An anthology of speculative fiction from the African Diaspora
https://thecookoutanthology.com/
Writing competition for unpublished and independently published novelists. Entries close on the 31st of May. Judged by Sally Williamson (Transworld) and Hayley Steed (Janklow & Nesbit). Organised by the Literary Studio. Bloomsbury, London
firstnovel.co.uk
My words are brushstrokes for the soul.
I write to create shelter, stir truth, and wake what’s been sleeping inside me. 🌱
Artist | Poet | Mental Health & Disability Advocate | Songwriter | Fitness | Anime & Fantasy Lover
ESFF is an open writing community for Science Fiction and Fantasy writers in Scotland. Events, resources & support, writing sessions, critique + more.
Web & city map for writers:
https://EdinburghSFF.com
Discord:
https://EdinburghSFF.com/community
B-more's own. Actress & Author of The Forge & Fracture Saga. Head full of trivia, heart full of swordfights
Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Writing embarrassing crap about my life.
Creative Writing Prof @ Butler University
📍Indianapolis
🇨🇺🇵🇷🇺🇸
natalielima.com
writer + creative coach
BRUTALITIES: a love story @w.w.norton
essays @nytimes @brevitylitmag @thesunmagazine @offassignment @slate @airmail @romper @guardian_us @lareviewofbooks
BAE notable
alum @uarizonamfa
everything: https://linktr.ee/margosteines
Posting Science Fiction, Fantasy, Geekery, bookshop life, occasional cats.
Expert Bookseller at Waterstones Ipswich. All views my own.
World Fantasy Award-winning author of SAINT DEATH’S DAUGHTER & BONE SWANS. Audiobook narrator. Bandcamp: Brimstone Rhine. Repped by RHA Literary. https://linktr.ee/csecooney
GDC award-winning game writer and narrative designer. life is strange | hiveswap | magic the gathering | pathologic
formerly a narrative lead at deck nine games. invite me on your podcast.
she/her.
works in 📚: literary agent and 🌍 rights manager
co-founder of BIPOC of Publishing in Canada.
views shared are mine alone, kthnxbyeeee!
https://linktr.ee/hel_no_wai
Lawyer, academic, writer, and occasional singer and poet.
Author of Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge.
Handle on all socials: folukeifejola
Website: FolukeAfrica.com
https://linktr.ee/folukeifejola
Assoc Prof of English (modernism/poetry) at ULethbridge, critic (often in The Nation), ghostwriter of Tár On Tár
Writer, grad student, amateur kazooist (she/they)
The Splinter in the Sky (2023), This World Is Not Yours (2024), The King Must Die (2025), assorted short stories, & some other stuff
kashinggiwa.com
Math, history, science fiction, string theory, games with string.
yarntheory.net
Latest novel MOON OF THE TURNING LEAVES is available via Random House in Canada and William Morrow in the USA
sff writer/playwright · pop culture critic at Reactor, Lit Hub, Den of Geek, NPR Books · stories at PodCastle, Icarus Writing Collective · Viable Paradise 2025 · PlayPenn Playwright Entrepreneur Program 25/26 · she/her
Author of Pride and Protest and Sex, Lies and Sensibility! @Berkley
👇🏾Pre-order Princess and the P.I.
https://a.co/d/eOwCzUS
Anthropologist
Writer
Geriatric Millennial
The London Topographical Society makes available, to its members and the general public, material illustrating the history, growth and topography of London. See more of what we have to offer at: londontopsoc.org
Writer. Reader. Swahili Sea Citizen. Voodoonauts co-creator. Podcastle Magazine Co-Editor. Fantasy Magazine Co-Editor. Octavia Butler scholar at Clarion.
New worlds in our Lifetime ❤️
Future Bestselling Author of FIRSTBORN OF THE SUN ☀️🧡Out with Penguin Michael Joseph, Oct 23, 2025
www.justmarve.org
Register for Karen Attiah's classes here!: https://www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-registration
Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
Women & Girls Reporter for Free Press Indiana.
I deserve it all.
https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
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
Writer, fan, Trinbagonian 🇹🇹. Published in FIYAH, The Dark, Escape Pod and Clarkesworld. Reprints in Podcastle and Il Buio. BTS ARMY 아포방포.
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
Views = my own.
Artist and writer.
Books: The Heretic Series. Bride of the River God
Comics: The Violent Vixens Ride Again, Soul Food War, Villainous (webcomic). #art #books www.sarahamacklin.com
https://linktr.ee/sarahamacklin
Writer with stories in FIYAH, BCS, Best American, & more | CW '22 | Ignyte Award Finalist 🔥 | they/them
kelcoleman.com
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/
WFA Nominated editor. Ignyte Nominated Editor.
Writer. Podcaster. Narrator. SFWA. Codex.
she/her
#BLM ✊🏽 ☪️🎙
So be it. See to it. ~ Octavia Butler
Writer of Southern Gothic for kids & adults. Walter Award Honoree. Shirley Jackson, Bram Stoker, & Ignyte Award winner. Nebula finalist. ROOT MAGIC | THE CREEPENING OF DOGWOOD HOUSE | HOLLOW TONGUE
she/her
https://linktr.ee/edenroyce
Award-winning author, poet, Hugo Award-nominated editor
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
Bi, black librarian (she/her); Ignyte Award nom'd SFF author; Clarion West alum (Novel Workshop '25); community admin for wehere.space. Stories in FIYAH, Anathema, Baffling, & more.
jencbrown.com
(Header by the incomparable well_dipper 🎨)
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.
Sarungano. Author of Drinking from Graveyard Wells. Tin House Scholar. CW ‘22 Voodoonauts Cofounder
https://linktr.ee/YvetteL
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/
author, The Bone River ( phoenix 25’) || win: Dream Foundry ‘23 || words in: omenanamag, fiyahlitmag
SFF writer and nerd! || He/Him
Stories in: Omenana, Anathema, Translunar Travelers Lounge, FIYAH, Baffling, and more.
https://plangdineple.wixsite.com/plangdi
Writer, bookseller, cafe owner, bibliophile, darkness-kicker, mild maniac, mother, iconoclast.
Owner/operator of Trident Booksellers & Cafe, Halifax
www.once-and-future.com
Monsters are friends.
TriCon is Atlantic Canada's literary conference for speculative fiction. TriCon 2026 will be held May 15th-17th, 2026 at The Westin Nova Scotian.
https://tricon-halifax.com
Teacher. Linguist. Writer | Nebula Finalist DAYDREAMER (Labyrinth Rd,'24)| BSFWriters | Rep by Barry Goldblatt | Afro 🌞 Punk & Dragons| Pronouns: is/was/will be. I don't debate randos on social media.
Award-winning SFF author of THE LESSON and NO GODS, NO MONSTERS, founder/member of Many Worlds. 1/5th of Darkly Lem.
Freelance writer, developmental and line editor, host of podcast Bitches on Comics, bylines at The Independent, Electric Lit, Upworthy, and more, sickest citations on Wikipedia imho
Journalist, critic, and author of novels Liquid Snakes and In the Heat of the Light.
Noreasontopretend.com
SFF enthusiast, hobby-collector, blogger, shouter-at-the-internet. Editor at Ignyte and Hugo winner Nerds of a Feather, along with reviews elsewhere. 2025 Hugo Fan Writer finalist. All links here: https://linktr.ee/roseanna.pendlebury (she/her).
WorldCon in Montreal in 2027.
https://bid.montreal2027.ca/en-ca/
Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
Author and professor type person.
SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24
Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com
Muñeca, my queer gothic historical fiction novel, is out June 2026 from Penguin. 2024 Ignyte nominee for "Lips Like Sugar." Member HWA."The Nightmare Box and Other Stories" out now from cursedmorselspress.com. Rep @LaurenBajek.
cynthiasaysboo.wordpress.com
Doing what I dreamed of since I was a kid.
Books: Lone Women, The Changeling, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Devil in Silver.
TV: The Changeling (EP), The Terror: Devil in Silver (Creator, Showrunner)
Comics: Destroyer, Eve, Sabretooth, Black Panther
In: Tor |F&SF| Clarkesworld| BCS| Podcastle| Strange Horizons| Escape Pod| Pseudopod| BFA shortlist| MFA, @UofMaryland| TinHouse ‘24| Clarion West ‘24| @sfwa. Filmmaker| Rep: @crsripley.bsky.social (selectricartists.com)
somtoihezue.com
Science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer. Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach, High Times in the Low Parliament, A Human Stain, Waters of Versailles https://kellyrobson.com/books
Trans rights are human rights for f*cks sake
she/her in Toronto, Canada
short fic/poetry/essays in Strange Horizons, Reactor, Fantasy, &c. • Ignyte, Rhysling, & Locus noms • 🇲🇾🇺🇸🏳️🌈 (they/them) • linktr.ee/lowph
SFF Author (she/her) of NY Times best-selling book Dreadful, The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association, and Startup Hell. AKA Catherine Beck, author of Leah's Perfect Christmas.
https://www.caitlinrozakis.com/
https://linktr.ee/caitlinrozakis
Writer, and mediaeval historian (the latter as Kari Maund). With cats. Sometimes political (on the Left). Sometimes musketeers. Cis, demi, she/her. Draws sheep, badly.
Indicator.media publishes original reporting, in-depth investigations, and practical tutorials on OSINT tools & techniques. We provide engaged citizens and professionals with the knowledge they need to fight digital deception.
Canadian, author & reader, nerd, parent. She/they. SFWA, SCBWI, Codexian. Invisibly bi/pan 🏳️🌈 Proud member of 🇺🇦 diaspora in 🇨🇦. https://nrmroshak.com and https://rdbms-insight.com
Writer, teacher, editor. Words in McSweeney’s, Utne Reader, Joyland, Broken Pencil & more. Author of the Jack Palace crime series. Most recent book: WELCOME TO THE WEIRD AMERICA. As co-editor: DEVOURING TOMORROW
SFF & literary | Chinese-Canadian
Tin House | senior editor @augursociety.bsky.social | publicity @psychopomp.com
linktr.ee/MelissaRen
melissaren.substack.com
he/him. Canadian SFF author: CATALYST (2022), CASTOFF (2025). Games writer: The Expanse RPG, ICONS. Vice chair of Can*Con. 2500-year-old Time Lord and snake parent. Repped by @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social at DMLA.
linktr.ee/brandoncrilly
SFF writer—Year’s Best Canadian SFF, Fantasy Mag, THIS Mag. @SFWA. Banff Sci-fi ‘25. 6X Aurora Finalist. Loves fairy tales, comics, video games, D&D.
Publisher @augursociety — Augur Mag, Tales & Feathers Mag, Augur Books.
Contact me @ www.kerrycbyrne.com
Not here much! -- Writer from KY in Canada | 2025 MacDowell Fellow and @TinHouse.bsky.social Scholar | 3rd book coming 2026 @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social | Senior Editor @augursociety.bsky.social | conyerclayton.com | they/them
Canadian SFF writer. Author of IN VERITAS and THE DROWNED MAN'S DAUGHTER. Short stories in On Spec, Fusion Fragment, Augur, PodCastle, and other fine publications. Rep: Arley Sorg. I like coffee and cats. www.cjlavigne.com
Author, essayist and scholar. Recently grown up. Medicated somebody. PhDing at Lancaster University.
Agency page: https://tinyurl.com/39sren8c
Atlantic Canada's Largest Completely Volunteer Run Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Gaming Convention!
Hal-Con 2026: Nov 6-8 at the Halifax Convention Centre, Halifax NS
I wrote Meet Me at the Crossroads (Amistad 2025)The Women Could Fly (Amistad 2022) and Lakewood (Amistad 2020). Yes, I do live in Minneapolis. Boss, I'm tired.
www.megangiddings.com
Writer of Many Things, Dad of Many Creatures.
Editor & Managing Director at @augursociety.bsky.social & @talesfeathers.bsky.social. Fiction in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Small Wonders, Heartlines, Haven Spec, & more. he/him
www.andregeleynse.com
Investigative Journalist climate, energy, environment.
Rolling Stone politics contributing reporter.
"Gripping in its disgusting clarity." - my writing
Book Author. Lecturer. Pool shark.
http://www.AntoniaJuhasz.net
Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
@strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year
Writes things, mostly. Dun Clarion. This may shock and disgust you, but I really like films and books.
News from the African and Black literature scene since 2013.
Email: Kibara@gmail.com.
Website: http://www.writingafrica.com
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
Novelist. Won: Astounding, BFA Newcomer. Dabbles: history, poetry, costumes, live roleplay. She/they. Mostly photos of my dog. Repped by @jenniegoloboy.bsky.social
Anansi publishes very good books. 📖
Follow us on Instagram and Pinterest: @houseofanansi
Visit our website: https://houseofanansi.com/?utm_source=bsky&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=bluesky_profile
making fiction podcasts at @atypicalartists.co. she/her
the bright sessions 💡
two thousand & late😈
phantom pulse🎸
breaker whiskey 📻
new year’s day 🌃
bridgewater 🌖
maxine miles 🔎
surviving hawkins 📚
laurenshippen.com
icon by @emkaydraws.bsky.social
NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
🇺🇸&🇯🇵 SFF author | 📚: THE DEEP SKY, THE STARDUST GRAIL, SALTCROP (Flatiron). ENVOY (2027) (Tor). Any opinions expressed are my own only. (http://linktr.ee/yumekitasei)
Writer, culture worker, DJ. Tucson Poet Laureate.
Author: RECKON (U Arizona Press, 2026)
Interests & work: Education, Landback, synchronicity, cumbia, plants. Dirtyverbs.com/link-in-bio
Aka Nassos. He/they. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
World Fantasy & Nebula Award winner.
SOUR CHERRY out April 2025 from
Tin House (US) & Wildfire (UK).
Website: http://www.natalia-theodoridou.com
Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
Your friendly nemesis. BFA & Shirley Jackson Award Winner. BSFA, Hugo, Ignyte, Locus, Nebula, WFA finalist. Reactor.com, Uncanny, Strange Horizons, & more. ClarionWest '19. She/Her. Rep: Jessica Friedman @SterlingLordLit
Nebula Award-winning writer • Sci-fi, fantasy, horror • PhD in Language & Rhetoric • Clarion ‘24 • Odyssey ‘23 • Stories in Clarkesworld, Uncanny, Cast of Wonders, khōréō, etc. 🇮🇩 Jakarta 🇺🇸 PNW. Website: awprihandita.com (she/her)
unserious moonlight
owner of bookmoonbooks.com
www.kellylink.net
she/her
Happy to recommend books if you tell me 2 writers you love & what you’re in the mood for. Signed copies of my books available at www.bookmoonbooks.com. TERFS & fascists fuck off.
Author, artist, old-school nerd who likes to write books with dragons in them. x2 Astounding nominated author of the A CHORUS OF DRAGONS series and THE SKY ON FIRE from Tor books. Rep'd by Chris Lotts.
Magician. Marketing Director of khōréō. MacDowell Fellow. Stories & Essays: mlkrishnan.com
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
New York Times Bestselling author of A SONG OF WRAITHS AND RUIN + more. Just another new social media profile hahahahaa :') 🇬🇭
Author, essayist, hot fat monster of appetites. Bi my books and tell me I’m pretty.
https://linktr.ee/megelison
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
Association de professeur.e.s de l’Université d’Ottawa / Association of Professors of the University of Ottawa
Writes romance, thrillers, and more. Lives in France. Note: Scammers are currently impersonating me on social media and via email. I DO NOT COLD EMAIL FELLOW AUTHORS OR OFFER MARKETING SERVICES.
Narrative Director/Cofounder @ Perfect Garbage 🔪 making Grave Seasons
✦ FROM THE BELLY ✦ LET ME OUT
Lit Rep: Tamara Kawar ✦ Film/TV: Sean Berard, Grandview
www.emmettnahil.com
African spec author, ronin editor, recovering journalist.
🏳️🌈She/Her🏳️🌈
EX MARGINALIA my collection of essays by spec writers of colour is out now!
2nd year computational neuro PhD student at Boston University (advisors Cynthia Bradham & Gabe Ocker)
Mathematically modeling embryonic neurodevelopment
I write trippy scifi & mathfiction.
Ignyte Award Finalist 2025
6 stories in Clarkesworld
SFFH writer. L’nu’skw (Mi'kmaw). She/her. Bi cis anarchafeminist (as in left, NOT liberal). Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
Books:
🩸Carnalis (03-2026)
🌿 Green Fuse Burning
💀 Elegies of Rotting Stars
📧 Rep by Jo Ramsay
