Jan @jan09072495.bsky.social Lifelong democrat, women’s and gay rights are human rights 🏳️🌈. Atheist. Adopt don’t shop animal rescuer Tree hugger
Free Palestine
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Youth is beauty, aging is art!
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
Allison Renner @allisonwrites.bsky.social Writer // Editor @ Intrepidus Ink & Forget Cool
www.allisonrennerwrites.com- F @fordanna.bsky.social @fordanna.bsky.social
Greta Thunberg @thunberggreta.bsky.social Activist
Dreena’s Writing (Dreena C) @dreenawriting.co.uk Author. Insomniac. Tofu-eating wokerati. Pub’d here & there. 🇯🇪🌟 Winner: Flash500. Placed/ listed: Bridport, Marlowe & Christie, BFFA, SPR, etc. 🌟 Part-time scallywag. 🌟 I also write as Jane Harvey. 🌟
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
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
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https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Zoe Davis @meanerharker.bsky.social Writer and avid doodler with words in the likes of Strix, Ink Sweat and Tears and Dust. 2x BotN nom. Forward Prize Nom. Lives in Sheffield UK. Interested in comics, computer games and sports. Member of Sheffield Eagles Wheelchair Rugby Club.
Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social Writer and Literary Critic. Work in Gooseberry Pie Lit, Passages North, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story, Bending Genres, and FlashFlood.
Prose editor for Pictura Journal. Contemporary Anglophone Lit PhD.
https://linktr.ee/emhall47
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
Jessica Klimesh @jekwriter.bsky.social creative writer/writing coach/editor
flash, flash, and more flash! #flashfiction #microfiction
Best Microfiction 2025 | Best of the Net 2025
jessicaklimesh.com
https://jekwrites.substack.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@JessicaKlimeshWrites
Chris Dolan @mcdolan.bsky.social I am angry about the nitrate levels in Iowa’s drinking water. My writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Maudlin House, The Disappointed Housewife, and others. www.dolanchris.com
Christina Tudor @christinaltudor.bsky.social Writer, vegan taco enthusiast, cat parent. Words in HAD, Flash Frog, Litro Magazine, Best Small Fictions 2024, and more. CALL MY BODY A CAUTIONARY TALE coming soon from Thirty West on October 23, 2026.
www.christinatudor.com
L. Fox- Writer @l-foxauthor.bsky.social L. Fox is a science fiction/fantasy writer and archaeologist by sweat, blood, and training. Co-Founder of FreaQ Studios. No AI.
Coat Your Gums With Blood is out NOW with the Tales to Terrify Podcast!
Other Works and Contact: https://lfoxauthor.carrd.co/
One Fall Review @onefallreview.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to professional wrestling themed poetry.
www.onefallreview.com
Submit: https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/one-fall-review-0g27j
@chartsuyker.bsky.social @chartsuyker.bsky.social Published in Quarterly West, Fractured Literary, Fiction Southeast, Miracle Monocle and elsewhere.
Rob Walton @robwaltonwriter.bsky.social https://theemmapress.com/shop/childrens/please-dont-read-the-footnotes-please/
www.robwaltonwriter.co.uk
“playful, zingy and warm”.
Carnegie Prize nominee.Whitley Bay via Scunny.All sorts of writing for all sorts of ages.
@robwaltonwriter on other places.
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
Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social Poet. #ReadMorePoetry Collections: Crown of Eggshell, In the Shadow of Gods @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. Literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering
https://ko-fi.com/kofisupporter68929
Rachel M. Hollis (she/her) @rachelmhollis.bsky.social Writer of strange little heartbreaks. Sometimes I share them with people who aren’t my mom.
rachelmhollis.com
Mizuki Yamamoto @mizuki-yama.bsky.social Prev. writing under Mizuki Yamagen.
Words in SmokeLong, hex, Lit Namjooning, Flash Frog, Does it have pockets? Lost Balloon & elsewhere. Soon in The Forge, The Baltimore Review.
✨ SmokeLong Smokey winner
🎗️ BOTN, BMF, Pushcart noms
mizukiwrites.carrd.co
Mary Murray Bartolomé @murraybartolome.bsky.social Writing & Adventure; winner of Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize ‘24, SL in Bath Short Story, Bridport Prize, Aurora Prize, Bath Novel Award, Writer's College comp. Querying debut women’s fiction and YA novel. https://wordstaleme.wixsite.com/website
A.P. Laesch @aplaesch.bsky.social Writer, art lover, anti-moralist.
Moira Garland @moiragauthor.bsky.social Short fiction writer & poet. Feminist. Socialist. Northern England.
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
Finbar Hawkins @finbarhawkins.bsky.social Writer, Director, Illustrator
'WITCH', Branford-Boase shortlist, CLIP Carnegie nom'd.
'STONE' pub'd by Zephyr/Bloomsbury https://t.co/uHV6Gtoeni
'GHOST' publishing November 6th!
Oxford Flash Fiction Prize @oxfordflashfiction.bsky.social Oxford has inspired some of the greatest writers and poets in the world, and we’re here to expand its legacy into flash fiction.
Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social Curious. Clever. Quick. 🐈⬛
Monthly Magazine for Micro Prose
Free to sub. Paying market.
Claudineliterary.com
Mack McKenna @mackmckenna.bsky.social Flash fic, spec fic and Chelsea FCW fan. Queer as. Editor and proofreader at www.otherworldsediting.com. He/They 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Joy is an act of resistance 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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
Drew Rhys @drewrhys.bsky.social writer of over one sci-fi mystery thriller, apologetic Brit posting about movies, games, food, and that. BE MY FRIEND ON THE INTERNET!!!!!
Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/1bx85
He/him 💙📚✍️
The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the world’s best new writing.
http://theberlinliteraryreview.com
Evan James Sheldon @ejswrites3982.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Features Editor for F(r)iction. Editorial Director for Brink Literacy.
Beth Gilstrap (she/her) @bettysueblue.bsky.social Author of 2 story collections & There Is News Along The Ohio River, a hybrid/flash CNF collection out now from River River Books. Editor. Copywriter. Anti-fascist. EIC/Pub Black Lily Zine. Living w C-PTSD & neurospiciness.
Morgana MacLeod @morganamacleod.bsky.social Writer, knitter, lefty ratbag, living on Gubbi Gubbi land and in denial. 
April Bradley @april-bradley.bsky.social 🏳️🌈Writer, Sailor, Knitter, Baker, Clinical Counselor Intern; Editor & Publisher RUBY; President, SAIGE-NC; Writing at wonderful places https://aprilbradley.com
Not Quite Write @notquitewrite.com 🎙️ Not Quite Write Podcast | notquitewrite.com
🏆 Join our international flash fiction writing comp AU$4k in prizes + publication | notquitewriteprize.com
Will Willoughby @willwilloughby.bsky.social Writer • Editor • Maine Literary Award winner • Short stories in Epiphany, Pithead Chapel, Pangyrus, etc. • Story collection WHILE I HAVE YOU coming from Littoral Books April 2027
www.willwilloughby.com
Shane Larkin @shanejlarkin.bsky.social Fiction 🕺 Banshee, Sans Press, Splonk, Best Small Fictions 2024, others.
Contributing ed @nffr.bsky.social
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
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Patience Mackarness @patiencemackarness.bsky.social Writer, grandmother, tree-hugger. Born in Hampshire, now in rural Brittany, with pitstops in Leeds, Portugal, Wales, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Liverpool. I write flash fiction and other things.
Amanda O'Callaghan @amandaocallaghan.bsky.social Short stories and flash fiction. Quite a lot of awards. Collection = This Taste for Silence. Shortlisted for Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Longlisted for Edge Hill Prize (UK). Australian/Irish. www.amandaocallaghan.com 
Daily Short Story Deadlines @shortstorycontests.bsky.social Submit your short story to the relevant genre. All of these contests are guaranteed acceptances. Your story gets a video performance reading made!
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-short-story-contest-deadlines/
Beach Sloth @beachsloth.bsky.social Support Each Other
Music Blogger
Writer
Poet
https://beachsloth.substack.com/
JWT_BookAdventures @jwtba.bsky.social Welcome to JWT_BookAdventures - I do Q&A interviews with Authors - I also do book reviews if I am interested in reading the book
Tom Barsoomian @barsoomian.bsky.social Husband, Dad and general nerd. Drinker of coffee and reader of banned books. #Bluecrew O.G. #Resistance @50501movement.bsky.social @Barsoomian on Twitter.
SZ Estavillo @szestavilloauthor.com Crime Thriller Author | The Serpent Series |@OliverHeberBooks | MA: TV, Radio & Film | Multi-Genre Reader
The Serpent’s Bridge (📚1)
The Serpent Woman (📚2)
Twilight of the Serpent (📚3)
The Serpent’s Order (📚4)
amazon.com/dp/B0CW6KP433
Euan Taylor Author @euantaylorauthor.bsky.social The Hard Times: Prison Diaries: A book about crime, punishment, rehabilitation, greed, and putting a newspaper to bed before the editorial team gets locked up: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hard-Times-Prison-Diaries-ebook/dp/B0DPVH8HFF/
Perthshire Writers @perthshirewriters.bsky.social A group of Perthshire-based writers meeting regularly to share their work in a friendly and supportive atmosphere.
Leah Belle @leahbellewrites.bsky.social Writer, doctor, and scientist. Reading (and writing!) literary fiction and narrative medicine. Lover of all things musical. She/Her.
Elizabeth Burton @eburtonwrites.bsky.social Writer with words in Chautauqua, Split Lip, Good River Review, SoFloPoJo, The MacGuffin, JMWW, and others. Lover of books, words, dogs, horses, cats, and pretty much any other animal. English professor is my day job.
The New Yorker @newyorker.com Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
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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
EASTMAN @eastmanblue.bsky.social Social democrat. Vegetarian. Science. Baseball.
Humor. Books. Atheist. Dog rescuer. Advocate.
Fan of critical thinking. I write about politics and religion.
Rich Holmes @fablecorp.bsky.social Ex-Navy. Ex-athlete. Ex-X (kinda funny). Philosopher. Master debater. Jack-of-all-Trades, Master of some. Historian. Writer. Broke Philanthropist. Supporter of Civil Rights. Believer in meritocracy. Realist to moderate Woke. 🚫MAGA 🚫PORN 🚫CRYPTO 🚫DM
Julia Madsen (Gothic Quill) @gothicquill.bsky.social 🩸 Writing about my family’s rural true crime
📕MFA Brown University | PhD Denver
📍From a gravel road, nowhere
Orbital Policy Group @druidorbital.bsky.social Viewpoints and opinions on policy issues relating to Low Earth Orbit, including policy, science, governance, and cybersecurity.
Anthony Addis @anthonyaddis.bsky.social I used to write, read and live in Cairo, KL, Jakarta and Riyadh. Now I do all that in Lichfield while placating two Indonesian streetcats.
My novel 'Do Not Keep Silent' is available on Amazon.
anthonyaddis.co.uk
@ttflowers.bsky.social @ttflowers.bsky.social Geographer Earth First!
Writer speculative fiction
Gardener Organic, I grow turmeric
Californian Earthling
Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9
Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Vf4w9Ze38rLniADBEGKSp?si=AcWduGX
Grace Tierney @wordfoolery.bsky.social Word history - books, blog, LMFMRadio
Comedyfic - Channillo
Love to read, craft, garden in Ireland
My Books - wordfoolery.wordpress.com/my-books/
Weekly Word Blog - http://www.wordfoolery.wordpress.com/
Newsletter - subscribepage.io/wordfoolerywhispers
Michael Lomotey @michaellomotey.bsky.social Doctoral Researcher, analysing antiblackness in climate and ecology. See chapter:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003465973-14/antiblackness-flood-risk-hull-michael-lomotey
Samantha Hart @samanthahart.bsky.social Storyteller, Author of Blind Pony: As True
A Story As I Can Tell
samanthahart.net
wildbill.la
Andrew Fox Ⓥ @foxphorescence.bsky.social Reader, writer, book collector, and all-around biblophile.
Learning to channel the soft whisper of the muses.
Autodidact.
INFJ
#WritingCommunity
#Shelley #Keats #Tennsyon #HartCrane #Stevens #Whitman #Dickinson #Bloom.
Vegan FTA
Good vibes only. ~ ~ ~
Emma Phillips @words-outwest.bsky.social Flash fan, poet, short fiction writer. Likes actual and imaginary travel. Words: 2nd place Bath Flash June 2021, Best Microfiction 2022, Free Flash Fiction Competition Winner. 
Andy Lavender @andylavender.bsky.social Sometime #Flashfiction writer, frequent procrastinator. Stories in Dribble Drabble Review, WestWord, 101 Words, Fudoki Magazine, Visual Verse and various Flash Fiction Anthologies. Based in South West UK
Dan is writing 🇨🇦 🍁 @writerdan.bsky.social Writer of light detective fiction and urban fantasy, grinding my way to publication. Likely to follow you only if you are a reader, writer, or author. Or author-adjacent. Or #NAFO and #Ukraine.
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I only respond to DMs that are substantive.
Mike L Tilford 📚 😺 @thatwriterguy.com NYT Worstselling Author
SFF📚, Satire, Comedy, Absurdist
Dummest Person in the Room
https://www.thatwriterguy.com
https://www.amazon.com/author/m.l.tilford
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
www.alcs.co.uk
Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social Writer of poetry/fiction for children (Dirigible, Tyger Tyger, Little Thoughts, Nimblewitlit, The Toy) and adults (Shine, Viridine, Underbelly, Rough Diamond) | Pushcart nom '26, Times/CH LL | he/him
c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social vagabond. mendicant. diarist. wreck.
Un de ces féroces infirmes retour des pays chauds.
"So here is us, on the raggedy edge..."
(from the film 'Serenity', 2005)
Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social Midwestern writer and east coast schoolmarm. Not coming back for thirty percent. (he/him)
michelle @mickeypip.bsky.social ✏️ Writer, Artist, Narrative Designer (scripts, stories, games and other stuff)
👻 Lover of all things weird
📺 Channel 4 New Writers 24/25
📚 Trustee Manchester City of Literature
🎬 BAFTA Connect
✍️ WIP: spec fic collection
🔗 https://linktr.ee/mickeypip
Cath Holland @caththewriter.bsky.social Writer of fiction. Published by Mslexia, NFFD, Dead Ink Books, Fictive Dream. Features ed God Is In The TV:
https://bsky.app/profile/godisinthetvzine.bsky.social Infrequent DJ. Was trophy wife, now Andy's widow. Nepo baby. cathbore@gmail(.)com.
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
Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social Κλεοπάτρα 🇨🇾 Writer, editor, translator | Stories in: swamp pink, HAD, Tiny Molecules, Flash Flood, Claudine, Raw Lit | she/her
Shortlisted, Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction
Best Small Fictions & Best of the Net nominee
kleopatraolympiou.com
Salena Casha @salenacasha.bsky.social writer. runner. product manager. 1×WigleafTop50 selection, 2xPushcart nom, 2×BOTN nom, 3xBSF nom.
Join the waitlist for Teresa 2.0 here: teresaseesyou.com
Tiffany Harris @proliffany.bsky.social 🏆 1st Tadpole Press 100-Word Contest
🌟 Highly Commended @bathflashaward.bsky.social
✨ 3X Longlisted @smokelong.bsky.social
Words in Buckman Journal, Human Obscura, Black Glass Pages
https://tiffany-harris.com
PeterUrpeth @peterurpeth.bsky.social Writer | poet | development editor | pianist | improviser | Journalist |
peterurpeth.com | peterurpeth.bandcamp.com | poetry collection - The 4000 Nights of New York in 1988 peterurpeth.com/4000nights | Cockney living in the Outer Hebrides
Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social Archaeologist. Broad experiences and interests in archaeology. Currently focussed on arch of recent and contemporary times. Written several books, incl textbooks. Series editor for Teaching Archaeology (U of Toronto Press). Now also trying to write fiction
Bríd McGinley @bridmcginley.bsky.social Writer, reader, lover of music, secret singer. 
Jaime Gill @jaimegill.bsky.social Brit writer in Cambodia. I work, write, read, run, box, sometimes socialise. www.jaimegill.com & jaimegill.substack.com
Published in Missouri Review, The Forge, Fractured, Trampset & more
Bridport & Luminaire Prose Award winner, 3 times Puschart nominee
Alice @wordsbyalice.bsky.social Midwesterner. Immigrant. Writer. Artist.
Allergic to cheese.
🏳️🌈 she/they
Sue Pearson @soupie.bsky.social I love words, soaking them up and writing them down. The smell of leaf mould and green things sprouting. The texture of bark. Fussing song birds, and the roar and drama of wind and waves. And humans; complex like layers of rock laid down over millennia.
Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social Recovering X and Twitter addict. Looking for a funnier, more intelligent place.
Lifelong Leeds United supporter.
I block racists.
Elderly white hippie and proud.
Scotland's Coefficient @www.scottishfootball.info My name is Gavin.
Write about interesting things in Scottish football.
Including the coefficient, Scottish national team & football finances.
Please come visit me at www.ScottishFootball.info for regular and engaging insights into Scottish football
Jen Julian @jennicjul.bsky.social Writer + artist + cat person, The Winter Folk (Orbit 2026), Red Rabbit Ghost (Orbit 2025), Earthly Delights and Other Apocalypses (Press 53 2018), Clarion 2016, creative writing prof @ Young Harris College
https://jenjulian.com | Insta: @jenjulianwriter
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.
Brent van Staalduinen | Writer, Resister, Human. @brentvans.com Canadian. Award-winning, bestselling novelist (brentvans.com), Husband. Dad. Son. Resister of fascism. Deconstructed/Reconstructing Christian. Forge FC supporter. Human. He/Him.
Nick Fogg @nickfoggwords.bsky.social Writer. She/her. Mslexia Novel Comp LL, Aurora Metro Virginia Prize LL, ACE DYCP & WriteMentor Mentoring Prog. BFI Network x BAFTA Crew alumna
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov Dad, husband, teacher, coach, veteran. Governor of Minnesota. Working to move our state forward as #OneMinnesota.