Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social Mildly friendly, Swiss-based US writer of litfic, working on debut novel. Latest pubs, longform & flash, realism & offbeat: @ghostcitypress @emergejournal @acrossthemargin @TheWoolf @offbeatlit @SubniveanMag & @fiveonthefifth. www.meredithwadley.com
Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social Writes a bit (Pushcart nom x 2, Best Microfiction ‘26, Fish 3rd prize ‘26), reads a lot. Drama (on-stage, mostly) 🏳️🌈
Editor: https://www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/ @neitherfishnorfoul.com
my published stuff via: https://thewavingnotdrowningblog.com/
Grant Maxwell @maxwellgrant.bsky.social I like good books and bad movies
Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social Reading, writing, rabbits 🐇 ✡️
Director of European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social
London
www.deborahzafer.com
https://substack.com/@deborahzafer
Alexandra M. Matthews @alexandrammatthews.bsky.social Fiction in Tiny Molecules, Maudlin House, Fractured Lit, Milk Candy Review, MudRoom, etc. https://www.alexandrammatthews.com/
Ken Brydon @prison-stories.bsky.social Award-winning writer. 39 years incarcerated, 23 at San Quentin. PEN America recognized. Published by Joyce Carol Oates. I write about prison, redemption, loss, humor & hope—and the humanity found where most people never look.
Michael Russell Jones @michaeljonas.bsky.social Word nerd.
Neurodivergent autodidact.
Proud survivor of childhood S.A.
Psych ward philosopher.
Resides and writes in Skokie, Illinois.
https://whiskeytit.com/article/five-poems/
Six Minute Story @6minutestory.bsky.social Six Minute Story is a timer-driven, flash-fiction writing tool. Get a random prompt, write a short story in six minutes flat, and share it – no login required to write.
https://sixminutestory.com
Jennifer Mosier @jennifermosier.bsky.social Actor, director, artistic multi-hyphenate. Half-Asian since before it was cool. Bring on the cats. And the video games. Newly arrived to Canada.
Philippa Bowe @philippabowe.bsky.social Flash fiction, poetry, translation / Micro nouvelles, poésie, traduction. Ghost City Press, NFFR, Reflex Fiction, Bath Flash Fiction, Spark2Flame, Neither Fish Nor Foul, The Hooghley Review. Pushcart Prize nom. Dance, LFC, la belle vie. Elue municipale. 🌄
Horror Underground Film Festival @horrorfilmfestival.bsky.social Various options to submit to the Festival. A HYBRID model. Cinema screenings for audience feedback video.Blog and podcast interviews. And bonus Virtual screening (optional!).
https://filmfreeway.com/horrorunderground
https://festivalforhorror.comi
Female Feedback Film Festival @femalefilmfestival.bsky.social The FEEDBACK Female Film Festival (FFFF) was created for women filmmakers and screenwriters. The goal is to showcase the best of female talent from around the world.
https://femalefilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/FEEDBACKFemaleFilmFestivalFFFF
Fantasy/Sci-Fi Film & Screenplay Festival @scififantasyfest.bsky.social This is a HYBRID film festival with live screenings for the audience feedback video, optional virtual 2nd showcase, and blog & podcast interviews with filmmaker
http://fantasyscififestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/FantasySciFiFilmScreenplayFestival
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Literary Namjooning | Submissions Open! @lit-namjooning.bsky.social We publish flash fiction and non-fiction narratives (<500 words) on self-care aka #namjooning. Editors:
@m-ixedbag.bsky.social, @lakshgiri.bsky.social, @lumchanmfa.bsky.social
https://literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam
literarynamjooning@gmail.com
Kristine Langley Mahler @suburbanprairie.bsky.social Memoirist experimenting with the truth. Author of TEEN QUEEN TRAINING (Autofocus 2026), A CALENDAR IS A SNAKESKIN (Autofocus 2023) and CURING SEASON: ARTIFACTS (WVU Press 2022). Director of @splitlippress.com. More: linktr.ee/suburbanprairie
Joni Page Author @jonipageauthor.bsky.social Wild child. Optimist.
Writer of captivating, happy tales.
Author of Beach Shorts - a Sandthology & The Feminist EarthMother PartyGirl.
Website: www.jonipage.com
Gratefully living on Kaurna Country, Australia.
Elizabeth Crowder @thelizcrowder.bsky.social Writer, editor, librarian
Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026) geni.us/TMtMT. Two-time Best of the Net nominee. | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
JunimoTrashCat - Emilee <3 @moonlitjustice.bsky.social 🥄 Chronic pain spoonie. 🌾 Emotionally invested in Stardew Valley at an unreasonable level. 🎮
Lofi Glow @lofiglow.bsky.social Your soundtrack for calm & focus 🌙
Study • Work • Relax
↓↓↓YouTube ✨
https://www.youtube.com/@thelofiglów
Franco Amati @francoamati.bsky.social writer, poet, SFWA & Codex, ViableParadise 2024,
new collection WORK IS WORK out now: https://www.amazon.com/Work-Franco-Amati/dp/B0HCCQF9YP/
and for all published fiction visit francoamatiwrites.com
Toronto/LA Documentary Film Festival @docfestival.bsky.social 4 tiers to enhance your film.
- in person fest
- audience feedback video
- podcast interview
- virtual showcase
https://documentaryshortfilmfestival.com/toronto-festival/
https://filmfreeway.com/TorontoDocumentaryFilmFestival
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)
Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social Pacific Northwest: Seattle, Portland, Eugene 🌲 | Working-class, poet, photographer, vegan 🌱 | Allium, The Branches, fourteen poems, New Ohio Review, Prairie Fire, Washington State Queer Poetry Anthology
https://stephen-jackson.com
Rachael Kelm-Southworth @bcpks.bsky.social 
Lee Hamblin @hamblin1.bsky.social writer of short fiction/ teacher of yoga
LGBTQ+ Toronto & LA Film Festival @lgbtlatoronto.bsky.social Monthly festival showcasing the best of LGBTQ+ films and screenplays from around the world, using the audience feedback format.
https://lgbttorontofilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/LGBTTorontoFilmFestival
r. p. singletary @rpsingletary.bsky.social W(e)i(r)dely published in so-called 'underground publications,' or so they said. www.rpsingletary.com
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
Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-novel-festival-contests/
Nathan Pettigrew @nathanpettigrew.bsky.social Writer. Author of TALES FROM TERREBONNE, forthcoming in 2026 from @rhppress.bsky.social. Managing Editor at Mythic Picnic. Awarded 2nd Place in the 22nd Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition for his story "Yemma."
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.
Andrea Damic @damicandrea.bsky.social #artist / #author / associate fiction editor - @jmwwjournal.bsky.social. I spend many an hour tinkering with my website https://damicandrea.wordpress.com/.
@dabxdee.bsky.social @dabxdee.bsky.social "If you can't be with the one you love honey, love the one you're with"
CSN
@sandrinado.bsky.social @sandrinado.bsky.social https://sandrinadorigo.com/
Scott Westcott @westcottwriter.bsky.social Poet & Ponderer
Kim Magowan @kimmagowan.bsky.social Fiction writer, EIC/ Fiction Editor of Pithead Chapel, adjunct professor www.kimmagowan.com
trampset @trampset.bsky.social A literary journal for the tramps in all of us. We accept poetry, CNF, flash, micro, and short fiction on a rolling basis.
All posts by @lmariharris.bsky.social
www.trampset.org
Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social Writer and Literary Critic. Work in Gooseberry Pie Lit, Passages North, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story, Bending Genres, and FlashFlood. Best Small Fictions ‘27 Nom.
Contemporary Anglophone Lit PhD.
https://linktr.ee/emhall47
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social A small online literary magazine for the strange, the hybrid, and the difficult to categorize. Prose that resists sense but maintains something else. Under 1,000 words.
ellipsis zine @ellipsiszine.bsky.social Literary magazine and independent press, publishing beautifully written flash and microfiction. 1,000 words or fewer.
Est. 2017-2024. Relaunched in 2026.
https://www.ellipsis-zine.com
Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social An online journal publishing classically inspired short stories. Now open for submissions, 1000-8000 words. Edited by @CourtlandAvenue (Dave Gregory)
https://doric-literary.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
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
Annie Cole @thatanniecole.bsky.social education | language | my agora
"As you start to walk on the way, the way appears." - Rumi
James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social Poet, journalist, novelist. Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Poetry chapbook SUDDEN SHADOWS published last fall.
Gina Persichini @ginamls.bsky.social Instructional Designer, writer, librarian, etc.
Jeremiah Root @jeremiahroot.bsky.social Jeremiah Root is a writer and musician from Paradise, CA. His work has appeared in Muleskinner Journal and BULL. He is at work on his first novel, The Vincent. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, three children, and hound dog.
James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social memoir: Blind Man's Bluff (W.W. Norton, NYT Editors' Choice)
novel: Academy Gothic (Nilsen Prize for a First Novel)
editor: The Writer's Chronicle & Monkeybicycle
agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
WV native
still living in 1986
jamestatehill.com
2nd Brother @2ndbrotherpoems.bsky.social Publishing the very best in contemporary poetry since 2026
EIC: @susanlleary.bsky.social
www.2ndbrother.com
StuWatson @windblastedpappy.bsky.social Happily married short fiction and poetry writer, found-object sculptor, dog lover, windsurfer. Let's eat!
Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.com Queer, trans, nonbinary poet, writer, performer, artist, activist, & abolitionist. 18+ 🙏🏼
Work published in Poetry, Water~Stone Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, et al. First collection "This Body, This Fruit" @ Feb 2027 (@triohousepress.org).
Dr.DreadPirate @pnwdreadpirate.bsky.social Married Up
Family Med (single payer, harm reduction)
Jazz lives!
Sometime poet
#COYW #RCTID #BAONPDX
Elizabeth Weir @elizabeth-weir.bsky.social Writer, indecisive artist, big overthinker
longer pieces at https://substack.com/@elizabethest
@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.
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social Poet | Critic | Queer
www.marcchamberlain.net
SonakshiS @sonakshis11.bsky.social https://www.sonakshisrivastava.com/
Reader, Writer, Translator, Zinester
Senior Writing Fellow @Ashoka University
Works @Usawa and @Asymptote
🔎 Discard Studies, Food, Ecocriticism, Reading Pedagogies, Critical Theory.
I Write Like @iwritelike.bsky.social I'm Alexandra. I help build I Write Like, a #Markdown text editor. I also write stories: magical realism, myths, literary fiction.
IWL: https://iwl.me
My stories: https://saraf.iwl.pub/
#indie #software #writing #shortstory
elise writes as busysmartypants @busysmartypants.bsky.social words
sounds
provocations
Patricia O'Donnell @patriciaodonnell.org Writer, reader, Mainer. Most recent novel, A Symmetry of Husbands. Author page patriciaodonnell.org
Subhranil Banerjee @subhranilbanerjee.bsky.social Author | Speaker | Mindset Coach
Life's a journey. I drive it with these 3 on:
Curiosity engine, Gratitude lights and Ego brakes!
#Mindfulness #Nature #Write.
Own 📸 pics ©️ & ✍️quotes©️
@Subhranil_B on Twitter (now 'X')
Dave Gregory @courtlandavenue.bsky.social Retired sailor, writer, gardener.
Editor: Doric Literary
Fiction Editor: Exposition Review.
Recent 🏚️ @kxzw.bsky.social fiction by David Lee Wright; Albuquerque grateful—writer, reader, slowest bookbinder.
Heain Joung @heainjoung.bsky.social Writer. Originally from South Korea, lives between in the UK and South Korea. Pushcart Prize nominee. Story collection, The Myth of an Unknown Girl will be out in Summer 2027 by @thirtywestph.com
Kate Axeford @kateaxeford.bsky.social Flashy writer/ social worker/ gig goer and ditherer. Lives in Brighton. Loves the sea.
Damhnait Monaghan 🇨🇦🇮🇪 @downith.bsky.social Writer|Namesplainer|2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist|2022 Winner Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer|2020 Winner Saboteur Best Novella| Agent: Hilary McMahon @ Westwood Creative Artists
www.damhnaitmonaghan.com
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
Captain_ACAB @halfman-halfshark.bsky.social Music, wrestling, comics, art, and the bizarre. Free Palestine🇵🇸 Abolish ICE🔨No gods, no masters🤘🏼Read banned books!
Narich Violetfathom @frengible.bsky.social I contain multitudes, today I am a stoned yet odd bedeviled hero with a soothing disrespect for authority
Jeff Harvey @jhhwriter.bsky.social Writer: work appears in
@trampset.bsky.social
@mooncityreview.bsky.social
@moonparkreview.bsky.social
@soflopojo.bsky.social
@whaleroadreview.bsky.social
@bendinggenres.bsky.social
Editor: gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
jhhwriter.com
Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social Writer of dreamlike fiction | she/her | www.ivyivyivyivy.com 
Emily Devane @devaneemily.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor, bookseller. Collector of oddities.
Words in various places, including Smokelong, Lost Balloon, Ellipsis, Best Microfiction & Ambit.
Stephanie Yu @stephanieyu.bsky.social Thinking about writing things - words in swamp pink, wigleaf, SmokeLong, wigleaf top 50 readstephanieyu.com
mathew yates @mathewyates.bsky.social poet & painter | from Paducah, KY w roots in MS & Appalachia | in IN
✍️ in Protean, Malarkey, Ghost City, Stone Circle, & others
mathewyates.com
Joshua Jones Lofflin @jjlofflin.bsky.social Writer
Work in Best of the Net, The Best Microfiction, The Best Small Fictions, The Cincinnati Review, CRAFT, SmokeLong Quarterly, Wigleaf…
Links to work on my site: jjlofflin.com
Mixed Bag @m-ixedbag.bsky.social Writer, Mom, Polyglot. Editor @lit-namjooning.bsky.social, Subs Editor @Smokelong. Words: BSF'23 @hexliterary,@tinymolecules @barrelhouse @BoothAJournal @wigleaf
Published work here: linktr.ee/hemanataraju
Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social San Francisco Bay Area writer and educator. Flash fiction and cnf in SmokeLong, Bending Genres, Atlas and Alice, The Forge, Ghost Parachute, Craft & elsewhere.Poetry in journals such as New Ohio Review, Plume, Hunger Mountain and Cincinnati R. (she/her)
Moon City Press @mooncitypress.bsky.social Small independent press sponsored by the Department of English at Missouri State University in Springfield. Publisher of books and Moon City Review.
Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social Variant Literature is a small press and magazine. http://variantlit.com
Summer 2026 issue out now!
Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social 
David J Bauman @davidjbauman.bsky.social Host of the podcast @inthreepoems.bsky.social.
Poet, birder, librarian 🌈 New Ohio Review, Shenandoah, Crab Creek Review, the MacGuffin. 3 chapbooks, including Mapping the Valley: Hospital Poems, w/ my son Micah, Seven Kitchens Press. davidjbauman.com.
Chris McManus @chrismcmanus.bsky.social Writer, cook, traveler
shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social Author of The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India), and most recently, Cajun South Brown Folk (Belle Point Press). Represented by Teffanie Thompson of Falkin Literary. 2019-2025 Series Editor of The Wigleaf Top 50. Lafayette, LA. shomedome.com
Iain Aire @iainaire.bsky.social Word alchemist, the quest for the unobtainable. EcoFiction, Fantasy, SciFi, Crime & Book Binder. The borderland of worlds. www.iainaire.com The Grey Pilgrim’s Gambit https://thegreypilgrimsgambit.laterpress.com Seeds anthology https://seeds.laterpress.com
Michael Czyzniejewski @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social Author, editor, professor, family participant. Retired altar boy, pizza chef, and beer vendor.
UH @uh8.bsky.social 🇸🇪 Swedish💙Animal lover✨FREEDOM!!!✨Pro Ukraine✨✨✨🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 💙🔱💛 anti ruZZia!
Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social Philly writer. Debut chapbook “Ghost in the Rain: Stories,” Bottlecap Press, 2026.
https://bottlecap.press/products/ghosmj
Stories in Best Microfiction, Identity Theory, DIHP, Claudine, Some Words, Flight, FlashFlood, BULL.
www.mattjakubowski.com
Abigail Myers @abigailmyers.bsky.social Always on my way to the ocean. Writer, 2x Jeopardy! champion.
My debut short fiction collection,The Last Analog Teenagers:
https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/the-last-analog-teenagers
BSF 2025
Noms: Pushcart x2, BotN x2, Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist
Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social Writer, teacher, friend. Words in: The Sun, Orion, The Yale Review, Literary Hub, & more. Author of BREAKING INTO THE BACKCOUNTRY, a memoir, and the essay collection RARE GOOD: ESSAYS ON ART, AUTISM, AND ASTONISHMENT. https://www.steveedwardswriter.com
Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social Everything would be great if The Smiths would just get back together.
Words: Wigleaf, HAD, Roi Faineant, Does it Have Pockets? Pithead Chapel, Your Impossible Voice, Trash Cat Lit, and BSF 2017, 2019. 2018 Pushcart recipient. www.keithawoodruff.com
Joshua Zeitler @thejayestofzees.bsky.social Queer, nonbinary writer in rural MI. BLISS ROAD (Seven Kitchens Press, 2025)
Poetry editor for @longandshortlit.bsky.social
Poems fc in Ploughshares, Foglifter, wildness, The Shore, & more
https://linktr.ee/joshuazeitler