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Rachel Handley 🏳️🌈 @rachelahandley.com Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.
SFF Author. Poet. 🦉
Possible Worlds and Other Stories (2022)
They/Them.
rachelahandley.com
Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social Fictive Dream, the online #litmag dedicated to the #shortstory including #translations. Please send your submissions to fictivedream@gmail.com. Website https://fictivedream.com/
Maya Gottfried @mayabidaya.bsky.social Author of books for children and grownups. Essays in Oprah Daily, STAT, Oldster. Articles in Lilith, Los Angeles Magazine. Half-Jewish / Full vegan
Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social I👻IWriter. Book maven. Unlikable female protagonist. Aspiring time traveler. Words @electriclit, @crimereads, @Kveller, @mental_floss, etc. @litmaven on Threads.
Jenna Devany Waters @devanywaters.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Wanderer.
Master list-maker; minor revolutionary.
Words in Orion, Terrain, Alaska Quarterly Review, Under the Sun, and more. Memoir in progress.
She/Her 🏳️🌈
Mindy Haskins Rogers @mhaskinsrogers.bsky.social Writer, English teacher
stefanie lejeunesse @lejeunesse.bsky.social having metastatic breast cancer is my most expensive hobby but I also like ballet and beekeeping • podcaster and author • "smug twat" - craigslist Rants & Raves 
Elissa Altman @elissaaltman.bsky.social Author of Permission (3/25), Motherland, Poor Man’s Feast, Treyf, many essays. Author, teacher, editor, musician. Ever hopeful. 🕊️🏳️🌈🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦🇪🇺
Poormansfeast.substack.com
@nancymccabe.bsky.social @nancymccabe.bsky.social Author of nine books of Cnf and adult, ya, and middle grade fiction
Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social Deep Woods of Philly | Sometimes Writer | Spoonie Crew | Accidental Startupper | Words in New Letters, Wild Roof Journal, etc.| NO DMs
https://linktr.ee/lisadellaporta
Caroline Wampole @carolinewampole.bsky.social Writer, artist, cofounder/singer/bass player for 90s rock band Big Soul. Working on a memoir about music, men, my mother, and how art can lead you to a true home. https://carolinewampole.com/
Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social Moss. Poems. Probably talking to your child about life and death.
https://www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/aurora-comes-online-haley-boss
Heather McLeod @heathermcleod.bsky.social MFA in poetry, Romana’s Pilates instructor, mom of teens and pets, worked in publishing and bookselling long ago, lover of plants and music and libraries and parks, in central Austin with my family
NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social NAWP is for writers who, for whatever reason, can't go to AWP. AWP attendees are welcome too, of course. NAWP is for everyone. NAWP loves you. Co-founded by @readinstead.bsky.social & @mitchnobis.bsky.social.
Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social I want to do everything all the time
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Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social The place for writers
Silvia Moreno-Garcia @silviamg.bsky.social Writer. THE BEWITCHING (2025), SEVENTH VEIL OF SALOME, MEXICAN GOTHIC, and others books. https://silviamoreno-garcia.com/
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
Gabor Csigas @whoisnot.bsky.social writer (free to read short stories at https://medium.com/@gaborcsigas ) / sometime cover designer / ttrpg gm
Stephanie Weaver, MPH @sweavermph.bsky.social TED-style coach • book on estrangement coming April '26 • 2 migraine lifestyle guides out now
Phosphor Emery Alethes @phosphoralethes.bsky.social Trans, queer, AuDHD, chronically ill, & disabled memoirist/essayist, classical singer, & Shakespearean actor. Parent to 1 human & 1 dog. I write about identity, trauma, shame, & perception. Working on a memoir/essay/abandoned novels hybrid. | She/Her
Genrepunk Magazine @genrepunkmag.bsky.social Literary magazine for weird little experiments. 🏳️🌈 ♿️ 🇵🇸 🤘🏻
Run by Audrey T. Carroll (https://bsky.app/profile/audreytcarroll.bsky.social).
Genrepunkmag.wordpress.com
Submissions will be closed starting April 1st.
Wendy Fontaine @wendyfontaine.bsky.social Writer, reader, mom to a full-grown human. Flash CNF editor at Hippocampus Magazine. Work in Short Reads, Under the Sun, Streetlight Mag, Longridge Review and more.
Boston Celtics forever. 🍀
V. G. Anderson, MFA @vandersonauthor.bsky.social Best-Smelling (sic) Author, Editor @nightowlfreelance.bsky.social, Artist, Activist, Zany Wife, Dog Mom 🐾 Pinball, Pool & Pastries. 💜 Stand with #Ukraine #ResistTyrany
Website: vganderson.com
Jeanine Pfeiffer @jeaninepfeiffer.bsky.social Ethnoecologist; Essayist; Poet
www.jeaninepfeiffer.com
Agatha Grimke ✒️📚🏺🫏🟦🐈⬛️🦆🌹 @agathagrimke.bsky.social Someone positively pleased with the wonders and mysteries of the universe, a good book, cats, and hot cocoa. #WritingCommunity
She/her
Very pleased to have a story included in:
https://www.amazon.com/Howlin-You-Werewolf-Charity-Anthology/dp/B0DCK7ZHY3
Julieanna Blackwell @julieannablackwell.bsky.social Stories in Stonecoast Review, MoonPark Review, Lunch Ticket
Flash Fiction Editor 805lit
WordSmitten Workshop Director
Elements & Arcs Classes Instructor
More Stuff at www.julieannablackwell.com
Kristine Kopperud @kristine-kopperud.bsky.social Flash nonfiction and narrative medicine evangelist. Content creative and nonprofit admin by day. Memoir in progress about local-food fraud. Cat mom and career band geek.
Graham Oliver @grahammoliver.bsky.social Teacher Writer Editor in Taipei, Taiwan 台灣台北市. Currently at NTU/AWEC 台大/寫作教學中心.
For Mandarin posts - 中文貼文：@oumoran.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/grahamiam
megpokrass.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social Dzanc Books Author. Best Microfiction Series Founder. Electric Lit, Flash Fiction America (Norton) Best Small Fictions 2023. Scotland
Angela Robson @angelarobson.bsky.social Writer, journalist, university lecturer, soap maker.
Laura Rink @laurarink.bsky.social Writer. WIP: piecing together the story of how my grandmother and her two sisters survived the Armenian Genocide. Rainier Writing Workshop ‘21. Website/Blog: LauraRink.com. PNW forest dweller. She/her.
Tricia Vita @triciavita.bsky.social Writer, oral historian, reminiscence facilitator, teaching artist. Former carny kid. Coney Island, carnivals, fairs, amusement business. It's the front of the show that gets the dough! Authors Guild member.
https://linktr.ee/triciavita
Andrea Hoag @andreahoag.bsky.social Champagne Socialist | Book Critic | Writer | Traveler
She/Her
Lawrence Kansas 🌻
Charlotte Cosgrove @charlottecosgrove.bsky.social Poet / Lecturer / Socialist / Wellbeing / Editor of Rough Diamond poetry journal
love writing, reading, cats, learning, and sitting down.
Linda Wolff @carpoolgoddess.bsky.social Mom, writer, purveyor of unsolicited advice. No longer driving carpool, still driving my kids crazy. Words in: Boston Globe, LATimes, Washing Post, Cosmo, Good Housekeeping, AARP, McSweeney's and more. Carpoolgoddess.com
DonJonVonavich @modonjon.bsky.social Artist, Last of the Bohemians, and Loyal Subject to Our Fair Lady Chelsea. Author of the Pseudo-Canonical Epic Novel, The King of MO! An Autobiography of a Dream.
#ChelseaHotel #DonJon #booksky
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/dreamsofdonjon
Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social Writer w FOMO. CLOSER (Regal House). SURVIVAL TIPS: STORIES (Propeller). THE LOCAL NEWS (Spiegel & Grau). www.miriamgershow.com
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Spearheaded #100smallpress:
https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/
Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social poet & teacher. author of DEAR MEMPHIS (River River Books, 2024). living in seattle. learning yiddish. rachelsedelman.com.
Kimberly Wolf @kimberlywolf.bsky.social Southern poet. Author of How the Frogs Gets Married (Bullshit Lit, July 2023).
www.kimberlywolfpoet.com
freecialis @freecialis.bsky.social Artist, dog-lover, and avid reader
Grayson Morley @graysonmorley.com Writer • Winner, PEN/Dau • Work in The New York Times, Polygon, Catapult, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere • Opinions my own
Blog: onemorerun.blog
The Missing Link @themissinglink97.bsky.social Hi, I’m an ND sci fi/fantasy writer working on my debut novel
I like to talk about books, games, history, and whatever’s interesting at the moment.
Also I’m learning Japanese, so これを読めばこんにちはを言ってくれませんか
Kerry Neville @kerryneville.bsky.social Books Essays Palaver 📚 Momma May Be Mad (forthcoming 2025), Necessary Lies, & Remember To Forget Me. PhD
@Fulbright_Eire 🌊 NYer↪️GA but ❤️ ↪️ Luimneach🇮🇪
Madeleine Butler @madbutler.bsky.social Co-Active coach, playwright.
Elrond Hubbard @elrondhubbard.bsky.social I do tabletop rpg stuff and teach upper elementary.
Kate Wise @katewise.bsky.social possible poet.
Lucky enough to be published by
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social @theemmapress.bsky.social @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social @finishedpoetry.bsky.social etc
Michele Hutchison @michehut.bsky.social Translator, editor, writer, poet
rio! ☄️ @rioaleksandro.bsky.social rio ✦ aspiring fantasy author ✦ literature student ✦ no she prns ✦ 22 ✦ slav-american
Deb Fenwick @debfenwrites.bsky.social Best American Essays Notable and Pushcart nominated CNF writer, educator, and beauty hunter. Work in Hippocampus, Pithead Chapel, In Short, and more.
Sands @revsodhi.bsky.social Wander soul | Spiritual l Poet l
Interested in #poetry || #books #vss #WritingCommunity | #art #photography
Masters of Science follow #space #tech & #AI ||
love sports #tennis #golf riding #motorcycles
Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social Published by Blackbough Poetry, The Storms Journal, FolkHeart Press. Featured writer in Patricia's Pen, and on A Thousand Shades Of Green podcast and a regular guest reader on Eat The Storms podcast. Best of The Net nominated.
Claire Everett @alifeofshortlives.bsky.social From poems to chapters, one short life at a time. Award winning haiku and tanka poet. Winner of 2023 Touchstone Award for haibun. Lover of small, wild places and the other-than-human world. A Shropshire lass now settled in North Yorkshire.
Michele Christle @michelechristle.bsky.social writer in "Maine" / Wabanakik | featuring: big hair, rabbit holes, and eels
https://michelechristle.com/
https://hells-bells.ghost.io/
https://elversphere.net/
Lisa Kanarek @lisakanarek.bsky.social Bylines: NY Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Independent, WIRED, and Newsweek. End-of-Life doula and therapy animal team with @therapydoggaia
Liz Brownlee @lizpoet.bsky.social I'm a children's poet, I love writing animal and shape poems, and the children's poetry world! National Poetry Day Ambassador. Dog Owner. Book reader. Coffee drinker. Friend. Between Bristol and Bath.
Sally Chaffin Brooks @thesallybrooks.bsky.social Author (memoir Going to Maine: All the Ways to Fall on the Appalachian Trail https://a.co/d/4F70waz ) comedian (albums Street Bird & Brooks Was Here), podcaster (The Ridiculist). Here to party. sallychaffinbrooks.com
Emily Wortman-Wunder @wortmanwunder.bsky.social Reader, writer, dreamer. I listen for owls in the night and peer too closely at bees. NOT A THING TO COMFORT YOU (Univ of Iowa Press 2019)
Brian Benitez @b-double.bsky.social Husband, Father, Product Management Exec, and Tech Enthusiast
AuthorGloriaK @authorgloriakitchens.substack.com I play games occasionally🌸
I also write sci-fi/fantasy novels🗿
Check out some of my short stories!!
gloriakitchens.com
Follow me on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pinkgamer__
Follow me on Fable: https://fable.co/fabler/gloria-kitchens-468041355722
Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social Lifewriting Podcast - Exec Producer #HorrorNoire: A History of Black Horror, Writer: Twilight Zone. UCLA Lecturer. Vanity Fair. Author: American Book Award #BLM #blacksky She/Her - https://linktr.ee/tananarivedue
Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social USA Today bestselling horror noveler (MARY; NESTLINGS; REST STOP; WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME). TV actor. Musician. Out now: I KNOW A PLACE, May 5, 2026, Shortwave Books. (he/him)
Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social Michigan writer & stuff. auDHD. gender noncompliant. Fuck AI & Subst*ck.
https://aniking.net
— Family Night (Mason Jar Press, 2026) https://tinyurl.com/2jtf6t63
— SmokeLong Subs Editor
— EiC: syntaxandsalt.com (closed)
Martin Patrick @drmartinpatrick.bsky.social Writer, reader, listener, dreamer
Aimee Seiff Christian @thewriteaimee.bsky.social Memoirist, essayist, adoptee, bird person, word nerd, queer Gen X grouch. Unapologetically type A. Writing instructor and editor. Disability advocate. Skating fan.⛸️
Words in The Rumpus, NYT, Atticus Review, WaPo, Poets & Writers, etc. Also on Substack!
David Cameron @cambone.bsky.social Recovering rule-follower, Big D (Democrat) energy, autism dad 🧩, #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦, #LGBTQ+ally 🏳️🌈, happy in Western NC but missing New Mexico, writing short fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction.
🚫Crypto 🚫Porn
Karen Kirsten @karenkirsten.bsky.social Author of IRENA’S GIFT, an epic WWII Memoir of Sisters, Secrets and Survival. Addictions: chocolate and cheese.
JudyKeith @judykeith.bsky.social Judy and Keith create stories. We started late in life by writing for our grandkids. The stories emphasize a moral & must pass the acid test--would we be happy if our kids read it? As they got older, we progressed to action-adventure, romance and #CR4U.
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
The Propelling Pencil @proppencil.bsky.social Short Fiction Journal | Competitions | Workshops
https://thepropellingpencil.com/
Editor in Charge: @nivenaudrey.bsky.social
Kirk Rafferty ✨is 👀✨ 📖 @handle.invalid Dad, husband, award winning author, killer of darlings (he/him)
Links: https://linktr.ee/kirkraff
Co-host of the podcast @badlitfriends.bsky.social
with @thecrumpet.bsky.social
Rep Tommy Dean at Talcott Notch
"Villain, I have done thy mother"
Linda K. Wertheimer @lindakwert.bsky.social Author of Faith Ed, Teaching about Religion in an Age of Intolerance. Independent Journalist, formerly of Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News. @medillschool alumna; @FellowsSpencer; @theopedproject #skatermom of ice dancer. I'm not the NPR Linda
Beth Kanter @beekaekae.bsky.social Writer, teacher, workshop leader.
Hand holder
Words in: X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, Unbroken, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Cease, Cows and others.
Pushcart nominee.
www.bethkanter.com
Books: No Access DC & Great Food Finds DC…
typo @waspfactory.bsky.social storyteller
Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social Writer. University Lecturer. North Cornwall Book Festival Director.
Editor & Co-founder at @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social.
Alexandra Chan Author @alexkachan.bsky.social Archaeologist (Ph.D.), artist, & award-winning author of In the Garden Behind the Moon: A Memoir of Loss, Myth, and Magic. American Book Fest’s Best Book of the Year in Multicultural Nonfiction (2024).
Susan Condon @susancondon.bsky.social Irish Writer & Poet | Winner of the Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Award | MA Creative Writing from DCU | 2024 Irish Writers Centre National Mentoring Programme
Susancondon.Wordpress.com
Caroline Catlin @caroline-catlin.bsky.social writer, photographer, grief worker.
queer & disabled. art as resistance.
Dianna G @diannag.bsky.social Writer ✒️ Reader 📖 Editor 💻
❤️ dogs 🐾 nature🌿and 🌊 salty air
Emma Timpany @emmatimpany.bsky.social Writer of fiction about loss, belonging, nature and place | Botanical Short Stories (editor) | Three Roads | Travelling in the Dark | (in)visibilities & Cornish Short Stories (co-editor) | The Lost of Syros
emmatimpany.wordpress.com
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Horizontal Views @horizontalviews.bsky.social Visual Artist and Writer | Posts from the sick bed #ME #pwME #LongCOVID #ZeroCOVID #Crip #ChronicIllness #DisabilityJustice #ContemporaryArt #ConcretePoetry #PostdigitalPoetry #PoeticWeb
n=50 @remissionbiome.bsky.social
Poetry @diktgymnasiet.bsky.social
kurt @kmilberg.bsky.social poetry, publishing, and miscellany. editorial director of The Headlight Review.
Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social Actor • Writer • Voice Actor/Voice Over • Producer • Facilitator • Model • Poet •
Fight Performer •
Rose Bruford • FRSA •
Rep: 23 Talent Management
they / them • London
https://linktr.ee/ardenfitzroy
https://app.spotlight.com/7655-7837-9839
Tom Abba @tomabba.studio Professor of Narrative Technologies. Director Digital Cultures Research Centre and Pervasive Media Studio Resident. Artist, writer and publisher. Opinions are all my own. Usually making something.
mark stephen [surname stolen] @markmwahwords.bsky.social Poet, music distro, cultural worker, abolitionist, educator. Benefitting from occupied indigenous land. Sissy vegan for spaceship Earth.
David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist.
Bylines: CBS, AXS, Yahoo, Examiner, etc.
I love #Games, #Lotr, #StarWars, and #StarTrek.
Casual #MTG #TTRPG, & #Boardgames player.
Work w/me: DavidLeavitt@gmail.com
linktr.ee/david_leavitt
Mary Buchanan @marybuchanan.bsky.social Edits Libre 🤓 MFA Fiction (LSU) 🪄 the third thing in the room 🪼 Words: 3 AM, Bending Genres, Serotonin, Trampoline, Anti-Heroin Chic, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Hobart, Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
📖 herghosts.blog
Brain pain. 🧠🥊
Dan Thompson @mrdanthompson.bsky.social Writer of fiction, creative non-fiction and stories for the media.📚🖥️📰 ✍🏻
Creative Writing Alumni University of Cambridge.
Interested in writing of all kinds including for the screen, stage, prose, poetry and VSS.
M Brown @mbrown007.bsky.social Friendly writer of thrilling SF, Fantasy, Horror. Screenwriter/Novelist. TTRPG enthusiast. Architecture/Design nut. Biography and history fiend. All around lover of art. Shouldering the burden of one massive TBR!
J.R. Bale @jrbale.bsky.social Author, Father, Professor, MBA, Photographer, Concerned Human in NJ.
I support fellow writers.
www.JRBale.com
I do not respond to DMs.
Dawn 🇨🇦 (she/her) @dawnhinze.bsky.social Canadian. Writer. Incurable idealist. Advocate for education, kindness & sanity ❤️ Love is love 💙 🏳️🌈🌈 🇺🇦
🚫MAGA🚫DM’s🚫Crypto🚫OF🚫Hate
#ElbowsUp
#ShameMustChangeSides
#DoNotObeyInAdvance
J. L. Yocum @jlyocum.com NYC Poet.
BA in English Comp/Poetry, University of North Texas. Poetry reader for 𝙌𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙒𝙚𝙨𝙩.
Poems in &/or forthcoming in 𝘼𝙡𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨, 𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚, 𝘽𝙞𝙜 𝙒𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬, $ 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙮, 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙘𝙠 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬, 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭.
jlyocum.com
masto.nyc/@jlyocum
Pamela Weintraub @pamelaweintraub.bsky.social storyteller, editor & writer. Aeon+Psyche, McClatchy Media & Tigertail Media, Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic.
Ryn @rynrichmond.bsky.social Editor, writer, poet, science communicator, former teacher. Passionate about language retention and revitalization, space, seahorses, dragonflies, disability, reproductive health. 🇺🇸 to 🇳🇿. 🏳🌈. Board game geek. Fibro+endo. https://ko-fi.com/rynrwrites
Jenny Van Marter @rainbowowl.bsky.social Writer, blogger, and mom trekking the wilds of the Pacific Northwest. Check out my blog at jennywrites.co!
Sherrie Flick @sherrieflick.bsky.social Writer / Editor - I HAVE NOT CONSIDERED CONSEQUENCES: SHORT STORIES, Autumn House, 2025- HOMING - essay collection, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2024 - Co-editor FLASH FICTION AMERICA, W. W. Norton, 2023 - Sr Editor SLQ 
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
Maureen Aitken @maureenaitken.bsky.social Author of The Patron Saint of Lost Girls, winner of the Foreword Review INDIE Gold Prize, The Nilsen Prize; a Kirkus Star, and a Foreword Review Star. Stories in Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, New Letters.