Indie Reign @queermadefinds.bsky.social Finding the makers worth finding. ✨
🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ creators • indie artists • small businesses
Art 🖼️• books 📚• handmade • weird little treasures
Good work deserves a bigger audience.
John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social I write about books and edit others’ writing about books, previously for NY Times and Washington Post. Apollonian/Order Muppet. Highly sociable misanthrope. (Photo: Larry McMurtry's Booked Up, 2018.)
X-POD™ @xpodtech.com “A global technology leader developing advanced occupant‑safety solutions, including the Safety‑X‑Pod®—an ejectable, crash‑proof passenger cocoon with an integrated Environmental Control and Life Support System.” https://xpodtech.com/
Naresh Behera @naresh98.bsky.social Studying Psychology and discovering ways
Dave @unioncard.bsky.social Labor dude, translator, metalhead.
"This is the end of reason, the dirtiest hour in our time." -HST
Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-novel-festival-contests/
Brooklyn Book Festival @bkbookfest.bsky.social Largest Free Literary Festival in New York.
https://linktr.ee/bkbookfest
2026 Dates
Virtual Festival Day: September 20
Children's Day: September 26
Festival Day: September 27
City-wide Bookends: September 20-28
Texas Observer @texasobserver.org A nonprofit newsroom covering Texas through investigative journalism & narrative storytelling since 1954.
Follow our journos: https://go.bsky.app/EdSL3Co
🤠Learn more about us: https://linktr.ee/texasobserver
Anti-ICE Roundup @meateatorchid.bsky.social Roundup of anti-ICE action, news, and updates.
Fuck fascism. Abolish ICE. Working-class pride.
Kit O'Connell (🏳️🌈Big & Bright Queerdo👽) @kitoconnell.com 🏳️🌈⭐👏Newsletter Writer & Contributor @The Barbed Wire, formerly Digital Editor @Texas Observer, bylines in Teen Vogue, etc. Austin, Texas. They/Them.
Home: https://kitoconnell.com/
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Alison Cerri @alisoncerri.bsky.social Brooklyn-based book publicist. Reader, runner, dog mom. opinions are my own ✨
Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social Writer of literary fiction & poetry.
Work in JMWW, Soundings Review, Hot Metal Bridge.
Astrarium Digital @astrariumdigital.bsky.social ✨🎮Helping indie games find their players! 🎮✨
We help indie developers grow wishlists & launch with confidence - games don't fail because they're bad, they fail because no-one sees them.
📅 Let's chat:
https://calendly.com/accounts-astrarium/30min
Deb Cares 4 Iowa @debcares4iowa.bsky.social Democrat 🌊, #Childcare Advocate, RN, #PublicHealth, 2022 #Iowa Senate nominee, wife & mother of eight amazing people. Opinions are my own. She/They 🏳️🌈
Jonny Diamond @jonnydiamond.bsky.social Editor of Lit Hub, writer, not-so-secretly Canadian.
Ferus Dóttirson @feraldottirson.bsky.social You know what they say: LOUD ACTIONS SPEAK WORDS
Mase An Hamberlin @masonhamberlin.bsky.social writer / Iowa City / professional amateur / nonfiction, comics, & Vispo / a sliced ham covered in glitter / (they)
https://allmylinks.com/mase-ham
Good to Know @goodtoknowhq.bsky.social The Home of Indie
💎 Discover hidden gems you’ll love
💬 Get honest reviews & feedback
📚 Books 🎙️ Podcasts📍Places 🎶 Music & more
Submissions open now (free)!
https://good-to-know.com/submissions/
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Patrick McGahon @paadzer.bsky.social Irish gay guy in the East of England 🏳️🌈
In my fifties
EastEnders & Bargain Hunt fan
RIP mum 💔 2022
Worked at Cambridge University & NHS
Awful at responding to DMs
Sober a few years
Not looking for hookups or onlyfans subscriptions
T. Benjamin White @tbenjaminwhite.bsky.social Writer based in Portland, OR. Part of the Texas diaspora. Author of LAND OF DROUGHT AND FLOOD, out August 2026 with Falling Marbles Press. Literary Criticism at compostedbooksreview.substack.com
Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social Anti-Zionist Free Palestine Ukraine Solidarity Anti-Racist Anti-Carceral Abolitionist Anti-Genocide Anti-Colonial Anti-War Anti-Imperialist Intersectional Feminist Queer LGBTQI+ Green Eco-Socialist People Planet Peace Interfaith Seeker of Beloved Community
Origin Books @originbooks.bsky.social We're Origin Books — a book printing company that helps authors and publishers bring their vision to life.
TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social Bestselling author of 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ romances.
A LADY FOR ALL SEASONS out now.
Rep: Larissa Melo Pienkowski @ Azantian
DM's/@'s not checked regularly. Contact me via my website:
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Rasheed Newson @rasheed.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Bestselling Author of MY GOVERNMENT MEANS TO KILL ME and THERE’S ONLY ONE SIN IN HOLLYWOOD
📺 writer: #BelAir #Narcos #The100
Thao Votang @votang.bsky.social Author of LINH LY IS DOING JUST FINE.
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Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1.
Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d
My website: www.natehendley.ca
Rachel Elise Greiner @regreiner.bsky.social PhD Student at UNC Chapel Hill studying Jewish food and learning Yiddish!
@streamlbx.bsky.social @streamlbx.bsky.social 
Ophelia Ashe @ophelia-ashe.bsky.social Indie author and occasional script/screenwriter - I mostly write (in a round-about way) about chronic pain and being disabled and I want to write more (in a very direct way) about being transfemme and aromantic | she/her | email: ophelia.ashe@pm.me
Lady Queet @ladyqueet.bsky.social Lady Queet is a music producer, singer, songwriter and rapper from Atlanta, Georgia. Owner of Picture Perfect Entertainment. #MusicSky #WhoIsYourFavoriteFemaleRapper
instagram.com/iamladyqueet
Denouncing Israel @denouncingisrael.bsky.social This social network suspends accounts that criticize Israel so most likely my account will be suspended soon.
If you want to keep updated about attrocities committed by Israel follow me in thealternative.social social network
Picnic Magazine @picnic-mag.bsky.social New York City's finest trans literary magazine and culture rag. Edited by Alma Avalle and Joyce Laurie
Abby The Cleric @abbythecleric.bsky.social Birds, Jeopardy, Publishing, WPBL, Maine | They/them | Yes, the dog's name is Subaru
Sarah Rettger @sarahrettger.bsky.social Bookselling combination of Bunny Watson, Olivia Pope, and Dolly Levi. she/her
Alone Crawford @kellylink.bsky.social unserious moonlight
owner of bookmoonbooks.com
www.kellylink.net
she/her
Happy to recommend books if you tell me 2 writers you love & what you’re in the mood for. Signed copies of my books available at www.bookmoonbooks.com. TERFS & fascists fuck off.
Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social Nonprofit, movement-based, and worker-run publisher of books that provide timely reflections, clear critiques, and inspiring strategies that amplify movements for social justice.
📍Philadelphia
📍NYC
www.commonnotions.org
Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com Founder-Owner of @weareravenous.com
Series Editor at Best American Food and Travel Writing
Queens, NY
she/her
Tips to jaya@weareravenous.con
No Borders Books @nobordersbooks.bsky.social A worker-owned bookstore & cafe coming soon to Astoria, Queens! Temporary Residency: 36-12 34th Ave.
Thurs/Fri: 3-9pm
Sat: 10am-9pm
Sun: 10am-7pm
https://noborders.beehiiv.com
Shop: https://bookshop.org/shop/NoBorders
Leah Tigers @leahtigers.bsky.social "Queer theory running riot," according to my detractors.
www.trickymothernature.com
Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie Author of Nature’s Acre. Founder, Gardeningwell.ie — wildlife gardening in Ireland (Stamullen, Co Meath).
Walled garden + school/community projects.
Peat-free, pesticide-free. Native plants, pollinators. Media: gardeningwell.ie/press/media
no thoughts, only wife line @julesforshort.bsky.social Midwest princess, charming to the last.
Kip Empire @kipempire.bsky.social New London Drone Orchestra founder/director, DJ, geographer, donor relations professional, they/them
Colin Miller @evidenceprof.bsky.social Professor @UofSCLaw; Blog Editor, EvidenceProf Blog; Co-Host, @Undisclosedpod
percept @perceptivemolecule.bsky.social Dubious Brooklyn gentile
Joseph Cermatori @cermatori.bsky.social criticism & theory - literature, art, performance, politics and culture 🌿
assoc. prof. @ Skidmore College
author: “Baroque Modernity” (JHUP 2021)
www.josephcermatori.com
Josephine Simple @josephine-simple.bsky.social writer, dancer, eunuch
(I often post in character as a confused centrist lib. plz unblock me, Julia Serano lol)
tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social host of grindr's 5th-favorite podcast // edited a fast & furious book for freaks // Sex Change & the City on sale now! (thisistrans.info)
The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social The VILLAGE 🏘 is a place where the world 🌍 feels a tiny bit smaller. Founded by SMOKELONG for the Global Flash Community
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social humanoid astrobiologist 🌌 SFF author (largely oxygen by mass) 📚 transhumanist 🤖 star trek autism character 🖖 she/they 🏳️🌈 instructor @ Columbia ✒️ CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF STARSHIPS now availabile wherever books are sold 👀
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@amagicalloaf.bsky.social @amagicalloaf.bsky.social 
Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
Jamie Knapp @mcjays.bsky.social Hafa Adai! Book Publicist @ Tiny Rep Books, Plume, and Dutton
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Grime Square @grimesquare.bsky.social News, Culture & More from Bushwick & the Rest of the Commie Corridor, NYC USA. Monitoring the Situation Since 2025.
https://grime-square.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/grimesquare/
Hub City Bookshop @hubcitybookshop.bsky.social 864•577•9349 | Spartanburg, SC
Nonprofit bookstore of Hub City Writers Project
Sister store to @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Home of Zora Nelle, #hubkitty
Katherine Packert Burke @katpburke.bsky.social whole idiot. novelist. ALL US SAINTS out 5.19.26 from Bloomsbury
Jason McBride @jasonmcbride.bsky.social Writer, Toronto. Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker (Simon & Schuster, 2022) https://www.jason-mcbride.com/
kat 🐈⬛ @bookstakat.bsky.social Here for the books! 📚📚📚 | 45/70
Reviews:
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📝 Word nerd & educator & history PhD & homeschooling Mama
🌱 Vegan
🚑 EMT & 🩺 RN to be
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Nat Mesnard @natmesnard.bsky.social Game designer, writer, teacher in NYC. Co-founder Scryptid Games & Unquiet Games. They/them 🤖 natmesnard.com
carlos @acevedofiore.bsky.social «¿Exagero? No: leo.»
–María Moreno, 2020.
lily pando @transsexualily.bsky.social tongue-in-cheek
theory movies books whatever
from houston live in brooklyn
womenagainstfilm.com
lilypando.com
helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social Former mathematician and current podcaster. she/it. my views represent those of your employer.
culturally normal.
Podcast: @odiumsymposium.bsky.social
Blog: https://bananasinwartime.ghost.io/
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
Inchly - a HaikuZine @inchly.bsky.social Short poems, shortly.
Always free, in shoppes and here.
Submissions welcome.
Author Jean Thesquare 📚💙 @sultryverse.com New York-based author. Re:Claim, a consent-forward sapphic feminist thriller, is now on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited. AcClaim begins the Sultryverse. Everything else is rumor. https://www.sultryverse.com/
Jules @julianohe.bsky.social 
Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social he/him
writer of stories and such
professional bookman for Rough Draft Bar & Books
contributing editor at Literary Hub
occasional guitarist and singer
https://drewsof.neocities.org/