Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social This is a storybook. All of us are in it. Here are some tales.
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https://templeinacity.com
In: AHC, Claudine, DIHP, Bull, Frazzled, Fish Barrel, Dog Throat, Blood & Honey, ANMLY Whimperbang. Pushcart, best short fiction nom.
Stan J Wild @stanjwild.bsky.social Short fiction, CNF, lit mags.
Sharing writing I like — and some of my own.
Stories in Vestal Review, Hinterland, Wallstrait, Neon&Smoke and others
Dina Strasser @dinaeliz.bsky.social Writer, teacher, semi-Luddite. I follow authors, educators, and lit mags.
Anika Carpenter @stillsquirrel.bsky.social #Flashfiction writer and #collage artist. Stories in Gooseberry Pie, Fictive Dream, Gone Lawn, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story & others. Based in Brighton, UK
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Kik Lodge @kiklodge.bsky.social Writer. THE BULLY IN MY PILLOW (Stanchion Books, August 2026).
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Best Microfiction 2026.
Hosts literary open-mics @saloneurope.bsky.social
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Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social Lover of coffee, chocolate, reading & writing 
Kristin Houlihan, Writer @kristinwrites.bsky.social Poet, Wife, Mom, LongCovid/MECFS. Looking to connect and learning to advocate. EIC, Poetry @epistemiclit.Bsky.social, @nimblewitlit.bsky.social. Micropoetry chapbook Lift the Mask available widely. www.kristinhoulihan.com
Melissa Ruth Rotert -Order THE RIDDERS SERIES! @melruthwrites.bsky.social Kidlit Author (she/her),
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EIC @EpistemicLit & @Nimblewitlit
Repped by T.S. Ferguson
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Pam Avoledo @pamavoledo.bsky.social Fiction writer based in Michigan. Best Microfiction Nom ‘25. Best of the Net Nom ‘26 (poetry) Best Small Fictions Nom ‘27
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Jesse Binger @jessebinger.bsky.social Author | 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴
Rep'd: Tommy Dean, Rosecliff Lit
Pub'd: Bending Genres, Bristol Noir, LitGarage, Revolution John, Pistol Jim Press
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Madeleine Armstrong @madeleinewrite.bsky.social Writer, runner, trying to keep up with another social media platform
Zoe Davis @meanerharker.bsky.social Writer and avid doodler with words in the likes of Strix, Ink Sweat and Tears and Dust. 2x BotN nom. Forward Prize Nom. Lives in Sheffield UK. Interested in comics, computer games and sports. Member of Sheffield Eagles Wheelchair Rugby Club.
The Solitary Daisy 🌼 @thesolitarydaisy.bsky.social A fortnightly journal of haiku. Co-editors Sally Quon and Michele Rule. thesolitarydaisy.ca
Bulb Culture Collective @bulbculture.bsky.social
Submissions OPEN for CHANDELIER: GLOWERING! 🎃
online lit space ○ light bulb bunch ○ send us your previously published writing
Editors: L.M. Cole & Jared Povanda
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Ian Johnson @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social Trying (trying, very trying) writer/Dad/runner. Words in @trashcatlit.bsky.social @apricotpress.bsky.social @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social @freeflashfiction.bsky.social etc. 2026 Best of the Net nominee.
Nastasya Parker @nastasyaparker.bsky.social Writer with stories in The Phare, Funny Pearls, and featured in Stroud and Bristol Short Story Anthologies. Immigrated from New England to Old. I work in secondary education. Inexplicably drawn to not entirely pleasant characters.
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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Anti-Heroin Chic @antiheroinchic.bsky.social AHC is a literary arts intentional community and healing space. Submissions open. Edited by
James Diaz. https://heroinchic.weebly.com/
Rat Bag @ratbaglit.bsky.social 🐀 www.ratbaglit.com
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ellipsis zine @ellipsiszine.bsky.social Literary magazine and independent press, publishing beautifully written flash and microfiction. 1,000 words or fewer.
Est. 2017-2024. Relaunched in 2026.
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Villain Era 🖤🔪 @villaineralit.bsky.social A literary magazine obsessed with revenge. Open for submissions! https://www.villaineralit.com Mastermind: @charlesjensen.bsky.social
Zach Breneman @zmbreneman.bsky.social 
Joyce Bingham @joycebingham.bsky.social Writer of short stories and flash fiction. Words in Molotov Coctail, Ellipsis Zine, Raw Lit and others. Green fingers and plant whisperer.
SF Layzell @sflayzell.bsky.social I write queer stories & edit books sometimes https://sflayzell.com/
Buy Cottonopolis, a MG set in 1840s Manchester, shortlisted for Little Rebels https://sflayzell.com/cottonopolis/
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JP Relph @therelphian.bsky.social Cumbrian writer. Loves cats, tea, apocalypses and dark botany.
Noms for Pushcart, BOTN, Best Small Fics and Best Microfics, Wigleaf longlisted
All print publications on Amazon
Website, socials and stuff: https://linktr.ee/JPRelph
Louise @louisehurrell.bsky.social 🏴
Writer. Producer. Cake lover.
Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social Everything would be great if The Smiths would just get back together.
Words: Wigleaf, HAD, Roi Faineant, Does it Have Pockets? Pithead Chapel, Your Impossible Voice, Trash Cat Lit, and BSF 2017, 2019. 2018 Pushcart recipient. www.keithawoodruff.com
Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social Another writer fleeing Twitter. 30 years of videogame-adjacent scrawling and also, these days, weird short stories. Pics of cats, books and foxes likely.
Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social Online magazine for flash and short fiction.
Chill Subs 2024 Community Favourites Flash Fiction #7
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Editor: JP Relph @therelphian.bsky.social
Read Stories: https://trashcatlit.com/treasured-words/
serious-lit @seriouslitmag.bsky.social The rawer, the better.
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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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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.
Rachel is Logged On @rickit.bsky.social i'm rachel [tanner or atchley or whatever you want honestly] and my interests include refusing to log off the world wide web
Semper Anticus Press @semperanticuspress.bsky.social Indie publisher launching soon!
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Daily Submittable Deadlines @submittabledaily.bsky.social Best writing and poetry festivals to submit to each day on submittable.
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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
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Moe Ottis @moeottis.bsky.social You cannot stop the Moe-mentum 🤘
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained (https://alliteration.net), a website devoted to modern English alliterative verse. If you like Beowulf, or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or Tolkien's Fall of Arthur or Sigurd and Gudrun, you're in for a treat.
Haiku Poems @haikupoems.bsky.social Welcome to the haiku poems collection 📖✒️
JourneyDude in Scotland @scottishinsider.org 🪬🧿 Freemason | Traveller | Historian | Novel Author | Filmmaker & Photographer
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Charles Reyna Art @charlesreynaart.bsky.social Hi, I'm Charles Anthony Reyna, Abstract Visual Artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. My inspiration comes from nature as well as urban areas.
DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social Wanderer, writer, reader
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WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
Dithering Chaps - submissions open @ditheringchaps.bsky.social I'm David Herring, Lead Editor of indie poetry press, Dithering Chaps, based in Dorset, UK. We publish thematically-linked sequences of poems: works that riff on a core conceit, event or narrative voice. He/him. https://www.ditheringchaps.com
Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social Unseamly Literature. https://www.doesithavepockets.com/
Posts by Cami(lle) Griep, EIC
Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
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Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social Poet with autism and a cat.
Author of ADULTHOOD (Anxiety Press, 2026).
Here to connect with fellow writers and/or fellow neurodivergent people and/or fellow anti-fascists.
he/him • NJ • www.brandondiehl.net
Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-novel-festival-contests/
Kate is drafting a new WIP! @vkatehutchings.bsky.social #Amwriting an upmarket novel + short fiction. I follow back writers! Yoga teacher, traveller. Mumma to two feral boys (one neurodivergent) & a three-legged cat
So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social 🌀SUMMER 2026 ISSUE JUST DROPPED🌀
Intersectional feminist journal of language + art since 1992. We publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction & visual art exploring gender, race, class & sexuality.
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
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
Aysh Banaysh @ayshbanaysh.bsky.social Listening out for the ‘b’ in ‘crumb’ 🙃
Sometimes I talk about mental health 🧠 Most of the time I chat shit 🤷🏾♀️
AuDHD idiot artist writer person
Goldink Poetry @robertgoldink.bsky.social Passionate poet. Raw. Emotional. Honesty.
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
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poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
The Failing Writers Podcast @failingwriters.bsky.social A podcast for anyone who’s ever dreamed of being a writer… then got distracted by a video of a cat being frightened by a cucumber.
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Jon Rand @jonrand.bsky.social Voiceover ont’ telly. Podcaster @failingwriters.bsky.social. Writer… one day… maybe
Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social Authors / Writers / Lovers of Words...
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Naya Papaya @ohnayapapaya.bsky.social Copywriter. Writer in general. Very smart. kinda dumb. Fashion + personal style hobbyist. https://www.nayaclark.com
Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com Canadian writer in Scotland (via Denmark (got lost on the way home (sorry mom))) | Pushcart & BOTN nominated | Placed/listed: BFFA, Bridport Prize, Welkin Prize, others | Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig | She/Her
erinbondo.com
vssdaily @vssdaily.bsky.social Home of #vssdaily, a daily writing prompt. No host, no frills, just words to inspire your writing ✍ new prompts daily at 8 p.m. USA ET ✍ #writingcommunity
Frazzled Lit *Closed for Submissions* @frazzledlit.bsky.social We are Frazzled Lit! 🥓 🔥
Looking for Flash, Poetry, CNF and Prose.
Eds @lozzawriting.bsky.social and @jmcm.bsky.social
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Patrick Wall @patrickwwall.bsky.social Novelist, lover of words, conversation, and ideas. Musician, creative technologist. Champion of the preposterous and wildly unfeasible. Comments appreciated.
Ultrasfcdk @ultrasfcdk.bsky.social 
Taylor Strickland @taylor-strickland.bsky.social Poet. Translator. Winner of 2023 Saltire Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Get a copy of DASTRAM/DELIRIUM now -> https://linktr.ee/taylorstricklandarts
Melodie Ramone @melodieramone.bsky.social Novelist. Mom to autonomous wild things. Cystic Fibrosis Advocate. Certified Kitchen Witch. A Goddess with a Godzilla twist. I am my mother's savage daughter.
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Marta Chowańska @martachowanska.bsky.social bookpa.ge/mchowanska
Indie author from Poland ✍️
Thrillers, mysteries, crime, comedy.
I lead CrazyWriters Community which is awesome!!! 😎 If you want to join our group on discord, DM me :)
Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social Deep Woods of Philly | Sometimes Writer | Spoonie Crew | Accidental Startupper | Words in New Letters, Wild Roof Journal, etc.| NO DMs
https://linktr.ee/lisadellaporta
#vsspic @vsspic.bsky.social #vsspic was a weekly photo prompt for poetry & micro-fiction that no one cared about. So it died. 😵 Final host team was: Migs, Jami, Jana, Eileen and Natalie
Todd Clay Stuart @toddclaystuart.bsky.social Poet • Writer • Excitable Boy • Words in well-lighted places • Noms Pushcart BOTN Best Small Fictions Best Microfiction Wigleaf 50
More words @ toddclaystuart.com
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
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Kirsten Miles, Author 🌹 @kirstenmiles.bsky.social Author 🖊 Vegan 🥬 Libra ♎️
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Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social Scottish writer/editor. Queer AF. Terrible workaholic.
PhD student in Creative Writing. Cinema Worms podcast co-host. She/they
Repped: @lzats.bsky.social (literary) Kim Yau at Echo Lake (film/TV)
Wife: @pegasusunder.bsky.social
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Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos @delgeo14.bsky.social Breton writer
Runner-up Novel Fair / 2X Pushcart nom / Wigleaf LL
EIC: Raw Lit Mag / Co-Founder @theprideroars.bsky.social /Contributor: Poverty House
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Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social Read Issue 8! Epistemiclit.com
Digital anthology series celebrating knowledge, connection, and growth through poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction.
EICs @melruthwrites.bsky.social and @kristinwrites.bsky.social. CNF Editor @gcbwrites.bsky.social
Authora Australis @ausauthora.bsky.social Authora Australis, blind review poetry, stories, artwork. Insta: @authoraoz Eds: @rpatulny.bsky.social @psycarlogy.bsky.social
Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social Senior Editor @ Epiphany Lit. Stories in EPOCH, Carolina Quarterly, Bridge Eight, Sequestrum, McSweeney's Internet Tendency et al. Video creations (Richard Hell, Nancy Wilson, et al) www.jeffbond.nyc www.chillsubs.com/profile/jeffbondnyc
Eliza @elizafixlerpoetry.bsky.social Therapist and sometimes, slowly, a poet. Still writing way too much about love. Pittsburgh, PA.
Susan Muth @susiemuth.bsky.social Poet | MFA from @mason__cw | Executive Editor @offseasonmag | jigsaw puzzler | she/her
Laura Cooney *Motherbunnet* on sale @lozzawriting.bsky.social Writer, Edinburgh.
Editor: @frazzledlitmag
BOTN nominated 2024. On all socials same name.
Writing for children: @lozzakidwriting
Website: https://lauracooneywriting.wixsite.com/website
Editing: www.kofi.com/lozzawriting
Poetry Emma Meier @poetryemmameier.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Reader. Thinker. ✍️📖