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Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social "Race Politics & Irish America" (Oxford UP bit.ly/3XKj0nn) Winner: 2025 Sharon Harris Book Award. Excerpt: bit.ly/3FuH1sa Podcast: bit.ly/3ZT7pnW Juanita Casey "Horse of Selene" Afterword: bit.ly/3QTOlSo Page: https://english.uconn.edu/person/mary-burk
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Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social Award-winning writer and Orion Book Award finalist. American in Paris. Books: THE OYSTER WAR; HIGH HEEL. Next: THE PARISIAN SPHINX, A TRUE TALE OF ART & OBSESSION. Leonard Cohen blew me a kiss one time.
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hex @hexliterary.bsky.social hex publishes brief speculative texts on a weekly-ish basis. We're @WPI. Editors @katemcintyre.bsky.social @danielmiller.bsky.social @joeaguilar.bsky.social. Subs closed for now. Read hexliterary.com
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Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social Scottish writer/editor. Queer AF. Terrible workaholic.
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Books:
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Irish Writers Centre @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social Leading support and development organisation for writers in Ireland. Programmes | Resources | Courses | Events | #InternationalDebutNovelCompetition 📚
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The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social Literary magazine established in 1997 to publish & promote the very best new Irish and international writing. Stinging Fly Press was launched in 2005. Summer 2026 Issue #54 available to buy now:
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GoldSF @goldsf.bsky.social GoldSF is a new Goldsmiths Press imprint publishing intersectional feminist science fiction, looking to the future & imagining new ways of being in the world.
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Jamey Gallagher @jameygallagher.bsky.social Author of BODIES IN BAGS, I AM IDRIS ELBA, and AMERICAN ANIMISM.
https://jameyg0.wixsite.com/jameygallagher
Community college writing teacher
I read and write: literary stuff, crime stuff, weird stuff
From NH, living in Baltimore.
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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social Academic in Dublin. Contemporary literature & publishing.
Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social celebrating all forms of small-scale publishing in Ireland (+ abroad)
call for 2026 vendors: June
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Lynn Hutchinson Lee @lynnhutchinsonlee.bsky.social Ancient queen of tarts, queen of bone broth/Romany poshrat/ artist/writer/ gardener/ Origins of Desire in Orchid Fens, novella with Stelliform Press, 2025/ Nightshade, novel with Assembly Press, coming in 2026
Caroline Shea @therealcshea.bsky.social She/her. Freelance writer and editor living in New York. Author of Lambflesh (Kelsay Books, 2019). Open to editorial clients now: https://caroline-fitzgerald-shea.squarespace.com/editorial-consultations
Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne
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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!)
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Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • Blood Type: Curry • Leeds United • Anti-AI
#LUFC
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Erin Vachon (they/them) 🍉 @erinvachon.bsky.social Senior Reviews Editor @smokelong.bsky.social | Multigenre & Chapbook Editor @splitlippress.com | Providence menace | I write weird shit. | Fuck ICE. | More of us than there are of them.
Kyle Tam is Climbing Mt Moriah @percypropa.bsky.social Kyle. 31. She/they. Writer and game creator. Indie Groundbreaker and Ennie Winner. PFP by @d20plusmodifier, banner by @feralcharlie.bsky.social
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press 🐉 THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 🌳 Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
Jacob Jackson @inkfronds.bsky.social Ecological storytelling.
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é
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Rob Costello @cloudbusterrob.bsky.social (He/him) Stoker, Lambda, & Locus Award nominated author, anthologist, and teacher. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
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AN UGLY WORLD FOR BEAUTIFUL BOYS (Lethe Press)
WE MOSTLY COME OUT AT NIGHT (Running Press Teens)
THE DANCING BEARS (Lethe Press)
Caroline Levine @carolinelevine.bsky.social Cornell Professor, climate activist
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social Anarchist. Host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social Writer. Books: A THOUSAND WAYS TO DISAPPEAR (Cornerstone Press, 2028)/THE CLARITY OF HUNGER (Word West Press, 2021). Fiction instructor: Harvard Extension School. MacDowell Fellow ‘23. Email: fabulistpappas@gmail.com
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Jen Sexton-Riley, professional goofball @jensextonriley.bsky.social Hi, friends. I am here to enjoy life, spread joy, write stories, make art, make music, and squeeze all the good stuff out of life on this beautiful planet. No maga stuff please!
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Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-winning writer. Metalsmith.
Books: Coup de Grâce (Titan Books), Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror (Ghoulish)
www.sofiaajram.com
https://sofiaajram.substack.com
K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com writer. she/her 🌈🦇 heart's delight: Bmore, bats, & tattoos; Clarion & Tin House '18⚡️ kcmeadbrewer.com
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Samantha Murray @samanthamurray.bsky.social Australian short-story writer, mathematician, forgetter of things. Words in Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, F&SF, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, Fantasy Magazine and more. She/her.
West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social Publishing the best contemporary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry since 2009. Literary magazine based out of Charlotte, NC.
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Cara Lynn Carter ⚢⚧︎ @caralynncarter.bsky.social Sonder Speculation is a recurring print-only science fiction anthology that pays all creators equally and will never be sold on Amazon
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Ellis Nye @ellisnyeland.bsky.social SFF short story writer. Any pronouns. Submissions Coordinator and Co-Editor for Fiction at Reckoning Magazine. I'm ellisnyeland on all social media accounts.
Brandon O’Brien @therisingtithes.bsky.social 🇹🇹 Poet, SFF writer, TTRPG designer. Worldcon 2025 Poet Laureate.
@rascal.news columnist. Podcaster @speculate.bsky.social & @skiffyandfanty.com.
Author of CAN YOU SIGN MY TENTACLE? and other things.
Thank God for words.
https://www.brandonobrien.xyz/
Martha Wells @marthawells.com SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, Queen Demon, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
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Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social Writer/Editor. Co-founder @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social. Folk horror obsessive. Loves to talk books, movies, music, and booze. She/her
Blog:
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Patricia Correll @authorpcorrell.bsky.social Writer of ghost stories, fantasy and daily to-do lists. She/her
Chloe Chun Seim @chloechun.bsky.social Fiction writer & artist. CHURN (Texas Review Press 2023) Words: Split Lip Magazine. Free State Review. LitMag. Opinions my own. MFA at UMKC. she/her https://linktr.ee/chloe_chun_seim
Malda Marlys 🍉 @aardwyrm.bsky.social sentient curio cabinet. writes fantastika, spouts dog nonsense. slush reader for giganotosaurus. the bird's name is rambo. hwa, codexian, ey/em
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Dr. Redfern "Red" Barrett @redfernbarrett.com Non-binary author. Stories: Colored Lens, FFO, Passages North, Nature. Non-fiction: Guernica, Strange Horizons, PinkNews. LGBTQ+ novels from Bywater.
Ambitopia evangelist.
Literature PhD. Rep'd by Jonathan Villegas of Oslwanger Lit.
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Kari Nguyen @knguyenwrites.bsky.social Writer. She/her/hers. karinguyen.wordpress.com.
Su Zi @suzi00.bsky.social Zoeglossia Fellow 2023
EIC Red Mare
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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.
Jae Steinbacher @jaesteinbacher.bsky.social SFF writer | They/them | jaesteinbacher.com
Team Two Dogs @lchanwrites.bsky.social Writer. Work in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, The Dark, Podcastle. Eugie Award finalist 2020. He/him.
Stories and contact form: https://lchanwrites.wordpress.com/