lives with her spouse and assistant cats in the Pacific Northwest. You can call her Jen on Twitter @JAWMcCarthy, and find out more at jawmccarthy.com.

Xavier Garcia is a writer/editor from Toronto, Canada. His short fiction has appeared in various magazines and anthologies published by Fugitives & Futurists, Cold Signal, hex, Apocalypse Confidential, Cursed Morsels, and Filthy Loot. You can find him walking the nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh, or at twitter.com/xavier_agarcia.