Table Salt Press @tablesaltpress.bsky.social 🍳 an indie lit mag passing stories across the table
🌾 prose • poetry • nonfiction • essays • art • photography
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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
Ann Graham @ann-graham.bsky.social Reader, writer of short stories and poems.
I comment on short stories at http://www.ann-graham.com/
Liars' League @liarsleague.bsky.social Writers write, actors read. Top 10 Story Night (@TheGuardian.com) Account by LL Director Katy Darby
NEXT SHOW: Liars' League X @fitzroviafutures
Mon 7 Sep @7.30pm
Tickets £5 online / £7 door
Venue: Fitzrovia Chapel, W1
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Broad Ripple Review @broadripplereview.bsky.social Fiction | Nonfiction | Poetry | Reviews
Free submissions, always.
www.broadripplereview.com
https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/broad-ripple-review-vGnmj
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.
Finnian Burnett @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social Cat person, writer, presenter, Star Trek fan. THE PRICE OF COOKIES, REDSHIRTS SOMETIMES SURVIVE flash fiction collections. Queer AF. Definitely not cool. They/them/tired. #flashfiction finnburnett.com
Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social San Francisco Bay Area writer and educator. Flash fiction and cnf in SmokeLong, Bending Genres, Atlas and Alice, The Forge, Ghost Parachute, Craft & elsewhere.Poetry in journals such as New Ohio Review, Plume, Hunger Mountain and Cincinnati R. (she/her)
@flashficfestuk.bsky.social @flashficfestuk.bsky.social Online and in person flashfiction events. Next online festival day Oct. Next in person festival 17-19 July 2026 flashfictionfestival.com
Belladonna's Garden @bdglit.bsky.social A curated literary magazine of stories & poems. Submit your work — we’re listening. www.belladonnasgardenlit.com
https://linktr.ee/Bdg.lit
@wildfirewords.bsky.social @wildfirewords.bsky.social Non-profit online publisher of poetry and short fiction as TEXT WITH AUDIO. All year round publication opportunities with free submission windows & competitions with cash prizes. wildfire-words.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
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
The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to prose, poetry, comics, essays, humor, hybrid, and everything in-between.
www.bulbregion.com
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 
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.
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/
Melissa Flores Anderson @melissacuisine.bsky.social Flash, CNF, short stories and unpublished novels. Reader/Editor Roi Fainéant Press. 4x BOTN nom, 1x Pushcart nom. Chapbook "A Body in Motion" (JAKE). Novelette "Roadkill" (ELJ Editions). ""All and Then None of You" (Cowboy Jamboree).
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
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/
Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social Curious. Clever. Quick. 🐈⬛
Monthly Magazine for Micro Prose
Free to sub. Paying market.
Claudineliterary.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.
Contemporary Anglophone Lit PhD.
https://linktr.ee/emhall47
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
Kathryn Kulpa @writesofkathryn.bsky.social Will write for coffee. Mostly flash, mostly fiction.
Work in BULL, Centaur, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, HAD, Milk Candy, SmokeLong, TrashCat, Wigleaf, YIV.
Chapbooks: A Map of Lost Places; For Every Tower, a Princess; Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted.
The Disappointed Housewife~Submissions always open! @offbeatlit.bsky.social Fiction, essays, and poetry – along with unclassifiable writings, photos, and drawings – that challenge readers and bend their brains, while maintaining the highest levels of style and substance. Editor novelist Kevin Brennan.
Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com She/her. I write books about carriages, corsets, and smartwatches. Mother of (emoji) dinosaurs 🦖🦕. 羽生結弦 fan. Fan of tea. Born at 332 ppm.
This biography should not be taken as a complete description.
courtneymilan.com
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.
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
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
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
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
Flash 500 Writing Competitions @flash500.bsky.social Writing competitions:
Quarterly #flashfiction
Annual #shortstory
Annual #novels
London Independent Story Prize C.I.C @londonistoryprize.bsky.social London Independent Story Prize (LISP) is a Community Interest Company that prioritises the interests of writers and filmmakers, founded by storytellers for storytellers. 
Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social Writer. University Lecturer. North Cornwall Book Festival Director.
Editor & Co-founder at @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social.
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
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
Timothy C Goodwin @timothycgoodwin.bsky.social Writing and acting and photography and stuff. NYC. He/him. timothycgoodwin.com
Identity Theory @identitytheory.bsky.social Classic online lit mag (founded 2000). Interviews, fiction, CNF, micro, poetry, etc. We may or may not be edited by a corgi. Read us at identitytheory.com.
Rachel Abbey McCafferty @ramccafferty.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Reporter. Editor.
https://rachelabbeymccafferty.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/
Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social Author: Pardon Me for Moonwalking (Unsolicited Press), Wild Plums (ELJ).
Contributor: Flash Fiction America (Norton)
Wigleaf 50 2024, 2025; Best Small Fictions '23, '24; Best Microfiction '23
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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Read editor interviews.
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Neither fish nor foul 📖 @neitherfishnorfoul.com Www.neitherfishnorfoul.com an online magazine where craft and quirk meet
#writerscommunity
Editor @jackmmorris.bsky.social
Karen Crawford @karenc.bsky.social Exorcising demons one word at a time.
🇵🇷 ✍🏽 BestMicrofiction 2025, PushcartNoms, BOTN Nom, Longlists, Wigleaf Top 50
NYC → LA
Gillian O’Shaughnessy @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social ▪️Relentless optimist.
▪️Salt City Runaway, debut story collection out in 2026
▪️Sub Editor- SmokeLong Quarterly
▪️Best Small Fictions 23, 24, 25.
Mixed Bag @m-ixedbag.bsky.social Writer, Mom, Polyglot. Editor @lit-namjooning.bsky.social, Subs Editor @Smokelong. Words: BSF'23 @hexliterary,@tinymolecules @barrelhouse @BoothAJournal @wigleaf
Published work here: linktr.ee/hemanataraju
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
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
Hobeck Books @hobeckbooks.bsky.social Trad Values, Indie Spirit. Family-run independent publisher of thrillers, crime, and suspense. Publishers: Adrian Hobart and Rebecca Collins.
Carolyn Griffiths @carolyngriffiths.bsky.social Dog lover, reader, published poet, anarchic tendencies. Grandmother and totally left.🇪🇺 🇬🇧🇪🇦
Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk Online poetry magazine posting daily. We publish & review poetry, prose, filmpoems, word & image and print publish as IS&T Press. Editing internships. Posts by Sabine Wilson-Patrick & Kate Birch.
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
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
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
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
@exeterwriters.bsky.social @exeterwriters.bsky.social 
Bristol Short Story Prize @bristolshortstory.bsky.social The Bristol Short Story Prize is an international writing competition hosted by the Department of English at the University of Bristol.
https://bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Susmita Bhattacharya @susmitab.bsky.social Writer. Educator. Dreamer.
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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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/
Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com A webjournal publishing short fiction, book reviews, a weekly newsletter, & whatever else happens at http://www.necessaryfiction.com. Doing our best since 2009.
Posts by http://shimmer.bsky.social. 
MoonLit Getaway @mgliterary.bsky.social Remarkable artwork, fiction, and poetry.
MoonLitGetaway.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.
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
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
Peatsmoke Journal @psmokejournal.bsky.social Online literary journal committed to diverse voices, accessibility, and to writers. Fiction, nonfiction, poems, flash, hybrid, art.
peatsmokejournal.com
Curtis Brown Creative @cbcreative.bsky.social Start your story with expert teaching from acclaimed authors, leading literary agents and top publishers. Writing courses online and in London.
https://www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/
Elly Bookman @ellybookman.bsky.social Poet & Educator. Author of Love Sick Century. I try to give the best words to the most people.
www.ellybookman.com
European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social Travelling salon and writing community - connecting writers across Europe and beyond. Posts by @royakhatiblou.bsky.social and @deborahzafer.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/europeanwriterssalon
Baltimore Review @baltimorereview.bsky.social A literary journal, founded in 1996, publishing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. https://baltimorereview.org/ 
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/
Paragraph Planet @paragraphplanet.bsky.social #writing website publishing 75-word #flashfiction every day http://www.paragraphplanet.com
Zevonesque @zevonesque.bsky.social Readerer, writerer, guitarer, real aler from Liverpool, UK. YNWA
https://linktr.ee/Zevonesque
Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social We’re a literary journal that’s totally bonkers-in-love with voice-driven writing, pop culture, and the kind of honesty that gets you right in the kidneys.
Posts: @carolinamata.bsky.social, AJ Jolish & @emotes206.bsky.social
https://splitlipthemag.com/
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
@kawalker.bsky.social @kawalker.bsky.social Draws. Paints. Writes short. Is short. Has a tall dog. Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fiction & Best Microfiction noms. 2025 Best Microfiction Anthology
Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social Magazine & Press edited by @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @petermcallister.bsky.social | short fiction | flash | non-fiction | concrete, vispo, experimental | prose, poetry & hybrid chapbooks
https://inkfishmag.com
Patience Mackarness @patiencemackarness.bsky.social Writer, grandmother, tree-hugger. Born in Hampshire, now in rural Brittany, with pitstops in Leeds, Portugal, Wales, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Liverpool. I write flash fiction and other things.
Michaela Tamma @michaelatamma.bsky.social Writer, teacher, suburban hermit. Born on the Venetian terraferma, based in Finland. Published fiction shortlisted for Bath Flash Fiction Award, Fish Publishing Flash Fiction Prize. Venetia Esoterica on Substack.
michaelatamma.substack.com
Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social CNF Editor Pithead Chapel • Smokelong Fellow • Bath Flash Fiction Winner • Storyknife • Anthology of Rural Stories by Writers of Color • Best Small Fictions • Words in River Teeth Beautiful Things, In Short, NWWQ, Cutleaf, Waxwing, 100 Word Story & more
Kathryn Silver-Hajo @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social WOLFSONG (stories) ROOTS OF THE BANYAN TREE (YA novel). Atticus, Citron, CRAFT, Dribble Drabble, Emerge, Ghost Parachute, Gooseberry Pie, New Flash Fic Rev, Pithead Chapel, RUBY Lit. Best Microfic, Best Small Fics, BOTN, Pushcart noms, Wigleaf longlist
Frances Badgett @francesbad.bsky.social In the words of the great philosopher Paris Hilton, Sliving is my cardio.
The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the world’s best new writing.
http://theberlinliteraryreview.com
Catherine Ogston @catherineogston.bsky.social Flash fiction, short stories and longer fiction. YA ms going out on submission. Rep: Al Guthrie, The North Literary. 2026 Scriever for the Federation of Writers (Scotland).
Anne Summerfield @summerwriter.bsky.social Writes flash and other fiction.