Michael Lieberman @mlieber123.bsky.social Writer/Atty in Maryland outside DC. Bylines in Jewish Currents, Points in Case, and McSweeneys.
The Belladonna Comedy @belladonnacomedy.bsky.social The Belladonna is a comedy and satire site by women and marginalized genders for everyone. Because we aren't funny. We're hilarious. 🌺💉
thebelladonnacomedy.com
@jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social I write essays, humor, CNF. Memoir MOTION DAZZLE (9/2025): a birth, a death, figure skating, and zebras. MFA, Pushcart nom. Words in: The Offing, HAD, Colorado Review, Litro Mag, Belladonna, NYT, Slate, WIRED. https://www.jocelynjanecox.com
@ddvolz.bsky.social @ddvolz.bsky.social writer and what not (McSweeneys, the Belladonna, Points in Case)
Allie Sharma Nelson @allienelson.bsky.social #Writer #Actor #Producer #CastingDirector #Comedian #Voiceover #Film #TV #Commercial #Indian #endo #Filmmaker
World’s Mediocre-est Superhero
Matthew Fox @mattfoxwriter.bsky.social THE LOVELY DARK is nominated for the Kirkus Prize 2026 🇺🇸 | Kirkus ★ | Financial Times Best Children's Books '23 | Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist '24 | No AI |🌱
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ely kreimendahl @elykreimendahl.bsky.social ok ok I’m here. comic, writer, queer. @gayshamecomedy & @podshamespiral
Alex Reece Abbott @alexreeceabbott.bsky.social Writer | Best Small Fictions | Irish Novel Fair | Bonsai: Best NZ Small Stories | Bridport |Random House WriteNow | London Independent Prize Rising Star | Katherine Mansfield Sparkling Prose | Pulp Literature Showcase | Arvon | https://alexreeceabbott.info
Lily Hirsch @lilyehirsch.bsky.social Writer (often about music). Author of Can’t Stop the Grrrls and Weird Al: Seriously. New one about Angela Lansbury out now! Sometimes tries to be funny.
After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers.
Links: https://bio.site/afterdinner
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
Rob 🚀☘️ @rjszczerba.bsky.social Rocket Scientist 🚀 turned Tech CEO; Senior Fellow Lockheed Martin; Notre Dame PhD☘️; Wrote cool stuff for Forbes, & Proud Autism Dad! ♥️
Rachel Reyes @rachelreyes240.bsky.social Writer, editor, punthusiast 
BJ Knisley @brookeknisley.bsky.social Writer. Comedy. Tech Bro(oke). Disabled.
Bylines in HuffPost, Paste Magazine, Vulture, McSweeney's, Weekly Humorist, Shouts & Murmurs, etc. she/they
🩸If you DM me, I'll probably throw up blood.
Stephanie Redmond @stephinitelyme.bsky.social UK humour writer, which you might know as humor or youmour.
Contributor to…
The New Yorker
Points in Case
Jane Austen’s Wastebasket
The Belladonna
Slackjaw
Emily Schleiger @emilyschleiger.bsky.social Screenwriter and writer, popcorn thief, feminist, mom.
MFA from UCRPD
EmilySchleiger.com
Kate Antoniades @kateantoniades.bsky.social Rochester, NY | writer, editor, journalist | nonprofit professional | she/her 🏳️🌈
Newsletter: https://thedoomscrollersantidote.substack.com/about
Katharine Strange @realstrangekaty.bsky.social Irreverent takes on God, philosophy & puppet jokes at heretichereafter.substack.com
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
SassyCuz @sassycuz.bsky.social Democrat from SoCal #RiseResist #FightForDemocracy #ResistRacism
#NoKings #WomensEmpowerment 💪 #Humanism 🏳️🌈 #FightFacism #AutismAwareness 🧩 #ProScience #ExposeTheLies #RejectTrump
#SupportUkraine #NO DM'S PLEASE 🚫
Julia Pearlstein @juliapearlstein.bsky.social Screenwriter and Playwright
PAGE Awards Finalist 20025 & 2026, Black List Recommended Writer, Stowe Story Labs, MacDowell and Yaddo Fellow
Crazy Parrot Lady
David Drew @dhdrew.bsky.social In-house lawyer, dachshund dad, occasional comedian, and big-headed lunk.
@drew.4.you on TikTok.
Flannery @flantasticbeast.bsky.social Book lover. Childless cat lady. Baked goods enthusiast. Historian. Archivist. UNC Alum. She/her. 37. California transplant in Chapel Hill, N.C.
Plantifa ✊🏾Ⓥ🌹 @plantifa21.bsky.social Woman of color, employment and labor rights attorney, organizer, may all beings be peaceful and happy 🙏🏽
Fiona Taylor @fionataylor.bsky.social Tired satirist and content marketer. Co-wrote New Erotica for Feminists: Satirical Fantasies of Love, Lust, and Equal Pay. Co-founded satire outlet The Belladonna. Writes The Monetization of Fear Substack. https://themonetizationoffear.substack.com
LauraP Writes @laurapwrites.bsky.social Writer, gardener, small-time farmer, and general dabbler in this and that
NeuroEm @neuroem.bsky.social Neuroscience trained. Off the bench, still a lover of science.
Holly Figueroa O'Reilly @hollyoreilly.bsky.social Chocolatier/Owner of the best damn little chocolate shop on the internet, shipping nationally. Want some? Go here: marcenetmercantile.com
I don't argue with MAGA. I tell them that I hope they get everything they voted for. That usually shuts them up.
Kim Samek @kimsamek.bsky.social O. Henry Prize-winning author of debut story collection I AM THE GHOST HERE with Dial Press, out now. Pushcart Prize winner, Emmy nominated tv writer.
Lauren Veloski @thats-bananas.bsky.social Screenwriter, creative coach & teacher building a badass community of women through THAT’S BANANAS. Our very lives depend on politics (oy), so I’m here for the slog/fight! Funny-intending. Wood nymph. Eats a good breakfast. ❤️
Laura Wheatman Hill @laurawheatmanhill.bsky.social Writer (?!)
2 dogs (!!)
Also 2 humans (...)
https://www.laurawheatmanhill.com/ 
Leslie Ylinen @leslieylinen.bsky.social Humor writer
Advertising creative writer
Keeps a respectful distance from the ocean
Rob Edmunds @robedmunds.bsky.social I'm a writer of three novels, the most recent about the conflict in Burma during World War II. My previous two novels are both about the ancient Numidian King Masinissa, set during the Second Punic War. 🏴
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Wendy Erskine @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social THE BENEFACTORS Sceptre. Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. Shortlisted Irish Novel of the Year, Best British Audio Book. It’s out now. dance move/sweet home/stinging fly/picador/well I just kind of like it/PVA Books
Peeppeeparoo @peeppeeparoo.bsky.social Everyone has the right to vote.
Pro-choice. Pro-Reproductive Freedom. Pro-Education
Also #broadway #cooking #podcasts #parenthood #taylorswift
Adam Weigand @adamweigand.bsky.social Improvisor. Comedy writer: Slackjaw, Frazzled
www.adamweigand.com
Richard Burgauer @richburgauer.bsky.social sometimes writer of words.
occasional reader of words.
in retrospect, i expected this sky was going to be a lot bluer.
sarah radziminski @sarahradz.bsky.social 🇨🇦 I must decline for secret reasons
Laura Berlinsky-Schine @laurita-jane.bsky.social 
@ckhemingway.bsky.social @ckhemingway.bsky.social Literary and visual artist focused on Jane Austen fan fiction novels and pastel portraiture. Author of: “The Matchmaker of Pemberley” and “Pemberley to Dublin, A Matchmaker’s Journey”.
Richie @richiezabo.bsky.social Writer / Dad / Librarian
Doug DeRabbie @derabbie.bsky.social Advocacy / Communications
Reader 📚
Avid Sports Fan #LeafsForever #NYGiants
Coffee Drinker ☕️
Superman Geek
Mental Health
Toronto 🇨🇦
girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social wop genius
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:
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Emily @emilyemilyemilybk.bsky.social https://www.emilybressler.com
Humor writer with words in @newyorker.com, @mcsweeneys.net, @pointsincase.com, @belladonnacomedy.bsky.social, & more.
Amy Colleen @amycolleen.bsky.social Christian, mom, student, writer, Austenite, "several niche accounts in a trench coat." Addicted to literary composition. Cringe but free. Editor of The Pomegranate at http://the-pom.com and writer of essays at http://www.amy-colleen.com
Viktoria Shulevich @vikshulevich.bsky.social Writer of humor, essays & children’s fiction.
Words in The New Yorker, McSweeneys, LA Times, WBUR’s Cognoscenti, Slackjaw, The Belladonna, Points in Case, Weekly Humorist!
www.viktoriashulevich.com
Katarina Merlini @mkatarina.bsky.social I write poems my mother hates
Lex Vaughn @lex.vaughn.theneedling.com Founder & Editor of @theneedling.com, Seattle's Only Real Fake News. Pulitzer Prize-winning real real news reporter.
A lil more about me: https://tinyurl.com/awveap8v
Caitlin Kunkel @caitlinkunkel.bsky.social Funny writer of fiction and satire. INSIDE JOKES: A COMEDY AND CREATIVITY GUIDE FOR ALL WRITERS out March 10, 2026.
My newsletter on our creative wells: https://inputandoutput.substack.com/
Joe @eastham.bsky.social Developer, design enthusiast, film fan, overthinker.
John Hardy @johnfrom25k.bsky.social Erudite, sorta. Left-wing New Englander (CT). Disdain for Vichy Democrats, Orange Satans and their lemmings. Congenital NY Mets fan (can't help it). Celtic Spirituality/Pantheist. GLP-1 pilgrimage. Wish I was a headlight on a north bound train.
Amy Greenlee @greenleeish.bsky.social Humor in @mcsweeneys @The_Belladonnas @SlackjawHumor @JaneWastebasket @FrazzledHumor @WeeklyHumorist | Editor of the TV humor publication Pause Button | Creator of The Gospel of Jest: gospelofjest.substack.com
Kelly @kellynoonan.bsky.social I used to write for @reductress @mcsweeneys and @belladonnacomedy and was Twitter famous for, like, a week in 2014. Now just a mere mortal. Thinking of joining a writing group if you know any.
Evan DeSimone @smorgasboredom.bsky.social Media writer/ennui enthusiast: Digiday, IntegralAds, Tubefilter, DCNorg
📍 NYC
Tabitha Potts @tabithapotts.bsky.social ✍️ UK Writer, host on Story Radio Podcast 🎙️. Longlisted #PMJWritersPrize. 🎬 Nominee #AustinSpotlightFilmFest 📖 👻 Horror novel 2026 with @rowanprosepub.bsky.social
🔗 https://linktr.ee/tabithapotts
Ryan Wolin @ryanwolin.bsky.social Writing for people at the intersection of Harry Potter and professional wrestling.
www.ryanwolin.com/humor
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/authors/ryan-wolin
Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social Author, essayist, hot fat monster of appetites. Bi my books and tell me I’m pretty.
https://linktr.ee/megelison
Points in Case @pointsincase.com Enlightening and irreverent literary humor publication since 1999, and a community hub for comedy writers, performers, and enthusiasts. pointsincase.com
Sasha Stewart @sashastewart.bsky.social One Girl. Three kidneys. All the jokes. WGAE Councilmember. Writer: Dying for Sex (FX), Amend: The Fight for America (Netflix), The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore (Comedy Central), New Yorker, McSweeneys, other stuff.
Sarah Sweeney @heysweeney.bsky.social Writer (Vogue SlackJaw McSweeney’s NYT The Bold Italic) | Voice Actor | Hopscotch Enthusiast
www.sweeneyproject.com
Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social “comedy” writer for “television”
Dan McCoy @dankmccoy.bsky.social Creator/co-host @flophousepodcast.com, a comedy podcast about bad movies. Wrote for The Daily Show for a decade. Drawings on Instagram at danmccoydraws.
Merrill Markoe @merrillmarkoe.bsky.social Writer of things intended to be humor and animal lover. I post A LOT of pieces on my Substack page:"Still Looking for the Joke" https://substack.com/@merrillmarkoe?utm_source=user-menu
John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA
Host/creator: Depresh Mode, Sleeping with Celebrities, The Hilarious World of Depression.
Host/co-creator/head writer: Wits.
Author: The Hilarious World of Depression.
Lead singer: Math Emergency.
Dogs owned: 2
Iowa Writers’ Workshop @iowawriterswksp.bsky.social The Program in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa
Hallie Pritts @halliepritts.bsky.social Writer. Finalist, Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize ‘24, Sewanee Writers ’22. CHTQA fellow. NZ writer-in-residence. Words in Mcsweeneys, MissouriReview, LitMag, Barrelhouse, TheBelladonna, OffAssignment, etc. Rode a bike across the US once. #nativeplants
Seth Rubin @setherubin.bsky.social editorial lead at jackbox games. words in the new yorker, the onion, mcsweeney’s, reductress, etc. assigned transsexual at birth
Chandler Dean @chandlerjdean.bsky.social Surely THIS one will stick
Lisa Borders @lisaborders.bsky.social Massachusetts-based writer, cat lover, alt rock fanatic. New novel, Last Night at the Disco, out now. Humor in McSweeney’s & more. I run the Novel Reactor workshops. Pro-science, anti-fascist. https://www.lisaborders.com/
Nick Morgan @nickmorgan.bsky.social Writer, lawyer, dad in Seattle. Work in @mcsweeneys @pointsincase @frazzledhumor, etc.
"Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.”
Seeking fellow writers and #writingcommunity, especially mystery #novelists and humorists
Laura LeeLun @laleelun.bsky.social Litigator turned comedy screenwriter; Chinese school drop-out; #GoBlue #scriptsky #filmsky (https://www.lauraleelun.com/)
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
The New York Times @nytimes.com We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Not a subscriber? Your first month is now free in our app. https://nytimes.onelink.me/Xpht/zbx4nci9
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social Complete fiction
New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nyrb.com
Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social Pulitzer finalist for THE GREAT BELIEVERS; new novel, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, out now. Artistic Director at StoryStudio Chicago. Trying to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. You should, too.
rebeccamakkai.substack.com
https://rebeccamakkai.com
Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social NYT-bestselling author of EL DORADO DRIVE (out June 24, 2025), BEWARE THE WOMAN, THE TURNOUT, GIVE ME YOUR HAND, YOU WILL KNOW ME, THE FEVER, etc. Co-creator/showrunner: DARE ME on Netflix. www.meganabbott.com 
Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social Dad, husband, maker of food, rider of bike, Brooklynite, movie watcher, reader, music listener, person who looks at his iPhone too much, literary agent at UTA
Wendy Molyneux @wendymolyneux.bsky.social Writer on Bob’s Burgers. Co-creator of The Great North.
Maggie Hendricks @maggiehendricks.bsky.social Sometimes sports journo, sometimes comms pro, always a maker. Love Chicago. Probably making a Taskmaster or Murder, She Wrote joke. I won't answer any questions you can Google. I'm here for conversation, not debate. I mute whining about officials.
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social Writer
Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social Writer, editor, journalist. Book and nature lover. Author, CLUTTER: AN UNTIDY HISTORY. Words in WaPo, TLS, NYT, LARB, CHE, EdSurge, etc. She/her. Reading, writing, and gardening in DC.
Newsletter: https://jenniferhoward.substack.com/
John McMurtrie @johnmcmurtrie.bsky.social Nonfiction editor, Kirkus Reviews.
Sam Sanders @samsanders.bsky.social Lapsed journalist. L.A. based. Texan forever. Listen to The Sam Sanders Show, a radio show all about the things that entertain us. Twice a week wherever you get your pods, and on YouTube.
https://linktr.ee/samsanderspodcaster
Daniel O'Brien @danielobrien.bsky.social Would love to get a run in.
Ariel Dumas @arieldumas.bsky.social Head Writer and Supervising Producer for The Late Show. IG @arieldumaspubicaccount
Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social Likable character who specializes in writing unlikeable characters. Thick 'n Creamy since 1925, muting mansplainers since 2010, (cheerfully) uncoupled since February 2020. Just an old lady trying to eat a taco. I am too a Merry Sunshine.
Molly McGhee @mollymcghee.com Reader. Novelist. Fiction nerd. Pro-worker. Anti-billionaire. I teach at Columbia. Online for two decades.
Casey Plett @caseyplett.com Publisher (LittlePuss Press)
Professor (Ohio University)
Writer (✨✨✨)
https://linktr.ee/caseyplett
Athens, OH / Windsor, ON (forever Winnipeg and Southern Manitoba)
Brian Boone @brianboone.bsky.social Author and such
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Men-Science-Brian-Boone/dp/0578560224
Naomi Ekperigin @naomiekperigin.bsky.social Comedian, writer, actor just trying to stay alive. Cohost of Couples Therapy podcast.
Joanna Robinson @jowrotethis.bsky.social Writer and podcaster at the @ringer • one of Cameron Crowe’s Uncool • taller than you think • author of MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios for W. W. Norton
Rebecca Alter @ralter.bsky.social “one foot in the grave and one on a banana peel” -angie k
i work at the website vulture
Felipe Torres Medina @felipetmedina.bsky.social Comedian from a country you misspell 🇨🇴
Writer @ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
BUY MY HUMOR BOOK https://allmylinks.com/felipetorresmedina
Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social “Orlando's Reigning Big Time Celebrity Author” - The Orlando Weekly
huuuuge lesbian. librarian. dad. floridian. beer drinker. NYT Bestselling author.
Mostly Dead Things & WITH TEETH & STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE
https://www.kristenarnettwriter.com