Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov 40th Governor of California.
Building a California for All.
Writers for Democratic Action @writersforda.bsky.social We stand vigilant in the service of the republic to promote the common good. Join us.
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Sabrina Vourvoulias @followthelede.bsky.social Award-winning Latina journo, SFF writer & author. Editor on the Opinion desk at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Opinions here are my own. She/her/ella. www.sabrinavourvoulias.com. Water is life. You can't drink data. No es sequía, es saqueo.
Olga Livshin @battlecake.bsky.social Poetry, Ukraine, fuzzy dog, teaching kids/teens creative writing. Work in progress: a poetry collection about war called Battle Cake. Pubs: New York Times, Ploughshares, Poetry.
Donna Wojnar Dzurilla @donnawd.bsky.social Appalachian fiction writer & poet. Find my work in The Anthology of Appalachian Writers Vol XVI, the Northern Appalachian Review, Voices from the Attic anthology series, Wild Wind: Poems & Stories Inspired by Rob’t Earl Keen, and other publications.
Pennsylvania Chapter of Writers for Democratic Action @wdaofpa.bsky.social More information about the Pennsylvania Chapter of the Writers for Democratic Action can be found here:
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Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit @summitpgh.bsky.social The 29th Annual Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit be in February, 2026. Follow us to find out about volunteering on the Summit, speaking, or attending!
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Jennifer Sears @jennifersears.bsky.social Writer, teacher-person. Forthcoming: What Mennonite Girls are Good For (U of Iowa Press). Brooklyn is home. http://jennifer-sears.com
Penny U @handle.invalid An open mic newsletter for writers and artists in your inbox. Edited by @cadumais.com. Submissions opening soon.
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Nick McLoughlin @nickmacwrites.bsky.social Reader, writer, runner. Tea, trees, and cats.
My debut novel Slings and Arrows was published on the 28th March 2024. 📚💙
AJ Van Belle (they/them) @ajvanbelle.bsky.social Preorder A Dozen Dystopias and How to Dodge Them! https://linktr.ee/ajvanbelle
Writer & scientist who cuddles dogs, builds worlds. Rep: Lauren Bieker. https://ajvanbellenews.substack.com/
Rhysling & BSFA nominee.
Lit agent.
Nonbinary/transmasc 🏳️⚧️
Savannah Dawn @africanmorning.bsky.social Chatty—editor/writer—Authentic Human (no AI)—world explorer—hobby collector—queer—ttrpg player—library person—general life enthusiast—em dash abuser— landloperslibrary.wordpress.com —opinions are my own
Bookbound 📚 @bookbound.substack.com A book lover's newsletter that features the first chapter of a selected book every week.
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debenbach.bsky.social @debenbach.bsky.social Writer type person. Preoccupied with the human condition.
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Kasey Jueds @kaseyryoen.bsky.social poet, probably covered in dog hair | she/her | books: KEEPER & THE THICKET (both Pitt Poetry)
Maria Dahvana Headley @mariadahvana.bsky.social NYT-bestselling, Hugo Award winning monster and myth maker. Most recently, VERGIL! A Mythological Musical (Audible) , Beowulf: A New Translation, The Mere Wife, & many other items in the wondertale category & beyond. https://linktr.ee/mariadahvanaheadley
Viola Tricolor @kaffeehaus.bsky.social 
Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social Writer, teacher, walker of many trails. Novels published with @unvpress.bsky.social. Novella published with @miamioh-press.bsky.social. Novella forthcoming with @regalhouse.bsky.social. #authorsguild https://lawrencecoates.com/
Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️ @paperpills10.bsky.social The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. John Keats #bookbirds 📚🐦 💙
Reading: AnActOfSharedSolitude https://readinganactofsharedsolitude.wordpress.com/
Rebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social Mostly bookish. NBCC Board Member/VP Membership and Tech. Books newsletter: Reading Indie on Substack. Co-host of One Bright Book podcast. #KateBriggs24 #AContinuation25 she/her
You'll find me on my ebike.
KM Elkes @kmelkes.bsky.social Author. Ginger. Potty mouth. #workingclasswriter Award-winning short fiction writer. Editing debut novel. Also writing tutor & editor.
http://linktr.ee/kmelkes
https://kmelkes.substack.com
Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social work in X-R-A-Y, 3:AM, Granta, n+1, forthcoming in Iowa Review // website jamestaddadcox.com, editor @alwayscrashing.bsky.social // ENNIE award winner, apparently? https://store.possibleworldsgames.com/product/tacklebox
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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Sasha 🪴 @s.athingwithfeathers.com One-time New Yorker, one-time stage-manager, always writer, translator, dog person, UX person, theater person, human person
Iowa Writers’ Workshop @iowawriterswksp.bsky.social The Program in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa
Caleb Michael Sarvis @cmsarvis.bsky.social Author of Dead Aquarium. Owner of Bridge Eight Press.
www.calebmsarvis.com
Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social Irish writer and speaker: let's rewild the internet!
Dog lady. Forest bather. She/her
http://www.mariafarrell.com
Rep: https://greeneheaton.co.uk/agents/antony-topping/
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Deb Werrlein @debwerrlein.bsky.social Writer/editor/cyclist
Biked 4300 miles f/ VA to OR coast in summer 2023🚴♂️
Recovered academic. Pushcart Nominee
Words at: cnfonline, lithub, brevitymag, washingtonpost, thesunmagazine, LAReview, etc.
More at www.debwerrlein.com
James Lee @jamesleeauthor.bsky.social British writer drifting around Cambridge like Byron's ghost. ✨️ https://linktr.ee/jamesleeuk
Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social We’re a literary journal that’s totally bonkers-in-love with voice-driven writing, pop culture, and the kind of honesty that gets you right in the kidneys.
Posts: @carolinamata.bsky.social, AJ Jolish & @emotes206.bsky.social
https://splitlipthemag.com/
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.
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social Prof & Writer - How High We Go in the Dark, a National Bestseller and NYT Editors’ Choice & Where We Go When All We Were is Gone. Minneapolis by way of the SF Bay Area and Hawai’i http://SequoiaNagamatsu.com - Star Trek 💫 and wristwatch ⌚️ obsessed.
cat 😊 @cats.bsky.social cat club🐈⬛❤️
Strange Wonk in a Strange Land @stlwonk.bsky.social Lefty (((globalist))) Lady Veteran
Finally a place for all my hot takes. Oh, and cats.
James Brubaker @jamesbrubaker.bsky.social Writer/Teacher. WE ARE GHOST LIT out now from Braddock Avenue Books (he/him)
Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social novelist/translator/reader, here for the sharpened pencils, books & writing talk, for all things language and foliage, for all the shiny things & shadows. (Eng, Fr, 日本語, Ital) Rep'd by Simon Trewin.
www.michellebailatjones.com
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.
Katharine Gammon @kategammon.bsky.social Science, health, tech, environment journalist writing for The Guardian, The Atlantic, Nautilus, Forbes and others. Living by the beach.
Katharinegammon.com
Angélique Jamail @angeliquejamail.bsky.social writer, editor, teacher; multi-genre author of A NARROWING PATH Memento Vivere Press) and THE SHARP EDGES OF WATER (Odeon Press); www.SapphosTorque.com; she/her
ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social Award-winning, indie lit journal—made in San Francisco since 1985. Our Issue 132 is now available. Subscribe: zyzzyva.org/subscribe/
Nick Courage @nickcourage.bsky.social Children’s book author, partner at Courage Literary agency, co-founder of Littsburgh, four leaf clover finder 🍀✌🏽 nickcourage.com | courageliterary.com
Holly M. Wendt @hmwendt.bsky.social Novel HEADING NORTH (Braddock Avenue Books) out now! Free newsletter: hmwendt.beehiiv.com. Words in Shenandoah, Fourway Review, Memorious, & c. Writer, educator, enthusiast. they/them
M. C. Benner Dixon @mchristinebd.bsky.social Writer, editor, coach. She/her. Pittsburgh. My writing trends lyrical, peculiar, melancholy, existential. Books: MILLIONS OF SUNS (2023). THE HEIGHT OF LAND (2025). Covid cautious/airborne aware. Rep: Naomi Davis, BookEnds. linktr.ee/mchristinebd
Littsburgh @littsburgh.bsky.social Celebrating literary Pittsburgh since 2015! www.Littsburgh.com
Air and Nothingness Press @aanpress.bsky.social Publisher of F/SF anthologies and story collections - 29th Year 1997-2026. Based in Pittsburgh, PA. www.aanpress.com www.aanpress.com/artworks
Corona\Samizdat Press @coronasamizdat.bsky.social A non-profit literary press, est'd in 2020 & based in Slovenia.
We specialize in inexpensive, quality pocket books.
Editor: @rickharsch.bsky.social
IG: @coronasamizdatbooks
Izola, Slovenia
https://coronasamizdat.com
Dubyedee @wdclarke.bsky.social Writer.
—PhD English UWarwick 2009, pubbed on Thomas Pynchon
—Two novels with @coronasamizdat.bsky.social
For now, not here much...active at http://goodreads.com/wdclarke
https://wdclarke.org (reviews, crit, pol economy)
Ontario, Canada
Alex Gupta @alexgupta.bsky.social associate editor at Columbia UP | probably knitting | they/she | opinions are my own
Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social Dubliner, Ex-Berliner, Editor at Internationale Politik Quarterly
@ipq.bsky.social. Doing an MPhil in literary translation at TCD. @tclctdublin.bsky.social she/her
Gwen E. Kirby @gwenekirby.bsky.social author of SHIT CASSANDRA SAW // stories in One Story, Guernica, Tin House, Smokelong, and elsewhere // corgis, baking, knitting, swearing // she/her
gwenekirby.com
Hana Carolina @hanacarolina.bsky.social Creative Writer & Academic Researcher | 30s | she/her | 🏴 🇪🇺 | Reviewer @ Strange Horizons | Fiction Editor @ Divinations Magazine | Debut Novella with Spaceboy Books, THE INESCAPABLE MARCH (2025)
https://readspaceboy.com/portfolio/the-inescapable-march/
Martha Anne Toll @marthaannetoll.bsky.social Novelist: DUET FOR ONE is out! So is THREE MUSES. Literary and cultural critic. Board member PEN/Faulkner Foundation, member National Book Critics Circle.
www.marthaannetoll.com
https://marthaannetoll.substack.com
Fibonacci Sequins @brentwaggoner.bsky.social Monocule. Socialist. Coder. Christian Liberationist. Neurodivergent. He/him. Partnered w Liz. I like to read many books and I also have a Telecaster. I am one half of the Fifty Books Project. pfp by @imagining-sisyphus.
April Doyle @aprildoylewriter.bsky.social Writer, tutor, editor
Debut novel Hive pub. Jan 2022
Shortlisted Exeter Novel Prize 2019
Longlisted Mslexia Fiction Competition 2019: short story 
Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social Giving new life to old books since 2015. Bookshop.org Indie Champion. Find us: backlisted.fm, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Support us: patreon.com/backlisted.
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. 
CienciaFiccionarios @cificcionarios.bsky.social Comunidad de amantes de la #CienciaFicción enfocada en la discusión e intercambio de conocimiento sobre Literatura, Cine y tecnología. #ScienceFiction.
Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social Entertaining & educational conversations about science, tech, + more. Hosted by Ira Flatow and Flora Lichtman. From WNYCStudios.
David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social the sea is completely written for me
https://www.transitbooks.org/books/darker
Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard--posts in a personal capacity, mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
https://deidrelynch.org
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
RRose @dawphin.bsky.social Someone said there’d be cake. Writer, originally Chicawgowan, living in Oyreland for the craic. Older - and stronger - than dirt.
Joyelle McSweeney @joyellemcsweeney.bsky.social Poet, critic, publisher - H Thomas Harvey @happyspastic.bsky.social Facta non verba.
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Ed Yong @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
Deesha Philyaw @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social Author of THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF FIRST LADY FREEMAN (on sale 9.29.2026; pre-order: https://bit.ly/firstladyfreeman) and THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES.
Tina Jordan @tinajordan.bsky.social Deputy editor, New York Times Book Review. Reader, writer, archives fiend.
University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social University of Illinois Press / Publisher of scholarly and regional trade books and journals since 1918
Sam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social Fiction critic at the Wall Street Journal (https://www.wsj.com/news/author/sam-sacks); editor at Open Letters Review, formerly Open Letters Monthly (https://openlettersreview.com/) sam_sacks [at] hotmail
California Book Club @calbookclub.bsky.social A virtual book club devoted to literature from and about the Golden State.
Brought to you by Alta Journal.
Join here for free: https://www.altaonline.com/california-book-club/
Microcosm Publishing @microcosm.bsky.social Based in #Portland and Cleveland. A Publisher's Weekly's fastest growing publisher 2022-2024. #Autistic founded/owned #ownvoices idealism; Change your life then the world around you; since 1996.
Microcosmpublishing.com
Microcosm.pub/newsletter
book culture @bookculture.com An independent bookstore based in New York
Book Post @bookpostusa.bsky.social A bite-sized, newsletter-based book review, sending subscribers well-crafted reviews by distinguished & engaging writers direct to their inboxes. linktr.ee/bookpostusa
The Europeans @europeanspod.bsky.social An award-winning weekly podcast about Europe hosted by katyinparis.bsky.social and dominicinamsterdam.bsky.social
New episodes every Thursday 🎉
europeanspodcast.com
C. Jeffery Evans @cjevans.bsky.social Former economist and land use planner. Screenwriter and author with some love on the contest circuit. Husband, father, grandfather, crip rights activist. Big-P progressive.
Ragers and rude posters will be blocked.
Daniel Green @greenlitcrit.bsky.social Literary Critic. Author, Beyond the Beyond the Blurb: On Critics and Criticism. Proprietor, The Reading Experience. https://www.readexperience.net
Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill
Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/
Craft newsletter: https://prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/
Emily Choate @emilychoate.bsky.social A Writer from Tennessee
Ellen McGrath Smith @ellenbreezely.bsky.social I write and help other people with their writing.
Monica Macansantos, alias Butchay @missmacansantos.bsky.social Shearing Fellow, Black Mountain Institute, 2024-25. Author of RETURNING TO MY FATHER'S KITCHEN: ESSAYS (forthcoming from Northwestern University Press) and LOVE AND OTHER RITUALS: STORIES. Work in Colorado Review, The Hopkins Review, Bennington Review, etc
Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social Senior lecturer in modern British history at Newcastle University. C20th/C21st British childhood, adulthood & age. Writes & reviews fiction: loves the speculative, sapphic and uncanny. Lesbian. 🌈 https://drlauratisdall.wordpress.com
C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com Novelist (ORDINARY BEAR, SMALL ANIMALS CAUGHT IN TRAPS), nonfiction writer (CHASING ALASKA). Pacific NW/Alaska expat in Rhode Island exile. Dogs, books, boats. Feet in the ocean, head in the clouds. Find me at www.cbbernard.com.
John McMurtrie @johnmcmurtrie.bsky.social Nonfiction editor, Kirkus Reviews.
Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social Novelist interested in arts, sciences, curiosities.
J Fisher🌈 @fisherw.bsky.social He / Him. Gay writer, reader, amateur film aficionado, unusually good cook. Bear in Training 🐻
A Midwestern man through and through, transplanted to Dallas. Well, near Dallas.
Christian Livermore @chlivermore.bsky.social The Los Angeles Review of Books called my memoir, We Are Not Okay, ‘ineffably important...relentless and courageous and entertaining and upsetting.’ New novel Execution of Tertius Lafontaine out from Meat for Tea Press in spring ‘25. Plague Remedy Podcast.
Sim Kern @simkern.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE FREE PEOPLE’S VILLAGE and DEPART, DEPART! among others
Environmental journalism
Trans, Jewish, Gulf Coast, they/them
Heather Bell Adams @heatherbelladams.bsky.social Author MARANATHA ROAD (WVU) & THE GOOD LUCK STONE (Haywire); fiction in North Carolina Literary Review, New Letters, Reckon Review, Thomas Wolfe Review, Still, Stanchion, etc Rep’d by Carly Watters
Danny Caine @dannycaine.com author HOW TO PROTECT BOOKSTORES AND WHY • work @ Institute for Local Self-Reliance • books from Microcosm, Mason Jar Press, Autofocus and more • dannycaine.com- V Varun Ravindran @var-rav.bsky.social
John Domini @giovannid.bsky.social Writing slowly, aging fast. Latest a memoir, THE ARCHEOLOGY OF A GOOD RAGÙ. Others include THE COLOR INSIDE A MELON, novel, & MOVIEOLA!, stories. Praise from Salman Rushdie, Marlon James. Other work all over, Lit Hub, etc. https://www.johndomini.com.