Lost Souls
I first started working with Lost Souls in the months preceding their debut ‘Macabre Dreams’ event.
In this event, I’d be a featured reader to present my work on subcultures in Canberra.
Following this, I’ve redesigned their logo, made promotional art, featured in print, and have now been invited to officially join their Editorial Team for Visual Arts.
What is Lost Souls?
Lost Souls is a dark and literary biannual Australian magazine.
The magazine aims to publish strange, taboo, beautiful, horrific and similar kinds of dark and intelligent fiction and nonfiction. It is a magazine of macabre words and illustrations.
The first issue of Lost Souls was published in March 2025. The magazine was started in response to the ongoing interest of readers and writers in Australia for dark forms of writing. Forms of writing ranging from horror, weird, supernatural and/or cyberpunk novels and short stories, to works of reportage, commentary, philosophy and cutural or social criticism on the more diffult realities of daily life, or relevant films, videogames, books and other works of art.
Current Team
Ben O'Mara (publisher, nonfiction and 'Chief Spooky Officer')
Ali Alizadeh (poetry)
Fionn MacPherson (fiction)
Red Saunders (visual art - local)
Nic Carey (visual art - international)