Safy @safyhallanfarah.bsky.social Here because I wanna feel included
Steven Underwood @blaqueword.bsky.social He/him | Blerd, Author... Blerduthor? | Author of Forever for the Culture (Beacon) and Sundiata (Feiwal & Friends/Macmillan) | stevenunderwoodjr(at)blaqueword(dot)com
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social Writer
Julie Buntin @juliebuntin.bsky.social author of Marlena and Famous Men (forthcoming July '26), co-editor of Notes to New Mothers (forthcoming August '26), assistant prof at the Helen Zell Writers' Program
Zappit @zappit.bsky.social Cartoonist, Supervillainous http://supervillainous.spiderforest.com, Now Creating Huzzah! huzzah.spiderforest.com, NO AI, Open for Commissions - Contact me at zappit1234 AT gmail DOT com Discord: .zappit
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Cashapp: $Zapdraws
Rachel Kambury @rkambury.bsky.social enthusiast / unionized word-worker / associate editor (nf) @ harpercollins
currently reading: WHALE FALL by Elizabeth O'Connor
opinions are many and varied and very much my own
Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org Stimpunks is created by and for neurodivergent and disabled people. We provide mutual aid, learning opportunities, human-centered research, and living wages for our community.
Authenticity is our purest freedom.
Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social St. Louis-based literary press distributed by New York Review Books. Publishes Renee Gladman, Leonora Carrington, Cristina Rivera Garza, Amina Cain, Nathalie Léger, Giada Scodellaro, Kate Briggs, Pip Adam, Laura Vazquez, Lana Lin, etc. dorothyproject.com
Stephen Sparks @ssparks.bsky.social “To disappear, but not completely, so that you can know it.” - Elias Canetti
Point Reyes Books (pointreyesbooks.bsky.social) & Wayfinder Bookshop in Marin County, CA | Bad at email
Mosswood Lark @mosswood-lark.bsky.social author account. posts are my own.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social bestselling, award nominated comics person. teaching artist via AAWW.
MOONCAKES, TIDESONG, INFINITY PARTICLE. more tk. agent: Linda Camacho. opinions my own. she/they
no crypto, no nfts, no ai
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Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and Everything She Didn't Say (out 16 July). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Penn Creative Writing Program @penncw.bsky.social Official account for the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania
Prairie Schooner @prairie-schooner.bsky.social Literary Journal of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 100 years of poetry, essays, fiction, & reviews. Posts by staff & interns https://prairieschooner.unl.edu
Tim Manley @timmanley.com Writer and person
MY OWN KIND OF PERSON (Rocky Pond Books, 2026)
timmanley.com
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social Reader, writer, dad, quesadilla enthusiast, lapsed trail runner, analog boy
Kenny Coble 🌹 コーブル健 @kennycoble.bsky.social Noveller // America's Bookseller Emeritus // he, him
Fordham Research Consortium on Disability @fordhamrcd.bsky.social The Research Consortium on Disability (RCD) conducts disability-related research at Fordham University to help guide the world on a path towards inclusion. Join us!
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Tracy O’Neill @tracysoneill.bsky.social loves to be impressed
Bristol Short Story Prize @bristolshortstory.bsky.social The Bristol Short Story Prize is an international writing competition hosted by the Department of English at the University of Bristol.
https://bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Arabelle Sicardi 英梅 @arabellesicardi.bsky.social I write about beauty as an act of devotion, an art form, and a means of control. 🥀
Substack 🌸 arabellesicardi.substack.com
“The House of Beauty” 📕 https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393531633 Oct 2025
Meghan O'Rourke @meghanor.bsky.social Writer and poet | Editor of The Yale Review | Professor of Creative Writing at Yale | playing with a Substack about writing
Most recent book: THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM: REIMAGINING CHRONIC ILLNESS, which was a finalist for the nonfiction National Book Award.
Les Savy Fav @lessavyfav.bsky.social Making noise since we were boys
Margaret Wappler @margaretwappler.bsky.social Writer rollerskating the infinite. NEON GREEN (2016), a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and A GOOD BAD BOY: LUKE PERRY AND HOW A GENERATION GREW UP (2024). Order BAD BOY here: http://bit.ly/3HMOx25 #riptim
East Bay Booksellers @ebbooksellers.bsky.social We are a bookstore -- a good one, we think! -- selling new books -- good ones, we hope! -- in Oakland, California.
Natalie Pascale Boisseau @npboisseau.bsky.social Writer - Ecrivaine. Montreal -Seattle
Acupuncture. Récit. Traduction.
CNF, poetry, memoir.
Trauma, adolescence.
Publications: Les Ecrits des Forges, Raven Chronicles, Isele Magazine, Crab Creek
Joy Lanzendorfer @joylanzendorfer.bsky.social Author of RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM. Work in The New Yorker, New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, and others. www.ohjoy.org
Velvet Horizons @onvique.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ cinematic nostalgia, vintage finds. pink is the new punk! an ode to softness, queerness, faggotry and breaking the norms. ‧₊˚✩ safe space, femme joy, and a little rebellion 💌
@DrJenHo @drjenho.bsky.social Director, Center for Humanities & the Arts
Professor, Ethnic Studies
Faculty at CU Boulder
Scholar of Asian American Studies & Critical Race Theory
Corgi Mom & Anti-Racism Educator
Love: Stevie Wonder, YoYoMa, Irises, Soft Serve Ice Cream
Hate: Haters
Wayfarer Books & Wayfarer Magazine @wayfarerbooks.bsky.social Wayfarer Books / Since 2011. Poetry that speak the language of the earth. We celebrate storytellers—cryptic, floral, crepuscular, queer-at-heart—who inspire agency. Makers of Wayfarer Magazine. #Substack #Transowned wayfarerbooks.org / wayfarermagazine.com
Natasha @natashab.bsky.social Neurodivergent (auDHD, BiPD 1 and GAD). Writer. Not too social. I’m very witty. Blackety Black Black.
Ethan Nosowsky @nosowsky.bsky.social Graywolf Press Editorial Director, relapsed Californian.
David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist.
Bylines: CBS, AXS, Yahoo, Examiner, etc.
I love #Games, #Lotr, #StarWars, and #StarTrek.
Casual #MTG #TTRPG, & #Boardgames player.
Work w/me: DavidLeavitt@gmail.com
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Danielle Evans @daniellevalore.bsky.social Writer, professor, lady with lapcats
Unfuck Your Habitat @teamufyh.bsky.social Messiness is not a moral failing
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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
The Ladybug Transistor @ladybugtransistor.bsky.social 
Aimee Bender @aimee-bender.bsky.social writer, teacher, author of fiction including The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and Willful Creatures. Happy to be on here.
Brooklyn Book Festival @bkbookfest.bsky.social Largest Free Literary Festival in New York.
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2026 Dates
Virtual Festival Day: September 20
Children's Day: September 26
Festival Day: September 27
City-wide Bookends: September 20-28
Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social New York Times bestselling author.
Senior Writer, Race and Equity @theguardian.com.
@rachelaviv.bsky.social @rachelaviv.bsky.social 
Poets & Writers @pw.org Official account of Poets & Writers, the primary source of information, support, and guidance for creative writers since 1970. Sign up for our newsletter: at.pw.org/newsletter
Leilani Clark @leilaniclark.bsky.social Writing about freeways in East L.A, living off the 101 in Northern California. Published at The Guardian, The Rumpus, Civil Eats, Mother Jones, KQED, Coyote Media. Day job: environmental nonprofit comms manager.
Angela Chen @chengela.bsky.social Journalist, editor, author of Ace. chengela.substack.com
John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
Jinwoo Park @jinwoo-park.com Writer, Translator (Kr-En), Debut novel, Oxford Soju Club, coming in Sept 2025, 111k on TikTok
https://linktr.ee/jinwoopark0721
Julia Fine @finejuli.bsky.social Wrote MADDALENA AND THE DARK (Flatiron), THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE and WHAT SHOULD BE WILD (Harper). The witch from next door.
Paul Lisicky @paullisicky.bsky.social My seventh book, SONG SO WILD AND BLUE: A LIFE WITH THE MUSIC OF JONI MITCHELL, is out now from HarperOne. 🏳️🌈🦌🐊🦀
mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com best-selling & award-winning comics idiot, beautiful giantess // buy SIMPLICITY on sale now // mattielubchansky.com // @nogodsnomayors.com // temporalculturewar.com // bass faithvoid.bandcamp.com // she
Bitch.io: Don't Play WIth Me @nanicoolj.blacksky.app Writer. Big nerd.
Me (nanicoolj.carrd.co)
My podcast (nerdgasmnoire.carrd.co)
My Twitch show (thereclaimers.carrd.co)
Tove Danovich @tkdano.bsky.social Writer focusing on animals and the human-animal relationship.
Author of Under the Henfluence: Inside the World of Backyard Chickens and the People Who Love Them.
Find me weekly: tovedanovich.substack.com
Erin Vachon (they/them) 🍉 @erinvachon.bsky.social Senior Reviews Editor @smokelong.bsky.social | Multigenre & Chapbook Editor @splitlippress.com | Providence menace | I write weird shit. | Fuck ICE. | More of us than there are of them.
Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com 👽 butch Frizzle 👽 〰 journalist 〰 sculptor 〰 they/them 〰 https://reveleth.com/
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"covers the strange and consequential with equal enthusiasm"
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
Jason Diamond @jasondiamond.bsky.social “Writer" - The New Yorker. “Author” - New York Times. “A fabulous old soul” - Russ & Daughters Instagram account. “Unlikely model” - BBC. My novel “Kaplan’s Plot” is out on Flatiron.
rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social normal guy
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social Independent journalist.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social indie reporter (@taliaotg on hellsite) • support: patreon.com/taliajane • tips: taliajane@protonmail.com 💸: paypal.me/taliajane 🌻 be good; i love you 🖤❤️🔥
Anton Hur @antonhur.com Translator, bilingual author, Korean citizen. TOWARD ETERNITY (HarperVia), <하지 말라고는 안 했잖아요?> (어크로스). Repped by Safae El-Ouahabi at RCW. He/him.
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Caty Simon @marginalutilite.bsky.social Ex-lumpenprole,ruthless editrix,tedious dilettante, community researcher,mediocre organizer.National Survivors Union/NC Survivors Union/Whose Corner Is It Anyway/Yale School of Medicine--give to gofundme.com/f/whose-corner-is-it-anyway
Julianna @julbee.bsky.social hoping to leave things a bit better than i find them - and see some of the world in the process
Not sure what else you'd think, but: views my own, travel deals posted as PSA, RTs not endorsements - except for the dogs. Those I endorse.
Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social Co-Host of You Are Good and The OC, Again. Manager for folks in the arts. Bewildered person. Picture taker. Zine-maker (High Occulture). Activist. Into being.
Elizabeth Svoboda @svobodster.bsky.social Author of WHAT MAKES A HERO? and THE LIFE HEROIC. Contributing writer, Boston Globe Ideas. Words in Scientific American, Psychology Today, Atlas Obscura, NYT, etc. New book: THE ART OF PACING.
Elizabeth Land Quant @elizabethlquant.bsky.social MN Writer, queer, #autistic, wife, mom, #disabled 🐈⬛Moss enthusiast
🐈⬛Publications in NY Times+
🐈⬛ Repped by Elisa Saphier
🐈⬛Co-founder of The Unpopular Publishing Co.
🐈⬛Co-creator of autisticaunties.com
🐈⬛Cosy mystery F*CK THIS MURDER out now!
Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social Defector, normal gossip, novels, etc
jade. @altjade.bsky.social '92 til infinity 🪽 they/she 🏳️⚧️
slow reader, fiction writer, movie enthusiast, lovergirl ‧₊˚ ☁️⋅♡𓂃 ࣪ ִֶָ☾.
Slumberland Records @slumberlandrecords.com Pop label with a stubborn streak, since 1989.
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zine editor @zineeditor.bsky.social fix your hearts or die 
Andy Adams @flakphoto.news Culture guy in Madison, Wisconsin. I run media at Outrider.org. In my free time, I publish @flakphoto.news. Do you like pictures? Read my newsletter!
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Amy McCarthy @aemccarthy.bsky.social
founder-owner, @weareravenous.com. freelance food, culture, & music journalist. texan by way of louisiana. currently pondering a life of crime. WGA East member forever. she/her. // email: amyemccarthy@gmail.com.
Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com Founder-Owner of @weareravenous.com
Series Editor at Best American Food and Travel Writing
Queens, NY
she/her
Tips to jaya@weareravenous.con
Vox Media Union @voxmediaunion.bsky.social Fighting for a better industry for our colleagues at Vox Media and beyond.
voxmediaunion@gmail.com for all press inquiries
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molly priddy @mollypriddy.bsky.social most dogs like me.
twin cities, minnesota.
Matt Ortile (or-TEE-lay) @ortile.bsky.social 🇵🇭 Author of THE GROOM WILL KEEP HIS NAME. Editor, Condé Nast Traveler. Formerly: executive editor of Catapult magazine.
Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social Philadelphia feminist writer • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's, The Drift, Lux • octopus essay n+1 mag • "recovering academic"
Emily Feng @emilyzfeng.bsky.social NPR correspondent. 10 years in China and Taiwan. Author of Let Only Red Flowers Bloom (Crown 2025) and forthcoming book on Syria (CGR 2026) https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/our-hearts-burned-for-home
Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social TV & standup & improv & podcasts, hardly any movies
paulftompkins.com/live
Green Apple Books @greenapplebooks.bsky.social Independent bookstore in San Francisco since 1967.
Our Sunset location is @booksonthepark.bsky.social
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Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social Bookseller in Seattle, lost in a stack of books.
Please bring me fries.
Rakesh Satyal @rakeshsatyal.bsky.social Author of the novels Blue Boy and No One Can Pronounce My Name. Book Editor. 
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social i write at @theverge.com. Portland, OR.
dan sinker @dansinker.com I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
Rioncarnated @reeamilcarscott.bsky.social Camouflage fatigues & dashikis. Somewhere in between Ralph Ellison and PE
📚:🔥INSURRECTIONS🔥(PEN/Bingham winner) and THE W🌍RLD DOESN’T REQUIRE YOU
I write love notes to black people & dis songs to white supremacy. 90% love. 10% dis.
I deserve it all.
Jenny Toomey @jennytoomey.bsky.social Rocker, quilter, part poodle.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
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First book:
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all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social co-founder of various organizations: Interrupting Criminalization; Survived & Punished; Sojourners for Justice Press; For the People Leftist Library Project, NYC PLAN, etc...
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
The Rumpus @therumpus.net Independent since 2009. Read The Rumpus Magazine. Become a Member. Receive Letters in the Mail from Authors. Join a dynamic, global community.
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Garth Greenwell @garthgreenwell.bsky.social What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award | Eeyore at the gay club | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
Dead Ink Books @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of bold new fiction and non-fiction, based in Liverpool
https://linktr.ee/deadinkbooks
Francesca Mari @francescamari.bsky.social Contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and Assistant Professor of the Practice at Brown University | Also published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, +
www.francescamari.com
H.E.D. Houseman @hedhouseman.bsky.social Leaves + sparkles + thread ✨ creative director, community builder, editor & writer 📬: hedhouseman@gmail.com 📷: hedhouseman
Bonnie Jo Campbell @bonniejo.bsky.social Writer, berry picker, donkey wrassler, lover of freedom. Author of six books of fiction, including THE WATERS (2024).