David R. Slayton (He/Him) @drslayton.bsky.social Gay, geeky author of urban and epic fantasy. Books available everywhere from Blackstone Publishing in print, audio, and ebook. Repped by the Seymour Agency.
WriteStats @writestats.bsky.social Data-Driven Insights for Writers and Publishers.
https://writestats.com/
Mountain & Myth Fantasy Cartography @mountainandmyth.bsky.social Bringing your fantasy world to life! We create hand drawn maps for your D&D/Pathfinder or other ttrpg games.
Commissions are OPEN: https://tally.so/r/obEbob
https://mountainandmyth.com
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
Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social Queer, gender-complicated guy, kink/sex educator, polytheistic-pagan, intactivist/foreskin restoration advocate, photographer, lapsed EV journalist, living with Tourette Syndrome. He/They.
Born at 339ppm
http://wintertashlin.com
Joel A. Nichols @jaynick.bsky.social Librarian, sff writer, queer dad, Vermonter in Philadelphia, author of OUT OF THIS WORLD LIBRARY PROGRAMS: USING SPECULATIVE FICTION TO PROMOTE READING & "Come Back Yesterday: Paradoxes of Library Progress" in LIBRARY 2035 (ed. Hirsh)
Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com Award-winning sf/f, erotica and romance writer. Just your typical biracial bigender bisexual. All pronouns valid, she/her for society’s convenience. https://linktr.ee/ceciliatan
Sheila Johnson (she/her) @scjohnsonwhacks.bsky.social Once described as an articulate flower goddess. I make up stories, some of which even I believe. Also: environmental restoration volunteer, mildly competent board gamer, lousy but enthusiastic Splatoon player. I think that covers it.
AJ Wentz @ajwentz.com Writer of speculative poetry and prose | not hip, cool, or with it | words in Lightspeed, Modern Haiku, Dreams & Nightmares, and elsewhere | co-chair for the 2026 Rhysling Awards | member of SFPA and Haiku Society of America | ajwentz.com
Dr. U. Whitcher (U. is for Bear) @yarntheory.bsky.social Math, history, science fiction, string theory, games with string.
yarntheory.net
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
Anthony R. Michael @anthonyrmbooks.bsky.social Writing the men I want to read about. Roughnecks, ranch hands, mechanics, bartenders. M/M erotica with no apologies and no fade-to-black.
Rough Rotation on KU. 18+ only.
Lanay C. Pryor @lanaycpryor.bsky.social NA writer. Black & Sapphic af. She/her. I stand 10 toes down for the Black & trans communities. Posting about my Black sapphic masc4masc romance & my QBIPOC Greek reimagining/modern fantasy series.
https://linktr.ee/lanaycpryor
Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (Tor Nightfire, Titan). 5 Bram Stoker Awards. Shirley Jackson finalist. Work in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Asimov's, Pseudopod, etc. Clarion grad. 🏳️🌈
www.lucysnyder.com
Rep: @jord4nhill.bsky.social
Cats, aquariums and terrariums
Michael G. Williams 🏳️🌈 @mcmanlypants.bsky.social I write queer horror & sci fi. Gay, Appalachian native, infosec professional, 2020 Manly Wade Wellman winner, co-host of Arcane Carolinas. He/him. michaelgwilliamsbooks.com #BlackLivesMatter #TransLivesMatter #SFWA #HWA #LGBTQ #FuckICE
Ardyce Alspach @ardyce.bsky.social Senior Editor at UNSQ :: speculative fiction :: Freelance writer sometimes :: Professional Nerd :: neurospicy :: opinions my own :: she/her 🏳️🌈
Sif Cináed Ó Buachalla | Writer, Storyteller, Bard @prince-0f-foxes.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 queer science fiction/fantasy writer
& composer
they/them
Fae, Irish mythology, trans & queer representation, other worldly creatures, facing your demons, self knowledge
Heath Grayson @heathgraysonauthor.bsky.social 🏳️🌈📚M/M romance author. He/him. 📚🌈
https://www.heathgraysonauthor.com/
Tony Dunnell @tonydunnell.bsky.social Writer of fact and fiction ( #scifi mainly, some horror). English but living in the high jungle of Peru. Short stories published in Escape Pod, Fusion Fragment, Fission, Sci Phi Journal and more. I also post about #movies. https://tonydunnell.com/
Mike Strickland @stricklandia.bsky.social Querying THE END OF THE WORLD CLUB. Award-winning author, 2026 Writers of the Future winner, creative writing MA, world traveler. Writing about writing at stricklandia.substack.com
🌿Aspen Harding | Author✨ @aspenharding.bsky.social 🌿WEEDIE WISDOM🌿
🔆Modern Philosophy | Spiritual Insights📿
I had a break-up.
I had a breakdown.
I had a breakthrough.
Crawling my way back up from rock bottom.
Sharing insights learned along the way.
Shiraki Press @shirakipress.com Independent publisher of adult fiction with a hopepunk vibe.
www.shirakipress.com
D.K. Lawhorn - Filmmaker @dklawhorn.bsky.social Surrealist Filmmaker out of Central Virginia • Citizen of the Monacan Indian Nation • Avid reader • Dirty Dancing is the best movie ever made • Elsbeth out now on YouTube!
E.A. Noble|Sapphic Lead SFFH. @authoreanoble.bsky.social Author of Sapphic Fantasy & Horror| Feminist| Women Lead| 🔥 Women & Enbies who proudly misbehave| Acquisitions Editor @fiyahlitmag & @rawheadjournal
https://www.theeajournal.me/contact
Brown Hound Press @brownhoundpress.bsky.social A small press in Lexington, KY that publishes offbeat mystery, dark humor, southern gothic & literary fiction. A free story each week! We pay authors.
brownhoundpress.com
S. A. Chant 🏳️⚧️ is writing sword & sorcery @essaychant.bsky.social Author of Peter Darling, transsexual menace. He/they.
Next publication: "The White Spire at World's End" in SHATTER THE SUN!
Books & news at my website: https://austinchant.com/
Dave Weasel @daveweasel.bsky.social Comedian, podcaster, etc. 5x billboard comedy chart topper
S Slottje Author (she/her) @sslottjeauthor.bsky.social Author of (primarily speculative fiction) stories and novels, also reader thereof. My flintlock fantasy novel Wayward Wings came out in 2024, and I'm bimbling my way through writing the next one
https://sslottje-author.com/
Sean McNulty @thispersona.bsky.social Writer. Poet. Pox.
Irish Novel Fair Finalist. Maker of weird and untrustworthy fictions.
https://linktr.ee/Sean_McNulty
Marissa van Uden @marissavu.bsky.social Freelance Editor | EiC Violet Lichen (Apex Books) | Editor "ECO: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction" | woods mädchen | friend to animals | biodiversity stan | stories in Vastarien, Dark Matter, Los Suelos | ACES & EFA member
Hayden Scott @haydenascott.com Liberal and friendly writer from London who decided it would be fun to explore the world for a bit. If not teaching you'll find me reading, travelling, writing, and wandering around imaginary worlds from my book - in my head, obviously.
Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social Literary Editor, Beta Reader, Plant Dad
& future writer for PBS Digital Studios 🤞
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A free 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
Kagi HQ @kagi.com Privacy-respecting search, browser and products that put you first. No ads. No trackers. Ever. https://kagi.com/
Matthew David Goodwin @latinxfiles.bsky.social Editor of the Latinx Archive Speculative Trilogy: Latinx Rising, Speculative Fiction for Dreamers, and Not Your Papi's Utopia. Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies at UNM. Active agent in the Speculative Detective Agency.
Oddity Prodigy Productions @oddityprodigy.bsky.social Oddity Prodigy Productions is a publisher and creative collective, dedicated to giving voice to writers and dreamers
Our latest anthology WHERE LEGENDS WALK, a collection of over 30 superhero prose stories, will be available November 2025!
Karl Dandenell (he/him dreams of retirement) @karldandenell.bsky.social Technical Writer, SFWA, VP16, samsara surfer, cat servant, drinker of tea and whiskey. Stories all over the small press realms.
Justin Feinstein @justinfeinstein.bsky.social Writer, advertising lifer.
Debut novel @TachyonPub
Words @Salon @VICE @AP @Vol1Brooklyn
Instructor @SackettStreet
justinfeinstein.com
J. C. Jones @thejcjones.bsky.social Author of the best selling Louisa Moss detective series.
Ex-nightclub boss and, due to carelessness, owner of only half a lung.
Poems and Limericks daily.
Based in Hereford, UK.
aleks irons @aleks-irons.bsky.social 30 | she/her | indie romantasy author | 🌈
Book Nook Cook 📚✍️ @booknookcook.com Fantasy reading guides for TV & gaming addicts
📚 From Witcher 3 → Malazan reading journey
🎯 Systematic guides that actually work
📖 Currently reading: The Disposessed by Ursula K Le Guin
🔗 booknookcook.com
Tom Marcinko @tommarcinko.bsky.social He/him. Stories in Beneath Ceaseless Skies (forthcoming), Nature/Futures, Interzone, Rosebud, Triangulation, and elsewhere. tommarcinko.neocities.org/
Billy Goat Gruff 🇨🇦 @b-goatgruff.bsky.social Twitter ex-pat. Practical dreamer, writer and scientist at heart. POV by Looney Tunes, Pogo, Monty Python and Bloom County. Seeking the meaning of life and wondering what's for lunch, in equal measure.
Pauline Barmby @pbarmby.bsky.social LLM-free science: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2767-0090, fiction: https://www.galacticwords.com. Words in Year’s Best Cdn F&SF, Utopia SF, Analog, OnSpec, MNRAS, ApJ, etc. Knitter, curler, sometime runner. 🇨🇦 & minor planet 281067. She/her.
Mr Dr Bae @dallas-taylor.bsky.social Florida Man in the Pacific Northwest. I write fantasy novels and bad jokes, design and build wood furniture, and have forgotten more cocktail recipes than most people ever know. He/him
Represented by Dylan Haston at DMLA
dallas-taylor.com
dtfabs.com
Vijayalaxmi/Vee @kaunvijaya.bsky.social She/Her
Pathological apologizer and professional hater.
Clarion '26. Words in FFO, Lightspeed and BCS.
First reader @ Apex
https://vijayalaxmisamal.wordpress.com
Derrick Webber @der-web.bsky.social Derrick (he/him). Writer of queer Romance & Spec Fic. Cutting Edge/Past It. I live by the river.
Oleander Craw @oleandercraw.bsky.social Author of DEVOURING FORTUNE (2026); THE WARDS WILL FALL (2027) || 🚫NO AI || they/he 🏳️⚧️
Repped by: @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social
http://oleandercraw.carrd.co
🌈Sarah 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/
Maya Deane (Wrath Goddess Sing) @mayadeane.bsky.social mayadeane.com.
I wrote Wrath Goddess Sing, a book that drags other books behind its chariot and boasts about it.
Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
Sam Asher @samasherwriter.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Father. 'Really, Shockingly Bad Things' out now from 55 Fathoms Press.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/really-shockingly-bad-things-and-other-stories-sam-asher/21758019
Rajeev @rajeevwriter.bsky.social Words in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, and other Fabulous markets.
MD, Dad, Tennis player
Links to some of my stories!
rajeevwriter.com
Trope-ology Podcast @tropeologypod.bsky.social Podcast where we get psych nerdy about queer book tropes 🌈📚
https://Linktr.ee/tropeologypod
Habitats Press @handle.invalid Publisher of optimistic science fiction and fantasy. 『Habitats Volume 2』on Kickstarter now! ☁️
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/samuelaweeks/habitats-volume-2-optimistic-science-fiction-and-fantasy?ref=1wbx4z
JBtheBoombastic @jbthecape.bsky.social Father to 3 beautiful daughters. Star Wars rules! All of it! DC sports fan and Texas Longhorns 🤘 Love Video games and all types of ill nerdy stuff. Working towards enlightenment everyday. "BE EXCELLENT TO EACH OTHER"😊 No DMs
K. A. Tutin / Kirsty Tutin @mskatutin.bsky.social She/they. Writer, editor → mskatutin.com, tutinediting.com. Tutin pronounced like a rootin’-tootin’ cowboy.
D.A. Xiaolin Spires @spires.bsky.social Acicular appendages, keyboard protuberance. SFF writer. Published in Clarkesworld, Fireside, Analog, Uncanny, Nature Futures, Vice Motherboard Terraform, Star*Line, MIT Press. Codexian.
Website: https://daxiaolinspires.wordpress.com/
Eleanor Lennox @eleanorlennox.bsky.social SFF writer, Codexian, Quill Hollow dweller 🦔
Stories in FFO, Radon Journal, 34 Orchard, Factor Four, Intrepidus & others
https://eleanorlennox.com
Matt Lacey @themattlacey.bsky.social Author. Drinker of tea. Killer of plants. Purveyor of smut. Dja Dja Wurrung Country, Australia 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 he/him
Human behind the pen names:
✨Rebecca Ide @rebeccaide.bsky.social
🗡️Devin Madson @devinmadson.bsky.social
rep’d by Diana Fox
Erin Quill (she/her) 🍉 @erinquill8.bsky.social I’m on a crime writing journey. MWA & Sisters in Crime member. Also a published poet. Animals, nature, and relaxation are also amazing!
CJ Hoke @cjhoke.bsky.social Scripts, street cats, stories w/heart. | WGA | SC on #Shrinking | 1500 eps of #GH & 1 #Sharktopus🦈
Heather Taylor @heatherataylor.bsky.social Write/ direct TV, film, & audio
Then: Hulu, Netflix, Spotify, iHeart
Now: REVIVAL (SYFY); KNOW YOUR NEWLYWED (Simon & Schuster)
Co-host Braaaains Podcast
Flex Fish Games @flexfishgames.bsky.social Artist Matthew king and programmer Rami Bukhari, teaming up to develop nostalgic hand-drawn 2D games.
Burning Phoenix Press @burningphoenixpr.bsky.social A micro graphic novel press publishing stories from the creative minds of Black women.
Founder Sarah A. Macklin @killianfantasy.bsky.social
www.burningphoenixpress.com
Meghan Fitzmartin @megfitz89.bsky.social Will write for pie.
TV/Animation/Comics/Audio
WGA WGGB TAG SoA.
Repped by RBEL and Gotham Group
https://linktr.ee/meghanfitzmartin
she/her
Tessa Gratton @tessagratton.bsky.social NYT bestselling queer SFF author. #MXTX trash. STRANGE GRACE, THE QUEENS OF INNIS LEAR, LADY HOTSPUR, NIGHT SHINE, STAR WARS: The High Republic, THE MERCY MAKERS! nonbinary, they/she
javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social 🫂🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🫂
writer/producer of the middleman, the witcher, lost, the dark crystal age of resistance, from, cowboy bebop, blood and treasure, the 100, and, of course, seaQuest 2032.
www.linktree.com/okbjgm
Daphne Olive @daphneolive.bsky.social Designer & 📺 Writer on TheOldManFX + Percy Jackson and the Olympians
podcasts: Fathoms Deep blacksailscast.bsky.social
and Can I Just Say (lit/film/TV)
she/her — @daphneolive on all sites
all links at www.daphneolive.com and www.JustSayPodcast.com
Lin Codega @lincodega.com author, journalist, game writer—PASHA THE STORM out now | co-founder @rascal.news, editor @fansplaining.bsky.social | WRA TVL S3—🏳️⚧️ they/them—a bit of a killjoy—there's a hugo here somewhere
Shawn Frazier @afrosurreal.bsky.social Writer of the Weird
www.shawnwritesweird.com
Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social Speculative literature by and for queer people of color. We are now OPEN for submissions! 💜
www.anathemamag.com
https://anathemaspec.subfolios.com/submit
aka LW Salinas @sithwitch.bsky.social She/her. 40s. Disabled bi/pan Chicana. Voice actor, audiobook narrator, podcast cohost (Legends of SHIELD, The Commentary Booth) writer, crafter. Icon by @kalledotwav.
lwsalinas.com
Mostly wrestleposting for serotonin.
Wesley McCraw 🌈✍️ @wesleymccraw.bsky.social Writing spicy MM romance.
Romance series: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GZ7D94KF
Website: https://wesleymccraw.substack.com
Author: THE FORGIVING, LAKE ARCADIA, BRIEF POSE
bisexual/queer, he/him
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/
B. Sharise @bsharise.bsky.social Kidlit Author, FIYAH Editor, & Curriculum Developer
Rep'd by Laurie McLean @ FUSE Literary
www.bsharisewrites.com
Genine Tyson @quirkywritergirl.bsky.social Acquiring Editor at FIYAH Speculative Fiction Magazine, Writer, Full-Time Worker, and Part-Time Student (Data Science). Bay Area
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
geneva 🖍️ nycc soon @gdbee.bsky.social Artist! Won a Hugo once! Got nominated for another! Black! I like everyday fantasy! Made a graphic novel! Drew some kids books! Estoy aprendiendo español!
Rep'd by @grahamophones.bsky.social
https://gdbee.carrd.co / https://gdbee.store
Milton Davis @miltonmvmedia.bsky.social Black Fantastic author and owner of MVmedia, LLC
Russell Nichols @russellnichols.bsky.social I'm not really here. Look for me: russellnichols.com
X (Xen/Cole McCade)🏳️⚧️He/Him🏳️🌈 @thisblackmagic.bsky.social The dead make better companions.
Queer romance author + artist.
IndigiBlAsian POC.
Call me X.
Level 46 Xennial himbo.
Audiophile.
Bone witch of the woods.
FFXIV Mateus.
AuDHD🏳️⚧️demigray disaster bi.
🔞Minors DNI.
https://ko-fi.com/thisblackmagic
Mame Bougouma Diene @mamebougouma.bsky.social Caine Prize 2023, bunch of stuff in a bunch of places. Follow at your own risk.
Uche Ogbuji @uogbuji.bsky.social Igbo-NaijAmerican immigrant
- 🎼poet/editor/composer/DJ http://linktr.ee/uche720
- 👷🏿♂️engineer/entrepreneur http://oori.dev
- 🗣️classics+hip-hop
- 🛹snowboard/longboard
- ⚽️play/coach soccer (Gooner!)
- ❤️Wife & kids*4
- 🏠Superior, Colorado
Trevor Fraley @illustrevor.bsky.social (He/Him) Creator of Things. Illustrator of Disney Villains: Scar series. Represented by ASH Literary Agency 
Takim Williams @takimwilliams.bsky.social Author of literary and speculative fiction | Coming out of nowhere in slow motion | 2024-2034, follow my pre-meditated ten-year overnight success
LaShawn M. Wanak @tbonejenkins.bsky.social Science fiction and fantasy writer. Editor of GigaNotoSaurus Magazine. Anime watcher and knitter. Follower of Womanist theology. She/Her. Also, pie.
Stephen Kearse @kearse.bsky.social Journalist, critic, and author of novels Post, Liquid Snakes, and In the Heat of the Light.
Noreasontopretend.com
ArtOfEdge @artofedge.bsky.social Crafting hyper-whimsical art is my jam ✨️- D Del Sandeen @delsandeen.bsky.social
Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social Writer/Poet, Editor. SFF/LitFic. CPO @ Augur. Work in: The Walrus, Year's Best Canadian FSF, Brick. Toronto, Canada. She/Her.
Author of MYTH. Editor of AS THE EARTH DREAMS (House of Anansi, 2025)
www.teresemasonpierre.com
Duke Stephens @oliveoilcorp.bsky.social [he/him] ignatz award-winning graphic novelist
thinks a lot about werewolves
for all inquiries: oliveoilcorp@gmail.com
repped by @jenazantian.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/oliveoilcorp
Maz Hedgehog (they/them) @mazhedgehog.bsky.social writer/performer/general thinking person. dyke. there will be typos.
mazhedgehog.com
Errick Nunnally @erricknunnally.bsky.social Graphic designer, author, artist, and some other shit probably.
Dominique Ramsey 𓃥 @dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social Award-winning Illustrator and corn veggie enjoyer / no AI here
Literary agent - kelly@andreabrownlit.com
Links + portfolio - dominiqueramsey.com/carrd
Vincent uses they/them pronouns 🐸 @v-e-tirado.com afrodominican 🇩🇴 🏳️⚧️ they/them or die mad about it 👻 award winning horror author. I write a lot.
https://vetirado.carrd.co
Bishop Garrison @bishopgarrison.com Nat Sec Policy/Sci-Fi Writer/Adjunct Prof & Poker Enthusiast - Founder www.orangecourtstrat.com - determined Wash Wiz & CMDRs Fan
Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga @aniyonsenga.bsky.social writer extraordinaire~ Spec fic is my jam. Words in Uncanny Magazine, Andromeda Spaceways,
GigaNotoSaurus, Augur Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, FIYAH, Apparition Lit, etc.
EN/FR/JP. she/her. Photo by Madeeha Photos. https://www.aline-mweziniyonsenga.com/