Jadyn @jaystraigis.bsky.social They/them
Stage and screen actor | Fantasy and sci-fi author | Three-time Must Read Books Award finalist | ‘Of Gemstones and Divinity’ novel coming soon! 🏴☠️
https://www.jadynstraigis.com
Charles (Cy) Payseur @cypayseur.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/cypayseur
Locus and Ignyte Award winning co-editor of We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction. Hugo and Ignyte Award finalist critic/fan writer. Destroyer of Science Fiction. Bisexual all day. He/Him They/Them
Alex Langer @alexlanger1993.bsky.social Lawyer, SFF/horror writer, SFWA member. Jewish social movements and organized labor. Words in Apex Magazine, Heartlines Spec, On Spec, and elsewhere.
Jim Marino @jamesjmarino.bsky.social early modernist, Shakespeare nerd, moonlighting fiction writer
living the good life in Cleveland
Abigail Guerrero @gailguerrero.bsky.social Author and cat lady 🐈 / Mexican / ESL / aro-ace / she|her / BSFA awards nominee and finalist / First reader at Diabolical Plots and The Skull & Laurel / Short stories and poems here: beacons.ai/abigailguerrero
Richard Thomas @richardthomas.bsky.social Writer, editor, teacher, publisher. Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, Thriller Award finalist. Best Horror 11 & 17. he/him
Chisom Umeh @izom-chisom.bsky.social writer | entrepreneur | one time poet
Words in Omenana. Apex. Clarkesworld. Year's Best African Speculative Fiction 2023
Sophia-Maria Nicolopoulos @sophiamweaves.bsky.social 🇬🇷She/her. Codex. SFFH writer of whimsical, uncanny terrors. Fiction and Non-Fiction by Apex, the Deadlands, Aurealis, Hexagon Myriad, et all. Slush reader for Apex.
Read my work below:
https://linktr.ee/Lostlenore_
Shingai @shingai-be-like.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Swahili Sea Citizen. Voodoonauts co-creator. Past Podcastle Magazine Co-Editor & Fantasy Magazine Co-Editor. Octavia Butler scholar at Clarion.
New worlds in our Lifetime ❤️
Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social Writer, teacher. Up next: PENITENT, a novel (2028, Doubleday); TYPO, nonfiction (2027, Bloomsbury). Out now: APPLESEED (2021, Mariner). REFUSE TO BE DONE (2022, Soho Press).
J m McDermott/joe m mcdermott @jmmcdermott.bsky.social Ugh.
Buy my books and tell me they’re pretty.
sankgreall gmail 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
Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social Writer of dreamlike fiction | she/her | www.ivyivyivyivy.com 
Indigo Rue @indigorue.bsky.social (they/she) 🏳️🌈 🦔 🧀
writer 🖊️ artist 🖌️ PhD scientist 🧪 hue of blue masquerading as a human 🪼
Words in Apex, Small Wonders, Worlds of Possibility, Interstellar Flight Magazine, and more!
indigorue.com
Undertow Publications 🇨🇦 @undertow.bsky.social Indie press in Canada. World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award, HWA Specialty Press Award, and British Fantasy Award-winner. Endearingly weird. (Posts by Michael Kelly)
https://undertowpublications.com/
Nichole L. Lightner @nicholeon.bsky.social weird writer and managing editor at Violet Lichen
https://nichole-l-lightner.neocities.org/
Jason Sizemore @jbsizemore.bsky.social Publisher of Apex Book Company and Apex Magazine. @apexmag.bsky.social
M. Ian Bell @mianbell.bsky.social writer, educator, submissions editor @ Apex Magazine. he/him
Ian Johnston @ianzjohnston.bsky.social Editor at Cthulhuville.com
McKenzie Johnston @mckenziejohnston.bsky.social Editor and co-founder of Cthulhuville, writer, reviewer, academic, mom
Author Millie Price @authormillieprice.bsky.social I write books for adults with monsters, mythos, and all things supernatural. Let me take you on a ride through the dark. 🖤🖤🖤
https://authormillieprice.com
Nayad 🌸 @nayadmonroe.bsky.social Eerie and vibelicious lifelong learner & eclectic creative type of the X Generation, in Wisconsin. AI Hater. 2e AuDHD. She/her
Reach Your Apex @reachyourapex.bsky.social Affordable workshops, webinars and courses for authors, led by industry professionals. ReachYourApex.com
Not the same as Apex Magazine & Books. In Jan 2025, the owner of Apex Books & Magazine sold Reach Your Apex to the current owner. We're friends tho.
Mercedes M. Yardley @missmurdermercedes.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-Winning author, dark fantasist, family girl, artist, cupcake baker.
Ferdison Cayetano @ferdwrites.bsky.social • writer • work in @MolotovLitZine, @fandsf, @PatioBack, etc. • had a great freakin time writing this bio
T.E. Grau @tegrau.bsky.social Shirley Jackson/Bram Stoker-nominated author, screenwriter, and producer. I AM THE RIVER, THEY DON'T COME HOME ANYMORE, THE NAMELESS DARK, THE MISSION. Repped by Kim Yau (film/TV – LA) at Echo Lake Management and Katelyn Dougherty (Lit - NYC) at Paradigm.
Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social Co-Owner of Night Worms. Bram Stoker Award winner of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered. New book: 2025
https://linktr.ee/sadiehartmann
That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com Educator-Librarian-Author-Activist-Speaker-Bibliophile-Louisianan-Defender of Wonder
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/ThatLibrarian
R.L. Meza @rlmeza.bsky.social Author of OUR LOVE WILL DEVOUR US. Spec fic in Clarkesworld, Nightmare, CHM. Artist. Gamer. 4 cats in a trench coat. Vegan. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
he,him
NO A I
rlmeza.com
Alan Mark Tong @alanmarktong.bsky.social He/him. Writer of fantasy, horror & more. First published story out now in Slay and Slay Again! An Anthology of Queer Horror (Sliced Up Press). Queer all year. Chinese American. Autistic. Dolphin doodle by R.B. Lemberg.
Hannya Kay @hannyakay.bsky.social https://www.hannya-kay.com/
(NOT HERE FOR NOW) SFF writer | Codex | Words @naturefutures.bsky.social, @blackharepress.bsky.social, Manawaker Podcast, Abyss&Apex | Reads at https://translunartravelerslounge.com/ & @factorfourmagazine.com | No AI
Vivian Chou @vivianhchou.bsky.social
Sci fi/fantasy/slipstream writer. ✨🐉🤖she/her. Full sfwa member. Read my stuff 👉
www.vivianchouwriter.com
Valerie Kemp @valeriekwrites.bsky.social Recovering academic, former filmmaker, current genetic genealogist. I write speculative fiction for all ages. Stories in Haven Spec, Apex, Cast of Wonders, and more! Viable Paradise 2022 alum. My MG fantasy DAUGHTER OF SPIDERS coming Spring 2028!
Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social Shirley Jackon Award-nominated author:
🍃BOUND FEET (CGM)
🎮IT'S ONLY A GAME (Bloomsbury)
🎭DEMON SONG (Titan)
🌊STORMRAVEN (Gallery/Titan, March 2027)
🖤stories/essays in Clarkesworld, Apex, Nightmare, PseudoPod +
she/her
www.kelseayu.com
Faith Allington @faithallington.bsky.social Author
📚 Genre-blending fiction
✒️ Editorial at Flash Fiction Online & Haven Spec
👻 Vaguely goth but also whimsical
🍄 Tea drinker & fungi admirer
(she/her)
Chris Campbell @chriscampbell.bsky.social Words in FIYAH, Asimov’s, Escape Pod and more. VP2023 CW2024. Rep Sara Megibow. 45% goblin proof 65% decidedly not. clundycampbell.com Editor of NewYearNewYou.
Spencer Nitkey @spencerwriting.bsky.social fun not cool.
writer in The Adroit Journal, Apex, Lightspeed, Nature Future, Weird Horror, and others.
spencernitkey.com
Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social Micro, flash, shorts, poetry
Managing fiction editor - Strange Horizons
SFF editor - Uncharted
SFWA, SFPA
MicroVerse Recommended Reading
Electric Sheep
https://mynachang.com
Nadia Radovich @nadiaradovich.bsky.social Good at writing. Bad at posting. Words published or forthcoming in Apex, Apparition Lit, Strange Horizons, Flash Fiction Online, Otherside, and Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy.
nadiaradovich.com
Stephen Cox NEW BOOK OUT NOW @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social Spooky? THE CROOKED MEDIUM's GUIDE TO MURDER. "A pleasure from start to finish"
THE CROOKED MEDIUM'S GUIDE TO TERROR out (but A'zon *Print* 18th Sept)
warm but not cosy
UK writer - AI is theft.
https://stephencox.co.uk/ https://linktr.ee/stephencoxauthor
Andrew Gilstrap @andrewgilstrap.bsky.social Writer, dad, tired. Maybe I’ll figure out how to use this platform better than the others, but no promises.
Kanishk Tantia @kanishkt.bsky.social KanishkT.com
Writer of spec fic, often about plants eating people.
Engineer @Microsoft.
Opinions are my own!
Beth Goder @bethgoder.bsky.social SFF author with stories in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod and more. Archivist. Member of Codex Writers Group. Submissions Reader for Fusion Fragment. https://bethgoder.com/
Beth Dawkins @bethwrites.bsky.social She/her. Writes speculative fiction.
@malonlouis.bsky.social @malonlouis.bsky.social Multiple sclerosis combatant. Ember Award/Sunburst Award finalist. Stories in Fiyah Lit/Shimmer/Fireside/Terraform/PodCastle/Escape Pod. Views are my own.
priya chand @priyachand.bsky.social Food Influencer of Worldcon 2024 (TM)
Reckoning staff, words, birds
priyachandwrites.wordpress.com
fatbirdpics.tumblr.com
avatar is from Clemente Susini's studio at La Specola di Firenze, profile image is a tree hyrax in Ngorongoro Crater
Rhonda J. Garcia aka RJ Joseph @rjacksonjoseph.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award winning, Shirley Jackson award nominated writer/professor/editor. She/Her. Literary representation: Natasha Mihell, at The Rights Factory
Tia Tashiro @tiatashiro.bsky.social 3 cups writing + 2 cups neuro + 1 tsp of optimism, bake at 400°. Multiracial SFF author, words in Clarkesworld, Uncanny, Apex | Hugo, Locus, Sturgeon, Astounding finalist | co-EIC of Wyrmhole Magazine | she/her | Rep: Cameron McClure
tiatashiro.com
Avra Margariti @avramargariti.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🇬🇷 writer, poet, editor /any pronouns
words: Strange Horizons, The Deadlands, F&SF, Podcastle, Asimov's, Vastarien, Baffling, Nature, Gamut, FFO, Dark Matter, Best Microfiction
📧 avra.margariti@gmail.com
https://ko-fi.com/avramargariti
@daniandarrelljerry.bsky.social @daniandarrelljerry.bsky.social 
Mame Bougouma Diene @mamebougouma.bsky.social Caine Prize 2023, bunch of stuff in a bunch of places. Follow at your own risk.
Claire Humphrey @clairehumphrey.bsky.social Writer of fiction. Career in books. Spare time in sports, pickling and historic homes. 
Elisabeth Ring @elisabethring.bsky.social Obsessive reader and writer of weird things. I review some of what I read at ringreads.com. Some of what I write has been published in Apex, Cast of Wonders, and others. Repped by Jenissa Graham with @bookendsliterary.bsky.social. She/her.
Jaym Gates @jaymgates.bsky.social Wearer of many hats. TTRPG, video game, and fiction writer & editor. Co-editor of Strategy Strikes Back, War Stories, co-founder of Falstaff Books & Project Lodestar, etc. No kings. Abolish ICE.
🐍 Abigail Kemske 🐍 @abigailkemske.bsky.social 👻 SFFH writer from MN
🌌 SFWA, Codex
🌿 sometimes moss
✏️ Work in Apex, The Dark, Flame Tree Press, Nature: Futures, The Saturday Evening Post, Adventitious, Gavagai, +
🚫 no gen AI 🚫
Story 🔗 https://gavagai.com/@abigailkemske/links 🌳 AbigailKemske.com
Aaron Dries @aarondries.bsky.social Author/screenwriter — Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, Australian Shadows, Ditmar award-nominated and Aurealis winner. DIRTY HEADS, CUT TO CARE, HOUSE OF SIGHS, A PLACE FOR SINNERS, THE FALLEN BOYS, and WHERE THE DEAD GO TO DIE. Repped by Annie Bomke.
Cynthia Pelayo @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award–winning author | MFA, PhD English(c) | SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME, Sept 29 | Rep-Lane Heymont | cynthiapelayo.com
Victor Forna @vf12.bsky.social writing daydreams
https://linktr.ee/vforna
Natalia Theodoridou @natalia-theodoridou.com He/they. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
World Fantasy, Locus, & Nebula Award winner.
SOUR CHERRY out April 2025 from Tin House (US) & Wildfire (UK).
Website: http://www.natalia-theodoridou.com
Rachel Gutin @rachelgutin.bsky.social Teacher. Author. Accidental collector of books, assorted craft supplies, and a disturbing number of fountain pen ink samples. #Jewish #Queer she/her
Website: rachelgutin.wordpress.com
Rob Cameron @brklyndragon.bsky.social Teacher. Linguist. Writer | Nebula Finalist DAYDREAMER | BSFWriters | Rep by Barry Goldblatt | Afro 🌞 Punk & Dragons | Pronouns: is/was/will be | https://linktr.ee/cpr.words
Maggie Slater @maggiedotwrites.bsky.social (she/her) writer of speculative fiction / hoarder of cheap notebooks
Annie Neugebauer @annieneugebauer.bsky.social Author. 2x Bram Stoker Award finalist. Lit: Alec Shane, Writers House. Film: Sean Berard, Untitled Entertainment.
YOU HAVE TO LET THEM BLEED
THE EXTRA
THE OTHER 6/9/26
THE SPARE 3/9/27
ONCE THE DARKNESS COMES
novella TBA
https://annieneugebauer.com/
Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov U.S. Senator, Massachusetts. She/her/hers. Official Senate account.
https://substack.com/@senatorwarren
Aly Grauer @dreamstobecome.bsky.social professional Renaissance woman
Becky Spratford @raforall.bsky.social Matching books w/ readers thru the library especially #HorrorForLibraries. Jersey Girl in exile. Reviews for LJ & Booklist. HWA Sec. Rep @laneheymont.bsky.social. Bram Stoker Winner, WHY I LOVE HORROR (Saga Press) https://bit.ly/WhyILoveHorror. (She/Her)
Allison Thai @thaisibir.bsky.social Vietnamese-🇺🇸 / anesthetist 💉/ ASD / editor in-chief of Plott Hound Magazine / Clarion West c/o 2023 / Viable Paradise c/o 2017 / special interests: Pokemon, Digimon, mythology, languages / studying 🇷🇺🇫🇮
Cristina Jurado @cristinajurado.bsky.social Bilingual SFF/ 2020 Best SF European Promoter
Clarkesworld/ Strange Horizons/ Apex/
ChloroPhilia/Limítrofes/Alphaland/Mil Desiertos /Bionautas/ DNAZ
Librísimo https://www.youtube.com/@CJ-ro7wt
masficcionqueciencia.com
Hal Dietrich 🏳️⚧️ @hal515.bsky.social Writer, teacher, movie guy, monster aficionado. Kenyon College '21; USF MFA '24. My novella "Parasite City" will be out in 2025, courtesy of Grendel Press! 
S.L. Harris @slharris.bsky.social Writer, educator, sometime archaeologist | husband & dad | roots and beginnings | fiction website: ifchanceyoucallit.wordpress.com
Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social Hugo and Nebula nominated author with over 100 works in print, computer programmer, weirdo from Cleveland.
Class-conscious science fiction. Unionize the world.
Plott Hound Magazine @plotthoundmag.bsky.social Deeply animal, deeply human, we're on the hunt for amazing animal stories 🦮🐾
All kinds of animal from living to extinct, from extinct dinosaurs to far future aliens, from possible to impossible.
OPEN TO SUBMISSIONS OCTOBER 1st-15th!
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social Make horror gay AF, Stoker Award winner
out now: NO GODS FOR DROWNING
Sept 15: THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT
she/her; rep: Lane Heymont
haileypiper.com
Russell Dickerson @rdickerson.bsky.social Horror sculptor, genre writer, nonfiction & science writer, recovering illustrator.
You may find interesting things at www.darkstormcreative.com.
He/him. #writer #sculptor
Tim Waggoner @timwaggoner.bsky.social Weird Fiction - Horror - Dark Fantasy. Multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author and creative writing teacher.
SF Signal @sfsignal.bsky.social 3-time Hugo Award-winning SF/F/H blog.
🚀🚀Best Fanzine + 🚀Best Fancast = Awww yeah.
Mmm...bagels...
SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social Writer, whiskey drinker and cat dad
💙 Rachel Bolton 👀 @raebolt.bsky.social Be the deranged vintage housewife they fear. Stoker Nom’d. Apex Magazine, WWAC, Scriptophobic, and more. rachelmbolton.wordpress.com
She/Her
MamaGrimm666 @mamagrimm666.bsky.social Cathy Becker Gonzalez. Crone. Joyfully poking fingers in the eye of authority for decades.
Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social Hugo & Nebula winning SFFH writer, singer/songwriter, dog person, horse person, queer, Baltimorean by choice, mediocre but enthusiastic gardener and artist. She/her. Repped by Kate McKean, HMLA.
C.C. Finlay @ccfinlay.bsky.social writer, editor, teacher | part of the great Twitter diaspora
Janet Harriett @janetharriett.bsky.social Creative generalist with a particular fondness for fiction and fiber arts. Caretaker-in-residence of a vintage 1909 house and its ghosts, along with a flexible number of cats. I like penguins A LOT.
KT Bryski @ktbryski.bsky.social Award-winning fantasy author, dapper gent, Canadian. Stories in many places. Debut novella LOVELY CREATURES out from Psychopomp.com. 🇨🇦
Shana @shanadubois.bsky.social Extreme bibliophile. Writer. Lover of all things grim and weird and horror. Raindrop seeker. Recent Vermont transplant. Cat wrangler. Anti-AI.
Launching GrimShelf.com to share my love of horror!
A. T. Greenblatt @atgreenblatt.bsky.social Nebula-winning SFF writer. Hugo/Locus/WFA/Sturgeon Finalist. Mechanical engineer. Ravenous reader. Lousy gamer. Disabled adventurer. She/her. Repped by Eric Showers
Website: atgreenblatt.com
Mari Adkins @marifromky.bsky.social writer. avid reader. unapologetic Appalachian. homemaker. mother, grandmother, cat parent, wife.
no AI
accounts with no bio get blocked!
http://bio.link/mariadkins
Sara Tantlinger @saratantlinger.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Devil’s Dreamland. Collector of sea glass. Enthusiast of cats. 🐈⬛
saratantlinger.com
Erin Al-Mehairi, Editor & Author @erinalmehairi.bsky.social Published author & poet / Professional Editor for Hire, Journalist, PR Pro / BA Degrees in English, Journalism, History / Book News&Views / she•her / 🇬🇧🇺🇸🧿
https://hookofabook.wordpress.com/editing/
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
Vortex Books & Comics @vortexbooksncomics.bsky.social Indie bookstore specializing in Horror, Science-Fiction, & Fantasy
https://www.vortexbooksandcomics.com/
Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social Online SFF magazine featuring stories and poetry for the 21st century! We publish numerous issues a year, two of which are focused on the climate crisis. Editor: Leon Perniciaro.
HavenSpec.com
Alexander Pyles @pylesofbooks.bsky.social What are we doing now?
http://linktr.ee/alexanderpyles
Haley @haleybewritin.bsky.social I’m writing again. First Reader @ Apex Magazine. Plz visit my art store at thatmojo.threadless.com
Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social Nebula-winning and Hugo/Sturgeon-nominated writer. Bagel the Dog's emotional support human. Dadjoke teller. Unrepentant punster. Sentence-fragment lover. Disabled w #MECFS She/her effieseiberg.com/stories
Stephanie Pearre @stephaniepearre.bsky.social Editor📝 | Pet Mom🐱🐶
✨ My head is full of Taylor Swift lyrics ✨
She/Her- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid