Ximena Canedo @thecanedo.bsky.social Somewhere between art, ethics, and the human condition—curious, creative, and intellectually modest. I write longer, more thoughtful posts about these ideas on my Substack: https://substack.com/@thecanedo
Alex Reed @salexanderreed.bsky.social author of Assimilate + books on TMBG + Laurie Anderson
professor @ Ithaca College / NYU / U. Florida / William & Mary
singer of the band Seeming
ex-ThouShaltNot
https://linktr.ee/salexanderreed
Mike O’Brien @zoomburst.substack.com Sixty odd years old - Sixty Odd Press
zoomburst.substack.com sixtyoddpoets.substack.com
Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈Poet, Mother, Southerner
📜Archives, Material Media Studies, American Poetry, Artists’ Books
🎓MA, MLS, MAE, MFA, ABD PhD (C&IS)
👩🏼🏫Teach: Typography, Games, Poetry, Gender Studies
🌐 https://linktr.ee/thedaybooks
🤐Posts don’t reflect my institutions
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
Chris Emery @chrisemery.me Poet. Five collections from Arc and Salt, most recently Wonder (2025). Manchester-born, Irish citizen, living in Cromer. I publish other people’s books at Salt. Newsletter: chrisemery.me
Helmi @helmsinki.bsky.social pro-abortion | mental health advocate | taylor swift enthusiast | she/her | donationsforabortions.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.
Naresh Behera @naresh98.bsky.social Studying Psychology and discovering ways
Martha Barnette @marthabarnette.bsky.social Co-host, “A Way with Words” public radio show. Speaking requests: info@marthabarnette.com
Author of the bestselling FRIENDS WITH WORDS: ADVENTURES IN LANGUAGELAND
marthabarnette.com
#etymology #writing #books #words @wayword
Christopher Stevenson @chrisstevenson.bsky.social Born in TX, raised in FL and PA. Splits time between DC and WV.
Librarian. PT old man. FT Struggling Writer.
Part toddler, part cowboy. Baba Yaga fan boy.
https://linktr.ee/christopherstevenson
JordanWiklund @jordanwiklund.bsky.social Writer, husband, father, curler. Not always in that order. Occasional essayist. Work in Brevity, Fourth Genre, Pank, MarchXness, Hobart, elsewhere. Acq. editor at Motorbooks.
Chloe @chloegingf.bsky.social A divorced mother living in a blue state—a lifelong Democrat until the end of her life
Karen Lentz @estreetlove.bsky.social Omnivorous reader, muscle car driver, jukebox graduate
Cynthia Marie Hoffman @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social Poet. Exploding Head (an OCD memoir in prose poems), Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones, Paper Doll Fetus, Sightseer.
Essays in TIME, The Sun, Lit Hub. (she/her) www.cynthiamariehoffman.com
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com No relation to Lou Reed. (People do ask.) https://www.loureedsnephew.com/
Lindsay Vaught @lindsayfouts.bsky.social Spalding CNF student
🎷 player
Louisville KY liberal
Protect trans 🏳️⚧️ youth
RT doesn’t = endorsement
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
Collin Stout @stoutthehatchet.bsky.social Music lover, Bills fan, my wife owns an awesome quilt shop: https://shopbyandby.com/
Yossarian J. Duffy @fibboi.bsky.social “What are they going to say? ‘He was a kind man, he was a wise man, he had plans?’”
Chris Grebe 🎃 @chrisgescribe.bsky.social Writer. History, archaeology, ghost hunting, donuts.
Big theater kid energy.
Guitarist in Trucks to Byhalia. You haven’t heard of us, but we’re out there.
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
https://linktr.ee/chrisgrebe
he/him
Daniel Ysengrim @ysengrim.bsky.social 
Eagle Harbor Book Co. @eagleharborbooks.bsky.social Established in 1970, Eagle Harbor Book Co. is a full service, locally-owned and proudly independent bookstore located on Bainbridge Island, WA. With an extensive selection of books and gifts, we're the perfect "destination bookshop"
Monroe @rimuru925.bsky.social 
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
a- @hyletransducer.bsky.social 
Kyle Wright @montageculture.bsky.social Author of In Control (Bizarro Pulp Press) and Dead Meat (Journalstone), various TTRPGs. he/him.
M. Rob @oedipalschmedipal.bsky.social In the sober light of day it's a little too bright out |
Will be mean to people you hate for food | Writer | Ball Knower
Sara Shearwater Wolfthing @never.horse Publishing as n͓̽e͓̽v͓̽e͓̽r͓̽ ͓̽a͓̽n͓̽g͓̽e͓̽l͓̽i͓̽n͓̽e͓̽ ͓̽n͓̽ø͓̽r͓̽t͓̽h͓̽ ♥ Writer, Entroponeticist, Trivigaunti Spy. The worst photographer on Ebird. Poetry Editor for @anewsession.com.
Homepage: http://never.horse
Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social essays and poems about the movies, shows, music, books, games, etc. that have shaped you
forget.cool
R.J. Cross @rj-x.bsky.social Writer/researcher/advocate @ the Public Interest Research Group. Usually: tech/privacy/AI. Sometimes: fiction/poems/satire/birds. Currently learning about: burrowing owls. Cool new lit project coming soon. Kansan at heart.
https://rjcross.org/
blah blah yaga @jmmc.bsky.social they/she
https://juliacoursey.com/
Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social indie poetry publisher based in Canada with an international focus. we publish books and we have an online website with series and blogs w/poets, fiction writers, visual artist, experimental projects www.icefloepress.net EIC/publisher Robert Frede Kenter
Terry O. Scott-Bond @terryoscott-bond.bsky.social Please follow Terry on Medium: medium.com/@terryoscottbond
True Democracy's poet—from the world's longest-running constitutional democratic republic—who loves and believes in the People. A human being. Doing something different. Posts read as a lit thread.
PerfectGod = S. Cyn = L. Gates = J. Glacier = L. Simz = Ziwe +c. @blackswanborges.bsky.social Mx Józef ≈ M.
Lonely + Looking for
Poetry Fiends and Friends...
[ I wake up *wishing* that I was:
Gertrude Stein + Ursula K. Le Guin. ]
Mx M— Józef ≈ M. J. Le Tölm...
Cover credit to Samara Cyn.
+c. (: Thank you kindly,
And stay safe :)
Lady Queet @ladyqueet.bsky.social Lady Queet is a music producer, singer, songwriter and rapper from Atlanta, Georgia. Owner of Picture Perfect Entertainment. #MusicSky #WhoIsYourFavoriteFemaleRapper
instagram.com/iamladyqueet
hot.sauce_slump @mint-shaq-rookie.bsky.social 
Max (VGCartography) @vgcartography.com making maps about video games
maps: https://www.vgcartography.com/
videos: https://www.youtube.com/@VGCartography
Lt. Uhura @ltuhura.bsky.social 
@kazien.bsky.social @kazien.bsky.social 
Abigail Kabaker @akabaker.bsky.social she/ her . museum collections professional. Lifelong Maryland resident. Talks about museums, horror, video games, science, politics, and pop culture. Views are my own.
Edward Sambrano III @sambranopoet.bsky.social lost Texan丨MFA UF '23丨poet, critic丨poetry editor @thedodgemag.bsky.social
Website: https://edwardsambranoIII.com
https://linktr.ee/sambranopoet
Paul Tremblay @paultremblay.bsky.social Writer person. Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep, Horror Movie, Another, A Head Full of Ghosts, The Cabin at the End of the World, The Pallbearers Club. F*ck AI
Rena MJ 🕸️🕯️ @renamj.bsky.social Mostly film and music and animals
https://letterboxd.com/planet_queen
Deb Olin Unferth @debolinunferth.bsky.social Wrrrittter
James Stegall @jamesaaron.net Dad of daughters. Oregonian. Veteran. SF Novelist. Member of #SFWA, the Eugene #Wordos and #transfamilies.
I like digging in the yard, building stuff, riding bikes and reading books. Trying to do good in my bit of the world.
https://jamesaaron.net/books
Ben @80sreference.bsky.social the young folks search for meaning here
and the old folks know there's none
@jellicious.bsky.social @jellicious.bsky.social 
cicilybennion.bsky.social @cicilybennion.bsky.social Here for March Xness. Vote for Brick. Ben Folds stans, where are you?
Carolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social Books books books. Editor, writer, reader, clumsy DIYer. Latest: I review Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/08/arts/emily-st-john-mandel-exit-party/
Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind)
#writer #historian #Lesbian #sapphic #wlw #Hispanic #feminist #goth #vampires #jpop #bibliophile
NO DMs | Terfs & Narcissists DNI
Geoff @geoffdeburca.bsky.social 
Kerri Guillette @kerrig.bsky.social A liability. Still at the restaurant. Always tired. Editor for @butwhytho. Mother of Guinea Pigs. Swiftie. Disabled/Chronic illness.
caroliner @stillsittingstill.bsky.social 
streich_that @streich-that.bsky.social Blue dot in Wisconsin. I like cats, TV and democracy.
Jessica Mesman @jessicamesman.bsky.social Senior editor of The Christian Century
Writer specializing in religion and culture
Al Czarnecki @alczarnecki.bsky.social Toronto-based accredited (APR, FCPRS) public relations consultant and writer. Dialogue and good faith make for mutual solutions.
Values: #SocialJustice #Democracy #Activism #CivilResistance #CanadaStrong
https://www.topstory.ca/crisisteambook.html
@bluepapaca.bsky.social @bluepapaca.bsky.social 
Jessica Reed @jreedscipoet.bsky.social Poet/writer, physics, professor, homesteader.
All Motion She Believes (forthcoming, Inverted Syntax); Still Recognizable Forms (Laurel Review Greentower Press);
World, Composed (Finishing Line Press)
keeeeeene @librarygoblin.bsky.social creative nonfiction, food, agriculture, horror, everything
senior CNF editor at JMWW
FRIGHTFUL HARVEST, McFarland Books 2026
writing found here: keeneshort.com
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)
Sarah Enni @sarahenni.bsky.social podcasts x books x sports 💪 essays & podcasts about the Seattle Mariners, life, etc @ sarahenni.substack.com 🔱 📣 sr producer Scamfluencers
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
Purveyor of Literary Holes @drillpresspress.bsky.social Submit anything: we choose where the hole goes.
T552 at AWP 2026 Baltimore
drillpresspress.com
Erin McReynolds @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social Writer, editor, cartoonist, lapsed pagan. Belief system: ruderal and snails and tragedy+time=comedy.
Substack: Traumafordummies.com
Perfect God = Lexa Gates @mx-j.bsky.social https://shop.capitolmusic.com/collections/lexa-gates
Michael A. Van Kerckhove @mvankerckhove.bsky.social Writerly dude in Chicago. 🏳️🌈♏️
https://www.michaelvankerckhove.com/
https://letterboxd.com/MichaelAVK/
https://www.instagram.com/mvankerckhove/
Katie Moulton @kjmoulton.bsky.social writer. mostly here for @marchxness.bsky.social!
Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social "I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: Your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards."
Jon Irwin @winwinirwin.bsky.social Writer/Teacher.
Words in Kill Screen, Paste, Men's Health, The Atlantic, Billboard, Variety, Washington Post, Inverse and more.
https://about.me/jonirwinis
Samuel Verdin @samuelverdin.bsky.social Editor | Writer | Freelance
www.samuelverdin.com
J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social Writer of books, destroyer of ears. Wyoming boi at heart. Luddite bro in training
www.jjanselmi.com
Joe Squance @joesquance.bsky.social Nobody special; just hopped on here.
C.K. Liu @ckliu.com writer & video games producer -
Wasafiri, ergot., Crow & Cross Keys, and others
https://linktr.ee/ckliu
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
Cammy! @camelliagrass.bsky.social she/they | memory worker | essayist, poet, performer | author of Hall of Waters | animist, polytheist
Greg Greene @igreggreene.bsky.social I love horror in all its fictional forms! My occasional podcast Chthonica is on YouTube & Apple Podcasts. I’m in Nashville, TN. AKA +The Blessorcist+ I sell cool horror merch at threadsofdread.com!- W @weatherstrange.bsky.social @weatherstrange.bsky.social
Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social PFP by Terijian
MOTHER KARMA NOVELLA! https://forms.gle/SN3EFQrGSg7CvUxs6
BSF 2025
Have you ever seen me and Kali in the same room? Thought not
Bi (2) x Demi (1/2) = 1 Sexual
🇦🇺🇲🇾🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
sumitrasingam.squarespace.com
TVWritersVault @tvwritersvault.bsky.social Where TV/Film Producers & Execs Scout New Pitches for Film, TV & Digital. Shows Discovered & Broadcast Globally on Discovery Channel, A&E, Lifetime TV, SyFy, Velocity & Others... Visit https://www.tvwritersvault.com
Audrey Petty @audreynpetty.bsky.social Writer. Educator. Student. Late bloomer. Chicagoan (South Side!).
Morton Tel Mutillid @mutillid.bsky.social 🌬️ Pseudonymous writer, ambient person. 🌫️
💭 When there's rain, I walk outside. 🌧️
🪬 (it/he) 🎐 🔧
Brian - good guy at large. @magablows.bsky.social Former soldier who takes his oath seriously to this day. Trump and Maga are ememies of Democracy. My weapons are my voice, my ideas, and my resolve. Working to make the world a better place via decency and friendship. True blue. No DM's
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Brendan Allen @brendanallen.bsky.social poet / little gamemaker / doctoral student
"bibliomancer" when wearing my gamer pants
https://bibliomancer.itch.io/
https://brendan-allen.com/
Dan Manchester @dan.isnot.cool Web maker, poet, sober person, & type 1 diabetic in sunny Portland, Oregon, USA. Jabbering on CSS, JS, a11y, cardigans, line breaks, moss, & cartoon physics. http://pronoun.is/he
Will Stanier @flatstanley.bsky.social Poet, printer, and librarian. Bookmaker and homemaker. Everything Happens Next (Blue Arrangements, 2021). Living in Richmond, VA.