Black Herald Press @blackheraldpress.bsky.social Éditeur indépendant / independent press
poésie, essais, textes courts / Poetry books, essays, short texts (in English or mostly bilingual) since 2010 / éditrice-publisher Blandine Longre @blandinelongre.bsky.social
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Downingfield Press @downingfield.bsky.social Publishing books for the enquiring mind since 2017. Specialising in non-fiction and poetry.
We accept submissions year round. Emerging writers welcome.
Melbourne • Montréal and London
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Ella B. Winters @ella-b-winters.bsky.social Writer, research, social worker, lecturer, eternal student, working on my PhD.
Artemesia Arts shortlist; Forward prize nominated; Pushcart prizes nominated x2
SemiEmily @semiemily.bsky.social Westerner. Small town shit-talker, goat wrangler, art dabbler.
Boss mare at https://PaoniaBooks.com
IG: @SemiEmilyColorado and @PaoniaBooks
Robyn 🍁 @ladyoftheisle.bsky.social She/Her. Canadian. Anti-racist. Intersectional feminist. Vegan. Cat mum. VIU BA & RRU MA alum. Instructional Designer. Radio Host & Producer. Music, movie, and pop culture enthusiast. ‘80s nostalgic. Podcast connoisseur.
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T.L. Tomljanovic @tomljanovic.bsky.social Flash Fiction Writer✍️ 🇨🇦 in metro Vancouver
Stories in: welkin ellipsis roifainéant NFFD templeinacity epistemiclit neitherfishnorfoul ratbaglit prideroars moonparkreview gooseberrypie rawlit hooghlyreview
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Elliot Waters @eboxicus.bsky.social Narrative Designer at Ho! Games
Currently working on Am I Nima and working towards publishing my first novel.
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Barbara Stocker 💙📚 @bluebirdbhs.bsky.social Activist Democrat Missourian living in Virginia @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social @melrea.bsky.social Team Site
Michael Russell Jones @michaeljonas.bsky.social Word nerd.
Neurodivergent autodidact.
Proud survivor of childhood S.A.
Psych ward philosopher.
Resides and writes in Skokie, Illinois.
Poems: https://whiskeytit.com/article/five-poems/
Mountain & Myth Fantasy Cartography @mountainandmyth.bsky.social Bringing your fantasy world to life! We create hand drawn maps for your D&D/Pathfinder or other ttrpg games.
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Stephen Graham King🍉 @stephengrahamking.com Toronto based. Queer space opera writer, black and white street photographer, disabled cancer survivor. Aspiring mensch. Aro. He/They. Pew pew pew. I can words! Dum spero spiro (While I live, I hope)
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Ram Gulrajani Author 📚 @rockape65.bsky.social From suspense to soul-stirring stories I writes them all Love the arts, writing, painting, strumming my guitar & generally being creative. From Gibraltar originally Website: https://t.co/8gSEmJ7TCu Team Site @iquitcigs.bsky.social
Astrarium Digital @astrariumdigital.bsky.social ✨🎮Helping indie games find their players! 🎮✨
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C. M. Christie @cmchristieauthor.bsky.social Writer, avid reader, she/her pronouns
Alison Colwell @alisoncolwell.bsky.social Writer, weaver of fairy tales and other creative non-fictions, food security activist, mom to two teens and a houseful of cats. Currently searching for a literary agent to represent my memoir.
Shelly Blake-Plock @shellyblakeplock.com Writing horror fiction, making music, building weird things. Oh, and baseball. And open source. Also, I've lived in a haunted house for 23 years, which is fun.
Chip Houser @chiphouser.bsky.social Micro, flash, and short stories in Bourbon Penn, Molotov Cocktail, PULP Lit, & more. SFWA, HWA, Odyssey, Codex. chiphouser.com
#Ranger Press @rangerpress.bsky.social Ranger Press (RPRESS) exists to make space for work that pushes language and visual art to its very limits. We publish avant-garde and experimental literature and art that challenges readers. www.rangerpress.net
Mark Coakley @markcoakley.bsky.social Book Writer
True crime - FACES OF FRAUD (coming soon!!!); Hidden Harvest; Tip & Trade
Romance/horror novel - Murder Bugs
Norse saga - The Saga of Halfdan the Black
History of psychedelics - Shroom Boom
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CinqueW News @cinquewnews.bsky.social Giornale di Giuseppe Rapuano con opinioni, cronaca, cultura, spettacolo, sport.
Per approfondire le notizie https://cinquewnews.blogspot.com/
Caitlin J.F. Friend, Author @caitlinjffriend.bsky.social 🇨🇦 dark fantasy author of Project Mistmane
Ste Gen Mo Dem 💙📚 🐕🌳 @stegenmodem.bsky.social Supporting Dems Everywhere SG 60 miles South of St Louis @piperformissouri.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @fpwellman.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @labarnitz.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social 📚🚭💙
Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social Poet. #ReadMorePoetry Collections: Crown of Eggshell, In the Shadow of Gods @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. Literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering
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@kavalier56.bsky.social @kavalier56.bsky.social Books, coffee, Backlisted, hockey, more books . . .
VERSe Ottawa / VERSeFest (prior account lost, @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social Ottawa's International Festival of Poetry / le festival international de poésie d’Ottawa / administrator of the City of Ottawa's Poet Laureate Program / l’administration du Programme des poètes lauréats d’Ottawa / https://www.verseottawa.ca/
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
Geoffroh @brotherexpo.bsky.social Expos fan in BlueJays land. Baseball, #CANWNT #CANXNT, books, cycling, transit.
Tyler Pennock @pennockty.bsky.social Poet, OCD, former teen-ish sex worker, Queerdo gaymer NDN,
Doctoral student in Communication and Culture
(They/Them)
Author of two poetry books, New one in 2026. tylerpennock.ca
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William Cohen-Kiraly, Author @wckiraly.bsky.social I am the author of Songs of a Befuddled Muse, a book of thirteen eccentric short stories pulled from the nooks and crannies of my mind.
https://linktr.ee/befuddledmuse
QueenKong👑💙🌊🦋 @queenkong24.bsky.social 🦋☮️🦋keep showing up Resisters.
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Ashley Mangtani @writerash.bsky.social Slipstream Writer ✍️
Published or forthcoming in Strange Horizons | LITRO | Washington Square Review | Boudin | Neon Dystopia | Expat Press | HAWKEYE etc
Short story collection ⬇️
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Stormie Wang-Hoskins @isabellawangbc.bsky.social 
Linda Meris (Author) @meristhesea9.bsky.social Hypocrisy vs. Mysticism, Wisdom, and Morality
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.
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ELANA MCDOUGALL 🇨🇦 @elanamcdougall.bsky.social Author of The Eldritch of Hallows series #fantasy 🌶️🌶️#romance #danger #KU
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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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One True Sentence @nico0511.bsky.social Tired. Nearly done.
Dark Talk @dark-talk.uk The official BlueSky account for the Dark Talk podcast.
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Pedro Viaja por todo el mundo @pedrotravels.bsky.social Me: Atheïst Retired
Love: Family, cats
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Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social EIC @the-engine-idling.bsky.social
https://www.d-mcmahon-writes.net
author of 4 poetry chapbooks & 2 microchaps
latest: rowhouse song (Ghost City Press '25) | irl (Stanchion '26)
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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social Crone, wastrel, lapsed (but twitching) novelist. Posts about art & lit.
Me: https://www.writersunion.ca/member/anne-denoon
My book: Back Flip, a novel about art & the 1960s: https://t.co/m7fQSOo6At or (with reviews) https://tinyurl.com/4dzwzpdp
Brittni Brinn @brittnibrinn.bsky.social Writing sci-fi and horror in Mi'kma'ki/Nova Scotia.
Author of Misplaced (@littleghostsbooks.bsky.social)
She/they
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Michelle Hébert (she/her) @hfxwordy.bsky.social Preorder "A Good Girl's Guide to Lying: Losing my Memory, Searching for Truth, & Confronting Complex Trauma"at https://linktr.ee/michellehebertwrites | Halifax/Mi'kmaqi
Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
@whothefami.bsky.social @whothefami.bsky.social Hierarchy only exists in the minds of those who have not broken free of such illusions. https://whothefami.substack.com
Pebble @pebblepress.bsky.social Founded in 2025, Pebble is a Chicago small press interested in nature, craft, regionalism, and obscure and unclassifiable excellence.
https://pebble-press.com/, https://www.instagram.com/pebble__press/
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CosmoShidan @cosmoshidan.bsky.social I am a person with mild autism, with an interest in philosophy, poetry, anime, Space opera, Cosmic horror, sword-and-sorcery, and post-colonial libertarian socialism non-fiction and fiction. 
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Iryn Tushabe (she/her) @wordsweaver.bsky.social EVERYTHING IS FINE HERE (House of Anansi, 2025) available now from your favourite indie bookstore.
Native of Uganda transplanted to Treaty 4 (Regina, Saskatchewan)
Iryntushabe.com
meli @melijade.bsky.social LSG 4ever crafter | gamer | writer | singer
Moriarty the Patriot 憂国のモリアーティ
Takarazuka Kageki 宝塚歌劇
Sumo 相撲
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Michael Janairo @mjanairo.bsky.social Writer, reader, and I once jammed with The Washington Squares
TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social #Scientist, #advocate, and #educator in the field of #climatechange. #Author of uplifting #climatefiction novel "A New Faith." Read or download the novel for free at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
#booksky #books #sciencefiction #solarpunk #hopepunk
Jotika @jotikachaudhary.bsky.social 🌊 irridescent 🌈🪔
Queer glitter brown femme.
Artist. Expressive arts therapist.
Autistic sloth
A friend to ALL cats
ACAB.
Fawn Parker @fparker.bsky.social Woman PhD
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Eagle Harbor Book Co. @eagleharborbooks.bsky.social Established in 1970, Eagle Harbor Book Co. is a full service, locally-owned and proudly independent bookstore located on Bainbridge Island, WA. With an extensive selection of books and gifts, we're the perfect "destination bookshop"
melanie brannagan frederiksen @melanie-b-f.bsky.social poet, poetry columnist @winnipegfreepress
📚 the night, the knife, the river (forthcoming March 2027 with @atbaypress.bsky.social)
elsewhere: @melaniebf@mstdn.ca; @melanie.b.f on instagram; @melanie_b_f on hey.cafe
Ann Cavlovic 🇨🇦 @anncavlovic.bsky.social Writer. Debut novel Count On Me (Guernica Editions 2025). Nonfiction in Globe and Mail, CBC, Event, Grain, etc. Into elder abuse prevention/sandwich generation, climate crisis, and environmental economcs. #QCwriters #booksky #greensky anncavlovic.com
Gaspereau Press @gaspereaupress.bsky.social ¶ One of Canada’s most innovative and tenacious literary publishers
¶ http://linktr.ee/gaspereaupress
Jeffrey Hecker @heckheck03.bsky.social Poet, Teen Writers Fellowship Poetry Teacher (The Muse Writers Center), Poetry Staff Reader for Quarterly West and Okay Donkey Magazine.
Samuel Poots @pootsidoodle.bsky.social Writer of fiction, TTRPGs and lost to-do lists.
Published in WFRP, Jim Henson’s Labyrinth RPG, Factor Four and Opulent Syntax
https://samuelpoots.wordpress.com/
Jennifer Jeanne McArdle @mcardlejeanne.bsky.social Work in animal conservation
Short fic author/editor with work in A&N Press, Interzone, Tenebrous, Agita, LSQ, Sentinel Creatives, Baubles from Bones, Hyphenpunk, Mythaxis, All Worlds Wayfarer, + more
https://jenniferjeannemcardle.blogspot.com
Zach Blagg @blagg.bsky.social I'm just this guy, ya know? (he/him) #DCTID #UTFC
WV to MI transplant.
💜 Detroit, DS/ML, Astronomy, Urbanism & Writing
Nelson @nappell.bsky.social Public Librarian, current Library Director. MoBookFest co-chair. Bibliophile. Long Covid. Cooks, bakes, writes, sketches. Dumb Bluesky jokes. Sounders. AI sucks.
Erin K. Dancer (she/her) @ekdancer.bsky.social Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy author, artist and reader | 🌈 Queer AuDHD Nerdmother | Earth Scientist | Software Developer | 🐉 TTRPG enthusiast and DM of entirely too many games (colonialism and capitalism are always the BBEGs!)
Mo Drammeh 🦇 @curmudgeondotcom.bsky.social They/them. Horror writer. Author of WHERE THE CRYPTIDS FLED. 2022 Maine Person of the Year. Telling Room alum. 2024 Maine Lit Fest Fellow. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
Link to my stuff here: https://linktr.ee/MLDrammeh
Alan Scherstuhl @alansch.bsky.social Editor/writer hanging in there, thinking abt books and jazz. PW, NYT, Sci-Am, elsewhere on occasion.
J. S. Kuiken @jskuiken.com Writer of fictions. Queer, world traveller, and tea connoisseur. UEA alumnus and Lambda Literary Fellow. 🚫 Gen AI. He/his. Opinions my own.
https://jskuiken.com/links/
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.
Abigail Guerrero @gailguerrero.bsky.social Author and cat lady 🐈 / Mexican / ESL / aro-ace / she|her / BSFA awards nominee and finalist / First reader at Diabolical Plots and The Skull & Laurel / Short stories and poems here: beacons.ai/abigailguerrero
Christina Lara (she/her) @notacatacct.bsky.social Reader, writer, (ex)gravedigger
Queer, Neurodivergent
Living and working in treaty six territory
My webbed site: https://booksinthesilentforest.neocities.org/
Elizabeth Rubio @rubiowrites.bsky.social SFF author from Austin, TX. they/them
Anti-genAI
Tim Chawaga @timchawaga.bsky.social Spec fic writer and lobbyist for Utz Party Mix. Stories in Interzone and Escape Pod, Clarion West '19, rep: Joshua Bilmes at JABberwocky, He/him 🇺🇦🇦🇷
SALVAGIA forthcoming from Diversion Books Aug 12!
https://linktr.ee/timchawaga
Standing 8 Count Publications @s8cpublications.northsky.social Independent Imprint of @jdbuffington.com in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Anti-Gen AI, only human art and writing
Trans & Women’s Rights Are Human Rights 🏳️⚧️
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J.D. Buffington @jdbuffington.com “Bullies need victims. But victims don’t need bullies.”
—A.R. Moxon
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Wizard of the Wavering Place
@s8cpublications.northsky.social
Anti-Gen AI
Trans & Women’s Rights Are Human Rights
Author of Horror & SF, HWA
https://linktr.ee/JD.Buffington
Steve Horton 🚀 The Comic Book Story of Space Exploration @mst3k.fan Writer (Comic Book Story of Space Exploration, NYT bestselling BOWIE, secret 3rd thing), SFF & film essays. Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop alumni. Rep'd by RHA. Codexian. Everything is rubbish and all rubbish is wonderful. stevehorton.neocities.org
Ben Werdmuller @werd.io @jskstanford.bsky.social fellow at Stanford. Ex: @propublica.org, @19thnews.org, @medium.com, Matter, Elgg.
I write about tech / media / society at https://werd.io.
🔍🦙 Crime Solving Alpaca 😈 @lucipaca.bsky.social She/Her (Sabrina) | Married to Mr 🦙 ❤️ | Vegan btw 💚 | Loves Alpacas 🦙 | 📚 Books 🤓 | Might read 'too much' fanfiction 😬 | Sci-Fi 👽| Satan Show 😈 | 💻🦙 | 🎮🦙
Ava Sofia Bratt @avasofiabratt.bsky.social Aspiring Sapphic Romance Author (currently querying). Essayist and avid reader. Lover girl 💐 Follow my medium account!: https://medium.com/@bratt.avasofia