ellie sm (so much) @naproxen.bsky.social social media intern for you
elliesunlightmoon.com
lamovingimage.com
Shirley Li @shirklesxp.bsky.social The Atlantic staff writer. Zach Woods EGOT campaign manager. EW alum. sli@theatlantic.com
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts @bblitarts.bsky.social A place dedicated to the possibilities of language || Workshops, readings, art, performances, and bookstore. Est. 1968 in Venice, California.
https://www.beyondbaroque.org/
@tourmaliiine.bsky.social @tourmaliiine.bsky.social 
Kima Jones @kimajones.bsky.social BUTCH forthcoming Knopf 📚
www.kimajones.com
Natashia Deón @natashiadeon.bsky.social Friend, Mother, Wife, Lawyer, Novelist: GRACE and THE PERISHING. 👋
Emma Straub @emmastraub.bsky.social Novelist and bookseller. 
Bethanne Patrick @thebookmaven.bsky.social SUBSTACK:
The Book Maven Unbound
https://thebookmavenunbound.substack.com/
Critic @LATimesBooks
LIFE B memoir: https://bookshop.org/p/books/life-b-overcoming-double-depression-bethanne-patrick/1874245
https://linktr.ee/bookmaven
Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social We stand at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the U.S. and worldwide. Support and learn more at pen.org.
Poets & Writers @pw.org Official account of Poets & Writers, the primary source of information, support, and guidance for creative writers since 1970. Sign up for our newsletter: at.pw.org/newsletter
John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social Author (The Fault in Our Stars, The Anthropocene Reviewed, etc.)
YouTuber (vlogbrothers, Crash Course, etc.)
Football Fan (co-owner of AFC Wimbledon, longtime Liverpool fan)
Opposed to Tuberculosis
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
The Rumpus @therumpus.net Independent since 2009. Read The Rumpus Magazine. Become a Member. Receive Letters in the Mail from Authors. Join a dynamic, global community.
http://linktr.ee/The_Rumpus2.1
ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social Award-winning, indie lit journal—made in San Francisco since 1985. Our Issue 132 is now available. Subscribe: zyzzyva.org/subscribe/
Oscar Villalon @ovillalon.bsky.social Editor, ZYZZYVA (zyzzyva.org); contributing editor, Lit Hub; publications: Freeman's, The Believer, VQR, Lit Hub, Stranger's Guide, Alta, and other places. San Francisco is my home.
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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Ploughshares Literary Journal @pshares.bsky.social The award-winning literary journal based at Emerson College. Publishing established and emerging writers since 1971. mtr.bio/pshares
Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social Publisher of award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For the workshop, head to @mccormackwc.bsky.social.
Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social I'm a writer. I don't believe in voices for the voiceless. Abolish the conditions of voicelessness instead.
Books include The Sympathizer, The Committed, A Man of Two Faces, The Refugees, and To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other.
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor®
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
benjamindreyer.com
Laura Rensing @lilrensing.bsky.social Obsessed with supporting small artists, cookies, and my dog. Probably not in that order.
Co-Editor in Chief @expositionreview.bsky.social
Shze-Hui Tjoa @shzehuitjoa.bsky.social 🔮 Author of THE STORY GAME: A MEMOIR (Tin House Books, 2024)
🧠 Senior Nonfiction Editor, Guernica magazine
📍A Singaporean in Edinburgh
Jessica June Rowe @willwriteforchai.bsky.social Author, playwright, editor, chai latte addict. SEO pays the bills. Flash Editor of Exposition Review. Bad at Tweeting, now bad at Bluesky, too. 
Lisa Beebe @lisabeebe.bsky.social Writer. I like writing (screenwriting and short stories, mostly) and dogs and art and nature and movies and books and YOU. (she/her) http://www.lisabeebe.com/
Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com Author of six books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist THE MOOR’S ACCOUNT. Reader. Mutant. https://linktr.ee/lalami
The Believer @thebeliever.net A quarterly literature, arts, and culture magazine.
https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the-believer-subscription-bm4
thebeliever.net
Tod Goldberg @todgoldberg.bsky.social Crooks. Gangsters. Rabbis. Burned spies. Noir holidays.
todgoldberg.com
Susan Orlean @susanorlean.bsky.social Pencil pusher
Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social Wrote ANCESTOR TROUBLE. Most recently in Narrative, Baffler, Guardian, NYT. Dog person, cat person, native plant restoration person. Opinions my own. NYC. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/maudnewton
Jennifer Egan @egangoonsquad.bsky.social Reader, writer, journalist
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social Crafty southpaw.
Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social Film critic; NSFC, NYFCC. Bylines at Criterion, Sight & Sound, Noir City, my own Substack, and wherever fine film geeks are found.
https://selfstyledsiren.substack.com/
Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Not a customer service desk. (I do not book guests for NPR. Beware of scams.)
Inkoo Kang @inkookang.bsky.social Television critic at The New Yorker. Pronounced in-goo. Get updates from me: https://inkoo.substack.com/ | https://linktr.ee/inkookang
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/
Carolyn Oliver @carolynroliver.bsky.social poet, etc.
J Wortham @jennydeluxe.bsky.social writer, podcaster, author
https://jennydeluxe.substack.com/
Jamila @jamilarowser.bsky.social Writer • Editor • Comic publisher blackjoseipress.com • Wash Day Diaries co-creator • LA Times Book Prize & Ignatz winner • Eisner nom’ed • Horror stan • Nana is my personality • Always in pain • Always tired • ✊🏾🇵🇷🇩🇴🏳️🌈 🥄•
Claire Dederer @clairedederer.bsky.social Author of MONSTERS: A FAN'S DILEMMA, a New York Times Notable Book and a national bestseller. Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Fresh Air, The Washington Post, Esquire, Kirkus, Vulture, Electric Lit & more.
L Mari Harris @lmariharris.bsky.social Reader, Writer, Ozarks dweller. Wigleaf Top 50. Best Microfiction. Editor at trampset.
Chelsea Sutton @crsutton.bsky.social Theatre/Fiction/Other Stuff
she/her Clarion '22
Chapbook from @wrongpublishing.bsky.social
Upcoming novella from @splitlippress.com
Keegan Lawler @keeganlawler.bsky.social I like books. Writing in/forthcoming from MQR: Mixtape, the Los Angeles Review, Fourteen Hills, the Offing, Tahoma Literary Review, among others. He/him
https://keeganlawler.com
Cassie McDaniel @cassiemc.bsky.social VP Design at Medium
ngoziu @ngoziu.com NYT bestselling graphic novelist. DC Comics, The New Yorker. │rep'd by @chelseberly, business q's @grohac
ngoziu.com
Maureen Lee Lenker @themaureenlee.bsky.social Critic/Journalist, Novelist, Musical Theater nerd, Hopeful romantic, Classic movie lover, and Bruce Springsteen super-fan
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha @lenakt.bsky.social Poet, Translator, Essayist.
Marieke Nijkamp @mariekeyn.bsky.social #1 NYT bestselling author of novels, comics, and graphic novels | nonbinary | 🌈📚 | 🏳️🌈 | ♿
Out now: SPLINTER & ASH | Up next: AFTER WE BURNED
📖: mariekenijkamp.com
Alejandra Oliva @olivalejandra.bsky.social writer, embroiderer & translator | RIVERMOUTH out now | she/her
sarah rose etter @sarahroseetter.bsky.social a little sweet, a little spicy.
wrote the book of x, ripe (scribner, july 2023)
Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social Writer | Dr. | Project Manager for Roxane Gay | Co-editor The Audacity | 🌈😷| Rep’d by Alyssa Jennette | Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Francesca Spiegel @glossyruin.bsky.social I write about life, and about books (ideally, both at the same time).
Rep'd by Massie & McQuilkin Literary
Associate Editor for Nonfiction at
@ExpoReviewLit
Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social Axcan quema, tehuatl, nehautl…
Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social Writer | Chicago | Work in The Offing, X-R-A-Y, Wigleaf + more | Pushcart Prize and BotN nom | Best Microfiction ‘24, '25, '26
https://elenalzhang.wordpress.com/writing/
Sarah Freligh @sfreligh.bsky.social Writer and swimmer and teacher. Books: OTHER EMERGENCIES; HEREAFTER; A BRIEF NATURAL HISTORY OF WOMEN; DEAR YOU; WE & SAD MATH. Best Microfiction 2018-21, 2025-26; Wigleaf 50; NEA poetry fellow; http://sarahfreligh.com. Mom to Wayne and Oscar.
Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social Lit Agent Talcott Notch, AALA Member, Editor, Teacher, Writer of Flash Fiction Editor at @fracturedlit.bsky.social Publications: Harpur Palate, Laurel Review, Monkey Bicycle, Ghost Parachute
https://linktr.ee/tommydeanwriter
Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social Former Writer in Residence at U of Tennessee - author of The Fire Eater, Bad Mexican, Bad American, The Parachutist, Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man.
Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social Ploughshares | Best American Nonreq'd | Copper Nickel Editors' Prize | The Norton Reader | ElectricLit | Flash Fiction America | Swamp Pink | Wigleaf | Five Points (forthcoming) | The Art of Flash Fiction https://artofflashfiction.substack.com
K. Iver @ivertownandcountry.bsky.social (they) | Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco (Milkweed, 2023) 🎥
LaDarrion Williams @itsladarrion.bsky.social USA Today & New York Times Bestselling Author of Blood at the Root. Also a Playwright, screenwriter, and filmmaker.
Brandon Hoàng @brandonhoang.bsky.social 👫🏻 Wylde Pak
👻 Ghost & Molly McGee
🚲 GLORIA BUENROSTRO IS NOT MY GIRLFRIEND (FSG)
🏹 THE CROSSBOW OF DESTINY (Scholastic)
💫 THE INVENTOR'S EYE (Top Shelf)
🧨 MINECRAFT: ONE LAST QUEST (PRH)
🪭ATLA: KYOSHI WARRIORS
https://linktr.ee/brandonhoangwrites
Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com Senior VisDev artist at studio MDHR Harvey award winning Author and Illustrator of Graphic novels. HUNGRY GHOST, Artist for DC and Marvel. Film Credits: Tangled, Frozen, Wreck it Ralph, Big Hero 6, Moana. Views are my own
Linkin.bio/victoriaying
Gabrielle Bates @gabriellebates.bsky.social author of Judas Goat (Tin House, 2023) ♥️ originally from Bham, AL // now in Seattle // cohost of the podcast The Poet Salon
Evie Shockley @seminewblack.bsky.social poet & literary scholar, people-oriented introvert, optimist of the will
https://linktr.ee/evieshockley
Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social An online journal publishing classically inspired short stories. Now open for submissions, 1000-8000 words. Edited by @CourtlandAvenue (Dave Gregory)
https://doric-literary.com/
Varsha Venkatesh @varshawrites86.bsky.social Writer. Words in: Exposition Review, Moss Puppy Magazine, Five Minute Lit, and others
mark leidner @markleidner.bsky.social new book of poems “Elegy for Pangaea” out 9/15/26. pre-order here: https://fonografeditions.com/catalog/fono-46-elegy-for-pangea-by-mark-leidner
Georgia San Li @smallgalaxies.bsky.social “Patience is the specter of want.” — Mark Strand
#BreadLoafPoetry&Translation
#BenningtonMFA
#Wandering #PeriodicElements
#Intermezzo
Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social Beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness.
Lambda Award winner, Locus Award finalist, Best-selling author of MANHUNT, CUCKOO, and BLACK FLAME, out now from Tor Nightfire, and CHIMERA, coming 2027
Profile pic by @theoboopis.bsky.social
Rayne Alarcio @raynealarcio.bsky.social 25 | Fil Am 🇵🇭🇺🇸 Writer
Angie Han @ajhan.bsky.social critic @ The Hollywood Reporter
backup human to 2 cats @ home
West Hollywood, CA
Justin Chang @justincchang.bsky.social Film Critic, The New Yorker and NPR’s Fresh Air | 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism | Chair, National Society of Film Critics | Programmer, New York Film Festival
Alonso Duralde @aduralde.bsky.social Film critic (thefilmverdict.com) Podcaster (linoleumcast.bsky.social bfastallday.bsky.social maximumfilmpodcast.bsky.social deckthehallmark.bsky.social) Member, LAFCA & NSFC. Books: HAVE YOURSELF A MOVIE LITTLE XMAS, HOLLYWOOD PRIDE. he/him🌹🏳️🌈🎄📽
Courtney Howard @lulamaybelle.bsky.social 🍅meter-approved film critic/ journo.
Member: LA Film Critics Association, Critics Choice Association
Writer: Variety, FreshFiction.tv.
Never met a dachshund I haven’t liked.
Ryan Swen/孫天行/Sun Tien-hsing @swenryan.bsky.social Freelance film critic, lafilmcritics.bsky.social Secretary/Events Chair, list obsessive. Host of Catalyst and Witness, co-host of 24 hours don't make an ideology. USC JD, CAMS MA.
Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social Film critic of the LA Times and host of the podcast Unspooled.
Say hello with your favorite movie and why -- or a picture of a standard poodle.
IG/Letterboxd: @theamynicholson
Tim Grierson @timgrierson.bsky.social Senior U.S. Critic for Screen International. Member: LAFCA and NSFC. Frequently in the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Vulture, the A.V. Club and RogerEbert.com. Author of "This Is How You Make a Movie." Q&A moderator. Contact: timothygrierson@gmail.com
Joshua Rothkopf @joshuarothkopf.bsky.social Film Editor, Los Angeles Times | Member, LAFCA | Vice-Chair, National Society of Film Critics | I'm watching a movie right now.
William Bibbiani @williambibbiani.bsky.social Award-winning film critic for The Wrap. Co-host of The Critically Acclaimed Network. LAFCA. CCA. GALECA. Ace. He/Him. 🎃
Katie Walsh @katiewalshstx.bsky.social Film Critic @ Tribune News Service & @latimes.com
Veep @lafilmcritics.bsky.social / member @nsfc.bsky.social
Adjunct @ USC School of Cinematic Arts
Linktree.com/katiewalshstx
Michael Nordine @mnordine.bsky.social You know something, Marge? It's not that tough being a film cricket.
Claudia Puig @claudiapuig.bsky.social Film critic on LAist’s “Film Week,” film fest program director @Santa Barbara, Mendocino & Cascadia International Women’s FF, mom to Danielle & Alison, dog lover, cat enthusiast, pro-democracy, anti-MAGA, proud Californian Latina
LYT - Subscribe for free to my Substack plz @lytrules.substack.com Film critic and editor. Liberal Democrat. Cat dad. Toy photographer. Atheist. Half-English. Anti-bigotry. Supporter of all workers, staff and freelance.
https://linktr.ee/lytrules
Brent Simon @shareddarkness.bsky.social “You gotta kick at the darkness ’til it bleeds daylight.” Award-winning journalist/author: https://bit.ly/3NpYWqA. Member: @lafilmcritics.bsky.social, Golden Globes. Tar Heel. 2006 TIME Person of Year. Flag carrier: David Lynch, U2, cinema, tacos, decency.- E ella taylor @ellat.bsky.social Film and book critic; Teaches at USC School of Cinema
Manuel Betancourt @bmanuel.bsky.social Assistant Editor, Documentary magazine
Writer/critic for hire 📍LA
📚 Hello Stranger (OUT NOW!)
📚 The Male Gazed (2023)
📚 Judy at Carnegie Hall (2020)
🏰 Writer on The Cardboard Kingdom series (2018, 2021, 2023)
www.mbetancourt.com
Robert Abele @robertabele.bsky.social I see movies, I see television. They're inside the room with me now. Freelance, LA Times. LA Film Critics Association -- President. Tennis obsessive. Leave me be when Hsieh Su-wei is playing.
Jen Yamato @jenyamato.bsky.social journalist | film critic
movies, karaoke, repeat
Christy Lemire @christylemire.bsky.social Film critic, Breakfast All Day co-host, FilmWeek on LAist, 1986 Wheel of Fortune Teen Week champion, Nicolas' mom, runner, sober ⚓️
Saturday Matinee newsletter: https://christylemire.beehiiv.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastAllDay/
Oliver Jones @ogoliverjones.bsky.social Film critic, professor, journalist 
Carlos Aguilar @carlosfilm.bsky.social Film critic/journalist. Mexican 🇲🇽 DACA. Bylines LA Times, New York Times, IndieWire, RogerEbert, Backstage
Justin Lowe @cinemaplanet.bsky.social Freelance
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
@j-klone.bsky.social @j-klone.bsky.social 
Los Angeles Film Critics Association @lafilmcritics.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA). Founded in 1975.
lafca.net
Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social Multi-genre lit journal & community
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