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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social Doing what I dreamed of since I was a kid.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social New York Times bestselling author.
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Raquel Willis @raquelwillis.com ✦ co-founder, @genderlib.com
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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
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
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Gabrielle Alexa Noel @gabalexa.bsky.social Challenging what ppl think they know about sex/love. 💕
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Gerrie Summers @gerriesummersink.bsky.social Writer. 🥬Wellness 🛫Travel 🧘🏾♀️Lifestyle 📚Fiction
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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🌻
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William Evans @williamevanswrites.bsky.social writer, professor, coach and some other whatnot
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peaches (they/them) @spicybits.bsky.social luscious black nonbinary writer and vinylhead
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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
✨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 💘
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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 | rogue 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!)
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Mec @mecctheeholy.bsky.social free flowin'..
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💫 jackson 💫 @jackpbrown.bsky.social Author.
Founder: Black Girl Writers
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Brittany Johnson (she/her) @bybrittanyjohnson.bsky.social PREORDER DEADLY EVER AFTER (PRH, 11/4/25)
YA fantasy author
Rep: Jamie Vankirk
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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!!
Frederick Smith, Ed.D. @fsmith827.bsky.social Love Is A Contact Sport - 6/16/26 on Bold Strokes Books ✍🏾📚💕🌈🐝
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Christina Cooke @christinajcooke.bsky.social I wrote BROUGHTUPSY, yr next fav novel | Winner, Journey Prize | Finalist, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize | “Best of”—Elle, CBC Books, others | https://linktr.ee/christinajcooke | lemme at yr snacks
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