Iain Clark 🖖 @iainjclarkart.com He / They. Other pronouns welcome.
Fan art / 6x Hugo loser / Designer of the 2024 Hugo Trophy. Reader of SF/F & Romance. Vocal about inclusion, feminism, trans rights; tell me if I get it wrong.
No AI art.
https://iainjclarkart.com
Sarah Rees Brennan @sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social Writer of books, drinker of tears! Carnegie nominated, Locus and Nebula shortlisted. LONG LIVE EVIL, a portal fantasy in which the villains unionise, is my #1 Sunday Times & USA Today bestselling adult fantasy debut. She/her
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk Podcaster.
I do Smersh Pod https://bsky.app/profile/smershpod.com
I co-do A Wheezing Groaning Sound.
1/3 Snake Boy
Author of Thunderbook, Explodobook and Superbook.
https://linktr.ee/itsjohnrain
www.patreon.com/SmershPod
shows.acast.com/smershpod
Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer (NPR, Locus, etc)/freelancer/photographer/PhD. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me!
https://linktr.ee/gabinoiglesias
Amy Jane Stewart @amyjanestewart.bsky.social Writer. Hex House ✨🔮👻 (Titan Books, 2026)
Lauren Bajek @laurenbajek.bsky.social Literary agent at Liza Dawson Associates / open to queries / art, sewing, native plant gardening / another world is possible / she pronouns
Black Shuck Books @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social World Fantasy Award-winning publisher
www.blackshuckbooks.co.uk
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 📚 ???
Kat Howard @katwithsword.bsky.social Writer of books, short stories, comics, and other things. Friend to cats and sometimes people. She/her. https://www.kathowardbooks.com/ and https://epigraphtoepilogue.substack.com/
Lady Kraken @cjhenderson.bsky.social Scottish fantasy writer. She/her. Books, cats, more books. SFF, language, history, Twin Peaks, BSG, Star Trek. Co-founder @edinburghsff.com; member @gsfwc. Latest story is in Gallus anthology.
Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social SFF author; EXTREMOPHILE & THE ROTSTORM trilogy out now with HoZ books/Ad Astra; PhD in epigenetics; ᛉᚷᛏᚫ; www.ianthegreen.com; https://geni.us/extremophile
Rhiannon Grist | HOME SICK out now! 🪓🐑 @rhiannonagrist.bsky.social Word Person | BFA winner | Best of British SciFi '19, '20 & '23 | THE QUEEN OF THE HIGH FIELDS (Luna Press) | HOME SICK (2026, Solaris) | She/Her | https://linktr.ee/rhiannon.grist
HOME SICK out now: https://geni.us/homesick
Melissa Welliver - TO THE DEATH available to pre-order NOW! @melliver.bsky.social YA Speculative Author | Rep: Lucy Irvine PFD | Writer of YA Dystopia | TO THE DEATH out with Hachette Children's Group March 2026 | Co-Host of The Chosen Ones and Other Tropes podcast | she/her
Ren Hutchings @voidcricket.bsky.social SFF writer, writing mentor, editor, reader, fan 🪐 Author of Under Fortunate Stars, An Unbreakable World, The Legend Liminal, more to come 💫 Rep: Ernie Chiara @ Fuse Literary 🚀 she/they 🏳️🌈
website: renhutchings.com
links: linktr.ee/voidcricket
Adam Christopher @adamchristopher.me New York Times Bestselling author • Star Wars • World of Warcraft • Stranger Things • Doctor Who • Original SFF including CRAWLSPACE, MADE TO KILL, EMPIRE STATE and many others • Agent: Stacia Decker at DCL • Destroy AI
www.adamchristopher.me
Christopher Golden @cgolden.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author of Road of Bones, The House of Last Resort, Ararat, and many others. Writes a lot of comics with Mike Mignola. Screenwriter. Anti-fascist. New novel CARRY ME TO MY GRAVE out 7/21/26.
Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social Publishing speculative fiction, poetry, reviews, essays & podcasts. Every Monday, free to read at http://strangehorizons.com. IGNYTE Community Award winner. Hugo Award winner 2024.
linktr.ee/strangehorizons
The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social Enjoy The Observer journalism in print every Sunday, and digitally, seven days a week 🗞️
Subscribe now at Observer.co.uk/subscribe
Cymera Festival @cymerafestival.co.uk Scotland's Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Writing.
🖊️ 2026 Festival 5-7 June, in Edinburgh & online. Tickets on Sale 1 March 2026
www.cymerafestival.co.uk
Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com Novelist, scriptwriter, imaginative futurist, recovering journalist. Winner of the Arthur C Clarke and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Author of The Shining Girls (now on Apple TV), Zoo City and Bridge.
Charlotte Ashley @charlotteashley.bsky.social Writer, bookseller, cafe owner, bibliophile, darkness-kicker, mild maniac, mother, iconoclast.
Owner/operator of Trident Booksellers & Cafe, Halifax
www.once-and-future.com
Monsters are friends.
Lucy Hatherley @lucyhatherley.bsky.social 30 | UK | Identical Twin | Script Supervisor/Assistant: 28 YEARS LATER/THE BONE TEMPLE, MY LADY JANE, THE MARVELS (imdb.me/lucyhatherley) | Writer | She/Her 🖤💀🎬
Catherine Sharp @csharpwords.bsky.social Reader, writer, gamer, chill swimmer, rugby fan, SFF geek, conrunner (currently Chair of Octocon); back in Wales after many years in Ireland. She/her
Vera Brook @verabrook.bsky.social Neuroscientist turned science fiction & fantasy #writer. Stories in Analog, Escape Pod, Cast of Wonders, Utopia SF, Radon. BSFA & BFS member. Based in Edinburgh. verabrook.com. she/her
REMAINS @remainsmagazine.bsky.social Magazine of new fiction edited by Andy Cox with art by Richard Wagner. Issue 5 out now. https://remains.uk
Jenni Coutts (she/her) @jennicoutts.bsky.social BSFA and BFA award winning artist, SF writer, book nerd, NHS GP, goblin. Art editor of BFS Horizons. Long suffering minion to an elderly rescue cat.
Website: Jennicoutts.com
Rep: @harryillingworth.bsky.social
Lesbian Asexual 🏳️🌈
Emily Tesh @emilytesh.net Author. Hugo, Astounding, and World Fantasy Award winner; Nebula, Clarke and Le Guin finalist. Rep: Kurestin Armada at Root Literary.
Out now: THE INCANDESCENT - https://tinyurl.com/theincandescent
Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social Daryl Gregory, a guy who writes things. WHEN WE WERE REAL out April 1 2025, no foolin'. He/him
Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social Blogger, critic, 2017 and 2025 best fan writer Hugo winner.
Blogs at wrongquestions.blogspot.com and www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
Review collection TRACK CHANGES available at briardenebooks.uk/shop/
Member of the 2026 Otherwise Award jury
Kat Kourbeti @darthj.uno SF/F writer & narrator, Hugo Award-winning senior podcast editor @strangehorizons.bsky.social, host @thewritesong.co.uk. Lapsed film critic; now BSFA's theatre columnist. Team ADHD. Greek!
📍 London, UK
✨ she/her 🏳️🌈
🌍💌 darthj.uno
🔗 linktr.ee/darthjuno
Iridescence - The 2026 Eastercon @easterconuk.bsky.social Iridescence 2026 is the UK's next Eastercon, the UK's longest running sci-fi convention. At the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, 3-6 April 2026.
https://eastercon2026.org/
Briardene Books @briardenebooks.bsky.social A micro-press specialising in non-fiction about science fiction and fantasy. Shop: briardenebooks.uk
Bookshop.org @bookshop.org A better way to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores ☀️📚
https://bookshop.org/
bookhaus @bookhaus.bsky.social Contemporary bookshop located in the heart of Bristol's vibrant Wapping Wharf. Member of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers. 
Polly Allen @pollyallen.bsky.social Journalist and digital marketing person in Bristol. Usually found writing about culture, travel, mental health, etc. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/pollyallen
@smallcitybookshop.bsky.social @smallcitybookshop.bsky.social 
Tom Murdock @thmurdock.bsky.social Fiction writer based in Bristol, UK. First novel coming 2026. Sometimes musician. Agent: Madeleine Milburn
Sara K Ellis @skateellis.bsky.social Lit prof, newly minted beachcomber, and SF writer in Japan. Words in Analog, F&SF, and elsewhere. Debut novel—If the Stars Are Lit (Luna Press).
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
Adam Hewitt @adamhewitt198.bsky.social Manchester. Politics, books, board games, films, cats, journalism and music. Views my own.
Jennifer Thorne @juniperjennyt.bsky.social UK/US Author (THE STARLETS, DIAVOLA, other stuff) capybara enthusiast
Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social Curious ghoul.
‘This confused worker’ - the Daily Mail
‘On the short side, dressed in black’ - my dad
CAUTION: May contain the Devil.
#COYS
Vanessa Fogg @vanessafogg.bsky.social Science fiction and fantasy writer. Also lapsed scientist and freelance medical writer. Website: vanessafogg.com
Eugenia Triantafyllou @foxesandroses.bsky.social Your friendly nemesis. BFA & Shirley Jackson Award Winner. BSFA, Hugo, Ignyte, Locus, Nebula, WFA finalist. Reactor.com, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, & more. ClarionWest '19.
🖤🩶🤍💜 She/Her. Rep: Jessica Friedman @SterlingLordLit
Derek Kunsken @derekkunsken.bsky.social Scifi author. Stories in Asimovs.com, Clarkesworldmagazine.com, Analogsf.com. Asimov and Aurora Award winner. Agented by Eric Showers. He/Him.
The House of Saints: https://geni.us/TheHouseOfSaints
Web: derekkunsken.com
Geoff Habiger Professional Imagineer (he/him) @tangentgeoff.bsky.social Writer of #fantasy and #scifi, editor, cat wrangler.
Dr. Gnoll coming in July.
Owner Artemesia Publishing, a small indie publisher in the Land of Enchantment.
www.habigerkissee.com
www.apbooks.net
Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social Wrote FAIR / GOBLINHOOD / VEHICLE / DUST SUCKER, translate German lit, publish Maltese lit at Praspar Press. Tutor, Granta Writers’ Workshop. www.jencalleja.com
Rosie Garland @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social Writer, March Violet, secret medievalist, FRSL✨
Not cynical; just been taking notes.
Novels:The Fates(Quercus)
Palace of Curiosities, Vixen, Night Brother(Borough)
Poems:Nine Arches
March Violets: @marchvioletsband.bsky.social
http://www.rosiegarland.com
Tristan Cork @tristancorkpost.bsky.social Chief Reporter, Bristol Post/Bristol Live.
email: tristan.cork@reachplc.com
articles: www.bristolpost.co.uk/authors/tristan-cork
Writers’ HQ @writershq.bsky.social Stop fucking about and start writing.
Online courses | workshops | writing retreats | community | tea | biscuits | swearing | gold stars ⭐️
Bryan’s Gunn @bryansgunn.bsky.social A football man
It's Strange Up North @strangeupnorth.bsky.social 1 night
15 authors
A whole lot of fun
strangeupnorth.co.uk
Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social artist of sorts
Keith @keithdunn.bsky.social The image that I run from
Only seems to follow me
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.
Nazir Afzal @nazirafzal.bsky.social Former Chief Prosecutor, Current Chancellor of Manchester University, member of numerous boards & patron of 9 women led charities protecting the vulnerable
All views my own
Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social THIS PARADISE: Short stories // Boiler House Press // http://tinyurl.com/RCTParadise // Shortlisted Edge Hill Prize; Longlisted Orwell Prize //
Full of state and woe
CL Hellisen | Preorder The Shape of Monsters @clhellisen.com Writer, artist, occasional table. Cast Long Shadows (Luna Press) The Shape of Monsters (Audible, TorUK) A Million Points of Light (Audible)
Preorder The Shape of Monsters - https://geni.us/TheShapeofMonster
They/them
clhellisen.com
Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects.
https://beacons.ai/reactormag
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social Huge pupils, tiny value
webcurios.co.uk
Suzy Henderson @suzyhenderson.bsky.social Writer of historical fiction, fantasy & romance. Lost in the 1940s. Copious tea drinker. Loving Lake District life. Published by DP Books & Northodox Press. Shortlisted for RetreatWest First Chapter Prize 2025.
Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social NYT bestselling and BSFA & Scribe award-winning writer. Cardassia’s resident anarchist. Intersectional feminist science fiction with Gold SF. Fighting the long defeat since December 1981. Chiefest and greatest of calamities.
https://linktr.ee/unamccormack
GoldSF @goldsf.bsky.social GoldSF is a new Goldsmiths Press imprint publishing intersectional feminist science fiction, looking to the future & imagining new ways of being in the world.
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
Abi Curtis @abicurtiswriter.bsky.social Professor of Creative Writing York St John University . Writer of fiction and poetry .
A.L. Heard // NO LINE CHANGE coming Oct 6 @ashheardwrites.bsky.social writer, teacher, hockey player, mom || writer of mm hockey romance & historical fantasy
https://ashheardwrites.com/
Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature & Creative Writing. Burneys, book history, 18thc reading habits & naming practices. Novelist. Maker of radio. Mother & carer. Yotam Ottolenghi superfan.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact @analogsf.bsky.social The oldest continuous running magazine of science fiction & fact.
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
Scott Innes @flyinginside.bsky.social Author of Galactic Keegan. Relentless worrier. Be Traist. Keep passing the open windows.
https://wiltonsquarebooks.com/products/galactic-keegan
Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social Poet. #ReadMorePoetry Collections: Crown of Eggshell, In the Shadow of Gods @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. Literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering
https://ko-fi.com/kofisupporter68929
Jen Williams | The Dreamless out this year! @sennydreadful.bsky.social Award-winning author. Earth bender. Full-time goblin mode. Agent: Juliet Mushens. Partner of Peter Newman. From London, enjoying Bristol.
The Copper Cat Trilogy|The Winnowing Flame Trilogy|The Talon Duology|The Sleepless Duology
Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social One of the Daily Telegraph 50 Funniest Comedians of the 21st Century (49th). Also an author. And producer. And a whole life away from work if you can imagine.
Courtney Floyd @courtney-floyd.com SFFH author & audio drama creator with a PhD in trashy Victorian lit. HIGHER MAGIC out now. Rhysling finalist. She/they. ND 🧠. Rep: @rebeccamatte.com
https://courtney-floyd.com
🎙 https://hauntnowpod.com
✉️ https://buttondown.email/wallowinginink
🚫a👁️
The Binge Reading Bookclub Podcast @bingereadingbooks.bsky.social 🎙️Join award winning author Nicholas Binge each month to tackle a new book, discuss what makes it work and write the best book ever.
Wherever you get podcasts
🗓️ 29th sept- Last Contract of Isako
www.bingereadingbookclub.com
Rob Mortell 📚 🖋️ @robmortellwrites.bsky.social Fantasy author (Tales & Treasure, Bards & Bargains)
Dad of 3 👨👧👦 | marathon‑trainee 🏃♂️ | early‑mornings jogs & writing sprints ✍️
Substack ⬇️
https://robmortell.substack.com/
Stephanie Weston @stephanie-w.bsky.social Actor, writer, improviser.
Sam Hacking @samhacking.bsky.social Artist & Writer: BA Hons Slade School of Fine Art Writer | MA Distinction Creative Writing UEA 2022| Escalator Prize ‘19 | Shortlisted BSSP ‘23 | Longlisted UEA New Forms ‘21 | Longlisted Bath Short Story ‘25 | samhacking.com | @samhackings
Paul Nash | Paul atten Ash @northseanavigator.bsky.social WRITER:
Sampler (Black Cat Press 2027)
'Searchlight Seasons' (Atomic Bohemian 2024)
Instagram: @north_sea_navigator
campsite.bio/northseanavigator
Mel Ciavucco @melciavucco.bsky.social Integrative counsellor, writer, speaker & trainer. MNCPS (Acc.)
Eating disorders, weight stigma & body image, and domestic abuse.
www.melciavucco.com
Mark Rutterford @markrutterford.bsky.social Writer-Performer.
Stories. Love. Props.
Badgers. Lucy. Daylight and fresh air.
Sarah-Clare Conlon @sarahclareconlon.bsky.social Less able to stand ✍️ Writer | ✏️ Editor | 📚 Poetry Book Society Selections |🍂ACE-funded DROUGHT THOUGHTS | 🐦⬛ Wanderland (Red Ceilings) | 🌝 Lune (Red Ceilings) | 📕 Using Language (Invisible Hand) | 🇫🇷 cache-cache (Contraband) | ⛵️Marine Drive (Broken Sleep)
National Centre for Writing @writerscentre.bsky.social The National Centre for Writing is a place of discovery, exchange, ideas and learning for writers, translators, readers and everyone who loves words.
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
@biagioarancio.bsky.social @biagioarancio.bsky.social Spare time writer of speculative stories, some short, most long, often gothic and creepy (the stories!). Here to hear about all things writing. South West UK.
Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social "Natalie, HR is just concerned. We can't have a renegade jumping into bins and trying to solve crimes."
Currently working in research & scholarly technology.
I write things sometimes. https://substack.com/@unfortunatalie
Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social Bram Stoker, Shirley Jackson & British Fantasy Award nominated author, illustrator from Bristol, UK.
ROOTS OF MY FEARS, Titan 2025
ITCH! Hodder & Stoughton 2025
FIRST DATE, Datura Books 2026
HAPPY HOUR, Shortwave 2026
NoSleep Podcast.
Nic the Bookseller @nic-v.bsky.social Part-time bookseller, full-time reader.
Bristol, UK.
When I read a book, I post a little review here.
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
James Whatley @whatleydude.com Snr Global Brand Strategist @ the LEGO Group (opinions own, etc). Mainly working on LEGO Games, Ninjago, and Technic. It's fun. Occasional sender of fivethingsonfriday.com. I got ❤️ for writing, gaming, and figuring stuff out. He/Him.
Jonathan Laidlow @jonlaidlow.bsky.social Cumbrian in Brum, writes a bit. Stories in Strange Horizons, Liminal Stories, StarshipSofa, Interzone and IZ Digital, and more. Codexian. Short fiction reviews at supernova.reviews, short fiction at jonlaidlow.com, webmaster & editor at ultan.org.uk
Bookish Scifi & Fantasy @bookishsff.bsky.social Posting Science Fiction, Fantasy, Geekery, bookshop life, occasional cats.
Expert Bookseller at Waterstones Ipswich and/or Bury Arc.
(Views mine, not representative of Waterstones)
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
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
Ted Northodox @tednorthodox.bsky.social Sheffield, UK. Dreamer. Metalhead. General nuisance. Co-owner of Northodox Press. 🎶I like big books and I cannot lie🎶
S Slottje Author (she/her) @sslottjeauthor.bsky.social Author of (primarily speculative fiction) stories and novels, also reader thereof. My flintlock fantasy novel Wayward Wings came out in 2024, and I'm bimbling my way through writing the next one
https://sslottje-author.com/
Mona West @monawest.bsky.social Writer. Cohost of the Unfortunately... Podcast. Rejected by Uncanny, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and others.
https://mona-west.com/
https://unfortunatelypod.com/