Intrepidus Ink @intrepidusink.bsky.social Intrepidlode is here.
A magazine of intrepid culture.
Alarmingly individual characters.
Momentum earned the hard way.
They finish what they start—and win.
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Lauren C. Johnson @laurencjohnson.bsky.social 🦉🦜Writer of words, lover of birds
📖THE WEST FAÇADE (SFWP '26)
Co-host @babylonsalonsf & @clubchicxulub
CA 🌊 & 🐊 FL
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-west-facade-lauren-c-johnson/9b99f65d60de41a1
Mercedes M. Yardley @missmurdermercedes.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-Winning author, dark fantasist, family girl, artist, cupcake baker.
Sally Wiener Grotta @sallywienergrotta.bsky.social Award-winning writer, speaker, photographer. (It's all storytelling.) Member: The Authors Guild & SFWA.
SallyWienerGrotta.com
She/Her
Kristen is tired. 🫣🥱😴😴😴 @stillpissedkris.bsky.social Anti-MAGA, Western #masshole, unbelievably disgusted that we gotta give this guy so much 🧠 space again. Also, I’m an #MSWarrior, I’m a single mom, #TrueCrime obsessed, I love #LoomKnitting, and I couldn’t live w/out my best friend, my #BlackLab, Clara. 🐶🐾
Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
Ian Rodrigues @ianwrites.bsky.social Writer of poetry and books for children of all ages. 12x12 and CANSCAIP member. Atheist. Vegan. POC. Trail runner. Leftist. He/Him. 🇨🇦
Jamey Gallagher @jameygallagher.bsky.social Author of BODIES IN BAGS, I AM IDRIS ELBA, and AMERICAN ANIMISM.
https://jameyg0.wixsite.com/jameygallagher
Community college writing teacher
I read and write: literary stuff, crime stuff, weird stuff
From NH, living in Baltimore.
Oliver Carman @oscarm.bsky.social Fantasy Writer - Author of Out of Shadows
https://books2read.com/u/m0an9W
https://olivercarman.com
Dan O’Mahony @danoauthor.bsky.social I was raised in a library by a pack wild fantasy novels who brought me up as if I was one of their own.
The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social The VILLAGE 🏘 is a place where the world 🌍 feels a tiny bit smaller. Founded by SMOKELONG for the Global Flash Community
Follow 150+ flash publishers.
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Mary Noon @marynoonwrites.bsky.social Jane Austen is my patronus. I write about women dealing with shit and they all love to laugh. She/her.
https://marynoonwrites.com/
William Meikle @williammeikle.com Wee sweary Scottish writer, living in Canada, with 30+ novels and 300+ short stories in genre presses over the past 30+ years. Mostly at williammeikle.com ... mostly.
J.J. Unthank @jjunthank.bsky.social Fantasy Author. Games Programmer.
Debut novel, ANY MORE QUESTIONS FOR THE CORPSE? out now!
www.jjunthank.com
NC Sayers @ncsayers.bsky.social Hello everyone! I'm NC Sayers, an autistic science fiction and fantasy writer who likes writing about strong autistic heroines. I'll be sharing inspiration, writing events, and trying not to go nuts getting story ideas from the news. Excited to connecting!
G.L. Pembroke @glpembroke.bsky.social Thriller author in the UK. Also writes under other aliases. Stay tuned for news…
https://linktr.ee/glpembroke
David Romanda @romandapoetry.bsky.social Author of three books, including “Your Lover Stabbed in the Streets” (Frontenac House, 2025). https://www.romandapoetry.com
Patrick H. Moore @handle.invalid I am a crime writer with four Nick Crane PI thrillers and one Novella currently in print. I studied English Lit in college and now live near Los Angeles where I spent the last 20 years working in criminal defense. https://shorturl.at/2ptGe #NickCrane #LA
Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.com Queer, trans, nonbinary poet, writer, performer, artist, activist, & abolitionist. 18+ 🙏🏼
Work published in Poetry, Water~Stone Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, et al. First collection "This Body, This Fruit" @ Feb 2027 (@triohousepress.org).
Nicole Winchester 📚 @nicolewinchester.bsky.social Writer, reader, and reviewer of horror, fantasy, spec fic, drama, humor... a little of everything.
🚫AI WRITING CAN F*** OFF. 🚫
Find some of my stories at winchesterfiction.com
Enjoy other things at nicolewinchester.substack.com
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/
Jolon Fairweather @previouslysilent.bsky.social A darkly comic thriller told through the diary of a definitely normal man.
https://jolonfairweather.com/
R. S. Hampton, Thriller Writer @rshamptonbooks.bsky.social 📖 Forever Gone & Malevolent Intent | Links 👇
🖋️ Thriller Author
🌎 Global traveler and recovering lawyer
🔗 My Links
https://www.rshamptonbooks.com/collections/all-books
✏️ Travel & Writing Blog
https://substack.com/@rshampton
~ Shanna Lee James~ Author @2bdynamic.bsky.social Retired Nurse and Author who loves writing about 'real life' stuff. Visit my Author website @ shannaleejamesauthor.com to see my bio and books. And my 2nd site @ https://bsky.app/profile/jami-jam.bsky.social
Author A.L. Norton @authoralnorton.bsky.social International, award-winning, bestselling author of over 33 books. Global award-winning book promoter. Owner of Readers Depot. Youtuber. Book Hoarder. #Autoimmune warrior. Married to Author Dell Sweet. #Disabled #childabusesurvivor #wolfpackauthor
Vanessa MacLaren-Wray @cometarytales.com Writer, engineer, editor, human
Find everything on my website https://cometarytales.com 
Jessica Ralli @jessicaralli.bsky.social Manager of #EarlyLiteracy Programs & Special Initiatives @ Brooklyn Public Library | #KidLit Writer @ RISE X Penguin Workshop | LJ Mover and Shaker 2020 |
James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social Poet, journalist, novelist. Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Poetry chapbook SUDDEN SHADOWS published last fall.
Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social Poet with autism and a cat.
Author of ADULTHOOD (Anxiety Press, 2026).
Here to connect with fellow writers and/or fellow neurodivergent people and/or fellow anti-fascists.
he/him • NJ • www.brandondiehl.net
Chelsea Conradt @chelseaconradt.bsky.social USA Today bestselling author of THE FARMHOUSE and THE SECRET ATTIC📕 Spooky all year. 👻 Writes books that make you question if it’s real or in her head. 💀
chelseaconradt.com
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
Author Terri Bruce @authorterribruce.bsky.social Life in 400 pages. Writer of words and worlds. New weird, slipstream-y, contemporary fantasy, science fiction, and horror. www.terribruce.net.
Fee Thomas @feethomas.bsky.social Author of two poetry books: Owning the Color Blue, Dreams Never Die.
Poet, Artist, Activist, Photographer, Student, Mental Health Advocate. feethomas.blue
Sam Lesek @samlesek.bsky.social Writer of strange stories and peculiar poems. Likes weird stuff. Friends with your sleep paralysis demon. (she/her).
Matthew Peters @matthewpetersitw.bsky.social Ph.D. (Duke) Member of International Thriller Writers. Author of The Ignoble Lie.
C. Signy Maraine 🛹🐢 @csignymaraine.bsky.social Wordlarker 🛹🐢 Poetry, nature, photo art. Jesus follower. Grace and peace. Not religion. Fan of Julian of Norwich, Halloween, dogs, humor, & KINDNESS. Teen horror fiction writer. Author of DREAD THE BOARDS
my works©️
she/her 🌈🕊
Harper Dent @harperdent.bsky.social Writer of speculative fiction. Loves nature, dogs and chocolate. She/them
Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
David Dodds @daviddoddsauthor.bsky.social Author of urban fantasy fiction. Semi-retired bat ecologist. Gliding instructor. Butler to a highly-opinionated Jack Russell.
Cassandra Jeanne Farrin @cassandrafarrin.com SFF writer, poet & folklorist (rep: Thais Afonso & Jen Azantian) 👾 Director, Erewhon Books 📚 Shin Buddhist & adoptive parent of 3 w/my twin sis 🍵 Guilty of writing in my journals AND my books. 🫣 Clarion West NWW ‘25.
https://linktr.ee/CassaCassaCassa
Karen Eisenbrey @kareneisenbrey.bsky.social She/her. Writer, reader, musician, band name aficionado.
Fantasy and Sci-Fi author. Deep River Rising, coming 11/11/2025
Into Truth, Justice, Rock & Roll.
https://kareneisenbreywriter.com/
Janie Simpson @handle.invalid Author, co-owner/operator of Go and Write! retreats (https://bsky.app/profile/goandwrite.ca), lives in New Brunswick, Canada.
I will block accounts that have no profile description, and unless I know you, I don’t respond to DMs.
Darkenryde Publishing @darkenryde.bsky.social uoıʇɔıℲ ʞɹɐᗡ
Projects from @calvindemmer.bsky.social
Mark Jepson @rmjbooks.bsky.social *Concerned at what is happening in society just now*.
Books I Antiquarian Books I Music I Opera I History I Art I Languages.
Dean Jobb - True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social Strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime.
A Gentleman and a Thief • The Case of the Murderous Dr Cream • Empire of Deception (Algonquin Books/HarperCollins Canada)
Website: www.deanjobb.com
Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y935u82h
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Dark Swarm Publications @darkswarmpub.bsky.social Indie Horror Press. Both English and German translations. Starting soon. Editing services and Translation imprints.
Based in Austria, America and England.
Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
Karen Hough Writes @karenhoughwrites.bsky.social Writer, Editor, & Author of GROUND CONTROL (2022) and PAPER MOONS (2026 from Sley House). Fitness nerd/shorter than you'd expect.
Owner of aspirational sweatpants & smartass-🇨🇦.
https://lnk.bio/KAHough
Kiffin Eckert aka K.R. Eckert @kreckert.bsky.social Crime writer. Crime reader. Crime watcher. Phillies baseball fan. Burger & chocolate chip cookie enthusiast. Terrible golfer. Irritated American. I collect books about every American President except one.
Author of 10 books. Buy them on Amazon.
Jodhiay @jodhiay.bsky.social Procrastinating writer, senior editor at @weirdnj.bsky.social. Haunted by typos. Opinions are my own. She/her.
www.joannemaustin.com
Larina Warnock @docnock.bsky.social She/Her
Neurodivergent, disabled educator, writer (CNF, Horror, Spec Fic, Poetry), animal lover | American Rural: Monologues available now.
Christiane Knight @christianek.bsky.social AKA Xiane. Author. SFF. Baltimore Fae. Crohn's. ⊙⊝⊜. Queer. Musician. She/They. I spin spooky music and fuzzy fibers. I write characters that dare to hope. SFWA Member. Indie Ink Awards Finalist.
No GenAI!
Find my books at https://www.christianeknight.com
Elizabeth Schechter @easchechter.bsky.social Romance Writer. Mom. Unscrewer of the inscrutable.
President of The Lord Ruthven Assembly
www.elizabethschechterwrites.com/
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
Jonathan Wonham @jonathanwonham.bsky.social Scottish 🏴 indie poet, author of Poetry Introduction 7 (Faber & Faber), Steel Horizon (Incline Press), Ordinary Others, Vulgar Variants, The Ukraine Trilogy and Ceasefire Now! (Drizzle-Dazzle)
Rachel Riot @rachelriot.bsky.social Clothes that tell us about our clothes.
bio.site/rachelriot
Kari Lee Harmon-Townsend @karileetownsend.bsky.social ✍️paranormal & fantasy cozy mystery, suspense, romance & women’s fiction author.
❤️Lover of Samoyeds.
📍 central New York
www.karileetownsend.com
Ohio Poetry Association @ohiopoetry.bsky.social Hello #poets! We at the Ohio Poetry Association are thrilled to be joining you on Bluesky. We are an active group of poets and #poetry lovers who have a relationship with #Ohio. Join us at http://ohiopoetry.org.
John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social NBPF Beat Poet Laureate
Founding editor, Crisis Chronicles Press
Past Vice President, Ohio Poetry Association
Hillbuckeye. Skeptic. Creative. Better woke than asleep.
https://linktr.ee/johnburroughs 🏳️🌈
Garrett Ashley @gaashley.bsky.social Stories in Asimov's, Apex Magazine, Analog, and others.
Story collection Periphylla, and Other Deep Ocean Attractions available at Press 53.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205407295-periphylla-and-other-deep-ocean-attractions
Gray Michaels is querying an upmarket thriller @gray-michaels.bsky.social Author, retired USMCR combat vet, former prosecutor, cutter, certified wildlife tracker. #thriller #Writer #WritingCommunity #amquerying #veteran (X) @gray_michaels https://graymichaels.com/ 
Christopher Artinian @chrisartinian.bsky.social Yorkshire born best-selling author of 53 books #Dystopian #Apocalyptic #Horror. Living in the Outer Hebrides. A cinephile who loves music (anything from jazz to metal), cricket, and growing stuff in my polytunnel. Vegan FTA. www.christopherartinian.com
James H Lewis @jameshlewis-author.bsky.social I write mysteries, historical novels, and short stories. I'm a former journalist, public media executive, and nonprofit consultant. While I've lived all over the country, I now call Pittsburgh home. I'm also a husband, father, and grandfather. Love Canada.
Michele Carter @shellsbells777.bsky.social Artist, animator, teacher. Sometimes running games, and fighting with sticks.
Forest McMullin @forestmcm.bsky.social Writer and photographer based in Atlanta. Debut novel coming soon.
Short fiction available at https://forestmcmullin.substack.com/
Photography at http://www.forest-mcmullin.com/
Christian Teresi @christianteresi.bsky.social Author of 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙈𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙢 (available from @redhenpress.bsky.social). Poet, translator. Arts/education/cultural advocate.
Dr Craig Buchanan FSAScot @buchanan.today Academic, writer and commentator, living on unceded Whadjak Noongar Boodja; Hon Research Fellow (UWA).
Once dubbed “a ganja smoking hippy” by PHON’s James Ashby on Sky News.
Fighting to live in a community, rather than exist in an economy. 🚫 DMs.
Janecka Olen @screamqueenpodcast.bsky.social Hi, I'm the host and creator of Scream Queen Podcast. I cover a different horror movie each episode. #mutantfam #horrorpodcast #indiehorrorpodcast
https://linktr.ee/ScreamQueenPodcast
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
Sarp Sozdinler @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social Writer, Designer • Words: Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Masters Review, Fractured, Los Angeles Review, HAD, Hobart, X-R-A-Y, Maudlin House • Rep'd by Mina Hamedi / Janklow & Nesbit • Editor at The Bulb Region
sarpsozdinler.com
Sandy McIntosh @sandymcintosh.bsky.social Author of twelve volumes of poetry, a Chinese cookbook, and three computer software programs.
https://sandymcintosh.info
Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social Lecturer, workshopper and creative writing events organiser - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis-events-17318878423
Kim Cox @kimcoxauthor.bsky.social Author of fun paranormal mysteries, and fast-paced, romantic suspense novels. Her characters are fresh, humorous, and gutsy. #booklovers #RomanticSuspense #Paranormal #Mystery http://smarturl.it/KimCox
Poetry Emma Meier @poetryemmameier.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Reader. Thinker. ✍️📖
Jody Hobbs Hesler @jodyhobbshesler.bsky.social Writer & Writing Teacher
Without You Here, Winner Independent Press Award for Literary Fiction, 2025
What Makes You Think You're Supposed to Feel Better, story collection
https://linktr.ee/jodyhobbshesler
www.jodyhobbshesler.com
She/her
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
Melody Carroll @melodycarroll.bsky.social Melody Carroll is a writer, poet, and Human Rights Activist from the USA. (Blue American)
#author, #authors, #booksky, #writers #writing , #writingcommunity, #read, #literature,, #fiction, #thriller, #horror, #adventure, #scifi, #vampire
Kevin Foy @kevinfoyauthor.bsky.social A Pennsylvania yankee In King Charles’ London. I’m a teller of stories: corporate stories (corporate communicator); historical stories (historian); fictional stories (SFF novelist); ridiculous stories (dad).
Sanford Holst @sanfordholst.bsky.social Author of #Phoenicians and other books. #Democracy matters. My pinned post is a #BlueWave call to action. A repost helps the cause. Comments welcome. #SlavaUkraini #HandsOff2025
Dianthe West @dianthewest.bsky.social 🌱 Poet, author, art historian | #AuDHD
🏇♿ ✨💖💛💙✨| P: M. Cassatt
Angel L🏳️⚧️ @angelvleal.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️| Mexican | They/She | ✍️ in Strange Horizons, Uncanny, The Deadlands, Heartlines Spec, & others| Clarion West '25 | Poetry editor @Otherside | http://angel-leal.com
Erin Dorney @erindorney.bsky.social Sober bi writer in Western NY ꩜ Author of "Yes I Am Human I Know You Were Wondering" (Autofocus), that book of Shia LaBeouf erasures, and many zines.
Stephen Delaney @stephendelaney.bsky.social Writer, editor, human. Words in New World Writing, Bending Genres, South Florida Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Author of the chapbook OUR PLACE IS IN BETWEEN. 💙 #foreignlit #frogs
https://bottlecap.press/products/ourpsd
https://stephen-delaney.com
Anna Wang @annawangyuan.bsky.social A Lifelong Student of Literature 
Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • Blood Type: Curry • Leeds United • Anti-AI
#LUFC
jmthornberry.wordpress.com
sandandgravelpress.com/store/the-finish-line-jason-thornberry
Mary Lou Buschi @maryloubuchi.bsky.social Mary Lou Buschi (she/her) Mary Lou has 3 full length poetry collections. Her 3rd book, BLUE PHYSICS came out in February 2024 (Lily Poetry Review). PADDOCK, (2021) was also published by (LPR). 
Moira King @moiraeking.bsky.social Once again, we meet at last✨
Fantasy Author on Sub | The Arrow Trilogy
Repped by Ellen Levine
moiraeking.com/links
Roz Ray @writerinworkboots.bsky.social Writing books, building houses, getting rained on in the PNW.
www.rozray.net
Winner of the 2025 Blacklist Unpublished Novel Award for Crime & Mystery
Sarah F. Noel | Author @sarahfnoelauthor.bsky.social Author of the Tabitha and Wolf Historical Mystery Series and The Continental Capers of Melody Chesterton https://sarahfnoel.com
Amethyst Loscocco @amethystwrites.bsky.social Writer, binge reader, and science nerd. Johns Hopkins MA in Science Writing. 2x Pushcart Prize nominee. Words in Electric Lit, Pinch Journal, Catamaran, Variant Lit, Gone Lawn, Tiny Molecules, and more.
https://amethystloscocco.com
Gregory Spatz @gregoryspatz.bsky.social Writer, fiddler, teacher, professor.
www.gregoryspatz.com
www.thejaybirds.com
Patricia Caspers @patricia-caspers.bsky.social Writer, reader, eic @ West Trestle Review, librarian, UU, mama, rider of bicycles. 🚲 🚲