Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social African Australian author, editor. Winner: Solstice, Ignyte British Fantasy, Locus Awards. Finalist Shirley Jackson, PK Dick, World Fantasy Award. Twice Otherwise honoree for exciting work in speculative fiction. eugenbacon.com
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Stephen Embleton @stephenembleton.bsky.social From KwaZulu-Natal to Oxford.
Academic Visitor to Oxford Uni 2022
2024 Nommo Award Winner Best Novella: “Undulation”.
YA urban fantasy “Bones & Runes”
SF novel “Soul Searching”
Sauúti Collective (@sauutiverse.bsky.social)
He/Him
stephen.embleton.co.za
Hiron Ennes (WORKS OF VERMIN out now!) @hironennes.bsky.social British fantasy award-winning author of LEECH and THE WORKS OF VERMIN
Buy my books you cowards
Represented by Alexander Cochran @acochran.bsky.social
Team Cherry @teamcherry.bsky.social Sweet, round games!
KAFUI 🇬🇭 @mykafuiohkafui.bsky.social a giddy little thrill
at a reasonable price
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
@strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year
Carl Terver @carlterver.bsky.social photography writer
Mar Vincent @marofthebooks.bsky.social Weird little stories in Analog, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and other fantastical places. Always seeking human creativity (NO AI), coffee, and petrichor. https://www.marvincent.com/
Currently in the liminal space known as novel revisions. 📝✍️✍️
Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Martha Wells @marthawells.com SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, Queen Demon, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
Jo Walton @bluejo.eurosky.social Writer of SF and fantasy. Superintelligent shade of the colour blue. "Even better than cold carrots." Vocateur reader. Philhellenist. Loves tea, trains, travel.
James Davis Nicoll @jdnicoll.bsky.social Reviewer, Essayist, Hugo, Aurora, and Darwin Award finalist.
Ginger Nuts of Horror @gnofhorror.com We put the "Ginger" in "Horror" 🔥
Book & movie reviews with a bite.
17 years strong. Still scared. Still reviewing.
👇 Dunk into our latest posts
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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social Chicago if it matters. Dive bar comedy vet. Only seem calm because I’m exhausted. Thinking about some new shirts
Mo Ali | مح علي @moali.bsky.social Writer and Artist, co-creator of Midnight Man comics, sporadic contributions to Shelfdust and others.
No DMs.
Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social Does this look infected?
Just My Nonsense:
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My Least Worst:
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Chestnut Review @chestnutreview.bsky.social International litmag ALWAYS open for submissions. Pays $120/piece. Responds in 30 days. Free subs in most genres. Free issues online. Paid feedback options. If you don't submit, we can't pay you.
Home: chestnutreview.com
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Akotowaa @akotowaa.bsky.social Overall best in purple. 🇬🇭🕷️✝️
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Chinelo Onwualu @chineloonwualu.bsky.social African spec author, ronin editor, recovering journalist.
🏳️🌈She/Her🏳️🌈
EX MARGINALIA my collection of essays by spec writers of colour is out now!
Lola Shoneyin @lolashoneyin.bsky.social Writer • Publisher • Bookseller • Festival organiser •
Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social Award winning science fiction author. Cat furniture. Horse patsy. Almost certainly two ornimegalonyxes in a trenchcoat.
🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈
https://buttondown.email/matociquala
THE FOLDED SKY https://books2read.com/u/mBB0QZ
ANGEL MAKER https://books2read.com/u/3kzy2W
Olayinka Yaqub @olayinka-yaqub.bsky.social author, THE CRIMSON VIGILANTE (out 11.08.25) || engineering undergrad || i plan, execute, and solve crimes in my free time.
Gabrielle Emem Harry @gabbyharry.bsky.social alleged writer.
words in: strange horizons, apparition, solarpunk, omenana…
twitter: @asarirl
Ben Stiller @benstiller.redhour.com Artist whose mediums include film, tv, and soda. www.StillersSoda.com
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Letterboxd @letterboxd.social 🧡💚💙 A global community of film lovers. Share your taste in movies via our free apps for iOS, Android, Apple TV, and on the web. https://letterboxd.com
Manu 🌊🐋 @manelcamacho.bsky.social Physics/thermodynamics dumb, Marine energy PhD, AI stuff, etc
Opinions/Grammars/Typos are MINE!
Git: https://github.com/jm-rivcam
Blog: https://magentandcyan.wordpress.com
Ocean-Atmosphere/Engineering/Quantum lists/feeds
Location: the lands in the west
Nikhil Singh @clubded.bsky.social Author-TATY WENT WEST(Rosarium US/Jacaranda UK/Kwani KE) CLUB DED/DAKINI ATOLL(Luna Press UK)
Artist-SALEM BROWNSTONE(Walker Books UK/Candlewick US)
Music-Witchboy
Rep: SARAH SUCH LITERARY AGENCY
BSFA/multiple Nommo finalist
ASFS charter member
Ukamaka Olisakwe @msolisakwe.bsky.social tv writer. novelist. editor. founder & eic of @iselemagazine.bsky.social
Ivor W. Hartmann @ivorhartmann.bsky.social Zimbabwean publisher, editor, writer, visual artist.
Anthology series ed./pub: African Roar, AfroSF, and the ZamaShort imprint launched 1st May 2025 @zamashort.com
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social Magazine & Press edited by @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @petermcallister.bsky.social | short fiction | flash | non-fiction | concrete, vispo, experimental | prose, poetry & hybrid chapbooks
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Friday Flash Fiction @fridayflashfiction.bsky.social 100 word maximum #FlashFiction stories published every Friday
#authors SUBMIT new work by Thursday
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Flash Fiction Online @flashfictiononline.bsky.social Bold. Brief. Beautiful.
We publish a new story at least once a week at flashfictiononline.com. Ebooks for our monthly issues are available on the 1st of the month.
Published & edited by @beckyhalsey.bsky.social
Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social
Small. Brightly colored. Deadly to the touch. ⚡️🐸
New story every Monday.
EIC: @ericscottryon.bsky.social
https://flash-frog.com/
Wendy Erskine @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social THE BENEFACTORS Sceptre. Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. Shortlisted Irish Novel of the Year, Best British Audio Book. It’s out now. dance move/sweet home/stinging fly/picador/well I just kind of like it/PVA Books
the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social the engine(idling is an online literary magazine for the restless. unique themed issues.
www.engineidling.net
EIC Danielle McMahon (@dehm000.bsky.social)
Naomi Kruger @naomikruger.bsky.social Freelance Writer and Creative Facilitator. Debut novel MAY published by Seren, shortlisted for Galley Beggar Prize 2023, Eccles Centre Fellow 2021. Short stories, historical fiction, cats.
She/her
naomikruger.com
Brecht De Poortere @brechtdp.bsky.social 🧑🦱 "Some guy who ranks all the lit journals you’ve ever heard of"
🥉 3rd prize The Hudson Review Short Fiction Contest
✍️ Missouri Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Baltimore Review, X-R-A-Y, The Forge Literary Magazine ...
🌍 https://www.brechtdepoortere.com
Francesca Leader @mooninabucket.bsky.social Winner of Southeast Review’s 2023 World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest, 2025 BSF.Pun Perpetrator/ Montana Expat. Happily coupled w. someone not on Bsky. Words in HAD, Wigleaf, Stanchion, Five South, etc.
https://mooninabucket.com
Toby Litt @tobylitt.bsky.social Writer. Mentor. Activist.
I teach Creative Writing at Southampton University.
https://awritersdiary.substack.com/
SJ Bradley @bradleybooks.bsky.social Short story writer, novelist, audio playwright. Maps of Imaginary Towns,The Netflix Reviewer (Substack), Uneasy Listening (podcast). PGcert Teaching Creative Writing (Cambridge), K Blundell Trust Award.
linktr.ee/bradleybooks From Wakefield, now NI
Ian Critchley @iancritchley.bsky.social Writer and Editor | Winner Hammond House, HISSAC | Stories in Best British Short Stories, Mechanics Institute Review, Structo, Lighthouse, Litro, Fiction Desk and others | Short story chapbook published by Nightjar Press
iancritchley.com
Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social Writer. Books: A THOUSAND WAYS TO DISAPPEAR (Cornerstone Press, 2028)/THE CLARITY OF HUNGER (Word West Press, 2021). Fiction instructor: Harvard Extension School. MacDowell Fellow ‘23. Email: fabulistpappas@gmail.com
www.cherylpappas.net
Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social Former Philadelphian living in Montréal
Supports public schools
Wrote some short stories & then some even shorter ones
https://stephanieking.net
E.S. Raye - Author & Screenwriter @esraye.bsky.social 🇨🇦
Writer of scifi and horror short stories, novels & screenplays.
Editor in Chief of @perseidprophecies.bsky.social
𝘎𝘢𝘴 𝘎𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘵: 𝘈 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘉𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘺𝘨𝘯𝘶𝘴 𝘙𝘪𝘧𝘵 available now!
esraye.com
C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social Lvl 50 Writer of Wrongs. SINISTER 1 & 2. DOCTOR STRANGE. THE BLACK PHONE 1 & 2. THE GORGE. V/H/S/85. SEA OF RUST. DAY ZERO. WE ARE WHERE THE NIGHTMARES GO. Six books, seven movies. Podcaster with JUNKFOOD CINEMA. Frogman. Tio do Churrasco. Misfit toy.
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author: Karla’s Choice, Gnomon, Titanium Noir etc. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Greta not Peter. Cuan cuan. Brit logging in via Eurosky.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him
Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com Novelist, scriptwriter, imaginative futurist, recovering journalist. Winner of the Arthur C Clarke and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Author of The Shining Girls (now on Apple TV), Zoo City and Bridge.
Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social Science fiction & fantasy writer. World builder. Reader. Outrigger canoe paddler. I ❤️ my schnauzer. Hawaii. ✡️🕊️ She/her.
Where Should I Start With Your Novels, a guide:
https://imakeupworlds.com/where-should-i-start-with-your-novels/
James Gunn @jamesgunn.bsky.social DC Studios co-CEO, #Superman, #GuardiansoftheGalaxy, #Peacemaker, dog owner, husband, servant to my cat.
Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com Neil Clarke: Editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, The Best Science Fiction of the Year series, and more. Four-time Hugo Award Winner for Best Editor Short Form. Four-time Chesley Award-winning art director.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
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batkaren @batkaren.bsky.social my mom fucked a bat
just my bullshit: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:6ljac3gxzqxy56fhx7qu3jqd/feed/aaali652rhjzc
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
@tlotlotsamaase.bsky.social @tlotlotsamaase.bsky.social 
Suyi @suyidavies.com Author. He/him. Barely here.
Latest: SEASON OF THE SERPENT (August 2026) & LOST ARK DREAMING (Ignyte & Nommo winner; Nebula finalist).
https://suyidavies.com/links
9/9 @nineovernine.bsky.social 
The Sauúti Collective @sauutiverse.bsky.social The Sauúti Collective is an Afro-centric universe rooted in African mythologies, languages, & cultures.
Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com Engineer | Writer | Editor
Enjoyer of Equations, Ideas & Assorted Nonsenses
Hugo, Nebula, Locus & Caine Prize finalist
Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY now: buff.ly/X3CHaZk
Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social Writer: Rosewater, Murders of Molly Southbourne, Far from the Light of Heaven, Making Wolf, Jackdaw and others.
Arthur C. Clarke and BSFA award winner, Hugo finalist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Etcetera.
Opinions mine.
He/him