Steve Downes @writerstevedownes.bsky.social Author of Fyre & Stone crime/historical fiction series.
Books on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones, Apple Books & Google Play
Ryan Proietto @ryanproietto.bsky.social Wandering thoughts, half-finished things, and the long way around.
Lead Engineer of Alistair: https://alistaircrowe.com 📖⚔️
Laura Hannett @lauraupat5am.bsky.social Poet-in-progress, LMT
Cate McGowan @catemcgowan.com Author of four books: poetry collection—SACRIFICIAL STEEL, essay collection—WRITING IS REVISION, stories—TRUE PLACES NEVER ARE, & novel—THESE LOWLY OBJECTS. Prose & poems smattered everywhere. Em dashes rule!
PhD, MFA, MA.
https://linktr.ee/cate.mcgowan
Daniel Cummings @nathanbrazil.bsky.social Dad. Husband. Love Vonnegut, Ellison and Park Chan-wook.
The Aftershock Review (Max Wallis) @maxwallis.bsky.social 📚 Max Wallis | Author of the Polari Prize-shortlisted Modern Love (2011) & Everything Everything (2016).
🖋️ Poems in The Rialto, Poetry Scotland, Spectator
✍️ Freelance journalist (The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph).
🌈 Gay, disabled, survivor.
Ink & Ribbon Press @inkandribbon.com A nonprofit poetry press devoted to craft, discovery, and the permanence of the printed word. 📍 Bainbridge Island, WA | 🌐 inkandribbon.org
Sarah Warden @sarahwarden.bsky.social Poet. Socialist.
"Fight like there is no night so dark that liberty cannot light it."
#poetsonbluesky #NoKings
http://sarahwarden.substack.com
Sean P O'hAodha @maddygram.bsky.social Dem. Descendant of nits who vexed Cromwell. Chief of the Name. Chicago born, chum of Fionn MacCumhail, MacConglinne, MacDatho. Finley Peter Dunne, Blessed Liam Shakespeare. R1B1 etc. Fuck Trump. Punch a Nazi Today -- Captain America. 🐝
Dave A. Gardener @daveagardener.bsky.social Author of love stories | Romantic poet | Gardener of love and hope. Writing sweet romance and tales of adventure brimming with heart, hope & happily-ever-afters. #vssromance
Lisa Writes Poems @lisawritespoems.bsky.social Poet | Participant in #VSS365 daily prompts. Fuelled by coffee and hiking and enjoying a life full of floof courtesy of two Norwegian Forest Cats. Words, walks and whiskers welcome. 🐾
Dr. Mohan Prasad Joshi @mohan-prasad-joshi.bsky.social Awareness • Silence • Nature • Poetry • Spirituality
MD, MSc • Former Professor & Global AMR Consultant
Author of A Hundred Flowers to Awareness and Death
Photos/videos/GIFs are original & shot by me (except RTs)
No DMs • No politics
The Common @commonmag.bsky.social The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, poetry, and art with a modern sense of place. Based at Amherst College, we highlight writers and work from around the world.
David Perlmutter @davidperlmutter.bsky.social Canadian white male autistic writer. Author of America 'Toons In: A History of Television Animation and The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Also author of speculative fiction, superhero fiction and anthropomorphic ("furry") fiction.
Grant @granth2k.bsky.social Tech, solar. Scale model maker. Adelaide 🇦🇺
Contributions of poetry, photography and opinions are my own.©️
Just Bsky 🦋
📓 https://grantherringe-xqiap.wordpress.com
Michael Ironheart @michaelironheart.bsky.social I am a self published indie author who has released 2 books, with a 3rd on the way
22 years old/college student/AuDHD
Rawhead @rawheadjournal.bsky.social Open to submissions of creative nonfiction and visual art. We believe in the power of art and literature as form of resistance.
Now on Submittable:
https://rawhead.submittable.com/submit
John Wilson @theoldguy56.bsky.social Getting old but very content.
I love my wife and my dog. A good bit left of centre, let’s Re-join the EU. I like to swear a fucking lot. Glaswegian, now living in Coatbridge #FBPE. Trump is a cunt. Scotland 🏴 forever.
🧿 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
💃🏻 Dance at the Pyramids
📖 Leone Nor 💙
✍️🎨📸©️ #ArtBySeranya #CubistPoet #Seranya
The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social We're an international literary magazine in Madrid. We connect English and Spanish speaking literary cultures through fiction, poetry, essays and interviews.
Subs Closed.
Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social Poet, parent, professor.
Editor-in-Chief of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social
https://www.katiemanningpoet.com/
Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social A Journal of Poetry & Short Prose
Edited by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social
https://www.whaleroadreview.com/
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
Woodley Dowar @wdowar.bsky.social Original #scifi very short stories daily #vss365 and #scifaikusaturday. Bartleby B. Boar award nominee #SciFanSat 🏴 living in 🏴 www.wdowar.com
Margaret Lee @margaretleeauthor.bsky.social I am a poet, scholar, fiber artist, watercolor sketcher, and aspiring naturalist. ThD and MDiv. Previously, a professor and higher ed admin.
www.margaretleepoems.com
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/
Moira Kurtin @moirakurtinwrites.bsky.social Short story and poetry writer, aspiring novelist. 🖤🩶🤍💜
Fondness for the whimsical and the macabre.
🚫AI
I will block anyone I suspect is a bot
No DMs please, I'm not interested in what you're selling
https://moirakurtin.com/
Marnix Keller @marnixkeller.bsky.social No AI, just 100% human creativity that occasionally blossoms into something beautiful 🌸
Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Writer
Poetry: Debut collection due Spring ‘27
(Broken Sleep Books)
Forward Prize/BOTN nominee
100+ poems in Agenda, Stand, Poetry Salzburg, Chiron Review, IS&T etc & on BBC
Charles Causley & Bridport shortlists
Prose: Orwell Prize/Bridport Novel longlists
Tiny Prophecies @mercurialsilver.com Online lit journal of hearth, ruin, & whimsy.
Free to submit—poems & tiny fiction. 🌈
✣
Curated by @perilpoet
✣ mercurialsilver.com ✣
Christopher @c007goat.bsky.social Vancouverite. 2001. Pescatarian. Screenwriter. Songwriter. Playwright.
Patreon.com/JustChristopher
The Belfast Review @thebelfastreview.bsky.social Subs 1 Mar - 1 Apr or 1 Aug - 1 Sept | New literary magazine & blog (print & digital) | Art Writing Scripts & More | Feedback & Classes | EIC @hannaswork.bksy.social | linktr.ee/thebelfastreview
Stephen Komarnyckyj @komarnyckyj.bsky.social PEN award winning poet and translator at Kalyna Language Press, who is trying to save every abandoned dog on earth and return lost Ukrainian authors to the world. #FBPE #Ukraine #Poetry
melisa @m3lisa.bsky.social Bluesky Aficionado * Adjunct Professor * Business Owner * Dog Lover * Writer
Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social She/Her | Poet | 🏳️🌈 | ✊️
🤩 Pushcart Nominated 2025
My work is published in The Chaos Section, where I am poetry co-editor; Loblolly Press; Medicine & Meaning; and a Central Arkansas Library System anthology, with one poem nominated for Best of the Net.
🔞
Mr. Snarky Pantalones @mrsnarkypantalones.bsky.social IRL I'm Cory Easter. New Jersey based photographer specializing in Street, Travel, Landscape and Infrared. Member of the EastCoastKin collective. You can view my photo collections at https://cory-easter.pixels.com/
K Wilde @flowerchildob1.bsky.social 💙nature geek, shrink, pianist, runner, Sheepadoodle mom
I must have flowers, always & always.--C Monet
To live in this world: love what is mortal; hold it against your bones knowing your life depends on it; & when the time comes, let it go.--Mary Oliver
Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social He/Him Pro🏳️🌈 Social Democrat
Poetry, Art, Music. All my original work, unless stated otherwise.
© Applies.
C.S. Voll @stephlepht.bsky.social An author, historian, and gamer. Also likes to ponder the meaning of everything.
Medium: https://medium.com/@csvoll
Superjump: https://www.superjumpmagazine.com/author/csvoll/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/CSVollWriting
Hayden Scott @haydenascott.com Liberal and friendly writer from London who decided it would be fun to explore the world for a bit. If not teaching you'll find me reading, travelling, writing, and wandering around imaginary worlds from my book - in my head, obviously.
The Martian Diaries 👽 The War Of The Worlds Sequel @martiandiaries.bsky.social A faithful continuation of H.G.Wells’ The War Of The Worlds 👽 by British author & composer H.E.Wilburson, in books & audiobooks featuring own music & sound effects. Friends call me H.E 📚🎧
Website https://www.martiandiaries.com
MK Alexander @smartreads.bsky.social Longtime Author.
I write genre fiction for a small niche market:
Readers who are smart, well-educated, and have a robust sense of humor.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/MK-ALEXANDER/author/B009BDR7OO
MysteryMarple @mysterymarple.bsky.social Agatha-nominated Author/Anchor/Mom...not in that order.
Author of mysteries, historical and contemporary, long and short
Weekend morning anchor at 1010 WINS Radio, NYC
Mother of amazing teen.
Harley James @harleyjamesauthor.bsky.social ✍️ romance/variety of subgenres 2-3🔥 #HEA ▪ dark psychological thrillers ▪ grim dark fantasy ▪ speculative fiction ▪ gothic fiction. All work ©
2nd PN: J. Rose #booksky
John L. DeBoer @johnldeboer.bsky.social Retired surgeon, now a novel writer, mostly thrillers. Currently living in coastal North Carolina.
Ennui @listlessennui.bsky.social She/Her 🏳️🌈 🩷💜💙 / 🟣⚪🟢
30's, wife, mother, sappy feral dork with a major case of the gutterbrains
No non-moot DMs, MDNI 🔞
Prosecute Pedophiles
End 🇺🇸 Militarism
Abolish ICE 🧊
Fuck AI
Beth @bethlynette.bsky.social Writer (as Bess Linnet) of one book and a lot of poems
I've read Sophie Scholl and The White Rose by Annette Dumbach-- have you?
Cerredwyn @cerredwyn.bsky.social Old Irish Introvert (INFJ), social humanist, ocean & cat lover, snarky, sarcastic, profane. Love #Oiler's, #Yungblud - #Fthepatriarchy #Equity #Resist
Alzheimer's, LGBTQIA+, Neurodiversity, & Indigenous peoples Ally
DMs are off
LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social Father, Writer, Photographer, Herbalists, Tribal Medicine Researcher, Explorer, Seeker, Int Negotiator, FIT, Designer, Airline Safety & Health Chairperson, Jungle Crisis Counselor, 105 Countries, Navy Vet, Futurist, 60 yrs Cooking. 🚫MAGA
KnC Books - Used and Vintage Bookstore @kncbooks.bsky.social * The right to read is not political
#FreedomOfSpeech #FreedomToRead
Unrepentant bibliophile - I post and re-post items of bookish interest.
Reader. Writer. Researcher. Retired.
Hopeful, human, humane, hippie.
No automatic follow back.
www.kncbooks.com
Michelle Willms @michellewillms.bsky.social NORTHERN GIRLS: TRUE STORIES (Baraka Books). 2026 Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Mother bear.
Northern Girls: www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/northern-girls/
TSR Review: www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/northern-girls-true-stories-by-michelle-willms
Laura Minor, poets<poems 😘 she/her 🤘💪 #writer #poetry @lauralminor.bsky.social 2024 Silver Medal Florida Book Awards, Poetry 🥈
Book 2: Bright Life, Animal Heart, winner of the 2023 Minds on Fire Open Book Prize, out now!, conduit.org
Book 1: Flowers as Mind Control, winner of The 2020 John Ciardi Prize,
at uapress.com
*no DMs pls*
FRagoczy @fragoczy.bsky.social Devotee of Dune, IDIC, LotR, Sam Vimes, Zhuge Liang,
Xu Bing, Churchill, Rumi,
Bumper Sticker Wisdom,
Intellectual Cross-fertilization,
and 3am Coffee talk.
Eisenhower Republican &
Bernie Sanders Progressive.
Generalist
Former Expat
INTJ
Ubuntu
Will Moorfoot @moorfootwill.bsky.social Associate Lecturer (Teaching) at University College London. Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind.
Website: https://willmoorfoot.weebly.com/
PhilPapers: https://philpeople.org/profiles/will-moorfoot
Lizzy Perkins @lizzyjperkins.bsky.social Happily Married Writer (attending uni - BA in Creative Writing) - Textile Artist - Administrative Professional #WritingCommunity #vss365
⛰️Aspen Mountain⛰️ @aspenmntn.bsky.social Behind every strong person is a story that gave them no choice.
Joanne in Boston @vtgal.bsky.social Secular Humanist/Environmentalist/Liberal 🌎🇺🇦💙
Compassion & Empathy
🚫Toxic religiosity
Can humanity save itself?
“There’s some good in this world Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for”
Love my husband, my coffee and a good bourbon Manhattan.
Carol Shoshkes Reiss, Ph. D. @carolshoshkesreiss.bsky.social Professor Emerita, NYU
Editor-in-Chief, DNA & Cell Biology
Mentor; always learning; grandmother
No DMs, please
Amy Probst @amyprobst.bsky.social Writer, typewriter poet, instructional designer, saver of worms, lover of dogs and trees. Raised blue-collar intellectual. Memoir in the works.
Workshops: amyprobst.com
I love Drummond Island.
Mike Santone @mikesantone.bsky.social Write poetry, digital draw and paint, and sculpt clay. The poetry is often micropoems like haiku, tanka, haibun, or cherita. The digital paintings come after 40 years of being in meetings with a sketchbook. The clay sculptures are usually Raku fired.
aka James Wayne 🎸✌️☀️😎 💙🌊 @bluejaywayne.bsky.social "My neighbors listen to good music whether they like it or not."
~ anonymous
Married to my best friend:
@jrb66.bsky.social 🥰
2 Blue Heelers 🐾
Musician/Songwriter 🎼
ASCAP©;AFM;SGA
Zimm RecordZ
Army Vet
BS 92' JD 96'
www.perpetualnotionband.com
Claire Thompson @pipthompson.bsky.social Author, researcher, art-loving Italophile, mysteries and short stories. Rep'd by Gail Hochman NYC. 
to the worlds @to-the-worlds.bsky.social 
Steven B. Epstein @stevenbauthor.bsky.social Author of bestselling true crime books Deadly Heist, Murder on Birchleaf Drive, Evil at Lake Seminole, and Extreme Punishment StevenBEpstein.com #truecrime
Astrid Aillume @aillume.bsky.social A detective. Astrid Aillume's New Case: A Billionaire's Mystery
Cracking a case is like salty liquorice.
Surprising at first,but ultimately addictive.
alex antics @alexeverette.bsky.social Poet, Editor, Farmer, Herbalist, Queer as hell.
He-Berry (he/him)
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
George Orwell, 1984
Katie Frances Hartless @katiehartless.bsky.social I'm a persistent poet, free-spirited fiction writer, and word trapeze artist working on my latest death-defying act on the keys.
Come fly with me! kfhartless.com
Patricia Falvey @patriciafalvey.bsky.social 🇮🇪🇺🇸Bestselling author of five Irish historical fiction books. Born in Ireland, living in Dallas. CPA. Former Managing Director @PwC. My latest book 🇮🇪🇦🇺The Famine Orphans available wherever books are sold. Get your copy today! https://linktr.ee/patriciafalvey
Suzanne Minarcine @drsuzannem.bsky.social Storyteller, writer, coach, entrepreneur, RN, artist, avid reader. Happily married to Bob. Cat mom. Former airline pilot. Unapologetically liberal. Fighting for the rights for our children & grandchildren #voteblue #resist #writers 💙💙💙
NO DMs
Adam Sleper @adamsleper.bsky.social Dad, hubby, writer. Illinois artist grants, Chicago Writers Assoc, Horror Writers Assoc, Page/AFF finalist, PEN Emerging Writers. Black List 8+. Shakespeare/R.E.M.
USMNT/Huskers/Red Sox.
Rep: Mark Gottlieb@Trident
www.adamsleper.com
AdamSleper.substack.com
Jason Bentsman @jasonbentsman.bsky.social Wayfaring Writer & Photographer
// Debut photobook out now from 89Books Italy ➨
limited signed copies ➨ www.tinyurl.com/WhichCannotBeSeen
// Bklyn Review, Offing, LitroMagUK, Mercurius, Tiny Mcules, AmBystander, MTL Review, HAD, Amstdm Qtrly, FStop, et al
Lothlorien Poetry Journal @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction and art.
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines.html
Lee Matthew Goldberg @leematthewgoldberg.bsky.social Author of 16 📚 including ANCESTOR, MENTOR and the GREAT GIMMELMANS.
Lit Rep: Josh Getzler @ HG Literary
Screenwriter and publisher of Fringe Press.
Native New Yorker. LeeMatthewGoldberg.com
Gambrel Buttons📚📖💙📎 @gambrelbuttons.bsky.social Writing short fiction, photography, I like good music, funny stuff, poetry, and random epiphanies. Follow me on Medium, there’s a link down there somewhere 👇
Andrew Turgeon @rhymeandreason321.bsky.social Author of 4 poetry collections, "The New Social Graces," "Love, Light and Shadows," "Food for Thought," and "Fantasy Fables" and the novel, "Visions Beyond". Woke words warrior. 💙
🏳️🌈✍️😎🚫MAGA
Visit my website https://ariestiger321.wixsite.com/andrewturgeon
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained (https://alliteration.net), a website devoted to modern English alliterative verse. If you like Beowulf, or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or Tolkien's Fall of Arthur or Sigurd and Gudrun, you're in for a treat.
Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social Poet (Brussels Review, Merion West, Pictura, Poets.ca & more), community acupuncturist in #YYJ. Add alt-text to images if you want me to follow you.
#Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Canada
roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social a throwaway poet
lives in Sheffield
has never been a lover of slip-on-shoes
writes poetry for people who don’t read poetry
his pamphlet “My C&A Years” published by Dreich
my best review
“My husband loves this but he doesn’t know anything about poetry”
Audrey Howitt @audreyhowitt.bsky.social Poet, voice teacher, recovering attorney, licensed psychotherapist, lover of life
Please no DMs. I will block you. 
K.T. McGivens @mcgivens.bsky.social Mystery writer, poet, reader, animal lover, dreamer. Trying to make a little difference in the world. 
Eoin Flannery @eoinflannery.bsky.social Associate Professor of English Literature at @micireland.bsky.social
Poems @eatthestorms.com @thebelfastreview.bsky.social @theargylelitmag.bsky.social @hogriverpress.bsky.social @juniperpoetry.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
Emma Galloway Stephens @emmagstephens.bsky.social Poet. Professor. Appalachian. Southern. Anglican.
Poems in The Windhover, Ekstasis Mag, Thimble Lit Mag, Door is a Jar, Red Branch Review, Clayjar Review, The Christian Century and more--with work upcoming in The MacGuffin and J Journal.
Chopstik @chopstik.bsky.social 
Corey 🌈🦊🐦⬛🌻 @coreypoetry.bsky.social 37. Poet & writer. Queer. They/She
Chapbook - https://bottlecap.press/products/doomcs
ROBOTĂ - https://stanislavandthelion.bandcamp.com/
"We Were Seeds" anthology @ querenciapress.com
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. 🌄
Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social Epic Fantasy Author & poet on Wurundjeri country.
Living my best -identities in 📌- & well managed chronic illness life!
Human rights fan. 🚫gen ai.
🌐 https://elisecarlson.com/
See my 📌🧵for my ✍️Writers & Authors Discord and to request a link!
Irishgirl692 @irishgirl692.bsky.social Poet and Author with NFB Publishing. Read about my life, but don't have any pity. I'm a strong Irish girl from an all American city ♡
https://www.amazon.com/~/e/B08W9LLPFN
MuddyNoSugar @muddynosugar.bsky.social Writer of words. Author of The Impossible Queen - About Charlie - Blood Kisses - The Solstice Baby & Other Stories & Love & Being. Coffee, cats, wine, sweary, tattoos, tap dancing, books, growing & making stuff. she/her
https://linktr.ee/MuddyNoSugar
Michael @michaelsten.bsky.social A books📚, films🎬, photography📸, music🎶, and knowledge📖 lover from Malta (Europe). I’m always happy to follow back and get to know people 😊.
Laken Honeycutt 💫 Book 3 Kickstarter is live! 💫 @mycelialwriter.bsky.social Fantasy author of celestial wonders, dark histories, and the magic of trees.
Blog: AuthorNook
Prequel: KOSAL 🌙 Available Now
Book 1: TCT 🌿 Available Now
Book 2: SoS ✨ Available Now
Book 3: TMF🎪 (The Mycellium Forest) WIP
linktr.ee/lakenhoneycutt3