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
Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social PFP by Terijian
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BSF 2025
Have you ever seen me and Kali in the same room? Thought not
Bi (2) x Demi (1/2) = 1 Sexual
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Mario Aliberto 3 @marioaliberto3.bsky.social 💢ALL THE DEAD WE HAVE YET TO BURY out now w/ @ChestnutReview.bsky.social ➡️ https://a.co/d/7KbGazX 💢Shorts in @FracturedLit.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social @pinchjournal.bsky.social & more
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
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
Rachel M. Hollis (she/her) @rachelmhollis.bsky.social Writer of strange little heartbreaks. Sometimes I share them with people who aren’t my mom.
rachelmhollis.com
Sam Anne Moe @samannemoe.bsky.social Sewanee Writers' Conference ('24) ANIMAL HEART (Harvard Square) GRIEF BIRDS (BS Lit) CICATRIZING THE DAUGHTERS (FlowerSong Press) I MIGHT TRUST YOU (Experiments in Fiction)
Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social ClickHole contributor. Writer. Person. An actual human being. In DC. chrisscottwrites.com
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
Stuti Srivastava @stutisrivastava.bsky.social Here to lurk, explore, understand, and be
Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/gimmewords
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
Jim Kourlas @jimkourlas.bsky.social What the pillar of salt held up
@titikdua.bsky.social @titikdua.bsky.social
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
Divya Kernan @divyakernan.bsky.social SFF/Speculative Fiction Writer, GrubStreet Novel Generator 2019, GrubStreet Short Story Incubator 2021-2022, stories in Baffling Magazine, Lost Balloon, Strange Pilgrims and PseudoPod.
www.divyakernan.com
Biotech Alumna, RPG Dabbler, French native
she/her
Leanne Radojkovich @linedealer.bsky.social Reader. Walker. Author of short story collections Hailman and Fox pub by @theemmapress.bsky.social 📚
leanneradojkovich.com
Mitch James @mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social First-gen PhD, professor of writing, author of the novel Seldom Seen, a Miner's Tale. Writer of tales short and shorter, poems, CNF, scholarship. Facilitator of therapeutic and expressive writing workshops. Crafter and consumer of cocktails.
Brandon Forinash @brandonforinash.bsky.social Writing in Wigleaf, X-R-A-Y, Short Story Long, Necessary Fiction, Maudlin House, Flash Frog, Tiny Molecules, JAKE, BULL, Major 7th.
Working on a novel? That would be smart.
Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social Writer. Pie enthusiast. Historically preserved beard site. Cheese poet. Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, Cinnamon Challenge: honorable mention.
Pauline Holdsworth @holdswo.bsky.social Documentary producer for CBC Radio’s Ideas
Wigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social Seven-time Pushcart Prize winning journal of very short fiction. (Read us at wigleaf.com)
Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social Stories in CRAFT Literary, Vestal Review, Bending Genres, more. 🐈⬛ Learned from Rutgers-Camden MFA '18, Tin House '22, and Lambda Literary '25. Fiction reader for Okay Donkey. catherinebuck.com
Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social San Francisco Bay Area writer and educator. Flash fiction and cnf in SmokeLong, Bending Genres, Atlas and Alice, The Forge, Ghost Parachute, Craft & elsewhere.Poetry in journals such as New Ohio Review, Plume, Hunger Mountain and Cincinnati R. (she/her)
Sarah Blake @blakesarah.bsky.social Writery
Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social Author. Potter. Mom. THE BELOVED WILD (Feiwel & Friends, 2018) & UNLEAVING (Feiwel & Friends, 2019) Rep’d by Faye Bender. melissaostrom.com
Bethany Jarmul @bethanyjarmul.bsky.social Appalachian poet/writer, TAKE ME HOME (@BellePointPress), LIGHTNING IS A MOTHER (ELJ, 2025), Best Small Fictions 2024, Best Spiritual Literature 2023, Nominations: Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, 100+ pubs.
Jacqueline Parker @onmytangent.bsky.social Not good at writing bios but I write other things. Editor of fiction and flash at JMWW and The Hopper. jacqueline-parker.com
Belinda Rowe @belindarowe.bsky.social Flash writer. Teacher. Night gardener
Recent pubs: Literary Namjooning, Unbroken, NFFR, Fractured Lit, Bending Genres, Vestal Review, Flash the Court, Centaur, BULL, Okay Donkey, BSF 2025
SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellow 2025
joshua wayne hensley @joshuawaynehensley.bsky.social *midwest songbird*
the rutabega // forestlike // jwh
http://therutabega.com
http://soundslikeforestlike.com
https://joshuawaynehensley.bandcamp.com
Jiksun Cheung @jiksuncheung.bsky.social Painter | Writer | Dad
Art: IG / Threads @jiksuncheung
Writing: jiksun.com | Stories in Wigleaf, SmokeLong Quarterly, Molotov Cocktail, Atticus Review, and elsewhere. Previously: Submissions Editor at SmokeLong, EIC at The Bureau Dispatch
Margaret Adams @megaretadams.bsky.social Writer, Reader, NP. Work in Best Small Fictions, Threepenny, Joyland, & more.
| BAE notable | Sewanee, Tin House alumn | Fic editor JMWW
Tiny Molecules @tinymolecules.bsky.social A quarterly literary journal. We love flash, we love experimental, we love saying something big in a small space.
https://www.tinymolecules.com/
EIC @sdobbie.bsky.social
Marcelle Heath @marcelleheath.bsky.social Short story writer
Author, Is that all there is?
Editor, matchbook
linktr.ee/marcelle.heath
Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social dc via apollo, pa | she/her | words @ Best Microfiction, Bending Genres, Lost Balloon, Milk Candy Review, Flash Fiction Online, Cold Signal, hex literary & more | http://www.laurenkardos.co/
Elizabeth Torres @lissatorres.bsky.social Essays. Poetry.
elizabethtorreswriter.com
Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social Judged this year by Jonathan Lethem. Anthology series edited by Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, published by Pelekinesis
SethWade.bsky.social @sethwade.bsky.social philosopher, poet, fiction writer / https://www.sethwade.info
Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social Twin Cities, MN writer. Invisible disability.
Debut FRIENDLY FIRE: A FRACTURED MEMOIR (HarperCollins 2024)
Also in Roxane Gay's The Audacity, Newsweek, SmokeLong, Wigleaf, San Francisco Chronicle.
Read my stories & essays at https://paul-rousseau.com
Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. PhD UofU. MFA NMSU. Owner of Field Works Writing & Photography. Fiction Editor Waxwing. Books: ALL THAT BLUE & BODIES OF OTHER WOMEN. Chapbooks: STITCH, EDGE OF THE SEA & WITHOUT WOMAN OR BODY
allisonfieldbell.com
Rose Metal Press @rosemetalpress.bsky.social Rose Metal Press is a non-profit publisher specializing in the publication of hybrid genre books. Founded in 2006. Posts by co-founders Abby Beckel and Kathleen Rooney. Check out our books and amazing authors here: www.rosemetalpress.com
Kim Magowan @kimmagowan.bsky.social Fiction writer, EIC/ Fiction Editor of Pithead Chapel, adjunct professor www.kimmagowan.com
21st Century Cave Paintings @c21cp.bsky.social Actually a regular-ish human named Charles Hay. Among other things, I love to create.
@conjunctions.bsky.social @conjunctions.bsky.social
The American Poetry Review @ampoetryreview.bsky.social Poetry all the time since 1972. We never close. aprweb.org
Birmingham Poetry Review @bham-poetry-review.bsky.social Volume 52 Out Now! | Est. 1987 | Publishing Award Winning Poetry, Reviews, Essays, & Interviews | Open for Poetry Submissions |
https://linktr.ee/birminghampoetryreview?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=a6e4b253-f548-4727-91da-c69865518234
Ninth Letter @ninthletter.bsky.social Ninth Letter is a literary magazine edited and produced at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. We aim to present original literary writing of exceptional quality, illuminated by cutting-edge graphic design.
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https://linktr.ee/ninthletter
Kelsi Lindus @kelsijayne.bsky.social writer & producer
series producer: https://blackhistoryintwominutes.com
poetry chapbook: https://bottlecap.press/products/forms
www.kelsilindus.com
Kelli Short Borges @kelliborges2.bsky.social Writer. Words in many lovely places. Into travel, photography, kind people. Best Microfiction 24’ 25’ 26’ Wigleaf Top 50 LL. Pubs and more info: https://www.kellishortborges.com
Kim Chinquee @kimchinquee.bsky.social Mom, writer, professor, editor, dog-lover, triathlete, veteran, vegan. USAT Certified Official.
www.kimchinquee.com
Attawoman @attawoman.bsky.social Irish lass living in Berlin.
Catch my improv shows at the Comedy Café Berlin.
Find my writing at JAKE and Lost Balloon.
(Also open to jobs: UX, research, copywriting, voice/acting, TRY ME!)
DJ Wolfinsohn @djwolfinsohn.bsky.social a writer in austin, tx
poetry & movies
knitting & old radios
debbywolfinsohn.com
Lost Balloon, Maudlin House, HAD, Gone Lawn, Variant Lit, Brawl, Jake, Memoir Mixtapes, Hog River Press, Vestal Review, Roi Fainéant Press, The Engine(Idling 🎉WIGLEAF TOP 50🎉
Victoria Buitron @victoriawrites.bsky.social writes-climbs-hikes • ecuatoriana • A BODY ACROSS TWO HEMISPHERES @woodhallpress • BSF + Wigleaf Top 50 ‘22 • Artistic Excellence Award '23 •
Rachel Abbey McCafferty @ramccafferty.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Reporter. Editor.
https://rachelabbeymccafferty.com/
Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Writer of short things. Reader of all things flash. Dog lover. Words in SLQ, XRAY, Flash Frog, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf. Winner of 2024 Lascaux Prize & Cambridge Prize. She/her https://www.emilyrinkema.com/
Nina Miller @ninamiller.bsky.social Physician, Fencer and Creative
Wigleaf top 50
https://ninamillerwrites.com/
Hybrids/Photos @ Cutbow Quarterly and Raw Lit
Prose/Poetry @ Sci-Fi Shorts, Bright Flash, Five South, Roi Fainéant, Five Minutes and more.
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
Kristin Kozlowski @kristinkoz.bsky.social Writer, mom, podcaster, entrepreneur — not in that order. Short books: LIKE A COMPASS IN HER BONES, and UNRAVELING THE ALIEN MISSIONS. Podcast available wherever you listen: HOMETOWN PARANORMAL.
Erin Hall @erinhall802.bsky.social Trying this writing thing. Started with scribbling stories on my nightstand as kid, to publishing essays and pieces in Huffington Post, TodayShow.com, Deep Wild Journal, Bright Flash Lit, Multiplicity Magazine, Detroit Metro Times and more.
June O’Sullivan @sullyj.bsky.social Debut WIP Longlisted @bluepencilaward @ExeterNovelPriz Fiction Factory 1st Chapter. Stories in @SeasideGothic @YorkLiteraryRev @TheOghamStone @nationalflashfd
Suzanne Hicks @suzannehicks.bsky.social Writer living with multiple sclerosis. Often very tired. Best Microfiction ‘24 Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist ‘24.
Read my work: www.suzannehickswrites.com
Josh Rank @joshrank.bsky.social THE PRESENT IS PAST - 2023 Unsolicited Press
CHANCE TO FADE & OTHER STORIES - 2025 Running Wild Press
ESTUARY - 2026 Unsolicited Press
https://linktr.ee/joshrank
J "Beehouse of Horrors XXL" STONE @jbstone.bsky.social Teaching Artist | Spoken Word | Poet | Freelancer | Writer | Critic | EIC at Variety Pack | Wicca Wannabe | Neurospicy | Adorable Nerdy Weirdo Punk | Words in McNeese Review/Boudin, The Citron Review, Los Angeles Review, Colorado Review, etc
Susan Schirl Smith @sschirlsmith.bsky.social Writer. Photographer. Holistic nurse. I'll be In the woods or by the sea. Words: Reckon Review, Kind Over Matter, Cognoscenti, Pangyrus. Photos: Barren Magazine
Suz Jay @suzjay11.bsky.social Art-obsessed writer and editor | bookreviewer | SHUWPF graduate | she/her
Catherine Roberts @crobertswriter.bsky.social Writer.
Words: Flash Frog, Trampset, HAD, Ghost Parachute, Bending Genres, Maudlin House, Gone Lawn, Tiny Molecules etc.
Flash Ed: Variant Lit
Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social Author of 6 books, newest is ASKEW. I am the EIC of Bending Genres, LLC. Work in Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2019. Norton's Exceptionally Short Fictions 2018. www.robert-vaughan.com. www.bendinggenres.com
M.E. Proctor @meproctor.bsky.social Crime fiction writer. Declan Shaw PI series "Love You Till Tuesday", "Catch Me on a Blue Day". Novella "Bop City Swing". Stories "Family and Other Ailments". Shotgun Honey, Bristol Noir, Vautrin, Black Cat Weekly. Shamus and Derringer short story nominee.
Crystal Taylor @crystaltaylorsa.bsky.social Poet/Writer | Rust & Moth | Ghost City Review | One Art | Pine Hills | Inkfish | Maudlin House | Gargoyle | MacQueen’s Quinterly |Trampoline | Neologism | Libre | Rogue Agent | wildscape | Dishsoap Qrtly | Broadkill | Sunlight Press | BotN nom
Bending Genres Journal, LLC @bendinggenres.bsky.social Bending Genres is an online journal and a global community. We publish hybrid material bi-monthly. We also offer online weekend workshops with various teachers, an ongoing writer's roundtable and two annual week long writing retreats. www.bendinggenres.com
Elizabeth Fletcher @esfletcher.bsky.social writer, yoga therapist, Bowie fan | asst cnf editor Pithead Chapel | Best Microfiction nom | Pushcart Prize nom | BOTN nom | wigleaf LL | stage NED | ope
Writing: www.esfletcher.com
Mike Wilson @mikemwilson.bsky.social words // American Literary Review, Barrelhouse, Lost Balloon, Necessary Fiction, NPR, The Rumpus, X-R-A-Y
He/him
Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social Writer/ interviewer/ Author of 1 memoir and 3 chapbooks- Fiction @ghostparachute @bendinggenres @soflopojo and others. Member @writersgrotto
Susan E Barsby @susanebarsby.bsky.social Writer, reader, runner, mum, knitter. I like coffee, cake and conkers. I miss the sea.
Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social Alaskan poet, teacher, parent. Books: Text Messages from The Angel Gabriel (Gnashing Teeth 2024), Another Life (Riot in Your Throat 2025)
https://linktr.ee/francesklein
Didi Wood @didiwood.bsky.social 💙😷🌏
https://www.didiwood.com/stories
Katie @ktonbsky.bsky.social She/her, Poet, Writer, Co-founder & EIC of Spark to Flame @s2fjournal.bsky.social
Host of On Fire Reading Series in DC: https://onfirereadingseries.neocities.org
https://www.katherineschmidt.com
Nathan Willis @nathanwillis.bsky.social Writer. Stories in Swamp Pink, Moon City Review, Pithead Chapel, Split Lip, Passages North, X R A Y, & others.
nathan-willis.com
Laila Amado @amadolaila.bsky.social Book lover and cat worshiper, I observe people and write words for a living. She/They. Codexian. SFWA. HWA. Best Small Fictions 2022. Best Microfiction 2024.
@AniBanerjee.bsky @anibanerjee.bsky.social Retired lawyer, wannabe fiction writer
Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social Author of ABBREVIATE, NERVE, HALFWAY FROM HOME, QUITE MAD, and three poetry chaps. FATHOM forthcoming. Editor Nerve to Write. Associate Prof. ♿🏳️🌈
Barrett Bowlin @barrettbowlin.bsky.social Author of the short story collection, GHOSTS CAUGHT ON FILM. Stuff in places like The Best American Mystery & Suspense 2024 anthology, TriQuarterly, Barrelhouse, Ninth Letter, The Rumpus, Salt Hill, etc.
www.barrettbowlin.com
www.linktr.ee/barrettbowlin
Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social Writer | Chicago | Work in The Offing, X-R-A-Y, Wigleaf + more | Pushcart Prize and BotN nom | Best Microfiction ‘24, '25, '26
https://elenalzhang.wordpress.com/writing/
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
Kathryn McMahon @katoscope.bsky.social Therapist. Writer of strange, dark short fiction and flash. In Pseudopod, Split Lip, Smokelong, and more. Social justice, nature, stories, dogs, food. BLM. Trans rights are human rights. She/they. 🏳️🌈 🥄 #endometriosis
Christopher Allen @christopherallen.bsky.social Publisher and EIC of SmokeLong Quarterly. 2023 Flash Fiction Judge Bridport Prize. #BestSmallFictions #FlashFictionAmerica. Nomad. Very much a back-office guy. He/him
Lori Yeghiayan Friedman @loriyeg.bsky.social Writer. Person. Woman. Mother. Partner. Friend. https://linktr.ee/loriyeg
Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social author of First Love and Negative Space
sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social dunno
Thirty West Publishing @thirtywestph.com Est. 2015 in Pennsylvania | Escape the Mundane Poetry, novels, stories, & hand-made chapbooks
thirtywestph.com | asterismbooks.com/publisher/thirty-west
Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social Proudly independent literary magazine & small press, established in 2004. Books + print issues + online issues + conferences + writing retreats + other stuff.
https://barrelhousemag.com/
Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com A webjournal publishing short fiction, book reviews, a weekly newsletter, & whatever else happens at http://www.necessaryfiction.com. Doing our best since 2009.
Posts by http://shimmer.bsky.social.
Colette Parris @colettepjd.bsky.social Mom/wife/attorney/writer/work in Wigleaf Top 50/Best Microfiction, 3X BOTN, and 3X Pushcart nominee/unabashed Gemini/amateur genealogist/nature lover (from a distance). Words in MQR, Scoundrel Time, The Offing, Cleaver, Lost Balloon, LEON, MoonPark, etc.
Matthew Zanoni Müller @matthewzmuller.bsky.social Writer, educator. First Aid for Choking Victims (Malarkey books). Writing in Denver Quarterly, Cottonwood, Southeast Review, and others.
www.matthewzanonimuller.com
tina s. zhu @tinazhu.bsky.social writer/fairytale nerd ✨ tinaszhu.com ✨read me in Reactor/tordotcom, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, monkeybicycle ✨Assistant Fiction Editor @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social She/her. Flash writer. Everything's Changing (Thirty West, 2023) & Breaking Points (Black Lawrence, 2021).
https://linktr.ee/chelseastickle
Lu Han @luhan.bsky.social writing & residing in nyc
words in The Adroit Journal, HAD, Lost Balloon, Mason Jar Press, The Margins
www.helloluhan.com
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com A literary magazine for the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. 🫏
Est. May 2018.
Re-designed site!: okaydonkeymag.com
Newsletter: okaydonkeymag.beehiiv.com
Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/okaydonkey
Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social Lit Agent Talcott Notch, AALA Member, Editor, Teacher, Writer of Flash Fiction Editor at @fracturedlit.bsky.social Publications: Harpur Palate, Laurel Review, Monkey Bicycle, Ghost Parachute
https://linktr.ee/tommydeanwriter- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social Dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web, by widely published authors or those new to the craft. Est.2003. Paying up to $150. www.smokelong.com. No Trump supporters. Follow also @heyflashvillage.bsky.social