Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
@strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year
Karen (they/them) is ✨querying✨ @karenaparker.com I’m that BIPOC Buddhist book coach and speculative fiction writer who is doing a social media detox in 2026. Find me on my website at karenaparker.com! | ✊🏽🌈🎭🧠 | 🍉
Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social I write books and post too many cat pictures. She/her, only.
Trent Lewin @trentlewin.bsky.social Writer. Distinguished Story in Best American Short Stories 2025. Published by Boulevard, december, The Lascaux Review, the New Ohio Review, Grain, The New Quarterly. Working on a novel and a short story collection. Bring me wine. Find me at trentlewin.com.
AJ Van Belle (they/them) @ajvanbelle.bsky.social Preorder A Dozen Dystopias and How to Dodge Them! https://linktr.ee/ajvanbelle
Writer & scientist who cuddles dogs, builds worlds. Rep: Lauren Bieker. https://ajvanbellenews.substack.com/
Rhysling & BSFA nominee.
Lit agent.
Nonbinary/transmasc 🏳️⚧️
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Empty, Full of Hope @bastlove.bsky.social Just another Midwestern broken-wing sob-screaming into the torrential void.
Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026) geni.us/TMtMT. Two-time Best of the Net nominee. | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Pacific Northwest Writers Association @pacificwriters.bsky.social Helping authors with writing resources and hosting the fall writer's conference for 69 years.
pnwa.org
Geoff Palmer @geoff-palmer.bsky.social Award-winning author and technical writer based in Aotearoa / New Zealand.
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
linktr.ee/jdnelson
poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social World Fantasy Award-winning author of SAINT DEATH’S DAUGHTER & BONE SWANS. Audiobook narrator. Bandcamp: Brimstone Rhine. Repped by RHA Literary. https://linktr.ee/csecooney
Bristol Vaudrin (she/her) @bristolvaudrin.bsky.social Inch-deep writer. Author of AFTERWARD. Open book and unreliable narrator.
Alaskan-Oregonian
Manuscript Wish List® @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social 📚The new, non-Twitter home of #MSWL! We are a way for agents and editors to tell writers what they *wish* they had in their inboxes. Full agent profiles here: https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/ Newsletter: https://manuscriptwishlist.com/subscribe 
Nerd Girl Says @rachaelconrad.bsky.social Formerly the world’s smallest bookseller. Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. ✍️ in LitHub, Reactor/Tor, Polygon & Kirkus.
val - V.M. Ayala 🏳️🌈 @spacevalkyries.bsky.social 📝sci-fi/fantasy writer V.M. Ayala (she/they) 🎮 streamer, indie games, TTRPGs ✨ anxiety/ADHD, chronic pain 🏳️🌈 queer Mexican American 🪐🗡️ co-founder of @othersidespec.bsky.social
🌈 https://www.spacevalkyries.com/
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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social Nebula-winning and Hugo/Sturgeon-nominated writer. Bagel the Dog's emotional support human. Dadjoke teller. Unrepentant punster. Sentence-fragment lover. Disabled w #MECFS She/her effieseiberg.com/stories
Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social Science fiction and fantasy writer. Also lapsed scientist and freelance medical writer. Website: vanessafogg.com
Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA | Global Indigenous Horror (UPM, 2025) | Poetry Editor Orion’s Belt | Words in Future Fire, UtopiaSF, Space&Time, Lovecraftiana | EIC @katabaticcircus.bsky.social co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor®
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • Angeleno • he/him/his
benjamindreyer.com
👩🦯✏️Maureen📚🦯 @anythingmaureen.bsky.social Writer, #ActuallyAutistic, legally blind. Former journalist/editor. Dutch. Disability and mental health advocate. ❤️ books, music, crafting. #WritingCommunity
The BookishType @thebookishtype.bsky.social Queer Indie Bookshop in Leeds
Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com Writer, scientist, bug. she/her. #yeg. 🇨🇦 🇬🇾 Winner of a Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award! Rep: Michael Curry 📚🪲 Tips for cat treats! https://ko-fi.com/premee
Graham Stone Johnson @grahamification.bsky.social Conjuring twisted, genre-bending dark comedy with an unexpectedly still-beating heart. Screenwriter. Video Game Writer. Author. ISA’s Top 10 Comedy. 2X Red List. SF, QF in various contests. he/him.
https://www.networkisa.org/profile/grahamstonejohnson
Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social Author and professor type person.
SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24
Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com
Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social
IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS 2nd edition (IceFloe Press 2026)
WHERE SANDS RUN FINEST (DarkWinter Press 2024)
Bridport Prize 2025 shortlist.
Pushcart, Forward Prize, BOTN, Best Spiritual Lit nominee
Guest Editor: IceFloe Press
linktr.ee/vikki_c._author
PRINT RUN @printrunpodcast.bsky.social The Book Bird Cometh
https://www.printrunpodcast.com/
https://patreon.com/printrun?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink
Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning and USA Today best-selling author, narrator, and professional puppeteer. Also has a talking cat. Latest title: Apprehension.
Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell @garethlpowell.bsky.social Writes SFF as Gareth L. Powell and horror and mystery as G.L. Powell. Occasional award winner. Repped by Lucienne Diver at The Knight Agency.
🔗 Mystery and Horror - https://www.glpowell.com
🔗 Science Fiction - https://www.garethlpowell.com
Laura Strachan @strachanlit.bsky.social Literary Agent. Lover of books, art, music and theatre.
(she/her)
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
--Walt Whitman
@joebarca.bsky.social @joebarca.bsky.social 
Valerie Kemp @valeriekwrites.bsky.social Recovering academic, former filmmaker, current genetic genealogist. I write speculative fiction for all ages. Stories in Haven Spec, Apex, Cast of Wonders, and more! Viable Paradise 2022 alum. My MG fantasy DAUGHTER OF SPIDERS coming Spring 2028!
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Erik Grove @erikgrove.com Writer. Little dog owner. (Aspiring) Magnificent and Deeply Kind Weirdo. SFWA/ HWA/ Viable Paradise 2022. Portlander. Represented by Joshua Bilmes/JABberwocky. Debut novel THE LONG RED TOMORROW coming March 2, 2027! Preorder 6-37 copies today! He/Him.
Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com SFFH author & audio drama creator with a PhD in trashy Victorian lit. HIGHER MAGIC out now. Rhysling finalist. She/they. ND 🧠. Rep: @rebeccamatte.com
https://courtney-floyd.com
🎙 https://hauntnowpod.com
✉️ https://buttondown.email/wallowinginink
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Mona West @monawest.bsky.social Writer. Cohost of the Unfortunately... Podcast. Rejected by Uncanny, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and others.
https://mona-west.com/
https://unfortunatelypod.com/
KS Walker @kswalkerwrites.bsky.social Spec fic. Bikes.Books.
Words in Uncanny, F&SF, FIYAH, Apex and elsewhere
VP 2022
they/any
Ishmael Grey @callmeishmael.bsky.social A damp, drizzly November soul 🐳 Writer and Dork. Viable Paradise 2022. Fiction in Otherside.
If you feel like throwing me a buck:
https://ko-fi.com/ishmaelcat
Roy Graham @grayhaem.bsky.social fiction writer and story lead @ wizards of the coast / he/him / repped by Arley Sorg / opinions are my own and do not represent my employer
https://www.roy-graham.com/
K.W. Onley @kwonley.bsky.social Mama, entrepreneur, leader. I write speculative fiction for grown folk and littles. Viable Paradise 2022, Grub Short Story Incubator 2021.
http://www.kwonley.com
alex fox @alexfox.bsky.social Writing mostly about fucked up guys with swords. look upon my works and despair
https://www.afoxwrites.com
afoxwrites on IG (still building this up)
alexfoxauthor@gmail.com
A.Y. Chao @aychao.com Master procrastinator. Occasional adult.
#1 Sunday Times bestselling author of SHANGHAI IMMORTAL and PARIS CELESTIAL
she/they/Alice
aychao.com
Latest news: https://aychao.substack.com
Craig Church @whatcraigwrote.com He/him. Overactive imagination since '87. Helping make movies at ILM. Portland Trail Blazers and Golden State Valkyries enjoyer.
Short fiction in Cast of Wonders, Escape Pod, and more.
visualpostcard.cc
whatcraigwrote.com
letterboxd.com/lucky_rabbit
RJ Taylor @rjtaylor.bsky.social SFF writer • Stories in Clarkesworld, F&SF, Apex, more • #VP2022 • Codex• not often on social media (updates only)
Valerie Valdes @valerievaldes.bsky.social aka Lia Amador. Sci-fi, fantasy, and romance writer. MtG story scribe. Co-editor of Escape Pod. Variety game streamer. VPXX/16.
Benjamin C. Kinney @benjaminckinney.com SFF writer, neuroscientist, Hugo finalist. Escape Pod 2017-2023. Codex, VP, SFWA. Short stories in Analog, Lightspeed, Sunday Morning Transport, etc.
Neuroscience (not under pen name): rehabilitation, neuroimaging, movement control, handedness
Trollbreath Magazine @trollbreathmag.bsky.social Quarterly speculative fiction, poetry, and non-fiction
Unapologetically antifascist and feminist.
NO AI!!!!
Spec SFF
magazine.trollbreath.com
https://ko-fi.com/trollbreathmagazine
https://linktr.ee/trollbreath
Now I am become Jeff, the destroyer of Whorls @trollbreath.com #SFF writer from Maine. VP21. He/Him. Cóyotl and Foof award nominated. Creator of Speculative Fiction Magazine Subscription web page. Co-editor of Trollbreath Magazine. #AuthorsNotAlgorithms
https://www.trollbreath.com
https://magazine.trollbreath.com
M.R. Robinson @mruthrobinson.bsky.social MR, she/her. scholar, author, editor · poster of too many dog photos · Clarion West ‘25 · VP2024 · stories at BCS, Lightspeed, GigaNotoSaurus, elsewhere · co-founder of @othersidespec.bsky.social 🪐🗡️🌈
https://m-r-robinson.com
Zohar Jacobs @zoharjacobs.bsky.social Migrant Jewish intellectual. Writer, historian, mystic | Fiction in Sunday Morning Transport, Analog, Asimov's & Clarkesworld | Oxford, UK
K.M. Veohongs @kmveohongs.bsky.social Thai-rish American spec fic author last seen playing corn hole on House Hunters. Writes pants of center. She/her Repped by https://bsky.app/profile/hel-no-wai.bsky.social
See what I've written and sign up for my newsletter at https://www.kmveohongs.com/
Elizabeth Cobbe @elizabethcobbe.bsky.social Writer, Pythonista, parent, feelings butler, Viable Paradise grad. Words in Fireside, Cossmass, Kaleidotrope. Novel on sub now! REP: Eric Smith.
More at elizabethcobbe.com
R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social Fat queer polyamorous wizard and SFF author.
He/him. Abolish the police.
I am not a Catholic Priest.
I do not absolve you.
Write your own email.
Stories: https://www.rkduncan-author.com/
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Pippin @skyfyre88.bsky.social She/her. A geeky librarian, full of tea and anxiety. Co-host of No Story Is Sacred. Viable Paradise staff. https://linktr.ee/pippin_m
Laurence Raphael Brothers @lrb.bsky.social Technologist, writer, futurist.
Codex, Viable Paradise, SFWA.
Seeking representation for new novels.
Publishers: Mirror World, Water Dragon, Brigid's Gate
USPTO
he/him
@laurence@petrous.vislae.town
https://www.laurencebrothers.com/
Aimee Kuzenski wants you to read SEEDS OF INHERITANCE @aimeekuzenski.bsky.social Speculative fiction writer, audiobook narrator, singer, martial artist, badass, queer af
Latest novel: SEEDS OF INHERITANCE, semi-finalist in SPFBO X
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Phil Margolies @philmargolies.bsky.social I’m nobody but I know awesome people who have Wikipedia pages
Jennifer Hudak @jenniferhudak.bsky.social Writer of SFF, drinker of tea. Nebula winner, Hugo finalist. Aging mermaid far from her natural habitat. SFWA/Codex/VP2018. She/her
David DeGraff (he/him) @daviddegraff.bsky.social Astronomer and science fiction writer
Stories in Lightspeed, F&SF, Escape Pod, Translunar Traveler’s Lounge, and Carbide Tipped Pens #VP21 #Codex https://DavidDeGraff.com
J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்) @jgownder.bsky.social Opinions expressed are mine alone. Fan of nuance and tradeoffs. I regularly delete all posts and likes. ☸️ 🏳️🌈
Devin Miller @devzmiller.bsky.social Writer of sapphic SFF fiction and poetry, cyborg, Seattleite, plant nerd.
devzmiller.com
A.P. Golub / Andrea Tatjana @andtatcat.bsky.social Fantasy writer. Bi. Tamer of feral cats. Lurker. (They/them)
Laura Cranehill @lauracranehill.bsky.social Strange motherings and odd bodies. Weird horror written by a weird horror. 🌈
WIFE SHAPED BODIES out now from Saga Press
Lauracranehill.com
Neil Flinchbaugh @neilflinchbaugh.bsky.social Reader & writer of fantasy, sci-fi, & horror
Christopher Mark Rose @chrisrose.bsky.social Spec fiction writer, engineer, owl. Stories in Asimov's, F&SF, Interzone. Avionics in NASA spacecraft. #ViableParadise #SFF #VP23 #SFWA #Codexian #SciFi #CharmCitySpec #writingcommunity BLM 🇺🇦
Jay Wolf @jayxwolf.bsky.social sff writer & dev editor, book designer, author-illustrator, lapsed podcaster, sculptor, fabricator, Viable Paradise alum, online community specialist, queer as in here, they as in them, kennywood enthusiast.
writes books as @mdmcd.com
Merritt Daniel McDowell @mdmcd.com ink-stained wretch & nom de guerre of jayxwolf.bsky.social
Song of the Scourgelands, Bladesmith & Brigand, Beneath the Shattered Gods & more tk. Inquiries: m @ mdmcd.com
A drowned man carries no burdens, not even the heart of another—
River Kanning @riverk.bsky.social Those who become jailers are themselves no longer free.
P. H. Low @ph-low.com THESE DEATHLESS SHORES • poetry ed @Anathema • short fic/poetry/essays in Strange Horizons, Reactor, Fantasy, &c. • Ignyte, Rhysling, & Locus noms • 🇲🇾🇺🇸🏳️🌈 (they/them) • linktr.ee/lowph
Jill S @outseide.bsky.social Tea drinker, Seattleite, queer femme, erstwhile writer, dilettante, librarian, birder, renter, traveler. If you reply-guy me, I will block you. Pronouns: she/her
www.slowbloom.com/blog
John P. Murphy @johnpmurphy.bsky.social Science fiction and fantasy writer, author of RED NOISE, THE LIAR, and others. Coffee enthusiast.
No idea what I’m doing.
https://johnpmurphy.net
Liz (E.M. Morrissey) @lizardskinshoujo.bsky.social Pursuing the peccary with pardine limers.
Lapsed academic. PhD in Japanese Art History. Viable Paradise 2024. Short fiction in The Daily Tomorrow, Old Moon Quarterly. She/her. No AI.
www.elizabethmorrissey.com
Amanda Helms - Preorder THE UPPER TENTACLE @amandaghelms.bsky.social Writer of SFFH. THE UPPER TENTACLE forthcoming from Union Square & Co. Short fiction in/forthcoming from LIGHTSPEED, Uncanny, FIYAH & elsewhere. Editor at Diabolical Plots. Parent. Biracial. She/her. Rep: @allegramartsch.bsky.social
Jo Miles @jomiles.bsky.social they/them, writer of optimistic sci-fi and fantasy. Latest books:
The Final Chronicle of Yeneh: https://books2read.com/yeneh
Tea & Treachery at the Infinite Pantry: https://books2read.com/tea-treachery
Newsletter: https://www.jomiles.com/newsletter/
Trae Hawkins @traewrites.bsky.social SFF writer 💫
https://traehawkins.blog
Editor @anathemamagazine.bsky.social
rep: @keiralekseii.bsky.social
Words in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Escape Pod, etc. #ViableParadise2023
he/him
Shen Tao @dragons.bsky.social USA Today and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Poet Empress
https://linktr.ee/ThePoetEmpress
Rowan Copley @the-rowan.bsky.social Recurser, Viable Paradisian, Cascadian, science fantasist
Leah Miller @leahmiller.bsky.social Writing and Narrative Design. previously: Wizards of the Coast, Wildstar, Dark Age of Camelot, Star Wars. now: secret quests at System Era
@culturalgeek on twitter
Carla Dugas @cjdugas.bsky.social Trans people deserve respect and protection.
A coffee-drinking 🦄 protector. Writing fantasy/sci-fi . VP XIX. Previous first reader Viable Paradise, F&SF. she/her
Maureen Yost-Zahn @beaniezee.bsky.social Fantasy writer by night, cat herder 24/7, will jump out of a moving car to pet your dog | 💍 | NJ➡️PNW | VP22 / Viable Paradise 2018
I’m also on the others apps as [@]beaniezee
Lauren Roy @falconesse.bsky.social Writer, bookseller, gamer, geek. she/her. queer.
Artist at peculiarityshop@bsky.social
Staff at viableparadise@bsky.social
Ash Howell @ash-howell.com Writing about magic, queers, tech ethics, and the evils of capitalism. Work in Astrolabe, All Worlds Wayfarer, Baffling Mag, & Lightspeed | #vp2023
They/them.
https://www.ash-howell.com/
Stephanie Siebert @drowsyzot.bsky.social SFF writer, feral parent, history nerd, nascent bog witch
#ActuallyAutistic, #InvisibleDisabilities, #POTS, #EDS
Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com Retired SF and fantasy editor, winner of three Hugos and a World Fantasy Award. Amateur musician, bibliophile, genealogist, layabout. American by birth, Canadian by recent ancestry.
He, his. Anti-trans dingbats, get lost.
Signal: pnh.09
Lenora Rose @lenorarose.bsky.social Writer, potter, clerk. Canuck. She/her. Cis but knows trans women are women.
Where there is tea, there is hope.
km fedyk 🐀 @karigrafia.bsky.social Academic, writer, immigrant. Queer vegan. I spend a lot of time thinking about different kinds of minds | they/them
Represented by Anna Ange at Liza Dawson Associates
Profile picture by @ancientwinters.bsky.social
Andy W. Taylor @sooguy68.bsky.social Canadian writer of speculative fiction who buys more books & comics than he can ever hope to read. Viable Paradise (VP19), Codex, TWUOC, CSFFA, Playwright Junction. Cancer Survivor. He/Him
D. M. Beucler @dmbeucler.bsky.social Author of Memory and Magic, Out Oct 7 2025 from Luna Press
https://www.dmbeucler.com/
Expert Onion.
Cat herder.
2 kids, 3 cats, infinite chaos.
#VP21 #Codex
she/they
Knit 2, Purl 1, Sow kind chaos.
DonP @donfoolery.com He came from some. Where. Back in your long ago...
Health admin factotum. Views rep'd here are entirely my own.
Viable Paradise XX (2016)
he/him/his
donfoolery.com
🇵🇭 🇺🇸
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Brigitte Winter @brigittewinter.bsky.social Author. Photographer. Game designer. Co-Founder of Scryptid Games. Viable Paradise ‘23. SFWA. HWA. Rep’d by Sara Megibow.
Alec @alecjmarsh.bsky.social Writer of fantasy | Freelance Editor | Viable Paradise 2023
They/them | PNW
Hire me & see my books at alecjmarsh.carrd.co
LaShawn M. Wanak @tbonejenkins.bsky.social Science fiction and fantasy writer. Editor of GigaNotoSaurus Magazine. Anime watcher and knitter. Follower of Womanist theology. She/Her. Also, pie.
Julia Vee @juliavee.bsky.social I write stuff with monsters and dumplings. ('23 Ebony Gate, TOR) ('24 Blood Jade, TOR)
🩷Pearl City July 15, 2025🩷
Viable Paradise 21.
Jake Kerr @jakekerr.com Podcast drama writer. Screenwriter. Award-nominated scifi author. Technologist. Voting rights advocate. Former morning show DJ, music journalist, record company exec, biz dev consultant. Current IHeartMedia. He/Him
https://jakekerr.com
Anastasia K.E. @akstories.bsky.social Lover of bright colors and tea
VP2023 She/Her/Mx Neurodivergent
Reads for Fusion Fragment