SPED teacher by day, secret writer on the sly.
Mediocre Magic: The Gathering player, Bar Trivia Teammate, FF14 Treasure Hunter, Reader of Weird Books, Paint By Number Master, Documentary Hound, Owner of a three-legged cat.
DM to swap Beta reads!
📚The new, non-Twitter home of #MSWL! We are a way for agents and editors to tell writers what they *wish* they had in their inboxes. Full agent profiles here: https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/ Newsletter: https://manuscriptwishlist.com/subscribe
("Tie-shuh")
Biologist. Writer. Geek. Baker. Pianist. linktr.ee/teisha42
Passionate contributor
Querying debut #hopepunk novel. Writing to make #scifi more inclusive, hopeful, character-driven, community-minded, & kind. To make the world a better place.
Just a reader, writing an update, asking to be loved. Upmarket speculative fictionist. (VP 2025)
writer and data engineer ❤ working on my first novel!
she/her
Co-writer for the #CroverField comic
icon and banner: @croverfield
This ATL🍑 is here in Jan2026
Freelance Journalist
Ghostwriter for 📖 & 🎶
#RevPit '22 Winner
#SCBWI
Disabled #LupusWarrior
Wife
#CatMom 🐈🐈
#GamerGirl
#AmWriting & #AmQuerying #KidLit & ChickLit
She/Her
www.CrystalSmallsWright.com
https://x.com/CSmallsWright
INTJ. Thirtysomething. 4w5. Academic Librarian. Geek. Arospec Ace. ND. Anxious. Knitter and Former Indie Yarn Dyer. Podcast Enthusiast. I write sometimes. She/they. https://buttondown.com/lucymasonwrites
Author of:
--NICEF, sci-fi space opera with mechs!
--Demon King Daughter, contemporary fantasy slice-of-life with demons and a splash of adventure!
--Cry Wolf, paranormal lesbian werewolf romance!
--All Purchase Options: https://linktr.ee/pjc_cahill
Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy author, artist and reader | 🌈 Queer AuDHD Nerdmother | Earth Scientist | Software Developer | 🐉 TTRPG enthusiast and DM of entirely too many games (colonialism and capitalism are always the BBEGs!)
Speculative Writer: Fiction in One Story, Ploughshares, Tin House, Apex, etc. Yaddo Fellow. Founder of @pvww.bsky.social. Rep'ed by @peter23.bsky.social. Novel in progress. Adventurer. Bagpiper.
https://linktr.ee/joy.deva.baglio
https://www.joybaglio.com/
24 | she/her | op, mha & music | trafalgar law taught me open heart surgery ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚
Pfp kryuelovesji 🎨
linktr.ee/novaonics
Bulgarian expat writer of SFF living in Germany. Still clinging to the white hair tips of the rabbit of existential wonder. Fiction in PodCastle, Short Circuit, Escape Pod. Website: catchingwords.com | Newsletter: sendfox.com/catchingwords | SFWA | Codex
🏳️🌈 Queer SFFH author in Seattle
📚 Fiction forthcoming/in Escape Pod, PseudoPod, Small Wonders, Heartlines Spec, elsewhere
👀 Apex Magazine first reader
🪼 Viable Paradise 2025 graduate
🥋 Jiujitsu purple belt
bio.site/scmills
vaccine scientist | speculative horror author | loser of various awards | published stories at: https://linktr.ee/mjhuntsgood | rep: Morgan Wilson @ Belcastro Literary | more info www.mjhuntsgood.com | pronouns gg/ez cause gender is a game I'm winning
Stop by for a sip of fun. Stay as long as you want; enjoy the view. Edited by Bennett North, Priya Sridhar and Hannya Kay https://translunartravelerslounge.com/
Writer/filmmaker carving out a life for herself in the big apple. Current plan is a smiley-face, but open to suggestions. she/her.
Speculative Fiction Writer
www.valeriesirenko.com
Writer
https://www.blueguldal.com/
Ryn (they/them) 35 / Comic creator - If you love disco space queers you’re in the right place. SF Bay Area. 💖 Vintage fashion & Trigun. SFW artist 🏳️⚧️
🌈 Read Neon Pantheon - a mythic, queer, disco-fueled sci-fi romance adventure (YA+): neonpantheoncomic.com
Award winning author, musician and performer based in Chicagoland. Library guy, cat dad, tea drinker, skeptic, lover, amateur sorcerer.
http://linktr.ee/michaelallenrose
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
Neon SFF, TTRPGs, and gaudy boots. Pub'd in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, &etc. She/her. #vp23; James White Award shortlist.
stories @ https://sarahpauling.com/
WHEN SHADOWS GROW TALL, out now w/ Roundfire Books
Rep’d by Veronica Goldstein @ DCL
Writer | Seasonal fruit enthusiast | Seed saver | Liminal Zone Lover
Short fiction in Trollbreath Magazine & Moonday Magazine
https://linktr.ee/maressavoss
Writer, editor, and publisher @metaphorosis.com, long-time vegan, based in Oregon.
Tofu-eating woke-rista.
Author of 16 📚 including ANCESTOR, MENTOR and the GREAT GIMMELMANS.
MILES IN TIME/TIME FIXERS out now.
Screenwriter and publisher of Fringe Press.
Native New Yorker. LeeMatthewGoldberg.com
Author of MG, YA, Sci-fi. New sci-fi: One Level Down (Tachyon). New YA: The Word (Page Street). Law librarian. Opinions my own. marygthompson.com
Writer. Artist. Mom. Middle-aged werewolf. She/her. 🩷💜💙 Estoy aprendiendo español. Words in ALLEGORY, COSTS OF LIVING anthology and TROLLBREATH. https://linktr.ee/jmbask
Co-editor of Trollbreath Magazine, Downeast Maine Organizer, Arrested for Lollygagging in Whiterun, committing acts of toxic empathy as you read this!
https://jrey.trollbreath.com/
https://magazine.trollbreath
https://linktr.ee/trollbreath
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
Short fiction recommended by Best Horror of the Year and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Stories in Portland Review, Bridge Eight, Maudlin House, and others. Viable Paradise ‘25.
I write Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror that is slightly bent, a bit fun and certain to be an adventure. I also art. I encourage writers of all levels with writing. Nevada! NO AI here. DMs closed!
🌿 freelance fantasy artist and fine artist 🌿pirates obsessed 🏴☠️ 🌿 lucasfilm, paizo, critical role/darrington press, monte cook games, cosmere rpg, IBA13 🌏https://linktr.ee/eserioart 🌿 ✉️ eserio.art@gmail.com | she/her
Writer of SF/Fantasy. Screenwriter. Accountant.
Viable Paradise XV graduate. Gamer. World of Warcraft. Final Fantasy XIV.
Sci-fi, fantasy & horror writer. Viable Paradise '25. Codex. Slusher at Apex Magazine. Also: Knitter, fountain pen enthusiast, PC gamer, Oxford comma fanatic, and neurologic physical therapist.
Recovering academic, former filmmaker, current genetic genealogist. I write speculative fiction for all ages. Stories in Haven Spec, Apex, Cast of Wonders, Voyage YA and more! Viable Paradise 2022 alum. Rep’d by Sara Crowe at Sara Crowe Literary.
SFF author & audio drama creator with a PhD in trashy Victorian lit. HIGHER MAGIC (MIRA, 7 Oct 2025). VP 2022. She/they. ND 🧠. Rep: @rebeccamatte.com
https://courtney-floyd.com
🎙 https://hauntnowpod.com
✉️ https://buttondown.email/wallowinginink
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Writer. Cohost of the Unfortunately... Podcast. Rejected by Uncanny, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and others.
https://mona-west.com/
https://unfortunatelypod.com/
Spec fic. Bikes.Books.
Words in Uncanny, F&SF, FIYAH, Apex and elsewhere
VP 2022
they/any
A damp, drizzly November soul 🐳 Writer and Dork. Viable Paradise 2022. Fiction in Otherside.
If you feel like throwing me a buck:
https://ko-fi.com/ishmaelcat
Award winning science fiction author. Cat furniture. Horse patsy. Almost certainly two ornimegalonyxes in a trenchcoat.
https://buttondown.email/matociquala
THE FOLDED SKY https://books2read.com/u/mBB0QZ
ANGEL MAKER https://books2read.com/u/3kzy2W
fiction writer and story lead @ wizards of the coast / he/him / repped by Arley Sorg / opinions are my own and do not represent my employer
https://www.roy-graham.com/
NYT bestselling writer. Newsletter and updates at maxgladstone.com. More or less updates-only on here.
Writing mostly about fucked up guys with swords. look upon my works and despair
https://www.afoxwrites.com
Master procrastinator. Occasional adult.
#1 Sunday Times Bestselling author of SHANGHAI IMMORTAL
she/they/Alice
aychao.com
Latest news: https://ciaochao.beehiiv.com/
Daryl Gregory, a guy who writes things. WHEN WE WERE REAL out April 1 2025, no foolin'. He/him
He/him. Overactive imagination since '87. Helping make movies at ILM. Enjoyer of stories and the Portland Trail Blazers.
Recent fiction in Cast of Wonders, Escape Pod, and Worlds of Possibility.
whatcraigwrote.com
letterboxd.com/lucky_rabbit
aka Lia Amador. Sci-fi, fantasy, and romance writer. MtG story scribe. Co-editor of Escape Pod. Variety game streamer. VPXX/16. https://linktr.ee/valerievaldes
SFF writer, neuroscientist, Hugo finalist. Escape Pod 2017-2023. Codex, VP, SFWA. Short stories in Analog, Lightspeed, Sunday Morning Transport, etc.
Neuroscience (not under pen name): rehabilitation, neuroimaging, movement control, handedness
Quarterly speculative fiction, poetry, and non-fiction
Unapologetically antifascist and feminist.
NO AI!!!!
Spec SFF
magazine.trollbreath.com
https://ko-fi.com/trollbreathmagazine
https://linktr.ee/trollbreath
#SFF writer from Maine. VP21. He/Him. Cóyotl award nominated. Creator of Speculative Fiction Magazine Subscription web page. Co-editor of Trollbreath Magazine.
https://www.trollbreath.com
https://magazine.trollbreath.com
MR, she/her. writer, teacher, tired · Clarion West ‘25 · VP2024 · SFWA · Codex · words at BCS, Lightspeed, GigaNotoSaurus, elsewhere · co-founder of @othersidespec.bsky.social 🪐 🗡️ 🌈
https://m-r-robinson.com
I write stuff. I knit stuff. I cook stuff. Ask me about my weird little books. https://www.clpolk.com/
47, fantasy writer, author of THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA. ex-firefighter, veteran MechWarrior. Minnesotan transplanted to Massachusetts. Gizmonic Institute (1989-92). Instructor at Viable Paradise.
NYT bestselling, World Fantasy Award-winning author of the Green Bone Saga & other books. Next book: The Last Contract of Isako (May 2026). News: http://eepurl.com/O9JDn
Speculative writer, reader, marketing coach, tea drinker | SFWA | VP '23 | Stories in Strange Horizons, Haven Spec, Trollbreath | Digging: green tea, dragons, puzzles | she/her #specfic #sff
linktr.ee/allisonpottern | pottern.com
Science, string, science fiction… string fiction? All views my own.
Words in FIYAH, Asimov’s, Escape Pod and more. VP2023 CW2024. Rep Sara Megibow. 45% goblin proof 65% decidedly not. clundycampbell.com Editor of NewYearNewYou.
Create. Investigate. Celebrate.
Writer, Producer, & friend of Muppets
Pitter Patty Finds Another Day, 2022 Escape Pod Flash Fiction Contest Winner,2019 BFF Author of the Year, #ViableParadise 23
Writer, Pythonista, parent, feelings butler, Viable Paradise grad. Words in Fireside, Cossmass, Kaleidotrope. Novel on sub now! REP: Eric Smith.
More at elizabethcobbe.com
She/her. A geeky librarian, full of tea and anxiety. Co-host of No Story Is Sacred. Viable Paradise staff. https://linktr.ee/pippin_m
Technologist, writer, futurist.
Codex, Viable Paradise, SFWA.
Seeking representation for new novels.
Publishers: Mirror World, Water Dragon, Brigid's Gate
USPTO
he/him
@laurence@petrous.vislae.town
https://www.laurencebrothers.com/
Speculative fiction writer, audiobook narrator, singer, martial artist, badass, queer af
Latest novel: SEEDS OF INHERITANCE, semi-finalist in SPFBO X
Subscribe to my newsletter: https://buttondown.email/akuzenski
I’m nobody but I know awesome people who have Wikipedia pages
Nebula-nominated writer of SFF, drinker of tea. Aging mermaid far from her natural habitat. SFWA/Codex/VP2022. She/her
Astronomer and science fiction writer
Stories in Lightspeed, F&SF, Translunar Traveler’s Lounge, and Carbide Tipped Pens #VP21 #Codex https://DavidDeGraff.com
VP analyst @Forrester. Opinions mine alone. Future of work + tech. Viable Paradise 2024 (sci-fi/fantasy writers' workshop) graduate. Multiracial POC. 🏳️🌈 Harvard MA, BA. I regularly delete all posts and likes.
Writer of sapphic SFF fiction and poetry, cyborg, Seattleite, plant nerd.
devzmiller.com
Strange motherings and odd bodies. Weird horror written by a weird horror. 🌈
WIFE SHAPED BODIES coming in 2026 from Saga Press
Lauracranehill.com
Reader & writer of fantasy, sci-fi, & horror
Spec fiction writer, engineer, owl. Stories in Asimov's, F&SF, Interzone. Avionics in NASA spacecraft. #ViableParadise #SFF #VP23 #SFWA #Codexian #SciFi #CharmCitySpec #writingcommunity BLM 🇺🇦
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
ink-stained wretch & nom de guerre of jayxwolf.bsky.social.
Song of the Scourgelands, Bladesmith & Brigand, Beneath the Shattered Gods & more tk.
A drowned man carries no burdens, not even the heart of another—
https://linktr.ee/mdanielmcdowell
Those who become jailers are themselves no longer free.
short fic/poetry/essays in Strange Horizons, Reactor, Fantasy, &c. • Ignyte, Rhysling, & Locus noms • 🇲🇾🇺🇸🏳️🌈 (they/them) • linktr.ee/lowph
ML/Systems researcher with delusions of neuroscience and cryptography. Currently @Cloudflare and Emory. Dilettante SFF writer. Fellow of Odd Salon. I like to play the drums. #vp2023.
https://linktr.ee/circumviso
Tea drinker, Seattleite, queer femme, erstwhile writer, dilettante, librarian, birder, renter, traveler. If you reply-guy me, I will block you. Pronouns: she/her
www.slowbloom.com/blog
Science fiction and fantasy writer, author of RED NOISE, THE LIAR, and others. Coffee enthusiast.
No idea what I’m doing.
https://johnpmurphy.net
Pursuing the peccary with pardine limers.
Lapsed academic. PhD in Japanese Art History. Viable Paradise 2024. Short fiction in The Daily Tomorrow, Old Moon Quarterly. She/her. No AI.
www.elizabethmorrissey.com
SFF writer 💫
https://traehawkins.blog
rep: @keiralekseii.bsky.social
Words in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Augur Mag #ViableParadise2023
he/him
Canadian writer based in Seattle, WA
The Poet Empress Jan '26 🌸 Tor Bramble (US) | Gollancz (UK) | preorders available!
https://linktr.ee/ThePoetEmpress
Recurser, Viable Paradisian, Cascadian, science fantasist
Writing and Narrative Design. previously: Wizards of the Coast, Wildstar, Dark Age of Camelot, Star Wars. now: secret quests at System Era
@culturalgeek on twitter
ABOLISH ICE
A coffee-drinking 🦄 protector. Writing fantasy/sci-fi . VP XIX. Previous first reader Viable Paradise, F&SF. she/her
Fantasy writer by night, cat herder 24/7, will jump out of a moving car to pet your dog | 💍 | NJ➡️PNW | VP22 / Viable Paradise 2018
I’m also on the others apps as [@]beaniezee
Writer, bookseller, gamer, geek. she/her. queer.
Artist at peculiarityshop@bsky.social
Staff at viableparadise@bsky.social
Writing about magic, queers, tech ethics, and the evils of capitalism. Work in Astrolabe, All Worlds Wayfarer, Baffling Mag, & Lightspeed | #vp2023
They/them.
https://www.ash-howell.com/
SFF writer, feral parent, history nerd, nascent bog witch
#ActuallyAutistic, #InvisibleDisabilities, #POTS, #EDS
Retired SF and fantasy editor, winner of three Hugos and a World Fantasy Award. Amateur musician, bibliophile, genealogist, layabout.
He, his. Anti-trans dingbats, get lost.
Signal: pnh.09
Writer, potter, clerk. Canuck. She/her. Cis but knows trans women are women.
Where there is tea, there is hope.
Academic, writer, immigrant. Queer vegan. I spend a lot of time thinking about different kinds of minds | they/them
Represented by Anna Ange at Liza Dawson Associates
Profile picture by @ancientwinters.bsky.social
Canadian writer of speculative fiction who buys more books & comics than he can ever hope to read. Viable Paradise (VP19), Codex, TWUOC, CSFFA, Playwright Junction. Cancer Survivor. He/Him
He came from some. Where. Back in your long ago...
Health admin factotum. Views rep'd here are entirely my own.
Viable Paradise XX (2016)
he/him/his
donfoolery.com
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