Dr. Chesya Burke @chesyaburke.bsky.social Asst. Prof of English & U.S. Literatures/Director of Africana Studies
AFROFUTURIST and SCHOLAR, author of Let's Play White and Hero Me Not
Tamsin the Sword ⚔️ Mother @tamsin.reimaginedgirl.com Bluesky's #1 THE DEAD ZONE (1983) poster.
🏳️⚧️ Surprise girl. 📚 Book stacker.
💍 Happy wife. 🐿️ Attention lacker.
👩❤️💋👩 Girl kisser. 📝 Word slinger.
🎲 Dice roller. ⚔️ Sword swinger.
🎨 Hobby hoarder. ⚒️ Stuff maker.
🥋 武芸者. 🎢 Risk taker.
She/her. #IRememberIsabelFall
Rasheed Newson @rasheed.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Bestselling Author of MY GOVERNMENT MEANS TO KILL ME and THERE’S ONLY ONE SIN IN HOLLYWOOD
📺 writer: #BelAir #Narcos #The100
Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social Geek at law.
Nicky Drayden @nickydrayden.bsky.social Writer of sci-fantasy, taker of naps.
Prosper with Dragons, coming soon to a game night near you: https://nickydrayden.com
summervillain / a. lee welles @summervillain.bsky.social user experience, safe biking, all the musics, many books. all opinions solely mine. he/they. apprentice romance author. aleewellesfiction.com 🦖 trans rights or i bites
National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social Celebrating flash fiction worldwide. Co-directed by Ingrid Jendrzejewski @lunchontuesday.bsky.social and Diane Simmons @scooterwriter.bsky.social
The next NFFD will be Saturday 12 June 2027.
https://www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
ergot. @ergot.bsky.social https://www.ergot.press/
: Innovative literary horror and weird fiction :
: New work each Friday :
: Submissions OPEN :
: A paying venue :
: Merch https://www.teepublic.com/user/ergot :
: Edited by https://bsky.app/profile/perfidiousscript.bsky.social :
Louis @louisevans.bsky.social CONTENTS WILL PLASMATE UPON PACKET RUPTURE!
Rep: Eric Showers, HMLA
kuzhali manickavel/குழலி மாணிக்கவேல் @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social she/her
writer
repped by Michael Curry @ DMLA
www.kuzhalimanickavel.com
please pre-order my first novel
https://angryrobotbooks.my.canva.site/compendium-of-supernatural-entities
i may be racist but you were mean and that's way worse
Michael LaBorn @michaellaborn.bsky.social Making white readers mad here too. http://linktree.com/michaellaborn
Opti @nucleardoorstop.myatproto.social Nuclear & DCS engineer, general purpose nerd.
I’m not here to “engage in dialogue” or “have a conversation” and all opinions are not equal.
“Ally” is performative nonsense. Follow Black leaders. Learn from Black experts. Invest in Black businesses.
Meg Frank @peripateticmeg.bsky.social artist and baker and jewelry maker.
they/them/teacher/tired - NYC
megfrank.com
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
Jason A. Bartles @jabartlesauthor.bsky.social Queer SFF Writer. Clarion West '23.📍Philly
Assoc. Ed. @ Uncharted Mag
https://linktr.ee/jabartles.author
@midnightandindigo.bsky.social @midnightandindigo.bsky.social 
C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social Lvl 51 Writer of Wrongs. SINISTER 1 & 2. DOCTOR STRANGE. THE BLACK PHONE 1 & 2. THE GORGE. V/H/S/85. SEA OF RUST. DAY ZERO. WE ARE WHERE THE NIGHTMARES GO. Six books, seven movies. Podcaster with JUNKFOOD CINEMA. Frogman. Tio do Churrasco. Misfit toy.
Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social Long-time production artist/illustrator, horse fancier and animation history buff
@lynxreign.bsky.social @lynxreign.bsky.social Queer, punk, leftist, author, singer, music lover, historian, database architect, SFF fan
Cassandra Khaw @casskhaw.bsky.social Writes books. Works in games. Does pole. Lifts weights. Has cats. Not actually here. Find me on Instagram.
Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social Locus Magazine: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror. The Guide to the World's Imagination.
https://locusmag.com
linktr.ee/locusmagazine
Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social You can do a lot with a bad hand. We're bringing you the best horror, dark fantasy, & crime fiction. Owned & operated by Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award winner Doug Murano.
Risa Wolf / Killerpuppytails @risawolf.bsky.social Multi-gendered water elemental (all pronouns, use they/them for myself) pretending to be an ink-stained lycanthrope. Writer-type, NO AI. (If you use AI? EW, David. Ew.)
Loves parenthetical asides.
More at killerpuppytails.com
Beth Andres-Beck @beth4ma.bsky.social Former candidate for Massachusetts’ 6th Congressional District
Software Engineer. Queer. Unitarian-Universalist.
AI should work for all of us🌹
pronouns: any/all
https://bethfordemocracy.com
𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧 @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app Author | #preWGA | she/her |♌️ | deeply unserious southern gal | BA in theatre/film | currently writing Black romance, mischief & magic | words in midnight&indigo, Chain Letter, & more
www.fiverr.com/s/0bYzaNq
https://ko-fi.com/tessak13
Tonya Liburd is querying Postcolonial Horror & Fantasy @spiderlilly.bsky.social The Ace Of Knives eBook out now! https://books2read.com/TheAceOfKnives . Fiction in Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy 2022. #amquerying Tonya.ca
Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social Grenadian-born, Virgin Island raised, Ohio settled, SF/F author. I also teach creative writing as a prof. Views my own. More at http://www.tobiasbuckell.com (email Tobias at tobiasbuckell.com to reach me if needed)
Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social Trans Giantess. 
Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social Black Cis Hetero Man raised in PG County, Maryland. Sassy. Omnivorous reader when my ADHD (inattentive) allows me to be 😢. House/techno music evangelist, fan of sci-fi and horror, and other random junk. Lots of typos in my posts. You’ll live. (He/Him/His)
Shingai @shingai-be-like.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Swahili Sea Citizen. Voodoonauts co-creator. Past Podcastle Magazine Co-Editor & Fantasy Magazine Co-Editor. Octavia Butler scholar at Clarion.
New worlds in our Lifetime ❤️
Frederick Smith, Ed.D. @fsmith827.bsky.social Love Is A Contact Sport - 6/16/26 on Bold Strokes Books ✍🏾📚💕🌈🐝
Romance author. Romance reader. Higher Ed Professional. Former TV news. Detroiter in Bay Area. All things Beyoncé. Email: FSmith827@gmail.com; Important Links: linktr.ee/FrederickLSmith
@tlotlotsamaase.bsky.social @tlotlotsamaase.bsky.social 
Ola | Aleksandra Hill @aleksandrahill.bsky.social Writer, editor, data scientist.
Words in Analog, LeVar Burton Reads, Writer’s Digest, & more.
Founder & publisher, khōréō magazine.
Rep: Eric Showers, HMLA
www.aleksandrahill.com
Joy Sanchez-Taylor @jsanchez-taylor.bsky.social Scholar of SFF Literature. Author of Diverse Futures (OSU, 2021) and Dispelling Fantasies (OSU, 2025). Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College (CUNY). https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814215906.html
Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social This is a bot that posts a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin every 2 hours. Was ursulabot on twitter
Gillian Daniels - Pre-Order “JENNY WILL EAT YOU NOW” 9/29 @gillianlynndaniels.bsky.social Debut: JENNY WILL EAT YOU NOW (Sept 2026). Writer, artist, cat person since I was born, fan of horror and romance fiction. Rep: Jenna Satterthwaite at Storm Literary Agency. She/her.
Insta: @gillianlynndaniels
Website: gilliandaniels.site
Author Millie Price @authormillieprice.bsky.social I write books for adults with monsters, mythos, and all things supernatural. Let me take you on a ride through the dark. 🖤🖤🖤
https://authormillieprice.com
The Legendary Frank King @tlfrankking.bsky.social I've traveled every road in this here land.
KWOnley, Writer Person @kwonleyiswriting.bsky.social Writer, nonprofit leader, editor, crafter. Former bookseller at the Silver Unicorn.
GrubStreet Short Story Incubator 2021, Viable Paradise 2022, Clarion West 2025. Stories in Many Worlds, FIYAH Magazine, & Strange Horizons.
Find me at KWOnley.com
Naomi Day @thenaomiday.bsky.social queer Black spec fic writer
clarion west '22, the new school mfa '25
words in FIYAH, Black Warrior Review, The Seventh Wave
thenaomiday.com
Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga @aniyonsenga.bsky.social writer extraordinaire~ Spec fic is my jam. Words in Uncanny Magazine, Andromeda Spaceways,
GigaNotoSaurus, Augur Magazine, Fantasy Magazine, FIYAH, Apparition Lit, etc.
EN/FR/JP. she/her. Photo by Madeeha Photos. https://www.aline-mweziniyonsenga.com/
Sydnee @sydmt.blacksky.app Editor and writer of speculative fiction, recovering journalist, SFWA/ACES member, Unbreaking volunteer, cat lady. Clarion West '26
Nonbinary, but she/her, please.
Business inquiries: shadesofsydnee.com
Stefani Cox @stefanicox.bsky.social Omnivorous bookworm and SFFH writer/poet. Words at LeVar Burton Reads, Strange Horizons, The Rumpus, and others. Colorado by way of California. https://linktr.ee/stefanicox
WC Dunlap @wcdunlap.bsky.social Speculative storyteller. 
Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social Minneapolis-based publisher of short horror and Weird fiction. Anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, and pro-queer. Shirley Jackson Award-winning press.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/cursedmorsels
Carlos “Diamond Crook Avenger” Enrique @titotitoq85.bsky.social Wipe your feet when you step in my house. Hello new people. I’m your Puerto Rican friend that doesn’t actually think big pun is top 5. 40+ Disabled/Poly/Ace
Gerald L. Coleman @geraldcoleman.bsky.social Science Fiction & Fantasy Author
Cofounder—Affrilachian Poets
Scholastic National Writing Juror
Rhysling Award Nom
Locust Award Nom (anthology)
NAACP Image Award Winner (anthology)
Fellow—Black Earth Institute
https://linktr.ee/geraldlcoleman
Prime Radiant 🐎🔥 @destinyguardian.blacksky.app Executive Defenestrator
Apropos of literally everything, ICE must be abolished.✨
Alt: thundercat79.bsky.social
✅ https://nohello.net
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
Mr Dr Bae @dallas-taylor.bsky.social Florida Man in the Pacific Northwest. I write fantasy novels and bad jokes, design and build wood furniture, and have forgotten more cocktail recipes than most people ever know. He/him
Represented by Dylan Haston at DMLA
dallas-taylor.com
dtfabs.com
gary s broderick (he/him) @garybroderick.bsky.social Labor union organizer. #1u✊📢 #RichmondVA.
Leftist. Practitioner of #strategy + #discipline.
#Defend & #Transform public infrastructure + services!
Mediamaker, Anti-racist pro wrestling fan, Aspiring meal prepper. Eagles Fan.🦅
Bill Campbell @rosariumbill.bsky.social Head cook and bottle washer at Rosarium Publishing, where we've been "introducing the world to itself" since 2013.
alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
Melissa Lynn @melmothra.bsky.social “Always revolutionary. Never dead, never useless.”
https://www.with-love-healing.com
🚫DMs
#Nature #kindness #Shibari #Spirituality #Collaging #junkjournals #punkrock #animals #shamanism #vegitarian #antifacist #humanrights #cubanamerican #yoga #godzilla
Alexis Brooks de Vita @alexisbrooksdevita.bsky.social PhD Comp Lit African/Diaspora & Women in English, French, Italian, Spanish. Author of 1855 Murder Case: Missouri vs. Celia; Mythatypes; Burning Streams, Blood of Angels, Chain Dance; Left Hand of the Moon; Translator - Dante's Inferno: A Wanderer in Hell
Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social novelist, drama queen, biker babe, speculating and agitating http://andreahairston.com/
Clarkisha Kent @clarkishakent.blacksky.app Nigerian-American. Bi, Black, FAT. She/Her. Creator of #TheKentTest. Co-creator of The Kelli & Kat Test. Author of Fat Off, Fat On (which is out NOW)! The best is yet to come.
Email: clarkisha@clarkishakent.com
Cash App:
https://cash.app/$ClarkishaKent
profanity.accountant @profanity.accountant Tag me and I will respond telling you how much a profanity you (or the user you're replying to) has used in the last year (it may take me a few minutes to respond).
7,982,459 total profanities counted, you pottymouths!
Imani Barbarin @imanibarbarin.bsky.social Disabled Loudmouth.
https://www.canva.com/design/DAFjqA7WtS0/11YO6Ql6Yl9J792_jipiwQ/edit?utm_content=DAFjqA7WtS0&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton
Agitated Spiders for Justice @jane-brooks.bsky.social Tech professional, artist, ukulele player, three manic pixie dreamgirls in a trenchcoat. #Nerdfighter. My opinions do not reflect those of my employers.
Make art. Make progress. Make authoritarianism expensive.
https://youtube.com/@agitatedspiders
N.S. Dolkart sans nap @nsdolkart.bsky.social Author of cool fantasy stuff. Hebrew school teacher. Dad. Town meeting rep. Local access host and producer of “Stoughton Politics with…This Guy.” Not a security guard, but I played one in an opera.
they’ve meltzer 📓📇🤼♂️ S. Qiouyi Lu 陸秋逸 @s.qiouyi.lu sophie/seraphina (ser, seri, sephi also OK)! 🐏 writer/translator – EN/中文/ES 🆗 cover art: Kuri Huang ✨ pronouns: æ • e • they (pl.) ☯️ rep @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social 📚 always been a sicko, now also a #CMLL #IWRG #NJPW #ROH #AEW sicko
https://s.qiouyi.lu/
Injury Cryptid @quinloki.bsky.social Totally hooked on One Piece, don't open that door recklessly. 18+
check #QuinlokiArt for art, anything tagged #mdni is 18+
🔞https://archiveofourown.org/users/Quinloki
🔞https://www.tumblr.com/quinloki
🔞https://patreon.com/Quinloki
Cora Harrington @cora.bsky.social Aspiring Fashion Historian. MA student in Fashion & Textile Studies. Formerly The Lingerie Addict.
Bookshop.org @bookshop.org A better way to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores ☀️📚
https://bookshop.org/
Jena Brown @jenabrownwrites.bsky.social she/her
Raised a physicist 🪐
💻 freelance writer
bylines: @kwiklearning @theportalist @lineupweekly @litreactor @screamhorrormag @thisisinsider @dark_matter_mag
📖 #amquerying
🎙️ co-host Writers, Ink podcast
troublemaker
Christine Daigle @1cdaigle.bsky.social Writer. Neuropsychologist. Working with Brain-Computer Interface. Writers, Ink co-host. World’s laziest sea glass collector. HEAVY ARE THE STONES OUT NOW! christinedaiglebooks.com
Horror Makes Us Happy @horrormakesushappy.com We (lightly) psychologically profile creators in the horror biz to uncover the REAL reasons people love horror. https://linktr.ee/horrormakesushappy
CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy :condemned: he/they.
Teacher; graphic, book, & game designer; hacker; cyclist; soundmachinist.
Founder of the Indie Bazaar.
I want a New Good Internet […]
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Joshua A.C. Newman @joshuaacnewman.bsky.social I make Bronze Age Sword & Sorcery & The BLOODY-HANDED NAME of BRONZE, Synthesizers, Shock:Social Science Fiction, and Mobile Frame Zero.
Michael Mercurio @poetmercurio.bsky.social Poet. Founder and curator of What The Universe Is: A (Virtual) Reading Series, which happens monthly on Zoom. Also writes A Slight Case of Overthinking at https://damncurious.substack.com/
Find out more at https://www.poetmercurio.com
M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social You’ve seen me on TV. This account: Cats. Books. Games. Witchy stuff. Horror. Vampires 🦇 I’m intersex, introverted & feral - Exhausted Elder Goth semi-retired from peoples’ bull💩 Still feisty
Take your AI and shove it
https://xosh.carrd.co/
Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social Writer • Filmmaker • Partner • Parent • 🏳️⚧️ • THE OCCULTISTS • SHADOWDAYS • 8:59:29 • CRATER GIRL • Books, woods, guitars, critters & coffee • Trans rights = Human rights • AVL • I follow writers • Fix your hearts or die pollyschattel.com
Winnie YZ @winnie-writes.anticapitalistcatgirl.com She/Her
Sapphic | 🏳️⚧️ | Wifed 💍 | Neurospicy 🧠 🌶️
Writer | Cat Mom | Techish | VP20/2016
TTRPG Player | Critter | D20 Fangirl
Trans-plant to the PNW
Krista Duval on High XP Society’s [redated] (🔺 Agency)
Dave Hogg @davehogg.bsky.social Polymath in Metro Detroit. Writes about sports, mental health, politics, and anything else that comes to mind. Blocked by Trump and Piers Morgan on the other site. (he/him)
Betty Redd🌈💖 @whatbettyredd.bsky.social 🌈🌈🌈 post a lot of queer history, weird history, trains, and whatever strikes my fancy. Author/art. Writing gay sf/fantasy/horror/comedy. Yes all at once
blm, trans lives matter
she/her/hers
📚👩🏼🤝👩🏾🐈🐈✍️🎨💕🗃️🚂🤠🫠
Mercedes M. Yardley @missmurdermercedes.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-Winning author, dark fantasist, family girl, artist, cupcake baker.
DG @thegilmore.bsky.social Nonfic Editor http://www.thedeadlands.com, @voodoonaut 21’, Wakandan Tech support,Writer, reader
Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-winning & 2x Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author. She/her.
Pre-Order How to Fake a Haunting:
https://www.christacarmen.com/books-how-to-fake-a-haunting.aspx
Substack: Horror Homesteading:
https://christacarmen.substack.com/
Michael Cisco @michaelcisco.bsky.social Writer, teacher, tormented, no fun
The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social Making a horror game with @ectafoole and @fungalhalo
Artist and writer
Seeking representation
She/her
Jessi
Horror hottie.
My body is broken, but my spirit is strong!
I make a lot of art.
Born in 1987 will never die
Serene (any pronouns) @serenevannoy.bsky.social Bi poly atheist cis white disabled poet & fatchick extraordinaire. I read while I walk and I don't bump into stuff. Much. Living in the mountains of New Mexico since 2021. Videos about cheap cooking and trauma-informed housework on Youtube.com/SereneVannoy
Raleigh Selene @presidentkelly.blacksky.app 
Ignyte Award-Nominated Writer/Editor LP Kindred @lpkindred.bsky.social Citizen of the Wildeeps! Writer Editor Podcaster TeachingArtisr of Speculative Fiction! Words in Apex, Fiyah, Anathema, Prismatic, Escape Pod, PodCastle. Ghost Class/Clarion c/o 2030-2022. Just Keep Writing co-host. Art Institute Chicago BFAW c/o 2027.
Juliette Wade @juliettewade.com Novelist, linguist, anthropologist, Ph.D.
Fascinated by social systems.
Rep'd by K. O'Higgins
The Broken Trust series: 1. Mazes of Power (DAW 2020)
juliettewade.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/JulietteWade
CA in AUS, Naarm
she/her
NO AI
b @bestack.bsky.social queer sf/f writer. defender of smokestacks, lover of lowercase letters. my buildings can talk. 🏭🌈 words @spacefantasymag (she/her)
Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social “Having fun isn’t hard, when you’ve got a library card!” - Arthur Read
linktr.ee/mychalthreets
Ann VanderMeer @annvandermeer.bsky.social Editor, anthologist, writer, poet (because of Linda D. Addison), former feeder woman to Neo (who was the one).
(she/her)
#ProtectTransKids
#LoveIsLove
Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social queer SFF author, essayist, poet. he/they 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
https://fozmeadows.wordpress.com
Ogmios @artbyogmios.bsky.social Father, Artist, Musician, Storyteller
Randee Dawn @randeedawn.com Author, “Tune in Tomorrow,” “We Interrupt This Program,” “The Only Song Worth Singing,” “Leave No Trace"
Journalist: Variety, LA Times, Today
AI-free forever
https://linktr.ee/RandeeDawn
Kellye Garrett @kellyekell.bsky.social Sarcastic black chick writing mysteries about sarcastic black chicks. Anthony, Agatha, Lefty, Thriller & IPPY winner. Edgar, Barry, & Macavity nominee.
My site I don't update: KellyeGarrett.com
Rachel Howzell Hall @rachelhowzell.bsky.social OUT NOW: FOG & FURY. THE LAST ONE, the Good Morning America Book Club Pick for December. Coming soon: THE CRUEL DAWN. French Martini lover. Rep: Jill Marsal, @jillmarsal. Playing right now: FALLOUT 76. Find me also at www.rachelhowzell.com
Brian Evenson @brianevenson.bsky.social Short story writer, novelist, television writer. Married to the excellent Kristen Tracy.