To remain accessible to all, Salon Sinister is unpaid and free to read.

The inaugural issue will be available Summer 2025. Submission deadline for content is May 3. Submission deadline for cover art is June 9.

Pieces by and for horror queers. This is up to individual interpretation.

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Andrew Keahey (he/him) is a Black, bisexual pop culture analyst and horror writer whose work has been featured in The Black Youth Project and Afropunk. He's a 2024 Voodoonauts Fellow and instructor at the Alpha Workshop for Young Writers. He currently resides in Austin, Texas where he’s burning alive and regretting every decision that brought him there.

Wolfe MacReady (she/they) is a writer/director hauntin’ the hills and hollers of Tennessee. Wolfe is the winner of the 2022 Chattanooga Film Festival Screenplay Pitch Competition for their queer mermaid body horror script, Dream of Drowning, that paved the way for their first feature, Giving Up The Ghost, that shot in 2024 and also a whole mess of tabletop game chicanery. Mongrel and mythical, screaming at the devil and eating all the cake.

Christine Makepeace (she/her) is an editor and writer of weird fiction, horror screenplays, and morose poetry. She currently resides in the Southern California desert. Links to her work can be found at christinemakepeace.com.

blayne waterloo (they/she/any) is a horror writer and editor living in georgia with their partner and a loud cat and dog. a published poet, blayne produces the queer horror newsletter, ew, hag. they also occasionally write and edit for fangoria.