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thelonghand @thelonghand.bsky.social Screenwriter. Poet. Professor.
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Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
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Wigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social Seven-time Pushcart Prize winning journal of very short fiction. (Read us at wigleaf.com)
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Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social Independent journalist, features editor at bioGraphic, contributing editor at Adventure Journal, essayist, mom, "queen of delicious verbs." 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦
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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social Independent journalist | Co-founder @thewesternedge.bsky.social
Books: Blazing Eye Sees All, When The Moon Turns To Blood. Podcasts: Hush, Burn Wild, Two Minutes Past Nine, Bundyville.
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So to Speak @sotospeakjournal.bsky.social 🌀SUMMER 2026 ISSUE JUST DROPPED🌀
Intersectional feminist journal of language + art since 1992. We publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction & visual art exploring gender, race, class & sexuality.
Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust). www.medhawrites.com
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Lucian Mattison @luciannumerouno.bsky.social 🇦🇷🇺🇸 Poet, translator, Oakland
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Reaper's Milonga (Yesyes Books)
Peregrine Nation (Dynamo Verlag)Oakland
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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.
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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.
Kamuka @kamuka.bsky.social Lefty, plant based, Buddhist, reader
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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
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Matthew Woodman @matthewoodman.bsky.social poet / friend to Creosote & Scrub Jay / words in Puerto del Sol, Juked, Amsterdam Review, The Moth, Sugar House Review, The Shore, et al
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Spare The Heir @sparetheheir.bsky.social A novel in progress. When the heir to the British throne goes missing, the spare and his American wife must find him before the scandal threatens the entire Monarchy.
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. 
David Cameron @cambone.bsky.social Recovering rule-follower, Big D (Democrat) energy, autism dad 🧩, #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦, #LGBTQ+ally 🏳️🌈, happy in Western NC but missing New Mexico, writing short fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction.
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Terry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social Author, What the Light Leaves Hidden (Unicorn Press 2023)
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Rebecca Bridge @rebeccabridge.bsky.social Writer, professor, poet, editor, cryptic crosswords, painter, screenwriter, metalsmith, mother, woodworker, and, you know, liver of life. Author of A Month's Worth of Instructional Poems & co-author of Clear Out the Static in Your Attic. Pretty despondent.
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Sixth Finch @sixthfinch.bsky.social Online journal of poetry and art
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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.
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Robert Walikis @opentank.bsky.social Writer. Seeker. Swimmer. Bard.
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New England Review @newenglandreview.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine published by Middlebury College since 1978.
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Hayli May Cox @heyhaylimay.bsky.social Care more, consume less ✊🌈🌍☮️ | Eclipse doctor | Assistant CW Prof | writes & likes 🎨🦫🐦🌊🌲🐛 | out audiostrolling
Nicole Markert @nicolemarkert.bsky.social poet, educator, cozy gamer | work in Moon City Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and others | nicolemarkert.com
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Chelsea Dingman @chelsdingman.bsky.social Author of Thaw (@ugapress National Poetry Series) Through a Small Ghost (@ugapress 2020) I, Divided (@lsupress 2023) PhD/Assistant Lecturer @ualberta Postdoctoral Fellow @SSHRC Poetry editor @sweetliterary
Rebecca Stafford @rebeccahazelstaff.bsky.social YA author 🌈 THE ENDING YOU DESERVE on preorder now! Link below for retailers.
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Susan Muth @susiemuth.bsky.social Poet | MFA from @mason__cw | Executive Editor @offseasonmag | jigsaw puzzler | she/her
Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social Former 30-year-old. Used to be in punk bands but super boring now. English PhD student. He/him.
@mmargaret.bsky.social @mmargaret.bsky.social It’s okay you don’t need to follow me, I’m just here to read poetry
David Leftwich @davidleftwich.bsky.social Dad/cook. 2025 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book winner: at dawn, the first of the first to sing, pubs Fall ‘27. Writer/editor covering Houston food: Houston Chronicle, Edible Houston, Houston Food Finder, Sugar&Rice, Cite. https://www.davidleftwich.net/
cream city review @creamcityreview.bsky.social University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s graduate student run lit mag. Publishing art, fiction, CNF, poetry and more since 1975!
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Brandon Haffner @thebrandonhaff.bsky.social Writer, prof, etc. | Stories: Cincinnati Review, Sewanee Review, Harvard Review, New Orleans Review | VCCA '23, '24; KHN '24; Hambidge '25 | #RVA | @Richmonder.bsky.social | Prose editor @Variantlit.bsky.social
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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!
Cassandra Whitaker @casswhit.bsky.social Poet, Writer, Educator 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (She/they/Mx). NBCC, Wolf Devouring A Wolf Devouring A Wolf available from Jackleg Press. https://queerthewolves.wordpress.com/
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Jessie Carty @neysa.bsky.social Poet, educator, neurospicy
Matthew Duffus @duffusmatthew.bsky.social Author of the novel SWAPPING PURPLES FOR YELLOWS and of the collection DUNBAR’S FOLLY AND OTHER STORIES. High school English teacher and Fiction Editor for Orison Books.
Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social Publisher of Glass Chapbook Series, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Crucible: An Online Reading Series. Subs always free. Posts by anthonyframe.bsky.social
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Susanna Donato @susannadonato.bsky.social Writer, editor, communicator, terrier squire | Work in Redivider, Proximity, Entropy, Electric Literature, A HARP IN THE STARS | she/her
Andrew Hemmert @andrewhemmert.bsky.social Florida poet living in Denver. No Longer at This Address and Blessing the Exoskeleton from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Sawgrass Sky from Texas Review Press.
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Emily Skaja @emilyskaja.bsky.social Poet, professor, dog enthusiast. Author of BRUTE (2019) & BLACK LAKE (Graywolf 2026).
Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com Small press publisher of poetry, fiction, & creative nonfiction chapbooks located in Durham, NC | est. 2006 | https://bullcitypress.com | linktr.ee/bullcitypress | posts by @noahstetzer.bsky.social, @amelialoeffler.bsky.social, & @rosswhite.com
Drunk as a Poet on Payday podcast @drunkasapoet.bsky.social A podcast talking with poets about their new books and the art of poetry, hosted by Jason Gray. Come celebrate with us! 
Gale Marie Thompson @thegalester.bsky.social Author of: Mountain Amnesia (CLP Colorado State University), Helen or my Hunger (@yesyesbooks), Soldier On (@tupelopress)
👩🏼🏫 Assoc. Professor
Books, baking, music, animals
Emma Kinsley @kinsleywrites.bsky.social Writer, editor, proofreader, and book nerd.
Specializing in romance, fantasy, speculative fiction, and more.
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Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social I'm a poet. Cancer survivor. Feminist. Reader OBR. Writes in Baja, MX & Los Angeles. MFA CalArts. Multiple BOTN & Pushcart nominations. Penn Review. Mantis. Pinch Journal. Frontier Poetry. Redivider. The Maine Review. Poetry Salzburg Review. 150 + journals
Geoffrey Babbitt @geoffreybabbitt.bsky.social Poet, Essayist, Editor-in-Chief of Seneca Review & SR Books, Associate Prof. at Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Books: A Grain of Sand in Lambeth (Dec. 2025, U of Nevada Press) and Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light (2018). Wm Blake devotee.
Karen Press @kipress.bsky.social Mostly teach college writing and herd teenager. Four long-forgotten books of poetry including Types of Canadian Women (Gaspereau) and Exquisite Monsters (Turnstone). Originally Albertan, long time in Winnipeg.
Christen Noel Kauffman @christenkauffman.bsky.social Poetry, Prose, and Visual Art.
THE SCIENCE OF THINGS WE CAN BELIEVE (Ghost Peach Press, 2024)
Poetry Editor at Driftwood Press
www.christennoelkauffman.com
Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social Writer. Mom. Xeric gardener. OPENING (Glass Poetry, 2026). REMAINDER (Bull City Press, 2025). FRUITFUL (Driftwood Press, 2024). Poems in Best of the Net, West Branch, phoebe, Cincinnati Review, etc. More poems at https://linktr.ee/stefaniekirbypoetry