Karl Dandenell (he/him dreams of retirement) @karldandenell.bsky.social Technical Writer, SFWA, VP16, samsara surfer, cat servant, drinker of tea and whiskey. Stories all over the small press realms.
Steven Patchett @stevenpatchett.bsky.social He/Him. Engineer, Husband, Father. Writer in the Northeast of England. Anti-AI. Kindness matters.
I don't reply to random DMs.
Reader for the Small Spec Book Awards.
Published here and there.
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Gemma Church @gemmakchurch.bsky.social 👋 sff writer | 2x @bathflashaward.bsky.social shortlist | Latest words with @lunastation.bsky.social, Flame Tree, @utopiascifi.bsky.social | Countdown 🫖 owner | #Quantum content lead at @riverlane.com | Views my own | www.gemmakchurch.com
Ruadán Books @ruadanbooks.bsky.social 📚 Clever and curious reads for lovers of the strange and mysterious.
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https://ruadanbooks.com
Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social Flash writer living in Derbyshire U.K.
Words in Milk Candy Review, Ghost Parachute, Sunlight Press, Bull Magazine, Phare Magazine, Hooghly Review, Gone Lawn and others. Pushcart and Best Small Fictions nominee. No longer using X
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.
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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Perfect God = Lexa Gates @mx-j.bsky.social https://shop.capitolmusic.com/collections/lexa-gates
Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social All things holly, jolly, and odd-ly.
Suz Jay @suzjay11.bsky.social Art-obsessed writer and editor | bookreviewer | SHUWPF graduate | she/her 
Meagan Lucas @meaganlucas.bsky.social Author of Anthony Nominated collection HERE IN THE DARK, and award-winning novel SONGBIRDS & STRAY DOGS | JD Candidate at UDayton Law | EIC: Reckon Review |
Nathan Pettigrew @nathanpettigrew.bsky.social Writer. Author of TALES FROM TERREBONNE, forthcoming in 2026 from @rhppress.bsky.social. Managing Editor at Mythic Picnic. Awarded 2nd Place in the 22nd Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition for his story "Yemma."
Jamey Gallagher @jameygallagher.bsky.social Author of BODIES IN BAGS, I AM IDRIS ELBA, and AMERICAN ANIMISM.
https://jameyg0.wixsite.com/jameygallagher
Community college writing teacher
I read and write: literary stuff, crime stuff, weird stuff
From NH, living in Baltimore.
Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill
Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/
Craft newsletter: https://prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/
G. A. (Glenn) Rivers @garivers.bsky.social Just another non-AI author of Thrillers and Crime Fiction making my way. Rep'd by Terrie Wolf at AKA Lit. Mgmt. Words in Punk Noir, BULL Magazine, Texas Wind antho by Cowboy Jamboree; Reckon Review. Peace!
Hugh Lessig @hlessig.bsky.social Debut novel, "Fadeaway Joe," out from Crooked Lane Books. Short stories in Dark Yonder, Down & Out anthologies, Shotgun Honey and Thuglit. Old newspaper reporter. Loves dogs, coffee, comics, a good IPA. . www.hughlessig.com.
C.W. Blackwell @cwblackwell.bsky.social Author: HARD MOUNTAIN CLAY ✷ WHATEVER KILLS THE PAIN ✷ THE COLD DARK FOREVER ✷ 3X Derringer Award winner ✷ Anthony Award Finalist ✷ #crimefiction #noir #santacruz
https://lnk.bio/cw_blackwell_writer
Curtis Ippolito @curtisippolito.bsky.social Anthony Award winner.
Author of WAVES OF BURDEN—out now.
https://shorturl.at/5OePA
Member of Sisters in Crime, MWA.
he/him
https://curtisippolito.com
H. Perry Horton @hperryhorton.bsky.social New Novel Available Now:
DON'T LET THE DARKNESS EAT YOU UP
https://www.amazon.com/DONT-LET-DARKNESS-EAT-YOU/dp/B0FVT8VWKS
Books: https://shorturl.at/AuKlV
Raymond J. Brash @rjbrash.bsky.social 🇹🇹🇺🇲 ✍️📖
Crime/Spec/Lit
Stories published at BULL, Rock and a Hard Place, Shotgun Honey, and others
Raymondjbrash.work
Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social Writes a bit (Pushcart nom x 2, Best Microfiction ‘26, Fish 3rd prize ‘26), reads a lot. Drama (on-stage, mostly) 🏳️🌈
Editor: https://www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/ @neitherfishnorfoul.com
my published stuff via: https://thewavingnotdrowningblog.com/
Slasher Film | Horror Movie @slasherfilm2024.bsky.social WATCH THE TEASER TRAILER NOW on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/ebbrwb6f (Warning: 18+)
Movie coming soon. Calling all #HORROR fans.
#horrorcommunity
Ottawa, ON, Canada 🇨🇦
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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…
James Montgomery @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social Flash writer ✍️ | Latest: Crow & Cross Keys, Fictive Dream, FlashFlood, The Bulb Region, 100 Word Story, NFFD Micro Comp ‘26 | 📖 Best Small Fictions ‘25, Wigleaf Top 50 ‘25 | 💫 Welkin People’s Prize ‘25 | He/Him 🌈 www.jamesmontgomerywrites.com
Liz Fyne (she/her) @lizfyne.com Writer, recovering scientist. Debut novel forthcoming from She Writes Press, February 2027. Stories @xraylitmag.bsky.social, @pipelineartists.bsky.social, @molotovlitzine.bsky.social, @maudlinhouse.bsky.social. Find me at lizfyne.com
M Lenoir Bond @mlenoirbond.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Editor. Best of the Net nom. Work in: Prairie Schooner, Rust & Moth, COMP: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Best New Poets, december Mag, etc. Associate Editor for The Molotov Cocktail. Herbalist. Herbivore. Bunmom. Even weirder than you think.
Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social PFP by Terijian
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BSF 2025
Have you ever seen me and Kali in the same room? Thought not
Bi (2) x Demi (1/2) = 1 Sexual
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National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social Celebrating flash fiction worldwide. Co-directed by Ingrid Jendrzejewski @lunchontuesday.bsky.social and Diane Simmons @scooterwriter.bsky.social
The next NFFD will be Saturday 12 June 2027.
https://www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social A projectile for incendiary flash fiction. Purveyors of the dark & offbeat since 2010. Curated by Josh Goller. Associate Editor M. Lenoir Bond
https://themolotovcocktail.com/
Flash Monster the 13th contest now open: https://tinyurl.com/nzyn88m8
Nicholas Petty @nicholaspetty.bsky.social Writer-ish.
Stories in The Stinging Fly, New England Review, Story, The London Magazine, The Moth Magazine, Galley Beggar Prize, Desperate Literature, The Forge and elsewhere.
nicholaspetty.co.uk
Patrick Barb @patrickbarb.bsky.social Writer/Editor/Awesome (he/him); patrickbarb.com
Rep: Pam Gruber at High Line Literary Collective
Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social Authors / Writers / Lovers of Words...
Got a flash fiction story within 500 words, of any interpretation, on any theme, that our readers should read? #flashfiction
https://freeflashfiction.com/
Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social Writer. Books: A THOUSAND WAYS TO DISAPPEAR (Cornerstone Press, 2028)/THE CLARITY OF HUNGER (Word West Press, 2021). Fiction instructor: Harvard Extension School. MacDowell Fellow ‘23. Email: fabulistpappas@gmail.com
www.cherylpappas.net
Mikeyboy @mikey27.bsky.social Writes, reads, runs and walks but not all at the same time.
Wendy Erskine @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social THE BENEFACTORS Sceptre. Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. Shortlisted Irish Novel of the Year, Best British Audio Book. It’s out now. dance move/sweet home/stinging fly/picador/well I just kind of like it/PVA Books
Suparna Mukherjee @suparna-with-a-sh.bsky.social Still mostly a taxi driver for my wee darlings, would like more time for naps and cycling - just moved home to Scotland from the Middle East and appreciating that the cost of free speech appears to not only be tax but also endless potholes!
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
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript: www.pscript.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Rina Palumbo @rinapalumbo.bsky.social Ph.D. (JHU, History); Italian-Canadian expatriate. Writer, Editor, avid reader.
Writing in Hopkins Review, Identity Theory, Ghost Parachute, et al.
https://rinapalumbowriter.com/
Short Story Comps @shortstorycomps.bsky.social Posts and reposts about short story / flash / micro competitions in the UK and beyond.
JJ Surtees @jjsurtees.bsky.social Pushcart prize nominated. Writer. London. Published Unsung Stories, Idle Ink, Liar's League, Fictive Dream & others. 
Anika Carpenter @stillsquirrel.bsky.social #Flashfiction writer and #collage artist. Stories in Gooseberry Pie, Fictive Dream, Gone Lawn, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story & others. Based in Brighton, UK
www.anikacarpenter.com
Mark Ravenhill @markravenhill.bsky.social Playwright represented by Judy Daish at United Agents
The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk Independent poetry press + cultural review platform. We publish narrative-led work with edge. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs
#PromoteIndieLit
Edited by @alanparrywriter.co.uk
www.thebrokenspine.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/brokenspinearts
Farhana Khalique @hanakhalique.bsky.social Writer, VO Artist, Teacher, & PhD candidate from London, UK
Subs Editor @ SmokeLong Quarterly
Words in Flash Fusion, Best Small Fictions, 100 Voices, Spread the Word, Arachne Press, Word Factory, & more
W: www.farhanakhalique.com
Tw & IG: @HanaKhalique
Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social Press & online rag dedicated to grit lit & rural writing with rough edges. Survival is triumph enough. We dig Folk & Old Country music: @npcountrycovers.bsky.social. EIC: @vanwinkle.bsky.social
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com
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
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
Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966
| new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts |
Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social Read Issue 8! Epistemiclit.com
Digital anthology series celebrating knowledge, connection, and growth through poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction.
EICs @melruthwrites.bsky.social and @kristinwrites.bsky.social. CNF Editor @gcbwrites.bsky.social
Frazzled Lit *Closed for Submissions* @frazzledlit.bsky.social We are Frazzled Lit! 🥓 🔥
Looking for Flash, Poetry, CNF and Prose.
Eds @lozzawriting.bsky.social and @jmcm.bsky.social
www.frazzledlit.com
https://ko-fi.com/frazzledlit
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M.E. Proctor @meproctor.bsky.social Crime fiction writer. Declan Shaw PI series "Love You Till Tuesday", "Catch Me on a Blue Day". Novella "Bop City Swing". Stories "Family and Other Ailments". Shotgun Honey, Bristol Noir, Vautrin, Black Cat Weekly. Shamus and Derringer short story nominee.
After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers.
Links: https://bio.site/afterdinner
Melanie Mulrooney @melmulrooney.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Writer (mostly flash), reader (gimme all the books), mama (so many kids), living in Nova Scotia. she/her
Always yes to: a cup of tea, books, board games, new pens, writing contests, em-dashes, pockets
Always no to: hard pants
Christian Gilman Whitney @cgwhitney.bsky.social Author of I HAVE NEVER FELT ALIVE (2025)
www.writtenbycgw.com
PavleMiha @pavlemiha.bsky.social 
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).
Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social Reading, writing, rabbits 🐇 ✡️
Director of European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social
London
www.deborahzafer.com
https://substack.com/@deborahzafer
Brecht De Poortere @brechtdp.bsky.social 🧑🦱 "Some guy who ranks all the lit journals you’ve ever heard of"
🥉 3rd prize The Hudson Review Short Fiction Contest
✍️ Missouri Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Baltimore Review, X-R-A-Y, The Forge Literary Magazine ...
🌍 https://www.brechtdepoortere.com