Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social Bath Flash Fiction Winner • Smokelong Fellow • Storyknife • 2025 Best Small Fictions • Anthology of Rural Stories by Writers of Color • words in River Teeth Beautiful Things NWWQ Cutleaf and others • dawntasakasteffler.com
Zoe Davis @meanerharker.bsky.social Writer and avid doodler with words in the likes of Strix, Ink Sweat and Tears and Dust. 2x BotN nom. Forward Prize Nom. Lives in Sheffield UK. Interested in comics, computer games and sports. Member of Sheffield Eagles Wheelchair Rugby Club.
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.
Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com Canadian writer in Scotland (via Denmark (got lost on the way home (sorry mom))) | Pushcart nominated | Placed/listed: BFFA, Bridport Prize, Welkin Prize, others | Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig | She/Her
erinbondo.com
Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social writer, editor, axolotl with a pretty good throwing arm
Out now: Songs from the Blimp Ruins, a flash collection. Published by Silverbacked Punk: https://qgyjj4z.s.gy/sTuEPy Signed copies available (message me).
https://neutralspaces.co/patforan/
Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social We publish flash fiction and non-fiction narratives (<500 words) on self-care aka #namjooning. Editors:
@m-ixedbag.bsky.social, @lakshgiri.bsky.social, @lumchanmfa.bsky.social
https://literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam
literarynamjooning@gmail.com
Oxford Flash Fiction Prize @oxfordflashfiction.bsky.social Oxford has inspired some of the greatest writers and poets in the world, and we’re here to expand its legacy into flash fiction.
Neal @nealko.bsky.social Books. Runs. Words. Not necessarily in that order. 
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. 🌄
Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social We're a creative writing research centre based at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, organising and posting both research and community writing events. We repost lit subs calls!
https://creativeshowcase.aru.ac.uk/research/cambridge-writing-centre/
Ben Siddall @bensiddallmusic.bsky.social Musician bloke in Ilkley
Jo Dutton @jodutton.bsky.social Committing crimes to paper 📝 Wells Lit Fest 2nd 25 @writementor mentee 23, NID Hon Mention 22, Yeovil Children’s Book SL 22, Room 204, DYCP, Stafford Litfest winner 20
Joanna Campbell @joannacampbell.bsky.social Author of novel: Instructions For the Working Day
Debra Daniel @debdanthewriter.bsky.social Writer of flash fiction and poetry, singer.
David Swann @daveswann.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Twisted firestarter. 
Hannah Weatherill @hannahweatherill.bsky.social Literary and Book-to-Screen Agent at @watsonlittle.bsky.social
D.B. Miller @dbmillerwriter.bsky.social Short fiction, CNF, offbeat profiles & attempts to capture the obliterating power of live music | dbmillerwriter.com | http://instagram.com/dbmwr | Coeditor https://thewoolfx.com 
Sarah Wenham @sarahinilkley.bsky.social Lives in Ilkley West Yorkshire , UK. Former sport academic @Sheffield Hallam for 18yrs; Crossed over to Uni of Leeds professional services (employability/careers) Now sits somewhere in the middle trying to bridge the divide
The Bridport Prize @bridportprize.bsky.social 📝 Worldwide creative writing comp
📝 Over £20K prize pot
📝 Alumni inc Kate Atkinson
📝 Honorary Patron Kit de Waal
📝 Raises funds for Bridport Arts Centre
The views of contributors do not reflect the views of The Bridport Prize.
bridportprize.org.uk
Judy Darley @judydarley.bsky.social Writer & daydreamer living by the Somerset coast. Author of fiction collections #TheStairsAreASnowcappedMountain, #SkyLightRain (https://bit.ly/3zlfK7Q) & #RememberMeToTheBees. Workshop leader/journalism/brand engagement.
Jen Rowe @tiptreejen.bsky.social Writer (Apex Book Co. anthol./Fly on the Wall/Bath Flash Fiction), Improviser/Actor, Workshop facilitator, Voiceover. Student of botanical painting & Countryside Management. Dog obsessive. @tiptreejen for all things.
Malina @iridescentwords.bsky.social Writer of literary and speculative fiction. Published in Odin by Flame Tree Press, Cast of Wonders, Gwyllion, Ellipsis, Eye to the Telescope, WestWord Journal, NFFD Antho & more.
Elisabeth Ingram Wallace @ingramwallace.bsky.social writer
elisabethingramwallace.com
Sarah Oakes @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social A visually impaired writer and musician in love with krakens and science fiction. Pagan soul. Debut sci fi novel The Jewels of Inglorious Fortune on KIndle.
Amy Probst @amyprobst.bsky.social Writer, typewriter poet, instructional designer, saver of worms, lover of dogs and trees. Raised blue-collar intellectual. Memoir in the works.
Workshops: amyprobst.com
I love Drummond Island.
Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social Κλεοπάτρα 🇨🇾 Writer, editor, translator | Stories in: swamp pink, HAD, Tiny Molecules, Flash Flood, Claudine, Raw Lit | she/her
Shortlisted, Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction
Best Small Fictions & Best of the Net nominee
kleopatraolympiou.com
JY Saville @jysaville.bsky.social Writer, reader, northerner. Not necessarily in that order.
See also https://jacquelinesaville.substack.com/ and https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/jysaville/episodes/Episode-1-Sourdough-Starter-e1sbf5r
Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social Poet.
Portrait in Mustard - Seren Books.
PhD candidate: Barbara Hepworth,
Creative Writing & Art History - MMU.
Agent: Laetitia Rutherford at WatsonLittle.
The Failing Writers Podcast @failingwriters.bsky.social A podcast for anyone who’s ever dreamed of being a writer… then got distracted by a video of a cat being frightened by a cucumber.
https://podfollow.com/the-failing-writers-podcast
Andy Lavender @andylavender.bsky.social Sometime #Flashfiction writer, frequent procrastinator. Stories in Dribble Drabble Review, WestWord, 101 Words, Fudoki Magazine, Visual Verse and various Flash Fiction Anthologies. Based in South West UK
Mike Fox @polyscribe70.bsky.social Short story writer, delinquent poetry reader. Ballerini Book Press, Fictive Dream, The Lonely Press, Confingo, Fragmented Voices, Structo, Nightjar Press, Salt Publishing, Exacting Clam
polyscribe.co.uk
fcmalby @fcmalby.bsky.social Novels, short fiction, poetry. People’s Book Awards winner, Litro Flash Award, Publication of the Year, Spillwords Press. Stories in five print anthologies.
https://linktr.ee/fcmalby
Smylers @smylers.uk Ilkley Christian geek board-gamer puzzle/quiz/crossword fan and parent
Carol Carman @carolcarman.bsky.social Writer of comedy fantasy, short stories, poetry.
Very low giggle threshold.
Books: Gingerbread Children; Twicetime; Sticky Ends
Web: https://mccawmedia.co.uk/
info@mccawmedia.co.uk
Cathy Galvin @cathygalvin.bsky.social Poet| Journalist| Forthcoming Bloodaxe Books https://tinyurl.com/3vn47pbb |Founder Word Factory| Director The Tablet
National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand @natflashficdaynz.bsky.social New Zealand's biggest celebration of the smallest form of fiction -- 22 June
The Reader Berlin @thereaderberlin.bsky.social ✍️ Berlin's Platform for Creative Writers since 2011 ✍️
www.thereaderberlin.com
Creative Writing Workshops & Writing Classes / Mentoring / Readings / The Berlin Writing Prize
Channel Press @channelpress.bsky.social Words that connect 🍃 Ireland's home for writing on ecological entanglement, funded by the Arts Council.
Denise Bayes @deniseb.bsky.social Flash fiction and short story writer. Free Flash. Ellipsis zine. 100 Word Story. Firewords.Roi Faient. NFFD Anthology. Temple in a City. Thin Skin. Flash Amiga.
The Pushcart Prize @pushcartprize.bsky.social Featuring the best short stories, poems, essays annually since 1976.
http://pushcartprize.com/
Jon Rand @jonrand.bsky.social Voiceover ont’ telly. Podcaster @failingwriters.bsky.social. Writer… one day… maybe
Cheryl Markosky @cherylmarkosky.bsky.social Journalist, theatre reviewer, short fiction writer, fan of The Archers and lighthouses especially on Prince Edward Island
Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb' the Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice: "some of the most moving, restrained, memorable and technically adroit poetry of our times" --- TLS, 3/25
Julia Chapman @juliachapman.bsky.social Writer with permanent wanderlust. Author of the Dales Detective Series, the Two-Tone Detectives Series, and the Fogas Chronicles (as Julia Stagg). Love cycling. Fell running. And the Dales.
Ilkley Manor House @ilkleymanorhouse.bsky.social Explore our museum, art gallery, & venue - a Grade I-listed manor atop Roman fort remains. Open for FREE on weekends, 11am-4pm. Find our events here: linktr.ee/ilkleymanorhouse
TheBookshop on the Square-Otley @bksotsquare.bsky.social Otley’s independent bookshop, right in the heart of this wonderful Yorkshire market town. Carefully curated- beautiful books, the best greetings cards, stationery and gifts.
Ilkley Chat @ilkleychat.bsky.social Ilkley Chat is home of Ilkley news and information - online, Facebook, X, Instagram, Threads and on here! Please contact via ilkleychat.co.uk
The Grove Bookshop @grovebookshop.bsky.social One of the North of England's best-known independent bookshops, situated in Ilkley, gateway to the Yorkshire Dales.
Linktr.ee/Grovebookshop
The Lonely Crowd @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social Literary journal — thelonelycrowd.org
https://linktr.ee/thelonelycrowd
Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social I’m not terrific but I’m competent
All bookings via website www.jancarson.co.uk
Dr Catherine Menon @catherinemenon.bsky.social Author "Fragile Monsters" (2021), from Penguin and "Subjunctive Moods" (2018), from Dahlia Publishing. Principal Lecturer in AI ethics and robotics at University of Hertfordshire.
@bathshortstory.bsky.social @bathshortstory.bsky.social 
MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social Historically inaccurate
He/him
https://www.mooseallain.co.uk
June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social Writing Place, Writing Planet, UCD & iCRAG 2026 | Lamplight Fellowship 2025 | Literature Bursary Award 2025 | Moth Short Story Prize 2024 | 'Somebody' exhibition, MoLi 2020-2021 | 📖 Room Little Darker 2018/17 | https://papervisualart.com/product/pva-17/
Levenshulme Old Library @levyoldlibrary.bsky.social A 1904 Carnegie Library building in Levenshulme now housing a community-powered art and culture charity.
https://levenshulmeoldlibrary.org.uk/
Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of modern, classic and translated poetry, and the bi-monthly literary journal @pnreview.bsky.social.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/CarcanetPress
Peepal Tree Press @peepaltreepress.bsky.social Publisher of Caribbean and Black British books. Proudly decolonising bookshelves since 1985.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/peepaltreepress
And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social Not-for-profit press led by readers, writers & translators. Consider subscribing to help us take publishing risks. http://andotherstories.org/subscriptions/
Saraband Books @saraband-books.bsky.social Award-winning independent publisher of distinctive, unforgettable fiction and outstanding non-fiction.
Visit our website https://saraband.net/ 
Francesca Brooks @francescabrooks.bsky.social Lecturer in Old English at University College Cork. Writer of poetry & prose. Early Medievalist, Late Modernist, Feminist. Author of 'Poet of the Medieval Modern'. Find more of my writing at https://francescabrooks.com/
SI Leeds Literary Prize @sileedslitprize.bsky.social SI Leeds Literary Prize is a biennial national award for unpublished fiction by UK based Black and Asian women writers. 2024 winner: Maeve Clarke. 2026 prize judging underway.
https://www.sileedsliteraryprize.com/
Cheshire Novel Prize @saranaidinecox.bsky.social www.cheshirenovelprize.com
Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social Indie Publisher of historical fiction, championing authors and stories based in Northern England and Scotland. SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
Ted Northodox @tednorthodox.bsky.social Sheffield, UK. Dreamer. Metalhead. General nuisance. Co-owner of Northodox Press. 🎶I like big books and I cannot lie🎶
Karen Powell @karenpowellwrites.bsky.social FIFTEEN WILD DECEMBERS shortlisted Nero Book Awards 2023; a best historical fiction book of 2023 (The Times); THE RIVER WITHIN (2020) Northern Writers' Award; @EuropaEdUK; https://linktr.ee/karenpowellwrites
Ilkley Literature Festival @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social The north of England's longest-running literature festival.
Coming in 2025: 3-19 October 2025.
#ILF25 | Produced by @thewordupnorth.bsky.social
Clare Shaw @clareshawpoet.bsky.social Poet. I love moss, mudlarking and broken things. Proud to be Northern, non-binary and neurodivergent. 
Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social Manc independent publisher with a conscience.
M.D. Isabelle Kenyon
2024 North England Winner Small Press of Year!
Sustainable, political and accessible
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk
Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of short fiction from the UK & beyond. Championing the next generation of writers & translators. Shares do not equal endorsements.
Find us at: https://commapress.co.uk/
Matt Hill @matthill.bsky.social Writer. New novel LAMB out now from Dead Ink: mthill.co.uk/lamb
Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social Cacoethes - a bisexual sugar baby coming-of-age novel - out now: https://www.northodox.co.uk/product-page/cacoethes-paperback 🩷💜💙
🌻 I'm like if an old man was a girl. She/her.
📍Manchester(ish)
Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social Poet and non-fiction writer. Latest poetry collection "All The Men I Never Married" won the 2022 Forward Prize. Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Substack: https://shorturl.at/Ea3sI
Jenn Ashworth @jennashworth.bsky.social Writer, reader, hiker https://linktr.ee/jenn_ashworth
Dave Haslam @davehaslam.bsky.social Hacienda DJ, journalist (Guardian, LRB, etc), writer (recent books about Sylvia Plath, Keith Haring, Picasso). “An exceptional writer” - Olivia Laing.
Phil Olsen @liverpolsen.bsky.social Writer of s(h)orts | Continuing Education Creative Writing Tutor at Uni of Liverpool | Contributing Editor at Vestal Review | Stories in Cōnfingō #16, Strix #8 | https://polsen.co.uk | https://linktr.ee/liverpolsen
Rosie Garland @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social Writer, March Violet, secret medievalist, FRSL✨
Not cynical; just been taking notes.
Novels:The Fates(Quercus)
Palace of Curiosities, Vixen, Night Brother(Borough)
Poems:Nine Arches
March Violets: @marchvioletsband.bsky.social
http://www.rosiegarland.com
Isabelle Kenyon @isabellekenyon.bsky.social Editor & #bookmarketing consultant 📚 Poet and Novelist.
M.D. @fly_press
FutureBook Awards Future Leader Finalist 2024
Novel The Dark Within Them out now🔥
David Hartley @davidhartley.bsky.social Writer of weird tales | FAUNA, with Fly on the Wall | INCORCISMS, with Arachne Press | Writer-in-residence for Prima Vista in Tartu, Estonia | Manchester, UK
Kate Feld @katefeld.bsky.social Poet and essayist. Journalism lecturer at the University of Salford. Vermonter in Manchester, UK. Debut chapbook DEERYARD out with Death of Workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers. katefeld.com
Zena Barrie @zenabarrie.bsky.social Author & co-director of Camden Fringe
Writes things, reads things, goes to watch things
www.zenabarrie.com
Beth Underdown @bethunderdown.bsky.social Novelist with Penguin Viking, creative writing teacher with the University of Manchester and Faber Academy. Hiking, gardening, crochet, coeliac disease: old-person stuff.
Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social 🎵 Music writer for Electronic Sound, veteran blogger, short story author
🎤 Comedian (Title Fight, Glang Show, A Lovely Time)
🍊 Operations droog for Anthony Burgess Foundation
💢 Was a sentient tower (grrrrrr)
Read my blog: https://fatroland.blogspot.com.
Benjamin Judge @benjaminjudge.bsky.social Writer. Reader.
I have decided to draw every species of bird even though I'm not very good at drawing birds. Why not, eh? Birds are cool.
benjaminjudge.com
David Gaffney @ggaffa.bsky.social Writer, Arts Council manager, musician. Concrete Fields (Salt 2023) Out Of The Dark (Confingo 2021) graphic novel Rivers (Top Shelf 2021) www.davidgaffney.org
Mon Dickson @mondickson.bsky.social Writer. Dentist try-hard. Cornflakes uptight. She/her.
#FlashFiction & #ShortStories at Temple in a City | Anti Heroin Chic | Splonk | jmww | X-RAY + more. Best small fictions nominee 2026. NSSF Academy graduate. https://writingandthelike.wordpress.com/
Judith Wilson @judithwrites.bsky.social Author & journalist. My book ‘Beautifully Casual Home’ was published May 2024. Writer of short stories, novel in progress. Books, interiors, writing and the sea. www.judithwilsonwrites.com
Dan Thompson @mrdanthompson.bsky.social Writer of fiction, creative non-fiction and stories for the media.📚🖥️📰 ✍🏻
Creative Writing Alumni University of Cambridge.
Interested in writing of all kinds including for the screen, stage, prose, poetry and VSS.
Emm 🦋📚🇬🇧 @emmhenderson.bsky.social Developmental editor. Addicted to politics, crime fiction and black coffee.
MA Creative Writing (Brunel)
Writing workshops and 1:1’s.
Lit event organiser.
CIEP 🦋💙
📍 Harrogate, UK
No DMs.
Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social Drama and fiction writer. MONSTROUS LONGING out with Dahlia Books.
Agents: Independent Talent / The Ampersand Agency
Brit List 2022 / BAFTA Connect member / 4Screenwriting / BBC TV Drama Writers' Programme.
https://linktr.ee/abifahynes
Vanessa Gebbie @vanessageb.bsky.social Writer, still.
Nancy Freund @nancyfreund.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Wife, Mom & Mum. #T1D. Mostly vegan. Cambridge & UCLA & just finished year 1, CW PhD @Brunel! 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇭 My mom painted the above. She was amazing.
Julia Silk @juliasreading.bsky.social Agent at Greyhound Literary. Books. Cats. Daughters. Never knowingly underdressed. Don’t care who you are, it’s all about the stories.
📚 Watching You by Lisa Jewell
🎧 Bella Freud's Fashion Neurosis
Buttermuffin @indigoapplepie.bsky.social If you follow my account I will probably block you lol
Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social novelist/translator/reader, here for the sharpened pencils, books & writing talk, for all things language and foliage, for all the shiny things & shadows. (Eng, Fr, 日本語, Ital) Rep'd by Simon Trewin.
www.michellebailatjones.com
Daniel DiFranco @danieldifranco.bsky.social Writer. Musician. Teacher. | Novels: PANIC YEARS (2018), DEVIL ON MY TRAIL (2024)| lover of books, cats, records, and cemeteries | sub. editor @SmokeLongQuarterly | knows his profile pic is pretentious
Alys Wilfred Earl @alysdragon.bsky.social Writer, aesthete, reprobate.
Writes as A W Earl (and, previously, Alys Earl) but you can call me Fred.
Has sword, will travel. They/them.
Josh Denslow @joshdenslow.bsky.social High-functioning slacker.
Anna De Vaul @dranna.bsky.social Writer, editor, lecturer, PhD. Works with SmokeLong Quarterly and Nimrod Journal. Poetry collection with Unsolicited Press (USA), chapbook with Valley Press (UK).
Dave Clapper @anhourofplay.bsky.social He/him
Improviser in Kansas City (mostly at The Bird)
Alumnus of Unexpected Productions (Seattle)
Founding Editor (Emeritus): SmokeLong Quarterly
Currently reading fiction submissions for FRiGG
I don't auto follow back people I don't know personally.
Abby Feden @aefeden.bsky.social Fiction PhD @ OkState | she/her
abbyfeden.com