Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social Film critic at Slate; co-host of the Slate Culture Gabfest podcast; repped by the Cheney Agency; member NYFCC. Camera Man, my book on Buster Keaton, is out: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203
Lindsay Vaught @lindsayfouts.bsky.social Spalding CNF student
🎷 player
Louisville KY liberal
Protect trans 🏳️⚧️ youth
RT doesn’t = endorsement
Melissa @2023chastete.bsky.social Si tu ne me comprends pas, c'est pareil 🌈
Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social Book recs, reviews, and news. Supporting independent booksellers as a Bookshop affiliate. Thanks for helping us help local bookstores. 🙏🏼 #BooksMatter
https://bookshop.org/shop/matteristbooks https://matteristbooks.substack.com/
https://matteristbooks.com/
Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social "We'll Be Birds" chapbook release 9/24/26 https://www.sandandgravelpress.com/lisa-thornton-chapbook-release
Writer, nurse. SmokeLong Quarterly, Cincinnati Review+. Senior flash fiction editor @jmww. Sucker for a good barn.
lisathorntonwriter.com
the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social the engine(idling is an online literary magazine for the restless. unique themed issues.
www.engineidling.net
EIC Danielle McMahon (@dehm000.bsky.social)
Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social “Ways We Vanish” from Okay Donkey, “Ragnarök at the Father Daughter Dance” from Variant, finalist for the Donald Hall AWP Prize, poems in Threepenny, Southern Review, APR, HAD, etc.
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
Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social Writer in NYC. Former Attorney. EIC Split Lip Magazine. Copper Nickel Editor's Prize | BASS Distinguished Story | Kenyon Review | Ploughshares | Artist-in-Residence @ South 85 Journal | Next up: CHEEKS | http://maureenlangloss.com/
@bsherm36.bsky.social @bsherm36.bsky.social Author of HOW TO GET THERE FROM HERE (Ad Hoc). Stories @Smokelong, Flash Frog, Gone Lawn, Bending Genres. Subs editor @Smokelong. BMF 2024, 2026. BSF 2025. Noms: Pushcart, BOTN. Author of five mystery novels. PhD from CUNY Grad Center.
Rina Palumbo @rinapalumbo.bsky.social Ph.D. (JHU, History); Italian-Canadian expatriate. Writer, Editor, avid reader.
Writing in Hopkins Review, Identity Theory, Ghost Parachute, et al.
https://rinapalumbowriter.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
Jennifer Hester Mattox @jennifermattox.bsky.social By day I’m the director of The Carnegie Center, a community learning & literary arts center in Lexington, KY. By night I’m a writer living in Bourbon Co., the birthplace of bourbon.
Bethany Jarmul @bethanyjarmul.bsky.social Appalachian poet/writer, TAKE ME HOME (@BellePointPress), LIGHTNING IS A MOTHER (ELJ, 2025), Best Small Fictions 2024, Best Spiritual Literature 2023, Nominations: Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, 100+ pubs.
Beth Kanter @beekaekae.bsky.social Writer, teacher, workshop leader.
Hand holder
Words in: X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, Unbroken, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Cease, Cows and others.
Pushcart nominee.
www.bethkanter.com
Books: No Access DC & Great Food Finds DC…
Gregory Spatz @gregoryspatz.bsky.social Writer, fiddler, teacher, professor.
www.gregoryspatz.com
www.thejaybirds.com
AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social Our avatar is the Vedic god of fire, our goal is literary combustion. A beacon for 50 years, shining brightly in print and online. bu.edu/agni
[Art for AGNI 103 by Danielle Mckinney]
Catapult Book Group @catapultbooks.bsky.social Catapult, Counterpoint, Soft Skull, & Hawthorne Books.
Tana Jean Welch @tanajeanwelch.bsky.social Poet. Spy. Author of IN PARACHUTES DESCENDING (Pitt Poetry Series, 2024) and LATEST VOLCANO (Marsh Hawk Press, 2016).
http://linktr.ee/tanajeanwelch
sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social dunno
Nina Miller @ninamiller.bsky.social Physician, Fencer and Creative
Wigleaf top 50
https://ninamillerwrites.com/
Hybrids/Photos @ Cutbow Quarterly and Raw Lit
Prose/Poetry @ Sci-Fi Shorts, Bright Flash, Five South, Roi Fainéant, Five Minutes and more.
Jane Dugdale @janedugdale.bsky.social Writer. Researcher. Wannabe ping-ping champion.
Jessica @wheneverfrenetic.bsky.social
Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social NEA Poetry| CantoMundo |Fulbright | Calif Arts Council | Author of 4 poetry books. Work in Paris Review, Witness, APR, Laurel Review and Nimrod. #Portuguese #poetrycommunity #Binders #Yaddo https://www.millicentborgesaccardi.com/
Kelly Mustian @kellymustian.bsky.social Author of the USA TODAY bestseller THE GIRLS IN THE STILT HOUSE and THE RIVER KNOWS YOUR NAME. Lover of trees, mountains, and rivers. kellymustian.com
Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social Poet, writer, translator (UY poetry), comics. Pitt Poetry Series, Fieldmouse Press, etc. Editor, Wisconsin Poetry Series, UW Press. Emerita CW Prof, UW-Madison, Rep Gail Hochman. Graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL, WaPo 10 Best Graphic Novel 2024
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/
Evan Brooke @evanbrooke.bsky.social Debut novel Fall '26(Atria Books/S&S). Words in Threepenny Review, Northwest Review, Baltimore Review, Cutleaf, CQR.
Forthcoming: Passages North.
Jersey native, Philly resident.
Alum: Bennington Writing Seminars, Bread Loaf, Community of Writers
Margaret Adams @megaretadams.bsky.social Writer, Reader, NP. Work in Best Small Fictions, Threepenny, Joyland, & more.
| BAE notable | Sewanee, Tin House alumn | Fic editor JMWW
Lisa (Elizabeth) Turner @lhornert.bsky.social Hiya!
Fiction Chapbook w/Black Lawrence Press! https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/horsemouth-and-aquariumhead/
Poetry Chapbook: The Tales of Flaxie Char @dancinggrlpress.
she/her
Saimi Hanma ⚔️ サイミ @saimihanma.bsky.social Author of 'The Naturalist at Home' and 'Nature Obscura'. Writer, artist, photographer. ND
著者
aka Kelly Brenner
@nudibranch.bsky.social
#InverteFest
https://saimihanma.com
Patreon https://www.patreon.com/saimihanma
illustratedjournal @illustratedjournal.bsky.social #moleskine #illustratedjournal #watercolor
Nuala O'Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social Writer. Irish. Autistic. Latest book: Menagerie (poetry).
https://nualaoconnor.com/
Aruni Kashyap @arunikashyap.bsky.social Director of Creative Writing Program, Assoc Prof, University of Georgia l Translator of five books l Harvard Radcliffe Fellow l NEA Fellow l How to Date a Fanatic (Harper Via 2026) www.arunikashyap.com l 🏳️🌈 He/Him l https://www.instagram.com/arunikashyap/
Amy Barnes @amygcb.bsky.social Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social
Marie-louise McGuinness @mlmcguinness.bsky.social Words @ Fictive Dream, Banshee, Splonk, Bending Genres, Flash Frog, The Forge, Milk Candy Review, Gone Lawn, 2x Pushcart nominated, LL Bath Short Story Award, Best Microfictions 2025, BBC Radio 4, Co.Founder: The Pride Roars, Editor Raw Lit
Andrea Rinard @arinard.bsky.social Fiction writer, reader, instructor at Ringling College of Art and Design; author of Murmurations; www.andrearinard.com
Allison Wyss (But the abyss... It's still in my heart.) @allisonwyss.bsky.social I don’t think I’ve been lost. she/her
And a book(!): SPLENDID ANATOMIES (Shirley Jackson Award Finalist, 2022)
https://www.allisonwyss.com
Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social Publisher of award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For the workshop, head to @mccormackwc.bsky.social.
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
Christopher Citro @christophercitro.bsky.social If We Had a Lemon We'd Throw It and Call That the Sun (2021) and The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (2015). Pushcart Prize (2018). Best New Poets (2014) Editorial Assistant @Seneca Review. https://christophercitro.com
Jessica Handler (she/her) @jessicah.bsky.social Author "The Magnetic Girl," (Southern Book Prize, Indie Next, Bitter Southerner picks.) "Invisible Sisters,” too. Drummer. Southerner. Abortion rights are human rights. www.jessicahandler.com. New novel, “The World To See” coming in 2026.
Jamie Ford @jamieford.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of HOTEL ON THE CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET and THE MANY DAUGHTERS OF AFONG MOY. Decent writer. Failed poet. Stridently self-deprecating.
https://linktr.ee/JamieFordAuthor
Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social A LIVING REMEDY, a New York Times Notable Book • ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW, National Book Critics Circle finalist • words in NYT Mag, Time, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
Bookends & Beginnings @bookends.bsky.social Evanston's independent bookstore
1620 Orrington Ave.
Open every day!
10-6 Sunday-Tuesday
10-8 Wednesday-Saturday
Paula Whyman @paulawhyman.bsky.social Author, BAD NATURALIST: One Woman's Ecological Education on a Wild Virginia Mountaintop, Timber Press/Hachette, 2025. Paperback coming 8/11/26! Website: https://paulawhyman.com Newsletter: https://badnaturalistnewsletter.beehiiv.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.
Audrey Niffenegger @audreyniffenegger.bsky.social Artist, writer, cat lady.
Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social St. Louis-based literary press distributed by New York Review Books. Publishes Renee Gladman, Leonora Carrington, Cristina Rivera Garza, Amina Cain, Giada Scodellaro, Kate Briggs, Brais Lamela, Denise Rose Hansen, etc. Est. 2009. dorothyproject.com
Todd Robert Petersen @toddpetersen.bsky.social PICNIC IN THE RUINS from Counterpoint Press. Pater Familias. Novelist. Professor of Creative Writing and Film. Repped by: Sobel/Weber.
Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social Writing in the New Statesman, Liberal Currents, New Socialist, Tribune, Vulture, Aftermath. Host of Death Sentence podcast.
Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social Novelist and short story writer.
Signed/personalized copies of my books here: https://www.macsbacks.com/dan-chaon
Kate McIntyre @katemcintyre.bsky.social Writer, MAD PRAIRIE, Flannery O’Connor Award winner, PEN/Bingham Prize long list. Assistant prof @wpi. Co-editor @hexliterary.🌻 🌪 katemcintyrewriting.com
Emily Mirengoff @emirengoff.bsky.social Half old lady, half baby. Fiction editor at TriQuarterly; stories in STORY, Santa Monica Review, and more. repped by @frecklywench.bsky.social www.emirengoff.com
Shannon Sanders @shanders.bsky.social THE GREAT WHEREVER (forthcoming from Holt, summer ‘26); COMPANY, 2024 winner of the L.A.Times Book Prizes Award for First Fiction: https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/company. Mom, twin mom, lawyer, Silver Springer. She/her
Queen of Darkness @qod.bsky.social AKA “Sunshine.” Professor. Writer.
Crystal Wilkinson @crystalwilki.bsky.social Novelist, Food Advocate, Professor. National Bestselling Author of PRAISESONG FOR THE KITCHEN GHOSTS, PERFECT BLACK, BIRDS OF OPULENCE
https://linktr.ee/CrystalWilkinson?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=d3c6b47f-690c-483b-9898-8faed08cd35d
Tina Jordan @tinajordan.bsky.social Deputy editor, New York Times Book Review. Reader, writer, archives fiend.
Sophia Huneycutt @sophiahuneycutt.bsky.social Author of THE HOUSE BUILT ON ALLIGATOR BONES, forthcoming from Penguin Random House / Dutton 🐊 | She/her | Better on Instagram @sohuneycutt
Jan Kaneen. Northern Writer Granny. PhD student at York St John @jankaneen1.bsky.social Award-winning writer, blogs https://jankaneen.com/ '23 Bath NiF winner, SL Rubery Award & First Pages Prize '24 Flash & Short story collection, Hostile Environments on sale https://www.northodox.co.uk/product-page/hostile-environments-paperback
Kate Doyle @katedoyle.bsky.social American writer in Amsterdam // “I Meant It Once" from Algonquin Books (US) and Corsair (UK) in 2023 // www.katedoylewriter.com
Tanya Žilinskas @tanyazilinskas.com Mostly plant content. Fiction in EPOCH, The Sun, Shenandoah, Chicago Quarterly Review, etc. Working on a novel about bad art friends and a story collection set in a surreal version of Marin County. Host of the BAIT Reading Series. tanyazilinskas.com
HAD @havehashad.com We had an idea that started as a joke. We had an affinity for that minimalist look and feel of early online journals. We had a couple drinks.
https://www.havehashad.com
Bone Parade @boneparade.bsky.social Bone Parade is a literary journal that publishes quality works of magical realism, fabulism, speculative, weird, and genre-bending fiction. We love character driven stories that sift through the mucky waters of ethics and existentialism. www.BoneParade.com
Naz Knudsen @nazbk.bsky.social Producer, Writer, Educator • Iranian-American • she/her • Asst. Prof. @ UNC • Co EiC @SugarSugarSalt_ • @nazbk on IG & 🧵s •www.nazknudsen.com
Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social Writer, retired teacher, sometime sage. 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship. Stories in Kenyon, Witness, Zyz, AQR. 4 collections from small presses. “The Divide” from Cornerstone Press, 2026. MFA from Montana, long time ago.
evanmorganwilliams.com
Susan Shepherd @susanshepherd.bsky.social Fiction Ploughshares, Harvard Review, ChicagoQReview, Storylitmag. Kenyonreview, Best American Short Stories 2024, OneStoryMag, NPR, Marketplace, Boston Globe,
breadloafwriter susanshepherd.com repd by Susan Golomb at the Writer's House.
Terry Holland @terryholland.bsky.social https://terryholland.carrd.co/
https://substack.com/@tfholland
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Elissa Field @elissafield.bsky.social Lit noir novels + flash | SmokeLong Submission Ed | Runner Up Killer Claymore Best Mystery | Stories in/coming SmokeLong trampset HAD Moon City Ghost Parachute Monkeybicycle Citron Review Peatsmoke CRAFT Conjunctions ++ | IG FB elissalaurenfield.com
Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social Fancy words, witty descriptions, and vintage illustrations to educate and entertain.
My Book!
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781682687994
Calendars!
https://grandiloquent-word-of-the-day-2026-calendars.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
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/
Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social Judged this year by Jonathan Lethem. Anthology series edited by Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, published by Pelekinesis
Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social Writer, teacher. Up next: PENITENT, a novel (2028, Doubleday); TYPO, nonfiction (2027, Bloomsbury). Out now: APPLESEED (2021, Mariner). REFUSE TO BE DONE (2022, Soho Press).
Sara Hills @sarahillswrites.bsky.social THE EVOLUTION OF BIRDS (Ad Hoc Fiction, 2021)
Best Small Fictions | Wigleaf Top 50
SmokeLong Mikey, Bath Flash Fiction Award, QuietManDave CNF
2027 NFFD anthology editor
sarahillswrites.com
🌵US/UK #FlashFiction
Bethany Marcel @bethanymarcel.bsky.social Writer! Mom! Working on a novel. Work in The Sun, Literary Hub, The Normal School, Creative Nonfiction, etc.
www.bethanymarcel.com
Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social Proudly independent literary magazine & small press, established in 2004. Books + print issues + online issues + conferences + writing retreats + other stuff.
https://barrelhousemag.com/
Kelli Jo Ford @kellijoford.bsky.social Crooked Hallelujah (Grove Atlantic). Cherokee Nation>TX>Virginia. Cherokee. she/her. Hiatusing over here now.
kellijoford.com
Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social Author and professor type person.
SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24
Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com
Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social Writer
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social Complete fiction
JAKE @publishedbyjake.bsky.social The Anti-Literary Mag. Here to ruin your feeds. Closed for submissions. Read the mag at jakethemag.com.
Garth Greenwell @garthgreenwell.bsky.social What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award | Eeyore at the gay club | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I ♥️ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; author of HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE; rep’d by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey
linktr.ee/ambernoellesparks
R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • co-edited Kink • Lambda Literary Prize
www.ro-kwon.com- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social Author of THE MAN WHO COULD MOVE CLOUDS & FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE @doubledaybooks. Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Finalist. Descended from shamans and ghost whisperers
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
Isaac Fitzgerald @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social 📝📚 Author of back-to-back instant NYT bestsellers Dirtbag, Massachusetts + American Rambler (+ others)
📺 Talking books on @todayshow
🥾 I walk. A lot.
Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social GRAPHIC RAGE on Substack. Writer & illustrator of stories, essays and feminist comics. '22 NEA fellow. Work in TIME, Vox, New York Times, Washington Post, etc. Very charming IRL. she/her