WordSmitten Writers WorkShop @wordsmittenwrkshop.bsky.social WordSmitten Workshop is a virtual roundtable where writers critique long projects - from page one to publication. We also offer education, reading, and salons to the Southwest Florida writing & reading community. www.wordsmittenworkshop.com
Julieanna Blackwell @julieannablackwell.bsky.social Stories in Stonecoast Review, MoonPark Review, Lunch Ticket
Flash Fiction Editor 805lit
WordSmitten Workshop Director
Elements & Arcs Classes Instructor
More Stuff at www.julieannablackwell.com
The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social The VILLAGE 🏘 is a place where the world 🌍 feels a tiny bit smaller. Founded by SMOKELONG for the Global Flash Community
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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
Reese @puppylove23.bsky.social 🐶 Woof! I'm Reese , a Boston Terrier with a black belt in snuggles. My human, BRETT CULBERT– you know, my actor papa who's on TV and all that? – thinks he's the star, but let's be real, I'm the real leading role here.
Kashawn Taylor @kashawntaylor.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Student.
Prison Journalism Project.
Gotham Writers Workshop.
book: subhuman. out now.
Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Flash fiction writer | 2025 Highly Commended Bridport Prize & Finalist New Millennium Writings | Published in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Flash the Court, Writers’ Hour, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and elsewhere.
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Thirteen Bridges Review @thirteenbridges.bsky.social Thirteen Bridges Review is a Literary Arts Journal produced by the Department of English and Philosophy at Auburn University at Montgomery. Our mission is to publish work that is as exciting as it is groundbreaking.
https://www.thirteenbridgesreview.com
Broad Ripple Review @broadripplereview.bsky.social Fiction | Nonfiction | Poetry | Reviews
Free submissions, always.
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Blue Wave Alxs 🌸🏳️⚧️📚🍥✨ @bluewavealxs.bsky.social She/Her/Hers, Feminist, Democrat, Pro-Choice, Pro-LGBT, Agnostic, Artist, Writer, Actor, Traveller, introspective aesthete, Human Rights Activist, Trans Rights Advocate, Ambassador, Mental Health Matters, Autistic,ADHD, Music Lover, Book enthusiast.
Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social She/her Short Fiction writer, 🇨🇦 in TN. Pub in ILANOT REVIEW, WEST TRESTLE REVIEW, FICTIVE DREAM,SUSURRUS, SOUTH 85+. BA,MD, Certificate Creative ✍️, Nom Pushcart, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions
Daryl Farmer @darylfarmer.bsky.social Writer, poet, bicyclist. Gentle spirit, but capable occasional mayhem. Author of BICYCLNG BEYOND THE DIVIDE and WHERE WE LAND. Creative writing Prof at U of Alaska Fairbanks.
Kat Gonso (she/her) @katwritesstuff.bsky.social Flash fiction and young adult books
Educator
Opinions my own
https://www.katgonso.com/ 
Kyle Isamu Weik @kyleisamu.bsky.social a queer writer without a plan | Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, Variant Literature, Emerge Literary Journal, Vestal Review, Peatsmoke Journal
Dig It Dan @digitdan.bsky.social Uncovering history across Maine. I detect properties for owners to showcase their history by finding items lost by past inhabitants. Credited with discovering a Militia/Civil War muster field in ME. Posts about Maine history and things that interest me.
@mitchwrites1982.bsky.social @mitchwrites1982.bsky.social Greenhorn writer and movie lover. Find more at https://authormitchellmcenery.com
@coverghoul.bsky.social @coverghoul.bsky.social 
Daydream Series by Cammie Basseri @quietworld.bsky.social *Previously on IG*
A daily memory freewrite series with photos, all by CNF writer @CammieBasseri.
Website: www.CammieBasseri.com
Suzanne Hicks @suzannehicks.bsky.social Writer living with multiple sclerosis. Often very tired. Best Microfiction ‘24 Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist ‘24.
Read my work: www.suzannehickswrites.com
Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social Writer, book critic, prof. MIGRATING FICTIONS (Ohio State UP 2018). RIPPLES INTO THE WILD (Cornerstone Press 2027). Pushcart Prize winner. Writing at Threepenny Review, LitHub, Mass Review, Pleiades, and HAD. https://abbymanzella.weebly.com/
Kathryn O’Driscoll (she/her) @poetryod.bsky.social 2021 UK Poetry Slam Champion 🏆
Poet • Editor • Mentor • Event Organiser
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Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind)
#writer #historian #Lesbian #sapphic #wlw #Hispanic #feminist #goth #vampires #jpop #bibliophile
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Crimeajewel @crimeajewel.bsky.social Creative Artiste. London and Venice.
With small creative shop Crimeajewel on www.
No DMs please as 99.99% are spam or scammers. I send no DMs. Thank you.
Sallie-May @hcl.bsky.social https://github.com/Sallie-May
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main account https://bsky.app/profile/bee-lzebub.bsky.social
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
Wendy E Wallace @wendyewallace1.bsky.social Writer who is also very good at not writing. She/they. Queer disabled. Editor of @PSmokeJournal, social media for @splitlipthemag- C Carsten ten Brink @carstentenbrink.bsky.social Wanderer without a country, writer in search of a phrase, visual artist hunting inspiration, geometer encircling polygons, photograph maker-taker. Uncontrolled dancer and struggling blues harmonica player.
#writer #writingcommunity #fiction #non-fiction
Ira Socol @irasocol.bsky.social Education Innovation Leader. Believer in Children. Ex-Public School CTO. Ex-NYPD. UDL+ champion. Author of Designed to Fail [education] and The Drool Room [fiction]. Co-author of Timeless Learning [education]. 
Robin Slick @robinslick.bsky.social ✡️☮️🥥🌴Writer, vegetarian, mom of bassist Julie Slick (Adrian Belew), drummer Eric Slick (Taylor Swift, Kevin Morby, Dr. Dog), and singer Natalie Prass
https://linktr.ee/robinslick
Andy Charman @andyandz.bsky.social Author of Crow Court. published by @unbounders.bsky.social. Longlist Desmond Elliott 2021. Shortlist CWA Historical 2022. Laureat Festival du Premier Roman 2022. Researching 1983 and philosophers in WWII. Assistant Editor of Thin-Skin.com
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
Lucy Berbeo @lucypaulina.bsky.social Writer. “Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.” ―Douglas Adams
@flintstan.bsky.social @flintstan.bsky.social 
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…
Stephanie Suesan Smith, Ph.D. @lambdakennels1.bsky.social I am a freelance writer. I write extensively on gardening, dogs, and psychology. I also write on other topics. What can I write for you? https://allaboutgardeningguides.com
Zeke Cork @elcork17.bsky.social Writer in Missoula, MT. Love child of Anne Sexton and Nick Hornby.Words at xraylitmag, Pigeonholes, BendingGenres, SavantGardeMag &more. Nominated for Best of Net and Pushcart Prize. New work forthcoming. Suspiciously Happy .
L. Michel-Cassidy @lmichelcassidy.bsky.social Writer, poet, artist, houseboat-dweller, open-water swimmer. Collection, When We Were Hardcore, 2025 (EastOver) PEN America Bingham Prize longlist. Senior reviews editor at Tupelo Quarterly.
More at lmichelcassidy.com
LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
Nein,No,Non,Não, ingen,Hayır,Nie,Tidak,Nee,Nei
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Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social Writer & Artist
Senior Editor & Art Director
Does It Have Pockets
Words & Artwork https://linktr.ee/anchalastudio?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
The Common @commonmag.bsky.social The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, poetry, and art with a modern sense of place. Based at Amherst College, we highlight writers and work from around the world.
@kmcgmd.bsky.social @kmcgmd.bsky.social 
Katie Coleman @katiecoleman.bsky.social Words in: Ghost Parachute, Milk Candy Review, Bending Genres, Ilanot Review, Sunlight Press and more... | Noms:Pushcart Prize &Best of Net &Best Microfiction. https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/katie-coleman
Ash McCurry @amacwriting.bsky.social I write (very) short fiction. LL: Bath Flash Fiction Award, Welkin Writing Prize • SL: NFFD Competition • Honorable Mention: Scribes Writing Prize • Finalist: Five Minutes Micro Contest ✍️ Fiction Reader @okaydonkeymag.com
Jean Strickland @b4heroes.bsky.social speculative fiction writer | she/her | social anxiety | loves board games and studio ghibli | 🔗 jeanstrickland.wordpress.com 😶🌫️
Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social Author of WE'RE IN TROUBLE (stories); YOU CAME BACK (a novel); and YOU WOULD HAVE TOLD ME NOT TO (stories). Professor in the residential MFA program in creative writing at U of Nevada, Reno
Cammie Basseri @cammiebasseri.bsky.social CNF Writer, essays, flash. Forthcoming memoir IT MUST HAVE BEEN BEAUTIFUL. Stringing words along the coasts of the US and Ireland—w/a good cuppa.
I bake things when I'm pissed.
Website: www.cammiebasseri.com
CNF Freewrites on IG: @quietworld.photography
Steve Fox @stevefoxwrites.com Can run backwards
Rick Bass Montana Fiction Prize Winner
SOMETIMES CREEK (Cornerstone) winner American BookFest Best Book Award • Chicago Writers Book of the Year Award finalist
order THESE ARE MY PEOPLE now at stevefoxwrites.com
Peter Richardson @peter-richardson.bsky.social Writer - fiction especially short stories
New to Bluesky
www.peter-richardson.co.uk
@bathflashaward.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social 3 times a year Flash Fiction Award. £1460 prize fund. Anthology. Founded in 2015. 32nd Award results out now. 33rd Award open. Judge Writer and writing tutor . Alison Woodhouse Closes June 7th 2026
David Keating @davidcjkeating.bsky.social Reader, writer
Ty Webb @carlsackler.bsky.social Pro Freedom for all, Rights for All, Pro Science , Pro Women Choice, Pro Wine , Pro Golden Retrievers 💙🍷 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦🎸📢
Robert Walikis @opentank.bsky.social Writer. Seeker. Swimmer. Bard.
I make maps and tell stories.
Words in Post Road, Grist Journal, PRISM International, and elsewhere.
https://robertwalikis.com
Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social Writer. Mom. Xeric gardener. OPENING (Glass Poetry, 2026). REMAINDER (Bull City Press, 2025). FRUITFUL (Driftwood Press, 2024). Poems in Best of the Net, West Branch, phoebe, Cincinnati Review, etc. More poems at https://linktr.ee/stefaniekirbypoetry
Liz @lizmilne.bsky.social Writer, reader, PhD passed (!)
Not as pretentious as this bio sounds 🙈🤞- T tomwrote @tomwrote.bsky.social https://www.tomobrien.co.uk
Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social language, longing, music, landscape. DC. co, nyc, & london still hold my heart. words in asterales, crabcreek, fourway, iowa, NAR, poetlore, split lip, vassar. soon in AQR, birdcoat, citron, june road. social media @ SWWIM she/her linktr.ee/jillkitchen
Tammy R Ray @tammyrray2-author.bsky.social 💙🌈🇺🇸🇺🇦 I am an author, poet, storyteller, photographer, and believer in magic.
I live through my written word, lens, and shutter. I'm a lifelong Democrat and defender of a kind humanity and strong democracy.
#WeAreStrongerTogether
#TrumpIsUnfit.
#Resist
Vera Appleyard @roughmagick.bsky.social Writer | Traveler | Scuba
MFA Dramatic Writing Tisch/NYU
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
Kik Lodge @kiklodge.bsky.social Writer. THE BULLY IN MY PILLOW (Stanchion Books, August 2026).
https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/the-bully-in-my-pillow
Best Microfiction 2026.
Hosts literary open-mics @saloneurope.bsky.social
www.kiklodge.com
Maggie @courageousgirl2.bsky.social Health Science and Technology Teacher RN retired OBAMA GOTV HQ Daughter of ANTIFA “The Greatest Generation We need this Courage now in this Hellscape of Corruption
Photo of my Dad WW2 Berlin #4 Commando SAS 1945 See Prime Video Rogue Hero’s
Christine H. @csquareh.bsky.social Lover of Science, Art, Words | Best Microfiction | Best Small Fictions | Wigleaf Top 50 2023| Stories: CRAFT, SmokeLong Quarterly, Fractured Lit, Atticus Review, Vestal Review, Ghost Parachute,Time & Space Magazine +
christinehchen.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.
https://linktr.ee/joy.deva.baglio
https://www.joybaglio.com/
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/- C Carol Parchewsky @carolannparchewsky.bsky.social Writer, Instructor. Words in Stanchion, Flash Boulevard, On the Run, Drunk Monkeys, Burningword Literary.
www.carolannparchewsky.com
🪼Jellyfishlines 🔜 PaxU🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io Pfp: @wifeclipse
He/Him. ENNIE nom’d ttrpg designer Guy. 25. Disabled. Queer. Writer @ Fandomentals. Made 25 ttrpgs in 1 year.
Contact:
jellyfishlines@proton.me
https://jellyfishlines.com/
https://jellyfishlines.itch.io
https://jellyfishlines.carrd.co/
President Kamala Harris 🥥🌴🇬🇾🇺🇸🫡 @larrygt123.bsky.social 
Rosaleen Lynch @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social ☘️ Irish community worker, writer
& teacher living in London with work selected for the Wigleaf Top 50, Best of the Net & Best Small Fictions, now researching the impact of story on social change & can be found @ http://52quotes.blogspot.com
Lost Muttley my Westie broken @lordcollins.bsky.social Liverpool fan Muttley my Westie has gone over the rainbow bridge.
Tax the rich FFS
Won’t follow traders or young ladies/ men selling their body thank you
Kelly Fordon @kfor24.bsky.social Writer from Michigan. 💙 all the way. Podcast host at Let’s Deconstruct a Story
Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social Κλεοπάτρα 🇨🇾 Writer, editor, translator | Stories in: swamp pink, HAD, Tiny Molecules, Flash Flood, Claudine, Raw Lit | she/her
Shortlisted, Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction
Best Small Fictions & Best of the Net nominee
kleopatraolympiou.com
Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social She/her. AuDHD. Queer. Flash writer. Everything's Changing (Thirty West, 2023) & Breaking Points (Black Lawrence, 2021).
https://linktr.ee/chelseastickle
Charles Jensen @charlesjensen.bsky.social Author of SPLICE OF LIFE: A MEMOIR IN 13 FILM GENRES, poetry coll. INSTRUCTIONS BETWEEN TAKEOFF AND LANDING, & more. EIC: @villaineralit.bsky.social. Genre is a construct. Opinions mine. He/him. https://charles-jensen.com
Anne Louise Pepper @annelouisepepper.bsky.social Writer, dog and chicken lover, drummer in a geezer band. Ex sp. ed. teacher and school psych, retired in 2023, growing new shoots. Flash pieces in failbetter, The Citron Review, Vast Chasm, Gone Lawn, and The /t3mz/ Review. Aspiring novelist
Linda Maceri @lindamaceri.bsky.social It’s Ma Cherry. Writer. Washington Square Review | jmww | Shenandoah Review | Black Warrior Review | etc.
Didi Wood @didiwood.bsky.social 💙😷🌏
https://www.didiwood.com/stories
Jen @jens246.bsky.social Classroom teacher, writer, poet. Committed to public schools, all students, all books. 
Janna Miller @scribblermiller.bsky.social Librarian, writer, collector of oddities.
SmokeLong, Shenandoah, Citron Review, Best MicroFiction.
All Lovers Burn at the End of the World ('24 ELJ)
Reader at SmokeLong.
Codex and Electric Sheep member.
millersminusculemystories.com
Dirk Bannion, Author @author-dirkbannion.bsky.social https://dirkbannionbooks.com/
I'm an indie author writing from western North Carolina, where the veil is thin.
Currently reporting on a series of mysterious disappearances on the shores of Cape Cod, and the hellish abomination that may be responsible.
Bill Merklee @bmerklee.bsky.social Writer of very short things.
In Best Microfiction. Best Small Fictions noms. Highly commended for Bath Novella-in-Flash Award. Fractured Lit Chapbook Prize short list. Wigleaf Top 50 long list. BOTN nom. But enough about me. How are you?
billmerklee.com
Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social Words in BULL, FlashFlood, Does It Have Pockets, Frazzled Lit, Trash Cat Lit, Urban Pigs Press, Fictive Dream. Genrepunk Awards nominee. Shortlisted for the 2026 Bath Novella-in-Flash Award. She/her. @lmbayley at the other place.
Rosana Francescato @theeflowerchild.bsky.social I write about #cleanenergy by day, everything else on evenings & weekends. Semicolon lover; will fight for the Oxford comma. A real Flower Child, my name for the generation some call Jones. More at flowerchild.substack.com.
NO CRYPTO OR RANDOM DMs.
Sherryl writes and reads @sherrylwriter.bsky.social Writer of crime fiction and books for young readers of all ages. Most recent crime novel is "Woman, Missing" (HQ). Love reading. Edit part-time. Owner (servant) of a cat.
Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social San Francisco Bay Area writer and educator. Flash fiction and cnf in SmokeLong, Bending Genres, Atlas and Alice, The Forge, Ghost Parachute, Craft & elsewhere.Poetry in journals such as New Ohio Review, Plume, Hunger Mountain and Cincinnati R. (she/her)
Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social "We'll Be Birds" chapbook release 9/24/26 https://www.sandandgravelpress.com/lisa-thornton-chapbook-release
Writer, nurse. SmokeLong Quarterly, Cincinnati Review+. Senior flash fiction editor @jmww. Sucker for a good barn.
lisathorntonwriter.com
Dave Nash @davenashlit1.bsky.social Reader, writer, WIP
My recent pubs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h3fafS8dw2nRxHndb3X_30BAnL9FRJOugxNng9InkRQ/edit
davenashwrites.substack.com
DaveNash3@bookwyrm.social
Lucas Hubbard @lucasahubbard.bsky.social Co-Editor: The Pandemic Divide, The Black Reparations Project | Writing: @defector.bsky.social, @indyweek.bsky.social, @pastemagazine.bsky.social, @maudlinhouse.bsky.social, Microlit Almanac, trampset 
You can call me AL @amylola.bsky.social Writer. Love dogs, books and music. And my family. One of my favorite stories:
https://www.johnnyamerica.com/archives/2024/08/02/07.00.00/carolyn-no/
Timothy Boudreau @tcboudreau.bsky.social Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever (stories, Stanchion), & Stepdad on the Dance Floor (stories, Unsolicited) out now.
All We Knew Were Our Hearts (novel, Unsolicited) coming in '27.
Editor at The Loveliest Review.
timothyboudreau.com.
He/him
Audrey Howitt @audreyhowitt.bsky.social Poet, voice teacher, recovering attorney, licensed psychotherapist, lover of life
Please no DMs. I will block you. 
JJ Carr @jjcarr.bsky.social Writer of fiction, poetry, essays, screenplays, even a cookbook, frequent ghost, creative writing instructor at Chapman University. Words in Writing the Golden State: The New Literary Terrain of California pub. by Angel City Press out now.
Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social Native Hawaiian writer living in Japan
https://www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/
Bitter over Sweet https://tinyurl.com/5hd7u63r
Hard Skin http://tinyurl.com/yc53
Kahi&Lua http://tinyurl.com/3ryfzvwh