Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026) geni.us/TMtMT. Two-time Best of the Net nominee. | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Author M. I. Verras (She/Her) @miverrasauthor1.bsky.social Gothic author, corp.associate, singer, composer, keyboardist, designer, university graduate, sports fan, existential seeker. Author of two metaphysical, symbolic fantasy-mystery novellas. Novella plots and covers are in English and NOT AI.
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
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WordSmitten Writers WorkShop @wordsmittenwrkshop.bsky.social WordSmitten Workshop is a virtual roundtable where writers critique long projects - from page one to publication. We also offer education, reading, and salons to the Southwest Florida writing & reading community. www.wordsmittenworkshop.com
r. p. singletary @rpsingletary.bsky.social W(e)i(r)dely published in so-called 'underground publications,' or so they said. www.rpsingletary.com
Jake Stein @jakeiswriting.bsky.social Stories in Lightspeed Magazine, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, The Daily Tomorrow, and other awesome places! Robert L. Fish nominated.
storiesbystein.substack.com
Yarri Kamara @yarrikamara.bsky.social Writer & Translator. Speaking to the world from an African perspective.
www.yarrikamara.com
PerfectGod = S. Cyn = L. Gates = J. Glacier = L. Simz = Ziwe +c. @blackswanborges.bsky.social Mx Józef ≈ M.
Lonely + Looking for
Poetry Fiends and Friends...
[ I wake up *wishing* that I was:
Gertrude Stein + Ursula K. Le Guin. ]
Mx M— Józef ≈ M. J. Le Tölm...
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And stay safe :)
Terese Mason Pierre @teresempierre.bsky.social Writer/Poet, Editor. SFF/LitFic. CPO @ Augur. Work in: The Walrus, Year's Best Canadian FSF, Brick. Toronto, Canada. She/Her.
Author of MYTH. Editor of AS THE EARTH DREAMS (House of Anansi, 2025)
www.teresemasonpierre.com
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.
The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social The VILLAGE 🏘 is a place where the world 🌍 feels a tiny bit smaller. Founded by SMOKELONG for the Global Flash Community
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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.
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Erik Burnham 💬 @erikburnham.bsky.social Comics writer and sometimes artist; known for Ghostbusters, TMNT, Red Sonja, and more.
http://www.burnhamania.com
Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com Canadian writer in Scotland (via Denmark (got lost on the way home (sorry mom))) | Pushcart & BOTN nominated | Placed/listed: BFFA, Bridport Prize, Welkin Prize, others | Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig | She/Her
erinbondo.com
Diana Dima @dianadima.com writes things | stories in Strange Horizons, khōréō, The Deadlands and others | she/her
www.dianadima.com
Paul Moorehead @paulmoorehead.bsky.social Poet. Dad. Cat roommate.
My poetry collection, “Green”, is available from Breakwater Books. https://breakwaterbooks.com/products/green
Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social Writes, variously. Reviews Editor, Strange Horizons. Columns at Ancillary Review. Songs over at Bandcamp. Also see @savinglives.bsky.social.
Kristin Houlihan, Writer @kristinwrites.bsky.social Poet, Wife, Mom, LongCovid/MECFS. Looking to connect and learning to advocate. EIC, Poetry @epistemiclit.Bsky.social, @nimblewitlit.bsky.social. Micropoetry chapbook Lift the Mask available widely. www.kristinhoulihan.com
EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social Writer of stories, dreamer of dreams, parent of child, and so on...
I like shiny things 🌟
@em.h.writes.things on Instagram 🦋
Samuel Poots @pootsidoodle.bsky.social Writer of fiction, TTRPGs and lost to-do lists.
Published in WFRP, Jim Henson’s Labyrinth RPG, Factor Four and Opulent Syntax
https://samuelpoots.wordpress.com/
Kyle Isamu Weik @kyleisamu.bsky.social a queer writer without a plan | Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, Variant Literature, Emerge Literary Journal, Vestal Review, Peatsmoke Journal
Reese @puppylove23.bsky.social 🐶 Woof! I'm Reese , a Boston Terrier with a black belt in snuggles. My human, BRETT CULBERT– you know, my actor papa who's on TV and all that? – thinks he's the star, but let's be real, I'm the real leading role here.
Naomi Eselojor @naomieselojor.bsky.social Nigerian 🇳🇬 living in 🇬🇧.
Writer of speculative fiction
2026 THE CITY OF FACTORIES
2023 Utopian short story winner
Nommo Shortlisted writer
Milford Science Fiction 2024
naomieselojor.com
Christine Hanolsy (she/her) @christinehanolsy.com Mom, wife, SFF writer, gamer. Taekwondo 1st Dan. Lesbian, liberal, atheist. Inexhaustible mess & unapologetic romantic. Слава Україні. Говарю по-русский. Jeg snakker på dansk.
🏳️⚧️ PROTECT TRANS KIDS 🏳️⚧️
SFWA, Codex. Nebula finalist!
christinehanolsy.com
Malina @iridescentwords.bsky.social Writer of literary and speculative fiction. Published in Odin by Flame Tree Press, Cast of Wonders, Gwyllion, Ellipsis, Eye to the Telescope, WestWord Journal, NFFD Antho & more.
Kate Francia @katefrancia.bsky.social Speculative fiction writer; stories in Augur, Best Microfiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet. Codexian. 
Kate Maxlow @katemaxlow.bsky.social Recovering school administrator. I like my stories lyrical, sometimes absurd, with usually with a dash of humor and hope. My existential dread wears sparkly shoes to arm-wrestle institutions that forget they're made of people.
Rose Maxwell @rosemaxwell.bsky.social Writer. Any pronouns. Probably on the bus.
Find my stories in Baffling magazine, Heartlines Spec and more!
https://linktr.ee/rosemaxwell
Katabatic Circus @katabaticcircus.bsky.social an anthology of speculative poetics
https://duotrope.com/anthology/katabatic-circus-36036
[open to submissions for volume 3]
EIC @nsborwein.bsky.social
Jen @jens246.bsky.social Classroom teacher, writer, poet. Committed to public schools, all students, all books. 
Sarah Jackson @sarahijackson.bsky.social Working in mental health doing peer support and other things. Writing speculative fiction extremely slowly. She/They.
https://sarah-i-jackson.ghost.io/
Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social Author. Potter. Mom. THE BELOVED WILD (Feiwel & Friends, 2018) & UNLEAVING (Feiwel & Friends, 2019) Rep’d by Faye Bender. melissaostrom.com
Perfect God = Lexa Gates @mx-j.bsky.social https://shop.capitolmusic.com/collections/lexa-gates
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
Kashawn Taylor @kashawntaylor.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Student.
Prison Journalism Project.
Gotham Writers Workshop.
book: subhuman. out now.
Tom Marcinko @tommarcinko.bsky.social He/him. Stories in Beneath Ceaseless Skies (forthcoming), Nature/Futures, Interzone, Rosebud, Triangulation, and elsewhere. tommarcinko.neocities.org/
Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social London Assembly Member since 2016, Green Group Leader and Chair Transport Committee. Highbury Cllr 2014-26. Green Party
https://cityhallgreens.com/
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of Caroline Russell, Green Party, c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
The Bath Bomb Dealer 🛁 🫧 @jumpyjellybeanbathbombs.com Woman Owned Business | 30+ | Capricorn | Mama x 1 | Business + Personal Account | Handcrafted, Organic, Vegan Friendly | EST Sept. 2015 | College Graduate | DnD Lover | Gardener 💨
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James Montgomery @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social Flash writer ✍️ | Latest: Crow & Cross Keys, Fictive Dream, FlashFlood, The Bulb Region, 100 Word Story, NFFD Micro Comp ‘26 | 📖 Best Small Fictions ‘25, Wigleaf Top 50 ‘25 | 💫 Welkin People’s Prize ‘25 | He/Him 🌈 www.jamesmontgomerywrites.com
Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social A Kenyan-based SFFH literary journal showcasing the very best in African fantastika.
Everything WTBAP?: https://linktr.ee/WTBAP
Cadence Mandybura @cadencewrites.bsky.social Writer & editor | CadenceMandybura.com
ZD Dochterman @zddochterman.bsky.social Dark & Weird Speculative Fiction | SFWA | Brave New Weird Award | Seize the Press, Trollbreath, No Sleep Podcast & others | Assistant Professor of Writing at USC | Apophatic Utopianist
Author site: zddochterman.com
Toria 旻辰 Liao @suntorya.bsky.social writer, editor, queer cat-lady-in-training. she/her.
COO, editorial director @augurmag.bsky.social
Kiera Lesley @kieralesley.bsky.social SFFH writer, reader, tea drinker. Aurealis award winner. AHWA. Codex. Words in: Nightmare, Andromeda Spaceways, Factor Four etc.
Naarm/Melbourne
KieraLesley.com
yasmeen / ياسمين @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social sff writer / mother / 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
NancyBell.bsky.social @nancybell.bsky.social Writer. Performer. Director. Professor of Theatre.
Words in/forthcoming:StoryQuarterly, No. American Review, Terrain, Shenandoah, Flyway Journal
Former doomed ST Voyager Ensign. (RIP A.Jetal)
Azure Arther @litgalz.bsky.social I read, write, teach, mom. WOTF winner, children's author, poet, playwright, novelist. Editor for Tales and Feathers, first reader for Augur. Stories somewhere.
Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social Words in Five South, Flash Fiction Online, Atlas + Alice, Lunch Ticket, Flash Fiction Magazine, Roi Faineant, and elsewhere.
Website: https://melissa-fitzpatrick.com/
Substack: https://melissafitz.substack.com
Chloe Smith @chloehsmith.bsky.social I write stories. I also teach middle school. Both can be fairly surreal. She/her. https://imaginary-research.com/
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
Cindy Phan @cindyphanauthor.com A human going | Best of the Net Nom | Pushcart Nom | Stories in Augur Magazine, khōréō magazine, Baffling Magazine and more | Bi | She/her 🐩
cindyphanauthor.com
Author photo by Rosena Fung
Favour Borokini @favourboroks.bsky.social Recovering *anemoiac*. Law PhD researcher researching legal materiality in avatar/tech design and use. Legal Materiality. Legal Humanities. University of Nottingham, Horizon CDT. Nigerian. Gawking Akure girl.
Inner Worlds @innerworlds.bsky.social Inner Worlds was a quarterly digital zine of speculative stories about our inner lives. We published ten issues between 2023 and 2026, all of which are available to read for free at
https://inner-worlds.ghost.io/
Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social Writer of the weird and experimental flash. Words @FracturedLit, @Xraylitmag, @NecessaryFic, @TBQuarterly, and elsewhere.
Debut flash fiction collection, THESE WORN BODIES, out now @MoonCityPress.
Read more at http://avitusbcarle.com
Bobbie snyder @sweetpromo.bsky.social Welcome! I share useful product finds, shopping deals, and everyday recommendations. Follow for new discoveries and smart shopping ideas 🛍️
Collabs : bobbiesnyder111@outlook.com
Blue Wave Alxs 🌸🏳️⚧️📚🍥✨ @bluewavealxs.bsky.social She/Her/Hers, Feminist, Democrat, Pro-Choice, Pro-LGBT, Agnostic, Artist, Writer, Actor, Traveller, introspective aesthete, Human Rights Activist, Trans Rights Advocate, Ambassador, Mental Health Matters, Autistic,ADHD, Music Lover, Book enthusiast.
Mizuki Yamamoto @mizuki-yama.bsky.social Prev. writing under Mizuki Yamagen.
Words in SmokeLong, hex, Lit Namjooning, Flash Frog, Does it have pockets? Lost Balloon & elsewhere. Soon in The Forge, The Baltimore Review.
✨ SmokeLong Smokey winner
🎗️ BOTN, BMF, Pushcart noms
mizukiwrites.carrd.co
Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social African Australian author, editor. Winner: Solstice, Ignyte British Fantasy, Locus Awards. Finalist Shirley Jackson, PK Dick, World Fantasy Award. Twice Otherwise honoree for exciting work in speculative fiction. eugenbacon.com
The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social “The Adroit Journal is where I go when I want to know what the kids are reading.”
—The Paris Review
https://linktr.ee/theadroitjournal?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaY2AGldWsnSz9H-OoEtXxJjk02NLV0fG0wkmOIITzjlxRYq8R2lWo6jrIU_aem_BU_jPktWCVqyJRazMLp4sA
Kelli Short Borges @kelliborges2.bsky.social Writer. Words in many lovely places. Into travel, photography, kind people. Best Microfiction 24’ 25’ 26’ Wigleaf Top 50 LL. Pubs and more info: https://www.kellishortborges.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
A Coup of Owls Press @acoupofowls.bsky.social Free to read and download quarterly online issues https://acoupofowls.com/
Print anthologies, collections and novellas http://acoupofowls.square.site
Publishing only marginalised/under-represented creators, 18+.
Est. 2021 and going strong
Amy Stuber @amystuber.com Writer, editor, worker bee: amystuber.com
SAD GROWNUPS (Stillhouse Press, Oct 2024), Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
Contributing Editor: splitlipthemag.com
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
Sara Hills @sarahillswrites.bsky.social THE EVOLUTION OF BIRDS (Ad Hoc Fiction, 2021)
Best Small Fictions | Wigleaf Top 50
SmokeLong Mikey, Bath Flash Fiction Award, QuietManDave CNF
2027 NFFD anthology editor
sarahillswrites.com
🌵US/UK #FlashFiction
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.
Daydream Series by Cammie Basseri @quietworld.bsky.social *Previously on IG*
A daily memory freewrite series with photos, all by CNF writer @CammieBasseri.
Website: www.CammieBasseri.com
Suzanne Hicks @suzannehicks.bsky.social Writer living with multiple sclerosis. Often very tired. Best Microfiction ‘24 Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist ‘24.
Read my work: www.suzannehickswrites.com
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
Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social San Francisco Bay Area writer and educator. Flash fiction and cnf in SmokeLong, Bending Genres, Atlas and Alice, The Forge, Ghost Parachute, Craft & elsewhere.Poetry in journals such as New Ohio Review, Plume, Hunger Mountain and Cincinnati R. (she/her)
Ra✨ @dera-writes.bsky.social ✨Alive✨ for now...
(He/They)
The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social A collective of women's voices -2025 social media posts by @mlmcguinness.bsky.social
https://theprideroars.blogspot.com
Bianca Scott @biancawrites57.bsky.social A criminologist interested in: Arts, Music, Cinema, books and science
Author M. I. Verras @miverr.bsky.social Renowned author, singer, pianist, music composer.
If not me, then no one else. Soon, you will know my name.
THE HIDDEN FACE is the metaphysical mystery book that STUNNED even people who didn't like reading! Get it here:
https://a.co/d/4lRdJee
Gillian O’Shaughnessy @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social ▪️Relentless optimist.
▪️Salt City Runaway, debut story collection out in 2026
▪️Sub Editor- SmokeLong Quarterly
▪️Best Small Fictions 23, 24, 25.
Gone Lawn Journal @gonelawn.bsky.social If you can describe us, you get magic coffee and jumping cookies.
Editors: @owenwyke.bsky.social , @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social
Current issue: https://gonelawn.net/
Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social Writer. Books: A THOUSAND WAYS TO DISAPPEAR (Cornerstone Press, 2028)/THE CLARITY OF HUNGER (Word West Press, 2021). Fiction instructor: Harvard Extension School. MacDowell Fellow ‘23. Email: fabulistpappas@gmail.com
www.cherylpappas.net
Jenny Stalter @jennystalter.bsky.social 2024 Best Small Fictions | 2023 Smokelong Fellow. Nom: Pushcart, BotN, Best Microfiction, Best American Short Stories. I love your cat. Are you gonna eat your pickle?
Wendy E Wallace @wendyewallace1.bsky.social Writer who is also very good at not writing. She/they. Queer disabled. Editor of @PSmokeJournal, social media for @splitlipthemag
Fiona McKay @fionamckay.bsky.social Writer | THE TOP ROAD (AdHoc Fiction 2023) | DRAWN AND QUARTERED (Alien Buddha Press 2023) | THE LIVES OF THE DEAD (AdHoc Fiction July 2025) | Words in places | Autistic + ADHD
Ally to 🏳️🌈 and 🏳️⚧️
Free 🇵🇸 and slava 🇺🇦
Kate Axeford @kateaxeford.bsky.social Flashy writer/ social worker/ gig goer and ditherer. Lives in Brighton. Loves the sea.
Elissa Field @elissafield.bsky.social Lit noir novels + flash | SmokeLong Submission Ed | Runner Up Killer Claymore Best Mystery | Stories in/coming SmokeLong trampset HAD Moon City Ghost Parachute Monkeybicycle Citron Review Peatsmoke CRAFT Conjunctions ++ | IG FB elissalaurenfield.com
Robin Slick @robinslick.bsky.social ✡️☮️🥥🌴Writer, vegetarian, mom of bassist Julie Slick (Adrian Belew), drummer Eric Slick (Taylor Swift, Kevin Morby, Dr. Dog), and singer Natalie Prass
https://linktr.ee/robinslick
Andy Charman @andyandz.bsky.social Author of Crow Court. published by @unbounders.bsky.social. Longlist Desmond Elliott 2021. Shortlist CWA Historical 2022. Laureat Festival du Premier Roman 2022. Researching 1983 and philosophers in WWII. Assistant Editor of Thin-Skin.com
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
@bathflashaward.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social 3 times a year Flash Fiction Award. £1460 prize fund. Anthology. Founded in 2015. 32nd Award results out now. 33rd Award open. Judge Writer and writing tutor . Alison Woodhouse Closes June 7th 2026
@flintstan.bsky.social @flintstan.bsky.social 
Beth Kanter @beekaekae.bsky.social Writer, teacher, workshop leader.
Hand holder
Words in: X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, Unbroken, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Cease, Cows and others.
Pushcart nominee.
www.bethkanter.com
Books: No Access DC & Great Food Finds DC…
Stephanie Suesan Smith, Ph.D. @lambdakennels1.bsky.social I am a freelance writer. I write extensively on gardening, dogs, and psychology. I also write on other topics. What can I write for you? https://allaboutgardeningguides.com
Kim Steutermann Rogers @kimsrogers.bsky.social Writer. Photographer. Journalist. Covering science, nature, Hawaii, life. Bylines in NatGeo, SmithsonianMag, AudubonMag; prose (CNF and fiction) in Ghost Parachute, Moon City Review, Gone Lawn, Milk Candy Review, Fictive Dream, and elsewhere.
Dirk Bannion, Author @author-dirkbannion.bsky.social https://dirkbannionbooks.com/
I'm an indie author writing from western North Carolina, where the veil is thin.
Currently reporting on a series of mysterious disappearances on the shores of Cape Cod, and the hellish abomination that may be responsible.
Zeke Cork @elcork17.bsky.social Writer in Missoula, MT. Love child of Anne Sexton and Nick Hornby.Words at xraylitmag, Pigeonholes, BendingGenres, SavantGardeMag &more. Nominated for Best of Net and Pushcart Prize. New work forthcoming. Suspiciously Happy .