Terri Rose @terri-rose.bsky.social Contest Goblin!
FlashFiction writer!
Cat lover!
Tea drinker!
Crochet crazy!
Nature photographer!
Historical/fantasy reader!
Cindy Phan @cindyphanauthor.com A human going | Best of the Net Nom | Pushcart Nom | Stories in Augur Magazine, khōréō magazine, Baffling Magazine and more | Bi | She/her 🐩
cindyphanauthor.com
Author photo by Rosena Fung
The Broadkill Review @thebroadkillreview.bsky.social ISSN:1935-0538.CLMP. broadkillreview.com
We are a small staff of volunteers. Submissions open July 2026. Work published here has appeared in The Best of the Net, on NPR's Prairie Home Companion, and NPR affiliates, and reprinted in anthologies.
Up the Staircase Quarterly @upthestaircase.bsky.social An online journal of poetry & art.
posts by editor @aprilmbratten.bsky.social
Cover art by Ricardo Jose Gonzalez-Rothi
http://www.upthestaircase.org
The Epilogue @theepilogue.net Author interview show that delves deeper into the craft of writing.
https://theepilogue.net
Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social Writer in Delaware. Chapbook: POEMS TO STAGE DIVE TO (Stanchion, 2026). Full length: EVERY LIVING DAY (Thirty West, 2023). Work in The Offing, Harvard Advocate, Ninth Letter, etc. Probably eating a little treat. 🏳️🌈
Majda Gama @majda.bsky.social Debut poetry book “In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls” Wandering Aengus Book Award (April 2025). Two Sylvia’s chapbook prize winner for The Call of Paradise (‘23). Graybeal-Gowen prize. ‘24 Gregory Djanikian Scholar. https://www.majdagama.com
Linda Daunter @lindadaunter.bsky.social
Still don't know what I want to do when I'm grown up.
In the meantime, I write short stories, flash fiction & unfinished novels, draw, paint, take photos, garden, daydream and dance when nobody's watching.
📍NW England
🚫NO AI
🚫DMs - I can't read them!
cressida roe @eggandcressida.bsky.social writer • librarian • extremely chalant • stories in apex, lightspeed, haven spec, &c • 2024 wigleaf top 50 • pushcart nominee • rep'ed by katrina lemaire
Robert @sometimepoet.bsky.social NJ transplant living in NC
Avid reader using books to deal with the chaos here in the States.
I stand with the banned 📚📖
Democrat 💙 proud ally of 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦
Ex-Christian
No magats - no DMs
Leah (she/her) @leahgwrites.bsky.social Just a #writer in the woods trying to make it in this world. Lover of nature, good books, quiet places, music and film.
Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social Novel HEADING NORTH (Braddock Avenue Books) out now! Free newsletter: hmwendt.beehiiv.com. Words in Shenandoah, Fourway Review, Memorious, & c. Writer, educator, enthusiast. they/them
Tracy Royce @tracyroyce.bsky.social Writer, poet, reader, cinephile, art-fiend, hiker, board gamer. She/her.
Jonathan Cardew @cardewjcardew.bsky.social Writer. Micro maniac. Words in SmokeLong Quarterly, wigleaf, Cream City Review, Best Microfiction, and elsewhere. Author of A WORLD BEYOND CARDBOARD (ELJ Editions).
Amanda Anderson @magicetc.bsky.social Former librarian currently writing. Los Angeles native.
Bill Merklee @bmerklee.bsky.social Writer of very short things.
In Best Microfiction. Best Small Fictions noms. Highly commended for Bath Novella-in-Flash Award. Fractured Lit Chapbook Prize short list. Wigleaf Top 50 long list. BOTN nom. But enough about me. How are you?
billmerklee.com
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social I write always weird sometimes funny sometimes dark stuff. 1st & 2nd places at Writing Battle, Twisted Champion, 3rd Place in Woodland Writers. Published in Elegant Lit, Rat Bag Lit and by TL;DR Press. Rejected by 100s of Other Places.
David J Bauman @davidjbauman.bsky.social Host of the podcast @inthreepoems.bsky.social.
Poet, birder, librarian 🌈 New Ohio Review, Shenandoah, Crab Creek Review, the MacGuffin. 3 chapbooks, including Mapping the Valley: Hospital Poems, w/ my son Micah, Seven Kitchens Press. davidjbauman.com.
Jessica Whipple @jessicawhippl17.bsky.social Author of ENOUGH IS… Tilbury House '23, illus. Nicole Wong | I THINK I THINK A LOT Free Spirit Publishing '23, illus. Josée Bisaillon | website: authorjessicawhipple.com | also poetry | https://linktr.ee/JessicaWhippl17
Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social Judged this year by Jonathan Lethem. Anthology series edited by Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, published by Pelekinesis
In Short: A Journal of Flash Nonfiction @inshortlit.bsky.social An indie lit mag for flash nonfiction 📸
Publishing flash of 1,000 words or fewer; micros of 400 or fewer; and short-shorts 100 or fewer ⚡️
https://inshortjournal.com/
Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social Poet, writer, maker of things. Seventeen collections of poetry and prose. Born and raised Vancouverite now living in Edmonton. ANTI-artificial thievery. Editor, reviewer, teacher of poetic forms. Loves: books, cats, gardening, family, real life. #canlit
rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc.
out now: edgeless (Caitlin Press)
https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/
https://www.patreon.com/robmclennan
http://robmclennanauthor.blogspot.com/ https://robmclennan.substack.com/
Kai Delmas @kaidelmas.bsky.social German-American | Codexian |
Stories in Martian, Wyldblood, Tree And Stone, Etherea, and several Shacklebound anthos.
https://linktr.ee/kaidelmas
Nikki Flynn @flynnbulwinter.bsky.social Disabled, ND nerd, gamer. Partly deaf, OCD, anxiety. A #cosplayer, #writer & #audiofiction project director
for Phantasmal Bard Studios. Master's in Criminology. She/her.
Attie Lime @attielime.bsky.social Poet. 99% Children's Poetry.
Schools. Events. Festivals.
Poems on Toast Sept 2026 🎉
Blue Jelly and Strawberries
A Welly Full of Christmas
Mum. Ex-teacher. Notebooks. Tea.
East Midlands now, Northumberland then.
www.attielime.co.uk
John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social Writing wee poems again.
Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social Carer Gardener Poet Reader
Give me time to think!😀
Colorado Flower @coloradosprings.bsky.social Just like a Colorado flower,
I chase the mountain sun & thrive in the wild.
Found my peace here in the blue yonder.
Welcome to my poetic fields of thoughts,
blooming across every border. 🌸
Here to interact, not just broadcast,
seeking the hidden within.
Mixed Bag @m-ixedbag.bsky.social Writer, Mom, Polyglot. Editor @lit-namjooning.bsky.social, Subs Editor @Smokelong. Words: BSF'23 @hexliterary,@tinymolecules @barrelhouse @BoothAJournal @wigleaf
Published work here: linktr.ee/hemanataraju
Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social Author. Potter. Mom. THE BELOVED WILD (Feiwel & Friends, 2018) & UNLEAVING (Feiwel & Friends, 2019) Rep’d by Faye Bender. melissaostrom.com
Vicky MacDonald Harris @vickymharris.bsky.social Work in: @janusliterary.bsky.social @strangehorizons.bsky.social
@ellipsiszine.bsky.social @paragraphplanet.bsky.social @whaleroadreview.bsky.social Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, @rfpress.bsky.social @bulbculture.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/vickymharris
The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social Editors: @tejaswineerc.bsky.social & @ankitrajojha.bsky.social • Murals Editor: @fbereaud.bsky.social • Contributors from 63 countries • https://linktr.ee/thehooghlyreview
Darby Lyons @darbylyons.bsky.social Retired English teacher. Book and music lover. Midwesterner, kind of (Army brat, IYKYK), with Appalachian roots. MFA, Sewanee School of Letters. Senior editorial assistant, Cincinnati Review.
Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social Queer disabled writer, artist, & scholar aka Dr. Heffers.
Lover of nature, sitcoms, libraries, & coffee.
EIC, Genrepunk Magazine (@genrepunkmag.bsky.social)
📚 What Blooms in the Dark (2024)
She/they
https://linktr.ee/audreytcarroll
Pamela Painter @pamelapainter.bsky.social Writer of stories--long, flash and micro. 
Wiserafter90 @wiserafter90.bsky.social Career mostly as an antiquarian bookseller, retired at age 86 after 64 years. Restored circa 1815 home. Avid reader, collector of quotes, lover of languages and history. Happily married for a second time after 67 years with my first love. 94 now.
@somanybooks24.bsky.social @somanybooks24.bsky.social Translator & Book Lover
Shon Mapp 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @shonmapp.bsky.social Engineer >>> Writer
Folio Editor: Anomaly
Reader: Fractured Lit
www.shonmapp.com
Solarpunk Auntie @solarpunk-auntie.myatproto.social Artist, hydrologist, river-wader-inner.
#solarpunk #atheopagan
Stephanie Austin @stephanieaustin.bsky.social Formerly @lucysky on Twitter
IG: @stephanie.d.austin and @mugshot_writers2
SOMETHING I MIGHT SAY, essays, WTAW Press
BURN, a novel, out now from Cowboy Jamboree Press
stephanieaustin.net
Lindsay Vaught @lindsayfouts.bsky.social Spalding CNF student
🎷 player
Louisville KY liberal
Protect trans 🏳️⚧️ youth
RT doesn’t = endorsement
Jodie Young, verray jangleresse @jangleresse.bsky.social Poet (reading more than writing atm) in Naarm | Melbourne, Australia
Poetry, books, art, history.
Resisting the urge to despair.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks.bsky.social Publishing award-winning fiction, nonfiction and poetry since 1946. Home of AUWA Books, Quanta Books, FSG Originals, and Picador.
Writing Room Org UK @writingroomorguk.bsky.social A welcoming online home for all creative writers, established 2013. We help people write fiction, memoir & poetry. Friendly courses, small classes, hosted live online. Writing drop-in groups & events. Patron of Writing Hannah Lowe. www.writingroom.org.uk
JunimoTrashCat - Emilee <3 @moonlitjustice.bsky.social 🥄 Chronic pain spoonie. 🌾 Emotionally invested in Stardew Valley at an unreasonable level. 🎮
Jesse Binger @jessebinger.bsky.social Author | 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴
Rep'd: Tommy Dean, Rosecliff Lit
Pub'd: Bending Genres, Bristol Noir, LitGarage, Revolution John, Pistol Jim Press
www.jessebinger.com
Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA | Global Indigenous Horror (UPM, 2025) | Poetry Editor Orion’s Belt | Words in Future Fire, UtopiaSF, Space&Time, Lovecraftiana | EIC @katabaticcircus.bsky.social co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social
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).
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
https://linktr.ee/tommydeanwriter
Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
Louise @louisehurrell.bsky.social 🏴
Writer. Producer. Cake lover.
The Sam Hill! Review | SUBS OPEN @samhillreview.bsky.social Lit mag for historical fiction and poetry that makes you say: “now that was good as SAM HILL!”
SamHillReview.com | est. 2026 | Submissions for Vol. 1 are OPEN
Jennifer Mosier @jennifermosier.bsky.social Actor, director, artistic multi-hyphenate. Half-Asian since before it was cool. Bring on the cats. And the video games. Newly arrived to Canada.
@nanalynne.bsky.social @nanalynne.bsky.social A nana who wants a better world for grandchildren. When I’m not supporting causes I care strongly about, I love reading about all things books and gardening
old lady bee @oldladybee.bsky.social I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Joni Page Author @jonipageauthor.bsky.social Wild child. Optimist.
Writer of captivating, happy tales.
Author of Beach Shorts - a Sandthology & The Feminist EarthMother PartyGirl.
Website: www.jonipage.com
Gratefully living on Kaurna Country, Australia.
Kitchen Table Quarterly @kitchentableqtrly.bsky.social Samizdat. Poetry. Nonfiction. Art.
Give us your history.
www.kitchentablequarterly.org
Georgene Smith Goodin @gsmithgoodin.bsky.social “If I cannot move heaven then I will raise hell.”
Former foster parent; mom to 4, fiction writer, memoirist, she/her
essays in Washington Post & Boston Globe
One that sums it all up: https://shorturl.at/QD8vN
www.goodinconsulting.com
New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed) @nffr.bsky.social New Flash Fiction Review is an online magazine devoted to flash fiction. Read more: https://newflashfiction.com
Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social A Journal of Poetry & Short Prose
Edited by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social
https://www.whaleroadreview.com/
Heather Bell Adams @heatherbelladams.bsky.social Author MARANATHA ROAD (WVU) & THE GOOD LUCK STONE (Haywire); fiction in North Carolina Literary Review, New Letters, Reckon Review, Thomas Wolfe Review, Still, Stanchion, etc Rep’d by Carly Watters
COFFIN BELL || a journal of dark literature @coffinbell.bsky.social Quarterly online journal for dark literature. Flash, short story, poetry, CNF, essay, short criticism, and art. coffinbell.com
Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social Dirt Road Driving, Jelly Jar Sipping, Dollar General Shopping, journal of Prose.
Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social Editor of Brevity, a small magazine with big ambitions. Author of various books. Often can't decide if I am posting as myself or as the magazine.
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/
Bicoastal Review @bicoastalreview.bsky.social bicoastalreview.com
Journal of poetry (with audio), nonfiction, interviews, art, and photography - particularly on themes of the U.S. east and west coasts 🌊
Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social Small and/or speculative fictions. Old dictionaries. Shingle beaches. Everyday magic.
she/her
https://www.jennygaitskell.com/
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/jennygaitskell
dr. kimberly ann @kimannjosouth.bsky.social 💚 poet, phd, professor, human, mama, aries, eagles/phl sports , ucw-cwa, she/her/hers 💚
rts ≠ always endorsements
Bob Varettoni @bvar.bsky.social Dad, writer; loves poetry, photography, music, art, and the Mets; Notre Dame alum; career in Public Relations - NYC & NJ - https://linktr.ee/bvar
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
Steph 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | Editor 🦦✍️ @ottersediting.com Freelance editor, writer, reader |
25 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ they/she, nonbinary, AuDHD
Leftist, Free 🇵🇸 No AI🚫
Need an Editor? | Fantasy, LGBTQ+, Sci-Fi | line editing, copyediting & proofreading: ottersediting.com 🦦✍️
Heather @heatherdnorton.bsky.social (she/her) | 🖤 | ace | writes SFF and lit fic | words @lunastation.bsky.social and @edinburghawards.bsky.social | first reader at @translunartl.bsky.social |
https://writteninmoss.blogspot.com/
Kit Gray aka Elise Scott (they/she) @elisescott.bsky.social Author & mom.
Find your joy with
THE BLACK CAT DETECTIVES!
#POTS #endo #chronicpain #nonbinary #queer #vegan #disabled #neurodivergent #mentalillness
Rep: Marisa Corvisiero @ CLA
https://elise-scott.com
A person-shaped spooniecorn.
@laurieember.bsky.social @laurieember.bsky.social 
Jo Gatford @jmgatford.bsky.social Write-abouter | editor | scriptwriter | fiction all over the shop | Shakespeare nerd | writing thoughts & workshops @ The Joy of Fixion
https://www.jogatford.com
https://fixioning.substack.com
Dr Katherine Graham @katherinegraham.bsky.social Performance academic, lighting designer, theatre maker
Cosmoflufftales @cosmoflufftales.bsky.social 🐶 4yo Coton de Tulear 💕
(The Bichon's fluffier/softer cousin.)☁️
✨ Sprinkling a little joy, one wag at a time
🐾 #cosmoflufftales world, shared by his mom
Colleen Kearney Rich @ckrich.bsky.social 
Lit Match Collective @litmatchcollective.com A writers’ community led by editors 🔥
Helping members connect and grow.
Join us ➡️ litmatchcollective.com & our community, open to all!: https://discord.gg/cxSdvE2EfN
Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
Huw Nesbitt @huwnesbitt.bsky.social writer and editor
huwnesbitt.xyz
Jan Stinchcomb @janstinchcomb.bsky.social Author of Verushka (JournalStone), The Blood Trail (Red Bird Chapbooks) & stories in many places (Gamut, Bourbon Penn, Tales to Terrify, Wigleaf, hex, etc.)
janstinchcomb.com
SoFloPoJo @soflopojo.bsky.social #poetry #flash Literary Arts Journal
www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com
JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social bold. vibrant. authentic.
www.jacklegpress.org
Query Us @ https://jacklegpress.submittable.com/submit
Annie ZH Sun @anniezhsun.bsky.social Writer, English Teacher. Full-time Catnapper. Currently querying. Published: Pseudopod, Hex, IHRAM Press, Bag of Bones, Band of Bards: Dark side of Purity Zine, Silk and Foxglove etc...
the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social the engine(idling is an online literary magazine for the restless. unique themed issues.
www.engineidling.net
EIC Danielle McMahon (@dehm000.bsky.social)
Christopher Linforth @clinforth.bsky.social Author of four story collections, including Very Short Lives (JackLeg Press, 2027), Directory (Indirect Books, 2026), and The Distortions (Orison Books, 2022). https://christopherlinforth.com/
Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social I’m a library assistant and poet with work published in The Dirigible Balloon, Disabled Tales, Dreambeast Poems, and featured on Brian Moses’s blog. My poems are forthcoming in Scaryness Express.
Ann Graham @ann-graham.bsky.social Reader, writer of short stories and poems.
I comment on short stories at http://www.ann-graham.com/
Dave Gregory @courtlandavenue.bsky.social Retired sailor, writer, gardener.
Editor: Doric Literary
Fiction Editor: Exposition Review.
Mary Magdalen @mary-magdalen.bsky.social Southern California writer with words in The Write Launch, Blood + Honey, Leon Literary Review, BULL, and others.
footshooter. @footshooterzine.bsky.social a literary mixtape.
Submissions open.
https://linktr.ee/footshooterzine
Anne Summerfield @summerwriter.bsky.social Writes flash and other fiction. 
Nora Maynard @noramaynard.bsky.social Writer & editor in NYC. Fiction in Variant Lit., hex, Moon City Review, MoonPark Review, Gone Lawn, HAD & others. Soon in Citron Review. Runner, movie lover, beginner violinist. Co-ed. -ette @ettereview.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/noramaynard
Amanda @akscotland.bsky.social Co-host of the Not Quite Write Podcast and judge of the Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction.
Writes in the tiny spaces in between.
Kaitlin Schmidt @kaitlinschmidt4.bsky.social I'm a queer, neurodivergent author and editor. When I'm not writing or falling in love with the latest book I'm editing, I'm swing dancing the night away! https://www.kaitlin-schmidt.com
S J Snyder @sjsnyderwrites.bsky.social A writer addicted to short story competitions, chronically neglecting novels.