Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
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Jill Pearlman @jillpearlman.bsky.social Poet, fellow traveler. Chaos & Beauty. C.D. Wright, Alice Oswald. Chaps: Diaspora of Things (FLP, upcoming) Capital G (Ravenna Press). "Studying the beautiful is a duel where the artist cries out in fright before suffering defeat." Baudelaire
Lindsay Vaught @lindsayfouts.bsky.social Spalding CNF student
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Louisville KY liberal
Protect trans 🏳️⚧️ youth
RT doesn’t = endorsement
Matthew Budman, book guy @matthewbudman.bsky.social News junkie, editor, faculty spouse, author of “Book Collecting Now.”
Symposium Books @symposiumbooks.bsky.social Independent Bookstore in the heart of Providence
The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social The British Psychological Society's magazine, born in 1988, available in print for members, online and app.
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Kashawn Taylor @kashawntaylor.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Student.
Prison Journalism Project.
Gotham Writers Workshop.
book: subhuman. out now.
Tara Mandarano @taramandarano.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Redhead.
Women's health advocate.
BEYOND BLUE: Oct 2025 (Caitlin Press)
Boulder Bookstore @boulderbookstore.bsky.social Colorado's largest independent bookstore, and Publishers Weekly Bookstore of the Year for 2018. Celebrating 50 Years!
Christina VandePol @christinavandepol.bsky.social writer, physician, former coroner
Yvonne Battle-Felton @whyiwrite.bsky.social Author of Remembered and Curdle Creek, former editor at John Murray, Academic at Cambridge Uni, event host and podcaster. I also write kidlit, short scripts, nonfiction essays, poems
Kate Johnson @katejohnsonwrites.bsky.social Heal religious trauma, family dysfunction & shame. Reclaim your voice & freedom.
Bi exvangelical pastor’s daughter + survivor advocate.
⬇️ Substack
Quips and Confessionals: https://open.substack.com/pub/katejohnsonwrites
Martha S. Jones @marthasjones.bsky.social Historian | Writer | Lapsed Lawyer | Professor JHU | Director Hard Histories | Author The Trouble of Color, Vanguard, Birthright Citizens | msjonz@jhu.edu
Anthony Borruso @introspectiveant.bsky.social Composition Professor and Author of the poetry collection Splice
JT Hume MIS Writer Podcaster @jthume.bsky.social 43+ great years w @AuthorCarson
So many published books & novellas
Podcaster. USAF CCAF UNevada Alum. 5°
Not on #onlyfans. Not yet, anyway.
Real Me: @bobmoorenv
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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com ✍🏾 Jacqueline Nyathi, librocubicularist, friendly neighbourhood "You *Must* Read This" person.
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📝📚 @thecontinent.org, @strangehorizons.bsky.social etc
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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co A magazine to help you understand yourself and live well.
SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social Coronavirus and other health-related updates. Regular updates on Outbreaks, Pathogens For more updates follow us.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social My Book: Giving Up Is Unforgivable |UALawSchool |MSNOW Legal Analyst |Podcasts #SistersInLaw & Cafe Insider|Obama US Atty |25 year fed'l prosecutor|Wife & Mom of 4|Knits a lot|Civil Discourse newsletter: joycevance.substack.com
ScriberEstAgere @scriberestagere.bsky.social Writer, reader, artist, Canadian.
Chronic dissatisfaction.
Rhoni Blankenhorn @rhonierika.bsky.social New to 🦋. Snacks, naps. Poetry debut ROOMS FOR THE DEAD AND THE NOT YET from Trio House Press out July 1, 2025
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.)
Jessie Chaffee @jessielchaffee.bsky.social Author of Florence in Ecstasy. Living with and writing about #longcovid
https://lithub.com/a-single-ray-of-light-on-ray-bradburys-all-summer-in-a-day-and-living-in-the-shadow-of-long-covid/ www.JessieChaffee.com
Caitlin Gorman @caitlinjgorman.bsky.social Writer, teacher, over-thinker. I spend a lot of time pondering and writing about the personal politics of parenting and partnering. 
MER - Mom Egg Review @merliterary.bsky.social Literary magazine on motherhood, in print, and online at merliterary.com.
Beth Mayer (she, her) @bethmayer.bsky.social Author of We Will Tell You Otherwise, a short story collection from Black Lawrence Press. Winner of the Hudson Prize. At work on a spooky novel & some strange, insistent essays. More at bethmayer dot com.
DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social Mom of twins, wife of dude, writer of stuff, prof. of uni, PhD. Lives at demistybellinger.com. All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere out now (U-Nebraska Press: Zero Street Fiction: https://tinyurl.com/prdacfrt). JVNLA (https://www.jvnla.com) represents me.
Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social celebrating, promoting, & nurturing mama writing & writers at https://literarymama.com/ since 2003
Podcast, This Mama Is Lit! at: https://literarymama.substack.com/s/this-mama-is-lit
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Natasha Kane @natashakane.bsky.social Associate Editor / Trio House Press | Typesetter | Educator | Local Bartender ✨
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Delcoindivisible @delcoindivisible.bsky.social A non-partisan community group resisting threats to our democracy!
⬇️Take Action 🔥Make Change⬇️
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social Associate Professor. Black feminist. Writer. Mentor. Dreamer. Public Speaker.
She/her
✊🏾🖖🏾🩷
You can buy my book: Say Her Name: (Rutgers U. Press)
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/say-her-name/9781978831797/
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social Founder @democracydocket.com. Chair of Elias Law Group. My dog's name is Blue.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Meg Hunt @meg7373.bsky.social It's not about the cards you've been dealt. It's how you play your hand.
She/Her,Chronic Illness Lifer,Book Nerd,Integrity Believer,Disability Advocate,Bluebirds,
Ludo's Mom,LGBTQ Friends Always🌈,
Good Energy, Dogs, Happiness
Jeannie🌻吳德瑀 @jeanniewl.bsky.social Texas Democrat 💙 #TeamTalarico
Taiwanese American, AAPI
~ 相逢自是有緣 ～
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.”
~Confucius
Stephanie Weaver, MPH @sweavermph.bsky.social TED-style coach • book on estrangement coming April '26 • 2 migraine lifestyle guides out now
Rmcgrudiva @rmcgrudiva.bsky.social VOTER. Respect my existence or expect my resistance. Intrepid eater. All things sparkly, syllabic, tuneful, funny, and joyous. Pretty goddamn horrified. 🤘🏾
Au Pair of Dragons🇨🇦 @oldman-sac.bsky.social Square Peg/Round Hole
Aphantastic
SDAM
Keeping on being me until the world comes around.
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/
U.S. News & World Report @usnews.com Journalism that fuels decision-making.
Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
Shadow Snacks @shadowsnacks.bsky.social Photographer in North Carolina Triad.
Father. Husband. "Elder Emo". I'll make a hobby out of just about anything.
All photos posted are my own.
I shoot both film and digital.
Robyn (they/them) @robynwritesthings.bsky.social Screaming into the void. This is my page for all things writing & journaling. 🏳️🌈✨🖤
@therobynleaweaver for pole & aerial 🤸🏼
Jackie Hedeman @jackiehedeman.bsky.social Flâneuse. Spy. Bi sky at night, sailor's delight. Co-creator of The Pasithea Powder. Writing all over the place. She/her 🪩
www.jacquelinhedeman.com
Joy Gehner @whirlyjoy.bsky.social Writer, life navigator, unapologetic crone.
Pot-stirrer, beanstalk-grower.
Play from where the monkey drops the ball ✨
joygehner.com
#Binders #CNF #memoir
The Pentaxian @the-pentaxian.bsky.social Amateur photographer and general ne'er-do-well.
All photos are my own, no sense in blaming someone else.
Alison Colwell @alisoncolwell.bsky.social Writer, weaver of fairy tales and other creative non-fictions, food security activist, mom to two teens and a houseful of cats. Currently searching for a literary agent to represent my memoir.
Lesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social Poetry Ed of Shenandoah. Author of Mycocosmic, Poetry’s Possible Worlds, Unbecoming, The State She’s In, & Radioland—poetry, fantasy fiction, CNF, scholarship. She/they. linktr.ee/lesleymwheeler
Lisa W Rosenberg @lwroseauthor.bsky.social Author of Embers on the Wind (8/22 Little A), Mirror Me (out 12/1 Little A) Psychotherapist, former Ballet Dancer, cancer mom, binder, She/Her
Joann Plockova @joannplockova.bsky.social Journalist//Design+Architecture+Travel. Writer. Essayist. Author. Prague + US. Author of Courtyard Homes (Monacelli): Available at www.phaidon.com/courtyard-homes. joannplockova.com
Katie Simon @katiewsimon.bsky.social Author of Tell Me What You Like: An Honest Discussion of Sex and Intimacy After Sexual Assault, out July 29, 2025. Words in NYT, Vogue, Tin House, BuzzFeed, Washington Post, etc. 🏠 in Texas with 🐶 named Babka 🌈
Amy @amyfrancis.bsky.social Retired, grandma, golfer, resister! ❄️🕊️💙💛🇺🇸🦋😔
Eileen Moon @steerthestars.bsky.social Journalist, writer, editor, poet, scribbler
Di Brown @nixie.bsky.social Writer, emigrant, dog-mom, going sane in a crazy world
http://dianabrown.net
http://Goodreads.com/DiBrown
http://YouTube.com/NixieNet
Mast: @Nixie@writing.exchange
#Binders
Michael Mitchell @michaelmitchell.bsky.social Quick, what’s the longest word you can find —>
https://bsky.app/profile/michaelmitchell.bsky.social/post/3ml3ws4myq22u
I’m standing in front of NY Public library on West 100th St
K Christensen @klkchristensen.bsky.social Writer of YA fiction. Reader of everything.
I like all animals but people are my favorite. (at least, until recently)
#querying
Ted Anthony @anthonyted.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Director of new storytelling and newsroom innovation at AP. Aspiring innovator, always. Interests: American culture, life’s miscellany, China, baseball, Star Trek, highway rest stops, kindness. PGH/NYC. unsortedbutsignificant.substack.com
AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info Boldly going where no Jedi has beamed before. Earth is our spaceship.
#AltGov
Alt-IRS @alt-irs.altgov.info This is a #AltGov account. Federal employee. Love my job. Ask for help and you shall receive. Read any USPS mail you get from the IRS.
#Resist #spoon 🥄
Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social Writer w FOMO. CLOSER (Regal House). SURVIVAL TIPS: STORIES (Propeller). THE LOCAL NEWS (Spiegel & Grau). www.miriamgershow.com
📚💙
Spearheaded #100smallpress:
https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/
JB McDaniel @mcdanieljb.bsky.social journalist, author, Californian
◦•●◉✿ Raven Reyes ✿◉●•◦ @ravenreyes.bsky.social Politically engaged 🦋 | Progressive Democrat 🌱 | Pro-democracy Constitutionalist 🗽
#BlueCrew 💙 #Resist ✊🏻 #FBR 🤝🏻
Patriotic 🇺🇸 | Millennial 🌈 | Married 💍 | Coloradan 🌸🌲 | FDT 💀
❌ No MAGA — ⚠️ Blocked on sight
🚫 No DMs | 🚫 No trolls | 🚫 Don’t ask for 💲
Emmi S. Herman @emmiherman.bsky.social Writer/copyeditor/children’s author
Writer/Artist#StopFemicide 🇨🇦📚🧑🏻🎨🇵🇸 @writerartisteh.bsky.social Visual art, writing
📚🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ♿️ 😷🇨🇦 AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic, MG, mason bees etc. General musings, rants, politics site for a Cdn artist and writer with 10 books. Happy to see resisters, but block if you block fundraisers. writing: @eatonhamilton.bsky.social
Muffy Bolding @muffybolding.bsky.social Mother. Writer. Director. Suffragette. Witch. Knitter. Embroiderix. Cummari. Chingona. Siciliana. Latina. Filipina. Lyin’ Whore. Trollop. Shitkicker. Thief.
Withered Debutante.
“Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of my stature.”
@nancymccabe.bsky.social @nancymccabe.bsky.social Author of nine books of Cnf and adult, ya, and middle grade fiction
Michèle Dawson Haber @micheledhaber.bsky.social Writer, Potter, Step Adoptee, Worker Advocate, Slowest Cyclist Ever. Salon, NYT Modern Love. TAL
#binders, #memoir #canadianwriter #reconstructionistjudaism
Nancy E Newman @nancyen.bsky.social Essayist, former family therapist and gardener; wife, mom, grandma, feminist socialist, dual citizen of Canada and California.
Theoted @mungomortimer.bsky.social Ohioan (but I have come to accept it). MAGA hater. Hard core liberal. Retired newspaper writer. Sober 20 years. Trusts no one, suspects everyone. Follows Ravens and Orioles. Towson State Class of 1976. YOU DM ME, I BLOCK YOU!
Katie Darby Mullins @katiedarbymullins.bsky.social Writer, Founder/Editor in Chief at The Apologist, Heavy-Metal mouth. I’m too online— I’ve lost the context. I want to be the OK Go of writing.
Marjie Alonso @marjiealonso.com Writer. Former executive director of animal behavior nonprofits. Currently working to help friends with big projects. Manager of family. Regularly bested by my beagle. MarjieAlonso.com
https://open.substack.com/pub/piecesofstring
Liz Mitchell @lizmitchell.bsky.social ER doc, writer, animal lover. 
Laura Adrienne Brady // Wren Music @lauraadriennebrady.bsky.social Poet, essayist, singer-songwriter (Wren), and educator exploring health, ancestry, land, and cultural recovery. 🌲🐿️💦🦭
PINK STONE album + book out now.
Host of community writing workshops + individual support for creatives. ⬇️
https://linktr.ee/wreneyes
Laura Traveler @lauratraveler.bsky.social Writer. Traveler. Aerialist. Dancer. Foodie. Cat Lady. Nerd.
Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social Writer | Mother | Immigrant | Managing Editor @mlnjournal.bsky.social | PhD Hispanic Lit | Fulbright (Brazil) | Bylines WaPo, Time, Guernica, etc. (she/her)
Book forthcoming w Bloomsbury Academic
Human Generated: https://victorialivingstone.substack.com/
Jude Kamler (they/them) @inbetweenqueen.bsky.social Queer Jewish writer in Chicago. Author of Homegrown Jewish Heart.
Lauren Emily @laurenemilywrites.bsky.social Author and writer for hire: I HEART JENNIFER COOLIDGE, four novels, a Christmas book about a screaming goat. https://linktr.ee/laurenemilywrites
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
@kresharwarnock.bsky.social @kresharwarnock.bsky.social Writer and memoirist, mother, wife, grandma. Struggling to leave the world a better place than I found it.
Shannon Tsonis @shannontsonis.bsky.social Essays in Booth, Memoir Magazine, Little Patuxent Review, Lunch Ticket and others. MFA from Goucher, MBA from Towson.- K kalindi vora @kalindivora.bsky.social Writer, thinker, teacher.
Books: Life Support, Surrogate Humanity, Reimagining Reproduction
Prof. at Yale
#criticaltheory #sts #cres #feministsts #futureofwork #surrogacy #medicaljustice #criticalAIstudies
kalindivora.com
Jaclyn Greenberg @jaclynlgreenberg.bsky.social Mom of 3 and 🐶 | Disability Advocate | Caregiver | Bylines @nytimes @CNN @Wired @Parents
Patrick Strickland @patrickobrienstrickland.com Writer from Texas
Managing editor @inkstickmedia.com
Books: A History of Heartache (2026), You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave (2025), The Marauders (2022) & Alerta! Alerta! (2018)
Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social Non-profit publisher of fiction, poetry, essays & art. Since 2003, where readers, writers, teachers & students meet. Our free library is always open.
narrativemagazine.com
Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social Quarterly print literary magazine & small book press in the Philly 'burbs. Founder & EIC Jeff Bogle. linktr.ee/StanchionZine
The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social A magazine about culture and ideas, from Europe, for the world, with essays, reviews, stories, profiles and other adventurous writing.
takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social Aotearoa’s longest-running independent journal of poetry, fiction, art, comics, and culture in review. Since 1989. https://linktr.ee/takahemagazine
Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social Overland Journal – radical Australian literature and culture since 1954
linktr.ee/ovrlnd
Kitchen Table Quarterly @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social Samizdat. Poetry. Nonfiction. Art.
Give us your history.
www.kitchentablequarterly.org
River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative || Where good writing counts and facts matter.
The New Yorker @newyorker.com Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social Multi-genre lit journal & community
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Tahoma Literary Review @tahomareview.bsky.social We publish poetry, fiction, and nonfiction twice a year. Professional pay rates.
All online since 2024!
Current issues, submission periods, etc. at tahomaliteraryreview.com
Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social The Discerning Mollusk's Guide to Arts and Ideas. From @saggingmeniscus. Quarterly, in print and online, since 2021.