Pádraig Barry (PJ) @pjbarry.bsky.social Retired guy. Nurses and surgeons are my heroes. An English/History Major Should Have Been Trapped in an Accountant’s Body, LH Guy explains a lot, Married to a Saint, What a Great Life We Are Having Together 🚫porn
This Is Done By Humans @thisisdonebyhumans.bsky.social Welcome to Done By Humans, a certification entity where businesses, organizations and individuals can self-certify and get a badge of recognition that their product/service/art is human-made without generative AI.
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Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Dave Blackwell @daveblackwell.bsky.social Medical Engineer and Indie Author from Kent, UK. I am profoundly deaf and write comedy based on my experiences.
The Hospital is now available - check it out.
Camila Hamel ~ Leave of Absinthe @ha-ok.bsky.social Storyteller~Color Spiller 🎏 🪅 🎈🌟
https://linktr.ee/camilahamel
Blue is the dark inside of sentences.
Alec Nightfall | Dark Romance @alecnightfall.bsky.social I write brooding, emotionally charged contemporary romances set in glittering cities and sun‑drenched coastal escapes, where midnight confessions change everything.... Dark Romance written for her.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GHXJ4D1V
Roan Barrett @roanbarret.bsky.social Medieval, paranormal, gothic and dystopian erotica.
https://shieldmaidenpress.blogspot.com
https://sites.google.com/view/shieldmaidenpress/home
Rosina Banks @rosinabanks.bsky.social Writer of YA-NA Dystopian, set in 🏴
Neurospicy, 🏳️🌈, disabled Valleys Girl
Dr Banks, PhD - gender equity in Higher Education
Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social Mainly poetry in independent presses, art, glass, theatre & people playing. Allotment life. York with Glasgow links. UK.
Not every act of kindness is part of a plan.
Website :www.sarahowriter.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.
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Violina @violinajoulie.bsky.social Horror and science fiction writer with a particular love for optopian futures, gut-punch endings, revolutionary tech, and worlds that exist just beyond the veil | VP2026!! 🪼
Taylor Knight @taylorknightauthor.bsky.social Editor and flagship author at Shieldmaiden Press, bringing taboo fantasy erotica to the masses. Go to Facebook and the blog for NSFW content from the books...
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king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social Order books online or shop in-person at Canada's hardest to find indie bookstore, co-operatively run in Halifax, Nova Scotia, featuring $5 flat rate shipping across Canada!
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WordWitch @wordwitchlife.bsky.social I make magic with words! A woman in pain embracing a changing future.
I'm an author, gamer, collector of rubber duckies!
http://www.buymeacoffee.com/wordwitchlife
Hayden Morley Ives @hayden-morley-ives.bsky.social Worker-muse, horror writer, gonk.
Arthur C Grudfuttle @grudfuttle.bsky.social Former backpacker, now a 60+ postman on a new adventure: learning to write a crime novel. #writer 
Fay Thompson, Author/Artist @faythompsonauthor.bsky.social I write Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror that is slightly bent, a bit fun and certain to be an adventure. I also art. I encourage writers of all levels with writing. Nevada! NO AI here. DMs closed!
Your Story Match @dreamverseland.com Helping stories meet the readers they’re meant for.
A calm discovery space for authors who value alignment over noise.
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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social Multi awards-shortlisted SFFH & non-fic author. Editor & typesetter. SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES 3 now in the wild! https://linktr.ee/tiffaniangusauthor Leftie, feminist, ex academic, ally, anti-AI. she/her. Now 🇬🇧 was 🇺🇸
Stuart Aken @stuartaken.bsky.social UK writer of fiction (12 books published). Photographer. Environment, science, atheist, humanist, walker, happily married. Find me here: https://stuartaken.net/ I DO NOT follow DMs, selfie promos & users w/o profiles or posts. Porn will be blocked.
Mark Bolsover @mdbolsover.bsky.social #Writer. #amquerying my debut novel.
IN FAILURE & IN RUINS—dreams & fragments (Into the Void Press), *1st collection: contra FLUX—moments caught (arrested) whilst in-from movement (Polyversity Press). #BookSky 📚
Author M. I. Verras (She/Her) @miverrasauthor1.bsky.social Gothic author, singer, composer, keyboardist, designer, university graduate, company associate, sports fan, existential seeker. Author of two metaphysical, symbolic fantasy-mystery novellas. Novella plots and covers are in English and NOT AI.
Jenny Gaitskell @jennygaitskell.bsky.social Small and/or speculative fictions. Old dictionaries. Shingle beaches. Everyday magic.
she/her
https://www.jennygaitskell.com/
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
The Ubergroup @theubergroup.bsky.social a 501(c)3 nonprofit providing low cost education for writers. Prose, poetry, stage, screen, nonfiction, journalism, comics, animation, podcasts, you name it. If it has a writer at any stage, we teach it.
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Julie Ann Hebbes @julieannhebbes.bsky.social A Comedy of Errors: Losing my mind, finding my voice and starting over again
https://www.amazon.com/Comedy-Errors-Julie-Ann-Hebbes-ebook/dp/B0FCD8QZ87/
Rev Robert Irvine @revrobertirvine.bsky.social My hope is in Christ. Saved by grace. Desire to see everyone having the same access to opportunities. I may be forthright but I desire to be compassionate.
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A free 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
Scribaland @scribaland.bsky.social ✍🏾 Marie Abeng | Creative Polymath 📚 Storybooks · 📖 Books & e-books · 🎵 Music · 🖊️ Poetry 🇨🇭 French & 🇺🇸 English 300+ stories for children & adults · https://scribaland.systeme.io/2454701c /👇 scribaland.gumroad.com
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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Helen MacKenzie @helenmackenzie.bsky.social Writer based in Scotland. YA and MG mostly. UV 2020 and Scottish Book Trust New Writer’s Award 2017. Dotty about my spotty dog.
JAMESON QUINN @realjamesonquinn.bsky.social SAG-AFTRA Award Winning Actor | Voice Artist Pittsburgh PA
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KidsWord & AllKidsBooks – Explore, Read & Share! @allkidsbooks.com 🌟 Join our vibrant community of children's book lovers!
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Writln @writln.bsky.social List your books, share stories, join ARC programs, swap book reviews, connect with readers, and grow your author brand. Engage in writing retreats, character Q&As, author interviews, giveaways, and exclusive events. https://writln.com/
National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social Celebrating flash fiction worldwide. Co-directed by Ingrid Jendrzejewski @lunchontuesday.bsky.social and Diane Simmons @scooterwriter.bsky.social
The next NFFD will be Saturday 12 June 2027.
https://www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
Autumn Watts @autumnwatts.bsky.social Writer, Nevadan, former Guernica fiction editor (2014-2024), co-founder of litmatchcollective.com. She/her
Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
Chris Dolan @mcdolan.bsky.social I am angry about the nitrate levels in Iowa’s drinking water. My writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Maudlin House, The Disappointed Housewife, and others. www.dolanchris.com
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Jay King @jay-king-art.bsky.social Athens-based writer, performer & translator from the Republic of Croydon.
Crime novels, audiobooks and drama, bouzouki, neurodivergence, migraines, G.O. 💚🍉
Now also Greek.
I wrote Common Charges, the Exarcheia murder mystery
Www.jayking.art
Simon Constable @realconstable.bsky.social Broadcaster | Columnist | Commentator | Award-winning Author
Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Institute of Applied Economics
If you are an author or an aspiring one, feel free to contact me
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🌿Aspen Harding | Author✨ @aspenharding.bsky.social 🌿WEEDIE WISDOM🌿
🔆Modern Philosophy | Spiritual Insights📿
I had a break-up.
I had a breakdown.
I had a breakthrough.
Crawling my way back up from rock bottom.
Sharing insights learned along the way.
Katherine Argent @katherineargent.com Kansas City-based writer and woman of a certain rage. Reading submissions for @fracturedlit.bsky.social & The Master’s Review. Petting all the dogs.
Also at the bad place: https://x.com/effthealgorithm
Poetry South @poetrysouth.bsky.social An annual international poetry magazine published by the low-residency MFA at Mississippi University for Women.
Read free back issues, subscribe, or submit your poems at http://www.poetrysouth.com
Kendall Dunkelberg @kdunkelberg.bsky.social Poet & Professor
Director, MFA in Creative Writing, Mississippi Univ. for Women
Author of Tree Fall with Birdsong, Barrier Island Suite & A Writer’s Craft.
Studied at Knox College & Univ. of Texas at Austin
📖 my work ⤵
www.kendalldunkelberg.com
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
Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne
@gerardbeirne.bsky.social
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored
AJ Van Belle (they/them) @ajvanbelle.bsky.social Preorder A Dozen Dystopias and How to Dodge Them! https://linktr.ee/ajvanbelle
Writer & scientist who cuddles dogs, builds worlds. Rep: Lauren Bieker. https://ajvanbellenews.substack.com/
Rhysling & BSFA nominee.
Lit agent.
Nonbinary/transmasc 🏳️⚧️
fugue @fuguejournal.bsky.social literary journal, in print and online | edited by writers of University of Idaho’s MFA | poetry, fiction, nonfiction & more ✨
https://fuguejournal.com/
Frost Zone Stories @frostzonestories.bsky.social biannual Canadian #litmag / anthology series #quiethorror #darkfiction
eic @lenemacleod.bsky.social | readers: @melodyemcintyre.bsky.social | @collyleonard.bsky.social
Subs will open OCT 17-31
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https://www.frostzonestories.com
Agita Publishing @agitapublishing.bsky.social Small press specializing in horror, sci-fi, contemporary fantasy, zines, poetry, and reprints. Voted best small press by our EIC's mom. We used to be From Beyond Press. agitapublishing.com
Frazzled Lit *Closed for Submissions* @frazzledlit.bsky.social We are Frazzled Lit! 🥓 🔥
Looking for Flash, Poetry, CNF and Prose.
Eds @lozzawriting.bsky.social and @jmcm.bsky.social
www.frazzledlit.com
https://ko-fi.com/frazzledlit
socials by Laura
🇬🇧🏴🇮🇪 Edinburgh/Dublin
Forest Path Books @forestpathbooks.bsky.social Publishers of Divergent Speculative Fiction
Joshua Lander @jlander90.bsky.social Teacher and writer based in Edinburgh
Denise Bayes @deniseb.bsky.social Flash fiction and short story writer. Free Flash. Ellipsis zine. 100 Word Story. Firewords.Roi Faient. NFFD Anthology. Temple in a City. Thin Skin. Flash Amiga.
Kashawn Taylor @kashawntaylor.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Student.
Prison Journalism Project.
Gotham Writers Workshop.
book: subhuman. out now.
Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social Scott Edelman is a Stoker Award-nominated writer and Hugo Award-nominated editor of science fiction, fantasy & horror, as well as the host of the Hugo Award-nominated Eating the Fantastic podcast! (He/Him)
Nigel Stewart @nigelstewartbooks.bsky.social Writer…
Smalls Scenes in the Scheme of Things
Colouring In
Secrets We Hide From Ourselves
“A genius” according to @birdfeed of off BlueSky
https://nigelstewartbooks.co.uk
Laura Fowler-Holden @ljfspinningbooks.bsky.social Writer, school librarian, governor, community volunteer, mum of 2.
Published in 206 Word Stories Horror Anthology by Bag of Bones
Poems published on The Dirigible Balloon, The Great Get Together Poetry Fest, Lavender Lime Literary, Heart Balm lit
Emorra (EM-er-uh) @wordsfromemorra.bsky.social Sometimes writer. Always dreamer.
Social media makes me awkward.
So does life.
she/her. Kitty mama x2.
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.
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).
Daily Submittable Deadlines @submittabledaily.bsky.social Best writing and poetry festivals to submit to each day on submittable.
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/projects
Lane Stellmaker @hipcrimevocab.net Husband. Lawyer. Hunter. Fisherman. Swordsman. Warrior poet. Philosopher king. Legend.
Ariel Marken Jack @arielmarkenjack.bsky.social singer of stories, swinger of scythes.
work & words: arielmarkenjack.com.
newsletter: https://buttondown.com/SongsFromaRiversEdge
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
Global Majority Press @globalmajoritypres.bsky.social Small indie lit press run by and for PoGM
Empowering marginalized creatives to tell their own stories
Editor: @mxchristalbot.bsky.social
Home of: thebkmagazine.bsky.social
bio.site/globalmajoritypress
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
Mythaxis Magazine @mythaxis.bsky.social Publishing speculative fiction without distraction since 2008 (mythaxis.co.uk)
Edited by Andrew Leon Hudson @noumenon.bsky.social
Emmi Khor - Writer @emmikhor.bsky.social ✳️ 2026 Ditmar nominee|2026 Best Small Fiction nominee|2024 Aurealis Finalist
✳️ Speculative, surreal, literary in:
BSFA Fission#6, Cast of Wonders, Inner Worlds, Factor Four, Fictive Dream, Blood+Honey
✳️ linktr.ee/emmikhor
J. C. Jones @thejcjones.bsky.social Author of the best selling Louisa Moss detective series.
Ex-nightclub boss and, due to carelessness, owner of only half a lung.
Poems and Limericks daily.
Based in Hereford, UK.
@sarahhealeyeditor.bsky.social @sarahhealeyeditor.bsky.social Novelist and freelance editor. Drinks a lot of tea.
Published by Portland Press.
sarahhealeyeditor.com
Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social We're a creative writing research centre based at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, organising and posting both research and community writing events. We repost lit subs calls!
https://creativeshowcase.aru.ac.uk/research/cambridge-writing-centre/
Farida Mirza @faridamirza.bsky.social SCBWI, Children’s Published Author, Editor, Technical Writer
Paula Coston @paulacostonwriter.bsky.social Writer of fiction spotlighting the lives of women, single women, older women, childless women, single older women, single childless women, single older childless women ... well, you get the idea
Friendly Neighborhood Anarchist🏳️⚧️ @neverlandknight.bsky.social Line cook and writer, faggy daggerboi ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (they/them, fae/faer)
On stolen Lenni Lannape (Lenapehoking) and Susquehannock land
Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social 1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/)
2. Obsessed with lists
3. COMMON PEOPLE
4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS
5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (http://geni.us/yDxa)
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
J.Jareth @jenejareth.bsky.social Actor, poet, reader, writer, daydreamer. Bowie fan. Kindness rules. Share art daily. No bio, no follow. Proud Canadian
Flex Fish Games @flexfishgames.bsky.social Artist Matthew king and programmer Rami Bukhari, teaming up to develop nostalgic hand-drawn 2D games.
Mia Garay @miagaray.bsky.social Beta reader by day and aspiring novelist by night
https://linktr.ee/miagaray
EliasJMcClellan @eliasjmcclellan.bsky.social Accountant, #union member. Would-be #crimefiction #writer, amateur speller; RN's husband, 🍀 #LGBTQ, #BLM, #StopAsianHate, #BreastCancerAwareness. Same on #Spoutable & #Threads. Not that kind of Texan. Don't DM me, I will block you.
Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social Lover of coffee, chocolate, reading & writing 
Dirge Magazine @dirgemagazine.com The cultural feverdream that walks like a magazine. 2014-2017, 2025+
The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore us.
https://dirgemagazine.com/
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Peter Fleming @easthullpete.bsky.social Reader, blogger, fanzine contributor
Mabs Library @mabslibrary.bsky.social Avid reader/bookworm Favorite Genres
Horror, Scifi, Fantasy, Literature.
Read lots of children/YA with L
Slowly putting my library back together after loosing over 5.5k books this Feb 2025.
Literary Report #WritingCommunity @literaryreport.bsky.social Reposting publication news, literary nominations & awards, publication in journals & magazines, and great reviews.
Also see: @rodmannix.bsky.social
@writingcommunity.bsky.social
@literarybulletin.bsky.social
https://LiteraryRetweet.com
Katherine Mezzacappa @katmezzacappa.bsky.social Irish historical novelist living in Italy, published by Fairlight (Oxford), Histria (LV) and Stairwell (York). Writes too as Katie Hutton (Zaffre Books) and Kate Zarrelli (Romaunce). katherinemezzacappa.com
Anita Dow @goanitadow.bsky.social Love reading & reviewing books, dog-sitting, music, art, history, nature, Mars. Work with composer/author H.E.Wilburson on The Martian Diaries - an award-winning
sequel to The War Of The Worlds 👽 https://www.martiandiaries.com 
Vanessa Edwards, Writer @vanessaedwards56.bsky.social Lawyer turned crime writer. The Grass Widow and The Matchmakers (Amazon.com #1 Best Seller in Noir Crime) available on Amazon, including on KU; paperbacks also available from Gumshoe Books. Author photo © Nick Gregan.
http://www.vanessaedwardswriter.com
Marie Day @mariedaywriting.bsky.social Teacher, writer. Stories have been published in Bath Flash Fiction, National Flash Fiction Day, Oxford Flash Fiction, Paper Lanterns, Paper Bound, Writementor Magazine. SL Bridport 2024 Winner Henshaw Press Mar 2024
Bristol | Yorkshire
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social Regularly I’ll post a non-paywalled link to a short story by an interesting author. Afterwards I will repost your feedback to the stories. Throughout the month I’ll post literature related links and images.