Suzanne Hicks @suzannehicks.bsky.social Writer living with multiple sclerosis. Often very tired. Best Microfiction ‘24 Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist ‘24.
Read my work: www.suzannehickswrites.com
Wigleaf @wigleaf.bsky.social Seven-time Pushcart Prize winning journal of very short fiction. (Read us at wigleaf.com)
Maura Finkelstein @mauraf.bsky.social Writer/ethnographer/professor, author of “The Archive of Loss: Lively Ruination in Mill Land Mumbai” (DUP 2019) she/her/free Palestine 🍉
https://www.maurafinkelstein.com
Weird Lit Mag @weirdlitmag.bsky.social A platform for the weird and boundless. We support freedom of expression, community engagement, and the open exchange of ideas.
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Gabriella Paz Hoggatt @gabriella-p-h.bsky.social One time i saw a whale shark, that was pretty cool. Writer. 🇵🇭🇸🇮
Find me in: BarBar, Midwest Weird, Peatsmoke Journal, Ninth Letter
Banner image is "Still Life with Fruits and Stringed Instrument" by Georges Braque (1938). Profile image is by me.
Meghan 📚💙 @manateevanity.bsky.social she/her | author | ✨How Far a Night Can Reach ✨with ELJ Editions | Lars Nootbaar & Wisconsin basketball stan
Wendy E Wallace @wendyewallace1.bsky.social Writer who is also very good at not writing. She/they. Queer disabled. Editor of @PSmokeJournal, social media for @splitlipthemag
Pegah Ouji @pegahouji.bsky.social Writer
words: EPOCH @splitlipthemag.bsky.social @fuguejournal @epiphanylit
23' Roots.Wounds.Words Writing Fellow
24' fellow @smokelong.bsky.social
25' PEN American Emerging Writer Fellow
https://oujipegah.wixsite.com/mysite
Leon Literary Review @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social
Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey @esmepromise.bsky.social Writer, enjoyer of living things. Work in Smokelong Quarterly, Cincinnati Review, Adroit Journal
Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social Michigan writer & stuff. auDHD. gender noncompliant. Fuck AI & Subst*ck.
https://aniking.net
— Family Night (Mason Jar Press, 2026) https://tinyurl.com/2jtf6t63
— SmokeLong Subs Editor
— EiC: syntaxandsalt.com (closed)
Sofia T. Romero @sofiatromero.bsky.social Author, WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN WHO WE ARE 🇵🇷
Vincent Rendoni @warshingtonian.bsky.social chicano bobby hill • DEAD CHICANO MIXTAPE (Red Hen, 2027) • A GRITO CONTEST IN THE AFTERLIFE (Catamaran, 2022) • seattle, wa • he/him
https://bio.site/vincentrendoni
Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social She/her. Flash writer. Everything's Changing (Thirty West, 2023) & Breaking Points (Black Lawrence, 2021).
https://linktr.ee/chelseastickle
Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social Mildly friendly, Swiss-based US writer of litfic, working on debut novel. Latest pubs, longform & flash, realism & offbeat: @ghostcitypress @emergejournal @acrossthemargin @TheWoolf @offbeatlit @SubniveanMag & @fiveonthefifth. www.meredithwadley.com
Best Microfiction @bestmicrofiction.bsky.social Judged this year by Jonathan Lethem. Anthology series edited by Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, published by Pelekinesis
lae astra @laeastra.com レイ🌌 writer, artist, voice person in tokyo
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Lauren Cassani Davis @laurencd.bsky.social writer/corvid
Fiction Editor @ The Brooklyn Review
Asst. Fiction Editor @PSmokeJournal
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Patrick Strickland @patrickobrienstrickland.com Writer from Texas
Managing editor @inkstickmedia.com
Books: A History of Heartache (2026), You Can Kill Each Other After I Leave (2025), The Marauders (2022) & Alerta! Alerta! (2018)
Genrepunk Magazine @genrepunkmag.bsky.social Literary magazine for weird little experiments. 🏳️🌈 ♿️ 🇵🇸 🤘🏻
Run by Audrey T. Carroll (https://bsky.app/profile/audreytcarroll.bsky.social).
Genrepunkmag.wordpress.com
Submissions will be closed starting April 1st.
The B'K Magazine @thebkmagazine.bsky.social The B’K is a quarterly art and lit magazine prioritizing traditionally marginalized creators, but open to all. Own voices only, please. Queer, Trans, ND, and POC led. Founded 2010.
Check our guidelines and submit: https://www.talbot-heindl.com/link-tree
Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social San Francisco Bay Area writer and educator. Flash fiction and cnf in SmokeLong, Bending Genres, Atlas and Alice, The Forge, Ghost Parachute, Craft & elsewhere.Poetry in journals such as New Ohio Review, Plume, Hunger Mountain and Cincinnati R. (she/her)
Joanna ✅ Theiss @joannatheiss.com Writer of weird things sitting with a cat in Washington, DC
she/her
www.joannatheiss.com
Devaki (Khatai) @devaki.bsky.social Town crier ~ writer ~ ME survivor ~ Tin House 23💗
Earth & Earth-like Planets out now with Abode Press! ✨️
Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social Author: TACOMA; A KIND OF IN-BETWEEN; YEAR OF THE BUFFALO; STEPHEN KING'S THE BODY; BACKSWING
Editor: HAD; Short Story, Long (on Substack)
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Lost Balloon @lostballoon.bsky.social Lost Balloon is a literary magazine that published flash fiction, flash nonfiction, and prose poetry.
PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social We stand at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the U.S. and worldwide. Support and learn more at pen.org.
Catapult Book Group @catapultbooks.bsky.social Catapult, Counterpoint, Soft Skull, & Hawthorne Books.
Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social Former Writer in Residence at U of Tennessee - author of The Fire Eater, Bad Mexican, Bad American, The Parachutist, Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man.
Brecht De Poortere @brechtdp.bsky.social 🧑🦱 "Some guy who ranks all the lit journals you’ve ever heard of"
🥉 3rd prize The Hudson Review Short Fiction Contest
✍️ Missouri Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Baltimore Review, X-R-A-Y, The Forge Literary Magazine ...
🌍 https://www.brechtdepoortere.com
Lena Zinski @lenazycinsky.bsky.social A Belarusian-American poet writing in Russian and English. Author of three books.
lenazycinsky.com
Jennifer A. Howard @jferhow.bsky.social yooper ❄️ two dogs’ best friend 🐕 i like bad tv and good yarn 🧶 prose chapbooks from the cupboard pamphlet 🧑🚀 editor-in-chief of passages north 🚀
shareen k. murayama @ambusypoeming.bsky.social here, not here, there a poet, here a flash, and other sorts of non-fiction- F Francinewitte @francinewitte.bsky.social
Elia Anie Kim @eliaaniekim.bsky.social
Wendy Oleson @wendyoleson.bsky.social MFA & PhD. Work in BOTN, Ninth Letter, SmokeLong. Works for @SplitLiptheMag.bsky.social & WritersProgram. she/they #BLM 🏳️🌈
wendyoleson.com
joel fishbane @thegreatwriter.bsky.social Novelist. Scriptwriter. Playwright. Gadabout and man about town. www.joelfishbane.net
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
Lydi Conklin @lydiconklin.bsky.social "Rainbow Rainbow" story collection 2022 and "Songs of No Provenance" a novel forthcoming in June 2025!
David Yourdon @davidyourdon.bsky.social Wigleaf Longlist 2022!
Stories now/soon in SmokeLong, HAD, Peatsmoke, Emerge Journal, Bending Genres, Rejection Letters.
Many novels!
A Substack! https://whatwillitbelike.substack.com/
Software Engineering during the day.
he/him
Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social
"Are you okay?"
MN, January 2026
New book: “Killing Spree”,Carcanet (UK); FSG (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).
Sam Anne Moe @samannemoe.bsky.social Sewanee Writers' Conference ('24) ANIMAL HEART (Harvard Square) GRIEF BIRDS (BS Lit) CICATRIZING THE DAUGHTERS (FlowerSong Press) I MIGHT TRUST YOU (Experiments in Fiction)
Ashlee Craft (he/they) @ashleecraft.bsky.social 31. Life enthusiast & nerdy art inventor🎡🌞Artist/Actor/Podcaster/Writer/Filmmaker🐸Life is my playground🌈💕Queer bi aroace demiboy
Christy Tending @christytending.bsky.social book: HIGH PRIESETESS OF THE APOCALYPSE
https://elj-editions.com/high-priestess-of-the-apocalypse/
she/they
Hally Rae Winters @hallywinters.bsky.social Writer from LA • CalArts Fellow • shortlisted for FracturedLit’s ELSEWHERE prize • SundressPub ‘24 resident • Writing: Masters Review, LA Review, Thirty West & more
Kik Lodge @kiklodge.bsky.social Writer. THE BULLY IN MY PILLOW (Stanchion Books, August 2026).
https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/the-bully-in-my-pillow
Best Microfiction 2026.
Hosts literary open-mics @saloneurope.bsky.social
www.kiklodge.com
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/
Elissa Field @elissafield.bsky.social Lit noir novels + flash | SmokeLong Submission Ed | Runner Up Killer Claymore Best Mystery | Stories in/coming SmokeLong trampset HAD Moon City Ghost Parachute Monkeybicycle Citron Review Peatsmoke CRAFT Conjunctions ++ | IG FB elissalaurenfield.com
Michael Garrigan @mgarrigan.bsky.social Teacher. Writer. Pennsylvania. Ghost Hunting Glaciers (Grayson Books Poetry Prize) River, Amen (2023 - Winner of the Weatherford Award)
https://linktr.ee/mgarrigan?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=c8e191f2-be3e-4820-b721-51cdc0c2b612
Annie Przypyszny @apryps.bsky.social Poetry MFA @ UMD // intern at the DC Writers Room // reader at Bicoastal Review // poems in Sugar House Review, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Tupelo Quarterly, Tampa Review, Bear Review, SWWIM, The Shore, The Emerson Review, etc. // annieprzypyszny.com 🌷🌸🌺
Phosphor Emery Alethes @phosphoralethes.bsky.social Trans, queer, AuDHD, chronically ill, & disabled memoirist/essayist, classical singer, & Shakespearean actor. Parent to 1 human & 1 dog. I write about identity, trauma, shame, & perception. Working on a memoir/essay/abandoned novels hybrid. | She/Her
Sabrina Hicks @sabrinahicks.bsky.social Author of Coyote Girl, available now (CJ Press), desert dweller, hiker, word wrangler. Work in Best Sm Fiction, Best Micro, Wigleaf Top 50, pubs listed at sabrinahicks.com
Stacey C. Johnson @stacecjohnson.bsky.social I listen and make notes.
Wild Roof Journal @wildroofjournal.bsky.social WRJ is a community for visual & literary art. We're interested in creativity & nature & connections. Check out our website and open submissions / wildroofjournal.com / wildroofjournal.substack.com / EIC @aaronlelito.bsky.social
Lindy @lindydoesart.bsky.social CA-based queer artist/writer. Love: reading, playing mandolin, writing, going on adventures, all things literary, and drinking copious amounts of coffee.
Where to find me:
IG: @lindydoesart
thisparticularvoice.substack.com
https://linktr.ee/lindygiusta
Ben Brindise @benbrindise.bsky.social Writer, Flash Fiction Editor: Variety Pack / Issue 12 Out Now / Author of Secret Anniversaries (Ghost City Press, 2019) & Rotten Kid (Ghost City Press, 2017) / benjaminbrindise.com
Rina Palumbo @rinapalumbo.bsky.social Ph.D. (JHU, History); Italian-Canadian expatriate. Writer, Editor, avid reader.
Writing in Hopkins Review, Identity Theory, Ghost Parachute, et al.
https://rinapalumbowriter.com/
Jamey Gallagher @jameygallagher.bsky.social Author of BODIES IN BAGS, I AM IDRIS ELBA, and AMERICAN ANIMISM.
https://jameyg0.wixsite.com/jameygallagher
Community college writing teacher
I read and write: literary stuff, crime stuff, weird stuff
From NH, living in Baltimore.
Eric Lochridge @ericedits.bsky.social Poet | Editor (he/him)
Author of My Breath Floats Away from Me (FutureCycle Press, 2022). Associate poetry editor @okaydonkey.bsky.social
https://ericedits.wordpress.com
Eric Scot Tryon @ericscottryon.bsky.social I’M THE UNDERTOW (Central Avenue, 2026)
Rep’d by @clgslr.bsky.social at BSCM
EIC: @flashfrog.bsky.social
www.ericscottryon.com
Alternating Current Press @altcurrent.bsky.social Indie press dedicated to challenging, status-quo-busting literature to change your lightbulb. Founder: Leah Angstman @leahangstman.bsky.social. Interns: German Shepherds. altcurrentpress.com
Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social Queer disabled writer, artist, & scholar aka Dr. Heffers.
Lover of nature, sitcoms, libraries, & coffee.
EIC, Genrepunk Magazine (@genrepunkmag.bsky.social)
📚 What Blooms in the Dark (2024)
She/they
https://linktr.ee/audreytcarroll
Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social Editor of Brevity, a small magazine with big ambitions. Author of various books. Often can't decide if I am posting as myself or as the magazine.
Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social Writer, jazz enthusiast, bibliophile, plant dad, and cartoon aficionado. Website: williammusgrove.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
New World Writing Quarterly @newworldwriting.bsky.social NEW WORLD WRITING QUARTERLY began life as Mississippi Review Online. We invite submissions the first two weeks of January, April, July and October, and publish in those same months. Read more at https://newworldwriting.net/
Sundress Publications @sundresspub.bsky.social Nonprofit literary press & writers residency. Also Best of the Net, Poets in Pajamas, and more. www.sundresspublications.com
Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social Writer in NYC. Former Attorney. EIC Split Lip Magazine. Copper Nickel Editor's Prize | BASS Distinguished Story | Kenyon Review | Ploughshares | Artist-in-Residence @ South 85 Journal | Next up: CHEEKS | http://maureenlangloss.com/
SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social Dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web, by widely published authors or those new to the craft. Est.2003. Paying up to $150. www.smokelong.com. No Trump supporters. Follow also @heyflashvillage.bsky.social
Fictive Dream @fictivedream.bsky.social Fictive Dream, the online #litmag dedicated to the #shortstory including #translations. Please send your submissions to fictivedream@gmail.com. Website https://fictivedream.com/
Flash Frog @flashfrog.bsky.social
Small. Brightly colored. Deadly to the touch. ⚡️🐸
New story every Monday.
EIC: @ericscottryon.bsky.social
https://flash-frog.com/
Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com publisher of boundary-breaking prose books
come get us @ splitlippress.com and https://linktr.ee/splitlippress
posts by yrs truly @suburbanprairie.bsky.social
Arielle Mc @arielleemcee.bsky.social Medievalist from ATX | Fairies & Forms & Chaos & Resistance | Out here keepin' it fictional | she/her | BLM | All view’s are my cat’s
Atticus Review @atticusreview.bsky.social We are a triannual literary journal that publishes fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, mixed media, book reviews, and interviews. Submissions are open!
Pithead Chapel @pitheadchapel.bsky.social Pithead Chapel (ISSN 2324-6243) is a monthly online literary journal and small press. We publish gutsy fiction, nonfiction, and prose poetry. Founded 2012.
The Rumpus @therumpus.net Independent since 2009. Read The Rumpus Magazine. Become a Member. Receive Letters in the Mail from Authors. Join a dynamic, global community.
http://linktr.ee/The_Rumpus2.1
Fractured Lit @fracturedlit.bsky.social Fractured Lit publishes flash fiction with emotional resonance. Open year-round and is available to all writers. https://fracturedlit.com/ Posts by @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social
Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social Lit Agent Talcott Notch, AALA Member, Editor, Teacher, Writer of Flash Fiction Editor at @fracturedlit.bsky.social Publications: Harpur Palate, Laurel Review, Monkey Bicycle, Ghost Parachute
https://linktr.ee/tommydeanwriter
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com A literary magazine for the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. 🫏
Est. May 2018.
Re-designed site!: okaydonkeymag.com
Newsletter: okaydonkeymag.beehiiv.com
Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/okaydonkey
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/
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