Elmo (They/Them) is a third-year creative writing student who enjoys Writing and Editing, particularly horror fiction. They are a driven creator and aim to inspire and lift up those around them. They hope to achieve this through Creative Bastards Magazine.

Megan (She/Her) is a writer and occasional poet. Her work has been published previously in magazines such as Antagonizine, SeaGlass Lit, and Firefly Archives. Studying Creative Writing, Megan uses her passion for stories to fuel her love of Academia.

Elle (She/Her) is a short story writer and poet. She has previously been published in Antagonizine, SeaGlass Lit, and Firefly Archives.

Nick Barratt is a Creative Writing student at NTU, and a self-proclaimed Bastard. He enjoys prose, script, and poetry, with the latter featuring in Creative Bastards Magazine's first issue as well as his illustrations.

Antonia Stassi is an editor and illustrator. She has a newfound love for writing poetry, and always skips to the poetry submissions so she can read them first. In the future, Antonia wishes to release an anthology accompanied by her own illustrations.

Dionne is an English student at NTU and an honorary Creative Bastard. She enjoys looking at how our themes are interpreted by our submittors.

Rebecca Eaton is a prose and poetry writer from Nottingham and is studying Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University. She wishes to one day be a prose writer and is currently working on a debut novel. She enjoys reading in her spare time and uses it to inspire her.