Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social Teacher, novelist, short story writer, published by Salt, Zagava, and Raphus Press. Possibly mad about art, film, fiction, and cycling.
John K. Peck @johnkpeck.bsky.social Author, woodcarver, Musiker, printer, reader. Basser @amsteel.bsky.social. The Pale Globe forthcoming in 2027. Split Scream Vol. 7 from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social out now. Berlin/Brandenburg
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📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social Sci-fi romance author (on sub!) 🏳️🌈
Poetry: Smoky Quartz, Literary Hatchet
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Chris Panatier @scribeofhades.bsky.social Writer/Artist
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Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social Author of DAUGHTERS OF THE AIR, called “a striking debut from a writer to watch” by Shelf Awareness & DREAMS UNDER GLASS, called “a novel for our modern times” by Buzzfeed Books. ancawrites.com.
Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social An online journal publishing classically inspired short stories. Now open for submissions, 1000-8000 words. Edited by @CourtlandAvenue (Dave Gregory)
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C.H. Pearce @chpearcewrites.bsky.social Spec fic writer, reader, artist. Wrangles, variously: words, data, two small children. Loves history, New Weird, rats. 💖💜💙 A/member SFWA, HWA. Rep: @clgslr.bsky.social | w: www.chpearce.net | IG: c.h.pearce
Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social Read Issue 8! Epistemiclit.com
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Brandon O’Brien @therisingtithes.bsky.social 🇹🇹 Poet, SFF writer, TTRPG designer. Worldcon 2025 Poet Laureate.
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Author of CAN YOU SIGN MY TENTACLE? and other things.
Thank God for words.
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Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social Trans woman, writer, mom in St. Paul, Minnesota. Author of OKPsyche (novel) and From the Yew (poetry chapbook).
Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social No longer in good standing with the New York State bar
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Adam Sleper @adamsleper.bsky.social Dad, hubby, writer. Illinois artist grants, Chicago Writers Assoc, Horror Writers Assoc, Page/AFF finalist, PEN Emerging Writers. Black List 8+. Shakespeare/R.E.M.
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Alyson Mosquera Dutemple @swellspoken.bsky.social MARVELOUS FREAKS OF NATURE! - out Oct 2026 from Cornerstone Press
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Shonna White @shonnathewhite.bsky.social Author, artist, gamer & GIANT GEEK (she/her) 🇨🇦
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Darker Times @darkertimes.bsky.social A worker-owned horror culture magazine.
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Lacy Baugher Milas @lacymb.bsky.social ✨ You ain’t ever gonna burn my heart out. ✨ | Freelance writer & editor for hire |Former Paste Magazine TV and Books editor | Ninth Doctor evangelist | Cat lady 🐈⬛ | #wahoowa | Subscribe to @theshippinglane.bsky.social
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Erin L. McCoy @erinlmccoy.bsky.social UNDERLAKE (Doubleday, 2026)
WRECKS (Noemi Press, 2025)
Poetry & fiction in American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Conjunctions • Assistant poetry editor, Narrative • Multilingual
erinlmccoy.com
Adam Christopher @adamchristopher.me New York Times Bestselling author • Star Wars • World of Warcraft • Stranger Things • Doctor Who • Original SFF including CRAWLSPACE, MADE TO KILL, EMPIRE STATE and many others • Agent: Stacia Decker at DCL • Destroy AI
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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. 🏳️🌈
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AI Moratorium for NYC Schools @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social Coalition of parents, teachers, and activists calling for a two-year moratorium on AI in NYC schools. https://parentsforaicaution.com/aim-coalition/
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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Writing in the age of AI stuff
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Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social Professing literature in Philadelphia. MIDDLEMEN: Literary Agents & the Making of American Fiction (April ‘26).
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Courtney Pasko @cpasko.bsky.social Reader, writer, library girl
Country mouse living in Baltimore
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Dashka Slater @dashkaslater.bsky.social NYT-bestselling author of fiction and nonfiction for children and adults. Pro: curiosity, compassion, complexity. Anti: hot takes, easy answers, rushes to judgment, leaf blowers. She/Her. Use link to contact.
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Coyote vs. Epistemic Assholes / J. Stryker 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social Not the violent artist. | UofG alumnus. DV survivor & victim advocate. Dislikes liars and bullies. | Good trouble, narrativity, duality, moral reasoning, biopsychology, nature, wildlife, plants, trees. They/them.
Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Flash fiction writer | 2025 Highly Commended Bridport Prize & Finalist New Millennium Writings | Published in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Flash the Court, Writers’ Hour, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and elsewhere.
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Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Aubrey Gordon @yrfatfriend.bsky.social Cohost of @maintenancephase.bsky.social. Author of WHAT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT FAT and YOU JUST NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT. Subject of @yrfatfriendfilm.bsky.social. She/her/hers. Photo by the wonderful Josh Coen. yrfatfriend@gmail.com
Scott Broker @scottjbroker.bsky.social queer writer & bookseller | debut novel THE DISAPPOINTMENT (catapult books, forthcoming)
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Crumpled Linen Press @crumpledlinenpress.com Beautiful facsimile manuscript editions of great literary works, annotated by world-leading scholars. www.crumpledlinenpress.com
Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social @kylegriffin1 from that Twitter thing
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social Elephant Lover
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Joshua W. Cotter @joshuawcotter.bsky.social ND Secular Humanist ♾️ Traditional Media Cartoonist & Illustrator ✍️ Fix Your Hearts or Die 🫀
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Sabrina Vourvoulias @followthelede.bsky.social Award-winning Latina journo, SFF writer & author. Editor on the Opinion desk at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Opinions here are my own. She/her/ella. www.sabrinavourvoulias.com. Water is life. You can't drink data. No es sequía, es saqueo.
Fabio Fernandes @fabiofernandes.bsky.social Writer, translator, editor.
Jornalista, pesquisador, professor.
Criador do Observatório do Futuro (PUC-SP).
Esquerdopata, surrealista, budista.
Autista nível 1 de suporte.
Posts in English e em Português.
https://fabiofernandeswriter.com/
Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social Author of Night Beast and Lies I Tell My Children | Co-founder, Nightjar Arts Collective
Just a queer Bolivian American woman who likes books and birds and making billionaires cry
www.ruthjoffre.org
www.nightjarartscollective.com
M.M. Olivas @olivasthewriter.bsky.social Mara can't spell.
🏳️⚧️ 🇲🇽 Xicane futurist and horror writer, author of Sundown in San Ojuela. Ignyte finalist, longlister for Stokers. Clarion 22.
Stories at: olivasthewriter.wtf
Sundown available at: https://lanternfishpress.com/shop/sundown-in-san-ojuela
Cynthia Gómez @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social Muñeca, my queer gothic historical fiction novel, out now: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211/muneca-by-cynthia-gomez/
2024 Ignyte nominee for "Lips Like Sugar." Member HWA. Rep @LaurenBajek.
cynthiasaysboo.wordpress.com
Pedro Iniguez @pedroiniguez.bsky.social Bram Stoker, Elgin, and Dwarf Stars Award-winning Horror/SF and children's book author.
THE BUILD-A-MONSTER WORKSHOP (Out Now!)
ECHOES AND EMBERS (Out Now!)
THE FIB (Out Now!)
Repped by Peter Steinberg, UTA
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The Scares That Shaped Us @scaresshapedus.bsky.social A podcast from @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social about horror writers and the stories that made them. New episodes every Wednesday!
Matthew Jackson @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social One time I sat in the Munster Koach. Horror Books Guy at Bloody Disgusting. Pop Culture Raconteur and Critic at Pop Heist. Host of @scaresshapedus.bsky.social. Austin Film Critics member. 🍅-approved. Always Writing and counting the days until Christmas.
Climate Central @climatecentral.org Researching and reporting the science and impacts of climate change 🌎
Starfarer's Cafe (science fiction magazine) @starfarerscafe.bsky.social On the promenade of a space station orbiting Altair IV is the Starfarer's Café. An intergalactic crossroads, daily the café serves traders, pilots, travelers and thieves. All have a tale to tell.
Visit us at starfarerscafe.com. Open 24/7.
alexis stephens @pmjawn.bsky.social director of communications at @propublica. thinking about cities, music, celeb gossip and the 76ers
Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social Author - Poet
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social Professor of Art History, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center. I look at things and then write about them.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social Journalist
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Mari Ness, writer of things @mariness.bsky.social I write things.
Now a Hugo/Nebula finalist.
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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com Author, New Handbook for a Post-Roe America, End of Roe v. Wade. Executive Director, https://bsky.app/profile/wawchealth.bsky.social Alabamian. Exhausted. Donate here! https://wawchealth.networkforgood.com/projects/250703-keep-wawc-funded
Night Shades ⏾ @nightshadesmag.bsky.social 🛸 500 Word Speculative Stories. $0.15/word. nightshadesmag.com
Victor Ladis Schultz @celldeathvic.bsky.social novels, short stories, dirty limericks |
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Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social @onyxaminedlife on Twitter. Chicago trans woman/entity/entities. She/her or they/them. A short story writer and all around pretentious person. Weird jokes, political rants, some positivity. Friendly!
xavier garcia @xaviergarcia.bsky.social writer / editor / hermit / collector of dust
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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.
Jane Yager @janewords.bsky.social Fiction/CNF writer. Winner of Fractured Lit Elsewhere Prize. Recent stories in Los Angeles Review, Gooseberry Pie, Coachella Review, Ekphrastic Review. Criticism in TLS, Paris Review Daily. Based in Berlin, originally from California, frequently in Poland.
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Nora Maynard @noramaynard.bsky.social Writer & editor in NYC. Fiction in Variant Lit., hex, Moon City Review, MoonPark Review, Gone Lawn, HAD & others. Soon in Citron Review. Runner, movie lover, beginner violinist. Co-ed. -ette @ettereview.bsky.social
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social Fellow, Inst. for Policy Studies. Ex-historian posting about drug policy, social justice, and such. Professional border crosser. Interdisciplinary before it was cool (thanks Hampshire College). I use threads like a public filing cabinet. Personal account.
Sara Davis @literarysara.bsky.social Reader, writer, environmental steward, recovering PhD.
Philadelphia
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Buried Creek Collective @buriedcreek.bsky.social Creative Climate Resilience for Greater Philadelphia
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Floodlight @floodlightnews.org Investigating the powers stalling climate action
"You can't spell 'taint' without 'AI'" @voxexsinister.bsky.social I try to be kind to people; some don't always seem to deserve it. Strayan Gen X Goth, Leftist, disabled povvo. Supporter of fellow marginalised people. Recovered sysadmin. Trans rights are human rights. He/Him
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
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Kelsey Josephson @kelseyjosephson.com Author of strange steampunk and reinvented fairy tales. 💖⚙️📚
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Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social Librettist, lyricist, poet, scholar, teacher. Writing operas about kickass women and nb folks. Runs the Silent Film Sound & Music Archive (sfsma.org). Autistic. Disabled. Alphabetize under Leonard. kendraprestonleonard.hcommons.org
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