Matt Knutson 🏜 @mattknuts.bsky.social Writer. Work in Bat City Review, Cola Literary Review, Iron Horse Literary Review & others
mattknutson.net
Caitlin O'Halloran @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social She/Her. Writer in Rochester, NY.
Coeditor of Gone Lawn.
www.caitlinohalloran.com
Driftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social Est. 2013. Driftwood Press is a press and annual journal devoted to finding the best in fiction, poetry, comics, and experimental forms.
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Matt McMullen @kcchiefsmatt.bsky.social Senior Team Reporter for the Kansas City Chiefs
Chiefs Insider+ @chiefs247365.bsky.social I never reveal sources because my brother in law Brett Veach said not to. Aspiring humorist & hard-core Chiefs optimist. Fro-yo savant. I love my family.
Brad Henson Productions @bradhensonpro.bsky.social #ChiefsKingdom 🏆🏆🏆🏆 | Video Editor | #Royals #KUbball
My YouTube Channel to Subscribe: youtube.com/bradhensonproductions
Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social New York-based publisher of contemporary poetry and prose. Founded in 2004, CLMP member. Home to annual contests, open reading periods, and the Immigrant Writing Series. We offer manuscript consultations, free monthly writing workshops, and more.
Josh Dale @joshdale.co Writing, publishing, cats, nature, metal.
Read good books by Thirty West.
Order RAGE:
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Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social Queer writer l #FlashFiction l Smokelong Fellow 2026 l Contrib ed @nffr.bsky.social
Pushcart, BSF, BMF & Monarch noms
Read my stories:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17zj1W2pXZsP1aZZ3vR4vbV4Cra9eZ15F6lwU5lc2tKA/edit?usp=sharing
Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social dc via apollo, pa | she/her | words @ Best Microfiction, Bending Genres, Lost Balloon, Milk Candy Review, Flash Fiction Online, Cold Signal, hex literary & more | http://www.laurenkardos.co/
Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social Philly writer. Debut chapbook “Ghost in the Rain: Stories,” Bottlecap Press, 2026.
https://bottlecap.press/products/ghosmj
Stories in Best Microfiction, Identity Theory, DIHP, Claudine, Some Words, Flight, FlashFlood, BULL.
www.mattjakubowski.com
Ian Rapoport @rapsheet.bsky.social National Insider for ESPN and NFL Network and www.nfl.com. Made seven cameos in the movie Draft Day.
Inquiries: shahob@william-raymond.com
https://link.me/rapsheet
Entertainment Weekly: Entertainment News for Pop Culture Fans @ew.com.web.brid.gy Get your daily dose of the latest TV, movie, music, and book news from Entertainment Weekly, your go-to source for all things entertainment.
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DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net Your leading source for quick reliable news and one of a kind content. Home for healthy and liberating discussion on all things pop culture.
O F Cieri @ossuary.bsky.social It's pronounced like 'ossuary'. Neodecadentata pulp novelist + flame shirt revitalist
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d h @deeholloway.bsky.social Library worker & writer. Floridian in upstate NY. Codex. Work in Ancillary Review, Bloodletter, Malarkey & more. HAUNT / OLOGY out now from Bottlecap. THE MERMAID'S PURSE forthcoming from NineStar.
find all the details here: deeholloway.carrd.co
Anika Carpenter @stillsquirrel.bsky.social #Flashfiction writer and #collage artist. Stories in Gooseberry Pie, Fictive Dream, Gone Lawn, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story & others. Based in Brighton, UK
www.anikacarpenter.com
Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social Words in BULL, FlashFlood, Does It Have Pockets, Frazzled Lit, Trash Cat Lit, Urban Pigs Press, Fictive Dream. Genrepunk Awards nominee. Shortlisted for the 2026 Bath Novella-in-Flash Award. She/her. @lmbayley at the other place.
Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social Reader; tea adept; New Orleanian🖤⚜️ writer: LETTING IN AIR & LIGHT https://bellepointpress.com/products/letting-in-air-and-light; SECRET KEEPERS https://bellepointpress.com/products/secret-keepers Find the homes of my other words at https://teresabrader.com
Major 7th Magazine @major7mag.bsky.social Your literary mixtape. EIC @keersteemack.bsky.social
Justin Hamm @mdwstscribbler.bsky.social Missouri Poet Laureate. Midwest is my forever home. Editor @ museum of americana. Creator of Poet Baseball Cards. Author, most recently, of O DEATH (Spartan Press 2024).
Arielle Arbushites (writingthewayhome) @writingthewayhome.bsky.social Arielle is a licensed social worker who has been a writer all her life. Published poet. Arielle lives in PA where she balances motherhood, hospice work, & poetry as a means of understanding what it is to be alive.
https://linktr.ee/ariellearbs
Hayley Shucker @hayleyshucker.bsky.social Writer of short stories, flash, screenplays. Lover of musical theater, baking, and cats. Pub in Door is a Jar, Los Angeles Review, Reed Magazine etc hayleyshucker.com https://hayleyshucker.substack.com/
MFA Sarah Lawrence 2025
MA English CSULB 2016
Melissa Ragsly @melissaragsly.bsky.social Writer of flash, short stories, novels and screenplays
Winner, Best Screenplay at Bitchfest
Lover of pop girlies
Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social 
Kelli Dianne Rule @kdiannerule.bsky.social I'm an art school dropout from the 1990s. I write about Florida. It is a weird and cursed land.
www.kellirule.com
www.instagram.com/kdiannerule
Brian Evenson @brianevenson.bsky.social Short story writer, novelist, television writer. Married to the excellent Kristen Tracy.
Sweet Trash Press @sweettrashpress.bsky.social This dumpster is lit.
An imprint of House of Vlad Press founded by Jillian Luft.
www.houseofvladpress.com
Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social work in X-R-A-Y, 3:AM, Granta, n+1, forthcoming in Iowa Review // website jamestaddadcox.com, editor @alwayscrashing.bsky.social // ENNIE award winner, apparently? https://store.possibleworldsgames.com/product/tacklebox
Andrew Careaga (writer) @andrewcareaga.bsky.social Writer of fiction and creative (?) nonfiction. Pocho. Half-assed guitarist. Retired #highered marketing/PR guy (Missouri S&T). Writing about writing and my WIPs at andrewcareaga.com. No DMs. #writingcommunity
Avee Chaudhuri @indigojackal.bsky.social Editor Prairie Schooner. Lecturer University of Nebraska-Lincoln. President-for-Life of The Holmes Lake Fishing Association. 
Kristin Houlihan, Writer @kristinwrites.bsky.social Poet, Wife, Mom, LongCovid/MECFS. Looking to connect and learning to advocate. EIC, Poetry @epistemiclit.Bsky.social, @nimblewitlit.bsky.social. Micropoetry chapbook Lift the Mask available widely. www.kristinhoulihan.com
Chris Dolan @mcdolan.bsky.social I am angry about the nitrate levels in Iowa’s drinking water. My writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Maudlin House, The Disappointed Housewife, and others. www.dolanchris.com
Katherine Argent @katherineargent.com Kansas City-based writer and woman of a certain rage. Reading submissions for @fracturedlit.bsky.social & The Master’s Review. Petting all the dogs.
Also at the bad place: https://x.com/effthealgorithm
Rick Claypool @rickclaypool.bsky.social writing weird sad stories, foraging wild fungi, researching terrible things corporations do
Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social Author of 6 books, newest is ASKEW. I am the EIC of Bending Genres, LLC. Work in Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2019. Norton's Exceptionally Short Fictions 2018. www.robert-vaughan.com. www.bendinggenres.com 
Troy James Weaver @troyjamesweaver.bsky.social Writer. Kansas.
@laurenlavin.bsky.social @laurenlavin.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/laurenlavin
Emma McCoy @poetrybyemma.bsky.social author THIS VOICE HAS AN ECHO (2024)
poetry reader @ Chestnut Review
doing it for the plot
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
Lauren Theresa @imlaurentheresa.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Artist. Mom. Therapist. Mostly Human.
Claire Hopple @clairehopple.bsky.social Author of six lil books. Fiction editor at XRAY. Stories in Wigleaf, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Forever Mag, HAD, etc. clairehopple.com
Joshua Chaplinsky @jchaplinsky.bsky.social Author of 'Letters to the Purple Satin Killer', 'The Paradox Twins' & 'Kanye West—Reanimator.' LitReactor Managing Editor (2011-2023).
https://linktr.ee/joshuachaplinsky
David Estringel @davidestringel.bsky.social Writer+EIC @The Argyle @Blood+Honey🖊The Opiate, Punk Noir, The Gorko Gazette, BULL, Mythic Picnic, Citywide Lunch, Street Cake, Cowboy Jamboree, Fevers of the Mind, Apocalypse Confidential, Literary Heist, and The Daily Drunk.
www.davidestringel.com
Christina Tudor @christinaltudor.bsky.social Writer, vegan taco enthusiast, cat parent. Words in HAD, Flash Frog, Litro Magazine, Best Small Fictions 2024, and more. CALL MY BODY A CAUTIONARY TALE coming soon from Thirty West on October 23, 2026.
www.christinatudor.com
Sarah Holloway @sarahholloway.bsky.social Writer. Work in or forthcoming: SmokeLong Quarterly,'s blog, Roi Fainéant, Cowboy Jamboree, Necessary Fiction, Heavy Feather Review and elsewhere. Grandmother. Musician. She/her.
Rebecca Gransden @rgransden.bsky.social Writes sometimes. Has always lived by the sea.
Send interview pitches for X-R-A-Y to Rebecca at: rebecca@xraylitmag.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
Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social he/him
writer of stories and such
professional bookman for Rough Draft Bar & Books
contributing editor at Literary Hub
occasional guitarist and singer
https://drewsof.neocities.org/
Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social Writer. Eater of Books. Lover of Comics. Library Tech. Drummer. Burrito enthusiast. He/Him husband.
Author of TRVE CVLT, Midwestern Chrome, Help! I Can't Stop Shitting Snakes (2027).
www.michaelbettendorfwrites.com.
Jess Bowers @prettyminotaur.bsky.social Animals/TV/film/history/fiction, and any odd nook where they collide. Debut fiction HORSE SHOW 🐴 out NOW from Santa Fe Writers Project!
she/her, phd
Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social Writer | Dr. | Project Manager for Roxane Gay | Co-editor The Audacity | 🌈😷| Rep’d by Alyssa Jennette | Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com Writer. EIC of Little Thoughts Press (@littlethoughtspress.com)
clairemtaylor.com
otherthoughts.beehiiv.com
📍Baltimore
April and Back Again available now: https://www.publishinggenius.com/catalog/april-and-back-again-by-claire-taylor/
Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social Novel HEADING NORTH (Braddock Avenue Books) out now! Free newsletter: hmwendt.beehiiv.com. Words in Shenandoah, Fourway Review, Memorious, & c. Writer, educator, enthusiast. they/them
Will Klein @ketchiklein.bsky.social Writer of stories and novels. 
Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
Erin Vachon (they/them) 🍉 @erinvachon.bsky.social Senior Reviews Editor @smokelong.bsky.social | Multigenre & Chapbook Editor @splitlippress.com | Providence menace | I write weird shit. | Fuck ICE. | More of us than there are of them.
sarah 🥀 @sarahmillswrites.bsky.social sad girl from planet wonder
poet, writer, she/her
🧠 ocd / anxiety
🫶 mitski, freddie mercury, poetry, & soup
🌱 vegan, I like chickpea puffs
sarahmillswrites.com
debut poetry collection: Lit Fox Books - 2027
James Montgomery @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social Flash writer ✍️ | Latest: Crow & Cross Keys, Fictive Dream, FlashFlood, The Bulb Region, 100 Word Story, NFFD Micro Comp ‘26 | 📖 Best Small Fictions ‘25, Wigleaf Top 50 ‘25 | 💫 Welkin People’s Prize ‘25 | He/Him 🌈 www.jamesmontgomerywrites.com
Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social (re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
Nick @schorn.bsky.social Writer with work in GigaNotoSaurus and hex literary, Clarion and Tin House alum, first reader at Fusion Fragment. I love caves! they/them!
Katharine Tyndall @katharinetyndall.bsky.social (she/her)
Berlin based writer, Granta Workshop Alum, words in Strange Horizons, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Wigleaf & more.
🌿🍄🐌💖✨🏳️🌈
Rep'd: @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social
My website! tyndall.earth
Alex Carrigan @carriganak.bsky.social Poet, critic, editor. Author of "Now Let's Get Brunch" (Querencia Press, 2023) and "May All Our Pain Be Champagne" (Alien Buddha Press, 2022)
Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social Husband and father of 6 (kids, not wives...one wife). Fiction in Elegant Literature, TL;DR, Intrepidus Ink, Trampset, Eggplant Emoji, Trash Cat Lit, Bullet Points, Rat Bag Lit, Temple in a City, Stanchion. Best Small Fictions nominee. A 🦔 of Quill Hollow.
Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social
Writer/ Poet/ Educator/ Artist/
Host + Curator of @coupletseries.bsky.social in NYC since 2011
Creator of #staybrave substack
📚: Delicate Machine (Dzanc Books, 2027)
Ordinary Splendor (Etruscan Press, 2028)
https://linktr.ee/leahumansky
Laila Amado @amadolaila.bsky.social Book lover and cat worshiper, I observe people and write words for a living. She/They. Codexian. SFWA. HWA. Best Small Fictions 2022. Best Microfiction 2024.
Karen Palmer @karenpalmer.bsky.social Writer, editor, teacher, karenpalmer.com. Memoir SHE'S UNDER HERE (Algonquin Books). NEA, Best American Essays, Pushcart Prize. If I had to choose between reading and eating, I'd be dead in a week. She/her
Some Words @somewordslit.bsky.social A literary journal hosted on a message board.
Pool Party @poolpartymag.com Mag + Readings + Books. PDX-based. {READING 2.10 @grandgesturebooks} Fiction @kevinmaloney.net | Poetry @brianstephenellis.bsky.social | EIC femmeintheory.bsky.social
Ian MacClayn @ianmacclayn.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/ianmacclayn
Writer. Debut novel THE HOLLOW OF EVENING out Feb 9 2027 with Dundurn Press/Rare Machines
Dylan Pyles @dylanpyles.bsky.social Abolition now. Occasional tweets about weird music. Teacher, rocker, organizer. KCMO
Caitlin Eliza (C.E.) McKenna @ce-mckenna.bsky.social Find my essays, short stories, and an occasional novel @ cemckenna.com
Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com Independent music, books, and short stories.
Humans writing things about humans making things.
Web: https://www.turnandwork.com
Newsletter: newsletter.turnandwork.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/turnandwork
Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social Author: IN THE SIGHT; EX-MEMBERS; POLITICAL SIGN; REEL; TRANSITORY. Next up: KILL LIST (Bloomsbury Academic)
NBCC Board. Freelance writer. Coffee drinker.
https://linktr.ee/tobiascarroll
Jessica L. Walsh (she/her) @jessicawalsh.bsky.social Poet, author of Book of Gods and Grudges
Shelby Hinte @shelbyhinte.bsky.social Author of HOWLING WOMEN (2025) | Editor at Write or Die Magazine | she/her
Katherine Plumhoff @kplumhoff.bsky.social fiction @ places
elated Pushcart, BotN, BSF nominee
2025 fellow @smokelong.bsky.social
organizer @saloneurope.bsky.social
reader @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
katherineplumhoff.com
valencia, es
Chance Dibben @chancedibben.bsky.social writer, photographer, music-maker, dedicated amateur
chancedibben.com
Penny Zang @pennyzang.bsky.social English prof + writer + Tori Amos fan. Debut novel, Doll Parts, forthcoming from Sourcebooks in 2025. Substack & more: http://linktr.ee/PennyZang
Jessica Nirvana Ram @jessnirvanapoet.bsky.social 🇬🇾| she/her | poet | MFA UNCW | EARTHLY GODS (Variant Lit, 2024)
https://beacons.ai/jessicanirvanaram
Scott Mitchel May @smitchelmay.bsky.social Author living in Madison, WI: Breakneck — novel (Anxiety Press April 2023) All Burn Down — novelette (Emerge Press October 2023) Awful People — novel (Death of Print Books winter 2024)
Lauren Cassani Davis @laurencd.bsky.social writer/corvid
Fiction Editor @ The Brooklyn Review
Asst. Fiction Editor @PSmokeJournal
https://laurencassanidavis.com/
Keith Pilapil Lesmeister @keithlesmeister.bsky.social Author of the forthcoming story collection ASK ME ABOUT THE MONEY | keithlesmeister.com
Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social math teacher, writer in upper manhattan
substack: pershmail.substack.com
website with links to publications etc: michaelpershan.com
James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social Poet, journalist, novelist. Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Poetry chapbook SUDDEN SHADOWS published last fall.
Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social A literary journal presenting four pieces in each issue, a sampling of the best writing out there. EICs: @fklein907.bsky.social and @ketchiklein.bsky.social
https://flight-literary.ghost.io/
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Vanessa Anderson, MFA @nightowlfreelance.bsky.social Professional Character Therapist at ℕ𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕆ꖿ𝕝 𝔽𝕣𝕖𝕖𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 ⁀➴
Developmental Editing • Line Editing • Copyediting • Publishing Guidance 📚 ☕
Website: NightOwlFreelance.com, Est. 2010
Booktasters Authors @booktastersauthors.bsky.social Boost your book’s exposure with honest, impactful reviews on Goodreads & Amazon! 📚✨ We help authors reach more readers. DM us for review inquiries!
Website: https://author.booktasters.net/
Y2K Quarterly @y2kq.com Literary chaos in 1999 words or less.
Y2K Themed Literary Magazine
EIC: @jetgirl.art
https://y2kq.com
JWT_BookAdventures @jwtba.bsky.social Welcome to JWT_BookAdventures - I do Q&A interviews with Authors - I also do book reviews if I am interested in reading the book
Nick Wright @getnickwright.bsky.social First Things First M-F from 3:00-5:00pm ET on FS1... What’s Wright with Nick Wright on YouTube… Fledgling poker commentator & player
https://www.youtube.com/c/WhatsWrightShow
Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social NFL analyst at ESPN.
Nate Taylor @bynatetaylor.bsky.social Chiefs writer with ESPN. Sam Salary called me the Black Peter Parker. Husband to lovely Holly Taylor. Father to Hayden & Noah. UCM alumni. Home is always KC. Jesus is Lord.
Matt Miller @nfldraftscout.bsky.social ESPN NFL Draft Analyst & Insider // Draft Good Football Players™ // Media inquires — Lily.Blum@espn.com // Marketing: send2mattmiller@gmail.com
Seth Keysor @realmnchiefsfan.bsky.social The Chief in The North Substack. Only Weird Games. Former: SB Nation, The Athletic. Lawyer. Former pastor. Married way up, 5 great kids. I'm tired. Jesus saves. https://mnchiefsfan.substack.com/
Bird Law Expert @birdlawexpert.bsky.social Colorado Lawyer. Chiefs fan. Warhammer collector. Corgi dad. Co-host of It’s Always Sunny in Chiefs Kingdom podcast. WWI naval & aviation buff. Airship enthusiast. Member, #appellatetwitter He/him