Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social DH Prof @URichmond. Exploring computer vision and visual culture. Ideas for Computational Humanities Research Journal? Please share!
Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026) geni.us/TMtMT. Two-time Best of the Net nominee. | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation The Poetry Foundation transforms lives through the power of words. Publisher of POETRY magazine. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
Patric Bates @patricbates.bsky.social Spooky & Cozy Watercolors
Lots of strange and unusual paintings to look at!
https://patricbates.etsy.com.
https://www.patreon.com/PatricBates
Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social A million stories are trembling to be crystallized on the black ribbon of the typewriter. Located in Chicago, London of the West. Portrait by Al Hirschfeld. Join the Keeler Society: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/keeler/join.html
Brian Flota @brianflota.bsky.social Humanities Librarian at JMU; co-editor of COMIC BOOKS, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, AND THE ACADEMIC LIBRARY; co-author of "Sustainable Futures for Comics Collections"; #FirstGen; Opinions mine, vinyl records, etc.
Pippa @pippaesque.bsky.social Prune Juice Editor. I write short things and long things. Zines, poems, art. I like birds.
Buy me a ko-fi: Ko-fi.com/pippaesque. 🏳️🌈
Kristin Buxton @kbuxton.bsky.social Librarian, Lindyhopper, Reader
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts @jfantasticarts.bsky.social Bluesky account of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, run by Editors-in-Chief Cat Ashton, Novella Brooks de Vita, and Jude Wright.
Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social A peer-reviewed journal devoted to the Fantastic in literature, film, and other media. Send essays of 6,000-12,000 words to fantastic@ut.edu
Julia Lin @juliaslin.bsky.social author: www.julialinbooks.com, #WritingCommunity #StopAsianHate #TransRightsAreHumanRights; #BLM; #Canada; She/her
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.
ELTON CHIJIRI @eltonchijiri.bsky.social I am the Zimbabwean artist Sculptor do the African Stone sculptures, Wood sculptures, Metal sculptures, Crafts and Batiks. All my sculptures are the African original sculptures. All Sculptures i posted is AVAILABLE for SALE.
Email: chijirielton2@gmail.com
Sandy McIntosh @sandymcintosh.bsky.social Author of twelve volumes of poetry, a Chinese cookbook, and three computer software programs.
https://sandymcintosh.info
alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social teacher and writer living in bangkok. poetry at https://alexguentherpoetry.wordpress.com/
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Vasiliki Albedo @minorroarr.bsky.social Drabbler/Dabbler.
Sometimes poet, sometimes energy strategist.
Two chapbooks with Live Canon and Poetry International.
Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social [SHKAH-dee] — Eisner and Ringo award-nominated cartoonist (FLASH GORDON, LAVENDER JACK, THE SPIRIT, etc) He/him, fair condition
https://linktr.ee/danschkade
Jonathan Maberry @jonathanmaberry.bsky.social NY Times bestseller, 5-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, editor & comic book writer for IDW, Dark Horse,Marvel. Creator of V-Wars (Netflix). Editor of Weird Tales.
Plough Quarterly @plough.bsky.social Another life is possible. Plough is an international magazine of stories, ideas, and culture, publishing daily online and quarterly in print.
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Comics Covers @comicscovers.bsky.social Covers of comics, duh. I do not own this artwork, and I mostly do not own these pictures.
(Avatar: Detail from the cover of Marvel Graphic Novel 2: Michael Moorcock's Elric: The Dreaming City, by P. Craig Russell.)
The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social Partner at Yorke Antique Textiles (est. 2004) | Specialist in antique Japanese kimono and ceremonial textiles | Passionate about Japanese art, ethnology, and the stories textiles carry through time. https://www.yorkeantiquetextiles.com/
Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
Devon Walker-Figueroa @madamesosostris.bsky.social Author of PHILOMATH and LAZARUS SPECIES. Assistant prof. of English at VCU. Harpist and student of Kiswahili.
A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social Dipping a toe in here... Oxford Professor of Poetry
Arthur Baron-Clément @arthur.baron-clement.com Gouache and digital artist #NoAI
https://arthur.baron-clement.com/en/
Jennifer 📚🎧❣️ @jdawson001.bsky.social ♿️🏳️🌈American SFF author, poet, editor, & book reviewer living in England. She/her. The Poetry Society & The British Fantasy Society. Old OWW member.
Online at: WorldsOfMayhem.com
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/dawson001
🏳️⚧️ rights = human rights.
J. C. Jones @thejcjones.bsky.social Author of the best selling Louisa Moss detective series.
Ex-nightclub boss and, due to carelessness, owner of only half a lung.
Poems and Limericks daily.
Based in Hereford, UK.
Liz Climo @lizclimo.bsky.social I make comics
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
AWP @awpwriter.org AWP provides community, opportunities, ideas, news, and advocacy for writers and teachers of writing.
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
neil-clarke.com
Holly Jahangiri @jahangiri.us Award-winning author and poet who draws inspiration from her family, from her own childhood adventures (some of which only happened in her overactive imagination), and from readers of all ages.
President, Poetry Society of Texas
Houston, Texas
she/her
Gamera Spinning (Darren) @gameraspinning.bsky.social Fascinated by TTRPGs, board games, video games, comics, kaiju, movies, & music. In love with different mediums & periods of Art & History, esp. Belle Epoque, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and the Pre-Raphaelites. I've edited the published anthology, "Bargains".
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
Stephen Wilson @unknownrelic.com Full of Gloom. He/They 🏳️🌈
Long Island Sewer Ghoul in Minnesota
Illustration/Graphic Design
Art Director for Prepare the Ground
Website: unknownrelic.com
Instagram: @unknown_relic
Email: steve@unknownrelic.com
Michelle Souliere - Green Hand Bookshop @msouliere.bsky.social Not a professional pudding thief.
Monsters, cats, art, books & trees, not necessarily in that order.
Mostly using Flashes bcs --> visual👁️
Author: Strange Maine/Bigfoot in Maine
strangemaine.blogspot.com
Owner: Green Hand Bookshop
greenhandbookshop.com
Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social Don’t you see we must either follow one wild possibility or else go home to bed?
Also @adrienne@social.treehouse.systems on Mastodon/Fediverse; find me there!
Matthew King @matthewkingart.bsky.social Artist & Author of Don't get Blood in my House books2read.com/matthewking
Likes Character Design, Gamedev, 90’s, Cooking, Sharpies, Beetles, Raccoons, Wrestling, The FGC, Baki, Capcom, Boardgames, DDR
J. J. Thomas @j-j-thomas.bsky.social J. J. Thomas is an emerging speculative fiction and fantasy writer based in the Richmond Area.
Laurie Gwen Shapiro @lauriestories.bsky.social author, journalist, documentary director - - Amelia Earhart's biographer
Phil Hilliker @philhilliker.bsky.social Writer, Illustrator, Haver of too many hobbies
Lamar Giles @lamargiles.bsky.social I write Black kids & DC Comics (Static: UAN) & Star Wars (Sanctuary: A Bad Batch Novel). Big Dad Energy. #GirlDad
https://www.lamargiles.com/links
R.R. Virdi | Buy The First Binding (from TOR) @rrvirdi.bsky.social USA Today Bestseller | Nebula Award & 2x Dragon Award-finalist | Worst Indian Ever | Philosoraptor | Hair Whisperer |
Steven Leyva @stevenleyva.bsky.social Poet, Associate Professor at the University of Baltimore, Nerd, Author of THE UNDERSTUDY’S HANDBOOK and THE OPPOSITE OF CRUELTY
Clay McLeod Chapman @claymcleod.bsky.social Books. Comic books. YA/middlegrade books. Film/TV. Podcasts. You can visit me at www.claymcleodchapman.com
Dr Sweet Machine @sweetmachine.bsky.social Supernova with human skin. Author of We the Destroyers & Borrowing Your Body (Riot in Your Throat) & All Sex and No Story (Rabbit Catastrophe). she/her. http://linktr.ee/laurapassin
Keith Lansdale @keithlansdale.bsky.social 
Rebecca Baumann @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social rare book librarian, book junkie, devotee of the weird, angry queer, friend to all monsters, nonbinary freak. Free Substack on queer pulps: https://nympholibrarian.substack.com/
Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social The place for writers
Erin @biscuit.quest Gay they living in Rhode Island by way of the South. Former digital librarian and civic tech person now working in corporate. PVD, bikes, UX, a11y, etc. War Eagle/Go Dawgs.
J. Arendt @uwwoman.bsky.social RVA librarian working at a local university and riding my bike there; opinions expressed are my own and not those of my employer or anyone else
https://my-year-of.ghost.io/ is the home of my blog / newsletter.
Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social « Bâtis ton film sur du blanc, sur le silence et l’immobilité. »
Robert Bresson
Paul Chambers @paulwchambers1970.bsky.social Time, memory, loss and love are my artistic concerns, but time, among them becomes the determinant - Sally Mann.
Wetplate analog fella doing his best in a digital world.
www.paulwchambers.com
Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social Most recent books: IN THE RHODODENDRONS: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf, PAPER CROWN: Poems
https://linktr.ee/heatherchristle
Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social Encyclopedist, college librarian, writer, ttrpg writer. I like to talk about Mesopotamia & Vikings. Always outnumbered, never outgunned.
My podcast, "The History of Comic Books in 500 Issues," is at http://500issues.com
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
The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social Based in London, The Folklore Society has been collecting, studying, publishing and promoting the study of folklore in all its forms since 1878. Visit our website: https://folklore-society.com
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts - IAFA @iafa.bsky.social The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) is a scholarly organization devoted to the study of the fantastic (broadly defined) as it appears in literature, film, and the other arts.
Megan Wyreweden @thecreepingmoon.bsky.social Fantasy artist, stationery maker, friend of corvids. Asian-American. She/her. https://linktr.ee/TheCreepingMoon
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor®
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
benjamindreyer.com
Pre-Raphaelite Society @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social The Pre-Raphaelite Society is the international society for the study and appreciation of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and its followers. #PreRaphaeliteSociety
https://www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org
scott b. weingart @scottbot.net past: circus performer; historian of science; librarian; grantmaker; chief data & evaluation officer at NEH.
present: dad; resident scholar at dartmouth; chief technology officer at the library of virginia.
personal account.
https://scottbot.github.io
Leeman Kessler @leemankessler.com Actual mayor and actor. Portrayed HP Lovecraft on Ask Lovecraft, Roger on Moonbase Theta Out, and The Raven on Waiting For October. Married to @thenerdypriest 's outie
www.leemankessler.com
www.geekuallyyoked.com
Craig J. Clark @hoodedjustice.bsky.social Film, masks, film, hoods, film, werewolves, film, cobras, film, commanding, film
Trevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social he/him NO A/I GARBAGE
🪱 Artist / illustrator / writer obsessed with ghosts ‘n ghouls
🪱 Wrote Scarewaves / Scarewaves: Beyond The Grave
🪱 Creature concepts for Tarot (2024) + others
Jonathan Raab @spookhouse.bsky.social Hack Horror Writer | Gothic Upstate New York
DARKVOID DEATHSHIP | VAMPYRVANIA RPG | THE MAUSOLEUM OF GORE | EUROSCHLOCK NIGHTMARES
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MABUSECAST 🔞 🏳️🌈 @mabusecast.bsky.social just a godzilla, horror,sci fi fan starting a podcast devoted to genre films from germany and the dr mabuse series, MABUSECAST! also a monsterfucker and Bisexual
My YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxslGqhqC0vGIPgG12v9E3Q?view_as=public
Saturday Night Séance @eerieallsorts.bsky.social Brandon • Aficionado of the weird & the macabre • occasional artist • 1/2 Japanese • Queer/Gay • Demi/Ace • he/him/they/them
John Larson @johndlarson.bsky.social 
Magrat Pudifoot @magratpudifoot.bsky.social cryptid apologist
Richard Butner @richardbutner.com Writer, occasional performer, shipwrecked jester (ghost mixologist, Eagle Scout).
SJ Lauro @zombiescholar.bsky.social I got off Twitter before it was cool. 
Daphne Fama @daphnefama.bsky.social Writer, author, researcher.
🌺 A DEADLY BLOOMING🌺
MARCH 9, '27 US & UK RELEASE
UK & US Release March 9
Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social I read things, I write things, I play and design games
sickleburg.com
Russell Dickerson @rdickerson.bsky.social Horror sculptor, genre writer, nonfiction & science writer, recovering illustrator.
You may find interesting things at www.darkstormcreative.com.
He/him. #writer #sculptor
Phil Keeling @philmakesmonsters.bsky.social Writer. Co-host of the Pixel Lit podcast. Dollar store Orson Welles.
Pre-order BE NOT AFRAID: https://bookshop.org/p/books/be-not-afraid-phil-keeling/6e016f5d890f19aa
James River Writers @jamesriverwriters.bsky.social James River Writers (JRW), a literary nonprofit in Richmond, VA, builds community by connecting, supporting, and inspiring writers and lovers of the written word in central Virginia and beyond.
jamesriverwriters.org
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social A literary meetingplace since 1953, City Lights is a landmark bookstore and publishing house, known for our commitment to innovative writing and progressive ideals.
@danieleserra.bsky.social @danieleserra.bsky.social 
Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com I’ve got a beard
Books read: 89/100
📚 The Wax Child
📺 Lanterns
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
https://www.ephemeral.co.uk
David Palumbo @dvpalumbo.bsky.social Traditional media illustrator/painter. Projects include Marvel Masterpieces, Magic the Gathering, 16 illustrated novels and counting
Peasant Magazine @peasantmagazine.bsky.social A fantasy & historical fiction literary magazine for lovers of short stories by indie authors. Learn more at: http://fiction.charlesmoffat.com/peasantmagazine/
Shannon O’Neill @sfoneill.bsky.social Writer, widow, grief educator
Katharine Coldiron @ferrifrigida.bsky.social like you wouldn't want to iron your clothes with a cold iron. if anyone wants me I'll be in my room. patreon.com/KatharineColdiron
Aimee Nezhukumatathil @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social 🇵🇭🇮🇳 roller-skater since I was ten • school supplies • gardens • bioluminescence • axolotls • Buckeye • NYT bestselling author • NIGHT OWL (Ecco, Spring 26) aimeenez.net
Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social Poet. 5 books, University of Akron Press. Memoiring. Translating. Gardening. Educator. Trans Nonbinary. OCD/hEDS/Long COVID. Views mine. They (Eng.)/Elle (Esp.)
Jason Ray Carney😎📚☕️ @jrcarney52.bsky.social Ph.D., English, Writer, Academic, Vegan, Progressive. Christopher Newport U. https://spiraltower.blogspot.com/ Nerdery: zines, Warhammer, D&D, pulp, comics, anime, the Gothic. Cats: Goblin, Worm, and Pax. Labeled a contrarian (I disagree). Opinions mine.
Jeff Shanks @jeffshanks.bsky.social Archaeologist and pop culture historian
John Copenhaver @johncopenhaver.bsky.social Award-winning author. Educator. GODDESS OF LOVE coming soon! Pre-order link in Linktree. http://linktr.ee/johncope74 (he/him) muckrack: http://bit.ly/3Uxxm9E
Meriah Lysistrata Crawford @meriah.bsky.social College professor, private investigator, writer, editor, hiker, chocolate addict. I do research around point of view and trauma, write mysteries and a bunch of other stuff, and I collect inkwells, cool rocks, and books.
Claire Dederer @clairedederer.bsky.social Author of MONSTERS: A FAN'S DILEMMA, a New York Times Notable Book and a national bestseller. Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Fresh Air, The Washington Post, Esquire, Kirkus, Vulture, Electric Lit & more.
biblioklept @biblioklept.bsky.social biblioklept.org
Patrick Shawn Bagley @patrickshawnbagley.bsky.social Part-time hermit.
Author of Bitter Water Blues.
Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social NYT-bestselling author of EL DORADO DRIVE (out June 24, 2025), BEWARE THE WOMAN, THE TURNOUT, GIVE ME YOUR HAND, YOU WILL KNOW ME, THE FEVER, etc. Co-creator/showrunner: DARE ME on Netflix. www.meganabbott.com 
Ken Irwin @kenirwin.bsky.social Librarian, coder, dancer, mushroom lover
He/him
Joshua Palmatier/Zombies Need Brains @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social Joshua Palmatier is an epic fantasy writer and the founder of the small press Zombies Need Brains. ZNB does NOT use AI imagery in its covers and does NOT accept AI-generated stories. Visit the store: https://zombies-need-brains-llc.square.site