Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social Reading, writing, rabbits 🐇 ✡️
Director of European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social
London
www.deborahzafer.com
https://substack.com/@deborahzafer
Bob Merckel @bobzyeruncle.bsky.social Author of "Salute" — it's about yoga, but it's not.
I've had more reinventions than Madonna.
Writer / editor / teacher bouncing between Barcelona and Provincetown. Purveyor of your Good Morning earworm.
Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social Tlönista. Shitposting merrily downward. Weird plant, cat, books lady. Sci-fi, fantasy, art, jazz, etc. Profile photo is a selfie with the bottom half of my face hilariously covered by my cat's. Banner pic is of crows in a tree.
Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social Theoretical Physicist.
(She/her/hers)
From Eastern KY.
@joycecaroloates.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social 
Andrew Stronach @aistronach.bsky.social Recovering journalist. Powered by caffeine and cortisol. Chart. PR. and Head of External Relations at the @QuadramInstitute.bsky.social in Norwich. Scottish 🏴 via Zambia 🇿🇲 Hedgehog champion 🦔
The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social A "micro" press for "micro" stories. Run by @mattkendrick.bsky.social
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press
Writing & Editing @wrtrstat.bsky.social Welcome to the positive side of Writing. Author & Author software that helps people write. My Sci-fi + MG novels. Cool, clean, fun Writing Software for all. My page, 4 me, for writing motivation, writing connection, helps me write. Creator of Storyfyre.com
Erin Green Author @eringreenauthor.bsky.social Author. A dreamer. INFJ. Writing about love, life, laughter and loss. 💚
Tavia Allan @taviaallan.bsky.social Mother, teacher, writer, lecturer, bookseller. - J @jriddalls.bsky.social @jriddalls.bsky.social
Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social Climate and enviroskeeting.
Strat climate comms & media freelancing: Will@WYeates.com
(📍 London, Europe)
Permanently deleted my twitter account. So should you.
Jacci Gooding @jaccigooding.bsky.social Founder South Warwickshire Literary Festival, writer, reader, fun-lover and optimist. That'll do donkey, that'll do.
Veronique Kootstra @vkootstra.bsky.social Writer of flash fiction and short stories. Working on second novel (and looking for a home for first). Writers’ HQ Edinburgh rep.
Karen Schauber @karenschauber.bsky.social Flash Fiction Obsessed
Dabbles in Abstract Painting
https://KarenSchauberCreative.weebly.com
https://
“Flash Fiction Writing Tips: Penned By Masterful Flash Writers From Around The Globe”
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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social Writer, baker, candlestick maker (?), / All of me out to sea | Words in Feral, HAD, and elsewhere | she/her
https://beall.carrd.co/
Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social Authors / Writers / Lovers of Words...
Got a flash fiction story within 500 words, of any interpretation, on any theme, that our readers should read? #flashfiction
https://freeflashfiction.com/
Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social Unseamly Literature. https://www.doesithavepockets.com/
Posts by Cami(lle) Griep, EIC
Chelsea G. Summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social I like to write about terrible men, horrible things, and unlikeable women. Somehow my book is a bestseller. Repped by Kent D. Wolf at Neon Literary.
Jimmy Hollis i Dickson 🐸🇵🇸 BDS NOW!🍉💜🌍🌎🌏🖋️📖📚📘 @jimmyhid1.bsky.social I'm a writer & Top Frog at La Gr@not@ Press: @lagranota.bsky.social
I'm Progressive, a citizen of the World, and a lifelong, committed Feminist.
jimmsfairytales.com
la-granota.com
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Kirsty @kirstyiswriting.bsky.social Nerd. Writer. Absolute delight. 🤓
James C Holland @jimholland.bsky.social Really great writer of really great things. Terrible at bios though, as evidenced by this, what you are reading, right now.
https://jamescholland.com/
Emma Creasey @escreasey.bsky.social Writing, books, cats, music, flowers. Oh, and tea. Lots of tea.
REF Impact Evidencing Officer at the University of Bristol.
Lucy Brighton @brightwritenow.bsky.social Writer, reader, silver queen and poster of dog pictures. 
Cat_MooreWrites @catmoorewrites.bsky.social Writer, proofreader/copyeditor and baker, reluctantly inhabiting this plane of existence. Fiction & non-fiction featured in online mags, Medium and Ko-Fi
https://ko-fi.com/cathrynmoore- F @fieldri1.bsky.social @fieldri1.bsky.social
Alex Harlequin @alexharlequin.bsky.social ✝️ SFF writer | polyglot | poet
alexharlequin.net
Native speaker 🇬🇧
Currently acquiring 🇳🇱
The Molotov Cocktail @molotovlitzine.bsky.social A projectile for incendiary flash fiction. Purveyors of the dark & offbeat since 2010. Curated by Josh Goller. Associate Editor M. Lenoir Bond. https://themolotovcocktail.com/
Lost Balloon @lostballoon.bsky.social Lost Balloon is a literary magazine that published flash fiction, flash nonfiction, and prose poetry.
Wendy Davis @daydreamerdavis.bsky.social 🏆Hachette Children’s Novel Award Winner 2026
👻 MG writer of horror & fantasy #KidLitUK
📚 Book lover
🐶 Dog lover
☕️ Coffee drinker
🍫 Chocolate fiend
Liz O @lizottosson.bsky.social Eclectic reader, writer and book tragic; stories and songs make my heart go round. NE England via south coast, Sweden, Australia and London. She/her. Need a proofreader or editor? https://betterworldwords.com/
Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social Publisher of award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For the workshop, head to @mccormackwc.bsky.social.
Allegra Chapman @allegrachapman.bsky.social Writer, entrepreneur, creativity coach.
I want you to unlock your voice, shape your story and unleash your creative powers. 
Reservoir Road Literary Review @reservoirroad.bsky.social SUBS CLOSED. Stores that ask difficult quesitons and provide difficult answers. Pays honorarium. CWs/TWs always apply. ISSUE 11 OUT NOW.
Reckon Review @reckonreview.bsky.social Dirt Road Driving, Jelly Jar Sipping, Dollar General Shopping, journal of Prose.
Pulp Literature Press @pulpliterature.bsky.social Genre-busting fiction. Short stories, poetry, comics, and novels you can't put down. Good books for the price of a beer!
Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social A culture and education website that tries to make the web a more intelligent place. Features free courses, movies, audio books, ebooks & thought-provoking daily posts.
Find us at: https://www.openculture.com/
Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social PhD in Victorian lit. Editor/researcher/lecturer. Women’s ghost stories & the supernatural. Lots of posts about books. And ghosts. And Margery Lawrence.
Violet Hunt’s The Tiger Skin and Other Tales of the Uneasy out now with The British Library.
Mark Stocker @markstocker.bsky.social Writer. NCW Escalator Class of '22. Stories published here and there. Novel in progress.
R. Tim Morris @rtimmorris.bsky.social Published indie author. 5 novels. Many works of short fiction, favourites published with @emergejournal.bsky.social, @louisianalit.bsky.social, and @rfpress.bsky.social. Lives in Vancouver. Thinks he writes in New York.
rtimmorris.com 
-ette review @ettereview.bsky.social Let's get small. -ette loves fiction and prose poetry under 1000 words.
www.ettereview.com (subs open)
Best Small Fictions
Best Microfiction
Our companion podcast is pod-ette.
open.spotify.com/show/5rlvi1S1p5ehxoTJAwITW2?si=zVUdwXB5QeSEQ2zt1h6b5w
Treyf Posting 🤌 @postingtreyf.bsky.social Haman Haymaker inventor, PSL aficionado, former baby nicknamed “Guidette,” neurasthenic vagabond, shitlib, Tikkun Olamite, Jwitter’s Vulgar Id, & recovering Jewish American Princess.
Reason for “rude” label: I told antisemites to goy fuck themselves.
Retreat West / WestWord @retreatwest.bsky.social All about writing great stories. Courses, competitions, workshops and a friendly online community. WestWord literary journal. Spread love with your words 💙
https://www.retreatwest.co.uk
https://westword.substack.com
Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social World’s greatest author
Johanna Robinson @johannarobinson.bsky.social Proofreader/Writer | 🥇Bath & Cambridge Flash Fiction Awards 2019 | Shortlist Caledonia Novel & Bath Novel Award 2023 | Lover of books, words, Norway, kittens | www.johanna-robinson.com- B Bokarelli @bokarelli.bsky.social
Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social Half Man, Half Bookshop.
Moved to Hastings in 2018 to start a wild new adventure with my family.
Not the inventor of the word "brainbow"
https://www.biggreenbookshop.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.
Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social Writer. Pie enthusiast. Historically preserved beard site. Cheese poet. Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, Cinnamon Challenge: honorable mention. - N 🇺🇸 @n976wow.bsky.social
Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social Writer of the weird and experimental flash. Words @FracturedLit, @Xraylitmag, @NecessaryFic, @TBQuarterly, and elsewhere.
Debut flash fiction collection, THESE WORN BODIES, out now @MoonCityPress.
Read more at http://avitusbcarle.com
・゜mason martinez ・。 @masonatj.bsky.social they/them | writer - managing fiction editor for chaotic merge magazine - lover of moss and the great outdoors
read my words: masonandthejars.com
Finnian Burnett @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social Cat person, writer, presenter, Star Trek fan. THE PRICE OF COOKIES, REDSHIRTS SOMETIMES SURVIVE flash fiction collections. Queer AF. Definitely not cool. They/them/tired. #flashfiction finnburnett.com
3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social Yes it’s that 3wombats Retired costume maker. Gardener. Music lover 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Friendly 🦘🐨(Need wombats emoji) Also 3wombats@Mastodon exTwitter
Anti Zionism is not Antisemitism🍉
NO DMs from total strangers thank you
Quokka @mudonmyface.bsky.social What? Just 256 characters allowed here?
Chat-GPT reckons I should go with:👋 G'day from Perth! IT pro embracing the digital waves. No cats, but a passion for all things tech. Let's connect and explore the tech universe together! 🌐 #Perth #ITPro
Rick V. @itsmerickv.com Low tier cartoonist. Aging punk. Nerd. Anti-Capitalist. GOGOGO. Razorcake. hehim Currently in Bloomington.
itsmerickv.com
Noémi Scheiring-Oláh @itssonoemi.bsky.social Hungarian alien writing in English(ian). Fan of cats and underdogs. ő/she/they/we 💚 Autistic. | noemiwrites.com | 🇵🇸🍉
Star Trek Minus Context @nocontexttrek1.bsky.social Double dumb-ass on you. (And so fourth)
#AltText enthusiast. Also on mastodon, formerly on twitter. Other similar accounts are not me.
Ellie Lock @elliel.bsky.social Plant based 🌱
Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social Northern writer. Author of The Disappeared. Stories in The London Reader, Reflex Press, Palm-Sized Press. Finalist: Mslexia Short Story Comp/Dinesh Allirajah Prize. Arts marketer. Writer in residence Durham Writes & Crossing the Tees.
amylordauthor.com
The Flash Cabin @theflashcabin.bsky.social The Flash Cabin is hibernating. BUT @stillsquirrel.bsky.social (Anika Carpenter) is still running her monthly ekphrastic writing workshops.
https://www.anikacarpenter.com/ekphrastic-writing-workshops.html
Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability
Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/
Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
Ellipsis Zine @ellipsiszine.bsky.social Literary magazine and independent press, publishing beautifully written flash and microfiction. 1,000 words or fewer.
Est. 2017-2024. Relaunched in 2026.
https://www.ellipsis-zine.com
Amy Barnes @amygcb.bsky.social Child Craft: bellepointpress.bsky.social | Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social | Co-editor: @gonelawn.bsky.social |
Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social Native Hawaiian writer living in Japan
https://www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/
Bitter over Sweet https://tinyurl.com/5hd7u63r
Hard Skin http://tinyurl.com/yc53
Kahi&Lua http://tinyurl.com/3ryfzvwh
Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social Writes a bit (Pushcart nom x 2, Best Microfiction ‘26, Fish 3rd prize ‘26), reads a lot. Drama (on-stage, mostly) 🏳️🌈
Editor: https://www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/ @neitherfishnorfoul.com
my published stuff via: https://thewavingnotdrowningblog.com/
OrigamiPete @origamipete.bsky.social •Paperfolder (origami designer)•
•Enjoyer of creatures living, extinct and imagined•
•Cat guardian for life•
•Enby/ace•
•Profile pic by @ImpulseImpact on X•
Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social
Small. Brightly colored. Deadly to the touch. ⚡️🐸
New story every Monday.
EIC: @ericscottryon.bsky.social
https://flash-frog.com/
Hana Carolina @hanacarolina.bsky.social Creative Writer & Academic Researcher | 30s | she/her | 🏴 🇪🇺 | Reviewer @ Strange Horizons | Fiction Editor @ Divinations Magazine | Debut Novella with Spaceboy Books, THE INESCAPABLE MARCH (2025)
https://readspaceboy.com/portfolio/the-inescapable-march/
Ruth Brandt @ruthabrandt.bsky.social Writer & creative writing tutor.
Words: Fly on the Wall Press, Bridport Prize 2018, Bristol Short Story, Litro, The Phare, Ellipsis Zine, Fictive Dream, Aesthetica Creative Writing Anthology and other lovely folk ...
website: www.Ruth@ruthbrandt.co.uk
Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social Writer editor singer songer. Self-appointed ALT text Jello Sherriff.
Anita Goveas @coffeeandpaneer.bsky.social Writer, reader, editor, cat convert, spoonie
links to stories at
https://coffeeandpaneer.wordpress.com/
Flash collection at Reflex Press
https://www.reflex.press/product/families-and-other-natural-disasters/
Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social Micro, flash, shorts, poetry. SFWA, SFPA. Editor, interviewer, blogger, contest/awards judge.
💫 MicroVerse Recommended Reading
⚡Electric Sheep
https://mynachang.com
Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social Menominee | Organizer | Co-author of Let This Radicalize You | Hosts Movement Memos podcast | Newsletter: organizingmythoughts.org | More: http://linktr.ee/KellyHayes
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...
vito 🏳️⚧️ @heyvito.bsky.social trans man (he/they) | 📍 Occupied Onöndowa’ga
books, music and vinyl, sports, my cat, dog, and house plants, AuDHD
👾 hey_vito
📱 socials: https://linktr.ee/heyvito
Sarah Royston @sarahkat.bsky.social Writer and researcher inspired by queer/feminist ecologies & folklore.
Collection 'Fernseed' out now!
https://thebraag.co/?product=fernseed-a-collection-of-tales-by-sarah-royston-pre-order
https://hedgeways.wordpress.com/
Re-enchantment is resistance.
Kizzia Mildmay @kizzia.bsky.social Word Herder ✍️ Yarn Wrangler 🧶 HoH 🦻 Queer 🏳️🌈 Witch 🧙 Arthurian 🗡️ Sherlockian 🔎 Pratchettian 🐢 Tolkienite 🧝♀️ Myth 🐉 Folklore 🍀 Fantasy 🧌 History 👑 Walker 🏞️ Absolutely no AI 📷 She/her
www.kizziamildmay.com
JP Relph - TWO NEW COLLECTIONS OUT @therelphian.bsky.social Cumbrian writer. Loves cats, tea, apocalypses and dark botany.
Noms for Pushcart, BOTN, Best Small Fics and Best Microfics, Wigleaf longlisted
All print publications on Amazon
Website, socials and stuff: https://linktr.ee/JPRelph
Kwake @akwake.bsky.social Actor, writer, musician, he/him/they/them. Pan and polyam. About as much of an 80s kid as possible, being born in 1980.
Neil Shurley @thatneilguy.bsky.social Writer. Actor. Musician. Nerd.
Probably wearing a Dr Who scarf right now.
StarTrekking.substack.com
Rae Swabey @raeswabey.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Mood reader. Genre floozy.
WIPs: a speculative literary novel and a YA urban fairytale. Often bunking off with forays into flash.
📍Brighton, UK.
An ally, always 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
No DMs please.
Annoyed O’Brien @annoyedobrien.bsky.social I'm the Chief Engineer of this bloody station!!!
🖖🦄🌈✊🏿🐷🍉🇵🇸🇸🇩🇬🇦🇺🇦🇱🇧🇨🇬🇲🇽🇾🇪
Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com You will be inspired, or else.
Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social Bath Flash Fiction Winner • Smokelong Fellow • Storyknife • 2025 Best Small Fictions • Anthology of Rural Stories by Writers of Color • words in River Teeth Beautiful Things NWWQ Cutleaf and others • dawntasakasteffler.com
Kim Steutermann Rogers @kimsrogers.bsky.social Writer. Photographer. Journalist. Covering science, nature, Hawaii, life. Bylines in NatGeo, SmithsonianMag, AudubonMag; prose (CNF and fiction) in Ghost Parachute, Moon City Review, Gone Lawn, Milk Candy Review, Fictive Dream, and elsewhere.
Julia Ruth Smith @juliaruthsmith.bsky.social #flashfiction Flash Frog | Full House Lit | Vestal Review | New Flash Fiction Review | Bath Flash Fiction Award | Popshot | Chaotic Merge | Miniskirt Mag | Seaside Gothic | NFFD - Puschcart/Best of the Net
Jendia Gammon @jendiagammon.bsky.social “Jen-DEE-a”
Producer | Science Writer | Author | Editor | Artist
CEO and Editor-in-Chief of @starsandsabers.bsky.social.
Also J. Dianne Dotson.
https://jendiagammon.com
📍LA
Timothy Boudreau @tcboudreau.bsky.social Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever (stories, Stanchion), & Stepdad on the Dance Floor (stories, Unsolicited) coming in '26.
All We Knew Were Our Hearts (novel, Unsolicited) coming in '27.
Editor at The Loveliest Review.
timothyboudreau.com.
He/him
Jasper @jasperwrites.bsky.social Stories told round a fire.
https://www.jasperwoodsauthor.com/
Headshot art by Toblerone Tokić (based on a selfie)(https://www.instagram.com/toblerone.tokic/)
Utopia Science Fiction Magazine @utopiascifi.bsky.social We are a paying science fiction magazine dedicated to publishing quality science fiction short stories, science articles, and poetry. Find us here: https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/
Octavia @octavia-cade.bsky.social New Zealand writer, PhD science communication! Seven time SJV winner. Author of The Stone Wētā, The Impossible Resurrection of Grief, and You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories. Creative NZ's writer in residence in Berlin for 2026.
Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social Writer and editor in Seattle. Words in MYTHAXIS, BLUE EARTH REVIEW, FUSION FRAGMENT, MILK CANDY REVIEW. Subs reader for Split/Lip Press. He/Him
Alison Woodhouse @ajwoodhouse.bsky.social Writer | Teacher | funded PhD @SWWDTP | @bathspa | Team @BathShortStory | The House on the Corner, AdHoc Fiction, 2020 | Family Frames, V Press, 2021 www.alisonwoodhouse.com
Kate Axeford @kateaxeford.bsky.social Flashy writer/ social worker/ gig goer and ditherer. Lives in Brighton. Loves the sea.
Spandan @spandan.bsky.social PhD-ing in Geography@ClarkUniversity. Urban Climate Governance. Risks and Adaptation. Political Ecology. Climate Finance.
Also, love stories, whether in films, literature, or music.