Tucson Essay Club @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social Probably the hottest essay club around. Essays year-round in Tucson, Arizona. http://tucsonessayclub.org
Christopher Stevenson @chrisstevenson.bsky.social Born in TX, raised in FL and PA. Splits time between DC and WV.
Librarian. PT old man. FT Struggling Writer.
Part toddler, part cowboy. Baba Yaga fan boy.
https://linktr.ee/christopherstevenson
JordanWiklund @jordanwiklund.bsky.social Writer, husband, father, curler. Not always in that order. Occasional essayist. Work in Brevity, Fourth Genre, Pank, MarchXness, Hobart, elsewhere. Acq. editor at Motorbooks.
Andrea Panzeca @andrea-panzeca.bsky.social 
Patrick Madden @pcmadden3.bsky.social Essays!
Alison Stine @alisonstine.bsky.social Writer of books, most recently: DUST. Next in 2027: THE RAVEN ENGAGEMENT @wednesdaybooks.bsky.social @macmillanlib.bsky.social NEA winner, Philip K Dick Award https://linktr.ee/alisonstinewrites
lana schwartz @lanaschwartz.bsky.social 
Alison Moyet @alisonmoyet.bsky.social 
Jim Hanas @www.loureedsnephew.com No relation to Lou Reed. (People do ask.) https://www.loureedsnephew.com/
@lowtheband.bsky.social @lowtheband.bsky.social 
Will Hodge (Unplugged Revisited) @willhodge.bsky.social Host: UNPLUGGED REVISITED (MTV Unplugged podcast) | Writer * Bylines: Rolling Stone, No Depression, Grammys, etc. | PhD: Georgia State University (Diss: The Black Press) | R.E.M. Lifer | will.c.hodge@gmail.com
CHI via ATL
Podcast: https://shorturl.at/XVdoR
Jeremy Michael Reed @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social writer, editor, professor | creative writing, 20/21C US lit & cultural studies | edits @swiftslitmag.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/jeremymichaelreed
nikolisanastasia @nikolisanastasia.bsky.social Asst. Prof of English at St. John Fisher University // c20-21 US poetry & poetics // pop saint essays // public humanities // she/hers
Amy Grant @amygrantofficial.bsky.social House Of Love (Expanded Anniversary Edition) - OUT NOW!
songcraftshow.com/podcast
Megan Baxter @meganbaxter.bsky.social Writer, teacher, farmer, dog mom
Helmi @helmsinki.bsky.social pro-abortion | mental health advocate | taylor swift enthusiast | she/her | donationsforabortions.com
Bea @beatroxel.bsky.social 
Lindsey Pharr @lapharr.bsky.social Writer.
Website: https://www.lindsey-pharr.com
Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social essays and poems about the movies, shows, music, books, games, etc. that have shaped you
forget.cool
cicilybennion.bsky.social @cicilybennion.bsky.social Here for March Xness. Vote for Brick. Ben Folds stans, where are you?
Memoir Land @memoirland.bsky.social Memoir, personal essays, and more. http://memoirland.substack.com
Susanna Donato @susannadonato.bsky.social Writer, editor, communicator, terrier squire | Work in Redivider, Proximity, Entropy, Electric Literature, A HARP IN THE STARS | she/her
Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social poet and high school English teacher living with her husband and dogs in Kansas
melissafitejohnson.com
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Emma Allmann @emryal91.bsky.social Right? Write. Write? Right!
Stories in
@EllipsisZine
@inkinthirds
@EcoTheo Review
and shortlisted by
@SmokeLong
MFA
@UofAlabama
https://www.emmaallmann.com/
(she/her)
Erin McReynolds @erinmcreynolds.bsky.social Writer, editor, cartoonist, lapsed pagan. Belief system: ruderal and snails and tragedy+time=comedy.
Substack: Traumafordummies.com
Carl Wilson @carlzoilus.bsky.social Music critic for Slate, freelance writer/editor/etc in Toronto (and available for work!), author of Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste, founding associate of Trampoline Hall.
Lela Scott MacNeil @lelascottmacneil.bsky.social Born in Los Alamos, like the atomic bomb. Writing in Gertrude, Essay Daily, Trouble in the Heartland: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen, and Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: the March Xness Anthology.
Maxine Headroom @maxineheadroom.myatproto.social 
Chris Daley @chrisdaley.bsky.social Writing & Design, Los Angeles
Submission Sunday
aka @escapegrace
jstgerma @jstgerma.bsky.social 
Jeremy Klemin @jeremyklemin.bsky.social Editor at Coefficient Giving. Writing in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Republic, etc. Views my own. Ⓥ
@doritoshangover.bsky.social @doritoshangover.bsky.social Lapsed music writer, practicing technical editor
✍️ FLOOD Magazine, Bucks County Courier Times, PopMatters, Spectrum Culture, Post-Trash, the Toast, March Xness, Forget Cool, and elsewhere
📍 Bucks County, PA
🧚♀️ she/her
Brian Zitzelman @brianzitzelman.bsky.social Cat Dad. He/Him.
Scott Selisker @sselisker.bsky.social literature prof at U of Arizona. books: HUMAN PROGRAMMING (on metaphors for ideology), CHARACTER NETWORKS (on social networks in recent US fiction and history, out October 2026). he, suh-LISK-er, views mine, sporadically present here.
Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social a literary magazine publishing single-sentence prose since 2020
https://completesentencelit.com/
jrmcconvey @jrmcconvey.bsky.social Writer/kraken. Battening upon huge sea-worms in his sleep.
Books: False Bodies (2024), Different Beasts (2019). Raptors faithful. He/him. www.jrmcconvey.com
Christopher L. Keller @chrislkeller.com Award-winning journalist for The Associated Press.
Stretch-4 putting in work on the offensive and defensive glass.
Aspiring to play lead and rhythm guitar.
My posts disappear.
Cooper @cooperdart.bsky.social essayist who flosses when he remembers
cooperdart.com
Don Incognito @shuadc.bsky.social 
Kathy Flann @keflann.bsky.social Writer, 4 books, incl. How to Survive a Human Attack: A Guide for Werewolves, Mummies, Cyborgs, Ghosts, Nuclear Mutants, and Other Movie Monsters. Words in McSweeney’s, Boston Globe, WaPo, Slate, HuffPo. Member HWA, SFWA
www.kathyflann.com
Kelsi Vanada @kelsivanada.bsky.social Author of Optional Saint and Rare Earth. Translator of Basket of Braids, United Left, The Visible Unseen, The Eligible Age, and others. Iowa Writers' Workshop '16, Iowa Translation Workshop '17, NEA Translation Fellow '24.
Amy Schardein @amyesnotj.bsky.social 
Andrew Arthur @andrewarthur.bsky.social Design | Content | Communications
https://andrewarthur.myportfolio.com/coverage
Jason Thayer @thejasonthayer.bsky.social Writer & EIC for @completesentence
David Turkel @paleoctopi.bsky.social 
Cammy! @camelliagrass.bsky.social she/they | memory worker | essayist, poet, performer | author of Hall of Waters | animist, polytheist
M. L. Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social Magician. Marketing Director of khōréō. MacDowell Fellow. Stories & Essays: mlkrishnan.com
Erin Dorney @erindorney.bsky.social Sober bi writer in Western NY ꩜ Author of "Yes I Am Human I Know You Were Wondering" (Autofocus), that book of Shia LaBeouf erasures, and many zines.
Peter Counter, Nightmare Host @peterbcounter.com Culture critic in the horror space. Author of BE SCARED OF EVERYTHING (Invisible Publishing, 2020). HOW TO RESTORE A TIMELINE (House of Anansi, 2023). Ace. https://peterbcounter.com/
Austin Grossman @grossman.bsky.social "I can give you no money, but I can give you advice for a lifetime: Your thumb on the blade, and strike upwards."
John Linstrom (he/him) @johnlinstrom.bsky.social A public-engaged scholar, poet, nonprofit guy on a mission to save Liberty Hyde Bailey's historic home in Ithaca, NY for the good of climate & democracy ( www.bailey-center.org ).
poetry book: tinyurl.com/5n8ruav6
Aaron Wolfson @awolfson.bsky.social Writing memoir, poetry, essays, performance stuff (etc.) in Chicago
newsletter.aaronjacobwolfson.com
Silas Hansen @silashansen.bsky.social essayist, cat dad, Bills fan, dive bar connoisseur. he/him.
Kimberly Nelson @ponytailup.bsky.social Writer, traveler, pop culture nerd, karaoke enthusiast.
Travel newsletter: ponytailup.substack.com
Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social He wrote Our Endless & Proper Work (Belt Publishing, 2021), based on his "Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives" newsletter.
Amy Barnes @amygcb.bsky.social Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social
Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social Always on my way to the ocean. Writer, 2x Jeopardy! champion.
My debut short fiction collection,The Last Analog Teenagers:
https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/the-last-analog-teenagers
BSF 2025
Noms: Pushcart x2, BotN x2, Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist
Jenny Staff Johnson @htownjenny.bsky.social Ugh, fine.
Writer in Texas.
I curse on the internet now.
#HouSky
www.jennystaffjohnson.com
nanette @nanette.bsky.social a middle-aged librarian living on the flatlands of central Illinois
magnificent weirdo, guardian of the corn trophy, teller of stories
“songs person” at thebestthing.blog
not a professional account by any means, it gets weird in here
Moira 🫡 @moirajo.bsky.social Me but new and worse probably | concert promoter and writer | mostly here for March Xness
Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com That bloke who does that podcast your annoying friend keeps trying to get you to listen to. He/him. Posts every random thought in his head. AuDHD and not many filters. If you're only interested in my podcast you probably don't want to follow.
Aaron Smith @pineapple-hell.bsky.social Poet. Podcaster. Professor. Art Lover. Shopper. Dog Person. Book Reader. Magazine Reader. Ring Lover. Potty Mouth. Pot Smoker.
Danielle Evans @daniellevalore.bsky.social Writer, professor, lady with lapcats
Paul Smith @octopi666.bsky.social Musician, Sound Engineer, Mix Engineer, Cranes band member, Font Designer, Mac Fixer and general Slave.
PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social We stand at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the U.S. and worldwide. Support and learn more at pen.org.
Billy Idol @billyidolfeed.bsky.social The Official Blue Sky of Billy Idol.
billyidol.komi.io
billyidol.net
billyidolstore.com
https://www.threads.net/@billyidol?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
Rachel Alm @thousandfold.bsky.social writer/reviewer/editor/researcher
M @mizhenheimer.bsky.social a dimension 20 enthusiast in wyoming. I write for a living, and in my free time, and frequently in my dreams. personal account; opinions my own.
Any Austin @anyaustin.bsky.social it’s me
channel: youtube.com/@any_austin
merch: merch.unremarkableandodd.com
Lisa M. O'Neill @lisaoneill.bsky.social Writer | Storyteller | Editor | Native New Orleanian | words:
@theguardian @washingtonpost @bitchmedia @byshondaland
she/her
The Middle Dance @10cntbrnght.bsky.social i am a bad poster with terrible taste and i am humbly asking for your gruel.
Jessica Handler (she/her) @jessicah.bsky.social Author "The Magnetic Girl," (Southern Book Prize, Indie Next, Bitter Southerner picks.) "Invisible Sisters,” too. Drummer. Southerner. Abortion rights are human rights. www.jessicahandler.com. New novel, “The World To See” coming in 2026.
Hannah Ensor @hensor.bsky.social poet. they/them. https://www.quarterlywest.com/issue-108-ensor 
Andrew Maynard @andrew-maynard.bsky.social Teacher & Writer, Richmond, VA.
Natasha Padilla (she/her) @npadillanyc.bsky.social Sr. Director, Federation Communications & Engagement, @PPFA.org; writer/editor & music lover; ex-#PubMedia, The WNET Group. Opinions expressed=my own. RT≠endorsements
Kelly Shire @kellyshire.bsky.social Essay writer, work in Brevity, Catamaran, Hippocampus, et. al.
Fiction in Palm Springs Noir anthology. MFA. Elementary school librarian.
Finishing a memoir about my California familia.
The Best Album of 2001 @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social The 2nd Best Album of 2001 is The White Stripes, WHITE BLOOD CELLS.
Bracket: https://challonge.com/bestalbumof2001
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/kentmbeeson.
Managed by @kentmbeeson.bsky.social
Susan Briante @utopiaminus.bsky.social poet, educator, translator author of Defacing the Monument, Utopia Minus, Pioneers in the Study of Motion and The Market Wonders.
Will Slattery @wjaslattery.bsky.social a tiresome human being // essaydaily.org
@alisondeming.bsky.social @alisondeming.bsky.social Poet, essayist, teacher, bi-regionalist, friend of animals, gardener, mother, grandmother, science fan, University of Arizona Regents Professor Emerita.
River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative || Where good writing counts and facts matter.
Aaron Angello @aaronangello.bsky.social Poet | Essayist | Playwright | Theatre Maker
Author of The Fact of Memory (Rose Metal Press)
Professor at Hood College
Maya @mayalkapoor.bsky.social Freelance journalist covering climate change, biodiversity, and environmental justice | She/her | Formerly at @highcountrynews.org and @ncstate.bsky.social | mayalkapoor.com | Signal: MayaK.09 | Views my own
Jason Nafziger @jasonnafziger.bsky.social Writer • Reader • Overthinker
Rust Belt Gen X Latchkey Kid
Katrina Prow @katprow.bsky.social writer. professor. waitress. sour girl.
katprow.com
Kyle Simonsen @kylesimonsen.bsky.social Reader, Writer, Ostrich Rider. Cliche-ass English lecturer who smokes a pipe and reads books. Mostly here to talk hoops and movies.
Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies @assayjournal.bsky.social Assay publishes the best critical, pedagogical, and craft-conversational work exploring everything #nonfiction
Posts by Jay Kibble and @karenbabine
Mo Daviau @modaviau.bsky.social I wrote EVERY ANXIOUS WAVE (SMP ‘16) and EPIC AND LOVELY (WVU Press '25). Bookseller. Elder Marfanoid. Indie kid forever. bravebookstore.substack.com
Essay Daily @essaydaily.bsky.social Coming out of our cage and we're doing just fine. All things about the essay. Advent Calendar. Find us at http://essaydaily.org
Eric James Aldrich @ericjaldrich.bsky.social Writing, trail cams, trains, books, spiders, environmental protection.
English faculty at Pima Community College
Board of Directors Sky Island Alliance
Jamie Lee @m3m0ry-jl33.bsky.social Community Archivist + Scholar + Media / Filmmaker
caromacon @caromacon.bsky.social ⌨️💾💌🖨️🖱️
Robbie Maakestad @robbiemaakestad.bsky.social Senior Essays Editor: @therumpus.net / Associate Writing Professor / Program Director: MA in Writing / Books-in-progress: 1) CNF: A history of Jerusalem's City of David 2) Flash Fiction: Bill Murrays / Robbie & James Talk Music: https://bit.ly/RandJTM
J. Nicholas Geist @jnicholasgeist.com i cant stop making video essays about a goofy movie
Matthew Lawrence @beefcakefactory.bsky.social Performs other tasks as required.
chad connecticut @chadconnecticut.bsky.social they/them / more and stupider
Dana @danaw.bsky.social “Why should I change my name? He's the one who sucks.” | She/her | Protect trans kids | Who's being naive, Kay?
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