Ashtonrussell @ashtonrussell.bsky.social Writer, mother. Work in JMWW, Pithead Chapel, Southeast Review, and elsewhere. What The Living Has Done (Bottlecap Press 2025) Bennington MFA ‘24. Associate editor at Iron Horse Literary Review and reader for Fractured Lit and Glossy Planet
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
Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social NEA Poetry| CantoMundo |Fulbright | Calif Arts Council | Author of 4 poetry books. Work in Paris Review, Witness, APR, Laurel Review and Nimrod. #Portuguese #poetrycommunity #Binders #Yaddo https://www.millicentborgesaccardi.com/
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.
Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com Neil Clarke: Editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, The Best Science Fiction of the Year series, and more. Four-time Hugo Award Winner for Best Editor Short Form. Four-time Chesley Award-winning art director.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
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Karolina Letunova @letunova.bsky.social stories in Cincinnati Review, The Kenyon Review, AGNI, and more
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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social Staff editor for The New York Times (in London). Previously writing for CNN and Time Magazine. One of those Brits who ended up in American media.
Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social Poet + Executive Editor The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social
Books: TIC TIC TIC (9/25); MARILYN: ESSAYS & POEMS (An Insomniac's Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe); GIVE A GIRL CHAOS
NYU mfa
heidiseabornpoet.com
Lana Storey @lanastorey.bsky.social Writer. Words in HAD, Joyland, PANK, Found Press.
Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social Poet. Essayist. Educator. "Places I've Taken My Body" & "The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded" Co-author "In the Field Between Us" w Susannah Nevison. Editor in Chief @ Image Journal. http://mollymccullybrown.com
Rita Banerjee @ritabanerjee.bsky.social Rita Banerjee is a writer and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is author of Disobedient Futures, CREDO, Echo in Four Beats, A Night with Kali, and Cracklers at Night.
FOLIO Literary Journal @foliolit.bsky.social Nationally recognized literary journal in Washington DC, sponsored by @aucollege.bsky.social since 1984.
Kate McIntyre @katemcintyre.bsky.social Writer, MAD PRAIRIE, Flannery O’Connor Award winner, PEN/Bingham Prize long list. Assistant prof @wpi. Co-editor @hexliterary.🌻 🌪 katemcintyrewriting.com
Brian Trapp @btrapperkeeper.bsky.social Range of Motion (@acrebooks.bsky.social, 2025); Steinbeck Fellow 2021-22; Work in Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Longreads, and Brevity. https://linktr.ee/btrapperkeeper
Francesca Leader @mooninabucket.bsky.social Winner of Southeast Review’s 2023 World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest, 2025 BSF.Pun Perpetrator/ Montana Expat. Happily coupled w. someone not on Bsky. Words in HAD, Wigleaf, Stanchion, Five South, etc.
https://mooninabucket.com
Kirsten Bakis @kirstenbakis.com Author: King Nyx, Lives of the Monster Dogs. Awards: Bram Stoker, Whiting, Sustainable Arts. Finalist Women's Prize for Fiction. Rep: Janklow & Nesbit. Teach@Yale Writers Workshop. 🌱 💚 she/they
Apex Magazine and Book Company @apexmag.bsky.social All Kinds of Weird 👽 literary magazine and book company publishing strange, surreal, shocking, beautiful sff & horror. 100% organic, no AI 🚫
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Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social she/her 🏳️⚧️ Writer of queer things. Lover of dinosaurs
Stories in One Story, Witness Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, Passages North, Lightspeed, and other cool places.
Represented by Erin Harris @ Folio Literary
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Osahon @osahon4545.bsky.social God first. writer. he/him. Alpha grad. Clarion ’23. Stories in The Rumpus, Clarkesworld, FIYAH. Enquiries: Osahon4545@yahoo.com
Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social She/Her | Indie Bookseller - Wild Geese Bookshop | Pushcart Nominee | Fiction in Reactor, F&SF, The Deadlands, Lightspeed, etc. | Sr Contributor for Book Riot
Rep: Eric Showers at Morhaim Literary
Debut novella FROM THESE DARK ABODES available now!
Kelsea Yu @anovelescape.bsky.social Shirley Jackon Award-nominated author:
🍃BOUND FEET (CGM)
🎮IT'S ONLY A GAME (Bloomsbury)
🎭DEMON SONG (Titan)
🌊STORMRAVEN (Gallery/Titan, March 2027)
🖤stories/essays in Clarkesworld, Apex, Nightmare, PseudoPod +
she/her
www.kelseayu.com
Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social Stoker nominated horror writer; editor of NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE. Rep'd by Lane Heymont. 🏳️🌈
Portland, OR - plant nerd, foot traveler - she/her, they/them
https://linktr.ee/wendynwagner
Epiphany @epiphanylit.bsky.social Epiphany is a literary magazine and independent nonprofit 501(c)(3) that has supported writers at every stage of their careers for over 20 years.
Learn more at: https://linktr.ee/epiphanyliterary
Stephen Patrick Bell @stephenpatrickbell.bsky.social Chicago | Writer | 2022 Lambda Literary Fellow | Tin House Summer 2023
DorothyBendel @dorothybendel.bsky.social Writer. Essays in The Believer, Threepenny Review, Lithub, Catapult, NYTimes, Bright Wall / Dark Room, and more. dorothybendel.com
Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Habs fan / Canadian in the South 🍁
www.megireid.com
Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social Author of The Lunatics' Ball (Mad Creek Books, forthcoming), American Literature 101: Stories (Cornerstone Press, forthcoming), and The Missing Girl (Black Lawrence Press). Wigleaf Top 50. 9 Notables, Best American Essays, Editor, CRAFT Lit Journal.
Jason Sepac @jasonsepac.bsky.social Visual Essays in Kenyon Review, Fourth Genre, The Iowa Review, The Pinch, The Normal School, and others. Love Pittsburgh, Pugs, and Polaroid.
jasonsepac.com
Andrew Belfry @andrewbelfry.com (Humor) Writer. Ph.D. candidate in English & Creative Writing. MFA. Words in McSweeney's, HAD, Points in Case, & elsewhere. Father of two. he/him. Tired. https://www.andrewbelfry.com/
Mississippi Review @mississippireview.bsky.social Literary magazine, founded in 1972. Publishing Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction out of the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers.
Guest Editor: Rachael Fowler
Associate Editors: Emilee Kinney & Madi Brown
mississippi-review.com
Judith Claire Mitchell @judithclaire.bsky.social I do writerly things like novels (A Reunion of Ghosts, The Last Day of the War), essays (NER, Sewanee Review, The Sun, etc), and naps. Also, UWisconsin-Madison Creative Writing Prof Emerit. Also, there's a dog. judithclairemitchell.com
Kendall Dunkelberg @kdunkelberg.bsky.social Poet & Professor
Director, MFA in Creative Writing, Mississippi Univ. for Women
Author of Tree Fall with Birdsong, Barrier Island Suite & A Writer’s Craft.
Studied at Knox College & Univ. of Texas at Austin
📖 my work ⤵
www.kendalldunkelberg.com
Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social "We'll Be Birds" chapbook release 9/24/26 https://www.sandandgravelpress.com/lisa-thornton-chapbook-release
Writer, nurse. SmokeLong Quarterly, Cincinnati Review+. Senior flash fiction editor @jmww. Sucker for a good barn.
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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social Here for poems & other beauties. Writing in Poetry, The Southern Review, Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, The Poetry Review (UK), & elsewhere. Co-editor for book reviews at Plume. First collection of poems forthcoming with Orison Books in fall 2025.
Lad Tobin @ladtobin.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Publishes personal essays in places like The Sun, The Rumpus, Fourth Genre, Utne Reader, Identity Theory.
Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social Atlanta-area author of Southbound, The Parted Earth, and Ballot, out from Bloomsbury Academic on 2/5/26; Affiliate Faculty at Antioch University Los Angeles MFA; proud poll worker. linktr.ee/anjalienjeti.
Jenna Devany Waters @devanywaters.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Wanderer.
Master list-maker; minor revolutionary.
Words in Orion, Terrain, Alaska Quarterly Review, Under the Sun, and more. Memoir in progress.
She/Her 🏳️🌈
Anne Panning @apanning.bsky.social Professor of English, Creative Writing, SUNY-Brockport
Books:
Super America (Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction).
Butter (novel)
Dragonfly Notes: On Distance & Loss (memoir)
The Price of Eggs (short fiction)
Spit & Glitter (poetry, forthcoming)
Liz Bergstrom @lizbergstrom.bsky.social Writer in Passages North, Bennington Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, NYT... Queer & chronically ill. (they/them) lizbergstrom.com
(PFP: Person w/ purple hair & light skin wearing a teal jacket. Header: Living, Together anthology)
Maxwell Suzuki (He/Him) @papasuzuki.bsky.social Writer | Staff: @therumpus.net, @splitlippress.com | Voyager 2, This is Voyager 1, Over (Gold Line Press, ‘24), Bust of an Athlete (@ironhorselitrev.bsky.social, ‘24)
Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org Lambda Literary, celebrating LGBTQ+ storytellers since 1985. Home of the Lammy Awards, Writers in Schools, the Emerging Writers Retreat for LGBTQ Voices, and the Lambda Literary Review.
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lambdaliteraryreview.org
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Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social Lit Agent Talcott Notch, AALA Member, Editor, Teacher, Writer of Flash Fiction Editor at @fracturedlit.bsky.social Publications: Harpur Palate, Laurel Review, Monkey Bicycle, Ghost Parachute
https://linktr.ee/tommydeanwriter
Ellen Samuels @ehlastigirl.bsky.social Professor of being too disabled to be a professor anymore. Previously, Prof. Disability Studies, Gender Studies, English at UW-Madison. Author Hypermobilities (poems), Fantasies of Identification (NYU Press), #criptime #EDS
Emma Johnson-Rivard @blackcattales.bsky.social Doctoral student. Writer of weird poetry and queer horror. Works in Strange Horizons, Coffin Bell, Brooklyn Review, Tales to Terrify, and others.
https://linktr.ee/blackcattales
Jahzie @jahzieb.bsky.social Mom. Hopeful writer. Co-associate editor of Flash Fiction at CRAFT.
Trish Zimmerman @mn-tmz.bsky.social books • prairie • minnesota • religion phd
writing & living: a mysticism of place
www.trishzimmerman.com
Brad Barkley @bradbarkley.bsky.social Novels, short story collections, and YA fiction published by Norton, St. Martin’s, and Penguin/Dutton. New work forthcoming from Regal House. NEA Fellowship. Repped by @jennaschmenna.bsky.social Bradbarkley.com
Liz Rosen @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social https://www.sandandgravelpress.com/store/elizabeth-rosen-survival-skills
www.thewritelifeliz.com
Leslie Adrienne Miller @slipfast.bsky.social Poet/Author. Graywolf Press/Carnegie Mellon University Press. Professor Emerita. Perpetual student of light.
lesliemillerpoet.com
Matt Barrett @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social Writer. Stories in: The Sun, Threepenny Review, TriQuarterly, Cincinnati Review, West Branch, Wigleaf, Baltimore Review, The Forge, Cutleaf, Best Microfiction, & Best Small Fictions. Soon: Prairie Schooner
https://mbarrettwriter.wixsite.com/stories
Marie Goyette @mariegoyette.bsky.social I tell people I’m a writer; it’s a semi-autobiographical story. Pushcart Prize ‘26. Bread Loaf ‘25. Fiction editor: @literarymama.bsky.social. She/her
Jared lemus @jaredlemus.bsky.social Writer with Ecco-HarperCollins. Author of “Guatemalan Rhapsody.” Stories in The Atlantic, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.
Raising Mothers @raisingmothers.bsky.social We amplify & provide a supportive & inclusive space for Black, Asian, Latine(x), Indigenous and other marginalized writers from the global majority, while also advocating for social justice & equity.
Read us. Become a member.
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Salamander @salamandermag.bsky.social Publishing poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and works in translation since 1992.
salamandermag.org
Elizabeth Tapp | Writer @staycourageouslove.bsky.social A Chicago Writer/Artist of deep Poetry, Prose, Quotes & Art.
A reminder to Stay Courageous, Loves💙✨🏳️🌈
“Ghostly eyes…
under empty wishing wells.”
Birmingham Poetry Review @bham-poetry-review.bsky.social Volume 52 Out Now! | Est. 1987 | Publishing Award Winning Poetry, Reviews, Essays, & Interviews | Open for Poetry Submissions |
https://linktr.ee/birminghampoetryreview?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=a6e4b253-f548-4727-91da-c69865518234
Elissa Field @elissafield.bsky.social Lit noir novels + flash | SmokeLong Submission Ed | Runner Up Killer Claymore Best Mystery | Stories in/coming SmokeLong trampset HAD Moon City Ghost Parachute Monkeybicycle Citron Review Peatsmoke CRAFT Conjunctions ++ | IG FB elissalaurenfield.com
Olga Katsovskiy @writingincurves.bsky.social Writer/Editor/Educator
EIC: @jmwwjournal.bsky.social
writingincurves.substack.com
Hub City Press @hubcitypress.bsky.social Nonprofit press publishing new and extraordinary voices from the American South. Learn more at hubcity.org/publishing. Shop our catalog at hubcity.org/books.
Alysandra Dutton @alysandra.bsky.social stuck in 753 BCE 🏺not your boyfriend’s Ancient Rome 🏺 work in The Sun & Electric Lit 🏺 rep’d by Lucy Carson
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.
Ruth Madievsky @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social ALL-NIGHT PHARMACY, a national bestseller & california book award winner | ✍️ The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Cut, etc | HIV & primary care pharmacist
https://linktr.ee/ruthmadievsky
Mimi Manyin @mimimanyin.bsky.social Writer. Musician. Editor | 📚 Ploughshares, Witness, Michigan Quarterly Review, Meridian, Greensboro Review etc. | 🎓MVICW Fellow, Sewanee Scholar | mimimanyin.com
Matthew Lansburgh @matthewlansburgh.bsky.social Author of OUTSIDE IS THE OCEAN. Iowa Short Fiction Award. Finalist for Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction & Ferro-Grumley Award in LGBTQ Fiction. 🌈 🌈 🌈 Recipient of Fellowships to Bread Loaf, Sewanee, Yaddo & MacDowell. He/him.
Cole Meyer @coleameyer.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief at The Masters Review and CRAFT, editorial director at Discover New Art. MFA from Florida State University. Fiction in Best Small Fictions and at Baltimore Review, Smokelong Quarterly, The Florida Review and elsewhere.
cole-meyer.com
Kima Jones @kimajones.bsky.social BUTCH forthcoming Knopf 📚
www.kimajones.com
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.
https://www.chenchenwrites.com
Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social Online creative nonfiction magazine est. 2010: memoir essays, flash cnf, articles, reviews, interviews + books, events, conference & community. Posts by Donna.
Sarah Seybold @sarahseybold.bsky.social Poems appearing or forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, ZYZZYVA, The Dodge, SWWIM, Thimble, and elsewhere.
Katie Yale @kjyale.bsky.social Digital editor at Orion magazine. Children’s book author. Former wildlife field tech and scriptwriter for SciShow and Crash Course. Enjoys literary endeavors, petting moss, and swimming in cold water.
Mary Buchanan @marybuchanan.bsky.social Edits Libre 🤓 MFA Fiction (LSU) 🪄 the third thing in the room 🪼 Words: 3 AM, Bending Genres, Serotonin, Trampoline, Anti-Heroin Chic, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Hobart, Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
📖 herghosts.blog
Brain pain. 🧠🥊
Matthew R Hotham @mrhotham.bsky.social Professor of Islamic Studies.
Laura LeMoon @lauralemoon.bsky.social www.lauralemoon.com
Writer/journalist/baddie 😎
Words in: Wall Street Journal, HuffPost, Salon, The Daily Beast, Bellevue Literary Review, etc.
Advisor on public health policy to UN, CDC, USDOJ, White House Policy Council
MFA in CNF @ Antioch 📚
Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social Writer, teacher, friend. Words in: The Sun, Orion, The Yale Review, Literary Hub, & more. Author of BREAKING INTO THE BACKCOUNTRY, a memoir, and the essay collection RARE GOOD: ESSAYS ON ART, AUTISM, AND ASTONISHMENT. https://www.steveedwardswriter.com
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee 🐝💨 @xtinehlee.bsky.social Author of TELL ME EVERYTHING YOU DON’T REMEMBER Ecco/Harper Collins | 🐓+🐝💨 | doberman mind, dachshund body | Essay Editor @ The Offing | she/they
Christinehlee.com
Substack: christinehlee.substack.com
IG: @xtinehleewriter
Rep: Ayesha Pande
Sam Pereira @sampereira.bsky.social B.A. Fresno State
M.F.A. University of Iowa (Writers’ Workshop)
Has published 7 collections of poetry thus far, including True North and Untrue You, 2020 by Nine Mile Press.
Daniel P. Kennedy @danielpk.bsky.social Writer from rural PA | Asst. Prof | work in @ New England Review, The Florida Review, Puerto del Sol, The Guardian, Carolina Quarterly +++ | Notable Best American Essays
https://www.danielpkennedy.com/
Chase @chaseburke.bsky.social writer-type • on 3/13/25 the wordle was my name • chaseburke.com
Cat Wei @catwei.bsky.social poet, writer, dancer
writing in Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, The Slowdown podcast | Bread Loaf | Tin House
linktr.ee/catwei
Natalie Lima @natalielima09.bsky.social Writing embarrassing crap about my life.
Creative Writing Prof @ Butler University
📍Indianapolis
🇨🇺🇵🇷🇺🇸
natalielima.com
Jai Chakrabarti @jaichakrabarti.bsky.social Author of A Play for the End of the World and A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness @Aaknopf
Faculty @BenningtonMFA
jaichakrabarti.com
Yetta @yettaworldpeace.bsky.social Reader who writes. Managing Editor for Hunger Mtn. The void is my landlord. Criticism is my love language. 
The American Scholar @theamscho.bsky.social A quarterly journal of literature, science, and culture published by
Phi Beta Kappa for a general readership since 1932.
📍Washington, DC 💻 theamericanscholar.org
Emet North @emnorth.bsky.social writer. scared of the internet. IN UNIVERSES, Harper Books, May 2024. they/them.
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
Patricia Smith @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social THE INTENTIONS OF THUNDER, Scribner, 9/30! Poet/Princeton CW prof, Ruth Lilly & Kingsley Tufts, NAACP Image Award, Pulitzer finalist, Guggenheim, Chgo Literary Hall of Fame. Love Cubs, Lou Malnati's, Portillo's & the peppermint stick/hot pickle mashup.
The Sun magazine @thesunmagazine.bsky.social The Sun is a magazine that publishes roughly forty thousand words a month, about a dozen of which are funny. This is where we share those dozen.
Amy Barnes @amygcb.bsky.social Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social
LaToya Jordan @latoyajordanwriter.bsky.social Writer • Mom • Shirley Jackson Award Winner • Author of the 2023 debut novella To the Woman in the Pink Hat (Aqueduct Press) • Reader, Wigleaf Top 50 • latoyajordan.com
https://linktr.ee/latoyajordanwriter
Gio Clairval @gioclair.bsky.social Writer from Paris and Lake Como
http://gioclairval.blogspot.com/p/stories.html?m=1
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.
The Loft Literary Center @loftliterarycenter.bsky.social The Loft, a nonprofit arts org, advances the artistic development of writers, fosters a thriving literary community, and inspires a passion for literature.
Mid-American Review @midamericanreview.bsky.social Publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translations, and reviews since 1980. Based at Bowling Green State University.
Diode @diodeeditions.bsky.social Diode Editions and Diode Poetry Journal
Our mission is to amplify diverse voices. We are committed to justice, inclusivity, anti-racism, and equity. We strive to craft beautiful books and fanatically support our authors.
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
Bradford Morrow @bradfordmorrow.bsky.social The Forger's Requiem, final novel in Forgers Trilogy, is out this year @groveatlantic.bsky.social.Writer, founder/editor of literary journal @conjunctions.bsky.social. Bibliophile. Lover of cats and birds. Kind to animals. www.bradfordmorrow.com
Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org Taco Bell Quarterly is The World's Most Prestigious Literary Magazine. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org