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
David, Robot Fighter 2026 A.D. @davidbusboom.bsky.social Spec-fic writer, robot fighter. Battling dependence on fascist AI in the year 2026 and beyond. Also: science editor; casual birder; author of EVERY CRAWLING, PUTRID THING (JournalStone 2022). He/him.
https://davidbusboom.com/
Cover art: @flancortes
Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social Dallas, TX | Quarterly print mag and weekly content online | www.southwestreview.com
Jay Trask @rjtrask1.bsky.social Archivist at UNCo. Husband of a librarian. Keeper of Bishop and ghostly Maisie and Kivrin. Interested in archival silence and archives/power. Nerd. I love comics, LOTR, Discworld, old ghost stories, and dogs. Currently learning Middle Egyptian. He/Him.
Hodag @bretttharp.bsky.social Horror writer - musician @ Dark Watcher, Cynocephalus, Acrid Tomb, Devilmoon - LoL esports enthusiast - https://linktr.ee/Hodag
K.A. Wiggins (Kaie) @kaiewrites.bsky.social Canadian dark speculative author 🖤🇨🇦Words in: STRANGE HORIZONS, FANTASY, LIGHTSPEED, PULPHOUSE, FACTOR FOUR, NOSLEEP &more | @cwillbc.bsky.social president | CWC educator | #ecopunk #bodyhorror #monsters #gothic #dystopian #sff
https://kaie.space/tree
andrew rivas @andrew-rivas.com BRAVE NEW WEIRD award winner;
author of EAT THE RICH,
A NICE PLACE FULL OF GOOD PEOPLE,
& MORE: andrew-rivas.com
Aaron Romano @alromano.bsky.social They/Them. 30 something queer cat parent and horror obsessive. I sometimes write spooky things: WE CAN ALWAYS TELL and WYRD WEREWOLF WRANGLER. Featured in Cosmic Horror Monthly and Grim & Gilded Magazine.
D.R. Forge @drforge.bsky.social lit horror author
Winner of the 2025 NYC Midnight Short Story Contest and 2025 NYC Midnight Scary Story Challenge
HWA/SFWA
https://www.nycmidnight.com/stories/when-dragons-do-laundry
Bobzbay Books @bobzbay.bsky.social Used, new, & out of print books in the heart of downtown Bloomington, IL. LGBTQ+ owned & operated.
https://linktr.ee/bobzbay
Posts by Liz! No she will not apologize for posting too many photos of her cats!
Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social A literary journal presenting four pieces in each issue, a sampling of the best writing out there. EICs: @fklein907.bsky.social and @ketchiklein.bsky.social
https://flight-literary.ghost.io/
F This Fitzgerald @timidwerewolf.bsky.social Writer-Performer. For Sale by Exorcist from DREAD, Ahoy Comics, Lifeline Comics (Ringo Nominated Hairology), The Hard Times, The Weekly Humorist & the rest VIEWS ARE MY OWN. https://t.co/UfxLNhUXU7
Lauren Stoolfire @sunsoar25.bsky.social Librarian, Reader, Book Blogger, Postcrosser, Geek, Cat Lover, INTJ, Leo, She/Her
https://never-anyone-else.blogspot.com/
Sasha Ravitch ☄️ @sasharavitch.bsky.social writer & educator & academic.
cthulhu(s)cene queen.
hwa; codex.
banff writer residency '25.
words in strange horizons, ergot., cosmic horror monthly, & more.
co-founder antilogos press.
pioneered a field of posthuman witchcraft.
H. Perry Horton @hperryhorton.bsky.social New Novel Available Now:
DON'T LET THE DARKNESS EAT YOU UP
https://www.amazon.com/DONT-LET-DARKNESS-EAT-YOU/dp/B0FVT8VWKS
Books: https://shorturl.at/AuKlV
Alison @gothblairwaldorf.bsky.social Literature, film, and music snob (er…fan). World’s slowest short story & screenplay writer. Actor. Goth. Roommate to two cats. Interested in history, folk horror, and kindness.
weird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social a preliminary sketch of a crone. Aspergerian mom of an autistic son. I wrote Experimental Film and literally 100+ short stories. Out now: Little Horn, a collection, from Shortwave Publishing. I sing, make jewelry and doodle pretty monsters.
Antti Olavi @olavihorsma.bsky.social 🇫🇮books, scientist (PhD in biochemistry), books, photography, books, tabletop gaming/crafting (ttrpg, f:ww), books
Horror/Weird
Support real art by real artists
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
Third Estate Books @thirdestatebooks.bsky.social Radical Indie Horror Press. EIC: Aquino Loayza. Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité. We don’t want cake, we want blood.
Kanopy @kanopy.com Incredible and essential films made accessible through your library. #streamsmarter
Max D. Stanton @max-d-stanton.bsky.social Horror writer • Morbid oddball • Pocket full of 20-sided dice • Bloodstream and brain full of toxoplasmosis parasites • Proud Philadelphian • Author of A SEASON OF LOATHSOME MIRACLES and FRANKENSTEIN ENTERPRISES
www.frankenstein-enterprises.com
Josh Rountree @joshrountree.bsky.social Fantasy / Horror / SciFi / Whatever
The Unkillable Frank Lightning
The Legend of Charlie Fish
Death Aesthetic
Stories in The Deadlands, PseudoPod, Bourbon Penn, and other cool places.
Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com Bestselling Novelist. Writer of Video Games & TTRPGs. Hank Hill Apologist. Rep by ANA/CAA.
NO MAN'S SKY | SIXTEEN HORSES | DARK SOULS: EYES OF DEATH | MAGIC: THE GATHERING
Cats: Bucket, Table, and Mop.
gregbuchananwriter.com
Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social PME-ART
The Air Contains Honey Sings Quotes
Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Polyamorous Love Song
Rich and Poor
Authenticity is a Feeling
https://radicalcut.blogspot.com
Pete Ward @phenryward.bsky.social Books, art, theatre, and telling people I liked the thing they made. Weird / Gothic short stories published or forthcoming in Cosmic Horror, Macabre, Frost Zone, Rat Bag and elsewhere. Editorial reader at Gavagai.
Jamey Gallagher @jameygallagher.bsky.social Author of BODIES IN BAGS, I AM IDRIS ELBA, and AMERICAN ANIMISM.
https://jameyg0.wixsite.com/jameygallagher
Community college writing teacher
I read and write: literary stuff, crime stuff, weird stuff
From NH, living in Baltimore.
Nadir Magazine @nadirmagazine.bsky.social New Weird Literature magazine.
Issue #1 releases Feb 27th!
NADIRMagazine.com
Editor @stevenealwrites.bsky.social
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
Power Pulp @powerpulpcomics.bsky.social The self-publishing comics creator collective with built in distribution.
Http://www.powerpulpcomics.com run entirely by its creator members.
Bill Bailey @chroniclebill.bsky.social Old retired hippie living with my Lady of 36 years, off grid the whole time.
Worked at Air Rifle Headquarters in Grantsville, WV, for ten years, then as a printer, typesetter, proofreader, darkroom, etc
wrote for a weekly newspaper for 26 years, retired.
RIO LINDA MEX 🇺🇸🇲🇽🇨🇦🦍aka Gus Gallegos @riolindamex.bsky.social I Believe in DOG 🐕 Support local SPCA
No to DMs, Go Fund Me, Or Sexy Shit
Like Your Grampa, Pero Mas Chingon
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Hugh Jass @satanicmechanic.bsky.social a bio is a red flag tbh
SFFH Books! @sffhbooks.bsky.social Appreciating all things bookish in science fiction, fantasy & horror.
Netherworld Books @netherworldbooks.bsky.social Feats of radical imagination from around the world
>> https://netherworldbooks.net/ <<
books & digital via Bookshop I audio via Libro.fm | IRL @ gatherings in & around Kalamazoo, MI
Queer owned / Weird Left ✊⛓️💥🌈
John R Smith Jnr @johnrsmithjnr.bsky.social Actor/Screenwriter/Coach
John Faiella in #EephusFilm
Bernie Davis in #TheWoodsman
Robert on #TheTroubleWithTessa
Teddy in #TakeFromMeFilm
Tucson in #ISAINTS
imdb.me/johnrsmithjnr
REP: Ann Wright Reps-NYC
**Expect Prolific Profanity**
Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social Baltimore | weird fiction writer 🏆 | scientist by day | find me at the bottom of the Chesapeake | find my stories at link below:
https://kayvaindal.com/
Ian A. Bain @bainwrites.bsky.social Author/cardigan enthusiast
Recent releases: Punk Goes Horror, Truborn Press
VOIDCON @voidcon.bsky.social VOIDCON is a dark covenant, a consortium of shadowy artists and creators across all media. Watch this space.
www.voidcon.wordpress.com
junkyard ambrose @caninebrainz.bsky.social he/it. rabid transsexual Chernobyl zombie dog. neo-impressionist schizoliterature for a hundred failed apocalypses
evidence locker: caninebrainz.neocities.org
FREE PALESTINE 🍉
[sentiment inexpressible] @goresorcerer.bsky.social horror writing | industrial music (surgeryhead) | metal (thrall/argento) | rpgs (squishy) | waow
Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social ⋆Queer Southern Novelist 🌿
⋆WHITE TRASH WITCHCRAFT (HH Fall, 2027)
⋆Rep: @keiralekseii.bsky.social at Azantian
⋆✒️WTMP & 🩵 SmoochPit Mentor
https://linktr.ee/RowanBrightonBrown
Trevor Henderson 🍉 (commissions closed) @slimyswampghost.bsky.social he/him NO A/I GARBAGE
🪱 Artist / illustrator / writer obsessed with ghosts ‘n ghouls
🪱 Wrote Scarewaves / Scarewaves: Beyond The Grave
🪱 Creature concepts for Tarot (2024) + others
Xerardo Ancient Game Music @xerardo-game-music.bsky.social I make music mods for 80s/90s video games together with the YT channel Pieces of 8-bit's HQ Remakes (https://www.youtube.com/@HQRemakes).
My YT channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@Xerardo-Ancient-Game-Music
RetroGaming | GameMusic | Synth | GamingHistory
Anthony M. Abboreno @anthonymabboreno.bsky.social He/him. English teacher. Fiction writer.
PhD @ University of Southern California.
Words @ Redivider, Copper Nickel, Story Magazine, American Short Fiction, Outlook Springs, Planet Scumm, Future Fire
Rich Duncan Jr. @horrorbookshelf.bsky.social Book reviewer and writer. Work in The Horror Tree, FUMPTRUCK, Truborn Press. Co-founder of the Ink Heist podcast with Shane D. Keene. Co-founder of Genre Buzzword. (he/him)
genrebuzzword.com
Jim Andrew Clark @jimandrewclark.com I write comic books, play the ukulele, juggle, and wear pants. But not all at the same time.
jimandrewclark.com
𝕮𝖗𝖞𝖕𝕿𝖎𝖈𝖚𝕾 @crypticus.bsky.social #CRYPTICUS - Musician, Producer, #Metal & #Horror Pundit, Guitar in #DeathMetal band CRYPTICUS, Host of #TheFilthChamber on YT, #SHMUP enthusiast
https://www.youtube.com/crypticusofficial
https://crypticus.bandcamp.com/
https://linktr.ee/Crypticus
Kyle E. Miller @kymiller.bsky.social Writer. Author of The Idiot’s Garden.
www.kyle-e-miller.com
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
Jack LaRoche 🐺 @coyotespeaks.bsky.social Just looking for hope wherever I can and wondering what the fuck. QAA
https://jacklaroche.com
Serina Hartwell - Author @serinahartwell.bsky.social Award winning author of The Hidden Saga
Step into my world and let me take you on a journey...
https://serinahartwell.com/
https://books2read.com/ap/n0A0Mv/Serina-Hartwell
@immervideo.bsky.social @immervideo.bsky.social 
The Podcast Inside Your House @insideyourhouse.bsky.social A weird horror anthology show. Created by Annie Marie Morgan and Kevin Shrock.
Cy ✨️🏳️⚧️✨️ @yourpalcy.bsky.social Heya, I'm a trans writer and fiber artist currently lost in an infinite forest. It's always night, and the eyes looking down at me from the canopy are getting closer.
she/her
Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social Nonfiction about weird fiction at Seize the Press, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nightmare, and Ancillary Review of Books, where I am also an editor. Also jazz, metal, leftism. he/him
https://doomsdayer.wordpress.com/writings/
RazNasty @raznasty.bsky.social QUEER+HORROR+PUNK PRINTMAKER
Linocut freak, scribbler, and slop enthusiast🖤
PATCHES+PRINTS: https://www.etsy.com/shop/RazNasty
Laird Barron @lairdbarron.bsky.social A dog of the house
Mainly updates; occasional commentary
Catch me at my Patreon: Realms of Old Leech https://www.patreon.com/lairdbarron/about
Banner art: Chuck Killorin.
Alejandro Medellin @skinnyfats.bsky.social Freelance tech writer and videographer. Avid follower of all things geek, tech, and games.
✒️: Tom's Guide, Shutterstock, Crunchyroll, Input Mag, & more
📧: amdlln.freelance@proton.me
💼: bit.ly/alexmdlln 
Peter Bertlessen @peterbertlessen.bsky.social Lover of books and films, especially those in the genres of Transgressive Fiction, Western, Horror and Punk. A counterculture enthusiast who writes sometimes.
https://www.instagram.com/peterbertlessen?igsh=em5wM3lnZXJ4MDU2
André Martuscelli @matanui.bsky.social Ilustrador de livros, revistas, quadrinhos e autor destes também.
Nas outras redes é só procurar por:
@ Matanui_
Portfolio: https://www.artstation.com/andremartuscelli
Distrito: 4560
Série Interna
Jeff Mariotte @jeffmariotte.bsky.social Award-winning writer of novels, short fiction, comics/GN, whatever seems fun. Crime, westerns, horror, sf, etc. Member HWA, WWA, ITW, SinC, IAMTW, WF. Husband of @Marsheilarockwell, dad of some. Too busy. Arizonan.
https://linktr.ee/JeffreyJMariotte
Kerryyyeléison @kerrystlaurent.art artist of the handmade variety: video/installation, mixed media 2D, occasional album/book art & weird makeup // professor of creating things & challenging higher ed status quo // dogs
@chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social 
Noah Isherwood @nershwood.bsky.social our father, who art in heaven, baja be thy blast
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words in HAD, Uncharted, Bewildering Stories, etc.
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editor at @stringphone.bsky.social
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https://linktr.ee/noahisherwood
Chris Creature @chriscreature.bsky.social Gameshow Co-Host of Desperate Losers Twitch.tv/desperate_losers
Thursdays at 12 et
chriscreaturemedia@gmail.com
Ilan Jones @mountainhorror.bsky.social Maybe I'll be here, maybe I wont.
Rebecca Karas @rebeccakaras.bsky.social poet & weird fiction writer. probably thinking about Tetris. she/they
https://linktr.ee/rebecca.karas
Feminecronomicon 🏳️⚧️ @imaginesirikeeton.bsky.social Sasha (she/they) 31, lesbianochka, Jewish anti-Zionist, probably marked as a rude account 🧜♀️ 🏳️⚧️
🚫 no slopmongers 🚫
https://rotaryghostny.bandcamp.com/
“Serving cunt has its consequences”- Lestat De Lioncourt
writing a weird fiction trilogy
Evening House Books @eveninghouse.bsky.social an indie bookstore in downtown Buffalo, NY, focusing on new small press titles, books in translation, unsung classics, manga & much more
run by Amanda & John
website: http://www.eveninghousebooks.com
Kaja @ozarksoccult.bsky.social 
Dave Cullen @musashi667.bsky.social Twitter refugee*St Louis Blues/City SC/Cardinals St Louis City Punks. Sports/Art/Music. St. Pauli ☠️ Celtic 🍀FC Tulsa 🕊️ Forest Park Rangers FC 🌳
Words are hard. Here for a good time, not a long time.
Eli Atoms @needlescaine.bsky.social Retired tattoo artist. Carpenter. Godzilla collector. Dungeon master. Aspiring novelist. Father. Husband. Forward is the direction. Steady is the pace.
Grace Statwick 🖼️🎶 🇺🇸🇰🇷 @gracestatwick.bsky.social Multidisciplinary artist 🎨🖼️🎶🎤🎸🎻
Richmond, VA muralist, singer-songwriter, illustrator, miniaturist.
Old Dog Shoes @olddogshoes.bsky.social imposter
Newton @newton1973.bsky.social Author/Artist/Poet/Oddity/Complicated Shadow. 
Evie Englezos @sweetdestructor.bsky.social 
emily jane @ulc3r.bsky.social giant posable centipede
Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social Makes photos, videos, books, zines, and podcasts. A lesbian, she/her, etc. saracentury.com
jrmcconvey @jrmcconvey.bsky.social Writer/kraken. Battening upon huge sea-worms in his sleep.
Books: False Bodies (2024), Different Beasts (2019). Raptors faithful. He/him. www.jrmcconvey.com
Tachyon Transmitter @tachyontransmitter.bsky.social I make art with action figures and other stuff.
https://www.instagram.com/tachyontransmitter/profilecard/?igsh=ZmM1eHI0enY5NGds
Strange Wilds Press - BOREAL is here! @strangewildspress.bsky.social Tiny Maine Horror Press. BOREAL - Feb. 25th | Vulpine Curse - Apr. 30th |EIC @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social. Website: www.katherinesilvaauthor.com/strange-wilds-press
Order BOREAL: https://books2read.com/u/470Rq8
Daniel J Volpe @danieljvolpehorror.bsky.social Splatterpunk Award winning author of PLASTIC MONSTERS. Author of TALIA, LEFT TO YOU, and many others. Djvhorror.com 
Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social Poet, professor, literary translator, new media artist, and writer of speculative fiction. M.F.A., Ph.D., HWA, SFWA #horror #scifi #fantasy #booksky
Web: https://francescolevato.com/
Sea Minor/Irving Benitez @seaminor.bsky.social Poetry and Fiction writer. Disabled and Queer. Crowned in Blood and Birthright. A horror genre and tangerine enjoyer. Really weird.
Carrd: seaminor.carrd.co/
itch.io: https://sea-minor.itch.io/
Leanna Riley @leannafromsavannah.bsky.social Emerging author ✍🏼
Known for spinning twisted tales of hauntings, tragedy, and the unexplained. 🖤🥜
Emily @emilymarie82.bsky.social Reader. Wife. Mum. She/ Her. Interested in music, films, horror and books (so many books) 🖤
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️+ Ally
Helena Lancaster @helenalwrites.bsky.social ♓️🐲🇺🇸 38, Writer (Fantasy, Poetry, & More), Goth, Historian, Nerd (lover of SciFi/Fantasy, Comics, etc), Cat Lady, Music Lover, Feminist, Free Spirit, Spread love not hate, 🔵 in red state, love is love, Ally of 🏳️🌈, she/her
http://helenalwrites.wordpress.com
Ross Taylor @rosstaylorart.bsky.social Prop and background artist working at Titmouse and illustrating in KC
Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-winning & 2x Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author. She/her.
Pre-Order How to Fake a Haunting:
https://www.christacarmen.com/books-how-to-fake-a-haunting.aspx
Substack: Horror Homesteading:
https://christacarmen.substack.com/
Elizabeth S Devecchi @esdevecchiauthor.bsky.social Writer and voracious reader. Collector of degrees (American and Italian). Author of A Whisper in the Dark, where the creature using our rage and fear against us to feed on the human race is only fiction.
Satyros Phil Brucato @satyrosphilbrucato.bsky.social Author/ editor/ game designer/ indie publisher/ music lover/ hypercreative malcontent/ ecstatic pedant of loving fury. (he/him/they/them)
Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social Queer disabled writer, artist, & scholar aka Dr. Heffers.
Lover of nature, sitcoms, libraries, & coffee.
EIC, Genrepunk Magazine (@genrepunkmag.bsky.social)
📚 What Blooms in the Dark (2024)
She/they
https://linktr.ee/audreytcarroll
Leigh Kenny @leighkenny.bsky.social Irish horror author ☘️
Does it count as talking to yourself if yourself answers back?
Christopher Hawkins @christopherhawkins.bsky.social Writer. Factotum. Master of tsundoku. HWA Chicagoland chapter co-chair.
Award-winning author of Suburban Monsters and Downpour.
https://www.christopher-hawkins.com
Dan Eady Author @daneady.bsky.social Writer of Genre Fiction mostly of the horror/crime-thriller variety from Aotearoa, New Zealand I General Nerdiness | Metal, Dark Country & Ambient music Fan I Taco Demolition Expert
https://linktr.ee/daniel_eady
BippityBoppityBong @bippityboppitybong.bsky.social 
Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social Minneapolis-based publisher of short horror and Weird fiction. Anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, and pro-queer. Shirley Jackson Award-winning press.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/cursedmorsels
Brendan Vidito @brendanvidito.bsky.social He/Him
Author of Nightmares in Ecstasy and Pornography for the End of the World
Wonderland Award winner
Worm Aficionado
Website: https://brendanvidito.com