Mar @angielavelle.bsky.social Writer, Novelist, Amateur Cartoonist, curator of creepy little guys
Main Project: Mettle of Monsters
Side Project: Potion City
Back Burner: Steamjunk
Overheard At AWP @overheardatawp.bsky.social If you're at AWP, you're #OverheardAtAWP
David Roderick @droderick77.bsky.social Author of Blue Colonial, The Americans, and the forthcoming Darkness for Beginners (Spring, 2027). Director of Left Margin LIT. Director of Content at The Adroit Journal. Old Man Basketball Commissioner. www.davidroderick.com
Sean Ironman @hankelford.bsky.social Writer | Cartoonist | Teacher
Scott Weaver @scottweaver.bsky.social Dad, teacher, reader, driver, writer, Hoosier, GERD enthusiast, nostalgic, kitchen cleaner, dilettante. In the order. No. Wait. Let me try again …
https://www.scott-weaver.com/
Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social author of weird horror and strange speculative fiction (and poetry). odinmeadows.com
Christeene Alcosiba @christeene.bsky.social Poems, tech, liminal spaces, and good trouble.
Opinions are my own.
Scott Miles @downriverhorseshoe.bsky.social A writer of sorts... Short stories in LIT, Cimarron Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Mystery Tribune, and forthcoming in BULL and Midwest Noir.
scottmiles.net
Lee Hallison @leeh70.bsky.social Flash fiction writer, gardener, cook, handywoman. Intermittent blogger at leehallison.com
SFWA, Codex, Rainforest Writers
Vintage seller: online vintage businesses at linkr.bio/tinksattic
Melissa Shepherd @melissashepherd.bsky.social Writer and editor
MFA in poetry from Spalding University
Mile Square Theatre board of trustees
R.J. Cross @rj-x.bsky.social Writer/researcher/advocate @ the Public Interest Research Group. Usually: tech/privacy/AI. Sometimes: fiction/poems/satire/birds. Currently learning about: burrowing owls. Cool new lit project coming soon. Kansan at heart.
https://rjcross.org/
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/
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
Olga Amigo-Horcajo @olga-ah.bsky.social Educator, poet, and nature lover| Lecturer at UGA |A la sombra de un espino albar(2024)
-Barcelonina, enamorada de la natura i poeta. No faig servir IA.
Alice Maglio @alicemaglio.bsky.social writer & product designer | words in DIAGRAM, No Tokens, Black Warrior Review, Fugue, Wigleaf, X-R-A-Y | she/her 🌈
https://www.alicemaglio.com/writing
I write about invisible illness. @elephantstalk.bsky.social Harvard trained narrative storyteller. Formerly @Forbes. Author, The Elephant in the Playroom. Every patient has a story a doctor never hears. Tell yours at spikethegame.net #peersupport
Virginia S. Ontario Possum @virginiaopossum.bsky.social Writer, weaver, amateur textile historian.
People's Book @peoplesbooktakoma.com Mom 'n pop bookshop in downtown Takoma Park, MD. New books, hot zines, and Sunday storytimes. We're DC City Paper's Best Bookstore of 2026, 2025 and 2024. 👍 See upcoming events and membership options here: https://wfr.bio/peoplesbook
Nicholas Cannariato @ncannariato.bsky.social Writer/Teacher. Work: NYT Mag, NY Times, WaPo, Slate, The Believer, The Atlantic, NPR, etc. Mainly here to listen.
Olympic: Simple stories nicholascannariato.substack.com/
Portfolio site: nicholascannariato.com
J.H. Siegal @joshuasiegal.bsky.social Chicago
Writer, Musician, Creative Technologist
🖊️ in Michigan Quarterly Review, PodCastle, Skeptic Magazine, Peatsmoke Journal, etc
🎶 at http://redspotrhythmsection.com
Also: game design, software dev, making things in general
http://joshuasiegal.org
bethannepatrick.bsky.social @bethannepatrick.bsky.social Once @TheBookMaven, now just me. Writer, author, critic. Wrote a memoir. Angry feminist, lifelong depressive, and very slow, determined lap swimmer.
Vannotes @vannotesbooks.bsky.social Writer, cartoonist, and educator. Writer on Skibidi Toilet, Piggy, Spy Ninjas, and Bendy. Creator of Tall Tales of Odahi. The pal behind Seasonal Produce Publishing. Repped by Jessica Mileo at Inkwell Literary Management.
Mitch Effendi (ميتش أفندي) @mitch.hoagie.cloud.ap.brid.gy 🎨 Creative Director
✏️ Illustrator & Cartoonist
✒️ Vector Wizard
💻 Graphic Designer
🖋 Brand Designer
📜 Theology
🧠 Polymath, Goofball
🛠️ Workforce Improvement […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://hoagie.cloud/@mitch, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Corodon @thecorodon.bsky.social Writer of fantasies for games and other things.
Not sure what I'm doing here yet.
He/Him
corodonfuller.com
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/23505/The-Corodon
https://corodon.itch.io/
Walter @waltermarek.bsky.social He/Him. Public Defender in Appalachia. Veteran, Dad, my name isn’t Walter. No laws only vibes…
Justine O-S 🪞 @justineodashs.bsky.social writer! MA. folklorist, hobby baker, באָבעלע. repro funder, covered in cat hair.
AN AMERICAN GIRL ANTHOLOGY out now from University Press of Mississippi 📓
📍New Jersey
https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/An-American-Girl-Anthology
Matty Bow @mattywrites.bsky.social Giving the writer life another shot, while also running a house where everyone is on the spectrum. These are our stories.
Meher Ali @meherali.bsky.social Writer, podcaster and journalist. Always reading. Find my weird stories and book notes here. Stories in Storm Cellar, Newfound and Thirteen Bridges Review. CR: Southern Women’s Guide to Slaying Vampires.
andalsoplusidocious @andalsoplus.bsky.social Midwesterner in Maryland. Beach-loving hater of sand. Lifelong fan of Chicago Bears & Cubs who also roots for D.C.’s teams + Ravens (when not a conflict). Liker of way too many posts.
Brandon Mudd 🇵🇸 @ddumnodnarb.bsky.social Award-losing writer. Grandad. Vet. Annoying leftist. 8th-grade spelling bee champ. #DINFOS grad. He/Him/Jackass. #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Max Zell @maxzell.bsky.social Writer, copyeditor, story enjoyer & fun haver. Some stories in some places.
WritersInPittsburgh.org
Pittsburgh
JR Fenn @jrfenn.bsky.social Writer, teacher, parent, dreamer | TINY VESSELS out from Red Mare Press | Words in or forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Orion's Belt, DIAGRAM, Split Lip, Witness, Boston Review, Gulf Coast | Ucross Fellow | Syracuse MFA | Prof at SUNY ESF | www.jrfenn.com
Mike Giordano @airgiordano.com Comedian, voice actor, weakling
I'm used to being from the northeast
Kristen @cascadewallflower.bsky.social Oregonian, Mom, Xennial, sometime writer. Fuck AI. Impeach, convict, remove DJT.
https://www.thisunquietmind.com
Dudee Alwan @dudeealwan.bsky.social Novelist. ADAM: A Story of the Last Man — a literary dystopia, early 2027. 75,000 words, not one question mark. Ishiguro, Le Guin, McCarthy.
📍Koh phangan, Thailand
Lee Holden @leethomasholden.bsky.social Cat Dad; Writer; Houston; MFA Bennington Writing Seminars '26; Director of Question Production at IAC; fiction reader for New England Review; views are my own; he/him/his
A.M. Maris @ammaris.bsky.social SFF writer | she/her | Clarion '25 | ammariswrites.com
Susan L DeMiller @susanldemiller.bsky.social Author, weaver, photographer, certified yoga teacher, past shepherd, knitter, birdwatcher, level 69 in Pokémon Go she/her
Born in Chicago- Northwest Side-now lives in South Dakota
ted @estrellalune.bsky.social hi i’m ted ⊹ ࣪ ˖ they/them - Researcher▴Writer▴Archivist▴Cultural Preservationist⊹ ࣪ ˖ Last Read- Only Big Bum Bum Matters Tomorrow by Damilare Kuku
🏳️🌈🇯🇲
My blog → https://fieldnotesfromthearchive.substack.com/
Vee @ldvee.bsky.social Writer, activist, youth worker. A member of the Féile Vegan crew. Grassroots Irish vegan music fest.
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.
basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social anthropologist, editor at mcmaster university. author of THE DREAD HEIGHTS: TRIBULATION AND REFUGE AFTER THE SYRIAN REVOLUTION (https://fordhampress.com/the-dread-heights-hb-9781531510312.html). bookmarking in the wasteland
Zanzan @agenderhottie.myatproto.social Trans-agender hottie. 34.
Ancestor-summoning writer||diviner
Author of some books:
www.wordsbythokozani.com
Horror lover:
https://nightmarenook.pagecord.com/
baddrawerer @baddrawerer.bsky.social Writer, bad drawer, dull
Daniel Southwell @dpsouthwell.bsky.social Reader, writer, dad, quesadilla enthusiast, lapsed trail runner, analog boy
Veronica the Writer @veronicastephens.bsky.social Latine/ Hispanic Texan
Known by some as Archnemesis Goldenhair.
I write for myself and the marginalized voices who haven't seen themselves on the page.
Sara Sheikhi @kristallhavet.bsky.social artist, larper/larp writer, a Swedish German linguist, lover of philosophy and knowledge/a nerd, and some kind of human being (?)
https://ko-fi.com/piranesi77
I will mostly share pics I made here! Sometimes ramble! No AI here and full copyright
operation-endeavor.bsky.social @operation-endeavor.bsky.social She is a published author of nonfiction, both journalism and numerous peer-reviewed articles. Her fascination with space began with the first space flight, and although unable to become an astronaut, she channeled that passion into science fiction.
Nick DeMartino @ndemartino.bsky.social Memoirist and story writer, gardener and dog-dad. Learn more at nickdemartino.com
Hannah Floyd @word3floyd.bsky.social Writes poetry, flash, speculative fiction. Works in a special school. Bakes stuff.
Paul Magrs @paulmagrs.bsky.social Writer and artist and - together with my partner - bookshop owner! My bookish youtube channel is here - https://www.youtube.com/@paulmagrs-g8n
Nellie @nellvin.bsky.social poet, gamer, reader @okaydonkeymag.com
🔗 nellvin.itch.io
Emily Mitchell @elbmitchell.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor, apprentice curmudgeon. Novel FAR OCEAN forthcoming March 2027 from Black Lawrence Press. Fiction editor New England Review. Stories in The Sun, Missouri Review, Southern Review, AQR and elsewhere. Free DC, ffs. New here.
Chris Emery @chrisemery.me Poet. Five collections from Arc and Salt, most recently Wonder (2025). Manchester-born, Irish citizen, living in Cromer. I publish other people’s books at Salt. Newsletter: chrisemery.me
Bird Man @percivalpenman.bsky.social Inhabiter of The Island of Relevancy. R&B Connoisseur. I write. I run. I love movies, Double Stuf Oreos, and the Houston Texans. I hate the assault bike. Mo. City made. #HookEm
Eran Edry @erane1980.bsky.social Children's PB writer, preschool TV screenwriter, translator, and dutiful servant of the world's best dog.
Lynne Lieberman @hikewriterepeat.bsky.social Author. Lynne was born under the Liberty Bell and currently dwells among the saguaros. She loves reading and writing urban fantasy, for adults & children. Her short story, “Safety,” appears in The Writers’ Journal: Live and Learn.
@bmessinger.bsky.social @bmessinger.bsky.social Kid-lit writer. Picture Books and Chapter Books. SCBWI and Inked Voices member.
cnbays.bsky.social @cnbays.bsky.social *QUERYING* Author, Mom, Firewife, former children's librarian and college instructor
Maryanne @colantuono.bsky.social elementary teacher, library media specialist,librarian, uses technology. Loves books and cats
uses multimedia
Katrina Swenson @katrinaswenson.bsky.social Children’s author and poet. Poems at The School Magazine, Little Thoughts Press, The Dirigible Balloon, and Highlights’ High Five. My debut picture book, LOVE, GRUMBLE (illustrated by Charles Santoso, published by Little, Brown) arrives in 2026!
Paula Raitt @paularaitt.bsky.social Author of Balance Is a Unicorn & Catch and Release. Recovering perfectionist, imperfect parent, professional oversharer. Writing about boundaries, burnout, and raising kids who can actually handle things.
Sue Sutherland, Author - TWELVE DAYS AT GLACIER @suemt.bsky.social Debut picture book author - TWELVE DAYS AT GLACIER, granola girl, weaver, quilter, traveler, photographer, 12x12, Montana SCBWI
Coming Soon - HOW HANNAH GOT HER LUMP OF COAL (2026), TWELVE DAYS AT YELLOWSTONE (2027), & NOTHING BUT NET TROUBLE
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
alex <3 ♌︎ @alex.bsky.to they pay me in woims
J. Alexander Cohen | Design and Fantasy @jalexandercohen.com Clearing 48yr backlog of accumulated ideas. Will be slow. The life unexamined cannot run on your value substrate.
#firstoneinturnonthelights
Looking to trade ideas/effort for money.
https://www.jalexandercohen.com
Garth Martens @garthmartens.bsky.social Poet. Palmero. Member of Palabra Flamenco. Producer of Dark Sounds. Author of Prologue for the Age of Consequence (Anansi, 2014) and Who Else in the Dark Headed There (Biblioasis, 2026). Pronouns: he / him. 🇵🇸 🌈 🍉
benji, the jack of hearts 🔆🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦🌹 @destroytime.bsky.social insatiably curious bibliophile. nerd of many colors. secular seeker of peace, pragmatic democratic socialist, anti-fascist, cishumanist, decelerationist, up the #Arsenal! #LGBTQ+ #BLM #COYG #ForeverPrint.
H. Marin @hanmarin.bsky.social • han
• she/they
• MFA - Fairfield U.
• queer, nd, & disabled spec fic author
• HWA, SFWA, Codex
• freelance editor @ http://www.hmarinliterary.com
• novelette editor @foofarawpress.bsky.social
• fck genAI
• words in Night Shades, ITAL, Gavagai & more
Audrey Hall @mylifeiswrite.bsky.social poet, scholar, megafauna enthusiast. poems in Atlanta Review, Cola Literary Review, Okay Donkey, Alaska Quarterly Review, and others.
Karen Elizabeth Bishop @kebishop.bsky.social poet, translator, prof | the deering hour (Ornithopter) | The Space of Disappearance (SUNY) | Cartographies of Exile (Routledge) | dir. The Elegy Project | dir. Rutgers Translation Studies Initiative
Edward Sambrano III @sambranopoet.bsky.social lost Texan丨MFA UF '23丨poet, critic丨poetry editor @thedodgemag.bsky.social
Website: https://edwardsambranoIII.com
https://linktr.ee/sambranopoet
Katherine Schulten @kschulten.bsky.social Editor at the NYT Learning Network since 2006. English teacher/school newspaper advisor/literacy coach in NYC public schools for 19 years before that.
Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social Author of time travel stories BLUE SKIES (in The Accidental Time Travelers Collective Volume 1) and FROM NOW ON (Vol. 3). Working on PBs, MG Sci-fi, and haiku as @haikuformykids.bsky.social (he/him)
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
Pattie McCarthy @pattiemccarthy.bsky.social Philly poet
https://linktr.ee/pattiemccarthy
Andrew Forbes @utilityofboredom.bsky.social Human, author. Field Work: On Baseball and Making a Living (@pressassembly.bsky.social). The Diapause (novel), McCurdle's Arm (novella) (@invisibooks.bsky.social). #SABR (Hanlan's Pt). He/him.
📍Peterborough, Ontario
linktr.ee/andrewgforbes
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett @luizagurley.bsky.social she/her | books: MUD IN OUR MOUTHS Northwestern University Press (2025), LOOK ALIVE Bull City Press (2021) | chaps: LOSSLAND Black Lawrence Press (forthcoming), FAMILIAR Madhouse Press (2024) + more | poetry editor Foglifter Press | luizaflynngoodlett.com
Northwest Review @northwestreview.bsky.social Established in 1957, we are a literary magazine in Eugene, Oregon, publishing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Liz Morris @lizmorris.bsky.social Retired Bookseller. Pennsylvanian. I'm still mad about the Hanging Chads.
Susan Rudy @susanrudy.bsky.social Academic & Writer | London & Wivenhoe | QMUL researcher | former creative writing teacher at Birkbeck and English Professor at University of Calgary | queer feminist theory | experimental writing
River Elizabeth Hall @riverhallpoet.bsky.social Poet. Naturalist. Teacher.
Matthew Lansburgh @matthewlansburgh.bsky.social Author of OUTSIDE IS THE OCEAN. Iowa Short Fiction Award. Finalist for Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction & Ferro-Grumley Award in LGBTQ Fiction. 🌈 🌈 🌈 Recipient of Fellowships to Bread Loaf, Sewanee, Yaddo & MacDowell. He/him.
Glengarry Glen Rachel @chrispb.bsky.social Future Criterion closet thief. Poetry, pints, fries. M/WNBA. Songs missing bridges. Shawarma connoisseur. Older than some dirt. Open to kindness.
H'Rina DeTroy @hrina-detroy.bsky.social Montagnard American Writer, Flamenca 💃🏽2020 Grantee in Literature 🌹2019 Emerging Writer Fellow for Aspen Word 🖋2017 Curt Johnson Prose Award 🧨 ** all opinions are obviously my own **
Mark Walters @markwalters.bsky.social Librarian living in Michigan
Damn Jones @damnjones.bsky.social Author of lyrical, voice-driven literary fiction & poetry.
Vignette Editions
https://linktr.ee/damnjones
Editorial/Reading Assistant at @thirtywestph.com
Chasing the numinous.
William P Hicks @williamphicks.bsky.social Writer living in Charlotte, NC
nīcro @nicropoet.bsky.social Writer. Antifascist. Chicagoan Coloradan. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Poetry isn't dead. It's just missing in action. 🏴✒️
Likes: cheesecake, psychology, & m dashes.
🚫 "AI"
Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of poetry, short fiction, and essay. Headquartered in Louisville, KY.
linktr.ee/sarabandebooks
James Austin @jamestaustin.com Staff Writer for Wirecutter, covering hobbies and games. Let's talk about dice and meeples!
Alden Cullinane @aldencullinane.bsky.social Poet, Author, ADHD, Mom to boys and dogs. Many English Degs. Memoir-Ghosts Only I Can See: Oct 2024
Jeffrey Perkins @jeffreyperkins44.bsky.social Writer and author of Kingdom (Spork Press 2020) https://thekingdompoems.com/
Mollie O'Leary @molliepoleary.bsky.social poet • UW MFA ‘22 • The Forgetting Curve via poetryonl 💙
• she/her • heavy sleeper • sensitive in terms of everything else
mollieoleary.com
Kristen Brida @velourworm.bsky.social Poet | words in The Journal, Fairy Tale Review, New Delta Review, and elsewhere | I am obsessed with my cat
www.kristenbrida.com
Michelle Castleberry @michellecastle9.bsky.social | MFA at Sewanee | therapist | works in @Common_mag, EcoTheo Review, etc | poetry reader with @April_Gloaming, | prose reader with Waxing and Waning mag | looking for my mountain cottage
synonym roll @dillonjwelch.bsky.social writer sometimes. still in love with the world
https://www.biglucks.com/store/impatient-inpatient-dillon-welch
Prince Bush @princebush.bsky.social Poet | Poems in The Cortland Review, The Drift, Northwest Review, etc | MFA @ Iowa Writers’ Workshop ⏭️ PhD CW/Poetry @ UC ❤️ (on hiatus 😴)
https://prince-bush.com
Sea Minor/Irving Benitez @seaminor.bsky.social Poetry and Fiction writer. Disabled and Queer. Crowned in Blood and Birthright. A horror genre and tangerine enjoyer. Really weird.
Carrd: seaminor.carrd.co/
itch.io: https://sea-minor.itch.io/