Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social In 2025 my ex-publishers Unbound imploded, taking many many £1000s of my earnings, for seven (yes, seven) books, into hell with them. I am here primarily as an attempt to recover from that disaster. if you buy/read/recommend one of my books, it helps.
Andrea Morstabilini @andreamorstabilini.bsky.social Writer, editor. Milan, mostly, but sometimes Kraków. I like cats and cemeteries. A BLOOD AS BRIGHT AS THE MOON out now & IN VACUO coming up in February 2027 with Titan Books.
https://www.andreamorstabilini.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
Charles Hansen ♾️ 🗳️🏛️ 🧮 @loudounvateacher.bsky.social Teacher (high school math and government/politics), Adjunct at Richard Bland College, civic activist. My views
🚫DMs 🚫OF/porn 🚫crypto
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📍Loudoun, Virginia
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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social King, Lovecraft, Koontz, Poe, Barker & others telling stories round the campfire. Header by David Mumford. Three (3) x Hugo Nominee. Posts by Bitter Karella. www.midnightpals.com
Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
swadeshine☀️ @swadeshine.bsky.social Wade Aaron Inganamort · sf writer · gardener · student of Buddhist philosophy · friend to all cats📍FL #amwriting · #Booksky📚💙
Franco Amati @francoamati.bsky.social writer, poet, SFWA & Codex, ViableParadise 2024,
new collection WORK IS WORK out now: https://www.amazon.com/Work-Franco-Amati/dp/B0HCCQF9YP/
and for all published fiction visit francoamatiwrites.com
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
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alicia 🍳 @acorviart.bsky.social alicia - illustrator + sometimes ceramics
work inquiries: acorviart@gmail.com
store: http://acorviart.bigcartel.com
other links: https://acorviart.carrd.co
tags: #art #ceramics #crafts #doodle
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com If you’re reading this, you’re in the right place.
Beautiful books you won't forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com Author of the Eric Carter Necromancer urban fantasy novels. Narrative Designer / TTRPGs / Los Angeles
Repped by @lisarodgers.bsky.social
https://www.stephenblackmoore.com
https://www.patreon.com/c/sblackmoore
https://ko-fi.com/sblackmoore
Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social Cozy random passages from Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books. Posts auto-delete.
Old Moon Quarterly @oldmoonquarterly.bsky.social oldmoonpublishing.com
Old Moon Quarterly is an indie magazine of weird sword-and-sorcery in the vein of Clark Ashton Smith, Tanith Lee and Karl Edward Wagner. 
Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social Inner Worlds was a quarterly digital zine of speculative stories about our inner lives. We published ten issues between 2023 and 2026, all of which are available to read for free at
https://inner-worlds.ghost.io/
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
@strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year
Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social Fiction. Poetry. Nonfiction.
Memoir: Something in the Woods Loves You - Timber Press Sept 2024
New Fantasy Novel: Strange Animals - Ballantine Books Feb 2026
Poetry: The Haunted Forest Trilogy
Podcast: The Cryptonaturalist
https://linktr.ee/jarodkanderson
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com SFFH author & audio drama creator with a PhD in trashy Victorian lit. HIGHER MAGIC out now. Rhysling finalist. She/they. ND 🧠. Rep: @rebeccamatte.com
https://courtney-floyd.com
🎙 https://hauntnowpod.com
✉️ https://buttondown.email/wallowinginink
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KS Walker @kswalkerwrites.bsky.social Spec fic. Bikes.Books.
Words in Uncanny, F&SF, FIYAH, Apex and elsewhere
VP 2022
they/any
Ishmael Grey @callmeishmael.bsky.social A damp, drizzly November soul 🐳 Writer and Dork. Viable Paradise 2022. Fiction in Otherside.
If you feel like throwing me a buck:
https://ko-fi.com/ishmaelcat
Roy Graham @grayhaem.bsky.social fiction writer and story lead @ wizards of the coast / he/him / repped by Arley Sorg / opinions are my own and do not represent my employer
https://www.roy-graham.com/
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social NYT bestselling writer. Newsletter and updates at maxgladstone.com. More or less updates-only on here.
alex fox @alexfox.bsky.social Writing mostly about fucked up guys with swords. look upon my works and despair
https://www.afoxwrites.com
Viable Paradise @viableparadise.bsky.social The writing workshop you've been looking for! https://viableparadise.com
A.Y. Chao @aychao.com Master procrastinator. Occasional adult.
#1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SHANGHAI IMMORTAL and PARIS CELESTIAL
she/they/Alice
aychao.com
Latest news: https://aychao.substack.com
Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social Daryl Gregory, a guy who writes things. WHEN WE WERE REAL out April 1 2025, no foolin'. He/him
Craig Church @whatcraigwrote.com He/him. Overactive imagination since '87. Helping make movies at ILM. Portland Trail Blazers and Golden State Valkyries enjoyer.
Short fiction in Cast of Wonders, Escape Pod, and more.
visualpostcard.cc
whatcraigwrote.com
letterboxd.com/lucky_rabbit
RJ Taylor @rjtaylor.bsky.social SFF writer • Stories in Clarkesworld, F&SF, Apex, more • #VP2022 • Codex• not often on social media (updates only)
Benjamin C. Kinney @benjaminckinney.com SFF writer, neuroscientist, Hugo finalist. Escape Pod 2017-2023. Codex, VP, SFWA. Short stories in Analog, Lightspeed, Sunday Morning Transport, etc.
Neuroscience (not under pen name): rehabilitation, neuroimaging, movement control, handedness
Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social Quarterly speculative fiction, poetry, and non-fiction
Unapologetically antifascist and feminist.
NO AI!!!!
Spec SFF
magazine.trollbreath.com
https://ko-fi.com/trollbreathmagazine
https://linktr.ee/trollbreath
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
C. L. Polk @clpolk.com I write stuff. I knit stuff. I cook stuff. Ask me about my weird little books. https://www.clpolk.com/
Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social 48, fantasy writer, author of THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA. Ex-firefighter, veteran MechWarrior. Minnesotan transplanted to Massachusetts. Gizmonic Institute (1989-92). Instructor at Viable Paradise.
Fonda Lee @fondalee.bsky.social NYT bestselling, World Fantasy Award-winning author of the Green Bone Saga & other books. The Last Contract of Isako out now! Next: Mark of the Warrior (Oct 2026) https://linktr.ee/fondalee
Zohar Jacobs @zoharjacobs.bsky.social Migrant Jewish intellectual. Writer, historian, mystic | Fiction in Sunday Morning Transport, Analog, Asimov's & Clarkesworld | Oxford, UK
Phiala @phiala.bsky.social Science, string, science fiction… string fiction? All views my own. 
Andrew Hiller @andrewintheclouds.bsky.social Create. Investigate. Celebrate.
Writer, Producer, & friend of Muppets
Pitter Patty Finds Another Day, 2022 Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest Winner,2019 BFF Author of the Year, #ViableParadise 23
Pippin @skyfyre88.bsky.social She/her. A geeky librarian, full of tea and anxiety. Co-host of No Story Is Sacred. Viable Paradise staff. https://linktr.ee/pippin_m
Phil Margolies @philmargolies.bsky.social I’m nobody but I know awesome people who have Wikipedia pages
Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social Writer of SFF, drinker of tea. Nebula winner, Hugo finalist. Aging mermaid far from her natural habitat. SFWA/Codex/VP2018. She/her
J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்) @jgownder.bsky.social Opinions expressed are mine alone. Fan of nuance and tradeoffs. I regularly delete all posts and likes. ☸️ 🏳️🌈
Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social Writer of sapphic SFF fiction and poetry, cyborg, Seattleite, plant nerd.
devzmiller.com
Laura Cranehill @lauracranehill.bsky.social Strange motherings and odd bodies. Weird horror written by a weird horror. 🌈
WIFE SHAPED BODIES out now from Saga Press
Lauracranehill.com
Merritt Daniel McDowell @mdmcd.com ink-stained wretch & nom de guerre of jayxwolf.bsky.social
Song of the Scourgelands, Bladesmith & Brigand, Beneath the Shattered Gods & more tk. Inquiries: m @ mdmcd.com
A drowned man carries no burdens, not even the heart of another—
River Kanning @riverk.bsky.social Those who become jailers are themselves no longer free.
Jill S @outseide.bsky.social Tea drinker, Seattleite, queer femme, erstwhile writer, dilettante, librarian, birder, renter, traveler. If you reply-guy me, I will block you. Pronouns: she/her
www.slowbloom.com/blog
John P. Murphy @johnpmurphy.bsky.social Science fiction and fantasy writer, author of RED NOISE, THE LIAR, and others. Coffee enthusiast.
No idea what I’m doing.
https://johnpmurphy.net
Liz (E.M. Morrissey) @lizardskinshoujo.bsky.social Pursuing the peccary with pardine limers.
Lapsed academic. PhD in Japanese Art History. Viable Paradise 2024. Short fiction in The Daily Tomorrow, Old Moon Quarterly. She/her. No AI.
www.elizabethmorrissey.com
Amanda Helms - Preorder THE UPPER TENTACLE @amandaghelms.bsky.social Writer of SFFH. THE UPPER TENTACLE forthcoming from Union Square & Co. Short fiction in/forthcoming from LIGHTSPEED, Uncanny, FIYAH & elsewhere. Editor at Diabolical Plots. Parent. Biracial. She/her. Rep: @allegramartsch.bsky.social
Shen Tao @dragons.bsky.social USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Poet Empress
https://linktr.ee/ThePoetEmpress
Rowan Copley @the-rowan.bsky.social Recurser, Viable Paradisian, Cascadian, science fantasist
Leah Miller @leahmiller.bsky.social Writing and Narrative Design. previously: Wizards of the Coast, Wildstar, Dark Age of Camelot, Star Wars. now: secret quests at System Era
@culturalgeek on twitter
Ash Howell @ash-howell.com Writing about magic, queers, tech ethics, and the evils of capitalism. Work in Astrolabe, All Worlds Wayfarer, Baffling Mag, & Lightspeed | #vp2023
They/them.
https://www.ash-howell.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
Lenora Rose @lenorarose.bsky.social Writer, potter, clerk. Canuck. She/her. Cis but knows trans women are women.
Where there is tea, there is hope.
km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social Academic, writer, immigrant. Queer vegan. I spend a lot of time thinking about different kinds of minds | they/them
Represented by Anna Ange at Liza Dawson Associates
Profile picture by @ancientwinters.bsky.social
Andy W. Taylor @sooguy68.bsky.social Canadian writer of speculative fiction who buys more books & comics than he can ever hope to read. Viable Paradise (VP19), Codex, TWUOC, CSFFA, Playwright Junction. Cancer Survivor. He/Him
DonP @donfoolery.com He came from some. Where. Back in your long ago...
Health admin factotum. Views rep'd here are entirely my own.
Viable Paradise XX (2016)
he/him/his
donfoolery.com
🇵🇭 🇺🇸
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Brigitte Winter @brigittewinter.bsky.social Author. Photographer. Game designer. Co-Founder of Scryptid Games. Viable Paradise ‘23. SFWA. HWA. Rep’d by Sara Megibow.
Julia Vee @juliavee.bsky.social I write stuff with monsters and dumplings. ('23 Ebony Gate, TOR) ('24 Blood Jade, TOR)
🩷Pearl City July 15, 2025🩷
Viable Paradise 21.
Jake Kerr @jakekerr.com Podcast drama writer. Screenwriter. Award-nominated scifi author. Technologist. Voting rights advocate. Former morning show DJ, music journalist, record company exec, biz dev consultant. Current IHeartMedia. He/Him
https://jakekerr.com
Anastasia K.E. @akstories.bsky.social Lover of bright colors and tea
VP2023 She/Her/Mx Neurodivergent
Reads for Fusion Fragment
Shannon Spieler @sr-spieler.bsky.social Aspiring author, rapid reader, interior decor enthusiast, dumpling addict, millennial parent, #viableparadise2023, she/her.
Catherine Castellani @ccastellani.bsky.social 'wright | Team Oxford Comma | Codex | Viable Paradise 2023 | https://linktr.ee/cmcastellani
Julie Danvers @juliedanvers.bsky.social Writer, cat enthusiast. VP 2023. She/hers.
Steph Charette @stephcharette.bsky.social Hello! "Scribofelidae" else-Web. Writer, stationary stan, cat wrangler, pizza freak. Work in Podcastle, GigaNotoSaurus, and Nature. CODEX member, VP alum, Taos Toolbox, and currently Odyssey 2026!
Dr. Fade @fade.bsky.social Classicist, writer, that sort of stuff. Currently teaching Latin to the youth. Yes, my dog's name is Adverb.
Karen Osborne @karenosborne.bsky.social Velocity girl. Honey badger. A/V hooligan. Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon finalist. Violin & theremin. Author: THE HOLLOW CROWN OF HEAVEN from Erewhon ('27), ARCHITECTS OF MEMORY & ENGINES OF OBLIVION from Tor. Ad astra via caffeine. Rep: Dorian Maffei, KC&A
Steen Comer (Weeping Gorilla Era) @mediapathic.bsky.social Word Guy. Viable Paradise 2017. Fiction, parafiction, and game writer; Chicago Manual of Style enjoyer; sword swinger. Recreational taxonomist.
"Steen, occasionally I forget how extra you are but something always reminds me" -- Elizabeth Bear
#sf
Victor @thecrownedvic.bsky.social Writing for my life
Viable Paradise 2023
New Year, New Year available now https://linktr.ee/newyearnewyoustories
Ramsey Hootman @ramseyhootman.bsky.social Author of COURTING GRETA, SURVIVING CYRIL, and CYRIL IN THE FLESH. Viable Paradise class of 2024 (!!!) "Well-developed and nontoxic" according to my doctor's notes. www.ramseyhootman.com
Annalee @flowerhorne.com Writer, Quaker, candlestick maker. Open source technologist and occasional tailor.
Fiction in F&SF, Futurescapes, Fireside, Friends' Journal, and places that don't start with F. They.
don @donnorum.com donnorum.com
Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social Writer of speculative and interstitial fiction; social rights activist, VP 2024; Cycling to Asylum/Les lignes invisible (longlisted for the Sunburst ), Run J Run, Zee, Invisible Line and Five Points on an Invisible Line🌈
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
Mike Meneses @mikemeneses.bsky.social Writer. World traveler. Viable Paradise 2024. Bad at profiles. 
Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social Spec Fic author | PhD Environmental Engr | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Host: Bright Green Futures podcast
https://linktr.ee/susankayequinn
"AI is a lying machine made out of crimes"(used to perpetuate more crimes).🔨
Working on a feminist romantasy with plant magic.
Laine Bell @lainebell.bsky.social Writer, baker, chicken tender. Also love animals, nature, grilling, roller skating. Viable Paradise 2018 grad (VP22).
She/her.
Blog at lainebell.wordpress.com
Teresa Nielsen Hayden @tnh.nielsenhayden.com Editor, writer, teacher, moderator, pottery maker, keeper of hamsters, skiffy trufan, high lyric baritone, old lady, neener neener. Also, @tnh@wandering.shop.
Laura J Mixon @laurajmg.bsky.social Six SF novels. Environmental engineer. Spousal unit. Genderqueer motherbeast. Hatch green, Chimayo red—NM nerd, born & bred. Severe MEcfs. Black Lives Matter, now and forever.
Serah Eley @serah-eley.bsky.social Writer, software nerd, trans chick, functional multiple. We are our stories. What’s yours?
Mur Lafferty @mightymur.bsky.social Author, podcaster, editor.
Digger, listener, runner.
INFINITE ARCHIVE is out July ‘25!
She/her
Sherwood Smith @sherwood.bsky.social Writer, reader, crone
Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social Writer editor singer songer. Self-appointed ALT text Jello Sherriff.
Fran Wilde @franwilde.bsky.social Author & Battle Poet (she/her) hoarder of pens and journals. Teacher. novels, poetry, short fiction, shenanigans
More at https://www.patreon.com/franwilde & http://franwilde.net
Greg van Eekhout @gregvaneekhout.bsky.social Writer of Happy Town, Voyage of the Dogs, Cog, Weird Kid, California Bones, etc. Californian by birth, Indo by ancestry. Repped by Holly Root at Root Literary.
www.writingandsnacks.com
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
Disciple of Telesto @zaliachimera.bsky.social Former lead Producer @runwithzrx.bsky.social for Zombies, Run! and Marvel Move. Writer, occasional game designer. Very deep in fandom. Currently plays too much Destiny. She/they. #VP22. BAFTA Connect
https://ciaranzaliaroberts.carrd.co/
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 >:(
Alex Haist @alexhaist.bsky.social I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul. she/her. Fond of plant stuff, especially trees, weird nature and beautiful nature, honestly anything that eventually involves dirt and decomposition. Definitely a furry. Disabled and sorting it out.
Laura Davy @lauradavy.bsky.social A writer whose cats control her life more than she’d like to admit. Fiction in Amazing Stories, Apex, Grimdark Magazine, Factor Four Magazine, & more.
SFWA/Codex/VP19. She/Her
http://www.lauradavy.com/
Nicky Drayden @nickydrayden.bsky.social Writer of sci-fantasy, taker of naps.
Prosper with Dragons, coming soon to a game night near you: https://nickydrayden.com
Alex Shvartsman @alexshvartsman.bsky.social Bookwright & raconteur. Editor of the Unidentified Funny Objects annual anthology series. 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction winner. Cheesy humorist.
www.alexshvartsman.com
Casey Blair @caseyblair.bsky.social Fantasy novelist (Tea Princess Chronicles, Diamond Universe, Sundered Realms) trapped under a cat. Dancer, traveler, nerd. Ace spec; she/her. https://linktr.ee/caseyblair
Tim Boerger @timboerger.bsky.social Writer, teacher, bowler (sometimes). Strong opinions on coffee, gin cocktails and sandwiches. Hopelessly idealistic. Sinister Minnesotan. Mostly harmless. He/him
Dawn Bonanno @dawnbonanno.bsky.social ⭐️ SFF Writer published in Nature, Daily Science Fiction, Fireside Fiction, Factor Four, Luna Station, Electric Spec; ⭐️ VP16(2012), Codexian, SFWA; ⭐️ Self-proclaimed chocoholic, mom of teens, proud cat mom
⭐️ www.dmbonanno.com
reuben @liesandperfidy.bsky.social armed only with my hatred for moral clarity
Binta Dixon @bintadixon.bsky.social Writing my way toward strange and hopeful futures. Crafting a care-centered life in the present. Fantasy/Sci-fi. Viable Paradise 2024. Bird enthusiast. Earth steward. Care advocate. Herbalist. Afrofuturism Collective 2024-2025.