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Barbara Stocker 💙📚 @bluebirdbhs.bsky.social Activist Democrat Missourian living in Virginia @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social @melrea.bsky.social Team Site
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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
George Mocharko @georgemocharko.bsky.social Audio producer, stay-at-home dad, and writer of smart-alecky social media comments amongst other meaningful hobbies.
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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
Cassandra Whitaker @casswhit.bsky.social Poet, Writer, Educator 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (She/they/Mx). NBCC, Wolf Devouring A Wolf Devouring A Wolf available from Jackleg Press. https://queerthewolves.wordpress.com/
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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
Bulb Culture Collective @bulbculture.bsky.social
Submissions OPEN for CHANDELIER: GLOWERING! 🎃
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Matthew Murrey @mytwords.bsky.social Poet (LITTLE JOY - Cornerstone Press, 2026 and BULLETPROOF - Jacar Press, 2019), retired school librarian, and Midwest transplant from Florida long, long ago. he/him/his
More at https://www.matthewmurrey.net/
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Felicity Plunkett @felicity-plunkett.bsky.social she / her
Poet, critic, editor
Poetry Editor, Australian Book Review
Vanishing Point, A Kinder Sea, Seastrands, Thirty Australian Poets (ed.)
Stuart Barnes @stuartabarnes.bsky.social Poet (Like to the Lark, Upswell Publishing; Glasshouses, UQP). One quarter of Hell Herons (The Wreck Event) 📚🌳🪩🌈
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Gail Gauthier @gailgauthier.bsky.social Short stories in Stonecoast Review & Literary Mama. Humor in Slackjaw, Belladonna Comedy, Jane Austin's Wastebasket, Frazzled. Essayist. Middle grade writer. More than you want to know at www.gailgauthier.com Still blogging at http://blog.gailgauthier.com
Film Milf 🌊💙Blue Dem. Resister. 🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ 📚 @filmilf.bsky.social Work @ TrixStarT Film Productions.
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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.
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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
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Ram Gulrajani Author 📚 @rockape65.bsky.social From suspense to soul-stirring stories I writes them all Love the arts, writing, painting, strumming my guitar & generally being creative. From Gibraltar originally Website: https://t.co/8gSEmJ7TCu Team Site @iquitcigs.bsky.social
Chris Cottom @chriscottom.bsky.social Barrelhouse, New Flash Fiction Review, matchbook, MoonPark Review, FlashFlood, Oyster River Pages, New World Writing Quarterly, Tiny Molecules, Orange Blossom Review, Flash Frontier, Leon Literary Review, Gooseberry Pie, The Good Life Review, Fictive Dream
The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the world’s best new writing.
http://theberlinliteraryreview.com
Angie McCullagh @angiemccullagh.bsky.social Work in: The Sun Magazine, Colorado Review, Off Assignment, Wigleaf, The Razor, The Independent, Wired, HuffPost, Writer's Digest, The Belladonna, Slackjaw, One Story Conf '23, Bread Loaf '25, she/her, BLM https://angiemccullagh.weebly.com/
Daryl Farmer @darylfarmer.bsky.social Writer, poet, bicyclist. Gentle spirit, but capable occasional mayhem. Author of BICYCLNG BEYOND THE DIVIDE and WHERE WE LAND. Creative writing Prof at U of Alaska Fairbanks.
Leah De Forest @ldeforest.bsky.social Novelist, story writer, essayist. Debut novel out 9/15/26 from Betty, an imprint of WTAW Press. Harvard Extension writing teacher. Warren Wilson MFA.
Vestal Review @vestalreview.bsky.social We're the longest-running flash fiction magazine on the planet. Our website is free for readers, and we pay our authors and staff. Issue 68 is out now!
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I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social Anti-Smoker My Website campralquitsmoking.net See How I Quit 20 Years Ago Fought Nicotine 35 Years Supporting others who Quit 🚭 STL MO ❤️To Promote Authors 📚 & Ozarks 🌄 Photographer 📷 Pez Add @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social 💙
Magda Bartkowska @magdabartkowska.bsky.social Immigrant from Gdańsk, Poland | Writer & Editor @ magdalenabartkowska.com | Author of THIS PLACE WHERE YOU ARE (forthcoming from @bettybooks.bsky.social, an imprint of @wtawpress.bsky.social)
CT Jackson @madcapcomedy.bsky.social Former U.S. Government Lackey
Humorist and Satirical Author in Germany
Writes About Dictators, Oligarchs, Extremists
Persona Non Grata in 30 Countries
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David Wesley Williams @davidwwilliams.bsky.social Southern fiction writer out of Memphis. Latest novel COME AGAIN NO MORE (JackLeg Press) available here: https://www.burkesbooks.com/pages/books/1024013/david-wesley-williams/come-again-no-more
Dublin Rover @dublinrover.bsky.social Satirical Author, published by @threeravens.bsky.social. Tranmere Rovers, Dundee Utd, SV Darmstadt, and Cincinnati Bengals fan. Not necessarily in that order.
Alisha Erin Hillam @aehillam.bsky.social Pushcart-nominated writer (she/her), with work at ONLY POEMS, Barrelhouse, Consequence Forum, & others. 2025 AIR Literature Västra Götaland Fellow, 2026 M.1 Arthur-Boskamp-Foundation Fellow. Historian, Hoosier, & traveler, now based in Europe.
Joanna Choi Kalbus, author @joannackalbus.bsky.social My memoir, The Boat Not Taken, will be launched on May 6, 2025 - published by WTAW/BettyImprint.
Retired educator, harpist, Zumba enthusiast, longtime participant of SF Bay to Breakers
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FILMWAR! @filmwar.bsky.social Movie game show/podcast/whatever with VHS prizes! 📼 🎥 📼
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David James Poissant @djpoissant.bsky.social Author of LAKE LIFE, a NYT Editor's Choice, and THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS, a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the PEN/Bingham Prize. In print in nine languages. Editor of The Florida Review @theflreview.bsky.social
Sharon White @sharonw.bsky.social Author | Nonfiction • Fiction • Poetry
The Body Is Burden and Delight (2023)
Minato Sketches (2025)
If the Owl Calls — OUT NOW from Betty
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SASSAwards @sassawards.bsky.social Awards given for the best performances of actors and directors.
For fans of movies 🎥, film 📽, cinema 🎬, actors, actresses, directors, and award shows 🎤🎭🏆
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Eric Wallace @ewallace1974.bsky.social 
Dan Gutenberg @dangute.bsky.social Humor writer from Ann Arbor, Michigan, with work featured in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Points in Case, Slackjaw, and Weekly Humorist, among other outlets.
https://dangutenberg.com/
Michael Lieberman @mlieber123.bsky.social Writer/Atty in Maryland outside DC. Bylines in Jewish Currents, Points in Case, and McSweeneys.
Terri Eichholz @terrieichholz.bsky.social 
Matt Hearnden @matthearnden.bsky.social Humour writer. Contributor to Slackjaw, McSweeney’s, and here, I guess. LinkedIn Top Voice, somehow. Tall, but not - despite widespread speculation - beets. Corporate satire monthly newsletter: https://theshareholders.beehiiv.com/subscribe
Rachel Reyes @rachelreyes240.bsky.social Writer, editor, punthusiast 
Radio Free Lansing @mickeyhadick.bsky.social Novelist of suspense, sci-fi and satire. Learn to fight the A.I. robots: https://renewablecreativity.com. I can assemble a tent in under three minutes.
Viktoria Shulevich @vikshulevich.bsky.social Writer of humor, essays & children’s fiction.
Words in The New Yorker, McSweeneys, LA Times, WBUR’s Cognoscenti, Slackjaw, The Belladonna, Points in Case, Weekly Humorist!
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Maria @mariafrancesca.bsky.social I live in the Maine woods and jot things down real quick on scraps of paper. 🖊️Shouts & Murmurs, Belladonna, PIC, Slackjaw.
Jeff Kitchen @jeffkitchen.bsky.social http://script.kitchen
Training writers in the craft of the dramatist--Broadway to Hollywood
Script doctor
Students nominated for multiple Emmys & Oscars, including Best Picture & Best Adapted Screenplay
Author of Writing a Great Movie / The Hero's Dilemma
Points in Case @pointsincase.com Enlightening and irreverent literary humor publication since 1999, and a community hub for comedy writers, performers, and enthusiasts. pointsincase.com
@jasonlaker.bsky.social @jasonlaker.bsky.social 
Marianne Villanueva @2waystreet.bsky.social Writer, Book Addict - No DMs
Author of Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila (Calyx Press), Mayor of the Roses (Miami University Press)
Newest Collection: Residents of the Deep (Unsolicited Press -https://www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/residentsofthedeep)
The Common @commonmag.bsky.social The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, poetry, and art with a modern sense of place. Based at Amherst College, we highlight writers and work from around the world.
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
Mark Abdon @markabdonwrites.bsky.social Hoosier, Writer, Professor, Foster Fam.
Words: Pinch, X-R-A-Y, Chautauqua, Catamaran, Gone Lawn, JMWW, Bull etc.
➤ Writing Prof at IWU
➤ Reader for Harvard Review
Read more here ➡️ markabdonwrites.com ⬅️
Katie Mazza-Phillips @worldofktebs.bsky.social Writer. Snarkasaurs. 🦕 Recovering Masshole.
https://www.ktmazzaphillips.com/
Work in: McSweeney's, Failbetter, Bridge Eight, Lunch Ticket Amuse-Bouche, The Dawn Review, Monkeybicycle, Gargoyle Magazine, and The Rat's Ass Review.
Lauren Crawford (she/her) @laurencraw.bsky.social Poet
CATCH & RELEASE' coming March 2025 @CornerstoneUWSP |
Poetry Ed @IronOakEditions |
MFA @SIUC |
@WMorrisAwards winner
Best New Poets '24
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Willow Springs Magazine @willowspringsmag.bsky.social Literary magazine based in Spokane, Washington. Publishing the finest in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry since 1977.
@pollybuckingham.bsky.social @pollybuckingham.bsky.social 
Ilze Duarte @ilzeduarte.bsky.social Writer, PT-EN literary translator | 2024 Sundial Literary Translation Award | Translations in Words Without Borders, Michigan Quarterly Review, LALT, Asymptote Journal | Author-Member at Betty Books | ilzeduarteliterarytranslator.com
Author M. I. Verras @miverr.bsky.social Renowned author, singer, pianist, music composer.
If not me, then no one else. Soon, you will know my name.
THE HIDDEN FACE is the metaphysical mystery book that STUNNED even people who didn't like reading! Get it here:
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Janis Hubschman @janishubschman.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Debut story collection, TAKE ME WITH YOU NEXT TIME (October 15, 2024)
Peg Alford Pursell @pegalfordpursell.bsky.social Author @Dzanc A Girl Goes Into The Forest & Show Her A Flower, A Bird, A Shadow. Publisher & EIC @WTAW Press & @Betty
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Olga Zilberbourg @olgaz.bsky.social Fiction writer. Like Water & Other Stories (WTAW Press)
Co-moderator, San Francisco Writers Workshop (Tuesdays 7-9 pm at Noisebridge)
Co-founder, Punctured Lines, a blog ab literatures of the former USSR & diaspora, w Yelena Furman
Finishing 1st novel