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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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social Minneapolis-based publisher of short horror and Weird fiction. Anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, and pro-queer. Shirley Jackson Award-winning press.
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Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social Small press specializing in horror, sci-fi, contemporary fantasy, zines, poetry, and reprints. Voted best small press by our EIC's mom. We used to be From Beyond Press. agitapublishing.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
Brown Hound Press @brownhoundpress.bsky.social A small press in Lexington, KY that publishes offbeat mystery, dark humor, southern gothic & literary fiction. A free story each week! We pay authors.
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Ariell Cacciola @ariellcacciola.bsky.social Publisher: Wild Hunt Books.🦌 @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social
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Chimene Suleyman @chimenesuleyman.bsky.social Writer. The Chain (W&N 2024). One of the Good Immigrants. Quotes Fleetwood. Something about Tracey Emin saying I have big tits etc etc.
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 |
Puja Guha @pujaguha.bsky.social Puja Guha books take readers into the world of spies, secret missions, and powerful people. As one of the top thriller authors in USA, her work stands among the best thrillers of all time.
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.
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Community college writing teacher
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill
Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50
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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!
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
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Holly West (she/her) @hollywest.bsky.social Writer | Editor | Tarot | Dogs
BadToss @badtoss.bsky.social Guggenheim Fellow, Prof Emerita. Working on a book on America's home grown Soviet spy (37Ink). Oh, and tennis tweets. Expect them.
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Writing East Midlands @writingeastmidlands.com Supports, develops and champions writers from the East Midlands - supported by Arts Council England.
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Farhana Shaikh 🍉 @farhanashaikh.bsky.social ✍️ Writer #Discoveries2023
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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
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H. Perry Horton @hperryhorton.bsky.social New Novel Available Now:
DON'T LET THE DARKNESS EAT YOU UP
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Raymond J. Brash @rjbrash.bsky.social 🇹🇹🇺🇲 ✍️📖
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Stories published at BULL, Rock and a Hard Place, Shotgun Honey, and others
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Adrian Chills @adrianchills.bsky.social Short horror stories written for Bluesky directly inspired by the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles. Created by @scsheil.bsky.social
Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. (One of those is THE CALAMITIES, out now.) Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 50-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.
Jo Gatford @jmgatford.bsky.social Write-abouter | editor | scriptwriter | fiction all over the shop | Shakespeare nerd | writing thoughts & workshops @ The Joy of Fixion
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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social Your favourite book publisher, obvs.
We used to publish books.
July 2016 - July 2026.
We were @heathermmcd.bsky.social & @laurafjones.bsky.social
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Rosaleen Lynch @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social ☘️ Irish community worker, writer
& teacher living in London with work selected for the Wigleaf Top 50, Best of the Net & Best Small Fictions, now researching the impact of story on social change & can be found @ http://52quotes.blogspot.com
Sara Hills @sarahillswrites.bsky.social THE EVOLUTION OF BIRDS (Ad Hoc Fiction, 2021)
Best Small Fictions | Wigleaf Top 50
SmokeLong Mikey, Bath Flash Fiction Award, QuietManDave CNF
2027 NFFD anthology editor
sarahillswrites.com
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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) 🏳️🌈
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my published stuff via: https://thewavingnotdrowningblog.com/
Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social Dark fantasy, bleak science fiction, unsettling horror, and Weird genre grime.
Currently closed to submissions.
Jen Bowden @jenbowden12.bsky.social Journalist | Writer repped by @liverpoollit | Editor | Northern Voices podcast | Dr of Northern stories | #TeamHorn | Pityakker linktr.ee/jenbowden12
Rock and a Hard Place @rhppress.bsky.social A small-press independent publisher delivering crime, noir, and dark fiction chronicling bad decisions and desperate people.
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…
Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social I write and report things, and I have a newsletter that some people like. “Do you know what the sad part is…? I’m a very good tailor.” brokenbottleboy.substack.com
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
Dead Ink Books @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of bold new fiction and non-fiction, based in Liverpool
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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
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.
Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social Award-winning foreign correspondent. Former @washingtonpost.com staff writer. Now: London. Previously: Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo. Email me: louisaloveluck@gmail.com.
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social Bestselling author of THEY KNEW, HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY and THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP.
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Weird Christmas @weirdxmas.bsky.social All things holly, jolly, and odd-ly.
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
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Flash Monster the 13th contest now open: https://tinyurl.com/nzyn88m8
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...
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Turnaround Books @turnarounduk.bsky.social Book distributors for US & UK indie publishers including fiction, art, graphic novels, and everything in-between! Impudently independent since 1984 & employee-owned since 2022. 📚
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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
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
Primrose Hill Books @primrosehillbooks.bsky.social One of London's leading independent bookshops, established as a family business for more than thirty-five years.
134 Regent's Park Road
London NW1 8XL
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Short Story Comps @shortstorycomps.bsky.social Posts and reposts about short story / flash / micro competitions in the UK and beyond.
Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social A @storystudiochicago.bsky.social publication! Editor-in-Chief @mbwwelch.bsky.social
Serpent's Tail @serpents-tail.bsky.social Lighting up our readers' minds and opening spaces for them to think differently. Bringing you brilliant, award-winning new and classic fiction and non-fiction.
Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social The literary prize rewarding mould-breaking fiction, launched and run by Goldsmiths UoL in association with the New Statesman
https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-prize/
The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk Independent poetry press + cultural review platform. We publish narrative-led work with edge. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs
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Edited by @alanparrywriter.co.uk
www.thebrokenspine.co.uk
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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
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
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
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
Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social You can do a lot with a bad hand. We're bringing you the best horror, dark fantasy, & crime fiction. Owned & operated by Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award winner Doug Murano.
Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966
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Manderley Press @manderleypress.bsky.social Indie publisher of beautiful titles inspired by buildings, cities and landmarks. Sometimes wears a book as a hat… | ManderleyPress.com
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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social Galley Beggar Press is an independent publisher from Norwich. Citizens of the world. And foreign.
Locus Magazine @locusmag.bsky.social Locus Magazine: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror. The Guide to the World's Imagination.
https://locusmag.com
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CLASH Books @clashbooks.bsky.social Big Indie Establishment Mom & Pop Press in Troy, NY Publishing Beach Reads from Hell. Skeets by Christoph Paul.
Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org radical publisher of politics, culture, current events
haymarketbooks.org
Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social Drama and fiction writer. GANGS OF LONDON S4. MONSTROUS LONGING out with Dahlia Books.
Agents: Independent Talent / The Ampersand Agency
Brit List 2022 / BAFTA Connect member
https://linktr.ee/abifahynes
ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social 501(c)(3) nonprofit literary press. Home of Emerge Literary Journal (http://emergeliteraryjournal.com).
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
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Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher.
Leeds.
Publishing director: Ariell Cacciola @ariellcacciola.bsky.social
🖤🌈https://www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/bookshop
SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social Dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web, by widely published authors or those new to the craft. Est.2003. Paying up to $150. www.smokelong.com. No Trump supporters. Follow also @heyflashvillage.bsky.social
Serenity Booksellers @serenitybookshop.bsky.social Independent Bookshop in Romiley, Greater Manchester. Second bookshop in Stockport Centre now open! Co-founder Stockport Noir. Admin: @oziasmidwinter.bsky.social
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Christian Gilman Whitney @cgwhitney.bsky.social Author of I HAVE NEVER FELT ALIVE (2025)
www.writtenbycgw.com
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
Stephen Graham Jones @stephengrahamjones.com I’m on my way. https://www.stephengrahamjones.com
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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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.
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
Noémi Kiss-Deáki @noemikissdeaki.bsky.social MARY AND THE RABBIT DREAM (Galley Beggar Press & Coach House Books). Short fiction: surely mag, The Selkie, Lunate, Substack. https://open.substack.com/pub/noemikissdeaki?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1jtx96
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
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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
Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction
You can order books here : www.bluemoosebooks.com 
Farhana Khalique @hanakhalique.bsky.social Writer, VO Artist, Teacher, & PhD student 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
Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Award-Winning Publisher of New Weird Horror + More, via Portland, OR & Transilvania, Romania.
@AlexWoodroe.com, Editor in Chief.
@MattBlairstone.bsky.social, Publisher.
SUPPORT INDIE. Hail the Tenebrous Cult🖤☠️
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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).
Roi Fainéant Press SUBS ARE OPEN, BAYBEE! @rfpress.bsky.social Digital lit mag & more. 5 editors in a trenchcoat. 2 indie lit 2 quit. Submissions open. https://www.roifaineantpress.com/ EIC @tiffanymarie.bsky.social Masthead: @skybarett.bsky.social @kelkel.bsky.social @melissacuisine.bsky.social @maybemargot.bsky.soci
Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social Writer, poet, editor, musician.
Ghost Signs (Bluemoose, 2022)
Keshed (Ortac Press, 2026)
Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, 2027 tbc)
#MDANT
https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/stu-hennigan
https://stuhennigan.substack.com/
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