KJ Dell’Antonia @kjda.bsky.social Author, The Chicken Sisters etc, former NYT-er, podcaster. Somewhere between The Row and Dolly Parton
Kelly Heard @meankellyjean.bsky.social novelist - semi feral housewife & mom of 3 - appalachian hiding out in the marshes of virginia’s middle peninsula. I write upmarket women’s fiction but for weird girls. my books: BEFORE YOU GO, THE SILENT GIRL, more.
Abbie Kiefer @abbiekiefer.bsky.social Poet. New Englander. A little bit cranky.
Author of CERTAIN SHELTER (June Road Press, 2024)
Poetry editor for The Adroit Journal
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lauracbrown.bsky.social @lauracbrown.bsky.social I write. I draw. I make comics. I obsess.
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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social Hugo & Nebula winning SFFH writer, singer/songwriter, dog person, horse person, queer, Baltimorean by choice, mediocre but enthusiastic gardener and artist. She/her. Repped by Kate McKean, HMLA.
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.
Sarah Berke @sarahjberke.bsky.social mom, wife, querying novelist, recommender of books | 🫶🏻 reading, candles, chocolate, Southern Living, friends, hot tea, the beach | follow me for book recs & notes on living, subscribe to my essay series here: https://elicitingesperance.substack.com/
Jenny Zenner 🏞️ Stress Response Playbook @jennyzenner.bsky.social To the Home inside of all of us & to making others feel at Home | Coach |
Songwriter | Check out Home Home on Soundcloud | WIP book The Stress Response Playbook: Go Beyond Fight or Flight to Grace
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Rebecca Hodge @rhodgefiction.bsky.social Author, dog-lover, avid reader, hiker. FAILURE POINT, page-turning Suspense with plenty of heart, coming in Sept.
Vanessa Lind Books @vanessalindbooks.bsky.social Historical fiction author celebrating books, history, and women who make a difference. www.vanessalind.com #booksky #skystorian
Elizabeth Rosner @elizabethrosner.bsky.social I write books. www.elizabethrosner.com
(Third Ear; Survivor Cafe; Electric City; Gravity; Blue Nude; The Speed of Light)
"Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world."
~Grace Paley
Deborah L. King @deborahloi.bsky.social (#Woolfer) A writer and storyteller her whole life, she took 32 years to complete her first novel. Deborah loves storms, champagne, Old Time Radio, and 70s Blues and Soul. She’s afraid of escalators, bill collectors, and sometimes fresh produce.
Rebecca Campbell, Author 🇦🇺 @cleverhelpfulbitter.com • www.CleverHelpfulBitter.com • she/her • reader • writer • lover • fighter • cook • scientist • a little bit punk • I like my martinis the way I like my sex scenes — dirty • 🤍 @dement-ed.bsky.social 🤍 •
RL Maizes (she/her) @rlmaizes.bsky.social New novel out November 4 titled A COMPLETE FICTION (Ig Publishing). Author of novel Other People's Pets, winner of Colorado Book Award, and short story collection We Love Anderson Cooper. Assistant to white cat and big-eared dog. Knitter. 🧶
Janice Clements @janiceclements.bsky.social Writer. Baker. WFWA. Lover of all things books and movies.
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/
Robin Blackburn @robinblackburn.bsky.social Living in Houston, TX and Upstate NY…Currently writing a contemporary women’s novel with a heavy dose of romance, set in the southern Adirondacks.
Kimberly Hensle Lowrance @kimberlyhensle.bsky.social Writer. Booklover. She/her.
Ryan Reads and Writes 📚✨ @ryanreadsandwrites.me https://linktr.ee/Ryanreadsandwrites
https://chapternotes.substack.com
📚 Horror, sci-fi, & lit-fic devotee.
🧠 Advocate for the neurodivergent, human rights, & the environment.
🎸Fueled by indie rock, curiosity, and overthinking
Jess Sellers @jesssellers.bsky.social Writer. Nature. Therapeutic Musician. Contemplative. Be kind or be blocked. Northern Exposure (TV Show).
WIP: Stories From Beneath the Trees
www.jesssellers.com
#writer #nature
Amy Newlove Schroeder, PhD @amiableamy.bsky.social Writer, poet, college prof, democracy fan, cat mom, compulsive reader, feminist. Bi 🌈 💙 RESISTER 💙 🟦 💙 My poetry collection, The Sleep Hotel, is available from Oberlin. I teach engineers to think about words. 📖🌎📚
Rena J. Mosteirin @renamosteirin.bsky.social Poet. Disaster Tourism, (BOA Editions); Perceptron (punctum); Experiment 116 (Counterpath Press); Moonbit (punctum); & 2 chapbooks. Owner of Left Bank Books.Lecturer at Dartmouth College. Editor at Bloodrootlit.org
Claire Cook @clairecook.bsky.social Wrote 1st book in minivan at 45. Walked red carpet at Hollywood premiere of Must Love Dogs at 50. Now NYT bestselling author of 25 books including Bonus Time: Still Got It. It’s Never Too Late to Shine On! ClaireCook.com.
Kelcey Ervick @kelceyervick.bsky.social Writer, artist, professor. Graphic memoir THE KEEPER (Avery/Penguin), editor of FIELD GUIDE TO GRAPHIC LITERATURE (Rose Metal Press). Comics in WaPo, Believer, Rumpus.
Illustrated newsletter - The Habit of Art: https://kelceyervick.substack.com
Clifford Garstang @cliffgarstang.bsky.social Writer
The Guy Who Does the Lit Mag Rankings
CliffordGarstang.com
Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
Jordana Greene - Writer (Pen name) @jordanagreene.bsky.social Tree-hugging, happily wed #cat lover #dystopian #poetry #romance #scifi #fantasy #climatechange #BLM #writingcommunity
POETRY book coming. 1st Indie dystopian novel available on KU. Trad pub under 2 other names.
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Francisca Staines @franciscawrites.bsky.social Author of MG & Picture Books • https://franciscastaines.com/
🇲🇽 All around book nerd with a weakness for mystery, fantasy, sci-fi, dogs, and tacos (not always in that order)
Tiffany L Warren @tiffanylwarren.bsky.social Writer. Wife. Mom. Consumer of yummy food, amazing books and fun beach vacays.
Joan @gardenermi.bsky.social #Writer #historical fiction #naturewriter #cottagecore #Reader #cats #goats #birdwatching. #Gardener #quilter #LakeMichigan #organicfarmer #irishmusic #harp
Sari Boren @sarimuse.bsky.social Museum exhibit developer & writer, playwright, essayist, comix scribbler, Jersey-born Jew. In emergency, revive with ice cream.
Mary Keliikoa, Thriller Author @marykeliikoaauthor.bsky.social Award winning author of the Misty Pines mystery series and the PI Kelly Pruett mystery series.
Don’t Ask, Don’t Follow out now!
May-lee Chai (she/her) @mayleechai.bsky.social Writer. Prof at SFSU. My Hungry Ghosts: Essays & Incantations…coming 9/22/2026! Tomorrow in Shanghai & Other Stories; Useful Phrases for Immigrants; The Girl from Purple Mountain; etc. Board member of NBCC @bookcritics. Web: https://may-leechai.com/
Heather Scott Partington @hspartington.bsky.social Book critic & teacher. Board member and fiction chair @bookcritics.bsky.social.
📍Elk Grove, CA.
Keith B. Darrell @keith-b-darrell.bsky.social A prolific American writer of novels, short stories, nonfiction books, and newspaper & magazine articles.
https://keithbdarrell.blogspot.com
www.KeithBDarrell.com
www.AmberBookCompany.com
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
Jennifer Wolfe @mamawolfe.bsky.social Educator who always wanted to be a writer and is finally writing her dream with The Novelry #historicalfiction #5amwritersclub #alltoowell
Tasha Seegmiller @tashaseegmiller.bsky.social Educator | Writer | Mental Health Advocate
Maureen Stanton @maureenstanton.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/maureenstanton41 Writer, nonfiction, essays, memoir. Paying forward, giving back. "The Murmur of Everything Moving: A Memoir"--winner Donald L. Jordan Prize. Reviewer for New York Journal of Books. 
Rachel Mans McKenny @rachelmansmckenny.bsky.social Humorist and author from the Midwest. Seen in NYTimes, McSweeneys, Elle,WaPo and other places. writing center person. Here for the jokes and books. rachelmansmckenny.com
Barbara Conrey @bac-1.bsky.social USA Today best selling author of Nowhere Near Goodbye and award winning My Secret to Keep. Rep’d by Liza Royce, LRA.
Member of WFWA. Book club facilitator for Bookish Road Trip. Lover of rescued beagles.
Barbara Longley Author (no DMs) 📎 @blongley.bsky.social Technologically challenged and mechanically disinclined #writer of award-winning, Amazon best-selling fantasy and contemporary romance. https://amzn.to/3TWGQfE
Authors Guild member, Romance Writers of America (RWA) Bestseller Honor Roll Inductee.
Ecotone Magazine @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social A biannual magazine that seeks to reimagine place. Founded & made at UNCW. Winner, 2022 AWP Small Press Publisher Award & 2023 Firecracker Award
Richard Z. Santos @rzsantos.bsky.social Debut novel TRUST ME now available. Fiction, nonfiction, essays, etc in EQMM, Texas Monthly and others. Recovering politico. Seeking representation for 2nd and 3rd novels.
Eddy Boudel Tan @eddyboudeltan.bsky.social I write books like THE TIGER THE COSMONAUT (coming April 2025 from Penguin Canada).
www.eddyboudeltan.com
Stephen Cox NEW BOOK OUT NOW @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social Spooky? THE CROOKED MEDIUM's GUIDE TO MURDER. "A pleasure from start to finish"
THE CROOKED MEDIUM'S GUIDE TO TERROR out (but A'zon *Print* 18th Sept)
warm but not cosy
UK writer - AI is theft.
https://stephencox.co.uk/ https://linktr.ee/stephencoxauthor
Margarita Montimore @damiella.bsky.social USA Today bestselling author.
⏳ #OonaOutOfOrder 🪄 #ActsOfViolet 🦉 #TheDollhouseAcademy
Believer of impossible things. montimore.com
Angelica R. Jackson @angelicarjackson.bsky.social Visual Artist and Author of Stay, Girl; the Faerie Crossed series; and Capturing The Castle: Images of Preston Castle. She/her. 2x cancer survivor
Jennifer Anne Girardin @jenniferagirardin.bsky.social Classical Pianist and author of Moriston House British Mysteries and the historical Regency romance novel "Lady Beckford's Lover."
Polly Hansen @pollyhansen.bsky.social Award-winning memoirist A MINOR, UNACCOMPANIED. Words in The Sun Newsweek Grande Dame Literary, Midwest Review Ekphrastic Review Call Me [Brackets] others. I interview NF writers @ https://viewpointsradio.org/producer/polly-hansen/
http://pollyhansen.com
Harvey Freedenberg @harvf.bsky.social Reader and writer for BookPage, Bookreporter, Shelf Awareness & Kirkus Reviews. Also meditator, golfer, Dickinson College & University of Michigan Law School alum. I care about our democracy, too.
Rae Vanth @raevanth.bsky.social 🌞 Witchy wordsmith | 📚 Book lover |🔮 Occult explorer | ✨ Pagan + Luciferian insight | 🧘 Healing vibes w/ spooky aesthetics | 🖤 Non-binary introvert | 🐺 WIP: Neo-feminist werewolf novel in 1400s France. 🚫DMs 🚫MAGA 🚫Bible thumpers 
Jessica Brilliant Keener @jbkeener.bsky.social Author of Nat'l bestselling novel, Night Swim| Indie Next pick & SIBA bestseller, Strangers in Budapest| award-winning stories, Women In Bed| new novel, Evening Begins the Day (pub: 3.24.26)| Believes in positive change
Marie W. Watts @mariewattswriter.bsky.social Writer, blogger, history lover, nature lover, and warrior for equal rights. Visit my website at www.mariewatts.com.
Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com Crime Lady. NYT Crime & Mystery columnist. Latest Book: WITHOUT CONSENT. Author, SCOUNDREL, THE REAL LOLITA. Editor, UNSPEAKABLE ACTS and EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN.
http://www.linktr.ee/sarahweinman
Rob Spillman @robspillman.bsky.social Literary Citizen, rewilder, dogfather to two rescues. www.robspillman.com
Robin Marie MacArthur @robinmacarthur.bsky.social Author of HALF WILD: STORIES and HEART SPRING MOUNTAIN. Residing on the hill where I was born in Vermont, and teaching fiction at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Let's make beautiful things, yes? 💚🌈🌱
Heidi Pitlor @heidipitlor.bsky.social www.hpeditorial.com. Editor/writer/worrier/ally. Former longtime series ed of The Best American Short Stories. Author of Impersonation, The Daylight Marriage, etc. https://heidipitlor.substack.com/
Porter Shreve @portershreve.bsky.social Novelist at HarperCollins and LSU Press; articles and book reviews in NYT, WaPo, SFChron, ChiTrib; Director of Creative Writing at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Leslie Hurtig @lesliehurtig.bsky.social Artistic Director Vancouver Writers Fest; New Yorker cartoon aficionado; fast walker. Views are my own but you could consider adopting them. Canadian made.
James Tate Hill @jamestatehill.bsky.social memoir: Blind Man's Bluff (W.W. Norton, NYT Editors' Choice)
novel: Academy Gothic (Nilsen Prize for a First Novel)
editor: The Writer's Chronicle & Monkeybicycle
agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
WV native
still living in 1986
jamestatehill.com
Bill Roorbach @billroorbach.bsky.social I'm a good writer with bad habits. Newest novels are BEEP, about a monkey smuggled to NYC by a plucky tween named Inga.Together they save the world! And LUCKY TURTLE, a NYTBR Editor’s Choice. “A thrilling, blistering tale of young love and old hate.”
Jennifer Gilmore @jennifergilmore.bsky.social Novelist, Prof, New Yorker in PA (that was fun)
Jennifergilmore.net
kerry cullen @kermichele.bsky.social mouse detective. HOUSE OF BETH out from Simon & Schuster in July 2025 & available for preorder now.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/House-of-Beth/Kerry-Cullen/9781668074596
Jane Friedman @janefriedman.com I report on the publishing industry through my paid newsletter, The Bottom Line, and educate writers on the business of authorship in THE BUSINESS OF BEING A WRITER (University of Chicago Press).
Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social Writing about belonging & diaspora. Author of the memoir THE TRANSLATOR’S DAUGHTER (Ohio State Univ Press, 2024). https://linktr.ee/graceprasad?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=89b54520-7f8d-4182-91dd-cb30d74a6cd7
Brian Borncamp @zubaplants.bsky.social www.zubaplants.com - Native Plants and More - Buffalo, NY
KatyWalls @katywalls.bsky.social ❤️travel, books, writing, & cats Don't💔prejudice, racism, & animal cruelty. Travel site, AmericanRoads.net & books site KatyWalls.com. Blue dot in FL. From New Orleans. 😼owner, Travel Writer, Publisher, Author & member of IFWTWA and SistersinCrime 🚫DMs 
James Elkins @purelyfiction.bsky.social I teach at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Here for writing: experimental, fictional, constrained, with images, with music. My book reviews are on Goodreads. All the art stuff is over on Academia.
VickieWV @vickiewv.bsky.social Retired teacher, pretend photographer, lover of wildlife, jigsaw puzzler, sudoku warrior, writer of family saga/historical fiction
#5amwritersclub
#bluedotredstate
Jeannie Moon @jeannie-moon.bsky.social 📚Bestselling author and author coach.
👩🏻💻Retired librarian and teacher.
👫🏻Nana-Mom-Wifey.
🐶Dog Mom.
www.jeanniemoon.com
www.fiveharborsliterary.com
Pamela Leavey @pamelaleavey.bsky.social Creative nonfiction, poetry dabbler, photographer, naturalist, art and history lover, who loves to travel. Life-long learner - M.A. (2019) in English - Creative Writing, former political blogger & entrepreneur. Creating & Curating online since 97!
Cindy House @cindyhouse.bsky.social Author of Mother Noise
Isaac Fitzgerald @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social 📝📚 Author of back-to-back instant NYT bestsellers Dirtbag, Massachusetts + American Rambler (+ others)
📺 Talking books on @todayshow
🥾 I walk. A lot.
Brevity / Dinty W. Moore @dintywmoore.bsky.social Editor of Brevity, a small magazine with big ambitions. Author of various books. Often can't decide if I am posting as myself or as the magazine.
Margaret Renkl @margaretrenkl.bsky.social Author, most recently, of "The Weedy Garden" (for children) and "The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year" (for adults).
Algonquin Books @algonquinbooks.bsky.social 📍 Chapel Hill and NYC ❤️ Est. 1983 📚 Books for a well-read life.
Karla Huebner, Author @karlahuebnerwrites.bsky.social Novelist & art historian. Books: Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic (U Pittsburgh, 2020); In Search of the Magic Theater (Regal House, 2022); Too Early to Know Who's Winning (Black Rose, 2023); etc. No DMS!
Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social Writer, teacher, friend. Words in: The Sun, Orion, The Yale Review, Literary Hub, & more. Author of BREAKING INTO THE BACKCOUNTRY, a memoir, and the essay collection RARE GOOD: ESSAYS ON ART, AUTISM, AND ASTONISHMENT. https://www.steveedwardswriter.com
Audrey Burges @audreyburges.bsky.social Author, THE MINUSCULE MANSION OF MYRA MALONE (2023) & A HOUSE LIKE AN ACCORDION (2024); scribbler of humor, flash, & pretty flowers; thinks you're awesome
Deborah Tomkins @tomkinsdeb.bsky.social Author of prize-winning #ecofiction. #Nature. #Climate.
Aerth (@weatherglassbooks.bsky.social)
The Wilder Path (@aurorametro.bsky.social)
Represented by Sara Langham https://davidhigham.co.uk/authors-dh/deborah-tomkins/
deborahtomkinswriter.com
Debutiful @debutiful.bsky.social The premier literary website focused on debut and emerging writers. There’s also a podcast sometimes. Founded by Adam Vitcavage.
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
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. 🧠🥊
Ava Homa @avahoma.bsky.social Author of fiction, essays, and poetry. Lover of oceans, literature, and silence.
www.AvaHoma.com 💐
Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social Once I dreamed a cake recipe that could summon a bear, and then a bear appeared in my dream
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social Author of THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TOMORROW, out now from Bold Type / critic with words in NYRB, NYT Mag, WaPo, The New Republic, and elsewhere / member Freelance Solidarity Project and National Book Critics Circle / Philly / kristenmartin.net
Abby Manzella @abbymanzella.bsky.social Writer, book critic, prof. MIGRATING FICTIONS (Ohio State UP 2018). RIPPLES INTO THE WILD (Cornerstone Press 2027). Pushcart Prize winner. Writing at Threepenny Review, LitHub, Mass Review, Pleiades, and HAD. https://abbymanzella.weebly.com/
Cathy Day @daycathy.bsky.social The kind of Hoosier who leaves--but then I came back. Liberal Arts evangelist. Daylily enthusiast. Cool, wine aunt. Rescue-dog mom. Recovering workaholic.
Sarah Turner @scturnerfiction.bsky.social Writer. Short stories in: The Rumpus, Sonora Review, J Journal, Shooter Lit Mag, London Magazine, Fictive Dream, LEON, Litro & others | SL Bridport SS | Read my work at: www.scturnerfiction.com
@christy-matheson.bsky.social @christy-matheson.bsky.social 
Lisa W Rosenberg @lwroseauthor.bsky.social Author of Embers on the Wind (8/22 Little A), Mirror Me (out 12/1 Little A) Psychotherapist, former Ballet Dancer, cancer mom, binder, She/Her
@margaretannspence.bsky.social @margaretannspence.bsky.social 
Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social Novelist and short story writer.
Signed/personalized copies of my books here: https://www.macsbacks.com/dan-chaon
Kristen Robinette @kristenwrites13.bsky.social Pub'd and querying author. Big Aries energy. So many words. #WFWA #ITW #AmWriting #ManuscriptAcademy #writingcommunity #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity #booksky
Amanda Gale @amandagalebooks.bsky.social Literary women's fiction author. Teacher, mother, night owl.
https://linktr.ee/amandagalebooks
amandagalebooks.com