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Vicky MacDonald Harris @vickymharris.bsky.social Work in: @janusliterary.bsky.social @strangehorizons.bsky.social
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dani n. kuntz @danikuntz.com ABA professional by day (and night), writer by always.
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Some Words @somewordslit.bsky.social A literary journal hosted on a message board.
Kashawn Taylor @kashawntaylor.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Student.
Prison Journalism Project.
Gotham Writers Workshop.
book: subhuman. out now.
Steve C @stevexisxok.bsky.social Fiction Editor: @okaydonkeymag.com
Co-person: @litmatchcollective.com
https://stevehasawebsite.com/
Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social Syntaxer. Poet. Editor. Columnist. Gaymer. Ex-chef. Occasional pebble. Feelings Laminated. MFA in Poetry (Randolph).
words -> http://adriandallas.com
Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social Stories in CRAFT Literary, Vestal Review, Bending Genres, more. 🐈⬛ Learned from Rutgers-Camden MFA '18, Tin House '22, and Lambda Literary '25. Fiction reader for Okay Donkey. catherinebuck.com
Elizabeth Motes @emotes206.bsky.social Writer, NAU MFA ‘25. Social media manager for Split Lip Mag. Lover of literary ghosts.
Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social 37th President of the United States. Messages from the President unsigned, others from Ronald Ziegler.
RN@dicknixon.com
Michael Nye @mpnye.bsky.social Author of three books of fiction and editor of Story (@storymag.bsky.social)
Story @storymag.bsky.social Your favorite literary magazine since 1931. We mean, you know, aside from the previous three times we ceased publication. We love short stories, basketball, and cupcakes.
Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social She/her Short Fiction writer, 🇨🇦 in TN. Pub in ILANOT REVIEW, WEST TRESTLE REVIEW, FICTIVE DREAM,SUSURRUS, SOUTH 85+. BA,MD, Certificate Creative ✍️, Nom Pushcart, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions
Jayne Joso 💙 @jaynejoso.bsky.social Novelist 💙 Artist 💙
Novels, short stories, plays, poems
The New York Times, Yorkshire Times, TLS, ICON
Arts Council England, DAIWA, & SASAKAWA FOUNDATION Awards
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Ryan D. Matthews @rydmatthews.bsky.social Winner of NYSCA and de Groot Courage to Write Awards. Fellowships from Hawthornden, LMCC, Lighthouse Works, Tin House. Nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize & 2x semifinalist for Bennett Fellowship. Work in Lit Hub, Litro, Joyland, and MQR.
The Rally Reading Series @rallyreading.bsky.social The heart of a march in the body of a reading series--the Rally offers a whole new helping of literary discourse 1st Thursdays. 7pm at Pete's Candy Store.
Next up: May 7th
Event Link: https://tinyurl.com/yz2h254v
World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social One of the world’s longest-published literary magazines, now in its 100th year. Your passport to great reading. Online at https://worldliteraturetoday.org/.
Anonymous absurdist zines from the Bible Belt @absurdistzines.bsky.social The revolution will be self published
Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social Poet | current manuscript: Mélusine 🐍 | she/her
Susan Lerner @susanlitelerner.bsky.social Assistant memoir editor at Split Lip Magazine, assistant editor at Brevity. Reader for River Teeth, Fourth Genre, TriQuarterly
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
Gwen E. Kirby @gwenekirby.bsky.social author of SHIT CASSANDRA SAW // stories in One Story, Guernica, Tin House, Smokelong, and elsewhere // corgis, baking, knitting, swearing // she/her
gwenekirby.com
Careful Kitty Books @carefulkittybooks.com Picopunk publishing offshoot of @thefloatingbookshop.com in OKC
Home of the Pilot Program
THE LOST WIZARD by regularcandy OUT NOW
Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
Sarah Farley @thewriterswalk.com Ey up 👋 I’m a #writer and #walker from Yorkshire, living in That London.
I write a Substack where I share stories, interviews and writing prompts that explore the places where walking and writing meet. Fancy joining in?
https://thewriterswalk.com
Scratch Books @scratchbooks.bsky.social A small press dedicated to the short story. Claustrophiles…
Lance Newman @lancenewman.bsky.social I make art out of words, teach at Westminster University, and guide rafting trips in the West. My new book of poems is called Proverbs of Earth. More info at www.lancenewman.org
Libre @librelit.bsky.social A southern literature & arts mag bent on brain pain, taking the narrative back, jiggling it open, extracting the oyster from its background of compressed pain to reexamine what it means to scavenge for agency in liminal states of illness.
Librelit.com
Mary Buchanan @marybuchanan.bsky.social Edits Libre 🤓 MFA Fiction (LSU) 🪄 the third thing in the room 🪼 Words: 3 AM, Bending Genres, Serotonin, Trampoline, Anti-Heroin Chic, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Hobart, Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
📖 herghosts.blog
Brain pain. 🧠🥊
Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com Award-winning author of THE COSMONAUT on shelves summer 2027, Crooked Lane Books
Links: https://linktr.ee/kirkraff
Co-host of the podcast @badlitfriends.bsky.social
with @thecrumpet.bsky.social
"Villain, I have done thy mother"
CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social Independent Publisher of Art and Literature by Women+ Since 1976
Open for general submissions! calyxpress.org
https://linktr.ee/calyxpress
Molia (Molly) Dumbleton @moliadumbleton.bsky.social AFE @splitlipthemag // CuratorialBd @ragdale// PT Creative Writing Fac @DePaulU // Words in @thesunmagazine @ecotonemagazine @kenyonreview @NERweb @BestSmFictions www.moliadumbleton.com
Molly Andrea-Ryan 👻 @mollyandrearyan.bsky.social Fiction writer (words in Overheard Lit, Okay Donkey, Barren Magazine, Idle Ink, and elsewhere), Assistant Fiction Editor at Split Lip, converted cat lady, Pittsburgh dweller, hobby enjoyer
she/her
mollyandrearyan.com
Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social We’re a literary journal that’s totally bonkers-in-love with voice-driven writing, pop culture, and the kind of honesty that gets you right in the kidneys.
Posts: @carolinamata.bsky.social, AJ Jolish & @emotes206.bsky.social
https://splitlipthemag.com/
Rosecliff Literary @roseclifflit.bsky.social DC-based literary agency | where stories find their path | founder @jessicaberg.bsky.social
Grant Clauser @grantclauser.bsky.social Poet | Teacher | Editor | Walker | Pennsylvanian | Plant-based
Temporary Shelters (2025)
Muddy Dragon on the Road to Heaven (2020)
Teaches at Rosemont College
Montgomery County Poet Laureate 2010
grantclauser.com 
Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social work in X-R-A-Y, 3:AM, Granta, n+1, forthcoming in Iowa Review // website jamestaddadcox.com, editor @alwayscrashing.bsky.social // ENNIE award winner, apparently? https://store.possibleworldsgames.com/product/tacklebox
Zeke Cork @elcork17.bsky.social Writer in Missoula, MT. Love child of Anne Sexton and Nick Hornby.Words at xraylitmag, Pigeonholes, BendingGenres, SavantGardeMag &more. Nominated for Best of Net and Pushcart Prize. New work forthcoming. Suspiciously Happy .
Chloe Chun Seim @chloechun.bsky.social Fiction writer & artist. CHURN (Texas Review Press 2023) Words: Split Lip Magazine. Free State Review. LitMag. Opinions my own. MFA at UMKC. she/her https://linktr.ee/chloe_chun_seim
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.
He/him
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
reema @reemarp.bsky.social 🧿 fiction writer. 2024 jennifer weiner fellow (by blue stoop). best of the net finalist, wigleaf top 50 longlist, pushcart nominee. at work on short story collection & novel.📍CHI
www.reemarao.com | IG: reema.rp
**trying to be on here more, but IG is better
@flajuie.bsky.social @flajuie.bsky.social 
Sterling Gates @sterlinggates.bsky.social Writer of tv (SUPERGIRL, THE FLASH), film (THE POSTHUMAN PROJECT), and animation (SPIDER-MAN). Sometimes director (JUST THE JANITOR).
NY Times Bestselling comic book creator.
Eagle Scout.
Brad Richard @bradrichard.bsky.social Poet, gardener. Series editor, The Hilary Tham Capital Collection (The Word Works). My books include Motion Studies, Butcher's Sugar, Parasite Kingdom, and Turned Earth (Spring 2025, LSU Press). 
Bernadette Geyer @bernadettegeyer.bsky.social I write. A lot. About lots of things.
Author of What Haunts Me (April Gloaming) and The Scabbard of Her Throat (The Word Works).
Recent writing in @swwim.bsky.social, stadtsprachen, Quibble Lit, and elsewhere.
https://linktr.ee/bernadettegeyer
H. M. Cotton @hmcotton.bsky.social Poet. Teacher. Naturalist. Four-leaf clover finder. Editor at Birmingham Poetry Review and NELLE. In love with the Alabama outdoors. MFA student at Warren Wilson. TheCahabaProject.substack.com
Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social A Journal of Poetry & Short Prose
Edited by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social
https://www.whaleroadreview.com/
Dana Shavin @danalise.bsky.social Essay & article writer (Oxford American, The Sun, Garden & Gun, Psychology Today, Travel + Leisure, Next Ave, AARP, writing/publishing coach, 2-dog diva, impatient cook, player of pickleball while the world burns. www.danashavin.com & Danashavinartist.com
Rina Palumbo @rinapalumbo.bsky.social Ph.D. (JHU, History); Italian-Canadian expatriate. Writer, Editor, avid reader.
Writing in Hopkins Review, Identity Theory, Ghost Parachute, et al.
https://rinapalumbowriter.com/
Paul Perilli @paulperilli.bsky.social Writing some stuff, Brooklyn, NY.
https://paulperilli.com
Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social Book recs, reviews, and news. Supporting independent booksellers as a Bookshop affiliate. Thanks for helping us help local bookstores. 🙏🏼 #BooksMatter
https://bookshop.org/shop/matteristbooks https://matteristbooks.substack.com/
https://matteristbooks.com/
Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social Award-winning author. 📍Kentucky
HAZELGREEN & OTHER HAUNTS is forthcoming in ‘27 from WVU Press;
PINEVILLE TRACE (Etchings Press)
💙 cats, trees, music | wesblake.com
Anna Baker Smith @innergothic.bsky.social Over-the-counter essays
Maud Lavin @maudlavin.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Chicago, always. Author MERMAIDS AND LAZY ACTIVISTS, CUT WITH THE KITCHEN KNIFE, CLEAN NEW WORLD, PUSH COMES TO SHOVE, SILENCES, OHIO, Ed 3 anthologies, Gugg Fellow
Cristalle Smith, MFA/PhD @cristallesmith.bsky.social Poet. Mother. Writer. PhD from University of Calgary. Poetry book: Invisible Lives.
The Floating Bookshop @thefloatingbookshop.com Downtown OKC's bookstore, featuring zines, puzzles, cards, oddities, and more.
Locally owned and proudly independent
Open 10-6 Sun to Thurs and 10-7 Fri & Sat in the 🌈🏡
3 NW 9TH ST • OKC
Jen Jabaily-Blackburn @jenjblackburn.bsky.social poet, author of Girl in a Bear Suit (Elixir Press 2024) and Disambiguation (Salamander/Suffolk U 2024). Program and Outreach Coordinator at Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College #binders
Michael Martínez @mmartinez.bsky.social ‘Verse’ (three short ‘collections’) dealing with movement, migration, remembering & forgetting. Born & live England. Into photography,films & unusual spaces.
Visit my poetry webspace
https://www.writeoutloud.net/profiles/michaelmartinez
Caitlin Annette Johnson @caitlinannette.bsky.social poet | novelist | orb
fiction editor for Tendon Magazine
production editor for MAYDAY
www.caitlinannettejohnson.com
Charles Jensen @charlesjensen.bsky.social Author of SPLICE OF LIFE: A MEMOIR IN 13 FILM GENRES, poetry coll. INSTRUCTIONS BETWEEN TAKEOFF AND LANDING, & more. EIC: @villaineralit.bsky.social. Genre is a construct. Opinions mine. He/him. https://charles-jensen.com
Joe Schuster @joewriter.bsky.social Author of the Might Have Been and stories in Iowa Review, Kenyon Review and Missouri Review, among other work.
Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social Novelist: books 'Where the Willows End, In Red Blood' 'One of Our Own,' Poetry: 200 poems published worldwide. old friend's description of him, 'I've known this idiot most of my life.'
Christine Klocek-Lim @chrissiemkl.bsky.social Author. Artist. Editor of Autumn Sky Poetry DAILY. — https://christinekloceklim.com
Josh Boldt @joshaboldt.bsky.social Nature, books, dogs. Writer of mystery & southern gothic | Editor @brownhoundpress.bsky.social.
Lexington, KY.
joshboldt.com
Natalie Giarratano @nattyg.bsky.social Colorado poet, editor, mama. New chapbook of poems out now—Molecular Memory (also the author of Big Thicket Blues & Leaving Clean).
Sam McKeon @samthepoet.bsky.social Poet Sam McKeon is a recluse, living on the remote west coast of Ireland. His work tends to focus on his inner universe the rugged landscape and moments he spends with the few people he has contact with. Poetry at appetite2write.com and music on Spotify
Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social Queer disabled writer, artist, & scholar aka Dr. Heffers.
Lover of nature, sitcoms, libraries, & coffee.
EIC, Genrepunk Magazine (@genrepunkmag.bsky.social)
📚 What Blooms in the Dark (2024)
She/they
https://linktr.ee/audreytcarroll
Kate Wise @katewise.bsky.social possible poet.
Lucky enough to be published by
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social @theemmapress.bsky.social @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social @finishedpoetry.bsky.social etc
Meagan Lucas @meaganlucas.bsky.social Author of Anthony Nominated collection HERE IN THE DARK, and award-winning novel SONGBIRDS & STRAY DOGS | JD Candidate at UDayton Law | EIC: Reckon Review |
Susie Aybar @saybar12.bsky.social Writer |ONE ART| Tiny Molecules| Anti-Heroin Chic| The Twin Bill
susieaybar.com
Cherie Konyha Greene @ckgreene.bsky.social Writer, poet, mime, preacher, Episcopalian, Democrat, grandmother.
Gregory Smith @profligateangel.bsky.social poet, organizer, union thug (💪APWU💪)
Package Commander, AKA, Oops! All Dildos!
They/Them wife hubby.
Profligate Angel out now! Order here: https://www.gameoverbooks.com/product-page/profligate-angel
Jodie Bond @jodiebond.bsky.social Nature, climate, writing.
💼 Head of Creative, Local Storytelling Exchange
🎭 Trustee, Theatr Brycheiniog
📖 The Vagabond King, Parthian Books. The Hellfire Club coming 2025.
🖊️ Words in National Geographic, Vogue, Independent, BBC, Telegraph etc
Alycia Calvert @alyciacalvert.bsky.social (She/Her) 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ | #Typos | Writes weird hybridy things | EIC @HarperPalate | Res '22 & '24 | MFA '22 | PhD '26 | @hecatemagazine @thebansheejournal @writersrebel 🇵🇸🇨🇩
https://linktr.ee/alycia.calvert
K. T. Landon @ktlandon.bsky.social Poet ("Abide", winner of the Snyder Memorial Prize; work in The Sun, The Southern Review, New Ohio Review, Nimrod, Best New Poets). VCFA grad. Reader at Lily Poetry Review. Relentlessly sincere. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/ktlandon
MoCo Underground Writers Showcase @mocounderground.bsky.social MoCo Underground is a free, bimonthly get-together in Sandy Spring, MD, where awesome writers can share their work with a live audience.
More info: https://www.sandyspringmuseum.org/program-guide/moco-underground-writers-showcases
Gareth Prior @garethprior.bsky.social Poet. By day, Bursar at St Hugh’s College, Oxford.
Shaindel Beers @shaindelr.bsky.social Poet, Professor, Animal Advocate and Rescuer
Dan Thompson @mrdanthompson.bsky.social Writer of fiction, creative non-fiction and stories for the media.📚🖥️📰 ✍🏻
Creative Writing Alumni University of Cambridge.
Interested in writing of all kinds including for the screen, stage, prose, poetry and VSS.
Annick Yerem @missyerem.bsky.social Poet, Pixie, Cake spy. EIC Sídhe Press. She/her. "Impressive luring". Trans rights are human rights. #TheChronicLife/CIAD. FREE PALESTINE!
Katie Darby Mullins @katiedarbymullins.bsky.social Writer, Founder/Editor in Chief at The Apologist, Heavy-Metal mouth. I’m too online— I’ve lost the context. I want to be the OK Go of writing.
Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social (she/her) writer and editor; piano tech; Minnesotan by birth, Alaskan by choice; mother (of the single sort); general skeptic; burn it all down
hybrid prose-poem chapbook, “waveforms: a short course in piano tuning,” available from @harboreditions
Dzavid Dzanic @eintellection.bsky.social Associate Prof. France/Empire | PhD @Harvard | Film Photo | Literature | Spiritually Vancouverite | All views are my own: repost/like/follow/link≠endorsement
Poet Philly @poetphilly.bsky.social Poet, Novelist, Jesus.
mond.blume @punkpoet.bsky.social Half poetry, half humour, half music. Not so great at maths.📍Berlin 🗣️ Eng, Esp, Deu
My poems
poetry blog: https://blumenous-poetry.vercel.app/
on bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pu7hstzvvqqtcqk3ynnwol6q/feed/aaaggbxcdjqlo
Archie @artemwriting.bsky.social UPenn. MBA. Books 📚 Writing ✍️ Art 🎨 Cooking & Gardening 🌱 Photos my own 📸 Married. From California ☀️ Got a Wacko Immune System 😅 Connecting here 🤗 https://substack.com/@archartem
Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social Writer, artivist, teacher, culture disruptor
Substack bestseller w/ the Feral Stack
https://open.substack.com/pub/summerisferal
Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill
Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/
Craft newsletter: https://prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/
Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social Poet, parent, professor.
Editor-in-Chief of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social
https://www.katiemanningpoet.com/
Beth Gordon @bethgordonpoet.bsky.social She/Her. Poet. Mom. Grandma. Managing Editor of Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art. Here for the poets and other writers.
feralpoetryandart.bsky.social
Nicole Byrne 🏳️🌈 they/she @nicolebyrnepoet.bsky.social Queer poet kept alive by snacks, rock n roll & sheer force of will▪️Assistant Poetry Editor for @splitlipthemag.bsky.social▪️Poems in several defunct journals & some that are still kickin'▪️Wabanaki Land (Portland, ME)
Andrew Hemmert @andrewhemmert.bsky.social Florida poet living in Denver. No Longer at This Address and Blessing the Exoskeleton from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Sawgrass Sky from Texas Review Press.
https://andrewhemmertpoetry.com
Josh Denslow @joshdenslow.bsky.social High-functioning slacker.