Josh Dale @joshdale.co Writing, publishing, cats, nature, metal.
Read good books by Thirty West.
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Zachary Kocanda @zacharykocanda.bsky.social Illinois’s favorite son. Malarker retweeter.
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Cody Shrum @cshrumly.bsky.social Just some guy. Author of Oakaville (Alien Buddha Press) and Green Acre (Choeofpleirn Press). Words in HAD, Maudlin House, BULL, Cleaver Mag, JMWW, et al. Fiction editor: Identity Theory. http://codyshrum.com
Justin Bryant @justinwriter.bsky.social ‘Thunder From A Clear Blue Sky’ Malarkey Books 2023. Short fiction/flash here and there.
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social Writer, dad, etc
Apocalypse Party @apocalypseparty.bsky.social A heavy metal acid trip via literature. Publishing books for the end of the world.
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Farewell Transmission Lit @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social Welcome to Farewell Transmission. We want your weird & brutal honesty. Your sufferings. We want the last piece of writing you would want to be remembered by. Posts prob @lobotomyrob or @retsoor Submit: farewelltransmission.net/submissions
emily laura costa @emilylauracosta.bsky.social girl on girl (@rejectionlit.bsky.social) //
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cnf (@farewelltransmiss.bsky.social) // getting dumber as I get older
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Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social Independent publisher based in Ohio, bringing you ‘Books Too Loud To Ignore’ since 2005.
📚 imprint of Seven Stories Press
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Brian Stephen Ellis @brianstephenellis.bsky.social Poetry, Prose, Teaching
Gwen E. Kirby @gwenekirby.bsky.social author of SHIT CASSANDRA SAW // stories in One Story, Guernica, Tin House, Smokelong, and elsewhere // corgis, baking, knitting, swearing // she/her
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ryanashleyanderson @femmeintheory.bsky.social writer • endurance artist • creative dir. • curator /// managing editor @poolpartymag /// fallgirls.com • ryanashleyanderson.com
M.M. Kaufman @mmkaufman.bsky.social Meet me at the car wash. Writer. Managing editor at Rejection Letters. Latest words at X-R-A-Y, trampset, Okay Donkey, Identity Theory, Farewell Transmission, JAKE.
Aubri Kaufman @aubrirose.bsky.social all voice, no plot. co-eic & chaos creator for @icebreakerslit.bsky.social
Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social Neurotic Chicago-based writer, editor-in-chief of Maudlin House, podcaster, and doer of many odd things.
https://mallorysmart.com/
Drew Hawkins @wadrewhawkins.bsky.social public health reporter for the Gulf States Newsroom | writer | producer/host | New Orleans vs. all y’all
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Caleb Bethea (they/them) @calebbethea.bsky.social Author of DISCO MURDER CITY and Fever Clowns | Dirty South Enby Punk | No AI
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Lauren Theresa @imlaurentheresa.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Artist. Mom. Therapist. Mostly Human.
Avee Chaudhuri @indigojackal.bsky.social Editor Prairie Schooner. Lecturer University of Nebraska-Lincoln. President-for-Life of The Holmes Lake Fishing Association. 
Future Tense Books @futuretensebooks.bsky.social 30+ years of fine books and endless love in Portland, Oregon. We publish daring literary books by writers you should get to know. Editors: Kevin Sampsell (PDX) and Emma Alden (Philadelphia).
Visit us at www.futuretensebooks.com
Kevin M. Kearney @kevinmkearney.bsky.social new novel FREELANCE out May 31 from @rejectionlit.bsky.social
I've written for SLATE, STEREOGUM, and XRAY
I appreciate the band EVERCLEAR
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Maudlin House @maudlinhouse.bsky.social weird press that publishes weird books
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Terri Linn Davis @terrilinndavis.bsky.social Virgo (Scorpio rising) | co-EIC @icebreakers_lit | poems & reviews @TBQuarterly @flypaperlit @Dailydrunkmag @Fivesouthlit | @kenyonreview ww '22 | host @TooLitToQuitPod
Powell's Books @powells.bsky.social The legendary independent bookstore.
Portland, OR | est. 1971
Brian Evenson @brianevenson.bsky.social Short story writer, novelist, television writer. Married to the excellent Kristen Tracy.
Adam Shaw @adamshaw502.bsky.social writer, dad, wannabe hockey player
www.theshawspot.com
Adam Deutsch @adamdeutsch.com Poet/parent/prof/pedaling around. My book is EVERY TRANSMISSION from @PressFernwood. 📸 by Alanna Airitam. (He/him). A bunch of biking & urbanism here, too. AdamDeutsch.com. Bike videos at https://www.youtube.com/@RidingBikesinSanDiego
Santi Elijah Holley @santiholley.bsky.social Author of An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created (2023, Mariner Books) and a forthcoming history of Melvin Van Peebles and Black independent filmmaking.
www.santielijahholley.com
House of Vlad Press/Vlad Mag @houseofvladpress.bsky.social Iconic independent publishing house founded by author Brian Alan Ellis (2003-2007, 2013-present), known for its edgy, transgressive and unconventional approach to literature. Vlad Mag, an online literary journal, started in 2023 // houseofvladpress.com
Jan Stinchcomb @janstinchcomb.bsky.social Author of Verushka (JournalStone), The Blood Trail (Red Bird Chapbooks) & stories in many places (Gamut, Bourbon Penn, Tales to Terrify, Wigleaf, hex, etc.)
janstinchcomb.com
Kyle Kouri @kylekouri.bsky.social Author of THE PROBLEM DRINKER, CLASH Books summer 2026, and 2024 Best Actor Nominee at FilmQuest.
Claire Hopple @clairehopple.bsky.social Author of six lil books. Fiction editor at XRAY. Stories in Wigleaf, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Forever Mag, HAD, etc. clairehopple.com
Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social Writer, jazz enthusiast, bibliophile, plant dad, and cartoon aficionado. Website: williammusgrove.com
Keith Rosson @keithrosson.bsky.social Writer, arteest, blindish, kinda punk. Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. FEVER HOUSE, THE DEVIL BY NAME, COFFIN MOON, more. CRONE coming 9/26. Repped by Chad Luibl, Janklow & Nesbit. CLOSED FOR BLURBS, SORRY.
Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social parent. jock to writer pipeline. author of I KEEP MY EXOSKELETONS TO MYSELF, A SHARP ENDLESS NEED (May, 2025), PERVERTS (2026)
Aimee Bender @aimee-bender.bsky.social writer, teacher, author of fiction including The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and Willful Creatures. Happy to be on here.
Jac Jemc @jacjemc.bsky.social Author of EMPTY THEATRE, FALSE BINGO & THE GRIP OF IT (MCD/FSG), A DIFFERENT BED EVERY TIME & MY ONLY WIFE (Dzanc). Guggenheim Fellow. UCSD & Clarion.
Jim Ruland @jimvermin.bsky.social Punk whisperer
@laurenlavin.bsky.social @laurenlavin.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/laurenlavin
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
McCormack Writing Center @mccormackwc.bsky.social Write. Revise. Karaoke.
Workshops, Residencies, & Classes
Since 2003
Formerly the Tin House Workshop
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Dizzy Zaba @dizzy.gay organizer, strategist, writer. fellow at future currents & democracy revival center. labor movement forever
Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social Beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness.
Lambda Award winner, Locus Award finalist, Best-selling author of MANHUNT, CUCKOO, and BLACK FLAME, out now from Tor Nightfire, and CHIMERA, coming 2027
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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to prose, poetry, comics, essays, humor, hybrid, and everything in-between.
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Pool Party @poolpartymag.com Mag + Readings + Books. PDX-based. {READING 2.10 @grandgesturebooks} Fiction @kevinmaloney.net | Poetry @brianstephenellis.bsky.social | EIC femmeintheory.bsky.social
Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net Author of HORSE GIRL FEVER, THE RED-HEADED PILGRIM & CULT OF LORETTA. Co-founder & fiction editor: @poolpartymag.com. Married to @femmeintheory.bsky.social
Sweet Trash Press @sweettrashpress.bsky.social This dumpster is lit.
An imprint of House of Vlad Press founded by Jillian Luft.
www.houseofvladpress.com
Iron Horse Literary Review 🐴 @ironhorselitrev.bsky.social Literary journal based out of Texas Tech University. We publish fiction, poetry, and nonfiction in 3 print issues & 3 e-issues every year.
Email: ihlr.mail@gmail.com
Submit: ironhorse.submittable.com
Tom Marcinko @tommarcinko.bsky.social He/him. Stories in Beneath Ceaseless Skies (forthcoming), Nature/Futures, Interzone, Rosebud, Triangulation, and elsewhere. tommarcinko.neocities.org/
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
Slasher Film | Horror Movie @slasherfilm2024.bsky.social WATCH THE TEASER TRAILER NOW on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/ebbrwb6f (Warning: 18+)
Movie coming soon. Calling all #HORROR fans.
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Christian Gilman Whitney @cgwhitney.bsky.social Author of I HAVE NEVER FELT ALIVE (2025)
www.writtenbycgw.com
Joshua Burton @joshuaburton23.bsky.social |🇵🇸 | Poet | DAD | GRACE ENGINE available now | FRACTURE ANTHOLOGY available now | Mono no aware (物の哀れ)
Andrew Hemmert @andrewhemmert.bsky.social Florida poet living in Denver. No Longer at This Address and Blessing the Exoskeleton from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Sawgrass Sky from Texas Review Press.
https://andrewhemmertpoetry.com
AnalogueTrash @analoguetrash.com AnalogueTrash is a new music blog and typo specialist based in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.
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Robert Fairhead @tallandtrue.bsky.social Share my writing and blogging on http://TallAndTrue.com and podcasts at http://TallAndTrueShortReads.com. ❤️ #BeingADad #Dogs #Books #Writing #SydneySwans #VoiceToParliament #Sydney/#Gadigal 🚫 DMs (unless we know each other)
G. A. (Glenn) Rivers @garivers.bsky.social Just another non-AI author of Thrillers and Crime Fiction making my way. Rep'd by Terrie Wolf at AKA Lit. Mgmt. Words in Punk Noir, BULL Magazine, Texas Wind antho by Cowboy Jamboree; Reckon Review. Peace!
Jamey Gallagher @jameygallagher.bsky.social Author of BODIES IN BAGS, I AM IDRIS ELBA, and AMERICAN ANIMISM.
https://jameyg0.wixsite.com/jameygallagher
Community college writing teacher
I read and write: literary stuff, crime stuff, weird stuff
From NH, living in Baltimore.
Charlie Kondek @charliekondek.bsky.social Marketing professional and short story writer from metro Detroit. Kendo enthusiast. Autism dad. Child of God. CharlieKondekWrites.com
Marie Vibbert @reasie.bsky.social Hugo and Nebula nominated author with over 100 works in print, computer programmer, weirdo from Cleveland.
Class-conscious science fiction. Unionize the world.
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.
Karen Schauber @karenschauber.bsky.social Flash Fiction Obsessed
Dabbles in Abstract Painting
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“Flash Fiction Writing Tips: Penned By Masterful Flash Writers From Around The Globe”
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Joe X Young @joexyoung.bsky.social I have created an Indie Horror Author Community resource website that will help you to succeed as authors, and help readers to find you.
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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com Co-owner @eveninghouse.bsky.social
Writer:
FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN
BOXCUTTERS
EIC @cold-signal.com
Buffalo, NY
johnchrostek.com
Cold Signal Magazine @cold-signal.com https://cold-signal.com
Issue Three: Underworld, out now!
///a weird genre & indie lit online anthology series exploring the existential questions of today & tomorrow///
EIC: @johnchrostek.com
Rejection Letters @rejectionlit.bsky.social books and lit mag.
https://rejection-letters.com/
Miriam Gershow @miriamgershow.bsky.social Writer w FOMO. CLOSER (Regal House). SURVIVAL TIPS: STORIES (Propeller). THE LOCAL NEWS (Spiegel & Grau). www.miriamgershow.com
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Spearheaded #100smallpress:
https://lithub.com/100-notable-small-press-books-of-2025/
Bobby Miller @bobbymillertime.com Voice Director at Rockstar Games LA | Filmmaker (The Cleanse, TUB, Critters Attack!) | Author (Situation Nowhere) | http://BobbyMillerTime.com
MicheleAlouf.bsky.social @michelealouf.bsky.social Writer. Co-founder @storystreetwriters.com. Harvard Extension Creative Writing ALM. Writing in: Potomac Review, New World Writing, Vestal Review, Gulf Stream, Bridge Eight, and others. Nominated for 2026 Pushcart Prize #writer
Josh G @jgwrites22.bsky.social Poet - Editor at South Broadway Ghost Society - published in Barren Magazine + Door Is A Jar + Others - work forthcoming in DIAGRAM
Elissa Field @elissafield.bsky.social Lit noir novels + flash | SmokeLong Submission Ed | Runner Up Killer Claymore Best Mystery | Stories in/coming SmokeLong trampset HAD Moon City Ghost Parachute Monkeybicycle Citron Review Peatsmoke CRAFT Conjunctions ++ | IG FB elissalaurenfield.com
Maxwell Foxman @maxwellfoxman.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media and Game Studies
Co-author of Mainstreaming and Game Journalism: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5657/Mainstreaming-and-Game-Journalism
🧵: sushilovinfun
🐘: maxwellfoxman@mastodon.social
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Rebecca Moon Ruark is at rebeccamoonruark.com @rebeccamoonruark.bsky.social all-around word nerd, co-editor of dance essay anthology-in-progress; owner/editor at the Rust Belt Girl blog; Duolingo French fanatic; pointe shoe survivor; twin mom; the happiest funeral singer you know
Adam Voith @adamvoith.bsky.social My novel, Recommended If You Like, is out now for $0.00 at littleengines.shop. I'm a writer, publisher of Little Engines, and retired booking agent.
adamvoith.com
littleengines.pub
Micro Podcast @podcastmicro.bsky.social A podcast for short but powerful writing. Subscribe and enjoy wherever you listen to podcasts.
Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social Writer/Founder of the Athens Writers' Collective/No Fun at All. he/him
Iowa MFA, Houston PhD. Words in Barrelhouse, Zone 3, Hobart, Sequestrum, etc.
Athens, Georgia, USA
C.W. Blackwell @cwblackwell.bsky.social Author: HARD MOUNTAIN CLAY ✷ WHATEVER KILLS THE PAIN ✷ THE COLD DARK FOREVER ✷ 3X Derringer Award winner ✷ Anthony Award Finalist ✷ #crimefiction #noir #santacruz
https://lnk.bio/cw_blackwell_writer
Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer (NPR, Locus, etc)/freelancer/photographer/PhD. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me!
https://linktr.ee/gabinoiglesias
D.T. Robbins @dtrobbins.bsky.social Author of Leasing (House of Vlad), Birds Aren't Real (Maudlin House). Founding editor of Rejection Letters, Twin Pies.
Seize The Press Magazine @seizethepress.bsky.social Dark fantasy, bleak science fiction, unsettling horror, and Weird genre grime.
Currently closed to submissions.
Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Award-Winning Publisher of New Weird Horror + More, via Portland, OR & Transilvania, Romania.
@AlexWoodroe.com, Editor in Chief.
@MattBlairstone.bsky.social, Publisher.
SUPPORT INDIE. Hail the Tenebrous Cult🖤☠️
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Charlene Elsby @charleneelsby.bsky.social Books at Weirdpunk, House of Vlad, Apocalypse Party, Clash Books, Merigold Independent.
J ę ß ę @platelet60.bsky.social wannabe mystery novelist / journalist / cartoonist / not a square, more of a trapezoid
Jillian Luft @jillianluft.bsky.social Writer. SCUMBAG SUMMER (2024, House of Vlad Press). Founder of @sweettrashpress.bsky.social
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
X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social the best writers on earth
www.xraylitmag.com
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
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
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).
j. archer avary 🌵🌵🌵 @joeyflash.bsky.social Simultaneously existing as emerging artist and washed out has-been
Debut short story collection about to launch into an unforgiving void. You can help by starting a podcast and bringing me on as a guest
Colin Gee @colinmgee.bsky.social Founder and editor of The Gorko Gazette. Books: The Penult (LEFTOVER Books), Lips (Anxiety Press), Left in the Lurch (Dumbo), All you want (Stone Corpse Press)
Jon Berger @bergerbomb44.bsky.social McDonald’s ice cream machine that writes.
Author of Goon Dog and Saint Lizard. Both available at Gob Pile Press.
Michael B. Tager @iamragesparkle.bsky.social On a general writing/artistic break until the kids get older. Still a person who likes things and is delightful at dinner parties.
Email: Michaelbtager1@gmail.com
Website: michaelbtager.com
Fav F&F: Tokyo Drift
david byron queen @byronqueen.bsky.social books + sounds
Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social She/her. Flash writer. Everything's Changing (Thirty West, 2023) & Breaking Points (Black Lawrence, 2021).
https://linktr.ee/chelseastickle
kyle r. seibel @kylerseibel.bsky.social writer + usn veteran // HEY YOU ASSHOLES available now from Clash Books
will erickson 🐧🦉 @willerickson.bsky.social just a little light in my pocket
Poems or whatever + awkwardlypenned.com
Sean Ennis @seanennis.bsky.social Laptop broke / in open ocean / the boat rickety
author RAT AESTHETICS (Sand and Gravel Press), CHASE US: Stories (Little A), CUNNING, BAFFLING, POWERFUL (Thirty West), and HOPE AND WILD PANIC (Malarkey Books).