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AMKVITA

SFF WRITER/ARTIST/WORLDMAKER

MENTORSHIP

Along with taking on writers outside of formal programs, I’ve been a Pitch Wars ’21 mentor, Author Mentor Match Round 9 Mentor, and Rogue Mentor (Spring 22). Check out my mentees and what they’re up to below!

S Hati is an Adult SFF writer and Pitch Wars 2021 mentee. Her writing is heavily influenced by her experiences as an Indian diaspora living in Thailand, and later, the United States. She currently resides in the Bay Area where she works in health tech and is represented by Allegra Martschenko at Ladderbird Literary.

JADE CITY meets THE FIFTH SEASON in this explosive climate fantasy about a thief, a slumlord, and an heiress searching for the same magic trove in their dying city—one to earn her freedom, another to save his people, and the last to claim power for herself.

Samantha Bansil is an Adult SFF Writer and Author Mentor Match R9 mentee. When she isn’t writing, she enjoys wandering bookshops and obsessing over other people’s pets. She’s Fil-Am, currently living in Paris and is represented by Chelsea Hensley at KT Literary.

Follow her on Twitter @Sam_Bansil

BLACK SUN meets THE POPPY WAR in this sweeping pre-colonial Philippines inspired fantasy about a mother-daughter pair fighting to save their throne from bitter family rivals, divine powers, and each other.

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Casey Colaine is a writer of genre fiction with science-based magic and sometimes murder. After studying Physics and Politics in undergrad, she decided she was crazy enough to pursue a masters in Applied Physics in Glasgow, Scotland. She is incapable of writing stories without queer messiness or himbo characters, and when she’s not writing, she likes to pretend that she’s really funny.

Follow her on Twitter @CaseyColaine.

STATUS: QUERYING. After her girlfriend is killed in a magical attack, obsessed grad student Gevvie risks her friendships and academic future by using magic and quantum physics to travel to an alternate universe where her girlfriend survived and bring her home—all before getting caught by the magical creatures who want her dead.

Amanda Helms is a biracial Black/white science fiction and fantasy writer whose stories have appeared in Mermaids Monthly, Fireside Fiction, The Twisted Book of Shadows (Twisted Publishing, 2019), and elsewhere. She and her family live in Colorado. Though all of them are natives, none ski or snowboard, proving that such creatures indeed exist. She is represented by Paul Lucas at Janklow & Nesbit.

Follow her on Twitter @AmandaGHelms

The body horror of MONSTRESS meets the cultural tensions of THE BONE SHARD DAUGHTER in this sweeping dark epic fantasy—when the magic barrier around her island homeland begins to crumble and sea monsters attack, exiled magic-worker Abeni must combine the magic of two cultures to save her lover and island before the magic consumes her.

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Shay Kaleoʻoluhoʻiloliokawaipāhe Zykova is a hapa-Hawaiian author of Adult SFF and a 22′ Rogue Mentee. The eldest child of a large, multi-generational family, she ran away to Slovenia and Russia for a bit, then became homesick and very, very cold. She currently lives on the island of Oʻahu with her husband and is represented by John Cobb at HG Literary.

Follow her on Twitter @Shay_Zykova.

A DEADLY EDUCATION meets (Adult) MOANA in this Hawaiian urban fantasy; when a politician is killed by Hawaiian magic and Kea is the only spell smith within a hundred miles who specializes in the language, she must clear her name before her home and language are destroyed.