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David Schmader @davidschmader.bsky.social Writer/performer/gay hothead
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Lost Balloon @lostballoon.bsky.social Lost Balloon is a literary magazine that published flash fiction, flash nonfiction, and prose poetry.
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sarah rose etter @sarahroseetter.bsky.social a little sweet, a little spicy.
wrote the book of x, ripe (scribner, july 2023)
Jonathan Cardew @cardewjcardew.bsky.social Writer. Micro maniac. Words in SmokeLong Quarterly, wigleaf, Cream City Review, Best Microfiction, and elsewhere. Author of A WORLD BEYOND CARDBOARD (ELJ Editions).
Christopher Allen @christopherallen.bsky.social Publisher and EIC of SmokeLong Quarterly. 2023 Flash Fiction Judge Bridport Prize. #BestSmallFictions #FlashFictionAmerica. Nomad. Very much a back-office guy. He/him
Claire Polders @clairepolders.bsky.social Author of 6 books and 100+ essays, stories, and book reviews. Born in the Netherlands, lived in Paris, married an American, and in love with Japan. Mindful nomad who dreams of being a rebel. She/her.
Julieanna Blackwell @julieannablackwell.bsky.social Stories in Stonecoast Review, MoonPark Review, Lunch Ticket
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Beth Kanter @beekaekae.bsky.social Writer, teacher, workshop leader.
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Pushcart nominee.
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SmokeLong, Shenandoah, Citron Review, Best MicroFiction.
All Lovers Burn at the End of the World ('24 ELJ)
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social New York Times opinion columnist; MSNOW contributor; author.
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Evette Dionne (Mostly on Threads) @freeblackgirl.bsky.social OG Black feminist storyteller β’ Award-winning author of WEIGHTLESS and LAWC β’ Cofounder @theflytrapmedia.com β’ Directing writing @empowermentave.bsky.social β’ I live where the sky ends
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David Holloway @davidthewriter.bsky.social Writer, reader, husband, brother, worker. Loving the full catastrophe. Living in Savannah 
Kelli Short Borges @kelliborges2.bsky.social Writer. Words in many lovely places. Into travel, photography, kind people. Best Microfiction 24β 25β 26β Wigleaf Top 50 LL. Pubs and more info: https://www.kellishortborges.com
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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social Climate and disaster scientist, famed government whistleblower, and former candidate for Congress. Expertise includes climate science, natural disasters, politics, and media.
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Rina Palumbo @rinapalumbo.bsky.social Ph.D. (JHU, History); Italian-Canadian expatriate. Writer, Editor, avid reader.
Writing in Hopkins Review, Identity Theory, Ghost Parachute, et al.
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Amy DeBellis @amykdebellis.bsky.social Books: All Our Tomorrows β’ Methuselah β’ The Widening Gyreπ€
Also in X-R-A-Y, The Pinch, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, HAD, Hobart, etc.
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Janet Small @janetsmall.bsky.social "I've spoken my peace and counted to three."
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Joy Deva Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social Speculative Writer: Fiction in One Story, Ploughshares, Tin House, Apex, etc. Yaddo Fellow. Founder of Pioneer Valley Writersβ Workshop. Rep'ed by Peter Steinberg. Novel in progress. Bagpiper.
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Katie MacBride @msmacb.bsky.social Journalist, librarian, dog spoiler, goat wrangler. Subscribe to my free newsletter about substance use & addiction recovery. askasoberlady.substack.com.
Kathryn McMahon @katoscope.bsky.social Therapist. Writer of strange, dark short fiction and flash. In Pseudopod, Split Lip, Smokelong, and more. Social justice, nature, stories, dogs, food. BLM. Trans rights are human rights. She/they. π³οΈβπ π₯ #endometriosis
matchbook literary magazine @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social matchbook is an online literary journal that publishes one piece of short prose accompanied by an author's note every two weeks.
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brainhawk @brainhawk.bsky.social Writer, editor, filmmaker | birdhousefilms.com | Co-founder of matchbooklitmag.bsky.social, that old building and loan | he him
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
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 +π Host of @slowdownshow.org
Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social Writer | Dr. | Project Manager for Roxane Gay | Co-editor The Audacity | ππ·| Repβd by Alyssa Jennette | Free Palestine π΅πΈ
EsmΓ© Weijun Wang @esmewang.com πThe Collected Schizophrenias, The Border of Paradise
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π Writing classes @ unexpectedshapeacademy.com
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Audra Kerr Brown @audrakerrbrown.bsky.social Flash Fictionista!
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Nuala O'Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social Writer. Irish. Autistic. Latest book: Menagerie (poetry).
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Meghan Phillips @mcarphil.bsky.social former NEA fellow. chapbook ABSTINENCE ONLY (Barrelhouse).
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kira homsher @kirakh.bsky.social writer & PhD student in cincinnati
kirahomsher.com
Julia Strayer @juliastrayer.bsky.social Writer. Animal lover. Not afraid of math.
Wigleaf Top 50/Best Small Fictions
Submissions Ed: SmokeLongQuarterly Stories at Glimmer Train, Kenyon Review online, Jellyfish Review, Atticus Review, Cincinnati Review, and others
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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
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
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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
Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social Prof & Writer - How High We Go in the Dark, a National Bestseller and NYT Editorsβ Choice & Where We Go When All We Were is Gone. Minneapolis by way of the SF Bay Area and Hawaiβi http://SequoiaNagamatsu.com - Star Trek π« and wristwatch βοΈ obsessed.
Amanda Hadlock @hadlock.bsky.social writer @ The Pitch Kansas City. stories @ Wigleaf, HAD, Fractured Lit, Cleaver Magazine, etc. Book reviews editor @ Moon City Review.
Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social Ploughshares | Best American Nonreq'd | Copper Nickel Editors' Prize | The Norton Reader | ElectricLit | Flash Fiction America | Swamp Pink | Wigleaf | Five Points (forthcoming) | The Art of Flash Fiction https://artofflashfiction.substack.com
Wigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social Seven-time Pushcart Prize winning journal of very short fiction. (Read us at wigleaf.com)
Barbara Byar @barbarabyar.bsky.social Writer
Debut Novel: IN THE DESERT, OUT NOW
from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
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Collection: Some Days are Better than Ours (Reflex Fiction)
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Amie Souza Reilly @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social she/her/hers. writer, artist, mom. lecturer & writer-in-res. sacred heart university. free Palestine π΅πΈ
Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays out April 2025, Wilfrid Laurier U Press
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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 
Alyson Mosquera Dutemple @swellspoken.bsky.social MARVELOUS FREAKS OF NATURE! - out Oct 2026 from Cornerstone Press
Repped by lgr literary
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Ellen Weeren @ellenweeren.bsky.social Writer
Saturday Evening Post, Kenyon Review, Hong Kong Review, Crack the Spine, and others. 
Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social writer β’ editor β’ road-tripper
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Beth Mulcahy @bethmulcahy.bsky.social Author of Firmer Ground https://a.co/d/37cBbiV poet, writer, mother, lawyer Bethmulcahywriter.com
Laura Blackwell @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social Shirley Jackson Award-winning writer, manic pixie night hag. Copy editor, Hugo-nommed @thedeadlands.com. Cohost @storyhour.bsky.social. Website: pronouncedlahra.com. HWA, SFWA. No AI. She/her. Photo: Jodi Foucher. Rep: @alexbrownwrites.bsky.social
Sara Crowley @saracrowley.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Human. Managing editor for The Forge. Winner of the Excellence in Prison Libraries Award.
Jaime Fountaine @jaimefountaine.bsky.social Raised by βwolvesβ
Sallie Hess @sallielouwho.bsky.social Tinker, tailor, painter, spry. Plant scientist seconded to the design industry. Great stories. Excellent with a pencil.
Gwen E. Kirby @gwenekirby.bsky.social author of SHIT CASSANDRA SAW // stories in One Story, Guernica, Tin House, Smokelong, and elsewhere // corgis, baking, knitting, swearing // she/her
gwenekirby.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/
Kerry Langan @kerryfiction.bsky.social Fiction writer and editor. 4 collections of published short fiction; short and flash fiction in 70+ literary journals; nominee for Pushcart and Best Small Fictions of the Net.
@shortstorytoday.bsky.social @shortstorytoday.bsky.social 
Jordan Rosenfeld @jrosenfeldwrites.bsky.social Writer, journalist, editor, teacher, mother, vigorous hand talker. Author of novels, Forged in Grace, Fallout, Women in Red & 6 books on craft of writing. Linktr.ee/jordanr30
Rachel Hall @rachh.bsky.social Fictioneer
E.B. Schnepp @ebschnepp.bsky.social Poet, cryptid currently residing in Chicago, featured in Poetry Daily, work in Iron Horse, Nat. Brute, South Dakota Review, and more.
ebschnepp@weebly.com
Chapbook: Blueberries Stain Like Blood
Available from Bottlecap Press Features
sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social dunno
Gwen @gwen1.bsky.social Chicago-based writer. (Also a lawyer, but I try to keep law talk to a minimum here.) Mostly fiction, some poetry and essays βπ»
Heather Bell Adams @heatherbelladams.bsky.social Author MARANATHA ROAD (WVU) & THE GOOD LUCK STONE (Haywire); fiction in North Carolina Literary Review, New Letters, Reckon Review, Thomas Wolfe Review, Still, Stanchion, etc Repβd by Carly Watters
Elizabeth Gonzalez James @egjames.bsky.social Screenwriter and author of The Bullet Swallower, Mona at Sea.
βMiddlingβ β The Michigan Daily
Kim Weldin @kimhartweldin.bsky.social Fiction in Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape, BULL, Apple in the Dark, and others | Music in Tape Waves & Shiny Times
https://kimweldin.weebly.com
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Sarah Jane Cody is semi here @sarahjanecody.bsky.social π Writer. Words: Gulf Coast, The Common, Electric Lit, Cincinnati Review, Joyland, & more. Bathrobe Gal webcomic. π autistic. Rep: Jess Regel. Former Asst. Editor Pigeon Pages. she/her.
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Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social Writer, teacher, speculative fiction and flash fiction
Books, events, and classes at https://www.taracampbell.com
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Joanna Pearson @pearsonality.bsky.social πChapel Hill-Carrboro, NC
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Jen Moore @jenmoore.bsky.social Poet, professor, Gemini, mom || Easy Does It (Akron, 2021) || Smaller Ghosts (Seven Kitchens, 2020) || The Veronica Maneuver (Akron, 2015)
Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social Writing about nature, science, history & sexual violence. Multiple books, multiple mischief.
Latest: TANGLED IN VOW & BESEECH (poems)
Next: LEARNING TO SPAR (memoir)
EiC Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table. Here for lit community & Caturday
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Meagan Lucas @meaganlucas.bsky.social Author of Anthony Nominated collection HERE IN THE DARK, and award-winning novel SONGBIRDS & STRAY DOGS | JD Candidate at UDayton Law | EIC: Reckon Review |