Madeleine Armstrong @madeleinewrite.bsky.social Writer, runner, trying to keep up with another social media platform
T.L. Tomljanovic @tomljanovic.bsky.social Flash Fiction Writer✍️ 🇨🇦 in metro Vancouver
Stories in: welkin ellipsis roifainéant NFFD templeinacity epistemiclit neitherfishnorfoul ratbaglit prideroars moonparkreview gooseberrypie rawlit hooghlyreview
tomljanovic.wordpress.com
Clare O'Brien @clareobrien.bsky.social Writer. Retired music industry person.
2025 Poet in Residence, Inverewe Garden, Scotland.
Poetry chapbooks 'Breathing Out Becomes White And Snowfall' & 'Who Am I Supposed To Be Driving?' & novelette 'Airloc' out now.
Links: clarevobrien.weebly.com
Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social Mildly friendly, Swiss-based US writer of litfic, working on debut novel. Latest pubs, longform & flash, realism & offbeat: @ghostcitypress @emergejournal @acrossthemargin @TheWoolf @offbeatlit @SubniveanMag & @fiveonthefifth. www.meredithwadley.com
Liz deBeer @lizdebeerwriter.bsky.social Writer, Reader, Beach Walker, Trying My Best
Www.ldebeerwriter.com
Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social First pub TrashCat Lit. NFFD Anthology Editors Award 25. Shortlisted for Fish. Stories in SmokeLong, BULL, DIHP, New Feathers, Bath+Oxford anthologies. LISP finalist + winner of Westword + Flash500. Poetry collection in Top 20 Small-Press Poetry awards
Emma Phillips @words-outwest.bsky.social Flash fan, poet, short fiction writer. Likes actual and imaginary travel. Words: 2nd place Bath Flash June 2021, Best Microfiction 2022, Free Flash Fiction Competition Winner. 
Eileen Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social Writer, Librarian, Jerseyan ✍🏻 Baltimore Review, Hunger Mtn, X-R-A-Y, Lost Balloon, Okay Donkey, Pithead Chapel, Passages North, OSU The Journal, Maudlin House, Fractured Lit | BSF 2023 | Wigleaf Top 50 2026
https://eileentomarchio.webnode.page/
Whimsy @whimsyfiction.bsky.social A monthly microfiction contest celebrating the lighter, more peculiar side of storytelling. Yes, our alpaca travels by quill 🦙🪶
https://www.whimsyfiction.com/
Justin Karcher @justinkarcher.bsky.social Buffalo, NY. Man About Town. Poet. Playwright. New Play Development Director. Editor of Ghost City Review.
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.
Jesse Binger @jessebinger.bsky.social Author | 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴
Rep'd: Tommy Dean, Rosecliff Lit
Pub'd: Bending Genres, Bristol Noir, LitGarage, Revolution John, Pistol Jim Press
www.jessebinger.com
Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social Online magazine for flash and short fiction.
Chill Subs 2024 Community Favourites Flash Fiction #7
https://trashcatlit.com/
Still on X @TrashCatLit
Editor: JP Relph @therelphian.bsky.social
Read Stories: https://trashcatlit.com/treasured-words/
Athena Law @athena-law.bsky.social Writes instead of paying a therapist. Adores a freshly sharpened Blackwing and a blank sheet of paper.
JunimoTrashCat - Emilee <3 @moonlitjustice.bsky.social 🥄 Chronic pain spoonie. 🌾 Emotionally invested in Stardew Valley at an unreasonable level. 🎮
Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social Words in BULL, FlashFlood, Does It Have Pockets, Frazzled Lit, Trash Cat Lit, Urban Pigs Press, Fictive Dream. Genrepunk Awards nominee. Shortlisted for the 2026 Bath Novella-in-Flash Award. She/her. @lmbayley at the other place.
ellipsis zine @ellipsiszine.bsky.social Literary magazine and independent press, publishing beautifully written flash and microfiction. 1,000 words or fewer.
Est. 2017-2024. Relaunched in 2026.
https://www.ellipsis-zine.com
Belinda Rowe @belindarowe.bsky.social Flash writer. Teacher. Night gardener
Recent pubs: Literary Namjooning, Unbroken, NFFR, Fractured Lit, Bending Genres, Vestal Review, Flash the Court, Centaur, BULL, Okay Donkey, BSF 2025
SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellow 2025
Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social author of TURMERIC & SUGAR (Thirty West). stories in Wigleaf, Short Story Long, Berkeley Fiction Review, HAD, Craft, Fractured, etc.
annavangalajones.com
SwitchMicroMag @switchmicromag.bsky.social Switch is an online magazine of microfiction. We are devoted to stories that leave the beaten path, carry us forward, transform.
switchonline.org
Boycott Meta @boycottmeta.bsky.social Did you know that Meta ran ads that contained AI-Generated child sexual abuse imagery? Check out the pinned post.
Shon Mapp 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @shonmapp.bsky.social Engineer >>> Writer
Folio Editor: Anomaly
Reader: Fractured Lit
www.shonmapp.com
Barbara McVeigh @barbaramcveigh.bsky.social Writer, teacher-librarian, ESL advocate & cycling ambassador. SSAC completist. ❤️ my Brompton.
https://barbaramcveigh.weebly.com/
Coleman Bigelow @cbigs.bsky.social pushcart and best microfiction nominated writer | recent stories: ghost parachute| cleaver| BULL | your impossible voice | new chapbook: http://InRareCases.com
Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social Writer | Chicago | Work in The Offing, X-R-A-Y, Wigleaf + more | Pushcart Prize and BotN nom | Best Microfiction ‘24, '25, '26
https://elenalzhang.wordpress.com/writing/
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
🌵US/UK #FlashFiction
Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social 🙋♀️: fiction writer, poet, translator, high school language teacher, cat paparazzo, fun aunt
🗣️: English, français, español, Gaeilge
✍️: Adela Zamudio’s CONFIDENCES (Bucknell U Press) is out now!
🔗: lnlanguage.com, lauranagle.substack.com
Mamie Willoughby Pound @mamiewilloughby.bsky.social Smokelong Quarterly, James Dickey Review, Image Journal, Ghost Parachute, Bath Flash Fiction Anthology, Gooseberry Pie, Fractured Lit Chapbook Prize finalist, Craft Fiction Award long list.
The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social A "micro" press for "micro" stories. Run by @mattkendrick.bsky.social
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press
Mary @maryjulia.bsky.social Writer with work in Best Small Fictions, word west revue, Bending Genres, Gone Lawn, HAD, Identity Theory & elsewhere
Emorra (EM-er-uh) @wordsfromemorra.bsky.social Sometimes writer. Always dreamer.
Social media makes me awkward.
So does life.
she/her. Kitty mama x2.
@kawalker.bsky.social @kawalker.bsky.social Draws. Paints. Writes short. Is short. Has a tall dog. Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fiction & Best Microfiction noms. 2025 Best Microfiction Anthology
Kathryn Rw Reese @kathrynreese.bsky.social Mostly poet. Lover of road trips & long walks. Day job in microbiology.
Poems in Crowstep, Epistemic Lit, Engine Idling, & Red Room Poetry. Flash in Lit Namjooning, Glassworks & Wigleaf. Collabs in Gone Lawn & Midway Journal
🏳️🌈🌊💚
Karen Baumgart @cake-girl.bsky.social I love it when people geek out on their passion. Tell me all the things about the random topic that makes your heart sing 💗
Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social Queer writer l #FlashFiction l Smokelong Fellow 2026 l Contrib ed @nffr.bsky.social
Pushcart, BSF, BMF & Monarch noms
Read my stories:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17zj1W2pXZsP1aZZ3vR4vbV4Cra9eZ15F6lwU5lc2tKA/edit?usp=sharing
@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.
Karen Crawford @karenc.bsky.social Exorcising demons one word at a time.
🇵🇷 ✍🏽 BestMicrofiction 2025, PushcartNoms, BOTN Nom, Longlists, Wigleaf Top 50
NYC → LA
Mitchell Ny @mitchellny.com 非人非鬼 🫠 | lyric essay, fiction
in: trampset, Bending Genres, Maudlin House, Same Faces Collective, Blood+Honey, [...]
American Literary Review's 2026 Nonfiction Finalist
Fractured Lit's 2026 Micro Prize Shortlist
mitchellny.com
Caitlin O'Halloran @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social She/Her. Writer in Rochester, NY.
Coeditor of Gone Lawn.
www.caitlinohalloran.com
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
Delphine Gauthier-Georgakopoulos @delgeo14.bsky.social Breton writer
Runner-up Novel Fair / 2X Pushcart nom / Wigleaf LL
EIC: Raw Lit Mag / Co-Founder @theprideroars.bsky.social /Contributor: Poverty House
https://delphinegg.weebly.com
https://rawlit.weebly.com
https://theprideroars.blogspot.com/
Anna Clark @annaclark.bsky.social Writer of speculative fiction, welder of ships, and artist of dragons.
Stories in Diabolical Plots, Factor Four, and Flash Fiction Online.
She/they
annaclarkswritings.com
Amanda @akscotland.bsky.social Co-host of the Not Quite Write Podcast and judge of the Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction.
Writes in the tiny spaces in between.
Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social writer, editor, axolotl with a pretty good throwing arm
Out now: Songs from the Blimp Ruins, a flash collection. Published by Silverbacked Punk: https://qgyjj4z.s.gy/sTuEPy Inscribed copies available (message me).
https://neutralspaces.co/patforan/
Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social Writer, traveler, and occasional business analyst. Currently missing the ocean and being a voiceover artist. 🇨🇦
SHIFTINGS & OTHER COORDINATES OF DISORDER (Pinhole Poetry, 2024).
LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA (Bull City Press, 2026)
jenwithwords.opencorners.ca
Suzanne (writing as S A Greene) @sagreene1.bsky.social Writer. SOCIAL MEDIA BREAK 2026 (except for shameless self-promotion) DMs don't work. GoneLawn trampset TempleInACity GooseberryPie BlinkInk Mslexia Liars'League MythicPicnic NewFlashFicReview FictiveDream BulbCulture Phare MaudlinHouse FreeFlashFiction
Alison Wassell @alisonwassell.bsky.social Short story, flash and micro fiction writer published by Fictive Dream, Bath Flash Fiction, Does It Have Pockets, The Disappointed Housewife, The Phare, NFFD, FlashFlood Journal and elsewhere. Highly Commended 2024 Bridport Prize (Flash Fiction).
Philippa Bowe @philippabowe.bsky.social Flash fiction, poetry, translation / Micro nouvelles, poésie, traduction. Ghost City Press, NFFR, Reflex Fiction, Bath Flash Fiction, Spark2Flame, Neither Fish Nor Foul, The Hooghley Review. Pushcart Prize nom. Dance, LFC, la belle vie. Elue municipale. 🌄
Lisa Alletson @lisaalletson.bsky.social Toronto writer. Words in Wigleaf Top 50, Cincinnati Review, Gone Lawn, Milk Candy, New Ohio Review, Pithead Chapel
Reader, Fractured Lit.
Noms Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, BOTN.
Award-winning chapbook, Good Mother Lizard.
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social 
Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social Scurrying through the mire of existence. #AmQuerying a novel about a trip through the lives of ancestors.
NYC! 🏙️
Follow me at Medium.com/@edwardrstapleton
Turn and Work (Hugh) @turnandwork.com Independent music, books, and short stories.
Humans writing things about humans making things.
Web: https://www.turnandwork.com
Newsletter: newsletter.turnandwork.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/turnandwork
Michael Colon @michaelcolonwriter.bsky.social Novelist, Athlete, Nature Lover
https://www.twbpress.com/thegiftfromaelius.html
Rev Robert Irvine @revrobertirvine.bsky.social My hope is in Christ. Saved by grace. Desire to see everyone having the same access to opportunities. I may be forthright but I desire to be compassionate.
Children’s Book Illustrator @childrenboook.bsky.social Hi there! I'm a professional Children’s Book Illustrator with over 7 years of experience bringing characters and stories to life through vibrant, heartwarming, and imaginative art.
📩 Feel free to drop me a message. I’d love to hear about your story!
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
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
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/
Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social Writer, artist, stylite.
Fair to middling spinster.
Magpie apologist.
Good at everything.
Northwestern Ireland.
Also Instagram, and X.
https://niamhmaccabe.wixsite.com/mysite
s w i f t s: a literary magazine @swiftslitmag.bsky.social an @accumulatequiet.bsky.social project edited by @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social
www.swiftslitmag.com
John Brown 3 @johnbrown3-m6z.bsky.social Writer's Therapy
https://www.facebook.com/john.brown.649528?mibextid=ZbWKwL
https://online.fliphtml5.com/ojwdf/kvoa/
https://heyzine.com/flip-book/2909bdf4a8.html
https://heyzine.com/flip-book/2909bdf4a8.html
WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
LET THEM EAT BOOKS THE PODCAST @letthemeatbooks.bsky.social Let Them Eat Books is a podcast by Colin Herd & Claire Reynolds about all the food you have & haven’t tried in all the books & poems you have & haven’t read.
Streaming weekly wherever you get your podcasts
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Intrepidus Ink @intrepidusink.bsky.social Intrepidlode is here.
A magazine of intrepid culture.
Alarmingly individual characters.
Momentum earned the hard way.
They finish what they start—and win.
intrepidusink.com
Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com Canadian writer in Scotland (via Denmark (got lost on the way home (sorry mom))) | Pushcart & BOTN nominated | Placed/listed: BFFA, Bridport Prize, Welkin Prize, others | Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig | She/Her
erinbondo.com
Tacilim @tacilim.bsky.social Hihi everyone! My name is Tacilim Oréfice, and I'm a writer. Nice to meet you! I want to share my passion for stories, storytelling, and books with the world while I travel.
mstreakle.bsky.social @mstreakle.bsky.social 
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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Perfect God = Lexa Gates @mx-j.bsky.social https://shop.capitolmusic.com/collections/lexa-gates
J. C. Jones @thejcjones.bsky.social Author of the best selling Louisa Moss detective series.
Ex-nightclub boss and, due to carelessness, owner of only half a lung.
Poems and Limericks daily.
Based in Hereford, UK.
Liv Abegglen @livabegglen.bsky.social Writer | Madison WI | AI can tear the em dash from my cold dead hands
https://livabegglen.carrd.co/
Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social Ploughshares | Best American Nonreq'd | Copper Nickel Editors' Prize | The Norton Reader | ElectricLit | Flash Fiction America | Swamp Pink | Wigleaf | Five Points (forthcoming) | The Art of Flash Fiction https://artofflashfiction.substack.com
Ian MacClayn @ianmacclayn.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/ianmacclayn
Writer. Debut novel THE HOLLOW OF EVENING out Feb 9 2027 with Dundurn Press/Rare Machines
ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social www.ANMLY.org/
www.medium.com/anomalyblog
https://www.anmly.org/newsletter
Lit mag. International, intersecting, always interesting.
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Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social Writer, nurse. SmokeLong Quarterly, Cincinnati Review+. Senior flash fiction editor @jmww. Sucker for a good barn.
“We'll Be Birds" flash chapbook available at Sand and Gravel Press
lisathorntonwriter.com
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
Jenny Stalter @jennystalter.bsky.social 2024 Best Small Fictions | 2023 Smokelong Fellow. Nom: Pushcart, BotN, Best Microfiction, Best American Short Stories. I love your cat. Are you gonna eat your pickle?
Write Query Hook @writequeryhook.bsky.social Find the right agents. Fast. Purpose driven tools to help writers out of the query trenches and onto agent client lists. Your agent is calling - try it free: www.writequeryhook.com/
Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social Writer and Literary Critic. Work in Gooseberry Pie Lit, Passages North, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story, Bending Genres, and FlashFlood. Best Small Fictions ‘27 Nom.
Contemporary Anglophone Lit PhD.
https://linktr.ee/emhall47
Flash 500 Writing Competitions @flash500.bsky.social Writing competitions:
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Annual #shortstory
Annual #novels
Andrea Damic @damicandrea.bsky.social #artist / #author / associate fiction editor - @jmwwjournal.bsky.social. I spend many an hour tinkering with my website https://damicandrea.wordpress.com/.
Lisobel Tang @lisobeltang.bsky.social Emerging writer (and avid reader) from Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Chinese Canadian. Queer. Dog mom. https://lisobeltang.com/
Tracie Adams @tracieadams.bsky.social Books: Our Lives in Pieces (2025) and Not Finished Yet (2026)
Words in Stanchion, Pithead Chapel, Cleaver, Fictive Dream, BULL, Hippocampus
2X Pushcart nominee, BOTN, Best Microfiction and LL Wigleaf Top 50
Retired educator and playwright
Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social Author. Potter. Mom. THE BELOVED WILD (Feiwel & Friends, 2018) & UNLEAVING (Feiwel & Friends, 2019) Rep’d by Faye Bender. melissaostrom.com
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript (Book Formatter, Cover Designer and Socials Post Maker): https://book-shelfie.com/postscript
Carly Anderson @carlyanderson.bsky.social Writer of flash fiction, essays and memoir.
Corey Miller @ironbrewer.bsky.social 📝Writer in Booth, Pithead Chapel, Salt Hill, XRAY, and elsewhere.
www.CoreyMillerWrites.com 
Sarah Holloway @sarahholloway.bsky.social Writer. Work in or forthcoming: SmokeLong Quarterly,'s blog, Roi Fainéant, Cowboy Jamboree, Necessary Fiction, Heavy Feather Review and elsewhere. Grandmother. Musician. She/her.