We are pleased to share the line-up for THE BARE BONES BOOK OF HUMOUR, featuring authors from eight countries. Expect hauntings, hijackings, funerals, godmen, real estate vultures, jilted lovers, wild chases, nether parts, and more—all with literary hilarity! 

Edited by Ankit Raj Ojha. Releasing in January 2026.

Sahana Ahmed is the founder of Bare Bones Publishing. She is the author of Combat Skirts (2018) and the editor of Amity: peace poems (2022) and My India, My Gods Vols. 1 & 2 (2025). She lives in Gurugram, India. 

Nifemi Adediran is a Nigerian writer whose craft spans fiction, nonfiction, and screenwriting. Her stories explore genres including science fiction, comedy, and thrillers. 

Steve Akinkuolie is a lifelong lover of classic literature. He blends folklore, humour, and social commentary in making intriguing narratives. His stories have featured in Writers Space Africa, The Kalahari Review, and Ink Sweat and Tears. 

Sylvia Beaupré lives and writes in her childhood home in NH, USA. Her writing has appeared in print and online for many years. She is the author of Common Ground, a poetry chapbook, and Tavern Village Tales. 

François Bereaud is a husband, dad, math professor, mentor, and mediocre hockey player. He is the author of San Diego Stories from Cowboy Jamboree Press. In 2026, Stanchion Press will publish his novel, A Question of Family. 

Alice Eze, creator of acclaimed written works, explores humour, humanity, and imagination through every page. Co-founder of Renew Africa Foundation and Gigatron Creatives, she merges diverse experiences into narratives that connect across cultures, disciplines, and forms of expression. 

Merlin Flower is an independent artist and writer. 

Rahul Gaur, a Gurgaon-based marketing professional, nourishes his soul with literature. He hosts the literary podcast Majhdhaar, is author of the poetry collection Teen Chavanni, Kul Pachhattar, and contributes to newspapers and anthologies. 

Jahnavi Gogoi is an Assamese writer based in Canada. Her first published work was written for children but since then she has reinvented herself many times as a poet and essayist with the occasional fiction piece. She lives in Ontario. 

Grace Q. Hu began to publish poems, essays, and social research papers during college. Grace has independently produced a TV program, founded a cultural studio, served as the main writer for shows, and has published poems, essays, and novel series in Canada since 2006. 

Doug Jacquier writes from the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia. His works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have been published in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and India. He has lived in many places across Australia and travelled extensively overseas. 

Aparna Kalra is a journalist who lives in Delhi. 

Nneoma Kenure writes stories that interrogate the place of Nigerian women. She is editing a collection of short stories, querying agents for a memoir, and working on her first novel—Daughter of a Nobody. 

Shih-Li Kow is the author of two short story collections and a prize-winning novel. She lives in Kuala Lumpur where a Guinness World Record was set for the most people shaking drink cans simultaneously. What an achievement! 299 shaking cans. 

Amit Majmudar is a poet, essayist, and novelist from Westerville, Ohio, USA. His latest book is The Book of Killings(Penguin India, 2025), the final volume of a trilogy retelling the Mahabharata. 

Allan Miller is a comedy writer from Scotland. His humorous prose has appeared in such publications as Gutter, Popshot Quarterly, Ellipsis Zine, Lucent Dreaming, and Trash Cat Lit. Every full moon he turns into a building. He may be a warehouse. 

Originally from Missouri, Sherry Morris writes prize-winning fiction from a Scottish Highland farm where she pets cows, watches clouds, and dabbles in photography. She also presents Sherry’s Shorts—a short fiction show on Highland Hospital Radio. 

Ankit Raj Ojha is an assistant professor of English with the DHE, Haryana. His poems, short stories, essays, academic articles, and reviews are published in twenty countries. A PhD from IIT Roorkee, Ankit has authored a poetry collection and edited another. He edits The Hooghly Review and is a consulting editor with Routledge and Springer Nature journals. 

Swapnit Pradhan is a lecturer in English serving under the Department of Higher Education, Odisha. He has a PhD from IIT Roorkee and often moonlights as an Environmental Humanities researcher. His academic writings are published in many reputed journals. 

Abhilipsa Sahoo is one of the 100 commended poets for Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2019. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in Perverse, JAKE, Bending Genres, Redivider, etc. She is a software engineer based in Bengaluru, India. 

Mitra Samal is a techie turned poet and writer. Her works, including poems, stories, essays, and reviews, have been published in The Hooghly Review, Muse India, Borderless Journal, Madras Courier, The Chakkar, and Kitaab, among others. 

Aneeta Sundararaj is a versatile and award-winning short story writer based in Malaysia who has a special interest in writing about mental health issues and climate fiction. 

Padmanabh Trivedi is a lecturer at a government polytechnic in UP and a research scholar at IIT Roorkee, India. His English poems have appeared in Dreich, Good Printed Things, The Bayou Review, Loft Books, and Roi Fainéant Press, and his Hindi and English short stories have been published in Setu and My India, My Gods Vol. 1 (Bare Bones). 

Vishaal writes short stories and poems. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in ARTS By The People, Five on the Fifth, Kitaab, Ghudsavar, Hakara, Panorama, The Perch, Kelp Journal, Vermilion, Open Minds Quarterly, and Good Printed Things.