Dan Denton @dandenton.bsky.social Writer. Poet. Actor. Former union autoworker and UAW chief steward.
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Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
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Paul Ilechko @pilechko.bsky.social Poet, cyclist. Occasional songwriter. Author of 'Fragmentation and Volta' (Gnashing Teeth Press, Feb 2025) and 'Post Moby' (Sheila-Na-Gig, 2026). Reader for Marrow Magazine. 
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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.
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social Writer, editor, poet, critic | Chief Content Officer at @Salon.com | Author of Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me | Faculty at Naslund-Mann MFA | KY Colonel | Blair Water Literary Society chair | March Xness Die-hard https://linktr.ee/eekshecried
Crystal Wilkinson @crystalwilki.bsky.social Novelist, Food Advocate, Professor. National Bestselling Author of PRAISESONG FOR THE KITCHEN GHOSTS, PERFECT BLACK, BIRDS OF OPULENCE
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Kathleen Driskell @kathdriskell.bsky.social Free-thinker & writer living in a KY country church built before the Civil War. Chair, Spalding MFA. Words in The New Yorker & River Teeth—💙Resist. KY Poet Laureate 25-26.
Charles Frazier @charlesfrazier.bsky.social Author of Cold Mountain, Thirteen Moons, Nightwoods, Varina, and The Trackers | charlesfrazier.com |
The New Verse News (always open for newspoems) @newversenews.bsky.social Politically progressive poetry on current events every day since 2005. #7 limag for “Exceptional Reading” in ChillSubs poll.
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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social editor of @rattlepoetry | thoughts my own
Chestnut Review @chestnutreview.bsky.social International litmag ALWAYS open for submissions. Pays $120/piece. Responds in 30 days. Free subs in most genres. Free issues online. Paid feedback options. If you don't submit, we can't pay you.
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The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social Quarterly magazine of literature and the arts, founded in 1948. Poetry, fiction, essays, and more.
New England Review @newenglandreview.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine published by Middlebury College since 1978.
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The Sun magazine @thesunmagazine.bsky.social The Sun is a magazine that publishes roughly forty thousand words a month, about a dozen of which are funny. This is where we share those dozen.
Tahoma Literary Review @tahomareview.bsky.social We publish poetry, fiction, and nonfiction twice a year. Professional pay rates.
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Alice James Books @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social Alice James Books is an independent poetry press dedicated to publishing books that matter by poets who inspire.
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James Penha @jamespenha.bsky.social Poet. Editor of @NewVerseNews.bsky.social at http://newversenews.blogspot.com and https://thenewversenews.substack.com . Expat New Yorker living in Bali. he/him 🌈 💙 Story collection—Queer As Folk Tales—out now https://a.co/d/9GkGz81. https://jamespenha.com
Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social A literary journal, founded in 1996, publishing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. https://baltimorereview.org/ 
Ecotone Magazine @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social A biannual magazine that seeks to reimagine place. Founded & made at UNCW. Winner, 2022 AWP Small Press Publisher Award & 2023 Firecracker Award
Prairie Schooner @prairie-schooner.bsky.social Literary Journal of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 100 years of poetry, essays, fiction, & reviews. Posts by staff & interns https://prairieschooner.unl.edu
Southeast Review @southeastreview.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/southeast_review
Est. in 1979 as Sundog 🍊 Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Book Reviews, Interviews, & Art.
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Reed Magazine @reedmagazine.bsky.social California’s Oldest Literary Journal Est. 1867
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Ryan Van Velzer @ryanvanvelzer.bsky.social Managing editor of collaboratives at Louisville Public Media: Kentucky Public Radio and the Appalachia+Mid-South Newsroom: 7 NPR stations across Ky., W. Va. and Tenn. Based out of Louisville, Ky. Young Author's Greenhouse Board. Mass shooting survivor
Louisville Public Media @lpm.org Louisville Public Media (LPM) is an independent, community-supported media organization serving our community on the web, on the radio, through podcasts and community events. Learn more at lpm.org.
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ACLU of Kentucky @acluofky.bsky.social Working since 1955 in the Statehouse, courts, and communities to build power and defend the constitutional rights and liberties of all.
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Andersen Prunty @andersenprunty.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Sleaze enthusiast.
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Ted Jackins (They/Them) @killthethingyouluv.bsky.social Your favorite mentally ill poet/artist/musician. Nonbinary. Spoused. Cat parent. Professional raconteur and misanthrope.
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Spout Press @spoutpress.bsky.social A Twin Cities collective-based nonprofit publisher of books emphasizing emerging talent, community-building, & artistic collaborations. Distributed by Asterism Books.
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