Emyr Payne @emyrpayne.bsky.social Preorder my debut novel, 50 Reasons to Live, a coming of age story about love, loss, suicide and hope:
https://www.barnardpublishing.co.uk/books/50-reasons-to-live-pre-order/?v=7885444af42e
Gaspereau Press @gaspereaupress.bsky.social ¶ One of Canada’s most innovative and tenacious literary publishers
¶ http://linktr.ee/gaspereaupress
Perfect God = Lexa Gates @mx-j.bsky.social https://shop.capitolmusic.com/collections/lexa-gates
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.
Artiste_911 @artiste-911.bsky.social When Art makes you more Emotional and Passionate then life itself....
♍️Self Taught Artist..
♍️Poetry..
♍️Traveller..
Original Paintings and prints available via link
https://www.artpal.com/artiste911ske
https://www.instagram.com/artiste_911
NancyBell.bsky.social @nancybell.bsky.social Writer. Performer. Director. Professor of Theatre.
Words in/forthcoming:StoryQuarterly, No. American Review, Terrain, Shenandoah, Flyway Journal
Former doomed ST Voyager Ensign. (RIP A.Jetal)
Joseph House @josephhouse.bsky.social Texas Writer. First-year MFA at the University of Alabama. Qualified Shaggy Impersonator. Goofy Dude.
Blue Lake Review @bluelakereview.bsky.social Online literary journal publishing great fiction and poetry since 2011.
JR Walsh @itsjrwalsh.bsky.social JR Walsh is the Online Editor at The Citron Review. He teaches poetry and fiction at SUNY Oswego. Find his writing on itsjrwalsh.com.
Karuna Das @karunadaswriter.bsky.social PGH writer, antifa, ENM, queer, cat dad. He/they. Author of literature flavored by mysticism, inc. award-winning visionary sci-fi and new adult LGBTQ novels. 🙏🕉️☮️💖 www.karunadaswriter.com
NSFW (sex worker profile): bsky.app/profile/thegalengrace.bsky.social
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.
MSU Roadrunner Review @roadrunnerreview.bsky.social Literary journal produced by the Creative Writing Program at Metropolitan State University of Denver https://sites.msudenver.edu/roadrunnerreview/
Stan J Wild @stanjwild.bsky.social Short fiction, CNF, lit mags.
Sharing writing I like — and some of my own.
Stories in Vestal Review, Hinterland, Wallstrait, Neon&Smoke and others
big VERN (Shea Soc) @vernorsofficial.bsky.social free palestine 🇵🇸
blm vernors-cultist detroiter music teacher writer
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.
https://linktr.ee/weirdlitmag
A.L. Crisp @alcrisp.bsky.social Leftist ▪︎ Butch Lesbian ▪︎ Professional Advocate ▪︎ Lover of the Flint Hills ▪︎ Missouri ExPat ▪︎ Published author and poet
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)
Gillian O’Shaughnessy @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social ▪️Relentless optimist.
▪️Salt City Runaway, debut story collection out in 2026
▪️Sub Editor- SmokeLong Quarterly
▪️Best Small Fictions 23, 24, 25.
Sarah Wallis @wordweave.bsky.social Poet Seabird Island @boatsagainstmag
UK: https://rb.gy/tra0bq / US: https://rb.gy/9hlhwt
http://sarahwallis.net/
www.iambapoet.com/wave/23-sarah-wallis
UNESCO Poet in Res, Skara 🇸🇪
2026: Gutter, Stand, Full Mood, Ampersand
Nora Nadjarian @noranadj.bsky.social Poet, Fiction Writer
Placed @reflexfiction + elsewhere,
@Wigleaf Top50...
Poetry: Winner@anthro_poetry
Finalist @Mslexia
Sam Zimmerman @samthezim.bsky.social Chronically ill and chronically over it.
Poet.
In love with all that is dark, confessional, spiritual, and grotesque.
https://linktr.ee/samthezim
Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social Curious. Clever. Quick. 🐈⬛
Monthly Magazine for Micro Prose
Free to sub. Paying market.
Claudineliterary.com
Jonathan Butcher @jondbutcher.bsky.social Poet based in Sheffield. Editor of Fixator Press
https://fixatorpress.home.blog/
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
H. Perry Horton @hperryhorton.bsky.social New Novel Available Now:
DON'T LET THE DARKNESS EAT YOU UP
https://www.amazon.com/DONT-LET-DARKNESS-EAT-YOU/dp/B0FVT8VWKS
Books: https://shorturl.at/AuKlV
Megan @megscarlson.bsky.social Writer, activist, thinker // Stories in Pithead Chapel, X-R-A-Y, Bluestem, Quarter After Eight, Hypertext & others // www.megcarlson.com/stories // Thoughts are my own
Sarvin Parviz @sarprvz.bsky.social Award-winning multigenre & genre-bender writer/interdisciplinary Artist (she/her)
Semifinalist in European Opera-directing Prize (EOP)
Unofficial Singer/Official Collaborator
sarvinparviz.com
#writingcommunity
j r @osageorange.bsky.social low-rent beat poet / unwashed scribbler
Sean Dowie @seandowie.bsky.social Writer of stories, reader of more. Words in HAD, Maudlin House, hex.
sean-dowie.com
Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social Too many Ayrshires, not enough time. Half dairy farmer, half writer, all parent. Mostly cheese and kid stories.
jaime alysha @jaimealysha.bsky.social writing stories and meeting ghosts
Tom Weller @tomwellerstories.bsky.social Writing in Booth, Barrelhouse, Milk Candy Review, Jake, MudRoom, and other fun places. Fiction collection And There Came Forth a Great Fish out now.
trans plants @plantsgender.bsky.social transfag John Goodman. he/him, Seattle, in my 30s, bisexual trans man and aspiring bear.
thirsty nonsense, ADHD, chronic illness. hyena in tech.
still masking, still vaxxing.
MEMEZINE @memezine.bsky.social SUBS CLOSED
memezinelit.com/submit
a literary zine about life in the digital landscape
always free to submit
EIC @chelcampbell.bsky.social
Jane Copland @janecopland.bsky.social Writer repped by Sara Langham at David Higham Associates. National swimming champ 🇳🇿, sub-40 10K club, marathon runner, rugby faithful 🌹
In: The Independent, Brick Lane Bookshop, Witness Magazine, Newsroom, Hayden's Ferry+more. https://janecopland.com/
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
Ben Angel @ben3angel.bsky.social Writer with a civil engineering background. Born in WA, lived in these states: MI (1989-91), MA (1993-4), AK (1999-2003, 05-6), NM (2007), and international: UA (1994-5), KG (2003-4), AZ (2006-7), PH (2007-8) BY (2008-10, 12-15), AR/CL (2010-2), PL (2015-)
Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social Writer of short stories and essays.
Teacher of travel writing at Emerson and fiction @honinghouse.bsky.social
Reader for @bestofthenet.bsky.social
websites:
www.writerdanieljcecil.com
www.honinghouse.com
Newsletter:
https://danieljcecil.substack.com
Sand and Gravel Chapbooks @sandandgravelpress.bsky.social Slowly dipping our toes in the water. https://www.sandandgravelpress.com . More often sighted at
https://www.instagram.com/sand_and_gravelpress/
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
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
@saic-writing.bsky.social @saic-writing.bsky.social 
Jo Fox @joxfoxo.bsky.social I like writing poems and reading other people’s too. Picture Book writer - currently querying 🤞Published writer of short fiction in national women’s press. Novice knitter.
Maker of sensory tools and fidgets. Powered by ADHD⚡️
No DM’s
Lauren Kardos @lkardos.bsky.social dc via apollo, pa | she/her | words @ Best Microfiction, Bending Genres, Lost Balloon, Milk Candy Review, Flash Fiction Online, Cold Signal, hex literary & more | http://www.laurenkardos.co/
Illuminati Ganga @illuminati-ganga.bsky.social Illuminati Ganga is a collective of artists, writers, science fictive lifeforms released from a fantasy timeline, martial artists, musicians, living statuary, cephalopodic explautives, and an intelligent beast in the mansion at the edge of the world.
H. Marin @hanmarin.bsky.social • han
• she/they
• MFA - Fairfield U.
• queer, nd, & disabled spec fic author
• HWA, SFWA, Codex
• freelance editor @ http://www.hmarinliterary.com
• novelette editor @foofarawpress.bsky.social
• fck genAI
• words in Night Shades, ITAL, Gavagai & more
Lesley Stanley Roberts @lesleylsroberts.bsky.social Writer. Mom. Widow. Midwest.
https://riverteethjournal.com/beautiful-things/just-now/
Monarch Queer Literary Awards @monarch.gay A new annual anthology by @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social recognizing the best new queer writing and art published by literary magazines and independent presses. Learn more: https://monarch.gay/ 🦋
Jeffery Berg @jdbrecords.bsky.social Poetry, Film, Books, Tunes.
First book of poems, RE-ANIMATOR, now available from Indolent Books.
Mr Media @mrmedia1.bsky.social Writer, cultural critic. Photographer
Couple of u.degrees in media,+a lifetime of experience.
Interpreting and commentary on media messages.
Love photography, advertising, music, arts, culture, movies, education, justice 🚫AI
DigitalMudscape @atfsuperweapon.bsky.social Ben. He/Him. Enemy of enemies, friend to friends. Writer, poet, musician, blood warrior. Also a Pushcart nominee.
Links to published work + archive on my website.
Digitalmudscape.com
Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social A literary journal presenting four pieces in each issue, a sampling of the best writing out there. EICs: @fklein907.bsky.social and @ketchiklein.bsky.social
https://flight-literary.ghost.io/
Shanna's Treasure Trove! ~ @jami-jam.bsky.social I am Shanna Lee James, Author. Click on link to view my Author website. www.shannaleejamesauthor.com I am also an advocate for nature, wildlife, and animals. Click on link for 1st site: @2bdynamic.bsky.social
Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social Lover, and writer, of myths, folklore, legends, fables, fairy tales, sci-fi, horror and fantasy.
Scribbling spin-offs of novels I haven't written yet.
Jeremy Mauser @jeremymauser.bsky.social Fiction Writer & Stand-Up Comic & Essayist & Poet
MFA in Creative Writing @ University of Alabama
Words forthcoming: Pithead Chapel
Words published: Sonora Review, Bulb Region, fifth wheel press, New Delta Review, I Have That On Vinyl
~ Shanna Lee James~ Author @2bdynamic.bsky.social Retired Nurse and Author who loves writing about 'real life' stuff. Visit my Author website @ shannaleejamesauthor.com to see my bio and books. And check out my 2nd site @ https://bsky.app/profile/jami-jam.bsky.social
Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social math teacher, writer in upper manhattan
substack: pershmail.substack.com
website with links to publications etc: michaelpershan.com
Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social Poet, painter, translator (mainly from modern Greek & German). Originally from Boston, Lincolnshire, I now live in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds.
https://wisdomsbottompress.wordpress.com/peter-j-king
J. Alexander Cohen | Design and Fantasy @jalexandercohen.com Clearing 48yr backlog of accumulated ideas. Will be slow. The life unexamined cannot run on your value substrate.
#firstoneinturnonthelights
Novelist, caregiver, gay, fat.
https://www.jalexandercohen.com
Layla Ormbrek Tanner @laylalaughslast.bsky.social Teacher. Writer. Many other things. ABOLISH ICE.
Noémi Scheiring-Oláh @itssonoemi.bsky.social Hungarian alien writing in English(ian). Fan of cats and underdogs. ő/she/they/we 💚 Autistic. | noemiwrites.com | 🇵🇸🍉
Jeff (Mixed Metaphors) @mixedmetaphors.bsky.social He/him.
There Are Infinite Universes and All of Them Are Boring, published by ELJ Editions:
https://elj-editions.com/there-are-infinite-universes-and-all-of-them-are-boring/
Editor and reviews at @foofarawpress.bsky.social
mixedmetaphors.net
Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social Author: Pardon Me for Moonwalking (Unsolicited Press), Wild Plums (ELJ).
Contributor: Flash Fiction America (Norton)
Wigleaf 50 2024, 2025; Best Small Fictions '23, '24; Best Microfiction '23
McKinley @mtmck.bsky.social 
Jo Clark @thejokelark.bsky.social writer, reader, linguist.
knitter, nomad, procrastinator.
Kat Lehmann @songsofkat.bsky.social A Beloved Fire Becomes the House (Red Moon Press, July 2026)🏠
Co-EIC @whiptailjournal.bsky.social🦎 Winner, Rattle Chapbook Prize 🐦 Creator of the multi-haiku form sudo-ku.
Hampshire College F87 🦄 & Ph.D. Biochemistry https://katlehmann.weebly.com/
Ste Gen Mo Dem 💙📚 🐕🌳 @stegenmodem.bsky.social Supporting Dems Everywhere SG 60 miles South of St Louis @piperformissouri.bsky.social @fpwellman.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @missouridemocrats.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social 📚🚭💙
Caio Major @caiomajor.bsky.social trans latino writer. working on my MFA at Syracuse. you're going to love my dog.
Blog: https://caiomajor.substack.com/
Pat Jameson @patjameson.bsky.social Writer in beautiful Roanoke, VA
Some of my work here: https://linktr.ee/patjameson
Thomas Boone @tomboone.bsky.social Writer. Brewer. Words in HAD, Aôthen Magazine. Shortlisted for 2024 Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction. 2024 London Independent Story Prize Finalist.
kerry cullen @kermichele.bsky.social mouse detective. HOUSE OF BETH out from Simon & Schuster in July 2025 & available for preorder now.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/House-of-Beth/Kerry-Cullen/9781668074596
Robin Zlotnick @robinzlotnick.bsky.social writer, worrier
Pubs: Gone Lawn, X-R-A-Y, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Rejection Letters, Identity Theory, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Belladonna, etc.
https://robinzlotnick.com/
https://a-sentence.beehiiv.com/
Rachel A @rachiea.bsky.social Librarian by day, word scribbler at night. Find said words in Gavagai, GrendelPress, Plott Hound, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Apex’s Strange Locations, Malarkey, and elsewhere. Genre: Midwest weird. Codex.
Mike Prask @mprask.bsky.social Writing in @havehadhavehad @rejectionLit @WestBranchMag @fivesouth and @cottonxenomorph
https://linktr.ee/mprask
Won't rest till Side 2 of The Wild, the Innocent, and the E St Shuffle is our national anthem.
esmeralda quick @le-transexual.bsky.social this hole is not a hole of honor
writer, PhD candidate, occasional autocannibal, 100% trans freak
Stephanie Frazee @stephieosaurus.bsky.social Writes things, waters plants. 🦖🦕 Words in Centaur, Sundress Pubs, Midwest Weird, Variant Lit, Pithead Chapel, Marrow Mag, Stone Circle, Door Is A Jar, The Evergreen Review, Roi Faineant, Bayou Mag, ONE ART, Juked, etc. Asst Ed American Short Fiction.
Paul Rousseau @paulwrites7.bsky.social Twin Cities, MN writer. Invisible disability.
Debut FRIENDLY FIRE: A FRACTURED MEMOIR (HarperCollins 2024)
Also in Roxane Gay's The Audacity, Newsweek, SmokeLong, Wigleaf, San Francisco Chronicle.
Read my stories & essays at https://paul-rousseau.com
Jack Wright @jackwrightauthor.com Horror author from the North of England. Reyt Spooky.
Stories of grief, folklore, and the things that move when they shouldn’t.
Duskfield Pines — ???
Anna’s Veil — ???
https://ko-fi.com/jackwrightauthor
https://buymeacoffee.com/jackwright
Katie @dryadula.bsky.social Library worker and student. Multi-genre reader. Parent. No genAI.
Christina Tudor @christinaltudor.bsky.social Writer, vegan taco enthusiast, cat parent. Words in HAD, Flash Frog, Litro Magazine, Best Small Fictions 2024, and more. CALL MY BODY A CAUTIONARY TALE coming soon from Thirty West on October 23, 2026.
www.christinatudor.com
Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com Independent music, books, and short stories.
Humans writing things about humans making things.
Web: https://www.turnandwork.com
Newsletter: newsletter.turnandwork.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/turnandwork
The Long & The Short of It @longandshortlit.bsky.social The Long and The Short of It Literary Mag examines how themes can be explored across genre and form, and how the chosen form helps shape our artistic impulses and responses.
https://thelongandtheshortofit.submittable.com/submit
Anna Catalano 🌈 @thepaintedlion.bsky.social Queer Author and Editor | BotN nominated | Founder and EiC of @nygelmag.bsky.social | Second half of @sylviabarry.bsky.social LESSONS IN BALANCE (2025) | she/her
Rhoen28 @rhoen28.bsky.social poet | language-tinkerer | ghost metaphor enthusiast | obsessed with the weird little gaps between words 👀
EBSCO Information Services @ebsco.bsky.social 
Dr. Matthew E. Henry (MEH) @mehpoeting.bsky.social Boston based educator, editor, poet, CNFer & fiction dabbler 🧐| Author of 7 poetry collections 📚| Holder of 3 graduate degrees worth of debt (MFA, MATS, PhD)🎓| Installer of rage in racists ✊🏾 https://www.mehpoeting.com
Just Mason [he/they/comrade] @justinmason.bsky.social freelance muckraker & class war correspondent @iwwfju.bsky.social | abolitionist @IWOC | PhD candidate @anthCIIS.bsky.social | MA Journalism @NYU | BS PoliSci @ASU | muckrack.com/just-mason | justmason.substack.com | temporarily frustrated philosopher king
matthew zeitoun | filmmaker @matthewzeitoun.bsky.social 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫/𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫 watch my short plz👉👈
📍Paterson, NJ
(made a second account to port my photography work over hope you enjoy)
👾 https://discord.gg/crBzhYzxMw
📲 https://www.instagram.com/matthewzeitoun
Not a 🤖 just marketing with 🚫 budget
@susanbearman.bsky.social @susanbearman.bsky.social 
Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social (re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
matthew zeitoun | filmmaker @zeitounpictures.bsky.social 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫/𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫 watch my short plz👉👈
📍Paterson, NJ
👾 https://discord.gg/pTEZVH5GBe
💬Join our community of filmmakers
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🎥🎭Spending my life making truthful work.
📲 YouTube.com/@zeitounpictures
Not a 🤖 just marketing with 🚫 budget
Kate Johnson @katejohnsonwrites.bsky.social Heal religious trauma, family dysfunction & shame. Reclaim your voice & freedom.
Bi exvangelical pastor’s daughter + survivor advocate.
⬇️ Substack
Quips and Confessionals: https://open.substack.com/pub/katejohnsonwrites
@grantgeraldmiller.bsky.social @grantgeraldmiller.bsky.social 
Spencer (nervous) @splopenn.bsky.social confirmed technical writer • alleged creative writer • adjunct • editor • acquirer of hobbies and hobby accessories • views represent those of your employer • yet still i err
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
Moj Mortazavi @mojmrtzvi.bsky.social Filmmaker / Writer / Visual Poet
Capturing what moves me, breaks me, remakes me.
Posting thoughts, films, dreams, and whatever won’t leave me alone.
🎞️ mojmrtzvi.com
✍️ Essays on Substack https://substack.com/@mojmrtzvi?r=22uyqp&utm_medium=ios