American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) promotes literary translation through advocacy, education and services to literary translators.
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Literary Arts Fund @literaryartsfund.bsky.social Advancing support for the nonprofit literary arts field toward ensuring creative writers’ contributions to American literature for generations to come.
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Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social Arrowsmith Press publishes poetry, prose, works of translation, memoir, and a series of online columns. Support the literary world by checking out our website!
Trio House Press @triohousepress.org Publishing diverse, distinct poetry since 2012 - and, in 2024, creative nonfiction and more! @KrisBigalk.bsky.social - executive editor; @NatashaKane.bsky.social - marketing/acquisitions editor
https://www.triohousepress.org
T Kira Māhealani Madden @tkiramadden.bsky.social author: Whidbey & Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls • hapa kanaka ‘ōiwi dyke • soup enthusiast & magician • land back • aloha 'āina • she/her
Caroline Grondahl (she/her) @carogrondahl.bsky.social Building a strong, sustained membership base at @aclu.org. Formerly marketing, creative, fundraising @pw.org, Amnesty International USA, the IRC, and other stuff, I guess.
Kill the algorithm, keep the faith. No one way works!!!
Alfred A. Knopf @aaknopf.bsky.social #ABorzoiBook • Dedicated to publishing distinguished fiction and nonfiction since 1915.
An imprint of @penguinrandomhouse.
Vermont Studio Center @vermontstudioctr.bsky.social VSC’s residency program welcomes artists and writers working across all mediums and genres for two, three, and four week sessions to their Johnson, Vermont campus along the Gihon river.
Buffer @buffer.com The social media management platform for scheduling, publishing & analytics across every major network. Plan your content calendar in one place. This account is managed by real humans. 💙
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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social The international source for book publishing and bookselling news, reviews, and information.
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W. W. Norton & Company @wwnorton.com Independent Publishers Since 1923.
Sarah Ghazal Ali @sarahali.bsky.social poet & author of Theophanies (Alice James Books, 2024) • poetry editor of West Branch • more at sarahgali.com 🍃
Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social Poet & NYT bestselling author of A SUIT OR A SUITCASE, YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL, DEAR WRITER, GOOD BONES +📚 Host of @slowdownshow.org
Judy Blume @judyblume.bsky.social Writer
Oxford American @oxfordamerican.bsky.social The Oxford American is a national magazine dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the South.
https://linktr.ee/oxfordamerican
The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com The Booker Prize and the International Booker Prize celebrate the best English-language fiction. https://thebookerprizes.com
Penguin Press @penguinpress.bsky.social Ideas that matter, storytelling that lasts. Award-winning fiction and nonfiction. https://www.penguin.com/penguin-press-overview/
Farrar, Straus and Giroux @fsgbooks.bsky.social Publishing award-winning fiction, nonfiction and poetry since 1946. Home of AUWA Books, Quanta Books, FSG Originals, and Picador.
Nafissa Thompson-Spires @nafissa.bsky.social Author. Essayist. ‘80s stan. Jane Fonda enthusiast. Wrote HEADS of the COLORED PEOPLE. Doctor if you’re nasty. 
Meghan O'Rourke @meghanor.bsky.social Writer and poet | Editor of The Yale Review | Professor of Creative Writing at Yale | playing with a Substack about writing
Most recent book: THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM: REIMAGINING CHRONIC ILLNESS, which was a finalist for the nonfiction National Book Award.
The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social The Shipman Agency offers complete literary services to writers at all stages of their careers: event booking, independent publicity, mss consultations, The Work Room. Knicks4ever. she/her https://www.theshipmanagency.com/
Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social Inviting readers into a community of caring for the planet—justly, sustainably, and joyously. orionmagazine.org
Grove Atlantic @groveatlantic.bsky.social Independent publisher of exceedingly good books. Founded in 1917. We can’t go on, we’ll go on.
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Rob Spillman @robspillman.bsky.social Literary Citizen, rewilder, dogfather to two rescues. www.robspillman.com
Safiya Sinclair @safiyasinclair.bsky.social Author of HOW TO SAY BABYLON, memoir (@simonschuster & @4thEstateBooks) | Poet | Born & raised in Montego Bay, Jamaica | Booking: @shipmanagency.bsky.social
Mary Karr @marykarr.bsky.social poet/memoirist/professor/nana
One Story @onestorymag.bsky.social ONE STORY publishes one great short story at a time. We bring people together through reading, writing, and learning about short fiction.
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WORD Bookstores @wordbookstores.bsky.social A woman-owned independent bookstore with locations in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and Jersey City, New Jersey. Est. 2007.
Whiting Foundation @whitingfoundation.bsky.social The Whiting Foundation provides support for writers, editors, educators, and the librarians and archivists who preserve our shared cultural heritage. www.whiting.org
MacDowell @macdowell1907.bsky.social Art and artists are made at MacDowell. For more than a century, MacDowell has given artists time, space, community, and freedom to create. https://www.macdowell.org
Copper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social Poetry is vital to language and living. 
Four Way Books @fourwaybooks.bsky.social NYC-based non-profit literary press, publishing poetry and short fiction.
Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social No longer active here. Find us on IG and TikTok @graywolfpress!
Jade Wong-Baxter @jwongbaxter.bsky.social literary agent at the Frances Goldin Literary Agency // she/her 
Namrata Poddar 🧿🌀 @namratapoddar.bsky.social Author of BORDER LESS | Faculty at UCLA | Essays/nonfiction at Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, Longreads, LA Times, etc.
Interests include Decolonial —> storytelling, parenting, yoga, healing. Desi everything.
Writing 2nd book. Intermittently here.
Namwali @namwalien.bsky.social "I read books. I teach books. I write books. I think about books. It's one job." | "Writing to me is an advanced and slow form of reading." -Toni Morrison
National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social Honoring outstanding writing and fostering a national conversation about reading, criticism, and literature since 1974.
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Miwa Messer @miwamesser.bsky.social “Not a good bullshitter but a good podcast host.” EP/host Poured Over pod on Apple + Spotify. Opinions my own, of course. 📷DP Jolly
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Ilya Kaminsky @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social www.IlyaKaminsky.com
Gary Shteyngart @shteyngart.bsky.social Gary Shteyngart is a book writer.
garyshteyngart.substack.com
http://facebook.com/shteyngart
Taffy Brodesser-Akner @taffyakner.bsky.social I cry a lot but I am so productive! 
Brenda Shaughnessy @brendashaughnessy.bsky.social Poet, friend. Wrote Sensorium Ex, an opera, with composer Paola Prestini (2025.) Books of poetry: TANYA (Knopf 2023) The Octopus Museum (Knopf 2019) So Much Synth (2016) Our Andromeda (2012) Human Dark w/ Sugar (2008) Interior with Sudden Joy (1999).
ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social El Chabon perdura.
https://msha.ke/handmadeplaylists- J Julie Barer @juliebarer.bsky.social
Emily Raboteau @emilyraboteau.bsky.social Author of THE PROFESSOR’S DAUGHTER, SEARCHING FOR ZION, and LESSONS FOR SURVIVAL. Professor at CUNY.
Benjamin Percy @benjaminpercy.bsky.social Writer of novels (Ninth Metal, Red Moon), comics (Punisher, Deadpool), essays (Thrill Me), audio dramas (Wolverine: The Long Night), film (13th Night, Summering), TV (Urban Cowboy), and dad jokes (Knock, knock…). WGA member. www.benjaminpercy.com
Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social Gen X, middle child, Leo. I mostly write about books.
Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social Doing what I dreamed of since I was a kid.
Books: Lone Women, The Changeling, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Devil in Silver.
TV: The Changeling (EP), The Terror: Devil in Silver (Creator, Showrunner)
Comics: Destroyer, Eve, Sabretooth, Black Panther
Michael Taeckens @mtaeckens.bsky.social Co-founder, Broadside PR
Lit Agent, Massie McQuilkin & Altman
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Broadside PR @broadside-pr.bsky.social Broadside PR: Expert Literary PR
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Whitney Peeling, Michael Taeckens, Kimberly Burns, Sarah Jean Grimm & Kate Lloyd
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social A literary meetingplace since 1953, City Lights is a landmark bookstore and publishing house, known for our commitment to innovative writing and progressive ideals.
Lisa Lucas @likaluca.bsky.social 📚🐈🪴
Bookshop.org @bookshop.org A better way to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores ☀️📚
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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com Indie bookshop in Paris📚Online store ships to the world 🌎 Listen to our podcast here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-company 🎧
McNally Robinson Booksellers @mcnallyrobinson.com Canada's largest, most eventful independent bookstore.
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Emma Straub @emmastraub.bsky.social Novelist and bookseller. 
Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social FL public school parents who believe in preserving access to information in public education and libraries. https://www.fftrp.org/florida_censorship_attempts
American Writers Museum @americanwritersmuseum.org Our mission is to excite audiences about the impact of American writers—past, present, & future—in shaping our collective histories, identities, & daily lives.
Association of American Literary Agents @aalitagents.bsky.social Supporting literary agents through professional development, community, and advocacy to better serve their clients with integrity and excellence.
https://aalitagents.org
Association of American Publishers @americanpublish.bsky.social AAP represents book, journal, & education publishers in the United States, promoting the transformational power of knowledge and creativity in the modern world.
Banned Books Week @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social The official account for Banned Books Week.
We Need Diverse Books @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social We Need Diverse Books is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit revolutionizing what we read to create a world where everyone can find themself in the pages of a book.
🔗 bio.site/WeNeedDiverseBooks
Unite Against Book Bans @uabookbans.bsky.social #UniteAgainstBookBans is a national @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social initiative to empower readers everywhere to stand together in the fight against censorship.
Join the campaign: https://uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/
Brooklyn Public Library @bklynlibrary.bsky.social The official account of Brooklyn Public Library (BPL), an independent library system for the 2.6 million residents of Brooklyn. #ForBrooklyn
Los Angeles Public Library @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social Free and easy access to information, ideas, books and technology that enrich, educate and empower every individual in our city's diverse communities.
mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social Palestinian poet from Gaza. Author of Forest of Noise & Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
Molly McGhee @mollymcghee.com Reader. Novelist. Fiction nerd. Pro-worker. Anti-billionaire. I teach at Columbia. Online for two decades.
Alisson Wood @alissonwood.bsky.social Mom of 🐱🐱🐱 | Author of Being Lolita | EIC of Pigeon Pages | Words in NYT, Vanity Fair, the Rumpus, Vogue UK, Elle | She/her 
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo @marcelohcastillo.bsky.social Undocupoets co-founder author of📚Cenzontle (BOA Editions) 📚Children of the Land (Harper Collins) & Co-Editor 📚Here To Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora (Harper Collins)
Adrienne Westenfeld @awestenfeld.bsky.social writer, freelance book editor, ghostwriter, and book coach | formerly Books and Fiction Editor at Esquire
adriennewestenfeld.com
Eugenia Leigh @eugenialeigh.bsky.social Poet. Author of Bianca + Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows
Senior Poetry Editor @ The Adroit Journal
Board President @ Brooklyn Poets
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Esmé Weijun Wang @esmewang.com 📚The Collected Schizophrenias, The Border of Paradise
🏆 Best of Young American Novelists, Whiting Award, NYT Bestseller
🎓 Writing classes @ unexpectedshapeacademy.com
🇹🇼🌈♿️ she/her
🌱My interesting website @ esmewang.com
Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social Author of How the Word Is Passed, Above Ground, and Counting Descent. Writer, The Atlantic.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil @nezhukumatathil.bsky.social 🇵🇭🇮🇳 roller-skater since I was ten • school supplies • gardens • bioluminescence • axolotls • Buckeye • NYT bestselling author • NIGHT OWL (Ecco, Spring 26) aimeenez.net
Ananda Lima @anandalima.bsky.social Author of CRAFT: STORIES I WROTE FOR THE DEVIL forthcoming @torbooks in 2024 (available for pre-order)
& MOTHER/LAND (Black Lawrence Press)
Rep: Sarah Bowlin (Aevitas)
Work in the American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast +
@tiffanymidge.bsky.social @tiffanymidge.bsky.social 
Debra Gwartney @debragwartney.bsky.social Oregon writer
Library of America @libraryofamerica.bsky.social Library of America is a nonprofit publisher dedicated to preserving America's best and most significant writing.
www.loa.org
Michael Bourne @michaelbourne.bsky.social Teacher. Writer. Dad. Author of Blithedale Canyon and We Bring You an Hour of Darkness (Oct. '25)
www.michaelbournewriter.com
Chin-Sun Lee @scribblepost.bsky.social author of SOON YOU’LL BE JUST LIKE US (creature publishing 2027) + debut UPCOUNTRY (unnamed press 2023) IG: @scribblepost. words in electric lit, lit hub, the georgia review, etc. rep: pamela malpas/jennifer lyons literary
https://linktr.ee/chinsunlee
Finishing Line Press @finishinglinepress.bsky.social Finishing Line Press is an award-winning small press publisher, since 1998. FLP is a proud member of CLMP http://Finishinglinepress.com
Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social New York-based publisher of contemporary poetry and prose. Founded in 2004, CLMP member. Home to annual contests, open reading periods, and the Immigrant Writing Series. We offer manuscript consultations, free monthly writing workshops, and more.
Jen Benka @jenbenka.bsky.social Executive Director of the Literary Arts Fund @literaryartsfund.bsky.social
Literaryartsfund.org
Evie Shockley @seminewblack.bsky.social poet & literary scholar, people-oriented introvert, optimist of the will
https://linktr.ee/evieshockley
Rumaan Alam @rumaan.bsky.social Writer?
Flatiron Books @flatironbooks.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/flatironbooks
Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social Complete fiction
Garth Greenwell @garthgreenwell.bsky.social What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award | Eeyore at the gay club | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • coedited Kink • Lambda Literary Prize
www.ro-kwon.com
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social Celebrating over 30 years of amplifying Asian American & Asian diasporic literature to mobilize for a more just future. Subscribe → http://eepurl.com/gNlHV1
✨🍉 aaww.org
Anthony Cody @anthonycody.bsky.social Poet: The Rendering & Borderland Apocrypha w/
Omnidawn | American Book Award, Whiting, Nat'l Book Award Finalist & other things | Co-publisher at Noemi | Faculty at Randolph Low Res MFA
https://linktr.ee/anthonycody
Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org CAT champions literature in translation and global voices. We program events with authors and translators in the Bay Area and beyond, publish books @twolinespress.com, and run an education program (Poetry Inside Out). More at www.catranslation.org.
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. Agent: Jin Auh, The Wylie Agency. alexanderchee.net
Wesleyan University Press @weslpress.bsky.social Publishing in its current form since 1957, Wesleyan UP focuses on poetry, music, dance, and the arts. See weslpress.org for new poetry!
https://linkin.bio/weslpress
Southern Review of Books @southrevbooks.bsky.social Exploring contemporary literature of the American South & beyond. Published by Queens University of Charlotte MFA. Editor-in-chief @crisley.bsky.social, founding editor Adam Morgan. linktr.ee/southrevbooks
Hayden's Ferry Review @haydensferryreview.bsky.social Founded in 1986, HFR is an international semi-annual literary journal edited by graduate students in the MFA program at Arizona State University.
https://haydensferryreview.com/
Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social #Poetry without pretension since 1995. Rattle is a publication of the Rattle Foundation, an independent 501(c)3, and not affiliated with any other organization.
$15,000 for a single poem: rattle.com