Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026). https://geni.us/TMtMT | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
JL Bogenschneider @bourgnetstogner.bsky.social Shy retirer. Short fiction. Content repeater
Recent work in Helter Skelter, Ragaire, The Stinging Fly and The Pig's Back
Shortlisted for some stuff. Blacklisted for others
Julia Liz Elliott @juliaelliott.bsky.social Fiction Writer: HELLIONS, THE WILDS, THE NEW AND IMPROVED ROMIE FUTCH (Tin House Books) http://www.juliaelliott.net/
Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social Neurotic Chicago-based writer, editor-in-chief of Maudlin House, podcaster, and doer of many odd things.
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Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social Writer of dark fictions//debut novel THE BRINK out with Ruadán Books Sept 2026//work published in Cunning Folk, Crow & Cross Keys, Haven Speculative and more//co-founder of Artemis Writers UK
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Six-Eyed Kitten @andrewkozma.net A writer of poems, plays, stories, novels, and essays. Rep'd by Jessica Sinsheimer.
Edits for Reckoning
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Chloe Paige @chloepaige.bsky.social 📚 Writer of many things. Reader of even more things
🏆 Winner of the Elegant Literature Award, The Booby Prize & NYC Midnight
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Rob Gotobed @robgotobed.bsky.social Stand-up philosopher, scribe, bongo drummer and professional time-traveller. (Once dated Anne Boleyn)
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serious-lit @seriouslitmag.bsky.social The rawer, the better.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social Journalist & Pulitzer finalist Historian. Fmr ed, @PoliticoMag & @washingtonian. Author of "Watergate: A New History" and "The Only Plane in the Sky" and other books. garrett.graff AT gmail OR ProtonMail. Subscribe to my newsletter: Doomsdayscenario.co
Karen Crawford @karenc.bsky.social Exorcising demons one word at a time.
🇵🇷 ✍🏽 BestMicrofiction 2025, PushcartNoms, BOTN Nom, Longlists, Wigleaf Top 50
NYC → LA
Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social Politics, author of Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed. Meidas Canada/ The Resistance Lead singer with Grievous Angels. Just a boy from Cobalt.
Not a space for the cynical and snide.
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.
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Short Story Comps @shortstorycomps.bsky.social Posts and reposts about short story / flash / micro competitions in the UK and beyond.
Coleman Bigelow @cbigs.bsky.social pushcart and best microfiction nominated writer | recent stories: ghost parachute| cleaver| BULL | your impossible voice | new chapbook: http://InRareCases.com
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Night Shades ⏾ @nightshadesmag.bsky.social 🛸 500 Word Speculative Stories. $0.15/word. nightshadesmag.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.
Rock and a Hard Place @rhppress.bsky.social A small-press independent publisher delivering crime, noir, and dark fiction chronicling bad decisions and desperate people.
Wendy Maurice @wonderboo.bsky.social Connecticut
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Broad Ripple Review @broadripplereview.bsky.social Fiction | Nonfiction | Poetry | Reviews
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
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shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social Author of The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India), and most recently, Cajun South Brown Folk (Belle Point Press). Represented by Teffanie Thompson of Falkin Literary. 2019-2025 Series Editor of The Wigleaf Top 50. Lafayette, LA. shomedome.com
Martijon @martijon.bsky.social Retiree who does not want to live under fascism. It does not have to be this way. Father and husband. Also, nature lover, traveler, reader who enjoys life despite it all.(photo accurately depicts me - but not now). Ok. I’ve been here awhile so NO DMs.
Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social Professional explicator and maker of soothing sounds. I'd rather make furniture than go to midnight mass.
Author of "The Inaccessible Rail" (2026)
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and "Un-ruined" (2022) from Malarkey Books
Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social Writer, flash fiction writer, photographer. Author of 2 novels & 2 collections of flash. New novel out this spring. My flash pieces have been published in many lovely magazines. Mslexia flash fiction prize winner, 2024. Website: http://bronwengriff.co.uk/
Resistateveryturn @cheers464646.bsky.social Just a dad trying to be better every day. Oldest boy and youngest a long time ago with Pa
RABBLE REVIEW (RR No.9 is Available Now!) @rabblereview.bsky.social leftist arts & letters
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Sand and Gravel Chapbooks @sandandgravelpress.bsky.social Slowly dipping our toes in the water. https://www.sandandgravelpress.com . More often sighted at
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foofaraw press @foofarawpress.bsky.social a zine of surreal storytelling and worldly observations
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Jonathan Maberry @jonathanmaberry.bsky.social NY Times bestseller, 5-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, editor & comic book writer for IDW, Dark Horse,Marvel. Creator of V-Wars (Netflix). Editor of Weird Tales.
Matt Lanark @mattlanark.bsky.social ✍️ probably not writing the Great American Novel
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Bobby Krivitsky @bobbykrivitsky.bsky.social Celtics reporter | NBA writer for Forbes | Former NFL and NBA columnist for Bleacher Report | Syracuse alum
Nick Anderson - political cartoonist @andertoon.bsky.social Editorial Cartoonist. Pulitzer Prize - 2005
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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.
The Metaworker Literary Magazine @themetaworker.bsky.social We're The Metaworker: where great stories are forged 🔨✏️
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Hugh Behm-Steinberg @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social Writer
Brown Hound Press @brownhoundpress.bsky.social A small press in Lexington, KY that publishes offbeat mystery, dark humor, southern gothic & literary fiction. A free story each week! We pay authors.
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Billy O'Callaghan @billythescribe.bsky.social Irish writer. Books incl. The Dead House, My Coney Island Baby, The Boatman, Life Sentences, The Paper Man. Stories in Agni, Fiction, Massachusetts Rev, New Letters, Ploughshares, Sat Evening Post, South Carolina Rev, Stinging Fly, Tablet, Threepenny Rev.
Heidi James @heidijames.bsky.social Writer (The Sound Mirror, So the Doves)
Podcast (First Graft)
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Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social Big things from small books - single short story chapbooks, available on subscription.
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Maudlin House @maudlinhouse.bsky.social weird press that publishes weird books
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Defenestration Magazine @defenestrationmag.bsky.social A literary magazine dedicated to humor. Going strong for 21 years and counting! We publish short stories, poetry, nonfiction, "fake" nonfiction, and artwork. Edited by Andrew Kaye and Eileen Lavelle.
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Judy Darley @judydarley.bsky.social Writer & daydreamer living by the Somerset coast. Author of fiction collections #TheStairsAreASnowcappedMountain, #SkyLightRain (https://bit.ly/3zlfK7Q) & #RememberMeToTheBees. Workshop leader/journalism/brand engagement.
Diane Simmons @scooterwriter.bsky.social Co-Directs NFFD.NIFs: ‘Finding a Way' (Ad Hoc Fiction), ‘An Inheritance' (V.Press), ‘A Tricky Dance’ (Alien Buddha Press), ‘William Prichard & Co’ (Arroyo Seco Press) & Bereft of Reason’ (V. Press). www.dianesimmons.co.uk
Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social Author - Poet
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com Independent music, books, and short stories.
Humans writing things about humans making things.
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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
National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social Celebrating flash fiction worldwide. Co-directed by Ingrid Jendrzejewski @lunchontuesday.bsky.social and Diane Simmons @scooterwriter.bsky.social
The next NFFD will be Saturday 12 June 2027.
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Aunty Sochelle Hour-ish Show @auntysochelle.com The Aunty Sochelle Hour-ish Show: Coffee chats from devoutly liberal, woke, atheist, gaming artsy old MARRIED gimpy broad!
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Tammywritesbooks @tammywritesbooks.bsky.social Writer of many things
Querying Nuns in Crocs
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social Read me: HamiltonNolan.com
My book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hamilton-nolan/the-hammer/9780306830921/
Email: Hamilton.Nolan@gmail.com
Wendy Waring @wendywaring.bsky.social writer, editor, prof, traductrice
Queer ecofiction novel forthcoming @Stelliform.press: The Hunger of Those Who Built It
🌹 grew up in the Hammer, raising rabble world-wide 🌹
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Queen's | UofT | ISTI | Clarion
Tom Weller @tomwellerstories.bsky.social Writing in Booth, Barrelhouse, Milk Candy Review, Jake, MudRoom, and other fun places. Fiction collection And There Came Forth a Great Fish out now.
Debra Daniel @debdanthewriter.bsky.social Writer of flash fiction and poetry, singer.
John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social Restrooms are upstairs. Pay phone's upstairs. Pool table's upstairs. Foosball's upstairs. Cigarette machine's upstairs.
www.johnwaddybullion.com
Jamey Gallagher @jameygallagher.bsky.social Author of BODIES IN BAGS, I AM IDRIS ELBA, and AMERICAN ANIMISM.
https://jameyg0.wixsite.com/jameygallagher
Community college writing teacher
I read and write: literary stuff, crime stuff, weird stuff
From NH, living in Baltimore.
Plague Circus Press @plaguecircus.bsky.social Micro press and magazine
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June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social Scottish. Writer. Reader for Fractured Lit. Published in Trash Cat Lit, Frazzled Lit, Moonlit Getaway, Gone Lawn, The Phare, Gutter, Hooghly Review, and National Flash Flood.
elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog a guy with a poodle and a blog. philly sports fan. jew-ish.
https://www.necessaryfictions.blog/ / https://letterboxd.com/eisquith
Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social The place for writers
Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social Ensuring a vibrant, diverse literary landscape by helping small literary publishers work better. www.clmp.org
Pangyrus LitMag @pangyrus.bsky.social Cambridge & Boston based literary journal, dynamic indie publisher of new voices and unexpected connections.
Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social Philly writer. Debut chapbook “Ghost in the Rain: Stories” from Bottlecap Press.
https://bottlecap.press/products/ghosmj
Stories in Best Microfiction, Identity Theory, DIHP, Claudine, Some Words, Flight, FlashFlood, BULL.
www.mattjakubowski.com
Tahoma Literary Review @tahomareview.bsky.social We publish poetry, fiction, and nonfiction twice a year. Professional pay rates.
All online since 2024!
Current issues, submission periods, etc. at tahomaliteraryreview.com
Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social cultivating community and publishing bold work: flash, short fiction, cnf, poetry, and other nonconforming pieces
Sherry Morris 💙🇺🇦💛 @uksherka.bsky.social Prize-winning flash & short story writer in the Scottish Highlands. Words in Longleaf Review, Fictive Dream, TBQuarterly +BBC Scottish Voices. Presents Sherry's Shorts on Highland Hospital Radio: https://bit.ly/4kUFZYq Published work: Uksherka.com
Jeopardy! @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social ⚔️ Jeopardy! Masters is now on ABC, stream on Hulu
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MB Valente @mbvalente.bsky.social writer of weirdness, translator of comics and graphic novels
mbvalente.com
Bill Merklee @bmerklee.bsky.social Writer of very short things.
In Best Microfiction. Best Small Fictions noms. Highly commended for Bath Novella-in-Flash Award. Fractured Lit Chapbook Prize short list. Wigleaf Top 50 long list. BOTN nom. But enough about me. How are you?
billmerklee.com
Sheldon Lee Compton @dashlarkin.bsky.social Short story writer and novelist. Honestly trying to be a better person.
Rat Bag @ratbaglit.bsky.social 🐀 www.ratbaglit.com
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Marty Shambles @martyshambles.bsky.social Writer-in-residence and poetry editor @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
Writer at @ggtribune.com and @hwoodtimes.com
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
Timothy C Goodwin @timothycgoodwin.bsky.social Writing and acting and photography and stuff. NYC. He/him. timothycgoodwin.com
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org The best thinking on existential threats since 1945. Nuclear risk, climate change, and disruptive technologies. We set the #DoomsdayClock. thebulletin.org
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
Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social Writer, school nurse. Midwestern. Stories in SmokeLong Quarterly, Wild Roof Journal, Cincinnati Review+. Pushcart, Best Small Fictions & BotN noms. Editor @jmww. Sucker for a good barn.
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Wilson Koewing @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social notable, Best American Essays. distinguished, Best American Mystery and Suspense // books JADED, QUASI and ROLLING ON THE BOTTOM // editor of Bottle Rocket Literary Magazine
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
Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social closed for submissions.
lamplit.net
Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social Curious. Clever. Quick. 🐈⬛
Monthly Magazine for Micro Prose
Free to sub. Paying market.
Claudineliterary.com
r. p. singletary @rpsingletary.bsky.social W(e)ide(r)ly published in so-called underground publications, proudly. (And I'm single)
Subtle Body Press @subtlebodypress.bsky.social Indie press publishing outsiders since 2021.
EinC cliffhensley.bsky.social.
Annuals include Seven Story Hotel (7SH) and Body Shots.
Open for submissions at www.subtlebodypress.com.
Literary Garage @literarygarage.bsky.social Writing with a serrated edge.
Like the rock and roll garage bands of the 1960’s and 1970's (as well as the modified versions that showed up in the 1980’s) – straight ahead story telling with a purpose.
www.literarygarage.com
James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social Reporter and writer: https://fallows.substack.com/ and https://www.ourtownsfoundation.org/ One-time speechwriter, long-time pilot, longer-time husband of linguist/writer Deborah Fallows. Note same wristwatch in the two photos, more than 50 years apart.
Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Writer of short things. Reader of all things flash. Dog lover. Words in SLQ, XRAY, Flash Frog, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf. Winner of 2024 Lascaux Prize & Cambridge Prize. She/her https://www.emilyrinkema.com/
Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social I am a pension fund monitor for Fremulon Insurance.
New Book "Big Fan" (with Joe Posnanski) available May 19. Preorder signed copies here: https://josephbeth.com/book/9798217045112
Kirsten Grady @mrskgrady.bsky.social Social worker. Red tape slayer. Storyteller with a Wi-Fi connection & a grudge against broken systems.
Dignity > bureaucracy. Always. Social work is political.
Here to advocate, share insights, and spark change.
All views and opinions are my own.
Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social Variant Literature is a small press and magazine. http://variantlit.com
Summer 2026 issue out now!
Brett Biebel @brettbbl.bsky.social Writer, teacher, sports fan. Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50.
fionajanemack@bsky.social @fionajanemack.bsky.social Scottish-American writer. Flash collection "The Yet Unknowing World." Stories in Best Small Fictions 2019 and 2023. Historical novel "Ancestral Virgins" out in June 2026! www.fionajmackintosh.com #writer #flashfiction
Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social Deep Woods of Philly | Sometimes Writer | Spoonie Crew | Accidental Startupper | Words in New Letters, Wild Roof Journal, etc.| NO DMs
https://linktr.ee/lisadellaporta
Eric Robert Nolan @ericrobertnolan.bsky.social Eric Robert Nolan’s award-nominated writing has appeared throughout 70 periodicals and 45 anthologies in 12 countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. 2018 Nominee for Sundress Best of the Net.
Elad Haber @eladhaber.bsky.social Writer, Dad, Music Nerd. Stories in Lightspeed, Simultaneous Times Podcast, Underland Arcana, Even Cozier Cosmic, Silly Goose Press, Bulb Culture Collective, and more!
Debut collection, THE WORLD OUTSIDE, out now from Underland Press.
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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/
Jeff (Mixed Metaphors) @mixedmetaphors.bsky.social He/him.
There Are Infinite Universes and All of Them Are Boring, published by ELJ Editions:
https://elj-editions.com/there-are-infinite-universes-and-all-of-them-are-boring/
Editor and reviews at @foofarawpress.bsky.social
mixedmetaphors.net
Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social Author: Pardon Me for Moonwalking (Unsolicited Press), Wild Plums (ELJ).
Contributor: Flash Fiction America (Norton)
Wigleaf 50 2024, 2025; Best Small Fictions '23, '24; Best Microfiction '23
Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social Author of SHORT RELIEF @406press.bsky.social
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Former/Founding editor @publishedbyJAKE.bsky.social
Magic: the Gathering Substacker @ajohnnyspridemate.bsky.social
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