Manuscript Wish List® @manuscriptwishlist.bsky.social 📚The new, non-Twitter home of #MSWL! We are a way for agents and editors to tell writers what they *wish* they had in their inboxes. Full agent profiles here: https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/ Newsletter: https://manuscriptwishlist.com/subscribe
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Shawn @shawndhumphrey.bsky.social Courage, Merry. Courage for our friends.
Christy M 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🏴☠️ 🤬 🖤 @gothfraggle.bsky.social Introvert. Nerd. Crazy dog lady. GenX weirdo. Flaming feminist. She/her.
Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com Pulitzer-winning investigative tech reporter. Looking for TPM roles supporting cybersecurity teams. 💕
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Joan Dempsey @joandempsey.bsky.social Novelist, reader, writing teacher & retreat host, run an online community for novelists, ❤️ all creatures, ❤️ art, meditate and practice Qigong daily, ❤️ Maine. https://joandempsey.com/ and https://gutsygreatnovelist.com/
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John Glover @jtglover.bsky.social Writer, poet, librarian, unhallowed revenant.
Comments mine, not my employer’s.
Jenny Stout @chicgeekgirl21.bsky.social Containing multitudes and sounding barbaric yawps since 1985.
I review movies here: https://readingwatchingreviewing.blogspot.com/
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
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.
Claudia Arnold @claudiaarnold.bsky.social Cat Lady with children. Bad Southerner.
Kris Byrd (islandskris) @islandskris.bsky.social Loves cooking, traveling, and my dog.
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
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LibraryThing @librarything.com LibraryThing is the number one app and website for cataloging your books, getting book recommendations and socializing with fellow book lovers.
Ted Randler @tedrandler.bsky.social I paint. Artist with studios in Washington D.C. and Virginia.
Erik Ledbetter @bandoblue.bsky.social Park Ranger, former cultural property policy wonk, CCC obsessive, escaped historian.
Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social Professor, Archaeology, University of Glasgow, the Urban Prehistorian, and Keeper of Hookland’s Stones. Glasgow’s Archaeologist in Residence (self-appointed)
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Kirsten Gray @kgallery.bsky.social Gallerist (hoity-toity name for art dealer and gallery owner), curator & collector of contemporary art with a side dish of vintage goods. I used to write. I used to garden. Now I'm buried in stuff.
*Eric Schindler Gallery & Capitol Vintage & Film
Jenn McClellan @jennmcclellanva.bsky.social Congresswoman in VA04. Wife. Mom. Former State Senator/Delegate. 🔺
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Sen. Danica Roem @pwcdanica.bsky.social Senator: VA-30 (Elected ‘23)
Former Delegate: VA-13 (Elected ‘17, ‘19, ‘21)
Chair: Virginia Commission to End Hunger
Author: "Burn the Page"
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Manassas Park | Manassas | Western PWC
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VAPLAN @vaplan.bsky.social Virginia Progressive Legislative Alert Network: tracking and reporting on the Virginia General Assembly sessions
Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social U.S. Senator from Virginia.
Vice Chairman, Senate Intel Committee.
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disturbedByVoices @godhatesgoth.bsky.social Chronic distributor of dark art, music, and humor to the benefit (nay detriment) of those who follow. Abandon all hope ye who enter within... 🖤💀 https://godhatesgoth.com #gothic #postpunk #synthwave #darkwave #horror #horrorfam #darkart #darkhumor
Katie Hoffman @phdivakatie.bsky.social Nonprofit ED, PhD in English/Appalachian Studies, traditional musician and ballad singer, trying to be a gap-bridger.
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Pastor Brenda Walker 🏳️⚧️✒️📚 @pastorbrendawalker.bsky.social Author of The Forthcoming "Martine: The Transgender Sister I Never Knew."
pastorbrendawalker.com
#memoir #poetry #author #vss365 #haiku
MysticMurtie @mysticmurtie.bsky.social Teaching Artist, parent, partner, proprietor of The Cocoon and the Free Little Art Gallery@Sycamore House
Eric Thomas @anthroeric.bsky.social Environmental Anthropologist at UMass, Amherst. I focus on rural development and coastal industries, especially fishing and aquaculture.
Pope Francis II @francisgasparini.bsky.social Writer, reader, gardener. Having a good time.
My smart and entertaining newsletter with Karen Duffy is https://www.centiday.com/
@wewillresist2025.bsky.social @wewillresist2025.bsky.social
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Andrew Wilder @andrewmarkwilder.bsky.social Ceramic Artist and spiritual warrior living and working in the USA.
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Mim @mimgolub.bsky.social I read a lot, I write postcards to voters, I send mailart, I knit, Democrat in VA. Abuela. #SlavaUkrainii #postcardstovoters #JewCrew #mailart 🇵🇷🇺🇦🇲🇽
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Where no witch walks alone!
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Natalie Colleen Gates @nataliecgates.bsky.social Trans. Liberal. Democratic voter. Artist. Big Tolkien fan. Rideshare driver.
I shenan-ed once, I will shenan-again @badwaiting.bsky.social Optimist/realist/realest, proud atheist, black woman Biochem/Mol. Bio. PhD, rabid liberal. I only understand facts and logic. Built Tardigrade tough. Not a respectable woman.
Angela @angmbishop.bsky.social Writer, thrifter, nature-lover, f@cism-hater.
I’m just a girl. Sometimes I say stuff.
She/her • Richmond, VA
The Scribbling Lion @thescribblinglion.bsky.social An online and event based bookstore focusing on small press and self published books of high quality with an emphasis on minority voices.
Queer and woman owned.
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Mike Vrabel @mbvrabel.bsky.social "The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings." -Douglas Adams
Beth B. Jasper @bbjasper.bsky.social Artist in the woods in RVA working in many mediums and collaging them together in video installations. Substack: BBJasper https://bbjasper.substack.com?r=ergrf&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile
IG: @eveofdistraction (for all of my general distractions)
Uta Krogmann @miraparadies.bsky.social I‘m an illustrator of detailed puzzles and a surface pattern designer - I love bright colors and travelling with light luggage
Find me also on IG @mira_paradies
Riley Champine @rileydchampine.com Cartographer at the University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab • Former Graphics Editor at Nat Geo —
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Kay Reindl @ruefrex.bsky.social Occasional writer of television, formerly of Shining Vale. Trek: TNG. Era: Folklore. Living in occupied Los Angeles. My Etsy shop: https://skylinedrivestudio.etsy.com
Kat @rusalkat.bsky.social Rare migratory bird. Poet. Runner. Book defender. Ray of fucking sunshine. RVA under my feet, the universe above my head.
Andy @sekots.bsky.social Surviving in Richmond, VA.
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Rob Altman ⚾️ 🇵🇸 🥃 @robaltman14.bsky.social “Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.”
Renée Stramel @reneestramelart.bsky.social Artist & Designer from Richmond, VA.
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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social Blind painter, tea drinker, and weird hermit. They/He
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Skyla Dawn Cameron @skyladawn.ca Mystery/UF/Horror writer of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak unless she expects to say something that will amaze the whole room. Also a cat lady.
Driven by spite, but so very tired.
skyladawncameron.com
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Bethanie @telomeraser.bsky.social Cantankerous hag. Former medical editor. Hobbit seamstress. Masked all the time because: FUCK YOU.
🌟✨
For-profit healthcare is IMMORAL and should be ILLEGAL.
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All my joints are assholes. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴☠️
We the People, motherfuckers
Sam Asher @samasherwriter.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Father. 'Really, Shockingly Bad Things' out now from 55 Fathoms Press.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/really-shockingly-bad-things-and-other-stories-sam-asher/21758019
Marianne Kirby @therotund.bsky.social Writer, editor, semi-professional fat person.
SFF/spec/soft horror/whatever. Here for the weird stuff.
she/they
Shawn T. King | STK•Kreations @stk-kreations.bsky.social • Graphic Designer / Artist
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Sara T Bond @saratbond.bsky.social Author, mom, and all-around badass. She/her
PoliticalBee @politicalbee.bsky.social BLouMcMillan on hell site. Florida native feminist (trying not 2 hate my neighbors) - ❤️ history, art, books, trees, critters & old stuff. Breathing politics. 🚫 DMs 🚫 porn, I'm not following non-posters or selfies 👎
Alexis Hall 🦄 @quicunquevult.bsky.social One of those intricate British queers. USA Today Bestselling Author. Repped: Courtney Miller-Callihan. Indispensable assistant: Mary.
Warren Buff (he/him) @strangeresq.bsky.social Science fiction fan, lawyer, keeper of cattle dogs
Soumya Shyam @soumwise.bsky.social Writes and draws things set in other worlds and ancient times. Weaver of lost tales. Economist. Cheese cellar guardian. Tallneck minus the directional sense. Gamer. She/her. soumyashyam.com
Zuzanna 'Pryvian' Śliwa @pryvian.bsky.social (she/her)
Writer, author of short stories (currently working on a novel), avid reader, TTRPG addict, can talk about narrative design for hours. Queer, socialist, and anti-capitalist ADHD witch.
Piszę, czytam, korektuję, tłumaczę #AmWriting
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social books, beauty, history, folklore. fan of Dickens & @littleseamstress. gets dressed up like a pillow so she's always in bed. patreon.com/sketchesbyboze, https://linktr.ee/sketchesbyboze
Natania Barron ~ Fantasy Author @natania.bsky.social American-Canadian fantasy author, fashion historian, medievalist, Arthurian, gardener, perfume nerd 🌺 ADHD, she/they, queer 🏳️🌈 👑 | rep: Stacey Graham | My Books --> https://bit.ly/m/nataniabarron
Nicole Anderson Ellis @andersonellis.bsky.social Writing, Teaching, Conservation
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com Climate journalist based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. If the NYT has no haters I'm dead.
Tips? Reach me on Signal kendrawrites.04
Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social Pour haïr un autre
D’abord, tu dois en faire un Autre
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≠Legal advice
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(And that includes you.)
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social librarian, archivist, author, Ignyte award-winning & Hugo-nominated writer and critic, rat obsessive, hella queer, fuck genAI
words in reactormag.com, locusmag.com, npr, reader's digest, and elsewhere
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social
Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldn’t.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. 💙
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
https://www.amazon.com/Least-Weird-Person-Awake/dp/B0GT1262KP
Tams the Elder @tamstheelder.bsky.social Mom. Recovering career public servant. News junkie. Wiccan Crone. Animal lover & hound mom/foster mom. Sadly allergic to cats. Parkinson’s warrior.
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