British Fantasy Society Pack 1
Writers, editors, agents, PR people, publishers, artists, and readers who are part of the British Fantasy Society!
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@davidgreenwriter.bsky.social
@hallawilliams.bsky.social
Mostly writing SFF and singing now I’m no longer acting or teaching English. Tequila and coke, please. Post-cancer chronic fatigue can do one. She/her. Hallawilliams.net
@susanjmorris.bsky.social
Author of STRANGE BEASTS and WAYWARD SOULS (March 2026), out from Hodderscape and Bindery Books. Bi. She/her. Rep: @jenazantian.bsky.social at Azantian Literary Agency
@losbennett.bsky.social
Literary Agent at the Liverpool Literary Agency with a focus on underrepresented SFF writers. More info & submissions: https://www.liverpool-literary.agency She/her.
@shloobee.bsky.social
'Knock hard. Life is deaf.' - Mimi Parent. 5 time British Fantasy Award nominated writer of odd stories. She/Her/Them http://chloeyates.com
@emmaladams12.bsky.social
Fantasy author. SPFBO9 Semi-Finalist. Amateur artist. Dragon collector. Gamer. Daydreamer. Wanderer. She/her. www.emmaladams.com
@ohmz.bsky.social
Neurodivergent (ADHD), I pretend to be an SFF writer, but I wish I had more time to write. I like boardgames, and video games, and tech stuff former SWE. Scotland, but originally from the “Middle East”. He/Him
@gen-dimova.bsky.social
Author of FOUL DAYS and MONSTROUS NIGHTS 🐉 Archaeologist ⛏ Immigrant 🇧🇬🏴 (She/her)
@georgesandison.bsky.social
Managing Editor @titanbooks.bsky.social. Ran multiple award-winning Unsung Stories. Writer: HINTERLANDS @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social. European (yes, still). Empathy, compassion & ice cream pls.
@stewarthotston.com
Author, LARP (Curious Pastimes), physics and finance. Subjective Chaos and BFA finalist. Treasurer @BFS, Exec @BSFA. Rep: John Baker at BLM. Read: stewarthotston.com. Project Hanuman Nov 2025, Angry Robot
@rflong.bsky.social
Author, Librarian, general book nerd, SFF, Irish, she/her (pretty much always a library in my books) http://www.rflong.com/ The Book of Gold out now: lnk.to/thebookofgold Jessica Thorne: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Jessica-Thorne/author/B07KRHB3HR
@stevemchugh.bsky.social
Award nominated, bestselling science fiction and fantasy author. Father and husband. Hobby painter. Gaming since the console wars. He/him.
@vickybrewster.bsky.social
✏️Copy & developmental editor, & indexer 👻Gothic, horror & sci-fi academic 🧑🏫 Occasional lecturer & support at Swansea U 🏳️🌈Asexual-agender-panromantic
@pslivingstone.bsky.social
Author, editor, ghostwriter. Page Turner Award finalist. AH Glasgow 2024 Presents (WorldCon). BFS Event Co-ordinator. SoA and CIEP member. All things SFFH.
@annabelcwrites.bsky.social
(she/her) SFF writer based in Lanark, Scotland. Her first novel, THE OUTCAST MAGE, combines a coming-of-age narrative with thrilling magic and found family. Coming 28 January 2025. Repped by Robbie Guillory at Underline Lit.
@tejturner.com
he/him. SFF author, travel blogger & vegetarian chef. Published by Elsewhen Press http://linktr.ee/tejturner
@megintransition.bsky.social
PhD belief & gods in fantasy @angliaruskin, work in R&D @UofGlasgow, DH Promotions @Glasgowin2024. Tendency to pun-escalate. She/Her Cis/Bi 🌈🏳️🌈
@hannafordjenny.bsky.social
Dragon Queen, Fantasy author, Ocean Spirit. #SPFBOX Finalist, accidental GM(Humblewood Perchmaster) Indie Syndicate. Selkies with a twist, or telepathic hounds. Choose your series! (No refunds for accidental dragons.) https://linktr.ee/jehannaford
@jennicoutts.bsky.social
British Fantasy Award winner for Best Artist 2022, BFSA Award winner for best artwork in 2024, Art Editor of BFS Horizons, querying SF writer, NHS GP, goblin. Long suffering minion to an elderly rescue cat. Website: Jennicoutts.com Lesbian Asexual 🏳️🌈
@robincmduncan.bsky.social
Writer of SF/F stories; pub by Space Wizard SF; mem. BFS, BSFA, GSFWC, RE, eSFF. *** The Rigel Redemption OUT NOW ***
@justinleeanderson.com
Scottish fantasy author of Carpet Diem as well as The Eidyn Saga from @orbitbooks.bsky.social. The Damned King coming August 2025. He/Him. #Edinburgh, @afc.co.uk and @scottishgreens.org Author support at: TheWriteAdvice.co.uk Costa cup guy ☕️
@shonak.bsky.social
Scottish fantasy and horror author. Chair of the British Fantasy Society. Avid Reader. Vaguely gothic. She/her www.shonakinsella.com
@mvmelcer.com
pronounced *meltzer* SFF writer and perpetual student. Author of REFRACTIONS and INVERSIONS. Repped by Lisa Rodgers at JABberwocky. SFWA, BSFA, Codex. Polish-born/UK-based she/her https://mvmelcer.com/ https://linktr.ee/mvmelcer
@elizachanwrites.bsky.social
🏴 Fantasy & Weird Fiction🖋️ FATHOMFOLK and TIDEBORN out now 🌊 HARBOUR OF HUNGRY GHOSTS 2026 👻BFA nominated short fic🦊 she/her rep Alex Cochran https://linktr.ee/elizachan
@bethkesh.bsky.social
SFF writer, living in Scotland. Strange Horizons, Shoreline of Infinity, Parsec magazines, Nova Scotia vol 2. Co-editor of "Gallus" anthology. Under the Moon - BFA winner 2023. Runs @bibliotta.bsky.social emfaulds.com or https://linktr.ee/bethkesh
@cameronjohnston.bsky.social
Scottish fantasy author. Archaeology & history fiend. The Maleficent Seven and The Last Shield out now from Angry Robot Books, represented by Ed Wilson at Johnson & Alcock. www.cameronjohnston.net
@jamesbennett.bsky.social
British Fantasy Award winning author. 🏳️🌈 The Ben Garston Novels. The Book of Queer Saints. The Dark magazine. New collection 'Preaching to the Perverted' Out Now! www.lethepressbooks.com 'Inventive and vivid' Publishers Weekly
@emmasternerradley.bsky.social
Fantasy author. Lesbian. Cancer-survivor. Cat-owner. Married. Coffee addict. Swede living in the U.K. (Chester at the moment.) SNOWBLOODED - out now! @solarisbooks . Agent: Fabienne at Ki Agency. She/her.
@annasmithwrites.bsky.social
Godblind, Songs of the Drowned trilogies, also Black Library & Marvel. Magic & Mayhem Author Academy. 1/3 of The Write Advice. Rep @harryillingworth.bsky.social Zen, Shotokan, DnD, antifa, anti-AI, Working Class. She/They https://linktr.ee/AnnaStephens
@laurenwrites.bsky.social
📝Writer, editor, proofreader, coach & mentor 👻Writes the dark stuff 😈TWF EIC at Horror Tree 📣Publicity at British Fantasy Society 🤘Founder, Society of Ink Slingers 🔮Curator, Writing the Occult 👩💻Day job: Content marketing & community management 🇦🇺in🇬🇧
@genevievecogman.bsky.social
Author of Invisible Library and Scarlet Revolution series, classifications specialist, quilter, knitter, tired. Pronouns she/her.
@annasmithspark.bsky.social
Author of critically acclaimed grimdark epic fantasy novels, THE COURT OF BROKEN KNIVES, THE TOWER OF LIVING AND DYING, THE HOUSE OF SACRIFICE, A WOMAN OF THE SWORD. A SWORD OF BRONZE AND ASHES out now. PhD, ASD, dyslxic, dyspraxic.
@alrutter.bsky.social
Commissioning Editor at Solaris Books. Owned by three hellhounds. Talks a lot about politics, sports, books and dogs. Knitter, crocheter and lover of loud music.
@julietemckenna.bsky.social
Writes epic and contemporary fantasy novels along with varied shorter fiction. She/her. All opinions absolutely my own. For more, see www.julietemckenna.com
@runalongwomble.bsky.social
Womble of Liverpool. Enjoys geekery, bad jokes & may tempt a bit. pronouns - he/they/Womble Also Book Blogger/Tempter run fast, laugh hard, be kind - https://www.runalongtheshelves.net
@zenaldehyde.bsky.social
Malaysian in UK. Author of SORCERER TO THE CROWN, BLACK WATER SISTER, THE FRIEND ZONE EXPERIMENT and some other stuff. Next up: BEHIND FRENEMY LINES (2025).
@bellapagan.bsky.social
Publisher @UKTor. Love fiction with a speculative spin, science fiction & fantasy. Wordsmith. Professional geek. ‘Cat person’. Info: https://shorturl.at/rRID9
@mhayinde.bsky.social
She/Her. SFF writer. Blerd. A SONG OF LEGENDS LOST out NOW (Orbit UK) /June (@sagapressbooks.bsky.social US/Canada.) Fiction in @fiyahlitmag.bsky.social & more. Winner: Future Worlds Prize 2021. Rep: @jenniegoloboy.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/mhayinde
@tiffaniangus.bsky.social
Multi awards-shortlisted SFFH & non-fic author. Editor & typesetter. SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES 3 coming 2026! https://linktr.ee/tiffaniangusauthor Leftie, feminist, ex academic, ally, anti-AI. she/her. Now 🇬🇧 was 🇺🇸
@sennydreadful.bsky.social
Award-winning author. Earth bender. Full-time goblin mode. Agent: Juliet Mushens. Partner of Pete. From London, enjoying Bristol. The Copper Cat Trilogy|The Winnowing Flame Trilogy|The Talon Duology ~The Sleepless UK 22/5/25, US 30/9/25
@sunyidean.com
~Reader, writer, occasional thinker // multi-award-losing author // rep: Harry Illingworth @harryillingworth.bsky.social
@lyndseycroal.bsky.social
Scottish SFFH Author, words in Apex, Analog, Weird Tales, & more | BFA Finalist | Latest book: LIMELIGHT, Shortwave | Next: DARK CRESCENT, Luna Press | Lit Rep: Michael Mungiello InkWell, Film/TV: Sean Berard, Untitled Ent. https://linktr.ee/lyndseycroal
@starkholborn.bsky.social
Author of the Factus Sequence, Nunslinger & Triggernometry. Games writer on Shadows of Doubt and Cloudpunk follow-up Nivalis. Visiting Lecturer in Narrative at Glasgow School of Art 🏳️🌈 https://linktr.ee/starkholborn
@lunapress.bsky.social
Award Winning Small Press. SFF in Fiction and Academia. Est. 2015. Member of Publishing Scotland. https://www.lunapresspublishing.com
@clhellisen.bsky.social
Stories in F&SF, Strange Horizons, Apex, Tor, Shimmer, BCS. Repped by Caro Clarke https://linktr.ee/portobelloliterary BFS Award shortlisted novel Cast Long Shadows from @lunapress.bsky.social https://clhellisen.com They/them, write/skate, Scotland
@poopraven.bsky.social
Your friendly local agender trauma merchant. Author of the Inheritance series (LGBTQ+ Urban Fantasy). Bereaved Corgi parent. Cat chew-toy. Any pronouns. https://ravenswordpress.com/
@aptshadow.bsky.social
Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
@ruthejbooth.bsky.social
SFFH Author/Critic. BSFA & British Fantasy Award Winner. Shoreline of Infinity columnist. GSFWC. #SGSAH funded. #StrathLife Queer Neurodivergent Human with Chronic Illness. ***2024 award eligible works and more: https://linktr.ee/ruthejbooth
@neilwilliamson.bsky.social
Words and music. Glasgow, Scotland he/him https://linktr.ee/neilwilliamson 📚 Latest thing: The Packet (part 3) in ParSec #13 https://tinyurl.com/3hah8dsc 📚 Next thing: The Cold Case in Absolute Zero anthology
@davidgreenwriter.bsky.social
Autistic writer of fantasy! Obsessed with Tolkien, Wheel of Time, maps. BFS secretary. Multi-British Fantasy Award los...ahem, nominee 📖 https://linktr.ee/davidgreenwriter Rep'd by @losbennett.bsky.social He/They