Whimsy @whimsyfiction.bsky.social A monthly microfiction contest celebrating the lighter, more peculiar side of storytelling. Yes, our alpaca travels by quill 🦙🪶
https://www.whimsyfiction.com/
T.L. Tomljanovic @tomljanovic.bsky.social Flash Fiction Writer✍️ 🇨🇦 in metro Vancouver
Stories in: welkin ellipsis roifainéant NFFD templeinacity epistemiclit neitherfishnorfoul ratbaglit prideroars moonparkreview gooseberrypie rawlit hooghlyreview
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Pippa @pippaesque.bsky.social Prune Juice Editor. I write short things and long things. Zines, poems, art. I like birds.
Buy me a ko-fi: Ko-fi.com/pippaesque. 🏳️🌈
Sophie? @sophontrack.bsky.social Writer. Love ghosts and justice and also trains. 🍉. All people are friends.
activehumanity.substack.com
C. Oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social Poet, thinker, dreamer, scribbler… in ascending order
For my recent posts: #Oulens
Winner, 3rd Annual Poe-it Like Poe Poetry Contest 2025 by sixdegreesofpoe
Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social Writer, flash fiction writer, photographer. Author of 2 novels & 2 collections of flash. New novel out this spring. My flash pieces have been published in many lovely magazines. Mslexia flash fiction prize winner, 2024. Website: http://bronwengriff.co.uk/
Ann Graham @ann-graham.bsky.social Reader, writer of short stories and poems.
I comment on short stories at http://www.ann-graham.com/
Daily FilmFreeway Festival Discount Codes @filmfreewaycodes.bsky.social Daily discount codes for various festivals to submit to on FilmFreeway
https://filmfreeway.com/festivals/discounts
Karen Baumgart @cake-girl.bsky.social I love it when people geek out on their passion. Tell me all the things about the random topic that makes your heart sing 💗
Sarah Freligh @sfreligh.bsky.social Writer and swimmer and teacher. Books: OTHER EMERGENCIES; HEREAFTER; A BRIEF NATURAL HISTORY OF WOMEN; DEAR YOU; WE & SAD MATH. Best Microfiction 2018-21, 2025-26; Wigleaf 50; NEA poetry fellow; http://sarahfreligh.com. Mom to Wayne and Oscar.
D.E. Hardy @dehardy.bsky.social EIC of @claudineliterary.bsky.social
On staff at The Offing and Chestnut Review.
Links to words at dehardywriter.com.
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Liminal Space Creative @liminalspacecreative.substack.com Aspiring Métis writer drawn to the grey areas of the human condition. Places we bury deep, where love and sorrow quietly pool together. Spaces that hold both our capacity for sincere kindness and our potential for extreme cruelty.
Jeff Harvey @jhhwriter.bsky.social Writer: work appears in
@trampset.bsky.social
@mooncityreview.bsky.social
@moonparkreview.bsky.social
@soflopojo.bsky.social
@whaleroadreview.bsky.social
@bendinggenres.bsky.social
Editor: gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
jhhwriter.com
Sabrina Hicks @sabrinahicks.bsky.social Author of Coyote Girl, available now (CJ Press), desert dweller, hiker, word wrangler. Work in Best Sm Fiction, Best Micro, Wigleaf Top 50, pubs listed at sabrinahicks.com
JR Fenn @jrfenn.bsky.social Writer, teacher, parent, dreamer | TINY VESSELS out from Red Mare Press | Words in or forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Orion's Belt, DIAGRAM, Split Lip, Witness, Boston Review, Gulf Coast | Ucross Fellow | Syracuse MFA | Prof at SUNY ESF | www.jrfenn.com
Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social Everything would be great if The Smiths would just get back together.
Words: Wigleaf, HAD, Roi Faineant, Does it Have Pockets? Pithead Chapel, Your Impossible Voice, Trash Cat Lit, and BSF 2017, 2019. 2018 Pushcart recipient. www.keithawoodruff.com
Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social language, longing, music, landscape. DC. co, nyc, & london still hold my heart. words in asterales, crabcreek, fourway, iowa, NAR, poetlore, split lip, vassar. soon in AQR, birdcoat, citron, june road. social media @ SWWIM she/her linktr.ee/jillkitchen
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
She/They/Dr/Bruh
Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social 
PerfectGod = S. Cyn = L. Gates = J. Glacier = L. Simz = Ziwe +c. @blackswanborges.bsky.social Mx Józef ≈ M.
Lonely + Looking for
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[ I wake up *wishing* that I was:
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Mx M— Józef ≈ M. J. Le Tölm...
Cover credit to Samara Cyn.
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And stay safe :)
Rhona Greene @rhonagreene.bsky.social Poetry✨Poetry✨Poetry
Sub-ed Storms Journal V⚡️
Pushcart nominee
Dublin Ireland
Featured: @iambapoet.com wave19
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @eatthestorms.com
@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
@shadesofgreen.bsky.social
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Jessica Klimesh @jekwriter.bsky.social creative writer/writing coach/editor
flash, flash, and more flash! #flashfiction #microfiction
Best Microfiction 2025 | Best of the Net 2025
jessicaklimesh.com
https://jekwrites.substack.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@JessicaKlimeshWrites
Nastasya Parker @nastasyaparker.bsky.social Writer with stories in The Phare, Funny Pearls, and featured in Stroud and Bristol Short Story Anthologies. Immigrated from New England to Old. I work in secondary education. Inexplicably drawn to not entirely pleasant characters.
Robin Grimmond @robin-grimmond3.bsky.social #songwriter #scotland #proindependence #lyricist #collaborator #americana #country #folk #sometimespunk #sometimesrock#quirky#greatamericansongbook #parody #satire #prodemocracy #antimaga #antitrump #antifascist #nokings No DMs
Andy Charman @andyandz.bsky.social Author of Crow Court. published by @unbounders.bsky.social. Longlist Desmond Elliott 2021. Shortlist CWA Historical 2022. Laureat Festival du Premier Roman 2022. Researching 1983 and philosophers in WWII. Assistant Editor of Thin-Skin.com
Neil James @neiljameswriter.bsky.social UK-based writer of flash fiction and short stories. Lives at www.neiljameswriter.co.uk Will follow back any readers, writers or generally nice folk.
Dan O’Mahony @danoauthor.bsky.social I was raised in a library by a pack wild fantasy novels who brought me up as if I was one of their own.
WriteStats @writestats.bsky.social Data-Driven Insights for Writers and Publishers.
https://writestats.com/
Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social Writer and Literary Critic. Work in Gooseberry Pie Lit, Passages North, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story, Bending Genres, and FlashFlood. Best Small Fictions ‘27 Nom.
Contemporary Anglophone Lit PhD.
https://linktr.ee/emhall47
Warwickshire @warwickshireuk.bsky.social News and updates from the county of #Warwickshire, UK - we originally started this service on another app in 2012 and now here on Bluesky
Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social Curious. Clever. Quick. 🐈⬛
Monthly Magazine for Micro Prose
Free to sub. Paying market.
Claudineliterary.com
Linda Daunter @lindadaunter.bsky.social
Still don't know what I want to do when I'm grown up.
In the meantime, I write short stories, flash fiction & unfinished novels, draw, paint, take photos, garden, daydream and dance when nobody's watching.
📍NW England
🚫NO AI
🚫DMs - I can't read them!
Donna Kaye 🇵🇭 @kuya84.bsky.social Nature Lover
Proud Pinoy 🇵🇭
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Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters @asteralesjournal.bsky.social A new quarterly literary journal publishing 5 poems, 2 prose works, and original visual art. SUBS OPEN 2/1-3/15
Co-founders/editors @djvorreyer.bsky.social and @rebunting.bsky.social
http://www.asteralesjournal.com
Rachel Abbey McCafferty @ramccafferty.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Reporter. Editor.
https://rachelabbeymccafferty.com/
🌿Aspen Harding | Author✨ @aspenharding.bsky.social 🌿WEEDIE WISDOM🌿
🔆Modern Philosophy | Spiritual Insights📿
I had a break-up.
I had a breakdown.
I had a breakthrough.
Crawling my way back up from rock bottom.
Sharing insights learned along the way.
Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Founder and Editor-in-chief of Ghost Parachute literary journal. Inflatable flamingo supervisor. I knew a girl once.- B @brilliantflash.bsky.social @brilliantflash.bsky.social
WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social Author - Poet
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com ✍️ Writer & fabulist | 📝 in Electric Lit, LitMag, New Letters, SmokeLong Quarterly, Augur Magazine, Small Wonders & more | ❤️🔥 #fairytales #fantasy #speculative #flashfiction | 🔗 www.nadiaborn.com
Flash 500 Writing Competitions @flash500.bsky.social Writing competitions:
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Annual #shortstory
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Armand Rosamilia @armandauthor.bsky.social Full-time crime thriller and horror author. Drinker of bourbon
Brown Hound Press @brownhoundpress.bsky.social A small press in Lexington, KY that publishes offbeat mystery, dark humor, southern gothic & literary fiction. A free story each week! We pay authors.
brownhoundpress.com
Tap into Poetry @tapintopoetry.bsky.social 📚 Poetry Magazine est. 2022
📚 Submissions open (always!)
📚 tapintopoetry.wordpress.com
Shelley Roche-Jacques @shelleyr-j.bsky.social Writer of short fiction and dramatic monologue, connoisseur of cake, coveter of cats, lecturer of creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University.
https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/shelley-roche-jacques
Sarah McPherson @summermoth.bsky.social HE manager by day. Writer, crafter, LARPer, runner. Procrastinator extraordinaire. Lover of the fantastic. Definitely not a grown up. She/her.
Find me here: https://linktr.ee/summer_moth
Janna Miller @scribblermiller.bsky.social Librarian, writer, collector of oddities.
SmokeLong, Shenandoah, Citron Review, Best MicroFiction.
All Lovers Burn at the End of the World ('24 ELJ)
Reader at SmokeLong.
Codex and Electric Sheep member.
millersminusculemystories.com
Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social Writer. University Lecturer. North Cornwall Book Festival Director.
Editor & Co-founder at @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social.
The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social The VILLAGE 🏘 is a place where the world 🌍 feels a tiny bit smaller. Founded by SMOKELONG for the Global Flash Community
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Lori Cramer @loricramerwriter.bsky.social Writer of flash, micro, prose poetry. Longlisted for Wigleaf Top 50. Nominated for Best Microfiction, Best of the Net. Copy Editor. Baseball fan. She/her.
https://loricramerfiction.wordpress.com
Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social An online journal publishing classically inspired short stories. Now open for submissions, 1000-8000 words. Edited by @CourtlandAvenue (Dave Gregory)
https://doric-literary.com/
Timothy C Goodwin @timothycgoodwin.bsky.social Writing and acting and photography and stuff. NYC. He/him. timothycgoodwin.com
Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social Author: Pardon Me for Moonwalking (Unsolicited Press), Wild Plums (ELJ).
Contributor: Flash Fiction America (Norton),
Wigleaf 50; Best Small Fictions; Best Microfiction. Magic Eye poster in human form.
Karen Crawford @karenc.bsky.social Exorcising demons one word at a time.
🇵🇷 ✍🏽 BestMicrofiction 2025, PushcartNoms, BOTN Nom, Longlists, Wigleaf Top 50
NYC → LA
Perfect God = Lexa Gates @mx-j.bsky.social https://shop.capitolmusic.com/collections/lexa-gates
JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social The Anti-Literary Mag. Here to ruin your feeds. Closed for submissions. Read the mag at jakethemag.com.
Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social Mostly poet. Lover of road trips & long walks. Day job in microbiology.
Poems in Crowstep, Epistemic Lit, Engine Idling, & Red Room Poetry. Flash in Lit Namjooning, Glassworks & Wigleaf. Collabs in Gone Lawn & Midway Journal
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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)
Henshaw Press @presshenshaw.bsky.social Supporting new writing. Run by Hobeck Books. A new competition every quarter with the chance of winning publication and £200. PLUS our bespoke critique service. www.henshawpress.co.uk
Carolyn Griffiths @carolyngriffiths.bsky.social Dog lover, reader, published poet, anarchic tendencies. Grandmother and totally left.🇪🇺 🇬🇧🇪🇦
Reading Raindoe @readingraindoe.bsky.social Poetry: #♡ᝰ.🖋️
(𝘢𝘳𝘵, 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘴 & 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦)
#booksky 💙📚🪐
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript (Book Formatter, Cover Designer and Socials Post Maker): https://book-shelfie.com/postscript
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
Lothlorien Poetry Journal @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction and art.
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines.html
Mary Murray Bartolomé @murraybartolome.bsky.social Writing & Adventure; winner of Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize ‘24, SL in Bath Short Story, Bridport Prize, Aurora Prize, Bath Novel Award, Writer's College comp. Querying debut women’s fiction and YA novel. https://wordstaleme.wixsite.com/website
Bulb Culture Collective @bulbculture.bsky.social
Submissions OPEN for CHANDELIER: GLOWERING! 🎃
online lit space ○ light bulb bunch ○ send us your previously published writing
Editors: L.M. Cole & Jared Povanda
https://www.bulbculturecollective.com/chandelier-zine
r. p. singletary @rpsingletary.bsky.social W(e)i(r)dely published in so-called 'underground publications,' or so they said. www.rpsingletary.com
Blood+Honey @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social Blood+Honey is a new lit mag that revels in the experimental & the avant-garde, dirty and kitchen sink realism. SUBMIT your poetry, fiction, CNF, and digital art!!! SUBS Currently CLOSED!!!
EIC: @davidestringel.bsky.social
https://www.bloodhoneylit.com/
Philippa Bowe @philippabowe.bsky.social Flash fiction, poetry, translation / Micro nouvelles, poésie, traduction. Ghost City Press, NFFR, Reflex Fiction, Bath Flash Fiction, Spark2Flame, Neither Fish Nor Foul, The Hooghley Review. Pushcart Prize nom. Dance, LFC, la belle vie. Elue municipale. 🌄
Rachel M. Hollis (she/her) @rachelmhollis.bsky.social Writer of strange little heartbreaks. Sometimes I share them with people who aren’t my mom.
rachelmhollis.com
Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos @delgeo14.bsky.social Breton writer
Runner-up Novel Fair / 2X Pushcart nom / Wigleaf LL
EIC: Raw Lit Mag / Co-Founder @theprideroars.bsky.social /Contributor: Poverty House
https://delphinegg.weebly.com
https://rawlit.weebly.com
https://theprideroars.blogspot.com/
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
Ian Johnson @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social Trying (trying, very trying) writer/Dad/runner. Words in @trashcatlit.bsky.social @apricotpress.bsky.social @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social @freeflashfiction.bsky.social etc. 2026 Best of the Net nominee.
Semper Anticus Press @semperanticuspress.bsky.social Indie publisher launching soon!
Main site: www.book-shelfie.com/submissions
semperanticuspress@gmail.com
The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social A "micro" press for "micro" stories. Run by @mattkendrick.bsky.social
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press
Jupiter Jones @jupiterjonz.bsky.social Writes short stuff
Underbelly Press @underbellypress.bsky.social Uncomfortable, unfiltered pieces that aren’t afraid to investigate the underbelly of existence. Narratives exploring the overlooked, the mundane, the human.
https://linktr.ee/underbellypress
Jude P @judepickledplum.bsky.social Tea drinking fool, storyteller, humanist, voluptuary. Easily distracted by cats and reverb. Quiet voice, loud hands. Likes writers, books and awful puns.
Sara Jacobelli @sarajacobelli.bsky.social I live in New Orleans & write stories. Bartleby Snopes. Drunk Monkeys. Uproar. New York Times Metropolitan Diary. The Story Shack. Fiction on the Web. Page & Spine. First Stop Fiction. 50-Word Stories. 101 Words. Postcard Shorts. (and more!)
Robert Scott (penname) @robertscottwriter.bsky.social Edinburgh, UK
Writer-currently querying a debut novel & writing another one.
Formerly 'RD Scott' on the old birdie thing back in the day. Finally made my way over here!
Some of my short fiction:
https://robertscottwriter.wixsite.com/website
Mar Vincent @marofthebooks.bsky.social Weird little stories in Analog, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and other fantastical places. Always seeking human creativity (NO AI), coffee, and petrichor. https://www.marvincent.com/
Currently in the liminal space known as novel revisions. 📝✍️✍️
MandyH @oxfairy.bsky.social Human
Not absorbing, observing
Constantly adjusting to changes as best I can while enjoying the beauty of our planet
Power with.
Ngarrindjeri lands and ocean
Zevonesque @zevonesque.bsky.social Readerer, writerer, guitarer, real aler from Liverpool, UK. YNWA
https://linktr.ee/Zevonesque