Abby's main artistic passion is writing, but she likes to dabble in several other forms of art such as pour painting, coloring, weaving and music.

She currently does not sell any of her projects, but several projects can be found decorating her home and these days her musical endeavors have an audience of one — her music-loving baby girl. For Abby art is mainly a way to relax and find joy in the pattern of everyday life.

Adam Whipple is a songwriter, musician, producer, poet, and author living in Knoxville, Tennessee. He blends an eclectic, highly literate brand of folk rock with a more traditional Appalachian sound.

His music has been described as equal parts Rich Mullins and Garrison Keillor and compared to Andrew Peterson, Paul Simon, and Counting Crows. His essays and poetry have appeared on The Rabbit Room, in Curator Magazine, Blue Mountain Review, The Pigeon Parade Quarterly, and Analogue.

He appears regularly with friends on stages around the Knoxville area and loves doing house shows. In the garden behind his house, you will find his four children, plus tomatoes, greens, sweet potatoes, and only the bravest of wild rabbits.

Alicia Pollard is a bookwyrm and storyteller based near Nashville, TN. She earned a Master's degree in Theology and the Arts at the University of St. Andrews, where she studied wonders like the illustrations of The Wind in the Willows and the poetry of Joy Davidman.

She muses on stories, beauty, and yearning on her website, aliciapollard.com and Instagram account, @alicialynnpollard. Some of her favorite things are driving through mountain country at golden hour and drinking hot chocolate.

Amanda Dykes is a drinker of tea, dweller of redemption, and spinner of hope-filled tales who spends most days chasing wonder and words with her family. She's the winner of the 2020 Christy Award Book of the Year, a Booklist 2019 Top Ten title, and the winner of an INSPY award for her debut novel, Whose Waves These Are.

She's also the author of Set the Stars Alight (a Christy Award finalist), Yours is the Night (recipient of the Kipp Award), All the Lost Places (releasing in December), and three novellas. Find her online at amandadykes.com.

Storytelling has always been a part of Anna Rose Johnson's life — especially timeless tales tinged with vintage charm. She grew up fascinated by the early 20th century and now writes historical middle grade novels that reflect her love of classic children's literature.

A member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Anna Rose enjoys exploring her heritage through her stories, including her new middle grade novel The Star That Always Stays.

Anna Rose lives on a farm in northern Wisconsin, and you can visit her bookish blog at: annarosejohnson.com/blog.

Barbara and Galina Hitching are a mother-daughter team who are both certified with the Trauma Healing Institute as Trauma Healing Facilitators and Trainers. They are committed to helping others experience emotional health.

Sign up for their next Heart Restoration Group here. Barbara is a retired missionary with over 30 years of experience mentoring and coaching trauma survivors. You can find her biblical-based mental health resources at BarbaraHitching.com.

Galina is a visual artist, passionate about art-based healing and is working towards a Master's in Art Therapy.

Caleb Woodbridge loves words, stories and imagination, and in Jesus finds the most exciting and most true story of all. He is a science fiction and fantasy fan, especially Doctor Who, and researched medievalism and children's literature for his English Literature MA.

He is Publishing Director for IVP Books UK and lives in Cardiff with his wife and two daughters. He writes the newsletter Bigger on the Inside and has just launched the Imaginative Discipleship podcast, which can be found at biggerinside.co.uk.

They should have seen the writing on the wall when Rachel gave Carrie a Christmas present with P.G. Wodehouse's words on it: "There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature."

After a few years of just such a friendship, Carolyn Clare Givens, Rachel S. Donahue, and Annie Beth Donahue started a writing group designed around the principles for creative encouragement found in Diana Glyer's book Bandersnatch. A year or so into the group, Annie Beth, Carrie, and Rachel decided to start a whole new venture altogether: Bandersnatch Books, a small press that seeks to publish treasures found off the beaten path for lovers of all that is good, true, and beautiful.

Living in the Charlotte, North Carolina area, the three fill the rest of their time with family and other work responsibilities, as well as their own writing, some of which has been published by Bandersnatch Books. You can learn more about all three and the work of Bandersnatch at bandersnatchbooks.com

Daniel Whyte IV is a writer and former web designer and podcast producer. His essays on culture and faith have been published in Relevant, Fathom Magazine, Arc Digital, Tor.com, Speculative Faith, and Church Leaders.

He holds a bachelor's degree in Information Technology and is currently a Mass Communication grad student.

More of his writing can be found on his website, Substack, or on Twitter @dmarkwiv.

Elizabeth Wickland lives in Bozeman, Montana with her husband, daughter, and tiny Yorkie, Wicket. She has a love for words and their stories and has responded to life through poetry and art for as long as she can remember. She also enjoys gardening (during the few months her garden isn't covered in snow) and cultivating beauty in her small corner of the world.

You can find her on Instagram at @punamulta.priory and at her infrequently updated blog at lou52.blogspot.com.

Her poetry has also been published in Riveted Literary magazine and online at She is Kindred.

Emma Major is a pioneer lay minister, blind wheelchair user, poet, author and artist.

I've always been a creative person but my art teacher at school made it clear I didn't have an artistic bone in my body; so I focused my creativity on poetry and the precise drawings needed in my career as an engineer.

Fast forward twenty years... I lost almost all of my sight, overnight, in 2015. Once I adjusted to life as a blind person I decided to try the impossible and take up art. I started by taking a course in mosaic making before trying everything from needlefelting to glass fusing. In lockdown I became more reflective, utilising all the time on my hands to be creative. I started drawing, constantly taking photos and magnifying to see what I was creating. I started throwing bright coloured paint onto any old wood we had laying around and was amazed at the emotional release I gained. I discovered an artist hidden within myself.

Sadly I caught covid in late autumn 2020 and having received amazing care and pulled through, I thought I'd bounce back. That wasn't to be and I'm now living with long covid with constant fatigue and pain. I couldn't hold a pencil or sit up, let alone paint, and I was finding the lack of creativity waying heavy on my soul. A friend suggested I tried to create digitally and I've never looked back. For the last 2 years I've created digitally for hours every day from my bed or on my sofa. With the magnification possible through technology I am able to paint and draw details impossible on paper. I have found an artistic voice I never knew was in me and long for others to do the same. Every day starts with painting whilst I pray; I never know what will emerge but I share these paintings, poems and prayers online, encouraging others to explore their creativity and faith. One of these paintings was of the Queen when she was sick with Covid, I sent the painting to her with my prayers and a letter of thanks for her prayerfulness and service. I was amazed to receive a letter of thanks back just a few months ago ensuring me of her prayers, something which will ever remind me that creativity and prayer are gifts to be freely shared.

Over the last year I have had 4 books of poetry and art published, have spoken at conferences about my faith and been given the platform, through TV, radio and art exhibitions, to champion issues of climate change, social justice, mental health, disability and equality. I feel blessed to have been given this platform and honoured to be able to shine a light on areas that are mostly ignored.

This summer, despite still living with pain and fatigue, I felt a strong need to paint physically again. I tried fluid art; letting paint flow over paper in ways which are hard to control. I love the unpredictability, the mess, the fluidity and the surprises I find within these paintings when I magnify the photographs. I'm not sure where this art form will take me but I'm looking forward to the journey.

I spent years thinking I wasn't creative, now I want to encourage everyone to connect with their inner creativity; it's within us all if we're brave enough to try without judgement.

If you'd like to know more about my creativity you can find me online at LLMCalling.com or on social media @emmuk74 where I share my artwork and poetry to encourage, bless and affirm people.

Graham Jones is a Texan singer-songwriter who traces the story of the gospel through thoughtful lyrics and rich melodies. Inspired by six-string storytellers like Jon Foreman, John Mayer, and Andrew Peterson, he creates a sound that is uniquely joyful and contagious with longing.

His debut solo record The Story's Still Alive (2020) deliberately walks through valleys of darkness, grief, and doubt with eyes lifted up to the hope of redemption in Christ. The following year, he released his second album, Good News, Great Joy — a concept record for Advent that tells the story of Christ's coming from Luke 1-2.

Graham serves as the worship pastor of The Fields Church and works as a musician for Texas Winds Musical Outreach. He enjoys movie scores, fantasy novels, games (video, board, and D&D), and most of all, chocolate chip cookies.

He lives in Arlington, TX with his wife, Bethany, their son, Luke, and their golden retriever, Daisy.

Hannah Comerford is a freelance editor and writer whose work has appeared in Fathom, The Unmooring, and Ekstasis, among others. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the Rainier Writing Workshop, where she currently serves as Program Assistant.

Hannah also serves as the Associate Poetry Editor for Fathom. In 2018, she was a short-term Scholar-in-Residence at the C.S. Lewis Study Centre at the Kilns in Oxford, England.

Hannah currently lives with her husband, son, and dog in Tacoma, WA.

J. F. Ewert is a creative writer and consultant. He was born and raised in the rainy Fraser Valley of beautiful British Columbia. Now he and his family live in middle Tennessee.

By day, he writes copy and transforms data into stories. By night, he coaches youth baseball, writes creative non-fiction, and stays up (way) too late watching the Vancouver Canucks.

Josh Horn is a former biophysicist with passions for loose leaf tea, modernist poetry, and hot sauces made from the world's hottest peppers.

He is known to his friends and family simply by Josh, yet inexplicably signs his emails with the full Joshua. On a typical weekend you'll find him mushroom foraging on a long hike with his wife and three children.

Katie Rouse (she/her) is a marketing manager and freelance writer.

She mostly posts on Instagram, @katie.rose.rouse, writing on faith, doubt, and deconstruction, as well as sharing poetry. She loves sending out weekly poems to email subscribers, occasionally writing blog posts at katierousewrites.com.

Find her published or upcoming writing with The Well and hyssop + laurel. She published her first book of poetry, Psalms of Deconstruction, in Fall 2021, and is working on her first memoir, which will recount her journey of deconstructing her faith while serving as a missionary in India.

Kenny & Claire are a husband and wife Folk/Americana duo based in Nashville, TN. They write worship songs and rewrite hymns in order to encourage the church with lyrics and music that contain deep doctrinal truths and are firmly rooted in scripture.

Their debut project, Are You Weary, is a 5 song EP of doctrinally rich and biblically grounded hymns that have mostly fallen out of use. They've updated the language, rewritten the melodies, and rearranged the music to better highlight the lyrics for modern worship.

They've spent the last year touring across the country in an effort to bring these songs back to the church.

Kori Frazier Morgan is an independent author, professional writer, and editor from Northeastern Ohio.

Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have appeared in publications such as Shenandoah, SN Review, Rubbertop Review, Switchback, Blanket Sea, Forge, and many others. Her book The Goodbye-Love Generation, a novel in short stories about a Kent, Ohio-based rock band and the impact of the Kent State shootings on their lives, was released in 2020.

She is the founder and Chief Literary Strategist of Inkling Creative Strategies, an author services company that helps writers reach their full creative potential so they can impact and inspire readers. She received her Master of Fine Arts in fiction writing from West Virginia University. For more information on Kori's work, visit www.inklingcreative.work or follow her on Instagram @inklingcreativestrategies.

Dr. Mary McCampbell is an associate professor of humanities at Lee University where she regularly teaches courses on contemporary fiction, film, popular culture, and modernism. A native Tennessean, she completed her doctorate at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK); her research focused on the relationship between contemporary fiction, late capitalist culture, and the religious impulse.

Her publications span the worlds of literature, film, and popular music, and this interdisciplinary focus is also present in her recent book, Imagining Our Neighbors as Ourselves: How Art Shapes Empathy (Fortress Press: April, 2022). You can find her writing in many public-facing faith and culture publications such as Image Journal, The Other Journal, Relevant Magazine, Christ and Pop Culture, and The Curator.

Mary was a Scholar-in-Residence at Regent Theological College, Vancouver, for the 2018 winter term, where she worked on a second forthcoming book, Postmodern Prophetic: The Religious Impulse in Contemporary Fiction. Her academic publications include chapters or articles on contemporary fiction and popular culture in Isn't it Ironic?: Irony in Contemporary Popular Culture (Routledge), ASAP Journal, Spiritual Identities: Literature and the Post-Secular Imagination, Sacred and Immoral: on the Writings of Chuck Palahniuk, and The Modern Humanities Research Association's Yearbook of English Studies.

She has been one of the organizers of Calvin College's Festival of Faith and Music since 2009, and she frequently speaks and teaches on the theological significance of popular music, film, and fiction. Mary was the Summer 2014 Writer-in-Residence at L'Abri Fellowship in Greatham, England and periodically lectures at English L'Abri.

You can read Mary's writing and find out about her new book at marywmccampbell.com.

Story has the power not only to entertain, but also to shed light. Experiencing a timeless story allows you to escape into another world. And imagining the world through the eyes of another person expands your horizons. That is what the music of Matt Wheeler is about.

A troubadour, a poet with a guitar, a stage banter-conversationalist — & also a disciple, husband, & special needs-father, Matt's songwriting paints pictures with words, often drawing inspiration from classic works of literature.

Michael Logsdon lives in the Charleston area with his wife Emily, son Michael Alvin, soon-to-arrive daughter Eleanor Aurelia, and cat Thisbe.

He leads worship at his church, Great Commission Baptist Church, writes hymns and songs, and is a data analyst for a local tech company.

In his free time he enjoys reading good books, baking delicious foods, playing music and board games, and drinking great coffee.

Sandra Rose Hughes lives in California's wild and scenic Kern River Valley. Before having children, she served as a high school English and Drama teacher, but now stays home to care for four beautiful bearers of the image of God.

In her spare time, she is the children's ministry director at her church, and serves in several faith-based nonprofits. She writes poetry, blogs, and middle grade fantasy fiction about identical twins, selkies, and the Orkney Islands. Her favorite authors include C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, Jack Prelutsky, T.S. Eliot, and Robert W. Service.

Hughes has published a small poetry collection called Why Faeries Bite, available at www.sandrarosehughes.com. She loves to connect with other creatives on Facebook at www.facebook.com/sandrarosehughes, and Instagram at @sandrarosehughes.

Sarah Spradlin is a farmer poet who lives as a full-time missionary in Central America. She grew up near Athens, Georgia.

She released her debut digital chapbook, Beneath the Mango Tree, in Winter of 2021.

You can read more of her work on Instagram, @sarah.spradlin.