Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social Writer. Wine taster.
Chapbook prize winner. Memoirist.
Words in Josephine Quarterly, Thin Skin, Taos Journal of Poetry, Thimble, Mom Egg Review, Literary Orphans, The Fourth River, Marbled Sigh, Lime Hawk Review... Found in Europe + Florida.
Niall Machin @niallmachin1.bsky.social In this age of grand illusion, you walked into my life out of my dreams. Mostly words and wings.
Lawrence Moore @lawrencemoore.bsky.social Poet. Pushcart, Forward nominated.
This Joyful Interlude out now with @janes-studio.bsky.social 🕊️
UK link: amazon.co.uk/dp/1068432330
Vegan, BLM
JR Fenn @jrfenn.bsky.social Writer, teacher, parent, dreamer | TINY VESSELS out from Red Mare Press | Words in or forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Orion's Belt, DIAGRAM, Split Lip, Witness, Boston Review, Gulf Coast | Ucross Fellow | Syracuse MFA | Prof at SUNY ESF | www.jrfenn.com
Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social Writer
The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies (UK)
Something Wonderful (US)
Winner BBC National Short Story Award #bbcnssa
O Henry
Stories in Zoetrope, Southern Review, Ploughshares, BBSS, &&
She/her
Ally
Ari Phillips @re-ari.bsky.social Editor for an environmental org. Fiction writer. New novel "Grow Old and Don't Die" coming Sept. 2026. www.ariphillips.com
T.L. Tomljanovic @tomljanovic.bsky.social Flash Fiction Writer✍️ 🇨🇦 in metro Vancouver
Stories in: welkin ellipsis roifainéant NFFD templeinacity epistemiclit neitherfishnorfoul ratbaglit prideroars moonparkreview gooseberrypie rawlit hooghlyreview
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d a n i e l s y l v a n p a i g e @danielpaige.com anthropomorphically misreading the room
writer | tv & fiction | granta writers’ workshop alum | stuff in wigleaf, major 7th, imdb | mythic picnic prize finalist | dogs
Mel🏳️🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social She/her, they/them. Writer, Researcher. Work in Strange Horizons, Tin House, Electric Lit, and more. https://linktr.ee/knownforms
Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social ClickHole contributor. Writer. Person. An actual human being. In DC. chrisscottwrites.com
Kristin J. Boldon @kjboldon.bsky.social Twin Cities reader, writer, bookseller, bicyclist. Bird nerd. Cinephile. Dorothy L. Sayers superfan. Gluten free. Neurodivergent. Going to grad school, again.
Alexandra M. Matthews @alexandrammatthews.bsky.social Fiction in Tiny Molecules, Maudlin House, Fractured Lit, Milk Candy Review, MudRoom, etc. https://www.alexandrammatthews.com/
Rachel M. Hollis (she/her) @rachelmhollis.bsky.social Writer of strange little heartbreaks. Sometimes I share them with people who aren’t my mom.
rachelmhollis.com
Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social Author of DAUGHTERS OF THE AIR, called “a striking debut from a writer to watch” by Shelf Awareness & DREAMS UNDER GLASS, called “a novel for our modern times” by Buzzfeed Books. ancawrites.com.
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
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.
Posts by http://shimmer.bsky.social. 
Lúthien @louveciennes.bsky.social POETRY LOVER 🕊
moocat.net @moocat.net This is the official account for the literary magazine, moocat.net (2001-present)
Bluestem @bluestemmag.bsky.social Bluestem is a national literary magazine, published continuously since 1966.
www.bluestemmagazine.com
TOMATTY @kaiengama.bsky.social I am a Japanese pottery maker.
Jane French @janefrench.bsky.social Writer of medical and caregiving reports | published widely in email streams | family caregiver | advocate for low-income older adults
Alexandra likes books @aocwrites.bsky.social I try to be attentive to my own writing, but mostly I'm attentive to other ppl's. Indie book editor, language nerd, outdoors enthusiast, novice potter.
Ceram @ceram.eurosky.social Partage de savoirs, de recherches et découvertes sur la céramique et la création d'émaux. En particulier d'émaux faits avec des matières de rencontre.
#pottery #ceramics #céramique #poterie
Céramiste amateur en basse Normandie France
Caroline Wilkinson @carolinewilkinson.bsky.social Writer, Poet, Critic (she/her)
Words in DIAGRAM, Witness, Fourteen Hills, NOVEL
www.carolinewilkinson.com
@simplyjustemily.bsky.social @simplyjustemily.bsky.social I hate Trump, so I came here. I enjoy reading, traveling, camping, diving, and many other hobbies. These diverse interests bring more color to my life, and I hope to meet some like-minded friends.
Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social Veteran film/TV/media maker; NYT bestselling author; storyteller; dog mom. Direct descendant John Alden & Priscilla Mullins 1620. My American ancestors were defending democracy since 1776. 🇮🇪🇺🇸 & #Ally 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Ellen Wade Beals @weighedwords.bsky.social Poetry, prose, etc
ellipsis zine @ellipsiszine.bsky.social Literary magazine and independent press, publishing beautifully written flash and microfiction. 1,000 words or fewer.
Est. 2017-2024. Relaunched in 2026.
https://www.ellipsis-zine.com
Mia McCullough @brazenhussy.bsky.social Playwright, artist, co-owner of a zero-waste store. Native NYer happily living in Chicago (it smells better here). Wishing we weren't fighting Nazis in 2026.
Joyce Bingham @joycebingham.bsky.social Writer of short stories and flash fiction. Words in Molotov Coctail, Ellipsis Zine, Raw Lit and others. Green fingers and plant whisperer.
Orla Owen @orlaowenwriting.bsky.social Author of The Lost Thumb, PAH, Christ On A Bike | Longlisted Dublin Literary Award 2025 | A Circle Of Strangers coming Spring 2027 with Bluemoose Books | Rep: Susan Armstrong at C&W | Website: www.orlaowen.com
Coleman Bigelow @cbigs.bsky.social pushcart and best microfiction nominated writer | recent stories: ghost parachute| cleaver| BULL | your impossible voice | new chapbook: http://InRareCases.com
Jennifer @feistywiddershins.bsky.social Author of contemporary witch fantasy
THE BURNING OF ARBOR
ARBOR'S DESCENT
Pen name J.L. Brown
Published by 🏳️🌈 NineStar Press
Artist, Glass Melter
Book Scout, Coffee Drinker
Maiden, Mother, Crone
Philly sports fan, South Jersey Italian
She/her 📚✨️🌙🧙♀️
Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social writing + paintings here, there + all over the place | DOMESTICATED CREATURES coming Sept. 2026 | James Tate Poetry Prize | Pushcart, BoTN + Best Microfiction noms | Best Small Fictions 2025
Paintings, books + other writings: thaddevassie.com
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Noris Roberts @norisroberts.bsky.social Lawyer who graduated from Santa María University in Caracas, Venezuela. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature and a Master’s degree in Civil and Mercantile Law.
@lexiconofshouldve.bsky.social @lexiconofshouldve.bsky.social It's all about the outdoors for me
jazzrat2000 AKA Bonsai anonymous @jazzrat2000.bsky.social #ND #Artist #Spoonie #Retired #Mentalhealth #jazz #trumpet. S FL, #LGBT #ally, #trans! 71, #married 50, #sober 20: #AA. #Suicide, #animalrehab. All posts: IMHO. No DMS, I FB. he/him/not yours
"Please put the #trumpet down and slowly back away"
Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social BEAST April 2025 (Bloodaxe),’Tiger Girl’ shortlisted Forward Prize, ‘Mama Amazonica’ won Ondaatje & Laurel prizes. 1st novel ‘My Hummingbird Father’ from Salt 2024 http://www.pascalepetit.co.uk
Sixth Finch @sixthfinch.bsky.social Online journal of poetry and art
Chapbook publisher
https://sixthfinch.com
Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social Horror writer startled by most sounds. The Barre Incidents and Kill Radio (both genre-bendy Horror) available thru Malarkey Books.
My website: https://www.laurenbolger.com/
Jewish / Free Palestine
Backgrd image quote: “Helloooo? My water dish is empty!”
Wendall42 @wendall42.bsky.social Queer writer, reader, walker, collector of weird stuff & rocks, proud resister🏳️🌈🔥🐺🌲🫀🐾🍄
#amquerying #amwriting #liberal
Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social Poems in Threepenny, Poetry Daily, Plume
Managing Editor for Variant Lit
https://megannicholswriter.com
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Bracken Magazine @brackenmagazine.bsky.social An online literary journal publishing poetry and art inspired by the woods and its shadows. https://www.brackenmagazine.com/
Kelli Dianne Rule @kdiannerule.bsky.social I'm an art school dropout from the 1990s. I write about Florida. It is a weird and cursed land.
www.kellirule.com
www.instagram.com/kdiannerule
Wild Roof Journal @wildroofjournal.bsky.social WRJ is a community for visual & literary art. We're interested in creativity & nature & connections. Check out our website and open submissions / wildroofjournal.com / wildroofjournal.substack.com / EIC @aaronlelito.bsky.social
cressida roe @eggandcressida.bsky.social writer, tea enthusiast, very chalant • stories in apex, lightspeed, haven spec, &c • 2024 wigleaf top 50 • pushcart nominee • rep'ed by katrina lemaire
Katherine Argent @katherineargent.com Kansas City-based writer and woman of a certain rage. Reading submissions for @fracturedlit.bsky.social & The Master’s Review. Petting all the dogs.
Also at the bad place: https://x.com/effthealgorithm
Josh Dale @joshdale.co Writing, publishing, cats, nature, metal.
Read good books by Thirty West.
Order RAGE:
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ellen ✨ @ellenkfee.bsky.social writer / educator / midwesterner
https://linktr.ee/ellenkfee
Jenny Mattern @jengelmattern.bsky.social Author. Fledgling poet. Rep’d by Nicole Eisenbraun @ GCL. Debut novel, WHERE THE LIGHT SHINES IN, releasing 9.29.26.
Website: jemattern.com
Eric Orchard @inkybat.bsky.social Illustrator
Kjipuktuk
Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/ericorchard?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator
Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB.
www.heydaybooks.com
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
https://bit.ly/MDShomepage
Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose @poetlady74.bsky.social I’m a poet, animal lover, camping fanatic, and educator living in Rochester, NY. Medusa scholar. Author of Imago, Dei ( Rattle Chapbook Prize, 2021) and Wild Things (Main Street Rag, 2021). 2025 Betsy Colquitt Poetry Award.
Heain Joung @heainjoung.bsky.social Writer. Originally from South Korea, lives between in the UK and South Korea. Pushcart Prize nominee. Story collection, The Myth of an Unknown Girl will be out in Summer 2027 by @thirtywestph.com
Iain Aire @iainaire.bsky.social Word alchemist, the quest for the unobtainable. EcoFiction, Fantasy, SciFi, Crime & Book Binder. The borderland of worlds. www.iainaire.com The Grey Pilgrim’s Gambit https://thegreypilgrimsgambit.laterpress.com Seeds anthology https://seeds.laterpress.com
Reclaim Decency @katelane613.bsky.social European. Politics, gardening, bookmaker, public health and conversations. Intolerant of intolerance, racism & depravity. No Greenland invasion. Slava Ukraini. Great, Great Grandaughter of the witch you didn't burn. Inaction = collusion.
Paranoid Tree Press @paranoidxtree.bsky.social 📚 Hybrid lit mag & art zine
💌 New print issue every month
📬 Submissions always free & open
⚡️ Proud to pay contributors
📍 Minneapolis, MN
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Gillian Isaacs Russell @girussell.bsky.social British psychoanalyst and writer living in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Non-fiction: "Screen Relations" https://a.co/d/05glvAML . Published in Persimmon Tree. Shortlisted for Fish Publishing Flash Fiction prize. Writing first novel.
Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social Global nomad, translator (RO and DE to EN), writer and publisher, addicted to world literature. Blog at https://findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com, publish at https://corylusbooks.com
Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social 
Joe Thomas @joethomas2024.bsky.social “It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.”
Carl Sagan
I write about American politics from an outsiders perspective. Aussie.
Read my articles on substack: The Joe Thomas Newsletter:
https://joethomascrespo.substack.com
Literary Garage @literarygarage.bsky.social Writing with a serrated edge.
Like the rock and roll garage bands of the 1960’s and 1970's (as well as the modified versions that showed up in the 1980’s) – straight ahead story telling with a purpose.
www.literarygarage.com
Ame Dyckman @amedyckman.bsky.social NYT Bestselling, Geisel-winning, GRATEFUL #kidlit author! (Short, loud, goofy… and probably trying to hug wildlife. “NO, AME!”) LATEST 📖: ⭐️THE SICK DAY⭐️ (🦇, 🐈 & 🐀 #6). MORE 📚 ON THE WAY! Rep: Tricia Lawrence—🏆—at Aevitas!
David Linebarger @tennis-art1.bsky.social Poet, prose writer, professor at davidlinebarger.com Latest book Tennis Players as Works of Art won many awards, including 2025 Book of the Year (Original Concept) at the 29th annual IPPY awards.
phi!ip james shaw @lateration.bsky.social Reflections of loneliness in peculiar manners: www.philipjamesshaw.com
Published with mchgx.com
Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social (re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social Fierce Defender & Advocate for: Democracy, U.S. Constitution, Equal/Voting Rights, Legal Immigration, Secure Border, Women’s Healthcare, Affordable Healthcare for All, Common Sense Gun Control, Free & Fair Elections, Term Limits & Campaign Finance Reform
Lynn Haraldson @writerlynn.bsky.social Writer, writing mentor, owner of Zuzu the Wonder Dog. Lover of most things Pittsburgh.
Find me at lynnharaldson.com
RicoCat @ricocat.bsky.social Hey! I’m a Painter, Potter, and Stained Glass Artist
🏳️🌈 Cat Lover
@albusandco.bsky.social
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Cate @cateknit.bsky.social Birthright citizen as of October 1945. NonChristian Golden Rule practitioner. 🇺🇦Living in the 💙 bubble of Richmond VA. Knitter. If you only repost, I will not follow back.
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Malcolm Dixon @malcolmdixon59.bsky.social Writer of short stories in The London Magazine, Aesthetica & elsewhere, and (as F.M.A Dixon) the prizewinning Everywhere Street YA novels.
Chapbooks: 'Death in the Cathedral' and 'Testament' out now.
Triple Pushcart Prize nominee. Bootle boy. Evertonian.
@whitecrow43.bsky.social @whitecrow43.bsky.social 
Timothy Boudreau @tcboudreau.bsky.social Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever (stories, Stanchion), & Stepdad on the Dance Floor (stories, Unsolicited) out now.
All We Knew Were Our Hearts (novel, Unsolicited) coming in '27.
Editor at The Loveliest Review.
timothyboudreau.com.
He/him
Lincoln Square Pottery Studio- Learning Center @lspotterystudio-lc.bsky.social We're a Chicago, IL not-for-profit studio that specializes in 8 week Classes and one day Workshops in ceramics for adults of all skill levels.
Find out more at comeplaywithclay.com
Tracy Jacoby 🏺🥋🌈 @tracyj-pottery.bsky.social 3rd degree Kokikai Aikido blackbelt and instructor. Hobby potter. E-discovery paralegal. Wife and mother. Loves to camp in the Pacific Northwest. LGBTQIA+ Ally.
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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Melisa Quigley @mquigley1963.bsky.social No Direct Messages. Happily married. My award-winning debut novel, The Complexities of Love, poetry novel, Bereft, and Let's Write a Six-Word Story or a Poem are out now. linktr.ee/MQuigley1963
William D. Prystauk @prystauk.bsky.social Author of dark psychological fiction.
📖 #Horror fiction & thrillers
⛓️ #Noir / #CrimeFiction (The Kink Noir series)
🏳️🌈 Proudly humanizing queer & kink communities
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Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award nominated author of THE MERRY DREDGERS and BEDFELLOW and THE ATROCITIES. FAMILIAR out now! Fabric artist. Butler for cats. They/them
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https://www.patreon.com/jeremycreature
Tabitha Potts @tabithapotts.bsky.social ✍️ UK Writer, host on Story Radio Podcast 🎙️. Longlisted #PMJWritersPrize. 🎬 Nominee #AustinSpotlightFilmFest 📖 👻 Horror novel 2026 with @rowanprosepub.bsky.social
🔗 https://linktr.ee/tabithapotts
Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social Journalist, author, filmmaker and broadcaster. Writer at Large with @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Made in Ireland, found in Scotland
MDANT🎖️
AKA ‘the kind of strutting cosmopolitan socialist who’s made for Bluesky’
D. J. Runnels — author 📚💙 @djrunnels.bsky.social Almost published by HarperCollins, went Indie, hit the Amazon top 150 in US humor and top 100 in Absurdist Satire. Litfic disguised as ghost stories. Vonnegut meets Du Maurier. Chicago. ND. #SkyWriters 🚫AI
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Ed Armstrong @armst-ed.bsky.social Communications professional. Loves to learn and share knowledge. Let's do this. #Environment #SocialJustice #Episcopalian #Writer. Call me Ed
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Rob Gotobed @robgotobed.bsky.social Stand-up philosopher, scribe, bongo drummer and professional time-traveller. (Once dated Anne Boleyn)
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Apple: http://bit.ly/3K6WdB9
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2992620/
Amy Grech @amygrech.bsky.social NYC-based prolific crime/horror author/poet. Active HWA Member. Alien Buddha Press published my poetry chapbook, A SHADOW OF YOUR FORMER SELF. 2x Pushcart Prize nominee. SEO is my bread and butter. 🔪🩸
☕️ https://ko-fi.com/amygrech
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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.
2nd Brother @2ndbrotherpoems.bsky.social Publishing the very best in contemporary poetry since 2026
EIC: @susanlleary.bsky.social
www.2ndbrother.com
Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social she/they, poet/critic. www.catherinerockwood.com/about
Elizabeth Land Quant @elizabethlquant.bsky.social MN Writer, queer, #autistic, wife, mom, #disabled 🐈⬛Moss enthusiast
🐈⬛Publications in NY Times+
🐈⬛ Repped by Elisa Saphier
🐈⬛Co-founder of The Unpopular Publishing Co.
🐈⬛Co-creator of autisticaunties.com
🐈⬛Cosy mystery F*CK THIS MURDER out now!
Amelinda Bérubé @metuiteme.bsky.social Writer, editor, terrifying bog witch, werewolf of productivity 💀🍁 Ottawa, she/her
Three spooky YA books on shelves now!
Latest: THE ONES WHO COME BACK HUNGRY
Writing romantasy as Elise Saint-Séverin 💃
Rep: Jacqui Lipton
BillB @azbitterslab.bsky.social Wine, tea, space & prog rock, vinyl, cocktails, live music, guitars, books, ceramics.
Retired as maker of cocktail bitters & as defense analyst /adaptive optics engineer / IMINT /high energy laser geek.
Co-fndr: Architectural Metaphor
Boston -> Phoenix
Tingaringy Pottery @tingaringy-pottery.bsky.social Miniature pottery. Glass. Rocks. Natural, recycled and unusual glaze ingredients.
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/
@applesmama.bsky.social @applesmama.bsky.social 
Lee From Iowa @leephillipsiniowa.bsky.social Gay man living out and proud in Iowa.
🇺🇸🏳️🌈🇨🇦
I #standwithUkraine