Frock Flicks @frockflicks.bsky.social A trio of costumers from the SF Bay Area who have OPINIONS about historical costume movies & TV shows.
E.A. Noble|Sapphic Lead SFFH. @authoreanoble.bsky.social Author of Sapphic Fantasy & Horror| Feminist| Women Lead| 🔥 Women & Enbies who proudly misbehave| Acquisitions Editor @fiyahlitmag & @rawheadjournal
https://www.theeajournal.me/contact
Gibbs Moryss @gibbsmoryss.bsky.social Book dragon, meadmaker, SCA, opera fan
Summer Fletcher @summerfletcher.com 🐎🏹⚔️🎙️🖊️
Hugo & Ignyte finalist.
Formerly: PodCastle, Nightmare Magazine, Lightspeed
Code Coven IGM Ghost
they/them
Phenomena Press @phenomenapress.bsky.social Phenomena Press is an indie book press focusing on aromantic and asexual speculative fiction stories
Run by @megthewriter.bsky.social
Designs by @harperkinsley.bsky.social
Editors: @faerywhimsy.bsky.social and @dragonediting.bsky.social
Naomi Day @thenaomiday.bsky.social queer Black spec fic writer
clarion west '22, the new school mfa '25
words in FIYAH, Black Warrior Review, The Seventh Wave
thenaomiday.com
LA Knight & Co. (NEED RENT HELP, CHECK PINNED) @laknight89.bsky.social SFF writer (pro & fic); nommed for Locus 2021; Fiyah Lit alum; queer Black ♿ LDS autistic byke. 37. OSDD (9+). 6-peep polyam (1Sp, 2LP, 2Mm). Cat mom. Poor af. Cassgenderfluidwtf; she/they/fae/jæ/xe/etc. Anti-censorship. Pfp = illustrated version of me.
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/
Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social Writer, Poet, Author. Monster (golden-hearted, love-hungry, moon-blessed).
https://www.amazon.com/Delphinium-Gospel-Denzel-Xavier-Scott/dp/1942004680
Tonja K. Johnson | Black Speculative Fiction @tonjakjohnson.bsky.social (she/her)
🏅Award-winning SFFH Author | Acquiring Editor @fiyahlitmag | First Reader @othersidespec | MWC '26 | Pre-order DARK STAR 👇🏾👇🏾
tonjakjohnson.com/links
The Cookout Anthology @tco-anthology.bsky.social An anthology of speculative fiction from the African Diaspora
https://thecookoutanthology.com/
On Hiatus NSSJ(She/They) Queer Spec Writer @nssjacobs.bsky.social Queer enby autistic bipolar spoonie Jewish Irish SFF writer, biblical & Second Temple scholar, artist, geek. #AlanTuring #HarveyMilk Noor Inayat Khan #BLM #TransRightsAreHumanRights
#Immigrants #Palestinians Let’s create good trouble! Mask up.
Xiran Jay Zhao @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social #1 New-York-Times-Disqualified & Hugo-Award-disqualified author of IRON WIDOW and ZACHARY YING AND THE DRAGON EMPEROR (They/Them)
Bex @idealthursday.bsky.social She/her
Disabled, Queer, Burner, Knitter, LSG, Neurospicy, Avid Reader.
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Torbie cat adopted from Tinykittens
Katie Lovely @ktlovely.bsky.social Rewild yourself
Agrias @agrias-oaks.bsky.social All cats are beautiful
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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social We are Authors Against Book Bans. We stand united against the deeply unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. We unequivocally support diverse voices on our library shelves, in our schools, and in our culture.
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com
P.C. Verrone @pcverrone.com Author of RABBIT, FOX, TAR (2026) & THE BLOND (forthcoming)
Playwright of BAD MEDICINE & CROCODILE DAY (2023)
Lit rep: Alyssa Jennette.
pcverrone.com
Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred @lpkindred.bsky.social Citizen of the Wildeeps! Writer Editor Podcaster TeachingArtisr of Speculative Fiction! Words in Apex, Fiyah, Anathema, Prismatic, Escape Pod, PodCastle. Ghost Class/Clarion c/o 2030-2022. Just Keep Writing co-host. Art Institute Chicago BFAW c/o 2027.
Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social Award-winning author, poet, Hugo Award-nominated editor
TONGE I DREAM IN, MOJORHYTHM & NINE BAR BLUES, MARVEL'S Black Panther: PANTHER'S RAGE novel, AFRICA RISEN and TROUBLE THE WATERS, NYTimes bestselling collab w/ Janelle Monáe on THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN
Cherae @clclarkwrites.com SFF’s buffest lesbian. BFA & Ignyte & Locus Winner. Nebula & Hugo & BFA Finalist. TOURAINE'S ARMS & TOURAINE’S LEGS & TOURAINE'S @$$ & AMBESSA'S ARMS (Orbit ‘21,‘23,'25). français, العربيّة. they/she/sir/Hey, soldier.
https://linktr.ee/clclark
Justina Ireland @justinaireland.com Award winning writer and New York Times Bestseller. Sometimes agent at Handspun Literary. I also do TV and comics.
Food is a scam in this country.
Up next: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN HALLOWEEN - October 2026
P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Jumbie & Duppy Conqueror. Rambler of Things. Doer of Stuff. Brotha From Another Planet | pdjeliclark.com
Eboni Dunbar is drafting.... @ebonidunbar.bsky.social Black, queer #specfic #writer from California. Ignyte award nominated. Novella Author of Stone and Steel. Published in FIYAH literary magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Nightlight and more.
Ebonidunbar.com
B. Sharise @bsharise.bsky.social Kidlit Author, FIYAH Editor, & Curriculum Developer
Rep'd by Laurie McLean @ FUSE Literary
www.bsharisewrites.com
C. M. Alongi @cmalongi.bsky.social Sci-fi/fantasy author & content creator
Creator of CaFae Latte
Cheer Choice Award Nominee
MN Book Award Nominee
https://linktr.ee/cmalongi
LGBTQ Authors Rule the World! @lgbtqauthorsrule.bsky.social Three kobolds in a trenchcoat. LGBTQ+ author, reader, lover. Nonbinary demisexual. They/them. NO DMs.
Genine Tyson @quirkywritergirl.bsky.social Acquiring Editor at FIYAH Speculative Fiction Magazine, Writer, Full-Time Worker, and Part-Time Student (Data Science). Bay Area
Mahmud El Sayed @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social Writer | Arabfuturist | SFF | Cat dad 🐈⬛️ |
THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY out now with Gollancz & Saga Press.
Rep: @jjbker.bsky.social
linktr.ee/mahmudelsayed
Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social Writer, grad student, amateur kazooist (she/they)
The Splinter in the Sky (2023), This World Is Not Yours (2024), The King Must Die (2025), assorted short stories, and some other stuff
kashinggiwa.com
Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga @aniyonsenga.bsky.social writer extraordinaire~ Spec fic is my jam. Words in Uncanny Magazine, Andromeda Spaceways,
GigaNotoSaurus, Augur Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, FIYAH, Apparition Lit, etc.
EN/FR/JP. she/her. Photo by Madeeha Photos. https://www.aline-mweziniyonsenga.com/
Shade @shadyfiles.bsky.social Author of GODDESS CROWN. Book blog @ http://Coffeebookshelves.com. Korean drama addict. Rep'd by Joanna Moult at Skylark lit.
Ukamaka Olisakwe @msolisakwe.bsky.social tv writer. novelist. editor. founder & eic of @iselemagazine.bsky.social
Tobi Ogundiran @tobiogundiran.com Ignyte, British Fantasy award-winning author of GUARDIAN OF THE GODS duology (Tor) • JACKAL, JACKAL (Undertow) • BSFA, Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy award nominee• Rep: Alex Cochran
Plangdi Neple @plangdi.bsky.social SFF writer and nerd! || He/Him
Stories in: Omenana, Anathema, Translunar Travelers Lounge, FIYAH, Baffling, and more.
https://plangdineple.wixsite.com/plangdi
Amanda Ilozumba @ilozumba.bsky.social Messenger for fictional characters| Three owls disguised as a human| Solarpunk girlie| Relunctant accountant
Read my work here : https://linktr.ee/Messenger.for.fic.characters
Victor Forna @vf12.bsky.social writing daydreams
https://linktr.ee/vforna
Stephen Embleton @stephenembleton.bsky.social From KwaZulu-Natal to Oxford.
Academic Visitor to Oxford Uni 2022
2024 Nommo Award Winner Best Novella: “Undulation”.
YA urban fantasy “Bones & Runes”
SF novel “Soul Searching”
Sauúti Collective (@sauutiverse.bsky.social)
He/Him
stephen.embleton.co.za
Alvin Kathembe @akathembe.bsky.social writer, thinker, lover
Oluwatomiwa Ajeigbe is querying! @oluwasigma.bsky.social he/him. part-time god of stories. applied mathematician. ✍🏾: F&SF, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lightspeed, Podcastle, Baffling Magazine etc. Ignyte Award winner.
Chịkọdịlị @chikodili.bsky.social Author, essayist and scholar. Recently grown up. Medicated somebody. PhDing at Lancaster University.
Agency page: https://tinyurl.com/39sren8c
E✨ @ephraimorji.bsky.social Avid Reader; Afrofuturism, African fantasy, sci-fi, horror, Caribbean mythology. Dog-dad.
Writer.
Current WIP “A Call Of Bloody Things.”
M H Ayinde 🍉 A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES out now! @mhayinde.bsky.social She/Her. Blerd. Sunday Times bestselling author. Nommo, Ignyte, British Fantasy & Locus Award Finalist.
A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES out now! (Orbit UK/Saga)
https://linktr.ee/mhayinde
Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social African spec author, ronin editor, recovering journalist.
🏳️🌈She/Her🏳️🌈
EX MARGINALIA my collection of essays by spec writers of colour is out now!
Moses Ose Utomi @mosesoseutomi.bsky.social Fantasy Writer: The Lies of the Ajungo, The Truth of the Aleke, The Sisters of the Mud duology
THE MEMORY OF THE OGISI available for preorder now!!
Martial Artist--Karaoke Junkie--Obscure Sports Afficionado
Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social Writer: Rosewater, Murders of Molly Southbourne, Far from the Light of Heaven, Making Wolf, Jackdaw and others.
Arthur C. Clarke and BSFA award winner, Hugo finalist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Etc.
Reading worm.
Opinions mine.
He/him
Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social African Australian author, editor. Winner: Solstice, Ignyte British Fantasy, Locus Awards. Finalist Shirley Jackson, PK Dick, World Fantasy Award. Twice Otherwise honoree for exciting work in speculative fiction. eugenbacon.com
Namwali @namwalien.bsky.social "I read books. I teach books. I write books. I think about books. It's one job." | "Writing to me is an advanced and slow form of reading." -Toni Morrison
Nikhil Singh @clubded.bsky.social Author-TATY WENT WEST(Rosarium US/Jacaranda UK/Kwani KE) CLUB DED/DAKINI ATOLL(Luna Press UK)
Artist-SALEM BROWNSTONE(Walker Books UK/Candlewick US)
Music-Witchboy
Rep: SARAH SUCH LITERARY AGENCY
BSFA/multiple Nommo finalist
ASFS charter member
Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social Sarungano. Author of Drinking from Graveyard Wells. Tin House Scholar. CW ‘22 Voodoonauts Cofounder
https://linktr.ee/YvetteL
Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social God first. writer. he/him. Alpha grad. Clarion ’23. Stories in The Rumpus, Clarkesworld, FIYAH. Enquiries: Osahon4545@yahoo.com
Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com Engineer | Writer | Editor
Enjoyer of Equations, Ideas & Assorted Nonsenses
Hugo, Nebula, Locus & Caine Prize finalist
Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY now: buff.ly/X3CHaZk
Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social alleged writer.
words in: strange horizons, apparition, solarpunk, omenana…
twitter: @asarirl
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
Minerva Cerridwen @minervacerridwen.bsky.social Xe/xem/xyr or she/her. Genderfluid aro ace.
Author of novella 'The Dragon of Ynys'. 🐉
https://minervacerridwen.com/
Profile picture hand-drawn and human-made by @bydhiyanah.bsky.social.
Essa Hansen @essahansen.bsky.social Sci-fi & Fantasy author. The Graven trilogy (Orbit Books). Short fic (F&SF, GdM). Pre-order my novella CASTHEN GAIN!
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Film Sound Designer (as Nia Hansen) at Skywalker Sound.
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Rep by Hannah Bowman. Neurospicy. she/her
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https://linktr.ee/EssaHansen
Rosiee Thor @rosieethor.bsky.social Award losing author 📚🌈
Being Aro 💚 (5/26/26)
Summer Coven 🩸(8/25/26)
Life is Strange: Out of Focus 🎸(9/1/26)
Ask me about my plants. (they/them)
https://linktr.ee/rosieethor
John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social Nebula Award & Locus Award winner. Novels: SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (2024), WEARING THE LION (2025), THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS (2026). Disabled. Ace/aro. He/him. https://linktr.ee/johnwiswell
Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social Fantasy and science fiction writer/artist with a tendency towards ecology and quietly strange things. Keeper of invertebrates and fish. Enjoys walking simulators and Second Life. Multiply marginalised.
Website: http://www.polenthblake.com
S.L. Dove Cooper @dovelynnwriter.bsky.social EU-based demi sff author and independent researcher. Writes predominantly about asexuality, aromanticism and cosy sff. She/They.
Direct shops: https://payhip.com/dovelynwriter / https://dovelynnwriter.itch.io/
Website: https://www.dovelynnwriter.com
Mixeduppainter @mixeduppainter.bsky.social You may know me as the one who kept writing monster romances (and also won't stop talking about Beyond Evil)
Writing as J. Emery
Spiritual Successor out 2024
Clades 🍉 @cladesm.bsky.social Author. Fan of too many fandoms. Introvert. I don't usually talk much but I love encouraging others having fun and trying to make the world a better place on my timeline (skyline?).
Am querying a New Adult Urban Fantasy, and writing five other books.
Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social Writer, poet, editor, reviewer. @anathemamagazine.bsky.social co-founder. Publisher at @huldrahouse.bsky.social. Trans. (She/They)
https://kayaskovdatter.wordpress.com/
https://mathesonfreelancing.com/
https://www.huldrahouse.com
Carlie St. George @mygeekblasphemy.bsky.social Writer. NOC shift and sleep deprived. Shirley Jackson and British Fantasy Award Finalist. Blog and list of published works at mygeekblasphemy.com. Ace. She/her. Rep: Lucienne Diver.
Jasmine Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social Fantasy author (jasminegower.com) and freelance book editor (publishing.jasminegower.com). I am also Normal about video games.
Sarah "Neila" Elkins @neilak20.bsky.social Artist, Writer, Flatter
Panromantic Ace, Nikola Tesla's #1 Fan, Meatbox
https://tapas.io/series/Book-of-CoL/info
Would love to have a Lit Agent
SarahNeilaElkins(AT)gmail
(She/He/They)
No AI & No NFT
#BookOfCoL #NoAIWriMo #PsychicUnderground
Robin St. Clare @robinwrites.bsky.social Pathologist 🔬 and writer of spooky spec fic. Philly expat in Carolina. Disabled POTSie. Ace is the place for me. 🇪🇨🇺🇸🏳️🌈 she/her
Theodore Hill (he/him) @probablyharmless.bsky.social Writer of (mostly) horror. Also trans, queer, polyam, and Jewish. theodorehill.weebly.com for contact info, publication credits, and super strange testimonials. Co-Editor @dielaughingmag.bsky.social / Wario of @cassandradaucus.bsky.social
Lauren Roy @falconesse.bsky.social Writer, bookseller, gamer, geek. she/her. queer.
Artist at peculiarityshop@bsky.social
Staff at viableparadise@bsky.social
Sandstone @quartzen.bsky.social Programmer and SFF reader. Sega fan. Asexual and otherwise queer. She/her. 📚
Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social SFFH Author/Critic. BSFA & British Fantasy Award Winner. Shoreline of Infinity columnist. GSFWC Social Media. #SGSAH PhD. #StrathLife
Queer Neurodivergent with Chronic Illness.
Stories and more: https://linktr.ee/ruthejbooth
K.B. Wagers @kbwagers.com Trans/genderqueer SFF author of the #NeoG series | AND THE MIGHTY WILL FALL is out now!
Agent Jennifer Chevais @ The Rights Factory
#Helldivers2 nerd \ #GoAvsGo \ (they/them)
Don't forget that Art is Joy
kbwagers.com
Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online Indie mixed genre horror and fantasy author (Died 2025 - account managed by my widow, so I can carry on spooking you!)
https://chaoticauthor.carrd.co/
https://chaoticauthor.online/
Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social Fantasy author (THE TETHERED MAGE, THE OBSIDIAN TOWER, THE LAST HOUR BETWEEN WORLDS, etc). Tea drinker, larper, mom. Swordfights in ballgowns. THE LAST STAR IN THE VOID coming 11/26!
Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social queer non-binary SFFH writer. ace/aro. ADHD. they/them.
author of THE WOLF AMONG THE WILD HUNT | SO YOU WANT TO BE A ROBOT | & more coming
http://tiny.cc/recordedantho
https://linktr.ee/mercfennwolfmoor
Rosileetina @rosileetina.bsky.social 21 | ND (ASD/ADHD) | She/He/They 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | Black Artist | Queer | Repost with Credit! | Free 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩🇦🇲🇭🇹
Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social Writer of Southern Gothic for kids & adults. ROOT MAGIC | CONJURE ISLAND | THE CREEPENING OF DOGWOOD HOUSE | HOLLOW TONGUE | PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE
she/her
edenroyce.com
Fiasco the cat @fiascothecat.bsky.social Fiasco is BIG GENIUS can catch any kind of moth even MAMMOTH am still working on hims SCREENPLAY it is very good no u cannot read it (he/him).
suspu @suspu.bsky.social Comic artist. Read my completed webtoons; ShootAround & Heir's Game, and my current on-going comic The Tattletale Fool!
Rep'd by @mmmlysaght.bsky.social
https://www.patreon.com/suspu
contact info: https://suspu.carrd.co
Khaalidah 🍉 @khaalidah.bsky.social WFA Nominated editor. Ignyte Nominated Editor.
Writer. Podcaster. Narrator. SFWA. Codex.
she/her
#BLM ✊🏽 ☪️🎙
So be it. See to it. ~ Octavia Butler
Arcane @arcanethesage.bsky.social 
@johnncollins.bsky.social @johnncollins.bsky.social 
Jadedisland @jadedisland.bsky.social 🎀✨ Author | Alternative Fashion | Magazine Editor of “Jaded” | Social Media Manager | Pink Press & Media 🎀✨
https://jadedisland.org/
Bryanna/Brioche, Angry Noodle @theangrynoodle.com Afro Boricua 🇵🇷. Founder of sci-fi/fantasy/writing blog, The Angry Noodle. Reading stuff, crocheting silly little guys. 🧶She/her.
Profile pic by @gaudipern!
https://theangrynoodle.com/
https://linktr.ee/brya23456
editors@theangrynoodle.com
Senongo @senongo.bsky.social Designer and illustrator in NYC. Author of Cross-Cultural Design. VP of Design at Nava.
Latonya "Penn" P. @wordsfromapenn.com Mid 30s Black-Asian genderqueer freelance contributor at Pop Heist, Yatta-Tachi, and more. I'm a poet too. Pronouns: they/them.
My Website: https://wordsfromapenn.com/
https://ko-fi.com/latonyap
Email: tonyapenn2009@gmail.com
Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social What Do People Do at the Science Museum (illus Qin Leng, 8.26)
Bathtime for Snow Monkeys (illus Yas Imamura,10.26)
Profile pic by Yas Imamura
Prettyokmaggie.com
Joelle Thérèse 🩵 @joelletherese.bsky.social 🇵🇭 Filipino New Yorker
🧳 Travel for the plot
📧 collab@joelletherese.com
✈️ @7641kollektive co-founder
🩷💜💙
https://linkin.bio/joelle_theresee
Musu Cole 📚✨ @musucole.bsky.social YA RomCom Writer| 80s Baby| Typo Expert| ENFP With ADHD| Alt Black Girl & Rock Music Lover| Married Cat Lady| She/Her| #DVMentor Mentee '21
📌🗽 🖤🇸🇱
**Revising YA Dramedy
Welcome to my organized chaos🤘🏾!
Warning: I'm really dorky & don't hide it☺️
Chelsea Gayden @chelseagayden.bsky.social Writer of stories with magic & meaning✨
https://www.chelseagayden.com/
https://open.substack.com/pub/chelseagayden/p/am-i-new-yet?r=1yrc1w&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
Sarah IS LOOKING FOR WORK!!! @killianfantasy.blacksky.app Artist and writer.
Books: The Heretic Series. Bride of the River God
Comics: The Violent Vixens Ride Again, Soul Food War, Villainous (webcomic). #art #books www.sarahamacklin.com
https://linktr.ee/sarahamacklin
mys maya @sammyaworks.bsky.social (they/them; she/her) // early 30s // Writer & Multimedia Artist // Ultimate Lesbian Pisces // #FighterVibesOnly 🌙✨
Christian M. Ivey @ageedubb.bsky.social Art Director at @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social + Digital Comms at @OBI-Belonging.bsky.social
Nalo Hopkinson - Jamaica Ginger & Other Concoctions @nalohop.bsky.social Award-winning author of prose & comics, maker of food and small objects she/her/hers http://nalohopkinson.com
Makeda (she/her) @makedakb.bsky.social writer. failed language learner. editor. 🇬🇾. ANTI AI “ART”.
codexian. words in a few places. Slush reader at @UncannyMagazine.
Same username everywhere else.