Shira Chess @shirachess.bsky.social Associate Prof. of Media Studies @ UGA
Books:
1. The Unseen Internet (MIT press, 2026)๐ซ
2. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th century (Strange Attractor w RU Sirius)
https://open.substack.com/pub/unseeninternet
Glen Creed @theglencreed.bsky.social Small, strange stories and poems, from haunted to heartsick. Colorado. SmokeLong ยท Parsec Ink ยท HWA Poetry Showcase.
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Braydon Beaulieu @ludoclast.bsky.social Writer and game designer. Narrative Designer at Ubisoft Toronto. Instructor at Toronto Metropolitan University. PhD in English from the University of Calgary. Bad at everything else. Latest: โThe Event Horizon of Honeyโ in Augur 8.2 ๐ he/him
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Alex Kingsley @alexyquest.bsky.social writer/comedian/game designer | they/them | co-founder @StrongBranchPro | Author of EMPRESS OF DUST | โ๏ธ Translunar Travelers Lounge, Radon Journal | UIC English MA student | Rep: Sara Megibow
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V Corbet @vcorbet.bsky.social hybrid writer (fiction, poetry, hypertext) and artist โ
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Evan Simon-Leack @esimonleack.bsky.social Writer of sci-fi and weird horror. Wielder of a sense of humor equal parts silly, unhinged, and cry for help.
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Querying debut #hopepunk novel: https://alienzoo.org/
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Gregory Moulinet @gregorymoulinet.bsky.social I design, I write, I teach with a biocentric outlook in China. Author of SYNTOPIA, a solarpunk fiction series with design praxis at its core. https://linktr.ee/gregorymoulinet
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Philip Harris @solitarymindset.com Design Director and writer. By day, I develop video games. By night, I write urban fantasy and horror novels and screenplays. He/him. Co-chair of Greater Vancouver Chapter of HWA. All opinions my own. http://www.solitarymindset.com
Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA | Global Indigenous Horror (UPM) | Poetry Editor Orionโs Belt | Words in Future Fire, UtopiaSF, Space&Time, Star*Line | co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social | EIC @katabaticcircus.bsky.social
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C. E. Singer @ce-singer.bsky.social SFF author & attorney & occasional professor | Finalist for the 2025 Mike Resnick Memorial Award | Codex | Fiction forthcoming in Analog Science Fiction and Fact & Flash Fiction Online
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Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social Author - Poet
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M Shedric Simpson @shedric.bsky.social Writer, artist, & dreamer. Nonbinary & neurodivergent. More @ shedric.com
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. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
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@twothreefourgo.bsky.social @twothreefourgo.bsky.social 
Jeff (Mixed Metaphors) @mixedmetaphors.bsky.social He/him.
There Are Infinite Universes and All of Them Are Boring, published by ELJ Editions:
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n.e. gorczyca @blueberryfinch.bsky.social Writer, amateur artist, and general maker-of-trinkets based in Virginia.
Melissa Rea Author ๐๐๐ @melrea.bsky.social Four novels written. Fun novels about strong women with a pinch of magic. https:// @iquitcigs.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social Team Site StL Mo ๐ญ
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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.
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First issue: December 1, 2026
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Ed Walker @ed-walker.bsky.social Forever curious. Old engineer and newish writer. Retired, and living in Catalunya, Spain. Disability never stopped me.
priya chand @priyachand.bsky.social Food Influencer of Worldcon 2024 (TM)
Reckoning staff, words, birds
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Cozy | Gothic | Queer
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Sasha Kielman (she/her/hers) ๐ฆ is Querying ๐๐ฏ๏ธ๐ฟ @sashakielman.bsky.social Attorney & writer (Codex, Mighty Pens, RFFA). Stories available in The Fairtales, CRIMSON BONES, UNLEASHED: SET YOUR MONSTER FREE, WICKEDNESS AND WONDER, OF LOVE AND DRAGONS, & OF SWORDS AND ROSES.
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Caitlin J.F. Friend, Author @caitlinjffriend.bsky.social ๐จ๐ฆ dark fantasy author of Project Mistmane
Jennifer ๐๐งโฃ๏ธ @jdawson001.bsky.social โฟ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐American SFF author, poet, editor, & book reviewer living in England. She/her. The Poetry Society & The British Fantasy Society. Old OWW member.
Online at: WorldsOfMayhem.com
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Natasha Kindred @thehoursgodsends.bsky.social Poet and artist in triumphant distress โข Reliquary archives a specialty โข World's worst Catholic โค๏ธโ๐ฅ Problems merchant - international shipping
God stuff: allthehoursgodsends.wordpress.com
Strange essays & peculiar fiction:
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Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social Proudly independent literary magazine & small press, established in 2004. Books + print issues + online issues + conferences + writing retreats + other stuff.
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Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE IS AN IGNYTE FINALIST! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธIranian Chicagoan author: THE BRUISING OF QILWA (adult queernorm Persian fantasy; Crawford, Locus, World Fantasy finalist) & THE GLADE (๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐MG horror, Ignyte finalist). Worker-owner at Sword & Kettle Press. Newsletter, teaching, & more: lnk.bio/jamsternazzy
Derek Wagner @dmwagner.bsky.social "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
Words @factorfourmagazine.com
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Odyssey Writing Workshop '23.
Codex Member
Louise Hughes @trailofleaves.bsky.social Time Traveller. Social Historian. Reader and Writer of Speculative Fiction.
North East England.
Sturgeon Award finalist. Stories in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Kaleidotrope, Interzone, and more.
https://louisehugheswrites.wordpress.com/
H.V. Patterson @hvpatterson.bsky.social Writes horror/speculative fiction, poetry, and plays. Loves folklore, spooky science, and baking/cooking. Cofounder Horns and Rattles Press she/her
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Apollo Papyrus @apollopapyrus.bsky.social A podcast and YouTube channel about books, writing, and literature hosted by @campaaronapollo.bsky.social!
Repost! Repost! @repostrepost.bsky.social Frederick Post: Amateur, Dabbler and Dilettante. Mostly Reposts + Images + Occasional AI Slop.
Audrey Zhou @audreyzhou.bsky.social SFFH writer | she/her | Shirley Jackson Award Finalist | Brave New Weird, Best Weird Fiction | Clarion 2025 | short fiction in Strange Horizons, PseudoPod, Lightspeed, etc
https://audreyzhouwrites.com/
Nora Shear @norashear.bsky.social Author of consent-centric paranormal romance/horromance.
NB, Bi, CPTSD, ADHD, & more ;)
My novel NO DREAM LIKE FOREVER is out on Amazon/Kobo/Itch!
No AI, ever. More at https://norashear.com/
Avatar is my cat Nubs, a gold and brown tabby cat w/green eyes.
Ste Gen Mo Dem ๐๐ ๐๐ณ @stegenmodem.bsky.social Supporting Dems Everywhere SG 60 miles South of St Louis @piperformissouri.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @fpwellman.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @labarnitz.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social ๐๐ญ๐
Richard Z. Gallant, Dr. phil. ๐บ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ช๐บ @richardzgallant.bsky.social independent scholar, medievalist, and award-winning author ... literary SF novel forthcoming
Jonathan Butcher @jondbutcher.bsky.social Poet based in Sheffield. Editor of Fixator Press
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Lynne Sargent @lynnesargent.bsky.social Writer. Philosopher. Sky-dancer. They/She. Codex. LCP. Author of A REFUGE OF TALES. Poetry Editor at Utopia Science Fiction.
THOUGHT EXPERIMENT REVOLUTION forthcoming from ECW Press.
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Thi Ha Kyaw @thiha-phy.bsky.social Being a physicist is what I'm, who I'm and what I love.
Don Mark Baldridge @donmarkmaker.bsky.social Author / SFWA / CODEX Writers / Unsyndicate
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Geoffroh @brotherexpo.bsky.social Expos fan in BlueJays land. Baseball, #CANWNT #CANXNT, books, cycling, transit.
Lia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social literary & speculative fiction writer | short stories in podcastle, otherside, haven spec | clarion west nww, granta '26 | viable paradise โ25 | she/her
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William Cohen-Kiraly, Author @wckiraly.bsky.social I am the author of Songs of a Befuddled Muse, a book of thirteen eccentric short stories pulled from the nooks and crannies of my mind.
https://linktr.ee/befuddledmuse
Leah Ning @leahning.bsky.social SFFH writer. Alien tech lord ๐ง at Apex Book Company. Words at Apex, BCS, PodCastle, Dark Matter, air and nothingness, and more. Reading for Diabolical Plots.
Website: www.leahning.com
Lizzy Loechel #RhymeswithFreckle @lizzyloechel.bsky.social www.TheUpliftBlog.com
Writer of an upcoming Solarpunk Fantasy
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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social Illustrator, performer, walker of the hills at dusk, lunatic. Hooklander.
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effy. @strifeandsunlight.bsky.social writer.
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Nara Monteiro @notesfromnara.bsky.social ๐ง๐ท๐จ๐ฆ โข ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ they/them โข writes as N.S. Monteiro โข nerd, cultural hybrid, hobbit โข managing editor at Augur Magazine, sr editor at Tales & Feathers, crunching numbers at House of Anansi + Groundwood
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Hope Engel ๐ @hopeengel.com Reader, writer, cat mom, baseball fan, based in NY.
Debut novel "At Your Pace" is out now! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWXYD77J
(She/her)
Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social I write short stories that explore the space between memory and myth: quiet, eerie and unsettling fiction that lingers in the mind like fog after nightfall.
The Archive of the Unread:
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Joe @antolius.josipantolis.from.hr Started as mathematician, ended up a developer. A Trekkie and D&D player. I recently took up birding.
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