An anthology of speculative fiction from the African Diaspora
https://thecookoutanthology.com/
Senior Literary Agent & Foreign Rights Manager at Triada US Literary Agency | Musician | Traveler | Cook-In-Progress | Cat Mom | she/her
scribblesandwanderlust.com
Talented ruin. Riverboat floozy.
Queer Black writer in Glasgow, Scotland.
Call and Response: Stories of the Fantastic out from Neon Hemlock Press in October 2025. Pre-order here: https://www.neonhemlock.com/books/call-and-response
luminous or c (she/her) lesbian/queer 🏳️🌈 elden millennial
interests: d&d, critical role, sf/f, queer stuff, social justice, cute animals,etc
FFXIV: Elyndra Sunna - Zalera/Crystal
Professor and Chair of University of Michigan's Joint Program in English & Education. Author, The Dark Fantastic & more. Made in Detroit. FAMU 🐍. ΔΣΘ ❤️. OES ⭐️. August ♌️. She/her. Forthcoming: Shifter and Dreamer (YA novel). Linktree: Ebonyteach.
speculative fiction + litfic writer | short stories in haven spec, fusion fragment and more | incoming clarion west nww, granta '26 | viable paradise ‘25 | she/her
🥝 🦘 on gadigal land
https://thelialao.com
writer. publisher at Neon Hemlock. anthologist. co-editor of Baffling. shirley jackson award winner. lambda, locus & ignyte award finalist. he/him.
She/her. British European. Purveyor of opinions, rude words, and romance novels, historical and fantasy. "Erotically charged"--Good Housekeeping. I ignore unsolicited advice. http://kjcharleswriter.com
Emerging Australian publisher of queer/sapphic/wlw fantasy and specfic - Anthology submissions open NOW! (Fan bsky profile is V Holmes/NancyAmazon) scyllapublishing.com
Librarian. Sober. Likes: books, baking, and the Oxford comma. 🏳️🌈 she/her/hers
Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic
andrecarringtonphd.com
insta: audio.futurism
Comic writer, editor, sometimes an artist, always way too intense about hot chocolate.
🚨The Traitor & The Wretch is now available!!🚨
jasminewalls.com
Speculative fiction writer, Black, loves a vegan dessert. She/her
Indie Lit Award Winner | Chair for WisCon, a feminist convention | Acquisitions Editor @ FIYAH & Rawhead Journal | Black, Queer, Disabled author of Speculative Fiction
https://www.theeajournal.me/contact
Founder and Literary Agent at Azantian Literary Agency. Mom to humans and pups. Occasional sharer of TMI. Queer. ND. First-gen Armenian (she/her)
NYT-bestselling fantasy author in charlottesville va
it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Speculative fiction gives us blueprints for worlds full of hope, joy, justice, and revolution for people of all genders. Join us March 18-22, 2026: sirensconference.org
I love Los Angeles and all of the extraordinary people who make our city so magical • Editor at Lucasfilm Publishing • Tongva land 🪷 Echo Park
aka Indra Das, author of THE DEVOURERS and THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, Lambda, Shirley Jackson & British Fantasy Award winner, Crawford Award finalist. he/they/she
indradas.com
▫️media studies & queer theory
▫️communication professor
▫️they/them
📍nyc (via philadelphia)
I write stories inspired by Palestinian folklore. Ignyte and Ember Award winning, Pushcart, Palestine Book, & Lammy noms. BNW and Locus finalist. (she/her) Clarion West '25
https://www.soniasulaiman.com
Queering up your shelves, one rec at a time. Check it out at LGBTQReads.com
Proyecto literario autogestionado. Publicamos un relato (o más) al mes de fantasía, ciencia ficción o terror. ¡Únete a nuestro Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/vocesdeloinsolito
Librarian at Carnegie Mellon. Media Literacy, memes, misinformation, & social media research at Teachers College
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
Writer. Editor. Typo ninja. Ttrpg writer. Award-nominated author/editor. Active member, SFWA. Bi. Polyam. Disabled. Associate Lit Agent at Corvisiero Literary Agency. Query box open! She/her.
Cartoonist. Adult Teenage Dirtbag 🌱 Friend of shrimp 🦐
She/her 🏳️🌈
Philadelphia
Making a GN, LAST SHIP TO MARS (Henry Holt, 2026)
💌 Samantha.benc@gmail.com
Rep'd by @draper-claire.bsky.social
Author of Night Beast | Co-founder, Nightjar Arts Collective | Instructor at Hugo House & StoryStudio | Novellas Editor at Reckoning | Contributing Ed. at Copper Nickel | Codex | Queer | Bolivian American
www.ruthjoffre.org
www.nightjarartscollective.com
Defiance posting. Vibes: Enraged 🔴
Not a Democrat anymore.
Columnist @ Dame Magazine, bylines @ The Cut, Harper’s Bazaar and more. Black, millennial, feminist, tired. Going to keep fighting anyway. Pay me for ideas: patreon.com/gothamgirlblue
sword lesbian historian ⚔️ artist & creator of Girls' School of Knighthood webcomic 🌹trustee at Vagina Museum 🗡️ curator Vestry House Museum 🌈 museum drag king 🥐 she/her
Bisexual Enby|Queer| Indie Writer of Fantasy & Horror|Mental Illness|Sober 3-25-24|Married May 4th|She/They| Neuro🌶️|Sugar cookies|Gender affirming care saves lives| Muppet Stan|The Wiz is life|Pineapple on pizza|Team Buffy #klpwritespromotesindies 🏝️🏰📚♌️🏳️🌈🌺🌞
AD/Character design, working on a comic when time allows
Fighter. Neo-Swoletariat.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
Nonprofit newsroom. Media that builds power for working people.
Join us: https://linktr.ee/moreperfectunion
We Need Diverse Books is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit revolutionizing what we read to create a world where everyone can find themself in the pages of a book.
🔗 bio.site/WeNeedDiverseBooks
I an award winning Dalit futurist and speculative fiction author. I am an inaugural member of the Clarion West Novel Writing Workshop for my upcoming book WE SANG DOWN THE EMPIRE. I am also the author of the TRAUMA OF CASTE. Find me at www.dalitdiva.com
Asian American schol comm librarian
#1 NYT, #1 Indie, Intl. Bestselling Author of The Legendborn Cycle. 📚 ALA CSK & Ignyte Award Winner. Story Warrior. Black Bene Gesserit. Fandom-raised.
Acicular appendages, keyboard protuberance. SFF writer. Published in Clarkesworld, Fireside, Analog, Uncanny, Nature Futures, Vice Motherboard Terraform, Star*Line, MIT Press. Codexian.
Website: https://daxiaolinspires.wordpress.com/
Author (rep: Ernie Chiara at Fuse) 🇭🇰🇺🇸 Clarion West '25, published in Analog SF&F and Fission
AUTHOR. ARTIST. PEACE TECHNOLOGIST.
Clarion West '25 | Alumna: Tin House, VONA, Hurston/Wright, RWW, Voodoonauts
https://aishatu.carrd.co/
Member: Codex & BSFA
Co-founding member at Àrokò Cooperative
@aroko.bsky.social
Writer of the Weird
www.shawnwritesweird.com
A one-day SFFH event held on August 14, 2025, in Seattle, WA. Built and run by humans who may also be sparkle unicorns.
concurrentseattle.weebly.com
Author of THE BLUE, BEAUTIFUL WORLD. Home: Barbados, West Indies 🇧🇧. More info on me and my books at karenlord.wordpress.com
Shiwi. Trans. Queer. Two-Spirit. Woman. Writer. Poet. Programmer. Autistic. Dreamer. Statistician. Runner. Zuni girl living in Boston. ✊🏽🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇺🇸
Speculative fiction from the margins.
www.anathemamag.com
literary agent at Maass Literary Agency for SFF, YA, & GN • she/her • queer • ADHD • chronic pain • intensely editorial 📚 #BLM #TransRightsAreHumanRights
she/they || ✨ mostly void, partially stars ✨|| associate agent at JABberwocky Literary Agency
Literary Agent at Root Literary. Association of American Literary Agents member. 📝 MS in Creative Writing & Book Publishing. 📚 Scorpio. ♏️
MSWL: https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/melaniefigueroa/
Literary agent at Root Literary, specializes in science fiction/fantasy and graphic novels for all ages. More info at: https://www.rootliterary.com/
Knitter, dancer, gamer, NorCal native, ruiner of dreams. Literary agent http://awfulagent.com/agents/lisa-rodgers/
The deck of endless story prompts for writers, DMs, RPG players, teachers & storytellers. https://storyenginedeck.com
bsky pitch event for unagented creators from marginalized communities
next event TBA
More DVpit info: https://dvpit.carrd.co/
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TV writer. Author of the novels THE PAYBACK and THE SURVIVALISTS. Deadly with a butter knife.
Order THE PAYBACK here 👉🏾 https://kashanacauley.com
🏅Award-winning SFF Author | Acquiring Editor @FIYAH Literary Magazine | Tin House ‘26
tonjakjohnson.com/links
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
Writer of distressing stories and DnD adventures. Clarion West 2017, CWNWW 2025! Work in Dark Matter Magazine and The Deadlands. They/Them
data & medical librarian | massachusetts
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
Librarian, media nerd, tech-curious. Off the clock gamer, wordsmith, plant mom // htx, nyc, pdx plus a whole lot in between
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
D.A. Straith (they/he) 🍉 Toronto-adjacent fiction person and beginner plant parent - nonbinary trans & queer settler - work in Augur, Fusion Fragment, On Spec - querying! - straith.carrd.co
Awkward. Black. Woman. she/her. Librarian. Queer & Bi. Nerd. Loves FILM. Fat. Dreaming. Gemini INFJ. Black Lives Matter. Abolish Prisons. House the Vulnerable.
NYT/Sunday Times/Indie bestselling author of The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi and The Daevabad Trilogy
author, marshall scholar, phd @ Yale
sinophone + asian american lit
BABEL, YELLOWFACE, etc...
https://linktr.ee/kuangrf
Academic librarian, dog mom, speculative fiction reader, tea drinker, world traveler, former teacher, Californian-turned-New Yorker, progressive Christian, 4th-6th gen Chinese American/4th gen Japanese American (yonsei). She/her.
Writes about stories about the things that go bump in the night...including headboards.
Inveterate Gemini
Oatmeal cookie apologist
Latest Release: Charming Dawn, Tooth & Spell Book Three!
Romance books for novel people.
Discover your next favorite romance novel: https://fatedmates.net
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‘Bloody author’. Get your copy of dark comedy psycho-thriller romcom Troublemaker at: https://shorturl.at/2eCrv.
artist formerly known as @eddygrrl
she/her
How it started: Clarion West 2005
How it's going: Online Program Coordinator
Member SFWA | Inveterate Gemini | Still doing cartwheels
She/her. Disabled neuroqueer writer and artist. Author of How I Bend Into More (Palimpsest Press, 2025).
teagerbeza.com
Caffiene-fueled, cat-loving librarian living in Treaty 7. Here for everything books, travel, science, libraries, literacy & (of course) cat related 😏 Divesting myself of Meta apps because nazis.
“Having fun isn’t hard, when you’ve got a library card!” - Arthur Read
•Library’s Number One Fan
•Mental Health Matters ALWAYS
Writer of speculative fictions. NYTimes Bestseller. Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Ignyte winner.
Novels: SIXTH WORLD series, BETWEEN EARTH & SKY trilogy, Lucasfilm.
Comics/games: Marvel
TV: A Murder at the End of the World, Echo, Netflix Series Animation.
Music. Sports. Libraries. Hotties. Blerds. I write books about them. #romance #rugby kearneywentworth.com
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 ❤️
He/him. Author of one story that did okay, and some other stories.
kaufmanwrites.com
Technical Writer, SFWA, VP16, samsara surfer, cat servant, drinker of tea and whiskey. Stories all over the small press realms.
Writer. Rocker. Library Manager. Romancelandia Blerd. (she/her)
Video editor by day. Speculative fiction writer by night. Viable Paradise 2024. Clarion West Novel Writing Workshop 2025.
(I am not very active on social media but trying to get better!)
sorenstuve.com
•Library, archives, museum, and publishing enthusiast and future professional.
•Interest in social justice and mental health.
•Neurodivergent
•Current Focus: mental health journey.
Speculative fiction writer (she/her), Clarion West Novel Writing Workshop alum 2025, putting the romantic in necromantic
Workshops for people who are serious about writing.
Speculative Fiction | Clarion West Six-Week Workshop | Online Classes & Workshops | Programs for Speculative Fiction Writers | Readings & Author Events
Find us at clarionwest.org
Now celebrating 15 YEARS of non-stop opinionation on sci-fi/fantasy, the universe, and related subjects!
✨ SFF Writer (words in Escape Pod & FIYAH)
🎲 TTRPG Designer (studiobeignet.itch.io)
🔥 Firebender
she/her
Quarterly ed. by 2x Hugo Finalist @shingai-be-like.bsky.social & 2x World Fantasy, 3x Locus Finalist @arleysorg.bsky.social - pubbed by @psychopomp.com
posts: @seanmarkey.bsky.social & @feliciafm.bsky.social & Arley et al
https://psychopomp.com/fantasy/
dominatrix in nyc 👹
writing a book on sex work & surveillance @ucpress.bsky.social
words @wired.com @thenation.com @chronicle.com @thedailybeast.bsky.social @slate.com @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social etc • she/her
doctrixsnow.com
Analog girl in a digital world.
Author of bestselling sexy book as Kit Rocha. Rep'd by Sarah Younger at NYLA. Hiding in the Alabama woods. #TeamADHD Book Stuff: https://linktr.ee/kitrocha Whistle Stuff: https://linktr.ee/3Dwhistles
Mara can't spell.
🏳️⚧️ 🇲🇽 Xicane futurist and horror writer, author of Sundown in San Ojuela. Ignyte finalist, longlister for Stokers. Clarion 22.
Stories at: olivasthewriter.wtf
Sundown available at: https://lanternfishpress.com/shop/sundown-in-san-ojuela
Little turtle artist 🐢 ENG / ESP 🌙 She/Her 🌷
Creator of Dagger to the Heart on Webtoon ❤️🗡️👑 bit.ly/daggerheart
I used to design bridges but now I write books. My novels include TWINS, THE PARKER INHERITANCE, THE GREAT GREENE HEIST & PLAYING THE CARDS YOU'RE DEALT. VCFA/OU. He/Him. http://linktr.ee/varianjohnson
Co-Founder of Beyond Publishing Caribbean
Creator of the Offset series & Loose Change series
Lover of cinematic violence
https://offsetseries.com/
Link tree: https://linktr.ee/sinstabba
Writer, editor, semi-professional fat person.
SFF/spec/soft horror/whatever. Here for the weird stuff.
she/they
Filmmaker, author, illustrator | SFWA | Tin House 2022 & 2025 | BendFilm: Basecamp Fellow 2025 | Stowe Story Labs 2023 | Town Hall Seattle Writer-in-Residence 2022
Film/prose/art: https://sarah-salcedo.com
Website design: @tallfirsproductions.com
Speculative fiction writer, nerdy nonfiction writer and copywriter.
Alex is an award-winning film, game, and cover Illustrator, concept artist, and sculptor. No AI. Clients include Mountain Dew, Microsoft, Orbit books, Universal Pictures, Monty Cook Games, Dnd, and many more. www.illustratedpixels.com. Available for work
