Handmade signs, prints, music & books inspired by British Folk Horror and unsettling TV, film & literature. Based in The Black Country, England.
https://linktr.ee/hiddenbritain
The online store supporting independent bookshops 📚 Certified B Corp | Carbon Neutral Delivery 📚 5 star Trustpilot rating.
uk.bookshop.org
Independent Bookshop & Gallery.
Located in Leeds Corn Exchange. Open 10.30 - 5.30 Mon-Sat & 10.30-4.30 Sun
Shop online 24/7
Magazine of dark fantasy, bleak science fiction, and unsettling horror. Here for a bad time.
Read past issues at seizethepress.com
Subscribe and support our work at patreon.com/seizethepress
Canadian quarterly speculative fiction semiprozine ⬣ Publishing the weird, wondrous, and whimsical ⬣ #BLM
*SUBMISSIONS CLOSED*
Posts by @jsbrevik.bsky.social
Hexagonmagazine.ca/issues
Variant Literature is a small press and magazine.
http://variantlit.com
Open for submissions for our Summer issue! ☀️
Southern type happily adopted by Masham (where I programme music and comedy at the Town Hall), by Yorkshire, and by @janrreed. Culture, quizzing, market town life, bit of sport, serendipity. He/him.
The IPG is the UK's largest association of independent publishers, supporting 600+ members with events, resources, training and much more.
https://linktr.ee/IndependentPublishersGuild
The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. Fighting for a fairer industry since 1884. #societyofauthors
Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training https://linktr.ee/societyofauthors
The human in the animal
The animal in the human
I see beauty in the ''wild, weird and wonderful'' aspects of life.🌱🍄🐺🌕🩸
https://artofmaquenda.etsy.com
Still don't know what I want to do when I'm grown up.
In the meantime, I write (mostly short stories, flash fiction & unfinished novels), draw, paint, take photos, garden, daydream and dance when nobody's watching.
📍NW England
🚫DMs - I can't read them!
SFF enthusiast, hobby-collector, blogger, shouter-at-the-internet. Editor at Ignyte and Hugo winner Nerds of a Feather, along with reviews elsewhere. 2025 Hugo Fan Writer finalist. All links here: https://linktr.ee/roseanna.pendlebury (she/her).
Writer and reader of fiction -- history, sff, romance, thrillers. Interested in sustainability, rewilding, growing things. Knitter, early tech adopter, parent, spouse, disabled.
They/them. Also writes as Frances Fox. https://lnk.bio/gjD5 🏳️🌈 ✒️ 🏳️⚧️
A bookshop for the majority of minorities in the historic village of Cromford, Derbyshire, UK.
100,000 books, 13 rooms, one vegan/vegetarian café and someone else's cat.
For all enquiries please ☎️ or email.
Three lovely, friendly, award-winning independent bookshops in Corbridge, Whitley Bay + Alnwick
https://www.forumbooksshop.com
Events: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks
The London Magazine, Free Flash Fiction, Eunoia Review, Blood+Honey (upcoming). North West. https://kieranstorieswriter.wordpress.com/
Author of Nero Fiction Prize winner Lost in the Garden
Will distract you in order to eat more biscuits
Writes novels - represented by Eli Keren @ United Agents
Writes screenplays - represented by Christina Pickworth @ Imagine Talent
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
Oxford, UK. When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman? No pasarán. He/him. https://bluebookballoon.blogspot.com
Your favourite independent, genrefluid fiction publisher, bringing you the very best in SF, F & WTF!?
IG/X: @angryrobotbooks
Sabrina, (Welsh Hafren) is the ancient Goddess of the River Severn, the longest river in Britain. Priestess Nicola Haasz has researched the legends and mythology for over two decades. This Podcast celebrates everything relating to our Sacred River 🦆🐟🐗🦢🌀🌛
Writer of short fiction and dramatic monologue, connoisseur of cake, coveter of cats, lecturer of creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University.
https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/shelley-roche-jacques
literary agent @kiagency.bsky.social **closed to unsolicited queries** ex Grimdark Magazine, ex medievalist. queer. she/they (header is a Rovina Cai illustration from Spear)
We aim to provide a forum and resources for European-based researchers into the practice, criticism and transmission of short fiction in its diversity of forms and to facilitate collaboration in both critical and practice-led research.
Writer of s(h)orts | Continuing Education Creative Writing Tutor at Uni of Liverpool | Contributing Editor at Vestal Review | Stories in Cōnfingō #16, Strix #8 | https://polsen.co.uk | https://linktr.ee/liverpolsen
I write high fantasy with low characters. Poetry too.
Likes: equality, folk tales, birds, concept albums, woodruff cordial. Politics: let oligarchs fight their own wars.
https://bio.link/janeclarke
RPs/likes ≠ endorsement of any/all OP's views
The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
Magpie of hobbies - collection includes crafting, writing and making daft fancy dress costumes
We publish quirkier sorts of books! Science Fiction. Horror. Fantasy.
https://theslab.press/
Illustrator / 3D artist who specializes in historic art of the Iron - Middle ages
Business Contact:
✉ rune.hrafnagaldur@gmail.com
Mother Moon figure - order form: https://forms.gle/McZA2BCwiHeYkCJW7
Philosopher of science in a previous life, short story writer in this one and comics and music lover in both.
🦇Goth 📖DIY author of the beautiful macabre 🏳️🌈 #LGBTQIA+ he/him 🎶DJ #LastRitesChester 🖤 BE NICE TO EACH OTHER 🖤 #endgenocide #antigenerativeAI
Website: https://diebooth.wordpress.com Shop: https://ko-fi.com/diebooth
Writer, Lake-swimmer, Bookseller.
FRSL
hEDS/Haemochromatosis/all the comorbs
she/her
rep @PortyLiterary
Basic Nest Architecture
Much with Body
Recovering Dorothy
Some Of Us Just Fall
The Company of Owls
https://linktr.ee/pollyatkin
Book peddler, book reviewer, book hoarder, academic and freelance writer.
Beneath the Garden is a literary magazine inspired by the books and films that we carry with us in our writings.
EIC: Zaira Bardos
https://linktr.ee/beneaththegardenn
When not reading, often writing. Represented by @litagentfran.bsky.social
She/her. Writer. Chinese Singaporean immigrant to the UK. Bi. This is my writing account
Books:
- 1st book. Shortlisted for Hachette Children’s Novel Awards 2025
- Epic fantasy duology
- Westmarch. Fantasy & gay romance
- Heist. Fantasy. M/M & M/F romance
Writer, dreamer, PhD student exploring working-class voices. Northern lass. Words @Northerngravy.com @nffr.bsky.social @theforge.bsky.social @fictiveDream.bsky.social @SoFloPoJo.bsky.social Winner @Bathflashaward.bsky.social
https://kathyhoyle.com
Author of Dexter & Sinister, and The Dragonfly Delivery Company. New novella, Glunda the Veg Witch, out now! BBNYA 2024 Finalist.
#SafeSpace 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦
keithwdickinson.com
Prize-dodging writer of stories. Here despite popular demand. 'Forgetting is How We Survive' pub'd Saltpublishing.bsky.social . Shortlisted @edgehillprize.bsky.social. Chapbooks @nightjarpress.bsky.social & @salopress.bsky.social .
www.davidfrankel..co.uk
You can do a lot with a bad hand. We're bringing you the best horror, dark fantasy, & crime fiction. Owned & operated by Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award winner Doug Murano.
Small press devoted to #FolkHorror, #folklore, #magic and the #occult in Britain. World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards finalist. Founder/editor: @mjpcuervo.bsky.social.
🌍 Now shipping worldwide from
www.helleborezine.com
Award-winning poltergeist and comedian | Writer of the Montgomery Bonbon mysteries | Pronouns like a butler coughing: he/him | linktr.ee/misterabk
UK TOUR 2026: www.mickperrin.com/tours/alasdair-beckett-king-king-of-crumbs
Independent Publisher and Advocate for getting up and coming writers into publishing
Undercover skeleton. 💀 Writer/researcher/lecturer. Ludokinetic/interactive poetry 🃏, collaborative and amalgamatic writing. Editor at @SidekickBooks. 📚 He/him.
www.gojonstonego.com
The writing and reading development agency for the North of England.
Award winning fantasy author. Gad about, small tree grower and procrastinationist to the stars. Truly, I am RJ Barker in all departments.
"their worlds are completely and entirely original." BFS
Agent: @teddyfromtheblock.bsky.social
Functions adequately.
New poetry published by Red Ogre, 'The Usual Apologies '
(https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DYVL2PZC )
Short story collection coming with Acid Bath Press later in the year. May contain smut.
lllustrator, Graphic Designer and Game Geek.
Originally from Argentina, currently living between Thailand, Indonesia and Japan.
https://lemos.itch.io
Portfolio :
https://www.artstation.com/jesserintaylor
A quarterly magazine featuring short fantasy fiction from indie authors.
Edited by @adiehartauthor.bsky.social and @josiejaffrey.bsky.social
No AI.
QUESTS & QUARRELS deadline: 31 May 26
SORCERY & SECRETS deadline: 31 Aug 26
www.silversunbooks.com
Medievalist, feminist, dabbles in horticulture. Writing more and more about infertility/reproduction. Yorkshire.
https://lucyallengoss.substack.com/
My book is Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance
We’ve been publishing anthologies of new short fiction since 2010. Based in Scotland.
Songwriter/Performer/Wordsmith. Doggerel, Limericks. She/her. Folklore, yarncraft, pagan. Antifa, organ doner, European. Made of stories. No AI. www.talis.net & YouTube channel. Booking 2026 gigs: (Hey, bookshops & yarnshops!) Re-enchantment is resistance.
she/her 🌈 words at https://www.avadevries.com/
hybrid editor @bellinghamreview.bsky.social
fiction editor @btgardenmag.bsky.social
reader @fusionfragment.bsky.social
Y’know the deer from that one horror movie? Yeah, that’s us.
Short fiction writer & poet. Feminist. Socialist. Northern England.
Yorkshire Girl 🌿
Reading Enthusiast
Book Blogger
Contact via my Blog
https://yorkshirecarly.wordpress.com
📸: https://www.instagram.com/yorkshirecarly/
Independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing and powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Shoshana Zuboff and Francis Fukuyama.
Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis.
https://longbarrowpress.com
Poet and non-fiction writer. Latest poetry collection "All The Men I Never Married" won the 2022 Forward Prize. Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Substack: https://shorturl.at/Ea3sI
London's Independent Bookshop of 2024.
Fiction, London Books, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Travel, Classics, Children's Books, Cards, Totes, and Short Story Prize.
https://linktr.ee/bricklanebookshop
Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: stuart@brokensleepbooks.com | Founded: 2018
Website: brokensleepbooks.com
Survivor from another millennium. Scottish living in Manchester. I like: reading, writing, old Hollywood, Gothic fiction, vintage clothes, Scottish literature, film noir, avant-garde art and writing...lots of other things...
Independent bookshop on Bristol's legendary Gloucester Road https://gloucesterroadbooks.com/
Stories for the futures we need | SFF and dream realism | Canadian, Indigenous & worldwide creators | Pub @kercoby COO @suntorya CPO @teresempierre
https://linktr.ee/augurmag
• Fantasy Illustrator • Tea Alchemist • Fey King •
He/Him | ENG/PT-Br
• Contact: torres.ddb@gmail.com
• Portfolio: https://ddbtorres.carrd.co/
• Prints & Links: https://linktr.ee/ddb.torres
No AI.
No NFTs.
No Bigotry.
writer, teacher, garden nerd in west yorkshire
occasional historian of the body: The Care of the Brain in Early Christianity (UC Press, 2022), Psychiatry: Antiquity and Its Legacy (Bloomsbury, 2025)
www.jessica-wright.co.uk
writer of books - wrangler of cats - creator of #TTRPGs - #intersex, introverted & feral - You’ve seen me on TV - can’t read my DMs because Ohio lawmakers hate freedom
SFF writer—Year’s Best Canadian SFF, Fantasy Mag, THIS Mag. @SFWA. Banff Sci-fi ‘25. 6X Aurora Finalist. Loves fairy tales, comics, video games, D&D.
Publisher @augursociety — Augur Mag, Tales & Feathers Mag, Augur Books.
Contact me @ www.kerrycbyrne.com
Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance
A riddle wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a yorkshire pudding.
Peggy Poole Winner 2022 |
Prose: Flare and Falter, Splice |
Poetry: These Are Not My Dreams, Nine Pens
https://mickconley.substack.com/
Northern writer. Author of The Disappeared. Stories in The London Reader, Reflex Press, Palm-Sized Press. Finalist: Mslexia Short Story Comp/Dinesh Allirajah Prize. Arts marketer. Writer in residence Durham Writes & Crossing the Tees.
amylordauthor.com
Artist, Author, Indie publisher
(he/him)
my novel Foulness is definitely coming out Feb 2026 on Henningham Family Press
Hannah / H.B. • Late 20s • she/her
Mostly posting sketchbook and experimental art
Main Account: @hbtyson.bsky.social
Horror maven. Thanatologist. Creative Writing lecturer at Falmouth. Author. She/her, ADHD. Views all mine...mine I say!
Scottish SFFH Author | Shirley Jackson Award & BFA Finalist | Latest: LIMELIGHT, Shortwave, DARK CRESCENT, Luna Press | Words in Apex, Analog, Weird Tales, & more | Rep: Michael Mungiello InkWell, Film/TV: Sean Berard https://linktr.ee/lyndseycroal
Overly fond of oolite, stars, folklore, photography, beetroot, fossils & other old things (& The Fall).
All photographs my own, unless stated or reposted. Not the light! Not the light!
IS IT BIN DAY?
Writer of sff + comics.
Rearranging words for a living since 2013.
he/him
Mailing list: https://eepurl.com/Zviqn
Also found at andrewknighton.com
HE manager by day. Writer, crafter, LARPer, runner. Procrastinator extraordinaire. Lover of the fantastic. Definitely not a grown up. She/her.
Find me here: https://linktr.ee/summer_moth
https://buymeacoffee.com/franmoldaschl
Kelpies Prize for Writing Winner
Former #archaeology student
Children's book reviewer
Neurodivergent
inquisitivenewt.com
(Any pronouns)🏳️🌈
Official Account of the Horror Writers Association. The oldest literary organization serving writers and publishing professionals around the world, dedicated to promoting dark literature and the interests of those who write it.
Disabled writer of things. Bad at being on BlueSky. Debut novel AWAKENED out now with Angry Robot Books.
‘An impressive debut worth losing sleep over’ - New York Times
A network of indie presses working together to celebrate and improve the publishing industry
she/her
📖 Writer | Librarian
📍 Edinburgh | Burntisland | Cairngorms
Gleefully geeky. Writes SFF/literary speculative short stories, among other word-things. Loves books, mountains, my cat Mishka & more. 💗💜💙
Find me at https://www.fionamossman.com
🏔️🔥🦉🌲☕️🥧
Author, Dreamweaver. Pushcart, Best of the Net, & Best Microfiction nominee. Twin Peaks Fan. He/him. Latest pubs in links:
https://linktr.ee/matgost
We all livin’ in a bugworld
🐜 http://antonm.newgrounds.com
🐛 http://instagram.com/antonmng
🪲 http://patreon.com/antonmng
COMMISSIONS—antonmng.art@gmail.com
Download my comics—
https://ko-fi.com/antonmng/shop
they/them
Award winning GM, performer and producer. Also sometimes writer.
Co-Founder @euphoriaap.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 🇬🇧 🏳️⚧️
'fine and dandy, very fuckable, chronically online'
🐰BG Design | Vis Dev | BG Paint
☕️Clients include: CN, Netflix, DisneyTVA & more!
✨Interested in full-time Vis Dev or BG Paint work
✏️Website & Socials: https://www.britneythoresonart.com/social-links
✉️Email: BritThor713@gmail.com
Michigan Illustrator. Clients: Wizards, Osprey, Rebellion Unplugged, Dragon's Milk, 20th Century Fox, DreamWorks.
My favorite author invented Pringles. Married! No A/I or N/F/Ts. Atheist.
Antifascist. Exvangelical.
www.nathanandersonart.com
he/him 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦
AAD on Dragonwilds, Concept Artist & Illustrator. Formerly at Sharkmob, Everwild, Fable, Forza. Illustrator for CR, GRRM, Hearthstone, MtG.
Aloof on the outside, squishy on the inside. She/her
www.artofsamhogg.com
https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/samhogg/
Artist , based in rural England, Cotswolds, UK 🌱 Shop: www.amyrosegeden.com
Oil painter inspired by mythology, nature, and folklore 🌿
shop: www.gallerygerard.com
tutorials: https://www.patreon.com/AnnieSteggGerard
Illustrator of dark fantasy. Also nature photography.
https://janaheidersdorf.com/
Illustration, zines, fortunes, playing with metal sometimes
Seattle
Pamwishbow.com
Fantasy Illustrator and Texture Enthusiast 📜✍🏻 • She / Her
https://hbtyson.carrd.co/
A home for working-class readers and writers
https://thebeemagazine.com
