Jude P @judepickledplum.bsky.social Tea drinking fool, storyteller, humanist, voluptuary. Easily distracted by cats and reverb. Quiet voice, loud hands. Likes writers, books and awful puns.
Michelle R. Brady @bradymicheller.bsky.social Author // Pushcart Nom x2, BOTN Nom x2 // rep: Katie Grimm at Curtis Brown // EIC at HouseofArcanum.org // www.MichelleReneeBrady.com // MichelleReneeBrady.substack.com // MichelleReneeBrady.podbean.com
Martha Anne Toll @marthaannetoll.bsky.social Novelist: DUET FOR ONE is out! So is THREE MUSES. Literary and cultural critic. Board member PEN/Faulkner Foundation, member National Book Critics Circle.
www.marthaannetoll.com
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Great Novel Reads @greatnovels.bsky.social Fiction-only book discovery platform.
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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
Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social she/her
📖 Writer | Librarian
📍 Edinburgh | Burntisland | Cairngorms
Gleefully geeky. Writes SFF/literary speculative short stories, among other word-things. Loves books, mountains, my cat Mishka & more. 💗💜💙
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Katherine Pickett, Editor (she/her) @popediting.bsky.social I help writers achieve their dreams of publication. Owner of POP Editorial Services LLC. Award-winning author, #editor, writing coach, workshop leader, avid cyclist, amateur painter. #Resist
blog: www.thePOPnewsletter.com
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Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social.
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r. p. singletary @rpsingletary.bsky.social Widely published in so-called underground publications, or so they said.
Basile Lebret edits Cult of the Dog @evoripclaw.bsky.social Horror (screen)writer
Elu @lunarpedlar.bsky.social She sells the moon. Plays with words for a living. PhD research @ Monash with a focus on narrative design and autoethnography. I live and work on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nations. Banner & Pfp my own. My favourite emoji is 🎈.
Mary Murray Bartolomé @murraybartolome.bsky.social Writing & Adventure; winner of Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize ‘24, SL in Bath Short Story, Bridport Prize, Aurora Prize, Bath Novel Award, Writer's College comp. Querying debut women’s fiction and YA novel. https://wordstaleme.wixsite.com/website
Stuart Aken @stuartaken.bsky.social UK writer of fiction (12 books published). Photographer. Environment, science, atheist, humanist, walker, happily married. Find me here: https://stuartaken.net/ I DO NOT follow DMs, selfie promos & users w/o profiles or posts. Porn will be blocked.
MoonPark Review @moonparkreview.bsky.social a quarterly journal of short prose
Editors: Mary Lynn Reed and Lesley C. Weston
https://moonparkreview.com
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social Art, nature, writing woes. Sometimes funny, often intentionally. New Yorker by birth, Londoner by practice.
Story ‘Nothing Compared to You’ out in the Book of Witty Women : https://bit.ly/3Q72ug0
Laura Bee @writerlaurabee.bsky.social Tragically unhip Dutch-Canadian stranded in the Netherlands. A little bit writer, a little bit rock & roll. A lot ADHD. Boomer, but not the kind with money. 🚫 AI.
#SoA
One of Pamela Des Barres' Electric Ladies! https://tinyurl.com/mruve4cw
Andrea Bishop @andreabishop.bsky.social Writer. Salt Spring Island & Vancouver, 🇨🇦. Stories in/coming: New Ohio Review, Malahat Review, Masters Review, Cleaver, Grain, BULL, PRISM...
Knows: healthcare, psych & change
Appreciates: dogs, quests, diversity & curiosity
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The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the world’s best new writing.
http://theberlinliteraryreview.com
Brett Biebel @brettbbl.bsky.social Writer, teacher, sports fan. Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50.
Jeffrey Lime @jeffreylime.bsky.social Writing psychological short fiction with a twist in the tale. Comments on my work more than welcome 🐻❄️
Avery Bell @aestheticaves.bsky.social Flash Fiction writer. Lover of horror and fantasy. Will have at least 9 projects at all times (thank you ADHD, my beloved)
They/them
Shonna White @shonnathewhite.bsky.social Author, artist, gamer & GIANT GEEK (she/her) 🇨🇦
LOST INFERNAL - Now available on Amazon - Learn more at Lostinfernal.com
Tortured soul behind the writer's resource
@descriptionary.bsky.social | descriptionary.wordpress.com
The Reader Berlin @thereaderberlin.bsky.social ✍️ Berlin's Platform for Creative Writers since 2011 ✍️
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Creative Writing Workshops & Writing Classes / Mentoring / Readings / The Berlin Writing Prize
The Independent Author Network @ianauthornetwork.bsky.social Welcome to the Independent Author Network at Bluesky. Promoting and Supporting Indie Authors since 2010. Our Book of the Year Awards program features $6,000 in cash prizes. #IAN1
Rob Gotobed @robgotobed.bsky.social Stand-up philosopher, scribe, bongo drummer and professional time-traveller. (Once dated Anne Boleyn)
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Bethany Cutkomp @bdcutkomp.bsky.social midwestern writer of strange and lonely works | library associate | managing editor of Thomasonian | she/her | bdcutkomp.wixsite.com/portfolio
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
Not Quite Write @notquitewrite.com 🎙️ Not Quite Write Podcast | notquitewrite.com
🏆 Join our international flash fiction writing comp AU$4k in prizes + publication | notquitewriteprize.com
Andrew Wiese @andrewwiese1986.bsky.social Berlin + London
Deutsche Literatur und Philosophie @ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Broad Ripple Review @broadripplereview.bsky.social Fiction | Nonfiction | Poetry | Reviews
Free submissions, always.
www.broadripplereview.com
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Thin Skin magazine @thin-skin.bsky.social Thin Skin is a literary magazine showcasing the work of writers over 50, the 'late bloomers' of the literary world. Find us at https://thin-skin.com/
Mike Piero 🏳️🌈 @mikepiero.org Writer. Novelist. Poet. Game Studies Scholar. Writing in J Journal, Midway Journal, Rain Taxi, Moveable Type, Impost, Sandy River Review, & Trash Cat Lit. *Views are my own.* Monarch and Best Small Fictions noms. More at www.mikepiero.org. He/Him. Bi. 🩷💜💙
Patience Mackarness @patiencemackarness.bsky.social Writer, grandmother, tree-hugger. Born in Hampshire, now in rural Brittany, with pitstops in Leeds, Portugal, Wales, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Liverpool. I write flash fiction and other things.
Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social An online journal publishing classically inspired short stories. Now open for submissions, 1000-8000 words. Edited by @CourtlandAvenue (Dave Gregory)
https://doric-literary.com/
Sudha Subramanian @sudhasubraman.bsky.social Dreamer. Nature lover. Storyteller.
Carly Anderson @carlyanderson.bsky.social Writer of flash fiction, essays and memoir.
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Erin Vachon (they/them) 🍉 @erinvachon.bsky.social Senior Reviews Editor @smokelong.bsky.social | Multigenre & Chapbook Editor @splitlippress.com | Providence menace | I write weird shit. | Fuck ICE. | More of us than there are of them.
Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social Writer.
Recent Words in Iron Horse, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, Scaffold, others… see—>
https://travisflattblog.com/
Out to Lunch @fictionwriting.bsky.social Discussion of websites, venue reviews, event planning ... stuff that, while relevant, I would never put on my main account. Maybe some flash fiction.
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Tessaverse @tessascott.bsky.social ✨ Berlin Poets Collective ✨ Writers who Write 📍Hamburg 🌱 Aotearoa New Zealand
Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social Michigan writer & stuff. auDHD. gender noncompliant. Fuck AI & Subst*ck.
https://aniking.net
— Family Night (Mason Jar Press, 2026) https://tinyurl.com/2jtf6t63
— SmokeLong Subs Editor
— EiC: syntaxandsalt.com (closed)
Gessica Sakamoto Martini @gessicasakamoto.bsky.social Writer & Poet | 2x BOFN nom| Words in DMQ review, HAD, Hex, SoFloPoJo, Ballast, Unbroken, Bending genres, Gone Lawn, Red Ogre Review, etc...| EiC: Orion’s Belt | PhD in Anthropology (Durham Uni, UK) | she/her.
Website: https://www.gessicasakamoto.com/
Pete Carvill @petecarvill.bsky.social 73% writer, 27% game show host.
Author of 'Death of a Boxer' (Biteback Publishing). Currently finishing 'A Duel of Bulls', a book about the intersecting lives of Ernest Hemingway and Orson Welles (out in 2025, also with Biteback Publishing).
June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social Scottish. Writer. Reader for Fractured Lit. Published in Trash Cat Lit, Frazzled Lit, Moonlit Getaway, Gone Lawn, The Phare, Gutter, Hooghly Review, and National Flash Flood.
V.L. Lanius 🏺 is writing, again. @vl-lanius.bsky.social 📜 Writing epic fantasy. Obsessed with ancient history.
🎲 DM and mini painter.
🏳🌈 Genderqueer (Any/All) | Aroace | ND
Projects:
🐲 Royal Magpie series - Dragons, Queer Romance, Rome-flavored
🏛 7 Days of Fire - Historical Fiction, Fall of Carthage
Judi Walsh @judiwalsh.bsky.social 
Madelon Fleminger @madelonruth.bsky.social Mom to Haggai, fiction explorer, consultant, and among diverse other activities and sensibilities, potty-mouth and ping-pong player. Heimatland Brooklyn.
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Dr. Redfern "Red" Barrett @redfernbarrett.com Non-binary author. Stories: Colored Lens, FFO, Passages North, Nature. Non-fiction: Guernica, Strange Horizons, PinkNews. LGBTQ+ novels from Bywater.
Ambitopia evangelist.
Literature PhD. Rep'd by Jonathan Villegas of Oslwanger Lit.
redfernbarrett.com
Ivan Wainewright Author @ivanwainewright.bsky.social Independent author of the award-winning The Other Times of Caroline Tangent: "If you could travel back in time to see any concert, who would you go to see?"
www.ivanwainewright.com
Books | Music | Football
Dina Strasser @dinaeliz.bsky.social Writer, teacher, semi-Luddite. I follow authors, educators, and lit mags.
Antwan Crump @antwancrump.bsky.social Writer / Author. Mostly talking shop and random thoughts. Novel: "APOSTATE". Recent works (2025): "The Suicide Pod," "BUTTERFLIES," & "The ORB." (2026): "Veal" (https://a.co/d/098cBUuq)
Website: https://www.atcrump.com
Emma Phillips @words-outwest.bsky.social Flash fan, poet, short fiction writer. Likes actual and imaginary travel. Words: 2nd place Bath Flash June 2021, Best Microfiction 2022, Free Flash Fiction Competition Winner. 
RatherBeReading @ratherbereading.bsky.social Katharine: Celt. Charity worker.
Ink drinker & word wrangler of dark fiction
Book Reviewer: Historical Novel Society
https://open.substack.com/pub/mywritingshenanigans
Short story published Bloody St Albans 22
Top 100: Cheshire Novel Prize 23
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Kincaid Jones @kincaidjones.bsky.social ✍️ FIVE WEDNESDAYS—Winner, 2024 BookPipeline Unpublished Competition/Literary Fiction
🎥 Writer Kincaidjones.com
💙 Cats, Kids, Books, Politics, Cats, Wine, Movies/TV, Carbs. Also Cats
#booksky #scriptsky
chris-h | books @chris-handrahan.bsky.social Paperbacks only.
Walking on Stones, Novel
Systemic Evolutions (nonfiction)
Simultaneity Betrayed, Novel
Survival of the Fittest? (nonfiction)
No affiliations/marketing.
Books fully created/published by the author. Indie Books.
Alie5280 @alie5280.bsky.social Mom. Dog lover. Wannabe Writer. Ally. All genders are valid. Liberal AF. Coloradoan who grew up in MN.
Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social This is a storybook. All of us are in it. Here are some tales.
https://eirenegentle.com
https://templeinacity.com
Recent: Claudine, Does it have pockets, Frazzled, Fish Barrel, Dog Throat, Blood & Honey, ANMLY. Pushcart, best short fiction nom.
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Jamie Etheridge @lescribbler.bsky.social Winner @fracturedlit Anthology II
Long List Wigleaf Top 50
Words: @xraylitmag @jmwwjournal @bendinggenres @essayingdaily @reckonreview @antiheroinchic @pitheadchapel @storySouth +
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Guido Eekhaut @eekhaut.bsky.social Writer of crime books and thrillers, speculative and fantastic fiction and the weird. Winner Hercule Poirot Award, and nominated for several others. Please no DM except professional offers.
Angie Ellis @angieellis.bsky.social Writer. Work in The Masters Review, Grain, Story, The Forge, The Cincinnati Review, Narrative, Epiphany, Juked, and elsewhere. My novel, "A Snake and a Feathered Bird", will be out in the fall of 2025. 🇨🇦
www.angieelliswriter.com
Shelby Edwards @sedwards.bsky.social Writer poet with a day job | Senior senior risk manager with a knack for things going sideways | Army Maj (Ret). | Plant geek | Northwesterner | @STEWest at that other place
MaireadWrites @maireadwrites.bsky.social Writes things, teaches things, learns things, parents a person, and some other things (BFFA winner; Bridport SL; Pushcart Nominated; LL Wigleaf Top 50) South West, UK, but Northern.
Russell Gascoigne @russgascoigne.bsky.social Scriptwriter ~ MG/YA author ~ Worked for BBC Drama/European Script Fund #Screenwriting support here http://bit.ly/38B8neZ Rep'd @ Curtis Brown https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/russell-gascoigne
Susannah Butler @sbeditorial.bsky.social ✨Freelance commissioning editor, copyeditor & proofreader working with publishers and authors to develop books across genres.
www.susannahbutler.com
IanHall24959 @ian24959.bsky.social Came 4th out of 5 in an under 9 race at Pakenham; not much after that. No dms thanks. 🙏
Red Ogre Review @ogre.red We're an indie arts press:
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Submissions:
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Books:
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Poetry readings and music:
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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
Lena - Poet and Questioner @lena1370.bsky.social Poet, Questioner and Walker in darkness
@brucewriter.bsky.social @brucewriter.bsky.social Writer, biographer, pontificator, prevaricator. It’s not me in the picture. #music #biography #history
Bernard T. Joy @bernardtjoy.bsky.social PhD from University of Glasgow. Literature, US culture/Southern US culture, William Faulkner, modernist studies, philosophy, visual art, genre fiction.
Jerry Slaff @jslaff.bsky.social Playwright of LIES, GRAND UNION and WHO'S YEHOODI?, O'Neill semifinalist (TWICE!), 2019 Writer's Digest Grand Prize winner, Arsenal supporter, resister when it matters, man about town. Ex-X, but ain't we all?
Todd Clay Stuart @toddclaystuart.bsky.social Poet • Writer • Excitable Boy • Words in well-lighted places • Noms Pushcart BOTN Best Small Fictions Best Microfiction Wigleaf 50
More words @ toddclaystuart.com
Bolognese Sauce @bolognesesauce.bsky.social Actor & Blogger
I post micro stories everyday @ https://microbarddaily.blogspot.com/
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/themicrobarddaily/
Pumpkin Spiced Hannah 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2021. She / her / hers / shö. Shetlander in Aberdeen. Writer, library assistant, archivist, book and music enthusiast, views my own because who else's would they be? https://linktr.ee/tooriekep
Angelo Vellarosa @ilsospirante.bsky.social Rendre le monde heureux, c’est semer des sourires comme des fleurs dans le vent. Chaque acte de bonté éclaire l’horizon, chaque geste d’amour tisse des ponts invisibles. Dans cette quête infinie, un simple souffle de bienveillance peut faire la différence.
Barbara Byar @barbarabyar.bsky.social Writer
Debut Novel: IN THE DESERT, OUT NOW
from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
Buy Here: https://a.co/d/0bucj1Yn
Collection: Some Days are Better than Ours (Reflex Fiction)
https://substack.com/@barbarabyar?utm_source=user-menu
Kerry via San Francisco
Tiny Molecules @tinymolecules.bsky.social A quarterly literary journal. We love flash, we love experimental, we love saying something big in a small space.
https://www.tinymolecules.com/
EIC @sdobbie.bsky.social
Nicole Brogdon @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social Writer, esp flash fiction. Reader.
Tom Vowler @tomvowler.bsky.social Word-botherer.
Winner V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize
www.tomvowler.co.uk
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Nichole Auden @nicholeauden.bsky.social Interests — climate; gardening; rights (children’s, human, animal, civil, etc.); science/medicine; art; food; culture; history; bucolic landscapes; and hedonistic things like hot water, naps, and dogs.
Judy Darley @judydarley.bsky.social Writer & daydreamer living by the Somerset coast. Author of fiction collections #TheStairsAreASnowcappedMountain, #SkyLightRain (https://bit.ly/3zlfK7Q) & #RememberMeToTheBees. Workshop leader/journalism/brand engagement.
Pynchokami @pynchokami.bsky.social When I'm not crafting magical tales like #M&F or #BerkeleyTapes, you can find me lost in a good book, strategizing over a board game, or experimenting in the kitchen.
Jennifer Goodland @libraryjenn.bsky.social FIGHT FOR GOOD. Neurospicy librarian; Olympic hopeful but BOYCOTT LA ‘28!!! Lazy, but bad at it. Tell me why you’re DMing me if you expect a response. Content: obscure primary sources, #ALA. Mocking my horse, #GarbageMare.
Nicole Simonsen @nicolewrites.bsky.social Reader, writer, admirer of dogs, trees, long sentences. Hoping to learn as much as I can before my time is up. 
Dylan MacQuarrie Taylor @mactaylor.bsky.social Husband. Father. Former Writer. Current Stay at Home Dad. 
Stephanie Bonnici @stephaniebonnici.bsky.social Arts & Culture | Policy & Dialogue | Research & Strategy | All views expressed are my own
NLBlandford @nlblandford.bsky.social Crime fighter by day. Crime writer by night.
An author who doesn't fit into a mold, I write psychological thrillers...some really dark...some comedic.
I also teach writing craft and am trying my hand at poetry.
www.nlblandford.com
The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social A magazine about culture and ideas, from Europe, for the world, with essays, reviews, stories, profiles and other adventurous writing.