Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social Literary non-profit. Publishing works of poetry, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers since 1999.
Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social New York-based publisher of contemporary poetry and prose. Founded in 2004, CLMP member. Home to annual contests, open reading periods, and the Immigrant Writing Series. We offer manuscript consultations, free monthly writing workshops, and more.
SF Layzell @sflayzell.bsky.social I write queer stories & edit books sometimes https://sflayzell.com/
Buy Cottonopolis, a MG set in 1840s Manchester, shortlisted for Little Rebels https://sflayzell.com/cottonopolis/
Views mine, contact via website
Zachary Kocanda @zacharykocanda.bsky.social Illinois’s favorite son. Malarker retweeter.
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Chelsea @chelseadodds.bsky.social 2025 Craigardan literary arts resident.
Words in The Forge, Roi Fainéant, Maudlin House, Rejection Letters, & elsewhere.
NOTHING GOOD WILL GET AWAY out Feb. 2026 @finishinglinepress.bsky.social
chelseadodds.com
Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social She/her, Poet, Writer, Co-founder & EIC of Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social
Host of On Fire Reading Series in DC: https://onfirereadingseries.neocities.org
https://www.katherineschmidt.com
Liz Rosen @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social https://www.sandandgravelpress.com/store/elizabeth-rosen-survival-skills
www.thewritelifeliz.com
Jenny Raphael @jennyraphael.bsky.social Word person. Hustling for the first novel, writing my second. Professional Balabusta. Amateur ballerina. You could say I’m a balletbusta.
All puns intended, especially Big Puns.
Hear me read an excerpt from my novel at jenniferraphael.com
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social Writing in @havehadhavehad @rejectionLit @WestBranchMag @fivesouth and @cottonxenomorph
https://linktr.ee/mprask
Won't rest till Side 2 of The Wild, the Innocent, and the E St Shuffle is our national anthem.
Damien Cowger @damiencowger.bsky.social Managing Editor at New Ohio Review | Writer | Photographer
damiencowger.com
Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social The place for writers
Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social Barrelhouse, New Flash Fiction Review, matchbook, MoonPark Review, FlashFlood, Oyster River Pages, New World Writing Quarterly, Tiny Molecules, Orange Blossom Review, Flash Frontier, Leon Literary Review, Gooseberry Pie, The Good Life Review, Fictive Dream
Jemma Richardson @jemmarichardson.bsky.social Story scribbler in Te Whanganui-a-Tara | Wellington NZ
https://linktr.ee/jemma.richardson
Ian Li @ianli.bsky.social Chinese-Canadian writer/poet/economist/developer | he/him
words in Strange Horizons, Year's Best Canadian F&SF, the Toronto subway, +more
poetry editor for @orionsbeltmagazine.bsky.social
SFWA, Codexian
https://ian-li.com
Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social let the mirror express the room
Justindtaylor.net
Autumn House Press @autumnhouse.org Award-winning nonprofit publisher of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. | Pittsburgh, PA
Kitchen Table Quarterly @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social Samizdat. Poetry. Nonfiction. Art.
Give us your history.
www.kitchentablequarterly.org
Dustin Brookshire (he/him) @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social 4 chapbooks. Editor of When I Was Straight: A Tribute To Maureen Seaton. Co-editor of Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology. Founder/curator of the Wild & Precious Life Series. Founder/editor of Limp Wrist.
@storyquarterly.bsky.social @storyquarterly.bsky.social 
Julia Tagliere @juliatagliere.bsky.social Maryland-based writer | editor, @baltimorereview.bsky.social | Permanently Midwestern| Bread Loaf, VCCA, Johns Hopkins Writing alum
Website: justscribbling.com.
grace @graycious.bsky.social formerly the presiding legal counsel for the chicago bulls. she/her
Barrelhouse Write-ins @bhwriteins.bsky.social https://www.barrelhousemag.com/writeins
Write-Ins every Friday @ 3pm Eastern
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Arte Público Press @artepublico.bsky.social The oldest and largest publisher of contemporary and recovered literature by US Latinx authors.
Carolene Kurien @carolenekurien.bsky.social Update: I don't use Bluesky anymore, sorry! If you would like to read more of my work, please visit carolenekurien.com.
Poet • Words in Poetry London, Bennington Review, North American Review, Passages North, Sixth Finch, etc
Dan McQuade @dhm.bsky.social visual editor, defector media
currently on medical leave
Catherine Campbell @catjcampbell.bsky.social Novelist. Essayist. I also run a PR/brand storytelling studio.
Work in: NYT, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, The Millions, McSweeney’s, etc. www.catherinejcampbell.com
ryanashleyanderson @femmeintheory.bsky.social writer • endurance artist • creative dir. • curator /// managing editor @poolpartymag /// fallgirls.com • ryanashleyanderson.com
Pool Party @poolpartymag.com Mag + Readings + Books. PDX-based. {READING 2.10 @grandgesturebooks} Fiction @kevinmaloney.net | Poetry @brianstephenellis.bsky.social | EIC femmeintheory.bsky.social
Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social writing in Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub, &c. // senior editor with HarperCollins
http://austinrossauthor.com/
Rebecca Mental @drmental.bsky.social 
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
Barren Magazine @barrenmagazine.bsky.social Introspective lit.
Bookshop.org @bookshop.org A better way to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores ☀️📚
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Aug Stone @augstone.bsky.social There is no I in 'Optometry'
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Substack augstone.substack.com
nick farriella @nickfarriella.bsky.social writer/idiot, rules for escaping (stories)
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Duotrope @duotrope.com Duotrope is an award-winning writers' resource. Search for publishers and agents, track your submissions & more! https://duotrope.com
@duosuma.com is our submission manager.
@scsvendsgaard.bsky.social @scsvendsgaard.bsky.social 
TNBBC @tnbbc.bsky.social Founder: The Next Best Book Club. Freelance Publicist. Small Press Fangirl. Authors are my rockstars #SMOLfair Feeding the reading addiction, one book at a time
Carrie Conners @carrieconners.bsky.social I like poems. Author of: Species of Least Concern (2022), Laugh Lines (2022), and Luscious Struggle (2019). LaGCC English prof. WV roots. https://linktr.ee/connerscarrie
d.S. randoL @dsrandol.bsky.social she/her/they •
hardcoreEnthusiast 🦦 •
Fool POET fighting complacency⚡ •
My published work is on https://linktr.ee/dsrandol 🌳 •
PLEASE talk to me about birds🐦
David DeGusta @davidwrites1.bsky.social Writer / fiction / Iowa Writers’ Workshop / MacDowell / Yaddo | Ethiopia / literary translation from Amharic | Previously a paleoanthropologist.
www.davidwrites.net
Translator of the Ethiopian novel Oromay by Baalu Girma.
www.davidwrites.net/oromay
Patrick Crerand @patrickcrerand.bsky.social “Built for comfort, not for speed.” Writer, teacher, Director of DeSales MFA Program. Not the Man Utd player, but I wrote about our shared name here: https://xn--wgiaa.ws/3-united-a-story-by-patrick-crerand-x-on-x
Sasha Brown @sashabrown.bsky.social Sasha Brown is a Stoker-nominated writer whose stories have been called “Creative! But in a bad way.” He’s in lit mags like Passages North and Wigleaf, and in genre pubs like Bourbon Penn and Weird Horror. He’s online at sashabrownwriter.com.
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
Elizabeth Endicott @elizabethendicott.bsky.social Writer and textile artist
Primarily on IG @weirdbirds
✍️ New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, LA Times, SciAm, Elle, Orion, etc
Will Hagle @willhagle.bsky.social Posting incessantly this time around.
emily blight 🐦⬛ @threnody.northsky.social fiction writer • roommate to 2 cats with rich interior lives • parmesan enthusiast • interrobang evangelist
stories: prairie schooner 98.4 • hopkins review 15.4 • south carolina review 55.2 • post road 40 • 2023 clmp pride reading list
FOLIO Literary Journal @foliolit.bsky.social Nationally recognized literary journal in Washington DC, sponsored by @aucollege.bsky.social since 1984.
Olivia Muenz @oliviamuenz.bsky.social (disabled) writer | WHERE WAS I AGAIN (Essay Press) | I FEEL FINE (Switchback Books)
oliviamuenz.com
Meiko Ko @meikoko.bsky.social Meiko Ko, penname. Pushcart nom, longlist Berlin Prize 17 @theoffing@epiphany@failbetter@JukedMagazine@vol1brooklyn@hkreview@longleafreview@asiancha Sleepingfish magazine BennMFAKenyonReviewVONAOneStorySW
Autofocus Books @autofocusbooks.bsky.social A literary publisher of artful autobiographical writing. autofocusbooks.com
AWP @awpwriter.org AWP provides community, opportunities, ideas, news, and advocacy for writers and teachers of writing.
Katie Edkins Milligan @keddymilligan.bsky.social Writer & editor | Mainer in Philly | #amquerying | Words in/soon @ Meridian, Fiction, The Florida Review, Tahoma Review ++ | MFA @ UHCWP | www.katieedkinsmilligan.com
Erica Stern @ericarstern.bsky.social Chicago-based writer. Work in The Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, Mississippi Review, and elsewhere. Hybrid memoir forthcoming from Barrelhouse Books. 
niina pollari @niina.bsky.social beautiful, powerful, dangerous, cold
author of PATH OF TOTALITY (2022) and DEAD HORSE (2015). RISK TOLERANCE forthcoming from autofocus books. reviews ed. at zona motel. poet, translator, parent in nc.
niinapollari.com
https://substack.com/@niinapollari
Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social Poetry magazine that publishes poems & translations, & hosts The HOT L Poets Series; est. 1998 by editor Stephen Reichert. Baltimore, MD. Smartishpace.com
NewPages @newpages.bsky.social NewPages.com is your best guide to literary magazines, indie publishing, university presses, creative writing programs, writing and literary events, writing contests and submissions, independent bookstores, and more.
#indiebookstores #litmags #booksky
JM Jones @jasonjonesm.bsky.social jasonmjones.net
Alisha Erin Hillam @aehillam.bsky.social Pushcart-nominated writer (she/her), with work at ONLY POEMS, Barrelhouse, Consequence Forum, & others. 2025 AIR Literature Västra Götaland Fellow, 2026 M.1 Arthur-Boskamp-Foundation Fellow. Historian, Hoosier, & traveler, now based in Europe.
Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social 🎃🔪A horror poetics journal 🔪🎃
https://www.culdesacofblood.com/
https://linktr.ee/culdesacofblood
Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social No longer active here. Find us on IG and TikTok @graywolfpress!
Lauren Crawford (she/her) @laurencraw.bsky.social Poet
CATCH & RELEASE' coming March 2025 @CornerstoneUWSP |
Poetry Ed @IronOakEditions |
MFA @SIUC |
@WMorrisAwards winner
Best New Poets '24
https://laurencrawfordpoet.com/
Chris Dennis @chrisdennis.bsky.social Author of Here Is What You Do. NEA Fellow, public health, harm reduction, rural gay dad. Writing in: Best American Essays, Paris Review, Granta, Playgirl, Guernica, McSweeney's.
Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social On-and-off barista, horror film lover, "writer," EIC The Rejoinder
michaeljcolbert.com
Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social Writer w FOMO. CLOSER (Regal House). SURVIVAL TIPS: STORIES (Propeller). THE LOCAL NEWS (Spiegel & Grau). www.miriamgershow.com
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Spearheaded #100smallpress:
https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/
bedfellows @bedfellowsmag.bsky.social 💦 desire/sex/intimacy-themed literary magazine & small press | est. 2013 in Philly | bedfellowsmagazine.com | bedfellows.substack.com 🦴
Danielle Evans @daniellevalore.bsky.social Writer, professor, lady with lapcats
Brooklyn Book Festival @bkbookfest.bsky.social Largest Free Literary Festival in New York.
https://linktr.ee/bkbookfest
2026 Dates
Virtual Festival Day: September 20
Children's Day: September 26
Festival Day: September 27
City-wide Bookends: September 20-28
Tortoise Books @tortoisebooks.bsky.social Your favorite publisher's favorite publisher.
Jane Roper @janeroper.bsky.social Writer of words. Lover of justice. Hater of olives. Most recent book: The Society of Shame. 🦢 Substack: Jane’s Calamity.
River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative || Where good writing counts and facts matter.
Chris McCreary @chrismccreary.bsky.social [ poet & teacher ]
https://linktr.ee/Chris___McCreary
The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social The Fiddlehead is Atlantic Canada's International Literary Journal.
Celebrating 80 years of literary foraging in 2025!
https://thefiddlehead.ca
nicole cunningham @nicolecunningham.bsky.social literary agent at trellis literary management 📚
Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social
Writer/ Poet/ Educator/ Artist/
Host + Curator of @coupletseries.bsky.social in NYC since 2011
Creator of #staybrave substack
📚: Delicate Machine (Dzanc Books, 2027)
Ordinary Splendor (Etruscan Press, 2028)
https://linktr.ee/leahumansky
JMWW Journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social jmww (https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/guidelines/), a weekly journal publishing the best in fiction, poetry, flash, essays, and interviews. Our stories have appeared in Best American Essays, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, BIFFY, and Best of Net.
The Common @commonmag.bsky.social The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, poetry, and art with a modern sense of place. Based at Amherst College, we highlight writers and work from around the world.
Marissa Landrigan @marisqwksa.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Teacher. Nerd.
Author, The Vegetarian’s Guide to Eating Meat (Greystone Books 2017)
Late-diagnosed AuDHD 🦇 Storytelling forever.
Katie Darby Mullins @katiedarbymullins.bsky.social Writer, Founder/Editor in Chief at The Apologist, Heavy-Metal mouth. I’m too online— I’ve lost the context. I want to be the OK Go of writing.
Richie Narvaez @richienarvaez.bsky.social Adjunct as well as Agatha- and Anthony-award–winning author of HIPSTER DEATH RATTLE | HOLLY HERNANDEZ & THE DEATH OF DISCO | NOIRYORICAN | 🇵🇷 | The songs I punched are dreaming
https://linktr.ee/richienarvaez
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.
Ryan Ridge @ryanridge.bsky.social Writer @sarabandebooks, @altcurrent, @UofMPress, etc. | Professor | Honorary Steamboat Captain | Bass for the Snarlin’ Yarns |
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
East Bay Booksellers @ebbooksellers.bsky.social We are a bookstore -- a good one, we think! -- selling new books -- good ones, we hope! -- in Oakland, California.
Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social Independent publisher based in Ohio, bringing you ‘Books Too Loud To Ignore’ since 2005.
📚 imprint of Seven Stories Press
🦄 bookstore/cafe HQ: Two Dollar Radio Headquarters
Marguerite Sheffer @mlensheffer.bsky.social Author of THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES (Nov 2024, Iowa Short Fiction Award from U of Iowa Press)
writer and teacher in New Orleans
stories in Asimov's, Lit Hub, The Dread Machine, The Pinch and others
cream city review @creamcityreview.bsky.social University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s graduate student run lit mag. Publishing art, fiction, CNF, poetry and more since 1975!
https://beacons.ai/creamcityreview
(Cover art by Amal Azzam)
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.
Pigeon Pages @pigeonpagesnyc.bsky.social A literary nest 🐦 NYC reading series and literary journal
Kathy Anderson @kandersonwriter.bsky.social Short Story Writer. Novelist. Author of VAMOOSE:STORIES (Vine Leaves Press), THE NEW TOWN LIBRARIAN (NineStar Press), BULL AND OTHER STORIES (Autumn House Press). kathyandersonwriter.com
Washington Independent Review of Books @wirobooks.bsky.social Feeling literary? Come see us at www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com!
The Ohio State University Press @ohiostatepress.bsky.social We publish great books and journals across literary and cultural studies. Our Mad Creek imprint is home to expansive, fresh, and invigorating literary and graphic works, and Trillium publishes books about Ohio and the Midwest. www.ohiostatepress.org
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
Susan Rukeyser @susanrukeyser.bsky.social Writer person. 🌈💥 OUT NOW: Bad Words & The Worst Kind of Girl. https://linktr.ee/susanrukeyser
Nigel Hakeem @nigelhakeem.bsky.social Writer, Marxist, Reality TV enthusiast.
Bicoastal Review @bicoastalreview.bsky.social bicoastalreview.com
Journal of poetry (with audio), nonfiction, interviews, art, and photography - particularly on themes of the U.S. east and west coasts 🌊
Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social A literary journal, founded in 1996, publishing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. https://baltimorereview.org/ 
Eshani Surya @eshanisurya.bsky.social debut novel RAVISHING 💄💉 ✨ out now from Roxane Gay Books/Grove Atlantic | disabled & chronically ill | philly-based | surya means sun ☀️ | eshani.surya@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/eshanisurya