Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
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Brenda W. Clough @brendaclough.bsky.social I write fantasy, science fiction, and historical novels. 
Joan Marie Galat @jmgalat.bsky.social Author and speaker. 30+ books. Topics include #activism, #astronomy, #darkskies, #nature, #ecology #pollution. #SCBWI Crystal Kite winner #STEM #STEAM www.joangalat.com & moondotmedia.com 
Steve Horton 🚀 The Comic Book Story of Space Exploration @mst3k.fan Writer (Comic Book Story of Space Exploration, NYT bestselling BOWIE, secret 3rd thing), SFF & film essays. Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop alumni. Rep'd by RHA. Codexian. Everything is rubbish and all rubbish is wonderful. stevehorton.neocities.org
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James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social memoir: Blind Man's Bluff (W.W. Norton, NYT Editors' Choice)
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Bryan - Free Palestine! 🍉 @darthziggy.bsky.social 43, dad, partner, gamer. He/him. Black Lives Matter. Trans Rights are Human Rights. Free Palestine. Free Sudan. Abolish ICE.
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Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social poet and high school English teacher living with her husband and dogs in Kansas
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Matt Keeley @matt-keeley.bsky.social Frequent reader and occasional reviewer
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.
Lela Scott MacNeil @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social Born in Los Alamos, like the atomic bomb. Writing in Gertrude, Essay Daily, Trouble in the Heartland: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen, and Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: the March Xness Anthology.
Justin Bryant @justinwriter.bsky.social ‘Thunder From A Clear Blue Sky’ Malarkey Books 2023. Short fiction/flash here and there.
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Emily Grant @emilymg91.bsky.social lawyer & LA Public Library superfan.
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Strong Women, Strange Worlds @swsworlds.bsky.social Our mission is to elevate the voices of women and other underrepresented gender identity authors of science fiction, fantasy, and horror; to highlight stories featuring strong female and non-binary characters; and to share these stories with readers of all
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East Bay Booksellers @ebbooksellers.bsky.social We are a bookstore -- a good one, we think! -- selling new books -- good ones, we hope! -- in Oakland, California.
Transit Books @transitbooks.bsky.social Publishing award-winning literature from around the world in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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New Directions @ndbooks.bsky.social Founded in 1936 by James Laughlin, New Directions proudly publishes great literature from around the world. ndbooks.com
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Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social Lammy award winning author. Novels: BEINGS (🛸📚💌); ALL MY MOTHER'S LOVERS (💀🚗🌈). Co-editor of the anthology HERE FOR ALL THE REASONS: Why We Watch The Bachelor🌹.
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THE IN-BETWEENS (WVUP)
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Janet McNally @janetmmcnally.bsky.social Novelist, poet, English prof, co-host of the Spark Bird Podcast 🐦⬛. Buffalo, NY
David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social I read and write and listen to music. A lot. Mostly in Brooklyn. Largehearted Boy is my website.
Danny Lavery @dannymlavery.bsky.social Vera said that?
Nepenthe Press @nepenthepress.bsky.social Fine Press Publisher of Horror, Weird Fiction & Gothic Literature
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Joel Hans @joelhans.com Author of THE BEDTIME EMPTYING OF OUR WORLD (Feb 2026, Moon City Press + Short Fiction Award)
Forever writing fairy tales in speculative/weird/SFesque disguises.
Dad-ing.
Materializing @astrolabe.ooo.
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Deirdre Lockwood @deirdrelockwood.bsky.social Poet & fiction writer, oceanography PhD & occasional container-ship rider. Author of AN INTRODUCTION TO ERROR (2025, Cornerstone Press). she/her deirdrelockwood.com
Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social Literary + cultural data from 1945–present. Peer-reviewed and open-access. Explore and reuse our data, or submit your own: https://data.post45.org/
Autonomy News @autonomynews.co A worker-owned reproductive rights and justice publication cofounded by @garnethenderson.com and @susanrinkunas.com.
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V.V. Ganeshananthan @sugi.bsky.social Writer. BROTHERLESS NIGHT: http://randomhousebooks.com/books/57844/
Yiyun Li @appletwigli.bsky.social Fictioneer
Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.
Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social author of SEARCHES, THIS IS SALVAGED, & THE IMMORTAL KING RAO. pulitzer finalist. journalist. mentor at the lighthouse writers workshop's book project. contact me: dm, signal (@vauhinivara.82), or my website (vauhinivara.com).
Sarah Minor @sarahceniaminor.bsky.social visual essayist, hype man, collaborator, prof
Author of Carousel (Yale University Press, 2026), Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit (Noemi Press, 2021), Bright Archive (Rescue Press, 2020)
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IKE: A Publishing Project @ikeproject.bsky.social An independent book publisher based in Portland, Oregon. We publish an eclectic mix of short stories, essays, and poetry in small chapbook editions. https://www.ikeproject.com/
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Kristen Iskandrian @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social writer
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Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com Neil Clarke: Editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, The Best Science Fiction of the Year series, and more. Four-time Hugo Award Winner for Best Editor Short Form. Four-time Chesley Award-winning art director.
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Wendy C. Ortiz @wendyortiz.com Excavation: A Memoir
Hollywood Notebook: Essays
Bruja: A Dreamoir
All from Northwestern University Press, 2025
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she/her. Los Angeles. Mostly away from Bluesky.
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Elliott Holt @elliottholt.bsky.social Wrote a novel, YOU ARE ONE OF THEM. Working on another. Freelance editor (formerly at The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, One Story) & college essay coach. My name has two l's and two t's.
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Will Pei Shih @williampeishih.bsky.social Words in Best American Short Stories, VQR, Joyland, McSweeney’s, Boston Review, Georgia Review, Southern Review, Los Angeles Review, Ursa, & elsewhere. Fiction Editor at Guernica Magazine.
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Pete of The Chills at Will Podcast @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social The Chills at Will Literary Podcast is a discussion of the visceral beauty of literature, w/ Pete. Ep 275 up now on all platforms!-join the Patreon!
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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social Publishing great literature and art since 2003.
Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social Author: TACOMA; A KIND OF IN-BETWEEN; YEAR OF THE BUFFALO; STEPHEN KING'S THE BODY; BACKSWING
Editor: HAD; Short Story, Long (on Substack)
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Rita Banerjee @ritabanerjee.bsky.social Rita Banerjee is a writer and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is author of Disobedient Futures, CREDO, Echo in Four Beats, A Night with Kali, and Cracklers at Night.
Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social I am a writer and translator. My most recent project is 'Anneliese's House' by Lou Andreas-Salomé, which I translated with Raleigh Whitinger. The profile image is from the wallpaper in William Morris's drawing room. My website is www.diehoren.com.
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Patrick Cottrell @patrickcottrell.bsky.social writer mostly here for basketball
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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com Sharing news about my endeavors and enthusiasms. Publicist since 2001. Independent.
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Katie Grimm @grimmlit.bsky.social literary agent, garrulous book collector, bon vivant. she/her
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Jeff Lindsay @dexterjeff.bsky.social Author — Dexter, Riley Wolfe, et al — raconteur, parlour wit, sometime musician, actor, singer, and so much more…
Lucas Church @lucaschurch.bsky.social Executive editor @uncpress.bsky.social. I acquire books in: Lit studies, social sciences, trade, CNF, App Studies, music. Writer. Recovering Appalachian. He/Him.
Christopher Hennessy @thealtchris.bsky.social SFF Writer | Poet (1 book) | Interviewer (2 books on Queer writers)
Want to help share SFF voices that deserve more love. Golden age fan + debut, indie, queer cheerleader. Ultimately, I would love to help build a community! ✨ #Booksky
Caroline Casey @cacasey.bsky.social pyrrhic victor, enemy of fun
The Florida Review @theflreview.bsky.social Publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative, interviews, & book reviews since 1972 | ✨https://linktr.ee/theflreview 👈🏼
T. (Tammy) Greenwood @tgwood505.bsky.social Novelist (author of 16 novels including EVERYTHING HAS HAPPENED), Teacher, Photographer, Knitter, Film Buff, Mom of 2 New Adults. Ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Time shared between San Diego and Vermont.
Liz Sower @ghostsintheburbs.bsky.social writer. reader. horror. cozies.
Ghosts in the Burbs podcast.
https://www.ghostsintheburbs.com
Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social Writer, teacher, friend. Words in: The Sun, Orion, The Yale Review, Literary Hub, & more. Author of BREAKING INTO THE BACKCOUNTRY, a memoir, and the essay collection RARE GOOD: ESSAYS ON ART, AUTISM, AND ASTONISHMENT. https://www.steveedwardswriter.com
sarah maria griff @griffski.bsky.social don’t do anything i wouldn’t do 😎
now: eat the ones you love 🌱
next: strange is the light 👁️✨
& then: everything not saved🐅
James Randall @randalljamesp.bsky.social between the forest and the city / editor, writer - for adults & children, incl. folktales & non-fiction (26/27) - Hachette: https://shorturl.at/xJBrT, HarperCollins: https://amzn.eu/d/0iEBWa29. PhD, Goldsmiths (2018).
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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
Abigail Welhouse @welhouse.bsky.social what if I got really into ________
latest poetry chapbook: SMALL DOG
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Jeanna Kadlec @jeannakadlec.bsky.social queer ex-evangelical; HERETIC: A QUEER REVOLT AGAINST EVANGELICALISM, EMPIRE, AND THE LIES WE ARE SOLD (Harper) & ASTROLOGY FOR ARTISTS (forthcoming 2027, Hachette); NYC, she/her
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The Greensboro Review @greensbororeview.bsky.social Publishing the best fiction and poetry—regardless of theme, subject, or style since 1965.
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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social Pulitzer finalist for THE GREAT BELIEVERS; new novel, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, out now. Artistic Director at StoryStudio Chicago. Trying to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. You should, too.
rebeccamakkai.substack.com
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Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social Just trying to put words together. God Elegy forthcoming from BOA Editions 2028. The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis (Soft Skull), House Is an Enigma (Bull City). TMI in your inbox here: https://substack.com/@emmabolden
Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social Translator from Russian to English. Iliazd, _Rapture_. 2019 NEA Translation Fellowship for Iliazd, _PhiloSophia_ (excerpts from Rab-Rab Press). Iliazd's _Speechless Sentence_ and excerpts from _parisites_ and _dUnkee fərEnt_ in _TYPO_ #7.
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).
MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social 50 Years of the MFA Program for Writers—the first low-residency MFA in the US and the world.
Poetry | Fiction | Creative Nonfiction
App deadlines: September 1 | March 1
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Reneé Bibby @suncoyte.bsky.social Writer, teacher, coordinator of Rejection Competition, podcaster, dreamer in Tucson 🌵
Emily Flouton @eflouton.bsky.social Writer. Words in Massachusetts Review, The Atlantic, Tin House, The Forge, Subtropics, Passages North, Gay Magazine, Publisher's Weekly, DIAGRAM, Quarterly West, etc.| FLOW-ton | she/her | teach @lighthousewrite | rep: Eleanor Jackson
Teresa Wong @teresawong.bsky.social Canadian cartoonist and author of graphic memoirs DEAR SCARLET (2019) and ALL OUR ORDINARY STORIES (2024). Comics in The Believer, The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and The Walrus.
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Courtney Zoffness @czoffness.bsky.social Author of SPILT MILK (McSweeneys). Sunday Times Short Story Award winner. Fellowships: The Center for Fiction, MacDowell, Bread Loaf. Creative Writing Director at Drew University.
Kathleen Boland @kpboland.bsky.social author of SCAVENGERS, out 1/13/2026 🌀🏜️✨
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