Lauren O'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social Nonfiction editor at Penguin Random House. I put the chic in Chicago Manual of Style.
Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop @pvww.bsky.social Literary arts organization based in Western MA (and virtually), founded by writer @joybaglio.bsky.social! We host writing workshops, craft classes, readings, & events with authors of all genres!
www.PioneerValleyWriters.org
Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social Award-winning writer and Orion Book Award finalist. American in Paris. Books: THE OYSTER WAR; HIGH HEEL. Next: THE PARISIAN SPHINX, A TRUE TALE OF ART & OBSESSION. Leonard Cohen blew me a kiss one time.
Substack: https://www.awritersnotebook.org/
BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social if you are looking at something i posted and going hey what the, it is probably a fake thing that i made
i also make the comic strip grassy valley
https://grassyvalley.thecomicseries.com
https://www.patreon.com/cw/baybayfriend
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/
Summit County Libraries @summitlibraries.bsky.social #1 Most Followed Library in the USA!
https://summitcountylibraries.org/
Located in beautiful Summit County, Colorado.
Viking Books UK @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social An imprint of @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social 🐧
Brilliant books for every kind of reader 📚
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Min Jin Lee @minjinlee.bsky.social New York State Author Laureate 2025-2027. Writer. New Yorker. Late Bloomer.
www.minjinlee.com
camden @barbarouscoast.bsky.social who took the bomp?
Sloan @ryan-sloan.bsky.social Writer // Faculty, U.C. Berkeley // Co-host,
Babylon Salon lit series // Epee fencer (overexuberant)
Megan Burbank @meganburbank.bsky.social reporting on culture & post-Roe abortion policy at Slate, The Nation, NPR, The New Republic, Axios. helping out at The WSJ. girl about town at Burbank Industries. previously Crosscut, Seattle Times, Portland Mercury, The Stranger.
meganburbank.substack.com
Brooklyn Book Festival @bkbookfest.bsky.social Largest Free Literary Festival in New York.
https://linktr.ee/bkbookfest
2026 Dates
Virtual Festival Day: September 20
Children's Day: September 26
Festival Day: September 27
City-wide Bookends: September 20-28
Chris Fleitas @fortysixcheeses.bsky.social Growing new bones
Josh Riedel @joshriedel.bsky.social Author of Please Report Your Bug Here (2023).
Editor of Thirty Cabins.
Green Apple Books @greenapplebooks.bsky.social Independent bookstore in San Francisco since 1967.
Our Sunset location is @booksonthepark.bsky.social
https://greenapplebooks.com/
Patrick Cottrell @patrickcottrell.bsky.social writer mostly here for basketball
https://patrick-cottrell.com/
Lauren C. Johnson @laurencjohnson.bsky.social 🦉🦜Writer of words, lover of birds
📖THE WEST FAÇADE (SFWP '26)
Co-host @babylonsalonsf & @clubchicxulub
CA 🌊 & 🐊 FL
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-west-facade-lauren-c-johnson/9b99f65d60de41a1
Lacey N. Dunham (she/her) @bookbent.bsky.social 🖤 Author
🖤 THE BELLES (S&S / Atria, 2025) southern gothic x dark academia
🖤 FALL OF THE HOUSE OF GRAYSTONE (S&S / Atria, coming 2027) Sapphic Tim Burton meets Grey Gardens
🖤 ME: https://www.laceyndunham.com/links
deadbury @dreadbury.bsky.social we all become ghosts
Adam D. Jameson @adjameson.bsky.social Author, teacher, bad movie enthusiast
books: Star Wars and the Triumph of Geek Culture (FSG), Cinemaps (with Andrew DeGraff, Quirk Books)
current project: "The Good Bad Movie Scene"
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/3SnTp
Impeach Trump and abolish ICE
Thomas Rogers @throgers.bsky.social City planner, photographer, urban hiker, http://sidewalktypos.com updater
Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social Author of The Lunatics' Ball (Mad Creek Books, forthcoming), American Literature 101: Stories (Cornerstone Press, forthcoming), and The Missing Girl (Black Lawrence Press). Wigleaf Top 50. 9 Notables, Best American Essays, Editor, CRAFT Lit Journal.
Russell Quinn @russellquinn.bsky.social Artist, designer, programmer. Ex-McSweeney’s. I made interactive novels in the 2010s such as ‘The Silent History’ and ‘The Pickle Index.’ Currently working on ‘Linda & Joan,’ a video game about the worst year of my life. www.russellquinn.com
Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social Prof & Writer - How High We Go in the Dark, a National Bestseller and NYT Editors’ Choice & Where We Go When All We Were is Gone. Minneapolis by way of the SF Bay Area and Hawai’i http://SequoiaNagamatsu.com - Star Trek 💫 and wristwatch ⌚️ obsessed.
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.
Jessie Sholl @jessie-sholl.bsky.social Freelance editor, creative writing faculty at The New School and The Loft Literary Center. Animal enthusiast. Minneapolis. She/her
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Toby Litt @tobylitt.bsky.social Writer. Mentor. Activist.
I teach Creative Writing at Southampton University.
https://awritersdiary.substack.com/
Christopher Coake @christophercoake.bsky.social Author of WE'RE IN TROUBLE (stories); YOU CAME BACK (a novel); and YOU WOULD HAVE TOLD ME NOT TO (stories). Professor in the residential MFA program in creative writing at U of Nevada, Reno
Patrick Crerand @patrickcrerand.bsky.social “Built for comfort, not for speed.” Writer, teacher, Director of DeSales MFA Program. Not the Man Utd player, but I wrote about our shared name here: https://xn--wgiaa.ws/3-united-a-story-by-patrick-crerand-x-on-x
Judah Mahay @judahmahay.com Alaskan SFF author who weaves magic into reality and pushes science to the plausible extreme. Professor by day. Hockey player by night. SFWA ✨ Vegan 🌱 Rep’ed by Lukas Ortiz of Spitzer Literary Agency
https://linktr.ee/judahmahay
https://www.judahmahay.com
Carrie Marshall 🦋 @carriemarshall.bsky.social Proud liberal professor living the life in South Florida. Former radio personality. Champion of critical thinking, tolerance, and higher ed. ✨dog mom✨
🏳️🌈🎓🐾💙🦄🦋🦩🌎🇺🇦
Kathy Flann @keflann.bsky.social Writer, 4 books, incl. How to Survive a Human Attack: A Guide for Werewolves, Mummies, Cyborgs, Ghosts, Nuclear Mutants, and Other Movie Monsters. Words in McSweeney’s, Boston Globe, WaPo, Slate, HuffPo. Member HWA, SFWA
www.kathyflann.com
Powell's Books @powells.bsky.social The legendary independent bookstore.
Portland, OR | est. 1971
Future Tense Books @futuretensebooks.bsky.social 30+ years of fine books and endless love in Portland, Oregon. We publish daring literary books by writers you should get to know. Editors: Kevin Sampsell (PDX) and Emma Alden (Philadelphia).
Visit us at www.futuretensebooks.com
Adventure Ink, Milan MI @adventureink.xyz We're a small-town books, comics, and gaming shop in Milan, Michigan with a focus on making the world a better place for our community.
https://linktr.ee/adventureink
Mendocino Coast Writer's Conference @mcwconf.bsky.social mcwc.org
A vibrant, inclusive literary gathering in Mendocino, California with workshops in a wide range of genres, as well as seminars, open mic events, and one-on-one consultations.
D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social.
Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️🌈
http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
Rebecca Rubenstein @rrrubenstein.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Freelance Editor & Writer | Fiction Editor at The Offing | EIC at Midnight Breakfast | Tin House Summer Workshop '20 & '23 | she/her | Scrabble + coffee + cross-stitch
Work with me! - https://rebeccarubenstein.com/editing-services
@ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social Author: IN THIS RAVISHING WORLD, AFTERWORD, THE TRANSLATOR, THE PAINTING; HOW TO WRITE STUNNING SENTENCES; Lover of lemons, dogs, snails.
Instructor: Stanford Continuing Studies
website: ninaschuyler.com
Stunning Sentences: ninaschuyler.substack.com
Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social What Do People Do at the Science Museum (illus Qin Leng, 8.26)
Bathtime for Snow Monkeys (illus Yas Imamura,10.26)
Profile pic by Yas Imamura
Prettyokmaggie.com
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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Jasmine Guillory @thebestjasmine.bsky.social Writer, Oakland.
Vanessa Hua @vanessahua.bsky.social COYOTELAND | FORBIDDEN CITY | A RIVER OF STARS| DECEIT AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES| Rona Jaffe| Bylines @sfchronicle @nytimes & elsewhere | NEAarts Fellow | forthcoming UPROOTED
ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social Award-winning, indie lit journal—made in San Francisco since 1985. Our Issue 132 is now available. Subscribe: zyzzyva.org/subscribe/
Transit Books @transitbooks.bsky.social Publishing award-winning literature from around the world in the San Francisco Bay Area.
www.transitbooks.org
CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social Poet. Editor in chief at Two Lines Press.
Tracy Clark-Flory @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social Journalist. Essayist. Author of MY MOTHER’S DAUGHTER: FINDING MYSELF IN MY FAMILY’S FRACTURED PAST (May 5, 3026) and WANT ME. 📕 Preorder my book: https://bit.ly/MyMothersDaughter
manjula martin @manjula.bsky.social writer/rocker/Luddite
🌸🔥🌲🌊
https://www.manjulamartin.com/
John McMurtrie @johnmcmurtrie.bsky.social Nonfiction editor, Kirkus Reviews.
Alexis Madrigal @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social Book: The Pacific Circuit
Job: Co-Host, KQED Forum
Life: Local Economy, Oakland Garden Club
Lauren Markham @laurenmarkham.bsky.social Writer - A MAP OF FUTURE RUINS (2024) - THE FAR AWAY BROTHERS (2017) - IMMEMORIAL (forthcoming February 2025) Other work in NY Times Magazine, Harper’s, The Guardian, Mother Jones, VQR & elsewhere
The Booksmith @booksmith.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood independent booksellers. Haight Street, San Francisco. Est. 1976.
11AM - 7PM daily. Find the good stuff at booksmith.com
Anita Felicelli @anitafelicelli.bsky.social author of the short story collection HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS and other works of fiction. books editor at Alta Journal, critic, essayer.
Emma Silvers @emmaruthless.bsky.social Writer, editor, cofounder @coyotemedia.org. Erstwhile culture editor @ KQED, SF Chronicle, various beloved & defunct alt-weeklies
emmasilvers.com
Oscar Villalon @ovillalon.bsky.social Editor, ZYZZYVA (zyzzyva.org); contributing editor, Lit Hub; publications: Freeman's, The Believer, VQR, Lit Hub, Stranger's Guide, Alta, and other places. San Francisco is my home.
Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social Author of NBCC finalist HOME BAKED: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco. Nonfiction ghost story forthcoming with Avid Reader (Simon & Schuster). Freelance editor based in Portugal.
colin drohan @colindrohan.bsky.social my daughter says hello (she is a pug named Martha)
Alejandro Lazo @gauchoesque.bsky.social 🌞 en un barco de papel yo volvere
kate folk @katefolk.bsky.social Author of OUT THERE and SKY DADDY
Meg Wade @hornyforsecrets.bsky.social Author of Slick Like Dark (TupeloPress) • National Poetry Series finalist • Natural Burial Grief Doula 🌿🕯
Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB.
www.heydaybooks.com
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
https://bit.ly/MDShomepage
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
@caillemillner.bsky.social @caillemillner.bsky.social Walker and writer. https://cailles-newsletter.beehiiv.com/subscribe
Porter Shreve @portershreve.bsky.social Novelist at HarperCollins and LSU Press; articles and book reviews in NYT, WaPo, SFChron, ChiTrib; Director of Creative Writing at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Brendan McHugh @brendanpmchugh.bsky.social Extremely louder and incredibly gay. Writer/public historian/bookseller. 🦻 🐻 . San Francisco
www.brendanpmchugh.com
Claire Oleson @claireoleson.bsky.social Queer writer | Assistant Editor @kenyonreview.bsky.social | Fiction Fellow at The Center for Fiction | Lit Rep: Eloy Bleifuss Prados at Neon Literary
Colette Arrand @colettearrand.bsky.social An enigmatic warrior who marches to the beat of her own drum.
Kar Johnson @karjohnson.bsky.social They/them. Writer. Bookseller. Events for Green Apple Books in SF. Oakland-based.
Do no harm, take no shit.
Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social ALL-NIGHT PHARMACY, a national bestseller & california book award winner | ✍️ The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Cut, etc | HIV & primary care pharmacist
https://linktr.ee/ruthmadievsky
richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com Author of THE LONG HALLWAY, a gay memoir about death | New York Foundation for the Arts and MacDowell Fellow in Nonfiction | National Book Critics Circle Member | 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
http://richardscottlarson.com
Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social author of SOON YOU’LL BE JUST LIKE US (creature publishing 2027) + debut UPCOUNTRY (unnamed press 2023) IG: @scribblepost. words in electric lit, lit hub, the georgia review, etc. rep: pamela malpas/jennifer lyons literary
https://linktr.ee/chinsunlee
Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social Author of THE MAN WHO COULD MOVE CLOUDS & FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE @doubledaybooks. Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Finalist. Descended from shamans and ghost whisperers
Esmé Weijun Wang @esmewang.com 📚The Collected Schizophrenias, The Border of Paradise
🏆 Best of Young American Novelists, Whiting Award, NYT Bestseller
🎓 Writing classes @ unexpectedshapeacademy.com
🇹🇼🌈♿️ she/her
🌱My interesting website @ esmewang.com
Megan Kamalei Kakimoto @megankkakimoto.bsky.social author of EVERY DROP IS A MAN'S NIGHTMARE, from Bloomsbury | Michener Center Fellow | Japanese & Kanaka Maoli writer, reader, pastry enthusiast
R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • co-edited Kink • Lambda Literary Prize
www.ro-kwon.com