@aurorabreak.bsky.social @aurorabreak.bsky.social 
LGBTQ+ Toronto & LA Film Festival @lgbtlatoronto.bsky.social Monthly festival showcasing the best of LGBTQ+ films and screenplays from around the world, using the audience feedback format.
https://lgbttorontofilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/LGBTTorontoFilmFestival
Origin Books @originbooks.bsky.social We're Origin Books — a book printing company that helps authors and publishers bring their vision to life.
Pete Ward @phenryward.bsky.social Books, art, theatre, and telling people I liked the thing they made. Weird / Gothic short stories published or forthcoming in Cosmic Horror, Macabre, Frost Zone, Rat Bag and elsewhere. Editorial reader at Gavagai.
Dan Dicks @danieldicks.bsky.social PhD in Woolf and Queer Phenomenology. Also, sometimes poet. He/Him
Cwiar Cymru @cwiar.org Advocating for LGBTQ+ equality in Wales.
—
Eirioli dros gydraddoldeb LGBTQ+ yng Nghymru.
cwiar.org
Ferus Dóttirson @feraldottirson.bsky.social You know what they say: LOUD ACTIONS SPEAK WORDS
S @blacks.bsky.social I know how to synchronise swim. 
Letterbox Library @letterboxlibrary.bsky.social Est. 1983. Not-for-profit children’s booksellers celebrating equality, inclusion & diversity. Schools/EY supplier. Co-runs Little Rebels Award. Workers’ Cooperative. www.letterboxlibrary.com
#kidlituk #ukkidlit
Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk Monotropic writer, science tutor, Autistic community organiser and independent researcher. Based in Edinburgh.
they/them.
https://linktr.ee/0olong
Louise Hickman @louhicky.bsky.social Wellcome's Early Career Award. CRASSH at the University of Cambridge.
Lee Farley @allownstunts.bsky.social Books, music, film…
Making theatre and general arts stuff in the Shire🕺🏿
Alice Frecknall @alicefrecknall.bsky.social Poet, short fiction writer & fine artist.
Poetry collection: Somewhere Something is Burning (Out-Spoken Press). linktr.ee/alicefrecknall
Gary Budden @gary-budden.bsky.social Acquisitions editor @influxpress.bsky.social. (imprint of @diversionbooks.bsky.social)
Writer. London Incognita + Hollow Shores published by @deadinkbooks.bsky.social
From UK | Living in Brisbane Meanjin 🇦🇺
Alex Blott @alexblott.com ✍️ Writing Scripts | 📚 Making Comics | ☕️ Throwing Pottery
https://linktr.ee/a_exb_ott
He/Him
Lily Freeah Leoma Taylor @lilyfreeahleoma.bsky.social Writer and researcher based in London. Currently researching weird homemaking, the elements, and contemporary storytelling at Birkbeck. CHASE-funded PhD in the making. Almost-there novelist 🏳️🌈🔥🌳🌊🌬️
ShannonReault @shannonreault.bsky.social Scientist by day, writer by night, witch by full moon, chronically ill….well, chronically
✍️📚☕️🧙🏻♀️🦓
Currently on draft 2 of my fantasy novel - heavy on disability, witchcraft & female rage 🖤
🚫AI
@significantdot.bsky.social @significantdot.bsky.social 
Richard Gadz, horror writer @frankenwriter.bsky.social Award-winning author, ace neurodivergent and keen amateur idiot. Lives in Bristol but spends most of his time in a world of his own.
Also at www.richardgadz.co.uk + Facebook, Instagram, YouTube
J.A. Jablonski | Resolute Death out this fall! @jajablonski.bsky.social Indie author, multi-genre: Mystery, Speculative SF, Magical Realism | Former academic & librarian | Style guide nerd | 🚫 AI | 🚫 auto follows | Alt Text used
See:
https://jajablonski.com/otherinfo
cat with a spoon on its head 💀 @asecrettheory.bsky.social I love women and I obsess over The Locked Tomb. Art, music and books lover. Also a huge homo with an unknown gender.
Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social Academic in Dublin. Contemporary literature & publishing.
Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social trying! jeannethornton.com, patreon.com/jwthornton
Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social Historian trying to help build better worlds 🇵🇸🌈✊🏳️⚧️
Blog here https://samgrinsell.hcommons.org/writing/
Buy me a brew https://ko-fi.com/samgrinsell
Jac Mindelan @jaccidentally.bsky.social They/them. Writer, editor, advocate by night. Producer at Wizards of the Coast by day. #wotcstaff but all opinions here are my own.
@mythicalmaven.bsky.social @mythicalmaven.bsky.social 🌑 🌒 🌓 🌔 🌕 🌖 🌗 🌘 🌑
She/Her.
Avid reader. Art admirer. Music lover.
Terrible with sharing personal musings, but the odd one may show up here and there.
🌑 🌒 🌓 🌔 🌕 🌖 🌗 🌘 🌑
HopeRoad @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social Independent publisher supporting neglected voices. Books from and about Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Small Axes publishing post-colonial classics and fiction in translation.
https://www.hoperoadpublishing.com/
San Alland (they/San) @san-alland.bsky.social Writer, artist, curator. Latest publication: Sore Loser...on queer disabled grief. www.blissfultimes.ca
No DMs; locked out.
(Photo: me masked; white person, short hair, smiling. Banner: Free Falasteen sign on a bookshelf)
City Books @citybookshove.bsky.social Brighton & Hove's largest and liveliest indie bookshop since 1986.
https://city-books.co.uk
evocation of potato @stomachlining.bsky.social #fish, non-fish, creatures in general, #paleozoic, #queerness, #libraries, religious studies, #videogames, #esotericism, weird stuff, gross stuff, weird and gross media. Anxious & shy, they/them.
FFXIV Enjoyers: Thylakoid Pancakes on Balmung
Disco Barrington 🏳️⚧️ Author @discobooks.bsky.social Queer dystopian horror author
THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS (Sept ‘26)
British-Trinidadian 🇬🇧🇹🇹 | Trans 🏳️⚧️| Disabled
He/they | Also on TikTok | No GenAI 🚫
discobarrington@gmail.com
PREORDER MY BOOK ⬇️
https://linktr.ee/discobooks
https://discobarrington.carrd.co
Suite (212) @suite212.bsky.social Podcast that looks at the arts in their social, cultural, political and historical contexts.
https://soundcloud.com/suite-212
@ubsc3ne.bsky.social @ubsc3ne.bsky.social recovery, harm reduction, friendship, anarchy.
Hana Carolina @hanacarolina.bsky.social Creative Writer & Academic Researcher | 30s | she/her | 🏴 🇪🇺 | Reviewer @ Strange Horizons | Fiction Editor @ Divinations Magazine | Debut Novella with Spaceboy Books, THE INESCAPABLE MARCH (2025)
https://readspaceboy.com/portfolio/the-inescapable-march/
GSFLS | Global Summit 2026 @lgbtqstudies.bsky.social Official account of the 11th Global Summit on Feminist & LGBTQ+ Studies
Uniting global scholars and leaders in gender studies, feminism, sexuality, and social justice.
Berlin, Germany, 24–25 Sept 2026.
https://genderandfeminist.com/
Where have we gone. @kreigist.bsky.social Healthcare worker who’s fed up with the whole system.
Jubilee Finnegan @finneyflame.bsky.social a very nisces pisces
#wotcstaff
Cleo Kali • Kink Witch ⛓️ @cleokali.com Professional Kink Witch ⛓️ Lifestyle Leatherdyke
Australian Dominatrix often overseas.
www.cleokali.com
msha.ke/cleokali/
🩸Leatherdyke Love Letters 🩸
https://www.loyalfans.com/leatherdykeloveletters
Ash @ash-ll.bsky.social Ash, she/her, have one Classics degree and currently working on getting a second one! Usually found in the Edinburgh libraries
@gmchaff.bsky.social @gmchaff.bsky.social 
TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social #Scientist, #advocate, and #educator in the field of #climatechange. #Author of uplifting #climatefiction novel "A New Faith." Read or download the novel for free at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
#booksky #books #sciencefiction #solarpunk #hopepunk
The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social Independent Cultural Journalism from Scotland. Free monthly magazine, website, podcasts, and more. DMs not monitored, send us an email.
theskinny.co.uk
ADW MRN @adw-mrn.bsky.social 
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Author K.E. Bartlet 🫡🖍️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇸 @kebartlet.com Thriller, Sci Fi, Romance, & Comedy
at Amazon.KEBartlet.com & Substack.KEBartlet.com
🇰🇷🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Veteran Engineer Hacker Educator who ❤️ hacks, food, books, & travel.
Co-founder @NullSetPress.com @HackerFuBrands.com
Comics & Art Bluesky Feed: Art.KEBartlet.com
Skyla Baily @blueskyla.bsky.social 🌱
Comms officer @ GDI
Writer
this zine is ace @thiszineisace.bsky.social a new compilation zine all about ace/aro experience.
submissions open via google form!
run by jclarkemakes
Eve Xin 心 @suitcaseofpoetry.bsky.social poetry / fiction / spoken word / migrant / exile
linktr.ee/suitcaseofpoetry
Kaye Mitchell @drkayemitchell.bsky.social Literary academic, Director at Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester. Women's writing, feminism, modern and contemporary lit.
inleaguewithsatan.bsky.social @inleaguewithsatan.bsky.social 
McCormack Writing Center @mccormackwc.bsky.social Write. Revise. Karaoke.
Workshops, Residencies, & Classes
Since 2003
Formerly the Tin House Workshop
mccormackwritingcenter.org
David Wardrop @dw39dundee.bsky.social I love science fiction and nature but not sure in what order.
Simon Higgs @sirobnik.bsky.social One part gin, two parts libraries; muddled and occasionally garnished with a cherry.
Desperate Literature @desperatelit.bsky.social International bookshop in the heart of Madrid!
Home of the Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction (NOW CLOSED FOR 2026)
Ayre Fromme-Diaz @ayrefromme-diaz.bsky.social "I Got Off Easy"
Boy Preacher Unmasks Detroit Commie Honcho
Campus Sex With 7 Heavily Tattooed Latino Gang Members
Detained By Fascist Militia in Barcelona
Taking Down Satan: Borderlands
Stalked By Spooks in Nepal
Life of Jesus
Emma @emmasculate.bsky.social 
HarperNonFiction @harpernonfic.bsky.social Leading the way in celebrity, cookery, comedy, memoirs & sport 📚
Home of Thorsons, Mudlark and Element imprints
Part of HarperCollins UK
Sarah Jackson @sarahijackson.bsky.social Working in mental health doing peer support and other things. Writing speculative fiction extremely slowly. She/They.
https://sarah-i-jackson.ghost.io/
Mr Alvar @alvartheo.bsky.social Mx Theodore
They/He
I write when I'm well enough to sit up.
nathan @xyz-nate.bsky.social socialism now.
Gill Rossini @gillrossini.bsky.social Time traveller (historian), writer, teacher of writing. Other loves: bears (real and plush); Man City; craft; The Mighty Helga (my Belgian Malinois). All of these will feature in no particular order on this account.
Hajar Press @hajarpress.bsky.social independent political publishing house by and for people of colour
VOID VOID VOID @burnyourbones.bsky.social autist artist typist anarchist and pylon enthusiast
ᗗ ѧ ᗗ
seeing an unbearable light at the edge of everything & trying to trap it in ink ѧ ѧ ᗗ
Uncharismatic Megafauna @liminalitea.bsky.social Librarian voted Most Like An Ugly Piece Of Shit That Looks Like Piss 2026 (judge's choice).
I also do pictures, mostly for @lhardingwrites.bsky.social.
They/them
Theodora Garlicbread @maximumhorkheimer.bsky.social First, calm down.
Then, stay that way
for the rest of your life.
Awesome Subliminals @awesomesubliminals.bsky.social The best sissy feminization and sexual Subliminal files. Audio with quiet affirmations that trigger your subconscious as a tool for manifestation.
SHOP: https://awesomesubliminals.bandcamp.com/
Weirdre Lee ✨️💖 @deirdrelee.bsky.social poet & performer
neurodivergent baddie
cat parent
exists in Mi'kma'ki
AI & fascists fuck off ❤️🔥
Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
r. p. singletary @rpsingletary.bsky.social W(e)ide(r)ly published in so-called underground publications, proudly. (And I'm single)
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Colin Belcourt - Author @colin-is-writing.bsky.social Writer of memory-lit fragments, queer time, and liminal spaces. The Blue Hour Gospel on sale now https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1067482326
John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social Social historian of modern places. Tales of the Suburbs, on LGBTQ+ history, out now. Wrote Concretopia and Outskirts. Disappointingly unserious. Podcast: Monstrosities Mon Amour
Find out more: https://linktr.ee/johngrindrod
Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social Historian @york.ac.uk | Editorial collective @historyworkshop.org.uk | 'The Paris Commune in Britain', OUP https://shorturl.at/662e4 | 'Friends in Common', Pluto Press https://shorturl.at/f2nRs | now writing a history of (bird) egg collecting in Britain
Jazzmatazz - Fisting podcaster, Berlin @jazzmatazzoz.bsky.social Justfor.fans/jazzmatazzoz
Such FFun podcaster, fisting archivist, niche pornographer, musician.
Mark Beldan @markbeldan.bsky.social Painter / London & Toronto / markbeldan.com
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Producer Gathering @producergathering.bsky.social Producer Gathering is designed to offer insights into and context around independent producing practices happening across the arts sector right now. A project by Marlborough Productions. https://producergathering.com
Siobhan Dunlop @fiendfull.bsky.social poet, book reviewer, learnt HTML from Neopets. poetry micro-chap Glitching Al Pacino (Ghost City Press), chapbook Syntax Error (kith books). they/them
fiendfullyreading.com
kithbooks.com/shop/p/dunlop
D.L.L. @surrealandmilk.neocities.org creator of yuri webcomic LOVE, LOGIC, LUCK, MAGIC and @taffndaisy.neocities.org | currently writing 'STRINGS' (working title): a trans, sapphic dark portal fantasy novel | gamedev by trade | 🏳️⚧️ (she/they) | links: https://surrealandmilk.neocities.org/
Kimberley C @ktcita.bsky.social Just transitions, decarbonisation, and community-led planning researcher. She/her Ph.D.
Vixen Violet @msvixenviolet.bsky.social Endlessly curious kink creature, word witch, and mind meddler (18+) - connect with me best elsewhere:
https://msha.ke/msvixenviolet
Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social Writer, mastering engineer, will soon sing again in ¡Forward, Russia!
I master records for a living, I'm really good at it: www.hippocraticmastering.com
Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com Student success w/ a HigherEd perspective. Associate Director T&L & Student Success at UoM Library & Academic Lead for Student Success. Constantly tilting at windmills. Often seen reading, riding & running about. NTF/CATE/PFHEA, data and pedagogy obsessed
CubbyMagoo @delta247.bsky.social Reader, writer, pen-addict, trying to traverse this journey thru life with my two beautiful babies!!
Bear Harbor Workbook - Physical @ Amazon
https://amzn.to/4we5MjV
Bear Harbor Workbook - Digital
https://payhip.com/b/zmlu9
#throuple
#loveislove
Queer Cymru @queercymru.bsky.social Trying to rebuild after deleting the Twitter account. Not affiliated with any group or organisation. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏴
l'espoir d'une lueur @definitive-void.bsky.social Content to be slightly forlorn.
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ENG/GER/RUS OK, le français ça va, sayangnya saya lupa bahasa, tapi saya mau belajar ini lagi.
alim kheraj @alimkheraj.bsky.social a friend of britney’s at the lgbtq community.
Freelance Writer
Spearsologist
📖: QUEER LONDON out now.
🎤: Queer Spaces: Behind the Scene
he/him
Robin Como 🇮🇹🇨🇭 @roby2308.bsky.social 📍Como Italy
I❤️ justice, climate/nature/pollution protection,
culture, art,music
I❤️ 🎹🎹 🎸🎾⛷️🏊🤿⚽📸📽️
🚫No violence,wars, fanaticism,racial discrimination, corruption,scammer,drugs, smoking.
🚫OF,Porno,Crypto,Steam,Illuminati
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/
Penelope Price @penelopegprice.bsky.social Writer and editor, based in Bristol.
Hayley Scanlon @hayleylscanlon.bsky.social Japanese & East Asian cinema specialist.
Writer for hire.
Japanese to English translation & subtitling
I can't access DMs because I live on Silly Island, but you can contact me via my website:
https://windowsonworlds.com/
한국어도 공부하고 있어요!
Scott Linder @sadgaydivorcepoems.bsky.social Sad Gay Divorce Poems by Scott Linder is a maths problem in poetic form, a teasing out of what is left after nineteen years, six addresses, three international moves, two cats, and one love. It may be philosophy, too - e.g., is one really divisible by two?
InkandescentUK @inkandescentuk.bsky.social Inkandescent is a publishing venture from Justin David and Nathan Evans focussing on queer and outsider voices. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 🍉✊🏿✊🏾
Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social Inner Worlds was a quarterly digital zine of speculative stories about our inner lives. We published ten issues between 2023 and 2026, all of which are available to read for free at
https://inner-worlds.ghost.io/
Global Majority Press @globalmajoritypres.bsky.social Small indie lit press run by and for PoGM
Empowering marginalized creatives to tell their own stories
Editor: @mxchristalbot.bsky.social
Home of: thebkmagazine.bsky.social
bio.site/globalmajoritypress
@cariomaloi.bsky.social @cariomaloi.bsky.social the miracle that I was cursed to be chaotic
Gardener🪴 @lat611.bsky.social Nature loving, tree hugging, cat mom.
Karen Walton @karenwalton.bsky.social Screen and television writer-CoEP (Netflix Canada’s BELOW created by Jesse McKeown, ORPHAN BLACK, QAF, GINGER SNAPS). Human rights & clean water fan. Made in Canada. https://inkent.ca
HOMOGRAPHESIS🖤[#LoveLy/PerVy&DadDy!😎👍] @gaym74.bsky.social I'm the #GAY #Male #Writer #Poet #Artist / The #FETISH of a #Rubber #Leather #Dad #Cum #Pig / I live in #Gayland city of #Homotopia / #GayArt #GayNovel #MaleErotic #HomoPorn #NudeYoga #MaleTantra #Raw #BB #GayLove & #GaySex / #CUM to #DADDY... 🖤😈🔥💦👌
Kalliopi @kalliopi.bsky.social Curvy chaos
Appalachia