The reason for Write Anything’s success over the past several years is our writers. It’s their passion and creativity that keep this site relevant. We’ve grown from five writers to more than twenty.

If you’d like to learn a little more about our writers, click the name in the column to the left.

If you’re interested in writing for us, use the menu near the top of the page.

Paul Anderson

Editor in Chief, Contributor

Paul writes down the strange thoughts that populate his mind. Which means a lot of what he writes is strange, disturbing, violent, or all three at once. He considers a story a success if it scares both his wife and his mum.

Paul lives in west London with his wife, his dodgy typewriter, and a chubby little leopard gecko called Jabba. His online home is Once Upon a Time in the West of London, or for something a little more frequently updated find him on Twitter @panderson1979.

Jodi Cleghorn

Editor, Contributor

Jodi is an editor, publisher and long suffering mystress to the voices in her head, with stories tethered under the umbrella of ‘dark weird shit’ and published in anthologies in Australia, the UK, USA, Canada and Denmark.  Founding partner of eMergent Publishing, Jodi is the creative spark behind the conceptual short story anthologies Chinese Whisperings and Literary Mix Tapes, and the publishing muscle behind 100 Stories for Queensland. In May 2011 she was awarded the Kris Hembury Encouragement Award in recognition of her contribution to the community and status as an emerging artist. She blogs at Writing in Black and White and tweets (unoriginally) as @jodicleghorn.

Annie Evett

Editor, Contributor

Annie is a prolific scribbler of characters and weaver of story lines. She infuses her eclectic writing with life experience drawn on years teaching, traversing the corporate landscape and motherhood. Annie is the creative energy behind the cutting-edge collaborative writing project CYOA.

Start your escapade into her worlds at annieevett.com.

Dale Challener Roe

Editor, Contributor, IT

Dale is a multiple Nobel Prize laureate who shot to fame after inspiration for his Grand Unified Theory of Everything came to him one evening over a bowl of Ramen. His groundbreaking series of exposes on black market punctuation have been largely credited by world leaders as the catalyst for the current unprecedented era of peace. And he became the darling of the geek world when, upon his first visit to the Arecibo radio telescope, he was able to decipher the first message from an alien world (“Sorry to hear about Douglas Adams”).

He also dabbles in fiction.

He lives in North Carolina with his mischievous collection of four-legged friends and can occasionally be found online at DCRoe.com and WhereIsMyTowel.com.

Tiel Aisha Ansari

Contributor

Tiel Aisha Ansari is a Sufi and martial artist in the Pacific Northwest. Her work has appeared in print and online, has been featured on KBOO, Prairie Home Companion and MiPoRadio and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Knocking from Inside is available from Ecstatic Exchange and at knockingfrominside.blogspot.com.

Jessica Bockman

Contributor

Clear to everyone except herself, Jessica was destined to be a writer and a teacher. Her career path looks evasive: party planner for a small rental company, public relations “gofer” for a national spa, copywriter and editor for fashion catalogs. However when she finally relented and admitted her first true vocation, writing, life become more focused. Until she relented and admitted her second vocation.

Jessica teaches reading part-time at her local community college. When she isn’t teaching or chasing her child round-and-round the park, she’s writing–even if she just looks like she’s staring out the window.

Jim Bronyaur

Contributor

Jim Bronyaur lives in Pennsylvania and sits at a desk in a corner writing lots of horror. He has been published over forty times, all of which could be found at his site www.JimBronyaur.com.

Those who dare to speak with him can on Twitter @jimbronyaur.

Jen Brubacher

Deputy Editor, Contributor

Jen is a librarian who believes there aren’t yet enough books in the world. She writes mostly mystery and suspense, but occasionally wanders into science fiction and horror. Her short fiction has been published in several magazines and anthologies including Northword and Nothing But Flowers. A Canadian living in London, England, she describes the writing life from a library perspective at Scribo Ergo Sum and at a finer scale @jen_b.

Christopher Chartrand

Deputy Editor, Contributor

Christopher is drawn to the western genre but has been known to throw his cowboys into fights with robots, vampires, and the ambiguities of purgatory. He’s even kicked one or two out an airlock. Chris lives in Addison Maine with his high school sweetheart, three daughters, four horses, two goats, one lazy dog and sometimes a cat. You can read some of his fiction by visiting www.chrischartrand.com.

Rob Diaz II

Deputy Editor, Contributor, IT

Rob Diaz spends his days writing computer software and his nights chauffeuring his children around his hometown of Hamilton, New Jersey. An avid organic gardener, trumpet player and coffee drinker, Rob writes fiction in which coffee, the number thirteen and the natural environment play pivotal roles. You can find more from Rob at Thirteenth Dimension.

Jacqui Murray

Contributor

If you’re looking for Jacqui, check Ask a Tech Teacher where she answers geeky questions for anyone who wanders through or try WordDreams, incubator for her next great thriller where men have firm manly handshakes, women are heroes, and the plot blazes like a forest fire on steroids. Not there? Try Write Anything with her newest friends. Pop in. Ask questions. Chat or lurk. Just close the door when you leave.

Emma Newman

Contributor

Emma (@emapocalyptic) has proven that book deals are indeed like buses. Her debut short story anthology, From Dark Places, is out now and her debut novel, 20 Years Later is being published in July 2011. Best consumed in text form, you can find her at Post-Apocalyptic Publishing. Please bring tea.

Tony Noland

Contributor

Tony Noland is a writer, blogger and poet in Philadelphia, on the East Coast of the United States. He takes his writing seriously, but has somehow gotten a reputation as a funny guy. Most of his work is science fiction, literary fiction and magical realism. Tony is active on Twitter as @TonyNoland, and you can find his fiction at his writing blog Landless.

Matt Robb

Contributor

Matt is a fiction writing enthusiast living in New Jersey, USA. He explores the art of writing novels, novellas and plays within the popular genres of action-adventure, detective, inspirational, and mystery. Snippets of his work and humor can be found on his blog, The Writings of Matt Robb.

Icy Sedgwick

Contributor

Blown far from her Northern homeland, Icy now lives and works in old London town. She’s only 27 but she remembers the days when she wrote stories in crayon. She likes writing about everything from steampunk automatons to telepathic parrots, though her pet project is a supernatural YA novel.

Paul Servini

Deputy Editor, Contributor

An English teacher currently living with his family in France, language has always been a major preoccupation for Paul. Writing is just an extension of this. He never ceases to be amazed at the way his characters take on life as the words fall into place.

Zena Shapter

Contributor

Zena Shapter is an emerging fiction writer and published author. She runs a writers’ group, blogs, tweets, and is currently editing her debut novel. An adventurer at heart, Zena enjoys travelling in search of unusual stories and uncommon sights, and relaxing on the beach with a good book, a glass of champagne and a bar of chocolate. Read more about Zena and her writing on her website at zenashapter.com.

Benjamin Solah

Contributor

Benjamin Solah describes himself as a ‘Marxist horror writer’ and aside from writing fiction, he performs spoken word poetry around Melbourne where he is also an active socialist.

His blog, Blood and Barricades, discusses writing, literature, publishing, politics and culture.

Rus VanWestervelt

Contributor

Rus VanWestervelt received his Masters of Fine Arts degree in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College and now writes and teaches memoir, personal essay, and reportage in and around the mid-Atlantic region. He believes in the absolute necessity to leave a trace, document our lives authentically, and let the world know with our words that we existed.

Emma Venables

Contributor

Emma Venables has recently finished an MA in Creative Writing and is now on a PHD/ dream job hunt. She’s happiest when she’s stringing words together into people and places and problems. She mostly writes short fiction and likes the fact that she can give women condemned to the dregs of history a voice through her writing.

Devin Watson

Contributor

Devin Watson was born in Brunswick, Georgia, in 1978. Growing up watching countless horror films due to many childhood maladies, he harbored a love of writing with an active imagination. Even through high school and college, graduating with a degree in Computer Science, he pursued his study of screenwriting, culminating in the production of The Cursed in 2007. He is also the author of Horror Screenwriting: The Nature of Fear.

Jennifer B White

Contributor

Jennifer B. White swears like a road-house bouncer. Although in person, she makes up for it by curtseying. She doesn’t have a Boston accent, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t wicked awesome. After all, she can drink any dude under the table. As long as it’s Chardonnay.

As well as penning novels like DEAD ASLEEP, OTHERWISE and THE WITCH AND THE DEVIL’S SON, Jennifer is a screenwriter and Hollywood tagline writer. From Little Fockers to The Fast and the Furious franchise, her movie campaigns are not only creative, but based on solid marketing platforms. Her work for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World was presented at Comicon, and used throughout Universal Picture’s newspaper/magazine campaign.

Jennifer lives and writes in Boston, Massachusetts, when she’s not in Los Angeles, California working on movies. She holds a BA in communication and an M.Ed in psychology. She has three boys—all were born in late October, the youngest on Halloween.

To learn more about Jennifer B. White, go to http://www.jenniferbwhite.com. You can follow her on Twitter where she exchanges pithy comments with the celebrities that follow her. She’s also on Facebook because she enjoys posting pictures of her meals. Jennifer responds personally to all her emails and tweets. It’s just the way she was raised. Go figure.