Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social Words Guy. Viable Paradise 2017. Fiction, parafiction, and game writer; Professional CMoS enjoyer and proofreader; sword nerd. Recreational taxonomist.
"Steen, occasionally I forget how extra you are but something always reminds me" -- Elizabeth Bear
#sf
Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social I write things.
Now a Hugo/Nebula finalist.
Occasionally on other sites, including marikness.wordpress.com, https://medium.com/@marikness, https://www.patreon.com/mari_ness. Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/mari_ness
Beth Tabler @bethtabler.bsky.social Editor of the quarterly issues of Grimdark Magazine and owner of Before We Go Blog.
#SPFBO7, #SPFBO8, #SPFBO9, #SPFBOX
A Coffee and an iPad full of books makes everything better.
Jesse Aragon @jvawrites.bsky.social space fantasy author | THE DEMON STAR (2026) | EMT-I/Trauma RN/BSN | Cat/Owl person, UFO enthusiast, recovering vampire.
Human artist, robots DNI.
https://linktr.ee/jessearagon
Louis @louisevans.bsky.social CONTENTS WILL PLASMATE UPON PACKET RUPTURE!
Rep: Eric Showers, HMLA
P H Lee ๐ชฌ @p-h-lee.bsky.social pretentious, awkward, difficult to approach, prickly, too fond of [their] own tales, haughty, prone to versifying, disdainful, cantankerous and scornful
links to work here: https://p-h-lee.com/
Sierra Branham @sierrabranham.bsky.social sff author, juggles knives, has goats
LOVE GALAXY (DAW ๐บ๐ธ & Transworld ๐ฌ๐ง 2026)
rep: Cameron McClure @ DMLA
she/her
https://linktr.ee/authorsierrabranham
John Baker, Literary Agent @jjbker.bsky.social The Small God of Hype, Literary Agent: Likes SFF&H, Welsh Rugby, Indie bands I heard about way later than you. He/Him. Opinions mine.
Justin Lee Anderson @justinleeanderson.com Scottish fantasy author of Carpet Diem as well as The Eidyn Saga from @orbitbooks.bsky.social. The Damned King OUT NOW. He/Him. Rep by @canonizer.bsky.social
Founder of bookmatch.co.uk
E.M. White, load-bearing grad student @emwhite.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog Pen name. Writing and reviewing dark and challenging fiction; would write more if life weren't so dark and challenging.
Also a magpie for fine stories and essays, a snob about coffee and tea (unless desperate), a wiki and map wanderer, and a cat steward.
Ichor Magazine @ichormagazine.bsky.social An amateur magazine of sword and sorcery touched by the sublime. A home for new authors dipping their pen into the violet ink of unknown horror.
https://ichormagazine.com
Leo @infrabeige.bsky.social Author and indie game designer. Author of 'Vaults of Vaarn', a science-fantasy RPG, and 'The Shrike', an award-winning OSE adventure. Co-founder of @antipodezines.bsky.social
Oliver K. Langmead @oliverklangmead.bsky.social THE KILLING OF A CHESTNUT TREE out this October from Tordotcom
Lecturer at Lancaster
Hugo nominated // Philip K. Dick award nominated // BSFA Award nominated // British Fantasy Award nominated
bedeviled and languid @grouchiestmarxiest.bsky.social Writer. Local gingersquatch sauntering into a wood near you. Serializing my novel WHISPERS OF INK.
ADRIAN M. GIBSON ๐ SFF Author & Book Designer @adrianmgibson.bsky.social Award-winning SFF author ๐ Co-host of SFF Addicts ๐โ๐ซ Publishing Project Manager at Grimdark Magazine ๐ A Murder Most Fungal OUT NOW
https://linktr.ee/adrianmgibson
https://adrianmgibson.com
Jaq Evans @jaqevans.com Horror and spec fic author, WHAT GROWS IN THE DARK (MIRA/HarperCollins), she / they, jaqevans.com
Justina Ireland @justinaireland.com Award winning writer and New York Times Bestseller. Sometimes agent at Handspun Literary. I also do TV and comics.
Food is a scam in this country.
Up next: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN HALLOWEEN - October 2026
Laura Cranehill @lauracranehill.bsky.social Strange motherings and odd bodies. Weird horror written by a weird horror. ๐
WIFE SHAPED BODIES out now from Saga Press
Lauracranehill.com
Lark โTornadoโ Morgan Lu @larkmorganlu.bsky.social Writing/Tea | They/She | Han Chinese | Works in F&SF, Augur, Pyre & more | Assoc. Editor @flashfictiononline.bsky.social, Baffling Magazine @neonhemlock.bsky.social| Acq. Fiction @anathemamagazine.bsky.social | pfp @unghostlyCasper | VP26
larkmorganlu.com
Ri Stypula @ristypula.bsky.social Totally not a hundred rats in a trench coat. Writing queer horror thatโs always weird, and occasionally about parasites.
SQUELCH! (Merigold Independent) coming September 2026.
(They/Them)
https://ratkinghorror.carrd.co
tru @tootru.bsky.social they/them ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ aka bobcat
fka littletnoee
trans misc
๐ค๐ฉถ๐ค๐๐ค๐ฉถ๐ค queer
Dogs. Music. Books. BLM. Land Back. Free Palestine. Unbinary.
most likely to die by enraged charismatic megafauna
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social Talented ruin. Riverboat floozy.
Queer Black writer in Glasgow, Scotland.
Crawford Award winning collection Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic out from Neon Hemlock Press now. https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-and-response
Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social Newsletter: Welcome to Hell World www.welcometohellworld.com
Books:
We Had It Coming (2025) https://orbooks.com/catalog/we-had-it-coming/
A Creature Wanting Form (2023) www.orbooks.com/catalog/a-creature-wanting-form
Nicole M. Wolverton (she/her/hers) @nicolemwolverton.bsky.social Professionally unsettling | Philly-area writer of (mostly) horror & thrillers | MEAT SWEATS * MARCH 2027 | horror academic | scent-obsessed | nicolewolverton.com
Quest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social The only account dedicated to letting people know what's fresh and new in the world of Nintendo 64 and Quest 64, a game that hasn't changed for 20+ years.
Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social Surprised historian, not surprised eels.
Doctor of medieval things. Talkinโ eels, history, and maps. Spaniel mourner. Alt-text artist.
I draw custom maps and artwork on commission:
https://surprisedeelmaps.com/
Support me here: patreon.com/SurprisedEel
Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social The 2026 Worldcon in Los Angeles, California
Visit LAcon.org for more details
๐
August 27-31, 2026
โจ๏ธ Adventure Awaits!
Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social Gaming. Cofounder/blogging at @Aftermath.site.
aftermath.site/
Video at Highlight Reel.
patreon.com/highlightreel
Occasional DIY LaserDisc Archivist
George Pearkes @peark.es No longer Blueskyโs only resident finance bro | Macro Strategist | Even the blind squirrel get a nut sometime. | #ForTheCrown, #COYG | ๐บ๐ธ via ๐จ๐ฆ. Not ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ. | Normal man, one of the Normal Men
*ALL CAPS HEADLINES LIKE THIS ARE FROM BLOOMBERG
๐ CLT
Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com Usually she/they, but I'll take whatever pronouns you've got.
Author & artist fantasy & science fiction!
๐ My books: RebeccaReyesWriting.com
๐ My store: https://ko-fi.com/rebeccaevita/shop
#BookSky #SFF #Scifi
Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim USA Today bestselling author of SUBLIMATION. award winning short fiction guy. coined the term "omelas hole."
the apprentice liar and the death of the world MARCH 2 2027
http://isabel.kim < website
Wow if True < listen wherever pods are cast
Eric Raglin @ericraglin1992.bsky.social Horror/Weird fiction writer and editor (The Writhing, Verdant End out NOW). Owner of Cursed Morsels Press. Anti-capitalist and anti-fascist. Minneapolis. He/Him
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/cursedmorsels
Medium Gravy @maxipadawan.bsky.social kinda gross
๐PDX
Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social Writer. Eater of Books. Lover of Comics. Library Tech. Drummer. Burrito enthusiast. He/Him husband.
Author of TRVE CVLT, Midwestern Chrome, Help! I Can't Stop Shitting Snakes (2027).
www.michaelbettendorfwrites.com.
Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social Klein Librarian for Science Fiction & Fantasy @ UC Riverside. Yale Ph.D. SFWA. HWA. Work in F&SF, Lightspeed, & more! ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐จ๐พ
www.phoenixalexanderauthor.com
Arley Sorg @arleysorg.bsky.social assoc agent, kt literary
co-Editor-in-Chief, Fantasy Magazine
Senior Editor, Locus Magazine
Do stuff @ Lightspeed/Nightmare, Clarkesworld, F&SF
2014 Odyssey Workshop Grad
He/Him or She/Her in queer contexts
Opinions my own
Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social Nuisance, writer, publisher - the devil's dandy - poetry & weird fic - tarot - https://linktr.ee/kymdeyn - she/they with MECFS. In books and in bogs.
SFF Addicts Podcast @sffaddictspod.bsky.social ๐ Award-nominated SFF podcast hosted by Adrian M. Gibson, M. J. Kuhn & Greta Kelly ๐ Author interviews & writing masterclasses ๐ง Available on major podcast platforms & YouTube โถ๏ธ
https://linktr.ee/SFFAddicts
Party In The Front - Comms Closed @partyinthefront.bsky.social Visual funkateer
https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/luis_melo/
www.partyinthefront.com
https://www.behance.net/partyinthefront
Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com Iโm on my way. https://www.stephengrahamjones.com
Hiron Ennes (WORKS OF VERMIN out now!) @hironennes.bsky.social British fantasy award-winning author of LEECH and THE WORKS OF VERMIN
Buy my books you cowards
Represented by Alexander Cochran @acochran.bsky.social
Paul Lucas @canonizer.bsky.social i have good hair, bad takes and many books.
kind of annoying
Brian Lehrer appreciation account
agent at Regal Hoffmann
Alison Rumfitt (preorder BRAINWYRMS thanks) @hangsawoman.bsky.social Confrontational and yet quite friendly author. Books: TELL ME I'M WORTHLESS (out now) and BRAINWYRMS (coming October 10th)
Spencer Nitkey @spencerwriting.bsky.social fun not cool.
writer in The Adroit Journal, Apex, Lightspeed, Nature Future, Weird Horror, and others.
spencernitkey.com
Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net Cripple. Writer of Stuff and Things. A dream of Cold Albion. I write and talk about disability, ableism, magic, myth and story. ๐ฅ Some sort of wizard. Words in NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY #8 (forthcoming)
Website: http://cold-albion.net/fyi/
DongWon Song @dongwon.bsky.social literary agent. newsletter: http://publishingishard.com
they/she
C. L. Kagmi @clkagmi.bsky.social She/her. Futurist inspired by Asimov, Butler, and Clarke. Continually figuring out how to re-forecast the future. Thinks fiction should expand your mind and writes weird, intense plotlines featuring moral dilemmas and character transformations accordingly.
Fletchgod Apocalypse @michaelrfletcher.bsky.social Author of the Manifest Delusions, Obsidian Path, and City of Sacrifice series, Ghosts of Tomorrow (cyberpunk), Norylska Groans, and some other stuff.
Part-time hobbit.
https://www.patreon.com/c/michaelrfletcher
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
๐ Hailey Piper ๐ @haileypiperfights.bsky.social Make horror gay AF, Stoker Award winner
out now: THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT
Oct 27: SHE ISN'T HERSELF TONIGHT
she/her; rep: Lane Heymont
haileypiper.com
Nelson Stanley @notasentence.bsky.social Romany. Angry. Stories in Ogerog Annual #1, Seize the Press, The Dark, Northern Gravy, Weird Horror #9, Old Moon Quarterly, Kaleidotrope, other places...
V. H. Chen @vhchen.bsky.social Writing mostly speculative fiction, mostly short stories. VP2022.
Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com Magazine of speculative fiction; stories of horror, wonder, and the weird since 1999. https://3lobedmag.com
Rachel A @rachiea.bsky.social Librarian by day, word scribbler at night. Find said words in Gavagai, GrendelPress, Plott Hound, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Apexโs Strange Locations, Malarkey, and elsewhere. Genre: Midwest weird. Codex.
๐Sarah Pauling @sarahpauling.bsky.social Neon SFF and gaudy boots. Pub'd in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, &etc. Lead writer on a TTRPG forthcoming from Gameswell. #vp23; James White Award finalist. She/her.
stories @ https://sarahpauling.com/
Remy Nakamura (he/they) @remymura.bsky.social Writer. Activist. Traveler. Outdoorsy. Queer.
Current projects: hopepunk fungi-post-apocalypse novel, and kabuki onnagata actor turned consulting detective series.
SFWA, HWA. Clarion West grad & board member. he/they.
Jared Pechaฤek @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social It's pronounced PECK-a-check. Artist, Crawford Award-winning writer of THE WEST PASSAGE, third thing now and then. He/him. Seattle. https://linktr.ee/jpechacek repped by Jennifer Azantian. Preorder WHERE FIRE REIGNS, out February 2027 from Tor!
Dr Artyom Trakhanov @vor-bokor.bsky.social (Sometimes Tucoviฤ)
Comics:
The 7 Deadly Sins/First Knife/Slavic Nihilism/SHARP EYE
Games:
Cantata/Dread Delusion/ENTROPY
bio.site/ohotnig
OR
patreon.com/ohotnig
ohotnig.itch.io / ohotnig.gumroad.com
inprnt.com/gallery/ohotnig
buymeacoffee.com/ohotnig
Amorina Kingdon @amorinakingdon.bsky.social Writer, runner, hiker, skater, artist
amorinakingdon.com
Terri Hughes Burton @terrihb.bsky.social Conjurer of worlds, devourer of ice cream. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0400957/
Dan Moren @dmoren.com Author, podcaster, inexplicably a two-time Jeopardy! champion. I have the death sentence in 12 systems. He/him.
https://dmoren.com
Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy (pro orph) @bitterkarella.bsky.social Midnight Society founder. Genderfluid transvestite goblin ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐บ He/She/They. Reppd by @literaryfey http://www.bitterkarella.com | Out now: Split Scream 5, Moonflow. Soon: Quaint Folk
Winnie YZ @winnie-writes.anticapitalistcatgirl.com She/Her
Sapphic | ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ | Wifed ๐ | Neurospicy ๐ง ๐ถ๏ธ
Writer | Cat Mom | Techish | VP20/2016
TTRPG Player | Critter | D20 Fangirl
Trans-plant to the PNW
Krista Duval on High XP Societyโs [redated] (๐บ Agency)
K.G. Anderson @kganderson.bsky.social Seattle-based SF author, humor columnist, cat-herder, practitioner of uncommon sense. SFWA, Codex, Viable Paradise, Taos Toolbox, Two Hour Transport, B Cubed Press. Author of Patti 209. kgsea.substack.com
Lauren Stark @laurenstark.bsky.social co-constructor of other worlds. viable paradise โ25. codex. tin house summer workshop โ18. www.laurenstark.com
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
T.L. Najjar @tlnajjar.bsky.social Speculative Fiction Writer | Clarion (UCSD) '26 | Odyssey '26 | Viable Paradise '25 | Apex Slush Reader
Also: knitter, fountain pen enthusiast, PC gamer, and neurologic physical therapist
Wen Wen @muteddragon.bsky.social Chinese American short fiction writer in the Rumpus, Cast of Wonders, Apex & more
WenWenWrites.com
She/her. Codex, SFWA Flight Crew, Viable Paradise, Brave New Weird. Fast talker from the Bronx.
C.M. Sullivan ๐ @cmsullivan.bsky.social queer speculative author, library dweller. viable paradise '25, taos toolbox '24. stories in apex magazine and the daily tomorrow, forthcoming in kaleidotrope. SFWA associate and codex member. she/they. ๐ซ to AI, now and always.
https://www.cm-sullivan.com
Rhiannon J. Taylor/R. J. Howell @mytherea.bsky.social Spec fic writer and digital artist. Publishes under R. J. Howell. Stonecoast MFA grad. Fiction in Worlds of Possibility, Giganotosaurus, Flame Tree, and Heartlines Spec, among others. Codex, SFWA. Queer, Ace. She/them.
https://linktr.ee/rjhowell
Rio Lombana @riolombana.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ they/all
๐ Fiction in Escape Pod, Small Wonders, Adventitious, elsewhere
๐ Rep: Valentina Sainato @ JABberwocky
๐ First reader at Apex Magazine
๐ชผ Viable Paradise '25 alum
๐ฅ Jiujitsu purple belt
bio.site/riolombana
Ky-Phong Tran @ky-phongtran.bsky.social Shapechanger/Comic Bookstore Shop Boy/Wordsmith/Storyteller/Bread Loaf 2010/Viable Paradise โ25/Codexian/he-him
www.ky-phongtran.com
sam bowden @sjbdjs.bsky.social there is more to be done
Daniel Dagris @danieldagris.bsky.social Best Horror of the Year recommended. Twice Pushcart Prize nominated. Viable Paradise & Iowa Writers' Workshop summer alumnus. Studying at Cambridge for Master's in creative writing.
Lia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social literary & speculative fiction writer | short stories in podcastle, otherside, haven spec | clarion west nww, granta '26 | viable paradise โ25 | she/her
๐ฅ ๐ฆ on gadigal land
https://thelialao.com
KS Walker @kswalkerwrites.bsky.social Spec fic. Bikes.Books.
Words in Uncanny, F&SF, FIYAH, Apex and elsewhere
VP 2022
they/any
Dave "David" Wragg @davewragg.com Fantasist. Goes on a bit. Wrote The Black Hawks | THE IRON ROAD out NOWWW | bio.link/davewragg
Lucienne Diver @luciennediver.bsky.social Literary agent, #author, travel-junkie, puppy enthusiast, full-time fed up with the rolling back of our rights.
www.knightagency.net
www.luciennediver.com
S.J. Shank @sjshank.bsky.social Writer of the grim fantastic
Dark Fantasy // Historical Horror
Books: ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐
๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐
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sjshank.com
Nathan Anderson @nathanandersonart.bsky.social Michigan Illustrator. Clients: Wizards, Osprey, Rebellion Unplugged, Dragon's Milk, 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks.
My favorite author invented Pringles. Married! No A/I or N/F/Ts. Atheist.
Antifascist. Exvangelical.
www.nathanandersonart.com
he/him ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ต๐ธ๐บ๐ฆ
Pyramid Chad @pyrameadhead.wifeguy.online Communist, mead making guy, cosplayer.
He/they. Married, monogamous. If you're a follow farming bluewave or resist account just block me.
Twitter@pyrameadhead
I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social Uni, Minuet cat born on March 27, 2020๐ฏ๐ต
https://youni.store
Maureen Yost-Zahn @beaniezee.bsky.social Fantasy writer by night, cat herder 24/7, will jump out of a moving car to pet your dog | ๐ | NJโก๏ธPNW | VP22 / Viable Paradise 2018
Iโm also on the others apps as [@]beaniezee
Andrew Hiller @andrewintheclouds.bsky.social Create. Investigate. Celebrate.
Writer, Producer, & friend of Muppets
Pitter Patty Finds Another Day, 2022 Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest Winner,2019 BFF Author of the Year, #ViableParadise 23
Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social Baltimore | weird fiction writer ๐ | scientist by day | find me at the bottom of the Chesapeake | find my stories at link below:
https://kayvaindal.com/
Andrew Leonard @aleonard82.bsky.social Speculative fiction writer with words in Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, Crepuscular, Sci-Fi Shorts, Andromeda Spaceways, and more.
Personal website: https://tr.ee/FZw1ooPoTO
Valerie Valdes @valerievaldes.bsky.social aka Lia Amador. Sci-fi, fantasy, and romance writer. MtG story scribe. Co-editor of Escape Pod. Variety game streamer. VPXX/16.
Laurence Raphael Brothers @lrb.bsky.social Technologist, writer, futurist.
Codex, Viable Paradise, SFWA.
Seeking representation for new novels.
Publishers: Mirror World, Water Dragon, Brigid's Gate
USPTO
he/him
@laurence@petrous.vislae.town
https://www.laurencebrothers.com/
Chris Campbell @chriscampbell.bsky.social Words in FIYAH, Asimovโs, Escape Pod and more. VP2023 CW2024. Rep Sara Megibow. 45% goblin proof 65% decidedly not. clundycampbell.com Editor of NewYearNewYou.
Todd S. Jordan @toddsjordan.bsky.social A horror writer and a sorry sack of guts.
THE FLESH I WANT coming 2027, Titan Books.
Agent: Julie Gourinchas, Bell Lomax Moreton.
Pre-order: www.linktr.ee/toddsjordan
P.L. Stuart - Author of The DROWNED KINGDOM SAGA @plstuart-author.bsky.social www.plstuart.com Assistant Editor Before We Go Blog; Grimdark Magazine; YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@plstuartthedrownedkingdomsaga ; He/Him
Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social she/her
๐ Writer | Librarian
๐ Edinburgh | Burntisland | Cairngorms
Gleefully geeky. Writes SFF/literary speculative short stories, among other word-things. ๐๐๐
AI is not welcome here
Find me at https://www.fionamossman.com
Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social 48, fantasy writer, author of THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA. Ex-firefighter, veteran MechWarrior. Minnesotan transplanted to Massachusetts. Gizmonic Institute (1989-92). Instructor at Viable Paradise.
Heather Buchanan @heatherbuchanan.bsky.social Art and word person
Has/is a chronic pain
https://www.heatherbuchanan.ca
Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social They/Them
Author of A Dream of Saints
I thirst trap award winning authors
patreon.com/doriandawes