FOUNDED in 2013 by Joshua Allen Mercier, The Bearded Scribe Press hopes to become the go-to site for up-and-coming authors under the massive Speculative Fiction umbrella. Whether discovered through editing requests, review requests, regular submission for publications, or through answers to submission calls for its planned anthologies, we plan to stick by our mission to find tomorrow’s top speculative fiction authors today.

The submission call—and what launched the publishing company—for our first anthology, Twice Upon A Time, returned over 120 submissions. The caliber of stories that answered that first submission call made cutting it down to the 44 stories that went into the final result extremely difficult. It made Joshua extremely grateful to Rachel for the suggestion to publish an anthology, answering a call of his own to help other authors create spectacular speculative fiction and to finally have a place to showcase it.