Steven Underwood @blaqueword.bsky.social He/him | Blerd, Author... Blerduthor? | Author of Forever for the Culture (Beacon) and Sundiata (Feiwal & Friends/Macmillan) | stevenunderwoodjr(at)blaqueword(dot)com
George M Johnson Garçon @iamgmjohnson.bsky.social NYTIMES Bestselling Author of All Boys Aren’t Blue. Emmy nominated Writer & Executive Producer. TIME100 Next Moat Influential People in World. AφA 06. They/Them
LaDarrion Williams @itsladarrion.bsky.social USA Today & New York Times Bestselling Author of Blood at the Root. Also a Playwright, screenwriter, and filmmaker.
Eve L. Ewing @eveewing.bsky.social I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
Arriel Vinson @arriwrites.bsky.social She/her. UNDER THE NEON LIGHTS (PenguinTeen, 6/3). Reese’s Book Club LitUp Fellow. Tin house YA '21. Educator. Rep: Jodi Reamer. IG: arriwrites. Pronounced Ar-ee-el.
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Jaymar Thee Author @jaymarjackson.bsky.social Lv 34! WE DESERVE MORE!!!
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M H Ayinde 🍉 A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES out now! @mhayinde.bsky.social She/Her. Blerd. Sunday Times bestselling author. Nommo, Ignyte, British Fantasy & Locus Award Finalist.
A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES out now! (Orbit UK/Saga)
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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social Doing what I dreamed of since I was a kid.
Books: Lone Women, The Changeling, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Devil in Silver.
TV: The Changeling (EP), The Terror: Devil in Silver (Creator, Showrunner)
Comics: Destroyer, Eve, Sabretooth, Black Panther
Shawn Pryor @shawnrpryor.bsky.social Writer. FAST BREAK from FSG/Macmillan, 2026. He/Him. Repped by K. Sonnack of the Andrea Brown Literacy Agency.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school. 
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social Journalist, writer, former member of the Six Heartbeats. Championship-level spades player. ContrabandCamp.com founder. Author of NY Times bestseller: Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America.
Brent C. Lambert @brentclambert.bsky.social Writer. Black SFF always! Hugo Award Winner. One of the co-hosts for Just Keep Writing.
he/him http://brentclambert.com
Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social New York Times bestselling author.
Senior Writer, Race and Equity @theguardian.com.
Deesha Philyaw @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social Author of THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF FIRST LADY FREEMAN (on sale 9.29.2026; pre-order: https://bit.ly/firstladyfreeman) and THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES.
Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social Carter G. Woodson Endowed Chair in History @Howard.edu • Director @huadvstudy.bsky.social • Editor @TheEmancipator.org • National Book Award Winner • #1 NYT Bestselling Author. #BeAntiracist. 🐍🦁🌱
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Raquel Willis @raquelwillis.com ✦ co-founder, @genderlib.com
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Kwame Mbalia @kwamembalia.bsky.social Husband, father, writer, Publisher w/ FREEDOM FIRE.
Black By Popular Demand: https://kwamembalia.substack.com
Ryan Douglass @ryandouglass.bsky.social writer
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King Darrell @originalkingd.bsky.social Author, YouTuber, Podcaster. You think I'm comic relief until you find out I'm serious.
Danny B. Groves @dbgroves.bsky.social He/Him 🏳️🌈✊🏾 HBIC storyteller. The magic is within. Rep: Leah Pierre, Ladderbird
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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social Lifewriting Podcast - Exec Producer #HorrorNoire: A History of Black Horror, Writer: Twilight Zone. UCLA Lecturer. Vanity Fair. Author: American Book Award #BLM #blacksky She/Her - https://linktr.ee/tananarivedue
Dante @iamdantemoore.bsky.social Insight Extraction Coach | 📍Los Angeles
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L.C. Perry 💚💜🩷💪🏾 @lcperry.bsky.social YA & NA Author / Anime & Music junkie / Black / Aro & Bi-greyace🏳️🌈/ Tall gal 🙌🏾 She/her. I support Angry Black Women. Trans Lives Matter. Repped by @msholliday93.bsky.social
Tamara ⛱️🎇🕶️🌊☀️ @tamaratoday.bsky.social Ivy League Grad. Fantasy and Horror Writer. Creator of BULLIED on Wattpad. Avid Reader. Former B&N Bookseller. She/Her
#BlackLivesMatter #StopAAPIHate #TransLivesMatter
@TamaraToday_ on IG and Twitter
Gabrielle Alexa Noel @gabalexa.bsky.social Challenging what ppl think they know about sex/love. 💕
Author of HOW TO LIVE WITH THE INTERNET 📚 Words in Playboy, Elle, etc.
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Gerrie Summers @gerriesummersink.bsky.social Writer. 🥬Wellness 🛫Travel 🧘🏾♀️Lifestyle 📚Fiction
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Drafting #horrornovel.
Noelle Monét | BOUND BY FURY out now!! @noellemonet.bsky.social BOUND BY FURY out now | 2025 LAMBDA lit fellow | she/they | ND | BLM ✊🏾| bi 🏳️🌈 | ✡️ | 🇵🇸| Rep: Laura Crockett at Triada US
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Regina Black @reginablackwrites.bsky.social USA Today Bestselling Author of THE ART OF SCANDAL and AUGUST LANE | Black & Southern
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Latonya "Penn" P. @wordsfromapenn.com Mid 30s Black-Asian genderqueer freelance contributor at Pop Heist, Yatta-Tachi, and more. I'm a poet too. Pronouns: they/them.
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https://ko-fi.com/latonyap
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Zeta @zetakpierce.bsky.social Indie SFF author. Casual gamer. Lover of villains and antiheroes.
My books:
The Crimson Knight
The Haunted Warrior
Book 3: slated for 2027
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Bain 🇧🇸 @mrbainer.bsky.social Neurodivergent. ✊🏿Story-teller. 24. Actor.||Rep:@Ashliterary|🍁Canadian Immigrant.🌻 I've been California Dreaming #PlasticHearts🌻
mo @mothebad.bsky.social romance writer & professional letterboxd poster
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William Evans @williamevanswrites.bsky.social writer, professor, coach and some other whatnot
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J. K. Lambo @jklambo.bsky.social YA + NA fiction author 📖 | Culinary Writer 🍪 | 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: t.ly/h-rTg | Linktree: https://linktr.ee/j.k.lambo
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George Gant @geogantart.com Ringo-Nominated cartoonist. Creator of the comic strip Beware of Toddler, distributed by King Features Syndicate. Beano/Dandy Artist and I drew Redman's graphic novel. Based in Chicago. Inquiries: geo@geogantart.com
Jasper @blkpansy.bsky.social Ayyyyy. Read (or listen to!) my award-winning book PANSY: A BLACK AMERICAN MEMOIR 📖
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Aaron Cole has a Book Deal! @theaaroncole.bsky.social Author of SOULCAST out summer 2027 🐦🔥
SAG Actor and Screenwriter
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Jaie Michelle @jaiemichelle.bsky.social Neurodivergent | Foodie | Simmer & WWE lover 🤍 | NOT Wcif Friendly
Kenyon @kenyonfarrow.bsky.social Writer. Activist. Strategist.
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Dr. Jon Paul (They/Them/Tired) @doctorjonpaul.bsky.social Famous on Twitter. Educator, Creator & Exec Producer: @BlkFatFemmePod w/ @iheartpodcast and author of BLACK FAT FEMME (Wiley, 2025).
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Sade Green @sadegabriella.bsky.social Writer, activist, poet | Words in TIME Magazine, Forbes, Teen Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE Magazine, The Nation, + more ✍🏾 | Amherst College alumna | 🇳🇬 + AA❤🖤💛 | Views = mine
Chrystal D. Giles @chrystaldgiles.bsky.social Author of books for young readers.
📚 Take Back the Block
📚 Not an Easy Win
📚 Listen to the Girls (May 2026)
📚 We Are Joy (June 2026)
chrystaldgiles.com/links
✨Nikki Savoy | Thriller Author✨ @nikkisavoy.bsky.social Nikki Savoy dreams of joy and justice and writes about Black women—what we protect, what we carry, and what it costs.
Some dreams are built on stolen things
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Jaie @ohhmyjaie.bsky.social authoress & writer 🦋 ♊︎
Blooming Uninterrupted available now
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𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬𝐨𝐧 ✒️❤️🔥📚 @shoneljackson.bsky.social Author of Contemporary Romance 💘
Poetically inclined 📜 Former actress 🎭
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Sarah IS LOOKING FOR WORK!!! @killianfantasy.blacksky.app Artist and writer.
Books: The Heretic Series. Bride of the River God
Comics: The Violent Vixens Ride Again, Soul Food War, Villainous (webcomic). #art #books www.sarahamacklin.com
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Rosa Sparks @rosasparks.blacksky.app Shuri's mom. Publisher of Fabulize; a pop culture feminist mag for BIPOC nerds. Cannabis lover. Neurospicy creative. Emerging comic book writer and novelist. 🏳️🌈 Lambda + Ignatz Awards nominee subscribe: https://mailchi.mp/f0796697386b/fabulizemagsubscribeme
Dr. Nneka D. Dennie @nneka.bsky.social diaspora-discoveries.com | nnekadennie.com | accidental historian | editor of Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth Century Black Radical Feminist (OUP, 2023) | ⚽️ fan | 🇻🇨 vincy, not nigerian | NEEK-uh | views mine, not my employer's
Scarlett Hathaway @sbscarlett222.bsky.social Tear in Reality (out now!)
♡ 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐜, 𝐬𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐤, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐫𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬
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Mec @mecctheeholy.bsky.social free flowin'..
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Fayettenam NC --------> PA
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Terry J. Benton-Walker (he/daddy) @handle.invalid Bestselling & Award-Winning Author | BLOOD DEBTS, BLOOD JUSTICE, THE WHITE GUY DIES FIRST, & ALEX WISE | #Gaymer 🏳️🌈🎮 https://linktr.ee/tjbentonwalker
Bethany Baptiste @storysorcery.bsky.social bi // a FL nigga 🐊//gemini // she/her // southerner // trans lives matter always // National bestselling author of THE POISONS WE DRINK & the author of THE BEAST YOU MADE OF ME // patreon: bit.ly/paybeth
Kosoko Jackson @kosokojackson.bsky.social USA TODAY Bestseller • 2023 Lambda Literary Award Winner & Fellow • THE MACABRE, EPIDEMIOLOGY OF WITCHCRAFT (@harpervoyagerus, 2025 & 2026) • WME Repped Screenwriter • Film/TV: Mary Pender, WME #scriptsky, 🍉
Ravynn K. Stringfield @ravynnkamia.blacksky.app Young Adult Author | Multimedia Artist | Professor | Editor @ midnight & indigo | Former Peanut Fest Queen
𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧 @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app Author | #preWGA | she/her |♌️ | deeply unserious southern gal | BA in theatre/film | currently writing Black romance, mischief & magic | words in midnight&indigo, Chain Letter, & more
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https://ko-fi.com/tessak13
💫 jackson 💫 @jackpbrown.bsky.social Author.
Founder: Black Girl Writers
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Vincent uses they/them pronouns 🐸 @v-e-tirado.com afrodominican 🇩🇴 🏳️⚧️ they/them or die mad about it 👻 award winning horror author. I write a lot.
https://vetirado.carrd.co
TaLynn Kel - Aggressively fat and pro-Black! @talynnkel.bsky.social Writer/speaker/cosplayer/cultural critic
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Melody Simpson @melodysimpson.bsky.social Writer. Founder of Melanin in YA (@melanininya.bsky.social), your source for all things Black in traditional young adult publishing.
All things TV, movies, books, sci-fi, theatre, & theology.
Los Angeles / Austin
https://melodylsimpson.com
Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles @srmilesauthor.bsky.social Writer. Librarian. Rep'd by the extraordinary @johnmcusick at
@foliojr Latest title: #THERISEOFISSAIGWE
she/her
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LL McKinney @llmckinney.bsky.social Writer of words. Teller of tales. Chaotic neutral. Bestselling Author. God is good. NUBIA: TOO REAL out NOW! #PublishingPaidMe
https://linktr.ee/LLMcKinney
Jill Tew @jtewwrites.bsky.social THE DIVIDING SKY (YA dystopian romance from PRH) out October 8th, 2024! www.thedividingsky.com
Ameerah Holliday @msholliday93.bsky.social Someone once told me ‘the grass is much greener on the other side.’
Opinions are mine I Dancer | Poetess | Revolution | Agent - Serendipity Lit
Jessica Lewis @jessicalewisauthor.bsky.social Author of many genres and books!
Rep: Holly Root
Out now: 🏕️Hallie’s Rules for a Recovering Romantic💖
Coming soon: 💀This House is Not a Home🏡
Laila Sabreen @lailasabreen.bsky.social author of YOU TRULY ASSUMED || storytelling main character || PhD-ing || 1913🔺|| she/her || Rep: Beth Phelan
linktr.ee/lailasabreen
Kim Johnson @kimjohnson.bsky.social USA Today Bestseller
THIS IS MY AMERICA, INVISIBLE SON, THE COLOR OF A LIE
LA Times Book Award Finalist | NPR Best Book
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Sarah Raughley @sraughley.bsky.social Academic Scholar, Geek and Writer. Author of The Effigies Series, The Bones of Ruin trilogy and the upcoming thriller, The Queen’s Spade.
Hannah V. Sawyerr @hannsawyerr.bsky.social A masterpiece after a wreckage. Author: TRUTH IS 🎙️ (out September 23!) + ALL THE FIGHTING PARTS 💙 (Morris Finalist + Walter Honor!)
Sarah Dass @sarahdasswrites.bsky.social 🇹🇹 author of WHERE THE RHYTHM TAKES YOU and IT WAITS IN THE FOREST | Agent: Wendi Gu | https://linktr.ee/sarahdassauthor
Ayana Gray @ayanagray.bsky.social New York Times-bestselling author of monstrous stories. I, MEDUSA: Fall 2025
Ronni Davis ✨ @lilrongal.bsky.social author of YA books THIS NIGHT IS OURS & WHEN THE STARS LEAD TO YOU
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Kekla Magoon @keklamagoon.bsky.social Writes books, bakes cupcakes, makes pottery, entertains two orange cats. Award-winning author, keynote speaker, unconventional educator. Passionate about literacy, community, diversity, conversation, and social justice. She/Her.
Lily Meade @lilymeade.bsky.social Homeless novelist. Author of: THE HEX GIRLS: A ROGUE THORN 🐾 (Aug 26 2025) and THE SHADOW SISTER 🦋 (out now!). Here for books, equality, and Taylor Swift. @LilyMeade on most other platforms.
Learn more: lilymeade.com
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
Julian Winters @julianwinters.bsky.social Award-winning author of RUNNING WITH LIONS, RIGHT WHERE I LEFT YOU + more
Nia Davenport @niadavenport.bsky.social Award-winning author of THE BLOOD TRIALS. Next up: LOVE SPELLS TROUBLE (YA; July 2025) and OUR VICIOUS OATHS (Adult; Oct 2025). She/Her.
Alechia Dow @alechiadow.bsky.social Locus, BSFA, Ignyte Finalist. Award winner. Chef. Librarian. Author of 7+ books. Next: Until the Clock Strikes Midnight, 2/3/2026. Bostonian in Germany.
Bethany C Morrow @bethanycmorrow.com BCMorrow on IG/Threads. Adult/YA Author. Bestseller. Social Justice in Literature Award winner. Locus, Ignyte, and Audie finalist. Christ follower. Planet of the Apes stan.
THE BODY (Nightfire/Tor) out now!
https://linktr.ee/bcmorrow
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.
Brittany N. Williams @brittanyacts.bsky.social B-more's own. Actress & Author of The Forge & Fracture Saga. Head full of trivia, heart full of swordfights 
Brittany Johnson (she/her) @bybrittanyjohnson.bsky.social PREORDER DEADLY EVER AFTER (PRH, 11/4/25)
YA fantasy author
Rep: Jamie Vankirk
IG/TT: ByBrittanyJohnson
kamilah cole @wordsiren.bsky.social Dragon, Lodestar, & Lambda Award Finalist. Bestselling author of SO LET THEM BURN (2024), THIS ENDS IN EMBERS (2025), AN ARCANE INHERITANCE (2025), WICKED ENDEAVORS (2026), & HEIR UNDYING (2027) | she/her 🇯🇲
Dhonielle Clayton @dhonielle.bsky.social NY Times bestselling author and cookie enthusiast. Coach at The Novelry.
Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social Bestselling Award-Winning Adult and YA Romance Author.
YA: SUMMER OFFICIAL now! 🛹🩵🍦| Adult: THE TWELVE LOVES OF CHRISTMAS 9.29.26 ♥️🎅🏾
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Twelve-Loves-of-Christmas/Alexandria-Bellefleur/9781668250419
Jenn Baker (she/her) @jbakernyc.bsky.social New Yorker, Editor, Writer, host/creator Minorities in Publishing podcast. Books: FORGIVE ME NOT (2023), EVERYDAY PEOPLE (2018).
www.jennifernbaker.com
Kiara Valdez @dezinpub.bsky.social Inklore Editor | PW Star Watch Finalist | Writer | ✏️STEPPING UP and MAMI’s MAGIC WORDS | She/Her | Opinions are mine | Ace & Bi Afro🇩🇴 | #LatinxInPub | Rep’d: Britt Siess | kiaravaldez.com
Roseanne A. Brown @rosiesrambles.bsky.social New York Times Bestselling author of A SONG OF WRAITHS AND RUIN + more. Just another new social media profile hahahahaa :') 🇬🇭
Riley Hart @rileyhart.bsky.social Queer romance author. Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Reader.
Cashana @cashana.bsky.social Thriller Writer & Poet / Spoken Word Artist ✍🏾 from Jersey • Activist ✊🏾 • Globetrotter 🌍 • Book Addict 📚 • Coffee Fiend ☕️ • FREE 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🇨🇺 TIL IT’S MF BACKWARDS!!