THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org The Far Side, near at hand
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Sean Ennis @seanennis.bsky.social Laptop broke / in open ocean / the boat rickety
author RAT AESTHETICS (Sand and Gravel Press), CHASE US: Stories (Little A), CUNNING, BAFFLING, POWERFUL (Thirty West), and HOPE AND WILD PANIC (Malarkey Books).
Steve Himmer @shimmer.bsky.social Writer, walker, and mandolin player. Probably that guy you saw looking at something on the ground. Faculty and MFA program director at Emerson College, and editor at https://necessaryfiction.bsky.social/.
http://www.stevehimmer.com
Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social Journalist and author. Ex-Business Insider, ex-Wired. Hosted a podcast about an Alien TV show. Wrote a book about booze and a book about colors.
Signal: @jetjocko.15
https://adam-rogers.net
queen deltron @shtaxheen.bsky.social weaving my way through the apocalypse
Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social Ly Faulk (they/she) is a queer writer, artist, and an all-around weirdo. They are the author of Hippie Speedball and Sick Sad Queer. Learn more about their writing at lyfaulk.com.
Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social Subscribe to www.lawdork.com for SCOTUS and other legal news. / lawdorknews@gmail.com / Signal: crg.32 / About me: Sober. Queer. Bipolar. Theater. Buckeye. And, now, F1. (I'm as surprised as you are.) / He/him.
Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social Jorts the cat.
Jean helps me.
Matt Phelps @themattphelps.bsky.social Fairbanks, Alaska
weather, music, travel
UAF Climate and Arctic Sustainability
alaskawx.com
DeMisty D. Bellinger @demisty.bsky.social Mom of twins, wife of dude, writer of stuff, prof. of uni, PhD. Lives at demistybellinger.com. All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere out now (U-Nebraska Press: Zero Street Fiction: https://tinyurl.com/prdacfrt). JVNLA (https://www.jvnla.com) represents me.
Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social Staff writer at The New Yorker. Author of "Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep" and "Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears." www.michael-schulman.com
Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social Deep Woods of Philly | Sometimes Writer | Spoonie Crew | Accidental Startupper | Words in New Letters, Wild Roof Journal, etc.| NO DMs
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social Legitimate businessman
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Lydia Rae Bush Poetry @lrbpoetry.bsky.social Free Bleeding (dogleech books, ‘25)
Keeper, Seeker, Dragon of the Sea (Bottlecap Press, ‘25)
All the Little Church Girls’ Paper Dolls (fifth wheel press, ‘26)
Associate Editor, Sage Cigarettes Magazine
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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
Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social Writer. Mom. Xeric gardener. OPENING (Glass Poetry, 2026). REMAINDER (Bull City Press, 2025). FRUITFUL (Driftwood Press, 2024). Poems in Best of the Net, West Branch, phoebe, Cincinnati Review, etc. More poems at https://linktr.ee/stefaniekirbypoetry
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
Melissa Flores Anderson @melissacuisine.bsky.social Flash, CNF, short stories and unpublished novels. Reader/Editor Roi Fainéant Press. 4x BOTN nom, 1x Pushcart nom. Chapbook "A Body in Motion" (JAKE). Novelette "Roadkill" (ELJ Editions). ""All and Then None of You" (Cowboy Jamboree).
Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social Author: Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (UNP, 2027), Larks (OUP, 2025), What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021).
Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social
Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC.
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Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social Writing about nature, science, history & sexual violence. Multiple books, multiple mischief.
Latest: TANGLED IN VOW & BESEECH (poems)
Next: LEARNING TO SPAR (memoir)
EiC Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table. Here for lit community & Caturday
She/They/Dr/Bruh
Sheza T. @shezathepoet.bsky.social Teen poet & writer | Runner Up in The POWTRY Series' 5th Haiku Contest | Haiku in Modern Haiku, Kingfisher, Prune Juice, Cold Moon Journal, Haikuniverse, smols, tsuri-doro, and Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, Spillwords Press, and Haiku Girl Summer.
B. Luke Wilson @blukewilson.bsky.social Writer and editor. Words out in The Rumpus, ONLY POEMS, HAD, ect. Hollins MFA alum. Poetry Editor @chestnutreview.bsky.social.
Adam Gianforcaro @adamg.bsky.social Writer in Delaware. Chapbook: POEMS TO STAGE DIVE TO (Stanchion, 2026). Full length: EVERY LIVING DAY (Thirty West, 2023). Work in The Offing, Harvard Advocate, Ninth Letter, etc. Probably eating a little treat. 🏳️🌈
Ken @kenner7.bsky.social Reading & Working, Reading & Working…
Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social Writer, copyeditor, story enjoyer & fun haver. Some stories in some places.
WritersInPittsburgh.org
Pittsburgh
Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social Multimodal af. Collective Gravities, Every Galaxy a Circle, Patterns of Orbit, Escaping the Body, & more
Co-EIC of @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
www.chloenclark.com
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Profile photo: a river heron
Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social writer, dad, wannabe hockey player
www.theshawspot.com
Roystus @roystus.bsky.social New Dad and husband to a writer. I teach social studies at my alma mater in Anchorage, AK. All opinions here are strictly my own.
Ian Robert Smith @namastasyai.bsky.social Dad, gardener, teacher, and student living gratefully on Dena'ina Elnena.
Plain @plainjayne.bsky.social Librarianish.Teenage mother. Caregiver. Trying not to freak out. Inland NW. She/her.
@greyglue.bsky.social @greyglue.bsky.social PDX since '06; SEA to the core
Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social hex editor, video game player, dad bod haver, glizzy guzzler (the Glizzard of Oz)
Daniel Kraus @danielkraus.com Pulitzer Prize winner & NYT bestselling writer (books, TV, film). Angel Down, Whalefall, Creepshow, The Shape of Water, The Living Dead, Rotters, The Autumnal, 21 more, visit the site or just trust me.
DanielKraus.com
L'Esprit Literary Review @lespritlit.bsky.social In Mediam Mentem. Consciousness-forward fiction and thought.
Championing fearless writing in short fiction, criticism, and literary nonfiction. Publishing in a revolutionary spirit.
Words: lespritliteraryreview.submittable.com/submit (Subs OPEN)
J-T Kelly @j-tkelly.bsky.social poet - Chapbooks: https://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/06/new-from-aboveground-press-more-of-how.html https://cccpchapbooks.bigcartel.com/product/like-now-by-j-t-kelly - Poems: http://www.ucityreview.com/30_Kelly_JT.html
Marijean Oldham @marijean.bsky.social Writer. Entrepreneur. Baker. www.marijeanoldham.com
Patrick Nevins @patricknevins.bsky.social I wrote the novels PRETTY JOEY ROSS (coming in 2027) and MAN IN A CAGE.
David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social Writer | Freelance Designer | Educator | Baker | Full-length with Gold Wake Press | Chapbook with Greying Ghost | Hi
HAD @havehashad.com We had an idea that started as a joke. We had an affinity for that minimalist look and feel of early online journals. We had a couple drinks.
https://www.havehashad.com
David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social Poet and Teacher (he/him)
Berkeley, CA (Ohlone territory)
You can read some poems here:
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Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social Books and such
https://malarkeybooks.com/
Trent Brown @joshuatrentbrown.com i have a book
https://malarkeybooks.com/store/thewallsareclosinginonus
LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social Writer's writer's writer.
📚 STILL ALIVE (2024), longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award. https://eveninghousebooks.com/product/still-alive/
Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social Author, THE SHITBIRD (Stanchion Books, 2026), I BLAME MYSELF BUT ALSO YOU (Malarkey Books, 2024) and HOW I’M SPENDING MY AFTERLIFE. Hat enthusiast. Former Florida man. My Erdos number is four. I block scolds and AI sloppers.
Joey Hedger @joeyhedger.bsky.social Author living in Alexandria, VA | Deliver Thy Pigs (Malarkey Books) | stories in Saw Palm, Complete Sentence, Variant Lit, HAD, and more | he/him
www.joeyhedger.com
Christopher Stevenson @chrisstevenson.bsky.social Born in TX, raised in FL and PA. Splits time between DC and WV.
Librarian. PT old man. FT Struggling Writer.
Part toddler, part cowboy. Baba Yaga fan boy.
https://linktr.ee/christopherstevenson
Sheila Scott @mahenry20.bsky.social Writer-scientist hybrid, MLitt, environmentalist, short story scribbler, illustration doodler. Lover of nature, esp plants, bees and red squirrels. My wee garden is my sanity. Now can't DM but really don't mind. Always hoping for peace and kindness. 🧡
Schima Esmaeili @schima1982.bsky.social 🪷
Born 1982
Former speech & language pathologist
A female who really loves nature and her solitude
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Jenevieve Carlyn @coastalpoet.bsky.social Evie | "The greatest journey begins with a single hoofbeat.” Connecticut Poet Laureate Award for Ecopoetry. Poetry of the Sacred Prize. Palette Poetry Love and Eros Prize Finalist. Commended Mist & Mountain, Shortlist Artemesia Arts
jenevievecarlyn.com
Cyryl Szmit - Making Monasterium @cyrylsz.4fs.dev Indie dev working on Monasterium 🧱💻
Professionally - Wingspan, Lead Programmer 🦜
Human who:
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Cody Shrum @cshrumly.bsky.social Just some guy. Author of Oakaville (Alien Buddha Press) and Green Acre (Choeofpleirn Press). Words in HAD, Maudlin House, BULL, Cleaver Mag, JMWW, et al. Fiction editor: Identity Theory. http://codyshrum.com
Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social https://static.macmillan.com/static/holt/robin/
Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social Writer. Pie enthusiast. Historically preserved beard site. Cheese poet. Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, Cinnamon Challenge: honorable mention. 
Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social Like a ninja, but faster. I respond to tree knocks in the forest. Pacific Northwest 🌲⛺️
Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com Dad, islander, writer, & Hugo winner. Words for WIRED, Kotaku, Vulture, & more. Commodore 1702 enthusiast. he/him.
Rep'd by Eric Smith.
🎧 Co-host of @funfactorpod.com
📚 FIGHT, MAGIC, ITEMS and SUIKODEN 1 & 2
🛰️ Newsletter: astrolabe.aidanmoher.com
ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com Senior editor at The American Prospect, cohost and producer of the @leftanchor.bsky.social podcast https://www.patreon.com/leftanchor
Newsletter: https://www.ryanlcooper.com/
Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social CNF Editor Pithead Chapel • Smokelong Fellow • Bath Flash Fiction Winner • Storyknife • Anthology of Rural Stories by Writers of Color • Best Small Fictions • Words in River Teeth Beautiful Things, In Short, NWWQ, Cutleaf, Waxwing, 100 Word Story & more
c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social Molecular biologist from Texas, here to share my meanderings on nature, science, history, politics, and zombies. Long threads a specialty.
CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social Dakota/Lakota (Ft. Peck) • Lingít (Sheet'ká Kwáan) 🌱 Just an auntie tryna make the world a better place for the nieces/nephews 🌱 Panzer’s madre
Lit Match Collective @litmatchcollective.com A writers’ community led by editors 🔥
Helping members connect and grow.
Join us ➡️ litmatchcollective.com & our community, open to all!: https://discord.gg/cxSdvE2EfN
KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com She/her. British European. Purveyor of opinions, rude words, and romance novels, historical and fantasy. USA Today bestselling author of How To Fake It In Society. "Erotically charged"--Good Housekeeping. Death to GenAI. http://kjcharleswriter.com
Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Writer of short things. Reader of all things flash. Dog lover. Words in SLQ, XRAY, Flash Frog, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf. Winner of 2024 Lascaux Prize & Cambridge Prize. She/her https://www.emilyrinkema.com/
MelanieAK 🇺🇦🐕🐾 @melanieak.bsky.social Lifelong Alaskan. Dog trainer, basic & competition obedience.
🇺🇦 >> I stand with Ukraine! << 💙💛 Blue Voter 💙
Ancora imparo "I am still learning"
(quote attributed to Michelangelo in his older years)
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com Author of novels fantastical & historical, avid gardener, co-founder of SFWA's pub industry watchdog Writer Beware. Casting a small light in a wilderness of writing scams (plus an occasional cat pic)
https://writerbeware.blog
https://victoriastrauss.com
Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social Writer, reader, knitter, sometimes organizer. Student of climate & shifting seasons. Contentedly discontent.
Ghosts of Distant Trees, Porphyry Press 2025
Denali National Park, AK.
Part of my heart lives in the desert.
she/her
ericarobinwatson.com
Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social jon
https://www.patreon.com/c/SecretBase
https://www.youtube.com/SecretBaseSBN
Will "scifantasy" Frank @scifantasy.bsky.social Geek at law.
AWP @awpwriter.org AWP provides community, opportunities, ideas, news, and advocacy for writers and teachers of writing.
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Avi Rappoport @avirr.bsky.social Trying to be more curious.
It’s hard to post anything but politics as our nation implodes. But the Medievalsky community is delightful.
FYI: I rarely follow additional accounts that post really often. It’s not you, it’s me.
สุพรรณิกาทร์ Supanika Ordoñez @spiraledu.bsky.social Thai/Guatemalan #AlaskaSky
Former globetrotter living on Lingít Aani.
Excited about education, tech, and fooooood.
Views are my own.
Dave Snider 🌞 @davesnider.bsky.social 🌤️#AKwx & science geek, 😍 STL gooey 🧈🍰
🐦⬛Alaska birder | Photoshop it.
Recovering broadcaster and ⚜️ Scoutmaster 🪢 now focused on Training GAC Adults who guide our Youth 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social Into words, sentences, genres.
#writingstudies #teamrhetoric #cdnwrds #genai+writing
https://katjat.medium.com/
KC and the Funshine Band @j03808.bsky.social Mechanical Engineer, he/him
Probably not a dog
ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good
Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social Sometimes I make YouTube videos. Right now I play a lot of chess!!! Tomorrow, who knows?
Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social Horror writer startled by most sounds. The Barre Incidents and Kill Radio (both genre-bendy Horror) available thru Malarkey Books.
My website: https://www.laurenbolger.com/
Jewish / Free Palestine
Backgrd image quote: “Helloooo? My water dish is empty!”
MacCrocodile @maccrocodile.bsky.social Your decision to follow me is very suspicious.
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
Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim USA Today bestselling author of SUBLIMATION. Also a boatload of occasionally award winning/losing short fiction. coined the term "omelas hole."
http://isabel.kim < website
Wow if True < listen wherever pods are cast
Matthew Beck @thebluealaskan.com Former (recovering) Anchorage political blogger. More active on Facebook 🤮
https://www.thebluealaskan.com
Science Magazine @science.org Cutting-edge research, news, commentary, and visuals from the Science family of journals. https://www.science.org
William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol All the world’s a stage
dissected @trepanation.bsky.social getting hosed down in a mcdonald’s parking lot
Oscar Graves @oscarzamoragraves.com Hello! I'm Oscar. Im a gay collage artist and vintage physique magazine collector. I love meeting other collectors and artists. You can see more of my art at linktr.ee/physiqueandfantasy
The Seattle Times @seattletimes.com Covering Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.
https://www.seattletimes.com/
One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social Terminally online mommy-blogger and
“Marxist Dingbat Lawyer” on Lingít Aaní
The Alaska Democratic Party @thealaskadems.bsky.social 
Y2K Quarterly @y2kq.com Literary chaos in 1999 words or less.
Y2K Themed Literary Magazine
EIC: @jetgirl.art
https://y2kq.com
Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social He collected things, each of a holy intention in isolation, but pagan in the variety of his choice.
—William Gaddis
📚 @anothernewcalligraphy.com, @ornithopterpress.bsky.social, @animalheartpress.bsky.social, @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
Find Moby Dick @findmobydick.bsky.social It is not down in any map; true places never are. A companion bot to @mobydickatsea.bsky.social, both bots coded and maintained by @samplereality.bsky.social.
Camille Booth @psych2028.bsky.social Educator, entrepreneur, PhD candidate clinical-community psychology, Indigenous Healing, Tsimpshian, Raven clan, mom/grandma, Alaskan, resister of fascism, lover of daisies.
Michael Armstrong @maarmstrong.bsky.social 📎Writer, journalist emeritus. #prostatecancer survivor. New College-Fla. grad. I write strange science fiction. Born in Va., raised in Fla., Alaskan since 1979. I like extremes. Tuggeht-Uzintun.
T Arnson @sirscribblesalot.bsky.social Writer-Producer ✍️
Here to check-out other creatives 🎭
Sharing my stories ✉️ Growing subscribers 📈
https://neuroticencounter.com/mailing-list/
Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social Health Equity Scientist, Bethesda Declaration signer, work at NIH, speak in my personal capacity, photo: AP/Jose Luis Magana
Also on:
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