derek @derekwritesalot.bsky.social progression fantasy [progfan] author, active SFWA member, query trench commiserator (working on a rewrite).
take one —> ; <— and pass it along
Stephanie Bailey @baileysteph.bsky.social 
yasmeen / ياسمين @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social sff writer / toddler mama / clarion west '26
stories in/coming to khōréō, night shades mag, saros sf, hex, sprawl mag, if there's anyone left
yasmeenfahmy.com / NJ / صباح الحرية
Jeanne Tillman @jeannetillman.bsky.social Don't let the image fool you! I'm not a bot. I write speculative fiction with no AI assist. I could probably invent a high-flown reason why I don't use AI. But for me, it's simpler. AI is an end run around the fun part. I love writing and creating worlds.
Maren Brascom @marenbrascom.bsky.social Author of The Rusk Disconnect, a literary speculative novel about geology, deep time, teaching, and whether Earth is only background.
Matter is not background.
MarenBrascom.com
Writing The Dawn @writingthedawn.bsky.social Where biodiversity, neurodiversity & creativity meet | Writing, creative workshops & coaching|For every kind of bodymind | Neurodivergent-affirming | Anti-racist| LGBTQIA+ affirming | Anti-oppression
Matthew Cushing Author @mcushing.bsky.social Writer of Speculative Fiction, purveyor of the weird and macabre, resident of New England but child of the Jemez Mountains. Currently in editing hell. No DMs.
www.matthewcushing.com
Ken Brydon @prison-stories.bsky.social Award-winning writer. 39 years incarcerated, 23 at San Quentin. PEN America recognized. Published by Joyce Carol Oates. I write about prison, redemption, loss, humor & hope—and the humanity found where most people never look.
Stan Fedotov @stan-fedotov.bsky.social Mathematician & AI educator. Enjoyer of fantasy books and story-rich RPGs. Author of two novels in Russian. Now writing a fantasy novel about people becoming too reliant on unreliable gods.
Art by Nick Filatov https://www.behance.net/STOL
Astral, Alien Fiction @astral-af.bsky.social Astral, Alien Fiction is a speculative fiction magazine specializing in stories from or focusing on non-human perspectives.
Website: https://astral-af.org/
Submissions: https://astral-af.org/submissions.html
Ouranian Chronicles @ouranianchronicles.bsky.social The Ouranian Chronicles™: A Trilogy for Those Who Seek to Pierce the Mists of Time and Touch the Heart of Being.
Thriller/Suspense Film Festival @thrillersuspense.bsky.social Entering its 10th year, this festival is a showcase of Thriller/Suspense Films & Screenplays from around the world, using the popular audience feedback video.
https://filmfreeway.com/ThrillerSuspenseFestival
https://thrillersuspensefestival.com
AJCLondon @ajclondon.bsky.social London cat butler. I try to be a good human. Very woke. Climate change is real and refugees are welcome. Rather fond of due process. Green. I research authoritarian practices and write speculative fiction. Gardener.
Sarahlynn Lester (she/her) @sarahlynnwrites.bsky.social Reader, writer, wife, mom, writing instructor living in St. Louis. There’s the Arch! I called it first.
Kennedy Dragt @kennedydragt.bsky.social lichen lover, PhD candidate and FNRS research fellow
@UCLouvain_be
religion, eco-spirituality, climate change literature
Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-novel-festival-contests/
WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
Liz Levin @lizlevin.bsky.social writes weird tales. mostly fantasy. sometimes science fiction or accidental horror. also teaches.
words @ Flash Fiction Online, Gavagai, Dream Theory Media, Zooscape.
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
Sameer Kankali Ⓥ☮✌🏼🌱💚🍉🐸🐮🐷📚📖♟️✊🏼 @sameerkankali.bsky.social MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS 💙🦋
#Activist #HumanRights #AnimalRights #UBI #ClimateChange #Books #Tech #Poker #Chess
He/Him/His
❌👑
Morrie Mullins @morriemullins.bsky.social I'm a writer, teacher, and dog dad. I write fantasy and science fiction in twisted near-future worlds where magic and tech start to blend. I have a weird brain. I like my weird brain.
Daily FilmFreeway Festival Discount Codes @filmfreewaycodes.bsky.social Daily discount codes for various festivals to submit to on FilmFreeway
https://filmfreeway.com/festivals/discounts
Daniel Cottam @litbystraylight.bsky.social 
@ciar.bsky.social @ciar.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🩷💜💙 They/He, 30+・日本語・GB・DE
Writer, translator, language connoisseur. On the autism spectrum.
Posting my poems and cats. Here for the (NSFW) artists, reading recommendations, and news.
TW for potential topics:
Blood/gore, sexual/explicit scenes
Claire Delune 🦄 @clairedelune.bsky.social Queer author of speculative fiction whose work has been featured in various outlets including HuffPost. Has a freakish depth of knowledge about animals and a worrying fixation on unicorns. Resides in Washington, where this sort of thing is encouraged. 🦄
🪼Jellyfishlines 🔜 PaxU🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io Pfp: @wifeclipse
He/Him. ENNIE nom’d ttrpg designer Guy. 25. Disabled. Queer. Writer @ Fandomentals. Made 25 ttrpgs in 1 year.
Contact:
jellyfishlines@proton.me
https://jellyfishlines.com/
https://jellyfishlines.itch.io
https://jellyfishlines.carrd.co/
Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social Writer of Southern Gothic for kids & adults. ROOT MAGIC | CONJURE ISLAND | THE CREEPENING OF DOGWOOD HOUSE | HOLLOW TONGUE | PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE
she/her
edenroyce.com
Sebastiaan Mathôt @cogsci.nl Cognitive neuroscientist and open-source software dev (cogsci.nl/smathot). Writer of speculative fiction (suchwasnot.com) and non-fiction (Een Wereld vol Denkers).
Alien Baby Magazine @alienbabymag.bsky.social A new digital fan magazine gestating genre authors and abducting readers’ imaginations
Our submissions are always open for speculative stories up to 10,000 words!
Interested parties may submit work to alienbabymag@gmail.com.
신 선 영 辛善英 Sun Yung Shin @sunyungshin.bsky.social 🍉 ABOLISH ICE. Author of Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in Language, The Wet Hex, Unbearable Splendor, + 11 other books. Rep: Tricia Lawrence @Aevitas & bookings: @BlueFlowerArts. www.sunyungshin.com
Manu Castellanos @mamucastellanos.bsky.social Ciencia Ficción y Poesía
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
Dragonfly @dragonfly.eco Mary Woodbury (pen, Clara Hume) | Publisher | Writes #speculative fiction | Curates Dragonfly.eco | Localization specialist | Born in Kentucky | Lives in Nova Scotia | See dragonflypub.ca for books
#ecofiction #climate #nature #appalachia
Frank Lauenroth 🚀 @thrillerauthor.bsky.social Thriller- & Science Fiction-writer.
Well-known for the (one and only) Marathon-Thriller-Trilogy
4-times nominated for the german science fiction award.
FrankLauenroth.de- W @wardm111.bsky.social @wardm111.bsky.social
Bethan James @thebethanjames.bsky.social Marketer at an online library. Arts Council grant recipient. Fuelled by writing, reading & Earl Grey tea. Identical twin. She/her.
Lit agent: Harry Illingworth.
WIP: speculative crime novel
Insta & X: @thebethanjames 
Joy Deva Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social Speculative Writer: Fiction in One Story, Ploughshares, Tin House, Apex, etc. Yaddo Fellow. Founder of Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop. Rep'ed by Peter Steinberg. Novel in progress. Bagpiper.
https://linktr.ee/joy.deva.baglio
https://www.joybaglio.com/
L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app SFF writer/editor/publisher. ATL/SEA.
Literary nonprofit person. Ignytes mother. Awards doer. Hugo/Locus Winner. Conrunner. LEGO builder. Joy enthusiast. 77% Cake. Bi. Grumpy. She/her/chef. 🏳️🌈 YEAR OF THE MER (Saga/Titan, OUT NOW). Ldlewiswrites.com
Alex Kingsley @alexyquest.bsky.social writer/comedian/game designer | they/them | co-founder @StrongBranchPro | Author of EMPRESS OF DUST | ✍️ Translunar Travelers Lounge, Radon Journal | UIC English MA student | Rep: Sara Megibow
Cathy Haglington @cathyhaglington.bsky.social 📚 #Book #Editor @CathyHaglington
Music Classic Rock 🎸#Rush
Environment Gardening Snorkel Swim #RejoinEU 🇪🇺
#Dartmoor #Devon
Michael Fontana @michaelfontana.bsky.social writer. survivor. caregiver. cat lover. art lover. book lover. music lover.
🚫MAGA
author website: www.michaelfontana.org
Chris Bauer @chrisbauerwrites.bsky.social 
V.V. Ganeshananthan @sugi.bsky.social Writer. BROTHERLESS NIGHT: http://randomhousebooks.com/books/57844/
Vince Vasudevan @vasudevan.bsky.social SF&F Writer | VT ‘22 🦃 | ND ‘26 ☘️
Zachary Shiffman @zshiffmanwrites.bsky.social Fiction writer, associate editor at Wallstrait Magazine, aspiring publishing professional
https://sites.google.com/view/zachary-shiffmanwriter/
Barbara Stocker 💙📚 @bluebirdbhs.bsky.social Activist Democrat Missourian living in Virginia @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @fpwellman.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social Team Site
@the-writingschool.bsky.social @the-writingschool.bsky.social The Writing School Online was founded by Kathryn Bevis in 2020 and we are here to help you find your creative voice and build a writing community.
Finley Williams @finleywilliams.bsky.social https://finley-williams.com
Fmr coordinator at the Princeton Summer Journalism Program, editorial fellow at Boston Review, and editorial intern at The American Prospect. Cornell alumna.
kitablerone @kitablerone.bsky.social a bookish sorta person
Jenna Avery @jennaavery.bsky.social Sci-fi & space fantasy screenwriter. Editor. Urbanist. Mama of 2. No AI.
Scripts: https://jennaavery.com
ISA: https://www.networkisa.org/profile/jennaavery
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5882986
For writers: https://www.jennaavery.com/for-writers
Justin Feinstein @justinfeinstein.bsky.social Writer, advertising lifer.
Debut novel @TachyonPub
Words @Salon @VICE @AP @Vol1Brooklyn
Instructor @SackettStreet
justinfeinstein.com
International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts - IAFA @iafa.bsky.social The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) is a scholarly organization devoted to the study of the fantastic (broadly defined) as it appears in literature, film, and the other arts.
Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social Neuroscientist studying the neural circuits of glucose homeostasis.
Cats, embroidery, labor unions
Views my own.
https://khajdarovic.github.io/
She/hers/her
ker.e.ó🌒🌻🌘 @kerekata.bsky.social artist . bibliophile . nerd
🖌️📚🚀🧶🌱🦉⚾️🏒⚽️💙
kerrie o/seattle☕️she/they
liberalAF treehugger
introvert.tendency to lurk
#art #drawing #fiberarts #books #writing #BLM #ERA #equity #equality #diversity #climate #natsec #law #democracy #SlavaUkraini🇺🇦
Jay W. Farley @nerdiestviking.bsky.social Sci fi/fantasy fan and author of The Night Between Stars, a book about vampire wizards fighting space capitalism!
Tabletop gaming geek aficionado!
He/Him
https://linktr.ee/JWFarleyAuthor
Nyla Smokeyface @nylasmokeyface.bsky.social What up, I'm Nyla, I'm 22, and I never fucking learned how to read.
I'm a CS major and a furry.
(she/they)
Art Tag: #nylasmokeyfaceart
Lucien Telford @lucientelford.bsky.social Award winning author of The Sequence. Husband. Father. Aviator. Not necessarily in that order. https://substack.com/@lucientelford
@lucientelford
Hugo nominated spec fiction writer.
Working hard to get book two out before tech catches up with me.
Die durchscheinenden Flügel der Begierde @transparentwings.bsky.social A singular art collective
"Fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being."
Do you believe in the Internet?
ᴋɪssᴛᴀ𔘓ℒ𝒶ℳ𝒶ℯ @buffyx-19xstuffy.bsky.social 𝓃𝓈𝒻𝓌 | 𝒜𝒹𝓊𝓁𝓉𝓈 𝒪𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝒫𝓁𝑒𝓪𝓈𝑒. 𔘓🥀☥ ༓࿇༓
https://blushymoon.fanberry.com/
ellie c @pinebeltblues.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🖤💜🤍
ref librarian & law prof @ UNC law library
PhD student @ UNC AmSt
UE150
she/her from AL
samgreenwrites @samgreenwrites.bsky.social Writer of weird, playful stuff. Mid-life, ADHD. No AI, but lots of dark chocolate.
Neil Paton @neilpaton.bsky.social 
🕊️🍵🪶 @lovedbyajester.bsky.social 29; 成人｜he/they/dove｜夢人｜plural｜writer, sometimes; always ruminating
icon @/venusinta on VGen, banner @/humbuns
https://belovedjesters.straw.page ｜ https://lovedbyajester.carrd.co/
Ceejae Devine @ceejaedevine.bsky.social Writer. Feminist. Single mom. MEMOIR: GOD? DAMN | E-BOOK: Critical Revelations in the Realm of Contemporary Spirituality | SUBSTACK: Synchronicity, Documented & GOD? DAMN Explications | MEDIUM: Essays on Premonitions and Guidance
C🌻🏳️🌈 @caseyactual.bsky.social Student, scientist in training, solarpunk. I like making art/music and writing things. No war. (They/them)
I have friends everywhere.
Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org culture, power, speculation
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/
Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AncillaryReview
Benjamin Rosenbaum @benjaminrosenbaum.com A plausible-fabulist of some meager renown, in a mere handful of universes.
latest: https://www.choiceofgames.com/ghost-and-the-golem/
Podcast: https://speculativeliterature.org/mrah/
He/him
Richard Fife, author, dungeon master, servant to felines. @richardfife.bsky.social Richard Fife lives in a house by the sea. Well, not by the sea, but near it. Like, a short drive. He doesn’t often visit said sea and should probably live in the mountains instead. He enjoys malty Scotch, open world RPGs, and devouring the patriarchy.
Evangeline Giaconia @evgiaconia.bsky.social 🐲Writer, artist, archival professional
✒️Queer speculative fiction
🔖Published in Utopia Science Fiction, The Submission Pit, 4LPH4NUM3R1C, Home Constellations, Trans/Port, and more!
https://linktr.ee/evgiaconia
Flammable Lector @castlejskull.bsky.social Nature-loving pagan geek. Pacific Northwest based. I laugh at my own puns. Recovering healthcare professional. I write. I have the best Belgian Malinois ever. Free 🇵🇸. 🌻(neurodivergent)
Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social I'm a law professor at GW Law School and an expert on privacy, AI, technology, and data security law. I also write about law, literature, and the humanities. More about me at https://danielsolove.com 
Mila Voxx 🏹 Cincy @milavoxx.bsky.social freelance muse • professional provocateur • deviantly bookish • film nerd • artist • scratching the itch you didn’t know you had
https://bio.site/milavoxx
@traciehollis.bsky.social @traciehollis.bsky.social 
Grant Alba @grantalba.bsky.social he/him
Read me on
Medium: https://medium.com/@grant_alba
Patreon: https://patreon.com/GrantAlba
One question: who gets to choose? It infuses everything I write.
No DMs please. This is public for a reason.
Ky-Phong Tran @ky-phongtran.bsky.social Shapechanger/Comic Bookstore Shop Boy/Wordsmith/Storyteller/Bread Loaf 2010/Viable Paradise ‘25/Codexian/he-him
www.ky-phongtran.com
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
@chrisreading.bsky.social @chrisreading.bsky.social 
lianegabora.bsky.social @lianegabora.bsky.social I'm an interdisciplinary cognitive scientist and writer at the University of British Columbia with broad interests across the arts and sciences.
👑🦁 wilhelmina slater ✨ @kayjayteeem.blacksky.app Black. womanist.
bitch for the bitches 🫡🏳️🌈
https://beacons.ai/hausofheretics (i don’t use the ai please don’t 🥹 support me using my links)
emparamol @emparamol.bsky.social All things SciFi, feminist and queer futurities
Cody Vrosh @codyvrosh.bsky.social Watercolor Artist. Creator of Coffee Creatures & Teeth Creatures. I love painting lost astronauts, TTRPG characters, & space cats. ADHD. He/Him. Clients: Sideshow Collectibles, Famous Monsters, NBC, Ravendesk Games.
https://www.codyvrosh.com
Andrew S. Fuller @andrewsfuller.com Writer of dark strange fiction. Constellations of Ruin (2023, Trepidatio Publishing). Editor at 3LBE magazine (1999–now). Friend of crows and spiders. he/they. https://andrewsfuller.com
Lesbian Sheldon Cooper @campyalien.bsky.social Found in the wreckage left behind after a wizard's laboratory blew up in a mysterious accident 33 years ago, Raygun uses she/her pronouns, likes dripping goop and slithering ooze, and thinks much too hard about Spock's booty hole for polite society
Rat Bag @ratbaglit.bsky.social 🐀 www.ratbaglit.com
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MSU Roadrunner Review @roadrunnerreview.bsky.social Literary journal produced by the Creative Writing Program at Metropolitan State University of Denver https://sites.msudenver.edu/roadrunnerreview/
Dave @dmalinowski.bsky.social 🕘: Applied linguistics, language education & linguistic landscape
🕔: photography, bicycling, coffee, LEGO, trains
🕛: opposing authoritarianism and technoligarchy
A.L. Crisp @alcrisp.bsky.social Leftist ▪︎ Butch Lesbian ▪︎ Professional Advocate ▪︎ Lover of the Flint Hills ▪︎ Missouri ExPat ▪︎ Published author and poet
flattened beneath the layer cake of history @fractrans.bsky.social call me books
wear a mask
thinks way too much about Caves of Qud
sff/math/cs
[th]e(y)/[th]em
Orb Strategy mode
use your Orbs in tough situations
Santa Fe Literary Review @santafereview.bsky.social An annual journal of arts + letters produced by faculty + students at Santa Fe Community College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Submit writing + art free at https://santafecommunitycollege.submittable.com/submit
Letters to the Gods Left in Fireplaces @letterstothegods.bsky.social A queer lit magazine where the forbidden thrives.
Run by @arndtezra.bsky.social, @judasflower.bsky.social, and @briannamalotke.bsky.social.
www.letterstothegods.com
Instagram: instagram.com/letterstothegods
MartynJS @cllrmartynjs.bsky.social Grandfather Anti racist/fascist Marxist Psychotherapist, Cosmology and Astronomy ,Writer Philosopher Pagan European Cllr Eco Socialist United Ireland indy Wales and Scotland free Palestine [he,him, his] Republican political/cultural astrologer
Jeremiah Bass @jerrybbradley.bsky.social Jeremiah is an author of speculative fiction, literary fiction, and personal essays. His stories have been published in a wide variety of online magazines and websites, and print publications. Jeremiah teaches English Composition and Creative Writing.
AndyHat @andyhat.bsky.social I am AndyHat