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mashka @susminervamdocet.bsky.social 👩🏼 they/them or she/her, 38 y.o. from the Balkans • 📚 enjoyer of all things #language and #literature • 🐖 admirer of #animals, #plants and #nature • 🐱 caretaker of #cats #adoptdontshop • 🌱 powered by plants • ✊🏼 antifascist & anticapitalist
Cultural Champ @culturalchamp.bsky.social People, places & Pacific wonder Public programs curator > The Veiqia Project > > > Kai Lancashire, England + Vasu Nadroga, Fiji Working on Baramadagal land
Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social Chicago person. Nonfiction books with Penguin Random House. Journalism in Esquire, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Boston Globe, elsewhere. Fiction in some hip spots. 2026 Best Mystery Stories of the Year. Medium tall.
J Mildánoff @joannaobviously.bsky.social SFF Author. Balkan gremlin 🇧🇬🇨🇦 | 💗💜💙 she/her | swear-a-lot ™ | short stories in The Selkie, Inner Worlds, and The Moss Puppy Mag | https://linktr.ee/jmildanoff Art is HUMAN!!!
Elizabeth Cobbe @elizabethcobbe.bsky.social Writer, Pythonista, parent, feelings butler, Viable Paradise grad. Words in Fireside, Cossmass, Kaleidotrope. Novel on sub now! REP: Eric Smith. More at elizabethcobbe.com
Carol Mbugua (Divine_mustang) @sagemustang.bsky.social Your favorite Writer
Arden Ellwood @ardenellwood.bsky.social A queer black writer and artist, born and raised in New York City. Pronouns: He/they
Jude FireSong, aka Fabulous Phoenix Boy @fabulousphoenixboy.bsky.social (gender)queer [he/him] AuDHD mad disabled survivor citizen of the world Scotland 🎭 poet 🦄 SFFH 🎨 art 📸 pics 🎲 TTRPGs 🔞 at times NSFW 🚫 AI/NFT in: Broken Spine,Unicorn Teeth,en*gendered,Madrid Review,man made//made man,rainy weather days,S*x Gap,new words
Zary Fekete @zaryfekete.bsky.social Writer and Reader:) My debut novella is out from DarkWinter Lit and my short story collection is from Creative Texts.
Natalie Zutter @zutsuit.bsky.social sff writer/playwright · pop culture critic at Reactor, Lit Hub, Den of Geek, NPR Books · stories at Adventitious, PodCastle, Icarus Writing Collective · Viable Paradise 2025 · PlayPenn Playwright Entrepreneur Program 25/26 · she/her
Rae @seaglasscritter.bsky.social she/her. bi. poet. fandom old. not worksafe. reptiles, inverts, plants, with a side of writing, ffxv, general geeking out, and bitching about mental health. pocketshrike on steam/twitch/discord
Algae Elliot Ross @algaeross.bsky.social Freelance writer & editor, plus co-host of @adcreeps.bsky.social they/he https://aeross.itch.io/
Rosa Ritunnano @rritunnano.bsky.social MD, PhD (University of Birmingham & University of Melbourne). Psychiatrist, philosopher & qual-researcher interested in psychosis, delusion, phenomenological psychopathology, philosophy of psychiatry, qualitative methods. https://rosar.me/
Katabatic Circus @katabaticcircus.bsky.social an anthology of speculative poetics https://duotrope.com/anthology/katabatic-circus-36036 [open to submissions for volume 3] EIC @nsborwein.bsky.social
Adriana Kantcheva @adrianakantcheva.com Writer of SFF with a pinch of idealism, an inclusive feminist touch, and the occasional sapphic romance. Bi. SFWA | Codex | Milford. Words in PodCastle, Escape Pod. adrianakantcheva.com join.adrianakantcheva.com (newsletter)
Malina @iridescentwords.bsky.social Writer of literary and speculative fiction. Published in Odin by Flame Tree Press, Cast of Wonders, Gwyllion, Ellipsis, Eye to the Telescope, WestWord Journal, NFFD Antho & more.
Tonja K. Johnson | Black Speculative Fiction @tonjakjohnson.bsky.social (she/her) 🏅Award-winning SFFH Author | Acquiring Editor @fiyahlitmag | First Reader @othersidespec | MWC '26 | Pre-order DARK STAR 👇🏾👇🏾 tonjakjohnson.com/links
Nigel Quinlan @nigellicus.bsky.social Writer, The Maloneys' Magical Weatherbox and Cloak Of Feathers. Repped by The Nuremberg Agency.
Kate Francia @katefrancia.bsky.social Speculative fiction writer; stories in Augur, Best Microfiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. Codexian.
@blehwtongue.bsky.social @blehwtongue.bsky.social
BRUISER @bruisermag.com web zine + micropress bruisermag.com
Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social Author of Night Beast and Lies I Tell My Children | Co-founder, Nightjar Arts Collective Just a queer Bolivian American woman who likes books and birds and making billionaires cry www.ruthjoffre.org www.nightjarartscollective.com
emmatonkin.bsky.social @emmatonkin.bsky.social Researcher, sometimes lecture - currently digital health, data ethics, misc other. Charity swimathons. Ink, fiction, occasional yarn. Zombologiste à temps partiel. Citoyenne de nulle part. Franglaise. πόλλ’ ἠπίστατο ἔργα, κακῶς δ’ ἠπίστατο πάντα.
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. Founded by @lnholmeswriter.bsky.social Cofounded by @millieabecassis.com 🌐 https://linktr.ee/smallspecbookawards
T.R. Steele 🍂 @authortrsteele.bsky.social he/him 🏳️‍⚧️ | ♎ | author of fantasy and gothic fiction ⚔️ | stories in A Coup of Owls Press, Hearth Stories, Tales to Terrify, Heartlines Spec, Plott Hound Magazine, smoke and mold, PodCastle and more https://linktr.ee/trsteeleauthor
Scylla Publishing @scyllapublishing.bsky.social Australian publisher of sapphic specfic SEPT 4 2026 - "Who Am I? Sapphic Spec Fic of Identity and Purpose" anthology! https://www.scyllapublishing.com/whoami No AI now or ever.
Manuela Amiouny @manuelaamiouny.bsky.social Canadian SFF writer/poet (she/her/elle) 🖤🤍💜 Words in Augur Magazine, Small Wonders, Best Canadian SFF, Radon Journal, The Sprawl Mag and others. Poetry Editor for Heartlines Spec. https://www.manuelaamiounyauthor.ca/
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt‬ | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine Proud queer 🏳️‍🌈 Trans ally 🏳️‍⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Angel L🏳️‍⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️| Mexican | They/She | ✍️ in Strange Horizons, Uncanny, The Deadlands, Heartlines Spec, & others| Clarion West '25 | Poetry editor @Otherside | http://angel-leal.com
Mon @nomonbooks.bsky.social 🌈Reader of queer & global majority fantasy / sci-fi & writer of speculative short stories. Featured in Torch Literary Arts, Midnight & Indigo and The Decolonial Passage. 🚫AI My biosite: bio.site/Nomonbooks
Crystal Koo @crystalkoo.bsky.social Fictionist on the backroads 🇵🇭🇭🇰 http://cgskoo.wordpress.com/publications http://www.instagram.com/anewartistry
silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social 26. he/him. author of grit (2020). head poetry editor for Beaver Magazine. graphic designer for Transfix Magazine support me & my work ⬇️ 🌟🔗 https://linktr.ee/silasdenver 🔗🌟
J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social sentient entity + occasional writer of words | clarion 2026 | 🇨🇦 https://jyzhang.ca/
Electric Literature @electricliterature.com Making literature exciting, relevant and inclusive electricliterature.com
Elly @ellyzoe.bsky.social Ridiculous and extra. Multidisciplinerdy. Lit & writing major, CS PhD, teacher of many subjects, jack of many trades. Jewish hillbilly in the PNW. 🏳️‍🌈 Fix your hearts or die. she/they/elle/iel. English/Français 🐘 ellyzoe@mas.to 🌩️👀 9MDQTEGZfpxH
Lotje @lotje.bsky.social Terrible at Twitter/whatever. Fan of eating things. Tea drinker. Frequent fangirl. Immigrant. Archaeologist. Humorless feminist. She/they/.. Aggressively joyposting through the horrors.
fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social very queer lit and art publishing space learn more about us: fifthwheelpress.com/links
Monarch Queer Literary Awards @monarch.gay A new annual anthology by @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social recognizing the best new queer writing and art published by literary magazines and independent presses. Learn more: https://monarch.gay/ 🦋
Robert Helfst is doing the best he can @roberthelfst.bsky.social Cosmic & literary horror enthusiast | Fraidy Cat Press editor | Absolutely no AI | Words in Chthonic Matter Quarterly, Saros SF, X-Ray Lit & more. https://linktr.ee/roberthelfst
Cassidy Swan 👾 ⋆✴︎˚｡⋆ @dream-eater-digest.bsky.social Hobby roboticist, aspiring SFFH writer :) 🛰️ 📚: app.thestorygraph.com/profile/dream_eater_digest 📡: dreameaterdigest.substack.com
Shelby Dollar @shelbydollar.bsky.social She/Her | Spec-fic writer | Stories in Black Hare Press, Pyre Magazine, Sliced-Up Press & others 👻
Kate Maxlow @katemaxlow.bsky.social Recovering school administrator. I like my stories lyrical, sometimes absurd, with usually with a dash of humor and hope. My existential dread wears sparkly shoes to arm-wrestle institutions that forget they're made of people.
Rose Maxwell @rosemaxwell.bsky.social Writer. Any pronouns. Probably on the bus. Find my stories in Baffling magazine, Heartlines Spec and more! https://linktr.ee/rosemaxwell
EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social Writer of stories, dreamer of dreams, parent of child, and so on... I like shiny things 🌟 @em.h.writes.things on Instagram 🦋
Greta Colombani (she/her) @gretacolombani.bsky.social Short stories on vampires, queerness, the end of humanity, etc. | Dr in Romantic ghosts @cam.ac.uk | Co-investigator of BA/Leverhulme "Mapping Italian Literary Cafés, 1720-present" | @britfantasysoc.bsky.social Events Organiser for Oxfordshire & Berkshire
Nick Davies / Aster Loxley / Spiral Island @spiralisland.bsky.social I record music as Spiral Island. I write speculative fiction under the pen name Aster Loxley. I also play in Gentle Brontosaurus. Expect posts about Madison, biking, cats, etc.
Bisexual Kaiju @bisexualkaiju.myatproto.social Rowan. 30 year old Cuban-American writer. Lover of horror. Articles found on Signal Horizon and Unwinnable. Creator of Dark Intersections, the horror book review blog. (They/Them)
Chris Talbot (they/them) @mxchristalbot.bsky.social Queer, mixed-race, trans nonbinary creative. Editor of @thebkmagazine.bsky.social and Community-Centric Fundraising. Membership Program Lead of Next 100 Colorado. Board member of Summit for Action. But all my posts are my own.
The Snapdragon Magazine @thesnapdragonmag.bsky.social A literary & arts magazine on the Queer and Disabled experience. thesnapdragon.org
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.
Cipher Press @cipherpress.bsky.social An independent press publishing queer and trans authors
Cat Eye Press @cateyepress.bsky.social Welcome to a new home for horror! Cat Eye Press is an indie horror press, aiming to celebrate horror’s subgenres and diversity. Website: cateyepress.com Links: https://bio.site/cateyepress
Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social A queer feminist zine and bookshop and tiny press, based in Manchester UK since 2015. penfightdistro.com
Queer Space Books @queerspacebooks.bsky.social The speculative fiction imprint of Rebel Satori press. Visit us at https://rebelsatori.com/queer-space/
Rebel Satori Press @rebelsatori.bsky.social Indie publisher of lgbtqia+ books including the imprints Queer Mojo, Queer Space, the Library of Homosexual Congress, and Arabi Manor.
Tagg Magazine @taggmagazine.bsky.social A corner of the internet exclusively for lesbians, LGBTQ+ women, and sapphic folks! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Join us: www.TaggMagazine.com
Dead Ink Books @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of bold new fiction and non-fiction, based in Liverpool https://linktr.ee/deadinkbooks
Hungry Shadow Press @hungryshadow.bsky.social Micro-press specializing in anthologies of short horror fiction. hungryshadowpress.com
Eerie River Publishing @eerieriver.bsky.social Indie publisher of nightmares and dreams. 👻 Online, in markets and in book boxes.
Flash Point SF @flashpointsf.bsky.social An online literary publication for science fiction & fantasy short stories under 1000 words. https://linktr.ee/flashpointsf
If This Goes On (Don't Panic) @itgodp.bsky.social Interviews with SFF and Horror writers, editors, community members, and activists. Writing/Progressive politics. Pushing back on social norms with an eye towards hope. "AI" is garbage. https://itgodp.libsyn.com
Dead Mall Press @deadmallpress.bsky.social DIY small press | against capitalism, for art & imagination | 50% of earnings donated | https://www.deadmallpress.com/ | Dayton OH | editor: @rmhaines.bsky.social
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 Website: brokensleepbooks.com
Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org culture, power, speculation https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AncillaryReview
If There's Anyone Left @iftheresanyoneleft.bsky.social Magazine of speculative fiction from marginalized writers www.iftheresanyoneleft.com
Orbit Books @orbitbooks.bsky.social We are the science fiction & fantasy publisher at Hachette Book Group US and Little, Brown UK. Follow us for your next great read, and tag us in your pics!
Cloaked Press @cloakedpress.bsky.social Indie Publisher of SciFi/Fantasy/Horror dedicated to lifting unique stories to excite your imagination. https://linktr.ee/cpllc
Valancourt Books @valancourtbooks.bsky.social Indie/horror/LGBT/classics. 2021 HWA Specialty Press Award. 'Valancourt's publications may be just what you're looking for.' - Michael Dirda, Washington Post
Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org radical publisher of politics, culture, current events haymarketbooks.org
manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place a creative space for the place (in) between. quarterly online space for works by queer/trans/Mad/disabled creators. ISSUE 13 OUT NOW! submissions currently CLOSED paying market 💖 EIC: @cavar.bsky.social Managing Ed: @joyce.fyi https://manyworlds.place
Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com publisher of boundary-breaking prose books come get us @ splitlippress.com and https://linktr.ee/splitlippress posts by yrs truly @suburbanprairie.bsky.social
Animal Heart Press @animalheartpress.bsky.social A small, feminist press with a big heart. Subscribe for your free ebook and early access to the good stuff! linktr.ee/AnimalHeartPress Posts by @judemarr.bsky.social
Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social One-woman press based in Berlin. EIC @missyerem.bsky.social https://sidhe-press.eu Trans rights are human rights. Free Palestine!
Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social An independent publisher of radical, left‐wing non‐fiction books. Established in 1969, we are one of the oldest radical publishing houses in the world. plutobooks.com
Wyngraf @wyngraf.bsky.social The original magazine of cozy fantasy! • Read THE BUMBLING HEROICS OF BOLLIVER HOOPSLEEVE • Edited by @nat20.bsky.social www.wyngraf.com
Global Majority Press @globalmajoritypres.bsky.social Small indie lit press run by and for PoGM Empowering marginalized creatives to tell their own stories Editor: @mxchristalbot.bsky.social Home of: thebkmagazine.bsky.social bio.site/globalmajoritypress
Rebecca Karas @rebeccakaras.bsky.social poet & weird fiction writer. probably thinking about Tetris. she/they https://linktr.ee/rebecca.karas
Phenomena Press @phenomenapress.bsky.social Phenomena Press is an indie book press focusing on aromantic and asexual speculative fiction stories Run by @megthewriter.bsky.social Designs by @harperkinsley.bsky.social Editors: @faerywhimsy.bsky.social and @dragonediting.bsky.social
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
Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social Omnivorous bookworm and SFFH writer/poet. Words at LeVar Burton Reads, Strange Horizons, The Rumpus, and others. Colorado by way of California. https://linktr.ee/stefanicox
Bri Stokes @bristokes.bsky.social 2024 Voodoonauts Fellow // 2024 Seventh Wave Resident // words in Epiphany, 45th Parallel, Northridge Review & elsewhere 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🇺🇸 https://bristokes.substack.com/
Stone Cold Jane Austen @cofactorstrudel.bsky.social Just a passing housewife. NB She/They/Mum 🏳️‍🌈 Erstwhile esports journalist. Former otome game narrative writer. Former film makeup and sfx artist. Former I.T. guy. One day it'll say "author" here, but hopefully never "former author" Live cringe and die free.
Anne-Marie Creamer @amcreamer.bsky.social Exploring the interstitial spaces of #Artist-Researcher-Patient. Or, knowing from the body’s edge lands Dear Friend -Soane Museum R&D 🗣️Ghostbodies IRL-Lived Experience Lab UAL Better Making CSM EURORDIS xERDERA Open Academy https://amcreamer.net
R.T. Ester @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social THE GANYMEDAN (Out now from Solaris Books) https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-ganymedan-r-t-ester/1d2e09db773dd68b?ean=9781837863365&next=t Agent: Jason Yarn He/him https://linktr.ee/ModuleTen
Naomi Eselojor @naomieselojor.bsky.social Nigerian 🇳🇬 living in 🇬🇧. Writer of speculative fiction 2026 THE CITY OF FACTORIES 2023 Utopian short story winner Nommo Shortlisted writer Milford Science Fiction 2024 naomieselojor.com
London Writers Centre @ldnwriterscentre.bsky.social Opening doors to great storytelling. Founded in 1995 as Spread the Word, now London Writers Centre.
BrightFlame (she/they) * hope & magic * @brightflame.bsky.social I write, teach, make magic for bright futures. THE WORKING: feminist #Witch #solarpunk novel. Short #CliFi in noted anthologies & mags. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #SpecLit #SFF CliFiWritersLeague @bsfwriters #SFWA #LGBTQ+ #justice #resist brightflame.com
@gavreads @gavreads.co.uk Reader of SF&F, mainly. *Libraries have ebooks that you can read on your phone. Est. 2005
Indie Bites @indiebites.bsky.social A quarterly magazine featuring short fantasy fiction from indie authors. Edited by @adiehartauthor.bsky.social and @josiejaffrey.bsky.social No AI. ASSASSINS & ALCHEMY deadline: 30 Nov 26 GRIFFINS & GRIMOIRES deadline: 28 Feb 27 www.silversunbooks.com
Short Fiction Book Club @shortficbookclub.bsky.social https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1embc20/short_fiction_book_club_were_back_for_season/
Heather @heatherdnorton.bsky.social (she/her) | 🖤 | ace | writes SFF and lit fic | words @lunastation.bsky.social and @edinburghawards.bsky.social | first reader at @translunartl.bsky.social | https://writteninmoss.blogspot.com/
B. Rae “Rusty” Grosz @braegrosz.com She/They. Pittsburgh-born writer, researcher, and aspiring bog body. Host of the #MorbidMarch and #13MorbidMondays events at @morbidimagining.bsky.social. Greyromantic. Anti-AI. You can support my work via https://ko-fi.com/braegrosz.
Marsh Hlavka @othermarshes.bsky.social Field ecologist, natural history museums, writer of speculative/ecological/queer/trans fiction. Recent work in: Fusion Fragment, Kaleidotrope. pfp by: Lilijana Oliver they/them
dungeon gangster @dungeongangster.bsky.social Deborah G. (She/They) Mexican🐲 Disabled🧠 Writer of speculative poetry and TTRPGs💀 Game Designer🎲 I talk lot about mental health and my cats 🐈 ESP/ENG
Donna Scott @wishusdonna.bsky.social Writer. Editor of Best of British Science Fiction and other things. Chief word wrangler at The Slab Press. Occasionally a comedian. www.donna-scott.co.uk
MindSpikes @mindspikes.bsky.social Trying to skeet more about the things I love. Making music, software engineering, nature, astronomy, science. Unfortunately I'm📍🇬🇧☠️. So I tend to (re)skeet about billionaires, fascists and anti trans bigots. I know (sigh) but this is 🇬🇧 in 2026. 💚🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸💚
gwendolyn hicks @prioryruins.bsky.social they/them 🍇 sorry for being a bride married to amazement. as if it’s my fault words in Heartlines Spec, Small Wonders, Trollbreath, Uncanny, Kaleidotrope 🌐 prioryruins.carrd.co
Jessica Dawn @jessdawn.bsky.social Writer at night, animal day job, tired in between. Work in Short Story Long, HAD, Rejection Letters, Barren Magazine, Jake, and more. Assistant editor, Short Story Long. Tin House fall ‘25. Lots of dog photos. https://jessdawn.neocities.org/
Julia Vee @juliavee.bsky.social I write stuff with monsters and dumplings. ('23 Ebony Gate, TOR) ('24 Blood Jade, TOR) 🩷Pearl City July 15, 2025🩷 Viable Paradise 21.