Essay Daily @essaydaily.bsky.social Coming out of our cage and we're doing just fine. All things about the essay. Advent Calendar. Find us at http://essaydaily.org
Emily Mitchell @elbmitchell.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor, apprentice curmudgeon. Novel FAR OCEAN forthcoming March 2027 from Black Lawrence Press. Fiction editor New England Review. Stories in The Sun, Missouri Review, Southern Review, AQR and elsewhere. Free DC, ffs. New here.
Andy Beshear @andybeshearky.bsky.social Father · Husband · Son · Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky · Committed to setting a positive tone and fighting for all our families.
Tia Levings, Writer @tialevingswriter.bsky.social Author of NYT Bestseller A WELL-TRAINED WIFE. Anti-Fundamentalist, mother, artist, hiker, friend.
Katherine Argent @katherineargent.com Kansas City-based writer and woman of a certain rage. Reading submissions for @fracturedlit.bsky.social & The Master’s Review. Petting all the dogs.
Also at the bad place: https://x.com/effthealgorithm
Good Printed Things @goodprintedthings.bsky.social Independent publisher located in Greenville, SC. Making books to remind us that creative work is human and deserves to take up space.
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.
brownhoundpress.com
Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social Poet, parent, professor.
Editor-in-Chief of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social
https://www.katiemanningpoet.com/
In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social The life and times of Steve the otter...
Arthur Mandal @arthurmandal.bsky.social Brit/US writer of uncanny fiction. Best Small Fictions 2025. Over 40 stories in The Barcelona Review, LITRO, Southeast Review, The Forge, The Los Angeles Review and others. @nightjarpress Based in Eugene, Oregon (but grew up in UK). www.arthurmandal.com
Mike Piero 🏳️🌈 @mikepiero.org Writer. Novelist. Poet. Game Studies Scholar. Writing in J Journal, Midway Journal, Rain Taxi, Moveable Type, Impost, Sandy River Review, & Trash Cat Lit. *Views are my own.* Monarch and Best Small Fictions noms. More at www.mikepiero.org. He/Him. Bi. 🩷💜💙
@ohiobookworm.bsky.social @ohiobookworm.bsky.social TDS = Ignoring his own staff said he tried to steal the 2020 election.
Info Lit Goblin @emmawritenow.bsky.social Academic librarian - Writer - Information Literacy Enthusiast (she/her/hers)
All opinions are my own.
Natalie Concannon @nataliegames.bsky.social Games Industry Recruiter in London 🎮
Also here to discuss books! 📚
Stephen G. Eoannou @stepheneoannou.bsky.social Author of the novels The Falling Woman (SFWP 2027), After Pearl (SFWP 2025), Yesteryear (SFWP 2023), Rook (Unsolicited Press 2022), and the short story collection Muscle Cars (SFWP 2015). Made man in Bills Mafia.
Leah Belle @leahbellewrites.bsky.social Writer, doctor, and scientist. Reading (and writing!) literary fiction and narrative medicine. Lover of all things musical. She/Her.
Keisha Bush @keishabush.bsky.social Novelist: No Heaven For Good Boys,
My Family Tree
Harvard Divinity School, MTS ‘25
Erin Chandler @erinchandler.bsky.social Writer, my latest is Bluegrass Sons, A True Crime Memoir, others June Bug Versus Hurricane and Cinderella Sweeping Up. Actress. Teacher, Carnegie Center and privately, memoir. MFA creative non-fiction, Spalding. Publisher and Editor, rabbithousepress.com.
Andrew Fox Ⓥ @foxphorescence.bsky.social Reader, writer, book collector, and all-around biblophile.
Learning to channel the soft whisper of the muses.
Autodidact.
INFJ
#WritingCommunity
#Shelley #Keats #Tennsyon #HartCrane #Stevens #Whitman #Dickinson #Bloom.
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Good vibes only. ~ ~ ~
Morgan Wallace @morganwallace.bsky.social Writer of minimalist stories, knower of obscure and useless things. Member of PNWA and Hugo House.
Michele Mallari @mmallari.bsky.social I live in Blue State Massachusetts, moved here in 2004 from a red state and never looked back. I love doggos, puppers, bunnies, foraging, nature, reading. Aspiring writer.
Thanks for the follow, but I don't answer DMs. 🚫DMs🚫
Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social A Journal of Poetry & Short Prose
Edited by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social
https://www.whaleroadreview.com/
Adam Haver @adamhaver.bsky.social Writer • Poet • Fiction • Willie Morris Award • Translation • Wolf Conservation
Ben Perkins @longdistancecaller.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/benstagram81
new dad, memoirist, essayist, occasional journalist, birder, herper, artist's spouse, baker of cinnamon rolls, already in-recovery from whatever this is
Laura Minor, poets<poems 😘 she/her 🤘💪 #writer #poetry @lauralminor.bsky.social 2024 Silver Medal Florida Book Awards, Poetry 🥈
Book 2: Bright Life, Animal Heart, winner of the 2023 Minds on Fire Open Book Prize, out now!, conduit.org
Book 1: Flowers as Mind Control, winner of The 2020 John Ciardi Prize,
at uapress.com
*no DMs pls*
Paula Poundstone @paulapoundstone.bsky.social 
Jane Friedman @janefriedman.com I report on the publishing industry through my paid newsletter, The Bottom Line, and educate writers on the business of authorship in THE BUSINESS OF BEING A WRITER (University of Chicago Press).
Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social Literary Agent at Morhaim Literary 📚 Newsletter: Agents & Books at agentsandbooks.com. 📚 WRITE THROUGH IT out June ‘25 📚📚 picture book called PAY ATTENTION TO ME out in ‘26!
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Write-Through-It/Kate-McKean/9781668055540
Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social founder & publisher, Belt Publishing. author, former academic, recent Pittsburgh transplant. https://notesfromasmallpress.substack.com
Belt Publishing: beltpublishing.com
Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social Archaeologist turned author with a science fiction take on life. Author of Plague Birds, member of SFWA and SPJ. He/His. Represented by Lucienne Diver. www.jasonsanford.com
Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com Author of novels fantastical & historical, avid gardener, co-founder of SFWA's pub industry watchdog Writer Beware. Casting a small light in a wilderness of writing scams (plus an occasional cat pic)
https://writerbeware.blog
https://victoriastrauss.com
Kathleen Schmidt @kathmschmidt.bsky.social President, KMSPR. Book publishing, marketing, consulting, strategy. I write Publishing Confidential on Substack.
Sebastian Posth 🇪🇺 @posth.me Liccium content certification – digitally sign your original creative works. Claim your content. Regain control. Protect your copyright. Register at liccium.com. – About me: posth.me
Jeanne Veillette Bowerman @jeannevb.bsky.social Sr Exec Pipeline Media Group @bookpipeline.bsky.social, EiC @pipelineartists.bsky.social, partner Fringe Press, CoHost @recklesscr8tive.bsky.social #podcast. Prev @scriptmagazine.bsky.social + Writer's Digest. CoFndr #scriptchat on X. #HistFic #18thC
Simon Owens @simonowens.bsky.social Media industry journalist who runs a newsletter and podcast. You can reach me at simonowens@gmail.com
DoctorSyntax @doctorsyntax.bsky.social Alter ego of Peter Ginna. Editor, writer, & occasional blogger on books & publishing. Former editor & publisher at several houses. Author of WHAT EDITORS DO: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing. Website: peterginna.com 
Kate Pullinger @katepullinger.bsky.social Writer of fiction - books and digital. Inanimate Alice, Breathe, Forest Green. Academic - Bath Spa University. Books. Food. Sleep. Canadian living in UK. www.katepullinger.com and https://buttondown.email/katepullinger
Guy (aka glecharles) @loudpoet.com Sometimes loud, formerly poet, always opinionated. As in guillotine...
Here via BlackSky, but more active on my blog and Mastodon:
https://loudpoet.com | https://gardenstate.social/@glecharles
Paul Bogaards @paulbogaards.bsky.social PR guy. Former Publisher. Representing authors and companies. Knows the business. Find me @ http://instagram.com/paulbogaards; and here http://paulbogaards.substack.com; and here bogaardspr.com.
Katy Hershberger @katyhersh.bsky.social Work at Publishers Lunch. Writing at NYTBR, Washington Post, LitHub, Slate, Longreads, etc.
KatyHershberger.com
Cassie Mannes Murray @cassmannes.bsky.social Writer. Founder & director at Pine State Publicity. Mom to P & E. 🐝
http://pinestatepublicity.com
Pinestatepublicity.substack.com
Sarah LaPolla @sarahlapolla.com Freelance editor of YA & Adult fiction (sarah@nextchapteredits.com). Writer, optimist, all-around bookish.
Editing: https://www.nextchapteredits.com/
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/SarahLaPolla
Everything Else: https://linktr.ee/sarahlapolla
Margot Atwell @margotatwell.bsky.social Writer, editor,publisher, creative funding expert in Brooklyn. Editor of ABSOLUTE PLEASURE. Previously @feministpress & @kickstarter. She/they 🌈📚
https://margotatwell.com/
Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social He wrote Our Endless & Proper Work (Belt Publishing, 2021), based on his "Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives" newsletter.
Laura Stanfill @laurastanfill.bsky.social Author, THE NEIGHBORHOOD DAMES (Ooligan Press, Nov. 2026). Publisher, Forest Avenue Press. Publishing consultant. Delete Key is my roller derby name.
Brian DeFiore @briandef.bsky.social Literary Agent, Dad, Geek
E. J. Wenstrom @ejwenstrom.bsky.social 🖤s complicated heroes, horrifying monsters & standing to the right on escalators so the left side can walk. #SFF author. Cohost
@SFFGirlPodcast. #ADHD. She/her
Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social Ain't gonna play anywhere where there's a genocide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fR2r8Qlyyk
https://newvirago.com/
Darcy Pattison @darcypattison.bsky.social Author of over 70 children’s books, including A LITTLE BIT OF DINOSAUR series, the Moments in Science series, and the Another Extraordinary Animal series. See more at MimsHouseBooks.com #STEM #NextGen #Kidlit #TLsky #EduSky 
Anna Sproul-Latimer @annasplat.bsky.social Founding Partner, Neon Literary. Get in, loser, we're making it art. www.neonliterary.com
Ron Charles @roncharles.bsky.social I write about books at https://roncharles.substack.com/
Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Habs fan / Canadian in the South 🍁
www.megireid.com
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social Crafty southpaw.
Lucienne Diver @luciennediver.bsky.social Literary agent, #author, travel-junkie, puppy enthusiast, full-time fed up with the rolling back of our rights.
www.knightagency.net
www.luciennediver.com
Carolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social Books books books. Editor, writer, reader, clumsy DIYer. Latest: I review Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/08/arts/emily-st-john-mandel-exit-party/
The Gernert Company @thegernertco.bsky.social The Gernert Company is a literary agency with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Our client list is as broad as the market. 📚
https://www.thegernertco.com/
Publishers Lunch @publisherslunch.bsky.social Trade publishing's daily rundown, and sibling of the source of Deal Reports.
Independent Publishers Guild @independentpublishersguild.com The IPG is the UK's largest association of independent publishers, supporting 600+ members with events, resources, training and much more.
https://linktr.ee/IndependentPublishersGuild
Authors Alliance @authorsalliance.bsky.social Promoting authorship for the public good by supporting authors who write to be read. authorsalliance.org and authorsalliance.substack.com for updates. 
Iris Blasi @irisblasi.bsky.social Book lover and literary agent at Arc Literary. Say hi here: iris@arcliterary.com.
arcliterarymanagement.com/the-agents#iris
Bryan Wempen, Author. @bryanwempen.bsky.social Sober l Husy l 8x B-book Author l DRINK (pub. 12/9/2025) l Veteran l☕l Grab a book here >>> bryanwempen.com/drink #RedGreenXmas
Sarah Josephine @sarahjosephinep.bsky.social Writer and Multi-Disciplinary Artist
berocious feast @lightwraith.bsky.social Work in Shimmer (now defunct), Luna Station Quarterly, Entropy Magazine. Pen name: Leonie Skye https://hazylightwraiths.wordpress.com Ph.D. in linguistic anthropology, I do evaluation and data analysis, swimming, quilting, wandering Portland, OR, She/Her
Ashley Honeysett @ashleyhoneysett.bsky.social 2024 Miami University Press Novella Prize Winner. She/her. Evanston, IL, USA. ashleyhoney.substack.com
Ellen Stimson @ellenstimson.bsky.social Big messy country life tarted up by true love. Writing and painting the whole divine catastrophe from an old farmhouse in Vermont
Shelly Jones @shellyjones111.bsky.social Progressive educator. Writer. Appalachian expat. Religious trauma survivor. Mom. Fierce defender of and member of the lgbtqia+ community. Spiritual being having a human experience. (Ask me a question, l’ll tell you a story.) Dogs > cats. Coffee = tea.
Northampton House Press @noho-house-press.bsky.social Established in 2011, Northampton House Press publishes diverse, award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and audiobooks.
https://linktr.ee/nhousepress
Jennifer Hester Mattox @jennifermattox.bsky.social By day I’m the director of The Carnegie Center, a community learning & literary arts center in Lexington, KY. By night I’m a writer living in Bourbon Co., the birthplace of bourbon.
Jen Michalski @socalwritergirl.bsky.social Writer, EIC, @jmwwjournal.bsky.social. Rep: Esty Loveing-Downes at Howland Literary. Latest: ALL THIS CAN BE TRUE (@TurnerPub, June 2025).
Suzanne Pederson @suzannepederson.bsky.social Author of contemporary romance and women's fiction that often includes legal, military, political, and first responder themes.
Kristi Leonard @kristianthamum.bsky.social Author, Podcaster, Audiobook Narrator, President of the Board, Women’s Fiction Writers Association — mama to 3 adult kids, dog lover, dreamer and big mouth (just ask my hubby)
Terry Birdgenaw @terrybirdgenaw.bsky.social Award-winning author of The Antunite Chronicles (Antifascist Allegorical Fiction), Satirist, Professor, Democracy Defender, Resists Autocracy, Writing for freedom, Check out my humorous Orwellian stories.
terrybirdgenaw.com
https://linktr.ee/terrybirdgenaw
Colm Brennan @colmgbrennan.bsky.social Poet & Writer
Poetry Ireland Review • Banshee • The Waxed Lemon • Sonder • The Cormorant • Profiles • The Ogham Stone • Arts Council Literature Bursary • MA in creative writing from UL
colmgbrennan.com
Dr Carrie Etter @carrieetter.bsky.social Poet, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Poems in Iowa Review, Poetry London, TLS, The New Republic... | Academic | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the 🐈⬛! | Foodie | Dem 🇺🇸 expat in Bristol, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
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.
https://linktr.ee/ddouglasgoody
Jonathan Huston @jonathanhuston.bsky.social Writer in the Rhine Valley and on the Pacific Coast. Short stories and interactive fiction. Mondstaub short story collection. Best European Fiction. Qirkat board game app.
https://jonathanhuston.com
Laura Jean McKay @laurajeanmckay.bsky.social Writer. THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY winner of The Arthur C Clarke Award and The Victorian Prize for Literature. Latest collection GUNFLOWER. She/her. Views mostly other people's.
laurajeanmckay.com.au
On Meeanjin - Turrbal and Jagera Country.
Anti gen AI
nic is querying sapphic dystopian romance 💗💜💙 @nicolemtota.bsky.social 📚obsessive ARC reader
🥀 querying sapphic dystopian romance
⚔️ outlining sapphic romantasy
🏳️🌈founding member of #QueerPit 
Alicia Dekker @alicia-dekker.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Stories in Fractured Lit, Barely South Review, Pithead Chapel. Hoarding fabric that I'll never stitch into a quilt.
Justin Bryant @justinwriter.bsky.social ‘Thunder From A Clear Blue Sky’ Malarkey Books 2023. Short fiction/flash here and there.
Marian Manning Adams @marianmanningadams.bsky.social 
Book of the Day .org @bookofthedayorg.bsky.social https://bookoftheday.org/ (every day since 2015)
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
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.
https://linktr.ee/joy.deva.baglio
https://www.joybaglio.com/
Susan Muth @susiemuth.bsky.social Poet | MFA from @mason__cw | Executive Editor @offseasonmag | jigsaw puzzler | she/her
Claudine Guertin-Ceric @guertinceric.bsky.social Chicago-based novelist and short-story writer | MFA Queens University of Charlotte | Words in Michigan Quarterly Review, Zero Readers, etc. | Lover of billiards, the Balkans and Belgian Malinoises | She/her
Fanny Hubart-Salmon @fannysescapades.bsky.social Human first, curious second. A Kentuckian from Normandy.
Filmmaker, poet, public historian, researcher, wanderer. 💙
Magpie Miller @magpiemiller.bsky.social A.K.A.: Kim. See also: poems; books; trees (fruit & family); Appalachia (east TN, KY). Likewise, melodious felines, unfounded optimism. Confounding hounds. Further reading: science-adjacent, spirit-curious. Vintage. Allergies: DMs, bigots.
Scott Solomon @scottsolomonwriter.bsky.social Recently finished writing a novel about damning aspects of the medical profession. Short fiction in Chicago Quarterly Review, New Letters . . .
linktr.ee/scottsolomon
Heavy Feather Review @hfr.bsky.social Literary publisher & book reviews site, EST. 2011 #babyeatbooks
https://heavyfeatherreview.org/
Amy Le Ann Richardson @kymtnwriter.bsky.social Writer and artist. WHO YOU GROW INTO (2024) and MAKE BELIEVE WORLDS WE BUILT TOGETHER (2023) and OUT OF PLACES (2025). Farmer at Forgotten Foods Farm. Kentucky.
Dawn Miller 🇨🇦 @dawnwriter.bsky.social 2024 Winner Toronto Star SS contest| @SmokeLong Fellow 2024|Best Microfiction 2024 2025|words:The Forge,The Cincinnati Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Room Magazine, Fractured Lit+| Pushcart, Best SF noms| rep:Joanna Rasheed, Ultra Literary
Ryan Reads and Writes 📚✨ @ryanreadsandwrites.me https://linktr.ee/Ryanreadsandwrites
https://chapternotes.substack.com
📚 Horror, sci-fi, & lit-fic devotee.
🧠 Advocate for the neurodivergent, human rights, & the environment.
🎸Fueled by indie rock, curiosity, and overthinking
Sherrie Flick @sherrieflick.bsky.social Writer / Editor - I HAVE NOT CONSIDERED CONSEQUENCES: SHORT STORIES, Autumn House, 2025- HOMING - essay collection, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2024 - Co-editor FLASH FICTION AMERICA, W. W. Norton, 2023 - Sr Editor SLQ 
George Hahn @georgehahn.com Humorist, urbanist, satirist, sartorialist, minimalist, soloist, bicyclist, mid-century modernist on no one’s to-do list.
George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social Recovering lawyer | Owned by a Pembroke Corgi | Host of Psycho Politics pod and contributor, @TheBulwark.com | Crappy pol | Trying to figure out Substack
substack.com/@gtconway
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
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