Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social Author - Poet
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
Rachel @vignettes.bsky.social Absurdist, writer, explorer, escape artist.
Writer of poetry, prose & flash fiction.
Words in Literary Revelations: Haiku for Soul Mates @epistemiclit.bsky.social, Pure Haiku, From One Line Vol.7, Survivor Zine, #BOTN nominee '26
British, lives in Italy
Survivors' Poetry 🎤📚🌈 @survivors-poetry.bsky.social Survivors’ Poetry was founded in 1991 by poets with first-hand experience of the mental health system. We host monthly live open mic meetings 2nd Tuesdays of the month at The Harrison in King's Cross and 4th Tuesdays via Zoom https://survivorspoetry.co.uk/
Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social Novelist: books 'Where the Willows End, In Red Blood' 'One of Our Own,' Poetry: 200 poems published worldwide. old friend's description of him, 'I've known this idiot most of my life.'
Chris Emery @chrisemery.me Poet. Five collections from Arc and Salt, most recently Wonder (2025). Manchester-born, Irish citizen, living in Cromer. I publish other people’s books at Salt. Newsletter: chrisemery.me
Elizabeth Weir @elizabeth-weir.bsky.social Writer, indecisive artist, big overthinker
longer pieces at https://substack.com/@elizabethest
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/
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
Paul Nash | Paul atten Ash @northseanavigator.bsky.social WRITER:
Sampler (Black Cat Press 2027)
'Searchlight Seasons' (Atomic Bohemian 2024)
Instagram: @north_sea_navigator
campsite.bio/northseanavigator
Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social Wild eyed Welsh poet. Anti-discrimination, democracy, rights, transcendence.
Ella B. Winters @ella-b-winters.bsky.social Writer, research, social worker, lecturer, eternal student, working on my PhD.
Artemesia Arts shortlist; Forward prize nominated; Pushcart prizes nominated x2
Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social I’m a library assistant and poet with work published in The Dirigible Balloon, Disabled Tales, Dreambeast Poems, and featured on Brian Moses’s blog. My poems are forthcoming in Scaryness Express.
simonjamesbrady.bsky.social @simonjamesbrady.bsky.social Simon James Brady is an Irish poet and writer.
See https://simonjamesbrady.com/
Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social Teacher and Poet. Pamphlets - Walrussey (The Black Cat Poetry Press, 2023) and Circulaire (Written off Publishing, 2025).
Circulaire available to purchase here: https://writtenoffpublishing.com/shop/p/circulaire-bex-hainsworth
Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social writes poetry
One Fall Review @onefallreview.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to professional wrestling themed poetry.
www.onefallreview.com
Submit: https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/one-fall-review-0g27j
Liminal Space Creative @liminalspacecreative.substack.com Aspiring Métis writer drawn to the grey areas of the human condition. Places we bury deep, where love and sorrow quietly pool together. Spaces that hold both our capacity for sincere kindness and our potential for extreme cruelty.
Whimsy @whimsyfiction.bsky.social A monthly microfiction contest celebrating the lighter, more peculiar side of storytelling. Yes, our alpaca travels by quill 🦙🪶
https://www.whimsyfiction.com/
Avishek @avisghosh.bsky.social I am a self taught artist,living in kolkata india .. I am born in 1991 , here I will post my every days works .
Emorra (EM-er-uh) @wordsfromemorra.bsky.social Sometimes writer. Always dreamer.
Social media makes me awkward.
So does life.
she/her. Kitty mama x2.
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.
Contemporary Anglophone Lit PhD.
https://linktr.ee/emhall47
ClodaghO @iamagnat.bsky.social Writer, engineer, mother, dabbler in crafts. Words in Trash Cat Lit, The Storms, The Hooghly Review, Silly Goose Press and others.
Anika Carpenter @stillsquirrel.bsky.social #Flashfiction writer and #collage artist. Stories in Gooseberry Pie, Fictive Dream, Gone Lawn, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story & others. Based in Brighton, UK
www.anikacarpenter.com
Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk Online poetry magazine posting daily. We publish & review poetry, prose, filmpoems, word & image and print publish as IS&T Press. Editing internships. Posts by Sabine Wilson-Patrick & Kate Birch.
PerfectGod = S. Cyn = L. Gates = J. Glacier = L. Simz = Ziwe +c. @blackswanborges.bsky.social Mx Józef ≈ M.
Lonely + Looking for
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[ I wake up *wishing* that I was:
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Mx M— Józef ≈ M. J. Le Tölm...
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And stay safe :)
Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social Scurrying through the mire of existence. #AmQuerying a novel about a trip through the lives of ancestors.
NYC! 🏙️
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Diego 🇧🇷👱 @diegogaroto.bsky.social @diegogarotooficial.bsky.social
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👨🚀 🚀🪐🌎17 anos !👱🇧🇷🇮🇹 Paulista,morando no Rio de Janeiro ⛱️
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ReadTeachWrite @readteachwrite.bsky.social 2025/2026 words: Belletrist, Blood+Honey, Suburban Witchcraft, SHINE Poetry | SFSU & Goddard College grad | readteachwrite.com | Moved my teacher self to: @justteacherthings.bsky.social
David Linebarger @tennis-art1.bsky.social Poet, prose writer, professor at davidlinebarger.com Latest book Tennis Players as Works of Art won many awards, including 2025 Book of the Year (Original Concept) at the 29th annual IPPY awards.
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
Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io (they/he) nonbinary, poet, father, husband, gardener, *retired* game-dev from Sumo Digital...
Kevalkumar @kevalkumar.bsky.social Motivational Quotes Writer
Nadiad, Gujarat, India 🇮🇳
Contact:+918866868474
Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social Poet and Neonatologist.
Debut pamphlet “Hatchery” published with V. Press - you can buy hatchery here https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/hatchery.html?m=1
https://linktr.ee/elizabeth.osmond
Devjani Bodepudi @dbodepudi.bsky.social Poet. Novelist. Mum. Teacher. Comino Poet in Residence. PhD-ing at Man Met-the poetics of Language Loss and Identity. Interested in Postcolonial research from a British diasporic POV.
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
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The Bloomin’ Onion | **SUBMISSIONS ALWAYS OPEN** @bloominonionlit.bsky.social A Literary Magazine with Layers. Est. 2024. Helping new and emerging writers find their way. Posts by the EIC.
Subs: https://www.thebloominonion.com/submission-guidelines
The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social The VILLAGE 🏘 is a place where the world 🌍 feels a tiny bit smaller. Founded by SMOKELONG for the Global Flash Community
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Strider Marcus Jones @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social Poet. Five published books.DMU Law graduate. Pushcart Prizex4/Best of the Netx4 Nominations. Founder/Editor/Publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.co https://stridermarcusjonespoet.blogspot.com/p/about-strider.html
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
Blue Villa @bluevilla.org Literary mag 📖
Est. 2023 🏙️
Bluevilla.org 🔗
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It’s a privilege to study sonder 📖
Sarah Frideswide @sjfrideswide.bsky.social Published poet. Fiction Writer. MA Creative Writing Distinction. Working class writer with ADHD and C-PTSD. Author of One-Armed Nick and the Nuns of Osyth, here: https://sarahfrideswide.substack.com/p/6-double-barrelled-flintlock-pistol
James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social Poet, journalist, novelist. Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Poetry chapbook SUDDEN SHADOWS published last fall.
Geoffrey Aitken @8cakey.bsky.social An awarded, widely published, South Australian poet and retired educator who writes on unceded Kaurna land. His debut industrial signature styled Chapbook ‘i want that in writing’, (Ginninderra Press 2020) was generated from his ‘open mic’ spoken poetry.
Salena Casha @salenacasha.bsky.social writer. runner. product manager. 1×WigleafTop50 selection, 2xPushcart nom, 2×BOTN nom, 3xBSF nom.
Join the waitlist for Teresa 2.0 here: teresaseesyou.com
James Montgomery @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social Flash writer ✍️ | Latest: Crow & Cross Keys, Fictive Dream, FlashFlood, The Bulb Region, 100 Word Story, NFFD Micro Comp ‘26 | 📖 Best Small Fictions ‘25, Wigleaf Top 50 ‘25 | 💫 Welkin People’s Prize ‘25 | He/Him 🌈 www.jamesmontgomerywrites.com
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
Catherine Ogston @catherineogston.bsky.social Flash fiction, short stories and longer fiction. YA ms going out on submission. Rep: Al Guthrie, The North Literary. 2026 Scriever for the Federation of Writers (Scotland).
Diane Simmons @scooterwriter.bsky.social Co-Directs NFFD.NIFs: ‘Finding a Way' (Ad Hoc Fiction), ‘An Inheritance' (V.Press), ‘A Tricky Dance’ (Alien Buddha Press), ‘William Prichard & Co’ (Arroyo Seco Press) & Bereft of Reason’ (V. Press). www.dianesimmons.co.uk
Emma Phillips @words-outwest.bsky.social Flash fan, poet, short fiction writer. Likes actual and imaginary travel. Words: 2nd place Bath Flash June 2021, Best Microfiction 2022, Free Flash Fiction Competition Winner. 
Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social Queer writer l #FlashFiction l Smokelong Fellow 2026 l Contrib ed @nffr.bsky.social
Pushcart, BSF, BMF & Monarch noms
Read my stories:
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Perfect God = Lexa Gates @mx-j.bsky.social https://shop.capitolmusic.com/collections/lexa-gates
Lost Muttley my Westie broken @lordcollins.bsky.social Liverpool fan Muttley my Westie has gone over the rainbow bridge.
Tax the rich FFS
Won’t follow traders or young ladies/ men selling their body thank you
Eloise Schultz @schmeloise.bsky.social poet, teacher, tired
The Argyle Literary Magazine @theargylelitmag.bsky.social The Argyle is BACK with our 9th & final issue on 9/25!!! NEW POETRY, FICTION, CNF, and DIGITAL ART!!! CLOSING on 12/15/26!
EIC: @davidestringel.bsky.social
www.theargylelitmag.com
David Estringel @davidestringel.bsky.social Writer+EIC @The Argyle @Blood+Honey🖊The Opiate, Punk Noir, The Gorko Gazette, BULL, Mythic Picnic, Citywide Lunch, Street Cake, Cowboy Jamboree, Fevers of the Mind, Apocalypse Confidential, Literary Heist, and The Daily Drunk.
www.davidestringel.com
Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social I write poems and I garden. *Becoming Altar*, new and selected poems, available from asterismbooks.com. *Mapless* available from SHINE Poetry. See https://kylahoubolt.us/ for all kinds of more. Oh, and NO AI at all.
Jude FireSong, aka Fabulous Phoenix Boy @fabulousphoenixboy.bsky.social (gender)queer [he/him]
AuDHD mad disabled survivor
citizen of the world
Scotland
🎭 poet
🦄 SFFH
🎨 art
📸 pics
🎲 TTRPGs
🔞 at times NSFW
🚫 AI/NFT
in: Broken Spine,Unicorn Teeth,en*gendered,Madrid Review,man made//made man,rainy weather days,S*x Gap,new words
C.S. Starling @cs-starling.bsky.social Word, cat and outdoor enthusiast. Sharing short form poetry and musings about my writing journey. Novel(s) incoming.
Dithering Chaps - submissions open @ditheringchaps.bsky.social I'm David Herring, Lead Editor of indie poetry press, Dithering Chaps, based in Dorset, UK. We publish thematically-linked sequences of poems: works that riff on a core conceit, event or narrative voice. He/him. https://www.ditheringchaps.com
Tap into Poetry @tapintopoetry.bsky.social 📚 Poetry Magazine est. 2022
📚 Submissions open (always!)
📚 tapintopoetry.wordpress.com
Any Pascual | indie author & poet @anyespiritual.bsky.social My new book “Verses till midnight” out now!
I write cozy poetry books for deep feelers.
Indie Bestseller Author. Highly Sensitive Poet ✝️🌷🇪🇸
Autora, poeta Altamente Sensible.
Un abrazo de Luz ✨
Okay with DMs about writing.
https://linktr.ee/AnyPascual
Clare Bonetree @blooyonder.bsky.social poet; trees, radical hope, fairness, equality, Herefordshire, arthritis mental health, disability, anarchism. Join a union!
JESUS THE APOLLO 🌞🌙 @jesustheapollo.bsky.social Musician | Actor | Scientist | Poet | Author | Philosopher|
Multi faith
“To live to surf the silvers of the moon”- JESUS THE APOLLO
28 -📍UK
https://linktr.ee/stefanoark
Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social Poet, Alumna of @CBSNews @60Minutes @BBCWorld @FaberAcademy. Shortlisted by @bridportprize.bsky.social Love @britishlibrary & @VanguardRead #amwriting #poetry #visual #journal #travellingwithdevices 🧶 #crochet #StitchingTogether for the #CommonGood
Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social Authors / Writers / Lovers of Words...
Got a flash fiction story within 500 words, of any interpretation, on any theme, that our readers should read? #flashfiction
https://freeflashfiction.com/
JornalistaJosenildoMelo @josenildonmelo.bsky.social Estudou direito. Bacharel em Serviço Social. Licenciado em Filosofia. Acesse diariamente https://www.gazetahora1.com/ Jornalismo de Qualidade!
Blood+Honey @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social Blood+Honey is a new lit mag that revels in the experimental & the avant-garde, dirty and kitchen sink realism. SUBMIT your poetry, fiction, CNF, and digital art!!! SUBS Currently CLOSED!!!
EIC: @davidestringel.bsky.social
https://www.bloodhoneylit.com/
Lundy-creative @lundy-creative.bsky.social Link to my debut e-novel: A Brunch Tale payhip.com/NLundyM
Other Links (& FREE POEMS):
www.etsy.com/shop/NLundyM
www.instagram.com/lundy_nyc/
(Pictures that are not my own were sourced from: Pexels)
Marty Shambles @martyshambles.bsky.social Writer-in-residence and poetry editor @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
Writer at @ggtribune.com and @hwoodtimes.com
martyshambles.com
🧿 Nya 💙 @seranyabeck.bsky.social 🧿 Seranya Beck ✌️ Artist | Author | Cosmic Architect
Building @-Social™ — creators keep 100%, forever → https://at-social.social/
🦋 Write What I Want
🌛 Dream of the Cosmos
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✍️🎨📸©️ #ArtBySeranya #CubistPoet #Seranya
Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social Writer | Chicago | Work in The Offing, X-R-A-Y, Wigleaf + more | Pushcart Prize and BotN nom | Best Microfiction ‘24, '25, '26
https://elenalzhang.wordpress.com/writing/
Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social Writer, traveler, and occasional business analyst. Currently missing the ocean and being a voiceover artist. 🇨🇦
SHIFTINGS & OTHER COORDINATES OF DISORDER (Pinhole Poetry, 2024).
LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA (Bull City Press, 2026)
jenwithwords.opencorners.ca
Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social Words in Five South, Flash Fiction Online, Atlas + Alice, Lunch Ticket, Flash Fiction Magazine, Roi Faineant, and elsewhere.
Website: https://melissa-fitzpatrick.com/
Substack: https://melissafitz.substack.com
Madeleine Armstrong @madeleinewrite.bsky.social Writer, runner, trying to keep up with another social media platform
LM “Gory” Fontanes 👻 @lorifontanes.bsky.social Writer/educator/community advocate. Cats & catastrophe. More better food 4 all. Bewaring billionaires bearing tech. #SaveThePeople
NC Maha @ncmaha.bsky.social Short fiction and science writer from India. Love reading/writing weird speculative fiction and poems. Stories in Inner Worlds, The Khaotic Good, SpecPoVerse, & Intrepidus Ink.
Eleanor Luke @eleanor-luke.bsky.social Writer of flash fiction, short stories and maybe a novel. Words in NFFD, FreeFlashFiction, Retreat West. LL Reflex Flash contest. Top 10 Oxford flash award 2022. 
Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social Mostly poet. Lover of road trips & long walks. Day job in microbiology.
Poems in Crowstep, Epistemic Lit, Engine Idling, & Red Room Poetry. Flash in Lit Namjooning, Glassworks & Wigleaf. Collabs in Gone Lawn & Midway Journal
🏳️🌈🌊💚
Tacilim @tacilim.bsky.social Hihi everyone! My name is Tacilim Oréfice, and I'm a writer. Nice to meet you! I want to share my passion for stories, storytelling, and books with the world while I travel.
Suzanne (writing as S A Greene) @sagreene1.bsky.social Writer. SOCIAL MEDIA BREAK 2026 (except for shameless self-promotion) DMs don't work. GoneLawn trampset TempleInACity GooseberryPie BlinkInk Mslexia Liars'League MythicPicnic NewFlashFicReview FictiveDream BulbCulture Phare MaudlinHouse FreeFlashFiction
Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social PFP by Terijian
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BSF 2025
Have you ever seen me and Kali in the same room? Thought not
Bi (2) x Demi (1/2) = 1 Sexual
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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. 🌄
Margo Griffin @67mgriffin.bsky.social I like to write stuff. Longtime Boston-area educator. Mom of daschund-pug mix rescue. Words in Literary Namjooning, Roi Fainéant Press, Bending Genres, Bright Flash Literary, Literally Stories, etc. Upcoming-Brilliant Flash Fiction, Reckon Review & Jake.
Alethea Paul @aletheapaul.bsky.social Writer.
Persistently drafting her next flash fiction to get rejected.
Constantly musing on that novel.
Repeatedly interrupted by life.
Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social Berlin-based Scottish writer. Words in New Flash Fiction Review, Vestal Review, Trampset and elsewhere. Featured in Best Small Fictions 2024. My pen name came to me in a dream. You can find a selection of my writing here: https://linktr.ee/ruralunease
Betty Stanton @fadingbetty.bsky.social EdD, MFA, poet, author, speech & debate coach, director, teacher, editor, rpg nerd, game designer, bad at social media, located in Oklahoma
Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social This is a storybook. All of us are in it. Here are some tales.
https://eirenegentle.com
https://templeinacity.com
In: AHC, Claudine, DIHP, Bull, Frazzled, Fish Barrel, Dog Throat, Blood & Honey, ANMLY Whimperbang. Pushcart, best short fiction nom.
Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social Writer, flash fiction writer, photographer. Author of 2 novels & 2 collections of flash. New novel out this spring. My flash pieces have been published in many lovely magazines. Mslexia flash fiction prize winner, 2024. Website: http://bronwengriff.co.uk/
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Short Story Comps @shortstorycomps.bsky.social Posts and reposts about short story / flash / micro competitions in the UK and beyond.
Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
Nora Nadjarian @noranadj.bsky.social Poet, Fiction Writer
Placed @reflexfiction + elsewhere,
@Wigleaf Top50...
Poetry: Winner@anthro_poetry
Finalist @Mslexia
Jenevieve Carlyn @coastalpoet.bsky.social Evie | "The greatest journey begins with a single hoofbeat.” Connecticut Poet Laureate Award for Ecopoetry. Poetry of the Sacred Prize. Palette Poetry Love & Eros Prize Finalist. Commended Mist & Mountain, Shortlist Artemesia Arts
jenevievecarlyn.com