sparkle motion enthusiast
Stories in Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction vol. 2, Strange Horizons, Ellery Queen, and more.
Writer of fiction, poetry, and video games.
Currently at Motive, previously at BioWare.
Friend to cats, rabbits, Mimikyus.
You can find more about my writing here:
https://www.briannebattye.com/
Writer of fiction, TTRPGs and lost to-do lists. PhD Researcher and Writer in Residence at Ulster University.
Associate Editor at @CastOfWonders.
Published in WFRP, Jim Henson’s Labyrinth RPG, Factor Four and Opulent Syntax
SFWA, OW-NI he/him
TTRPGs, all arts, psychology and seeking the soft life :)
Queer and audhd.
🏳️🌈🇬🇾🐨♿️🍉(🇦🇺🇬🇧)
Catch me on BaddieBards as a tea-serving fae being with Chasing Caspian, and Split the party’s Dragonbreak as Zira: a tiiiny khajiit mage. 🐈
She/her, they/them. Writer, Researcher. Work in Strange Horizons, Tin House, Electric Lit, and more. I used to do research for Roxane Gay.
Writer and game designer. Team Lead Narrative Designer at Ubisoft Toronto. Instructor at Toronto Metropolitan University. PhD in English from the University of Calgary. Bad at everything else. Latest: “The Event Horizon of Honey” in Augur 8.2 🍕 he/him
Spec Fic Author | Winner-Apex Reader's Choice Award | SFWA & Codex Member | Bibliophilic ghost haunting libraries | she/her
Work forth/in Apex, The Dark, Heartlines, Nature Futures, Flash Point SF & more
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/catherinetavares
sff writer/playwright · pop culture critic at Reactor, Lit Hub, Den of Geek, NPR Books · stories at PodCastle, Icarus Writing Collective · Viable Paradise 2025 · PlayPenn Playwright Entrepreneur Program 25/26 · she/her
She/her | SFF, mystery writer | 📚OTHER MINDS '23, CLUB CONTANGO '24 | Stories in Clarkesworld, Solarpunk, Galaxy, et al | www.elianeboey.com
Author of Divergent, Carve the Mark, Chosen Ones, Poster Girl, Arch-Conspirator, When Among Crows, etc.
grad student, writer, editor @augursociety.bsky.social first reader @khoreo.bsky.social
PhD student in English at UCalgary, adult ed teacher, reader, spec fic writer, and all-around nerd and horsegirl, heatherclitheroe.com
Poet, writer, creative director. Found or forthcoming in Arc Poetry, Augur, The Shore, others. He/him. 👋🏽
YA fantasy: A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE and TO A DARKER SHORE / adult romcom: MY KIND OF TROUBLE / sadder but wiser / autistic / fat / 🌈 / 🇮🇹 / theater / (she/they) Repped by: Alex Land/Mad Woman Literary
https://linktr.ee/leanneschwartz
Poet, fantasy author, fae critter perpetually looking to live a little slower. One half of The Shale Project.
Editor, reader, pet parent, and eventual author of disabled trans futures, feuds, and fantasia. Lambda Literary Fellow 2024, Tin House workshop 2025. Work with me! ronansadler.com
Writer, editor, terrifying bog witch, werewolf of productivity 💀🍁 Ottawa dweller w prairie roots and maritime daydreams. she/her
Three spooky YA books on shelves now!
Latest: THE ONES WHO COME BACK HUNGRY
Rep: Jacqui Lipton + Lane Heymont @ Tobias
#Queer #Canadian author; Most Recent: DOGS DON’T BREAK HEARTS (queer hi/lo ya), UPON THE MIDNIGHT QUEER (queer holiday collection), TRIAD MAGIC (queer contemp fantasy); He/him 🏳️🌈; Prepare for #Husky photos; 🦖 T-Rex says "Trans Rights or I Bites" 🚫 LLM/GenAI
illustrator, writer, parrot butler - Strange Horizons fiction editor - birds, fashion, history, ttrpgs - she/her 🏳️🌈🦜
📍saint paul, minnesota
Author of the Iron Druid Chronicles, Ink & Sigil, the Seven Kennings, and more. Into nature photography, metal, and beard maintenance. https://kevinhearne.com Newsletter: https://wordsandbirds.ink
Writer of mostly queer SFFH stories & poems | eco garden hag | they/any | outside foraging, inside with a story 🖋️📚 🧞🏳️🌈🏳️⚧🇪🇺 | No genAI thieverubbish 🚯
→→→ 📗📓 Shiraki Press, 2026 ←←←
https://linktr.ee/jeannie_marschall
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move with care • fan of balcony gardens and parks • socio-legal researcher on migration, law, religion, anti-gender movements • multilingual, mixed-methods • personal acct and I cite my sources • often MTL
they (EN) // iel (FR)
www.rinevieth.com
Part-time prevaricator.
He/him 🇨🇦
https://patrickjohanneson.com/
Avatar by @badguybirnie.bsky.social's kid
Ukrainian wheat field header by Alex @aplante.com Plante
I'm also on Mastodon — https://mstdn.ca/@pjohanneson
Co-Editor of PseudoPod, Jury Coordinator and Co-Chair of the Bram Stoker Awards, former Co-Chair of the Atlanta Chapter of HWA
Writer | BRAVE NEW WEIRD vol 4 | Stories in Lightspeed / Nightmare / Fantasy | Upcoming in Reactor | More info algoldfuss.com | Newsletter https://buttondown.com/algoldfuss | xe/xir/xem
TriCon is Atlantic Canada's literary conference for speculative fiction. TriCon 2026 will be held May 15th-17th, 2026 at The Westin Nova Scotian.
https://tricon-halifax.com
Writer
https://www.blueguldal.com/
cartoonist 🌻 member of hello boyfriend comics collective
🍊 they / iel 🧡
author of SCOUT IS NOT A BAND KID & FOOD SCHOOL
working on MAGICAL GIRL BURNOUT comin out from First Second
🌖🥀Writer of romance, folklore, fairy tales, eldritch horrors and mythical adventures 🍂🌙
#SFWA #Codex #amquerying #writer
she/her 🇵🇭🇨🇦
aka Vanessa Ricci-Thode. Nebula Award-winning trashbag & queer SFF writer. SFWA member. Chiefest and greatest of calamities. Dogs, gardening and Canadian rage. she/they 💙💜🩷
I'm only here for the food
thodestool.ca
writer. publisher at Neon Hemlock. anthologist. co-editor of Baffling. shirley jackson award winner. lambda, locus & ignyte award finalist. he/him.
I write stuff. I knit stuff. I cook stuff. Ask me about my weird little books. https://www.clpolk.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
Ottawa's Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Conference! THANK YOU for Can*Con 2026! Stay tuned to this etherwave channel for details on our next event!
I'm an award winning writer, artist, and tarot card reader. I'm also disabled, neurodivergent, Pagan, married, gay, Nonbinary and fabulous! I'm a baker and proud cat dad! I may or may not respond to DM's. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦♿️🐈⬛️✍️🖌🎨 Learn more at http://www.jamiesonwolf.com
GDC award-winning game writer and narrative designer. life is strange | hiveswap | magic the gathering | pathologic
formerly a narrative lead at deck nine games. invite me on your podcast.
🇨🇦 Bi+ace • lvl 31 • she/her • Comic colorist/publishing assistant. Digital artist, anime trash, gamer. SFF Author of THE CALYSPIS PROJECT, BLOODY SPADE, THE HOWLING DARK (NOV.9.26) 🐺🌓
contact ➡️ brittanywillows(@)zohomail(.)com
linktr.ee/brittanymwillows
She/her. Poet & author, lover of fantasy novels, lowkey kitchen witch, lives in Epekwitk (PEI). 🏳️🌈 You can find my published writing here: https://linktr.ee/vanessarbradley
Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic
andrecarringtonphd.com
insta: audio.futurism
Indie Book Reviewer | Celtic Pagan | TTRPG Player | Ren Faire Obsessed Bisexual
Blog: https://margaretadelle.wordpress.com/
Looking for a review? Check out my review policy: https://tinyurl.com/ycycjw7n
They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press 🐉 THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 🌳 Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
Author, Gamer, Reader, Dad • He/Him • Assembled in US from Korean & German parts • NYT Bestseller • http://linktr.ee/ecmyers
Out now: Choose Your Own Adventure Jr.: KAIJU GAGA • Out 5/19/26: GAMERS 2: LEVELING UP
Pfp: @aliavian.bsky.social
Author, writer, reader, cat owner, horse owner. Mostly made of rage and salt. Red Sea pedestrian. They/them.
She/They. Greyromantic. Aspiring bog body. Writer. Host of @morbidimagining.bsky.social. You can support my work via https://ko-fi.com/braegrosz.
non-binary word person. author of The New Masculinity (2023) and Post-Man (2025), translator of Made-Up (2021). alexmanley.com
(She/Her) Snarky, mostly harmless USAT bestselling author of 🌶️📚 HEAs. Geek, ♉️Pagan witch, Oxford comma ♥️er. Fiber artist. 🧶🧵🪡 Gives good brain. Spoonie. Neurospicy. #AuDHD #Romancelandia 🦄🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally. Liberal. 🖕ïçẽ
🚫AI - I write my own books.
tymberdalton.com
mostly poet, preferably tree or rock
https://linktr.ee/aaronboothby
🌚 spec fic writer 🐀 work in Year’s Best Canadian, Small Wonders, Heartlines, Strange Horizons, Nature, and more 🪄 SFWA | Codex | she/her | linktr.ee/elismontgomery
Author, artist, poet, & Indigiqueer swamp hag. Grew up on the land & off the grid. Work appears in The Deadlands, Augur, Nightmare, The Malahat Review, Strange Horizons, Narratively, etc. Aurora finalist and total weirdo.
shanmonster.dreamwidth.org
📝 SFF Writer || 🍁 2x Aurora Award Finalist || ☕ probably needs coffee || Stories in Diabolical Plots, Fireside Fiction, OnSpec + more
Fantasy & science fiction writer. Part-time poet. Full-time alien. Stories in Magazine of F&SF, Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld. 2x Aurora Award winner. Author of ALL THE BROKEN BLADES.
Website: www.ympang.com
Carrd: ympang.carrd.co
I make a living writing science fiction and fantasy. Mostly fantasy. It's been said I've never met a trope I didn't skewer. I'm good with that. Also, there's cats. And knitting. she/her
SF/F author and editor. Biologist, Canadian, and friendly person. Optimism rules me. All you need to know about my books (including links) is at https://www.czerneda.com (with bonus silly photos.)
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🇹🇭 Thai writer, born and based. Bram Stoker Finalist
✒️ Stories in Reactor and Nightmare
🫶🏼 Clarion West, Tin House, Banff Centre, Faber Academy
African spec author, ronin editor, recovering journalist.
🏳️🌈She/Her🏳️🌈
EX MARGINALIA my collection of essays by spec writers of colour is out now!
Walks and talks like a real girl. She/Her. 🏳️🌈 Atheist secular humanist. Writer. Fr/En. Brain sold separately, batteries not included. Rep: Ashley Reisinger & Dr. Uwe Stender at Triada US
whoaskedmimi.webflow.io
English gal in Montreal and Senior Game Writer at Motive Studio (Star Wars: Squadrons, Dead Space Remake); formerly at BioWare. Short stories and novellas (latest here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DW2Y5WH1) She / her. Opinions are mine.
writer & educator & academic.
cthulhu(s)cene queen.
hwa; codex.
banff writer residency '25.
words in strange horizons, ergot., cosmic horror monthly, & more.
co-founder antilogos press.
pioneered a field of posthuman witchcraft.
author of ADRIFT (out now), climate change policy nerd, weaver, ballroom dancer, cookie addict. In Vancouver. www.lisabrideau.com
👽 butch Frizzle 👽 〰 journalist 〰 sculptor 〰 they/them 〰 https://reveleth.com/
→ → → Please listen to TESTED https://www.tested-podcast.com/
"covers the strange and consequential with equal enthusiasm"
@coyotemedia.org co-founder
Poet & writer of speculative fiction • 🌈 they/them • 📚 words in Strange Horizons, Apex, Flame Tree, Heartlines, Factor Four, Utopia SF & more • SFPA, Codex • 3x Rhysling nominee • Currently querying
nicomartineznocito.com
Canadian SFF writer/poet (she/her/elle) 🖤🤍💜
Words in Augur Magazine, Small Wonders, Radon Journal, The Sprawl Mag and others. Poetry Editor for Heartlines Spec.
Other socials: Twitter (@Robotic_Nebula) and IG (@manureads)
Slow attempts at writing spec fic 🥀 in love with golden hour, em dashes and reverb.
Human rights and climate IRL.
In Canada, from elsewhere.
Editor of Ignatz & Eisner award-winning books. Publisher of @balustradepress.bsky.social. Kickstarter Community Advisory Council Member. She/her.
icon by @sophiepaaslang.bsky.social, banner art by @mkchibs.bsky.social | learn more: www.allisonotoole.com
☀️ perspiring illustrator sometimes art director
☀️ they/iel
☀️ www.beenamistry.com
Reader/writer of Gothic Horror. Card carrying member of the Ghost Club. Serving up The Butcher’s Daughter with David Demchuk May 2025, at a bookstore near you. 🔪🥧
Literary Agent at Azantian Lit | Cat wrangler 🐈 | Trini demigyal | Intersectional feminist✊ | #ADHD | she/fae bi/pan 🌈 | Opinions mine.
Writer and reader of the strange.
Assistant editor at Seize the Press. Associate editor at Violet Lichen Books
My stories can be found in The Dark, Nightjar Press, Interzone, ergot.
www.rlsummerling.com
Banner art by John Chrostek
Dangerously Polite; Deadly Serious | Escape Artists Foundation publisher/Pres/CEO | Lawyer (views mine, not advice) | All things podcast | She/Her
Queer horror writer with a penchant for dissociating 🇵🇷🏳️🌈 They/thembo.
I will give honest but critical book reviews.
Current WIP: Happy Hollow
Astronomer and science fiction writer
Stories in Lightspeed, F&SF, Translunar Traveler’s Lounge, and Carbide Tipped Pens #VP21 #Codex https://DavidDeGraff.com
queer writer of otherworldly fiction ✍🏻 Trekkie 🖖🏻 X-Phile 👽 forever pup parent to Rufus 🐶🪽✨ he/they 🏳️⚧️ www.arlenren.co.uk
Vaxxed & masked reader (SF&F, horror, and more), gamer, dog behaviour geek in Windsor, Ontario, Canada (Wawiiahtanan Ziibii. the traditional lands of the Three Fires Confederacy, made up of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi)
Writes speculative fiction with a touch of Gothic horror, and non-fiction. Knits and collects strange plants, weird trivia, and obscure tomes. Canadian. Member: HWA, CODEX Writers, SFCanada, Federation BC Writers. https://northernlightsgothic.com/
🚀 SFFH writer from MN ✨HWA, SFWA, Codex 🌿 sometimes moss
✏️ Work in Apex, The Dark, Flame Tree Press, Nature: Futures, The Saturday Evening Post, gavagai & more
AbigailKemske.com 🌳 https://linktr.ee/abigailkemske
narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. better profile coming soon.
speculative fiction author still excited by having her own wikipedia page. won some things. lost some things. wrote that hole story.
debut novel SUBLIMATION from Tor 6/2/26.
http://isabel.kim < website
Wow if True < listen wherever pods are cast
Poet, author, editor, literary advocate; Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre; former Poet Laureate of Calgary (2014-2016) and Banff (2022-2024) -- located in Treaty 7 territory, Banff, Alberta, Canada. He/him.
online at: www.derekbeaulieu.ca
Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
@strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year
🇨🇦 canadian writer, game master, gremlin (they/them)
🏳️🌈 co-editor-in-chief @othersidespec.bsky.social
🖋 fantasy, romance, horror
📖 words at or coming from Nightmare, Heartlines, PseudoPod, and more
website: https://ash-vale.ca/
Horror writer & designer. Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of DEVIL’S CREEK, SCANLINES, & more. Rep: Becky LeJeune | Confluence Literary Agency. He/him. http://linktr.ee/tkeisling
author of glass slipper dreams, shattered
cats, crafting, cheese, lattes, horror
she/her
OTHERSIDE is a new quarterly magazine of speculative fiction, poetry, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers and artists. Issue 1 arrives in March 2026! 🪐 🗡️ 🌈
https://patreon.com/OthersideSpec · https://othersidespec.com
South American arachnid with a human form 🕸 CABARET IN FLAMES (Tor/Titan, 2026) 🕸 BUT NOT TOO BOLD (Tor, 2025) 🕸 PT/EN/ES 🕸 Rep. Lee O'Brien
https://linktr.ee/hachepueyo
I write books. A crow for a fetch, I'm your huckleberry. She/her. (Hint: Like "synchro.")
https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com
Writer of Fiction; Bae of Fundy
Irish-Canadian
Website https://www.lorekeating.com/
Novella AGONY'S LODESTONE https://store.tenebrouspress.com/products/agonys-lodestone-print
She/Her
https://slothandenvy.com/
Small press. Fantasy, sci-fi, horror, weird, & romance. 3 books on schedule for 2025. MN & TN. Lots of swearing. https://ko-fi.com/slothenvypress
https://toadshadezine.com/
We'd be deadlier if we weren't so lazy. Maybe.
Writer ( #DnD Young Adventurer's Guides, Manga Classics, etc). #ADHD interests include RPGs, history, costuming, crafting, books, film, politics and board games. Upcoming: D&D Crochet spring 2026.
Ride or die with @jimzub.bsky.social
www.topazliterary.com
Editor and writer, conscious language advocate, library assistant, cat valet, bookworm. 🌈📚
Writer of (mostly) horror. Also trans, queer, polyam, and Jewish. theodorehill.weebly.com for contact info, publication credits, and super strange testimonials. Co-Editor @dielaughingmag.bsky.social / Wario of @cassandradaucus.bsky.social
Canadian fantasy writer, sometime editor, and #StetWalk enthusiast. Trying to read all the things before my TBR topples. She/her. Books2read.com/FortunesShadow
#AmReading The Drowned Man's Daughter by @cjlavigne.com
Composer | Sound Designer in Toronto, ON
He/him
✨Retired tech model writ(h)es about the Internet (they/she)
✨TT Asst Prof @ Alberta University of the Arts
✨Researcher of digital work, play, livestreaming & the creator economy
✨PhD U of Toronto iSchool
✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com
Writer of skiffy hopepunk. Confident introvert. She/her
SFF Writer/Poet, former community & mental health researcher, and forever a firefly wrangler. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She/her. https://www.lynnemmaclean.com
Fruity poet. Probably on your left.
Be Water (2026)
The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak (2021)
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https://grace-writes.com
[Somewhere in Ontario]
