M. Rob @oedipalschmedipal.bsky.social In the sober light of day it's a little too bright out |
Will be mean to people you hate for food | Writer | Ball Knower
Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social Scurrying through the mire of existence. #AmQuerying a novel about a trip through the lives of ancestors.
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cmcrockford.bsky.social @cmcrockford.bsky.social BIRDSONGS (Alien Buddha, 2024) and WITH ONE'S OWN EYES (Moonstone Press, 2026). AuDHD. West Philly. Cat dad. Anti-fascist.
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thepoetofcuisine @thepoetofcuisine.bsky.social Writer of "Digital Cicero: A Silk Road Novella", award winning "the Fry Up Triptych", and "Victorian Fast Food", THE dissertation on commercial food in East London
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Dave Garbutt @davgar51.bsky.social Poet, birder, house husband, father, photographer; programmer, IT consultant, zoologist. London, Reading, Basel, Southampton, Carbondale, Morogoro. 
Blue Villa @bluevilla.org Literary mag ๐
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Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social Poet | First collection, โMidnight at the Saltmarshโ, published by The Gallery Press, May 2026
What they say in the shadows @saidintheshadows.bsky.social Their words. Minus the padding.
Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social EIC @the-engine-idling.bsky.social
https://www.d-mcmahon-writes.net
author of 4 poetry chapbooks & 2 microchaps
latest: rowhouse song (Ghost City Press '25) | irl (Stanchion '26)
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Jude FireSong, aka Fabulous Phoenix Boy @fabulousphoenixboy.bsky.social (gender)queer [he/him]
AuDHD mad disabled survivor
citizen of the world
Scotland
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in: Broken Spine,Unicorn Teeth,en*gendered,Madrid Review,man made//made man,rainy weather days,S*x Gap,new words
Inda Lauryn @indalauryn.bsky.social Writer, editor, podcaster, Black feminist, womanist, witch/pagan/heathen, music curator, smartass.
BlackGirlSquee
Reclaimers RPG
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SF Layzell @sflayzell.bsky.social I write queer stories & edit books sometimes https://sflayzell.com/
Buy Cottonopolis, a MG set in 1840s Manchester, shortlisted for Little Rebels https://sflayzell.com/cottonopolis/
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Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social work in X-R-A-Y, 3:AM, Granta, n+1, forthcoming in Iowa Review // website jamestaddadcox.com, editor @alwayscrashing.bsky.social // ENNIE award winner, apparently? https://store.possibleworldsgames.com/product/tacklebox
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B. Luke Wilson @blukewilson.bsky.social Writer and editor. Words out in The Rumpus, ONLY POEMS, HAD, ect. Hollins MFA alum. Poetry Editor @chestnutreview.bsky.social.
Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social Heaven bless the babe. What queer books she must have read.
she | threemachineexpression.substack.com
your friend dusti @dusti.bsky.social Dusti RW Levy. Disabled. GenX. PanQueer. Likely a Quaker. Assoc. Ed. at BOUDIN, managing ed of BOUDIN chapbook contest, eic at delicate emissions. dramaturg, poet, educator, & playwright. PrinxDopamine late of Serotonin Jackalope/Marine Layer.
Betty Stanton @fadingbetty.bsky.social EdD, MFA, poet, author, speech & debate coach, director, teacher, editor, rpg nerd, game designer, bad at social media, located in Oklahoma
Michael Janairo @mjanairo.bsky.social Writer, reader, and I once jammed with The Washington Squares
Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social She/Her | Poet | ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | โ๏ธ
๐คฉ Pushcart Nominated 2025
My work is published in The Chaos Section, where I am poetry co-editor; Loblolly Press; Medicine & Meaning; and a Central Arkansas Library System anthology, with one poem nominated for Best of the Net.
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One Fall Review @onefallreview.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to professional wrestling themed poetry.
www.onefallreview.com
Submit: https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/one-fall-review-0g27j
SHINE Poetry @shinepoetry.bsky.social Est. in 2022, by American poet Samantha Terrell, SHINE is an international poetry series featuring both emerging & established poets. Learn more at http://www.SHINEPoetry.com.
Samantha Terrell @samanthaterrell.bsky.social American Poet, Curator of SHINE International Poetry Series
Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net Listen to the station live here: http://vintageobscura.net
All tracks are:
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Ted Jackins (They/Them) @killthethingyouluv.bsky.social Your favorite mentally ill poet/artist/musician. Nonbinary. Spoused. Cat parent. Professional raconteur and misanthrope.
I'm on substack:
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Find me on Instagram: @mount_mourn
Books available on Amazon!
๐งฟ Nya ๐ @seranyabeck.bsky.social ๐งฟ Seranya Beck โ๏ธ Artist | Author | Cosmic Architect
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Rough Diamond Poetry @rough-diamond1.bsky.social Rough Diamond is an online and in print poetry journal. roughdiamondpoems@gmail.com
EIC - Charlotte Cosgrove
http://ko-fi.com/roughdiamond open for subs
Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social ๐บ Wolf Twin Author ๐
Author of VANISHED ROADS
104 haiku on grief, renewal, and attention.
Available now:
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Linda M. Crate @authorlindamcrate.bsky.social She/Her. Eccentric. Writer. Introvert. Lover of excitement, adventure, the victorian era, books, and so much more. Five time best of the net nominee.
mk? @stonespiral.bsky.social ๐ฐ poet + artist
๐ฏ๏ธ'to light a candle' poetry workshop est. 2023
๐ two chapbooks: Garden of the good Flowers & Brentwood
๐๏ธ writing in: eunoia review, anti heroin chic, pile press
Session 11:
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Gillian OโShaughnessy @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social โช๏ธRelentless optimist.
โช๏ธSalt City Runaway, debut story collection out in 2026
โช๏ธSub Editor- SmokeLong Quarterly
โช๏ธBest Small Fictions 23, 24, 25.
Leah de la Mer @leahcallen.bsky.social Canadian poet ๐จ๐ฆ
Forever feminist and anti-fascist.
www.leahcallen.com/about
๐ซDMs.
Jane @janerefreshed.bsky.social She/her Aotearoa NZ #kikorangi. Toitลซ Te Tiriti, Climate Justice ๐ We are all made of star dustโจ๏ธ #BlackLivesMatter #IndigenousLivesMatter #LGBTQIA+๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ #DisabledPeopleAreMyWhฤnau LovingKindness #FreePalestine๐ต๐ธ #Decolonisation Reject Capitalism
Steph Patterson @spookyspatters.bsky.social A horror poet and writer in love with the spooky and strange. Occasional book reviews. Cat lady. Feminist. Poems featured in Gnashing Teeth Publishing, Suburban Witch Magazine, and Scavengers (Querencia Press). She/her. https://linktr.ee/spookyspatters
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
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
Karen M Steiger | CLEAN MARGINS OUT NOW FROM KELSAY BOOKS! @karenmsteiger.bsky.social Interests include poetry, dogs, libraries, and surviving breast cancer!
Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois Universityโs Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
linktr.ee/jdnelson
poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia โฉ
Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social Poet with autism and a cat.
Author of ADULTHOOD (Anxiety Press, 2026).
Here to connect with fellow writers and/or fellow neurodivergent people and/or fellow anti-fascists.
he/him โข NJ โข www.brandondiehl.net
@danellelejeune.bsky.social @danellelejeune.bsky.social Chaos, control- poetry, motherhood, pop culture, and midlife crisis; musing about life with teenagers, as a writer, and perimenopausal complications; food politics, pop songs, and my favorite movies; toxic family, blended family, divorce.
Acorn: a Journal of Contemporary Haiku @acornhaiku.bsky.social Biannual print journal dedicated to publishing the best of contemporary English-language haiku.
acornhaiku.com
Robert Lee Brewer @robertleebrewer.bsky.social Senior Editor of Writer's Digest. All about anything writing related, including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, scripts, comics, grammar, publishing, agents, etc.
Also, love to run. Have 5 kids. Play Pokemon Go, Sudoku, & Tetris.
INFJ | Empath | Human
Lisa Bennington-Love @rebelmom313.bsky.social Detroit Poet โข Visual Artist โขGenX AuDHD Momโข Helper of the Homeless at CoE1.org โข Witch โข Religious Deconstruction ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
๐ซ MAGA
www.lisainwonderland.com
Gomp @gompart.bsky.social poet | photographer
i wish you well
yes, you
(please, no solicitation)
Jeffrey @thestamberger.bsky.social jeffreystamberger.com/links
Writer. Former educator. PNW. Made in NJ. Hobbyist extraordinaire. Suffering Mets fan ๐๐งก๐. Let's go Devils ๐๐. Green Party member turned Blue ๐. Cat afficionado ๐บ.
Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social Creative writing & literature prof, romance author, lover of books, & poet of the ginger life. www.melaniedusseau.com
Associate Professor of English, U Findlay (she/her), MFA, analog researcher, dog-loving, traveling teller of love stories. Human writer.๐
Ohio Poetry Association @ohiopoetry.bsky.social Hello #poets! We at the Ohio Poetry Association are thrilled to be joining you on Bluesky. We are an active group of poets and #poetry lovers who have a relationship with #Ohio. Join us at http://ohiopoetry.org.
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
david wiggins @wordingway.bsky.social โด whykeeper, cloud-counter, woods-wanderer, thought alchemist, syllable-monger, gnosis-smith, hill to hollow howler โด
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Lance Newman @lancenewman.bsky.social I make art out of words, teach at Westminster University, and guide rafting trips in the West. My new book of poems is called Proverbs of Earth. More info at www.lancenewman.org
Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social Walt Disney Imagineer, Singer/Songwriter, Aspiring Author
Emily Adams-Aucoin @emilyapoetry.bsky.social Writer/poet & mother & other things.
AC|DC: A Journal for the Bent @acdclitmag.bsky.social Brooklyn-based queer online lit mag run by a bitter but friendly Gen Xer. Always open for submissions. www.acdclit.com
M Brown @mbrown007.bsky.social Friendly writer of thrilling SF, Fantasy, Horror. Screenwriter/Novelist. TTRPG enthusiast. Architecture/Design nut. Biography and history fiend. All around lover of art. Shouldering the burden of one massive TBR!
The Fiddlehead @fiddlehd.bsky.social The Fiddlehead is Atlantic Canada's International Literary Journal.
Celebrating 80 years of literary foraging in 2025!
https://thefiddlehead.ca
@michael-sikkema.bsky.social @michael-sikkema.bsky.social 
J. L. Yocum @jlyocum.com NYC Poet.
BA in English Comp/Poetry, University of North Texas. Poetry reader for ๐๐ช๐๐ง๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ก๐ฎ ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ.
Poems in &/or forthcoming in ๐ผ๐ก๐๐๐ฉ๐ง๐ค๐จ๐จ, ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐ค๐จ๐ฅ๐๐๐ง๐, ๐ฝ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐๐ค๐ฌ๐จ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฌ, $ ๐๐ค๐๐ฉ๐ง๐ฎ ๐๐จ ๐พ๐ช๐ง๐ง๐๐ฃ๐๐ฎ, ๐พ๐ค๐ข๐จ๐ฉ๐ค๐๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฌ, ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ข๐ญ.
jlyocum.com
masto.nyc/@jlyocum
Sarah David @wordsandcoffee.bsky.social Speculative fiction writer, wannabe poet, English instructor, boy mom, adventure connoisseur, AYA cancer survivor and advocate.
Secular Mornings @secularmornings.bsky.social Homilies from the secular canon, every morning, 7-days-a-week
โ๏ธ secularmornings.substack.com
Rรฉmi Forte @rmfrt.com Poetic Program, Typographic System
https://www.rmfrt.com/
Mary Buchanan @marybuchanan.bsky.social Edits Libre ๐ค MFA Fiction (LSU) ๐ช the third thing in the room ๐ชผ Words: 3 AM, Bending Genres, Serotonin, Trampoline, Anti-Heroin Chic, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Hobart, Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
๐ herghosts.blog
Brain pain. ๐ง ๐ฅ
Emm ๐ฆ๐๐ฌ๐ง @emmhenderson.bsky.social Developmental editor. Addicted to politics, crime fiction and black coffee.
MA Creative Writing (Brunel)
Writing workshops and 1:1โs.
Lit event organiser.
CIEP ๐ฆ๐
๐ Harrogate, UK
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Art.beyond.Art โ AlldayNight @alldaynight.bsky.social Artist & writer: poetry and prose. Univ of London. Contemporary art critic & extremist, so as best to enjoy the strange, the disturbing & the deranged + vodka.
https://jakobzaaiman.substack.com/ (always free to read)
https://medium.com/@jakob-zaaiman
Libre @librelit.bsky.social A southern literature & arts mag bent on brain pain, taking the narrative back, jiggling it open, extracting the oyster from its background of compressed pain to reexamine what it means to scavenge for agency in liminal states of illness.
Librelit.com
Evelise @evelros.bsky.social Poet | Dreamer | Chaos Enthusiast
Writing the echoes of forgotten gods and flickering flames.
๐Black Below |โจLover of the untamed
Donna Carrick @donnacarrick.bsky.social Lover of family, friends and fur-babies. Also on Threads.
Host of Dead to Writes, Podcast http://tinyurl.com/yaklx2pp
Award-winning author literary thrillers. CWC Short Story Award Finalist. http://CarrickPublishing.com
Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social Poet, wordplayer, musician, editor, bassist, guitarist, backgrounds in physics & publishing
KNIT INK (AND OTHER POEMS): https://store.deepvellum.org/products/knitink
AnthonyEtherin.com
r miller @writtentherapy.bsky.social i'm not a writer. or a poet. not really. i am, however, a complete wreck. โก
on occasion NSFW
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Marie-louise McGuinness @mlmcguinness.bsky.social Words @ Fictive Dream, Banshee, Splonk, Bending Genres, Flash Frog, The Forge, Milk Candy Review, Gone Lawn, 2x Pushcart nominated, LL Bath Short Story Award, Best Microfictions 2025, BBC Radio 4, Co.Founder: The Pride Roars, Editor Raw Lit
TJD @tjduffy.bsky.social New Utahn. Writer/Scholar/Professor/Father. Recent work in Sugared Water, trampset, Black Fork Review, SoFloPoJo, Pleiades, Sepia, Salt Hill, Hollow & Sky, and The Kenyon Review. Forthcoming in Pinch and Forget Cool
Michele Hutchison @michehut.bsky.social Translator, editor, writer, poet
Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldnโt.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. ๐
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
https://www.amazon.com/Least-Weird-Person-Awake/dp/B0GT1262KP
Alex Mair @alexmairyorks.bsky.social Writer. Former charity worker and probation worker. Reformed intemperate personality. Watermelon = Red/Green straggler. Yorkshire native. Seasoned outdoorsman. Partner to Rosie. Friend to cats and dogs. Core group plus.
Amanda Earl @amandaearl.bsky.social she/her: sharing Ottawa -area sugar crone (tinyurl.com/ottawamandy) literary, spoken word, storytelling & nonfiction events daily ish. Out now!: Beast Body Epic, Autumn 2023. https://linktr.ee/amandaearl.
Sherese Francis @afutureancient.bsky.social Poet and Interdisciplinary Artist from Queens, NYC! AlkyMist of the I-Magination!
futuristicallyancient.com
linktr.ee/sheresefrancis
Maggie McCombs - Author @magmc89.bsky.social Iโm a poet writing my first book. Pushcart Prize nominee. Please follow me here to keep up with my stories: http://www.maggiemccombsauthor.com
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Emily Vajda ๐โ๏ธ๐ถ๐ญ @emilyvajda.bsky.social Writer of moody, atmospheric booksโWomen's Fiction, Children's Fantasyโwith a literary edge. Lover of books, reading, nature, wild weather, witchy vibes, and my children, Scarlett & Rowan.
Dr Katie Hart Potapoff (she/her) @katiehartpotapoff.bsky.social Curious what emerges when poetry, visual art, and scholarly writing are constellated with place-based responses.
Canadian Artist-Researcher based in Scotland.
Elizabeth Kate Switaj @ekswitaj.bsky.social http://www.elizabethkateswitaj.net/
๐The Articulations, Kernpunkt Press http://www.kernpunktpress.com/store/p43/articulationsamouroboros.html
๐The Bringers of Fruit, 11:11 Press https://1111press.com/the-bringers-of-fruit
๐ฒ๐ญMajuro, Marshall Islands
M. Thomas Cooper @cooperthewriter.bsky.social Writing, reading, wine, cycling, stand-up comedy, the Theatre, improv, poetry, and cats.
www.cooperthewriter.com
joshboardman.txt @handle.invalid It is my opinion as well as that of others that the word grey spelled with an e is greyer than the same word spelled with an a: gray.
Laura Kerr @sedserio.com Canadian Artist & Experimental Poet-
#sedserio #QuantumPoetry #forensicPoetry https://sedserio.com Critical AIโForensic Poet ๐จ๐ฆ
Kiana Azizian Poetry @kianaazizian.bsky.social author of โall hearts breakโ & โsoftโ ๐
#poetry #quotes #books
Amylamadingdong ๐ ๐ช @cats-vs-kites.bsky.social Poet. Upcycled whatnot. Disabled. Covid isn't over.
Will Davis @bythiswillalone.bsky.social nurse. poem scribbler. immutable fire escape. furthering the wondersome.
Kelli Dianne Rule @kdiannerule.bsky.social I'm an art school dropout from the 1990s. I write about Florida. It is a weird and cursed land.
www.kellirule.com
www.instagram.com/kdiannerule
D.A. Lockhart @dalockhart.bsky.social Writer. Lenape. Independent Indigenous Scholar. Moravian of the Thames First Nation. Commonwealth (Kegedonce Press, 2025). Leaf Counter (Frontenac House, 2025) he/him.
L. Michel-Cassidy @lmichelcassidy.bsky.social Writer, poet, artist, houseboat-dweller, open-water swimmer. Collection, When We Were Hardcore, 2025 (EastOver) PEN America Bingham Prize longlist. Senior reviews editor at Tupelo Quarterly.
More at lmichelcassidy.com
Dana Delibovi @danadelibovi.bsky.social Poet, essayist, translator, lapsed philosopher. Consulting Poetry Editor, Cable Street, https://cablestreet.org. My book: Sweet Hunter: The Complete Poems of St. Teresa of รvila.
Alicia Swain @aliciamswain.bsky.social Author of Steel Slides and Yellow Walls
Poet, writer, feminist, animal lover
Richmond, VA โข https://linktr.ee/aliciamswain
Gary Dalkin @garydalkin.bsky.social UK editor & writer. I write every month for Writing Magazine. Bournemouth Writing Festival. Organising Chaos. Author Events. Editor-at-large at Cadence Publishing.
Lots more, including contact details: www.tothelastword.com
Morgan @morgannrose95.bsky.social Iโm so happy you are here. Writing, motherhood, mental health, and more.
Ash Poet Maggs Vibo @ashpoet.bsky.social Degenerate @maggsvibo.com
Presenter @thefolklorepodcast #vispo #concretepoetry @Paper View & Asatami Legesse. Anthologies: @PenteractPress @IceFloePress @ThreeRoomsPress @PoemAtlas @ParisLitUp @MiddleWestPress | #art @DullesInternationalโ2027
karin @karinlyr.bsky.social Hi! Iโm a mom of two, live in Mississippi, and love drawing, painting, taking nature photos, reading, and writing.
Liz the B @therealgynomite.bsky.social ATX. Susie House Podcast: a ghost story. Panic Attack Productions. Poetics. Advocacy. Writer. OG Internetter. Manifester. My teenage kid made me this dragon mug in preschool.