Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social Horror writer startled by most sounds. The Barre Incidents and Kill Radio (both genre-bendy Horror) available thru Malarkey Books.
My website: https://www.laurenbolger.com/
Jewish / Free Palestine
Backgrd image quote: “Helloooo? My water dish is empty!”
Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social Writer, teacher. Up next: PENITENT, a novel (2028, Doubleday); TYPO, nonfiction (2027, Bloomsbury). Out now: APPLESEED (2021, Mariner). REFUSE TO BE DONE (2022, Soho Press).
Anna F Peppard PhD @annapeppard.bsky.social Ed #Supersex for @utexaspress.bsky.social. Ed Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics. Words @comicsxf.com @sequentialscholars.bsky.social + lots more. Host of @GoshGollyWow.bsky.social. Kurt Wagner's (unofficial) PR Manager. she/her
Chuck Palahniuk @chuckpalahniuk.bsky.social Official Bluesky. More to come.
UCalgary Press @ucalgarypress.bsky.social Home of Brave & Brilliant poetry and literature.
UCalgary Press publishes peer-reviewed academic books that connect expert scholars and readers worldwide.
University of Nevada Press @unvpress.bsky.social The University of Nevada Press publishes original and innovative ideas about the American West. Subjects include history, nature, social sciences, and memoir. | https://linktr.ee/universityofnevadapress
Michael Welch @mbwwelch.bsky.social EIC at @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social. Words in Electric Lit, Prairie Schooner, Kenyon Review, North American Review, & more. 
Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social A @storystudiochicago.bsky.social publication! Editor-in-Chief @mbwwelch.bsky.social
Polly Bruno @pollybruno.bsky.social Writer, novel WESTERN MOTEL (Polly Gross, Scribner/Atheneum), more. Event biz vet, film fan, Chicago South Sider on the Gulf.
Victor De Anda @victordeanda.bsky.social Author with stories in The Speculative Detective Agency, Pistol Jim Press, Cold Caller Magazine, BAMS 2025, Dark Yonder, Myopic Duplicity, Shotgun Honey, and more. Crime fiction, Speculative, Weird. Manuscript in progress.
William Boyle @wmboyle4.bsky.social Writer. New novel, SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET, out now from Soho Crime. https://linktr.ee/wmboyle4
Steph Cha @stephcha.bsky.social Author of Juniper Song novels and Your House Will Pay. Series editor of Best American Mystery & Suspense. TV writer.
Elise LeSage @eliselesage.bsky.social Writer, daydreamer, and dreadfully much else.
Chris Bucci @cbuccibookman.bsky.social Literary Agent at Aevitas Creative New York🇨🇦🇺🇲
Meghan Leigh Paulk @paulkwrites.bsky.social Niche Internet Micro Celebrity. Canonically 27. Famous at Starbucks. Published by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, @shotgunhoney.com, @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social and Punk Noir. Rep: @cbuccibookman.bsky.social
James Maxwell 🔪 Witching Metal Productions @witchingmetal66.bsky.social Writer of scumbags, con artists, and all manner of morons |
Creator of A WAR OF A MADMAN'S MAKING |
Editor of Pistol Jim Press: https://pistoljimpress.substack.com/ |
He/Him
Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com KILL CURRENT (writing as Oliver Lowe) coming May 2027 from Zando.
Pre-order: https://zandoprojects.com/books/kill-current-hardcover
Carolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social Books books books. Editor, writer, reader, clumsy DIYer. Latest: I review Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/08/arts/emily-st-john-mandel-exit-party/
Noris Roberts @norisroberts.bsky.social Lawyer who graduated from Santa María University in Caracas, Venezuela. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature and a Master’s degree in Civil and Mercantile Law.
S.H. Mansouri @shmansouri.bsky.social Punches keys and hopes for clarity. Never wanted water once. Author of Scream Like a Prayer, a coming-of-age horror novel, available 4/8/26.
shmansouri.com
Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. ✶✶✶✶ @tvayyyy.bsky.social Writer. Mackinac Bands of Chippewa and Ottawa Indians. Born & raised in Chicago.
Sacred Smokes, Sacred City, Sacred Folks. Pour One for the Devil. Never Whistle at Night. The El.
Back for Blood: NWAN Pt. II 8/12
Books and more here: theodorevanalst.com
J.G. Chayko @jgchayko.bsky.social Writer, actress, dancer and arthritis advocate. Writers Studio Graduate. Animal lover. Traveller. Novel in progress. https://linktr.ee/jgchayko
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
HAD @havehashad.com We had an idea that started as a joke. We had an affinity for that minimalist look and feel of early online journals. We had a couple drinks.
https://www.havehashad.com
Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social Writer of dreamlike fiction | she/her | www.ivyivyivyivy.com 
Darbo @darbomusic.com Multi-Genre DJ & Producer from England! Passionate about music!
Bounce - Hardcore - Hard Dance - Bassline - House - Jackin' - Deep - Trance - Edm - Gym
darbomusic.com
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social Current project: Cathedral City, cli-fi adventure/horror in the post-sea-rise dystopia of flooded Estonia.
https://daveon.design
Personal account only.
Chris Dolan @mcdolan.bsky.social I am angry about the nitrate levels in Iowa’s drinking water. My writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Maudlin House, The Disappointed Housewife, and others. www.dolanchris.com
Rachel Abbey McCafferty @ramccafferty.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Reporter. Editor.
https://rachelabbeymccafferty.com/
Alex Higley @alexhigley.bsky.social TRUE FAILURE (2/25), Coffee House Press
editor, Great Place Books
alexhigley.com
Meghan Phillips @mcarphil.bsky.social former NEA fellow. chapbook ABSTINENCE ONLY (Barrelhouse).
https://meghan-phillips.com/
Evan @efghannon.bsky.social Alaskan in Texas
My fiction appears in Conjunctions, EPOCH, Bat City Review, X-R-A-Y, HAD, and is forthcoming with Pithead Chapel
zachspruce @zachspruce.bsky.social Rochester, NY. Trashpoet.
Author of the chapbook Vanishing Sun (2024) from Bottlecap Press.
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
Bryce @statcrux.bsky.social I write poems and stories
J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com Recent books include CRITICAL HITS (with Carmen Maria Machado), HARD GIRLS, BUZZ KILL, SUBDIVISION, LET ME THINK. Lits in English prof at a regime collaborator institution. EPOCH editor.
EPOCH @epochliterary.com Fiction, poetry, essay, comics, etc., “yrs in quality literature” since 1947. www.epochliterary.com
Kunibert Kloss @kunibertkloss.bsky.social 
Flex Fish Games @flexfishgames.bsky.social Artist Matthew king and programmer Rami Bukhari, teaming up to develop nostalgic hand-drawn 2D games.
Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1.
Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d
My website: www.natehendley.ca
Nightmare Magazine @nightmare-magazine.com Monthly magazine of horror and dark fantasy short fiction published both online and in ebook format. Edited by @wnwagner.bsky.social (till 12/26, then edited by @johnjosephadams.com).
Matthew King @matthewkingart.bsky.social Artist & Author of Don't get Blood in my House books2read.com/matthewking
Likes Character Design, Gamedev, 90’s, Cooking, Sharpies, Beetles, Raccoons, Wrestling, The FGC, Baki, Capcom, Boardgames, DDR
Lemon Ride @lemonride.bandcamp.com Lemon Ride is the name on everyone’s lips — and no one knows who’s behind it. Blending shimmering melodies with earth-shaking basslines, Lemon Ride crafts a sound that defies definition, balancing emotion and innovation in every track.
Richie Narvaez @richienarvaez.bsky.social Adjunct as well as Agatha- and Anthony-award–winning author of HIPSTER DEATH RATTLE | HOLLY HERNANDEZ & THE DEATH OF DISCO | NOIRYORICAN | 🇵🇷 | The songs I punched are dreaming
https://linktr.ee/richienarvaez
@DiasporaDetroit @okpete.bsky.social Emmy winning filmmaker. Writer of dark stories. Maker of even darker short films. Horror novella WHITE FLIGHT released Nov. 4, 2025. First novel COUNTED WITH THE DEAD released June of 2024. HWA Active Member. #Horror #HWA
Amanda Dobbins @akdobbins.bsky.social 
Sandra Love @hellosandralove.bsky.social Writer
Mystery Thriller
🇨🇦🏴
Mystery Writers of America
Sisters in Crime - Toronto
B. Luke Wilson @blukewilson.bsky.social Writer and editor. Words out in The Rumpus, ONLY POEMS, HAD, ect. Hollins MFA alum. Poetry Editor @chestnutreview.bsky.social.
Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social Author: TACOMA; A KIND OF IN-BETWEEN; YEAR OF THE BUFFALO; STEPHEN KING'S THE BODY; BACKSWING
Editor: HAD; Short Story, Long (on Substack)
https://linktr.ee/aaronburch
Amy Stuber @amystuber.com Writer, editor, worker bee: amystuber.com
SAD GROWNUPS (Stillhouse Press, Oct 2024), Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
Contributing Editor: splitlipthemag.com
Mary Thorson @marythor.bsky.social A Woman’s Guide to True Crime available: https://boswellbooks.com/book/9798993883656 She/her. rep’d by Lori Galvin at Aevitas Creative. Aggressive UWM Stan. Panther Pride.
ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social Award-winning, indie lit journal—made in San Francisco since 1985. Our Issue 132 is now available. Subscribe: zyzzyva.org/subscribe/
Dominica Phetteplace @fetaplace.bsky.social writer, futurist, math tutor, two Pushcart Prizes, Steinbeck Fellow, MacDowell Fellow, Clarion West Board of Directors
Peter Bertlessen @peterbertlessen.bsky.social Lover of books and films, especially those in the genres of Transgressive Fiction, Western, Horror and Punk. A counterculture enthusiast who writes sometimes.
https://www.instagram.com/peterbertlessen?igsh=em5wM3lnZXJ4MDU2
Loubna El Amine لبنى الأمين @loubnaelamine.bsky.social Political Theorist. KCL. Comparative Political Theory. Ancient Chinese Political Thought. From Lebanon.
Jack Wright @jackwrightauthor.com Horror author from the North of England. Reyt Spooky.
Stories of grief, folklore, and the things that move when they shouldn’t.
Duskfield Pines — ???
Anna’s Veil — ???
https://ko-fi.com/jackwrightauthor
https://buymeacoffee.com/jackwright
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
linktr.ee/jdnelson
poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
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
Greta @greta-and-stirred.bsky.social 🇳🇿Interested in everything but especially theatre, film, cute dogs, art, politics, earthquakes, ancient civilizations, nature, health, older people, all the things
Andrea Lambert Fritz @andreaklambert.bsky.social Writer. Artist. Podcaster. Jet Set Desolate (Future Fiction London: 2009) A Wife in Death and Life (Rochak Publishing: 2025) Vocals in Starlight Ruin. CalArts MFA. Andreaklambert.com
Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social Author. Linguist. Scholar of interdisciplinary subjects.
✒ Understands about semicolons
🐺 Monster enthusiast
🕹️ Games @spaceboat.bsky.social
🎵 Metalhead
📖 35 books published
🎙️ Legends and Lectures / Archaeoscoop
https://www.patreon.com/newshortstories
Michael E. Diaz @michaeldiazauthor.bsky.social Fiction author, absurd & literary, psychotherapist, mental health expert. Work here: https://michaelediaz.com/ (Michael Pearson/ Michael E. Diaz) #writingcommunity #authors #writers #litfic #queerwriters #lgbtq #promosky #horrorauthor #booksky📚💙
Caroline Evans @cazzaevans.bsky.social Avid reader, makes a little music,
Stats lover
Amy Lilwall @amylilwall.bsky.social Writer. Novelist. Very bad at social media.
amylilwall.co.uk
Claire Phillips @clairephillips.bsky.social Author, A Room with a Darker View: Chronicles of My Mother & Schizophrenia; Lecturer: CalArts, SCI-Arc
The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn Vol.1, Joyland, Los Angeles Review of Books & more
@eileensariot.bsky.social @eileensariot.bsky.social 
Wrong Dimension Productions @wrongdimension.bsky.social Wrong Dimension is about making beautiful stories that come alive. We work to originate and produce exceptional artwork for audiences around the world.
https://www.wrongdimensionproductions.com/
H. Perry Horton @hperryhorton.bsky.social New Novel Available Now:
DON'T LET THE DARKNESS EAT YOU UP
https://www.amazon.com/DONT-LET-DARKNESS-EAT-YOU/dp/B0FVT8VWKS
Books: https://shorturl.at/AuKlV
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
Michael Bracken @crimefictionwriter.bsky.social Edgar- and Shamus-nominated, Derringer-winning short story writer. Anthony Award-nominated editor.
Mystery Tribune @mysterytribune.bsky.social Mystery Tribune is No. 1 mystery magazine on web by reader size. Reed Coleman and Lawrence Block call us “a cut above” and “the most elegant mystery magazine”.
Uncharted Mag @unchartedmag.bsky.social Stories to get lost in! Publishing crime, mystery, science fiction, fantasy, horror, and thriller short stories. Posts by
@tommydeanwriter.bsky.social
C.W. Blackwell @cwblackwell.bsky.social Author: HARD MOUNTAIN CLAY ✷ WHATEVER KILLS THE PAIN ✷ THE COLD DARK FOREVER ✷ 3X Derringer Award winner ✷ Anthony Award Finalist ✷ #crimefiction #noir #santacruz
https://lnk.bio/cw_blackwell_writer
Meagan Lucas @meaganlucas.bsky.social Author of Anthony Nominated collection HERE IN THE DARK, and award-winning novel SONGBIRDS & STRAY DOGS | JD Candidate at UDayton Law | EIC: Reckon Review |
Jordan Harper @jordanharper.bsky.social Edgar-and-steel-dagger-winning author of SHE RIDES SHOTGUN, EVERYBODY KNOWS, THE LAST KING OF CALIFORNIA and LOVE AND OTHER WOUNDS.
A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE: "The Noir Novel of Our Times" -- The New York Times
Hard Case Crime @hardcasecrime.bsky.social Publishing the finest in pulp fiction for the past 20+ years. www.HardCaseCrime.com
Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social Dirt Road Driving, Jelly Jar Sipping, Dollar General Shopping, journal of Prose.
Joshua Chaplinsky @jchaplinsky.bsky.social Author of 'Letters to the Purple Satin Killer', 'The Paradox Twins' & 'Kanye West—Reanimator.' LitReactor Managing Editor (2011-2023).
https://linktr.ee/joshuachaplinsky
Bristol Noir @bristolnoir.bsky.social Indie publisher of curiously dark fiction, poetry, noir and dirty realism.
#shortstories #flashfiction #poetry #noir #dirtyrealism
Magazine: http://bit.ly/BristolNoirMag / Submissions: http://bit.ly/BNoirSubs
@paulcrimetime.bsky.social @paulcrimetime.bsky.social Crime Time FM podcaster, crime fiction critic, Crime Time, CFL, ELN. CWA historical dagger judge
Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social Publishing speculative fiction, poetry, reviews, essays & podcasts. Every Monday, free to read at http://strangehorizons.com. IGNYTE Community Award winner. Hugo Award winner 2024.
linktr.ee/strangehorizons
Mark Kermode @kermodemovie.bsky.social LAST aisle seat on the left.
Emphasis on the FIRST syllable.
Paul Parcellin @paulpar.bsky.social crimeonfilm.com
Gwendolyn Kiste @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social Horror Author. 4x Bram Stoker Award Winner. Lambda Literary Award Winner. Potato Chip Connoisseur.
Daryl Farmer @darylfarmer.bsky.social Writer, poet, bicyclist. Gentle spirit, but capable occasional mayhem. Author of BICYCLNG BEYOND THE DIVIDE and WHERE WE LAND. Creative writing Prof at U of Alaska Fairbanks.
Frank Vatel @frankvatel312.bsky.social Writer of noir fiction, designer of book covers. Derringer Award finalist. Published by Punk Noir, All Due Respect, Bristol Noir, Revolution John, and Reckon Review.
Alan Lastufka @alandistro.bsky.social Editor of OBSOLESCENCE. Award-winning author of FACE THE NIGHT. Founder of small press Shortwave Publishing. HWA Active Member. SFWA Full Member.
Mike Slavin @mikeslavinauthor.bsky.social Author of fast-paced action-oriented crime/ thrillers.
-KIll Crime: a Vigilante series
-Spike, 35 Kills and Smiling (Think Reacher meets Dexter)
West Pointer, Support Democracy. Always learning.
Free prequel at the website
https://mikeslavinauthor.com/
Rock and a Hard Place @rhppress.bsky.social A small-press independent publisher delivering crime, noir, and dark fiction chronicling bad decisions and desperate people.
The Means At Hand @the-means-at-hand.bsky.social An online magazine, on & about crime, noir, mysteries, detectives, and what makes it all tick. Run by @costakout.bsky.social. Submissions are always open. - themeansathand.wordpress.com
Costa Koutsoutis @costakout.bsky.social Weird writer/professor. Essays & short stories in Typebar Magazine, Akashic Press, The Alexandria Archives, & more. Books like NO CASTLES and THE HOWL OF THE EARTH. | He/Him | "Drums, drums in the deep…"
costak.wordpress.com
Kaye Ross @kaye.zone I podcast at Duckfeed.tv. she/her 🏳️⚧️
Watch me stream at twitch.tv/duckfeedtv
Caleb James K. @calebjamesk.bsky.social Happily married. Writer. Avid reader. Whiskey enthusiast. Host of the Drunken Pen Writing Podcast and co-host of Arcade Bookshop.
Check out my work and podcast at www.calebjamesk.com 
Michael Wegener @michaelwegener.bsky.social Writer of prime crime and horror fiction. Former chemist (if there is such a thing) breaking bad on the page. Stories in Mickey Finn, Unnerving Magazine, Starlite Pulp, SNAFU, The Yard...