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Jessie Carty @neysa.bsky.social Poet, educator, neurospicy
PoetNotaRockStar @poetnotarockstar.bsky.social LA Poet/ Latinx Author of 6 books including La Belle Ajar with CLASHBooks, Speaking con su Sombra with Alegria Publishing and La Lengua Inside Me from FlowerSong Press
Joe Kapitan @joekap64.bsky.social Writer of fiction and CNF, a chapbook, short story collection, and a Best Small Fictions 2023 highlighted story. Assistant CNF editor at Pithead Chapel.
David L O'Nan (Fevers of the Mind) @feversof.bsky.social A poet, writer, editor and founder of Fevers of the Mind. Www.feversofthemind.com go to our page for submissions info. I put together print Anthologies and maintain the website. I am also an poet, prose, short story writer.
jonathan kinsman @manykinsmen.bsky.social he/him. debut poetry collection the fireman’s daughter out with @brokensleepbooks.
NG @nikigjoni.bsky.social Writer | 2023 London Independent Story Prize anthology selection | PEN/Robert J. Dau prize nom | BOTN nom | Best Microfiction nom | Dev Editor for Writers Digest | www.ngjoni.com
Jeff Esterholm @jesterholm.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Up North Sconnie.
The Effects of Urban Renewal on Mid-Century America and Other Crime Stories (Cornerstone Press/UW-Stevens Point, 2023)
Tollund Man: Stories (Cornerstone Press) is scheduled for October, 2026.
Amanda Hurley @amandahurleynet.bsky.social Masthead Editor:
Intrepidus Ink
Headland Literary Journal
Reading Editor:
Uncharted Magazine
www.amandahurley.net
Angelo Parodi @avparodi.bsky.social Teacher, believer in social justice, lover of film, music & literature.
“The world is the shadow of a transient, blue dream.” Miyazawa Kenji
Gianaclis Caldwell @gianaclis.bsky.social Indie historical scifi novel, THE BINDING & cozy eco-horror series THE OLD GROVE LAKE TRILOGY. Trad nonfiction on cheese & goats. 📚 Pacific Northwest on Takelma land🌲 🏳️🌈 she/xe ace/demi💜Newsletter, store, https://gianacliscaldwell.com
Chrissy Stegman @chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social Baltimore poet/writer. Words everywhere. BOTN/Pushcart nom. Reader at Fractured Lit. Reader at Atlanta Review. My chapbook Somewhere, Someone Is Forgetting You is available from Alien Buddha Press. www.chrissystegman.com
Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social Work in: The Sun Magazine, Colorado Review, Off Assignment, Wigleaf, The Razor, The Independent, Wired, HuffPost, Writer's Digest, The Belladonna, Slackjaw, One Story Conf '23, Bread Loaf '25, she/her, BLM https://angiemccullagh.weebly.com/
Joel Hans @joelhans.com Author of THE BEDTIME EMPTYING OF OUR WORLD (Feb 2026, Moon City Press + Short Fiction Award)
Forever writing fairy tales in speculative/weird/SFesque disguises.
Dad-ing.
Materializing @astrolabe.ooo.
https://joelhans.com
Mary Biddinger @marybid.bsky.social Writer & professor | The Girl with the Black Lipstick (novella-in-flash, Black Lawrence Press) Order from BLP at https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-girl-with-the-black-lipstick/
Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social Scribbler of words... Fallen Leaves (Ballerini Book Press, forthcoming), Like a Thread to Follow (Cyberwit), Cinéma Vérité (A-Minor Press), World within the World (Cyberwit), Inside a Broken Clock (Finishing Line Press).
Theresa Kishkan @fishgottaswim.bsky.social a devotee of essays, novellas, hybrid writing, rivers, trees. 17 books. The Art of Looking Back: a painter, an obsession, and reclaiming the gaze, forthcoming (Thornapple Press, 2026). North American half of fishgottaswimeditions.com
theresakishkan.com
Molly Fuller @mollyfulleryeah.bsky.social Writer / Poet / Academic (PhD student Kent State University) / Coffee & Champagne at the same time
Always a Body out now from Cornerstone Press 
Qwerty Magazine @qwertymagazine.bsky.social Qwerty publishes new poetry, fiction, and art, and is staffed by creative writing students based in the Poets' Corner of Canada
QWERTY CRYSTAL: THE BEST OF QWERTY MAGAZINE PART I
Now Available
www.qwertymagazine.ca
Will Smith @likewinterblue.bsky.social Book peddler, book reviewer, book hoarder, academic and freelance writer. 
R.B. Simon (Rene) @poetrbsimon.bsky.social Poet. Artist. Managing Ed. @ Harbor Editions. Mother, disabled, queer, black, radical liberatory harm reductionist. 2021 Chap: The Good Truth (FLP), 2023: Not Just the Fire (Cornerstone). Mar 25: Bird, Blood, Bone (Milk & Cake).
Jane Kalu @njanekalu.bsky.social PhD candidate at USC | MFA from UNM | Stories in American Short Fiction, Narrative, Boston Review, Isele Magazine, Hopkins Review
Website: www.janekalu.com
bibliotequetress @bibliotequetress.bsky.social You shall know me by my girly bike and trail of blood.
Cold War, beer, baking, books, and The Cramps.
02130
Kateri Lanthier @katerilanthier.bsky.social Poet, teacher, editor. Author of Siren (Signal Editions, Vehicule Press, 2017) and Reporting from Night (Iguana, 2011).
Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social Booklover, blathering at http://www.bookgaga.ca - literary news, reviews, discussion, poetry posted daily (aka #TodaysPoem http://bit.ly/2J4ym4C), member of a thriving silent book club group (aka #SilentBookClub http://bit.ly/2NSBVtw) ... oh, and I crochet
SG ☀️ @sgpoet.bsky.social they/he/el
tejano writer 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
free Palestine from the river to the sea 🇵🇸
i write words @ transpoetica.substack.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 🇵🇸
Veronika Fuchs @veronikafuchs.bsky.social Sometimes I write. Mama. Dreamer. Occasional painter.
Shelley Buck @shelleybuck.bsky.social Author. From Amherst to Oregon via everywhere. Books: FLOATING POINT, EAST, INDIA BOUND #cnf #travel Photos on IG: shelleybuckauthor
Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social Poet. New Englander. A little bit cranky.
Author of CERTAIN SHELTER (June Road Press, 2024)
Poetry editor for The Adroit Journal
www.abbiekieferpoet.com
Aud Auder @cbauder.bsky.social Paper collages from junk mail, some digital stuff. No AI. Poetry, prose, essays & hybrid work. Wildlife & climate. Small but furious. Still masking, still persisting. Reader for @fracturedlit.bsky.social, blog at cbauder.com 🅥
Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net He/him. Writer. איבערטייטשער. Fifth generation New Yorker. Mad man and Psychiatric Survivor. Hairy AND over-share-y. MFA from Randolph College. http://www.MordecaiMartin.net. https://fartaytshtundfarbesert.substack.com/
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
Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social Quarterly print literary magazine & small book press in the Philly 'burbs. Founder & EIC Jeff Bogle. linktr.ee/StanchionZine
Kakistocracy of DEATH! 💀 @crankypacifist.bsky.social I'm Jay — she/him/y'all — ADHD
Published & creative crap:
https://jayparr.neocities.org/
Typos are stylesheet.
"AI hater."
"Radically pro-transgender."
Fuck the war machine.
Geld the patriatchy.
House the unhoused.
pfp by Terijian Bearheart.
Elinor Ann Walker @elinorann.bsky.social Poet| writer| editor| PhD
she/her/hers | FUGITIVE BUT GORGEOUS forthcoming (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions)| GIVE SORROW forthcoming (@whittlemicropress.bsky.social)|poems in AGNI, Plume, Poet Lore, Terrain, PHQ & more.
https://elinorannwalker.com
Allison Thung | Reacquaint & Molar out now @poetrybyallison.bsky.social Singaporean poet | Reacquaint & Molar (kith books, 2024) | Assistant Poetry Editor at ANMLY | She/her | https://linktr.ee/allisonthung
Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social poet and novelist
http://www.linktr.ee/rustybarnes23
Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social Writer of the weird and experimental flash. Words @FracturedLit, @Xraylitmag, @NecessaryFic, @TBQuarterly, and elsewhere.
Debut flash fiction collection, THESE WORN BODIES, out now @MoonCityPress.
Read more at http://avitusbcarle.com
Sylvia Santiago @sylviasays2.bsky.social Writer: Flash Frontier. HAD. Heavy Feather Review. Gone Lawn. The Indianapolis Review.
Assistant Poetry Editor: Parentheses Journal. Submissions Editor: Uncanny Magazine.
Owen Wyke @owenwyke.bsky.social Storyteller (https://gonelawn.net/owenwyke) and founding editor of Gone Lawn, @gonelawn.bsky.social
Studied words and images in New Haven and Boston. Now living in some fateless middle-swim bedeviled by mountain laurels, coyotes and bells, bells.
Dave Gregory @courtlandavenue.bsky.social Retired sailor, writer, gardener.
Editor: Doric Literary
Fiction Editor: Exposition Review.
Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social Always on my way to the ocean. Writer, 2x Jeopardy! champion.
My debut short fiction collection,The Last Analog Teenagers:
https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/the-last-analog-teenagers
BSF 2025
Noms: Pushcart x2, BotN x2, Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist
Sally R Simon @salgal.bsky.social Writer living in update NY. Words in Citron Review, Longleaf Review, Emerge Lit Journal, Multiplicity, and other fine publications. Reader @ Fractured Lit. Debut novel out 2024. www.sallysimonwriter.com
#writingcommunity #author
Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social Poet, gardener. Series editor, The Hilary Tham Capital Collection (The Word Works). My books include Motion Studies, Butcher's Sugar, Parasite Kingdom, and Turned Earth (Spring 2025, LSU Press). 
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
Sarah Holloway @sarahholloway.bsky.social Writer. Work in or forthcoming: SmokeLong Quarterly,'s blog, Roi Fainéant, Cowboy Jamboree, Necessary Fiction, Heavy Feather Review and elsewhere. Grandmother. Musician. She/her.
Rose Knapp 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social Experimental Poet • Sound Artist
• Neurodivergent •
Queer Nonbinary Trans Woman
Poetry Collections: Lulu.com/spotlight/lulucomroseknapp
Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/starving-poet/1645151664
Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social CNF Editor Pithead Chapel • Smokelong Fellow • Bath Flash Fiction Winner • Storyknife • Anthology of Rural Stories by Writers of Color • Best Small Fictions • Words in River Teeth Beautiful Things, In Short, NWWQ, Cutleaf, Waxwing, 100 Word Story & more
Casey Reiland @caseyreiland.bsky.social Bad sleeper | In search of the perfect bagel | Words published or forthcoming in F(r)iction, HAD, Blue Mesa Review, On the Seawall, and elsewhere
www.caseyreiland.com
Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social Best Small Fictions 2024, Best Microfiction 2024, & Wigleaf Top 50 🌸 Winner of the Fractured Literary 2021 Flash Fiction Contest and the Welkin Prize 🌻 Author of LOVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD, published by The Masters Review 🌷lindybiller.com
Courtney LeBlanc @wordperv.bsky.social Poet. Feminist. Dog mom. Books: Her Dark Everything (Riot in Your Throat), Her Whole Bright Life (Write Bloody), Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart (Riot in Your Throat), Beautiful & Full of Monsters (VA Press). she/her
www.courtneyleblanc.com
Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social Publishes 6-sentence stories 2nd Thursday every month. No more than 400 words. Submissions always open. Never a fee.
Editor, Jeff Harvey (@jhhwriter.bsky.social)
https://gooseberry-pie.com/submissions/
J. Bellamy || Writer ⚔️ @jbellamyauthor.bsky.social Have you ever met a knight with religious trauma?
Writer. She/Her. Fantasy/Horror. PNW. isabellajetten.com
{ fuck AI & Trump & alt-right zealots & bigots & nazis }
Cole Meyer @coleameyer.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief at The Masters Review and CRAFT, editorial director at Discover New Art. MFA from Florida State University. Fiction in Best Small Fictions and at Baltimore Review, Smokelong Quarterly, The Florida Review and elsewhere.
cole-meyer.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. 
Jen Ippensen @jenippensen.bsky.social reader, writer, editor, librarian
basically, all the word things
oscillating between hope and despair, here and not here (she/her)
Erin L. McCoy @erinlmccoy.bsky.social UNDERLAKE (Doubleday, 2026)
WRECKS (Noemi Press, 2025)
Poetry & fiction in American Poetry Review, Best New Poets, Conjunctions • Assistant poetry editor, Narrative • Multilingual
erinlmccoy.com
Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social 🐪 An online literary journal dedicated to the retired darlings of publishing
🌷 Our April 2026 issue is NOW LIVE!
⬇️ Check out our past issues below
doublebackreview.com
Couplet Poetry @coupletpoetry.bsky.social Online lit journal publishing a “couplet” (pair) of related poems per author. www.coupletpoetry.com EIC @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social 
Aiden Heung @aidenheung.bsky.social Chinese poet, gay, reader, squash player, Poet at WashU, Assistant Poetry Editor of The Parentheses Journal. Winner of 2024 Levis Prize in Poetry from Four Way Books. Debut All There Is To Lose forthcoming 2026
Jody Kennedy @jodykennedy.bsky.social Writing, photography • Dearest Virginia (Woolf) (2026) • Finally, Dorothy (2025) • Midwest, US • Provence, France linktr.ee/jodykennedy
Heidi Czerwiec @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social Essayist and poet, author of CRAFTING THE LYRIC ESSAY: STRIKE A CHORD and FLUID STATES. Sr. Editor at Assay. Perfumista and forager. She/her
ｐｅｔｒｉｃｈｏｒ @petrichorlit.bsky.social Text & image depository. Digipoetics since 2016.
Editors: Seth Copeland, Caleb Jordan, Amanda Ngoho Reavey
https://petrichormag.com/
(art: Annalynn Hammond; Michael Paulukonis)
Jessica Goodfellow @jessicagoodfellow.bsky.social poet | author of Whiteout (Univ Alaska Press) | creative writing instructor in Japan | new to Bluesky and looking for the poets | www.jessicagoodfellow.com
xavier garcia @xaviergarcia.bsky.social writer / editor / hermit / collector of dust
Editor at Twin Pies Literary / Linktree: linktr.ee/xavieragarcia
ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social 501(c)(3) nonprofit literary press. Home of Emerge Literary Journal (http://emergeliteraryjournal.com).
Shō Poetry Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social Arizona-based nonprofit print journal. We publish an eclectic stew of poetry and award prizes for each issue. Submissions reopen December 15. Ed. @domkeykong.bsky.social + @johnnycordova.bsky.social. shopoetryjournal.com
Karen Crawford @karenc.bsky.social Exorcising demons one word at a time.
🇵🇷 ✍🏽 BestMicrofiction 2025, PushcartNoms, BOTN Nom, Longlists, Wigleaf Top 50
NYC → LA
Ariana D. Den Bleyker @adenbleyker.bsky.social Writer | Publisher: ELJ Editions
Rob Sturma @ratpackslim.bsky.social Nerd. Poet. Editor. Wrestling Fan. Lounge Singer. Lloyd Dobler. Proud papa, FreezeRay Poetry.
K. T. Landon @ktlandon.bsky.social Poet ("Abide", winner of the Snyder Memorial Prize; work in The Sun, The Southern Review, New Ohio Review, Nimrod, Best New Poets). VCFA grad. Reader at Lily Poetry Review. Relentlessly sincere. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/ktlandon
Ashley Wagner @ashleydawn.bsky.social Poet who doesn't know what she's doing here, exactly. I wrote a book and I'll do it again.
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/
Ann Hudson @annhudson.bsky.social Poet (Subtraction Isn’t Always Less; Glow; The Armillary Sphere). Senior Editor at Rhino Poetry. Teaching artist at Hive Center for the Book Arts. Citizen. Friend. Homebody. Cubs fan. Beginner bookbinder. I keep stabbing my fingers.
Laura A. Ring @lauraring.bsky.social Poet. Librarian. Anthropologist. Native Vermonter. Field Notes Recovered from the Expedition to Devil’s Peak (MWC Press). Zenana: Everyday Peace in a Karachi Apartment Building (Indiana UP). Poems in Tupelo Quarterly, RHINO, Stirring, and elsewhere.
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.
https://www.ellipsis-zine.com
underscore_magazine @underscoremag.bsky.social biannual literary magazine about all things underscoring city life _ skeets by eic Erica Leslie (she/her)
https://linktr.ee/underscore_mag
Whitney Rio-Ross @whitlynnrioross.bsky.social writer, author of Birthmarks (Wipf & Stock), poetry editor at Fare Forward
she/her
https://www.whitneyrioross.com
heather hughes @birdmaddgirl.bsky.social 🐦⬛🐊🪩🌙 🐉
Terri Linn Davis @terrilinndavis.bsky.social Virgo (Scorpio rising) | co-EIC @icebreakers_lit | poems & reviews @TBQuarterly @flypaperlit @Dailydrunkmag @Fivesouthlit | @kenyonreview ww '22 | host @TooLitToQuitPod- F 🐍 @flowerteeth.bsky.social
Natalie Giarratano @nattyg.bsky.social Colorado poet, editor, mama. New chapbook of poems out now—Molecular Memory (also the author of Big Thicket Blues & Leaving Clean).
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
Hannah Craig @hrcraig.bsky.social writer • printmaker • Pittsburgh • she/her • latest poems in greensboro review, the dodge, nimrod, & saranac review • hrcraig.com
Logen Cure @logencure.bsky.social poet • professor • queer • curator of Inner Moonlight • she/her 📚✨🌕 www.innermoonlightpoetry.com
Sage Ravenwood @sageravenwood.bsky.social Deaf. Cherokee. Writer.
My book ‘Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost’ is available from Gallaudet University Press. https://gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/E/Everything-That-Hurt-Us-Becomes-a-Ghost
Mel🏳️🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social She/her, they/them. Writer, Researcher. Work in Strange Horizons, Tin House, Electric Lit, and more. https://linktr.ee/knownforms
Eleonora Balsano @norami.bsky.social Writer/Lifelong Expat/Wigleaf Top 50 ‘25/ SL Bridport Prize ‘21 & ‘24/Host & Producer @chosentongue.bsky.social
eleonorabalsano.net
StephanieKMerrill @stephaniekmerrill.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Pianist. Words in UCity Review, Feral, Moist Poetry Journal, One Art, Rise Up Review, Amethyst Review, ZiN Daily, Eunoia Review, Trampoline Poetry, &tc. Retired English faculty. Pushcart & BOTN nominee. Ⓥ she/her
Austin
Barbara Byar @barbarabyar.bsky.social Writer
Debut Novel: IN THE DESERT, OUT NOW
from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
Buy Here: https://a.co/d/0bucj1Yn
Collection: Some Days are Better than Ours (Reflex Fiction)
https://substack.com/@barbarabyar?utm_source=user-menu
Kerry via San Francisco
shannon wolf @helloshanwolf.bsky.social british writer in the hudson valley
GREEN CARD GIRL - 2023, being reissued by @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social in 2027
Jessica Nirvana Ram @jessnirvanapoet.bsky.social 🇬🇾| she/her | poet | MFA UNCW | EARTHLY GODS (Variant Lit, 2024)
https://beacons.ai/jessicanirvanaram
Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social Don’t use Facebook or X they’re part of the problem. Posts - gardening,🌱 history, food & art & random rants about the state of the world.
LGBT+ 🏳️⚧️ ally 🏳️🌈 State pension please don’t ask me for £. She/her
No DMs thanks. No Bio No posts = Block Leicester, UK.
Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social Syntaxer. Poet. Editor. Columnist. Gaymer. Ex-chef. Occasional pebble. Feelings Laminated. MFA in Poetry (Randolph).
words -> http://adriandallas.com
Barbara Lock @barbaralockmd.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Teacher, and Physician. I write spec-y lit fic, edit at Variant Lit, and practice/teach at CU P&S. There's more about me at barbaralock.com. 
Kim Murdock @kimmurdock.bsky.social writer, a bit at sea
stories: Fractured Lit, New Flash Fiction Review, Tiny Molecules, Bending Genres, Crow & Cross Keys, 100 Word Story, and more.
kimmurdock.wordpress.com
Another New Calligraphy @anothernewcalligraphy.com Another New Calligraphy publishes handmade books, music, and the online journal Impossible Task. We have enjoyed the quiet thrill of making and sharing since 2009. Chicago. anothernewcalligraphy.com