PBR Book Club @pbrbookclub.bsky.social Based in Lawrence, Kansas and open to all. We meet on the last Tuesday of the month to discuss books.
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg @carynmg.bsky.social Poet, writer, Kansas Poet Laureate Emeritus, and walking work-in-progress in love with the earth and sky.
Please see my blog, events, and books at carynmirriamgoldberg.com. More cool stuff at Patreon.com/carynmg 
Brian D. Moss @brianmoss.bsky.social BriantheLibrarian.com
HugsForAmerica.com
Nick Gerik @ngerik.bsky.social 
Madeline Fox @maddycfox.bsky.social making or editing public radio, now at kcur | aunt | library stan | Kansas booster | alis volat propriis | usually wish i were on a train | always watching women’s soccer | madeline@kcur.org
Debbi Johanning @debjohanning.bsky.social 📍LFK
Digital strategist. Communicator. Connector. Collaborator. Wife. Mom. Jayhawk. Volunteer. Emotional support person for two dogs. Pizza is the way to my heart. #RockChalk
Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector editor in chief @journalist-sherman.bsky.social I write news stories of public interest.
Clay Wirestone, Kansas Reflector opinion editor @claywires.bsky.social Tills the soil for takes @KansasReflector.com. Once called "more calming and grounding than a bottle of Xanax." Husband of Max, father of teen.
Jonathan Kealing @jkealing.bsky.social journalist, avgeek, dad, traveler, nonprofit executive
David Condos @davidcondos.bsky.social Covering southern Utah + the environment at @kuer.org, NPR Utah • Past: High Plains Public Radio + Kansas News Service • Reporting: kuer.org/david-condos
Send tips confidentially on Signal: davidcondos.75
David Mechem @dbmechem.bsky.social Atmospheric Science, motorcycles, electric bass, baking, bicycling, F1, Moby Dick enthusiast, Oxford comma now and forever. My views, not my employer's.
Celia Llopis-Jepsen @celialj.bsky.social Host of the NPR Network podcast Up From Dust, about ecology & environment in the Midwest & Great Plains. Based at KCUR in Kansas City. https://t.co/lgdus2FRqA
Chewyfally @chewyfally.bsky.social Midwest Arab American Music Journalist. Here I am, rock you like a hurricane.
Lckrings @lckrings.bsky.social Now in KS
Laura Lorson @lauralorson.net Opinions personal, retweets ≠ endorsement. Target for faraway laughter. Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock.
Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social Husband, father, brother, son.
DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social A journal of text, art, and schematic. Kicking it since 1999. Published by New Michigan Press. Edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social
Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com publisher of boundary-breaking prose books
come get us @ splitlippress.com and https://linktr.ee/splitlippress
posts by yrs truly @suburbanprairie.bsky.social
ari linden @arilinden.bsky.social Professor of German in Kansas. Author of a book on Karl Kraus. Into critical theory, Marxism, and German Jewish Studies. Look left
Also like basketball
The radical is the rational
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
https://rebeccamakkai.com
Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social Independent publisher based in Ohio, bringing you ‘Books Too Loud To Ignore’ since 2005.
📚 imprint of Seven Stories Press
🦄 bookstore/cafe HQ: Two Dollar Radio Headquarters
Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social We’re a literary journal that’s totally bonkers-in-love with voice-driven writing, pop culture, and the kind of honesty that gets you right in the kidneys.
Posts: @carolinamata.bsky.social, AJ Jolish & @emotes206.bsky.social
https://splitlipthemag.com/
Grieveland @grieveland.bsky.social We publish books
Callista Buchen @callistabuchen.bsky.social poet, author of Look Look Look: blacklawrencepress.com/books/look-look-look, "Taking Care": https://poems.com/poem/taking-care/
Darren C. Demaree @darrencdemaree.bsky.social Ohioan. Poet. Librarian.
Mackenzie Clark @mclarknews.bsky.social Reporter/founder, @lawrencekstimes.com, lfktimes.com.
She/her. Newzcat mom. Dismantling evil by moonlight. Loving life in #lfk. ❤️🔥🌈☀️
Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social poet, teacher, sometimes essayist. chapbook, Love That For Us, out now @andchangepoetry.bsky.social. craft book forthcoming @noemipress.bsky.social. two books @boa-editions.bsky.social.
abolish the police & free palestine.
https://www.chenchenwrites.com
Meghan Phillips @mcarphil.bsky.social former NEA fellow. chapbook ABSTINENCE ONLY (Barrelhouse).
https://meghan-phillips.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
Laura Marsh @lauramarsh.bsky.social Literary Editor, The New Republic
Sarah Smarsh @sarahsmarsh.bsky.social Journalist, Heartland author, prairie defender, fifth-generation Kansas farm girl.
Nick Spacek @nuthousepunks.bsky.social Horror, music, books, and all the weird places they intersect. Music editor of The Pitch. Co-host of the Carnage Report. Also, cats. 💀🎵📚
@courtbelle.bsky.social @courtbelle.bsky.social Lawrence, Kansas 
Nancy @nancys-w.bsky.social 
Screamin Pete @pecospete.bsky.social I love look at phone 🎸🎸
The Lawrence Times @lawrencekstimes.com Independent online news in Lawrence, KS. More at lawrencekstimes.com and https://lawrenceks.news/tree
Reporters here: @wulfe-the-reporter.bsky.social, @mclarknews.bsky.social
The Pitch @thepitch.bsky.social Your filter for Kansas City news #OurPitch.- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
Til Willis @tilwillis.bsky.social Singer/Songwriter, artist
https://tilwillis.net/
Maggie @magpipes.bsky.social Formerly @mizanthrowup
She/her. Magpie, Magpipes, Pipes. Never Mags. Aceflux. Trauma-informed Clippy📎 Nerd, bibliophile, writer, plant maven, animal friend, wannabe culinarian. 🦀- S Margules @selugram.bsky.social
Jeff Ryan @jeffryan.bsky.social PNW based urbanist, veteran, and family man. Raised in the Flint Hills.
Opinions shared are my own.
cluesan al-gaib @clueless.bsky.social 
Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social author of TURMERIC & SUGAR (Thirty West). stories in Wigleaf, Short Story Long, Berkeley Fiction Review, HAD, Craft, Fractured, etc.
annavangalajones.com
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
Jon Chaiim McConnell @jonmcconn.bsky.social writer | etc
https://linktr.ee/jonmcconn
River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social Where Poetry Moves. Two editors, publishing (at least) two exceptional poetry titles a year & the Plainwater Nonfiction Series. Poetry submissions open in May. Posts by editors @hanvanderhart.bsky.social and @amorak.bsky.social
www.riverriverbooks.org
david byron queen @byronqueen.bsky.social books + sounds
Ben Loory @benloory.bsky.social Writer 📚 Tales of Falling and Flying, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
benloory.com
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
Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social Lit Agent Talcott Notch, AALA Member, Editor, Teacher, Writer of Flash Fiction Editor at @fracturedlit.bsky.social Publications: Harpur Palate, Laurel Review, Monkey Bicycle, Ghost Parachute
https://linktr.ee/tommydeanwriter
Whiskey Tit Press @whiskeytit.com Whiskey Tit makes delicious books and believes, sincerely, that great literature will keep us alive and fighting and (hopefully) free from brainworms.
Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social Author of 5 books, most recently the essay collection IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE. New novel REVEAL! forthcoming in Spring '28
Former Book Fight podcast co-host. @Barrelhouse.bsky.social NF Editor. Rutgers-Camden MFA faculty. South Jersey.
Tom.mcallister.ws
James Brubaker @jamesbrubaker.bsky.social Writer/Teacher. WE ARE GHOST LIT out now from Braddock Avenue Books (he/him)
El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social author of MAGICAL/REALISM, Tiny Reparations Books, 2024 and BEAST MERIDIAN, Noemi Press, 2017.
W. Todd Kaneko @toddkaneko.bsky.social Author: This Is How the Bone Sings & The Dead Wrestler Elegies. Co-author: Slash / Slash, Poetry: Writers Guide & Anthology. Writing teacher. he/him/dad
https://linktr.ee/toddkaneko
Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social Writer, teacher, speculative fiction and flash fiction
Books, events, and classes at https://www.taracampbell.com
#WritingCommunity #scifi #sff #speculativefiction #flashfiction
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Kelly Corcoran @kellycorkeran.bsky.social 
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
Ali Mac @almcafee.bsky.social onto yet another hellsite.
leaving the midwest every chance I get. (I always come back.)
Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social Poet & NYT bestselling author of A SUIT OR A SUITCASE, YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL, DEAR WRITER, GOOD BONES +📚 Host of @slowdownshow.org
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
The Rumpus @therumpus.net Independent since 2009. Read The Rumpus Magazine. Become a Member. Receive Letters in the Mail from Authors. Join a dynamic, global community.
http://linktr.ee/The_Rumpus2.1
rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social Author and professor type person.
SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24
Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com
Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social Gen X, middle child, Leo. I mostly write about books.
Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social poet • professor • parent • perambulator • erikameitner.com | also keeper of https://post-mfa.tumblr.com
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
Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social Loyola grad’s dad. BGSU dad. Poet. BGSU prof/director of creative writing. Union member. Co-founding editor @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. He/him. It's pronounced uh-MOR-ack. https://amorakhuey.com
𝖒𝖆𝖙𝖙 @yogurttowne.bsky.social editor in chief @pastemagazine.bsky.social
Another New Calligraphy @anothernewcalligraphy.com Another New Calligraphy publishes handmade books, music, and the online journal Impossible Task. We have enjoyed the quiet thrill of making and sharing since 2009. Chicago. anothernewcalligraphy.com
Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social Books and such
https://malarkeybooks.com/
Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social Writer of The Other Ones, Looney, Howard & Charles at the Factory, This Darkness Got to Give, more. Editor @ Barrelhouse, primary organizer of the Barrelhouse conference in DC in the Spring. Web @ PSU. Goofy gentleman. He/him. 
Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social Editor at Barrelhouse. Professor at Temple University. Union rep. Author of Notes from the Road (Awst Press). World’s #1 Cat Dad.
Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social Writer in NYC. Former Attorney. EIC Split Lip Magazine. Copper Nickel Editor's Prize | BASS Distinguished Story | Kenyon Review | Ploughshares | Artist-in-Residence @ South 85 Journal | Next up: CHEEKS | http://maureenlangloss.com/
Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social Multimodal af. Collective Gravities, Every Galaxy a Circle, Patterns of Orbit, Escaping the Body, & more
Co-EIC of @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
www.chloenclark.com
Cover image: raspberry danishes
Profile photo: a river heron
Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social “Ways We Vanish” from Okay Donkey, “Ragnarök at the Father Daughter Dance” from Variant, finalist for the Donald Hall AWP Prize, poems in Threepenny, Southern Review, APR, HAD, etc.
Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org Taco Bell Quarterly is The World's Most Prestigious Literary Magazine. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
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
will erickson 🐧🦉 @willerickson.bsky.social just a little light in my pocket
Poems or whatever + awkwardlypenned.com
Kate McIntyre @katemcintyre.bsky.social Writer, MAD PRAIRIE, Flannery O’Connor Award winner, PEN/Bingham Prize long list. Assistant prof @wpi. Co-editor @hexliterary.🌻 🌪 katemcintyrewriting.com
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)
https://linktr.ee/aaronburch
Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social Poet, writer, translator (UY poetry), comics. Pitt Poetry Series, Fieldmouse Press, etc. Editor, Wisconsin Poetry Series, UW Press. Emerita CW Prof, UW-Madison, Rep Gail Hochman. Graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL, WaPo 10 Best Graphic Novel 2024
Vulture @vulture.com devouring culture.
Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social https://static.macmillan.com/static/holt/robin/
Ashley Feinberg @ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social 
Mia Armstrong-López @miaaarmstrong.bsky.social Managing editor of Future Tense (Slate, Arizona State University, New America)
Noel Murray @noelmu.bsky.social Freelancer for hire. You know me from: The A.V. Club, The Dissolve. Posts about food, TV, movies, the Braves, pretty scenery. Husband of @donnadb.bsky.social .
Keith Phipps @kphipps3000.bsky.social Movies, etc. for GQ, Vulture, Ringer and more. Co-host Next Picture Show. With @scotttobias.bsky.social I write The Reveal: http://thereveal.film. Author of AGE OF CAGE. He/Him
David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social The flannel dunce. Defector.com is the website
Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Co-host of the Amicus podcast. Dad.
Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social Film/TV writer. Co-host: The Next Picture Show podcast. Author of The Reveal newsletter (thereveal.film) with Keith Phipps. I got a houseboat docked at the Himbo Dome.
Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social Film critic at Vulture, co-host of the Critical Darlings podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/critical-darlings/id1885681327
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social journalist and lawyer based in Portland, OR.
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)