Kev McVeigh @kevmcv.bsky.social Reader, dilettante, intermittent blogger, agitator.
"McVeigh is an extreme example" - Paul Kincaid
K.A. Hela ✨ Finally Querying✨ @jundlife.bsky.social Published by Crooked Spine
https://crookedspinepress.com/store?issue=6
Mediocre Magic: The Gathering player, Bar Trivia Teammate, Reader of Weird Books, Paint By Number Master, Documentary Hound, Owner of a three-legged cat.
DM to swap Beta reads!
Jordan @aafghjn.bsky.social Librarian, SF reader, magpie. I like humor, genre blends, and books off the beaten path.
StoryFlint @storyflint.com No mind was built to hold an entire novel at once. StoryFlint provides frameworks, worksheets, plug-and-play Notion templates that give your story somewhere to live and be built outside your head so you always know what to do next. storyflint.com
Papay ranger - Jonathan Ford @papayranger.bsky.social Artist, island ranger, curator of feathers.
Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social Blogger, critic, 2017 and 2025 best fan writer Hugo winner.
Blogs at wrongquestions.blogspot.com and www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
Review collection TRACK CHANGES available at briardenebooks.uk/shop/
Member of the 2026 Otherwise Award jury
Maria K. Alberto, Ph.D (✍️🏼 book proposal!) @mariakalberto.bsky.social Assistant Professor of English, Richland Community College || she/her 🏳️🌈 || 📚 canon, genre, analog games, fan studies, platforms || currently ✍️🏼 sword&sorcery + TSR novels, fans + TTRPGs || header: galxrax (Unsplash)
Kat Kourbeti @darthj.uno SF/F writer & narrator, Hugo Award-winning senior podcast editor @strangehorizons.bsky.social, host @thewritesong.co.uk. Lapsed film critic; now BSFA's theatre columnist. Team ADHD. Greek!
📍 London, UK
✨ she/her 🏳️🌈
🌍💌 darthj.uno
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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social Writer, teacher, person in New Hampshire
Books from Black Lawrence, Bloomsbury Academic, punctum, Third Man, Lethe.
Horror fiction, modernism, pedagogy, Open Access, general weirdness...
https://matthewcheney.net
Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social Nonfiction about weird fiction at Seize the Press, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nightmare, and Ancillary Review of Books, where I am also an editor. Also jazz, metal, leftism. he/him
https://doomsdayer.wordpress.com/writings/
Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social SFF enthusiast, hobby-collector, blogger, shouter-at-the-internet. Editor at Ignyte and Hugo winner Nerds of a Feather, along with reviews elsewhere. 2026 Hugo Fan Writer finalist. All links here: https://linktr.ee/roseanna.pendlebury (she/her).
Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social Writer, editor, critic, scholar. Lambda + Hugo winner. Hungarian / Jewish / agender / neuroatypical. E/em/eir/emself or they. טומטום. Intersex. 100% migráncs in Lawrence, Kansas. Metroidbrainia enjoyer. Opinions my own & do not represent anyone else
Nielanell @nielanell.bsky.social Shetland knitwear, but not as you know it. Visit us in Hoswick or browse our boutique online. https://nielanell.com/
BillieB @billie.bookstoreromanceday.org She/her. Book person. An Old. Founder of Bookstore Romance Day.
Mark Trushkowsky @marktrushkowsky.bsky.social math, teaching, adult education, numeracy, music, movies, gardening, play, beauty
Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social Aberystwyth-based writer, researcher & critic. Author: Culture Wars in Britain (May, 2026). Columnist at Vector. Incoming editor of Foundation.
Nonbinary (they/them)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️.
https://linktr.ee/nick_hubble
Julie Kalman @juliekalman.bsky.social Historian of France, writing a book about Asterix for @princetonupress.bsky.social. Cat employee (unpaid).
StoryBundle @storybundle.bsky.social We're StoryBundle! StoryBundle was created to give a platform for indie authors to showcase their work, and a source of quality titles for readers. Don't miss out on the bundles!
MTH @megt.bsky.social SFF author. PhD in mass comm, anthro/archaeo, folklore, environment. Freelance writer/editor. Grantmaking and public policy. Operator at defunct farm. Cheesehead 🧀 Badger alum. Reposts not necessarily an endorsement.
web: https://oaklandhillsfarm.com
B. Morris Allen @bmorrisallen.com Writer, editor, and publisher @metaphorosis.com, long-time vegan, based in Oregon.
Tofu-eating woke-rista.
The Quotidian Unreal @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social The Quotidian Unreal is a playful literary experiment.
Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social Writer
The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies (UK)
Something Wonderful (US)
Winner BBC National Short Story Award #bbcnssa
O Henry
Stories in Zoetrope, Southern Review, Ploughshares, BBSS, &&
She/her
Ally
Regency Reader - Anne Glover @regencyreader.bsky.social Author of Masquerade Balls in Regency Britain. Passionately blogging about all things Regency at https://regrom.com
Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com Swedish-Canadian SFFH writer. Reviewer for LOCUS. Editor @ Ruadán Books & Many Worlds. Work in Best Horror of the Year, Lightspeed, The Deadlands & more. she/her 📚: WOLVES & GIRLS+SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN🔗 http://linktr.ee/MariaHaskins Rep: Eric Showers.
Becky’s Books @beckysbooks.bsky.social Bookworm | Hobbit | NorthernBookBlogger | Windwalker | Trustee for #CWUHA | rebecca.crook@hotmail.co.uk | http://linktr.ee/beckys_books
Jonathan Thornton @jonathanthornton.bsky.social Writer for The Fantasy Hive, Tor dot com, Gingernuts Of Horror. Books reviews editor for Foundation. Entomology technician at LSTM. Lover of cats, books, music, starships, gardening
Tolu Oloruntoba @tolu.ca Bumbler, quitter of things, poet, and project management person (in that order). My new Collection, UNRAVEL, was a National Book Critics Circle finalist.
Opinions mine. https://bio.site/tolu.ca he/him
Milford SFF Conference @milfordsff.bsky.social Longest-running SF writers' event in the UK; yearly workshops and writing retreats. https://www.milfordsf.co.uk/ (We don't have access to DMs, so please contact us via the website!)
@cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social 
Matt Keeley @matt-keeley.bsky.social Frequent reader and occasional reviewer
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Writing about books and 19th-20thc women's history in 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com
Essays & reviews also in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today etc
Aly Fell @alyfell.bsky.social Drawerer. Cat. Ex Danger Mouse/Duckula animator. Graphic Novs: The Shadow Glass. A Trick of the Light. The Kissing Gate. Likes: Magick and spooks. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/DARKRISING
Dr Clare Turner @drmathsphysics.bsky.social Tutor with aerospace engineering 🚀 background.
#STEMinist | sci-fi & crime writer | space geek 🌌 | outdoors junkie |
Twitter refugee
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Shona Ray @shonaraywrites.bsky.social Writer of gothic/horror/weird. Jericho Friday Night Live SL 2024. Thinker, wanderer, ex-anthropologist. London lawyer in my spare time. #amwriting #books #art #pwme
Jane @janecornwell.bsky.social This is my fun account. 📚🐾🕊🏴
Work: Janes-Studio
Instagram: jane_cornwell_studio
The Broken Binding @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social UK-based Independent Bookstore specialising in Science Fiction 🛸 and Fantasy ⚔️
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Northern Earth @northernearth.bsky.social Quarterly, (inter)national print journal of people, places & experiences: landscape, folklore, archaeology, psychogeography, neoantiquarianism. Founded 1979. northernearth.co.uk
Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social I help authors/indie presses publish non-fiction books. Also editor of various magazines, including northernearth.co.uk (folklore, archaeology, psychogeography, landscape). Writer, walker, ambulomancer, neoantiquarian.
andrewchapman.info
Jane's Studio @janes-studio.bsky.social Jane Cornwell is an artist, illustrator & book designer. Bibliophile.
Publishing Scotland Network Member.
www.janecornwell.co.uk
Paul Wilson @bibliopaul.bsky.social Co-host of The Mookse And The Gripes podcast with @mookse | 2023 @USRofC judge | Slowly and happily burying myself in books
Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones/Center for Investigative Reporting/Reveal. Past president of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Mom. Upzoning, street tree, and rescue dog enthusiast. Views, mine.
Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social Speculative fiction in translation | SFinTranslation.com | Small Planet Magazine | translates Italian sf | contributor at Strange Horizons, World Literature Today, Samovar.
Shoreline of Infinity @shoreinf.bsky.social Science fiction doings - magazine, publications, events and other odds and sods. Based in Scotland, open to the Universe.
https://www.shorelineofinfinity.com
Also SF Caledonia www.sfcaledonia.scot
Also home to SF Caledonia: https://www.sfcaledonia.scot
B. Pladek @bpladek.bsky.social Ben. Literature scholar & writer; Ass. Prof. of English at Marquette University. He/him, boring transsexual. DRY LAND (2023, UWP): https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/D/Dry-Land; other stuff elsewhere.
website: bpladek.net
Dr Marie Allitt @marieallitt.bsky.social Researcher, Writer, (Over)Thinker.
Literary medical historian
Medical Humanities. PPIE. Lived Experience. Life-writing. Chronic illness. Disability. Mental health. Healthcare spaces.
she/her. Views own
Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social I write the Guardian’s Politics Live blog 
Crow & Cross Keys || SUBS OPEN @crowkeys.bsky.social Seeking the wonderful and the bizarre, the beautiful and the dark.
Home to all things dark and lovely.
crowcrosskeys@gmail.com
EIC: @keychild.bsky.social (she/her)
https://linktr.ee/crowcrosskeys
Iain Aire @iainaire.bsky.social Word alchemist, the quest for the unobtainable. EcoFiction, Fantasy, SciFi, Crime & Book Binder. The borderland of worlds. www.iainaire.com The Grey Pilgrim’s Gambit https://thegreypilgrimsgambit.laterpress.com Seeds anthology https://seeds.laterpress.com
Jonah @jsuttonmorse.me Quaker, Parent, Hobby Farmer, sometime reader of books, often SFF except when they’re not
jonny @misterbloat.bsky.social I read a bunch and edit Seize The Press Magazine.
Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social Appalachian in the big city. Editor at Ancillary Review, host of A Meal of Thorns, bookseller, coffee pro, SF reviewer & scholar. He/him.
https://linktr.ee/jakecasellabrookins
Niall Harrison @niallharrison.bsky.social reader, critic, fan, he/him
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
Tychy @tychywordpress.bsky.social Just here for research and snooping about. Still insanely loyal to Twitter/X.
https://tychyedinburgh.co.uk/
Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social Writer of SFF in TV, books, comics, audio and games! (Doctor Who, Saucer Country, Lychford.) Editor-in-Chief: Cosmic Lighthouse Comics. https://www.cosmiclighthouse.co.uk/ He/him. #comics #sciencefiction #doctorwho
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
PictCon @pictcon.bsky.social A Scottish science fiction and fantasy convention about science fiction and fantasy in Scotland. #PictCon October 17 2026, Perth 🏴
PictCon.com
Steve Pannett @stevepannett.com ✍🏻 Author of gritty fantasy fiction.
📘 THE HUNTER’S LAMENT
📙 THE SINS OF STEEL AND SHADOW
📕 THE RUIN OF RAGE AND RECKONINGS
—
stevepannett.com
Barbara Birch @barbarabirch.bsky.social Quaker author of Lectio Divina: Revelation and Prophecy (Quaker Quicks)
I amplify the good on social media. And some snark too.
Clare Bonetree @blooyonder.bsky.social poet; trees, radical hope, fairness, equality, Herefordshire, arthritis mental health, disability, anarchism. Join a union!
And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social Not-for-profit press led by readers, writers & translators. Consider subscribing to help us take publishing risks. http://andotherstories.org/subscriptions/
Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social Fantasy writer and editor, hound mum, permaculturist, warrior hobbit. Writes, reads, games, gardens. Trying to leave it better than I found it. Ideologically opposed to bigots of all stripes. She/her. Cymru.
Esther Gardiner @wildsparkpub.bsky.social Esther Gardiner is a poet–songwriter in Orkney, known for her emotionally honest writing, neurodivergent perspective, and a voice that blends simplicity, depth, and lyrical beauty. Her work celebrates joy, humanity, and the quiet strength found in truth.
Morgan W Finley @baronvonuppercase.bsky.social Writer of short stories + TTRPGs: horror, sci-fi, weird.
I like animals, quilting and bright colours.
Pronoun agnostic - anything goes.
TTRPG work: @caesar-ink.bsky.social
Internet-anxious, please be kind.
Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social Yet another writer: THE GHOST WHO BLED (2017), THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY (2018), THE REPUBLIC OF BREATH, THE SPOILS & other stories, SWEENEY'S PROGRESS (forthcoming). Environmentalist. Lives in Sheffield. https://substack.com/@gregorynorminton
Diane Purkiss @janetanderson.bsky.social I love books, reading, eating, cooking, and my French bulldog Bunty. I write history and I teach English at Oxford University.
Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social Group Head of Archives and Libraries at Science Museum Group. Mum, Aunt, Christian, knitter, gardener, York resident, views my own
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social Senior Publisher for STS, Digital/Medical Humanities and Literary Studies at Bloomsbury Academic. All long-winded, rambling views are my own.
Hana Carolina @hanacarolina.bsky.social Creative Writer & Academic Researcher | 30s | she/her | 🏴 🇪🇺 | Reviewer @ Strange Horizons | Fiction Editor @ Divinations Magazine | Debut Novella with Spaceboy Books, THE INESCAPABLE MARCH (2025)
https://readspaceboy.com/portfolio/the-inescapable-march/
Bryn Hammond @brynhammond.bsky.social | Writer. Sword & Sorcery: Goatskin novellas WASTE FLOWERS, WHAT ROUGH BEAST? from Brackenbury Books. Historical fiction: AMGALANT on Tchingis Khan & 12thC Mongols
| She/her 🌈Queer. Australia
| https://amgalant.com / buy direct https://payhip.com/Amgalant
Julie Bozza @juliebozza.bsky.social Aussie-Anglo hybrid empowered by writing, fuelled by espresso, calmed by knitting, overexcited by photography, and madly in love with Amy Adams and John Keats.
she/they
https://juliebozza.carrd.co/
Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social Exposing Reform UK.
Dr Elizabeth Bruton (she / her) 🏳️🌈 @lizbruton.bsky.social 🚴♀ #ResearchComm #PublicEngagement #CitizenScience #Research #LGBTQ | Personal a/c | Prev museum curator + historian of tech + women in #STEM
William Campbell Powell @willcampowell.bsky.social Author of TEARDOWN🌈📚 (NineStar), EXPIRATION DAY (YA/SF, Tor), also writes short SFF, long SFF/HF/Crime/contemporary.
Software engineer (retired).
Politics Green #FBPE
bit.ly/TeardownBook
https://williamcampbellpowell.com
He/him
Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social A journal that explores the breadth and depth of the themes, ideas, and issues of science fiction and fantasy. Ed. Alexandra Pierce.
https://www.speculativeinsight.com/
Tanya Huntington @tanyahuntington.bsky.social Bilingual writer. Artist. Cuenta en español/inglés
www.tanyahuntington.com
Sawhand @sawhand.bsky.social Comics Creator (CCA MFA in Comics '21)
Occasional twitch streamer
portfolio --> sawhand.com
Artist for Quaker, Whaler, Traitor, Spy! https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-10151-4.html
NO AI/NFTs Free Palestine Trans Rights are Human Rights!
David Linebarger @tennis-art1.bsky.social Poet, prose writer, professor at davidlinebarger.com Latest book Tennis Players as Works of Art won many awards, including 2025 Book of the Year (Original Concept) at the 29th annual IPPY awards.
Lily Lachance 🏳️⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com Trans 🏳️🌈, adventurer, author, poet, filmmaker. 🇨🇦
Unagented but seeking.
Words in Phano, Gavagai, Bullet Points, and more. Anti-gen-AI absolutist. (No both-siders, ever.)
Upward... Ever upward. 🙂🚀🌌
E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com Award-winning Scottish science fiction & fantasy writer. Podcastle, Strange Horizons, Shoreline of Infinity, ParSec, Best of British SF. More: emfaulds.com NEW HANDLE, bethkesh will still work.
#scruffyGarden
Runs @bibliotta.bsky.social
knitty.com @knittymag.bsky.social 
Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
Underscore Comedy @underscorecomedy.bsky.social Comedy content!
Alison Scott @bohemiancoast.bsky.social Podcaster, GUFF delegate, Hugo winner, avid idler. 
John Coxon @johncoxon.bsky.social Hugo Award winner for @octothorpecast.bsky.social and @royalastrosoc.bsky.social Fowler Award winner for solar-terrestrial science. I play games, read and watch SF, volunteer at conventions, and communicate science. Based in North East England. He/him.
Claudia Rapp @claudiarapp.bsky.social Writer, translator, PhD. Goth at heart. But also with glitter in her pockets. Lefty 💚
Pontifacts: Ranking the Popes @pontifactspod.bsky.social Bry and Fry host a slightly blasphemous papal history podcast, ranking the Popes from Peter to LEO XIV. #Rexypod
Pontifacts Tour of Italy, Jan 30-Feb 7 2027
9 days across Rome Viterbo Orvieto and Florence! tinyurl.com/pontifactstour
Octothorpe @octothorpecast.bsky.social A podcast about science fiction and science fiction fandom, hosted by @johncoxon.bsky.social, @bohemiancoast.bsky.social, and @lizbatty.bsky.social. 2024 Hugo Award winner, big Weetabix fans. https://octothorpe.podbean.com/
Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social Author, punster, baseball fan, whisky lover, cocktail maker. Limericks happen here. Written on the Dark now released in paperback, Canada, U.S., U.K. Print, ebook, audiobook.
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social Avid reader, book reviewer & amateur book photographer. I write about books on my blog Radhika’s Reading Retreat. Love art and travel too.
Website: https://readersretreat2017.wordpress.com
Also on: linktr.ee/radzpandit
Natalie Donnell, PhD @nataliedonnell.bsky.social Historian of women in early modern Europe, political power, transregionality, and network analysis.
nataliedonnell.com - feministhistories.substack.com
Luna Press Publishing @lunapress.bsky.social Award Winning Small Press. SFF in Fiction and Academia. Est. 2015. Member of Publishing Scotland. https://www.lunapresspublishing.com
Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social History, especially 17th & 18th c. Quakers and other dissenters. Local history. Churches. Folklore. Archaeology. Art. Museums. Walking. Books. Cats. Coffee. Supporting @wiltshistory.bsky.social. President of Friends Historical Society 2025. 
Claire Harman @claireharman.bsky.social Biographer, critic, emeritus Professor. Books on Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, Fanny Burney, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Katherine Mansfield. Also Murder by the Book, a Victorian literary true-crime.
www.claireharman.com
David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social Cultural talk and typing. And singing.
Biographer of Stephen Sondheim.
Variety, London theatre critic.
The Stage, Associate writer.
Tristram Hawkshaw in The Archers.
Somewhat gay. 
History GM @markonthemove1.bsky.social High school teacher by day, game master by night.
📚 Runner | 🎲 TTRPG lifer | 👨👧👦 Dad mode always on
Alt-history homebrews & marathon stories.
#BlackGamers #TTRPGDad #HistoryNerd
Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA | Global Indigenous Horror (UPM, 2025) | Poetry Editor Orion’s Belt | Words in Future Fire, UtopiaSF, Space&Time, Lovecraftiana | EIC @katabaticcircus.bsky.social co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social