Edinburgh SFF @edinburghsff.com ESFF is an open writing community for Science Fiction and Fantasy writers in Scotland. Events, resources & support, writing sessions, critique + more.
Community website for writers:
https://EdinburghSFF.com
Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (Tor Nightfire, Titan). 5 Bram Stoker Awards. Shirley Jackson finalist. Work in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Asimov's, Pseudopod, etc. Clarion grad. 🏳️🌈
www.lucysnyder.com
Rep: @jord4nhill.bsky.social
Cats, aquariums and terrariums
The Slab Press @theslabpress.bsky.social We publish quirkier sorts of books! Science Fiction. Horror. Fantasy.
https://theslab.press/
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
Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social Nonfiction about weird fiction at Seize the Press, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nightmare, and Ancillary Review of Books, where I am also an editor. Also jazz, metal, leftism. he/him
https://doomsdayer.wordpress.com/writings/
REMAINS @remainsmagazine.bsky.social Magazine of new fiction edited by Andy Cox with art by Richard Wagner. Issue 5 out now. https://remains.uk
The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social Official account of The Folklore Podcast. 2 million downloads worldwide. Created by folklorist and author Mark Norman. Find us online at http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com
Film/TV rep: Past Preservers Author for various publishers
Ben Holroyd-Dell @benholroyddell.bsky.social Podcaster (The Tiny Bookcase - BFS Award Winner), Writer, and RPG fanatic.
http://benholroyd-dell.com/
@danieleserra.bsky.social @danieleserra.bsky.social 
Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher.
Leeds.
Publishing director: Ariell Cacciola @ariellcacciola.bsky.social
🖤🌈https://www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/bookshop
World Fantasy 2025 @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social World Fantasy Convention, Brighton UK
Dates: Thursday 30th October - 2nd November 2025
Venue: Double Tree by Hilton Brighton Metropole
Website: https://worldfantasy2025.co.uk
#WorldFantasyConvention2025 #WorldFantasy25
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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social Best-selling author | artist | write and teach #LateAntiquity, #EarlyMedieval, #Hungarians + #Vikings
Views my own. Appears on BBC radio.
NORSE MYTHOLOGY COLOURING BOOK: https://www.amberley-books.com/coming-soon/the-viking-world-a-colouring-book.html
Noah Medlock @noahmedlock.bsky.social Author of queer weird fiction - he/him
A BOTANICAL DAUGHTER - March 2024
Guy Morpuss @guymorpuss.bsky.social Writer. Barrister. Published by @viperbooks.bsky.social. Rep'd by @onechaptermore.bsky.social.
Liam Hogan @liamjhogan.bsky.social Award winning #Shortstory #Writer
#SciFi 📚: A Short History of the Future, Northodox Press
#Fantasy 📚: Happy Ending Not Guaranteed, Arachne Press
Oxford Physics, Codexian.
Everything, Ever ✍️: http://happyendingnotguaranteed.blogspot.co.uk
Tasha Qureshi @tashqx.bsky.social Scifi, Fantasy, and Horror Editor at The Novelry! Previously @ Hodderscape/Titan Books/Bloomsbury
Charlotte @fallintofiction.bsky.social senior publicist 📚 • book and movie nerd • she/her
The Mysterious Bookshop @mysteriousbookshop.com The world's oldest mystery fiction specialty shop, located at 58 Warren Street, NYC. Home to Penzler Publishers and all its imprints, Mysterious Press, Scarlet, Crime Ink, and American Mystery Classics.
Voted USA Today's #1 Indie Bookshop 2025
Influx Press @influxpress.bsky.social Award-winning independent publisher.
PARADISE by Ben Tufnell OUT NOW
Join our Mailing List: eepurl.com/dgPEDH
Contact: hello@influxpress.com
Shoreline of Infinity @shoreinf.bsky.social Science fiction doings - magazine, publications, events and other odds and sods. Based in Scotland, open to the Universe.
https://www.shorelineofinfinity.com
Also SF Caledonia www.sfcaledonia.scot
Also home to SF Caledonia: https://www.sfcaledonia.scot
SF Signal @sfsignal.bsky.social 3-time Hugo Award-winning SF/F/H blog.
🚀🚀Best Fanzine + 🚀Best Fancast = Awww yeah.
Mmm...bagels...
Calque Press @calquepress.bsky.social A small & occasional press of pamphlets, short-length books and anthologies. We work at the intersection between languages, ideas, crafts, genres. Pre-order: RAGGED BAND OF TRAVELLERS. (ed Jon Stone)
https://linktr.ee/calquepress
Sarah Brooks @sarahbrooks.bsky.social Writer, reader. Debut novel 'The Cautious Traveller's Guide to the Wastelands' published by W&N (UK) and Flatiron Books (US). https://linktr.ee/sarahbrookswriting
Robert Edgar @robertedgar.bsky.social Writer and Academic. Professor of Writing and Popular Culture, York St John University. Scriptwriting, Music Memoir, Hauntology, Folk Horror, Science-Fiction
Steven J Dines @stevenjdines.bsky.social Writer of dark literary fiction. Collection: "Look Where You Are Going Not Where You Have Been" (Luna Press, 2021). Short stories in Black Static, Interzone, Crimewave, Great British Horror, the Terror Tales series, and Uncertainties VII. 
Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social Short story writer, punk, surrealist, sometime novelist
www.andrew-hook.com
Carole Johnstone @carolejohnstone.bsky.social Award-winning writer; lover of islands and WINE. Author of Mirrorland and The Blackhouse.
“Dark and devious” Stephen King
Rep Hellie Ogden at WME /
carolejohnstone.com
IG: carole_l_johnstone
Peter Coleborn @petercoleborn.bsky.social Editor, publisher, photographer
Simon Clark @simonclarkwriting.bsky.social Denizen of Yorkshire. Writer - short stories, novels, scripts - mainly horror, such as The Blood Crazy series and The Protos Experiment, some Sci-Fi, The Night of the Triffids. Some Big Finish, too.
Represented by Dan Fenton: Peters, Fraser and Dunlop
Kendall Reviews @kendallreviews.bsky.social UK based Horror & Dark Genre reviewer
KendallReviews PS5
Clive Barker Obsessive
Together, let's #PromoteHorror
www.kendallreviews.com
Kate Jonez @k8jonez.bsky.social Author Editor Wantrepreneur
Hull Noir @hullnoir.bsky.social A regional, national and international crime writing festival. Monthly evenings running at Hull Libraries featuring debut authors through to bestsellers.
Christina Henry @christinahenry.bsky.social I write horror books and run for fun. Toshiro Mifune is the greatest.
www.christinahenry.net
Alex Pheby @alexpheby.bsky.social Writer: GRACE/PLAYTHINGS/LUCIA/MORDEW/MALARKOI/WATERBLACK
Galley Beggar Press and Tor
Forthcoming: THE PICNIC/NOONE/LUMA
Agent: David Godwin david@davidgodwinassociates.co.uk
Simon Bestwick @thebestwick.bsky.social Butler to Cate Gardner. Writes horror and other weird stuff. Raised in Manchester, living on the Wirral, pining for Wales. Loves dogs, tea, and Pepsi Max. Bi. He/him. 
Simon Avery @simonavery.bsky.social World Fantasy Award nominated author of The Teardrop Method.
New novel PoppyHarp, released by www.blackshuckbooks.co.uk on November 28th.
@timothyjjarvis.bsky.social @timothyjjarvis.bsky.social 
Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social World Fantasy Award-winning publisher
www.blackshuckbooks.co.uk
James Machin @jfmachin.bsky.social Editor, proof reader, writer, researcher etc.
Recent books:
The Strange Stories of John Buchan (British Library Publishing, 2025)
The Stark Munro Letters by Arthur Conan Doyle (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
Aaron Dries @aarondries.bsky.social Author/screenwriter — Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson, Australian Shadows, Ditmar award-nominated and Aurealis winner. DIRTY HEADS, CUT TO CARE, HOUSE OF SIGHS, A PLACE FOR SINNERS, THE FALLEN BOYS, and WHERE THE DEAD GO TO DIE. Repped by Annie Bomke.
Sherlock Holmes Magazine @sherlockholmesmag.co.uk 🔍 The international print magazine for all devotees of the great detective, #SherlockHolmes. Buy a copy or subscribe at www.sherlockholmesmag.co.uk
Dion Winton-Polak @dionwintonpolak.bsky.social Mentor for neurodivergent students / previously editing as The Fine-toothed Comb / AuDHD father, husband and geek. He/Him. A work in progress.
Donna Scott @wishusdonna.bsky.social Writer. Editor of Best of British Science Fiction and other things. Chief word wrangler at The Slab Press. Occasionally a comedian. www.donna-scott.co.uk
Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social http://kateorman.wordpress.com. she/her
Three Doctor Who novels available at Penguin Books: https://www.penguin.co.uk/search-results?q=kate+orman
Black Archives: The Pyramids of Mars https://obversebooks.co.uk/product/12-pyramids/
Megan J. Kerr @meganjkerr.bsky.social Science fiction and fantasy writer. Stories in Clarkesworld and Goblins & Galaxies. Submissions Reader for Fusion Fragment. she/her
https://meganjkerrwriting.wordpress.com/
Worlds Without End @wwend.bsky.social Worlds Without End is a fan-built online community, dedicated to identifying, reading, and sharing the best Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror books. www.worldswithoutend.com
Swan River Press @swanriverpress.bsky.social Independent press dedicated to literature of the gothic, fantastic, strange, and supernatural. Æon House, Dublin, Ireland. Posts by Brian J. Showers. www.swanriverpress.ie
Sam Derby @samderby.bsky.social Writer - short fiction, mostly dark: horror, ghost stories, fantasy, sci-fi and historical.
HC Manchester Fiction Prize 2019, LL Bath Short Story Prize 2019, 3rd ChipLitFest 2019.
https://samderby1975.wordpress.com/
https://www.instagram.com/samderby75
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.
British Science Fiction Association @bsfa.bsky.social The British Science Fiction Association. Est 1958. Publisher of Vector, Focus, and the BSFA Review. Join us at http://bsfa.co.uk/join-the-bsfa
G. V. Anderson @gvanderson.bsky.social Fiction in Strange Horizons, Reactor, and The Deadlands. World & British Fantasy winner. Nebula finalist. Cat lady.
Agent: Alex Cochran @ Greyhound Literary
https://gvanderson.com/
Alexander Glass @alexanderglass.bsky.social Writing, reading, musicking and pondering.
Fix your hearts or die.
Alex Cochran @acochran.bsky.social Literary agent at Greyhound Literary. Bibliophile. Finds tea helpful. He/Him.
Eliza Chan @elizachanwrites.bsky.social 🏴 Fantasy & Weird Fiction🖋️ FATHOMFOLK and TIDEBORN out now 🌊 HARBOUR OF HUNGRY GHOSTS 2026 👻BFA nominated 🦊 she/her rep Alex Cochran
https://linktr.ee/elizachan
Katherine Stansfield @kstansfield.bsky.social Reader, writer, cat fan. Historical fiction, crime fiction, weird fiction, poems. I'm one half of D. K. Fields (fantasy crime series) & co-editor of Bending The Arc: A Thrutopian Magazine which imagines thriving & liveable futures into being
Charles Prepolec @sherlockeditor.bsky.social Editor on the 'Gaslight Sherlock Holmes' series, 'Professor Challenger: New Worlds, Lost Places' and 'Beyond Rue Morgue' anthologies. Mostly, I just like to read... but will rage about Canadian politics as a federal Liberal and AB NDP supporter in Calgary.
Andrew David Barker @adbarker.bsky.social Emerging polymath, or just restless soul. Screenwriter. Novelist. Filmmaker. Songwriter.
Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social Writer: Rosewater, Murders of Molly Southbourne, Far from the Light of Heaven, Making Wolf, Jackdaw and others.
Arthur C. Clarke and BSFA award winner, Hugo finalist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Etc.
Reading worm.
Opinions mine.
He/him
E.Saxey @esaxey.bsky.social Tallish, bookish Londoner.
Gothic/folk horror novel, set in Victorian London, "Unquiet" https://titanbooks.com/71432-unquiet/
Weird queer short fiction, "Lost in the Archives"
https://tinyurl.com/saxeyshorts
They/them
Michael Walters @michaelwaltersuk.bsky.social Creative writing. Literature. Films. Genre and weird stuff.
The Complex: https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/the-complex-9781784631628
Website: https://www.michaelwalters.uk/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/michaelwaltersauthor
Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social Stoker Award-nominated horror author.
rep: Oli Munson
she/they, bi, polyam, vegan, a bit witchy, very crafty
Trans rights are human rights
End the genocide in Gaza 🍉
Posting from Greenwich, London
www.allywilkes.com
Titan Books @titanbooks.bsky.social Leading independent publisher of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Crime, Pop Culture, Movie/TV tie-ins & much more 📚 Also, @hardcasecrime.bsky.social
Salò Press @salopress.bsky.social Independent publisher of poetry & prose. An obscurity of poets. Updates by Sophie 💖 Norwich, UK.
Gareth E. Rees @garetherees.bsky.social Guitar in psych-noise band, Black Arches. Author of Unofficial Britain, Car Park Life, Sunken Lands, Marshland & more. Psychogeography. Mythology. Ecology. Hastings.
https://www.instagram.com/black_arches_hastings
Tom Mead @tommeadauthor.bsky.social He/Him. Author of DEATH AND THE CONJUROR, THE MURDER WHEEL, and CABARET MACABRE published by Mysterious Press (US) and Head of Zeus (UK)
"Ingenious" - The Guardian
"Ingenious" - The Times
Rep: Lorella Belli Literary Agency
Mark West @markewest.bsky.social Dad, husband, son, brother - I write thrillers, I read, I watch films and I walk a lot. I also have a deep love for trashy horror from the 70s and 80s (paperbacks and films).
My latest novel, TO SEE TOO MUCH, is out now!
https://mybook.to/ToSeeTooMuch 
Kit Gonzo @kitgonzo.bsky.social Author. 3 x British Fantasy Award finalist. Podcaster. Blogger. Anti Fascist. Rebel Scum. Hexproof. He/Him. Views my own. https://www.patreon.com/kitpower https://mybook.to/KPMD 🏳️⚧️
Super Relaxed Fantasy Club @srfantasyclub.bsky.social A London-based fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and speculative fiction book club for meeting readers and writers. Two or three authors each month!
Meet us at the Star of Kings, near Kings Cross station, second Tuesday of every month
Mailing list: srfantasy.club
Simon Guerrier @0tralala.bsky.social Writer and producer. Out now: David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television, a biography of the first story editor of Doctor Who. Currently working on a biography of Terrance Dicks. www.simonguerrier.com
Writeopolis @writeopolis.bsky.social Skeets for RJ Barker, Kit Power, Scott K Andrews and Stewart Hotston. Discord hangout. Sign up for the Patreon for extra fun. https://www.patreon.com/writeopolispodcast
Helen Marshall @manuscriptgal.bsky.social Award-winning Writer, Associate Professor. Author of The Lady, The Tiger and the Girl who Loved Death, Gifts for the One Who Comes After, The Migration and The Gold Leaf Executions.
Holly Blades @lifeofholly.bsky.social Reader, writer, lier downer.
Jonathan Oliver - Editorial @jonolivereditor.bsky.social Award winning editor specialising in genre fiction. Get in touch for a quote or to enquire about availability.
Website: jonolivereditor.co.uk
Bella Pagan @bellapagan.bsky.social Publisher @UKTor. Love fiction with a speculative spin, science fiction & fantasy. Wordsmith. Professional geek. ‘Cat person’. Info: https://shorturl.at/rRID9
Matt Hill @matthill.bsky.social Writer. New novel LAMB out now from Dead Ink: mthill.co.uk/lamb
Giselle Leeb @giselleleeb.bsky.social Short story collection, Mammals, I Think We Are Called (@saltpublishing.bsky.social), Edge Hill Short Story Prize '23 Longlist, Word Factory Apprentice '19, Best British Short Stories '17 https://giselleleeb.com/
Andrew Knighton @aknighton.bsky.social Writer of sff + comics.
Rearranging words for a living since 2013.
he/him
Mailing list: https://eepurl.com/Zviqn
Also found at andrewknighton.com
Chris Dennett @artfly.io Maker of Digital Curiosities and Part-time Quirk Ambassador at CGP books. See projects at artfly.io. Creative coding, interactive community art in Ulverston, Cumbria.
Vaughan Stanger @vaughanstanger.bsky.social As if the world wasn't science-fictional enough already.
Loves writing, science, old tech, Space, planet-saving, left-wingers.
https://www.vaughanstanger.com.
Banner picture by Richard Wagner, used with permission (https://behance.net/rdwagner3179)
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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social Latest news updates and reviews from the British Fantasy Society Community. Home to readers, writers, artists and gamers. Love SFFH? Come join us! www.britishfantasysociety.org
First Ten Pages Programme: https://british-fantasy-society.vercel.app/welcome
Elizabeth Lee @ekleewriter.bsky.social Writer, editor, writing mentor. Debut novel Cunning Women out now from Penguin
https://ekleewriter.wixsite.com/website
E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com Award-winning Scottish science fiction & fantasy writer. Podcastle, Strange Horizons, Shoreline of Infinity, ParSec, Best of British SF. More: emfaulds.com NEW HANDLE, bethkesh will still work.
#scruffyGarden
Runs @bibliotta.bsky.social
Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social Writer and Ghostwriter
Weird-Horror and Comedy
https://ashleystokes.net/
https://theghostingcompany.com/
Robert Shearman @robertshearman.bsky.social Writer of stuff, often quite odd. (Both me and the stuff.) Owned by a cat.
Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social Novelist and Critic. https://johnnyalucard.com/
Eris Young is Eunuchmaxxing @erisyoung.bsky.social https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/eris-young/hunger-in-the-blood/9781035095346 pre-order HUNGER IN THE BLOOD Tor Nightfire 05/2027❣️👄🩸🦷🧛♀️
Rep: Alex Cochran, Greyhound Literary
Fiction Editor, Shoreline of Infinity
https://erisyoung.com/
Peter Haynes @peterhaynes.bsky.social Writer, publisher
James Bennett | Pre-order "Mother of Night" @jamesbennett.bsky.social British Fantasy Award-Winning author 🏳️🌈
The Ben Garston Novels. The Dark magazine.
"Mother of Night" March 2027 from Evil Twin (Zando Books)
Web: https://james-bennett.org/
'Inventive and vivid'
Publishers Weekly
🚫 AI
David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social World Fantasy and Hugo Award-nominated Editorial Director at Solaris (Profile Books). Clarion West Instructor 2026. he/him
James Everington @jheverington.bsky.social Writer of creepy, uneasy, ambiguous fiction.
“… an unsettling voice all of its own." The Guardian
http://jameseverington.blogspot.com
Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social African Australian author, editor. Winner: Solstice, Ignyte British Fantasy, Locus Awards. Finalist Shirley Jackson, PK Dick, World Fantasy Award. Twice Otherwise honoree for exciting work in speculative fiction. eugenbacon.com
Rep: Bieke van Aggelen
Malcolm Devlin @malcolmdevlin.bsky.social Slightly writerly.
Jonathan Thornton @jonathanthornton.bsky.social Writer for The Fantasy Hive, Tor dot com, Gingernuts Of Horror. Books reviews editor for Foundation. Entomology technician at LSTM. Lover of cats, books, music, starships, gardening
Verity Holloway @verityholloway.bsky.social Strange fiction, weird history. Lost member of the PRB. Marfan syndrome. Will-o’-the-wisp. Victorians, folklore, bad medicine. THE OTHERS OF EDENWELL and CHEER THE SICK out now. Non-fiction in @helleborezine.bsky.social. 🦇🖋️🇬🇮
Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social Multi awards-shortlisted SFFH & non-fic author. Editor & typesetter. SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES 3 now in the wild! https://linktr.ee/tiffaniangusauthor Leftie, feminist, ex academic, ally, anti-AI. she/her. Now 🇬🇧 was 🇺🇸
eyglo @eyglo.bsky.social Writer of horror and dark fantasy
Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk Horror anthologist.
AuDHD.
Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/johnnymains