International prizes for emerging writers
✨The Bath Novel Award | Prize £5,000 | C/d 31 May
✨The Bath Children's Novel Award | Prize £5,000 | C/d 30 Nov
www.bathnovelaward.co.uk
Literary, TV & Film Agency representing bestselling and award-winning authors worldwide
https://www.madeleinemilburn.co.uk/
I am a screenwriter (Blinded by the Light), author (Greetings from Bury Park, They), journalist (Guardian, Times and lots of others), I teach at UCL and am working on my first stage play. Mostly though I am a husband and father of two young children.
writer & sex educator | NYU mfa
zoebflavin.substack.com
Writer of literary fiction | Bi | Washington, DC
Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
FORBIDDEN CITY | A RIVER OF STARS| DECEIT AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES| Rona Jaffe| Bylines @sfchronicle @nytimes & elsewhere | NEAarts Fellow | forthcoming COYOTELAND
San Francisco Bay Area writer and educator. Flash fiction and cnf in SmokeLong, Bending Genres, Atlas and Alice, The Forge, Ghost Parachute, Craft & elsewhere.Poetry in journals such as New Ohio Review, Plume, Hunger Mountain and Cincinnati R. (she/her)
“Orlando's Reigning Big Time Celebrity Author” - The Orlando Weekly
huuuuge lesbian. librarian. dad. floridian. beer drinker. NYT Bestselling author.
Mostly Dead Things & WITH TEETH & STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE
https://www.kristenarnettwriter.com
author of A LIVING REMEDY (a New York Times Notable Book) and the national bestseller ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW • words in NYT Magazine, Time, Esquire, Washington Post &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung • loyaltybookstores.com/nicolechung
writer | editor | social worker
runs on anxiety and wide-eyed optimism
managing director @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
debut novel HOW WE SEE THE GRAY (May 2026)
editor of THE ROCKFORD ANTHOLOGY
(she/they)
https://linktr.ee/rachelleon
Mildly friendly, Swiss-based US writer of litfic, working on debut novel. Latest pubs, longform & flash, realism & offbeat: @ghostcitypress @emergejournal @acrossthemargin @TheWoolf @offbeatlit @SubniveanMag & @fiveonthefifth. www.meredithwadley.com
Writer, performer, storyteller, both bi and curious • A GOOD YEAR (Fairlight Moderns) 📚 • East Med to East Mids 🇨🇾🇬🇧 (he/him)
http://linktr.ee/polisloizou
New York Times bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts (plus others) who often talks books on the Today Show. Next up? American Dionysus. 🍎 I walk a lot.
writer & full fattie 🍦• author of 📚 HOUSEMATES (2024) & 📚 THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL (2020) • ✍🏻 NYT, Time, Esquire, The Atlantic, Granta, The Cut etc 🌈 she/her
https://www.emmacopleyeisenberg.com
Former Philadelphian living in Montréal
Supports public schools
Wrote some short stories & then some even shorter ones
https://stephanieking.net
Lover of Human Story. ❤️ Literary fiction writer represented by Kat Foxx at The Rights Factory. IG: heatherhigdonwrites
Writer / pαnawάhpskewi from the Penobscot Indian Nation / NIGHT OF THE LIVING REZ and FIRE EXIT: A NOVEL (Tin House 2024)
Founder & Director of Talty Literary
morgantalty.com
Writer. Revenant. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023, Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards) & RAKESFALL (2024, Le Guin Prize and Otherwise award.) Colombo/New York. https://vajra.me
Are you there, social media void? It's me, Sheryl.
Writer (WaPo, #WFWA #Binders). Deus ex mama. Soccer mom with track marks ( #PI #CVID #DIS #ChronicIllness). Rutgers stan.
Rep: @shellyromero
website: sherylstein.com
links: https://linktr.ee/sherylstein
☕📚🌦️Writer, teacher, coffee drinker, a little too obsessed with the weather.☕🌈🐾
Indie author, freelance writer and essayist, using humor and heart to tell stories about love, loss, and the overall messiness of life. Debut novel, THERE'S ALWAYS A PRICE out now. #wfwa #binders #indieauthor
🙋♀️: translator, fiction writer, high school language teacher, cat paparazzo, fun aunt
🗣️: English, français, español, Gaeilge
✍️: recently in The Common, North American Review, Latin American Literature Today
🔗: lnlanguage.com, lauranagle.substack.com
Samantha Bryant is a multigenre author, best known for her Menopausal Superhero series of novels through Falstaff Books. WFWA, HWA. http://dangerouswhenbored.com
Writer, editor, book reviewer, consultant
Author/Mom/Wonder Woman/Queen of the North
She/her/hers
your daily dose of the emily henry literary universe! an account dedicated to updates about beach read, people we meet on vacation, book lovers, happy place, funny story and their movie adaptations!
Author | Poet | Overthinker | #booksky 💙📚 | Ocean Falls Trilogy | #romancelandia | #windingwords Hostess | Work in progress | 🚫 DMs | 🚫 AI | She/Her.
Read my Ocean Falls Trilogy here:
https://books2read.com/ap/xqdddW/Peyton-Storm
Award-winning author of A Boundless Place and The Tender Silver Stars. Living kidney donor—#shareyourspare! Mom of three kids and too many cats.
Los Angeles Screenwriter of 🎬 RomComs, Producer, 🎄 Author, Animation Artist, Actress, Comedian ❤️ That which does not kill me makes me funnier ❤️
www.stephaniebourbon.com
MORE linktr.ee/StephOBourbon
📚Bestselling author and author coach.
👩🏻💻Retired librarian and teacher.
👫🏻Nana-Mom-Wifey.
🐶Dog Mom.
www.jeanniemoon.com
www.fiveharborsliterary.com
Disabled librarian turned writer • 📚 • Mom to rescue dog Clara & cat lover • #amquerying GenX nostalgia book club fiction • 🚫GenAI
📚 🐕 🐈 💙
jendupuis.com | Detroit, MI | she/her
Writer. Book lover. WFWA member. Big fan of bread, baby ducks, and naps. From Charleston, SC, but with nomadic tendencies. Newly in Duluth, MN.
Also on Threads @emily.hassell.mumford
Querying my women's fiction debut, ALL OTHER GROUND
English teacher/literacy nerd, mom, military spouse, and Oxford comma apologist 💙🌈
ADHD/chronic illness/exvangelical rep
Award-winning author of Nine Days, The Making of Genevieve, and Callahan's Cottage. Living my wonderful life on the shores of Cape Cod. "Every time I slip into the ocean, it’s like going home." Sylvia Earle
Mom, Mama, Mommy, Mimi, and wife
Author of “Everything You’ve Ever Known”
You can find me in the water reading a book, but I’d prefer if you didn’t.
👩👧👦mama, ♥️ wife, 🩺ER doctor, ☕️coffee addict, 📚book evangelist, ✍🏻writer,🪴gardener. Die hard Minneapolis fan. Always thinking about new ways to write love stories 💕. Figuring out what I want to be when I grow up ⭐️
MBA-turned-#SuspenseGirl. Debut novel~ THE HINT OF LIGHT. Coffee. Kitty mama. Em dash enthusiast. #Wahoowa Did I mention coffee? 🇺🇦Rep'd by Marlene Stringer. #Resist https://www.KristinKisska.com
Author. Women’s Fiction. Contemporary. Small-town Romance. Working on a Cozy. NJRW. WFWA. LSFW, SinC, SincNE, SincNJ, Dog lover.
✍️Writer of Book Club/Women’s fiction, poetry and children's books
🙏Yoga/meditation teacher
📚Avid reader
🍃Nature explorer
💗Psoriatic arthritis/chronic pain warrior
✍️ Author 📚Reader 👩🏫Mentor
#ThisChildofMine and #WhenYouWereMine OUT NOW
@AvonBooksUK / @KNLitAgency
http://linktr.ee/ecwilsonauthor
Founder : The Glass House Online Magazine.
Writing/Social Impact/Public Health/Resistance from my perch in rocky coastal Maine. #amediting. Just migrated from X
Brand Strategist | Author of Four Seasons, The Last Snowfall, Gnight Sara/Night Heck / I Love You Sunday Sunset
Books, films, wine, coffee and cats
IG/FB: @ domesticatedwriter
www.justcastellon.com
www.justreadingnook.com
Writer of Women’s Fiction, Historical Fiction & Southern Fiction.
Debut author of ‘Junebug’ in Feisty Deeds: Historical Fictions of Daring Women. pattywwarren.com
#wfwa #ncwn
Bangs on about 17th century French nuns and noble rot. Inordinately fond of other people’s books. Reads. Writes. Cooks. Brazen reposter.
Author THE MORTALITY SHOT (hybrid collection), coach, editor, artist, certified yoga teacher, theater maker, now working on researched memoir about liberation at 57 of being a fashionably late-diagnosed #Autistic: TheUnadaptedOnes.com
Wrestling with a tricky second novel. (The first one is safely tied up in a drawer.) 💙📚👀
Time spent reading:writing = 10:1
#writingcommunity #amquerying
Native NYer in NorCal. Author, Speaker, Lawyer, Webinar Host for Women’s Fiction Writers Association (WFWA). Debut novel, EVERYTHING WE THOUGHT WAS TRUE, released 1/27/25 by Red Adept Publishing. Proud daughter of gay father. 🏳️🌈 www.linktr.ee/lisamontanaro
Award-winning indie author writing stories about strong women finding the courage to face the storm and live their dreams—usually in the company of a faithful hound. Releasing the Reins out now. #WFWA #IndieAuthor #Reader #Blogger
Women’s Fic & Romance Author.
Tall Poppy Writer. WFWA. Big Virgo energy.
📍HTX. Hook Em🤘Go ‘Stros ⚾️
Book lover, storyteller, AG member & cat person.
Querying upmarket contemporary romance: SHEDDING CATS
Two published #novels:
🛩️ FLYING BLIND, A CROPDUSTER'S STORY
🌺 A PRIMROSE IN NOVEMBER
https://luanneoleas.com/
Brain tumor survivor, Angel believer, Writer of stories.
I'm an SFF author & Aussie on Wurundjeri country.
Living my best ADHD, autistic, chronically ill, enby, aro-ace life!
🚫gen ai. Human rights fan. 🌐 https://elisecarlson.com/
✍️ Blog: https://elisecarlson.com/blog/elise-carlson-blogs-by-image/
Queer, nonbinary author, MFA, adjunct professor, and dog mom. Your local ND science-goth crocheter.
Julia Child meets Vincent Price. They/them
karajorgensen.com
Pen name for autistic/ace indie writer & digital artist, introvert, worried soul, they/she. 🚫NO A/I!
ART PRINTS: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/whistberry/
threadless tshirts: https://whistberry.threadless.com/
Other links: https://linktr.ee/whistberry
Writer and scientist who cuddles dogs, builds worlds. Rep: Lauren Bieker. www.ajvanbelle.com. Rhysling & Best of the Net nominee.
Literary agent at The Booker Albert Agency.
Nonbinary/transmasc 🏳️⚧️
UK Horror & Dark SFF hybrid [Canelo -> Penguin] author
HWA Affiliate Writer, BFS Member
ADHD. Welsh-Turkish 🏴🇹🇷. Queer/cis🏳️🌈. She/her.
Podcast: @eldritchgirlpod.bsky.social
Website/Newsletter: cmrosens.com
Visit Pagham-on-Sea: visitpaghamonsea.co.uk
Author & artist of the strange and speculative https://linktr.ee/vanessakrauss
Author of
FATALITY series www.amazon.com/dp/B0F92WRWKC
THIN http://amazon.com/dp/B0B2VD424G
BEAUTIFUL DREAMER https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVFCCM2T
Trans woman / baphomet. Author of The Amelia Temple Series and Shadows Over Ravenkirk. Your favorite World of Darkness poster. She/her
https://dot.cards/vivianmvalentine
That murder lady. Fantasy & horror books at https://authordiannagunn.com Creator of @WeeknightWriters.bsky.social Buy a murder or support my work at https://ko-fi.com/diannagunn She/her
Your friendly local agender trauma merchant.
Bereaved and current Corgi parent. Cat chew-toy.
Visually impaired. Posts may contain typos. You'll be OK.
Any pronouns.
https://ravenswordpress.com/
https://ko-fi.com/akfaulkner
BSFA-nominated essayist. SFF author you’ve never heard of. SocDem. Tolkien nerd. Armchair medievalist. She/her. Header by chorischia.bsky.social.
Website: arobertswrites.com
Newsletter: buttondown.email/arobertswrites
M.S.Ed., Ph.D. • Indie scholar • Author • Teaching the power & joy of learning • Ecosystem restorationist (California) • Celebrating nature • Advocating stewardship • Weaving tales of cross-cultural & inter-species relations.
https://larisa-a-white.com
Author of twisty YA page-turner The Face That Pins You. Also school librarian, English teacher, IB EE Coordinator and former BBC broadcaster, choir leader and songwriter. She/her
https://www.kesalisbury.com/
Author of science fiction and fantasy. Exploring the multiverse, with pens, pencils and enthusiasm! She/her. Further shenanigans all over the internet and at MaraLynnJohnstone.com
I write kissing books! (And sometimes murder and magic books). Rep’d by Leah Pierre at Ladderbird Literary. JoConklin on most socials. Black Lives Matter 🏳️⚧
https://linktr.ee/joconklin
VILE LADY VILLAINS (UK: Penguin Michael Joseph, April 2026/ US: Union Square & Co, May 2026) ✨Rep: Lauren Bieker✨Editor: khōréō ✨Assistant Lit. Agent: Tobias Literary Agency✨she/they🏳️🌈🇬🇷
lnk.bio/danaiwrites
Writer of SFFH. Snarkwitch. Psych PhD. Approachable goth. Artomancer.
Words in Small Wonders, Penumbric, The Deadlands, Skull & Laurel
Member of HWA, SFWA, Codex
www.cjsubko.com
https://cjsubko.beehiiv.com
Québécoise, indie author of platonic queer SFF and Indie Ink Award winner. Creator of the Aroace Database; member of the Kraken Collective. she/elle
Direct shop: https://claudiearseneault.itch.io/
All Links: https://claudiearseneault.com/welcome
Devil's Deal // Tales of Lunis Aquaria // Creator of worlds // Book reviewer and blogger // Writer // Dog mom // Owner of @Narratess 🇳🇱/🇮🇩
Disabled transmasc butch fantasy writer in this world, stabby bastards of various stripes in sundry fictional ones.
Writing LGBTQ+ gaslamp fantasy (among other things) over at https://saranadosfiction.com/
@house_of_five@wandering.shop
(they/he)
Author of SFF/H, published most recently at Pulp Lit Mag, Worlds of Possibility, The Colored Lens,
queer, ND, she/they
Member of SFWA, Codex
See more at www.adriabailton.com
16-time award losing author, 1-time winner. Editor, unexpected writing mentor, and sticker maker. MS Paint marketing professional. Chronic shitposter. They/Them/She. Pfp by @beanieworks.bsky.social
https://anotherindiewriter.com | https://jobatplace.com
Sci fi and fantasy author, blogger, reviewer, secret keeper. My opinions are my own. Author of Boss From Hell, White Fire and more. She/her
She/her, author of fantasy novels coming from Shadow Spark Publishing✨
Fantasy gamer, anime nerd, reader🌈
SFINCS3 judge📚
Autistic ace vampire🧛♀️ LGBTQ+ safe🏳️🌈 Occasional 18+ content🔞
Links to my stuff: https://linktr.ee/kiraofthewind
Writer of dark fiction inspired by dreams & nightmares 🌌 MH & PTSD 🌸 Autistic 🤘 Witch ⛥
🏳️🌈 Queer, polyam, aspec 💜🖤💚 (she/they)
👩🔬 Works in a lab, developing vaccines 🧫
📖 My Lord art by @hollybunn.bsky.social
📚 shimaira.com
🚫 no genAI
🏡 Dutch
🍉 & 🖕🧊
I like the Astros, the outdoors, and books. Also sometimes I write and edit things. ND, disabled cat lady. She/they. 🏳️🌈
https://kilagreene.carrd.co/
I maintain a list of upcoming queer SF/F/H book releases: https://kilagreene.bearblog.dev/masterlist
Fiction writer. Words in Still: The Journal, Streetlight Magazine, 100 Word Story, and elsewhere. Writing historical and literary fiction. Rep’d by Amy Collins.
#HistoricalFiction #Fiction #Writer
TonjaReynolds.com
Trying to be kind. I write. (he/him)
Check out my books
Monotropic writer, science tutor, Autistic community organiser and independent researcher. Based in Edinburgh.
they/them.
https://linktr.ee/0olong
Writer of speculative fiction from the wide open spaces. Dispenser of horse cookies to the fancy-stepping Marker-boi. Former special ed teacher. #SFWA
https://www.joycereynolds-ward.com
They/She/He. 39.
New drawings Mon/Wed/Fri/Sun.
Author:
Bird & Prey:
sylverwpoulsen.itch.io/bird-prey-pilot
Deoxyribonucleic Enterprise:
sylverwpoulsen.itch.io/dne1
First Rule Of Being A Spy:
sylverwpoulsen.itch.io/matching-stilettos
Web serial author and half of The Shadows Crew. Host of #LateNightWrite. She/her, demiromantic asexual.
Shadows Rise: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/24665/shadows-rise
Solo projects on: http://ko-fi.com/blackbirb
Profile pic by @oddlywynn.bsky.social
she/her. ma and ba in creative writing. author. aroace 🏳️🌈. neurodivergent. dilf enthusiast. #amwriting adult gothic horror DEAD WATER DIRGE.
Reader, photographer, occasional writer, legal assistant. Movies, vinyl, sci fi, gaming, live music, comics, knitting, sewing, sports. Queer. Corvallis, Oregon. She/they
Links: https://teawhilewriting.carrd.co
Level 43 AuDHD chaos gremlin. Author, artist, teacher, and owned by three cats. 141 RAADS-R score. Ace and tired.
A GIFT OF WORDS and A GIFT OF WILD (middle grade contemporary fantasy) out now from D&O Publishing
Found in the wilds of Cumbria, UK
Writer, historian, educator, foodie. Maker of seriously bad jokes.
Publisher of me:
Indie author Miranda Kate/M K Boers/Miranda K/M K Prince
Stories with a dark edge that'll leave a trail in your mind.
#Author #Horror #SciFi #DarkFantasy
https://linktr.ee/purplequeennl
British Author based in Europe
Trans Ally 🏳️⚧️
Anti AI
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ they/them | 28 | author of queer fantasy books | vampire enthusiast | occasional artist | No ai trash in this home!
🦇🩸Latest: SILVER BLOOD (2/11/25)🩸🦇
Next: SHATTERED CITY (10/6/2026)
tallimorgan.com | https://patreon.com/tallimorganbooks
He/Him. Sci-Fi and Spec Fic Guy. Nature obsessed. Librarian by day, woods wizard by night. #LateNightWrite lesser host. Father of cats. Enemy of fish. Find me among the fungi.
Looking for texts? #AskYourInternetLibrarian
🏳️🌈 She/her, sapphic fiction indie author of the Cardinal Series and the Erudite Shifters Series. Find me at www.tjdallas.com
She/her. Author of THE GIRL WITH NO REFLECTION (Delacorte/PRH 2024). VPLA unpublished manuscript prize winner 2022. Certified cat lady.
Fantasy/SciFi #Author | Ticking Time Bomb of Mortality | Actually a Selkie | Hair Color Subject To Change | Gamer | Pro Oxford Comma | She/Her https://arkhorton.com/
Author-Illustrator, Amigurumi Artist, A GIFT FOR NAI NAI (12/5/23) 👧🏻🎁👵🏼, http://instagram.com/AutumnLeaflet, Rep’d by Miranda Paul, https://linktr.ee/AutumnLeaflet
she/her // author of The Serrulata Saga // urban witch // demisexual // trans rights are human rights // 🚫 gen AI
https://www.booksbybennett.com
Author of The Witch of Emelle series || Living Ghibli Character || Lover of cats, wine, & video games || she/her
Site: https://azaleaforrest.wordpress.com/links/
Itchio: https://azaleaforrest.itch.io/
Support: https://ko-fi.com/azaleaforrest
