Liv “Leev” Rainey-Smith @livraineysmith.bsky.social 2025 World Fantasy Award Best Artist
Woodcut printmaker at www.xylographilia.com
https://xylographilia.etsy.com
https://www.patreon.com/LivRaineySmith
https://ko-fi.com/livraineysmith
#woodcut #art
Enjoyer of weird fiction and horror.
She/her
Filigree 'Cranky Science Witch' @filigreemchana.bsky.social Book artist, bead hoarder, curmudgette. (Biohazard, dork, mockumentary, psyops, underfunded) https://linktr.ee/mcranehana2
PP: Embroidered yellow sun in a diamond of colorful needlepoint stripes. Mountain sunset, Tucson AZ.
Kythryne Aisling/Wyrding Studios @wyrdingstudios.com Disabled queer jewelry artist, single parent of a feral teenager, chaos gardener, retired poet, herder of cats, perpetually tired, probably asleep right now. Has a lot of dogs.
wyrdingstudios.com
(she/her)
pfp by @moonchildreams 🚫AI
Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social He/him. TV Critic, author. Now searchable on Tubi. I am not Alan Sepinwall III.
https://whatsalanwatching.com
Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social https://hotbrownpress.etsy.com & hotbrownpress.com
Literacy Propagandist - Letterpress - Book & Media History - Manuscript Studies - Early American Lit - Native Am & Indigenous Studies
Editor, Handwriting in Early America: A Media History (UMass 2023)
The conference on imaginative literature @readercon.org Readercon is an annual conference on imaginative literature. It's run entirely by volunteers and has been since it began in 1987. For more information: readercon.org
Cvkvlv Beadwork @cvkvlv.com Beadwork, photos, and art by @tzipporah.cvkvlv.com -- Indigenous (Mvskoke) Two-Spirit artist
Online store: https://Cvkvlv.com
See my writing, poetry, and other art on my blog https://Cvkvlv.blog
@Tzipporah@turtleisland.social on fedi
Sara Eileen @saraeileen.bsky.social Mixed media artist, mother of whirlwinds, dragon at large. ze/hir/hirs
Drops of new jewelry work (when available) at https://www.peculiarityshop.com/sara-eileen-s-corner 
Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org We are an interdisciplinary group of over 700 experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social Anarchist. Host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com author. towards trans communist futures. Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care (Pluto, 2023) and Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 (Common Notions, 2022). Editor at Pinko
Natalia Theodoridou @natalia-theodoridou.com He/they. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
World Fantasy, Locus, & Nebula Award winner.
SOUR CHERRY out April 2025 from Tin House (US) & Wildfire (UK).
Website: http://www.natalia-theodoridou.com
Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social Spec fic writer, poet, autist. They/them. Philip K. Dick Award finalist, Rhysling & Elgin nominee, & author of the OUTSIDE series. Canadian.
More about me and my books at http://ada-hoffmann.com/
Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social formerly didic on twitter. Writer. Editor. Translator. Blogger. Speaker. Geek. Asexual. Enby. Anti-Zionist. Tired. they/them. Science fiction and fantasy person. Former Israeli, now trying to become Canadian.
Owner at Other Places Books
opbooks.store
Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
Beadwork By Kay @beadworkbykay.bsky.social Mixed Kanien’kehá:ka | 🏳️🌈|🪶🐢|🏴
Handmade Indigenous Beadwork
🚚Canada & limited International shipping🚚
www.beadworkbykay.ca
Wm Henry Morris @wmhenrymorris.com gently painting genre (and sometimes lit fic) into a corner; he/him; MN
[also: music on bandcamp as Will Esplin]
frozenseapress.com
AjiWings @ajijaakwe.bsky.social 
@peculiaritygallery.bsky.social @peculiaritygallery.bsky.social 
Mother Frog Slut // Steward of Giant Reptiles @toadcialism.bsky.social She/her AuDHD
🚫GenAI
Writer, gamedev, reptile artist & steward, biz consultant & tax law writer/researcher. Toad & monitor lizard mom to Liora 💙🦎
Artisan Reptilian Jewelry at @peculiarityshop.bsky.social and
varanidparadise.com
linktr.ee/sonictoad
Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social If there's something you hope will happen, well, maybe it will happen today.
🚫No AI Ever🚫
Selected prints available here: https://www.inprnt.com/collections/phineas/maybe-it-will-happen-today/
Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social The home of terrible maps with a pinch of humour
terriblemaps@gmail.com
Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social Literary Agent at Morhaim Literary 📚 Newsletter: Agents & Books at agentsandbooks.com. 📚 WRITE THROUGH IT out June ‘25 📚📚 picture book called PAY ATTENTION TO ME out in ‘26!
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Write-Through-It/Kate-McKean/9781668055540
Mythcreants @mythcreants.bsky.social An online publication for speculative fiction storytellers. To better understand and tell the stories we love, we analyze popular works, theorize on storytelling craft, and explore the technical aspects of writing.
Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social THE FUTURE IS STUPID
Neil Ramsay @neil-ramsay.com Actor, Entrepreneur, Owner of the jewellery brand Montgomery-Ramsay https://montgomeryramsay.com, former president of the American Conifer Society (tree nerd), and general miscreant.
Wishlist for the feral kids: https://rb.gy/hwpw72
Shivani T’gai Seth @shivaniswriting.bsky.social Queer Punjabi-American artist, writer and book lover. Ecstatic purveyor of joy and jewelry at Adorned by Shivani!
https://www.adornedbyshivani.com
Proud Romancing the Vote minion.
Becky @beckymew.bsky.social Co-Founder, Peculiarity Shop.
Circus peanut/unicorn kaiju. They/them, sometimes She. Black lives matter. Disabled & queer people are people. Genocide is wrong, actually. Pay artists.
Fuck fascists, abolish ICE; this shouldn't be a controversial position.
Tamar Herman @tamarherman.com Writer. K-pop & ent biz reporter. Author. She/Her. Published in Billboard, NME, Forbes, Variety, & many more. Have a day job, will not be here 24/7 because I love myself more than I love engagement bait.
Newsletter: Notesonkpop.com.
Daily Jungkook @dailykookie.bsky.social Everyone's favorite Golden Maknae. Run by @arajellybean.bsky.social.
PRINT RUN @printrunpodcast.bsky.social The Book Bird Cometh
https://www.printrunpodcast.com/
https://patreon.com/printrun?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink
Cameron Reed (she|they) @lateonsetgirl.bsky.social Author of The Fortunate Fall (Tor Essentials, 2024) and What We Are Seeking (Tor, April 2026). I won the Otherwise Award under its deadname and my deadname. Represented by @laurenbajek.bsky.social. 🏳️⚧️♀︎♀︎
Justin Randolph @randolphjustin.bsky.social U.S. historian | author of *Mississippi Law* | reader, eater, friend, southern
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4000-5060
Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social Stop by for a sip of fun. Stay as long as you want; enjoy the view. Edited by Bennett North, Priya Sridhar and Hannya Kay https://translunartravelerslounge.com/
Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social They/She.
Wrote some books.
Then didn't.
Love animals, horror, and weird stuff.
Run a cool jewelry store for queer artists.
@peculiarityshop.bsky.social
www.peculiarityshop.com
Speculative Literature Foundation @speclit.bsky.social Non-profit foundation promoting literary quality in speculative fiction.
https://linktr.ee/SpecLit
William Sturkey @william-sturkey.bsky.social History Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Writing a book on the 1960s.
Last book a bio of Roy Benavidez: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/william-sturkey/the-ballad-of-roy-benavidez/9781541600263/?lens=basic-books
Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social NDN Silver, Indigenous silverwork by Wings, & Wings of the Wind Photography. All content copyright Wings/Aji, all rights reserved. NO USE WITHOUT PERMISSION.
Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social Speculative fiction in translation | SFinTranslation.com | Small Planet Magazine | translates Italian sf | contributor at Strange Horizons, World Literature Today, Samovar.
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social Theatre actor, bookstore connoisseur, autumn enthusiast, cat rescuer, educator, explorer of cobblestone streets, and defender of the Oxford comma.
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Crossroads: Folk Horror in the United States @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social Issue 2: The Devil Has the Best Tunes is due out in October. Online shop reopens late September.
Edited by @scaryasfolk.bsky.social and @theharvestmaid.bsky.social.
Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival @theharvestmaid.bsky.social Writer/Editor. Co-founder @crossroadsfolk.bsky.social. Folk horror obsessive. Loves to talk books, movies, music, and booze. She/her
Blog:
https://theharvestmaidsrevenge.com/
Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social Bibliographer & historian with broad interests, incl. business and economic hisotry, queer print, oral history, co-operative HE. he/him www.malcolmnoble.co.uk
ThriveLib Reclaiming Joy, Balance, and Boundaries in Libraries @thrivelib.bsky.social Registration is open! August 11, 12, and 13, 2026. A virtual conference for librarians, creating space for their well-being.
https://www.thrivelib.com/
Randy Herman @randyhermanlaw.com I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer.
"I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted."
Justice Allison Riggs @allisonjriggs.bsky.social North Carolina Supreme Court Justice. Former civil rights attorney.
https://linktr.ee/riggsforourcourts
L.A. Kauffman @lakauffman.bsky.social Veteran organizer, writer. She/her. Books: DIRECT ACTION and HOW TO READ A PROTEST. Occasional newsletter: DETOUR AMERICA lakauffman.substack.com
Sarah Edwards @eddysarah.bsky.social writer and culture editor at @indyweek.bsky.social | poetry + fiction sometimes, gchat often | sedwards@indyweek.com | eddysarah.substack.com
UNC-CH AAUP @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chapter of the American Association of University Professors.
https://unc-ch-aaup.org
North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social We are an association of all AAUP members in North Carolina #highered. Join us as we advocate for all faculty and instructors through the state. Become involved in a local chapter or start one! AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL! https://www.aaupnc.org/
Tordotcom Publishing @tordotcompub.bsky.social Publisher of cutting-edge SFF short fiction.
poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social poorly drawing cats since 2016
✉️ hey@poorlycatdraw.com
https://poorlycatdraw.carrd.co/
Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social Editorial Director at @uncpress.bsky.social • acquiring books in history, Black studies, girlhood studies, carceral studies • H-Net's #FeedingTheElephant
Peter Blackstock @peterblackstocksd.bsky.social Music journalist, No Depression magazine co-founder. Author of "Old No. 1 at 50: A History of Guy Clark's First Album," published November 2025. Former Seattleite and Austinite, now in SoCal. Lifelong fighter of fascism; hope you are the same.
Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social Professor&Chair, Gender&Sexuality Studies, University@Buffalo. Awards: Lora Romero (ASA'13); Best Book in Food Studies (ASFS'13); Choice (2022); Alan Bray (MLA&ASA'26); Hon. Mention, Rene Wellek (ACLS '26); James Beard essay award ('23), NHC Scholar 26-27.
Romancing the Vote @romancingthevote.com Romancing the Vote, coming to save a democracy near you in July 2026. (We run an auction to raise money for voting access, because voter suppression is BAD.) Run by Courtney Milan & Kit Rocha more info @ romancingthevote.com
Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.
Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com Writer of queer romance and sff. Half agony, half hope, bisexual. She/her. Romance fiction columnist for the NYTBR: #RomanceColumn OliviaWaite.com
Liberation Library @liberationlib.bsky.social We provide books and reader-led magazines to young people in prison to encourage imagination, self-determination, and connection to the outside worlds of their choosing. #FreeThemAll
K8 Léchler @katelechler.bsky.social SFF writer, editor, lecturer living in Chicago. PhD in Brit lit, words in Podcastle, Shimmer, Fireside. 🌈💀 "Just like entropy tends towards chaos, I tend towards silly-little-guy."
Yibo Semi-Daily 王一博 @yibosemidaily.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy Images of Wang Yibo 王一博, posted at least twice a day.
[bridged from https://blorbo.social/@YiboSemiDaily on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Red Medicine @medicinered.bsky.social Red Medicine is a podcast about politics, health, medicine, the body, illness, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, social reproduction, disability, prison, policing, abolition, gender, sexuality, pharmaceuticals, and much more.
https://linktr.ee/redmedicine.xyz- W Kai Ashante Wilson @wildeeps.bsky.social Author of WILDEEPS, of TASTE OF HONEY.
Trying to get new work out there, Patreon link: https://tinyurl.com/2uv52prv
Korie Dean @koriedean.bsky.social Higher education reporter at The Assembly in NC. Previously at The News & Observer. UNC alum. Reach me at korie@theassemblync.com.
D. Harlan Wilson @dharlanwilson.bsky.social https://dharlanwilson.com
Karen Lord @drkarenlord.bsky.social Author of THE BLUE, BEAUTIFUL WORLD. Home: Barbados, West Indies 🇧🇧. More info on me and my books at karenlord.wordpress.com
Ed Morland @edmorland.bsky.social Mostly lurking but enjoy the sudden bursts of sport, SFF, board games or far more likely reposted content. (he/him)
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Jimi Eat Hendrix @vcmusictheory.bsky.social Varun Chandrasekhar. PhD student in music theory at Washington University in Saint Louis, studying jazz, existentialism, and silly little emo songs. Suns fan. Alum of The Ohio State University (Go Bucks!). He/him/his
Rika⁷ @commanderrika.blacksky.app Writer+Illustrator. She/Her.
Stories in Lightspeed, FIYAH, Strange Horizons, Fantasy, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy (2026)
Portfolio: commanderrika.com
Commissions: marikawrites589@gmail.com
fae⁷ @onthistangent.eurosky.social she/her
antique from the 1900s; minors DNI || BTS ARMY/OT7 || 🏳️🌈 || occasionally writing fics || RPF || sometimes nsfw || Alt text enthusiast || the one who's under your post going "that's AI" || I block non-fandom accounts that follow me, nothing personal
claire biddles @msclairebiddles.bsky.social “the glamorous node of glasgow” –grant morrison / writing about music + films @ the wire, the guardian, tribune, the quietus, little white lies, singles jukebox + / big opinions @ overinvested podcast / zines @ everywhere / https://clairebiddles.carrd.co/
Utopian and Dystopian Fictions Podcast @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social A podcast about utopia and dystopia hosted by @matthewleggatt.bsky.social and @dystopiajunkie.bsky.social. Each episode we interview a different thinker in the field of Utopian and Dystopian studies. Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube.
Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com ✍🏾 Jacqueline Nyathi, librocubicularist, friendly neighbourhood "You *Must* Read This" person.
https://hararereview.com
📝📚 @thecontinent.org, @strangehorizons.bsky.social etc
(Incidentally, also @shonatiger.hararereview.com)
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
eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social @chowleen most elsewhere; my old tweets reappear here at odd times.
Duke prof, APSI Dir+DGS, Duke Story Lab founder. DUP Sinotheory, LAReviewOfBooks board. Shewo Institute 舍我紀念館 Director, Biographical Lit 傳記文學 publisher
周成蔭 #everynightapoem
blair @blairaf.com Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Asst. Prof, sci-fi creator @ UAlberta
Transfeminist AI governance, ethics, policy: blairaf.com
Gay trans cyborg warriors vs. AI monsters: objecttype3.app
Lilac Peril Press @lilacperil.bsky.social DC-based small press publishing subversive trans writing
Pre-order Issue 02: IDOLS
https://lilacperil.bigcartel.com/product/issue-02-idols
Submissions CLOSED
Contact: info@lilacperil.com
Bolts @boltsmag.org A publication that covers the nuts and bolts of political change: Boltsmag.org
cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social Critic. Tabletop columnist for Rascal News. Podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Wrote THE WORLD IS BORN FROM ZERO and EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED. Working on a Magic: The Gathering book.
Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
Alex S. Vitale @alexvitale.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center. Coordinator Policing and Social Justice Project. Author The End of Policing. 
Monica Carol Miller @monicacmiller.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English at Middle Georgia State University. I write about the intersections of region, gender, & sometimes music
The Tacky South; Being Ugly: Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion; Dear Regina: Flannery O'Connor's Letters from Iowa
Paul Klee @paul-klee.bsky.social Fan account of Paul Klee (1879-1940), a Swiss-German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism. #artbot by @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her.
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
abby @counterfactual.bsky.social co-host of the Ordinary Unhappiness podcast, co-founder of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
abbykluchin.com
ordinaryunhappiness.com
patreon.com/ordinaryunhappiness
Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social Cell adhesion, cytoskeletal regulation, Wnt signaling & wherever science leads us + wildflowers & my own idiosyncratic views. First gen college grad
Diversity, equity & Inclusion are core American Values
https://peiferlab.web.unc.edu
Studies in the Fantastic @fantastic-journal.bsky.social A peer-reviewed journal devoted to the Fantastic in literature, film, and other media. Send essays of 6,000-12,000 words to fantastic@ut.edu
Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social PSCCUNY. #CUNYStrong. Queer. Collective power, public good. Organize your workplace. Zindabad. Makibaka. Solidarity
The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com Worker-owned, community-oriented intersectional feminist journalism to unfuck your algorithm.
🔗 theflytrapmedia.com
Sam @horrorbutch.bsky.social nonbinary lesbian (tme) | they/them (deutsch: dey/dem), xe/xer (d: xier/xies) | horror & sci-fi fan | book reviewer | enjoyer of trans, weird, disabled and mad literature | https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/horrorbutch | https://podcastlesbian.itch.io/
The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social A literary space for the eco-gothic, the eco-horrific, the eco-surrealist, and the eco-weird | Edited by @benlockwood.bsky.social | Part of Brief Ecology
Read: https://www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-leaf
Submit: https://www.briefecology.com/submissions
qntm @qntm.org There Is No Antimemetics Division (https://qntm.org/antimemetics) ~ "Lena" ~ Absurdle ~ HATETRIS ~ many other cool things
Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social This is a bot that posts a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin every 2 hours. Was ursulabot on twitter
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him