Pine State Publicity @pinestatepublicity.bsky.social 📚 Book publicity for writers & indie publishers (+ editorial in 2026!)
💌 Started by Cassie Mannes Murray
Publicists & Editor: Zoe Aline-Howard, Alisha Gorder & Marisa Siegel
pinestatepublicity.com / pinestatepublicity.substack.com
Kelly Caldwell @kkc212.bsky.social Writer; dean of faculty @GothamWriters. she/her I live in NYC but still say gapers' block.
Liz DeGregorio @lizdegregorio.bsky.social Poet, writer and editor with work in The Brooklyn Rail, Electric Lit, Catapult, The Rumpus, Little Fruits, Dread Central, BUST, Morbidly Beautiful, Ghouls Magazine, OyeDrum Magazine, Dykes and Dolls... https://linktr.ee/lizdegregorio 🌈 💛
Hope Henderson @hoperhenderson.bsky.social writer & scientist
😷 🩷💜💙 🍉
berkeley, california
hoperhenderson.com
writing in river teeth, electric lit, passages north, rumpus, hobart, phoebe, & more
scicomm for @innovativegenomics, views my own
Leslie Hurtig @lesliehurtig.bsky.social Artistic Director Vancouver Writers Fest; New Yorker cartoon aficionado; fast walker. Views are my own but you could consider adopting them. Canadian made.
The Rally Reading Series @rallyreading.bsky.social The heart of a march in the body of a reading series--the Rally offers a whole new helping of literary discourse 1st Thursdays. 7pm at Pete's Candy Store.
Next up: May 7th
Event Link: https://tinyurl.com/yz2h254v
Ryan D. Matthews @rydmatthews.bsky.social Winner of NYSCA and de Groot Courage to Write Awards. Fellowships from Hawthornden, LMCC, Lighthouse Works, Tin House. Nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize & 2x semifinalist for Bennett Fellowship. Work in Lit Hub, Litro, Joyland, and MQR.
5E Editors @5eeditors.bsky.social An editors' group with experience at top publishers: Judy Sternlight, Patricia Mulcahy, Jane Rosenman, Leslie Wells, Sulay Hernandez, Anne Horowitz.
https://www.5eeditors.com/
Jim Irwin @jimirwin.bsky.social 🖋️ Novels: ‘Nina’s Friends’; 'Lucky Guy' Jan ‘26
🎥 Lapsed media artist & professor
📢 Comms pro (ex Deloitte, ex EY, ex Comcast)
🔗 linktr.ee/jimirwin
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
Dina Strasser @dinaeliz.bsky.social Writer, teacher, semi-Luddite. I follow authors, educators, and lit mags.
Kathi Crawford @kathicrawford.bsky.social Kathi Crawford Author & Poet
Chapbooks available from Finishing Line Press: consider the light and running with the beasts: https://finishinglinepress.com/?s=kathi+crawford
Blog: https://kathicrawford.com/
Chelsea Sutton @crsutton.bsky.social Theatre/Fiction/Other Stuff
she/her Clarion '22
Chapbook from @wrongpublishing.bsky.social
Upcoming novella from @splitlippress.com
Maria Nazos @marianazos.bsky.social Poems in @newyorker.com. #writer #poet #translator. Order PULSE: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/P/bo265676906.html.
Katherine Gleason @katherine-glee.bsky.social What part of "meow" do you not understand?
https://linktr.ee/katherine.gleason?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Erin Little @eringlittle.bsky.social writer & editor / chapbook: Personal Injury (Chesntut Review, 2023) / LSU MFA / eringlittle.com
Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social GRAPHIC RAGE on Substack. Writer & illustrator of stories, essays and feminist comics. '22 NEA fellow. Work in TIME, Vox, New York Times, Washington Post, etc. Very charming IRL. she/her
Sara Pisak @sarapisak.bsky.social Writer. Words in “The Rumpus,” “The Fourth River,” “Hippocampus,” “Door is a Jar,” “Women of Appalachia,” and “Whale Road Review,” among others.
nataliya braginsky @nataliyabraginsky.bsky.social philly high school history + english teacher • public schools forever • writer • she/they
@adrie-rose.bsky.social @adrie-rose.bsky.social 🦓 hEDS | Writer | Editor @9syllablespress | 📖Rupture @goldlinepress | 📖 I Will Write a Love Poem @porkbellypress | MFA @warrenwilsonmfa
Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social Poet + Executive Editor The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social
Books: TIC TIC TIC (9/25); MARILYN: ESSAYS & POEMS (An Insomniac's Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe); GIVE A GIRL CHAOS
NYU mfa
heidiseabornpoet.com
Claire Polders @clairepolders.bsky.social Author of 6 books and 100+ essays, stories, and book reviews. Born in the Netherlands, lived in Paris, married an American, and in love with Japan. Mindful nomad who dreams of being a rebel. She/her.
Arielle Kaplan @ariellemkaplan.bsky.social Poet • educator • ariellemkaplan.com • editorial team & newsletter @agnimagazine.bsky.social
Wilfrid Laurier University Press @wlupress.bsky.social WLU Press publishes books in the humanities and social sciences in Waterloo, Ontario. Member of the Association of University Presses. www.wlupress.wlu.ca
Gabriella D’Italia @gabriella-artist.bsky.social Artist, Writer
Memoir: Getting Dressed In The Dark, An Artist’s Way Home coming November 2025
www.gabrielladitalia.com
Joanna Fuhrman @joannafuhrman.bsky.social Poet, 7 books including To a New Era (Hanging Loose Press 2021) and Data Mind (Curbstone/Northwestern 2024). Co-ed. Hanging Loose Press and Rutgers professor, joannafuhrman.com
Julie @wormgirlfriend.bsky.social Poet. Mom.
She/her
Against white supremacy, genocide, and generally pro human rights
Chloe Martinez @chloemartinez.bsky.social 🪷Translator, Blue Like My Beloved/ Mirabai (New Directions, forth. 2026)
🌵Co-editor, Chaos, Creativity, Completion: New Approaches to Writing & ADHD (Chicago 2026)
🌿Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works 2021)
🌱Corner Shrine (Backbone 2020)
𝒥𝑒𝓈𝓈𝒾𝒸𝒶 𝐻𝑒𝒶𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒫𝒶𝓎𝓃𝑒 @jessicahpayne.bsky.social writer | bookseller | florist | gardener | organizer
Work: Queen Books Toronto + The Local Flower Collective
Erin Malone @erinmalonepoet.bsky.social Poet and editor living in the Pacific Northwest; Bainbridge Island Poet Laureate. Newest collection is Site of Disappearance from Ornithopter Press. www.erinmalonepoet.com
Anna Leahy @amleahy.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Teacher.
Author of If in Some Cataclysm, Tumor, etc.
https://amleahy.com
Elizabeth Bluth @elizabluth.bsky.social writer & higher ed professional 📍Los Angeles | dog & cat mom | MFA @ The New School; MEd @ USC Rossier
O'Neill of Chicago @brianoneill.bsky.social Books, baseball, Great Lakes. Writes reviews all over, and at South Side Sox. Big fan of rivers and such. He/him
Jody DiPerna @jodydiperna.bsky.social Lovechild of the Rust Belt & Appalachia.
Reprobate reader. Rogue writer.
Blow up the Data Centers.
This is a no AI Zone.
Angie Mangino @angiemangino.bsky.social freelance journalist, book reviewer, author of 17th Century Tottenville History Comes Alive, ASJA member, writer on Medium
www.AngieMangino.com
avery @sound-aves.bsky.social sound wizard • journalist • producer at WPR • fascinated by brains • currently petting my dog • email me: avery(dot)rogers(at)wpr(dot)org
Carrie Classon @carrieclasson.bsky.social Carrie Classon is a nationally syndicated columnist, writer, and performer who champions the idea that it is never too late to reinvent oneself in unexpected and fulfilling ways. Her debut novel, Loon Point, will be released by Lake Union in February 2026.
Cat Wei @catwei.bsky.social poet, writer, dancer
writing in Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, The Slowdown podcast | Bread Loaf | Tin House
linktr.ee/catwei
Julia Ridley Smith @juliatrifles.bsky.social Writer. www.juliaridleysmith.com
Sex Romp Gone Wrong: Stories (Blair, 2024)
The Sum of Trifles (U of Georgia Press, 2021)
Not here much because I'm trying to write things and live IRL. 
Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social Author of DAUGHTERS OF THE AIR, called “a striking debut from a writer to watch” by Shelf Awareness & DREAMS UNDER GLASS, called “a novel for our modern times” by Buzzfeed Books. ancawrites.com.
Julia Ruth Smith @juliaruthsmith.bsky.social #flashfiction Flash Frog | Full House Lit | Vestal Review | New Flash Fiction Review | Bath Flash Fiction Award | Popshot | Chaotic Merge | Miniskirt Mag | Seaside Gothic | NFFD - Puschcart/Best of the Net
Tyler Borchers @tylerborchers.com SVP, Strategy & Operations. Building products, growing audiences and driving revenue. Previously TIME and VICE News. Posting about media, technology and AI.
Website: https://tylerborchers.com/
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tylerborchers/
NC Writers' Network @ncwritersnetwork.bsky.social Supporting "The Writingest State" since 1985. We provide a network for North Carolina writers through conferences, online classes, critique services, and other programs. Learn more: https://linktr.ee/ncwriters
phi!ip james shaw @lateration.bsky.social Reflections of loneliness in peculiar manners: www.philipjamesshaw.com
Published with mchgx.com
Katrin Schumann @katrinschumann.bsky.social Bestselling author, writing instructor, martini drinker and art lover. Write The Curious Kat and Anatomy of a Novel on Substack. German-American. Work for Key West Literary Seminar. Opinions my own.
www.katrinschumann.com
Virginia Pye @virginiapye.bsky.social Author of novels THE LITERARY UNDOING OF VICTORIA SWANN, DREAMS OF THE RED PHOENIX and RIVER OF DUST & a short story collection SHELF LIFE OF HAPPINESS. Next novel coming 2/26! Lit mag fiction editor @Pangyrus. www.virginiapye.com.
Ecotone Magazine @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social A biannual magazine that seeks to reimagine place. Founded & made at UNCW. Winner, 2022 AWP Small Press Publisher Award & 2023 Firecracker Award
Belt Publishing @beltpublishing.bsky.social 
Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social
"Are you okay?"
MN, January 2026
New book: “Killing Spree”,Carcanet (UK); FSG (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).
Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social The place for writers
Lucy Kalanithi @lucykalanithi.bsky.social Clinical Associate Professor @StanfordMed. Still writing epilogue to When Breath Becomes Air ❤️
Jina Moore Ngarambe @itsjina.bsky.social writer, editor, trauma-informed journalism advocate, and budding printmaker. jinamoore.com
Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social feelings, now more than ever!
wrote some stuff in some places
Katherine Dykstra (she/her) @katherinedykstra.bsky.social author of WHAT HAPPENED TO PAULA: An Unsolved Death and the Danger of American Girlhood (W.W.Norton); words in New York Times, Washington Post and elsewhere; mother; gardener; teacher; woman
Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social Writer. Doctor. @nytimes. WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS. PEN/ Bingham Finalist. Find me: www.chayabhuvaneswar.com
River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative || Where good writing counts and facts matter.
Kerri Schlottman @kerrischlottman.bsky.social Author of TELL ME ONE THING (out now) & DAYTIME MOON (Unnamed Press 2026) 📚
www.kerrischlottman.com
Aleks Koutny @koutny.bsky.social art historian | author | tutor at cambridge uni | VISUAL CULTURES OF DEATH IN CENTRAL EUROPE (out now) | https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/aleks-koutny/
Sarah Fain @sarahfain.bsky.social TV Writer/Showrunner, co-host of Happier in Hollywood podcast, knitter, dog lover, backyard chicken fan, gluten-free baker, and mom of the coolest kid ever.
Peg Alford Pursell @pegalfordpursell.bsky.social Author @Dzanc A Girl Goes Into The Forest & Show Her A Flower, A Bird, A Shadow. Publisher & EIC @WTAW Press & @Betty
pegalfordpursell.com
Nigar Alam @nigaralamwrites.bsky.social Author UNDER THE TAMARIND TREE, longlisted for the Center of Fiction First Novel Prize 🌿🧡 @putnambooks (US) and @bedfordsq.publishers (UK)
https://linktr.ee/nigaralamwrites
Natalie Lima @natalielima09.bsky.social Writing embarrassing crap about my life.
Creative Writing Prof @ Butler University
📍Indianapolis
🇨🇺🇵🇷🇺🇸
natalielima.com
Libre @librelit.bsky.social A southern literature & arts mag bent on brain pain, taking the narrative back, jiggling it open, extracting the oyster from its background of compressed pain to reexamine what it means to scavenge for agency in liminal states of illness.
Librelit.com
Short Reads @short-reads.org Flash nonfiction, emailed weekly.
https://short-reads.org
Jenny Bartoy @jennybartoy.bsky.social Writer & Editor | NO CONTACT: WRITERS ON ESTRANGEMENT (Catapult, 2026) | Author profiles, interviews & book reviews | Developmental editing & manuscript critique | PNW lefty
Michele Hutchison @michehut.bsky.social Translator, editor, writer, poet
Holly Rizzuto Palker @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social writer, editor@literarymama, podcast:This Mama is Lit, ASJA board member, #wfwa www.hollyrizzuto.com
fionajanemack@bsky.social @fionajanemack.bsky.social Scottish-American writer. Flash collection "The Yet Unknowing World." Stories in Best Small Fictions 2019 and 2023. Historical novel "Ancestral Virgins" out in June 2026! www.fionajmackintosh.com #writer #flashfiction
Ro Skelton @ro-skelton.bsky.social Writer of essays and short stories, gardener, community organiser. Wife to a wife, dad to a human peach. She/they. Work in Ecotone, Waxwing, New Ohio Review, Four Way Review, Pushcart special mention. Compost is my life!
Emm 🦋📚🇬🇧 @emmhenderson.bsky.social Developmental editor. Addicted to politics, crime fiction and black coffee.
MA Creative Writing (Brunel)
Writing workshops and 1:1’s.
Lit event organiser.
CIEP 🦋💙
📍 Harrogate, UK
No DMs.
Angus MacCaull @angusmaccaull.bsky.social Canadian journalist with work in Newsweek, Maclean's, Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, The Walrus + more. Also host of Creative Nonfiction Collective's Memoir Book Club.
Deana @deanalisenby.bsky.social I write suspense/thrillers. | #momswritersclub | #thrillsandchills | she/her
https://bio.site/deanalisenby
Sarah Beddow/Boyle @pyrrhicspondee.bsky.social Poet, mom. Perimenopausal and down to talk about it, always. Author of DISPATCHES FROM FRONTIER SCHOOLS (Riot in Your Throat) and WHAT'S PINK & SHINY/WHAT'S DARK & HARD (Porkbelly). More at impolitelines.com.
Ian Denning @ian-denning.com Writer || NY Center for Fiction fellow || Retro games, beer, horror, sci-fi || Dog- and human-dad || NJ and PNW || He/him
Michelle Lipinski @michellelipinski.bsky.social Senior editor @ucpress.bsky.social. Finicky reader. (She/her)
Amy Wright @awrightawright.bsky.social Editor, professor, writer with work in Georgia Review, Fourth Genre, Kenyon Review, Brevity, Ninth Letter, Appalachian Review, and elsewhere linked at awrightawright.com Author of Paper Concert (Sarabande).
Maggie Smith @maggiesmithwrites.bsky.social Novelist, Podcast Host, Editor, Movie Buff linktr.ee/maggiesmithwrites
Rosecliff Literary @roseclifflit.bsky.social DC-based literary agency | where stories find their path | founder @jessicaberg.bsky.social
Devoney Looser @devoney.bsky.social New book: Wild for Austen (St. Martin’s Press, 2025).
Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.
Unnamed Press @unnamedpress.bsky.social We publish literature from around the world. UNlikely voices and UNexpected stories. Smith & Taylor Classics. Based in Los Angeles since 2014.
↪️ linktr.ee/unnamed.press 
Catapult Book Group @catapultbooks.bsky.social Catapult, Counterpoint, Soft Skull, & Hawthorne Books.
W. W. Norton & Company @wwnorton.com Independent Publishers Since 1923.
Suzette Mullen @suzettem.bsky.social Authenticity is worth the cost and it’s never too late for a new beginning. Author of The Only Way Through Is Out (U Wisconsin Press, 2024), a midlife coming-out and coming-of-age story. Speaker, book coach, LGBTQ+ advocate, boy mom, yogi.
BrendaJoycePatterson @bjoycepatterson.bsky.social Poet. Writer/columnist. Literary talk show host. Librarian Emeritus. More at linktr.ee/Brenda.Joyce.Patterson
Emma Scott @emmascott.us Actress, bacon connoisseur, sometimes writer, average singer, news junkie, native, foul-mouthed hockey fan, altruist, & dirty hippie. Preferred pronoun: y'all
Jeremy Wang-Iverson @jwi.bsky.social Publicist (Vesto PR) | Book Work on Substack
📪 jeremy@vestopr.com
📚 http://www.vestopr.com
✍️ https://derekkrissoff.substack.com/
will scarlett @willscarlett.bsky.social Books. NYC.
julia kelly @juliakellywriter.bsky.social Writer and dawdler
The Fisherman's Gift 2025
A Different Life 2027
UK Harvill Books, Penguin Vintage;
US Simon and Schuster
Hillary Brenhouse @hbrenhouse.bsky.social Founding editor of elasticmag.bsky.social, the new print magazine of psychedelic art & literature. Formerly editorial director of Bold Type Books, EIC of Guernica mag. Writer. Sleeping in my tent in your backyard.
Flora Carr @floracarr.bsky.social Writer. Debut novel THE TOWER (2024) Hutchinson Heinemann/ Doubleday. 
Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social Journalist, New York Magazine; author, Good & Mad, All the Single Ladies. Maine, New York, Philadelphia. I am on a book leave till fall 2025. I do have a substack. 
Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social “Zizek if he was a woman and loved sandwiches”
New Yorker staff writer, dept. of mastication
It’s always Free Palestine 🍉
Evette Dionne (Mostly on Threads) @freeblackgirl.bsky.social OG Black feminist storyteller • Award-winning author of WEIGHTLESS and LAWC • Cofounder @theflytrapmedia.com • Directing writing @empowermentave.bsky.social • I live where the sky ends
Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social A LIVING REMEDY, a New York Times Notable Book • ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW, National Book Critics Circle finalist • words in NYT Mag, Time, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
Miwa Messer @miwamesser.bsky.social “Not a good bullshitter but a good podcast host.” EP/host Poured Over pod on Apple + Spotify. Opinions my own, of course. 📷DP Jolly
Imani Barbarin @imanibarbarin.bsky.social Disabled Loudmouth.
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