Niall Harrison @niallharrison.bsky.social reader, critic, fan, he/him
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
Kaaron Warren @kaaronwarren.bsky.social Reader, writer, podcaster at "Let the Cat In".
Shirley Jackson Award Winner.
Author of The Underhistory Slights Tide of Stone The Grief Hole
World Fantasy and Stokercon GOH
Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com Award-winning voice actor and journalist. Narrative designer. Pop culture consigliere. Podcaster. Writes The Full Lid. ‘Fantastic Frontal Everything'-Matt Wallace. On the board of the Cool Wives Club. Joy and spite.
https://carrd.alasdairstuart.com
Kirstyn McDermott @fearofemeralds.bsky.social Australian author of contemporary gothic, horror and fairy tales. Owned by two cats. Drinks too much gin, or maybe not enough. Current status: exhausted.
she/her
www.kirstynmcdermott.com
Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social Co-author of Spec Fic for Newbies 1, 2, 3; author of Neil Jordan: Works for the Page; Sturgeon/BSFA/BFA finalist; Locus Rec List; articles in Irish Uni Review, symplokē, Science Fiction Studies, Irish Studies Review, JGNC; fiction in many venues... He/Him
Nina Niskanen @nniskanen.bsky.social 
Ruth EJ Booth (she/they) @ruthejbooth.bsky.social SFFH Author/Critic. BSFA & British Fantasy Award Winner. Shoreline of Infinity columnist. GSFWC Social Media. #SGSAH PhD. #StrathLife
Queer Neurodivergent with Chronic Illness.
Stories and more: https://linktr.ee/ruthejbooth
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/
Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social Aberystwyth-based writer, researcher & critic. Author: Culture Wars in Britain (May, 2026). Columnist at Vector. Incoming editor of Foundation.
Nonbinary (they/them)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️.
https://linktr.ee/nick_hubble
Sascha Stronach🏳️⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social Author of The Dawnhounds and The Sunforge (Saga Press). Kāi Tahu/Kāti Huirapa. Crawford Award finalist. Rep: @arleysorg.bsky.social. She/her/ia. Header by @layahimalaya.bsky.social
Sign up for my newsletter at: https://the-trying-times.ghost.io/
Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social I'm an education-focussed academic & Head of School, Culture & Communication, at the Uni of Melbourne. Talk to me about decolonising education, inclusive pedagogy, workload models, process mapping, and management as praxis. Views mine not my employer's.
Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social Writer, teacher, speculative fiction and flash fiction
Books, events, and classes at https://www.taracampbell.com
#WritingCommunity #scifi #sff #speculativefiction #flashfiction
sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social critic and cultural historian of genre fantasies / senior acquiring editor @leverpress.bsky.social / associate editor of sf @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social / read more: seanguynes.com
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
Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social Writes, variously. Reviews Editor, Strange Horizons. Columns at Ancillary Review. Songs over at Bandcamp. Also see @savinglives.bsky.social.
D Franklin @dlibris.bsky.social Weegie bookseller and book enthusiast. SFF reader. Co-head of Programme, Eastercon 2027. Angry queer. Nonbinary. They/them.
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
Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social U.S. Southerner. Mouthy, but soft. Editor of Intergalactic Mixtape and others: https://heyheyrenay.carrd.co/
Angry Robot Books @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social Your favourite independent, genrefluid fiction publisher, bringing you the very best in SF, F & WTF!?
IG/X: @angryrobotbooks
Tor Books @torbooks.bsky.social Publisher of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, and Other Speculative Fiction
Emma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social Horror/fantasy writer. Author of GRIEF EATER. Aurealis and Aust Shadows finalist. In Uncanny, Nightmare, PodCastle, Hometown Haunts, Wastelands 3 etc. Clarion West. SFWA. Queer. They/them. No AI 🏳️🌈👻
Frances Hardinge @franceshardinge.bsky.social Writer of downright odd children's/YA books. Hobbies include travelling, dressing in period costume and scuba diving. Addicted to volcanoes and trying new things.
Octocon @octocon.bsky.social The National Irish Science Fiction Convention,
3rd & 4th October, 2026. Sci Fi, Fantasy & Horror. https://octocon.com
Scylla Publishing @scyllapublishing.bsky.social Australian publisher of sapphic specfic
SEPT 4 2026 - "Who Am I? Sapphic Spec Fic of Identity and Purpose" anthology! https://www.scyllapublishing.com/whoami
No AI now or ever.
Australian Policy and History @auspolicyhistory.bsky.social What can the lessons of history teach us about the present? Australian Policy and History links historians with policy makers in pursuit of a better society.
Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social The 2026 Worldcon in Los Angeles, California
Visit LAcon.org for more details
📅 August 27-31, 2026
✨️ Adventure Awaits!
@dmnwrmn.bsky.social @dmnwrmn.bsky.social banging rocks together : he/they : kaurna land never ceded : butlerian jihads, why not both?
Sean Williams aka theAdelaidean @adelaidesean.bsky.social 60 books for all ages. 13 albums for Projekt Records. Teaching at Flinders University. That's my real family photo.
www.seanwilliams.com
www.theadelaidean.com
Aussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social Come to Worldcon (the World Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention) in Brisbane, Australia in 2028! 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🇵🇬 🇫🇯 🇼🇸 🇸🇧 🇻🇺 🇳🇨 🇹🇴 🇨🇰 🇫🇲
aussiecon.org
instagram.com/Aussiecon5
Mia Martin Hobbs @miamh.bsky.social Oral historian researching war (Vietnam War & War on Terror), trauma, memory, gender, security. Postdoc fellow at Deakin. She/her. miamartinhobbs.com
Heidi @heidiinthelibrary.bsky.social Lesbian Christian law librarian. Lives in Australia.
Trent Jamieson @trentonomicon.bsky.social He/him/his
Author of the novels Stone Road, Day Boy, the Death Works series, and the Roil Duology. Also the picture books The Giant and the Sea, and Mr Impoppable. Co-creator with Brent Wilson of the Frog, Log and Dave graphic novels (Bk1 out March 2025)
@thirdglance.bsky.social @thirdglance.bsky.social 
charlesatan @charlesatan.bsky.social Random person on the internet.
Avatar by @justhanselart.bsky.social
Joris Meijer @jtmeijer.bsky.social Dutch. He/him
Mostly catching up with books and other creative media by cultural osmosis these days.
Laura Dell @lauredhel.bsky.social Boorloo. Crochet, cats, chickens, the occasional rant. Yarn dragon. Disabled. Soapmaking, cheesemaking, gin, coffee, books. Medicine, linguistics, lefty as f*&k. She/her. 
The Wheeler Centre @wheelercentre.bsky.social Australia's first dedicated centre for Books, Writing and Ideas. 
Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social 2020 World Fantasy Award-winning, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, and open-access journal published by The Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research. ISSN: 2342-2009.
https://fafnir.journal.fi/about
Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social Romance author, romance scholar. Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature & Culture at Deakin (Naarm/Melbourne). My newest rom-com, An Academic Affair, is out now.
Ju Landéesse (Transcendancing) @transcendancing.bsky.social Queer poly feminist, midwife and cultural theorist, geeky fangirl, and sensualist with a heart as wide as starlight. (she/her/they) 
mimi mondal (they/she/🐈⬛) @mimimondal.bsky.social nebula & hugo awards-nominated indian sff writer. #RadiantCitadel #manivarsha. latest: "those of desecrated places" in @tractorbeamearth.bsky.social
Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social Writer, editor, publisher. Science fiction and fantasy, also queer history. Welsh. May rant about rugby.
Joanne Anderton @joanneanderton.bsky.social Student. Writer. Nerd.
Peter M. Ball @petermball.bsky.social Genrepunk. Writing/Publishing Nerd. Writing neo-pulp stories at GenrePunk Books and publishing outstanding genre fiction at BrainJarPress. He/him.
Deborah Biancotti @deborahbiancotti.substack.com Writer. Idealist. Insomniac. Humanist. Feminist. Cynic. Storyteller. Truth teller. Wannabe. || Adventure stories for grown-up women. || Rocaberti + Stowe alum. || I miss LiveJournal and Clubhouse. || Sydney, Australia.
Kathleen Jennings @tanaudel.bsky.social Writer, illustrator.
Australia.
Rep: Shena Wolf.
linktr.ee/tanaudel
@girlfleeshouse.bsky.social & @improbablemaps.bsky.social
#artthoughts #storynotes
patreon.com/tanaudel
Prints: tanaudel.redbubble.com
Fabric: www.spoonflower.com/profiles/tanaudel
Garth Nix @garthnix.bsky.social Author. Many books, including SABRIEL, the five other Old Kingdom novels; THE LEFT-HANDED BOOKSELLERS OF LONDON and sequels; THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM series, lots more. And stories. Adult SF/horror MASSIF out Sept 2026. www.garthnix.com
Angela Slatter 📚 @angelaslatter.bsky.social AKA AG Slatter. Many gothic novels (okay 4). A Forest, Darkly coming in Feb '26. Several gothic novellas (okay 5). Some Awards. Hellboy U comic. PhD.
Louise Hughes @trailofleaves.bsky.social Time Traveller. Social Historian. Reader and Writer of Speculative Fiction.
North East England.
Sturgeon Award finalist. Stories in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Kaleidotrope, Interzone, and more.
https://louisehugheswrites.wordpress.com/
Mel @meldahms.bsky.social Costume maker, occasional fan fiction writer, dance mum, occasional chicken wrangler
She/her
Aurealis Awards @aurealisawards.bsky.social Australia’s premier speculative fiction literature awards.
https://aurealisawards.org
The Ilse Schwepcke Prize @theisprize.bsky.social The world’s most valuable travel writing prize for women.
https://www.ilseschwepckeprize.co.uk/
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/the-ilse-schwepcke-prize
Kirsten Campbell @kirstencampbell.bsky.social Bushwalking social policy geek
Kat Clay @katclay.com 🎲 ENNIE and ARPIA award-winning TTRPG author. Editor @chaosium.bsky.social. Short stories in Interzone, Aurealis, and Cosmic Horror Monthly. Game reviews on YouTube.
Hobbit in a leather jacket. 🇦🇺🐨 katclay.com
Dr Jane Draycott @handle.invalid Roman historian and archaeologist. Lecturer
@UofGlasgow. She/her. Represented by
@pew_literary, published by @HoZ_Books.
Oral History Victoria @oralhistoryvic.bsky.social Nurturing a vibrant and informed oral history community. Training, networking, advocacy.
mdepierres @mdepierres.bsky.social 
AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social The Australian Historical Association was founded in 1973 and is the peak national organisation of historians working in all fields of history.
https://theaha.org.au
Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social Historian, musician, audio maker, actor & teacher. National Library Australia oral history interviewer. Cellist in Sunshine Tip and Sally Ford & the Idiomatics. Latest project: No Context Slide Nights (Melbourne)
Prof Sandy O’Sullivan (Wiradjuri, trans they/them) @sandyosullivan.bsky.social Aboriginal trans professor doing anti-colonial work across policy, universities, museums, art, gender, culture, supporting older queer lives @IndigFutures.
them/sib/kin
Ana Stevenson @dranastevenson.bsky.social anastevenson.phd | feminist historian + ISG @ UFS | ✍ social movements 🪧 women in politics 📚 AcLits 📐 evaluation | #VIDAblog @auswhn.bsky.social | 🗳 The Suffrage Postcard Project | archivingsocialmovements.com | 🗺️ Mapping Monuments | 🎼 blockflute ♫♬♫ | 😷
David McInnis @dnmcinnis.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare & Early Modern Drama (Melbourne) | Editor, Shakespeare Quarterly (with Vanessa I. Corredera & Arthur L. Little, Jr) | Lost plays | Editing Behn, Shakespeare, & Marlowe.
Moddie ✨Head empty...Pmore thoughts✨ @moddieee.bsky.social he/him. in a lesbian kind of way ☆ 29 ☆ draws the gay/animates ☆ Tumblr & TikTok @/moddieeee ☆ Email: madiecookie@yahoo.com.au ☆ Website: http://madiecookie.com
Megan Cassidy-Welch @megancw.bsky.social Medievalist, historian, writer. Working on ideas of home and homelessness in premodern societies.
Dean of Research Strategy, University of Divinity
President of the Religious History Association
FAHA, FRHistS
Twelfth Planet Press @twelfthplanetpress.bsky.social Challenging the status quo with books to interrogate, commentate and inspire.
www.twelfthplanetpress.com- I indelibleclick.bsky.social @indelibleclick.bsky.social
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/
Grant Watson @fictionmachine.bsky.social Rotten Tomatoes-accredited film critic. Award-winning playwright. Noted international education analyst. Serviceable theatre director. Has multiple sclerosis.
www.fictionmachine.com
Cat Sparks @catsparx.bsky.social Author, Artist, Activist.
Continuum Convention, Melbourne @continuumcon.bsky.social Melbourne Speculative Fiction Convention
Continuum 16: REBOOT (and NATCON 62)
17-19 May, 2024 at Hotel Jasper, Melbourne
www.continuum.org.au
Discord: https://discord.gg/WjfTNUg
Tsana Dolichva @tsana.bsky.social SFF fan, reads a lot of books. Edited Defying Doomsday and Rebuilding Tomorrow anthologies.
Also an astrophysicist. She/her. 🇦🇺
Ian Mond @mondyboy74.bsky.social I write reviews for Locus Magazine. I had a podcast called Writer and the Critic which I co-hosted with Kirstyn McDermott. The episodes are out there. I love the Carlton Football club. What more do you need to know!?
Terri @kaelajael.bsky.social 
Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social Aspiring middle-grade novelist, Trekkie, podcaster. Find me at antimatterpod.com, squiddishly.net and all the cool places: https://linktr.ee/lizbarr
Tehani @editormum75.bsky.social Always learning
Alisa Krasnostein @krasnostein.bsky.social She/her. Mum, crafter. News junkie. Twelfth Planet Press publisher.
Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social Author of cozy fantasy, mysteries & more. Latest book: SAUCERS & SORCERY. Semi-professional tea-drinker. Occasional podcaster! Find my new author store The Teacup Magic Emporium at tansyrr.com
She/Her
Kathaaaarine 🏴☠️🥟 @thiefofcamorr.bsky.social She/they. Demi-panromantic. Autistic. #Deadloch #OFMD aficionado
Header by the incredible @self-induljennt.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/thiefofcamorr
Jonathan Strahan @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social Freelance anthologist. Consulting Editor, Tor.com. Reviews Editor, Locus www.locusmag.com. Co-host, The Coode Street Podcast jonathanstrahan.podbean.com. Hugo and World Fantasy Award recipient.