W. Ralph Eubanks @wralpheubanks.bsky.social Author of When It's Darkness on the Delta, A Place Like Mississippi, and other works of nonfiction. Faculty fellow and writer-in-residence at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. President, @authorsguild.org
Dara T. Mathis @trulytafakari.bsky.social Mama. Writer. Lover. Bylines where you like to read. Black to the future.
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.
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Joanna Robinson @jowrotethis.bsky.social Writer and podcaster at the @ringer • one of Cameron Crowe’s Uncool • taller than you think • author of MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios for W. W. Norton
Hillary Brenhouse @hbrenhouse.bsky.social Founding editor of elasticmag.bsky.social, the new print magazine of psychedelic art & literature. Formerly editorial director of Bold Type Books, EIC of Guernica mag. Writer. Sleeping in my tent in your backyard.
Sejal Shah @sejalshah.bsky.social Writer & author of THIS IS ONE WAY TO DANCE: Essays, an NPR Best Book of the year & HOW TO MAKE YOUR MOTHER CRY: fictions, long-listed for the 2025 Story Prize. More at www.sejal-shah.com. #invisibledisabilities #neurodiversity #ADHD
Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social Author of 10 books.The latest: A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN. THE AMNESIAC out 2027. Newsletter here: 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com #1000wordsofsummer
Mignon Fogarty @grammargirl.bsky.social Grammar Girl. Podcaster. Author of seven books about language. Quick and Dirty Tips founder. Bad skier. she/her http://linktr.ee/grammargirl
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VCCA @the-vcca.bsky.social The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) provides time and space to writers, visual artists, and composers at artist residency programs in Virginia and France. #VCCAFellows
Kate Arden McMullen @katearden.bsky.social she/her 🌞 Managing Editor at Hub City Press
fiction in Carve, Ninth Letter, BULL, The Boiler, Reckon, etc etc
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NC Writers' Network @ncwritersnetwork.bsky.social Supporting "The Writingest State" since 1985. We provide a network for North Carolina writers through conferences, online classes, critique services, and other programs. Learn more: https://linktr.ee/ncwriters
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
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Bassey @basseyworld.bsky.social *sigh*
Larry Wilmore @larrywillmore.bsky.social Emmy Award-winning producer, actor, comedian, writer, magician, father of 2, keeper of 💯s and host of "Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air"
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social Host of Crooked Media’s “What A Day.” Contributing writer at the New York Times. Previously: host of The Argument. Go Blue means Go the University of Michigan. 
Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social Host of The Joy Reid Show, best-selling author, writer, documentary filmmaker, and happy warrior blerd 'bout town. Subscribe at thejoyreidshow.com and joyannreid.com!
Lena Moses-Schmitt @lenamschmitt.bsky.social writes & draws / author of TRUE MISTAKES (poems, forthcoming spring 2025 from Univ. of Arkansas Press) / doing publicity for @catapult.co, Counterpoint, & Soft Skull Press
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Cassie Mannes Murray @cassmannes.bsky.social Writer. Founder & director at Pine State Publicity. Mom to P & E. 🐝
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LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high… #bydhttmwfi
Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org radical publisher of politics, culture, current events
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Jenn Baker (she/her) @jbakernyc.bsky.social New Yorker, Editor, Writer, host/creator Minorities in Publishing podcast. Books: FORGIVE ME NOT (2023), EVERYDAY PEOPLE (2018).
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Politico @politico.com Nobody knows politics and policy like we do.
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Issa M. Mas (She/Her) @issamas.bsky.social Single Mom. Native New Yorker. Writer. Queer. Peer Support Specialist. Public Speaker. Black Buddhist Boricua. Author of Grief Thoughts: Brief Anecdotes About Profound Loss https://linktr.ee/IssaMas
Rachel Ranie Taube @racheltaube.bsky.social Writer, snacker in Richmond, VA. | Fabulist fiction and book crit. | Words in Lit Hub, Electric Lit, Catapult, The Millions, Hayden's Ferry Review, etc.
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Khadijah Queen @khadijahqueen.com Doctor of poems. In my crone era.
Writer. Professor. Traveler. Michigan-born, California-raised. But you might find me anywhere ✨ New memoir: Between the Devil & The Deep Blue Sea 💙⚓️🩵
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Evie Shockley @seminewblack.bsky.social poet & literary scholar, people-oriented introvert, optimist of the will
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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social.
Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️🌈
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Virginia Quarterly Review @vqr.bsky.social An award-winning national magazine at the University of Virginia. Established in 1925. vqronline.org
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Cortney Lamar Charleston @bardsbesidebars.bsky.social Poet & Author
• TELEPATHOLOGIES (Saturnalia Books, 2017);
• DOPPELGANGBANGER (Haymarket Books, 2021);
• IT'S IMPORTANT I REMEMBER (Northwestern Univ. Press, 2026)
https://www.cortneylamarcharleston.com/important-links
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
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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
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Michelle Donahue @michelledonahue.bsky.social Writer, professor, associate editor of Ecotone
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Eddie S. Glaude @esglaude.bsky.social http://prh.com/AmericaUSA | https://www.anativeson.org
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Imani Perry @imaniperry.bsky.social Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less: http://imaniperryauthor.com/
Lilly Lu✨is 👀👀👀!!! @lillyluwrites.bsky.social author 🏳️🌈 | race & regency scholar | fiction editor @mentmagazine.bsky.social | lillyluwrites.com | rep: @palindrometodd.bsky.social | she/they
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Tiffany Alexander @tiffanyalexander.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Traveler.
Gardener.
I watch an obscene amount of television.
Ecotone Magazine @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social A biannual magazine that seeks to reimagine place. Founded & made at UNCW. Winner, 2022 AWP Small Press Publisher Award & 2023 Firecracker Award
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
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Minda Honey @mindahoney.bsky.social Writer.
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.
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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social Poet & NYT bestselling author of A SUIT OR A SUITCASE, YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL, DEAR WRITER, GOOD BONES +📚 Host of @slowdownshow.org
Maurice Ruffin @mauricenow.bsky.social Maybe the real treasure was the friends we made along the way. 💐 I'm probably on my Substack: Sitting in Silence.✍️🏿https://mauricecarlosruffin.substack.com/
Max Blau @maxblau.bsky.social Atlanta-based investigative reporter with ProPublica's South team. I write about health care, public health and the environment, among other things. Get in touch at max.blau@propublica.org.
Flatiron Books @flatironbooks.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/flatironbooks
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Jay Jennings @jayjennings.bsky.social Political scientist, researcher at the Cline Center - University of Illinois and Center for Media Engagement - University of Texas. 
BStaples @bstaples30.bsky.social Thoughts on the Oxford comma?
Oxford American @oxfordamerican.bsky.social The Oxford American is a national magazine dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the South.
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National Book Foundation @nationalbook.bsky.social National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards. Dedicated to the celebration of the best literature in America. 
Kim Samek @kimsamek.bsky.social O. Henry Prize-winning author of debut story collection I AM THE GHOST HERE with Dial Press, out now. Pushcart Prize winner, Emmy nominated tv writer.
Quinta Brunson @quintabrunson.bsky.social Hi.
Jay Smooth @jsmooth.bsky.social I be the personal computer information on rap
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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.
Cheryl Strayed @cherylstrayed.bsky.social Writer. Mom. Portlander. Traveler. Cat/dog lady. Author of Wild, Tiny Beautiful Things, Torch, and Brave Enough. Also: Dear Sugar.
Melissa Febos @melissafebos.bsky.social Author of five books—next up The Dry Season 6/3/25
Thoughts my own and not representing any institution.
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Dawnie Walton @dawniewalton.bsky.social Writer, teacher, co-host of Ursa Short Fiction. Author of THESE GIRLS OUT HERE (2027) and THE FINAL REVIVAL OF OPAL & NEV.
Electric Literature @electricliterature.com Making literature exciting, relevant and inclusive
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social Journalist, writer, former member of the Six Heartbeats. Championship-level spades player. ContrabandCamp.com founder. Author of NY Times bestseller: Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America.
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
Eve L. Ewing @eveewing.bsky.social I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Katherine O’Hara @katherineohara.bsky.social Working in publishing | Previously: prose reader Electric Literature | MFA UNCW | Tin House ‘20 | Best American Essays Notable ‘23 | 🏳️🌈 | Opinions my own; reposts ≠ endorsements
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May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social Writer. Prof at SFSU. My Hungry Ghosts: Essays & Incantations…coming 9/22/2026! Tomorrow in Shanghai & Other Stories; Useful Phrases for Immigrants; The Girl from Purple Mountain; etc. Board member of NBCC @bookcritics. Web: https://may-leechai.com/
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Stephen Colbert @stephencolbert.bsky.social Evie’s husband 
Anna Lena @aproflection.bsky.social Poet/teacher/editor/printer/plant person. Might Could, winner of the Anthony Hecht Prize, 3/2026 / Ornament, UNT Press / Editor, @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social / Opinions my own; reposts ≠ endorsements
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Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams @hannahabrams.bsky.social Whiting, Rona Jaffe, NCAC Fellow.
Work in Orion, Oxford American, Southern Humanities, StoryQuarterly, MayDay, The Pinch, and elsewhere. 
Ed Southern @edsouthern.bsky.social Chief writer-connector at NC Writers’ Network, author of FIGHT SONGS & more, not as grumpy as I look.- S @sarahdomet.bsky.social @sarahdomet.bsky.social
Tayari Jones @tayari.bsky.social NYT Bestselling author of KIN and AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE. (Oprah’s Book Club x2) Atlanta born, Atlanta bred, when I die, I’ll be Atlanta dead.
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Deesha Philyaw @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social Author of THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF FIRST LADY FREEMAN (on sale 9.29.2026; pre-order: https://bit.ly/firstladyfreeman) and THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES.
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
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