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@achingbob.bsky.social @achingbob.bsky.social Reader Historian Pro-Choice All Hail Dogs Proud fascism hater I can see through lies Pro-universal healthcare. We WILL overcome and thrive again Pro-science and empirical evidence
Fin Farmer (they/them) @finifarmer.bsky.social big fan of slinkies and poetry and bad at social media
Vee @ldvee.bsky.social Writer, activist, youth worker. A member of the Féile Vegan crew. Grassroots Irish vegan music fest.
Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com Canadian writer in Scotland (via Denmark (got lost on the way home (sorry mom))) | Pushcart nominated | Placed/listed: BFFA, Bridport Prize, Welkin Prize, others | Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig | She/Her erinbondo.com
Elizabeth Ohga @elizohga.bsky.social
Karen Baumgart @cake-girl.bsky.social I love it when people geek out on their passion. Tell me all the things about the random topic that makes your heart sing 💗
Chloe Paige @chloepaige.bsky.social 📚 Writer of many things. Reader of even more things 🏆 Winner of the Elegant Literature Award, The Booby Prize & NYC Midnight ✏️ Found here and IG: @chloepaigeauthor
Eric Taylor Roth @erictroth.bsky.social Engineer | Screenwriter | Dad | Sleepy
The Sam Hill! Review | SUBS OPEN @samhillreview.bsky.social Lit mag for historical fiction and poetry that makes you say: “now that was good as SAM HILL!” SamHillReview.com | est. 2026 | Submissions for Vol. 1 are OPEN
Franco Amati @francoamati.bsky.social writer, poet, SFWA & Codex, ViableParadise 2024, new collection WORK IS WORK out now: https://www.amazon.com/Work-Franco-Amati/dp/B0HCCQF9YP/ and for all published fiction visit francoamatiwrites.com
sarah 🥀 @sarahmillswrites.bsky.social sad girl from planet wonder poet, writer, she/her 🧠 ocd / anxiety 🫶 mitski, freddie mercury, poetry, & soup 🌱 vegan, I like chickpea puffs sarahmillswrites.com debut poetry collection: Lit Fox Books - 2027
Lainey @laineymarks.bsky.social ✍️
Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social Michigan writer & stuff. auDHD. gender noncompliant. Fuck AI & Subst*ck. https://aniking.net — Family Night (Mason Jar Press, 2026) https://tinyurl.com/2jtf6t63 — SmokeLong Subs Editor — EiC: syntaxandsalt.com (closed)
@leslievonholten.bsky.social @leslievonholten.bsky.social
Brahms1975 @brahms1975.bsky.social Poet and musician, also an unapologetic lover of books and our future among the stars, Ad Astra.
Sheila Hurst @sheilahurst.bsky.social Dreamer, writer, ocean lover looking for beauty everywhere. Author of Ocean Echoes. Photos are my own unless reposted or credited. https://sheila-hurst.com/
Mitchell Ny @mitchellny.com 非人非鬼 🫠 | lyric essay, fiction in: trampset, Bending Genres, Maudlin House, Same Faces Collective, Blood+Honey, [...] American Literary Review's 2026 Nonfiction Finalist Fractured Lit's 2026 Micro Prize Shortlist mitchellny.com
Sudha Balagopal @sudhab.bsky.social Writer: Winner of Santa Fe Literary Award; Family Matters forthcoming from SFWP, 2027. Pubs: Adroit Journal, Doric Lit, CRAFT,SmokeLong, Fractured Best Microfic, Best Small Fic, Wigleaf Top 50. BathFlash HC/Shortlisted; Series Editor: Wigleaf Top 50
Michael Russell Jones @michaeljonas.bsky.social Word nerd. Neurodivergent autodidact. Proud survivor of childhood S.A. Psych ward philosopher. Resides and writes in Skokie, Illinois. https://whiskeytit.com/article/five-poems/
Matt Lanark @mattlanark.bsky.social ✍️ probably not writing the Great American Novel 📚 Great-ish Books on @substack 🏀 Undrafted NBA free agent since 2012 📌 Washington, DC mattlanark.substack.com/welcome
M. Rob @oedipalschmedipal.bsky.social In the sober light of day it's a little too bright out | Will be mean to people you hate for food | Writer | Ball Knower
Kaylyssa Quinn @kaylyssa.bsky.social poet kaylyssa.com
Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social #amwriting Library manager. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️-reviewed short stories collection 'POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE' available now from me https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/267521176850 or from your local Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Negative-Nick-Black/dp/1915247128/
Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social Everything would be great if The Smiths would just get back together. Words: Wigleaf, HAD, Roi Faineant, Does it Have Pockets? Pithead Chapel, Your Impossible Voice, Trash Cat Lit, and BSF 2017, 2019. 2018 Pushcart recipient. www.keithawoodruff.com
Sarah misses Zoe @sarahmchen.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Chinese-Canadian in SoCal | Writer of many crime short stories ✍️| Foster mama 🐾 | she/her | Zoe's human 🐶 linktr.ee/sarahmchen
hayleygrace.bsky.social @hayleygrace.bsky.social Aspiring author and overly loud laugher.
Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social
Peter Thornton @insidewrite.bsky.social Copywriter. Scriptwriter. Author. Coach. City fan. I wrote those films for City. Including this one for the Treble. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-4vpZ4gkYU&pp=ygUQTWFuIENpdHkgVHJlYmxlIA%3D%3D
Sutton Strother @suttonstrother.bsky.social Writer, teacher, nerd. Dungeon Master when planets/schedules align. Potato chip connoisseur. Blue raspberry in human form. All published work at suttonstrother.wordpress.com
Lisa Yoder @lisli.bsky.social Front-end developer. Sometimes writes. Former farm kid/Dairy Princess. Loves books, travel, & cats. Very into quilts. Bee curious. https://lisayoder.is/
Angel @marikpapai4.bsky.social
JBeck @xjbeckx.bsky.social Fan of nerd things. NYer on NJ. LGBT+ member. Autistic to a fault. Progressive living in a world where we need it.
Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social Crone, wastrel, lapsed (but twitching) novelist. Posts about art & lit. Me: https://www.writersunion.ca/member/anne-denoon My book: Back Flip, a novel about art & the 1960s: https://t.co/m7fQSOo6At or (with reviews) https://tinyurl.com/4dzwzpdp
Jamie Etheridge @lescribbler.bsky.social Winner @fracturedlit Anthology II Long List Wigleaf Top 50 Words: @xraylitmag @jmwwjournal @bendinggenres @essayingdaily @reckonreview @antiheroinchic @pitheadchapel @storySouth + LeScribbler.com
Shon Mapp 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @shonmapp.bsky.social Engineer >>> Writer Folio Editor: Anomaly Reader: Fractured Lit www.shonmapp.com
Nicole Hart @nrhart.bsky.social Writes tiny stories
Claudia Wair @cwtellstales.bsky.social Writer of literary and speculative stories (and occasional CNF). Words in Flash Fiction Online, Lost Balloon, Vestal Review, Bending Genres, Pithead Chapel, and elsewhere. Quaker. Tea drinker. Star Trek lover. claudiawair.com
Guestbook Zine @guestbookzine.bsky.social You aren’t dead yet. Sign the Guestbook A print zine of speculative prose, poems, and art that lives in melancholy guestbookzine.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. Contemporary Anglophone Lit PhD. https://linktr.ee/emhall47
Barbara Stocker 💙📚 @bluebirdbhs.bsky.social Activist Democrat Missourian living in Virginia @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @fpwellman.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social Team Site
Chat Log @chatlog.bsky.social a lit mag for poems & flash written inside video games • eic: @ztfairfax.bsky.social https://chatloglit.com/
Ashley Mangtani @writerash.bsky.social Slipstream Writer ✍️ Published or forthcoming in Strange Horizons | LITRO | Washington Square Review | Boudin | Neon Dystopia | Expat Press | HAWKEYE etc Short story collection ⬇️ ashleymangtani.com
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.
Chris Dodds @liquid-chicken.bsky.social I write things. And make things. All the things. chrisdodds.net My debut, Necessary Cuts (https://necessarycuts.com), won the @miamioh-press.bsky.social Novella Prize and will land in 2027. Other work in Pithead Chapel, Marrow Magazine, and BULL.
Faye Rapoport DesPres @fayerd.bsky.social Author of 7 books and sometime poet, Best Microfiction 2023 winner, animal advocate, amateur wildlife photographer. www.fayerapoportdespres.com #WritingCommunity #WritersCoffeeBar #WritersCoffeeClub #Wildlife #5amwritersclub
@fishbarrelreview.bsky.social @fishbarrelreview.bsky.social
John Sara @johnsarawriter.bsky.social Creature who writes. My debut poetry collection, The Poet Who Cried Monster, is available now from Alien Buddha Press!
Michael Galanakis @michael-galanakis.bsky.social
Die durchscheinenden Flügel der Begierde @transparentwings.bsky.social A singular art collective "Fiction's about what it is to be a fucking human being." Do you believe in the Internet?
Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social Deep Woods of Philly | Sometimes Writer | Spoonie Crew | Accidental Startupper | Words in New Letters, Wild Roof Journal, etc.| NO DMs https://linktr.ee/lisadellaporta
Kuantalan: Transdisipliner Alanda Kuantum Eğitim [#TAKE] @kuantalan.bsky.social #kuantum #kuantus #kuantal #alan #transdisipliner #eğitim | #kuantabilim #kuantalem #kuantalisan #kuantumaarif #kuantusanat #kuantusistem ֍ #QuantALL Ж #QuantaLiteracy ₪ #LifelongLearning #quantum #action #education #quantuscience #quantusystem #quantusky
TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social #Scientist, #advocate, and #educator in the field of #climatechange. #Author of uplifting #climatefiction novel "A New Faith." Read or download the novel for free at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith #booksky #books #sciencefiction #solarpunk #hopepunk
Elowyn Merriweather @elowynmerriweather.com Writer On an adventure to take a childhood hobby into something more. Humor • a little darkness • a dash of sass 📖 my work ⤵ https://www.elowynmerriweather.com/
Briana Maley @brianamaley.bsky.social Fiction writer seeking representation for debut novel. Stories in @lilithmagazine.bsky.social, @emergejournal.bsky.social, @nffr.bsky.social, @fictivedream.bsky.social and elsewhere. Proud former Jeopardy! applicant. www.brianamaley.com
Carolyn (they/she) @carolynwill.bsky.social trying my best 💛 designer by trade 📐 Orioles 🧡 Chicago📍 follow me on letterboxd https://boxd.it/arjF
Reese @puppylove23.bsky.social 🐶 Woof! I'm Reese , a Boston Terrier with a black belt in snuggles. My human, BRETT CULBERT– you know, my actor papa who's on TV and all that? – thinks he's the star, but let's be real, I'm the real leading role here.
Cody @codybaird.bsky.social Southern California, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, nowhere, and everywhere. Books, movies/TV, music, sports, etc.
D.N. Schmidt, SF author🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com Science fiction novelist and humorist. Follow for stories, jokes, and thoughts about writing and creativity. Get my books, free stories, and writing tips at https://dnschmidt.com. Sign up for email updates so you don’t miss a thing!
Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social Philly writer. Debut chapbook “Ghost in the Rain: Stories,” Bottlecap Press, 2026. https://bottlecap.press/products/ghosmj Stories in Best Microfiction, Identity Theory, DIHP, Claudine, Some Words, Flight, FlashFlood, BULL. www.mattjakubowski.com
Fishing spider @pumbly.bsky.social A spider that fish. He/him.
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
Ali Morretta @alimorrettawrites.bsky.social Freelance editor and copywriter. Words in Citywide Lunch, Pacifica Lit, Flash Frog, and The Citron Review. Dogs love me.
Joey Hedger @joeyhedger.bsky.social Author living in Alexandria, VA | Deliver Thy Pigs (Malarkey Books) | stories in Saw Palm, Complete Sentence, Variant Lit, HAD, and more | he/him www.joeyhedger.com
Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social math teacher, writer in upper manhattan substack: pershmail.substack.com website with links to publications etc: michaelpershan.com
Ida Keogh @idakeogh.bsky.social Neurospicy and queer BSFA and British Fantasy Award winning SFF author and occasional mermaid. Equality and Diversity Officer for the British Science Fiction Association. Foodie SFF collection 'Taste' out April 2027!! she/her https://tinyurl.com/idasbooks
The Bloomin’ Onion | **SUBMISSIONS ALWAYS OPEN** @bloominonionlit.bsky.social A Literary Magazine with Layers. Est. 2024. Helping new and emerging writers find their way. Posts by the EIC. Subs: https://www.thebloominonion.com/submission-guidelines
Satya Dash @satyadash.bsky.social Poet
Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social This is a storybook. All of us are in it. Here are some tales. https://eirenegentle.com https://templeinacity.com In: AHC, Claudine, DIHP, Bull, Frazzled, Fish Barrel, Dog Throat, Blood & Honey, ANMLY Whimperbang. Pushcart, best short fiction nom.
K.M. Hanslik @kmhanslik.bsky.social My writing explores the nature of change, the psychology of grief, and landscapes as bridges between the spiritual and the physical. Editor for The Turning Leaf Journal. @turningleafjournal.bsky.social Chapbook “Bones” 2026. kmhanslik.com
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/
Domingos @domingosmcc.bsky.social I know not what tomorrow will bring…(Pessoa) 💙💛 Україна українцям! 💙💛 🚫 Nazifascists&Maga🚫 Bitcoin 🚫 Get-rich schemes I reject fanaticism and outdated orthodoxies!
Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social (re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics Sacramento CA
A.P. Laesch @aplaesch.bsky.social Writer, art lover, anti-moralist.
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site) Submissions open now: https://book-shelfie.com/submissions Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social The VILLAGE 🏘 is a place where the world 🌍 feels a tiny bit smaller. Founded by SMOKELONG for the Global Flash Community Follow 150+ flash publishers. Read editor interviews. Enjoy discounts on collections. Get regional news. Share the love💙,Follow us!
999luftballoons @999luftballoons.bsky.social Helium (He) up +400% to $97,200/mt (FY25) with no ceiling in sight.
Essie Brammer @essiebrammer.bsky.social Writer of MG. Finalist Mslexia C&YA Novel '24, SL Wells Book 4 Children '24, Yeovil Lit Prize C&YA '23 & Firefly Press '22, LL Guppy MG '21 & Mslexia C&YA '20 📚. Member of #MGnificents, #MGPugFish and #MiddleGradeHub. Neurodivergent. STEM IRL 🧮. She/her.
Betty Stanton @fadingbetty.bsky.social EdD, MFA, poet, author, speech & debate coach, director, teacher, editor, rpg nerd, game designer, bad at social media, located in Oklahoma
Pamela Moffatt @pcmoffatt.bsky.social Parent, reader, author, listener, speaker. Ph.D. #peace #humanrights #oneworldfamily #art #lifeasart #booksky 📚💙(she/her) First memoir on Amazon (see below). ✍🏻️❤️ Not AI More about me here: https://about.me/pamelamoffatt
Nick Fogg @nickfoggwords.bsky.social Writer. She/her. Mslexia Novel Comp LL, Aurora Metro Virginia Prize LL, ACE DYCP & WriteMentor Mentoring Prog. BFI Network x BAFTA Crew alumna
B(RYN)N💋a goddamn national treasure🏳️‍🌈 @ryn-rehnard.bsky.social 💋30s author 🧶handcraft artist 🏳️‍🌈queersadilla ❤️pure of heart & dumb of ass 🔞NSFWish 🔪Billy Butcher apologist 🐄Dairy Queen 🕷️&🐛&🐈 mom 🦃Cornbread knows my sins 📚Read more smut & horror 📍Wisconsin 🚫NO AI https://linktr.ee/ryn_rehnard https://RYN-REHNARD.COM
Stuti Srivastava @stutisrivastava.bsky.social Here to lurk, explore, understand, and be Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/gimmewords
@saraschansarkar.bsky.social @saraschansarkar.bsky.social Writer: Morsels of Purple (2021), Skin Over Milk (2022) ELJ Micro Prize, Larry Brown Short Story Award, NFFd Micro Prize
Anne Frost @anne64.bsky.social
A.J. O'Toole @scribblerotoole.bsky.social Writer - working on short fiction and my novel "Half A Lie". Good listener, quiet talker, part-time drinker. Black Country state of mind.
Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social writing + paintings here, there + all over the place | DOMESTICATED CREATURES coming Sept. 2026 | James Tate Poetry Prize | Pushcart, BoTN + Best Microfiction noms | Best Small Fictions 2025 Paintings, books + other writings: thaddevassie.com
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
Olga Katsovskiy @writingincurves.bsky.social Writer/Editor/Educator EIC: @jmwwjournal.bsky.social writingincurves.substack.com
Liz DeGregorio @lizdegregorio.bsky.social Poet, writer and editor with work in The Brooklyn Rail, Electric Lit, Catapult, The Rumpus, Little Fruits, Dread Central, BUST, Morbidly Beautiful, Ghouls Magazine, OyeDrum Magazine, Dykes and Dolls... https://linktr.ee/lizdegregorio 🌈 💛
Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social Just trying to put words together. God Elegy forthcoming from BOA Editions 2028. The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis (Soft Skull), House Is an Enigma (Bull City). TMI in your inbox here: https://substack.com/@emmabolden
Anne Howkins @anneh23.bsky.social Charity worker, writer, gym-bunny, rambler. Discovering the joys of grand-parenthood.
Sarah McPherson @summermoth.bsky.social HE manager by day. Writer, crafter, LARPer, runner. Procrastinator extraordinaire. Lover of the fantastic. Definitely not a grown up. She/her. Find me here: https://linktr.ee/summer_moth
Jim Kourlas @jimkourlas.bsky.social What the pillar of salt held up
Perfect God = Lexa Gates @mx-j.bsky.social https://shop.capitolmusic.com/collections/lexa-gates
Tristan Holloway @t-holloway-author.bsky.social Adult by day, writer by night. Cat dad of 10, solo parent of 4 humans. Fueled by cold brew WIP: urban fantasy noir-gothic novel: a ghost PI and an atheist archaeology student team up to solve a high stakes case in the afterlife city of Liminox. Slow-burn🌹
Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social librarian by day, writer by night | editor @ fifth wheel press, assoc. fiction ed. @ okay donkey | proprietress of backlist lit | https://eleanor-ball.com/
anya ྀིྀི @nunyums.bsky.social insufferagirl on another platform 💌 i’m cooler on substack substack.com/@nunyums
Amber Keller @redbikepdx.bsky.social Writer. Mom. Chaser of beautiful skies. 2017 Oregon Literary Fellow. Fiction in Moss, Nailed, Juked, Carve, Contrary under Amber Krieger.