Asa Drake @asaldrake.bsky.social Maybe the Body (Tin House, 2026), Beauty Talk (Noemi Press, 2026), One Way to Listen (Gold Line Press, 2023)
The Maltese Ptarmigan @malteseptarmigan.bsky.social Writer. Filmmaker. Will-oโ-the-wisp.
Professor. Poet. WGAw.
thelonghand @thelonghand.bsky.social Screenwriter. Poet. Professor.
Books: Eidolon. The Getty Fiend. Middlemost Constantine. Films: Winter in the Blood. Wed the Dark.
ali @sillygoose.bsky.social cat parent, plant person, 30ish, in the mud
Pennington's Books @penningtonsbooks.com Books, Coffee, and Art in Chattanooga's Southside.
Coming Early 2026.
Tyler Cook @tylercookbooks.bsky.social M.Ed., Ed.S. Moonshine Press publisher & author. Education professional. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Check out my website at www.tylermcook.com.
Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
Northwest Review @northwestreview.bsky.social Established in 1957, we are a literary magazine in Eugene, Oregon, publishing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
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
Catherine Campbell @catjcampbell.bsky.social Novelist. Essayist. I also run a PR/brand storytelling studio.
Work in: NYT, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, The Millions, McSweeneyโs, etc. www.catherinejcampbell.com
Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee โ23 (Scottish Book Trust). www.medhawrites.com
Matthew Hubbard @matthewhubbard.bsky.social I write books and have moved on to a better social media platform, linked below.
www.matthewhubbardwrites.com
Paul Luikart (he/his/him) @paulluikart.bsky.social Writer, reader, joker.
@paulluikart.substack.com
Conyer Clayton @conyerclayton.bsky.social Writer, Poet, and Editor from Louisville, KY in Canada | the lake-shaped excuse, Oct 2026 @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social | 2025 MacDowell Fellow | conyerclayton.com | they/them
tennessippi @tennessippi.bsky.social Southerner living in Bohemia.
culture | music | photography | food | travel
Kimberly Gibson-Tran @kdawn999.bsky.social Reader, poet, essayist, reviewer, cat person, Trekkie, เนเธเธข speaker, book clubber, linguist, Texan/Floridian, missionary kid, she/they
https://kimberlygibsontran.wordpress.com
https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/kimberly_gibsontran
Andres Rojas. @okaporia.bsky.social You know, poetry. EAT Poems, Paper Nautilus, Trio House Press. @ AGNI, Barrow St, Colorado R, Diode, Massachussets R , New England R, Poetry NW.
Jeremy Michael Reed @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social writer, editor, professor | creative writing, 20/21C US lit & cultural studies | edits @swiftslitmag.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/jeremymichaelreed
Toby LeBlanc Author @tobyleblancauthor.bsky.social Spicy Cajun. I talk to trees. The book, the vinyl, and the original recipe are better.
Dark Roux (Unsolicited Press, 2022)
Soaked: Stories (Cornerstone Press, 2025)
Shorter stuff in places like Barrelhouse Magazine.
www.tobyleblancauthor.com
@bugsandplants.bsky.social @bugsandplants.bsky.social 
Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social Poet. 5 books, University of Akron Press. Memoiring. Translating. Gardening. Educator. Trans Nonbinary. OCD/hEDS/Long COVID. Views mine. They (Eng.)/Elle (Esp.)
Elizabeth @elizaend.bsky.social Prison policy advocate
Reality dating show dictionary
Evangelical church menace
Mom
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Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social โOrlando's Reigning Big Time Celebrity Authorโ - The Orlando Weekly
huuuuge lesbian. librarian. dad. floridian. beer drinker. NYT Bestselling author.
Mostly Dead Things & WITH TEETH & STOP ME IF YOUโVE HEARD THIS ONE
https://www.kristenarnettwriter.com
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
AGirlHasNoPresident @agirlhasnopres.bsky.social 
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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I โฅ๏ธ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; author of HAPPY PEOPLE DONโT LIVE HERE; repโd by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey
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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. 
Emma Miller ๐๐๐ @emmadmiller.bsky.social Canadian Author & Creator of "The Doonies" children's book series! ๐๐ https://thedoonies.ca
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Amy Newlove Schroeder, PhD @amiableamy.bsky.social Writer, poet, college prof, democracy fan, cat mom, compulsive reader, feminist. Bi ๐ ๐ RESISTER ๐ ๐ฆ ๐ My poetry collection, The Sleep Hotel, is available from Oberlin. I teach engineers to think about words. ๐๐๐
Jake @jakecollum.bsky.social 
Derrick Austin @paradiselaust.bsky.social Author: THIS ELEGANCE, TENDERNESS, and TROUBLE THE WATER (BOA Editions) | Art Writer | He/Him
๐Chicago
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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
Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social Writer/Founder of the Athens Writers' Collective/No Fun at All. he/him
Iowa MFA, Houston PhD. Words in Barrelhouse, Zone 3, Hobart, Sequestrum, etc.
Athens, Georgia, USA
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
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
ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social ๐ Fall in love with poetry again
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Jackie Domenus @jackiedwrites.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ NO OFFENSE: A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS out now! Words in Huff Post, The Normal School, Foglifter, and more. Tin House โ21. They/she.๐NJ.
Ryan Vine @ryanvine.bsky.social poet | prof | deep north | books: The Cave (Best Poetry Books of 2025, California Review of Books), To Keep Him Hidden (Northeastern Minnesota Book Award), WARD & Distant Engines (Weldon Kees Award) | poems: APR, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, NPR ...
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.
https://andrewhemmertpoetry.com
Spencer (nervous) @splopenn.bsky.social confirmed technical writer โข alleged creative writer โข adjunct โข editor โข acquirer of hobbies and hobby accessories โข views represent those of your employer โข yet still i err
Author M. I. Verras @miverr.bsky.social Renowned author, singer, pianist, music composer.
If not me, then no one else. Soon, you will know my name.
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Peter Jordan PhD @pjordan-writer.bsky.social
BBC Radio 4 & BBC Radio Ulster.
Rebecca Gummere @rgummere.bsky.social "An agnostic ex-pastor on the hunt for God in a small RV with two big dogs. What could go wrong?" Memoir, essays. Words in HuffPost, TIME, Oprah Daily, Daily Beast, NYT, Boston Globe. NC
Mystery, Memoir, and Meaning @ https://rebeccagummere.substack.com
David Cazden @dcazdn.bsky.social New Poetry Book: DM for signed copies--
https://www.davidcazden.net/books/
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New Republic, Passages North, Rattle, McNeese Review, etc. Former poetry editor, Miller's Pond.
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
Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social Award-winning author. ๐Kentucky
HAZELGREEN & OTHER HAUNTS is forthcoming in โ27 from WVU Press;
PINEVILLE TRACE (Etchings Press)
๐ cats, trees, music | wesblake.com
Dean Jobb - True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social Strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre, contemplating a crime.
A Gentleman and a Thief โข The Case of the Murderous Dr Cream โข Empire of Deception (Algonquin Books/HarperCollins Canada)
Website: www.deanjobb.com
Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/y935u82h
Sarah Holloway @sarahholloway.bsky.social Writer. Work in or forthcoming: SmokeLong Quarterly,'s blog, Roi Fainรฉant, Cowboy Jamboree, Necessary Fiction, Heavy Feather Review and elsewhere. Grandmother. Musician. She/her.
Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social Poet | Translator | Researcher | Bessettienne. Loving Tallulah Bankhead (Paris Heretics 2022). Quarantine Daybook (Bottlecap 2021). PhD at CY Cergy Paris Universitรฉ. She/her.
IG: @chapp010- C Carol Parchewsky @carolannparchewsky.bsky.social Writer, Instructor. Words in Stanchion, Flash Boulevard, On the Run, Drunk Monkeys, Burningword Literary.
www.carolannparchewsky.com
Nikola Yurtsaba (Nicole Yurcaba) @nyurtsaba.bsky.social #poet #professor #bookreviewer #Hutsul #Lemko ะกะปะฐะฒะฐ ะฃะบัะฐัะฝั! ะัะต ะฑัะดะต ะฃะบัะฐัะฝะฐ! 
Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social Loyola gradโs 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
Ed Southern @edsouthern.bsky.social Chief writer-connector at NC Writersโ Network, author of FIGHT SONGS & more, not as grumpy as I look.
Mandianne @mandianne.bsky.social MFA student, poet, tarot reader, mostly introverted, book lover
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
Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social Poet, essayist. Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (UNP, 2027), Larks (OUP, 2025), What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021).
Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social
Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC.
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Hub City Press @hubcitypress.bsky.social Nonprofit press publishing new and extraordinary voices from the American South. Learn more at hubcity.org/publishing. Shop our catalog at hubcity.org/books.
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
Chuck Corra @chuckcorra.bsky.social WV-native | Former Tennessean | Current Florida Man
Salvation South @salvationsouth.com Stories that shift the Southern narrative at https://salvationsouth.com. Salvation South Deluxe podcast on the NPR Network โ https://www.npr.org/podcasts/1124772160/salvation-south โ or your fave podcast platform.
More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social Nonprofit newsroom. Media that builds power for working people.
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Haley Swanson @haleyswanson.bsky.social writer and co-editor of SEX AND THE SINGLE WOMAN (Harper Perennial). She/hers.
haleyswanson.com
SoLit @so-lit.bsky.social Nonprofit literary organization encouraging a life-long love of reading, writing, and community conversation.
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Kendra Winchester @kdwinchester.bsky.social Contributing Editor Book Riot | Founder @readappalachia.bsky.social | Cofounder @littlebirdslit.bsky.social | she/her
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social Yelling the truth about Tennessee. 
Rep. Justin Jones @brotherjones.bsky.social State Representative for District 52. Community Organizer. HBCU grad. On the journey, searching for higher ground. Carrying my ancestors' prayers.
The Bitter Southerner @bittersouth.bsky.social Indie media co, 2 print magazines, books, record label, podcast, tees, flags, ASME ๐ 2026 (General Excellence Literature Science & Politics), 9 James Beard Awards #BetterAmerica #BetterWorld โ please subscribe
Appodlachia @appodlachia.com John Brown is a hero / Unions are good / Accents are sexy / redneck is a term of endearment https://lnk.bio/appodlachia
Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social A high humidity journal of poetry / Queer, fluid, trans affirming / currently publishing 3x a week / Home to the #FullMoonHaikuContest / ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ https://moistpoetryjournal.com/ EIC: Han VanderHart.
Southern Review of Books @southrevbooks.bsky.social Exploring contemporary literature of the American South & beyond. Published by Queens University of Charlotte MFA. Editor-in-chief @crisley.bsky.social, founding editor Adam Morgan. linktr.ee/southrevbooks
micah {they|them} @itmemicah.bsky.social i cant swim i cant dance and i dont know karate. i like d&d audrey hepburn fangoria harry houdini and croquet. face it im never gonna go viral