Ian Johnson @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social Trying (trying, very trying) writer/Dad/runner. Words in @trashcatlit.bsky.social @apricotpress.bsky.social @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social @freeflashfiction.bsky.social etc. 2026 Best of the Net nominee.
Roughhouser @roughhouser-mag.bsky.social Online poetry mag. Submissions open.
Based in Chicago.
EIC: @willrusso.bsky.social
https://roughhouser.neocities.org/
Hannah van Binsbergen @hannahvanbins.bsky.social Schrijver. Poëzie & socialisme.
Laatste boek: Kokanje.
Volgende boek: De Garde (verwacht 2026).
Oprichtend hoofdredacteur Jacobin Nederland.
Kate Doyle @katedoyle.bsky.social American writer in Amsterdam // “I Meant It Once" from Algonquin Books (US) and Corsair (UK) in 2023 // www.katedoylewriter.com
Michael Czyzniejewski @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social Author, editor, professor, family participant. Retired altar boy, pizza chef, and beer vendor.
LM “Gory” Fontanes 👻 @lorifontanes.bsky.social Writer/educator/community advocate. Cats & catastrophe. More better food 4 all. Bewaring billionaires bearing tech. #SaveThePeople
Salena Casha @salenacasha.bsky.social writer. runner. product manager. 1×WigleafTop50 selection, 2xPushcart nom, 2×BOTN nom, 3xBSF nom.
Join the waitlist for Teresa 2.0 here: teresaseesyou.com
Allison Renner @allisonwrites.bsky.social Writer // Editor // @forgetcool.bsky.social
www.allisonrennerwrites.com
Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social Quarterly print literary magazine & small book press in the Philly 'burbs. Founder & EIC Jeff Bogle. linktr.ee/StanchionZine
Christine Rains @crainswriter.bsky.social Multi-genre writer, book blogger, gamer, and geek mom. Explorer of haunted places. Stops for corny roadside attractions.
Please, no soliciting. I'm not looking for editors, beta readers, or cover artists. No DMs.
Becky Halsey @beckyhalsey.bsky.social Publisher & Editor-in-Chief for Flash Fiction Online
Reader, writer, gardener, mother of four
Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social Small and/or speculative fictions. Old dictionaries. Shingle beaches. Everyday magic.
she/her
https://www.jennygaitskell.com/
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/jennygaitskell
R.K. West 🍁 @ithinkiwrite.bsky.social I think I'm a writer, therefore I am a writer.
http://www.rkwest.com/index.php
#FlashFiction #MicroFiction
Hayley Shucker @hayleyshucker.bsky.social Writer of short stories, flash, screenplays. Lover of musical theater, baking, and cats. Pub in Door is a Jar, Los Angeles Review, Reed Magazine etc hayleyshucker.com https://hayleyshucker.substack.com/
MFA Sarah Lawrence 2025
MA English CSULB 2016
CaseyAD @caseychavis.bsky.social Child of God, Proud Liberal, Brother, Uncle, Baker,Short Story Writer, Published Author, Cat Owner, World wide Traveler, Architect in a past (or future) life, Proud New Yorker living in Wisconsin. Introvert struggling to become more of an extrovert
Amanda @akscotland.bsky.social Co-host of the Not Quite Write Podcast and judge of the Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction.
Writes in the tiny spaces in between.
Jim Parisi @jpariseye.bsky.social Not that Jim Parisi. Trying to get the hang of this writing thing. Severed editor.
David Linebarger @tennis-art1.bsky.social Poet, prose writer, professor at davidlinebarger.com Latest book Tennis Players as Works of Art won many awards, including 2025 Book of the Year (Original Concept) at the 29th annual IPPY awards.
Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social Husband and father of 6 (kids, not wives...one wife). Fiction in Elegant Literature, TL;DR, Intrepidus Ink, Trampset, Eggplant Emoji, Trash Cat Lit, Bullet Points, Rat Bag Lit, Temple in a City, Stanchion. Best Small Fictions nominee. A 🦔 of Quill Hollow.
beestung @beestung.bsky.social a quarterly mag of non-binary & genderqueer & two-spirit writers that’s sweet & stings | imprint of
sundress publications | eic sarahclark.bsky.social
http://www.beestungmag.com
https://beestungmag.com/newsletter
ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social www.ANMLY.org/
www.medium.com/anomalyblog
https://www.anmly.org/newsletter
Lit mag. International, intersecting, always interesting.
Header by Ṭaüs Jafar.
LionessElise @lionesselise.bsky.social south minneapolis - another queer disabled artist -
so many beads. and pliers. so many pliers.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/LionessElise
Rowena Newman @rowenanewman.bsky.social British-Irish-Thai writer and great great great granddaughter of Chao Chom Manda Noi
Darren Cools @darrencools.bsky.social Writer, illustrator, designer. Author of the young adult novel: Light in the Canyon. Searching for the ghost.
www.darrencools.com
www.x.com/darrencools
www.instagram.com/d.j.cools
www.instagram.com/wearesuperdrive
oldsloanie @oldsloanie.bsky.social Writer/editor/writing coach. Language nerd. Aspiring translator. Estranged puppeteer and performer.
she/her.
Maeva @maevawrites.bsky.social Bi Enby Poet & Crafter living with chronic illnesses. Atheist Witch. Neurospicy. They/Them.
Best of the Net Poetry 2022 Nominee
Pushcart Poetry Prize 2025 and 2027 Nominee
Trans rights=human rights. Stop Genocide. Cultivate compassion, not perfection.
Autumn Watts @autumnwatts.bsky.social Writer, Nevadan, former Guernica fiction editor (2014-2024), co-founder of litmatchcollective.com. She/her
Marcus Delmont @marcusdelmont.bsky.social Writing things
Julia Tagliere @juliatagliere.bsky.social Maryland-based writer | editor, @baltimorereview.bsky.social | Permanently Midwestern| Bread Loaf, VCCA, Johns Hopkins Writing alum
Website: justscribbling.com.
Aaron Boot @aaronboot.bsky.social I write short pieces about people behaving strangely inside systems that insist everything is working properly.
Words in Maudlin, Waxing & Waning
Editor at Brief + Incorrect.
Elowyn Merriweather @elowynmerriweather.com Writer
On an adventure to take a childhood hobby into something more.
Humor • a little darkness • a dash of sass
📖 my work ⤵
https://www.elowynmerriweather.com/
A.S. Coomer @ascoomer.bsky.social Writer. Musician.
Robert Fields @robertfields39.bsky.social “The Zeitgeist… Out Here In The Fields, by Robert Fields”
SubStack • https://robertfields39.substack.com
#Impeach #Convict #Remove #Rule9 #RuleIX #RuleNine #RegimeChange #Blues
Colin Lewis @colinlewis.se Designer + builder + writer.
https://colinlewis.se
Madison Hankins @madisonhankins.bsky.social Creative Writer of all genres.
PhD student in Creative Writing Fiction and GA Instructor at USM.
My word children have appeared in NonBinary Review, Drift & Dribble Miscellany, Bright Flash Literary Review, and Zoetic Press’s Alphanumeric podcast.
white @trashmnk.bsky.social Est. 1982. | Erstwhile dharma bum and sometimes writer. Here for the weirdos and my own aphasia-induced typos. Prone to nerdout on comics, manga, anime, film, literature and politics.
rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social believing i had supernatural powers, i slammed into a brick wall
https://letterboxd.com/okbutstill/
isabella mori @moritherapy.bsky.social making lives better, making better lives, for everyone. retired #mentalhealth professional #haiku #peace #writingcommunity #buddhism #pagan #longcovid. old. they/she.
unceded, traditional, ancestral musqueam, squamish & tsleil-waututh lands aka vancouver.
Richard Gadz, horror writer @frankenwriter.bsky.social Award-winning author, ace neurodivergent and keen amateur idiot. Lives in Bristol but spends most of his time in a world of his own.
Also at www.richardgadz.co.uk + Facebook, Instagram, YouTube
So Many Damn Books @somanydamnbooks.bsky.social book talk and cocktails, since 2014
somanydamnbooks.com
John Sara @johnsarawriter.bsky.social Creature who writes. My debut poetry collection, The Poet Who Cried Monster, is available now from Alien Buddha Press!
Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social I write short stories that explore the space between memory and myth: quiet, eerie and unsettling fiction that lingers in the mind like fog after nightfall.
The Archive of the Unread:
https://www.archiveofunread.com
Luke Walker - Writer @lukewalkerwriter.bsky.social Horror and thriller writer. New book TERMINAL STATE out now. Also: The Ninth Circle, Ascent, The Dead Room, The Unredeemed, Winter Graves and The Nameless trilogy among others. I like cats.
https://linktr.ee/lukewalkerwriter
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social A small online literary magazine for the strange, the hybrid, and the difficult to categorize. Prose that resists sense but maintains something else. Under 1,000 words.
Yen 円 (they/them) @yenningtons.bsky.social → writer and editor based in Meanjin
→ reader @theforge.bsky.social
→ portfolio: yenningtons.org
ian kappos @nokappos.bsky.social ✍️ in Strange Horizons, ergot., Seize the Press, Cosmic Horror Monthly, etc. Forthcoming in: Chthonic Matter Quarterly
Co-creator: Los Suelos, CA (www.LosSuelos.com).
Instagram: @jung_carl
Death to false powerviolence//
Death to false weird fiction
Maya Detwiller @omayagawd.bsky.social MIT Center for Constructive Communication Prototype Manager and Poetry Open Mic Attender
J.A. Grant @jagrantau.bsky.social J.A. Grant. Fiction. Notes on reading, looking, listening.
https://jagrant.au
Nate Dickson @natedickson.bsky.social Genre vagrant trans Marxist writer. Neurotic and painfully sincere. I’m currently working up a really, really big map.
Richard Cabut @richardcabut.bsky.social Author: Looking for a Kiss, Disorderly Magic and Other Disturbances, Punk is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night. Etc. Journalist (NME, BBC, anarchy). https://linktr.ee/richardcabut x
Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social Writer | Editor | Art Criticism | Writing the City | Class | Science Fiction | Popular Culture | PhD student | Lecturer | Incorrigible Buyer of Books
https://mikepinnington.cargo.site/
https://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/
I'm Josy @imjosy.bsky.social i'm josy
fresh pics every hour
spicy stuff on my private page
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𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 @horrorculturist.bsky.social Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. 🌿🍁🍂🎃
Agnostic atheist. Nyctophile. AuDHD. Demi-Pan. They/them. | Contrary to internet lore, I am not lost, sorrowful, despairing, trapped, drowning, falling, or stuck in a maze. (You OK?)
Chat Log @chatlog.bsky.social a lit mag for poems & flash written inside video games • eic: @ztfairfax.bsky.social
https://chatloglit.com/
Jesco Puluj @jpuluj.bsky.social Writer & Filmmaker
Participating in #BookBazaar26
https://www.jescopuluj.com/linktree
louis @swagboygalore.bsky.social it's just words (viable paradise '25, clarion west '26, granta short fiction '26)
Marissa Dechant @marissadujour.bsky.social Writing the quiet parts out loud.
Work forthcoming: Flash Frog, Stanchion, Does It Have Pockets, and Flash Fiction Magazine.
Published: BULL Lit Mag, Beloit Fiction Journal, Coal Hill Review, and elsewhere.
Substack: Robin’s Nest
Alex Crayon @crayonicles.bsky.social KU 2028 (ish)
OU 2020 & 2022
English PhD candidate. Fiction writer. Dog dad.
Melissa Rea Author 📚📚📚 @melrea.bsky.social Four novels written. Fun novels about strong women with a pinch of magic. https:// @iquitcigs.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social Team Site StL Mo 🚭
Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social Award-winning storyteller, writer, workshop facilitator. Taught 150+ workshops including Second City, Smokelong Quarterly, Clarion West. Stories published in Barrelhouse, Baltimore Review, Apex, Fractured Lit etc. www.tyrtle.com. #HumanMade
E Ce Miller @ecemiller.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Words in DIHP, Liars' League, Lunch Ticket, Heavy 🪶 Rev, Pacifica Lit, more. Reads at Split/Lip Press, Four Way Review. Currently based in Washington D.C.
Nelson Stanley @notasentence.bsky.social Romany. Angry. Stories in Ogerog Annual #1, Seize the Press, The Dark, Northern Gravy, Weird Horror #9, Old Moon Quarterly, Kaleidotrope, other places...
kefsam.bsky.social @kefsam.bsky.social I write. A lot. To some it might even look like an obsession. And perhaps it is. I also watch a whole lot of films, decades old. Rarely anything new.
Shon Mapp 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @shonmapp.bsky.social Engineer >>> Writer
Folio Editor: Anomaly
Reader: Fractured Lit
www.shonmapp.com
Antonio Caravella @antoncarav.bsky.social Made in #Sicily 🌊🌋
Guitarist, bookworm 📚🎸
🗣️🇬🇧🇸🇪🇫🇷🇪🇸🇩🇪
Oh has the world changed or have I changed?
Shelly Blake-Plock @shellyblakeplock.com Writing horror fiction, making music, building weird things. Oh, and baseball. And open source. Also, I've lived in a haunted house for 23 years, which is fun.
Terry Trueman @ttrueman.bsky.social Award-winning author, father & grandfather, Wikipedia, or Google. Trueman & Triola Newsletter, Just Weighing. Spokane WA. 78, loves his wife & life; not looking for love, etc. will Re to DMs. I'm FAR left & impractical. No bio/No posts, why would I fol?
Mina Thorsen @minathorsen.bsky.social writer (lowercase) • Words published/forthcoming in Flash Frog, The Belladonna Comedy • Based in the North
unhinged melody @jrvrhlms.bsky.social Author of MACHINES LIKE US (Dzanc). MFA from Univ of Alabama. Poetry forthcoming in Foglifter & The Glacier.
https://linktr.ee/jriverhelms
📍Houston, TX
TheGrand547 @thegrand547.bsky.social (he/him) (demi?)/a-ro ace
There is no reason to follow me back
"Promulgator of Insolence"
Ceo of Mel nation
Programmer, short story lover, reading obsessed, cinephile, obnoxious sci-fi opinion haver, usually wrong about things
yasmeen / ياسمين @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social sff writer / toddler mama / clarion west '26
stories in/coming to khōréō, night shades mag, saros sf, hex, sprawl mag, if there's anyone left
yasmeenfahmy.com / NJ / صباح الحرية
mona @monadreth.bsky.social Storyteller drawn to beauty and the wretched
✦ PATRON - dark literary fiction, woven with a supernatural thread.
✦ The Wolf and the Wall - TTRPG homebrew.
Join me:
Patreon: www.patreon.com/monadreth
IG: www.instagram.com/mona.dreth
Chris McManus @chrismcmanus.bsky.social Writer, cook, traveler
Gillian Isaacs Russell @girussell.bsky.social British psychoanalyst and writer living in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Non-fiction: "Screen Relations" https://a.co/d/05glvAML . Published in Persimmon Tree. Shortlisted for Fish Publishing Flash Fiction prize. Writing speculative fiction novel.
Kyle Garret @kylegarret.bsky.social He/him Dad, husband, writer
ADHD, comics, baseball (Guardians), basketball (Cavs), futbol (Leeds, U.S.) dirty liberal
kylegarret.com
Chloe Yelena Miller @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social Writer & Writing Teacher in Washington, D.C.
Co-founder of @brownbaglit.bsky.social
Author of Perforated ('26) and Viable ('21) from Lily Poetry Review Books
Matthew McAlister @matthewmcalister.bsky.social Fiction writer and photographer living in Brooklyn.
Josenildo Melo @josenildomelo.bsky.social He studied Law. Bachelor in Social Work. Degree in Philosophy. Journalist. What is all this worth? I really like studying. I AM FROM GOD!
Kelli Dianne Rule @kdiannerule.bsky.social I'm an art school dropout from the 1990s. I write about Florida. It is a weird and cursed land.
www.kellirule.com
www.instagram.com/kdiannerule
Plague Circus Press @plaguecircus.bsky.social Submissions Closed
https://plaguecircuspress.com/
Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social "We'll Be Birds" chapbook release 9/24/26 https://www.sandandgravelpress.com/lisa-thornton-chapbook-release
Writer, nurse. SmokeLong Quarterly, Cincinnati Review+. Senior flash fiction editor @jmww. Sucker for a good barn.
lisathorntonwriter.com
Eric Scot Tryon @ericscottryon.bsky.social I’M THE UNDERTOW (Central Avenue, 2026)
Rep’d by @clgslr.bsky.social at BSCM
EIC: @flashfrog.bsky.social
www.ericscottryon.com
Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social Author of The Lunatics' Ball (Mad Creek Books, forthcoming), American Literature 101: Stories (Cornerstone Press, forthcoming), and The Missing Girl (Black Lawrence Press). Wigleaf Top 50. 9 Notables, Best American Essays, Editor, CRAFT Lit Journal.
David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social Writer | Freelance Designer | Educator | Baker | Full-length with Gold Wake Press | Chapbook with Greying Ghost | Hi
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
Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social (she/her)
Berlin based writer, Granta Workshop Alum, words in Strange Horizons, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Wigleaf & more.
🌿🍄🐌💖✨🏳️🌈
Rep'd: @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social
My website! tyndall.earth
megpokrass.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social Dzanc Books Author. Best Microfiction Series Founder. Electric Lit, Flash Fiction America (Norton) Best Small Fictions 2023. Scotland
The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.
https://www.theparisreview.org/
https://theparisreview.substack.com/
ergot. @ergot.bsky.social https://www.ergot.press/
: Innovative literary horror and weird fiction :
: New work each Friday :
: Submissions OPEN :
: A paying venue :
: Merch https://www.teepublic.com/user/ergot :
: Edited by https://bsky.app/profile/perfidiousscript.bsky.social :
Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social dc via apollo, pa | she/her | words @ Best Microfiction, Bending Genres, Lost Balloon, Milk Candy Review, Flash Fiction Online, Cold Signal, hex literary & more | http://www.laurenkardos.co/
Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social work in X-R-A-Y, 3:AM, Granta, n+1, forthcoming in Iowa Review // website jamestaddadcox.com, editor @alwayscrashing.bsky.social // ENNIE award winner, apparently? https://store.possibleworldsgames.com/product/tacklebox
K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com writer. she/her 🌈🦇 heart's delight: Bmore, bats, & tattoos; Clarion & Tin House '18⚡️ kcmeadbrewer.com
fuck AI & fuck fascism
ALT pfp: white, blond woman; nervous but anxious
ALT banner: a black cat peeks from around a corner
lofipod @lofipod.bsky.social This is a podcast hosted by Tyler Burn. I chat with writers.
J.H. Siegal @joshuasiegal.bsky.social Chicago
Writer, Musician, Creative Technologist
🖊️ in Michigan Quarterly Review, PodCastle, Skeptic Magazine, Peatsmoke Journal, etc
🎶 at http://redspotrhythmsection.com
Also: game design, software dev, making things in general
http://joshuasiegal.org
Kashawn Taylor @kashawntaylor.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Student.
Prison Journalism Project.
Gotham Writers Workshop.
book: subhuman. out now.
Mick Carrigan @mickcarrigan.bsky.social Editor in Chief, Taco Bell Quarterly. Bylines: VICE, Bon Appetit, Eater. Forthcoming - JUNK: The Brands That Raised Us, the Stuff that Shaped Us, and What We Leave Behind (Scribner). This is my junk.
Melinda Wyers @jetgirl.art writer/designer
EIC: Y2K Quarterly y2kq.com
@y2kq.com
Blog: https://jetgirl.art/
Brandon Getz @brandongetz.bsky.social weird fiction & sci-fi writer // LARS BREAXFACE: WEREWOLF IN SPACE (novel) // STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE (stories) // he/him // Pittsburgh
brandongetz.com