Kathy Prokhovnik @kathyprokhovnik.bsky.social Writing fiction and nonfiction. But you can’t make this stuff up can you?
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Black Herald Press @blackheraldpress.bsky.social Éditeur indépendant / independent press
poésie, essais, textes courts / Poetry books, essays, short texts (in English or mostly bilingual) since 2010 / éditrice-publisher Blandine Longre @blandinelongre.bsky.social
https://www.blackheraldpress.com
Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com Writer, scientist, bug. she/her. #yeg. 🇨🇦 🇬🇾 Winner of a Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award! Rep: Michael Curry 📚🪲 Tips for cat treats! https://ko-fi.com/premee
Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social First pub TrashCat Lit. NFFD Anthology Editors Award 25. Shortlisted for Fish. Stories in SmokeLong, BULL, DIHP, New Feathers, Bath+Oxford anthologies. LISP finalist + winner of Westword + Flash500. Poetry collection in Top 20 Small-Press Poetry awards
Chicago Review of Books @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social A @storystudiochicago.bsky.social publication! Editor-in-Chief @mbwwelch.bsky.social
Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com KILL CURRENT (writing as Oliver Lowe) coming May 2027 from Zando.
Pre-order: https://zandoprojects.com/books/kill-current-hardcover
Noémi Scheiring-Oláh @itssonoemi.bsky.social Hungarian alien writing in English(ian). Fan of cats and underdogs. ő/she/they/we 💚 Autistic. | noemiwrites.com | 🇵🇸🍉
Laken Brimicombe @lakenbrimicombe.bsky.social 🇨🇦Middle grade writer
🐈⬛Cat mom
Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Writer
Poetry: Debut collection due Spring ‘27
(Broken Sleep Books)
Forward Prize/BOTN nominee
100+ poems in Agenda, Stand, Poetry Salzburg, Chiron Review, IS&T etc & on BBC
Charles Causley & Bridport shortlists
Prose: Orwell Prize/Bridport Novel longlists
AnnaLois @annalois36.bsky.social Creative, quirky, bookworm. World embracer. House renovator. Mermaid. Dressmaker. Gardener. Partner and Mum. Thirst for knowledge. Excited by everyday wonders. Photographs taken by me. Nothing dodgy thanks!
#ForestFriday helper
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Stan J Wild @stanjwild.bsky.social Short fiction, CNF, lit mags.
Sharing writing I like — and some of my own.
Stories in Vestal Review, Hinterland, Wallstrait, Neon&Smoke and others
Brandon McNeice @brandonmcneice.bsky.social Head of School | Writer | Speaker | PBJ 40 Under 40
www.brandonmcneice.com
Christopher Boon @christopherboon.bsky.social Author of depressing stories at époque press, teacher of English and film studies, spiritual guru to two undeserving dogs.
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!
Denise Mina @damedenisemina.bsky.social Writer, cyclist, biscuit connoisseur. A bit much.
Latest book: ‘The Good Liar’, about junk forensic science and moral responsibility
Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social Hugo and Nebula nominated author with over 100 works in print, computer programmer, weirdo from Cleveland.
Class-conscious science fiction. Unionize the world.
DG @1dgrn.bsky.social 
Tim Craig @timcraig.bsky.social Manc | Writer of short fiction | ‘Now You See Him’ Long List Edge Hill Prize 22, short list Int Rubery Prize | multiple placed Bath Flash Award | prev winner Bridport Prize flash.
Rhys Thornton @rhysthornton.bsky.social Aspiring author. Currently writing my debut novel, The Bridge.
Lover of heavy metal, live music, theatre and of course, great books.
Live in Worcestershire with my husband and feisty Border Terrier!
JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social I enjoy taking photos and sharing them, mostly of nature. All genres from astro, landscape, macro, marine life, wildlife, insects, flowers, etc.
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Urban Pigs Press @urbanpigspress.bsky.social Indie press and lit mag focusing on starting small and building a good foundation.
Editors @jamesjenkins.bsky.social, @virginiabwrites.bsky.social & @markburrow.bsky.social
https://urbanpigspress.co.uk/
Dark Galloway @darkgalloway.bsky.social Adventures in a historic landscape. Dark tales and photography from Northern Britain. #Scotland #NorthernBritain #Galloway #history #legend #folklore
WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
Kate Axeford @kateaxeford.bsky.social Flashy writer/ social worker/ gig goer and ditherer. Lives in Brighton. Loves the sea.
Karen Crawford @karenc.bsky.social Exorcising demons one word at a time.
🇵🇷 ✍🏽 BestMicrofiction 2025, PushcartNoms, BOTN Nom, Longlists, Wigleaf Top 50
NYC → LA
Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social Aurelias-nominated writer of speculative short stories. Words in Levar Burton Reads, Year’s Best Fantasy and many more. Australian/Chinese via Malaysia. Sentence enthusiast. Dumplingmancer. Look at you all mythicalogical.
Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social writes poetry
Author M. I. Verras (She/Her) @miverrasauthor1.bsky.social Gothic author, singer, composer, keyboardist, designer, university graduate, company associate, sports fan, existential seeker. Author of two metaphysical, symbolic fantasy-mystery novellas. Novella plots and covers are in English and NOT AI.
Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social closed for submissions.
lamplit.net
s w i f t s: a literary magazine @swiftslitmag.bsky.social an @accumulatequiet.bsky.social project edited by @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social
www.swiftslitmag.com
News to Remember @moments2remember.link Breaking U.S. news, politics and the stories behind the headlines. Independent reporting, historical context and verified updates.
David Moolten @davidmoolten.bsky.social Writer at large in Philadelphia... Poems in American Poetry Review, Poetry, The Georgia Review, The Threepenny Review, Ploughshares. Winner Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize (NEUP), T.S. Eliot Prize (U.S. version, TSUP).
David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social Walking pics, stories, poems, essays. & Piero, Fra A, Nabokov, Sebald, Dickinson, Rilke, Loy, HD, Ozu, Akerman, Tanaka, Pasolini, Sirk, Varda, Demy, Dead, Mahler, Jameses… & some Dharma
www.six18sfoundry.com
Nurture Junk Birds
Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social Writer: Rosewater, Murders of Molly Southbourne, Far from the Light of Heaven, Making Wolf, Jackdaw and others.
Arthur C. Clarke and BSFA award winner, Hugo finalist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Etc.
Reading worm.
Opinions mine.
He/him
Brittany Terwilliger @brttnyblm.bsky.social Author of THE INSATIABLES from @ChiReviewPress and THE HOUSE OF BUGMAN forthcoming from Maudlin House, Managing Editor at @pitheadchapel, future ghost
www.BrittanyTerwilliger.com
Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and Everything She Didn't Say (out 16 July). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.
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
Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social Writer, wanderer. Finding quiet beauty in life✨Creative nonfiction, photography, poetry and haiku • Just being human here.🇨🇦
agoldenhour.com
Mitchell Ny @mitchellny.com 非人非鬼 🫠 | lyric essay, fiction
in: trampset, Bending Genres, Maudlin House, Same Faces Collective, Blood+Honey, [...]
American Literary Review's 2026 Nonfiction Finalist
Fractured Lit's 2026 Micro Prize Shortlist
mitchellny.com
moocat.net @moocat.net This is the official account for the literary magazine, moocat.net (2001-present)
In lieu of direct messages to this account, please use the Contact Us form on the website:
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ellipsis zine @ellipsiszine.bsky.social Literary magazine and independent press, publishing beautifully written flash and microfiction. 1,000 words or fewer.
Est. 2017-2024. Relaunched in 2026.
https://www.ellipsis-zine.com
Liminal Space Creative @liminalspacecreative.substack.com Aspiring Métis writer drawn to the grey areas of the human condition. Places we bury deep, where love and sorrow quietly pool together. Spaces that hold both our capacity for sincere kindness and our potential for extreme cruelty.
Jamie Fairbairn @drfairbairn.bsky.social Scots Language, Geography, Music, outdoors, drams, family, writing, films, fun. 4 x winner Scots Language Awards. SQA Senior Verifier Scots. OU tutor. Teacher. 
Whimsy @whimsyfiction.bsky.social A monthly microfiction contest celebrating the lighter, more peculiar side of storytelling. Yes, our alpaca travels by quill 🦙🪶
https://www.whimsyfiction.com/
Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social 🙋♀️: fiction writer, poet, translator, high school language teacher, cat paparazzo, fun aunt
🗣️: English, français, español, Gaeilge
✍️: Adela Zamudio’s CONFIDENCES (Bucknell U Press) is out now!
🔗: lnlanguage.com, lauranagle.substack.com
Imogen Forster @imogenforster.bsky.social Poet and former translator, living in Edinburgh, publishing here and there. 
Estefano @estefano1.bsky.social life long democrat, dog lover, book fiend, anti-fascist, anti-treason, anti-republican, anti-Nazi.
I cheer on decency.
Elena Again @elenaagain.bsky.social #hike #travel published poet and author 🩷
#cancersurvivor 💙 #autoimmune 💜 #SCA10min ❤️ Army Vet
Here I am, again 🦋 love must triumph
#loveofblsky
substack.com/@elenaagain
*all pictures & writings are mine unless RP, quoted or cited; no AI
Sunset Cove @grammy1947.bsky.social Dog lover of Lhasa Apso's, addicted to politics, lifelong Democrat, hate Trump!!!! Now is the time for all Americans to VOTE in the MIDTERMS and all elections, VOTE TRUMP out! Praying for peace and loving my Lake Erie view. No DM's or chats please.
Almond Kellacher @almondkellacher.bsky.social Retired filmmaker and video producer, currently spending my time working on a novel and writing short stories and flash fiction.
@writersscotland.bsky.social @writersscotland.bsky.social 
Thank You Republicans @thankyourepublican.bsky.social Have you said Thank You once, for this mess???
Political satire, sarcasm, and conversation starters.
New "THANK YOU REPUBLICANS FOR..." designs every week.
Alissa Morgan @yogagoddess.bsky.social Yogini, Curator, Collector, Critic, Writer.
My interests lie in well-being for not only myself, but for the world in which we live, the creatures with whom we share it, and yes that includes you.
No tolerance for fascists, MAGA or unkind people.
Aarik Danielsen (he/him) @aarikdanielsen.bsky.social Debut essay collection PIECES OF THE NIGHT forthcoming (Cornerstone Press, 2027)
Recovering newspaperman
Promised to Holly
#SFGiants forever
Wants to be with you alone and talk about the weather
https://aarikdanielsen.com
Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social feral woman • writer • librarian • bi af • on a constant quest for comfortable silence • tweets as if it’s all ephemeral
Subhranil Banerjee @subhranilbanerjee.bsky.social Author | Speaker | Mindset Coach
Life's a journey. I drive it with these 3 on:
Curiosity engine, Gratitude lights and Ego brakes!
#Mindfulness #Nature #Write.
Own 📸 pics ©️ & ✍️quotes©️
@Subhranil_B on Twitter (now 'X')
Rind & Root Journal @rindandroot.bsky.social A literary review and journal. Run by emerging writers for emerging writers
Website: rindandroot.org
Shrutidhora P Mohor @shrutidhora.bsky.social Author
Statuslink @statuslink.bsky.social Favored Kudos Mash / Follow Back
Tania Hershman 🏳️🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social Queer writer of odd things. 10th book, "It's Time", a hybrid chronomemoir, out now. Permissioner, founder of Unbox Your Words. She/they 🏳️🌈 www.taniahershman.com; https://taniahershman.substack.com/; https://www.instagram.com/tania_hershman_writes
Iain Aire @iainaire.bsky.social Word alchemist, the quest for the unobtainable. EcoFiction, Fantasy, SciFi, Crime & Book Binder. The borderland of worlds. www.iainaire.com The Grey Pilgrim’s Gambit https://thegreypilgrimsgambit.laterpress.com Seeds anthology https://seeds.laterpress.com
Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social Wildlife Community for those who care about species & habitat conservation. Photography, Art, Videos of Birds,Mammals,Reptiles,Plants,insects
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578489868735
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Stewart Guy @stewartguy.bsky.social Naturalist. Wildlife Photographer.
Aka StewRat. Founder of Wildlife.net
Share, Inspire, Protect.
River Wilde Photography 📸 @riverwildephoto.bsky.social Alternative photography to chafe your soul.
https://www.instagram.com/wildetheriver
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💯Human made art
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British Birds @british-birds.bsky.social Official BritishBirds.com Bluesky account. For those who love British Birds. We welcome all those with a passion for Wild birds from wherever you live in the World!
dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social Place-names, maps, languages dgplacenames.wordpress.com
auldnorse.wordpress.com/owersettins/
JAMESON QUINN @realjamesonquinn.bsky.social SAG-AFTRA Award Winning Actor | Voice Artist Pittsburgh PA
4 bookings email BOOKTHEJQWAY@gmail.com or PODSTARZ.net
https://www.IMDb.me/TheJQWay
Sharon Mark @sharonmarkart.bsky.social Canadian visual artist, working with acrylics in a naive folk art style.
Website: www.sharonmark.com
poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social Former poète maudit, RIP 2021.
2024-25 Pushcart nominee for most Proustean heartbreak.
Montalean longing, Lorca pinning.
I have to give you up again
And I can't.
I am after the lost sign, the single
pledge you graced me with.
And hell is certain
Paul @paulst001.bsky.social Keen smartphone photographer , retired and married. I enjoy mostly colour photography, enjoy floral and nature the most. Almost all photos are taken with an Xiaomi 15t.
SeaLevelOslo @sealeveloslo.bsky.social Sky and sea, altitude zero is the place to be.
Angler turned photographer. Just an excuse to go out and experience nature. My photos are under Media.
Reposts keep posts alive for more than a few hours. Be generous.
Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social Pulitzer finalist for THE GREAT BELIEVERS; new novel, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, out now. Artistic Director at StoryStudio Chicago. Trying to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. You should, too.
rebeccamakkai.substack.com
https://rebeccamakkai.com
Rachel @vignettes.bsky.social Absurdist, writer, explorer, escape artist.
Writer of poetry, prose
Words in Literary Revelations: Haiku for Soul Mates @epistemiclit.bsky.social, Pure Haiku, From One Line Vol.7, Survivor Zine, #BOTN nominee x 2 2026
British, lives in Italy
Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social 
Sarvin Parviz @sarprvz.bsky.social Award-winning multigenre & genre-bender writer/interdisciplinary Artist (she/her)
Semifinalist in European Opera-directing Prize (EOP)
Unofficial Singer/Official Collaborator
sarvinparviz.com
#flashfiction
#writingcommunity
Rust & Moth @rustandmoth.bsky.social Lit journal, cellar door knocker, sic semper tyrannis. Work reprinted in Best of the Net. Open for poetry submissions December 1st - 20th!
www.rustandmoth.com
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Richy Craven @richycraven.bsky.social Half man, half-wit.
Dublin, Ireland.
I have a book.
https://linktr.ee/richycraven
The Turning Leaf Journal @turningleafjournal.bsky.social A home for CNF, Poetry & Art on the edge of change
https://linktr.ee/theturningleafjournal
Spout Press @spoutpress.bsky.social A Twin Cities collective-based nonprofit publisher of books emphasizing emerging talent, community-building, & artistic collaborations. Distributed by Asterism Books.
https://www.spoutpress.org/
Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social Freelance journalist & writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social ✊ Anti-Facist | Anti-Reform | Pro-Equality
📱 Anti-Reform on FB.
⚖️ Standing against far-right rhetoric and extremism.
Secret Edinburgh @secretedinburgh.bsky.social Underemployed flâneuse sharing info about #Edinburgh beyond the castle ie overlooked, neglected, underappreciated, everyday & mundane treasures inc
- Graveyards
- Guerrilla Gardens
- Street Art
- Indie Retail
- Hidden Gems
she/her
Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social Icelandic writer.
The Night Guest // Dead Weight // Down Where Monsters Dwell coming in March 2027!
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.
The Woolf (Official) @thewoolfofficial.bsky.social Howl-worthy words & art from Switzerland and beyond | Short fiction, prose poetry, CNF & visual art | Subs for Issue 11 open through 2 October 2026 | https://thewoolfx.com/submit/
@jjournal.bsky.social @jjournal.bsky.social 
@chartsuyker.bsky.social @chartsuyker.bsky.social Published in Quarterly West, Fractured Literary, Fiction Southeast, Miracle Monocle and elsewhere.
Hank Moore @hankmoore.bsky.social Author 14 books: Pop Music Legends, Big Picture of Business, Classic TV Reference, Non-Profit Legends, Pop Icons & Business Legends. Nominated for 7 Pulitzer Prizes. 100+ awards. Speaker. Business guru. Corporate Strategist. Humanitarian. Pop Culture Maven
Stand Up to Racism Scotland @sutrscotland.bsky.social #StandUpToRacism #StopTheFarRight No to Islamophobia, anti-Semitism or scapegoating migrants. #RefugeesWelcome #JusticeForShekuBayoh #BlackLivesMatter
Head to https://linktr.ee/sutrscot to get involved!
Shon Mapp 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @shonmapp.bsky.social Engineer >>> Writer
Folio Editor: Anomaly
Reader: Fractured Lit
www.shonmapp.com
Astrid Aillume @aillume.bsky.social A detective. Astrid Aillume's New Case: A Billionaire's Mystery
Cracking a case is like salty liquorice.
Surprising at first,but ultimately addictive.
The Ubergroup @theubergroup.bsky.social a 501(c)3 nonprofit providing low cost education for writers. Prose, poetry, stage, screen, nonfiction, journalism, comics, animation, podcasts, you name it. If it has a writer at any stage, we teach it.
theubergroup.org
K.M. Hanslik @kmhanslik.bsky.social My writing explores the nature of change, the psychology of grief, and landscapes as bridges between the spiritual and the physical.
Editor for The Turning Leaf Journal. @turningleafjournal.bsky.social
Chapbook “Bones” 2026.
kmhanslik.com