#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling
Andrew Haglington @andrewhaglington.bsky.social #Author #Scifi #Fantasy ๐ Andrew Haglington
#Environment #Climate #SocialNetworking
#Photographer #Artist #RejoinEU ๐ช๐บ #Progressive
Theresa Derwin @theresaderwin.bsky.social Bi/disabled/Female Writer (she/her) Reader, Reviewer and lover of chocolate
LGBTQ+ Toronto & LA Film Festival @lgbtlatoronto.bsky.social Monthly festival showcasing the best of LGBTQ+ films and screenplays from around the world, using the audience feedback format.
https://lgbttorontofilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/LGBTTorontoFilmFestival
amy brown @amybrown.xyz wife, mother, troll
bay area via ohio
amybrown.xyz โจ
Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social Tiny writer. I wrote 'Easter Pinkerton and the Case of the Heretic Blood' and some other stuff. Can*Con bridge crew, still. Avatar art by Jay Odjick. Only a fool would complain. He/Him.
T.L. Najjar @tlnajjar.bsky.social Speculative Fiction Writer | Clarion (UCSD) '26 | Odyssey '26 | Viable Paradise '25 | Apex Slush Reader
Also: knitter, fountain pen enthusiast, PC gamer, and neurologic physical therapist
Vida Cruz-Borja @laviecestmoi.bsky.social Ignyte Award- and National Book Award-winning Filipina writer and editor of SFF.
Books: Song of the Mango and Other New Myths (2022), Mirror Marked (2025). Rep'd by Stevie Finegan.
Website: https://vidacruz.org
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/vidacruzborja
Cat Rambo @catrambo.bsky.social They/she. My cats' names are Bruce, Clark, & BabyBear. Nebula award winning F&SF writer/editor/teacher. Snark at your own risk. Located in South Bend, IN. Sometimes I swear. linktr.ee/catrambo
Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social MIDNIGHT DOORWAYS (Hachette India, 2022)
A DARK & NARROW HOUSE (Putnam/Penguin RH USA & Titan Books UK-2027)
Writer I Runner I Rheumatologist
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queries @rhaliterary
Insta: usmantanveermalik
www.usmanmalik.org
Marnee Chua @marneechua.bsky.social Reads speculative fiction, goes on long walks, and likes spreadsheets.
#clarionwestadmin #nexteconomymba #coworking 
Vijayalaxmi/Vee @kaunvijaya.bsky.social She/Her
Pathological apologizer and professional hater.
Clarion '26. Words in FFO, Lightspeed and BCS.
First reader @ Apex
https://vijayalaxmisamal.wordpress.com
louis @swagboygalore.bsky.social it's just words (viable paradise '25, clarion west '26, granta short fiction '26)
Avani @avani.bsky.social ML/Systems researcher with delusions of neuroscience and cryptography. Currently @Cloudflare and Emory. Dilettante SFF writer. Fellow of Odd Salon. I like to play the drums. #vp2023 #cw2026.
https://linktr.ee/circumviso
Sydnee @sydmt.blacksky.app Editor and writer of speculative fiction, recovering journalist, SFWA/ACES member, Unbreaking volunteer, cat lady. Clarion West '26
Nonbinary, but she/her, please.
Business inquiries: shadesofsydnee.com
Adan Jimenez (he/they/รฉl) @thecomicaztec.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Translator | Co-writer of Sherlock Sam with Felicia Low as AJ Low | Gamer | Comic Book Nerd | General Geek | ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐บ๐ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | http://aj-low.com | @aj_low_writers
Rashida J. Smith @rashidajsmith.bsky.social artist formerly known as @eddygrrl
she/her
How it started: Clarion West 2005
How it's going: Program Director
Member SFWA | Inveterate Gemini | Still doing cartwheels
mb carvalho @mb-carvalho.bsky.social he/him. draws, writes, sleeps. scwbi member, clarion west '26 https://www.mbcarvalho.com/
Joshua Palmatier/Zombies Need Brains @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social Joshua Palmatier is an epic fantasy writer and the founder of the small press Zombies Need Brains. ZNB does NOT use AI imagery in its covers and does NOT accept AI-generated stories. Visit the store: https://zombies-need-brains-llc.square.site
Nailah Moon ๐ธ๐ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @nailahmoon.bsky.social ๐ I write Sci-Fi , Fantasy, Eco-fiction and Horror. Artist, DJ and so much more
Abolition + Afrofuturism + Food Sovereignty
#thereareblackpeopleinthefuture
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๐ Clarion 2026, Charles R Saunders SFF 2025 Prize Winner, RWW 2023 Alumni
Sheila Garcรญa Mazari @sgmazari.bsky.social Artist ๐จ Writer โ๐ผ Librarian ๐ Cat Mom ๐๐โโฌ
2016 ALA Spectrum Scholar
2019 ALA Emerging Leader
2022 Roots. Wounds. Words. Spec Fic Fellow
2025 MFA Antioch University
2026 Clarion West
Shawn Frazier @afrosurreal.bsky.social Writer of the Weird
www.shawnwritesweird.com
Verdell Walker, Writer @vwalkerwrites.bsky.social Word Mistress / Producer & Host of โThe Book Upโ podcast
Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop 2025 | Clarion West 2026
Website: https://verdellwalkerwrites.mystrikingly.com/
IG: @verdellwalkerwrites
All links: https://linktr.ee/verdellwalkerwrites
Remy Nakamura (he/they) @remymura.bsky.social Writer. Activist. Traveler. Outdoorsy. Queer.
Current projects: hopepunk fungi-post-apocalypse novel, and kabuki onnagata actor turned consulting detective series.
SFWA, HWA. Clarion West grad & board member. he/they.
J.T. Greathouse @jeremyteg.bsky.social BFA nominated author of The Tower of the Tyrant and the Pact and Pattern series from Gollancz. Other books cookin'
website: www.jtgreathouse.wordpress.com
yasmeen / ูุงุณู
ูู @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 / ุตุจุงุญ ุงูุญุฑูุฉ
John Joseph Adams @johnjosephadams.com Series Editor of BASFF. Publisher of @lightspeedmagazine.com (+ Editor) and NIGHTMARE. Editor of 50+ anthologies. Co-editor (with Jordan Peele) of OUT THERE SCREAMING.
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Alex Grecian @alexgrecian.bsky.social NYT & USA Today bestseller. I don't have a lot of hot takes. Feel free to preorder my next book anyway. https://alexgrecian.substack.com
Joel Meadows @joelmeadows.bsky.social journalist, editor-in-chief of Tripwire Magazine and writer/ co-creator of graphic novel series Sherlock Holmes and The Empire Builders 
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internetโs gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, canโt lose.
@jlinwood.bsky.social @jlinwood.bsky.social 
Petitecreme @petitecreme.bsky.social Production/Graphic designer for books & comics (2000AD).
My art=> #cremeart
www.petitecreme.com
Simon Spanton @simonguy.bsky.social "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."
Wandering. Wondering. Freelance SFFH editor. Commissioning for The Broken Binding. Living in Edinburgh. Views my own and independent of my employers. Photos my own unless otherwise etc.
Actual names @actualnames.bsky.social Interesting names from genealogical and other sources.
Cliff Jones Jr. @cliffjones.bsky.social Author/editor of dreampunk and weird SFFH fiction: DRECK (2023), MIRRORMAZE (2020), SOMNISCOPE (2024), THE LASTING LANDS (2027). Watty winner, Imadjinn finalist, linguist, artist, coder, neurodivergent, INFP-T, 4w5, Scorpio, he/him. CliffJonesJr.com
LARP Storyteller @larp-storyteller.bsky.social I enjoy Live Action Role Playing games, the history and future of game design, and methods of positive social organization. My favorite colors are Seahawk Blue & Seahawk Green.
Neil Sharpson @unshavedmouse.bsky.social Author of The Burial Tide, from Zando Books 09 September. Get it here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-burial-tide-neil-sharpson/1146027348?ean=9781638932024
Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social Women working towards a kinder world. Join our campaign against the active discrimination of trans & non-binary people. Over 110,000 signatures of support, and counting ๐
๐ https://notinourname.org.uk
๐ https://www.gofundme.com/f/notinourname-fundraiser
Helen O'Hara @helenlohara.bsky.social Film journalist, author, podcaster, broadcaster, etc. Empire's Editor-at-Large. If you would like to give me work, have a look at helenohara.com
A P Clarke @apclarke.bsky.social London. I make The Lost Cat Podcast, I make music, I make movies, I post a lot of nerdy shit about these sorts of things.
All typos are to prove I am not AI. thank you.
apclarke.studio
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
Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social freelance UK tech policy x human rights / midlife MPhil student @ Strathclyde Law School, researching US tech policy x Christian Nationalism / IANAL / https://heatherburns.tech / ๐ฌ on Signal / open to work, hire me pls / "bad ass Glaswegian" apparently
Mallory OโMeara @malloryomeara.bsky.social Author โข Host of Reading Glasses and Reading Smut โข she/her
๐ดLA
www.malloryomeara.com
Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social Writer of Gods Behaving Badly, Warhorses of Letters and more. This American Life contributor.
Free newsletter (dormant) at mariephillips.beehiiv.com
Joรฃo F. Silva @joaosilvawrites.bsky.social Portuguese in Scotland | Epic Fantasy Author | The Smokesmiths series | Read Ruins of Smoke for free: https://linktr.ee/joaofsilva
Bert the Bookseller @booksellerbert.bsky.social Dad. Writer. Bookseller. Dork.
ABQ, NM
RoyalRoad|Patreon|Bookshop.org
https://linktr.ee/rjflippo
Liz Climo @lizclimo.bsky.social I make comics
Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social SFF enthusiast, hobby-collector, blogger, shouter-at-the-internet. Editor at Ignyte and Hugo winner Nerds of a Feather, along with reviews elsewhere. 2026 Hugo Fan Writer finalist. All links here: https://linktr.ee/roseanna.pendlebury (she/her).
Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social Writer, feminist.
Out now: Feminism for a World on Fire (Virago)
Previous books: Living Dolls, Before the Light Fades, A Quiet Life
Hon Professor Centre for Climate Justice, QMUL
Founder Women for Refugee Women
natashawalter.co.uk
Harley Laroux @harleylaroux.bsky.social Queer Author of Adult Romance | A Vow Fatale - Spring 2026 | Agent: Weaver Literary Agency | they/she | www.harleylaroux.com
@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk Reader of SF&F, mainly. *Libraries have ebooks that you can read on your phone. Est. 2005
Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social Photo sharing bot for planetary and deep space images.
Run by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
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Emma (Em) Sterner-Radley @emmasternerradley.bsky.social Fantasy author. Lesbian. Cancer-survivor. Cat-owner. Married. Coffee addict. Swede living in the U.K. (Chester at the moment.) SNOWBLOODED - out now! @solarisbooks . Agent: Fabienne at Ki Agency. She/her.
@lukewarm.bsky.social @lukewarm.bsky.social Psych Professor, LA
Jo Mills @jomills35.bsky.social Twitter addict, having a go with this lifeboat. May contain mention of horses and/or niche soft furnishings knowledge. No notable achievements, until napping is added to the Olympics. (She/her; Hampshire/West Sussex UK)
Duncan Molloy @duncanmolloy.bsky.social Board Games/Rock Pools/Dad Jokes/Intersectionality
Marc G @gravesnailyard.bsky.social World Fantasy Award-winning publisher/editor/designer/author, previously โresponsibleโ for the Black Library, Solaris, Angry Robot, Aconyte, now head of special ops for Trench Crusade. I like new music and old books and clever movies and you.
Alex MacFarlane @aghowes.bsky.social Book cataloguer and peripatetic scholar, researching the medieval Armenian Alexander Romance and 19th-century Caucasus cosmopolitanism. Films, trains, British. They/them.
Rebecca WB @rwb22.bsky.social she/her. I'm into sewing, fashion, costuming, museum design & curation, history, sci-fi/fantasy, film, archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, space, dinosaurs, and travel. I don't auto-followback. Always punch Nazis, healthcare is a right, eat the rich.
Derek Kunsken @derekkunsken.bsky.social Scifi author. Stories in Asimovs.com, Clarkesworldmagazine.com, Analogsf.com. Asimov and Aurora Award winner. Agented by Eric Showers. He/Him.
The House of Saints: https://geni.us/TheHouseOfSaints
Web: derekkunsken.com
SciFiNow @scifinow.bsky.social The worldโs best in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
Dr Inigo Purcell @inigopurcell.bsky.social Novelist, non-fiction writer and academic.
Writing a book about Arthur in the British Imagination from 1138-present.
Often not thinking about the 21st century by default
(he/him)
inigopurcell.wordpress.com
Greta Colombani (she/her) @gretacolombani.bsky.social Short stories on vampires, queerness, the end of humanity, etc. | Dr in Romantic ghosts @cam.ac.uk | Co-investigator of BA/Leverhulme "Mapping Italian Literary Cafรฉs, 1720-present" | @britfantasysoc.bsky.social Events Organiser for Oxfordshire & Berkshire
Robbie Morrison @robbiemorrison.bsky.social Writer. Novels: Edge of the Grave (Bloody Scotland Debut Crime Novel 2021); Cast a Cold Eye (Shortlisted for McIllvanney Prize 2023).
Comics: Nikolai Dante, Doctor Who, Judge Dredd, Drowntown, Heretic, etc. 
James Swallow @jmswallow.bsky.social Writer of Fortune; BAFTA-nominated, award-winning New York Times & Sunday Times bestselling author of novels, scripts, games, new thriller Dark Horizon, the Marc Dane series, tie-in fiction & much more!
https://jswallow.com/
https://linktr.ee/jmswallow
Justin Hill @justinhillauthor.bsky.social ๐ Nom. for Booker Prize x3
๐ Winner Somerset Maugham, Betty Trask, & Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prizes
๐โโ๏ธCreator Minka Lesk
๐ณ Gardener
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๐ฉ Hat wearer
๐ค Podcaster
๐ฒ Gamer
๐ PhD
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/justinhillauthor
theyโve meltzer ๐๏ธ๐ง๐ปโ๐ซฏโ๐ง๐ฝ S. Qiouyi Lu ้ธ็ง้ธ @s.qiouyi.lu sophie / seraphina (ser, seri, sephi also OK)! ๐ writer โข translator โข linguist โ EN/ไธญๆ/ES ๐ cover art by Kuri Huang โจ pronouns: รฆ โข e โข they (pl.) โฏ๏ธ repped by @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social ๐ always been a sicko, now also an AEW sicko
https://s.qiouyi.lu/
Brisbane in 28 Worldcon Bid @brisbane28.org Help us bring Worldcon (the World Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention) to Brisbane, Australia in 2028! ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ณ๐ฟ ๐ต๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ฏ ๐ผ๐ธ ๐ธ๐ง ๐ป๐บ ๐ณ๐จ ๐น๐ด ๐จ๐ฐ ๐ซ๐ฒ
brisbane28.org
instagram.com/brisbanein28
Scott M | DISMAL KEEP โ๏ธ @voxparlour.bsky.social TTRPG author and folklorist. Wrote Romance of the Perilous Land, Quill, The Terror Beneath, USR. Co-designer, Tunnels & Trolls: A New Age. Contributor to the Gold ENNIE-winning Dolmenwood.
Carrd profile: https://scottmalthouse.carrd.co/
Liz Danforth @lizdanforth-artist.bsky.social Artist in game industry since mid-70s. Recent work: Sorcery Contested Realm. Most recognized for Magic the Gathering; Tunnels & Trolls, FASA, Traveller, Middle Earth art for Iron Crown Enterprises. https://www.patreon.com/LizDanforth
Arthur Wyatt @arthurwyatt.bsky.social Based in Seattle. Writes comics (Judge Dredd is the one youโve heard of), makes web stuff for a living. "an idiot who's just throwing them all around the spectrum to sound intelligent"
Chris B ๐ป๐ @loottheroom.bsky.social Professional grump. Award winning RPG writer of The Wretched, Treasures Of The Troll King, A Dungeon Game. Co-designed Tunnels & Trolls: A New Age. Words in Pathfinder 2, Fallout, Discworld, etc.
loottheroom.itch.io
Email: chris @ loot the room .uk
eclectic games @eclecticgames.bsky.social UK FLGS, boardgames, RPGs, CCGs, minis, jigsaws, puzzles, dice, accessories, events, play space and lots more!
Moose @moosescribbles.space Larper and IT guy, dabbling comic artist
Somto Ihezue @somtoihezue.bsky.social
Locus Award & Perkoff Prize Winner
Nebula, Ignyte, BFA & ALCS Tom Gallon Finalist.
In: Clarkesworld| BCS| Podcastle| Strange Horizons| Escape Pod| Pseudopod|
MFA, @UofMaryland| TinHouse| Clarion
Filmmaker| Rep: @crsripley.bsky.social
somtoihezue.com
Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Comics.
Founder/Owner, Iron Circus Animation.
https://ironcircus.com
Executive/Associate Producer, Lackadaisy.
Writer, Cartoonist.
webcomic: http://blikada.com #blikada
William Meikle @williammeikle.com Wee sweary Scottish writer, living in Canada, with 30+ novels and 300+ short stories in genre presses over the past 30+ years. Mostly at williammeikle.com ... mostly.
P J Harvey @tigerears.bsky.social I'm not Polly Jean
But I am an author of SFF novels, even if I happen to be unpublished so far. I'm also autistic, so any help on the ol' networking front for someone who can't do anything else but write engaging character-based stories is appreciated.
Michael A. Stackpole ๐บ๐ฆ @michaelastackpole.bsky.social Award-winning writer and game designer. Author of the New York Times bestselling Rogue Squadron and I, Jedi (among 60+ others). https://ko-fi.com/michaelastackpole and
https://linktr.ee/michaelastackpole
Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social librarian and illustrator.
will post later, too sleepy
My shop: https://www.willquinnart.com/shop/prints
Tunnels & Trolls @tunnels-and-trolls.bsky.social Tunnels & Trolls is a fun, rules-light fantasy RPG created way back in 1975. This fan site is a nice cave for all trolls to hang out in and share stories, tips, insults and chow down with some rat-on-a-stick.
AdorkableSmile @adorkablesmile.bsky.social Moth. He/They.
PROJECTS: Fallen Star; The Winter Spirit
WIPs at https://adorkablesmile.neocities.org/
RPGs at https://adorkablesmile.itch.io/
Tags: #OneSkeetStory; #OneSkeetRPG
Christina Orlando @cxorlando.bsky.social reactor mag's resident book nerd. they/them ๐ต๐ท๐ณ๏ธโ๐ nyc
https://linktr.ee/christinaorlando
Zoรซ Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social โข political reporter @politicshome.bsky.social โข โinternet shepherdโ of Bluesky โข covering Westminster and where politics meets social media and tech
IG: http://instagram.com/zoe.crowther/ โข X: @zoenora6
๐ London via Notts, Newcastle & Bristol
Jane Green @profjanegreen.bsky.social Nuffield College, Oxford
Co-Director, British Election Study
Director, Nuffield Politics Research Centre
President, British Polling Council
Voting, surveys, explanation, singing โฆ
GreenPartyHan @greenpartyhan.bsky.social Green MP for Gorton and Denton
Plumber, runner, multiple greyhounds ๐๐ผโโ๏ธ๐ง๐พ
G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me Award-winning soccer mom. Wrote the books that one of those shows you like was based on. Currently: POISON IVY for DC Comics, BLACK CAT for Marvel. Buy my books: bookshop.org/shop/gww
James OโBrien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
brian j. @talkwordy.bsky.social kit kat enthusiast. former journalist, always editor. founder of Fireside Fiction Company. i delete my old skeets on the regular. he/him
Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social Novelist, poet, tutor, DJ and so on. Very polite.
My novel 'The House on Utopia Way' is out now - https://www.stefmo.co.uk/product-page/the-house-on-utopia-way-paperback
New poetry out with Broken Sleep 31st July - https://tinyurl.com/4yzf7amd
Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social Award-winning poltergeist and comedian | Writer of the Montgomery Bonbon mysteries | Pronouns like a butler coughing: he/him | linktr.ee/misterabk
UK TOUR 2026 (Extended!): www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
สษชษดแด๊ฑ @lines.ink The survivors, brought to their senses by the disaster, gave chase to the woman: she, laughing in mockery, changed herself into a wren and flew away.
~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social I like to think there's a little something for everyone here. There isn't, but I can think what I want. 
Saoirse Nรญ Chiaragรกin @miseryvulture.bsky.social Irish dilettante and horror writer in Berlin.
Dr Penny Goodman @pjgoodman.bsky.social Senior lecturer in Roman history. Appreciator of the Gothic. Lib Dem. She / her.
Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
Rhiannon Grist | HOME SICK out now! ๐ช๐ @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social Word Person | BFA winner | Best of British SciFi '19, '20 & '23 | THE QUEEN OF THE HIGH FIELDS (Luna Press) | HOME SICK (2026, Solaris) | She/Her | https://linktr.ee/rhiannon.grist
HOME SICK out now: https://geni.us/homesick
Rob Berg @robwillb.bsky.social Writer, copy editor, copy editorial director @bonabooks.bsky.social, Jim Henson expert, actual Muppet, theatre gay, former Disney cast member, Oz fan. Lives in London on a narrowboat. He/him. https://linktr.ee/robwillb https://gofund.me/ffde0bbea
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