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
Paula D. Ashe @pauladashe.bsky.social Award winning author of WE ARE HERE TO HURT EACH OTHER. Developmental editor. Hellraiser obsessive. Queen of Martyrs. She/her. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ โ๐ฝ. Opinions = mine alone. Rep: Lane Heymont
https://linktr.ee/pauladashe
Helen Cooper @helencooperwriter.bsky.social Thriller writer, wine lover. THE DOWNSTAIRS NEIGHBOUR, THE OTHER GUEST, THE COUPLE IN THE PHOTO & MY DARLING BOY out now with Hodder (UK) & Putnam (US).
https://www.helencooperwriter.com/
Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social SFF author (Planetfall sequence, Split Worlds series, The Vengeance), audiobook narrator, podcaster, tea drinker. Loves LARP, dressmaking and nerdery. Co-host of the Starship Alexandria podcast. www.linktr.ee/emma_newman
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.
Mahmud El Sayed @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social Writer | SFF | Arabfuturist | BSFA | Codex | Debut THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY out now
Jackson Ford @realjacksonford.bsky.social ๐ Want to finish your draft? I wrote a whole book on doing just that.
It's called ๐ฅDON'T FUCKING QUIT๐ฅ It's for you. And it's free.
Get it now โคต๏ธ Link in my pinned post.
Charlotte Bond @bookdragonauthor.bsky.social Writer and freelance editor 
Dr. Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author (he/him)
Buy PERILOUS TIMES, it has a talking squirrel
THE KNIGHT WATCH coming June 2026
Visiting Lecturer at City St George's University London
Repped by Harry Illingworth at @dhhlitagency
Linktree: https://t.co/psdOEXpR3h
Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com Engineer. SFF Writer. Triple Nebula Award winner. Viแปt (Kinh)/French. Asian auntie. Weird. She/They. Queer. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Loves tea. Profile:
@yendraws
@readatmidnight
Katie โฅ๏ธ๐๐ @katiebruce.bsky.social She/Her. Bi/Omni. Yorkshire lass. Reader of books. Writer of books. Lover of happy metal
Michael R. Miller @michaelrmiller.bsky.social Author of Songs of Chaos, Dragon's Blade, Battle Spire. authormichaelrmiller.carrd.co
Sign up for 2 FREE novellas - https://michaelrmiller.co.uk/signup
Shauna Lawless @shaunalawless.bsky.social Author of The Gael Song series (she/her)
The Children of Gods and Fighting Men, The Words of Kings and Prophets, The Land of the Living and the Dead
Repโd by Ed Wilson
Christian and Miles Cameron @phokion.bsky.social Author, outdoor enthusiast, modern-day knight. Artifact Space, Red Knight, Cold Iron, Tyrant, Killer of Men, Chivalry etc
Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social Writer based in Franconian Forest, Germany
Fortean Times comics reviewer
published at Tor.com Shimmer 3LBE, Lackington's, Lead writer on Haunt www.stevetoase.co.uk
To Drown in Dark Water from Undertow Publications
Dirt Upon My Skin from Black Shuck Books
Nicholas Eames @nicholaseames.bsky.social Author of KINGS OF THE WYLD and BLOODY ROSE. Lover of books, games, comics, anime, hockey, football, cats, and...Well, I guess that about covers it.
Justin Lee Anderson @justinleeanderson.com Scottish fantasy author of Carpet Diem as well as The Eidyn Saga from @orbitbooks.bsky.social. The Damned King OUT NOW. He/Him. Rep by @canonizer.bsky.social
Founder of bookmatch.co.uk
Cameron Johnston @cameronjohnston.bsky.social Scottish fantasy author. Archaeology & history fiend. The Maleficent Seven and The Last Shield out now from Angry Robot Books, represented by Ed Wilson at Johnson & Alcock. www.cameronjohnston.net
RJ Barker @rjbarker.bsky.social Award winning and, somehow, bestselling fantasy author. Gad about, small tree grower and procrastinationist to the stars. Truly, RJ Barker in all departments.
"their worlds are completely and entirely original." BFS
Agent: @teddyfromtheblock.bsky.social
AK Faulkner ๐ The Unseelie Gathering @ravenswordpress.com Your friendly local agender trauma merchant.
Bereaved and current Corgi parent. Cat chew-toy.
Visually impaired, posts may contain typos.
Any pronouns.
https://ravenswordpress.com/
https://www.patreon.com/AKFaulkner
https://ko-fi.com/akfaulkner
Laura Bennett @losbennett.bsky.social Literary Agent at the Liverpool Literary Agency with a focus on underrepresented SFF writers.
More info & submissions: https://www.liverpool-literary.agency
She/her.
Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social Fantasy writer, history geek, dark chocolate addict! Writes sparkling fantasy rom-coms for adults and fun MG fantasy adventures. She/her.
linktr.ee/stephanieburgis
Intisar Khanani ๐ @booksbyintisar.bsky.social Fantasy author of The Dauntless Path novels and the Sunbolt Chronicles. Writing mighty girls in diverse worlds. Only occasionally active here.
Ben Holroyd-Dell @benholroyddell.bsky.social Podcaster (The Tiny Bookcase - BFS Award Winner), Writer, and RPG fanatic.
http://benholroyd-dell.com/
the brickmaster general @lauramauro.bsky.social BFA-winning author, senior writer on Luna Abyss, narrative designer, toilet ghost enthusiast. ๆฅๆฌ่ชOK
Looking for work. Hire me to write for you!
they/them
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
Marguerite Kenner @margueritekenner.bsky.social Dangerously Polite; Deadly Serious | Escape Artists Foundation publisher/Pres/CEO | Lawyer (views mine, not advice) | All things podcast | She/Her
David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social World Fantasy and Hugo Award-nominated Editorial Director at Rebellion Publishing Ltd. Clarion West Instructor 2026. he/him
Jason Arnopp @jasonarnopp.bsky.social ๐ป Author of scary fiction (Jack Sparks, Doctor Who)
๐จโ๐ฆโ๐ฆ Single dad in cancer recovery
๐ Writers Vs Fear. Join us ๐
๐ https://www.skool.com/write-like-hell-1016/about
Richard Swan @richardswanauthor.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling SFF author. Empire of the Wolf / Great Silence / The Infinite State (2026) / 40k fiction for Black Library.
Latest release: Steel Gods [Mar 2026]
Next release: The Infinite State [Aug 2026]
Updates: https://linktr.ee/richardswan
Stephen Kozeniewski @kozeniewski.bsky.social The guy who used to set the paces, riding up in front of a hundred faces.
E. J. Swift @catamaroon.bsky.social Author of When There Are Wolves Again (BSFA winner Best Novel 2025), The Coral Bones (Clarke Award shortlist 2023), Paris Adrift, The Osiris Project trilogy. Repped by Margaret Halton at PEW Literary.
https://geni.us/WhenThereAreWolves
www.ejswift.co.uk
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
The Tiny Bookcase Podcast @tinybookcase.bsky.social TTB Official Account. Ben (@benholroyddell.bsky.social) & Nico (@nicorogers.bsky.social) are joined by guests on their quest to write stories for a Bibliomancer! Episodes Regularly! A BFS Award-Winning Podcast!
Dave "David" Wragg @davewragg.com Fantasist. Goes on a bit. Wrote The Black Hawks | THE IRON ROAD out NOWWW | bio.link/davewragg
Andrea Stewart @andreagstewart.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author of The Drowning Empire trilogy and The Gods Below, cat herder, silly hat enthusiast, coach at The Novelry
https://linktr.ee/andreagstewart
Scott K Andrews @scottkandrews.bsky.social Frankly absurd. Writer of all sorts of nonsense. Nothing here reflects views of employers, publishers or my terribly embarrassed kids. He/him. #ActuallyAutistic Website: https://scottkandrews.com/
Luke Arnold @longlukearnold.bsky.social 
Gareth Hanrahan @mytholder.bsky.social He/Him. Novel THE DUNGEON BOOK out August '26. Currently writing: Black Iron 4, The Dreadful Heir, Terraforming Mars rpg, Metadungeon!, PISCES, Tunnels & Trolls, too much tbh
J.L. Worrad @worrad.bsky.social Fantasy author. โThe Keep Withinโ and โPennybladeโ available from @titanbooks.bsky.social
Eliza Chan @elizachanwrites.bsky.social ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Fantasy & Weird Fiction๐๏ธ FATHOMFOLK and TIDEBORN out now ๐ HARBOUR OF HUNGRY GHOSTS 2026 ๐ปBFA nominated ๐ฆ she/her rep Alex Cochran
https://linktr.ee/elizachan
sunyi @sunyidean.com ~Reader, writer, occasional thinker // multi-award-losing author // rep: Harry Illingworth @harryillingworth.bsky.social
Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
Ali Baker @alisonbaker01.bsky.social BA Primary lecturer at UEL. Children's fantasy literature researcher. Podcast host at Fantasy Book Swap. Trans rights are human rights.
No DMs without asking first. I am a prolific blocker.
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 ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
Sophia McDougall @sophiamcdougall.bsky.social Pronounced like the disappointingly heterosexual Nerina Pallot song.
Writer -- ROMANITAS (modern Roman empire) MARS EVACUEES & SPACE HOSTAGES (kids & robots in space!) various scripts for Big Finish plus a movie you can't see yet.
Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com Author, LARP (Curious Pastimes), physics and finance. Subjective Chaos, BSFA and BFA finalist. Treasurer @BFS, Chair @BSFA. Rep: John Baker at PFD.
Read: stewarthotston.com
Writer at Hugo award winner, http://www.nerds-feather.com
Mike Brooks @mikebrooks668.bsky.social That freelance Audible-bestselling, British Fantasy Awards-losing SFF author with Very Tall Hair. Guitarist, singer, occasional DJ. (d)eaf, queer. He/him.
All queries to @losbennett.bsky.social at Liverpool Literary Agency
www.mikebrooks.co.uk
Sam Hawke @samhawkewrites.bsky.social Astounding award finalist, Aurealis & Ditmar award winning author of the Poison War series, also posts about the Canberra Raiders, the exploits of a greyhound, and other nonsense. She/her
Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social Novelist, scriptwriter, journalist, incompetent guitarist. I span the genres.
https://eddierobson.wordpress.com- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
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
Anna ZenKen Stephens @annasmithwrites.bsky.social AN HONESTY OF THIEVES, Mar 27. Godblind, Songs of the Drowned trilogies, Black Library, Marvel.
Runs Magic & Mayhem Author Academy.
1/3 of The Write Advice.
Rep @harryillingworth.bsky.social
Zen, Shotokan, DnD, antifa, no AI in art, #WorkingClass.
She/They
Stark Holborn ๐ Gamescom @starkholborn.bsky.social Author of Nunslinger, the Factus Sequence & Triggernometry. Lead Writer on Shadows of Doubt, Lead Narrative on Hopetown. Visiting Lecturer in Interactive Narrative at Glasgow School of Art ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
https://linktr.ee/starkholborn
Mark Stay @markstay.bsky.social Author, screenwriter and podcaster. https://markstaywrites.com/all-the-links/