Melissa Crowe @melissacrowe.bsky.social Poet, UNCW CRW prof and department chair. Dear Terror, Dear Splendor (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019) & Lo (University of Iowa Press, 2023).
Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social (Ey/They/She) // Poet & Prose Writer in Maine // Judas & Suicide // Refused a Second Date // What’s So Wrong with a Pity Party Anyway? // Feminine Morbidity (chap) // Feminine Morbidity (full; ‘28)
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fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social very queer lit and art publishing space
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West Branch Magazine @westbranchmagazine.bsky.social Thrice annual magazine of poetry, fiction, essays, and reviews published by the Stadler Center at Bucknell University.
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Sofía Aguilar @sofiaxaguilar.bsky.social QUEER LATINE HEROES (SEPT. ‘25) | AMOR. (out now via Bottlecap Press!) | writer, soft creature, library worker
Richard Berwind @richardberwind.bsky.social NYC based writer and poet
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Game Over Books @gameoverbooks.bsky.social Founded in 2017, Game Over Books is a small Boston-based press run by nerdy artists.
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Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social queer | poz | poet | jazz head |
associate poetry editor @thehooliganmag
MFA @WarrenWilsonMFA
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m mick powell @mickmakesmagic.bsky.social poet professor poly princexx ✨DEAD GIRL CAMEO forthcoming from Penguin Random House, 2025 ✨ www.mickpowellpoet.com
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Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social poet, teacher, sometimes essayist. chapbook, Love That For Us, out now @andchangepoetry.bsky.social. craft book forthcoming @noemipress.bsky.social. two books @boa-editions.bsky.social.
abolish the police & free palestine.
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Rachel Ranie Taube @racheltaube.bsky.social Writer, snacker in Richmond, VA. | Fabulist fiction and book crit. | Words in Lit Hub, Electric Lit, Catapult, The Millions, Hayden's Ferry Review, etc.
rachelranietaube.com
Cat Wei @catwei.bsky.social poet, writer, dancer
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Mixedclover @mixedclover.bsky.social Your local Druid 🍀✨
PIKA☆.ᐟ @pikaswoosh.bsky.social ✱ anime ⁑ cosplayer ⁑ streamer // co-host of @girltaku.bsky.social 💫 CHIITAN’S WITNESS
ren. @therendx.bsky.social IG & tiktok: @ren.d.x
Dandadavid 🛸 @vibedealingdavid.bsky.social Kentucky 📍• Anime Nerd & Content Creator • Variety Streamer • Twitch Black Guild • #BigCreatxr • EST • VibeDealingDavid@gmail.com
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Kumar 🕺🏾 @kumarsutra.bsky.social Pop Culture Nerd | 📍 Vegas | New Yorker 🇱🇰🇰🇭 | TikTok: 67K+ / Instagram: 32K+ | thekumarsutra@gmail.com
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Girltaku @girltaku.bsky.social All things otaku from a bold & feminine perspective. Watch The Girltaku Show on YouTube or check out our online blog! https://linktr.ee/GirltakuShow
Miles D. Tiziu @milestzu.bsky.social Cosplayer // Content Creator // Teacher
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Travisthesibling @travisthesibling.bsky.social A guy who loves anime, Arcane, BG3 ,dc and more. tik toker and streamer | my channel twitch- @travisthesibling
ray @n0irbara.bsky.social jigokuraku fan first, #Δ帽子 promoter second. (whatever i'm into/mainly animanga • NOT spoiler free)
🇩🇴 ✩ 26 ✩ any pronouns
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King Drew @kingdrew.bsky.social 25 | Streamer | Amateur VA | FGC Content Creator | Cosplayer | 140K+ Followers On Tik Tok | Business Inquiries: kingdrewplaysgames@gmail.com
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Jawnji Ito 🌀 @rinnegoddess.bsky.social 
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the biggest, li 🙂↕️✨🤎 @ethhrealli.bsky.social virgo sun ☀️ • scorpio moon 🌑 • leo rising ⬆️ she/they. flying up to the sky 🫶🏽
Carrington @thewillofc.bsky.social @thewillof.c | she/They | lvl. 23 | NC | Twitch Affiliate | Lover of Nana and Banana Fish
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Mars ✨ @marsdragneel.bsky.social 
Lisa Bertini @leislann.bsky.social Tabletop gamer | Writer adjacent | Devout travelenvyist
gay tboy @historians.bsky.social Any of you guys listening to music or seen my car keys or something
Honey Literary @honeyliterary.bsky.social Welcome to the Hive. We’re a BIPOC-focused 501(c)(3) literary arts organization and journal 🍯✨🐝 founded by Dorothy Chan & Rita Mookerjee
https://www.honeyliterary.com/issue-8-
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
Maud Lavin @maudlavin.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Chicago, always. Author MERMAIDS AND LAZY ACTIVISTS, CUT WITH THE KITCHEN KNIFE, CLEAN NEW WORLD, PUSH COMES TO SHOVE, SILENCES, OHIO, Ed 3 anthologies, Gugg Fellow
a. benèt @benetthewriter.bsky.social poet. coffee lover. certified creative. MFA student
words in diodeeditions, crabapplelit, tinyspoonlitmag
https://sites.google.com/view/benetthewriter/home
Brittany Rogers @britrogers.bsky.social Detroit Girl. Poet. Creative. EIC of Muzzle Magazine. Co-host of VS Podcast. 🏳️🌈.🐩
benzz🏳️⚧️ @mercedesrodriguez.bsky.social poet, interested in Dreamtigers & fb marketplace
Meg Kim @megpieinflight.bsky.social currently a writer in Chicago, formerly a mountain creature. author of INVISIBLE CARTOGRAPHIES (New Delta Review 2024)
Ajanaé Dawkins @moonsatdusk.bsky.social Poet. Theologian. Educator. Neurodivergent disco queen. Co-host of the VS Podcast. Theology Editor: @ecotheo
Jessica Q. Stark @jezzbah.bsky.social Poet/Editor/Buffalo Girl | BUFFALO GIRL, BOA Editions (2023) | SAVAGE PAGEANT, Birds, LLC (2020) | Poetry Editor, AGNI | Asst Professor of Creative Writing, University of North Florida 🌊
Saúl Hernández @elsaulhernandez.bsky.social •Poet•Educator•Uncle•Concerts•1st Gen•From the Barrio•Somewhere in Texas•Author of How to Kill a Goat & Other Monsters•2025 NEA Fellow•
Airea D. Matthews @aireadee.bsky.social Poet. Thinker. Professor. 2024 Gugg Fellow. Assembles without reading directions.
Prince Bush @princebush.bsky.social Poet | Poems in The Cortland Review, The Drift, Northwest Review, etc | MFA @ Iowa Writers’ Workshop ⏭️ PhD CW/Poetry @ UC ❤️ (on hiatus 😴)
https://prince-bush.com
Daniella Toosie-Watson @toosiewatson.bsky.social What We Do with God (Haymarket Books 2025) | MFA ‘19: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program | Poems: The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Oxford Poetry, Callaloo, and elsewhere | www.toosie.art
SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social Santa Fe Writers Project - globally distributed publisher of fiction & CNF since '98. Subrights repped by @susanschulman.bsky.social
Distributed by IPG. Find out more at sfwp.com
Kay Ulanday Barrett @brownroundboi.bsky.social Boi Bawal 🏳️⚧️🇵🇭♿️ disabled trans writer, snacker, & A+ napper — 2024 Disabled Futures Fellow, Stonewall Honor Book, Lambda Literary Finalist.
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 +📚 Host of @slowdownshow.org
Eve L. Ewing @eveewing.bsky.social I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
Sumita Chakraborty @notsumatra.bsky.social www.sumitachakraborty.com • poet, scholar, general doer of things with words, faculty at the University of Virginia • wherever I am, I'm not Sumatra • opinions mine, including that nobody’s free until everybody’s free
Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social Nonprofit literary press & writers residency. Also Best of the Net, Poets in Pajamas, and more. www.sundresspublications.com
Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social Poet Laureate of Miami 🌴 Author of Dolce Vita⚜️Poetry & Interviews Editor for South Florida Poetry Journal ☀️ Director and Editor for JackLeg Press 💙 Website: nicoletallman.com 🌈
Michael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social Goat herder. Happy poet.
Rhymes w/ gazette.
Five books, including
The ECHO CHAMBER
(Milkweed)
& CLOUDWATCHER
(Copper Canyon)
Translator of The Popol Vuh
& Humberto Ak'abal
NY Times Best Poetry 2018
NEA Fellow in Poetry & Translation
michaelbazzett.com
ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social 💙 Fall in love with poetry again
📩 Submit poems, book reviews & fever dreams
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Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social Author, he/him
Bull City Press @bullcitypress.com Small press publisher of poetry, fiction, & creative nonfiction chapbooks located in Durham, NC | est. 2006 | https://bullcitypress.com | linktr.ee/bullcitypress | posts by @noahstetzer.bsky.social, @amelialoeffler.bsky.social, & @rosswhite.com
Shō Poetry Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social Arizona-based nonprofit print journal. We publish an eclectic stew of poetry and award prizes for each issue. Submissions reopen December 15. Ed. @domkeykong.bsky.social + @johnnycordova.bsky.social. shopoetryjournal.com
Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com publisher of boundary-breaking prose books
come get us @ splitlippress.com and https://linktr.ee/splitlippress
posts by yrs truly @suburbanprairie.bsky.social
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com A literary magazine for the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. 🫏
Est. May 2018.
Re-designed site!: okaydonkeymag.com
Newsletter: okaydonkeymag.beehiiv.com
Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/okaydonkey
Anna Lena @aproflection.bsky.social Poet/teacher/editor/printer/plant person. Might Could, winner of the Anthony Hecht Prize, 3/2026 / Ornament, UNT Press / Editor, @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social / Opinions my own; reposts ≠ endorsements
linktr.ee/alpb
Vic Nogay @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social reader, writer, specter
micro editor @identitytheory.bsky.social
Best Microfiction 2026
Naming a Dying Thing (Yellow Arrow, 2025)
under fire, under water (tiny wren, 2022)
ohio forever
she/her
vicnogay.com
Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social Most recent books: IN THE RHODODENDRONS: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf, PAPER CROWN: Poems
https://linktr.ee/heatherchristle
Joshua Nguyen @joshuanguyen03.bsky.social Author of COME CLEAN & two chapbooks.
Professor at TUFTS UNIVERSITY.
Humor Co-Editor at The Offing Mag.
Diane Seuss @dseuss.bsky.social Author of Modern Poetry, frank: sonnets, Still Life w Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, Four-Legged Girl, all from Graywolf Press, and Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (Univ. of Massachusetts Press), Chancellor for Academy of American Poets.
mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social poet laureate of the void • proud dad of @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social, Ramen Zine Distro, FRUITCAKE • mica photo '18/ubalt cwpa '24 • they
📍unceded piscataway + susquehannock land (baltimore)
visit me online @ natraum.com/links
M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social Meet me at the car wash. Writer. Managing editor at Rejection Letters. Latest words at X-R-A-Y, trampset, Okay Donkey, Identity Theory, Farewell Transmission, JAKE.
Dr. Raye @rayehendrix.bsky.social Poet ★ Author of What Good Is Heaven (Texas Review Press, 2024) & two poetry chapbooks ★ American Lit & Disability Studies PhD ★ capricorn ★ insufferable Auburn fan ★ Lefty Teacher in Tennessee ★ linktr.ee/raye.hendrix
Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com Est. 2015 in Pennsylvania | Escape the Mundane Poetry, novels, stories, & hand-made chapbooks
thirtywestph.com | asterismbooks.com/publisher/thirty-west
Dorothy Chan @dorothykchan.bsky.social 💥 Poet, author of five collections
💥 RETURN OF THE CHINESE FEMME (Deep Vellum, April 2024)
💥 HBIC of Honey Literary 🍯
Cortney Lamar Charleston @bardsbesidebars.bsky.social Poet & Author
• TELEPATHOLOGIES (Saturnalia Books, 2017);
• DOPPELGANGBANGER (Haymarket Books, 2021);
• IT'S IMPORTANT I REMEMBER (Northwestern Univ. Press, 2026)
https://www.cortneylamarcharleston.com/important-links
Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social Poet | SENTENCE (Nine Syllables Press, 2026) | MORE FLOWERS (Trio House Press, 2026) | DRESSING THE BEAR (Louise Bogan Award, Trio House Press, 2024) + 3 📚| Mayah 🐶 | Indianapolis, IN | www.susanlleary.com
Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social Publisher of Glass Chapbook Series, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Crucible: An Online Reading Series. Subs always free. Posts by anthonyframe.bsky.social
www.glass-poetry.com
Glass Poets Starter Pack: https://go.bsky.app/EicS1Aa
Dr. Taylor Byas, Ph.D. @taylorbyas.bsky.social PhD | Corporate Baddie | I DONE CLICKED MY HEELS THREE TIMES (Soft Skull ‘23, Winner of the 2023 Maya Angelou Book Award, 2023 Chicago Review of Books Award, 2024 Ohio Book Award) | RESTING BITCH FACE (August 2025) | she/her
www.taylorbyas.com
Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social A Journal of Poetry & Short Prose
Edited by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social
https://www.whaleroadreview.com/
SG ☀️ @sgpoet.bsky.social they/he/el
tejano writer 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
free Palestine from the river to the sea 🇵🇸
i write words @ transpoetica.substack.com
Michael Colbert @michaelcolbert.bsky.social On-and-off barista, horror film lover, "writer," EIC The Rejoinder
michaeljcolbert.com