Denise Bayes @deniseb.bsky.social Flash fiction and short story writer. Free Flash. Ellipsis zine. 100 Word Story. Firewords.Roi Faient. NFFD Anthology. Temple in a City. Thin Skin. Flash Amiga.
Ellipsis Zine @ellipsiszine.bsky.social Literary magazine and independent press, publishing beautifully written flash, micro, creative and historical fiction. 1,000 words or fewer.
Est. 2017-2024. Relaunched in 2026.
https://www.ellipsis-zine.com
Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social poet and high school English teacher living with her husband and dogs in Kansas
melissafitejohnson.com
Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk
YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
Zoe Davis @meanerharker.bsky.social Writer and avid doodler with words in the likes of Strix, Ink Sweat and Tears and Dust. 2x BotN nom. Forward Prize Nom. Lives in Sheffield UK. Interested in comics, computer games and sports. Member of Sheffield Eagles Wheelchair Rugby Club.
@bathshortstory.bsky.social @bathshortstory.bsky.social 
Diane Shipley @dianeshipley.bsky.social PhD student and CNF writer (bylines inc The Guardian, Washington Post, Longreads & more). Writing a book. Loves a good dachshund photo. Covid isn’t over. Black lives matter. Trans women are women. https://open.substack.com/pub/loweryourexpectations
West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social Publishing the best contemporary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry since 2009. Literary magazine based out of Charlotte, NC.
https://westtradereview.com/
Karen Lloyd @karenllo.bsky.social Author, essayist, activist. The Gathering Tide, Abundance: Nature in Recovery. Academic, Senior Researcher and writer in residence with Lancaster University’s Future places Centre.
Laura Fyfe @lauraswriting.bsky.social Poet, writing tutor, former Stirling Makar. Lapsed parachutist with a chronic low-boredom threshold.
‘Truth Lies’ - Red Squirrel Press
‘Endless Blue’ - Stewed Rhubarb Press
‘Wellspring’ - Figment Books
‘Magpie Mind’ - Figment Books
figmentcreativity.com
Cille M. @cillefish.bsky.social 🚫 genA"I" images/writing/etc.: you post, I block
💛 hiking, speculative fiction. Affiliated w/ 1 partner, 2 🐈⬛, & many unfinished art projects. I work in tech.
⚧️ she/her
🗣️ en + ~fr
🏳️⚧️ rights = human rights
av: cat losing his sh**
banner: manzanita in fog
@hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123
Elizabeth Weir @elizabeth-weir.bsky.social Writer, indecisive artist, big overthinker
longer pieces at https://substack.com/@elizabethest
Eóghan Macmillan @eoghanmacmillan.bsky.social Full-time carer. Socialist, pro-indy, pro-EU and LGBT+ activist. SNP member, but very much on the left therein.
Main hobbies are gaming: video and TTRPG alike, mainly D&D and Pathfinder 2e for the latter.
Pronounced "Ewan". Perth, Scotland. He/him. 🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈
Night Shades ⏾ @nightshadesmag.bsky.social 🛸 500 Word Speculative Stories. $0.15/word. nightshadesmag.com
Die Booth @diebooth.bsky.social 🦇Goth 📖 Author of the beautiful macabre 📖 Zines 🏳️🌈 #LGBTQIA+ he/him 🎶DJ #LastRitesChester 🖤 BE NICE TO EACH OTHER 🖤 #endgenocide #antigenerativeAI
Website: https://diebooth.wordpress.com Shop: https://ko-fi.com/diebooth
Wild Roof Journal @wildroofjournal.bsky.social WRJ is a community for visual & literary art. We're interested in creativity & nature & connections. Check out our website and open submissions / wildroofjournal.com / wildroofjournal.substack.com / EIC @aaronlelito.bsky.social
Elissa Field @elissafield.bsky.social Lit noir novels + flash | SmokeLong Submission Ed | Stories in/coming SmokeLong, Reckon Review, HAD, Hypertext, Ghost Parachute, Monkeybicycle, Citron Review, Peatsmoke, CRAFT, Conjunctions ++ | IG FB elissalaurenfield.com
FloridaSnow @floridasnow.bsky.social I’m an English prof. living in SW Florida with my wife and two crazy children. You can usually find me reading, writing, wandering, or frantically grading.
www.SOrtolano.com
Emily Devane @devaneemily.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor, bookseller. Collector of oddities.
Words in various places, including Smokelong, Lost Balloon, Ellipsis, Best Microfiction & Ambit.
Salt Bloom Literary Journal @saltbloomlit.bsky.social The Literary Magazine of Fairfield University’s MFA Program.
Poetry, Prose, & Dramatic Writing
edited by students and alumni
⭐️ Submissions Closing May 30! ⭐️
Saltbloom.org
https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/salt-bloom-iGPjX
Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social Early modern literature professor, University of Cambridge; climate activist. Coordinator of http://royalsocietyletter.uk and https://gmcletter.wordpress.com/ , now promoting https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/760061 -- free the press!
Jenna Martin-Trinka @jennamartintrinka.bsky.social Writer, flash fiction and CNF
Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social essays and poems about the movies, shows, music, books, games, etc. that have shaped you
forget.cool
Ronita Chattopadhyay @ronita.bsky.social Gave myself permission to be a poet; Love books, mountains and tea; working at the intersection of process documentation and qualitative research in India 
Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9
Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Vf4w9Ze38rLniADBEGKSp?si=AcWduGX
Gillian Isaacs Russell @girussell.bsky.social British psychoanalyst and writer living in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Non-fiction: "Screen Relations" https://a.co/d/05glvAML . Published in Persimmon Tree. Shortlisted for Fish Publishing Flash Fiction prize. Writing first novel.
Sarah Lynn Knowles @sarahspy.com Fiction writer, Storychord.com founding editor, Tin House Winter '24 & One Story Summer '23 alum || eavesdropper, signal booster, she/her, Massachusetts || https://sarahspy.com
Stuti Srivastava @stutisrivastava.bsky.social Here to lurk, explore, understand, and be
Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/gimmewords
C. Oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social Poet, thinker, dreamer, scribbler… in ascending order
For my recent posts: #Oulens
Winner, 3rd Annual Poe-it Like Poe Poetry Contest 2025 by sixdegreesofpoe
Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social Writer and Literary Critic. Work in Gooseberry Pie Lit, Passages North, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story, Bending Genres, and FlashFlood.
Prose editor for Pictura Journal. Contemporary Anglophone Lit PhD.
https://linktr.ee/emhall47
Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social Undiscovered Voices Winner ‘26
Poems on the Move ‘26.
Pushcart Prize Nominated. Cheshire Novel Prize SL‘25, Guppy Open LL’25
Write Mentor Picturebook SL’23/LL’24
Poetry - The Dirigible Balloon, Northern Gravy, Tyger Tyger, The Toy, LTP, BBC Upload.🏴
Allison Renner @allisonwrites.bsky.social Writer // Editor @ Intrepidus Ink & Forget Cool
www.allisonrennerwrites.com
Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social Ensuring a vibrant, diverse literary landscape by helping small literary publishers work better. www.clmp.org
Christine Collinson @collinson26.bsky.social Historical Fiction Author
Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social https://theemmapress.com/shop/childrens/please-dont-read-the-footnotes-please/
www.robwaltonwriter.co.uk
“playful, zingy and warm”.
Carnegie Prize nominee.Whitley Bay via Scunny.All sorts of writing for all sorts of ages.
@robwaltonwriter on other places.
shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social Author of The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India), and most recently, Cajun South Brown Folk (Belle Point Press). Represented by Teffanie Thompson of Falkin Literary. 2019-2025 Series Editor of The Wigleaf Top 50. Lafayette, LA. shomedome.com
VERSe Ottawa / VERSeFest (prior account lost, @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social Ottawa's International Festival of Poetry / le festival international de poésie d’Ottawa / administrator of the City of Ottawa's Poet Laureate Program / l’administration du Programme des poètes lauréats d’Ottawa / https://www.verseottawa.ca/
Matt Tice @ticewrites.bsky.social Fiction writer represented by Falkin Literary. My debut novel, SEAFLOWER, is currently looking for a home.
Duxbury, MA
Fiction and other projects here: Ticewrites.com
DK Snyder @dksnyder.bsky.social Writer/lawyer. Short fiction in A Right Cozy Culinary Crime, Shotgun Honey, Cease Cows, and elsewhere. BoTN & BSF noms.
Michelle Willms @michellewillms.bsky.social NORTHERN GIRLS: TRUE STORIES (Baraka Books). 2026 Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Mother bear.
Northern Girls: www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/northern-girls/
TSR Review: www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/northern-girls-true-stories-by-michelle-willms
ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social 501(c)(3) nonprofit literary press. Home of Emerge Literary Journal (http://emergeliteraryjournal.com).
Neither fish nor foul 📖 @neitherfishnorfoul.com Www.neitherfishnorfoul.com an online magazine where craft and quirk meet
#writerscommunity
Editor @jackmmorris.bsky.social
📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚 @ellieyellu.bsky.social Sci-fi romance author (on sub!) 🏳️🌈
Poetry: Smoky Quartz, Literary Hatchet
🏳🌈 Bi; she/her 🚑 EMT
📚 Clarion UCSD 🩺 Nursing school
TTRPGs. No TERFs.
Guy sure looks like cat food to me.
☀:♎ 🌙:♈ ⬆:♏
Butlerian Jihad, now! AI = block
Rep: Christi Cardenas
Dr Amelia Dowler @ameliadowler.bsky.social National Officer FDA Union; Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies; Researcher in numismatics; Poet
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
Corey 🌈🦊🐦⬛🌻 @coreypoetry.bsky.social 37. Poet & writer. Queer. They/She
Chapbook - https://bottlecap.press/products/doomcs
ROBOTĂ - https://stanislavandthelion.bandcamp.com/
"We Were Seeds" anthology @ querenciapress.com
Joanna Campbell @joannacampbell.bsky.social Author of novel: Instructions For the Working Day
Kathryn Silver-Hajo @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social WOLFSONG (stories) ROOTS OF THE BANYAN TREE (YA novel). Atticus, Citron, CRAFT, Dribble Drabble, Emerge, Ghost Parachute, Gooseberry Pie, New Flash Fic Rev, Pithead Chapel, RUBY Lit. Best Microfic, Best Small Fics, BOTN, Pushcart noms, Wigleaf longlist
K.M. Hanslik @kmhanslik.bsky.social My writing explores the nature of change, the psychology of grief, and landscapes as bridges between the spiritual and the physical.
Editor for The Turning Leaf Journal. @turningleafjournal.bsky.social
Chapbook “Bones” forthcoming 2026.
kmhanslik.com
Paul Ings @ings4words.bsky.social Poetry
https://linktr.ee/paulings
Daniel Hinds @danielghinds.bsky.social Poetry collection New Famous Phrases @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social, UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award, Ilkley New Northern Poet, New Writing North North East Poet, BBC New Creative
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/daniel-hinds-new-famous-phrases
Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social Poet. Author of More Than a Whisper and several chapbooks. #Vinyl lover. Library Cataloger. Co-creator of the Captain Janeway Statue. Unpaid Cat Herder https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSJLQ8DF?ref #vss365 #writingcommunity #poetry
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com Writer, poet, creative thinker & architect for democracy / Sgrìobhadair, bàrd, neach-smaoineachaidh cruthachail agus ailtire airson deamocrasaidh | Aotearoa & Isle of Skye | https://urbanbadgercollective.com/links/
Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social 5 minutes of life in 100 words. Submissions open! Est. 2020. fiveminutelit.com
Peter Johnson @wileycurmudgeon.bsky.social Happily retired, doing music and a bit of writing for a local publication.
Another Chicago Magazine @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social Independent literary magazine since 1977. We publish fiction, cnf, poetry, translations, interviews, reviews, art, and audio/visual work.
Read: https://anotherchicagomagazine.net/
Submit: https://anotherchicagomagazine.submittable.com/submit
Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social A high humidity journal of poetry / Queer, fluid, trans affirming / currently publishing 3x a week / Home to the #FullMoonHaikuContest / 🏳️⚧️ https://moistpoetryjournal.com/ EIC: Han VanderHart.
Toronto Review @thetorontoreview.bsky.social Coming soon.
Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social Author, artist, poet, & Indigiqueer swamp hag. Grew up on the land & off the grid. Work appears in The Deadlands, Augur, Nightmare, The Malahat Review, Strange Horizons, etc. Aurora finalist & possible witch. No GenAI
shanmonster.dreamwidth.org
Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social Author of 6 books, newest is ASKEW. I am the EIC of Bending Genres, LLC. Work in Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2019. Norton's Exceptionally Short Fictions 2018. www.robert-vaughan.com. www.bendinggenres.com 
Dina Strasser @dinaeliz.bsky.social Writer, teacher, semi-Luddite. I follow authors, educators, and lit mags.
Hugh Behm-Steinberg @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social Writer
Jim Parisi @jpariseye.bsky.social Not that Jim Parisi. Trying to get the hang of this writing thing. Severed editor.
Ellen Weeren @ellenweeren.bsky.social Writer
Saturday Evening Post, Kenyon Review, Hong Kong Review, Crack the Spine, and others. 
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 🌊
Stephen Delaney @stephendelaney.bsky.social Writer, editor, human. Words in New World Writing, Bending Genres, South Florida Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Author of the chapbook OUR PLACE IS IN BETWEEN. 💙 #foreignlit #frogs
https://bottlecap.press/products/ourpsd
https://stephen-delaney.com
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social.
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
Tony Dunnell @tonydunnell.bsky.social Writer of fact and fiction ( #scifi mainly, some horror). English but living in the high jungle of Peru. Short stories published in Escape Pod, Fusion Fragment, Fission, Sci Phi Journal and more. I also post about #movies. https://tonydunnell.com/
jim c @jimcolella.bsky.social scribbler / doodler / powered by big bad grooves 🎧 / words in Flash Fiction Magazine & The London Economic / now focused on creative nonfiction
https://jimcolella.substack.com
https://instagram.com/jim.colella
📍UK
Andrea LaFlamme @andrealaflamme.bsky.social She/her. Feminist. Repro Health Advocate. Public health professor. Union Leader. Former candidate for U.S. Senate in ME
andreaformaine.com
PFP: Andrea wearing an orange and blue plaid shirt and smiling
Header: “Together we lead” + chickadee logo
Strider Marcus Jones @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social Poet. Five published books.DMU Law graduate. Pushcart Prizex4/Best of the Netx3 Nominations. Founder/Editor/Publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.co https://stridermarcusjonespoet.blogspot.com/p/about-strider.html
Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social dc via apollo, pa | she/her | words @ Best Microfiction, Bending Genres, Lost Balloon, Milk Candy Review, Flash Fiction Online, Cold Signal, hex literary & more | http://www.laurenkardos.co/
Lisa Geiszler @melovewarrior.bsky.social Chronically ill/disabled poet, activist. A dancer in my dreams. 🦥🐌🐢Part of the go-slow, rest often club.
Kim Suhr @kimsuhr.bsky.social author, writing coach, literary citizen
Karen Regen Tuero @karenregentuero.bsky.social Pushcart-nominated writer published in Glimmer Train, North American Review, Potomac Review, Iron Horse, Gargoyle, The Summerset Review, New World Writing, Litro, & elsewhere. For links to stories, visit:
https://linktr.ee/kregentuero
Anne @annemag99.bsky.social Writer, reader, poet, lover of all things books, 🏳️🌈, studying various things, buy too many notebooks and pens… chronic illness… student of Literature and Philosophy... trying to add positivity... retired and live near London, England
Chafic LaRo @chafic-larochelle.bsky.social Writer, jester, occasional rescuer of lost hikers.
Published in McSweeney’s, Points in Case, The Fiddlehead, and more.
Failing upwards since 1990-something.
Joe Kapitan @joekap64.bsky.social Writer of fiction and CNF, a chapbook, short story collection, and a Best Small Fictions 2023 highlighted story. Assistant CNF editor at Pithead Chapel.
Tom Lee @thom803.bsky.social Lawyer / Writer. Published in Ploughshares, The Sun, Chicago Quarterly Review, Asia Literary Review, American Literary Review and Variant Lit. 
Faith Allington @faithallington.bsky.social Author
📚 Genre-blending fiction
✒️ Editorial at Flash Fiction Online & Haven Spec
👻 Vaguely goth but also whimsical
🍄 Tea drinker & fungi admirer
(she/her)
Fiona H Evans @fionahevans.bsky.social I was a consulting statistician, project manager and team leader. Now I hang out, get out & write. https://www.fionahevans.com/
Rozalija Grace · Розалия Грейс @rozalijagrace.com Russian diasporic writer, translator, & soon-to-be lesbian tradwife to @erswrites.bsky.social. Into Slavic & Turkic art & lit, inclusive orthodoxy ☦️, Steely Dan. Twice dubbed "the Simone Biles of sex". Россия будет свободной. rozalijagrace.com
Shon Mapp 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @shonmapp.bsky.social Engineer >>> Writer
Folio Editor: Anomaly
Reader: Fractured Lit
www.shonmapp.com
Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social NYT bestselling and BSFA & Scribe award-winning writer. Cardassia’s resident anarchist. Intersectional feminist science fiction with Gold SF. Fighting the long defeat since December 1981. Chiefest and greatest of calamities.
https://linktr.ee/unamccormack
long con magazine + Collusion Books @longconmagazine.bsky.social longconmag.com: canadian magazine for art replying to art
ISSUE 2.6: submit by Sept 30
Montebank Prize: enter by Sept 30
Banner artist: Andrew James McKay (andrewjamesmckay.com)
longconmag.com/collusionbooks: canadian micro-press for collaborative poetry
Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social Mud Season Review is an international literary journal affiliated with the Burlington Writers Workshop. We seek to celebrate the full process of artistic creation, from inspiration to publication.
https://mudseasonreview.com
sarah lynn hurd @sarlynh.bsky.social writer, reader, poet, film photographer, romantic, nostalgic, silly, thinking of bread (she/her)
words in NFFR, Anti-Heroin Chic, HAD, trampset, Fractured Lit, Flash Frog, ONE ART, and elsewhere
sarlynh.com
The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to prose, poetry, comics, essays, humor, hybrid, and everything in-between.
www.bulbregion.com
NG @nikigjoni.bsky.social Writer | 2023 London Independent Story Prize anthology selection | PEN/Robert J. Dau prize nom | BOTN nom | Best Microfiction nom | Dev Editor for Writers Digest | www.ngjoni.com
Anna Cabe @annablabs.bsky.social Writer. Co-Fiction Editor @splitlipthemag.bsky.social. Always hungry. She/her/hers. Header by @shing.bsky.social
David K. Gibson @davidkgibson.com Writer, mostly. Work in Wigleaf, McSweeney's, X-R-A-Y, and elsewhere.
Briana Maley @brianamaley.bsky.social Fiction writer seeking representation for debut novel. Stories in @lilithmagazine.bsky.social, @emergejournal.bsky.social, @nffr.bsky.social, @fictivedream.bsky.social and elsewhere. Proud former Jeopardy! applicant.
www.brianamaley.com
K8 Léchler @katelechler.bsky.social SFF writer, editor, lecturer living in Chicago. PhD in Brit lit, words in Podcastle, Shimmer, Fireside. 🌈💀 "Just like entropy tends towards chaos, I tend towards silly-little-guy."
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. 🩷💜💙
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
Stuart Cavet @stuartcavet.bsky.social ✍️ writer & sometime lawyer ⚖️|🥈QuietManDave | HC FFF | SL Bridport Prize | LL SmokeLong 'Mikey', Bath, Farnham, Cranked Anvil | Debut novel, Something Kind Of Strange | 🚫No DMs
https://www.amazon.com/author/stuartcavet
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
William Britner @wbritner.bsky.social An aging man, happy husband, confirmed agnostic, and struggling writer with questionable talent.