Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org Writer and editor. Loser of Nebula, World Fantasy, Dick, and Stoker Awards (won a Hugo tho). Been published in Best American Short Stories AND Best American Erotica. Genderfluid. Any pronouns
I publish a new story monthly at www.patreon.com/timpratt (ooh)
Kate Lake @liquidquiddity.bsky.social Speculative fiction writer. M.A. Audiobook fiend. Mostly harmless.
Karen Eisenbrey @kareneisenbrey.bsky.social She/her. Writer, reader, musician, band name aficionado.
Fantasy and Sci-Fi author. Deep River Rising, coming 11/11/2025
Into Truth, Justice, Rock & Roll.
https://kareneisenbreywriter.com/
JacobCoffin @jacobcoffinwrites.bsky.social I write science fiction and pester magazines with it
https://jacobcoffinwrites.wordpress.com
https://movim.slrpnk.net/blog/jacobcoffinwrites%40slrpnk.net
https://magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2023/the-frozen-generation-jacob-coffin/
Paradise Editions @paradiseeditions.bsky.social A publishing organ. Out now: The Man Without a Transit Pass by Jaroslav Hašek (translated by Dustin Stalnaker) https://paradiseeditions.net/
Vivian Chou @vivianhchou.bsky.social
Sci fi/fantasy/slipstream writer. ✨🐉🤖she/her. Full sfwa member. Read my stuff 👉
www.vivianchouwriter.com
E.W. Doc Parris @ewdocparris.com He, Him, Y'all.
SCIENCE FICTION | DOUBLE FEATURE
Sci Fi Author | SFWA |
Wokey McFuckYou | Neuro-Vanilla |
THE DENT IN THE UNIVERSE |
THE AURORA'S PALE LIGHT |
THE KINGDOM OF NOD (APRIL 2027) |
https://www.ewdocparris.com/novels/
Oh, and Fuck ICE.
Night Shades ⏾ @nightshadesmag.bsky.social 🛸 500 Word Speculative Stories. $0.15/word. nightshadesmag.com
Long Days and Pleasant Nights @pleasant-nights.bsky.social I review books of all genres, but love horror the most. 👻💀📚. I also cross-stitch- purchase bookmarks here: https://cozyhoopcreations.etsy.com Constant reader, ally, amplifier, believer that Love is Love and Black Lives Matter, promoter of unsung authors.
David Firth @davidfirth.bsky.social Animation and stuff.
SALAD FINGERS PLUSH TOYS! (+other merch) http://saladfingersstore.com
Cachet ☠️🪳 @piratecashoo.bsky.social 30+ ♾️
⟢ illustrator | I draw commissions, creepy things, & occasional fanart
⟢ contact: pirate.cashoo@gmail.com
⟢ commission: cachet.carrd.co
💖 bugs, old men, Scarecrow, Fallout, Doctor Who, Half-Life, horror games
💍 @davidfirth.bsky.social
#art
Wyldblood Press @wyldblood.bsky.social Science Fiction and Fantasy publisher. Quarterly Wyldblood Magazine and free flash on the website. www.wyldblood.com
just some guy @gregwritesinvt.bsky.social Freelance book editor for horror, sci-fi, comedy, thrillers, and speculative fiction.
Writer of weird stuff that makes me laugh or creeps me out.
Haver of opinions, anxiety, and ADHD.
Work with me: https://gregdoes.work
Brandon Applegate @bapplegate.bsky.social Weird things are happening. Sometimes I write. Usually about monsters, ghosts, magic, messed up family dynamics and whatnot. Books here: https://brandonapplegate.com
Catherine O'Brien @catherineobrien.bsky.social Writer/Scríbhneoir. Gaeilge - gar dod’ chroí 's beimid mar chairde. BOTN’23 nominee @JanusLiterary
BSF ‘23 nominee @BendingGenres
Suz Jay @suzjay11.bsky.social Art-obsessed writer and editor | bookreviewer | SHUWPF graduate | she/her 
Brayden Coldwater (xe/they/he) @braydencoldwater.bsky.social Unapologetically gay, trans, and disabled goblin writing weird little stories for weird little guys.
Join me for daily goings ons and passing thoughts.
18+ MDNI
SFFH Books! @sffhbooks.bsky.social Appreciating all things bookish in science fiction, fantasy & horror.
H.B. Tyson @hbtyson.bsky.social Fantasy Illustrator and Texture Enthusiast 📜✍🏻 • She / Her
https://hbtyson.carrd.co/
Cotton Xenomorph @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social A literary magazine devoted to new and marginalized voices. We also say NO CREEPS. Proud member of CLMP. EICs Teo Shannon, Chloe Clark, and Hannah Cohen.
Status: On hiatus for 2025
website: www.cottonxenomorph.com
Jeff C. Carter @carterwroteit.bsky.social Writing 🎃 #Horror, podcasting @webobpodcast and live story telling with Wicked Whispers.
📙WE BLEED ORANGE & BLACK: 31 Tales for Halloween available now
https://linktr.ee/jeffccarter
The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @lorenzothecat.bsky.social Maine Coon with the patience of a Buddhist monk and the soul of a philosopher. Feline art photography by Joann Biondi.
Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (Tor Nightfire, Titan). 5 Bram Stoker Awards. Shirley Jackson finalist. Work in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Asimov's, Pseudopod, etc. Clarion grad. 🏳️🌈
www.lucysnyder.com
Rep: @jord4nhill.bsky.social
Cats, aquariums and terrariums
Douglas Menagh @douglas-menagh.bsky.social Writer, words in New Noise, Memoir Mixtapes, Alt Press, Aquarium Drunkard, and Drunk Monkeys.
sam @samthielman.com Sam Thielman | Graphic novels at NYT Book Review, seen NYer, Flaming Hydra, foreverwars.ghost.io | he/him | DC COMICS: THE STORY OF A UNIVERSE w/Sean Howe forthcoming | I know I can come off a little proactive, and for that I’m sorry.
Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social she/her. southern geek feminist, genre critic, and scholar of boning. bylines at NYT Book Review, Booklist, Strange Horizons, Lady Business, Reactor. author of SFF romance column Ships in the Night for Reactor.
Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social Author. Potter. Mom. THE BELOVED WILD (Feiwel & Friends, 2018) & UNLEAVING (Feiwel & Friends, 2019) Rep’d by Faye Bender. melissaostrom.com
E.M. White, load-bearing grad student @emwhite.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog Pen name. Writing and reviewing dark and challenging fiction; would write more if life weren't so dark and challenging.
Also a magpie for fine stories and essays, a snob about coffee and tea (unless desperate), a wiki and map wanderer, and a cat steward.
Max Restaino @potheadfuckbrain.bsky.social COYOTE (Amphetamine Sulphate, 2024)
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Chloe Walker @cjsmithwalker.bsky.social Bisexual Buddhist ADHD Anxious Writer Director Liberal AF Free Palestine & end oppression everywhere, no Direct Messages
cmcrockford.bsky.social @cmcrockford.bsky.social BIRDSONGS (Alien Buddha, 2024) and WITH ONE'S OWN EYES (Moonstone Press, 2026). AuDHD. West Philly. Cat dad. Anti-fascist.
Buy my book: https://www.cmcrockford.net/store/p/with-ones-own-eyes
Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com Swedish-Canadian SFFH writer. Reviewer for LOCUS. Editor @ Ruadán Books & Many Worlds. Work in Best Horror of the Year, Lightspeed, The Deadlands & more. she/her 📚: WOLVES & GIRLS+SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN🔗 http://linktr.ee/MariaHaskins Rep: Eric Showers.
Richard Hayes @rmhayes.bsky.social Milwaukee’s live music archivist.
I’d rather be taping.
Download my high quality, artist-authorized audio recordings featuring some of your (current and future) favorite musicians for free —
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Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social Walt Disney Imagineer, Singer/Songwriter, Aspiring Author
Matt Cahill @mattcahill.bsky.social Novelist (Radioland, The Society of Experience) / short fiction / essays.
Agent: Kelvin Kong, K2 Literary
Former film/TV post supervisor, currently Registered Psychotherapist in private practice
Haunting the margins
Julián Martinez @martinezfjulian.bsky.social Son of Mexican and Cuban immigrants // debut book of fictions + novella from Future Tense Books, Spring 2027
Chicago forever.
Benjamin Franklinstein @mitchellg657.bsky.social 
Mitchell Ny @mitchellny.com 非人非鬼 🫠 | lyric essay, fiction
in: trampset, Bending Genres, Maudlin House, Same Faces Collective, Blood+Honey, [...]
American Literary Review's 2026 Nonfiction Finalist
Fractured Lit's 2026 Micro Prize Shortlist
mitchellny.com
Sara Blake @sarablake.bsky.social Urban Fantasy author, witch, board game addict. She/her. I also share lots of free book promos! (Oh, and the politics, because... damn.) 🌈📚 💖💜💙 she/her
No DMs, I will not see them.
https://sarablake.itch.io/
https://www.sarablakeauthor.com
Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social (re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
Jesse Miller @jesse-miller.bsky.social Writer, professor, dogfather.
Unwrap Your Candy is back in print from LJMcD Communications!
The Palmist arrives from Whiskey Tit Books in Spring 2027!
https://www.jesseemiller.com
“Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form.”
Frederick Smith, Ed.D. @fsmith827.bsky.social Love Is A Contact Sport - 6/16/26 on Bold Strokes Books ✍🏾📚💕🌈🐝
Romance author. Romance reader. Higher Ed Professional. Former TV news. Detroiter in Bay Area. All things Beyoncé. Email: FSmith827@gmail.com; Important Links: linktr.ee/FrederickLSmith
Sarah Lynn Knowles @sarahspy.com Fiction writer, Storychord.com founding editor, Tin House Winter '24 & One Story Summer '23 alum || eavesdropper, signal booster, she/her, Massachusetts || https://sarahlynnknowles.com
Whisper House Press (Steve Capone, Jr.) @whisperhousepress.bsky.social Editor in Chief & Publisher, Whisper House Press.
Award-Winning Writer & Screenwriter.
Educator since ‘08.
Trained ethicist.
#booksky #HWA #Horrorsky #WritingCommunity #IBPA #WhisperHousePress
https://linktr.ee/stevecaponejr
Mojo Quixotic, Tiger-kun 🇵🇷 @tigre1312.bsky.social He/him. Teamster. Anti-fascist, anti-racist. Reagan Era survivor. Tabletop & video game enjoyist. Pop-culturist
Andy K250 @andyk250.bsky.social =DOT MATRIX WITH STEREO SOUND=
💥WITH SWIVEL-ARM BATTLE GRIP!
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KEEP BLUESKY WEIRD!
Josh Dale @joshdale.co Writing, publishing, cats, nature, metal.
Read good books by Thirty West.
Order RAGE:
thirtywestph.com/shop/rage
Grave Moon Studios @gravemoonstudios.bsky.social Grave Moon Studios🪦🌙 🎧
owner/manager @rissavoices.bsky.social
dreams powered by cafécito 🇵🇷🐸
Chicago📍| Fiction Media | Music
http://gravemoonstudios.com
Indiosyncrasy @indiosyncrasy.bsky.social Hello friends! http://indiosyncrasy.com is now LIVE! Let's find your new favourite indie author.
Shelly Blake-Plock @shellyblakeplock.com Writing horror fiction, making music, building weird things. Oh, and baseball. And open source. Also, I've lived in a haunted house for 23 years, which is fun.
Devi Bhaduri @devibhaduri.bsky.social Writer of the screen, stage, and page. Connoisseur of the gothic. Screenwriter of “Hereafter” and “Specimen 9126.” Chicago Review of Books contributor.
Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social Boone, Smitty, Tech Exec #3 (deleted scene)
https://open.substack.com/pub/hotdogcode
Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social Writer | Book critic | Writing Center coordinator | Adjunct | Represented by my cat, who is a horrible agent | he/him http://benjaminjwoodard.com
richard @auspices.bsky.social cats and art
www.richardpjlambert.com
Santiago Eximeno @santiagoeximeno.bsky.social Escribo. Diseño juegos de rol, de mesa y ficciones interactivas.
Soy un tipo feliz e irrelevante. Y weird. Y goth. Y liminal. Y también incoherente. Y juego con mi ZX Spectrum.
Invitadme a vuestros saraos, que me apunto.
Mi no-yo vive en www.eximeno.com
Jon Chaiim McConnell @jonmcconn.bsky.social writer | etc
https://linktr.ee/jonmcconn
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.
Mel🏳️🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social She/her, they/them. Writer, Researcher. Work in Strange Horizons, Tin House, Electric Lit, and more. https://linktr.ee/knownforms
FlutteringReads @flutteringreads.bsky.social Wannabe librarian, current bookstore employee and Jewish. Please talk to me about books!
https://flutteringreads.substack.com/
Daniel Mowery @dmowerywrites.bsky.social Writer of things dark, odd, beautiful, etc. What’s fear without an occasional laugh? Horror, literary, fantasy, and thriller lover. Father, husband, dog dad, musician, and constructioneer by day.
danielmowerywrites.com
Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social Writing about nature, science, history & sexual violence. Multiple books, multiple mischief.
Latest: TANGLED IN VOW & BESEECH (poems)
Next: LEARNING TO SPAR (memoir)
EiC Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table. Here for lit community & Caturday
She/They/Dr/Bruh
Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social 
Richie Narvaez @richienarvaez.bsky.social Adjunct as well as Agatha- and Anthony-award–winning author of HIPSTER DEATH RATTLE | HOLLY HERNANDEZ & THE DEATH OF DISCO | NOIRYORICAN | 🇵🇷 | The songs I punched are dreaming
https://linktr.ee/richienarvaez
Drewthulu @csonkatroy.bsky.social ✶ ✶ ✶ ✶ Evil Master of Odors 🦨
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This is a David Payne (KWTV) fan account ⛈️
Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social Fictive Dream, the online #litmag dedicated to the #shortstory including #translations. Please send your submissions to fictivedream@gmail.com. Website https://fictivedream.com/
shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social Author of The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India), and most recently, Cajun South Brown Folk (Belle Point Press). Represented by Teffanie Thompson of Falkin Literary. 2019-2025 Series Editor of The Wigleaf Top 50. Lafayette, LA. shomedome.com
@tripeberry.bsky.social @tripeberry.bsky.social Tripe berries! Offal blossoms! Get your craw melons here!
https://letterboxd.com/Tripeberry/
Greg Greene @igreggreene.bsky.social I love horror in all its fictional forms! My occasional podcast Chthonica is on YouTube & Apple Podcasts. I’m in Nashville, TN. AKA +The Blessorcist+ I sell cool horror merch at threadsofdread.com!
Josh Mayfield @bean525.bsky.social Hey, I'm Josh, and among other things, I made the Star Trek Title Generator at trek.epicrandomness.com, and I run the Trans Rights Screenshot Generator.
Be excellent to each other!
Fergus Rebeccason @adamscantwell.bsky.social Minor writer. https://adamscantwell.blogspot.com/
“A Forest with its Mouth Open Wide” still in print, hardcover weird fiction collection (search ebay)
Previously Egaeus Press, Mount Abraxas, Raphus Press, Fiddleblack
🌜Danielle🌛 @daniellefarell.bsky.social I like to write & read. I identify as trans. Metalhead. Into the occult, horror, and sci fi. They/Them. MN.
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.
James Parsons @parsonsfiction.bsky.social Author of horror, SF and more. The Woken Bones, Wilkford's Rakshasa, Northern Souls, Orbital Kin, Minerva Century. The Briggar Stone 2024, Anuci Press.
https://jameseparsons.wixsite.com/parsonsfiction
Geordie. 
Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛♂️🏳️⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social
WARNING: May cause "discomfort & distress" 🏳️⚧️
Dr. Monster (PhD)
E-mail: stevehughwestenra@proton.me
Canadian author of questionable taste. Words in New Edge Sword & Sorcery. Book reviewer. Expert on monsters. HWA. He/him
linktr.ee/SteveWestenra
NO AI
Richard Gadz, horror writer @frankenwriter.bsky.social Award-winning author, ace neurodivergent and keen amateur idiot. Lives in Bristol but spends most of his time in a world of his own.
Also at www.richardgadz.co.uk + Facebook, Instagram, YouTube
Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social seanbirnie.com
https://undertowpublications.com/shop/i-would-haunt-you-if-i-could
Short stories in ergot, Weird Horror, Interzone, Remains & elsewhere
me/cfs
Jonathan Raab @spookhouse.bsky.social Hack Horror Writer | Gothic Upstate New York
DARKVOID DEATHSHIP | VAMPYRVANIA RPG | THE MAUSOLEUM OF GORE | EUROSCHLOCK NIGHTMARES
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Matthew M. Bartlett @mattmbartlett.bsky.social Writer
.Heather 🏳️⚧️↙️↙️↙️ @auntiepsychotics.bsky.social Horror/Transgressive Writer
Queer Historian
Obligatory Y2K Emo Chick
Nasty Tranny (MtF)
Scottish
31
She/her
Blithering E-thot
Malkavian Coded
A.C. Bauer @acbauer.bsky.social Horror writer and storyteller. Fan of books, comics and movies. Owner of @Cateyepress.bsky.social, an indie horror press. Halloween III stan account 🎃. He/him
austinbauerwrites.wixsite.com/acbauer
Sisters of Sci-Fi Podcast @sistersofscifi.bsky.social Podcast about female & non-binary sci-fi writers, STEM interviews, the Earth Crew 2042 radio play, the monthly micro-fiction series Sci-Fi Snack Stop, and more. 🚫AI🚫
Hosted & created by L. Stephanie Tait 🏳️🌈 🤖
http://www.sistersofscifi.com
GeekGirlsRule 🦈 @geekgirlsrule.bsky.social 50 something Feminist Nerd with a chip on her shoulder. Trans Rights are Human Rights. Pansexual, Wiccan, kettlebell enthusiast. (She/Her)
Elly @ellyzoe.bsky.social Ridiculous and extra. Multidisciplinerdy. Lit & writing major, CS PhD, teacher of many subjects, jack of many trades. Gender-unwilling Jewish hillbilly in the PNW. 🏳️🌈 she/they/elle/iel. English/Français
🐘 ellyzoe@mas.to
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"Street Wise She/Hercules" Ella Tailor $200/$700 @garaktailor.com 🔞MDNI
You can not kill me in a way that matters.
Solidarity Forever
Freelance Audio Editor
Budtender
Co-Hostess @wnffpod.bsky.social
@itsallgraps.bsky.social
(She/Her)
Tip jar: @JKNotsobad Venmo & Cashapp PP comfortingmoo
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madeline! @mads.haus 📖 PENITENTS (Ghoulish, October ‘26)
✍️ Mothership, The A.V. Club, Paste, Anime News Network, Anime Herald, Anime Feminist, CGM
🏳️⚧️
http://blog.mads.haus
Deadman97 @deadman97.bsky.social Blood, dead stuff, monsters, abuse, missing limbs.
Co-host of horror culture podcast Jack of All Graves
TheAmazingNeena @janineveazue.bsky.social Archivist. Digital Librarian. Introvert w/ extrovert goals. LIS, natural history, zines, kaiju, punk rock, Kdramas, archives, & all things delightfully weird.
KDrama/CDrama blog: somanykdramas.tumblr.com
Zines for sale: https://etsy.me/3Ya6bXa
Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social Writer | Chicago | Work in The Offing, X-R-A-Y, Wigleaf + more | Pushcart Prize and BotN nom | Best Microfiction ‘24, '25, '26
https://elenalzhang.wordpress.com/writing/
internetracecar @hegaldia.bsky.social author of the Hegaldia series (dropping soon!). motorcyclist, regular cyclist, whitewater kayaker, and indie automotive mechanic. (he/they, pantastic)
transphobes deserve only two things: a shovel to the back of the head and a hole to fall into.
Neil Blackman @n3il4real.bsky.social Writer of fiction. Heart that you call home. Movie stuff. Music junk. Mental Health. Still chasing the highs of discovering AOL and finding the lows of everything since.
Dede Crimmins @dedecrim.bsky.social Film critic. Horror Fan. Spinster. Smithie.
Rue Morgue, That Shelf, CFCA
she/her
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critics/deirdre-crimmins/movies
Ari_Hellraiser @arihellraiser.bsky.social Horror fan from womb to tomb. Author of Millennial Nasties, regular contributor to The Pod and the Pendulum.
Letterboxd: Ari_Hellraiser
linktr.ee/Ari_Hellraiser
Allen Sale @astralaudio.bsky.social I'm a former Technical Support Specialist, AEW fan, horror film reviewer, and podcaster. Blind, bookworm, gamer, and Christian. Currently live in Mississippi. Here for bringing joy, friendships, learning, and unraveling the artform of storytelling.
S.M. Carter (Sheldon) @sheldoncarter.bsky.social New here!
-Author: To Steal the Sun (23) & Aardehn Awakening (mid 26).
-Developer/Prez: DE (Warframe & Soulframe)
-Podcaster: The War with Art.
Also: Collecting books, Metal music, Hiking/Camping.
Say no to birds
https://linktr.ee/smcarter
@amityvilleville.bsky.social @amityvilleville.bsky.social 
Macy Scott @macyscott.bsky.social Debut novel, Bone Cold Truth, coming soon! So... Me, over 60 years old, feeling the psychological suspense mixed with ❤️. No DMs.✌️
Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social Author of books beloved by attractive people with good opinions | Forest Creature Cluster | Chicana | Demi | She/Her | Jessica is the author, Abra is the person
Books: https://linktr.ee/jessicaconwell
mave @mave.bsky.social if anyone needs me, i’ll be in the lagoon
bangers: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2wtsa2p73r3lsfyenwlu6zrx/feed/aaadnem4lhxts
Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social Nuisance, writer, publisher - the devil's dandy - poetry & weird fic - tarot - https://linktr.ee/kymdeyn - she/they with MECFS. In books and in bogs.