Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social Senior Adviser, US Program, International Crisis Group. Editor at Just Security. Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU Law. Ex State Dept Lawyer. War Powers| Use of Force| Counterterrorism| Law of War| War Crimes| Arms Sales
Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social Ploughshares | Best American Nonreq'd | Copper Nickel Editors' Prize | The Norton Reader | ElectricLit | Flash Fiction America | Swamp Pink | Wigleaf | Five Points (forthcoming) | The Art of Flash Fiction https://artofflashfiction.substack.com
Lee Seymour @leemourseymour.bsky.social Tony-winning writer, producer, gardener. Recovering journalist. Incorrigible theater kid.
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Literarily repped by @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
IGDA Child Safety SIG @igda-child-safety.bsky.social This SIG fosters safer gaming for children while educating parents, educators, and stakeholders about online risks, safety measures, and protective actions.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social Encyclopedist, college librarian, writer, ttrpg writer. I like to talk about Mesopotamia & Vikings. Always outnumbered, never outgunned.
My podcast, "The History of Comic Books in 500 Issues," is at http://500issues.com
MS NOW @ms.now The place for in-depth analysis, political commentary and exclusive reporting.
https://www.ms.now/membership?cid=social_owned_dtc_all_acquisition_BlueSky_NoOffer_BioLink
Finji @finjico.bsky.social Collaborative game studio by Rebekah and Adam Saltsman. 👑 We publish a bunch of cool video games. We make some ourselves too! linktree.finji.co
We're working on @usualjune.bsky.social right now! 👻 Out October 28th!
Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites.bsky.social Philologist, critic, insufferable theatre queen. Assistant Prof. at the University of Tulsa
aleha_84 @aleha84.bsky.social in love with creating cozy pixel animations
links & downloads: https://hipolink.net/aleha_84
support: https://boosty.to/aleha_84
Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social Late night TV Writer/Producer. Horror-comedy coming 2027: The Big Kill
jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social Vermont librarian. Technology hobbyist. I love the post office. Fix your hearts. Live in hope if you can.
amy brown @amybrown.xyz wife, mother, poster
oakland area via dayton, ohio
✨ amybrown.xyz ✨
Emily Mitchell @elbmitchell.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor, apprentice curmudgeon. Novel FAR OCEAN forthcoming March 2027 from Black Lawrence Press. Fiction editor New England Review. Stories in The Sun, Missouri Review, Southern Review, AQR and elsewhere. Free DC, ffs. New here.
Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social librarian and illustrator.
will post later, too sleepy
My shop: https://www.willquinnart.com/shop/prints
austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social Writer, Podcaster, Game Designer | Friends at the Table | 2 Weeks | A More Civilized Age | Shelved by Genre | Formerly: Possibility Space, Waypoint, Giant Bomb, Paste Games
Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social SFF author, triple Hugo award winner (and three times Locus award too), over a million books sold.
Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
Grace Pritchard Burson (Schrödinger's Canadian) @gaudynight78.bsky.social Twitter's official Dorothy L. Sayers stan account, 2018-24, now on Bluesky. New Englander in Quebec. Eph '00/YDS '04. Mom, priest (the sweary kind), writer (ask me about my musical!), doula. Yes, my grandma shot a Nazi. Born at 335ppm. She/her. INTJ/5w4.
veery @veery.bsky.social i have read more than you would fancy, mr. lockwood.
minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social https://minorliteratures.com/
Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social Public servant running for U.S. Senate because it shouldn't be THIS hard to get by. Michigan born and raised. Girl Dad. Doctor. Vote by November 3rd!
Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social Seattle native but Angeleno to the core. Teacher, writer, story-coach, failed iconoclast
https://linktr.ee/cjsingerwrites
uncle leyla ✨ @leylses.bsky.social game dev, office goth, yapper supreme.
🧿 she/they, ENG/RUS
personal acct, posts like a stepdad.
Adam Bormann @adambormann.bsky.social Game designer (BioWare, Hangar 13, Crystal Dynamics, LucasArts, Monolith, Sierra Online)
Dark Hi And Lois @darkhiandlois.bsky.social The beloved newspaper strip Hi and Lois can be quite dark.
Strips rated from 1 to 10 Quiet Desperation Units (QDUs) and sometimes beyond.
A project of @mattweiner19.bsky.social
not in any way affiliated with HI & Lois. I just realized I should say that
Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social Things are terrible
(we follow our contributors)
Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social Historian of race and class; Author: The March on Washington & The Tribe of Black Ulysses; Professor, University of Minnesota; President, @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social; Editor, "Up For Debate" @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
ORCHID: 0000-0001-9295-866X
A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social We call upon your boss.
Author of the novel THE REVISIONARIES (2019) and the essay collections VERY FINE PEOPLE (2024) and FIGHTING IN THE DARK (2026).
He/him.
Author site: armoxon.com
Weekly essays on my free newsletter, The Reframe.
Matthew Berland @matthewberland.bsky.social 
rapid unscheduled disassembly🐀 @book-wyvern.bsky.social ™. Followers likely know me from some oddball site or something techy. Contains multitudes.
Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social Novelist and Critic. https://johnnyalucard.com/
Josh Stead-Dorval @joshsteaddorval.bsky.social Narrative Designer | Game Designer
Games Researcher, Writer, Musician
joshsteaddorval.com
joshsteaddorval.itch.io
medium.com/@through-the-dorstead
Borut Pfeifer @borut.bsky.social Exec Producer/Creative Director, Neighborhoods
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3922000/Neighborhoods/
Past: Never Alone 2, Weird West. Prey (2017), Skulls of the Shogun...
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Status @status.news A nightly newsletter covering the Fourth Estate, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley with hard-hitting reporting and uncompromising analysis.
Subscribe today: http://status.news/subscribe
Watch/Listen to Power Lines: http://status.news/power-lines
Richard Nixon Foundation @nixonfoundation.bsky.social Advancing President Nixon’s legacy of visionary leadership, geopolitical grand strategy, public service, and a more just society for all Americans. Affiliated with the Nixon family.
Jay Faulkner @jukibom.bsky.social Game dev working at Windup Minds and making a weird racing spaceship game in my free time. Sometimes I even feel like I understand unity
She / Her
Manchester, UK
Jay McCoy @mcjay.bsky.social Artist, writer, Appalachian, book lover...director of Kentucky Book Festival and Kentucky Center for the Book
Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social Hybrid sci-art ex-astronomer now-author. Writes fiction, poems, essays, reviews. Latest two are 'Deutschstunden' from CulturBooks and 'Schrödinger’s Wife (and other possibilities)' from Goldsmiths Press/Gold SF. https://www.pippagoldschmidt.co.uk
the_lion_of_anacostia 🦁 @digitalscorpyun.bsky.social "I say nothing against these prayers—but I know well enough that the work of making and the work of answering them, must be performed by the same hands." — Frederick Douglass, Pictures and Progress, 1861
#Reparations #BDS #JustMercy #AlwaysBetOnBlack 🌹
Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social Labor and environmental historian. Writer of books, teacher of American horrors, talker on labor movement. Beer, country music, and football are not just for the right wingers. Cats. The West. Music. Graves. Writes at https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/
Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social essays and poems about the movies, shows, music, books, games, etc. that have shaped you
forget.cool
midshipnews.org @midshipnews.org Author of Naval Fiction, Freelance Defence Journalist – Naval & Aeronautical History
MASKIROVKA my first novel is out !
5.0 out of 5 stars: Page turner, brilliant new Cold War thriller.
Grey ships, black boats
https://www.midshipnews.org/
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
Rebecca Fishbein @bfishbfish.bsky.social Writer: NYT, WaPo, Teen Vogue, Jezebel, Vulture, The Cut, Hell Gate, etc. I talk back.
Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social 🎭 theater kid turned
🎮 game dev turned
✝️ Jesuit priest
past: skyrim, fallout, god of war, novitiate, philosophy/political econ, refugee aid (🇱🇧🇮🇶🇯🇴🇸🇾), theology, starfield, migrant care (🇵🇭)
present: pastoral ministry in Portland
https://shaneliesegang.com
Steph Grossman @stephgrossman.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Aspiring time traveler. Dreaming Thing. Assistant Prof @ Texas State (former marketing peep @ JSTOR, Penguin RH, S&S). Words: Paste, Joyland, Masters Review, CRAFT, Salamander. Co-Host: Basement Girls horror podcast. https://bit.ly/SGpubs
Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social Longtime journalist. Politics, literature, tech.
MAGIC + LOSS
https://virginiaheffernan.substack.com/
Contributing editor, The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/authors/virginia-heffernan
Amy Grech @amygrech.bsky.social NYC-based prolific crime/horror author/poet. Active HWA Member. Alien Buddha Press published my poetry chapbook, A SHADOW OF YOUR FORMER SELF. 2x Pushcart Prize nominee. SEO is my bread and butter. 🔪🩸
☕️ https://ko-fi.com/amygrech
💻 crimsonscreams.com
Amy Goldschlager @amygoldschlager.bsky.social Editor, proofreader, and book/audiobook reviewer. Murder Banana and Friend of DeSoto. Go Spiderwolves and All Guesses Are Wrong! 
Lauren Kirchner @lkirchner.bsky.social Investigative reporter at Consumer Reports covering safety and health; previously covered tech and criminal justice at The Markup and ProPublica. Signal: @Lkirchner.44
New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social Reviews architecture, in New York.
nyra.nyc
Trevin Sandlin @banjax451.bsky.social Reader. Coffee drinker. Sports watcher. Father. Husband. Disney Adult. Alcohol consumer. Not necessarily in that order.
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
Dr. Drew Brayshaw 🌊🪨 @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social Hydrologist, photographer, geoscience consultant, mycophile, sarcastic, dude.
Mothership @mothership.blog Gaming coverage for her, them, and yes, him, too.
mothership.blog
Killscreen @killscreendotcom.bsky.social Written by Jamin Warren
Est. 2010
Games, play, and culture. Interviews with the artists who keep coming back to play as their medium.
One free email a week, plus Playlist for members.
killscreen.com/start?ref=bluesky-bio
Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social Mom. Fighter + Community Leader
Rita Chang-Eppig (she/they) @rchetypes.bsky.social Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea (Bloomsbury, 2023)
The Ones Who Do Not Wake (Archer, 2028)
Stories: Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, One Story, Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, etc.
rchetypes.com
https://youtube.com/@astrotextual
No Proscenium @noproscenium.com Anything But The Usual. 🤯
Your guide to immersive events & experiences since 2014.
🧐Reviews. 🎧Podcasts. ✉️Newsletters & more.
👇🏼Discover your next adventure now.
The Mummer's Dansky @rdansky.bsky.social Award-winning narrative expert for video games, writer of fiction and TTRPGs. Author of THE VIDEO GAME WRITER’S GUIDE TO SURVIVING AN INDUSTRY THAT HATES YOU. Former Ubisoft/Crytek/Romero. Lover of scotch, books, Sasquatches, baseball, and cats.
Games That Weren't @gamesthatwerent.com Covering cancelled/unreleased video games and prototypes across a variety of consoles and home computers. Preserving unreleased video game history online since 1999, and longer offline.
Check out our archive and more at: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com
Chris Rosenthal @chrisro.bsky.social Game developer. Currently working on The Secret of Crystal Mountain
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social Queer af founder of Glass Bottom Games. BAFTA Breakthrough. Working on Verminsteel! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/Verminsteel/ (prev: SkateBIRD, Hot Tin Roof, etc). She/Her 🏳️⚧️
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social senior editor at the new republic and box-to-box midfielder @goldengoalmag.bsky.social
Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social Baltimore-based indie bookstore. Currently online until we get a new space for the bookstore. Generally won't DM people, unless maybe you're a publisher and we need info to stock your books.
https://carpelibrumbaltimore.com/
Mary Kenney @marykgames.com Senior Writer on Cyberpunk 2. Associate Narrative Director on #WolverinePS5. Author/Writer: Gamer Girls, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Walking Dead. “The shiny Pokémon of games writers” -Aidan Moher
Ron Charles @roncharles.bsky.social I write about books at https://roncharles.substack.com/
Victorian Poetry @victorianpoetry.bsky.social Victorian Poetry is a peer-reviewed quarterly dedicated to Victorian poets and poetries (broadly & experimentally construed). Edited by Devin Garofalo, UC San Diego (victorianpoetryjournal@gmail.com). Learn more: https://victorian-poetry.scholasticahq.com
Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social internet typist at the verge, known cat lady, zevon stan. she/hers/hesher
tip me: liz@theverge.com
Rob Harvilla @harvilla.bsky.social Host of 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90S: THE 2000S, old guy at THE RINGER, tentative embracer of new social-media platforms
Hannah Gold @hannahkgold.bsky.social she's a rider in the rain
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social Author of THE DISAPPEARED (Knopf), THE THEORY OF LIGHT AND MATTER (Vintage), IN BETWEEN DAYS (Knopf), and THE IMAGINED LIFE (Knopf, forthcoming 2025) CW Prof.
www.andrewporterwriter.com
Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me Writer, Colombo. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023, Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards) & RAKESFALL (2024, Le Guin Prize and Otherwise award.) https://vajra.me
Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social American Book Award winning author of MEMENTO PARK (FSG). HARRY, REVISED (Bloomsbury), @UGMAN (ITNA). Hero: John Berger. Dog: Berger
“ … ceaselessly intelligent” - Joseph O’Neill.
"Chilling, flawlessly executed" - Kirkus Reviews
www.marksarvas.com
Vic Sizemore @vicsizemore.bsky.social www.vicsizemore.com
https://substack.com/@vicsizemore?
Oona Island @oonapatrick.bsky.social I get mad about books a lot. Reskeeting cheese news and good birds. writer/editor she/her https://linktr.ee/oonapatrick 🇵🇹
CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlo.bsky.social FREELANCE WRITER
Jarred McGinnis @jarredmcginnis.bsky.social 'Maybe America isn't ready for a superstar in a wheelchair.' - Ian MacKaye
New book! Out with Harvill in 2026. THERE IS NO MEANT TO BE.
Debut novel THE COWARD w. @canongate.co.uk
jarredmcginnis.com
Jodi Picoult @jodipicoult.bsky.social Author/Mom/Wonder Woman/Queen of the North
She/her/hers
Hilary Bell @hilarybell.bsky.social https://www.hilary-bell.com/
Jon Clinch @jonclinch.com Jeopardy clue. Author of THE GENERAL AND JULIA, MARLEY, FINN, and KINGS OF THE EARTH. I make things with words.
Eliot-Parker @eliot-parker.bsky.social Writing Prof at Ole Miss. Award-winning writer. Thriller DOUBLE-CROSSED and short story collection TABLE FOR TWO out now. Host of podcast “Now, Appalachia,” on the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network. Sometimes chill, sometimes anxious.
Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social Louisiana Poet Laureate 2017-19. Books from Mercer University Press. Work included in Best Microfiction and Best Spiritual Lit. EIC: @louisianalit.bsky.social
www.jackbbedell.com
Jim Tomlinson @jltomlinson.bsky.social Fictioneer, NEA Literature Fellow, author of THINGS KEPT, THINGS LEFT BEHIND and NOTHING LIKE AN OCEAN. Perpetually working on a novel.
megpokrass.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social Dzanc Books Author. Best Microfiction Series Founder. Electric Lit, Flash Fiction America (Norton) Best Small Fictions 2023. Scotland
Cindy House @cindyhouse.bsky.social Author of Mother Noise
Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social author of SOON YOU’LL BE JUST LIKE US (creature publishing 2027) + debut UPCOUNTRY (unnamed press 2023) IG: @scribblepost. words in electric lit, lit hub, the georgia review, etc. rep: pamela malpas/jennifer lyons literary
https://linktr.ee/chinsunlee
Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I ♥️ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; author of HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE; rep’d by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey
linktr.ee/ambernoellesparks
Steven Tagle @steventagle.com Writer & philhellene @icwa.org @FulbrightGreece @DisquietILP @aaww-nyc.bsky.social. @PDSoros.bsky.social Fellow. @UmassMFA '16 & @Stanford '07. Just landed in 🇨🇭
Sherry Robinson, Author @sherryauthor.bsky.social Author of three novels, interested in examining the complexities of life
sherryrobinsonauthor.com
Liz Prather @lizprather.bsky.social Writer, poet, teacher
https://www.heinemann.com/authors/100500.aspx
Chelsea Britain @chelseabritain.bsky.social Author and lover of all things cephalopod, philosophy, science, philosophy OF science, other animals, forests, oceans, and etc. 
Beth Dotson Brown @bethdotsonbrown.bsky.social Author, gardener, cook and lover of life
Molly McGhee @mollymcghee.com Reader. Novelist. Fiction nerd. Pro-worker. Anti-billionaire. I teach at Columbia. Online for two decades.
Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social Author and professor type person.
SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24
Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com