Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social One of the Daily Telegraph 50 Funniest Comedians of the 21st Century (49th). Also an author. And producer. And a whole life away from work if you can imagine.
Things Are Getting Strange Podcast @getstrange42.bsky.social Two English Geeks rewatch nostalgic TV shows to see how they hold up today. New episodes every Thursday at 8pm GMT - https://thingsaregettingstrange.buzzsprout.com/
Currently watching Twin Peaks
Story Radio Podcast 🎙️ @storyradio.bsky.social The podcast for readers, writers and lovers of literature everywhere! Run by Tabitha Potts and Martin Nathan. Find us at www.storyradio.org or your favourite podcast purveyor.
Infested Publishing @infestedpublishing.bsky.social Working-class press.
Horror/sci-fi/Weirdness 🐀🖤🐁
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Charlie Hughes @charliehughes77.bsky.social Horror writer. UK. Stories in Best Horror of the Year, Vols 15 & 16
Full list of published and new stories here 👇
charliehugheswriting.blogspot.com
Degraded Orbit @degradedorbit.bsky.social A site about abandoned places, unusual architecture, and underground culture. www.degradedorbit.com
Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Flash fiction writer | 2025 Highly Commended Bridport Prize & Finalist New Millennium Writings | Published in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Flash the Court, Writers’ Hour, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and elsewhere.
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Lauren KITTENS Abedini @iamkittens.bsky.social neurotic knowitall
Sarah Turner Author @sarahmusings.bsky.social https://sarahturnerauthor.wordpress.com/
Mary Wild @psycstar.bsky.social Freudian Cinephile. Feminine jouissance maximalist. Creator of the Projections lecture series. Author of Psychoanalysing Horror Cinema. 🧿🧬🌹🗡️🪞👽 linktr.ee/psycstar- E EOFFTV @eofftv.bsky.social
Mike Piero 🏳️🌈 @mikepiero.org Writer. Novelist. Poet. Game Studies Scholar. Writing in J Journal, Midway Journal, Rain Taxi, Moveable Type, Impost, Sandy River Review, & Trash Cat Lit. *Views are my own.* Monarch and Best Small Fictions noms. More at www.mikepiero.org. He/Him. Bi. 🩷💜💙
VampFreaks @vampfreaks.com Vampire Freaks forum is a community for freaks and outcasts to be themselves, support each other and be weirdos together. https://vampfreaks.com/
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A free blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
Alien Buddha Press @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social Alien Buddha Press has been publishing emerging writers and artists since 2017. Open for submissions at abuddhapress@yahoo.com
Rawhead @rawheadjournal.bsky.social Open to submissions of creative nonfiction and visual art. We believe in the power of art and literature as form of resistance.
Now on Submittable:
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James Wright @jameswrights.bsky.social Librarian & Indie Author of genre satire. Known for having a visual style & unique characters, as well as snappy dialogue. If only I was like that in real life!
Check out my works in the links👇!
https://linktr.ee/jameswritessurprisingly
M.E. Proctor @meproctor.bsky.social Crime fiction writer. Declan Shaw PI series "Love You Till Tuesday", "Catch Me on a Blue Day". Novella "Bop City Swing". Stories "Family and Other Ailments". Shotgun Honey, Bristol Noir, Vautrin, Black Cat Weekly. Shamus and Derringer short story nominee.
Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social she/her
📖 Writer | Librarian
📍 Edinburgh | Burntisland | Cairngorms
Gleefully geeky. Writes SFF/literary speculative short stories, among other word-things. Loves books, mountains, my cat Mishka & more. 💗💜💙
Find me at https://www.fionamossman.com
Michelle Willms @michellewillms.bsky.social NORTHERN GIRLS: TRUE STORIES (Baraka Books). 2026 Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Mother bear.
Northern Girls: www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/northern-girls/
TSR Review: www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/northern-girls-true-stories-by-michelle-willms
Stephanie Torrance @stephanietorrance.bsky.social Scottish, queer, working-class writer | Winner of the Book Edit Writer's Prize and Jericho First 500 | Faber Academy Scholarship | Paul McVeigh Residency 2026
Staunch
Your local lesbian goth grandma and perennial Spooky Bitch
#LwiththeT always 🏳️🌈🏴
KM Elkes @kmelkes.bsky.social Author. Ginger. Potty mouth. #workingclasswriter Award-winning short fiction writer. Editing debut novel. Also writing tutor & editor.
http://linktr.ee/kmelkes
https://kmelkes.substack.com
Daniel Mowery @dmowerywrites.bsky.social Writer of things dark, odd, beautiful, etc. What’s fear without an occasional laugh? Horror, literary, fantasy, and thriller lover. Father, husband, dog dad, musician, and constructioneer by day.
danielmowerywrites.com
Brooke @bpwrites.bsky.social #Author with an ever-growing writing & reading list. @brookepercy1 where *a certain letter* doesn’t mark the spot.
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Layla Hawke - author @laylahawke2.bsky.social Human Writer who cares abt the environment, fairness, equality, animals...
Navigations series-dystopian, fantasy, romance, also sweet romance, fantasy. Reader
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Haiku Poems @haikupoems.bsky.social Welcome to the haiku poems collection 📖✒️
Leo Healy @ellaitch.bsky.social Writer/silly sausage • (he/him)
So You've Been Conquered by the Human Race (Minicomic Awards shortlist)/Uncle Zaxlor series/Beyond the Black Void/Zarjaz
Contact/portfolio: https://linktr.ee/leo_healy
Comics/zines for sale: https://ellaitch.bigcartel.com/
Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk Northern speculative fiction micropress • Northumberland, UK • Human made • Our first anthology: carnyxpress.co.uk/products/oaths-and-offerings
Alan Lastufka @alandistro.bsky.social Editor of OBSOLESCENCE. Award-winning author of FACE THE NIGHT. Founder of small press Shortwave Publishing. HWA Active Member. SFWA Full Member.
🎃 Andy Cull 🎃 @andrewcull.bsky.social Horror scribbler. Writer and Director of The Possession of David O'Reilly. Author of Remains, Bones, and The Cockroach King. Co-editor of FOUND/2 📼 HWA member. Likes to give away books. He/him. Say NO to AI in art. Contact: https://linktr.ee/andrewcull
International Gothic Association @igagoths.bsky.social The International Gothic Association is a large family of academic researchers, students, artists and writers with a shared interest in all things Gothic. www.globalgoth.org
JoyousJoyfulJoyness @joyousjoyness.com Artist on a mission to spread JOY: one cute, shiny, fuzzy thing at a time!
I make colorful, cozy animal ART (cats & capys), foiled prints & stickers to BRIGHTEN your day!
& I repost HAPPY things!
If you need a smile, 💖 I GOT YOU 💖
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Matthew Holness @mrholness.bsky.social Sunday Times Bestselling Author of GARTH MARENGHI’S TERRORTOME, INCARCERAT, THIS BURSTED EARTH. Also Possum, Darkplace. Agents: RCW Literary Agency/Sophie Chapman Talent/SueTerryVoices
https://www.garthmarenghi.com/links/
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
www.joanne-harris.co.uk
Helen Ivory 🪠🐈⬛ @helenivory.bsky.social Poet, artist. Cholmondeley Award winner. Sixth Bloodaxe collection, 'Constructing a Witch' is a PBS Winter Recommendation. I make collage and shadowboxes from broken things. I shout poems at the moon about the dark.
Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social Bloodaxe Books, Britain's leading international poetry publisher.
www.bloodaxebooks.com
Bramble ~ Sci-fi and Fantasy Author @thebrambler13.bsky.social A Welsh, disabled, trans (she/her) writer. Do not expect heterosexuality in my work I write what I know. 🦓🏳️⚧️. Fuck AI. I don't reply to DMs.
Enjoy my stories for free through the links in my pinned post.
Profile Picture and Banner by Nushdeco.
C. Oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social Poet, thinker, dreamer, scribbler… in ascending order
For my recent posts: #Oulens
Winner, 3rd Annual Poe-it Like Poe Poetry Contest 2025 by sixdegreesofpoe
manta del ray @seafoamghost.bsky.social dylan | shetlandic coastal witch. pockets full of seaglass, moss covered buoy. "he was sea-marked, and he knew it.” | disabled and tired | cambuslang, scotland | he/they | 34 | autistic
NECKSNAP MAGAZINE @necksnapmag.bsky.social Issue Three: FRINGE 🦇 out now!
Horror lit mag with a love for Gothic haunts, body horror, strong experimental voices, and even stronger characters. EIC: johnhanleywrites.bsky.social
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John Ossoway @ottomancer.bsky.social Defending the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada. Designer, illustrator, writer, developer. Lover of Design, Type, Music, RPGs, Lego, scifi. Biodegradable.
My work: https://www.ragingtrifle.com/
Horror Tree @horrortree.com Paying speculative fiction #OpenCall s, #writing advice, #AuthorInterviews, #BookReview s, and more since 2011! By: @stuartconover.com
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https://linkie.bio/horrortree
Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social The place for writers- T Truborn Press @trubornpress.bsky.social Embrace your weird.
Poetry with Linda @poetrywithlinda.bsky.social poetry, nature, writing, reading, art, culture, languages, photography, travelling 🎨🖌️🖼️
Let's also be friends on Substack:@poetrywithlinda
Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social Writer, flash fiction writer, photographer. Author of 2 novels & 2 collections of flash. New novel out this spring. My flash pieces have been published in many lovely magazines. Mslexia flash fiction prize winner, 2024. Website: http://bronwengriff.co.uk/
The Verge @theverge.com Covering life in the future
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Foreword Festival UK @forewordfestivaluk.bsky.social Welcome to the Foreword Festival – the first literary fringe festival in the UK!
Join us for year-round literary events: http://forewordfestival.uk
MoonLit Getaway @mgliterary.bsky.social Remarkable artwork, fiction, and poetry.
MoonLitGetaway.com
silas denver 🍎 @sweatermuppet.bsky.social 26. he/him. author of grit (2020). head poetry editor for Beaver Magazine. graphic designer for Transfix Magazine
support me & my work ⬇️
🌟🔗 https://linktr.ee/silasdenver 🔗🌟
Haiku Poetry @haiku-poetry.bsky.social Haiku Poetry (written by myself)
📍Switzerland
Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social Books: Our Lives in Pieces (2025) and Not Finished Yet (2026)
Words in Stanchion, Pithead Chapel, Cleaver, Fictive Dream, BULL, Hippocampus
2X Pushcart nominee, BOTN, Best Microfiction and LL Wigleaf Top 50
Retired educator and playwright
@fadingdreamstories.bsky.social @fadingdreamstories.bsky.social Sometimes writer hoping to transition into a moretimes writer.
Hope Dickson Leach @hopedickle.bsky.social Filmmaker based in Edinburgh often found tending to my children and shouting about how hard it all is.
Lothlorien Poetry Journal @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction and art.
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines.html
Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social I’m a library assistant and poet with work published in The Dirigible Balloon, Disabled Tales, Dreambeast Poems, and featured on Brian Moses’s blog. My poems are forthcoming in Scaryness Express.
Strider Marcus Jones @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social Poet. Five published books.DMU Law graduate. Pushcart Prizex4/Best of the Netx4 Nominations. Founder/Editor/Publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.co https://stridermarcusjonespoet.blogspot.com/p/about-strider.html
Wes Viola @wesviola.bsky.social Library worker, Elder Bard, former demo-listener for Glasto. And stuff.
Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social Poet. Reader. Plums, raspberries, apricots. Recently in Asymptote, New Welsh Review, Finished Creatures, Cyphers. Troubadour Prize. Jt runner-up Keats-Shelley prize. He/him.
Anthony Addis @anthonyaddis.bsky.social I used to write, read and live in Cairo, KL, Jakarta and Riyadh. Now I do all that in Lichfield while placating two Indonesian streetcats.
My novel 'Do Not Keep Silent' is available on Amazon.
anthonyaddis.co.uk
Ava C. Ryder @aryder.com I write immersive adventure stories told through the eyes of animal protagonists. My debut novel, "Ember's Gallop," follows a brave wild mustang as she leads her herd through a raging wildfire. Authentic animal perspectives make my work unique. aryder.com
Free Tarot Reading by Elera @dailyfreetarot.bsky.social 🔮 Elera | Tarot Reader
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Pup and Tiger @pupandtiger.bsky.social Queer art, culture, and exhibitions. If you're interested in getting involved, supporting, or creating a network for this vision, let’s connect.
Also: roll call of artists and people making amazing work. #QueerArt #QueerCulture #ArtCommunity #ArtForChange
Author BB Clifford @authorbbclifford.bsky.social An ethnographer of suburban horror. Author of MALEVOLENT FAIRY, RAINBOW WARRIOR and TANGLED KNOT. bbclifford.com
Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social Poet with autism and a cat.
Author of ADULTHOOD (Anxiety Press, 2026).
Here to connect with fellow writers and/or fellow neurodivergent people and/or fellow anti-fascists.
he/him • NJ • www.brandondiehl.net
moniker @monikerpoems.bsky.social she/they 🏳️⚧️ poetry account, might post about a random interest occasionally
check out "my longer poems" feed, please ^^
2 of Wands Tarot @2ofwands.bsky.social Site: https://2ofwands.com/
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TAROT DECKS:
Phantomverse by Erin Morgenstern
Ancient Italian by Lo Scarabeo
Green Witch Oracle deck by Arin Murphy-Hiscock
Vernic [Liber CIV & Co.] @libericives.bsky.social 33 Years-Old | He/Him/His || Comic Artist, Illustrator & Zinester
Alan Parry He/Him @alanparrywriter.co.uk Independent Writer
Spoken-Word Artist
EiC @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Workshop Facilitator
Podcast & Events Host #PromoteIndieLit
Liberal Tarot by Sherri @tarotbysherri.bsky.social Intuitive Tarot Storyteller + Psychology meets political commentary—progressive, insightful & Gen X snark.
35+ yrs | MA Counseling
🌐 www.TheWillowInstitute.com Private Tarot sessions
🎬 https://www.youtube.com/@LiberalTarotbySherri
Dark Witchery @darkwitchy2.bsky.social I don’t teach spells—they whisper through me. This is forbidden majick, the kind buried in grave dirt and sealed with shadow. Taboos? If you're ready to unlearn everything you know, crawl to darkwitchery.com.
Subscribe monthly today.
Flex Fish Games @flexfishgames.bsky.social Artist Matthew king and programmer Rami Bukhari, teaming up to develop nostalgic hand-drawn 2D games.
Clare O'Brien @clareobrien.bsky.social Writer. Retired music industry person.
2025 Poet in Residence, Inverewe Garden, Scotland.
Poetry chapbooks 'Breathing Out Becomes White And Snowfall' & 'Who Am I Supposed To Be Driving?' & novelette 'Airloc' out now.
Links: clarevobrien.weebly.com
Phil @pgpayt.bsky.social Daily horror writing prompts and micro-fiction challenges. Creator & host of #horrorprompt, #haikuhorrorprompt, #HorrorInSix & #vsshorror horrorprompt.com
Kasey Claire Westfall @kcw-writes.bsky.social She/They
Writer, reader, petter of small furry creatures.
Currently drafting Heavy Lies the Head.
Julie @juliehdwriting.bsky.social French-Algerian YA writer (she/her)
rep'd by @rebeccaesk.bsky.social
J.A. Sullivan @jasullivan.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Horror Writer, Movie Addict, & Paranormal Investigator
Pansexual/Genderqueer 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
*they/them*
Chris W. McGuinness @cwmcguinness.bsky.social Horror writer. Bookworm. Craft beer aficionado. https://chriswmcguinness.wordpress.com
🪼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/
K.A. Nielsen @kanielsenwriter.bsky.social I read weird literary things. I write literary weird things.
From the US. Living in the UK.
More active on insta: @_kanielsen_
www.kanielsen.net
she/they
violets from mars @violetsfrommars.bsky.social Artist, witch, mythmaker, wanderer, seer, genderfluid faery being, cat parent, cicada enthusiast, they/them
#ecoart #tarot #queerart #transart #cartomancy #ancientgreek #entomology
K. A. Roy @kayleigharoy.bsky.social K. A. Roy.
Chicago writer. 3 kids, 3 cats = forever chaotic.
Stories in: From Beyond Press, CreepyPod, Malarkey Books, Shotgun Honey, Mystic Owl Press, Spindle House Press, Black Hare Press
Repped by: Eric Smith
https://kayleighroywrites.com
Rémi Forte @rmfrt.com Poetic Program, Typographic System
https://www.rmfrt.com/
Louisa Maza @louisamaza.bsky.social Reader and writer of speculative fiction (she/her)
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Peatsmoke Journal @psmokejournal.bsky.social Online literary journal committed to diverse voices, accessibility, and to writers. Fiction, nonfiction, poems, flash, hybrid, art.
peatsmokejournal.com
Folklore Review @folklorereview.bsky.social Folklore Review is a literary journal for magic enthusiasts. We love unique works born from magic, myths, and legends. The weirder, the better. https://www.folklorereview.com/submit
Peter Haynes @peterhaynes.bsky.social Writer, publisher
John K. Peck @johnkpeck.bsky.social Author, woodcarver, Musiker, printer, reader. Basser @amsteel.bsky.social. The Pale Globe forthcoming in 2027. Split Scream Vol. 7 from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social out now. Berlin/Brandenburg
www.johnkpeck.com
Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social We're an indie press specialising in queer horror, crime & dark fiction, run by TC Parker & Shauna Mc Eleney
(Skeets by TC/N, occasionally SME)
We like intersectional feminism. A lot
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇮🇪
No GenAI. No DMs (we can't see them)
www.nefariousbatpress.com
toeken @toeken.bsky.social artist
https://atoekeneffort.weebly.com/
Sarah Turner @scturnerfiction.bsky.social Writer. Short stories in: The Rumpus, Sonora Review, J Journal, Shooter Lit Mag, London Magazine, Fictive Dream, LEON, Litro & others | SL Bridport SS | Read my work at: www.scturnerfiction.com
H.V. Patterson @hvpatterson.bsky.social Writes horror/speculative fiction, poetry, and plays. Loves folklore, spooky science, and baking/cooking. Cofounder Horns and Rattles Press she/her
Find me: linktr.ee/hvpatterson