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Susie @sehinton.com writer
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Your Cool Uncle Marisa @marisamoureau.com I make YouTube videos about retro gaming and other tech. I love cats and women. Also an actor 🤡
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Deleted Saves @deletedsavesmag.bsky.social A quarterly publication for critical analysis of video games and their place in culture.
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Contact us at deletedsaves at gmail dot com
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Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. Occasional game dev. Author of LEGEND OF THE RIVER KING (Boss Fight Books) and editor of FLAXMAN LOW: OCCULT DETECTIVE (MIT Press). He/him. alexanderbjoy.com
Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey @esmepromise.bsky.social Writer, enjoyer of living things. Work in Smokelong Quarterly, Cincinnati Review, Adroit Journal
Greg Loring-Albright (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social gloringalbright.com
Game designer (Ahoy, 2022; Bloc by Bloc: Uprising, 2022 w/ T.L. Simons; Keep the Faith, 2026).
Asst.Prof. Game Studies & Game Design @HarrisburgU
Ashley Schofield is looking for work! 🐉 @ashlikeadragon.bsky.social essayist, critic, journalist
author of VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works @lostincult.co.uk
words: Unwinnable, VGC, Polygon, GR+, RPS, PLAY, EDGE, Into The Spine, Mothership, Stop Caring, Deleted Saves, Skybox
https://ashlikeadragon.bearblog.dev/
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Grayson Morley @graysonmorley.com Writer • Winner, PEN/Dau • Work in The New York Times, Polygon, Catapult, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere • Opinions my own
Blog: onemorerun.blog
Wallace @exalclaw.com Wallace Truesdale: Runs exalclaw.com | Seen at Unwinnable, Stop Caring, Mothership, etc. | Weak against soft cookies | he/him
📬: exalclaw@proton.me
Dani Calzone @danicalzone.bsky.social #1 arctic monkeys fan, a person, sometimes an artist
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#Rockugaki → Art tag!
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Dishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart.bsky.social Uncool & nerdy lit mag that's way too into dish-cleaning products. New piece every Tuesday. Subs always open!
https://dishsoap-quarterly.com 🫧
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Tap into Poetry @tapintopoetry.bsky.social 📚 Poetry Magazine est. 2022
📚 Submissions open (always!)
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LocationScouts @locationscoutsgccx.bsky.social We sub GCCX.
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NYC Midnight @nycmidnight.bsky.social Inspiring challenges for storytellers. Next up is the Two-Story Writing Challenge on July 30th at https://nycmidnight.com/two-story.
John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com Series Editor of BASFF. Publisher of @lightspeedmagazine.com (+ Editor) and NIGHTMARE. Editor of 50+ anthologies. Co-editor (with Jordan Peele) of OUT THERE SCREAMING.
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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social Makes tiny games. Currently in grad school to be a librarian. Helps organize local game dev stuff near Detroit. they/them
https://michael-klamerus.itch.io/
https://virtualmoose.org/
The Imaginary Engine Review @tier-review.com A journal of video games criticism co-edited by @phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social and @gracemachine.bsky.social. We write from the margins to the margins.
Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social Fiction writer with work in Story, Florida Review, Cream City Review. Instructional designer by day. Philadelphia!
ellenrhudy.com
Phoenix @phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social Atlantic Canadian game critic (She/They)
Columnist at @unwinnable.com
Co-Editor of @tier-review.com
https://muckrack.com/phoenix-simms
phoenixwritesdown@protonmail.com
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social Dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web, by widely published authors or those new to the craft. Est.2003. Paying up to $150. www.smokelong.com. No Trump supporters. Follow also @heyflashvillage.bsky.social
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social Writer
Work in Best of the Net, The Best Microfiction, The Best Small Fictions, The Cincinnati Review, CRAFT, SmokeLong Quarterly, Wigleaf…
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Max Dosser @madosser.bsky.social Editor of Flash Point SF, VAP at Wittenberg University, Lover of Buffalo Chicken Dip, he/him
maxdosser.com
Author of Nostalgic Futures: The Reactionary Fantasies of Speculative Fiction Fandoms (Rutgers University Press, 2026)
Gaming Alexandria @gamingalexandria.bsky.social Website dedicated to scanning/preserving video games.
"Knowledge hoarded is knowledge lost." - Harpocrates (FFXVI)
Website - https://www.gamingalexandria.com
Discord - https://discord.gg/YHZUVaAXw3
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Katherine Cowley @kathycowley.bsky.social Mary Higgins Clark Award nominee. Jane Austen Writing Lessons. Author of The Lady's Guide to Death and Deception, the third book in the Mary Bennet spy trilogy.
Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social Ensuring a vibrant, diverse literary landscape by helping small literary publishers work better. www.clmp.org
ugh • do it scared ♡ @ugh-imhere.bsky.social soft heart, sharp pen
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📚 58/50 | CR: A Gentleman in Moscow
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@fieldnotes-photos.bsky.social
Lauren Stark @laurenstark.bsky.social co-constructor of other worlds. viable paradise ‘25. codex. tin house summer workshop ‘18. www.laurenstark.com
Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters @asteralesjournal.bsky.social A new quarterly literary journal publishing 5 poems, 2 prose works, and original visual art. SUBS OPEN 2/1-3/15
Co-founders/editors @djvorreyer.bsky.social and @rebunting.bsky.social
http://www.asteralesjournal.com
Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social Online magazine for flash and short fiction.
Chill Subs 2024 Community Favourites Flash Fiction #7
https://trashcatlit.com/
Still on X @TrashCatLit
Editor: JP Relph @therelphian.bsky.social
Read Stories: https://trashcatlit.com/treasured-words/
Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻 @applesncinnamon.bsky.social they/them. Writer | Reader | GM
Available Now: Sweet & Wild, The Need for Dandelions
Coming October 2026: The Witch of the Wood
I love telling stories! Choose good. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Profile pic by littlestpersimmon! 🌻
Links: https://linktr.ee/alexlarkspur
Nadia Amatullah King @nadiaaking.bsky.social Writes Spec-Fic, Dark SF, & Horror
Multiethnic of the African Diaspora
is probably an alien 👾
https://linktr.ee/nadiaaking
Unfortunately... Podcast @unfortunatelypod.bsky.social A podcast about fiction, failure, and moving forward. Hosted by Mona West & Courtney Floyd. New episodes on the 1st & 3rd Friday of each month.
💻 https://unfortunatelypod.com/
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Corey Miller @ironbrewer.bsky.social 📝Writer in Booth, Pithead Chapel, Salt Hill, XRAY, and elsewhere.
www.CoreyMillerWrites.com 
Sam W. Pisciotta @swpisciotta.bsky.social Lightspeed, Nightmare, Asimov’s, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Utopia, more.
Odyssey’23
Clarion West NovelWW ‘26
codex sfwa hwa (he/him) www.silo34.com
Colorado and New York
Erin Braithwaite @ejbraithwaite.bsky.social She/her. Writer and illustrator of spooky stories from picture books to adult fiction. South African in Bristol. Words in The Ghastling, Northern Gravy, The Amphibian. Winner of Wilko Johnson Writing Award 2024. Rep: Silvia Molteni @PFD Agents
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.
https://linktr.ee/wyrdscience
#RPG #TTRPG #Wargames #Boardgames #Fantasy #SciFi #Comics #CoolShit
guilherme alves @aglhr.me faça um oráculo e, quando perceber, me solte
SFFChat @sffchat.bsky.social Lord of worms. Home of the hashtag game #SFFChat! Join us every Thursday for a new set of questions, comment on other authors' posts, and make some friends!
Absolutely NO AI allowed.
Rio Lombana @riolombana.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Queer SFFH author, they/all
📚 Fiction in Escape Pod, Small Wonders, Heartlines Spec, elsewhere
👀 Apex Magazine first reader
🪼 Viable Paradise 2025 alum
🥋 Jiujitsu purple belt
⛰️ Pacific Northwest transplant
bio.site/riolombana
Jada Pada @jadapaige.bsky.social Director / Mixed Media Artist / Sexdick Archivist
https://youtube.com/@jadapada?si=-d0DTRtcxWalVqQr
Patreon: patreon.com/JadaPaige
ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/jadapada
💛 @froyotam.bsky.social 💛
Rosalie ✨ @littlerecordgirl.bsky.social ✨ Scottish Gaming Tech journo based in Glasgow
✨ Hardware Editor for GamesRadar+
💖 Games • Film • Horror • Figures • Anime • Retro Toys • SEGA/Nintendo/Sony
✨ She/They (GF baby) 🌈
✨ Views my own
Viable Paradise @viableparadise.bsky.social The writing workshop you've been looking for! https://viableparadise.com
Andrew Leonard @aleonard82.bsky.social Speculative fiction writer with words in Utopia Science Fiction Magazine, Crepuscular, Sci-Fi Shorts, Andromeda Spaceways, and more.
Personal website: https://tr.ee/FZw1ooPoTO
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
Donna Washington Storyteller @dlwstoryteller.bsky.social Storyteller, Author, Artist Educator
Ghost Structuralist @quips.bsky.social I work for Critical Distance and every year I write a few more pages of my dissertation (they/them)
James Thomson @jamesthomson.bsky.social Indie iOS / Mac developer from Glasgow, Scotland. Maker of the PCalc scientific calculator, and a cool dice app. Occasional writer, conference speaker, D&D player, and podcast pundit.
Camden Rose @camdenscorner.bsky.social The only things I love more than writing are my cats. Their names are Orion and Corvus. They are the fastest cats in the world. Find me (and them, periodically) at http://camdenscorner.com
Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social Read Issue 8! Epistemiclit.com
Digital anthology series celebrating knowledge, connection, and growth through poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction.
EICs @melruthwrites.bsky.social and @kristinwrites.bsky.social. CNF Editor @gcbwrites.bsky.social
Tim Larade @timlarade.bsky.social Animator at Titmouse Vancouver!
Replay >> Rewind @replayrewind.bsky.social we're a podcast! all about movies made before the year 2001. mostly for children, but sometimes... for not.
get more info or listen over at replayrewindpodcast.com
reny! @knuckledusters.bsky.social i'm into watching dodgers baseball and hoarding recipes. go listen to my podcast, it's good for you!
Elfbread @elfbread.bsky.social This is BBell
Nikki Morgen Comix @duknuk.bsky.social > dorkpunk napkin artist > not culturally significant enough to warrant her own wikipedia article > 29 y/o vancouverite 🏳️⚧️
Danny Caine @dannycaine.com author HOW TO PROTECT BOOKSTORES AND WHY • work @ Institute for Local Self-Reliance • books from Microcosm, Mason Jar Press, Autofocus and more • dannycaine.com
Bex Rolls Dice @bexrollsdice.bsky.social Flgs owner, horror writer, ttrpg creator, wrestling fan, dice goblin tendencies. 1st RPG '2 Sides to the Coin' available here:
https://www.ospreypublishing.com/uk/two-sides-to-the-coin-9781472869623/
Shop website www.roll-it-scarborough.co.uk
Radical Catalyst Art & Literary Journal @radicalcatalyst.bsky.social SUBMIT NOW! Queer feminist art and literary journal committed to igniting change at the intersection of art, literature, politics, and social justice.
https://linktr.ee/radicalcatalystjournal
evan michael anderson @emanderson.bsky.social writer ✍🏼 | retired twink 🌈 | stories in Taco Bell Quarterly, Malarkey Books, JMWW, Gone Lawn, Best Small Fictions & others. currently writing my first novel.
Melinda Wyers @jetgirl.art writer/designer
EIC: Y2K Quarterly y2kq.com
@y2kq.com
Blog: https://jetgirl.art/
Y2K Quarterly @y2kq.com Literary chaos in 1999 words or less.
Y2K Themed Literary Magazine
EIC: @jetgirl.art
https://y2kq.com
earworms magazine (SUBS OPEN UNTIL 11/5) @earwormsmag.bsky.social literary magazine interested in receiving writing and photography that explores “earworms,” the (wonderful/sometimes annoying/very catchy) music you can’t get out of your head!
the only bluesky account run by worms 🪱🪱🪱
https://linktr.ee/earwormsmag
Vertex @endvertex.bsky.social Failed artist, but still trying it.
https://endvertex.com/links.html
Catherine Tavares @cjtavares.bsky.social SFFH Author | Winner-Apex Reader's Choice Award | SFWA & Codex Member | Bibliophilic ghost haunting libraries | she/her
Work forth/in Apex, The Dark, Heartlines, Small Wonders, Flash Point SF & more
Links: https://catherinetavares.com/links/
Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social The world's #1 used book store. Come visit us at the edge of eternity.
store:
https://paperbackparadise.bigcartel.com/
Melissa D. Sullivan @mdsullivanwrites.bsky.social fiction writer, journalist, cat-mom, bookstore connoisseur * more stuff at melissadsullivan.com 
Gabe @cwgabriel.bsky.social I draw Penny Arcade, founded the PAX gaming expo and the Child’s Play charity.
Ian Leslie @ianleslie.bsky.social Author. Latest book: 'John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs'. Available now: https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/introducing-john-and-paul-a-love
Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social Writer of games, books, TV, film and comics. Co-Director of Narrativia. Cat Spooner. Flibbertigibbet. https://rhiannapratchett.com
Dale @sirdel1884.bsky.social Apologies in advance.
https://backloggd.com/u/SirDel
J. Stigliano | Fantasy Author @jasonstigliano.bsky.social Fantasy writer, tabletop hobbyist, woodworker, and homebrewer.
JasonStigliano.blogspot.com/
aLec robBins @alecrobbins.bsky.social me again. mr boop guy you remember.
Alex Moukala @alexmoukala.bsky.social Game Composer in: 'Rift of the Necrodancer', 'Marvel vs Capcom Infinite & Beyond', 'Contra: Operation Galuga', 'Second Stone' & more.
Also YouTuber & Social Media Strategist.
Daniel Dimitrov 🌈 @dandimitrovart.bsky.social Concept Artist @ Milky Tea ✨ Books, plants, video games 🌿 Opinions are my own
He/Him
https://linktr.ee/dandimitrovart
. ★⋆. brodie . ★⋆. @melansomnia.bsky.social uk based photographer | artist | director
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Babushka @zabthekabbit.bsky.social https://vgen.co/ZabtheKabbit
https://zabthekabbit.straw.page/
Cybershell @cybershell.bsky.social that sonic guy
https://www.youtube.com/@Cybershell13
Eva Langston @evalangston.bsky.social *author (repped by Ali Lake of O'Conner Literary)
*writing instructor at The Writer's Center
*creator/host of the podcast The Long Road to Publishing
*DC area
(she/her)
Tom McH @tommchenry.bsky.social I draw comics you can read here: https://www.noncanon.com/
You can buy the physical issues here: https://yourmchenries.bigcartel.com/
I also made HORSE MASTER: THE GAME OF HORSE MASTERY and some other games back when: https://tommchenry.itch.io/
H. L. Docherty (Updates Only) @hldocherty.bsky.social Writer of romantasy with chaotic anti-heros, forbidden romance, and things that go bump in the night.
🥀SNOWDROPS & STONES
☀️Rep: Rachel Estep | D4EO Literary Agency
https://linktr.ee/HLDocherty
KM is looking for work! @kellymerka.bsky.social writer & editor, open for work! kmnelsonmail (at) gmail (dot) com // managing editor, startmenu.co.uk // editor/QA, Interstate 35, @radiantarray.bsky.social // editor, deletedsaves.com // she/they
Cass @casatlas.bsky.social Cass! || Artist. Writer. || Fandom, memes, art!!
Kristen Renee Miller @kristenmiller.bsky.social Sarabande Books Director & EIC @sarabandebooks.bsky.social
Founder at @zinemachine.bsky.social
Poet, translator, chaos virgo
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Rhiannon 🇵🇸 @rhithewitch.bsky.social Deputy News Lead @ TheGamer. Fable 3's biggest fan. She/her. 👩❤️💋👩
Words/voice/face also appeared on: TechRadar, TechRaptor, BBC, Giant Bomb
Wacky Lesbian Hour @wackylesbianhour.com It’s like Penny Arcade, but a little less gay.
Created by @keithstack.com
Scarlet Moth @scarletmoth.bsky.social Artist & Designer | Cosplayer | RPG fan | Video Essayist | Actual swarm of moths | Neurodivergent | She/They | Opinions are my own
✉Business email: scarlet.moth@outlook.com
amarie is ✨ON SUB✨ @amariewrites.bsky.social she/they | 28 | cincinnati, oh | AuDHD | 🤎🌟 | contemporary romance author writing black women in love✨ | repped by Hillary Fazzari of the Bradford Literary Agency🌿
https://amariewheeler-author.carrd.co
Meeeeeghanvic @meghanvictoriaa.bsky.social Gamer. Gayer. Radicalizer.
Fat, funny, and fucking stupid.
Don’t take me seriously I never have. 🤠
Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social Buildings, signs, and symbols collected by keyword. Original photographic documentation since 2010.
Chicago, IL — www.ruralindexingproject.com
David Hayter @thedavidhayter.bsky.social Writer: X-Men, X2, Watchmen, The Scorpion King, Warrior Nun. Director: Wolves. Actor: Lupin, King Shark, Guyver II, Metal Gear, The Long Dark, Yakuza. Jedi Master of The Old Republic.
Location: The Palace of Wisdom
ON games journal @ongamesjournal.bsky.social The ultimate celebration of gaming's past, present and future - on.games
Arielle Danan ⚔️ @huggablehipster.bsky.social Gaming journalist| I do video guides @IGN (Freelance), |Contributor @skyboxcritics| Souls/Souls-like creator and skilled babbler. My home is somewhere near the Erdtree, sipping on coffee.
emma keates @emmakeates.bsky.social staff writer @ the a.v. club
🦉✨️Byrdie Byrd @cosplaybyrd.bsky.social 🦉Julia 🌎 NY 🎮 Twitch🌸Cosplay 🏕 The Little Cabin 🕹SFAC Ambassador🐰D4G influencer💀The Crypt 💜Twitch Women's, Pride & Latin Guild Member
twitch.tv/indiebyrd
📇Collab Inquiries: indiebyrdcosplays@gmail.com
Burger Snail @surlaw.bsky.social A mix of Grimace, Godzilla and Garfield
🍔 I make games and take pictures and watch movies 🐌
🦈 Now available: The Unofficial Uni Fan Game, Walthros: Renewal+, Kaiju Big Battel: Fighto Fantasy, Ghost's Towns, C. Kane, Horse Game
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Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com SFFH author & audio drama creator with a PhD in trashy Victorian lit. HIGHER MAGIC out now. Rhysling finalist. She/they. ND 🧠. Rep: @rebeccamatte.com
https://courtney-floyd.com
🎙 https://hauntnowpod.com
✉️ https://buttondown.email/wallowinginink
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Mona West @monawest.bsky.social Writer. Cohost of the Unfortunately... Podcast. Rejected by Uncanny, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and others.
https://mona-west.com/
https://unfortunatelypod.com/