Thank you so much! Hope a copy of Crossroads comes upon your path soon ✨
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![Louise Gow- author of The Lonely Woman
Louise is a current Creative writing masters student who writes mainly young adult fiction with a mix of thriller/romance and sometimes mental health themed poetry.
She graduated with an undergraduate degree in Primary Education and recently wrote a children's book for Scottish children's charity A Bear Named Buttony. She is passionate about writing and is loving the course along with the lovely community at Stirling University.
[Image of Louise smiling with an indoor background]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jmhdves5botoky66bsaseqjb/bafkreidtcyfq7xh2cg7uzkxnsm2ykingfsxvjnz3t2azityohjnrb4yndu)
![Demi Savannah Jo Sutherland- Author of Kelpie's Law, Forest Path and more.
Demi is a writer and filmmaker based in Dunfermline, Fife, currently completing an MLitt in Creative Writing. Through her screenplays, poetry, and short prose, she explores mental health, relationships, and nature.
She is inspired by folklore, mythology, and philosophy, using magical realism to reflect human psychology. She is currently filming a documentary commission celebrating Fife’s coastline. She loves night walks with her dog and finds writing about herself in the third person amusing!
[Image of Demi with a cute dog]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jmhdves5botoky66bsaseqjb/bafkreibuecqg4xpo3qmk4rsb63ig42xmxwd4vynljwlklgwhqv2pgk2h5i)
![Dhanya Baburaj- Author of Haunted
A selective introvert who loves to read and write poetry, memoir and romance stories, she was born in rural Kerala but grew up in Mumbai, a metropolitan city in India. Her love for words began at an early age through reading of classical works in English and Malayalam (language spoken in Kerala).
Her fascination with English literature started with reading Bram Stoker's Dracula at 8 years old. In her free time, besides reading and writing, she loves to explore places, especially beaches; listen to music; and paint landscapes.
[Image of Dhanya in front of the coastline]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jmhdves5botoky66bsaseqjb/bafkreib36lo3jvhtdsffogzmqr4fdxehzf2hitf4i52pda5ty7lv4oawcm)
![Alysha Boa Morte Santos- Author of Where Jacarandas Grow
Alysha Boa Morte Santos completed her Bachelor of Creative Writing
and Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Wollongong and is
currently working to complete her Masters of Letters in Creative Writing at the University of Stirling.
Alysha enjoys working in prose,
poetry and script but most often writes contemporary and literary
fiction exploring themes of cultural heritage and diaspora. She is
currently working on a full-length novel about the ties between the
people we call family and the places we call home.
[Image of Alysha smiling with a building in the background]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jmhdves5botoky66bsaseqjb/bafkreifh7htuvd22cvb2god5jepi25v3eqhfwsj2twhqespccgqowbad4y)
![Our beloved characters stand in a place of contemplation, caught between the past and the future, between this world and the Other, wondering where the roads before them will lead…
Stryvling 2025 welcomes you to the space between.
[Graphic of a person standing in front of two paths.]
Stryvling Press introduces to you our 2025 title.
Crossroads](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jmhdves5botoky66bsaseqjb/bafkreibrbxmlgizjillutozk4ituwh3eyclqkpdkhazata7kma7etc67jm)
![Catherine Ogston- Author of The Black Book
Catherine Ogston writes flash fiction, short stories and longer YA fiction. Flash pieces have been published by Bath Flash, Flash 500, TL;DR Press, Firewords, The Phare, National Flash Fiction Day 2020-25 and others. Short stories have been published in New Writing Scotland 35 & 39, Scottish Arts Trust, Leicester Writes Prize, Retreat West Prize and others.
Longer work has been long/short listed at Exeter Novel Prize, Caledonia Novel Award, Kelpies Prize for Children’s Writing and others. Recent winner of the Fabuly Writers’ Challenge and upcoming in Best Microfictions 2025.
[Image of Catherine in front of plants.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jmhdves5botoky66bsaseqjb/bafkreihyad6njvzb5v7uyhn6uouixwhm4kfil2tgng5h5cpnfuat2ynk4u)
![Ren Robertson- Author of Musings for the Magpie and The Darkest Spot in the Sky
Ren Robertson is a fiction writer currently based in Stirling, Scotland. He is primarily a sci-fi, Scottish folklore, mythology, and fantasy writer with a specific interest in blending them all together and exploring characters and ideas that come from that.
He has a few short stories locally published and is currently working on a sci-fi/Scottish mythology novel.
[Image of Ren in front of a body of water]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jmhdves5botoky66bsaseqjb/bafkreifcsgjspdchzf45om76aniytvjswrtp62bjtngqwjslkzdbotwaky)
![James Howard- Author of Finn Folk and The Last Haggis in Scotland
James Howard is the writing team liason for this years Styvling press anthology. He is from Shetland, and writes mostly poetry, along with some prose and scriptwriting. He is particularly interested in dialect poems, and the use of second person in poetry and fiction. His pieces for the anthology centre around Scottish Folklore, and aim to highlight Scottish language and culture in a unique and humorous manner.
[Image of James in the crook of a brick alley]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jmhdves5botoky66bsaseqjb/bafkreiej6x4v3wz5shguu6n6p4tjpfsc5pkdeehspeybswdbrnid27bwbu)
![saint jae- author of Dinosauria
saint jae is a detroit-born and michigan-raised primeval slacker-poet presently pursuing a postgraduate degree at the university of stirling in stirling, scotland. jae writes on grief, identity, and dinosaurs.
[image of Le Chevalier aux Fleurs]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jmhdves5botoky66bsaseqjb/bafkreiablcr3c6jphcpkkkfgw2mtfxdnoqgnhl7jei7acvbdz4kqv2kyaq)
![E. Olsen- Author of Get Lost
Writes hopeful near-future speculative fiction, blending elements of solarpunk and hopepunk to reimagine our world in her novels.
This short story, a departure from her usual work, reimagines Hansel and Gretel as an origin story of the Slavic folklore figure Baba Yaga. It was inspired by her daughter creating necklaces for the family as safety amulets after a turkey feast. Thanks be to the poultry.
[Image of tree with sprawling branches and leaves]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jmhdves5botoky66bsaseqjb/bafkreifwiadoxabln3kf5gxuthvtguiogf6iskt5666aomdhbsfjv5cbzm)
![Jules Forrest- Author of A Tourist's Guide
Jules is a Scottish writer who writes dark, humorous literary fiction. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in creative writing at the University of Stirling.
If she isn't writing, she is most likely rewatching Twilight or listening to Chappel Roan while trying to navigate the Easyjet website.
[Image of Jules standing in front of cherry blossom tree.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jmhdves5botoky66bsaseqjb/bafkreih4plrayqk5lwxm7fjbngj47i2p4hubz2omucuiknwyka7y4gotxm)
