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Chris Baker @chrisbaker1337.bsky.social Writer and editor in the Bay Area. Codex & SFWA. https://linktr.ee/popculturalprecursors
Kate Nowak @k8nowak.bsky.social Slinging bits at Brilliant.org Formerly teaching high school & making IM K-12 Math at illustrativemathematics.org.
Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social Award winning science fiction author. Cat furniture. Horse patsy. Almost certainly two ornimegalonyxes in a trenchcoat. 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 https://buttondown.email/matociquala THE FOLDED SKY https://books2read.com/u/mBB0QZ ANGEL MAKER https://books2read.com/u/3kzy2W
Sarah Woods @sarahdoesscience.bsky.social Doctoral candidate, urbanism advocate, and avid amateur seamstress
JA Grier, Ph.D. @jagrier.bsky.social compassion, planetary science, quilling, poetry, nonbinary, fountain pens, pagan, sci-fi, horror, fantasy, cats, wine, disability, trans, ee/em/eir, witchy, yoga, land back, reparations, none are free 'til all are free, goofball
Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social I draw comics about werewolves. Managing editor at Iron Circus Comics (part time) Regular editor at Seven Seas Entertainment (full time) They/them/any
Matthew @fineplan.bsky.social Librarian, ex-archaeologist, shutterbug. Into readers advisory, travel, and trying out cookbooks. 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🇰🇷 All opinions are my own.
Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social queer non-binary SFFH writer. ace/aro. ADHD. they/them. author of THE WOLF AMONG THE WILD HUNT | SO YOU WANT TO BE A ROBOT | & more coming http://tiny.cc/recordedantho https://linktr.ee/mercfennwolfmoor
OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social OTHERSIDE is a quarterly magazine of speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers and artists. 🪐🗡️🌈 https://patreon.com/othersidespec · https://othersidespec.com
ash vale @ashvalewrites.bsky.social 🇨🇦 canadian writer, game master, gremlin (they/them) 🏳️‍🌈 co-founder @othersidespec.bsky.social 🖋 fantasy, romance, horror 📖 works at Nightmare, Heartlines, PseudoPod, Small Wonders and more website: https://ash-vale.ca/
Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA | Global Indigenous Horror (UPM, 2025) | Poetry Editor Orion’s Belt | Words in Future Fire, UtopiaSF, Space&Time, Lovecraftiana | EIC @katabaticcircus.bsky.social co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social
Lucy Knisley @lucyknisley.bsky.social Comics friend. Linktr.ee/lucyknisley
Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social I share beautiful words from beautiful books. Mostly poetry. Some prose. Always attributed, always pro-author, and generative AI is theft. (All photos original. All rights reserved by original authors.) Get books here: https://bookshop.org/shop/litbowl
Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com 🇨🇦 Kidlit author & illustrator. Illus books by Judy Blume, Michael Ian Black, others. Author news, ATmosphere, book blog etc: https://debbieohi.com/links/ 📚 I WANT TO READ *ALL* THE BOOKS 🎨 I'M BUSY (w/ Michael Ian Black) DebbieOhi.com
Spec Colorways In Verse @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social we 🫶🏾 queer BIPOC spec poetry ☆ https://www.patreon.com/c/speccolorwaysinverse/about ☆ https://ko-fi.com/speccolorwaysinverse ☆ https://speccolorwaysinverse.carrd.co/#guidelines ☆ Coeditor/creators @jdridges.bsky.social (BSKY) & @lyszflo.bsky.social (IG)
Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social Grenadian-born, Virgin Island raised, Ohio settled, SF/F author. I also teach creative writing as a prof. Views my own. More at http://www.tobiasbuckell.com (email Tobias at tobiasbuckell.com to reach me if needed)
Jessica Whipple @jessicawhippl17.bsky.social Author of ENOUGH IS… Tilbury House '23, illus. Nicole Wong | I THINK I THINK A LOT Free Spirit Publishing '23, illus. Josée Bisaillon | website: authorjessicawhipple.com | also poetry | https://linktr.ee/JessicaWhippl17
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
Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social Hugo & Nebula winning SFFH writer, singer/songwriter, dog person, horse person, queer, Baltimorean by choice, mediocre but enthusiastic gardener and artist. She/her. Repped by Kate McKean, HMLA.
geneva 🖍️ DragonCon Artshow #58 @gdbee.bsky.social Artist! Won a Hugo once! 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
Tia Tashiro @tiatashiro.bsky.social 3 cups writing + 2 cups neuro + 1 tsp of optimism, bake at 400°. Multiracial SFF author, words in Clarkesworld, Uncanny, Apex | Hugo, Locus, Sturgeon, Astounding finalist | co-EIC of Wyrmhole Magazine | she/her | Rep: Cameron McClure tiatashiro.com
Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social Online SFF magazine featuring stories and poetry for the 21st century! We publish numerous issues a year, two of which are focused on the climate crisis. Editor: Leon Perniciaro. HavenSpec.com
Mar Vincent @marofthebooks.bsky.social Weird little stories in Analog, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and other fantastical places. Always seeking human creativity (NO AI), coffee, and petrichor. https://www.marvincent.com/ Currently in the liminal space known as novel revisions. 📝✍️✍️
Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social I make aerial embroidery landscapes 🧵✈ Queer, autistic and obsessed with green! They/them or other neutral pronouns are preferred. All my current and previous work is on my site: https://linktr.ee/aerialembroidery
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
Kyle Aisteach @badwriter.bsky.social Speculative fiction writer, occasional editor, and part-time educator. All opinions my own, unless they're someone else's.
tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social tiny wren lit focuses on tiny poems + tiny issues (2-3 times per year). Readers can download each issue in a zine format. Home of the tiny zine. Subs open. Web: https://www.tinywrenlit.com/
May Chong 🇲🇾 @maychong.bsky.social (she/her) Bi Malaysian poet/speculative writer in Apparition Lit, Fantasy Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons. Not the food journo.
Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social Attorney, poet, do-gooder, they/them or ka/kan. will demand your poems and hopefully stop your abuser. Unapologetic chicken and waffles, fake goths hate kan, Disco Janet, pope by consent of the governed, not Kathryn Tewson
Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social A journal that explores the breadth and depth of the themes, ideas, and issues of science fiction and fantasy. Ed. Alexandra Pierce. https://www.speculativeinsight.com/
Sandra Kasturi @sandrakasturi.bsky.social Author of "The Animal Bridegroom" and "Come Late to the Love of Birds." Lover of red lipstick and videos of cats knocking over toddlers. Constantly dreaming "Aliens" sequels. "The one with the first lie wins." --Elle Fanning as Catherine the Great
Dan Sauer @dansauer.bsky.social Graphic designer, artist, weird fiction enthusiast. Publisher at http://JackanapesPress.com. Partner in producing The Audient Void: http://theaudientvoid.bigcartel.com
Project for Awesome @projectforawesome.com Hank and John Green’s annual charity event. Decrease worldsuck with us by raising money & awareness Feb 13-15, 2026! Watch: projectforawesome.com/live Donate: projectforawesome.com/donate Learn more: projectforawesome.com
Tom Marcinko @tommarcinko.bsky.social He/him. Stories in Beneath Ceaseless Skies (forthcoming), Nature/Futures, Interzone, Rosebud, Triangulation, and elsewhere. tommarcinko.neocities.org/
Matthew LaWall-Shane @teachwritebuild.bsky.social teacher. writer. worldbuilder.
Fran Wilde @franwilde.bsky.social Author & Battle Poet (she/her) hoarder of pens and journals. Teacher. novels, poetry, short fiction, shenanigans More at https://www.patreon.com/franwilde & http://franwilde.net
SL Huang [THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is out!]🎇🦑🌌] @slhuang.com THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS, April 2026. "Hugo award winner Huang stuns in this philosophical sci-fi exploration of linguistics and lost civilizations" - PW (⭐) "Fast paced and sharp" - LJ (⭐) Not here very much. Mailing list: slhuang.com
ErinLindiCairns @erincairns.bsky.social Writer, artist, caffeine addict and cat-person. Perpetually exhausted, occasionally well-dressed. If I followed you, it's because I liked something you wrote ♠️Ace♠️ Inkfounder and tag wrangler at InkFoundry.net
Oregon ArtsWatch @orartswatch.org Oregon ArtsWatch is a non-profit arts and culture journalism organization that explores the arts and their intersection with the wider culture in Oregon and the Northwest.
AMaskley @amaskley.bsky.social Poet & SFF Writer 🪐📜 | 🇺🇸➡️🇦🇺 | 🔮 Querying Natural Neon 🌌 | Humanitarian 🌏
OffRegisterHQ @offregisterhq.bsky.social https://www.offregister.press/
Sheila Williams @sheilawilliams.bsky.social Hugo award-winning editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine.
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social NYT bestselling writer. Newsletter and updates at maxgladstone.com. More or less updates-only on here.
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
Naomi Novik @naominovik.bsky.social author, coder, fangirl, geek. 🌕🌖🌗🌑 Author of Spinning Silver, Uprooted, Temeraire, & The Scholomance. Latest Release: THE SUMMER WAR https://lnk.bio/naominovik
SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social Our mission is to lead humanity’s quest to understand the origins and prevalence of life and intelligence in the universe and share that knowledge.
Michael Hessel-Mial @mrpoemguy.bsky.social Poet and scholar, college writing instructor, wife guy, dad to Melody. I’m an editor at specpoverse.org. Science fiction, PDFs, socialism, Jewish mysticism. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Summit County Libraries @summitlibraries.bsky.social #1 Most Followed Library in the USA! https://summitcountylibraries.org/ Located in beautiful Summit County, Colorado.
Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social Stories for the futures we need | SFF and dream realism | Canadian, Indigenous & worldwide creators | Pub @kercoby COO @suntorya CPO @teresempierre https://linktr.ee/augurmag
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
J.R. Dawson @jrdawson.bsky.social She/They. The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World (Tor, 2025). The First Bright Thing (Tor, 2023). Nebula, Sturgeon, and Hugo finalist. Goldie award winner. ✡️🏳️‍🌈🍉Linktree: https://linktr.ee/jrdawsonwriter Rep: Stevie Finegan
Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social Your friendly nemesis. BFA & Shirley Jackson Award Winner. BSFA, Hugo, Ignyte, Locus, Nebula, WFA finalist. Reactor.com, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, & more. ClarionWest '19. She/Her. Rep: Jessica Friedman @SterlingLordLit
Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com Trans Queerdo. He/Him. Shirley Jackson Award Winner. Nebula, Sturgeon, World Fantasy, and L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist. Wrote I NEVER LIKED YOU ANYWAY (Lethe Press), WHEN I WAS LOST (Trepidatio), and THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS (Lethe). No AI. Fuck ICE.
@erinmhartshorn.bsky.social @erinmhartshorn.bsky.social
Franco Amati @francoamati.bsky.social writer, poet, SFWA & Codex, ViableParadise 2024, new collection WORK IS WORK out now: https://www.amazon.com/Work-Franco-Amati/dp/B0HCCQF9YP/ and for all published fiction visit francoamatiwrites.com
Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social Baltimore-based indie bookstore. Currently online until we get a new space for the bookstore. Generally won't DM people, unless maybe you're a publisher and we need info to stock your books. https://carpelibrumbaltimore.com/
Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social Writer | UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES (2025) | Hugo, Nebula, Locus Winner | Philip K. Dick Special Citation, Finalist for other things | Best American SFF, Brave New Weird | Korean/Irish Dad o' 3. Rep: Michael Curry. thomashawrites.com
Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
Willamette Week @wweek.com Portland's Newsweekly | wweek.com
Liz Bergstrom @lizbergstrom.bsky.social Writer in Passages North, Bennington Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, NYT... Queer & chronically ill. (they/them) lizbergstrom.com (PFP: Person w/ purple hair & light skin wearing a teal jacket. Header: Living, Together anthology)
Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social Writer, editor, just this guy. Occasional stories: https://www.unreality.net/writings. I also publish the quarterly zine Kaleidotrope. (He/him.) 😷
M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social MR, she/her. scholar, author, editor · poster of too many dog photos · Clarion West ‘25 · VP2024 · stories at BCS, Lightspeed, GigaNotoSaurus, elsewhere · co-founder of @othersidespec.bsky.social 🪐🗡️🌈 https://m-r-robinson.com
Twonks @twonks.bsky.social Cartoons and comics by Steve Nelson. Manager: michael.krell@sixteenth.com https://linktr.ee/twonkscomics
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
Jacob Baugher @prof-bogs.bsky.social Words in Flash Fiction Online, Radon, Abyss & Apex, Dream Theory, etc Assistant Editor for Flash Fiction Online Lead guitar for Cokeworks, the band Creator & Host of The Archetypist substack Library Assistant
pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social 🏛️ Portland City Councilor 🇵🇾 Paraguayan Immigrant 💥 Occasional Rabble Rouser ✨This is my personal account✨ 💙 Follow @councilorangelitamorillo for city hall updates 💙 Follow =/= endorsement
Carlos B. @carlosbcomics.bsky.social Cartoonist ✍️ Another World is Possible 🌹 Free Palestine 🇵🇸 https://linktr.ee/carlosbcomics
Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social Speculative fiction in translation | SFinTranslation.com | Small Planet Magazine | translates Italian sf | contributor at Strange Horizons, World Literature Today, Samovar.
Elisa Saphier @elisasaphier.bsky.social Books are my religion. Literary agent: MacGregor & Luedeke; Owner: Another Read Through; Co-founder: AmplifyWriters @amplifywriters.bsky.social; Constantly reading but currently closed for submissions she/her🌈
Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social Adi is an international literary magazine rehumanizing policy. New pieces weekly! adimagazine.com
Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social New Book out this summer: Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home. Other things of mine: Bea Wolf, A City on Mars, and SMBC Website: www.smbc-comics.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith?ty=h
SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social Official account of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal created by @zachweinersmith.bsky.social. Home of the ongoing webcomic SMBC, A City on Mars, and of little books featuring large concepts abridged beyond the point of usefulness.
Brigids Gate Press @brigidsgatepress.bsky.social Micro Indie Mom & Pop Press. www.brigidsgatepress.com
Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social Reviewing and reporting on video games for 20+ years; truly I have seen it all. Guardian video games editor, exhausted millennial. Author of SUPER NINTENDO and co-author of YOU DIED: The Dark Souls Companion. She/her 🏳️‍🌈 https://linktr.ee/super_nintendo
Jessica Peter @jessicapeter.bsky.social Horror writer, Poetry Editor of Haven Spec, editor of Howls from the Scene of the Crime. Social worker, health researcher (under a slightly different name), health policy PhD student. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada http://www.jessicapeter.net
Cascade Writers @cascadewriters.bsky.social Helping writers achieve their creative potential through education and community. Cascade Writers is a non-profit PNW-based organization. https://linktr.ee/cascadewriters
@nessiemaz.bsky.social @nessiemaz.bsky.social
Rob Bignell, Science Fiction Author @sfauthorrobbignell.bsky.social Rob Bignell is the author of several published science fiction novels and short stories. When not writing or reading SF, he's a book editor at inventingrealityediting.com.
Theodora Goss @theodoragoss.bsky.social
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social A literary meetingplace since 1953, City Lights is a landmark bookstore and publishing house, known for our commitment to innovative writing and progressive ideals.
Sara Norja @saranorja.bsky.social PhD in English ☆ Speculative fiction & poetry ☆ Tietokirjailija ☆ Historical linguistics ☆ History of alchemy ☆ Manuscript studies ☆ English/suomi ☆ Queer ☆ She/her ☆
Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social “Ways We Vanish” from Okay Donkey, “Ragnarök at the Father Daughter Dance” from Variant, finalist for the Donald Hall AWP Prize, poems in Threepenny, Southern Review, APR, HAD, etc.
Utopia Science Fiction Magazine @utopiascifi.bsky.social We are a paying science fiction magazine dedicated to publishing quality science fiction short stories, science articles, and poetry. Find us here: https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/
Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social 🌍 The world’s leading guide to science-based climate solutions. Visit www.drawdown.org to learn more
Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her
The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org Since 01996: Long Now is a non-profit organization fostering long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.
Josh Pearce @fictionaljosh.bsky.social stories, poems, & reviews—most recently in Crooked Spine, Interzone, Locus, MudRoom, and Trollbreath. fictionaljosh.com
Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com A Hugo Award-winning digital science fiction & fantasy magazine edited by @johnjosephadams.com.
Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social Nebula-winning and Hugo/Sturgeon-nominated writer. Bagel the Dog's emotional support human. Dadjoke teller. Unrepentant punster. Sentence-fragment lover. Disabled w #MECFS She/her effieseiberg.com/stories
c. c. rayne (is writing) @ccraynewrites.bsky.social author of all things weird, wonderful, & queer ✨️ words in The Deeps, The Razor, Strange Horizons, and more 🌊 ccraynewrites.carrd.co
Written by Uju ✍🏽 @writtenbyuju.bsky.social My words are brushstrokes for the soul. I write to create shelter, stir truth, and wake what’s been sleeping inside me. 🌱 Artist | Poet | Mental Health & Disability Advocate | Songwriter | Fitness | Anime & Fantasy Lover
James Machell @jamesmachell.bsky.social Outreach Manager @utopiascifi.bsky.social Contributor/Substack Curator @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social Published by @spacecowboybooks.bsky.social "Be nice to him, you never know" - Amazing Stories https://jamesmachell.com
Julia Figliotti Riley (she/her) @juliafigliotti.bsky.social writer, poet, singer, songwriter, optimist, activist
Kanopy @kanopy.com Incredible and essential films made accessible through your library. #streamsmarter
♥𝐴𝑠𝘩𝑙𝑒𝑦♥ @ashley94.bsky.social ✈️ USAF Vet | Exposing America’s racial history, systemic discrimination, and current injustice. Breaking down bias & fighting for real equity. 🖤✊🏽📚🔍 #RacialJustice #EquityForAll #TruthMatters https://linktr.ee/Ashleytheebarroness
File 770 @file770.bsky.social Mike Glyer's news of science fiction https://file770.com/
Katabatic Circus @katabaticcircus.bsky.social an anthology of speculative poetics https://duotrope.com/anthology/katabatic-circus-36036 [open to submissions for volume 3] EIC @nsborwein.bsky.social
Liz J. Bradley🌠 @lizjbradley.bsky.social Just a small town girl who took the midnight train going anywhere. Writer. Dreamer. Doer. SFWA member, host of Sci-Fi Snacks Podcast https://www.lizjbradley.com/#links
The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition @spsfc.bsky.social An annual contest to pick a winner from hundreds of self-published novels in SF. Currently reading and reviewing for our fifth contest. Web site: https://spsfc.space
Aeryn Rudel @aerynrudel.bsky.social Author, rejectomantic blogger, dinosaur nerd, sword enthusiast, SFWA & HWA member. Stories in PseudoPod, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Factor Four Magazine, Radon Journal, others. #vss365 https://linktr.ee/Aeryn_Rudel?utm_source=linktree_admin_share