Delights: Subculture, oddities and whatever your own passion is.
Twitter: @MagdaKnight

Mookychick’s co-founder and editor-in-chief Magda Knight is a genre-bending writer featured in anthologies, publications and the iconic comic 2000AD. Her debut game Dolores and the Cave won an award, so apparently she can now legitimately call herself an award-winning indie games writer too. Her YA novels have been longlisted for the Mslexia Children’s Book Awards in 2012 and the Commonword Diversity Writing for Children Prize in 2016. She loves coffee, perfume, attics and anything with a noon shadow.

Role: Poetry Editor
Delights: Poetry

Poetry Editor Juliette van der Molen is an author and artist living in Wales. She is an intersectional feminist and a member of the LGBTQIA community. Her work has appeared in several publications both online and in print. Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of The Net. She has also been shortlisted for Best Reviewer in Literature by Saboteur Awards. She is the author of three poetry books: Death Library, Mother, May I? and Anatomy of A Dress. Her forthcoming book- Confess: The Untold Story of Dorothy Good will be published by TwistiT Press, October 2020.

Role: Magical Editor
Delights: Witchcraft, folklore, myth, mysticism, occult, divination, spirituality, and related subjects

Magical Editor Kate Garrett is a queer, autistic Shropshire-based writer with everyday witchy ways and a horror obsession. Her poetry is widely published, and she is the author of several pamphlets – most recently A View from the Phantasmagoria, a paranormal exploration of life with PMDD. Kate’s heart is full of rain and rivers, and she has a special interest in the junction between folklore, history, and the occult.

Role: Personal Essays & Non-Fiction Editor
Delights: Creative non-fiction and personal essays on a broad range of subjects including but not limited to lived experience, personal symbolism, feminism, creativity

Bio: Charley Barnes is an author, poet and academic based in Worcestershire. Charley recently published her second poetry pamphlet, Body Talk, through Picaroon Poetry and she also writes crime fiction under the moniker C.S. Barnes. Her crime and thriller work is published through Bloodhound Books. Charley’s latest writing fad is folklore and horror, which she has combined in her first prose chapbook, Death Is A Terrible House Guest.

Charley also lectures at universities around the West Midlands, she is the current Director of Sabotage Reviews, and she is especially interested in the intersection between personal experience and creative writing.

Role: Feminism & Diversity Editor
Delights: Feminism and diversity fiction and non-fiction

Bio: Evelynn Black (Cornell MFA) is a high-heeled poet who is passionate about the greater need for inclusivity, acceptance and awareness when it comes to gender, mental health and being true to oneself. Trans perspectives and experiences are particularly welcome.

Role: Assistant Poetry Editor
Delights: Poetry

Bio: Megha Sood has had over 350 poetic works published in various journals.

Role: Assistant Poetry Editor
Delights: Poetry

Nellie Cole is a Midlands-based poet and workshop leader, and poet-in-residence at the University of Loughborough 2019-20. Her debut poetry pamphlet Bella (Offa’s Press, 2018) explores the true murder mystery ‘Bella and the Wych Elm’, and was nominated for ‘Best Poetry Pamphlet’ at the 2019 Saboteur Awards. Her writing style blends literary allusion, local history, folklore, and superstition.

Role: Social Media Manager

Delights: Gothique

Imogen. L. Smiley is a Creative and Professional Writing graduate from The University of Derby. Her gothic fiction and poetry has been featured by Ang(st) Magazine, Trick Magazine and more. She may or may not have a mild social media obsession…