5E Editors @5eeditors.bsky.social An editors' group with experience at top publishers: Judy Sternlight, Patricia Mulcahy, Jane Rosenman, Leslie Wells, Sulay Hernandez, Anne Horowitz.
https://www.5eeditors.com/
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/
jimmy vega @jimmyyvega.bsky.social author of ZIRCONIUM ASH
jimmy-vega.com
Claire Boyles @boylesfarms.bsky.social Writing. Reading. Teaching. Trails.
Author of APPRAISALS and SITE FIDELITY
Winner of the 2022 Whiting Award for Fiction
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David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social Author of Blue Colonial, The Americans, and the forthcoming Darkness for Beginners (Spring, 2027). Director of Left Margin LIT. Director of Content at The Adroit Journal. Old Man Basketball Commissioner. www.davidroderick.com
Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social poems, pop music, superheroes, lit crit, SFF, friends, trans joy. Cats, dogs, kids. Way too accommodating. Swiftie. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stephanie-burt/taylors-version/9781541606234/?lens=basic-books
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
The Common @commonmag.bsky.social The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, poetry, and art with a modern sense of place. Based at Amherst College, we highlight writers and work from around the world.
Oliver Jones @ogoliverjones.bsky.social Film critic, professor, journalist 
@LAhistory @lahistory.bsky.social Jogging the collective memory of Los Angeles through social media since 2009. Some people think LA has no history. They just don't know where to look.
Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social Books, tea, omens, ink. KILL ALL WIZARDS is out now from Tordotcom. Coming soon: two new volumes of the Wildendrem adventure game setting (Phantom Mill Games).
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Alone Crawford @kellylink.bsky.social unserious moonlight
owner of bookmoonbooks.com
www.kellylink.net
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Happy to recommend books if you tell me 2 writers you love & what you’re in the mood for. Signed copies of my books available at www.bookmoonbooks.com. TERFS & fascists fuck off.
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
Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Habs fan / Canadian in the South 🍁
www.megireid.com
Oren Hadar @futureis.la LA has the best bones of any city in the world. It can become a true world capital if we only let it. I write at https://futureis.la
Hill Nadell Literary Agency @hillnadell.bsky.social Literary Agency based in Los Angeles. Spoiler: we skeet about books. And other things we love. No queries here, please.
Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem.
$3/month
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social I write Climate-Colored Goggles, a newsletter about climate & culture. Former L.A. Times climate columnist and Desert Sun energy reporter. Also hosted Boiling Point and The Hatch podcasts.
Find me at Dodger Stadium, Disneyland or hiking in the mountains.
Liz Brown @evcb.bsky.social writer
lizbrown.la
cartoon by gabriellebell.com
L.A. Reported @lareported.bsky.social A nonprofit local news startup from Forbes and L.A. Times veterans.
Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social Creative Director @theverge.com, writer/drawer of books incl SEEK YOU: A JOURNEY THROUGH AMERICAN LONELINESS
Rachel Monroe @rachelmonroe.bsky.social The duke of dark corners / Texas writer for the New Yorker / Co-host of Bad Therapist podcast badtherapistpod.bsky.social
Matthew Shaer @matthewshaer.bsky.social Contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, Emerson Fellow at New America, host of the Origin Stories podcast. Red Sox fan. Please God don't ask me about the "progress" on my "book"
Em Grimes @noochiecoochie.bsky.social aspiring ghost.
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The Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop @sackettwriters.bsky.social 15,000 creative writers since 2002. NYC and Online classes. Write with us.
Laurie D. Graham @lauriedgraham.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/lauriedgraham
Megha Majumdar @meghamaj.bsky.social Author of the novel A Burning, nominated for the National Book Award, the NBCC John Leonard Prize, and the ALA Carnegie Medal
DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social Alter ego of Peter Ginna. Editor, writer, & occasional blogger on books & publishing. Former editor & publisher at several houses. Author of WHAT EDITORS DO: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing. Website: peterginna.com 
Jonny Diamond @jonnydiamond.bsky.social Editor of Lit Hub, writer, not-so-secretly Canadian.
Sarah Mesle @sunsetandecho.bsky.social Editing, Writing, Teaching, Muttering, not in that order. LA and CT currently but Iowa originally. USC; Avidly; #hairstudies; with intense eagerness. 
Steve Pyne @sjpyne.bsky.social Writer, fire guy (aka pyromantic), exploration historian, urban farmer. Recent books include "Pyrocene Park" and "Five Suns: A Fire History of Mexico."
Website: www.stephenpyne.com
Eliza Barclay @elizabarclay.bsky.social Climate and environment editor at New York Times Opinion 
Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social I write sometimes
www.rabihalameddine.com
David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social I read and write and listen to music. A lot. Mostly in Brooklyn. Largehearted Boy is my website.
Lisa Alvarez @ldalvarez.bsky.social Community college professor, occasional poet, author of "Some Final Beauty and other Stories" (Univ. of Nevada Press)
https://unpress.nevada.edu/9781647791971/some-final-beauty-and-other-stories/
Se llama el Golfo de México.
Heyday @heydaybooks.com Indie press publishing books on California culture, nature, Indigenous perspectives, and social justice | Publisher of @newsfromnativeca.bsky.social
Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social Democratic nominee for Congress in NY-10. Dad Lander. Love unions, justice, seltzer, and NYC. #FightDontFold
https://linktr.ee/bradlander
Susan A. Kitchens @susankitchens.bsky.social This year I started growing a home garden bc I’d rather be bloomscrolling than doomscrolling. Hope I can edit my posts here.
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Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust). www.medhawrites.com
Corinne @celaina.bsky.social writer, editor, audio / work @brooklynmuseum.org, @literaryhub.bsky.social, @orionmagazine.bsky.social
www.corinnesegal.com
Alta Journal @altajournal.bsky.social 
Talib @talibali.bsky.social Californian | Pakistani | Leo
Literature, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies @UC Santa Cruz
Editor, Zócalo Public Square (@zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social)
Ted Genoways @genoways.bsky.social • Author of Tequila Wars: José Cuervo and the Bloody Struggle for the Spirit of Mexico
• Senior editor at the Food & Environment Reporting Network
• Contributing writer at Mother Jones
tedgenoways.com
Jillian Steinhauer @jilnotjill.bsky.social Journalist, editor, teacher, organizer. I write about art and comics. Short, with tall energy.
jilliansteinhauer.com
jilnotjill.beehiiv.com
Clare Bogen @clarebot.bsky.social Publicity Director, Fitzcarraldo Editions
Sometimes football, always cats.
Adalena Kavanagh @mamiyaroid.bsky.social Writer, Photographer, Librarian, Red Panda Enthusiast
https://adalenakavanagh.com/
Pete of The Chills at Will Podcast @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social The Chills at Will Literary Podcast is a discussion of the visceral beauty of literature, w/ Pete. Ep 275 up now on all platforms!-join the Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl
Monique Truong @moniquetruong.bsky.social Writer & Librettist & Eater
https://monique-truong.com/
Megan O'Grady @meganeogrady.bsky.social Critic, professor, author of HOW IT FEELS TO BE ALIVE: ENCOUNTERS WITH ART AND OUR SELVES, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux April 2026 https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374613327/howitfeelstobealive/
https://www.nytimes.com/by/megan-o-grady,
Alistair McCartney @alistairmccartney.bsky.social Author of The End of the World Book (finalist for the PEN USA Fiction Award & Edmund White Debut Fiction Award) and The Disintegrations (winner of the Publishing Triangle Ferro-Grumley Award.)
Teaching Faculty at Antioch MFA Program Los Angeles.
Elizabeth Shreve @esshreve.bsky.social Shreve Williams PR founder; book biz vet, mother runner, third gen D.C. native 
Stephen Kimber @skimber.bsky.social Author of 15 books. The latest: "Traitor's Game: A Mick Blackwell Mystery" will be published by Vagrant in October 2026. Inglis Professor, University of King's College MFA.
James Meader @jameader.bsky.social Part of the team at International Literary Properties. Grady’s dad.
Gina Frangello @circegirl.bsky.social I write books about troublesome women. Developmental editor/teacher/book coach/ghostwriter at Circe Consulting. Faculty at UNR-Tahoe’s low res MFA. Find out more at circeconsulting.net
Courtney Zoffness @czoffness.bsky.social Author of SPILT MILK (McSweeneys). Sunday Times Short Story Award winner. Fellowships: The Center for Fiction, MacDowell, Bread Loaf. Creative Writing Director at Drew University.
Patrick Coleman @patrickmcoleman.bsky.social writer (THE CHURCHGOER, FIRE SEASON, a few secret TV things you'll never see), game-maker (NATURE KIN), stirrer-upper of interesting business, a lover of oaks. (https://patrickcoleman.org/)
Jack Skelley @jackskelley.bsky.social Author, musician, president JSPR Inc., etc on Insta I'm Helter Skelley
Alexandra D’Italia @alexandraditalia.bsky.social Traveler. WWOOFer. Writer. Potter. Teacher.
Liska Jacobs @liskab.bsky.social 
Dinah Lenney @dinahlenney.bsky.social Writer, teacher, actor, warbler, editor of #Snapshots: An Album of Essay and Image forthcoming from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social, lover of dogs, birds, photos, dinner on a sheetpan, jigsaw puzzles, and the emdash—
Peter Birkenhead @pbirk.bsky.social Bylines in The Daily Beast, The Week, McSweeney’s, The NY Daily News, Salon, LA Review of Books, US News, the Washington Post, The Awl, The Morning News, Marie Claire, MORE, Chicago Tribune, others.
substack.com/@peterbirkenhead
R Rosen @dblrmovies.bsky.social movie programming & consulting
80% unrepentant lurker, 20% movie-related promotional binges
NYFF selection committee (main slate)
100% Bay Area
+ #DCstatehood
The Low Residency MFA @ UC Riverside @ucrlowresmfa.bsky.social The Hottest MFA since 2008.
palmdesertmfa.ucr.edu
@bradkessler.bsky.social @bradkessler.bsky.social 
Kelly McEvers @kellymcevers.bsky.social Founding host, NPR's Embedded. Former host, All Things Considered. Former NPR Middle East correspondent. Teacher/trainer, Uncuffed. Dodger fan with the zeal of a convert.
http://www.npr.org/people/131876588/kelly-mcevers
Mark Luce @marksluce.bsky.social Husband. Dad. Teacher. Wordsmith. Handyman.
Tracy Slater @tracyslater.bsky.social Nonfiction writer; B&N Discover Great New Writers Pick; New book: Together in Manzanar: The True story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp; Work in NYT, WashPo, WSJ + more; www.tracyslater.com
Barry Glassner @barryglassner.bsky.social Professor, sociologist, author of The Culture of Fear & other books, former college president, magician member of the Magic Castle. barryglassner.com
Janice Shapiro @janiceshapiro.bsky.social Writer and Graphic Novelist. Author of HONORIA: A FORTUITOUS FRIENDSHIP, Fantagraphics Press
Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social Paterno Family Librarian for Literature & Professor of English at Penn State | Editor, Penn State Series in the History of the Book, PSU Press | My Dark Room 2023 @uchicagopress
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo192110828.html
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social Now: criticism, teaching, SoCal
Then: academia, 19thC, NYC
Always: "the novel," outdoor things, trying to figure it out
annaeclark.com
Garrett Hongo @bblilikoi.bsky.social Poet, memoirist, professor, hifi journalist
Shannon Fisher @msshannonfisher.bsky.social Talk Show Host, Authors on the Air Global Radio Network. Occasional host of the National Press Club Update-1 podcast. Social & Political Commentator. Writer. Human Rights Advocate. Love the arts, politics, dogs, and life! #RVA 🏳️🌈
Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social Pulitzer finalist for THE GREAT BELIEVERS; new novel, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, out now. Artistic Director at StoryStudio Chicago. Trying to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. You should, too.
rebeccamakkai.substack.com
https://rebeccamakkai.com
Colleen M @arcsecant.bsky.social Professional content gremlin for the Bs, Cs, Ss, and As. Ex-, but pro-, guitars. Trying to protect you from Acts of Content, daytime talkshow fill music, and words like Visioncasting. Chocolate Lab collaborator.
Stop killing. Start growing. 🌲
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Tom Booth @tbpdx.bsky.social Former publisher, bookseller, and hot dog street vendor in PDX. Prefer gray skies.
Peter Fish @peterafish.bsky.social Writer, editor, focusing on California and the American West. 
@airlightmagazine.bsky.social @airlightmagazine.bsky.social 
Jessica Williams @jmwillz.bsky.social VP, editorial director @ William Morrow / HarperCollins
Erik H-W @erikhw.bsky.social Journalist, documentarian, communications person, Indijewness.
@ndewey.bsky.social @ndewey.bsky.social 
James D.F. Hannah @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social Shamus-winning author of the Henry Malone novels. Appalachian to the bitterest of ends. Rep: @michellerichterbks.bsky.social Insta @jamesdfhannah. He/him jamesdfhannah.com
Gary Singh @gary-singh.bsky.social Newspaper columnist at Metro Silicon Valley for 20 years. Author at History Press. Sober vagabond. More words at Alta Journal, Hidden Compass, Atlas Obscura, IEEE Computer Graphics, AAWW & more.
https://www.garysingh.info
Eryn Brown @erynbrown.bsky.social Writer and editor, ATL-NYC-LA. Currently editorial director, Zócalo Public Square.
Susan Scarf Merrell @susanmerrell.bsky.social Author most recently of SHIRLEY: A NOVEL. Assoc. Professor @Lichtenstein Center @StonybrookUniversity. Co-director, BookEnds novel revision fellowship. She/Her. Daily swimmer. Alarmingly fast reader.
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- D @deborahvankin.bsky.social @deborahvankin.bsky.social
Melinda Gordon Blum @melindagordonblum.bsky.social Essayist | poet | memoirist | unrepentant bookaholic | mother of two young-adult humans and two cats
Chris Fischbach @fishmpls.bsky.social Literary agent @ Fischbach Creative; former publisher at Coffee House Press (25 year tenure); board member, MN Prison Writing Workshop, etc. Mr. Nobody from Nowhere.
Robbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social Senior Essays Editor: @therumpus.net / Associate Writing Professor / Program Director: MA in Writing / Books-in-progress: 1) CNF: A history of Jerusalem's City of David 2) Flash Fiction: Bill Murrays / Robbie & James Talk Music: https://bit.ly/RandJTM
CJ Evans @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social Poet. Editor in chief at Two Lines Press.
Gavin, Small Beer (closed due to long covid), &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social Gavin J. Grant. He/him. Born: 323ppm. Peely-wally vegan Scottish immigrant. Equality? I like it. BLM. Antifascist. Trans rights=human rights. Long covid 12/21, meh. Tired. Wears masks, asks you to, too. smallbeerpress.com (closed) & LCRW. bookmoonbooks.com
California Book Club @calbookclub.bsky.social A virtual book club devoted to literature from and about the Golden State.
Brought to you by Alta Journal.
Join here for free: https://www.altaonline.com/california-book-club/
Rebecca Morgan Frank @poetmorgan.bsky.social Author of 4 books, including Oh You Robot Saints!(Carnegie Mellon UP). Board member, National Book Critics Circle. Cofounder/Editor of Memorious.org (2004-2023.)
Sean Meredith @seanmeredith.bsky.social Director of track16.com. Bike rider. And sometimes I make films based on bangers like Dante Alighieri’s “Inferno.”
Michael Nye @mpnye.bsky.social Author of three books of fiction and editor of Story (@storymag.bsky.social)
Allison K Williams @allisonkwilliams.bsky.social Formerly GuerillaMemoir over there
Writer, editor at Brevity, literal fire-eater
Give yourself permission.
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