Sol J Brager @soljbrager.bsky.social Author of graphic novel HEAVYWEIGHT (William Morrow 2024). Historian, teacher, cartoonist. Mostly drawing comics, doing research. https://solomonbrager.com/
Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-novel-festival-contests/
Vicki Madden @vlmadden.bsky.social Teacher, very slow writer, lover of libraries & trains.
Essays:
Heart Problems in A Public Space (Pushcart Notable)
and The New York Times
Rewilding my 1/3 acre garden, mending and darning socks and my little corner of the world
vickimadden.net
Christina M Rau The Yoga Poet @christinamrau.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/christinamrau
Poet in Residence Cedarmere & Oceanside *Poet of the Year WWBA * CYT 200* L1 Reiki *Old soul young spirit *Incredibly witty except for right here right now
Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social Musicologist, editor of really big books, player of assorted string instruments, retired Jeopardy! champion; opinions are my own, not my employer’s
Raymond Fortunato @raymondfortunato.bsky.social Raymond Fortunato is a member of the Dramatists Guild, has written two plays, and two collections of short stories, and four music albums. The Hypokrisis Mirror and Other Stories comes out May 5, 2026.
https://linktr.ee/raymondfortunato
Scott Polhemus @polhem.us Civic tech guy and Spider-Man nerd living in Brooklyn.
Blog: https://polhem.us
Pics: @img.polhem.us
Crown Inn Reading Series @crowninnreadings.bsky.social Readings in backyard of Crown Heights bar The Crown Inn, First & Third Mondays. Emerging Writers series + Poets Nights. Affiliate of Franklin Park Reading Series. Email: crowninnreadingseries@gmail.com.
Katie Moulton @kjmoulton.bsky.social writer. mostly here for @marchxness.bsky.social!
JornalistaJosenildoMelo @josenildonmelo.bsky.social Estudou direito. Bacharel em Serviço Social. Licenciado em Filosofia. Acesse diariamente https://www.gazetahora1.com/ Jornalismo de Qualidade!
Prose City @prosecity.bsky.social Your grassroots literary community in Portland, Oregon — founded by Portlanders who love all things reading, writing, conversation, and community. Learn more and join us for an upcoming gathering: www.ProseCity.org #pdx #books #pnw
Vicki Meagher, Writer @vickimeagher.bsky.social Novelist and playwright in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA; AI-free
See http://vickimeagher.com
Democrat. No tyrants, no kings, no dictators
I mute suspected trolls and accounts that make nasty comments or defeatist comments
Deena ElGenaidi @deenaelg.bsky.social debut novel DUST SETTLES NORTH out 2025
pre-order: https://bookshop.org/p/books/dust-settles-north-deena-elgenaidi/21660445
words in vulture, nylon, salon, catapult, insider, longreads, & more
deenaelgenaidi.com
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Kailee Pedersen @kaileepedersen.bsky.social THE MINIMALIST (St. Martin's '26)
PASTORALE (Burnside Review '25)
SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS (St. Martin’s + Titan '24)
writer/opera singer/swe | 🏳️🌈🇨🇳 adoptee | she/her
rep: Paul Lucas @ Regal Hoffmann
kaileepedersen.com
Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social Playwright & writer. Debut novel LOVE CAN’T FEED YOU (Dutton/Penguin Random House) out now! Senior Prose Editor at Adroit Journal www.chapter1.media
Dare to Karaoke @daretokaraoke.bsky.social 🎤 The NYC karaoke night with a game show twist! Next show: Thurs, July 23 @ Francis Kite Club (40 Avenue C). Tix: https://daretokaraoke.short.gy/G5N8Bb. Hosted by Charles Kilbourne + Mx. Tiffany Leigh (@tiffanyleigh.bsky.social)
David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social I read and write and listen to music. A lot. Mostly in Brooklyn. Largehearted Boy is my website.
@herminemeinhard.bsky.social @herminemeinhard.bsky.social 
Aaron Jacobs @itsaaronjacobs.bsky.social Handsome Boy Modeling School MFA
TIME WILL BREAK THE WORLD (2023), THE ABUNDANT LIFE (2018)
aaronjacobswrites.com
kristina kearns @kristinakearns.bsky.social publishing and nonprofit consultant
formerly fitzcarraldo and mcsweeney's
currently resides elsewhere
Tope Hall @topehall.bsky.social Adventures of Slothy and Lord Thrilling
alyssa @smalljawn.bsky.social most of you will probably know me already from my extensive canon of chillers
words in the brooklyn review, @pitheadchapel, subnivean, evocations review, and beyond
substack.com/@hyperorfixation
Shayne Terry @shayneterry.bsky.social Leave: A Postpartum Account out now from Autofocus Books!
Work in American Chordata, Catapult, Chicago Review of Books, Triquarterly, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere.
Glad to be here. ✨
Book Works @bookworks.bsky.social Established in 1984, Book Works is a contemporary arts organisation dedicated to making and publishing books.
https://bookworks.org.uk
Paul Ford @ftrain.com Aboard.com and Ftrain.com. Not steadily here. If you need me: ford@ftrain.com.
Claudia Rojas @claudidaudi.bsky.social she/her/ella, Teacher Librarian, book and podcast junkie, first gen, hija de inmigrantes, fur mamá, Tía, Nina, world traveler, board gamer, concert goer, Wordler, SoCal native, Chicana
CR 📚 Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González
@anenome25.bsky.social @anenome25.bsky.social 
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
@finnagain2.bsky.social @finnagain2.bsky.social Mentor, Professor, Author, Painter, Documentaries, ... more to come. Say hello.
Kindness is Contagious.
Create the ideal world we want, not what we just left behind.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing".
@karamsameer776.bsky.social @karamsameer776.bsky.social I'm Karam Samir, I'm 19 years old from Gaza🇵🇸❤️
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Arianna Rebolini @ariannarebolini.bsky.social Better: A Memoir About Wanting to Die is out now!!!!!
https://linktr.ee/ariannarebolini
@jim.wtf @jim.wtf 
Darby I. @lidlesseye.bsky.social mixed-use work in progress
"I think the joke is on... I don't know who the joke is on, really. I don't even know if there is a joke."
Cat Wei @catwei.bsky.social poet, writer, dancer
writing in Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, The Slowdown podcast | Bread Loaf | Tin House
linktr.ee/catwei
Devour the Air @devourtheair.bsky.social Ben Lasman + Ryan Spencer (@ryanspencerphoto.bsky.social)
doom + gloom since 2024 // based in NY + LA
DEBUT LP: DESTROYERS our 12/5!
https://devourtheair.bandcamp.com/album/destroyers
@nicoletreska.bsky.social @nicoletreska.bsky.social 
River Bullock @riverbullock.bsky.social Reader-writer-curator. Lives and works in the sky.
Ryan Spencer @ryanspencerphoto.bsky.social photographer, etc | https://www.ryanspencerphoto.com
sometimes drums | @devourtheair.bsky.social
new book out now from TBW | https://tbwbooks.com/products/there-is-no-light-in-the-tunnel-because-the-tunnel-is-made-of-light- N 🇺🇸 @n976wow.bsky.social
Susan Schirl Smith @sschirlsmith.bsky.social Writer. Photographer. Holistic nurse. I'll be In the woods or by the sea. Words: Reckon Review, Kind Over Matter, Cognoscenti, Pangyrus. Photos: Barren Magazine
Korra Saqqara (Christa Angelios) @metamythica.bsky.social 💀 Studying the Gothic at MMU
📖 Literary Coach & Freelance Editor, MetaMythica Literary
🐧 Former Random Penguin; Columbia Publishing Course alum
Member: EFA, ACES, PEN
She/Her
#SWANAinPublishing #AmWriting #AmEditing #Folklore #Horror #SFF 👻
Opinions my own
@helenthemelon.bsky.social @helenthemelon.bsky.social 
{ ShadowMancer } ...the game @pro-cess.bsky.social "...if your world is shocking, you become a person...if your person is subtle...you become a world..."
#burythepowerlines #ifttt
wildbrine.com
findhelp.org
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.softpulse.find.parked.car.location
Brooklyn Book Festival @bkbookfest.bsky.social Largest Free Literary Festival in New York.
https://linktr.ee/bkbookfest
2026 Dates
Virtual Festival Day: September 20
Children's Day: September 26
Festival Day: September 27
City-wide Bookends: September 20-28
@li4iop3.bsky.social @li4iop3.bsky.social 
Jolene McIlwain @jolenemcilwain.bsky.social Writer ✏️| SIDLE CREEK (Melville House) NPR & Library Journal Best Books of 2023📕 | Outside Kid 🌿| Motocross Fan 🏁 | HipCamp | Gardener 🪴| Scuba Mom 🤿 | www.jolenemcilwain.com
Noella 🐞 @flwrpwrart.bsky.social i love hip hop, art, books & bugs 🕷️🐛🦋🏳️🌈🇨🇻 always anti-capitalism, anti-imperialism & anti-fascism
Delia @therealdeliab.bsky.social editorial / marketing / publicity / art cataloger gal
also just another writer and cat lady
generally offline
Pete's Reading Series @petesreading.bsky.social For over 20 years, Brooklyn's premier reading series, every 3rd Thursday of the month at Pete's Candy Store. Currently hosted by Brian Gresko and Temim Fruchter. 
Daisy Atterbury @daisyatter.bsky.social Writer, faculty in American Studies and the WGSS Program at UNM ✨ author of THE KÁRMÁN LINE (2024) @rescuepress.
Daniel Nester @danielnestermfa.bsky.social Poet, nonfiction writer, editor, Queen fan, Shader. Order my new book, HARSH REALM: MY 1990s. danielnester.substack.com
Sarah Kunstler @sarahkunstler.bsky.social Public School Parent, Filmmaker, Lawyer, Abolitionist, Feminist, Jew. https://off-center.com
David W. Hardy, Esq. @hardymediation.bsky.social Atty, mediator, teacher. Lawrence, KS Advocate, MBA, former uni admin. Spouse:🧑🤝🧑@bsbadger INTJ/ENTJ 🚫DMs 🚫 Porn 🚫 Crypto 🚫 OnlyFans 🚫GoFundMe YES to int. news, sci, law, art, philos, Left pol, philanth, nature
Mary Lou Buschi @maryloubuchi.bsky.social Mary Lou Buschi (she/her) Mary Lou has 3 full length poetry collections. Her 3rd book, BLUE PHYSICS came out in February 2024 (Lily Poetry Review). PADDOCK, (2021) was also published by (LPR). 
Nicole Haroutunian @nicoleharoutunian.bsky.social Author of CHOOSE THIS NOW (Noemi Press, 2024) and SPEED DREAMING.
Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social
Writer/ Poet/ Educator/ Artist/
Host + Curator of @coupletseries.bsky.social in NYC since 2011
Creator of #staybrave substack
📚: Delicate Machine (Dzanc Books, 2027)
Ordinary Splendor (Etruscan Press, 2028)
https://linktr.ee/leahumansky
Howerd @ascensionsubud.bsky.social Upgraded human from five senses to six senses since 1980. Author of the best-seller, "Ascension" on Amazon. Type "Ascension Halay" into the Amazon search bar to get the book.
So Many Damn Books @somanydamnbooks.bsky.social book talk and cocktails, since 2014
somanydamnbooks.com
Nina Perlman @ninaperlman.bsky.social Writer, Photographer, Photo Editor
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http://scaffold.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/ninaperlman/
Sarah E. Larson @slizlarson.bsky.social Associate Professor Miami University, doggie mommy, coffee enthusiast, Peloton obsessed, research on taxation & budgeting, and social media for @publicfinance.bsky.social & @journalpa.bsky.social.
Robert Walikis @opentank.bsky.social Writer. Seeker. Swimmer. Bard.
I make maps and tell stories.
Words in Post Road, Grist Journal, PRISM International, and elsewhere.
https://robertwalikis.com
Elissa Field @elissafield.bsky.social Lit noir novels + flash | SmokeLong Submission Ed | Runner Up Killer Claymore Best Mystery | Stories in/coming SmokeLong trampset HAD Moon City Ghost Parachute Monkeybicycle Citron Review Peatsmoke CRAFT Conjunctions ++ | IG FB elissalaurenfield.com
nicole cunningham @nicolecunningham.bsky.social literary agent at trellis literary management 📚
Emily Flouton @eflouton.bsky.social Writer. Words in Massachusetts Review, The Atlantic, Tin House, The Forge, Subtropics, Passages North, Gay Magazine, Publisher's Weekly, DIAGRAM, Quarterly West, etc.| FLOW-ton | she/her | teach @lighthousewrite | rep: Eleanor Jackson
Beth Kanter @beekaekae.bsky.social Writer, teacher, workshop leader.
Hand holder
Words in: X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, Unbroken, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Cease, Cows and others.
Pushcart nominee.
www.bethkanter.com
Books: No Access DC & Great Food Finds DC…
Sarah Jane Cody is semi here @sarahjanecody.bsky.social 📖 Writer. Words: Gulf Coast, The Common, Electric Lit, Cincinnati Review, Joyland, & more. Bathrobe Gal webcomic. 👋 autistic. Rep: Jess Regel. Former Asst. Editor Pigeon Pages. she/her.
sarahjanecody.com
bathrobegal.com
Eric Sasson @sassoneric.bsky.social Fiction and nonfiction writer trying to figure out a way forward during these uncertain times. Substack.com/@ericsassonwriter
Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social Lit Agent Talcott Notch, AALA Member, Editor, Teacher, Writer of Flash Fiction Editor at @fracturedlit.bsky.social Publications: Harpur Palate, Laurel Review, Monkey Bicycle, Ghost Parachute
https://linktr.ee/tommydeanwriter
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social A literary meetingplace since 1953, City Lights is a landmark bookstore and publishing house, known for our commitment to innovative writing and progressive ideals.
Mimi Manyin @mimimanyin.bsky.social Writer. Musician. Editor | 📚 Ploughshares, Witness, Michigan Quarterly Review, Meridian, Greensboro Review etc. | 🎓MVICW Fellow, Sewanee Scholar | mimimanyin.com
KC Friedman @kcfriedman.bsky.social Contributing Editor at One Story.
Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social Award-winning author. 📍Kentucky
HAZELGREEN & OTHER HAUNTS is forthcoming in ‘27 from WVU Press;
PINEVILLE TRACE (Etchings Press)
💙 cats, trees, music | wesblake.com
thestoryprize.bsky.social @thestoryprize.bsky.social The Story Prize is an annual book award for short story collections, established in 2004. Latest winner: OTHER WORLDS by André Alexis. 2026 deadlines: 7/1 for Jan.-June pubs, 11/15 for July-Dec. thestoryprize.org
Rena J. Mosteirin @renamosteirin.bsky.social Poet. Disaster Tourism, (BOA Editions); Perceptron (punctum); Experiment 116 (Counterpath Press); Moonbit (punctum); & 2 chapbooks. Owner of Left Bank Books.Lecturer at Dartmouth College. Editor at Bloodrootlit.org
J.R. Bale @jrbale.bsky.social Author, Father, Professor, MBA, Photographer, Concerned Human in NJ.
I support fellow writers.
www.JRBale.com
I do not respond to DMs.
Travis Eisenbise @teisenbise.bsky.social (he/him/🏳️🌈) Associate Director, Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Formerly of Brooklyn. Opera enjoyer. Stories in Gulf Coast, Joyland, Masters Review Anthology X, and Denver Quarterly. Enjoying the writing community. Say hi.
traviseisenbise.com
Toni Ann Johnson @toniannj.bsky.social Novelist and short story writer
Flannery O’Connor Award for
Light Skin Gone to Waste
Screenwriter of Ruby Bridges and Step Up 2
Diane Mehta @dianemehta.bsky.social Happier Far: Essays UGAP 3/25. Tiny Extravaganzas 11/23 New Yorker, Kenyon, VQR, A Public Space. Poet in residence New Chamber Ballet. Bombay-NYC
Books: https://www.dianemehta.net/
Editing: https://www.dianemehtaediting.com/
Kristin Mathis @kristinmathis.bsky.social Child of Earth and Starry Sky. Orphic scholar, translator, and hierophant. Mom to two cats and a son, and Spiritual Auntie to many. Out here in these streets repping Brooklyn and the Ancient Mediterranean.
MysteriaMundi.substack.com
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. Opinions mine, not my employer’s. He/him.
Rachel Rear @raerear.bsky.social Author of true crime/memoir #CatchTheSparrow from Bloomsbury US and Sphere UK. Teacher, actor, aerialist. Repped by Dan Conaway. She/her. IG: racheljrear
Marisol @partydesufrir.bsky.social Ailuromorphic femme
they/them
En🗽Es 🇲🇽
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@susanpb.bsky.social @susanpb.bsky.social 
Amy Shearn @amyshearn.bsky.social ANIMAL INSTINCT is out now⚡️
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746997/animal-instinct-by-amy-shearn/
Ru Marshall @rumarshall.bsky.social Writer. Artist. Dog parent