Laura (She/Her) @lauramusicals.bsky.social 36 | Autistic | Partially Deaf/HOH
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Alien Buddha Press @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social Alien Buddha Press has been publishing emerging writers and artists since 2017. Open for submissions at abuddhapress@yahoo.com
Mike Underwood @mikerunderwood.bsky.social They/he. 3x Gold ENNIE winner. Trans & non-binary Midwest Princex.
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Game designer (Daggerheart, Dungeons of Drakkenheim: Daggerheart, Candela Obscura, etc.)
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Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social Unapologetically gay, trans, and disabled goblin writing weird little stories for weird little guys.
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18+ MDNI
Owl Hollow Press @owlhollowpress.bsky.social Book Publisher. World-altering stories, real and imagined.
Suzi @suzisteffen.bsky.social Writer, reader, editor, occasional arts journalist, rider of adult tricycles, traveler, sports fan, Duolingo addict.
Lily Lachance 🏳️⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com Trans 🏳️🌈, adventurer, author, poet, filmmaker. 🇨🇦
Unagented but seeking.
Words in Phano, Gavagai, Bullet Points, and more. Anti-gen-AI absolutist. (No both-siders, ever.)
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Gessica Sakamoto Martini @gessicasakamoto.bsky.social Writer & Poet | 2x BOFN nom| Words in DMQ review, HAD, Hex, SoFloPoJo, Ballast, Unbroken, Bending genres, Gone Lawn, Red Ogre Review, etc...| EiC: Orion’s Belt | PhD in Anthropology (Durham Uni, UK) | she/her.
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Orion's Belt magazine @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social We publish experimental literary speculative fiction, poetry, reviews & translations. Read us at http://orions-belt.net. Support us at http://patreon.com/orionsbeltmag. EiC: @gessicasakamoto.bsky.social
Paul O'Neill @pauloneillwriter.bsky.social Editor: A Midnight Kind of Place. Host: Short Story Club (Substack). Writer: Sometimes.
Dead Languages Podcast @deadlanguagespod.bsky.social Authors Carson Winter and P.L. McMillan languish in the woes and joys of being horror writers. Come join us as we chat craft, movies, books, and more!
😤 Deadlanguagespodcast.com
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Spiral Tower Press @spiraltowerpress.bsky.social Spiral Tower Press is amateur literary community that publishes three free zines and an APA: Whetstone: Amateur Magazine of Sword and Sorcery, Witch House: Amateur Magazine of Cosmic Horror, and Waystation: Amateur Magazine of Space Opera, and TRIAPA.
Claire Delune 🦄 @clairedelune.bsky.social Queer author of speculative fiction whose work has been featured in various outlets including HuffPost. Has a freakish depth of knowledge about animals and a worrying fixation on unicorns. Resides in Washington, where this sort of thing is encouraged. 🦄
Patrick Lee @patrickdlee.com Tech professional, avid reader, aspiring author, decent skier.
Disc golf needs work. All thoughts my own.
Editor at @exoplanetmag.com
https://patrickdlee.com/
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.
First #submissions window: September 1 - 15, 2026
First issue: December 1, 2026
exoplanetmag.com
Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social writer & full fattie 🍦• author of 📚 HOUSEMATES (2024) & 📚 THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL (2020) • ✍🏻 NYT, Time, Esquire, The Atlantic, Granta, The Cut etc 🌈 she/her
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Avalon Fast @avalonfast.bsky.social Filmmaker
CAMP, Honeycomb
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Whimsy @whimsyfiction.bsky.social A monthly microfiction contest celebrating the lighter, more peculiar side of storytelling. Yes, our alpaca travels by quill 🦙🪶
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August Chalmers @augustchalmers.bsky.social Writer. Poet. Reader
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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social Nebula, Aurora, WFA finalist, Ignyte Co Founder
"SKIN THIEF STORIES" Neon Hemlock. COUNTESS out now ECW Press. Goth, plant grower, music enthusiast. She/They, Queer, 🇹🇹 🇨🇦 rep by Michael Curry. Banner: Matt Griffin
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Olivia Portlander 🐙🧡🍋🐊🦋☂️ @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social Photos are all mine. 🧡 Portland 🧡 Books, bikes, photos, dogs, donuts, but that's not my whole personality. I don't fix typos. I'm careless that way. Resist! Persist! Insist!
Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social Author & queer historian. MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90S AND BEYOND is available for preorders now! Previously: The Women’s House of Detention (2022) and When Brooklyn Was Queer (2019) linktr.ee/HughRyan
Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social Hungry historian. Novelist. Vancouver Island dweller. I post a lot about old books I'm reading, and sometimes new ones. Also art and nature shots. I avoid posting about politics because what the fuck's the point. You know what I think.
Slashic Horror Press @slashichorrorpress.bsky.social 🩸 Horror fiction from queer voices and allies 💀 🔪
📕 Submissions open
🚫 NO AI
Preorders:
🏠 The Light-House: Extremities #2 by TT Madden
Out now:
🚗 SUMMER 1973 trilogy by Dean Cade
📱Deadbeat: Extremities #1 by Maxim Volk
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Hope Springs Creative @hopespringsinc.bsky.social Publishing with purpose. Stories with power. We're a non-profit press publishing diverse speculative fiction.
🖥️ 🌐 🔗 → www.hopespringscreative.com
Jaye F.R. Coates @jfrcoates.bsky.social Writer and publisher of sci-fi, fantasy, and furry books through @tfpublishing.bsky.social. She/her. 🏳️⚧️ ΔΘ
https://www.jfrcoates.com/
https://www.patreon.com/jfrcoates
Transcendent Fiction Publishing @tfpublishing.bsky.social Furry/Speculative Fiction publisher focused on trans and female authors.
http://www.tfpublishing.com.au/
Wangleberry @wangleberry.bsky.social www.chickenscratch.co.uk
Artist, Warrior, Professional Idiot
Doing a PhD in English for the sheer hell of it
jeffreyford8 @jeffreyford8.bsky.social Writer of novels and stories. Lives in Ohio. 
Alice St. Stirling @alice-stirling.bsky.social Hysterical magic realist. Bisexual. Pittsburgh. Submissions reader for Fusion Fragment. Work in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Thirteen Podcast, and UP Magazine, forthcoming from Menhera 2020.
Substack: https://alicestirling.substack.com/
Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social Writer, FRSL. Prof, RHUL. Literature and science fiction.
https://profadamroberts.substack.com/
"Frankenstein Rex" coming in October:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Frankenstein-Rex-Adam-Roberts/dp/1399617729/
Oliver K. Langmead @oliverklangmead.bsky.social THE KILLING OF A CHESTNUT TREE out this October from Tordotcom
Lecturer at Lancaster
Hugo nominated // Philip K. Dick award nominated // BSFA Award nominated // British Fantasy Award nominated
Ailish Maura @ailishmaura.bsky.social LitRPG Fantasy author
former grad student in religion studies
mostly repost pretty art with occassional writing updates and thoughts
(She/her) transgender lesbian 29y/o
Tachyon Publications @tachyonpub.bsky.social Tachyon Publications, founded in 1995, is a award-winning, San Francisco-based independent publisher specializing in speculative fiction.
tRaum Books @traumbooks.bsky.social trans micro press ♡ BLACK HOLE SCIENCE IS FILLED WITH APOLOGIES, by Never Angeline North is out now!!!
🚫NO AI ++ FVCK ICE ++ FREE PALESTINE
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jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social I read a bunch and edit Seize The Press Magazine.
Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social Wife.🏳️🌈Author.📚Tarot enthusiast.🔮
Professor of Africana Studies at Smith. Recovering sociologist. Twitter refugee. Current research: #BlackProvincetown. 日本語を勉強します. One of my books has a cameo in an Oscar winning film. Posts represent the views of my cats.
Emma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social Horror/fantasy writer. Author of GRIEF EATER. Aurealis and Aust Shadows finalist. In Uncanny, Nightmare, PodCastle, Hometown Haunts, Wastelands 3 etc. Clarion West. SFWA. Queer. They/them. No AI 🏳️🌈👻
Ben Robertson @benrobertson.bsky.social 
Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com Pulitzer Prize winner & NYT bestselling writer (books, TV, film). Angel Down, Whalefall, Creepshow, The Shape of Water, The Living Dead, Rotters, The Autumnal, 21 more, visit the site or just trust me.
DanielKraus.com
Michael J. [Fox] DeLuca @michaeljdeluca.bsky.social Environmental justice hermit
beer, bikes, bread, fungi, foraging
THE PALADIN IN THE FOREST OF THORNS, collection, The Fabulist Editions 2027
THE JAGUAR MASK, novel, Stelliform Press 2024
NIGHT ROLL, novella, Stelliform Press 2020
he/him
Maddie Schramm @thewildflowermind.bsky.social I'm Maddie, author of The Wildflower Mind. #Autistic, #ADHD, and done pretending otherwise. Honest thoughts, unfiltered observations, and real talk about #neurodivergent life. Notes from a different kind of mind.
Old Gods of Appalachia @oldgodspod.bsky.social Old Gods of Appalachia is an award-winning eldritch horror anthology podcast set in the darkest mountains in the world.
Move to The Holler to enjoy ad-free episodes, exclusive storylines and more: www.oldgodsofappalachia.com/theholler
Uncharted Mag @unchartedmag.bsky.social Stories to get lost in! Publishing crime, mystery, science fiction, fantasy, horror, and thriller short stories. Posts by
@tommydeanwriter.bsky.social
Julia Liz Elliott @juliaelliott.bsky.social Fiction Writer: HELLIONS, THE WILDS, THE NEW AND IMPROVED ROMIE FUTCH (Tin House Books) http://www.juliaelliott.net/
Chareon Vulpecula 🍎✨| VGen comms open @itschareon.site Illusion Fox Creetor | VTuber 🏳️⚧️ | Age: late 30s | Writer Content Arc | Art: #vulpsketchula NSFW🔞: #VULGARtula | Commissions: http://VGen.co/ChareonVulpecula | She/Her
Subtle Body Press @subtlebodypress.bsky.social Indie press publishing outsiders since 2021.
EinC cliffhensley.bsky.social.
Annuals include Seven Story Hotel (7SH) and Body Shots.
Open for submissions at www.subtlebodypress.com.
Cliff Hensley @cliffhensley.bsky.social EinC at subtlebodypress.bsky.social.
Author-designer of Now You See, a multimodal macabre book object from Shiloh House Press.
Award-winning filmmaker.
Wrote for Shadowrun, once upon a time, and third-party content for Mörk Borg.
www.cliffhensley.com
Electric Literature @electricliterature.com Making literature exciting, relevant and inclusive
electricliterature.com
Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social Writer in NYC. Former Attorney. EIC Split Lip Magazine. Copper Nickel Editor's Prize | BASS Distinguished Story | Kenyon Review | Ploughshares | Artist-in-Residence @ South 85 Journal | Next up: CHEEKS | http://maureenlangloss.com/
👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com Award winning writer of creepy stuff. Glass House, Skinless Man Counts to Five, Daughter of the Wormwood Star, Suicide Music, & Cancer Eats the Heart out now. Rustbelt Gothic coming Oct 2026. Creator of the game Bad Writer
website: https://pauljessup.com
Veronica Holmes @veronicaholmes.bsky.social Sapphic Spec Fic author, editor, anthologist, small press publisher. Fanfic writer. TTRPG player. Dice dragon. Lesbian. She/They. No Gen AI ever. Newcastle, Australia. Debut novel “All or None” in November 2026.
AO3 fanfic as: NancyAmazon
Gavagai @gavagai.com Gavagai is a curated fiction and creative writing platform for readers and writers who care about the work. Founded by @timhoelscherauthor.com
Roi Fainéant Press SUBS ARE OPEN, BAYBEE! @rfpress.bsky.social Digital lit mag & more. 5 editors in a trenchcoat. 2 indie lit 2 quit. Submissions open. https://www.roifaineantpress.com/ EIC @tiffanymarie.bsky.social Masthead: @skybarett.bsky.social @kelkel.bsky.social @melissacuisine.bsky.social @maybemargot.bsky.soci
Dream Foundry @dreamfoundry.bsky.social A non-profit for support and advocacy of emerging creatives working in the speculative arts. We run contests for writers and artists, Con or Bust, the virtual convention Flights of Foundry, and more!
Diana Dima @dianadima.com writes things | stories in Strange Horizons, khōréō, The Deadlands and others | she/her
www.dianadima.com
Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com Est. 2015 in Pennsylvania | Escape the Mundane Poetry, novels, stories, & hand-made chapbooks
thirtywestph.com | asterismbooks.com/publisher/thirty-west
Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social Award-winning storyteller, writer, workshop facilitator. Taught 150+ workshops including Second City, Smokelong Quarterly, Clarion West. Stories published in Barrelhouse, Baltimore Review, Apex, Fractured Lit etc. www.tyrtle.com. #HumanMade
Tricia Dearborn @triciadearborn.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Editor | New collection Goatscape out with Cordite Books in 2027! | Editor at http://triciadearborneditor.com
Andrew Hungerford @luxtheatrum.bsky.social Theatrical designer / director / storyteller. Astrophysics enthusiast. Recovering Artistic Director. I want to design all the plays. (Except Mamet & LaBute.) he/him
also: @andrewh@mastodon.social | was hungerf9 @ bird site.
https://andrewhungerford.com
Blue Fortune Enterprises, LLC @bluefortune.bsky.social Filling the world with dreams, one book at a time...
We are a traditional publisher with the following imprints:
Cactus Mystery Press
Lavender Press
Wildflower Press
Aster Press
Daisy Press
blue-fortune.com
Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social Producers of radical culture
Podcasts:
Live Like the World is Dying, Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness, The Spectacle
https://www.tangledwilderness.org/
https://www.patreon.com/c/strangersinatangledwilderness/
Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social Writer, editor, just this guy. Occasional stories: https://www.unreality.net/writings. I also publish the quarterly zine Kaleidotrope. (He/him.) 😷
Tor Books @torbooks.bsky.social Publisher of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, and Other Speculative Fiction
BEA is writing the first draft @beaauthor.bsky.social Project idea began: 2024
Project Outline began: Dec 2025
First draft finished: ??? Dec 2026??
Outline is finished ✔️
Draft zero ✔️
Word count so far:15248/ 90,000
as of 8/29
NO AI or bots please!!!
Nature Futures @naturefutures.bsky.social Science fiction from the home of science. Nature's award-winning SF column nature.com/futures
Rodrigo Culagovski @culagovski.net Author, architect, researcher, and developer from the Galactic South.
Published in Escape Pod, Nature Futures, Flash Fiction Online, LeVar Burton Reads, khōréō, among others.
SFWA, Codex.
https://culagovski.net
Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social "We'll Be Birds" chapbook release 9/24/26 https://www.sandandgravelpress.com/lisa-thornton-chapbook-release
Writer, nurse. SmokeLong Quarterly, Cincinnati Review+. Senior flash fiction editor @jmww. Sucker for a good barn.
lisathorntonwriter.com
Tractor Beam @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social Bringing Sci-Fi Down To Earth
𝐚 𝐬𝐨𝐢𝐥𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐤 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲
………………….🌱…………
ꜱᴘʀɪɴɢ ɪꜱ ᴜɴᴅᴇʀɢʀᴏᴜɴᴅ
🧑💻 Website: tractorbeam.earth (We are open for submissions! 🌊 )
💌 Newsletter: tractorbeamearth.substack.com
📱 IG: www.instagram.com/tractorbeam.earth
kuzhali manickavel/குழலி மாணிக்கவேல் @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social she/her
writer
repped by Michael Curry @ DMLA
www.kuzhalimanickavel.com
please pre-order my first novel
https://angryrobotbooks.my.canva.site/compendium-of-supernatural-entities
i may be racist but you were mean and that's way worse
The Fifth Corner @thefifthcorner.bsky.social A literary journal and independent press publishing dark fiction, poetry, criticism and original visual art
Laura Nagel @lau-nagel.bsky.social ✨Whimsical illustrator✨ 🌈♾️
I love to make images that tell stories.
No AI 🚫
🖤🤍💜
Store and links: https://beacons.ai/lau.nagel
Sadie-aponie @sadie-aponie.bsky.social Witch. Lesbian 🏳️🌈. Liberal af. Neurodivergent. Shit posting. Graveyard humor. Probably a cryptid. She/ her
Bill Campbell @rosariumbill.bsky.social Head cook and bottle washer at Rosarium Publishing, where we've been "introducing the world to itself" since 2013.
Escape Pod @escapepod.org Hugo-nominated science fiction podcast magazine. New stories every week in audio and text. Find us wherever you get your podcasts!
S.M. Carter (Sheldon) @sheldoncarter.bsky.social New here!
-Author: To Steal the Sun (23) & Aardehn Awakening (mid 26).
-Developer/Prez: DE (Warframe & Soulframe)
-Podcaster: The War with Art.
Also: Collecting books, Metal music, Hiking/Camping.
Say no to birds
https://linktr.ee/smcarter
Tara Grímravn, Graven Ink @taragrimravn.bsky.social Dark fiction author🖋️Haunted creator👻Former archaeologist⚰️Cursed objects🕯️ornate sentences✒️unsettling narratives📚Eldritch Editor @ Cosmic Roots & Eldritch Shores
gravenink.com @gravenink.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@gravenink
#darkfiction #writingcommunity
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
Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social Independent publisher based in Ohio, bringing you ‘Books Too Loud To Ignore’ since 2005.
📚 imprint of Seven Stories Press
🦄 bookstore/cafe HQ: Two Dollar Radio Headquarters
Temple Dark Books @templedarkbooks.bsky.social Ireland's ONLY dedicated publisher of Speculative Fiction, owned by SFF author Ronald A. Geobey. Find us at www.templedarkbooks.com and find the SFI Blog at www.templedarkbooks.com/sciencefictionireland-sfi-blog
Underland Press @underlandpress.bsky.social Publisher of speculative and weird fiction. Home of Underland Arcana. underlandpress.com
Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social World Fantasy Award-winning publisher
www.blackshuckbooks.co.uk
Swan River Press @swanriverpress.bsky.social Independent press dedicated to literature of the gothic, fantastic, strange, and supernatural. Æon House, Dublin, Ireland. Posts by Brian J. Showers. www.swanriverpress.ie
Third Estate Books @thirdestatebooks.bsky.social Radical Indie Horror Press. EIC: Aquino Loayza. Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité. We don’t want cake, we want blood.
to wound the autumnal city 🍀 @silverhawthorne.bsky.social writer, poet, editor (Liminality)
burlesque producer & host (Viscous & Tingle)
🌈🦓, 🧶, freelance alchemist, ornamental hermit.
habitat restoration as tikkun olam.
AEW/ROH/NJPW/CMLL.
4’11”.
Pagliacci.
Firehose of news @silverlinks.bsky.social
@ladyperseus.bsky.social @ladyperseus.bsky.social 
James L. Sutter @jameslsutter.bsky.social Co-creator of the Pathfinder & Starfinder TTRPGs. Author of the queer romance novels HEARTS AGAINST THE MACHINE (2027), DARKHEARTS, and THE GHOST OF US, plus fantasy novels, comics, video games, and more. Musician. ME/CFS husband.
NightTide Magazine @nighttidemag.bsky.social Horror Magazine feat. fresh & diverse voices in genre journalism, covering film, TV, literature, podcasts, academia & events. EIC @momoshaty.bsky.social for Mourning Manor Media
https://nighttidemag.com/
Saga Press Books @sagapressbooks.bsky.social The science fiction, fantasy, horror, and speculative fiction imprint of @SimonandSchuster 
Kristina Ten @kristinaten.bsky.social Writer, rusalka. TELL ME YOURS, I'LL TELL YOU MINE (Oct ‘25, Stillhouse Press). Stories in McSweeney's, Best American SFF, more. she/her 🌈!
linktr.ee/kristinaten
Tordotcom Publishing @tordotcompub.bsky.social Publisher of cutting-edge SFF short fiction.
Joanne Anderton @joanneanderton.bsky.social Student. Writer. Nerd.
TC Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social Neuroqueer Luddite. Angry feminist. Cis, but hormonally augmented. Writer/EIC, Nefarious Bat Press 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
PhD, media/politics. Semiotics, CDA, storytelling
No DMs please, I'm British
Books at https://payhip.com/NefariousBatPress/collection/tc-parker
Folded Space, an Audio Science Fiction Anthology @foldedspace.bsky.social An audio science fiction anthology, showcasing short form science fiction from voices across the spectrum of human existence. Each episode invites the listener to explore the universe, one story at a time.
Longden Calling @longdencalling.bsky.social Shropshire
📷 and 🖊️by me unless not
Profile pic Ingrid Thulin in 𝘈𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘬𝘵𝘦𝘵 (𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘯, Ingmar Bergman 1957)
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