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
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.
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.
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
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Matthew Lansburgh @matthewlansburgh.bsky.social Author of OUTSIDE IS THE OCEAN. Iowa Short Fiction Award. Finalist for Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction & Ferro-Grumley Award in LGBTQ Fiction. 🌈 🌈 🌈 Recipient of Fellowships to Bread Loaf, Sewanee, Yaddo & MacDowell. He/him.
Laura Spence-Ash @lauraspenceash.bsky.social Writer. BEYOND THAT, THE SEA, Celadon, 2023.
Abeer Y. Hoque @olivewitch.bsky.social writer, photographer, editor, teacher, traveling fool
author of Olive Witch, a memoir
Free Palestine
Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social Writer. Doctor. @nytimes. WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS. PEN/ Bingham Finalist. Find me: www.chayabhuvaneswar.com
Maribeth Batcha @mbatcha.bsky.social Executive Director @onestorymag. Mean temple lady. Survivor fan.
Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social Writer in NYC. Former Attorney. EIC Split Lip Magazine. Copper Nickel Editor's Prize | BASS Distinguished Story | Kenyon Review | Ploughshares | Artist-in-Residence @ South 85 Journal | Next up: CHEEKS | http://maureenlangloss.com/
Amy Stuber @amystuber.com Writer, editor, worker bee: amystuber.com
SAD GROWNUPS (Stillhouse Press, Oct 2024), Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
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Marguerite Sheffer @mlensheffer.bsky.social Author of THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES (Nov 2024, Iowa Short Fiction Award from U of Iowa Press)
writer and teacher in New Orleans
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Chris Gonzalez @livesinpages.bsky.social Author, I'm Not Hungry but I Could Eat: stories l Barrelhouse Fiction Editor | 2021 NYFA Fiction Fellow | 2025 VCCA Fellow | Husky bochinchero 🇵🇷 🏳️🌈
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Sarah Larson @asarahlarson.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer, podcast reviewer, New York Rangers enthusiast 
Marcus Wicker @poetmarcuswicker.bsky.social Maybe the Saddest Thing & Silencer @eccobooks. Former Harvard @RadInstitute Fellow & @NEAarts Fellow. @uofmemphis MFA Prof. Boxing fanatic. Human as all get-out.
Danny Goodman @ddouglasgoody.bsky.social writer, editor, personal photog to editorial cat and dog. debut novel, AMERIKALAND (leftover books), out now. kindness is the new punk rock.
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Steve Adams @stevemke.bsky.social 
Madison @madison-koenig.bsky.social Immigration public defender, New York transplant, very sleepy 
T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social author: Whidbey & Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls • hapa kanaka ‘ōiwi dyke • soup enthusiast & magician • land back • aloha 'āina • she/her
Books on GIF @booksongif.com I use GIFs to review books.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social Levon Honkers is the author of TACKY (2021) and SLOPPY (2025), as well as co-host of the podcast Low Culture Boil. She lives in Brooklyn.
Baddy @baddydawuff.bsky.social 🏙🐶🏳️🌈 • Just Sum Dumb Doggo • Forever the Optimist • 🐕✂️by @Zuri_Studios
ezra kupor @ezrakupor.bsky.social associate editor @harperbooks + @harperperennial • not here but views still very much my own • he/him 🫠
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Vanessa Chan @vanjchan.bsky.social Author of The Storm We Made.
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Jai Chakrabarti @jaichakrabarti.bsky.social Author of A Play for the End of the World and A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness @Aaknopf
Faculty @BenningtonMFA
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Lee Matthew Goldberg @leematthewgoldberg.bsky.social Author of 16 📚 including ANCESTOR, MENTOR and the GREAT GIMMELMANS.
Lit Rep: Josh Getzler @ HG Literary
Screenwriter and publisher of Fringe Press.
Native New Yorker. LeeMatthewGoldberg.com
Pigeon Pages @pigeonpagesnyc.bsky.social A literary nest 🐦 NYC reading series and literary journal
Patri̶c̶k̶ Hipp @thehipp.bsky.social Midlife crisis actor, reverend doctor, charming barman, writer, musician. Not about to quit my night job. (he/him/mom)
Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social trying! jeannethornton.com, patreon.com/jwthornton
Instar Books @instarbooks.bsky.social Small press since 2014: trans literature, digital experiments, fiction for the troubled. "We publish the darkness." instarbooks.com
Lisa Marie Basile @lisamariebasile.bsky.social Author, poet, editor of Luna Luna Magazine. Memoir in progress.
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.
Alice Kaltman @alka.bsky.social novels, stories, an occasional drawing. oh, and dogs. lots of dogs. www.alicekaltman.com
Isaac Fitzgerald @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social 📝📚 Author of back-to-back instant NYT bestsellers Dirtbag, Massachusetts + American Rambler (+ others)
📺 Talking books on @todayshow
🥾 I walk. A lot.
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
Penina Roth @peninaroth.bsky.social Curator of Franklin Park Reading Series in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social dunno
Gabrielle Moss @gabriellemoss.bsky.social author of PAPERBACK CRUSH; talking head who kept saying "masturbation" in JUDY BLUME FOREVER; writer of whatever this is: https://bloggerindecline.substack.com/
EcoTheo Collective @ecotheo.bsky.social Nonprofit arts org publishing lit mag/hosting regular events/annual festival/fellowship w @cavecanempoets
r kay (they/them) @r-kay.bsky.social they/them. director @brooklynpoets.bsky.social in western mass from southern appalachia. occasionally online / chronically ill / always gay 🇵🇸 poems in HAD, Copper Nickel, Catapult & hiding around the internet. Tin House '25.
Vol. 1 Brooklyn @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social Thoughts on books and culture, plus original fiction and essays.
َ @rgay.bsky.social The gayest living ever who’s in love with Julian!
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
English Kills Review @englishkills.bsky.social We're not dead yet.
Authors, Books, and New York City
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Shane McCrae @akasomeguy.bsky.social Tries to write. You can see how that's working out. Harvard Law School '07
Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social Author and professor type person.
SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24
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Su Cho @sucho.bsky.social Poet, sometimes essays, author of THE SYMMETRY OF FISH (Penguin 2022)
Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org Lambda Literary, celebrating LGBTQ+ storytellers since 1985. Home of the Lammy Awards, Writers in Schools, the Emerging Writers Retreat for LGBTQ Voices, and the Lambda Literary Review.
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Ian MacAllen @ianmacallen.bsky.social Author of Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American, writer, graphic designer, and critic.
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Former Interviews and Deputy Editor at The Rumpus
Molly McArdle @mollymcardle.bsky.social Updates Editor, Food & Wine. Once: editor in chief, @roadmapbyallma.bsky.social. (RIP)
Trace Peterson @tracepeterson.bsky.social Poet & Scholar | Trans & Queer Academic | Books: The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep (Saturnalia 2025), Since I Moved In (Chax 2019), Arrive on Wave (Chax 2016), Troubling the Line (Nightboat 2013) | Editor of @eoagh.bsky.social | She/her
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net Independent since 2009. Read The Rumpus Magazine. Become a Member. Receive Letters in the Mail from Authors. Join a dynamic, global community.
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aureleo sans 🇨🇴 @aureleo.bsky.social writer • @Tin_House & @sewaneewriters Scholar • @Peripluscollect • in @salamander_mag @electriclit @passagesnorth @bestmicrofic • 
Chase Berggrun @patriphobe.bsky.social • poet • organizer • trans lesbian • author of R E D (erasures of Bram Stoker's Dracula) (@Birdsllc 2018) • she/her • 🇵🇸 free palestine 🇵🇸
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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
Jenna Johnson @jennakjohnson.bsky.social Un chasseur sachant chasser sait chasser sans son chien de chasse.
Gigantic Sequins @giganticsequins.bsky.social your favorite black + white literary arts journal, in print since 2009 // giganticsequins.com
Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social author of SOON YOU’LL BE JUST LIKE US (creature publishing 2027) + debut UPCOUNTRY (unnamed press 2023) IG: @scribblepost. words in electric lit, lit hub, the georgia review, etc. rep: pamela malpas/jennifer lyons literary
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Margot Atwell @margotatwell.bsky.social Writer, editor,publisher, creative funding expert in Brooklyn. Editor of ABSOLUTE PLEASURE. Previously @feministpress & @kickstarter. She/they 🌈📚
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Kim Samek @kimsamek.bsky.social O. Henry Prize-winning author of debut story collection I AM THE GHOST HERE with Dial Press, out now. Pushcart Prize winner, Emmy nominated tv writer.
Katie Moulton @kjmoulton.bsky.social writer. mostly here for @marchxness.bsky.social!
Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social Author: IN THE SIGHT; EX-MEMBERS; POLITICAL SIGN; REEL; TRANSITORY. Next up: KILL LIST (Bloomsbury Academic)
NBCC Board. Freelance writer. Coffee drinker.
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Megan Lynch @lynchmegan.bsky.social Publisher of Flatiron Books
anton @atroyn.bsky.social fuck it we ball
Christopher @cdhermelin.bsky.social host/mixologist for So Many Damn Books, typewriter for Roving Typist, recapper for I’m a Celebrity Dog Get Me Out Arf Here
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Joy Deva Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social Speculative Writer: Fiction in One Story, Ploughshares, Tin House, Apex, etc. Yaddo Fellow. Founder of Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop. Rep'ed by Peter Steinberg. Novel in progress. Bagpiper.
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Ellen O'Connell Whittet @oconnellwhittet.bsky.social Memoir WHAT YOU BECOME IN FLIGHT from @melvillehouse | co-host @goodmomsonpaper podcast | bylines @vogue @parisreview @time @buzzfeed @vulture @theatlantic | she/her
Michele Filgate @readandbreathe.bsky.social Writer. Editor of WHAT MY MOTHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT (2019) and WHAT MY FATHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT (May 2025).
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Bob Raymonda @bobbys-snacks.bsky.social Writer & Producer for: Forgive Me!, Windfall, Greater Boston, & others. Critic for: Discover Pods, Simplecast, & others. Snack Enthusiast. he/they 
Brian Gresko @briangresko.bsky.social writer, illustrator, educator; co-founder Writing Co-Lab; co-host Pete’s Reading Series; words all over the place; weird & genderqueer & poly
Sari Botton @saribotton.bsky.social Bestselling Author/Editor/Teacher/Oldster Memoir: And You May Find Yourself… Anthologies: Goodbye to All That and Never Can Say Goodbye Newsletters: @oldstermag.bsky.social, @memoirland.bsky.social, Adventures in *Journalism* http://saribotton.com
Tony Tulathimutte @tonytula.com author n founder @crit.works
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
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Editing: https://www.dianemehtaediting.com/
Briallen Hopper @briallenhopper.bsky.social Author of HARD TO LOVE (Bloomsbury) and GILEAD REREAD (Columbia UP, forthcoming). Teaching at Queens College CUNY. Repped by Rob McQuilkin at MMQ&A.
Kirstin Chen @kirstinchen.bsky.social NYTimes bestselling author of Counterfeit, Bury What We Cannot Take & Soy Sauce for Beginners. Tech Wives forthcoming 🌸
Andrew Badr @ab.bsky.social 
Brad Wetherell @bradwetherell.bsky.social Writer, teacher. MFA: UMich. Words in: Missouri Review, ZYZZYVA, Joyland, Colorado Review, Five Points, Salon, Salamander, Superstition Review, Hippocampus, BULL, etc. Actively querying novel and essay collection.
Cat Fitzpatrick @catfitzpatrick.net all work and no play makes cat a dull girl
Typesetter & Editrix @littlepuss.net // Author of The Call-Out & THE DINNER PARTY: A BOOK ABOUT LOVE - OUT NOW
Ming Lauren Holden, PhD @minglishmuffin.bsky.social Author of REFUGE, chosen by Lidia Yuknavitch as the winner of the inaugural Kore Press Memoir Award. I’m also an actor, director, visual artist, editor, & teacher. 20+ years of experience in 20+ countries, primarily in refugee advocacy & international aid
Caroline Hagood @carolinehagood.bsky.social Assisting Prof & Director of Undergrad Writing at St. Francis College. Editor Hanging Loose Press Loose Translation Award. My 2025 books: DEATH AND OTHER SPECULATIVE FICTIONS & GOBLIN MODE https://www.carolinehagood.com
Idrees Ahmad @idreesahmad.bsky.social Director of Journalism, University of Essex; Associate Editor, New Lines Magazine; Contributing Editor, LA Review of Books; Bylines: New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Policy, The Observer, Washington Post.
book culture @bookculture.com An independent bookstore based in New York
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)
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E.B. Bartels @eb-bartels.bsky.social writer, teacher, former bookseller, @wellesley.edu staff, author of GOOD GRIEF: ON LOVING PETS, HERE AND HEREAFTER (@harpercollins.bsky.social) & 🐢 mom. (she/her)
Melissa Ragsly @melissaragsly.bsky.social Writer of flash, short stories, novels and screenplays
Winner, Best Screenplay at Bitchfest
Lover of pop girlies
Joe O'Brien @joseph-obrien.bsky.social Writer-Director | DEVIL'S MILE | FRESH MEAT | ROBOCOP PRIME DIRECTIVES | More On The Way | 
Arianna Rebolini @ariannarebolini.bsky.social Better: A Memoir About Wanting to Die is out now!!!!!
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Scribner Books @scribnerbooks.bsky.social Since 1846, publisher of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, Jesmyn Ward, Anthony Doerr, Jennifer Egan, Siddhartha Mukherjee, and more.
der liebe Augustin vulgo Gsindl @simonschuster.bsky.social Politisch engagierter Mensch. Antifaschist. Ist bereits gechipt. Team #babler #fucktrump 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Carlos Andrés Gómez @carlosaglive.bsky.social Poet, speaker, actor, & author of Brutal Miracle (@FourWayBooks), Fractures (@UWiscPress), Man Up (@PenguinRandom) etc. Album: Volta. Touring artist. https://linktr.ee/CarlosAGLive
Julia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social A voluntary victim who ruins herself throughout eternity, the better to insult God. "One of the foremost contemporary horror cartoonists." —@PublishersWkly
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Katy Hershberger @katyhersh.bsky.social Work at Publishers Lunch. Writing at NYTBR, Washington Post, LitHub, Slate, Longreads, etc.
KatyHershberger.com
Hans Rocha IJzerman @ijzerman.bsky.social director ABSL.io | founding editor InMind Magazine | co-founder Psych Science Accelerator, CREP, and Fédération française pour les liens sociaux | author @ WW Norton | researcher Univ of Oxford | Honorary Member Institut Universitaire de France | LONELY-EU
Briana 💕 @djsleepyspice.bsky.social Sleeptacular, Covid took a lot longer than I imagined, trying vaguely to watch more movies, sorta used to read more books
Trans girl, NYC
Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social The home for international literature since 2003. Winners of the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize.
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Greg Gerke / Socrates on the Beach @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social In the Suavity of the Rock (novel)with
@thisissplice
https://tinyurl.com/3dthp3u2
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Carrie Conners @carrieconners.bsky.social I like poems. Author of: Species of Least Concern (2022), Laugh Lines (2022), and Luscious Struggle (2019). LaGCC English prof. WV roots. https://linktr.ee/connerscarrie
thoughts being weird lil guys @smadges.bsky.social say. non-writing writer. transcribed the free churro episode into my journal