derek @derekwritesalot.bsky.social progression fantasy [progfan] author, active SFWA member, query trench commiserator (working on a rewrite).
take one โ> ; <โ and pass it along
Alchemical: A Literary Journal of the Speculative @alchemicaljournal.bsky.social alchemical is a mixed media presentation of speculative literary fiction, essays, articles, graphic narratives, and original artwork.
Issue 1 to be released Spring 2027. Now open to submissions.
https://www.alchemicaljournal.com
Galen Bunting is querying ๐ฝ๐ @galenbunting.bsky.social querying my speculative coming-of-rage novel WITNESSERS OF THE UNKNOWN | HWA member|Postdoc at Georgia Tech | 2026 Lambda Literary Fellow | words in Black Warrior Review, Minnesota Review, Fabulist, Pushcart Prize Nominee https://galenbunting.substack.com/
Roxanne Ocasio (querying!) @roxanne-ocasio.bsky.social Fantasy author querying her debut novel
Indรญgena Borikua ๐ต๐ท๐ฉต | ๐ค๐ฉถ๐ค๐Cleveland against the world
All we need is feminine rage, diverse books, & Stray Kids
she/her/ella
Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social Raze & Rebuild Studio Founder | BAFTA US Member | Ex-Monolith Prod. | Twitch Partner | LogitechG Partner | Rivals of Waterdeep & Black Dice Society Alum |TakeThis Board Chair| She/They
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McCormack Writing Center @mccormackwc.bsky.social Write. Revise. Karaoke.
Workshops, Residencies, & Classes
Since 2003
Formerly the Tin House Workshop
mccormackwritingcenter.org
Phoenix Alexander @dracopoullos.bsky.social Klein Librarian for Science Fiction & Fantasy @ UC Riverside. Yale Ph.D. SFWA. HWA. Work in F&SF, Lightspeed, & more! ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐จ๐พ
www.phoenixalexanderauthor.com
Kirsten Miles, Author ๐น @kirstenmiles.bsky.social Author ๐ Vegan ๐ฅฌ Libra โ๏ธ
EDM forever ๐ชฉ Write Your Heart Out โค๏ธ
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Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social NYT bestselling writer. Newsletter and updates at maxgladstone.com. More or less updates-only on here.
Lamar Giles @lamargiles.bsky.social I write Black kids & DC Comics (Static: UAN) & Star Wars (Sanctuary: A Bad Batch Novel). Big Dad Energy. #GirlDad
https://www.lamargiles.com/links
Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com Amateur gardener. Professional ad copywriter. Award-winning novelist | THESE SAVAGE STARS (March 16, 2027) PRE-ORDER NOW | patreon.com/kameronhurley | Newsletter: http://bit.ly/42qnhkx | kameronhurley.com
Steven Barnes @kundalinisteve.bsky.social 
Kwame Mbalia @kwamembalia.bsky.social Husband, father, writer, Publisher w/ FREEDOM FIRE.
Black By Popular Demand: https://kwamembalia.substack.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
Storm Humbert @stormhumbert.bsky.social SFF author, editor, gamer, and gym rat. www.stormhumbertwrites.com
Theo Transcendragons @theodoresnapdragon.bsky.social SFF writer, dragon artist, NO GenAI
#amquerying ๐ช๐งชโ๏ธ๐ฎ๐ช
#QueerWritersChat cohost
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Support me!
Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/transcendragons
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EA Crawley @eacrawley.bsky.social Dev editor, SFF and romance writer, forest dweller. PhD British History/STS. Clarion West '19. Lambda Literary Fellow '26. Nonbinary/transmasc. They/them.
Editing & Coaching: lodestareac.com
Writing: eacrawley.com
Patreon: patreon.com/eacrawley
Syr Beker @syr.bsky.social Art/Stories/Immersive at the End of the Anthropocene * Horror Queer * they/them * Author of What A Fish Looks Like (Stelliform Press!)
New social platform, same cat-laddie/ free ๐/ ACAB/ punnery-before-dignity/ neurofabulous energy. Oceans > AI.
Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social Doberman owner, SFFH writer, ๐, SFWA, HWA, library clerk.
I was born in the same hospital as Danny DeVito
Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social Kentucky-based author, writer of the fantastic and delectable. Host of Bar Cart Bookshelf. COCKTAILS AND CONSOLES (Fall '24). Freelance publicist. He/him ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
https://eliaseells.com/
Inquiries: elias.eells1@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/eliaseells
Exoplanet || subs open Sept 1st @exoplanetmag.com New digital magazine for experimental speculative short fiction. Stories that imagine new worlds and new ways to explore them.
First #submissions window: September 1 - 15, 2026
First issue: December 1, 2026
exoplanetmag.com
Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social Locus Magazine: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror. The Guide to the World's Imagination.
https://locusmag.com
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Adib Khorram @adibkhorram.bsky.social Award-winning best selling author of books for all ages. Out now: ONE WORD, SIX LETTERS (YA). Up next: ISN'T HE ROMANTIC (adult)! bio.site/adibkhorram ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ฎ๐ท he/him
Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social Scott Edelman is a Stoker Award-nominated writer and Hugo Award-nominated editor of science fiction, fantasy & horror, as well as the host of the Hugo Award-nominated Eating the Fantastic podcast! (He/Him)
violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social The last literata. Pleasure is the law. L'art pour l'art. Not a dream, not an imaginary story. No crying until the end. Here comes tomorrow.
M. L. Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social Magician. Marketing Director of khลrรฉล. MacDowell Fellow. Stories & Essays: mlkrishnan.com
Amazing Stories @amazingstories.bsky.social Home of the world's FIRST science fiction magazine! We have free weekly science fiction stories, poetry, and up-to-date information on the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. English and Spanish.
Arley Sorg @arleysorg.bsky.social assoc agent, kt literary
co-Editor-in-Chief, Fantasy Magazine
Senior Editor, Locus Magazine
Do stuff @ Lightspeed/Nightmare, Clarkesworld, F&SF
2014 Odyssey Workshop Grad
He/Him or She/Her in queer contexts
Opinions my own
The Shirley Jackson Awards @sjacksonawards.bsky.social For outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the fantastic.
ellie maybe @ellie.thecancellations.com she/they โข chicagoan at heart, sacramentoan(?) as of thursday
interests: sci-fi, dogs, cows, wind turbines, mushrooms, spiders, soup, space (personal & outer)
music: thecancellations.com
also: elliemaybe.com
Karlo Yeager Rodrรญguez @kjy1066.bsky.social BSFA-nominated, Brave New Weird Winning writer, and all around TropiWeirdo. Stories in Typebar, Strange Horizons, BCS, khลreo, more. Host of @podside-picnic.bsky.social. He/Him ๐ต๐ท
Eagle Harbor Book Co. @eagleharborbooks.bsky.social Established in 1970, Eagle Harbor Book Co. is a full service, locally-owned and proudly independent bookstore located on Bainbridge Island, WA. With an extensive selection of books and gifts, we're the perfect "destination bookshop"
C.Quince๐ Author @cquince.bsky.social CQuince ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ he/they โช๏ธ MENA/SWANAโช๏ธ๐งฟ๐
โ๏ธ๐ I write queer Sci-Fi + Fantasy โช๏ธ Indie Ink Awards Finalist
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My site https://cquince.my.canva.site/
Buy my books https://cquince-author.blogspot.com/2026/06/cquince-catalogue.html
Jennifer ๐๐งโฃ๏ธ @jdawson001.bsky.social โฟ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐American SFF author, poet, editor, & book reviewer living in England. She/her. The Poetry Society & The British Fantasy Society. Old OWW member.
Online at: WorldsOfMayhem.com
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/dawson001
๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ rights = human rights.
@sofieriley.bsky.social @sofieriley.bsky.social 
Marianne Xenos @mariannexenos.bsky.social Artist, writer and occasional shapeshifter. I live in western Mass. with a cat named Fred.
www.mariannexenos.com
cecil fenn @cecilfenn.bsky.social writer + designer โข former funeral professional โข author of queer contemporary gothic embalming novel THE RESTORATIVE ARTIST (17.09) โข he/him โข ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ฅ๐ชฆ๐
https://linktr.ee/cecilfenn
Gabrielle Bleu @gabriellebleu.bsky.social Author, bird enthusiast, swordsperson. Find my SFF short stories at https://gabriellebleu.com/
hayden m. knight @haymayden.bsky.social deaf / gay / writer / book reader / lip reader / he, him, his / ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐คโฟ๏ธ / https://linktr.ee/haymayden
Anya Ow @anyasy.bsky.social SF&F writer (Asimov's, Uncanny, Fantasy Magazine, Lightspeed etc) โข (she/her) โข 2022: Ion Curtain โข tweets auto-purged โข Rep by Jennie Goloboy
Leigh Harlen (Birch) @leighharlen.bsky.social Horror writer living on Duwamish land/Seattle, crocheter, and autistic queer trans nonbinary goblin prince. Novellas: A Feast for Flies and Queens of Noise. Monarchs of Mischief coming soon! Fuck AI.
leighharlen.com
https://findyourfamiliar.bigcartel.com/
Caitlin Starling @caitlinstarling.com Award-winning and bestselling author of THE LUMINOUS DEAD, THE DEATH OF JANE LAWRENCE, LAST TO LEAVE THE ROOM, and others. She/her.
Kat Weaver @anoteinpink.bsky.social illustrator, writer, parrot butler - birds, fashion, history, ttrpgs - she/her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ฆ
๐saint paul, minnesota
emily bergslien @eudaemaniacal.bsky.social literal wizard & bookseller. helped write a novella called UNCOMMON CHARM. as an upright gentleman it is embarrassing for you to hold rabbits
Francesca Tacchi ๐๐ @ftacchi.bsky.social Italian | ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | โฟ | antifa terrorist | writes stuff | rep'd by Laura Bradford
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IG @jackdaw_writes
A.Z. Louise | T.O. Tate @azlouise.bsky.social Writer and stuff. They/them
https://azlouise.com/#books
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social queer SFF author, essayist, poet. he/they ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
https://fozmeadows.wordpress.com
Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Woodworker. www.annleblanc.com
Stories in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Apparition Lit.
TTMadden ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social she/they writer of weird fiction
https://ttmaddenwrites.carrd.co/
Lara Elena Donnelly @larazontally.bsky.social Grows things (words, plants)
Dominique Dickey @domsdickey.bsky.social Nebula Award-winning fiction and ttrpg hooligan || creative director of Sly Robot Games || associate editor at Monte Cook Games || they/them || keep up with my work at dominiquedickey.com
S.M. Mack (Smack) | Editor for hire @whatsmacksaid.bsky.social Dog person, spec fic reader & writer (DEATH VALLEY BLOOMS 2025), Clarion 2012, Stonecoast 2019. She/her, opinions my own.
Editing services: whatsmacksaid.com/services
Other links: linktr.ee/whatsmacksaid
@nikolinekaiser.bsky.social @nikolinekaiser.bsky.social Author and amateur gardener. I'm queer, passionate about biodiversity and play too many video games.
https://nikolinekaiser.dk/
Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com Award-winning sf/f, erotica and romance writer. Just your typical biracial bigender bisexual. All pronouns valid, she/her for societyโs convenience. https://linktr.ee/ceciliatan
Thomas Bulen Jacobs @tbjacobs.bsky.social Writer
www.thomasbulenjacobs.com
https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/cyberscion
Z.K.A. (she/her) @pegasusunder.bsky.social MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (Amistad, Aug '27)
THESE HOLLOW BODIES (Neon Hemlock, Nov '26)
writer & psychiatrist M.D. (she/her)
zkabraham.com
rep @clgslr.bsky.social
Cinema Worms podcast!
โค๏ธ @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
Esther Alter @esther-alter.bsky.social Trans Jewish byte array
Open source software developer
Sturgeon-nominated spec fic writer: Deadlands, Escape Pod, Strange Horizons, Baffling, elsewhere
ืืืจ ืฐืขืื ืืฒ ืืืืขืจืืขืื
https://esther-alter.com
lowry (they/them) @ferretly.bsky.social black author, artist, veterinarian, and aspiring renaissance man ๐ฟ clarion west '23 ๐ฟ words in strange horizons, khลrรฉล, fiyah, and lightspeed
THE WOLF MAID FROM THE SEA (neon hemlock) - Nov 24th
https://lowrypoletti.wordpress.com/
Alex Kingsley @alexyquest.bsky.social writer/comedian/game designer | they/them | co-founder @StrongBranchPro | Author of EMPRESS OF DUST | โ๏ธ Translunar Travelers Lounge, Radon Journal | UIC English MA student | Rep: Sara Megibow
Benjamin Rosenbaum @benjaminrosenbaum.com A plausible-fabulist of some meager renown, in a mere handful of universes.
latest: https://www.choiceofgames.com/ghost-and-the-golem/
Podcast: https://speculativeliterature.org/mrah/
He/him
Horror Writers Association @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social Official Account of the Horror Writers Association. The oldest literary organization serving writers and publishing professionals around the world, dedicated to promoting dark literature and the interests of those who write it.
Catapult Book Group @catapultbooks.bsky.social Catapult, Counterpoint, Soft Skull, & Hawthorne Books.
Electric Literature @electricliterature.com Making literature exciting, relevant and inclusive
electricliterature.com
Driftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social Est. 2013. Driftwood Press is a press and annual journal devoted to finding the best in fiction, poetry, comics, and experimental forms.
linktr.ee/DriftwoodPress
Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social New York-based publisher of contemporary poetry and prose. Founded in 2004, CLMP member. Home to annual contests, open reading periods, and the Immigrant Writing Series. We offer manuscript consultations, free monthly writing workshops, and more.
Sheree Renรฉe Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social Award-winning author, poet, Hugo Award-nominated editor
TONGE I DREAM IN, MOJORHYTHM & NINE BAR BLUES, MARVEL'S Black Panther: PANTHER'S RAGE novel, AFRICA RISEN and TROUBLE THE WATERS, NYTimes bestselling collab w/ Janelle Monรกe on THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN
Vince Vasudevan @vasudevan.bsky.social SF&F Writer | VT โ22 ๐ฆ | ND โ26 โ๏ธ
Ben Francisco @benfrancisco.bsky.social Queer Latinx fiction writer. Debut novel, VAL VEGA: SECRET AMBASSADOR OF EARTH, out now! Stories in Strange Horizons, Indiana Review, Podcastle, LCRW, and more. All things geeky and social justice-y welcome. They/Them.
https://linktr.ee/benfrancisco
@neekapwrites @neekapwrites.bsky.social 
@stefenahhh.bsky.social @stefenahhh.bsky.social 
Michael Solis @michaelsolisauthor.bsky.social ๐ Author of Deficient (out now!) | ๐ Humanitarian | ๐ Queer things rock! | Lover of speculative fiction & creative non-fiction | Exploring power, identity & the supernatural โจ
Trae Hawkins @traewrites.bsky.social SFF writer ๐ซ
https://traehawkins.blog
Editor @anathemamagazine.bsky.social
rep: @keiralekseii.bsky.social
Words in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Escape Pod, etc. #ViableParadise2023
he/him
Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org Lambda Literary, celebrating LGBTQ+ storytellers since 1985. Home of the Lammy Awards, Writers in Schools, the Emerging Writers Retreat for LGBTQ Voices, and the Lambda Literary Review.
lambdaliterary.org
lambdaliteraryreview.org
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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. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
www.lucysnyder.com
Rep: @jord4nhill.bsky.social
Cats, aquariums and terrariums
J.R. Dawson @jrdawson.bsky.social She/They. The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World (Tor, 2025). The First Bright Thing (Tor, 2023). Nebula, Sturgeon, and Hugo finalist. Goldie award winner. โก๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐Linktree: https://linktr.ee/jrdawsonwriter Rep: Stevie Finegan
Beth Cato @bethcato.bsky.social Author. Baker. Cheese lover. Late-diagnosed autistic. Writer of fantasy novels & cozy mysteries. Unrepentant poet. Hanford, CA native now in Red Wing, MN.
e.c. barrett @ecbarrett.bsky.social writer, teacher, printmaker, literary critic. former reviews editor for Reckoning. they/she. ecbarrett.com
Allison Pottern @apottern.bsky.social Speculative writer, reader, marketing coach, tea drinker | SFWA | VP '23 | Stories in Strange Horizons, Haven Spec, Trollbreath, Ghastling |
Digging: tulsi tea, sentient ships, pb pretzels | she/her #specfic #sff
linktr.ee/allisonpottern | pottern.com
Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social Baltimore-based indie bookstore. Currently online until we get a new space for the bookstore. Generally won't DM people, unless maybe you're a publisher and we need info to stock your books.
https://carpelibrumbaltimore.com/
wendell the sweetbitter unmanageable creature @wendellwrites.bsky.social Writer, teacher, member of the SFWA and Codex Writers, open source advocate, they/them
Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social novelist, drama queen, biker babe, speculating and agitating http://andreahairston.com/
@capriconsfcon.bsky.social @capriconsfcon.bsky.social 
Naomi Eselojor @naomieselojor.bsky.social Nigerian ๐ณ๐ฌ living in ๐ฌ๐ง.
Writer of speculative fiction
2026 THE CITY OF FACTORIES
2023 Utopian short story winner
Nommo Shortlisted writer
Milford Science Fiction 2024
naomieselojor.com
thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social Author, horror nerd, queer mom. She/her. ASK A QUEER CHICK (Plume, 2016), THE Z WORD (Quirk, 2024), THIS IS MY BODY (Quirk, 2025). https://www.lindsaykingmiller.com/
Brandonomicon (Brandon Seifert) @brandonseifert.info "Brandon... nothing like that ever happens to me. I don't know if there's something horribly wrong with you... or something horribly RIGHT."
Tamika Thompson @tamikathompson.bsky.social Author | THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS (Erewhon/Kensington) & Next Generation Indie Book Award Winner, UNSHOD, CACKLING, and NAKED. she/her/hers
http:/mybook.to/hestergardens
Alexis Brooks de Vita @alexisbrooksdevita.bsky.social PhD Comp Lit African/Diaspora & Women in English, French, Italian, Spanish. Author of 1855 Murder Case: Missouri vs. Celia; Mythatypes; Burning Streams, Blood of Angels, Chain Dance; Left Hand of the Moon; Translator - Dante's Inferno: A Wanderer in Hell
Louis @louisevans.bsky.social CONTENTS WILL PLASMATE UPON PACKET RUPTURE!
Rep: Eric Showers, HMLA
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.
of/for @chideraoffor.bsky.social 
Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social phd in gender studies - writer of books (Summer Sons, Feed Them Silence, The Woods All Black, and anthology Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity)- he/him
Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social Professor & Founding Director, Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, Stony Brook University.
โAn opinionated bastardโ โKay Walkingstick
Joy Deva Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social Speculative Writer: Fiction in One Story, Ploughshares, Tin House, Apex, etc. Yaddo Fellow. Founder of Pioneer Valley Writersโ Workshop. Rep'ed by Peter Steinberg. Novel in progress. Bagpiper.
https://linktr.ee/joy.deva.baglio
https://www.joybaglio.com/
Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop @pvww.bsky.social Literary arts organization based in Western MA (and virtually), founded by writer @joybaglio.bsky.social! We host writing workshops, craft classes, readings, & events with authors of all genres!
www.PioneerValleyWriters.org
Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com Dragon Slayer,bandit,play cousin,notโ๐ฟgoodโ๐ฟ, necessary, leader faith community, Beautiful Mess, problem, $smissouri https://www.solomonrmissouri.com/
Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social Ly Faulk (they/she) is a queer writer, artist, and an all-around weirdo. They are the author of Hippie Speedball and Sick Sad Queer. Learn more about their writing at lyfaulk.com.
Robin Stevens @robinstevens.bsky.social Assoc. professor-Public Health + Health Comm + media for health equity. Banana pudding expert.
Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social The 2026 Worldcon in Los Angeles, California
Visit LAcon.org for more details
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August 27-31, 2026
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