Sam @akiodeandsam.bsky.social BOOK LOVER
Drew McDowell @drewwmcdowell.bsky.social Proud father and husband - gamer - goober - reader - lover of cheese and taters - MA Sociology - Loaded to the brim with Anxiety and ADHD
He/Him/His
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Adult SF/F writer - querying a sci-fi novel
Kat Devitt @katdevittwrites.bsky.social 🖤Author of Gothic Things
🌸SmoochPit 2023-24 Mentee
🌙Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net Nominee
🐱Cat Purrrent
📚Library Gremlin
Safe space for all. 🌈,BLM
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zilla @zillawrites.bsky.social 📎There's a lot of beauty in ordinary things.
🖤🤍💜
🩸 In my FINAL GIRL era 🩸
🎧 Co-host of the With Series Potential podcast
✏️ rep: Alex Land at MWLA
🏕️ Camp Director 🌲
catherine (晓琳) is ✨publishing✨ @smolcatwrites.bsky.social chinese-american, debut horror whitefish coming fall 27 with flatiron and hodder 💖
rep: maddy belton @mmagency.bsky.social
https://www.catherinechengwrites.com/
Bee 🐝 has a BOOK DEAL! @beemorris.bsky.social Author of all things dark, spicy & unhinged ❤️🔥
KILL ME MAYBE 🔪💕 (@penguinrandomhouse & @littlebrown)
Rep: Suzannah Ball & Caitlin Mahony at @WME 📚
Taylor Robinson @tayloredtext.bsky.social Horror satire author
BE MY ALIBI (Harper Collins 2027)
Rep: @jade_kavanagh_agent darleyanderson_agency
Editor @ Taylored Text LLC
Judah Mahay @judahmahay.com Alaskan SFF author who weaves magic into reality and pushes science to the plausible extreme. Professor by day. Hockey player by night. SFWA ✨ Vegan 🌱 Rep’ed by Lukas Ortiz of Spitzer Literary Agency
https://linktr.ee/judahmahay
https://www.judahmahay.com
Tracie Renee (she/her) @tracierenee.bsky.social Librarian in sort-of Chicago.
PW book reviewer.
#Amquerying #SCBWI writer/poet.
Winner: #50PreciousWords, Highlights scholarship, ElegantLit, IAmWritingMG.
HM: #PBParty.
WTMP mentee, RisingTalent finalist, BOTN.
https://linktr.ee/tracie.renee
Rachel @raeblainewrites.bsky.social YA SciFi/Horror writer querying a CliFi Dystopian novel✍️📚📝 🏳️🌈
#Posterpit Co-host
Sober Letters to Mom blog. Raising kids in LA because Chicago is too cold. She/her
https://rachelblaine.substack.com
https://rachelblainewriter.com
The Sunlight Press @thesunlightpress.bsky.social A nonprofit digital literary journal for new and established voices. We welcome fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and photography.
www.thesunlightpress.com
Jake Ott @jakeott.bsky.social founder & editor @ Merganser Magazine
mergansermagazine.com
@mergansermagazine.bsky.social
🔏⛹️💙💛 fiction, poetry, and hoops
Norb Aikin @norbaikin.bsky.social 2x Writing.com Best Poetry Collection Quill Award winner and blogger. 3x published author. Former child. Hemmed up by JGM. #BillsMafia #Sabres #LGM #NDIrish Don't mind me; I hate everything. Norbaikin.com/blog
Marin T. Kael @marin-t-kael.de Deutscher Fantasy-Autor.
Saga „Prägungen des Reiches", work in progress, lange Form.
Open field laboratory: was Sprachmodelle aus einem Roman lesen.
marin-t-kael.de
📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social Sci-fi romance author (on sub!) 🏳️🌈
Poetry: Smoky Quartz, Literary Hatchet
🏳🌈 Bi; she/her 🚑 EMT
📚 Clarion UCSD 🩺 Nursing school
TTRPGs. No TERFs.
Guy sure looks like cat food to me.
☀:♎ 🌙:♈ ⬆:♏
Butlerian Jihad, now! AI = block
Rep: Christi Cardenas
Marc Edmond Best, Indie Author. @dapperdinobot.bsky.social Author of THE CATAPHRACT OATH, a swashbuckling clockpunk mecha adventure!
Ask me about giant robot cartoons or obscure TTRPGs or kung fu movies or food history or sci fi/fantasy novels and I will talk your ear off.
He/Him
Arguably the best Marc.
Em. ♡ @emilycatewrites.bsky.social 29. Writer. Vegan. 35% rambling about writing, 65% rambling about my pets — @ me for a free pic. ⚢
Orion's Belt magazine @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social We publish experimental literary speculative fiction, poetry, reviews & translations. Read us at http://orions-belt.net. Support us at http://patreon.com/orionsbeltmag. EiC: @gessicasakamoto.bsky.social
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net I hunt fake history and correct it, but also post amazing real history stuff. Rude, obscene, vulgar, racist people who can't act like grown-ups get blocked.
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Mick Carrigan @mickcarrigan.bsky.social Editor in Chief, Taco Bell Quarterly. Bylines: VICE, Bon Appetit, Eater. Forthcoming - JUNK: The Brands That Raised Us, the Stuff that Shaped Us, and What We Leave Behind (Scribner). This is my junk.
Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social 🍁 THE THINGS WE RUN FOR - On Sub Soon!
🐦⬛ MARK OF A MAGPIE - On Submission!
•~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~•
📚 Rep: Amanda Wooden @sbr_media
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DM De Alwis @dmdealwis.bsky.social Author 🇨🇦🇱🇰🍀 In this life or the next... blending mythology with fantasy. I also write Children's books.🦁👹 Myths& Samsara podcast. https://dmdealwis.com/quick-links/
2nd-generation Canadian; open-source circles know me as dcor.
Jen Ippensen @jenippensen.bsky.social reader, writer, editor, librarian
basically, all the word things
oscillating between hope and despair, here and not here (she/her)
Rat Bag @ratbaglit.bsky.social 🐀 www.ratbaglit.com
🐀 https://ratbaglit.substack.com/
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Our authors on BS
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Starter Pack
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🌱 El(iza)beth 🌬️ K 🔥 T 🌊 @arachnereid.bsky.social author of a hopeful post collapse #CliFi #hopepunk novel journey through the tarot
COMING OCTOBER 20, 2026
~🐓permaculture 🕉️ meditation 🔮✨magic 👐 community ∞🌲wilderness🌳~
PDX
We are in this together, friends💕
Iza K. T.
https://linktr.ee/arachnereid
Vic is querying! 🌿🏺📚 @velf.bsky.social 96% tea
Analyst
Loves myth, literature, kitchen gardens, mist-pooled valleys, stinky cheese & 3,000yo dead guys
@workingclassicists contributor
TRYING to #write
Goldfinch Novel Award LL
Yeovil Lit Prize LL
Ascent LL
Sleepy yet woke
pfp©HerderEd
🌍Birkenhead
Meg @megsteadman.bsky.social Writer, artist, ukulele enthusiast.
Revisions stage: hatchet drafting.
Jeffrey Vernon Matucha @jephmat.bsky.social The Works of Jeffrey Vernon Matucha, author, marathoner, software engineer, and survivor of club scenes in San Francisco!
#BLM - Anti-trumper - lgbtqia+ supporter. Promote indie authors!
https://needlepictures.com/tbd/books/
Beanie @meanbeanie.bsky.social No longer writing.
J Brooke @jbrookewrites.bsky.social Writer | Editor | Filmmaker
Author of: I Can Tell You The Version That Will Make You Take My Side (Driftwood Press, 2026)
Book Reviews Editor: The Rumpus
Poetry Editor: Trans Poetics Archive
Jbrookewrites.com
Khonri @khonri.com 35 | she/they | 🖤🩶🤍💜 | 🧀🧠
Sometimes writing a semi-modern lovey fantasy saga w/ monsties.
🧵 frequent threader and 🎨 living artist advertisement that 🎮 likes video games and 🔞 infrequently discusses 18+ topics
❌ no AI bullshit
pfp&banner: @birdko.art
Abby @arobertswrites.com BSFA-nominated essayist. SFF author you’ve never heard of. SocDem. Tolkien nerd. Relapsed Catholic. Armchair medievalist. She/her. Header by chorischia.bsky.social.
Website: arobertswrites.com
Newsletter: buttondown.email/arobertswrites
Just Keep Up Magazine @justkeepupmagazine.bsky.social sci-fi / horror zine
poetry every 1st & 3rd Monday
fiction every 2nd & 4th Wednesday
new book & film reviews every month
justkeepupmagazine.com
https://ko-fi.com/justkeepupmagazine
https://just-keep-up-magazine.myspreadshop.com/
Jonathan Capehart @jonathancapehart.bsky.social Co-host, MS NOW "The Weekend." Contributor PBS NewsHour, "Brooks & Capehart"
Former Associate Editor, The Washington Post.
Eugene Daniels @eugenedaniels2.bsky.social Host of The Weekend and Senior Washington Correspondent at MSNBC. Walking Beyoncé Encyclopedia.
William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol All the world’s a stage
Merganser Magazine @mergansermagazine.bsky.social PROSE AND POETRY.
EXPEDITION 017 LIVE @ mergansermagazine.com
BUY MERGANSER 1 @ mergansermagazine.com/store/
Edited by @jakeott.bsky.social
J.C. Medeiros @jcmedwrites.bsky.social My new Bluesky account, my old one is frozen : ( I don't use this app much, you can find me on Threads or Instagram @jcmed.author
Writer, reader, dreamer. I like to let the words speak for themselves.
WIP progress: Final edits of a dystopian romance
Samantha Breaux is looking for ARC readers @woodenvelt.bsky.social amateur author, professional educator, life-long artist, hobby gardener, she/her
🚫 No AI 🚫
Member of @hookandquillpress.com
Marine St. Jean @marinestjean.bsky.social She/her.
Lesbian romance author.
-Gay shit
-Witchy shit
-Cats
Living out your cottagecore fantasies in the wilds of Canada with her wife and a cat.
marinestjean.ca
https://www.tiktok.com/@marinestjean
https://www.instagram.com/marinestjeanauthor
The Weekend on MS NOW @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social Watch "The Weekend" on Saturdays and Sundays from 7–10am ET on @ms.now with hosts: @jonathancapehart.bsky.social, @eugenedaniels2.bsky.social, and Jackie Alemany. ms.now/membership
KTLyn (any) @ktlyn.bsky.social Ace/aro, agender specfic writer with an Appalachian accent. Writer for @toughpigs.com Let's make magic: knitting, libraries, hiking, baking, writing, Muppets or some mysterious new thing to learn!
Tales to Terrify @talestoterrify.bsky.social An award-winning weekly horror fiction podcast
⛔ CLOSED TO SUBMISSIONS FOR NOW
🖤Stay tuned for when we'll reopen!
www.talestoterrify.com
#HorrorCommunity
Meredith Morgenstern she/her | Read banned books @mlmorgenstern.bsky.social Fiction editor @TalesToTerrify. Member HWA & WiHAMA. Mom. Knitter. Reader. Baker. Murder unicorn. Indoorsy. Tired. FDT.
I acknowledge that I am on the unceded land of the Lenni Lenape People.
I don't auto-follow back.
Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social cultivating community and publishing bold work: flash, short fiction, cnf, poetry, and other nonconforming pieces
JohnFosterFic @jfoster.bsky.social I write horror and crime fiction, live in Brooklyn and love cooking and martial arts. My wife is the actress Linda Jones and our dog is half pit, half Dutch shepherd and all clown. Though I may wince, you really can choose any pizza toppings you like.
Jen ✍️ 📚 @jenknowsprose.bsky.social ▪️ Writer of paranormal romance ▪️Coffee, dogs, and books are a requirement ▪️If I’m not writing, I’m probably howling at the moon ▪️
jenn (is querying and writing) @kotegentarri.bsky.social 28 | library worker and writer | chronically ill + endometriosis | gothic romance and horror + eldritch horror | 🖤cr: Demons by Dostoyevsky
Website: https://jenniferkausewrites.my.canva.site/
Izzy King | 📚 To the Sky Kickstarter Feb 2027 📚 @hrmkingizzy.bsky.social they/them 🏳️🌈 for writing porpoises 🐬📝dark/urban fantasy 🖤
Website: http://izzyking.com/
Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/izzyking/to-the-sky
Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
brentlythomas @brentlythomas.bsky.social jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none, as my dear sainted mother used to say
somewhere between slappy the squirrel and dorothy zbornak
“is it any wonder that no truly respectable society has ever trusted its artists?” le guin
they/them
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✊🖤🍉
Astrid Aillume @aillume.bsky.social A detective. Astrid Aillume's New Case: A Billionaire's Mystery
Cracking a case is like salty liquorice.
Surprising at first,but ultimately addictive.
WoodPig Press @woodpigpress.bsky.social WoodPig Press is an independent micro-press specialising in speculative fiction and non-fiction. We are a loose collective of creative freelancers who share a belief that humans are more than machines, and there’s more to life than money.
WoodPigPress.com
Just a girl and her books @thebookwyrmshoard2.bsky.social Books, video games, anime, and me! NO AI!!
https://thebookwyrmshoard8.wordpress.com/
https://www.goodreads.com/thebookwyrmshoard25
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/the_book_wyrms_hoard
https://ko-fi.com/thebookwyrmshoard
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Quarter Press @quarterpress.bsky.social Our products are like quarters sitting on the sidewalk: They're worth picking up.
Linktr.ee/quarterpress
Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social Writer. Books: A THOUSAND WAYS TO DISAPPEAR (Cornerstone Press, 2028)/THE CLARITY OF HUNGER (Word West Press, 2021). Fiction instructor: Harvard Extension School. MacDowell Fellow ‘23. Email: fabulistpappas@gmail.com
www.cherylpappas.net
Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social Goat wrangler. Accidental businessman. ADHD. Bi/Demi. Old from birth Millenial. #BluePit host. I post about writing and a silly collision of Hell, business, and unlikely romance. (He/Him)
https://linktr.ee/zprospero
Helen Kingston @kingstonwrites.bsky.social Screenwriter
Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social be inspired or be DESTROYED
@skeletor@mas.to
Missouri Botanical Garden @mobotgarden.bsky.social The Missouri Botanical Garden is an oasis in the city of St. Louis and a world leader in plant science, conservation, education and horticultural display.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
sadassbadass @sadassbadass.bsky.social Books and rage ✨🪐📚🌈🧟♂️ ✨
Writing about disability, grief, and living on the fringes.
📚 157/100
Will Willoughby @willwilloughby.bsky.social Writer • Editor • Maine Literary Award winner • Short stories in Epiphany, Pithead Chapel, Pangyrus, etc. • Story collection WHILE I HAVE YOU coming from Littoral Books April 2027
www.willwilloughby.com
@altregan.bsky.social @altregan.bsky.social 
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Justin Kade @kadeshow.bsky.social Bursting with fruit flavor. Mornings & Saturdays at Sirius XM Alt Nation. Running. Fitness. Meditation. Sleep.
Pyre Magazine [PERMANENTLY CLOSED] @pyremagazine.bsky.social Online publisher of horror, speculative, weird, & dark lit. Igniting bold voices in the shadows. Editor-in-chief: Ryan Thomas LaBee.
- Lit in Flames.
Katie Collan @kancollan.bsky.social She/her || YA writer - digital video editor - storyteller in all mediums #amquerying
Jade Mason @jademasonwrites.bsky.social Romance Writer | I write adult coming-of-age stories where life and love collide.
Rep: Emily Forney at BookEnds Literary
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
Tatiana @tmiranda23.bsky.social Host on SiriusXM’s Alt Nation | M-F 6p-12a ET
Kara Moon 🏴☠️💜⚓️ @karamoonauthor.com Kara Moon (she/her/they/them)
The R18+ pseudonym of @clairehiria.com
Māori lesbian author, playwright and poet from Aotearoa NZ
Host of #pretendpanel
www.karamoonauthor.com
Dawn Berkoski @dawnberkoski.bsky.social Writer, photographer, and traveler on this road called life. linktr.ee/dawnberkoski
💓Safe Space💓
Liv Wrightes || QUERYING @livwrightes.bsky.social 32 | French author | Photograph ||
QUERYING : SECRET EMBERS
Adult Contemporary Fantasy ||
RevPit 2025 Shortlisted & #10Queries winner
Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social Quarterly print literary magazine & small book press in the Philly 'burbs. Founder & EIC Jeff Bogle. linktr.ee/StanchionZine
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/
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
Ian Haramaki 🏳️⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social Hi I'm a dinosaur. I'm 32 years old and a CO based artist and award winning author. Also I make the "Better Visuals" SDV Mods. He/Him. 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 🇯🇵 Links: http://cometkins.carrd.co
https://cometkins.com
Holly Chessman @hollychessman.bsky.social Storyteller, #Writer, #NoKings, #Pinks, #HandsOff, 💙💙 #DoctorWho, #Marvel, 💖 Dark Chocolate, #Feminist, Mom of 4, #disability, #chronicillness: #LongCovid, #MECFS, #Migraine, #POTS, etc. 🚫DMs w/out permission
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hollychessman
Me @ewiggins66.bsky.social Writer, architect, woodcarver, gardener, dog & cat lover, live off-grid in a secluded coastal forest retreat in Maine. Healthcare worker. Autistic tendacies linger. I believe life is complicated and we all need choices.
John Kenny @johnkenny13.bsky.social Poetry: New Irish Writing, Live Encounters, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, The Madrid Review, Flare, The High Window, Poem Alone, Poems for Protest, Smashing Times, StepAway Magazine.
Fiction: The Galway Review, Revival, Emerald Eye, Albedo One.
Michael J. Roberts @musycks.bsky.social Musician, writer and existentialist. Also - Musycks.
'I taunt you a second time.'
Author of The Virgin Sacrifice - A political satire beyond belief.
1st 7 chapters free on Kindle to see if it's your cup of poison.🙂
Film buff - My site is Filmycks.com
Barbie Jones @barbiejones.bsky.social I write dime novels for $.99📚#amwriting
Queen Em @queenemerald.bsky.social Autistic, agender. Happily married with 2 great kids. Veteran. Witch. Magician. They /she/he
💡💡💡💡
#fcknzs #fckmaga #acab #taco
Mike Spry @mikespry.bsky.social Writer/Poet. Words in the Toronto Star, FLOOD, Indiewire, MTV CA, National Post, McSweeney’s IT, TSN, Washington Sq. Review, and elsewhere + a few books.
I write about TV/film/music/culture @ Narrative Electric Co.: https://mikespry.substack.com
Sam Vimes @reaper-man.bsky.social Fantasy/Sci-fi enthusiast and aspiring novelist. Fairly competent guitarist. Huge Discworld fan. Pen Name.
Believes in you, always.
Halfway home.
A feed of my writing samples: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zop5c23rj5kkvja4x7eie6n2/feed/aaakrqwzltzhi
Prof Emily @professoremily.bsky.social English teacher, writer, lover of cats & dogs, unpacking all my religious trauma on you from here in good ol Texas. 🥲
Member of hookandquillpress.com
Feed of my writing samples: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:br2rslmo7elrd3hp5dfsx3ye/feed/aaaksewrcngo4
Alex Is Writing @alexfromawen.bsky.social 🏳️🌈👭
40 something married bookseller/lover 📚 | Sapphic Fiction Writer | Big Time Geek Girl | Gamer 🎮🎲 | Tattoo enthusiast | Cat Mom #ND
Love to connect with other writers and readers!
No AI/NFTs!
linktr.ee/alexfromawen
Diana Colleen Author 🍁 @dianacolleenauthor.bsky.social Writing speculative fiction that challenges power and imagines change. Writing about billionaires, psychedelics, and the fight for a better world. #ClimateFiction #SpecFic
www.dianacolleenauthor.com
Alie5280 @alie5280.bsky.social Mom. Dog lover. Wannabe Writer. Ally. All genders are valid. Liberal AF. Coloradoan who grew up in MN.
Melissa @moatis.bsky.social Author: Rural Indigenousnness (SU Press, 2018). Historian turned fiction writer - querying my debut women’s fiction manuscript in 2025! k-drama fan since Covid. Love my family, travel and learning about people and places and especially Democracy!!
Suzy Henderson @suzyhenderson.bsky.social Writer of historical fiction, fantasy & romance. Lost in the 1940s. Copious tea drinker. Loving Lake District life. Published by DP Books & Northodox Press. Shortlisted for RetreatWest First Chapter Prize 2025.
Blu (is editing!!) @bluwrites.bsky.social 🌈 sffh writer | new england → seongnam🇰🇷 | 🌱 | audhd | 💛🤍💜🖤 |
🖋️ Eat Them wip (27k of 90k goal, adult horror); LLL wip (101k of 100k?? FINISHED!!!!, adult sci-fi); LM wip (0k of 100k, coming soon I guess haha)
|🚫AI🚫|
Quincy Hall @qtheseminarian.bsky.social Episcopal Deacon | Follower of Jesus
Humor keeps me grounded in grace.
Musician. Dog dad. 🐾
Joy, mercy, and the work of repair.
ΛΧΑ
David Galle @davidgalle.bsky.social Author - Traveler - Outdoor Enthusiast
https://linktr.ee/davidgalle