Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social Writer, teacher, walker of many trails. Novels published with @unvpress.bsky.social. Novella published with @miamioh-press.bsky.social. Novella forthcoming with @regalhouse.bsky.social. #authorsguild https://lawrencecoates.com/
Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social Former Writer in Residence at U of Tennessee - author of The Fire Eater, Bad Mexican, Bad American, The Parachutist, Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man.
Tammy McLeod @tammydmcleod.bsky.social Art, Nature, Science, Civic Leadership, Scholarship, Literature
Opinions = Mine
Milhouse the 25th @milhouse25.bsky.social 2+2=4
Noah Milligan @milligannoah.bsky.social Author & Co-founder of the Writer's Co-op at @lpwriterscoop.bsky.social
Books: An Elegant Theory (2016), Five Hundred Poor (2018), & Into Captivity They Will Go (2019)
Find them here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Noah-Milligan/220312813
Angela James @olangela.bsky.social Lover and writer of flash fiction. Obsessor over comedy and Americana music. Lawyer in the midst of a midlife (or late-life, if being honest) crisis. Whooping it up at being on the Wigleaf Top Fifty long list.
RidgewayGirl @ridgewaygirl.bsky.social Books, Cats, Politics, More Books.
Rights aren’t pie. Letting everyone have them doesn’t reduce your own.
Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social Queer disabled writer, artist, & scholar aka Dr. Heffers.
Lover of nature, sitcoms, libraries, & coffee.
EIC, Genrepunk Magazine (@genrepunkmag.bsky.social)
📚 What Blooms in the Dark (2024)
She/they
https://linktr.ee/audreytcarroll
GW @gwoltjer.bsky.social Read books. Touch grass. Enjoy sunshine.
Husband. Father. Professor. PRPL Director. Baseball fan. Jesuit.
Jeremiah Root @jeremiahroot.bsky.social Jeremiah Root is a writer and musician from Paradise, CA. His work has appeared in Muleskinner Journal and BULL. He is at work on his first novel, The Vincent. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, three children, and hound dog.
Scott Solomon @scottsolomonwriter.bsky.social Recently finished writing a novel about damning aspects of the medical profession. Short fiction in Chicago Quarterly Review, New Letters . . .
linktr.ee/scottsolomon
Fannie H. Gray @mrsfanster.bsky.social Writer of flash and short stories
*Don’t Ask, Won’t Tell re the novel
Aspiring Paid Traveler
www.thefhgraymatter.com
Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social Author of The Lunatics' Ball (Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press, forthcoming) and The Missing Girl (Black Lawrence Press). Wigleaf Top 50. 9 Notables, Best American Essays, CNF Flash editor, CRAFT Lit Journal. www.jacquelinedoyle.com
Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social 
Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social Words in BULL, FlashFlood, Does It Have Pockets, Frazzled Lit, Trash Cat Lit, Urban Pigs Press, Fictive Dream. Genrepunk Awards nominee. Shortlisted for the 2026 Bath Novella-in-Flash Award. She/her. @lmbayley at the other place.
Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Flash fiction writer | 2025 Highly Commended Bridport Prize & Finalist New Millennium Writings | Published in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Flash the Court, Writers’ Hour, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and elsewhere.
linktr.ee/adelegallogly
Eileen Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social Writer, Librarian, Jerseyan ✍🏻 Baltimore Review, Hunger Mtn, X-R-A-Y, Lost Balloon, Okay Donkey, Pithead Chapel, Passages North, OSU The Journal, Tiny Molecules; soon in Fractured Lit | BSF 2023 | Wigleaf Top 50 2026
https://eileentomarchio.webnode.page/
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
Justin Karcher @justinkarcher.bsky.social Buffalo, NY. Man About Town. Poet. Playwright. New Play Development Director. Editor of Ghost City Review.
David Linebarger @tennis-art1.bsky.social Poet, prose writer, professor at davidlinebarger.com Latest book Tennis Players as Works of Art won many awards, including 2025 Book of the Year (Original Concept) at the 29th annual IPPY awards.
Nicole Walker @nikwalk.bsky.social Two books forthcoming from Bloomsbury: Writing the Hard Stuff and How Plant a Billion Trees. Writer of 8 (weird) books.Trying to withstand the onslaught of fascism by building community. Prof, Nonfiction Editor at DIAGRAM and UGA Press's Crux Series.
M. Dalton Eloy @mdaltoneloy.bsky.social “This is where I came when I ran out of places to run.”
Writer and bartender based in DC. Words in Open Ceilings Magazine, 86 Logic and Stanchion Magazine.
mdaltoneloy.com
Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social Writer
The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies (UK)
Something Wonderful (US)
Winner BBC National Short Story Award #bbcnssa
O Henry
Stories in Zoetrope, Southern Review, Ploughshares, BBSS, &&
She/her
Ally
C.C. Russell @ccrussell.bsky.social A writer and reader you might have seen around. 
Sam @sammyzorba.bsky.social Words. Books. Quotes. Dogs. Horses. All living creatures. Trees! Photography, especially B&W film, painting, drawing. Baseball.
Food: married to a great cook. Prefer to follow positive, upbeat people posting bout daily life. Embarrassingly emotional.
Julián Martinez @martinezfjulian.bsky.social Son of Mexican and Cuban immigrants // debut book of fictions + novella from Future Tense Books, Spring 2027
Chicago forever.
PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social We stand at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the U.S. and worldwide. Support and learn more at pen.org.
Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social Author of DAUGHTERS OF THE AIR, called “a striking debut from a writer to watch” by Shelf Awareness & DREAMS UNDER GLASS, called “a novel for our modern times” by Buzzfeed Books. ancawrites.com.
Neil Blackman @n3il4real.bsky.social Writer of fiction. Heart that you call home. Movie stuff. Music junk. Mental Health. Still chasing the highs of discovering AOL and finding the lows of everything since.
Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social writing in Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub, &c. // senior editor with HarperCollins
http://austinrossauthor.com/
Adam Sleper @adamsleper.bsky.social Dad, hubby, writer. Illinois artist grants, Chicago Writers Assoc, Horror Writers Assoc, Page/AFF finalist, PEN Emerging Writers. Black List 8+. Shakespeare/R.E.M.
USMNT/Huskers/Red Sox.
Rep: Mark Gottlieb@Trident
www.adamsleper.com
AdamSleper.substack.com
Chris Gonzalez @livesinpages.bsky.social Author, I'm Not Hungry but I Could Eat: stories l Barrelhouse Fiction Editor | 2021 NYFA Fiction Fellow | 2025 VCCA Fellow | Husky bochinchero 🇵🇷 🏳️🌈
📍 Brooklyn, NY
https://chris-gonzalez.com/
Logan Phillips @dirtyverbs.bsky.social Writer, culture worker, DJ. Tucson Poet Laureate.
Author: RECKON (U Arizona Press, 2026)
Interests & work: Education, Landback, synchronicity, cumbia, plants. Dirtyverbs.com/link-in-bio
Tom Zoellner @tomzoellner.bsky.social Professor at @ChapmanU, editor-at-large @LAReviewofBooks, PhD in history, author of “The National Road” http://tinyurl.com/y6lrtzal
Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social Poet | Teacher | Editor | Walker | Pennsylvanian | Plant-based
Temporary Shelters (2025)
Muddy Dragon on the Road to Heaven (2020)
Teaches at Rosemont College
Montgomery County Poet Laureate 2010
grantclauser.com 
Patrick Trotti @patricktrotti.bsky.social Publisher LEFTOVER Books. Author of four story collections and a novella. New novel dropping January 2027 with Silverbacked Punk Books.
patricktrotti.substack.com
patricktrotti.carrd.co
linktr.ee/patricktrotti
Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social Philly writer. Debut chapbook “Ghost in the Rain: Stories,” Bottlecap Press, 2026.
https://bottlecap.press/products/ghosmj
Stories in Best Microfiction, Identity Theory, DIHP, Claudine, Some Words, Flight, FlashFlood, BULL.
www.mattjakubowski.com
Josh Dale @joshdale.co Writing, publishing, cats, nature, metal.
Read good books by Thirty West.
Order RAGE:
thirtywestph.com/shop/rage
Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social Author. Potter. Mom. THE BELOVED WILD (Feiwel & Friends, 2018) & UNLEAVING (Feiwel & Friends, 2019) Rep’d by Faye Bender. melissaostrom.com
Tom Andes @tomandes.bsky.social Detective novel WAIT THERE TILL YOU HEAR FROM ME (Crescent City Books 2025), stories around the internet and magazines. Working musician, editor for hire.
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 
Tucson Essay Club @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social Probably the hottest essay club around. Essays year-round in Tucson, Arizona. http://tucsonessayclub.org
Keith Pilapil Lesmeister @keithlesmeister.bsky.social Author of the forthcoming story collection ASK ME ABOUT THE MONEY | keithlesmeister.com
Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social Queer writer l #FlashFiction l Smokelong Fellow 2026 l Contrib ed @nffr.bsky.social
Pushcart, BSF, BMF & Monarch noms
Read my stories:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17zj1W2pXZsP1aZZ3vR4vbV4Cra9eZ15F6lwU5lc2tKA/edit?usp=sharing
Liz Kellebrew @lizkellebrew.com Author of CLOISTERED, THE RIVER PEOPLE, and WATER SIGNS. She/they. Poetry, essays, fiction. My opinions are my own. https://lizkellebrew.com/
Shaun Anthony McMichael @shaunmcmichael.bsky.social Shaun is a Pushcart-nomed author, educator, and family man who lives in West Seattle. Preorder his novel Whistle Punk Falls today!
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
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.
The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to prose, poetry, comics, essays, humor, hybrid, and everything in-between.
www.bulbregion.com
@lewclifton.bsky.social @lewclifton.bsky.social 
Fun Book Person @alexmiller77.bsky.social Author of White People on Vacation (Malarkey Books) and some other things. Taking up space in Denver
https://alexmillerperson.weebly.com/
Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social Author of The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe (Autumn House Press Book Prize). Winner of Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction from the TX Institute of Letters. Longlisted for PEN/Bingham Prize. DC based. laurendwoods.com
Kristin Houlihan, Writer @kristinwrites.bsky.social Poet, Wife, Mom, LongCovid/MECFS. Looking to connect and learning to advocate. EIC, Poetry @epistemiclit.Bsky.social, @nimblewitlit.bsky.social. Micropoetry chapbook Lift the Mask available widely. www.kristinhoulihan.com
Patrick Nevins @patricknevins.bsky.social I wrote the novels PRETTY JOEY ROSS (coming in 2027) and MAN IN A CAGE.
Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social Short stories in Stand, Bull, Tough, Starlite Pulp, CJ, Enclave, a bunch of other places. Columns in Hobart & Bull. Five collections of poetry w/ Punk Hostage, Blue Horse, NeoPoiesis.
Joey Hedger @joeyhedger.bsky.social Author living in Alexandria, VA | Deliver Thy Pigs (Malarkey Books) | stories in Saw Palm, Complete Sentence, Variant Lit, HAD, and more | he/him
www.joeyhedger.com
Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social Memoirist experimenting with the truth. Author of TEEN QUEEN TRAINING (Autofocus 2026), A CALENDAR IS A SNAKESKIN (Autofocus 2023) and CURING SEASON: ARTIFACTS (WVU Press 2022). Director of @splitlippress.com. More: linktr.ee/suburbanprairie
Jon Chaiim McConnell @jonmcconn.bsky.social writer | etc
https://linktr.ee/jonmcconn
Justin Bryant @justinwriter.bsky.social ‘Thunder From A Clear Blue Sky’ Malarkey Books 2023. Short fiction/flash here and there.
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
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Cassandra Lewis @writercasslewis.bsky.social A writer exploring questions about social responsibility. Author of debut novel GRIEF CAMP (SFWP '27). CassandraLewis.com. Photo by Desiree Bustos
Michael Czyzniejewski @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social Author, editor, professor, family participant. Retired altar boy, pizza chef, and beer vendor.
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
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
John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com Co-owner @eveninghouse.bsky.social
Writer:
FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN
BOXCUTTERS
EIC @cold-signal.com
Buffalo, NY
johnchrostek.com
CB Raider @lpsoto.bsky.social First licensed nursing home administrator from my tribe. Use StoryGraph instead of Goodreads. Akimel O’otham, Tohono O’odham, Chicana, white.
Andrew Dana Hudson @solarshades.club Speculative fiction author, sustainability researcher, teacher. Writing about solarpunks and cyberproles.
New Book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/803125/absence-by-andrew-dana-hudson/
Newsletter: solarshades.club
Website: andrewdanahudson.com
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social Writer. Pie enthusiast. Historically preserved beard site. Cheese poet. Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, Cinnamon Challenge: honorable mention. 
MJW @wilsonmj.bsky.social Aging queer millennial. Writer of A Labyrinth and If Any Gods Lived. Constantly anxious about everything but in a laughing awkwardly kind of way.
Make stories for Meow Wolf. Doing labor rights and trying to write a much as I can in the time I have.
Picket Fire @picketfire.bsky.social Independent press. Publisher of novels of high literary value.
picketfire.com
A.R. Bender @arambender.bsky.social Multi-genre author with words in: Shotgun Honey, Guilty Crime Mag, Chiron Review, Hidden Peak Press, Bristol Noir, Pulp Modern, Mystery Tribune, Thriller Magazine, Close To The Bone
THE BLACK BOW on https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DD67HTWS and other platforms
Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social A literary journal presenting four pieces in each issue, a sampling of the best writing out there. EICs: @fklein907.bsky.social and @ketchiklein.bsky.social
https://flight-literary.ghost.io/
Y2K Quarterly @y2kq.com Literary chaos in 1999 words or less.
Y2K Themed Literary Magazine
EIC: @jetgirl.art
https://y2kq.com
Sudha Balagopal @sudhab.bsky.social Writer:
Winner of Santa Fe Literary Award; Family Matters forthcoming from SFWP, 2027.
Pubs: Adroit Journal, Doric Lit, CRAFT,SmokeLong, Fractured
Best Microfic, Best Small Fic, Wigleaf Top 50.
BathFlash HC/Shortlisted; Series Editor: Wigleaf Top 50
Trent Brown @joshuatrentbrown.com i have a book
https://malarkeybooks.com/store/thewallsareclosinginonus
Scott Wilson @scottwilsonkc.bsky.social Editor, writer. Views mine. I know who needs to hear this. Kansas City, Missouri
@sarahhealeyeditor.bsky.social @sarahhealeyeditor.bsky.social Novelist and freelance editor. Drinks a lot of tea.
Published by Portland Press.
sarahhealeyeditor.com
Sarah Lynn Knowles @sarahspy.com Fiction writer, Storychord.com founding editor, Tin House Winter '24 & One Story Summer '23 alum || eavesdropper, signal booster, she/her, Massachusetts || https://sarahlynnknowles.com
Bryan Harvey @bryanharvey.bsky.social same writer, runner, teacher, and basketball fan from twitter (@Bryan_S_Harvey) all around (https://bryanharveywrites.wordpress.com/) medium (https://medium.com/@bryan-s-harvey)
Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social Quarterly print literary magazine & small book press in the Philly 'burbs. Founder & EIC Jeff Bogle. linktr.ee/StanchionZine
Inkican Books @inkican.bsky.social I'm on a journey to become a self-sufficient author of trauma-informed STEM scifi by the end of 2026 - hope you can join me. Readers call my stories 'Cory Doctorow meets James S.A. Corey.' SFWA member #scifi #author #MikeSierraEcho #booksforkids #GSBCW
Matthew Zanoni Müller @matthewzmuller.bsky.social Writer, educator. First Aid for Choking Victims (Malarkey books). Writing in Denver Quarterly, Cottonwood, Southeast Review, and others.
www.matthewzanonimuller.com
Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social Author of THE DISAPPEARED (Knopf), THE THEORY OF LIGHT AND MATTER (Vintage), IN BETWEEN DAYS (Knopf), and THE IMAGINED LIFE (Knopf, forthcoming 2025) CW Prof.
www.andrewporterwriter.com
Jake Gumbleton @jakegumbleton.bsky.social Artist & art director.
Environment, nature and people.
jana putrle srdić @janaputrlesrdic.bsky.social reader, writer · prose, poems @WestBranchMag @QuarterlyTupelo @LAReview, translated books · janaputrlesrdic.eu
Jeff Harvey @jhhwriter.bsky.social Writer: work appears in
@trampset.bsky.social
@mooncityreview.bsky.social
@moonparkreview.bsky.social
@soflopojo.bsky.social
@whaleroadreview.bsky.social
@bendinggenres.bsky.social
Editor: gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
jhhwriter.com
Joel Hans @joelhans.com Author of THE BEDTIME EMPTYING OF OUR WORLD (Feb 2026, Moon City Press + Short Fiction Award)
Forever writing fairy tales in speculative/weird/SFesque disguises.
Dad-ing.
Materializing @astrolabe.ooo.
https://joelhans.com
Dan Weaver @supernaturalfeat.com A writer and artist and programmer and sweatshirt.
supernaturalfeat.com
Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Teacher | Author of First Kicking, Then Not (Stanchion 2025) | Columnist @ WCP
she/they 🏳️🌈 ❤️
www.hgrieco.com
Charlene H-M @charistrying2write.bsky.social Storytelling across genres | Cultural studies & sociology of education scholar | Writer | Participatory & visual methods |
Colin Alexander @colincalexander.bsky.social Dad, writer, sometimes attorney. Used to write for fun, now for revenge. Stories in Analog, Orion’s Belt, Phano, and Radon Journal.
Novella available for presale: https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/suicide-valley-trail-maintenance
Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social author of TURMERIC & SUGAR (Thirty West). stories in Wigleaf, Short Story Long, Berkeley Fiction Review, HAD, Craft, Fractured, etc.
annavangalajones.com
Matthew Peters @matthewpetersitw.bsky.social Ph.D. (Duke) Member of International Thriller Writers. Author of The Ignoble Lie.
C.W. Blackwell @cwblackwell.bsky.social Author: HARD MOUNTAIN CLAY ✷ WHATEVER KILLS THE PAIN ✷ THE COLD DARK FOREVER ✷ 3X Derringer Award winner ✷ Anthony Award Finalist ✷ #crimefiction #noir #santacruz
https://lnk.bio/cw_blackwell_writer
Victor De Anda @victordeanda.bsky.social Author with stories in The Speculative Detective Agency, Pistol Jim Press, Cold Caller Magazine, BAMS 2025, Dark Yonder, Myopic Duplicity, Shotgun Honey, and more. Crime fiction, Speculative, Weird. Manuscript in progress.