Lucie McKnight Hardy @lmcknighthardy.bsky.social Author of NIGHT BABIES (2026) @johnmurrays.bsky.social
and DEAD RELATIVES (2021) & WATER SHALL REFUSE THEM (2019) @deadinkbooks.bsky.social
She/her
lmcknighthardy.com
Agent: @donaldwin.bsky.social @watsonlittle.bsky.social
Duane Simolke @duanesimolke.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 I wrote scifi Sons of Taldra, the free scifi ebook Degranon, and slice-of-life fiction The Acorn Stories. TROI 20th coming soon. 📚🪐 https://linktr.ee/DuaneSimolke
Catju @catju.eurosky.social In a fleeting moment of a restless day.
Faffing and frittering like a good 'un.
Fond of cake and ice cream, especially with a book.
Keeping on keeping on.
Posts regularly deleted.
Livi Michael @livimichael.bsky.social writer, teacher, superhero...
Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social Art historian, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British/European art. Writing book on lesser known great artists. Seen in/on: CNN, NBC, The Spectator, The Times etc.
website: richardmorris.org
richard@richardmorris.org
Electra Rhodes @electrarhodes.bsky.social Writer. Digger. Rustic. Thief.
Wait...
*Taps mic*
Is this thing working?
Work on/in/with
BBC Radio 4
Best Small Fictions 2023
Emerging Writers The London Library 22/23
W/C
ND
She/Her.
JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social Book lover, film lover, art lover, wine lover. I write about books at JacquiWine's Journal. https://linktr.ee/jacquiwine
Patrick Christie @patrickchristie.bsky.social Writer with work in The London Magazine, The Oxonian Review, Litro Magazine, Review 31, Necessary Fiction, The Mechanics’ Institute Review and elsewhere.
https://www.patrickchristie.co.uk
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
Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social Ireland's premier review of intellectual inquiry for two decades. Published quarterly (www.drb.ie), entire archive since 2007 available. Everything on totally free access but donations of course welcome to keep us going.
Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social Big things from small books - single short story chapbooks, available on subscription.
“Get em on your radar” — Stu Hennigan
megpokrass.bsky.social @megpokrass.bsky.social Dzanc Books Author. Best Microfiction Series Founder. Electric Lit, Flash Fiction America (Norton) Best Small Fictions 2023. Scotland
Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social Author of The Lunatics' Ball (Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press, forthcoming) and The Missing Girl (Black Lawrence Press). Wigleaf Top 50. 9 Notables, Best American Essays, CNF Flash editor, CRAFT Lit Journal. www.jacquelinedoyle.com
Black Herald Press @blackheraldpress.bsky.social Éditeur indépendant / independent press
poésie, essais, textes courts / Poetry books, essays, short texts (in English or mostly bilingual) since 2010 / éditrice-publisher Blandine Longre @blandinelongre.bsky.social
https://www.blackheraldpress.com
Vik Shirley @vikshirley.bsky.social Poet/Writer/Editor. PhD Dark Humour and the Surreal. Some Deer (Broken Sleep) Strangers Wave: Joy Division Photo Poems (zimZalla) & Corpses (Sublunary Editions). Persona Digitalia forthcoming w/PhotoWorks. Co-edits Surreal-Absurd @ Mercurius Magazine. 🪩 👻
Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social 
L Mari Harris @lmariharris.bsky.social Reader, Writer, Ozarks dweller. Wigleaf Top 50. Best Microfiction. Editor at trampset.
Cindy Ana 🇳🇿 @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social Would rather write than talk. Sometimes I don’t read skeets properly, especially pre-coffee. Rāmere is my favourite day. Work can be found in Broken Spine Arts, takahē, Voicemail Poems
Special mention in Given Words 2025
Edi Albo @ediazalbo.bsky.social Art and editorial cartoons. Tyrants💀 are the garbage🪣 of history. Médico retirado, ciudadano activo. Aquí arte y humor😜 gráfico.
Madrid, Spain🇪🇦🇪🇺
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N🚫 bullfights.
I ❤️NY
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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social Literary agent @shawliterary.bsky.social, formerly head book buyer at Readings Books, Melbourne. Kafka, Sebald, the Antipodes.
Eunoia Review @eunoiareview.bsky.social Online literary journal publishing new writing daily since October 2010. Edited by Ian Chung. Typically 24-hour turnaround for responses.🇸🇬
https://eunoiareview.wordpress.com
Huw Nesbitt @huwnesbitt.bsky.social writer and editor
huwnesbitt.xyz
Fiftywords @fiftywords.bsky.social Thinks too much and tries to make sense of the world’s chaos, beauty, and commas; mostly through poetry.
Sigel Literary Press @sigelliterarypress.bsky.social A Swiss indie press and bookstore.
https://ballerinibookpress.ch/
https://kariflickingermemorialprize.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 
S P Burton @spburton.bsky.social Some guy in Scotland trying to write strange stuff. Ex scientist. Current nothing. Occasional maker of dusty musical rambles. First novel coming soon...
https://spburton.weebly.com/
Tim Craig @timcraig.bsky.social Manc | Writer of short fiction | Fainéant
Abigail Williams @abbywilliams.bsky.social Writer of short stories, flash and other stuff. SL Bridport. Winner Molotov Cocktail, Flash500, CrankedAnvil, Exeter Writers Short Story. 3rd BFFA, 3rd Oxford Flash, SL Wells, Frome, UnchartedMag. Pushcart Nom.
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Mark Culham @markculham.bsky.social Where the bee sucks, there suck I
Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social Writer
The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies (UK)
Something Wonderful (US)
Winner BBC National Short Story Award #bbcnssa
O Henry
Stories in Zoetrope, Southern Review, Ploughshares, BBSS, &&
She/her
Ally
Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social Yet another writer: THE GHOST WHO BLED (2017), THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY (2018), THE REPUBLIC OF BREATH, THE SPOILS & other stories, SWEENEY'S PROGRESS (forthcoming). Environmentalist. Lives in Sheffield. https://substack.com/@gregorynorminton
Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social seanbirnie.com
https://undertowpublications.com/shop/i-would-haunt-you-if-i-could
Short stories in ergot, Weird Horror, Interzone, Remains & elsewhere
me/cfs
Kerry Langan @kerryfiction.bsky.social Fiction writer and editor. 4 collections of published short fiction; short and flash fiction in 70+ literary journals; nominee for Pushcart and Best Small Fictions of the Net.
Andrew Spacey @andrewspacey.bsky.social Stories in The Madrid Review. Poems in The Starbeck Orion&others. Lived in Australia, Spain and the Netherlands. Ex coalminer. Guardian Country Diarist, 21 Bird Poems. Sonnets, Green Balk Lane. Dutch partner. Walker. Gardener. AntiFascist. EU. YNWA
Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com Dubliner in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Writer. https://www.LaurenceWrites.com/. 2025 Cúirt New Writing Fiction Prize. Posts in English/Français/Svenska. (He/Him/YerMan)
Shelley Roche-Jacques @shelleyr-j.bsky.social Writer of short fiction and dramatic monologue, connoisseur of cake, coveter of cats, lecturer of creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University.
https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/shelley-roche-jacques
Suzanne (writing as S A Greene) @sagreene1.bsky.social SOCIAL MEDIA BREAK 2026 (except for shameless self-promotion) DMs deactivated. Writer: GoneLawn trampset TempleInACity GooseberryPie BlinkInk Mslexia Liars'League MythicPicnic NewFlashFicReview FictiveDream BulbCulture Phare MaudlinHouse FreeFlashFiction
Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social Words in BULL, FlashFlood, Does It Have Pockets, Frazzled Lit, Trash Cat Lit, Urban Pigs Press, Fictive Dream. Genrepunk Awards nominee. Shortlisted for the 2026 Bath Novella-in-Flash Award. She/her. @lmbayley at the other place.
Susan Maxwell @ Bibliothèque des Refusés @bibliorefuses.bsky.social linktr.ee/dr.susan.maxwell
Bibliothèque des Refusés is the imprint of independent author & scholar Susan Maxwell.
Fiction: Literary — Fantasy — Mystery (as R.S. Maxwell).
Non-fiction: academic themes related to archives & fiction. Reviews.
Richard Price @paintedspoken.bsky.social Richard Price, poet (Lucky Day, Small World, Moon for Sale, Late Gifts all from Carcanet) and novelist (The Island, from Salt)
Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social Poet | First collection, ‘Midnight at the Saltmarsh’, published by The Gallery Press, May 2026
Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social Flash writer living in Derbyshire U.K.
Words in Milk Candy Review, Ghost Parachute, Sunlight Press, Bull Magazine, Phare Magazine, Hooghly Review, Gone Lawn and others. Pushcart and Best Small Fictions nominee. No longer using X
June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social Scottish. Writer. Reader for Fractured Lit. Published in Trash Cat Lit, Frazzled Lit, Moonlit Getaway, Gone Lawn, The Phare, Gutter, Hooghly Review, and National Flash Flood.
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A 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
Stephen Moran @sjmoran.com London Irish from Dublin. 1954-2854. Published poetry, fiction and blogs. Made a living from computer programming. Banner photo: some books I was in. Website: StephenMoransMuseumOfIllusions.WordPress.com. "It's never too late to change the future" (HCR)
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social Writer of stories. 'We Live Here Now.' 'Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea,' 'The Blind Accordionist,' 'Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else,' 'The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure.' (@melvillehouse.bsky.social)
Adrian Slatcher @adrianslatcher.bsky.social Manchester-based writer. Short story collection "Loners" out now from Confingo publishing. More details adrianslatcher.wordpress.com or subscribe https://adrianslatcher.substack.com/
Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at City St George's, Uni of London. I curate the short story project apersonalanthology.com. Novels are Randall or The Painted Grape, and The Large Door. Poetry is Spring Journal. https://linktr.ee/jonathangibbs
David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social the sea is completely written for me
https://www.transitbooks.org/books/darker
Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social Poet. Reader. Plums, raspberries, apricots. Recently in Asymptote, New Welsh Review, Finished Creatures, Cyphers. Troubadour Prize. Jt runner-up Keats-Shelley prize. He/him.
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
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Tabitha Potts @tabithapotts.bsky.social ✍️ UK Writer, host on Story Radio Podcast 🎙️. Longlisted #PMJWritersPrize. Quarter-finalist Vail Screenplay Contest 📖 👻 Horror novel 2026 with @rowanprosepub.bsky.social
🔗 https://linktr.ee/tabithapotts
Snoopy @snoopyphotos.bsky.social 
Sagging Meniscus @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social Independent publisher of nonconformist literature.
Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social Κλεοπάτρα 🇨🇾 Writer, editor, translator | Stories in: swamp pink, HAD, Tiny Molecules, Flash Flood, Claudine, Raw Lit | she/her
Shortlisted, Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction
Best Small Fictions & Best of the Net nominee
kleopatraolympiou.com
Pádhraic Quinn @quinnpadhraic.bsky.social 2025 Irish Book Awards Winner for New Irish Writing Best Short Story
2025/26 London Library Emerging Writer
https://m.independent.ie/entertainment/new-irish-writing/new-irish-writing-all-the-birch-trees-were-waving-by-padhraic-quinn/a1765826609.html
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
Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social Writer, maker & conservator. Short stories, zines, book arts. Used to be an academic, retrained in conservation. Repairs & cares for old manuscripts, maps, plans, photographs & the curious objects that end up in archives.
📍Lancashire, North of England
Myriam Frey @dustynewrose.bsky.social Translates. Writes. Draws (sometimes). Green. myriamfrey.ch
Peter Jordan PhD @pjordan-writer.bsky.social Short story writer from Belfast.
BBC Radio 4 & BBC Radio Ulster.
Shortlisted Bridport. 2nd Fish, etc & etc.
Best of net & best small fictions.
2 x Pushcart nominations.
50+ stories published.
Working class.
AuDHD.
Not interested in politics!
Vicky Grut @vickygrut.bsky.social Writer. Short story collection 'Live Show, Drink Included' shortlisted for 2019 Edge Hill Awards. Pushcart nominated, 2023. Work in Masters Review XIII in 2025 and Best British Short Stories 2026. www.vickygrut.com
Elissa Field @elissafield.bsky.social Lit noir novels + flash | SmokeLong Submission Ed | Killer Claymore Finalist-Best Mystery | Stories in/coming SmokeLong Reckon Review HAD Moon City Ghost Parachute Monkeybicycle Citron Review Peatsmoke CRAFT Conjunctions ++ | IG FB elissalaurenfield.com
Laura Moth @lauramoth.bsky.social Writing, birding
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
@churchofben.bsky.social @churchofben.bsky.social 
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, The Survivor Zine
British, living in Italy. 🇮🇹🇬🇧
Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social Novelist & poet. Latest novel COLE THE MAGNIFICENT
https://linktr.ee/tonywilliamswriter
Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social July 2026: What Lies Ahead and Other Essays, Black Herald Press: https://www.blackheraldpress.com/what-lies-ahead
Own Sweet Time, CB editions (2022)
Sovetica, CB editions (2021)
Saying Yes in Russian, Agenda Editions (2012)
Julie Salmon Kelleher @julieskelleher.bsky.social I write about selkies and saints. PNW.
THE SEA-GLASS SHORE forthcoming from Forest Avenue Press in Fall 2026.
www.underrevision.com
Ali McGrane @alimcg.bsky.social Flash fiction in various places | Welkin win, Bath SLs | "The Listening Project" flash novella Ad Hoc Fiction bit.ly/3ohYf67 (Special Mention '22 Sab Awards) | South West UK🦻🌱🌊
alimcgrane.com
Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social Writer, cat lady, wrote a novel about medieval mystics, forthcoming novel about John Ruskin. Aspiring anchoress. https://victoriamackenzie.net/
Substack: https://victoriamackenzie.substack.com/
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
Charles M. Schulz Museum | The home of Snoopy & the Peanuts Gang @schulzmuseum.bsky.social Celebrating cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, creator of Snoopy & the Peanuts gang!
📍50 miles north of San Francisco
Charlotte Tierney @charlieratpig.bsky.social https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-cat-bride/charlotte-tierney/9781784633622
Conjunctions / The London Magazine / 3:AM / NER / Galley Beggars Prize 2023 / Nightjar / Weird Horror.
All ‘moor, no snore.- C Chrissie Gittins @chrissiegittins.bsky.social Poetry
Poetry for Children
Short Stories
Radio Drama
Drawing
Elizabeth Baines @elizabethbaines.bsky.social Writer of short stories, novels, plays.
http://www.elizabethbaines.co.uk
Latest publication: Five Different Stories About One Thing (Confingo). https://www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page/five-different-stories-about-one-thing-by-elizabeth-baines
Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social First pub TrashCat Lit. NFFD Anthology Editors Award 25. Shortlisted for Fish. Stories in SmokeLong, BULL, DIHP, New Feathers, Bath+Oxford anthologies. LISP finalist + winner of Westword + Flash500. Poetry collection in Top 20 Small-Press Poetry awards
dogyard @dogyardmag.com Just a mag chasin’ tales.
We accept all types of work from all (leashed) walks of life: poetry, fiction, essay, art, nonfiction, and more.
Read & Submit 👇
dogyardmag.com
Account ran by @edithkrone.bsky.social
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
archelect @archelect.bsky.social Aspiring writer, obsessive reader, amateur human. Home is the beautiful city of Oxford.
Robert Scott (penname) @robertscottwriter.bsky.social Edinburgh, UK
Writer-currently querying a debut novel & writing another one.
Formerly 'RD Scott' on the old birdie thing back in the day. Finally made my way over here!
Some of my short fiction:
https://robertscottwriter.wixsite.com/website
Alicia Litamp @litamp.bsky.social Sharing excellent art, poetry, and literature. #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #ArtCommunity #WeFollowBack
Graham Mort @grahammort.bsky.social Poet, short fiction writer, essayist, writer BBC drama. Emeritus Prof Lancaster University; Extraordinary Prof University Western Cape; National HE Teaching Fellow. Eric Gregory Award, Bridport & Edge Hill Prizes. Photography, blues & jazz enthusiast.
Amantine.B (Literary Gypsy) @amantineb.bsky.social EIC. Reader. Editor. Poet. Gogyōshi-practioner. Memoirist. Amateur Photographer. Thalassophile. Opacarophile. Tao Traveller. I-Ching Practitioner
Substack: https://literarygypsy.substack.com/
Kelli Short Borges @kelliborges2.bsky.social Writer. Words in many lovely places. Into travel, photography, kind people. Best Microfiction 24’ 25’ 26’ Wigleaf Top 50 LL. Pubs and more info: https://www.kellishortborges.com
W. J. Davies @wjdavies.bsky.social Writer. Essays, fiction and reviews in the Times Literary Supplement, Slightly Foxed, Exacting Clam, Review 31, Poetry Birmingham, minor literature[s]. Author of Beckett and the Second World War (Bloomsbury)
https://linktr.ee/wjdavies
Stephen Delaney @stephendelaney.bsky.social Writer, editor, human. Words in New World Writing, Bending Genres, South Florida Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Author of the chapbook OUR PLACE IS IN BETWEEN. 💙 #foreignlit #frogs
https://bottlecap.press/products/ourpsd
https://stephen-delaney.com
Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social PME-ART
The Air Contains Honey Sings Quotes
Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Polyamorous Love Song
Rich and Poor
Authenticity is a Feeling
https://radicalcut.blogspot.com
Josephine Galvin @josephinegalvin.bsky.social 
Elizabeth Stott @elizabethstott.bsky.social Writer - fiction, poetry, things. Physics degree. Interested in science, arts, life and the natural world (not just on Earth!) Like to draw, paint and make a mess. Some of my inky doodles on Instagram @elizabethstott7
The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the world’s best new writing.
http://theberlinliteraryreview.com
Robert Stone @robertjstone.bsky.social Lives in Ipswich. From Wolverhampton. Published by
Nightjar Press, Salt Publishing, Confingo, 3am. 2 children. Reading, writing, stories, moths. Some stories here; robertjstone.weebly.com 
Taylor Burns @tayburns.bsky.social Debut novel TRAV out in '26 w/Zer0 books.
Writer-in-Residence at Voce Books, Birmingham.
Barely use this platform. Email tayburns10[at]gmail.com for enquiries &c.
Myna Chang @mynachang.bsky.social Micro, flash, shorts, poetry
Senior fiction ed - Strange Horizons
SFF ed - Uncharted
SFWA, SFPA
💫 MicroVerse Recommended Reading
⚡Electric Sheep
https://mynachang.com
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
Leila Martin @bookishleels.bsky.social Writer, reader, next-level procrastinator. What time is it? 
Mizuki Yamamoto @mizuki-yama.bsky.social Prev. writing under Mizuki Yamagen.
Words in SmokeLong, hex, Lit Namjooning, Flash Frog, Does it have pockets? Lost Balloon & elsewhere. Soon in The Forge, The Baltimore Review.
✨ SmokeLong Smokey winner
🎗️ BOTN, BMF, Pushcart noms
mizukiwrites.carrd.co