Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social writes poetry
Sacha @sachanotess.bsky.social Bilingual poet · English & Spanish 🖋️
THE COLLECTION: Volume 1 — out now
One voice, two tongues
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Ruth Nineke @ruthnineke.co "I live a very different life from all of you."
Rockstar web designer, SEO consultant, and content manager for ambitious creative entrepreneurs.
Hardline Feminist. Argue with your mother.
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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social We are an author-run, not-for-profit publisher of artistically adventurous, non-traditional fiction, committed to finding fresh & experimental works, both through member-sponsored submissions and our two annual contests! https://fc2.org/
Steve Silas Hendrickson (Watching Titanic For The First Time) @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social "Mamunduong tawo" 🌈🇵🇭
| Gay Widower | Bicolano Poet | Bibliophile | Gamer
Monthly Host: #PoetsOfDoom
Currently reading one book per week 📚
Focus: iyashikei novels
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🍎 Taylor Twins 🍏 @thirstytwins.satan.social 🦋Taylor Twins TWINS BING TWINS🦋
🌀gemelos Taylor Gemelos siendo gemelas🌀
⓸ 泰勒双胞胎 双胞胎就是双胞胎 ⓸
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Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social Professor, poet, writer. Thoughts I share here are my own and do not reflect the thoughts or values of my employer. No DMs, please. I welcome reposts, but please credit me on writing! 🏳️🌈🦄
https://substack.com/@wordsr4wording?utm_source=user-menu
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
Warren Bingham @warrenbingham.bsky.social North Carolinian, UNC alumnus, Fave Movie: Groundhog Day
Scholar of North Caroliniana
Member, Tryon Palace Commission
Author: George Washington's 1791 Southern Tour
Niko Bussey @niko2057.bsky.social E Pluribus Unum, y’all!
Tech Enthusiast/Bemoaner
Thoughts, observations, and implicit beliefs
Ben Kline @benkline.bsky.social Writer, tall, clumsy, wired, Gemini.
IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE from Variant Lit.
TWANG from ELJ Editions.
STIFF WRIST from 14 Poems.
Some of my work: https://benklineonline.wordpress.com/publications/
Podcaster at https://www.youtube.com/@mlvcpodcast
M. Rob @oedipalschmedipal.bsky.social In the sober light of day it's a little too bright out |
Will be mean to people you hate for food | Writer | Ball Knower
your friend dusti @dusti.bsky.social Dusti RW Levy. Disabled. GenX. PanQueer. Southern. Jewish Plays Project. EIC — delicate emissions; associate ed — Boudin; assistant CNF editor — McNeese Review; asst poetry editor —Thirteen Bridges. PrinxDopamine late of Serotonin Jackalope/Marine Layer.
Kira Córdova @kirarambles.bsky.social Boston-based, Pushcart-nominated writer and sometimes tall ship sailor with work in Poetry Lighthouse, Outdoors Unlimited, The Acentos Review, and Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts
www.kirarambles.com
kirarambles.substack.com
Dcat @dcat682.bsky.social Young Adult Sci-fi and Fantasy Writer. Red mage. Writes from a character-first perspective, focusing on morally gray characters. BA in English. Published in The Mercury. Fan animation coordinator.
https://linktr.ee/dcat682
Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social Editor at Rose Metal Press & Professor at DePaul
Writings: https://kathleenrooney.com/
Typewritings: http://poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com
Man Overboard!: A Novel (July '26): https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Man-Overboard!/Kathleen-Rooney/9781668212387
Josenildo Melo @josenildomelo.bsky.social He studied Law. Bachelor in Social Work. Degree in Philosophy. Journalist. What is all this worth? I really like studying. I AM FROM GOD!
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Terry O. Scott-Bond @terryoscott-bond.bsky.social Please follow Terry on Medium: medium.com/@terryoscottbond
True Democracy's poet—from the world's longest-running constitutional democratic republic—who loves and believes in the People. A human being. Doing something different. Posts read as a lit thread.
AcausalQualia @acausalqualia.bsky.social 🖤Dark Hearts🩶Grey Skies🤍Light Matter
#Artist #AuDHD #Buddhist #Furry
#Genderqueer #Goth #INTP #Kink
#Libsoc #Occult #Panpsychist #Pansexual
#Poet #Poly #Queer #Sapio #Transfemme
#Transhuman #Virgo #Witch
🏳️🌈 ⚧ 🐈⬛(she/her)
Primary → @rjvoidrabbot.bsky.social
Carmella de Keyser @carmellapoetry.bsky.social Prizewinning poet
Harlow Stanza founder
Judge Harlow Open🏆
5 books published/forthcoming|Hedgehog Press|Alien Buddha Press|Parlyaree|Seventh Quarry Press
Widely published inc
by Macmillan
Beatles|90s nostalgia
https://www.carmella-de-keyser.com/about
Sandra Beasley @sandrabeasley.bsky.social Author of four poetry collections (most recently Made to Explode, published by W. W. Norton in 2021) and a disability memoir (Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life). Freelancer, teacher, poetry editor for Blair, & DC resident.
Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social Poet &c | rishidastidar.com | linktr.ee/betarish
Rebecca Bolton @rebeccainprint.bsky.social 🍃 Historian, Poet, Writer
🌿 Irish-Welsh Mongrel Mix
🍃 Moon magic & Myths
🌿 FREE KS2 History Resources 📚
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Marc Zammit @marczammit.bsky.social Director🎬 | Producer 🎥| Actor 🎭 CEO Aptitude Films, Skylark Vision.
Homeless Ashes, Witch, JITTERS
Lupe Mendez @thepoetmendez.bsky.social 🇲🇽Writer | Artivist | Editor |
Books: We Exist in the Whisper, Prayer Holding Night, Why I am Like Tequila
Founder, Tintero Projects
TX Poet Laureate Emeritus (2022-23)
linktr.ee/the.lupemendez
Bill Ferris @billferris.bsky.social I write things and make training courses. Chapel Hill-adjacent.
Holly @hollykarcher.bsky.social Relationship anarchist, suburbanite, optimist. Writer of dodgy poems.
Posts may be NSFW, if you're lucky.
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ROCKY LASTER🌱🦍 @rockylaster.bsky.social Feral Alaskan Hoosier. 17% Sasquatch DNA. High Priestess of the Leguminati 🫘. Allegedly Afraid of🐀 Mice. Watermelon Enthusiast 🍉. Awesome Dad🎖. Adoring Husband. Impossibly Humble. Susceptible to Flattery, 🥑's, and Wizardry. Balding Vegan Earthling 🌎
Dr. Mai-Linh Hong @mai-linhhong.bsky.social literature professor, poet, sewist, escaped lawyer // debut poetry collection, CONTINENTAL DRIFT, out July 1 from Trio House Press
Dana Malone @danamalonewriter.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Storyteller. Singer. Native Appalachian. Hoops fanatic.
#musiccitysingsat6 Everyone Begotten, Everything Holy (April Gloaming Publishing, September 2026).
Michele McDannold @oneldammit.bsky.social Poet/Publisher at Roadside Press
Jeffrey Hecker @heckheck03.bsky.social Poet, Teen Writers Fellowship Poetry Teacher (The Muse Writers Center), Poetry Staff Reader for Quarterly West
Jemma Leigh Roe @jemmalr.bsky.social writer & artist
RUNNING WITH THE HARE (Slapering Hol Press/@hvwriterscenter, 2025)
Gavin Teakle @gavinteakle.bsky.social Gavin is a British author, food and travel blogger, motorcyclist and retired Engineer. He has recently self published his first book, The Accidental Survivor, a humorous autobiography about his life which includes a lot of close shaves and accidents.
Ravi @ravikd.bsky.social 
Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social Deep Woods of Philly | Sometimes Writer | Spoonie Crew | Accidental Startupper | Words in New Letters, Underbelly Press, Bookends Review, etc.| NO DMs
https://linktr.ee/lisadellaporta
Prairie Schooner @prairie-schooner.bsky.social Literary Journal of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 100 years of poetry, essays, fiction, & reviews. Posts by staff & interns https://prairieschooner.unl.edu
RavenKellisWritesFiction @ravenkellis.bsky.social We all fear the darkness
Yet somehow always seek
The things which are the darkest
And the secrets that they keep
Hi everyone! I'm an upcoming author from [REDACTED] who writes horror, fantasy, queer romance, and [REDACTED]. If you like my work, follow!
Emma Johnson-Rivard @blackcattales.bsky.social Doctoral student. Writer of weird poetry and queer horror. Works in Strange Horizons, Coffin Bell, Brooklyn Review, Tales to Terrify, and others.
https://linktr.ee/blackcattales
Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social Philly writer. Debut chapbook “Ghost in the Rain: Stories” from Bottlecap Press.
https://bottlecap.press/products/ghosmj
Stories in Best Microfiction, Identity Theory, DIHP, Claudine, Some Words, Flight, FlashFlood, BULL.
www.mattjakubowski.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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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social Punamu’kwati’jk|Dartmouth (formerly Tsalaguwetiyi|Nashville). Inventor #DSPBposts. Small press, 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 poli. I turn tea into words: novel AETHER AND EGO (Inanna, Sept 2026). https://linktr.ee/joannemerriam
Jim Saranteas @jimsaranteas.bsky.social Of the Law / Activist / Raleigh, NC / Chair Wake County Democratic Party Impact Circle wakedems.org/impact-circle / Contributor @ACSLaw.bsky.social / Carolinas Lead @ldadorg.bsky.social / Cubs fan
Jason @tarheel.bsky.social fka @ChapelHeel on Twitter
S P Clark @spclarkwriter.bsky.social S P Clark is a writer of poetry, prose, plays, essays and articles. www.simonclarkwriter.com
Michael Lee Bross @nocturnalmask.bsky.social Poet | Writer |Trauma Survivor | ADHD Fireworks Display | Parent| Library | Professor | He/Him
Website: https://www.mleebross.com/
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/michaelleebross
South Carolina Blue @wtkrad.bsky.social 🌊💙🌊Grateful recovering misfit.🫂 Happy husband of retired RN and dad of 5. ☢️photographer and ☮️kindness advocate.💯BLM⚫️⚪️🟤🟡DEI champion.🇺🇸🇨🇦🇬🇷🇵🇷 🎨🏞✏️🖍Political Cartoonists deserve all the credit❤️
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Oona Island @oonapatrick.bsky.social I get mad about books a lot. Reskeeting cheese news and good birds. writer/editor she/her https://linktr.ee/oonapatrick 🇵🇹
Kristina Tabor Saccone @kristinatabor.bsky.social Writer 🏳️🌈🖋️ Working on a humorous novel. Other credits: Best Microfiction 2023, Randolph MFA, editor at One Wild Ride. Building community @ Writers’ Commons in Washington, DC.
Matt Gromlich for U.S. Congress - Louisiana 04 @mattgromlichla4.bsky.social Fighting for safer neighborhoods, better opportunities, and a government that listens. Focused on people first. 14-year educator.
Jenny Johnson @infullvelvet.bsky.social Poet and essayist.
www.jennyjohnsonpoet.com
In Full Velvet (Sarabande Books, 2017)
Views expressed are my own.
Ashleigh | Cozy Reading Nook ☕🌿 @thecozyreadingnook.bsky.social 🍃 The Cozy Reading Nook is a quiet escape built for readers who need a sanctuary.
Pull up a blanket, pick up a book, and put the world on pause. 🏡📖💚
Steven Leyva @stevenleyva.bsky.social Poet, Associate Professor at the University of Baltimore, Nerd, Author of THE UNDERSTUDY’S HANDBOOK and THE OPPOSITE OF CRUELTY
Joseph Navin @josephanavin.bsky.social Elon '24 Alum | Greensboro-based freelance reporter and photojournalist | #avgeek and #railfan #ncpol #ncwx watcher | Formerly: Elon News Network, NASASpaceflight | SIPA USA Contributor
Website: https://josephanavin.wixsite.com/my-site
The Writing Biz Podcast @onthewritingbiz.bsky.social The Writing Biz podcast helps writers think like entrepreneurs, offering practical strategies for platform building, revenue growth, marketing systems, and mindset development to create sustainable, professional writing businesses.
Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
Ashley Strosnider @ashleystro.bsky.social writer, thinker, coffee drinker. she/her. (if you know me from elsewhere, it might be as bravenewlady on the other site or from my Prairie Schooner days)
Sara Potocsny @sarapotocsny.bsky.social 
Jamericanttv @jamericanttv.bsky.social Durham, North Carolina #Streamer #bullcitync, #durhamnc #durhamnorthcarolina #durhamnorthcarolinausa #triangleNorthcarolinapost #NCPost #Northcarolinausapost #NCPost #NCgamer #ncpodcaster. https://bit.ly/Jamericanttv http://bit.ly/4jjW0HW
Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. PhD Candidate @ USC. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
Ryne Beddard @rybeddard.bsky.social American Religious History | Religion and Race in US South | Environmental Humanities | Ph.D. UNC-Chapel Hill | Swamp Lover
Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social Posts are my own. Poetry is everyone's. She/her.
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton UP, 2025), Lyric Logic (Columbia UP, 2026), essays, reviews, and other writing in various places
Jonathan Everitt @jonathaneveritt.bsky.social freelance writer | poet | Bennington MFA '20 | Rochester, N.Y.
jonathaneveritt.com
First Novel Prize @firstnovelprize.bsky.social Writing competition for unpublished and independently published novelists. Entries close on the 31st of May. Judged by Sally Williamson (Transworld) and Hayley Steed (Janklow & Nesbit). Organised by the Literary Studio. Bloomsbury, London
firstnovel.co.uk
Hobo Camp Review @hobocampreview.bsky.social Poetry & prose from the road! HCR is a quiet, tucked-away lit journal where any poet, artist, or storyteller can rest their feet and share their work over a crackling fire. Since 2009!
https://hobocampreview.blogspot.com
Rev. Dr. Robin Tanner 🏳️🌈 @rockinrevrobin.bsky.social Mama. Minister. Queer. Organizer. Poet. Unitarian Universalist. #AbolishIce #FreeFamilies #ReparationsNow
#FightPovertyNotThePoor #AbolishPoverty #LGBTQRights #UU
Dylan Gilbert @dylangilbert.bsky.social www.dylangilbert.com
https://dylangilbert.bandcamp.com
Paul Hlava Ceballos @paulhlava.bsky.social Author of banana [ ], winner of AWP Prize & PSA 1st Book Award. Finalist for Kate Tufts & National Book Critics. Editor Seattle Met, CantoMundista, echocardiographer
Nathaniel Perry @longrules.bsky.social Author of two books of poems, Nine Acres (Copper Canyon, 2011) and Long Rules (Backwaters, 2021), and a book of essays, Joy (or Something Darker but Like It): Poetry and Parenting (University of Michigan, 2024). Also a runner, musician and cocktail maker.
🌿Aspen Harding | Author✨ @aspenharding.bsky.social 🌿WEEDIE WISDOM🌿
🔆Modern Philosophy | Spiritual Insights📿
I had a break-up.
I had a breakdown.
I had a breakthrough.
Crawling my way back up from rock bottom.
Sharing insights learned along the way.
💚 Spam flag finally removed! 🎉💚
@pacquah.blacksky.app @pacquah.blacksky.app 
Any Pascual | indie author & poet @anyespiritual.bsky.social My new book “Verses till midnight” out now!
I write cozy poetry books for deep feelers.
Indie Bestseller Author. Highly Sensitive Poet ✝️🌷🇪🇸
Autora, poeta Altamente Sensible.
Un abrazo de Luz ✨
Okay with DMs about writing.
https://linktr.ee/AnyPascual
Manville Media llc @manvillemedia.bsky.social Creative development and producing for tv | film | streaming
https://www.scottmanville.com
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