Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social Writer. Eater of Books. Lover of Comics. Library Tech. Drummer. Burrito enthusiast. He/Him husband.
Author of TRVE CVLT, Midwestern Chrome, Help! I Can't Stop Shitting Snakes (2027).
www.michaelbettendorfwrites.com.
Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026) geni.us/TMtMT. Two-time Best of the Net nominee. | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Gone Like a Goldfish @gonelikeagoldfish.bsky.social This is an account to promote my anonymously-published book, Gone Like a Goldfish, about suicide, addiction, mental illness, and child loss. I'm told that it's transgressive literature. Free on Kindle Unlimited.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8L8GB2X
Molly McCall @mollymccall.bsky.social Former Geologist | Future Novelist
“…if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer.”
-Ray Bradbury
#amreading #amwriting #booksky
The Sam Hill! Review | SUBS OPEN @samhillreview.bsky.social Lit mag for historical fiction and poetry that makes you say: “now that was good as SAM HILL!”
SamHillReview.com | est. 2026 | Submissions for Vol. 1 are OPEN
zachspruce @zachspruce.bsky.social Rochester, NY. Trashpoet.
Author of the chapbook Vanishing Sun (2024) from Bottlecap Press.
Roughhouser @roughhouser-mag.bsky.social Online poetry mag. Submissions open.
Based in Chicago.
EIC: @willrusso.bsky.social
https://roughhouser.neocities.org/
Damn Jones @damnjones.bsky.social Author of lyrical, voice-driven literary fiction & poetry.
Vignette Editions
https://linktr.ee/damnjones
Editorial/Reading Assistant at @thirtywestph.com
Chasing the numinous.
Katherine Argent @katherineargent.com Kansas City-based writer and woman of a certain rage. Reading submissions for @fracturedlit.bsky.social & The Master’s Review. Petting all the dogs.
Also at the bad place: https://x.com/effthealgorithm
Tom Marcinko @tommarcinko.bsky.social He/him. Stories in Beneath Ceaseless Skies (forthcoming), Nature/Futures, Interzone, Rosebud, Triangulation, and elsewhere. tommarcinko.neocities.org/
Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social Boone, Smitty, Tech Exec #3 (deleted scene)
https://open.substack.com/pub/hotdogcode
Laura Eppinger @lolaepp.bsky.social By day: community development and campus-based civic engagement
By night: writing about thirsty queer vampires
Small monster book: https://altcurrentpress.com/2022/02/11/loving-monsters/
Michael Thériault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social I’ve done a few things. I’m not quite done yet.
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.
Richard Pounder @richardpounder.bsky.social https://richardpoundercom.wordpress.com/about/
Philly-based writer.
Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social 
Robert Ellison @robert-ellison.bsky.social Writer in the Deep South. Loves stories about plausibly real people dealing with plausibly real life situations with plausibly real emotions.
Superheroes and robots need not apply.
Monsters, unfortunately, still abound.
Mina Thorsen @minathorsen.bsky.social writer (lowercase) • Words published/forthcoming in Flash Frog, The Belladonna Comedy • Based in the North
SP Smith @sfacejones.bsky.social You're not proud of what you're doing right now, are you?
Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social Scurrying through the mire of existence. #AmQuerying a novel about a trip through the lives of ancestors.
NYC! 🏙️
Follow me at Medium.com/@edwardrstapleton
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/
Barbara Stocker 💙📚 @bluebirdbhs.bsky.social Activist Democrat Missourian living in Virginia @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @fpwellman.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social Team Site
Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social He collected things, each of a holy intention in isolation, but pagan in the variety of his choice.
—William Gaddis
📚 @anothernewcalligraphy.com, @ornithopterpress.bsky.social, @animalheartpress.bsky.social, @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
Alice St. Stirling @alice-stirling.bsky.social Hysterical magic realist. Bisexual. Pittsburgh. Submissions reader for Fusion Fragment. Work in Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Thirteen Podcast, and UP Magazine, forthcoming from Menhera 2020.
Substack: https://alicestirling.substack.com/
Julia @lunchmeatlezzie.bsky.social librarian, femme muppet, scary stories
brief + incorrect @briefincorrect.bsky.social A small online literary magazine for the strange, the hybrid, and the difficult to categorize. Prose that resists sense but maintains something else. Under 1,000 words.
Ellen Kirkpatrick @elkwrites.bsky.social writer ✶ cultural critique
words in Dark Mountain, HU, Barrelhouse, Belfast Review, & more
essays + shorts at The Break, a space for radical dreaming and stories from below
ellenkirkpatrick.co.uk ✶ ellenkirkpatrick.substack.com
Erin Copland @erincopland.bsky.social Writer, reader, Army vet, total nerd, late diagnosed AuDHD, flaming bisexual. RTs not only = endorsements, I sometimes shout them in public (she/her) https://linktr.ee/erincopland
brittany @britomatic.bsky.social trash bird/word nerd. Microhap out now w/ Ghost City Press 🪶work in X-R-A-Y, Maudlin House, Identity Theory, Daily Drunk etc. she/her/dr.
https://linktr.ee/britomatic
📍London
One Fall Review @onefallreview.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to professional wrestling themed poetry.
www.onefallreview.com
Submit: https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/one-fall-review-0g27j
Plague Circus Press @plaguecircus.bsky.social Submissions Closed
https://plaguecircuspress.com/
On Shipless Oceans @antiquedollbox.bsky.social Eric Bosse, for now. // Priorities: chaos and social justice // Nonbinary writer guy. Cinephile. Context aggregator. Aspiring people displeaser. Gen-X slacker. And, deep breath here...survivor.
Aaron Boot @aaronboot.bsky.social I write short pieces about people behaving strangely inside systems that insist everything is working properly.
Words in Maudlin, Waxing & Waning
Editor at Brief + Incorrect.
Jim C @jimcolella.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Former blogger, journo, & short story writer. Words in Flash Fiction Magazine & The London Economic. Now focused on creative nonfiction.
https://substack.com/@jimcolella
https://instagram.com/jimcwriter
📍UK
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Ali Morretta @alimorrettawrites.bsky.social Freelance editor and copywriter. Words in Citywide Lunch, Pacifica Lit, Flash Frog, and The Citron Review. Dogs love me.
The Bloomin’ Onion | **SUBMISSIONS ALWAYS OPEN** @bloominonionlit.bsky.social A Literary Magazine with Layers. Est. 2024. Helping new and emerging writers find their way. Posts by the EIC.
Subs: https://www.thebloominonion.com/submission-guidelines
Colin @colinbikesbooks.bsky.social Not very good or very gentle or very brave
soph @philosophish.bsky.social 
Nicholas Grider @softpromises.bsky.social stories forthcoming from bethh, Reading Into Culture, Fragmentation, and Dishsoap
music and films later in 2026 maybe
madeline blair 🐦⬛ @msblair.bsky.social something of a no rust buildup man myself
eic of @sabrtoothtiger.bsky.social 🐯🪽
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Juliet Wilson (Crafty Green Poet) @craftygreenpoet.bsky.social Adult Education Tutor, Poet, Short Story writer, Wildlife Surveyor, Conservation Volunteer. Edinburgh, Scotland
Blog: http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com
Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CraftyGreenMagpie
Substack: https://craftygreenpoet.substack.com
Linds @rydanmardsey.bsky.social R3dwillow.wixsite.com/rydanmardsey
Lys Granier @lysgranier.bsky.social Montréal
Writer, urban geographer.
Prose in The Common, PRISM international, Passages North, Hobart, The Ex-Puritan & more.
Ask me about skunks, I love them.
lysgranier.com
🎠 @jennajaco.bsky.social https://cherub.substack.com
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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Ashtonrussell @ashtonrussell.bsky.social Writer, mother. Work in JMWW, Pithead Chapel, Southeast Review, and elsewhere. What The Living Has Done (Bottlecap Press 2025) Bennington MFA ‘24. Associate editor at Iron Horse Literary Review and reader for Fractured Lit and Glossy Planet
The MFA @ FAU @mfa-fau.bsky.social * Poetry * Non-Fiction * Fiction 🦉 Own it 💭 🦉 Write it ✍🏽 🦉 Love it 🫶🏽 #writeinBoca
fau.edu/artsandletters/english/mfa
https://linktr.ee/mfa_fau
Ryleigh @wannderfullll.bsky.social poet | nyc by way of detroit | she/her | read my poems, prose, and thoughts on music here beacons.ai/ryleighwann
Will Stanier @flatstanley.bsky.social Poet, printer, and librarian. Bookmaker and homemaker. Everything Happens Next (Blue Arrangements, 2021). Living in Richmond, VA.
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.
Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social @onyxaminedlife on Twitter. Chicago trans woman/entity/entities. She/her or they/them. A short story writer and all around pretentious person. Weird jokes, political rants, some positivity. Friendly!
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
@thesepagessing.bsky.social @thesepagessing.bsky.social 
Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social Writer.
Recent Words in Iron Horse, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, Scaffold, others… see—>
https://travisflattblog.com/
The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to prose, poetry, comics, essays, humor, hybrid, and everything in-between.
www.bulbregion.com
@aenaeomie.bsky.social @aenaeomie.bsky.social 
franco luís @francoluis.bsky.social I like books a lot, maybe too much. I live in the desert. Don Quixote is the best book.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/94092891
TWO CHILDREN @twochildrenmag.bsky.social a digital literary magazine published on Substack, based in Oklahoma. poetry, fiction, non-fiction | volunteer-based & reader-supported | SUBS CLOSED
twochildrenmag.substack.com
Ash & Ink @bundtkake.bsky.social Malignant poet. Anti-Fascist Veteran. Putting down words, in odd ways, hoping they will someday explain, what I clearly never understood. No one is free, until everyone is free
J.R. Andrews @jrobertandrews.bsky.social Wordsmith whose final boss is social media.
Find me in @shortwavebooks.bsky.social | @ergot.bsky.social | @bruisermag.com
Wherever good times are had :3
Blue Lake Review @bluelakereview.bsky.social Online literary journal publishing great fiction and poetry since 2011.
Frank Jackson @frankerson.bsky.social I have music opinions and I’m not afraid to share them. I also write short fiction.
https://writerfrankjackson.com/
Sylvie @seafoambubblegum.bsky.social Oh, here we go again.
WIREWORM @wirewormmagazine.bsky.social submissions closed
like the Paris Review but... wormier
dedicated to the best of the worst 🪲 💙
wirewormmagazine.com
@benjaminzscott.bsky.social @benjaminzscott.bsky.social HVAC, writer, editor of Indie Book Blog.
Chris Dolan @mcdolan.bsky.social I am angry about the nitrate levels in Iowa’s drinking water. My writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Maudlin House, The Disappointed Housewife, and others. www.dolanchris.com
r. p. singletary @rpsingletary.bsky.social W(e)i(r)dely published in so-called 'underground publications,' or so they said. www.rpsingletary.com
Bryan Harvey @bryanharvey.bsky.social same writer, runner, teacher, and basketball fan from twitter (@Bryan_S_Harvey) all around (https://bryanharveywrites.wordpress.com/) medium (https://medium.com/@bryan-s-harvey)
Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social tiny poems & strange movies // 🚫🤖 // EIC at @pizamapress.bsky.social // chapbook soon with @gasherpress.bsky.social // writing prompt every Sunday via Substack (neonpajamas)
Hannes Patric @hannespatric.bsky.social Experimental storytelling, speculative questions, laced with a literary flair
https://substack.com/@hannespatric
Audrey Hall @mylifeiswrite.bsky.social poet, scholar, megafauna enthusiast. poems in Atlanta Review, Cola Literary Review, Okay Donkey, Alaska Quarterly Review, and others.
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
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Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
LonelyWritersClub (ChiMetroNW) @lonelywritersclub.bsky.social Official Lonely Writers Club Chicago Metro NW
1/2 founder.
I already have an account for politics, and this ain't it.
DM's open.
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queries: lonelywritersclubnw@gmail.com
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.
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/
@trav97.bsky.social @trav97.bsky.social 
Aisling @aislingb.bsky.social I make art, write things and make haunted house music. Films and Books are also a fancy. Trying to improve my Chess game. IS major.
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
@saic-writing.bsky.social @saic-writing.bsky.social 
The Beef Review @beefreview.bsky.social A journal of literary feuds. We are The Beef Review! The highest form of meat is literature, and we want your BEEF. Beefing soon—Spring 2026. 🥩 (Follow us on insta too @beefbeefreview)
@mjawr.bsky.social @mjawr.bsky.social 
aaaah idk! @56kinternet.bsky.social I don’t vape.
Financial Media Group @financialmedia.bsky.social Financial Media Group offers full digital marketing turn key solutions for small to medium sized & publicly traded companies.
Get Launched @getlaunched.bsky.social Make yourself the 'Go To' person in any industry and earn a side income from running small networking events.
Earn through entrance fees, membership fees, sponsorships & deals. GetLaunched.org
Karen Schauber @karenschauber.bsky.social Flash Fiction Obsessed
Dabbles in Abstract Painting
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