Horror Writers Association @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social Official Account of the Horror Writers Association. The oldest literary organization serving writers and publishing professionals around the world, dedicated to promoting dark literature and the interests of those who write it.
L.D. Oxford @ldoxford.bsky.social SF/F writer and your cat’s #1 fan
ldoxford.com
Sid Jain @sid--j.bsky.social BSFA-longlisted writer of gothic, maximalist literary speculative fiction. Find me in Uncanny, Podcastle, Giganotosaurus. Newsletter: stratigraphy.substack.com
Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social Troublemaker extraordinaire, CA AD 72 Candidate, www.kluweoc.com
Demagogue Press & Qilin Press @paippolito.bsky.social Girl Boss Indie publisher (@demagogue_press & @qilin_press ), lawyer, writer, and gamer & nonprofit founder.
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Nico Martinez Nocito | Writer @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
Matt Griffin @mattgriffin.art Artist & Author // Disney, Lucasfilm, Warner Bros, Nat Geo, Folio Society, Penguin & more
☛ mattgriffin.art
Michael Wehunt @michaelwehunt.bsky.social A creature assembled from found footage. Bram Stoker Award Winner, Georgia Author of the Year Award winner, Crawford Award + Shirley Jackson Award Nominee. Author of the novels NIGHTJARS (9/29/26) & THE OCTOBER FILM HAUNT.
Exoplanet || subs open Sept 1st @exoplanetmag.com New digital magazine for experimental speculative short fiction. Stories that imagine new worlds and new ways to explore them.
First #submissions window: September 1 - 15, 2026
First issue: December 1, 2026
Edited by @patrickdlee.com
exoplanetmag.com
Chuck Taggart 🔜 STLV @sazeracla.bsky.social I enjoy cocktails, French fries, and science fiction. Queer. 🏳️🌈 He/him. Trekkie. 🖖🏻 Former KCRW & KCSN radio host & music programmer, Angeleno from New Orleans. Growing luminous by eating light. Retired. http://mixcloud.com/safeathome
Eric Raglin @ericraglin1992.bsky.social Horror/Weird fiction writer and editor (The Writhing, Verdant End out NOW). Owner of Cursed Morsels Press. Anti-capitalist and anti-fascist. Minneapolis. He/Him
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/cursedmorsels
Endeavour Award @endeavouraward.bsky.social The Endeavour Award is for a science fiction or fantasy novel or short story collection written by a Pacific Northwest author or authors. It is named for H.M. Bark Endeavour, the ship of NW explorer Capt. James Cook. https://osfci.org
François Dominic Laramée, PhD 🇨🇦 @fdlaramee.bsky.social SFF author and adjunct professor of 18c history. Début novel coming 2027 from L'Atelier des Rêves/Dreams Workshop. Defrocked from the video games, television, stand-up comedy and software development industries. Legally blind from sunset to sunrise. FR/EN
Carter Payne (in a Tim Curry voice) @carterpaynewrites.com Gamer, Coffee lover, Musician
He/Him
🚫 GenAI
By day I work for a software company to fund my existence in this capitalist nightmare.
By night I write, mostly sci-fi, fantasy, and science fantasy all with an Appalachian twist.
www.carterpaynewrites.com
A Humphrey Lanham @ahumphreylanham.bsky.social Sci-fi and fantasy. Codex, Odyssey, Wordos. Goodreads and NetGalley. Fiction in F&SF and Zooscape. Co-Editor of Plott Hound Magazine. Interviewer at Lightspeed Magazine. Musicals and theater. Cat herder and dog lover. Houseplants that thrive on neglect.
Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social librarian, archivist, author, Ignyte award-winning & Hugo-nominated writer and critic, rat obsessive, hella queer
words in reactormag.com, locusmag.com, npr, reader's digest, and elsewhere
bookjockeyalex.com
Diabolical Plots @diabolicalplots.com SF/F/H magazine, Ignyte & Locus Award winning Submission Grinder tool for writers, Long List Anthology. https://ko-fi.com/diabolicalplots
Michelle Knudsen @michelleknudsen.bsky.social Nebula-winning & NYT bestselling author of 50+ books for kids & teens plus SFF short fiction for the olds. Library Lion, Into the Wild Magic, Evil Librarian & more. BSFA finalist. VCFA alum. SFWA. Codex. All the links: linktr.ee/michelleknudsen
Nora McManus @noramcmanus.bsky.social Academy Award Watching Screenwriter
Nicholl QF, LA Int’l SF, #actor #SAGAFTRA, aspiring ASL interpreter, meowl breeder, #spoonie, friend to butterflies, #90DayFiance & “trash TV” aficionado #scriptsky 💙
https://linktr.ee/Nora_McManus
priya chand @priyachand.bsky.social Food Influencer of Worldcon 2024 (TM)
Reckoning staff, words, birds
priyachandwrites.wordpress.com
fatbirdpics.tumblr.com
avatar is from Clemente Susini's studio at La Specola di Firenze, profile image is a tree hyrax in Ngorongoro Crater
Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Award-Winning Publisher of New Weird Horror + More, via Portland, OR & Transilvania, Romania.
@AlexWoodroe.com, Editor in Chief.
@MattBlairstone.bsky.social, Publisher.
SUPPORT INDIE. Hail the Tenebrous Cult🖤☠️
https://linktr.ee/TenebrousPress
J.R. Dawson @jrdawson.bsky.social She/They. The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World (Tor, 2025). The First Bright Thing (Tor, 2023). Nebula, Sturgeon, and Hugo finalist. Goldie award winner. ✡️🏳️🌈🍉Linktree: https://linktr.ee/jrdawsonwriter Rep: Stevie Finegan
Neil Cochrane @itsneilcochrane.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ author of THE STORY OF THE HUNDRED PROMISES, author/illustrator of the webcomic THEN COME KISS ME
Violina @violinajoulie.bsky.social Horror and science fiction writer with a particular love for optopian futures, gut-punch endings, revolutionary tech, and worlds that exist just beyond the veil | VP2026!! 🪼
Michael R. Johnston @johnstonmr.bsky.social Father, SFF Novelist, English teacher, Gay man 🏳️🌈
Website: mjohnstonbooks.com
Tania @taniahc.bsky.social Reader, grumbler, baker, eater of cheese, cruncher of crackers.
Actively working to make the world suck less and that's challenging.
Also, your beloved revolutionary sweetheart.
V. Astor Solomon @howsweetthewords.bsky.social Trans, disabled, neurodivergent, mixed-race
Committing expansively queer speculative short fiction
Work in 100-Foot Crow, Pseudopod, and more
Codex member
Lives between Tampa and Seattle
Links: https://linktr.ee/howsweetthewords
icon: Amelie Lavender
Sarah Lynn Knowles @sarahspy.com Fiction writer, Storychord.com founding editor, Tin House Winter '24 & One Story Summer '23 alum || eavesdropper, signal booster, she/her, Massachusetts || https://sarahspy.com
Jeremy Tinker @jeremytinker.bsky.social Scientist, aspiring writer, coffee repository.
Alexandra Little @alexandralittle.bsky.social She/her | writer of YA/NA fantasy romance | self-published/indie-published | highly allergic to fascism | alexandralittlebooks.com
Genevieve Williams - Shakespeare Adjacent out now @rimrunner.bsky.social SFF writer, hardingfele player, tracker, librarian. Longer writings and book reviews at welltemperedwriter.wordpress.com. masto: welltemperedwriter@wandering.shop, insta: datamuse. SFWA, Codexian. Shakespeare Adjacent anthology out now!
Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com Fantasy Author & Podcaster | Co-host of 6x Hugo Finalist
Worldbuilding for Masochists | Maradaine Saga | Velocity of Revolution |
http://mrmaresca.com
https://linktr.ee/marshallryanmaresca
David Jón Fuller 🇨🇦 @davidjonfuller.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Author of VENUE 13, out now from Ravenstone. Interested in history, knitting, baking, cycling infrastructure, not necessarily in that order. Talar smá íslensku. He/him.
Caitlin Rozakis @caitlinrozakis.bsky.social SFF Author (she/her) of NY Times best-selling book Dreadful, The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association, and Startup Hell. AKA Catherine Beck, author of Leah's Perfect Christmas.
https://www.caitlinrozakis.com/
https://linktr.ee/caitlinrozakis
Strange Currencies @strangecurrencies.org Book Reviewer at Strange Currencies, Freelance Production Editor, Game Designer. Work in Law but don't give Legal Advice(tm) Fray/Ace Queer. #BlackLivesMatter #ActuallyAutistic #OnPoli #CdnPoli 🍉
https://strangecurrencies.org
Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com gently painting genre (and sometimes lit fic) into a corner; he/him
[also: music on bandcamp as Will Esplin]
frozenseapress.com
Kat @katriddell.bsky.social writer, knitter, cyborg, library wizard, Gentlewoman of Evil. “chaotic but a delight.” “lewd but a gentleman.” cake/coffee life. practice makes better. known across two universities for pronouncing “Foucault” like “fucko.” 🏳️🌈🧃✡️ (any pronouns)
Ben Fisher @wordblanket.com Award-winning author: TOMB RAIDER: TEMPLE OF FIRE, UNDERFOOT, THE GREAT DIVIDE, GRUMPY CAT, C.H.U.D. LIVES, VALHALLAW, etc
Award-less musician
Attorney
Repped by Rick Lewis (Martin Lit)
He/him
Benfisherwriter.com
Liz (Ash) Hill @jlizhill.bsky.social Lover of coffee and ambassador of hot chocolate. Teller of tales. Player of games. Slightly warped. Okay, maybe more than slightly. Best Worst Influence. ADHD. PTSD. Haz a tired. Agender, they/them
emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social Doctor of food, writer of stories
Sometime award nominee, occasional winner
Capitalism seditionist
In my ai;dr era
Ex Partum, out now: https://emmaburnett.carrd.co
Keffy @keffy.bsky.social he/him/they/them
500 tiny scientists in a trenchcoat / apocalyptic trans man.
I write SF/F and have had stories published in Uncanny, Lightspeed, Apex, and others. I also edit(ed) GlitterShip which is on hiatus atm.
M.Phil Genetics
https://ko-fi.com/keffyk
Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca Mystery/UF/Horror writer of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak unless she expects to say something that will amaze the whole room. Also a cat lady.
Driven by spite, but so very tired.
skyladawncameron.com
patreon.com/skyladawncameron
Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com I write books. A crow for a fetch, I'm your huckleberry. She/her. (Hint: Like "synchro.")
https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com
David Perlmutter @davidperlmutter.bsky.social Canadian white male autistic writer. Author of America 'Toons In: A History of Television Animation and The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Also author of speculative fiction, superhero fiction and anthropomorphic ("furry") fiction.
Kat Kourbeti @darthj.uno SF/F writer & narrator, Hugo Award-winning senior podcast editor @strangehorizons.bsky.social, host @thewritesong.co.uk. Lapsed film critic; now BSFA's theatre columnist. Team ADHD. Greek!
📍 London, UK
✨ she/her 🏳️🌈
🌍💌 darthj.uno
🔗 linktr.ee/darthjuno
Brian Keene @briankeene.bsky.social Bestselling, award winning writer, editor, film producer, podcaster, and showrunner. Board of Directors for Scares That Care charity.
Krista D Ball is Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social Krista D. Ball is an award winning Canadian author who hasn't met a potato she didn't like.
Krista's motto: don't let the randos steal your joy. She posts on reddit: she's been called worse by better than you.
kristadball.com for books, contact, etc.
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
Aiko Aslanian @aiko-aslanian.bsky.social I've been writing all my life but it took me 40 years to have a project. Working on my first book. To what end? We'll see.
This account to connect with writers, book lovers, readers, and all things literary.
A. P. Howell @aphowell.com SF/F/H writer. Member of Codex. She/her. Stories online and in anthologies.
Web: aphowell.com
Mastodon: https://wandering.shop/@aphowell
Newsletter: sendfox.com/aphowell
Emily Smiley @emilysmileywrites.bsky.social Horror | Dark Fantasy | Thriller
Emilysmileywrites.com
Repped by AJ Van Belle at The Booker Albert Literary Agency
Threads/IG
@Emilysmileywrites
Founding member of ContentHospital.org
Programming Coordinator: ✍️Studio Bainbridgebarn.org
Jaq Evans @jaqevans.com Horror and spec fic author, WHAT GROWS IN THE DARK (MIRA/HarperCollins), she / they, jaqevans.com
Gillian Daniels - Pre-Order “JENNY WILL EAT YOU NOW” 9/29 @gillianlynndaniels.bsky.social Debut: JENNY WILL EAT YOU NOW (Sept 2026). Writer, artist, cat person since I was born, fan of horror and romance fiction. Rep: Jenna Satterthwaite at Storm Literary Agency. She/her.
Insta: @gillianlynndaniels
Website: gilliandaniels.site
MJ Huntsgood @mjhuntsgood.bsky.social vaccine scientist | speculative horror author | loser of various awards | published stories at: https://linktr.ee/mjhuntsgood | rep: Morgan Wilson @ Belcastro Literary | more info www.mjhuntsgood.com | pronouns gg/ez cause gender is a game I'm winning
@gradyhendrix.bsky.social @gradyhendrix.bsky.social 
S.L. Harris @slharris.bsky.social Writer, educator, sometime archaeologist | husband & dad | roots and beginnings | fiction website: ifchanceyoucallit.wordpress.com
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
RuthS @ruths.bsky.social Often found reading. She/her. Oregon now, previously New York. NESFA, OSFCI, mostly no longer active con/club fan. Silver pendant by Arlin Robins features a cat salient with S-shaped tail perched atop a book. I don't auto-follow back. 
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
Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social Doing what I dreamed of since I was a kid.
Books: Lone Women, The Changeling, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Devil in Silver.
TV: The Changeling (EP), The Terror: Devil in Silver (Creator, Showrunner)
Comics: Destroyer, Eve, Sabretooth, Black Panther
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.
HMH Murray @nillcord.bsky.social Writer of space opera and fanfiction
NYC Midnight Finalist SS 2024
Futurescapes 2022
Codexian SFWA
http://hmhmurray.substack.com
https://books2read.com/u/47LkkR
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
K.S. O'Neill @texasepee.bsky.social Math, sailboats, fencing. Occasionally a bit of writing when I can't avoid it. Erstwhile codexian.
qntm @qntm.org There Is No Antimemetics Division (https://qntm.org/antimemetics) ~ "Lena" ~ Absurdle ~ HATETRIS ~ many other cool things
Richelle C. Flores @richellecflores.bsky.social Writer of speculative fiction and poetry.
Erin Roberts @nirele.bsky.social Game Designer for Dungeons & Dragons. Writing Excuses co-host. Storyteller. She/her. #WotCStaff. Opinions are my own.
writingbyerin.carrd.co
Esker Park @esker.bsky.social SFF writer | Unreasonably tall | she/her | Quiet Weirdo | Warning: Morning Person
https://eskerpark.com
Vickie Lan @vickielan.bsky.social 📖 Author of BUT FIRST TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES | Fall 2027 | Union Square & Co | Hachette
🎙️ Host of Speculative Sandbox podcast | rep’d by Ali Herring at Spencerhill Assc.
🔗: Vickielan.com/links
Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (Tor Nightfire, Titan). 5 Bram Stoker Awards. Shirley Jackson finalist. Work in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Asimov's, Pseudopod, etc. Clarion grad. 🏳️🌈
www.lucysnyder.com
Rep: @jord4nhill.bsky.social
Cats, aquariums and terrariums
The Ubergroup @theubergroup.bsky.social a 501(c)3 nonprofit providing low cost education for writers. Prose, poetry, stage, screen, nonfiction, journalism, comics, animation, podcasts, you name it. If it has a writer at any stage, we teach it.
theubergroup.org
Folk 'n' Hell @folknhell.bsky.social Three chums, one microphone, and a whole world of folk horror. The Folk n Hell podcast unearths delights from around the world and tries to agree if they're worth our (and your) time.
www.folknhell.com or wherever you get your podcasts
of/for @chideraoffor.bsky.social 
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
grady @gradyish.bsky.social boooooooks. mostly SFF & LitFic. some NonFic now and again.
Reviewer for SFFInsiders.com
Judge for SPFBO XI
Insta: @gradyisbookish
TikTok: @gradyish
Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social Writer of the horrific and weird, recovering sociology PhD w/focus on war and genocide. Christian Druid. Creator of the GONE podcast. Author of YOUR SHADOW HALF REMAINS, out now from Tor Nightfire. They/them.
https://linktr.ee/dynamicsymmetry
Connect the Plots @connecttheplotspod.bsky.social Connect the Plots with Cylia and Erik - a podcast about the stories that connect us
Katherine Addison/Sarah Monette @pennyvixen.bsky.social TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL
She/her
Gen X
Breast cancer survivor '23, OCD since '01, ME/CFS/FM, etc.
Horror/fantasy writer best known for THE GOBLIN EMPEROR (Tor, 2014)
Geek about everything
Childless cat lady by choice
☕️ AMY CHU #donutkiller @amychu.bsky.social #Legohoarder #whiskeysipper
I write comics graphic novels TV Marvel DC Netflix
Carmilla The Eternal (✨Nebula nom!✨)
DnD Ravenloft
Emma Frost: White Queen
Borderlands
Red Sonja 🗡️ Poison Ivy 🪴
DOTA Dragon’s Blood
Turning Red
#SFWA #WGA rep Gersh Vern Co
Virginia Black Writes @virginiablack.bsky.social Author: INCENDIANT (Bywater Books)! Sapphic spec/SF/romance/fanfic. Most music on 11. Michter Rye. GCLS. SFWA. She/Her/Sir. Three-time Goldie winner. Lambda Fellow (2024).
Koji A. Dae @kojiadae.bsky.social Writer of dark, speculative fiction. Stories in Clarkesworld, Apex, Zooscape and more. kojiadae.ink 
Christina Boekeloo @christina-boekeloo.bsky.social Writer, cat lover, cooperative board gamer, purveyor of puns. She/her
#AmQuerying see pinned post for details
https://christinaboekeloo.carrd.co/
Jenni Hill @jennihill.bsky.social Editorial Director at Orbit books, (acquiring) sci-fi and fantasy novels.
🏳️🌈 Geek. Chaotic Good. Bi-Furious. LARP fan. Views all mine.
they/them
Hugo Award 2026 Finalist.
@triskelmoon.bsky.social @triskelmoon.bsky.social 
Sarah @sarahisarobot.bsky.social I have done a lot of cool things; now I mostly do crafts. She/her in the Pacific NW
Matt Doyle Smit @doylist.bsky.social Queer GM & fantasy writer, former community organizer, he/they
Jacob Baugher @prof-bogs.bsky.social Words in Flash Fiction Online, Radon, Abyss & Apex, Dream Theory, etc
Assistant Editor for Flash Fiction Online
Lead guitar for Cokeworks, the band
Creator & Host of The Archetypist substack
Library Assistant
Lindsey Dorcus @lindseydorcus.bsky.social Award-winning audiobook narrator and actor. New Hampshire grown, Chicago rooted.
www.lindseydorcus.com
JEERFROSENSTICK @jeffrosenstock.bsky.social Musician, Composer, Fool
Chris Farren @chrisfarren.bsky.social Chris farren
Shannon Rampe @shannonrampeauthor.bsky.social Author of weird and wonderful fantasy stories. Science fantasy, hard-boiled historical fantasy, cozy dungeon crawling adventure, and more. Newsletter at www.shannonrampe.com. Also blogs about ttrpgs @thenovelgamemaster.bsky.social
he/him
Tamara (Rhymes With Camera) Sellman @rhymeswithcamera.bsky.social ℕ𝕠 𝔻𝕄𝕤 • ℕ𝕠 𝔸𝕀
https://linktr.ee/TamaraSellman
💻author 🌀poet 🎥filmmaker
🎙️podcaster 📒zinester 🏳️🌈ally
✊🏽truthteller ♀feminista 🗽1A ⚖️justice ☮️peace 🌲PNW 🥾hiker
🍝cook 🥬gardener ✨nature
💭dreamscapes ♎️♏️energy
🎴tarot 🧠ND 🔥MS 🩻RA/OA/PsA
Norwescon @norwescon.org The Pacific Northwest's premier Science Fiction and Fantasy convention. Norwescon 49 (#nwc49) will be March 25–28, 2027.
Renan Bernardo @renanbernardo.com Nebula, World Fantasy, Ignyte Finalist • DISGRACED RETURN OF THE KAP'S NEEDLE is a Nebula finalist! • Reactor, Clarkesworld, Apex • Codex • He/him • Brazilian/Latino author
More: https://linktr.ee/renanbernardo1
Susan Park @susanfirghilpark.bsky.social writer, poet, nature lover and complete book geek living in the Pacific Northwest surrounded by forest, birds, squirrels, chipmunks and chickens. Member SCBWI.
Andrija Popovic @andrian6.bsky.social Customer Success by day. Writer, photographer, geek, and #NoirAlley buff off hours. Also on Twitter. I write spicy stories as A.J. Harris and SFFH work as, er, myself.
https://biomechanoidblues.com/
Brandonomicon (Brandon Seifert) @brandonseifert.info "Brandon... nothing like that ever happens to me. I don't know if there's something horribly wrong with you... or something horribly RIGHT."
Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com I read, I write, & I pet cats. Column, news, & book reviews at @reactorsff.bsky.social; publicity, prize, & more for @ursulakleguin.com. Once a bookseller, always a bookseller. PDX.
https://reactormag.com/author/molly-templeton/
J. Kathleen Cheney @jkcheney.bsky.social Fantasy Writer, publishing as J. Kathleen Cheney or Anna St. Vincent. Member of Codex, Nebula Finalist, Locus Award Finalist, W0TF... but mostly a dog servant these days...
Cover: Vitruvian Moth by Patrick Kramer