Gone Like a Goldfish @gonelikeagoldfish.bsky.social This is an account to promote my anonymously-published book, Gone Like a Goldfish, about suicide, addiction, mental illness, and child loss. I'm told that it's transgressive literature. Free on Kindle Unlimited.
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Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
Franco Amati @francoamati.bsky.social writer, poet, SFWA & Codex, ViableParadise 2024,
new collection WORK IS WORK out now: https://www.amazon.com/Work-Franco-Amati/dp/B0HCCQF9YP/
and for all published fiction visit francoamatiwrites.com
Helmi @helmsinki.bsky.social pro-abortion | mental health advocate | taylor swift enthusiast | she/her | donationsforabortions.com
Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social Poet. Author of Said No One Ever (2021) and Walking Away From Explosions in Slow Motion (2018). https://buttondown.email/gregorycrosby
JunimoTrashCat - Emilee <3 @moonlitjustice.bsky.social 🥄 Chronic pain spoonie. 🌾 Emotionally invested in Stardew Valley at an unreasonable level. 🎮
Hannah ✿ 🌺 @naresh98.bsky.social dangerous in the best way, come find out 😏
Rawhead @rawheadjournal.bsky.social Open to submissions of creative nonfiction and visual art. We believe in the power of art and literature as form of resistance.
Now on Submittable:
https://rawhead.submittable.com/submit
Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social An online journal publishing classically inspired short stories. Now open for submissions, 1000-8000 words. Edited by @CourtlandAvenue (Dave Gregory)
https://doric-literary.com/
The Disappointed Housewife~Submissions always open! @offbeatlit.bsky.social Fiction, essays, and poetry – along with unclassifiable writings, photos, and drawings – that challenge readers and bend their brains, while maintaining the highest levels of style and substance. Editor novelist Kevin Brennan.
Eileen Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social Writer, Librarian, Jerseyan ✍🏻 Baltimore Review, Hunger Mtn, X-R-A-Y, Lost Balloon, Okay Donkey, Pithead Chapel, Passages North, OSU The Journal, Tiny Molecules; soon in Fractured Lit | BSF 2023 | Wigleaf Top 50 2026
https://eileentomarchio.webnode.page/
Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social Publisher
Books Made in Berlin since 2023
www.sacredparasite.com
Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social Writer of The Other Ones, Looney, Howard & Charles at the Factory, This Darkness Got to Give, more. Editor @ Barrelhouse, primary organizer of the Barrelhouse conference in DC in the Spring. Web @ PSU. Goofy gentleman. He/him. 
Whimsy @whimsyfiction.bsky.social A monthly microfiction contest celebrating the lighter, more peculiar side of storytelling. Yes, our alpaca travels by quill 🦙🪶
https://www.whimsyfiction.com/
Peter Devonald @pdevonald.bsky.social Multi award-winning poet /screenwriter | Winner Broken Spine's Reader’s Choice Award 2025 | Winner Loft Books Poetry 2024 | Winner HoHx2, Waltham Forest & FofHCS | Second Shelley Memorial & N2tS 2024 | Nominations BoNx2, Forward Prize & Children's Bafta
J.J. Scott | Orensha (author & creator) @orensha.bsky.social I am a self-published author, musician, artist, technology professional and science nerd.
Orensha is my warehouse of creation.
Enter the Universe with the free prequel novella: https://orensha.com/start
shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social Author of The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India), and most recently, Cajun South Brown Folk (Belle Point Press). Represented by Teffanie Thompson of Falkin Literary. 2019-2025 Series Editor of The Wigleaf Top 50. Lafayette, LA. shomedome.com
Karen Jones @karjon.bsky.social Writer. Editor NFFD Anthology. BSSA Team Member. First prize Reflex Fiction, TSS Publishing, Flash 500. 2nd prize Fractured Lit micro. Shortlist Bath Flash/Short Story, To Hull and Back and many others. Scottish Indy supporter.
T.L. Tomljanovic @tomljanovic.bsky.social Flash Fiction Writer✍️ 🇨🇦 in metro Vancouver
Stories in: welkin ellipsis roifainéant NFFD templeinacity epistemiclit neitherfishnorfoul ratbaglit prideroars moonparkreview gooseberrypie rawlit hooghlyreview
tomljanovic.wordpress.com
Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com Canadian writer in Scotland (via Denmark (got lost on the way home (sorry mom))) | Pushcart nominated | Placed/listed: BFFA, Bridport Prize, Welkin Prize, others | Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig | She/Her
erinbondo.com
Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social Writer and Literary Critic. Work in Gooseberry Pie Lit, Passages North, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story, Bending Genres, and FlashFlood.
Contemporary Anglophone Lit PhD.
https://linktr.ee/emhall47
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
Manic Pixie Soccer Mom @meganc.bsky.social Vintage Dealer // Triple Libra // Horror Fan // Old Pueblo Dweller
https://badchollavintage.etsy.com
HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY available from Split/Lip Press!
Robert Ellison @robert-ellison.bsky.social Writer in the Deep South. Loves stories about plausibly real people dealing with plausibly real life situations with plausibly real emotions.
Superheroes and robots need not apply.
Monsters, unfortunately, still abound.
Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social 
National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand @natflashficdaynz.bsky.social New Zealand's biggest celebration of the smallest form of fiction -- 22 June
Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social essays and poems about the movies, shows, music, books, games, etc. that have shaped you
forget.cool
Jessica Klimesh @jekwriter.bsky.social creative writer/writing coach/editor
flash, flash, and more flash! #flashfiction #microfiction
Best Microfiction 2025 | Best of the Net 2025
jessicaklimesh.com
https://jekwrites.substack.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@JessicaKlimeshWrites
Judy Darley @judydarley.bsky.social Writer & daydreamer living by the Somerset coast. Author of fiction collections #TheStairsAreASnowcappedMountain, #SkyLightRain (https://bit.ly/3zlfK7Q) & #RememberMeToTheBees. Workshop leader/journalism/brand engagement.
Amanda @akscotland.bsky.social Co-host of the Not Quite Write Podcast and judge of the Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction.
Writes in the tiny spaces in between.
Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Founder and Editor-in-chief of Ghost Parachute literary journal. Inflatable flamingo supervisor. I knew a girl once.
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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cicilybennion.bsky.social @cicilybennion.bsky.social Here for March Xness. Vote for Brick. Ben Folds stans, where are you?
Andrew Hume @andrewhume.bsky.social He/him. White. Partner, parent, grandparent, former foster parent. Experiential educator. Topics: schools, learning, child welfare, whiteness, abolition, democracy, human rights, poetry, 🎵 ⚾️ 🏀 Protect trans kids.
Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social Host: UNPLUGGED REVISITED (MTV Unplugged podcast) | Writer * Bylines: Rolling Stone, No Depression, Grammys, etc. | PhD: Georgia State University (Diss: The Black Press) | R.E.M. Lifer | will.c.hodge@gmail.com
CHI via ATL
Podcast: https://shorturl.at/XVdoR
Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social MINNEAPOLIS. ALSO: SAINT PAUL. This is the ideal BlueSky bio. You should copy it. ALT: Circle is hot dog man putting ketchup on himself. Banner is me as Jimmy Carter. /j /hj /s
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
Emma Allmann @emryal91.bsky.social Right? Write. Write? Right!
Stories in
@EllipsisZine
@inkinthirds
@EcoTheo Review
and shortlisted by
@SmokeLong
MFA
@UofAlabama
https://www.emmaallmann.com/
(she/her)
Jason Thayer @thejasonthayer.bsky.social Writer & EIC for @completesentence
Annie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author, “Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs.” Newest book: "Stevie Nicks in 50 Songs." Others on Duran Duran, Lady Gaga, Xmas songs, Cher. Trans + disability rights are human rights. apstudiozaleski@gmail.com; anniez.com.
Kate Carmody @katecarmody8.bsky.social Words: Electric Lit, Potomac Review, Porter House, LA Review, No Contact, Essay Daily, Broadkill Review, The Rumpus; Band: Dadafacer w/ husband & dog; City: Denver
https://www.katecarmodywriter.com
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7iWXk5aVFEPUC6UiVek77m?s
Lindsay Vaught @lindsayfouts.bsky.social Spalding CNF student
🎷 player
Louisville KY liberal
Protect trans 🏳️⚧️ youth
RT doesn’t = endorsement
Doc the Dancing Cat @docthedancingcat.bsky.social A cat who likes to dance with a Democat mom who thinks she’s funny
Benjamin Birdie’s Bible Bonkers @benjaminbirdie.bsky.social Minneapolis, MN.
I’ll see to it you don’t get apricot one.
Kerri Guillette @kerrig.bsky.social A liability. Still at the restaurant. Always tired. Editor for @butwhytho. Mother of Guinea Pigs. Swiftie. Disabled/Chronic illness.
Lela Scott MacNeil @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social Born in Los Alamos, like the atomic bomb. Writing in Gertrude, Essay Daily, Trouble in the Heartland: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen, and Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: the March Xness Anthology.
Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social Author of THE COVER GIRL, out now from MIRA/HarperCollins. 80s glam metal connoisseur. Road House enthusiast. Hallmark movie scholar. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/amyrossiwriter
Short Story Comps @shortstorycomps.bsky.social Posts and reposts about short story / flash / micro competitions in the UK and beyond.
James Montgomery @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social Flash writer ✍️ | Latest: Crow & Cross Keys, Fictive Dream, FlashFlood, The Bulb Region, 100 Word Story, NFFD Micro Comp ‘26 | 📖 Best Small Fictions ‘25, Wigleaf Top 50 ‘25 | 💫 Welkin People’s Prize ‘25 | He/Him 🌈 www.jamesmontgomerywrites.com
Kerry Byrne @kerrybyrne.bsky.social Writer & editor. Fen wanderer. Collie wrangler. Words in BULL, Ellipsis Zine, Lucy Writers, Maudlin House, National FlashFlood, Pidgeonholes, Roi Fainéant Press, streetcake magazine & other fine places. BOTN nominee. Assistant Editor at Frazzled Lit.
Diane Simmons @scooterwriter.bsky.social Co-Directs NFFD.NIFs: ‘Finding a Way' (Ad Hoc Fiction), ‘An Inheritance' (V.Press), ‘A Tricky Dance’ (Alien Buddha Press), ‘William Prichard & Co’ (Arroyo Seco Press) & Bereft of Reason’ (V. Press). www.dianesimmons.co.uk
Erin Langner @erinlangner.bsky.social essayist. museum editor. playlister.
www.erinlangner.com
nanette @nanette.bsky.social a middle-aged librarian living on the flatlands of central Illinois
magnificent weirdo, guardian of the corn trophy, teller of stories
“songs person” at thebestthing.blog
not a professional account by any means, it gets weird in here
Like “Beyond (Don) Delillo” @cbiondolillo.bsky.social Artist & author; government auditor (really); reluctant rural hermit; really into travel, vultures, diagrams, kdramas, fiber, photography, and my doggo. 
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social still waiting to bloom
Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social I wrote EVERY ANXIOUS WAVE (SMP ‘16) and EPIC AND LOVELY (WVU Press '25). Bookseller. Elder Marfanoid. Indie kid forever. bravebookstore.substack.com
Cooper @cooperdart.bsky.social essayist who flosses when he remembers
cooperdart.com
Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social Ugh, fine.
Writer in Texas.
I curse on the internet now.
#HouSky
www.jennystaffjohnson.com
Emperor Norton @ashleynaftule.bsky.social Playwright. Associate Artistic Director at Space55 in downtown Phoenix. Freelance journalist.
Check out my radio play "Radio Free Europa":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbQ23qB5-6c
Brian Oliu @brianoliu.bsky.social former bama higher ed faculty / current mn higher ed comms / former egan’s dj / current cool dad / former bad poet-athlete / current bad poet-athlete
Erin McReynolds @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social Writer, editor, cartoonist, lapsed pagan. Belief system: ruderal and snails and tragedy+time=comedy.
Substack: Traumafordummies.com
Sejal Shah @sejalshah.bsky.social Writer & author of THIS IS ONE WAY TO DANCE: Essays, an NPR Best Book of the year & HOW TO MAKE YOUR MOTHER CRY: fictions, long-listed for the 2025 Story Prize. More at www.sejal-shah.com. #invisibledisabilities #neurodiversity #ADHD
@doritoshangover.bsky.social @doritoshangover.bsky.social Lapsed music writer, practicing technical editor
✍️ FLOOD Magazine, Bucks County Courier Times, PopMatters, Spectrum Culture, Post-Trash, the Toast, March Xness, Forget Cool, and elsewhere
📍 Bucks County, PA
🧚♀️ she/her
Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social writer, thinker, coffee drinker. she/her. (if you know me from elsewhere, it might be as bravenewlady on the other site or from my Prairie Schooner days)
Leah Mensch @leahmensch.bsky.social Certified liability. Likely the world’s foremost Kate Braverman scholar, etc.
leahmensch.com
caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social ⌨️💾💌🖨️🖱️
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Susanna Donato @susannadonato.bsky.social Writer, editor, communicator, terrier squire | Work in Redivider, Proximity, Entropy, Electric Literature, A HARP IN THE STARS | she/her
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.
Aaron Wolfson @awolfson.bsky.social Writing memoir, poetry, essays, performance stuff (etc.) in Chicago
newsletter.aaronjacobwolfson.com
Makingmommaproud @makingmommaproud.bsky.social Custom tattoo studio. Ⓒ 1993
Woman owned, left leaning, inclusive space on the unceded Chickasaw territory we call 🅜🅔🅜🅟🅗🅘🅢 #landback tattoomemphis.com
Liz deBeer @lizdebeerwriter.bsky.social Writer, Reader, Beach Walker, Trying My Best
Www.ldebeerwriter.com
Brian A. Salmons @brianasalmons.bsky.social Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. - Kant
Perfect God = Lexa Gates @mx-j.bsky.social https://shop.capitolmusic.com/collections/lexa-gates
Emma Miller 😁📚🍁 @emmadmiller.bsky.social Canadian Author & Creator of "The Doonies" children's book series! 📚🍁 https://thedoonies.ca
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The Hoolet’s Nook @thehooletsnook.bsky.social Where microfiction and poetry linger long past the final word. www.thehooletsnook.com
Submissions OPEN until October 15.
Managed by G.R. LeBlanc (you can call me Gisele)
Tip Jar for THN💌-> https://ko-fi.com/grleblanc
Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill
Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/
Craft newsletter: https://prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/
Elizabeth Fletcher @esfletcher.bsky.social writer, yoga therapist, Bowie fan | asst cnf editor Pithead Chapel | Best Microfiction nom | Pushcart Prize nom | BOTN nom | wigleaf LL | stage NED | ope
Writing: www.esfletcher.com
Chip Houser @chiphouser.bsky.social Micro, flash, and short stories in Bourbon Penn, Molotov Cocktail, PULP Lit, & more. SFWA, HWA, Odyssey, Codex. chiphouser.com
Any Pascual | indie author & poet @anyespiritual.bsky.social 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
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.
linktr.ee/adelegallogly
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Free post creator app: www.post-script.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Matt Hollingsworth @matthollingsworth.com Neurodivergent Californian in Croatia, color artist for Marvel, DC, and Image comics, writer, brewer.
www.matthollingsworth.com
➔ tags: #writing | #comics | #ClipStudioPaint | #Affinity | #painting | #photography | #read
Ink In Thirds @inkinthirds.bsky.social poised prose, precarious poetry, and photography to pilot our own realms again... inkinthirds.org
JEFFREY ROBINSON @writingfactory.bsky.social Old fashioned storyteller, bestselling #author 30+books, keynote speaker, television, film, radio. #9/11 #MoneyLaundering #Fraud #Fiction #BookSky
WEBSITE: jeffreyrobinson.com
https://substack.com/@writingfactory
https://linktr.ee/jeffreyrobinson
Nerve to Write @nervetowrite.bsky.social A Magazine for Disabled, Chronically Ill, and Neurodivergent Writers.
Editor-in-Chief @sfmontgomery.bsky.social.
www.nervetowrite.com
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
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.
iWIC-featured-books @iwic-book-features.bsky.social You write ... we tell the world about it!
www.writersinspiringchange.com
Abe El-Raheb / Editor & Writer @eldashraheb.bsky.social https://www.abeelraheb.com
Egyptian-Irish-American
Editor and Writer (WGA West)
Desperately trying to learn Spanish
We are such stuff as dreams are made on.