Cara Benson @carabensonwriter.bsky.social Author of AN ARMSFULL OF BIRDS: A PERSONAL FIELD GUIDE TO LOVE, LOSS, AND COMMITMENT. Other words in Orion, Sierra Magazine, NY Times, Boston Review, Best American Poetry.
Fun at parties.
www.carabensonwriter.com
Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social Feeling literary? Come see us at www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com!
Jonathan Danielson @jonathanin2k.bsky.social College edumakator. Regular idiot. THE LOWEST BASIN: ARIZONA STORIES (Cowboy Jamboree, 2025). Longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Fiction. Southwest Books of the Year.
Pool Party @poolpartymag.com Mag + Readings + Books. PDX-based. {READING 2.10 @grandgesturebooks} Fiction @kevinmaloney.net | Poetry @brianstephenellis.bsky.social | EIC femmeintheory.bsky.social
Caleb Michael Sarvis @cmsarvis.bsky.social Author of Dead Aquarium. Owner of Bridge Eight Press.
www.calebmsarvis.com
Josh Denslow @joshdenslow.bsky.social High-functioning slacker.
Llalan @theonlyllalan.bsky.social aka The Bookstore Lady, a lifelong bookseller peddling titles in Washington, DC.
Lacey N. Dunham (she/her) @bookbent.bsky.social 🖤 Author
🖤 THE BELLES (S&S / Atria, 2025) southern gothic x dark academia
🖤 FALL OF THE HOUSE OF GRAYSTONE (S&S / Atria, coming 2027) Sapphic Tim Burton meets Grey Gardens
🖤 ME: https://www.laceyndunham.com/links
Adam Sleper @adamsleper.bsky.social Dad, hubby, writer. Illinois artist grants, Chicago Writers Assoc, Horror Writers Assoc, Page/AFF finalist, PEN Emerging Writers. Black List 8+. Shakespeare/R.E.M.
USMNT/Huskers/Red Sox.
Rep: Mark Gottlieb@Trident
www.adamsleper.com
AdamSleper.substack.com
Fox City Lit @foxcitylit.bsky.social A literary reading series in Fairfax City, Virginia.
https://foxcitylit.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
Meagan Arthur @m-e-arthur.bsky.social writer & phd student 🌻
prose editor @ Quarterly West
new work Alaska Quarterly Review, The Journal, Puerto del Sol, Identity Theory, Cream City Review, etc.
meaganarthur.com
Timothy Denevi @timothydenevi.bsky.social Author of Freak Kingdom (on Hunter S. Thompson) & Hyper (about ADHD). Associate Prof, George Mason MFA.
Latest project: Joan Didion's political evolution:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/opinion/joan-didion-mystery-rfk.ht
Paul C. Jones @paulcjones.bsky.social Professor of 19th-Century American Literature | Ohio University
Author of Poe, Queerness, and the End of Time
Shannon Kelly @shannon-kelly.bsky.social Executive editor at Running Press/Hachette. Outfit repeater. Bigger than a breadbox.
hachettebookgroup.com/landing-page/rp-editorial-team/
Jamey Gallagher @jameygallagher.bsky.social Author of BODIES IN BAGS, I AM IDRIS ELBA, and AMERICAN ANIMISM.
https://jameyg0.wixsite.com/jameygallagher
Community college writing teacher
I read and write: literary stuff, crime stuff, weird stuff
From NH, living in Baltimore.
Nicole Walker @nikwalk.bsky.social Two books forthcoming from Bloomsbury: Writing the Hard Stuff and How Plant a Billion Trees. Writer of 8 (weird) books.Trying to withstand the onslaught of fascism by building community. Prof, Nonfiction Editor at DIAGRAM and UGA Press's Crux Series.
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 
Jane Friedman @janefriedman.com I report on the publishing industry through my paid newsletter, The Bottom Line, and educate writers on the business of authorship in THE BUSINESS OF BEING A WRITER (University of Chicago Press).
Caroline Anna Bock @cabockwrites.bsky.social ✍️Writer. The Other Beautiful People, a novel, (Regal House Publishing), publication date: June 2, 2026.
📚Co-President/editor with the Washington Writers’ Publishing House
Reader, Theater-reviewer, Small Talk columnist, lifelong 💙 and ally to all 🏳️🌈
Dave Fitzgerald @dfitzgerraldo.bsky.social Writer, author, wordsmith, sentence putter togetherer, redundancy enthusiast.
www.davefitzgerald.net
Debut novel Troll from Whiskey Tit Books
Reviews on Heavy Feather, Exacting Clam, X-R-A-Y, Daily Grindhouse, Cinedump, Strange Horizons
Claire Hopple @clairehopple.bsky.social Author of six lil books. Fiction editor at XRAY. Stories in Wigleaf, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Forever Mag, HAD, etc. clairehopple.com
Matt Borondy @mattborondy.bsky.social founding editor @identitytheory.bsky.social / special education teacher / nevada
William Burtch @williamburtch.bsky.social Writer. Coauthor of award-winning biography “W.G.” (Sunbury). “Otherwise Wretched” 2025 (Catamount) Finalist American Fiction Short Story Award. Second-Rounder Austin Film Festival. Authors Guild.
www.williamburtch.com
Curtis Devlin @curtisdevlin.bsky.social Writing. Jiujitsu. Pictures of cats. | Manchmal auf Deutsch | J.D., WashU Law ‘05 | OIF Vet | Rep by Jake Lovell at SDLA | x.com/Curtis_Devlin
Russell Brakefield @russellbrakefield.bsky.social Writer: MY MODEST BLINDNESS (Autofocus), IRREGULAR HEARTBEATS AT THE PARK WEST (Wayne State Univ Press), FIELD RECORDINGS (Wayne State Univ Press).
Prof: University of Denver Writing
Peter Rosch @peterrosch.bsky.social author of WHAT THE DEAD CAN DO / FUTURE SKINNY / MY DEAD FRIEND SARAH / rep'd by @elizcopps at @confluencelit
Alexander Hitchens @akhitchens.bsky.social Grammy · Dove · Stellar Award Winning Music Producer | Composer | You’ve probably heard me on TV. #CLE📍#LA
Matthew Zanoni Müller @matthewzmuller.bsky.social Writer, educator. First Aid for Choking Victims (Malarkey books). Writing in Denver Quarterly, Cottonwood, Southeast Review, and others.
www.matthewzanonimuller.com
Trent Brown @joshuatrentbrown.com i have a book
https://malarkeybooks.com/store/thewallsareclosinginonus
Mike Nagel @misternagel.bsky.social Bullshit essayist. Author of Duplex and Culdesac from Autofocus Books. Father of Costcocore. Dallas kid.
www.michaelscottnagel.com
ezra kupor @ezrakupor.bsky.social associate editor @harperbooks + @harperperennial • not here but views still very much my own • he/him 🫠
ezrakupor.com 🙂↕️
https://galleybrag.substack.com 🙂↔️
xavier garcia @xaviergarcia.bsky.social writer / editor / hermit / collector of dust
Editor at Twin Pies Literary / Linktree: linktr.ee/xavieragarcia
Evan Fleischer @evanfleischer.bsky.social Writer.
https://evanfleischer.org/
https://orangecatwritingworkshop.com/
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
Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social feral woman • writer • librarian • bi af • on a constant quest for comfortable silence • tweets as if it’s all ephemeral
New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social www.nyrb.com
NG @nikigjoni.bsky.social Writer | 2023 London Independent Story Prize anthology selection | PEN/Robert J. Dau prize nom | BOTN nom | Best Microfiction nom | Dev Editor for Writers Digest | www.ngjoni.com
Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com KILL CURRENT (writing as Oliver Lowe) coming May 2027 from Zando.
Pre-order: https://zandoprojects.com/books/kill-current-hardcover
Bobby Miller @bobbymillertime.com Voice Director at Rockstar Games LA | Filmmaker (The Cleanse, TUB, Critters Attack!) | Author (Situation Nowhere) | http://BobbyMillerTime.com
Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com Est. 2015 in Pennsylvania | Escape the Mundane Poetry, novels, stories, & hand-made chapbooks
thirtywestph.com | asterismbooks.com/publisher/thirty-west
Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social Horror writer startled by most sounds. The Barre Incidents and Kill Radio (both genre-bendy Horror) available thru Malarkey Books.
My website: https://www.laurenbolger.com/
Jewish / Free Palestine
Backgrd image quote: “Helloooo? My water dish is empty!”
Exodus Oktavia Brownlow @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social It’s Ex! 🤓
Author. ✍🏽
Sewist. 🪡
Editor. 📑
Fashion Designer in Formation. 📐🎨✂️
Blackhawk, Mississippi. 💚
https://www.exodusoktaviabrownlow.com
Zachary Kocanda @zacharykocanda.bsky.social Illinois’s favorite son. Malarker retweeter.
zacharykocanda.com
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Anne-Marie Kinney @anne-mariekinney.bsky.social Author of Radio Iris and Coldwater Canyon, more at annemariekinney.com
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
Brad Listi @bradlisti.bsky.social Author + host of Otherppl, the weekly books & culture podcast.In-depth conversations with today’s leading writers. Official account.
https://linktr.ee/bradlisti
#booksky
James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social memoir: Blind Man's Bluff (W.W. Norton, NYT Editors' Choice)
novel: Academy Gothic (Nilsen Prize for a First Novel)
editor: The Writer's Chronicle & Monkeybicycle
agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
WV native
still living in 1986
jamestatehill.com
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/
Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social Writer. Doctor. @nytimes. WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS. PEN/ Bingham Finalist. Find me: www.chayabhuvaneswar.com
Nick Rees Gardner @nickreesgardner.bsky.social Writer, critic, beer and wine monger
Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social 🏠 Founder & Agent at Neighborhood Literary.
📚 Award-winning Author.
👴🏽 Perpetually Tired Dad.
Latest book: With or Without You.
Next: The Adopted Kids’ Guide to Surviving Seventh Grade (Crown, Spring 2027)
🚪 https://www.neighborhoodliterary.com
Sandra Schmuhl Long @sandraslong.bsky.social Writer & editor in the Washington DC area. Stories & essays in Electric Literature & Best Small Fictions 2023. 
Aubri Kaufman @aubrirose.bsky.social all voice, no plot. co-eic & chaos creator for @icebreakerslit.bsky.social
𝖑𝖊𝖝 𝖇𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖈𝖚𝖘𝖔 @nikonamerica.bsky.social ❤️🔥 film critic @slashfilm @thewrap @ign @inverse @rejectnation etc ❤️🔥 MEN I INVENTED DURING A FEVER DREAM @bullshitlit ❤️🔥 member @galeca @ifsca ❤️🔥 abriscuso@gmail.com ❤️🔥
CLASH Books @clashbooks.bsky.social Big Indie Establishment Mom & Pop Press in Troy, NY Publishing Beach Reads from Hell. Skeets by Christoph Paul.
crowjonah @crowjonah.com the biggest papa in the good city
co-editor @havehashad.com
https://www.crowjonah.com
Micro Podcast @podcastmicro.bsky.social A podcast for short but powerful writing. Subscribe and enjoy wherever you listen to podcasts.
Aaron Hamburger @aaronhamburger.bsky.social Author of the novels Hotel Cuba, Nirvana Is Here, and Faith for Beginners, and the story collection The View from Stalin's Head. www.aaronhamburger.com
Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
Julián Martinez @martinezfjulian.bsky.social Son of Mexican and Cuban immigrants // debut book of fictions + novella from Future Tense Books, Spring 2027
Chicago forever.
Peter Kispert @peterkispert.bsky.social Book editor at William Morrow/HarperCollins. Author of I KNOW YOU KNOW WHO I AM: Stories (Penguin Books).
Posts inane & my own. Here now.
www.peterkispert.com
Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social Writer, teacher, friend. Words in: The Sun, Orion, The Yale Review, Literary Hub, & more. Author of BREAKING INTO THE BACKCOUNTRY, a memoir, and the essay collection RARE GOOD: ESSAYS ON ART, AUTISM, AND ASTONISHMENT. https://www.steveedwardswriter.com
Roya Khatiblou @royakhatiblou.bsky.social Writer | Editor | she/her | mommy | 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧 | work: Salon, Litro, Reflex Press, Chicago Rev + | Assoc dir @saloneurope.bsky.social | roya-khatiblou.com | rep: Salma Begum @greyhoundliterary.bsky.social
Cindy House @cindyhouse.bsky.social Author of Mother Noise
colleen grablick @colleengrablick.bsky.social co-founder at The 51st, formerly DCist (rip), words in diff places. MFA pursuer...
Adam Van Winkle @vanwinkle.bsky.social founder & editor @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social; curator @npcountrycovers.bsky.social; curator @ArtArk.bsky.social; author Dylan Quick is a Dairy Queen Don Quixote & more; Minor Regional Novelist
www.adamvanwinkle.com
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com
Harrison Jacobs @harrisonxjacobs.bsky.social Exec editor @ARTnews / reporting in @businessinsider @VICEnews @WashingtonPost @verge, etc. / writing fiction you'll never read
Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social Author of 6 books, newest is ASKEW. I am the EIC of Bending Genres, LLC. Work in Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2019. Norton's Exceptionally Short Fictions 2018. www.robert-vaughan.com. www.bendinggenres.com 
Eve Ettinger @eveettinger.com Husband father daughter
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/
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.
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
Lena Valencia @lenavalencia.bsky.social Author of MYSTERY LIGHTS: Stories (Tin House / Dead Ink Books 2024). Director of Edu. Programming at One Story. https://linktr.ee/lenavalencia
Joy Deva Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social Speculative Writer: Fiction in One Story, Ploughshares, Tin House, Apex, etc. Yaddo Fellow. Founder of Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop. Rep'ed by Peter Steinberg. Novel in progress. Bagpiper.
https://linktr.ee/joy.deva.baglio
https://www.joybaglio.com/
Benjamin Woodard @woodardwriter.bsky.social Writer | Book critic | Writing Center coordinator | Adjunct | Represented by my cat, who is a horrible agent | he/him http://benjaminjwoodard.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
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)
Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social GRAPHIC RAGE on Substack. Writer & illustrator of stories, essays and feminist comics. '22 NEA fellow. Work in TIME, Vox, New York Times, Washington Post, etc. Very charming IRL. she/her
Elizabeth Fletcher @esfletcher.bsky.social writer, yoga therapist, Bowie fan | asst cnf editor Pithead Chapel | Best Microfiction nom | Pushcart Prize nom | BOTN nom | wigleaf LL | stage NED | ope
Writing: www.esfletcher.com
Kathleen Schmidt @kathmschmidt.bsky.social President, KMSPR. Book publishing, marketing, consulting, strategy. I write Publishing Confidential on Substack.
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social Writer in NYC. Former Attorney. EIC Split Lip Magazine. Copper Nickel Editor's Prize | BASS Distinguished Story | Kenyon Review | Ploughshares | Artist-in-Residence @ South 85 Journal | Next up: CHEEKS | http://maureenlangloss.com/
Terri Linn Davis @terrilinndavis.bsky.social Virgo (Scorpio rising) | co-EIC @icebreakers_lit | poems & reviews @TBQuarterly @flypaperlit @Dailydrunkmag @Fivesouthlit | @kenyonreview ww '22 | host @TooLitToQuitPod
D.T. Robbins @dtrobbins.bsky.social Author of Leasing (House of Vlad), Birds Aren't Real (Maudlin House). Founding editor of Rejection Letters, Twin Pies.
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. 
Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social Debut novel ENDPAPERS (Algonquin 2023), writer, cat person, #AuthorsAgainstBookBans, #5amWritersClub, production editor at Cornell University Press, she/they | jennifersavrankelly.com
Adam Morgan @adamm0rgan.bsky.social Culture journalist for Esquire, Wired, etc. Author of A DANGER TO THE MINDS OF YOUNG GIRLS (Simon & Schuster), MYST & RIVEN: CAN GAMES BE LITERATURE? (University of Chicago Press, 2027).
https://linktr.ee/adamm0rgan
Contact: adam@adam-stephen-morgan.com
Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social Author of I Want to Burn This Place Down
https://www.themarisreview.com/
https://www.mariskreizman.com/
Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social dc via apollo, pa | she/her | words @ Best Microfiction, Bending Genres, Lost Balloon, Milk Candy Review, Flash Fiction Online, Cold Signal, hex literary & more | http://www.laurenkardos.co/
Cassie Mannes Murray @cassmannes.bsky.social Writer. Founder & director at Pine State Publicity. Mom to P & E. 🐝
http://pinestatepublicity.com
Pinestatepublicity.substack.com
Lena Crown @whichistosay.bsky.social Colgate University Nonfiction Fellow, PEN/Faulkner Writer in Residence, host of Awakeners Podcast on Lit Hub Radio, book editor at Autofocus, words in Guernica, Gulf Coast, Narratively, The Rumpus, etc. she/her ✨ X & IG: @which_is_to_say
Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com Excavation: A Memoir
Hollywood Notebook: Essays
Bruja: A Dreamoir
All from Northwestern University Press, 2025
Mommy’s El Camino is my mostly weekly newsletter.
she/her. Los Angeles. Mostly away from Bluesky.
https://linktr.ee/wendy.c.ortiz
Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Habs fan / Canadian in the South 🍁
www.megireid.com
Maggie Cooper @frecklywench.bsky.social lit agent at Aevitas 🏳️🌈🤓📚// writer, book gal, scone-lover // chapbook THE THEME PARK OF WOMEN’S BODIES from @bullcitypress.com // she/her // opinions mine // https://maggiecooper.carrd.co/
Michael Don @mldon31.bsky.social book: PARTNERS & STRANGERS (Carnegie Mellon UP)
mostly writing, teaching, parenting, basketballing
www.michaeldon.com
Drew Hawkins @wadrewhawkins.bsky.social public health reporter for the Gulf States Newsroom | writer | producer/host | New Orleans vs. all y’all
contact: drew @ gulfstatesnewsroom dot org
David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com Nightmares for sale. 🏳️🌈🇨🇦 Sunburst winner; Giller Prize, Amazon, Aurora & Shirley Jackson nominee. The Stone Garden. The Butcher’s Daughter. RED X. The Bone Mother. Gay/Queer. Cis. Old. No AI. https://daviddemchuk.com