Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social @theunpopulist.net
Election law and policy, liberalism and democracy, and occasional pugs.
Mina Thorsen @minathorsen.bsky.social writer (lowercase) • Words published/forthcoming in Flash Frog, The Belladonna Comedy • Based in the North
Todd Tyrtle @gooutsidetoday.com American expat living in Toronto, likes cycling (especially bicycle touring) sometimes on Zwift, cooking, writing and trying new things. Studying Hindi in my spare time. Libraries are my favourite thing.
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Whimsy @whimsyfiction.bsky.social A monthly microfiction contest celebrating the lighter, more peculiar side of storytelling. Yes, our alpaca travels by quill 🦙🪶
https://www.whimsyfiction.com/
Angela James @olangela.bsky.social Lover and writer of flash fiction. Obsessor over comedy and Americana music. Lawyer in the midst of a midlife (or late-life, if being honest) crisis. Whooping it up at being on the Wigleaf Top Fifty long list.
Andy Adams @flakphoto.news Culture guy in Madison, Wisconsin. I run media at Outrider.org. In my free time, I publish https://www.flakphoto.news/. Do you like pictures? Read my newsletter!
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Tracie Renee (she/her) @tracierenee.bsky.social Librarian in sort-of Chicago.
PW book reviewer.
#Amquerying #SCBWI writer/poet.
Winner: #50PreciousWords, Highlights scholarship, ElegantLit, IAmWritingMG.
HM: #PBParty.
WTMP mentee, RisingTalent finalist, BOTN.
https://linktr.ee/tracie.renee
Christine Collinson @collinson26.bsky.social Historical Fiction Author
Sreelekha Chatterjee @sreelekha2024.bsky.social Poet. Writer. More than 100 of my short stories and 100+ poems have been published in various national, international journals, magazines, & in several print anthologies.
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF + Sound Fellow, Library of Congress NRPB; Associate Professor, University of Colorado
The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com a journal of ends and beginnings
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/
published by @psychopomp.com, tweets by @feliciafm.bsky.social and @seanmarkey.bsky.social
Five Minutes @fiveminutelit.bsky.social 5 minutes of life in 100 words. Submissions open! Est. 2020. fiveminutelit.com
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 M. Hollis (she/her) @rachelmhollis.bsky.social Writer of strange little heartbreaks. Sometimes I share them with people who aren’t my mom.
rachelmhollis.com
Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social Professional explicator and maker of soothing sounds. I'd rather make furniture than go to midnight mass.
Author of "The Inaccessible Rail" (2026)
(PREORDER! https://malarkeybooks.com/store/inaccessiblerail)
and "Un-ruined" (2022) from Malarkey Books
Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social Dad, husband, astrophysicist, dog herder. Samuel T. and Fern Yanagisawa Regents Professor in Astronomy at UT Austin. This is a personal account and the views expressed in my posts here are mine. https://mrbk.github.io
Shantell Powell @shanmonster.bsky.social Author, artist, poet, & Indigiqueer swamp hag. Grew up on the land & off the grid. Writing in The Deadlands, Augur, Nightmare, Malahat Review, Fiddlehead, etc. Aurora finalist, optimistic nihilist & possible witch. No GenAI
shanmonster.dreamwidth.org
Nicole Brogdon @nbrogdonwrites.bsky.social Writer, esp flash fiction. Reader.
David Zinn @davidzinn.bsky.social Habitual doodler and street artist, wrangling ephemerality and finding uplift underfoot.
Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social 
climatedreaming.bsky.social @climatedreaming.bsky.social This is Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com collecting dreams about the climate crises for collectivedreaming.org
human dreams about AI @dreamsofai.bsky.social @whatashrinkthinks.com collecting human dreams about AI as part of the collectivedreaming.org dream archive
45/47 Dreams Project @45dreams.bsky.social this is the Blue Sky account for the 45 Dreams Project found at collectivedreaming.org - a dream collection project started in 2017, with 3,000 + dreams - examining our collective dreaming in response to Trumpism - run by @whatashrinkthinks.com
The Deliberate Literate @kytchenwytch.bsky.social Passionate reader of books, baker of biscuits (both kinds!), and stirrer of pots.
Fahmidan Group @fahmidangroup.bsky.social Diversity in Action.
EIC A.R. Arthur Team: Managing Editor Yasmine Dashti
Proud member of @CLMPorg
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
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
Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social Mother, sometime writer, mediocre flute player, misplaced Texan. Words in more than two dozen literary magazines and counting.
Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social Scurrying through the mire of existence. #AmQuerying a novel about a trip through the lives of ancestors.
NYC! 🏙️
Follow me at Medium.com/@edwardrstapleton
Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social Your home for all those culinary delights, anomalies, and misfires that live on only in our memories...Still slowly but surely migrating over the over 1,000 foods I covered on Twitter, so if you don't see a favorite here yet, stay tuned!
CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social High impact easy listening!
Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social Photo sharing bot for planetary and deep space images.
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Nastasya Parker @nastasyaparker.bsky.social Writer with stories in The Phare, Funny Pearls, and featured in Stroud and Bristol Short Story Anthologies. Immigrated from New England to Old. I work in secondary education. Inexplicably drawn to not entirely pleasant characters.
Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
WriteStats @writestats.bsky.social Data-Driven Insights for Writers and Publishers.
https://writestats.com/
Libbit @libbyusername.bsky.social St Paul. Sober. Dancing in the garden, vibing with the plants. Geology/ Esci dork.
Frazz @mrs-frazzled.bsky.social 🍎 Education news updates & policy breakdowns
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social Mom. Wife. Author. Defender of democracy. marytrump.org
floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Minneapolis to be born?
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
Chuck Olsen @chuckumentary.bsky.social Boreal human photographer under the actual blue sky 
Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social Climate, extinction, and biodiversity scientist at the University of Maine researching Earth’s past for a better future. Writing and podcasting for the planet. Chaotic good professor. She/her.
Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social Father, writer, photographer, drinker of Guinness. 
Elizabeth Motes @emotes206.bsky.social Writer, NAU MFA ‘25. Social media manager for Split Lip Mag. Lover of literary ghosts.
Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social Director Multisolving Institute. She/her. Systems thinking, climate justice, and multisolving, with a sprinkle of gardens and the odd puns. @bethsawin on X
Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social Justin Smith Morrill stan account. Professor, in a state with a flawed concept of Academic Freedom. Speaking for no one other than myself.
Libby Banks @libbyiscomplex.bsky.social Autistic therapist/writer/thinker. She/They. POTS/hEDS/MCAS. Bisexual goofball. Developer of Contextual Systems Therapy. Happily partnered to my AuDHD dreamboat. http://www.libbyiscomplex.com
Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social 15 years of saved tweets.
@tfederman.bsky.social
Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com @thefinancenewsletter.com I write TheFinanceNewsletter.com, trusted by 100,000 to get smarter with the economy, geopolitics, personal finance and decision-making.
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Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Solarpunk Auntie @solarpunk-auntie.myatproto.social Artist, hydrologist, river-wader-inner.
#solarpunk #atheopagan
Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Our Way (coming in fall 2027). Lately: T, New York, etc. Past: EW, Grantland, younger. I am not Mark Hamill so I cannot "stick to acting."
one dozen rats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social the rats are union
Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social Berlin-based Scottish writer. Words in New Flash Fiction Review, Vestal Review, Trampset and elsewhere. Featured in Best Small Fictions 2024. My pen name came to me in a dream. You can find a selection of my writing here: https://linktr.ee/ruralunease
kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net Unheil-bringer. lithium prince. architecture critic @thenation.com
my blogs are https://late-review.com, https://wehwalt.net and mcmansionhell.com
she/they
Michael Grant Smith @michaelgrantsmith.bsky.social Unknown Author * Word Janitor * Lazy Pedant * Aspiring Language-User-Person * Creator of Arc-Less Non-Story Sentence-Pictures * Hyphen Fan * Round Earther * www.michaelgrantsmith.com/plenty-of-words
Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social Investigative Reporter @ TPM | Author | Words In: The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, The Atlantic
Send me a secure message on Signal: hunter.07
https://linktr.ee/hunter_walker
N.J. Gallegos is Dr. Spooky (she/her) @drspookyer.bsky.social I like big cats. ER doc. Horror author. Artist. Cohost of The Scream Kings Podcast. Member of HWA. Pro-choice. BLM. I voted for her. Star Wars & BravoTV fanatic. She/her. 🌊🏳️🌈
Personal site: https://njgallegos.com
Podcast: https://www.screamkingspodcast.com
Viridine Literary @viridinelit.bsky.social Literary magazine for poetry, fiction, scripts, essays, and art.
Eds: Romy Morreo & Roger Niven.
SUBS CURRENTLY CLOSED
Site: viridineliterary.wixsite.com/viridinelit
sam stroozas @samstroozas.bsky.social she/her | ♊️ gemini journalist & all things digital at mprnews.org 🌙 beep me: sstroozas@mpr.org
Jennifer Worrell @jworrellwrites.bsky.social Author. Cat fan. Flaneur. Seeking perfect egg roll.
Found in: As It Ought to Be, To L.A. With Love, Hooghly Review, West England Bylines, NECKSNAP, Broken Antler Magazine, Channel Magazine, subTerrain, /tƐmz/ Review; more.
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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social Saint Paul City Council Member for Ward Four.
Executive Director, People’s Parity Project & PPP Action.
Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social Antifascist. Midwesterner. Minneapolis/St. Paul. Children's book editor at Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers. He/Him. Protect trans youth. Abolish ICE.
John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social "It's not easy having a good time...
even smiling makes my face ache."
I take photographs and crack jokes; a meditative creative. I used to be @JohnCRoscoe on Twitter; I'm John Roscoe all over the place.
Suspicious Hotdish @crimeroomba.bsky.social Mushroom photographer by day, crisis, de-escalation, and independent living specialist by night. Twin Cities Minnesotan now, but I'm mean because I grew up in New England. 🇵🇸
Rawhead @rawheadjournal.bsky.social Open to submissions of creative nonfiction and visual art. We believe in the power of art and literature as form of resistance.
Now on Submittable:
https://rawhead.submittable.com/submit
Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social Author and professor type person.
SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24
Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com
Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com An independent, nonprofit newsroom keeping Minnesotans informed & unearthing stories other outlets can’t or won’t tell. Subscribe to our newsletter: http://minnesotareformer.com/subscribe/
David James Poissant @djpoissant.bsky.social Author of LAKE LIFE, a NYT Editor's Choice, and THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS, a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the PEN/Bingham Prize. In print in nine languages. Editor of The Florida Review @theflreview.bsky.social
Robert Moffitt @justplainbob.bsky.social That justplainbob from over there. Retired Minnesotan who abides in Stately Moffitt Manor with Mrs. Lungs. 
Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social Kinda ok pediatrician
Adjunct Professor
Defend Public Health - Ohio
Marcus Wilson @marcusbwilson.bsky.social Poet | Pathfinder
www.marcusbwilson.com
Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social Fmr FBI Special Agent, lawyer, @JacksonYale. Tiger(ish) mom. Legal and national security analyst. Editor @just_security. Steam mop influencer. Views mine.
https://asharangappa.substack.com
Ashtonrussell @ashtonrussell.bsky.social Writer, mother. Work in JMWW, Pithead Chapel, Southeast Review, and elsewhere. What The Living Has Done (Bottlecap Press 2025) Bennington MFA ‘24. Associate editor at Iron Horse Literary Review and reader for Fractured Lit and Glossy Planet
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
Ian, in the Year of the Bean🫛🫘 @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social Night Mayor of Minneapolis
Twin Cities DSA
he/him
Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social NYC Based Stand-Up Comedian•Noel Casler Podcast•Car Rants• 'Noel's Notes' on Substack https://linktr.ee/NoelCaslerComedy?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=8fc21144-7ec4-4c40-94ca-b6170fa44c5e•find me: http://noelcasler.com 🔥
Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net Husband. Lawyer. Hunter. Fisherman. Swordsman. Warrior poet. Philosopher king. Legend.
bowie deschanel @raisingonebrow.bsky.social Amateur wise ass. liberal politics, Minnesota, and my kiddo. he/him. header photo credit: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
artnau @artnau.bsky.social art
https://www.instagram.com/artnau/
PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social Immigrant. Citizen. Mouthy advocate. NYT bestseller of A RETURN TO COMMON SENSE. Official account💙
https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social Sociologist/demographer specializing in mortality, racial inequity, Covid-19. Avid theater-goer, inconsistent powerlifter, and erstwhile operator of an all-volunteer bookstore. Preschool parent. Living not-quite-car-free in Minneapolis. she/her
Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social Minneapolis, higher ed, tech, genealogy, and Minnesota in general. PhD in education. Have been called “secretly nice.” Saved a child care center, ran a tech conference. I make excellent pierogi and strudel. Writing about MN at syndicateandhague.com.
Mischief Toy Store @mischieftoy.com Saint Paul’s Toy Store. Find us in the real world at 818 Grand Ave or http://MischiefToy.com. Play & be ungovernable.
Dr. Solomon David @solomonrdavid.bsky.social “The Gar Guy” Fish Scientist & Prof | 🌎Freshwater Conservation | SciComm • GarLab | Views mine | he/him | #GarWeek
📍Saint Paul, Minnesota
Wherever you go, there you gar
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K.B. Jensen @kbjensenauthor.bsky.social Award-winning author, editor, publishing expert, and pro ski instructor. My latest book is Love and Other Monsters in the Dark. I also run an online writing and publishing camp for teen writers. For more on me and my workshops, visit kbjensenauthor.com. 
Anne Ursu @anneursu.bsky.social I write books, herd cats, and mostly stay under the bed. Latest release: Not Quite a Ghost. Minneapolis, always.
anneursu@mac.com
Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social reader, writer, translator. PhD French. I like running, gardening, baking, and outdoorsy stuff. I live in Minneapolis.
liaswopemitchell.com
Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social PhD in literature
Owner of Black Hart of St Paul
Cofounder Minnesota Aurora
St Pauli Peace Prize Award Winner
Tom Basgen, Mr. Saint Paul @tombasgen.bsky.social Your friend and Neighbor. Local Oaf. I work for Saura. I foster teeny little kittens. I love you.
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby Kubernetes SIG Security Co-Chair, goose in the mainframe. Minneapolis. They/them. Stay punk 🏴
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Matt Keliher @mattkeliher.bsky.social Saint Paul, Minnesota and Timberwolves basketball
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
James Randall @randalljamesp.bsky.social between the forest and the city / editor, writer - for adults & children, incl. folktales & non-fiction (26/27) - Hachette: https://shorturl.at/xJBrT, HarperCollins: https://amzn.eu/d/0iEBWa29. PhD, Goldsmiths (2018).
Tiny Prophecies @mercurialsilver.com Online lit journal of hearth, ruin, & whimsy.
Free to submit—poems & tiny fiction. 🌈
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Curated by @perilpoet
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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com Author: Tigers Between Empires (2025). Owls of the Eastern Ice (2020, Best Book per NYT/WSJ, PEN America winner, Nat Book Award longlist). Work: Regional Director Temperate Asia @wcs.org. Home: Mpls https://linktr.ee/jslaght
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