Founders Kindra M. Austin, Nicole Lyons, and Christine E. Ray are known in the indie writing world for their love of cutting-edge literature, telling hard truths, and their support of emerging voices.  These veterans of multiple writing collectives and small independent presses dreamed of an online writing community designed to encourage creatives to embrace their dark sides, experiment, push boundaries, actively engage with other writers, and give and receive support and be creatively inspired. Heretics, Lovers, and Madmen is a place where writers and artists can choose to become core literary collective members or to submit their original work when time and creativity allows. Fierce, authentic, edgy creativity is welcome here.