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.
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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
@rafi52.bsky.social @rafi52.bsky.social Atatürkçü Laik, Demokrat, Bağımsız Adalet taraftarı
Steve Downes @writerstevedownes.bsky.social Author of Fyre & Stone crime/historical fiction series.
Books on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones, Apple Books & Google Play
Carpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social Baltimore-based indie bookstore. Currently online until we get a new space for the bookstore. Generally won't DM people, unless maybe you're a publisher and we need info to stock your books.
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Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
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Sarah Brockhaus @scbrock.bsky.social Poet // MFA from LSU // PhD student @ UNT // co-editor of The Shore Poetry
Leah Browning @leahbrowning.bsky.social Reader, writer, editor.
https://www.leahbrowninglit.com/ 
Marco Nocera @marconocera.bsky.social Music Producer | Visual storyteller
Simone Nespolo @simonenespolo.bsky.social Friuli, Italy. 996
CC BY 4.0 + Respectful Use
Award-Winning Writer with International Recognition
Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social Author - Poet
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
Annora Winters @annorawinterspoet.bsky.social Poetess in Potentia
One Fall Review @onefallreview.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to professional wrestling themed poetry.
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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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John Lucy Ash - Fantasy Author @johnlucyash.bsky.social Debut novel The Nexus Prince out now!
Where fantasy, humor, and self-discovery collide, 1 word at a time. All people welcome & cherished here.
https://johnlucyash.com/
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Marshall Bood @marshallbood.bsky.social poet and author of Spring Cleaning(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021)
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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com Writer, editor, worker bee: amystuber.com
SAD GROWNUPS (Stillhouse Press, Oct 2024), Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
Contributing Editor: splitlipthemag.com
Lexington Bailey | Author @lexingtonbailey.bsky.social writer and pop punk propagandist | washington dc
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Jake Lockett, Order MY LIFE AS AN ASTHMANAUT Now! @jlockettauthor1.bsky.social #PB author of MY LIFE AS AN ASTHMANAUT (Free Spirit Publishing, April 14, 2026)
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More tales found in Cricket Media & online!
Website: https://www.jakelockett.com/
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social teacher, poet, father, husband | WHO WILL CRADLE YOUR HEAD (ELJ 2023) | Ed. POETS OF QUEENS 2 | EIC of @porcupinelit.bksy.social | Co-Founder of monthly reading series and poetry community get togethers, @notatawp.bsky.social
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Jen Michalski @socalwritergirl.bsky.social Writer, EIC, @jmwwjournal.bsky.social. Rep: Esty Loveing-Downes at Howland Literary. Latest: ALL THIS CAN BE TRUE (@TurnerPub, June 2025).
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
James Montgomery @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social Flash writer ✍️ | Latest: Crow & Cross Keys, Fictive Dream, FlashFlood, The Bulb Region, 100 Word Story, NFFD Micro Comp ‘26 | 📖 Best Small Fictions ‘25, Wigleaf Top 50 ‘25 | 💫 Welkin People’s Prize ‘25 | He/Him 🌈 www.jamesmontgomerywrites.com
Andrew🌐 @andrew153.bsky.social "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page"🗺️
- Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis
➡️ https://t.me/Thy_Ways ⬅️
#orthodoxy #christianity #ThyWays #motorcycle #moto #journey #tour #trip #voyage #travel
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Phil Nugent @philnugent.bsky.social A cool rebel with no friends
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Kirsten Miles, Author 🌹 @kirstenmiles.bsky.social Author 🖊 Vegan 🥬 Libra ♎️
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The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the world’s best new writing.
http://theberlinliteraryreview.com
Broad Ripple Review @broadripplereview.bsky.social Fiction | Nonfiction | Poetry | Reviews
Free submissions, always.
www.broadripplereview.com
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Mike Piero 🏳️🌈 @mikepiero.org Writer. Novelist. Poet. Game Studies Scholar. Writing in J Journal, Midway Journal, Rain Taxi, Moveable Type, Impost, Sandy River Review, & Trash Cat Lit. *Views are my own.* Monarch and Best Small Fictions noms. More at www.mikepiero.org. He/Him. Bi. 🩷💜💙
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Keira Perkins @thatkeira.bsky.social Scientist by day.
Sometimes i write things at night.
https://keiraperkins.com
Rooted Ministry: Youth Ministry and Parenting @rootedministry.bsky.social 🌟 Equipping Youth Ministers & Parents to Share the Gospel with the Next Generation
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Robert Nazar Arjoyan @robertarjoyan.bsky.social Author & Filmmaker
arjoyan.com
Contributor to STOKER AWARD-WINNER Silk & Sinew🧿Maudlin House🧿Deadlands🧿Pleiades🧿JMWW🧿Ghoulish Tales🧿River Styx🧿Gone Lawn🧿Shotgun Honey🧿Roi Fainéant🧿Cold Signal🧿Apocalypse Confidential🧿Cleaver🧿Hobart🧿Monstrous Angels🧿BULL
Beth Kanter @beekaekae.bsky.social Writer, teacher, workshop leader.
Hand holder
Words in: X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, Unbroken, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Cease, Cows and others.
Pushcart nominee.
www.bethkanter.com
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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. 
Frances Scott @fscottwrites.bsky.social Writer, essayist, memoirist and pet sitter. Bylines NYTimes, Huffington Post, Next Avenue 
Dig It Dan @digitdan.bsky.social Uncovering history across Maine. I detect properties for owners to showcase their history by finding items lost by past inhabitants. Credited with discovering a Militia/Civil War muster field in ME. Posts about Maine history and things that interest me.
Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social Senior Editor @ Epiphany Lit. Stories in EPOCH, Carolina Quarterly, Bridge Eight, Sequestrum, McSweeney's Internet Tendency et al. Video creations (Richard Hell, Nancy Wilson, et al) www.jeffbond.nyc www.chillsubs.com/profile/jeffbondnyc
K. A. Polzin @k-a-polzin.bsky.social Stories in Subtropics, swamp pink, Gulf Coast, Wigleaf, X-R-A-Y. Humor in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Funny Times. Comics in Narrative, Electric Literature, The American Bystander, Funny Times.
Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social Poet, parent, professor.
Editor-in-Chief of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social
https://www.katiemanningpoet.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
Andrew Fox Ⓥ @foxphorescence.bsky.social Reader, writer, book collector, and all-around biblophile.
Learning to channel the soft whisper of the muses.
Autodidact.
INFJ
#WritingCommunity
#Shelley #Keats #Tennsyon #HartCrane #Stevens #Whitman #Dickinson #Bloom.
Vegan FTA
Good vibes only. ~ ~ ~
Daryl Farmer @darylfarmer.bsky.social Writer, poet, bicyclist. Gentle spirit, but capable occasional mayhem. Author of BICYCLNG BEYOND THE DIVIDE and WHERE WE LAND. Creative writing Prof at U of Alaska Fairbanks.
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
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/
Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Founder and Editor-in-chief of Ghost Parachute literary journal. Inflatable flamingo supervisor. I knew a girl once.
Joel Dart @joeldart.bsky.social Indianapolis!
A decade ago I wrote executable poetry in JavaScript. More recently I’ve been enjoying longer form short stories and middle grade fiction. Love making little melodies and storytelling. A very silly person. @joeldart everywhere. he/him
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Catamaran Literary Reader @catamaranlit.bsky.social Catamaran Literary Reader is a quarterly #literary #magazine #publishing #poetry, #fiction, #nonfiction, and #art. West Coast themes, writers from everywhere!
https://catamaranliteraryreader.com
Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
Anti-Heroin Chic @antiheroinchic.bsky.social AHC is a literary arts intentional community and healing space. Submissions open. Edited by
James Diaz. https://heroinchic.weebly.com/
Amethyst Loscocco @amethystwrites.bsky.social Writer, binge reader, and science nerd. Johns Hopkins MA in Science Writing. 2x Pushcart Prize nominee. Words in Electric Lit, Pinch Journal, Catamaran, Variant Lit, Gone Lawn, Tiny Molecules, and more.
https://amethystloscocco.com
NewPages @newpages.bsky.social NewPages.com is your best guide to literary magazines, indie publishing, university presses, creative writing programs, writing and literary events, writing contests and submissions, independent bookstores, and more.
#indiebookstores #litmags #booksky
David James Poissant @djpoissant.bsky.social Author of LAKE LIFE, a NYT Editor's Choice, and THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS, a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the PEN/Bingham Prize. In print in nine languages. Editor of The Florida Review @theflreview.bsky.social
Sarah Seybold @sarahseybold.bsky.social Poems appearing or forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, ZYZZYVA, The Dodge, SWWIM, Thimble, and elsewhere.
Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social "We'll Be Birds" chapbook release 9/24/26 https://www.sandandgravelpress.com/lisa-thornton-chapbook-release
Writer, nurse. SmokeLong Quarterly, Cincinnati Review+. Senior flash fiction editor @jmww. Sucker for a good barn.
lisathorntonwriter.com
Abbie Doll @abbiedollwrites.bsky.social writer who writes things. yeehaw!
Fiction Editor for Identity Theory
Words in places like | Door is A Jar | 3:AM Magazine | The Pinch | etc.
proudly queer & neurodivergent. - E Ecotopian @ecotopian.bsky.social
Ecotone Magazine @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social A biannual magazine that seeks to reimagine place. Founded & made at UNCW. Winner, 2022 AWP Small Press Publisher Award & 2023 Firecracker Award
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
L Mari Harris @lmariharris.bsky.social Reader, Writer, Ozarks dweller. Wigleaf Top 50. Best Microfiction. Editor at trampset.
Dr. Jennifer Maritza McCauley (she/her) @maritza4770.bsky.social Author of SCAR ON/SCAR OFF(Stalking Horse),When Trying to Return Home (Counterpoint), Kinds of Grace(FlowerSong), Neon Steel (Cornerstone) (2/26), Recognition (U Wisc), VERSUS('27) & Tumbao ('29)(TX Review Press). CW profe. Dresses, anime & comics lover.
@imaginaryoctopus.bsky.social @imaginaryoctopus.bsky.social 
Gretchen Filart @gretchenfilart.bsky.social 🇵🇭🍉Word weaver, solo momma, rape & stroke survivor with bipolar & ADHD
🪶Talks about psychosocial health, writing, women's issues & relationships
🎶Tiktok/X/IG/Threads: @gretchenfilart
Joseph Kerschbaum @josephkerschbaum.bsky.social Poet, posts about writing, subs, craft. Latest poetry collections: Midnight Sunrise (2024) & Mirror Box (2020), both from Main St. Rag Press. Poetry staff for The Flying Island Journal. Noms: Pushcart, BoTN, Lilly. More: www.thirstyocean.com
Liz Rosen @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social https://www.sandandgravelpress.com/store/elizabeth-rosen-survival-skills
www.thewritelifeliz.com
The Common @commonmag.bsky.social The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, poetry, and art with a modern sense of place. Based at Amherst College, we highlight writers and work from around the world.
LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
Nein,No,Non,Não, ingen,Hayır,Nie,Tidak,Nee,Nei
🚫DM’s🚫
Across The Margin @acrossthemargin.bsky.social An Arts & Culture webzine / publishing company / media group offering an engaging mix of fiction, criticism, essays, satire, poetry, podcasts, and more!
Home of Across The Margin : The Podcast & Welcome To The Party Pal Podcast
One Story @onestorymag.bsky.social ONE STORY publishes one great short story at a time. We bring people together through reading, writing, and learning about short fiction.
one-story.com
MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social dedicated to rewriting modern masculinity since 2009
@thedrevlow.bsky.social EIC
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
sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social dunno
Cam Whelr @camwhelr.bsky.social poet | writer | artist: [Grace]iple.
Neuro[con]vergent. Di[ff]abled. A[r]tivist. [Nap]vocate for the Res[t]istance. Dog mom. Words at Pleiades, The Rumpus, Gumbo Bottoms & other wilding, miraculous meadows.
Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social Non-profit publisher of fiction, poetry, essays & art. Since 2003, where readers, writers, teachers & students meet. Our free library is always open.
narrativemagazine.com
Rina Palumbo @rinapalumbo.bsky.social Ph.D. (JHU, History); Italian-Canadian expatriate. Writer, Editor, avid reader.
Writing in Hopkins Review, Identity Theory, Ghost Parachute, et al.
https://rinapalumbowriter.com/
Owen Wyke @owenwyke.bsky.social Storyteller (https://gonelawn.net/owenwyke) and founding editor of Gone Lawn, @gonelawn.bsky.social
Studied words and images in New Haven and Boston. Now living in some fateless middle-swim bedeviled by mountain laurels, coyotes and bells, bells.
Mandy McHugh @mandymchugh.bsky.social Author. It Takes Monsters. Chloe Cates Is Missing.
Toby Litt @tobylitt.bsky.social Writer. Mentor. Activist.
I teach Creative Writing at Southampton University.
https://awritersdiary.substack.com/
Andrea Damic @damicandrea.bsky.social #artist / #author / associate fiction editor - @jmwwjournal.bsky.social. I spend many an hour tinkering with my website https://damicandrea.wordpress.com/.
Maxwell Bauman @maxwellbauman.bsky.social @benyehudapress.bsky.social Associate Publisher and Managing Editor; @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Owner and Editor-in-chief; Lead Editor of Aggadah Try It; Chicken Soup for the Soul Contributor; #Lego; #Bisexual; (((#Jewish)))
Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social Native Hawaiian writer living in Japan
https://www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/
Bitter over Sweet https://tinyurl.com/5hd7u63r
Hard Skin http://tinyurl.com/yc53
Kahi&Lua http://tinyurl.com/3ryfzvwh
Tara A. Elliott @tara-a-elliott.bsky.social Poet, Teacher, Executive Director of Eastern Shore Writers Association, Host of Thursdays with ESWA Writing Zoomcast, Chair of Bay to Ocean Writers Conference
Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social Mostly poet. Lover of road trips & long walks. Day job in microbiology.
Poems in Crowstep, Epistemic Lit, Engine Idling, & Red Room Poetry. Flash in Lit Namjooning, Glassworks & Wigleaf. Collabs in Gone Lawn & Midway Journal
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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.