Zoe Davis @meanerharker.bsky.social Writer and avid doodler with words in the likes of Strix, Ink Sweat and Tears and Dust. 2x BotN nom. Forward Prize Nom. Lives in Sheffield UK. Interested in comics, computer games and sports. Member of Sheffield Eagles Wheelchair Rugby Club.
Justin Eger @fugitivecourier.bsky.social Writer-monkey, action-adventure enthusiast, inveterate smart-ass. Author of:
- The Ethan Shaw thrillers
- The John Ransom adventures
- Novels of the Underground
amazon.com/author/justin-eger- S shapebooks.bsky.social @shapebooks.bsky.social
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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Postscript (Book Formatter, Cover Designer and Socials Post Maker): https://book-shelfie.com/postscript
Franco Amati @francoamati.bsky.social writer, poet, SFWA & Codex, ViableParadise 2024,
new collection WORK IS WORK out now: https://www.amazon.com/Work-Franco-Amati/dp/B0HCCQF9YP/
and for all published fiction visit francoamatiwrites.com
Nathan Pettigrew @nathanpettigrew.bsky.social Writer. Author of TALES FROM TERREBONNE, forthcoming in 2026 from @rhppress.bsky.social. Managing Editor at Mythic Picnic. Awarded 2nd Place in the 22nd Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition for his story "Yemma."
Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social Writer, nurse. SmokeLong Quarterly, Cincinnati Review+. Senior flash fiction editor @jmww. Sucker for a good barn.
“We'll Be Birds" flash chapbook available at Sand and Gravel Press
lisathorntonwriter.com
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social Poet | Critic | Queer
www.marcchamberlain.net
Hobo Camp Review @hobocampreview.bsky.social Poetry & prose from the road! HCR is a quiet, tucked-away lit journal where any poet, artist, or storyteller can rest their feet and share their work over a crackling fire. Since 2009!
https://hobocampreview.blogspot.com
Author Stephenson & Kitbrick Stop-mo. @authorstephenson.bsky.social Reader, writer, reviewer, coarse angler, blogger, at StephensonHolt.com. Author of 33 mixed genre novels, teaching grandson about fishing. His site on Youtube is @KitBR1CK
theodore james @theodorewrites.bsky.social transsexual poet. proud papa of gendered lullabies.
theodorejameswrites.carrd.co
Alien Buddha Press @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social Alien Buddha Press has been publishing emerging writers and artists since 2017. Open for submissions at abuddhapress@yahoo.com
Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social Writing about nature, science, history & sexual violence. Multiple books, multiple mischief.
Latest: TANGLED IN VOW & BESEECH (poems)
Next: LEARNING TO SPAR (memoir)
EiC Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table. Here for lit community & Caturday
She/They/Dr/Bruh
𝑴𝒂𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 @madreflections.bsky.social Writer, published author, plant eater, science & astronomy devotee, history buff, equality for all, computer tech, and follower of delusional comedians and literary geniuses, also to add a bit of silliness to this world.
PerfectGod = S. Cyn = L. Gates = J. Glacier = L. Simz = Ziwe +c. @blackswanborges.bsky.social Mx Józef ≈ M.
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[ I wake up *wishing* that I was:
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Stephen Delaney @stephendelaney.bsky.social Writer, editor, human. Words in New World Writing, Bending Genres, South Florida Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Author of the chapbook OUR PLACE IS IN BETWEEN. 💙 #foreignlit #frogs
https://bottlecap.press/products/ourpsd
https://stephen-delaney.com
Cooper Reilly @sussingham.bsky.social Just a writer from San Diego, posting short stories as often as I can.
Fascinated by magical realism, frogs, flawed characters, altered states, Ween, finding transcendence in the mundane, absurd humor, gross stuff, maximalism…
sussingham.com
Chris Dolan @mcdolan.bsky.social I am angry about the nitrate levels in Iowa’s drinking water. My writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Maudlin House, The Disappointed Housewife, and others. www.dolanchris.com
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
linktr.ee/jdnelson
poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
One Fall Review @onefallreview.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to professional wrestling themed poetry.
www.onefallreview.com
Submit: https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/one-fall-review-0g27j
Juan Lucho @juanluchopro.bsky.social Straight/alpha-identified creator, Juan Lucho exploring bi/gay sides with jerk-off sessions, collabs, and fun play.
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a.d. 🌒 @godstained.bsky.social she/her. bisexual poet, writer & visual artist.
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Michele McDannold @oneldammit.bsky.social Poet/Publisher at Roadside Press, Founder of The Literary Underground, Publisher at Citizens for Decent Literature Press
Tracy Royce @tracyroyce.bsky.social Writer, poet, reader, cinephile, art-fiend, hiker, board gamer. She/her.
Yann Oehl @yannoehl.bsky.social creative-errant | “artist” | meta-plagiarist | bricoleur | proudly degenerate | unintentional curator | confabulator | machine collaborator
[insert appropriate virtue signal here]
https://linktr.ee/yannoehl
Plague Circus Press @plaguecircus.bsky.social Submissions Closed
https://plaguecircuspress.com/
Jim Young @oyoguhito.bsky.social ~~ Bard of the Bays ~~
Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social EIC @the-engine-idling.bsky.social
https://www.d-mcmahon-writes.net
author of 4 poetry chapbooks & 2 microchaps
latest: rowhouse song (Ghost City Press '25) | irl (Stanchion '26)
https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/irl
sider0xylon press @sider0xylon.bsky.social a mono-press of pithy handmade limited edition mini/micro chapbooks and broadsides.
launching june 20th @ the ottawa small press book fair!
eic: @russellcarisse.bsky.social
SUBMISSIONS OPEN, see sider0xylon.carrd.co for guidelines.
Perfect God = Lexa Gates @mx-j.bsky.social https://shop.capitolmusic.com/collections/lexa-gates
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🌿Aspen Harding | Author✨ @aspenharding.bsky.social 🌿WEEDIE WISDOM🌿
🔆Modern Philosophy | Spiritual Insights📿
I had a break-up.
I had a breakdown.
I had a breakthrough.
Crawling my way back up from rock bottom.
Sharing insights learned along the way.
sara matson (she/her) @saramatson.bsky.social poetry! cats! goats! host of Words // Friends online reading series 
Kent Kosack @kentkosack.bsky.social Stories | Essays | Reviews
https://kentkosack.net
imc1209.bsky.social @imc1209.bsky.social poet. collagist. seer. editor.
Ricky Karlson @morinus.bsky.social 🤩 Yo!
🇸🇪 Swedish • 🌎 29 • 🏳️🌈 Gay
🤓 Nerd • 💪 Fitness • ⚔️ Triumph
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Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social Louisiana Poet Laureate 2017-19. Books from Mercer University Press. Work included in Best Microfiction and Best Spiritual Lit. EIC: @louisianalit.bsky.social
www.jackbbedell.com
Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social PFP by Terijian
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Have you ever seen me and Kali in the same room? Thought not
Bi (2) x Demi (1/2) = 1 Sexual
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Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social (re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
J. C. Jones @thejcjones.bsky.social Author of the best selling Louisa Moss detective series.
Ex-nightclub boss and, due to carelessness, owner of only half a lung.
Poems and Limericks daily.
Based in Hereford, UK.
Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social Writer | Chicago | Work in The Offing, X-R-A-Y, Wigleaf + more | Pushcart Prize and BotN nom | Best Microfiction ‘24, '25, '26
https://elenalzhang.wordpress.com/writing/
Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social
IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS 2nd edition (IceFloe Press 2026)
WHERE SANDS RUN FINEST (DarkWinter Press 2024)
Bridport Prize 2025 shortlist.
Pushcart, Forward Prize, BOTN, Best Spiritual Lit nominee
Guest Editor: IceFloe Press
linktr.ee/vikki_c._author
Ian MacClayn @ianmacclayn.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/ianmacclayn
Writer. Debut novel THE HOLLOW OF EVENING out Feb 9 2027 with Dundurn Press/Rare Machines
Rawhead @rawheadjournal.bsky.social Open to submissions of creative nonfiction and visual art. We believe in the power of art and literature as form of resistance.
Now on Submittable:
https://rawhead.submittable.com/submit
LonelyWritersClub (ChiMetroNW) @lonelywritersclub.bsky.social Official Lonely Writers Club Chicago Metro NW
1/2 founder.
I already have an account for politics, and this ain't it.
DM's open.
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queries: lonelywritersclubnw@gmail.com
ANorthNoir | A.M. Potter @anorthnoir.bsky.social Author (Stark House Press | Black Opal Books) | Reviewer | Traveller
https://ampnorthnoir.com/
dogyard @dogyardmag.com Just a mag chasin’ tales.
We accept all types of work from all (leashed) walks of life: poetry, fiction, essay, art, nonfiction, and more.
Read & Submit 👇
dogyardmag.com
Account ran by @edithkrone.bsky.social
Apocalypse Confidential @apconmag.bsky.social low lives + high strangeness | open for general submissions: https://apocalypse-confidential.com
Xavier S. @42ruefontaine.bsky.social Unreadable fiction
#postmodern #experimental #constraints #indexing #bartlebyan #ghostwriting
Annika Carmen Schmidt @fuenfsiebenfuenf.bsky.social haiku, poetry, scifaiku, micropoetry,
kidlit in English, German, French, Plattdeutsch.
born: Wesermarsch, based: Berlin-Wedding.
Dr. Rachel Turney @rachelturney.bsky.social Educator and artist based out of Denver. 🌄 @turneytalks
Alan Humm @alanhumm.bsky.social Editor of the online arts journal One Hand Clapping. Novelist, poet, teacher and father but not necessarily in that order. You can find my writing here: https://www.alanhummswriting.com/
MaxMagenta @realmaxmagenta.bsky.social Writer of words; probably doing this all wrong.
Purchase my poetry book HERE: https://a.co/d/0w9rl7Z
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[Oxford Comma Society]
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Cass Donish 🐞 they/them @cassdonish.bsky.social Queer Poet & Writer. PhD. Widow/Suicide Loss Survivor. YOUR DAZZLING DEATH (Knopf, 2024).
Dithering Chaps - submissions open @ditheringchaps.bsky.social I'm David Herring, Lead Editor of indie poetry press, Dithering Chaps, based in Dorset, UK. We publish thematically-linked sequences of poems: works that riff on a core conceit, event or narrative voice. He/him. https://www.ditheringchaps.com
Elf Like God @elfbetcom.bsky.social 🔥 Hey everyone
Layla Hawke - author @laylahawke2.bsky.social Human Writer who cares abt the environment, fairness, equality, animals...
Navigations series-dystopian, fantasy, romance, also sweet romance, fantasy. Reader
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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc.
out now: edgeless (Caitlin Press)
https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/
https://www.patreon.com/robmclennan
http://robmclennanauthor.blogspot.com/ https://robmclennan.substack.com/
David Perlmutter @davidperlmutter.bsky.social Canadian white male autistic writer. Author of America 'Toons In: A History of Television Animation and The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Also author of speculative fiction, superhero fiction and anthropomorphic ("furry") fiction.
WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
a.a. de levine @aadelevine.bsky.social ♦️ work in taco bell quarterly, new gothic review, psycho holosuite, elsewhere
♦️ computer boy, poppy church, stimulation clicker
♦️ fiction editor at @theargylelitmag.bsky.social
♦️ linktr.ee/aadelevine
Jayson Carcione @carcionejay.bsky.social Fiction: The London Magazine, The Forge, Lunate, Epoque Press, elsewhere
Best of the Net 2024 finalist
Deputy Production Editor: Irish Examiner
Cork via New York
Eoin Flannery @eoinflannery.bsky.social Associate Professor of English Literature at @micireland.bsky.social
Poems @eatthestorms.com @thebelfastreview.bsky.social @theargylelitmag.bsky.social @hogriverpress.bsky.social @juniperpoetry.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
Wasteland Review— SUBS OPEN @wastelandlitmag.bsky.social Virtual review celebrating raw and honest work from independent poets.
https://wastelandlitmag.com/
Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social Writer/ interviewer/ Author of 1 memoir and 3 chapbooks- Fiction @ghostparachute @bendinggenres @soflopojo and others. Member @writersgrotto
The Tyrant Stalker @tyrantstalker247.bsky.social NOT SPAM!!! Virgo. Indp. Voter. Autistic. Cinephile. Agnostic w. Spiritual Values. Nature Lover. Artist-Activist-Explorer-Fighter. Target my Rights, I'll F%£€ Up Your Life! DOWN WITH TYRANNY!!!♂️✍️📸🎥📎 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇵🇸🇯🇵🇭🇰🇹🇼🏞️🌄🌳🌊🐺🦅🐳🪄
IG @jeffrey_decristofaro_official
Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social He collected things, each of a holy intention in isolation, but pagan in the variety of his choice.
—William Gaddis
📚 @anothernewcalligraphy.com, @ornithopterpress.bsky.social, @animalheartpress.bsky.social, @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
Guinevere “Genny” Costin @gennycostin.bsky.social Painter in Seattle, WA.
Look, Listen, Make Stuff🖤
gennycostin.com
Ava C. Ryder @aryder.com I write immersive adventure stories told through the eyes of animal protagonists. My debut novel, "Ember's Gallop," follows a brave wild mustang as she leads her herd through a raging wildfire. Authentic animal perspectives make my work unique. aryder.com
JB Kalf @enchilada89.bsky.social previously @enchilada89 on twitter, looking forward to the new frontier
James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social Poet, apparently. Forward Prize, BOTN and Pushcart nom. Occasional horseman, remote rural Spain. Words in blackbough, iambapoet, eatthestorms, Modron, Madrid Review, Bad Lilies, Dark Mountain project and more.
https://linktr.ee/jamesmcconachiepoet
Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social Poet with autism and a cat.
Author of ADULTHOOD (Anxiety Press, 2026).
Here to connect with fellow writers and/or fellow neurodivergent people and/or fellow anti-fascists.
he/him • NJ • www.brandondiehl.net
Lady on a Wire @ladyonawire.bsky.social Shannon Lynette is an author, poet, and editor. She’s also the owner of Lady Chaos Press, a small independent press. ❤️🔪🖤
Read more about her sh!t at www.ladyonawire.com
Outsider Art @outsiderart.bsky.social Reduce Reuse Recycle ♻️ UPCYCLING! Temple. Shrine. Assemblage. Raw Creation! Outsider art. Art Brut. Folk Art. Visionary Art
Laura Cooney *Motherbunnet* on sale @lozzawriting.bsky.social Writer, Edinburgh.
Editor: @frazzledlitmag
BOTN nominated 2024. On all socials same name.
Writing for children: @lozzakidwriting
Website: https://lauracooneywriting.wixsite.com/website
Editing: www.kofi.com/lozzawriting
@mitchwrites1982.bsky.social @mitchwrites1982.bsky.social Greenhorn writer and movie lover. Find more at https://authormitchellmcenery.com
R.M. ENGELHARDT * POET WRITER AUTHOR ALBANY NY @gentlemanoutsider.bsky.social Poet Writer Author
Albany, NY
Editor Dead Man's Press Ink
www.rmengelhardt.com
https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/rm_engelhardt
www.gentlemanoutsider.com
Alex Rieser @rieseralex.bsky.social Poetry. Fiction. MFA @ USF. Dr @ UCSD.
EMANCIPATOR (New Fraktur Press).
Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
@redochre1.bsky.social @redochre1.bsky.social Writing Poetry Art Performance Improvisation Drawing Painting Motorbikes Mopeds Conversation Music
Cindy Ana 🇳🇿 @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social Would rather write than talk. Sometimes I don’t read skeets properly, especially pre-coffee. Rāmere is my favourite day. Work can be found in Broken Spine Arts, takahē, Voicemail Poems
Special mention in Given Words 2025