Our WARRIOR writers!

It’s just a few short weeks until the launch of our first crowdfunding campaign and the Ink & Locket camp is buzzing with activity! We will be crowdfunding our anthology WARRIOR—a collection of short stories featuring LGBTQIA characters.

We have selected 12 stories by 12 authors, many of whom identify as LGBTQIA themselves and all of whom have exciting stories to tell. Throughout the campaign and in the weeks leading up to it, we will introduce you to our fantastic authors, give you a teaser or two, and tell you about the exciting perks you can choose when you support the campaign.  We’re excited!

Here is the line up of authors who are contributing, who you’ll get to know over the following weeks.

[Text: Introducing our WARRIOR writers]

We are proud to announce that the WARRIOR anthology will feature stories by:

Kelly Matsuura
Natalie Cannon
Lewis Bright Rees
E H Timms
Tyler Gates
Helle Reiersen
Tash McAdam
Kirstie Olley
Claudie Arseneault
Kayla Bashe
B R Sanders
Abigail Rosenhart

Some of these writers are already established authors with long publishing histories, while some will see their publishing debuts in WARRIOR. We are excited to share their work with you!

Make sure you follow us on twitter @inkandlocket, where we will be tweeting about the anthology with the hashtag #WARRIORantho.

Antonica & Amelia

Presenting: WARRIOR, an anthology

Over the past few months, Ink & Locket Press has been busy putting together a collection of short stories. We have read through many fantastic submissions and chosen the best stories, and we are now in the final stages of editing what looks to be a fantastic book!

We asked for warriors—in any shape or form—in stories that included one or more LGBTQIA+ characters. As always, we did not want the diversity to be the main plot point. We wanted all manner of brave warriors, cowardly warriors, social-justice, science-fiction, fantasy and real-life warriors—we just also wanted them to be characters who identified within the LGBTQIA+ spectrum.

[Image: Text reads “WARRIOR”, with a rainbow-hilted dagger]

We are so excited about the collection we have gathered! Here, you’ll find a Roman gladiator, a London werewolf, a futuristic mermaid, a retiring legend, and countless other exciting characters we can’t wait to introduce you to! The stories span several genres, thousands of years, and way into the speculative landscapes of fairy-trolls and manticores. And all of them feature LGBTQIA+ characters who are woven beautifully into the narratives.

Over the next few months, we will be introducing you to the authors right here on our blog. We will also be giving you sneak peeks at some of the stories, and keep you up-to-date as we gather perks for the crowdfunding campaign. When the campaign launches in September, we are sure you will feel as passionately about this project as we do!

This brings us to our next piece of news:

We have finally set up a newsletter for you to subscribe to! We will get in touch with you once a month, summarising what we are doing behind the scenes of the publishing house. This will be a great way for you to find out when our new calls for submissions open, when our crowdfunding campaigns launch (and when we’re almost at our goals!) and when we are arranging or taking part in community events.

We promise, with our hands on our hearts, that we will never send you more than three emails a month—and usually, we will only send you one! You can sign up quickly and easily by clicking right here!

We are so excited to have you in our community, and can’t wait to share this anthology with you! How about you? Let us know what you think!

Antonica and Amelia
Ink & Locket Press