Karen V. Juliette @karenvjuliette.bsky.social Be the man-eating tiger you want to see in the world.
Tricia Narwani @tnarwani.bsky.social EIC, @DelReyBooks, book daemon 
Nivia Evans (Hozier's Version) @niviaevans.bsky.social Senior Editor at Saga Press. PW Star Watch Superstar 2020. Openly Black. I read things...all the time.
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ScottMLibrary @celticelk.bsky.social If it's not in my posts, you don't need to know.
Larian Studios @larianstudios.com The independent award-winning studio behind Baldur's Gate 3 and games in the Divinity universe. Learn more about our upcoming RPG @divinity.com
WriteStats @writestats.bsky.social Data-Driven Insights for Writers and Publishers.
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Sheila García Mazari @sgmazari.bsky.social Artist 🎨 Writer ✍🏼 Librarian 📚 Cat Mom 🐈🐈⬛
2016 ALA Spectrum Scholar
2019 ALA Emerging Leader
2022 Roots. Wounds. Words. Spec Fic Fellow
2025 MFA Antioch University
2026 Clarion West
Lauren Day @librarianlauren.bsky.social Librarian, cat lover, avid romance reader and TV watcher. Extreme liberal and anti-GenAI.
Fab @knifewitch.bsky.social literary agent @kiagency.bsky.social **closed to unsolicited queries** ex Grimdark Magazine, ex medievalist. queer. she/they (header is a Rovina Cai illustration from Spear)
Ki Agency @kiagency.bsky.social Boutique literary and scriptwriting agency based in London. Find us online at www.ki-agency.co.uk
Agents @megdavis.bsky.social and @knifewitch.bsky.social and @helenlane.bsky.social and @chamomeriam.bsky.social
Sarah Rees Brennan @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social Writer of books, drinker of tears! Carnegie nominated, Locus and Nebula shortlisted. LONG LIVE EVIL, a portal fantasy in which the villains unionise, is my #1 Sunday Times & USA Today bestselling adult fantasy debut. She/her
Fields of Mistria ✨ Out now in 1.0 @fieldsofmistria.bsky.social Fields of Mistria is a fantasy farming / life sim RPG 🌱
Download on Steam: http://bit.ly/Mistria
Marnee Chua @marneechua.bsky.social Reads speculative fiction, goes on long walks, and likes spreadsheets.
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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. 🏳️🌈
www.lucysnyder.com
Rep: @jord4nhill.bsky.social
Cats, aquariums and terrariums
🏴🚩 Trans Kafka (any pronouns) 🍉🍉🍉 IS A REAL HUMAN PERSON! @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social CHINGA LA MIGRA
Kind not nice 🌱 Bi Queer Transmasc Genderfluid 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Appalachian white occupier 🧣Leftist 🏴🚩 Mad Neurodiverse Chronic Pain Crip ♿ Poet, farmer, historian, gender theorist, child advocate, abolitionist, dissident.
29, US, PA->MO->CA refugee
cressida roe @eggandcressida.bsky.social writer, tea enthusiast, very chalant • stories in apex, lightspeed, haven spec, &c • 2024 wigleaf top 50 • pushcart nominee • rep'ed by katrina lemaire
The Cookout Anthology @tco-anthology.bsky.social An anthology of speculative fiction from the African Diaspora
https://thecookoutanthology.com/
Laura Crockett @lecrockett.bsky.social VP & Executive Literary Agent, Foreign Rights Manager at Triada US Literary Agency | Musician | Traveler | Cook-In-Progress | Cat Mom | she/her
scribblesandwanderlust.com
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social Talented ruin. Riverboat floozy.
Queer Black writer in Glasgow, Scotland.
Crawford Award winning collection Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic out from Neon Hemlock Press now. https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-and-response
tragic girl dream pixie @seelie.bsky.social lumina (she/her) lesbian/queer 🏳️🌈 elden millennial
interests: d&d, critical role, sf/f, queer stuff, social justice, cute animals,etc
FFXIV: Elyndra Sunna - Zalera/Crystal
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
Lia Lao @thelialao.bsky.social literary & speculative fiction writer | short stories in podcastle, otherside, haven spec | clarion west nww, granta '26 | viable paradise ‘25 | she/her
🥝 🦘 on gadigal land
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dave ring @davering.bsky.social writer. publisher at Neon Hemlock. anthologist. co-editor of Baffling. shirley jackson award winner. lambda, locus & ignyte award finalist. he/him.
KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com She/her. British European. Purveyor of opinions, rude words, and romance novels, historical and fantasy. USA Today bestselling author of How To Fake It In Society. "Erotically charged"--Good Housekeeping. Death to GenAI. http://kjcharleswriter.com
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.
andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic
https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html
insta: audio.futurism
Jasmine W. @mythjae.bsky.social Writer, editor, sometimes an artist, always way too intense about hot chocolate. (She/her)
Rep: Saribel Pages @ Gallt & Zacker
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C. M. Harmon @cmh-writes.bsky.social Speculative fiction writer, Black, loves a vegan dessert. She/her
E.A. Noble|Sapphic Lead SFFH. @authoreanoble.bsky.social Author of Sapphic Fantasy & Horror| Feminist| Women Lead| 🔥 Women & Enbies who proudly misbehave| Acquisitions Editor @fiyahlitmag & @rawheadjournal
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Jennifer Azantian @jenazantian.bsky.social Founder and Literary Agent at Azantian Literary Agency. Mom to humans and pups. Occasional sharer of TMI. Queer. ND. First-gen Armenian (she/her)
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Sirens @sirensconference.org Speculative fiction gives us blueprints for worlds full of hope, joy, justice, and revolution for people of all genders. Join us July 28-August 1, 2027: sirensconference.org
Jennifer Pooley @jenniferpooley.bsky.social I love Los Angeles and all of the extraordinary people who make our city so magical • Editor at Lucasfilm Publishing & Marvel Press
Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social aka Indra Das, author of THE DEVOURERS and THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, Lambda, Shirley Jackson & British Fantasy Award winner, Crawford Award finalist. he/they/she
indradas.com
candice roberts @popmediaprof.bsky.social ▫️media studies & queer theory
▫️communication professor
▫️they/them
📍nyc (via philadelphia)
Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social I write stories inspired by Palestinian folklore. Ignyte and Ember Award winning, Pushcart, Palestine Book, & Lammy noms. BNW and Locus finalist. (she/her) Clarion West '25
https://www.soniasulaiman.com
LGBTQReads @lgbtqreads.bsky.social Queering up your shelves, one rec at a time. Check it out at LGBTQReads.com
Voces de lo insólito @vocesinsolito.bsky.social Proyecto literario autogestionado. Publicamos un relato (o más) al mes de fantasía, ciencia ficción o terror. ¡Únete a nuestro Patreon!
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Charlotte Kiger Price @ckigerprice.bsky.social Librarian at Carnegie Mellon. Media Literacy, memes, misinformation, & social media research at Teachers College
Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social Writer, grad student, amateur kazooist (she/they)
The Splinter in the Sky (2023), This World Is Not Yours (2024), The King Must Die (2025), assorted short stories, and some other stuff
kashinggiwa.com
Gabrielle Harbowy, Literary Agent 🌈 @gabrielle-h.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Typo ninja. Ttrpg writer. Award-nominated author/editor. Active member, SFWA & AALA. Joyfully queer & polyam. Disabled. Literary Agent at Corvisiero Literary Agency. She/her. Opinions my own.
Sam Benc 🐟 @nonvieta.bsky.social Cartoonist. Adult Teenage Dirtbag 🌱 Friend of shrimp 🦐
She/her 🏳️🌈 Ⓥ
Philadelphia
Making a GN, LAST SHIP TO MARS (Henry Holt, 2026)
💌 Samantha.benc@gmail.com
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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
Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com Defiance posting. Vibes: Enraged 🔴
Not a Democrat anymore.
Columnist @ Dame Magazine, bylines @ The Cut, Harper’s Bazaar and more. Black, millennial, feminist, tired. Going to keep fighting anyway. Pay me for ideas: patreon.com/gothamgirlblue
Claire @carmineclaire.bsky.social sword lesbian historian ⚔️ artist & creator of Girls' School of Knighthood webcomic 🌹🗡️ curator 🌈 museum drag king 🥐 she/her
🏳️🌈 Kimberly L Piper Writes Queer Shit 🏳️🌈 @klpwrites.bsky.social Bisexual Enby|Queer| Indie Writer of Fantasy & Horror|Mental Illness|Sober 3-25-24|Married May 4th|She/They| Neuro🌶️|Sugar cookies|Gender affirming care saves lives| Muppet Stan|The Wiz is life|Pineapple on pizza|Team Buffy #klpwritespromotesindies 🏝️🏰📚♌️🏳️🌈🌺🌞
Carla Antonia @miukumauk.bsky.social AD/Character design, working on a comic when time allows
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social Nonprofit newsroom. Media that builds power for working people.
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We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social We Need Diverse Books is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit revolutionizing what we read to create a world where everyone can find themself in the pages of a book.
🔗 bio.site/WeNeedDiverseBooks
Thenmozhi Soundararajan/Dalit Diva ✨️is querying✨️ @dalitdiva.bsky.social I an award winning Dalit futurist and speculative fiction author. I am an inaugural member of the Clarion West Novel Writing Workshop for my upcoming book WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE. I am also the author of the TRAUMA OF CASTE. Find me at www.dalitdiva.com- C Anastasia @chiuchiutrain.bsky.social Asian American schol comm librarian
Tracy Deonn @tracydeonn.bsky.social #1 NYT, #1 Indie, Intl. Bestselling Author of The Legendborn Cycle. 📚 ALA CSK & Ignyte Award Winner. Story Warrior. Black Bene Gesserit. Fandom-raised.
D.A. Xiaolin Spires @spires.bsky.social Acicular appendages, keyboard protuberance. SFF writer. Published in Clarkesworld, Fireside, Analog, Uncanny, Nature Futures, Vice Motherboard Terraform, Star*Line, MIT Press. Codexian.
Website: https://daxiaolinspires.wordpress.com/
Victoria | How to Survive Debut Author Stress, out free! @shiwritesprose.bsky.social Author (rep: Ernie Chiara at Fuse) 🇭🇰🇺🇸 Clarion West '25, published in Analog SF&F and Fission
Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social AUTHOR. ARTIST. PEACE TECHNOLOGIST.
Clarion West '25 | Alumna: Tin House, VONA, Hurston/Wright, RWW, Voodoonauts
https://aishatu.carrd.co/
Member: Codex & BSFA
Co-founding member at Àrokò Cooperative
@aroko.bsky.social
Shawn Frazier @afrosurreal.bsky.social Writer of the Weird
www.shawnwritesweird.com
ConCurrent Seattle @concurrentseattle.bsky.social A one-day SFFH event held on August 14, 2025, in Seattle, WA. Built and run by humans who may also be sparkle unicorns.
concurrentseattle.weebly.com
Karen Lord @drkarenlord.bsky.social Author of THE BLUE, BEAUTIFUL WORLD. Home: Barbados, West Indies 🇧🇧. More info on me and my books at karenlord.wordpress.com
Kylie Ariel @kuwisdelu.bsky.social Shiwi. Trans. Queer. Two-Spirit. Woman. Writer. Poet. Programmer. Autistic. Dreamer. Statistician. Runner. Zuni girl living in Boston. ✊🏽🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇺🇸
Anathema Magazine @anathemamagazine.bsky.social Speculative literature by and for queer people of color. We are now OPEN for submissions! 💜
www.anathemamag.com
https://anathemaspec.subfolios.com/submit- D Del Sandeen @delsandeen.bsky.social
Caitlin McDonald @literallycait.bsky.social literary agent at Maass Literary Agency for SFF, YA, & GN • she/her • queer • ADHD • chronic pain • intensely editorial 📚 #BLM #TransRightsAreHumanRights
valentina sainato 🌿🍄 (open to queries) @valentinasainato.bsky.social she/they || mostly void, partially stars || associate agent at JABberwocky Literary Agency
Melanie Figueroa @melaniefigueroa.bsky.social Literary Agent at Root Literary. Association of American Literary Agents member. 📝 MS in Creative Writing & Book Publishing. 📚 Scorpio. ♏️
MSWL: https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/melaniefigueroa/
Kurestin Armada @kurestinarmada.bsky.social Literary agent at Root Literary, specializes in science fiction/fantasy and graphic novels for all ages. More info at: https://www.rootliterary.com/
Lisa Rodgers @lisarodgers.bsky.social Knitter, dancer, gamer, NorCal native, ruiner of dreams. Literary agent http://awfulagent.com/agents/lisa-rodgers/
The Story Engine @storyenginedeck.bsky.social The deck of endless story prompts for writers, DMs, RPG players, teachers & storytellers. https://storyenginedeck.com
#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social bsky pitch event for unagented creators from marginalized communities
next event Sept 30, 2026 8AM-8PM ET
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cmo @cynthinee.bsky.social Librarian in Long Beach.
Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app TV writer. Author of the novels THE PAYBACK and THE SURVIVALISTS. Deadly with a butter knife.
Order THE PAYBACK here 👉🏾 https://kashanacauley.com
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
Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social Your friendly nemesis. BFA & Shirley Jackson Award Winner. BSFA, Hugo, Ignyte, Locus, Nebula, WFA finalist. Reactor.com, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, & more. ClarionWest '19.
🖤🩶🤍💜 She/Her. Rep: Jessica Friedman @SterlingLordLit
Patrick Lofgren @patrick-lofgren.bsky.social Writer of distressing stories and DnD adventures. Clarion West 2017, CWNWW 2025! Work in Dark Matter Magazine and The Deadlands. They/Them
Peace Ossom @peaceossom.bsky.social data & medical librarian | massachusetts
geneva 🖍️ nycc soon @gdbee.bsky.social Artist! Won a Hugo once! Got nominated for another! Black! I like everyday fantasy! Made a graphic novel! Drew some kids books! Estoy aprendiendo español!
Rep'd by @grahamophones.bsky.social
https://gdbee.carrd.co / https://gdbee.store
Kristina Vela Bisbee (Williams) @kvbisbee.bsky.social Librarian, media nerd, tech-curious. Off the clock gamer, wordsmith, plant mom // htx, nyc, pdx plus a whole lot in between
Clarkisha Kent @clarkishakent.blacksky.app Nigerian-American. Bi, Black, FAT. She/Her. Creator of #TheKentTest. Co-creator of The Kelli & Kat Test. Author of Fat Off, Fat On (which is out NOW)! The best is yet to come.
Email: clarkisha@clarkishakent.com
Cash App:
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Straith 🍉 @straith.ca D.A. Straith (they/them). Toronto-adjacent fiction person • nonbinary trans & queer settler • work in Augur, Fusion Fragment, SHATTER THE SUN • Clarion West Novel Workshop ‘25 • #straithenfrancais • agent: Laura Zats @ Headwater • straith.carrd.co
Angel @blkangel.bsky.social Awkward. Black. Woman. she/her. Librarian. Queer & Bi. Nerd. Loves FILM. Fat. Dreaming. Gemini INFJ. Black Lives Matter. Abolish Prisons. House the Vulnerable.
Shannon Chakraborty @shannonchakraborty.bsky.social NYT/Sunday Times/Indie bestselling author of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi and The Daevabad Trilogy
Jennifer Shimada @jenshimada.bsky.social Academic librarian, dog mom, speculative fiction reader, tea drinker, world traveler, former teacher, Californian-turned-New Yorker, progressive Christian, 4th-6th gen Chinese American/4th gen Japanese American (yonsei). She/her.
Jasmine Silvera @jassilvera.bsky.social Writes about stories about the things that go bump in the night...including headboards.
Inveterate Gemini
Oatmeal cookie apologist
Latest Release: Charming Dawn, Tooth & Spell Book Three!
Fated Mates @fatedmates.net A romance recommendation machine and podcast.
Discover your next favorite romance novel
fatedmates.net
Follow in your fav podcast app
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Random Romance Recommender
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Book Club
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CR Westbrook @cazzawrites.bsky.social ‘Bloody author’. Get your copy of dark comedy psycho-thriller romcom Troublemaker at: https://shorturl.at/2eCrv.
Rashida J. Smith @rashidajsmith.bsky.social artist formerly known as @eddygrrl
she/her
How it started: Clarion West 2005
How it's going: Program Director
Member SFWA | Inveterate Gemini | Still doing cartwheels
Tea Gerbeza @teagerbeza.bsky.social She/her. Disabled neuroqueer writer and artist. Author of How I Bend Into More (Palimpsest Press, 2025).
teagerbeza.com
Jessbrarian (she/her) @jessbrarian.bsky.social Caffiene-fueled, cat-loving librarian living in Treaty 7. Here for everything books, travel, science, libraries, literacy & (of course) cat related 😏 Divesting myself of Meta apps because nazis.
Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social “Having fun isn’t hard, when you’ve got a library card!” - Arthur Read
linktr.ee/mychalthreets
Rebecca Roanhorse @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social Writer of speculative fictions. NYTimes Bestseller. Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Ignyte winner.
Novels: SIXTH WORLD series, BETWEEN EARTH & SKY trilogy, Lucasfilm.
Comics/games: Marvel
TV: A Murder at the End of the World, Echo, Netflix Series Animation.
Kearney Wentworth @kearneyw-writes.bsky.social Music. Sports. Libraries. Hotties. Blerds. I write books about them. #romance #rugby kearneywentworth.com
Shingai @shingai-be-like.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Swahili Sea Citizen. Voodoonauts co-creator. Past Podcastle Magazine Co-Editor & Fantasy Magazine Co-Editor. Octavia Butler scholar at Clarion.
New worlds in our Lifetime ❤️
Will Kaufman @specwill.bsky.social He/him. Author of one story that did okay, and some other stories.
kaufmanwrites.com
Karl Dandenell (he/him dreams of retirement) @karldandenell.bsky.social Technical Writer, SFWA, VP16, samsara surfer, cat servant, drinker of tea and whiskey. Stories all over the small press realms.
@kiltlover1971.bsky.social @kiltlover1971.bsky.social Writer. Rocker. Library Manager. Romancelandia Blerd. (she/her)
Soren Stuve @sorenstuve.bsky.social Video editor by day. Speculative fiction writer by night. Viable Paradise 2024. Clarion West Novel Writing Workshop 2025.
(I am not very active on social media but trying to get better!)
sorenstuve.com
Yharnet B @ycbruune.bsky.social •Library, archives, museum, and publishing enthusiast and future professional.
•Interest in social justice and mental health.
•Neurodivergent
•Current Focus: mental health journey.