Judith Heneghan @judithheneghan.bsky.social Novels SNEGUROCHKA and also BIRDEYE (Salt), rep Lutyens & Rubinstein, leads MA Creative Writing at Winchester Uni, mentor for Jericho Writers, mother of tall ones, out for a walk.
Kerry Hadley-Pryce @kerryhp.bsky.social Earthling. Writer (Salt Publishing, Fictive Dream, The Incubator), Runner, Walker, Psychogeographer, owned by Border Collie and Welsh Sheepdog, PhD in Creative Writing
Chris Emery @chrisemery.me Poet and book designer, born in Manchester, living in Cromer. Co-founder of Salt Publishing. Five collections from Arc and Salt, most recently Wonder (2025). Newsletter: chrisemery.me
Venetia Welby @vvwelby.bsky.social Novelist: DREAMTIME, MOTHER OF DARKNESS Escape artist | Shapeshifter | Cat demon www.venetiawelby.com
J Steele @jsavagesteele.bsky.social Nom du plums for Cornish writer Alec McQuay - currently horror, humour, and both. Writing account only. Back from necessary MH break.
He/him, ADHD, mental illness, sometimes motivation.
Kirsten Miles, Author ๐น @kirstenmiles.bsky.social Author ๐ Vegan ๐ฅฌ Libra โ๏ธ
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Jennifer ๐๐งโฃ๏ธ @jdawson001.bsky.social โฟ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐American SFF author, poet, editor, & book reviewer living in England. She/her. The Poetry Society & The British Fantasy Society. Old OWW member.
Online at: WorldsOfMayhem.com
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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social Fantasy writer and editor, hound mum, permaculturist, warrior hobbit. Writes, reads, games, gardens. Trying to leave it better than I found it. Ideologically opposed to bigots of all stripes. She/her. Cymru.
Tim Cooke @timc1986.bsky.social Writer. Short story collections DARK PLAY and WHERE WE LIVE. Nightjar Press chapbook THE JUDGMENT. Early years teacher, PhD student. From Bridgend, South Wales.
Coyote vs. Everybody / J. Stryker ๐ @easterncoyote.bsky.social Not the violent artist. | Psychology nerd. DV survivor & victim advocate. Dislikes liars and bullies. | Coyote pedagogy. Good trouble, nature, neuroscience, terrestrial ecology, wildlife, plants, trees. They/them.
๐ณ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ธ @horrorculturist.bsky.social Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. ๐ฟ๐๐๐
Agnostic atheist. Nyctophile. AuDHD. Demi-Pan. They/them. | Contrary to internet lore, I am not lost, sorrowful, despairing, trapped, drowning, falling, or stuck in a maze. (You OK?)
Rei Alyssa Murray ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ @rei-writes.bsky.social 4x Award-nominated poet by night. Cybersecurity professional by day. HWA Active Member. Feeder of a cat. Very proud parent and wife.
IN ALL THE WAYS, A DROWNING available now!!
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DAR @darbooks.com Author/Writer/Dreamer - DA RASMUSSEN
Pandore Series
Seรกn Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social seanbirnie.com
https://undertowpublications.com/shop/i-would-haunt-you-if-i-could
Short stories in ergot, Weird Horror, Interzone, Remains & elsewhere
me/cfs
Jessy Randall @jessyrandall.bsky.social Libraries, poetry comics, speculative writing, The Path of Most Resistance and Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science (both Gold SF / MIT), guest editor of Snakeskin http://bit.ly/JessyRandall
Semper Anticus Press @semperanticuspress.bsky.social Indie publisher launching soon!
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Rebecca Fraimow @rebeccafraimow.bsky.social author of Lady Eve's Last Con, The Iron Children, & various shorts. one half of @eightdaysofdiana.bsky.social. writes fiction, archives things, etc.
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Kate Nicholls @katenicholls1.bsky.social Author, homeschool consultant. Lives in Rome. No DMโs pls.
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Blue Villa @bluevilla.org Literary mag ๐
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Tom Marcinko @tommarcinko.bsky.social He/him. Stories in Beneath Ceaseless Skies (forthcoming), Nature/Futures, Interzone, Rosebud, Triangulation, and elsewhere. tommarcinko.neocities.org/
Dark Talk @dark-talk.uk The official BlueSky account for the Dark Talk podcast.
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James Kinsley @unclekins.bsky.social Writer/published author/berk.
It's Hard to Tell You This out now from Deixis Press!
Also self-publish sci-fi as Ray Adams.
https://linktr.ee/unclekins He/him โ๏ธ
Michael Ironheart @michaelironheart.bsky.social I am a self published indie author who has released 2 books, with a 3rd on the way
22 years old/college student/AuDHD
Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social Nonfiction about weird fiction at Seize the Press, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nightmare, and Ancillary Review of Books, where I am also an editor. Also jazz, metal, leftism. he/him
https://doomsdayer.wordpress.com/writings/
Small Spec Book Awards @specawards.bsky.social The mission of the SSBA is to recognize and promote independent and small press authors writing exceptional speculative fiction.
Founded by @lnholmeswriter.bsky.social
Cofounded by @millieabecassis.com
๐ https://linktr.ee/smallspecbookawards
Angel T. Dionne @woodenmormyrid.bsky.social Socially Awkward Surrealist Professor
GARDEN-BODY. (Radiant Press, forthcoming)
www.angeldionne4.weebly.com
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Tony Lee @pigasuspress.bsky.social Reader (mostly comics), writer (mostly non-fiction), watcher (films/movies & TV). Life-long fan of sci-fi media, Science Fiction critic & editor.
http://pigasuspress.blogspot.com/
Andrew Haglington @andrewhaglington.bsky.social #Author #Scifi #Fantasy ๐ Andrew Haglington
#Environment #Climate #SocialNetworking
#Photographer #Artist #RejoinEU ๐ช๐บ #Progressive
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social.
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
Andi Ewington @andiewington.bsky.social Writer of funny fantasy novels, comics, RPGs, board games and computer games.
Often writes for 2000AD, including Rogue Trooper.
CJ Keating - is querying @cjkeatingwriter.bsky.social Writer of ancient British historical fiction / fantasy. Usually found burning down Colchester.
Find out more - https://cjkeating.co.uk/ https://linktr.ee/cjkeating
Brian Terence - Science Fiction Author ๐ช๐๐ป๐๐ @brianterence.co.uk I write sci-fi, paranormal & dark fantasy.
www.waterstones.com/author/brian-terence/9595091
www.amazon.com/stores/Brian-Terence/author/B0DJNSGNM6
https://open.spotify.com/show/4DUNS3QDCtxlotgNJW7nrg
๐ซI DO NOT USE AI๐ซ
I use Canva Pro for covers/promos.
CL Hellisen | Preorder The Shape of Monsters @clhellisen.com Writer, artist, occasional table. Cast Long Shadows (Luna Press) The Shape of Monsters (Audible, TorUK) A Million Points of Light (Audible)
Preorder The Shape of Monsters - https://geni.us/TheShapeofMonster
They/them
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Amy Orrell @authoramyorrell.bsky.social Multi-genre author from the East of England. Scifi-thriller - Tomorrow Was Beautiful Once. Clifi-fantasy - These Fated Gifts, coming soon!
https://elsewhen.press/index.php/catalogue/title/tomorrow-was-beautiful-once/
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Garry Messick @garrymessick.bsky.social Voice actor, co-producer and co-writer of the Peabody Award-winning*, sort-of sketch-comedy podcast American Doom. Our promise to you: You WILL laugh... Perhaps. Occasionally, at least. Possibly.
(*I made that up.)
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social Yet another writer: THE GHOST WHO BLED (2017), THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY (2018), THE REPUBLIC OF BREATH, THE SPOILS & other stories, SWEENEY'S PROGRESS (forthcoming). Environmentalist. Lives in Sheffield. https://substack.com/@gregorynorminton
Donald A. Sansom @donaldasansom.bsky.social Science fiction writer from Canada living in Europe. Author of the novel Slide-Backers. Short fiction has appeared in Starfarer's Cafe, The Accidental Time Travelers Collective III, and Tickled by Thunder. ๐ |๐ช๐ ๐ Sci-fi |๐ช๐ #Author #fiction #WeirdFiction
Alex Storer @thelightdreams.bsky.social Graphic designer โข electronic musician โข occasional writer โข science fiction cover artist โข European
Elsewhen Press @elsewhen.press A small independent publisher specialising in Speculative Fiction, based in the South East of England, established in 2011.
Posts here will be by Peter, Editorial Director and general factotum.
#SFF
Jeff Oliver @jeffo82.bsky.social Writer
Rhonda Pressley Veit @rpveit.bsky.social Veterinarian, writer, runner, southerner, mom, etc.
Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social Award-winning author of more than 20 books. Writes science fiction as Gareth L Powell and horror and mystery as GL Powell. Repped by Lucienne Diver.
๐ Mystery and Horror - https://www.glpowell.com
๐ Science Fiction - https://www.garethlpowell.com
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
REMAINS @remainsmagazine.bsky.social Magazine of new fiction edited by Andy Cox with art by Richard Wagner. Issue 5 out now. https://remains.uk
Andrew Fox โ @foxphorescence.bsky.social Reader, writer, book collector, and all-around biblophile.
Learning to channel the soft whisper of the muses.
Autodidact.
INFJ
#WritingCommunity
#Shelley #Keats #Tennsyon #HartCrane #Stevens #Whitman #Dickinson #Bloom.
Vegan FTA
Good vibes only. ~ ~ ~
Mike L Tilford ๐ ๐บ @thatwriterguy.com NYT Worstselling Author
SFF๐, Satire, Comedy, Absurdist
Dummest Person in the Room
https://www.thatwriterguy.com
https://www.amazon.com/author/m.l.tilford
Guido Eekhaut @eekhaut.bsky.social Writer of crime books and thrillers, speculative and fantastic fiction and the weird. Winner Hercule Poirot Award, and nominated for several others. Please no DM except professional offers.
V. Astor Solomon @howsweetthewords.bsky.social Trans, disabled, neurodivergent, mixed-race
Committing expansively queer speculative short fiction
Work in 100-Foot Crow, Pseudopod, and more
Codex member
Lives between Tampa and Seattle
Links: https://linktr.ee/howsweetthewords
icon: Amelie Lavender
Vanessa Anderson, MFA @nightowlfreelance.bsky.social Professional Character Therapist at โ๐๐๐๐ฅ ๐๊ฟ๐ ๐ฝ๐ฃ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ โโด
Developmental Editing โข Line Editing โข Copyediting โข Publishing Guidance ๐ โ
Website: NightOwlFreelance.com, Est. 2010
Louis Shalako @louisshalako.bsky.social Louis Shalako, founder of Long Cool One Books, is the author of twenty-seven books, available from major online retailers. Louis studied Radio, TV and Journalism at Lambton College, later studying fine art.
Alex Kourvo @alexkourvo.bsky.social Professional editor who loves books and book people and key lime pie.
Pronouns = she/her.
Dark Swarm Publications @darkswarmpub.bsky.social Indie Horror Press. Both English and German translations. Starting soon. Editing services and Translation imprints.
Based in Austria, America and England.
Shelley the Editor @editorshelley.bsky.social I am a technical editor by day and a freelance editor by night. I have 20 plus years of experience and you can find me at shelleyseditingservice.weebly.com for more information.
Donna Scott @wishusdonna.bsky.social Writer. Editor of Best of British Science Fiction and other things. Chief word wrangler at The Slab Press. Occasionally a comedian. www.donna-scott.co.uk
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social ๐Dancer & Writer.
โจBrit based in Zurich.
โก๏ธWords in Fractured Lit, X-RAY Literary, LEON Literary, Bending Genres, Gone Lawn, JMWW, Your Impossible VoiceโฆNom BSF & BMF 2025
๐๏ธBath Flash Fiction Short List
Leila Martin @bookishleels.bsky.social Writer, reader, next-level procrastinator. What time is it? 
Daniel Bird @dannotarealbird.bsky.social Writer of โSorry Menโ and other forgettable fiction.
www.notarealbird.com
Dr J Dee @spiritualhunting.bsky.social Gothic #Horror #Film #Poet YouTube.com/TrixStarT
Posting ideas from writers' room
Casting, script, crew, location TBC.
TrixStarT.com
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
The Residents Official @theresidents.bsky.social โIgnorance of your culture is not considered coolโ
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After Dinner Conversationยฎ @afterdinnerconversation.com Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers.
Links: https://bio.site/afterdinner
Eric J. Guignard @ericjguignard.bsky.social Author. Editor. Anthologist. Swiss-American. Writing at Cemetery Dance, Sourcebooks, upcoming with HarperCollins. Publisher of @darkmoonbooks.bsky.social.
Peace, love, and skulls. #ericjguignard
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Jonathan Stewart @jstewartbooks.bsky.social Engineer first. Author second. Portlandian transplant in the Madison South neighborhood.
Dust & Dark @handle.invalid A new magazine of chilling horror fiction. Launching 2025. https://dustanddark.com/
Editor: @owenduffy.co.uk
Banner image: Mikel Martinez De Osaba
Mark A Ellis @markaellis.bsky.social Author of Beyond the Treeline
Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University
www.markaellis.uk
ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social The innovative digital comics fair debuting all-new comics from independent artists around the world. Annually, October 1-31st.
http://shortboxcomicsfair.com
sbcomicsfair@gmail.com
Ghost Orchid Press @ghostorchidpress.com Cambridge, UK-based indie publisher of horror, gothic and supernatural fiction. EIC: Antonia Rachel Ward.
ghostorchidpress.com
Queen of Swords Press @qospress.bsky.social Queen of Swords Press is a small press publisher of stories from out of this world. Queer AF. Catherine Lundoff, publisher. Minneapolis, MN. https://www.queenofswordspress.com
Sloth & Envy Press @slothandenvy.com Small press. Fantasy, romance, horror. MN. Lots of swearing. Our handle is fubar until I fix the website issue so:
https://malloryglass.com/press-kit
We'd be deadlier if we weren't so lazy. Maybe.
PARIAH PRESS ๐ท @pariahpress.bsky.social A British contemporary art press.
Publisher of critical dialogues, innovative lit & photography. Slow, often archival
๐ Distro
Antenne & Central
The Provinces / Stepney | Est. 2014 M/cr
#AnthonyBurgess #MelissaLeeHoughton #LindenArchives
Subterranean Press @subpress.bsky.social Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing luxurious specialty, limited editions and groundbreaking original works in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres. Dispatches from the warehouse and other news. http://linktr.ee/subterraneanpress
Canongate @canongate.co.uk Publisher. Always independent.
https://canongate.co.uk
Maverick Duck Press @maverickduckpress.bsky.social We are a micro-press that makes and publishes poetry chapbooks.
Founder/Editor: @kabpoetry.bsky.social
Assistant Editor: @mydearbrielle.bsky.social
https://payhip.com/MaverickDuckPress
Sรญdhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social One-woman press based in Berlin. EIC @missyerem.bsky.social
https://sidhe-press.eu Trans rights are human rights.
Free Palestine!
Northodox Press ๐ @northodoxpress.bsky.social Indie Publisher of historical fiction, championing authors and stories based in Northern England and Scotland. SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of modern, classic and translated poetry, and the bi-monthly literary journal @pnreview.bsky.social.
๐ https://linktr.ee/CarcanetPress
Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social Publisher of Glass Chapbook Series, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Crucible: An Online Reading Series. Subs always free. Posts by anthonyframe.bsky.social
www.glass-poetry.com
Glass Poets Starter Pack: https://go.bsky.app/EicS1Aa
Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social Celebrating books by artists, poets, writers, book designers and their publishers. The next fair will take place in 2027.
linktr.ee/small_publishers_fair
Manderley Press @manderleypress.bsky.social Indie publisher of beautiful titles inspired by buildings, cities and landmarks. Sometimes wears a book as a hatโฆ | ManderleyPress.com
Insta @manderleypress
Latest book: manderleypress.com/shop/p/moonismaking
Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis.
https://longbarrowpress.com
The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk Independent poetry press + cultural review platform. We publish narrative-led work with edge. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs
#PromoteIndieLit
Edited by @alanparrywriter.co.uk
www.thebrokenspine.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/brokenspinearts
Cemetery Gates Media @cemeterygatesmedia.bsky.social Publisher of horror fiction. Fans of urban legends and creepy locales.
Raw Dog Screaming Press @rdspress.bsky.social Raw Dog Screaming Press publishes โfiction that foams at the mouthโ specializing in dark and unclassifiable fiction and poetry.
Quindrie Press @quindriepress.com ๐ Multi-award-shortlisted, Eisner- & Ignatz-nominated indie comics publisher
๐ Edinburgh, run by @evegwood.com
๐ quindriepress.com
โ๏ธ quindriepress@gmail.com
๐ข Closing December 2026
Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social An independent publisher of radical, leftโwing nonยญโfiction books. Established in 1969, we are one of the oldest radical publishing houses in the world.
plutobooks.com
Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social Shortwave is an indie horror/sci-fi press. Our books are distributed worldwide by Simon & Schuster. Founded and run by @alandistro.bsky.social (active HWA member, full SFWA member).
Our full catalog: https://shortwavepublishing.com/
@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social Galley Beggar Press is an independent publisher from Norwich. Citizens of the world. And foreign.
Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social Award-winning powerhouse publisher of SF ๐ Fantasy ๐งโโ๏ธ Spec Fic โจ, and Horror ๐ง Part of Profile Books ๐ https://linktr.ee/solarisbooks
Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social Political non-fiction, world literature, social justice childrenโs books, and other works of the radical imagination โจ
sevenstories.com
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.