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Any Pascual | indie author & poet @anyespiritual.bsky.social My new book “Verses till midnight” out now!
I write cozy poetry books for deep feelers.
Indie Bestseller Author. Highly Sensitive Poet ✝️🌷🇪🇸
Autora, poeta Altamente Sensible.
Un abrazo de Luz ✨
Okay with DMs about writing.
https://linktr.ee/AnyPascual
Nina Miller @ninamiller.bsky.social Physician, Fencer and Creative
Wigleaf top 50
https://ninamillerwrites.com/
Hybrids/Photos @ Cutbow Quarterly and Raw Lit
Prose/Poetry @ Sci-Fi Shorts, Bright Flash, Five South, Roi Fainéant, Five Minutes and more.
June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social Scottish. Writer. Reader for Fractured Lit. Published in Trash Cat Lit, Frazzled Lit, Moonlit Getaway, Gone Lawn, The Phare, Gutter, Hooghly Review, and National Flash Flood.
Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social Writer of dreamlike fiction | she/her | www.ivyivyivyivy.com 
Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social More-than-human Geographer, Durham
Researching natures & ecologies from nuclear to nocturnal
Co-Founder
+ @digicologies.bsky.social
+ @ukrenvhum.bsky.social
Associate Editor, Environmental Humanities
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/jonathon-j-turnbull/
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
Ian Johnson @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social Trying (trying, very trying) writer/Dad/runner. Words in @trashcatlit.bsky.social @apricotpress.bsky.social @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social @freeflashfiction.bsky.social etc. 2026 Best of the Net nominee.
Joey Hedger @joeyhedger.bsky.social Author living in Alexandria, VA | Deliver Thy Pigs (Malarkey Books) | stories in Saw Palm, Complete Sentence, Variant Lit, HAD, and more | he/him
www.joeyhedger.com
Phillip Ayscue @payscue14.bsky.social NCSU Class of 1985; 24/7 Wolfpack news
Tap into Poetry @tapintopoetry.bsky.social 📚 Poetry Magazine est. 2022
📚 Submissions open (always!)
📚 tapintopoetry.wordpress.com
General Witchfinders - The British Horror Podcast and Zine @generalwitch.bsky.social The British Horror Podcast and Zine
Britain… an ancient kingdom with cruelty and torment in its blood
Join Ross Jon and James as they tread where few dare
From Dracula to Damien Herbert to Hellraiser
www.generalwitchfinders.com
Skionar @skionar.bsky.social Roger Clarke. Author of A Natural History of Ghosts, published by Penguin Books (2012). Former writer for the Independent Newspaper, Sunday TimesUK, Sight & Sound. In it for the long haul with severe chronic illness, dealing with NHS on a weekly basis
Horrible House Sparrow (she/they) @sparrowpunk.bsky.social Basic cliche, goth-adjacent, occasionally bro-ish. Self-help book permanently lodged somewhere uncomfortable.
@elegantcloud51.bsky.social @elegantcloud51.bsky.social Artist and organic gardener currently living in the MO Ozarks.
Green witch, herbalist, vegetarian, long time meditator, lover of nature and life itself.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/LindaBrunnerArt
Mary B @beesincampanula.bsky.social I should have been a pair of ragged claws…
Reads 📚Writes 📚Haunts museums, art galleries, ancient sites, woodland and marshes. Thrilled to be in top 5% of entrants for 2026 Bridport Novel prize #amquerying
Francine Hibiscus 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🧶🩰 @francinehibiscus.bsky.social Feral Crone
Chaos Auntie
Bad Example
I'm Not Sorry
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
@cultauthor.bsky.social @cultauthor.bsky.social 
Johnny Campbell @johnnycampbell.bsky.social Folk musician, freelance writer at Country Walking Magazine, Right to Roam Sheffield
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ MOJO
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Songlines
www.johnnycampbell.co.uk
EDGEWAYS @edgeways.bsky.social Exploring paths less taken, forgotten stairwells of history and unanswered questions of art, science and magic. Soror Shenanigator @sjfarrer at the helm.
Zoom Gatherings. Every Sat @ 20:00 GMT
https://linktr.ee/Edgeways_Gatherings
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A free blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
The Coast is Queer Festival @coastisqueerfest.bsky.social 🛟🏳️🌈The Coast is Queer is the UK's biggest and brightest festival of LGBTQ+ literature🏳️🌈 🛟
Attenborough Centre Brighton 9 – 12 October 2025
Spaceboy Books @spaceboybooks.bsky.social Indie press specializing in speculative literary fiction since 2017
readspaceboy.com
Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social Another writer fleeing Twitter. 30 years of videogame-adjacent scrawling and also, these days, weird short stories. Pics of cats, books and foxes likely.
Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social Writer, flash fiction writer, photographer. Author of 2 novels & 2 collections of flash. New novel out this spring. My flash pieces have been published in many lovely magazines. Mslexia flash fiction prize winner, 2024. Website: http://bronwengriff.co.uk/
Joyce Bingham @joycebingham.bsky.social Writer of short stories and flash fiction. Words in Molotov Coctail, Ellipsis Zine, Raw Lit and others. Green fingers and plant whisperer.
MaireadWrites @maireadwrites.bsky.social Writes things, teaches things, learns things, parents a person, and some other things (BFFA winner; Bridport SL; Pushcart Nominated; LL Wigleaf Top 50) South West, UK, but Northern.
Allan Miller @mrallanmiller.bsky.social Flailed writer
https://allanmiller.weebly.com
Solarpunk Auntie @solarpunk-auntie.myatproto.social Artist, hydrologist, river-wader-inner.
#solarpunk #atheopagan
Jo Clark @thejokelark.bsky.social writer, reader, linguist.
knitter, nomad, procrastinator.
Rodrigo Culagovski @culagovski.net Author, architect, researcher, and developer from the Galactic South.
Published in Escape Pod, Nature Futures, Flash Fiction Online, LeVar Burton Reads, khōréō, among others.
SFWA, Codex.
https://culagovski.net
Not Quite Write @notquitewrite.com 🎙️ Not Quite Write Podcast | notquitewrite.com
🏆 Join our international flash fiction writing comp AU$4k in prizes + publication | notquitewriteprize.com
Rawhead @rawheadjournal.bsky.social Open to submissions of creative nonfiction and visual art. We believe in the power of art and literature as form of resistance.
Now on Submittable:
https://rawhead.submittable.com/submit
Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social Press & online rag dedicated to grit lit & rural writing with rough edges. Survival is triumph enough. We dig Folk & Old Country music: @npcountrycovers.bsky.social. EIC: @vanwinkle.bsky.social
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com
The Motel Desk Lit Zine @themoteldesk.bsky.social 🚬🍑Where All Rooms Are Smoking. An underground erotic lit zine parked at the edge of town, where high literature leans against low neon. Send submissions to moteldeskzine@gmail.com.🍆🔥 https://www.themoteldeskzine.com/
Indie Bites @indiebites.bsky.social A quarterly magazine featuring short fantasy fiction from indie authors.
Edited by @adiehartauthor.bsky.social and @josiejaffrey.bsky.social
No AI.
ASSASSINS & ALCHEMY deadline: 30 Nov 26
GRIFFINS & GRIMOIRES deadline: 28 Feb 27
www.silversunbooks.com
Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social Cat sitter. Gothic lit and theology. Romance studies. Byron studies. Runs 'Romancing the Gothic'. Writes queer little stories.
The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social A "micro" press for "micro" stories. Run by @mattkendrick.bsky.social
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press
MythCrafts @mythcrafts.bsky.social We are Mythologists who also love folklore, history, pop culture and anything weird and unusual. Mythcrafts.com
Kit Gray aka Elise Scott (they/she) @elisescott.bsky.social Author & mom.
Find your joy with
THE BLACK CAT DETECTIVES!
#POTS #endo #chronicpain #nonbinary #queer #vegan #disabled #neurodivergent #mentalillness
Rep: Marisa Corvisiero @ CLA
https://elise-scott.com
A person-shaped spooniecorn.
@quitewriteed.bsky.social @quitewriteed.bsky.social 
Amanda @akscotland.bsky.social Co-host of the Not Quite Write Podcast and judge of the Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction.
Writes in the tiny spaces in between.
Eric Raglin @ericraglin1992.bsky.social Horror/Weird fiction writer and editor (The Writhing, Verdant End out NOW). Owner of Cursed Morsels Press. Anti-capitalist and anti-fascist. Minneapolis. He/Him
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/cursedmorsels
Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social Writer / Librarian
Work in Electric Literature, the Deadlands, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, etc
Repped by Marie Lamba of Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency.
Novel: Living in Cemeteries
Collection: Haunted Ecologies
CoreyFarrenkopf.com
Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social Minneapolis-based publisher of short horror and Weird fiction. Anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, and pro-queer. Shirley Jackson Award-winning press.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/cursedmorsels
Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social Writer of Fiction; Bae of Fundy
Irish-Canadian
Website https://www.lorekeating.com/
Novella AGONY'S LODESTONE https://store.tenebrouspress.com/products/agonys-lodestone-print
Collection THE TRUEST SENSE https://a.co/d/090sQN3I
She/Her
Graveside Press @gravesidepress.bsky.social A small horror press who thinks everyone should be given a fair chance to be published.
Mads Schubert 🌹 @mads-schubert.bsky.social (she/they) Illustrator & Designer
Making art for punks and lovers
https://linktr.ee/mads_schubert
Sarah McPherson @summermoth.bsky.social HE manager by day. Writer, crafter, LARPer, runner. Procrastinator extraordinaire. Lover of the fantastic. Definitely not a grown up. She/her.
Find me here: https://linktr.ee/summer_moth
Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social Creator of @scarfolk.bsky.social. "This guy, who apparently saw the future" - Edward Snowden. Running an ASD/ADHD operating system.
https://www.richardlittler.com
Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social 🌙 Joel. Book reviewer, poet, artist, baker, herbalist, and naturopath from Wellington, NZ (he/him)
Nominated for Pushcart Prize and Best of Net.
Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social Writer based in Franconian Forest, Germany
Fortean Times comics reviewer
published at Tor.com Shimmer 3LBE, Lackington's, Lead writer on Haunt www.stevetoase.co.uk
To Drown in Dark Water from Undertow Publications
Dirt Upon My Skin from Black Shuck Books
Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social World Fantasy Award-winning publisher
www.blackshuckbooks.co.uk
Amy Barnes @amygcb.bsky.social Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social
Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social Deep Woods of Philly | Sometimes Writer | Spoonie Crew | Accidental Startupper | Words in New Letters, Wild Roof Journal, etc.| NO DMs
https://linktr.ee/lisadellaporta
J.S. Watts @j-s-watts.bsky.social Writer (poet, novelist, short story writer and sometime reviewer) amateur photographer and very amateur musician. Website: https://www.jswatts.co.uk/
Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social 1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/)
2. Obsessed with lists
3. COMMON PEOPLE
4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS
5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (http://geni.us/yDxa)
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
PseudoScott @pseudoscott.bsky.social he/him
writer/director/actor at the http://MickeeFaust.com
assistant editor at http://Pseudopod.org
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social Ploughshares | Best American Nonreq'd | Copper Nickel Editors' Prize | The Norton Reader | ElectricLit | Flash Fiction America | Swamp Pink | Wigleaf | Five Points (forthcoming) | The Art of Flash Fiction https://artofflashfiction.substack.com
Mike Piero 🏳️🌈 @mikepiero.org Writer. Novelist. Poet. Game Studies Scholar. Writing in J Journal, Midway Journal, Rain Taxi, Moveable Type, Impost, Sandy River Review, & Trash Cat Lit. *Views are my own.* Monarch and Best Small Fictions noms. More at www.mikepiero.org. He/Him. Bi. 🩷💜💙
Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social Horror/Fantasy writer. Mom of two semi-feral girls and a pack of mutts.
Follow for books, short stories & random things I find interesting.
Work in LCRW, Uncharted, Abyss & Apex
Member of HWA, Codex, SFWA
Eugie Award Finalist
tammykomoff.com
#writer
Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social Writer of tiny things. Fiction: NFFD, Mslexia, Neither Fish Nor Foul, Funny Pearls, Trash Cat Lit. Gags: Breaking The News, Noising Up, The Skewer, Newsjack. She/her
https://luciennecummings.com/
https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/lucienne-cummings/
Sarah Oakes @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social A visually impaired writer and musician in love with krakens and science fiction. Pagan soul. Debut sci fi novel The Jewels of Inglorious Fortune on KIndle.
Jen Rowe @tiptreejen.bsky.social Writer (Apex Book Co. anthol./Fly on the Wall/Bath Flash Fiction), Improviser/Actor, Workshop facilitator, Voiceover. Student of botanical painting & Countryside Management. Dog obsessive. @tiptreejen for all things.
Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social Lover of coffee, chocolate, reading & writing 
Christopher Blake @chrisblake.bsky.social SF and Fantasy Writer. Palliative Care doc. Stories in Strange Horizons, Adventitious, FFO, and others. Writes mostly about grief. SFWA. Codexian. Cat Dad.
Suzanne (writing as S A Greene) @sagreene1.bsky.social Writer. SOCIAL MEDIA BREAK 2026 (except for shameless self-promotion) DMs don't work. GoneLawn trampset TempleInACity GooseberryPie BlinkInk Mslexia Liars'League MythicPicnic NewFlashFicReview FictiveDream BulbCulture Phare MaudlinHouse FreeFlashFiction
stewart carswell (he/him) @stewartcarswell.co.uk mostly poet | Earthworks (2021, Indigo Dreams) & Knots and branches (2016, Eyewear) | no writer, yet he writes | always be within reach of a forest
🌐 linktr.ee/stewartcarswell
Noémi Scheiring-Oláh @itssonoemi.bsky.social Hungarian alien writing in English(ian). Fan of cats and underdogs. ő/she/they/we 💚 Autistic. | noemiwrites.com | 🇵🇸🍉
Jan Kaneen. Northern Writer Granny. PhD student at York St John @jankaneen1.bsky.social Award-winning writer, blogs https://jankaneen.com/ '23 Bath NiF winner, SL Rubery Award & First Pages Prize '24 Flash & Short story collection, Hostile Environments on sale https://www.northodox.co.uk/product-page/hostile-environments-paperback
Sara Hills @sarahillswrites.bsky.social THE EVOLUTION OF BIRDS (Ad Hoc Fiction, 2021)
Best Small Fictions | Wigleaf Top 50
SmokeLong Mikey, Bath Flash Fiction Award, QuietManDave CNF
2027 NFFD anthology editor
sarahillswrites.com
🌵US/UK #FlashFiction
@adhocfiction.bsky.social @adhocfiction.bsky.social 
Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social Fond of creativity, pyjamas and kindness.
Fiona McKay @fionamckay.bsky.social Writer | THE TOP ROAD (AdHoc Fiction 2023) | DRAWN AND QUARTERED (Alien Buddha Press 2023) | THE LIVES OF THE DEAD (AdHoc Fiction July 2025) | Words in places | Autistic + ADHD
Ally to 🏳️🌈 and 🏳️⚧️
Free 🇵🇸 and slava 🇺🇦
Debra Daniel @debdanthewriter.bsky.social Writer of flash fiction and poetry, singer.
Malina @iridescentwords.bsky.social Writer of literary and speculative fiction. Published in Odin by Flame Tree Press, Cast of Wonders, Gwyllion, Ellipsis, Eye to the Telescope, WestWord Journal, NFFD Antho & more.
Jupiter Jones @jupiterjonz.bsky.social Writes short stuff
Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social Κλεοπάτρα 🇨🇾 Writer, editor, translator | Stories in: swamp pink, HAD, Tiny Molecules, Flash Flood, Claudine, Raw Lit | she/her
Shortlisted, Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction
Best Small Fictions & Best of the Net nominee
kleopatraolympiou.com
Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social First pub TrashCat Lit. NFFD Anthology Editors Award 25. Shortlisted for Fish. Stories in SmokeLong, BULL, DIHP, New Feathers, Bath+Oxford anthologies. LISP finalist + winner of Westword + Flash500. Poetry collection in Top 20 Small-Press Poetry awards
Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social Queer writer l #FlashFiction l Smokelong Fellow 2026 l Contrib ed @nffr.bsky.social
Pushcart, BSF, BMF & Monarch noms
Read my stories:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17zj1W2pXZsP1aZZ3vR4vbV4Cra9eZ15F6lwU5lc2tKA/edit?usp=sharing
Deborah Tomkins @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social Author of prize-winning #ecofiction. #Nature. #Climate.
Aerth (@weatherglassbooks.bsky.social)
The Wilder Path (@aurorametro.bsky.social)
Represented by Sara Langham https://davidhigham.co.uk/authors-dh/deborah-tomkins/
deborahtomkinswriter.com
Joshua Palmatier/Zombies Need Brains @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social Joshua Palmatier is an epic fantasy writer and the founder of the small press Zombies Need Brains. ZNB does NOT use AI imagery in its covers and does NOT accept AI-generated stories. Visit the store: https://zombies-need-brains-llc.square.site
@womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social The original & only WomensArt created/ curated by art historian/author PL Henderson to celebrate/promote women in the arts.
Real art...real artists...No AI
Images © to respective owners
Jo Scott Heritage @joscottheritage.bsky.social By day, heritage consultant based in the North of England. By night, writer of novels & short stories, seeking representation. Shortlisted Yeovil Literary Prize 2024. www.joscott-heritage.co.uk joscottwrites.uk She/her
Helen McClory @helenmcclory.bsky.social Writer, Reader, Hybrid creature
https://linktr.ee/HelenMcClory
https://helenmcclory.com/
Judy Darley @judydarley.bsky.social Writer & daydreamer living by the Somerset coast. Author of fiction collections #TheStairsAreASnowcappedMountain, #SkyLightRain (https://bit.ly/3zlfK7Q) & #RememberMeToTheBees. Workshop leader/journalism/brand engagement.
Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social Fantasy and science fiction writer/artist with a tendency towards ecology and quietly strange things. Keeper of invertebrates and fish. Enjoys walking simulators and Second Life. Multiply marginalised.
Website: http://www.polenthblake.com
Alison Rumfitt (preorder BRAINWYRMS thanks) @hangsawoman.bsky.social Confrontational and yet quite friendly author. Books: TELL ME I'M WORTHLESS (out now) and BRAINWYRMS (coming October 10th)
Joshua Blackwood @joshuablackwood.bsky.social Horror novelist and curator of ghosts and other specters. 🌲PNW🌲🏳️🌈 Tell your dog I said hi.
Holly Kybett Smith @kybettie.bsky.social Queer femme horror writer. Intersectional feminist. MA Victorian Gothic. Chronically ill. Occasional performance poet. The 'Ky' rhymes with 👁️. (she/her) 🖤
Mason @masonhawthorne.bsky.social Alleged writer; horror, gothic, weird. Queer. Aussie.
Tumblr: https://masonhawthorne.tumblr.com
My novella The White Ribband: https://books2read.com/u/m297KR
The White Ribband on Itch: https://masonhawthorne.itch.io/the-white-ribband
Noor Lovelace @noorlovelace.bsky.social 🖤 Noorlovelace.com
Horror author surviving on books, metal, and pomegranate tea. Living that ~rare condition~ life with grace and attitude. Published at Gavagai [ she/her ]
Come fall in love with a new song. #noorsplaylist
🇪🇬🇦🇹🇺🇸
🩷💜💙
Opal @opalinkwell.bsky.social Writer of Many Things (mostly horror at the moment) • Aspiring Novelist • Trans Woman (she/her only) • Lesbian • Rabidly into TTRPGs and the Paranormal • Anti AI • Commissions open
Nico Martinez Nocito 🏳️⚧️ @nicowritesbooks.bsky.social Queer SFF writer & poet • Nebula & Rhysling finalist • he/they 🏳️⚧️ • words in Strange Horizons, Apex, FFO, Flame Tree, Haven Spec & more • SFPA, Codex
Stardust & Verse poetry reviews: patreon.com/cw/StardustAndVerse
nicomartineznocito.com
Rick Hollon @mimulus.bsky.social Genderqueer SFF writer & poet. They/them. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Rhysling & Elgin nom’d author of TIME TRAVEL IS EASY (2025). Words in F&SF, NESS, Strange Horizons, Analog, OTHERSIDE, Kaleidotrope, ALOCASIA.
mimulus.weebly.com