Writing competition for unpublished and independently published novelists. Entries close on the 31st of May. Judged by Sally Williamson (Transworld) and Hayley Steed (Janklow & Nesbit). Organised by the Literary Studio. Bloomsbury, London
firstnovel.co.uk
Writer & Political Commentator | Tracking how far-right authoritarianism and tech oligarchy are eroding democracy.
Featured on BBC, Sky News, LBC, EuroNews & more.
Appearances: https://www.youtube.com/@AdamJSchwarz
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Actor, director, artistic multi-hyphenate. Half-Asian since before it was cool. Bring on the cats. And the video games. Newly arrived to Canada.
“The Adorable Antics of Pink Bunny: A Social Media Fable” - I'm a cute stuffed pink bunny! Bunny pics, travel, Disney, Muppets, theme parks, ACNH & pop culture found here. TOTALLY here to make friends. Just trying to make the internet a nicer place.
Author | Editor | Book coach.
Bristol girl now living in France. Caledonia Novel Award SL. Goldfinch Novel Award LL.
Rep’d by Judith Murray at Greene & Heaton
In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
i write at @theverge.com. Portland, OR.
Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
🚀🤗🪨 A global community of film lovers. Share your taste in movies via our free apps for iOS, Android, Apple TV, and on the web. https://letterboxd.com
Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
Chair of London's Fire Committee.
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https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
• Artist/Illustrator
My art and prints 👉 http://spyglassillustration.com
• Opening a children’s bookshop in Edinburgh @spyglassbooks.bsky.social
• Co-owner of McNaughtan’s Bookshop
• Non-fiction book club runner
Art, books, history, politics
Lecturer, workshopper and creative writing events organiser - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis-events-17318878423
A publisher of science fiction and fantasy, based in Wales.
World Fantasy Award-winning publisher
www.blackshuckbooks.co.uk
Home of Strange Studies of Strange Stories and The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast!
http://Patreon.com/WitchHouseMedia
http://StrangeStudies.com
http://HPPodcraft.com
Habitual doodler and street artist, wrangling ephemerality and finding uplift underfoot.
a Hugo and Ignyte Award-winning fanzine covering fantasy, science fiction, video games, comics, cult movies, and other realms of nerddom since 2012.
http://www.nerds-feather.com/
Historian at Cambridge. In Search of the Phoenicians (2018) and How the World Made the West (2024). Photos by Sukant Deepak (in Jaipur, 2024) and Carlotta Cardana (at St John's College, Cambridge, 2025).
NYT best selling author of book hugs, queer, tea snob, avid reader & nerd girl. Fond of hedgehogs & soup ladles. GailCarriger.com
SFWA promotes, advances, and supports science fiction and fantasy storytelling by educating, promoting, and empowering its creators and the larger community. This account is for informational purposes.
Queen of Lasers, Mother of Storms, & NYT/USAToday bestselling author of Fairyland, Space Opera, Deathless, & many more. Any/All
Art: http://patreon.com/catvalente
Politics: http://catvalente.substack.com
TipJar: https://venmo.com/u/cat-valente
Fantasy author. Editor @AtthisArts.com. Organizer @PubProsABB.bsky.social. Vegan. Mama. Queer. Michigander. Mentally disabled. Blue Ajah. Hasty Ent. Quests in heals. Shkode-kwe. Aήττητη. she/her or e/em. Emily or E. 🧄.
Speak plainly and stand together.
Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, Enlightenment, Italy, classical reception), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), food, history pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com
Appalachian in the big city. Editor at Ancillary Review, host of A Meal of Thorns, bookseller, coffee pro, SF reviewer & scholar. He/him.
https://linktr.ee/jakecasellabrookins
SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, Queen Demon, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
The Book Bird Cometh
https://www.printrunpodcast.com/
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dire homosexual 🏳️🌈 - ONCE UPON A TOME [2022] 📚 - ISABELLA NAGG AND THE POT OF BASIL [2025] 🪴- THE DEVIL AND MRS GOOCH [2026] 😈 - One Page RPGS 🎲 - 🏠 Manchester, UK
https://linktr.ee/oliverdarkshire
The young person's guide to conquering (and saving) the world.✨
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History + DH @ Lancaster University. MapReader, computational history, history of infrastructure and information. Writing a book about people & highways in 18th c. France.
THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press)
Disabled Writer • Disability Advocate • Musician • Husband • Blood Type: Curry
#Epilepsy #Disability #DisabledWriters
jmthornberry.wordpress.com
sandandgravelpress.com/store/the-finish-line-jason-thornberry
@ᗩᑎᗩᒪOG_Sᖴ ᖇegular ⭐ ᗯriters of the ᖴuture & ᒍim ᗷaen ᗩward Winner ⭐ Quora Top ᗯriter ⭐ Southerner from South ᗪakota ⭐
A unique voice known for inventive, thought-provoking narrative, philosophical depth, and fun!
Be excellent to each other.
Hungarian writer of literary fantasy - memory, magic, marginalised voices
BSFA-winner
Author of The Binding Spell. Historian of the French Revolution. Writer of history books. Writer of fiction. Winner of the Times/Chicken House Comp 2023. Rep'd by Lucy Irvine at PFD @lucyirvine93.bsky.social
marisalinton.com
Fantasy books, films, anime, comics, Early Modern Literature, life. He/him. I blog at The City of Lost Books. Come and see! https://thecityoflostbooks.glasgow.ac.uk/
NYT bestselling and BSFA & Scribe award-winning writer. Intersectional feminist science fiction with Gold SF. Fighting the long defeat since December 1981. Chiefest and greatest of calamities.
https://linktr.ee/unamccormack
#Yorkshire #birdwatching (especially raptors) and occasional #phonescoping with Opticron.
Art,Space and other stuff.
Proud Manxman 🇮🇲 living in God's own county.
Former RAF & airline pilot.
Location:
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historian of witchcrafts, folklore, France 18-20th c
ass. ed. French History
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
that’s an actual photo of me
SF/F/H writer/editor (The Duke of Editing), Prof of #scifi #writing, podcaster (The Skiffy and Fanty Show)!
Twitch (W/Su 6-8PM Central. Skiffy on Fri 7PM): http://twitch.tv/alphabetstreams
Opinions my own. Things here: https://shaunduke.net/dukethings
Weegie bookseller and book enthusiast. SFF reader. Co-head of Programme, Eastercon 2027. Angry queer. Nonbinary. They/them.
Bringing Sci-Fi down to Earth 🌎🌨✨
A ~*soilpunk*~ quarterly
Winter is here! Issue 4: THAW out now 🌗❄️🕯️
🧑💻 Website: tractorbeam.earth
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I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
🏆 Winner of the @JHALAKPRIZE & @BRADFORDBOASE for Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths
🐯 Tiger Warrior author
🔎 Very Merry Murder Club author
Screenwriter @bbcwritersroom Scottish Voices.
Lit Rep: @chloeseager
https://linktr.ee/MaisieChanWrites
Brummie
A blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social.
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
Author of Invisible Library and Scarlet Revolution series, classifications specialist, quilter, knitter, tired. Pronouns she/her.
Writer of games, books, TV, film and comics. Co-Director of Narrativia. Cat Spooner. Flibbertigibbet. https://rhiannapratchett.com
Writer, editor, artist, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award. Wanderer of the deep, dark forest of story in language and paint.
Dartmoor, Devon, UK
Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Covering arts philanthropy at orartswatch.org. Writing books and plays at clairewillettwrites.com. Mentoring lefty grantwriters at tinyurl.com/8thHousePDX. “Notable internet lesbian.”
Magazines. Podcast. Live shows. Blu-rays. Website. Upcoming film.
www.filmstories.co.uk
A home for working-class readers and writers
https://thebeemagazine.com
Author, editor, ghostwriter. Page Turner Award finalist. AH Glasgow 2024 Presents (WorldCon). BFS Event Co-ordinator. SoA and CIEP member. All things SFFH.
Klein Librarian for Science Fiction & Fantasy @ UC Riverside. Yale Ph.D. SFWA. HWA. Work in F&SF, The Dark, & more! Rep: Angeline Rodriguez, WME Books. 🏳️🌈🇨🇾
www.phoenixalexanderauthor.com
sff novels & weird seagull noises 👽 🌈
rep: maria napolitano // kt literary
books: sargassa, bloodtide (daw)
https://linktr.ee/sophieburnham
Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
Writer of books, drinker of tears! Carnegie nominated, Locus and Nebula shortlisted. LONG LIVE EVIL, a portal fantasy in which the villains unionise, is my #1 Sunday Times & USA Today bestselling adult fantasy debut. She/her
Author, Librarian, general book nerd, SFF, Irish, she/her
(pretty much always a library in my books)
http://www.rflong.com/
Jessica Thorne: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Jessica-Thorne/author/B07KRHB3HR
A KISS OF HAMMER & FLAME 📘 Out now!
A CROWN OF BLOOD & MAGICK 📕 15 Sep 2026
(Canelo, DK, Penguin Random House)
Whimsigoth #SpecFic writer. She / her 🇦🇺 🏳️🌈 🇬🇧
SL: Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2024
Rep: PFD London
https://linktr.ee/amydelaforce
Girl dad, husband, cat dad (He/Him)
Avid reader of mostly SFFH.
Not accepting any unsolicited review/ARC requests.
I support 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️+ rights
Stop the genocide in 🇵🇸
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Author of the Health of Strangers pandemic crime series
~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME comedy & history podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~ Author of 7 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ Ex-HORRIBLE HISTORIES BBC TV 📺🤣
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Author, environmentalist & egalitarian, rep Julie Crisp. Novels published by Orbit & SRL. Pre-order THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF LOVE now! www.heather-child.co.uk
Publishing speculative fiction, poetry, reviews, & articles Mondays, free to read at http://strangehorizons.com. IGNYTE Community Award winner. Hugo Award winner 2024.
linktr.ee/strangehorizons
Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
Words, birds, music. Usual nonsense. South London. linktr.ee/levparikian
The writing and reading development agency for the North of England.
We are the UK’s largest children’s reading charity. We get millions of children & families reading together from the earliest possible age.
Coram is the UK’s first children’s charity, helping more than a million children, young people, families and professionals every year.
https://linktr.ee/wearecoram?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=6315b901-f777-415b-9780-2d97a2f0d4bd
Helping care-experienced children and young people better understand their own life stories. Managed by the North East based charity, Blue Cabin (@BlueCabin.bsky.social).
Author. Writing children's fiction and poetry. The Shell Keepers out June 2025 with @chickenhousebooks.bsky.social #BCNA winner 2022. Rep'd by Lauren Gardner, BLM Agency. Trulyjohnston.co.uk
A passionate community of practitioners & trainers embracing the transformative Rose Model. Helping children/young people & families make sense of their story.
Children’s charity, voluntary adoption agency, covering the North of England, we offer ongoing support & training to families. Our not-for-profit fostering agency, Foster Care Matters, launched in 2024.
#AdoptionMatters #FosterCareMatters
Writer of short and long fiction. Parent. Reader. Planteater. Scotland/ Kathmandu. riverweststories.co.uk
We eat constantly. All greenery mown at no cost. Mainlining grass at the University of Leeds. More active over on Insta.
Nature comics (Bird and Moon). Books about nature. Talks. Bird facts. rosemarymosco.com She/her.
1 night
15 authors
A whole lot of fun
strangeupnorth.co.uk
The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
A no-bullshit conversation about politics with hosts Jon Favreau, Dan Pfeiffer, Tommy Vietor & Jon Lovett.
crooked.com/friends
Fantasy & contemporary fiction 🐉 Coffee lover ☕️ constantly adding to a never-ending TBR… 📚 UK 📍
A monthly podcast where a geeky, British couple rereads & discusses the Discworld books, at their dining table.
https://diningtablediscworld.podbean.com
Available on most pod catchers also YouTube & Facebook.
@davegotsu.bsky.social @ctjhill.bsky.social
Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Magazine of new fiction edited by Andy Cox with art by Richard Wagner. Issue 4 out now. https://remains.uk
I want Ken Railings to walk in here right now and say 'Pam Shortt's broken both her legs and I wanna dance with you’
DDPI Worldwide (fmr @ddpnetwork) is a global institute providing training and certification in DDP (Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Parenting and Practice)
ddpnetwork.org
We're a bilingual magazine, publishing speculative fiction and poetry in their original language and in translation. (Our sister magazine is @strangehorizons.bsky.social)
Free to read at samovar.strangehorizons.com
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
One of the largest, most diverse Schools of Languages, Cultures & Societies in the UK. A leading centre for Languages, Classics, Film, Intercultural Studies, Translation & Linguistics.
World Fantasy Convention, Brighton UK
Dates: Thursday 30th October - 2nd November 2025
Venue: Double Tree by Hilton Brighton Metropole
Website: https://worldfantasy2025.co.uk
#WorldFantasyConvention2025 #WorldFantasy25
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The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
6 - 14 June 2026. Returning for its eighth year, the award-winning festival of words aims to bring together, and help develop, the city’s literary scene, with writers, poets and performers from Leeds, Yorkshire and beyond!
#LLF26. www.leedslitfest.co.uk
Steampunk news and event guide. Producer of "The World of Steampunk" video series.
Online: https://steampunk-explorer.com.
Social/video links: https://linktr.ee/steampunk_explorer
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/steampunkexplorer
Scottish comic/writer/actor with confusing accent, absolutely not insecure about it. She/her. My book out now! Show for '26: The Mermaid https://linktr.ee/eleanormorton
Eleanor & Alasdair Read That on Spotify
support me: https://ko-fi.com/eleanormorton
Writers, books, small publishers, readers - that's what we are about! Here to engage with and platform writers, books and all things lit. Leeds Lit Fest founder partner. Champions Leeds, Yorkshire and the North.
✒️ Speculative Fiction Writer
📍 Leeds, UK
https://linktr.ee/marieke.vanmil
The Magazine of New Writing.
https://granta.com/
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