Sword and Sorcery Writers
Writers who've done some (or a lot of) S&S. Big tent, no fash, they don't even go here. "Sword and sorcery is when the snakes are big" - Bearji
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@jonolfert.bsky.social
@nathanrlong.bsky.social
Writer at inXile Entertainment, novelist, script writer, game writer, general plot hammerer - He/Him Also find me at: @nathanrlong@wandering.shop
@alexfox.bsky.social
Writing mostly about fucked up guys with swords. look upon my works and despair. alexfoxauthor@gmail.com https://linktr.ee/afoxwrites
@remcovans.bsky.social
@dragonkeeper22.bsky.social
Writer, expert napper, neopian, retail hell worker, lover of world-building and singing loudly at work B.S. in Biology, English, & Environmental Studies Minors: LGBTQ+ Studies, CrWr. BLM #LandBack ACAB Autistic/ADHD/Anxiety BurgundyPendragon.gay
@mattholder93.bsky.social
Author of Hurled Headlong Flaming from Spiral Tower Press, cover art by Jake Kelly. Reviews with Strange Horizons.
@rrhodeswriter.bsky.social
Fantasy author. Servant of the Secret Fire. Gen-X and among the last to grow up in the pre-internet age. Author of SHADOW, LIGHT, & STEEL and FURY tales. He/him.
@joeabercrombie.com
Lord Grimdark (self-appointed). Writer of the First Law and Shattered Sea books. Part-time Witch King of Nihilism, deep in a Jaded Literary Sewer, etc. etc.
@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 ☕️
@matthewjohnauthor.bsky.social
Matthew John is a writer, game designer, and host of the Rogues in the House Podcast. He's sold fiction to Savage Sword of Conan and Tales From the Magician's Skull, and recently published, ‘To Walk on Worlds.’ Sadly, Crom doesn't care about any of this.
@crutledge.bsky.social
@jimzub.bsky.social
Storyteller: Avengers, Conan the Barbarian, Dungeons & Dragons, Rick and Morty VS D&D, Samurai Jack, Skullkickers, Street Fighter, Thunderbolts, Wayward, and more!
@jamesenge.bsky.social
Classics by day; sword-and-sorcery by night. The other way 'round sometimes. https://jamesenge.com
@kevinbeckett.bsky.social
In a city sometimes colder than Mars. I ran a monthly newsletter on Swords and sorcery. Now I write stories at Pro Se Productions, Water Dragon Press, Bronze Knuckles Magazine and Swords & Sorcery. https://linktr.ee/kevinbeckett
@clclark.bsky.social
SFF’s buffest lesbian. BFA & Ignyte & Locus Winner. Nebula & Hugo & BFA Finalist. TOURAINE'S ARMS & TOURAINE’S LEGS & TOURAINE'S @$$ & AMBESSA'S ARMS (Orbit ‘21,‘23,'25). français, العربيّة. they/she/sir/Hey, soldier. https://linktr.ee/clclark
@runesword.bsky.social
🔞Rune J. Sword (any/all) & Death McHandsome (they/them) making BEHOLD! an adventure serial of queer sword & sorcery mayhem. AI FOAD 🔞 Read our stuff! https://www.runeswordproductions.com/ Support us! https://ko-fi.com/runeswordproductions
@eric.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog
Pen name (or call me Eric, it's fine) Beleaguered PhD student and fledgling author; not remotely my academic/professional account. Also into history, travel, cooking, film, photography, cats, more. Recent work & socials: https://linktr.ee/emwhiteauthor
@ranylt.bsky.social
Stories in PodCastle, Strange Horizons and many cool elsewheres. Founder of Lackington's Magazine (yup, still on hiatus). Dark fantasy, weird/horror, film, food, architecture, history, language. https://ranylt.wordpress.com
@jpohlmanwriting.com
Queer, Pagan Sci-Fi/Fantasy author from Long Island, NY. Recovering Teacher, ex-Lifeguard. Not a big fan of AI "art" unless it's made by a real-deal AGI Sapience that doesn't yet exist. Ask before DMing, please. https://www.JPohlmanWriting.com/about
@thebarbarienne.bsky.social
Book production queen. Occasional writer. Amateur jeweler. Spoonie. I post pictures of my cats and food. I love to RT art, but only if it has decent alt-text. 🦖TRANS RIGHTS OR I BITES 🦕
@romparsons.bsky.social
Reader and writer of sword and sorcery. There also will be other assorted nonsense. Pfp by Simon Underwood. Free Crom the Barbarian story: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kDMKmTmEfFd-7LGFFw13ce6o_CstlCwV
@minillajovovich.bsky.social
Kaiju Konnassoor, co-host of Defend Your Trash Movie @ https://anchor.fm/trashmoviepod Published in: Fangoria, S&S Magazine, Wyngraf, Rogues in the House Presents Upcoming: New Edge Sword & Sorcery
@chadwickginther.bsky.social
Author of Graveyard Mind and the Thunder Road Trilogy. Winner of the 2021 Prix Aurora Award for Best Short Story. (He/Him)
@breadsonja.bsky.social
Born to Lose—Live to Win. Find my short fiction in NEW EDGE SWORD & SORCERY #2 and #4! https://breadsonja.wordpress.com/
@sctadsen.bsky.social
Librarian, writer, geek - not necessarily in that order. He/Him LibrarianWriterGeek on Twitch and YouTube Personal website: SCTadsen.com
@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
@thomasha.bsky.social
Writer || UNCERTAIN SONS AND OTHER STORIES (2025) Undertow || Nebula, Ignyte, Hugo, Locus, & Shirley Jackson Nominee || Best American SFF. Brave New Weird. Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror || Korean/Irish hapa. Father o' three. He/him. thomashawrites.com
@corabuhlert.bsky.social
Writer, teacher and translator from Bremen in North Germany. Three-time Hugo finalist and 2022 Hugo winner for Best Fan Writer. she/her
@sammytotep.bsky.social
Widower | Owner Weirdpunk Books | Author | Wonderland & Lit Nasties Award-Winner | BNW & Splatterpunk Award-Nominee | Anarchist | Aging Punk | Bi | He/Him | 'Saddest Man in Indie Horror' | Void Collective | Zinester | MPLS https://linktr.ee/weirdpunkbooks
@ossuary.bsky.social
It's pronounced like 'ossuary'. Neodecadentata pulp novelist + flame shirt revitalist Local 210 Ksamkcab yub Ofcieri.com
@hntdove.bsky.social
Writer: alternate history, other sf, fantasy, historical fiction. Severely allergic to fascism.
@mollytanzer.bsky.social
Award-winning author of novels and short stories, including the official, Jirel of Joiry revival “Jirel and the Mirror of Truth”. S-rank manga adaptrix. AI-generated media disliker. Abolish ICE! (She/her) https://www.patreon.com/one_true_sentenc
@flamespeaker.com
Bespoke Independent Publishing Services, tiniest of micropresses, helmed by @jayxwolf.bsky.social
@bearji.bsky.social
@undreamedages.bsky.social
David is devoted to bringing back the stories of old: the heart pounding adventure, the high, personal stakes. His characters aren't interested in saving the world, but sometimes that happens anyway. https://beacons.ai/undreamedages
@carlc75.bsky.social
Super amateur writer person. Talk to me about swords, sorcery, and the grinding boundary of the Meso/Neolithic. Also diving deep into my Welsh heritage!
@nat20.bsky.social
Bard. Enthusiast and creator of cozy fantasy, retro games, TTRPGs, and books with whiskey ads stitched into them. Author of BARD CITY BLUES and publisher of @wyngraf.
@scwkorsgaard.bsky.social
Award-winning freelance reporter, author, US Army veteran and constant adventurer, seeking great stories and an audience to hear them. Editor, Battleborn Magazine. Reviewer, Analog SF&F.
@curtissandsm.bsky.social
Free e-zine of Sword & Sorcery and other pre-modern fantasy. Also pictured, Curtis, editor of same.
@orcwriter.bsky.social
Author of whimsical tales disguised as found manuscripts. Specializing in mouse-run libraries, and gardens where magic blooms between dewdrops. The mushrooms insist they're 'philosophically inclined.' https://claudemoreausgarden.substack.com/
@neilwillcox.bsky.social
Poet, Writer, Jack Of All Trades https://nightofthehats.blogspot.com/
@mdanielmcdowell.bsky.social
ink-stained wretch & nom de guerre of jayxwolf.bsky.social. Song of the Scourgelands book 3 CROWN OF THE WORLD UNBOUND out 2025! Start @ Book 1: Bringer of the Scourge, spfbo x semifinalist: https://books2read.com/bringer https://linktr.ee/mdanielmcdowell
@carsonwinter.bsky.social
Author, punker, raw nerve. The Psychographist and A Spectre is Haunting Greentree out now. Co-host of the Dead Languages Podcast. Social media at CHM.
@jduckwriter.bsky.social
Author of Have You Seen the Moon Tonight? & Other Rumors. Horror Writer, regular type dude, Godless leftist, Lecturer at University of North Texas
@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.
@japrenticewrites.bsky.social
He/Him. SFWA Member. Stories published with Big Finish, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Wyngraf, HyphenPunk, Metaphorosis, From Beyond Press, and more! j.a.prenticewrites@gmail.com is my work contact email.
@brynhammond.bsky.social
| Writer. Historical fiction: Amgalant on Tchingis Khan and 12thC Mongols. S&S: New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine; Goatskin novella Waste Flowers out May 1 | She/her. 🌈 Queer. Australia | https://amgalant.com / buy direct https://payhip.com/Amgalant
@kjy1066.bsky.social
Putting the hater in creator. Stories in Strange Horizons, BCS, khōreo, more. Host of Podside Picnic. He/Him
@prashanthsrivatsa.bsky.social
Writer. The Spice Gate - July 2024 (HarperVoyager) Catsfather.
@obrackenbury.bsky.social
https://www.patreon.com/soimwritinganovel Author / Screenwriter / NESS Magazine Editor. NSI Totally Television alumnus. Podcast Host: So I'm Writing a Novel, Unknown Worlds of the Merril Collection. (He/Him)
@grimdarkmagazine.bsky.social
Get knee-deep in grit with Grimdark Magazine. GdM presents the darker side of SFF.
@riengray.bsky.social
Agender Intersex Butch | Author of F/F and F/NBi romance, fantasy, & horror | They/Them | 2025: GALEAS THE KEEN, LESSER HUNGERS | #sapphicromance #lesfic https://riengray.itch.io/ https://www.amazon.com/stores/Rien-Gray/author/B091NLB55
@oldmoonquarterly.bsky.social
oldmoonpublishing.com Old Moon Quarterly is an indie magazine of weird sword-and-sorcery in the vein of Clark Ashton Smith, Tanith Lee and Karl Edward Wagner.
@christopherrowe.bsky.social
Writer, reader, cyclist, cook, traveller. THE NAVIGATING FOX, starred review in Publishers Weekly, out now from Tordotcom Publishing.
@renanbernardo.com
Nebula and Ignyte Finalist • Reactor, Clarkesworld, Apex • DISGRACED RETURN OF THE KAP'S NEEDLE - NOW OUT! • DIFFERENT KINDS OF DEFIANCE also OUT! • Codex • He/him • Brazilian author More: https://linktr.ee/renanbernardo1
@neonhemlock.bsky.social
World Fantasy, Nebula, Ignyte & Shirley Jackson Award-winning speculative publisher. Baffling & novellas & anthos & queer 📚. Managing Editor: dave ring.
@newedgeswordmag.bsky.social
Made with love for the classics, and an inclusive, boundary-pushing approach to storytelling. https://newedgeswordandsorcery.com/
@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
@lairdbarron.bsky.social
A dog of the house Mainly updates; occasional commentary Catch me at my Patreon: Realms of Old Leech https://www.patreon.com/lairdbarron/about Banner art: Chuck Killorin.
@jayxwolf.bsky.social
sff writer & dev editor, author-illustrator, lapsed podcaster, sculptor, fabricator, Viable Paradise alum, online community specialist, queer as in here, they as in them, kennywood enthusiast. writes books as @mdanielmcdowell.bsky.social
@ellenkushner.bsky.social
Author & woman around town. Married to Delia Sherman. Wrote Swordspoint. Host/writer of public radio’s Sound & Spirit. A new gig every 17 years. Back to writing novels. Seeking for further amusement. I would probably like you.
@gailsimone.bsky.social
Loves: Comics, Games, Travel, Writing, Greyhounds Cyclops is so great I write lots of comics, animation, games and more. Come join us, won't me?
@marthawells.com
SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
@jonolfert.bsky.social
Stories in Analog, On Spec, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies. History's eighth or ninth most prolific writer of speculative paleofiction. Polling and policy by day. http://jonathan-olfert.carrd.co