J. Stryker 🍂 | Rocks fall, everyone dies. @easterncoyote.bsky.social Nature, night, fire, canids, corvids, misanthropy, biocentrism. They/them.
Grey Malkin @grizzelgreedigut.bsky.social Folk horror, cats, mist, cheesy chips.
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Bracknell Forest Community Climate Action @bfcca2025.bsky.social BFCCA is a local charity that helps our community address the climate and biodiversity crisis.
Our Vision - Bracknell Forest will work together to live sustainably, making green choices, and we will achieve net zero as close to 2030 as possible.
Jez Conolly @jezconolly.bsky.social Discomfort blanket
Books: The Thing | Dead of Night | Seconds
Essays: Routledge Companion to Folk Horror | Horrifying Children | Scarred for Life vol 3
Memoir: Capture Spiral
Miniplay: Adam and Yves
Horror fiction writer
He/Him
https://linktr.ee/jezconolly
Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social Illustrator, performer, walker of the hills at dusk, lunatic. I get paper dirty professionally. As it is said in Hookland, Re-enchantment is resistance.
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Folk&Horror Phenomena @folkphenomena.bsky.social Philosophy, SW and Education guy. Reviews of gigs, albums and theatre in the folk world. Considers all horror media. Writes with an emphasis on experiential feel and wonder. Sheffield based, also on Youtube and 1/3 of "3 Men and a Whisky".
Phil Hine @philh.bsky.social Occult Author, Researcher, Publisher, Lecturer.
https://enfolding.org/
Brontë Schiltz @bronteschiltz.bsky.social 🖊: @bigissue.com @bigissuenorth.bsky.social 👻 PhD on the BBC’s Televisual Gothic @manmetuni.bsky.social 👩💼 Members Coordinator @igagoths.bsky.social
PerfectGod = S. Cyn = L. Gates = J. Glacier = L. Simz = Ziwe +c. @blackswanborges.bsky.social Mx Józef ≈ M.
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[ I wake up *wishing* that I was:
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Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social 🌲🧚👻 Writer of strange & unusual tales. Ghosts, folklore & history from Wiltshire and beyond. Earth & nature lover. 👻🧚🌲 ☕ www.weird-wiltshire.co.uk
Arthur Mandal @arthurmandal.bsky.social Brit/US writer of uncanny fiction. Best Small Fictions 2025. Over 40 stories in The Barcelona Review, LITRO, Southeast Review, The Forge, The Los Angeles Review and others. @nightjarpress Based in Eugene, Oregon (but grew up in UK). www.arthurmandal.com
Richard Gadz, horror writer @frankenwriter.bsky.social Award-winning author, ace neurodivergent and keen amateur idiot. Lives in Bristol but spends most of his time in a world of his own.
Also at www.richardgadz.co.uk + Facebook, Instagram, YouTube
Justine Gardner @jbgrumpstone.bsky.social 🖊Word creature. 🪶Birb person.
Basically just an old* fart-in-a-bottle left on a dusty shelf somewhere in Brooklyn, NY.
*Old enough to know that being anti-fascist is 👍.
website: www.grumpstonegazette.com
linktree: https://linktr.ee/justine.gardner
Gavin Teakle @gavinteakle.bsky.social Gavin is a British author, food and travel blogger, motorcyclist and retired Engineer. He has recently self published his first book, The Accidental Survivor, a humorous autobiography about his life which includes a lot of close shaves and accidents.
Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social Issue 2: The Devil Has the Best Tunes is due out in October. Online shop reopens mid-September.
Now taking proposals for issue 3, deadline Sept. 1: https://forms.gle/2jSRGKXMCxcEdSzM6
Edited by @scaryasfolk.bsky.social and @theharvestmaid.bsky.social.
Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
Michael Ironheart @michaelironheart.bsky.social I am a self published indie author who has released 2 books, with a 3rd on the way
22 years old/college student/AuDHD
Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social Writer on archive TV and film. Currently working on a book about the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas. Produced The Quatermass Experiment (2023) and Children of The Stone Tape (2024). Podcasts on Nigel Kneale and Giallo.
First Novel Prize @firstnovelprize.bsky.social Writing competition for unpublished and independently published novelists. Entries close on the 31st of May. Judged by Sally Williamson (Transworld) and Hayley Steed (Janklow & Nesbit). Organised by the Literary Studio. Bloomsbury, London
firstnovel.co.uk
James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social Surrounded by yowling, nebulous forms. Writer: Smack The Pony, Green Wing, Piglets, my first novel Pagans now available in paperback: https://www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/james-alistair-henry/2928377365622
Angie and the Westies 🏴 @angieandwesties.bsky.social Happily retired and living in the Scottish Borders. I love art, nature, gardening, flower arranging, trying out new recipes, and spending time with my husband and our Westies (Henry and Lily).
Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie Author of Nature’s Acre. Founder, Gardeningwell.ie — wildlife gardening in Ireland (Stamullen, Co Meath).
Walled garden + school/community projects.
Peat-free, pesticide-free. Native plants, pollinators. Media: gardeningwell.ie/press/media
Luce Leonard @luceleonard.bsky.social I really love the teachings of the Dalai Lama and the great spiritual masters around him. They make me feel good.
Photo: The Dalai Lama
To my right is Yahne Le Toumelin, Matthieu Ricard’s mother.
Dexter McLeod @dextermcleod.bsky.social Author of horror & science fiction. Stories at Air & Nothingness Press, Dark Moon Books, Eerie River Publishing, Hawk & Cleaver, Hollow Stone Press, The Horror Tree, KJK Publishing, Sci Phi Journal, & TDotSpec. (He/Him)
https://linktr.ee/dextermcleod
Wendy Waring @wendywaring.bsky.social writer, editor, prof, traductrice
Queer ecofiction novel forthcoming @Stelliform.press: The Hunger of Those Who Built It
🌹 grew up in the Hammer, raising rabble world-wide 🌹
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Queen's | UofT | ISTI | Clarion
Shonna White @shonnathewhite.bsky.social Author, artist, gamer & GIANT GEEK (she/her) 🇨🇦
LOST INFERNAL - COMING AUGUST 2026
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Brown Hound Press @brownhoundpress.bsky.social A small press in Lexington, KY that publishes offbeat mystery, dark humor, southern gothic & literary fiction. A free story each week! We pay authors.
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Watson @captainpaul007.bsky.social Master Mariner, Marine Conservationist, Environmentalist, Writer and Poet
Malcolm Schofield @malcschofield.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Psychology. Researching paranormal and conspiracy beliefs. Council member, Society for Psychical Research.
Perfect God = Lexa Gates @mx-j.bsky.social https://shop.capitolmusic.com/collections/lexa-gates
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com One of the UK's leading indie publishers. High-impact fiction and brand-led non-fiction. Beautiful books you won’t forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
Newcastle Green Party @nclgreenparty.bsky.social Published and promoted on behalf of the Green Party, at PO Box 78066, London, SE16 9GQ.
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David Frankel @daveyfrankel.bsky.social Prize-dodging writer of stories. Here despite popular demand. 'Forgetting is How We Survive' pub'd Saltpublishing.bsky.social . Shortlisted @edgehillprize.bsky.social. Chapbooks @nightjarpress.bsky.social & @salopress.bsky.social .
www.davidfrankel..co.uk
Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social lit mag & small press | supported by the Arts Council of Ireland | issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) out now | latest book: Render by Billy Ramsell | https://bansheepress.org/
Charlie Hughes @charliehughes77.bsky.social Horror writer. UK. Stories in Best Horror of the Year, Vols 15 & 16
Full list of published and new stories here 👇
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Nightjar Press @nightjarpress.bsky.social Single short story chapbooks since 2009. Uncanny, dark, experimental. Manchester/London. Editor @nicholasroyle.bsky.social. Design @johnoakey.bsky.social.
A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social Author and reviewer. Stoker and Sunburst Award winner. Nebula, World Fantasy, Stoker, Locus, Shirley Jackson, British Fantasy, Lamba, and Ignyte finalist. She/her. www.acwise.net. https://linktr.ee/acwise
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Romance & Relationships Film Festival @romancefestival.bsky.social Submit your ROMANCE or RELATIONSHIP Film or Screenplay.
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Orion's Legacy Editing @orions-legacy-edit.bsky.social Orion’s Legacy Editing is a trauma‑informed creative studio and brand forged in story, symbolism, and light.
Here, memory becomes art; through words that honor grief, transformation, and truth.
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LoriPerkinsRAB @loriperkinsrab.bsky.social Bohemian Feminist,Word-slinger,Publisher@RiverdaleAveBooks & RomanceDailyNews. Lit agent@lperkinsagency.com Pink sister,pro-choice, Blue.Co-author Two Dukes Are Better Than One @LornaJWrites, https://linktr.ee/Riverdaleavenuebooks101, LoriPerkinswrites.com
Vel @velveteensnails.bsky.social they/them, mid-20s. MDNI
Jack Wright @jackwrightauthor.com Horror author from the North of England. Reyt Spooky.
Stories of grief, folklore, and the things that move when they shouldn’t.
Duskfield Pines — ???
Anna’s Veil — ???
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@theevoldoctor.bsky.social @theevoldoctor.bsky.social 
Helga @helganr.bsky.social 💻 Psychological Thriller / Mystery / Horror Writer
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I do not want what I haven’t got 🫶
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” Nelson Mandela
Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
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Jan Kaneen. Northern Writer Granny. PhD student at York St John @jankaneen1.bsky.social Award-winning writer, blogs https://jankaneen.com/ '23 Bath NiF winner, SL Rubery Award & First Pages Prize '24 Flash & Short story collection, Hostile Environments on sale https://www.northodox.co.uk/product-page/hostile-environments-paperback
Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Writer of short things. Reader of all things flash. Dog lover. Words in SLQ, XRAY, Flash Frog, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf. Winner of 2024 Lascaux Prize & Cambridge Prize. She/her https://www.emilyrinkema.com/
HAMLET EU Project @hamleteuproject.bsky.social An EU-funded project bringing AI to the CCIs. Through HAMLET's Hub, artists, creative directors, writers, game developers, and AI experts co-create with tools for adaptive storytelling, dance analysis, 3D assets and more. https://hamlet-project.eu/
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Neil Ainger @craftbeardmackem.bsky.social Gig going, theatre loving, craft beer drinking, Tex-Mex-fancying writer from Sunderland. Writes for NARC. magazine.
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University of Sunderland Research & Graduate School @uosresearch.bsky.social Promoting research opportunities, including news and events for staff and Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs).
Ayr Force Al @ayrforceal.bsky.social Love aviation, birds, wildlife and our garden.
Photography is my passion, just get out there, it’s amazing what you will see.
Based in Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotland.
Sarah Campbell @sarah-cam.bsky.social Healthwatch Barnet Manager
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old wolf @old-wolf.bsky.social FUNCTIONAL BOOMER, LIKES CATS,TRUMP.NOT SO MUCH. Old and incapacitated . Recovering Luddite using AI for fun and my contribution to the RESISTANCE. I don’t consider it art. Feel free to share,change,discard,or whatever. No copyrights. GO!!!, Enjoy!
Danielle Meenan Heaney @pinnipedsandponies.bsky.social Mediocre equestrian, prospective graduate student. Seal nerd 🦭
she/her
Orbital Policy Group @druidorbital.bsky.social Viewpoints and opinions on policy issues relating to Low Earth Orbit, including policy, science, governance, and cybersecurity.
STARVINITY @starvinity.bsky.social #Starvinity is a Sci-Fi/Fantasy universe, inspired by Star Wars, Star Trek, Dune, and so much more. Seek truth, defy tyranny, find freedom.
mer salée @mer-salee.bsky.social 
Lynsey White @lynseywhite.bsky.social Reader, writer, editor, teacher 
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The Writing Squad @thewritingsquad.bsky.social Creating the next generation in the north of England. www.writingsquad.com
AuthorJamesL.Rickard @jameslrickard.bsky.social I'm an aspiring Pulitzer winner writing in West Virginia, with several books on KDP and D2D. Dabbling in SF, Horror, and Westerns. SCML.
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Kamuka @kamuka.bsky.social Lefty, plant based, Buddhist, reader
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Cap57 @cap57.bsky.social Former republican- what was I thinking. Retired nurse- yay me! Pro choice. Looking for peace and quiet. See you at the library reading all the banned books 🌻🩺💉🎵
Rebecca Powell @rebeccapowellbooks.bsky.social Author | Editor | Book coach.
Bristol girl now living in France. Caledonia Novel Award SL. Goldfinch Novel Award LL.
Rep’d by Judith Murray at Greene & Heaton
Kevin Sweet @kevin-sweet.bsky.social i try to be curious not just furious - fear, hatred, and anger can blind us to the humanity of others - for any issue and any side we take. 😍✌️🌍🌏🌎🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇺🇸🥰🎉
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