Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained (https://alliteration.net), a website devoted to modern English alliterative verse. If you like Beowulf, or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or Tolkien's Fall of Arthur or Sigurd and Gudrun, you're in for a treat.
Panatrope Arts Journal @panatrope.work see: https://panatrope.work
An imprint of Wildwood River Press, Panatrope is an artist-run collaborative. We create cross-media exhibitions and live performances. We publish creative work on the web and in print using open-source tools.
Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose @poetlady74.bsky.social I’m a poet, animal lover, camping fanatic, and educator living in Rochester, NY. Medusa scholar. Author of Imago, Dei ( Rattle Chapbook Prize, 2021) and Wild Things (Main Street Rag, 2021). 2025 Betsy Colquitt Poetry Award.
Neil Serven @neilserven.bsky.social Fiction & essays, novel in progress. Co-owner @federalstbooks.bsky.social . Candlepin bowler. Language stuff. A lot of crank air. Used to write the dictionary.
Western Massachusetts. 
Barbara Stocker 💙📚 @bluebirdbhs.bsky.social Activist Democrat Missourian living in Virginia @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @fpwellman.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social Team Site
Eric Nguyen @ericnguyenisok.bsky.social 📘 author of THINGS WE LOST TO THE WATER | 👨🏻💻he/him
FloridaSnow @floridasnow.bsky.social I’m an English prof. living in SW Florida with my wife and two crazy children. You can usually find me reading, writing, wandering, or frantically grading.
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Maria Nazos @marianazos.bsky.social Poems in @newyorker.com. #writer #poet #translator. Order PULSE: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/P/bo265676906.html.
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Beth Kanter @beekaekae.bsky.social Writer, teacher, workshop leader.
Hand holder
Words in: X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, Unbroken, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Cease, Cows and others.
Pushcart nominee.
www.bethkanter.com
Books: No Access DC & Great Food Finds DC…
Elizabeth O’Connell-Thompson @eotwrites.bsky.social One of those poets.
Senior editor @rhinopoetry.bsky.social
Views are my own, and maybe a bit like yours.
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Brian Benson @mrbrianbenson.bsky.social Writer, teacher, wanderer. He/him. Books: GOING SOMEWHERE, THIS IS NOT FOR YOU. Essays: Tahoma Review, Pithead Chapel, X-R-A-Y, Sweet, Hippocampus & elsewhere. brianbensonwrites.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
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
Mizuki Yamamoto @mizuki-yama.bsky.social Prev. writing under Mizuki Yamagen.
Words in SmokeLong, hex, Lit Namjooning, Flash Frog, Does it have pockets? Lost Balloon & elsewhere. Soon in The Forge, The Baltimore Review.
✨ SmokeLong Smokey winner
🎗️ BOTN, BMF, Pushcart noms
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Kashawn Taylor @kashawntaylor.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Student.
Prison Journalism Project.
Gotham Writers Workshop.
book: subhuman. out now.
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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Amethyst Loscocco @amethystwrites.bsky.social Writer, binge reader, and science nerd. Johns Hopkins MA in Science Writing. 2x Pushcart Prize nominee. Words in Electric Lit, Pinch Journal, Catamaran, Variant Lit, Gone Lawn, Tiny Molecules, and more.
https://amethystloscocco.com
kelbel @welcometokelbel.bsky.social Prosocial lush
alex <3 ♌︎ @alex.bsky.to they pay me in woims
Shellie Kalinsky @sheshellwrites.bsky.social Writer | Editor | Mama Bear & Gigi
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KGarrison @katherinegarrison.bsky.social Hiking Enthusiast||
Writer of Poetry and Prose 🦔||
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Best Microfiction Nominee||
Words in Variety Pack, Superlative Literary Journal, Baubles from Bones, WordFire Press, Utopia SF Mag, HAD.
Forthcoming with tiny wren, Tadpole.||
Litsa Dremousis @litsadremousis.bsky.social ALTITUDE SICKNESS (Future Tense Books). Upcoming: A EULOGY FOR THE LIVING. Left WaPo b/c of Bezos. The Blvr, Esquire, Flare Lit Mag, McSwy's, NPR, NY Mag, NYT, Pictura Journal, P&W, PW, The Rumpus, Short Beasts, et al. #pwME https://litsadremousis.com
House of Vlad Press/Vlad Mag @houseofvladpress.bsky.social Iconic independent publishing house founded by author Brian Alan Ellis (2003-2007, 2013-present), known for its edgy, transgressive and unconventional approach to literature. Vlad Mag, an online literary journal, started in 2023 // houseofvladpress.com
Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.com Queer, trans, nonbinary poet, writer, performer, artist, activist, & abolitionist. 18+ 🙏🏼
Work published in Poetry, Water~Stone Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, et al. First collection "This Body, This Fruit" @ Feb 2027 (@triohousepress.org).
@seamusflynnj.bsky.social @seamusflynnj.bsky.social Nolite te bastardes carborundorum
Eudora/Ewe @eudora-doucet.bsky.social Southern writer
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Charity Ben @charityben.bsky.social Writer ✍🏾✨Reader 📚 Freelance Editor 😌💖 Model when I can.
Christine Maul Rice @chrismaulrice.bsky.social hypertext editor, writer, educator, nerdy-nerd nerd
John Counts @johncounts138.bsky.social Investigations editor for MLive. Punk rock crooner. Writer. BEAR COUNTY, MICHIGAN, Northwestern University Press. Book riffage at https://jcounts.substack.com
KarenL @klm-writes.bsky.social Queer ex-philosopher current librarian trying for that fancy professional account. She/her. Find her poetry in Waffle Fried, Cosmic Daffodil, and Shot Glass Journal.
Jeanne-Marie Fleming @jeannemariefleming.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Editor. Mentor for incarcerated citizens. Here for all of it. www.jeannemariefleming.com
@susanbearman.bsky.social @susanbearman.bsky.social 
Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
Tom Guzzio @tomguzzio.bsky.social Husband, father, teacher, writer, birder, progressive💙 and Vegas kid living north of Boston📍Writing is my personal practice; teaching is my public service. The opinions here are mine alone—no homework required.
Rob Mathison @robmwrites.bsky.social Writing & other content things. Writing instructor at University of British Columbia. Slowly writing #VWFC & #HMFC football books when not freelancing. linktr.ee/robmathison
Hiram Larew @hiramlarew.bsky.social Poet. Newest collection, "This Much Very," was published in 2025 by Alien Buddha Press. Founder of Poetry X Hunger -- bringing a world of poets to the anti-hunger cause. HiramLarewPoetry.com and PoetryXHunger.com
Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social Poet, artist, music lover. (She/her)
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Unrivered, To Everything There Is, Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story, & A House of Many Windows all at @sundresspub.bsky.social
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Lisa Zerkle @lisazerkle.bsky.social Poet•Editor•Reader
•Senior Editor at Painted Bride Quarterly
•Podcast Manager for PBQ Slush Pile
•Editor at Iron Oak Editions
•MFA from Warren Wilson
📖 my work ⤵
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Eldonedwards @eldonedwards.bsky.social I am a business researcher. I am also very interested in artificial intelligence and business and education and medicine. Also, I am very interested in popular culture and music. I strive to live a simple healthy life. DTM and CBI.Score counselor.
Mid-American Review @midamericanreview.bsky.social Publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translations, and reviews since 1980. Based at Bowling Green State University.
The Pointed Circle @pointedcircle.bsky.social A literary magazine out of Portland, OR, established in 1984.
Visit us at thepointedcirclepdx.com
Submit via email until April 24th, 2025.
#PDX #opensubs #opensubmissions
Sara Pisak @sarapisak.bsky.social Writer. Words in “The Rumpus,” “The Fourth River,” “Hippocampus,” “Door is a Jar,” “Women of Appalachia,” and “Whale Road Review,” among others.
Bruce Johnson @writerbrucej.bsky.social Fiction writer living in Chile
LOVE, DIRT available from University of Iowa Press
brucejohnsonfiction.com
Will Willoughby @willwilloughby.bsky.social Writer • Editor • Maine Literary Award winner • Short stories in Epiphany, Pithead Chapel, Pangyrus, etc. • Story collection WHILE I HAVE YOU coming from Littoral Books April 2027
www.willwilloughby.com
I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social Anti-Smoker My Website campralquitsmoking.net See How I Quit 20 Years Ago Fought Nicotine 35 Years Supporting others who Quit 🚭 STL MO ❤️To Promote Authors 📚 & Ozarks 🌄 Photographer 📷 Pez Add @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social 💙
Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social language, longing, music, landscape. DC. co, nyc, & london still hold my heart. words in asterales, crabcreek, fourway, iowa, NAR, poetlore, split lip, vassar. soon in AQR, birdcoat, citron, june road. social media @ SWWIM she/her linktr.ee/jillkitchen
Iris Soleil @irissoleil.com Sociologist of Higher Ed | Equitable Assessment & Pedagogy | Leader in Student & Faculty Success | Critical Human‑Centered AI & Academic Integrity | Higher Ed as Public Good | Let’s talk justice-driven futures. S4TJ | PSA | SSSP | English ● Español ● 日本語
Suzanne (writing as S A Greene) @sagreene1.bsky.social Writer. SOCIAL MEDIA BREAK 2026 (except for shameless self-promotion) DMs don't work. GoneLawn trampset TempleInACity GooseberryPie BlinkInk Mslexia Liars'League MythicPicnic NewFlashFicReview FictiveDream BulbCulture Phare MaudlinHouse FreeFlashFiction
Blink Ink @blinkink50.bsky.social Print journal publishing the best in stories of approximately 50 words since 2009.
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Andre F Peltier @andrefpeltier.bsky.social Pushcart and Best of Net (2x) nominee, Teacher, Poet, Music Fan, SciFi, Grateful Dead, Jazz, Phish, Stop Trump, Buy my books: Poplandia (2022), Ambassador Bridge (2023) both from Alien Buddha Press, & Petoskey Stones (2024) from Finishing Line Press
Sameer Kankali Ⓥ☮✌🏼🌱💚🍉🐸🐮🐷📚📖♟️✊🏼 @sameerkankali.bsky.social MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS 💙🦋
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Bruise @bbruise.bsky.social Let's write a better future. “Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." Rosa Luxembourg
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Maw Shein Win @mawsheinwin.bsky.social poet / writer / educator / editor
PERCUSSING THE THINKING JAR (Omnidawn, 2024)
mawsheinwin.com
literarycherry.com
Helen Marguerite @helenxmarguerite.bsky.social Dark memoir. Queer immigrant. MFA in CNF. Tin House ‘25. Writing from the well of sex work, liminality, and transgression. She/her HelenxMarguerite.com
Daniel Bird @dannotarealbird.bsky.social Writer of ‘Sorry Men’ and other forgettable fiction.
www.notarealbird.com
RHINO Poetry @rhinopoetry.bsky.social Independently published journal of poetry, translation, and flash. Crashing and creating for 50 years. 🦏
rhinopoetry.org/
Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social Poet, gardener. Series editor, The Hilary Tham Capital Collection (The Word Works). My books include Motion Studies, Butcher's Sugar, Parasite Kingdom, and Turned Earth (Spring 2025, LSU Press). 
Raging Poetry @ragingpoetry.bsky.social 💙 📚 | ✍️
#poetry #writing #booksky
Michael Dechane @michaeldechane.bsky.social Poet. Jungian dream worker. Head Cook. Spoon carver. Author of The Long Invisible (2024, Wildhouse Publishing).
#poet #poetry #author #writer #jung #jungian #dream #woodcarving
Susannah Butler @sbeditorial.bsky.social ✨Freelance commissioning editor, copyeditor & proofreader working with publishers and authors to develop books across genres.
www.susannahbutler.com
Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com 🏳️🌈 Historical fiction | Queer history | Theatre history | Early modernist | USian in Spain. 💯 Human-made art or it isn't art.
Debut novel LIGHTBORNE
(LA TRAICIÓN DE CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE)
Rep: Brianlangan.bsky.social.
More at hessephillips.com
J.H. Palmer @jhpalmer.bsky.social Writing. Cats. Food.
Ken Brydon @prison-stories.bsky.social Award-winning writer. 39 years incarcerated, 23 at San Quentin. PEN America recognized. Published by Joyce Carol Oates. I write about prison, redemption, loss, humor & hope—and the humanity found where most people never look.
Jake Hayes @theboltergeist.bsky.social Author of 8 novels, poet, artist, and horror geek living in the Colorado mountains. Obsessed with apocalyptic vibes, humanity's resilience, and the stories we leave behind.
All my stuff!: linktr.ee/Boltergeist
NewPages @newpages.bsky.social NewPages.com is your best guide to literary magazines, indie publishing, university presses, creative writing programs, writing and literary events, writing contests and submissions, independent bookstores, and more.
#indiebookstores #litmags #booksky
K.B. Jensen @kbjensenauthor.bsky.social Award-winning author, editor, publishing expert, and pro ski instructor. My latest book is Love and Other Monsters in the Dark. I also run an online writing and publishing camp for teen writers. For more on me and my workshops, visit kbjensenauthor.com. 
Amy Barnes @amygcb.bsky.social Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social
Marcia Brenner @marciabrenner.bsky.social Movement Instructor, Pelvic Floor Ombudsman, Curious Human, Somanaut, Logophile, Women’s Health Advocate, Abortion is Healthcare, Fascia not Fascism, Diversity is Life.
Phoenix @phoenixwritesdown.bsky.social Atlantic Canadian game critic (She/They)
Columnist at @unwinnable.com
Co-Editor of @tier-review.com
https://muckrack.com/phoenix-simms
phoenixwritesdown@protonmail.com
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Jordan Hagedon @jeimask.bsky.social xo writer
jordanhagedon.com
Anthony Martin @anthony-martin.bsky.social Fictions. Work in The Dodge, Funicular Magazine, and Maudlin House most recently.
LoreWrites @lorewrites.bsky.social 
Clay Lowe @soulcruzer.bsky.social a place where walking, writing and lived experience meet story, myth, philosophy. psychology, technology and the unfinished business of becoming human.
@thblackburn.bsky.social @thblackburn.bsky.social 
AutumnBreezeHaiku @autumntreeshaiku.bsky.social I love to read.
Daisy E. Magallanes @dmagallanes.bsky.social Escritora Chillona Bien Encabronada | Managing Editor, Huizache| MFA in Unemployment (jk, I have three jobs) | Natural Hysteric | Brevity, Black Warrior Review, Hypertext Review, Huizache, Kenyon Review
https://www.daisyelizethmagallanes.com/
Sydney Koeplin @skoeplin.bsky.social 🌾 she/her | writer&editor
Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social Textbook editor | Fiction writer | Long-suffering prequel apologist | Ask me about my Kate Bush records | 🏳️🌈 | he/him | Instagram: RabbleHauser
Bryan Lindsey @lit-with-lindsey.bsky.social I’m a public high school teacher in Dallas, Texas and a contributing editor for Hypertext Magazine. The thoughts expressed here are my own. 
Ira Socol @irasocol.bsky.social Education Innovation Leader. Believer in Children. Ex-Public School CTO. Ex-NYPD. UDL+ champion. Author of Designed to Fail [education] and The Drool Room [fiction]. Co-author of Timeless Learning [education]. 
Brian Satrom @bsatrompoetry.bsky.social Author of the poetry collection Starting Again. Avid reader of poetry. Website briansatrom.com.
Kenneth M Cale @kennethmc.bsky.social lapsed scot. makar of word/image things:
Oberon's Zoetrope [w/Matthew Kinlin] (Submersible, 2026) Greater Vegas Bleeds Into the Dreams of My Cryogenic Slumber (Steel Incisors, 2022) Midnight Double Feature (C22, 2025/SDP, 2020).
Jael Montellano @gathcreator.bsky.social 🏳️🌈(she/they) | Mexican ESL writer | Interview Editor at Hypertext Mag | Words at Hayden’s Ferry Review, Psaltery & Lyre, POET LORE, La Piccioletta Barca, ANMLY Lit, Tint Journal, Beyond Queer Words, The Selkie. www.jaelmontellano.com
Anita Gill @anitagill.bsky.social She/her | Nonfiction Editor for Hypertext Review | Fulbright Scholar | Tin House ‘25 | Words in Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, The Offing | newsletter: anita.substack.com | website: anitagill.ink
The Forge Literary Magazine @theforge.bsky.social The Forge Literary Magazine publishes one prose piece a week. Literary excellence is our only criteria. https://forgelitmag.com/