Sam Flynn - Preorder DWELLER IN DARKNESS! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social A godforsaken author (He/Him). DWELLER IN DARKNESS out 9/22 via Timber Ghost Press. Preorder: https://www.timberghostpress.com/dweller-landing.html#/
Website: https://sam-flynn.com
Links: https://linktr.ee/samflynn7
Dan Gummer @dangummer.bsky.social Video editor. Aspiring novelist. Currently Googling things a normal person shouldn't need to know about theoretical physics and astrobiology for a sci-fi novel. Horror shorts on the side. Building Stories → https://dangummer.substack.com/
A.M. Maris @ammaris.bsky.social SFF writer | she/her | Clarion '25 | ammariswrites.com
Brandon Applegate @bapplegate.bsky.social Weird things are happening. Sometimes I write. Usually about monsters, ghosts, magic, and whatnot. Book here: https://www.amazon.com/Those-We-Left-Behind-Sacrifices/dp/057896841X/
Nicholas Knight @nicholasknight45.bsky.social UIC Alumni|NLGJA Student Member|TJA Student Member|Omnivorous Reader and Writer|Aspiring Journalist|Movie Buff| Existential Nerd|He/They
Greg Mefford @gregorymefford.bsky.social Macintosh IT. Former reporter/editor. Lapsed art student. Houston, TX
ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social Dark & Weird Speculative Fiction | Brave New Weird Award | Seize the Press, Trollbreath, No Sleep Podcast & others | Assistant Professor of Writing at USC | Apophatic Utopianist
Author site: zddochterman.com
Justin Ocelot @justinocelot.bsky.social I'm a speculative fiction writer focusing on short stories. More info at justinocelot.com.
Scylla Publishing @scyllapublishing.bsky.social Australian publisher of sapphic specfic
SEPT 4 2026 - "Who Am I? Sapphic Spec Fic of Identity and Purpose" anthology! https://www.scyllapublishing.com/whoami
No AI now or ever.
D.A. Jobe @d-a-jobe.bsky.social Horror Author. Debut novel PALMETTO BOY out now with @timberghostpress.bsky.social Rep: Tricia Skinner @fuseliterary.bsky.social
Dajobeauthor.wordpress.com
—Also into making spooky miniatures 💀
Anonymous absurdist zines from the Bible Belt @absurdistzines.bsky.social The revolution will be self published
The Grim Reader (UK) @thegrimreaderuk.bsky.social Undead and well-read.
IG: @thegrimreaderuk
Email: thegrimreaderuk@gmail.com
Tom Mead @tommeadauthor.bsky.social He/Him. Author of DEATH AND THE CONJUROR, THE MURDER WHEEL, and CABARET MACABRE published by Mysterious Press (US) and Head of Zeus (UK)
"Ingenious" - The Guardian
"Ingenious" - The Times
Rep: Lorella Belli Literary Agency
@cardiganrabbit.bsky.social @cardiganrabbit.bsky.social Librarian, Hobbit
Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social Speculative fiction in translation | SFinTranslation.com | Small Planet Magazine | translates Italian sf | contributor at Strange Horizons, World Literature Today, Samovar.
Bree Taylor 🍉 @breetaylor0.bsky.social settler in amiskwaciwâskahikan (yeg)
she/they | writer + poet | MFA @ UBC
https://linktr.ee/BreeTaylor0
Nancy Pica Renken @nancyprwriter.bsky.social Nancy Pica Renken is a Colorado writer whose work has appeared in Wyldblood Magazine, multiple anthologies, and recently in Sci Fi to Go: Food for Thought by Third Flatiron Publishing. www.NancyPRenken.com
Dr. Alyssa (they/them) @yesthattoo.bsky.social Autistic researcher with too many interests and no real intention of narrowing it down. Mostly AAC research at the moment. Sometimes a math teacher.
Not speaking on behalf of any companies/organizations here.
Captain Dave @lukeandleaya.com Gamer, Animal Rights Activist, Vegan and Proud Cat Parent to twin Scottish Folds Luke and Leaya.
Kathryn @kathrynraver.bsky.social Literary translator, SFF enthusiast, & Assistant Managing Editor @ Asymptote Journal 💫 Words in ANMLY, Ancillary Review of Books, Asymptote, and others.
current reads: Violent Phenomena (Tilted Axis Press); The Winged Histories by Sofia Samatar
Jessica Maison @jessicamaison.bsky.social Nebula Award winning sci-fi and horror comics writer, author, and screenwriter trying to do more right than wrong. Wicked Tree Press founder, Mary Shelley's School of Monsters creator, and co-host of Monster V. Monster.
https://linktr.ee/wickedtreepress
T. L. Xue @tixanfy.bsky.social (she/her) writer & biomed enthusiast. published in Bourbon Penn, Luna Station Quarterly, Clarkesworld (as Tiffany Xue), and more.
cmcrockford.bsky.social @cmcrockford.bsky.social BIRDSONGS (Alien Buddha, 2024) and WITH ONE'S OWN EYES (Moonstone Press, 2026). AuDHD. West Philly. Cat dad. Anti-fascist.
Buy my book: https://www.cmcrockford.net/store/p/with-ones-own-eyes
Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social Opti-mystic writer & futurist; father of two. Author with Richard Rohr of 'The Divine Dance.' Co-founder, Wild Goose Festival . Curator, TheSpeakeasy.info Read my stuff @ MikeMorrell.org/BonusChapter
Franco Amati @francoamati.bsky.social writer, poet, SFWA & Codex, ViableParadise 2024,
new collection WORK IS WORK out now: https://www.amazon.com/Work-Franco-Amati/dp/B0HCCQF9YP/
and for all published fiction visit francoamatiwrites.com
Ryan Newberger @borkflop.bsky.social Indie author. Writing gothic, grimdark fantasy from rural Vermont. Amateur chicken farmer, professional teacher and coach.
Author of: "The Honest Dark", "Wounded Sky, Dying Earth", and "A Wound of the Soul"
My books here: https://tinyurl.com/4dphnwhm
Betsy Aoki (she/her) @betsyaoki.bsky.social Game producer, writer, poet. Clarion West grad and currently poetry editor at Uncanny Magazine. See Betsyaoki.com for more.
Atara Blake @strangeisthenight.bsky.social Artist, PhD in cancer biology, and writer of weird fiction and poetry. Seeking the strange and wondrous in a dying world. She/Her 🌈. Portland, OR.
Work appearing or forthcoming in Marrow Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Gavagai.
Brittni Brinn @brittnibrinn.bsky.social Writing sci-fi and horror in Mi'kma'ki/Nova Scotia.
Author of Misplaced (@littleghostsbooks.bsky.social)
She/they
brittnibrinn.com
Fiona Kelleghan @fionakelleghan.bsky.social Scholar of Science Fiction (SF) and Horror literature and film, and of comedy and parody. Books include "The Savage Humanists" and "Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature." I hold an MLIS from FSU and a Master's in English Lit from U of Miami.
A. E. Lanier @aelanier.bsky.social I write stuff and I read stuff, not always in that order.
Some concerns about the way things are currently are going.
Middle school teacher | Texan in North Carolina | aroace af | Angela | she/hers
C. E. Singer @ce-singer.bsky.social SFF author & attorney & occasional professor | Finalist for the 2025 Mike Resnick Memorial Award | Codex | Fiction forthcoming in Analog Science Fiction and Fact & Flash Fiction Online
http://ce-singer.com/
Seia Tanabe @seiatanabe.bsky.social Japanese author of horror, weird fiction, and literary fiction. Winner of the Japan Horror Novel Award (Short Story Prize). Exploring folklore, memory, migration, and the uncanny. 📚 English translations available.
Dani Raanan @daniraanan.bsky.social Mother, SFF author, Cat subordinate. Represented by John Jarrold of JJLA
Thomas North @thomasnorthwriter.bsky.social Hobbyist writer of fantasy and science-fiction, surrounded by books, paintings, and vintage furniture.
Check out my website for more 👇
🌐 https://wildersteorra.net/
Kate / Katelyn Forrest @kateforrest.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Doer of Things. 🏳️⚧️
Once Upon a Punk Show available everywhere!
https://katelynforrest.com/
Demagogue Press & Qilin Press @paippolito.bsky.social Girl Boss Indie publisher (@demagogue_press & @qilin_press ), lawyer, writer, and gamer & nonprofit founder.
John Butterworth III @jbutterw3.bsky.social Pediatrician l Writing 🔬🪐🦠
he/him
Stories in Crepuscular Magazine and UFO 10
Coming soon in Rat Bag Lit and Anomaly!
Bob Gielow @bobgielow.bsky.social I write quirky stories for your entertainment, and mine. stage32.com/profile/1184051
Cynthia Ward @cynthiaward.bsky.social SFF writer/editor, co-author/co-founder Writing the Other, cat rescuer, atheist, #ActuallyAutistic, demisexual demigirl, she or they. NO DMs.
Queer Speculative Fiction @queerspecfic.bsky.social A free monthly newsletter of queer speculative fiction book releases. Check out our list of queer-owned bookstores worldwide.
👹 queerspeculativefiction.org
Michael Wehunt @michaelwehunt.bsky.social A creature assembled from found footage. Bram Stoker Award Winner, Georgia Author of the Year Award winner, Crawford Award + Shirley Jackson Award Nominee. Author of the novels NIGHTJARS (9/29/26) & THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT.
Exoplanet || subs open Sept 1st @exoplanetmag.com New digital magazine for experimental speculative short fiction. Stories that imagine new worlds and new ways to explore them.
First #submissions window: September 1 - 15, 2026
First issue: December 1, 2026
exoplanetmag.com
foofaraw press @foofarawpress.bsky.social a zine of surreal storytelling and worldly observations
https://foofaraw.press
Rivqa Rafael @rivqa.bsky.social I used to be a writer like you, then I took a psychology PhD to the knee
Queer, neurodivergent, antizionist Jewish psychologist and lapsed writer/editor on unceded Gadigal/Wangal land. Views my own. Pronouns: she/her/king. https://linktr.ee/rivqarafael
Lynn Witwer @starkravinglynn.bsky.social Viable Paradise 2025
Gone batty 🦇
Toil and Trouble @alixmiddlec.bsky.social PNW dog/cat mom
weirdo, reader, pinko, crone
she/they
StoryGraph: alix_with_an_i
CR: Homesick for a World Unknown
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality” - Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
Liminal Space Creative @liminalspacecreative.substack.com Aspiring Métis writer drawn to the grey areas of the human condition. Places we bury deep, where love and sorrow quietly pool together. Spaces that hold both our capacity for sincere kindness and our potential for extreme cruelty.
Eric Fomley @ericfomley.bsky.social I write science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories and flash fiction. Read my stories on ericfomley.com!
Kirsty Isla Thomas @kirstyislathomas.bsky.social Scottish 🏴🏳️🌈
Queer, disabled creative.
Poetry, Art, Zines, Photography
She/her
Yeri Martinez-Vallejo @yerivallejo.bsky.social Founder, Realms Media | Psychological thriller & horror filmmaker | Character-driven genre cinema | HOTHOB 2027
Rob Weldon @robweldon.bsky.social Author, The Omnist series
—Magical Noir—horror comedy, dark humor
Consumia’s Spiritual Emporium
Mostly Human, Mostly Cat
The Omnist and the Cosmic Egg
The Patina of Dorothy Grant
Wide-Eyed Wyatt’s Liquid Nap
The Soul Phone Collector
Karen Heuler @karenheuler.bsky.social Writer of real & unreal stories in Asimov's, Conjunctions, F&F, Reactor.com. Last novel, The Splendid City, has Stan, the offensive man/cat; Eleanor, the novice witch who made a mistake; an outrageous president, and Texas secession. karenheuler@aol.com.
Northern Horror Hub @northerhorrorhub.bsky.social Northern Horror Hub gathers writers, readers and thinkers drawn to the darkness. Explore all aspects of horror via our writing courses, retreats, conferences and events both online and in person. Watch this space for submissions to our upcoming zine.
Max Puffins @maxpuffins.bsky.social Book reviews & reading-related thoughts from a literature lover and speculative fiction author / creative writing MFA. 100% HUMAN powered.
The Great Wild Word Substack : https://open.substack.com/pub/maxpuffins
R. Ruhl 🌙 @writingruhls.bsky.social Querying a horror novel!
MFA in Writing Popular Fiction. HWA member. STEM background. History, astronomy, & Renaissance fair fan. Friend of a fussy dachshund. I'm a cane user and my work focuses on disability rep.
https://linktr.ee/writingruhls
Shelly Blake-Plock @shellyblakeplock.com Writing horror fiction, making music, building weird things. Oh, and baseball. And open source. Also, I've lived in a haunted house for 23 years, which is fun.
Erin Brown @babblewocky.bsky.social Spec Fic Author. SFWA. Voodoonaut. Words in FIYAH Mag, Nightmare Mag, Baffling, Fantasy Mag, The Deadlands, EscapePod, Haven, Skull & Laurel, Psychopomp. A watched plot never thickens. http://ebrownwrites.com
Fermented Fiction @fermentedfiction.bsky.social A podcast exploration of genre fiction through the lens of literature and film. This is also a fancy way of saying: drinking great beer and talking about our favorite books, movies, and shows with incredible artists and creators.
Rebecca H. Lee 📚 🎤 @beckcentric.bsky.social West Coast American. SAG-AFTRA Actor, Audiobook Narrator, Vocal Shapeshifter. Yogi, Life Gamifier, Former World Traveler turned Cozy Home Dweller
Joseph Eckert @josepheckert.bsky.social Father, husband, writer, photographer. Not actually a cat.
Author of The Traveler (the novel)
Derek Wagner @dmwagner.bsky.social "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
Words @factorfourmagazine.com
@realneondystopia.bsky.social @diabolicalplots.com
Odyssey Writing Workshop '23.
Codex Member
Dan J Foley @pulpifieddan.bsky.social Writer of weird and macabre fiction. Former pro artist. Somewhere down in old Gondwana.
@horrorsight.bsky.social @horrorsight.bsky.social 
Nicholas Kaufmann @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social Bestselling author of 100 FATHOMS BELOW, THE HUNGRY EARTH, THE MIND WORMS and more!
Lili Hill @dr-lil-hill.bsky.social Hobby-knitter, Stress-baker, Master Gardener. PharmD. Poly-worker(I work more than 1 fulltime job). She/Her. 🇨🇦. Immigrant. Views my own. No DMs, please. Just do good. There is strength in kindness. Exist loudly.
Taidgh Lynch @taidgh.bsky.social Poet, book lover, former carer, and vilomah from KY 🇮🇪 living in SK 🇨🇦 Poetry: thewaxedlemon drawnpress PrairieFireMag TNOlitmag untethered FreeFall Pamphlet w/JackPinePress Supported by SaskArts Poetry Ed: GrainLitMag he/him 🚫 ai
I’m all for Alt text
L. D. Colter - Author @ldcolter.com Writer of weird things. Award-winning author of The Perilous Gods set of myth-based dark fantasy from Profile Books/Solaris.
Jeff C. Carter @carterwroteit.bsky.social Writing 🎃 #Horror, podcasting @webobpodcast and live story telling with Wicked Whispers.
📙WE BLEED ORANGE & BLACK: 31 Tales for Halloween available now
https://linktr.ee/jeffccarter
Alex Kingsley @alexyquest.bsky.social writer/comedian/game designer | they/them | co-founder @StrongBranchPro | Author of EMPRESS OF DUST | ✍️ Translunar Travelers Lounge, Radon Journal | UIC English MA student | Rep: Sara Megibow
Orion Zangara Art @orionzangaraart.bsky.social Freelance artist on SILENT NIGHTMARES with Michael Bailey and Chuck Palahniuk for Simon & Schuster — www.orionzangaraart.com orionzangaraart@gmail.com
Elizabeth Torres @onthewritelines.bsky.social 
Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com Part-time prevaricator.
He/him 🇨🇦
https://patrickjohanneson.com/
Avatar by @badguybirnie.bsky.social's kid
Ukrainian wheat field header by Alex @aplante.com Plante
I'm also on Mastodon — https://mstdn.ca/@pjohanneson
L.T. Williams @ltwilliams.bsky.social Writer. Associate editor at @havenspec.bsky.social. Words in-or forthcoming in-Chthonic Matter Quarterly, @talestoterrify.bsky.social, and @shotgunhoney.com, among others.
Looking for information on the whereabouts of the Mothman.
LTWilliamsWriter.com
Christina Rosso (she/they) @christinarosso.bsky.social Author of horror & dark fairy tales
Debut Novel: The Last Sheaf 🌾 Fall 2027
Story Collections: Creole Conjure and She is a Beast
Bookstore Owner: A Novel Idea on Passyunk
Podcast: Hello, Sister 🩸
Tarot Reader 🔮 Educator 👩🏫 Dog Momma 🐶
Brianna Kaldor-Mair @shells-and-bones.bsky.social Biology grad student, writer and cellist when I have the time. interested in and excited about many things. I like tea and I talk too much.
Ashley Erwin @littleblondeninja.bsky.social Slamming out Southern Pulp. A Ballad Concerning Black Betty or the Retelling of a Mankiller and Her Machete. Grit, Black, Blood published by @shotgunhoney
ashley-erwin.com
Rex Stephens @rexstephens.bsky.social Of cats and spooky stuff.
Cyrus Riahi @cyrusriahi.bsky.social Amateur writer, game designer, and human. Always trying to be better at all 3.
Huge fan of superheroes, kaiju, sci-fi, and esports.
"Omega Ego" is my gaming username.
Disabled. He/him 💖💛💙
cyrusriahi.com
Delia Remington (She/Her) @therealdelia.eurosky.social Award-winning Editor Eagle Heights Press. VampFest Silver Stake Winner. Blood Royal Saga Author. Full time dog mom. https://deliaremington.bio.link
Eliza Rose (aka Jo) @eliza-writing.bsky.social Writer, reader, actor, general nut
SFF/horror as Jo Niederhoff, romance as Eliza Something-or-Other (if I ever finish a whole book)
Greville Tombs @grevilletombs.bsky.social Law book cataloguer. Graveyard Poet. Queer.
"That's curiously self-destructive, even for you, Grev".
There is no band Greville and the Tombstones.
https://grevilleandthetombstones.blogspot.com/
Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social Disabled writer of things. Bad at being on BlueSky. Debut sci-fi horror novel AWAKENED out now with Angry Robot Books.
‘An impressive debut worth losing sleep over’ - New York Times
Max Marioni @maxmarioni.bsky.social Writer of dark imaginative fiction: of the uncanny, memory, haunted borderlands, of cities and their secret histories. Stories in Illustrated Worlds, Shooter Literary Magazine, East of the Web, and others. More on maxmarioni.com.
Ashleigh's Paradigm Shift @paradigmpins.bsky.social (They/He)
Nonbinary | AuDHD | Disabled | Geek | Leftist
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Jonah Buck @jonahbuck.bsky.social Author, attorney, and bad grammar haver. Smashed enough words together to create several books, including CARRION SAFARI, SUBSTRATUM, & SAVAGE HELIX.
Ruby @rubyhosh.bsky.social Yorkshire based
Fantasy/horror reader, rollerskater
Instagram:
@rubyhosh (book reviews)
@rubyhoshskates (rollerskating progress diary)
Jen @jendertheory.bsky.social writer | cohost of @jamsntea.bsky.social
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/jendertheory
just some guy @gregwritesinvt.bsky.social Freelance book editor for horror, sci-fi, comedy, thrillers, and speculative fiction.
Writer of weird stuff that makes me laugh.
Husband and dad.
Haver of opinions, anxiety, and ADHD.
Work with me: https://gregdoes.work
Michael Dolan @michaeldolan.bsky.social Author/Raconteur
Founder/Editorial Director of Winding Road Stories
Former CondeNast, AQ Mag
Boxer/bodybuilder
Cooking/art/fashion/music/books/travel
Ri Stypula @ristypula.bsky.social Totally not a hundred rats in a trench coat. Writing queer horror that’s always weird, and occasionally about parasites.
SQUELCH! (Merigold Independent) coming September 2026.
(They/Them)
https://ratkinghorror.carrd.co
ghoul thing @davevriser.bsky.social he/him. graduate student, writer, & transsexual horror. work appears in Bloodletter, The Arkansas International, and Dark Matter Presents: The Off-Season. Not Only Will This Kill You But It Will Hurt The Whole Time You Are Dying via Tenebrous Press 2027
@colinmann.bsky.social @colinmann.bsky.social 
Michelle💙🌊🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇵🇸✌🏽 @mcorey79.bsky.social TST member 😈 Lover of democracy & human rights💙Stephen King enthusiast💙Animal lover/adopt don't shop💙 Fierce ally 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈♀️💙Horror movies are my jam & anything related to Halloween 👻💀🎃Scorpio♏️
Vince Vasudevan @vasudevan.bsky.social SF&F Writer | VT ‘22 🦃 | ND ‘26 ☘️
Alex T Singer, Arbiter of Bagels @moonsheen.bsky.social Sturgeon-nominated SFF author. 1/2 of LITTLE FOOLERY: @littlefoolery.bsky.social Author of ANGEL COUNTRY (Saga Press) Out Fall 2026. Rep: @lzats.bsky.social
Martin Roberts @lordfroggy.bsky.social Former Jack of all trades, master of none. Past victories include several short stories punished & runner-up for the BBC award nominee (short film) @ the 17th Birmingham International Film and Television Festival. 78 rpm slowed to 33.3 by Fibromyalgia.
John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com Artist, designer, occasional writer.
• Words: https://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/
• Pictures: https://www.johncoulthart.com/
• Linktree: https://linktr.ee/johncoulthart
No DMs. Contact me here: https://www.johncoulthart.com/contact.html
Carina Bissett @carinabissett.bsky.social 
Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff" @authorlevai.bsky.social She/her. PhD in Egyptology, now I write fiction. The Night Library of Sternendach is my novella in sonnets. The Glass Garden is space horror and family drama.
Will boost almost anything with a bat in it.
linktr.ee/authorlevai