Cambridge Writers @cambswriters.bsky.social Cambridge Writers is a friendly and enthusiastic writing group. Some of us are published, some not yet, and some write for fun. Cambridge, UK.
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
Jennifer's TBR is huge... @jdawson001.bsky.social ♿️🏳️🌈American SFF author, poet, editor, & book reviewer living in England. She/her. The Poetry Society & The British Fantasy Society. Old OWW member.
Online at: WorldsOfMayhem.com
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/dawson001
🏳️⚧️ rights = human rights.
Martin Roberts @lordfroggy.bsky.social Former Jack of all trades, Master of none. Past victories include a handful of short stories punished and a runner up BBC award nominee (short film) @ the 17th Birmingham International Film and Television Festival. 78 rpm slowed to 33.3 by Fibromyalgia.
LoriPerkinsRAB @loriperkinsrab.bsky.social Bohemian Feminist,Word-slinger,Publisher@RiverdaleAveBooks & RomanceDailyNews. Lit agent@lperkinsagency.com Pink sister,pro-choice, Blue.Co-author Two Dukes Are Better Than One @LornaJWrites, https://linktr.ee/Riverdaleavenuebooks101, LoriPerkinswrites.com
Jordan Shiveley (Dread Singles) @jordanshiveley.bsky.social Jordan Shiveley • writes fictions/games • words in Uncanny, Nightmare Magazine, Neon Hemlock, Best Horror of the Year vol. 15 • Unbound survivor • designs • Voidmerch owner• He/They • Queer • MPLS
www.voidmerch.net
www.jordanshiveley.com- I Inactive account @inactiveaccount27k.bsky.social
Char @alphachar.bsky.social making Sparrow Warfare with @martinpi ~ writing games ~ teaching writing & yoga ~ 'when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro' ~ alphachar.com
Three Ravens Podcast @threeravenspod.bsky.social An independent history, mythology and folklore podcast hosted by Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux.
Gather round the campfire and listen in!
https://linktr.ee/threeravenspodcast
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
NO DMs | Terfs & Narcissists DNI
Skionar @skionar.bsky.social Roger Clarke. Author of A Natural History of Ghosts, published by Penguin Books (2012). Former writer for the Independent Newspaper, Sunday TimesUK, Sight & Sound. In it for the long haul with severe chronic illness, dealing with NHS on a weekly basis
Big Bearded Bookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com Expert bookseller with a very big beard
Books read: 80/100
📚 Malory Towers Mystery Club: Kidnap at Midnight
📺 The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
Ben Chatwin @benchatwin.bsky.social Composer & Producer based in Fife, Scotland. Working from The Vennel Studio: https://benchatwin.bandcamp.com/
Josh @jcmrva.bsky.social Computer programmer, tsundoku, concert goer, urban cave dweller.
Jonathan Stewart @jstewartbooks.bsky.social Engineer first. Author second. Portlandian transplant in the Madison South neighborhood.
Bristol Short Story Prize @bristolshortstory.bsky.social The Bristol Short Story Prize is an international writing competition hosted by the Department of English at the University of Bristol.
https://bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Lesley @lesleymmck.bsky.social Retired lecturer in creative writing and miss it! I’m a writer of gothic horror, dark fantasy and weird fiction. Published prose poet. Seeking representation from agents. Proud mum and grandmother 😀 March born Piscean 🧜♀️🐠♓️
Keith Jebb @keithjebb.bsky.social Writer, poet, reviewer, sometime creative writing lecturer, turn left at Labour and keep going.
Elizabeth Baines @elizabethbaines.bsky.social Writer of short stories, novels, plays.
http://www.elizabethbaines.co.uk
Latest publication: Five Different Stories About One Thing (Confingo). https://www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page/five-different-stories-about-one-thing-by-elizabeth-baines
Mike Raymond @mykyraymond.bsky.social Artist, Director, 3D
Ross Warren @rosswarren78.bsky.social Books, books and more books. Oh and a bit of Football and Star Wars. Online stalker of Gary ‘Welly Man’ Fry.
Jo Cottrell @cotch11.bsky.social Art Historian, PhD, HIIT enthusiast, liberal.
Kim Cox @kimcoxauthor.bsky.social Author of fun paranormal mysteries, and fast-paced, romantic suspense novels. Her characters are fresh, humorous, and gutsy. #booklovers #RomanticSuspense #Paranormal #Mystery http://smarturl.it/KimCox
Melody Carroll @melodycarroll.bsky.social Melody Carroll is a writer, poet, and Human Rights Activist from the USA. (Blue American)
#author, #authors, #booksky, #writers #writing , #writingcommunity, #read, #literature,, #fiction, #thriller, #horror, #adventure, #scifi, #vampire
Laura @lgfarns.bsky.social Lover of books,history, animals, all things geeky.
I ignore random DMs
Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social Writer, maker & conservator. Short stories, zines, book arts. Used to be an academic, retrained in conservation. Repairs & cares for old manuscripts, maps, plans, photographs & the curious objects that end up in archives.
📍Lancashire, North of England
Zagava Books @zagava.bsky.social Zagava aims to publish books produced to the highest standards, both as far as the contents and the production values are concerned.
https://zagava.de/links
Harry Stephen Keeler @harryskeeler.bsky.social A million stories are trembling to be crystallized on the black ribbon of the typewriter. Located in Chicago, London of the West. Portrait by Al Hirschfeld. Join the Keeler Society: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/keeler/join.html
Leah Quinn @leahquinn.bsky.social parliamentary assistant, Samantha Niblett MP 🌹
| ex Financial Times, The Hysteria Collective, SYP LDN, City Publishing
Ivy Compton-Burnett @ivycomptonburnett.bsky.social Well, of course, people are only human. But it really does not seem much for them to be.
Donald Lowndes Sanderson @altshiftreturn.bsky.social The unheimlich in sound and cinema. Presenter of #AltShiftReturn on Sinefm. One third of In the Mood for Film(Doncaster Film Club). Educator. Manc exiled in Yorkshire. Historian. Blue football-red politics since the ‘70s.
vault_dweller @vaultdweller.bsky.social Photography, art, IT stuff, urban exploration, and video. Some hot takes on games and film.
#photography #gaming #technology
Gema @gema.bsky.social Ceramic/textile artist, SE London
Half of post-punk electronic duo London Clay & @nlannuities.bsky.social
"Like Aunt Sally, Thomas Leer, & ATV at a bus stop in Nunhead" - Jonah Falco
New London Clay LP https://lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/album/private-view
Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social REEL formed when three refugees from The Psychedelic Duelling Wars congealed in the psychic wreckage of a Somerset studio to record Wild Garlick electronica on adapted bits of farm machinery, petrol cans & sine wave generators
https://psych-duelling.uk
Iain Hinchliffe @terekhova.bsky.social 🏴 Service Design & User Experience professional, former Fifer, current Edinburgh resident, Whisky lover, Feminist, Socialist, LGBTQIA+ Ally, Humanist, geek, musician in Part Chimp
@terekhova@mastodon.scot
@iainhinchliffe
- J @jimbr.bsky.social @jimbr.bsky.social
HedgeWitch 🕯️ Apostate Enjoyer @hedge-mage.bsky.social 🔞MDNI 🖋️ sappy romantic ✨ tattooed to filth 🌿 full of sketches 🐁 will write for praise ☕
sevendeaths @sevendeaths.bsky.social Depressive Modular Ambient - Edinburgh
Music/Visuals/Livecoding
Wavetable / Machine Knitting
No DMs here, get me on insta - seven.deaths
linktr.ee/sevendeaths
Perfused With Signs / Paradoxographorum Reliquiae @perfusedwithsigns.bsky.social Jackdaws flitting through the echoing halls of an ill-furnished mind.
Editorial/admin @bibliorefuses
Paradoxography at sites.google.com/site/paradoxography/
πολλὰ δ᾽ ἀέλπτως κραίνουσι θεοί·
καὶ τὰ δοκηθέντ᾽ οὐκ ἐτελέσθη,
τῶν δ᾽ ἀδοκήτων πόρον ηὗρε θεός.
@cosmodings.bsky.social @cosmodings.bsky.social Norwegian weirdo. I like spooky stuff, cats, Lego and Christmas.
Hal Duncan @halduncan.com Writer, editor, gardener--sometimes even in that order.
Queer. He/thon, but mainly just cause thon's a guid Scots pronoun fur aebdy, whitever thur gender.
Contact: hal AT halduncan DOT com
Dr Lauren B @gothicbookworm.bsky.social 🦇Haunts museums, bookshops, and the Gothic
🎨 ‘Mummy Brown’ Paint Project/research
🪲PhD on Travel & the Body, perception & treatment of mummified remains in 19t C
📖Mummified Narratives & Egyptomania
📝 Rider Haggard
Josh Adams @joshadams.bsky.social Pulitzer Prize winning comic artist/AD with Business Insider. Doing my own thing now. Son of the late Neal Adams. Way cool.
Booking: josh@whatwouldjoshdo.com
Website: www.whatwouldjoshdo.com
Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social Poet, Alumna of @CBSNews @60Minutes @BBCWorld @FaberAcademy. Shortlisted by @bridportprize.bsky.social Love @britishlibrary & @VanguardRead #amwriting #poetry #visual #journal #travellingwithdevices 🧶 #crochet #StitchingTogether for the #CommonGood
Martha Saffronhouse @not-in-the-story.bsky.social media fan, horror, c-drama
Caleb Wilson @astrobolism.bsky.social I read things, I write things, I play and design games
sickleburg.com
Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social artist of sorts
Jack LaRoche 🐺 @coyotespeaks.bsky.social Just looking for hope wherever I can and wondering what the fuck. QAA
https://jacklaroche.com
SJ Townend @sjtownend.bsky.social A writer. A reader. A bit of a daydreamer.
Here for the horror.
SJTownend.com
🦋>🐦
🖤
@joycecaroloates.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social 
Harehunterfield @harehunterfield.bsky.social Lover of the North Wind. Former DJ at WZBC. Interests in all things
More to follow 
Pardeep Aujla @psinghmyself.bsky.social He/Him. Award-winning screenwriter. Writer/Narrative designer for games (11 years XP and looking for work). Horror author - http://mybook.to/TheFinalWomen
Charlie Hughes @charliehughes77.bsky.social Horror writer. UK. Stories in Best Horror of the Year, Vols 15 & 16
Full list of published and new stories here 👇
charliehugheswriting.blogspot.com
𝕵𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖎𝖈𝖆 @spectradisorder.bsky.social She/Her | Cambridge Poet based in Lincoln| Folklorist | Occasional Taxidermist | Selenophile | Little Slice of Dark Wonder
Dan Thompson @mrdanthompson.bsky.social Writer of fiction, creative non-fiction and stories for the media.📚🖥️📰 ✍🏻
Creative Writing Alumni University of Cambridge.
Interested in writing of all kinds including for the screen, stage, prose, poetry and VSS.
Karl Bell @karlbell.bsky.social Historian. Author. Associate Prof of Cultural History @uophistory.bsky.social C19th fantastical, supernatural folklore, Gothic cities & seas. Co-director of port.ac.uk/portcities The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic (Reaktion) out now.
Katie Ward @katiewardwriter.bsky.social Neuroscience novel PATHWAYS, Fleet (UK 2024). Art novel GIRL READING, Virago (UK 2011). Award-winning author. katieward.co.uk
#WolseyWriters creative writing at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, Suffolk wolseytheatre.co.uk/whats-on/ 
Sarah @academiablues.bsky.social Born to write, paid to therap. Introvert, AI hater, blanket fort maker, order muppet, plant owner, happy in a liminal space. She/her. 🏳️🌈☕🌱⚜️⚡
www.clinpsychsarah.com
Weeping Bank @weepingbank.bsky.social The acclaimed ghost storytelling experience, bridging the gap between page and stage
A. J. Payler @ajpayler.bsky.social Author/musician A. J. Payler has published 5 novels, 2 short story collections, & 6 albums of original music to date as well as opened for Silkworm & Schizophonics, among others.
Visit ajpayler.com for more.
The Overlord of Things @things.overlordshop.com We make the Unseen, seen. 100% Hate-free!
Our Team
@music.overlordshop.com
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s.j. bagley @heksenhaus.bsky.social .sjb. is an artist, philosopher, and critic what edits the journal THINKING HORROR, the zine SOFT TEETH, and listens to things.
they/them.
.∅.
Niall Kitson @niallkitson.bsky.social Writer of weird fiction. Technology journalist. Cat guardian. Dubliner. Optimist. Order may vary.
Alex Spencer @alexspencercam.bsky.social Some woman. Journalist and Culture Editor at the Cambridge Independent. www.cambridgendependent.co.uk
Jonathon T. Cross @jonathontcross.bsky.social Madness from the Sea is out now!
https://amzn.to/4pcFRXx
Dark fiction author, old-school metalhead, dachshund enthusiast.
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
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
Craig Baxter @craignbaxter.bsky.social BAGA-award-winning playwright, dreamer, fully competent
Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social Another writer you've never heard of / books with Confingo and Dead Ink / runs Levenshulme Old Library
https://richardvhirst.co.uk/
GrumpyScotsman @grumpyscotsman.bsky.social I'm a Scotsman who enjoys reading and is surrounded by a growing library in Dunfermline.
https://www.instagram.com/saltire_cross/
Jorge Rivera @jorgerivera.bsky.social Vice-Chair of the Latinx Writers Committee of the WGAW. Boricua Taíno living on unceded Tongva land🇵🇷. Writer and Producer of True-Crime, Genre, and various other TV and film stuff. Horror stan. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2233896/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Matt Barber @mattbarberuk.bsky.social When I'm not tweeting about films, history, witchcraft, politics, and Doctor Who or appearing on the @strangerscast.bsky.social podcast.
𝚁𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚆𝚊𝚍𝚎 @rookwade.com I’m a horror writer, previously published under a different pseudonym. I love books, tattoos, motorcycles, & also FC Heidenheim! New writing coming soon!
🚫 NO DMs outside of exceptional circumstances, please.
Active Pro HWA member.
MickWard @mawward.bsky.social 
Callum James @callum-james.bsky.social Callum James: poet, writer and bookseller.
'The South Downs. Paths of the Dead' (Broken Sleep Books)
Queer. Story. Landscape. Magic.
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
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
Gary Dalkin @garydalkin.bsky.social UK editor & writer. I write every month for Writing Magazine. Bournemouth Writing Festival. Organising Chaos. Author Events. Editor-at-large at Cadence Publishing.
Lots more, including contact details: www.tothelastword.com
Andrea Bonazzi @andreabonazzi.eurosky.social Starving artist. Weird art. Cosmic horror.
No AI, just biological idiocy.
https://linktr.ee/andrea.bonazzi
Leah Moore @leahmoore.bsky.social Comic writer. Artist. Mum.
Jessica Hagy @thisisindexed.com I draw connections between things.
Susan Maxwell @ Bibliothèque des Refusés @bibliorefuses.bsky.social linktr.ee/dr.susan.maxwell
Bibliothèque des Refusés is the imprint of independent author & scholar Susan Maxwell.
Fiction: Literary — Fantasy — Mystery (as R.S. Maxwell).
Non-fiction: academic themes related to archives & fiction. Reviews.
Andrew Hook @andrewhook.bsky.social Short story writer, punk, surrealist, sometime novelist
www.andrew-hook.com
@hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123
Alastair Millar @skriptorium.info Translator, flash sf writer (BSFA); 🇨🇿/🇬🇧
Eclectic posts (current affairs, archaeology, science, words, writing)
❤️ travel, coffee, puns; 🚫 genAI; unsolicited DM = block
He/him; married; 🏳️🌈/🏳️⚧️ ally; #NAFO; 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇬🇱
Writing & links: https://linktr.ee/alastairmillar
No Darkness But Ours @nodarknessbutours.bsky.social Podcast and YouTube channel where Simon Bestwick and Gemma Files discuss all things horror. Reviews, interviews, deep dives, stories and more.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC31_Y6SvEB64ih852snqOgg
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/dashboard/episodes
Me @ewiggins66.bsky.social Writer, architect, woodcarver, gardener, dog & cat lover, live off-grid in a secluded coastal forest retreat in Maine. Healthcare worker. Autistic tendacies linger. I believe life is complicated and we all need choices.
Kaye Inglis @kayeinglis.bsky.social Writer, editor, dog walker. Manager of the band yourgardenday. Autistic so sometimes over-enthusiastic. Huge fan of all things horror, folklore, and dark comedy. Book “The Devil’s Dastard”currently in progress. https://ko-fi.com/kayeingliswriter
Dan Coxon @dancoxon.bsky.social He/him. World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award and British Fantasy Awards winner (twice). Collection COME SING FOR THE HARROWING out now.
Benjamin Langley @benjaminlangley.bsky.social A writer of quiet horror with creeping dread - and alternative historical horror with the Guy Fawkes: Demon Hunter series. When I'm not doing that, I make lino prints and puzzle books.
Website: benjaminlangley.co.uk
Store: www.etsy.com/shop/LinocutHorror
eyglo @eyglo.bsky.social Writer of horror and dark fantasy
Neil Williamson @neilwilliamson.bsky.social Words and music. Glasgow, Scotland
he/him https://linktr.ee/neilwilliamson
LATEST 📚 Hand-Me-Downs (short story collection) https://bit.ly/4fhuSt9
🎶Extinction Event (album) http://bit.ly/4w4EKMC
NEXT 📚 ???
sistermagpie @sistermagpie.bsky.social 
Amanda @moomanda.bsky.social TV/Media Lawyer - law & popular culture/social sciences academic
• music of confusing genres • games • manga • anime • horror • weird shit & unsurprisingly other nerdy things •
Probable random drivel.
Can be annoying.
All views my own etc
Matthew Jaffe @mrj81.bsky.social 
Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social Writes a bit (Pushcart nom x 2, Best Microfiction ‘26, Fish 3rd prize ‘26), reads a lot. Drama (on-stage, mostly) 🏳️🌈
Editor: https://www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/ @neitherfishnorfoul.com
my published stuff via: https://thewavingnotdrowningblog.com/
Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social We're a creative writing research centre based at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, organising and posting both research and community writing events. We repost lit subs calls!
https://creativeshowcase.aru.ac.uk/research/cambridge-writing-centre/
Daniel Church @dannythechurch.bsky.social Writes horror. Author of THE HOLLOWS and THE RAVENING, both from Angry Robot, both shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award. Repped by Meg Davis at the Ki Agency. Bi. https://churchman72.wixsite.com/danielchurch
William Meikle @williammeikle.com Wee sweary Scottish writer, living in Canada, with 30+ novels and 300+ short stories in genre presses over the past 30+ years. Mostly at williammeikle.com ... mostly.
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.