About the VFA
Visionary Fiction is rapidly becoming the genre of choice to express humanity’s evolution of consciousness
What is the Visionary Fiction Alliance?
The Visionary Fiction Alliance began as a web-ring. Three authors of visionary novels, Jodine Turner, Saleena Karim, and Shannan Sinclair met at the Goodreads Visionary Fiction Group in March 2012 and decided to link up to each other’s blogs as a way of promoting each other and visionary fiction itself.
Other writers joined the conversation and asked to be part of the ring; and soon there were twelve authors, who decided to create a space where they could work together to promote VF. And so, the Visionary Fiction Alliance was born, with this site going live on August 17, 2012. Since then many other authors, from seasoned veterans to developing novices, have joined our ranks.
Our Mission
As the world evolves away from the Newtonian model of the five senses to the more evolved quantum model that includes the sense of spirit so resurgent today, Visionary Fiction is rapidly becoming the genre of choice to express that evolution and predict the breath-taking future that might follow the anticipated leaps. Under its broader umbrella are now gathering works previously classified as spiritual, metaphysical, or science fiction. The VFA aims to provide a home base and central clearing house for readers, writers, and researchers dedicated to this endeavor.
Our purposes are to:
1. Increase awareness of the genre
2. Help readers discover, explore, and enjoy Visionary Fiction
3. Mentor new writers who wish to explore this genre
4. Provide resources for writers of Visionary Fiction
5. Be a place where readers can find Visionary Fiction books and engage in discussion with the authors.
THE COMMITTEE
JODINE TURNER
Jodine Turner is a founding member of the Visionary Fiction Alliance, and is passionate about helping this transformative genre reach a wider audience and literary success. She is also a multiple award winning, best-selling author of Visionary Fiction, magical realism, and fantasy.
MARGARET DUARTE
Margaret Duarte, a former middle school teacher, lives on a California dairy farm with a herd of “happy cows,” a constant reminder that the greenest pastures lie closest to home.
Margaret earned her creative writing certificate through UC Davis Extension and has since published four award-winning novels in her “Enter the Between” visionary fiction series.
ELENI PAPANOU
Eleni Papanou is an award-winning author of visionary fiction. She wrote her first poem when she was an outcast at school. Honored with the name “Greek Freak,” she believed life was plagued with misery, torment and endless suffering.
A spontaneous kundalini awakening thrust Eleni on a spiritual path that constantly tested her to the breaking point by challenging her world-view and everything else she held sacred.
SALEENA KARIM
Saleena Karim is a writer and independent researcher from Nottingham, England, best known for authoring the political biography Secular Jinnah & Pakistan. As well as being a co-founder of the Visionary Fiction Alliance, she is the author of Systems, an award-winning novel inspired by a visionary dream born in real history.
VIC SMITH
Victor E. Smith (Vic) is a writer specializing in Visionary Fiction, a semi-retired computer trainer to the publishing industry (15 years as a consultant to The Wall Street Journal), and a spiritual/paranormal researcher currently residing in Tucson, Arizona.
While quite busy with the production of his own works, Vic remains dedicated to the Visionary Fiction genre as a community: its definition, promotion and eventual propagation to both writers and readers.
JIM MURDOCH
Jim Murdoch has been self-publishing since his debut novel, Pursuit, was launched in 2013. Since then he has published a number of fiction books in the metaphysical / visionary genre. He aims to bring out more such fiction stories both for children and the older reader.
Jim’s IT technical background and website building experience serves well in keeping our site running.
THERESA CRATER
Theresa Crater is a best-selling author who brings ancient temples, lost civilizations, and secret societies back to life in her visionary fiction. Her short stories explore ancient myth brought into the present day. The Star Family won best fiction in the Indie Spirit Book Awards in 2015. Return of the Grail King won the gold medal in visionary fiction from COVR in 2019 and Into the City of Light took the silver in 2021. She lives in Boulder County with her Egyptologist partner Stephen Mehler, their cats, and numerous hawks, eagles, owls, coyotes, and fox, not to mention the ground hogs.