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
KT Herr @ktherr.bsky.social Poet / Musician / Educator / Curious Person
PhD / University of Houston
Poetry Editor / Gulf Coast Journal
Board member / Four Way Books
Words in Foglifter, Grist, ALR, Mass Rev, Black Warrior Rev, Frontier, etc....
https://linktr.ee/kt_herr
Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com A collaborative of 60 writers and artists publishing a newsletter for you each weekday. Culture, opinions, criticism, news, comics, mayhem.
$3/month
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Y2K Quarterly @y2kq.com Literary chaos in 1999 words or less.
Y2K Themed Literary Magazine
EIC: @jetgirl.art
https://y2kq.com
Mick Carrigan @mickcarrigan.bsky.social Editor in Chief, Taco Bell Quarterly. Bylines: VICE, Bon Appetit, Eater. Forthcoming - JUNK: The Brands That Raised Us, the Stuff that Shaped Us, and What We Leave Behind (Scribner). This is my junk.
Melinda Wyers @jetgirl.art writer/designer
EIC: Y2K Quarterly y2kq.com
@y2kq.com
Blog: https://jetgirl.art/
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
Perfect God = Lexa Gates @mx-j.bsky.social https://shop.capitolmusic.com/collections/lexa-gates
🍯honey bee🐝 @po3try.bsky.social curiosity swims in the deep place
#cats #disability #scienx #noai
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
Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social I'm a poet. Cancer survivor. Feminist. Reader OBR. Writes in Baja, MX & Los Angeles. MFA CalArts. Multiple BOTN & Pushcart nominations. Penn Review. Mantis. Pinch Journal. Frontier Poetry. Redivider. The Maine Review. Poetry Salzburg Review. 150 + journals
Kathleen Palmer @kathleenpalmer.bsky.social Freelance Curator. Poet in Progress. She/her.
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
Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social Mostly poet. Lover of road trips & long walks. Day job in microbiology.
Poems in Crowstep, Epistemic Lit, Engine Idling, & Red Room Poetry. Flash in Lit Namjooning, Glassworks & Wigleaf. Collabs in Gone Lawn & Midway Journal
🏳️🌈🌊💚
The Carolina Quarterly @carolinaquarterly.bsky.social SUBS CLOSED. Publishing established and emergent voices in fiction, poetry, essays, and art since 1948. EIC @kaitlinwrites.bsky.social.
https://linktr.ee/carolinaquarterly
Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social (re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
Emily Perkovich @undermeyou.bsky.social Otomí & learning. SG. Poet. EIC - Querencia Press. Poetry Reader- SplitLip ✨ big heart, sore back
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20176647.Emily_Perkovich?from_search=true&from_srp=true
Noah Milligan @milligannoah.bsky.social Author & Co-founder of the Writer's Co-op at @lpwriterscoop.bsky.social
Books: An Elegant Theory (2016), Five Hundred Poor (2018), & Into Captivity They Will Go (2019)
Find them here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Noah-Milligan/220312813
bort @crushbort.bsky.social cinematographer for Doogal (2006)
Lunch Ticket @lunchticket.bsky.social @aulamfa's Literary & Art Journal committed to social, economic, & environmental justice.
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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
~ Alison Peace @irishali13.bsky.social Mom. Poet. Teacher
Faculty Lecturer, Linguistics & Literacy
Published: Canada-Paddler Press.
Texas Poetry. Poetry World.
Wax Poetry & Art. Dem. Ally.
Doctoral Candidate, ABD.
Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social Poet. 5 books, University of Akron Press. Memoiring. Translating. Gardening. Educator. Trans Nonbinary. OCD/hEDS/Long COVID. Views mine. They (Eng.)/Elle (Esp.)
Beautiful Anonymous @beautifulanonymous.bsky.social One Hour. One phone call. No names. No holds barred. We open the line to one anonymous caller, and we can’t hang up, no matter what.
Chris Gethard @chrisgethard.bsky.social www.punchup.live/chrisgethard
Stand Up Special - https://800PGM.lnk.to/father
Stone Corpse Press @stonecorpse.com Micro press independently publishing small fictions, surreal and hedonistic poetry in Rock Island, Ill. Stonecorpse.com EiC daniel j flosi.
#PromoteIndieLit
MEMEZINE @memezine.bsky.social SUBS CLOSED
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a literary zine about life in the digital landscape
always free to submit
EIC @chelcampbell.bsky.social
Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social Syntaxer. Poet. Editor. Columnist. Gaymer. Ex-chef. Occasional pebble. Feelings Laminated. MFA in Poetry (Randolph).
words -> http://adriandallas.com
Kat @katchapman.bsky.social Canadian author, poet, meme collector. Particular interests - mental health, puzzles, democracy, writing, subversive art. Neurodivergent nurse with a love for sharing shitposts and intermittently sharing snips of poems or a potential horror story.
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
the mountain goats lyrics @tmgbot.bsky.social scheduled posts of the mountain goats lyrics
feel free to message or @ me (@alphacouple.bsky.social) about any feedback or lyric requests!
Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf President and owner of Giant Bomb
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Mackenzie @dissidiadf.bsky.social Gaymer | Couerl DRK in FFXIV | Project Manager | PNW Native | He, Him | Emo Kid at heart
The Midnight Sonneteer @midnightsonneteer.bsky.social Married poet, primarily here for anacreontic verse (wine, women, and song).
Please no pathologically thanatotic ideology or conservatism, especially MAGA, which is the gateway to totalitarianism, and that most certainly includes any type of salesmanship.
River Elizabeth Hall @riverhallpoet.bsky.social Poet. Naturalist. Teacher.
ALOCASIA @alocasiamag.bsky.social ALOCASIA: a bi-monthly online journal of queer plant-based writing
EIC: @sarahclark.bsky.social
💌 https://alocasia.org/newsletter/
🌱🌱🌱 ALOCASIA.org
Derek Heckman @derekheckman.bsky.social Midwestern writer and east coast schoolmarm. Not coming back for thirty percent. (he/him)
Isles of Men 🏳️⚧️ @4islesandco.bsky.social 4 dudes in a 🥩 suit. We 🙉 voices 😱 #DID #Plural --- Poly & Partnered [x1️⃣] --- 37 --- He/They with a preference for He/Him --- Pansexual as in I love people's souls not their gender
#Pagan: @soapsandrums.bsky.social
#Writer: @4islesbookshop.bsky.social
Megan G @megan-ji.bsky.social Perpetual Student. Writer. Reader. Dancer. Cat-lady & WoSo fan. OFMD and Good Omens brainrot. Thoughts/opinions my own. 30s. She/they. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Kirin Khan @kirinjaan.bsky.social Pashtun-American writer living in Amsterdam. Pushcart nom, Tin House Fellow, Pen EV fellow, Steinbeck fellow, Vermont Studio Center, among others…
www.kirinkhan.com
Cate McGowan @catemcgowan.com Author of four books: poetry collection—SACRIFICIAL STEEL, essay collection—WRITING IS REVISION, stories—TRUE PLACES NEVER ARE, & novel—THESE LOWLY OBJECTS. Prose & poems smattered everywhere. Em dashes rule!
PhD, MFA, MA.
https://linktr.ee/cate.mcgowan
Jo Gatford @jmgatford.bsky.social Write-abouter | editor | scriptwriter | fiction all over the shop | Shakespeare nerd | writing thoughts & workshops @ The Joy of Fixion
https://www.jogatford.com
https://fixioning.substack.com
Bill Merklee @bmerklee.bsky.social Writer of very short things.
In Best Microfiction. Best Small Fictions noms. Highly commended for Bath Novella-in-Flash Award. Fractured Lit Chapbook Prize short list. Wigleaf Top 50 long list. BOTN nom. But enough about me. How are you?
billmerklee.com
Jodie Young, verray jangleresse @jangleresse.bsky.social Poet (reading more than writing atm) in Naarm | Melbourne, Australia
Poetry, books, art, history.
Resisting the urge to despair.
B(RYN)N💋a goddamn national treasure🏳️🌈 @ryn-rehnard.bsky.social 💋30s author
🧶handcraft artist
🏳️🌈queersadilla
❤️pure of heart & dumb of ass
🔞NSFWish
🔪Billy Butcher apologist
🐄Dairy Queen
🕷️&🐛&🐈 mom
🦃Cornbread knows my sins
📚Read more smut & horror
📍Wisconsin
🚫NO AI
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Pam Avoledo @pamavoledo.bsky.social Fiction writer based in Michigan.. Best Microfiction Nom ‘25. Best of the Net Nom ‘26 (poetry)
https://pamavoledo.com
Audrey Howitt @audreyhowitt.bsky.social Poet, voice teacher, recovering attorney, licensed psychotherapist, lover of life
Please no DMs. I will block you. 
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
Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social Poet with autism and a cat.
Author of ADULTHOOD (Anxiety Press, 2026).
Here to connect with fellow writers and/or fellow neurodivergent people and/or fellow anti-fascists.
he/him • NJ • www.brandondiehl.net
Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social Bespoke critical deep dives. SHELVED BY GENRE. JUST KING THINGS. HOMESTUCK MADE THIS WORLD. GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES. other stuff. @ckunzelman.bsky.social @ztul.bsky.social and Danni too. www.rangedtouch.com
michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social he/him. boston-ish. phd thinking about media and making podcasts for @rangedtouch.bsky.social. horror genre guy, writer and narrative designer. PRECOGNITION for @halfmermaid.co inquiries: j.michael.lutz at gmail
cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social Critic. Tabletop columnist for Rascal News. Podcasts for Ranged Touch (Shelved By Genre | Just King Things | Game Studies Study Buddies). Wrote THE WORLD IS BORN FROM ZERO and EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED. Working on a Magic: The Gathering book.
Justin Eells @rhymeswithbells.bsky.social Failed paper plane craftsman, writer, instructor, etc.
Kira Córdova @kirarambles.bsky.social Boston-based, Pushcart-nominated writer and sometimes tall ship sailor with work in Poetry Lighthouse, Outdoors Unlimited, The Acentos Review, and Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts
www.kirarambles.com
kirarambles.substack.com
Friends In Real Life @friendsinreallife.bsky.social Janky pop/folk music
Aline Carriere @jedlight.bsky.social "O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!" Mom, writer, lawyer, human decency proponent. Live from Vermont. I ❤️ 🇨🇦 https://jedlight.wordpress.com 🌻 🇺🇦 It can happen here. 🇺🇸 Due process is a right! ✊ Breathe out fear, breathe in courage. ❤️ 🐘
@jeanettelynes.bsky.social @jeanettelynes.bsky.social Writer, writing teacher. Upcoming novel on women codebreakers in WW Two. The Paper Birds. Summer 2025! Professor of Creative Writing, University of Saskatchewan
Burnside Soleil @burnsidesoleil.bsky.social My debut has a really long title (TRP: The University Press of SHSU 2026). Call it Berceuse Parish, for shot. Just here to talk about books. www.burnsidesoleil.com
The Poet Laureate Podcast @poetlaureatepdcast.bsky.social Hosted by Kyeren Regehr and featuring poets laureate from across the country and beyond.
www.thepoetlaureatepodcast.com
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Kyeren Regehr @byallmeanswrite.bsky.social New to this platform!
Literary Poet (author of Cult Life)
www.kyerenregehr.ca
Artistic Director of Planet Earth Poetry
www.planetearthpoetry.com
Host of The Poet Laureate Podcast
@poetlaureatepdcast.bsky.social
7th Poet Laureate of Victoria (2025-2027)
Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social Writer. Journalist. Mother. Amazon no. 1: The Process of Poetry. The Making of a Poem. 100 + features and author interviews in The Guardian, The Independent, The Weekend Australian, SMH and Salon.com.
Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social Poet | First collection, ‘Midnight at the Saltmarsh’, published by The Gallery Press, May 2026
Lynne Jensen Lampe @ljensenlampe.bsky.social Poet. Editor. Late bloomer. Trans ally. she/her. Reader at Tinderbox. Poems in Many Nice Donkeys, Rise Up Review, Stone Circle Review, Inflectionist Review. Coming: Okay Donkey. Talk Smack to a Hurricane (Ice Floe Press, 2022). https://icefloepress.net/tal
@philasaurusrex.bsky.social @philasaurusrex.bsky.social Disabled. Educator. Book nerd. Cajun.
V.C. Myers @vcmyers.bsky.social author of Ophelia (Femme Salvé Books, 2023) & Give the Bard a Tetanus Shot (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2019) | Fmr editor/reader Muruch, Barren, Ice Floe, Frontier, Sarabande Books | work in EPOCH, Poet Lore, Bombay Gin, HAD, etc. http://vcmyers.com
Emily Bond @emilybondatx.bsky.social ✍️ huffpost, buzzfeed, teen vogue, men's health, the cut, bustle and more
https://linktr.ee/emilys.bond
Mostly Books
Mario Dell’Olio @mariodellolio.bsky.social Author, Musician, Teacher 🏳️🌈🇮🇹
Drew Reichard (he/they) @drewreichard.bsky.social Author of #fantasy trilogy, "The Ashes of Amori," and #sci-fi novella, "Vessel." Contemplative who tries to stay above the fray...except when I descend into it.
#booksky #writingcommunity #writers #booklovers
Martin Delaney 🐈⬛🎹🧟♂️📸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✍🏻 @delaneyplanet.bsky.social Cat-dad, composer, educator, horror writer, parent, photographer. Not always in that order. Feminist-in-progress.
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
Shayne Nicholai - Indie Poet @shaynenicholai.bsky.social Self-published queer, trans, disabled poet, mental health advocate and motivational speaker, songwriter, nerd, avid cat and exotics-lover, and EDS and fibromyalgia destroyer.
https://shayne-nicholai.weebly.com/
https://linktr.ee/shayne.nicholai
Stacy N. Ross @snrossitto.bsky.social writer + educator. work @pidgeonholes, @antiheroinchic.bsky.social, @feelsblindlit. @bestsmfictions ‘21 nominee. she/her.
Rowan @craftyrowan.bsky.social They/them
queer
polyam
Leftist
historic fashion
writer
nature lover
hiker
Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social This is a storybook. All of us are in it. Here are some tales.
https://eirenegentle.com
https://templeinacity.com
In: AHC, Claudine, DIHP, Bull, Frazzled, Fish Barrel, Dog Throat, Blood & Honey, ANMLY Whimperbang. Pushcart, best short fiction nom.
Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social A journal by and for teachers.
We publish writing about the hard, the beautiful, the exhausting, the outrageous, the moving, the maddening, the anything-but-perfect teaching and teacher world.
Read us: https://www.porcupineliterary.com/
Julie @wormgirlfriend.bsky.social Poet. Mom.
She/her
Against white supremacy, genocide, and generally pro human rights
Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social Just poetry. Digital UK-based poetry magazine.
New, international and marginalised poets always welcome.
Edited by Catherine Redford and Tara Wheeler
http://dustpoetry.co.uk
Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social Variant Literature is a small press and magazine. http://variantlit.com
Summer 2026 issue out now!
Koss (she/they/Aquarian) @kossworks.bsky.social Poet, artist, writer. Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect, Diode Editions. Lammy Poetry Finalist 25, BSF 20, Wigleaf Top 50 longlist. Granta Memoir Bursary
Website: https://koss-works.com
Book: https://koss-works.com/dancing-backwards-towards-pluperfect/
disco elysium physique quotes @discophysique.bsky.social bot that tweets endurance, pain threshold, physical instrument, electrochemistry, shivers, & half light quotes 💥
Bonanni Comma John @bananascallops.bsky.social Poet. Winner of the 2025 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry for retrovirology (Pitt 2026). Preorder here: https://upittpress.org/books/9780822968351/
Millhouse @milliemkb.bsky.social Chubby and warm. Mad all the time.
Kate Spiliopoulos @spillethover.bsky.social Dilettante urbanist, writer and event organiser living in small town Greece. Ex-Londoner, Ex-New Yorker.
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
Cream Scene @creamscenecarnival.bsky.social For poets, punks & weirdos. Lefty Arts & culture mag since 2008. Lit, visuals, music, film, all mediums welcome. Pop culture articles, poetry, fiction & artist interviews. Currently restructuring. Dia is EiC @pinkzombierose.bsky.socal
Angela Gonzalez @weirdhotartgirl.bsky.social Artist/ Writer
@hungermtn.bsky.social @hungermtn.bsky.social 
Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social closed for submissions.
lamplit.net
J.K. Kennedy @jkkennedywrites.bsky.social 🐲 Author of Clumsy Beauty, available now!
🐞 Observer, mumbler, overthinker
🩵 Wisconsin, US
🔗 www.jkkennedywrites.com
Arthur Mandal @arthurmandal.bsky.social Brit/US writer of uncanny fiction. Best Small Fictions 2025. Over 40 stories in The Barcelona Review, LITRO, Southeast Review, The Forge, The Los Angeles Review and others. @nightjarpress Based in Eugene, Oregon (but grew up in UK). www.arthurmandal.com
Bad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social A digital poetry journal, edited by @kathryngray.bsky.social and @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social Enjoy our blooms! badlilies.uk