E.M. White, load-bearing grad student @emwhite.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog Pen name. Writing and reviewing dark and challenging fiction; would write more if life weren't so dark and challenging.
Also a magpie for fine stories and essays, a snob about coffee and tea (unless desperate), a wiki and map wanderer, and a cat steward.
Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social Science fiction writer, poet, essayist, Minnesota. She/her. A DUBIOUS CLAMOR from Horned Lark Press 15 SEPTEMBER 2026! THAT FATAL DISCONTENT from Union Square Books Summer 2027! Repped by Kurestin Armada.
www.marissalingen.com
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Nicholas Whyte 白怀珂 @nwhyte.bsky.social He/him. International affairs strategist & expert, science fiction fan, psephologist; posts personal. Will block rude people and bigots.
http://fromtheheartofeurope.eu
L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app SFF writer/editor/publisher. ATL/SEA.
Literary nonprofit person. Ignytes mother. Awards doer. Hugo/Locus Winner. Conrunner. LEGO builder. Joy enthusiast. 77% Cake. Bi. Grumpy. She/her/chef. 🏳️🌈 YEAR OF THE MER (Saga/Titan, OUT NOW). Ldlewiswrites.com
Juhan Raud 🇺🇦 @raudjuhan.bsky.social Ballard of the Wind Fish
Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social I work with universities to help them work better. #HigherEducationPostcard #FreyaDog Liable to proselytize about #ClimateChange #HigherEducation #Consultant #Swansea #Deltiologist #SWFC
Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social NYT bestselling and BSFA & Scribe award-winning writer. Cardassia’s resident anarchist. Intersectional feminist science fiction with Gold SF. Fighting the long defeat since December 1981. Chiefest and greatest of calamities.
https://linktr.ee/unamccormack
Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social Professor of Algorithmic and Microbial Genomics at the University of Bath (UK). Pangenomes, drug resistance (esp TB), data structures for DNA search, plasmid evolution, global microbial surveillance. Open Data, reproducibility. https://zam-iqbal-lab.org/
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.
Baby octopus @mancalled.horse Cats! feed enjoyer. Distributor of likes.
(he/him)
PFP: a little baby octopus
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TrishEM @pematson.bsky.social Award-winning journalism editor and writer, speculative fiction reviewer and podcaster, lover of games, music, audiodramas, wordplay and more. (She/her)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patriciamatson
Galactic Journey @galacticjourney.bsky.social 7x Best Fanzine Hugo-finalist. Blast back to 1971: #ScienceFiction, #Fantasy, and the #Space Race! Broadcasting the Moon Landings "as they happen" and discussing classic #ScienceFiction here:
https://galacticjourney.org
Ellen Rose @icklenellierose.bsky.social Making online videos since 2010. Writer, presenter, editor. Find me talking games at @outsidextra.bsky.social, playing tabletop at @oxventure.bsky.social and being opinionated at youtube.com/@icklenellierose she/her, Londoner
meshell @meshell.bsky.social Baba jaga in the swamp. I knew you from that other place. Optimistic cynic. Anti fascist, like a normal person. Photon efficiency enthusiast.
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. Writing Star Trek: Zero Point for IDW Comics.
Ballast Book Company @ballastbookco.bsky.social 🐉 Rad indie bookstore located in beautiful & complicated Bremerton, WA
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📍 Corner of 4th street and Pacific Ave
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Adam Murray @admagnetic77.bsky.social All things Horror/Dystopian Fiction/Genre Cinema "A Cosmic Perspective"...
@ppiixx.bsky.social @ppiixx.bsky.social 
Vijayalaxmi/Vee @kaunvijaya.bsky.social She/Her
Pathological apologizer and professional hater.
Clarion '26. Words in FFO, Lightspeed and BCS.
First reader @ Apex
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Charlie 🌌 @charliereadsalot.bsky.social (he/they) 🏳️⚧️
📖 MA English Lit • 📚 SFF reader • 🎮 gamer • 🐉 D&D •🤘🏼Metalhead
April @aprillia.bsky.social Politics, shit poster, cat content, Seattle local politics.
No reskeets without alt text!
Progressive (very left, but pragmatist)
She/her
I block AI slop and those who put it in my tl
Timmy Samuel @starbellystudios.bsky.social Photo/video for live theatre. Founder of Starbelly Studios. Book lover, musician, and audio engineer. The new album from my band Professor Panic is out now on streaming services and Bandcamp. https://professorpanic.bandcamp.com/album/self-titled-debut
Marie Irshad @scifiville.bsky.social Radio producer, podcaster, geek, knitter, sewer, Mac fan, Ubuntu fan, latte and tea drinker, all round creative type and cat owner. mirshad on twitter, scifiville on instagram and threads. www.scifiville.com
Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com 🤖Sci-fi, 🦩drag* & 🐈cats 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Bestselling author of “The Cat Operator’s Manual” 📕 https://cuddleunit5.com published by Chronicle Books
Queen Captain of Space Station 1
Joe Crow @joecrow.bsky.social Artist, writer, anarchist, occultist, general weirdo. Everything I need to know about life I learned by killing smart people and eating their brains. (he/him)
Nikolas @nceibich.bsky.social 
Rhys Howell @ghop56.bsky.social Writer based in the South West of England
Andy Helliwell @andyhelliwell.bsky.social Music, books, nature, gardening, running, that sort of thing. Personal views.
Reddo Panda @reddopanda.bsky.social Anti-conspiracy, data nerd
Halcek @halcek.bsky.social A speculative writer. https://merveilles.town/@halcek 🇵🇸
Phoenix @phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social Atlantic Canadian game critic (She/They)
Columnist at @unwinnable.com
Co-Editor of @tier-review.com
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phoenixwritesdown@protonmail.com
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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
Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social Health researcher and educator at UNSW Sydney. Co-EIC @ausjph.bsky.social Trying to make sure people don't fall through the health cracks.
https://unsw.to/ben_hr
https://harrisroxashealth.com
https://benhr.xyz
Darusha Wehm @darusha.ca they/them
Nebula Award winning SFF author
A fifth of @darklylem.com
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Rep: @chelseabigbang.bsky.social
Aotearoa New Zealand
Books: https://darusha.ca
Pic: Erica Poole
Bonhoeffer Fan @bonhoefferfan.bsky.social Sci-fi, fantasy, paleontology, and theology nerd. Fan of Bonhoeffer, not Metaxas. Feminist, Lutheran. He/Him
Khadeja @khadeja.bardrockcafe.com Hi :3
🚨No AI.
🎸🎲Actual Player and proud member of the Bard Rock Cafe Network
🕋 🏳️🌈Muslim Queer She/They
An artist when I have the time!
Qaidi No. 786
💪Free Palestine✊
Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social Hi! I’m Molly Hodgdon. I live in Vermont with my beautiful FIV+ cats Francie and Marcel. Banner photo by W. Eugene Smith. Profile pic is a postcard from my collection mailed 1908.
Not a bot. Not selling anything. Just a keeper of forgotten cats.
The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social Disrupting power since 2015
Hourly Garth Marenghi's Darkplace @hourlydarkplace.bagpuss.org A random frame from a random Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, every hour, on the hour. Episode details in alt text.
By Dave Bagpuss Forsey @bagpuss.org
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HMH Murray @nillcord.bsky.social Writer of space opera and fanfiction
NYC Midnight Finalist SS 2024
Futurescapes 2022
Codexian SFWA
http://hmhmurray.substack.com
https://books2read.com/u/47LkkR
Jesús Sánchez Balsera @jsbalsera.bsky.social Desarrollador Drupal y manager. Aficionado a la literatura (fantasía y ciencia ficción sobre todo) y al baloncesto.
Oliver K. Langmead @oliverklangmead.bsky.social THE KILLING OF A CHESTNUT TREE out this October from Tordotcom
Lecturer at Lancaster
Hugo nominated // Philip K. Dick award nominated // BSFA Award nominated // British Fantasy Award nominated
Action/Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Thriller Festival @actionfantasyscifi.bsky.social A showcase of the best Action/Adventure/Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Thriller Films and Screenplays from around the world.
Festival takes place every single month.
https://filmfreeway.com/ActionAdventure
Bert the Bookseller @booksellerbert.bsky.social Dad. Writer. Bookseller. Dork.
ABQ, NM
RoyalRoad|Patreon|Bookshop.org
https://linktr.ee/rjflippo
John Wedoff @jwedoff.bsky.social Sr. Software Engineer, He/Him, dad, Somerville resident
Big Bearded Bookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com Expert Waterstones bookseller with a very big beard
Books read: 84/100
📚 Art On My Mind
📺 The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
http://www.ephemeral.co.uk
Ethan @strangebirds.bsky.social he/him. WI, USA
Lisa The Riveter @lisatheriveter.bsky.social She/her. Bi. Textile queen. AFOL. PNW. Low vision/blind. Immune-suppressed. Chronically ill. Extremely sweary. Alt text for everyone! #alttext for my tutorials to learn how.
New here, long online.
Ms. Wong @mauiwong.bsky.social Artist
Free Palestine
https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ahrc5923-economy-occupation-economy-genocide-report-special-rapporteur
https://www.scribd.com/document/984283354/BDS-zine
https://chuffed.org/project/115548-help-marwa
Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social Associate professor
Author, 'Muslim American Women on Campus'
Scholar of anthropology, Islam, gender, and higher education
Views are always mine only
@shabanamir1 on X
koonjblog.wordress.com
Like what I do? https://ko-fi.com/shabana
Denise Ruttan @teawhilewriting.bsky.social Avid reader, concertgoer who's a legal assistant by day. Photographer. Vinyl enthusiast, cinephile. Sci-fi nerd. Knitter, sewist. Queer. She/they.
https://teawhilewriting.carrd.co
Z.B. Steele @zbsteele.bsky.social Grimdark author, all around hipster nerd, Catholic husband and father
Nheu @nheu.bsky.social Lover of science & art & gaming & writing & all things good & joyful. Sometimes a Twitch streamer. She/they. Odd duck, not from around here. Lightly postpunk ex-bookselling nerd. Ultros resident. https://nheu.carrd.co/
Thieves Guild @thievesguild.biz Writer, Flaneur, Fabulist, Amateur Grammarian He/Him, Tabletop Gamer, #dnd5e, #minipainter and DM. Thievesguild.biz
Head of Zeus @headofzeus.bsky.social 📚 Home to great stories and bestselling authors
📚 Award-winning independent division of Bloomsbury Publishing
Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social Energy Resources, Development and Environment Lab (ERDELab) PI. Energy, equity, justice, climate change, bioenergy. But also TTRPGs and photography (https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/499807930552574625). he/him.
WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
Korra Saqqara (Christa Angelios) @metamythica.bsky.social 💀 Studying the Gothic at MMU
📖 Literary Coach & Freelance Editor, MetaMythica Literary
🐧 Former Random Penguin; Columbia Publishing Course alum
Member: EFA, ACES, PEN
She/Her
#SWANAinPublishing #AmWriting #AmEditing #Folklore #Horror #SFF 👻
Opinions my own
Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social Writes, variously. Reviews Editor, Strange Horizons. Columns at Ancillary Review. Songs over at Bandcamp. Also see @savinglives.bsky.social.
Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social Blogger, critic, 2017 and 2025 best fan writer Hugo winner.
Blogs at wrongquestions.blogspot.com and www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
Review collection TRACK CHANGES available at briardenebooks.uk/shop/
Member of the 2026 Otherwise Award jury
Fantasy/Sci-Fi Film & Screenplay Festival @scififantasyfest.bsky.social This is a HYBRID film festival with live screenings for the audience feedback video, optional virtual 2nd showcase, and blog & podcast interviews with filmmaker
http://fantasyscififestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/FantasySciFiFilmScreenplayFestival
✨Eliza Mares✨ @elizamaresauthor.bsky.social She/they. Award-winning(!) author, poet, editor, animal lover. I write love stories & dirges. Very not-straight. Adults only. No AI ever. TERFs begone!
Find my stuff: https://elizamares.carrd.co
Lost Otter's Pilgrimage of Food 19.12.30.3.22 @lost-otter.bsky.social Food (our aulde enemie) - its appearance, calorific energies, and locations (historic, domestic, sublime & banal); that the shame of it should outlive him.
Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social Postdoctoral Researcher (elle/she) • Internet & Cultural Studies • Legal Knowledge & Environmental Law • Social & Climate Justice • Brussels Sprouts Appreciation Society • Arts & Crafts • Gardening • Sailing
FR/EN (Belgium/Luxembourg)
Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social calmerfuture.org
dreaming of practical better futures
@dosima_org on the other place
Joshua Yu Burnett @joshuayuburnett.bsky.social Prof of Multilingual Comp @ AWC. Degrees in Creative Writing & Af Am Lit, Scholarship in Black Speculative Fiction. Ex-expat in Bangladesh & Mexico. Dork/weirdo. Nonbinary, any pronouns fine as long as you don't call me "Mr." or "Sir." From the Bay.
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
no one would witness @noonewldwitness.bsky.social (they/them) proud tenant union member | interests include international solidarity, mutual aid as a tool to fight the state, being queer, and alien stories.
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social Writer of stories, dreamer of dreams, parent of child, and so on...
I like shiny things 🌟
@em.h.writes.things on Instagram 🦋
Sam Flynn - Preorder DWELLER IN DARKNESS! @samflynnwrites.bsky.social A godforsaken author (He/Him). DWELLER IN DARKNESS out 9/22 via Timber Ghost Press. Preorder: https://www.timberghostpress.com/dweller-landing.html#/
Website: https://sam-flynn.com
Links: https://linktr.ee/samflynn7
Austin Muniz @beetdiggers24.bsky.social Lover of family, sports, cycling, traveling and reading. Mostly into Sci-Fi and non fiction but also down for any good book. Eastern Plains Colorado
Paul Cochrane @paulcochrane87.bsky.social Global Services Manager @ Hyland | Passionate about services, healthcare, digital health, AI & cloud | BSc, PRINCE2, MSP, L6σ Green Belt | Opinions are my own | https://linktr.ee/paulcochrane
Hannah Trevelyan @hannahtrevelyan.bsky.social And there was a framelessness to it: the strangest shadows, the way we danced on summer nights when the music came and the pavement cracked and you called it magic; I called it love.
Harrogate, UK. (she/her) CURRENTLY: Unannounced YA/Fantasy
Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social Staff editor for The New York Times (in London). Previously writing for CNN and Time Magazine. One of those Brits who ended up in American media.
Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social Inequality Economist, former trader and author of The Trading Game. Other Economists make predictions, but my ones are actually right.
https://linktr.ee/garysecon
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
British Centre for Literary Translation @bcltuea.bsky.social British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) is Britain’s leading centre for the study and support of literary translation.
linktr.ee/bcltuea
Brooklyn Book Festival @bkbookfest.bsky.social Largest Free Literary Festival in New York.
https://linktr.ee/bkbookfest
2026 Dates
Virtual Festival Day: September 20
Children's Day: September 26
Festival Day: September 27
City-wide Bookends: September 20-28
R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Musician/Lyricist, Big DADA You remember MONDO 2000 so do I
https://rusirius.bandcamp.com/ better still 
🍎Eleni Argyrò trying her best @eleni-argyro.bsky.social Stuck in an ongoing existential crisis.
Reviewing books for fun and the occasional ramble by contributing on https://beforewegoblog.com/ & https://fanfiaddict.com/links/
Dr Rasu Shrestha @rasushrestha.bsky.social Physician, bridge builder & strategist. EVP, Chief #Innovation & Commercialization Officer. Together, we can fix health AND care. Posts are my own.
#digitalhealth #healthpolicy #strategy #radiology #meded #heforshe #leadership #lifehacks #puns 😏
𝔐𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔲𝔰 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔲𝔰 @coursefile.bsky.social Sci-fi/fantasy, books, runner, trails, native plant enthusiast, gay 🏳️🌈 dog dad, bad Dune memes. Leftistish social liberal. TLM. BLM. 🚫 DM unless I know you irl.
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Lissie Jaquette @lissiejaquette.bsky.social Executive Director at Words Without Borders | Arabic translator, most recently of Adania Shibli's MINOR DETAIL, and of works by Rania Mamoun, Basma Abdel Aziz, Dima Wannous & more
Helena Ramsaroop @hramsaroop.bsky.social ha-lay-na 🍉🇬🇾🇨🇦 • She/her • Freelance editor, reviewer & bioarchaeologist •Words in Strange Horizons, ARB, Canthius & The Fiddlehead • Online Editor @augursociety.bsky.social • Reader @khoreo.bsky.social
helenaramsaroop.com
Hiron Ennes (WORKS OF VERMIN out now!) @hironennes.bsky.social British fantasy award-winning author of LEECH and THE WORKS OF VERMIN
Buy my books you cowards
Represented by Alexander Cochran @acochran.bsky.social
STARLOG @starlogmedia.bsky.social STARLOG, the legendary sci-fi magazine, returns–exploring the intersection of science fiction, technology & culture.
Podcast | Newsletter | Magazine Coming Late 2026
50 Years. Since 1976
https://thelodestar.starlog.com/
GeekGirlsRule 🦈 @geekgirlsrule.bsky.social 50 something Feminist Nerd with a chip on her shoulder. Trans Rights are Human Rights. Pansexual, Wiccan, kettlebell enthusiast. (She/Her)
Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social London author. Latest novel Phantom at the Feast out now on No Exit Press. Tony White is an RLF Fellow. CWA member. Views my own. No DMs. Mailing list etc.👇🏼
https://linktr.ee/author_tonywhite
We Geek Girls @wegeekgirls.bsky.social We Geek Girls is a site where we share our love of geek culture 🦸🏻, art 🖼️, and literature 📚. All posts done by GiGi. 🤓🇨🇺🇦🇷🇺🇲 https://linktr.ee/wegeekgirls
@jbourahmah.bsky.social @jbourahmah.bsky.social 
Gosh! Comics @goshcomics.bsky.social A mean little comic shop in the heart of London.
1 Berwick Street, London, United Kingdom W1F ODR
https://linktr.ee/goshcomics
Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social SFF enthusiast, hobby-collector, blogger, shouter-at-the-internet. Editor at Ignyte and Hugo winner Nerds of a Feather, along with reviews elsewhere. 2026 Hugo Fan Writer finalist. All links here: https://linktr.ee/roseanna.pendlebury (she/her).
Joseph Eckert @josepheckert.bsky.social Father, husband, writer, photographer. Not actually a cat.
Author of The Traveler (the novel)
Meredith Borders @mereborders.bsky.social 🌀Senior Editor, FANGORIA and STARLOG
🌀Head of Single Issue Publications, FANGORIA
🌀Author, First In Fright: The FANGORIA Compendium
🌀Strong Sender
STARLOG Da7e Gonzales @da7e.com Founder - Fighting In The War Room podcast
Podcaster - The STARLOG Podcast, A STORM OF SPOILERS and Da7e and Neil's Pop Culture Adventure.
Author- MCU: REIGN OF MARVEL STUDIOS (Out Now!) and POTTER (in the future)
Abolish ICE.
Jordan Hoffman @jhoffman.bsky.social How would you like to have your thick strawberry goo?
The Pangolin Republic @thepangolinrepublic.com SF/space opera book series. Book 1, Flight of the Pangolin, now available in paperback & ebook! Also, check out the SF book series "Mike's Book Report" on our Booktube.
https://linktr.ee/thepangolinrepublic