Mel
neuroscientist | writer of speculative fiction & poetry
spoken word set to original electronic music
Viable Paradise ‘23
sciencegeekmel.com
iambicbeats.bandcamp.com
@geoff-palmer.bsky.social
Award-winning author and technical writer based in Wellington, New Zealand.
@micropoetry.bsky.social
poet & author MadVerse.com linktr.ee/jdnelson poetry micropoetry poem writer writing book chapbook e-book Dada Surrealism experimental weird literature haiku ecopoetry nature wildlife animal tree kindness Boulder Denver Colorado Christus Super Omnia +
@csecooney.bsky.social
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
@bristolvaudrin.bsky.social
#writer #reader #buffalowingeater #IndieAuthor from #Alaska, now in PDX AFTERWARD (flawed person, messy life, dark humor GO) on Tortoise Books WIP: Love letter/cautionary tale about AK #literaryfiction #litfic #booksky #womensfiction bristolvaudrin.com
@manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social
📚The new, non-Twitter home of #MSWL! We are a way for agents and editors to tell writers what they *wish* they had in their inboxes. Full agent profiles here: https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/ Newsletter: https://manuscriptwishlist.com/subscribe
@rachaelconrad.bsky.social
Formerly the world’s smallest bookseller. 2021 PW Star Watch Honoree. ✍️ in Psychopomp, LitHub, Reactor/Tor, Polygon & Kirkus.
@spacevalkyries.bsky.social
📝sci-fi/fantasy writer V.M. Ayala (she/they) 🎮streamer, indie games, TTRPGs ✨anxiety/ADHD, chronic pain 🏳️🌈queer biracial Mexican American 🪐🗡️co-founder of @othersidespec.bsky.social 🌈 https://www.spacevalkyries.com/ 💌 spacevalkyries@gmail.com
@effies.bsky.social
SFF/middle-grade fiction writer. Strategy/marketing consultant. Bagel the Dog's human. Dadjoke teller. Sentence-fragment lover. Disabled with #MECFS She/her effieseiberg.com/stories
@vanessafogg.bsky.social
Science fiction and fantasy writer. Also lapsed scientist and freelance medical writer. Website: vanessafogg.com
@nsborwein.bsky.social
Horror scholar, poet, PhD, HWA, Co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social, EIC Katabatic Circus, Global Indigenous Horror (@upmississippi.bsky.social, 2025). Words in Utopia Science Fiction, Space & Time, Lovecraftiana, and more
@bcdreyer.social
America's Copy Editor® author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his • abstruse in the sense of recondite • 🏳️🌈 benjamindreyer.com
@anythingmaureen.bsky.social
Writer, #ActuallyAutistic, legally blind. Former journalist/editor. Dutch. Disability and mental health advocate. ❤️ books, music, crafting. #WritingCommunity
@premeemohamed.com
Writer, scientist, bug. she/her. #yeg. 🇨🇦 🇬🇾 Winner of a Nebula, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award! Hugo, BSFA, BFA, Locus, Crawford award finalist. 📚🪲 Rep: Michael Curry. www.premeemohamed.com
@grahamification.bsky.social
Conjuring twisted, genre-bending dark comedy with an unexpectedly still-beating heart. Published Author. Top 10 Comedy, SF, QF in various contests. Rum imbiber. he/him. https://writers.coverfly.com/profile/writer-7b160b00b-60963
@thelincoln.bsky.social
Author and professor type person. SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24 Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com
@vikkicwrites.bsky.social
Writer & musician | WHERE SANDS RUN FINEST (DarkWinter Press)| THE ART OF GLASS HOUSES (Alien Buddha Press) | Nominations: Pushcart, BotN, Orison Best Spiritual Literature | Contributing editor: The Winged Moon Magazine linktr.ee/vikki_c._author
@maryrobinettekowal.com
Hugo-award winning author, narrator, and professional puppeteer. Also has a talking cat. The Martian Contingency is available where books are sold.
@garethlpowell.bsky.social
Award-winning science fiction author. FUTURE’S EDGE out now. Editor at Stars and Sabers Publishing. Also wrote a Doctor Who novel. Rep: Lucienne Diver. https://linktr.ee/garethlpowell
@strachanlit.bsky.social
Literary Agent. Lover of books, art, music and theatre. (she/her) Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) --Walt Whitman
@valeriekwrites.bsky.social
Recovering academic, former filmmaker, current genetic genealogist. I write speculative fiction for all ages. Stories in Haven Spec, Apex, Cast of Wonders, Voyage YA and more! Viable Paradise 2022 alum
@erikgrove.com
Writer. Little dog owner. (Aspiring) Magnificent and Deeply Kind Weirdo. SFWA and HWA member. Viable Paradise 2022. Portlander. Represented by Joshua Bilmes/JABberwocky. He/Him.
@courtney-floyd.com
SFF author & audio drama creator with a PhD in trashy Victorian lit. HIGHER MAGIC (Mira, 7 Oct 2025). VP 2022. She/her. ND 🧠. Rep: @rlmatte.bsky.social. https://courtney-floyd.com 🎙 https://hauntnowpod.com ✉️ https://buttondown.email/wallowinginink
@monawest.bsky.social
Writer. Cohost of the Unfortunately... Podcast. Rejected by Uncanny, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and others. https://mona-west.com/ https://unfortunatelypod.com/
@kswalkerwrites.bsky.social
Spec fic. Bikes.Books. Words in Uncanny, F&SF, FIYAH, Apex and elsewhere VP 2022 they/any
@callmeishmael.bsky.social
Lurker, Writer, Dork. Viable Paradise 2022 My cat had cancer and any help paying for financial recovery appreciated: https://ko-fi.com/ishmaelcat
@grayhaem.bsky.social
fiction writer and story lead @ wizards of the coast / he/him / repped by Arley Sorg / opinions are my own and do not represent my employer https://www.roy-graham.com/
@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
@alexfox.bsky.social
Writing mostly about fucked up guys with swords. look upon my works and despair. alexfoxauthor@gmail.com https://linktr.ee/afoxwrites
@aychao.com
Master procrastinator. Occasional adult. #1 Sunday Times Bestselling author of SHANGHAI IMMORTAL she/they/Alice aychao.com Latest news: https://ciaochao.beehiiv.com/
@whatcraigwrote.com
He/him. Overactive imagination since '87. Helping make movies at ILM. Enjoyer of stories and the Portland Trail Blazers. Recent fiction in Escape Pod, Worlds of Possibility, and The Saturday Evening Post. whatcraigwrote.com letterboxd.com/lucky_rabbit
@rjtaylor.bsky.social
SFF writer • Stories in Clarkesworld, F&SF, Apex, more • #VP2022 • Codex• not often on social media (updates only)
@valerievaldes.bsky.social
Sci-fi, fantasy, and romance writer. MtG story scribe. Co-editor of Escape Pod. Variety game streamer. VPXX/16. https://linktr.ee/valerievaldes
@benjaminckinney.com
SFF writer, neuroscientist, Hugo finalist. Escape Pod 2017-2023. Short stories in Analog, Lightspeed, Sunday Morning Transport, etc. He/him. Rep: Marisa Cleveland. Neuroscience (not under pen name): rehabilitation, neuroimaging, handedness
@trollbreathmag.bsky.social
Quarterly speculative fiction, poetry, and non-fiction Unapologetically antifascist and feminist magazine.trollbreath.com https://ko-fi.com/trollbreathmagazine https://linktr.ee/trollbreath
@trollbreath.com
#SFF writer from Maine. VP21. He/Him. Cóyotl award nominated. Creator of Speculative Fiction Magazine Subscription web page. Co-editor of Trollbreath Magazine. https://www.trollbreath.com https://magazine.trollbreath.com
@mruthrobinson.bsky.social
MR, she/her. PhD candidate and writer of SFF · reader at Diabolical Plots · Clarion West ‘25 · VP2024 · SFWA · Codex · words at BCS, Fusion Fragment, Haven Spec, elsewhere · co-founder of @othersidespec.bsky.social 🪐 🗡️ 🌈 https://m-r-robinson.com
@zoharjacobs.bsky.social
Migrant Jewish intellectual. Writer, historian, mystic | Fiction in Sunday Morning Transport, Analog, Asimov's & Clarkesworld | Oxford, UK
@kmveohongs.bsky.social
Thai-rish American spec fic author last seen playing corn hole on House Hunters. Writes pants of center. She/her Repped by https://bsky.app/profile/hel-no-wai.bsky.social See what I’ve written at kmveohongs.com
@elizabethcobbe.bsky.social
Writer, Pythonista, parent, feelings butler, VP class of 2019. Words in Fireside, Cossmass, Kaleidotrope. Novel on sub now! REP: Eric Smith. More at elizabethcobbe.com
@rkduncan.bsky.social
Fat queer polyamorous wizard and SFF author. He/him. Abolish the police. Find my stories https://www.rkduncan-author.com/ Sign up for my newsletter: https://www.rkduncan-author.com/signup
@skyfyre88.bsky.social
She/her. A geeky librarian, full of tea and anxiety. Co-host of No Story Is Sacred. Viable Paradise staff. https://linktr.ee/pippin_m
@lrb.bsky.social
Technologist, writer, futurist. Codex, Viable Paradise, SFWA. Seeking representation for new novels. Publishers: Mirror World, Water Dragon, Brigid's Gate USPTO he/him @laurence@petrous.vislae.town https://www.laurencebrothers.com/
@aimeekuzenski.bsky.social
Speculative fiction writer, audiobook narrator, singer, martial artist, badass, queer af Latest novel: SEEDS OF INHERITANCE, semi-finalist in SPFBO X Subscribe to my newsletter: https://buttondown.email/akuzenski
@philmargolies.bsky.social
I’m nobody but I know awesome people who have Wikipedia pages
@jenniferhudak.bsky.social
Nebula-nominated writer of SFF, drinker of tea. Aging mermaid far from her natural habitat. SFWA/Codex/VP2022. She/her