Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com A literary magazine for the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. 🫏
Est. May 2018.
Re-designed site!: okaydonkeymag.com
Newsletter: okaydonkeymag.beehiiv.com
Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/okaydonkey
Steve C @stevexisxok.bsky.social Fiction Editor: @okaydonkeymag.com
Co-person: @litmatchcollective.com
https://stevehasawebsite.com/
Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
Lee Vargas @leevargaswrites.bsky.social I make up people and write about em. It's all a mystery. Idk. Usually, someone gets dead. But not always. I have some books out, and I'm working on some more.
https://linktr.ee/leevargaswrites
Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social Sasha Brown is a Stoker-nominated writer whose stories have been called “Creative! But in a bad way.” He’s in lit mags like Passages North and Wigleaf, and in genre pubs like Bourbon Penn and Weird Horror. He’s online at sashabrownwriter.com.
Tom Marcinko @tommarcinko.bsky.social He/him. Stories in Beneath Ceaseless Skies (forthcoming), Nature/Futures, Interzone, Rosebud, Triangulation, and elsewhere. tommarcinko.neocities.org/
Graham (Gray) Scott @graythebruce.bsky.social PhD. Professor of English. Pushcart nom. BSF noms (x2). Stories in Split Lip, Pithead Chapel, HAD, Barrelhouse, Necessary Fiction, JMWW, others. Large Language Human.
For now at https://hemicyon.wordpress.com/
B. Zelkovich is peering out of their cave @bzelkovich.bsky.social A real piece of work (in progress). She/they. Water(bottle)gate '25, Viable Paradise '24, words in Wyldblood, Dread Mondays, Life Beyond Us, Folk Horror Short Stories (Beyond & Within), & more. Taco Bell Tattoo Haver. Fuck AI forever & ever.
bzelkovich.com
Indigo Rue @indigorue.bsky.social (they/she) 🏳️🌈 🦔 🧀
writer 🖊️ artist 🖌️ PhD scientist 🧪 hue of blue masquerading as a human 🪼
Words in Apex, Small Wonders, Worlds of Possibility, Interstellar Flight Magazine, and more!
indigorue.com
Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social language, longing, music, landscape. DC. co, nyc, & london still hold my heart. words in asterales, crabcreek, fourway, iowa, NAR, poetlore, split lip, vassar. soon in AQR, birdcoat, citron, june road. social media @ SWWIM she/her linktr.ee/jillkitchen
Ann Graham @ann-graham.bsky.social Reader, writer of short stories and poems.
I comment on short stories at http://www.ann-graham.com/
Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social Writer in NYC. Former Attorney. EIC Split Lip Magazine. Copper Nickel Editor's Prize | BASS Distinguished Story | Kenyon Review | Ploughshares | Artist-in-Residence @ South 85 Journal | Next up: CHEEKS | http://maureenlangloss.com/
Sadie Hepworth @sadiehepworth.bsky.social 🌈 Queer writer of spicy and heartfelt MM romance, including:
🏖️ He’s Not for Me, available now
🎸 Take It From the Top, coming Aug 4
Website: http://sadiehepworth.com/links
D.A. Xiaolin Spires @spires.bsky.social Acicular appendages, keyboard protuberance. SFF writer. Published in Clarkesworld, Fireside, Analog, Uncanny, Nature Futures, Vice Motherboard Terraform, Star*Line, MIT Press. Codexian.
Website: https://daxiaolinspires.wordpress.com/
C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social Philosophy professor. My new book is THE SCORE, about true play, the limits of data - and why scoring systems can lead to beautiful games and soul-killing metrics.
Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me Writer, Colombo. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023, Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards) & RAKESFALL (2024, Le Guin Prize and Otherwise award.) https://vajra.me
Brian Terence - Science Fiction Author 🪐🚀👻🐉📚 @brianterence.co.uk I write sci-fi, paranormal & dark fantasy.
www.waterstones.com/author/brian-terence/9595091
www.amazon.com/stores/Brian-Terence/author/B0DJNSGNM6
https://open.spotify.com/show/4DUNS3QDCtxlotgNJW7nrg
🚫I DO NOT USE AI🚫
I use Canva Pro for covers/promos.
Ithaca Irrealist Liberation Front @irrealist.bsky.social At war with reality. Ithaca Irrealist Reading Series and other revolutionary activities. https://irrealist.org
@drytares1.bsky.social @drytares1.bsky.social Early modern ecocritic, interested in plants. Writing a book about Shakespeare's trees.
Ada Reads @librarianxxiii.bsky.social Queer neurodivergent mom, wife, once’nfuture librarian. Many cats. Hello, fellow traveler!
Rachel A @rachiea.bsky.social Librarian by day, word scribbler at night. Find said words in Gavagai, GrendelPress, Plott Hound, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Apex’s Strange Locations, Malarkey, and elsewhere. Genre: Midwest weird. Codex.
Christopher Tradowsky @tradowsky.bsky.social Writer, artist and art historian. Beauty junkie. Author of MIDNIGHT AT THE CINEMA PALACE (Simon & Schuster 2025)
E. A. Bourland @eabourland.bsky.social Black lives matter. Women are people. Science is real. Respect veterans. Read to children. Read old books. Don't take the bait. 323ppm. DC Statehood. Freedom of conscience. https://hwaet.com/
Samuel Joseph @samueljoseph.bsky.social He/Him. I love stories. I live for them and breathe them in. It is my hope to make my own that people will enjoy. https://samuelcjoseph.com
Jules @juleswritesstuff.bsky.social Nurse and professional fangirl. Former Content Assistant/Editor at Nerds & Beyond. Co-host of On The Road Again: A ‘Winchesters’ Podcast and Your Bat Is Dead: A ‘Gotham Knights’ Podcast. Opinions mine. 💜🤍🩶🖤🩷💜💙
https://authory.com/JulesThompson
C. L. Kagmi @clkagmi.bsky.social She/her. Futurist inspired by Asimov, Butler, and Clarke. Continually figuring out how to re-forecast the future. Thinks fiction should expand your mind and writes weird, intense plotlines featuring moral dilemmas and character transformations accordingly.
Ell Huang ♠️🩶🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social “AROMANTIC FRANKENSTEIN” MA Thesis & WIP.
She/they. Ace horror writer. 🦑🌈🖤
✨Loves film, folklore, fantasy.
Published in 140+ venues.
Reader @whaleroadreview 🐳
#HorrorWritersChat 👻
worrydollsandfloatinglights.wordpress.com
Chance Hess @thechancehess.bsky.social Writer | Artist | Graphic Novelist
Aro Ace Agender (They/Them) ♠️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
chesscomics.com
Jack Finn @therealjackfinn.bsky.social 🩸 Folk Horror • Dark Fantasy
📚 Finding dark things you haven't read yet
🌲 Author of IT PIERCES, WILSON & more
👇 Enter the dark woods
www.therealjackfinn.com
Life-long believer that the Tooth Fairy is proof body parts can be traded for cold hard cash.
Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social Lammy award winning author. Novels: BEINGS (🛸📚💌); ALL MY MOTHER'S LOVERS (💀🚗🌈). Co-editor of the anthology HERE FOR ALL THE REASONS: Why We Watch The Bachelor🌹.
https://linktr.ee/ilanaslightly
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
Stephanie Feldman @sbfeldman.bsky.social Speculative fiction. IN SUMMER SHE TURNS CRUEL (2028). THE NIGHT PARADE (Oct 2026). SATURNALIA. THE ANGEL OF LOSSES. WHO WILL SPEAK FOR AMERICA? @buriedcreek.bsky.social. Philly-ish.
Flex Fish Games @flexfishgames.bsky.social Artist Matthew king and programmer Rami Bukhari, teaming up to develop nostalgic hand-drawn 2D games.
Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • Blood Type: Curry • Leeds United • Anti-AI
#LUFC
jmthornberry.wordpress.com
sandandgravelpress.com/store/the-finish-line-jason-thornberry
Jason Zencka @jasonzencka.bsky.social 
Zach Czaia @zachczaia.bsky.social Poet. High School English teacher. Substack, "Teacher / Poet" here: https://zachczaia.substack.com/
Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social she/her 🏳️⚧️ Writer of queer things. Lover of dinosaurs
Stories in One Story, Witness Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, Passages North, Lightspeed, and other cool places.
Represented by Erin Harris @ Folio Literary
nicanstett.com
Anne Hawley💜🩶🖤🤍 @annehawley.bsky.social 💜🩶🖤🤍 Poster-crone for late bloomers. Writer. Editor. Bike rider. Portlander. She/her.
Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social writer * teacher *mother * immigrant
friend of democracy
enemy of kakistocracy
lover of the American Dream,
living somewhere between the dream and the nightmare
J.D. Robinson - SF Author @jdrobinson-author.com Award-winning author of humanist sci-fi tales · Author of WHEN TOMORROWS END (out 02/2027 from 47North) · Rep: UTA Publishing · 🍉 🇮🇹
🔗 https://jdrobinson-author.com/author-links/
📍 Bay Area, CA
Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social Daryl Gregory, a guy who writes things. WHEN WE WERE REAL out April 1 2025, no foolin'. He/him
Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social Books, tea, omens, ink. KILL ALL WIZARDS is out now. Coming soon: two new volumes of the Wildendrem adventure game setting (Phantom Mill Games) and DEVOURING GODS (Tordotcom Publishing).
thirdarchive.net | ninepinpress.com
Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com Swedish-Canadian SFFH writer. Reviewer for LOCUS. Editor @ Ruadán Books & Many Worlds. Work in Best Horror of the Year, Lightspeed, The Deadlands & more. she/her 📚: WOLVES & GIRLS+SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN🔗 http://linktr.ee/MariaHaskins Rep: Eric Showers.
Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social Co-Owner of Night Worms. Bram Stoker Award winner of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered. New book: 2025
https://linktr.ee/sadiehartmann
Kim Samek @kimsamek.bsky.social O. Henry Prize-winning author of debut story collection I AM THE GHOST HERE with Dial Press, out now. Pushcart Prize winner, Emmy nominated tv writer.
Jenna DeWitt (she/her) @jennadewitt.bsky.social Baylor journalism alum, copy editor, New Texican, sapphic-oriented aro ace queer, Side A, the progressive Methodist your pastor warned you about
invisiblecakesociety.com
Rainbow Faith and more links here! https://jennadewitt.start.page
Tyger Songbird 💜♠️🏹🂡 @tygersongbird.bsky.social I'm aromantic asexual.
I'm a trivia writer, audiophile, and substack writer, basketball fan, and LGBTQIA+ rights writer.
You can find me at your local trivia night, winning probably!
https://tygersongbird.substack.com
samantha riedel @samanthawrites.net very tired freelance word girl | member, @transjournalists.org
pic by @phobia.bsky.social | banner by @jukeboxcomix.bsky.social
Signal (for confidential tips): sriedel.90
Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social Stoker nominated horror writer; editor of NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE. Rep'd by Lane Heymont. 🏳️🌈
Portland, OR - plant nerd, foot traveler - she/her, they/them
https://linktr.ee/wendynwagner
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
Art: http://patreon.com/catvalente
Politics: http://catvalente.substack.com
TipJar: https://venmo.com/u/cat-valente
Sheila Williams @sheilawilliams.bsky.social Hugo award-winning editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine.
C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social writer, editor, teacher | part of the great Twitter diaspora
Nora Biette-Timmons @biettetimmons.bsky.social editor + writer. New Yorker in Berlin. https://thegoodreview.substack.com/subscribe?params=%5Bobject%20Object%5D
Joe Pan @joepan.bsky.social Writer and Novelist, FLORIDA PALMS, Simon & Schuster
(linktr.ee/joepanwriter)
Lacy Baugher Milas @lacymb.bsky.social ✨ You ain’t ever gonna burn my heart out. ✨ | Freelance writer & editor for hire |Former Paste Magazine TV and Books editor | Ninth Doctor evangelist | Cat lady 🐈⬛ | #wahoowa | Subscribe to @theshippinglane.bsky.social
Dr. Canton Winer @cantonwiner.bsky.social Asst. Prof of Sociology and Gender/Sexuality Studies
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