Skyla Baily @blueskyla.bsky.social ๐ฑ
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Joe Williams @joewilliamswriter.bsky.social Writer, poet, performer, event manager, idiot. Leeds, UK. Author of 'The Taking Part', 'An Otley Run' and others. Occasional contributor of stupid letters to Viz. Available for gigs, workshops, commissions, hosting, etc. https://joewilliams.co.uk/
Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA | Global Indigenous Horror (UPM, 2025) | poetry reader Orionโs Belt | Words in Future Fire, UtopiaSF, Space&Time, Lovecraftiana, etc | EIC @katabaticcircus.bsky.social co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social
Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social a publisher of niche speculative fiction and poetry
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This Exquisite Topology available now!
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Katabatic Circus
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Carolyn Stockdale @carolynstock.bsky.social Short stories: Nightjar Press, Riptide Journal, Fairlight Books, Riggwelter Press, Lunate Fiction, Dark Lane Books, Fudoki Magazine, Strangely Marvelous Creatures.
August @augustw.net they/them
i have every hobby
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Working on Echoes of the Eternal Choir, a visual novel coming...eventually
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.
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Horned Lark Press @hornedlarkpress.com Science Fiction. Fantasy. Antifascism. Now open for submissions!
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Queer Speculative Fiction @queerspecfic.bsky.social A free monthly newsletter of queer speculative fiction book releases. Check out our list of queer-owned bookstores worldwide.
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Bookish & Queer @bookishandqueer.bsky.social Online Conventions focused on queer literature, brought to you by @siren-events.bsky.social, the home of fan focused events.
๐ Sci-Fi & Fantasy: October 2026
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Elizabeth Dearnley @elizadearnley.bsky.social Folklorist, writer, Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier. FEARSOME FAIRIES, HAUNTED YORKSHIRE etc. (British Library), THE FAIRY SPOTTERโS GUIDE (Welbeck). Fairy tales / horror / weird and eerie ๐ฆ Repโd https://www.philippasitters.co.uk. She/her
Small Press Day @smallpressday.bsky.social Official account of the UK and Ireland's annual Small Press Day, uniting self-published comics creators with shops in a celebration of our vibrant small press comics scene๐ July 25th 2026!
smallpressday.co.uk
๐ฐ๐ฏ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฐ @dungeonlust.com ๐ฎCurโating all things Fantasy๐ฎ
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Check my starter packs for artists to follow!
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Saลกa ฤurฤeviฤ @azuremeraki.bsky.social Fantasy Concept Artist, Illustrator, Wizard
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Road Song Books @roadsongbooks.bsky.social OUT NOW - COLDWELL by David Gladwin https://roadsongbooks.com/product/coldwell
COMING SOON - THE LONGEST DAY by LISA WILLIAMS
We are a NORTH DEVON-based publisher specialising in literary fiction, short-story collections and narrative non-fiction.
Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author of novels, childrenโs books, poetry and essays. This account is managed by her estate.
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Paul Sellars @paulsellars.bsky.social Freelance.
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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.
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Chris McLaren โข๏ธ @chrismclaren.com I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.
The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com a journal of ends and beginnings
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Speculative Fiction Magazine Subscriptions @sffmagazines.bsky.social A list of active, regularly published fiction markets, including stories by today's best science fiction, fantasy and horror writers.
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Steven Patchett @stevenpatchett.bsky.social He/Him. Engineer, Husband, Father. Writer in the Northeast of England. Anti-AI. Kindness matters.
I don't reply to random DMs.
Reader for the Small Spec Book Awards.
Published here and there.
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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social Kaleidotrope is a quarterly e-zine of sci-fi, fantasy & horror edited by Fred Coppersmith since 2006.
Read it at http://www.kaleidotrope.net
Support it at http://patreon.com/kaleidotropezine
Avatar and cover art by Brian Malachy Quinn
Scylla Publishing @scyllapublishing.bsky.social Australian publisher of sapphic specfic
SEPT 4 2026 - "Who Am I? Sapphic Spec Fic of Identity and Purpose" anthology! https://www.scyllapublishing.com/whoami
No AI now or ever.
Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction
You can order books here : www.bluemoosebooks.com 
Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social Nottingham's city centre independent and radical bookshop, est. 2013
Publishing as Five Leaves since 1995
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We organise about a hundred events a year. Fast ordering service. Four book clubs.
Divination Hollow Reviews @divinationhollow.bsky.social Promoting horror and adjacent genres, DHR is a majority queer team with a passion for all things dark and spooky. Check us out at https://divinationhollow.com/
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Scarmilla de Winter @theswilkieway.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ They/He. โ๏ธโ๏ธโ๏ธโ๏ธ Artist and Scar! ๐๐ท๐ฆ๐ฆ
๐ Missing Mile
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The Publishing Post @thepublishingpost.bsky.social A magazine for those wanting to learn about publishing๐ New issue every other Wednesday๐
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Gardners @gardnersbooks.bsky.social Britain and Europe's leading and largest independent wholesaler - has been involved as an integral link in the book supply chain for over 40 years.
๐ gardners.com โ ๐ Eastbourne, UK
Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social The magazine for explorers of strange worlds & new horizons! Say hi press@wyrd.science
Made in Belgium. Published in the UK. Read Everywhere.
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๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ @teradiamart.bsky.social ๐ช๐ธ Illustrator / Magic The Gathering, Osprey Games, PenguinRandomHouse, The Broken Binding Ltd, Illumicrate Ltd., Grupo Planeta, Lords of the Fallen II ...etc
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ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
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Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social A magazine of fiction, poetry, & nameless things around and in-between. // alwayscrashing.com // https://alwayscrashingmagazine.substack.com/
VOID VOID VOID @burnyourbones.bsky.social autist artist typist anarchist and pylon enthusiast
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seeing an unbearable light at the edge of everything & trying to trap it in ink ัง ัง แ
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SOVKA โถ @monstersovka.bsky.social ๐ฑ illustrator + character designer โข they/them
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Hidden Britain @hiddenbritain.bsky.social Handmade signs, prints, music & books inspired by British Folk Horror and unsettling TV, film & literature. Based in The Black Country, England.
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Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social The online store supporting independent bookshops ๐ Certified B Corp | Carbon Neutral Delivery ๐ 5 star Trustpilot rating.
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Colours May Vary @coloursmayvary.bsky.social Independent Bookshop & Gallery.
Located in Leeds Corn Exchange. Open 10.30 - 5.30 Mon-Sat & 10.30-4.30 Sun
Shop online 24/7
Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social Dark fantasy, bleak science fiction, unsettling horror, and Weird genre grime.
Currently closed to submissions.
Hexagon SF Magazine @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social Canadian quarterly speculative fiction semiprozine โฌฃ Publishing the weird, wondrous, and whimsical โฌฃ #BLM
*SUBMISSIONS CLOSED*
Posts by @jsbrevik.bsky.social
Hexagonmagazine.ca/issues
Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social Variant Literature is a small press and magazine. http://variantlit.com
Summer 2026 issue out now!
Nick Reed @nickinmasham.bsky.social Southern type happily adopted by Masham (where I programme music and comedy at the Town Hall), by Yorkshire, and by @janrreed. Culture, quizzing, market town life, bit of sport, serendipity. He/him.
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored
๐๐บ๐ฑArtofMaquenda๐๐ฉธ @artofmaquenda.bsky.social The human in the animal
The animal in the human
I see beauty in the ''wild, weird and wonderful'' aspects of life.๐ฑ๐๐บ๐๐ฉธ
https://artofmaquenda.etsy.com
Linda Daunter @lindadaunter.bsky.social
Still don't know what I want to do when I'm grown up.
In the meantime, I write (mostly short stories, flash fiction & unfinished novels), draw, paint, take photos, garden, daydream and dance when nobody's watching.
๐NW England
๐ซDMs - I can't read them!
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).
Ally Lester @cogenthippo.bsky.social Writer and reader of fiction -- history, sff, romance, thrillers. Interested in sustainability, rewilding, growing things. Knitter, early tech adopter, parent, spouse, disabled.
They/them. Also writes as Frances Fox. https://lnk.bio/gjD5 ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ โ๏ธ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
Scarthin Books @scarthinbooks.bsky.social A bookshop for the majority of minorities in the historic village of Cromford, Derbyshire, UK.
100,000 books, 13 rooms, one vegan/vegetarian cafรฉ and someone else's cat.
For all enquiries please โ๏ธ or email.
FORUM Books / the bound / The Accidental Bookshop @forumbooks.bsky.social Three lovely, friendly, award-winning independent bookshops in Corbridge, Whitley Bay + Alnwick
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Events: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks
Kieran Wyatt @kieranstories.bsky.social Best British Short Stories, The London Magazine, Free Flash Fiction, Eunoia Review, Blood+Honey. I also post a new story on my blog every month. Fylde Coast. https://kieranstorieswriter.wordpress.com/about/
Adam S. Leslie @adamsleslie.bsky.social Author of Nero Fiction Prize winner Lost in the Garden
Will distract you in order to eat more biscuits
Writes novels - represented by Eli Keren @ United Agents
Writes screenplays - represented by Christina Pickworth @ Imagine Talent
Leeds Lit Fest @leedslitfest.bsky.social 6 - 14 June 2026. Returning for its eighth year, the award-winning festival of words aims to bring together, and help develop, the cityโs literary scene, with writers, poets and performers from Leeds, Yorkshire and beyond!
#LLF26. www.leedslitfest.co.uk
David @bluebookballoon.bsky.social Oxford, UK. When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman? No pasarรกn. He/him. https://bluebookballoon.blogspot.com
Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social Your favourite independent, genrefluid fiction publisher, bringing you the very best in SF, F & WTF!?
IG/X: @angryrobotbooks
Sabrina River Folk Podcast @sabrinariverfolk.bsky.social Sabrina, (Welsh Hafren) is the ancient Goddess of the River Severn, the longest river in Britain. Priestess Nicola Haasz has researched the legends and mythology for over two decades. This Podcast celebrates everything relating to our Sacred River ๐ฆ๐๐๐ฆข๐๐
Shelley Roche-Jacques @shelleyr-j.bsky.social Writer of short fiction and dramatic monologue, connoisseur of cake, coveter of cats, lecturer of creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University.
https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/shelley-roche-jacques
Fab @knifewitch.bsky.social literary agent @kiagency.bsky.social **closed to unsolicited queries** ex Grimdark Magazine, ex medievalist. queer. she/they (header is a Rovina Cai illustration from Spear)
European Network of Short Fiction Research @ensfr.bsky.social We aim to provide a forum and resources for European-based researchers into the practice, criticism and transmission of short fiction in its diversity of forms and to facilitate collaboration in both critical and practice-led research.
Phil Olsen @liverpolsen.bsky.social Writer of s(h)orts | Continuing Education Creative Writing Tutor at Uni of Liverpool | Contributing Editor at Vestal Review | Stories in Cลnfingล #16, Strix #8 | https://polsen.co.uk | https://linktr.ee/liverpolsen
J A Clarke @janeeyrie.bsky.social I write high fantasy with low characters.
Poetry too. https://bio.link/janeclarke
Fond of: folk tales, birds, concept albums, woodruff cordial, peace ๐๏ธ
Follows or reposts โ endorsement of any or all of someoneโs views
Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
Speedy @speedygonzone.bsky.social Magpie of hobbies - collection includes crafting, writing and making daft fancy dress costumes
The Slab Press @theslabpress.bsky.social We publish quirkier sorts of books! Science Fiction. Horror. Fantasy.
https://theslab.press/
Rune Hrafnagaldur @lunegrimm.bsky.social Illustrator / 3D artist who specializes in historic art of the Iron - Middle ages
https://lunegrimm.carrd.co/
Business Contact:
โ rune.hrafnagaldur@gmail.com
Mother Moon figure - order form: https://forms.gle/McZA2BCwiHeYkCJW7
Suzannah Evans @suzannahevans.bsky.social space baby
I Support People Protesting in Support of Palestinian Action @srdfrench.bsky.social Philosopher of science in a previous life, short story writer in this one and comics and music lover in both.
Die Booth @diebooth.bsky.social ๐ฆGoth ๐ Author of the beautiful macabre ๐ Zines ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ #LGBTQIA+ he/him ๐ถDJ #LastRitesChester ๐ค BE NICE TO EACH OTHER ๐ค #endgenocide #antigenerativeAI
Website: https://diebooth.wordpress.com Shop: https://ko-fi.com/diebooth
Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social Writer, Lake-swimmer, Bookseller.
FRSL
hEDS/Haemochromatosis/all the comorbs
she/her
rep @PortyLiterary
Books incl:
Recovering Dorothy
Some Of Us Just Fall
The Company of Owls
Emergency Dream
Swimming The Seasons
https://linktr.ee/pollyatkin
Will Smith @likewinterblue.bsky.social Book peddler, book reviewer, book hoarder, academic and freelance writer. 
Beneath the Garden Magazine | SUBS OPEN DEC 1 2025 @btgardenmag.bsky.social Beneath the Garden is a literary magazine inspired by the books and films that we carry with us in our writings.
EIC: Zaira Bardos
https://linktr.ee/beneaththegardenn
Victoria Stewart @verbivorial.bsky.social When not reading, often writing. Represented by @litagentfran.bsky.social
Mae Tang ่ฃ็พๅฆ @maetangwriter.com She/her. Writer. Chinese Singaporean immigrant to the UK. Bi. Hates Gen AI.
6 Books:
- Shortlisted for Hachette Childrenโs Novel Awards 2025
- Epic fantasy duology
- Novella. F/F romantasy
- Westmarch. Gay romantasy
- Heist. M/M & M/F romantasy
Uncertain Stories @uncertainstories.com www.uncertainstories.com
Kathy Hoyle @kathyhoyle.bsky.social Writer, dreamer, PhD student. Northern lass. Words at @nffr.bsky.social @theforge.bsky.social @fictiveDream.bsky.social @SoFloPoJo.bsky.social Winner @Bathflashaward.bsky.social Writing bot for @writershq.bsky.social
https://kathyhoyle.com
Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social Author of Dexter & Sinister, and The Dragonfly Delivery Company. New novella, Glunda the Veg Witch, out now! BBNYA 2024 Finalist.
#SafeSpace ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐บ๐ฆ
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David Frankel @daveyfrankel.bsky.social Prize-dodging writer of stories. Here despite popular demand. 'Forgetting is How We Survive' pub'd Saltpublishing.bsky.social . Shortlisted @edgehillprize.bsky.social. Chapbooks @nightjarpress.bsky.social & @salopress.bsky.social .
www.davidfrankel..co.uk
Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social You can do a lot with a bad hand. We're bringing you the best horror, dark fantasy, & crime fiction. Owned & operated by Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award winner Doug Murano.
Hellebore @helleborezine.bsky.social Small press devoted to #FolkHorror, #folklore, #magic and the #occult in Britain. World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist. Founder/editor: @mjpcuervo.com
๐ Now shipping worldwide from
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social Award-winning poltergeist and comedian | Writer of the Montgomery Bonbon mysteries | Pronouns like a butler coughing: he/him | linktr.ee/misterabk
UK TOUR 2026 (Extended!): www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
Indie Novella @indienovella.bsky.social Independent Publisher and Advocate for getting up and coming writers into publishing
Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social Undercover skeleton. ๐ Writer/researcher/lecturer. Ludokinetic/interactive poetry ๐, collaborative and amalgamatic writing. Editor at @SidekickBooks. ๐ He/him.
www.gojonstonego.com
New Writing North @newwritingnorth.bsky.social The writing and reading development agency for the North of England.
RJ Barker @rjbarker.bsky.social Award winning and, somehow, bestselling fantasy author. Gad about, small tree grower and procrastinationist to the stars. Truly, RJ Barker in all departments.
"their worlds are completely and entirely original." BFS
Agent: @teddyfromtheblock.bsky.social
Sadie Maskery @saccharinequeen.bsky.social Functions adequately.
Short story collection, 'Overboard', published by Acid Bath Publishing.
May contain smut.
Francisco Lemos @lemosfran.bsky.social lllustrator, Graphic Designer and Game Geek.
Originally from Argentina, currently living between Thailand, Indonesia and Japan.
https://lemos.itch.io
Jess @jesserintaylor.bsky.social Portfolio :
https://www.artstation.com/jesserintaylor
Indie Bites @indiebites.bsky.social A quarterly magazine featuring short fantasy fiction from indie authors.
Edited by @adiehartauthor.bsky.social and @josiejaffrey.bsky.social
No AI.
SORCERY & SECRETS deadline: 31 Aug 26
ASSASSINS & ALCHEMY deadline: 31 Nov 26
www.silversunbooks.com
Lucy Allen-Goss @lucyallengoss.bsky.social Medievalist, feminist, dabbles in horticulture. Writing more and more about infertility/reproduction. Yorkshire.
https://lucyallengoss.substack.com/
My book is Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance
The Fiction Desk @thefictiondesk.com Weโve been publishing anthologies of new short fiction since 2010. Based in Scotland.
Talis Kimberley๐ช๐บ @taliskimberley.bsky.social Songwriter/Performer/Wordsmith. Doggerel, Limericks. She/her. Folklore, yarncraft, pagan. Antifa, trans rights, organ doner, European. Made of stories. No AI. www.talis.net & YouTube. Will sing for supper & ยฃ. Re-enchantment is resistance.
Ava DeVries @avadevries.bsky.social she/her ๐ words at https://www.avadevries.com/
fiction editor @btgardenmag.bsky.social
reader @fusionfragment.bsky.social
Broken Antler @brokenantlermag.bsky.social Yโknow the deer from that one horror movie? Yeah, thatโs us.
Moira Garland @moiragauthor.bsky.social Short fiction writer & poet. Feminist. Socialist. Northern England.
YorkshireCarly๐โ๏ธ๐ชด @yorkshirecarly.bsky.social Yorkshire Girl ๐ฟ
Reading Enthusiast
Book Blogger
Contact via my Blog
https://yorkshirecarly.wordpress.com
๐ธ: https://www.instagram.com/yorkshirecarly/
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
Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social Poet and non-fiction writer. Latest poetry collection "All The Men I Never Married" won the 2022 Forward Prize. Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Substack: https://shorturl.at/Ea3sI