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Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social Words in BULL, FlashFlood, Does It Have Pockets, Frazzled Lit, Trash Cat Lit, Urban Pigs Press, Fictive Dream. Genrepunk Awards nominee. Shortlisted for the 2026 Bath Novella-in-Flash Award. She/her. @lmbayley at the other place.
Eileen Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social Writer, Librarian, Jerseyan ✍🏻 Baltimore Review, Hunger Mtn, X-R-A-Y, Lost Balloon, Okay Donkey, Pithead Chapel, Passages North, OSU The Journal, Tiny Molecules; soon in Fractured Lit | BSF 2023 | Wigleaf Top 50 2026 https://eileentomarchio.webnode.page/
Jessica Smetana @jessicasmetana.bsky.social meadowlark media, Le Batard Show, etc
Andy Adams @flakphoto.news Culture guy in Madison, Wisconsin. I run media at Outrider.org. In my free time, I publish https://www.flakphoto.news/. Do you like pictures? Read my newsletter! 📬 https://www.flakphoto.news 📸 https://linktr.ee/flakphoto
Richard Deitsch @richarddeitsch.bsky.social Father of twins; fan of Toronto, NYC and Buffalo; host of Sports Media Podcast; SBJ, CBC Sports. Alum: SI, The Athletic, Sportsnet; part of two countries 🇨🇦🇺🇸
Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social
Matt Lanark @mattlanark.bsky.social ✍️ probably not writing the Great American Novel 📚 Great-ish Books on @substack 🏀 Undrafted NBA free agent since 2012 📌 Washington, DC mattlanark.substack.com/welcome
𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔷𝔬𝔩𝔦 @lucasrizoli.com 𝚅𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚘 𝚐𝚊𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚙𝚊𝚢 𝚖𝚢 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚐𝚊𝚐𝚎. 𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝'𝚜 𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚝 𝚐𝚘𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜. 𝚂𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚋𝚘𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚐𝚑, 𝙾𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚘
Kevin Glew @coopincanada.bsky.social Editor, Canadian Baseball Network 2022 Baseball Canada Bob Elliott Media Award 2023 CBHOF Randy Echlin Award Always up for a good Tilson Brito story.
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
Chris Dolan @mcdolan.bsky.social I am angry about the nitrate levels in Iowa’s drinking water. My writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Maudlin House, The Disappointed Housewife, and others. www.dolanchris.com
Brooksie C. Fontaine @brooksiesbooks.bsky.social Art, writing, and book account! I'm a professional illustrator and Wigleaf-nominated author with 50+ publications and two MFAs. I draw and write about all things magical, like to rave about books, and post daily microfiction.
Patrick Nevins @patricknevins.bsky.social I wrote the novels PRETTY JOEY ROSS (coming in 2027) and MAN IN A CAGE.
Mike McHone @mikemchone.bsky.social Writer. Derringer Award winner. Pushcart, Best of the Net nominee. Published: Ellery Queen, AlfredHitchcock's MysteryMag, etc. No Longer Posting Here! Visit www.mikemchone.com Or Instagram and X: @mike_mchone https://linktr.ee/mikemchone
Brown Hound Press @brownhoundpress.bsky.social A small press in Lexington, KY that publishes offbeat mystery, dark humor, southern gothic & literary fiction. A free story each week! We pay authors. brownhoundpress.com
Raima Larter @raimalarter.bsky.social Writer & Scientist. Nonfiction Editor @utopiascifi.bsky.social Author of 4 novels, 2 collections & 1 nonfiction science book. Websites https://raimalarter.com/, raima.substack.com, https://writing.exchange/@raimalarter In Denver & loving it!
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)
Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. PhD UofU. MFA NMSU. Owner of Field Works Writing & Photography. Fiction Editor Waxwing. Books: ALL THAT BLUE & BODIES OF OTHER WOMEN. Chapbooks: STITCH, EDGE OF THE SEA & WITHOUT WOMAN OR BODY allisonfieldbell.com
Just Keep Up Magazine @justkeepupmagazine.bsky.social sci-fi / horror zine poetry every 1st & 3rd Monday fiction every 2nd & 4th Wednesday new book & film reviews every month justkeepupmagazine.com https://ko-fi.com/justkeepupmagazine https://just-keep-up-magazine.myspreadshop.com/
David James Poissant @djpoissant.bsky.social Author of LAKE LIFE, a NYT Editor's Choice, and THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS, a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the PEN/Bingham Prize. In print in nine languages. Editor of The Florida Review @theflreview.bsky.social
Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social ✦ writer | reviewer | book blogger | cheerleader of books, poetry and art | all genres RT’d | resident Tolkien fangirl | linktr.ee/rjcrunden ✦
Evan Fleischer @evanfleischer.bsky.social Writer. https://evanfleischer.org/ https://orangecatwritingworkshop.com/
Mar Vincent @marofthebooks.bsky.social Weird little stories in Analog, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and other fantastical places. Always seeking human creativity (NO AI), coffee, and petrichor. https://www.marvincent.com/ Currently in the liminal space known as novel revisions. 📝✍️✍️
WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels. Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
Keith Pilapil Lesmeister @keithlesmeister.bsky.social Author of the forthcoming story collection ASK ME ABOUT THE MONEY | keithlesmeister.com
Indivisible QC @indivisibleqc.org Grassroots movement to elect progressive leaders, rebuild our democracy, and defeat the Trump agenda. We are a group who are determined to turn fear, anger, and grief into ACTION; hold each other UP; PROTECT each other and FIGHT for our values.
Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com Independent music, books, and short stories. Humans writing things about humans making things. Web: https://www.turnandwork.com Newsletter: newsletter.turnandwork.com IG: https://www.instagram.com/turnandwork
The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to prose, poetry, comics, essays, humor, hybrid, and everything in-between. www.bulbregion.com
Y2K Quarterly @y2kq.com Literary chaos in 1999 words or less. Y2K Themed Literary Magazine EIC: @jetgirl.art https://y2kq.com
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈‍⬛ https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Nicholas Claro @nicholas-claro.bsky.social Author of THIS IS WHERE YOU ARE (Roadside Press, 2025) • WSU MFA • Fiction Reader for Write or Die • Editor • Teacher • Wichita, KS
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
the lakeshore monk @thecorlew.bsky.social writer | musician | co-host, The Line Break podcast | fiction reader, Cotton Xenomorph | 1/2 Lazy & Entitled | basketball junkie | Chicago Over Everything | exhausted dad | he/him https://www.lazyandentitled.org/?page_id=41
Emma Baccellieri @emmabaccellieri.bsky.social Writing about sports @washingtonsun.bsky.social // Previously: Sports Illustrated // emmabaccellieri@washsun.com
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.
Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social Author - Poet Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com Executive Editor at Morning Brew Priors: NBC News, WaPo, Adweek, Digiday Bylines: The Awl, The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, Entrepreneur, etc etc etc Failed musician Tips? Signal: joshsternberg.08 Sign up for my newsletter at my blog: joshsternberg.com
Meg Rowley @megrowler.fangraphs.com Editor-in-Chief of @fangraphs.com, co-host of @ewpod.bsky.social patreon.com/effectivelywild
JAMESON QUINN @realjamesonquinn.bsky.social SAG-AFTRA Award Winning Actor | Voice Artist Pittsburgh PA 4 bookings email BOOKTHEJQWAY@gmail.com or PODSTARZ.net https://www.IMDb.me/TheJQWay
Jeff (Mixed Metaphors) @mixedmetaphors.bsky.social He/him. There Are Infinite Universes and All of Them Are Boring, published by ELJ Editions: https://elj-editions.com/there-are-infinite-universes-and-all-of-them-are-boring/ Editor and reviews at @foofarawpress.bsky.social mixedmetaphors.net
Jon Fain @jonfain.bsky.social Writer of Short Fiction(s) and Other Prose Entertainments Selected Publications: https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/jonfain
Max Minckler @maxminckler.bsky.social Poetry peddler, book nut, recovering marketier. Poems in The Atlanta Review, Okay Donkey, Interpreter's House, Krax, Ambit, Obsessed with Pipework. http://NewWriters.org.uk.
Jesse Singal @jessesingal.com Journalist, co-host of Blocked and Reported, author of The Quick Fix and an upcoming book on youth gender medicine. Mostly just asking questions. More info: JesseSingal.com
Autumn Watts @autumnwatts.bsky.social Writer, Nevadan, former Guernica fiction editor (2014-2024), co-founder of litmatchcollective.com. She/her
Lit Match Collective @litmatchcollective.com A writers’ community led by editors 🔥 Helping members connect and grow. Join us ➡️ litmatchcollective.com & our community, open to all!: https://discord.gg/cxSdvE2EfN
Lori Barrett @lorimbarrett.bsky.social she/her Writer/Tutor Work in Citron Review/JMWW/Laurel Review/Peatsmoke/Identity Theory/Maudlin House Wondering if my dog is depressed
Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social Multimodal af. Collective Gravities, Every Galaxy a Circle, Patterns of Orbit, Escaping the Body, & more Co-EIC of @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social www.chloenclark.com Cover image: raspberry danishes Profile photo: a river heron
Kik Lodge @kiklodge.bsky.social Writer. THE BULLY IN MY PILLOW (Stanchion Books, August 2026). https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/the-bully-in-my-pillow Best Microfiction 2026. Hosts literary open-mics @saloneurope.bsky.social www.kiklodge.com
Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social Author of The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe (Autumn House Press Book Prize). Winner of Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction from the TX Institute of Letters. Longlisted for PEN/Bingham Prize. DC based. laurendwoods.com
Neil Fisher @spurfish.bsky.social Proud husband, father and grandfather. Walking 2 dogs somewhere in Hampshire. THFC since 1967. New York Jets 😩. Buying and selling vinyl records. https://ebay.us/m/Oy9RYf
Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social Read Issue 8! Epistemiclit.com Digital anthology series celebrating knowledge, connection, and growth through poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. EICs @melruthwrites.bsky.social and @kristinwrites.bsky.social. CNF Editor @gcbwrites.bsky.social
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
Tony Matthews VEGANPROUD @tonytheauthor.bsky.social Novelist, historian, total introvert & recluse. Would prefer to be invisible. Vegan 45 years. Author of 41 books. Animal-rights advocate. My neighbours never see me and believe literally that I am a dead writer. https://drtonymatthews.weebly.com
Dan Weaver @supernaturalfeat.com A writer and artist and programmer and sweatshirt. supernaturalfeat.com
K. A. Polzin @k-a-polzin.bsky.social Stories in Subtropics, swamp pink, Gulf Coast, Wigleaf, X-R-A-Y. Humor in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Funny Times. Comics in Narrative, Electric Literature, The American Bystander, Funny Times.
David Marino @davidmarinowrites.bsky.social Writer of Speculative Fiction. Eater of buffalo wings.
Andrea Marcusa @andreamarcusa.bsky.social Gettysburg, Citron, Moon City, Cleaver, Ghost Parachute, Milk Candy, Centaur Lit. Best Microfiction. Semi-finalist Smokelong. Chapbook: "What We Now Live With." Writers Studio Faculty; Flash Editor-Cleaver
hex @hexliterary.bsky.social hex publishes brief speculative texts on a weekly-ish basis. We're @WPI. Editors @katemcintyre.bsky.social @danielmiller.bsky.social @joeaguilar.bsky.social. Subs closed for now. Read hexliterary.com
Abby Olcese @abbyolcese.bsky.social Film critic/writer at The Pitch, Paste, Sojourners, rogerebert.com, others. Author of FILMS FOR ALL SEASONS: https://tinyurl.com/5n8hre5e
Sarah Holloway @sarahholloway.bsky.social Writer. Work in or forthcoming: SmokeLong Quarterly,'s blog, Roi Fainéant, Cowboy Jamboree, Necessary Fiction, Heavy Feather Review and elsewhere. Grandmother. Musician. She/her.
Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social CNF Editor Pithead Chapel • Smokelong Fellow • Bath Flash Fiction Winner • Storyknife • Anthology of Rural Stories by Writers of Color • Best Small Fictions • Words in River Teeth Beautiful Things, In Short, NWWQ, Cutleaf, Waxwing, 100 Word Story & more
Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social math teacher, writer in upper manhattan substack: pershmail.substack.com website with links to publications etc: michaelpershan.com
Will Ashenmacher @willash.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Gardener. Probably judging you.
John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social Restrooms are upstairs. Pay phone's upstairs. Pool table's upstairs. Foosball's upstairs. Cigarette machine's upstairs. www.johnwaddybullion.com
Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social Writer, retired teacher, sometime sage. 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship. Stories in Kenyon, Witness, Zyz, AQR. 4 collections from small presses. “The Divide” from Cornerstone Press, 2026. MFA from Montana, long time ago. evanmorganwilliams.com
Andrew Rihn @andrewrihn.bsky.social Multi-genre boxing writer Author of Revelation: An Apocalypse in Fifty-Eight Fights https://andrewrihn.my.canva.site/
Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social Writer, all sorts: https://linktr.ee/jeffreyhermann
Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social Authors / Writers / Lovers of Words... Got a flash fiction story within 500 words, of any interpretation, on any theme, that our readers should read? #flashfiction https://freeflashfiction.com/
Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social author of TURMERIC & SUGAR (Thirty West). stories in Wigleaf, Short Story Long, Berkeley Fiction Review, HAD, Craft, Fractured, etc. annavangalajones.com
Lauren Theisen @laurentheisen.bsky.social editrix & blog girl @ defector dot com
james folta @jamesfolta.com // staff writer @literaryhub.bsky.social // // managing editor @pointsincase.com // // hangin' tuff @nyc // // jamesfolta.com //
Richard Melo @fun-times-ahead.bsky.social Astoria, Oregon. Sometimes writer, always music enthusiast. Easily dragged into politics, media and sports
Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social Professional explicator and maker of soothing sounds. I'd rather make furniture than go to midnight mass. Author of "The Inaccessible Rail" (2026) (PREORDER! https://malarkeybooks.com/store/inaccessiblerail) and "Un-ruined" (2022) from Malarkey Books
Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol Senior Writer at The Ringer covering the intersection of tech, politics, and media 🦉 NYT bestselling author of Impossible Owls 🦉 also, how can I put this: sports https://bookshop.org/p/books/impossible-owls-essays-brian-phillips/7310179?ean=9780374175337
Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social Alaskan poet, teacher, parent. Books: Text Messages from The Angel Gabriel (Gnashing Teeth 2024), Another Life (Riot in Your Throat 2025) https://linktr.ee/francesklein
Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social A literary journal presenting four pieces in each issue, a sampling of the best writing out there. EICs: @fklein907.bsky.social and @ketchiklein.bsky.social https://flight-literary.ghost.io/
Anthea @writeranthea.bsky.social Writer | Screenwriter Into words, play, playing with words, wording with play she/her https://www.antheajones.net/
Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social A literary journal, founded in 1996, publishing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. https://baltimorereview.org/
Paula Hammond @writerpaula.bsky.social Feature editor (filmjuice), author, artist, vegan, she/her. #sherlockian #whovian. Also on: https://x.com/writer_paula https://www.instagram.com/writerpaula https://writerpaula.picfair.com & Alamy
Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social derekthompson.substack.com
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
Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Founder and Editor-in-chief of Ghost Parachute literary journal. Inflatable flamingo supervisor. I knew a girl once.
Marie-louise McGuinness @mlmcguinness.bsky.social Words @ Fictive Dream, Banshee, Splonk, Bending Genres, Flash Frog, The Forge, Milk Candy Review, Gone Lawn, 2x Pushcart nominated, LL Bath Short Story Award, Best Microfictions 2025, BBC Radio 4, Co.Founder: The Pride Roars, Editor Raw Lit
Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social Curious. Clever. Quick. 🐈‍⬛ Monthly Magazine for Micro Prose Free to sub. Paying market. Claudineliterary.com
Danielle Barr @daniellebarrwrites.bsky.social Literary fiction author/Driftwood Press short story winner/The Milk House/HAD/Okay Donkey/Petrichor Prize Finalist/ Rep: Iris Blasi at Arc Literary Management
cris @ilchinealach.bsky.social We're just going to talk about Irish now, like a couple of cool guys
Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz Old Seminole Heights — Tampa — Florida — U.S.A. Journalist. Consultant. Neighborhood trustee. Voting rights advocate. Non-profit theater board member. Citrus grower. Beagle foster dad. Wife guy. Signal: 352.222.2706 https://timburkelegalfund.org
Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social Political scientist. Health policy prof at Pitt (Secondary appts: Poli Sci, SPIA). Cal bear, Columbia PhD. Bylines: NYT, WaPo, Guardian, MS NOW. Writing on health insurance and admin burden. Author of Coverage Denied (CUP): https://cup.org/4nfM2IM
Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social Media nerd. CNN chief media analyst. INSIDE THE HIVE podcast host. Author of "Network of Lies," "Hoax," and "Top of the Morning." Former Shorenstein fellow, NYT reporter and blogger.
dogyard @dogyardmag.com Just a mag chasin’ tales. We accept all types of work from all (leashed) walks of life: poetry, fiction, essay, art, nonfiction, and more. Read & Submit 👇 dogyardmag.com Account ran by @edithkrone.bsky.social‬
kyle r. seibel @kylerseibel.bsky.social writer + usn veteran // HEY YOU ASSHOLES available now from Clash Books
Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social Journalist and author. @HoFoCo.org board member. My newsletter, the Long Game, is about baseball, creativity, and mental health. You can find it here: https://mollyknight.substack.com. My dog is named Canelo.
Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social Screenwriter and Emmy nominee. Author of LA Times bestseller & Thurber Prize for American Humor finalist “AMP'D." Smartest of pants. Repped @ WME kenpisani.com
Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🌒 @chronicleflask.katday.com Science & Fiction editor/writer. Krawalloger. Chemistry PhD ⚛️ Co-Editor at PseudoPod 🦑 Writer: The Crash Course Organic Chemistry & various DK science books 🧪 Short fiction ✒️ thefictionphial.wordpress.com
Gunthar Fleck @gunthar32.bsky.social I’m a writer who bought a camera. Naturally, I’m into screenwriting and directing now. Also, I have books - unpublished and published. Chicago based, Atlanta born.
terryhorstman @terryhorstman.bsky.social Writer | Editor | Podcaster | MN Lynx Reporter | Shooters shoot | Wu-Tang Forever 👐🏻 | he/him 📚Tell me your favorite local bookstore📚 🏀📝 @theixsports.bsky.social 👨🏻‍💻🏆 @underreviewlit.bsky.social 🦫🎤 @belligerentbeavs.gobeavs.app
the Under Review @underreviewlit.bsky.social A literary magazine with a sports slant. Issue 13 out now! Editors: Terry Horstman, Meghan Maloney-Vinz, & Carlee Tressel