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"The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
'T is not too late to seek a newer world."
We need not always mourn what is dying.
Fairly erudite. More than fairly iconoclastic.
I adore Jade.
Three chums, one microphone, and a whole world of folk horror. The Folk n Hell podcast unearths delights from around the world and tries to agree if they're worth our (and your) time.
www.folknhell.com or wherever you get your podcasts
This ATL🍑 is here in Jan2026
Freelance Journalist
Ghostwriter for 📖 & 🎶
#RevPit '22 Winner
#SCBWI
Disabled #LupusWarrior
Wife
#CatMom 🐈🐈
#GamerGirl
#AmWriting & #AmQuerying #KidLit & ChickLit
She/Her
www.CrystalSmallsWright.com
https://x.com/CSmallsWright
Do you know which way to go?
www.adventitious.net
Writer. Freelance editor. Filmmaker in the making. Curious human.
Based in Corvallis, OR, and sometimes Chicago.
www.eleridenham.com
(🌈 they/she)
He/They. Biromantic Demisexual. Ace. Queer. Asian-Canadian. Tarot/Crystal Nerd. Stutterer. Eclectic Christian. ADHD and Anxiety. Still trying my best. http://linktr.ee/rampancy | https://rampancy.carrd.co/ | justinanchetawriter.com
Strange but not a stranger. Comicsmith. Medievalist. Podcasting librarian selecting media (@SPLTurnthePage.bsky.social). Face/Off (1997) enthusiast. She/her. 🖖
https://linktr.ee/jennlynnjordan
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💀EIC at Truborn Press
💀Horror Enthusiast in the PNW
💀Book Lover/Reviewer
www.trubornpress.com
Black lives matter.
Unrepentant French roast enthusiast.
Proud cat dad, he/him.
Married to Amaya Naomi, father to Augustus, cat dad. Follow me for posts about writing, books, movie reviews, and of course cats.
Coffee enthusiast. Gothicist. Biocultural archaeologist - history of anatomy & museums, forensic anthro, mummies, Nuclear Culture
Writes about archaeology horror, mummy films, Scooby-Doo
Also @excavatinghorror.com
Not weird at all
She/Her Gen-X & Middle Child, Semi-Human / Semi-Feral Cozy Gamer. Lover of Catbellies. Reader of stories into a microphone. Prairie Punk is my aesthetic.
Watching democracy die in real time SUCKS.
https://bdhandcrafteddecor.etsy.com
SFF author | Linguist at Grinnell College | she/her
eleanorglewwe.com
A volunteer organization to support and promote the Merril Collection of SciFi, Speculation, and Fantasy, a public access collection in Toronto.
https://friendsofmerril.org/
44🎂 in West Virginia! 🏳️🌈 🐈⬛️ 📚✍️ 🎮 🕉 🍕
2x Writing.com Best Poetry Collection Quill Award winner and blogger. 3x published author. Former child. Hemmed up by JGM. #BillsMafia #Sabres #LGM #NDIrish Don't mind me; I hate everything. Norbaikin.com/blog
Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy author, artist and reader | 🌈 Queer AuDHD Nerdmother | Earth Scientist | Software Developer | 🐉 TTRPG enthusiast and DM of entirely too many games (colonialism and capitalism are always the BBEGs!)
The morning 🌞 and a quest for awe and wonder.
A bit sweary but generally a positive outlook.
My brother won a 2025 Emmy 🏆!! 🥹
❤️ EDM, Jazz, Metal, Punk, Indie 🎶
📣 Liverpool FC, Habs, Jays, and Raps
Fight Climate Change and Fascism
Treaty 3 / Hamilton 🔨 🇨🇦
A writer here to tempt all who hold being a girl in their hearts into accepting the love and kindness of monsters. Come for a bite, leave knowing you will always belong.
30s | Dragon Type | Impish Nature
https://irenefray.bearblog.dev/
📚 Indie author. 🧿❤️🔥Bruja. 🦋🫀Mama to Gus. 🇲🇽🇬🇹🏳️🌈 I am here to ramble about writing, TV, movies, & books.
corgi tamer. epic fantasy writer. central & eastern europe. foreign affairs posting (sometimes). they/she. 🌈
Dragon's Liberty (8.18.2026)
Preorder and add to Goodreads here! https://linktr.ee/kbdiaz
award-winning novelist. transgender mixed-race rabble rouser. astrology student. into: working class solidarity. folklore and myth. sobriety. dungeon mastering, etc. (he/they)
(she/her) Tejana writer, teaching artist, editor and mentor. Author of Offerings to a Tumbled Temple with @purpleinkpress.bsky.social & The Remedy is the Disease, forthcoming in 2026 @undertakerbooks.bsky.social
Find my work at: http://linktr.ee/lurieta16
East Los writer living in El Tuce aka Tucson.
Author of the short story collection Chola Salvation and the novel Huizache Women. Both published by Arte Público Press.
www.eastloswriter.com
Author of the macabre.
Enthusiast of all things horror.
🔃 LOADING... 🔃
Website: https://daniellornhorror.co.uk/
Scribe, scribbler, musician, crossword enthusiast
Dramatic subtlety of Groucho paired with the comic timing of Karl.
(she/her)
Film Critic (Film Comment, Reverse Shot, etc). GALECA.
Co-Author of CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS
Matching books w/ readers thru the library especially #HorrorForLibraries. Jersey Girl in exile. Reviews for LJ & Booklist. HWA Sec. Rep @laneheymont.bsky.social. WHY I LOVE HORROR (Saga Press) out 9/23/25. https://bit.ly/WhyILoveHorror. (She/Her)
5'3 / pretty messy / does not modulate voice / satisfactory appearance 🦕💖🦖
Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
Author of mild-mannered middle-grade books, including MIND OVER MONSTERS (McElderry/S&S). Agent: Joan Paquette. BetsyUhrig.com
Rambler of random ramblings and attempted purveyor of minor scribblings
He/Him
Author of THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE BLACK FLAG | Current WIP: THE SHERWOOD GAMBIT | former (?) film/comic review blogger | unrepentant punster | he/his/him
iannathanielcohen.weebly.com
Author of sapphic romances (with some spice) 💕☺️ 💖 🥰
Website: https://maloriequesttauthor.fwh.is/
My Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Malorie-Questt/author/B0GL55SKVF?ref=ap_rdr&shoppingPortalEnabled=true&ccs_id=277f4cbd-a296-464e-8e5a-ec63ac167ff6
Not Giving Up.
Oscar Nominated Director:
RBG, JULIA, MY NAME IS PAULI MURRAY, GABBY GIFFORDS (w/Betsy West)
PATH FORWARD (w/Mo Husseini)
EVERY BODY, STURGEON QUEENS
I ❤️ @PaulTheDogMan & 🐕 🐕
Co-Founder w @lizzylady: MontclairSundays protests. JOIN US
From Beyond Press EIC, shitposter, reader, music listener, writer, in approximately that order. Human sized piñata stuffed with cheese and anxiety. he/him
Librarian. Aspiring writer of middle grade fiction. Dangerously optimistic. She/her. Vancouver, BC.
writer, editor, prof, traductrice
Queer ecofiction novel forthcoming @Stelliform.press: The Hunger of Those Who Built It
🌹 grew up in the Hammer, raising rabble world-wide 🌹
she | they | dr 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈 🇦🇺 🇫🇷
Queen's | UofT | ISTI | Clarion
A small press based in Lexington, Kentucky that publishes offbeat mystery, dark humor, southern gothic, and literary fiction. Submissions open at brownhoundpress.com.
🌈 31. they/them. lesbian.
avid reader (and occasional reviewer) of lesbian & sapphic fiction!
8/150 📚 #lesfic #wlw #sapphicbooks
PNW Progressive. Bernie Sanders would've won. Mom to GingerJack the happy Husky mix; late-Dx ÃûDHD; unapologetic Leftist. Likes ≠ endorsements.
🚫 crypto| magats| bots. I ignore blank profiles. I block profiles that ask for money. 🚧
Writer and reader of fiction -- history, sff, romance, thrillers. Interested in sustainability, rewilding, growing things. Knitter, early tech adopter, parent, spouse, disabled.
They/them. Also writes as Frances Fox. https://lnk.bio/gjD5 🏳️🌈 ✒️ 🏳️⚧️
Sapphic Scottish specfic duo E&M. Fungi fanatics, lurcher lovers, gin guzzlers.
The Needfire NOW OUT out with Solaris Books!
Repped by John Baker @ BLM.
https://linktr.ee/mkhardy
Your favourite independent, genrefluid fiction publisher, bringing you the very best in SF, F & WTF!?
IG/X: @angryrobotbooks
vintage seller, art curator | @harpersbazaarus @nymag.com @wmagazine.com.web.brid.gy @interviewmag @marthaliving past Table of the Elements record label, Album 88, Criminal Records, Wuxtry Records, Deitch Projects. words: @burnaway.org nyc->athens ga
I mainly write nonfiction on social science & propaganda. Also into sci-fi! Here to connect with people who have similar interests. https://www.fiverr.com/sellers/chesterdavis468 Nonfiction: https://medium.com/@chesterdavis & howsocietyworks.substack.com
If our first interaction is you following me, I won't be following back.
80% faux snobbery, 20% actual snobbery. Even I'm not sure which is which. He/Him.
Posts: https://bsky.app/profile/notowenmeany.bsky.social/lists/3l72c4lzqtx2k
Writer, technical proof-reader, software engineer
Books:
Artificial Intelligence: The Quest for the Ultimate Thinking Machine
Artificial Intelligence in easy steps
Rust Progrogramming in easy steps
WIP:
Return to Fairyland
Youtube: https://youtube.com/@ro.reading?si=dXyVjRTMTVY5kl43
Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/skyeoak
🧑🏻🎤 🏳️🌈 ♠️ liminal cartoonist™ • fr/us citizen in BER • “[…] so also faith without works is dead” • views moin • linktr.ee/clairikine • #heycohost • header from #AvengersAcademy • 🚫 genAI
She/her. Crocheter, digital artist, nature lover, NoAI
Working in mental health doing peer support and other things. Writing speculative fiction extremely slowly. She/They.
https://sarah-i-jackson.ghost.io/
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say that there isn't. Why don't you come on back to the war? That's right, get in it
Interests: politics, sports (NFL (49ers), NBA (Kings), EPL (Arsenal), CFB and CMBB (UCLA), F1 (mostly Lewis Hamilton), MLB (SF Giants)), comics, Sci-Fi, fantasy, D&D, live plays, anime, Gacha games (FTP only), nerd culture and so much more.
Filmmaker behind The Amityville Lost Tape & Zombie with a Shotgun - @zombiewithashotgun.bsky.social
Watch➡️ https://tinyurl.com/3fwy6f3j | https://tubitv.com/movies/100043140/zombie-with-a-shotgun
More 🎥 🌐 https://linktr.ee/hiltonarielruiz
Actor, producer. Preacher Six, Zombie W A Shotgun, Haunted Lake Lanier
#Filmsky #SupportIndieFilm
Pagan
No hate! ⚜️WhoDat!?
Married to Tracy Ray Author
Haunted Lake Lanier on Amazon!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0D7SV2MLQ/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r
is this the one that wins
He/Him. Proselytizer of pie in all its many wonderous forms. Pieselytizer?
Finally climbed aboard a lifeboat off that sinking ship, thanks to a kind stranger!
Lesbian learning about the world slowly but steadily, ADHD-haver, 33 🏳️⚧️
Free Palestine
she/her
I'm a nerdy 30year old trans girl trans lesbian she/her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ i adore fallout new vegas I adore vampire the masquerade and the world of darkness Iadore warhammer 40k,superhero comics,anime,science fiction and fantasy shows and movies Audhd, free palestine🇵🇸
Writing fiction that makes folks ugly cry, even as it inspires bruisingly fierce hope. Queer (trans and bi/pan), world traveller, and tea connoisseur. UEA alumnus and Lambda Literary Fellow. 🚫 Gen AI. He/his.
https://jskuiken.com/links/
Breakfast is the most dangerous meal of the day.
I work with the dying, the dead, and the things left behind.
Deliberate She/Occasional They
Born in the wilds of West Quebec. Writer. Director. Cat herder. Dog companion. Authentic hillbilly bloodlines. Future 6th Generation Farmer. Distant relative of famous Mulligan Golf Dude! Opinions mine.
Posts many cat pics. Former scholar of Islamic history who now writes about new SFF at nerds-feather.com and podcasts about SFF history at Hugo History: klaxoncomms.com/hugo-history
Queer/Ace/ADHD. #Vancouver 🇨🇦
grad student, writer, editor @augursociety.bsky.social first reader @khoreo.bsky.social
Neurodivergent. LGBTQ+ 🌈 Passionate about autism advocacy, mental health, and research. Community volunteer. Love 🐈, PPI, art and learning
Creator of this popular PPI resource (used by research orgs & universities globally):
tiny.cc/PPIdiagram
This is a HYBRID film festival with live screenings for the audience feedback video, optional virtual 2nd showcase, and blog & podcast interviews with filmmaker
http://fantasyscififestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/FantasySciFiFilmScreenplayFestival
classically trained artist.
theartofpants.com
Waterloo Region's biggest writers collective. Connecting local authors with each other and with readers.
kwwritersalliance.com
Poet and writer of weird stories
Queer / nb / chronically ill / neurodivergent.
Body of a cyborg with the heart of a forest demon.
🏳️🌈 🇨🇦 |🟨⬜️🟪⬛️| 💉
I write books my mom says are the best books she's ever read in her life. So, I'm kind of a big deal.
https://linktr.ee/brooks_writes_books
Writer
Poetry: Forward Prize & BOTN nominee
100+ poems in Agenda, Stand, Poetry Salzburg, Chiron Review, IS&T etc & on BBC
Walking at Night finalist
Charles Causley & 2 Bridport shortlists
Magna Carta Comp (3rd)
Prose: Orwell Prize/Bridport Novel longlists
“Having fun isn’t hard, when you’ve got a library card!” - Arthur Read
•Library’s Number One Fan
•Mental Health Matters ALWAYS
Sober trans broad. Award winning writer. Former smoker. I write a newsletter called Anxiety Shark, my debut book is called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
She//Her
linktr.ee/nikostratis
Shitposting from the heart. 💚
I also do a ton of Star Trek fan art and even sell some of it. 🖖🏻
https://www.gettheorion.com/store
💜 she/her, 40, sapphic who loves 🏳️⚧️
🌟 Korean American adoptee in the PNW; artist and streamer; magical girl enthusiast; lover of food, video games, and books. Wife and dog mom, chronically ill and disabled 🌟
💖 https://mochibuni.carrd.co/ 💖
Writing, eating, baking, traveling, or some combination thereof.
She/her
Fiction writer, poet, member @HWA @SFWA @AuthorsGuild. Indulge your inner vengeful goddess: https://www.patreon.com/CelesteWakefield
Fractured Lit publishes flash fiction with emotional resonance. Open year-round and is available to all writers. https://fracturedlit.com/ Posts by @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social
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New York Times bestselling author. I still believe if I spin fast enough I’ll turn into Wonder Woman. She/her. https://www.deannaraybourn.com
Artist🫠MONSTRESS, THE NIGHT EATERS and more.🫠
Author of Graveyard Mind and the Thunder Road Trilogy. Winner of the 2021 Prix Aurora Award for Best Short Story. (He/Him)
girl nerd. chaotic neutral. expletives encouraged. sometimes editor, gamer. always: dog mom. 🏳️🌈🤍🖤💜she/her/they 🚫Ai
I turn Diet Coke into books. Writer, film prof, pit bull advocate, #EDS patient, shenanigans enthusiast. I’d probably be great on your podcast. She/her.
Find me everywhere: http://linktr.ee/melissafolson
botmaker, jeweler, queer, kobold, glass wizard, husband haver, capitalism hater. they/them ze/hir https://nora.jewelry/ https://nora.zone/ @nora@blob.love on fedi. see @infinitescream.bsky.social if you want to see my posts (rude). shop is closed
Romance reader, reviews @ Smexybooks.com, leaning enthusiast, these mashed potatoes are so creamy, she/her
Thai American author of romance, science fiction, and fantasy. Gamer. Foodie. Wanderer. Usually not lost.
She/her, they/them. Writer, Researcher. Work in Strange Horizons, Tin House, Electric Lit, and more. I used to do research for Roxane Gay.
🇹🇹 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/
she/her. southern geek feminist and scholar of boning. bylines at NYT Book Review, Booklist, Strange Horizons, Lady Business, Reactor. author of SFF romance column Ships in the Night for Reactor.
They/Them 🏳️⚧️
Full-time Floridian, Part-time Person.
Author, Illustrator, Drag King. Tabletop nerd and Glittery Ghoul.
Ask me about the lost potential of the Pacific Rim franchise 🤖
Speculative fiction writer, occasional editor, and part-time educator. All opinions my own, unless they're someone else's.
Author of (primarily speculative fiction) stories and novels, also reader thereof. My flintlock fantasy novel Wayward Wings came out in 2024, and I'm bimbling my way through writing the next one
https://sslottje-author.com/
You know who I Tam in Toronto Canada (35, They/Any/Tam, 18+ Poly Taken & NSFW at times & Bengali Queer Gaymer) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇧🇩🇨🇦🇵🇸 MDNI
I cosplay, make gifs and fool around and Mohinipost
Instagram: http://instagram.com/TheTampire
Tumblr: http://tampire.tumblr.com
Bitch of Rome Entertainment is a celebration of fandom through epic music video remixes with a strong focus on action and chicks kicking ass!
https://www.youtube.com/@BitchofRome
http://www.bitchofrome.com/
Multi-disciplinary maker of things, mostly fiction and sewing right now | Very into storytelling as a thing we humans do | https://linktr.ee/tigheskye | Tighe (pronounced TEEg) for short, Tighearnán (TEER-nin) for long | they/them 🏳️⚧️
