Forget Cool @forgetcool.bsky.social essays and poems about the movies, shows, music, books, games, etc. that have shaped you
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Jessica Dawn @jessdawn.bsky.social Writer at night, animal day job, tired in between. Work in Short Story Long, HAD, Rejection Letters, Barren Magazine, Jake, and more. Assistant editor, Short Story Long. Tin House fall ‘25. Lots of dog photos. https://jessdawn.neocities.org/
Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social Neurotic Chicago-based writer, editor-in-chief of Maudlin House, podcaster, and doer of many odd things.
https://mallorysmart.com/
Edie Meade @ediemeade.bsky.social Got moss?
Writer, musician, shuffling in with assorted grocery bags. | Work in Invisible City, Atlas & Alice, The Normal School, Litro, Heavy Feather Review | Novels incoming soon 🤞
Emily Mitchell @elbmitchell.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor, apprentice curmudgeon. Novel FAR OCEAN forthcoming March 2027 from Black Lawrence Press. Fiction editor New England Review. Stories in The Sun, Missouri Review, Southern Review, AQR and elsewhere. Free DC, ffs. New here.
Paragraph Planet @paragraphplanet.bsky.social #writing website publishing 75-word #flashfiction every day http://www.paragraphplanet.com
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
Recent 🏚️ @kxzw.bsky.social fiction by David Lee Wright; Albuquerque grateful—preference for the marvellous, the city; writer, reader, slowest bookbinder.
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
Wigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social Seven-time Pushcart Prize winning journal of very short fiction. (Read us at wigleaf.com)
Sudha Balagopal @sudhab.bsky.social Writer:
Winner of Santa Fe Literary Award; Family Matters forthcoming from SFWP, 2027.
Pubs: Adroit Journal, Doric Lit, CRAFT,SmokeLong, Fractured
Best Microfic, Best Small Fic, Wigleaf Top 50.
BathFlash HC/Shortlisted; Series Editor: Wigleaf Top 50
Acre Books @acrebooks.bsky.social Acre Books, the small press offshoot of The Cincinnati Review, brings you volumes of beautifully crafted, award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. www.acre-books.com
Robert Vaughan @rgvaughan.bsky.social Author of 6 books, newest is ASKEW. I am the EIC of Bending Genres, LLC. Work in Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2019. Norton's Exceptionally Short Fictions 2018. www.robert-vaughan.com. www.bendinggenres.com 
Bending Genres Journal, LLC @bendinggenres.bsky.social Bending Genres is an online journal and a global community. We publish hybrid material bi-monthly. We also offer online weekend workshops with various teachers, an ongoing writer's roundtable and two annual week long writing retreats. www.bendinggenres.com
BRUISER @bruisermag.com web zine + micropress
bruisermag.com
Dina Strasser @dinaeliz.bsky.social Writer, teacher, semi-Luddite. I follow authors, educators, and lit mags.
Jane French @janefrench.bsky.social Writer of medical and caregiving reports | published widely in email streams | family caregiver | advocate for low-income older adults
Nicholson Baker @nicholsonbaker.bsky.social Latest book: Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art. First book: The Mezzanine. https://linktr.ee/nicholsonbaker.
Capitol Hill Books @capitolhillbooks.bsky.social New, used, and rare books in D.C.
Totally not judging your purchases (to your face).
https://www.capitolhillbooks-dc.com/
Maudlin House @maudlinhouse.bsky.social weird press that publishes weird books
https://shop.maudlinhouse.net/
AyaRay @ayaraywords.bsky.social A Poet, a storyteller. These are my insides, raw and unfiltered. Not always pretty. Always real. Maybe one lands where no one else could.
Megan Giddings @megiddings.bsky.social My first short story collection, Black Arts, comes out on September 8th. Yes, I do live in Minneapolis. Boss, I'm tired.
www.megangiddings.com
Joey Hedger @joeyhedger.bsky.social Author living in Alexandria, VA | Deliver Thy Pigs (Malarkey Books) | stories in Saw Palm, Complete Sentence, Variant Lit, HAD, and more | he/him
www.joeyhedger.com
Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social writer, thinker, coffee drinker. she/her. (if you know me from elsewhere, it might be as bravenewlady on the other site or from my Prairie Schooner days)
Jamy Bond @jamybond.bsky.social Writer/Editor: Best Microfiction 2023, Wigleaf Top 50 LL; The Sun, The Rumpus, Wigleaf, Pithead Chapel, The Forge, Ghost Parachute. Web: www.jamybond.com
Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social Native Hawaiian writer living in Japan
https://www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/
Bitter over Sweet https://tinyurl.com/5hd7u63r
Hard Skin http://tinyurl.com/yc53
Kahi&Lua http://tinyurl.com/3ryfzvwh
Will Donnelly @willdonnelly.bsky.social Writer/Founder of the Athens Writers' Collective/No Fun at All. he/him
Iowa MFA, Houston PhD. Words in Barrelhouse, Zone 3, Hobart, Sequestrum, etc.
Athens, Georgia, USA
Terri Linn Davis @terrilinndavis.bsky.social Virgo (Scorpio rising) | co-EIC @icebreakers_lit | poems & reviews @TBQuarterly @flypaperlit @Dailydrunkmag @Fivesouthlit | @kenyonreview ww '22 | host @TooLitToQuitPod
Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social Author of SHORT RELIEF @406press.bsky.social
Fantasy Football runner-up @rfpress.bsky.social
Former/Founding editor @publishedbyJAKE.bsky.social
Magic: the Gathering Substacker @ajohnnyspridemate.bsky.social
All other writing @ benshahon.com
(He/Him/His)
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
Stephanie Austin @stephanieaustin.bsky.social Formerly @lucysky on Twitter
IG: @stephanie.d.austin and @mugshot_writers2
SOMETHING I MIGHT SAY, essays, WTAW Press
BURN, a novel, out now from Cowboy Jamboree Press
stephanieaustin.net
Mike Nagel @misternagel.bsky.social Bullshit essayist. Author of Duplex and Culdesac from Autofocus Books. Father of Costcocore. Dallas kid.
www.michaelscottnagel.com
Autofocus Books @autofocusbooks.bsky.social A literary publisher of artful autobiographical writing. autofocusbooks.com
keepworkin_art @keepworkinart.bsky.social traditional artist based in cape breton island
illustration and watercolor
sea glass collector
instagram.com/keepworkin_art
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/
emily laura costa @emilylauracosta.bsky.social girl on girl (@rejectionlit.bsky.social) //
until it feels right (@autofocusbooks.bsky.social) //
cnf (@farewelltransmiss.bsky.social) // getting dumber as I get older
https://linktr.ee/emilylauracosta
James Yates @jamesyates.bsky.social Writer, runner, basketball fan, baseball fan, animal lover, pessimistic optimist, he/him
Shuchi Saraswat @saraswat-s.bsky.social writer︱senior editor of AGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/shuchisaraswat
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
Daniel Miller @danielmiller.bsky.social hex editor, video game player, dad bod haver, glizzy guzzler (the Glizzard of Oz)
Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social Quarterly print literary magazine & small book press in the Philly 'burbs. Founder & EIC Jeff Bogle. linktr.ee/StanchionZine
Joel Hans @joelhans.com Author of THE BEDTIME EMPTYING OF OUR WORLD (Feb 2026, Moon City Press + Short Fiction Award)
Forever writing fairy tales in speculative/weird/SFesque disguises.
Dad-ing.
Materializing @astrolabe.ooo.
https://joelhans.com
Becca Thorne @beccathorne.bsky.social Parent of 2 wonderful autistic boys, accidental artist, occasional writer & mountain-lover (Afraid of heights). #cPTSD
Pool Party @poolpartymag.com Mag + Readings + Books. PDX-based. {READING 2.10 @grandgesturebooks} Fiction @kevinmaloney.net | Poetry @brianstephenellis.bsky.social | EIC femmeintheory.bsky.social
Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social Writer. Pie enthusiast. Historically preserved beard site. Cheese poet. Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, Cinnamon Challenge: honorable mention. 
Joshua Hebburn @joshuahebburn.bsky.social Radiologist @XRAY
https://joshuahebburn.wordpress.com/
MrBullBull @mrbullbull.bsky.social dedicated to rewriting modern masculinity since 2009
@thedrevlow.bsky.social EIC
Matt Bucher @mattbucher.bsky.social DFW Society, author of The Belan Deck, co-host of Concavity Show, mattbucher.com
buchr.tumblr.com
Always Crashing @alwayscrashing.bsky.social A magazine of fiction, poetry, & nameless things around and in-between. // alwayscrashing.com // https://alwayscrashingmagazine.substack.com/
Matt Rowan @veryrealbatman.bsky.social Dad, teacher, editor, student of the history of autocracy, anti-fascist, “Nazis ain’t got no humanity,” and author of HOW THE MOON WORKS. Stories in @bulbregion.bsky.social, @xraylitmag.bsky.social, @barrelhouse.bsky.social, @hexliterary.bsky.social, etc.
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/
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
Gooseberry Pie Lit Magazine @gooseberrypielit.bsky.social Publishes 6-sentence stories 2nd Thursday every month. No more than 400 words. Submissions always open. Never a fee.
Editor, Jeff Harvey (@jhhwriter.bsky.social)
https://gooseberry-pie.com/submissions/
Sarp Sozdinler @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social Writer, Designer • Words: Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Masters Review, Fractured, Los Angeles Review, HAD, Hobart, X-R-A-Y, Maudlin House • Rep'd by Mina Hamedi / Janklow & Nesbit • Editor at The Bulb Region
sarpsozdinler.com
Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social Publishing independently since 1929.
linktr.ee/faberbooks
Georgina Kent @georginadoodles.bsky.social Artist 👩🏻🎨 Mummy 💖 Cat mum 🐈⬛ Gamer 🎮 Board game geek ♟️ Socialist 🥰 Ally 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 🚫AI
www.georginadoodles.com 🇬🇧🏴
Like what I do but don't have space for artwork? https://ko-fi.com/georginadoodles
Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social tiny poems & strange movies // 🚫🤖 // EIC at @pizamapress.bsky.social // chapbook soon with @gasherpress.bsky.social // writing prompt every Sunday via Substack (neonpajamas)
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
David Ulin @davidulin.bsky.social Crafty southpaw.
Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social Hoosier, Political Analyst, newsletter Dispatches From A Collapsing State, author The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, adviser The Change Campaign / American Institute For Change
The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to prose, poetry, comics, essays, humor, hybrid, and everything in-between.
www.bulbregion.com
Meghan Phillips @mcarphil.bsky.social former NEA fellow. chapbook ABSTINENCE ONLY (Barrelhouse).
https://meghan-phillips.com/
rhysknightstudio @rhysknightstudio.bsky.social Visual artist & illustrator based in Latrobe Valley, Australia.
Email: rhys-knight@live.com.au
https://linktr.ee/rhysknightstudio
Sean Carlson @sean-carlson.bsky.social work: independent projects
writing: family memoir of migration
recent: @agnimagazine.bsky.social, @catamaranlit.bsky.social, @newenglandreview.bsky.social, and more on the way...
(Rhode Island / Co. Kerry)
subscribe? https://seancarlson.substack.com/
Jennifer Savran Kelly @jsavrankelly.bsky.social Debut novel ENDPAPERS (Algonquin 2023), writer, cat person, #AuthorsAgainstBookBans, #5amWritersClub, production editor at Cornell University Press, she/they | jennifersavrankelly.com
Mike Ingram @mikeingram.bsky.social Editor at Barrelhouse. Professor at Temple University. Union rep. Author of Notes from the Road (Awst Press). World’s #1 Cat Dad.
Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social http://mitchnobis.com
Writer (poetry & fiction). Doofus. Old man hooper. Metro Detroit. Posts are my own, obviously—that's why I said it & not my employer, parents, or dog.
Also: WNS @wns-at-ksf.bsky.social & NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social
Jim Musil Painter @jimmusilpainter.bsky.social Modern Landscape Painter
JimMusil.com
Long_Painter @longpainter.bsky.social Energetic & colorful landscape paintings for those building a contemporary collection capturing all the best feelings of travel.
Purchase originals here: Chrislongpainter.com
Kirsti MacKenzie @keersteemack.bsky.social writer • editor Major 7th Mag • BETTER TO BEG out with House of Vlad
Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Teacher | Author of First Kicking, Then Not (Stanchion 2025) | Columnist @ WCP
she/they 🏳️🌈 ❤️
www.hgrieco.com
Jen Michalski @socalwritergirl.bsky.social Writer, EIC, @jmwwjournal.bsky.social. Rep: Esty Loveing-Downes at Howland Literary. Latest: ALL THIS CAN BE TRUE (@TurnerPub, June 2025).
Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
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).
Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social http://www.cambridgeartstudio.com/ https://www.flickr.com/people/bakerart/
Lifelong artist. Just trying to do a little more painting when not gardening. Not actively looking for sales at present. Posting mostly older work and some new. 🚫AI
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.
Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social Author and professor type person.
SF noir novel! 🤖🕵️♂️🧬 http://tinyurl.com/5f6nxu24
Newsletter: http://countercraft.substack.com
Kevin Parry @kevinbparry.bsky.social ✨ Director & one-man studio
🪄 Handmade stop-motion & VFX illusions
🔗 https://kevinparry.tv/learn
The Dodge @thedodgemag.bsky.social Literary magazine est. 1979, reimagined 2021.
Writing, translation, and art on the environment.
https://thedodgemag.com/
General submissions in nonfiction, translation, and visual art OPEN NOW!
Paula Hammond @writerpaula.bsky.social Feature editor (filmjuice), author, artist, vegan, she/her. #sherlockian #whovian. Also on:
https://x.com/writer_paula
https://www.instagram.com/writerpaula
https://writerpaula.picfair.com & Alamy
Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social Books and such
https://malarkeybooks.com/
Michael Czyzniejewski @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social Author, editor, professor, family participant. Retired altar boy, pizza chef, and beer vendor.
Ryan D. Matthews @rydmatthews.bsky.social Winner of NYSCA and de Groot Courage to Write Awards. Fellowships from Hawthornden, LMCC, Lighthouse Works, Tin House. Nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize & 2x semifinalist for Bennett Fellowship. Work in Lit Hub, Litro, Joyland, and MQR.
Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social Author of THE DISAPPEARED (Knopf), THE THEORY OF LIGHT AND MATTER (Vintage), IN BETWEEN DAYS (Knopf), and THE IMAGINED LIFE (Knopf, forthcoming 2025) CW Prof.
www.andrewporterwriter.com
Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social Author of The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe (Autumn House Press Book Prize). Winner of Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction from the TX Institute of Letters. Longlisted for PEN/Bingham Prize. DC based. laurendwoods.com
Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social Bringing people together through art. Based in Los Angeles, working globally.
getty.edu
Austin Ross @austinross.bsky.social writing in Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub, &c. // senior editor with HarperCollins
http://austinrossauthor.com/
DC Writers Room @dcwritersroom.bsky.social Washington, DC's 24/7 co-working studio for writers located in the heart of Tenleytown
https://www.dcwritersroom.com/
Fox City Lit @foxcitylit.bsky.social A literary reading series in Fairfax City, Virginia.
https://foxcitylit.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
Ben Loory @benloory.bsky.social Writer 📚 Tales of Falling and Flying, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
benloory.com
Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social Publishing speculative fiction, poetry, reviews, essays & podcasts. Every Monday, free to read at http://strangehorizons.com. IGNYTE Community Award winner. Hugo Award winner 2024.
linktr.ee/strangehorizons
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
terryhorstman @terryhorstman.bsky.social Writer | Editor | Podcaster | MN Lynx Reporter | Shooters shoot | Wu-Tang Forever 👐🏻 | he/him
📚Tell me your favorite local bookstore📚
🏀📝 @theixsports.bsky.social
👨🏻💻🏆 @underreviewlit.bsky.social
🦫🎤 @belligerentbeavs.gobeavs.app
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social Writer, dad, etc
Rachel Abbey McCafferty @ramccafferty.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Reporter. Editor.
https://rachelabbeymccafferty.com/
Amy Stuber @amystuber.com Writer, editor, worker bee: amystuber.com
SAD GROWNUPS (Stillhouse Press, Oct 2024), Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
Contributing Editor: splitlipthemag.com
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.