Misha Grifka Wander @mishagw.bsky.social he/they | writer and game designer | american midwest
Riley Black ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ ๐ฆ @restingdinoface.bsky.social Bronto-queen, big cat, best-selling and award-winning author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, When the Earth Was Green, Tyrant Lizard Queen (out October 27), and Megatooth. ๐ she/they/it. Skreeonk. rileyblack.net
StoryStudio Chicago @storystudiochicago.bsky.social We are a literary arts nonprofit focused on building a writing community. Classes and events online and in person. Come write with us!
https://www.storystudiochicago.org
@atlinmerrick.bsky.social @atlinmerrick.bsky.social 
Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social A @storystudiochicago.bsky.social publication! Editor-in-Chief @mbwwelch.bsky.social
Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim USA Today bestselling author of SUBLIMATION. award winning short fiction guy. coined the term "omelas hole."
the apprentice liar and the death of the world MARCH 2 2027
http://isabel.kim < website
Wow if True < listen wherever pods are cast
Emma LeRae @emmalerae.bsky.social Paleoartist - Illustrator - Writer?
She/Her ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ ๐ฆ
www.emmalerae.com
Prints and stickers available at:
www.emmalerae.com/store.html
Upcoming appearances:
https://www.emmalerae.com/upcoming-appearances.html
Apparel:
https://emmalerae.threadless.com
Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social Science fiction & fantasy writer. World builder. Reader. Outrigger canoe paddler. I โค๏ธ my schnauzer. Hawaii. โก๏ธ๐๏ธ She/her.
Where Should I Start With Your Novels, a guide:
https://imakeupworlds.com/where-should-i-start-with-your-novels/
Randee Dawn @randeedawn.com Author, โTune in Tomorrow,โ โWe Interrupt This Program,โ โThe Only Song Worth Singing,โ โLeave No Trace"
Journalist: Variety, LA Times, Today
AI-free forever
https://linktr.ee/RandeeDawn
Sophie Burnham @sophieburnham.bsky.social sff novels & weird seagull noises ๐ฝ ๐
sidewise winner, locus & astounding finalist
books: SARGASSA & BLOODTIDE
rep: maria napolitano // kt literary
https://linktr.ee/sophieburnham
Andy Dudak @andydudak.bsky.social Writer/translator/illustrator... BSFA & Eugie Award finalist... ็งๅนปไธ็, Clarkesworld, Interzone, Asimov's, Analog, F&SF, and more...
Elias the Extraterrestrial @eliasvarden.bsky.social I bring posts from outerspace
Lily Lachance ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐โ๏ธ @lilylachance.com Trans ๐ณ๏ธโ๐, adventurer, author, poet, filmmaker. ๐จ๐ฆ
Unagented but seeking.
Words in Phano, Gavagai, Bullet Points, and more. Anti-gen-AI absolutist. (No both-siders, ever.)
Upward... Ever upward. ๐๐๐
pixelpete @ LACON ๐ @pixelpete.bsky.social Twitch Indie/Charity Creator ($30K+)
Senior Mgr CyberSec Architecture + Data Sec
DadLife and Dabbling in Writing
biz email: yopixelpete@gmail.com
Dannye Chase is writing gay vampires @dannyechase.bsky.social Queer writer of romance & spec, she/her * The Vampire Haven queer romantic erotica series * Weird writing prompts: http://DannyeChase.com/blog
Leanne (L. A.) Schwartz @schwartzwords.bsky.social YA fantasy: A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE and TO A DARKER SHORE / adult romcom: MY KIND OF TROUBLE / sadder but wiser / autistic / fat / ๐ / ๐ฎ๐น / theater / (she/they) Repped by: Alex Land/Mad Woman Literary
https://linktr.ee/leanneschwartz
JD Jesson @jdjesson.bsky.social SFF author. <3 Adult. They/them, queer.
ardenstarke.bsky.social @ardenstarke.bsky.social Used to build products. Now building fantasy worlds.
Studying to be a therapist in-between
Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social The 2026 Worldcon in Los Angeles, California
Visit LAcon.org for more details
๐
August 27-31, 2026
โจ๏ธ Adventure Awaits!
Viable Paradise @viableparadise.bsky.social The writing workshop you've been looking for! https://viableparadise.com
Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social Ceramic painter bringing dramatic galactic moments to your dinner table. PNW. (she/her)
linktr.ee/amyraehill
Restock: TBD
Sword Liv-sbian @oblivias.bsky.social She/Sir, 20s ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ. An appetite wearing human skin. Illustration/OCs/comics, sometimes๐, minors DNI
Tapling: Queer Zines ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @taplingzines.bsky.social Decolonial queer art books ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
๐ Moments of Euphoria LIVE Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/taplingzines/moments-of-euphoria-an-art-book-of-trans-joy-and-love
๐ https://taplingzines.com/
Zara Alfonso Illustration @zaraalfonso.bsky.social Freelance fantasy, sci-fi & surreal artist | Artist on Magic: The Gathering | WotC, Lucasfilm, Games Workshop
Prints: zaraalfonso.com/store
IG: instagram.com/artofzaraalfonso
H Kapp-Klote @hkappklote.bsky.social I write about Chicago, labor, and organizing.
Subscribe: https://chicago312.beehiiv.com/
GIRLIES Podcast @girliespod.bsky.social A podcast about girlies.
Hosted by Stella (@antlervel.vet) and Simone (@simonee.bsky.social)
patreon.com/girlies
Hannah Alexander Artwork @hannahartwork.bsky.social โจ๏ธ freelance costume designer and art nouveau illustratorโจ๏ธ
๐ฑclients include disney, critical role, riot games๐ฑ
She/her ๐ support human artists ๐
www.hannahalexanderartwork.com
Grafit Studio @grafitstudio.bsky.social Outsourcing art studio and the source of diverse reference packs for artists. https://linktr.ee/studiografit
Ben @benbo231.bsky.social Don't you dare go hollow. 
Doc Impossible @impossiblephd.bsky.social Author of Stained Glass Woman, Dreaming Ourselves Into Being, and Nameless!
Thing explainer on #TeamRhetoric who talks trans science. Altersex polyamorous trans lesbian. She/her. Opinions mine.
Links:
https://solo.to/impossible_phd
Well_dipper (C2E2 L-10) @welldipper.bsky.social Savanna, (they/them) Illustrator and comic book artist. โ๏ธ: smayerillustration@gmail.com
Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social Managing Editor at @episodesnewsletter.bsky.social. Words in @racketmn.com, @reactorsff.bsky.social, others. Ex-MFA person. She/her. All views my own!
Episodes @episodesnewsletter.bsky.social Writings on culture, identity, and a bunch of other things from @emilystjams.bsky.social and friends. Premium subscribers get newsletters every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Subscribe today at episodes.ghost.io!
CJ @worriedkoala.bsky.social No clue what I'm doing
AuDHD | trans | lesbian | poly | communist | nerd | stereotype
Settler on Potawatomi land (Chicago)
Profile pic is a photo of a white woman with long brown wavy hair facing away, wearing a floral corset top and long pink skirt
dr. hazel ๐ฏ๏ธ @hazelmonforton.com award-nominated senior writer/narrative designer ๐ฎ๐
presently: Gunfire Games โค๏ธ๐ฅ
previously: Meow Wolf ๐ฉท๐งฉ Blizzard ๐โ๏ธ Bungie ๐๐ซ and Arkane ๐งก๐
english lit phd ๐๐ก personal account ๐๐น she/her ๐โจ
nyc ๐๐ to atx ๐ป๐ฆ
Heather Rose Jones @heatherrosejones.bsky.social Author of queer historic fantasy, amateur historian, Hugo finalist. I blog and podcast as The Lesbian Historic Motif Project, with resources and discussion about sapphic historical fiction.
For more info, see my website alpennia.com
Short Fiction Book Club @shortficbookclub.bsky.social https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1embc20/short_fiction_book_club_were_back_for_season/
Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social Appalachian in the big city. Editor at Ancillary Review, host of A Meal of Thorns, bookseller, coffee pro, SF reviewer & scholar. He/him.
https://linktr.ee/jakecasellabrookins
secondlina // Lord of Crows @secondlina.com Isa / bi ace ink goblin ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐จ (her/they). French Canadian๐[Montrรฉal]. Co-author of the webcomic Namesake. Author of Crow Time. ๐งฟ โ
Serena Malyon ๐๐ @serenamalyon.bsky.social She/her. I'm a Canadian freelance illustrator.
โ SOCIALS: linktr.ee/smalyon
โ PRINTS: inprnt.com/gallery/serenamalyon
Sam Hogg @thewhalergirl.com AAD on Dragonwilds, Concept Artist & Illustrator. Formerly at Sharkmob, Everwild, Fable, Forza. Illustrator for CR, GRRM, Hearthstone, MtG.
Aloof on the outside, squishy on the inside. She/her
www.artofsamhogg.com
https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/samhogg/
Lur Noiseใปใซใซ @lurnoise.bsky.social โฆ Illustration, comics and concept art โฆ Occasional writer โฆ (She/her) โฆ En/Es/Eus, learning Jp โฆ Portfolio, webcomic, stores: linktr.ee/lurnoise โฆ
Amy Yaga ๐ฏ๐ธ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฆ @losile.bsky.social In the land of gods and monsters, I was Zap Rowsdower.
Writer, VVitch, she/her, Bi, Grown, Vermonter to Canadian. I dress up as stuff and play stuff.
Header by laurenjmyers.bsky.social
Links: https://losile.neocities.org/
Jax ๐ @ RCCC A13 @gildedruin.bsky.social they/them. 30. lesbian. white. just drawing some little guys in love. terfs dni.
gildedruin.bigcartel.com
Emily Tesh @emilytesh.net Author. Hugo, Astounding, and World Fantasy Award winner; Nebula, Clarke and Le Guin finalist. Rep: Kurestin Armada at Root Literary.
Out now: THE INCANDESCENT - https://tinyurl.com/theincandescent
Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com I write novels, games and stories. Coming in 2026: MERCUTIO and THE SWORDMASTER. Writer at CHEO Foundation (my views are my own). Former journalist. From Manitoba, now in Ottawa. She/her. Trans rights are human rights ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
https://kateheartfield.com
otava heikkilรค @claystorks.bsky.social ignatz award winning cartoonist
otavaheikkila.net
he pronouns
MK ๐ฆท @ FanX SLC A403 @miasmatik.bsky.social MK Trahan ๐ฆท queer horror illustrator & Ignatz-nominated comic artist drawing the creepy & cathartic ๐ฆ NYC ๐ฆ portfolio+shop+teeth โก๏ธ linktr.ee/miasmatik
Julia โก C2E2 V-10 @juliaereck.bsky.social 30โs โง she/her โง ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ โง Seattle
๐ julia.e.reck@gmail.com
๐ juliaereck.com
๐ https://juliaereck.carrd.co
๐ซ AI / NFT
โ๐โหโนโก #art โ๐โหโนโก #fashion
illustration, design, fashion, girl culture
Anna Jano @annajanoart.bsky.social I draw strange foresty things.
Tampa Bay, Florida
annajano.com
Next Show: Necronomicon
No Commissions
HookieDuke @hookieduke.bsky.social HookieDuke.com
Patreon.com/hookieduke
Mitch @mgmcconeghey.bsky.social Music nut, musician, pun enthusiast, baseball fan. He/him.
Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social Ph.D Classics. Reviews @ Reactor Magazine (ex. Tor.com) and Locus Magazine.
Ireland.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hawkwing_lb
Wordpress: https://lizbourke.wordpress.com
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@hawkwing_lb
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social Americaโs only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
Fiasco the cat @fiascothecat.bsky.social Fiasco is BIG GENIUS can catch any kind of moth even MAMMOTH am still working on hims SCREENPLAY it is very good no u cannot read it (he/him).
ren ๐ก๏ธ NYCC & MCM London @renstrapp.com comic artist, zinester, dyke werewolf from the PNW ๐บ How Could You (Oni Press), The Shepherd's Sword, Amira the Van Life Cunt, and others
catch me elsewhere: https://www.renstrapp.com/
ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ It's definitely mostly about the floors. There may be swear words. ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
WikiVictorian @wikivictorian.bsky.social Sharing random stuff from 1800 to 1920s: fashion, stories, art, and a compilation of faces and cultures that coexisted then โจ
Chey ๐ Kingcholera๐ @kingcholera.bsky.social A self-taught digital artist who makes monthly reference packs.
๐ฏ๏ธ[ patreon.com/c/kingcholera ]๐ฏ๏ธ
Long Victorian @longvictorian.bsky.social I have a blog, and you are more than welcome to pop along. Mostly about books and art (1789-1914). Working on voiceovers. (All human, me!) https://longvictorian.com
Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com Founder-Owner of @weareravenous.com
Series Editor at Best American Food and Travel Writing
Queens, NY
she/her
Tips to jaya@weareravenous.con
Helen Mask ๐SLC Fan X๐Oddities Expo Denver ๐Geek Girl Con @hemask.bsky.social Art Nouveau Illustrator/ they/them / PDX
Available for freelance work
Email: thehemask@gmail.com
www.helenmask.com
https://www.etsy.com/shop/MaskIllustration
https://www.instagram.com/hemask/
https://helenmask.tumblr
Arielle Jovellanos โจ NYCC K29 @joviellety.bsky.social โ๏ธ ๐ต๐ญโจ artist of comics (BLACK STAR, EVIL THING, GIRL TAKING OVER: A LOIS LANE STORY) & other delights. typewriter enthusiast. freelance magical girl. https://arielle-jovellanos.com/links
#art
Wizards Vs Lesbians @wizardsvslesbians.bsky.social A podcast about books in which wizards fight lesbians.
Our home is on tumblr at wizardsvslesbians.tumblr.com. Inquiries can be sent there or to our e-mail, wizardsvslesbians@gmail.com.
4th Street Fantasy @4thstreetfantasy.bsky.social Small, single-track convention located in St. Louis Park, MN.
http://4thstreetfantasy.com
#4thstreetfantasy
hvmator @hvmator.bsky.social always at the gates
hu-ma-tor (who-MAH-tore)
hvmator.neocities.org
patreon.com/hvmator
Chloe Brailsford @comixbychloe.bsky.social Bi Trans woman. I draw uhhhhhhh lots of hotties, gay stuff, and leather looks (ayyyy). Done work for DC Comics, Image, BOOM! Studios, Oni, Strega Sporca, and HULU, among others!!
Brooklyn
Work: comixbychloe @ gmail
Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social A journal that explores the breadth and depth of the themes, ideas, and issues of science fiction and fantasy. Ed. Alexandra Pierce.
https://www.speculativeinsight.com/
Molly Templeton @mollytempleton.com I read, I write, & I pet cats. Column, news, & book reviews at @reactorsff.bsky.social; publicity, prize, & more for @ursulakleguin.com. Once a bookseller, always a bookseller. PDX.
https://reactormag.com/author/molly-templeton/
B. Pladek @bpladek.bsky.social Ben. Literature scholar & writer; Ass. Prof. of English at Marquette University. He/him, boring transsexual. DRY LAND (2023, UWP): https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/D/Dry-Land; other stuff elsewhere.
website: bpladek.net
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
Vivian Shaw @ceruleancynic.bsky.social she/her. Helsing books: STRANGE PRACTICE, DREADFUL COMPANY, GRAVE IMPORTANCE, BITTER WATERS; STRANGE NEW WORLD (2025) Orbit; THE HELIOS SYNDROME (Lethe); short fiction (Uncanny, PseudoPod, The Deadlands); editor; jeweler. Rep: https://x.com/Stephen_Barbara
ND Stevenson @gingerhaze.bsky.social 
Roz ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ @rosenkranz.bsky.social rosenkranz, they/them. freelance illustrator. work and commissions enquires: kanzler190@gmail.com
vgen: https://vgen.co/rosenkranz
posting a lot of #xfiles #thelockedtomb and occasionally #oc
Megan Wyreweden @thecreepingmoon.bsky.social Fantasy artist, stationery maker, friend of corvids. Asian-American. She/her. https://linktr.ee/TheCreepingMoon
micco caporale @juggaloreporter.bsky.social โพ unholy idiot | film writer @chicagoreader.com โป mcaporale@chicagoreader.com โ signal: juggaloreporter.69 โพ https://linktr.ee/juggaloreporter
Louie Zong @everydaylouie.bsky.social musician/illustrator/animator/etc.
https://www.louiezong.com
Kelsey @idodeclaredesign.bsky.social I Do Declare is a clothing brand for those seeking romanticism. Wear your clothes like armor against the world.
Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet writer โข narrative designer โข lesbian โข nyc
repped @ HMLA by @ninarichner.bsky.social
Ollie @olliemnjones.bsky.social He/him, Painter and Illustrator from Scotland
For commissions and work: Email olliemnjones@gmail.com, or DM me
Prints: https://linktr.ee/olliemnjones
Molly McGhee @mollymcghee.com Reader. Novelist. Fiction nerd. Pro-worker. Anti-billionaire. I teach at Columbia. Online for two decades.
Re: Frankenstein | Re: Dracula | Re: Carmilla @redracula.bsky.social Re: Dracula is bite-sized audio adaptation of the horror classic.
Currently adapting Frankenstein!
Blue Delliquanti @ MILK N5! @bluedelliquanti.bsky.social Creator of O Human Star, Across a Field of Starlight, and more. Makes comics, teaches comics. they. http://ohumanstar.com
LySandra Vuong โก๏ธ Covenant Vol 6 KICKSTARTER @explodikid.bsky.social Creator of COVENANT (WEBTOON, Oni Press) | ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ 27yo-expired-engineer | lysandra.vuong@gmail.com | Represented by Britt Siess
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/onipress/covenant-the-final-chapter?ref=4v6nwr
Laurz Drawz @illaurastrates.bsky.social Laura Helsby
illustrator/comic book artist | ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ ๐ฑ |
Eisner and Ringo Nominated, Grantie award winner, BSFA nominee | Clients : 2000AD, A Wave Blue World, Bad Egg, FIBA, MCR Basketball, Creative Director @ Fearless SC
https://linktr.ee/illaurastrates
Mayticks @mayticks.bsky.social I'm Mayticks! (She/Her) an artist from Australia who creates pieces that are influenced by Greco-Roman myth and coded with Sappho's lusty looks. Sometimes NSFW ๐ willies and nips
Arden @ardenpod.bsky.social A podcast about two women trying not to fall in love with each other while they solve cold cases together. Brought to you by Wheyface Industries: The Good People.
Sam Bleckley @sambleckley.com Iโm a consulting software engineer, designer, and artist working out of Grand Rapids, Michigan. He/him.
Me: sambleckley.com
Project estimation tool: quotes.vistimo.com
Rewrite of Bridgman's Constructive Anatomy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQRDGK9C
Tsundokuasf @tsundokuasf.bsky.social Storygraph https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/venneh
Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/44560459
I read A Lot. Do not hold yourself to my standards.
Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social Trans Giantess. 
Indivisible Chicago Alliance โ๐ @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social Proud partner in the progressive movement.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/indivisiblechicago
Website: https://indivisiblechicago.com/
A Meal of Thorns @mealofthorns.bsky.social A speculative book club, where critics, writers, and scholars join us to talk about thorny, interesting titles. A podcast from the Ancillary Review of Books.
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/amealofthorns/
Nicole Rifkin @nicolerifkin.bsky.social Worldโs tallest living artist โจ
baltimore, md โจ
arun๐ฟ @bbybluemochi.bsky.social freelance artist โข they/them โข lesbian โข eng/espaรฑol โข ๐ nsfw โข don't steal my art! โข business contact: bbybluemochi@gmail.com โข COMMS CLOSED
Evelyne Park @evelynepark.bsky.social (she/her)
Painting fantasy art and Gothic horror in traditional media.
https://evelynepark.carrd.co/
๐ evydrawsillustration@gmail.com (book illustration, ttrpg & character art)
Yoann Lossel @yoannlossel.bsky.social Award-winning artist โก
Sculptor of memory, thresholds, and unfinished worlds.
Creator of Labyrinth ๐
www.yoannlossel.com/link
LaurenWalshArt๐Blizzcon @laurenwalshart.bsky.social Illustrator โข She/They โข Woubbleโs Dad โข Lead Character Artist/Ennie Award winner - TalDorei Reborn โข WotC โข Critical Role โข Lorcana โข LaurenWalshArt@gmail.com
https://www.laurenwalshart.com/links
Hampus Flink ๐ท๐ข @hampus.bsky.social he/him. Comics, pulp, pinups, point and click adventure games
Web: http://hampus-flink.com
Tip jar: http://ko-fi.com/hampusflink/
Art prints: inprnt.com/gallery/flinkart/
Lee Knox Ostertag @leeknoxostertag.bsky.social He/him
Books:
THE WITCH BOY series ๐ฎ๐ฏ๏ธ
THE GIRL FROM THE SEA ๐ฆญ๐
THE DEEP DARK ๐๐๏ธ
The DUNGEON CLUB series ๐ฒโ๏ธ
STRONG FEMALE PROTAGONIST ๐ฆธ๐ช
WATSONโS SKETCHBOOK ๐ต๐ผโโ๏ธ๐
TV:
THE OWL HOUSE & more
www.ostertag.substack.com
www.leeknoxostertag.com
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