Alethea Paul @aletheapaul.bsky.social Writer.
Persistently drafting her next flash fiction to get rejected.
Constantly musing on that novel.
Repeatedly interrupted by life.
Ignatius Valentine Aloysius @ignatius2u.bsky.social Host/Curator: sundaysalon-chicago.com > Ragdale, Board of Trustees member & Co-Chair, Curatorial Bd. Writer & poet. Books: Fishhead. Republic of Want (novel) & Salt Pruning (poetry)
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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)
Mitch @mitch-h-r.bsky.social Jimmie Rodgers enthusiast, occasional writer
Mr. Dan Kelly @mrdankelly.bsky.social Chicago Writer from Oak Forest Living in Highland Park
"Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto."—Terence
ID4 in Real Time @1996id4.bsky.social Skeeting the sights, sounds, & news from 1996's historic alien attack & subsequent global (read: American) military response in real time. #IndependenceDay #ID4
Whimsy @whimsyfiction.bsky.social A monthly microfiction contest celebrating the lighter, more peculiar side of storytelling. Yes, our alpaca travels by quill 🦙🪶
https://www.whimsyfiction.com/
Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social essays and poems about the movies, shows, music, books, games, etc. that have shaped you
forget.cool
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
Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social Novelist and short story writer.
Signed/personalized copies of my books here: https://www.macsbacks.com/dan-chaon
cicilybennion.bsky.social @cicilybennion.bsky.social Here for March Xness. Vote for Brick. Ben Folds stans, where are you?
Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social a literary magazine publishing single-sentence prose since 2020
https://completesentencelit.com/
Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social (re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
Tony🌻 @abstractstorks.bsky.social They/Them
Indigiqueer Anarchist. Writer. Disabled (chronic illnesses). 50yo Human Bean. TTRPG Solo Play. Vegetarian Cooking. Dreams.
Memoir Land @memoirland.bsky.social Memoir, personal essays, and more. http://memoirland.substack.com
Kerri Guillette @kerrig.bsky.social A liability. Still at the restaurant. Always tired. Editor for @butwhytho. Mother of Guinea Pigs. Swiftie. Disabled/Chronic illness.
David Turkel @paleoctopi.bsky.social 
Emma Allmann @emryal91.bsky.social Right? Write. Write? Right!
Stories in
@EllipsisZine
@inkinthirds
@EcoTheo Review
and shortlisted by
@SmokeLong
MFA
@UofAlabama
https://www.emmaallmann.com/
(she/her)
Erin Langner @erinlangner.bsky.social essayist. museum editor. playlister.
www.erinlangner.com
Jennifer Gravley @jygravley.bsky.social still waiting to bloom
Silas Hansen @silashansen.bsky.social essayist, cat dad, Bills fan, dive bar connoisseur. he/him.
Joe Bonomo @joebonomo.bsky.social essays and rock & roll | sound and sense
I write books and NO SUCH THING AS WAS, a music newsletter: https://joebonomo.substack.com/
Open 24/7: https://linktr.ee/joebonomo
it's buh-NOH-moh
Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly
https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/
Heidi Czerwiec @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social Essayist and poet, author of CRAFTING THE LYRIC ESSAY: STRIKE A CHORD and FLUID STATES. Sr. Editor at Assay. Perfumista and forager. She/her
Moira 🫡 @moirajo.bsky.social Me but new and worse probably | concert promoter and writer | mostly here for March Xness
Lela Scott MacNeil @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social Born in Los Alamos, like the atomic bomb. Writing in Gertrude, Essay Daily, Trouble in the Heartland: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen, and Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: the March Xness Anthology.
Chris Daley @chrisdaley.bsky.social Writing & Design, Los Angeles
Submission Sunday
aka @escapegrace
Cooper @cooperdart.bsky.social essayist who flosses when he remembers
cooperdart.com
Like “Beyond (Don) Delillo” @cbiondolillo.bsky.social Artist & author; government auditor (really); reluctant rural hermit; really into travel, vultures, diagrams, kdramas, fiber, photography, and my doggo. 
Amy Barnes @amygcb.bsky.social Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social
Andrew Schumacher Bethke @aesb.bsky.social 
Melissa Faliveno @mlfaliveno.bsky.social writer, editor, teacher, rock/roller | author of TOMBOYLAND and HEMLOCK, out now from Little, Brown | asst. prof at UNC | she/they
www.melissafaliveno.com
Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social Always on my way to the ocean. Writer, 2x Jeopardy! champion.
My debut short fiction collection,The Last Analog Teenagers:
https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/the-last-analog-teenagers
BSF 2025
Noms: Pushcart x2, BotN x2, Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist
Jill Hopkins @jillhopkins.bsky.social Writer, Chicagoan, the host you’ve been looking for.
https://linktr.ee/JillHopkins
New Media and Civic Events Producer at Metro
& Gman Tavern.
Vocalo Radio, Pop Quiz Hot Shot, The Moth
SO MANY PODCASTS.
Amy Rossi @mossyair.bsky.social Author of THE COVER GIRL, out now from MIRA/HarperCollins. 80s glam metal connoisseur. Road House enthusiast. Hallmark movie scholar. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/amyrossiwriter
Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com Dubliner in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Writer. https://www.LaurenceWrites.com/. 2025 Cúirt New Writing Fiction Prize. Posts in English/Français/Svenska. (He/Him/YerMan)
Erin McReynolds @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social Writer, editor, cartoonist, lapsed pagan. Belief system: ruderal and snails and tragedy+time=comedy.
Substack: Traumafordummies.com
Katie Moulton @kjmoulton.bsky.social writer. mostly here for @marchxness.bsky.social!
Leah Mensch @leahmensch.bsky.social Certified liability. Likely the world’s foremost Kate Braverman scholar, etc.
leahmensch.com
Rob Harvilla @harvilla.bsky.social Host of 60 SONGS THAT EXPLAIN THE '90S: THE 2000S, old guy at THE RINGER, tentative embracer of new social-media platforms
Janet @thesisterjanet.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Teacher. Human. Memphis & GCSU Alumna. Chapbooks: Green Light: The Gatsby Cycle & ghosts passing through
caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social ⌨️💾💌🖨️🖱️
Jen Borkowski @jenmaicha.bsky.social Poet, essayist, translator, etm.
Jason Thayer @thejasonthayer.bsky.social Writer & EIC for @completesentence
Cammy! @camelliagrass.bsky.social she/they | memory worker | essayist, poet, performer | author of Hall of Waters | animist, polytheist
Sejal Shah @sejalshah.bsky.social Writer & author of THIS IS ONE WAY TO DANCE: Essays, an NPR Best Book of the year & HOW TO MAKE YOUR MOTHER CRY: fictions, long-listed for the 2025 Story Prize. More at www.sejal-shah.com. #invisibledisabilities #neurodiversity #ADHD
M @mizhenheimer.bsky.social a dimension 20 enthusiast in wyoming. I write for a living, and in my free time, and frequently in my dreams. personal account; opinions my own.
Kate Carmody @katecarmody8.bsky.social Words: Electric Lit, Potomac Review, Porter House, LA Review, No Contact, Essay Daily, Broadkill Review, The Rumpus; Band: Dadafacer w/ husband & dog; City: Denver
https://www.katecarmodywriter.com
https://open.spotify.com/artist/7iWXk5aVFEPUC6UiVek77m?s
Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Flash fiction writer | 2025 Highly Commended Bridport Prize & Finalist New Millennium Writings | Published in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Flash the Court, Writers’ Hour, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and elsewhere.
linktr.ee/adelegallogly
Danielle Geller @dellegeller.bsky.social 
Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social Editor of Brevity, a small magazine with big ambitions. Author of various books. Often can't decide if I am posting as myself or as the magazine.
Lisa Piazza @lmpiazza.bsky.social oakland writer/teacher/mother/reader
emily laura costa @emilylauracosta.bsky.social girl on girl (@rejectionlit.bsky.social) //
until it feels right (@autofocusbooks.bsky.social) //
cnf (@farewelltransmiss.bsky.social) // getting dumber as I get older
https://linktr.ee/emilylauracosta
Christopher L. Keller @chrislkeller.com Award-winning journalist for The Associated Press.
Stretch-4 putting in work on the offensive and defensive glass.
Aspiring to play lead and rhythm guitar.
My posts disappear.
IndieRock&Taxes @indierockandtaxes.bsky.social indie rock, taxes - and lunch.
Lisa Levy @lisalevywrites.bsky.social Critic. Essayist. Style maven. Chronic Migraineur and Patient Advocate. Lover of reality TV, fancy notebooks, and vintage dresses. WIP FUNERAL IN MY BRAIN: A BIOGRAPHY OF MIGRAINE (St Martin’s).
Jill Pollack @jillwritergrrl.bsky.social Writer, teacher, author of Creative Muscle newsletter, founder of StoryStudio Chicago, born to resist, can't help zigging when others zag. Jillpollack.substack.com
Michael A. Van Kerckhove @mvankerckhove.bsky.social Writerly dude in Chicago. 🏳️🌈♏️
https://www.michaelvankerckhove.com/
https://letterboxd.com/MichaelAVK/
https://www.instagram.com/mvankerckhove/
James Charlesworth @jamcharlesworth.bsky.social Author of The Patricide of George Benjamin Hill. Hiker of reasonable mountains.
@doritoshangover.bsky.social @doritoshangover.bsky.social Lapsed music writer, practicing technical editor
✍️ FLOOD Magazine, Bucks County Courier Times, PopMatters, Spectrum Culture, Post-Trash, the Toast, March Xness, Forget Cool, and elsewhere
📍 Bucks County, PA
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Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social writer, thinker, coffee drinker. she/her. (if you know me from elsewhere, it might be as bravenewlady on the other site or from my Prairie Schooner days)
Scott Selisker @sselisker.bsky.social literature prof at U of Arizona. books: HUMAN PROGRAMMING (on metaphors for ideology), CHARACTER NETWORKS (on social networks in recent US fiction and history, out October 2026). he, suh-LISK-er, views mine, sporadically present here.
Allison Renner @allisonwrites.bsky.social Writer // Editor // @forgetcool.bsky.social
www.allisonrennerwrites.com
Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social Memoirist experimenting with the truth. Author of TEEN QUEEN TRAINING (Autofocus 2026), A CALENDAR IS A SNAKESKIN (Autofocus 2023) and CURING SEASON: ARTIFACTS (WVU Press 2022). Director of @splitlippress.com. More: linktr.ee/suburbanprairie
nb_alorakid @alorakid.bsky.social baseball + art + the end of the world
neilbhandari.com
I make stuff with The Neo-Futurists (neofuturists.org) and Swearwords (http://swearwordsmusic.com/) and other places too
Chicago| Austin | he/him
Ted McClelland @tedmcclelland.bsky.social Father of Lark, Birch and Rose. Author of Chorus of the Union. Contributing Writer, Chicago magazine
@marywizchicago.bsky.social @marywizchicago.bsky.social 
Susanna Donato @susannadonato.bsky.social Writer, editor, communicator, terrier squire | Work in Redivider, Proximity, Entropy, Electric Literature, A HARP IN THE STARS | she/her
Bright Wall/Dark Room @brightwalldarkroom.com A reader-supported online film journal, offering a different lens on movies.
issues/essays: brightwalldarkroom.com
podcast: @bwdrpod.bsky.social
all the things: https://linktr.ee/brightwalldarkroom
Abigail Oswald @abigailoswald.bsky.social detective investigating life | Lost/Found editor at Split/Lip Press | abigailwashere.com/links
William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social Author of "The Hamilton Scheme" and other works. Blog at HOGELAND'S BAD HISTORY: william.hogeland@substack.com. Liberal--so I mostly criticize liberal discourse. Also, "roots" music.
Music Box Films @musicboxfilms.com Bringing you award-winning independent cinema.
𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗬𝗜𝗡𝗚: The Last One for the Road
𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗦𝗢𝗢𝗡: Sherman’s March (1986), Remake
James Gilboy @jamiegilboy.bsky.social digital eclectic - he/they
seen in Car and Driver, The Autopian, US News & World Report, The Drive
zoezolbrod @zoezolbrod.bsky.social Reader, writer, (THE TELLING, CURRENCY, essays etc in The Rumpus, The Guardian, Salon, HuffPost, Brevity Blog, novel COIN OF THE REALM forthcoming from TriQuarterly Books), Chicago, bikes > cars
M. L. Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social Magician. Marketing Director of khōréō. MacDowell Fellow. Stories & Essays: mlkrishnan.com
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British Transport Films Stills @btfstills.bsky.social A bot randomly posting images taken from films made by British Transport Films, a government film unit active from 1949-1986. 3 posts a day. Expect trains.
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social Live in Chicago, write for Wired, got a great attitude
Send me tips: kate_knibbs@wired.com / Signal: kateknibbs.09
crowjonah @crowjonah.com the biggest papa in the good city
co-editor @havehashad.com
https://www.crowjonah.com
Mid Century Monster @mollybreakfast.bsky.social they/she/dr - NE MPLS - writer & artist - daily editor for the Chicago Review of Books - Abolish ICE - Free Palestine - Trans rights are human rights - fix ur hearts or 🙂
Steven Hyden @stevenhyden.bsky.social The Ween Of American Rock Critics. Author of six books. My book on The Strokes is out 9/8/26. Indiecast dude. Writing at Evil Speakers: https://stevenhyden.substack.com
littlesocietyfarm.bsky.social @littlesocietyfarm.bsky.social Little Society Farm is a certified organic CSA farm in Baraboo, Wisconsin
www.littlesocietyfarm.com
Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of FX series Say Nothing, now streaming on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else).
New book coming April 7, 2026: London Falling.
Fintan O'Toole @fotoole.bsky.social Writer, Irish Times columnist, New York Review of Books contributor, We Don't Know Ourselves author.
Sarah Kokernot @sarahkokernot.bsky.social Writer | Grant writer & consultant at StoryStudio | Words in NYT, Best American Short Stories, Tricycle, EPOCH | Above my raisin’
Fiction writer, essayist, secret poet sarahkokernot.com
A newsletter on Buddhism’s wild side 🍃
sarahkokernot.substack.com
Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer (NPR, Locus, etc)/freelancer/photographer/PhD. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me!
https://linktr.ee/gabinoiglesias
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/
Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.
Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social AUTHOR. ARTIST. PEACE TECHNOLOGIST.
Clarion West '25 | Alumna: Tin House, VONA, Hurston/Wright, RWW, Voodoonauts
https://aishatu.carrd.co/
Member: Codex & BSFA
Co-founding member at Àrokò Cooperative
@aroko.bsky.social
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).
Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social Creator of The Marginalian (once upon a time called Brain Pickings). Lover of books and tress. Petter of moss. Wonderer. Also: almanacofbirds.org
Writing Cheer Bot @niay-cheer-bot.bsky.social Daily reminders to write from a lil bot that knows that writing is hard but not as hard as worrying about not writing. Here to help you finish your draft. The bot will tell you to write every day, but it's a robot--you don't *have* to. Write when can.
Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social http://mitchnobis.com
Writer (poetry & fiction). Doofus. Old man hooper. Metro Detroit. Posts are my own, obviously—that's why I said it & not my employer, parents, or dog.
Also: WNS @wns-at-ksf.bsky.social & NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social
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Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social The place for writers
David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social I read and write and listen to music. A lot. Mostly in Brooklyn. Largehearted Boy is my website.
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
Ruby Rosenthal @rubyprosenthal.bsky.social arts & culture reporter, writer, second funniest person you know, was once called "garbage propaganda" on twitter and stands by it | All opinions are my own
https://52badessays.substack.com/
https://rubyprosenthal.com/