Polenth Blake @polenth.bsky.social Fantasy and science fiction writer/artist with a tendency towards ecology and quietly strange things. Keeper of invertebrates and fish. Enjoys walking simulators and Second Life. Multiply marginalised.
Website: http://www.polenthblake.com
Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social Science Fiction. Constitutional Law. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. Fortnightly newsletter on SFF, Indian spec fiction, and books: https://gautambhatia.substack.com
SJ Groenewegen @sjgroenewegen.co.uk SFF author, trans-inclusive feminist, gay, non-binary, autistic. BEM.
Website: https://www.sjgroenewegen.co.uk - includes links to all my publications.
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/sjgroenewegen - new posts every so often on politics and/or writing.
Julie Faith Mcmurray @juliefaithmcmurray.wsocial.eu I’m an artist that creates colourful art to make people smile. Happily married with two cute pomskies. Life is good after breast cancer and I travel in my bus between appointments. Let’s protect our earth.
My art page
@juliefaithmcmurray.bsky.social
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
J.R. Dawson @jrdawson.bsky.social She/They. The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World (Tor, 2025). The First Bright Thing (Tor, 2023). Nebula, Sturgeon, and Hugo finalist. Goldie award winner. ✡️🏳️🌈🍉Linktree: https://linktr.ee/jrdawsonwriter Rep: Stevie Finegan
Tia Tashiro @tiatashiro.bsky.social 3 cups writing + 2 cups neuro + 1 tsp of optimism, bake at 400°. Multiracial SFF author, words in Clarkesworld, Uncanny, Apex | Hugo, Locus, Sturgeon, Astounding finalist | co-EIC of Wyrmhole Magazine | she/her | Rep: Cameron McClure
tiatashiro.com
Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim USA Today bestselling author of SUBLIMATION. award winning short fiction guy. coined the term "omelas hole."
the apprentice liar and the death of the world MARCH 2 2027
http://isabel.kim < website
Wow if True < listen wherever pods are cast
Samantha (Sam) Mills @samtasticbooks.com SFF Author | Nebula, Locus, Sturgeon, Compton Crook winner | Hugo, World Fantasy finalist | Repped by Lisa Rodgers | RABBIT TEST AND OTHER STORIES out now! (she/her) www.samtasticbooks.com
Newsletter at https://subscribepage.io/samtasticnews
Ana Sun @singingtotigers.bsky.social Sci-fi/fantasy writer. Utopia Award nominee, Best of British Sci-Fi, BSFA longlist, BFS shortlist, FRSA, Solarpunk, she/her.
"Futures to Live By" at NewCon Press https://v.gd/efd2dT
https://singingtotigers.com/
Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social SFF enthusiast, hobby-collector, blogger, shouter-at-the-internet. Editor at Ignyte and Hugo winner Nerds of a Feather, along with reviews elsewhere. 2026 Hugo Fan Writer finalist. All links here: https://linktr.ee/roseanna.pendlebury (she/her).
Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. President @bshsnews.bsky.social #histSTM. Views own.
Formerly known as @beckyfh
https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk
YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
Rebecca @beccauk.bsky.social SFF fan, trans woman, sometimes dances
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🚀🩰💃
Redwall Feasts Bot @redwallfeasts.bsky.social Delicious descriptions from the kitchens at Redwall Abbey // every four hours // artwork by Christopher Denise // powered by @bluebotsdonequick.com
Los Angeles Worldcon @laworldcon.bsky.social The 2026 Worldcon in Los Angeles, California
Visit LAcon.org for more details
📅 August 27-31, 2026
✨️ Adventure Awaits!
Chronologicon @chronologicon.bsky.social 
AJ Odasso @ajodasso.bsky.social 🏳️🌈queer✡️jewish💙wellesley ‘05🖋️poet (THE STING OF IT)📚novelist (THE PURSUED & THE PURSUING)📝english professor🪐@strangehorizons poetry editor & media reviews editor📖representation: lucy cleland🏳️⚧️
ajodasso.articulation.website
iwtv fic illustration by fighto
Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social We're one of the largest providers of free immigration advice in London. We give advice, provide support, and campaign so that migrants & refugees in the UK can live with safety, dignity & respect.
https://linktr.ee/praxis_uk
Nuremberg 2028 – Worldcon Bid @nuremberg2028.bsky.social Nuremberg 2028
Germany hasn’t hosted a Worldcon since 1970. It’s time to begin a new era! We believe we can create an unforgettable experience in 2028: a Worldcon rooted in Central Europe, open to the World.
https://nuremberg2028.de/
Jodi Meadows @jodimeadows.bsky.social NYT bestselling author. Yarn enthusiast. Cat person.
www.jodimeadows.com
jodimeadows.substack.com
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Books: MY LADY JANE, BYE FOREVER, I GUESS, THE ORPHAN QUEEN
See website for full list <3
Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social I want Ken Railings to walk in here right now and say 'Pam Shortt's broken both her legs and I wanna dance with you’
Aussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social Come to Worldcon (the World Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention) in Brisbane, Australia in 2028! 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🇵🇬 🇫🇯 🇼🇸 🇸🇧 🇻🇺 🇳🇨 🇹🇴 🇨🇰 🇫🇲
aussiecon.org
instagram.com/Aussiecon5
BK Borison @authorbkborison.bsky.social USA Today bestselling author and soft boy advocate.
🎄💐🍓🍁 THE LOVELIGHT SERIES
❣️ FIRST-TIME CALLER out FEB 11
👻 GOOD SPIRITS out FALL 2025
John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social Nebula Award & Locus Award winner. Novels: SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (2024), WEARING THE LION (2025), THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS (2026). Disabled. Ace/aro. He/him. https://linktr.ee/johnwiswell
rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social Cofounder @dreamwidth.org / disabled queer cat lady / running social media since before it was "social media" and Trust & Safety since the dawn of time / do not cite the deep magic to me, I wrote it / no, I'm allergic to that, too
Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social Stories for the futures we need | SFF and dream realism | Canadian, Indigenous & worldwide creators | Pub @kercoby COO @suntorya CPO @teresempierre
https://linktr.ee/augurmag
Larpocracy @larpocracy.bsky.social This Horizon Europe-funded project explores developing spaces for deliberation and democratic skills through role-playing. Seven leading partners will use larp as a platform to create inclusive and democratic social spaces, both online and offline.
✷vetiver✷ @vetiverfox.bsky.social ✷Vetiver/ Cyril ✷he/they ✷ vetiverfox @ tumblr/twit ✷ strange creature ✷ apparel|design|painting|writing ✷ https://www.vetiverfoxapparel.com/ 
Satellite 9 @satellitecons.bsky.social Glasgow's bi-annual(ish) series of science fiction conventions.
Satellite 9 will be held on 22nd – 24th May 2026, Clayton Hotel, Glasgow https://nine.satellitex.org.uk/
Talia Hibbert @taliahibbert.bsky.social internationally bestselling romance author who doesn't know how to use this app
Elsa Sjunneson, Order of the Bat @snarkbat.bsky.social Deafblind author of Being Seen, Sword of the White Horse.
Lead Reporter on The Helen Keller Exorcism. New book out 10/6, DEAR BLIND LADY is AITA for disability. Preorder now
Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social Fantasy writer and editor, hound mum, permaculturist, warrior hobbit. Writes, reads, games, gardens. Trying to leave it better than I found it. Ideologically opposed to bigots of all stripes. She/her. Cymru.
John Coxon @johncoxon.bsky.social Hugo Award winner for @octothorpecast.bsky.social and @royalastrosoc.bsky.social Fowler Award winner for solar-terrestrial science. I play games, read and watch SF, volunteer at conventions, and communicate science. Based in North East England. He/him.
Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com Very short science fiction/fantasy stories by O. Westin.
Please repost any you like.
Patreon: https://patreon.com/microsff
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/microsff
Books: https://microsff.com/books
Montreal WorldCon 2027 @montrealworldcon27.bsky.social WorldCon in Montreal in 2027.
https://montreal2027.ca/en
Sara Raasch @sararaaschbooks.com NYTimes & USA Today bestselling author
⚔️ blood queen (10/6)
⚡️ lightning & thunder (12/29)
🌷 joyfully ever after, kissmas book 3!! (3/2)
she/her
Frances Hardinge @franceshardinge.bsky.social Writer of downright odd children's/YA books. Hobbies include travelling, dressing in period costume and scuba diving. Addicted to volcanoes and trying new things.
Dr Anke Timmermann @elixirlibri.bsky.social Antiquarian book specialist, Fellow of the Linnean Society, former Munby Fellow
Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com Engineer | Writer | Editor
Enjoyer of Equations, Ideas & Assorted Nonsenses
Hugo, Nebula, Locus & Caine Prize finalist
Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY now: buff.ly/X3CHaZk
Alethea Kontis 알리티아 @aletheakontis.com NYT Bestselling Author of Books for Smart People ⭐️ Storm Chaser 🌪️ Adventurer 🚀
K-drama #CoffeePrincess 🌸☕️🌸
ARMY, VVS & Black Rose 🥀 🎵
Greek/Fr. Canadian American 🧿
Optimist - she/her
Alethea’s Moving Castle: https://linktr.ee/aletheakontis
Maisie Chan 🐼 CHI CHI THE PANDA out now! 🎋 @maisiechanwrites.bsky.social 🏆 Winner of the @JHALAKPRIZE & @BRADFORDBOASE for Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths
🐯 Tiger Warrior author
🔎 Very Merry Murder Club author
Screenwriter @bbcwritersroom Scottish Voices.
Lit Rep: @chloeseager
https://linktr.ee/MaisieChanWrites
Brummie
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
Dahlia Adler 📚 @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com YA and Romance Author/Anthologist. LGBTQReads founder. Macaron aficionado. SOON BY YOU out now. SUMMER CAMP ROMANCE coming 7/6/27. Rep: Patricia Nelson. She/her. Update your website.
Sue Dawson @piperade.bsky.social Champagne socialist, digital marketer. Would like to think I'm middle aged but am actually old. Likes dancing and science fiction. Social media and comms person at various conventions, most recently on newsletter team at 2026 Eastercon. She/her.
Eleanor @tangendentalism.bsky.social Academic librarian, sometimes researcher. Feminist, vegan, trade unionist, uncompromising leftist. Solidarity, ethics, and the Oxford comma. She/her
Paul Gilham @paulgilham.bsky.social Communicator (MCIPR), parent of SEND youngster, sometime cricket fan, constant nerd. Views expressed in my posts are mine alone and do not represent any employer's position; my shares and likes of others' posts do not necessarily mean endorsement. He/him
jason grinblat @jfg.land creative head at freehold games
co-creator — Caves of Qud, Sproggiwood
generated histories, hidden monasteries, sentient plants🌹🌹
he/him
Oliver K. Langmead @oliverklangmead.bsky.social THE KILLING OF A CHESTNUT TREE out this October from Tordotcom
Lecturer at Lancaster
Hugo nominated // Philip K. Dick award nominated // BSFA Award nominated // British Fantasy Award nominated
Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social Official Gov Description: Flight challenged colony of biracial nudists.
Status: Tariff & Human Free. Sovereign; yet protected by AU. “Flippers Up”
SIGN to protect our Island’s Marine Reserve https://wwf.org.au/get-involved/an-antarctic-safe-haven/
Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social Doomsayer, Utopologist. Minor but representative. Professor of 20th- and 21st-Century Literature at Marquette University.
Science Fiction Research Association Review @sfrareview.bsky.social Reviews, Articles, and Updates from the SFRA since 1971
https://sfrareview.org/
Posts by @cephalopoda.bsky.social
J. Anderson Coats (she/her) @jandersoncoats.bsky.social YA/MG author. Newest: The Unexpected Lives of Ordinary Girls (2025); The Loss of the Burying Ground (2024). She/Her. Located near the Salish Sea. Rep'd by ACM. https://www.jandersoncoats.com/
CE (Catie) Murphy @cemurphy.bsky.social Writer, mostly of novels. She/her. CatieMurphy.com for aaaaalllll the books. Please join my newsletter, too! https://BookHip.com/BZQWLZL
Somhairle Kelly @eithin.bsky.social Queer, trans, disabled, he/they. Artist, designer, amateur material culture historian, ex-nanomaterials scientist. Open University environmental everything student. Welsh, living in Scotland by the sea.
Fix your hearts or die.
Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social Hybrid sci-art ex-astronomer now-author. Writes fiction, poems, essays, reviews. Latest two are 'Deutschstunden' from CulturBooks and 'Schrödinger’s Wife (and other possibilities)' from Goldsmiths Press/Gold SF. https://www.pippagoldschmidt.co.uk
Brian Nisbet @natural20.bsky.social Irish gamer, reader, organiser ( #Dublin2029 ), community member ( #WSFS, #RIPE, #GÉANT), human. He/Him. Has opinions on society & politics; geek. Runs services for Asiera. All opinions my own. @natural20 in a variety of places.
Laurence Totelin @ltotelin.bsky.social Historian of Ancient Mediterranean science and medicine. Mother of two. Feminist. Plant lover. Trade unionist. Super Belgie. Welsh by adoption. Many typos.
Luna Press Publishing @lunapress.bsky.social Award Winning Small Press. SFF in Fiction and Academia. Est. 2015. Member of Publishing Scotland. https://www.lunapresspublishing.com
Kimberly Lemming @kimberlylemming.bsky.social Hallmark meets bloodshed
|USA Today Best Selling Fantasy Romance Author |33| she/her| Repped by
@millercallihan
https://linktr.ee/KimberlyLemming
Katarina Eriksson @katarinaeriksson.bsky.social Design, space, Star Trek + Wars, tea, random daily life photos.
Designer and owner of Märka design markadesign.bsky.social
Co-organiser of LunCon/Swecon 2025. SoMe at Women in Space SE
Alex McLintock @alexmcsix.bsky.social Londoner, Goth, Techie, Science Fiction fan, Adult fan of Lego, Boardgamer.
I will avoid talking about 'professional' tech here and push that to a different account. Most of the time. 
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social Founder & reigning monarch at TPM. Lapsed historian. Hand tool woodworker. Jew.
Jo Walton @bluejo.eurosky.social Writer of SF and fantasy. Superintelligent shade of the colour blue. "Even better than cold carrots." Vocateur reader. Philhellenist. Loves tea, trains, travel.
Emma Forsberg @emmaforsberg.bsky.social PhD at Lund University writing on the Swedish diplomatic corps 1680 to 1765
Dr Cora Beth Fraser @corabeth.bsky.social Autistic Geordie illustrator and classicist. Assoc Lecturer at The Open University. National Teaching Fellow. Working class/first gen/book addict.
Stars and Sabers @starsandsabers.bsky.social Publisher. CLOSED TO SUBMISSIONS. CEO and Editor-in-Chief: @jendiagammon.bsky.social. Staff: @garethlpowell.bsky.social @authorhelengj.bsky.social @scarlettralgee.bsky.social @denniskcrosby.bsky.social @kcgrifant.bsky.social starsandsabers.com- 4 Erin Northey @401erinnj.bsky.social
Oliver Arditi @paracyclops.bsky.social Writer, librarian, worldbuilder, conlanger, lapsed musician. I like fantasy, science-fiction and horror, books, records, comics, games, cats, food, and holding inexplicable opinions.
Martha Vail Barker @macvb.bsky.social Writer who sometimes actually writes. Likes cats, dogs, and many humans. 
Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com The young person's guide to conquering (and saving) the world.✨
Sign up for our politics newsletter: http://tnvge.co/PZWnEym
European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu European Research Council, set up by the EU, funds top researchers of any nationality, helping them pursue great ideas at the frontiers of knowledge. #HorizonEU
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”
SMOFcon 42 @smofcon42.bsky.social SMOFcon 42 will be held in Stockholm.
5-7 Dececember 2025.
https://www.smofcon42.com/
It’s a Continent @itsacontinent.bsky.social Making African history accessible • 3x 🏆winners • in @podbible @bbcmundo + more • It’s a Continent 📚@coronetbooks • rep'd by kay<at>colwillandpeddle.com
Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social I write Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism. | judd@popular.info | Signal: juddlegum.47
Popular.info
Xiran Jay Zhao @xiranjayzhao.bsky.social #1 New-York-Times-Disqualified & Hugo-Award-disqualified author of IRON WIDOW and ZACHARY YING AND THE DRAGON EMPEROR (They/Them)
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social Author, Good Things Are Coming Your Way (spring 2027) about a magical social worker and a time-traveling vampire who team up to save history from an evil cult... and fall in love!
Writer, Star Trek: Zero Point comic book
Michelle Sagara @msagara.bsky.social I write the Chronicles of Elantra (and related books) as Michelle Sagara, and the Sun Sword & House War series as Michelle West, which are much longer.
https://michellesagara.com
Tanya Huff @tanyahuff.bsky.social I make a living writing science fiction and fantasy. Mostly fantasy. It's been said I've never met a trope I didn't skewer. I'm good with that. Also, there's cats. And knitting. she/her
Bakka Phoenix Books @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social Canada's oldest Speculative Fiction bookstore, founded in 1972. www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com. We are located in Toronto, Ontario.
Robert J. Sawyer @robertjsawyer.com Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Canadian science-fiction writer; https://sfwriter.com
Mx. Robbie Bobbie Berta Boeing @captainbobbie.bsky.social Coaxing heavy metal into the sky, then wrasslin’ and wranglin’ it back to the ground again. Cardigan aficionado. Queer with a homosexual sensibility. Seattle living and world gallivanting. I pretend to write. 🌈
www.captainbobbie.com
Leana Clothier @leanaclothier.bsky.social Hesitant optimist. Newly minted Icelander.
Reykjavík / Snæfellsnes
Apparently also Western Massachusetts too
Helena Stacy @helenastacy.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, big ol’ nerd, hopeless romantic (not necessarily in that order).
🏳️⚧️🥰
University of York Library @uoylibrary.bsky.social Welcome to the library. We're here to connect with the academic community at York, and beyond. Tips, updates, dialogue and scholarly comms.
https://linktr.ee/uoylibrary
Uni of York people! Starter Pack here: https://go.bsky.app/24quNDW
Andrew Reid @mygoditsraining.bsky.social Writer, teacher, maker. Novels: The Hunter (Headline, 2018), The Survivor (Minotaur, coming Spring 2026). Repped by Juliet Mushens at Mushens Entertainment
Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
Aven @avensarah.bsky.social Roman poetry & culture | Endless Knot Podcast & YT http://alliterative.net | 🇨🇦Fed govt, former prof | She/her | circumsiliens modo huc modo illuc, pipio 
Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social Fine artist of Imaginative Realism. Retired illustrator of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Winner of 15 Hugo Awards. Inducted into the SF Hall of Fame in 2009.
Kate Dollarhyde @katedollarhyde.bsky.social Narrative lead @ Obsidian Entertainment, writer, occasional photographer
katedollarhyde.com
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon @gurdeep.ca In a world drowning in conflict and grief, we crave what keeps us alive: joy—our daily bread; hope—our living water; kindness—the roof over our souls.
Fantasticon @fantsticon.bsky.social Fantasticon 2025 is the national Danish Copenhagen science fiction, fantasy and horror convention. Fan-run convention – hosted by fan for fans. 🇩🇰 🏳️🌈
https://fantasticon.dk/
Tuija Ainonen @tainonen.bsky.social Medieval and early modern manuscripts, books, libraries and archives
Sub-Librarian / Special Collections Librarian at The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
@parkerlibcccc.bsky.social
My posts, my views and interests - not my employer's
Kristen @kpntouch1.bsky.social Positive People Person + Foodie
Cassie @scistoryteller.bsky.social Scientist and storyteller: Atmospheric Science Ph.D., software developer, and scfi/fantasy writer. Occasional character artist (mostly sketches). I love good science, storytelling, and RPGs in all media forms! Smith College alumna. Ace demigirl. (she/they)
Ann Totusek @anntotusek.bsky.social In no particular order, nurse, reader, fan, philanthrope who is too broke to be a philanthropist, so I give time, talent; and hard work.
Betsy Cornwell @betsycornwell.bsky.social NYT bestselling author, teacher at U of Galway, Markievicz Award, IWC mentor. Immigrant single mother. Agents: Sara Crowe & Dara Kaye. BetsyCornwell.com / OldKnittingFactory.com