Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social writes poetry
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📚 Books (mostly Sci-Fi & Fantasy)
🖋️ Writing (fiction/poetry)
✨ Creativity
🧶 Crafting
🎮 Games
🎲 TTRPG/D20
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Athena Law @athena-law.bsky.social Writes instead of paying a therapist. Adores a freshly sharpened Blackwing and a blank sheet of paper.
Stan J Wild @stanjwild.bsky.social Short fiction, CNF, lit mags.
Sharing writing I like — and some of my own.
E T Connelly @alcmanfolk.bsky.social Foraging time for poetry.
Shane Joaquin Jimenez @shanejoaquin.bsky.social Writer (novel BONDAGE, stories various). Vicambulist. Somnambulist. Planet of the Apesist.
Wendy BooydeGraaff @onlybooyskies.bsky.social Reader, writer, sporadic gardener, fair-weather biker, Can/Am, SALAD PIE pb author, THE HAUNTED STATES OF AMERICA contributor, fiction & poems in various literary mags
wendybooydegraaff.com
Neil Blackman @n3il4real.bsky.social Writer of fiction. Heart that you call home. Movie stuff. Music junk. Mental Health. Still chasing the highs of discovering AOL and finding the lows of everything since.
Kathryn Aldridge-Morris @kazbarwrites.bsky.social COLD TOAST Dahlia Books. Republic of Consciousness Prize 'Book of the Month'. Shortlisted for International Rubery Book Award. Wigleaf Top 50, Bath Flash Fiction Award, Mancs. Writing School QMD Prize, The Forge CNF prize
www.kamwords.com
Nicholas Bacci Siegel @nabsiegel.bsky.social Mammalian (human) writer.
www.nabsiegel.com
Trent Lewin @trentlewin.bsky.social Writer. Distinguished Story in Best American Short Stories 2025. Published by Boulevard, december, The Lascaux Review, the New Ohio Review, Grain, The New Quarterly. Working on a novel and a short story collection. Bring me wine. Find me at trentlewin.com.
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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Roughhouser @roughhouser-mag.bsky.social Online poetry mag. Submissions open.
Based in Chicago.
EIC: @willrusso.bsky.social
https://roughhouser.neocities.org/
David Milley @davidmilley.com Long-time married, queer, gay man, retired developer and tech writer, enjoying time with hubby and writing seriously again, mostly verse and memoir. 🏳️🌈 No LGB, or any other letter, without the T: 🏳️⚧️
Aud Auder @cbauder.bsky.social Paper collages from junk mail, some digital stuff. No AI. Poetry, prose, essays & hybrid work. Wildlife & climate. Small but furious. Still masking, still persisting. Reader for @fracturedlit.bsky.social, blog at cbauder.com 🅥
Walter Colley @waltercolley.bsky.social Commercial Advertising Photograher & Educator based in Upstate NY
Pete Ward @phenryward.bsky.social Books, art, theatre, and telling people I liked the thing they made. Weird / Gothic short stories published or forthcoming in Cosmic Horror, Macabre, Frost Zone, Rat Bag and elsewhere. Editorial reader at Gavagai.
Jeffrey Hermann @jeffreyhermann.bsky.social Writer, all sorts: https://linktr.ee/jeffreyhermann
Jeremy Mauser @jeremymauser.bsky.social Fiction Writer & Stand-Up Comic & Essayist & Poet
MFA in Creative Writing @ University of Alabama
Words forthcoming: Pithead Chapel
Words published: Sonora Review, Bulb Region, fifth wheel press, New Delta Review, I Have That On Vinyl
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
@rodmoo.bsky.social @rodmoo.bsky.social Novel: Hides (Breakwater Books)
website: https://rodmoodycorbett.com/
Lydia @elliswkim.bsky.social Writer, strategist, editor| McCormack Writing Center (Fellow 24-25), Kenyon | in Ploughshares! | i don't like it when you do that |🕺🏽
Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social 🙋♀️: fiction writer, poet, translator, high school language teacher, cat paparazzo, fun aunt
🗣️: English, français, español, Gaeilge
✍️: Adela Zamudio’s CONFIDENCES (Bucknell U Press) is out now!
🔗: lnlanguage.com, lauranagle.substack.com
Carla @novistenada.bsky.social Quién sabe. 🔻
Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social math teacher, writer in upper manhattan
substack: pershmail.substack.com
website with links to publications etc: michaelpershan.com
Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social (re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
williamwoodard.bsky.social @williamwoodard.bsky.social Fresh fiction grown on an organic farm in Mississippi. Thoughts on writing, ecology, and chicken mischief.
Millie Kensen @milliekensenauthor.bsky.social Writer | Gamer | Professional Overthinker
Pushcart Prize nominee. Find my work in Necessary Fiction, Glassworks Magazine, The Bookends Review, & more.
Northern Horror Hub @northerhorrorhub.bsky.social Northern Horror Hub gathers writers, readers and thinkers drawn to the darkness. Explore all aspects of horror via our writing courses, retreats, conferences and events both online and in person. Watch this space for submissions to our upcoming zine.
mreid@bsky.social @mreid.bsky.social poet, gardener, intelligence expert
former Managing Editor at Arc poetry Magazine
former Director at VerseFest
books with Brick, Chaudiere, Anansi, rdc, etc
new book coming from University of Calgary Press
John Fulton @fultonwriter.bsky.social Fiction Writer, 2025 NEA Fellow (one of the last before Trump), Professor UMass Boston MFA, runner, boxer (no head hits!), Fiction Editor at Arrowsmith Journal, wine lover, Francophile, and German language lover. https://johnfulton.net/
Ale @aleebrija.bsky.social Developmental editor. She/they. Biological parent of a cat. The other two were adopted. Talk to me about horror. Anti AI.
Spencer @cochituatecontent.bsky.social I love Arsenal and I also love America and they're both doomed to break my heart it seems
Bryce @statcrux.bsky.social I write poems and stories
Kyle Garret @kylegarret.bsky.social He/him Dad, husband, writer
ADHD, comics, baseball (Guardians), basketball (Cavs), futbol (Leeds, U.S.) dirty liberal
kylegarret.com
luca zani @weurd.com weurd.com \word\ is essays and stories on philosophy, culture, literature. it is writing on sociality, appearance, and decay. \| lucazani2710@outlook.com for enquiries. \| SONGS OF SPEECH AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE NOW
Elise LeSage @eliselesage.bsky.social Writer, daydreamer, and dreadfully much else.
Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social Award-winning storyteller, writer, workshop facilitator. Taught 150+ workshops including Second City, Smokelong Quarterly, Clarion West. Stories published in Barrelhouse, Baltimore Review, Apex, Fractured Lit etc. www.tyrtle.com
Nate @nateduty.bsky.social Old white guy. Retired Calif Deputy Sheriff, vet, Fort Bliss, TX, 1962-1965, Spec 5. HQ Combat Support Group. Don't care for liars, thieves, or bigots like Trump. Car nut, old drag racer. 🚫 No hot ladies (too old). Christians OK 🚫 Phony Christians 🚫 Chats
Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social Senior Editor @ Epiphany Lit. Stories in EPOCH, Carolina Quarterly, Bridge Eight, Sequestrum, McSweeney's Internet Tendency et al. Video creations (Richard Hell, Nancy Wilson, et al) www.jeffbond.nyc www.chillsubs.com/profile/jeffbondnyc
Evan Hannon @efghannon.bsky.social Alaskan in Texas
My fiction appears in Conjunctions, EPOCH, Bat City Review, X-R-A-Y, and HAD
R.J. Cross @rj-x.bsky.social Writer/researcher/advocate @ the Public Interest Research Group. Usually: tech/privacy/AI. Sometimes: fiction/poems/satire/birds. Currently learning about: burrowing owls. Cool new lit project coming soon. Kansan at heart.
https://rjcross.org/
T-Bone @t-bonetiefling.bsky.social writer, artist, paladin, nerd
they/them
profile pic by @gio-utti.bsky.social
Short Story Shoutout @short-story-shout.bsky.social Hey, writer. Are you reading enough short stories to know what literary magazines are looking for? SHORT STORY SHOUTOUT can help. Follow to get introduced to the best online fiction weekly for the low, low cost of nothing. https://freilly2020.substack.com/
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
Kallie Hunchman @calicoproud.bsky.social She/They. Child of the 20th century.
Mother of four fuzzy meowing children. Passionate about books and their designs. Watercolor artist on the side, I suppose.
📚 Design Inquiries --> kallie.hunchman@gmail.com
🎨 Art Inquiries --> kalliedoesart@gmail.com
The Gotham Guillotine @gothamguillotine.bsky.social ☭ New York's Sharpest Socialist Literary Magazine! ☭
🚩Issue 2 OUT NOW 🚩
💀Issue 3 Submissions OPEN UNTIL 9/16/26💀
linktr.ee/gothamguillotine
Dory @dorywrites.bsky.social Just Keep Writing ✍️📖💛
https://thegoodlifereview.com/2026/01/26/house-party-by-dory-rousos-moore/
https://www.modernhaiku.org/issue57-1/index.html
NancyBell.bsky.social @nancybell.bsky.social Writer. Performer. Director. Professor of Theatre.
Words in/forthcoming:StoryQuarterly, No. American Review, Terrain, Shenandoah, Flyway Journal
Former doomed ST Voyager Ensign. (RIP A.Jetal)
Brandon Getz @brandongetz.bsky.social weird fiction & sci-fi writer // LARS BREAXFACE: WEREWOLF IN SPACE (novel) // STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE (stories) // he/him // Pittsburgh
brandongetz.com
Stephen Yang @stephenyangwrites.bsky.social stephenyang.straw.page
Feminist Science @feministscience.bsky.social Combining Art & Science. Spilling the tea on STEM. PhD engineering.
https://substack.com/@feministscientist?utm_source=user-menu
Ali Morretta @alimorrettawrites.bsky.social Freelance editor and copywriter. Words in Citywide Lunch, Pacifica Lit, Flash Frog, and The Citron Review. Dogs love me.
Pebble @pebblepress.bsky.social Founded in 2025, Pebble is a Chicago small press interested in nature, craft, regionalism, and obscure and unclassifiable excellence.
https://pebble-press.com/, https://www.instagram.com/pebble__press/
Maggie @maggielangford.bsky.social Walking, inspired by nature, history & heritage, shortlisted Working-Class Nature Writing Prize 2022 - Pre-Raphaelite Soc The John Pickard Essay 3rd Prize 2023
Dr Walsh @laurelwalsh.bsky.social Composition professor, writer, editor, author and all around troublemaker. Ask me about my amazing stand-up show about grammar: Stammer! Conjugation celebration!
Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
🚷 · EPIKULUPU · 🚷 @epikulupu.bsky.social 🪓🧪🎟️🔑🪘🎠 · it / its 22
📹🎡⚙️🩹🦇👣 · queer nd pdv
🫖📠🧃🐇🌻🎱 · poc punk plural
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Ankur Jyoti Saikia @amythfromassam.bsky.social 
Michael Janairo @mjanairo.bsky.social Writer, reader, and I once jammed with The Washington Squares
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Chris Dolan @mcdolan.bsky.social I am angry about the nitrate levels in Iowa’s drinking water. My writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Maudlin House, The Disappointed Housewife, and others. www.dolanchris.com
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social Montréal
Writer, urban geographer.
Prose in PRISM international, Passages North, Hobart, The Ex-Puritan & more.
Ask me about skunks, I love them.
lysgranier.com
Ian Christopher Hooper @lostmirado.bsky.social Artist. Writer. Pre-Tomorrowist. ianchristopherhooper.com
Kirk Wilson @kirkwilson.bsky.social Author of the story collection Out of Season, the poetry collection Songbox, the poetry chapbook The Early Word, and the crime study Unsolved. http://www.kirkwilsonbooks.com
Susan Rudy @susanrudy.bsky.social Academic & Writer | London & Wivenhoe | QMUL researcher | former creative writing teacher at Birkbeck and English Professor at University of Calgary | queer feminist theory | experimental writing
The Poetry Curator @thepoetrycurator.bsky.social Sharing poetry - old and new.
thepoetrycurator.substack.com
@cuentos-anamaria.bsky.social @cuentos-anamaria.bsky.social 
Reese @puppylove23.bsky.social 🐶 Woof! I'm Reese , a Boston Terrier with a black belt in snuggles. My human, BRETT CULBERT– you know, my actor papa who's on TV and all that? – thinks he's the star, but let's be real, I'm the real leading role here.
The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com 🏺 literary magazine retelling myths + classics
🏹 bringing the "then" to our "now"
🖋️ SUBS OPEN 💚
https://www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submit
The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social We're an international literary magazine in Madrid. We connect English and Spanish speaking literary cultures through fiction, poetry, essays and interviews.
SUBS NOW OPEN & WELCOME
ateliermodernista.bsky.social @ateliermodernista.bsky.social Art You Can Wear - colourful, affordable jewellery for everyone. ateliermodernista.com
LycopeneDream @bonnievivante.bsky.social Reading and sharing art, literature and poetry. Also here for the cute 🐶 🐱 and memes. Sometimes I scribble.
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
Robert J. Tiess @robertjtiess.bsky.social Poet Author Writer 1980s-now
31+ Years in Libraries
Conscious Writers Collective Member
Advocate of Poets & Poetry
My poetry collections:
+ Gracious Nature
+ May We Learn from the Earth
+ The Humbling and Other Poems
Website: robertjtiess.wordpress.com
@jamiechesbro.bsky.social @jamiechesbro.bsky.social Author of A Lion in the Snow (Woodhall Press) Bylines: LitHub, The Writer’s Chronicle, Zone 3, The Rupture, River Teeth (online), Essay Daily
jamiechesbro.com | https://open.substack.com/pub/jchesbro Short Runs newsletter: short reads to fuel long runs🏃♂️
Richard Schreck @richardschreck.bsky.social Richard is a writer and a former editor for a large professional association. His fiction explores a world he is developing in Brain Game, a novel set in Baltimore and New Orleans. Links: richardschreck.com Commentary: Instagram @richardschreckwriting
AMG @amgpathfinder.bsky.social Author: Over the Wrist, The Ghost Script, The Room Below the Gas Chamber, The Glitch in my sheets, The Slant, The Gradient, Penniless, The Electrician etc.
@deanthepoet.bsky.social @deanthepoet.bsky.social Father, writer, explorer, wannabe secular mystic, taker of pictures.
He/Him DeanThePoet.com- P @prosperifeanyi.bsky.social @prosperifeanyi.bsky.social
Dana Cann @danacann.bsky.social Author of the novel Ghosts of Bergen County (Tin House). Words in The Sun, Gettysburg Review, Massachusetts Review, Doric Literary, LitHub, Colorado Review, elsewhere.
Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social Writer of short stories and essays.
Teacher of travel writing at Emerson and fiction @honinghouse.bsky.social
Reader for @bestofthenet.bsky.social
websites:
www.writerdanieljcecil.com
www.honinghouse.com
Newsletter:
https://danieljcecil.substack.com
Perfect God = Lexa Gates @mx-j.bsky.social https://shop.capitolmusic.com/collections/lexa-gates
Seth Jones @spokanesjones.bsky.social Work brings me into the lives of others at critical crossroads; beginnings, ends, and hard corners along the way. Those encounters are what I write about. Also sometimes politics.- L Ricardian III @lyrrad33.bsky.social
Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social Multimodal af. Collective Gravities, Every Galaxy a Circle, Patterns of Orbit, Escaping the Body, & more
Co-EIC of @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
www.chloenclark.com
Cover image: raspberry danishes
Profile photo: a river heron
ONE ART: a journal of poetry @oneart.bsky.social ONE ART: a journal of poetry
(write it!)
>> oneartpoetry.com
~ EiC: Mark Danowsky
>> @markdanowsky.bsky.social
~ Consulting Editor: Louisa Schnaithmann
>> @eboninthehedges.bsky.social
~ Haiku Editor: Katie Dozier
>> @katiedozier.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 ~ BLM ~ 💙💛
@zzuum.bsky.social @zzuum.bsky.social 
Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts @blackbirdjournal.bsky.social An online journal of literature and the arts led by grad students at VCU. We publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, & more. Submissions are open!
https://linktr.ee/blackbirdjournal
Brian Seemann @bseemann.bsky.social English professor, reader, writer | Colorado, USA | he/him
Haley Stringer @haleystringer.bsky.social the inspiration behind many poems
A.L. Crisp @alcrisp.bsky.social Leftist ▪︎ Butch Lesbian ▪︎ Professional Advocate ▪︎ Lover of the Flint Hills ▪︎ Missouri ExPat ▪︎ Writer
Cathy Day @daycathy.bsky.social The kind of Hoosier who leaves--but then I came back. Liberal Arts evangelist. Daylily enthusiast. Cool, wine aunt. Rescue-dog mom. Recovering workaholic.
Kevin Yeoman @vernonadjacent.bsky.social Author | Educator | MFA | PhD Candidate @UWM
Exploring the darkly humorous corners of failure, disappointment, and the challenges of reconciling one’s age with the expectations of adulthood.
My work: kevinyeoman.com.
Leo Johnson @lflj.bsky.social Reading, writing, eating. 
Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social The place for writers
Kashawn Taylor @kashawntaylor.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Student.
Prison Journalism Project.
Gotham Writers Workshop.
book: subhuman. out now.
@iron-lion.bsky.social @iron-lion.bsky.social 
Anya Kirshbaum @anyakirshbaum.bsky.social Pacific Northwest poet, queer mama, somatic therapist, beekeeper, and lover of wild and tended gardens.
https://anyakirshbaumpoet.com