Horror Underground Film Festival @horrorfilmfestival.bsky.social Various options to submit to the Festival. A HYBRID model. Cinema screenings for audience feedback video.Blog and podcast interviews. And bonus Virtual screening (optional!).
https://filmfreeway.com/horrorunderground
https://festivalforhorror.comi
Rachael Raine Rivers @rachaelrainerivers.bsky.social Magical fairy princess who writes fantasy, both cozy and moody. Words in Cast of Wonders (upcoming) and Fantastic Other. Also a harpist, watercolorist, and amateur astrologer. Librarian by day. MA, MLIS, 🏳️🌈, ♾️, zero A👁
https://linktr.ee/rachaelrainerivers
Artemis Quinn 🏳️⚧️🎨📚 @vampireantihero.com I write & draw horror, dark fantasy, & supernatural romance.
🏳️⚧️ He/they 🏳️🌈 Pan, trans/enby
🦇Horror&Vampire enthusiast
🎨 Illustrator & visdev
🖊 Writer
💀 Actor
No A👁
Links: https://www.conquerthyfear.com/links
Patreon: https://members.conquerthyfear.com/
Jeremy 🪐📚 @jeremyiswriting.bsky.social Fantasy and sci-fi writer; father of cats & humans; TTRPGer; dilettante.
Certified free range, AI free
Author of "Twin Rivers," a cyberpunk theocracy novel, available at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G5D9QZRP
More: https://substack.com/@jisbender
Tina C. @tinapickles.bsky.social Writer. Bog witch in training. Creature mom to four cats and seven rabbits.
Zoey<3 @zoey-89.bsky.social Artist ♡
Creating stunning story art.
Working with authors & writers worldwide.
Kane Williams, fantasy author @authorkanew.bsky.social Fantasy author ⚔️ PERILS OF THE PAST - out now ⚔️
Website: https://kanew.au
S.M. Carter (Sheldon) @sheldoncarter.bsky.social New here!
-Author: To Steal the Sun (23) & Aardehn Awakening (mid 26).
-Developer/Prez: DE (Warframe & Soulframe)
-Podcaster: The War with Art.
Also: Collecting books, Metal music, Hiking/Camping.
Say no to birds
https://linktr.ee/smcarter
Matt Kratz @themattk.bsky.social Writer, country music and baseball fan. I am a loyal friend and good joke teller!
Andi is 🏳️⚧️ RE-DRAFTING DESECRATE 🏳️⚧️ @andromedaexists.bsky.social 26 || He/him || ur fav dark fantasy author's fav dark fantasy author || cr 》The Reformatory
🇵🇸 RESPECT EXISTENCE OR EXPECT RESISTANCE 🇵🇸
https://solo.to/andromedaexists
Divination Hollow Reviews @divinationhollow.bsky.social Promoting horror and adjacent genres, DHR is a majority queer team with a passion for all things dark and spooky. Check us out at https://divinationhollow.com/
Account run by Elle Turpitt
Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog Joe Koch writes literary horror and surrealist trash.
Website: horrorsong.blog
Books!
The Wingspan of Severed Hands
Invaginies https://bookshop.org/p/books/invaginies/20266528
The Couvade
Convulsive
The Shipwreck of the Cerberus
Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9
Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Vf4w9Ze38rLniADBEGKSp?si=AcWduGX
darkwinterlitmag @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social Small press and literary magazine from Ontario, Canada publishing poetry, short stories, novels, and novellas. Editor: Suzanne Craig-Whytock
CRIPtic Arts @cripticarts.bsky.social Creating an artistic landscape where disabled people flourish
cripticarts.org
London Writers Centre @ldnwriterscentre.bsky.social Opening doors to great storytelling. Founded in 1995 as Spread the Word, now London Writers Centre.
Daniel Radford @radfordwrites.bsky.social Author, poet, podcast host and all-around creative. Fan of all things nerdy and lover of stories. https://www.radfordwrites.com/
Andrew Lyall - horror author @grumpyandrew.bsky.social Writes & talks about horror.
My newsletter: https://andrewlyall.substack.com
Grumpy Andrew's Horror House: https://www.youtube.com/@GrumpyAndrewsHorrorHouse
Dave Blackwell @daveblackwell.bsky.social Medical Engineer and Indie Author from Kent, UK. I am profoundly deaf and write comedy based on my experiences.
The Hospital is now available - check it out.
Liz Wilson Davies @lizwilsondavies.bsky.social 
Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social Poetry, prose, art. Submit it.
https://www.fullhouseliterary.com/
John F Leonard @johnfleonard.bsky.social Freelance writer and #author of #darkfiction & #apocalypse stories - basically, I mess with words and like scary stuff : )
Books available on #KindleUnlimited #Audible - linktr.ee/johnfleonard
Gessica Sakamoto Martini @gessicasakamoto.bsky.social Writer & Poet | 2x BOFN nom| Words in DMQ review, HAD, Hex, SoFloPoJo, Ballast, Unbroken, Bending genres, Gone Lawn, Red Ogre Review, etc...| EiC: Orion’s Belt | PhD in Anthropology (Durham Uni, UK) | she/her.
Website: https://www.gessicasakamoto.com/
Sarah Turner @scturnerfiction.bsky.social Writer. Short stories in: The Rumpus, Sonora Review, J Journal, Shooter Lit Mag, London Magazine, Fictive Dream, LEON, Litro & others | SL Bridport SS | Read my work at: www.scturnerfiction.com
Stephen Buttigieg @thoughts-by-steve.bsky.social 
Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social Κλεοπάτρα 🇨🇾 Writer, editor, translator | Stories in: swamp pink, HAD, Tiny Molecules, Flash Flood, Claudine, Raw Lit | she/her
Shortlisted, Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction
Best Small Fictions & Best of the Net nominee
kleopatraolympiou.com
Dark Talk @dark-talk.uk The official BlueSky account for the Dark Talk podcast.
• https://dark-talk.uk
• https://patreon.com/DarkTalkPod
Rob Gotobed @robgotobed.bsky.social Stand-up philosopher, scribe, bongo drummer and professional time-traveller. (Once dated Anne Boleyn)
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: http://bit.ly/3K6WdB9
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2992620/
Crafted Words CIC @craftedwordscic.bsky.social We're about community. We focus on creativity for wellbeing. We believe in telling the untold stories and amplifying the unheard voices.
#SocialEnterprise #NotForProfit
#CommunityInterestCompany
#CIC #Create4Health #Art #Craft #Writing #Zines #ZineCall
Benedict Sangster @benedictsangster.bsky.social Writer, Norwich, UK. Lover of all animals. Books and nothing else
benedictsangster.com
Kik Lodge @kiklodge.bsky.social Writer. THE BULLY IN MY PILLOW (Stanchion Books, August 2026).
https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/the-bully-in-my-pillow
Best Microfiction 2026.
Hosts literary open-mics @saloneurope.bsky.social
www.kiklodge.com
James Montgomery @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social Flash writer ✍️ | Latest: Crow & Cross Keys, Fictive Dream, FlashFlood, The Bulb Region, 100 Word Story, NFFD Micro Comp ‘26 | 📖 Best Small Fictions ‘25, Wigleaf Top 50 ‘25 | 💫 Welkin People’s Prize ‘25 | He/Him 🌈 www.jamesmontgomerywrites.com
Kathryn Aldridge-Morris @kazbarwrites.bsky.social COLD TOAST Dahlia Books. Republic of Consciousness Prize 'Book of the Month'. Shortlisted for International Rubery Book Award. Wigleaf Top 50, Bath Flash Fiction Award, Mancs. Writing School QMD Prize, The Forge CNF prize
www.kamwords.com
Sylvia Leatham @sylvialeatham.bsky.social Award-winning author. Debut spec-fic romcom ‘Chaos Theory’ with Storm Publishing. Rep’ed by Liverpool Lit. Silver at Farnham Lit Audiobook Awards; SL'ed for The Letter Review, Watson Little Indie Novella; LL’ed for Mslexia. https://linktr.ee/SylviaLeatham
Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social Writer. All My Precious Madness published by Galley Beggar 2024; Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist, Authors Club Prize Shortlist, James Tait Black Prize shortlist. How Do People Stay the Same published 2026, Galley Beggar.
https://www.creativewritingtuition.com/
Terry Holland @terryholland.bsky.social https://terryholland.carrd.co/
https://substack.com/@tfholland
Order 13tracks Issue 2: https://13tracks.com/products/13tracks-issue-2
L. N. Holmes (Updates, Mostly) @lnholmeswriter.bsky.social Author of SPACE, COLLISIONS (@ghostcitypress.bsky.social) & THE FLOATING CASTLE | @specawards.bsky.social founder | Stories: Newfound, Barren Magazine, Vestal Review, others | Proud momma 🩵| ✝️
https://lnholmeswriter.wordpress.com
linktr.ee/lnholmeswriter
Eleanor Luke @eleanor-luke.bsky.social Writer of flash fiction, short stories and maybe a novel. Words in NFFD, FreeFlashFiction, Retreat West. LL Reflex Flash contest. Top 10 Oxford flash award 2022. 
LM “Gory” Fontanes 👻 @lorifontanes.bsky.social Writer/educator/community advocate. Cats & catastrophe. More better food 4 all. Bewaring billionaires bearing tech. #SaveThePeople
Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social 🚀Dancer & Writer.
✨Brit based in Zurich.
⚡️Words in Fractured Lit, X-RAY Literary, LEON Literary, Bending Genres, Gone Lawn, JMWW, Your Impossible Voice…Nom BSF & BMF 2025
🎖️Bath Flash Fiction Short List
Stephanie @stephaniestockholm.bsky.social Stockholmer, Washingtonian, New Yorker, Manileña, aspiring writer, actual translator, #woolfer
@j-west27.bsky.social @j-west27.bsky.social British writer & editor living in Belgium.
Andy Charman @andyandz.bsky.social Author of Crow Court. published by @unbounders.bsky.social. Longlist Desmond Elliott 2021. Shortlist CWA Historical 2022. Laureat Festival du Premier Roman 2022. Researching 1983 and philosophers in WWII. Assistant Editor of Thin-Skin.com
Dilys Wyndham Thomas @dilyswt.bsky.social British-Belgian writer and poet.
Words in Chestnut Review, Mslexia, New Flash Fiction Review, Shooter, X-R-A-Y, etc.
Was assistant poetry editor at Passengers Journal.
Almost always accompanied by two very clingy cats. (Haarlem, Netherlands)
Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social Reading, writing, rabbits 🐇 ✡️
Director of European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social
London
www.deborahzafer.com
https://substack.com/@deborahzafer
Patience Mackarness @patiencemackarness.bsky.social Writer, grandmother, tree-hugger. Born in Hampshire, now in rural Brittany, with pitstops in Leeds, Portugal, Wales, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Liverpool. I write flash fiction and other things.
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social Art, nature, writing woes. Sometimes funny, often intentionally. New Yorker by birth, Londoner by practice.
Story ‘Nothing Compared to You’ out in the Book of Witty Women : https://bit.ly/3Q72ug0
Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social Artist & writer. History & art buff. Museum of Photocopies. Quietus. Guardian. Observer. Louder than War. WORM, Rotterdam. Leiden. Write about music, NL, & my family history. #MDANT. 3rd book out March ‘27 https://linktr.ee/richardfoster
Laura Bee @writerlaurabee.bsky.social Tragically unhip Dutch-Canadian stranded in the Netherlands. A little bit writer, a little bit rock & roll. A lot ADHD. Boomer, but not the kind with money. 🚫 AI.
#SoA
One of Pamela Des Barres' Electric Ladies! https://tinyurl.com/mruve4cw
Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill
Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/
Craft newsletter: https://prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/
Alisha Erin Hillam @aehillam.bsky.social Pushcart-nominated writer (she/her), with work at ONLY POEMS, Barrelhouse, Consequence Forum, & others. 2025 AIR Literature Västra Götaland Fellow, 2026 M.1 Arthur-Boskamp-Foundation Fellow. Historian, Hoosier, & traveler, now based in Europe.
Philippa Bowe @philippabowe.bsky.social Flash fiction, poetry, translation / Micro nouvelles, poésie, traduction. Ghost City Press, NFFR, Reflex Fiction, Bath Flash Fiction, Spark2Flame, Neither Fish Nor Foul, The Hooghley Review. Pushcart Prize nom. Dance, LFC, la belle vie. Elue municipale. 🌄
Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social Poet, author of Tumor Moon 🌖 Co-editor of Stained: an anthology of writing about menstruation🩸(Querencia Press). Immigrant. Hockey fan. She / her. 🇺🇸/🇨🇭in 🇨🇭
http://www.jennifer-saunders.com
https://concretewolf.com/publications/publications.htm
Alison Langley @langleyshields.bsky.social 📚Budapest Noir: Ilona Gets A Phone published 2024 by Dedalus Books 📕 Short Stories @thepigsback @frazzledlit @bournemouthwritingprize @InsurgentPress
🍄I hunt fungi & eat them
She/Her
Jude P @judepickledplum.bsky.social Tea drinking fool, storyteller, humanist, voluptuary. Easily distracted by cats and reverb. Quiet voice, loud hands. Likes writers, books and awful puns.
Laurie Johnson @laurieinbavaria.bsky.social Nature walks, reading, knitting.
Silliness. Birding.
Intersectionality.
Writing.
WIP: Literary fiction with elements of magical realism. Exploring dementia, anger, and reconciliation.
All photos are mine unless labeled otherwise.
Anna Polonyi @annapolonyi.bsky.social Author of debut novel TOMORROW WE'LL BE PREY (HarperCollins, forthcoming Feb. 2027). Co-founder of the Nantes Writers' Workshop. Cloud & lichen enthusiast.
Buffer @buffer.com The social media management platform for scheduling, publishing & analytics across every major network. Plan your content calendar in one place. This account is managed by real humans. 💙
⬇️ buffer.com/bluesky
Basile Lebret edits Cult of the Dog @evoripclaw.bsky.social Horror (screen)writer
Micah Castle 🎃 @micahcastle.com 🐺New book The Companions We Lose🐺 mybook.to/companion | Horror and weird fiction author. | Editor. | Drifting in the Void.
www.linktr.ee/micahcastle
Ellie Made It @elliemade.bsky.social Alternately @ellie_made
Making things and having plans
http://www.triviateatowels.com
http://totallyflagulous.etsy.com
Wishbone Words @wishbonewords.bsky.social An online publisher of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, flash, translations, art, and photography from chronically ill, neurodiverse, & disabled creatives 👻💌
linktr.ee/wishbonewords
Indiosyncrasy @indiosyncrasy.bsky.social Hello friends! http://indiosyncrasy.com is now LIVE! Let's find your new favourite indie author.
hex @hexliterary.bsky.social hex publishes brief speculative texts on a weekly-ish basis. We're @WPI. Editors @katemcintyre.bsky.social @danielmiller.bsky.social @joeaguilar.bsky.social. Subs closed for now. Read hexliterary.com
Flex Fish Games @flexfishgames.bsky.social Artist Matthew king and programmer Rami Bukhari, teaming up to develop nostalgic hand-drawn 2D games.
Hana Carolina @hanacarolina.bsky.social Creative Writer & Academic Researcher | 30s | she/her | 🏴 🇪🇺 | Reviewer @ Strange Horizons | Fiction Editor @ Divinations Magazine | Debut Novella with Spaceboy Books, THE INESCAPABLE MARCH (2025)
https://readspaceboy.com/portfolio/the-inescapable-march/
Edinburgh Festival Fringe @edfringe.bsky.social The greatest platform for creative freedom in the world 🌎
Join us 06 - 30 Aug 2027.
#edfringe
edfringe.com
@gaystheword.bsky.social @gaystheword.bsky.social LGBT+ Bookshop, London
Tues - Sat Open 11am - 6pm
Sunday Open 1pm - 6pm
Monday - Closed
Pop-up location: 58-60 Marchmont Street, London WC1N 1AB
Taskmaster Memes @taskmastermemes.bsky.social A page dedicated to sharing memes I make about the glorious Taskmaster Universe.
Find me on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/memesoftaskmaster
Cosmic Daffodil Journal @cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social 📚Literary Magazine. Est. Oct 1st '22.
💚Submissions are OPEN
🤍Theme: MOSAIC 🖼
💙EiC: @callmemadib.bsky.social
🌼Instagram/Threads: @cosmic__daffodil
And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social Not-for-profit press led by readers, writers & translators. Consider subscribing to help us take publishing risks. http://andotherstories.org/subscriptions/
Horror Tree @horrortree.com Paying speculative fiction #OpenCall s, #writing advice, #AuthorInterviews, #BookReview s, and more since 2011! By: @stuartconover.com
https://horrortree.com
https://linkie.bio/horrortree
WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
Slut Summer Suzy fr this time @suzanneberget.com She/her.
Scifi writer
Gamer goblin
GIF master
Bisaster🏳️🌈
Norwegian & English
Buy Let Slip the Beasts, it's got a hot sharkman and everything!
https://books2read.com/letslipthebeasts
No Good Night for Gentle Beasts coming October 1st
Alex O'Connor @aoconnorauthor.bsky.social SF Author | SFWA | Author of the Celestial Saga.
https://linktr.ee/alexoconnorauthor
emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social Doctor of food, writer of stories
Sometime award nominee, occasional winner
Capitalism seditionist
In my ai;dr era
Ex Partum, out now: https://emmaburnett.carrd.co
Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com publisher of boundary-breaking prose books
come get us @ splitlippress.com and https://linktr.ee/splitlippress
posts by yrs truly @suburbanprairie.bsky.social
Reconnecting Rainbows Press @reconnectingrainbo.ws 🌈 Amplifying LGBTQIA+ voices through authentic storytelling.
📚 Poetry. History. Fiction. Children’s books. Emerging talent.
💡 Building community, connection, resistance and resilience.
www.reconnectingrainbows.co.uk
www.bookstodon.com/@reconnectpress
Leta R. Patton ✨️🥀 @ehsleeta.bsky.social Historical fiction and fantasy author. MFA graduate. Lover of languages, history, and art. Rep: Kaitlyn Katsoupis at Belcastro agency
Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social World Fantasy Award-winning publisher
www.blackshuckbooks.co.uk
Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com Magazine of speculative fiction; stories of horror, wonder, and the weird since 1999. https://3lobedmag.com
Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social The place for writers
Richard Osman @richardosman1.bsky.social Books etc
Lord Ravenscroft @atravenscroft.bsky.social Rapper, songwriter and producer 🎤
'a different kind of grown'
https://youtu.be/ldsH3L7ziMk?si=YmYYrwhQv8XccNjK
Ivo Graham @ivograham.bsky.social New app same pic. Would very much welcome any pre orders of my book
Stefan @shiningshenanigans.bsky.social Aussie law school grad that needs a job.
I enjoy Doctor Who and Star Trek. My dog is my life.
I'm one of those bisexuals they warned you about.
I dislike fascists and bigots.
P.E. PRIDEAUX 🇨🇦 @peprideaux.bsky.social Constructing a cross-tradition literary retelling of the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
Catholic Omnist. Newfoundlander. Dreamer. Storyteller. Cat Lover. Family Man.
Call me Paul.
Apaulogetics is my blog. ↓
https://substack.com/@apaulogetics
Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social ⋆Queer Southern Novelist 🌿
⋆WHITE TRASH WITCHCRAFT (HH Fall, 2027)
⋆Rep: @keiralekseii.bsky.social at Azantian
⋆✒️WTMP & 🩵 SmoochPit Mentor
https://linktr.ee/RowanBrightonBrown
European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social Travelling salon and writing community - connecting writers across Europe and beyond. Posts by @royakhatiblou.bsky.social and @deborahzafer.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/europeanwriterssalon
Tiny Ghost Press 📚👻 @tinyghostpress.bsky.social Indie imprint specializing in Queer YA fiction🌈📚, with a taste for all things spook-tacular 👻
Next Book: Our Immortal Bind by Christopher Hartland (31st March)
Nick Mohammed @nickmohammed.bsky.social Actor: Nate, Mr. Swallow, Anthony Stappan etc.
Michael Kaufman @kaufmanwrites.bsky.social Writer--mysteries, YA and non-fiction. Worked in 50 countries engaging men to support women's rights & positively transform men's lives. Latest: "The Male Ally Handbook" & "Moon Storm Rising" (K Quinn) & "The Last Resort" both with climate change themes
Hannah Michaelson @hannahmichaelson.bsky.social baker, Survivor fan, cat mom, chronic illness/disability advocate, lover of public transport and walkable human-centric cities (she/her) 
Invisible Books @invisibooks.bsky.social We make books.
Joe X Young @joexyoung.bsky.social I have created an Indie Horror Author Community resource website that will help you to succeed as authors, and help readers to find you.
https://joexyoung.com/welcome-home/
trampset @trampset.bsky.social A literary journal for the tramps in all of us. We accept poetry, CNF, flash, micro, and short fiction on a rolling basis.
All posts by @lmariharris.bsky.social
www.trampset.org
Indie Bites @indiebites.bsky.social A quarterly magazine featuring short fantasy fiction from indie authors.
Edited by @adiehartauthor.bsky.social and @josiejaffrey.bsky.social
No AI.
ASSASSINS & ALCHEMY deadline: 30 Nov 26
GRIFFINS & GRIMOIRES deadline: 28 Feb 27
www.silversunbooks.com