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The Unsung Masters Series @unsung-masters.bsky.social "Admirable!" —The New York Times
"Combines scholarly rigor with poetic chutzpah!" — Kenyon Review
The Unsung Masters Series brings great unknown writers to new readers. Distributed for free to subscribers of Gulf Coast and Pleiades.
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Tulipwood Books @tulipwoodbooks.bsky.social A developmental-editing press for collaborative writers. Poetry over product. 📚💙
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Caroline Johnstone @carolinejohnstone.bsky.social Poet (Hedgehog Press) & author (Dare to be Happier, Welbeck) General magpie 🧐Scotland and NI. I don’t check DM’s.
New Feathers Anthology @newfeathers.bsky.social 
Soleil @soleil-lab.bsky.social Opening Doors with Art and Alchemy.🦋✨🐌
Robert S. King @quarkpoet.bsky.social Poet, editor, cofounder of FutureCycle Press, and retired Software Engineer. Author of nine books of poetry. Published in hundreds of magazines. Website: http://www.leftypoet.online
Maurice Ruffin @mauricenow.bsky.social Maybe the real treasure was the friends we made along the way. 💐 I'm probably on my Substack: Sitting in Silence.✍️🏿https://mauricecarlosruffin.substack.com/
Ariana Benson // the Word Hashira ⚔️✍🏾 @arianab.bsky.social poet, essayist, animé fan, cozy gamer, sportsball enthusiast, tree hugger, multivariate nerd 🎯
a day spent down a Wiki Rabbit Hole is a day well spent👩🏾💻
my📚: BLACK PASTORAL (UGA Press, 2023; winner, Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Prize)
Deesha Philyaw @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social Author of THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF FIRST LADY FREEMAN (on sale 9.29.2026; pre-order: https://bit.ly/firstladyfreeman) and THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES.
Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social always: creator & curator blackfilmarchive.com
💌: maya@blackfilmarchive.com + soon: incoming president / owner of milestone films. film curator + writer + curious about the world.
Kiese @kiese.bsky.social 
Mary Annaïse Heglar @maryannaise.bsky.social I write about climate change/grief/justice. Author of Troubled Waters (novel) & The World is Ours to Cherish (children’s book). Birmingham bred me, Mississippi fed me. ❤️🌍💚🌎🖤 https://www.maryannaiseheglar.com/
STEPH OX ~ PHOXYOXY @stephox.bsky.social YOUR 2026 or 2027 GRAMMY AWARD WINNING SPOKEN WORD artist. 🤞🏽🧡🦊
Book me if you like loud audience reactions.
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Best Selling Children’s Book author.
Follow my journey as I leave a massive impact with my words through various entertainment mediums 🦊🦊🦊
Exodus Oktavia Brownlow @coocoo4afropuffs.bsky.social It’s Ex! 🤓
Author. ✍🏽
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Editor. 📑
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Imani Perry @imaniperry.bsky.social Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less: http://imaniperryauthor.com/
Tariq Thompson @tariqthompson.bsky.social Poet. he/they. LONE LILY. NYU MFA ‘24. tariqthompson.com
Nat Queen Coal 💎 @natashaoladokun.bsky.social Queer poet, educator, accidental mystic. The tallest 5’3” woman you’ll ever meet. (They/She) 🌈
[Not really on here like that.]
Diamond Forde @poemsandcake.bsky.social Order Mother Body (2021): http://tinyurl.com/y2dds3lk
PhD African American Poetics and Fat Studies
No one is free until we are all free.
(she/her)
Willie Lee Kinard III @williekinardiii.bsky.social Kinard, like cigar. Author of ORDERS OF SERVICE: A FUGUE (Alice James Books, 2023). Editor, Designer, Musician. Hoodoo. He/they. 803. 🔮🌱✍🏾✨🎶
Elsewhere: @williekinardiii
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W.J. Lofton @wjlofton1.bsky.social Poet. Author of boy maybe,poems @beaconpress. 3.25.25 | Cave Canem Fellow| Emory University Arts & Social Justice Fellow
E. Hughes @ehughespoetry.bsky.social Philosopher // Poet
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PhD Candidate, Philosophy, Emory University | Ankle-Deep in Pacific Water, Haymarket Books | MFA+MA, the Litowitz Creative Writing Program, Northwestern University
Evie Shockley @seminewblack.bsky.social poet & literary scholar, people-oriented introvert, optimist of the will
https://linktr.ee/evieshockley
Tayari Jones @tayari.bsky.social NYT Bestselling author of KIN and AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE. (Oprah’s Book Club x2) Atlanta born, Atlanta bred, when I die, I’ll be Atlanta dead.
SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social Writer, whiskey drinker and cat dad
Dr. Angel C. Dye @blkgrlpoet.bsky.social poet/believer • professor of books & blk life • candle making • Janelle Monáe enthusing • here & glad I went to Howard ✊🏾🌷 https://linktr.ee/angeldye
Joshua Burton @joshuaburton23.bsky.social |🇵🇸 | Poet | DAD | GRACE ENGINE available now | FRACTURE ANTHOLOGY available now | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Arriel Vinson @arriwrites.bsky.social She/her. UNDER THE NEON LIGHTS (PenguinTeen, 6/3). Reese’s Book Club LitUp Fellow. Tin house YA '21. Educator. Rep: Jodi Reamer. IG: arriwrites. Pronounced Ar-ee-el.
Website: arriwrites.com
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/arriwrites
Marti Dumas @momteacherwriter.bsky.social Author of 10+ books for kids including Jaden Toussaint, the Greatest, Wildseed Witch, and the Secret Society of Rebel Girls. Chaos gardener. Dragon dreamer. (Former) Classroom teacher with theater kid heart.
Brittany N. Williams @brittanyacts.bsky.social B-more's own. Actress & Author of The Forge & Fracture Saga. Head full of trivia, heart full of swordfights 
🌱jawno okhiulu @gardenradical.bsky.social a purposeful, contagious expression of freedom in bloom 🪴 poet, singer, gardener, teacher, trickster, compassionate future ancestor
Dasia Moore @daijmoore.bsky.social Poet in and of the Carolinas. Queer child of the Black South. Words in Boston Globe Mag, FENCE, The Offing, ++ 💌 If Doris Loved Me 💌 and more @ dasiasmoore.com
Nadia Alexis @nadiaalexis.bsky.social 📍MS & NYC || Author of BEYOND THE WATERSHED (CavanKerryPress, March 4, 2025).
Buy my debut collection of poetry & photography & learn more at NadiaAlexis.com
🇭🇹 Poet. Photographer. Writer. Gratitude devotee. Birder. Nature Lover. She/Her/Hers
The Mirror Zone @themirrorzone.bsky.social ‘The Mirror Zone’ - An upcoming- electrifying #Fantasy #book Series by debut author - A.J Rose 🌹 - Seeking representation 📖
Crystal Wilkinson @crystalwilki.bsky.social Novelist, Food Advocate, Professor. National Bestselling Author of PRAISESONG FOR THE KITCHEN GHOSTS, PERFECT BLACK, BIRDS OF OPULENCE
https://linktr.ee/CrystalWilkinson?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=d3c6b47f-690c-483b-9898-8faed08cd35d
@itsmesarahlabrie.bsky.social @itsmesarahlabrie.bsky.social NO ONE GETS TO FALL APART: A MEMOIR (Harper, Oct 2024)
Jonathan Escoffery @escoffery.bsky.social Author of IF I SURVIVE YOU, a NY Times Editor’s Choice, IndieNext Pick, & International Bestseller. Nom’d for the National Book Award, PEN/Jean Stein, PEN/ Robert W. Bingham, & Story Prize. Booker Prize, PEN/ Faulkner & NBCC John Leonard finalist.
Denzel Xavier Scott @denzelscott.bsky.social Writer, Poet, Author. Monster (golden-hearted, love-hungry, moon-blessed).
https://www.amazon.com/Delphinium-Gospel-Denzel-Xavier-Scott/dp/1942004680
Anteroom (prev The Winged Moon) @anteroompoetry.bsky.social POETRY THROUGH THE CRACKS. we publish in print and online with amazing art and a vibrant weekly newsletter www.anteroompoetry.com
Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social Inviting readers into a community of caring for the planet—justly, sustainably, and joyously. orionmagazine.org
Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social The finest fiction, poetry, and essays since 1985. Paying market.
https://www.boulevardmagazine.org/
Wigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social Seven-time Pushcart Prize winning journal of very short fiction. (Read us at wigleaf.com)
Typebar Magazine (Issue 10 Out Now!!) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social An interesting thing to read on the internet.
Bad Hand Books @badhandbooks.bsky.social You can do a lot with a bad hand. We're bringing you the best horror, dark fantasy, & crime fiction. Owned & operated by Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award winner Doug Murano.
Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social Overland Journal – radical Australian literature and culture since 1954
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Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social Acre Books, the small press offshoot of The Cincinnati Review, brings you volumes of beautifully crafted, award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. www.acre-books.com
Up the Staircase Quarterly @upthestaircase.bsky.social An online journal of poetry & art.
posts by editor @aprilmbratten.bsky.social
Cover art by Ricardo Jose Gonzalez-Rothi
http://www.upthestaircase.org
Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social We publish flash fiction and non-fiction narratives (<500 words) on self-care aka #namjooning. Editors:
@m-ixedbag.bsky.social, @lakshgiri.bsky.social, @lumchanmfa.bsky.social
https://literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam
literarynamjooning@gmail.com
Frazzled Lit *Closed for Submissions* @frazzledlit.bsky.social We are Frazzled Lit! 🥓 🔥
Looking for Flash, Poetry, CNF and Prose.
Eds @lozzawriting.bsky.social and @jmcm.bsky.social
www.frazzledlit.com
https://ko-fi.com/frazzledlit
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Libre @librelit.bsky.social A southern literature & arts mag bent on brain pain, taking the narrative back, jiggling it open, extracting the oyster from its background of compressed pain to reexamine what it means to scavenge for agency in liminal states of illness.
Librelit.com
JMWW Journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social jmww (https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/guidelines/), a weekly journal publishing the best in fiction, poetry, flash, essays, and interviews. Our stories have appeared in Best American Essays, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, BIFFY, and Best of Net.
Cake Moth @cakemoth.bsky.social A moth cake is a kind of a
poison
A cake moth is a kind of a
phylum
Cake Moth collects strange
poems & prompts
[When stars are not stars
they are moth circuses]
Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social Poetry / Art Magazine Edited by Susanna Galbraith and Gregory McCartney. Abridged since 2004. A Derry Magazine. www.abridged.zone
Virginia Quarterly Review @vqr.bsky.social An award-winning national magazine at the University of Virginia. Established in 1925. vqronline.org
Weekly email newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hiepvn
Weekly poetry newsletter: http://eepurl.com/ilfAh1
Prairie Fire Magazine @prairiefiremag.bsky.social Award-winning Canadian journal of innovative writing that has been publishing exceptional writing for over 45 years. One of Canada’s oldest literary magazines.
Goose Lane Editions @gooselane.bsky.social Canada’s oldest independent publisher, representing some of the best and brightest authors in the country.
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Wolsak & Wynn @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social A charmingly contrary literary press based in beautiful post-industrial Hamilton, Ontario. 
Mawenzi House @mawenzihouse.bsky.social Mawenzi House is dedicated to bringing to the reading public fresh new writing from Canada and across the world that reflects the diversity of our rapidly globalizing world, particularly in Canada and the United States. 
Quill & Quire @quillandquire.bsky.social Canada's online magazine of book news and reviews. https://quillandquire.com/
@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social Book*hug Press is a radically optimistic Canadian-owned publisher working at the forefront of contemporary book culture.🍁
Radiant Press @radiantpress.bsky.social An indie press on the prairies. Submissions open Sept. 1 to
July 1. We publish fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction.
Fictionable @fictionable.bsky.social The online literary magazine with short stories and comics from all around the world.
Find us at https://fictionable.world
New World Writing Quarterly @newworldwriting.bsky.social NEW WORLD WRITING QUARTERLY began life as Mississippi Review Online. We invite submissions the first two weeks of January, April, July and October, and publish in those same months. Read more at https://newworldwriting.net/
University of Alberta Press @ualbertapress.bsky.social University of Alberta Press is a contemporary, award-winning publisher of scholarly and creative books distinguished by their editorial care, exceptional design, and global reach. https://ualbertapress.ca/
The Hooghly Review @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social Editors: @tejaswineerc.bsky.social & @ankitrajojha.bsky.social • Murals Editor: @fbereaud.bsky.social • Contributors from 63 countries • https://linktr.ee/thehooghlyreview
Unearthed @unearthedjournal.bsky.social Unearthed is an online literary and arts journal out of SUNY-ESF in Syracuse, NY. We publish twice a year, in the Spring and Fall, and encourage both established and new writers to submit. View our latest issue and archived pieces at unearthedesf.com
AC|DC: A Journal for the Bent @acdclitmag.bsky.social Brooklyn-based queer online lit mag run by a bitter but friendly Gen Xer. Always open for submissions. www.acdclit.com
New England Review @newenglandreview.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine published by Middlebury College since 1978.
https://www.nereview.com/
Rough Diamond Poetry @rough-diamond1.bsky.social Rough Diamond is an online and in print poetry journal. roughdiamondpoems@gmail.com
EIC - Charlotte Cosgrove
http://ko-fi.com/roughdiamond open for subs
Fast Flesh Literary Journal @fastfleshlit.bsky.social We like work that’s bold, rich, lush, & other 4-letter words. https://www.fastflesh.net/
Exposed Bone Literary Magazine @exposedbonemag.bsky.social Exposed Bone seeks uncanny fiction and poetry that destroys expectations and shoves at barriers. We encourage the sly, weird, and charming.
https://linktr.ee/exposedbone?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=fa2f83a3-13ae-417e-afcf-39b3e5627c27
Everscribe Magazine @everscribemag.bsky.social Everscribe is a digital poetry magazine, publishing quarterly, themed issues. Next submission window opening soon!
everscribemag.com
Briardene Books @briardenebooks.bsky.social A micro-press specialising in non-fiction about science fiction and fantasy. Shop: briardenebooks.uk
Die Laughing Magazine @dielaughingmag.bsky.social Horror stories so funny they'll kill you. Online at dielaughingmag.com. EIC - @probablyharmless.bsky.social and @cassandradaucus.bsky.social. Issue 3 coming soon!
Delicate Emissions Poetry Zine @delicatezine.bsky.social A hand-made, heart made, 8-panel poetry zine publishing small poems by poets of many sizes since 2021. Proud CLMP member; listed on ChillSubs & Duotrope. Read us at https://delicateemissions.com/. Contact: DelicateEmissions@gmail.com.
NECKSNAP MAGAZINE @necksnapmag.bsky.social Issue Three: FRINGE 🦇 out now!
Horror lit mag with a love for Gothic haunts, body horror, strong experimental voices, and even stronger characters. EIC: johnhanleywrites.bsky.social
Support us: ko-fi.com/necksnapmag
Nimrod Journal @nimrodjournal.bsky.social Bringing you the brightest new voices since 1956. Published by the University of Tulsa.
Little Thoughts Press @littlethoughtspress.com A print lit mag for kids featuring writing and artwork by both adult and youth creatives. EIC: @clairemtaylor.com
littlethoughtspress.com
Hollow Oak Press @hollowoakpress.bsky.social Independent publisher of short speculative fiction. We immerse you beyond words. Woman owned and operated in rural PA.
www.hollowoakpress.com
https://linktr.ee/hollowoakpress
COFFIN BELL || a journal of dark literature @coffinbell.bsky.social Quarterly online journal for dark literature. Flash, short story, poetry, CNF, essay, short criticism, and art. coffinbell.com
Red Ogre Review @ogre.red We're an indie arts press:
https://ogre.red
Submissions:
https://redogrereview.submittable.com/submit
Books:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CH3QKYKX?binding=paperback
Poetry readings and music:
https://www.youtube.com/@redogrereview
Tursulowe Press @tursulowepress.bsky.social Small press in Philadelphia
Books and Photographs
Posts by J.
Donate books at Read for Need
https://www.tursulowepress.com
Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social Read Issue 8! Epistemiclit.com
Digital anthology series celebrating knowledge, connection, and growth through poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction.
EICs @melruthwrites.bsky.social and @kristinwrites.bsky.social. CNF Editor @gcbwrites.bsky.social
Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com Neil Clarke: Editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, The Best Science Fiction of the Year series, and more. Four-time Hugo Award Winner for Best Editor Short Form. Four-time Chesley Award-winning art director.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
neil-clarke.com
Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social a publisher of niche speculative fiction and poetry
angrygablepress.com
This Exquisite Topology available now!
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Katabatic Circus
@katabaticcircus.bsky.social
Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social Literary journal of formally promiscuous non-fiction. Publishing essays, memoir, autofiction and the overflow. Supported by the Arts Council.
tolkajournal.org
Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social Press & online rag dedicated to grit lit & rural writing with rough edges. Survival is triumph enough. We dig Folk & Old Country music: @npcountrycovers.bsky.social. EIC: @vanwinkle.bsky.social
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com
Agita Publishing (formerly From Beyond Press) @agitapublishing.bsky.social Small press specializing in horror, sci-fi, contemporary fantasy, zines, poetry, and reprints. Voted best small press by our EIC's mom. agitapublishing.com
Frost Zone Stories @frostzonestories.bsky.social biannual Canadian #litmag / anthology series #quiethorror #darkfiction
eic @lenemacleod.bsky.social | readers: @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social | @collyleonard.bsky.social
Subs closed.
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https://www.frostzonestories.com
Strange Quark Press (Closed for Submissions) @strangequarkpress.bsky.social We're a literary press run by cats, dedicated to sharing stories about science and the science experience. Our mEwditors are looking for YOUR short stories, poems, and creative non-fiction themed on science, science fiction, and science fantasy!
LYME ZEST @lymezest.bsky.social * publisher from central arkansas
* raw punk, horror, sci-fi, + more
🩻🌪️⚔️🖤🌿
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dadakuku @dadakuku.bsky.social Life is short and weird, poetry should be too 🙃
EIC: petrock.bsky.social
Submit at dadakuku.com
Elysium Review @elysiumreview.bsky.social Poetry of Pleasure, Delight, Wonder, Love, and Joy
www.elysiumreview.com
Y2K Quarterly @y2kq.com Literary chaos in 1999 words or less.
Y2K Themed Literary Magazine
EIC: @jetgirl.art
https://y2kq.com
Palimpsest Press @palimpsestpress.bsky.social Small independent publisher 📍Windsor ON CAN
Beautiful Poetry | Fresh, Innovative Literature
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!
PULP Lit Mag @pulplitmag.bsky.social The trashy paperback of lit mags | SUBS OPEN for QUEER WESTERNS 🐴 | Run by EIC: @finn-all-uh.bsky.social | Currently writing love letters that will never be delivered |
On Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social Canadian journal of Literature of the Fantastic
Riot in Your Throat @riotinyourthroat.bsky.social publishing fierce, feminist poetry.
www.riotinyourthroat.com
Submissions are closed. EIC: @wordperv.bsky.social