Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social Print junkie. Librarian. Educator. Podcaster.
https://onebrightbook.com/
Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social avid reader w/focus on womxn writers • virgo sun sagittarius moon • my library is an archive of longings • feminist #NYRBWomen26 #SundaySarton #AContinuation
Pacific Coast • joiedevivre9.com
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social Political correspondent @zeteo.com
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social Random lines from Moby Dick. Bot conceived, coded, and curated by @samplereality.bsky.social. Follow the companion bot @findmobydick.bsky.social for sources.
Minx Marple @minxmarple.bsky.social astrophel • a pearl scavenged from the toxic sludge • « botanical, celestial, erotic » • hedgehog chronicler • the thing is to dazzle
https://linktr.ee/isabellastreffen
manjula martin @manjula.bsky.social writer/rocker/Luddite
🌸🔥🌲🌊
https://www.manjulamartin.com/
Mike Bove @mikebove.bsky.social Writer & English Prof in Portland, ME
Editor of @holeinthehead.bsky.social
www.mikebove.com
Ruby Hansen Murray @osagewriter.bsky.social "On East Sunny Sands" coming from Red Bird chapbooks 2027. Award-winning columnist Osage News. Essays Notable in Best American Essay 2025, winner Iowa Review and Montana prizes. MacDowell, Indigenous Native Poets, Hedgebrook, Tin House Debut40+ fellow.- C Ching-In Chen @chingin.bsky.social Author of 'shiny city' (forthcoming, Airlie Press) + 'recombinant' (Kelsey Street Press) + 'The Heart's Traffic' (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press). Tea-drinker. Soup-maker. Trouble-maker. Anti-packer.
Michele Christle @michelechristle.bsky.social writer in "Maine" / Wabanakik | featuring: big hair, rabbit holes, and eels
https://michelechristle.com/
https://hells-bells.ghost.io/
https://elversphere.net/
Aaron Jones @fakejones.bsky.social 🛸 art and architecture
www.pfeiferjones.com
www.jonesaaron.com
upcoming ~ currents new media
past ~ macdowell, art omi, new inc, bemis
Lauren Kalman @laurenkalman.bsky.social Lauren Kalman is a visual artist based in Detroit, whose practice is invested in contemporary craft, video, photography and performance. she/her
Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social Writer, medievalist, co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Writing a book about medieval imperfection.
irinadumitrescu.com
Yvonne Liu. Writer. Adoptee. Memoir-in-Progress @yvonneliuwriter.bsky.social Over 3 million read HuffPost #adoptee essay. NYT, Salon, Newsweek, NBC News. Sewanee Tennessee Williams Scholar. Received support from PEN America & Bread Loaf Writers. Modern Love podcast. Mental Health Advocate. James Patterson grant #writer #memoirs
vesna jaksic lowe @vesnajaksiclowe.bsky.social writer. bylines in 3 anthologies, NYT, Washington Post, NY Daily News, Catapult, Pigeon Pages. alumna of Hedgebrook,Tin House, Kenyon Review, Martha’s Vineyard. Immigrant Strong newsletter: immigrantstrong.substack.com
Akemi Johnson @akemijohnson.bsky.social 📕 Author of NIGHT IN THE AMERICAN VILLAGE
📗 Current project: Tule Lake & the WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans
(One Signal/Atria/Simon & Schuster)
akemijohnson.com
Shipra Agarwal @shipraagarwal.bsky.social (she/her) 🌈
Doctor-turned-Writer from India |
MFA Fiction ASU '27 |
Tin House Summer Scholar '24 | Kenyon Review WW '23 |
Stories in: Witness Magazine, The Rumpus | Nominated for: PEN/Dau, Pushcart |
Working on a novel-in-stories
www.shipraagarwal.com
Diana Cejas, MD, MPH @dianacejasmd.bsky.social child neurologist | occasional author | MacDowell '24 | Ucross '25 | Cancer Survivor | Stroke Survivor | Disabled | she / her / hers | my opinions
@literaryanimal.bsky.social @literaryanimal.bsky.social 
David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social Host of the Between the Covers podcast & Crafting with Ursula series, co-author of Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing.
Podcast: https://milkweed.org/between-the-covers
YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@BetweentheCovers-DavidNaimon
Mary-Rose Abraham 🌹 @maryroseabraham.bsky.social Multimedia Journalist / bylines: BBC News, Civil Eats, Deutsche Welle, Guardian, NatGeo, NPR, Undark
past: Knight Science Journalism at MIT, ABC News producer
alum: Columbia University Journalism, UCLA, Harvard-Westlake School
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.
www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
Jennifer Stewart Miller @jstewartmiller.bsky.social Poet, late bloomer, author of Thief, Grayson poetry prize 2021, and The Strangers Burial Ground (Seven Kitchens 2020), recent pubs in Salamander, Tar River, Radar, SWWIM . Multiple Pushcart and BOTN nominations—2025 Guest Poetry Editor for Cutleaf
Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social Mostly bookish. NBCC Board Member/VP Membership and Tech. Books newsletter: Reading Indie on Substack. Co-host of One Bright Book podcast. #KateBriggs24 #AContinuation25 she/her
You'll find me on my ebike.
Daniel Isaiah Elder ✡️🌈 @tumblehawk.bsky.social Navigator at Corporeal Writing // a bisexual bookseller // Jewish cat enthusiast
Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social A LIVING REMEDY, a New York Times Notable Book • ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW, National Book Critics Circle finalist • words in NYT Mag, Time, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
Vera Appleyard @roughmagick.bsky.social Writer | Traveler | Scuba
MFA Dramatic Writing Tisch/NYU
The falcon cannot hear the falconer
A Better World is Possible @emergentbeing.bsky.social anti-capitalist * anti-fascist * abolitionist *
"Our future on Earth depends on the stories we choose to enact."
he / him ✌🏼😷✊🏼
Ruth Diver 🇳🇿📚🇫🇷🌏 @ruthdiver.bsky.social Literary translator, reformed academic, tangata tiriti, she/her.
LaurenHohle @laurenhohle.bsky.social Writer. Editor Gettysburg Review. Amateur potter. Alum of Sewanee '22. Stories at Massachusetts Review and The Sun. Hohle rhymes with guacamole. she/her
Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social Always on my way to the ocean. Writer, 2x Jeopardy! champion.
My debut short fiction collection,The Last Analog Teenagers:
https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/the-last-analog-teenagers
BSF 2025
Noms: Pushcart x2, BotN x2, Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist
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
Mandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social Author, THE BOX, DAUGHTER OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
www.mandysuzannewong.com
🌊
Tara Skurtu @taraskurtu.bsky.social Poet/Writer. Writing Coach. Forthcoming Book: Faith Farm (March 16, 2027, @unboundedition.bsky.social).
CEASEFIRE NOW FREE PALESTINE. 🍉 🖕🧊
Dave Stroup @davestroup.com don't give up the ship
https://davestroup.com
Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social Prof & Writer - How High We Go in the Dark, a National Bestseller and NYT Editors’ Choice & Where We Go When All We Were is Gone. Minneapolis by way of the SF Bay Area and Hawai’i http://SequoiaNagamatsu.com - Star Trek 💫 and wristwatch ⌚️ obsessed.
Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me Writer, Colombo. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023, Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards) & RAKESFALL (2024, Le Guin Prize and Otherwise award.) https://vajra.me- A @afghanvegan.bsky.social @afghanvegan.bsky.social
maggie whitehead @margredwhite.bsky.social dragon tamer | friend of all coffee | writer, editor, educator | MCC '26 creative individual | www.margredwhite.com | she/her | 🏳️🌈
TrueLoveStarlight @truelovestarlight.bsky.social Sounds & Visions Mostly Western Maine
And Sometimes Québec
Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social Author of bestselling memoir,
SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
I deserve it all.
https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
Liz Arnold @lizarnold.bsky.social Writer and NYFA Nonfiction fellow. Brooklyn & Finger Lakes. liz-arnold.com
Claire Dederer @clairedederer.bsky.social Author of MONSTERS: A FAN'S DILEMMA, a New York Times Notable Book and a national bestseller. Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Fresh Air, The Washington Post, Esquire, Kirkus, Vulture, Electric Lit & more.
Liz Iversen @liziversen.bsky.social Novelist-in-progress 📖 | Portland, ME 🦞
VCCA fellow | Tin House scholar
Liziversen.com
Dominique Weldon @dkweldon.bsky.social MFA in Fiction from Butler University, teaches at Butler, and reader for Split Lip Magazine. Fiction in Lovers Eye Press and Dark Winter Literary Magazine. I love video games & art. Iowa native.
Sara Ramsey @sararamsey.bsky.social Writer. Iowan by birth, coastal elite by choice. Usually dehydrated.
Latest book: TAKING THE EARL.
Next book: something about rural magic?!
Learn more: www.sararamsey.com
Dr. Bitch @ritamookerjee.bsky.social Agent of chaos, professor by day. Author of False Offering. Editor of Honey Literary and Split Lip Magazine. Board VP of Sundress Publications.
Zarena Aslami @zda.bsky.social Scholar & teacher, 19th-C British Lit & culture. Author of Marginal Sovereignty: The Literatures of Empire and the Making of Victorian Afghanistan, 1798-1900 (coming soon, Cornell UP). Currently researching race, empire, disability, & eugenics.
Esperanza @esperanzaelizabeth.bsky.social writer ✍︎︎ • immigrant • perpetually tired • fiction editor @ passagesnorth • she/her/ella • 🇲🇽🇨🇷
Tania @tsamper.bsky.social Learning to write. Words in @expositionreview @jmww. Public health💅🏽
Patricia Coral @patriciacoral.bsky.social Writer | Puertorriqueña nómada 🇵🇷
Memoir WOMEN SURROUNDED BY WATER
MFA @ American University
Christie @chruie.bsky.social 🏙 //🌵[she/her] Fiction Fellow @kundimanforever (prev. MFA @asuenglish & managing ed @haydensferryrev | tin house '22 sewanee '22)
Basically, I tweet about crying.
vida james @vidajames.bsky.social a messy bitch who lives for commas | Boricua | she/her | AFAB | ACAB | stegner, center for fiction, NEA, periplus | stories in NER, Witness, Epiphany, Story | http://vidajames.com 🏴
K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com writer. she/her 🌈🦇 heart's delight: Bmore, bats, & tattoos; Clarion & Tin House '18⚡️ kcmeadbrewer.com
fuck AI & fuck fascism
ALT pfp: white, blond woman; nervous but anxious
ALT banner: a black cat peeks from around a corner
N.S. Ahmed @nsahmed99.bsky.social Son of Egyptian immigrants/ Brooklynite writer/ Artifact of the world / TEDx Speaker / 2022 @peripluscollect fellow / Hertog Fellow @Hunter_College Fiction MFA
Analía Villagra @isleofanalia.bsky.social NEA fellow | Recent work in The Southern Review, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review | Assistant Fiction Editor for Split Lip Magazine | www.isleofanalia.com
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
Cover image: raspberry danishes
Profile photo: a river heron
90’s anime @90sanimepics.bsky.social 90's anime pics
Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social Award-winning storyteller, writer, workshop facilitator. Taught 150+ workshops including Second City, Smokelong Quarterly, Clarion West. Stories published in Barrelhouse, Baltimore Review, Apex, Fractured Lit etc. www.tyrtle.com. #HumanMade
Amy Scheiner @amyscheiner.bsky.social Writer
She/her
Slate*HuffPost*Blue Mesa Review* Longreads*Sewanee*Provincetown
Reader for CRAFT & Maine Review
Querying agents for memoir
www.amyscheiner.com 
L.M. Cole × scoops @scoops.bsky.social Poet, parent, artist, mess.
Bulb Culture Collective co-editor, JAKE managing poetry editor
Best of the Net winner. Won a fanfic contest once.
https://linktr.ee/lmcole
Steven Genise @stevengenise.bsky.social Writer and editor in Seattle. Words in MYTHAXIS, BLUE EARTH REVIEW, FUSION FRAGMENT, MILK CANDY REVIEW. Subs reader for Split/Lip Press. He/Him
Kaitlyn Arford @kmarford.bsky.social I’m a freelance writer who would love to share your stories. Work w/ me: kaitlyn.arford[a]gmail.com kaitlynarford.com
100s of freelance opportunities: @findfreelanceopportunities.com
Romance reporting, Romancelandia jobs @theunapologeticromancereader.com
Shirley Chan is writing a memoir @irleywrites.bsky.social CNF and textile art girlie. Uses the f-word in every way possible. Switches between sarcastic & painfully sincere without warning. 💁🏻♀️ irleywrites.com 
Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social Atlanta-area author of Southbound, The Parted Earth, and Ballot, out from Bloomsbury Academic on 2/5/26; Affiliate Faculty at Antioch University Los Angeles MFA; proud poll worker. linktr.ee/anjalienjeti.
Lydia @elliswkim.bsky.social Writer, strategist, editor| McCormack Writing Center (Fellow 24-25), Kenyon | in Ploughshares! | i don't like it when you do that |🕺🏽
Star Wuerdemann @starwuerdemann.bsky.social Writer/Educator/Acupuncturist in Washington State. Bread Loaf '23 alum. Pronounced WORD-a-man.
Layli Shirani @lakateh.bsky.social reader, writer, putterer
Sarvin Parviz @sarprvz.bsky.social Award-winning multigenre & genre-bender writer/interdisciplinary Artist (she/her)
Semifinalist in European Opera-directing Prize (EOP)
Unofficial Singer/Official Collaborator
sarvinparviz.com
#flashfiction
#writingcommunity
alexis (haunts the narrative) @snarkycynic.bsky.social she/her | 🏳️🌈 | fiction mfa-haver | journalist-adjacent | writer in theory, general menace in application
Dara T. Mathis @trulytafakari.bsky.social Mama. Writer. Lover. Bylines where you like to read. Black to the future.
Asha Thanki @thanki.bsky.social trying to make art. book: a thousand times before (2024).
🧿🧿🧿
Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social Writing about belonging & diaspora. Author of the memoir THE TRANSLATOR’S DAUGHTER (Ohio State Univ Press, 2024). https://linktr.ee/graceprasad?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=89b54520-7f8d-4182-91dd-cb30d74a6cd7
Jeffrey Zuckerman @jmz.bsky.social knight-errant + anti-vampire
Alex Tretbar @alextretbar.bsky.social Dogsmind (Dead Mall Press)
toofarwandered (Tilted House)
According to the Plat Thereof (Ethel)
Kansas City Gothic (Broken Sleep)
linktr.ee/alex_tretbar
Tara A. Elliott @tara-a-elliott.bsky.social Poet, Teacher, Executive Director of Eastern Shore Writers Association, Host of Thursdays with ESWA Writing Zoomcast, Chair of Bay to Ocean Writers Conference
Genia Blum @geniablum.bsky.social Swiss Ukrainian Canadian | writer translator dancer | BAE2019 Notable | Head stuck up a memoir in progress | www.geniablum.com
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.
Fiona McKay @fionamckay.bsky.social Writer | THE TOP ROAD (AdHoc Fiction 2023) | DRAWN AND QUARTERED (Alien Buddha Press 2023) | THE LIVES OF THE DEAD (AdHoc Fiction July 2025) | Words in places | Autistic + ADHD
Ally to 🏳️🌈 and 🏳️⚧️
Free 🇵🇸 and slava 🇺🇦
Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social Director of Creative Writing Program, Assoc Prof, University of Georgia l Translator of five books l Harvard Radcliffe Fellow l NEA Fellow l How to Date a Fanatic (Harper Via 2026) www.arunikashyap.com l 🏳️🌈 He/Him l https://www.instagram.com/arunikashyap/
Marie @mariecloutier.bsky.social Writer of womanhood& girlhood, love & loss. איך האָב ליב ייִדיש. Words in Five Minute Lit, Bending Genres, Dorothy Parker's Ashes, Neologism Poetry, Corvus Review, etc. #wellesley 📖 my work ⤵ www.mariecloutier.com, substack @mariecloutier
Brennan Bestwick @yrfrenbren.bsky.social Poet. Birder. Prom king. He/Him.
https://awetheater.substack.com/
chris fenwick | @lexipenia@zirk.us @lexipenia.bsky.social writer/translator in berlin | finishing a phd on Cavell, Diamond & ethical criticism | working on my novel LOGIK
Elissa Field @elissafield.bsky.social Lit noir novels + flash | SmokeLong Submission Ed | Runner Up Killer Claymore Best Mystery | Stories in/coming SmokeLong trampset HAD Moon City Ghost Parachute Monkeybicycle Citron Review Peatsmoke CRAFT Conjunctions ++ | IG FB elissalaurenfield.com
aureleo sans 🇨🇴 @aureleo.bsky.social writer • @Tin_House & @sewaneewriters Scholar • @Peripluscollect • in @salamander_mag @electriclit @passagesnorth @bestmicrofic • 
Cherry Lou Sy @cherrylousy.bsky.social Playwright & writer. Debut novel LOVE CAN’T FEED YOU (Dutton/Penguin Random House) out now! Senior Prose Editor at Adroit Journal www.chapter1.media
Steph Wong Ken @swongken.bsky.social writing/writhing | Tin House '23, '21 | Words in Joyland, Catapult, Juked, Ninth Letter
Mignon Leigh | 이민영 @minyoungleeis.bsky.social Cat person. Writer. Nomad. 📕 CLAIM YOUR SPACE 🏠 @Tin_House @breadloafwriter @asfmag @antennaworks @sfsucw 📝 @TriQuarterlyMag @PassagesNorth + she/her
johan alexander 🇨🇴🐾🎶 @johanalexander.bsky.social i song sings & i writings.
Portland, Maine / Bogotá, Colombia
@mainewriters & @PeriplusCollect & anaphora arts & Maine Lit Fest &
https://linktr.ee/johaxander
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
just femme & dandy @justfemmeanddandy.bsky.social lit & art fashion mag for & by queers+ | http://www.justfemmeanddandy.com
Hannah Bae @hannahbae.bsky.social Writer, journalist, illustrator
2020 Rona Jaffe award winner
2019 AAWW fellow
½ of @eatdrinkdraw
AAJA for life
Alum of CNN, Newsday, U.S. Embassy Seoul & more
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social Formerly the writer formerly known as Matthew Salesses
Addie Tsai (any/all) 🏳️🌈 @addieisunwieldy.bsky.social Writer & dance film scholar. 💃 phd. 📕: Dear Twin, Unwieldy Creatures, Straight White Men Can’t Dance (9/25, Bloomsbury): https://shorturl.at/yyHZP. Shirley Jackson finalist. Rev ed: Anomaly. EIC: just femme & dandy. http://www.addietsai.com
Jess @jesilfa.bsky.social