A Literary Magazine with Layers. Est. 2024. #1667 on the Second Annual FISH List. That’s right: we’re on a list. Posts by EIC.
Subs: https://www.thebloominonion.com/submission-guidelines
Queer speculative fiction author. PhD candidate. Serial hobbyest. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇨🇦 Rep: Handspun Literary
https://www.rianlynch.com/
Em, she/her. Twitch streamer, convention panelist, writer of fiction, both fan and the other kind. Nerdfighter. Swiftie. Artist.
Streaming on Twitch Wednesdays @ 6:30 CST and Fridays @ 7:30 CST on twitch.tv/emmijadeshow!
HOW TO RESIST YOUR BILLIONAIRE EX, Harlequin 2/24/26
Rep: @kissedbyink.bsky.social with @belcastroagency.bsky.social
My books are queer and full of heart 🌈 bi+genderfluid (she/they)
https://authorjennylane.com/links
Writing competition for unpublished and independently published novelists.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
Let me tell you a story...
🌶 Romance 👽🦄 SciFi/Fantasy 👻 Horror
Writer/Beta Reader.
Also on insta & tiktok.
Hey there demons, it’s me, ya girl!😈
Αθηνά💖💜💙• She/Her • INTJ🌈• Writer📚• Taurus ♉️ • Slothy bookworm🦥 • https://about-me-athena.carrd.co/
Fighting the erasure of bisexual and autistic women, one anti-hero at a time.
📍los angeles | Intern at CMA 📖 Currently querying my crossover fantasy, SUCH A FICKLE FATE. MSc Creative Writing @edinburgh-uni. Stream “Cry Wolf,” out now! 🖤
linktr.ee/hannahnagle
he/she ✰ genderfluid & bisexual 🏳️🌈 connoisseur of the omegaverse 🐺 writer of the tragic queers 💔
Bisexual, Transfemme author of romance, literary fiction, SFF, and horror. Some criticism and essays, erstwhile journalist.
39, They/She/He.
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/CharliJae
Fiction: https://www.scribblehub.com/profile/222212/charlijae/
Mom, wife, dark fiction 4 life.
ASCENSION (Oct‘24) @shadowsparkpub
✨ INTJ. Enthusiast of everything in moderation. Mastered in the art of escapism.🚫AI!!
https://linktr.ee/beestree
✨goes by Rae, hi!
☕50% coffee, 30% hyperfixation, 20% punctuation, 🚫AI
📚querying The Refinement: Mercury
🖋️drafting The Ariad (YA romantasy/eco-horror)
↪️ more active on Threads @racheletell
Currently in querying hell requesting backup (please save me) 😇 #amquerying #amwriting #booksky
Comic artist, doll maker, aspiring writer (cozy sci-fi, historical fantasy, dark fantasy, fantasy sci-fi). There's a couple of people that believe in me, and maybe, that's enough.
Writer, ultra marathon runner, mom. Debut novel coming out soon with Literary Wanderlust.
Playwright/Screenwriter/Novelist. Creator of impossible magic.
Optioned to Amazon Studios.
SCBWI, Dramatists Guild, WGA
Theatre and book nerd.
http://emilybrauerrogers.com
Queer Southerner, recently moved to the Third Coast. I read and write constantly (mostly SFF), play the organ occasionally, and want to be friends with every cat and dog in the world. 🏳️🌈
Newbie Illustrator; amateur writer; owner of two cat familiars.
Currently shopping out my urban fantasy novel set in an alternate version of Egypt in 1952.
I am a writer and avid reader from the Pacific Northwest!
YA/A Fantasy Author. Teacher. Fur-mama.
Repped by Natascha Morris at The Tobias Literary Agency
My short story “She Blooms at Night” is in the MONSTERS IN MASQUERADE anthology, published by OwlCrate Press April 2025.
annkreeves.com
she/her. Writer querying Willow Hawkins’ Lessons in Bearding (YA contemporary).
WA state
Lesbian🏳️🌈
Future doc of psychology 🧠
Queer paranormal romance/fantasy 👻
Love all my queer family ❤️
Always in my vampire era 🦇🖤🩸
Loving indie author life 📚
NO AI 🚫
https://www.authorrjwebb.com/
I'm writing adventure romances set in wild locations! Currently querying my second chance romance based in remote Alaska!
19->20✨
Published Author at 13📚
Software Development Student\ Travel Agency Owner👩🏾💼
Nwa Ekwensu. Psych student. Editor at The Republic Nigeria. Writing: AFRICA RISEN; Omenana Mag; GigaNotoSaurus Mag; Anathema Mag. Opinions own.
Aspiring fantasy author ✍️
Lover of whimsy, rivalries & slow-burn romance 💫
Currently querying: DEEPLY ROOTED🌿
Currently drafting: WITCHY WIP🌘
he/him, queer
horror author 🖊️
microbiologist 🧫
big fan of dogs, star trek, and d&d 🖖
pen name: E.A Harkins
current project: adult psychological lit. horror THE WATCHFUL MR. SHEPHERD
https://linktr.ee/dreadful_musings
Optimistic writer with ADHD. Author of Heirs of Balance (science-based magic, empathy revolution). Musician, potter, gardener, builder of stories where healing changes everything. www.lesleyparrybooks.com
She/her
|🏠| Married | Mom | YA author
|✒️| rep’d by @penelopekayb.bsky.social Gelfman Schneider
|📚| Avid ARC reader
|📖| Find My Way Down to You - Julian Winters
https://linktr.ee/Mariekes_mesmerizing_books
A writer, aspiring author, and lover of stories.
🌲🌱 Project.Greenfield: Two broken kids face their internal fears. Together. (Currently working on draft one!)
🚫 No AI!
#defendtheemdash
Author of sweet, but spicy, NA and Adult Romantasy. THE MYST Duology out 2026/7 with @elsewhen.press, and THE CANTICUM Duology out 2026 with @evernightpub
https://eloiseruffell.my.canva.site/
Author - Pandora's Secret
www.andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk
Film Director
sendcake.net
He/Him
🚫AI🚫 - Thou Shalt Not Build a Machine in the Likeness of a Human Mind!
Author-in-the-making!
Currently working on: Daughter of the Sword (Draft 3!) Fantasy Novel
Follow for posts about comics, books, movies, games, and WIPsnips
Writer. Editor. Choreographer. Mom-er. IG: mizanty.art
Lover of coffee, books, dance, nature, equal rights, irony, comedy, and dogs. Always dogs. 🐾☀️📕☕🌲🌳
visual designer | writer | she/they
DIVIDEDwip: shelved political epic fantasy
BONESwip: revising eco horror campus fantasy
toying with 2 secret projects…
next pitches: 2026 ~
more active on 📷: thewriteratlas | ace 🖤🤍💜
Author of Novels (Wesley E. Joseph) ✍️ | Reader of Books 📚 | Cooker of Food 🍳 | Coworker on Twitch 💜 | Watcher of Film & TV 🎬 | Addict of Coffee ☕
https://beacons.ai/cobblewobbles
Summer Plans is an adult rom-com about exes with unfinished business—and one summer to save the camp where they first fell in love.
romance author, poet, mass transit advocate, retired prom queen and all-around delight
poems in: hog river press, beneath the garden, moss puppy mag, big windows review
Story Teller.
Author of The Histories of the Noctua.
tiktok.com/@mraemaciver
Writer. Educator. Bibliophile. MFA UNLV. RPCV Russia.
23 | CA native in the Midwest
YA/NA contemporary/dystopian/historical fiction
author, poet, lover of sports and nature
@/cassjackson_22 on ig
Writer of love stories. Drinker of coffee. Mom of 3 daughters (see previous bullet).
Currently #amquerying THE SLOW BURN, an 80k word romcom!
writer, world traveler, some assorted other things.
27 | She/Her | I feel like there should be a third one so I wrote this
All photos taken by me.
she/her • writer • illustrator
2025 SmoochPit mentee | Writer, artist ✍️ Querying an Asian-inspired romantic fantasy
https://lliuwrite.carrd.co/
I'm an indie author living on the west coast. I write horror and fantasy and paint miniatures while working on my projects.
Free Horror Stories: https://www.patreon.com/c/arcdirective
Website: https://linktr.ee/JacobMarsh
Blogger & award-winning crime fiction author. MWA. Noir, pulp, monsters, fiction, jazz, writing, film, comics. Went by @LBoxGraveyard at that other place.
https://www.paulryanoconnor.com/stories
currently: editing my debut literary body-horror MOUTH PIECE
www.marisolramos.com
https://open.substack.com/pub/marisolramoswrites?r=70wsj5&utm_medium=ios
My new book “Verses till midnight” out now!
I write cozy poetry books for deep feelers.
Indie Bestseller Author. Highly Sensitive Poet ✝️🌷🇪🇸
Autora, poeta Altamente Sensible.
Un abrazo de Luz ✨
Okay with DMs about writing.
https://linktr.ee/AnyPascual
Academic by day, fiction writer by night (and on the weekends, and lunch, and in any spare moment).
She/Her
Aspiring author | Working on THE ARC THAT BINDS US | Active on my TikTok named officialkj_
Lawyer. Aspiring author. Obsessed with all things books & film.
Currently working on my debut contemporary crime fiction novel, The Miles Between Us.
UChicago MA ‘24 | BLM | free Palestine | Muslim ☪︎ | author of VEIL US IN GOLD | rep’d by kirsten lang at zeno
#amquerying Author | always creating new worlds while trying to make this one better
A small press based in Lexington, Kentucky that publishes offbeat mystery, dark humor, southern gothic, and literary fiction. Submissions open at brownhoundpress.com.
{yah-na} sff author
current projects: www.jannahorton.com
*not here often* find me on X/IG: jannahorton_
Horror/Romance Writer of I SHOULD’VE KEPT MY BLACK ASS HOME
Author 📜 Fantasy | Magic Realism | Satire
Wrestling with words and wayward characters, putting them between covers and having them bound up in books.
#Resist
💙💙💙
seeking rep for my adult plus-size romcom 🐾🌿
d1 yapper. lover of books. reality tv junkie.
podcast co-host. strongly identify with raccs. 🦝
writer of magical rituals and reapers
22k+ on Instagram 🕯️🦇
🇵🇰🇨🇦🍉 English Lit. & Creative Writing grad • querying ONE THOUSAND AND ONE VOYAGES • creator of @MuslimPit.bsky.social • collector of vintage copies of the Thousand and One Nights 📚
38. she/her. tea drinker. currently querying middle grade portal fantasy 📖 queer 🏳️🌈 ND 🧠 D&D nerd/forever DM 🎲 #amquerying
Nepali-Australian writer of romcoms, fantasy, and occasionally sci-fi. Currently drowning in edits and black coffee.
Award-winning co-authors (she/her for both) of sweet contemporary romance, repped by Nicole Payne @ Confluence Literary Agency. No politics, please.
https://www.nelsonpotter.com/#/meninbooksarentbetter
https://hopeengel.com
(She/her)
Reader, writer, cat mom, based in NY.
Working on my second manuscript, "Where We Land"
Looking for romance novel critique partners - DM me!
SF & F romance writer living by the sea in Massachusetts. Querying. Writing. Reading. she/her
www.instagram.com/writingles/
Website: https://writingles.my.canva.site/
Writer and editor 💜 34. bi. AuDHD. cat mama.
📍Cincinnati, OH 🚫 Certified AI hater
WIP: Nerdy 🏳️🌈 YA contemp wip 60k/75k words. she/her
https://linktr.ee/rachelb_writes
(they/he/ele/ela)
disabled latine lesbian 🇧🇷🏳️⚧️
bender of gender and genre.
land back by all means.
THE CALL OF QLULU: A SIlence of the Lambs parody with the Cthulhu Mythos shaken, stirred, and dumped in out of a bulldozer.
Adult Fantasy-Romance writer, dachshund mom, uncrustable enthusiast
Querying: A CAGE OF FLOWERS
Koryo-saram from 🇰🇿🇬🇧
Writer | Project Manager
Aspiring published author of Middle Grade children's novels. Mom. Fan of inclusion and kindness. Doer of all the things. Lover of all the life.
Always tired. Never bored.
www.MythicalCreatureConservatory.com
Cats - Hobbes and Theo
Video Games - ARPGS, Souls-Like, Guild Wars, Tower Defense to name a few
Aspiring Author - Actively editing my epic fantasy (open to DMs)
Software QA - The less exciting day job
Step-dad - Three awesome step kids
Aspiring Author ✍🏻/ Avid Equestrian 🐴/ Chronically Ill Queen 👑
Layne Johnson is a picture book writer/aspiring illustrator. #SCBWI. Humor and Heart|STEAM and SEL|ADHD #amquerying
Website: https://laynejohnsonkidsbooks.com/
Romance/Women's Fiction Writer
Querying: Code of Ethics
she/her | writing about women in sport | jessabraun.com | rep: Stefanie Molina-Santos @ Looking Glass Literary
Award-winning screenwriter, author & journalist. Author of The Gladiatrix Chronicles,Boudicca's Revenge,Love and Lust A Legionary Romance. NF author of A History of Pirate Women (2025) & Working the Tides. X refugee https://x.com/RoxGregory01
A celebration of the meals, drinks and snacks that live in fiction.
Pull up a chair—the table’s always open. ✨🥞🍷🥐📚 #FoodPit
▪️ Writer of paranormal romance ▪️Coffee, dogs, and books are a requirement ▪️If I’m not writing, I’m probably howling at the moon ▪️
Nature photography enthusiast, author, and editor (photos are my own)
https://anncooperwrites.com
ᝰ Writer • horror / sci fi / weird ⚲ London
author of
𓆤 THEY CRAWLED ACROSS MY BODY
Storyteller • Future #NewYorkTimes Best-Selling Author ✍🏻📖 & #Disney’s Next Live-Action Prince 👑🗡️
𓆝 𓆟 𓆞YA ✨🌊& MG✨🧞♀️ writer, everyday storyteller, loves Disney and my pug. Neurodivergent and loves to learn about the world. 𓆝 𓆟 𓆞
Querying:Dark Tides🌊
⋆.˚ 𓆉 Dylan’s🐳 & Zelda’s🐙 story
𓇼 Instagram: @Kelseymgomez
⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚
𓇼Ticktock: @KelseyMGomez
writer, musician, wanderer through woods🌻 obod /|\ bardic grade🌻 excellent cook, terrible baker 🌻 sock goblins stole my gender (they/them)
(She/her) Writer of feel-bad books, represented by Lane Heymont 🥀 SmoochPit 2025 mentee ✍️ THE BANSHEE OF CLAN MURTAGH
annahirschwrites.com
Crossover SF writer, emphasis on lived experience with disability and cPTSD. Futurescapes alum. Library advocate. Spoonie. PNW. 1 husband, 3 cats, no fascists. UNEXPECTEDLY SEEKING NEW REP.
ARCTIC RIFT: 🚀🌒 🤖 ❄️ 🥶 🌋 🧗🏽♂️🎿 🍄 💩🧑🏽🔬 🏹👨🏿🦽➡️👩🏻❤️💋👨🏿
✍🏾 I write about 🇳🇬 women falling in love
👩🏾❤️💋👨🏿 Romance book recs for those hopelessly in love
📝 check out my substack for odd short stories
Writer of Fantasy, Gothic, and Horror Romance
Querying: The Sea That Binds Us 🌊🏴☠️
o’ahu, hi — wi | 🇵🇭 | romance author
rep: @writeloudly
only a feminist when necessary - which happens to be all the f-ing time
she/they
Author of THE CURRENCIES WE CHOOSE, #A #SF (querying)
and MEMENTO, #A #speculative #feminist #espionage (WIP)
Sweden 🇸🇪🇪🇺
Writer: SINC member/guppy, mystery, fantasy, scifi, romance; cozy vibes (<3 all genres)
Hobbies: snackies, reading, gaming, cats
Life: hEDS, Fibromyalgia, Crohnie, Queer
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/
UCL Psychology grad | Ex-investments pro | Mum of 1
my fantasy & romance books: bit.ly/booksbyNeha
my blogs: bit.ly/NehaonMedium
📸&⏰: @/nehayazmin
UK |💙Merlin & Buffy | Joined: Sep 2025
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