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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social Senior legal affairs reporter at POLITICO with a focus on democracy, the balance of power and the clash between the Trump administration and courts.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com Nomad & Print Artist since 1998: Home isnโt a place, itโs a feeling. Traveling along my German grandmotherโs roots. Mover: Strong voice against Trumpism. Linktree: linktr.ee/Strandjunker
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Charlotte Cosgrove @charlottecosgrove.bsky.social Poet / Lecturer / Socialist / Wellbeing / Editor of Rough Diamond poetry journal
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CheyenneWriter @cheyennewriter.bsky.social Northern Cheyenne Author/Historian
The Cheyenne Story: An Interpretation of Courage
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Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) โข Blood Type: Curry โข Leeds United โข Anti-AI
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Jeff Kitchen @jeffkitchen.bsky.social http://script.kitchen
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Paul Lander @paullander.bsky.social
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Scott Solomon @scottsolomonwriter.bsky.social Recently finished writing a novel about damning aspects of the medical profession. Short fiction in Chicago Quarterly Review, New Letters . . .
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Eduard Antoniu @edisky.bsky.social Kid of the '60s, teen of the '70s, hanging in the '20s
50 Shades of Crimson - Pete Tomsett @50shadesofcrimson.bsky.social 2021 biog of Fripp/King Crimson. Incl. interviews with Bruford, Giles, Haskell & more. Described by veteran broadcaster, Martin Kelner, as 'a work of beauty' https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Fifty-Shades-of-Crimson-by-Pete-Tomsett/9781493051021
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Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA | Global Indigenous Horror (UPM, 2025) | Poetry Editor Orionโs Belt | Words in Future Fire, UtopiaSF, Space&Time, Lovecraftiana | EIC @katabaticcircus.bsky.social co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social
Aggeliki Pelekidis @aggeliki.bsky.social UNLUCKY MEL, a feminist revenge narrative, comedy, and campus novel. Gold medal winner IPPY award. Short story/CNF writer (McSweeneys, MQR, Confrontation, etc), pet mom, foodie, gardener. PhD in Eng/CW. Assoc Dir of FYW at BU. https://angiepelekidis.com/
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J. L. Yocum @jlyocum.com NYC Poet.
BA in English Comp/Poetry, University of North Texas. Poetry reader for ๐๐ช๐๐ง๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ก๐ฎ ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ.
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Archie @artemwriting.bsky.social UPenn. MBA. Books ๐ Writing โ๏ธ Art ๐จ Cooking & Gardening ๐ฑ Photos my own ๐ธ Married. From California โ๏ธ Got a Wacko Immune System ๐
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Kerry P (Author & Editor) @kerrypwrites.bsky.social ๐ป Editor. CIEP professional member.
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Steve Griffiths @writersteve.bsky.social Writer, editor, lover, eejit.
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Kirk Rafferty โจis editingโจ ๐ @kirkrafferty.com Award-winning author of THE COSMONAUT on shelves summer 2027, Crooked Lane Books
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@mr-eep.bsky.social @mr-eep.bsky.social Evan Parker is a published writer deeply passionate about crafting compelling stories that delve into the complexities of the human experience.
Fiona McKay @fionamckay.bsky.social Writer | THE TOP ROAD (AdHoc Fiction 2023) | DRAWN AND QUARTERED (Alien Buddha Press 2023) | THE LIVES OF THE DEAD (AdHoc Fiction July 2025) | Words in places | Autistic + ADHD
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Arleigh Helfer @arleighhelfer.bsky.social Literate lawyer, advocate for free expression, erstwhile Reagan Youth conscript, and chap with a quirky, dark sense of humor. Fond of dandelion breaks. Fan of ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐ด๐ต. "Where law ends, tyranny begins."
Luke Whisnant @lukewhisnant.bsky.social Writer, Editor Emeritus at Tar River Poetry, Emeritus Professor of English at East Carolina University, guitarist, and ๐.
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Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldnโt.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. ๐
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
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John Willoughby @johnwilloughby.bsky.social Musician, author, carbon-based life form. I like tea. Find my music on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms.
Tom Palmieri @tom.progstock.com Co-Founder/Producer of ProgStock Festival
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Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom ๐โโฌ(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art๐จ, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer๐ชท๐ณ๏ธโ๐yacht rock loverโต๏ธ๐teatime keeper๐ซ www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social Michigan writer & stuff. auDHD. gender noncompliant. Fuck AI & Subst*ck.
https://aniking.net
โ Family Night (Mason Jar Press, 2026) https://tinyurl.com/2jtf6t63
โ SmokeLong Subs Editor
โ EiC: syntaxandsalt.com (closed)
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
Esmรฉ Kaplan-Kinsey @esmepromise.bsky.social Writer, enjoyer of living things. Work in Smokelong Quarterly, Cincinnati Review, Adroit Journal
Lauren Karcz @laurenkarcz.bsky.social YA author, mom, insomniac, short story writer, occasional baker. Broadway fan and Stevie Nicks devotee. She / her
Mario Aliberto 3 @marioaliberto3.bsky.social ๐ขALL THE DEAD WE HAVE YET TO BURY out now w/ @ChestnutReview.bsky.social โก๏ธ https://a.co/d/7KbGazX ๐ขShorts in @FracturedLit.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social @pinchjournal.bsky.social & more
Stephanie Yu @stephanieyu.bsky.social Thinking about writing things - words in swamp pink, wigleaf, SmokeLong, wigleaf top 50 readstephanieyu.com
Marguerite Sheffer @mlensheffer.bsky.social Author of THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES (Nov 2024, Iowa Short Fiction Award from U of Iowa Press)
writer and teacher in New Orleans
stories in Asimov's, Lit Hub, The Dread Machine, The Pinch and others
Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social Writer in NYC. Former Attorney. EIC Split Lip Magazine. Copper Nickel Editor's Prize | BASS Distinguished Story | Kenyon Review | Ploughshares | Artist-in-Residence @ South 85 Journal | Next up: CHEEKS | http://maureenlangloss.com/
E.A. Aymar @eaaymar.bsky.social Novelist (WHEN SHE LEFT, most recent), sometimes reviewer at Wash Post, runs Crime Fiction Works (the greatest newsletter in crime fiction history, everyone says so). Under a lot of pressure here.
Barbara Diggs @bdiggswrites.bsky.social Writer, fiction and non. Highly Commended, Bridport Prize and Bath Flash Fiction. Nom for Pushcart & Small Fictions. Finalist BOTN. Work in SmokeLong, Fictive Dream, FlashBack Fic, and many other lovely journals. Ex-attorney. Mother of Boys.
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.
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Kik Lodge @kiklodge.bsky.social Writer. THE BULLY IN MY PILLOW (Stanchion Books, August 2026).
https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/the-bully-in-my-pillow
Best Microfiction 2026.
Hosts literary open-mics @saloneurope.bsky.social
www.kiklodge.com
Sara Hills @sarahillswrites.bsky.social THE EVOLUTION OF BIRDS (Ad Hoc Fiction, 2021)
Best Small Fictions | Wigleaf Top 50
SmokeLong Mikey, Bath Flash Fiction Award, QuietManDave CNF
2027 NFFD anthology editor
sarahillswrites.com
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Dhyanna Raffi-David @dhyanna.bsky.social Writer โ Read me at: @Smokelong.bsky.social,
@BridportPrize.bsky.social, Lunch Ticket, Jelly Bucket.
www.DhyannaRaffiDavid.com
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Timothy Boudreau @tcboudreau.bsky.social Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever (stories, Stanchion), & Stepdad on the Dance Floor (stories, Unsolicited) out now.
All We Knew Were Our Hearts (novel, Unsolicited) coming in '27.
Editor at The Loveliest Review.
timothyboudreau.com.
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Glenn Orgias @glennorgias.bsky.social TEETH KICKER (HarperCollins), MAN IN A GREY SUIT (Penguin 2012), www.glennorgias.com
Amy Stuber @amystuber.com Writer, editor, worker bee: amystuber.com
SAD GROWNUPS (Stillhouse Press, Oct 2024), Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
Contributing Editor: splitlipthemag.com
Lindsey Pharr @lapharr.bsky.social Writer.
Website: https://www.lindsey-pharr.com
Frances Orrok @francesorrok.bsky.social Writer. Drawn to the wild ones.
https://www.francesorrok.co.uk
Pithead Chapel | Wigleaf | Smokelong Quarterly | Gone Lawn | New Ohio Review
Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social Best Small Fictions 2024, Best Microfiction 2024, & Wigleaf Top 50 ๐ธ Winner of the Fractured Literary 2021 Flash Fiction Contest and the Welkin Prize ๐ป Author of LOVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD, published by The Masters Review ๐ทlindybiller.com
Elisa Faison @elisafaison.bsky.social Author of SKIN CONTACT (Cardinal, Sceptre 2026) | Freelance Editor | ๐Here to ruin myself, love the wrong people, and die๐ | she/her
David Yourdon @davidyourdon.bsky.social Wigleaf Longlist 2022!
Stories now/soon in SmokeLong, HAD, Peatsmoke, Emerge Journal, Bending Genres, Rejection Letters.
Many novels!
A Substack! https://whatwillitbelike.substack.com/
Software Engineering during the day.
he/him
Melissa Fraterrigo @mfraterrigo.bsky.social Writer | Editor | Founder Lafayette Writers' Studio University of Nebraska Press
Indiana Review
The Millions
https://linktr.ee/lafwritersstudio/
James Gianetti @jamesgianetti.bsky.social Stories in/Soon @PhoebeJournal @Driftwoodpress @SmokeLong @EmergeJournal @Stanchion @McNeeseReview @FatalFlaw
Katie Coleman @katiecoleman.bsky.social Words in: Ghost Parachute, Milk Candy Review, Bending Genres, Ilanot Review, Sunlight Press and more... | Noms:Pushcart Prize &Best of Net &Best Microfiction. https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/katie-coleman
Moisรฉs R. Delgado @moisesthehuman.bsky.social He/him | ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | cnf editor for The Adroit Journal | have words in places | love sweets ๐ฌ NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH PARTY (Summer 2027)
https://moisesthehuman.com
Libby Cudmore (SHE/HER) @libbycudmore.bsky.social Eminent Hipster. @ruadanbooks.bsky.social Detective Novelist (Wade & Jacks series, THE BIG REWIND.) Beligerent Co-Host, @ostparty.bsky.social. Swing revival scholar @barrelhouse.bsky.social & your Crime Fiction Bimbo. www.libbycudmore.com
Pat Jameson @patjameson.bsky.social Writer in beautiful Roanoke, VA
Some of my work here: https://linktr.ee/patjameson
Noรฉmi Scheiring-Olรกh @itssonoemi.bsky.social Hungarian alien writing in English(ian). Fan of cats and underdogs. ล/she/they/we ๐ Autistic. | noemiwrites.com | ๐ต๐ธ๐
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.
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Amy Barnes @amygcb.bsky.social Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social
Dawn Miller ๐จ๐ฆ @dawnwriter.bsky.social 2024 Winner Toronto Star SS contest| @SmokeLong Fellow 2024|Best Microfiction 2024 2025|words:The Forge,The Cincinnati Review, SmokeLong Quarterly, Room Magazine, Fractured Lit+| Pushcart, Best SF noms| rep:Joanna Rasheed, Ultra Literary
shareen k. murayama @ambusypoeming.bsky.social here, not here, there a poet, here a flash, and other sorts of non-fiction
Erin Vachon (they/them) ๐ @erinvachon.bsky.social Senior Reviews Editor @smokelong.bsky.social | Multigenre & Chapbook Editor @splitlippress.com | Providence menace | I write weird shit. | Fuck ICE. | More of us than there are of them.
Diane Gottlieb @dianegotauthor.bsky.social Editor-Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness (ELJ-Editions Oct 2023). Words in 2023 Best Microfiction, River Teeth, SmokeLong, The Rumpus, 100 Word Stories, Huff Post, Bending Genres and other lovely places. Prose/CNF Editor-Emerge Literary Journal.
Elissa Field @elissafield.bsky.social Lit noir novels + flash | SmokeLong Submission Ed | Runner Up Killer Claymore Best Mystery | Stories in/coming SmokeLong trampset HAD Moon City Ghost Parachute Monkeybicycle Citron Review Peatsmoke CRAFT Conjunctions ++ | IG FB elissalaurenfield.com
Claudia Monpere @claudiamonpere.bsky.social San Francisco Bay Area writer and educator. Flash fiction and cnf in SmokeLong, Bending Genres, Atlas and Alice, The Forge, Ghost Parachute, Craft & elsewhere.Poetry in journals such as New Ohio Review, Plume, Hunger Mountain and Cincinnati R. (she/her)
Emily Roth @emilymroth.bsky.social librarian and fiction writer. winner of Reflex Fictionโs winter 2022 flash fiction competition, other words in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Masters Review, and more. 
Janelle Bassett @janellebassett.bsky.social THANKS FOR THIS RIOT (2023 Prairie Schooner Book Prize)
Editing fiction at Split Lip Magazine
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Janna Miller @scribblermiller.bsky.social Librarian, writer, collector of oddities.
SmokeLong, Shenandoah, Citron Review, Best MicroFiction.
All Lovers Burn at the End of the World ('24 ELJ)
Reader at SmokeLong.
Codex and Electric Sheep member.
millersminusculemystories.com
Shelby Hinte @shelbyhinte.bsky.social Author of HOWLING WOMEN (2025) | Editor at Write or Die Magazine | she/her
Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social Author of ABBREVIATE, NERVE, HALFWAY FROM HOME, QUITE MAD, and three poetry chaps. FATHOM forthcoming. Editor Nerve to Write. Associate Prof. โฟ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social ๐บ๐ธ&๐ฏ๐ต SFF author | ๐: THE DEEP SKY, THE STARDUST GRAIL, SALTCROP (Flatiron). ENVOY (2027) (Tor). Any opinions expressed are my own only. (https://www.yumekitasei.com/links)
Kate Gehan @stateofkate.bsky.social Writer, runner | Nonfiction Editor at Pithead Chapel | MFA Emerson College | Short story collection: The Girl and the Fox Pirate | kategehan.com
Amanda Crum @amandacrum.bsky.social Writer, artist, shower singer. I dig horror.
Ra'Niqua Lee, PhD @raniqualee.bsky.social she/they
2024 NEA fellow
Ex academic, ATL writer of speculative fic, fairy, Southern mama, old soul
Best of the Net and Best small fictions 2023
Website: https://muddahlee.com/
insta: @muddahoney
Jan Stinchcomb @janstinchcomb.bsky.social Author of Verushka (JournalStone), The Blood Trail (Red Bird Chapbooks) & stories in many places (Gamut, Bourbon Penn, Tales to Terrify, Wigleaf, hex, etc.)
janstinchcomb.com
Ruth LeFaive @ruthlefaive.bsky.social I teach artists & solopreneurs how to trust their own knowing. Certified Socratic Coach. Writer. Reader & Treasurer for Split Lip Magazine. Bookkeeper. she/her. ruthlefaive.com
Melissa Bowers @melissabowers.bsky.social Writer โข ๐Copper Nickel Editorsโ Prize ๐ฅCRAFT Flash Prize, SmokeLong Grand Micro, F(r)iction Flash Comp โข Wigleaf Top 50 x 2 โข Best Small Fictions โข UofM๐๐ โข SAG-AFTRA โข Rep: Jill Marr of SDLA
Emily Devane @devaneemily.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor, bookseller. Collector of oddities.
Words in various places, including Smokelong, Lost Balloon, Ellipsis, Best Microfiction & Ambit.
Jasmine Sawers @sawers.bsky.social Mixed (gender)queer Thai American writer. Author of THE ANCHORED WORLD, finalist for the 2023 PEN/Bingham Award for Debut Short Story Collection. Senior editor at SmokeLong Quarterly. Kundiman and Lambda fellow. Fiction editor at Blanket Gravity. They/them
Anna B. Moore @annawillyell.bsky.social Still believe in humanity. Wish I got out more.
Gillian OโShaughnessy @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social โช๏ธRelentless optimist.
โช๏ธSalt City Runaway, debut story collection out in 2026
โช๏ธSub Editor- SmokeLong Quarterly
โช๏ธBest Small Fictions 23, 24, 25.