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/
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X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social the best writers on earth
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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. 🎮
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:
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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)
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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 +
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Lani Diane Rich @lanidianerich.com novelist. story expert. loud and opinionated. loves goats and polka dots.
https://yearofwritingmagically.substack.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
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New World Writing Quarterly @newworldwriting.bsky.social NEW WORLD WRITING QUARTERLY began life as Mississippi Review Online. We invite submissions the first two weeks of January, April, July and October, and publish in those same months. Read more at https://newworldwriting.net/
Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social Lit mag for flash fiction, poetry, art and letters. Throw it all at us. Reading is punk.
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Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social Publisher
Books Made in Berlin since 2023
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The Pinch @pinchjournal.bsky.social A biannual literary journal produced by MFA students at the University of Memphis— pinchjournal.com
Subhranil Banerjee @subhranilbanerjee.bsky.social Author | Speaker | Mindset Coach
Life's a journey. I drive it with these 3 on:
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Whimsy @whimsyfiction.bsky.social A monthly microfiction contest celebrating the lighter, more peculiar side of storytelling. Yes, our alpaca travels by quill 🦙🪶
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Liz Rosen @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social https://www.sandandgravelpress.com/store/elizabeth-rosen-survival-skills
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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
Susmita Bhattacharya @susmitab.bsky.social Writer. Educator. Dreamer.
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
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D.E. Hardy @dehardy.bsky.social EIC of @claudineliterary.bsky.social
On staff at The Offing and Chestnut Review.
Links to words at dehardywriter.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.
Prose editor for Pictura Journal. Contemporary Anglophone Lit PhD.
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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
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.
The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to prose, poetry, comics, essays, humor, hybrid, and everything in-between.
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Crysta Parkinson (She/her) @crystawrites.bsky.social Trying to keep it all together. Your biggest fan. Writing, reading, travel, family, crochet ... in some order.
Katie Moulton @kjmoulton.bsky.social writer. mostly here for @marchxness.bsky.social!
Moira 🫡 @moirajo.bsky.social Me but new and worse probably | concert promoter and writer | mostly here for March Xness
Manic Pixie Soccer Mom @meganc.bsky.social Vintage Dealer // Triple Libra // Horror Fan // Old Pueblo Dweller
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HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY available from Split/Lip Press!
Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social essays and poems about the movies, shows, music, books, games, etc. that have shaped you
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Dave Griffith @poorerthandead.bsky.social Essayist, teacher, and dad. Interests: Essay as public pedagogy, Narrative Medicine, theology of creativity, and pacifism.
33 1/3 Books @3313books.bsky.social Short books about legendary albums and music genres. 📚 🎶 Published by Bloomsbury.
Explore the 33 1/3 hub! ⬇️
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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
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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.
Not Quite Write @notquitewrite.com 🎙️ Not Quite Write Podcast | notquitewrite.com
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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.
The Fabulist Words & Art @fabulistmag.bsky.social SUBSCRIBE to The Fabulist Magazine: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror & Beyond. Bimonthly, full color and in glorious PRINT! https://fabulistmagazine.com/print-ebook-subscription/
Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social Fictive Dream, the online #litmag dedicated to the #shortstory including #translations. Please send your submissions to fictivedream@gmail.com. Website https://fictivedream.com/
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.
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
National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand @natflashficdaynz.bsky.social New Zealand's biggest celebration of the smallest form of fiction -- 22 June
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com A literary magazine for the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. 🫏
Est. May 2018.
Re-designed site!: okaydonkeymag.com
Newsletter: okaydonkeymag.beehiiv.com
Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/okaydonkey
Icebreakers Lit @icebreakerslit.bsky.social the litmag not the gum. a chaotic home for collaborative writing. editors: @terrilinndavis.bsky.social
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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
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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
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(she/her)
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
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
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
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
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
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":
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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
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)
@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
Leah Mensch @leahmensch.bsky.social Certified liability. Likely the world’s foremost Kate Braverman scholar, etc.
leahmensch.com
caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social ⌨️💾💌🖨️🖱️
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.
M. L. Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social Magician. Marketing Director of khōréō. MacDowell Fellow. Stories & Essays: mlkrishnan.com
Aaron Wolfson @awolfson.bsky.social Writing memoir, poetry, essays, performance stuff (etc.) in Chicago
newsletter.aaronjacobwolfson.com
Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social Mondays at 9pmET on MS NOW
MaddowBlog.com
Makingmommaproud @makingmommaproud.bsky.social Custom tattoo studio. Ⓒ 1993
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Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social.
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
Liz deBeer @lizdebeerwriter.bsky.social Writer, Reader, Beach Walker, Trying My Best
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Brian A. Salmons @brianasalmons.bsky.social Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. - Kant
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
BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught @bookwormvaught.bsky.social Author of many books, teacher, mentor, #Curae, campaigner, doctored, mum of 3. Wilts, Wales, Southern US https://linktr.ee/bookwormvaught?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=00043ddf-6cad-43e1-8c8a-d89 rep. Clare Coombes at Liverpool Literary Agency 🇵🇸
The Hoolet’s Nook @thehooletsnook.bsky.social Where microfiction and poetry linger long past the final word. www.thehooletsnook.com
Submissions CLOSED. Next reading period opens September 15, 2026.
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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.
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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
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
Shona Ray @shonaraywrites.bsky.social Writer of gothic/horror/weird. Jericho Friday Night Live SL 2024. Thinker, wanderer, ex-anthropologist. London lawyer in my spare time. #amwriting #books #art #pwme
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.
Audra Kerr Brown @audrakerrbrown.bsky.social Flash Fictionista!
https://audrakerrbrown.com
Nerve to Write @nervetowrite.bsky.social A Magazine for Disabled, Chronically Ill, and Neurodivergent Writers.
Editor-in-Chief @sfmontgomery.bsky.social.
www.nervetowrite.com
maxfli73.bsky.social @maxfli73.bsky.social Grumpy old Canadian guy🍁 Liberal, Pro Democracy LGBTQ🏳️🌈,BLM, pro choice,Slava Ukraine, UNDRIP
Love's Goldens,🐕 golf, classic rock 🏍️travel and a bit of wine.🍷Jets + Bombers
.🚫 MAGAT's. 🚫 porn, 🚫 GFM.🚫DM US has entered into a Dictatorship.
Jason Thayer @thejasonthayer.bsky.social Writer & EIC for @completesentence
Martin Seay @martinseay.bsky.social Author of The Mirror Thief (Melville House 2016). Suspicious of brevity.
RockLobster @jasonthayer.bsky.social Autistic/ADHD Catholic from Louisiana. Born 7/8/75