Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Philby Bear (they/them) @philbybear.bsky.social A game master, voracious bookworm and cinephile, a tired socialist and a manic depressive chocolate salesperson from Montreal. They/them. 34.
Nikki Null @nikkinull.bsky.social Author of OUR SIMULATED SELVES and upcoming FALLOW TILL WE BLOOM - https://linktr.ee/nikkinull
🏳️⚧️
She/her. 35. California. Trans fiction author, concept album enthusiast, prog rock spaceposter, the fish in your percolator. No AI.
Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social Animation tidbits from around the world, including rare and underappreciated material you won't find elsewhere.
Newsletter: http://animationobsessive.substack.com
Stefscribbles @stefscribbles.bsky.social a doodle every day!
🎨 art director on Monopoly GO!
🌱 silly pink cat
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Chris Emery @chrisemery.me Poet. Five collections from Arc and Salt, most recently Wonder (2025). Manchester-born, Irish citizen, living in Cromer. I publish other people’s books at Salt. Newsletter: chrisemery.me
Erika Buenaflor Curandera, Decolonize & Resist Fascism @erika-buenaflor.bsky.social Xicana Curandera. Written:
• Cleansing Rites of Curanderismo
• Curanderismo Soul Retrieval
• Sacred Energies of the Sun & Moon
• Animal Medicine
• Veneration Rites of Curanderismo
• Mesoamerican Oracle Cards
https://linktr.ee/erika.buenaflor_curandera
Marc C. Green @owillowwaly.bsky.social Painter and digital illustrator of haunted landscapes and folklore. Nature lover. No AI trash. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Dr Moose (Liminal Animal, a creature of many worlds) @drmoose.bsky.social Priest (inclusive vaguely Evo), Author of sorts, Geek, Husband, Dad, dice wielder. Poet, Tenor. Chaplain (uni/TTRPG), Trojan Duck, Brit. Extrovert, Gloranthaphile, Traveller fan, nascent alcoholic & EUrophile. Hookland-adjacent.
Matt Stanhope @mattstanhope7.bsky.social Guitarist. Coffee wraith. #Hookland resident. #Fortean. He/Him. ADHD. Yorkshire by marriage. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally.
Paul Watson @lazaruscorporation.co.uk Artist | Hastings, UK | He/him | Grand Council of #Hookland | https://www.lazaruscorporation.co.uk/
Adam Conover @adamconover.net "Unlikable woke comedian" - the Daily Mail
actual heathcliff comics @realheathcliffs.bsky.social real, actual, unedited heathcliff comics. not affiliated with heathcliff in any way, just a fan.
H.H. Pak @hhpak.bsky.social Writer/ medical student/ illustrator. Hugo winner, Nebula, Ignyte, and Astounding finalist. Stories in @clarkesworldmagazine.com and @khoreo.bsky.social Co-editor and Art Director for @wyrmholemag.bsky.social
🇰🇷 💚🤍🖤🩶💜💛
https://hhpakcreates.wordpress.com/
Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social A very Irish filmmaker.
All You Need is Death streaming now, see linktree.
“A folk horror masterpiece” (Daily Beast)
He/him, anarchist, artist. Avatar painted by Sol Robinson.
https://linktr.ee/paulduane
KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com She/her. British European. Purveyor of opinions, rude words, and romance novels, historical and fantasy. USA Today bestselling author of How To Fake It In Society. "Erotically charged"--Good Housekeeping. Death to GenAI. http://kjcharleswriter.com
Maggie Rudy @maggiemice.bsky.social Welcome to Mouseland!
Hourly Peanuts Comics @esnupi.me a bot that posts randomized Peanuts comics by Charles M. Schulz, once an hour, from 1950 to 2000, plus Li’l Folks strips from 1947 to 1950.
developed and maintained by @mayawalkwith.me. bot version 2.0.0.
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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social illustrator & zinester | late 30s, they/them | ✡ for Palestine | http://ezrarose.carrd.co | http://jewishmagic.carrd.co
Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social Author: The Ghost Lake
Poet: Blackbird Singing at Dusk
Editor: Spelt Magazine
https://linktr.ee/wendypratt
Anteroom (formerly The Winged Moon) @anteroompoetry.bsky.social Poetry through the cracks; we publish in print and online with amazing art and a vibrant weekly newsletter.
Poetry competition with a cash prize opens on 14 Sept '26
EIC @jaimichellepoet.bsky.social
Website: www.anteroompoetry.com
Chris Gardiner @chrisgardiner.bsky.social Narrative Director at Failbetter Games. He/him. Our titles include: Fallen London, Sunless Sea/Skies, and Mask of the Rose. Opinions are mine, so there.
aro @salehachowdhury.com Illustrator. Comic artist. Open for work: salchow12@gmail.com | Portfolio: https://www.salehachowdhury.com/ | Comic: https://thenecromancersspawn.cfw.me/ | Art Prints: tinyurl.com/yxptux8a
Skionar @skionar.bsky.social Roger Clarke. Author of A Natural History of Ghosts, published by Penguin Books (2012). Former writer for the Independent Newspaper, Sunday TimesUK, Sight & Sound. In it for the long haul with severe chronic illness, dealing with NHS on a weekly basis
Hive Young Writers' Network @hive-young-writers.bsky.social A Hive for young writers (14-30) in South Yorkshire & beyond. Workshops, competitions, events, projects, mentoring & more.
Katherine Addison/Sarah Monette @pennyvixen.bsky.social TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL
She/her
Gen X
Breast cancer survivor '23, OCD since '01, ME/CFS/FM, etc.
Horror/fantasy writer best known for THE GOBLIN EMPEROR (Tor, 2014)
Geek about everything
Childless cat lady by choice
Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social You’ve seen me on TV. This account: Cats. Books. Games. Witchy stuff. Horror. Vampires 🦇 I’m intersex, introverted & feral - Exhausted Elder Goth semi-retired from peoples’ bull💩 Still feisty
Take your AI and shove it
https://xosh.carrd.co/
Remedios Varo @remediosvaro.bsky.social María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga was a 20th (1908-1963) century Spanish surrealist painter. #artbots by
@nuwaves_future , @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
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filurig @filurig.bsky.social he/him guy who likes ocs and birds and folklore and creatures of many kinds and shapes and sizes so i draw them (simple)
BA in illustration and graphic design (konstfack)
site: https://filurig.neocities.org/
Akameli | COMMS OPEN @akameli.bsky.social Blasian Artist who likes dunmeshi, iyashikei, sleep + medieval life ♡ she/her | ENG/中文
⚔️ VGEN: https://vgen.co/akameli/shop
💌 askbox: https://tetratto.com/@akameli
🖼 site: https://akameli.neocities.org/
🛌 ælfsie: https://tinyurl.com/aelfsielore
Célia Housset @celiahousset.bsky.social Illustrator living in Strasbourg.
I have a passion for monsters, folklore, patterns and historical cooking
https://celiahousset.com/
https://www.instagram.com/celiahousset/
https://ko-fi.com/celiahousset
Katherine Lam @ LBX 431 @katherinelam.bsky.social Illustrator // they/them
katherinelam.com
ᙎOᗫᙓᙎOᖇᙏ🔻 @wodeworm.bsky.social linktr.ee/wodeworm
let me be a river to the Monstafarians, let great swathes of art flow through here and guide their travels, wherever here may be
🔞
wodeworm@protonmail.com
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Off the Shelf Festival of Words @otsfestival.bsky.social Celebrating books, words, and ideas. We’re one of the UK’s longest-running literary festivals, delivered by @sheffielduni.bsky.social
🌐 offtheshelf.org.uk
@aversatrix.northsky.social @aversatrix.northsky.social a maiden of letters, philosophy, and the psyche’s mysteries 
Molly Mendoza @mollymendoza.bsky.social I mostly draw picture books and comics!
Eisner + Ignatz nominated 🌷
Caldecott Honor recipient 𓃗
They/She mollymendoza.com
Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social Illustrator/painter/character designer.
https://jonathanestore.bigcartel.com
https://www.jonathan-e.com
Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social Trans Giantess. 
North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk We are a not-for-profit citizen journalism publication. Our aim is to publish well-written, fact-based articles and opinion pieces on subjects that are of interest to people in the North East and beyond.
Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social Flora 🪴 she/her📍Newcastle, UK
🏺Ancient Mediterranean art🏺
💌Contact: flora@flarohillustration.com
🖼️Prints & merch: https://www.redbubble.com/people/flaroh/explore?asc=u&page=1
⛲️Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/flaroh
🏺 links: Flarohillustration.com/links
thene @thene.bsky.social here we are. 💚🖤
ice, tax, books. witchcraft for cyborgs. she.
Ask me about @bostonfanbrunch.bsky.social
Aimee Ogden @aimeeogdenwrites.com Ignyte, Locus, Eugie Foster, and three-time Nebula Award finalist. Rep: Eric Showers at Morhaim Lit. Bi. She/her. American werewolf in Noord-Brabant. Solidarity forever. Fix your hearts or die. https://www.aimeeogdenwrites.com
Nico Martinez Nocito 🏳️⚧️ @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social Queer SFF writer & poet • Nebula & Rhysling finalist • he/they 🏳️⚧️ • words in Strange Horizons, Apex, FFO, Flame Tree, Haven Spec & more • SFPA, Codex
Stardust & Verse poetry reviews: patreon.com/cw/StardustAndVerse
nicomartineznocito.com
Euan's Guide @euansguide.com Award-winning charity known for our disabled access review website, making accessible loos safer with our Red Cord Cards, and the UK's largest Access Survey.
www.EuansGuide.com
Catherine Redford @catherineredford.bsky.social Poet | Researcher | Co-editor at Dust Poetry. Forward-shortlisted debut poetry collection, ‘The Way the Water Held Me’, out now. Magma Selected Poet.
https://linktr.ee/catherine_redford
Paratonia @paratonia.bsky.social Disorganized sketches and ideas
OC bios at
https://artfight.net/~Paratonia
Wolfie the Stabinator 🔜 Furrydelphia! @myarmcanfly.bsky.social wool + stabbing = art
Jennie🌷 @maobabie.com I’m maobabie! I draw cats and make cute merch! (they/them)
💖 www.maobabie.com
💖 www.instagram.com/maobabieshop
Email: Hello@maobabie.com
Check out my #art #merch #wip #doodle
𝖒𝖚𝖑𝖑 @mudnblood.bsky.social - ORIGINAL Late Middle Ages & Dark Fantasy Content.
- Posts Daily & DMs Open.
- also on x @Mud_and_Blood or instagram @ mull.mud_and_blood
https://patreon.com/Mull_Mud_and_Blood
Push the Boat Out Festival @ptbopoetry.bsky.social Edinburgh's International Poetry Festival 12-15 November 2026
Festival, open mic, workshops, podcasts, and more.
Festival Nights + pre-festival events ON SALE NOW. Full programme announced 1 October!
https://pushtheboatout.org/
Leona Florianova @lost-fool.bsky.social photographer..illustrator... leathersmith
BOGLUDDITE @brucemackay.bsky.social Painter, Printmaker, Illustrator, Creative Director & Sculptor.
Posting personal work, experiments & weak jokes. Bad ideas man. He/Him
www.badmanifesto.co.za
www.inprnt.com/profile/brucemackay
Alex Hirsch @alexhirsh.bsky.social I created a TV show called Gravity Falls. Currently cooking up new mischief at Netflix
Jon Dunn @dunnjons.bsky.social Nature writer, photographer, tour leader. FLS.
BSBI Shetland county recorder
‘Obscure rarity’
Author for Basic Books, Bloomsbury Books, Hachette, Princeton University Press
Rep’d: Peters, Fraser & Dunlop
www.jondunn.com
Dr Angela Puca @drangelapuca.bsky.social Academic research, lectures, tutoring on the study of magick, witchcraft, esotericism, Paganism, shamanism and all things occult.
linktr.ee/angela_symposium
Beth Westbrook (she/her) @bethbwestbrook.bsky.social writer facilitator performer wee bit auDHD endo pisces
rep: Maddie Berlin Associates
top 35 bruntwood, write wild, bbc writers, name dropper
https://linktr.ee/bethbwestbrook
Kate Ashwin! ⭐ @katedrawscomics.bsky.social ⭐ webcomics with wizards wearing waistcoats widdershinscomic.com ⭐ read my offbeat scifi heist book! https://www.widdershinscomic.com/hit-the-ground-running ⭐ occasional editor at Iron Circus Comics!
⭐ she/her/just some guy ⭐ UK
Ilkley Literature Festival @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social The north of England's longest-running literature festival.
Coming in 2026: 2-18 October 2026.
#ILF26 | Produced by @thewordupnorth.bsky.social
Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social Writer of books, short stories, comics, and other things. Friend to cats and sometimes people. She/her. https://www.kathowardbooks.com/ and https://epigraphtoepilogue.substack.com/
Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social Beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness.
Lambda Award winner, Locus Award finalist, Best-selling author of MANHUNT, CUCKOO, and BLACK FLAME, out now from Tor Nightfire, and CHIMERA, coming 2027
Profile pic by @theoboopis.bsky.social
🪼Jellyfishlines 🔜 PaxU🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io Pfp: @wifeclipse
He/Him. ENNIE nom’d ttrpg designer Guy. 25. Disabled. Queer. Writer @ Fandomentals. Made 25 ttrpgs in 1 year.
Contact:
jellyfishlines@proton.me
https://jellyfishlines.com/
https://jellyfishlines.itch.io
https://jellyfishlines.carrd.co/
Dan Wyke @danwyke.bsky.social Severe M.E., person-centred counsellor (not practicing), recovering poet (Rack & Waterloo Press)
Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social Writer, editor, poet, critic | Chief Content Officer at @Salon.com | Author of Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me | Faculty at Naslund-Mann MFA | KY Colonel | Blair Water Literary Society chair | March Xness Die-hard https://linktr.ee/eekshecried
Fawnlorn @fawnlorn.bsky.social • Artist from the Lake District, England. • Inspired by folklore and nature. 🌿 www.fawnlorn.com
✨hauntedtoasters✨ @hauntedtoasters.bsky.social she/they, a bird that writes.
tech support class (CHA build)
i work hard so my self can have a better life.
Argonaut Books @argonautbooks.bsky.social | 🌊 Leith’s Independent Bookshop - Est.2021
| 🗓️ Open 7 Days a Week
| 🕰️ Sun-Thurs: 10:00-18:00/Fri-Sat: 10:00-20:00
| 📍 15-17 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6 8LN
| 🌐 argonautbooks.co.uk
🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com Cellist, Composer, Charismatic Musical Microfauna in Vermont
music.zoekeating.com
she/her
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
skutch @skutchdraws.bsky.social draw draw draw
botjira🍉DM for comms!! :D @botjira.bsky.social EN/中文/簡単な日本語 🆗
shut-in illustrator🎨
commissions open via dm ♥
no AI🚫 no Crypto🚫
Please read my TOS before commissioning! https://botjira.carrd.co/
uel @greaterrealityarea.net uel aramchek. tarot, writing, high weirdness. minneapolis based.
greaterrealityarea.net, formerly compoundeye.substack.com, northofreality.com
Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social Website and contact details: https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/classics-ancient-history/
Dorian Dawes @doriandawes.bsky.social They/Them
Author of A Dream of Saints
I thirst trap award winning authors
patreon.com/doriandawes
Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Essex. Trustee, Bishopsgate Institute. Law Student. Historian of tattooing. Podcaster @beneaththeskinpod.history.tattoo. 'Painted People' and 'Tattoos' out now. ADHD.
Val K. Wise @valkwise.bsky.social you can also call me bishop | cartoonist | he + she ⚧️ 🔞
site: valkwise.neocities.org
patreon: patreon.com/valkwise
male wife: @pepperbloom.bsky.social
Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social Award-winning poltergeist and comedian | Writer of the Montgomery Bonbon mysteries | Pronouns like a butler coughing: he/him | linktr.ee/misterabk
UK TOUR 2026 (Extended!): www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social tiny poems & strange movies // 🚫🤖 // EIC at @pizamapress.bsky.social // chapbook soon with @gasherpress.bsky.social // writing prompt every Sunday via Substack (neonpajamas)
Piżama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social Indie press showcasing the strange & the surreal. The weirder, the better. https://asterismbooks.com/publisher/pizama-press | Editor: neonpajamas.bsky.social
Sick Nasto @turbocunt.bsky.social Artist, demon, Social Media Menace. Seattle
📷@turbocxnt
mr feratu was my father 🔞 @lezferatu.bsky.social lesbian smut artist, she/they, 30s. adults only.
oc tags: #clessfio, #savcursia
🖤 exclusives + early access: patreon.com/lezferatu
🖤 tumblr: www.tumblr.com/lezferatu
University of Pittsburgh Press @upittpress.bsky.social We publish in a wide range of scholarly and cultural fields for general readers, scholars, and students. Home of the Pitt Poetry Series.
https://upittpress.org/
NOT the official account of the university.
Nim @the-nim.bsky.social The Remainder (Visual Novel - Released) https://tinyurl.com/4c97yakk
The Longing (Kinetic VN - Upcoming) https://tinyurl.com/4w6a3tr8
Many Winters' Briar (Horror Erotica - WIP)
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Peel🌿🍎🪶 @silverpeel.bsky.social Hi I'm Peel, Illustrator base in Thailand :)
love historical fantasy, literature and mythology
https://lnk.bio/silverpeel (they/them)
Adrian🦎 @idlelizard.bsky.social art maker and creature enjoyer
he/him
Shop: https://www.idlelizard.com/
Prints: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/idlelizard/
Tumblr: www.tumblr.com/idlelizard
Julian Miholics @pansybeast.bsky.social aka Jules; 30yo gay trans illustrator and ceramicist in Ontario, 🇨🇦 | he/him | 🪱🌾
Julian @minikinetic.bsky.social Illustrator, writer and art director. Children's books, graphic novels and other things. Looking for representation.
Website: https://artbyjulianguy.com/
Ulster Museum @ulstermuseum.org A place to inspire wonder, spark creativity, and explore our shared humanity.
🌍 Art, nature, and history to make sense of the past, present & future.
📍 Part of National Museums NI | 🔗 ulstermuseum.org
Milkyblood - looking for art job @milkyblood.bsky.social An online artist
Join the milkyblood official discord
https://discord.gg/7XgVvw942R
Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower.bsky.social It's Briar! Hi! I'm an American werewolf and writer living in London.
Website: briarripleypage.xyz
Self-pubbed stuff on flameswallower.itch.io- W Kai Ashante Wilson @wildeeps.bsky.social Author of WILDEEPS, of TASTE OF HONEY.
Trying to get new work out there, Patreon link: https://tinyurl.com/2uv52prv
Tannis Davidson @tannisdavidson.bsky.social Head of Zoology and Science Collections at UCL based at the Grant Museum of Zoology @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social. Flickering I roam.
Grant Museum of Zoology @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk’s Grant Museum of Zoology is one of the UK’s oldest natural history collections and home to some of the world’s rarest specimens.
Find out more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-collections/ucl-grant-museum-zoology
Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social Writer, designer, rule of three enthusiast.
www.ryanvance.co.uk
Leia Ham @leiaham.bsky.social Visdev Artist & Writer
Inquiries: leiahamart@gmail.com
Represented by Becca Langton at Darley Anderson Children's Books
Morgan Beem @morganbeem.bsky.social Comics & art. Jam House member. Comics- The Author Immortal, You Belong Here, Crashing, SWAMP THING Twin Branches, The Family Trade, Wolfsbane.
(she/her). Email- morganbeem at gmail
Commissions: https://www.theartistbullpen.com/commission/p/morgan-beem
Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social Geneticist working on malaria mosquitoes, I also doodle bugs 🦟
Staff Scientist at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, opinions are my own
🇭🇷 expat in 🇬🇧
Camellia Tea Ceremony @camelliakyoto.bsky.social Welcoming guests to our two teahouses and kimono studio in Kyōto. Join us as we explore Japanese culture, tea and history!
Website: https://tea-kyoto.com/
You can also find us over on...
insta: http://camellia.kyoto &
@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social