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)
Chris Dodds @liquid-chicken.bsky.social I write things. And make things. All the things. chrisdodds.net
My debut, Necessary Cuts (https://necessarycuts.com), won the @miamioh-press.bsky.social Novella Prize and will land in 2027. Other work in Pithead Chapel, Marrow Magazine, and BULL.
James Kennedy @iamjameskennedy.bsky.social Author of BRIDE OF THE TORNADO and DARE TO KNOW and THE ORDER OF ODD-FISH. Host of the 90-Second Newbery Film Festival and the Secrets Of Story podcast. http://www.jameskennedy.com
Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (Tor Nightfire, Titan). 5 Bram Stoker Awards. Shirley Jackson finalist. Work in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Asimov's, Pseudopod, etc. Clarion grad. 🏳️🌈
www.lucysnyder.com
Rep: @jord4nhill.bsky.social
Cats, aquariums and terrariums
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.
Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social Everything would be great if The Smiths would just get back together.
Words: Wigleaf, HAD, Roi Faineant, Does it Have Pockets? Pithead Chapel, Your Impossible Voice, Trash Cat Lit, and BSF 2017, 2019. 2018 Pushcart recipient. www.keithawoodruff.com
Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social Queer writer l #FlashFiction l Smokelong Fellow 2026 l Contrib ed @nffr.bsky.social
Pushcart, BSF, BMF & Monarch noms
Read my stories:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17zj1W2pXZsP1aZZ3vR4vbV4Cra9eZ15F6lwU5lc2tKA/edit?usp=sharing
Dina Strasser @dinaeliz.bsky.social Writer, teacher, semi-Luddite. I follow authors, educators, and lit mags.
Josh Malerman @joshmalerman.bsky.social 
Paul Tremblay @paultremblay.bsky.social Writer person. Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep, Horror Movie, Another, A Head Full of Ghosts, The Cabin at the End of the World, The Pallbearers Club. F*ck AI
Char Hamrick @charhamrick.bsky.social Managing Editor @reckonreview.bsky.social
https://charhamrick.com/
https://charlottehamrick.substack.com/
Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social 
shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social Author of The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India), and most recently, Cajun South Brown Folk (Belle Point Press). Represented by Teffanie Thompson of Falkin Literary. 2019-2025 Series Editor of The Wigleaf Top 50. Lafayette, LA. shomedome.com
Star Wuerdemann @starwuerdemann.bsky.social Writer/Educator/Acupuncturist in Washington State. Bread Loaf '23 alum. Pronounced WORD-a-man.
Rachel M. Hollis (she/her) @rachelmhollis.bsky.social Writer of strange little heartbreaks. Sometimes I share them with people who aren’t my mom.
rachelmhollis.com
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/
Keith Pilapil Lesmeister @keithlesmeister.bsky.social Author of the forthcoming story collection ASK ME ABOUT THE MONEY | keithlesmeister.com
Betsy Withycombe @betsywithycombe.bsky.social MFA Candidate, Mother, Wife, Polymath, Otrovert
@chartsuyker.bsky.social @chartsuyker.bsky.social Published in Quarterly West, Fractured Literary, Fiction Southeast, Miracle Monocle and elsewhere.
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
Katherine Argent @katherineargent.com Kansas City-based writer and woman of a certain rage. Reading submissions for @fracturedlit.bsky.social & The Master’s Review. Petting all the dogs.
Also at the bad place: https://x.com/effthealgorithm
Ausiàs Tsel @ausiastsel.com País Valencià. Mediterranean Gothic in Catalan/Valencian & English. Forthcoming in The Rumpus & Chthonic Matter. Pithead Chapel, Neon & Smoke, Flash Fiction Magazine & Dark Horses. Creator of zenodot.app (Publishers Lunch, Jane Friedman, LSE Impact).
Bharat Jayram Venkat @bharatvenkat.bsky.social I study climate change, health, and inequality
Associate Professor, UCLA
Institute for Society & Genetics / History /Anthropology
Director, UCLA Heat Lab
bharatvenkat.net
Wrote AT THE LIMITS OF CURE (Duke University Press)
Writing SWELTER (Crown, Picador)
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
Jane French @janefrench.bsky.social Writer of medical and caregiving reports | published widely in email streams | family caregiver | advocate for low-income older adults
Me @ewiggins66.bsky.social Writer, architect, woodcarver, gardener, dog & cat lover, live off-grid in a secluded coastal forest retreat in Maine. Healthcare worker. Autistic tendacies linger. I believe life is complicated and we all need choices.
Niall Griffiths @niall2025.bsky.social Writer, reader, roisterer, etc. Pronoun: gobshite.
Largely north Wales and Liverpool but other places will feature. Or maybe not.
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
Jessica Dawn @jessdawn.bsky.social Writer at night, animal day job, tired in between. Work in Short Story Long, HAD, Rejection Letters, Barren Magazine, Jake, and more. Assistant editor, Short Story Long. Tin House fall ‘25. Lots of dog photos. https://jessdawn.neocities.org/
Claire Thompson @pipthompson.bsky.social Author, researcher, art-loving Italophile, mysteries and short stories. Rep'd by Gail Hochman NYC. 
Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social Curious. Clever. Quick. 🐈⬛
Monthly Magazine for Micro Prose
Free to sub. Paying market.
Claudineliterary.com
Sibylline Press @sibyllinepress.bsky.social Publishing the brilliant work of women 50+.
Sibylline Press | Sibylline Digital First | Sibylline Craft
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
Rachel Cantor @rachelcantor.bsky.social Author of the adult literary novels Half-Life of a Stolen Sister (2023), Good on Paper (2016), and A Highly Unlikely Scenario (2014). Now writing speculative MG/YA. Flailing but I mean well. She/her. www.rachelcantor.com
Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social Deep Woods of Philly | Sometimes Writer | Spoonie Crew | Accidental Startupper | Words in New Letters, Wild Roof Journal, etc.| NO DMs
https://linktr.ee/lisadellaporta
The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the world’s best new writing.
http://theberlinliteraryreview.com
Dustin J. Byrd, Ph.D. @drdjbyrd.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Editor-in-Chief of Ekpyrosis Press; Founder and Co-Director of the Institute for Critical Social Theory; Cigars, mate!
https://www.dustinjbyrd.org
https://www.ekpyrosispress.com
https://www.criticalsocialtheory.com
Brett Biebel @brettbbl.bsky.social Writer, teacher, sports fan. Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50.
Chel Campbell @chelcampbell.bsky.social ☀️ poet & BOTN-nominated collage artist
⚡️ EIC @memezine.bsky.social
⭐️ poetry reader @pitheadchapel.bsky.social
🪰 LOVEBUG (rinky dink press, 2025)
✍️ work appearing/forthcoming in matchbook, X-R-A-Y, Pithead Chapel, trampset, & more
Mindi @motiondoc22.bsky.social I’m an educator, chiropractor, anatomy and physiology nerd, crochet freak, GenX, Buffy fan, animal lover, named hasher, mom, wife, and GF. 🏳️🌈 I love snark and sarcasm , reading, writing, and finding the humor in the tough spots.
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
Avalon Jacka @avalonjacka.bsky.social A writer and creator above all else | Colorado-based fantasy/horror fiction author | Chekov's Gun enthusiast | No justice? No peace | Anti-fascist, Anti-AI | All opinions are mine
Andrew Huffman @landrewhuffman.bsky.social trans writer • ABBA enthusiast • landrewhuffman.com
Rebecca Karas @rebeccakaras.bsky.social poet & weird fiction writer. probably thinking about Tetris. she/they
https://linktr.ee/rebecca.karas
Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com Shirley Jackson Award-nominated EIC of @tenebrouspress.bsky.social. Dark specfic writer, Romanian folklore nerd, optimistic nihilist.
she/her
WHISPERWOOD out now
THE NIGHT SHIP out now
TATRATEA coming Oct 2026
https://linktr.ee/AlexWoodroe
Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social Author of 5 books, most recently the essay collection IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE. New novel REVEAL! forthcoming in Spring '28
Former Book Fight podcast co-host. @Barrelhouse.bsky.social NF Editor. Rutgers-Camden MFA faculty. South Jersey.
Tom.mcallister.ws
Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.
Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social hex editor, video game player, dad bod haver, glizzy guzzler (the Glizzard of Oz)
Kathryn Kulpa @writesofkathryn.bsky.social Will write for coffee. Mostly flash, mostly fiction.
Work in BULL, Centaur, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, HAD, Milk Candy, SmokeLong, TrashCat, Wigleaf, YIV.
Chapbooks: A Map of Lost Places; For Every Tower, a Princess; Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted.
Kat Gonso (she/her) @katwritesstuff.bsky.social Flash fiction and young adult books
Educator
Opinions my own
https://www.katgonso.com/ 
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com If you’re reading this, you’re in the right place.
Beautiful books you won't forget. Available in all good bookshops.
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
James Blacksmith @jamesblacksmith.bsky.social Recovering reporter. Award winning journalist and short story writer. Debut novel coming soon.
Thomas D. Kersting @tdkerst.bsky.social Writer: Historical Fiction, Memoir, Personal Essays
Blog:
thomasdkersting.com
#historicalfictionwriters
#writingcommunity
#authors&writing
#booksky
#BluePit
Mercedes M. Yardley @missmurdermercedes.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-Winning author, dark fantasist, family girl, artist, cupcake baker.
Rebecca Turkewitz @rebecca-turkewitz.bsky.social Writer, teacher, cat aficionado. Debut story collection, HERE IN THE NIGHT (@blacklawrence.bsky.social) out now! Maine. she/her 🌈 Loves a good ghost story. rebeccaturkewitz.com
Lee Matthew Goldberg @leematthewgoldberg.bsky.social Author of 16 📚 including ANCESTOR, MENTOR and the GREAT GIMMELMANS.
Lit Rep: Josh Getzler @ HG Literary
Screenwriter and publisher of Fringe Press.
Native New Yorker. LeeMatthewGoldberg.com
Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
Pam Avoledo @pamavoledo.bsky.social Fiction writer based in Michigan.. Best Microfiction Nom ‘25. Best of the Net Nom ‘26 (poetry)
https://pamavoledo.com
David Estringel @davidestringel.bsky.social Writer+EIC @The Argyle @Blood+Honey🖊The Opiate, Punk Noir, The Gorko Gazette, BULL, Mythic Picnic, Citywide Lunch, Street Cake, Cowboy Jamboree, Fevers of the Mind, Apocalypse Confidential, Literary Heist, and The Daily Drunk.
www.davidestringel.com
Alex @alexandra19.bsky.social 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸 🇺🇦Reader, writer, feminist, believer in climate change, social justice, democracy and Ukraine with family on both sides of the 49th parallel.
Trump is destroyingAmerica‼️
Release the Epstein files‼️
No dms please.
David Perlmutter @davidperlmutter.bsky.social Canadian white male autistic writer. Author of America 'Toons In: A History of Television Animation and The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Also author of speculative fiction, superhero fiction and anthropomorphic ("furry") fiction.
Krystian Morgan @kmog.bsky.social (Thinks of words, writes them down)
Stories in Open Pen, Idle Ink, W.A.R, on paper and in the head.
When not writing, you’ll find me playing the guitar, fussing in the kitchen or doing graphic design to pay the bills.
www.krystianmorgan.com | Wales, UK 🏴
Kat 🍞🌹 @katrosedillon.bsky.social Union activist. Cat & plant parent. UNL Comp/Rhet Ph.D. & writing instructor. Spoonie. Trekkie. Pan & proud. Non-binary. they/them
Laurie Ann Doyle @ladoyleauthor.bsky.social #Author of historical #novel LIGHT AND ASH coming from #Sibylline Press in April, 2027, & WORLD GONE MISSING: #STORIES (Regal House). Two-time nominee for Pushcart Prize. #Writing in McSweeny's, Alta, The Rumpus, LA Review. www.laurieanndoyle.com
Carol Claassen @carolroseclaassen.bsky.social Writer, reader, runner, neighborhood walker, street photographer, laugh enthusiast, dog lover, literary TV watcher, PDXer, 🏳️🌈, protester of fascism, supporter of DEI and human rights.
Derek @derekmaine.bsky.social An entire, real human being.
Fiction reader/writer.
Debut Novel: CHAR ACT ERS (2022)
derekmaine.com
Jillian Luft @jillianluft.bsky.social Writer. SCUMBAG SUMMER (2024, House of Vlad Press). Founder of @sweettrashpress.bsky.social
Michael Azevedo @michaelazevedo.bsky.social Curious citizen, hopeful skeptic. Host of MAKING MEDIA NOW podcast. Voice over guy. Bad at social media.
Anthony Addis @anthonyaddis.bsky.social I used to write, read and live in Cairo, KL, Jakarta and Riyadh. Now I do all that in Lichfield while placating two Indonesian streetcats.
My novel 'Do Not Keep Silent' is available on Amazon.
anthonyaddis.co.uk
Ohio Poetry Association @ohiopoetry.bsky.social Hello #poets! We at the Ohio Poetry Association are thrilled to be joining you on Bluesky. We are an active group of poets and #poetry lovers who have a relationship with #Ohio. Join us at http://ohiopoetry.org.
John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social NBPF Beat Poet Laureate
Founding editor, Crisis Chronicles Press
Past Vice President, Ohio Poetry Association
Hillbuckeye. Skeptic. Creative. Better woke than asleep.
https://linktr.ee/johnburroughs 🏳️🌈
Natalie Pascale Boisseau @npboisseau.bsky.social Writer - Ecrivaine. Montreal -Seattle
Acupuncture. Récit. Traduction.
CNF, poetry, memoir.
Trauma, adolescence.
Publications: Les Ecrits des Forges, Raven Chronicles, Isele Magazine, Crab Creek
Dienw Neb @bareroot.bsky.social Writer of odd books
https://noshelterbooks.com/
Reposting & posting unpolished thoughts as I work on my current project.
The Real Tim Horvath @timmytwoshovels.bsky.social Husband to my wife, Writer of fiction, Omnipotent entity to my standard parti poodle, NW farm terrier,110 lb pit bull & 3 cats, Doctor of law, Broker of real estate, Washer of dishes, friend of Bill W. Childhood Cancer survivor from 1966.
Claire @theauthorslounge.bsky.social Superstar Librarian, Author Interviewer and Author Brand Expert. F:Entrepreneur #IAlso100 2024, Award Winning Brand Photographer, London based.
Dean Jobb - True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social Strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime.
A Gentleman and a Thief • The Case of the Murderous Dr Cream • Empire of Deception (Algonquin Books/HarperCollins Canada)
Website: www.deanjobb.com
Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y935u82h
berocious feast @lightwraith.bsky.social Work in Shimmer (now defunct), Luna Station Quarterly, Entropy Magazine. Pen name: Leonie Skye https://hazylightwraiths.wordpress.com Ph.D. in linguistic anthropology, I do evaluation and data analysis, swimming, quilting, wandering Portland, OR, She/Her
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
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. 
Jessica Carney @jessicacarney.bsky.social Writer & event planner querying a book filled with humorous stories about event plans gone awry.
https://jessicacarneywriter.com/
Terry Birdgenaw @terrybirdgenaw.bsky.social Award-winning author of The Antunite Chronicles (Antifascist Allegorical Fiction), Satirist, Professor, Democracy Defender, Resists Autocracy, Writing for freedom, Check out my humorous Orwellian stories.
terrybirdgenaw.com
https://linktr.ee/terrybirdgenaw
Colm Brennan @colmgbrennan.bsky.social Poet & Writer
Poetry Ireland Review • Banshee • The Waxed Lemon • Sonder • The Cormorant • Profiles • The Ogham Stone • Arts Council Literature Bursary • MA in creative writing from UL
colmgbrennan.com
Dr Carrie Etter @carrieetter.bsky.social Poet, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Poems in Iowa Review, Poetry London, TLS, The New Republic... | Academic | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the 🐈⬛! | Foodie | Dem 🇺🇸 expat in Bristol, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
Danny Goodman @ddouglasgoody.bsky.social writer, editor, personal photog to editorial cat and dog. debut novel, AMERIKALAND (leftover books), out now. kindness is the new punk rock.
https://linktr.ee/ddouglasgoody
Jonathan Huston @jonathanhuston.bsky.social Writer in the Rhine Valley and on the Pacific Coast. Short stories and interactive fiction. Mondstaub short story collection. Best European Fiction. Qirkat board game app.
https://jonathanhuston.com
Alicia Dekker @alicia-dekker.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Stories in Fractured Lit, Barely South Review, Pithead Chapel. Hoarding fabric that I'll never stitch into a quilt.
Justin Bryant @justinwriter.bsky.social ‘Thunder From A Clear Blue Sky’ Malarkey Books 2023. Short fiction/flash here and there.
Vicki Derderian @vickiderderian.bsky.social Writer.
Work in The Michigan Quarterly Review; The Louisville Review; The Fourth River,
Solstice Literary Review, and elsewhere.
Vickiderderian.com
Gail Gauthier @gailgauthier.bsky.social Short stories in Stonecoast Review & Literary Mama. Humor in Slackjaw, Belladonna Comedy, Jane Austin's Wastebasket, Frazzled. Essayist. Middle grade writer. More than you want to know at www.gailgauthier.com Still blogging at http://blog.gailgauthier.com
Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social EIC @the-engine-idling.bsky.social
https://www.d-mcmahon-writes.net
author of 4 poetry chapbooks & 2 microchaps
latest: rowhouse song (Ghost City Press '25) | irl (Stanchion '26)
https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/irl
Peter Bertlessen @peterbertlessen.bsky.social Lover of books and films, especially those in the genres of Transgressive Fiction, Western, Horror and Punk. A counterculture enthusiast who writes sometimes.
https://www.instagram.com/peterbertlessen?igsh=em5wM3lnZXJ4MDU2
Dawn Weast, Author @dlweastauthor.bsky.social Author, mom, prolific reader, I love to cook, and I’m kind of a smartass! 😂
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/
Aarik Danielsen (he/him) @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social Debut essay collection PIECES OF THE NIGHT forthcoming (Cornerstone Press, 2027)
Recovering newspaperman
Promised to Holly
#SFGiants forever
Wants to be with you alone and talk about the weather
https://aarikdanielsen.com
Tessa Yang ~THE JELLYFISH PROBLEM~ @theptessadactyl.bsky.social Fiction Writer | Shark Enthusiast
THE JELLYFISH PROBLEM (novel): https://tinyurl.com/3szxwsh4
THE RUNAWAY RESTAURANT (stories): https://tinyurl.com/ythh37tj
Everything else: https://linktr.ee/tessayang
Daniel P. Kennedy @danielpk.bsky.social Writer from rural PA | Asst. Prof | work in @ New England Review, The Florida Review, Puerto del Sol, The Guardian, Carolina Quarterly +++ | Notable Best American Essays
https://www.danielpkennedy.com/