Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social Small and/or speculative fictions. Old dictionaries. Shingle beaches. Everyday magic.
she/her
https://www.jennygaitskell.com/
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
Diachroneity Books @diachroneity.bsky.social Molehills in Heaven by Ian Goodale out 13 Oct!
Creative outlet for the collective publication of fiction // We deal in literary weirdness, uncanny valleys, the fiction that doesn't fit in
Based in 🇨🇦 + 🏴
~~~ Submissions open Sep–Nov 2026 ~~~
@hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123
Wizard's Tower Press @wtpress.bsky.social A publisher of science fiction and fantasy, based in Wales.
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Siobhan Logan @siobhanloganwriter.bsky.social Writer, doodler, former editor & publisher at Space Cat Press. She/Her. Currently VP of Leicester Writers Club, a lovely writers community. Dabbles in Art classes for joy.
https://spacecatpress.co.uk/
Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social Books, corvids and the shakily cheerful evasion of despair. PHENGARIS
@nefariousbatpress.bsky.social PARCH MARKS out with @GoldSF.bsky.social in Sept 26.
Author website: https://annaorridge.com/ (thanks to @sonorataylor.bsky.social)
she/her
Lo @loneyjane.bsky.social Shy/anxious extrovert; "big old lefty socialist"; CofE; illustrator; bassist; singer; feminist; cyclist.
Light void-screaming.
She/her
I don’t have DMs.
Rick Ferguson @rjf87ferguson.bsky.social Creative writer , Allotmenteer
Beekeeper 🇮🇲
noodleBubble @noodlebubble.bsky.social 📖 Leicester Writer ✒️ ‘The Longest Day’ out this summer with Road Song Books
📚 Works in a Library 💳
🎧 Libby app obsessed 👩🏼🎤
🍄 Nature 🦢 Art 🎨 https://open.substack.com/pub/noodlebubble?r=ech6g&utm_medium=ios
JoJo Helstrip @johelstrip.bsky.social Writer. PhD student. Folklore & Fairy enthusiast. Navigating life on this spinning rock...📚
#Writer #SpeculativeFiction
https://jojohelstrip.carrd.co/#
The Slab Press @theslabpress.bsky.social We publish quirkier sorts of books! Science Fiction. Horror. Fantasy.
https://theslab.press/
J. Gibson @planarlost.bsky.social Dabbler in dark fantasy fiction (Planar Lost).
Book award winner.
Newsletter:
https://bit.ly/PlanarLostNews
Author site:
jgibsonwrites.com
#Author #WritingCommunity #BookSky
Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com Novelist, scriptwriter, imaginative futurist, recovering journalist. Winner of the Arthur C Clarke and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Author of The Shining Girls (now on Apple TV), Zoo City and Bridge.
Laura Pearson @laurapauthor.bsky.social Author, mum, feminist, reader of proofs. Agent: Jo Williamson Publisher: Boldwood Books
Phillip Irving @irvingphil.bsky.social Writer, editor, comic, tutor.
Not in that, or any, order.
Mike Underwood @mikerunderwood.bsky.social They/he. 3x Gold ENNIE winner. Trans & non-binary Midwest Princex.
Author (Genrenauts, etc). Hugo & Stabby-Award finalist.
Game designer (Daggerheart, Dungeons of Drakkenheim: Daggerheart, Candela Obscura, etc.)
Back Hope Dies Last at ttrpg.fund/hdl
TC Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social Neuroqueer Luddite. Angry feminist. Cis, but hormonally augmented. Writer/EIC, Nefarious Bat Press 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
PhD, media/politics. Semiotics, CDA, storytelling
No DMs please, I'm British
Books at https://payhip.com/NefariousBatPress/collection/tc-parker
Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social Publishing commentator. Founder of Meet The Booktokers, As Seen On Booktok, and The Empowered Author. Trying to disrupt book publishing for 15+ years. Not easy. 
Ron Unger @ruatelier56.bsky.social Unger Atelier 56 🎨
Painter, Printmaker
U.S.A.
Dan Draper @dandraper.bsky.social Writer: flash; short stories; audio drama; having another crack at a novel.
Maths teacher: mostly in the classroom; occasional freelance bits; some ITT roles with fancy job titles.
danieldraper.uk
Lara Ianuzzi @laraianuzzi.bsky.social Oregon Coast artist, farmer, nature lover, avid reader, feminist, colorist.
@iambitsa.bsky.social @iambitsa.bsky.social 
Guido Eekhaut @eekhaut.bsky.social Writer of crime books and thrillers, speculative and fantastic fiction and the weird. Winner Hercule Poirot Award, and nominated for several others. Please no DM except professional offers.
Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
@roughlandslm.bsky.social @roughlandslm.bsky.social Gen X. Interested in horror, sci-fi, urban fantasy, history, movies, crafts and art.
Joseph Norris, III @writetoscare.bsky.social Horror Author l screenwriter l Cheyney U alum l macabre maniac l mentored by Author Dr Eugenia Collier l writetoscare.wordpress.com
Kim Garvey @kimgarvey.bsky.social ✍️✒️📖📚🎬🎟🏖🐶🧚♀️
Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East at the University of Leicester. Researching ancient Mesopotamia. Playwright, poet, and Babylonian liver diviner.
https://www.selenawisnom.com
https://leicester.academia.edu/SelenaWisnom
Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social Writer: Rosewater, Murders of Molly Southbourne, Far from the Light of Heaven, Making Wolf, Jackdaw and others.
Arthur C. Clarke and BSFA award winner, Hugo finalist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Etc.
Reading worm.
Opinions mine.
He/him
Michelle's Melancholia @mmelancholia.bsky.social Lover of horror and everything morbid 🥀
Desperately wanting to believe in the paranormal 🔮⚰️
Find me on YouTube 👁
Angeline Trevena @angelinetrevena.bsky.social Helping writers & GMs build story-ready worlds
Author of worldbuilding guides and fantasy fiction
Get your free worldbuilding worksheet ↓
https://lnk.at/StepbyStepWorldbuilding
Victoria Ridley @vridley.bsky.social I write. Horror tinged by the eldritch, the folk, the weird. Also: ghosts.
MA Creative Writing - Edinburgh Napier 2023-2024
Jericho Writers UNWC 2022
Northampton Poetry Review @npoetryreview.bsky.social Northampton Poetry Review. A literary journal of poetry and writing from Northamptonshire, UK
https://linktr.ee/npoetryreview
Jane Adams Author @janeadamsauthor.bsky.social Writer
Lauren (LJ) McMenemy @laurenwrites.bsky.social 👻Writes the dark stuff
📣Online content ed @ British Fantasy Society
🤘Founder/mentor/coach/author promo, Society of Ink Slingers
🔮Events curator, Writing the Occult
🔪Former editor, TWF @ HorrorTree.com
👩💻Day job: Content & community
🇦🇺in🇬🇧
🤓Curious/exhausted
Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social Nottingham's city centre independent and radical bookshop, est. 2013
Publishing as Five Leaves since 1995
www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk, www.fiveleaves.co.uk
We organise about a hundred events a year. Fast ordering service. Four book clubs.
Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🌒 @chronicleflask.katday.com Science & Fiction editor/writer. Krawalloger. Chemistry PhD ⚛️ Co-Editor at PseudoPod 🦑 Writer: The Crash Course Organic Chemistry & various DK science books 🧪 Short fiction ✒️ thefictionphial.wordpress.com
Wren @wrenegade88.bsky.social Pronouns: they/them (eng); hen (svenska)
Queer
Neurodivergent
Artist
Craig Russell @cmrussell.uk Writes optimistic, apocalyptic, humanistic sci-fi.
NEVER EVEN - A Short Paradox Tale - out now!
http://cmrussell.uk/links
Dr Dominique Gracia @graciado.bsky.social Detective fiction, Victorian literature, UK Higher Ed @ucl, and other things in those general spheres!
Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social #Author Titan, Black Library, Aconyte, Rebellion. 25yrs commercial geek marketing, now #bookseller, #Manga and #comics. Re-enactor, gamer, #cat mom. #NoAI. Views my own.
World Fantasy 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social World Fantasy Convention, Brighton UK
Dates: Thursday 30th October - 2nd November 2025
Venue: Double Tree by Hilton Brighton Metropole
Website: https://worldfantasy2025.co.uk
#WorldFantasyConvention2025 #WorldFantasy25
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Shana @shanadubois.bsky.social Extreme bibliophile. Writer. Lover of all things grim and weird and horror. Raindrop seeker. Recent Vermont transplant. Cat wrangler. Anti-AI.
Launching GrimShelf.com to share my love of horror!
Auncell —|————— | 🖋/🎙️ @auncell.bsky.social ☽☉ VT: Divine Dragon Prince, Manager @ Roland’s Sept Tabletop Store
He/Him
☽☉ RPGs, MMOs, RTS, tank specialist
☽☉ VA, Guitarist/Pianist, Fantasy Author, Artist in-training
☽☉ Creds & Commissions 👉 http://StDurendal.carrd.co
☽☉ 27
(SFW, BUT 🔞 PLEASE)
@amgro.bsky.social @amgro.bsky.social 
Nell Arthur @nellarthur.bsky.social Writer of speculative fiction. Currently polishing draft 7 of my novel ready to start the querying process.
Michele Witthaus @michelewriting.bsky.social Freelance journalist and editor focusing on sustainability; also occasional writer of very short poems and photographer of odd things that catch my eye while I'm out walking.
Sarah Fearn @sarahfearn.bsky.social Writer, reader, former bookseller, all round dyslexic book nerd (she/her)
L.R. Lam @lrlam.bsky.social USA Today and Sunday Times Bestselling writer of Dragonfall, Pantomime, Goldilocks, Seven Devils, False Hearts, etc. Writing coach at The Novelry. 
john @johnamitchell.bsky.social Multi-genre writer, esp. speculative fiction.
John W Ashbrook @john-w-ashbrook.bsky.social I seem to have accidentally written a children's book. Here I am trying to foist said book on you.
(An act of shameless self-promotion which, if I'm honest, ill-befits me. But I'll have a punt at it, anyways.)
Please read me book.
(How did I do?)
Courtney Askey @caskeyc.bsky.social Artist, musician, writer
Dr Karen Jane Cannon @karenjanecannon.bsky.social Poet//Author//PhD (Ecopoetics of Place/Body) Novel: Powder Monkey (W&N & Phoenix). Poetry: The Curfew Bell & Emergency Mints. Hamish Canham Prize 2022. Bridport shortlist 2019 & 2024. New Forest Dweller. #poetry #place #nature www.karenJaneCannon.com
Carol Bevitt @carol-bevitt.bsky.social #Contemporary romance writer (UK). Associate member of ALLi - Chairman, Nottingham Writers' Club - Gardener, book lover, and coffee drinker. Updates only for now.
Jo Bell @jobellwriter.bsky.social Poet, digital salonniere. Host of The Poetic Licence (Patreon) - monthly prompts, famous poet interviews, a creative community. Memoir, BOATER out now with HarperNorth. https://linktr.ee/BoaterJoBell
Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social Lecturer, workshopper and creative writing events organiser - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis-events-17318878423
Aunty Fox @auntyfoxspirit.bsky.social Books, cats, coffee, cozy games
Brian Cuyler @briancuyler.com Wet plate collodion photography, alternative process printing, alt process, & large format photography.
Interested in how people with Aphantasia process information.
I like to make things.
M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com #Writer - mostly #SFF * #Editor * #Veteran * SJW * Linguistics * Will work for tea, but not before 9:30 am
Nancy Dawkins @nancymouse.bsky.social Also known as Mouse Teeth
Julia Webb @julwe1.bsky.social Neurodivergent poet and editor. Steering editor for 'Lighthouse'. Latest collection 'Grey Time' (Nine Arches press, 2025).
https://juliawebb.org/
https://visual-poetics.blogspot.com/
https://storymachines.co.uk/portfolio/lighthouse/
Anne Frost @anne64.bsky.social 
Sen McGlinn @senmcglinn.bsky.social Writer, translator, artist, gardener. Religion writer and researcher, especially the Bahai social teachings (= "political theology"); Iranian studies and Persian literature; art especially sculpture; English literature especially modern poetry; wetlands
Kathryn Moores @kathrynmoores.bsky.social There just aren’t words…
JP Flowers @jpflowersfictions.bsky.social Writer of fictions. Crosser of sevens. Socialist. European. Australian. 🟩. Surrealism is a lifestyle choice. http://jpflowersfictions.co.uk
@usaexpatindevon.bsky.social @usaexpatindevon.bsky.social 
Amy @amycaro76-ya.bsky.social I read, write and review mainly YA and New Adult fiction. To feed my book habit, I teach children with SEN. I write a collaborative American gothic serial on Substack with fabulous artwork www.substack.com/@amywriting
Www.instagram.com/@amycaro76_ya
Paige Worrall @paigeworrallwriter.bsky.social Thriller writer with a love of museums!
Art Writer. Contributing Editor for Mainly Museums. Freelance Exhibition and Displays Technician. Museum Professional. #amwriting
See my blog, The Museum Inspector: https://linktr.ee/PaigeWorrall
Dave Martin @dmartinwriter.bsky.social Writer, dreamer, sometimes simultaneously. Views my own, of course ☺️
Leicester Writers Club @leicwritersclub.bsky.social Leicester Writers Club run weekly hybrid meetings, masterclasses, social events, an annual weekend writing retreat and speaker events at Leicester's Phoenix and via Zoom.
Jennifer Marie Brissett @jennbrissett.bsky.social author, teacher, former bookstore owner, lover of kittehs.
http://www.jennbrissett.com
@simoncoxfilm.bsky.social @simoncoxfilm.bsky.social 
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Nick Tyler @captainpigheart.bsky.social Quite geeky dad of 2 beautiful cats. Improviser at MissImp Improv, storyteller, occasional scribbler. Designer, book-wrangler at Aconyte Books. Books, cats, and LEGO.
Minx Marple @minxmarple.bsky.social astrophel • a pearl scavenged from the toxic sludge • « botanical, celestial, erotic » • hedgehog chronicler • the thing is to dazzle
https://linktr.ee/isabellastreffen
John Jarrold @johnj.bsky.social Literary agent for SF, Fantasy and Horror, after 15 years as a publisher in London.
http://www.johnjarrold.co.uk/
Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social Howard Williams BSc MA PhD FSA
Aʀᴄʜᴀᴇᴏ𝖉𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 Blogger & Vlogger
http://linktr.ee/archaeodeath
@patknight.bsky.social @patknight.bsky.social Mum, Wife, Baker of cakes, Writer of short stories, Award winning Writer & Director of short films and Cat Lover 😺
Karen Powell-Curtis @karenpowellcurtis.bsky.social 
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored
Royal Society of Literature @rsliterature.bsky.social The RSL celebrates and nurtures reading and writing of all kinds. We're a charity that believes literature is for everyone. ✨ 200 years young. 🌟
The Bookseller @thebookseller.com At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com If you’re reading this, you’re in the right place.
Beautiful books you won't forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social Writer of The Lodger, Me and Mickie James, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel. Lambda Award Finalist. Leicestershire Short Story Prize winner. Saltburn - Feb 2025.
Indie Press supporter.
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
MD ANT
https://linktr.ee/drewgum
Writing East Midlands @writingeastmidlands.com Supports, develops and champions writers from the East Midlands - supported by Arts Council England.
linktr.ee/writingeastmidlands
Morag Edwards @moragedwards.bsky.social Author of historical fiction #TheJacobiteTrilogy. Also writes contemporary fiction as Isobel Ross #Crash. All published by Bloodhound Books. Self published books, #Broken by Morag Edwards and #AlmostBoys by Isobel Ross. Member of Leicester Writers Club.
Geraint Roberts @talerddig.bsky.social Radio football commentator on Cymru Sport, novelist (8 and counting) wrote a book about a railway - and was invited on TV to talk about milk factories, sandwich deliverer, unpaid carer, father, husband ( in no particular order)
Tim Maude @timmaude.bsky.social Hypnotherapist in Fleet, Hampshire
Pam Thompson @pamthompson240.bsky.social Leicester-based poet, educator and reviewer and visual artist. PhD poetry and holography.
Show Date and Time (Smith Doorstop) Strange Fashion (Pindrop Press) forthcoming pamphlet, Sub/urban Legends (Paper Swans Press).
Hawthornden Fellow.
Mark West @markewest.bsky.social Dad, husband, son, brother - I write thrillers, I read, I watch films and I walk a lot. I also have a deep love for trashy horror from the 70s and 80s (paperbacks and films).
My latest novel, TO SEE TOO MUCH, is out now!
https://mybook.to/ToSeeTooMuch 
Sue Thomas @suethomas.bsky.social I write about life, nature and technology. New novel on the way 'The Empathy Hack'. Bournemouth, UK. www.suethomas.net
Shannon Weston @sea-author.bsky.social Name's Shannon Elayne Ann Weston; SEA for short. Pirate at heart, writer by trade. Join me as I delve into magic's core, embark on voyages, and reveal beings that only trained eyes can see. 🖤🤍💜
linktr.ee/sea_author | http://rb.gy/uhyt5 | no ai
Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social Prof. of Colonialism & Heritage @ University of Leicester UK.
Penguin author of Our Island Stories. 10 Walks through Rural Britain & its Hidden History of Empire (2024) repd by. Emma Bal @ Madeleine Milburn agency.
@OnlyinBirmingham podcast
On Substack
Carol Leeming MBE D Univ FRSA @blackicon.bsky.social Poet Playwright Writer Director Performer Composer Film Maker Curator Lecturer Public Speaker p/time Associate Curator African Diaspora Film Writers Mosaic Writer: Literature Theatre Music Film/ Digital Media Heritage Decolonisation Health & Well-Being