Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social Marine biologist, writer, policy nerd. Co-founder Urban Ocean Lab, think tank for the future of coastal cities. In love with climate solutions.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"- J Josh S. @jmschreiber.bsky.social
Ana Dos Santos @naraskanaia.bsky.social 
Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social Not a WH Staffer | Politics, NatSec, and Snark - Your Mileage May Vary | Subscribe to my Patreon newsletter for free: https://www.patreon.com/AWHSBlog |
Dominick Ciacciarelli @1grumpysob.bsky.social 
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Andy Richter @andyrichter.co Insta: @richtercommaandy
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Min Jin Lee @minjinlee.bsky.social New York State Author Laureate 2025-2027. Writer. New Yorker. Late Bloomer.
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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social Poet & NYT bestselling author of A SUIT OR A SUITCASE, YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL, DEAR WRITER, GOOD BONES +๐ Host of @slowdownshow.org
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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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app TV writer. Author of the novels THE PAYBACK and THE SURVIVALISTS. Deadly with a butter knife.
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Amy Marques @amymarques.bsky.social Art & Words
Flash - Poetry - ProsyPoems
Book: PARTS
Chapbook: Are You Willing?
Curator & artist for DUETS anthologies
https://amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com/- C Christine Davis @csdwpa.bsky.social Writer. Poet. Artist.
Maaza Mengiste @maazamengiste.bsky.social Writes many words: Beneath the Lion's Gaze, The Shadow King, & the next one.
Believes in film: mostly Tri-X, sometimes Portra.
There's something out there, and it is us.
Alicia Anne Creger, Writer & Editor @alioop326.bsky.social Middle Aged Midwest White Woman, healing generational trauma and trying to make this f*cked up world a better place. AuDHD and obsessed with potatoes.
Ahsan (ุงุญุณู) Butt @ahsnbutt.bsky.social Urdu poet, translator, media person, content writer and editor, futurist; lives in Lahore, Pakistan.
Tochukwu Okafor @tochukwuokafor.bsky.social Tech Enthusiast, Freelancer, Storytelling, Avid Reader, Love Learning
Ellen Rhudy @ellenrhudy.bsky.social Fiction writer with work in Story, Florida Review, Cream City Review. Instructional designer by day. Philadelphia!
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Kathryn Kulpa @writesofkathryn.bsky.social Will write for coffee. Mostly flash, mostly fiction.
Work in BULL, Centaur, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, HAD, Milk Candy, SmokeLong, TrashCat, Wigleaf, YIV.
Chapbooks: A Map of Lost Places; For Every Tower, a Princess; Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted.
Brendan Stephens @bstephens.bsky.social writer | assistant professor | nonfiction editor for Aquifer: Florida Review Online | metal head
brendanstephenswriting.com
Lynn Mundell @lynnmundell.bsky.social Writer, publisher of Centaur, author of "Let Our Bodies Be Returned to Us" (University of South Carolina, 2022), worrywart for our times
Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social Writer | Dr. | Project Manager for Roxane Gay | Co-editor The Audacity | ๐๐ท| Repโd by Alyssa Jennette | Free Palestine ๐ต๐ธ
Caroline Anna Bock @cabockwrites.bsky.social โ๏ธWriter. The Other Beautiful People, a novel, (Regal House Publishing), publication date: June 2, 2026.
๐Co-President/editor with the Washington Writersโ Publishing House
Reader, Theater-reviewer, Small Talk columnist, lifelong ๐ and ally to all ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Jonathan Cardew @cardewjcardew.bsky.social Writer. Micro maniac. Words in SmokeLong Quarterly, wigleaf, Cream City Review, Best Microfiction, and elsewhere. Author of A WORLD BEYOND CARDBOARD (ELJ Editions).
kerry cullen @kermichele.bsky.social mouse detective. HOUSE OF BETH out from Simon & Schuster in July 2025 & available for preorder now.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/House-of-Beth/Kerry-Cullen/9781668074596
Sara Johnson Allen @sarajohnsonallen.bsky.social writer-teacher from NC living in MA. . . for a while | DOWN HERE WE COME UP from @blacklawrence (August 2023) | might request a transfer to be a cat.
www.sarajallen.com
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Kathryn McMahon @katoscope.bsky.social Therapist. Writer of strange, dark short fiction and flash. In Pseudopod, Split Lip, Smokelong, and more. Social justice, nature, stories, dogs, food. BLM. Trans rights are human rights. She/they. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ฅ #endometriosis
Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social She/Her | Indie Bookseller - Wild Geese Bookshop | Pushcart Nominee | Fiction in Reactor, F&SF, The Deadlands, Lightspeed, etc. | Sr Contributor for Book Riot
Rep: Eric Showers at Morhaim Literary
Debut novella FROM THESE DARK ABODES available now!
Molia (Molly) Dumbleton @moliadumbleton.bsky.social AFE @splitlipthemag // CuratorialBd @ragdale// PT Creative Writing Fac @DePaulU // Words in @thesunmagazine @ecotonemagazine @kenyonreview @NERweb @BestSmFictions www.moliadumbleton.com
Joy Deva Baglio @joybaglio.bsky.social Speculative Writer: Fiction in One Story, Ploughshares, Tin House, Apex, etc. Yaddo Fellow. Founder of Pioneer Valley Writersโ Workshop. Rep'ed by Peter Steinberg. Novel in progress. Bagpiper.
https://linktr.ee/joy.deva.baglio
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K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com writer. she/her ๐๐ฆ heart's delight: Bmore, bats, & tattoos; Clarion & Tin House '18โก๏ธ kcmeadbrewer.com
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social I wrote some books, once upon a time.
Posting about stories, brain injuries, adorable animals, rhubarb recipes, nature facts, human rights, and how we can make this world safe and kind and good. You are precious to me, and I love you.
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Sumita Mukherji @sumita.bsky.social Developmental Editor & Book Coach. | She/her. | Pubs: The Missouri Review, Southern Humanities Rev., Grist, Witness, wildness, SmokeLong Quarterly, etc. Breadloaf scholar. Warren Wilson MFA. Website: www.sumitamukherji.com
Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social Wanderer, Writer, woman-about-town. Stories in various places. She/Her. https://linktr.ee/lorisambol?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=71379331-22c9-439f-8370-50899eb7f35a
Caitlin Cowan @caitlincowan.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Tragic Optimist | Author of SOLITARY (YesYes Books, 2027) & HAPPY EVERYTHING (Cornerstone Press, 2024)
Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social Writer, teacher, friend. Words in: The Sun, Orion, The Yale Review, Literary Hub, & more. Author of BREAKING INTO THE BACKCOUNTRY, a memoir, and the essay collection RARE GOOD: ESSAYS ON ART, AUTISM, AND ASTONISHMENT. https://www.steveedwardswriter.com
pete segall @petesegall.bsky.social word talking guy | ny rev of arch, the drift, defector, etc
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social Writer
Work in Best of the Net, The Best Microfiction, The Best Small Fictions, The Cincinnati Review, CRAFT, SmokeLong Quarterly, Wigleafโฆ
Links to work on my site: jjlofflin.com
Jen Michalski @socalwritergirl.bsky.social Writer, EIC, @jmwwjournal.bsky.social. Rep: Esty Loveing-Downes at Howland Literary. Latest: ALL THIS CAN BE TRUE (@TurnerPub, June 2025).
Didi Wood @didiwood.bsky.social ๐๐ท๐
https://www.didiwood.com/stories
Rebecca Bernard @ohheyrebecca.bsky.social Our Sister Who Will Not Die: Stories (Mad Creek Books, 2022) | Asst. Prof @ East Carolina University | Fiction Ed. @ The Boiler |teeth pal | rebeccaibernard.com
Mamie Willoughby Pound @mamiewilloughby.bsky.social Smokelong Quarterly, James Dickey Review, Image Journal, Ghost Parachute, Bath Flash Fiction Anthology, Gooseberry Pie, Fractured Lit Chapbook Prize finalist, Craft Fiction Award long list.
Kate Petersen @k8petersen.bsky.social Writer. Science and climate communicator. Former Stegner fellow at Stanford. Daughter of Gallahop. Opinions are my own.
Bud Smith @budsmith.bsky.social I wrote the novels Teenager (Vintage) and Mighty (forthcoming from Knopf) among others, and work heavy construction in the boilermakers union. coolgoodluck.com
Denise Howard Long @denisehlong.bsky.social 
kara oakleaf @karaoakleaf.bsky.social reader of all the things, writer of a few things. assistant professor and wrangler of other bookish things in the dmv. words at karaoakleaf.com
Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social Multimodal af. Collective Gravities, Every Galaxy a Circle, Patterns of Orbit, Escaping the Body, & more
Co-EIC of @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
www.chloenclark.com
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Shasta Grant @shastagrant.bsky.social Writer and editor in Indianapolis. Co-founder of @brownbaglit.bsky.social
www.shastagrant.com
Anna Cabe @annablabs.bsky.social Writer. Co-Fiction Editor @splitlipthemag.bsky.social. Always hungry. She/her/hers. Header by @shing.bsky.social
Matt Barrett @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social Writer. Stories in: The Sun, Threepenny Review, TriQuarterly, Cincinnati Review, West Branch, Wigleaf, Baltimore Review, The Forge, Cutleaf, Best Microfiction, & Best Small Fictions. Soon: Prairie Schooner
https://mbarrettwriter.wixsite.com/stories
Christopher James @christopherjames8d.bsky.social Writer, loves flash fiction, formerly EIC of Jellyfish Review. Stories in Split Lip, SmokeLong, Wigleaf, Booth, The Times, Tin House online...etc
Cole Meyer @coleameyer.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief at The Masters Review and CRAFT, editorial director at Discover New Art. MFA from Florida State University. Fiction in Best Small Fictions and at Baltimore Review, Smokelong Quarterly, The Florida Review and elsewhere.
cole-meyer.com
Letitia Trent @letitiatrent.bsky.social #filmsky #poetry #mutantfam #booksky #Arkansas writer & film watcher. Pls pay me Criterion. Shirley Jackson Award nominee. Novel Summer Girls out from Haunted Doll House, July 2024. I write sometimes on Substack: https://letitiatrent.substack.com/
Hannah Harlow @hhharlow.bsky.social Co-owner of the Book Shop of Beverly Farms @bfbookshop.bsky.social. Writer. Reader. Co-host of John Updikeโs Ghost, a books podcast: pod.link/1594686894
W. Todd Kaneko @toddkaneko.bsky.social Author: This Is How the Bone Sings & The Dead Wrestler Elegies. Co-author: Slash / Slash, Poetry: Writers Guide & Anthology. Writing teacher. he/him/dad
https://linktr.ee/toddkaneko
Dinah Cox @dinahcox.bsky.social Writer person, working person, teaching person, committed Democrat, lesbian feminist living in Oklahoma, where I was born. 
Emily Flouton @eflouton.bsky.social Writer. Words in Massachusetts Review, The Atlantic, Tin House, The Forge, Subtropics, Passages North, Gay Magazine, Publisher's Weekly, DIAGRAM, Quarterly West, etc.| FLOW-ton | she/her | teach @lighthousewrite | rep: Eleanor Jackson
A.A. Balaskovits @aabalaskovits.bsky.social Author: Strange Folk You'll Never Meet and Magic For Unlucky Girls (SFWP). Fairy Tale Enthusiast. She/Her
Remy Barnes @remybarnes.bsky.social Writer, unfortunate PhDer, more @ remybarnes.org
Dana Diehl @danadiehl.bsky.social Writer. Educator. Casual Potter. Author of THE EARTH ROOM (Black Lawrence Press, 2026), THE CLASSROOM (2019), OUR DREAMS MIGHT ALIGN (2016). She/her.
Claire Polders @clairepolders.bsky.social Author of 6 books and 100+ essays, stories, and book reviews. Born in the Netherlands, lived in Paris, married an American, and in love with Japan. Mindful nomad who dreams of being a rebel. She/her.
Kendra Fortmeyer @kendraffe.bsky.social Author, gardener, yogi, cloud-collector. (ATX)
Tag me in your cloud pics! I'm chasing Kelvin-Helmholtz. ๐๐
Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate.bsky.social 
Denne Michele @thedennemichele.bsky.social den (she/her) ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ โข EIC @ElectricLit โข WHEN THE HARVEST COMES (Random House, โ25) โข BOTH/AND (HarperOne, โ25) โข Views Mine โข โธ๏ธ โข ๐ปโข โ๐พ
James R. Gapinski @jamesrgapinski.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ they/them. https://bio.site/jamesrgapinski
Author. New book, "The Museum of Future Mistakes," out now from @boa-editions.bsky.social. Reprint of "Edge of the Known Bus Line" coming from @splitlippress.com in 2027.
Editor at @conium.bsky.social.
Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill
Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/
Craft newsletter: https://prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/
Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social Lit Agent Talcott Notch, AALA Member, Editor, Teacher, Writer of Flash Fiction Editor at @fracturedlit.bsky.social Publications: Harpur Palate, Laurel Review, Monkey Bicycle, Ghost Parachute
https://linktr.ee/tommydeanwriter
Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social Writer. Books: A THOUSAND WAYS TO DISAPPEAR (Cornerstone Press, 2028)/THE CLARITY OF HUNGER (Word West Press, 2021). Fiction instructor: Harvard Extension School. MacDowell Fellow โ23. Email: fabulistpappas@gmail.com
www.cherylpappas.net
Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social PFP by Terijian
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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
Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social Author of 6 books, newest is ASKEW. I am the EIC of Bending Genres, LLC. Work in Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2019. Norton's Exceptionally Short Fictions 2018. www.robert-vaughan.com. www.bendinggenres.com 
Kathy Hoyle @kathyhoyle.bsky.social Writer, dreamer, PhD student. Northern lass. Words at @nffr.bsky.social @theforge.bsky.social @fictiveDream.bsky.social @SoFloPoJo.bsky.social Winner @Bathflashaward.bsky.social Writing bot for @writershq.bsky.social
https://kathyhoyle.com
Eric Scot Tryon @ericscottryon.bsky.social IโM THE UNDERTOW (Central Avenue, 2026)
Repโd by @clgslr.bsky.social at BSCM
EIC: @flashfrog.bsky.social
www.ericscottryon.com
megpokrass.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social Dzanc Books Author. Best Microfiction Series Founder. Electric Lit, Flash Fiction America (Norton) Best Small Fictions 2023. Scotland
Sage Tyrtle ๐จ๐ฆ @sagetyrtle.bsky.social Award-winning storyteller, writer, workshop facilitator. Taught 150+ workshops including Second City, Smokelong Quarterly, Clarion West. Stories published in Barrelhouse, Baltimore Review, Apex, Fractured Lit etc. www.tyrtle.com. #HumanMade
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
@ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social Author: IN THIS RAVISHING WORLD, AFTERWORD, THE TRANSLATOR, THE PAINTING; HOW TO WRITE STUNNING SENTENCES; Lover of lemons, dogs, snails.
Instructor: Stanford Continuing Studies
website: ninaschuyler.com
Stunning Sentences: ninaschuyler.substack.com
Sarah Freligh @sfreligh.bsky.social Writer and swimmer and teacher. Books: OTHER EMERGENCIES; HEREAFTER; A BRIEF NATURAL HISTORY OF WOMEN; DEAR YOU; WE & SAD MATH. Best Microfiction 2018-21, 2025-26; Wigleaf 50; NEA poetry fellow; http://sarahfreligh.com. Mom to Wayne and Oscar.
Anika Carpenter @stillsquirrel.bsky.social #Flashfiction writer and #collage artist. Stories in Gooseberry Pie, Fictive Dream, Gone Lawn, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story & others. Based in Brighton, UK
www.anikacarpenter.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
Sarah L @fictionalsarah.substack.com Small in size. Big in hair. "Clearly deranged". Writing writey writer. Director of Writers' HQ.
Culture and climate change takes at https://fictionalsarah.substack.com
KM Elkes @kmelkes.bsky.social Author. Ginger. Potty mouth. #workingclasswriter Award-winning short fiction writer. Editing debut novel. Also writing tutor & editor.
http://linktr.ee/kmelkes
https://kmelkes.substack.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.
Jo Gatford @jmgatford.bsky.social Write-abouter | editor | scriptwriter | fiction all over the shop | Shakespeare nerd | writing thoughts & workshops @ The Joy of Fixion
https://www.jogatford.com
https://fixioning.substack.com
Audrey Niven @nivenaudrey.bsky.social EIC The Propelling Pencil, Creative Coach and business consultant. Exploring new forms in writing and visual art.
Stephanie Carty @stephaniecarty.bsky.social Fond of creativity, pyjamas and kindness.
Farhana Khalique @hanakhalique.bsky.social Writer, VO Artist, Teacher, & PhD candidate from London, UK
Subs Editor @ SmokeLong Quarterly
Words in Flash Fusion, Best Small Fictions, 100 Voices, Spread the Word, Arachne Press, Word Factory, & more
W: www.farhanakhalique.com
Tw & IG: @HanaKhalique
Mandira Pattnaik @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social Author of 8 published/forthcoming chapbooks, Wigleaf Top 50 (2023), Best Small Fictions (2021 & 2024), Best Micro Anthology (2024), The Rumpus, IHLR, McNeese Review, Emerson Review, Penn Review, 300+ publications, #amquerying
Jude Higgins @judehwriter2.bsky.social Founder Bath Flash Award, directs AdHocFiction + Flash Fiction Festival Flash collection Clearly Defined Clouds out now s/l Bridport x 4, s/l SmokeLong Mikey x2, Best Microfictions x2 Pushcart nominated
Ingrid Jendrzejewski @lunchontuesday.bsky.social I read a lot. I write a bit. I like coffee and other things.
www.ingridj.com
Leone Ross @leoneross.bsky.social Author. Writing coach.
Latest: THIS ONE SKY DAY/POPISHO. Pointillist. Joyfully maximalist. Jamaican/British ๐ฏ๐ฒ. Black, FYI.
Goldsmiths, Edge Hill, Ondjaate & Womenโs Prize noms. Won Manchester Prize for Fiction.
Rep: Nicola Chang, DHA.
Kerry Burnett Writer @kerryburnetty.bsky.social She/her #Author of pox-and-all #histfic women's fiction, repd by www.greeneheaton.co.uk
Bath Novel Award LL Specialist Tutor in FE and HE. Hypnotherapist. Poet '5of9' Potty-mouthed lover of ๐ ๐โโฌ #Trekkie ๐
#writingcommunity
http://writehead.medium.com
Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social Writer, teacher, speculative fiction and flash fiction
Books, events, and classes at https://www.taracampbell.com
#WritingCommunity #scifi #sff #speculativefiction #flashfiction
Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social Author of Night Beast and Lies I Tell My Children | Co-founder, Nightjar Arts Collective
Just a queer Bolivian American woman who likes books and birds and making billionaires cry
www.ruthjoffre.org
www.nightjarartscollective.com