'Nathan Burgoine (he/him) @nathanburgoine.bsky.social #Queer #Canadian author; Most Recent: DOGS DON’T BREAK HEARTS (queer hi/lo ya), UPON THE MIDNIGHT QUEER (queer holiday collection), TRIAD MAGIC (queer contemp fantasy); He/him 🏳️🌈; Prepare for #Husky photos; 🦖 "Trans Rights or I Bites" 🚫 LLM/GenAI/Substack
It's me, Nico. @nicasio.bsky.social More of a dog person than a people person. Filipino Philadelphian from Wisconsin. Cavite, Philippines.
Poetry Editor @thedeadlands.com 💀
Associate Editor @psychopomp.bsky.social 💀
Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social Every Wednesday at 7:00 PT, gather round the virtual campfire and listen to SFFH short stories read by their authors. Follow the links on our site to Zoom or Facebook. Updates by @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social.
https://www.storyhour2020.com/
fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social very queer lit and art publishing space
learn more about us: fifthwheelpress.com/links
V. Astor Solomon @howsweetthewords.bsky.social Trans, disabled, neurodivergent, mixed-race
Committing expansively queer speculative short fiction
Work in 100-Foot Crow, Pseudopod, and more
Codex member
Lives between Tampa and Seattle
Links: https://linktr.ee/howsweetthewords
icon: Amelie Lavender
The Ignyte Awards @theignyteawards.bsky.social Your favorite BIPOC SFFH author's favorite award. Celebrating excellence and inclusivity in the genre. Brought to you by L.D. Lewis and Suzan Palumbo. 2025 medallion art (pfp) by Nilah Magruder https://ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/
s. m. hallow @smhallow.bsky.social USA Today bestselling author of The Halls of the Dead (Harper Voyager, 2026)
Indie Ink finalist for How to Survive This Fairytale
Rep: @lzats.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/smhallow
M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social MR, she/her. scholar, author, editor · poster of too many dog photos · Clarion West ‘25 · VP2024 · stories at BCS, Lightspeed, GigaNotoSaurus, elsewhere · co-founder of @othersidespec.bsky.social 🪐🗡️🌈
https://m-r-robinson.com
Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social Hugo & Nebula winning SFFH writer, singer/songwriter, dog person, horse person, queer, Baltimorean by choice, mediocre but enthusiastic gardener and artist. She/her. Repped by Kate McKean, HMLA.
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social Talented ruin. Riverboat floozy.
Queer Black writer in Glasgow, Scotland.
Crawford Award winning collection Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic out from Neon Hemlock Press now. https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-and-response
Dr. U. Whitcher (U. is for Bear) @yarntheory.bsky.social Math, history, science fiction, string theory, games with string.
yarntheory.net
Rev Abuelite Héctor Octavio [con acento] believes in you @mexicanity.bsky.social NB queer Mexican immigrant. Writer, bilingüe, occasional voice actor, compassion advocate, cooks ok. Curiose. I will officiate your queer unions.
https://linktr.ee/abuelitehector
Kat Weaver @anoteinpink.bsky.social illustrator, writer, parrot butler - birds, fashion, history, ttrpgs - she/her 🏳️🌈🦜
📍saint paul, minnesota
Jaxton Kimble @jkasonetc.bsky.social I write SFF & like too many popcorn properties for my own good. Also been trying my hand at doodling. Please take your AI elsewhere. COMMISSIONS OPEN. He/they.
https://linktr.ee/jaxtonkimble
Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social Writer, cat dad, wife guy, cryptid. Author of DEAD GIRLS DON'T DREAM (2024), DEFEKT (2021), FINNA (2020), and HOMESICK (2019).
Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/cypayseur
Locus and Ignyte Award winning co-editor of We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction. Hugo and Ignyte Award finalist critic/fan writer. Destroyer of Science Fiction. Bisexual all day. He/Him They/Them
Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • opinions my own
Sandstone @quartzen.bsky.social Programmer and SFF reader. Sega fan. Asexual and otherwise queer. She/her. 📚
val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈 @spacevalkyries.bsky.social 📝sci-fi/fantasy writer V.M. Ayala (she/they) 🎮 streamer, indie games, TTRPGs ✨ anxiety/ADHD, chronic pain 🏳️🌈 queer Mexican American 🪐🗡️ co-founder of @othersidespec.bsky.social
🌈 https://www.spacevalkyries.com/
💌 spacevalkyries@gmail.com
Carla Dugas @cjdugas.bsky.social Trans people deserve respect and protection.
A coffee-drinking 🦄 protector. Writing fantasy/sci-fi . VP XIX. Previous first reader Viable Paradise, F&SF. she/her
Eliane Boey 🕷🥩SMALL BITES 🥩🕷11.11.26 @elianeboey.bsky.social She/her, writer | Preorder SMALL BITES http://bit.ly/4ptasR3 | 📚OTHER MINDS '23, CLUB CONTANGO '24, SMALL BITES '26, AH HUAT ENGINEERING COOKBOOK AND ORGANIZING MANUAL '27 | https://linktr.ee/elianeboey
Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social SRE by day, writer by night, tea-fueled queer forest cryptid at all hours. words at englishmace.com, rep'd by Kurestin Armada, writes as Macey Levington & Jennifer Mace. the cloud is, alas, my fault once again >:(
John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social Nebula Award & Locus Award winner. Novels: SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (2024), WEARING THE LION (2025), THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS (2026). Disabled. Ace/aro. He/him. https://linktr.ee/johnwiswell
meagan kane @spocksbrain.bsky.social writer, mpls enjoyer, & professional pulp apologist. stories published in pseudopod, baffling, adventitious, ffo. but captain, what would could they possibly want with spock's brain? List of work available/upcoming: https://mkanewrites.com/
Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social Award-winning, best-selling queer sci-fi & horror novels & stories. Banned in Florida; stolen by AI. Serializing JUPITER RUINS EVERYTHING. https://linktr.ee/samjmiller
Mia V. Moss @magicrobotcarnival.com they ✨ THE HERESY OF THIEVES (Dark Matter Ink, 2026) ✨ Queer SFF author, cocktail enjoyer, intense plant witch vibes per my therapist, animal rescuer + snuggler 🏳️🌈 Codex, TLDR Press
https://lnk.bio/miavmoss
Emma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social Horror/fantasy writer. Author of GRIEF EATER. Aurealis and Aust Shadows finalist. In Uncanny, Nightmare, PodCastle, Hometown Haunts, Wastelands 3 etc. Clarion West. SFWA. Queer. They/them. No AI 🏳️🌈👻
Conrad Loyer @conradloyer.bsky.social Writer, editor, gamemaster | Embracing the new mess 🌵| MFA candidate at the University of Alabama | Clarion West 2024 🐸| he/him
✨️intelligentwat✨️ BRING BACK ŁINK @zinrock.bsky.social ZinRock.com
Black. Queer. Genderweird. Author.
rep: @arleysorg.bsky.social
preliminary editor and sensitivity reader. don't fuck with AI. horror obsessed.
toss a coin? https://ko-fi.com/zinrock
Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social Indie press in Canada. World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award, HWA Specialty Press Award, and British Fantasy Award-winner. Endearingly weird. (Posts by Michael Kelly)
https://undertowpublications.com/
Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social Spec fic writer, poet, autist. They/them. Philip K. Dick Award finalist, Rhysling & Elgin nominee, & author of the OUTSIDE series. Canadian.
More about me and my books at http://ada-hoffmann.com/
Lightspeed Magazine @lightspeedmagazine.com A Hugo Award-winning digital science fiction & fantasy magazine edited by @johnjosephadams.com.
Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social Baltimore-based indie bookstore. Currently online until we get a new space for the bookstore. Generally won't DM people, unless maybe you're a publisher and we need info to stock your books.
https://carpelibrumbaltimore.com/
Books on the Bosque @booksonthebosque.bsky.social Independent Bookstore on the Westside of Albuquerque, New Mexico
Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social They pay brisk money for this crap?
MAKE ME BETTER and NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH on sale now
Hellraiser, Eat the Rich, Echo Wife, Spread Me @ your local bookstore and comic shop
Laura Blegen @laurablegen.bsky.social Writer.
Part-Time Bookkeeper
Part-Time Introvert.
Full-Time Goofball
laurablegen.com 
Aleta B // Writer @thealetab.bsky.social all-terrain novelist, freelance writer, very cool outdoorsmom, beauty obsessive
Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning and USA Today best-selling author, narrator, and professional puppeteer. Also has a talking cat. Latest title: Apprehension.
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. Writing Star Trek: Zero Point for IDW Comics.
Artemesia Publishing @apbooks.bsky.social Small indie publisher located in the Land of Enchantment.
MG/YA imprint: Kinkajou Press
SF/F/H imprint: Shadow Dragon Books
Currently closed to submissions.
www.apbooks.net
Kylara Jensen @kylarajensen.bsky.social Avid reader. Aspiring Author. Actually awesome!
Special Interests: board games, fanfiction and fandom, adhd and neurodivergence, exmormon stuff.
AngryGnome 🍉🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @agangevine.bsky.social Queer/NB/ADHD. Writer. Actor. Narrator. Amateur dress historian. Shakespeare Nerd. D&D enthusiast. Maker of weird faces. They/them. agangevine.com
sumrow @sumrow.bsky.social 🔸Freelance NM Illustrator
🔸Chaosium Inc., Monster Magnet
🔸ANALOG Sci-Fi, ASIMOV Science Fic
🔸Portfolio: http://www.johnsumrow.com
🔸Monthly Art Cards: https://www.patreon.com/JohnSumrow
🔸 Professional Gamemaster
alison evans @alisonevans.bsky.social author, zinester 👽 they/them 🏳️⚧️ Wurundjeri land 🍃 alisonwritesthings.com 🛸 is mise Alison, is údar mé, siad/iad ✨ (can't access DMs, pls @ me)
David J. Lynch @dlreach.bsky.social Musician, writer, and graphic artist. 🤓
Sharang Biswas @sharangbiswas.bsky.social Games, writing, art. ENnies, IndieCade, IGDN winner. Teaching at NYU & Fordham
Words: Eurogamer, Lightspeed, Augur, Strange Horizons, Baffling. SFWA member
THE IRON BELOW REMEMBERS is out from Neon Hemlock Press!
Repped by @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social
Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social Bi, Black academic librarian (she/her); Ignyte Award nom'd SFF author; Clarion West alum (Novel Workshop '25). Stories in Fantasy, Reactor, FIYAH, & more (🔗s on jencbrown.com).
Rep'd by Fabienne Schwizer at Ki Agency.
Header by well_dipper.
Matt 🏳️🌈 @mspencerdraws.bsky.social He/Him || 34 || Trans & Queer ||
Full-Time Freelance Illustrator
Open for Work
http://www.mspencerillustration.com/
mspencerillustration@gmail.com
Courtly Beasts Tarot wips at:
https://www.patreon.com/mspencerdraws
linktr.ee/mspencerdraws
@theeccentricscribe.bsky.social @theeccentricscribe.bsky.social 
Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social World Fantasy, Nebula, Ignyte, Locus & Shirley Jackson Award-winning speculative publisher. Baffling Magazine & novellas & anthos & queer 📚. Editor: dave ring.
Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social phd in gender studies - writer of books (Summer Sons, Feed Them Silence, The Woods All Black, and anthology Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity)- he/him
S. A. Chant 🏳️⚧️ is writing sword & sorcery @essaychant.bsky.social Author of Peter Darling, transsexual menace. He/they.
Next publication: "The White Spire at World's End" in SHATTER THE SUN!
Books & news at my website: https://austinchant.com/
Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social Kentucky-based author, writer of the fantastic and delectable. Host of Bar Cart Bookshelf. COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES (Fall '24). Freelance publicist. He/him 🏳️🌈
Inquiries: elias.eells1@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/eliaseells
Jesse Scoble @jscoble.bsky.social Game writer. Credits: Assassin's Creed Origins & AC Odyssey; FC5; WD2; Wizard101. TTRPG writer: A Game of Thrones RPG, MARVEL Multiverse RPG.
Dead Money KS:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deadmoney/dead-money-a-western-horror-comic-book-2-and-3
Anna Madden @brokenswanquill.bsky.social She/her | Codex | Rhsyling Award-nom poet | ✍️ in Haven Spec, Star*Line, Orion's Belt, Apex, PodCastle, Metaphorosis, PseudoPod, Small Wonders, Plott Hound, & more
BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social I write, teach, make magic for bright futures. THE WORKING: feminist #Witch #solarpunk novel. Short #CliFi in noted anthologies & mags.
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #SpecLit #SFF CliFiWritersLeague @bsfwriters #SFWA #LGBTQ+ #justice #resist
brightflame.com
Patrick Lofgren @patrick-lofgren.bsky.social Writer of distressing stories and DnD adventures. Clarion West 2017, CWNWW 2025! Work in Dark Matter Magazine and The Deadlands. They/Them
Lara Elena Donnelly @larazontally.bsky.social Grows things (words, plants)
Joe Okonkwo @joeokonkwo.bsky.social Author of JAZZ MOON and KISS THE SCARS ON THE BACK OF MY NECK. #JazzMoonNovel | #KissTheScars | JoeOkonkwo.com
New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social Made with love for the classics, and an inclusive, boundary-pushing approach to storytelling. https://newedgeswordandsorcery.com/
Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Award-Winning Publisher of New Weird Horror + More, via Portland, OR & Transilvania, Romania.
@AlexWoodroe.com, Editor in Chief.
@MattBlairstone.bsky.social, Publisher.
SUPPORT INDIE. Hail the Tenebrous Cult🖤☠️
https://linktr.ee/TenebrousPress
Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social Locus Magazine: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror. The Guide to the World's Imagination.
https://locusmag.com
linktr.ee/locusmagazine
L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app SFF writer/editor/publisher. ATL/SEA.
Literary nonprofit person. Ignytes mother. Awards doer. Hugo/Locus Winner. Conrunner. LEGO builder. Joy enthusiast. 77% Cake. Bi. Grumpy. She/her/chef. 🏳️🌈 YEAR OF THE MER (Saga/Titan, OUT NOW). Ldlewiswrites.com
Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social Klein Librarian for Science Fiction & Fantasy @ UC Riverside. Yale Ph.D. SFWA. HWA. Work in F&SF, Lightspeed, & more! 🏳️🌈🇨🇾
www.phoenixalexanderauthor.com
Sean Markey @seanmarkey.bsky.social head psychopomp @psychopomp.com
publisher @thedeadlands.com
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Brent C. Lambert @brentclambert.bsky.social Writer. Black SFF always! Hugo Award Winner. One of the co-hosts for Just Keep Writing.
he/him http://brentclambert.com
Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com Writer, scientist, bug. she/her. #yeg. 🇨🇦 🇬🇾 Winner of a Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award! Rep: Michael Curry 📚🪲 Tips for cat treats! https://ko-fi.com/premee
Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social Writer, editor, semi-professional fat person.
SFF/spec/soft horror/whatever. Here for the weird stuff.
she/they