Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-winning horror bitch. Co-founder, Darker Times. Writer, critic, listmaker. HORROR FOR WEENIES on sale now. Reviews etc in the NYTBR, Reactor, Vulture, Slate, & more. She/her. 🍉
readjumpscares.com
darkertimes.com
Darker Times @darkertimes.bsky.social A worker-owned horror culture magazine.
www.darkertimes.com
Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (Tor Nightfire, Titan). 5 Bram Stoker Awards. Shirley Jackson finalist. Work in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Asimov's, Pseudopod, etc. Clarion grad. 🏳️🌈
www.lucysnyder.com
Rep: @jord4nhill.bsky.social
Cats, aquariums and terrariums
Sobelo Books @sobelobooks.bsky.social Publishers of dark speculative fiction.
Nailah @nailahkingwrites.bsky.social 📚 Diverse horror, crime, & thrillers
🎙️Podcast Host
✍🏾 Grim stories about haunted Black women pushed to the brink
📍Scotland
👁️Follow along as I self-publish my work
🌐 https://nailahking.com/instagram-links
OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social OTHERSIDE is a quarterly magazine of speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers and artists. 🪐🗡️🌈
https://patreon.com/othersidespec · https://othersidespec.com
Juniper White 🦊 @junewhitewrites.bsky.social "What a devious storyteller!"
i write short stories about haunted houses, obsessions, trans love, night skies, revelry
slush reader for small wonders <3
she/her
🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
https://juniperwrites.neocities.org/
Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social NYT & USA Today bestselling writer. Enjoys Korean dramas, music, movies, video games, pet photos.
The Hocus Pocus Handbook = Sept 1!
she/they
Wrote Enclave & Strange Love. Lots of books here! You should read them. https://linktr.ee/authorannaguirre
Alone Crawford @kellylink.bsky.social unserious moonlight
owner of bookmoonbooks.com
www.kellylink.net
she/her
Happy to recommend books if you tell me 2 writers you love & what you’re in the mood for. Signed copies of my books available at www.bookmoonbooks.com. TERFS & fascists fuck off.
Kerry C. Byrne @kercoby.bsky.social SFF writer—Year’s Best Canadian SFF, Fantasy Mag, THIS Mag. @SFWA. Banff Sci-fi ‘25. 6X Aurora Finalist. Ignyte Finalist. Loves fairy tales, comics, games, D&D.
Publisher @augursociety — Augur, Tales & Feathers, Augur Books.
Contact @ www.kerrycbyrne.com
Sif Cináed Ó Buachalla | Writer, Storyteller, Bard @prince-0f-foxes.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 queer science fiction/fantasy writer
& composer
they/them
Fae, Irish mythology, trans & queer representation, other worldly creatures, facing your demons, self knowledge
Pedro Iniguez @pedroiniguez.bsky.social Bram Stoker, Elgin, and Dwarf Stars Award-winning Horror/SF writer. Rhysling finalist, Pushcart nominee.
THE BUILD-A-MONSTER WORKSHOP (Out Now!)
ECHOES AND EMBERS (Out Now!)
THE FIB (Out Now!)
Repped by Peter Steinberg, UTA
www.pedroiniguez.com
Maria Williams @lightwitch876.eurosky.social #Eurosky Account/Alt
#ActuallyAutistic #BlackandAutistic. Aspiring writer, author, worldbuilder, and reader. #BostonFleet #PWHL, #scientificskeptic, and #secularhumanist Love Squishmallows, TTRPGS, RPGS, #podcasts, #webnovels, #lightnovels, and #donghua
S.E. Fleenor @sefleenor.bsky.social Freelance writer, developmental and line editor, host of podcast Bitches on Comics, bylines at The Independent, Electric Lit, Upworthy, and more, sickest citations on Wikipedia imho
Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social Writer, grad student, amateur kazooist (she/they)
The Splinter in the Sky (2023), This World Is Not Yours (2024), The King Must Die (2025), assorted short stories, and some other stuff
kashinggiwa.com
Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social Stop by for a sip of fun. Stay as long as you want; enjoy the view. Edited by Bennett North, Priya Sridhar and Hannya Kay https://translunartravelerslounge.com/
V. H. Chen @vhchen.bsky.social Writing mostly speculative fiction, mostly short stories. VP2022.
Small Wonders @smallwondersmag.com An online monthly magazine for speculative poetry and flash fiction! Edited by @cislyn.bsky.social and @granades.com.
Terri Hughes Burton @terrihb.bsky.social Conjurer of worlds, devourer of ice cream. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0400957/
The Cookout Anthology @tco-anthology.bsky.social An anthology of speculative fiction from the African Diaspora
https://thecookoutanthology.com/
B. Sharise @bsharise.bsky.social Kidlit Author, FIYAH Editor, & Curriculum Developer
Rep'd by Laurie McLean @ FUSE Literary
www.bsharisewrites.com
Eboni Dunbar is drafting.... @ebonidunbar.bsky.social Black, queer #specfic #writer from California. Ignyte award nominated. Novella Author of Stone and Steel. Published in FIYAH literary magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Nightlight and more.
Ebonidunbar.com
Genine Tyson @quirkywritergirl.bsky.social Acquiring Editor at FIYAH Speculative Fiction Magazine, Writer, Full-Time Worker, and Part-Time Student (Data Science). Bay Area
Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app The Danny Lore of lycanthropic fame
Awe-inspiringly humble
Writer, nerd, husband to an awesome lady, @ndxmedina.myatproto.social They/them, probably DEI
dannylore @ proton . me
Brandon O’Brien @therisingtithes.bsky.social 🇹🇹 Poet, SFF writer, TTRPG designer. Worldcon 2025 Poet Laureate.
@rascal.news columnist. Podcaster @speculate.bsky.social & @skiffyandfanty.com.
Author of CAN YOU SIGN MY TENTACLE? and other things.
Thank God for words.
https://www.brandonobrien.xyz/
P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Jumbie & Duppy Conqueror. Rambler of Things. Doer of Stuff. Brotha From Another Planet | pdjeliclark.com
Justina Ireland @justinaireland.com Award winning writer and New York Times Bestseller. Sometimes agent at Handspun Literary. I also do TV and comics.
Food is a scam in this country.
Up next: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN HALLOWEEN - October 2026
geneva 🖍️ DragonCon Artshow #58 @gdbee.bsky.social Artist! Won a Hugo once! Black! I like everyday fantasy! Made a graphic novel! Drew some kids books! Estoy aprendiendo español!
Rep'd by @grahamophones.bsky.social
https://gdbee.carrd.co / https://gdbee.store
Milton Davis @miltonmvmedia.bsky.social Black Fantastic author and owner of MVmedia, LLC
Maurice Broaddus @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social Writer, librarian, practice adult, forever mentor...
Khaalidah 🍉 @khaalidah.bsky.social WFA Nominated editor. Ignyte Nominated Editor.
Writer. Podcaster. Narrator. SFWA. Codex.
she/her
#BLM ✊🏽 ☪️🎙
So be it. See to it. ~ Octavia Butler
Russell Nichols @russellnichols.bsky.social I'm not really here. Look for me: russellnichols.com
Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social Writer of Southern Gothic for kids & adults. ROOT MAGIC | CONJURE ISLAND | THE CREEPENING OF DOGWOOD HOUSE | HOLLOW TONGUE | PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE
she/her
edenroyce.com
Sydnee @sydmt.blacksky.app Editor and writer of speculative fiction, recovering journalist, SFWA/ACES member, Unbreaking volunteer, cat lady. Clarion West '26
Nonbinary, but she/her, please.
Business inquiries: shadesofsydnee.com
X (Xen/Cole McCade)🏳️⚧️He/Him🏳️🌈 @thisblackmagic.bsky.social The dead make better companions.
Queer romance author + artist.
IndigiBlAsian POC.
Call me X.
Level 46 Xennial himbo.
Audiophile.
Bone witch of the woods.
FFXIV Mateus.
AuDHD🏳️⚧️demigray disaster bi.
🔞Minors DNI.
https://ko-fi.com/thisblackmagic
Mame Bougouma Diene @mamebougouma.bsky.social Caine Prize 2023, bunch of stuff in a bunch of places. Follow at your own risk.
Uche Ogbuji @uogbuji.bsky.social Igbo-NaijAmerican immigrant
- 🎼poet/editor/composer/DJ http://linktr.ee/uche720
- 👷🏿♂️engineer/entrepreneur http://oori.dev
- 🗣️classics+hip-hop
- 🛹snowboard/longboard
- ⚽️play/coach soccer (Gooner!)
- ❤️Wife & kids*4
- 🏠Superior, Colorado
Cherae @clclarkwrites.com SFF’s buffest lesbian. BFA & Ignyte & Locus Winner. Nebula & Hugo & BFA Finalist. TOURAINE'S ARMS & TOURAINE’S LEGS & TOURAINE'S @$$ & AMBESSA'S ARMS (Orbit ‘21,‘23,'25). français, العربيّة. they/she/sir/Hey, soldier.
https://linktr.ee/clclark
LH Moore @lhmoore.bsky.social BREATH OF LIFE out now! Science fiction, fantasy & horror author 📖. Artist🎨. Poet ✒️ Historian 📜
Call me Elle. SFWA, HWA, SCBWI. She/Her. Opinions my own.
Irette Y Patterson @irette.bsky.social Writer. Gardener. Lover of theatre. Amateur bird watcher. I know way too much about baking cookies. Words in FIYAH, Strange Horizons, and other places. www.iretteypatterson.com
Shari Paul @mousielouse.bsky.social Writer, fan, Trinbagonian 🇹🇹. Published in FIYAH, The Dark, Escape Pod and Clarkesworld. Reprints in Podcastle and Il Buio.
Trevor Fraley @illustrevor.bsky.social (He/Him) Creator of Things. Illustrator of Disney Villains: Scar series. Represented by ASH Literary Agency 
Takim Williams @takimwilliams.bsky.social Author of literary and speculative fiction | Coming out of nowhere in slow motion | 2024-2034, follow my pre-meditated ten-year overnight success
WC Dunlap @wcdunlap.bsky.social Speculative storyteller. 
Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social Omnivorous bookworm and SFFH writer/poet. Words at LeVar Burton Reads, Strange Horizons, The Rumpus, and others. Colorado by way of California. https://linktr.ee/stefanicox
Stephen Kearse @kearse.bsky.social Journalist, critic, and author of novels Post, Liquid Snakes, and In the Heat of the Light.
Noreasontopretend.com
ArtOfEdge @artofedge.bsky.social Crafting hyper-whimsical art is my jam ✨️- D Del Sandeen @delsandeen.bsky.social
Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social Writer/Poet, Editor. SFF/LitFic. CPO @ Augur. Work in: The Walrus, Year's Best Canadian FSF, Brick. Toronto, Canada. She/Her.
Author of MYTH. Editor of AS THE EARTH DREAMS (House of Anansi, 2025)
www.teresemasonpierre.com
Duke Stephens @oliveoilcorp.bsky.social [he/him] ignatz award-winning graphic novelist
thinks a lot about werewolves
for all inquiries: oliveoilcorp@gmail.com
repped by @jenazantian.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/oliveoilcorp
tamara jerée 🖤 @tamarajeree.com author of lesbian paranormal & gothic fantasy | bookseller by day | represented by Bethany Weaver | they/them
www.tamarajeree.com
art by @northyme.com
Maz Hedgehog (they/them) @mazhedgehog.bsky.social writer/performer/general thinking person. dyke. there will be typos.
mazhedgehog.com
Brittany J Smith @britjswrites.bsky.social Author | Reader | Lesbian 🧡🤍🩷 | Gamer | Librarian | She/Her |
Tobi Ogundiran @tobiogundiran.com Ignyte, British Fantasy award-winning author of GUARDIAN OF THE GODS duology (Tor) • JACKAL, JACKAL (Undertow) • BSFA, Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy award nominee• Rep: Alex Cochran
Errick Nunnally @erricknunnally.bsky.social Graphic designer, author, artist, and some other shit probably.
Dominique Ramsey 𓃥 @dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social Award-winning Illustrator and corn veggie enjoyer / no AI here
Literary agent - kelly@andreabrownlit.com
Links + portfolio - dominiqueramsey.com/carrd
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
Bishop Garrison @bishopgarrison.com Nat Sec Policy/Sci-Fi Writer/Adjunct Prof & Poker Enthusiast - Founder www.orangecourtstrat.com - determined Wash Wiz & CMDRs Fan
Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga @aniyonsenga.bsky.social writer extraordinaire~ Spec fic is my jam. Words in Uncanny Magazine, Andromeda Spaceways,
GigaNotoSaurus, Augur Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, FIYAH, Apparition Lit, etc.
EN/FR/JP. she/her. Photo by Madeeha Photos. https://www.aline-mweziniyonsenga.com/
Odera Igbokwe @odera.bsky.social 🧚🏿♂️ Painter / Illustrator / Movement Artist
🌻 Summer sketchbook sale 🎨
www.odera.net/shop/sketchbook
🌞 patreon.com/Odera
Some posts are NSFW / queer & embodied / get me bodied/
Kel Coleman @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social Writer with stories in FIYAH, BCS, Best American, & more | CW '22 | Ignyte Award Finalist 🔥 | they/them
kelcoleman.com
Jade Stewart ❄️ @ja-stewart.bsky.social Writer. Loves video games and anime.
Daydreams about other worlds 24/7.
Stories in @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social, and @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social. Upcoming story in @tco-anthology.bsky.social!
https://linktr.ee/jade.stewart
Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com storyboard artist, writer, illustrator. daydreaming about magic and monsters is my happy place. aka n. romaine white. she/her.
OUT NOW: Creaky Acres.
UP NEXT: Hex and Havoc.
🌎 nilahmagruder.com
💟 https://ko-fi.com/nilaffle
✨ nilahmagruder.carrd.co
LA Knight & Co. (CHECK PINNED - NEED HELP) @laknight89.bsky.social SFF writer (pro & fic); nommed for Locus 2021; Fiyah Lit alum; queer Black ♿ LDS autistic byke. 37. OSDD (9+). 6-peep polyam (1Sp, 2LP, 2Mm). Cat mom. Poor af. Cassgenderfluidwtf; she/they/fae/jæ/xe/etc. Anti-censorship. Pfp = illustrated version of me.
Nicole Givens Kurtz @nicolegkurtz.bsky.social Award-winning author of cyberpunk noir, SF mysteries, Fantasy suspense and weird westerns.
Morgan Madeline @knightmaremorgan.bsky.social TATTOO APPRENTICE in Seattle 🌻 former concept artist in games or whatever
Fuck it we ball
she/they. black lives matter. trans rights are human rights. free palestine. NO AI/NFT
https://morganmadeline.com/
LaDarrion Williams @itsladarrion.bsky.social USA Today & New York Times Bestselling Author of Blood at the Root. Also a Playwright, screenwriter, and filmmaker.
Beatrice Winifred Iker @beatriceiker.bsky.social CHARLEY'S HONKY-TONK (2026).
I'LL MAKE A SPECTACLE OF YOU (2025).
they/them
Rep: James McGowan at BookEnds Literary
https://linktr.ee/BeatriceWinifredIker
Gnesis Villar @vgnesis.bsky.social I (sometimes) teach, I (occasionally) write, and I (mostly) experience existential dread over late capitalism at my university.
Find my work here: https://beacons.ai/gnesis_v
Naomi Day @thenaomiday.bsky.social queer Black spec fic writer
clarion west '22, the new school mfa '25
words in FIYAH, Black Warrior Review, The Seventh Wave
thenaomiday.com
Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social Writer, Poet, Author. Monster (golden-hearted, love-hungry, moon-blessed).
https://www.amazon.com/Delphinium-Gospel-Denzel-Xavier-Scott/dp/1942004680
Lysz Flo aka 🇭🇹Bat Yo Ministries🇭🇹 @lyszflo.bsky.social Reimaginer of worlds
Afrocaribbean 🇭🇹🇵🇷⚔️
Ignyte Award Winner
Poet | Educator | Afrofuturist | Oracle
Lyszflo.com
Plangdi Neple @plangdi.bsky.social SFF writer and nerd! || He/Him
Stories in: Omenana, Anathema, Translunar Travelers Lounge, FIYAH, Baffling, and more.
https://plangdineple.wixsite.com/plangdi
Nkereuwem Albert @nkereuwxm.bsky.social author, The Bone River ( phoenix 25’) || win: Dream Foundry ‘23 || words in: omenanamag, FIYAH, Fusion Fragment and Will This Be A Problem. BSFA and Ignyte Finalist 🐍
Chris Kindred @chriskindred.com Narrative Designer, Educator, Illustrator, DJ, Something or Other
chris@chriskindred.com
C. M. Lockhart (Chelsea) @clockhartwrite.bsky.social I write books about Black girls who aren't all that nice ✌🏾
WE ARE THE ORIGIN (2022)
WE ARE DYING GODS (2023)
DEATH AMONG THE STARS (2025)
She / Her / Chelsea
https://www.writteninmelanin.com/links
Conrad Loyer @conradloyer.bsky.social Writer, editor, gamemaster | Embracing the new mess 🌵| MFA candidate at the University of Alabama | Clarion West 2024 🐸| he/him
Regina YC Garcia @profesoragina.bsky.social Author of Whispers from the Multiverse: https://aquariuspress.myshopify.com/collections/black-history-month-collection/products/whispers-from-the-multiverse
P.C. Verrone @pcverrone.com Writer of page & stage.
Author of RABBIT, FOX, TAR (Catapult, 2026).
Playwright of BAD MEDICINE & CROCODILE DAY (Playscripts, 2023)
Lit rep: Alyssa Jennette.
pcverrone.com
Tatiana Obey @obeytheauthor.bsky.social 🏹 Black & Indie Fantasy Author
⚔️ I write badass characters slaying dragons
🗡️ Diverse character-driven action fantasy
Tonja K. Johnson | Black Speculative Fiction @tonjakjohnson.bsky.social (she/her)
🏅Award-winning SFFH Author | Acquiring Editor @fiyahlitmag | First Reader @othersidespec | MWC '26 | Pre-order DARK STAR 👇🏾👇🏾
tonjakjohnson.com/links
L. Nabang @nabangl.bsky.social Call me Nabang 🤭 | https://lnabang.com/ | She/Her | 🇨🇲 | AroAce 💜💚 🖤 | Fantasy/Fabulism | WNDB BC Revision Workshop Mentee ‘24 | RevPit ‘24 Longlist | 🍉 |
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
Liza W (she/they) @lizawemakor.bsky.social Nonfiction Editor @ Anathema Mag | Writer | English Ph.D. candidate @ UC Riverside | ‘Loving Safoa’ sapphic vampire novella available @ Neon Hemlock Press
https://linktr.ee/lizawemakor
Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com SFFH author & audio drama creator with a PhD in trashy Victorian lit. HIGHER MAGIC out now. Rhysling finalist. She/they. ND 🧠. Rep: @rebeccamatte.com
https://courtney-floyd.com
🎙 https://hauntnowpod.com
✉️ https://buttondown.email/wallowinginink
🚫a👁️
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
Roy Graham @grayhaem.bsky.social fiction writer and story lead @ wizards of the coast / he/him / repped by Arley Sorg / opinions are my own and do not represent my employer
https://www.roy-graham.com/
alex fox @alexfox.bsky.social Writing mostly about fucked up guys with swords. look upon my works and despair
https://www.afoxwrites.com
afoxwrites on IG (still building this up)
alexfoxauthor@gmail.com
Valerie Valdes @valerievaldes.bsky.social aka Lia Amador. Sci-fi, fantasy, and romance writer. MtG story scribe. Co-editor of Escape Pod. Variety game streamer. VPXX/16.
Benjamin C. Kinney @benjaminckinney.com SFF writer, neuroscientist, Hugo finalist. Escape Pod 2017-2023. Codex, VP, SFWA. Short stories in Analog, Lightspeed, Sunday Morning Transport, etc.
Neuroscience (not under pen name): rehabilitation, neuroimaging, movement control, handedness
Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social Quarterly speculative fiction, poetry, and non-fiction
Unapologetically antifascist and feminist.
NO AI!!!!
Spec SFF
magazine.trollbreath.com
https://ko-fi.com/trollbreathmagazine
https://linktr.ee/trollbreath
M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social MR, she/her. scholar, author, editor · poster of too many dog photos · Clarion West ‘25 · VP2024 · stories at BCS, Lightspeed, GigaNotoSaurus, elsewhere · co-founder of @othersidespec.bsky.social 🪐🗡️🌈
https://m-r-robinson.com
Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social 48, fantasy writer, author of THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA. Ex-firefighter, veteran MechWarrior. Minnesotan transplanted to Massachusetts. Gizmonic Institute (1989-92). Instructor at Viable Paradise.
Fonda Lee @fondalee.bsky.social NYT bestselling, World Fantasy Award-winning author of the Green Bone Saga & other books. The Last Contract of Isako out now! Next: Mark of the Warrior (Oct 2026) https://linktr.ee/fondalee
Zohar Jacobs @zoharjacobs.bsky.social Migrant Jewish intellectual. Writer, historian, mystic | Fiction in Sunday Morning Transport, Analog, Asimov's & Clarkesworld | Oxford, UK
Allison Pottern @apottern.bsky.social Speculative writer, reader, marketing coach, tea drinker | SFWA | VP '23 | Stories in Strange Horizons, Haven Spec, Trollbreath, Ghastling |
Digging: hibiscus tea, space opera, summer peaches | she/her #specfic #sff
linktr.ee/allisonpottern | pottern.com
Andrew Hiller @andrewintheclouds.bsky.social Create. Investigate. Celebrate.
Writer, Producer, & friend of Muppets
Pitter Patty Finds Another Day, 2022 Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest Winner,2019 BFF Author of the Year, #ViableParadise 23
K.M. Veohongs @kmveohongs.bsky.social Thai-rish American spec fic author last seen playing corn hole on House Hunters. Writes pants of center. She/her Repped by https://bsky.app/profile/hel-no-wai.bsky.social
See what I've written and sign up for my newsletter at https://www.kmveohongs.com/
Elizabeth Cobbe @elizabethcobbe.bsky.social Writer, Pythonista, parent, feelings butler, Viable Paradise grad. Words in Fireside, Cossmass, Kaleidotrope. Novel on sub now! REP: Eric Smith.
More at elizabethcobbe.com