Charlie Winter

Based in Scotland, Charlie Winter is an academic by day and, by night, still an academic but much more distractable about it. When not performing the inexplicable rituals of academia, he writes fantasy fiction celebrating everyday magic, eco-optimism, and queer identities.

A picture of a man in a knitted hat and glasses

Publications

‘The Merciful Whole’ in Into the Dark anthology from All Worlds Wayfarer, 2025

What Waits in the Flesh‘ in Menagerie Magazine, 2025

The House We Built Together, Yesterday‘ in Mythaxis Magazine, 2025

‘Idesvied Defied’ in Baubles From Bones, 2025

It’s Bright Outside‘ in Banksia Journal, 2025

‘Esk Elsewhere’ in Sinister Sanctuaries: Elegant Literature #42, 2025

‘Yesterday’s Heroes’ in I Want That Twink Obliterated anthology from Bona Books, 2024

How Far He Went’ in Banksia Journal, 2024

‘Rewild Me’ in Bark & Bone anthology from Spacecat Press, 2023


Upcoming

‘A Village Born After the War’ upcoming in Tales & Feathers, 2026

‘Bones for Safe Keeping’ in TBA, 2026

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