Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
William Shaw @williamshaw.bsky.social Ludicrous Care Bear.
Bylines at Strange Horizons, The Georgia Review, Daily Science Fiction, and others.
Blog: https://williamshawwriter.wordpress.com/
James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social Reviewer, Essayist, Hugo, Aurora, and Darwin Award finalist.
My hydronyms: turbid/opaque
Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social Writer and philosophy professor at Cornell. Author of DOWN GIRL, ENTITLED, and UNSHRINKING. Writing weekly at http://katemanne.substack.com. She/her
Mountain & Myth Fantasy Cartography @mountainandmyth.bsky.social Bringing your fantasy world to life! We create hand drawn maps for your D&D/Pathfinder or other ttrpg games.
Commissions are OPEN: https://tally.so/r/obEbob
https://mountainandmyth.com
Tab Creations @tabcreations.com Developer and publisher of roleplaying games and card games, including Shadows Over Sol, Age of Ambition, Against the Dark Yogi and more!
Website: https://tabcreations.com
Kickstarter: https://buff.ly/4dYdgi2
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tabcreations
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Free post creator app: www.post-script.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
J.D. Porter @jdporter.bsky.social https://www.jdporter.org/ Literature/DH scholar, Price Lab at UPenn | I work on text mining, canons, literature and philosophy, and so on | Writing in PMLA, Synthese, The Atlantic, Cultural Analytics, the Stanford Literary Lab pamphlet series, etc
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
K.R. Kampion @krkampion.bsky.social Writer. Runner. Avid D&D player and dice collector. Might try my hand at podcasting. Currently in the revisions trenches for my debut novel. She/her.
Marty Cahill @mcflycahill90.bsky.social World Fantasy Award/Ignyte/Mythopoeic Award-nominated author of Audition For The Fox; author of Critical Role: Armory of Heroes. Repped by Hannah Bowman. Email: Martintcahill @ gmail
Black & Trans Lives Matter. He/Him.
https://www.martincahillwrites.com
Steuard Jensen @steuard.bsky.social Physics professor, Tolkien scholar, JoCoNaut, and all-around science nerd.
he/him
Interstellar Flight Press @interstellarflight.bsky.social We're an indie press publishing SFF! Always open to submissions for our magazine on pop culture.
Find us at www.interstellarFlightPress.com
Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu
order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data
editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky
Amy DeSuza @amydesuza.bsky.social Lucky enough to teach the things I love...Comics, Sci-Fi, Comedy, and Myth. Oh yeah, and SCUBA too. She/her
Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social Blogger, critic, 2017 and 2025 best fan writer Hugo winner.
Blogs at wrongquestions.blogspot.com and www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
Review collection TRACK CHANGES available at briardenebooks.uk/shop/
Member of the 2026 Otherwise Award jury
Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social Appalachian in the big city. Editor at Ancillary Review, host of A Meal of Thorns, bookseller, coffee pro, SF reviewer & scholar. He/him.
https://linktr.ee/jakecasellabrookins
Vincent Haddad @vincenthaddad.bsky.social Scholar of literature and popular culture.
Author of The Detroit Genre (Lever Press, 2024) and Next Time on Dragon Ball (U Minn Press, 2026)
Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social Teaching Assistant Professor at UIUC, Editor of the @vaultofculture.bsky.social (https://www.vaultofculture.com/), Executive Secretary of the Comics Studies Society, NTFC Local #6546 steward, comics scholar, and a ton of other stuff. Views own.
cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social Critic. Tabletop columnist for Rascal News. Podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Wrote THE WORLD IS BORN FROM ZERO and EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED. Working on a Magic: The Gathering book.
Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social Digital literary and cultural studies, modernism, psychoanalysis, horror. Editor, Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies. New book: Cambridge Introduction to Digital Humanities http://bit.ly/4ftBuUV
Günter Leypoldt @guenterleypoldt.bsky.social Prof American Studies @ U Heidelberg
Am Lit 1800-present, cultural sociology, literary institutions
https://www.as.uni-heidelberg.de/personen/Leypoldt/
Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly
https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/
Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social Book recs, reviews, and news. Supporting independent booksellers as a Bookshop affiliate. Thanks for helping us help local bookstores. 🙏🏼 #BooksMatter
https://bookshop.org/shop/matteristbooks https://matteristbooks.substack.com/
https://matteristbooks.com/
N. A. Dawn, Author @nadawn.bsky.social Beauty against barbarism. | Essays, poetry and speculative fiction in New Contrast mag and Catalyst Press: 'Captive' (2024) and 'Disruption' (2020)
lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net academic and aspiring person who likes winter.
contemporary lit, digital stuff.
i’ve written about sci fi, national security and fiction, the humanities, bunkers, and chatbots. now writing about novels and how long they are.
https://lindsaythomas.net
Igor Martayan @imartayan.bsky.social PhD in algorithmic bioinformatics at @bonsaiseqbioinfo.bsky.social.
Interested in space-efficient data structures, sketching algorithms & high-performance computing
https://igor.martayan.org
Wenyi Shang @wenyishang.bsky.social Assistant Professor at SISLT, University of Missouri. UIUC iSchool PhD. Peking University alumnus. Digital humanities researcher focusing on premodern Chinese history (and occasionally English literature). https://wenyi-shang.github.io
Michael Brachman Author 🚀 @mlbphd.bsky.social 16 hard sci-fi novels. Explore thrilling adventures & timeless human connections. Experience a meticulously crafted future where science & imagination collide! P.S. These stories are true, they just haven't happened yet.
http://www.michaelbrachman.com
Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social Haiku etc.. Also, Jewish Studies, Christianity, Buddhism, art and cool science stuff. Some politics . . .
She/her.
Ben Bassett @drbassett.bsky.social Tolkien, archaeology and Roman cities. PhD in the archaeology of Roman Egypt
Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ University of Washington, Information School. PhD in English from WashU in St. Louis.
I’m interested in books, data, social media, & digital humanities.
They call me "Eyre Jordan" on the bball court. 🏀
https://melaniewalsh.org/
Women of Númenor @womenofnumenor.bsky.social We love to talk about Númenórean lore 🤓
Putting light on the unnamed women of Númenor and beyond ✨️
House of Amandil defenders and TRoP appreciation 🌊
Fantasy Literature @fantasyliterature.com www.fantasyliterature.com
We review fantasy, science fiction, horror, comics and magazines for adults, teens, and kids in print and audiobook format.
https://linktr.ee/fanlit
Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social Best-selling author | artist | write and teach #LateAntiquity, #EarlyMedieval, #Hungarians + #Vikings
Views my own. Appears on BBC radio.
NORSE MYTHOLOGY COLOURING BOOK: https://www.amberley-books.com/coming-soon/the-viking-world-a-colouring-book.html
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval"
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
profgabriele.com
Aylin Dilek Walder @aylinwalder.bsky.social #firstgen 📍Braunschweig / Cologne
PhD on the #fantastic dawn of #affinity 💫 #belonging 🌈 #eco 🌿 #speculativefiction 🛸
https://tinyurl.com/adwalder
she/her
Pedro Iniguez @pedroiniguez.bsky.social Bram Stoker, Elgin, and Dwarf Stars Award-winning Horror/SF writer. Rhysling finalist, Pushcart nominee.
THE BUILD-A-MONSTER WORKSHOP (Out Now!)
ECHOES AND EMBERS (Out Now!)
THE FIB (Out Now!)
Repped by Peter Steinberg, UTA
www.pedroiniguez.com
Kate Soules @ksoules.bsky.social PhD English lit Candidate, writing about queer sf
<3 clothes, coffee, cheese, and cake
Lived in: MA, NY, OH, OR, PA, VT, WV
Alexis Brooks de Vita @alexisbrooksdevita.bsky.social PhD Comp Lit African/Diaspora & Women in English, French, Italian, Spanish. Author of 1855 Murder Case: Missouri vs. Celia; Mythatypes; Burning Streams, Blood of Angels, Chain Dance; Left Hand of the Moon; Translator - Dante's Inferno: A Wanderer in Hell
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts - IAFA @iafa.bsky.social The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) is a scholarly organization devoted to the study of the fantastic (broadly defined) as it appears in literature, film, and the other arts.
Andrew Erickson @aderickson.bsky.social Associate Researcher and PhD candidate, SchauflerLab@TU Dresden
#AmericanStudies #speculativefiction, #CriticalFutures, oh, and cycling + haikus on Strava
Kimberly Gibson-Tran @kdawn999.bsky.social Reader, poet, essayist, reviewer, cat person, Trekkie, ไทย speaker, book clubber, linguist, Texan/Floridian, missionary kid, she/they
https://kimberlygibsontran.wordpress.com
https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/kimberly_gibsontran
Emmerich Anklam @eianklam.bsky.social managing editor at @heydaybooks.com | sound as Distant Reader | sometimes writing but more often reading | latest album, Place of Words Now Gone, available here https://lilytapesanddiscs.bandcamp.com/album/place-of-words-now-gone
Tobias Orfgen @tobias-o.bsky.social Literaturwissenschaftler | Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Universität Siegen |
Dissertationsprojekt zu aisthetischen Registern und ästhetischen Kategorien in der zeitgenössischen deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur
https://u-si.de/fw5vk
er/ihm
Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social Academic in Dublin. Contemporary literature & publishing.
Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social Literary + cultural data from 1945–present. Peer-reviewed and open-access. Explore and reuse our data, or submit your own: https://data.post45.org/
Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social Open access peer-reviewed journal for scholarship on postwar American literature and culture
post45.org/journal
Editor
@jdconnor.bsky.social
Managing Editor
@aabedkoff.bsky.social
Editor-at-Large
@arthurzw.bsky.social
@apulia2001.bsky.social @apulia2001.bsky.social Lover of Fantasy, Lover of fine food, History fan, animal lover - I love a lot of things. Spiritual matters to me - Magical practitioner always seeking. 
Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social I write things.
Now a Hugo/Nebula finalist.
Occasionally on other sites, including marikness.wordpress.com, https://medium.com/@marikness, https://www.patreon.com/mari_ness. Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/mari_ness
Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social More left than right. I like looking at gaps, poetry, philosophy.
@gbelliottphd.bsky.social @gbelliottphd.bsky.social 
Bruce Byfield @byfield.bsky.social Some time writer about free and open source software and would-be novelist. Companion to parrots, collector of First Nations art, and ergonomic keyboard advocate. Now actively querying my novel "The Bone Ransom," a post-colonial fantasy.
Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing @bloomsburylit.bsky.social Book news from the Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing team in London and New York. 📚 Home of the Object Lessons series.
Explore our latest titles below! ⬇️
bloomsbury.com/literarystudies
Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social A peer-reviewed journal devoted to the Fantastic in literature, film, and other media. Send essays of 6,000-12,000 words to fantastic@ut.edu
Fourth Act Fantasy @fourthact.ink Publisher of Sci-Fi and Fantasy ⚔️🚀🇨🇦 Crafting stories, forging worlds.
Learn more at https://fourthact.ink/
Start reading Age of Tempest on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/c/ageoftempest
YoDanno #DragonlanceDragonlance @yodanno.bsky.social I’m that guy that loves old DnD. Creator of Late Night Clyde Caldwell, Good Morning Larry Elmore, & Easley Like A Sunday Morning. Single dad, friend to all
Noelia Ramos-Soria @noeliaramos96.bsky.social Tolkien Studies & Celticism | PhD candidate @uvigo
My latest article on Tolkien: https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol22/iss1/10/
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Noelia-Ramos-Soria
Contact: noelia.ramos@uvigo.gal
SFF Reviews @sffreview.bsky.social Science FIction and Fantasy book and movie reviews.
Lovers of space, aliens, dragons, swords and lasers!
>>>transitioning from X - help us GROW here!<<<
#scifi #bookSky #fantasy #sff
@izayahpena.bsky.social @izayahpena.bsky.social 
Vanessa Knipe @vjknipe.bsky.social Malaysian-born, Scottish writer. Recovering Luddite, DIY house renovation, likes canoeing, decorates a mean cake, a highly biased mother.
Mastodon: @VanessaK@mastodon.scot
Website: https://vanessajknipe.wixsite.com/vanessa-knipe
Elliott Greene @thegreeneman.bsky.social Lecturer in Foundation Studies, Researcher in Fantasy literature
@rudyrucker.bsky.social @rudyrucker.bsky.social 
SF Boswell @sfboswell.bsky.social Researcher, nerd, fan of niche sports (gymnastics, climbing). Immigration court accompanier.
I always flip to the back of the book.
Chris Forster @cforster.bsky.social Associate English Prof., Syracuse University.
Interested in modernism, history of media, obscenity, and computational approaches to literary studies (uh, fine *digital humanities*).
https://cforster.com
Kelly Laudenslager @kellylaudenslager.bsky.social Wife to Eric. Mama to 3. Voracious reader, seminary student, part-time editor, passable knitter. 7w6.
Thomas Wolgast @twolgast.bsky.social Building Software to improve scientific publishing. Creator of revios.app and currently starting OpenScientia.org.
Energy system Research | Applied AI | Open Science.
Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social Critic for 2017 & 2018 winners of the Eisner in Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism / Writer of Fantasy / They/Them / https://linktr.ee/teganoneil5000
Kim Whysall-Hammond @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social Poet, scientist, artist. Lifelong Science Fiction fan. SFPA. My debut pamphlet ‘Messages from the Road’ is available from Palewell Press. https://palewellpress.co.uk/bookstore/lost-wellbeing/mftr/
New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social Founding Editor: Steven E. Knepper
Weekly Newsletter: newversereview.substack.com
Poetry Journal: newversereview.com
Kristin Houlihan, Writer @kristinwrites.bsky.social Poet, Wife, Mom, LongCovid/MECFS. Looking to connect and learning to advocate. EIC, Poetry @epistemiclit.Bsky.social, @nimblewitlit.bsky.social. Micropoetry chapbook Lift the Mask available widely. www.kristinhoulihan.com
MAMO Conference 2027 @themamoconf.bsky.social The 6th Middle Ages in the Modern World conference (MAMO). Lincoln College Oxford, 22-24 June 2027.
themamo.org
Lauren T. Davila @ltdavila.bsky.social THE PATRON SAINT OF WHITE MENAGERIES (Creature Publishing, 2026) – Acquisitions Editor at Inked In Gray Publishing – Assistant Director at PocketMFA – Latina – she/her/ella – Represented by @susanvcolmant.bsky.social at JABberwocky Literary Agency
Joy Sanchez-Taylor @jsanchez-taylor.bsky.social Scholar of SFF Literature. Author of Diverse Futures (OSU, 2021) and Dispelling Fantasies (OSU, 2025). Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College (CUNY). https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814215906.html
The Carrock: Northern California smial @thecarrocksmial.bsky.social The Carrock Smial seeks to bring together diverse voices in fellowship to study, discuss, and celebrate the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.
https://linktr.ee/carrocksmial
Alejandra González-Jiménez 🫒🌿 @heliconide.bsky.social Classical Studies, UNAM | Digital Humanities | Admin of Desde Themyscira: desdethemysciraffyl.mx | Admin of EPN, UNAM: iifilologicas.unam.mx/pnovohispano | https://alejandragj.com/
Becky Spratford @raforall.bsky.social Matching books w/ readers thru the library especially #HorrorForLibraries. Jersey Girl in exile. Reviews for LJ & Booklist. HWA Sec. Rep @laneheymont.bsky.social. Bram Stoker Winner, WHY I LOVE HORROR (Saga Press) https://bit.ly/WhyILoveHorror. (She/Her)
Mattias Hansson @matthandsome.bsky.social A civil servant offering a mess of Human Rights, Literature, Politics, Middle Earth, ManU and utter nonsense. He/Him.
BetweenHorizons | Anna Olsen @betweenhorizons.bsky.social 30s, dancer, reader, writer of creative non-fiction, lover of Tolkien, Thranduil apologist, owner of not enough cats or bookshelves.
annaestelle.wordpress.com
Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social Poet, (Five collections, Red Squirrel Press) editor, occasional translator, blogs about place, plants, poetry, woke indy grandmother. https://linktr.ee/Burnedthumb. Scouse, Scottish and Woke AF #placeplantspoetry
olivia stowell @oliviastowell.bsky.social theory bimbo, professional reality tv watcher
tv/film editor @ Mid Theory Collective
phd candidate studying television, race, gender, labor, and industry
Dom @poliscijedi.bsky.social Political scientist by day, sci-fi nerd by night. @umich.edu PhD. Teach at @gwu1821.bsky.social. Edited books about #Dune, #StarWars, & #StudioGhibli. Also write about politics in #BladeRunner, #LOTR, & #StarTrek. More @ domnardireviews.wordpress.com
Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social Appalachian academic. Medievalist. Mom. Maker-in-training. Vikings/Women/Labor/ Identity. Chaotic good gnomish bard. She/her. Per uni attorneys: "'opinions expressed here are my own' so it is clear" I am "not representing an official university position.
ThatGermanGuy @thegermanator.bsky.social German. Immigrant/ Expat. Husband. Farmer. Dog person. Progressive. Lover of all things Tolkien. Optimist in dark times.
R.J. the Narratologist @narratologist.bsky.social Academic, barista, writer, nerd, cat-dad.
(He/She/They)
Non-binary 💛🤍💜🖤
Demi 🖤🩶🤍💜
Cait Coker <<digital brat with an insect mind>> @caitcoker.bsky.social Curator, fangirl, utter nerd. Assoc. Prof/Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at U of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Co-Editor Women in Book History Bibliography at womensbookhistory.org. Fan Studies, Tolkien Studies, SFF Studies. I just really love books ok
dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social Place-names, maps, languages dgplacenames.wordpress.com
auldnorse.wordpress.com/owersettins/
Jennifer Ashby @jenniferashby.bsky.social Modernist & avant-garde visionary aesthetics | Writing PhD on Mina Loy & spirituality @eui-history.bsky.social Florence, Italy | Organiser Mapping Mina Loy Studies I Past PG Rep @modernistudies.bsky.social
Michael @mikl001.bsky.social Teaches philosophy, modern history, and cultural studies; also an author and editor. Left Twitter October 28, 2022. Motorbike: BMW GS 700 🏍️Love hiking and backpacking in the mountains and I don’t like bullies. 🏔️🇩🇰🏴🥃
Becky King @rfbk.bsky.social Progressive; retired Brit Lit prof, also women’s/ gender studies ; recreational birder; lover of animals, classical music, history, architecture and design, great style in general. Passionate about social justice.
@drfairylelie.bsky.social @drfairylelie.bsky.social 
Ted Bonham @tedbonham.bsky.social Failed Pessoa heteronym