Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social essays and poems about the movies, shows, music, books, games, etc. that have shaped you
forget.cool
איישע @eyshe.bsky.social yiddishist. pseudoscientist | WE, TRAITORS @haymarketbooks.org | editor @DerSpekter.org
Daisy Rockwell @shreedaisy.bsky.social Artist, writer, Hindi-Urdu translator, etc. http://www.daisyrockwell.com 🍉🍉🍉
recursive cheesecake @solarchromatic.blacksky.app screenwriter, cat mama / music, tv, uplifting black people / agender, biracial / all labour is equal 🏳️🌈
turbles @turbl.es Keep all your potatoes in one room in a big fuck-off pile.
they/them dumbass gaybo aries gendermess
CowboyandCricket.com
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Alex Kittle @alexxkittle.bsky.social Movies, art history, anxiety. Freelance illustrator. Arthouse theater projectionist. Film programmer. Bargain bin vinyl collector. Also @bigartthread
Arlington, MA
She/her 🌈
https://ko-fi.com/panandscan/shop
https://www.etsy.com/shop/panandscan
Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social the sandwich was full of all kinds of things
Sarah Lynn Knowles @sarahspy.com Fiction writer, Storychord.com founding editor, Tin House Winter '24 & One Story Summer '23 alum || eavesdropper, signal booster, she/her, Massachusetts || https://sarahlynnknowles.com
Nerve to Write @nervetowrite.bsky.social A Magazine for Disabled, Chronically Ill, and Neurodivergent Writers.
Editor-in-Chief @sfmontgomery.bsky.social.
www.nervetowrite.com
topaz winters @topazwinters.bsky.social poet, libra, cult classic • so, stranger (2022) & portrait of my body as a crime i’m still committing (2019 / 2024) @buttonpoetry.bsky.social • new york x singapore
✨Sparkle Fuck✨ @wandatalk.bsky.social Has a weird kind of smugness
She/her 🏳️🌈
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
Mollycrabapple.com
Mollycrabapple.substack.com
Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com Sober trans broad. Award winning writer. Former smoker. I write a newsletter called Anxiety Shark, my debut book is called The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
She//Her
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Shaindel Beers @shaindelr.bsky.social Poet, Professor, Animal Advocate and Rescuer
Majda Gama @majda.bsky.social Debut poetry book “In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls” Wandering Aengus Book Award (April 2025). Two Sylvia’s chapbook prize winner for The Call of Paradise (‘23). Graybeal-Gowen prize. ‘24 Gregory Djanikian Scholar. https://www.majdagama.com
The Disappointed Housewife~Submissions always open! @offbeatlit.bsky.social Fiction, essays, and poetry – along with unclassifiable writings, photos, and drawings – that challenge readers and bend their brains, while maintaining the highest levels of style and substance. Editor novelist Kevin Brennan.
Nita Tyndall @nitatyndall.com author and translator, de-en. they/them oder keine Pronomen.
out now: have you seen this girl (harperteen)
up next: A JEALOUS TONGUE, feb 9 2027 (union square)
Nandini Ramachandran @chaosbogey.bsky.social barely there
https://chaosbogey.com
your friend dusti @dusti.bsky.social Dusti RW Levy. Disabled. GenX. PanQueer. Southern. Assoc. Ed. at BOUDIN, managing ed at BOUDIN chapbook contest, eic at delicate emissions. dramaturg, poet, educator, & playwright. PrinxDopamine late of Serotonin Jackalope/Marine Layer.
Art by Emily K @museum.of.emilyk.art I have my own museum, I'm a Very Serious Artist.
Portfolio: https://emilyk.art
Commissions open. If I see that you use Ai slop “art,” you get blocked.
Support my work:
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Autofocus Books @autofocusbooks.bsky.social A literary publisher of artful autobiographical writing. autofocusbooks.com
Tony Hao @tonyhao.bsky.social Lit Translator CN -> EN | tonyhao.com | Words in @grantamag.bsky.social @theoffingmag.bsky.social and more | Currently translating Tong Wei-Ger 童偉格 | The Granum Translation Prize 2024
Literary Arts Fund @literaryartsfund.bsky.social Advancing support for the nonprofit literary arts field toward ensuring creative writers’ contributions to American literature for generations to come.
literaryartsfund.org
Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social associate prof. of Shakespeare | book: “queer pregnancy in Shakespeare’s plays” | proud CUNY alum | bylines: Chronicle, Boston Globe, LA Review of Books, Electric Lit, Catapult, American Theatre, LitHub, Huffington Post, etc
aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com
Miriam Seidel @miriamseidel.bsky.social Writing weird stuff as Mir Seidel. TESLA'S OPERA (Fomite Press, September 2025), THE SPEED OF CLOUDS (New Door Books), stories/essays in Bourbon Penn, Into the Ruins, NYRSF. SFWA associate, Codex, more at linktr.ee/miriamseidel
אביבה @glitter-femme.bsky.social You can keep the prince. I just want the shoes. She/her.
Ugly Duckling Presse @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social nonprofit publisher of experimental poetry, translation, performance, and the absurd // keeping poetry ugly for over 20 years
https://linktr.ee/uglyducklingprs
Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social Beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness.
Lambda Award winner, Locus Award finalist, Best-selling author of MANHUNT, CUCKOO, and BLACK FLAME, out now from Tor Nightfire, and CHIMERA, coming 2027
Profile pic by @theoboopis.bsky.social
Alvin Lu @alvinlu.bsky.social Daydreamers (@fictioncollective2.bsky.social), The Hell Screens alvinlu.co
Tessy Schlosser @tessyschlo.bsky.social political theorist and director general of CDIJUM. tending to archives while weaving memory with doubt and politics.
Der Spekter @derspekter.org Bundist perspectives, original artwork, journalism, and more.
www.derspekter.org
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Genese Grill @genesegrill.bsky.social Essayist, Translator, Bibliophile, Working on the First English-Language Biography of Robert Musil for Yale University Press.
https://genesegrill.wixsite.com/website
https://www.thisissplice.co.uk/essays/portals/
Kim McNeill •📚🌿☕️ @joiedevivre9.bsky.social avid reader w/focus on womxn writers • virgo sun sagittarius moon • my library is an archive of longings • feminist #NYRBWomen26 #SundaySarton #AContinuation
Pacific Coast • joiedevivre9.com
E.J. Pryor @ejpryor.bsky.social Judaica librarian. Translator of literature for adults and children from Russian and Yiddish. Dilatory writer and dilettante baker. Portland. יונה
Delphine Grass @delphinegrass.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in French and Comparative Literature, Lancaster University. Creative-critical practice | Translation | Eco-translation | Comparative Literature | Languages | AI | Biosemiotics
Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social The Voice of Translated Literature: a YouTube channel featuring translators reading from their own work | Founded in 2020 & run by Charlotte Coombe & Tina Kover 👯 | www.translatorsaloud.com
Blood+Honey @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social Blood+Honey is a new lit mag that revels in the experimental & the avant-garde, dirty and kitchen sink realism. SUBMIT your poetry, fiction, CNF, and digital art!!! SUBS Currently CLOSED!!!
EIC: @davidestringel.bsky.social
https://www.bloodhoneylit.com/
Hopscotch Translation @hopscotch-tr.bsky.social An online revue dedicated to the promotion and discussion of literary translation. https://hopscotchtranslation.com/
Lenna Pierce @lennapierce.bsky.social Songwriter at large and Music Teacher at St Luke and St Matthew trying to make art while dodging shrapnel as the world falls apart. 
Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com Brad Bigelow, Missoula, MT
bradbigelow.com
Author, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
Editor, Recovered Books series @ Boiler House Press:
www.boilerhouse.press/recovered-books
Editor, neglectedbooks.com. Champion of reading off the beaten/AI path.
Evening House Books @eveninghouse.bsky.social an indie bookstore in downtown Buffalo, NY, focusing on new small press titles, books in translation, unsung classics, manga & much more
run by Amanda & John
website: http://www.eveninghousebooks.com
Archipelago Books @archipelagobooks.bsky.social a non-profit press devoted to contemporary and classic international literature
Miles is short for Mai Li, how else are you going to shorten it @themaili.bsky.social Seattle in the sheets, global in the streets
#CovidCautiousArtist #Yiddish #Klezmer #JusticeAsCommunityDefense
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Adam Haver @adamhaver.bsky.social Writer • Poet • Fiction • Willie Morris Award • Translation • Wolf Conservation
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
fake venusian @sitaradidi.bsky.social astrology / fashion / internet nerd 💕
@birdwife.bsky.social’s goth gf
Pinkleap @pinkleap.app 🦩 A photo-first client for Bluesky, Mastodon & Pixelfed. Familiar interface. Classic experience. Previously @pinksky.app.
https://pinkleap.app
Johanna Bishop @johannabishop.bsky.social Je est un∙e autre, but also a translator from Italian
She/her
Charles Stephens @charlesdotsteph.bsky.social ATL Native/ MFA student/Tin House-McCormack Scholar/ Kimbilio Fiction Fellow/ Founder & Executive Director of CNP
Mimi Manyin @mimimanyin.bsky.social Writer. Musician. Editor | 📚 Ploughshares, Witness, Michigan Quarterly Review, Meridian, Greensboro Review etc. | 🎓MVICW Fellow, Sewanee Scholar | mimimanyin.com
Will Abraham @willabrahampottery.bsky.social bookworm, potter, whittler, and horror movie enthusiast with an MLIS, raising house plants and chihuahuas in the PNW
Studio: @starflowerstudios.bsky.social
Gallery: @goodearthpottery.bsky.social
http://www.willabrahampottery.com/- E @evanmallonwrites.bsky.social @evanmallonwrites.bsky.social
Brittany Rogers @britrogers.bsky.social Detroit Girl. Poet. Creative. EIC of Muzzle Magazine. Co-host of VS Podcast. 🏳️🌈.🐩
WHO @who.int The World Health Organization (WHO) is the United Nations’ health agency, championing Health For All.
Always check the latest posts for updated advice/information.
We reserve the right to remove misinformation, spam, and hate speech under our posts.
Eshani Surya @eshanisurya.bsky.social debut novel RAVISHING 💄💉 ✨ out now from Roxane Gay Books/Grove Atlantic | disabled & chronically ill | philly-based | surya means sun ☀️ | eshani.surya@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/eshanisurya
Sara E. @misssarae.bsky.social Randolph MFA in Poetry. Michigan-transplant.
www.shepoetry.org
The Rosenbach Museum & Library @rosenbachmuseum.bsky.social The Rosenbach Museum & Library is a community that engages with and celebrates the art of the written word using our collection of rare books and manuscripts. Learn more at rosenbach.org.
John Vercher @jverchwrites.bsky.social Author: THREE-FIFTHS; AFTER THE LIGHTS GO OUT; DEVIL IS FINE (PEN/Faulkner and Aspen Words Literary Prize longlist); Artist-in-residence, Monmouth University; Faculty, Randolph MFA; Rep: David Hale Smith; Film/TV: Will Watkins; Speaking: The Tuesday Agency
Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters @asteralesjournal.bsky.social A new quarterly literary journal publishing 5 poems, 2 prose works, and original visual art. SUBS OPEN 2/1-3/15
Co-founders/editors @djvorreyer.bsky.social and @rebunting.bsky.social
http://www.asteralesjournal.com
Dare Williams @dare-williams.bsky.social queer | poz | poet | jazz head |
associate poetry editor @thehooliganmag
MFA @WarrenWilsonMFA
writings/workings at
DareWilliams.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
jenni @msjennimiller.bsky.social Copy editor and writer and editor and whatever. aging goth getting weird with it. NYC by way of TX. she/her. no terfs.
Pitymilk Press @pitymilkpress.bsky.social small press 🍇poetry🌀illustrations🪱chapbooks✂️performance space The Bell Tower🫀🧠 MKE // DET//
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Sister to @bathmatics.bsky.social
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com If you’re reading this, you’re in the right place.
Beautiful books you won't forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Kelsi Vanada @kelsivanada.bsky.social Author of Optional Saint and Rare Earth. Translator of Basket of Braids, United Left, The Visible Unseen, The Eligible Age, and others. Iowa Writers' Workshop '16, Iowa Translation Workshop '17, NEA Translation Fellow '24.
mirto @mosscoveredpages.bsky.social Prolific reader, translation student, classicist, anti-oppression, vegan and overall chaotic
she/her 🇵🇹
Ági Bori @agiborimottern.bsky.social Translator (English ↔️ Hungarian) 📖 PDX ✈️ Budapest 🇭🇺Translation editor at the Los Angeles Review 📖 Russian language enthusiast 📖 Я за мир 🇺🇦
Sarah Kersey @sk-poet.bsky.social Poet. X-ray technologist. RESIDENCE TIME is out now with Newfound
anthony russell @mordkhetzvi.bsky.social UofT Mitchell J. Gerstein Distinguished Visiting Artist in Residence in Jewish Life & Social Justice, 2025-26 | Mandel Institute Cultural Leadership Fellow, 2023-25 | professional afrojudeopessoptimist
anthonyrussellbass.com
Dr Erika’s (Too) Online, PhD @erikas.online Linguist, anthropologist, writer re: dating, marriage, population + the internet
📍ORD
2nd generation Etsy witch
3rd generation socialist
Friendly internet matchmaker for hire
https://erikas.online
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English/日本語/Русский/יידיש
they/she • あの奴 • она • זי
River Teeth @riverteeth.bsky.social A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative || Where good writing counts and facts matter.
Posit Journal @positjournal.bsky.social An online journal of innovative contemporary poetry, prose, & visual art. positjournal.com
Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com Neil Clarke: Editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, The Best Science Fiction of the Year series, and more. Four-time Hugo Award Winner for Best Editor Short Form. Four-time Chesley Award-winning art director.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
neil-clarke.com
TriQuarterly Magazine @triquarterlymag.bsky.social Writing, Art, Video. Since 1958. Published by Northwestern University's Litowitz MFA+MA and the SPS MA graduate creative writing programs. www.triquarterly.org
n+1 @nplusonemag.com n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics. nplusonemag.com
aeon, cursed and damned @aeonfx.bsky.social Bartender, poet, vtuber, suffering from poison damage
Sharon Sloane Mariem @sharonmariem.bsky.social I write poems & such. // 😎 constant horror & bone-deep dissatisfaction. 😎
https://www.sharonsloanemariem.com
felix lecocq @felixlecocq.bsky.social writer with a weird heart
www.felixlecocq.com
he/him
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social El Chabon perdura.
https://msha.ke/handmadeplaylists
Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social Poet, storyteller, teaching artist.
Fellowships from PEN America, Kundiman, Aspen Institute. Studying at Randolph MFA. Fat bear nerd 🤎
www.tsunamee.com
@rajipandya.bsky.social @rajipandya.bsky.social 
Daniel Hall 🍉 @www.translatedthoughts.com 🇦🇷 He/him | ATA-Certified Spanish- and Portuguese-to-English translator | Drink all the coffee, read all the books, pet all the dogs 🧉☕️📚🐶
https://linktr.ee/translatedthoughts
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.
monica 🍉🌞 @monicacolon.bsky.social beginning birder, silly sewist, neuroqueer puppeteer. i created SPANISH FOR SHY PEOPLE. she/ella.
spanishforshypeople.carrd.co
📍chi
Lucy Moffatt @lucytranslator.bsky.social Translator of excellent Norwegian books.
masha @mynamesmasha.bsky.social sf -> la -> wny
pro: libraries, farmers markets, human rights & social justice, binge watching tv, holistic & intersectional health & wellbeing, petting every dog, neurodivergent mindmapping. former CTY kid.
Daniella Toosie-Watson @toosiewatson.bsky.social What We Do with God (Haymarket Books 2025) | MFA ‘19: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers’ Program | Poems: The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Oxford Poetry, Callaloo, and elsewhere | www.toosie.art
Angelika Adensamer @abendsommer.bsky.social Sprecherin von @linkswien 💜✊️
Researcher at @ vicesse 🤖⚖️
Working on regulation of algorithms, border technologies, police
(sie/her)
Dave Uwakwe @daveuwak.bsky.social Spanish and Catalan translator, freelance writer in Barcelona. Indoorsy type. 🇮🇪
Amanda L. Andrei @amandalandrei.bsky.social Playwright, translator, critic, journalist based in LA
Critique/essays @ American Theatre, Stage Raw, Howl Round, Rappler
Translations @ Asymptote, Another Chicago Magazine, Lunch Ticket
Plays w/ Circle X, Chalk Rep, Artists at Play
Kat Hall 📚 @kathall.bsky.social Editor & translator (GER ➡️ EN) Tr. of von Schirach's PUNISHMENT + COFFEE & CIGS. At peabodyink.com (my work) & mrspeabodyinvestigates.com (crime blog). Europhile 💛
Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse @missadadoom.bsky.social works in publishing, translates Russian, reads, writes, edits, naps, snarks and does drop-in editorial consultancy (eg writer therapy) The Taking Cure. Find me on Substack!
New book The Village at the Edge of Noon: (Buffy x The Witcher) + comedy + scares
Jenny Higgins @jennyhiggins.bsky.social Translator from French and Italian - literature, music, history, arts
wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social Alexander Booth. Poetry. Translation (Mayröcker, Kluge, Penna, Wittgenstein et al). Analog collage.
Existential Analysis / Logotherapy.
Epigrams unto emptiness.
Tread the path with care.
wordkunst@gmail.com / IG: @wordkunst
Ilze Duarte @ilzeduarte.bsky.social Writer, PT-EN literary translator | 2024 Sundial Literary Translation Award | Translations in Words Without Borders, Michigan Quarterly Review, LALT, Asymptote Journal | Author-Member at Betty Books | ilzeduarteliterarytranslator.com
Raúl García Campos @raulgarciacampos.bsky.social ❤️ Traductor literario de inglés a español
💛 España
💜 IA-Free account
https://raulgarciacampos.blogspot.com/