Lucy Berbeo @lucypaulina.bsky.social Writer. “Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.” ―Douglas Adams
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
Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social Michigan writer & stuff. auDHD. gender noncompliant. Fuck AI & Subst*ck.
https://aniking.net
— Family Night (Mason Jar Press, 2026) https://tinyurl.com/2jtf6t63
— SmokeLong Subs Editor
— EiC: syntaxandsalt.com (closed)
Ian Lindsay @ianlindsay.bsky.social
Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social Consequence Forum addresses the consequences of war and geopolitical violence through literature, art, and community events to promote a clearer and more nuanced understanding of the realities and experiences of conflict.
https://consequenceforum.org/
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
Graham (Gray) Scott @graythebruce.bsky.social PhD. Professor of English. Pushcart nom. BSF noms (x2). Stories in Split Lip, Pithead Chapel, HAD, Barrelhouse, Necessary Fiction, JMWW, others. Large Language Human.
For now at https://hemicyon.wordpress.com/
Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill
Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/
Craft newsletter: https://prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/
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
Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social Writer, flash fiction writer, photographer. Author of 2 novels & 2 collections of flash. New novel out this spring. My flash pieces have been published in many lovely magazines. Mslexia flash fiction prize winner, 2024. Website: http://bronwengriff.co.uk/
Noah Powers @noahpowers.bsky.social they/he. Kentucky writer & educator. Currently: MFA @ Alabama. Managing Editor @ Black Warrior Review. Poetry editor @ JAKE.
Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social Nebula-winning and Hugo/Sturgeon-nominated writer. Bagel the Dog's emotional support human. Dadjoke teller. Unrepentant punster. Sentence-fragment lover. Disabled w #MECFS She/her effieseiberg.com/stories
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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Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social Micro, flash, shorts, poetry
Senior fiction ed - Strange Horizons
SFF ed - Uncharted
SFWA, SFPA
💫 MicroVerse Recommended Reading
⚡Electric Sheep
https://mynachang.com
Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social Philly writer. Debut chapbook “Ghost in the Rain: Stories” from Bottlecap Press.
https://bottlecap.press/products/ghosmj
Stories in Best Microfiction, Identity Theory, DIHP, Claudine, Some Words, Flight, FlashFlood, BULL.
www.mattjakubowski.com
Jane French @janefrench.bsky.social Writer of medical and caregiving reports | published widely in email streams | family caregiver | advocate for low-income older adults
The Bloomin’ Onion | **SUBMISSIONS ALWAYS OPEN** @bloominonionlit.bsky.social A Literary Magazine with Layers. Est. 2024. #1667 on the Second Annual FISH List. That’s right: we’re on a list. Posts by EIC.
Subs: https://www.thebloominonion.com/submission-guidelines
michelle champagne @chellechampagne.bsky.social EIC: @susurrusmag.bsky.social l she/her
michellechampagnewrites.com
phi!ip james shaw @lateration.bsky.social Reflections of loneliness in peculiar manners: www.philipjamesshaw.com
Published with mchgx.com
Ali Morretta @alimorrettawrites.bsky.social Freelance editor and copywriter. Words in Citywide Lunch, Pacifica Lit, Flash Frog, and The Citron Review. Dogs love me.
AA Tojino @infinitecoinglitch.bsky.social writer, abolitionist, wi spa enthusiast
Dawid Mobolaji @dawidmobolaji.bsky.social Literary translator (Polish - English), writer and resident doctor
Translations of prose and poetry in Words Without Borders, Asymptote, The Dial and elsewhere
London, UK
https://linktr.ee/dawidmobolaji
Fractured Lit @fracturedlit.bsky.social Fractured Lit publishes flash fiction with emotional resonance. Open year-round and is available to all writers. https://fracturedlit.com/ Posts by @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social
Some Words @somewordslit.bsky.social A literary journal hosted on a message board.
Joey Hedger @joeyhedger.bsky.social Author living in Alexandria, VA | Deliver Thy Pigs (Malarkey Books) | stories in Saw Palm, Complete Sentence, Variant Lit, HAD, and more | he/him
www.joeyhedger.com
Kashawn Taylor @kashawntaylor.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Student.
Prison Journalism Project.
Gotham Writers Workshop.
book: subhuman. out now.
Stephanie Isan 🇹🇼 怡璇 @srirachachang.bsky.social (she/they) 🐞🐈⬛ 🌻 @ stephanieisan.com
Prose MFA @ UMass Amherst. Kundiman fellow. I write code, stories & the occasional fridge poem. Social media is very, very difficult.
Jon Doyle @jondoyle.bsky.social COMMUNION out now via Atlantic Books
Coming May 2027 via Graywolf Press
Rep: Emma Paterson, Aitken Alexander
https://linktr.ee/jondoylewriter
Sudha Balagopal @sudhab.bsky.social Writer:
Winner of Santa Fe Literary Award; Family Matters forthcoming from SFWP, 2027.
Pubs: Adroit Journal, Doric Lit, CRAFT,SmokeLong, Fractured
Best Microfic, Best Small Fic, Wigleaf Top 50.
BathFlash HC/Shortlisted; Series Editor: Wigleaf Top 50
Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social Fiction writer with work in Story, Florida Review, Cream City Review. Instructional designer by day. Philadelphia!
ellenrhudy.com
MarjeeC @marjeec.bsky.social Social scientist by day, writer of fiction dawn thru dusk. Reader of everything
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
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)
Elizabeth Motes @emotes206.bsky.social Writer, NAU MFA ‘25. Social media manager for Split Lip Mag. Lover of literary ghosts.
Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social writer. critic. essayist. on staff at New York Magazine. Southern broad. https://angelicabastien.com/
https://angelicabastien.substack.com
M’Bilia Meekers @mbilia.bsky.social Poet. Myth, memory and the body’s strange beauty. Verse in The New Yorker, Adroit Journal, Guernica, Split Lip.
Josh Denslow @joshdenslow.bsky.social High-functioning slacker.
The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social “The Adroit Journal is where I go when I want to know what the kids are reading.”
—The Paris Review
https://linktr.ee/theadroitjournal?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaY2AGldWsnSz9H-OoEtXxJjk02NLV0fG0wkmOIITzjlxRYq8R2lWo6jrIU_aem_BU_jPktWCVqyJRazMLp4sA
shovda @shovda.bsky.social Poet (Sara Hovda) and SMW Kaizo streamer (shovda). I post about both.
The Foundation for Asian American Independent Media @faaim.bsky.social (FAAIM) is an organization that celebrates emerging AANHPI creative talent. We accomplish this by hosting various including the annual Asian American Showcase in Chicago and supporting artists in building a grassroots audience for their work.
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
Natalie Jorges-Castellanos @nataliejc.bsky.social Bookish mother of two, English teacher and tutor, always on the lookout for kindred spirits!
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world. -- L.M. Montgomery
Théo @tlpavlich.gay Writer, editor, sports gay, transy they/them
Essay Editor @ theoffingmag.com
Capo @ bostonisa.com for #BostonLegacyFC #UpTheSwans
ACAB includes Ted Unkel | #Crew96 #VamosRayo #FCSP #SCFC
My skeets don't reflect the views of my employer
Lisa Wartenberg Vélez @lisawv.bsky.social 🇨🇴 • PEN / Dau • Best Debut Short Stories 2023, MQR, Nimrod, Ghost Parachute, others; forthcoming: Cutleaf • @UcrossFdn • 🏳️🌈
Mimi Wong @mimiwong.bsky.social Writer, rep’d by Dara Hyde at Hill Nadell
https://mimi-wong.com
Marcelle Heath @marcelleheath.bsky.social Short story writer
Author, Is that all there is?
Editor, matchbook
linktr.ee/marcelle.heath
Zara Chowdhary @awarazara.bsky.social Writer | Creative writing professor | Author of The Lucky Ones (2024) | big fan of trees and seas.
Eleanor Fuller @eleanorfuller.bsky.social Winner Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction 2023; finalist Fiddlehead Short Fiction Prize 2023 & Cambridge Short Story Prize 2024. Edith Wharton WiR 2024. Words: The Waxed Lemon, The Moth, Malahat, The New Quarterly & other lovelies. CCA-funded sabbatical!
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cassie mattheis @cassiemattheis.bsky.social she/her • appalachian; memoirist; essayist & enthusiast in everything.
editorial assistant @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
Jen Palmares Meadows @jenpmeadows.bsky.social Creative Nonfiction Writer. Essays. Memoir in Progress. Work in Lit Hub, The Rumpus, Fourth Genre, Brevity, Denver Quarterly, Hobart. Sacramento Valley via SoCal. jenpalmaresmeadows.com
Kayla Lightner @kaylalightner.bsky.social Literary agent @ APL. Fiction MFA @ UMD. Words in Split Lip, Pithead Chapel, phoebe, and elsewhere. Puschart Nom '25, BOTN Finalist '24, BSF Nom '22, Lover of babies 'always. Find me here: kaylalightner.com
Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social Writer of The Other Ones, Looney, Howard & Charles at the Factory, This Darkness Got to Give, more. Editor @ Barrelhouse, primary organizer of the Barrelhouse conference in DC in the Spring. Web @ PSU. Goofy gentleman. He/him.
shing yin khor @shing.bsky.social Award-winning (2x Indiecade, Eisner, Ignatz, National Book Award finalist, etc) game designer, cartoonist, and puppet filmmaker in the practice of marionettes, fortune cabinets, kind rabblerousing, and Paul Bunyan facts. Little guy enjoyer. (they/them)
Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com A reader-supported online film journal, offering a different lens on movies since 2013.
issues/essays: brightwalldarkroom.com
podcast: @bwdrpod.bsky.social
all the things: https://linktr.ee/brightwalldarkroom
Astronautpants @astronautpants.bsky.social My astrology readings are open! https://astronautpantsastrology.com/
You Must Remember This @rememberthispod.bsky.social The podcast exploring the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood's first century, by Karina Longworth. http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/
tazza @t4zz4.bsky.social they/he
neuroqueer artist, poet & zinemaker
fl & atl
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Jennifer Juszkiewicz, Ph.D. @jenniferiwj.bsky.social WPA/WCD at Saint Mary’s College, IN. Periodically ineloquent short bio writer. Found some driftwood that looked like a whale and wanted to share.
Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social “Having fun isn’t hard, when you’ve got a library card!” - Arthur Read
linktr.ee/mychalthreets
John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
Maurice Ruffin @mauricenow.bsky.social Maybe the real treasure was the friends we made along the way. 💐 I'm probably on my Substack: Sitting in Silence.✍️🏿https://mauricecarlosruffin.substack.com/
Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social Not a WH Staffer | Politics, NatSec, and Snark - Your Mileage May Vary | Subscribe to my Patreon newsletter for free: https://www.patreon.com/AWHSBlog |
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
blithe spirit @emmkick.bsky.social she/her; not your lawyer, not your romance novel heroine
Alison Kinney @alisonkinney.bsky.social Author: UNITED STATES OF REJECTION: A STORY OF LOVE, HATE & HOPE (UGA Press, May 1, 2026): https://www.ugapress.org/9780820377230/united-states-of-rejection/
Boston Asian American Film Festival (BAAFF) @baaff.bsky.social BAAFF empowers Asian Americans through film by showcasing Asian American experiences. Co-production of the Asian American Resource Workshop and ArtsEmerson. https://linktr.ee/baaff
Christie Debelius, Ph.D. @cbdebelius.bsky.social Feminist scholar & writing teacher | British Romanticism, media studies, and women’s writing | probably reading horror fiction to avoid the horrors of reality
MH Truglia, PhD @crowneofbookes.bsky.social Director, IUB WTS | CITL, Writing Studies, Writing Centers, & Writing Pedagogy | WAC/WID | SoTL | Renaissance woman | Early Modern women's writing | Genre studies | Teacher |Professional Fangirl | Bibliophile 📚
Phil Choong @philchoong.bsky.social PhD candidate. Academic interests in rhetorical education & critical university studies. Also here for games, pro wrestling, podcasts, and pet photos. (he/him)
Miranda Wojciechowski-Hardman (she/hers) @drmandawoj.bsky.social Incurable bibliophile, recovering academic, catdog mom, feminist killjoy, aspiring patissier📚😸🍰
Zoe Flavin @zoebflavin.bsky.social writer & sex educator | NYU mfa
zoebflavin.substack.com
Sarah Scoles @sarahscoles.bsky.social Journalist, universe liker, mountain scaler, Custer County Search and Rescue member, contributor to Undark and Scientific American, author of Countdown: The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons. Etc.
Nick Mandernach @nickmandernach.bsky.social Writer
https://linktr.ee/Nickmandernach
rl wheeler @rlwheeler.bsky.social poet + 2am laundry folder • they/them • reader/editorial asst @splitlipthemag • pushcart/BotN noms • words: waxwing, the journal, wildness, anmly, foglifter, gigantic sequins, &c.
more at: https://www.rachaellinwheeler.com
Susan Lerner @susanlitelerner.bsky.social Assistant memoir editor at Split Lip Magazine, assistant editor at Brevity. Reader for River Teeth, Fourth Genre, TriQuarterly
krys malcolm belc @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social I wrote THE NATURAL MOTHER OF THE CHILD and have another memoir, WHAT I MADE FOR DINNER, forthcoming from Catapult in 2026. I live in Saint Paul, MN.
Victoria Hood (she/her) @toriiellen.bsky.social author of My Haunted Home: Stories and I Am My Mother’s Disappointments. i love scary movies and surrealism and cats. meow!
Cody Shrum @cshrumly.bsky.social Just some guy. Author of Oakaville (Alien Buddha Press) and Green Acre (Choeofpleirn Press). Words in HAD, Maudlin House, BULL, Cleaver Mag, JMWW, et al. Fiction editor: Identity Theory. http://codyshrum.com
T Guzman @tguzman.bsky.social Writer or close approximate. Chapbook, Ghost Mom, from Stanchion Press. Exclamation point user extraordinaire. Zebra Cake connoisseur.
Chicanx. He/Him.
www.tguzmanwrites.com
CA💛/MI💜/STL♥️
Sarah Lynn Knowles @sarahspy.com Fiction writer, Storychord.com founding editor, Tin House Winter '24 & One Story Summer '23 alum || eavesdropper, signal booster, she/her, Massachusetts || https://sarahlynnknowles.com
Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • Blood Type: Curry • Leeds United • Anti-AI
#LUFC
jmthornberry.wordpress.com
sandandgravelpress.com/store/the-finish-line-jason-thornberry
Minaye @emotionaljellyfish.bsky.social She/her
Queer and anxious
Laughing through the end of days
Julien ✨ @okaysure.cool When she was good, she was very very good, and when she was bad, she was wicked.
She/they 🏳️⚧️ ATL
okaysure.cool
Belle @georgiawhorewell.bsky.social The she/her denizen formerly known as ThatCurvyChick on Twitter. Leftist politics, sex+ feminism, writing, calligraphy, watercolor and more. 🍉
💍 💒 2/3/23 to Victor ❤️
👶🏻 👶🏻 🥰
Justin Carter @juscarts.com Author of Brazos (Belle Point Press, 2024) // women's basketball & motorsports writer // Texan living in Iowa // juscarts.com
Kath Ebooks @kathebooks.com she/they • 30s • ATL • library goblin
Sebastian Páramo @sebastianparamo.bsky.social PORTRAIT OF US BURNING from Northwestern UP • Founding Editor The Boiler • He/Him
https://linktr.ee/sebastianparamo
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
rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc.
out now: edgeless (Caitlin Press)
https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/
https://www.patreon.com/robmclennan
http://robmclennanauthor.blogspot.com/ https://robmclennan.substack.com/
Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social Writer. Books: A THOUSAND WAYS TO DISAPPEAR (Cornerstone Press, 2028)/THE CLARITY OF HUNGER (Word West Press, 2021). Fiction instructor: Harvard Extension School. MacDowell Fellow ‘23. Email: fabulistpappas@gmail.com
www.cherylpappas.net
Chloe Chun Seim @chloechun.bsky.social Fiction writer & artist. CHURN (Texas Review Press 2023) Words: Split Lip Magazine. Free State Review. LitMag. Opinions my own. MFA at UMKC. she/her https://linktr.ee/chloe_chun_seim
Rachel Mans McKenny @rachelmansmckenny.bsky.social Humorist and author from the Midwest. Seen in NYTimes, McSweeneys, Elle,WaPo and other places. writing center person. Here for the jokes and books. rachelmansmckenny.com
Łukasz Drobnik @drobnik.co Fiction writer, author of VOSTOK, RIVERINE & NOCTURINE. Words in Split Lip Magazine, HAD, Fractured Lit, Foglifter, etc. He/him. Website: drobnik.co
Lily @lilywrites.bsky.social Managing Editor at @episodesnewsletter.bsky.social. Words in @racketmn.com, @reactorsff.bsky.social, others. Ex-MFA person. She/her. All views my own!
Teri V @terivela.bsky.social She/her. Poet, mother, queer, witch, cactus. Latina. Assistant poetry editor for Split Lip Magazine. Warren Wilson MFA alum. 🍉🍉🍉