Holly Hefner @hollyhefner.bsky.social I’m Holly. I write strategy for ad campaigns. Sometimes I write weird spec as H. Hefner and romance as Selene Grande. Work in Epic Echoes, Bothered Stories, Last Girls' Club, Pseudopod, Ominous Thrill, Illustrated Worlds. 💖💜💙 Bi-furious.
Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social Hugo and Nebula nominated author with over 100 works in print, computer programmer, weirdo from Cleveland.
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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social Award-winning, best-selling queer sci-fi & horror novels & stories. Banned in Florida; stolen by AI. Serializing JUPITER RUINS EVERYTHING. https://linktr.ee/samjmiller
Elise Stephens (she/her) @elisestephens.bsky.social SFF Writer. Stories in Analog, Fiyah, Galaxy's Edge & Escape Pod.
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Author Evan Witmer @author-evan-witmer.bsky.social Author of Pages from the Pizza Crows, Digest: 10 Short Stories by Convicted & Plausible People-Eaters, and How To Burn This Book. Soon the be author of Tall People—a novel about the social lives of anthropomorphic kaiju.
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fbhughes @cultureworrier.bsky.social Social science fiction
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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA | Global Indigenous Horror (UPM, 2025) | Poetry Editor Orion’s Belt | Words in Future Fire, UtopiaSF, Space&Time, Lovecraftiana | EIC @katabaticcircus.bsky.social co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social
Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldn’t.
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
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Evan Graham @evangraham.bsky.social He/Him. Science fiction novelist and purveyor of dread.
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Eden Robins @edenrobins.bsky.social I wrote DON'T CROSS MO ELLERY, a USA TODAY bestseller (as 1/2 of Birdie Horne) | I also wrote REMEMBER YOU WILL DIE & WHEN FRANNY STANDS UP | monkeythumbs.com | birdiehorne.com | Amateur deep-sea scientist and (former) crossing guard
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Uncharted Mag @unchartedmag.bsky.social Stories to get lost in! Publishing crime, mystery, science fiction, fantasy, horror, and thriller short stories. Posts by
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DAW Books @dawbooks.bsky.social SFF imprint of Astra Publishing. DAW has been publishing science fiction and fantasy since 1971.
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Tachyon Publications @tachyonpub.bsky.social Tachyon Publications, founded in 1995, is a award-winning, San Francisco-based independent publisher specializing in speculative fiction.
Subterranean Press @subpress.bsky.social Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing luxurious specialty, limited editions and groundbreaking original works in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres. Dispatches from the warehouse and other news. http://linktr.ee/subterraneanpress
Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects.
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Factor Four Magazine @factorfourmagazine.com Factor Four Magazine is a monthly magazine featuring flash fiction stories from the Speculative Fiction realm. We publish stories you can read for free right on our website.
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The Drabblecast @drabblecast.bsky.social We are an audio fiction magazine bringing you strange stories by strange authors for strange listeners, such as yourself. Hosted by Norm Sherman.
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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
Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com Magazine of speculative fiction; stories of horror, wonder, and the weird since 1999. https://3lobedmag.com
Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social Stop by for a sip of fun. Stay as long as you want; enjoy the view. Edited by Bennett North, Priya Sridhar and Hannya Kay https://translunartravelerslounge.com/
Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social Kaleidotrope is a quarterly e-zine of sci-fi, fantasy & horror edited by Fred Coppersmith since 2006.
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Nightmare Magazine @nightmare-magazine.com Monthly magazine of horror and dark fantasy short fiction published both online and in ebook format. Edited by @wnwagner.bsky.social (till 12/26, then edited by @johnjosephadams.com).
Mona West @monawest.bsky.social Writer. Cohost of the Unfortunately... Podcast. Rejected by Uncanny, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and others.
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Maria Clara @fantasticplanets.bsky.social Amateur astronomer, sci-fi lover, STEM, art lover.
More women in science.
Working on my PhD
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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social Ceramic painter bringing dramatic galactic moments to your dinner table. PNW. (she/her)
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Bob Brock @brockunion.bsky.social Retired from Public Service in North Carolina. Disabled. Amateur radio operator and GMRS radio for family.
Emrys Skye @emrysskye.bsky.social Everything is up for grabs...including karma.
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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social Writer | UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES (2025) | Hugo, Nebula, Locus Winner | Philip K. Dick Special Citation, Finalist for other things | Best American SFF, Brave New Weird | Korean/Irish Dad o' 3. Rep: Michael Curry. thomashawrites.com
Peggy A. Wheeler @pawheeler.bsky.social Writer of the fantastical, reader, world traveler, damned good cook, lover of good food and good wine, Bettie Page fan. Penning my 6th novel. Experiencing a massive, fun blast with this one!
Yohanes Kabes @yohaneskabes.com an Author | Poet | Spirituality
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"Wasn't born to have validation from humans, or be measured by the standard of this world."
Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social Welcome to Night Vale, Alice Isn't Dead, Unlicensed, also several books. #1 AI hater.
All you fascists bound to lose
Rae Vanth @raevanth.bsky.social 🌞 Witchy wordsmith | 📚 Book lover |🔮 Occult explorer | ✨ Pagan + Luciferian insight | 🧘 Healing vibes w/ spooky aesthetics | 🖤 Non-binary introvert | 🐺 WIP: Neo-feminist werewolf novel in 1400s France. 🚫DMs 🚫MAGA 🚫Bible thumpers 
Maria Bamford @mariabamford.bsky.social ✈️ I'M COMING TO SEE YOU! Want to come to a show but no $? Email me ➡️ Ariamaamfordba@gmail.com
Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social Grenadian-born, Virgin Island raised, Ohio settled, SF/F author. I also teach creative writing as a prof. Views my own. More at http://www.tobiasbuckell.com (email Tobias at tobiasbuckell.com to reach me if needed)
Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social Novelist. Out next, The Pictures of Darpan Ray, HarperCollins India. I also make films, comics, and other typing-based lifeforms. Currently running a novel-writing workshop.
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Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social Daryl Gregory, a guy who writes things. WHEN WE WERE REAL out April 1 2025, no foolin'. He/him
Kevin Shionalyn @kevinshionalyn.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher, Dartmouth College
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- machine learning applications
- STEM teaching
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Aidan Doyle @aidandoyle.bsky.social Australian writer, editor, programmer. Author of Mind-controlling Bugs, an illustrated non-fiction book for kids. Editor of The Writer's Book of Doubt and co-editor of Sword & Sonnet. Clarion South, Codexian. He/him
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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Maryke @everwonder.bsky.social 
Valerie Estelle Frankel📚👩🏫🌌🎲🎮🏰📜🧷🧛🏻♂️🦇🎭✡️✍️🧙🏻🎃 @valeriefrankel.bsky.social 👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/jewish-science-fiction-and-fantasy/
SFFWorld @sffworld.com SFFWorld.com - The best in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. Online since 1997 with book reviews, author interviews and a very active community.
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
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Langley Hyde @langleyhyde.bsky.social she/her: game writer/narrative designer for Romance Club; spec fic author; queer/bi & polyamorous & ND; mother; PNWer; gardener; Clarion; MFA; Codexian; SFWA.
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Jelena @jelenawrites.bsky.social SFF & horror writer, art historian.
LOVE LETHAL, DEATH DIVINE (April 2026, Dark Matter Ink)
SFWA, Codex
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Words in BCS, The Dark, The Deadlands
dhbsox @dhbsox.bsky.social 28yr (active duty) Marine MGYSGT (ret)
born in TX..raised in MICH...living in S GA
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Joule @joulekzelm.bsky.social I sell books and write horror (Pseudopod, Cosmic Horror Monthly, MetaStellar, Tales To Terrify). She/her. Stop the genocides.
Matthew Zwier @mczwier.bsky.social I’m doing science and I’m still alive. Computational chemist at a PUI. Electronic structure, Chem Ed. TTRPGS with my kids. Standard disclaimers apply.
Phil Metzler @philmetzler.bsky.social Musician and occasional person. philmetzler.bandcamp.com
rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
The Blue Shark of Friendliness @ckdblueshark.bsky.social