Becca Gomez Farrell @becca.gomezfarrell.com Author of fictions and strong leisure-time opinions. My Wings Rising epic fantasy duology is from Meerkat Press. I also write horror, funny sci-fi, and maybe essays soon. Food & Drink Blog @ TheGourmez.com. 📍Bay Area, CA
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Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social trying! jeannethornton.com, patreon.com/jwthornton
Straith 🍉 @straith.ca D.A. Straith (they/them). Toronto-adjacent fiction person • nonbinary trans & queer settler • work in Augur, Fusion Fragment, SHATTER THE SUN • Clarion West Novel Workshop ‘25 • #straithenfrancais • agent: Laura Zats @ Headwater • straith.carrd.co
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)
Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred @lpkindred.bsky.social Citizen of the Wildeeps! Writer Editor Podcaster TeachingArtisr of Speculative Fiction! Words in Apex, Fiyah, Anathema, Prismatic, Escape Pod, PodCastle. Ghost Class/Clarion c/o 2030-2022. Just Keep Writing co-host. Art Institute Chicago BFAW c/o 2027.
Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social Kaleidotrope is a quarterly e-zine of sci-fi, fantasy & horror edited by Fred Coppersmith since 2006.
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Maria Haskins @mariahaskins.com Swedish-Canadian SFFH writer. Reviewer for LOCUS. Editor @ Ruadán Books & Many Worlds. Work in Best Horror of the Year, Lightspeed, The Deadlands & more. she/her 📚: WOLVES & GIRLS+SIX DREAMS ABOUT THE TRAIN🔗 http://linktr.ee/MariaHaskins Rep: Eric Showers.
Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson & British Fantasy Award nominated author, illustrator from Bristol, UK.
ROOTS OF MY FEARS, Titan 2025
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FIRST DATE, Datura Books 2026
HAPPY HOUR, Shortwave 2026
NoSleep Podcast.
Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
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bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
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Shortwave Publishing @shortwavebooks.bsky.social Shortwave is an indie horror/sci-fi press. Our books are distributed worldwide by Simon & Schuster. Founded and run by @alandistro.bsky.social (active HWA member, full SFWA member).
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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social 2x Nebula finalist. Aurora, and World Fantasy-finalist. Chilean-Canadian writer. Winner Short Works Prize. SFWA, CSFFA, ALCiFF Chile. Odyssey ’02. Codex. Stories in Apex, Fantasy, Lightspeed, and others. Linktree: http://linktr.ee/pacornell
Sound & Color Magazine @soundandcolormag.blacksky.app An interdisciplinary magazine of speculative fiction launching 2027.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social Poet | Critic | Queer
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Weightless Books @weightlessbooks.bsky.social DRM-free, AI-free, billionare-free, waitless ebooks from independent presses, sold to you by an actual human being who responds to emails, since 2010. https://weightlessbooks.com
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Andrew Joseph White 🏴🏳️⚧️ @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social #1 bestselling author, trans autistic monster boy • out now: YOU WEREN'T MEANT TO BE HUMAN • up next: YOU’RE NO BETTER • he/him • andrewjosephwhite.com • mostly crossposting
Seoung @seoungkim.bsky.social they/he Koream. writing @ seoungkim.com
brooke @daynpitseleh.bsky.social genre fiction and film. indie video games. alt music. women's basketball.
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Otherwise Award @otherwiseaward.org 25+ years supporting speculative fiction that explores & expands gender roles & concepts. Formerly known as Tiptree.
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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com Game Dev, alleged writer, kind of comics person, former internet boogeyman. Please don’t tell anyone I’m here, I’m just trying to exist 🤫 they/them
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Little Ghosts Books @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social Your Queer Spooky Bookstore x Small Press.
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ceej @ceej.online just here to have fun online
Raymond Currier @teaandcharcoal.bsky.social Ray | He/they | 30s | Writer and Museum Gremlin
Not "it's all joever," not "it's going to be fine," but a secret third thing ("all that was built by human hands can be rebuilt").
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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social That murder lady. Fantasy & horror books at https://authordiannagunn.com Creator of @WeeknightWriters.bsky.social Buy a murder or support my work at https://ko-fi.com/diannagunn She/her
Caleb Sierra @sunsetsorcerer.bsky.social Author who likes reading and writing weird stuff.
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🌿Aspen Harding | Author✨ @aspenharding.bsky.social 🌿WEEDIE WISDOM🌿
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I had a break-up.
I had a breakdown.
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social That’s not me asking for money, it’s someone spoofing me. I promise.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social Author of four books and the CULTURE STUDY newsletter. PhD in celebrity gossip. My dogs are named Steve and Beverly.
Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social Read me: HamiltonNolan.com
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Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social Author - Poet
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Valerie Sirenko @valeriesirenko.bsky.social Speculative Fiction Writer
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Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social Novelist. Author of Martha Moody, Spider in a Tree, and Venus of Chalk from Small Beer Press. Essays in The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies and The Portable Feminist Reader. Triker. she/her.
Dr. Redfern "Red" Barrett @redfernbarrett.com Non-binary author. Stories: Colored Lens, FFO, Passages North, Nature. Non-fiction: Guernica, Strange Horizons, PinkNews. LGBTQ+ novels from Bywater.
Ambitopia evangelist.
Literature PhD. Rep'd by Jonathan Villegas of Oslwanger Lit.
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Cats on a Couch @catsonacouch.bsky.social Cats on a Couch 🐈🛋️
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social Journalist/Writer at https://firewalledmedia.com. Past bylines: Rolling Stone, Politico, TNR, The Nation, Slate, etc. Does not work for ICE
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J. C. Jones @thejcjones.bsky.social Author of the best selling Louisa Moss detective series.
Ex-nightclub boss and, due to carelessness, owner of only half a lung.
Poems and Limericks daily.
Based in Hereford, UK.
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social Black stuff, history stuff, book stuff, Zelda stuff, human rights stuff, hiphop stuff, funny stuff, revolutionary stuff, ratchet stuff.
please dont, "not all white people" me
Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social Award-winning, best-selling queer sci-fi & horror novels & stories. Banned in Florida; stolen by AI. Serializing JUPITER RUINS EVERYTHING. https://linktr.ee/samjmiller
Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app Is Black Xennial a niche?
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ICE Out of CA coalition @iceoutofca.bsky.social #ICEoutofCA coalition organizes & advocates to protect our immigrant community from detention and deportation. Join us!
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Didi is a trans immigrant 🏳️⚧️ @didichanoch.northsky.social formerly didic on twitter. Writer. Editor. Translator. Blogger. Speaker. Geek. Asexual. Enby. Anti-Zionist. Tired. they/them. Science fiction and fantasy person. Former Israeli, now trying to become Canadian.
Owner at Other Places Books
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social All pookleblinky know is play music, lift weight, eat hot chip, write unsettling threads. You are now aware of the taste of your own mouth. Gendered in the way a peat bog is.
Trumpet, saxophone, guitar, banjo, bass, and squats
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
Carlos A. Pittella @pittella.bsky.social latinx poet haunted by borders ⦁ he/him ⦁ researcher @assistedlab.bsky.social
linktr.ee/carlosapittella
Dante's Bureau (Anstruther, '26)
propersitions (Cactus, '25)
ALT pfp: buzzcut, polkadot, broken smile
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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
Clarion West @clarionwest.bsky.social Workshops for people who are serious about writing.
Speculative Fiction | Clarion West Six-Week Workshop | Online Classes & Workshops | Programs for Speculative Fiction Writers | Readings & Author Events
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E.M. Anderson | author & schism enthusiast too hot for Bluesky @elizmanderson.com THE LORD OF THE WOOD (Hanover Square Press 2026). THE KEEPER OF LONELY SPIRITS (Mira 2025). BLM. Queer. AuDHD. Disabled. Anti-LLM. They/she. Rep: Keir Alekseii, ALA. pfp from maddel_art Picrew.
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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app The Danny Lore of lycanthropic fame
Awe-inspiringly humble
Writer, nerd, husband to an awesome lady, @ndxmedina.myatproto.social They/them, probably DEI
dannylore @ proton . me
C.M. Rosens @cmrosens.com UK Horror & Dark SFF trad [Penguin Canelo] & indie author
HWA Affiliate Writer, BFS Member
ADHD. Welsh-Turkish 🏴🇹🇷. Queer/cis🏳️🌈. She/her.
Podcast: @eldritchgirlpod.bsky.social
Website/Newsletter: cmrosens.com
Visit Pagham-on-Sea: visitpaghamonsea.co.uk
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org 👊 Battling techno-fascism with our Internet-savvy blend of attention-grabbing activism and mass mobilization.
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Kaye Freeman @kayefreemanart.bsky.social Website: kayefreeman.com
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Amanda M. Blake @amandamblake.bsky.social Horror and fantasy author of QUESTION NOT MY SALT, IN THE DOLLHOUSE WE ALL WAIT, and the Thorns series; mid-age goth, horror movie aficionado. Coming soon: MASQUE (2027). 🦇🪚💀
www.amandamblake.com
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/amandamblake
Jude St. Jen @jenstjude.bsky.social A dude named Jude. They/them.
& author of If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come ☄️
Rae Wilde @raewilde.bsky.social Author of Merciless Waters, I Do Not Apologize for My Position on Men, I Can Fix Her, & others
Rep Carleen Geisler
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Ellis Nye @ellisnyeland.bsky.social SFF short story writer. Any pronouns. Submissions Coordinator and Co-Editor for Fiction at Reckoning Magazine. I'm ellisnyeland on all social media accounts.
Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social Author of Night Beast and Lies I Tell My Children | Co-founder, Nightjar Arts Collective
Just a queer Bolivian American woman who likes books and birds and making billionaires cry
www.ruthjoffre.org
www.nightjarartscollective.com
Somto Ihezue @somtoihezue.bsky.social
Locus Award & Perkoff Prize Winner
Nebula, Ignyte, BFA & ALCS Tom Gallon Finalist.
In: Clarkesworld| BCS| Podcastle| Strange Horizons| Escape Pod| Pseudopod|
MFA, @UofMaryland| TinHouse| Clarion
Filmmaker| Rep: @crsripley.bsky.social
somtoihezue.com
Justin Myers @justinmyers.net Journalist, tinkerer, crocheter, parent.
Married to @juliajrh.bsky.social.
Graphics editor, @chicago.suntimes.com and @wbez.org.
🏳️⚧️⚧🟨⬜🟪⬛, any pronouns.
Also active on fediverse/Mastodon:
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Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind)
#writer #historian #Lesbian #sapphic #wlw #Hispanic #feminist #goth #vampires #jpop #bibliophile
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social author of Whipping Girl, Sexed Up, Excluded & 99 Erics. also a musician & biologist. more at juliaserano.com. @juliaserano most other platforms. she/her
Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Award-Winning Publisher of New Weird Horror + More, via Portland, OR & Transilvania, Romania.
@AlexWoodroe.com, Editor in Chief.
@MattBlairstone.bsky.social, Publisher.
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Betsy Aoki (she/her) @betsyaoki.bsky.social Game producer, writer, poet. Clarion West grad and currently poetry editor at Uncanny Magazine. See Betsyaoki.com for more.
Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social Fantasy writer, history geek, dark chocolate addict! Writes sparkling fantasy rom-coms for adults and fun MG fantasy adventures. She/her.
linktr.ee/stephanieburgis
A.C. Wise @acwise.bsky.social Author and reviewer. Stoker and Sunburst Award winner. Nebula, World Fantasy, Stoker, Locus, Shirley Jackson, British Fantasy, Lamba, and Ignyte finalist. She/her. www.acwise.net. https://linktr.ee/acwise
Martha Smith @mostlymartha.bsky.social More like Aunty Mame every day. Behold fat femme wizardry, bisexual hullabaloo, culinary feats of derring-do, progressive theology, and kitty cats. Probably posting from the bath. she/her
Nashville-->Boston-->SF-->OAKLAND BABY
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
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
Marissa Skudlarek @marissaskud.bsky.social Writes playscripts & computer scripts in English, French, & Python. Proof that there are still artists in San Francisco. She/her.
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).
Ellen || Artist, Cinephile, Gardener, Bibliophile || She/Her @imaginariumarts.bsky.social Artist 🎨 Illustrator 🖌️Photographer 📸
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april @april-now.bsky.social i love literature and hate transphobes
she/her
Jen Donohue @authorizedmusings.bsky.social Doberman owner, SFFH writer, 💀, SFWA, HWA, library clerk.
I was born in the same hospital as Danny DeVito
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social Author Romie Stott, who is the same person as filmmaker and musician Romie Faienza. Poetry editor at Strange Horizons. Texan in Massachusetts. Capisco italiano un po. ⚥ Sign up for my mailing list at romiesays.kit.com.
Marguerite Kenner @margueritekenner.bsky.social Dangerously Polite; Deadly Serious | Escape Artists Foundation publisher/Pres/CEO | Lawyer (views mine, not advice) | All things podcast | She/Her
Chris Baker @chrisbaker1337.bsky.social Writer and editor in the Bay Area. Codex & SFWA. https://linktr.ee/popculturalprecursors
Nick Davies / Aster Loxley / Spiral Island @spiralisland.bsky.social I record music as Spiral Island. I write speculative fiction under the pen name Aster Loxley. I also play in Gentle Brontosaurus. Expect posts about Madison, biking, cats, etc.
HERbron James 🐐 @meekayelah.blacksky.app they call me Mick/Meek
georgia 📍
lg(b)tq
free Palestine, the Congo, Sudan, and Tigray
i love the WNBA
dan sinker @dansinker.com I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
unraveled @unraveledpress.com Independent, reader-supported investigative reporting from Chicago on policing and state violence.
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Summer Fletcher @summerfletcher.com 🐎🏹⚔️🎙️🖊️
Hugo & Ignyte finalist.
Formerly: PodCastle, Nightmare Magazine, Lightspeed
Code Coven IGM Ghost
they/them
The Bear & Bee Bookshop @bearbeebooks.bsky.social Carefully curated used and new books in the Berkshire Hills, North Adams, Massachusetts. Emphasizing social justice, queer/trans, nature and environment, local history, and much more. bearbeebooks.com
Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social Trans Giantess. 
Cyra Noavek @cyranoavek.bsky.social Running on the Appalachian Trail to raise funds for the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund
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The Fabulist Words & Art @fabulistmag.bsky.social SUBSCRIBE to The Fabulist Magazine: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror & Beyond. Bimonthly, full color and in glorious PRINT! https://fabulistmagazine.com/print-ebook-subscription/
Jasmine Otto @jazztap.bsky.social Visualization developer, researcher, educator @ University of San Francisco.
Prev. NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, UC Santa Cruz (PhD, Computational Media).
UX: jazztap.github.io | Games: jatazak.itch.io