Olivia J. Bennett
author | editor | artist
Anthologies
Metamorphosis
Published by the Indie Fantasy Corner
A monster lurking in a cave awaits a hero. The past is revisited. A dark underworld is explored to escape oppression. A child is waiting to be born. A person finds that things around them are not quite what they seem. The world rebirths anew.
Metamorphosis means a lot of things to many people, and what you hold in your hands is a collaborative dream, woven together by writers and artists with a shared love of storytelling. Through these stories, we hope you find your own sense of metamorphosis.
Olivia's contribution
"black-Market Beauty"
An Artifacts of fellglow short story
After her sister escapes from the wicked king's court of concubines, Ameerah will pay any price for her own freedom. She finds it at Atarcha's Alterations, a mysterious shop in Secunda and Tal'fya's black market that promises to give Ameerah what she wants—but freedom rarely comes at a fair price.
profits donated to the Write the World
What hides in the dark Vol. 3
published by EJL Editing
With short stories and poems from over sixty authors, there's something dark and deadly for everyone. From dangerous horror to haunting lit fic, these stories will leave you questioning even the smallest of shadows in fear something darker lies in wait.
Olivia's contribution
"Dust and Rubble"
An Artifacts of fellglow short story
After losing his little brother to the deadly power of magic, Matthias Ferronrend takes up the gun as a hired merc, hunting witches and slaying sorcerers. It's a routine hit job in the small mining town of Falün when he has a strange encounter with the magic his target possesses—but he's not sure he wants to hear what this magic has to tell him.
profits donated to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund
writing out our twenties
a multi-genre anthology of thursday night writes
In March of 2022, the Writing Out Our 20s Discord server was born. What started as an accountability and critique group quickly evolved into deep literary and personal bonds amongst a group of eight twenty-something writers navigating life and young adulthood. Each of these pieces was drafted in the span of a few hours during a Thursday night writing sessions, set to the tune of thirty-minute timers and periodic check-ins.
This anthology is for anyone who's experienced teen angst in their twenties. For anyone who's experienced the rollercoaster of hope and loss in the span of one night, new beginnings and world-ending apocalypses in the span of on week.
From poetry to prose, fantasy novel excerpts to flash creative nonfiction, eight writers showcase their unique perspectives via Thursday night drabbles, therapy sessions, and blood on the page.
Olivia's Contributions
"Invisibly Queer"— creative nonfiction, personal narrative
"Apocalyptic Revival" — creative nonfiction, seasonal dreamscape
"All One After the Other" — science fiction short story
"I went for a walk and wondered where the ducks go in the winter." — prose poem
profits from the first three months of sales donated to the Wellspring Writing Collective
Many Times, Many Ways
A Collection of Short Works by Young Authors
From a diverse set of young writers comes a lyrical, fantastical, and heart-wrenching collection of stories for the holiday season. Each tale is a warm light, strung together by threads of loss, love, and the new beginnings that Christmas brings.We hope these stories will uplift and console in a season that many find stressful and turbulent. So, although it's been said many times and many ways, Merry Christmas to you.
Olivia's contribution
"Letters to Richmond"
After eighteen-year-old Hazel Thompson's father gets laid off during the Great Depression, she steals her father's truck and runs away with her brother Ben four days before Christmas. In search of her affluent but estranged grandmother, Hazel meets friends old and new who may, in fact, be just the help she's looking for.
profits from the first year of sales donated to The Ehlers Danlos Society and the World Literacy Foundation