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Libby Whittemore @libbage55.bsky.social Singer/Actress, 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Ally, Lifelong Dem💙 If we don’t save our democracy who will. Working to overcome my white southern heritage every damn day 🚫MAGA
Harriet S. Chessman @hchessman.bsky.social fiction writer (The Beauty of Ordinary Things, Someone Not Really Her Mother), librettist (My Lai, Sycorax)
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app I wrote #TheDarkFantastic. Aspiring YA fantasy author; newbie YouTuber. Professor and grad program chair; Auntie PhD. 🔺1913, OES⭐️, Rattler🧡🐍, Wolverine💛💙. Detroit vs Everybody. Linktree: Ebonyteach.
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social Literary non-profit. Publishing works of poetry, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers since 1999.
University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social Publishing voices that drive change & impact how people think. Founded in 1893. linkin.bio/ucpress
P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com CTO at Bluesky. Not a nerd.
Jen Lefforge @jenlefforge.bsky.social I really hate these description boxes. I’m just a human doing my best. Oh and making YouTube videos is my actual job. And also she/her.
amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social If you’re a staff journalist here to rewrite my posts, you can at least credit me as a fellow journalist. Ty!
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Cortney Lamar Charleston @bardsbesidebars.bsky.social Poet & Author
• TELEPATHOLOGIES (Saturnalia Books, 2017);
• DOPPELGANGBANGER (Haymarket Books, 2021);
• IT'S IMPORTANT I REMEMBER (Northwestern Univ. Press, 2026)
https://www.cortneylamarcharleston.com/important-links
Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social Most recent books: IN THE RHODODENDRONS: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf, PAPER CROWN: Poems
https://linktr.ee/heatherchristle
The American Poetry Review @ampoetryreview.bsky.social Poetry all the time since 1972. We never close. aprweb.org
Alexandra Kaul @alexandrakaul.bsky.social Writer & Anthropologist researching white supremacy & ecology in Germany & the PNW. Words in or forthcoming: Georgia Review, Fieldsights, Visual Anthropology Review, &Tendon Magazine. She/her. alexandrakaul.com
Justin Greene @justingreene.bsky.social poet / translator / editor / wayward anthropologist 
Sarah Roth @sarahroth.bsky.social Writer and PhD candidate in anthropology at Johns Hopkins • genetic counselor • editor at Tendon (@tendonmag.bsky.social) • she/they
📍 Baltimore & D.C.
http://www.saraheroth.com
Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social PhD biologist, author, climate activist, adoptee rights activist. Senior Scientist and Writer in Residence, Science and Environmental Health Network, Rachel Carson scholar with Library of America. Reminder: Nobody’s coming.
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.
Porter Shreve @portershreve.bsky.social Novelist at HarperCollins and LSU Press; articles and book reviews in NYT, WaPo, SFChron, ChiTrib; Director of Creative Writing at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Emily Skaja @emilyskaja.bsky.social Poet, professor, dog enthusiast. Author of BRUTE (2019) & BLACK LAKE (Graywolf 2026).- M @matthewolzmann.bsky.social @matthewolzmann.bsky.social
The Hopkins Review @hopkinsreview.bsky.social Publishing today’s vital voices and visions in literature, culture, criticism, public-facing scholarship, and the arts:
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@cathylinhche.bsky.social @cathylinhche.bsky.social Author of BECOMING GHOST (April 29, 2025), AN ASIAN AMERICAN A to Z, and SPLIT. Video installation APPOCALIPS & short film WE WERE THE SCENERY, Nonfiction Jury Winner at Sundance 2025.
Core Faculty in Poetry at Antioch University’s low res CW MFA Program
@deborahlandau.bsky.social @deborahlandau.bsky.social poet / professor / director @nyucwp
Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski Bluesky literacy crisis actor. Opinions mine.
📍Charlottesville
en / de / es
Posts autodelete after 2 days or if viral. Some posts automated.
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Lucero Lucero @orecule.bsky.social We think we can’t handle it until we suddenly can. We think we are lost and then there’s a light shining the way. We think we are defeated but we lock arms and battle for what’s good and just and right.
Navajo Nation
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Conor Ryan @whalenerd.bsky.social Here for whale/fungi/sea kayaking/queer 🏳️🌈/marine science chat. 🇮🇪living in🏴- T Paris Review @theparisreivew.bsky.social We don't just review Paris
The Sun magazine @thesunmagazine.bsky.social The Sun is a magazine that publishes roughly forty thousand words a month, about a dozen of which are funny. This is where we share those dozen.
New England Review @newenglandreview.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine published by Middlebury College since 1978.
https://www.nereview.com/
Tahoma Literary Review @tahomareview.bsky.social We publish poetry, fiction, and nonfiction twice a year. Professional pay rates.
All online since 2024!
Current issues, submission periods, etc. at tahomaliteraryreview.com
The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social Publishing great literature and art since 2003.
Kenyon Review @kenyonreview.bsky.social In the heart of literature since 1939. journal | workshops | fellowships
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
Remi Kanazi @remikanazi.bsky.social Poet. Author of Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine http://bit.ly/2iwoRfW.
Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social Founded in 1946, Jewish Currents is a magazine committed to the rich tradition of thought, activism, and culture of the Jewish left.
Subscribe today!
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social Jews for Palestinian liberation & Judaism beyond Zionism. JVP Action is now doing business as JVP, as a 501c4. Our 501c3 work continues in JVP Lab.
https://linktr.ee/jvp
sarah thankam mathews @smathewss.bsky.social writer, fun guy 🍄. ✍🏾 novel ALL THIS COULD BE DIFFERENT, shortlisted for the national book award, and some other stuff. work in a bunch of places. organizes sometimes.
newsletter: http://smathewss.substack.com
Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social poet • professor • parent • perambulator • erikameitner.com | also keeper of https://post-mfa.tumblr.com
David Baker @davidbakerpoet.bsky.social Poet, reader, environmentalist, dad, hopeful doubter. 
Newswire @newswireus.bsky.social US and world news aggregator. Direct from the Associated Press, Bloomberg, Reuters and others. 
The Birdseed 🪶 Magazine @the-birdseed.bsky.social words for the peckish • lit mag specializing in microfic of 150 words or less • gearing up to come off hiatus • EIC @kourtneyjai.bsky.social • www.the-birdseed.com
Outer Hebrides Birds @hebridesbirds.bsky.social Bird sightings & information for the Outer Hebrides / Western Isles. Bluesky account for the Outer Hebrides bird recorder @hebridesbirds.bsky.social #hebridesbirds
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com Your story. Your platform. Follow our live coverage on aljazeera.com
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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social Oldest research institute & publisher of academic journals, books, databases, & stories on Palestine & the Palestinians.
Explore, write, signup: https://linkin.bio/palestinestudies
Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social A cook who writes.
Observer columnist. Author. Gardener.
Books: The Kitchen Diaries,
The Christmas Chronicles, A Cook’s Book,
A Thousand Feasts.
Instagram.com/nigelslater 
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social I co-host #VibeCheckPod. Also, I teach creative writing at Harvard Medical School.
BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World.
My next book HOME OUT THERE comes out in May.
I live in Cambridge, MA. 🦃
CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social Founded to stand up to Trump and the GOP. Legal analysis & news the media is missing.
Ecotone Magazine @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social A biannual magazine that seeks to reimagine place. Founded & made at UNCW. Winner, 2022 AWP Small Press Publisher Award & 2023 Firecracker Award
The Pushcart Prize @pushcartprize.bsky.social Featuring the best short stories, poems, essays annually since 1976.
http://pushcartprize.com/
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Peter Kispert @peterkispert.bsky.social Book editor at William Morrow/HarperCollins. Author of I KNOW YOU KNOW WHO I AM: Stories (Penguin Books).
Posts inane & my own. Here now.
www.peterkispert.com
Vanessa Hua @vanessahua.bsky.social COYOTELAND | FORBIDDEN CITY | A RIVER OF STARS| DECEIT AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES| Rona Jaffe| Bylines @sfchronicle @nytimes & elsewhere | NEAarts Fellow | forthcoming UPROOTED
The Rumpus @therumpus.net Independent since 2009. Read The Rumpus Magazine. Become a Member. Receive Letters in the Mail from Authors. Join a dynamic, global community.
http://linktr.ee/The_Rumpus2.1
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social Martial Artist. Executioner of Mediocrity.
Ex-Washington Post.
Substack: https://substack.com/@karenattiah?r=2bz6j&utm_medium=ios
Rogue Radical Professor: @resistanceschool.bsky.social
Aimee Bender @aimee-bender.bsky.social writer, teacher, author of fiction including The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake and Willful Creatures. Happy to be on here.
Scottish BPOC Writers Network @scotbpocwriters.bsky.social Advocacy, networking, promoting Scottish & Scotland-based writers of colour, literary events & spaces. https://lnk.bio/scotbpocwriters
SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social Dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web, by widely published authors or those new to the craft. Est.2003. Paying up to $150. www.smokelong.com. No Trump supporters. Follow also @heyflashvillage.bsky.social
DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social A journal of text, art, and schematic. Kicking it since 1999. Published by New Michigan Press. Edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social
Couplet Poetry @coupletpoetry.bsky.social Online lit journal publishing a “couplet” (pair) of related poems per author. www.coupletpoetry.com EIC @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social 
Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social #Poetry without pretension since 1995. Rattle is a publication of the Rattle Foundation, an independent 501(c)3, and not affiliated with any other organization.
$15,000 for a single poem: rattle.com
Melissa Febos @melissafebos.bsky.social Author of five books—next up The Dry Season 6/3/25
Thoughts my own and not representing any institution.
https://linktr.ee/melissafebos
melissafebos.com
https://www.prairielights.com/pre-order-dry-season-june-2025-prairie-lights-0
Ross White @rosswhite.com Publisher: @bullcitypress.com. Poet: CHARM OFFENSIVE & three chapbooks from Unicorn Press. Professor: UNC #GoHeels. Views my own. Host: @triviaescapepod.com. Goofus. Durham, NC.
> Site: rosswhite.com
Kerrin McCadden @kerrin-mccadden.bsky.social 
@lauravandenberg.bsky.social @lauravandenberg.bsky.social Not checking this account all that often these days but you can find me here: https://fightweek.substack.com/
Ben Purkert @benpurkert.bsky.social debut novel, THE MEN CAN'T BE SAVED, Top 20 Book of 2023 Vanity Fair. words / poems in The New Yorker, The Nation, Slate. https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-men-can-t-be-saved-ben-purkert/19736868?ean=9781419767135
Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social poet & teacher. author of DEAR MEMPHIS (River River Books, 2024). living in seattle. learning yiddish. rachelsedelman.com.
Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) @travisclau.bsky.social (he/him/his) Associate Professor, Crip Queer Poet: c18/c19 British Literature and Culture / Disability Studies / Health Humanities / History of Medicine (immunity and vaccination)
travisclau.com
Christian Gullette @christiangullette.bsky.social Poet and author of COACHELLA ELEGY
from Trio House Press
“Cool, elegantly controlled poems”
-The Washington Post
Buy a copy here:
https://linktr.ee/christiangullette
www.christiangullette.com
Afaa M. Weaver @elder-afaa.bsky.social A devoted husband, septuagenarian, father, grandfather, big brother, son, uncle, cousin…friend. Wordsmith. Chancellor at Academy of American Poets. Born, raised in Baltimore MD.
Philip Metres @philipmetres.bsky.social Poet, writer, translator
Anna V. Q. Ross @annavqross.bsky.social FLUTTER, KICK (Red Hen Press), FIGURING (Bull City Press), IF A STORM (Anhinga Press). Poet, Mom, Teacher, Editor, hens, cats, oatmeal for breakfast
Amanda Moore @amoore.bsky.social Poet, teacher, editor, surf matter, Mama.
REQUEENING (Ecco 2021) National Poetry Series. AmandaPMoore.com
Jacques J. Rancourt @jjrancourt.bsky.social New book BROCKEN SPECTRE out now from Alice James Books | he/him | 🏳️🌈🇨🇦🇺🇸
www.jacquesrancourt.com
Kelli Russell Agodon @kelliagodon.bsky.social (she/her) Poet. Editor. Paddleboarder. Easygoing Capricorn. Next book: Accidental Devotions (Copper Canyon Press, 2026)! Co-host of "Poems You Need" with Melissa Studdard. Faculty at Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.🏳️🌈Bi/Queer
Ina Cariño @inacarino.bsky.social 🍉🍉🍉 // poet // 2022 Whiting Award // 2021 Alice James Award, FEAST // REVERSE REQUIEM forthc. 2026 (AJB)
Erin Hoover @erinhoover.bsky.social My new poetry collection, Consent, will be published in May 2027 by Black Lawrence Press.
erinhooverpoet.com
Sarah Audsley @saudsley.bsky.social author of Landlock X (Texas Review Press)
sarahaudsley.com
Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social Poet person. New poems in The Bulb Region here: https://bulbregion.com/Three-Poems-by-Maureen-Thorson
R. Quesada @rubenq.bsky.social Forthcoming: 𝐵𝑟𝑢𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑜n, 2023 Barrow Street Editors Prize • 🇨🇷 🏳️🌈
Donna Spruijt-Metz @dsmpoet.bsky.social Poet, mama, scientist, dog lover, debut ‘General Release from the Beginning of the World’ Free Verse Editions 2023 
Ruth Awad @ruthawad.bsky.social Lebanese-American author of Set to Music a Wildfire (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2017) and Outside the Joy (Third Man Books, 2024). 2021 NEA fellow. Poet, abolitionist, bi, Pom mom, she/her
Rachel Trousdale @rvtrousdale.bsky.social Poetry, criticism, tomfoolery, rabble-rousing. She/her. Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry (criticism, Oxford University Press); Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem (poetry, Wesleyan University Press)
Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social Just trying to put words together. God Elegy forthcoming from BOA Editions 2028. The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis (Soft Skull), House Is an Enigma (Bull City). TMI in your inbox here: https://substack.com/@emmabolden
Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social Editor at Rose Metal Press & Professor at DePaul
Writings: https://kathleenrooney.com/
Typewritings: http://poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com
Man Overboard!: A Novel (July '26): https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Man-Overboard!/Kathleen-Rooney/9781668212387
Cynthia Marie Hoffman @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social Poet. Exploding Head (an OCD memoir in prose poems), Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones, Paper Doll Fetus, Sightseer.
Essays in TIME, The Sun, Lit Hub. (she/her) www.cynthiamariehoffman.com
Brandon Amico @amico.bsky.social NEA fellow • MTG articles @ EDHREC • Events guy for @gamershaunt.bsky.social • Author, DISAPPEARING, INC. www.brandonamico.com
Keith S. Wilson @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social Poet / Faculty @spaldingwriting.bsky.social
Janine Joseph @j9joseph.bsky.social 🇵🇭 & 🇺🇸| poet, librettist, prof | Co-organizer: Undocupoets | 📚: Decade of the Brain / Driving Without a License / Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora | 🐶♏️ | fka undocumented
Lesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social Poetry Ed of Shenandoah. Author of Mycocosmic, Poetry’s Possible Worlds, Unbecoming, The State She’s In, & Radioland—poetry, fantasy fiction, CNF, scholarship. She/they. linktr.ee/lesleymwheeler
Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social Loyola grad’s dad. BGSU dad. Poet. BGSU prof/director of creative writing. Union member. Co-founding editor @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. He/him. It's pronounced uh-MOR-ack. https://amorakhuey.com
Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social Lit Agent Talcott Notch, AALA Member, Editor, Teacher, Writer of Flash Fiction Editor at @fracturedlit.bsky.social Publications: Harpur Palate, Laurel Review, Monkey Bicycle, Ghost Parachute
https://linktr.ee/tommydeanwriter