Spec Colorways In Verse @speccolorwaysverse.bsky.social we 🫶🏾 queer BIPOC spec poetry
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Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social Moss. Poems. Probably talking to your child about life and death.
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WIREWORM @wirewormmagazine.bsky.social submissions closed
like the Paris Review but... wormier
dedicated to the best of the worst 🪲 💙
wirewormmagazine.com
Sirius @palestarsirius.bsky.social 32 ♋️ They / Them
Proprietor of The Laughing Man House
Writer at Curious Corvid Publishing
Call me Rev ❤️🔥
Horror, Dark Fantasy, Queer, Disabled and proud
www.lmhpub.com
Red Ogre Review @ogre.red We're an indie arts press:
https://ogre.red
Submissions:
https://redogrereview.submittable.com/submit
Books:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CH3QKYKX?binding=paperback
Poetry readings and music:
https://www.youtube.com/@redogrereview
Wild Hyacinth Magazine @wildhyacinthmag.bsky.social Wild Hyacinth is a Canadian literary pocket for difficult feelings & seasons, publishing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Submissions open.
http://bio.site/wildhyacinthmag
N.J. Gallegos is Dr. Spooky (she/her) @drspookyer.bsky.social I like big cats. ER doc. Horror author. Artist. Cohost of The Scream Kings Podcast. Member of HWA. Pro-choice. BLM. I voted for her. Star Wars & BravoTV fanatic. She/her. 🌊🏳️🌈
Personal site: https://njgallegos.com
Podcast: https://www.screamkingspodcast.com
Gone Lawn Journal @gonelawn.bsky.social If you can describe us, you get magic coffee and jumping cookies.
Editors: @owenwyke.bsky.social , @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social
Current issue: https://gonelawn.net/
Underbelly Press @underbellypress.bsky.social Uncomfortable, unfiltered pieces that aren’t afraid to investigate the underbelly of existence. Narratives exploring the overlooked, the mundane, the human.
https://linktr.ee/underbellypress
Cloaked Press @cloakedpress.bsky.social Indie Publisher of SciFi/Fantasy/Horror dedicated to lifting unique stories to excite your imagination.
https://linktr.ee/cpllc
Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social Publisher of award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For the workshop, head to @mccormackwc.bsky.social.
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)
Tenebrous Press @tenebrouspress.bsky.social Award-Winning Publisher of New Weird Horror + More, via Portland, OR & Transilvania, Romania.
@AlexWoodroe.com, Editor in Chief.
@MattBlairstone.bsky.social, Publisher.
SUPPORT INDIE. Hail the Tenebrous Cult🖤☠️
https://linktr.ee/TenebrousPress
Blood+Honey @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social Blood+Honey is a new lit mag that revels in the experimental & the avant-garde, dirty and kitchen sink realism. SUBMIT your poetry, fiction, CNF, and digital art!!! SUBS Currently CLOSED!!!
EIC: @davidestringel.bsky.social
https://www.bloodhoneylit.com/
Bulb Culture Collective @bulbculture.bsky.social
SUBMISSIONS OPEN!
online lit space ○ light bulb bunch ○ send us your previously published writing
Editors: L.M. Cole & Jared Povanda
https://www.bulbculturecollective.com/chandelier-zine
The Baffler @thebaffler.com Political and cultural criticism. Since 1988. Online and in print. https://thebaffler.com/
ONE ART: a journal of poetry @oneart.bsky.social ONE ART: a journal of poetry
(write it!)
>> oneartpoetry.com
~ EiC: Mark Danowsky
>> @markdanowsky.bsky.social
~ Consulting Editor: Louisa Schnaithmann
>> @eboninthehedges.bsky.social
~ Haiku Editor: Katie Dozier
>> @katiedozier.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 ~ BLM ~ 💙💛
tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social tiny wren lit focuses on tiny poems + tiny issues (2-3 times per year). Readers can download each issue in a zine format. Home of the tiny zine. Subs open.
Web: https://www.tinywrenlit.com/
Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social One-woman press based in Berlin. EIC @missyerem.bsky.social
https://sidhe-press.eu Trans rights are human rights.
Free Palestine!
SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social Dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web, by widely published authors or those new to the craft. Est.2003. Paying up to $150. www.smokelong.com. No Trump supporters. Follow also @heyflashvillage.bsky.social
Maudlin House @maudlinhouse.bsky.social weird press that publishes weird books
https://shop.maudlinhouse.net/
Haven Spec Magazine @havenspec.bsky.social Online SFF magazine featuring stories and poetry for the 21st century! We publish numerous issues a year, two of which are focused on the climate crisis. Editor: Leon Perniciaro.
HavenSpec.com
Neon Hemlock @neonhemlock.bsky.social World Fantasy, Nebula, Ignyte, Locus & Shirley Jackson Award-winning speculative publisher. Baffling Magazine & novellas & anthos & queer 📚. Editor: dave ring.
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
Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social Minneapolis-based publisher of short horror and Weird fiction. Anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, and pro-queer. Shirley Jackson Award-winning press.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/cursedmorsels
stephanie 💽 @whoastanderson.bsky.social she&they // baltimore md // reading @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social @monarch.gay // writer library worker good time AND i <3 my union
Alex Cregan @floraldisaster.bsky.social He/ae (they/them ok) | 24 | writer, poet, creative organiser, spoken work performer, script editor, access advisor and somehow even more | 🇮🇪🏳️⚧️♾️🇵🇸🪼 | https://alexc-etc.carrd.co/
christine @cms.bsky.social bay arean, librarian, & flutist in wisconsin • #DHmakes • ex-WNBA quiz writer • they/them • 🇭🇹🏳️🌈
Eleanor Ball @eleanorball.bsky.social librarian by day, writer by night | editor @ fifth wheel press, assoc. fiction ed. @ okay donkey | proprietress of backlist lit | https://eleanor-ball.com/
manywor(l)ds :: place @manyworlds.place a creative space for the place (in) between.
quarterly online space for works by queer/trans/Mad/disabled creators.
ISSUE 13 OUT NOW!
submissions currently CLOSED
paying market 💖
EIC: @cavar.bsky.social
Managing Ed: @joyce.fyi
https://manyworlds.place
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
SF & F Poetry Assn @sfpoetry.bsky.social The Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association is for writers and lovers of science fiction, fantasy, horror and other spec poetry. Skeets by SFPA Team. sfpoetry.org
mk zariel {it/its} @mkzariel.bsky.social poet, theater artist, movement journalist, & BashBack aligned anarchist. https://linktr.ee/mkzariel
pfp by magpieandlantern, banner by @opensorceryy.co
buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/mkzariel/membership
Troublemaker Firestarter 🔥 @troublemakerfire.bsky.social we're a biannual print literary magazine specializing in LGBT+ and feminist poetry. 💀🔥
Divinations Magazine ✨️ @divinationsmag.bsky.social Witch-run literary magazine for horror authors of the future.
(Admittedly terrible at keeping active on bluesky!)
🔗 divinationsmagazine.co.uk
Buffer @buffer.com The social media management platform for scheduling, publishing & analytics across every major network. Plan your content calendar in one place. This account is managed by real humans. 💙
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Harper Reilly Art @elliemental.bsky.social Poetry and art by Harper.
40. Disabled. Butch.
She/they/he - you cannot misgender me in a way that matters.
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
Vocivia Magazine @vociviamagazine.bsky.social immersive magazine for those who are often unheard | SUB STATUS: 🔴| website: vocivia.com
MudRoom | Submissions OPEN @mudroommag.bsky.social A magazine of poetry and prose. Submissions are open through March 25. We pay $15 per accepted piece.
HAD @havehashad.com We had an idea that started as a joke. We had an affinity for that minimalist look and feel of early online journals. We had a couple drinks.
https://www.havehashad.com
David Estringel @davidestringel.bsky.social Writer+EIC @The Argyle @Blood+Honey🖊The Opiate, Punk Noir, The Gorko Gazette, BULL, Mythic Picnic, Citywide Lunch, Street Cake, Cowboy Jamboree, Fevers of the Mind, Apocalypse Confidential, Literary Heist, and The Daily Drunk.
www.davidestringel.com
Lamp Lit @lamplitmag.bsky.social closed for submissions.
lamplit.net
you probably live in a bourgeois democracy @wallamide.bsky.social half (denationalized) oppressed national/half scottam settler in aztlan. she/her, lady faggot.
social clumps of microbes and human cells vibin on turtle island.
liberation for the oppressed nations
Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social Poetry that re-enchants the ordinary, that knows what the rational world has explained away. EIC @leepottspoet.bsky.social. stonecirclereview.com
Elizabeth Anne Schwartz @elizanneschwa.bsky.social writer of sapphic fiction and poetry 🏳️🌈📖 👻🖤 elizabethanneschwartz.carrd.co
Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social Publishing speculative fiction, poetry, reviews, essays & podcasts. Every Monday, free to read at http://strangehorizons.com. IGNYTE Community Award winner. Hugo Award winner 2024.
linktr.ee/strangehorizons
Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social I really like drawing silly animals and flowers!
Digital artist from Sweden.
Check out my art!! both #art and #sketchbook stuff! :)
Shop and other links: https://shop.byjessicaelena.com/pages/links
Ryan Case @iamryancase.bsky.social Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
Check my website for all I do!
Www.linktr.ee/iamryancase
Bea Leiderman @bealeiderman.bsky.social Former public school teacher now living in Colombia. I post lots of bugs and stuff I find interesting about living in Colombia after a lifetime in boring suburban VA.
Also follow people w funny handles
WOLFSKULLJACK @wolfskulljack.bsky.social Artist, she/her, possibly a werewolf. Clients include Metallica,Smashing Pumpkins, Magic!The Gathering, Boom!, Anchorage Brewing and more
Volunteer at Wolf Watch UK, a wolf sanctuary
https://wolfskulljack.com/
HUMAN MADE ART
c3rmen @c3rmen.bsky.social Everyday I’m scribblin.
Contact: c3rmen@gmail.com
TipJar: https://ko-fi.com/c3rmen
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@komoritakami.bsky.social
mycha (mee-kah) @artbymycha.bsky.social queer artist & color enthusiast in nyc 🧡 artbymycha.com
Alex Menzor (A.P. Menzor Studio) @alexmenzor.bsky.social They/Them
Acrylic Painter / Illustrator / Muralist
Traditional and Digital Art
Kalamazoo, MI
DM to purchase paintings or check out my website for originals and prints 🔽🔽🔽
✨🔮 https://www.alexmenzor.com/s/shop 🔮✨
Bonnie Helen Hawkins @bonniehawkinsart.bsky.social Illustrator & Artist. I love stories, poetry, films and food. | Soc_of_Authors | Currently illustrating Under Milk Wood | Dylan Thomas. https://www.bhhawkins.com
@jcpollex.bsky.social @jcpollex.bsky.social 
Corporeal lit mag @corporeallitmag.bsky.social Literary magazine that explores, explains, questions, and troubles our experiences of embodiment.
Subs open - visit www.corporeallitmag.com/submissions
Cause to the effect of kith books.
kith books @kithbooks.bsky.social literary home of the trans, queer, Crip, and sick
kithbooks.com
Genrepunk Magazine @genrepunkmag.bsky.social Literary magazine for weird little experiments. 🏳️🌈 ♿️ 🇵🇸 🤘🏻
Run by Audrey T. Carroll (https://bsky.app/profile/audreytcarroll.bsky.social).
Genrepunkmag.wordpress.com
Submissions will be closed starting April 1st.
litmora lit mag / ISSUE V OUT!! @litmoralitmag.bsky.social literary magazine formed in fredonia, ny in 2023.
issues o - v available NEOW! tabi's flash tuesdays updated...sometimes.
we're all over the place but we sure like to have fun!
litmoralitmag.com
Jacqueline Moon, Author 🏳️⚧️🇮🇪🔞 @jacquelinemoon.bsky.social I’m Jackie! I am a 41 year old trans woman and author! I #write about #mentalhealth, #LGBT issues, and how life isn’t black and white, but shades of grey. #WritingCommunity #TransRights She/Her 🏳️⚧️🔞
NSFW: @evefirebrand.bsky.social
Alternative Milk Magazine @altmilkmag.bsky.social Independent literary and art magazine. http://www.altmilkmag.com/links
Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social Loyola grad’s dad. BGSU dad. Poet. BGSU prof/director of creative writing. Union member. Co-founding editor @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. He/him. It's pronounced uh-MOR-ack. https://amorakhuey.com
Kim Andrews @kqandrews.bsky.social “poetry person,” university of ottawa. displaced pennsylvanian. www.kqandrews.com.
Hannah Cohen @hcohen.bsky.social She/her. hot sad jewish lady.
writer sometimes, mostly tired.
poems, essays, etc. found elsewhere.
my author website is hannahcohen.carrd.co
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social Author, he/him
rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc.
out now: edgeless (Caitlin Press)
https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/
https://www.patreon.com/robmclennan
http://robmclennanauthor.blogspot.com/ https://robmclennan.substack.com/
Ally Ang @theoceanisgay.bsky.social poet laureate of the gay nude beach.
Let the Moon Wobble (Alice James Books 2025). my pronouns are secret. Seattle. allysonang.com
Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social Poet, artist, apprentice to light. 3rd poetry collection CORVUS AND CRATER (2023) ED: Storyknife Writers Retreat & Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference. BEI Fellow. At the end of the road in Alaska.
http://www.beingpoetry.net
Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social Author of Monograph (National Poetry Series, UGA Press) & Ampersand Revisited (National Poetry Series, Fence Books). Posts daily poems by others. he/him
El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social author of MAGICAL/REALISM, Tiny Reparations Books, 2024 and BEAST MERIDIAN, Noemi Press, 2017.
Jessica Nirvana Ram @jessnirvanapoet.bsky.social 🇬🇾| she/her | poet | MFA UNCW | EARTHLY GODS (Variant Lit, 2024)
https://beacons.ai/jessicanirvanaram
Dr. Bitch @ritamookerjee.bsky.social Agent of chaos, professor by day. Author of False Offering. Editor of Honey Literary and Split Lip Magazine. Board VP of Sundress Publications.
Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social Poet, writer, translator (UY poetry), comics. Pitt Poetry Series, Fieldmouse Press, etc. Editor, Wisconsin Poetry Series, UW Press. Emerita CW Prof, UW-Madison, Rep Gail Hochman. Graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL, WaPo 10 Best Graphic Novel 2024
Eugenia Leigh @eugenialeigh.bsky.social Poet. Author of Bianca + Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows
Senior Poetry Editor @ The Adroit Journal
Board President @ Brooklyn Poets
Paul Guest @paulmguest.bsky.social Poet and memoirist. Published in Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. Whiting Award Winner and Guggenheim Fellow.
Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social Here for poems & other beauties. Writing in Poetry, The Southern Review, Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, The Poetry Review (UK), & elsewhere. Co-editor for book reviews at Plume. First collection of poems forthcoming with Orison Books in fall 2025.
the email's in my mama's name @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app poet, nyeusiphile.
muhammad ali is the patron saint for all us thick-lipped shit-talkers from louisville's west end
Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com Writer. EIC of Little Thoughts Press (@littlethoughtspress.com)
clairemtaylor.com
otherthoughts.beehiiv.com
📍Baltimore
April and Back Again available now: https://www.publishinggenius.com/catalog/april-and-back-again-by-claire-taylor/
Marjorie Moorhead @skybluepoems.bsky.social Poet person
https://marjoriewritespoetry.wordpress.com/places-you-can-see-my-work/
Diamond Forde @poemsandcake.bsky.social Order Mother Body (2021): http://tinyurl.com/y2dds3lk
PhD African American Poetics and Fat Studies
No one is free until we are all free.
(she/her)
Caleb Curtiss @cdcurtiss.bsky.social Parent, teacher, writer, notably slow learner.
books: Age of Forgiveness (Sundress), A Taxonomy of the Space Between Us (Black Lawrence).
I live in a special economic zone called Delaware.
Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social Poet, artist, music lover. (She/her)
Order Unrivered ! https://tinyurl.com/4pj96v59
Unrivered, To Everything There Is, Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story, & A House of Many Windows all at @sundresspub.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/djvorreyer
Donna Spruijt-Metz @dsmpoet.bsky.social Poet, mama, scientist, dog lover, debut ‘General Release from the Beginning of the World’ Free Verse Editions 2023 
Katharine Whitcomb @katharinewhitcomb.bsky.social Poet, writer: THE EARTH CLOCK coming in 2027! HABITATS (2024) from Poetry NW Editions, THE DAUGHTER’S ALMANAC @UnivNebPress & 4 other 📚Prof @cwuenglish she/her www.katharinewhitcomb.com Living in VT.
River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social Where Poetry Moves. Two editors, publishing (at least) two exceptional poetry titles a year & the Plainwater Nonfiction Series. Poetry submissions open in May. Posts by editors @hanvanderhart.bsky.social and @amorak.bsky.social
www.riverriverbooks.org
Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social poet • professor • parent • perambulator • erikameitner.com | also keeper of https://post-mfa.tumblr.com
ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social 💙 Fall in love with poetry again
📩 Submit poems, book reviews & fever dreams
💰We pay (money & attn)
📖 Read it & weep (or laugh hysterically idk) 👇🏾
➡️ linktr.ee/onlypoemsmag
Erin Hoover @erinhoover.bsky.social My new poetry collection, Consent, will be published in May 2027 by Black Lawrence Press.
erinhooverpoet.com
Jen Stein Hauptmann @dexlira.bsky.social Artist, poet, finder of lost things. Assistant editor at Rogue Agent.
Oliver de la Paz @oliverdelapaz.bsky.social Poet Laureate of Worcester, MA. Author and editor. Kundiman. NEA Fellow. Teaches at the College of the Holy Cross and in the low res MFA at PLU.
Shira Dentz @shirad.bsky.social poet w/books, pubs & other qualities
Jessica Coles @prairievixen.bsky.social (she/her) Poet, songwriter, finder of lost things. Lover of the amphibious. Endearingly uncool. Occasional open mic performer. Visit https://prairievixenpress.ca/about/ for a list of places to find my poems.
Michael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social Goat herder. Happy poet.
Rhymes w/ gazette.
Five books, including
The ECHO CHAMBER
(Milkweed)
& CLOUDWATCHER
(Copper Canyon)
Translator of The Popol Vuh
& Humberto Ak'abal
NY Times Best Poetry 2018
NEA Fellow in Poetry & Translation
michaelbazzett.com
Dr. Matthew E. Henry (MEH) @mehpoeting.bsky.social Boston based educator, editor, poet, CNFer & fiction dabbler 🧐| Author of 7 poetry collections 📚| Holder of 3 graduate degrees worth of debt (MFA, MATS, PhD)🎓| Installer of rage in racists ✊🏾 https://www.mehpoeting.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).
Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social Poet Laureate of Miami 🌴 Author of Dolce Vita⚜️Poetry & Interviews Editor for South Florida Poetry Journal ☀️ Director and Editor for JackLeg Press 💙 Website: nicoletallman.com 🌈