Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social Read Issue 8! Epistemiclit.com
Digital anthology series celebrating knowledge, connection, and growth through poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction.
EICs @melruthwrites.bsky.social and @kristinwrites.bsky.social. CNF Editor @gcbwrites.bsky.social
shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social Author of The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India), and most recently, Cajun South Brown Folk (Belle Point Press). Represented by Teffanie Thompson of Falkin Literary. 2019-2025 Series Editor of The Wigleaf Top 50. Lafayette, LA. shomedome.com
Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social Poet | SENTENCE (Nine Syllables Press, 2026) | MORE FLOWERS (Trio House Press, 2026) | DRESSING THE BEAR (Louise Bogan Award, Trio House Press, 2024) + 3 📚| Mayah 🐶 | Indianapolis, IN | www.susanlleary.com
David Elliot Eisenstat @eisenstat.bsky.social Managing Poetry Editor @variantlit.bsky.social (not my day job). Poems at https://www.davideisenstat.com/poetry/.
Suzy Eynon @suzyeynon.bsky.social Writer from the desert. Terrestrial from Malarkey Books, Being Seen from Ethel. Managing ed long fiction Variant https://malarkeybooks.com/terrestrial
http://suzyeynon.com/
Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social Variant Literature is a small press and magazine. http://variantlit.com
Summer 2026 issue out now!
J. R. @rgbkiller.bsky.social rgbkiller.substack.com
Identity Theory @identitytheory.bsky.social Classic online lit mag (founded 2000). Interviews, fiction, CNF, micro, poetry, etc. We may or may not be edited by a corgi. Read us at identitytheory.com.
Ian MacClayn @ianmacclayn.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/ianmacclayn
Writer. Debut novel THE HOLLOW OF EVENING out Feb 9 2027 with Dundurn Press/Rare Machines
John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com Co-owner @eveninghouse.bsky.social
Writer:
FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN
BOXCUTTERS
EIC @cold-signal.com
Buffalo, NY
johnchrostek.com
Evening House Books @eveninghouse.bsky.social an indie bookstore in downtown Buffalo, NY, focusing on new small press titles, books in translation, unsung classics, manga & much more
run by Amanda & John
website: http://www.eveninghousebooks.com
Nick Cummings @nickcummings.bsky.social Bills, Sabres, probably a bunch of other stuff you don’t want to hear about. Charleston, SC.
🎠 @jennajaco.bsky.social https://cherub.substack.com
Özge Lena @lenaozge.bsky.social Internationally published poet | Oxford Climate Society | Catapoetics | Catastrocene | LENORA
www.ozgelena.com & www.lenoralatin.org
John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social Restrooms are upstairs. Pay phone's upstairs. Pool table's upstairs. Foosball's upstairs. Cigarette machine's upstairs.
www.johnwaddybullion.com
Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social He collected things, each of a holy intention in isolation, but pagan in the variety of his choice.
—William Gaddis
📚 @anothernewcalligraphy.com, @ornithopterpress.bsky.social, @animalheartpress.bsky.social, @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
Giacomo Pope 🍄 @giac.bsky.social Isogenies, Cryptography and Goose Emojis🪿
Julián Martinez @martinezfjulian.bsky.social Son of Mexican and Cuban immigrants // debut book of fictions + novella from Future Tense Books, Spring 2027
Chicago forever.
shane kowalski @dieddisappointed.bsky.social like a pizza in the rain 
John Pinto @johnwespinto.bsky.social suburban kid with biblical name
https://pintopintopinto.com/
Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social tiny poems & strange movies // 🚫🤖 // EIC at @pizamapress.bsky.social // chapbook soon with @gasherpress.bsky.social // writing prompt every Sunday via Substack (neonpajamas)
LEFTOVER Books @leftoverbooks.bsky.social Born in Rochester, NY in 2021.
Publishing books ignored by the mainstream.
Submissions always open.
leftoverbooks.carrd.co
Alan @alanallanallen.bsky.social Beloved Literary Institution
Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social Neurotic Chicago-based writer, editor-in-chief of Maudlin House, podcaster, and doer of many odd things.
https://mallorysmart.com/
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social McDonald’s ice cream machine that writes.
Author of Goon Dog and Saint Lizard. Both available at Gob Pile Press.
Avee Chaudhuri @indigojackal.bsky.social Editor Prairie Schooner. Lecturer University of Nebraska-Lincoln. President-for-Life of The Holmes Lake Fishing Association. 
Steve Anwyll @oneloveasshole.bsky.social Author of Welfare (Tyrant Books)
I’m just a minor threat
Mike Nagel @misternagel.bsky.social Bullshit essayist. Author of Duplex and Culdesac from Autofocus Books. Father of Costcocore. Dallas kid.
www.michaelscottnagel.com
CLASH Books @clashbooks.bsky.social Big Indie Establishment Mom & Pop Press in Troy, NY Publishing Beach Reads from Hell. Skeets by Christoph Paul.
Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social Books and such
https://malarkeybooks.com/
kyle r. seibel @kylerseibel.bsky.social writer + usn veteran // HEY YOU ASSHOLES available now from Clash Books
Brecht De Poortere @brechtdp.bsky.social 🧑🦱 "Some guy who ranks all the lit journals you’ve ever heard of"
🥉 3rd prize The Hudson Review Short Fiction Contest
✍️ Missouri Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Baltimore Review, X-R-A-Y, The Forge Literary Magazine ...
🌍 https://www.brechtdepoortere.com
Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social Writer of dreamlike fiction | she/her | www.ivyivyivyivy.com 
Z.H. (Burial Magazine) @burialmagazine.bsky.social still bipolar | burialmagazine.neocities.org | thezhcorner.neocities.org | Orley Farm on xbox | much more active elsewhere
Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social Writer. Pie enthusiast. Historically preserved beard site. Cheese poet. Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, Cinnamon Challenge: honorable mention. 
L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social In Mediam Mentem. Consciousness-forward fiction and thought.
Championing fearless writing in short fiction, criticism, and literary nonfiction. Publishing in a revolutionary spirit.
Words: lespritliteraryreview.submittable.com/submit (Subs OPEN)
Caleb Bethea (they/them) @calebbethea.bsky.social Author of DISCO MURDER CITY and Fever Clowns | Dirty South Enby Punk | No AI
https://shop.maudlinhouse.net/#disco-murder-city
David Luntz @dluntz.bsky.social Words in Hobart Pulp, X-R-A-Y, Bruiser, HAD etc.
Jillian Luft @jillianluft.bsky.social Writer. SCUMBAG SUMMER (2024, House of Vlad Press). Founder of @sweettrashpress.bsky.social
Lamb @lamb.onl American writer.
lamb.onl
https://lmbonl.substack.com/
Eric Subpar @ericsubpar.bsky.social Poet from Washington State. Could talk all day about movies and the NBA.
https://linktr.ee/ericsubpar
Debut Novel GHOULS IN LOVE coming 2025 from Pig Roast Publishing.
Kevin M. Kearney @kevinmkearney.bsky.social new novel FREELANCE out May 31 from @rejectionlit.bsky.social
I've written for SLATE, STEREOGUM, and XRAY
I appreciate the band EVERCLEAR
https://asterismbooks.com/product/freelance-a-novel
Joshua Hebburn @joshuahebburn.bsky.social Radiologist @XRAY
https://joshuahebburn.wordpress.com/
Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social poet and novelist
http://www.linktr.ee/rustybarnes23
Craig @abasketofcraig.bsky.social Hobo
Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social CNF Editor Pithead Chapel • Smokelong Fellow • Bath Flash Fiction Winner • Storyknife • Anthology of Rural Stories by Writers of Color • Best Small Fictions • Words in River Teeth Beautiful Things, In Short, NWWQ, Cutleaf, Waxwing, 100 Word Story & more
Future Tense Books @futuretensebooks.bsky.social 30+ years of fine books and endless love in Portland, Oregon. We publish daring literary books by writers you should get to know. Editors: Kevin Sampsell (PDX) and Emma Alden (Philadelphia).
Visit us at www.futuretensebooks.com
BRUISER @bruisermag.com web zine + micropress
bruisermag.com
Jennifer Ostopovich @jrostopovich.bsky.social Writer | Artist
Hobart, Maudlin House, Roi Fainéant, Apocalypse Confidential, Scaffold, L’Esprit Literary Review, etc.
Maudlin House @maudlinhouse.bsky.social weird press that publishes weird books
https://shop.maudlinhouse.net/
House of Vlad Press/Vlad Mag @houseofvladpress.bsky.social Iconic independent publishing house founded by author Brian Alan Ellis (2003-2007, 2013-present), known for its edgy, transgressive and unconventional approach to literature. Vlad Mag, an online literary journal, started in 2023 // houseofvladpress.com
Sweet Trash Press @sweettrashpress.bsky.social This dumpster is lit.
An imprint of House of Vlad Press founded by Jillian Luft.
www.houseofvladpress.com
J ę ß ę @platelet60.bsky.social wannabe mystery novelist / journalist / cartoonist / not a square, more of a trapezoid
Addison Zeller @addisonzeller.bsky.social writer / bruising for @bruisermag.com
https://linktr.ee/addisonzeller
Homeless @xoxohomeless.bsky.social My 2nd novel, “My Heart Belongs in an Empty Big Mac Container Buried Beneath the Ocean Floor,” is now available from Clash Books.
https://linktr.ee/xoxohomeless
Troy James Weaver @troyjamesweaver.bsky.social Writer. Kansas.
Graham Irvin @grahamirvin.bsky.social Author of LIVER MUSH and I HAVE A GUN, two really good books
https://grahamirvin.com
Mike Andrelczyk @mikeandrelczyk.bsky.social Submarines - a novel out 7/21. Order here: https://malarkeybooks.com/store/submarines
Books at ghostcitypress.com and https://gobpilepress.bigcartel.com/product/pre-order-tennis-leg-by-mike-andrelczyk
Ryan Ridge @ryanridge.bsky.social Writer @sarabandebooks, @altcurrent, @UofMPress, etc. | Professor | Honorary Steamboat Captain | Bass for the Snarlin’ Yarns |
Dan Weaver @supernaturalfeat.com A writer and artist and programmer and sweatshirt.
supernaturalfeat.com
Beach Sloth @beachsloth.bsky.social Support Each Other
Music Blogger
Writer
Poet
https://beachsloth.substack.com/
Exposed Bone Literary Magazine @exposedbonemag.bsky.social Exposed Bone seeks uncanny fiction and poetry that destroys expectations and shoves at barriers. We encourage the sly, weird, and charming.
https://linktr.ee/exposedbone?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=fa2f83a3-13ae-417e-afcf-39b3e5627c27
Alternative Milk Magazine @altmilkmag.bsky.social Independent literary and art magazine. http://www.altmilkmag.com/links
Roi Fainéant Press SUBS ARE OPEN, BAYBEE! @rfpress.bsky.social Digital lit mag & more. 5 editors in a trenchcoat. 2 indie lit 2 quit. Submissions open. https://www.roifaineantpress.com/ EIC @tiffanymarie.bsky.social Masthead: @skybarett.bsky.social @kelkel.bsky.social @melissacuisine.bsky.social @maybemargot.bsky.soci
Pithead Chapel @pitheadchapel.bsky.social Pithead Chapel (ISSN 2324-6243) is a monthly online literary journal and small press. We publish gutsy fiction, nonfiction, and prose poetry. Founded 2012.
X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social the best writers on earth
www.xraylitmag.com
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com A literary magazine for the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. 🫏
Est. May 2018.
Re-designed site!: okaydonkeymag.com
Newsletter: okaydonkeymag.beehiiv.com
Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/okaydonkey
Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com publisher of boundary-breaking prose books
come get us @ splitlippress.com and https://linktr.ee/splitlippress
posts by yrs truly @suburbanprairie.bsky.social
Farewell Transmission Lit @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social Welcome to Farewell Transmission. We want your weird & brutal honesty. Your sufferings. We want the last piece of writing you would want to be remembered by. Posts prob @lobotomyrob or @retsoor Submit: farewelltransmission.net/submissions