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Amy Booth @amybwriter.bsky.social Managing editor, Buenos Aires Herald. Subtropical goth.
Courtney Kocak @courtneykocak.bsky.social 📖 debut memoir with @triohousepress.org coming March 2026 ✍️ writer NYT, Amazon, Netflix, Cosmo & more 🎙 podcaster Private Parts Unknown, The Bleeders & Podcast Bestie 🤓 Antioch MFA candidate
Vicki Valosik @vickivalosik.bsky.social Writer, editor, teacher, synchro swimmer
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Harmony Kent @harmonykent.bsky.social 🇺🇦Multi-Genre Author of Fiction & Non-Fiction. Poet. Editor. Proofreader. Book Formatter. Cover Designer. Writing Coach.
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Listos for Life @listos-for-life.bsky.social I am a bilingual, agnostic feminist who loves music, reading, travel, and community involvement. “Listos for Life” is my DBA as a Learning Success Coach: I help teens learn Spanish/English, address their social-emotional needs and teach them how to learn.
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Rebecca @softgothkitten.bsky.social She/her, chronically ill, writer.
BA degree in Disability Studies
Anti-eugenics, pro-masking & clean air.
RFK Jr & MAHA hater
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Lily Hirsch @lilyehirsch.bsky.social Writer (often about music). Author of Can’t Stop the Grrrls and Weird Al: Seriously. New one about Angela Lansbury out now! Sometimes tries to be funny.
Mary Beth O'Connor @marybethoconnor.bsky.social From Junkie to Judge memoir. Teenage meth addict and multiple trauma survivor, to secular recovery, to federal judge. I speak and write about a variety of substance use, harm reduction, and recovery topics. junkietojudge.com
Janice Shapiro @janiceshapiro.bsky.social Writer and Graphic Novelist. Author of HONORIA: A FORTUITOUS FRIENDSHIP, Fantagraphics Press
Emily Rooks True Lust @emilyrookstruelust.bsky.social I'm Emily Rooks. I write romantic erotica and love creating books that sizzle with passion and tension.
Angela @angelasloskey.bsky.social Helping individuals heal their inner child, unlearn toxic generational cycles, and parent consciously with emotional regulation.
Ray Keller @ray-keller.bsky.social Screenwriter/Filmmaker
• Nicholl Semifinalist
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• Page Award Winner
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Tennessee Brando @tnbrando.bsky.social
Sara @sarawhitewrites.bsky.social Tired millennial mum of 3 (twins + 1) + various animals. Award-winning over-thinker. Recovering perfectionist. Parenting and humour writer (usually both together). Subscribe to get my stuff in your box:
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Jeannine Jannot, Ph.D. @jjannot.bsky.social Student & parent coach.
Author of “The Disintegrating Student: Struggling but Smart, Falling Apart, and How to Turn It Around”.
Former school psychologist.
Former instructor of psychology at Georgia State University.
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Jorah Kai 💫 Author | 👽 Existential Detective 🌏 @jorahkai.bsky.social Eldritch trickster, author, poet, anti-capitalist climate activist, solarpunk ☀️ | rock n roll 🎸 grandpa to Naomi | full-time detective from a part time sponge-city | vaudevillian Toronto 🇨🇦 to cyberpunk Chongqing jorahkai.com
Alexandra Frost @alexfrostwriter.bsky.social Independent journalist, content marketing writer and strategic consultant.
~Pubs: NYT, Washington Post, Huffington Post, Consumer Reports, Forbes
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Marjie Knudsen @marjieknudsen.bsky.social I post about the wellbeing of Children & Adolescents. Author, Parent. Compassion, Respect, Kindness.
Richard Fellinger @rfellingerwriter.bsky.social Author 📚
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Heidi Fiedler @heidifiedler.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Coach. Mother.
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Earthling Beta Readers @earthlingbeta.bsky.social Hello, writing community! We are the beta wing for the Darling Axe. Follow us for graphic writing prompts—all art is by actual humans. Find us here: https://tinyurl.com/earthlingbeta 🪓🪓
J.R. Bale @jrbale.bsky.social Author, Father, Professor, MBA, Photographer, Concerned Human in NJ.
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
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Mark Welch @markwelch.bsky.social • ex-reporter ex-teacher ex-attorney, he/him
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Anita Blanchard @anitablanchard.bsky.social Mother, Professor: Mofessor. I think I'm funny; you may not. I study online groups and virtual communities, but I am NOT studying you. All typos are the result of my enormous thumbs. All thoughts are my own and, clearly, Reviewer 2 hates them.
Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA | Global Indigenous Horror (UPM, 2025) | Poetry Editor Orion’s Belt | Words in Future Fire, UtopiaSF, Space&Time, Lovecraftiana | EIC @katabaticcircus.bsky.social co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social
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Stephanie Weaver, MPH @sweavermph.bsky.social TED-style coach • book on estrangement coming April '26 • 2 migraine lifestyle guides out now
@candyschulman @candyschulman.bsky.social Essayist. Memoirist. Creative writing professor. Wife. Mom. Native New Yorker. She/her. Award-winning publications include NY Times, WashPo, The Cut, McSweeney’s, AARP, and anthologies.
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Sucheta Rawal @suchetarawal.bsky.social - Food & travel writer Travel+Leisure, NatGeo, HuffPost, AAA, Fodor’s.
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Janie Emaus @janieemaus.bsky.social Author of blended holiday picture books, upmarket fiction and paranormal romance. And a frequent contributor to AARP, where I write about the humorous side of life.
Nicole Graev Lipson @nglipson.bsky.social Author of MOTHERS AND OTHER FICTIONAL CHARACTERS (coming March 4, 2025) | Best American Essays 2024 | Pushcart Prize | Words in The Sun, Virgina Quarterly Review, LA Review of Books, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe + more
www.nicolegraevlipson.com
Mashaw McGuinnis @writermash.bsky.social Writer. Chronic Lyme survivor. Member of the Zipper club since 2019. Words at Good Housekeeping, The Sun magazine, Brevity Blog and more.
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com Sociologist and Makai Livingstone-GBV-Survivor, who coined the term, "Access Intimacy Abuse" to capture vile violations from which I may never recover, so contributions welcome here: https://ko-fi.com/equitableforall
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Stephanie @litmaven.bsky.social I👻IWriter. Book maven. Unlikable female protagonist. Aspiring time traveler. Words @electriclit, @crimereads, @Kveller, @mental_floss, etc. @litmaven on Threads.
Kavita Das @kavitadas.bsky.social Writer, Author of Craft & Conscience and Poignant Song, OG New Yorker, Mama, Committed to Joy & Justice
No, YOU Tell It! @noyoutellit.bsky.social No, YOU Tell It! storytellers work together to develop true tales on the page, then swap stories to embody their partner’s culture, identity, and life experience on stage.
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Cara Meredith @carameredithwrites.bsky.social freelance writer, author type, occasional minister, slightly funny human. Church Camp: Bad Skits, Cry Night, and How White Evangelicalism Betrayed a Generation releases in April! Oakland, CA.
Amre Klimchak @amreklimchak.bsky.social Writer, Writing Coach, Mindfulness Instructor
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Nicole Byrne 🏳️🌈 they/she @nicolebyrnepoet.bsky.social Queer poet kept alive by snacks, rock n roll & sheer force of will▪️Assistant Poetry Editor for @splitlipthemag.bsky.social▪️Poems in several defunct journals & some that are still kickin'▪️Wabanaki Land (Portland, ME)
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Bettina @bettifly.bsky.social Writing/Social Impact/Public Health/Resistance from my perch in rocky coastal Maine. #amediting.
Mistinguette Smith @mistinguettes.bsky.social Literary fiction & essay whisperer
Writing from Station 99 on the Underground Railroad
Blue Tip Match: Great Migration stories transmitted to today's Black lives.
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Kim Steutermann Rogers @kimsrogers.bsky.social Writer. Photographer. Journalist. Covering science, nature, Hawaii, life. Bylines in NatGeo, SmithsonianMag, AudubonMag; prose (CNF and fiction) in Ghost Parachute, Moon City Review, Gone Lawn, Milk Candy Review, Fictive Dream, and elsewhere.
Amy Barnes @amygcb.bsky.social Child Craft: bellepointpress.bsky.social | Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social |
Constance Ford @constanceford.bsky.social Writer/Los Angeles
PhD English/CW
Katherine Dykstra (she/her) @katherinedykstra.bsky.social author of WHAT HAPPENED TO PAULA: An Unsolved Death and the Danger of American Girlhood (W.W.Norton); words in New York Times, Washington Post and elsewhere; mother; gardener; teacher; woman
Samantha Drake @sjvdrake.bsky.social Writer and editor in Doylestown, Pa.
Royal history dork. Corpse flower groupie. A 21-year-old cat's snack bitch. Em-dashes 4 lyfe!
Published by @nytimes @washingtonpost @mentalfloss @penngazette, among many others. Read my work at samanthadrake.com.
Sharni Wilson シャーニ・ウィルソン @sharni.bsky.social
Elizabeth Cutler @elizabethcutler.bsky.social Writer, improv teacher/performer, Bachelor(ette) enthusiast.
Creative writer | Improv Teacher/Performer/Facilitator | Playwright | Storyteller | Bachelor(ette) Enthusiast |
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Andrea Hoag @andreahoag.bsky.social Champagne Socialist | Book Critic | Writer | Traveler
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Lawrence Kansas 🌻
Nina Badzin @dearninafriendship.bsky.social Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship—Top 1% charted podcast | Writing about friendship since 2014 | Quoted in WSJ, WashPost, Guardian, TIME, etc.
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Amy Rogers @amyrogers.bsky.social Food and culture writer. Editor and indie lit publisher. Hunger fighter. Have spatula, will travel.
Olivia Campbell @oliviacampbell.bsky.social New York Times bestselling history author. Latest title: SISTERS IN SCIENCE. Editor, Everyday Health. Regular contributor, NatGeo. Journalist. Essayist. Feminist. Mom. Lover of cats, books, baking, tea, & thrifting
Emily Strasser @emilystrasser.bsky.social Writer - HALF-LIFE OF A SECRET from @KentuckyPress. Words in Ploughshares, Colorado Review, Catapult, Guernica, Bitter Southerner, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, and others. Professor of the Practice at Tufts University. www.emilystrasser.com
Elizabeth DeWolfe @edewolfe.bsky.social History professor by day, writer by night. Bird watcher in between. Author of the forthcoming Alias Agnes: the Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy (University Press of Kentucky, April 2025).
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Megan Reilley @meganereilley.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Co-editor of true, a nonfiction craft magazine. Writing prof at Penn State. Memoir in progress.
@jen-bryant.bsky.social @jen-bryant.bsky.social Writer, runner, stray cat whisperer. Midwestern transplant with Southern roots. Words in The Sun, Ms., Cleaver, JMWW, Matter News, & more. 2025 Ucross Fellow. Senior editor @muthamagazine, book reviewer @publisherswkly, & CNF reader @mudseasonreview.
Linda K. Wertheimer @lindakwert.bsky.social Author of Faith Ed, Teaching about Religion in an Age of Intolerance. Independent Journalist, formerly of Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News. @medillschool alumna; @FellowsSpencer; @theopedproject #skatermom of ice dancer. I'm not the NPR Linda
Deenie @deeniewrites.bsky.social ❤️ Essays in NYT Modern Love, Longreads, Slate & more
✏️ Editorial for CNET Voices & The Quality Edit
💻 Career Copywriter, currently at Willow
📖 Writing a memoir on grief, motherhood, Mississippi & mysticism
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Nicole B. Wallack @graphiteink.bsky.social Essay and Writing Studies teacher-scholar. Pie-maker and singer. Want to know what are you making for supper, what you are reading, and how we can make school a meaningful place for all students and teachers.
Etta Madden @ettamadden.bsky.social
Puja Bhattacharjee (She/Her) @pujabhatta.bsky.social Independent Journalist | Visual Storyteller | Postcard Lover & Collector
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Dr. Travis Langley @drtravislangley.bsky.social Batman & Psychology author, Popular Culture Psychology editor, psych professor/chair, social psychologist, Wheel of Fortune champ. Teach on media, crime, mental health.
16 books, most recently on Stranger Things, Spider-Man, The Handmaid's Tale.
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K.R.Rowe Author @krrowe.bsky.social Multi genre author of Horror, Romance and Suspense. Wife, mom, lover of animals, mountains and good heavy metal. http://krrowe.wordpress.com.
Edvige Giunta @edvigegiunta.bsky.social Sicilian American writer, editor, teacher. Author of Writing with an Accent. Coeditor of Talking to the Girls. Writing in DECEMBER, ADROIT, PITHEAD CHAPEL, FICTIVE DREAM, WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS, ASSAY. Www.edvigegiunta.com
Chiarra Sue @chiarra.bsky.social Data Engineer. #AI Smart Policies. Dev. Digital Artist. Writing about the future.
Good Ethical AI believer.
https://medium.com/@chiarrasue
https://taxtheshorties.substack.com
David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist.
Bylines: CBS, AXS, Yahoo, Examiner, etc.
I love #Games, #Lotr, #StarWars, and #StarTrek.
Casual #MTG #TTRPG, & #Boardgames player.
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Hank Moore @hankmoore.bsky.social Author 14 books: Pop Music Legends, Big Picture of Business, Classic TV Reference, Non-Profit Legends, Pop Icons & Business Legends. Nominated for 7 Pulitzer Prizes. 100+ awards. Speaker. Business guru. Corporate Strategist. Humanitarian. Pop Culture Maven
Lisa Hutchison LMHC @lisahutchisonlmhc.bsky.social Licensed Psychotherapist, Spiritual Coach #compassionfatigue #grief
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Hollie Bond @holliebond.bsky.social Wishful writer, looking for motivation.
Wishful traveller, I want to see the world.
Wishful lotto winner, to help with the above...
Born in England, living in New Zealand ❤️
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Glori @glorienzor.bsky.social Love is Love. Black Lives Matter. Women's Rights are Human Rights. Science is Real. Liberal dentist. Brace yourself, I cuss a lot.
Archie @artemwriting.bsky.social UPenn. MBA. Books 📚 Writing ✍️ Art 🎨 Cooking & Gardening 🌱 Photos my own 📸 Married. From California ☀️ Got a Wacko Immune System 😅 Connecting here 🤗 https://substack.com/@archartem
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