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. 🏳️🌈 Lambda + Ignatz Awards nominee subscribe: https://mailchi.mp/f0796697386b/fabulizemagsubscribeme
N Steven Harris @nstevenharris.bsky.social 2 time Eisner Award nominated and multi Glyph Award winner. Michael Cray, Watson and Holmes, Deadpool, Batman, Aztek, Ajala, DC/Marvel, Indie, Storyboard Artist and TV. Drawing stories is life.
Paris Vivian @parisvivian.myatproto.social SFF writer. She/they. Born ‘02. Icon and banner drawn by me.
Current WIPs: 🦋🧤🌇
18+ to follow, please.
Falencia Jean-Francois @falenciajfwrites.bsky.social Black, nonbinary, pansexual, millennial, immigrant, fantasy author and educator living in Pittsburgh.
Michael LaBorn @michaellaborn.bsky.social Making white readers mad here too. http://linktree.com/michaellaborn
Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social Inner Worlds was a quarterly digital zine of speculative stories about our inner lives. We published ten issues between 2023 and 2026, all of which are available to read for free at
https://inner-worlds.ghost.io/
Lilly Rayman @lillyrayman.bsky.social British born, now Australian, Lilly Rayman writes steamy paranormal romance and hot historical fantasy for Leilani Indie Publishing.
Echo Simone Notes @echosimonenotes.bsky.social I don’t just write about music. I write about what the culture remembers, even when the industry pretends to forget.
medium.com/@echo.simone.notes
Teguan Harris ✧ @teguanharris.bsky.social more than just a writer | Poplitical Theory and Teguan’s Notion on Substack | Funnel Fever on Beehiiv
Dr. Jabari @drjabaripierre.bsky.social Knowledge development is my jam at the moment. Open and honest conversations about race, spirituality, love, books, and writing are always welcomed and sought out.
Nazara Strange @nazara13.bsky.social Writer, trickster, husband, father, friend of Machine Intelligence. Nerd. Hoodoo. Maker of music. Perpetual learner. Plant lady’s Hoodoo baby all grown up.
Maroon Stranger @maroon-stranger.bsky.social 📚💙✨️🏳️🌈✊🏽
Read more books!
https://linktr.ee/maroon.stranger
Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social Founder of Global Repression Studies and Global Repression Studies Institute. Advancing research on modern repression systems, civilian protection failures, and the governance frameworks required to confront them.| NYU Alum | Based in NYC
DaVaun Sanders @davaun.bsky.social SFF Author + Editor. Publisher @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social. Twin Dad. #MuayThai enthusiast. Insufferable #Niners fan. #He/him.
Rep Mary C. Moore at ACM
Contact: http://bit.ly/3yzaPQP
B. Sharise @bsharise.bsky.social Kidlit Author, FIYAH Editor, & Curriculum Developer
Rep'd by Laurie McLean @ FUSE Literary
www.bsharisewrites.com
Brent C. Lambert @brentclambert.bsky.social Writer. Black SFF always! Hugo Award Winner. One of the co-hosts for Just Keep Writing.
he/him http://brentclambert.com
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
Eboni Dunbar is drafting.... @ebonidunbar.bsky.social Black, queer #specfic #writer from California. Ignyte award nominated. Novella Author of Stone and Steel. Published in FIYAH literary magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Nightlight and more.
Ebonidunbar.com
Genine Tyson @quirkywritergirl.bsky.social Acquiring Editor at FIYAH Speculative Fiction Magazine, Writer, Full-Time Worker, and Part-Time Student (Data Science). Bay Area
Christian M. Ivey @ageedubb.bsky.social Art Director at @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social + Digital Comms at @OBI-Belonging.bsky.social
Emmalia H @emmaliawrites.bsky.social Codex and SFWA member, Voodoonaut's alumna, reader at FIYAH and Podcastle.
BIPOC, disabled, neurodivergent, and queer as a clockwork orange. She/?
Find me at https://emmaliah.wixsite.com/emmaliawrites
My book is out! https://books2read.com/u/mdapOW
Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app The Danny Lore of lycanthropic fame
Awe-inspiringly humble
Writer, nerd, husband to an awesome lady, @ndxmedina.myatproto.social They/them, probably DEI
dannylore @ proton . me
Brandon O’Brien @therisingtithes.bsky.social 🇹🇹 Poet, SFF writer, TTRPG designer. Worldcon 2025 Poet Laureate.
@rascal.news columnist. Podcaster @speculate.bsky.social & @skiffyandfanty.com.
Author of CAN YOU SIGN MY TENTACLE? and other things.
Thank God for words.
https://www.brandonobrien.xyz/
P. Djéli Clark | The Disgruntled Haradrim @pdjeliclark.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Jumbie & Duppy Conqueror. Rambler of Things. Doer of Stuff. Brotha From Another Planet | pdjeliclark.com
Justina Ireland @justinaireland.com Award winning writer and New York Times Bestseller. Sometimes agent at Handspun Literary. I also do TV and comics.
Food is a scam in this country.
Up next: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN HALLOWEEN - October 2026
geneva 🖍️ LACon! // DragonCon Artshow #58 @gdbee.bsky.social Artist! Won a Hugo once! Black! I like everyday fantasy! Made a graphic novel! Drew some kids books! Estoy aprendiendo español!
Rep'd by @grahamophones.bsky.social
https://gdbee.carrd.co / https://gdbee.store
Veronica G. Henry (Order The People's Library) @veronicaghenry.bsky.social I read and I write. My stuff: The People's Library, Bacchanal, The Quarter Storm, The Foreign Exchange, The Canopy Keepers, A Breathless Sky.
https://www.veronicahenry.net/
Maurice Broaddus @mauricebroaddus.bsky.social Writer, librarian, practice adult, forever mentor...
Khaalidah 🍉 @khaalidah.bsky.social WFA Nominated editor. Ignyte Nominated Editor.
Writer. Podcaster. Narrator. SFWA. Codex.
she/her
#BLM ✊🏽 ☪️🎙
So be it. See to it. ~ Octavia Butler
Russell Nichols @russellnichols.bsky.social I'm not really here. Look for me: russellnichols.com
Christopher Caldwell @seraph76.bsky.social Talented ruin. Riverboat floozy.
Queer Black writer in Glasgow, Scotland.
Crawford Award winning collection Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic out from Neon Hemlock Press now. https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-and-response
Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com Engineer | Writer | Editor
Enjoyer of Equations, Ideas & Assorted Nonsenses
Hugo, Nebula, Locus & Caine Prize finalist
Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY now: buff.ly/X3CHaZk
Eden Royce @edenroyce.bsky.social Writer of Southern Gothic for kids & adults. ROOT MAGIC | CONJURE ISLAND | THE CREEPENING OF DOGWOOD HOUSE | HOLLOW TONGUE | PSYCHOPOMP & CIRCUMSTANCE
she/her
edenroyce.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
X (Xen/Cole McCade)🏳️⚧️He/Him🏳️🌈 @thisblackmagic.bsky.social The dead make better companions.
Queer romance author + artist.
IndigiBlAsian POC.
Call me X.
Level 46 Xennial himbo.
Audiophile.
Bone witch of the woods.
FFXIV Mateus.
AuDHD🏳️⚧️demigray disaster bi.
🔞Minors DNI.
https://ko-fi.com/thisblackmagic
Mame Bougouma Diene @mamebougouma.bsky.social Caine Prize 2023, bunch of stuff in a bunch of places. Follow at your own risk.
Uche Ogbuji @uogbuji.bsky.social Igbo-NaijAmerican immigrant
- 🎼poet/editor/composer/DJ http://linktr.ee/uche720
- 👷🏿♂️engineer/entrepreneur http://oori.dev
- 🗣️classics+hip-hop
- 🛹snowboard/longboard
- ⚽️play/coach soccer (Gooner!)
- ❤️Wife & kids*4
- 🏠Superior, Colorado
Cherae @clclarkwrites.com SFF’s buffest lesbian. BFA & Ignyte & Locus Winner. Nebula & Hugo & BFA Finalist. TOURAINE'S ARMS & TOURAINE’S LEGS & TOURAINE'S @$$ & AMBESSA'S ARMS (Orbit ‘21,‘23,'25). français, العربيّة. they/she/sir/Hey, soldier.
https://linktr.ee/clclark
LH Moore @lhmoore.bsky.social BREATH OF LIFE out now! Science fiction, fantasy & horror author 📖. Artist🎨. Poet ✒️ Historian 📜
Call me Elle. SFWA, HWA, SCBWI. She/Her. Opinions my own.
Irette Y Patterson @irette.bsky.social Writer. Gardener. Lover of theatre. Amateur bird watcher. I know way too much about baking cookies. Words in FIYAH, Strange Horizons, and other places. www.iretteypatterson.com
Shari Paul @mousielouse.bsky.social Writer, fan, Trinbagonian 🇹🇹. Published in FIYAH, The Dark, Escape Pod and Clarkesworld. Reprints in Podcastle and Il Buio.
Trevor Fraley @illustrevor.bsky.social (He/Him) Creator of Things. Illustrator of Disney Villains: Scar series. Represented by ASH Literary Agency 
Takim Williams @takimwilliams.bsky.social Author of literary and speculative fiction | Coming out of nowhere in slow motion | 2024-2034, follow my pre-meditated ten-year overnight success
WC Dunlap @wcdunlap.bsky.social Speculative storyteller. 
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
Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social Writer: Rosewater, Murders of Molly Southbourne, Far from the Light of Heaven, Making Wolf, Jackdaw and others.
Arthur C. Clarke and BSFA award winner, Hugo finalist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Etc.
Reading worm.
Opinions mine.
He/him
Sheree Renée Thomas @shereereneethomas.bsky.social Award-winning author, poet, Hugo Award-nominated editor
TONGE I DREAM IN, MOJORHYTHM & NINE BAR BLUES, MARVEL'S Black Panther: PANTHER'S RAGE novel, AFRICA RISEN and TROUBLE THE WATERS, NYTimes bestselling collab w/ Janelle Monáe on THE MEMORY LIBRARIAN
LaShawn M. Wanak @tbonejenkins.bsky.social Science fiction and fantasy writer. Editor of GigaNotoSaurus Magazine. Anime watcher and knitter. Follower of Womanist theology. She/Her. Also, pie.
Stephen Kearse @kearse.bsky.social Journalist, critic, and author of novels Post, Liquid Snakes, and In the Heat of the Light.
Noreasontopretend.com
ArtOfEdge @artofedge.bsky.social Crafting hyper-whimsical art is my jam ✨️
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- D Del Sandeen @delsandeen.bsky.social
Jen Brown ✨ @jenbrownwrites.bsky.social Bi, Black librarian (she/her); Ignyte Award nom'd SFF author; Clarion West alum (Novel Workshop '25). Stories in Fantasy, Reactor, FIYAH, & more (🔗s on jencbrown.com).
Rep'd by Fabienne Schwizer at Ki Agency.
Header by well_dipper.
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
Duke Stephens @oliveoilcorp.bsky.social [he/him] ignatz award-winning graphic novelist
thinks a lot about werewolves
for all inquiries: oliveoilcorp@gmail.com
repped by @jenazantian.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/oliveoilcorp
tamara jerée 🖤 @tamarajeree.com author of lesbian paranormal & gothic fantasy | bookseller by day | represented by Bethany Weaver | they/them
www.tamarajeree.com
art by @northyme.com
Maz Hedgehog (they/them) @mazhedgehog.bsky.social writer/performer/general thinking person. dyke. there will be typos.
mazhedgehog.com
Brittany J Smith @britjswrites.bsky.social Author | Reader | Lesbian 🧡🤍🩷 | Gamer | Librarian | She/Her |
Tobi Ogundiran @tobiogundiran.com Ignyte, British Fantasy award-winning author of GUARDIAN OF THE GODS duology (Tor) • JACKAL, JACKAL (Undertow) • BSFA, Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy award nominee• Rep: Alex Cochran
Errick Nunnally @erricknunnally.bsky.social Graphic designer, author, artist, and some other shit probably.
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.
Dominique Ramsey 𓃥 @dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social Award-winning Illustrator and corn veggie enjoyer / no AI here
Literary agent - kelly@andreabrownlit.com
Links + portfolio - dominiqueramsey.com/carrd
Yvette Lisa Ndlovu @yvettel.bsky.social Sarungano. Author of Drinking from Graveyard Wells. Tin House Scholar. CW ‘22 Voodoonauts Cofounder
https://linktr.ee/YvetteL
Aurelius Raines II (He/Him) @aureliusr2.bsky.social Words in Apex, Apparition, Fiyah , Fantasy & Science Fiction, Black Power, Bitter Apples, Strange Horizons. SFWA, Writer & Teacher. VooDoonauts c/o '21
Air Bender 💨
Vincent uses they/them pronouns 🐸 @v-e-tirado.com afrodominican 🇩🇴 🏳️⚧️ they/them or die mad about it 👻 award winning horror author. I write a lot.
https://vetirado.carrd.co
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/
Odera Igbokwe @odera.bsky.social 🧚🏿♂️ Painter / Illustrator / Movement Artist
🌻 Summer sketchbook sale 🎨
www.odera.net/shop/sketchbook
🌞 patreon.com/Odera
Some posts are NSFW / queer & embodied / get me bodied/
M H Ayinde 🍉 A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES out now! @mhayinde.bsky.social She/Her. Blerd. Sunday Times bestselling author. Nommo, Ignyte, British Fantasy & Locus Award Finalist.
A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES out now! (Orbit UK/Saga)
https://linktr.ee/mhayinde
Kel Coleman @kcolemanwrites.bsky.social Writer with stories in FIYAH, BCS, Best American, & more | CW '22 | Ignyte Award Finalist 🔥 | they/them
kelcoleman.com
Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com available for storyboard artist, revisionist, animation writing, and illustration opportunities. aka n. romaine white. she/her.
OUT NOW: Creaky Acres.
UP NEXT: Hex and Havoc, Reel Love.
Work and stuff: nilahmagruder.carrd.co
LA Knight & Co. (CHECK PINNED - NEED HELP) @laknight89.bsky.social SFF writer (pro & fic); nommed for Locus 2021; Fiyah Lit alum; queer Black ♿ LDS autistic byke. 37. OSDD (9+). 6-peep polyam (1Sp, 2LP, 2Mm). Cat mom. Poor af. Cassgenderfluidwtf; she/they/fae/jæ/xe/etc. Anti-censorship. Pfp = illustrated version of me.
KS Walker @kswalkerwrites.bsky.social Spec fic. Bikes.Books.
Words in Uncanny, F&SF, FIYAH, Apex and elsewhere
VP 2022
they/any
Nicole Givens Kurtz @nicolegkurtz.bsky.social Award-winning author of cyberpunk noir, SF mysteries, Fantasy suspense and weird westerns.
Morgan Madeline @knightmaremorgan.bsky.social TATTOO APPRENTICE in Seattle 🌻 former concept artist in games or whatever
Fuck it we ball
she/they. black lives matter. trans rights are human rights. free palestine. NO AI/NFT
https://morganmadeline.com/
Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social NOLA. SFFH/crime/journalist. BASFF & Locus notable stories ‘23. Indie author
Contributor to Antigravity Magazine & Gambit
Words in: Buzzfeed News, Politico, Apex Mag, Fiyah, more.
NOLA 40 under 40 2025!
NOVEL: “The Pike Boys” books2read.com/thepikeboys
C. L. Polk @clpolk.com I write stuff. I knit stuff. I cook stuff. Ask me about my weird little books. https://www.clpolk.com/
LaDarrion Williams @itsladarrion.bsky.social USA Today & New York Times Bestselling Author of Blood at the Root. Also a Playwright, screenwriter, and filmmaker.
Erin Brown @babblewocky.bsky.social Spec Fic Author. SFWA. Voodoonaut. Words in FIYAH Mag, Nightmare Mag, Baffling, Fantasy Mag, The Deadlands, EscapePod, Haven, Skull & Laurel, Psychopomp. A watched plot never thickens. http://ebrownwrites.com
Beatrice Winifred Iker @beatriceiker.bsky.social CHARLEY'S HONKY-TONK (2026).
I'LL MAKE A SPECTACLE OF YOU (2025).
they/them
Rep: James McGowan at BookEnds Literary
https://linktr.ee/BeatriceWinifredIker
Gnesis Villar @vgnesis.bsky.social I (sometimes) teach, I (occasionally) write, and I (mostly) experience existential dread over late capitalism at my university.
Find my work here: https://beacons.ai/gnesis_v
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
intelligentwat 🇹🇹 BRING BACK ŁINK @zinrock.bsky.social ZinRock.com
Black. Queer. Genderweird. Author.
rep: @arleysorg.bsky.social
preliminary editor and sensitivity reader. don't fuck with AI. horror obsessed.
toss a coin? https://ko-fi.com/zinrock
Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social Writer, Poet, Author. Monster (golden-hearted, love-hungry, moon-blessed).
https://www.amazon.com/Delphinium-Gospel-Denzel-Xavier-Scott/dp/1942004680
Lysz Flo aka 🇭🇹Bat Yo Ministries🇭🇹 @lyszflo.bsky.social Reimaginer of worlds
Afrocaribbean 🇭🇹🇵🇷⚔️
Ignyte Award Winner
Poet | Educator | Afrofuturist | Oracle
Lyszflo.com
Plangdi Neple @plangdi.bsky.social SFF writer and nerd! || He/Him
Stories in: Omenana, Anathema, Translunar Travelers Lounge, FIYAH, Baffling, and more.
https://plangdineple.wixsite.com/plangdi
Nkereuwem Albert @nkereuwxm.bsky.social author, The Bone River ( phoenix 25’) || win: Dream Foundry ‘23 || words in: omenanamag, FIYAH, Fusion Fragment and Will This Be A Problem. BSFA and Ignyte Finalist 🐍
Chris Kindred @chriskindred.com Narrative Designer, Educator, Illustrator, DJ, Something or Other
chris@chriskindred.com
K.W. Onley @kwonley.bsky.social Mama, entrepreneur, leader. I write speculative fiction for grown folk and littles. Viable Paradise 2022, Grub Short Story Incubator 2021.
http://www.kwonley.com
C. M. Lockhart (Chelsea) @clockhartwrite.bsky.social I write books about Black girls who aren't all that nice ✌🏾
WE ARE THE ORIGIN (2022)
WE ARE DYING GODS (2023)
DEATH AMONG THE STARS (2025)
She / Her / Chelsea
https://www.writteninmelanin.com/links
Conrad Loyer @conradloyer.bsky.social Writer, editor, gamemaster | Embracing the new mess 🌵| MFA candidate at the University of Alabama | Clarion West 2024 🐸| he/him
Regina YC Garcia @profesoragina.bsky.social Author of Whispers from the Multiverse: https://aquariuspress.myshopify.com/collections/black-history-month-collection/products/whispers-from-the-multiverse
P.C. Verrone @pcverrone.com Writer of page & stage.
Author of RABBIT, FOX, TAR (Catapult, 2026).
Playwright of BAD MEDICINE & CROCODILE DAY (Playscripts, 2023)
Lit rep: Alyssa Jennette.
pcverrone.com
Chris Campbell @chriscampbell.bsky.social Words in FIYAH, Asimov’s, Escape Pod and more. VP2023 CW2024. Rep Sara Megibow. 45% goblin proof 65% decidedly not. clundycampbell.com Editor of NewYearNewYou.
Tatiana Obey @obeytheauthor.bsky.social 🏹 Black & Indie Fantasy Author
⚔️ I write badass characters slaying dragons
🗡️ Diverse character-driven action fantasy
Tonja K. Johnson | Black Speculative Fiction @tonjakjohnson.bsky.social (she/her)
🏅Award-winning SFFH Author | Acquiring Editor @fiyahlitmag | First Reader @othersidespec | MWC '26 | Pre-order DARK STAR 👇🏾👇🏾
tonjakjohnson.com/links
L. Nabang @nabangl.bsky.social Call me Nabang 🤭 | https://lnabang.com/ | She/Her | 🇨🇲 | AroAce 💜💚 🖤 | Fantasy/Fabulism | WNDB BC Revision Workshop Mentee ‘24 | RevPit ‘24 Longlist | 🍉 |
Antoinette_The 1_ @antoinettev.bsky.social 🇳🇮🇬🇾🇨🇷 | Afrocosmic Writer • Illustrator | VIZ Mangaka🩸🪐 | Words: Hexagon SF, Inner Worlds, FIYAH Lit, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Amorphaville • Rep: @julieacrisp.bsky.social
🔗 https://www.viz.com/vizmanga/deepseeker-chapter-1/chapter/49177?action=read
Bethany C Morrow @bethanycmorrow.com BCMorrow on IG/Threads. Adult/YA Author. Bestseller. Social Justice in Literature Award winner. Locus, Ignyte, and Audie finalist. Christ follower. Planet of the Apes stan.
THE BODY (Nightfire/Tor) out now!
https://linktr.ee/bcmorrow
Liza W (she/they) @lizawemakor.bsky.social Nonfiction Editor @ Anathema Mag | Writer | English Ph.D. candidate @ UC Riverside | ‘Loving Safoa’ sapphic vampire novella available @ Neon Hemlock Press
https://linktr.ee/lizawemakor