Artists from Maryland @artfrommaryland.bsky.social Publication of writing and art by Maryland-based creatives
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social "Above all, we loved this country and loved exploring and painting it." ~ Lawren Harris
CB Droege (Manawaker) @cbdroege.bsky.social Word Artist.
EiC - Manawaker Studio
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social Icelandic writer.
The Night Guest // Dead Weight // Down Where Monsters Dwell coming in March 2027!
Neckties of Noir @neckties-of-noir.bsky.social Film, and classic film noir neckwear, baby.
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The Snake Boys Show 🐍🐍🐍 @snakeboysshow.bsky.social OUT NOW! Pop culture clubhouse conversation with Tom Crowley, Tom Neenan and John Rain. Watch on YouTube or listen to the podcast!
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Adam 🍎 @adapples.bsky.social Amateur apple maven and blogger
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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com Brad Bigelow, Missoula, MT
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Author, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
Editor, Recovered Books series @ Boiler House Press:
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Editor, neglectedbooks.com. Champion of reading off the beaten/AI path.
100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social Jon Blackwell, an editor @wsj. Reporting events from a century ago. Also see my companion account @250yearsagonews.bsky.social
Nicole Rifkin @nicolerifkin.bsky.social World’s tallest living artist ✨
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Two Winters Woods @2winterswoods.bsky.social One of us (RW) is a retired medical book publisher. Now we run a small farm in PA, grow trees and shrubs, walk a lot, watch the stars, publish a book sometimes. 2WintersWoods.com/2WW-Fiction
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Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social Blogger & award-winning crime fiction author. MWA. Noir, pulp, monsters, fiction, jazz, writing, film, comics. Went by @LBoxGraveyard at that other place.
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The Quotidian Unreal @thequotidianunreal.bsky.social The Quotidian Unreal is a playful literary experiment.
Tahoma Literary Review @tahomareview.bsky.social We publish poetry, fiction, and nonfiction twice a year. Professional pay rates.
All online since 2024!
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
Table Salt Press @tablesaltpress.bsky.social 🍳 an indie lit mag passing stories across the table
🌾 prose • poetry • nonfiction • essays • art • photography
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John Singer Sargent @johnsargent.bsky.social Fan account of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" #artbot by @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Paul Welsh @paulwelsh89.bsky.social pinkleap.app/profile/paulwelsh89.bsky.social
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net Independent since 2009. Read The Rumpus Magazine. Become a Member. Receive Letters in the Mail from Authors. Join a dynamic, global community.
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social Astronomer Royal for Scotland, Professor of Astrophysics, Edinburgh University. Author of How to Design a Universe. @astronomerroyal on insta (She/her)
Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social Good in a crisis and at no other time
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social No NFTs, No A.I.
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@emeraldcityghosts.bsky.social @emeraldcityghosts.bsky.social 
Point of Impact Publishing @pointofimpactbooks.bsky.social Hi! I'm Joe! I'm the editor/overlord of Point of Impact Publishing, heroic purveyors of trashy action fiction, including the Frenzi series by R. J. Calder, and Lash, by Clint Reno! Check us out: www.pointofimpactbooks.com
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
Paul Cezanne @cezanne.bsky.social Bot account of Paul Cezanne, a French artist and Post-Impressionist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_C%C3%A9zanne
Paz Pardo @pazsays.bsky.social Talk like Sam Spade, live like Miss Marple. Real life: Buenos Aires. Fiction: THE SHAMSHINE BLIND (scifi noir alternate history!) from Atria Books: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-shamshine-blind-a-novel-paz-pardo/80bf4e7d932a98a6
Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social Putting the hag in hagiographer. Formerly @anne_theriault on Twitter. Anne.m.theriault@gmail.com
David K. Barnes @davidkbarnes.com Writes lots of serious whimsy | Wooden Overcoats | Cry Havoc! | Doctor Who | The Tiny Angry Witch | He/Him | would really like a pastry
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Beth Eyre @betheyre.bsky.social Actor, voice actor. Wooden Overcoats | The Tiny Angry Witch | Marvel Move | and more www.betheyre.com She/her
Chris Sugden @chrissugden.bsky.social Writing wrongs. High Vaultage (Gollancz), Victoriocity. linktr.ee/chrissugden
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Wooden Overcoats @woodenovercoats.bsky.social Award-winning podcast sitcom.
Brand New Episode - Rudyard On The Moon 🌒 being performed live at London Podcast Festival 6th September 2026
Jen Sugden @jensugden.bsky.social Writer of comic fiction | Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction shortlisted | Sunday Times Bestseller | Erstwhile Victorianist (PhD in 19th C fiction) | She/Her
Listen: Victoriocity Podcast & Murmurs (BBC Sounds)
Read: High vaultage (Gollancz)
Cascadia Journal @cascadiajournal.bsky.social An opinionated email newsletter about politics, the environment and culture across the #Cascadia bioregion, Written by @andyengelson.bsky.social.
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Moira California @moiracalifornia.bsky.social Eco-Friendly Art & Culture from the Sierra Foothills
Photography. Dogs. Flowers. Climate. Art. Rage. Divinity in Nature.
“Beautiful Things for Catastrophic Times”
{pronounced mora}
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
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@pacificalit.bsky.social @pacificalit.bsky.social Lit mag based in the great Northwest. Publishing fiction, poetry, and CNF since 2012. 100% indie. In full effect at all times.
Wild Roof Journal @wildroofjournal.bsky.social WRJ is a community for visual & literary art. We're interested in creativity & nature & connections. Check out our website and open submissions / wildroofjournal.com / wildroofjournal.substack.com / EIC @aaronlelito.bsky.social
Wild Willow Magazine @wildwillowmagazine.bsky.social A literary magazine that showcases the wonderful, weird, and wild aspects of the human condition.
🌿 EIC: Melissa Ashley Hernandez 🌿
Willows Wept Review @willowswept.com Willows Wept Review publishes poetry, prose, and visual art that interrogates the relationship between people and the world.
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𝙉𝙤𝙞𝙧 𝙃𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙘𝙠 ♬ @noirbeachshack.bsky.social Celebrating film noir, from the classics to the obscure. Vinyl records. Art. Coffee. Old diners. Classic TV shows and movies.
Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social Mom, Refugee and Congresswoman for #MN05. Progressive Caucus Deputy Chair. Fighting for a more just world.✨ http://HC.com/IlhanOmar 
Liars' League @liarsleague.bsky.social Writers write, actors read. Top 10 Story Night (@TheGuardian.com) Account by LL Director Katy Darby
NEXT SHOW: RAG & BONE Halloween Stories
Tue 13 Oct @7.30pm
Tickets £5 online / £7 door at liarsleague.sumupstore.com
Venue: @thephoenixW1
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
Charlie Fish & Fiction on the Web @charliefish.bsky.social Writer for page and screen, guru of short stories, editor of www.fictionontheweb.co.uk. Rumoured to have killed wife with Scrabble and married self. He/him.
ElderMohawk @eldermohawk.bsky.social Patron of the Transman Halfway home. Twitch streamer. Fuckin nerd.
Northern Shadows Magazine @northernshadowsmag.bsky.social Welcome to the Shadows, where the inky darkness that exists in every corner of all realities awaits a distraction to pull you under. We invite you into our pages. Writers, submit your work. Readers, beware of the shadows.
www.northernshadowsmag.com
Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social Political scientist. Poetry enthusiast. Author: Kicking (Duke UP, 2026); Red Card (OR Books, 2026); What Are the Olympics For? (Bristol UP 2024); NOlympians (Fernwood 2020); Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics (Verso 2016) www.julesboykoff.org
Cryptic Frog @crypticfrogpub.bsky.social Fantastical fiction for readers with fantastic taste.
https://crypticfrogpublishing.wordpress.com/
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61582008144332
Penumbric Speculative Fiction Mag @penumbricmag.bsky.social New old speculative fiction magazine, relaunched June 2k20! Looking for work on the ever-moving edge of its kind--fiction, art, graphic narrative, animation. www.penumbric.com. For submissions info, see www.penumbric.com/subs.html
new_sinews @new-sinews.bsky.social newnewsinews.com
late empire new writing // edited by
@illepitaph.bsky.social // issue8 now showing
biomespec.bsky.social @biomespec.bsky.social TOP TEN Fiction Podcast
Scifi/Fantasy/Weird Fic -- bringing incredible fiction to life
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Submit your work at: https://biomespec.wordpress.com/submissions/
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social Ex-Interim Chair. Free puns. Historian. Books: Slave Country, Beyond Freedom's Reach. More: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RXHCAA4/adam-rothman
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Luna Station Quarterly @lunastation.bsky.social Stellar Short Fiction by Women-Identified Writers Since 2010
The station: https://lunastationquarterly.com/
Patreon: http://patreon.com/lunastation
Elsewhere: https://bio.link/lunastation
Posts hand-crafted by EIC @pixelpaperyarn.bsky.social
Aôthen Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social A print+online #literarymagazine dedicated to creative works regarding Classics including ancient history, literature, anthropology, and archaeology. 🔆
Posts by Samantha & Kaitlin.
linktr.ee/Aothenmagazine
https://aothenmagazine.com/
Van Stanwyck @vanstanwyck.bsky.social Classic movie-obsessed Voltron of the era's two greatest actors.
The Noir Collective @thenoircollective.bsky.social Hosting weekly watch parties of #FilmNoir – both beloved classics and forgotten gems – every Wednesday at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT. Check back each week for our upcoming schedule!
Villain Era 🖤🔪 @villaineralit.bsky.social A literary magazine obsessed with revenge. Open for submissions! https://www.villaineralit.com Mastermind: @charlesjensen.bsky.social
Tyler Nordgren @spaceart.bsky.social Artist, Astronomer, Author, International Tour Leader, Speaker and all around Astronomical Bon Vivant coined the phrase “Half the park is after dark.”
Kate Sheehan-Finn @katesfwriter.bsky.social Stories sprinkle stardust on our lives.
Writer, Archaeology, Roman Empire,
Ancient Greece
Winner Jericho Writers FNL24; LL Flash500 Novel Comp 2025; SL HNS First Chapters Comp 2026
The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social A literary space for the eco-gothic, the eco-horrific, the eco-surrealist, and the eco-weird | Edited by @benlockwood.bsky.social | Part of Brief Ecology
Read: https://www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-leaf
Submit: https://www.briefecology.com/submissions
Michael Murphy @michaelmurphy.bsky.social Professional astrophysicist, amateur human.
Science fan, renewables groupie, political malcontent.
Professor at Swinburne University of Technology. Opinions my own.
Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social A journal of creative writing on environmental justice https://reckoning.press
Literary Garage @literarygarage.bsky.social Writing with a serrated edge.
Like the rock and roll garage bands of the 1960’s and 1970's (as well as the modified versions that showed up in the 1980’s) – straight ahead story telling with a purpose.
www.literarygarage.com
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
Westerns & the Old West @davidlambertart.bsky.social I post almost exclusively about minutiae related to the Old West and Western films/pop culture. I do drawings too. 🍉
Cheers! 🤠🍻🤠 & God bless 🙏
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Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 @apod.shinyakato.dev Official Mirroring APOD BOT for Bluesky.
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Foundation for Baltimore County Public Library @foundation4bcpl.bsky.social We provides resources—above and beyond the limitations of public funding—to enrich the library’s commitment to empower the citizens of Baltimore County to explore, learn, create and connect.
https://linktr.ee/foundation4bcpl
Thin Skin magazine @thin-skin.bsky.social Thin Skin is a literary magazine showcasing the work of writers over 50, the 'late bloomers' of the literary world. Find us at https://thin-skin.com/
Colin Dickey @colindickey.com Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. Opinions mine, not my employer’s. He/him.
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social Writer. Illustrator. Joto.
Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social Director & Writer | IDENTITEAZE film | YouTuber | former writer/video producer at Gamespot, The Advocate, Microsoft, Out Magazine, Rotten Tomatoes, & Skybound | Trekkie by birth
https://www.jessieearl.com/
NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social Fan page of Ernie Bushmiller’s legendary comic strip Nancy.
This year is the 93rd. anniversary of Nancy’s first appearance(January2,1933)
Coy Hall @coyhall.bsky.social Author of horror, crime, & sci-fi. Professor of History. Great Pyrenees obsessed. Italian movie completist. Anti-A.I.
My books: https://linktr.ee/CoyHallBooks
Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk Antiquity is a bimonthly review of world archaeology edited by Professor Robin Skeates. Please be aware that we sometimes share relevant images of human remains. https://antiquity.ac.uk/
Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social Hello, classics graduate - I’m interested in classics, the middle ages, history in general and art. Also, rabbits. Finished the Aeneid, Heroides, Catullus, Georgics, Suetonius in Latin. Now on Silius Italicus’ Punica.
“Sarcastic Brit” - the Guardian
Remedios Varo @remediosvaro.bsky.social María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga was a 20th (1908-1963) century Spanish surrealist painter. #artbots by
@nuwaves_future , @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
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Evangeline Gallagher @egallagher.bsky.social illustrator | Baltimore | repped by sari@levycreative.com | email evangelinemgallagher@gmail.com for work, I don’t check DMs!⭐️ they/them
https://linktr.ee/evangelinegallagher
We Had Faces @wehadfaces.bsky.social https://wehadfaces.com/
The Scamperbeasts @scamperbeasts.bsky.social Sugar, Spice, Smudge and Saja, and occasionally guest animals and humans.
Westervision USA @docpotato.bsky.social Posting is easier on my throat than screaming at trees.
Frank Vatel @frankvatel312.bsky.social Writer of noir fiction, designer of book covers. Derringer Award finalist. Published by Punk Noir, All Due Respect, Bristol Noir, Revolution John, and Reckon Review.
Edward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social Edward Hopper was a 20th century American realist painter and printmaker. #artbots by @nuwaves-future.bsky.social
🔗 https://linktr.ee/hopper_artbot
Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social Comedy writer & actor. Doctor Who, Tracey Ullman’s Show, Beyond a Steel Sky, Justin’s House, Bravest Warriors, Horrible Histories
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social eisner award winning cartoonist 💬 Nancy, PeePeePooPoo, Adventure Time, Etc
Tom Crowley @atomcrowley.bsky.social Writer, actor, comedian. Listen to my award-winning sketch comedy show Crowley Time: crowleytime.com
Tom Neenan @tpneenan.bsky.social https://www.sophiechapmantalent.com/people/tom-neenan/
https://tomneenanart.etsy.com
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Hobo Camp Review @hobocampreview.bsky.social Poetry & prose from the road! HCR is a quiet, tucked-away lit journal where any poet, artist, or storyteller can rest their feet and share their work over a crackling fire. Since 2009!
https://hobocampreview.blogspot.com
The Forge Literary Magazine @theforge.bsky.social The Forge Literary Magazine publishes one prose piece a week. Literary excellence is our only criteria. https://forgelitmag.com/
Hearth Stories @hearthstories.bsky.social A speculative fiction magazine exploring connection, family, relationships, comfort, and the natural world.
https://hearthstories.org
#speculativefiction #scienceFiction #writing #fantasy #SFF #LitMag #Editor #Speculative #Magazine
Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social Proudly independent literary magazine & small press, established in 2004. Books + print issues + online issues + conferences + writing retreats + other stuff.
https://barrelhousemag.com/
Peasant Magazine @peasantmagazine.bsky.social A fantasy & historical fiction literary magazine for lovers of short stories by indie authors. Learn more at: http://fiction.charlesmoffat.com/peasantmagazine/