Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
🐶🏒 @glittery-nails.bsky.social I block anything that smells like bots, AI, spam. I repost a lot of political stuff. It's my breadcrumb trail. If you don't care about politics, enjoy my cute doggo pfp but don't follow back.
Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social Made Zombies, Run! and Perplex City, wrote You've Been Played and A History of the Future in 100 Objects.
Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre. Writing a book about immersive art.
Blog: mssv.net
Larp: strandfall.com
Video: youtube.com/adrianhon
Dr J @j7son.bsky.social Writer of Wrongs / Technologist & technology cynic / Dr (not necessarily the useful kind) / Artist [ he|him ]
Nicolas "Gulix" Ronvel @gulix.bsky.social French, near Nantes.
TTRPG enthusiast: author and translator, I love emergent and/or gm-less games.
Fascists, bigots and look-alike not welcome.
https://www.gulix.fr
LittleLionManWrites @littlelionman14.bsky.social Lion Man with game credits. Writing erotic stuffs. Minors DNI.
Public Universal Fiend @acgodliman.bsky.social She/Her
Games educator and designer.
On the 'gram where I post my arts and crafts:
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uphillbattleaxe @uphillbattleaxe.bsky.social 
Lyric @sonatanote.bsky.social Clef and co! Musings about whatever I feel like, but probably dice. 30, They/Them.
Kathryn Yu #OpenToWork @kathrynyu.com Former Sr. Technical Game Designer at on Marvel’s Deadpool VR. @noproscenium.com Senior LA Reviewer & former Executive Editor. @immersiveexperience.org co-founder.
Los Angeles. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/kathrynyu
𝐆𝐑𝐈𝐌 @gcbaccaris.itch.io Game Developer | Writer | Editor | Twine Grimoire | Harmony | TGA FC '23 | AIAS ANV '25 | @IFtechfoundation.org | Narrative Design, Localization, RPGs, CSS/HTML
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Mr John Robertson @robbotron.bsky.social Comic/Cult Leader/THE DARK ROOM 🍍
London. Work: Lee@gagreflex.co.uk ON TOUR ALL 2026! Next tour stops 5-30/8 EdFringe 5 Sept PAX West 9-12 Sept Asylum NEW YORK CITY and MORE!
Alistair Aitcheson & Mademoiselle Cafetière @agaitcheson.bsky.social 🎭 Let's get creative together, on a stage!
✨ Drag clown and videogame programmer
🎈 Interactive artmaking + playful theatre
http://alistair.games
http://twitch.tv/agAitcheson
Mslexia @mslexia.bsky.social The UK's bestselling magazine for women who write.
Audi Locus @audilocus.bsky.social A contemporary poetry & art journal exploring liminality, existentialism, & the in-between. Featuring poetry, visual art, music/lyrics, & hybrid forms. Submissions: Apr–May & Oct–Nov.
www.audilocus.com
EIC @maudiemichelle.com
diagnosed fatally weird and unrapturable @syzygy-city.bsky.social he/theigh
Professional tantrum thrower, podcast host (@osgpod.bsky.social and CARS DON'T FLY), writer, layout designer, and tabletop enthusiast with a gay little walk that pisses you off.
Created the COUNTER/Weight and Twilight Mirage Cookbooks!
Melissa Burkart @mwithpen.bsky.social Possible sea witch living by the Maine coast. Spec fic/fantasy writer of flash fiction, novels, and everything in between. Perpetually Exhausted Parent™. Forever a theatre kid. Bi/demi she/her.
melissaburkart.com
aen c. @inksoot.bsky.social game design '25 @ NYU (inkflown.itch.io)
narrative / visual / game designer
current @ Parupuro Studio, Osu!WCDT
words in de Nuit, Velvet Compote, etc.
Wendy @wednesdaygj.bsky.social Trendy. West endy. Bendy. Friendly.
Feral hedge witch. Trans Kid Maw and YOUR Maw!
Co-creator of SoDisappointedPod.com
Go find Terry at @SoDisappointed.bsky.social
She/Her ADHD
aylli 🦭 @1159cowboy.bsky.social tboy poet from the philippines 🐛 debut chapbook forthcoming from gacha press 🌱 anmly poetry reader 🐎 sundress editorial intern 📚 ateneo press review crew 🗡️
Leo Doulton @leodoulton.bsky.social Sometimes director, sometimes writer, often opera, interactive theatre, Shakespeare & TTRPGs.
https://www.leodoulton.com
P.G. Wodelouse @pgwodelouse.bsky.social ‘The seen and the unseen’ is my collection of eleven short supernatural and folk horror stories. Please consider buying: https://amzn.eu/d/08DmGP7U
Book cover and design by Ray Newman. Foreword by Jamie Evans. Buy their brilliant books!
Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social he/him
writer of stories and such
professional bookman for Rough Draft Bar & Books
contributing editor at Literary Hub
occasional guitarist and singer
https://drewsof.neocities.org/
John McCullough @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social Poet. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize for Literature with Reckless Paper Birds. Forward & Costa-shortlisted. Working-class writer. Next book: Crowd Voltage (Bloodaxe, March 2026). He/him. 🏳️🌈
Chronic Insanity @chronicinsanity.bsky.social Award winning UK theatre company // everything theatrical, digital, gig, immersive, and interactive // Staging 12 shows in 12 months
Noah J. Nelson, Immersonaut Prime @noahjnelson.com Founder of @NoProscenium.com: The Guide to Everything Immersive & co-founder of @immersiveexperience.org
Ex-public media. Current CalArts faculty.
Mapper of the Immersive Cosmos.
BlueskyUser #499 (Post count includes Twitter imports.)
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social Rabbi/award-winning author.
🌱 Ancient tools for healing + justice: LifeIsASacredText.com
(Always! 100% human-authored + NAZI-FREE!):
New 📚 On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.
💥 Collective liberation or bust.
she/her
Jacob @inspectorlupo.bsky.social Writing, reading, Nerdfighteria, punk rock. Lighting candles in the way down darkness.
Poems on Shuffle @peotry.bsky.social A wee poetry library on shuffle. Poems daily-ish when able. Biased towards poems that fit in photos!
Emily Carding @emilycarding.bsky.social Actor, author, artist, mystic. Mostly made of Shakespeare, magic, immersive theatre and Tarot. Nerd.
#keyofdreams
#transparenttarot
#richardiii
#returntosilenthill
www.emilycarding.com
No Proscenium @noproscenium.com Anything But The Usual. 🤯
Your guide to immersive events & experiences since 2014.
🧐Reviews. 🎧Podcasts. ✉️Newsletters & more.
👇🏼Discover your next adventure now.
Giada Zavarise @cheerfulgoth.bsky.social Paradox's spookiest Content Designer
🚀 Stellaris
💀 Afterworld
http://giadazavarise.com/ | https://cheerfulgoth.itch.io/ | https://cheerfulgoth.bearblog.dev/
Claire West @magentabias.bsky.social Cinema/music/theatre/art.
Film conservator at BFI National Archive. Opinions own.
https://boxd.it/9PCJ
Stylotylo @stylotylo.bsky.social Musician, gamedev, programmer, aspiring vacationer
Jedidjah Julia Noomen @jedidjah.bsky.social Game director, writer, narrative experience designer - videogames, VR, (immersive) theatre and everything in between. BAFTA member, co-host of The Nirvana Podcast. European born but now in BC, Canada.
www.jedidjahjulianoomen.com
julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io writer, gamedev, video game consultant, homosexual. don't call me a solo dev. an example of the live mas mentality. Interstate 35, out now. making: UNANNOUNCED (TBD) https://store.steampowered.com/app/3283890/Interstate_35/
Bez: Interactive Fiction, Visual Novels, & Writing @norbezjones.bsky.social XYZZY-nominated narrative designer: http://norbez.itch.io . Writes news, reviews, stories, games. Agender, Transmasc Boything. E/He. Icon by @jimikatdraws.bsky.social . https://norbezjones.carrd.co/
Maybe We'll Eat Some F&*@in' Pie! @thesarahgriffin.bsky.social Nonbinary actor, VO artist, comedian, writer, meatsack. Dual national US/UK #homestudio They/Them
http://spotlight.com/0690-8976-0600
www.thesarahgriffin.com
Fran Moldaschl @franmoldaschl.bsky.social https://buymeacoffee.com/franmoldaschl
Kelpies Prize for Writing Winner
Former #archaeology student
Children's book reviewer
Neurodivergent
inquisitivenewt.com
(Any pronouns)🏳️🌈
The Congealed Bookshop @congealedbkshop.bsky.social the bookshop is either CLOSED or OPEN and sometimes ELSEWHERE
Michael C. @snakeborn.bsky.social (cm ellis)
writer. pest.
co-curator at Lamp Lit (subs open)
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Responsible for this:
https://linktr.ee/poemsandwhiskeypod
SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice) @seagoatscreams.bsky.social A bit earnest
Poet, runner, sea, goat
Fae-wed
BotN/Pushcart/FwdPrize nom
PoetryArchive PAN winner
Mastheads: IceFloe/BarrenMag/Sídhe
#SkyPoem foundergoblin
He/him
https://tinyurl.com/GoatPoems
The Water Engine: https://bit.ly/2Zpbtl4
Tim Dedopulos @ghostwoods.bsky.social He/him, gen X word-slinger.
Nerd. Magnet for anomalous lunacy, High Strangeness, and para-weirdness. Hooklander. Magic-friendly. Paranormal Museum member. Erisian. Neurowibbly, spoonie, demi, kind, INFJ, Chaos/G.
TERFS & fash blocked.
Only love is real.
Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social I write poems and I garden. *Becoming Altar*, new and selected poems, available from asterismbooks.com. *Mapless* available from SHINE Poetry. See https://kylahoubolt.us/ for all kinds of more.
Burning House Press @thearsonista.bsky.social “We do this [write] because the world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning in it” - Sandra Cisneros
Not for profit/For prophecy
https://burninghousepress.com/2025/06/01/june-2025-guest-editor-is-john-trefry-theme-inanimism/
voimaoy.bsky.social @voimaoy.bsky.social writing about all kinds of things #vss365 FlashDog 
Violetta Bellocchio @callgenova.bsky.social IL CORPO NON DIMENTICA (nuova edizione aggiornata, 66th and 2nd, 2026).
STUDIO PRIVATO (66th and 2nd, 2025); ELECTRA (il Saggiatore 2024, Emons 2024): voce italiana di VITTIMA (66th and 2nd, 2025)
Linktr.ee/barbaragenova
Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove.bsky.social Author of Girl Like A Bomb and The Crooked God Machine. / Writes the Teach Robots Love newsletter / Repped @ Inkwell Management
elle nash @saderotica.bsky.social literary catgirl | author of Deliver Me, Gag Reflex, Nudes, & Animals Eat Each Other | phd candidate at university of glasgow | editor @thecreativeindependent.com 🌀
“i’m the bigger dog only for now.” —peter christopher
🐇linktr.ee/ellenash
The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social Father of lots, earnest as shit, Regular and not too fancy, weird li’l guy enthusiast. He/him.
Hedonium Shockwave @hedoniumshockwave.bsky.social Former programmer turned copywriter, author & storyteller. AI by day, Techno by night. Gen 𝑿. Mad.Berlin | Meta Artist Division Berlin 🇩🇪
Owner and curator of www.youtube.com/c/itsoundsfuture 
Christopher Stevenson @chrisstevenson.bsky.social Born in TX, raised in FL and PA. Splits time between DC and WV.
Librarian. PT old man. FT Struggling Writer.
Part toddler, part cowboy. Baba Yaga fan boy.
https://linktr.ee/christopherstevenson
First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social Rust Belt Wordcel, he/him
Altar Boy Emeritus, TurboLib, Anti-Populist, Civic Virtue Enthusiast
Also post about cat stuff, haunting melancholy songs, Midwestern baseball, videogames that are too hard for me. Sometimes I read books.
Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com Creative Director. Artist. Writer. Dad. Glitch Pioneer. Meme Grandpa. Skeleton Influencer.
Currently: Working on my first art book (preorder: http://kck.st/4nhjjmO )
Previously: Pearl Jam, NIN, Naughty Dog, Vertigo Comics, HTDA, Beats Music
Neil Willcox, World-saving Witch Detective @neilwillcox.bsky.social Poet, Writer, Jack Of All Trades
https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/
AJL ⛄ @guiltypanacea.bsky.social Sad dad slowcore dad
FOT
he/him
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
🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social Perpetually Haunted.
Indigenous Southeast Asian mostly, but a mixed bag as well. Also trans. Header by Yaso. 🌿🕊🦪🌜
He/him 🧿 ♂️🍉🥀
Jess Fink🍉🌈SPX A6 @jessfink.bsky.social Ignatz award winning cartoonist. Illustrator focused on romance. She or they.
Portfolio/webcomic links: http://jessfink.com
Shop: http://linktr.ee/jessfink
Patreon: http://patreon.com/JessFink
Published by @topshelfcomix
Faith Allington @faithallington.bsky.social Author
📚 Genre-blending fiction
✒️ Editorial at Flash Fiction Online & Haven Spec
👻 Vaguely goth but also whimsical
🍄 Tea drinker & fungi admirer
(she/her)
Kate Rorick @noblerorick.bsky.social writer of indeterminate things. (some TV, some books, some overly enthusiastic birthday cards) Haver of hair, children, and GBBO obsession.
Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social Aurelias-nominated writer of speculative short stories. Words in Levar Burton Reads, Year’s Best Fantasy and many more. Australian/Chinese via Malaysia. Sentence enthusiast. Dumplingmancer. Look at you all mythicalogical.
PUREKIMMINESS @purekimminess.bsky.social True to the Kimminess
Conflict/methods/pol econ
teaching and rocking research methods
I don't know about this living in interesting times...feels exhausting
"I'm incredible....cuz I does what I do."
-Craig Mack
Elou Carroll 🍂 is querying 🍂 @keychild.bsky.social (she/her)
I design things. I write things. I photograph things. I panic about things. Mostly that last one.
edits: @crowkeys.bsky.social
http://eloucarroll.com • http://crowcrosskeys.com
John Allison @badmachinery.com Cartoonist in Leeds, UK. I brought you such comics as Steeple, Bad Machinery, Giant Days, Scary Go Round, Bobbins, Great British Bump-Off and Solver. The nation's favourite.
https://badmachinery.com
Owen McManus @owainia.bsky.social Artist on Neon Noodles (and others). Writer of short stories in Cossmass Infinities, Kaleidotrope (and others TBA). Gamedev on some goofy little things you've never played.
(He / him)
Cheru @cheru.bsky.social Bad horror takes, worse art. Bless this mess.
Letterboxd CheruDarling
She/her
eileen elizabeth 🦋 @eileendotnet.bsky.social poet & professor about town • writing about death & nature • cofounder of Boshemia Magazine and StoryBloom • carrying the bones: rituals for a dying world (2026) 🕊️
boshemiamagazine.com
Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com Est. 2015 in Pennsylvania | Escape the Mundane Poetry, novels, stories, & hand-made chapbooks
thirtywestph.com | asterismbooks.com/publisher/thirty-west
Allison Wyss (But the abyss... It's still in my heart.) @allisonwyss.bsky.social I don’t think I’ve been lost. she/her
And a book(!): SPLENDID ANATOMIES (Shirley Jackson Award Finalist, 2022)
https://www.allisonwyss.com
Doodlebugisblueru @digitaldorkette.bsky.social 🧶spinner. 👻lover. Kindness is🗝️. Wilde about profoundly trivial stuff & nonsense. Middle grade reader/writer of tall tales for wee people. If you're a writer/reader of MG fiction please follow me. Same name on bird site. #IrishTwitter #Dublin is my❤️
Fish clamor @fclamor.bsky.social Poet, loses everything, napper supreme. 
Kevin Church @beaucoupkevin.com Occasionally writes; SEO/web stuff; loves disco/boogie/house; Trek nerd; blu-ray collector; Gunpla; married to @robinkimball.bsky.social; three small dogs own me; Newish New Mexican; frequent blocker.
Go boldly; be kind. Trans people are people.
Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social here are some drawings of helpful small robots for you #SmallRobotsRemastered
Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=16161865
Some writing and illustration for @thedailytism.com
Nonbinary. Pronoun agnostic. 🏳️⚧️
Head Crab for Cutie @timprobable.bsky.social simple machine that works badly
TimProbable on Discord, too.
John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social TV, comics and film writer. LEVERAGE, JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES, BLUE BEETLE, MARRY ME, a couple other things. Free newsletter of reviews, recommendations, and general oddities at https://buttondown.email/kungfumonkey
Darrell Z. Grizzle @dzgrizzle.bsky.social Writer of Horror, Dark Fantasy, Crime Fiction. Queer Bear. Attending Professional at DragonCon. EpiscoBuddhist. Deadhead. Democratic Socialist. Fan of cats, coffeehouses, comics, Star Trek, Godzilla. NO KINGS.
🌈 🐻 📚☕️🐱💙
https://linktr.ee/dzgrizzle
dubious creole @jsmcqueen.bsky.social published author of horror and sadness. Pushcart nominated or whatever. sharer of stolen posts from other sites. incapable of shame. 4x debate champ
Rita Wulff, Immoral Witch @varewulf.bsky.social Himejoshi, trans woman, nerd, Norwegian.
Barry R. Donnelly @barryrdonnelly.bsky.social I’m a writer of weird fantasy and horror, I wrote a TTRPG called Bonfire Bound, and am a gong fu tea enthusiast. Dad to two awesome girls.
Barryrdonnelly.com
New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social Made with love for the classics, and an inclusive, boundary-pushing approach to storytelling. https://newedgeswordandsorcery.com/
Swords & Sorcery Magazine @curtissandsm.bsky.social Free e-zine of Sword & Sorcery and other pre-modern fantasy. Also pictured, Curtis, editor of same.
Prestidigitator John 🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦 @tomscud.bsky.social Editor and writer for an undisclosed publication. Auguste Piccard and Frank Wilhoit stan. Pope Sixtus VI papal name advocate. Aeneid hater. He/him.
Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social Horror writer startled by most sounds. The Barre Incidents and Kill Radio (both genre-bendy Horror) available now thru Malarkey Books.
My website: https://www.laurenbolger.com/
Jewish / Free Palestine
Anita Goveas @coffeeandpaneer.bsky.social Writer, reader, editor, cat convert, spoonie
links to stories at
https://coffeeandpaneer.wordpress.com/
Flash collection at Reflex Press
https://www.reflex.press/product/families-and-other-natural-disasters/
Pink Plastic House @pinkplastichouse.bsky.social Pink Plastic House is a tiny poetry journal designed by the dollhouse architect Kristin Garth and the home of a tinier imprint Pink Plastic Press.
kristingarth.com
Sandra Schmuhl Long @sandraslong.bsky.social Writer & editor in the Washington DC area. Stories & essays in Electric Literature & Best Small Fictions 2023. 
Farah Mendlesohn @effjayem.bsky.social SF fan, writer etc etc. 🏴Author of The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein; Rhetorics of Fantasy and Considering the Female Man (Luna Press, Order now!) UK GUFF delegate to Swancon 2028, Member of @brisbanein28.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 (Farah/they)
Beth Mulcahy @bethmulcahy.bsky.social Author of Firmer Ground https://a.co/d/37cBbiV poet, writer, mother, lawyer Bethmulcahywriter.com
Crab Tales Magazine @crabtalesmagazine.bsky.social A SFF flash fiction magazine about crabs.
Art submissions: OPEN.
Fiction submissions: CLOSED.
🦀
EIC @rachelhandley.bsky.social
Submit: crabtalesmagazine.com
Support: https://ko-fi.com/crabtalesmagazine
Dublin
Fishclamor @fishclamor.bsky.social Writer. Poet. Loves to write.,needs sleep.,
God loves to fight with me. I want a new name. And so it goes. No, I am not that kind of religious. I find God hilarious, just as God hoped we would. 
eviŁrooster @evilrooster.eurosky.social Dual US/UK techie living in the Netherlands. Tech writer and contagious documentarian by day, bookbinder by night.
My opinions are my own, and do not reflect those of anyone who employs, hangs out with, or is in any other way stuck with me.
(She/her)
Roi Fainéant Press SUBS ARE OPEN, BAYBEE! @rfpress.bsky.social Digital lit mag & more. 5 editors in a trenchcoat. 2 indie lit 2 quit. Submissions open. https://www.roifaineantpress.com/ EIC @tiffanymarie.bsky.social Masthead: @skybarett.bsky.social @kelkel.bsky.social @melissacuisine.bsky.social @maybemargot.bsky.soci
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
Vivian Chou @vivianhchou.bsky.social
Sci fi/fantasy/slipstream writer. ✨🐉🤖she/her. Full sfwa member. Read my stuff 👉
www.vivianchouwriter.com
AJ Van Belle (they/them) @ajvanbelle.bsky.social Preorder A Dozen Dystopias and How to Dodge Them! https://linktr.ee/ajvanbelle
Writer & scientist who cuddles dogs, builds worlds. Rep: Lauren Bieker. https://ajvanbellenews.substack.com/
Rhysling & BSFA nominee.
Lit agent.
Nonbinary/transmasc 🏳️⚧️
Wyngraf @wyngraf.bsky.social The original magazine of cozy fantasy! • Read THE BUMBLING HEROICS OF BOLLIVER HOOPSLEEVE • Edited by @nat20.bsky.social
www.wyngraf.com
Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social Kaleidotrope is a quarterly e-zine of sci-fi, fantasy & horror edited by Fred Coppersmith since 2006.
Read it at http://www.kaleidotrope.net
Support it at http://patreon.com/kaleidotropezine
Avatar and cover art by Brian Malachy Quinn