Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author of novels, children’s books, poetry and essays. This account is managed by her estate.
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/
Current Research in Speculative Fiction Conference @crsfliverpool.bsky.social CRSF, the speculative fiction conference @liverpooluni.bsky.social✨️
#CRSF2026 16th - 17th July 2026 👽
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Science Fiction Foundation @sffoundation.bsky.social Founded by George Hay in 1971, the SFF promotes the study and understanding of science fiction, both in the UK and overseas. Home to the journal Foundation and the SFF Library at Liverpool. Become a member at www.sf-foundation.org and support our work!
Jon Kuperman @jonkuperman.com TC39 - Signals - Source Maps - TS/JS @Bloomberg. Previously I did web at Adobe and Twitter.
Opinions are my own.
Rockets on Tyne @rocketsontyne.bsky.social A day of SF, fantasy, and horror; part of the Books on Tyne festival
Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social Senior lecturer in modern British history at Newcastle University. C20th/C21st British childhood, adulthood & age. Writes & reviews fiction: loves the speculative, sapphic and uncanny. Lesbian. 🌈 https://drlauratisdall.wordpress.com
Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social History PGR at Newcastle University | apprenticeship, women, and gender in the long 18c English book trade | previous librarian | New Englander in Old England | no terfs | she/her
Matthew Sangster @mjrsangster.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Studies, Fantasy and Cultural History at the University of Glasgow. President, @bars.bsky.social. New book: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/literature/english-literature-1900-1945/introduction-fantasy.
AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social Answers about history, from historians | Biweekly podcast | "Good history eggs on the internet"| Ask questions at https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/
Murray Gove @earlymodernmurray.bsky.social AHRC Northern Bridge DTP funded PhD student at Newcastle University researching texts of travelling women prophets in the seventeenth-century - he/him 🏳️🌈🏴
Dr Sam Bailey @18thcenturysam.bsky.social Antiquarian bookseller @keelrowbooks /Visiting Fellow of Bibliography and Book History @newcastleuni / fan of weird books/ she/they
Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social she/her. southern geek feminist, genre critic, and scholar of boning. bylines at NYT Book Review, Booklist, Strange Horizons, Lady Business, Reactor. author of SFF romance column Ships in the Night for Reactor.
Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com I read, I write, & I pet cats. Column, news, & book reviews at @reactorsff.bsky.social; publicity, prize, & more for @ursulakleguin.com. Once a bookseller, always a bookseller. PDX.
https://reactormag.com/author/molly-templeton/
Anushree Nande @anushreenande.bsky.social Writer | Editor | Reviewer | https://anushreenande.substack.com | 'Heartland' in Between Worlds: The IF Anthology of New Indian SFF, Vol 1 (Westland Books, 2025) #booksky 📚💙 #writersky #arsenal ❤️🤍
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Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social Aberystwyth-based writer, researcher & critic. Author: Culture Wars in Britain (May, 2026). Columnist at Vector. Incoming editor of Foundation.
Nonbinary (they/them)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️.
https://linktr.ee/nick_hubble
Ruth Houghton @ruthhoughton.bsky.social Senior Lecturer
Research: feminist global constitutionalism - democracy, constituent power, utopias & manifestos. (she/her)
John Coxon @johncoxon.bsky.social Hugo Award winner for @octothorpecast.bsky.social and @royalastrosoc.bsky.social Fowler Award winner for solar-terrestrial science. I play games, read and watch SF, volunteer at conventions, and communicate science. Based in North East England. He/him.
Dr Maia Almeida-Amir @maia-aa.bsky.social Researching the Very Online left and internet policy
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👩💻 Glasgow
📍 Newcastle
abihockaday.bsky.social @abihockaday.bsky.social phd -- 1950s british sf magazines and their fandoms -- where are the women?! @newcastleuni.bsky.social
all books read recommend by @apar.bsky.social and therefore probably disliked
love all things SFF and all white wine
Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of short fiction from the UK & beyond. Championing the next generation of writers & translators. Shares do not equal endorsements.
Find us at: https://commapress.co.uk/
Cymera Festival @cymerafestival.co.uk Scotland's Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Writing.
🖊️ 2026 Festival 5-7 June, in Edinburgh & online. Tickets on Sale 1 March 2026
www.cymerafestival.co.uk
Alex Pheby @alexpheby.bsky.social Writer: GRACE/PLAYTHINGS/LUCIA/MORDEW/MALARKOI/WATERBLACK
Galley Beggar Press and Tor
Forthcoming: THE PICNIC/NOONE/LUMA
Agent: David Godwin david@davidgodwinassociates.co.uk
Anna McFarlane @mariettarosetta.bsky.social Lecturer in Fantasy Literature at Glasgow Uni. Working on speculative fiction, representations of reproduction, medical humanities. Series editor Palgrave SFF: A New Canon. Twin Peaks/Blindboy obsessive.
https://glasgow.academia.edu/AnnaMcFarlane
Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social SFF enthusiast, hobby-collector, blogger, shouter-at-the-internet. Editor at Ignyte and Hugo winner Nerds of a Feather, along with reviews elsewhere. 2026 Hugo Fan Writer finalist. All links here: https://linktr.ee/roseanna.pendlebury (she/her).
Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com Neil Clarke: Editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, The Best Science Fiction of the Year series, and more. Four-time Hugo Award Winner for Best Editor Short Form. Four-time Chesley Award-winning art director.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
neil-clarke.com
Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim USA Today bestselling author of SUBLIMATION. Also a boatload of occasionally award winning/losing short fiction. coined the term "omelas hole."
http://isabel.kim < website
Wow if True < listen wherever pods are cast
A. W. Prihandita | Anselma @awprihandita.bsky.social Nebula Award-winning writer • Sci-fi, fantasy, horror • PhD in Language & Rhetoric • Clarion ‘24 • Odyssey ‘23 • Stories in Clarkesworld, Uncanny, Cast of Wonders, khōréō, etc. 🇮🇩 Jakarta 🇺🇸 PNW. Website: awprihandita.com (she/her)
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social An Ignyte and Shirley Jackson award-winning magazine and podcast of speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora authors & artists. Issue 6.2 is out now!
https://linktr.ee/khoreomag
The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk Lifting the curtain on the biggest stories in the UK, U.S. & beyond.
With Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel & Lewis Goodall. Listen on Global Player.
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Gigi Ganguly (on hiatus) @gigiganguly.bsky.social Goatwriter | Biopeculiar (2024) and One Arm Shorter Than The Other (2022)
linktr.ee/gigsie
Vinayak Varma @eyefry.bsky.social Writer-illustrator, BSFA and CWSS finalist, lapsed magazine editor and craft beer branding guy, design prof., music nerd, cat wrangler, tragic anti-hero.
#createdontscrape #humanart #illustrator #kidlit #SFF #music #design
www.mixtape.in
Rakesh Khanna @blaftrakesh.bsky.social (any/all)
Books, ghosts, math, marine invertebrates. Co-founder & editor @blaft.bsky.social.
Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India
https://www.blaft.com/products/ghosts-monsters-and-demons-of-india
Amal Singh @amalsingh.bsky.social Author, Screenwriter, Cat Dad.
Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist.
Debut Novel "The Garden of Delights" now out from Flame Tree Press!
https://amalsingh18.wordpress.com/
Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social Science Fiction. Constitutional Law. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. Fortnightly newsletter on SFF, Indian spec fiction, and books: https://gautambhatia.substack.com
Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump 
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Newcastle Uni @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social Sharing news on research, teaching & engagement activity in the creative arts, humanities & social sciences at Newcastle University. Monitored Mon-Fri (9am-4pm).
Jesse @tomatoad.bsky.social It’s Jesse.
Kit Elbritch @kitelbritch.bsky.social SFF writer, short story enjoyer, Queer, any pronouns will do
Emily Tesh @emilytesh.net Author. Hugo, Astounding, and World Fantasy Award winner; Nebula, Clarke and Le Guin finalist. Rep: Kurestin Armada at Root Literary.
Out now: THE INCANDESCENT - https://tinyurl.com/theincandescent
Sarah Rees Brennan @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social Writer of books, drinker of tears! Carnegie nominated, Locus and Nebula shortlisted. LONG LIVE EVIL, a portal fantasy in which the villains unionise, is my #1 Sunday Times & USA Today bestselling adult fantasy debut. She/her
Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social World Fantasy, Nebula, Ignyte, Locus & Shirley Jackson Award-winning speculative publisher. Baffling Magazine & novellas & anthos & queer 📚. Editor: dave ring.
Tachyon Publications @tachyonpub.bsky.social Tachyon Publications, founded in 1995, is a award-winning, San Francisco-based independent publisher specializing in speculative fiction.
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
Roger Alix-Gaudreau (WIP: redrafting) @ragwriter.bsky.social Fantasy author, former VP of Engineering. Husband, gamer, liberal, cat papa.
Latest published work: http://books2read.com/talons, https://books2read.com/b/stoneandsky
https://www.rogeralixgaudreau.com
Vivian M. Liu @vivianmliu.bsky.social Fantasy and science-fiction writer. Cat mom and dessert aficionado
https://vivianmliu.com/
Siobhan Mulligan (she/her) @siobhanmull.bsky.social Fiction writer, artist, sword enthusiast and ghost enjoyer. Technically a doctor. Rep'd by Laura Rennert @ Andrea Brown.
British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social Latest news updates and reviews from the British Fantasy Society Community. Home to readers, writers, artists and gamers. Love SFFH? Come join us! www.britishfantasysociety.org
First Ten Pages Programme: https://british-fantasy-society.vercel.app/welcome
Norah Lovelock @norah.love Sci-fi/horror writer with fiction in various places. Maybe writing, but probably asleep. 🏳️🌈 She/her. Manchester, UK. https://norah.love
Niall Harrison @niallharrison.bsky.social reader, critic, fan, he/him
Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow us to get daily posts on what women have done #OnThisDay. 🗃️
We check replies on weekdays, but not always at weekends.
https://carvehername.org.uk/ and https://linktr.ee/CarveHerName
Dr. Meg MacDonald @megintransition.bsky.social PhD belief & gods in fantasy @angliaruskin, work in R&D @UofGlasgow, DH Promotions @Glasgowin2024. Tendency to pun-escalate. She/Her Cis/Bi 🌈🏳️🌈
Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon For Our Futures @glasgow2024.bsky.social The official account for Worldcon (World Science Fiction Convention) that will be hosted in Glasgow in 2024.
https://glasgow2024.org/
Adam Behr @adambehrlive.bsky.social Researcher, writer, lecturer - music, politics, popular culture. Does other things occasionally.
Newcastle University @newcastleuni.bsky.social Official page for Newcastle University UK, a founding member of the Russell Group of Research intensive universities, and a Global Top 140 university. #WeAreNCL
Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social speculative fiction (Teixcalaan series, ROSE/HOUSE), climate & energy policy (all statements my own), Byzantinist (nonpracticing but never not true).
unfortunately, I care about power lines now
she/her. halfway between Santa Fe and NYC.
Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social Publishing speculative fiction, poetry, reviews, essays & podcasts. Every Monday, free to read at http://strangehorizons.com. IGNYTE Community Award winner. Hugo Award winner 2024.
linktr.ee/strangehorizons
Nicola Griffith SHE IS HERE out now! @nicolaz.bsky.social PhD. Novelist (Hild, Spear, Menewood). All things Early Medieval. Here: Cats, crips, queers. Books, beauty, beers. MS ♿️🧪📚
MUTING THOSE WHO DON’T ALT-TEXT
nicolagriffith.com
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Iona @singlecrow.bsky.social Writer, lawyer, part-time sapphic, among other things. not Scottish, but it's complicated. (repped by Kurestin Armada; fiction and other work at www.generalist.org.uk/iona) (they/she)
newsletter: https://singlecrow.kit.com/f6f21b439b
Orbit Books @orbitbooks.bsky.social We are the science fiction & fantasy publisher at Hachette Book Group US and Little, Brown UK. Follow us for your next great read, and tag us in your pics!
Worldbuilding for Masochists @worldbuildcast.bsky.social 6x Hugo Award Finalist podcast about fantasy worldbuilding, hosted by nerds who love to overcomplicate things: Marshall Ryan Maresca, Cass Morris, and Natania Barron
worldbuildingformasochists.podbean.com
Tashan Mehta @tashanmehta.bsky.social Author. MAD SISTERS OF ESI (DAW Books, 2025 | HarperCollins India, 2023),THE LIAR'S WEAVE (Juggernaut, 2017)
Mostly offline, to be honest, but marginally more active on Instagram.
Website: https://www.tashanmehta.com/
Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social MIDNIGHT DOORWAYS (Hachette India, 2022)
A DARK & NARROW HOUSE (Putnam/Penguin RH USA & Titan Books UK-2027)
Writer I Runner I Rheumatologist
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queries @rhaliterary
Insta: usmantanveermalik
www.usmanmalik.org
Prashanth Srivatsa @prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social Writer.
The Spice Gate - July 2024 (HarperVoyager)
Catsfather. 
Lavanya Lakshminarayan | INTERGALACTIC FEAST out now! @lavanya.bsky.social Author: INTERGALACTIC FEAST | INTERSTELLAR MEGACHEF | THE TEN PERCENT THIEF
Arthur C Clarke Award Finalist | Locus Award Finalist
Game Designer
Rep: Cameron McClure
Tasha Suri @tashasuri.bsky.social Writes stuff. Out now: THE ISLE IN THE SILVER SEA. Next: THE LADY OF THORNS. (She/Her)
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social NYT bestselling writer. Newsletter and updates at maxgladstone.com. More or less updates-only on here.
DongWon Song @dongwon.bsky.social literary agent. newsletter: http://publishingishard.com
they/she
Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social Writer. THE BEWITCHING (2025), SEVENTH VEIL OF SALOME, MEXICAN GOTHIC, and others books. https://silviamoreno-garcia.com/
FIYAH Literary Magazine @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social Award-winning Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. Submissions CLOSED. Publisher + Executive Editor: @davaun.bsky.social #fiyahlitmag
Holly Black @hollyblack.bsky.social Author of books involving folklore and bad decisions.
KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com She/her. British European. Purveyor of opinions, rude words, and romance novels, historical and fantasy. USA Today bestselling author of How To Fake It In Society. "Erotically charged"--Good Housekeeping. Death to GenAI. http://kjcharleswriter.com
Olivia Dade @oliviawrites.bsky.social Author of bawdy romcoms with a big ♥. She/her. Out now: ZOMROMCOM and SECOND CHANCE ROMANCE!
My website: oliviadade.com
My newsletter: http://go.oliviadade.com/Newsletter
Sara @sarareads.bsky.social She/her. Books enjoyer & (very) occasional reviewer. Blogger at The Fantasy Inn. May yell about ⛸️ and 🩰. 🇲🇦 & 🇫🇷
Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social Freelance anthologist. Consulting Editor, Tor.com. Reviews Editor, Locus www.locusmag.com. Co-host, The Coode Street Podcast jonathanstrahan.podbean.com. Hugo and World Fantasy Award recipient.
Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social Queen of Lasers, Mother of Storms, & NYT/USAToday bestselling author of Fairyland, Space Opera, Deathless, & many more. Any/All
Art: http://patreon.com/catvalente
Politics: http://catvalente.substack.com
TipJar: https://venmo.com/u/cat-valente
ElQuesoGrande 📚🔋⚡️ @elquesogrande.bsky.social Steve Drew - renewables exec, founder of r/Fantasy, choose kindness. Will focus on solar, battery, transmission, and wonky electric policy on this site. Plus corgi and lab(ish) dog pix.
Wary, but hopeful bluesky wanderer.
Christine Sandquist @eriophora.bsky.social Cultural consultant specializing in gender sexuality, trauma, & neurodivergence. Editor. AV Project Manager. r/Fantasy moderator.
Website: christinesandquist.com
Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
Adri Joy @adrijjy.bsky.social (She/her) once and future editor-critic at Hugo and Ignyte winning SFF fanzine NERDS OF A FEATHER, FLOCK TOGETHER. Dog person, ocean enjoyer, I like being elsewhere.
Rowenna Miller @rowennam.bsky.social Fantasy author, textile nerd, chicken herder, trespasser, that weird writing prof on the third floor. 
Cherae @clclarkwrites.com SFF’s buffest lesbian. BFA & Ignyte & Locus Winner. Nebula & Hugo & BFA Finalist. TOURAINE'S ARMS & TOURAINE’S LEGS & TOURAINE'S @$$ & AMBESSA'S ARMS (Orbit ‘21,‘23,'25). français, العربيّة. they/she/sir/Hey, soldier.
https://linktr.ee/clclark
Para 🌵 @paracactus.bsky.social Sci-fi & fantasy reader. Antelope appreciator. Also posting a lot about my many and varied crafting WIPs. She/her (or they/them) 🏳️🌈
Filter topics: #booksky (reviews) | #NamibiaCam
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otherworldsreviews.wordpress.com
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Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app SFF writer/editor/publisher. ATL/SEA.
Literary nonprofit person. Ignytes mother. Awards doer. Hugo/Locus Winner. Conrunner. LEGO builder. Joy enthusiast. 77% Cake. Bi. Grumpy. She/her/chef. 🏳️🌈 YEAR OF THE MER (Saga/Titan, OUT NOW). Ldlewiswrites.com
Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me Writer, Colombo. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023, Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards) & RAKESFALL (2024, Le Guin Prize and Otherwise award.) https://vajra.me
Freya Marske @freyamarske.bsky.social Writer, ice skater, gin drinker. She/her 🏳️🌈. THE LAST BINDING trilogy, SWORDCROSSED, CINDER HOUSE out now. BODIES OF MAGIC out September 2026.
R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social USA Today Bestseller | Nebula Award & 2x Dragon Award-finalist | Worst Indian Ever | Philosoraptor | Hair Whisperer |
John Chu @johnchu.bsky.social The writer who won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. Not the movie director. (He/him/his) Mastodon: @john_chu@wandering.shop 
Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
Zen Cho @zenaldehyde.bsky.social Malaysian in UK. I write fantasy and romance. BEHIND FRENEMY LINES out now!
Whores of Yore @whoresofyore.bsky.social Sex History. "A Catalogue of Jilts, Cracks, Nightwalkers, Whores, She-Friends, Kind Women & Others of the Linen-Lifting Tribe”
Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social TV & standup & improv & podcasts, hardly any movies
paulftompkins.com/live
Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social aka Indra Das, author of THE DEVOURERS and THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, Lambda, Shirley Jackson & British Fantasy Award winner, Crawford Award finalist. he/they/she
indradas.com
Karen Lord @drkarenlord.bsky.social Author of THE BLUE, BEAUTIFUL WORLD. Home: Barbados, West Indies 🇧🇧. More info on me and my books at karenlord.wordpress.com
M L Clark @mlclark.bsky.social Writer (SFWA), translator, humanist, general odd duck • 🇨🇦n in 🇨🇴 • avoids pronouns, they/them if key 🌈🌌
Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social Novelist. Out next, The Pictures of Darpan Ray, HarperCollins India. I also make films, comics, and other typing-based lifeforms. Currently running a novel-writing workshop.
https://samitbasu.com