Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social American historian, religion, environment, pop culture, the South. Author: The Devil's Music (Harvard, 2018). Prof of Am & Brit Studies, Univ of Oslo. Fulbright alumnus.
I'm Gary Suarez of CABBAGES @imgarysuarez.bsky.social Music journo/critic who wrote for every publication you used to read.
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Adam Stutz @stutz-writes.bsky.social Neurodivergent + Poet + Curator
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Matt Kirkpatrick @mattkirkpatrick.bsky.social Creative Writing Professor, Eastern Michigan University; President EMU-AAUP; Writer: The Silent Chord (Texas Review Press), Seagrave Museum (Acre), Light Without Heat (FC2)
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www.instagram.com/mattk1885
The world will be Tlön.
Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social poet, teacher, sometimes essayist. chapbook, Love That For Us, out now @andchangepoetry.bsky.social. craft book forthcoming @noemipress.bsky.social. two books @boa-editions.bsky.social.
abolish the police & free palestine.
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Vol. 1 Brooklyn @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social Thoughts on books and culture, plus original fiction and essays.
robynshhh 🦅 @robynschelenz.bsky.social poet person // eagles phillies sixers fan // cash only dentist // gay 🦄
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Such Great Heights @suchgreatheights.bsky.social indie nostalgia by @chrisdeville.bsky.social
pre-order SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion: https://read.macmillan.com/lp/such-great-heights-9781250363381/
11:11 @1111press.bsky.social Publisher.
We're non-conformists, just like everyone else.
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Jackie Corley @jackiecorley.bsky.social VP Content @ Townsquare Media 📻 | ex-reporter, ex-indie publisher (Word Riot) | #NewJersey girl in #hudsonvalley #beaconny #upstateny #writer
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Josh Denslow @joshdenslow.bsky.social High-functioning slacker.
William Boyle @wmboyle4.bsky.social Writer. New novel, SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET, out now from Soho Crime. https://linktr.ee/wmboyle4
Steve Anwyll @oneloveasshole.bsky.social Author of Welfare (Tyrant Books)
I’m just a minor threat
Bill Yarrow @billyarrow.bsky.social Poet, collagist, retired prof of English. Want any books from my gargantuan library? Divesting!
Ariya Bandy @storyofariya.bsky.social author of Painted Winds (Bottlecap Press) | work in Nightmare Magazine, 100-Foot Crow, and more | IF dev | copy editor at khōréō magazine | WIP: Keynesian beauty game
Madelyn Knecht ✨🌈 @madelynknecht.bsky.social Writer (Rep: Danai Christopoulou @ The Tobias Literary Agency)
Associate Literary Agent at @StormLiterary
RevPit Board Member
& lover of all things spooky and queer.
She/they
https://madheditorial.com
Joy Deva Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social Speculative Writer: Fiction in One Story, Ploughshares, Tin House, Apex, etc. Yaddo Fellow. Founder of Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop. Rep'ed by Peter Steinberg. Novel in progress. Bagpiper.
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https://www.joybaglio.com/
Matt Starr @illmattic919.bsky.social Writer of various griefs: https://linktr.ee/mgstarr919
Josh Luft @joshuazluft.bsky.social Let’s rock!
Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Independent publisher.
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Two Dollar Radio HQ @twodollarradiohq.bsky.social Indie bookstore/bar/vegan restaurant in Columbus, OH. 🌴
Transit Books @transitbooks.bsky.social Publishing award-winning literature from around the world in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Grove Atlantic @groveatlantic.bsky.social Independent publisher of exceedingly good books. Founded in 1917. We can’t go on, we’ll go on.
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Soho Press @sohopress.bsky.social Independent book publisher of bold literary voices, award-winning international crime fiction, and groundbreaking horror.
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Unnamed Press @unnamedpress.bsky.social We publish literature from around the world. UNlikely voices and UNexpected stories. Smith & Taylor Classics. Based in Los Angeles since 2014.
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The Iowa Review @theiowareview.bsky.social Fiction, poetry, nonfiction. Since 1970.
Catherine Roberts @crobertswriter.bsky.social Writer.
Words: Flash Frog, Trampset, HAD, Ghost Parachute, Bending Genres, Maudlin House, Gone Lawn, Tiny Molecules etc.
Flash Ed: Variant Lit
Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social Your literary mixtape. EIC @keersteemack.bsky.social
Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social Literary non-profit. Publishing works of poetry, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers since 1999.
Future Tense Books @futuretensebooks.bsky.social 30+ years of fine books and endless love in Portland, Oregon. We publish daring literary books by writers you should get to know. Editors: Kevin Sampsell (PDX) and Emma Alden (Philadelphia).
Visit us at www.futuretensebooks.com
Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.
The Believer @thebeliever.net A quarterly literature, arts, and culture magazine.
https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the-believer-subscription-bm4
thebeliever.net
Janet Rodriguez @janetrodriguez.bsky.social Writer, teacher, loud laugher. Interviews Editor The Rumpus. Author of Making an American Family, A Recipe in Five Generations.
https://linktr.ee/Janet.Rodriguez
katiy heath @katiyheath.bsky.social Interested in opinions from strangers (she/her)
keheath.com
Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. PhD UofU. MFA NMSU. Owner of Field Works Writing & Photography. Fiction Editor Waxwing. Books: ALL THAT BLUE & BODIES OF OTHER WOMEN. Chapbooks: STITCH, EDGE OF THE SEA & WITHOUT WOMAN OR BODY
allisonfieldbell.com
Sergio Muro @sergiofmuro.bsky.social writer 🇲🇽🦅// senior editor & insider prize director: american short fiction // editor: the rumpus // austin
Deirdre Sugiuchi @djsugi.bsky.social Author of UNREFORMED (Vine Leaves Press, 2027), contributing writer at Electric Literature, '23 Barbara Deming memorial grant for feminist nonfiction, lapsed librarian, essays in Literary Hub, Action Spectacle, & more, Pilates instructor, she/hers
Maxie Jane Frazier @maxiejanef.bsky.social Writer, flash fiction, educator, editor, reader. Gourmet meal provider to geriatric beloved animals. Mighty Mule Editing. Book at https://necessaryturbulence.com
Anna Held @asheld.bsky.social Nonfiction editor at the Rumpus, writer other places
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social El Chabon perdura.
https://msha.ke/handmadeplaylists
Electric Literature @electricliterature.com Making literature exciting, relevant and inclusive
electricliterature.com
Lena Crown @whichistosay.bsky.social Colgate University Nonfiction Fellow, PEN/Faulkner Writer in Residence, host of Awakeners Podcast on Lit Hub Radio, book editor at Autofocus, words in Guernica, Gulf Coast, Narratively, The Rumpus, etc. she/her ✨ X & IG: @which_is_to_say
@ayeletw.bsky.social @ayeletw.bsky.social 
Brendan Gillen @beegillen.bsky.social Stories in Florida review, wigleaf, maudlin house, taco bell quarterly, had, xray & others. Pushcart & BSF nom. STATIC (vine leaves press '24). bgillen.com.
Margo Steines @margosteines.bsky.social writer + creative coach
BRUTALITIES: a love story @w.w.norton
essays @nytimes @brevitylitmag @thesunmagazine @offassignment @slate @airmail @romper @guardian_us @lareviewofbooks
BAE notable
alum @uarizonamfa
everything: https://linktr.ee/margosteines
Beth Kanter @beekaekae.bsky.social Writer, teacher, workshop leader.
Hand holder
Words in: X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, Unbroken, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Cease, Cows and others.
Pushcart nominee.
www.bethkanter.com
Books: No Access DC & Great Food Finds DC…
Elizabeth Crane @elizabethcrane.bsky.social dog mom
monalisa vitti @monalisavitti.bsky.social aka cristina politano // essay and fiction writer // interviews for minor lits
Francesca Leader @mooninabucket.bsky.social Winner of Southeast Review’s 2023 World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest, 2025 BSF.Pun Perpetrator/ Montana Expat. Happily coupled w. someone not on Bsky. Words in HAD, Wigleaf, Stanchion, Five South, etc.
https://mooninabucket.com
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social teacher, poet, father, husband | WHO WILL CRADLE YOUR HEAD (ELJ 2023) | Ed. POETS OF QUEENS 2 | EIC of @porcupinelit.bksy.social | Co-Founder of monthly reading series and poetry community get togethers, @notatawp.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/jbeloff
Matt Borondy @mattborondy.bsky.social founding editor @identitytheory.bsky.social / special education teacher / nevada
john vanderslice @johnvanderslice.bsky.social e.g. dog lover, Artist, avid reader
Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
former turbo neopian @reedreedreed.bsky.social writer, critic, horticultural novice 🌱
Mark Krotov @markkrotov.bsky.social coeditor/publisher, n+1. krotov at nplusonemag dot com.
Parker Young @parkeryoung.bsky.social author of CHEAP THERAPIST SAYS YOU'RE INSANE (Future Tense Books, 2023)- C . @cashcompson.bsky.social
Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social Nonprofit publishing house & literary arts center bringing the world together in conversation through literature. Deep Ellum, Dallas TX. deepvellum.org
Alternative Milk Magazine @altmilkmag.bsky.social Independent literary and art magazine. http://www.altmilkmag.com/links
Mississippi Review @mississippireview.bsky.social Literary magazine, founded in 1972. Publishing Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction out of the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers.
Guest Editor: Rachael Fowler
Associate Editors: Emilee Kinney & Madi Brown
mississippi-review.com
The Sun magazine @thesunmagazine.bsky.social The Sun is a magazine that publishes roughly forty thousand words a month, about a dozen of which are funny. This is where we share those dozen.
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
Michael Nye @mpnye.bsky.social Author of three books of fiction and editor of Story (@storymag.bsky.social)
Jennifer A. Howard @jferhow.bsky.social yooper ❄️ two dogs’ best friend 🐕 i like bad tv and good yarn 🧶 prose chapbooks from the cupboard pamphlet 🧑🚀 editor-in-chief of passages north 🚀
Philip Kennicott @philipkennicott.bsky.social Senior Art and Architecture Critic at The Washington Post, author of Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning (Norton).🐕🎹
https://www.philipkennicott.com/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/philip-kennicott/
Oxford American @oxfordamerican.bsky.social The Oxford American is a national magazine dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the South.
https://linktr.ee/oxfordamerican
David Biespiel @davidbiespiel.bsky.social Poet, novelist, painter. Texas expat. Contributor to the New Yorker, New Republic, Orion, Poetry, APR, NYT. Thirteen books, including the forthcoming BEAUTIFUL IS THE WORLD: NEW & SELECTED POEMS.
Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social Former 30-year-old. Used to be in punk bands but super boring now. English PhD student. He/him.
Outlook Springs @outlooksprings.bsky.social Literary Magazine From Other Dimensions || Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction & Words from Other Worlds || et cetera. outlooksprings.com
John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social @Leavittalone from Twitter . Writer and cartoonist. Seen in The Toast, New Yorker, The Awl, The Nib, Racked, The Rumpus, The Baffler, etc. That guy you met at that party once. http://www.leavittalone.com/
Sublunary Editions @sublunary.bsky.social Independent publisher based in Seattle, WA, devoted to small books of unmissable writing.
Hally Rae Winters @hallywinters.bsky.social Writer from LA • CalArts Fellow • shortlisted for FracturedLit’s ELSEWHERE prize • SundressPub ‘24 resident • Writing: Masters Review, LA Review, Thirty West & more
Sunny Rosen @sunnyrosen.bsky.social Writer and editor
@benjaminzscott.bsky.social @benjaminzscott.bsky.social HVAC, writer, editor of Indie Book Blog.
phi!ip james shaw @lateration.bsky.social Reflections of loneliness in peculiar manners: www.philipjamesshaw.com
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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social writing + paintings here, there + all over the place | DOMESTICATED CREATURES coming Sept. 2026 | James Tate Poetry Prize | Pushcart, BoTN + Best Microfiction noms | Best Small Fictions 2025
Paintings, books + other writings: thaddevassie.com
Janelle Bassett @janellebassett.bsky.social THANKS FOR THIS RIOT (2023 Prairie Schooner Book Prize)
Editing fiction at Split Lip Magazine
janellebassett.com
Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social Former Philadelphian living in Montréal
Supports public schools
Wrote some short stories & then some even shorter ones
https://stephanieking.net
Nick Rees Gardner @nickreesgardner.bsky.social Writer, critic, beer and wine monger
Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social Author & Filmmaker
arjoyan.com
Contributor to STOKER AWARD-WINNER Silk & Sinew🧿Maudlin House🧿Deadlands🧿Pleiades🧿JMWW🧿Ghoulish Tales🧿River Styx🧿Gone Lawn🧿Shotgun Honey🧿Roi Fainéant🧿Cold Signal🧿Apocalypse Confidential🧿Cleaver🧿Hobart🧿Monstrous Angels🧿BULL
Vic Nogay @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social reader, writer, specter
micro editor @identitytheory.bsky.social
Best Microfiction 2026
Naming a Dying Thing (Yellow Arrow, 2025)
under fire, under water (tiny wren, 2022)
ohio forever
she/her
vicnogay.com
Jason Lee Norman @bellyofawhale.bsky.social Writer + Publisher. I once met Jimmy Carter on a flight from Miami to La Paz, Bolivia.
Beyond The Zero Podcast @beyondthezero.bsky.social We discuss books with writers, translators and critics from around the world. 
The Book Riot Podcast @bookriotpod.bsky.social A show about what's happening in the world of books and reading, hosted by Jeff O'Neal and Rebecca Schinsky. Available wherever you listen to podcasts.
BookRiot.com
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Maria Robinson @mariaaarobinson.bsky.social Writer of fiction & sometimes non-. Work in Electric Lit, Wigleaf, The Forge -> Best Microfiction 2023, Rejection Letters, Catapult, BLR, cream city review, and more. Cupboard full of beans (I make a lot of soup).
JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social The Anti-Literary Mag. Here to ruin your feeds. Closed for submissions. Read the mag at jakethemag.com.
veronica bennett @vabnt.bsky.social poet / philly / eic of Bullshit Lit
Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social Writer. Books: A THOUSAND WAYS TO DISAPPEAR (Cornerstone Press, 2028)/THE CLARITY OF HUNGER (Word West Press, 2021). Fiction instructor: Harvard Extension School. MacDowell Fellow ‘23. Email: fabulistpappas@gmail.com
www.cherylpappas.net
Linda Maceri @lindamaceri.bsky.social It’s Ma Cherry. Writer. Washington Square Review | jmww | Shenandoah Review | Black Warrior Review | etc.
Nathaniel Berry @nathanielberry.bsky.social Executive Director: @swanquillwest.bsky.social
Managing Editor: @nocontactmag.bsky.social
a.a. de levine @aadelevine.bsky.social ♦️ work in taco bell quarterly, new gothic review, psycho holosuite, elsewhere
♦️ computer boy, poppy church, stimulation clicker
♦️ fiction editor at @theargylelitmag.bsky.social
♦️ linktr.ee/aadelevine
Bending Genres Journal, LLC @bendinggenres.bsky.social Bending Genres is an online journal and a global community. We publish hybrid material bi-monthly. We also offer online weekend workshops with various teachers, an ongoing writer's roundtable and two annual week long writing retreats. www.bendinggenres.com
Emily Roth @emilymroth.bsky.social librarian and fiction writer. winner of Reflex Fiction’s winter 2022 flash fiction competition, other words in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Masters Review, and more. 
Andrea Bishop @andreabishop.bsky.social Writer. Salt Spring Island & Vancouver, 🇨🇦. Stories in/coming: New Ohio Review, Malahat Review, Masters Review, Cleaver, Grain, BULL, PRISM...
Knows: healthcare, psych & change
Appreciates: dogs, quests, diversity & curiosity
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Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social Reader. English professor. Follow books, film, foreign affairs/history, baseball (Bucs),and soccer (Everton). Partial to hounds.