Sagging Meniscus @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social Independent publisher of nonconformist literature.
melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social US carceral and urban history, jail and policing, historiography. AAUP, abolition, working mom in CT, personal account. newsletter publisher, plz subscribe: https://carceral-history.ghost.io/
Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Writer of short things. Reader of all things flash. Dog lover. Words in SLQ, XRAY, Flash Frog, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf. Winner of 2024 Lascaux Prize & Cambridge Prize. She/her https://www.emilyrinkema.com/
Addison Zeller @addisonzeller.bsky.social writer / bruising for @bruisermag.com
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Matthew Fiander @mattfiander.bsky.social Author, editor, RINGING IN YOUR EARS (Main Street Rag, 2023)
Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social (re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social Writer.
Recent Words in Iron Horse, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, Scaffold, others… see—>
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Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social
Small. Brightly colored. Deadly to the touch. ⚡️🐸
New story every Monday.
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Blood+Honey @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social Blood+Honey is a new lit mag that revels in the experimental & the avant-garde, dirty and kitchen sink realism. SUBMIT your poetry, fiction, CNF, and digital art!!! SUBS Currently CLOSED!!!
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Andrew Rihn @andrewrihn.bsky.social Multi-genre boxing writer
Author of Revelation: An Apocalypse in Fifty-Eight Fights
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V.C. Myers @vcmyers.bsky.social author of Ophelia (Femme Salvé Books, 2023) & Give the Bard a Tetanus Shot (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2019) | Fmr editor/reader Muruch, Barren, Ice Floe, Frontier, Sarabande Books | work in EPOCH, Poet Lore, Bombay Gin, HAD, etc. http://vcmyers.com
Christopher Stevenson @chrisstevenson.bsky.social Born in TX, raised in FL and PA. Splits time between DC and WV.
Librarian. PT old man. FT Struggling Writer.
Part toddler, part cowboy. Baba Yaga fan boy.
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phi!ip james shaw @lateration.bsky.social Reflections of loneliness in peculiar manners: www.philipjamesshaw.com
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March Xmas 2026 @marchxness.bsky.social The premiere yearly tournament of music and memory. 2026's tournament features Xmas, holiday, and seasonal songs and runs in December 2026.
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Trent Brown @joshuatrentbrown.com i have a book
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Jon Irwin @winwinirwin.bsky.social Writer/Teacher.
Words in Kill Screen, Paste, Men's Health, The Atlantic, Billboard, Variety, Washington Post, Inverse and more.
https://about.me/jonirwinis
Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social Writer, copyeditor, story enjoyer & fun haver. Some stories in some places.
WritersInPittsburgh.org
Pittsburgh
Noah Powers @noahpowers.bsky.social they/he. Kentucky writer & educator. Currently: MFA @ Alabama. Managing Editor @ Black Warrior Review. Poetry editor @ JAKE.
Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social She/her, Poet, Writer, Co-founder & EIC of Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social
Host of On Fire Reading Series in DC: https://onfirereadingseries.neocities.org
https://www.katherineschmidt.com
Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social Reader; tea adept; New Orleanian🖤⚜️ writer: LETTING IN AIR & LIGHT https://bellepointpress.com/products/letting-in-air-and-light; SECRET KEEPERS https://bellepointpress.com/products/secret-keepers Find the homes of my other words at https://teresabrader.com
Erin Riedel @erinriedel.com Writer, therapist, minor weirdo. Writing in Taco Bell Quarterly, Autofocus, and elsewhere. Order Muppet in the streets, Chaos Muppet in the sheets. She/her. 🌈
Louisville, KY
Publishing Genius @pubgen.bsky.social Independent publisher since 2006 📚
We publish daring fiction, poetry, and hybrid work ✨
Books, events, and literary mischief—In the Adirondacks and beyond 🏔️📖
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caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social ⌨️💾💌🖨️🖱️
Lexi Rosen @lexirosenwrites.bsky.social writer of love stories + lusty little almosts💕💜💙
afraid of geese
EIC @sillygoosepress.bsky.social
University of Redlands '21
Vermont College of Fine Arts ‘24
words: www.lexirosenwrites.com
Mick Carrigan @mickcarrigan.bsky.social Editor in Chief, Taco Bell Quarterly. Bylines: VICE, Bon Appetit, Eater. Forthcoming - JUNK: The Brands That Raised Us, the Stuff that Shaped Us, and What We Leave Behind (Scribner). This is my junk.
Chris Dolan @mcdolan.bsky.social I am angry about the nitrate levels in Iowa’s drinking water. My writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Maudlin House, The Disappointed Housewife, and others. www.dolanchris.com
Michael Czyzniejewski @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social Author, editor, professor, family participant. Retired altar boy, pizza chef, and beer vendor.
Andrew Careaga (writer) @andrewcareaga.bsky.social Writer of fiction and creative (?) nonfiction. Pocho. Half-assed guitarist. Retired #highered marketing/PR guy (Missouri S&T). Writing about writing and my WIPs at andrewcareaga.com. No DMs. #writingcommunity
Chris Schweizer @schweizercomics.bsky.social Cartoonist/Kentucky Colonel/3x Eisner Award nominee. Former college professor, former social studies teacher. History buff, but certainly no expert. Hopkins County, KY. He/him
schweizercomics.com
outlawsapprentice.com
james folta @jamesfolta.com // staff writer @literaryhub.bsky.social //
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Cameron Loxdale @cloxdale.bsky.social 🏴 Comedy writer and script editor https://linktr.ee/cloxdale
👴 I made a starter pack full of divorced men named Geoff
📺 Rep: Georgia Kanner @ Independent Talent
Jeff (Mixed Metaphors) @mixedmetaphors.bsky.social He/him.
There Are Infinite Universes and All of Them Are Boring, published by ELJ Editions:
https://elj-editions.com/there-are-infinite-universes-and-all-of-them-are-boring/
Editor and reviews at @foofarawpress.bsky.social
mixedmetaphors.net
Penina Roth @peninaroth.bsky.social Curator of Franklin Park Reading Series in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Evening House Books @eveninghouse.bsky.social an indie bookstore in downtown Buffalo, NY, focusing on new small press titles, books in translation, unsung classics, manga & much more
run by Amanda & John
website: http://www.eveninghousebooks.com
Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Award-Winning Publisher of New Weird Horror + More, via Portland, OR & Transilvania, Romania.
@AlexWoodroe.com, Editor in Chief.
@MattBlairstone.bsky.social, Publisher.
SUPPORT INDIE. Hail the Tenebrous Cult🖤☠️
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Tiffin Inn Writing Workshop @tiffininnwrites.bsky.social Welcome to the corner booth!
We have a weekly podcast about how we didn’t exactly turn out to be the writers we thought we were gonna be.
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Arthur Franz IV @mycoachart.bsky.social Co-host of the Tiffin Inn Writing Workshop. Contributor to Novlr. Board game designer of Breakaway Football.
River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social Where Poetry Moves. Two editors, publishing (at least) two exceptional poetry titles a year & the Plainwater Nonfiction Series. Poetry submissions open in May. Posts by editors @hanvanderhart.bsky.social and @amorak.bsky.social
www.riverriverbooks.org
Beth Gilstrap (she/her) @bettysueblue.bsky.social Author of 2 story collections & There Is News Along The Ohio River, a hybrid/flash CNF collection out now from River River Books. Editor. Copywriter. Anti-fascist. EIC/Pub Black Lily Zine. Living w C-PTSD & neurospiciness.
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social Writer
Work in Best of the Net, The Best Microfiction, The Best Small Fictions, The Cincinnati Review, CRAFT, SmokeLong Quarterly, Wigleaf…
Links to work on my site: jjlofflin.com
Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). www.lydiakiesling.com
Diana Nguyễn @diananguyenart.bsky.social ٩(✿∂‿∂✿)۶
Available for work.
Contact: 💌 diana.nguyen1201@gmail.com
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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social cartoonist + illustrator + storyboard artist + character designer
richiepope.com
richiepope.com/store
contact: richie@richiepope.com
Aya 文 @plantlers.bsky.social 🌲They/Them🌿
Illustrator, printmaker and comics artist ☘️ Seattle🍀Eng / 日本語
https://www.ayaborucki.com
https://plantlers.store
Ewen Glass @ewenglass.bsky.social screenwriter | lecturer | poemer
Danny Goodman @ddouglasgoody.bsky.social writer, editor, personal photog to editorial cat and dog. debut novel, AMERIKALAND (leftover books), out now. kindness is the new punk rock.
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melissa lozada-oliva @ellomelissa.bsky.social poet but don’t hold it against me • dreaming of you, candelaria @astrahouse
rep: arod@wmeagency.com
big VERN (Shea Soc) @vernorsofficial.bsky.social free palestine 🇵🇸
blm vernors-cultist detroiter music teacher writer
Vol. 1 Brooklyn @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social Thoughts on books and culture, plus original fiction and essays.
thedrevlow @thedrevlow.bsky.social editor-in-chief BULL, author of the book of rusty, a good ram is hard to find, ina-baby: a love story in reverse, & bend with the knees and other love advice from my father (thedrevlow-olsonshow.com)
Mark Abdon @markabdonwrites.bsky.social Hoosier, Writer, Professor, Foster Fam.
Words: Pinch, X-R-A-Y, Chautauqua, Catamaran, Gone Lawn, JMWW, Bull etc.
➤ Writing Prof at IWU
➤ Reader for Harvard Review
Read more here ➡️ markabdonwrites.com ⬅️
Cobra Milk @cobramilk.bsky.social multimedia literary and arts journal
established in 2020
https://www.cobra-milk.com
Emma Binder @embinder.bsky.social they/them // fiction writer, Stegner Fellow at Stanford
Emily Nemens @emilynemens.bsky.social Writer, editor, etc. My 2nd novel, CLUTCH, comes out from Tin House in 2026. My 1st, CACTUS LEAGUE (FSG) was about Spring Training Baseball. I like writing about groups and places and groups in places.
@fbereaud.bsky.social @fbereaud.bsky.social Author: San Diego Stories @cowboyjamboree, A Question of Family @Stanchion
Husband. Dad. Math Prof. Mentor. Fiction Editor @thetwinbill.
francoisbereaud.com
Wendy Wimmer @wendywimmer.bsky.social Writer. Dog mom. Toast enthusiast.
Author: THE DOOMSCROLLER'S COMPANION: A Novel forthcoming from University of Wisconsin Press October 2026.
ENTRY LEVEL: STORIES Autumn House Press, available in paper, e-book and audio formats.
www.wendywimmer.com
The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to prose, poetry, comics, essays, humor, hybrid, and everything in-between.
www.bulbregion.com
Glenn Orgias @glennorgias.bsky.social TEETH KICKER (HarperCollins), MAN IN A GREY SUIT (Penguin 2012), www.glennorgias.com
Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social ClickHole contributor. Writer. Person. An actual human being. In DC. chrisscottwrites.com
Will Klein @ketchiklein.bsky.social Writer of stories and novels. 
Angela Liu @angelaliu.bsky.social Writer/poet. Chronophobic tiger mom. 3x Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte, Rhysling, Locus, & Astounding Award finalist. She/her.
SFWA, Codex, SFPA. Clarion West NWW '26
Words in Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Uncanny, Lightspeed
https://linktr.ee/liu_angela
Skyler Melnick @skyskkyy.bsky.social fiction writer · stories in Fairy Tale Review, Wigleaf, HAD, Hunger Mountain, Fractured Lit · MFA Columbia
https://linktr.ee/skyskkyy
A brief but harmless period of weightlessness @hughsheehy.bsky.social I like books and music and things like that. Design Flaw (Acre), The Invisibles (University of Georgia). Novel forthcoming from 7.13 in 2027. Beacon, NY (He/Him)
Chris Kelso @chris88.bsky.social Angry writer, eager editor, devoted dad
Matti B. @mattibl.bsky.social Nonfiction writer & poet who loves ampersands. Work in McSweeney's, Rumpus, X-R-A-Y, Jake, Ekphrastic Review, & elsewhere. CNF MFA candidate @George Mason ❤️
Some Words @somewordslit.bsky.social A literary journal hosted on a message board.
Rob Mahoney @robmahoney.bsky.social I write and podcast for The Ringer.
Austin Kleon @austinkleon.bsky.social I’m a writer who draws. Author of STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST and other bestsellers. www.austinkleon.com
Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social he/him
writer of stories and such
professional bookman for Rough Draft Bar & Books
contributing editor at Literary Hub
occasional guitarist and singer
https://drewsof.neocities.org/
Lit Match Collective @litmatchcollective.com A writers’ community led by editors 🔥
Helping members connect and grow.
Join us ➡️ litmatchcollective.com & our community, open to all!: https://discord.gg/cxSdvE2EfN
John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
Tbird @coupedetat.bsky.social Baltimore dilettante with a photogenic dog
Sarp Sozdinler @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social Writer, Designer • Words: Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Masters Review, Fractured, Los Angeles Review, HAD, Hobart, X-R-A-Y, Maudlin House • Rep'd by Mina Hamedi / Janklow & Nesbit • Editor at The Bulb Region
sarpsozdinler.com
Derrick @dmartincampbell.bsky.social Mantasy Writer, non-weird https://linktr.ee/derrickmartincampbell
Meg @megannn-lynne.bsky.social writer, mitski enthusiast, flop
Quoth the Raymond @raymondmcdaniel.bsky.social Poet-y: The Cataracts, Special Powers and Abilities, Saltwater Empire, Murder. I have big Captain Nemo feelings. 
Autumn Watts @autumnwatts.bsky.social Writer, Nevadan, former Guernica fiction editor (2014-2024), co-founder of litmatchcollective.com. She/her
J. L. Yocum @jlyocum.com NYC Poet.
BA in English Comp/Poetry, University of North Texas. Poetry reader for 𝙌𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙒𝙚𝙨𝙩.
Poems in &/or forthcoming in 𝘼𝙡𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨, 𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚, 𝘽𝙞𝙜 𝙒𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬, $ 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙮, 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙘𝙠 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬, 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭.
jlyocum.com
masto.nyc/@jlyocum
Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social They/them. Horror writer. Author of WHERE THE CRYPTIDS FLED. 2022 Maine Person of the Year. Telling Room alum. 2024 Maine Lit Fest Fellow. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
Link to my stuff here: https://linktr.ee/MLDrammeh
Caroline Shea @therealcshea.bsky.social She/her. Freelance writer and editor living in New York. Author of Lambflesh (Kelsay Books, 2019). Open to editorial clients now: https://caroline-fitzgerald-shea.squarespace.com/editorial-consultations
Deserthorror @deserthorror.bsky.social The morning after a good dream.
Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social Hello👍Bluesky
happy to be here!
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Night Shades ⏾ @nightshadesmag.bsky.social 🛸 500 Word Speculative Stories. $0.15/word. nightshadesmag.com
Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters @asteralesjournal.bsky.social A new quarterly literary journal publishing 5 poems, 2 prose works, and original visual art. SUBS OPEN 2/1-3/15
Co-founders/editors @djvorreyer.bsky.social and @rebunting.bsky.social
http://www.asteralesjournal.com
Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social 2024 Winner Toronto Star SS contest| @SmokeLong Fellow 2024|Best Microfiction 2024 2025|words:The Forge,The Cincinnati Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Room Magazine, Fractured Lit+| Pushcart, Best SF noms| rep:Joanna Rasheed, Ultra Literary
Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social Author, Y2K: How the 2000's Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was). The NYT called me “lean, nimble, and profoundly depressing,” but I think I’m pretty fun. I have a black cat named Camus and I live in Ann Arbor.
Sara Rauch @sara-rauch.bsky.social Author of WHAT SHINES FROM IT: STORIES and XO. Prose in Afterimages, Vast Chasm, Cutleaf, The Spectacle, Revolute, among others. Poet at heart. Book in hand. Pencil enthusiast. Living on coffee & a prayer. www.sararauch.com / https://sararauch.substack.com
Shannon Sanders @shanders.bsky.social THE GREAT WHEREVER (forthcoming from Holt, summer ‘26); COMPANY, 2024 winner of the L.A.Times Book Prizes Award for First Fiction: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/company. Mom, twin mom, lawyer, Silver Springer. She/her
Tasha Coryell @tashacoryell.bsky.social Thriller writer. Author of LOVE LETTERS TO A SERIAL KILLER. St. Paul resident. TV watcher. Greyhound owner. Roll tide. Repped by Katie Greenstreet at Paper Literary.
MATCHMAKING FOR PSYCHOPATHS forthcoming in July 2025.
Joe Bonomo @joebonomo.bsky.social essays and rock & roll | sound and sense
I write books and NO SUCH THING AS WAS, a music newsletter: https://joebonomo.substack.com/
Open 24/7: https://linktr.ee/joebonomo
it's buh-NOH-moh
LEFTOVER Books @leftoverbooks.bsky.social Born in Rochester, NY in 2021.
Publishing books ignored by the mainstream.
Submissions always open.
leftoverbooks.carrd.co
Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social Doing what I dreamed of since I was a kid.
Books: Lone Women, The Changeling, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Devil in Silver.
TV: The Changeling (EP), The Terror: Devil in Silver (Creator, Showrunner)
Comics: Destroyer, Eve, Sabretooth, Black Panther
Nikki Dolson @nikkidolson.bsky.social Hmm… | she/her
www.nikkidolson.com
Abbie Doll @abbiedollwrites.bsky.social writer who writes things. yeehaw!
Fiction Editor for Identity Theory
Words in places like | Door is A Jar | 3:AM Magazine | The Pinch | etc.
proudly queer & neurodivergent. 
Megs 🤘🏻🖤 @megnev.bsky.social 📍Cleveland | she/her | Educator | Writer | Consultant | Department Chair | Xennial | Catmom 🐈⬛ | Plant nurturer 🪴 | The Fallow (Trio House Press 2022) | https://megannevillepoetry.wordpress.com
Erin Dorney @erindorney.bsky.social Sober bi writer in Western NY ꩜ Author of "Yes I Am Human I Know You Were Wondering" (Autofocus), that book of Shia LaBeouf erasures, and many zines.
Nick Vogel @nickvogel.bsky.social Likes: wife, wiener dogs, cats, Padres, pinball, democracy, the redwoods, funk, and fiction.
Dislikes: pineapple on pizza, fascism, the ringing in my ears from my loud wiener dogs, the Yankees, and John Fisher.
Eve Ettinger @eveettinger.com Husband father daughter
Blake Bell @blakebell.art Teacher, writer, dog-food-plant-enthusiast