Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social Writer of short stories, poetry, and CNF - I don't much like to choose (read: bisexual)
autistic & chronically ill 🥄
🌊 Folkestone-dweller
genres: literary, horror
Acropolis Journal @acropolisjournal.bsky.social Acropolis Journal | Home for temples, ruins, darkness and myth | Online Poetry & Art Journal | Projects | EIC Louise Mather |
https://acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjournal
Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026) geni.us/TMtMT. Two-time Best of the Net nominee. | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Leah Elizabeth Evans @leahelizabethevans.bsky.social ✍️ Writer.
😂 Improviser.
🎭 Occasional Actor.
*Non-profit comedy theater founder/admin and foster dog/cat wrangler - more alike than you’d think!
Your mom’s favorite of all your friends, but she thinks I could stand to dress a little better. 🤷🏻♀️
Elena Again @elenaagain.bsky.social #hike #travel published poet and author 🩷
#cancersurvivor 💙 #autoimmune 💜 #SCA10min ❤️ Army Vet
Here I am, again 🦋 love must triumph
#loveofblsky
substack.com/@elenaagain
*all pictures & writings are mine unless RP, quoted or cited; no AI
@arthurneong86.bsky.social @arthurneong86.bsky.social 
RR Menon @roopamenon.bsky.social Seeker of stories | Collector of fine sentences| CHANDU AND THE SUPER SET OF PARENTS (@Fitzroy_Books) https://linktr.ee/roopamenon10?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=7f795f1f-0daf-46bd-975c-a530d5e4df5c
Mixed Bag @m-ixedbag.bsky.social Writer, Mom, Polyglot. Editor @lit-namjooning.bsky.social, Subs Editor @Smokelong. Words: BSF'23 @hexliterary,@tinymolecules @barrelhouse @BoothAJournal @wigleaf
Published work here: linktr.ee/hemanataraju
The Turning Leaf Journal @turningleafjournal.bsky.social A home for CNF, Poetry & Art on the edge of change
https://linktr.ee/theturningleafjournal
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
Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social CNF Editor Pithead Chapel • Smokelong Fellow • Bath Flash Fiction Winner • Storyknife • Anthology of Rural Stories by Writers of Color • Best Small Fictions • Words in River Teeth Beautiful Things, In Short, NWWQ, Cutleaf, Waxwing, 100 Word Story & more
@kawalker.bsky.social @kawalker.bsky.social Draws. Paints. Writes short. Is short. Has a tall dog. Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fiction & Best Microfiction noms. 2025 Best Microfiction Anthology
Hayley Shucker @hayleyshucker.bsky.social Writer of short stories, flash, screenplays. Lover of musical theater, baking, and cats. Pub in Door is a Jar, Los Angeles Review, Reed Magazine etc hayleyshucker.com https://hayleyshucker.substack.com/
MFA Sarah Lawrence 2025
MA English CSULB 2016
JH Tomen @jhtomen.bsky.social 📖 ND Author of SF/F
🌿 Climate Substack - The Carbon Fables
📣 Activist with Citizens' Climate Chicago
⚡️ Renewables & Electrification Nerd
🗣️ Español y 中文
https://linktr.ee/jhtomen
Posting about book characters, story ideas, subs, & climate
@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.
Terri Rose @terri-rose.bsky.social Contest Goblin!
FlashFiction writer!
Cat lover!
Tea drinker!
Crochet crazy!
Nature photographer!
Historical/fantasy reader!
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.
P.J. McCarthy @pj-mccarthy.bsky.social 
Kathryn Kulpa @writesofkathryn.bsky.social Will write for coffee. Mostly flash, mostly fiction.
Work in BULL, Centaur, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, HAD, Milk Candy, SmokeLong, TrashCat, Wigleaf, YIV.
Chapbooks: A Map of Lost Places; For Every Tower, a Princess; Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted.
Jenny @jennyhart2001.bsky.social Writes a bit, reads a bit. Wanders around a lot.
AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social Writer of pantomimes, poetry, and flash fiction. Loves PG Tips, haiku, and challenging perceptions about ‘women of a certain age!’ 🏴
Zoe Davis @meanerharker.bsky.social Writer and avid doodler with words in the likes of Strix, Ink Sweat and Tears and Dust. 2x BotN nom. Forward Prize Nom. Lives in Sheffield UK. Interested in comics, computer games and sports. Member of Sheffield Eagles Wheelchair Rugby Club.
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
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Summit County Libraries @summitlibraries.bsky.social #1 Most Followed Library in the USA!
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Located in beautiful Summit County, Colorado.
The Bloomin’ Onion | **SUBMISSIONS ALWAYS OPEN** @bloominonionlit.bsky.social A Literary Magazine with Layers. Est. 2024. #1667 on the Second Annual FISH List. That’s right: we’re on a list. Posts by EIC.
Subs: https://www.thebloominonion.com/submission-guidelines
Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social Flash writer living in Derbyshire U.K.
Words in Milk Candy Review, Ghost Parachute, Sunlight Press, Bull Magazine, Phare Magazine, Hooghly Review, Gone Lawn and others. Pushcart and Best Small Fictions nominee. No longer using X
FloridaSnow @floridasnow.bsky.social I’m an English prof. living in SW Florida with my wife and two crazy children. You can usually find me reading, writing, wandering, or frantically grading.
www.SOrtolano.com
Shelley Roche-Jacques @shelleyr-j.bsky.social Writer of short fiction and dramatic monologue, connoisseur of cake, coveter of cats, lecturer of creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University.
https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/shelley-roche-jacques
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.
Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social Press & online rag dedicated to grit lit & rural writing with rough edges. Survival is triumph enough. We dig Folk & Old Country music: @npcountrycovers.bsky.social. EIC: @vanwinkle.bsky.social
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com
Barbara Byar @barbarabyar.bsky.social Writer
Debut Novel: IN THE DESERT, OUT NOW
from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
Buy Here: https://a.co/d/0bucj1Yn
Collection: Some Days are Better than Ours (Reflex Fiction)
https://substack.com/@barbarabyar?utm_source=user-menu
Kerry via San Francisco
Further Down the Kakistocracy @crankypacifist.bsky.social I'm Jay — she/him/y'all — ADHD
Published & creative crap:
https://jayparr.neocities.org/
Typos are stylesheet.
"AI hater."
"Radically pro-transgender."
Fuck the war machine.
Geld the patriatchy.
House the unhoused.
pfp by Terijian Bearheart.
Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social Read Issue 8! Epistemiclit.com
Digital anthology series celebrating knowledge, connection, and growth through poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction.
EICs @melruthwrites.bsky.social and @kristinwrites.bsky.social. CNF Editor @gcbwrites.bsky.social
F. @edgwareviabank.bsky.social Italian-born, raised all over the place, wound up in London for better or worse. Also: 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 translator & writer, hobby photographer, cat person, here for books & food. She / her.
Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social Writer, comedian, illustrator, blogger and international woman of mystery. Sworn enemy of the Swedish Yule Goat. Writer of jokes in The Beaverton and Cracked. 🇨🇦
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.
Pam Avoledo @pamavoledo.bsky.social Fiction writer based in Michigan.. Best Microfiction Nom ‘25. Best of the Net Nom ‘26 (poetry)
https://pamavoledo.com
GossamerWight Literary Magazine @gossamerwight.com A UK-based literary magazine dedicated to dark & unconventional storytelling & poetry, centred on its quarterly digital anthologies.
Submissions now closed for Unstable Realities. Open again for Deep Roots on Thursday 1 October.
Nicola L Meekin @nicolalmeekin.bsky.social Poet from Hull East Yorkshire, UK. Wannabe Playwright. Author of 'The Rambling Rhymes of an Imperfect Mind'.
@lindamedina.bsky.social @lindamedina.bsky.social - M Madaaworld12 @madaaworld12.bsky.social Book Reviewer and Youtube Content Creator! I publish my reviews via Fanfiaddict and my blog: Al-Alhambra!
Find all my links here:
Al-Alhambra: https://alalhambrabookreviews.home.blog/
Fanfiaddict: https://fanfiaddict.com/author/wanderer123456/
Tap into Poetry @tapintopoetry.bsky.social 📚 Poetry Magazine est. 2022
📚 Submissions open (always!)
📚 tapintopoetry.wordpress.com
Rachel @vignettes.bsky.social Absurdist, writer, explorer, escape artist.
Writer of poetry, prose & flash fiction.
Words in Literary Revelations: Haiku for Soul Mates @epistemiclit.bsky.social, Pure Haiku, From One Line Vol.7, Survivor Zine, #BOTN nominee '26
British, lives in Italy
Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com ✍️ Writer & fabulist | 📝 in Electric Lit, LitMag, New Letters, SmokeLong Quarterly, Augur Magazine, Small Wonders & more | ❤️🔥 #fairytales #fantasy #speculative #flashfiction | 🔗 www.nadiaborn.com
LM “Gory” Fontanes 👻 @lorifontanes.bsky.social Writer/educator/community advocate. Cats & catastrophe. More better food 4 all. Bewaring billionaires bearing tech. #SaveThePeople
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
Patience Mackarness @patiencemackarness.bsky.social Writer, grandmother, tree-hugger. Born in Hampshire, now in rural Brittany, with pitstops in Leeds, Portugal, Wales, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Liverpool. I write flash fiction and other things.
Blood+Honey @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social Blood+Honey is a new lit mag that revels in the experimental & the avant-garde, dirty and kitchen sink realism. SUBMIT your poetry, fiction, CNF, and digital art!!! SUBS Currently CLOSED!!!
EIC: @davidestringel.bsky.social
https://www.bloodhoneylit.com/
Marty Shambles @martyshambles.bsky.social Writer-in-residence and poetry editor @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
Writer at @ggtribune.com and @hwoodtimes.com
martyshambles.com
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
Amy Barnes @amybarnes.bsky.social Artist, cartoonist, estate manager, paralegal, project manager, Sherpa, software developer.
Judges hate seeing me on their dockets.
Wicked witch of the West (Cobb County).
Robin Zlotnick @robinzlotnick.bsky.social writer, worrier
Pubs: Gone Lawn, X-R-A-Y, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Rejection Letters, Identity Theory, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Belladonna, etc.
https://robinzlotnick.com/
https://a-sentence.beehiiv.com/
Sarah Royston @sarahkat.bsky.social Writer and researcher inspired by queer/feminist ecologies & folklore.
Collection 'Fernseed' out now!
https://thebraag.co/?product=fernseed-a-collection-of-tales-by-sarah-royston-pre-order
https://hedgeways.wordpress.com/
Re-enchantment is resistance.
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. 
Tacilim @tacilim.bsky.social Hihi everyone! My name is Tacilim Oréfice, and I'm a writer. Nice to meet you! I want to share my passion for stories, storytelling, and books with the world while I travel.
Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social Words in Five South, Flash Fiction Online, Atlas + Alice, Lunch Ticket, Flash Fiction Magazine, Roi Faineant, and elsewhere.
Website: https://melissa-fitzpatrick.com/
Substack: https://melissafitz.substack.com
Eileen Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social Writer, Librarian, Jerseyan ✍🏻 Baltimore Review, Hunger Mtn, X-R-A-Y, Lost Balloon, Okay Donkey, Pithead Chapel, Passages North, OSU The Journal, Tiny Molecules; soon in Fractured Lit | BSF 2023 | Wigleaf Top 50 2026
https://eileentomarchio.webnode.page/
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.
Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social Author of The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe (Autumn House Press Book Prize). Winner of Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction from the TX Institute of Letters. Longlisted for PEN/Bingham Prize. DC based. laurendwoods.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
Tracie Renee (she/her) @tracierenee.bsky.social Librarian in sort-of Chicago.
PW book reviewer.
#Amquerying #SCBWI writer/poet.
Winner: #50PreciousWords, Highlights scholarship, ElegantLit, IAmWritingMG.
HM: #PBParty.
WTMP mentee, RisingTalent finalist, BOTN.
https://linktr.ee/tracie.renee
Jane Yager @janewords.bsky.social Fiction/CNF writer. Winner of Fractured Lit Elsewhere Prize. Recent stories in Los Angeles Review, Gooseberry Pie, Coachella Review, Ekphrastic Review. Criticism in TLS, Paris Review Daily. Based in Berlin, originally from California, frequently in Poland.
C Maxfield @pickledp3.bsky.social Published via The Broken Spine, Blood+Honey, DarkWinter Literary Magazine, RiversSide and Silly Goose Press
Ian Johnson @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social Trying (trying, very trying) writer/Dad/runner. Words in @trashcatlit.bsky.social @apricotpress.bsky.social @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social @freeflashfiction.bsky.social etc. 2026 Best of the Net nominee.
Kik Lodge @kiklodge.bsky.social Writer. THE BULLY IN MY PILLOW (Stanchion Books, August 2026).
https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/the-bully-in-my-pillow
Best Microfiction 2026.
Hosts literary open-mics @saloneurope.bsky.social
www.kiklodge.com
Deana @deanalisenby.bsky.social I write suspense/thrillers. | #momswritersclub | #thrillsandchills | she/her
https://bio.site/deanalisenby
Zachary Stvan @zacharystvan.bsky.social Frequent laugher. Occasional writer. At times a Dungeon Master. Yes, I know I look like a bot. Swear I'm not.
Heather Byrne @heatherjb10.bsky.social Loves to write, laugh, swim and play pickleball (though not all at the same time). Owner of Designer Poems.
Jessica Bull @jessicabull.bsky.social Author MISS AUSTEN INVESTIGATES | A FORTUNE MOST FATAL | THE AUSTEN CHRISTMAS MURDERS | @michaeljbooks | 18 territories 🌍 | rep @mushenska
Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social Another writer fleeing Twitter. 30 years of videogame-adjacent scrawling and also, these days, weird short stories. Pics of cats, books and foxes likely.
@rach1h.bsky.social @rach1h.bsky.social 
JC Blair @jc-blair.bsky.social Aspiring (failed/failing) writer scribbling wastes of your time.
Tori- 5 star Author and Editor of Bunker Squirrel Magazine @tcwestminster.bsky.social My #Thriller, #TheHost is out https://a.co/d/eVkKTQ5% #AmWriting the #Guests (sequels) I am the #Editor of #BunkerSquirrel a #FlashFiction Magazine. More info: https://linktr.ee/tcwestminster
Gone Lawn Journal @gonelawn.bsky.social If you can describe us, you get magic coffee and jumping cookies.
Editors: @owenwyke.bsky.social , @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social
Current issue: https://gonelawn.net/
Jade is Querying a Psychological Thriller 🔪 @bohobookworm.bsky.social Writer. BA (Hons) English Lit (Creative Writing) Student with OU. Wifey. Boy Mum. Cat Parent.
nora ray @noraraywrites.bsky.social words in Libre, Ghost Parachute, Flash Fiction Magazine, Moon Park Review, Ergot, Maudlin House, Frigg... fiction & poetry reader at @cosmicdaffodil.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/noraraywrites
Gordon.writes @blankpages237.bsky.social Writer. Copywriter. Addicted to stories and movies. Moves in the wrong circles.
@sarahwarrilow.bsky.social @sarahwarrilow.bsky.social 
Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social First pub TrashCat Lit. NFFD Anthology Editors Award 25. Shortlisted for Fish. Stories in SmokeLong, BULL, DIHP, New Feathers, Bath+Oxford anthologies. LISP finalist + winner of Westword + Flash500. Poetry collection in Top 20 Small-Press Poetry awards
SJ Townend @sjtownend.bsky.social A writer. A reader. A bit of a daydreamer.
Here for the horror.
SJTownend.com
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Ally Wilkes / AV Wilkes @unheimlichmanvr.bsky.social Stoker Award-nominated horror author.
rep: Oli Munson
she/they, bi, polyam, vegan, a bit witchy, very crafty
Trans rights are human rights
End the genocide in Gaza 🍉
Posting from Greenwich, London
www.allywilkes.com
Cranked Anvil *OPEN for submissions* @crankedanvil.bsky.social Writing Prizes | Indie Press | New Writing | Est. 2012. | https://crankedanvil.co.uk/ | EIC: Paul Dunn https://bsky.app/profile/pauldunnwriter.bsky.social
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A free blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
HAD @havehashad.com We had an idea that started as a joke. We had an affinity for that minimalist look and feel of early online journals. We had a couple drinks.
https://www.havehashad.com
Suzanne (writing as S A Greene) @sagreene1.bsky.social Writer. SOCIAL MEDIA BREAK 2026 (except for shameless self-promotion) DMs don't work. GoneLawn trampset TempleInACity GooseberryPie BlinkInk Mslexia Liars'League MythicPicnic NewFlashFicReview FictiveDream BulbCulture Phare MaudlinHouse FreeFlashFiction
Sam Oats @samantha-oats.bsky.social 
Rowan Coleman @rowancoleman.bsky.social Sunday Times and NYT best selling novelist and screenwriter. FROM UNTIL FOREVER (UK) coming 3/7/25 Also Stella Hayward THE GOOD BOY coming 8/7/25 (US) Loves Brontes. Loves Horror. Loves dogs. #ADHD #Dyslexic she/her. Supports 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️rights. Fan of equality.
S J Warner @sjwarnerwriter.bsky.social Festival of Writing Friday Night Live Finalist 2022
#WriteCBC Winner
Curtis Brown Edit & Pitch Advanced Course
Sophia Adamowicz @sophia-adamowicz.bsky.social Writer of dark fictions//debut novel THE BRINK out with Ruadán Books Sept 2026//work published in Cunning Folk, Crow & Cross Keys, Haven Speculative and more//co-founder of Artemis Writers UK
sophia-adamowicz.wixsite.com/website
She/they 💗💜💙
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.
Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social She/her Short Fiction writer, 🇨🇦 in TN. Pub in ILANOT REVIEW, WEST TRESTLE REVIEW, FICTIVE DREAM,SUSURRUS, SOUTH 85+. BA,MD, Certificate Creative ✍️, Nom Pushcart, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions
Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social •Irish fantasy writer and wizard enjoyer
•Official flash fiction propagandist
•Butlerian Jihad veteran
•Posting from the dungeons beneath Planet Dracula in the Carpathian Galaxy
Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social Lit mag for flash fiction, poetry, art and letters. Throw it all at us. Reading is punk.
https://templeinacity.com
Patricia Bender @patriciabender.bsky.social Writer. 2026 Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions and Best Microfiction nominee. @writingproject fellow. Poems and stories @beirbuajournal @AmherstWriters @MunLitCentre, Paterson Literary Review, @SwitchMicroMag and others.
Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social Poet with autism and a cat.
Author of ADULTHOOD (Anxiety Press, 2026).
Here to connect with fellow writers and/or fellow neurodivergent people and/or fellow anti-fascists.
he/him • NJ • www.brandondiehl.net
Mike Mizov @mikemizov.bsky.social I film silly things, I fixed up a creepy old Victorian house, and now I’m getting the gothic horror novel published by Three Dragons Press, coming Fall 2026! Aspiring nepobaby.
https://linktr.ee/mikemizov