Estee Lauder @steezesquad.bsky.social Cleanliness is the foundation, principles are the boundaries.
Reject all cryptocurrencies (No Crypto), stay away from scams, stay away from contraband.
This is a space for sharing everyday life, seeking friends who also value the real world.
T.R. Brooks @tr-brooks.bsky.social Psychology professor, researcher in the field of sensation and perception, and science fiction author
Blake Stone-Banks @blakestonebanks.bsky.social Working in data, science fiction and all things smoggy.
VelourVibes @alice7568.bsky.social Watching clouds, catching breezes, and landing right here
Alan Beard @alanbeard.bsky.social Short Story/Flash writer. Third collection Afternoon Drinking out now from Floodgate Press, UK. Previous collections: Taking Doreen out of the Sky (Picador, 1999); You Don’t Have to Say (Tindal Street Press, 2010).
Angyal Anikó "Mannaroza" @mannaroza.bsky.social Editor of the theGeek.hu, theGeek.games and theGeek.site, a video games, tech and movie magazine.
Writing Battle @writingbattle.bsky.social https://www.writingbattle.com
Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️
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Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤
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SmartPushti @smartpushti.bsky.social SmartPushti: Learn recipes, upload and monetize your creations, earn reputation for tasty & nutritious food, and share, sell or exchange home-made dishes with your neighbours—building a healthy, local food community.
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Picture This Post @picturethispost.com Theater - Music - Art - Dance - Film - Museums - Books - Travel
Previews, Interviews and Reviews -- Culture Reports in 20+ US Cities and Travel Reports Worldwide. https://www.picturethispost.com/
We also share updates on today's fight for democracy.
Diane D. Gillette @ddgwriter.bsky.social Writer of short things. English professer. Plant-eater. Crafter. Faithful servant to feline overlords. She/her.
www.digillette.com
Roux Bedrosian @harleyroux.bsky.social Vocalist | Writer | Creator | Silly Goose 🪿
Purveyor of Silly Lil’ Art 💙
Emma Phillips @words-outwest.bsky.social Flash fan, poet, short fiction writer. Likes actual and imaginary travel. Words: 2nd place Bath Flash June 2021, Best Microfiction 2022, Free Flash Fiction Competition Winner. 
@anselmdubois.bsky.social @anselmdubois.bsky.social Check out the protest ditties in the Videos-tab. Share, repost, stream, and broadcast. Whatever!
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AI composed and sang. I try to be wordsmith. Most lyrics are lousy, some are okay, one really good.
Marie-louise McGuinness @mlmcguinness.bsky.social Words @ Fictive Dream, Banshee, Splonk, Bending Genres, Flash Frog, The Forge, Milk Candy Review, Gone Lawn, 2x Pushcart nominated, LL Bath Short Story Award, Best Microfictions 2025, BBC Radio 4, Co.Founder: The Pride Roars, Editor Raw Lit
Idoreyin Utibe @idoreyinutibe.bsky.social I am an aspiring author, carrying many books within me, some written, others still forming. Filled with ready ideas and unwritten concepts, I stand prepared to bring them into the world through publication.
Anika Carpenter @stillsquirrel.bsky.social #Flashfiction writer and #collage artist. Stories in Gooseberry Pie, Fictive Dream, Gone Lawn, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story & others. Based in Brighton, UK
www.anikacarpenter.com
Christine H. @csquareh.bsky.social Lover of Science, Art, Words | Best Microfiction | Best Small Fictions | Wigleaf Top 50 2023| Stories: CRAFT, SmokeLong Quarterly, Fractured Lit, Atticus Review, Vestal Review, Ghost Parachute,Time & Space Magazine +
christinehchen.com
V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social V. Press publishes poetry and flash fiction that is very very
run by @sarahleavesley.bsky.social
https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/
shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social Author of The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India), and most recently, Cajun South Brown Folk (Belle Point Press). Represented by Teffanie Thompson of Falkin Literary. 2019-2025 Series Editor of The Wigleaf Top 50. Lafayette, LA. shomedome.com
Debra Daniel @debdanthewriter.bsky.social Writer of flash fiction and poetry, singer.
Salena Casha @salenacasha.bsky.social writer. runner. product manager. 1×WigleafTop50 selection, 2xPushcart nom, 2×BOTN nom, 3xBSF nom.
Join the waitlist for Teresa 2.0 here: teresaseesyou.com
Emma Timpany @emmatimpany.bsky.social Writer of fiction about loss, belonging, nature and place | Botanical Short Stories (editor) | Three Roads | Travelling in the Dark | (in)visibilities & Cornish Short Stories (co-editor) | The Lost of Syros
emmatimpany.wordpress.com
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Gothreads.Denver indie author @gothreads.bsky.social Indie author
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bloodied-constellations-astreliya-austin/1149909068?ean=2940185195109
Ebook
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Paperback
Eloise Hart @ehartwrites.bsky.social Writing speculative to understand the world better. Writing romance because everyone needs a HEA. Writing ND/MH because that's my life.
Agent: Morgan Wilson at Belcastro
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Mary is Writing @cousinmary.bsky.social Author and fangirl living her best life in Boise, Idaho. I write, cook, and play DnD all while looking up houses on Zillow I can in no way afford.
Wilson Koewing @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social notable, Best American Essays. distinguished, Best American Mystery and Suspense // books JADED, QUASI and ROLLING ON THE BOTTOM // editor of Bottle Rocket Literary Magazine
Jumping Jules Poetry @jumpingjulespoetry.bsky.social Julie Stevens, MS, poet. Forest Girl, Journey Through the Fire, Step into the Dark, Stickleback and Quicksand. Writes for adults and children.
www.jumpingjulespoetry.com
Catherine Ogston @catherineogston.bsky.social Flash fiction, short stories and longer fiction. YA ms going out on submission. Rep: Al Guthrie, The North Literary. 2026 Scriever for the Federation of Writers (Scotland).
C. Oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social Poet, thinker, dreamer, scribbler… in ascending order
For my recent posts: #Oulens
Winner, 3rd Annual Poe-it Like Poe Poetry Contest 2025 by sixdegreesofpoe
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Nickybaby @jnwardell.bsky.social Documenting my descent into madness as I attempt to become a published writer.
Chris Lawrence @chrislarry33.bsky.social Nonprofit lifer. Pop & counter culture anthropologist. Writer, carver, podcaster, gardener, animist, trash rocker. Opinions from folklore to networks & beyond. My 100 Word Pop Culture review blog: https://write.as/larrys100/
Can*Con @canconsffh.bsky.social Can*Con Virtual 2026 will be Can*Con: DISRUPTION!
We'll be hosting conversations on disrupting craft, narrative, and expectations, on and off the page!
Get tickets at www.can-con.org.
Dawn Berkoski @dawnberkoski.bsky.social Writer, photographer, and traveler on this road called life. linktr.ee/dawnberkoski
💓Safe Space💓
Nimblewitlit Mag-Issue 1: Taking a Stand NOW LIVE @nimblewitlit.bsky.social Epistemic Literary's new adventure for a young audience!
Our all ages eMag will extend the conversation to a younger audience by exploring similar themes.
Issue 1: https://epistemiclit.com/nimblewitlit/taking-a-stand/
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Lawrence Moore @lawrencemoore.bsky.social Poet. Pushcart, Forward nominated.
This Joyful Interlude out now with @janes-studio.bsky.social 🕊️
UK link: amazon.co.uk/dp/1068432330
Vegan, BLM
Flash 500 Writing Competitions @flash500.bsky.social Writing competitions:
Quarterly #flashfiction
Annual #shortstory
Annual #novels
Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social Writer, flash fiction writer, photographer. Author of 2 novels & 2 collections of flash. New novel out this spring. My flash pieces have been published in many lovely magazines. Mslexia flash fiction prize winner, 2024. Website: http://bronwengriff.co.uk/
David Kary @davidkary.bsky.social I started writing short stories in 2016 as a way to scratch my various artistic and philosophical itches. I try to keep readers amused while making them think. My latest work appears in https://tnq.ca/ and https://www.greatriverreview.com/.
LOFI BGM @lofi-harbor.bsky.social 🎧 Late night lofi for the quiet hours
🎵 https://www.youtube.com/@LOFIBGM_lofi
I'd be happy if you subscribed to the channel!
Lori Cramer @loricramerwriter.bsky.social Writer of flash, micro, prose poetry. Longlisted for Wigleaf Top 50. Nominated for Best Microfiction, Best of the Net. Copy Editor. Baseball fan. She/her.
https://loricramerfiction.wordpress.com
Liz Gauffreau @lizgauffreau.bsky.social Fiction Writer in Poet's Clothing ~ https://lizgauffreau.com ~ https://substack.com/@lizgauffreau
I have published a historical coming-of-age novel and 2 photopoetry collections. My latest novel was inspired by the closure of the last poor farm in VT.
Louise McLaughlin author she / her @louisemclaughlin.bsky.social 📚💙 Scottish fantasy author of D-Notice series- Cassie discovers saving the world with Glaswegian retired gods is a tough gig.
FREE BOOK links
Deviation: Wandering gods https://BookHip.com/CAMQGZQ
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Hilton Ariel Ruiz @hiltonarielruiz.bsky.social Filmmaker behind The Amityville Lost Tape & Zombie with a Shotgun - @zombiewithashotgun.bsky.social
Watch➡️ https://tinyurl.com/3fwy6f3j | https://tubitv.com/movies/100043140/zombie-with-a-shotgun
More 🎥 🌐 https://linktr.ee/hiltonarielruiz
Michael G. O'Connell @mocando.bsky.social Author/Illustrator from the Sunshine State. 🖤👻
Southern Gothic/Horror
Now available chapbooks & other goodies. https://linktr.ee/mocando
In Tales to Terrify, Dracula Beyond Stoker, WAS, Raven Review, Mystery Trib. & more
🚫DMs unless you already know me.
Mike Morucci @gcgeek.bsky.social (he/him) Married to @bdays7.bsky.social Comedy writer/actor. Musician. Vegan. Unapologetically liberal. Three AFF Second Rounders. #BlackLivesMatter #StopAAPIHate #LGBTQplusAlly #scriptsky #PreWGA
Ashley Perrier @ashleyperrier.bsky.social I tattoo at 23-55 Arthur St., Wpg. @thevillagesalonstudios For inquires: ashleyperrier@hotmail.com———>Books Open! B.F.A. Honours.
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 ⤵
https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/mariekathleen
Eliseo FG. McCarthy @eliseofgmccarthy.bsky.social | Poetry | Fantasy | Sci-fi | Existentialism | Horror |
My name is pronounced "L-E-SAY-O".
I'm working on my debut novel, The Traveler, a ruinous fantasy novel with a gritty and poetic setting.
Sharing with love from Detroit!
Tate-Madison Bell @tatewrites.bsky.social she/her. Writer querying Willow Hawkins’ Lessons in Bearding (YA contemporary).
WA state
www.tiktok.com/@tatemadisonwrites
Jule Avian Wren @coyotetrail.bsky.social Writer and teacher (MFA/PhD)
“Alaska” Is Not a Blank Space: Unsettling Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey (Cambridge, 2025)
I’m out running at 4:30 am, regardless
Website: https://juliannewarren-avian.studio/
📍Fairbanks
Cael Lawenu @cael-lawenu.bsky.social Writer of cosmic sci-fi & mindfulness stories. Explorer of consciousness, the numinous, data, and the Void. Dad of four, data engineer, crafting worlds where being meets becoming. www.enternyxus.com
Claudia Wair @cwtellstales.bsky.social Writer of literary and speculative stories (and occasional CNF). Words in Lost Balloon, Vestal Review, Bending Genres, Pithead Chapel, MetaStellar, and elsewhere.
Quaker. Tea drinker. Star Trek lover.
claudiawair.com
yagirlcolleen @camorrison.bsky.social Writer, mom, etc. In the business of barraging you with unfunny Dad jokes.
Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social Philly writer. Debut chapbook “Ghost in the Rain: Stories” from Bottlecap Press.
https://bottlecap.press/products/ghosmj
Stories in Best Microfiction, Identity Theory, DIHP, Claudine, Some Words, Flight, FlashFlood, BULL.
www.mattjakubowski.com
Susan Ovans @susanovans.bsky.social Retired journalist; NE Newspaper & Press Assn. Hall of Famer; Independent voter who leans way left; loves books, writing, gardens, travel, food, Boston sports. Hated Trump before it was cool. No bio? No posts? Don't follow me. No DMs. Slava Ukraini.
Judy Darley @judydarley.bsky.social Writer & daydreamer living by the Somerset coast. Author of fiction collections #TheStairsAreASnowcappedMountain, #SkyLightRain (https://bit.ly/3zlfK7Q) & #RememberMeToTheBees. Workshop leader/journalism/brand engagement.
MeliSwenk Editing @lousytshirt.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Loves art, music, film, photography, & expression.
INFJ. She/Her.
#copyeditor #betareader #proofreader
http://meliswenkediting.wordpress.com
https://ko-fi.com/meliswenk
https://www.amazon.com/stores/M.-A.-Swenka/author/B07XXBSLZ7
Steven Patchett @stevenpatchett.bsky.social He/Him. Engineer, Husband, Father. Writer in the Northeast of England. Anti-AI. Kindness matters.
I don't reply to random DMs.
Reader for the Small Spec Book Awards.
Published here and there.
Linktr.ee/stevenpatchett
Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social Words in BULL, FlashFlood, Does It Have Pockets, Frazzled Lit, Trash Cat Lit, Urban Pigs Press, Fictive Dream. Genrepunk Awards nominee. Shortlisted for the 2026 Bath Novella-in-Flash Award. She/her. @lmbayley at the other place.
F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social Author & journalist. Writing more books.
🎄MURDER AT MISTLETOE MANOR
🗡️THE EDIE YORK MYSTERIES
🏰 DREAMS OF THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS
Timothy C Goodwin @timothycgoodwin.bsky.social Writing and acting and photography and stuff. NYC. He/him. timothycgoodwin.com
Nicholas G. Marconi @marconinicholas.bsky.social The Man. The Myth. The Mustache. The Marconi. Author of speculative fiction.
https://nicholasgmarconi.com
Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social Writer and Literary Critic. Work in Gooseberry Pie Lit, Passages North, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story, Bending Genres, and FlashFlood.
Prose editor for Pictura Journal. Contemporary Anglophone Lit PhD.
https://linktr.ee/emhall47
@bsherm36.bsky.social @bsherm36.bsky.social Author of HOW TO GET THERE FROM HERE (Ad Hoc). Stories @Smokelong, Flash Frog, Gone Lawn, Bending Genres. Subs editor @Smokelong. BMF 2024, 2026. BSF 2025. Noms: Pushcart, BOTN. Author of five mystery novels. PhD from CUNY Grad Center.
Joel Flanagan-Grannemann @servantand.bsky.social Author of the epic fantasy adventure Servants of the Moon and Sun series: an epic fantasy reimagining of Sleeping Beauty. What if Maleficent was Aurora's mother and what if she wasn't really evil?
Servantsofthemoonandsun.com 
Astrarium Digital @astrariumdigital.bsky.social ✨🎮Helping indie games find their players! 🎮✨
We help indie developers grow wishlists & launch with confidence - games don't fail because they're bad, they fail because no-one sees them.
📅 Let's chat:
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Kate Axeford @kateaxeford.bsky.social Flashy writer/ social worker/ gig goer and ditherer. Lives in Brighton. Loves the sea.
C Maxfield @pickledp3.bsky.social Published via The Broken Spine, Blood+Honey, DarkWinter Literary Magazine, RiversSide and Silly Goose Press
Stephen Delaney @stephendelaney.bsky.social Writer, editor, human. Words in New World Writing, Bending Genres, South Florida Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Author of the chapbook OUR PLACE IS IN BETWEEN. 💙 #foreignlit #frogs
https://bottlecap.press/products/ourpsd
https://stephen-delaney.com
Mary Jane Lange @maryjanelange.bsky.social Wine lover, tree hugger, children's book author-illustrator, middle/high school art teacher in Paris.
California (native) 🐻
France (adoptee) 🐓
https://serendipiti.myportfolio.com/
https://www.instagram.com/maryjanelange4?igsh=ZngzZTBpdW5qbW1m
Peter Devonald @pdevonald.bsky.social Multi award-winning poet /screenwriter | Winner Broken Spine's Reader’s Choice Award 2025 | Winner Loft Books Poetry 2024 | Winner HoHx2, Waltham Forest & FofHCS | Second Shelley Memorial & N2tS 2024 | Nominations BoNx2, Forward Prize & Children's Bafta
June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social Scottish. Writer. Reader for Fractured Lit. Published in Trash Cat Lit, Frazzled Lit, Moonlit Getaway, Gone Lawn, The Phare, Gutter, Hooghly Review, and National Flash Flood.
Jupiter Jones @jupiterjonz.bsky.social Writes short stuff
Nancy 💚✍🏻 @contactwithcreation.com Writing, creativity, nature, intentional living, food, gardening, adventures, wildlife, mindfulness, wellbeing, bujo, little joys.
SE UK. Pics mine.
I don't follow-back AI, scraped content, politics, rage, ad streams.
Camping feed 🏕️ Joyful starter packs!
Lily Lachance @lilylachance.com Trans 🏳️🌈, adventurer, author, poet, filmmaker, SFWA, Codex. 🇨🇦
Agent: Brandy Vallance.
Words in Phano, Gavagai, Bullet Points, and more. Anti-AI absolutist.
Upward... Ever upward! 🙂🚀🌌
Suzanne (writing as S A Greene) @sagreene1.bsky.social SOCIAL MEDIA BREAK 2026 (except for shameless self-promotion) DMs deactivated. Writer: Gone Lawn trampset TempleInACity GooseberryPie BlinkInk Mslexia MythicPicnic NewFlashFicReview FictiveDream BulbCulture Phare MaudlinHouse FreeFlashFic FlashFlood
LogosFan @logosfan.bsky.social I'm from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, I'm a logo artist of making logos in Paint since 2020, I made logos, and behind the scenes how I made these logos! and more!
I'm autistic support and my hobby is art because I like to be an artist!
Allison Walters Luther, Damn It! @allisonluther.bsky.social Writer/Poet/Photographer. Always halfway lost in a daydream. Feral AuDHD goblin. Brain held together by SillyString. Visit my author page at allisonwaltersluther.com
Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos @delgeo14.bsky.social Breton writer
Runner-up Novel Fair / 2X Pushcart nom / Wigleaf LL
EIC: Raw Lit Mag / Co-Founder @theprideroars.bsky.social /Contributor: Poverty House
https://delphinegg.weebly.com
https://rawlit.weebly.com
https://theprideroars.blogspot.com/
DH_Austin @dhaustin.bsky.social Writing is easy. Writing goodly is the hard. RPG enthusiast. GM in training since 1976. Loves Romance, Adventure, Fantasy. He/Him
Norb Aikin @norbaikin.bsky.social 2x Writing.com Best Poetry Collection Quill Award winner and blogger. 3x published author. Former child. Hemmed up by JGM. #BillsMafia #Sabres #LGM #NDIrish Don't mind me; I hate everything. Norbaikin.com/blog
Julie Bihn, author of Titanic Voyage @juliebihn.bsky.social I write emotional, heartfelt time-travel books. Arizonan. 🌵 Host of #TimeTravelAuthors No AI
LOVE. YOUR. NEIGHBOR.
Titanic Voyage: https://book.juliebihn.com/tv
Preorder Immigrants’ Journey:
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Barry Bergman @barrybergman.bsky.social Debut novel, Proles, out now from Serving House Books.
More here: barryjbergman.com
Marigold @marigoldrowell.com (she/her) writer & illustrator, em dash over-user, and fan of all things weird & spooky
🐻🌴LOS ANGELES🌴🐻
🚫 No AI "writing" or "art."🚫 No crypto.🚫 I will block you.
Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social Retired; the blue dot in red state; midwest, volunteering & mentoring undergrads, grads, alums; Indiana Fever Fan. BS, PhD in engineering, MBA in strategy, fifty years employed in automotive electronics; Love Baroque music. Love travel, 2 kids, 7 grands.
Cindy Ana 🇳🇿 @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social Would rather write than talk. Sometimes I don’t read skeets properly, especially pre-coffee. Rāmere is my favourite day. Work can be found in Broken Spine Arts, takahē, Voicemail Poems
Special mention in Given Words 2025
SonakshiS @sonakshis11.bsky.social https://www.sonakshisrivastava.com/
Reader, Writer, Translator, Zinester
Senior Writing Fellow@Ashoka University/Translations Editor@Usawa/Educational Arm Assistant@Asymptote.
🔎 Discard Studies, Food, Ecocriticism, Reading Pedagogies, Critical Theory.
Mar Vincent @marofthebooks.bsky.social Weird little stories in Analog, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and other fantastical places. Always seeking human creativity (NO AI), coffee, and petrichor. https://www.marvincent.com/
Currently in the liminal space known as novel revisions. 📝✍️✍️
Murmuring towards Kalamazoo @themurmuring.bsky.social Writer, game developer, bird feeder, gamer. He/him. Fight hate and entropy. It may be futile, but what else you gonna do? Just roll over and play dead? 8.647 * 10³
Whimsy @whimsyfiction.bsky.social A monthly microfiction contest celebrating the lighter, more peculiar side of storytelling. Yes, our alpaca travels by quill 🦙🪶
https://www.whimsyfiction.com/
Alexander the Great Ape @alienanthropoid.bsky.social Carbon-based life form interested in evolving, expanding my mind, and altering reality.
Forrest Aguirre @forrestaguirre.bsky.social Geek, writer, metalhead. I've seen a little of the world. You might remember me from such podcasts as Glowburn.
forrestaguirre.blogspot.com
https://ko-fi.com/forrestaguirre
Ciro Capao @cirocapao.bsky.social A nerd with a passion for writing.
https://scifinook.blogspot.com/
Erin K. Dancer (she/her) @ekdancer.bsky.social Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy author, artist and reader | 🌈 Queer AuDHD Nerdmother | Earth Scientist | Software Developer | 🐉 TTRPG enthusiast and DM of entirely too many games (colonialism and capitalism are always the BBEGs!)