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nick farriella @nickfarriella.bsky.social writer/idiot, rules for escaping (stories)
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Beach Sloth @beachsloth.bsky.social Support Each Other
Music Blogger
Writer
Poet
https://beachsloth.substack.com/
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
Robyn Schindeldecker @flyrobynfly.bsky.social I still don't know what I want to be when I give up.
@barrymaxwell.bsky.social @barrymaxwell.bsky.social 
Dana Diehl @danadiehl.bsky.social Writer. Educator. Casual Potter. Author of THE EARTH ROOM (Black Lawrence Press, 2026), THE CLASSROOM (2019), OUR DREAMS MIGHT ALIGN (2016). She/her.
Gail @bubblegumgoth.bsky.social Don’t tickle me, I’ll shit post.
My dream girl is the public library.
I make chainmaille & sometimes sound.
Chris Wooden @slowdumars.bsky.social Southern California kid. I write and cook (come check out my pop-up when you're in San Diego!). I mostly talk about music, hoops, fiction, and food. A defector from the petty wars. #clippers #lvaces #chesleafc #cruzazul
abigail stewart @abigailstewart.bsky.social author of the drowned woman, foundations, assemblage & select screen (out now!) | helloabigailstewart.com
brittany jones. @brittanyjones.bsky.social 
eve @evek.bsky.social poet, social work student, menace, proponent of ECT.
Moon Glyph Records @moonglyph.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/moonglyph 🌲 Portland, OR
Matt Sage @mjsage.bsky.social Intermedia Artist + Musician.
http://matthewjsage.com
@evangrizlon.bsky.social @evangrizlon.bsky.social You don't know that feeling? That's a famous feeling!
William Burtch @williamburtch.bsky.social Writer. Coauthor of award-winning biography “W.G.” (Sunbury). “Otherwise Wretched” 2025 (Catamount) Finalist American Fiction Short Story Award. Second-Rounder Austin Film Festival. Authors Guild.
www.williamburtch.com
krys malcolm belc @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social I wrote THE NATURAL MOTHER OF THE CHILD and have another memoir, WHAT I MADE FOR DINNER, forthcoming from Catapult in 2026. I live in Saint Paul, MN.
franco luís @francoluis.bsky.social I like books a lot, maybe too much. I live in the desert. Don Quixote is the best book.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/94092891
Daniel Isaiah Elder ✡️🌈 @tumblehawk.bsky.social Navigator at Corporeal Writing // a bisexual bookseller // Jewish cat enthusiast
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/
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
Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social Wanderer, Writer, woman-about-town. Stories in various places. She/Her. https://linktr.ee/lorisambol?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=71379331-22c9-439f-8370-50899eb7f35a
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social Neurotic Chicago-based writer, editor-in-chief of Maudlin House, podcaster, and doer of many odd things.
https://mallorysmart.com/
James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social memoir: Blind Man's Bluff (W.W. Norton, NYT Editors' Choice)
novel: Academy Gothic (Nilsen Prize for a First Novel)
editor: The Writer's Chronicle & Monkeybicycle
agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
WV native
still living in 1986
jamestatehill.com
SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social Dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web, by widely published authors or those new to the craft. Est.2003. Paying up to $150. www.smokelong.com. No Trump supporters. Follow also @heyflashvillage.bsky.social
Josh Denslow @joshdenslow.bsky.social High-functioning slacker.
Harriet Prebble @harrietprebble.bsky.social Horror gameslinger @ PikPok Games. Actor @ Gail Cowan Management & BigMouth Voices. Freelance writer at various. Aotearoa New Zealand 💗🌵
https://linktr.ee/harrietprebble
Joe Turner @joemarcturner.bsky.social 
lex briscuso (▰˘◡˘▰) @nikonamericax.bsky.social ❤️🔥 film critic @slashfilm @thewrap @ign
@inverse @rejectnation etc ❤️🔥 social @dreadpresents @dreadcentral ❤️🔥 MEN I INVENTED DURING A FEVER DREAM @bullshitlit ❤️🔥 member @galeca @oaffc ❤️🔥 abriscuso@gmail.com ❤️🔥
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MICHAEL CHANG POET @officialmchangpoet.bsky.social Final Boss // http://linktree.com/mchang // https://cheeks.bigcartel.com
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?
Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social Leave: A Postpartum Account out now from Autofocus Books!
Work in American Chordata, Catapult, Chicago Review of Books, Triquarterly, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere.
Glad to be here. ✨
Kelsi Lindus @kelsijayne.bsky.social writer & producer
series producer: https://blackhistoryintwominutes.com
poetry chapbook: https://bottlecap.press/products/forms
www.kelsilindus.com
Maegan Poland @maeganpoland.bsky.social writer & creative writing professor
https://linktr.ee/maeganpoland
Required nugget: opinions expressed on this account are my own and do not represent my employer.
Shelby Hinte @shelbyhinte.bsky.social Author of HOWLING WOMEN (2025) | Editor at Write or Die Magazine | she/her
Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com A webjournal publishing short fiction, book reviews, a weekly newsletter, & whatever else happens at http://www.necessaryfiction.com. Doing our best since 2009.
Posts by http://shimmer.bsky.social. 
Erin Dorney @erindorney.bsky.social Sober bi writer in Western NY ꩜ Author of "Yes I Am Human I Know You Were Wondering" (Autofocus), that book of Shia LaBeouf erasures, and many zines.
AEWeisgerber @aeweisgerber.bsky.social Hybrid. Garden State. Your dream reader. @berfrois @3ammagazine @el_diagram @structomagazine @SmokeLong |Read @wigleaf | #binders | aweisgerber@proton.me
Megan Boyle Ass Butler Ass @meganboyle.bsky.social 
Derek @derekmaine.bsky.social An entire, real human being.
Fiction reader/writer.
Debut Novel: CHAR ACT ERS (2022)
derekmaine.com
zac smith @zacsmithtweeto.bsky.social zac smith
Kaj Tanaka @kajtanaka.bsky.social writer / teacher / dad / goblin
MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social dedicated to rewriting modern masculinity since 2009
@thedrevlow.bsky.social EIC
Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Habs fan / Canadian in the South 🍁
www.megireid.com
Vic Nogay @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social reader, writer, specter
micro editor @identitytheory.bsky.social
Best Microfiction 2026
Naming a Dying Thing (Yellow Arrow, 2025)
under fire, under water (tiny wren, 2022)
ohio forever
she/her
vicnogay.com
Ty Holter @tyholter.bsky.social Poet. Teacher. Work in @sublunary.bsky.social (Firmament), @minorliteratures.bsky.social, and elsewhere. Host of Vernon, Greenfield.
tyholter.com
Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social Debut novel THE SLIP out now from Simon & Schuster. Winner of 2025 Kirkus Prize for fiction. Paperback 6/23/26.
Cath @1virginmartini.bsky.social Writer. A couple sandwiches short of a picnic.
DorothyBendel @dorothybendel.bsky.social Writer. Essays in The Believer, Threepenny Review, Lithub, Catapult, NYTimes, Bright Wall / Dark Room, and more. dorothybendel.com
Graham Irvin @grahamirvin.bsky.social Author of LIVER MUSH and I HAVE A GUN, two really good books
https://grahamirvin.com
@laurenlavin.bsky.social @laurenlavin.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/laurenlavin
Sabrina Hicks @sabrinahicks.bsky.social Author of Coyote Girl, available now (CJ Press), desert dweller, hiker, word wrangler. Work in Best Sm Fiction, Best Micro, Wigleaf Top 50, pubs listed at sabrinahicks.com
Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social Former Philadelphian living in Montréal
Supports public schools
Wrote some short stories & then some even shorter ones
https://stephanieking.net
Laura McPherson @silversatire.bsky.social Bustling wordery. In CHM, Five South, The Deadlands, Paperbark, Salamander, Lucky Jefferson. Chap INVISIBLE. Reader CLMP. MFA Fiction, University of New Orleans. 🏳️🌈 https://lauramcphersonwriter.com
grape king @titdance.bsky.social writer of short stories & long essays, hater of [redacted]. just trying to make it in this bitch of a life • AuDHD • hEDS
dave whelan @davewhelan.bsky.social assistant professor of english & creative writing at franklin pierce university | managing editor of the Northern New England Review | phd from university of denver in fiction and speculative/ecology literature | tweets written in an english accent | VT
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
Kendra Fortmeyer @kendraffe.bsky.social Author, gardener, yogi, cloud-collector. (ATX)
Tag me in your cloud pics! I'm chasing Kelvin-Helmholtz. 🌊🌊
Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social writer, thinker, coffee drinker. she/her. (if you know me from elsewhere, it might be as bravenewlady on the other site or from my Prairie Schooner days)
Mike McClelland @magicmikewrites.bsky.social Is this where I become famous?
magicmikewrites.com
Giano Cromley @giano.bsky.social Bigfoot raconteur. Chicago by way of Montana. Novel: AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY (@doubledaybooks.bsky.social, July '25). 
Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social Atlanta-area author of Southbound, The Parted Earth, and Ballot, out from Bloomsbury Academic on 2/5/26; Affiliate Faculty at Antioch University Los Angeles MFA; proud poll worker. linktr.ee/anjalienjeti.
Christina Rosso (she/they) @christinarosso.bsky.social Author of horror & dark fairy tales
Debut Novel: The Last Sheaf 🌾 Fall 2027
Story Collections: Creole Conjure and She is a Beast
Bookstore Owner: A Novel Idea on Passyunk
Podcast: Hello, Sister 🩸
Tarot Reader 🔮 Educator 👩🏫 Dog Momma 🐶
Alexandra M. Matthews @alexandrammatthews.bsky.social Fiction in Tiny Molecules, Maudlin House, Fractured Lit, Milk Candy Review, MudRoom, etc. https://www.alexandrammatthews.com/
Smalls @shutupsmalls.bsky.social Typical bicoastal—east coast of the US + south coast of Finland
Ashton Politanoff @ashtonpolitanoff.bsky.social Dad Had a Bad Day @astrahousebooks @dauntbookspub / You’ll Like it Here @dalkey_archive
https://www.ashtonpolitanoff.com
Retsoor @retsoor.bsky.social Tremendous savings: https://linktr.ee/retsoor Also: @benningtonwritingseminars @teepeerecords @farewell_transmission_lit @guidethelightning @hopewellll @peteinternationalairport
Joseph Grantham @josephgrantham.bsky.social wrote Tom Sawyer and Raking Leaves
editing R&R: https://www.relegationbooks.com/journal/
https://southwestreview.com/volume-108-number-1/finder/
https://archwayeditions.us/three-poems-by-joseph-grantham/
Doris W Cheng @dwycheng.bsky.social 🇹🇼🇺🇸 Debut novel KEEP YOUR ENEMIES CLOSE (Deep Vellum, Aug 2027) | Fiction Ed @Bellevue Lit Review | PEN/Bellwether Finalist | she/her
Nathan Willis @nathanwillis.bsky.social Writer. Stories in Swamp Pink, Moon City Review, Pithead Chapel, Split Lip, Passages North, X R A Y, & others.
nathan-willis.com
thedrevlow @thedrevlow.bsky.social editor-in-chief BULL, author of the book of rusty, a good ram is hard to find, ina-baby: a love story in reverse, & bend with the knees and other love advice from my father (thedrevlow-olsonshow.com)
Evan Fleischer @evanfleischer.bsky.social Writer.
https://evanfleischer.org/
https://orangecatwritingworkshop.com/
Eric A. Newman @eanewmanwriter.bsky.social Writer, movie nerd, archivist. Flash and micros in Atlas & Alice, Wigleaf, Pithead Chapel, Gargoyle Mag, Exposition Review, Quarter After Eight, & Bending Genres. Best Small Fictions and Best Microfiction nominee. Founding Editor of Okay Donkey Mag. He/him
Jaime Fountaine @jaimefountaine.bsky.social Raised by “wolves”
Dan Sanders @donsamders.bsky.social Writer. Short stories, essays, a novella, vending machine repair guides, bank correspondence, UI/UX writing, a book about instant flower gardens under the name Susan Butterworth.
The novella: https://dan-sanders.com/the-loop/
X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social the best writers on earth
www.xraylitmag.com
HAD @havehashad.com We had an idea that started as a joke. We had an affinity for that minimalist look and feel of early online journals. We had a couple drinks.
https://www.havehashad.com
Fractured Lit @fracturedlit.bsky.social Fractured Lit publishes flash fiction with emotional resonance. Open year-round and is available to all writers. https://fracturedlit.com/ Posts by @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social
ཊལབསརངཧ @terrain.bsky.social void.davidrudnick.org
to not build the world is to destroy it
Tabs Out Cassette Podcast @tabsout.bsky.social Unfortunately a podcast. We play cassette tapes! Experimental / Noise / Black Metal / Ambient / Weird / Other / etc.
'rambunctious and nerdy' - The New Yorker
🚽 tabsout.com
Vic Berger IV @vicbergeriv.bsky.social 
Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social It’s Mr. Chau, that’s my name, that name again is Mr. Chau
Robert Beatty @edsunspot.bsky.social Lexington, KY based artist and musician
www.robertbeattyart.com
Jared Gilman @realjaredgilman.bsky.social Actor guy and stuff, SAG-AFTRA. Maybe u saw me in moonrise kingdom, paterson, it takes three, susie searches, elsa & fred, lol angry neighbors, other stuff. Hopefully you’ll see me in 5 Days At Zooblin’s Bar and Steakhouse, and some other short films.
Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill
Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/
Craft newsletter: https://prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/
Brittany Terwilliger @brttnyblm.bsky.social Author of THE INSATIABLES from @ChiReviewPress and THE HOUSE OF BUGMAN forthcoming from Maudlin House, Managing Editor at @pitheadchapel, future ghost
www.BrittanyTerwilliger.com
Tyler McAndrew @tyler-m.bsky.social fiction writer. debut book MY PRISONER & OTHER STORIES (mad creek books / OSU press) won the 2024 non/fiction award. https://tmcandrew.com/
Kim Magowan @kimmagowan.bsky.social Fiction writer, EIC/ Fiction Editor of Pithead Chapel, adjunct professor www.kimmagowan.com
Troy James Weaver @troyjamesweaver.bsky.social Writer. Kansas.
Michael B. Tager @iamragesparkle.bsky.social On a general writing/artistic break until the kids get older. Still a person who likes things and is delightful at dinner parties.
Email: Michaelbtager1@gmail.com
Website: michaelbtager.com
Fav F&F: Tokyo Drift
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com A literary magazine for the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. 🫏
Est. May 2018.
Re-designed site!: okaydonkeymag.com
Newsletter: okaydonkeymag.beehiiv.com
Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/okaydonkey
megpokrass.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social Dzanc Books Author. Best Microfiction Series Founder. Electric Lit, Flash Fiction America (Norton) Best Small Fictions 2023. Scotland
Kurt Baumeister @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social Novels: TWILIGHT OF THE GODS (EARLY '25) + PAX AMERICANA (both Stalking Horse) Ed: 7.13 Books SRQ: Vol. 1 Brooklyn Words: Google Me: He/Him TNBCC
Brandi Wells @brandiwells.bsky.social mostly cats
(they/them)
Caroljean Gavin @caroljeangavin.bsky.social Writer. Editor. https://www.caroljeangavinwordthings.com/
Micro Podcast @podcastmicro.bsky.social A podcast for short but powerful writing. Subscribe and enjoy wherever you listen to podcasts.