JR Fenn @jrfenn.bsky.social Writer, teacher, parent, dreamer | TINY VESSELS out from Red Mare Press | Words in or forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Orion's Belt, DIAGRAM, Split Lip, Witness, Boston Review, Gulf Coast | Ucross Fellow | Syracuse MFA | Prof at SUNY ESF | www.jrfenn.com
@riverwoodmama.bsky.social @riverwoodmama.bsky.social Wears a lot of hats — wife, mom, rabble-rouser. Teaches all things words to high schoolers. Crochets, reads, eats queso at every available opportunity.
South 85 Journal @south85journal.bsky.social South 85 Journal is a semi-annual online literary journal run by the Converse University Low-Residency MFA Program. We publish fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and interviews, by new, emerging, and well-established writers.
Shellie Kalinsky @sheshellwrites.bsky.social Writer | Editor | Mama Bear & Gigi
ShellieKalinsky.com
Matt Lanark @mattlanark.bsky.social 🏠 Silly stories on parenting, sports, movies + more
🧋Orange Mocha Frappuccino! @substack
🏀 Undrafted NBA free agent since 2012
📌 Washington, DC
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E Ce Miller @ecemiller.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Words in DIHP, Liars' League, Lunch Ticket, Heavy 🪶 Rev, Pacifica Lit, more. Reads at Split/Lip Press, Four Way Review. Currently based in Washington D.C.
Eric Nguyen @ericnguyenisok.bsky.social 📘 author of THINGS WE LOST TO THE WATER | 👨🏻💻he/him
Beth the Librarian @btlibrarian.bsky.social #Librarian 📚
#Sewist 🪡🧵
#Knitter 🧶
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#gobills 🦬
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social math teacher, writer in upper manhattan
substack: pershmail.substack.com
website with links to publications etc: michaelpershan.com
Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social History's most successful legal podcaster, co-host of 5-4 pod. He/Him @fivefourpod.bsky.social
Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social Host of all podcasts. Independent Muckraker. Hollywood’s Ultimate Insider.
The post is probably a joke.
Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social Animals/TV/film/history/fiction, and any odd nook where they collide. Debut fiction HORSE SHOW 🐴 out NOW from Santa Fe Writers Project!
she/her, phd
Meghan Leigh Paulk @paulkwrites.bsky.social Niche Internet Micro Celebrity. Canonically 27. Famous at Starbucks. Published by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, @shotgunhoney.com, @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social and Punk Noir. Rep: @cbuccibookman.bsky.social
Mansi Dahal @mansidahal.bsky.social Looking for an agent
Words: POETRY, New England Review, Colorado Review, Southeast Review
Matthew A Kraft @matthewakraft.com Professor of Education and Economics. Former high school humanities teacher. Proud papa & volunteer soccer coach. Reading as much as I can about climate change. www.matthewakraft.com
Readit Club @readit.club If you’re into books - welcome 🤗
Everything about books, writers, reviews, literature discussions.
📚 ReadIt.club
Cindy Marie Jenkins (she/her) @cindyoutthinksmdia.bsky.social I grew up between a library and a theater. Now I teach digital literacy through art & open dialogue.
https://patreon.com/OutThinkMedia
Break generational structures this summer:
https://momentumrevolutions.com
Dorian Stuber @ds228.bsky.social Reader; newly in St Louis; always as Canadian as possible under the circumstances
https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/
Mark Abdon @markabdonwrites.bsky.social Hoosier, Writer, Professor, Foster Fam.
Words: Pinch, X-R-A-Y, Chautauqua, Catamaran, Gone Lawn, JMWW, Bull etc.
➤ Writing Prof at IWU
➤ Reader for Harvard Review
Read more here ➡️ markabdonwrites.com ⬅️
Kyle Joseph Kennedy @kylejoseph.bsky.social Father, teacher, writer, failed gardener. Cringe. Not a poster at heart. Support trans rights.
Links: https://tr.ee/bRnpqS
KM Apothecary @apothcarysees.bsky.social Pharmacist, fairy dogmother, airbrush painter, former search & rescue ranger in the Grand Canyon, for Ukraine! 🇺🇦🌻🌈🌵🌊🫘
Jenni Milward 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉🦓♿ @jrmilward.bsky.social Writer | VO actor | OU BSc (Hons) | AMRSB @RoyalSocBio | Lefty/Social justice | LGBTQ+ | EDS Zebra | Disability/chronic illness | Tomb Raider AoD PotBA novelist | Woke AF | She/Her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉🦓♿
jrmilward.com
hayden casey @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social writer and musicker //
SHOW ME WHERE THE HURT IS out now from @splitlippress.com //
A HARVEST OF FURIES coming oct '25 from @lfpbooks.bsky.social //
music everywhere //
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@RGoodLaw
Co-editor-in-chief @justsecurity.org. Chaired Prof at NYU Law. Former Chaired Prof Harvard. Former Special Counsel Defense Dept.
https://www.justsecurity.org/author/goodmanryan
pierlucaw @pierlucaw.bsky.social Pierluca Di Pasquale
writer/director
Curious Jon @curiousjon.bsky.social Lawyer, writer, filmmaker, musician, storyteller. Curious about the world. Anti-evil. (All photos mine unless noted. No AI.)
My curiosities: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5vnamitm2vszl4gumen4qa52/feed/aaadyciug22pk
Yolanda @yap617.bsky.social Collects stamps and ephemera like pocket guides.
WIP about a Vietnam War corpsman in NSA Hospital DaNang (1967). Two middle grade historical fiction books, son of a diplomat in DC (1982-3).
Enjoys 📺 classic movies and ⚾️,🏀.
Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com Dubliner in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Writer. https://www.LaurenceWrites.com/. 2025 Cúirt New Writing Fiction Prize. Posts in English/Français/Svenska. (He/Him/YerMan)
Laura 🫘 @judeobsc17.bsky.social Retired public school teacher
Ashley Austrew @ashleyaustrew.bsky.social Writer, editor, and marketer by day. Renovating my 125-year-old house by night. I have 3 cats and I hate fascists.📍Portland, OR
Maudlin House @maudlinhouse.bsky.social weird press that publishes weird books
https://shop.maudlinhouse.net/
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
Bharat Jayram Venkat @bharatvenkat.bsky.social I study climate change, health, and inequality
Associate Professor, UCLA
Institute for Society & Genetics / History /Anthropology
Director, UCLA Heat Lab
bharatvenkat.net
Wrote AT THE LIMITS OF CURE (Duke University Press)
Writing SWELTER (Crown, Picador)
Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social culture editor, NYTimes Opinion
novelist: THE EDEN TEST (out now); THE BLINDS; NEAR ENEMY; SHOVEL READY
I wear suits now
Michael Zapata @michaelzapata.bsky.social Author of the novel THE LOST BOOK OF ADANA MOREAU. Faculty at StoryStudio Chicago & Northwestern University. Descended from Andean farmers, poets, and union organizers.
michaelzapata.com
The Booking Club podcast @bookingclubpod.bsky.social Podcast with @jackaldane.bsky.social | Today’s best authors discuss their latest books at their favourite restaurants
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/@bookingclubpod
John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com Co-owner @eveninghouse.bsky.social
Writer:
FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN
BOXCUTTERS
EIC @cold-signal.com
Buffalo, NY
johnchrostek.com
The Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop @sackettwriters.bsky.social 15,000 creative writers since 2002. NYC and Online classes. Write with us.
Lauren Byl @laurenbyl.bsky.social Copyright librarian, lover of ducks and moss and baked goods. 
Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social Giving new life to old books since 2015. Bookshop.org Indie Champion. Find us: backlisted.fm, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Support us: patreon.com/backlisted.
Dragonfly615 @ubia26112615.bsky.social Here for Dem politics, CLE, PWHL, education stuff, and cool bird pics.🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ Former gifted kid and English major. Oxford comma forever
Jane French @janefrench.bsky.social Writer of medical and caregiving reports | published widely in email streams | family caregiver | advocate for low-income older adults
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social Every time I reread Virginia Woolf’s The Waves I love it even more.
Also a fan of Sam Shepard, Kerouac, Dickens, Steinbeck, Capote, du Maurier, Willy Vlautin, Donna Tartt, the Backlisted podcast, film noir, Twin Peaks, Columbo & folklore. Portland, OR
Vicki Derderian @vickiderderian.bsky.social Writer.
Work in The Michigan Quarterly Review; The Louisville Review; The Fourth River,
Solstice Literary Review, and elsewhere.
Vickiderderian.com
Natasha Z Stoddart @nzstoddart.bsky.social Writer/Book Reveiwer
Editing: Comedii & Tragedy
Ao3: SkyndAlive-Bodice Ripper
https://www.patreon.com/posts/163528422?utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=android_share
Alex Z @alexzoubine.bsky.social Writer, Author, Poet | Producer of BIOME | First Reader @ The Colored Lens | Story Reviewer | Dog lover | Analytics Aficionado
Melissa Ruth Rotert -Order THE RIDDERS SERIES! @melruthwrites.bsky.social Kidlit Author (she/her),
THE RIDDERS SERIES order now!
EIC @EpistemicLit & @Nimblewitlit
Repped by T.S. Ferguson
https://linktr.ee/irmelsa
Oxford Comma #Dis #ND #Pan
@januaryhouselit.bsky.social @januaryhouselit.bsky.social 
Claire Thompson @pipthompson.bsky.social Author, researcher, art-loving Italophile, mysteries and short stories. Rep'd by Gail Hochman NYC. 
Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social Stories in CRAFT Literary, Vestal Review, Bending Genres, more. 🐈⬛ Learned from Rutgers-Camden MFA '18, Tin House '22, and Lambda Literary '25. Fiction reader for Okay Donkey. catherinebuck.com
Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social She/Her. I Love LA. I used to produce an internationally syndicated radio show about food/wine/spirits. Now I'm a crime novelist. New Haven Pizza Evangelist. Work + Links: linktr.ee/msemilyedwards
Sati Mookherjee @sati-m.bsky.social Poet: Deś (forthcoming from Tupelo Press, 2027), Eye (Ravenna Press, 2022) and Ways of Being (Albiso Award, MoonPath Press 2023). Recent work in Gulf Coast, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, SWWIM, MER, RHINO.
satimookherjee.com
Cristin 💗💗 @cdizzle17.bsky.social 🧟♀️ Mom 🐛 Bookworm
😼🐶 she/her 😷
Jason Fleming @jafleming.bsky.social A regular joe. Writer. EWU alum. Veteran. Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do....
Lacey N. Dunham (she/her) @bookbent.bsky.social 🖤 Author
🖤 THE BELLES (S&S / Atria, 2025) southern gothic x dark academia
🖤 FALL OF THE HOUSE OF GRAYSTONE (S&S / Atria, coming 2027) Sapphic Tim Burton meets Grey Gardens
🖤 ME: https://www.laceyndunham.com/links
Patricia Ann McNair @pattymcnair.bsky.social Pens. Coffee. Good journals. World peace. Gritty stories. Science. Democracy. Nutty bars. Cats. Cacti. A few of my favorite things. BOTYA: THE TEMPLE OF AIR. Resident of Spain.
MrsBale @beafoundart.bsky.social
HOMES
History, Art, Books
Disputed Toledo Strip
Brian @vpofstuff.bsky.social Writer. Baker. Gardener. Coffee Slob, Tea Snob, LandBack, INFJ. Milwaukee. He/Him
Born at 320 ppm atmospheric CO2
Banner: Orange sky sunrise with a crow on a slanted wire in front of a tree.
Profile: Partner crows on a wire. Early balmy winter morning.
Matt Barrett @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social Writer. Stories in: The Sun, Threepenny Review, TriQuarterly, Cincinnati Review, West Branch, Wigleaf, Baltimore Review, The Forge, Cutleaf, Best Microfiction, & Best Small Fictions. Soon: Prairie Schooner
https://mbarrettwriter.wixsite.com/stories
Sam Bakkila @sbakkila.bsky.social MFA student and writing instructor at Stony Brook University. Former Edtech worker. Interested in digital pedagogy. Tennis fan 🎾
Barb Ristine @renobarb.bsky.social mom, cancer survivor, writes historical & flash fiction. Published in Milk Candy Review, FlashBack Fiction, Westchester Review. Short stories published FEISTY DEEDS I and II anthologies. WFWA, Sisters in Crime, HNS.
www.BarbaraRistine.com
Paige Ryan @paigevryan.bsky.social Poet & hybrid-form enthusiast drawn to soft things with sharp edges: plants with inner lives, bodies that won’t behave, & the absurd comedy of daily life. Best of the Net–nominee. Poems in The Hopper, Tiny Seed Lit., Plants & Poetry, and elsewhere.
Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social I know you think I’m some silly little debutante.
[contemporary art, poetry, dance, film, & fashion]
instagram: mjmimages
Chris Nickson @chrisnickson2.bsky.social Writer of Leeds historical crime. Lover of my city. Reader. Allotmenteer. Coming April 2025: No Precious Truth
Abbie 🌟 @abbiestev.bsky.social Experimental public programs in sci + art + tech, extronomer, nerd doctor of black holes & neutron stars, Michigoose, toddler mom, neurospicy, sober, pro-trans, she/her #BiinSci #WomenInSTEM #UglyDogs
SwitchMicroMag @switchmicromag.bsky.social Switch is an online magazine of microfiction. We are devoted to stories that leave the beaten path, carry us forward, transform.
switchonline.org
Sandra Cooper @sandracooper.bsky.social Voltaire always
Composition Professor currently
The Beef Review @beefreview.bsky.social A journal of literary feuds. We are The Beef Review! The highest form of meat is literature, and we want your BEEF. Beefing soon—Spring 2026. 🥩 (Follow us on insta too @beefbeefreview)
Jay Heltzer @jayheltzer.bsky.social Writer of fiction, microfiction and #5amWritersClub devotee, w/ some bass trombone on the side.
I love humor, good humans, and creativity. I ask of at least one from everyone, but all three is fine too.
Low Notes: https://jayheltzer.substack.com
Jessica Dawn @jessdawn.bsky.social Writer at night, animal day job, tired in between. Work in Short Story Long, HAD, Rejection Letters, Barren Magazine, Jake, and more. Assistant editor, Short Story Long. Tin House fall ‘25. Lots of dog photos. https://jessdawn.neocities.org/
Sunwoo Jeong @translunarytree.bsky.social Writer, linguist, she/her / Clarion ‘23, TinHouse ‘23
“Musing among the vegetables?” 🥕🥬
Katrina makes 5e stuff @katrina-alpress.bsky.social honestly i forked my table's overhaul of the system so long ago it's barely even 5e anymore. proud to not be paying WOTC a penny. i designed weapon properties better than you, crawford
Gmail Hero @robertlong4man.bsky.social I think I'm a writer. My name is Robert Long Foreman. I'm not sure what I am anymore completely.
He/him.
www.robertlongforeman.com
I'm on beehiiv: https://pigcitynewsetc.beehiiv.com/
Ian Denning @ian-denning.com Writer || NY Center for Fiction fellow || Retro games, beer, horror, sci-fi || Dog- and human-dad || NJ and PNW || He/him
Chelsea @chelseadodds.bsky.social 2025 Craigardan literary arts resident.
Words in The Forge, Roi Fainéant, Maudlin House, Rejection Letters, & elsewhere.
NOTHING GOOD WILL GET AWAY out Feb. 2026 @finishinglinepress.bsky.social
chelseadodds.com
bahvoom @bvm.bsky.social America is for all of us
Jim Kourlas @jimkourlas.bsky.social What the pillar of salt held up
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @paperplowfurrow.bsky.social Absurdly earnest: farmer, UU, queer, dog companion. Reader of Barry Lopez, Jose Saramago, Anna Burns, Margaret Atwood…
Astra Clayton🏳️🌈📚 @astraclayton95.bsky.social Fantasy writer! Love me some fantasy, gaming and reading!
Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social Writer, teacher, friend. Words in: The Sun, Orion, The Yale Review, Literary Hub, & more. Author of BREAKING INTO THE BACKCOUNTRY, a memoir. https://www.steveedwardswriter.com
allen bratton @allenbratton.bsky.social allenbratton.com
Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
Visit us at 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL, or browse at https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
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Kenan Orhan @kenanorhan.bsky.social Writer, idiot.
The Renovation (FSG 2026)
I Am My Country (Random House 2023)
Martha Wydysh @mlwyd.bsky.social 📚 agent at Trident Media Group
Jeremy John Parker @jeremyjohnparker.bsky.social Writer, Editor-in-Chief for @outlooksprings.bsky.social , Book Designer, Mystagogue, Antagonist. Stories in The Normal School, December Magazine, Midwest Gothic, Cheap Pop, Coachella Review, and elsewhere. jeremyjohnparker.com △
Genevieve DeGuzman @gendeguzman.bsky.social Poet & writer based in Portland, OR. Tin House Workshop. StoryStudio. Oregon Lit Fellowship. KARAOKE AT THE END OF THE WORLD (JackLeg Press).
https://linktr.ee/genevievedeguzman
Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social (re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
Zoë Perry @zoeperry.bsky.social Translator of books from 🇧🇷
Coming soon: DIORAMA by Carol Bensimon, EXEMPLARY HUMANS by Juliana Leite. #amtranslating: Julia Codo, Natalia Timerman, Veronica Stigger;
Kentuckian but also Canadian
zaptranslations.com
Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.com Queer, trans, nonbinary poet, writer, performer, artist, activist, & abolitionist. 18+ 🙏🏼
Work published in Poetry, Water~Stone Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, et al. First collection "This Body, This Fruit" @ Feb 2027 (@triohousepress.org).
Tim Craig @timcraig.bsky.social Manc | Writer of short fiction | Fainéant
N.O’PHELAN @somesomersaults.bsky.social Poet. Ad person. Yeah, no.
tgabrukiewicz @tgabrukiewicz.bsky.social Observer. Writer. Photographer. Author of "Troublemaker," 30 flash fiction pieces available on Amazon & Apple. More flash fiction here: https://thomg.blogspot.com/ Lascaux finalist. Wyoming based. DM if you'd like to shoot.
Owen Wyke @owenwyke.bsky.social Storyteller (https://gonelawn.net/owenwyke) & founding editor of Gone Lawn Journal (@gonelawn.bsky.social)
Studied words and images in New Haven & Boston. Now living in some fateless middle-swim bedeviled by mountain laurels, coyotes and bells, bells.
Plotless Podcast @plotlesspodcast.bsky.social Two women, no plots, no problem
https://open.spotify.com/show/09pac7Cnbw6rWImc6Uwdnt?si=7ww1Q27QT_K22vCHk2pdqQ
https://www.plotlesspodcast.com/
https://www.instagram.com/plotless_podcast?igsh=MWlhcmF1ZW80M3k4MA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
James Stafford @jpstafford.bsky.social Author of 'The Sorrowful Putto of Prague', 'Unbelievable Underdogs', the 'Illustrated History of Rugby' series, 'How Wales Beat the Mighty All Blacks', 'Ragby' (Czech), editor of the East Terrace (theeastterrace.com).
#booksky
Prague based. Welsh born.
Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social she/they, poet/critic. www.catherinerockwood.com/about
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