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/
Anita Goveas @coffeeandpaneer.bsky.social Writer, reader, editor, cat convert, spoonie
links to stories at
https://coffeeandpaneer.wordpress.com/
Flash collection at Reflex Press
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Longtail News @longtail-news.bsky.social An experiment in posting articles from less common sites and topics, as many posts as Bluesky allows per day. Please mute or block if the volume is annoying.
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Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social Writer and Literary Critic. Work in Gooseberry Pie Lit, Passages North, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story, Bending Genres, and FlashFlood.
Contemporary Anglophone Lit PhD.
https://linktr.ee/emhall47
Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social An online journal publishing classically inspired short stories. Now open for submissions, 1000-8000 words. Edited by @CourtlandAvenue (Dave Gregory)
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Tomas Moniz @tomasmmoniz.bsky.social Less Honkin’ More Tonkin’
POB 3555
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I promise to write back💕🕺🏽🔥
W. W. Norton & Company @wwnorton.com Independent Publishers Since 1923.
Crepuscular Magazine @crepuscularmag.bsky.social A micromagazine for stories of the in-between, the not quite, the kindasorta - and the creatures inhabiting the same. Published twice monthly. Paying $0.10/word
Edited by Rebecca E. Treasure
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Not Quite Write @notquitewrite.com 🎙️ Not Quite Write Podcast | notquitewrite.com
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Amanda @akscotland.bsky.social Co-host of the Not Quite Write Podcast and judge of the Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction.
Writes in the tiny spaces in between.
Whimsy @whimsyfiction.bsky.social A monthly microfiction contest celebrating the lighter, more peculiar side of storytelling. Yes, our alpaca travels by quill 🦙🪶
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Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social Writing about nature, science, history & sexual violence. Multiple books, multiple mischief.
Latest: TANGLED IN VOW & BESEECH (poems)
Next: LEARNING TO SPAR (memoir)
EiC Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table. Here for lit community & Caturday
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Stephalazarasus goes rawr! 🦕 @stephalazarasus.bsky.social B.S. in Psych 𖤓 Book Lover 𖤓 Book Reviewer 𖤓 No Gen. AI 𖤓 she/her 𖤓 Stuck in FL pls send help lol
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Dark Talk @dark-talk.uk The official BlueSky account for the Dark Talk podcast.
• https://dark-talk.uk
• https://patreon.com/DarkTalkPod
Emma Binder @embinder.bsky.social they/them // fiction writer, Stegner Fellow at Stanford
Night Shades ⏾ @nightshadesmag.bsky.social 🛸 500 Word Speculative Stories. $0.15/word. nightshadesmag.com
Anna Reser @annareser.bsky.social steely-eyed missile man
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land of enchantment -> charm city
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Takeshi Sudo @artssoy.bsky.social Musician, Writer
Literature, Art, Music
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shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social Author of The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India), and most recently, Cajun South Brown Folk (Belle Point Press). Represented by Teffanie Thompson of Falkin Literary. 2019-2025 Series Editor of The Wigleaf Top 50. Lafayette, LA. shomedome.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).
James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social memoir: Blind Man's Bluff (W.W. Norton, NYT Editors' Choice)
novel: Academy Gothic (Nilsen Prize for a First Novel)
editor: The Writer's Chronicle & Monkeybicycle
agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
WV native
still living in 1986
jamestatehill.com
Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social author of TURMERIC & SUGAR (Thirty West). stories in Wigleaf, Short Story Long, Berkeley Fiction Review, HAD, Craft, Fractured, etc.
annavangalajones.com
S.A. Franco @sylviafranco.bsky.social I am moved by visual arts; I believe our genius lies in our imagination. my images, unless otherwise noted.
Elisabeth @temptedeli.bsky.social I run on coffee, cold weather, and dark humor. The coffee is non-negotiable. Reading quiets my overworked brain.
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Jordan Harper @jordanharper.bsky.social Edgar-and-steel-dagger-winning author of SHE RIDES SHOTGUN, EVERYBODY KNOWS, THE LAST KING OF CALIFORNIA and LOVE AND OTHER WOUNDS.
A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE: "The Noir Novel of Our Times" -- The New York Times
Emily Rapp Black @erappblack.bsky.social Author of books, Professor of things, Mother of kids, Editor of projects. circeconsulting.net
Books & Blogs @bnbzay.bsky.social Promoting books through aesthetic storytelling & emotion.
For readers, writers, and midnight thinkers.
Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social Book recs, reviews, and news. Supporting independent booksellers as a Bookshop affiliate. Thanks for helping us help local bookstores. 🙏🏼 #BooksMatter
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social The Air Contains Honey
Artistic Director of PME-ART
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Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Desire Without Expectation
https://radicalcut.blogspot.com
Folklore Review @folklorereview.bsky.social Folklore Review is a literary journal for magic enthusiasts. We love unique works born from magic, myths, and legends. The weirder, the better. https://www.folklorereview.com/submit
Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social NYT-bestselling author of EL DORADO DRIVE (out June 24, 2025), BEWARE THE WOMAN, THE TURNOUT, GIVE ME YOUR HAND, YOU WILL KNOW ME, THE FEVER, etc. Co-creator/showrunner: DARE ME on Netflix. www.meganabbott.com 
Steph Cha @stephcha.bsky.social Author of Juniper Song novels and Your House Will Pay. Series editor of Best American Mystery & Suspense. TV writer.
DAR @darbooks.com Author/Writer/Dreamer - DA RASMUSSEN
Pandore Series
Martin Fischer @archiveofunread.bsky.social I write short stories that explore the space between memory and myth: quiet, eerie and unsettling fiction that lingers in the mind like fog after nightfall.
The Archive of the Unread:
https://www.archiveofunread.com
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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Steve Toase @stevetoase.bsky.social Writer based in Franconian Forest, Germany
Fortean Times comics reviewer
published at Tor.com Shimmer 3LBE, Lackington's, Lead writer on Haunt www.stevetoase.co.uk
To Drown in Dark Water from Undertow Publications
Dirt Upon My Skin from Black Shuck Books
Ivor @tearsofthetinman.bsky.social 
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor®
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
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swadeshine☀️ @swadeshine.bsky.social Wade Aaron Inganamort · sf writer · gardener · student of Buddhist philosophy · friend to all cats📍FL #amwriting · #Booksky📚💙
Ross Byrne vol.II @rbwarlock.bsky.social Writer, collector, sketcher and herald of tales in media galore.
Based in Ireland
'Ni' ⚔️
https://www.instagram.com/mr.rossbyrne/
Annie Neugebauer @annieneugebauer.bsky.social Author. 2x Bram Stoker Award finalist. Lit: Alec Shane, Writers House. Film: Sean Berard, Untitled Entertainment.
YOU HAVE TO LET THEM BLEED
THE EXTRA
THE OTHER 6/9/26
THE SPARE 3/9/27
ONCE THE DARKNESS COMES
novella TBA
https://annieneugebauer.com/
Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (Tor Nightfire, Titan). 5 Bram Stoker Awards. Shirley Jackson finalist. Work in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Asimov's, Pseudopod, etc. Clarion grad. 🏳️🌈
www.lucysnyder.com
Rep: @jord4nhill.bsky.social
Cats, aquariums and terrariums
Alien Buddha Press @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social Alien Buddha Press has been publishing emerging writers and artists since 2017. Open for submissions at abuddhapress@yahoo.com
John Sara @johnsarawriter.bsky.social Creature who writes. My debut poetry collection, The Poet Who Cried Monster, is available now from Alien Buddha Press!
Jeff (Mixed Metaphors) @mixedmetaphors.bsky.social He/him.
There Are Infinite Universes and All of Them Are Boring, published by ELJ Editions:
https://elj-editions.com/there-are-infinite-universes-and-all-of-them-are-boring/
Editor and reviews at @foofarawpress.bsky.social
mixedmetaphors.net
Bookshop.org @bookshop.org A better way to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores ☀️📚
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Denise Mina @damedenisemina.bsky.social Writer, cyclist, biscuit connoisseur. A bit much.
Latest book: ‘The Good Liar’, about junk forensic science and moral responsibility
Rainbow Rowell @rainbowrowell.bsky.social Yes! My mother named me this!
Author of Eleanor & Park, Slow Dance and the Simon Snow Trilogy. Writer of She-Hulk and Runaways. My new book is called Cherry Baby, and it is good 🍒
SACosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social Writer, whiskey drinker and cat dad
Lee Upton @leeupton.bsky.social Writer, author most recently of THE WITHERS; WRONGFUL; TABITHA, GET UP; and THE DAY EVERY DAY IS. Semi-finalist for the 2026 Thurber Prize for American Humor Writing for TABITHA, GET UP.
Katabatic Circus @katabaticcircus.bsky.social an anthology of speculative poetics
https://duotrope.com/anthology/katabatic-circus-36036
[open to submissions for volume 3]
EIC @nsborwein.bsky.social
@catcarrglass.bsky.social @catcarrglass.bsky.social Designer maker, usually with glass. NP.Fascinated by other people & their stories. Loves music, spooky/sci-fi stories, the Highlands, its mountains, islands & shores. Likes stretching the bounds of possibilities. Left leaning. Trying to be a decent human.
Marko Bajlovic @marko.tech pragmatic, progressive multidisciplinary creative, data scientist, full stack dev & designer. occasional avid beach goer. always learning.
🔗 https://marko.tech 🏠 https://startyparty.dev
Scott @whitejacket.bsky.social Retired Navy, love nautical history, history in general, literature…and Snoopy!
Naomi J. Williams @naomijwilliams.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor, thrift-store shopper, train enthusiast, Sacramento Kings fan. Author of novel Landfalls. Biracial Japanese-American. She/her
Banner image: stone bridge at Kōsanji Temple, Japan
Horror Underground Film Festival @horrorfilmfestival.bsky.social Various options to submit to the Festival. A HYBRID model. Cinema screenings for audience feedback video.Blog and podcast interviews. And bonus Virtual screening (optional!).
https://filmfreeway.com/horrorunderground
https://festivalforhorror.comi
The Functional Nerds Podcast @thefunctionalnerds.bsky.social The Functional Nerds podcast is a weekly interview show talking books with writers/creatives, focusing on nerdy things. Over 600 episodes and counting...
https://www.functionalnerds.com
The Cosmic Background @thecosmicbgr.bsky.social 🚀 SF/F Magazine
👻Flash Fiction + Poetry
👁️Closed for Submissions
📒 Stories are Free to read NOW
Editor Sam Asher https://bsky.app/profile/samasherwriter.bsky.social
https://www.thecosmicbackground.com
https://linktr.ee/thecosmicbgr
Fantasy Magazine @fantasymagazine.bsky.social on hiatus...
https://psychopomp.com/fantasy/
Sea Crow Press @seacrowpress.bsky.social Award Winning Independent Press. www.seacrowpress.com
#indiepublishing #Booksky
The Phantom Pulse @thephantompulse.bsky.social The Phantom Pulse is a biannual speculative fiction magazine of the grey corners of humanity, dread that permeates the skin, and the bizarre.
We publish traditional horror, sci-fi horror, dark fantasy, and the weird.
thephantompulse.com
OTHERSIDE @othersidespec.bsky.social OTHERSIDE is a quarterly magazine of speculative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art by 2SLGBTQIA+ writers and artists. 🪐🗡️🌈
https://patreon.com/othersidespec · https://othersidespec.com
Adventitious. @adventitiouswords.bsky.social A curious speculative fiction magazine.
www.adventitious.net
https://www.patreon.com/c/AdventitiousStories
Rapture Publishing @rapturepublishing.bsky.social Small indie press publishing chapbooks written by the best horror authors working today
Rapturepublishing.com
unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com unforth's account, for blorbo posting and DPP things (we're an indie press publishing original works by fancreators. duckprintspress.com)
fandoms: danmei, c-novels, a smattering of others such as Supernatural.
日本語 ✔️ | 汉语 ✔️
Will This Be A Problem? @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social A Kenyan-based SFFH literary journal showcasing the very best in African fantastika.
Everything WTBAP?: https://linktr.ee/WTBAP
Rue Morgue Magazine @ruemorguemag.bsky.social The world's leading horror in culture and entertainment publication. #printsnotdead!
We ship worldwide! ✈️🌎
Rue Morgue TV on YouTube! 📺
Toronto, Ontario 🇨🇦
https://rue-morgue.com/
Briardene Books @briardenebooks.bsky.social A micro-press specialising in non-fiction about science fiction and fantasy. Shop: briardenebooks.uk
Huldra House @huldrahouse.bsky.social A queer Canadian speculative romance/erotica/horrorotica/monsterfucking fiction press run by @gothgreenwitch.
Newest release: An Avenging Angel
Come lose yourself in the forest.
🔞 please.
https://huldrahouse.com
https://huldrahouse.itch.io
Erewhon Books @erewhonbooks.bsky.social Imprint of Kensington Books. Publisher of thoughtful, groundbreaking, and unforgettable books that go straight to the reader’s heart. Inclusive and community-oriented, imagine better futures with us, and be welcome.
Tales & Feathers Magazine @talesfeathers.bsky.social Slice of life fantasy. Pro-paying, open worldwide. @augursociety.bsky.social's little sibling.
Publisher @kercoby.bsky.social
Managing Editor @loukoren.bsky.social
Socials @andregeleynse.com
Read now! https://augursociety.org/tales-and-feathers-magazine/
Shoreline of Infinity @shoreinf.bsky.social Science fiction doings - magazine, publications, events and other odds and sods. Based in Scotland, open to the Universe.
https://www.shorelineofinfinity.com
Also SF Caledonia www.sfcaledonia.scot
Also home to SF Caledonia: https://www.sfcaledonia.scot
Heartlines Spec @heartlines-spec.com Heartlines Spec is a speculative magazine bringing you SFF stories and poetry focused on long-term friendships and relationships. $0.08CAD/word 🇨🇦🌎 (posts by @rebecca-b)
Old Moon Quarterly @oldmoonquarterly.bsky.social oldmoonpublishing.com
Old Moon Quarterly is an indie magazine of weird sword-and-sorcery in the vein of Clark Ashton Smith, Tanith Lee and Karl Edward Wagner. 
New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social Made with love for the classics, and an inclusive, boundary-pushing approach to storytelling. https://newedgeswordandsorcery.com/
Future Natures @futurenatures.bsky.social Sharing stories and thinking about the politics & ecologies of crisis, enclosure, commoning and possibilities for building plural futures.
Get involved: futurenatures.org
Podcast: futurenatures.org/podcast
Translunar Travelers Lounge @translunartl.bsky.social Stop by for a sip of fun. Stay as long as you want; enjoy the view. Edited by Bennett North, Priya Sridhar and Hannya Kay https://translunartravelerslounge.com/
Reckoning @reckoningmag.bsky.social A journal of creative writing on environmental justice https://reckoning.press
NIGHTLIGHT Podcast @nightlightpod.bsky.social Black horror fiction podcast. IGNYTE Best Fiction Podcast 2021. World Fantasy 2022. Short Story submissions open Feb 1, 2025.
Support: http://nightlightpod.com/support
Listen: https://nightlightpod.com/listen?sid=bsprofile
CatsCast @catscast.org Monthly speculative feline fiction, for real.
https://escapeartists.net/catscast
Editor: @laurasbadideas.bsky.social
Associate editor: @tarvernova.bsky.social
Audio Producers: Dave Robison and Wilson Fowlie
Part of @escapeartists.net
The Future Fire @thefuturefire.bsky.social Magazine of social-political and progressive speculative fiction, feminist SF, queer SF, eco SF, world SF and cyberpunk. (Bleets by Djibril.)
https://futurefire.net/
On Spec Magazine @onspecmag.bsky.social Canadian journal of Literature of the Fantastic
House of Gamut @houseofgamut.bsky.social Enter the #HouseOfGamut 💀—a home for writers & readers of dark speculative fiction.
📖 Gamut Magazine
📚 Publishing House
✍️ Writing Academy
GigaNotoSaurus Magazine @giganotosaurus.bsky.social 
Escape Pod @escapepod.org Hugo-nominated science fiction podcast magazine. New stories every week in audio and text. Find us wherever you get your podcasts!
Cast of Wonders @castofwonders.org The Young Adult Fiction Podcast featuring stories of the Fantastic
Episodes cross all speculative boundaries and if someone complains we are 'woke' or pandering to the liberals we are doing our job right!
Part of the Escape Artists Foundation
PodCastle @podcastle.org Short fantasy from
@EAPodcasts
BFA winner, Ignyte winner
WFA, Hugo, Ignyte, Aurora finalists
khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social An Ignyte and Shirley Jackson award-winning magazine and podcast of speculative fiction by immigrant and diaspora authors & artists. Issue 6.2 is out now!
https://linktr.ee/khoreomag
Augur Society | Augur Issue 8.3 is NOW LIVE ! @augursociety.bsky.social Stories for the futures we need | SFF and dream realism | Canadian, Indigenous & worldwide creators | Pub @kercoby COO @suntorya CPO @teresempierre
https://linktr.ee/augurmag
Apparition Literary Magazine @apparitionlit.com Apparition Lit is an online, quarterly magazine publishing genre short stories & poems. 💀
Read stories online or buy Issues: http://apparitionlit.com/issues/
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Magazine @bcsmagazine.bsky.social Hugo Award finalist, World Fantasy and Ignyte Award winning online magazine of literary adventure fantasy, since 2008.
Read/listen online: https://beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
Pete of The Chills at Will Podcast @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social The Chills at Will Literary Podcast is a discussion of the visceral beauty of literature, w/ Pete. Ep 275 up now on all platforms!-join the Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl
The Athletic @theathletic.com Get every sports story that matters.
DreamForge Magazine @dreamforgemagazine.bsky.social DreamForge, a magazine of science and fantasy fiction, focusing on speculative stories, demonstrating enduring and indomitable parts of the human spirit.
H.V. Patterson @hvpatterson.bsky.social Writes horror/speculative fiction, poetry, and plays. Loves folklore, spooky science, and baking/cooking. Cofounder Horns and Rattles Press she/her
Find me: linktr.ee/hvpatterson
Susan Pigman 📚 @1susyq.bsky.social Avid reader, dog walker, and occasional poet. “It is not everyone,” said Elinor, who has your passion for dead leaves.” Jane Austen
Chris Feliciano Arnold @chris-arnold.bsky.social I wrote a book called The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon. Nowadays, I teach creative writing and raise my little kids.
Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-novel-festival-contests/