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Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social Author of 5 books, most recently the essay collection IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE. New novel REVEAL! forthcoming in Spring '28
Former Book Fight podcast co-host. @Barrelhouse.bsky.social NF Editor. Rutgers-Camden MFA faculty. South Jersey.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
@traviskurowski.bsky.social @traviskurowski.bsky.social 
Alix The Nerdess @nerdess.bsky.social Currently a quirky PhD candidate at VUW, studying ludonarrative design (particularly roguelikes, procgen, & queer representation) 🎨🕹️🎲🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Also a wonky ditty composer (Nerdess), game developer, and lecturer of sound art & game creation 🎶 she/her
Jimmy Pleasant @jpleasant.bsky.social Cycling, farms, and food. Philly Bike Expo Squad. Go Phils!
J. Marshall Smith @jmarshallsmith.bsky.social Comic Artist/Writer in Baltimore - Testament, Good Girl Laika, Solace County
https://www.jmarshallsmith.com
Small Press Expo @smallpressexpo.bsky.social Small Press Expo/SPX is the pre-eminent indie comics festival and home of the Ignatz Awards. Every September we host over 500 creators for the ultimate in mini-comics, riso comix and graphic novels.
www.smallpressexpo.com
A Day In The Life Records @aditlrecords.bsky.social Independently owned and operated Record Shop in Downtown Lancaster, PA
New, Used, Rare and Out-Of-Print
VINYL | CDs | CASSETTES
PCA&D - Center for Creative Exploration @pcad-cce.bsky.social Center for Creative Exploration at Pennsylvania College of Art & Design. Classes and creative experiences for adults, high school students, and children in grades 1-9. Located at 204 N. Prince St, Lancaster, PA https://linktr.ee/pcad_ce
@piscesmoonkait.bsky.social @piscesmoonkait.bsky.social 
Garrett Kim @garrettkim.bsky.social MFA in fiction at UVA / EIC for Meridian
https://www.notokensjournal.com/water-talk-garrett-kim
Identity Theory @identitytheory.bsky.social Classic online lit mag (founded 2000). Interviews, fiction, CNF, micro, poetry, etc. We may or may not be edited by a corgi. Read us at identitytheory.com.
Mike Andrelczyk @mikeandrelczyk.bsky.social Submarines - a novel out 7/21. Order here: https://malarkeybooks.com/store/submarines
Books at ghostcitypress.com and https://gobpilepress.bigcartel.com/product/pre-order-tennis-leg-by-mike-andrelczyk
krys malcolm belc @krysmalcolmbelc.bsky.social I wrote THE NATURAL MOTHER OF THE CHILD and have another memoir, WHAT I MADE FOR DINNER, forthcoming from Catapult in 2026. I live in Saint Paul, MN.
Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.
bedfellows @bedfellowsmag.bsky.social 💦 desire/sex/intimacy-themed literary magazine & small press | est. 2013 in Philly | bedfellowsmagazine.com | bedfellows.substack.com 🦴
king shawn @kingshawna.bsky.social 
@illuminatedpress.bsky.social @illuminatedpress.bsky.social 
Melissa Febos @melissafebos.bsky.social Author of five books—next up The Dry Season 6/3/25
Thoughts my own and not representing any institution.
https://linktr.ee/melissafebos
melissafebos.com
https://www.prairielights.com/pre-order-dry-season-june-2025-prairie-lights-0
Erik Anderson @rkndrsn.bsky.social Mutualist in training | Prof F&M College | BIRD (Bloomsbury, 2020)
erica @bumbeee.bsky.social Artist | Curator | Educator | Gardener
Reading, PA.
Gabby Shelley @gabbagul.bsky.social Antifa
Art
Always snacking
Chelsea Smarr @chelseasmarr.bsky.social Photographer, model, harpist, and creator of spooky sounds.
Evan Kitson @evankitson.bsky.social Draftsman, painter, instructor, anatomist, curator, collector, and all-around art enthusiast.
https://theopensketchbook.com
Steven Colicchio @stevencolicchio.bsky.social Illustrator and Digital Artist
Email: scolicchiodesigns@gmail.com
Website: www.artofstevencolicchio.com
Leah Limpert Walt @leahlimpertwalt.bsky.social Mother . Artist . Professor
PA
@paintlanguage.bsky.social @paintlanguage.bsky.social 
Eloisa @jeezweez.bsky.social The quiet type.
Libby Modern @itsmodernart.bsky.social MODERN ART IS AN ART AND DESIGN STUDIO TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF THIS CRAZY WORLD WE LIVE IN.
Emily Perkovich @undermeyou.bsky.social Otomí & learning. SG. Poet. EIC - Querencia Press. Poetry Reader- SplitLip ✨ big heart, sore back
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20176647.Emily_Perkovich?from_search=true&from_srp=true
@aspng.bsky.social @aspng.bsky.social Wandering since MySpace
Stephanie Manzi @stephanie-manzi.bsky.social Abstract painter and educator, based in Philadelphia.
David Hershey @david-hershey.bsky.social 🌱 👾
Hylon @hylon.bsky.social Geographer; Lover of landscapes and clouds
ACLU @aclu.org A nonprofit, nonpartisan, legal and advocacy 501(c)(4) organization. Visit our site for more about us and our affiliated organization, the ACLU Foundation.
NPR @npr.org This is NPR 🎙️
Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social author of A LIVING REMEDY (a New York Times Notable Book) and the national bestseller ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW • words in NYT Magazine, Time, Esquire, Washington Post &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Laura Lippman @lauralippman.bsky.social Likable character who specializes in writing unlikeable characters. Thick 'n Creamy since 1925, muting mansplainers since 2010, (cheerfully) uncoupled since February 2020. I am too a Merry Sunshine.
Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social Formerly the writer formerly known as Matthew Salesses
cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social The Ringleader
big famous microblogger
pet account reactionary
flamboyant wrecker
goddess of uselessness
[she/her] Texan in MA. Adonis' mom
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social 🏠 Founder & Agent at Neighborhood Literary.
📚 Award-winning Author.
👴🏽 Perpetually Tired Dad.
Latest book: With or Without You.
Next: The Adopted Kids’ Guide to Surviving Seventh Grade (Crown, Spring 2027)
🚪 https://www.neighborhoodliterary.com
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Isaac Fitzgerald @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social 📚 NYT bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts
🍎 Next up: American Rambler—5/12/26 (Knopf)
📺 Talking books on the Today Show
🥾 I walk. A lot.
Esmé Weijun Wang @esmewang.com 📚The Collected Schizophrenias, The Border of Paradise
🏆 Best of Young American Novelists, Whiting Award, NYT Bestseller
🎓 Writing classes @ unexpectedshapeacademy.com
🇹🇼🌈♿️ she/her
🌱My interesting website @ esmewang.com
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social Writer
Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social Author and professor type person.
SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24
Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com
JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social Writer. Illustrator. Joto.
Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/patricia-lockwood
curio. Gallery & Creative Supply @curio-lancaster.bsky.social art gallery • retail focused on curated drawing + painting + writing materials • workshop & sketchclub space • M-SAT 10-5pm, First Friday 10-8pm
Located at 111 N Prince Street Lancaster, PA
curiolancaster.square.site
Chris Gonzalez @livesinpages.bsky.social Author, I'm Not Hungry but I Could Eat: stories l Barrelhouse Fiction Editor | 2021 NYFA Fiction Fellow | 2025 VCCA Fellow | Husky bochinchero 🇵🇷 🏳️🌈
📍 Brooklyn, NY
https://chris-gonzalez.com/
Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social Multimodal af. Collective Gravities, Every Galaxy a Circle, Patterns of Orbit, Escaping the Body, & more
Co-EIC of @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
www.chloenclark.com
Cover image: raspberry danishes
Profile photo: a river heron
Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I ♥️ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; author of HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE; rep’d by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey
linktr.ee/ambernoellesparks
Lilly Dancyger @lillydancyger.bsky.social author of First Love and Negative Space
Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social Writer, teacher, speculative fiction and flash fiction
Books, events, and classes at https://www.taracampbell.com
#WritingCommunity #scifi #sff #speculativefiction #flashfiction
Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Teacher | Author of First Kicking, Then Not (Stanchion 2025) | Columnist @ WCP
she/they 🏳️🌈 ❤️
www.hgrieco.com
Hannah Cohen @hcohen.bsky.social She/her. hot sad jewish lady.
writer sometimes, mostly tired.
poems, essays, etc. found elsewhere.
my author website is hannahcohen.carrd.co
Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social “Orlando's Reigning Big Time Celebrity Author” - The Orlando Weekly
huuuuge lesbian. librarian. dad. floridian. beer drinker. NYT Bestselling author.
Mostly Dead Things & WITH TEETH & STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE
https://www.kristenarnettwriter.com
sarah rose etter @sarahroseetter.bsky.social a little sweet, a little spicy.
wrote the book of x, ripe (scribner, july 2023)
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/
Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social Writer of The Other Ones, Looney, Howard & Charles at the Factory, This Darkness Got to Give, more. Editor @ Barrelhouse, primary organizer of the Barrelhouse conference in DC in the Spring. Web @ PSU. Goofy gentleman. He/him. 
K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com writer. she/her 🌈🦇 heart's delight: Bmore, bats, & tattoos; Clarion & Tin House '18⚡️ kcmeadbrewer.com
fuck AI & fuck fascism
ALT pfp: white, blond woman; nervous but anxious
ALT banner: a black cat peeks from around a corner
Jami Attenberg @jamiattenberg.bsky.social Author of 10 books.The latest: A REASON TO SEE YOU AGAIN. THE AMNESIAC out 2027. Newsletter here: 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com #1000wordsofsummer
Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org Taco Bell Quarterly is The World's Most Prestigious Literary Magazine. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
Little Engines @littleengines.bsky.social Books & Magazines. Est. 2001.
littleengines.pub
littleengines.shop
hex @hexliterary.bsky.social hex publishes brief speculative texts on a weekly-ish basis. We're @WPI. Editors @katemcintyre.bsky.social @danielmiller.bsky.social @joeaguilar.bsky.social. Subs closed for now. Read hexliterary.com
Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social Writer in NYC. Former Attorney. EIC Split Lip Magazine. Copper Nickel Editor's Prize | BASS Distinguished Story | Kenyon Review | Ploughshares | Artist-in-Residence @ South 85 Journal | Next up: CHEEKS | http://maureenlangloss.com/
Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social Ploughshares | Best American Nonreq'd | Copper Nickel Editors' Prize | The Norton Reader | ElectricLit | Flash Fiction America | Swamp Pink | Wigleaf | Five Points (forthcoming) | The Art of Flash Fiction https://artofflashfiction.substack.com
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
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
Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com publisher of boundary-breaking prose books
come get us @ splitlippress.com and https://linktr.ee/splitlippress
posts by yrs truly @suburbanprairie.bsky.social
Tara Stillions Whitehead @mrswhitehouse74.bsky.social Writer | Filmmaker | Prof | THE YEAR OF THE MONSTER (Unsolicited Press) | THEY MORE THAN BURNED (Unsolicited Press, 2027) | Best American Essays notable 2022 | she/her
Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social A publisher of prose and poetry based in beautiful Baltimore, MD. http://masonjarpress.com/
banner pic by Stephanie Gibson
Kristen Renee Miller @kristenmiller.bsky.social Sarabande Books Director & EIC @sarabandebooks.bsky.social
Founder at @zinemachine.bsky.social
Poet, translator, chaos virgo
linktr.ee/kristenreneemiller
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
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
Amy Barnes @amygcb.bsky.social Child Craft: bellepointpress.bsky.social | Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social | Co-editor: @gonelawn.bsky.social |
Moist Poetry Journal @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social A high humidity journal of poetry / Queer, fluid, trans affirming / currently publishing 3x a week / Home to the #FullMoonHaikuContest / 🏳️⚧️ https://moistpoetryjournal.com/ EIC: Han VanderHart.
Wigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social Seven-time Pushcart Prize winning journal of very short fiction. (Read us at wigleaf.com)
River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social Where Poetry Moves. Two editors, publishing (at least) two exceptional poetry titles a year & the Plainwater Nonfiction Series. Poetry submissions open in May. Posts by editors @hanvanderhart.bsky.social and @amorak.bsky.social
www.riverriverbooks.org
matchbook literary magazine @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social matchbook is an online literary journal that publishes one piece of short prose accompanied by an author's note every two weeks.
https://matchbooklitmag.com
Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social Publisher of Glass Chapbook Series, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Crucible: An Online Reading Series. Subs always free. Posts by anthonyframe.bsky.social
www.glass-poetry.com
Glass Poets Starter Pack: https://go.bsky.app/EicS1Aa
Catapult Book Group @catapultbooks.bsky.social Catapult, Counterpoint, Soft Skull, & Hawthorne Books.
Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social Writer | Dr. | Project Manager for Roxane Gay | Co-editor The Audacity | 🌈😷| Rep’d by Alyssa Jennette | Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social Author: TACOMA; A KIND OF IN-BETWEEN; YEAR OF THE BUFFALO; STEPHEN KING'S THE BODY; BACKSWING
Editor: HAD; Short Story, Long (on Substack)
https://linktr.ee/aaronburch
Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social writer & full fattie 🍦• author of 📚 HOUSEMATES (2024) & 📚 THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL (2020) • ✍🏻 NYT, Time, Esquire, The Atlantic, Granta, The Cut etc 🌈 she/her
https://www.emmacopleyeisenberg.com
Bud Smith @budsmith.bsky.social I wrote the novels Teenager (Vintage) and Mighty (forthcoming from Knopf) among others, and work heavy construction in the boilermakers union. coolgoodluck.com
Jaime Fountaine @jaimefountaine.bsky.social Raised by “wolves”
K. T. Landon @ktlandon.bsky.social Poet ("Abide", winner of the Snyder Memorial Prize; work in The Sun, The Southern Review, New Ohio Review, Nimrod, Best New Poets). VCFA grad. Reader at Lily Poetry Review. Relentlessly sincere. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/ktlandon
Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social Novel HEADING NORTH (Braddock Avenue Books) out now! Free newsletter: hmwendt.beehiiv.com. Words in Shenandoah, Fourway Review, Memorious, & c. Writer, educator, enthusiast. they/them
Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social Poetry that re-enchants the ordinary, that knows what the rational world has explained away. EIC @leepottspoet.bsky.social. stonecirclereview.com
SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social Reluctant non-smoker
Author of Hotel Almighty 
Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social My first short story collection, Black Arts, comes out on September 8th. Yes, I do live in Minneapolis. Boss, I'm tired.
www.megangiddings.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. 
Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social Writer, teacher. Up next: PENITENT, a novel (2028, Doubleday); TYPO, nonfiction (2027, Bloomsbury). Out now: APPLESEED (2021, Mariner). REFUSE TO BE DONE (2022, Soho Press).
Invisible Books @invisibooks.bsky.social We make books.
Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social GRAPHIC RAGE on Substack. Writer & illustrator of stories, essays and feminist comics. '22 NEA fellow. Work in TIME, Vox, New York Times, Washington Post, etc. Very charming IRL. she/her