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
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/
Wendy Erskine @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social THE BENEFACTORS Sceptre. Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. Shortlisted Irish Novel of the Year, Best British Audio Book. It’s out now. dance move/sweet home/stinging fly/picador/well I just kind of like it/PVA Books
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
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
The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social Publishing great literature and art since 2003.
Ninth Letter @ninthletter.bsky.social Ninth Letter is a literary magazine edited and produced at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. We aim to present original literary writing of exceptional quality, illuminated by cutting-edge graphic design.
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com Political and cultural criticism. Since 1988. Online and in print. https://thebaffler.com/
The New Yorker @newyorker.com Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
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The Offing @theoffingmag.bsky.social Online lit mag. Authoring change. From the people who built these cities.
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TriQuarterly Magazine @triquarterlymag.bsky.social Writing, Art, Video. Since 1958. Published by Northwestern University's Litowitz MFA+MA and the SPS MA graduate creative writing programs. www.triquarterly.org
The Rumpus @therumpus.net Independent since 2009. Read The Rumpus Magazine. Become a Member. Receive Letters in the Mail from Authors. Join a dynamic, global community.
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Virginia Quarterly Review @vqr.bsky.social An award-winning national magazine at the University of Virginia. Established in 1925. vqronline.org
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics. nplusonemag.com
ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social Award-winning, indie lit journal—made in San Francisco since 1985. Our Issue 132 is now available. Subscribe: zyzzyva.org/subscribe/
New England Review @newenglandreview.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine published by Middlebury College since 1978.
https://www.nereview.com/
Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social Publisher of award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For the workshop, head to @mccormackwc.bsky.social.
Granta @grantamag.bsky.social The Magazine of New Writing.
https://granta.com/
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
Vera Appleyard @roughmagick.bsky.social Writer | Traveler | Scuba
MFA Dramatic Writing Tisch/NYU
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
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
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.
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/
Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social She/her. Flash writer. Everything's Changing (Thirty West, 2023) & Breaking Points (Black Lawrence, 2021).
https://linktr.ee/chelseastickle
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
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
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
Kelly Pedro @kellypedro.bsky.social Winner TWUC '26 Short Prose, CRAFT '24 Flash prizes • Shortlisted: SmokeLong '25 Flash Award, ROOM '22 Fiction Prize • Words: PRISM international, The New Quarterly, Moon City Review, TLR, FracturedLit, The Fiddlehead+ • Associate Flash Editor jmww
Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social Author: Pardon Me for Moonwalking (Unsolicited Press), Wild Plums (ELJ).
Contributor: Flash Fiction America (Norton)
Wigleaf 50 2024, 2025; Best Small Fictions '23, '24; Best Microfiction '23
Puja @puja-words.bsky.social Writer | Freelance music & film | Poetry & screenplays | Bridport Prize 2024 shortlisted | Words in The Quietus/Screensphere/ Filmhounds Mag & Ors
Find me on IG: puja_garia.rd
Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social Ploughshares | Best American Nonreq'd | Copper Nickel Editors' Prize | The Norton Reader | ElectricLit | Flash Fiction America | Swamp Pink | Wigleaf | Five Points (forthcoming) | The Art of Flash Fiction https://artofflashfiction.substack.com
Josh Denslow @joshdenslow.bsky.social High-functioning slacker.
nadine rodriguez @nadinewrites.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️🇨🇺 Writer. Assistant Fiction Editor @ Foglifter. In Foglifter, Bullshit, Powders Press, Superstition Review & more. Pushcart & Best of the Net Nominee. They/Them/Theirs. Not good at social media.
https://www.nadine-rodriguez.com
Eric Scot Tryon @ericscottryon.bsky.social I’M THE UNDERTOW (Central Avenue, 2026)
Rep’d by @clgslr.bsky.social at BSCM
EIC: @flashfrog.bsky.social
www.ericscottryon.com
Annie who lives here @stellarine.bsky.social writer in chicago / co-host of @eati.games / fiction in @thecoloredlens.bsky.social / @play.date enjoyer / more at https://linktr.ee/stellarine / views expressed here are my own and not that of my employers
Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social work in X-R-A-Y, 3:AM, Granta, n+1, forthcoming in Iowa Review // website jamestaddadcox.com, editor @alwayscrashing.bsky.social // ENNIE award winner, apparently? https://store.possibleworldsgames.com/product/tacklebox
Marguerite Sheffer @mlensheffer.bsky.social Author of THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES (Nov 2024, Iowa Short Fiction Award from U of Iowa Press)
writer and teacher in New Orleans
stories in Asimov's, Lit Hub, The Dread Machine, The Pinch and others
megpokrass.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social Dzanc Books Author. Best Microfiction Series Founder. Electric Lit, Flash Fiction America (Norton) Best Small Fictions 2023. Scotland
Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social Mixed (gender)queer Thai American writer. Author of THE ANCHORED WORLD, finalist for the 2023 PEN/Bingham Award for Debut Short Story Collection. Senior editor at SmokeLong Quarterly. Kundiman and Lambda fellow. Fiction editor at Blanket Gravity. They/them
Joshua Hebburn @joshuahebburn.bsky.social Radiologist @XRAY
https://joshuahebburn.wordpress.com/
Catapult Book Group @catapultbooks.bsky.social Catapult, Counterpoint, Soft Skull, & Hawthorne Books.
Saraband Books @saraband-books.bsky.social Award-winning independent publisher of distinctive, unforgettable fiction and outstanding non-fiction.
Visit our website https://saraband.net/
CLASH Books @clashbooks.bsky.social Big Indie Establishment Mom & Pop Press in Troy, NY Publishing Beach Reads from Hell. Skeets by Christoph Paul.
Apocalypse Party @apocalypseparty.bsky.social A heavy metal acid trip via literature. Publishing books for the end of the world.
apocalypse-party.com/books
Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social Political non-fiction, world literature, social justice children’s books, and other works of the radical imagination ✨
sevenstories.com
Carson Sandell (they/them) @csandell.bsky.social Trans Poet | agender | San Diego State MFA | Poetry Reader @ Split Lit Mag| Poetry Editor @ Poetry is Currency| Leftist | Covid conscious |
Eshani Surya @eshanisurya.bsky.social debut novel RAVISHING 💄💉 ✨ out now from Roxane Gay Books/Grove Atlantic | disabled & chronically ill | philly-based | surya means sun ☀️ | eshani.surya@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/eshanisurya
Amy Stuber @amystuber.com Writer, editor, worker bee: amystuber.com
SAD GROWNUPS (Stillhouse Press, Oct 2024), Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
Contributing Editor: splitlipthemag.com
Leah Hampton @leahhampton.bsky.social Writer of F*CKFACE, professor of Things
Stephanie Yu @stephanieyu.bsky.social Thinking about writing things - words in swamp pink, wigleaf, SmokeLong, wigleaf top 50 readstephanieyu.com
Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social Queer writer l #FlashFiction l Smokelong Fellow 2026 l Contrib ed @nffr.bsky.social
Pushcart, BSF, BMF & Monarch noms
Read my stories:
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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com Making literature exciting, relevant and inclusive
electricliterature.com
Wyeth Leslie @wyethwashere.bsky.social English professor, writer, local man trying his best.
Essays: patreon.com/WyethLeslie
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/11CYl
Publications: https://www.chillsubs.com/user/wleslie2142
Robbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social Senior Essays Editor: @therumpus.net / Associate Writing Professor / Program Director: MA in Writing / Books-in-progress: 1) CNF: A history of Jerusalem's City of David 2) Flash Fiction: Bill Murrays / Robbie & James Talk Music: https://bit.ly/RandJTM
aliceanna stopher @itwillbeloud.bsky.social she/her: a judy hale type, short story writer, essayist, not nice, not your wife ✨🌈
aliceannastopher.com
Cindy House @cindyhouse.bsky.social Author of Mother Noise
Lauren Crawford (she/her) @laurencraw.bsky.social Poet
CATCH & RELEASE' coming March 2025 @CornerstoneUWSP |
Poetry Ed @IronOakEditions |
MFA @SIUC |
@WMorrisAwards winner
Best New Poets '24
https://laurencrawfordpoet.com/
John Pinto @johnwespinto.bsky.social suburban kid with biblical name
https://pintopintopinto.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
Crystal Taylor @crystaltaylorsa.bsky.social Poet/Writer | Rust & Moth | Ghost City Review | One Art | Pine Hills | Inkfish | Maudlin House | Gargoyle | MacQueen’s Quinterly |Trampoline | Neologism | Libre | Rogue Agent | wildscape | Dishsoap Qrtly | Broadkill | Sunlight Press | BotN nom
soph @sophieezzell.bsky.social 🐇 | sophieezzell.com
Drake @isjustdrake.bsky.social (they/them) poet, gaymer, powder keg.
Nina Miller @ninamiller.bsky.social Physician, Fencer and Creative
Wigleaf top 50
https://ninamillerwrites.com/
Hybrids/Photos @ Cutbow Quarterly and Raw Lit
Prose/Poetry @ Sci-Fi Shorts, Bright Flash, Five South, Roi Fainéant, Five Minutes and more.
Dominique Weldon @dkweldon.bsky.social MFA in Fiction from Butler University, teaches at Butler, and reader for Split Lip Magazine. Fiction in Lovers Eye Press and Dark Winter Literary Magazine. I love video games & art. Iowa native.
Kenyon Review @kenyonreview.bsky.social In the heart of literature since 1939. journal | workshops | fellowships
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Adam Voith @adamvoith.bsky.social My novel, Recommended If You Like, is out now for $0.00 at littleengines.shop. I'm a writer, publisher of Little Engines, and retired booking agent.
adamvoith.com
littleengines.pub
Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social Atlanta-area author of Southbound, The Parted Earth, and Ballot, out from Bloomsbury Academic on 2/5/26; Affiliate Faculty at Antioch University Los Angeles MFA; proud poll worker. linktr.ee/anjalienjeti.
Kendra Fortmeyer @kendraffe.bsky.social Author, gardener, yogi, cloud-collector. (ATX)
Tag me in your cloud pics! I'm chasing Kelvin-Helmholtz. 🌊🌊
Kathy Hoyle @kathyhoyle.bsky.social Writer, dreamer, PhD student. Northern lass. Words at @nffr.bsky.social @theforge.bsky.social @fictiveDream.bsky.social @SoFloPoJo.bsky.social Winner @Bathflashaward.bsky.social Writing bot for @writershq.bsky.social
https://kathyhoyle.com
EPOCH @epochliterary.com Fiction, poetry, essay, comics, etc., “yrs in quality literature” since 1947. www.epochliterary.com
Ariel M. Goldenthal @arielmgoldenthal.bsky.social Writer and associate professor | Flash works in Exposition, Fractured, The Citron Review, and more | novel & chronic illness management in progress
She/her/hers
https://arielmgoldenthal.com/
Hope Henderson @hoperhenderson.bsky.social writer & scientist
😷 🩷💜💙 🍉
berkeley, california
hoperhenderson.com
writing in river teeth, electric lit, passages north, rumpus, hobart, phoebe, & more
scicomm for @innovativegenomics, views my own
Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social Author of The Lunatics' Ball (Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press, forthcoming) and The Missing Girl (Black Lawrence Press). Wigleaf Top 50. 9 Notables, Best American Essays, CNF Flash editor, CRAFT Lit Journal. www.jacquelinedoyle.com
lfchristianson @lfchristianson.bsky.social author & editor. querying first novel. recent pubs in LA Review, Maine Review, and Short Story, Long. fiction staff at Split Lip Mag, teaching at Loft Literary. probably bad at this.
https://www.lfchristianson.com/
Brendan Stephens @bstephens.bsky.social writer | assistant professor | nonfiction editor for Aquifer: Florida Review Online | metal head
brendanstephenswriting.com
Bethany Jarmul @bethanyjarmul.bsky.social Appalachian poet/writer, TAKE ME HOME (@BellePointPress), LIGHTNING IS A MOTHER (ELJ, 2025), Best Small Fictions 2024, Best Spiritual Literature 2023, Nominations: Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, 100+ pubs.
Exquisite Armantè @exquisite.bsky.social Young, Gifted, Black. Fat. Contrarian Wit. Optimist. Writer. She/Her. Only the gentle survived. Afro-Atlantean
Pithead Chapel @pitheadchapel.bsky.social Pithead Chapel (ISSN 2324-6243) is a monthly online literary journal and small press. We publish gutsy fiction, nonfiction, and prose poetry. Founded 2012.
crowjonah @crowjonah.com the biggest papa in the good city
co-editor @havehashad.com
https://www.crowjonah.com
Robert Warf @robertwarf.bsky.social Writer. Tangerine Dream fan.
Website: Robertwarf.com
Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social Mildly friendly, Swiss-based US writer of litfic, working on debut novel. Latest pubs, longform & flash, realism & offbeat: @ghostcitypress @emergejournal @acrossthemargin @TheWoolf @offbeatlit @SubniveanMag & @fiveonthefifth. www.meredithwadley.com
David Luntz @dluntz.bsky.social Words in Hobart Pulp, X-R-A-Y, Bruiser, HAD etc.
Avee Chaudhuri @indigojackal.bsky.social Editor Prairie Schooner. Lecturer University of Nebraska-Lincoln. President-for-Life of The Holmes Lake Fishing Association.
Gene Kwak @genekwak.bsky.social Author of GO HOME, RICKY! Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University. Uncle Gene.
Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social Lit Agent Talcott Notch, AALA Member, Editor, Teacher, Writer of Flash Fiction Editor at @fracturedlit.bsky.social Publications: Harpur Palate, Laurel Review, Monkey Bicycle, Ghost Parachute
https://linktr.ee/tommydeanwriter
Ben Loory @benloory.bsky.social Writer 📚 Tales of Falling and Flying, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
benloory.com
X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social the best writers on earth
www.xraylitmag.com
Erin Vachon (they/them) 🍉 @erinvachon.bsky.social Senior Reviews Editor @smokelong.bsky.social | Multigenre & Chapbook Editor @splitlippress.com | Providence menace | I write weird shit. | Fuck ICE. | More of us than there are of them.- N 🇺🇸 @n976wow.bsky.social
Gillian O’Shaughnessy @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social ▪️Relentless optimist.
▪️Salt City Runaway, debut story collection out in 2026
▪️Sub Editor- SmokeLong Quarterly
▪️Best Small Fictions 23, 24, 25.
Sherrie Flick @sherrieflick.bsky.social Writer / Editor - I HAVE NOT CONSIDERED CONSEQUENCES: SHORT STORIES, Autumn House, 2025- HOMING - essay collection, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2024 - Co-editor FLASH FICTION AMERICA, W. W. Norton, 2023 - Sr Editor SLQ
Elissa Field @elissafield.bsky.social Lit noir novels + flash | SmokeLong Submission Ed | Runner Up Killer Claymore Best Mystery | Stories in/coming SmokeLong trampset HAD Moon City Ghost Parachute Monkeybicycle Citron Review Peatsmoke CRAFT Conjunctions ++ | IG FB elissalaurenfield.com
Amy Barnes @amygcb.bsky.social Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social
Fiona McKay @fionamckay.bsky.social Writer | THE TOP ROAD (AdHoc Fiction 2023) | DRAWN AND QUARTERED (Alien Buddha Press 2023) | THE LIVES OF THE DEAD (AdHoc Fiction July 2025) | Words in places | Autistic + ADHD
Ally to 🏳️🌈 and 🏳️⚧️
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Christopher Allen @christopherallen.bsky.social Publisher and EIC of SmokeLong Quarterly. 2023 Flash Fiction Judge Bridport Prize. #BestSmallFictions #FlashFictionAmerica. Nomad. Very much a back-office guy. He/him
Helen Rye @helenrye.bsky.social Writer, editor. UEA Prose MA and fledgling PhD researcher. Won some writing things. Published some writing things. @smokelong.bsky.social senior ed. She/her. AuDHD
Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social Proudly independent literary magazine & small press, established in 2004. Books + print issues + online issues + conferences + writing retreats + other stuff.
https://barrelhousemag.com/