The Shirley Jackson Awards @sjacksonawards.bsky.social For outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the fantastic.
The Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship @thesfincs.bsky.social A competition for indie novellas that is judged by volunteers. Affectionately called BabyBo. https://www.sfincscompetition.com/
Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social Cat sitter. Gothic lit and theology. Romance studies. Byron studies. Runs 'Romancing the Gothic'. Writes queer little stories.
Millie Abecassis @millieabecassis.com Author of SFFH · French & American · THE COLOR OF TIME out now at @shirakipress.com · Rep: @ajvanbelle.bsky.social · 📍 California
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Electric Sheep @electricsheepsf.bsky.social Spec fic discussion group & reading series.
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Fraidy Cat Press @fraidycatpress.bsky.social Fiction that goes bump in the night.
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Speculation Publications @speculationpub.bsky.social Women-owned small press of horror, folklore, myth, magic and fury
Small Spec Book Awards @specawards.bsky.social The mission of the SSBA is to recognize and promote independent and small press authors writing exceptional speculative fiction.
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects.
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social CEO of Fairly Trained / Composer. Working towards fairer training data practices in generative AI.
Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social Author: IN THE SIGHT; EX-MEMBERS; POLITICAL SIGN; REEL; TRANSITORY. Next up: KILL LIST (Bloomsbury Academic)
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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.
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Adam Bassett @adamcbassett.com 🍁 Based in Vermont.
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Joachim Heijndermans @jheijndermans.bsky.social Writer, artist, filmmaker, designer, comic book letterer, SFWA member and collector of toys. He/him. https://linktr.ee/jheijndermans.
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House of Leaves Publishing @holpublishing.bsky.social 👻 Non-fiction boo-tique books dissecting the horror genre
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Cymera Festival @cymerafestival.co.uk Scotland's Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Writing.
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Portobello Book Festival @portybookfest.bsky.social Portobello Book Festival is a volunteer run festival, taking place over the first weekend of October.
StokeyLitFest @stokeylitfest.bsky.social ‘One of the best book bashes in the UK’. The Quietus. 5-7 June 2026.
Helensburgh Book Festival @hburghbookfest.bsky.social Reading Minds - a literary festival with a difference! Join us for a weekend of wellbeing through books on the West coast of Scotland 🏴
IPG: Independent Publishers Group @ipgbook.bsky.social The largest independent book distributor in North America representing thousands of books from hundreds of international and independent publishers. www.ipgbook.com
Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
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W. W. Norton UK @wwnortonuk.bsky.social 📚 Independent publishers since 1923
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Tree House Second-hand Bookshop @treehousebookshop.bsky.social Read, Recycle, Rediscover
Second-hand bookshop and music venue in Kenilworth, Warwickshire run by Victoria Mier. Profits to charity. Patron is glorious Bad Seed Warren Ellis. Posts by Victoria.
Markosia @markosia.bsky.social Bringing you the best of British comics! We are the largest Indie publisher of comics & Graphic Novels in the UK.
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Firefly Press @fireflypress.bsky.social Independent publisher of quality fiction for children & teens. WINNER Branford Boase first children’s novel Award, Yoto Carnegie Medal, Wales Book of the Year
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Salò Press @salopress.bsky.social Independent publisher of poetry & prose. An obscurity of poets. Updates by Sophie 💖 Norwich, UK.
Dawn Robertson 🇪🇺🏴🇫🇷 @hayloftbooks.bsky.social European/Scottish/Cumbrian/Norse
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Sussex Uni., publisher & journalist, rural life, history, language, humanist. Banff International Mountain Literature winner + 8 Lake District Book of Year awards.
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Ortac Press @ortacpress.bsky.social Independent publisher of non-fiction and novels
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Inspired Quill @inspiredquill.bsky.social 📚 Diverse, award-shortlisted titles, from literary to fantasy. 🌈 Discover, support, and explore our world of purposeful, eco-friendly publishing. 🌍 (No AI).
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@epoquepress.bsky.social @epoquepress.bsky.social époque press is an independent publisher of contemporary literary fiction - books you will love to read.
Major Books @majorbooks.bsky.social Bringing Vietnamese literature to the world
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Saqi Books @saqibooks.bsky.social A leading independent publisher of trade and academic books on the Middle East and North Africa.
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Solarpunk Magazine @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social An online publication of radically hopeful science fiction.
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Android Press @press-android.bsky.social Science fiction, fantasy, and horror publisher. Our books have been finalists for the Nebula, Stoker, BSFA, British Fantasy, and Nommo Awards. https://thecookoutanthology.com/submission-guidelines
weird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social a preliminary sketch of a crone. Aspergerian mom of an autistic son. I wrote Experimental Film and literally 100+ short stories. Out now: Little Horn, a collection, from Shortwave Publishing. I sing, make jewelry and doodle pretty monsters.
Kristin 🆓🆓🇵🇸 @kristinosani.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 fantasy author, SFWA member, freelance JP>EN translator/editor, cat lover, immigrant, neuroピリ辛, willing to be mutually feral about BG3/D20/KPop Demon Hunters/Sailor Moon/BotC
THE EXTRAVAGANZA ETERNIA out now from Ghost Orchid Press
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NeilTheBookGuy @neilthebookguy.bsky.social I want to talk books 📚 SFF book reviewer for http://FanFiAddict.com 🚀🐉 BookTok Creator (Same Name!) 🛸
Tales from Wyrd Scotland podcast @taleswyrd3.bsky.social Tales From Wyrd Scotland is a podcast exploring the wyrd, wonderful world of Scotland's supernatural, quirky and frankly terrifying past.
Argyll Productions @argyllbooks.bsky.social Small press publisher of award-winning science fiction and fantasy.
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Justin Lewis @journeyintohorror.bsky.social Lapsed horror book reviewer and lover of all things spooky. Also gamer. Also nerd.
SJ Townend @sjtownend.bsky.social A writer. A reader. A bit of a daydreamer.
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Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social Small independent, inclusive, award-winning UK publishing house. Mostly poetry and short fiction, with the occasional fantasy/sci-fi novel. Prioritising LGBTQ+, Global Majority, Disabled, Welsh poets, and geographically isolated and Older Women writers.
Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social A @storystudiochicago.bsky.social publication! Editor-in-Chief @mbwwelch.bsky.social
Owl Bookshop @owlbookshop.bsky.social Independent bookseller in Kentish Town, London.
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Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social Manc independent publisher with a conscience.
M.D. Isabelle Kenyon
2024 North England Winner Small Press of Year!
Sustainable, political and accessible
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The Wedale Bookshop @wedale-bookshop.bsky.social #ScottishBorders independent #bookshop near #Galashiels and #Lauder, #Scotland. Open in historic Stow, Thur 1330-1900 and Fri-Sun 10-12.30, 1-4.30.
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Horror Critics Group @horrorcriticsgroup.bsky.social We are the UK & Ireland Horror Critics Group. We support Horror Film Critics in the UK and Ireland, and run the annual Golden Claw horror cinema awards!
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Blackwell's Bookshops in Oxford @blackwelloxford.bsky.social BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS
Three bookshops in the most literary of cities, Oxford
48-51 Broad Street / Westgate Oxford / Science Fiction and Manga 27 Broad Street
Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com Writer, scientist, bug. she/her. #yeg. 🇨🇦 🇬🇾 Winner of a Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award! Rep: Michael Curry 📚🪲 Tips for cat treats! https://ko-fi.com/premee
Calque Press @calquepress.bsky.social A small & occasional press of pamphlets, short-length books and anthologies. We work at the intersection between languages, ideas, crafts, genres. Pre-order: RAGGED BAND OF TRAVELLERS. (ed Jon Stone)
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V. Nino 🖤 @heyitsme-v.bsky.social Comms by day, short story writer by night • Lover of music, the natural, supernatural • Chicana • Xennial
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Haunt Publishing @hauntpublishing.bsky.social Stories that stay with you. Gothic, horror and dark fiction books.
Dead Ink Books @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of bold new fiction and non-fiction, based in Liverpool
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Scratch Books @scratchbooks.bsky.social A small press dedicated to the short story. Claustrophiles…
Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social Indie Publisher of historical fiction, championing authors and stories based in Northern England and Scotland. SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Corylus Books @corylusbooks.bsky.social UK-based independent publisher of translated crime fiction with a social edge. See all our books at https://corylusbooks.com/
Hobeck Books @hobeckbooks.bsky.social Trad Values, Indie Spirit. Family-run independent publisher of thrillers, crime, and suspense. Publishers: Adrian Hobart and Rebecca Collins.
Sinoist Books @sinoistbooks.bsky.social West Sussex-based indie press dedicated to bringing out the best of Sinophone literature in translation to the English-speaking world.
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Knight Errant Press @knighterrantpress.bsky.social A queer micro press focused on intersectional, LGBTQIA+ stories and authors. Based in Scotland.
Submissions: closed.
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Romaunce Books @romaunce.bsky.social Book Publisher Romantic Fiction 
SRL Publishing @srlpublishing.bsky.social World's first climate positive publisher with a passion for storytelling | Thinking differently, delivering change | #BreakingTheSilence
One tree planted for every book sold on our website - www.srlpublishing.co.uk
Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: stuart@brokensleepbooks.com | Founded: 2018
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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social Galley Beggar Press is an independent publisher from Norwich. Citizens of the world. And foreign.
Mercier Press @mercierpress.bsky.social Independently Publishing Extraordinary Books since 1944. Cork, Ireland
Saraband Books @saraband-books.bsky.social Award-winning independent publisher of distinctive, unforgettable fiction and outstanding non-fiction.
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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction
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3TimesRebel Press @3timesrebel.bsky.social Fiction/Non-Fiction/Poetry in translation. Minority languages. Women writers only. Fairtraders.
• Making the invisible visible •
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Renard Press @renardpress.com 🍃 An award-winning climate-positive indie publisher of classic & contemporary fiction, non-fiction, poetry & theatre. Also home to Hay Press.
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Indie Press Network @indiepressnetwork.bsky.social A network of indie presses working together to celebrate and improve the publishing industry
carlydraws @carlydraws.bsky.social Carly A-F
Illustrator & author. no AI! Human idiocy only :-)
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Freelance enquiries: carly@carlydraws.com
Kidlit Agent: Anna Olswanger anna@olswangerliterary.com
Newsletter, prints, all links:
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Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social Stoker Award-nominated horror author.
rep: Oli Munson
she/they, bi, polyam, vegan, a bit witchy, very crafty
Trans rights are human rights
End the genocide in Gaza 🍉
Posting from Greenwich, London
www.allywilkes.com
Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social Leading independent publisher of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Crime, Pop Culture, Movie/TV tie-ins & much more 📚 Also, @hardcasecrime.bsky.social
David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social Writer of things
Journalism: www.authory.com/davidbarnett
Books: www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B0034PY7ZW
Comics: leagueofcomicgeeks.com/people/16810/david-barnett/comics
Agent: Laura Williams, Greene & Heaton greeneheaton.co.uk/clients/david-m-barnett
Sam | Unearthly Reads @unearthlyreadss.bsky.social ʀᴀɪꜱᴇᴅ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏᴜɴᴛᴀɪɴꜱ • ʟɪᴠɪɴɢ ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴇᴀᴄʜ
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@daniellabatsheva.bsky.social @daniellabatsheva.bsky.social 
Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social USA Today bestselling horror noveler (MARY; NESTLINGS; REST STOP; WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME). TV actor. Musician. Out now: I KNOW A PLACE, May 5, 2026, Shortwave Books. (he/him)
Benjamin Langley @benjaminlangley.bsky.social A writer of quiet horror with creeping dread - and alternative historical horror with the Guy Fawkes: Demon Hunter series. When I'm not doing that, I make lino prints and puzzle books.
Website: benjaminlangley.co.uk
Store: www.etsy.com/shop/LinocutHorror
Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social Lecturer, workshopper and creative writing events organiser - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis-events-17318878423
Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher.
Leeds.
Publishing director: Ariell Cacciola @ariellcacciola.bsky.social
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Sley House Publishing @sleyhouseeditor.bsky.social Indie Press. Publisher of genre fiction. Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy. Home to the annual Tales of Sley House Anthology
Sean Duregger @seannarrates.bsky.social Managing Editor of Encyclopocalypse Publications. Horror paperback hoarder. Synthwave and Power Rock enthusiast. Elder Metalhead. Remorseless dick. Antifascist.
Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social World Fantasy, Nebula, Ignyte, Locus & Shirley Jackson Award-winning speculative publisher. Baffling Magazine & novellas & anthos & queer 📚. Editor: dave ring.
Hollow Oak Press @hollowoakpress.bsky.social Independent publisher of short speculative fiction. We immerse you beyond words. Woman owned and operated in rural PA.
www.hollowoakpress.com
https://linktr.ee/hollowoakpress
Taylor Grothe @taylorlgrothe.bsky.social Horror(omantasy) author 👻 HOLLOW (Peachtree Teen, Sept 30, 2025), THESE DREAMING SPIRES (Titan, Sept 2, 2025), LETHAL KISS (TOR Nightfire, Fall ‘26), MBT (Peachtree Teen, Spring '27) | MFA ‘24 | BLM | 🍉 | Rep: Victoria Marini
WriteHive 🐝 @writehive.bsky.social A non-profit providing free, inclusive events, programs, and resources for writers of all backgrounds. 🐝 Join the Hive!
Die Booth @diebooth.bsky.social 🦇Goth 📖 Author of the beautiful macabre 📖 Zines 🏳️🌈 #LGBTQIA+ he/him 🎶DJ #LastRitesChester 🖤 BE NICE TO EACH OTHER 🖤 #endgenocide #antigenerativeAI
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L.P. Hernandez @lphernandez.bsky.social Horror author. Active HWA. MBA. Air Force officer. Publisher. Co-owner of Sobelo Books. Metalhead. Robust. Enchanting. Read me in Cemetery Gates, Dark Matter, a truck stop between Lubbock and Amarillo. Client of Becky LeJeune. Punch Nazis. I love you.
Sobelo Books @sobelobooks.bsky.social Publishers of dark speculative fiction.