Donald Maass @donaldmaass.bsky.social President of Donald Maass Literary Agency in New York, author of Writing the Breakout Novel, The Emotional Craft of Fiction and other craft books for novelists.
Cat Rambo @catrambo.bsky.social They/she. My cats' names are Bruce, Clark, & BabyBear. Nebula award winning F&SF writer/editor/teacher. Snark at your own risk. Located in South Bend, IN. Sometimes I swear. linktr.ee/catrambo
Rhiannon Held/R.Z. Held @rhiannonheld.bsky.social Writer of speculative fiction and professional archaeologist. Two sexy yet misunderstood professions in one person! she/her
José Pablo Iriarte @labyrinthrat.bsky.social Spec fic author and award-nominated middle grade novelist. Cuban-American ceterosexual enby. They/them.
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Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social Hugo and Nebula nominated author with over 100 works in print, computer programmer, weirdo from Cleveland.
Class-conscious science fiction. Unionize the world.
Stephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social Amateur astronomer - Astronomy for Everyone show since 2009 https://www.youtube.com/c/astronomyforeveryone
Have dogs. Tell jokes - I used to tell dad jokes. Sometimes he'd laugh.
Something with computers for a living.
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Lisa Short @lisashortauthor.com Texas-born, Kansas-bred, Maryland-resident writer of fantasy, science fiction and horror. Member SFWA and HWA and Taos Toolbox '24 grad. Writing at lisashortauthor.com
Law of Fairness @lawoffairness.bsky.social Could life be literally fair for everyone? Learn more about the global research project evaluating if conscious experience obeys a law-like closure condition. Watch the videos on TikTok: https://linktr.ee/LawOfFairness
Paul Quin @paulquin.com Committed to integrity, fairness, inclusivity, and justice. Against racism, prejudice, and propaganda.
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Eileen Gunn * Keep hovering to play. * @eileengunn.bsky.social "You can dream the American Dream, but you sleep with the lights on and wake up with a scream...."
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Science fiction writer, radarangel, apophenista.
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STEMthebleeding @stemthebleeding.bsky.social Medically-retired Marine. Biochemist and Mathematician.
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Victoria Rose @wordsflickering.bsky.social Flickering Words - Editing, Proofreading, Content Writing & More. Excessive Baker. West Chester Film Festival. aka Nascmile. She/Her. 🏳️🌈
mj @malthusjohn.bsky.social Philosophy & History of Science, Complex Systems, Knowledge Management. Networks, Harmony, Co-Evolution, Autopoiesis, Neurodiversity♾️AuDhD.
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James @nonzerosum.games Join a bleeding-heart liberal and compulsive speculator rambling about saving the world with win-win games at nonzerosum.games! #Philosophy #Ethics #Morality #Science #GameTheory #Economics #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
Weyodi OldBear- The Rood and The Seed is available for preorder @weyodi.bsky.social BuffaloPunk!, Indigenous Futurist, poet, and comic book writer, writer for Coyote & Crow, Comanche Citizen, public speaker. LandBack. Performs femininity and knows it's a performance. Disabled in a seizures, vision impaired way. Anti-AI weyodi.com
Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
Michael Everon @mikhaeleveron.bsky.social Author | Game-maker | Fate-hacker
Debut novel: The Eternal Games
Don’t play by the rules. Rewrite them.
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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
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Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
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UkraineWorld @ukraineworld.bsky.social Ukraine in English: news, analysis, podcasts, videos. Run by Internews Ukraine.
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Delaney Moss @delaneymoss.bsky.social Former USIC, now strategic forecaster. Little bit of everything creative.
Stephanie Stein @stephlystein.bsky.social Senior Editor at Tor, or maybe just a stack of books in a trench coat. Opinions my own, and I do have a lot of them. https://linktr.ee/ssteinbooks
gwendolyn hicks @prioryruins.bsky.social they/them 🍇 sorry for being a bride married to amazement. as if it’s my fault
words in Heartlines Spec, Small Wonders, Trollbreath, Uncanny, Kaleidotrope
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J.A. Haigh @southerndark.bsky.social Australian Horror and SFF author
Atmospheric | Folklore | Myth | Magic |Repped by Chelsea Hensley @ Mad Woman Literary
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Lena | SF&F | 🚀🏰 @lenawrites.bsky.social Dutch writer | #SFF #amwriting #fantasy #fairytales
✍️WIP with The Novelry: a dark fairytale retelling/sequel to The Frog Princess 🐸👑
JH_Gruger @jhgruger.bsky.social JH Gruger writes Hard Science Fiction. “For readers who want their science fiction to argue, bruise, and burn … that thinks big and hits with surprising heart.”—from Literary Titan’s 5-star review.
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Annika C Bernhoff @abernhoff.bsky.social Professional game developer, amateur fantasy writer, expert whiskey drinker and cat cuddler.
Mamikon Khatchikian @mamikon.bsky.social Winner at Golden Demon, WME, Kontrast, VVMC, MSS: artist, 300+ tutorials available on my Patreon, link below:
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Emily Smiley @emilysmileywrites.bsky.social Horror | Dark Fantasy | Thriller
Emilysmileywrites.com
Threads/IG
@Emilysmileywrites
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Neil Flinchbaugh @neilflinchbaugh.bsky.social Reader & writer of fantasy, sci-fi, & horror
Emily Smith @emilysmithwrites.bsky.social Writer, animal hoarder, gardener, bookworm, author of YOU ALWAYS COME BACK (Crooked Lane, 2023) rep’d by James McGowan at Bookends Literary Agency
C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social Speculative fiction writer, Black, loves a vegan dessert. She/her
Nicole Sune Sbitani @nsune.bsky.social Mostly microfiction, with little sprinkles of personality between.
nicolesune.sbitani.com
Personal account, not representative of Department of State or USG.
@ShawnOueinsteen @shawnoueinsteen.bsky.social I'm a writer of climate fiction, hoping to mitigate climate disaster.
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Mike L Tilford 📚 😺 @thatwriterguy.com NYT Worstselling Author
SFF📚, Satire, Comedy, Absurdist
Dummest Person in the Room
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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers.
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Stuart Bedlam, Protector of the Fwoadler Gint @stuartbedlam.lafayettestreetbooks.com Old #gay #pagan #autist #wizard and #author of odd but humorous science fiction in the vein of John Sladek or a more violent Lewis Carroll. #Gaia #Animals #LifelongVegan
David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist.
Bylines: CBS, AXS, Yahoo, Examiner, etc.
I love #Games, #Lotr, #StarWars, and #StarTrek.
Casual #MTG #TTRPG, & #Boardgames player.
Work w/me: DavidLeavitt@gmail.com
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
Andrea Lathrop @cabernet.bsky.social Cognitive Science... tech stuff... dev psych... AI... former Aslin Lab (Master's) and Eppler Lab (with Jackie Gibson emeritus) so I'm a weird mix of Gibsonian affordances, visual statistical learning and anticipatory eye movements. Sometimes academic.
@tonyjoyce.bsky.social @tonyjoyce.bsky.social Just a blue dot in a purple state. Finally retired. Tax the rich and help the poor.
Joshua Palmatier/Zombies Need Brains @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social Joshua Palmatier is an epic fantasy writer and the founder of the small press Zombies Need Brains. ZNB does NOT use AI imagery in its covers and does NOT accept AI-generated stories. Visit the store: https://zombies-need-brains-llc.square.site
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social Writer • Filmmaker • Partner • Parent • 🏳️⚧️ • THE OCCULTISTS • SHADOWDAYS • 8:59:29 • CRATER GIRL • Books, woods, guitars, critters & coffee • Trans rights = Human rights • AVL • I follow writers • Fix your hearts or die pollyschattel.com
BookishlyJewish @bookishlyjewish.bsky.social Jewish creatives reviewing Jewish books
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Atthis Arts @atthisarts.com Lambda, Aurora, Locus, British Fantasy, and Nebula nominated indie press out of Detroit, Michigan ✨ dedicated to the author's authentic voice, thoughtfulness, and community - 🌈 editor @edebell.com
Give us a look! atthisarts.com
Carrie Vaughn @carrievaughnco.bsky.social The real Carrie Vaughn! Bestselling award winning writer, werewolf psychologist and big nerd. Latest is THE NATURALIST SOCIETY. Check it out!
Nicole "Ashrah" Hidalgo 😈🧄 @sayaashrah.bsky.social - Game & Book Writer 📝
- Author of #WorldWithoutLove (https://campsite.bio/nicolehidalgo) & #ChroniclesOfTheRealms (https://archiveofourown.org/series/4547401) 😈🔥
- ⚠️ Occasional Lesbian NSFW
- Anti-AI
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Agatha Grimke ✒️📚🏺🫏🟦🐈⬛️🦆🌹 @agathagrimke.bsky.social Someone positively pleased with the wonders and mysteries of the universe, a good book, cats, and hot cocoa. #WritingCommunity
She/her
Very pleased to have a story included in:
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Kristin @stuffbykristin.bsky.social Senior/Lead level animator, aspiring author, mom of two humans, terrible plant mom.
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A unique voice known for inventive, thought-provoking narrative, philosophical depth, and fun!
Be excellent to each other.
Holly R. Valakresch @hollyvalakresch.bsky.social Author & Screenwriter | I 🩶 Arts & Sciences, Sculpting, Cartography, Cooking, Baking, Fashion, Fitness, Fairytales, & Historical Things.
https://linktr.ee/hollyvalakresch
Susan Palwick @spalwick.bsky.social Writes SF/F. Weaves. ND. Retired social worker, former healthcare chaplain and English professor. Proud member of the Christian Left. Married with cats.
Currently in treatment for aggressive B cell lymphoma. She/her.
Tashan Mehta @tashanmehta.bsky.social Author. MAD SISTERS OF ESI (DAW Books, 2025 | HarperCollins India, 2023),THE LIAR'S WEAVE (Juggernaut, 2017)
Mostly offline, to be honest, but marginally more active on Instagram.
Website: https://www.tashanmehta.com/
Elle Farrell-Kingsley @ellefkingsley.bsky.social 🦉 PsyberVision 🧠 The Vintage Futurist 📽️
Creating & directing narrative worlds
Writing across philosophy × innovation
100 Brilliant #WomeninAIEthics
Side-Quester • 游于艺
www.ellefkingsley.com
Laurel Amberdine @amberdine.bsky.social Nerdy Catholic (OCDS). SF/F writer. Work at Locus Magazine. Agent: Eric Smith
P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Jumbie & Duppy Conqueror. Rambler of Things. Doer of Stuff. Brotha From Another Planet | pdjeliclark.com
R.K. Thorne @rkthorne.bsky.social Author of romantasy + space opera. Mom + secular homeschooler. Game design + UX. #indie #fantasyromance #spaceopera #hopepunk Bard/skald/artist at heart, but I play a paladin. https://shop.rkthorne.com https://rkthorne.carrd.co/
A. J. Payler @ajpayler.bsky.social Author/musician A. J. Payler has published 5 novels, 2 short story collections, & 6 albums of original music to date as well as opened for Silkworm & Schizophonics, among others.
Visit ajpayler.com for more.
Peggy A. Wheeler @pawheeler.bsky.social Writer of the fantastical, reader, world traveler, damned good cook, lover of good food and good wine, Bettie Page fan. Penning my 6th novel. Experiencing a massive, fun blast with this one!
Mark W. Tiedemann @markwt.bsky.social Writer, reader, amalgam of odd alloys and relevant irrelevancies. Author of Granger's Crossing, The Secantis Sequence, Gravity Box and Other Spaces, and various other things. www.marktiedemann.com
Jacqueline Lichtenberg @jlichtenberg.bsky.social Professional Science Fiction writer, Reviewer, anthologist, creator of the Sime~Gen novels with Jean Lorrah and Mary Lou Mendum and Primary author of the Bantam paperback Star Trek Lives!
Valerie Estelle Frankel📚👩🏫🌌🎲🎮🏰📜🧷🧛🏻♂️🦇🎭✡️✍️🧙🏻🎃 @valeriefrankel.bsky.social 👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/jewish-science-fiction-and-fantasy/
Kristine Kathryn Rusch @kristinerusch.bsky.social Award-winning, bestselling writer and editor. Visit me at kriswrites.com
Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social Shirley Jackson Award-winning writer, manic pixie night hag. Copy editor, Hugo-nommed @thedeadlands.com. Cohost @storyhour.bsky.social. Website: pronouncedlahra.com. HWA, SFWA. No AI. She/her. Photo: Jodi Foucher. Rep: @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social
Sandy Parsons @zazzeaux.bsky.social 📝 Writer - Analog, Escape Pod, Reckoning…
Codexian
🏆 Winner of the 2022 ServiceScape Story Award
🏆Pushcart Prize nominee.
🎙️ Narrator of audio fiction
📚tsundoku specialist
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www.Sandyparsons.com
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
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Greg Morosoff @gregmorosoff.bsky.social Just a Blue guy who writes some poetry, hangs with cats and cooks
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Bakka Phoenix Books @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social Canada's oldest Speculative Fiction bookstore, founded in 1972. www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com. We are located in Toronto, Ontario.
Author M. I. Verras @miverr.bsky.social Renowned author, singer, pianist, music composer.
If not me, then no one else. Soon, you will know my name.
THE HIDDEN FACE is the metaphysical mystery book that STUNNED even people who didn't like reading! Get it here:
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Patrick Samphire 🏴 @patricksamphire.bsky.social Fantasy writer | Freelance developmental editor | Former physicist. #SPFBO/#BBNYA finalist. He/him.
Around the web and my books: http://linktr.ee/patricksamphire
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
No generative AI ever.
Emily Tesh @emilytesh.net Author. Hugo, Astounding, and World Fantasy Award winner; Nebula, Clarke and Le Guin finalist. Rep: Kurestin Armada at Root Literary.
Out now: THE INCANDESCENT - https://tinyurl.com/theincandescent
Anne Tibbets - Literary Agent @annetibbets.bsky.social Literary Agent/Writer/Grants Coordinator.
Doing my part for HCFVC, Donald Maass Literary Agency, and murders in space.
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Janice S. Smith @janicessmith.bsky.social Writer of SF/Fantasy. Screenwriter. Accountant.
Viable Paradise XV graduate. Gamer. World of Warcraft. Final Fantasy XIV.
Eric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz.bsky.social Philosopher, UC Riverside. Father. Human.
Elly "Enormity" Bangs @ellybangs.bsky.social Author of the apocalyptic cyberpunk novel UNITY, available in bookstores and libraries near you. Short fiction and more at elbangs.com. Queer and trans. (She/her)
Emily Inkpen @emilyinkpen.bsky.social Sci-fi and fantasy author, writer of The Dex Legacy BSFA Award-winning audio drama, Social Media Officer @BSFA, gamer, bi, proud epileptic and aspiring grown-up 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
The Godyssey Podcast @godysseypodcast.com Mythology, History, Storytelling: the Godyssey podcast is a deep dive into our shared humanity through gods.
R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social Sturgeon & Nebula Award winning SpecFic author. MIFRE Media Award Winner. Locus, Ignyte, Eugie Foster Finalist. Codex/SFWA. She/Her. Banner: Andy Dudak
THE NIGHTWARD Out Now!
Agent: @cammc9.bsky.social
Go Fund Me for Cancer: https://tinyurl.com/mvuyw5t7
Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social SFF author, triple Hugo award winner (and three times Locus award too), over a million books sold.
Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com Fantasy author. Editor @AtthisArts.com. Vegan. Mama. Queer. Michigander. Mentally disabled. Blue Ajah. Hasty Ent. Quests in heals. Shkode-kwe. Aήττητη. she/her or e/em. Emily or E. 🧄.
Speak plainly and stand together.
David A Ludwig @davidaludwig.bsky.social Gamer and author of #CatsThePajamas. I believe everyone has a story. I have several. He/Him
Remember to include Alt Text on images! And no generative AI.
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Bastian Hart @bastianhart.bsky.social queer cryptid of color • ascending to mosshood • weird fiction writer • librarian
graveyardslush.com
Stuart Aken @stuartaken.bsky.social UK writer of fiction (12 books published). Photographer. Environment, science, atheist, humanist, walker, happily married. Find me here: https://stuartaken.net/ I DO NOT follow DMs, selfie promos & users w/o profiles or posts. Porn will be blocked.- M Not a spam. @miverrasauth.bsky.social Worldwide-known author, singer, pianist, and music composer. Enneagram type 4 ♠️♣️🌑
"Who were these ten figures seated around the table, and how are they related to the Central Hearth or the other Hearths?"
THE HIDDEN FACE:
https://linktr.ee/miverras
Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Former German Nazi concentration & extermination camp Auschwitz. Official account. We commemorate victims, educate about history & preserve the authentic site.
www.auschwitz.org | lesson.auschwitz.org | podcast.auschwitz.org
Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com A Hugo Award-winning digital science fiction & fantasy magazine edited by @johnjosephadams.com.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com Retired SF and fantasy editor, winner of three Hugos and a World Fantasy Award. Amateur musician, bibliophile, genealogist, layabout. American by birth, Canadian by recent ancestry.
He, his. Anti-trans dingbats, get lost.
Signal: pnh.09
Dan @thedanlines.bsky.social thedanlines.co.uk || Just another writer wading through the WIPs || #writing
Steven William Rimmer @stevenwilliamrimmer.com Author of scurrilous novels, including Dragonsbane, Coven, Legacy, The Order (frightens the horses, that one...) Darkmatter, et al. Saxophone god.- A Follow me on my new account. NOT A SPAM. @authormiv.bsky.social
Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social Writer of SF/F and Minneapolis/St. Paul election guides. she/her. Website: www.naomikritzer.com My next book, OBSTETRIX, comes out June 9, 2026.
Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social Writer/poet. Chronophobic tiger mom. 3x Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte, Rhysling, Locus, & Astounding Award finalist. She/her.
SFWA, Codex, SFPA. Clarion West NWW '26
Words in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Uncanny, Lightspeed
https://linktr.ee/liu_angela
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
Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social Award winning science fiction author. Cat furniture. Horse patsy. Almost certainly two ornimegalonyxes in a trenchcoat.
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https://buttondown.email/matociquala
THE FOLDED SKY https://books2read.com/u/mBB0QZ
ANGEL MAKER https://books2read.com/u/3kzy2W
Monica Rodriguez 🇲🇽 @loveleemonicaa.bsky.social 🕵🏻♀️Senior Agent at Context Literary 🎙️Host of Find A Lovely Life: A Self-Love Journey Podcast ✍️ Author rep’d by Alyssa Eisner Henkin