Michael Staniforth @staniforthmick.bsky.social Author featured in A Coup of Owls, 4 horsemen pubs, and U is for Unexplained. Bisexual. He/They Trans rights are human rights.
Author website: https://mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/
M. A. Holland @maholland.bsky.social Reader/writer. Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia.
Probably misses his old glasses.
#drafting: THESE CURSES WE BEAR, YA Dark Fantasy/Fairy Tale
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Ashley Mangtani @writerash.bsky.social Slipstream Writer ✍️
Published or forthcoming in Strange Horizons | LITRO | Washington Square Review | Boudin | Neon Dystopia | Expat Press | HAWKEYE etc
Short story collection ⬇️
ashleymangtani.com
Brisbane in 28 Worldcon Bid @brisbane28.org Help us bring Worldcon (the World Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention) to Brisbane, Australia in 2028! 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🇵🇬 🇫🇯 🇼🇸 🇸🇧 🇻🇺 🇳🇨 🇹🇴 🇨🇰 🇫🇲
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TVWritersVault @tvwritersvault.bsky.social Where TV/Film Producers & Execs Scout New Pitches for Film, TV & Digital. Shows Discovered & Broadcast Globally on Discovery Channel, A&E, Lifetime TV, SyFy, Velocity & Others... Visit https://www.tvwritersvault.com
Brooke Lanier @authorbelanier.bsky.social Author.
Cozy | Gothic | Queer
https://brookelanierbooks.com/
E.R. Keel @erkeel.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Author of When Stars Fall.
✨ Writing girls who save the world & the girls who save them.
She/Her.
Gabe McGrath @gabemcgrath.bsky.social 🦘Aussie 📝 Writer 📻 Radio Creative 🎤 Writing a memoir about Melbourne’s youth-run Hitz FM. 🔊 "Those pesky 90s kids that turned Australian radio upside down."
samantha coppola 💭 @samanthacoppola.bsky.social actor, writer, secret nymph
-> https://linktr.ee/samanthacoppolavo
Richie Black @richieblack.bsky.social Writer, AWGIE-winner, dog dad.
Scriptwriter for TV / film.
Flibbertigibbet, will-'o-the-wisp, clown
Ravn J. Silver @ravn-j-silver.bsky.social Writer |she/her
🗡️Speculative Fiction🪐
Short stories, poetry, zines, collages
Words in Apex And Clarkesworld
Clarion Writing Workshop '26!
Never AI, obviously.
Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social Stories in CRAFT Literary, Vestal Review, Bending Genres, more. 🐈⬛ Learned from Rutgers-Camden MFA '18, Tin House '22, and Lambda Literary '25. Fiction reader for Okay Donkey. catherinebuck.com
Seth Williams @boojums.bsky.social neurodivergent queer human, podcaster, editor, reader and gamer. managing editor @ talestoterrify.com and editor @ foldedspacepodcast.com
Folded Space, an Audio Science Fiction Anthology @foldedspace.bsky.social An audio science fiction anthology curated by the editor of Tales to Terrify, showcasing short-form science fiction from voices across the spectrum of human existence. Each season invites listeners to explore the universe, one story at a time.
Helena O'Connor @helenafiction.bsky.social Aussie horror/fantasy author, ex-academic, chronic illness introvert. Short stories in Nature, etc. Cozy horror novella Willow Close (IFWG publishing). Sharing cute things, video games, cats, the writing life. She/her
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social.
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
NC Sayers @ncsayers.bsky.social Hello everyone! I'm NC Sayers, an autistic science fiction and fantasy writer who likes writing about strong autistic heroines. I'll be sharing inspiration, writing events, and trying not to go nuts getting story ideas from the news. Excited to connecting!
Author Zogarth @authorzogarth0.bsky.social Amazon bestselling author of GameLit & LitRPG fiction • fantasy systems • progression stories
The Primal Hunter series
https://a.co/d/7R5MYd4
D.R. Forge @drforge.bsky.social lit horror author
Winner of the 2025 NYC Midnight Short Story Contest and 2025 NYC Midnight Scary Story Challenge
HWA/SFWA
https://www.nycmidnight.com/stories/when-dragons-do-laundry
Robert Luke Wilkins @robertlukewilkins.com SFF writer, software tinkerer, and singer to my cats. Short fiction in PodCastle, Kaleidotrope, On Spec, Stupefying Stories, and others. Codex, SFWA, BSFA. Fond of cheese, deficient in fishcakes.
https://www.robertlukewilkins.com/
Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA. Global Indigenous Horror (UPM, 2025) | poetry reader Orion’s Belt | Words in Future Fire, UtopiaSF, Space&Time, Lovecraftiana, etc | EIC @katabaticcircus.bsky.social
William Ledbetter @williamledbetter.bsky.social SF writer, Nebula Winner, Husband, Dad, drinker of coffees and beers, eater of nachos, employee of cats, walker of dogs. SFWA and Codex. he/him
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
George Dunn @georgesreads.bsky.social Horror reader
Reviewer for fanfiaddict.com
Author Emily Lankow 🌈 @authoremilylankow.bsky.social She/her
✍️ Author of YA Fantasy, clean romance, urban fantasy and LGBTQ+ fantasy 🏳️🌈
I love books, painting and making art, crystals, cats, chocolate, tea, yoga,
80's music, and video games 💕
🚫NO A/I🚫
Check out my work at emilylankow.com
Frey Lylark @freybytheway.bsky.social Genderqueer disabled butch (they/xe). Writes cool disabled sapphic stories that are funny sometimes. Probably needs to lie down. Life is too loud. Lesbian&bi/pan solidarity is everything. Published in APEX.
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
Rep: Bieke van Aggelen
Galen Gower - Writer @galengower.com I write stories. Some weird, some funny, all poorly, like a child armed with nonsense words and heavily sugared coffee.- D @dominusprinceps.bsky.social @dominusprinceps.bsky.social
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
Mark Daku @markdaku.bsky.social Canadian living in Athens, Greece. Ex-professor of political science. SciFi stories and literary non-fiction rejected from all of your favourite outlets.
Mike Piero 🏳️🌈 @mikepiero.org Writer. Novelist. Poet. Game Studies Scholar. Writing in J Journal, Midway Journal, Rain Taxi, Moveable Type, Impost, Sandy River Review, & Trash Cat Lit. *Views are my own.* Monarch and Best Small Fictions noms. More at www.mikepiero.org. He/Him. Bi. 🩷💜💙
Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social Moss. Poems. Probably talking to your child about life and death.
https://www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/aurora-comes-online-haley-boss
Shiraki Press @shirakipress.com Independent publisher of adult fiction with a hopepunk vibe.
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All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social Literary magazine exploring character-and-theme-driven speculative fiction. Submissions CLOSED. #litmag
Read stories at www.allworldswayfarer.com
Tarot Interviews @tarotinterviews.com A world-first interview series where artists and creatives share their stories through tarot. Listeners in 55 countries. Produced by @finbarre.com. Based in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, UK.
Podcast - https://tarotinterviews.com
Elisabeth Wolf @elisabethwolf.bsky.social Writing gothic fiction. Spending time in graveyards. Eating ice cream. Edinburgh. Writes crime as @alisonbelsham.bsky.social
Website: https://elisabethwolf.net/home
T @sonofm.bsky.social 
Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social ✳️ 2026 Ditmar nominee|2026 Best Small Fiction nominee|2024 Aurealis Finalist
✳️ Speculative, surreal, literary in:
BSFA Fission#6, Cast of Wonders, Inner Worlds, Factor Four, Fictive Dream, Blood+Honey
✳️ linktr.ee/emmikhor
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
Kia Leep 🏳🌈 @kialeep.bsky.social Author of cozy, quirky, queer LitRPG. Expect writing memes, gay memes, and gay writing memes.
Friendly Fyre | Glass Kanin
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0DQ2Q8HNH/allbooks
neotl @ctrlcreep.bsky.social get me out of this shape
Harper Dent @harperdent.bsky.social Writer of speculative fiction. Loves nature, dogs and chocolate. She/them
Michelle Morrell @vylotte.bsky.social Division Head - Exhibits, Seattle Worldcon 2025
I read, therefore, I am.
Patti Miller @pattimillerwriter.bsky.social Writer, (books, articles, essays), memoir teacher, long-distance walker, book-lover, nature-lover.
Big And Bookish @big-and-bookish.bsky.social She/Her. Fat, bi, queer librarian. #FatInTheLibrary #BiAndLargeInTheLibrary
Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social Horror/Fantasy writer. Mom of two semi-feral girls and a pack of mutts.
Follow for books, short stories & random things I find interesting.
Work in LCRW, Uncharted, Abyss & Apex
Member of HWA, Codex
Eugie Award Finalist
tammykomoff.com
#writer #horror
Willow Nichols-Capra 🤎 @novellamenagerie.bsky.social Writer | Salem, MA | BIPOC & 🏳️🌈 | NEHW | 1816 and Boston Writers of Color Award Winner |
Assist. Editor: Drabblecast |Reader: Moonday Mag | Cinephile |
Blood+Honey, Gavagai, Cosmic Horror Monthly, etc 🔽
https://linktr.ee/WillowNicholsCapra
Tyro, ft Ricky @tyrowo.com Cat poster. Self-taught professional software developer, exF2P MTG Arena Challenger, ex wr holder speedrunning HotD2_100%, ex streamer, ex melee player.
Grilling, coding, gaming, magic: the gathering, other tcgs, and my kitty, Ricky 😻
30, he/him
Melodie Ramone @melodieramone.bsky.social Novelist. Mom to autonomous wild things. Cystic Fibrosis Advocate. Certified Kitchen Witch. A Goddess with a Godzilla twist. I am my mother's savage daughter.
https://www.melodieramone.com/
Dirk Strasser @dirkstrasser.bsky.social Fantasy, science fiction & horror writer, editor, publisher and blogger. Author of CONQUIST and THE BOOKS OF ASCENSION.
www.dirkstrasser.com
Aurealis Magazine @aurealisfsf.bsky.social Australia's longest running science fiction and fantasy magazine, est. 1990.
Subscriptions only $25USD. https://aurealis.com.au
Susan Arms @susanarms.bsky.social Children's author, writer, reader, tea drinker, crochet as therapy, CPTSD recovery. On Awabakal land. Confused but hopeful. She/her.
Sean Wright 🇦🇺🏳️⚧️♿ @sbwrightpoet.bsky.social Teacher Librarian | Disabled |Social Democrat | Prokopton of Stoic Phil. | Poet | Ditmar Winner | Living on Narungga Land | Born on Yolgnu country|He/Him | https://ko-fi.com/sbwright|@sbwright linktr.ee/sbwright
Stephen Higgins @shiggins.bsky.social Musician - music everywhere!
Editor of Aurealis magazine, gardener, foodie and co host of the Apocryphal Australia podcast. Author of ‘It is What it Isn’t’. Stephen-Higgins.com
The Gunslinger @rolandofgilead19.bsky.social Roland, Son of Steven
Gunslinger and Lord of ancient lands.
All things serve the Beam!
Constant reader
Amateur photographer
Animal lover and protector
Heirloom vegetable seed saver/distributor
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C.H. Irons @chirons.bsky.social Spacefaring speculative fiction writer stranded in upstate New York. Words in Analog, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, etc. Full SFWA member.
Victor Forna @vf12.bsky.social writing daydreams
https://linktr.ee/vforna
Rowan MacDonald @rowanthewriter.bsky.social Writer + Book Reviewer
Lutruwita / Tasmania
https://linktr.ee/rowmac
Jay Trask @rjtrask1.bsky.social Archivist at UNCo. Husband of a librarian. Keeper of Bishop and ghostly Maisie and Kivrin. Interested in archival silence and archives/power. Nerd. I love comics, LOTR, Discworld, old ghost stories, and dogs. Currently learning Middle Egyptian. He/Him.
Northampton House Press @noho-house-press.bsky.social Established in 2011, Northampton House Press publishes diverse, award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and audiobooks.
https://linktr.ee/nhousepress
Iroise Tracy @wavesofwords.bsky.social 
Syd @ghoultooth.bsky.social ⛓️All I do is read and go to shows⛓️
🕸️Queer, Horror, SFF, Metal🕸️
⛓️💥they/them⛓️💥
(s)crawl literary magazine @scrawlmagazine.bsky.social » issue no. 01 out now!
» horror focused lit mag amplifying voices marginalized within the genre
» we publish short fiction & poetry by LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, BIPOC, disabled, and gender-diverse writers
» subs currently closed
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Helen Stubbs @hkstubbs.bsky.social Profile pic is 'pretending to trad climb'.
Writer & climber on the Aussie Gold Coast. She, her, they.
Staerstone, fantasy adventure novel, is out now.
https://books2read.com/staerstone
https://helenstubbs.wordpress.com
Vasiliki Kyriakakis @vickikyriakakis.bsky.social Author, Improviser, Witch based in Naarm, Melbourne. Spin Doctor on ABC Melb Drive. Founder + Creative Director, The Story Shaman. “A crazy whackadoodle superhero” She/Her.
An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social The internet's definitive source for reliable factually accurate barely news and almost information about science fiction. Inexplicably a six-time Hugo finalist. hugoclub.blogspot.ca
Katherine @kathreadsbooks.bsky.social I read books. Bear with me as I exit my doomscroll cave and remember how to interact with others on social media.
Current reads:
The Enchanted April
Storygraph: @katherine_reads_books
Diana M. Pho (she/her) 📚 🔊 @dianapho.bsky.social Hugo Award-winning #AuntieEditor. Editorial Director, Erewhon Books. Previous: Tor Books, Realm Media. Queer. Geeky. Sociopolitical. http://Linktr.ee/dianampho. Opinions are my own.
Chi @chibibeluga.bsky.social 🐋📸🇭🇰
Maz @machine-dreams.bsky.social I work in tech and like cats, mysteries, sci-fi, goth, synthy music, and the wonders of space.
Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-winning & 2x Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author. She/her.
Pre-Order How to Fake a Haunting:
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Substack: Horror Homesteading:
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Perseid Prophecies @perseidprophecies.bsky.social Quarterly indie digital magazine featuring weird fiction, science fiction, fantasy & fact.
Editor-in-Chief: @esraye.bsky.social
Issue 6: Summer 2025 live now. Get it free at https://perseidprophecies.ca/
Lynette Mejia @carinthia.bsky.social Writer. Library Defender.
Prius frangitur quam flectitur.
Georgie Haberfield @gracheness.bsky.social Some random Twitter refugee
Sable Hellebore @sablehellebore.bsky.social Author 🌈👩🦽➡️
All The Rules I Break - Releasing Fall 2025
Creating queer magical worlds.
Romantic Fantasy, Gothic Why Choose, & Dark Academia
Alex Hughes ( Capell ) @alexhughescapell.bsky.social Professional ghostwriter. Penguin published author of Mindspace (telepath detective in future) & other SF/F. Nerd. Spoonie. Fan of nuance and complex things.
salem paige @salempaige.bsky.social they/them. 25. author of books and a little zine. on my fruity bullshit. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇨🇦
Nelka @cozyginger.bsky.social They/Them/Femme | Horror•SFF•Queer Lit•Spec Fic
Unhinged Is My Flavor
Co-EiC of Hedone Books | Editor | Reviewer
🏳️🌈• AuDHD • Cozy Ginger Reviews
https://linktr.ee/cozyginger
Adam Gaylord @authorgaylord.bsky.social Writing, politics, & parenting. Please note the Oxford comma. Star Trek & Star Wars both rock. Sexism and racism both suck. Married. Dad. Biologist. He/Him.
Kristy Westaway @kristywestaway.bsky.social She/They | MA(Writing) | AuDHD | LGBTQ+ | Author of Dark Fantasy Fiction as KL Nightshade | Disability & Mental Health Advocate
Preorder ADHD Nesting: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DL6MY8C1
Main St. Books Monroe @mainstbooksmonroe.bsky.social A used and new bookstore in Monroe, Washington since 1995. Woman- and LGBTQIA-owned and operated. Store cat. 110 E. Main St. Monroe WA 98272 📚🌈😺 MainStBooksMonroe.com
Gwendolyn Kiste @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social Horror Author. 4x Bram Stoker Award Winner. Lambda Literary Award Winner. Potato Chip Connoisseur.
Jan Stinchcomb @janstinchcomb.bsky.social Author of Verushka (JournalStone), The Blood Trail (Red Bird Chapbooks) & stories in many places (Gamut, Bourbon Penn, Tales to Terrify, Wigleaf, hex, etc.)
janstinchcomb.com
Rati Mehrotra @rati.bsky.social Author of MARKSWOMAN & MAHIMATA @HarperVoyagerUS and NIGHT OF THE RAVEN, DAWN OF THE DOVE & FLOWER AND THORN @WednesdayBooks. She/Her. Repped by Mary C. Moore. Tired.
Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social Your friendly nemesis. BFA & Shirley Jackson Award Winner. BSFA, Hugo, Ignyte, Locus, Nebula, WFA finalist. Reactor.com, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, & more. ClarionWest '19. She/Her. Rep: Jessica Friedman @SterlingLordLit
Grant Collier @grantcollier.bsky.social I write stories occasionally.
grant-collier.com
Emily Garside @emilygarside.bsky.social Writer & professional nerd putting the A in LGBTQIA+
PhD in representations of AIDS through theatre.
Much queer theatre and TV research.
Also, a lot of Hockey.
She/Her
Íde “of March” Hennessy @ideofmarch.bsky.social 📝Sci-fi/Horror Author. 🔮Opossummoner. 🎹Lyricist, Keys & Vocals in Control Voltage, as Vibra Steel. 💊Chronically illin’ in Humboldt County.🌲 🐈⬛Cat worshipper. 🚫Anti-genocide. 🚫Anti-AI. She/They.
Lou J Berger @loujberger.bsky.social Denver-based author & editor | Galaxy’s Edge | Clarkesworld | F&SF (soon) | WoTF Finalist | B-Cubed Press | Ghostwriter
SF & Fantasy short stories, working on my first novel
www.LouJBerger.com
Helena Lancaster @helenalwrites.bsky.social ♓️🐲🇺🇸 38, Writer (Fantasy, Poetry, & More), Goth, Historian, Nerd (lover of SciFi/Fantasy, Comics, etc), Cat Lady, Music Lover, Feminist, Free Spirit, Spread love not hate, 🔵 in red state, love is love, Ally of 🏳️🌈, she/her
http://helenalwrites.wordpress.com
Risa Wolf / Killerpuppytails @risawolf.bsky.social Multi-gendered water elemental (all pronouns, use they/them for myself) pretending to be an ink-stained lycanthrope. Writer-type, NO AI. (If you use AI? EW, David. Ew.)
Loves parenthetical asides.
More at killerpuppytails.com
Brandon Case @brandoncase101.bsky.social Author ✍️ & Photographer 📸
Fiction in Escape Pod, Flash Fiction Online, Small Wonders, Factor Four, Third Flatiron, and others. Member of SFWA, Codex, and the Fireside Quills.
www.brandoncase.net
Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org Lambda Literary, celebrating LGBTQ+ storytellers since 1985. Home of the Lammy Awards, Writers in Schools, the Emerging Writers Retreat for LGBTQ Voices, and the Lambda Literary Review.
lambdaliterary.org
lambdaliteraryreview.org
linktr.ee/lambdaliterary
AndiKay 🏳️⚧️📚🏳️🌈 @andikay.bsky.social Queer academic. Lover of books, puzzles and maps. they/them
Nico Martinez Nocito 🏳️⚧️ @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social Queer SFF writer & poet • Nebula & Rhysling finalist • he/they 🏳️⚧️ • words in Strange Horizons, Apex, Flame Tree & Haven Spec • SFPA, Codex • 3x Rhysling nominee
nicomartineznocito.com
Newsletter: nicomartineznocito.beehiiv.com
GT Korbin @gtkorbin.bsky.social Gina/G 🖤 SFF&H Author. Medical Researcher, MSc. #DVmentee '22. Stories in NoSleep Podcast, Andromeda Spaceways, and others. Rep by MWLA 🇬🇷 🏳️🌈(she/they) banner art by stellesappho
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Tressa Cherry 🏳️🌈 @tressa-author.bsky.social She/her | Sapphic Romance Writer working on debut novel | Black Lives Matter | Trans Women are Women | Will spill all the tea for chai latte, veg sushi, and tofu pad thai | pfp Helen Norton Art
Theodora Goss @theodoragoss.bsky.social