Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social Mildly friendly, Swiss-based US writer of litfic, working on debut novel. Latest pubs, longform & flash, realism & offbeat: @ghostcitypress @emergejournal @acrossthemargin @TheWoolf @offbeatlit @SubniveanMag & @fiveonthefifth. www.meredithwadley.com
@bsherm36.bsky.social @bsherm36.bsky.social Author of HOW TO GET THERE FROM HERE (Ad Hoc). Stories @Smokelong, Flash Frog, Gone Lawn, Bending Genres. Subs editor @Smokelong. BMF 2024, 2026. BSF 2025. Noms: Pushcart, BOTN. Author of five mystery novels. PhD from CUNY Grad Center.
Chain Story Online @chainstoryonline.bsky.social ✍🏻 A free, collaborative, online writing app where you can join the #WritingCommunity, take turns and write great stories 100 words at a time #FlashFiction #ChainStory
Chaz @its-chaz.bsky.social 
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Action/Crime/Mystery Film & Screenplay Festival @crimemystery.bsky.social This festival now takes place every single month, giving filmmakers 4 tiers to showcase and promote their film. In-person public events also take place.
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Phil Hudson @phlashwriter.bsky.social PhDing in Creative Writing, with a focus on Dystopia/CliFi in the flash form... But also just trying to get a few pieces out there into the wide world...
The Sam Hill! Review | SUBS OPEN @samhillreview.bsky.social Lit mag for historical fiction and poetry that makes you say: “now that was good as SAM HILL!”
SamHillReview.com | est. 2026 | Submissions for Vol. 1 are OPEN
ET Charles @etcharles.bsky.social Read, write, sketch. Writer, librarian.
Honored to have The Dirigible Balloon publish my poems.
#SCBWI #kidlit #MG https://bethsbiblio.blogspot.com/ 
Stephen Tuffin @stephentuffin.bsky.social Working class writer and pork pie hat wearer. Lover of bees, beer, books and the buntryside. I'm the man who made Michael Sheen cry 😬
Philippa Bowe @philippabowe.bsky.social Flash fiction, poetry, translation / Micro nouvelles, poésie, traduction. Ghost City Press, NFFR, Reflex Fiction, Bath Flash Fiction, Spark2Flame, Neither Fish Nor Foul, The Hooghley Review. Pushcart Prize nom. Dance, LFC, la belle vie. Elue municipale. 🌄
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.
its_chaz @bartholomewelliott.bsky.social 
Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social #amwriting Library manager. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️-reviewed short stories collection 'POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE' available now from me https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/267521176850 or from your local Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Negative-Nick-Black/dp/1915247128/
Liminal Space Creative @liminalspacecreative.substack.com Aspiring Métis writer drawn to the grey areas of the human condition. Places we bury deep, where love and sorrow quietly pool together. Spaces that hold both our capacity for sincere kindness and our potential for extreme cruelty.
Amy Allen @amyavt.bsky.social Writer of short fiction and poetry. Poet Laureate, town of Shelburne, VT. Editor- All the Write Words. Words in Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, matchbook, BULL & more. Nominated for Pushcart, Best Microfiction, & Best of the Net. Author of Mountain Offerings.
Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social Curious. Clever. Quick. 🐈⬛
Monthly Magazine for Micro Prose
Free to sub. Paying market.
Claudineliterary.com
Kik Lodge @kiklodge.bsky.social Writer. THE BULLY IN MY PILLOW (Stanchion Books, August 2026).
https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/the-bully-in-my-pillow
Best Microfiction 2026.
Hosts literary open-mics @saloneurope.bsky.social
www.kiklodge.com
Colin Murtagh @colinmurtagh.bsky.social Old Analytical Chemist, loves his books, Prog Rock fan. From Glasgow now living in Wales. Follower of SMFC, supporter of British Fantasy Society
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/15240416-colin-murtagh
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Baby Richman @babyrichmanband.bsky.social Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Rflnb0WvYeuK5B6AHVSXE?si=UUprpuvURT6fW6SAVEo6rA&utm_source=copy-link
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Amanda Anderson @magicetc.bsky.social Former librarian currently writing. Los Angeles native.
LogosFan @logosfan.bsky.social Logo Artist / ABDL Member Since 2023-2026.
I'm a logo artist of making logos in Paint since 2020, I made logos, and behind the scenes how I made these logos! and more!
Plus, I'm autistic support and my hobby is art because I like to be an artist!
Emma Bolton @emmabolton.com Writer and artist based in Granada, Spain. She/they.
https://www.emmabolton.com/
Timothy Boudreau @tcboudreau.bsky.social Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever (stories, Stanchion), & Stepdad on the Dance Floor (stories, Unsolicited) out now.
All We Knew Were Our Hearts (novel, Unsolicited) coming in '27.
Editor at The Loveliest Review.
timothyboudreau.com.
He/him
Julian Rowlands @jrbando.bsky.social Yes, I skooted a few times on the old bluebird thing
musician / resting flaneur / Bri'ish /
failed people pleaser
http://bandoneon.co.uk
Robert Ellison @robert-ellison.bsky.social Writer in the Deep South. Loves stories about plausibly real people dealing with plausibly real life situations with plausibly real emotions.
Superheroes and robots need not apply.
Monsters, unfortunately, still abound.
The Bloomin’ Onion | **SUBMISSIONS ALWAYS OPEN** @bloominonionlit.bsky.social A Literary Magazine with Layers. Est. 2024. Helping new and emerging writers find their way. Posts by the EIC.
Subs: https://www.thebloominonion.com/submission-guidelines
Sudha Balagopal @sudhab.bsky.social Writer:
Winner of Santa Fe Literary Award; Family Matters forthcoming from SFWP, 2027.
Pubs: Adroit Journal, Doric Lit, CRAFT,SmokeLong, Fractured
Best Microfic, Best Small Fic, Wigleaf Top 50.
BathFlash HC/Shortlisted; Series Editor: Wigleaf Top 50
Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social Online magazine for flash and short fiction.
Chill Subs 2024 Community Favourites Flash Fiction #7
https://trashcatlit.com/
Still on X @TrashCatLit
Editor: JP Relph @therelphian.bsky.social
Read Stories: https://trashcatlit.com/treasured-words/
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
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Tom Spooner @dapwearer.bsky.social Bristol, UK.
Writer - flash and micro. Record Collector.
https://thespoonsterspouts.com/
https://www.mixcloud.com/dapwearer/ 
Mary Magdalen @mary-magdalen.bsky.social Southern California writer with words in The Write Launch, Blood + Honey, Leon Literary Review, BULL, and others.
Lisa (Elizabeth) Turner @lhornert.bsky.social Hiya!
Fiction Chapbook w/Black Lawrence Press! https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/horsemouth-and-aquariumhead/
Poetry Chapbook: The Tales of Flaxie Char @dancinggrlpress.
she/her
Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
Edelgunde @pp-de.bsky.social Sorry for not following back for a long time; Had to spent 6 weeks in hospital for bone marrow transplant, which severely limited my activities and my motivation to get involved. Almost fully recovered, but still lacking energy and motivation. #unikaetle
Joy Castro @joy-castro.bsky.social Writer.
https://www.joycastro.com/
https://ohiostatepress.org/books/series/machete.html
Juliet Wilson (Crafty Green Poet) @craftygreenpoet.bsky.social Adult Education Tutor, Poet, Short Story writer, Wildlife Surveyor, Conservation Volunteer. Edinburgh, Scotland
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Stuart Aken @stuartaken.bsky.social UK writer of fiction (12 books published). Photographer. Environment, science, atheist, humanist, walker, happily married. Find me here: https://stuartaken.net/ I DO NOT follow DMs, selfie promos & users w/o profiles or posts. Porn will be blocked.
Dave Weasel @daveweasel.bsky.social Comedian, podcaster, etc. 5x billboard comedy chart topper
C.K. Liu @ckliu.com writer & video games producer -
Wasafiri, ergot., Crow & Cross Keys, and others
https://linktr.ee/ckliu
Moira Garland @moiragauthor.bsky.social Short fiction writer & poet. Feminist. Socialist. Northern England.
TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social #Scientist, #advocate, and #educator in the field of #climatechange. #Author of uplifting #climatefiction novel "A New Faith." Read or download the novel for free at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
#booksky #books #sciencefiction #solarpunk #hopepunk
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
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Post Monkey @postmonkey.bsky.social Leftist Rabble. Mzansiite.
WDYM, 'fucking up?'
I'm not contantly fucking up, I'm demolishing the myth of white excellence.
From the inside.
"unintelligible pseudo intellectual" - fuzzybunny
TVWritersVault @tvwritersvault.bsky.social Where TV/Film Producers & Execs Scout New Pitches for Film, TV & Digital. Shows Discovered & Broadcast Globally on Discovery Channel, A&E, Lifetime TV, SyFy, Velocity & Others... Visit https://www.tvwritersvault.com
Intrepidus Ink @intrepidusink.bsky.social Intrepidlode is here.
A magazine of intrepid culture.
Alarmingly individual characters.
Momentum earned the hard way.
They finish what they start—and win.
intrepidusink.com
Sam Boswell @samboswell.bsky.social Reader, gardening on Whadjuk Noongar boodja in Boorloo/ Perth, Western Australia
https://about.me/samboswell
Melinda Gordon * 🐕🦺 * 🏳️🌈 🩷💛💙 @melindagordon.bsky.social 🚫DMs=blocked.👨🏽🦱👨🏾🦱👨🏿🦱👩🏽👩🏾👩🏿,🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️,👩🏻👨🏻🦱& every beautiful being in between ur safe here. SW=work, period. Married to @jaylax79 💍1️⃣6️⃣yrs.Mom. Author. Service Dog 🐕🦺 Handler. Due process for everyone.
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🐱x3- R Rebecca Croser @rebeccacroser.bsky.social Lecturer, Graduate Researcher Development at Deakin University
Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social Philly writer. Debut chapbook “Ghost in the Rain: Stories,” Bottlecap Press, 2026.
https://bottlecap.press/products/ghosmj
Stories in Best Microfiction, Identity Theory, DIHP, Claudine, Some Words, Flight, FlashFlood, BULL.
www.mattjakubowski.com
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
Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social Books: Our Lives in Pieces (2025) and Not Finished Yet (2026)
Words in Stanchion, Pithead Chapel, Cleaver, Fictive Dream, BULL, Hippocampus
2X Pushcart nominee, BOTN, Best Microfiction and LL Wigleaf Top 50
Retired educator and playwright
Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social Alaskan poet, teacher, parent. Books: Text Messages from The Angel Gabriel (Gnashing Teeth 2024), Another Life (Riot in Your Throat 2025)
https://linktr.ee/francesklein
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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Perfect God = Lexa Gates @mx-j.bsky.social https://shop.capitolmusic.com/collections/lexa-gates
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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.
Keith B. Darrell @keith-b-darrell.bsky.social A prolific American writer of novels, short stories, nonfiction books, and newspaper & magazine articles.
https://keithbdarrell.blogspot.com
www.KeithBDarrell.com
www.AmberBookCompany.com
A Wandering Greybeard 🧙♂️ @flameinc.bsky.social Book Champion 📚
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Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social Magazine & Press edited by @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @petermcallister.bsky.social | short fiction | flash | non-fiction | concrete, vispo, experimental | prose, poetry & hybrid chapbooks
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r. p. singletary @rpsingletary.bsky.social W(e)i(r)dely published in so-called 'underground publications,' or so they said. www.rpsingletary.com
Kashawn Taylor @kashawntaylor.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Student.
Prison Journalism Project.
Gotham Writers Workshop.
book: subhuman. out now.
MNG Social Sciences @mngssbooks.bsky.social Featuring the latest social science titles from a range of international publishers. Part of the Mare Nostrum Group. Based in Harrogate, UK.
Gail Anderson-Dargatz @anderson-dargatz.bsky.social Canadian. Mentor. Editor. Author of The Cure for Death by Lightning, The Almost Wife, The Almost Widow and many other books. Her latest novel, The Atlas Keeper, hits the shelves Aug. 26, 2026. Visit Gail at https://linktr.ee/Gail_AndersonDargatz
Semper Anticus Press @semperanticuspress.bsky.social Indie publisher launching soon!
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Tracy Royce @tracyroyce.bsky.social Writer, poet, reader, cinephile, art-fiend, hiker, board gamer. She/her.
Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-novel-festival-contests/
SarahC_loves_reading @sarahmclayton.bsky.social Avid book reader/blogger 📚& reviewer, lover of family🥰, animals🐾 theatre 🎭 and music 🎶
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
Kate Hollingsworth 📚 @katehollingswrites.bsky.social Corporate consultant in Europe turned fiction writer, studying creative writing in the UK | stories in Fictive Dream, Maudlin House, FlashFlood, 101 Words, CafeLit, Flash Festival Anthologies 6 & 8 | Masters Review LL Summer 2025
FlairBlue @tanteblue.bsky.social Lover of literature, art and the outdoors. Dyspraxic FFXIV player
Banner image: Own photo of 'Observatory', a sculpture in Penallta Woodland Park, South Wales, designed by Malcolm Robertson
Thumbnail image: Own photo Mirrors in a pub in Dublin
InkandescentUK @inkandescentuk.bsky.social Inkandescent is a publishing venture from Justin David and Nathan Evans focussing on queer and outsider voices. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 🍉✊🏿✊🏾
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
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Tope Hall @topehall.bsky.social Adventures of Slothy and Lord Thrilling
A.P. Laesch @aplaesch.bsky.social Writer, art lover, anti-moralist.
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.
SiyaMchunu @siyamchunu.bsky.social Freelance Writer/New Author
https://medium.com/@heelextension
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https://amazon.com/dp/B0CWB6HGT2
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Tiny Octopus Enthusiast @collokation.cryptoanarchy.network Translator and language enjoyer.
No object permanence so I may disappear for random stretches. I also repost a lot, fyi. Opinions my own.
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Sara Jacobelli @sarajacobelli.bsky.social I live in New Orleans & write stories. Bartleby Snopes. Drunk Monkeys. Uproar. New York Times Metropolitan Diary. The Story Shack. Fiction on the Web. Page & Spine. First Stop Fiction. 50-Word Stories. 101 Words. Postcard Shorts. (and more!)
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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Postscript: www.pscript.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Rusty Allen author @rustyallenauthor.bsky.social New novelist. Vine Leaves Press author of ELLA'S WAR, award-winning debut historical fiction. http://linktr.ee/rusty_allen_author
Next up from VLP: my new thriller QUEEN OF THE BAY - release date Feb. 2027. 
Jupiter Jones @jupiterjonz.bsky.social Writes short stuff
Ian Whiteside @ianwhiteside.bsky.social "I've got a job, a mother, a secretary, two ex-wives, and several bartenders dependant on me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself 'slightly' killed."
Fionnuala Kavanagh @fionnuala-k.bsky.social Social issues writer. I like to experiment.
https://www.fionnualakavanagh.com/
https://substack.com/@readmybook
https://www.instagram.com/i_keep_my_shadow_light/
Marc L. Bernstein @marclesbernstein61.bsky.social Born 1961 - Lifelong Neutral observer of Politics & Current Affairs UK, USA & World. Love Audio Books, Podcasts, stand up Comedy, Tottenham Hotspur FC.
Message me if you want to be friends.
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
Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social Art. Nature. Poetry. Life.
She/Her.
Pam Makin (she/her) @pamthepoet.bsky.social Writer, poet, storyteller living and working on unceded Kaurna Yerta, Adelaide, South Australia.
Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com ✍️ Writer & fabulist | 📝 in Electric Lit, LitMag, New Letters, SmokeLong Quarterly, Augur Magazine, Small Wonders & more | ❤️🔥 #fairytales #fantasy #speculative #flashfiction | 🔗 www.nadiaborn.com
Ed Allison @edallison.bsky.social He/him. Interested in machine learning, virtual reality, philosophy, roleplaying (larp and tabletop), history, stories…. If you think ‘woke’ is an insult, we are not going to get on. Slava Ukraini.
Cassidy McCants @cassidymccants.bsky.social Editor, Apple in the Dark | Conium Review Innovative Short Fiction Contest Winner
Bill Merklee @bmerklee.bsky.social Writer of very short things.
In Best Microfiction. Best Small Fictions noms. Highly commended for Bath Novella-in-Flash Award. Fractured Lit Chapbook Prize short list. Wigleaf Top 50 long list. BOTN nom. But enough about me. How are you?
billmerklee.com