Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social The 2026 Worldcon in Los Angeles, California
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August 27-31, 2026
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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social Award-winning powerhouse publisher of SF ๐ Fantasy ๐งโโ๏ธ Spec Fic โจ, and Horror ๐ง Part of Profile Books ๐ https://linktr.ee/solarisbooks
Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social World Fantasy, Nebula, Ignyte, Locus & Shirley Jackson Award-winning speculative publisher. Baffling Magazine & novellas & anthos & queer ๐. Editor: dave ring.
Fei Qi @feiqi87.bsky.social Read far more short fiction than I write. Write some anyway.
The Imperfect Legacy โ Nature, 2026
Teaches law in Hainan. Interested in what systems fail to count.
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Joy Deva Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social Speculative Writer: Fiction in One Story, Ploughshares, Tin House, Apex, etc. Yaddo Fellow. Founder of Pioneer Valley Writersโ Workshop. Rep'ed by Peter Steinberg. Novel in progress. Bagpiper.
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Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social I write short stories that explore the space between memory and myth: quiet, eerie and unsettling fiction that lingers in the mind like fog after nightfall.
The Archive of the Unread:
https://www.archiveofunread.com
Caroline Shea @therealcshea.bsky.social She/her. Freelance writer and editor living in New York. Author of Lambflesh (Kelsay Books, 2019). Open to editorial clients now: https://caroline-fitzgerald-shea.squarespace.com/editorial-consultations
gigamercer @gigamercer.bsky.social He/Him | Obscure crap enjoyer | Aspirant writer
Machinedad โ๏ธโ๏ธโ๏ธ @machinedad.bsky.social just a silly little guy
Michelle Z Jin @michellezj.bsky.social I write stories
michellezjin.com
Zvi @fredfred.bsky.social Bibliophile. Reader. Dad.๐
R.T. Ester @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social THE GANYMEDAN (Out now from Solaris Books) https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-ganymedan-r-t-ester/1d2e09db773dd68b?ean=9781837863365&next=t
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He/him
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Whisper House Press (Steve Capone, Jr.) @whisperhousepress.bsky.social Editor in Chief & Publisher, Whisper House Press.
Award-Winning Writer & Screenwriter.
Educator since โ08.
Trained ethicist.
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Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social Shortwave is an indie horror/sci-fi press. Our books are distributed worldwide by Simon & Schuster. Founded and run by @alandistro.bsky.social (active HWA member, full SFWA member).
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Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social Posting Science Fiction, Fantasy, Geekery, bookshop life, occasional cats.
Expert Bookseller at Waterstones Ipswich and/or Bury Arc.
(Views mine, not representative of Waterstones)
Lauren (LJ) McMenemy @laurenwrites.bsky.social ๐ปWrites the dark stuff
๐ฃOnline content ed @ British Fantasy Society
๐คFounder/mentor/coach/author promo, Society of Ink Slingers
๐ฎEvents curator, Writing the Occult
๐ชFormer editor, TWF @ HorrorTree.com
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Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social Leading independent publisher of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Crime, Pop Culture, Movie/TV tie-ins & much more ๐ Also, @hardcasecrime.bsky.social
Phylosomaโข @phylosoma.bsky.social Girl Dad x 3, Widower, Motorcycle enthusiast, Skydiver, Scuba Diver, Retired Machinist and Structural Engineer, Bookworm,Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Guitarist, Nola,
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The Supernova Short Fiction Review @supernovareviews.bsky.social We review SF & Fantasy short fiction, initially with a focus on the UK scene and other under-reviewed sites. Account maintained by @jonlaidlow.bsky.social Check out our reviews at https://supernova.reviews 
InkFoundry @inkfoundry.bsky.social InkFoundry is a speculative fiction aggregator developed to connect stories, authors, and readers.
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Arbitor Ian @arbitorian.bsky.social Just remember, Space Marines are BAD and there's no such thing as canon in 40k.
Human who talks at a camera about geek stuff. He/him.
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Alberto Pupo @authoralbertopupo.bsky.social I am an independent fantasy author https://albertopupo.wixsite.com/alberto-pupo-author
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Jennifer ๐๐งโฃ๏ธ @jdawson001.bsky.social โฟ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐American SFF author, poet, editor, & book reviewer living in England. She/her. The Poetry Society & The British Fantasy Society. Old OWW member.
Online at: WorldsOfMayhem.com
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/dawson001
๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ rights = human rights.
Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. (One of those is THE CALAMITIES, out now.) Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 50-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.
Anne Wilkins - author @annewilkins.bsky.social Sleep-deprived New Zealand speculative author. Stories in Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Apex, The Dark, Flash Fiction Online, Cast of Wonders and more.
www.annewilkinsauthor.com
www.facebook.com/annewilkinsauthor
instagram.com/annewilkinsauthor
DJ Cockburn @djcockburn.bsky.social 
GCL Boisset @gcl-boisset.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Reviewer. Will follow back readers and writers
Wyldblood Press @wyldblood.bsky.social Science Fiction and Fantasy publisher. Quarterly Wyldblood Magazine and free flash on the website. www.wyldblood.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/
Gavin, Small Beer (closed due to long covid), &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social Gavin J. Grant. He/him. Born: 323ppm. Peely-wally vegan Scottish immigrant. Equality? I like it. BLM. Antifascist. Trans rights=human rights. Long covid 12/21, meh. Tired. Wears masks, asks you to, too. smallbeerpress.com (closed) & LCRW. bookmoonbooks.com
Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social All Kinds of Weird ๐ฝ literary magazine and book company publishing strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful sff & horror. 100% organic, no AI ๐ซ
๐ธ https://www.apexbookcompany.com/
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Lesley Conner @lesleyconner.bsky.social Editor in Chief at Apex Magazine. Coffee drinker. Book reader. She/Her
John Sollitto @johnsollitto.bsky.social He/Him, Black Library, Wild Hare Comics, Games QA.
I think an awful lot about worlds that don't exist.
www.johnsollitto.com
Tom R. Pike @tomrpike.bsky.social I write science fiction. You can find it in Analog Science Fiction & Fact and Black Library. Day jobs over the years: climate policy research analyst, wiki administrator, and tweet ghostwriter for a cartoon horse. https://tomrpike.com/
Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social A publisher of science fiction and fantasy, based in Wales.
Georgia Cook @georgiacooked.bsky.social Illustrator, Voice Actor, Award-winning Writer of audio and horror fiction.
Co-creator of The Holmwood Foundation podcast.
She/Her. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Email: georgiacooked@gmail.com
Website: www.georgiacookwriter.com
LinkTree: https://t.co/XX5pBGqxvT
Trench Crusade @trenchcrusade.bsky.social Official bsky account for the Trench Crusade skirmish game
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Guy Haley @guyhaley.bsky.social #Author at Black Library, Solaris, Tor.com and Angry Robot. Ex-journalist and editor. Screenwriter, world-builder, ponderer. Angry goblin in a human world. Interested in far more things than I can possibly list in this puny box.
Gregory Lynn @needfulwords.bsky.social Writer. Slightly obsessed with the Wheel of Time, Star Wars, and the Boston Red Sox.
The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.
Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social Writer of dreamlike fiction | she/her | www.ivyivyivyivy.com 
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Zohar Jacobs @zoharjacobs.bsky.social Migrant Jewish intellectual. Writer, historian, mystic | Fiction in Sunday Morning Transport, Analog, Asimov's & Clarkesworld | Oxford, UK
Chad Gayle @chadgayle.bsky.social Science fiction & fantasy author ๐ NYC photographer ๐ท Words in DreamForge, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Inner Worlds, etc. ๐ SFWA / Codex
https://chadgayle.com/
Owner & operator of https://polastax.com
caroline hung @carolinehung.bsky.social the angriest dog in the world by david lynch
carolinehungauthor.com
@chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social 
miramanga @miramanga.bsky.social Author @ Lush | @harpercollinsuk
YouTube @miramanga
Book Club Buddy @arbitorian
Writer @Wyrd_Science
Editor @28magofficial | @trenchcrusade
Pic by @darthmongoose
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
David A. Gray @david-a-gray.bsky.social Optimistic dystopian and writer of speculative fiction, published in New Myths, Abyss & Apex, Cosmic Roots, Starship Sofa, Every Day Fiction and more. Novels: Moonflowers, and (forthcoming) Neverthere.
The Daily Tomorrow @thedailytomorrow.bsky.social A Daily SF Serial Magazine
The newest of the new from today's most exciting writers, daily via Substack. A new story starts every Sunday and stays free for a full month. No ads, ever.
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Dust & Dark @handle.invalid A new magazine of chilling horror fiction. Launching 2025. https://dustanddark.com/
Editor: @owenduffy.co.uk
Banner image: Mikel Martinez De Osaba
Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social Award winning #Shortstory #Writer
#SciFi ๐: A Short History of the Future, Northodox Press
#Fantasy ๐: Happy Ending Not Guaranteed, Arachne Press
Oxford Physics, Codexian.
Everything, Ever โ๏ธ: http://happyendingnotguaranteed.blogspot.co.uk
Juliette Wade @juliettewade.com Novelist, linguist, anthropologist, Ph.D.
Fascinated by social systems.
Rep'd by K. O'Higgins
The Broken Trust series: 1. Mazes of Power (DAW 2020)
juliettewade.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/JulietteWade
CA in AUS, Naarm
she/her
NO AI
M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com pronounced *meltzer*
SFF writer and perpetual student. Author of REFRACTIONS and INVERSIONS. Repped by Lisa Rodgers at JABberwocky. SFWA, BSFA, Codex.
Polish-born/UK-based
she/her
https://mvmelcer.com/
https://linktr.ee/mvmelcer
Craig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com SFF writer and Swordplay instructor || Founder of Ottawa Swordplay || Lapsed TTRPG writer || AuDHD
Currently seeking a literary agent and writing more novels.
#IndigoEmployee || My posted opinions are my own, I don't speak for my employer.
Jason A. Bartles @jabartlesauthor.bsky.social Queer SFF Writer. Clarion West '23.๐Philly
Assoc. Ed. @ Uncharted Mag
https://linktr.ee/jabartles.author
Reggie Kwok @reggiekwok.bsky.social Banner done by Erica Weiss. https://linktr.ee/rkwok
Skip Scherer - Author @skipscherer.com Indie author, martial arts school owner (27+ years), T1D. DM's should be meaningful, or you risk being blocked. I aim to entertain. My books: https://skipscherer.com/books/
Max Pearl ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ @pearlbear.com Black, Trans, Queer, luddite, multi-genre writer. Ph.D. Neuroscience. MFA student Antioch University. Cazadero, CA
https://maxwellpearl.com
https://overlappingmagisteria.com
emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social Doctor of food, writer of stories
Sometime award nominee, occasional winner
Capitalism seditionist
In my ai;dr era
Ex Partum, out now: https://emmaburnett.carrd.co
Eรณin Dooley @eoindooley.bsky.social He/him. Lapsed cognitive scientist turned writer. SFWA, BFS & MSc. Words in various places. BSFA โ25 longlister
Debut novella NO SYMPATHY available with @press-android.bsky.social
Book links: https://linktr.ee/dooleyeo
Site: https://eoindooley.carrd.co
Barry Ryerson @barryryerson.bsky.social Writer. Audio nerd. Ninja. Cat dad. He/him. Pan ๐
Books: ๐ The Child of Fire and Earth (MG fantasy)
๐ The Magic Circle (YA/NA scifi fantasy)
๐ Origins (scifi short stories)
Website: www.barryryerson.com
Quick link to books: www.linktr.ee/bryerson
Thomas Elrod @thomas-elrod.com THE FRANCHISE (Tor, May 2026) https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250406583/thefranchise/
WE USED TO BE HEROES (Tor, May 2027) more tk
Philadelphia and environs. Posts mostly about books and baseball
http://thomas-elrod.com
Adam Gaylord @authorgaylord.bsky.social Writing, politics, & parenting. Please note the Oxford comma. Star Trek & Star Wars both rock. Sexism and racism both suck. Married. Dad. Biologist. He/Him.
D.R. Slaten @drslaten.com Writer, shower singer, and all around goof. Current trial lawyer and former appellate attorney. Oh... and... I have a SERIOUS shoe addiction.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/D.R.-Slaten/author/B00DSS70CW
I Should Be Writing @cassieshanahan.bsky.social A neurodivergent writer who procrastinates writing by binge-reading amazing stories and watching too many movies and TV shows whilst trying to navigate motherhood (She/Her)
Philip Athans @philathans.bsky.social Liberal author, editor, and SF, fantasy, horror, and TTRPG fan who has some links at https://linktr.ee/philathans and is happy to have rebuilt a #writingcommunity here. NO to AI.
AUTHORS AGAINST BOOK BANS: https://www.authorsagainstbookbans.com
Sara Norja @saranorja.bsky.social PhD in English โ Speculative fiction & poetry โ Tietokirjailija โ Historical linguistics โ History of alchemy โ Manuscript studies โ English/suomi โ Queer โ She/her โ
Natali Simmonds @natalisimmonds.bsky.social Author. MY HUSBAND'S STALKER (25.3.26), THE EX I BURIED, WHILE MY BABY SLEEPS, MY DAUGHTER'S REVENGE, GOOD GIRLS DIE LAST (TV adaptation in the works) | THE BLOOD WEB series as Caedis Knight | London Latino Film Festival | Agent: Amanda Preston, LBA
Claire Barner | Sci-fi Romance Writer @clairebarner.bsky.social Author | Sci-fi Romance | Rep: Jenna Satterthwaite
MOONRISING coming July 2025 from Diversion Books
Jaymie Wagner should be writing @jaymiedwagner.bsky.social 40ish, She/They, probably up to no good.
Author, ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ, Queer, IT Nerd, giant robot enthusiast, werewolf apologist, and occasional nerf gunsmith. Owned and operated by my cats. SFWA member and author of the Sing For Me trilogy.
Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social Writer of speculative and interstitial fiction; social rights activist, VP 2024; Cycling to Asylum/Les lignes invisible (longlisted for the Sunburst ), Run J Run, Zee, Invisible Line and Five Points on an Invisible Line๐
Jacey Bedford @jaceybedford.bsky.social Too many books, not enough time.
Writes F&SF - www.jaceybedford.co.uk
Hon. sec. Milford Writers - www.milfordSF.co.uk
Sings a bit - www.artisan-harmony.com
T. Olsen ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ @keilantra.bsky.social SFF author, world-builder, dungeon master, chaotic neutral bisexual, snarky hedge witch, she/her (I โค๏ธ antiheroes) ๐ซAI!
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https://linktr.ee/tamiolsen
K Camm @gildedbirdcage.bsky.social Author - YA Fantasy โจ ๐ฅ
Top 100 #CheshireNovelPrizeKids 2025
Top 100 Ascent Children's Book Prize 2026
Sorry but I don't respond to unsolicited DMs.
Elad Haber @eladhaber.bsky.social Writer, Dad, Music Nerd. Stories in Lightspeed, Simultaneous Times Podcast, Underland Arcana, Even Cozier Cosmic, Silly Goose Press, Bulb Culture Collective, and more!
Debut collection, THE WORLD OUTSIDE, out now from Underland Press.
eladhaber.com
Christian and Miles Cameron @phokion.bsky.social Author, outdoor enthusiast, modern-day knight. Artifact Space, Red Knight, Cold Iron, Tyrant, Killer of Men, Chivalry etc
HL Tinsley @hollytinsl3y.bsky.social Fantasy writer, Princess Grimdarling. 2 x SPFBO Finalist. Author of The Vanguard Chronicles and The Hallows - https://linktr.ee/h.tinsley.
DM/boardgame nerd.
Creative Director at www.spotlightindie.co.uk. Also at: @spotlightindie.bsky.socialโฌ
Alex Z @alexzoubine.bsky.social Writer, Author, Poet | Producer of BIOME | First Reader @ The Colored Lens | Story Reviewer | Dog lover | Analytics Aficionado
claire jia-wen @clairejiawen.bsky.social avid grocery shopper | clarion 2025 | vp 2024 | codex | words in clarkesworld, khลrรฉล, apex, nightmare, others
repped by @allegramartsch.bsky.social
clairejiawen.com
Roz Clarke / Zora_db @rozc.bsky.social Writer, editor, farmer, retreat host with the most ghosts. Living with chronic pain and fatigue but would still ride naked into battle for Michael Sheen. If you want a follow back please drop me a message!
Zora_db on xitter, Zora-db on tumblr she/they
Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social Fantasy writer and editor, hound mum, permaculturist, warrior hobbit. Writes, reads, games, gardens. Trying to leave it better than I found it. Ideologically opposed to bigots of all stripes. She/her. Cymru.
Barbara A. Barnett @babarnett.bsky.social Fantasy & horror writer. Musician. Occasional orchestra librarian. Odyssey Writing Workshop grad, critiquer & blog editor. Taos Toolbox 2024. SFWA/Codex member. Repped by Emily Keyes. She/her. https://babarnett.com
Abby Nicole Yee ๐ซฅ @abbynicoleyee.com Writer whose words escaped into Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Penumbric +++
UP Diliman Creative Writing โ27 โหเฟ Speculative nonfiction, mostly.
๐ abbynicoleyee.com / gailyap.blog
Rebekah Postupak @postupak.bsky.social Writer // Willamette Writers // Nebulas Ceremony team @ SFWA // she/her // dragons always.
Chey Rivera @criverawrites.bsky.social ๐ต๐ท SpecFic writer.
Words in Flame Tree, Heartlines Spec, Trollbreath, The Skull & Laurel, Hexagon Myriad, The Scythian Wolf, & elsewhere.
Forthcoming in Tales to Terrify.
Find all my work here: https://cheyrivera.carrd.co
Dan Weber @dan-weber.bsky.social U.S. Marine infantry (2008-2012)
Law Enforcement (2015-2020)
Happy Dad (2020-Forever)
Adam @chalicotherex.bsky.social mentally robust
https://adamsnotes.substack.com/
C J Dalling @nephii.bsky.social HIDDEN first book in my urban fantasy trilogy, is out now.
Dancing to my own tune, pity it's being played on bagpipes by a tone-deaf squirrel.
website www.cjdallingwrites.com
Rachel A @rachiea.bsky.social Librarian by day, word scribbler at night. Find said words in Gavagai, GrendelPress, Plott Hound, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Apexโs Strange Locations, Malarkey, and elsewhere. Genre: Midwest weird. Codex.
Jacob Sannox @jacobsannox.bsky.social Fantasy writer. www.jacobsannox.com
Author of "The Dark Oak Chronicles" and "The Return of King Arthur".
Andrea @andreagoyan.bsky.social Writer, painter, performer, animal lover and co-host of Metastellar's Long Lost Friends. Codexian and member of The Electric Sheep. www.andreagoyan.com
s. m. hallow @smhallow.bsky.social USA Today bestselling author of The Halls of the Dead (Harper Voyager, 2026)
Indie Ink finalist for How to Survive This Fairytale
Rep: @lzats.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/smhallow
A. H. Davison ๐จ๐ฆ @ahdavison.bsky.social ๐ธ Science Fiction Author & Cat Lady (she/her) ๐โโฌ๐โโฌ
Fuelled by tea and spite ๐ซโ
Bi / Neurodivergent ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Quill Hollow ๐ฆ
I love chatting writing process ๐
https://linktr.ee/ahdavison?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=0169938c-8069-42da-9bd5-e990a82c90ba
Tim K Brumbaugh - Author @tbrumbaugh-author.bsky.social Author of the post-apocalyptic western novel Sorrow Draw and the Goblins of the Moors series.
Signed copies at https://timothybrumbaugh.com
Sorrow Draw - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CY7V6587
The Mapmaker's Husband - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DRWJFM1C
Louis Inglis Hall @louisinglishall.bsky.social SFWA. Codex. Eugie Foster Award finalist. Stories in: Clarkesworld / Strange Horizons / The Dark / Beneath Ceaseless Skies / Cosmic Horror Monthly / more.
www.louisinglishall.com
Helen French @helenfrench.bsky.social medcomms writer by day, fiction writer by night. Dork.
Leon Stevens @linesbyleon.bsky.social Multi-genre author (poetry and science fiction) and all around funny guy. ๐
All my links will be here: https://books.linesbyleon.com/links
Edward Patrick @edwardpatrickwrites.com Author of the Grey & White series, shower singer (not good), pet dad (so many pets), gamer
Website: https://edwardpatrickwrites.com
IG: @edwardpatrickwrites
Grey & White series: https://mybook.to/greyandwhiteseries