JR Fenn @jrfenn.bsky.social Writer, teacher, parent, dreamer | TINY VESSELS out from Red Mare Press | Words in or forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Orion's Belt, DIAGRAM, Split Lip, Witness, Boston Review, Gulf Coast | Ucross Fellow | Syracuse MFA | Prof at SUNY ESF | www.jrfenn.com
Matt Lanark @mattlanark.bsky.social ✍️ probably not writing the Great American Novel
📚 Great-ish Books on @substack
🏀 Undrafted NBA free agent since 2012
📌 Washington, DC
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Arthur Mandal @arthurmandal.bsky.social Brit/US writer of uncanny fiction. Best Small Fictions 2025. Over 40 stories in The Barcelona Review, LITRO, Southeast Review, The Forge, The Los Angeles Review and others. @nightjarpress Based in Eugene, Oregon (but grew up in UK). www.arthurmandal.com
Matt Tice @ticewrites.bsky.social Fiction writer represented by Falkin Literary. My debut novel, SEAFLOWER, is currently looking for a home.
Duxbury, MA
Fiction and other projects here: Ticewrites.com
Independent Lit @independentlit.bsky.social Celebrating the UK's independent literature. For those who read adventurously.
https://substack.com/@independentlit
@royakhatiblou.bsky.social et al.
Independentlituk@gmail.com
The Ubergroup @theubergroup.bsky.social a 501(c)3 nonprofit providing low cost education for writers. Prose, poetry, stage, screen, nonfiction, journalism, comics, animation, podcasts, you name it. If it has a writer at any stage, we teach it.
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Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social 🌲🧚👻 Writer of strange & unusual tales. Ghosts, folklore & history from Wiltshire and beyond. Earth & nature lover. 👻🧚🌲 ☕ www.weird-wiltshire.co.uk
Marion Lougheed @marionlougheed.bsky.social Writer, editor, TCK, and anthropologist. https://linktr.ee/marionlougheed
Amanda @akscotland.bsky.social Co-host of the Not Quite Write Podcast and judge of the Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction.
Writes in the tiny spaces in between.
Ashley Mangtani @writerash.bsky.social Slipstream Writer ✍️
Published or forthcoming in Strange Horizons | LITRO | Washington Square Review | Boudin | Neon Dystopia | Expat Press | HAWKEYE etc
Short story collection ⬇️
ashleymangtani.com
Penzler Publishers @penzlerpublishers.bsky.social Independent publisher of mystery fiction, thrillers, and true crime. Home of The Mysterious Press, American Mystery Classics, and Crime Ink, with offices in NYC's legendary Mysterious Bookshop. penzlerpublishers.com.
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The Memory Pools @memorypool.bsky.social https://memorypool.bearblog.dev/blog/
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.
Liz 📚🎲 @somekindofstardust.bsky.social I love reading, musicals, Dungeons & Dragons, and writing short stories and poetry. I’m also a halsey fan and listen to audio dramas like Malevolent, The Magnus Archives, and Wolf 359.
Jim C @jimcolella.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Former blogger, journo, & short story writer. Words in Flash Fiction Magazine & The London Economic. Now focused on creative nonfiction.
https://substack.com/@jimcolella
https://instagram.com/jimcwriter
📍UK
Writers Festival of Belgium @writefestbe.bsky.social Annually on the first weekend of October. Itinerant - all details ➡️ writefest.be write to us info@writefest.be / Short Stories of Belgium competition and book #ShortStoriesBE
Tony Dunnell @tonydunnell.bsky.social Writer of fact and fiction ( #scifi mainly, some horror). English but living in the high jungle of Peru. Short stories published in Escape Pod, Fusion Fragment, Fission, Sci Phi Journal and more. I also post about #movies. https://tonydunnell.com/
First Novel Prize @firstnovelprize.bsky.social Writing competition for unpublished and independently published novelists. Entries close on the 31st of May. Judged by Sally Williamson (Transworld) and Hayley Steed (Janklow & Nesbit). Organised by the Literary Studio. Bloomsbury, London
firstnovel.co.uk
Glen Campbell @glenkcampbell.bsky.social Helping you discover op.europa.eu, the portal of the Publications Office of the European Union, in Luxembourg 🇱🇺. EU civil servant. Reposts my responsibility or fault.
Luce Leonard @luceleonard.bsky.social I really love the teachings of the Dalai Lama and the great spiritual masters around him. They make me feel good.
Photo: The Dalai Lama
To my right is Yahne Le Toumelin, Matthieu Ricard’s mother.
Rawhead @rawheadjournal.bsky.social Open to submissions of creative nonfiction and visual art. We believe in the power of art and literature as form of resistance.
Now on Submittable:
https://rawhead.submittable.com/submit
cmcrockford.bsky.social @cmcrockford.bsky.social BIRDSONGS (Alien Buddha, 2024) and WITH ONE'S OWN EYES (Moonstone Press, 2026). AuDHD. West Philly. Cat dad. Anti-fascist.
Buy my book: https://www.cmcrockford.net/store/p/with-ones-own-eyes
Brown Hound Press @brownhoundpress.bsky.social A small press in Lexington, KY that publishes offbeat mystery, dark humor, southern gothic & literary fiction. A free story each week! We pay authors.
brownhoundpress.com
Amy Jean Nobles 🌹 @ajnobles.com AjNobles.com • Las Vegas, NV • Deep South Antifascist • Cajun Artist & Chef • Survivor • Agnostic Humanist • she/they/ya'll
Intrepidus Ink @intrepidusink.bsky.social Intrepidlode is here.
A magazine of intrepid culture.
Alarmingly individual characters.
Momentum earned the hard way.
They finish what they start—and win.
intrepidusink.com
Jacqueline Parker @onmytangent.bsky.social Not good at writing bios but I write other things. Editor of fiction and flash at JMWW and The Hopper. jacqueline-parker.com
Wild Roof Journal @wildroofjournal.bsky.social WRJ is a community for visual & literary art. We're interested in creativity & nature & connections. Check out our website and open submissions / wildroofjournal.com / wildroofjournal.substack.com / EIC @aaronlelito.bsky.social
JMWW Journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social jmww (https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/guidelines/), a weekly journal publishing the best in fiction, poetry, flash, essays, and interviews. Our stories have appeared in Best American Essays, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, BIFFY, and Best of Net.
Jennifer Sarha @necverbum.bsky.social Independent scholar, sort of writing a novel. Interests: translation, historiography, toutes les révolutions. She/they. Suomalainen.
justin nicholes @justinnicholes.bsky.social KILL SUIT, crime-thriller novella, forthcoming (New Pulp Press). Stories in Argyle Literary, Cleaver, Flash Boulevard, *82 Review, Dread Literary, + more. He, him, his. 📖 my work ⤵
🔗 https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/justinnicholes
CampbellPenn @campbellpenn.bsky.social I am a wounded poet-queen wandering through emotionally surreal experiences trying to understand human behavior.
Perfect God = Lexa Gates @mx-j.bsky.social https://shop.capitolmusic.com/collections/lexa-gates
Samuel @sbladwell.bsky.social I like magnets and spins, and edit manuscripts about these things at Nature Communications. I also like bikes, foraging, and making fruit wine, but I don't edit manuscripts about these things.
The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social We're an international literary magazine in Madrid. We connect English and Spanish speaking literary cultures through fiction, poetry, essays and interviews.
Subs Closed.
Ian MacClayn @ianmacclayn.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/ianmacclayn
Writer. Debut novel THE HOLLOW OF EVENING out Feb 9 2027 with Dundurn Press/Rare Machines
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A free blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
JoAnneh Nagler @joannehnagler.bsky.social Author, Singer, all things ART. Lover of my sweet husband. Yoga, travel, love being alive!
H. Marin @hanmarin.bsky.social • han
• she/they
• MFA - Fairfield U.
• queer, nd, & disabled spec fic author
• HWA, SFWA, Codex
• freelance editor @ http://www.hmarinliterary.com
• novelette editor @foofarawpress.bsky.social
• fck genAI
• words in Night Shades, ITAL, Gavagai & more
Sayima @sayima.bsky.social
https://sayima.com/
Aron J. Rausgard-Writer @aronjrausegard.bsky.social Author of grimdark fantasy. Centrist. I'm a guy, so my pronouns are obvious. Strictly chickly. I'm tired of the lack of quality fiction for men like me, so I'm writing it.
Lee @writerlee.bsky.social Writer from Liverpool. Words in anthologies by Comma Press and Confingo Publishing. PhD student.
Cassandra Lewis @writercasslewis.bsky.social A writer exploring questions about social responsibility. Author of debut novel GRIEF CAMP (SFWP '27). CassandraLewis.com. Photo by Desiree Bustos
@hintermann.bsky.social @hintermann.bsky.social Pro-decency, dog lover, Arsenal FC.
@cornerstoneslit.bsky.social @cornerstoneslit.bsky.social Cornerstones is the #1 transatlantic literary consultancy. We are the writer’s friend, and we believe your story matters.
Flex Fish Games @flexfishgames.bsky.social Artist Matthew king and programmer Rami Bukhari, teaming up to develop nostalgic hand-drawn 2D games.
Phillip Joseph Williams @phillipjwilliams.bsky.social ND; Writer; Father; Husband; he/him; left; remain; @faberacademy alumni and @Arvon fanatic. Thoughts: my own (unless obviously not).
DJ Huppatz @djhuppatz.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Follower. He/him.
Literature, design, music, architecture, art, history, philosophy, and politics.
Basile Lebret edits Cult of the Dog @evoripclaw.bsky.social Horror (screen)writer
Kristina Klecko @kristinaklecko.bsky.social lesen & sammeln & schreiben
https://steady.page/de/kristinaklecko/posts
Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | UITDRIJVEN (2025) | PERFORMING MAGNETISM (2026)
Judi Walsh @judiwalsh.bsky.social 
🧿 Nya 💙 @seranyabeck.bsky.social 🧿 Seranya Beck ✌️ Artist | Author | Cosmic Architect
Building @-Social™ — creators keep 100%, forever → https://at-social.social/
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Peter Steinberg @peter23.bsky.social Dad, husband, maker of food, rider of bike, Brooklynite, movie watcher, reader, music listener, person who looks at his iPhone too much, literary agent at UTA
Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social Artist & writer. History & art buff. Museum of Photocopies. Quietus. Guardian. Observer. Louder than War. WORM, Rotterdam. Leiden. Write about music, NL, & my family history. #MDANT. 3rd book out March ‘27 https://linktr.ee/richardfoster
Marcelle Heath @marcelleheath.bsky.social Short story writer
Author, Is that all there is?
Editor, matchbook
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Tope Hall @topehall.bsky.social Adventures of Slothy and Lord Thrilling
BIBLIOPHONE 🇵🇸 @bibliophone.bsky.social Words. Heard.
www.bibliophone.com
TVWritersVault @tvwritersvault.bsky.social Where TV/Film Producers & Execs Scout New Pitches for Film, TV & Digital. Shows Discovered & Broadcast Globally on Discovery Channel, A&E, Lifetime TV, SyFy, Velocity & Others... Visit https://www.tvwritersvault.com
LM “Gory” Fontanes 👻 @lorifontanes.bsky.social Writer/educator/community advocate. Cats & catastrophe. More better food 4 all. Bewaring billionaires bearing tech. #SaveThePeople
Jack Wright @jackwrightauthor.com Horror author from the North of England. Reyt Spooky.
Stories of grief, folklore, and the things that move when they shouldn’t.
Duskfield Pines — ???
Anna’s Veil — ???
https://ko-fi.com/jackwrightauthor
https://buymeacoffee.com/jackwright
Armin Ganguly @arminganguly.bsky.social German-Brit rebel made in the 60s, RIBA architect & designer by trade. Mentor & writer by passion. Building dreams, breaking pencils. Living proof that realistic optimism is structurally sound 👍 Motto: 👉 #alwayslookup
Danielle Barr @daniellebarrwrites.bsky.social Literary fiction author/Driftwood Press short story winner/The Milk House/HAD/Okay Donkey/Petrichor Prize Finalist/ Rep: Iris Blasi at Arc Literary Management
Haiku Poems @haikupoems.bsky.social Welcome to the haiku poems collection 📖✒️
Orion's Legacy Editing @orions-legacy-edit.bsky.social Orion’s Legacy Sanctuary
Grief‑aware creativity, lunar symbolism & ritual guides
Spaces for remembrance, compassion & quiet becoming
https://linktr.ee/orionslegacyediting
H. Perry Horton @hperryhorton.bsky.social New Novel Available Now:
DON'T LET THE DARKNESS EAT YOU UP
https://www.amazon.com/DONT-LET-DARKNESS-EAT-YOU/dp/B0FVT8VWKS
Books: https://shorturl.at/AuKlV
Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social Published by Blackbough Poetry, The Storms Journal, FolkHeart Press. Featured writer in Patricia's Pen, and on A Thousand Shades Of Green podcast and a regular guest reader on Eat The Storms podcast. Best of The Net nominated.
Women Writers Network @womenwritersnet.bsky.social Supporting and promoting #WomenWriters. On insta at womenwritersnetwork and Twitter (X) @womenwritersnet.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Rachel Cantor @rachelcantor.bsky.social Author of the adult literary novels Half-Life of a Stolen Sister (2023), Good on Paper (2016), and A Highly Unlikely Scenario (2014). Now writing speculative MG/YA. Flailing but I mean well. She/her. www.rachelcantor.com
David Mair @davidmair4.bsky.social Science & knowledge for policy, democracy, public governance and public administration at European Commission’s Joint Research Centre but personal views only.
https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/evidence-informed-policy-making_en
Heidi Marjamäki @heidimarjamaki.bsky.social I write creepy things 🖤
Managing Editor & Associate Fiction Editor at @okaydonkeymag.com.
https://www.heidimarjamaki.com
Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social Deep Woods of Philly | Sometimes Writer | Spoonie Crew | Accidental Startupper | Words in New Letters, Wild Roof Journal, etc.| NO DMs
https://linktr.ee/lisadellaporta
The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the world’s best new writing.
http://theberlinliteraryreview.com
@j-west27.bsky.social @j-west27.bsky.social British writer & editor living in Belgium.
Patrick Coughlin @pcwildlife.bsky.social Wildlife Photography. Mostly Northern California. All photos my own, never baited. he/him
Martine Kropkowski @mkropkowski.bsky.social Writer
Ultimo Press
www.martinekropkowski.com
Goetvinck.Gallery @goetvinckgallery.bsky.social Ghent-city, Belgium - paint, charcoal, oil pastel, ink
www.goetvinck.gallery
The question as to the origin of the art of painting is uncertain but all agree that it began with tracing an outline around a man's shadow
Pliny The Elder
JWT_BookAdventures @jwtba.bsky.social Welcome to JWT_BookAdventures - I do Q&A interviews with Authors - I also do book reviews if I am interested in reading the book
Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Flash fiction writer | 2025 Highly Commended Bridport Prize & Finalist New Millennium Writings | Published in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Flash the Court, Writers’ Hour, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and elsewhere.
linktr.ee/adelegallogly
Moj Mortazavi @mojmrtzvi.bsky.social Filmmaker / Writer / Visual Poet
Capturing what moves me, breaks me, remakes me.
Posting thoughts, films, dreams, and whatever won’t leave me alone.
🎞️ mojmrtzvi.com
✍️ Essays on Substack https://substack.com/@mojmrtzvi?r=22uyqp&utm_medium=ios
Isabel Caves @isabelcaves.bsky.social Writer. Poet. Photographer. Graphic Designer. Digital Artist.
Free original art phone wallpapers: https://buymeacoffee.com/isabelcaves/extras
Printable Wall Art: http://www.ko-fi.com/isabelcavesartdesign/shop
(No AI in my work)
The Reader Berlin @thereaderberlin.bsky.social ✍️ Berlin's Platform for Creative Writers since 2011 ✍️
www.thereaderberlin.com
Creative Writing Workshops & Writing Classes / Mentoring / Readings / The Berlin Writing Prize
Jen Jilany_Editor @jenjeditor.bsky.social Certified Professional Editor, Up Style Editing.
Fiction and Memoir. 📚
Editors Canada Executive.
www.upstyleediting.ca
Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social Literary agent @shawliterary.bsky.social, formerly head book buyer at Readings Books, Melbourne. Kafka, Sebald, the Antipodes.
JP Maney @j-p-m.bsky.social My three most recent books are now available online. "Ireland Feeds My Soul", "A Booklover's Last Stand" and "It's Your Day, Make it your Tao" are all available on the Big A. You can also order Tao from your local bookshop. More at www.jpmaney.com
Caroline Roodhouse @daddyblackbird.bsky.social Suicide Widow | Amazon Best-Selling Author | A Story of Horror to Hope | Communicator | Mentor | Mum | Mental Health | UK
Read: https://daddyblackbird.com/book/ 💛
Mike Piero 🏳️🌈 @mikepiero.org Writer. Novelist. Poet. Game Studies Scholar. Writing in J Journal, Midway Journal, Rain Taxi, Moveable Type, Impost, Sandy River Review, & Trash Cat Lit. *Views are my own.* Monarch and Best Small Fictions noms. More at www.mikepiero.org. He/Him. Bi. 🩷💜💙
Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social Poet | Translator | Researcher | Bessettienne. Loving Tallulah Bankhead (Paris Heretics 2022). Quarantine Daybook (Bottlecap 2021). PhD at CY Cergy Paris Université. She/her.
IG: @chapp010
National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand @natflashficdaynz.bsky.social New Zealand's biggest celebration of the smallest form of fiction -- 22 June
Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social Magazine & Press edited by @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @petermcallister.bsky.social | short fiction | flash | non-fiction | concrete, vispo, experimental | prose, poetry & hybrid chapbooks
https://inkfishmag.com
trace press @tracepress.bsky.social Literature from the global south & diasporas.
tracepress.org
Tkaronto/ elsewhere
IG: @tracepress00
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