Author M. I. Verras (She/Her) @miverrasauthor1.bsky.social Gothic author, singer, composer, keyboardist, designer, university graduate, company associate, sports fan, existential seeker. Author of two metaphysical, symbolic fantasy-mystery novellas. Novella plots and covers are in English and NOT AI.
Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social Music, comics, assorted grousing, he/him. CURRENT THINGS are Discourse 2000, a 2000AD blog and Popular, about the UK’s No 1 hits. I also waste my time (and maybe yours!) with @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social
https://freakytrigger.co.uk
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
Carl Engle-Laird @englelaird.bsky.social Hugo-nominated Senior Editor at the Tor Publishing Group, buying good weird speculative books. All opinions are my own. I post maybe once a year.- B billiethewriter.bsky.social @billiethewriter.bsky.social
Rachel A @rachiea.bsky.social Librarian by day, word scribbler at night. Find said words in Gavagai, GrendelPress, Plott Hound, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Apex’s Strange Locations, Malarkey, and elsewhere. Genre: Midwest weird. Codex.
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
Joanna @sciencesquirrel.bsky.social My research focuses on gender-inclusive ADHD, neurodiversity & mental health | Got my PhD in 2014 | SFF reader | science non-fiction writer | baking | board games | she/her
the Modal Menagerist @modal82.bsky.social I am an interdisciplinary artist based in Ayrshire, Scotland, working across sculpture, illustration and text.
www.menagerist.co.uk
Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com Writer lady of comics: Lumberjanes, The Magicians graphic novels, Girl Haven, Science of Ghosts, Student Government. She/her. Wifed by @mekkalekkah 🏳️⚧️ Not currently following social media.
Tom @darthinternous.bsky.social Editorial Director, Fiction & Special Projects, Random House Worlds. Cat-intern supervisor. All opinions my own. Often found near the kitchen. Living the dream in far off places. (he/him)
John Jackson Miller @farawaypress.com New York Times bestselling author, comics writer, and historian. Author of STAR WARS, STAR TREK, and BATMAN novels. May the Bat-Force Live Long and Prosper!
The One Ring RPG @the-one-ring-rpg.bsky.social Fan site for The One Ring RPG by Free League. Immerses yourself in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, exploring themes of heroism, fellowship, and the struggle against the Shadow. Journey through lands of wonder, peril, and epic adventure.
Jeffrey Palms @freypalm.bsky.social interstellar piano ••• exobiotic saxophone ••• DFA Uni of Glasgow ••• fiction in Kaleidotrope & Andromeda Spaceways ••• reviews in Shoreline of Infinity ••• author, I’M HAVING A KNIPPCHEN ••• https://jeffreypalms.lu
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Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social Co-author of Spec Fic for Newbies 1, 2, 3; author of Neil Jordan: Works for the Page; Sturgeon/BSFA/BFA finalist; Locus Rec List; articles in Irish Uni Review, symplokē, Science Fiction Studies, Irish Studies Review, JGNC; fiction in many venues... He/Him
The Slab Press @theslabpress.bsky.social We publish quirkier sorts of books! Science Fiction. Horror. Fantasy.
https://theslab.press/
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
Carl Ellis @carlc75.bsky.social Welsh Author and BFS member. Talk to me about embodied fiction at the grinding boundary of the Meso/Neolithic.
CK EastWest 🐪🕊️ @ck-eastwest.com ✍🏽 Writer - Speculative Fiction | 👩🏾🚀 Sci-Fi | 📜 Alt-Hist | 🏆 AnalogSF EBV Award ‘23 | 🎓 Odyssey ‘24 | 🖋️CODEX Member | 1st Reader 👓 TranslunarTL | 📡 CK EastWest Newsletter - A Place Between Worlds
𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 @horrorculturist.bsky.social Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. 🌿🍁🍂🎃
Agnostic atheist. Nyctophile. AuDHD. Demi-Pan. They/them. | Contrary to internet lore, I am not lost, sorrowful, despairing, trapped, drowning, falling, or stuck in a maze. (You OK?)
Christopher @c007goat.bsky.social Vancouverite. 2001. Pescatarian. Screenwriter. Songwriter. Playwright.
Patreon.com/JustChristopher
R M @ruimarc.bsky.social Owned by a Corgi, Designer, 🇵🇹🇬🇧
Mountain & Myth Fantasy Cartography @mountainandmyth.bsky.social Bringing your fantasy world to life! We create hand drawn maps for your D&D/Pathfinder or other ttrpg games.
Commissions are OPEN: https://tally.so/r/obEbob
https://mountainandmyth.com
🌿Aspen Harding | Author✨ @aspenharding.bsky.social 🌿WEEDIE WISDOM🌿
🔆Modern Philosophy | Spiritual Insights📿
I had a break-up.
I had a breakdown.
I had a breakthrough.
Crawling my way back up from rock bottom.
Sharing insights learned along the way.
Erin K. Dancer (she/her) @ekdancer.bsky.social Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy author, artist and reader | 🌈 Queer AuDHD Nerdmother | Earth Scientist | Software Developer | 🐉 TTRPG enthusiast and DM of entirely too many games (colonialism and capitalism are always the BBEGs!)
Noah Lloyd @noahghola.bsky.social Writer. // Come for the horror stay for the sci-fi. // Opinions my own. // PhD. in C18 lit. // HWA // Lifelong rock climber.
Stefanie 🏳️⚧️ @foxenlock.bsky.social Writing a book about transness in cyberpunk
Queer fiction as Fox N. Locke, Wayward Sparx & Briar Holloway
Words at Exquisite Terror & Rainbow Rodeo
Trans femme enby | AuDHD | aro/ace spec | they/them
🔗 https://foxenlock.itch.io/
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A free blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
prismata.press @prismata.press A trans owned and operated micro press based in New Zealand committed to telling passionate trans stories 🏳️⚧️
Transistance Press + Galaxy Moth Press = Prismata Press
https://prismata.press/links
Shonna White @shonnathewhite.bsky.social Author, artist, gamer & GIANT GEEK (she/her) 🇨🇦
LOST INFERNAL - Now available on Amazon - Learn more at Lostinfernal.com
Tortured soul behind the writer's resource
@descriptionary.bsky.social | descriptionary.wordpress.com
Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social Author - Poet
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
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
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Anna Clark @annaclark.bsky.social Writer of speculative fiction, welder of ships, and artist of dragons.
Stories in Diabolical Plots, Factor Four, and Flash Fiction Online.
She/they
annaclarkswritings.com
The Knightleys @drrachelknightley.bsky.social Thoughtful punk and spooky rock. Haunting voices and even more haunting stories.
First single Kicking The Machine lands 25 Sept. Pre-save full EP: https://release.landr.com/991048908321
The Tiny Bookcase Podcast @tinybookcase.bsky.social TTB Official Account. Ben (@benholroyddell.bsky.social) & Nico (@nicorogers.bsky.social) are joined by guests on their quest to write stories for a Bibliomancer! Episodes Regularly! A BFS Award-Winning Podcast!
Rosemarie Cawkwell/Everything Is Better With Dragons book review @betterdragons.bsky.social Reader and writer of fantasy and sci fi, reviewer of mostly sci-fi and fantasy, some crime, and non-fiction. Butler to a rescue feline called Phoenix. Collector of books, yarn, and dragon stuffies. Neurodivergent and Queer. Based in Lincolnshire.
Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬 @crvscience.com MS Biology, MPH, MS Cybersecurity |
Evolutionary Biologist 🪼| SciComm ✍🏻|
Bioinformatician 🖥️🧬| Public Health 🛟|
PNW 🌲|
>Art 🎨 & T-shirts 👕:
https://crvscience.com
>Books 📕 ✏️ 🖊️
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HCYP88H5
@jennlyons55.bsky.social @jennlyons55.bsky.social 
NC Sayers @ncsayers.bsky.social Hello everyone! I'm NC Sayers, an autistic science fiction and fantasy writer who likes writing about strong autistic heroines. I'll be sharing inspiration, writing events, and trying not to go nuts getting story ideas from the news. Excited to connecting!
Blue Guldal @fugazulero.bsky.social Writer
https://www.blueguldal.com/
Valerie Sirenko @valeriesirenko.bsky.social Speculative Fiction Writer
www.valeriesirenko.com
Divergent Paths @divergent-paths.bsky.social Helping neurodivergent people in the publishing industry find a different way.
www.divergentpaths.co.uk
Alan Humm @alanhumm.bsky.social Editor of the online arts journal One Hand Clapping. Novelist, poet, teacher and father but not necessarily in that order. You can find my writing here: https://www.alanhummswriting.com/
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
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.
S France Thomason @france-thomason.bsky.social only thinks straight after tea✨Shortlisted in 2026 #IAmInPrint Commercial Fiction Competition ✨🌈✨Yeovil Literary Prize LL 2025 ✨3rd in 2024 #IAmInPrint SFF competition✨ @cbcreative alumna
#scifi ✨ #fantasylit✨ #WritingCommunity ✨
🚫 OnlyFans, GoFundMe, DMs
Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social Welcome to Willerby, a village where the supernatural is as everyday as the weather. Free short stories about the weird things that happen in our village on our website and substack.
https://willerby.substack.com
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk
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 — ???
https://ko-fi.com/jackwrightauthor
https://buymeacoffee.com/jackwright
Millie Abecassis @millieabecassis.com Author of SFFH · French & American · THE COLOR OF TIME out now at @shirakipress.com · Rep: @ajvanbelle.bsky.social · 📍 California
🌐 millieabecassis.com/link-in-bio
🌊 @smallpitch.org Founder
🏆 @specawards.bsky.social Co-Founder
J. Gibson @planarlost.bsky.social Dabbler in dark fantasy fiction (Planar Lost).
Book award winner.
Newsletter:
https://bit.ly/PlanarLostNews
Author site:
jgibsonwrites.com
#Author #WritingCommunity #BookSky
Rachel Cantor @rachelcantor.bsky.social Author of the adult literary novels Half-Life of a Stolen Sister (2023), Good on Paper (2016), and A Highly Unlikely Scenario (2014). Now writing speculative MG/YA. Flailing but I mean well. She/her. www.rachelcantor.com
Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • Blood Type: Curry • Leeds United • Anti-AI
#LUFC
jmthornberry.wordpress.com
sandandgravelpress.com/store/the-finish-line-jason-thornberry
Kieran Wyatt @kieranstories.bsky.social Best British Short Stories, The London Magazine, Free Flash Fiction, Eunoia Review, Blood+Honey. I also post a new story on my blog every month. Fylde Coast. https://kieranstorieswriter.blog/about/
The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social A chapter-by-chapter spoiler intense deep dive into Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun" stewing in unhinged speculation.
You cannot read a Gene Wolfe story. You can only re-read a Gene Wolfe story. http://patreon.com/rereadingwolfe
👻 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
Hannya Kay @hannyakay.bsky.social https://www.hannya-kay.com/
(NOT HERE FOR NOW) SFF writer | Codex | Words @naturefutures.bsky.social, @blackharepress.bsky.social, Manawaker Podcast, Abyss&Apex | Reads at https://translunartravelerslounge.com/ & @factorfourmagazine.com | No AI
Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org culture, power, speculation
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/
Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AncillaryReview
Gwyllion Magazine @gwyllion.bsky.social Bilingual Science Fiction and Fantasy from Wales. Issue 6 out now! We retweet story competitions and writing opportunities.
Submissions: Open
Spencer Orey @spencerorey.bsky.social Writer | PhD anthropology | Odyssey '21 | Taos Toolbox '24 | Codexian | SFWA | mostly SFFH things | Denmark | he/him
find my stories here:
https://www.spencerorey.com
Shiraki Press @shirakipress.com Independent publisher of adult fiction with a hopepunk vibe.
www.shirakipress.com
Jamie M. Boyd @jamieboyd.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Recovering Journalist. Words in Strange Horizons, Heartlines Spec &more. SFWA. Codex. www.jamiemboyd.com
Pixies @pixiesofficial.bsky.social Band formed in 1986 in Boston, MA.
Management: contact@kmmltd.com
GoldSF @goldsf.bsky.social GoldSF is a new Goldsmiths Press imprint publishing intersectional feminist science fiction, looking to the future & imagining new ways of being in the world.
Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk Northern speculative fiction micropress • Northumberland, UK • Human made • Our first anthology: carnyxpress.co.uk/products/oaths-and-offerings
Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social SFF author (Planetfall sequence, Split Worlds series, The Vengeance), audiobook narrator, podcaster, tea drinker. Loves LARP, dressmaking and nerdery. Co-host of the Starship Alexandria podcast. www.linktr.ee/emma_newman
Nikk Effingham @nikkeffingham.bsky.social Philosophy Professor (& aspiring novelist) | University of Birmingham | Time travel; philosophy of religion; properties; ontology of objects | Improper personite and proud
Writing West Midlands @writingwestmids.bsky.social We support creative writers in the West Midlands region. Follow us for the latest creative writing opportunities, events, courses & workshops for writers. https://linktr.ee/writingwestmids
Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social I've written the Crew Handbook for Star Trek Lower Decks, the Prospectus for Life is Strange's Caledon University, the joke book for Doctor Who and the continuing misadventures of the deadly starship Fermi.
https://chrisfarnell.com
Ella Crean - Querying Author @ellacreanauthor.bsky.social ⚔️ querying: The Trail of Blood Red Stars ⚔️
📝 posting: publishing updates! 📝
🖼 art by @ mishoru on Instagram 🖼
🎓 MA Novel Writing 🎓
Finbarr O'Reilly @finoreilly.bsky.social Irish science fiction writer (possibly the world's slowest). Squid, spaceships, síntí fada -- what's not to like? https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/author/finbarr-oreilly/
Tegan O’Neil @teganoneil5000.bsky.social Critic for 2017 & 2018 winners of the Eisner in Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism / Writer of Fantasy / They/Them / https://linktr.ee/teganoneil5000
Damien Walter @damiengwalter.com I take Science Fiction very seriously
Adam DelRey @adamdelrey.bsky.social weird and (a) suspense fiction writer
latest release: Sweet Dreams, Honey (WATG Press) EU and UK: https://amzn.eu/d/027L67RC US: https://a.co/d/08lXmDC6
https://adam-delrey.onepage.me/
John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social Writer of books, scripts, lyrics. Bram Stoker Award for Black Butterflies; Spur Award for Gunmetal Mountain. Newest sf novels: SubOrbital 7, Stormland. New novel: The Silver Revolver. Writer: The Crow. Deep Space 9 et al. Science! https://john-shirley.com
@jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social And the Oscar goes to Paddington in Peru
Twitter Refugees Welcome!
REMAINS @remainsmagazine.bsky.social Magazine of new fiction edited by Andy Cox with art by Richard Wagner. Issue 5 out now. https://remains.uk
@emma02.bsky.social @emma02.bsky.social 24 she/her
artist, photonics student
Sci-fi literature and art
Clum @itisclum.bsky.social Talker of shite (Cumbrian, writer and loon).
Katherine Tomlinson @kattomic.bsky.social Fictionista known by many names. Screenwriter. Reader. Voter. Fond of photography, travel, fall foliage, cats, chocolate, and science. 
Jon Adcock @jonadcock.bsky.social A lover of books and music. An aspiring writer with a handful of published short stories. Here to connect with fellow writers and music lovers.
https://linktr.ee/jonadcock?fbclid=IwY2xjawGeAV9leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHd9QrZ7zjG9BuGHm_aGWcBIJ61geUEHaAHsBn634_T7b-8
Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social Writer and teacher. Literature and science, dinosaurs, fantasy/sci-fi, alternate history, worldbuilding, periodicals, museums, etc. Fiction as W. J. Tattersdill. He/him.
Oliver Arditi @paracyclops.bsky.social Writer, librarian, worldbuilder, conlanger, lapsed musician. I like fantasy, science-fiction and horror, books, records, comics, games, cats, food, and holding inexplicable opinions.
Hannelore Adler is writing again 🇲🇽🍷🥳 she/her 📚💙 @hanneloreadler.substack.com Marshmallowy-unicorn-Lady. Spoonie daydreamer.
Writing haikus, steampunk, fantasy and historical fiction.
A veces 🦄✨, otras, un pollito de colores🐣.
WIP: #NoLucharonEnVano #FuegoEnAxalpam
#NaNotribuMX
https://linktr.ee/hannieadler
Stephanie Lorée @stephanieloree.bsky.social Fantasy author, freelance editor, game writer, dog mom, super-nerd. Codex, IAMTW, SFWA. Pushcart Nom, WotF Finalist. she/her
www.StephanieLoree.com
Abby Goldsmith @abbybabble.bsky.social https://AbbyGoldsmith.com
Torth series is epic sci-fi, starts with Majority 
KT Wagner @ktwagner.bsky.social Writes speculative fiction with a touch of Gothic horror, and non-fiction. Knits and collects strange plants, weird trivia, and obscure tomes. Canadian. Member: HWA, CODEX Writers, SFCanada, Federation BC Writers. https://northernlightsgothic.com/
Eli Donovan @elidonovanwriter.bsky.social Author of adventurous SFF, usually with kissing. Hopeful romantic. Dino geek. https://linktr.ee/writerelidonovan
David Wardrop @dw39dundee.bsky.social I love science fiction and nature but not sure in what order.
Mark A Ellis @markaellis.bsky.social Author of Beyond the Treeline
Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University
www.markaellis.uk
World Fantasy 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social World Fantasy Convention, Brighton UK
Dates: Thursday 30th October - 2nd November 2025
Venue: Double Tree by Hilton Brighton Metropole
Website: https://worldfantasy2025.co.uk
#WorldFantasyConvention2025 #WorldFantasy25
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Alisa Kwitney עליסה קוויטני @alisakwitney.bsky.social Author of HOWL (Mrs. Maisel meets Invasion of the Bodysnatchers), GILT (The Golden Girls by way of The Twilight Zone) and other oddities.
The Handsome Family @thehandsomefamily.bsky.social The oldest living band in North America.
"Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing...
Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice."
—GREIL MARCUS
https://handsomefamily.com/
Dave Lawson @dlawsonauthor.bsky.social Fantasy Author: The Envoys of War out now!!
Dog dad, husband, teacher, chaos-causer.
Member of the #secretscribes, contributor to Willow Wraith Press. reviewer at fanfiaddict.com
Davelawsonauthor.com
Jason Ahlquist @jasonahlquist.bsky.social https://jasonahlquist.com/
I make comics and short films.
I love signal boosting moots’ projects when they wow me.
Writing & Drawing “The Invisible Sun”, a sci-fi graphic novel.
He/Him #PNW, #indiefilm, #indiecomics, #antifascist
Super Relaxed Fantasy Club @srfantasyclub.bsky.social A London-based fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and speculative fiction book club for meeting readers and writers. Two or three authors each month!
Meet us at the Star of Kings, near Kings Cross station, second Tuesday of every month
Mailing list: srfantasy.club