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Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social Quarterly print literary magazine & small book press in the Philly 'burbs. Founder & EIC Jeff Bogle. linktr.ee/StanchionZine
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
Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social Unseamly Literature. https://www.doesithavepockets.com/
Posts by Cami(lle) Griep, EIC
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
hex @hexliterary.bsky.social hex publishes brief speculative texts on a weekly-ish basis. We're @WPI. Editors @katemcintyre.bsky.social @danielmiller.bsky.social @joeaguilar.bsky.social. Subs closed for now. Read hexliterary.com
Letty Butler @lettybutler.bsky.social Writer, actor, reader, eater. 
Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com ✍️ Writer & fabulist | 📝 in Electric Lit, LitMag, New Letters, SmokeLong Quarterly, Augur Magazine, Small Wonders & more | ❤️🔥 #fairytales #fantasy #speculative #flashfiction | 🔗 www.nadiaborn.com
Diane Simmons @scooterwriter.bsky.social Co-Directs NFFD.NIFs: ‘Finding a Way' (Ad Hoc Fiction), ‘An Inheritance' (V.Press), ‘A Tricky Dance’ (Alien Buddha Press), ‘William Prichard & Co’ (Arroyo Seco Press) & Bereft of Reason’ (V. Press). www.dianesimmons.co.uk
Your Own Personal Elle Boyd @theelleboyd.bsky.social Transcriptionist by day, writer by night. Cat wrangling Bluenoser. 🇨🇦 Links to some of my shorties: https://elleboyd.com/ Unsolicited DMs will be ignored like the scourge they are.
JOHN NIVEN @nivenj1.bsky.social 'John Niven is a fucking idiot. Who needs him?'
Michael Winner, RIP. 
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.
Shelley Roche-Jacques @shelleyr-j.bsky.social Writer of short fiction and dramatic monologue, connoisseur of cake, coveter of cats, lecturer of creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University.
https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/shelley-roche-jacques
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
Beetle Holloway @beetleholloway.bsky.social Copywriter and sometimes journo. When I’m not writing words for other people, I’m writing weird, funny and dark short stories.
If I’ve followed you on here, it’s probably because I’ve read (and liked) some of your work.
Sheila Scott @mahenry20.bsky.social Writer-scientist hybrid, MLitt, environmentalist, short story scribbler, illustration doodler. Lover of nature, esp plants, bees and red squirrels. My wee garden is my sanity. Now can't DM but really don't mind. Always hoping for peace and kindness. 🧡
Mallory Smart @mallorysmart.bsky.social Neurotic Chicago-based writer, editor-in-chief of Maudlin House, podcaster, and doer of many odd things.
https://mallorysmart.com/
Maudlin House @maudlinhouse.bsky.social weird press that publishes weird books
https://shop.maudlinhouse.net/
Paul Thompson @hombrehompson.bsky.social in Sheffield. some flash fiction in moonrabbitcandy, okaydonkeymag, janusliterary, ellipsiszine etc. you might know it from that other place. i would post it here if I knew how to.
https://hombrehompson.com/
Vanessa Edwards, Writer @vanessaedwards56.bsky.social Lawyer turned crime writer. The Grass Widow and The Matchmakers (Amazon.com #1 Best Seller in Noir Crime) available on Amazon, including on KU; paperbacks also available from Gumshoe Books. Author photo © Nick Gregan.
http://www.vanessaedwardswriter.com
Michael Grant Smith @michaelgrantsmith.bsky.social Unknown Author * Word Janitor * Lazy Pedant * Aspiring Language-User-Person * Creator of Arc-Less Non-Story Sentence-Pictures * Hyphen Fan * Round Earther * www.michaelgrantsmith.com/plenty-of-words
Wilson Koewing @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social notable, Best American Essays. distinguished, Best American Mystery and Suspense // books JADED, QUASI and ROLLING ON THE BOTTOM // editor of Bottle Rocket Literary Magazine
Daily Short Story Deadlines @shortstorycontests.bsky.social Submit your short story to the relevant genre. All of these contests are guaranteed acceptances. Your story gets a video performance reading made!
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-short-story-contest-deadlines/
Jack Petrubi @jackpetrubi.bsky.social A man of many words.
Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social Senior Editor @ Epiphany Lit. Stories in EPOCH, Carolina Quarterly, Bridge Eight, Sequestrum, McSweeney's Internet Tendency et al. Video creations (Richard Hell, Nancy Wilson, et al) www.jeffbond.nyc www.chillsubs.com/profile/jeffbondnyc
Bristol Short Story Prize @bristolshortstory.bsky.social The Bristol Short Story Prize is an international writing competition hosted by the Department of English at the University of Bristol.
https://bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Mike Fox @polyscribe70.bsky.social Short story writer, delinquent poetry reader. Ballerini Book Press, Fictive Dream, The Lonely Press, Confingo, Fragmented Voices, Structo, Nightjar Press, BBSS18 Salt Publishing, Exacting Clam
polyscribe.co.uk
James Montgomery @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social Flash writer ✍️ | Latest: Crow & Cross Keys, Fictive Dream, FlashFlood, The Bulb Region, 100 Word Story, NFFD Micro Comp ‘26 | 📖 Best Small Fictions ‘25, Wigleaf Top 50 ‘25 | 💫 Welkin People’s Prize ‘25 | He/Him 🌈 www.jamesmontgomerywrites.com
Leila Martin @bookishleels.bsky.social Writer, reader, next-level procrastinator. What time is it? 
Marcy Dilworth @marcydilworth.bsky.social This novel won't write itself . . . and still addicted to flash & short stories. In @TypehouseLitMag @JanusLiterary @BlinkInkPrint
@LiteraryMama @WritersResist @WWPHPress @litbreak
#WritingCommunity #flashfiction #writing #author #litworld
she/her
Eve White Literary Agency @evewhiteagency.bsky.social News, updates and tips from an independent London literary agency representing fiction, nonfiction and children's books.
Kelle Schillaci @kmschillaci.bsky.social seattle-based writer re-entering the fray
words in Penn Review I Los Angeles Review I LEON I Gone Lawn I Flash Frog I *Wigleaf Top 50*
https://kelleclarkecreative.com/
Tiny Molecules @tinymolecules.bsky.social A quarterly literary journal. We love flash, we love experimental, we love saying something big in a small space.
https://www.tinymolecules.com/
EIC @sdobbie.bsky.social
𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 @horrorculturist.bsky.social Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. 🌿🍁🍂🎃
Agnostic atheist. Nyctophile. AuDHD. Demi-Pan. They/them. | Contrary to internet lore, I am not lost, sorrowful, despairing, trapped, drowning, falling, or stuck in a maze. (You OK?)- N 🇺🇸 @n976wow.bsky.social
Monica Wang @monicawang.bsky.social Taiwanese Canadian in Europe. Writing in Electric Lit, Southword, Salamander, Augur, Malahat Review, EVENT, Banshee, etc. W&A Working-Class Writers' Prize shortlist. WHEN SAD ONES GO OUTSIDE (Black Sunflowers Press). she/they
Nicholas Petty @nicholaspetty.bsky.social Writer-ish.
Stories in The Stinging Fly, New England Review, Story, The London Magazine, The Moth Magazine, Galley Beggar Prize, Desperate Literature, The Forge and elsewhere.
nicholaspetty.co.uk
Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social Writing about nature, science, history & sexual violence. Multiple books, multiple mischief.
Latest: TANGLED IN VOW & BESEECH (poems)
Next: LEARNING TO SPAR (memoir)
EiC Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table. Here for lit community & Caturday
She/They/Dr/Bruh
J. Edward Kruft @jedwardkruft.bsky.social Writer, EiC @trampset.bsky.social. Words in @fictivedream.bsky.social, @xraylitmag.bsky.social, @moonparkreview.bsky.social, @pitheadchapel.bsky.social, @mrbullbull.bsky.social, and others. Mid-Century Modern fanatic. Originally from WA, now NY and GA.
trampset @trampset.bsky.social A literary journal for the tramps in all of us. We accept poetry, CNF, flash, micro, and short fiction on a rolling basis.
All posts by @lmariharris.bsky.social
www.trampset.org
Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social Staff writer @prospect.org. Send tips: wwimbish at prospect dot org & Signal at wwimbish.07.
Co-writing the daily newsletter for @majorityreport.bsky.social.
Proud member of The NewsGuild.
Stroud Short Stories @stroudshortstories.bsky.social Currently closed for submissions. Next event November 2026.
Twice-yearly live lit event for Glos & South Glos writers. Established 2011. Run by John Holland. Website https://stroudshortstories.blogspot.com
Alice Winterhold @alicewinterhold.bsky.social I don’t know, I just got here
Zena Barrie @zenabarrie.bsky.social Author & co-director of Camden Fringe
Writes things, reads things, goes to watch things
www.zenabarrie.com
ThickSkin Theatre @thickskintheatre.bsky.social Extraordinary stories told in unexpected ways. Touring theatre company based in Wigan. Next up: Driftwood- M Michelle Matheson @michellematheson.bsky.social Mum, cat wrangler, struggling writer. Published Flash in Reflex Fiction, Bath anthologies, Flash 500, Headland, Flash Frontiers, Ellipsiszine. Struggling to grow.
Josh Mcloughlin @drjoshmcloughlin.bsky.social Writer, editor and scholar ⁍ PhD in early modern literature from UCL ⁍ Words: The Fence, New Statesman, Prospect, The Times, Engelsberg Ideas, The London Magazine &c ⁍ Editor: New Critique ⁍ London via Merseyside
Frances Gapper @francesgapper.bsky.social Queer, shy and anxious. Pigeon-chested, takes frequent naps and seldom goes far. Writes tiny things. 2025: Exposition Review, Pangyrus, Flash the Court, Your Impossible Voice, Fictive Dream, Flash Flood, Winged Moon, Eunoia Review, Switch, Trash Cat Lit
Debbi Voisey @dublinwriter.bsky.social Writer. Pushcart and Best Micro Fictions 2025 nominee. Published @fairlightbooks & @shortstorymag. Mentor. Tutor. Novel THE RESET published 2025 with Bloodhound Books. Email dublinwriter@hotmail.co.uk
Wendy Erskine @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social THE BENEFACTORS Sceptre. Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. Shortlisted Irish Novel of the Year, Best British Audio Book. It’s out now. dance move/sweet home/stinging fly/picador/well I just kind of like it/PVA Books
D. Carreira Ching, PhD @mistahdonald.bsky.social Award-winning writer, tenured professor, occasional editor, and avid gamer. I share info on literary agents etc. Querying 80k grounded cli-fi novel. Winner of the CMLP 2026 Firecracker Award in Fiction.
www.donaldcarreiraching.com
Tom Mallows @tomedwardm.bsky.social 
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
@bathflashaward.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social 3 times a year Flash Fiction Award. £1460 prize fund. Anthology. Founded in 2015. 32nd Award results out now. 33rd Award open. Judge Writer and writing tutor . Alison Woodhouse Closes June 7th 2026
Ali McGrane @alimcg.bsky.social Flash fiction in various places | Welkin win, Bath SLs | "The Listening Project" flash novella Ad Hoc Fiction bit.ly/3ohYf67 (Special Mention '22 Sab Awards) | South West UK🦻🌱🌊
alimcgrane.com
Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social Magazine & Press edited by @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @petermcallister.bsky.social | short fiction | flash | non-fiction | concrete, vispo, experimental | prose, poetry & hybrid chapbooks
https://inkfishmag.com
Jo Gatford @jmgatford.bsky.social Write-abouter | editor | scriptwriter | fiction all over the shop | Shakespeare nerd | writing thoughts & workshops @ The Joy of Fixion
https://www.jogatford.com
https://fixioning.substack.com
Margo Griffin @67mgriffin.bsky.social I like to write stuff. Longtime Boston-area educator. Mom of daschund-pug mix rescue. Words in Literary Namjooning, Roi Fainéant Press, Bending Genres, Bright Flash Literary, Literally Stories, etc. Upcoming-Brilliant Flash Fiction, Reckon Review & Jake.
Michelle's Melancholia @mmelancholia.bsky.social Lover of horror and everything morbid 🥀
Desperately wanting to believe in the paranormal 🔮⚰️
Find me on YouTube 👁
Mark Rutterford @markrutterford.bsky.social Writer-Performer.
Stories. Love. Props.
Badgers. Lucy. Daylight and fresh air.
Jude Higgins @judehwriter2.bsky.social Founder Bath Flash Award, directs AdHocFiction + Flash Fiction Festival Flash collection Clearly Defined Clouds out now s/l Bridport x 4, s/l SmokeLong Mikey x2, Best Microfictions x2 Pushcart nominated
Rasmenia Massoud @rasmenia.bsky.social Writin’ stories and makin’ art. Still believing that a better world is possible.
🚫No AI
📍Brighton, UK
🌄 Colorodoan
https://linktr.ee/rasmenia
After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers.
Links: https://bio.site/afterdinner
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming July 2027…
Eleanor Fuller @eleanorfuller.bsky.social Winner Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction 2023; finalist Fiddlehead Short Fiction Prize 2023 & Cambridge Short Story Prize 2024. Edith Wharton WiR 2024. Words: The Waxed Lemon, The Moth, Malahat, The New Quarterly & other lovelies. CCA-funded sabbatical!
Ewen Glass @ewenglass.bsky.social screenwriter | lecturer | poemer
JJ Surtees @jjsurtees.bsky.social Pushcart prize nominated. Writer. London. Published Unsung Stories, Idle Ink, Liar's League, Fictive Dream & others. 
Kip Knott @kiptain.bsky.social Poet, writer, photographer. Author of FAMILY HAUNTS (Louisiana Literature Press). Wigleaf Top 50 2024. Best Microfiction 2024.
A Coup of Owls Press @acoupofowls.bsky.social Free to read and download quarterly online issues https://acoupofowls.com/
Print anthologies, collections and novellas http://acoupofowls.square.site
Publishing only marginalised/under-represented creators, 18+.
Est. 2021 and going strong
@bsherm36.bsky.social @bsherm36.bsky.social Author of HOW TO GET THERE FROM HERE (Ad Hoc). Stories @Smokelong, Flash Frog, Gone Lawn, Bending Genres. Subs editor @Smokelong. BMF 2024, 2026. BSF 2025. Noms: Pushcart, BOTN. Author of five mystery novels. PhD from CUNY Grad Center.
the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social the engine(idling is an online literary magazine for the restless. unique themed issues.
www.engineidling.net
EIC Danielle McMahon (@dehm000.bsky.social)
B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social Writer/Editor/Coach—editor of the anthology Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship; Founder, Severancemag.com
Heather-jane @igotbigbooks.bsky.social 🧛🏻♀️ books, movies & physical media 📼 📀 📚
Irvine Welsh @irvinewelsh.bsky.social Radicalized by discotheque music.
Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social Novelist, rep’d by @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social. Thrillers: #LittleWhiteLies💛 #SafeAndSound❤️ #IllNeverTell💗 #AGuiltySecret🧡 Lives in Lincolnshire, has a cat. Clinical Psychologist by day.
Christopher Allen @christopherallen.bsky.social Publisher and EIC of SmokeLong Quarterly. 2023 Flash Fiction Judge Bridport Prize. #BestSmallFictions #FlashFictionAmerica. Nomad. Very much a back-office guy. He/him
Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social "We'll Be Birds" chapbook release 9/24/26 https://www.sandandgravelpress.com/lisa-thornton-chapbook-release
Writer, nurse. SmokeLong Quarterly, Cincinnati Review+. Senior flash fiction editor @jmww. Sucker for a good barn.
lisathorntonwriter.com
Colin Speller @colinspeller.bsky.social MD of Mad Hat Records (@rebeccadownes) and organiser of the PostBox (Birmingham) Leaseholders Group. QPR still a major preoccupation. Opinions my own. Longer ramblings at https://substack.com/@colinspeller.
Kathryn Aldridge-Morris @kazbarwrites.bsky.social COLD TOAST Dahlia Books. Republic of Consciousness Prize 'Book of the Month'. Shortlisted for International Rubery Book Award. Wigleaf Top 50, Bath Flash Fiction Award, Mancs. Writing School QMD Prize, The Forge CNF prize
www.kamwords.com
Madeline Anthes @madelineanthes.bsky.social Writer, reader, cake eater. Clevelander on the East coast.
Assistant Editor of Lost Balloon. BEAUTIFUL, VIOLENT THINGS out with word west.
She/her.
Madelineanthes.com
Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social Alaskan poet, teacher, parent. Books: Text Messages from The Angel Gabriel (Gnashing Teeth 2024), Another Life (Riot in Your Throat 2025)
https://linktr.ee/francesklein
Kathryn Kulpa @writesofkathryn.bsky.social Will write for coffee. Mostly flash, mostly fiction.
Work in BULL, Centaur, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, HAD, Milk Candy, SmokeLong, TrashCat, Wigleaf, YIV.
Chapbooks: A Map of Lost Places; For Every Tower, a Princess; Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted.
Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social Multimodal af. Collective Gravities, Every Galaxy a Circle, Patterns of Orbit, Escaping the Body, & more
Co-EIC of @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social
www.chloenclark.com
Cover image: raspberry danishes
Profile photo: a river heron
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
Chelsea Stickle @chelseastickle.bsky.social She/her. Flash writer. Everything's Changing (Thirty West, 2023) & Breaking Points (Black Lawrence, 2021).
https://linktr.ee/chelseastickle
Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social Native Hawaiian writer living in Japan
https://www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/
Bitter over Sweet https://tinyurl.com/5hd7u63r
Hard Skin http://tinyurl.com/yc53
Kahi&Lua http://tinyurl.com/3ryfzvwh
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
Avra Margariti @avramargariti.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🇬🇷 writer, poet, editor /any pronouns
words: Strange Horizons, The Deadlands, F&SF, Podcastle, Asimov's, Vastarien, Baffling, Nature, Gamut, FFO, Dark Matter, Best Microfiction
📧 avra.margariti@gmail.com
https://ko-fi.com/avramargariti
Avitus B. Carle @avitusbcarle.bsky.social Writer of the weird and experimental flash. Words @FracturedLit, @Xraylitmag, @NecessaryFic, @TBQuarterly, and elsewhere.
Debut flash fiction collection, THESE WORN BODIES, out now @MoonCityPress.
Read more at http://avitusbcarle.com
Ruth Joffre @ruthjoffre.bsky.social Author of Night Beast and Lies I Tell My Children | Co-founder, Nightjar Arts Collective
Just a queer Bolivian American woman who likes books and birds and making billionaires cry
www.ruthjoffre.org
www.nightjarartscollective.com
K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com writer. she/her 🌈🦇 heart's delight: Bmore, bats, & tattoos; Clarion & Tin House '18⚡️ kcmeadbrewer.com
fuck AI & fuck fascism
ALT pfp: white, blond woman; nervous but anxious
ALT banner: a black cat peeks from around a corner
Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social Scottish writer/editor. Queer AF. Terrible workaholic.
PhD student in Creative Writing. Cinema Worms podcast co-host. She/they
Repped: @lzats.bsky.social (literary) Kim Yau at Echo Lake (film/TV)
Wife: @pegasusunder.bsky.social
www.lindzmcleod.co.uk
Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social Essayist, Editor @ The Real Story, Winner NorthBound Book Award for COLD FISH SOUP (Saraband, 2022). BROKEN BISCUITS (HarperNorth, 2025) MD ANT Rep'd by @charlotteseymour.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/adamjfarrer
Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Writer of short things. Reader of all things flash. Dog lover. Words in SLQ, XRAY, Flash Frog, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf. Winner of 2024 Lascaux Prize & Cambridge Prize. She/her https://www.emilyrinkema.com/
Roya Khatiblou @royakhatiblou.bsky.social Writer | Editor | she/her | mommy | 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧 | work: Salon, Litro, Reflex Press, Chicago Rev + | Assoc dir @saloneurope.bsky.social | roya-khatiblou.com | rep: Salma Begum @greyhoundliterary.bsky.social