Wending Circles @wendingcircles.com a queer educational collective at the center of music, poetry, and film
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Dr.MRO/ Axel Folio @isasaxonists.bsky.social Dr. MRO. Literary Historian. Public scholar, activist & small biz owner who dyes yarn inspired by Black/brwn premodern figures.
WOC: product of Black & brown love. Gif lover. Racist magnet. Abolitionist. Not Eddie Murphy. She/hers
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Laurian Bowles PhD @drlaurian.bsky.social Black femme anthropologist | Author: HEADSTRONG: Women Porters, Blackness & Modernity in Accra http://bit.ly/42KE9Dv, get 30% off w/ code PENN-LBOWLES30 or CSPENN30
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social Author of THE VIRAL UNDERCLASS & THE OVERSEER CLASS. Once won the Cambridge Union Debate Society. Twice sold out The Strand & programmed film series at BAM. Pulitzer Center Global Reporting Fellow. LitHub essayist, Intercept reporter.
Leather Archives & Museum @leatherarchives.bsky.social A Chicago-based research archive, library and museum dedicated to the preservation of leather, kink, fetish and BDSM community history.
tru @thetrudz.photo photographer. writer.
film/tv. vinyl records. music. art.
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social โHaving fun isnโt hard, when youโve got a library card!โ - Arthur Read
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com asiniiwiikwe indizhinikaaz. anishinaabekwe in yanaguana. storyteller, comms nerd, & artist trying to shift power and build a just and sustainable world. fuck borders. land back. she/her/wiin.
Jenn Baker (she/her) @jbakernyc.bsky.social New Yorker, Editor, Writer, host/creator Minorities in Publishing podcast. Books: FORGIVE ME NOT (2023), EVERYDAY PEOPLE (2018).
www.jennifernbaker.com
The Real News Network @therealnews.com Independent, viewer-supported news network. No corporate funds or advertising money.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social TIPS: Email me at nhannahjones@nytimes.com or send a Signal nhannahjones.67 //Founder Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard Univ// Staff writer at NYT Mag// Creator #1619Project// History blerd//Smart and Thuggish
ShordeeDoWhop @netta.bsky.social STL girl.
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. ๐บ1913, OESโญ๏ธ, Rattler๐งก๐, Wolverine๐๐. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
Shade @shadyfiles.bsky.social Author of GODDESS CROWN. Book blog @ http://Coffeebookshelves.com. Korean drama addict. Rep'd by Joanna Moult at Skylark lit.
Nerdgasm Noire Network @nerdgasmnoire.bsky.social 6 Black women talk about nerd culture, pop culture, and everything else in between. Come hang out!
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Robin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social Reader. Librarian. Lawyer. My mouth is unruly. I've been told I'm zesty! Lover of things and (some) people. Watcher of sports and cooking shows. And dramas. Midwestern core, PNW present.
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#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event @bluepit.bsky.social A BlueSky exclusive storytelling hype/pitch event designed for storytellers to uplift and encourage one another and connect with industry professionals. All works are welcome, regardless of the stage they are in. (https://bluepit.carrd.co/)
G.G. Speaks @ggreadsandwrites.bsky.social Thoughts @ the intersection of politics, prose, and publishing.
Chandra @minaandmiddy.bsky.social Writer: Contemporary. Fantasy. Horror.๐
Pop Culture Fan.๐บ๐ฅ๐ฟ๐ง๐ถ
@iamhippolyta.bsky.social @iamhippolyta.bsky.social Lover of Film & TV ๐๐ค๐๐พ๐คโ๐พ
Don't be a Fucknugget!โข๏ธ She/Her๐ฉ๐ช๐ฌ๐ญ Racists, Trans/Homophobes, Ableists (etc.) and those who like Misogynoir can stay away.
Alisha Howard | Fantasy & Romance @alishamwrites.bsky.social Writer of words. Lover of fantasy.
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C. M. Lockhart (Chelsea) @clockhartwrite.bsky.social I write books about Black girls who aren't all that nice โ๐พ
WE ARE THE ORIGIN (2022)
WE ARE DYING GODS (2023)
DEATH AMONG THE STARS (2025)
She / Her / Chelsea
https://www.writteninmelanin.com/links
Piper Huguley @piperhuguley.bsky.social Author and Truth Teller
ShamekaWrites @shamekawrites.bsky.social Queen of Fat Girl Romance. Heavyweightโฆ literally. Oxford comma Supporter. Em Dash Enthusiast. Your Favorite Writerโs Favorite Writer.
Megan @megancwrites.bsky.social Writer| Avid Sports Fan| Reader| Traveler
HBCUGrad| RU
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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social Lifewriting Podcast - Exec Producer #HorrorNoire: A History of Black Horror, Writer: Twilight Zone. UCLA Lecturer. Vanity Fair. Author: American Book Award #BLM #blacksky She/Her - https://linktr.ee/tananarivedue
Rowan K. Blake @rowankblake.bsky.social Writes queer Southern gothic horror & romance I Anti Ai
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blacklitchick @blacklitchick.bsky.social "I'm a stallion runnin', no candle in the wind. You won't ever see me comin' or goin' but you'll know whenever I'm here."
Writer / Amateur Black Culture Historian
Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social Writer/Poet, Editor. SFF/LitFic. CPO @ Augur. Work in: The Walrus, Year's Best Canadian FSF, Brick. Toronto, Canada. She/Her.
Author of MYTH. Editor of AS THE EARTH DREAMS (House of Anansi, 2025)
www.teresemasonpierre.com
Ashley Jordan (she/her) @ashleyjordan.bsky.social Brooklyn born. Atlanta raised. I write occasionally. I talk shit a lot. My debut: ONCE UPON A TIME IN DOLLYWOOD (October 2025, Berkley). Rep: Sarah E. Younger, NYLA.
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Krystyna Allyn, USA Today Bestselling Author @krystynaallyn.bsky.social I write kissing booksโฆAKA romance.
๐๐ก๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐๐ค๐ฌ๐จ๐ง โ๏ธโค๏ธโ๐ฅ๐ @shoneljackson.bsky.social Author of Contemporary Romance ๐
Poetically inclined ๐ Former actress ๐ญ
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L.C. Perry ๐๐๐ฉท๐ช๐พ @lcperry.bsky.social YA & NA Author / Anime & Music junkie / Black / Aro & Bi-greyace๐ณ๏ธโ๐/ Tall gal ๐๐พ She/her. I support Angry Black Women. Trans Lives Matter. Repped by @msholliday93.bsky.social
MoniqueFisherAuthor @mfisherauthor.bsky.social Los Angeles native. Award nominated indie Black romance author.
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SpaceCadetGirl @spacecadetgirl.bsky.social Under Construction ๐ง
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Peace Zodanou @peacezodanou.bsky.social ๐คโ๐พ#MG #YA #Adult Writerโค๏ธโ๐ฅ๐น๐ฌ๐โค๏ธโ๐ฅ#KDrama #KPop #Anime watcher.โค๏ธโ๐ฅHere for #BVM in #sff books and movies.โค๏ธโ๐ฅ Mentored #WTMPโค๏ธโ๐ฅ๐ฉต๐ฉท๐ค๐๐ค๐ #PeaceZWrites
Rep: TBD
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Jarika Tucker @jarika.blacksky.app Wife & Mom ๐ฉท๐ฉต โ storyteller x prose|code|data|film โ 92%, resting โ Software Engineer โ Believes joy IS success.
Micah 6:8
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ItsTonyaActually @tttonyaanddd.bsky.social If you can tell me what to do, then you can tell me what to doโฆ but if you canโt tell me what to do, then you canโt tell me what to do! -Jill Scott
Minding my [Black Woman] business for the next 4 years! #92Percenter
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DL White @booksbydlwhite.blacksky.app Same soup, just reheated. Find me in the A.
Author. Powered by Skittles & spite. Big fan of beaches, brunch, *NSYNC, Kids in the Hall. Aggressively Black. #92percent
Have you tried dying mad about it?
https://www.booksbydlwhite.com/linkinbio
Nouรฉ Kirwan @nouekirwan.bsky.social She/her
LONG PAST SUMMER - OUT NOW!
FREQUENT FLIERS - OUT NOW!
WTMP '21 alum
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Antoinette_The 1_ @antoinettev.bsky.social ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐พ๐จ๐ท | Afrocosmic Writer โข Illustrator | VIZ Mangaka๐ฉธ๐ช | Words: Hexagon SF, Inner Worlds, FIYAH Lit, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Neon Hemlock โข Rep: @julieacrisp.bsky.social
๐ https://www.viz.com/vizmanga/deepseeker-chapter-1/chapter/49177?action=read
SilverTalesBooks @thelisadiane.bsky.social Speculative Fiction & Magical Realism | Thriller edge๐ค
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Novelist crafting legacy
Debut Novel: Rare COINcidence
Mobile Bookshop coming soon!
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Trenise @booksbytrenise.bsky.social ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐บ๐ธ | #KidLit author | โญ๏ธ Co-Director of PB Rising Stars โญ๏ธ | BOOKed and Busy ๐| Repped by Jem at ABLA| Movie buff | Fueled by College Football โค๏ธ๐โ๏ธ, Taylor Swift, Showtunes, 2010s hip hop and SPITE | Storyteller. Creator. Wonderer
Mia Heintzelman @miaheintzelman.bsky.social Romance author ๐ ONE-NIGHT CRUSH available now๐
Website: miaheintzelman.com
โจNikki Savoy | Thriller Authorโจ @nikkisavoy.bsky.social Nikki Savoy dreams of joy and justice and writes about Black womenโwhat we protect, what we carry, and what it costs.
Some dreams are built on stolen things
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Leu Croll @leucroll.bsky.social 
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Hay House Author
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Lisa Springer @lisaspringer.bsky.social YA and MG author
๐ There's No Way I'd Die First (out now)
๐Who's All Going (to Die) Fall 2025
Rep: Danielle Burby - MWLA
fulana de tal @soulamami.bsky.social Writer/editor/author. Recovered journalist. Displaced New Yorker. Cultural critic. Soulful cynic. Queer Blatina matriarch of an LBGTQ+ household. I contain multitudes. Hablo espaรฑol. Parlo italiano. Aprendiendo portuguรฉs. Beyoncรฉ hugged me once.
Nikki T. Grant @nikkitgrant.bsky.social Writer, teacher, fangirl, INTP, cofounder of
Story Spinner Ent, '21 #DVMentor mentor, #TeamAuDHD, She/Her. Demi/pan ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Timoria McQueen Saba, Candidate for Georgia House District 68 @timoriamcqueen.bsky.social Maternal Health Advocate & Policy Strategist | Candidate for GA House District 68
Fighting for health equity, safe families, and a stronger Georgia.
#GAPol #MaternalHealth #HD68
Crystal ๐ @crystalberry.bsky.social Writer, crocheter๐งถ, space-hippie, plantmom, and recovering purse addict. Snacks and hot tea ๐๐๐จ๐ฆ
Shellene Drakes-Tull @shellenedrakestull.bsky.social Writer, journalist, educator & storyteller living in ๐จ๐ฆ with ๐ง๐ง roots. Emerging novelist. I write about Black Canadians @ The Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, & Byblacks.
Find my work here: https://www.clippings.me/shellendrakestull
Tati (TM) Richardson @richardwriteson.bsky.social Amazon Best & USA Today Best Seller Author of Sexy Romance for Black Xennials
ATLien/Mom๐Wife/ CAU ๐พโฅ๏ธalum ฮฮฆฮ๐1/2 of Romance in Colour podcast. ๐๏ธ
Losing Sight ๐(Generous Press, Feb 2025 ) Struck Speechless (2026)
Vanessa Riley @vanessariley.com Vanessa Riley, award-winning author, explores hidden narratives of Black women, sisterhoods, and power in historical fiction, romance, and mystery genres.
Charish Reid @charishreidauthor.bsky.social Romance author ๐
American in Sweden ๐ธ๐ช
She/her
Rep'd by @litagentsaritza.bsky.social
My books: https://charishreid.com/links/
Lora Mitchell (max_servant on Ao3) @maxservant.bsky.social She/They, Writer, Educator, Political Organizer, Armchair Decolonizing Theologian, Unapologetically Black/Queer, A League of Their Own enthusiast, #BlackLivesMatter #KeepTransKidsSafe, #HealthcareisaRight, #NoOneDeservestobePoor, #FreePalestine, #SaveALOTO
Inda Lauryn @indalauryn.bsky.social Writer, editor, podcaster, Black feminist, womanist, witch/pagan/heathen, music curator, smartass.
BlackGirlSquee
Reclaimers RPG
A Black Feminist Apocalypse/Dystopian Survival Resource Compilation
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SX3EUqDj7XTLRn4zSI04AYe
Hermit, Procrastinating @distractedhermit.bsky.social Blerd, recovering linguist, linux fangirl, former analyst @github. Spec fic writer published in @fandsf under Nik Constantine, now indie under multiple pens. New books under Nik Constantine soon, I swear.
JT ๐ธ @wafflesandwriting.bsky.social Writer | Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable | Art is Human, not AI
Honestly, this is starting to look like a bunny/rabbit account and Iโm not mad at it
Tamara Cole @tamaracole.bsky.social Author of WE KILL THE FLAME (2025 HarperCollins/Quill Tree Books) | Travel Influencer | Screenwriter | UCLA Grad | Rep: Natalie Lakosil at LGLM
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Tamara โฑ๏ธ๐๐ถ๏ธ๐โ๏ธ @tamaratoday.bsky.social Ivy League Grad. Fantasy and Horror Writer. Creator of BULLIED on Wattpad. Avid Reader. Former B&N Bookseller. She/Her
#BlackLivesMatter #StopAAPIHate #TransLivesMatter
@TamaraToday_ on IG and Twitter
Anne Thornley-Brown @annethornleybrown.bsky.social Forbes featured
๐ฌ Actress ACTRA
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#WF in ๐ฏ๐ฒ & ๐จ๐ฆ
LinkedIn Top Voice since 2024
Michelle A. Chikaonda @machikaonda.bsky.social Writer | Passport stamp collector | UEA MA '23 | Deborah Rogers Award Shortlist '23 | Toyin Falola Prize Longlist '20 | Al Jazeera, Business Insider, Catapult, Electric Literature + | Tin House, VONA, VQR + | More: www.michellechikaonda.work
L. Nabang @nabangl.bsky.social Call me Nabang ๐คญ | https://lnabang.com/ | She/Her | ๐จ๐ฒ | AroAce ๐๐ ๐ค | Fantasy/Fabulism | WNDB BC Revision Workshop Mentee โ24 | RevPit โ24 Longlist | ๐ |
shrlkae @shrlkae.bsky.social #Author x 3
#KJV Matthew 7:6
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Margeaux West @authormargeaux.bsky.social Updates Only. Spec fiction editor. Author of the HAINTLAND horror Substack๐๐พ https://haintland.substack.com
Www.margeauxweston.com/quicklinks
Rosa Sparks @rosasparks.blacksky.app Shuri's mom. Publisher of Fabulize; a pop culture feminist mag for BIPOC nerds. Cannabis lover. Neurospicy creative. Emerging comic book writer and novelist. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Lambda + Ignatz Awards nominee subscribe: https://mailchi.mp/f0796697386b/fabulizemagsubscribeme
Ytasha @ysolstar.bsky.social Afrofuturist. Writing in words and pixels. Author. Dancing always. Drinking tea. Champion for humanity. Next: The Afrofuturist Evolution
Reese Ryan @reeseryanwrites.bsky.social Author of sexy, grown folks Black romance featuring complex characters navigating career crises & family drama. Gen-X. Neurodivergent ADHD Girlie. Agent of self-inflicted chaos.
Cowgirl Petty Lane @brazen-scribe75.bsky.social Bionic woman sharing an opinion. Writer/Linguaphile/Bibliophile/Agent. An American woman raised on b.s. and cigarettes. M.Ed. โ๐ฝ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐๐โ๏ธ #writingcommunity
steakum dress @twrksumn.blacksky.app writer sharing inside thots too frequently. supporter of witchcraft and violence.
Attica Locke @atticalocke.bsky.social Writer, page and screen. #FromScratch #LittleFiresEverywhere #WhenTheySeeUs #Empire NY-Times bestselling author of six books.
https://linktr.ee/atticalocke
๐ ๐โ๐ธโ๐โ ๐๐ผ๐ผ ๐ she/her @whoisshanonlee.bsky.social Writer + Gender Justice Activist + Educator + Entrepreneur, Past: #atasteofchocolatecity @TheOpEdProject, @TheLilyNews ๐ป shanonlee.online/links #BlackSkyOver40
Brittany Johnson (she/her) @bybrittanyjohnson.bsky.social PREORDER DEADLY EVER AFTER (PRH, 11/4/25)
YA fantasy author
Rep: Jamie Vankirk
IG/TT: ByBrittanyJohnson
@AuthorMsBev @authormsbev.bsky.social Detroiter. Spartan. Writer. NAACP IMAGE AWARD nominee. Lifetime Achievement Award Romance Fiction. Slayer of Words.
Nikki Alexander @nikki-alex.bsky.social Author of contemporary fiction and romance. Champion of black and queer stories ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Dog mom ๐ถ
ARC OF THE UNIVERSE out June 24, 2025.
nikkialexanderwrites.com
https://linktr.ee/nikkialex
Susan Akyeampong @susanaky.bsky.social saved by His grace โจ
book lover.
culture writer ๐๏ธ words in Refinery29, Stylist, Grazia, Little White Lies +++
susanbooksetc.substack.com
Gay & Tonic @deerene.bsky.social The kinda girl you meet in a bar. Writer for the page and screen. Visual Artist. Queer. Creative Director. THEE mood board.
Geriatric millennial. ENM.
๐DC. Daniellerene.com | Events: https://posh.vip/g/black-lesbian-queer-social-clubs
geneva ๐๏ธ nycc soon @gdbee.bsky.social Artist! Won a Hugo once! Got nominated for another! Black! I like everyday fantasy! Made a graphic novel! Drew some kids books! Estoy aprendiendo espaรฑol!
Rep'd by @grahamophones.bsky.social
https://gdbee.carrd.co / https://gdbee.store