Leah (she/her) @leahgwrites.bsky.social Just a #writer in the woods trying to make it in this world. Lover of nature, good books, quiet places, music and film.
Pippa @pippaesque.bsky.social Prune Juice Editor. I write short things and long things. Zines, poems, art. I like birds.
Buy me a ko-fi: Ko-fi.com/pippaesque. 🏳️🌈
Nina Badzin @dearninafriendship.bsky.social Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship—Top 1% charted podcast | Writing about friendship since 2014 | Quoted in WSJ, WashPost, Guardian, TIME, etc.
https://linktr.ee/ninabadzin
📍Minneapolis
Cammie Basseri @cammiebasseri.bsky.social CNF Writer, essays, flash. Forthcoming memoir IT MUST HAVE BEEN BEAUTIFUL. Stringing words along the coasts of the US and Ireland—w/a good cuppa.
I bake things when I'm pissed.
Website: www.cammiebasseri.com
CNF Freewrites on IG: @quietworld.photography
Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social Creative writing & literature prof, romance author, lover of books, & poet of the ginger life. www.melaniedusseau.com
Associate Professor of English, U Findlay (she/her), MFA, analog researcher, dog-loving, traveling teller of love stories. Human writer.💗
Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social Retired newspaper journalist. Gramma who sews, walks, and writes. Author of SUNSHINE GIRL, Heliotrope Books, 2025, and CARSON McCLINTOCK IS NOT DEAD YET, forthcoming May 11, 2027 from Heliotrope.
Annie Sand @anniesand.bsky.social Writer, teacher, intermittent fashionista, nature lover (mostly). Writing in Guernica, the Rumpus, the Iowa Review, and Ecotone.
https://www.anniesand.com/
Emily Ogden @emily-ogden.bsky.social Essayist, critic, and 2026 Guggenheim Fellow. New book on Edgar Allan Poe, DARKNESS BECOMES BRIGHT, out from Viking Books on Sept. 29.
Claire Whitcomb @greenishpastures.bsky.social Writer, editor, environmental advocate. #AuthorsGuild, clairewhitcomb.com, friendsofthedrewforest.com
Todd Clay Stuart @toddclaystuart.bsky.social Poet • Writer • Excitable Boy • Words in well-lighted places • Noms Pushcart BOTN Best Small Fictions Best Microfiction Wigleaf 50
More words @ toddclaystuart.com
Jacqueline Feldman @jackiefeldman.bsky.social Executive Director @ZygotePress | Writer | Dog Whisperer | immigrant from Kyiv, Ukraine | Words: @PitheadChapel @NovelNoctule @coffin_bell
She/Her
Will Slattery @wjaslattery.bsky.social a tiresome human being // essaydaily.org
Becky Tuch @beckyltuch.bsky.social Fiction & nonfiction writer, Founder of Lit Mag News
Lisa Cooper Ellison @lisacooperellison.bsky.social Writer, Trauma-Informed Writing Coach, and Host of the Writing Your Resilience Podcast. I help writers craft tough stories that sell. Join my free Substack and Get a Copy of Write More, Fret Less. 
Marion Roach Smith @memoirteacher.bsky.social My online platform, The Memoir Project, provides live and recorded classes in every aspect of memoir writing, along with coaching and experienced editors, all to get you where you want to be as a writer. Marionroach.com
Maegan Poland @maeganpoland.bsky.social writer & creative writing professor
https://linktr.ee/maeganpoland
Required nugget: opinions expressed on this account are my own and do not represent my employer.
Michelle Willms @michellewillms.bsky.social NORTHERN GIRLS: TRUE STORIES (Baraka Books). 2026 Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Mother bear.
Northern Girls: www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/northern-girls/
TSR Review: www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/northern-girls-true-stories-by-michelle-willms
Literary Cleveland @literarycleveland.bsky.social Fostering excellence, amplifying diverse voices, and building a vibrant literary community. litcleveland.org
Jen Moore @jenmoore.bsky.social Poet, professor, Gemini, mom || Easy Does It (Akron, 2021) || Smaller Ghosts (Seven Kitchens, 2020) || The Veronica Maneuver (Akron, 2015)
Kelly Magee @kmagee29.bsky.social Writer, mom, lefty, queer. Author of The Neighborhood, With Animal. Professor at Western Washington University.
Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social Poet w/ 8 books, Marin County Poet Laureate Emeritus
Assistant Editor @narrativemag.bsky.social
YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR (Backbone Press, October 2024)
Morgan Ridgway @riidgwayy.bsky.social I write and sometimes boogie.
Black/Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape descent, PhD.
Philly always and forever.
morganridgway.com
Khadijah Queen @khadijahqueen.com Doctor of poems. In my crone era.
Writer. Professor. Traveler. Michigan-born, California-raised. But you might find me anywhere ✨ New memoir: Between the Devil & The Deep Blue Sea 💙⚓️🩵
https://www.khadijahqueen.com/
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Annette Lucksinger (she/her) @annettelucksinger.bsky.social Writer. ✍🏼 Ally. 🏳️⚧️ In a relationship with Austin, Texas, and working on a graphic novel memoir project about it. Author of Exploring Austin with Kids. www.exploringaustinwithkids.com linktr.ee/annettelucksinger
Robbie Gamble @robbiegamblewriter.bsky.social Writer, editor, bread baker, cider maker, retired nurse practitioner.
Amy Mackin @mackinwriting.bsky.social Writer, Researcher, Advocate, American Studies & Labor History, Coffee Zealot, VCFA alum, Author of Henry's Classroom: A Special Education in American Motherhood (Apprentice House 2025)
Lydia Paar @lydiapaar.bsky.social Author of The Exit is the Entrance: Essays on Escape, from University of Georgia Press. Instructor at University of Arizona.
SophEUlm @sopheulm.bsky.social •Writer, Lit Salon Host, Disillusioned Academic•
Finishing up:
+hybrid memoir/absurdist biography of Joni Mitchell as told to a lecture hall of my ex-boyfriends
+historical-auto-fiction frame narrative (teleplay/novel) for sex work decrim
+some smut poetry
Elizabeth Jannuzzi @lizjannuzzi.bsky.social A freckled witch of a girl who loves the out-of-door world. Subscribe to my Substack at https://elizabethjannuzzi.substack.com. 
Jason Thayer @thejasonthayer.bsky.social Writer & EIC for @completesentence
Laurie Granieri @lauriegranieri.bsky.social Writer. Work on NPR, Creative Nonfiction, Image, Hippocampus, on the "On Being" blog, in Under the Gum Tree, and in River Teeth. My essay "Leaving the Body" won NELLE's 2023 Three Sisters Award for nonfiction. lauriegranieri.com/writing
Susan Barr-Toman @susanbarr-toman.bsky.social Writer. Mindful Writing and memoir teacher. Visit me at www.susanbarrtoman.com
Michelle T Cutler @michelletcutler.bsky.social Writer. The nonfiction kind.
Lee Graham @wheretogonext.bsky.social Liberal blue dot in the bleak Texas Gilead, maybe thinking of moving. However, I live on Galveston Island, and I love this place. Love travel, reading, cats, cats, yes cats, sci-fi, Star Trek, turgid British dramas, history, ecology, GIS, programming.
Charles G. Thompson, Writer @charlesgthompson.bsky.social Words in Brevity Blog, @latimes.com, @wired.com, @chicagotribune.com, @washingtonpost.com, @therumpus.net, @businessinsider.com, @the-independent.com, @advocate.com, @pushcartprize.bsky.social. 2025 writing resident @chateau-orquevaux.bsky.social
Matthew Specktor @specktor.bsky.social Novelist, memoirist, co-founder of The Los Angeles Review of Books
Kelly Schoenegge @kellyschoenegge.bsky.social Editor @broadripplereview.bsky.social
Former Fiction Editor at Booth and Kenyon Review Peter Taylor Fellow
BJJ 🤎 + Co-Host @lezrollradio.bsky.social
kellyschoenegge.com
Craft Talks On Writers & Writing @crafttalks.bsky.social Webinars and workshops devoted to essential writing topics, tools, publishing & more.
Curated by Sharla Yates & Allison K Williams
David Gutowski @largeheartedboy.bsky.social I read and write and listen to music. A lot. Mostly in Brooklyn. Largehearted Boy is my website.
Layla Al-Bedawi @frauleinlayla.bsky.social A human being. A writer type person.
City dweller with a hiker’s heart. Makes the absolute best eggplant lasagna. Tired but attentive. Forgetful, but will never forget you.
Hima @himaki.bsky.social A personal archive of my favorite quotes that I find quite meaningful to me especially in this day and age. Some may resonate with other people and bring new clarity, hence why I'll share them with you. Have a good one~
Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts @blackbirdjournal.bsky.social An online journal of literature and the arts led by grad students at VCU. We publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction, art, & more. Submissions are open!
https://linktr.ee/blackbirdjournal
Damien Cowger @damiencowger.bsky.social Managing Editor at New Ohio Review | Writer | Photographer
damiencowger.com
Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social Queer writer l #FlashFiction l Smokelong Fellow 2026 l Contrib ed @nffr.bsky.social
Pushcart, BSF, BMF & Monarch noms
Read my stories:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17zj1W2pXZsP1aZZ3vR4vbV4Cra9eZ15F6lwU5lc2tKA/edit?usp=sharing
Cooper @cooperdart.bsky.social essayist who flosses when he remembers
cooperdart.com
katie cusumano @k-e-c.bsky.social writing about culture and the outdoors, which is kinda writing about everything. words in nyt mag, the believer, orion, etc; assistant nonfiction editor for agni. signal = kec.51. katherinecusumano.com
Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social Writer, cat lady, wrote a novel about medieval mystics, forthcoming novel about John Ruskin. Aspiring anchoress. https://victoriamackenzie.net/
Substack: https://victoriamackenzie.substack.com/
Lynette D'Amico @mldamico.bsky.social Writer, editor, lesbian auntie 🤌 💃🏽MEN I HATE @ohiostatepress
https://linktr.ee/lynettedamico?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=8465c52a-07cb-4211-b06c-67aa52ffb494
Tia Levings, Writer @tialevingswriter.bsky.social Author of NYT Bestseller A WELL-TRAINED WIFE. Anti-Fundamentalist, mother, artist, hiker, friend.
Annmarie Kelly @annmariekelly.bsky.social Writer, teacher, podcaster. I always talk to strangers.
Brandi Larsen. @brandilarsen.bsky.social Writer. Speaker. Strategist. Helper. Mom. Co-writer, UNCULTURED: A Memoir. Writes books, reviews, and essays. BrandiLarsen.com.
John Fulton @fultonwriter.bsky.social Fiction Writer, 2025 NEA Fellow (one of the last before Trump), Professor UMass Boston MFA, runner, boxer (no head hits!), Fiction Editor at Arrowsmith Journal, wine lover, Francophile, and German language lover. https://johnfulton.net/
Emily Carr @emilycarr.bsky.social PhD Candidate @RGGSatAMNH studying fish that glow | #NSFGRFP Fellow | She/her
Kristi Ferguson @kfergusonwrites.bsky.social Third-culture kid from Brazil 🇧🇷
✍️ writing in @underthesunonline.bsky.social, JMWW, Bellevue Literary Review, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, @rfpress.bsky.social & others
📖 read CNF for @triquarterlymag.bsky.social
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Karen Schauber @karenschauber.bsky.social Flash Fiction Obsessed
Dabbles in Abstract Painting
https://KarenSchauberCreative.weebly.com
https://
“Flash Fiction Writing Tips: Penned By Masterful Flash Writers From Around The Globe”
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Audrey Niven @nivenaudrey.bsky.social EIC The Propelling Pencil, Creative Coach and business consultant. Exploring new forms in writing and visual art.
Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social Author of THE DISAPPEARED (Knopf), THE THEORY OF LIGHT AND MATTER (Vintage), IN BETWEEN DAYS (Knopf), and THE IMAGINED LIFE (Knopf, forthcoming 2025) CW Prof.
www.andrewporterwriter.com
Joanna ✅ Theiss @joannatheiss.com Writer of weird things sitting with a cat in Washington, DC
she/her
www.joannatheiss.com
Shelley Buck @shelleybuck.bsky.social Author. From Amherst to Oregon via everywhere. Books: FLOATING POINT, EAST, INDIA BOUND #cnf #travel Photos on IG: shelleybuckauthor
Marilyn Duarte @marilynduarte.bsky.social Writer
Corey Miller @ironbrewer.bsky.social 📝Writer in Booth, Pithead Chapel, Salt Hill, XRAY, and elsewhere.
www.CoreyMillerWrites.com 
@carolwordsmith.bsky.social @carolwordsmith.bsky.social Author. Editor. Journalist
Author CROSSING THE RIVER: Seven Stories That Saved My Life, a Memoir (Abrams Books, 2021.) Editor, KUOW Public Radio. Writer, #journalism, #longform, #memoir #fiction #poetry
Https://carolwordsmith.com
Sara Dovre Wudali @saradovrewudali.bsky.social Minnesota poet, essayist, and editor. Loft Literary Center poetry fellow. Farm kid transplanted to St. Paul, bringing with her the four-fingered steering wheel wave.
Kerry Byrne @kerrybyrne.bsky.social Writer & editor. Fen wanderer. Collie wrangler. Words in BULL, Ellipsis Zine, Lucy Writers, Maudlin House, National FlashFlood, Pidgeonholes, Roi Fainéant Press, streetcake magazine & other fine places. BOTN nominee. Assistant Editor at Frazzled Lit.
Nancy Huggett @nancyhuggett.bsky.social Writer, caregiver, crone, that kinda gal. Work @ Event, The New Quarterly, Rust & Moth, American Lit Review, anti-heroin chic, Gone Lawn, Full Mood &&&
Katherine Locke @katherinelocke.bsky.social Author, writer, reader, cat owner, horse owner. Mostly made of rage and salt. Red Sea pedestrian. They/them.
Ann VOTE EARLY Gelder ❌👑 @anngelder.bsky.social Writer, occasional podcaster, visual arts dabbler, recovering academic, childless cat lady (she/her)
Lynne Kemen @lynnekemen.bsky.social Poet, Editor, Interviewer, Bright Hill Press, The Blue Mountain Review, The Southern Collective Experience. Shoes for Lucy (SCE Press, 2023), More Than a Handful ( Woodland Arts Edition, 2021) Pushcart Prize nominee. NO DMs please.
https://lynnekemen.com/
Diane Seuss @dseuss.bsky.social Author of Modern Poetry, frank: sonnets, Still Life w Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, Four-Legged Girl, all from Graywolf Press, and Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (Univ. of Massachusetts Press), Chancellor for Academy of American Poets.
That Librarian: Amanda Jones @librarianjones.com Educator-Librarian-Author-Activist-Speaker-Bibliophile-Louisianan-Defender of Wonder
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/ThatLibrarian
Jinwoo Park @jinwoo-park.com Writer, Translator (Kr-En), Debut novel, Oxford Soju Club, coming in Sept 2025, 111k on TikTok
https://linktr.ee/jinwoopark0721
Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social poet, teacher, sometimes essayist. chapbook, Love That For Us, out now @andchangepoetry.bsky.social. craft book forthcoming @noemipress.bsky.social. two books @boa-editions.bsky.social.
abolish the police & free palestine.
https://www.chenchenwrites.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
Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social Host, NPR. Writer of novels. Companion of internet dog. Not a customer service desk. (I do not book guests for NPR. Beware of scams.)
Anne Horowitz @annehorowitz.bsky.social Editor of fiction, narrative nonfiction, and memoir.
https://www.annehorowitz.com/
https://www.5eeditors.com/
Debra Gwartney @debragwartney.bsky.social Oregon writer
Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social Gulfport, FL poet laureate
I write poems about bodies - ours, animals, water, our collective nature
Here to connect with poets & poetry lovers
Author of Water Yoga (Singing Dragon 2022).
Lover of tea & avocados 🥑
https://christafairbrotherwrites.com/
Wendy Call @wendycall.bsky.social wordworker / writer / translator / developmental editor / educator / co-editor & co-founder Best Literary Translations
Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social Writer, paper artist, teacher, believer in the good that will one day overcome, National Book Award finalist, and a Substacker (The Hush and the Howl). Due in April 2025, Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday's News, with Tursulowe Press. 
Marcia Trahan @marciatrahan.bsky.social Freelance book editor. Memoirist and poet. Author of Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsession. Work in HuffPost, the Brevity Blog, Two Hawks Quarterly, and others. 
Jessica Berg @jessicaberg.bsky.social agency director + founder @roseclifflit.bsky.social | strategic with the commas | Rep: @askamycollins
Aileen Weintraub @aileenweintraub.bsky.social Author of KNOCKED DOWN: A HIGH RISK MEMOIR. Health, Lifestyle, and Travel Journalist. Words in Wash Po, AARP, Oprah Daily, BBC. One half of witchesofpitches.com
Brian Benson @mrbrianbenson.bsky.social Writer, teacher, wanderer. He/him. Books: GOING SOMEWHERE, THIS IS NOT FOR YOU. Essays: Tahoma Review, Pithead Chapel, X-R-A-Y, Sweet, Hippocampus & elsewhere. brianbensonwrites.com
Julia F. Green @juliafgreen.bsky.social Writing Instructor and Coach
Writing is joy! I write fiction and memoir and teach writing and storytelling in Chapel Hill, NC.
writingisjoy.substack.com; writingisjoy.com
Megan Records丨Editor @meganrecords.bsky.social Freelance book editor. Expert overthinker. Enthusiastic living-room dancer. #revpit She/her. Work with me: https://linktr.ee/meganrecords
Sara Pisak @sarapisak.bsky.social Writer. Words in “The Rumpus,” “The Fourth River,” “Hippocampus,” “Door is a Jar,” “Women of Appalachia,” and “Whale Road Review,” among others.
NewPages @newpages.bsky.social NewPages.com is your best guide to literary magazines, indie publishing, university presses, creative writing programs, writing and literary events, writing contests and submissions, independent bookstores, and more.
#indiebookstores #litmags #booksky
Unite Against Book Bans @uabookbans.bsky.social #UniteAgainstBookBans is a national @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social initiative to empower readers everywhere to stand together in the fight against censorship.
Join the campaign: https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
Rachel Wagner @drrachelwagner.bsky.social Author, Cowboy Apocalypse (2025) & Godwired (2012). Prof of Religious Studies @ Ithaca College, mom & caregiver, disgruntled idealist, loud introvert. Religion, gaming, politics, media, film.
thoughtsandprayers.earth
https://tinyurl.com/CowboyApocalypse
Alien Buddha Press @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social Alien Buddha Press has been publishing emerging writers and artists since 2017. Open for submissions at abuddhapress@yahoo.com
The Conversationalist @conversationalist.org We are a nonprofit feminist media outlet focused on solutions oriented journalism and global perspectives, from the personal to the political. https://conversationalist.org/
Mizuki Yamamoto @mizuki-yama.bsky.social Prev. writing under Mizuki Yamagen.
Words in SmokeLong, hex, Lit Namjooning, Flash Frog, Does it have pockets? Lost Balloon & elsewhere. Soon in The Forge, The Baltimore Review.
✨ SmokeLong Smokey winner
🎗️ BOTN, BMF, Pushcart noms
mizukiwrites.carrd.co
Ruth @duckduckf.bsky.social Writer and ASL interpreter in western Massachusetts. Pushcart nominated poet. Screenwriter. Author of YA novel, BEING FISHKILL #mglit #yalit #mapoli
Jessie Carver @jessiepaige.bsky.social queer • feminist • writer • editor • stories & poems in various journals • formerly @ PSU English Dept. & Bitch Magazine • she/her
www.jessiecarver.com
Julia Tagliere @juliatagliere.bsky.social Maryland-based writer | editor, @baltimorereview.bsky.social | Permanently Midwestern| Bread Loaf, VCCA, Johns Hopkins Writing alum
Website: justscribbling.com.
River Heron Review @riverheronreview.bsky.social Online poetry journal & community of poets publishing well-crafted poems that speak to readers who expect excellence & variety. Connect with Zoom readings, workshops, monthly newsletters. www.riverheronreview.com Links: https://linktr.ee/riverheronreview
Sophie? @sophontrack.bsky.social Writer. Love ghosts and justice and also trains. 🍉. All people are friends.
activehumanity.substack.com
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Brandon Arvesen @brandonarvesen.bsky.social Creative Nonfiction Writer / Writing Professor at Colby-Sawyer College / Editor in Chief of www.3centsMagazine.com