Christine H. @csquareh.bsky.social Lover of Science, Art, Words | Best Microfiction | Best Small Fictions | Wigleaf Top 50 2023| Stories: CRAFT, SmokeLong Quarterly, Fractured Lit, Atticus Review, Vestal Review, Ghost Parachute,Time & Space Magazine +
christinehchen.com
Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social Former Philadelphian living in Montréal
Supports public schools
Wrote some short stories & then some even shorter ones
https://stephanieking.net
J.W. Gant @johnwgant.bsky.social Writer. Father. Unwilling tech enthusiast. Veteran. Hiker of mountains. Black belt. ER medic in a prior life. I sometimes think I know what is going on, but probably don’t. In New England until the end.
Yes. It is a coup.
#WritingCommunity
AMaskley @amaskley.bsky.social Poet & SFF Writer 🪐📜 | 🇺🇸➡️🇦🇺 | 🔮 Querying Natural Neon 🌌 | Humanitarian 🌏
Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social Fictive Dream, the online #litmag dedicated to the #shortstory including #translations. Please send your submissions to fictivedream@gmail.com. Website https://fictivedream.com/
Scott Westcott @westcottwriter.bsky.social Poet & Ponderer
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
Gone Like a Goldfish @gonelikeagoldfish.bsky.social This is an account to promote my anonymously-published book, Gone Like a Goldfish, about suicide, addiction, mental illness, and child loss. I'm told that it's transgressive literature. Free on Kindle Unlimited.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8L8GB2X
David Luntz @dluntz.bsky.social Words in Hobart Pulp, X-R-A-Y, Bruiser, HAD etc.
Naa Asheley Afua Adowaa Ashitey @foreverasheley.bsky.social a writer who happens to like immunology research, BJJ, Fall Out Boy, and fashion
M2/G1, Morris + Sodji Labs, UW-Madison MSTP
UCSF Propel Scholar, 2024
UChicago Questbridge Scholar 2021🇬🇭
NaaAshitey.com
Ava DeVries @avadevries.bsky.social she/her 🌈 words at https://www.avadevries.com/
fiction editor @btgardenmag.bsky.social
reader @fusionfragment.bsky.social
Jane Yager @janewords.bsky.social Fiction/CNF writer. Winner of Fractured Lit Elsewhere Prize. Recent stories in Los Angeles Review, Gooseberry Pie, Coachella Review, Ekphrastic Review. Criticism in TLS, Paris Review Daily. Based in Berlin, originally from California, frequently in Poland.
Yufan Lu @yluilu.bsky.social writer, survivor, dutch oven owner
words in ANMLY, manywor(l)ds, The Quarter(ly), beestung, and the Penn Review
Z.H. (Burial Magazine) @burialmagazine.bsky.social still bipolar | burialmagazine.neocities.org | thezhcorner.neocities.org | Orley Farm on xbox | much more active elsewhere
Rebecca Karas @rebeccakaras.bsky.social poet & weird fiction writer. probably thinking about Tetris. she/they
https://linktr.ee/rebecca.karas
Andrea Cavedo @mrscavedowrites.bsky.social Reader, writer, ugh, 'rithmetic.
www.andreacavedo.com
foofaraw press @foofarawpress.bsky.social a zine of surreal storytelling and worldly observations
https://foofaraw.press
Hugh Behm-Steinberg @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social Writer
JR Walsh @itsjrwalsh.bsky.social JR Walsh is the Online Editor at The Citron Review. He teaches poetry and fiction at SUNY Oswego. Find his writing on itsjrwalsh.com.
Bill Householder (he/him) @billhouseholder.bsky.social Having given up the dream of being a pharmacist, I write instead. Former professional storyteller, current librarian, and avid book buyer. Be who you are. Love who you will. Come sit at my table. Ungovernable.
XingWu🐉ChineseFolklore @xingwu.bsky.social @x1ngwu on X. I collect, translate and write about ancient Chinese folklore, mythology, and history. Love books and cats.
Mythology | Yaoguai(妖怪) | Ghost(鬼) | Art | Myth | Fantasy | History
Justin Karcher @justinkarcher.bsky.social Buffalo, NY. Man About Town. Poet. Playwright. New Play Development Director. Editor of Ghost City Review.
Pam Avoledo @pamavoledo.bsky.social Fiction writer based in Michigan.. Best Microfiction Nom ‘25. Best of the Net Nom ‘26 (poetry)
https://pamavoledo.com
Gary Kay (empty kettle) @atgeekay.bsky.social Writer // Civil Servant // he/him
Work in Nat Brut // Strange Horizons
Pushcart Nom + BoN Nom
NYC // https://linktr.ee/garykay
Also, I take pictures: https://bsky.app/profile/garyqueens.bsky.social
Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social Poet, writer, artist. Now out: Hybrid flash memoir Scrap: Salvaging a Family (ELJ Editions 2026)! Best Microfiction 2026. 4 award-winning poetry collections. https://www.luannecastle.com/ Hunting the Cosmos forthcoming 2026 from Shanti Arts
Anne Anthony @anchalastudio.bsky.social Writer & Artist
Senior Editor & Art Director
Does It Have Pockets
Words & Artwork https://linktr.ee/anchalastudio?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Kathryn Silver-Hajo @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social WOLFSONG (stories) ROOTS OF THE BANYAN TREE (YA novel). Atticus, Citron, CRAFT, Dribble Drabble, Emerge, Ghost Parachute, Gooseberry Pie, New Flash Fic Rev, Pithead Chapel, RUBY Lit. Best Microfic, Best Small Fics, BOTN, Pushcart noms, Wigleaf longlist
Pippa @pippaesque.bsky.social Prune Juice Editor. I write short things and long things. Zines, poems, art. I like birds.
Buy me a ko-fi: Ko-fi.com/pippaesque. 🏳️🌈
Stephen Delaney @stephendelaney.bsky.social Writer, editor, human. Words in New World Writing, Bending Genres, South Florida Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Author of the chapbook OUR PLACE IS IN BETWEEN. 💙 #foreignlit #frogs
https://bottlecap.press/products/ourpsd
https://stephen-delaney.com
C.K. Liu @ckliu.com writer & video games producer
https://linktr.ee/ckliu
Gaia Jane @gaiajane.bsky.social Disabled poet and artist. Mover and shaker. American roots music enthusiast. Understands with the heart.
Every Place on the Map bit.lie/3IUmzpk
Poetry Foundation bit.ly/3BydKOn
Lori Sambol Brody @lorisambolbrody.bsky.social Wanderer, Writer, woman-about-town. Stories in various places. She/Her. https://linktr.ee/lorisambol?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=71379331-22c9-439f-8370-50899eb7f35a
gant @gant.foo allergic to plums || ut -> chi -> nyc -> montana || umontana creative nonfic mfa candidate ‘28
twitter.com/gantisdant
Savera Zachariah @savzac.bsky.social
Finalist Fractured Literary Flash Open 2025
@nationalflashfd| @BendingGenres| @LiteraryRuby. nominated Best Small Fictions 2025. Shortlist - NFFD MF, Longlist -Smokey 2025.
Food and travel writer. Bylines @BBC_Travel, @AJEnglish,@atlasobscura
Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social dc via apollo, pa | she/her | words @ Best Microfiction, Bending Genres, Lost Balloon, Milk Candy Review, Flash Fiction Online, Cold Signal, hex literary & more | http://www.laurenkardos.co/
Mario Aliberto 3 @marioaliberto3.bsky.social 💢ALL THE DEAD WE HAVE YET TO BURY out now w/ @ChestnutReview.bsky.social ➡️ https://a.co/d/7KbGazX 💢Shorts in @FracturedLit.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social @pinchjournal.bsky.social & more
Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social Writer, teacher, speculative fiction and flash fiction
Books, events, and classes at https://www.taracampbell.com
#WritingCommunity #scifi #sff #speculativefiction #flashfiction
Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social ✳️ 2026 Ditmar nominee|2026 Best Small Fiction nominee|2024 Aurealis Finalist
✳️ Speculative, surreal, literary in:
BSFA Fission#6, Cast of Wonders, Inner Worlds, Factor Four, Fictive Dream, Blood+Honey
✳️ linktr.ee/emmikhor
Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social Queer writer l #FlashFiction l Smokelong Fellow 2026 l Contrib ed @nffr.bsky.social
Pushcart, BSF, BMF & Monarch noms
Read my stories:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17zj1W2pXZsP1aZZ3vR4vbV4Cra9eZ15F6lwU5lc2tKA/edit?usp=sharing
Finnian Burnett @finnwritesstuff.bsky.social Cat person, writer, presenter, Star Trek fan. THE PRICE OF COOKIES, REDSHIRTS SOMETIMES SURVIVE flash fiction collections. Queer AF. Definitely not cool. They/them/tired. #flashfiction finnburnett.com
Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social Berlin-based Scottish writer. Words in New Flash Fiction Review, Vestal Review, Trampset and elsewhere. Featured in Best Small Fictions 2024. My pen name came to me in a dream. You can find a selection of my writing here: https://linktr.ee/ruralunease
Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social This is a storybook. All of us are in it. Here are some tales.
https://eirenegentle.com
https://templeinacity.com
Recent: Claudine, Does it have pockets, Frazzled, Fish Barrel, Dog Throat, Blood & Honey, ANMLY. Pushcart, best short fiction nom.
Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com Independent music, books, and short stories.
Humans writing things about humans making things.
Web: https://www.turnandwork.com
Newsletter: newsletter.turnandwork.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/turnandwork
June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social Scottish. Writer. Reader for Fractured Lit. Published in Trash Cat Lit, Frazzled Lit, Moonlit Getaway, Gone Lawn, The Phare, Gutter, Hooghly Review, and National Flash Flood.
Dan Crawley @danbillyc.bsky.social Straight Down the Road (Ad Hoc Fiction) | The Wind, It Swirls (Cowboy Jamboree Press) | Blur (Cowboy Jamboree Press).
Writing appears in very nice places like Pithead Chapel, Best Small Fictions, Gone Lawn, 100 Word Story, Flash Frog, Atticus Review.
Belinda Rowe @belindarowe.bsky.social Flash writer. Teacher. Night gardener
Work in: Lost Balloon, Fictive Dream, Literary Namjooning, Unbroken, New Flash Fiction Review, Fractured Lit, Bending Genres, Vestal Review, Flash the Court, Centaur Lit
SmokeLong Q. Emerging Writer Fellow 2025
Allison Field Bell @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. PhD UofU. MFA NMSU. Owner of Field Works Writing & Photography. Fiction Editor Waxwing. Books: ALL THAT BLUE & BODIES OF OTHER WOMEN. Chapbooks: STITCH, EDGE OF THE SEA & WITHOUT WOMAN OR BODY
allisonfieldbell.com
Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social Author: Pardon Me for Moonwalking (Unsolicited Press), Wild Plums (ELJ).
Contributor: Flash Fiction America (Norton)
Wigleaf 50 2024, 2025; Best Small Fictions '23, '24; Best Microfiction '23
Timothy Boudreau @tcboudreau.bsky.social Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever (stories, Stanchion), & Stepdad on the Dance Floor (stories, Unsolicited) coming in '26.
All We Knew Were Our Hearts (novel, Unsolicited) coming in '27.
Editor at The Loveliest Review.
timothyboudreau.com.
He/him
Gillian O’Shaughnessy @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social ▪️Relentless optimist.
▪️Salt City Runaway, debut story collection out in 2026
▪️Sub Editor- SmokeLong Quarterly
▪️Best Small Fictions 23, 24, 25.
Tania Hershman 🏳️🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social Queer writer of odd things. 10th book, "It's Time", a hybrid chronomemoir, out now. Permissioner, founder of Unbox Your Words. She/they 🏳️🌈 www.taniahershman.com; https://taniahershman.substack.com/; https://www.instagram.com/tania_hershman_writes
Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social Author - Poet
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
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
Ewen Glass @ewenglass.bsky.social screenwriter | lecturer | poemer
brandon brown @cedarchromatic.bsky.social writer | director, student affairs & success @vcfa | winner, pen/dau | tinkering on stories, tabletop games | avatar by @angrycomics.bsky.social | they/them
blog: brittlealmanac.com | words: BFS Journal, Split Lip Magazine, khōréō magazine
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social A small online literary magazine for the strange, the hybrid, and the difficult to categorize. Prose that resists sense but maintains something else. Under 1,000 words.
Bastet Bravo @bastetbravo.bsky.social I love cats and culture, and I long for the days when the internet was about friends and family instead of hustle culture algorithmic crap.
t.r. @thoushallkill.bsky.social "🇲🇲"⚧︎⚢☭; poet &c; work in places you can find; @ work on malfunction, machine +// for schizopoetic robotgirls; always in translation 🎵 words & work @ trsan.neocities.org. on gadigal land.
Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social he/him
writer of stories and such
professional bookman for Rough Draft Bar & Books
contributing editor at Literary Hub
occasional guitarist and singer
Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social 🙋♀️: fiction writer, poet, translator, high school language teacher, cat paparazzo, fun aunt
🗣️: English, français, español, Gaeilge
✍️: Adela Zamudio’s CONFIDENCES (Bucknell U Press) is out now!
🔗: lnlanguage.com, lauranagle.substack.com
Nate Logan @airbudhockey.bsky.social pumpkin enthusiast
Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social Horror writer startled by most sounds. The Barre Incidents and Kill Radio (both genre-bendy Horror) available now thru Malarkey Books.
My website: https://www.laurenbolger.com/
Jewish / Free Palestine
Josh Dale @joshdale.co Writing, publishing, cats, nature, metal.
Read good books by Thirty West.
Order RAGE:
thirtywestph.com/shop/rage
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
She/They/Dr/Bruh
stephanie 💽 @whoastanderson.bsky.social she&they // baltimore md // reading @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @monarch.gay // writer library worker good time AND i <3 my union
Sarah Seybold @sarahseybold.bsky.social Poetry and prose in Alaska Quarterly Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, ZYZZYVA, The Dodge, LIT, Thimble, SWWIM, Arts & Letters, and elsewhere.
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.
Prose editor for Pictura Journal. Contemporary Anglophone Lit PhD.
https://linktr.ee/emhall47
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
Amie Souza Reilly @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social she/her/hers. writer, artist, mom. lecturer & writer-in-res. sacred heart university. free Palestine 🇵🇸
Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays out April 2025, Wilfrid Laurier U Press
More info at http://amiesouzareilly.com/
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
@chartsuyker.bsky.social @chartsuyker.bsky.social Published in Quarterly West, Fractured Literary, Fiction Southeast, Miracle Monocle and elsewhere.
Cody Harrison @codyharrison.bsky.social I would kill another Franco spy
Fiction/Essays: The Gettysburg Review, J Journal, The Forge Literary Magazine, The Denver Quarterly, Santa Monica Review
JR Fenn @jrfenn.bsky.social Writer, teacher, parent, dreamer | TINY VESSELS out from Red Mare Press | Words in Split Lip, Witness, DIAGRAM, Boston Review, Gulf Coast | Ucross Fellow | Syracuse MFA | Prof at SUNY ESF | www.jrfenn.com
J.H. Siegal @joshuasiegal.bsky.social Chicago
Writer, Musician, Creative Technologist
🖊️ in Michigan Quarterly Review, PodCastle, Skeptic Magazine, Peatsmoke Journal, etc
🎶 at http://redspotrhythmsection.com
Also: game design, software dev, making things in general
http://joshuasiegal.org
Jeanna Cammarano @wordrat.bsky.social Writer of stories. Drinker of beer. Newly minted Canadian. She/her.
Former game dev. || Assistant Editor at Flash Fiction Online. || Member of Electric Sheep. Codex.
Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social Writer/ interviewer/ Author of 1 memoir and 3 chapbooks- Fiction @ghostparachute @bendinggenres @soflopojo and others. Member @writersgrotto
Karen Crawford @karenc.bsky.social Exorcising demons one word at a time.
🇵🇷 ✍🏽 BestMicrofiction 2025 2x PushcartNom, BOTN Nom, Longlist, Wigleaf Top 50
NYC → LA
emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social Doctor of food, writer of stories
Sometime award nominee, occasional winner
Capitalism seditionist
In my ai;dr era
Ex Partum, out now: https://emmaburnett.carrd.co
The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social A "micro" press for "micro" stories. Run by @mattkendrick.bsky.social
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press
Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social Writer | Chicago | Work in The Offing, X-R-A-Y, Wigleaf + more | Pushcart Prize and BotN nom | Best Microfiction ‘24, '25, '26
https://elenalzhang.wordpress.com/writing/
sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social native (nanticoke) genderfuck crip neurodiva. autistic. trans. etc. editor type.
http://linktr.ee/sarah_clark
read stuff i edit (please):
www.anmly.org/
www.beestungmag.com
www.ALOCASIA.org
board: www.sundresspublications.com
Diane D. Gillette @ddgwriter.bsky.social Writer of short things. English professer. Plant-eater. Crafter. Faithful servant to feline overlords. She/her.
www.digillette.com
Colin Corrigan @storyenergies.bsky.social Irish writer and writing teacher. Talks a lot about Story Energies @ storyenergies.substack.com
Jessica Klimesh @jekwriter.bsky.social creative writer/writing coach/editor
flash, flash, and more flash! #flashfiction #microfiction
Best Microfiction 2025 | Best of the Net 2025
jessicaklimesh.com
https://jekwrites.substack.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@JessicaKlimeshWrites
Anne Earney @aearney.bsky.social Writer in St. Louis, Missouri. Likes books, cats, travel, and plants. Studying Spanish. www.anneearney.com
Janel Galnares @galnarespoetry.bsky.social Poet, teacher, and editor currently living in Chicago. EIC of Harpy Hybrid Review.
Foster Trecost @fostertrecost.bsky.social Writer of stories that are mostly made up.
Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social The place for writers
bit.ly/m/ChillSubs
Susan Muth @susiemuth.bsky.social Poet | MFA from @mason__cw | Executive Editor @offseasonmag | jigsaw puzzler | she/her
Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social She/her. Flash writer. Everything's Changing (Thirty West, 2023) & Breaking Points (Black Lawrence, 2021).
https://linktr.ee/chelseastickle
Salena Casha @salenacasha.bsky.social writer. runner. product manager. 1×WigleafTop50 selection, 2xPushcart nom, 2×BOTN nom, 3xBSF nom.
Join the waitlist for Teresa 2.0 here: teresaseesyou.com
James Montgomery @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social Flash writer ✍️ | Latest: Crow & Cross Keys, Fictive Dream, FlashFlood, The Bulb Region, 100 Word Story, NFFD Micro Comp ‘26 | 📖 Best Small Fictions ‘25, Wigleaf Top 50 ‘25 | 💫 Welkin People’s Prize ‘25 | He/Him 🌈 www.jamesmontgomerywrites.com
Faith Palermo @faith-palermo.bsky.social Writer. Fish enthusiast. Recovering Diet Coke addict. Nonfiction editor @ Phoebe Journal. GMU MFA CNF
faithpalermo.com
Elizabeth Rose Bruce @lizbrucepoet.bsky.social Poet, Bartender, & Poetry Editor
@thegreensbororeview
MFA at UNC Greensboro
They/She
https://linktr.ee/elizabethrosebruce
Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social Writer, flash fiction writer, photographer. Author of 2 novels & 2 collections of flash. New novel out this spring. My flash pieces have been published in many lovely magazines. Mslexia flash fiction prize winner, 2024. Website: http://bronwengriff.co.uk/
Ben Brindise @benbrindise.bsky.social Writer, Flash Fiction Editor: Variety Pack / Issue 12 Out Now / Author of Secret Anniversaries (Ghost City Press, 2019) & Rotten Kid (Ghost City Press, 2017) / benjaminbrindise.com
Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social Writer of the weird and experimental flash. Words @FracturedLit, @Xraylitmag, @NecessaryFic, @TBQuarterly, and elsewhere.
Debut flash fiction collection, THESE WORN BODIES, out now @MoonCityPress.
Read more at http://avitusbcarle.com
Nancy Jorgensen @nancyjorgensen.bsky.social Nonfiction writer navigating education, music, family, and sport.
Mother to Olympic Champion Gwen Jorgensen & teacher/author Elizabeth Jorgensen.
My work ⤵
https://nancyjorgensen.weebly.com
Lost Balloon @lostballoon.bsky.social Lost Balloon is a literary magazine that published flash fiction, flash nonfiction, and prose poetry.
Tiny Molecules @tinymolecules.bsky.social A quarterly literary journal. We love flash, we love experimental, we love saying something big in a small space.
https://www.tinymolecules.com/
EIC @sdobbie.bsky.social