Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social Author of DAUGHTERS OF THE AIR, called “a striking debut from a writer to watch” by Shelf Awareness & DREAMS UNDER GLASS, called “a novel for our modern times” by Buzzfeed Books. ancawrites.com.
Andrea Benvenuto @dreabenvenuto.bsky.social Writer & Librarian Emeritus. Looking for book people and cat ladies of all genders 📚🐈⬛
JR Fenn @jrfenn.bsky.social Writer, teacher, parent, dreamer | TINY VESSELS out from Red Mare Press | Words in or forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Orion's Belt, DIAGRAM, Split Lip, Witness, Boston Review, Gulf Coast | Ucross Fellow | Syracuse MFA | Prof at SUNY ESF | www.jrfenn.com
ian kappos @nokappos.bsky.social ✍️ in Strange Horizons, ergot., Seize the Press, Cosmic Horror Monthly, etc. Forthcoming in: Chthonic Matter Quarterly
Co-creator: Los Suelos, CA (www.LosSuelos.com).
Instagram: @jung_carl
Death to false powerviolence//
Death to false weird fiction
Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social Writer. Poet. Editor. Nerd. Managing Editor Interstellar Flight Press. Author of NUMINOUS STONES, THE SMALLEST OF BONES, GLIMMERGLASS GIRL. She/They
Website: www.Hlwalrath.com
Ilyn Welch @ilynwelch.bsky.social Debut book SIGNS OF PAIN/Shotgun Honey. BAD MAKES BAD slices April 2024📚 https://shotgunhoney.com/books/bad-makes-bad/
Lexi Pandell @lpandell.bsky.social I am a writer. Also, a human. | Author of HOLY MOTHER! (fall 2027) | Subscribe to the Writer to Writer Substack and get new posts every Monday morning
lexipandell.com
lexipandell.substack.com
Louis @louisevans.bsky.social CONTENTS WILL PLASMATE UPON PACKET RUPTURE!
Rep: Eric Showers, HMLA
Tolu Oloruntoba @tolu.ca Bumbler, quitter of things, poet, and project management person (in that order). My new Collection, UNRAVEL, was a National Book Critics Circle finalist.
Opinions mine. https://bio.site/tolu.ca he/him
Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social Author of THE DISAPPEARED (Knopf), THE THEORY OF LIGHT AND MATTER (Vintage), IN BETWEEN DAYS (Knopf), and THE IMAGINED LIFE (Knopf, forthcoming 2025) CW Prof.
www.andrewporterwriter.com
Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social Words in BULL, FlashFlood, Does It Have Pockets, Frazzled Lit, Trash Cat Lit, Urban Pigs Press, Fictive Dream. Genrepunk Awards nominee. Shortlisted for the 2026 Bath Novella-in-Flash Award. She/her. @lmbayley at the other place.
Tony Tulathimutte @tonytula.com author n founder @crit.works
justin nicholes @justinnicholes.bsky.social KILL SUIT, crime-thriller novella, forthcoming (New Pulp Press). Stories in Argyle Literary, Cleaver, Flash Boulevard, *82 Review, Dread Literary, + more. He, him, his. 📖 my work ⤵
🔗 https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/justinnicholes
13AM Games | Wishlist Dungeon Lurker on Steam! @13amgames.com Indie game studio based out of Toronto! Makers of Runbow, Double Cross, Dawn of the Monsters, and Dungeon Lurker ⚔️
Discord: http://bit.ly/32mzKp5
Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social 
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social Fiction writer. Shenanigan enjoyer. Scooby-Doo enthusiast.
Douglas Hackle @douglashackle.bsky.social Author of Zoltergeist the Poltergeist, TERROR MANNEQUIN, The Ballad of TERROR TINY TIM, Clown Tear Junkies, and other bizarre books.
Matt Tice @ticewrites.bsky.social Fiction writer represented by Falkin Literary. My debut novel, SEAFLOWER, is currently looking for a home.
Duxbury, MA
Fiction and other projects here: Ticewrites.com
Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social Reader; tea adept; New Orleanian🖤⚜️ writer: LETTING IN AIR & LIGHT https://bellepointpress.com/products/letting-in-air-and-light; SECRET KEEPERS https://bellepointpress.com/products/secret-keepers Find the homes of my other words at https://teresabrader.com
sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social writer, reader, poet, film photographer, romantic, nostalgic, silly, thinking of bread (she/her)
words in NFFR, Anti-Heroin Chic, HAD, trampset, Fractured Lit, Flash Frog, ONE ART, and elsewhere
sarlynh.com
Neil Blackman @n3il4real.bsky.social Writer of fiction. Heart that you call home. Movie stuff. Music junk. Mental Health. Still chasing the highs of discovering AOL and finding the lows of everything since.
yasmeen / ياسمين @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social sff writer / toddler mama / clarion west '26
stories in/coming to inner worlds, night shades, saros sf, hex, sprawl mag, if there's anyone left
yasmeenfahmy.com / NJ / صباح الحرية
Spencer Orey @spencerorey.bsky.social Writer | PhD anthropology | Odyssey '21 | Taos Toolbox '24 | Codexian | SFWA | mostly SFFH things | Denmark | he/him
find my stories here:
https://www.spencerorey.com
Shaawan Francis Keahna @shaawan.com he/him. words in Never Whistle At Night Part II: Back for Blood, hex, ALOCASIA, and more. filmmaker & full time college student. pfp by eleanora hyde.
Brown Hound Press @brownhoundpress.bsky.social A small press in Lexington, KY that publishes offbeat mystery, dark humor, southern gothic & literary fiction. A free story each week! We pay authors.
brownhoundpress.com
Marisa Grizenko @marisagrizenko.bsky.social Reviews editor for EVENT magazine. Writer of Plain Pleasures, an occasional newsletter about books. She/her. Vancouver → Montreal 
Balázs Farkas @fbdbh.bsky.social Award-winning writer, designer, critic, translator
Collector of books & video games
Against fascism & generative AI
Working at NeocoreGames | HUN / ENG | He / Him
balazsfarkas.com | oubliette37.com | epik.hu
Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com Pulitzer Prize winner & NYT bestselling writer (books, TV, film). Angel Down, Whalefall, Creepshow, The Shape of Water, The Living Dead, Rotters, The Autumnal, 21 more, visit the site or just trust me.
DanielKraus.com
Travis Shosa @travisshosa.bsky.social Writer. (They/Them)
I mostly do creative writing now.
https://travishosa.com/
I also run a thing called Dodo Eraser
https://dodoeraser.org/
Tracie Renee (she/her) @tracierenee.bsky.social Librarian in sort-of Chicago.
PW book reviewer.
#Amquerying #SCBWI writer/poet.
Winner: #50PreciousWords, Highlights scholarship, ElegantLit, IAmWritingMG.
HM: #PBParty.
WTMP mentee, RisingTalent finalist, BOTN.
https://linktr.ee/tracie.renee
Fusion Fragment @fusionfragment.bsky.social SF mag from Canada | 2007-2013, 2020- | Opening to submissions on November 1st.
Publisher of Saros SF
For all of your various FF needs: http://linktr.ee/fusionfragment
Faith Allington @faithallington.bsky.social Author
📚 Genre-blending fiction
✒️ Editorial at Flash Fiction Online & Haven Spec
👻 Vaguely goth but also whimsical
🍄 Tea drinker & fungi admirer
(she/her)
Dylan Pyles @dylanpyles.bsky.social Abolition now. Occasional tweets about weird music. Teacher, rocker, organizer. KCMO
Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Flash fiction writer | 2025 Highly Commended Bridport Prize & Finalist New Millennium Writings | Published in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Flash the Court, Writers’ Hour, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and elsewhere.
linktr.ee/adelegallogly
Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social Books: Our Lives in Pieces (2025) and Not Finished Yet (2026)
Words in Stanchion, Pithead Chapel, Cleaver, Fictive Dream, BULL, Hippocampus
2X Pushcart nominee, BOTN, Best Microfiction and LL Wigleaf Top 50
Retired educator and playwright
Madness Heart Press @madnessheartpress.bsky.social indie publisher of amazing horror
Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social seanbirnie.com
https://undertowpublications.com/shop/i-would-haunt-you-if-i-could
Short stories in ergot, Weird Horror, Interzone, Remains & elsewhere
me/cfs
Emily Maloney @emilyfmaloney.bsky.social Author of COST OF LIVING (Holt), now in paperback. New book forthcoming. I also make pots and ride horses. Artist in Residence at the University of Central Oklahoma. she/her www.emilymaloney.net
💙 Rachel Bolton 👀 @raebolt.bsky.social Be the deranged vintage housewife they fear. Stoker Nom’d. Apex Magazine, WWAC, Scriptophobic, and more. rachelmbolton.wordpress.com
She/Her
Will Klein @ketchiklein.bsky.social Writer of stories and novels. 
Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social Professional explicator and maker of soothing sounds. I'd rather make furniture than go to midnight mass.
Author of "The Inaccessible Rail" (2026)
(PREORDER! https://malarkeybooks.com/store/inaccessiblerail)
and "Un-ruined" (2022) from Malarkey Books
Hallie Pritts @halliepritts.bsky.social Writer. Finalist, Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize ‘24, Sewanee Writers ’22. CHTQA fellow. NZ writer-in-residence. Words in Mcsweeneys, MissouriReview, LitMag, Barrelhouse, TheBelladonna, OffAssignment, etc. Rode a bike across the US once. #nativeplants
Patrick Trotti @patricktrotti.bsky.social Publisher LEFTOVER Books. Author of four story collections and a novella. New novel dropping January 2027 with Silverbacked Punk Books.
patricktrotti.substack.com
patricktrotti.carrd.co
linktr.ee/patricktrotti
Keith Pilapil Lesmeister @keithlesmeister.bsky.social Author of the forthcoming story collection ASK ME ABOUT THE MONEY | keithlesmeister.com
kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net Unheil-bringer. lithium prince. architecture critic @thenation.com
my blogs are https://late-review.com, https://wehwalt.net and mcmansionhell.com
she/they
Jon Chaiim McConnell @jonmcconn.bsky.social writer | etc
https://linktr.ee/jonmcconn
Arthur Mandal @arthurmandal.bsky.social Brit/US writer of uncanny fiction. Best Small Fictions 2025. Over 40 stories in The Barcelona Review, LITRO, Southeast Review, The Forge, The Los Angeles Review and others. @nightjarpress Based in Eugene, Oregon (but grew up in UK). www.arthurmandal.com
Pam Avoledo @pamavoledo.bsky.social Fiction writer based in Michigan.. Best Microfiction Nom ‘25. Best of the Net Nom ‘26 (poetry)
https://pamavoledo.com
Whiskey Tit Press @whiskeytit.com Whiskey Tit makes delicious books and believes, sincerely, that great literature will keep us alive and fighting and (hopefully) free from brainworms.
Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social (re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
Madeleine Swann @madeleineswann.bsky.social She/her. Psychedelic flapper who writes weird things
http://madeleineswann.com/
FREE CYOA billpurnell.com/story-site/
Reality But More Fun kindle, audiobook and paperback https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW1H1964
Books2Read books2read.com/u/bWYDk7
Caelyn Cobb @caelyncobb.bsky.social she/her | editor for global history & politics at Columbia UP 📚 writer and nerdy feminist 🤓 extremely online 📱
https://linktr.ee/caelyncobb
kristin @klooky.bsky.social poet. chingona. i'm going back to bed.
writing: www.theanimaleats.com
more writing: https://linktr.ee/klooky
Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social writer, enjoyer of gin and good books, michigan native, maryland resident. @jamdraper on twitter, @draper on substack.
Christopher Stevenson @chrisstevenson.bsky.social Born in TX, raised in FL and PA. Splits time between DC and WV.
Librarian. PT old man. FT Struggling Writer.
Part toddler, part cowboy. Baba Yaga fan boy.
https://linktr.ee/christopherstevenson
LeAnne, who is not high in this photo, but unsure about the cat @ennael.bsky.social Poet, writer, proofreader, leftist, the embodiment of social awkwardness--lowered GPA with ballroom dance--see definition for gaffe. Bi, ND, she/her. Very married. Publishes a blog of writing prompts and apologies at https://leannehunt.com/
alina pleskova @alinapleskova.bsky.social poet-in-residence of the astral realm / fog aficionado / Toska (Deep Vellum, 2023) / 🥨 Philly
IG: @alina_pleskova
alinapleskova.com
mothcub @mothcub.bsky.social ૮ • ﻌ - ა woman making drawings and videos online
videos ⭐️ youtube.com/mothcub
streams 💕 twitch.tv/mothcub_
website 🌸 mothcub.neocities.org
extras 🌟 patreon.com/mothcub
The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social A "micro" press for "micro" stories. Run by @mattkendrick.bsky.social
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press
Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social She/her, Poet, Writer, Co-founder & EIC of Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social
Host of On Fire Reading Series in DC: https://onfirereadingseries.neocities.org
https://www.katherineschmidt.com
Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social Mediocre Maven | MA in Fiction at the University of Southern Mississippi | MFA in Poetry at Hollins University | Editor-in-Cheese of @folklorereview.bsky.social
https://www.folklorereview.com/
Mick Carrigan @mickcarrigan.bsky.social Editor in Chief, Taco Bell Quarterly. Bylines: VICE, Bon Appetit, Eater. Forthcoming - JUNK: The Brands That Raised Us, the Stuff that Shaped Us, and What We Leave Behind (Scribner). This is my junk.
Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social TT, LL. Writer, librarian, too many freckles, not enough sleep. Debut novel GREY DOG available now. She/her. https://linktr.ee/elliottgish
Dave Gregory @courtlandavenue.bsky.social Retired sailor, writer, gardener.
Editor: Doric Literary
Fiction Editor: Exposition Review.
Mandira Pattnaik @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social Author of 8 published/forthcoming chapbooks, Wigleaf Top 50 (2023), Best Small Fictions (2021 & 2024), Best Micro Anthology (2024), The Rumpus, IHLR, McNeese Review, Emerson Review, Penn Review, 300+ publications, #amquerying
Andrew Huffman @landrewhuffman.bsky.social trans writer • ABBA enthusiast • landrewhuffman.com
Marisca Pichette (she/they) @marisca.bsky.social makes things 🏳️🌈 | RIVERS IN YOUR SKIN @press-android.bsky.social | EVERY DARK CLOUD @ghostorchidpress.com | Stonecoast MFA '21 | Rep: @laurenbajek.bsky.social | https://linktr.ee/mariscarp
Cover @coverlit.bsky.social Publishes writing at cover.pub. Fiction edited by Ryan Shea (ryanshea.info). Poetry edited by Hanna Shea.
The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to prose, poetry, comics, essays, humor, hybrid, and everything in-between.
www.bulbregion.com
Megan @megscarlson.bsky.social Writer, activist, thinker // Stories in Pithead Chapel, X-R-A-Y, Bluestem, Quarter After Eight, Hypertext & others // www.megcarlson.com/stories // Thoughts are my own
Tim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social Tour, On Cinema at the Cinema, Office Hours, find it all and more at linktr.ee/tim.heidecker
Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social NYT bestselling author * dog and cat person * moon and pet photographer * gwendabond.com * gwendabond.substack.com * linktr.ee/GwendaBond
Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social work in X-R-A-Y, 3:AM, Granta, n+1, forthcoming in Iowa Review // website jamestaddadcox.com, editor @alwayscrashing.bsky.social // ENNIE award winner, apparently? https://store.possibleworldsgames.com/product/tacklebox
Some Words @somewordslit.bsky.social A literary journal hosted on a message board.
Mariana Colín @themorbidzoo.bsky.social Ambivalent YouTuber and PhD Candidate in Communications/Media Anthropology at UIUC. Cohost of Once More With Feeling, a podcast about movies and their remakes.
Danny Elfanbaum @delfanbaum.bsky.social Prose, code, bikes, cats, etc. Non sequiturs.
St. Louis, MO → Boston, MA.
Runner of twopagetuesday.club.
Projects at github.com/delfanbaum.
Rambling at bikesbooksandbullshit.com.
Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social I’ve done a few things. I’m not quite done yet.
Ian MacClayn @ianmacclayn.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/ianmacclayn
Writer. Debut novel THE HOLLOW OF EVENING out Feb 9 2027 with Dundurn Press/Rare Machines
Jane French @janefrench.bsky.social Writer of medical and caregiving reports | published widely in email streams | family caregiver | advocate for low-income older adults
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/
₩;££ ₹ū§§ø @willrusso.bsky.social poet | Chicago | willrusso.com
chapbooks with @querenciapress.bsky.social & Anhinga Press, poetry editor @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social
Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social Writer. Eater of Books. Lover of Comics. Library Tech. Drummer. Burrito enthusiast. He/Him husband.
Author of TRVE CVLT, Midwestern Chrome (2026), Help! I Can't Stop Shitting Snakes (2027).
www.michaelbettendorfwrites.com.
Cindy Phan @cindyphanauthor.com A human going | Best of the Net Nom | Pushcart Nom | Stories in Augur Magazine, khōréō magazine, Baffling Magazine and more | Bi | She/her 🐩
cindyphanauthor.com
Author photo by Rosena Fung
Alexis @patterned.bsky.social Printmaker + illustrator, snack lover, friend to all cats.
✷ shop my work: https://patterned.etsy.com ✷
Anna Wang @annawangyuan.bsky.social A Lifelong Student of Literature 
Ida Keogh @idakeogh.bsky.social Neurospicy and queer BSFA and British Fantasy Award winning SFF author and occasional mermaid. Equality and Diversity Officer for the British Science Fiction Association. Foodie SFF collection 'Taste' out April 2027!! she/her
https://tinyurl.com/idasbooks
Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social Variant Literature is a small press and magazine. http://variantlit.com
Summer 2026 issue out now!
Elizabeth Crowder @thelizcrowder.bsky.social Writer, editor, librarian
Rajiv Moté @rajivmote.bsky.social Chicago. SFFH writer (Codex, ex-SFWA), software professional, Dragonmount contributor, shiftless dreamer. Views expressed are my own and do not reflect my employers or anybody else.
https://rajivmote.wordpress.com/published/
Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social Writer, rusalka. TELL ME YOURS, I'LL TELL YOU MINE (Oct ‘25, Stillhouse Press). Stories in McSweeney's, Best American SFF, more. she/her 🌈!
linktr.ee/kristinaten
Tim Horvath @timhorvath.bsky.social 
NancyBell.bsky.social @nancybell.bsky.social Writer. Performer. Director. Professor of Theatre.
Words in/forthcoming:StoryQuarterly, No. American Review, Terrain, Shenandoah, Flyway Journal
Former doomed ST Voyager Ensign. (RIP A.Jetal)
Maegan Poland @maeganpoland.bsky.social writer & creative writing professor
https://linktr.ee/maeganpoland
Required nugget: opinions expressed on this account are my own and do not represent my employer.
nm whitley @nmwhitley.bsky.social write drum teach, etc
Words in The Dark, Seize the Press, Cosmic Horro Monthly, Short Fiction, Cafe Irreal, Propagule, JAKE., and more
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/shortstoryrex
Music and more: https://linktr.ee/nmwhitley
Josh Dale @joshdale.co Writing, publishing, cats, nature, metal.
Read good books by Thirty West.
Order RAGE:
thirtywestph.com/shop/rage
SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social philosopher, poet, fiction writer / https://www.sethwade.info
Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social Stories in CRAFT Literary, Vestal Review, Bending Genres, more. 🐈⬛ Learned from Rutgers-Camden MFA '18, Tin House '22, and Lambda Literary '25. Fiction reader for Okay Donkey. catherinebuck.com
Nathan Willis @nathanwillis.bsky.social Writer. Stories in Swamp Pink, Moon City Review, Pithead Chapel, Split Lip, Passages North, X R A Y, & others.
nathan-willis.com
W|I|T|C|H B|I|T|C|H @notveryalice.bsky.social slipstream simulacrum || writing @ House of Vlad, X-R-A-Y, HAD, Misery Tourism, Rejection Letters, Best British Short Stories @ Salt Publishing || fiction editor @ X-R-A-Y || EIC @ bodyfluids.org || painter || nuclear physics obsessive || pronouns: ae/aer