Paolo Bacigalupi @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award winner. Micheal L Printz Award winner. National Book Award finalist.
Wrote NAVOLA, THE WINDUP GIRL, THE WATER KNIFE, and SHIP BREAKER, among others.
windupstories.com
Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social Writer and Art Historian. Old Fox stories. Edward M.Bannister catalogue raisonne and research. Reynard the Fox and Fox for All Seasons published by Bodleian Publishing. Oxford & Dorset. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnneLouiseAvery
Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith @angelacleland.co.uk Poet | Novelist | Audiobook Narrator | She/her | 🤖🦄🚀🍸
https://linktr.ee/angelaclelandsmith
Historical fantasy “Black Doe” OUT NOW!
Dan/iel Mudford @danmud.bsky.social king of the escalator, makes weird music(incl. Shaun Of The Dead), films.
Generally happy camper.
https://youtube.com/@NebulaRasa
https://thesonsofsilence1.bandcamp.com/music
OpenYellowCircle.bandcamp.com
Simon Bisson @sbisson.com 👨💻 Used to write code, now writes words about code 📘 Azure AI Services At Scale🦎O'Reilly 💻 Beats: enterprise, dev, cloud 🙋♂️ Vrai Jerri, bird photos, SFF writer, reader, ally, he/him/they 🐈⬛ calico floofs 📧 simon@sandm.co.uk 🌍 sbisson.com
The Whale Pod @thewhale1851.bsky.social A podcast about a book about a man who really hates a fish.
https://patreon.com/thewhalepod
James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social Surrounded by yowling, nebulous forms. Writer: Green Wing, Piglets, first novel Pagans, available in paperback: https://www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/james-alistair-henry/2928377365622
David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social World Fantasy and Hugo Award-nominated Editorial Director at Solaris (Profile Books). Clarion West Instructor 2026. he/him
Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social at mecum raucis, tua dum uestigia lustro,
sole sub ardenti resonant arbusta cicadis
Chris Lovegrove 💙📚 @calmgrove.bsky.social 🇪🇺 📚 🎹 🏛️
Woke European, book review blogger, piano accompanist, culture vulture.
https://CalmgroveBooks.wordpress.com
KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 @kdsbooks.bsky.social Reader, gamer: Personal library of Classic SFF/Pulp/Gothic/Weird/Classic Crime/Noir/Kaiju/World SFF/Lost World Fiction. UK
No to AI. No DMs
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Miss Defiance @cybersaff.bsky.social Lecturer ¦ feminist ¦ scribbler ¦ photoArtist ¦ tea drinker ¦ Mother ¦ Prints X @IWasHereArtfor1 IG @cybersaff_photoart. I may not answer DMs.
PortfolioCarmel @portfoliocarmel.bsky.social Carmel-by-the-Sea | Big Sur Coast
resident of DC and NYC in days of yore
Books | Art | Politics | Policy | Poems
Trees | Seas | Stones | Stars
Films | Felines | Wildwood Wonder
Preserving Democracy | Defeating Autocracy
cover art: Truth | Ed Ruscha
Gary Budden @gary-budden.bsky.social Acquisitions editor @influxpress.bsky.social. (imprint of @diversionbooks.bsky.social)
Writer. London Incognita + Hollow Shores published by @deadinkbooks.bsky.social
From UK | Living in Brisbane Meanjin 🇦🇺
Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Horror film, Science Fiction. Latest: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (2025). Next 2 books: a taxonomy of the undead and a biography of H P Lovecraft
Peigi MacKillop @peigibheag.bsky.social Heritage, archaeology, cooking, art, fashion, Gaelic, Berneray. Ex-librarian, ex Oracle admin. I have my books, and my poetry to protect me. 💙 NHS
Lol @loltype.bsky.social lingering on decaying street corners
⋆˙⟡ 🏚️ ⟡˙⋆
she/her
where Loec dances so shall I 🌃 @tallesteden.bsky.social Metal, science fiction, history.
Editor-in-Chief Heavy Blog is Heavy, co-host on AnarchySF and Death // Sentence. Contributor at Ancillary Review of Books.
Fëanor was right. Aurë entuluva!
Johnnie Johnstone @johnniejohnstone.bsky.social Football schmootball; Robert Bresson; Milton Nascimento; Dreyer; Debussy; Sun Ra; Can.
Record Collector, Shindig! Through The Crack In The Wall: The Secret History of Josef K (Jawbone).
Coming 2026 - The Clientele (J-Card)
La vida en viñetas @lavidaenvinetas.bsky.social Almendralejo
Se unió el 28/9/2024
Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social Illustrator
Kjipuktuk
Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/ericorchard?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator
Acton Bell @actionbell.bsky.social Dead serious about crushing the Capitalist Patriarchy.
Likes to embroider The Thick of It quotes.
I listen to David Bowie instead of eating my feelings.
Renegade.
R S Thomas (poet) @rsthomaspoet.bsky.social famous Welsh poet in English language 1913-2000
“…catching this / one truth by surprise / that there is everything to look forward to…”
#RSThomas #poetry #barddoniaeth
📍 yng Nghymru, wrth gwrs
facebook.com/groups/RSThomas/
Not a Machine, nor Bot nor AI
Jim Stokes @jimstokes.bsky.social #ConstantReader Science Fiction & Fantasy. Board trustee (Spring Lake Public Library, VNAHG of NJ). USNA alumni, proud veteran. IBM retiree. Nosce te ipsum. Pax vobiscum.
Alison Sampson is working @alisonsampson.bsky.social Artist, writes + draws comics in London UK. Image, Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, IDW/PRH, Oni, Boom, AWA, DSTLRY, Mad Cave, Tiny Onion & more. Open 4 writing, covers
Multiple Eisner nominee on team books
Contact alissamp at gmail
Portfolio: www.alisonsampson.com
Nicholas Avery @nicholasavery.bsky.social There have been other dogs in my life
Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social Food column + features, Suffolk News + others
Food slot @ Suffolk Sounds Radio
Food events @ Bury St Eds Lit Fest
Newsletter: Tales From Topographic Kitchens
GFW online food writer '20, F&M cookery writer '22
https://linktr.ee/nicolamiller
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social Poetry Critic for the Sunday Times. Anglican Priest. Poetry Collection, "Dirt Rich", out from Carcanet. TLS contributor since 2010. All views very much my own.
Sean Coleman @colemandesign.bsky.social Designer, Illustrator, Curiouser
https://linktr.ee/ColemanDesign
Puzzlepurse @puzzlepurse.bsky.social Bottle rockets and billets-doux. Photos mine, except for reposts.
Vintage stuff: Puzzlepursevintage.etsy.com
Mary M @marym276.bsky.social Edinburgh based osteopath and writer of biographical stories with courage and freedom at heart. Nature lover, baker, wildlife and landscape photographer. https://linktr.ee/mmonro276
John Reppion @johnreppion.bsky.social Knackered writer. Mr @leahmoore.bsky.social
Comics for DC, Dark Horse, 2000 AD etc, articles for Hellebore, Daily Grail, Fortean Times, etc, Weird Fiction... loads of stuff.
Haunted Book Club with @gavcross.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/haunted_bookclub
Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social Disabled poet / author. Books nominated for the Carnegie / Greenaway. Inspired by nature and space. UNESCO poet. Award-winning poet. Cake poet.
Tim Melody Pratt @timpratt.org Writer and editor. Loser of Nebula, World Fantasy, Dick, and Stoker Awards (won a Hugo tho). Been published in Best American Short Stories AND Best American Erotica. Genderfluid. Any pronouns
I publish a new story monthly at www.patreon.com/timpratt (ooh)
Donaeld the Unready @donaeldtheunready.bsky.social Unreadier than ever, but still Making Mercia Geat Again! Draining the fens into my hoard. 
Ian Waites @ianwaites.bsky.social Historian and writer of the dreams and memories of postwar England: council estates, Radburn layouts, rural modernism, pop music. Trainee A&R man for Asylum Records in my dreams.
A.G. Pasquella @agpasquella.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor. Words in McSweeney’s, Utne Reader, Joyland, Broken Pencil & more. Author of the Jack Palace crime series. Most recent book: WELCOME TO THE WEIRD AMERICA. As co-editor: DEVOURING TOMORROW
Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com Award-winning voice actor and journalist. Narrative designer. Pop culture consigliere. Podcaster. Writes The Full Lid. ‘Fantastic Frontal Everything'-Matt Wallace. On the board of the Cool Wives Club. Joy and spite.
https://carrd.alasdairstuart.com
Mike Maddox @mikemaddox.bsky.social Writer. Lay Reader in the Church of England. Clergy spouse.
Daleks. Kites. Punk rock. Godzilla. Steam engines. Jesus.
Tall, with glasses.
Tea, corduroy, space travel.
Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE FIREARM REVOLUTION out now. Previous books include THE BEAUTY AND THE TERROR; ROADS TO ROME.
Eric T. Voigt @erictvoigt.bsky.social I'm a non-stop party of anxiety.
BlueAstronaut🖤 @blueastronaut.bsky.social Dubwise On-U head, kosmik punk, noise freak & #MDANT🥇 tripping on the dark fantastic & the raggedy edge between cradle & grave. For open hearts & minds & all that instigates, originates, elevates, agitates.
I have no control - music is the navigator...
kuzhali manickavel/குழலி மாணிக்கவேல் @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social she/her
writer
repped by Michael Curry @ DMLA @mkcurry.bsky.social
www.kuzhalimanickavel.com
please pre-order my first novel https://angryrobotbooks.my.canva.site/compendium-of-supernatural-entities
i may be racist but you were mean and that's way worse
Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social Illustrator, performer, walker of the hills at dusk, lunatic. I get paper dirty professionally. As it is said in Hookland, Re-enchantment is resistance.
Pro EU, anti fascist. https://thomassbrown.com/ Store here https://thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/
Jeff Noon @jeffnoon.bsky.social Writer of Science Fiction and Crime Novels
Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social Icelandic writer.
The Night Guest // Dead Weight // Down Where Monsters Dwell coming in March 2027!
Olivia Wood @babelfishwars.bsky.social 'Funky urban Galadriel' | 'Celestial gigawitch' | 'Bird lady' | 'Crone' | “Singularly horrifying – 5 stars”
Narrative Lead & Writer
Russell Hoban @russellhoban.bsky.social Official account for Russell Hoban (1925–2011), author of Riddley Walker, Turtle Diary, The Mouse and His Child, Frances the Badger, etc. https://russellhoban.org/
Maintained by:
@daveawl.bsky.social
@thoughtcat.com
Antwan Crump @antwancrump.bsky.social Writer / Author. Mostly talking shop and random thoughts. Novel: "APOSTATE". Recent works (2025): "The Suicide Pod," "BUTTERFLIES," & "The ORB." (2026): "Veal" (https://a.co/d/098cBUuq)
Website: https://www.atcrump.com
Justin Hopper @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social Writer. Uncanny Landscapes podcast. Belbury Poly - The Path. Obsolete Spells. Chanctonbury Rings. The Old Weird Albion. https://linktr.ee/oldweirdalbion
Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social Endotic traveller. Recent books: Blood Feather 2023; Ghost Stations 2025. FRSL. Prof French & Comp Lit, Oxford. Rep'd Peter Straus RCW.
emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social Doctor of food, writer of stories
Sometime award nominee, occasional winner
Capitalism seditionist
In my ai;dr era
Ex Partum, out now: https://emmaburnett.carrd.co
Lou Morgan @lmorgan.bsky.social Novelist & scriptwriter. HMS Erebus nerd, Branwell Brontë enthusiast. Welsh. Half agony, half hopeless. "For All This Time" coming from PMJ Books, 2027.
Jane @gingercrone.bsky.social Queen of Wishful Thinking. North East coast, UK.
Pitch-dark heart 🖤
Catches Lost Souls
Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social Writes, variously. Reviews Editor, Strange Horizons. Columns at Ancillary Review. Songs over at Bandcamp. Also see @savinglives.bsky.social.
Ms AB @justagalandadog.bsky.social Then: archaeologist, art historian, editor. Now: lover of music, admirer of creatures. Essentially stateless.🌵
Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social Book recs, reviews, and news. Supporting independent booksellers as a Bookshop affiliate. Thanks for helping us help local bookstores. 🙏🏼 #BooksMatter
https://bookshop.org/shop/matteristbooks https://matteristbooks.substack.com/
https://matteristbooks.com/
darcysmissb @darcysmissb.bsky.social Producer by day, Artist by night
ReaderAllTheTime
Dr Chiara Bullen @chiarab.bsky.social ✨🏔️ THE INN AT THE FOOT OF MOUNT VENGEANCE IS OUT NOW 🏔️✨
sometimes author, sometimes academic. always anxious.
glasgow.
rep: Jessica Mileo
contact me buy my books etc: https://linktr.ee/chiarabullen
Charlotte Tierney @charlieratpig.bsky.social https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-cat-bride/charlotte-tierney/9781784633622
Best British Short Stories ‘26 / Best Weird Fiction of the Year ‘25 / Conjunctions / The London Magazine / 3:AM / NER / Weird Horror.
All ‘moor, no snore.
Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social Locus Magazine: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror. The Guide to the World's Imagination.
https://locusmag.com
linktr.ee/locusmagazine
E D G E L A N D S @edgelands.bsky.social Vintage books, postcards, photographs, maps, music & other delights!
Visit our Etsy shop:
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Edgelands
tom slists @tomslists.bsky.social of acquiescent temper, miscellaneous opinions, and uncertain vote.
It’s John! @oddreally.bsky.social He/Him and gayer then a tree-full of monkeys on nitrous oxide
Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social SFF author (Planetfall sequence, Split Worlds series, The Vengeance), audiobook narrator, podcaster, tea drinker. Loves LARP, dressmaking and nerdery. Co-host of the Starship Alexandria podcast. www.linktr.ee/emma_newman
Victoria M. Adams @victoriamadams.bsky.social Those em-dashes are all mine, my precious. We do not use the nasssssty AI because it stinks. Silly hobbitses
Rhinestone Browboy @rhinestonebrowboy.bsky.social Manic pixie dream bloke. New in these parts. Old everywhere else.
Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social The sweet sweet taste of manchineel.
"Four oysters? Pointless"
Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social 'Who would have thought my shriveled heart
Could have recovered greenness?'
Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk Surface pattern designer and illustrator. Bold, colourful things inspired by brutalist architecture, mid-century graphics and music. Based in Manchester.
https://www.gailmyerscough.co.uk
Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social Equally uninformed about music, art and science but likely to post on any regardless. ECM nerd and Gerhard Richter obsessive. If I'm playing music: yes, it's supposed to sound like that.
Anthony Bale FBA @realmandeville.bsky.social Medievalist & wanderer. 🏳️🌈 Travel, literature, history, cats.
📖’A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages’ - ‘stunning’ (The Times)
University of Cambridge; Girton College Cambridge; London. Views mine
https://linktr.ee/realmandeville
Brian Thill @brianthill.bsky.social Author, WASTE (Bloomsbury) | PhD: UC Irvine | fiction @ Fallow Journal; non-fiction @ Guardian, The Atlantic, Salon, 3AMMagazine &c. | writing a Great Novel™ or two for you
Todd S. Jordan @toddsjordan.bsky.social A horror writer and a sorry sack of guts.
THE FLESH I WANT coming 2027, Titan Books.
Agent: Julie Gourinchas, Bell Lomax Moreton.
Pre-order: www.linktr.ee/toddsjordan
Max Ernst @max-m-ernst.bsky.social Fan account of Max Ernst (1891-1976), a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, poet and a pioneer of the Dada and Surrealism movements. #artbot by @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Kasey Feral Smith @kaseysmith.net Artist, writer, historian, ghost sign expert, leftist, Vermeer fangirl, American living in the Netherlands. she/her http://www.kaseysmith.net/
Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social Writer living on the road. AI-free. Read THE ACTUAL STAR: https://www.monicabyrne.org/the-actual-star. Reps at CAA, DG&B, and Kaplan/Perrone. She/her.
monicabyrne.substack.com
patreon.com/monicabyrne
kenny brown @kennybrown131.bsky.social Edinburgh, Scotland. Enjoy music, sport (dundee united), bit of politics (Scottish republican), Cold War history (particularly Berlin), maps. 🏴🇮🇪
Ian R. Pearsall @ianrpearsall.bsky.social - Artist -
'We are the sum total of our feelings, observations and influences'
Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social Lives in Scotland & writes books. Order my new novella STEAL ME from Absinthe Books. Short story collection ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES available from Swan River Press. Perthshire Gothic. M.R.James fiend. Represented by John Jarrold.
eschneider @eschneider.bsky.social Snoots!🦄👍
David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social Triple threat:
Journalism: www.authory.com/davidbarnett
Books: www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B0034PY7ZW
Comics: leagueofcomicgeeks.com/people/16810/david-barnett/comics
Agent: Laura Williams, Greene & Heaton greeneheaton.co.uk/clients/david-m-barnett
George Morley @georgeisediting.bsky.social George as in The Famous Five. Books, nice dinners, flowers, cats and rage against the state of things. Erstwhile publishing person.
Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social Film critic; NSFC, NYFCC. Bylines at Criterion, Sight & Sound, Noir City, my own Substack, and wherever fine film geeks are found.
https://selfstyledsiren.substack.com/
ian.fenrisgames @fenrisgames.com Shop: tinyurl.com/fenrisgames
Makes stuff for tabletop #RPGs and wargames. Yes, we built CthulhuWars. #NoAI.
Continually worried about sabretooths. He/him. UK.
Occasional pimping of actual product. linktr.ee/FenrisGames
Caspar Geon @caspargeon.bsky.social Author of PKD award nominated non-human space opera THE IMMEASURABLE HEAVEN, published by Solaris.
Also known as that weirdo Tom Toner, author of the Amaranthine Spectrum
Developmental editor at CBC
https://linktr.ee/caspargeon
Chris McLaren ☢️ @chrismclaren.com I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.
Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social teaching children's and YA literature at the University of Münster
london.ac.uk/seized-books | #QueerBibliography
close reading forever
helped make this: https://www.pagemasters.co/shop/seized-books-lgbtq-books-and-censorship-in-1980s-britain-a-catalogue
redrichie @larichierouge.bsky.social Oh no, not again. He/him
Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social A very Irish filmmaker.
All You Need is Death streaming now, see linktree.
“A folk horror masterpiece” (Daily Beast)
He/him, anarchist, artist. Avatar painted by Sol Robinson.
https://linktr.ee/paulduane
Caspar Henderson @casparhenderson.bsky.social Award-winning knees https://linktr.ee/casparhenderson
John Hornor Jacobs @johnhornor.bsky.social Author of The Night That Finds Us All, A Lush and Seething Hell, Murder Ballads
Shirley Jackson, Bram Stoker, World Fantasy Award Finalist
CLOSED TO BLURB REQUESTS, for now at least
website: http://www.johnhornor.com
Ann VanderMeer @annvandermeer.bsky.social Editor, anthologist, writer, poet (because of Linda D. Addison), former feeder woman to Neo (who was the one).
(she/her)
#ProtectTransKids
#LoveIsLove
Spooky Sunday @spookysunday.bsky.social Ghost-related posts every Sunday - words, art, folklore, popular culture, haunted places etc. Just use the #SpookySunday tag. All relevant contributions will be welcome and reposted. (Up to FOUR posts/reposts pp please). Run by @theghostmonk.bsky.social
🧟♀️ Liza Frank @lilithepunk.bsky.social Have-a-go folklorist and writer. My new book Household Lore is out now! Learn the secrets of your dark corners and how best to use a potato... 🧌 https://linktr.ee/lizafrank
Shona Kinsella @shonak.bsky.social Scottish fantasy and horror author. Chair of the British Fantasy Society. Avid Reader. Vaguely gothic. She/her www.shonakinsella.com
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
James Brogden @jamesbrogden.bsky.social Writer (Titan, Black Library, PS Publishing and various other ne'er-do-wells), recovering ex-teacher, and Lego addict. Repped by Ian Drury Associates and owned by three cats.
Jonathan Littlewood @frogplate.bsky.social Vegetarian, stoic, humanist, observer of frogs, lover of shiny things, patched back together and replumbed by the NHS…
Technical architect working with Node, Python and C64 BASIC.
Interests include astronomy, computers, sci-fi, photography, and Lego.
Not that one, the other one @theotherjustin.bsky.social I was born near one body of water.
I now live near a different body of water.
Published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, and elsewhere.
He/Him. Boston to Busan.
Itch: https://yesterweird.itch.io/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/theotherjustin