David Bartholow @dbartholow.bsky.social gorillavsbear.net
thesecondserve.com
other
Los Angeles
gorilla vs. bear @gorillavsbear.bsky.social instagram.com/gorillavsbear 🪩
record label: luminellerecs.com 💎
Ryan Schreiber @ryanschreiberfm.bsky.social The artist formerly known as @ryanpitchfork
Author of WEIRD ERA (Dec 1 via @fsgbooks)
Resident DJ @thelotradio
Writing at ethernet.fm
vegetable melange @athousandpicnics.net Uncommonly spirited (two decades of bourbon opinions), amateur raconteur (sparsely edited), a thousand picnics or none.
He/Him. Louisville, KY
Kenny Bloggins @kennybloggins.bsky.social JD Power and Associates award for posting. Fully licensed and insured dipshit.
Leanne C. Powner @leannecpowner.bsky.social Coach/Developmental Editor for social science academics, including dissertators. Sometimes methods prof; author of _Empirical Research & Writing: A Pol Sci Student's Practical Guide_. Accepting manuscripts for summer & coaching clients year round.
Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social (re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
Andrew Hungerford @luxtheatrum.bsky.social Theatrical designer / director / storyteller. Astrophysics enthusiast. Recovering Artistic Director. I want to design all the plays. (Except Mamet & LaBute.) he/him
also: @andrewh@mastodon.social | was hungerf9 @ bird site.
https://andrewhungerford.com
Sarah Burnes @sarahburnes.bsky.social Got my Juris Doctor on Twitter. On Here now. 
Melissa Flores Anderson @melissacuisine.bsky.social Flash, CNF, short stories and unpublished novels. Reader/Editor Roi Fainéant Press. 4x BOTN nom, 1x Pushcart nom. Chapbook "A Body in Motion" (JAKE). Novelette "Roadkill" (ELJ Editions). ""All and Then None of You" (Cowboy Jamboree).
Franco Amati @francoamati.bsky.social writer, poet, SFWA & Codex, ViableParadise 2024,
new collection WORK IS WORK out now: https://www.amazon.com/Work-Franco-Amati/dp/B0HCCQF9YP/
and for all published fiction visit francoamatiwrites.com
Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social Herbivorous open-water-swimming snowflake bookworm, b. 323.05 ppm. Irish in France. Writer/editor/translator. Work in in Honest Ulsterman, Minor Lit, Irish Times, Courrier International, Cormorant, Incubator, Eastlit, Jaggery, Mekong Review, Esquire ...
Nicole M. Wolverton (she/her/hers) @nicolemwolverton.bsky.social Professionally unsettling | Philly-area writer of (mostly) horror & thrillers | MEAT SWEATS * MARCH 2027 | HWA, SFWA, SCBWI, Codex | horror academic | scent-obsessed | nicolewolverton.com
Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social Writer / Librarian
Work in Electric Literature, the Deadlands, Strange Horizons, Nightmare, etc
Repped by Marie Lamba of Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency.
Novel: Living in Cemeteries
Collection: Haunted Ecologies
CoreyFarrenkopf.com
@fbereaud.bsky.social @fbereaud.bsky.social Author: San Diego Stories @cowboyjamboree, A Question of Family @Stanchion
Husband. Dad. Math Prof. Mentor. Fiction Editor @thetwinbill.
francoisbereaud.com
Mar Vincent @marofthebooks.bsky.social Weird little stories in Analog, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and other fantastical places. Always seeking human creativity (NO AI), coffee, and petrichor. https://www.marvincent.com/
Currently in the liminal space known as novel revisions. 📝✍️✍️
Stephen Jackson @fortyoddcrows.bsky.social PNW: Seattle, Portland, Eugene 🌲 | Working-class, poet, photographer, 🌱 | Allium, The Branches, Cathexis Northwest Press, A Curious Moon, Dolomite Review, fourteen poems, Prairie Fire, Washington State Queer Poetry Anthology | https://stephen-jackson.com
Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social Writer | Mother | Immigrant | Managing Editor @mlnjournal.bsky.social | PhD Hispanic Lit | Fulbright (Brazil) | Bylines WaPo, Time, Guernica, etc. (she/her)
Book forthcoming w Bloomsbury Academic
Human Generated: https://victorialivingstone.substack.com/
Kathryn Silver-Hajo @kathrynsilverhajo.bsky.social WOLFSONG (stories) ROOTS OF THE BANYAN TREE (YA novel). Atticus, Citron, CRAFT, Dribble Drabble, Emerge, Ghost Parachute, Gooseberry Pie, New Flash Fic Rev, Pithead Chapel, RUBY Lit. Best Microfic, Best Small Fics, BOTN, Pushcart noms, Wigleaf longlist
Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social cultivating community and publishing bold work: flash, short fiction, cnf, poetry, and other nonconforming pieces
Neil Blackman @n3il4real.bsky.social Writer of fiction. Heart that you call home. Movie stuff. Music junk. Mental Health. Still chasing the highs of discovering AOL and finding the lows of everything since.
Diane Simmons @scooterwriter.bsky.social Co-Directs NFFD.NIFs: ‘Finding a Way' (Ad Hoc Fiction), ‘An Inheritance' (V.Press), ‘A Tricky Dance’ (Alien Buddha Press), ‘William Prichard & Co’ (Arroyo Seco Press) & Bereft of Reason’ (V. Press). www.dianesimmons.co.uk
Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social Mother, sometime writer, mediocre flute player, misplaced Texan. Words in more than two dozen literary magazines and counting.
Sarah Oakes @sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social A visually impaired writer and musician in love with krakens and science fiction. Pagan soul. Debut sci fi novel The Jewels of Inglorious Fortune on KIndle.
June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social Scottish. Writer. Reader for Fractured Lit. Published in Trash Cat Lit, Frazzled Lit, Moonlit Getaway, Gone Lawn, The Phare, Gutter, Hooghly Review, and National Flash Flood.
justin nicholes @justinnicholes.bsky.social KILL SUIT, crime-thriller novella, forthcoming (New Pulp Press). Stories in Argyle Literary, Cleaver, Flash Boulevard, *82 Review, Dread Literary, + more. He, him, his. 📖⤵︎
🔗 https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/justinnicholes
Jamey Gallagher @jameygallagher.bsky.social Author of BODIES IN BAGS, I AM IDRIS ELBA, and AMERICAN ANIMISM.
https://jameyg0.wixsite.com/jameygallagher
Community college writing teacher
I read and write: literary stuff, crime stuff, weird stuff
From NH, living in Baltimore.
Joey Hedger @joeyhedger.bsky.social Author living in Alexandria, VA | Deliver Thy Pigs (Malarkey Books) | stories in Saw Palm, Complete Sentence, Variant Lit, HAD, and more | he/him
www.joeyhedger.com
Ross McMeekin @rossmcmeekin.bsky.social New novel, PEPPERLEAF (Thirty West, 2026), and a story collection, BELOW THE FALLS (Thirty West, 2024). Words in Literary Hub, Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, Vol.1 Brooklyn, and elsewhere. PNW.
Kristin Houlihan, Writer @kristinwrites.bsky.social Poet, Wife, Mom, LongCovid/MECFS. Looking to connect and learning to advocate. EIC, Poetry @epistemiclit.Bsky.social, @nimblewitlit.bsky.social. Micropoetry chapbook Lift the Mask available widely. www.kristinhoulihan.com
Metagov @metagov.bsky.social Metagov is a laboratory for digital governance. We build tools, practices, and communities for self-governance in the digital age.
https://linktr.ee/metagov
Justin Taylor @justintaylor.bsky.social let the mirror express the room
Justindtaylor.net
Christina Tudor @christinaltudor.bsky.social Writer, vegan taco enthusiast, cat parent. Words in HAD, Flash Frog, Litro Magazine, Best Small Fictions 2024, and more. CALL MY BODY A CAUTIONARY TALE coming soon from Thirty West on October 23, 2026.
www.christinatudor.com
Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social Variant Literature is a small press and magazine. http://variantlit.com
Summer 2026 issue out now!
Vic Nogay @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social reader, writer, specter
micro editor @identitytheory.bsky.social
Best Microfiction 2026
Naming a Dying Thing (Yellow Arrow, 2025)
under fire, under water (tiny wren, 2022)
ohio forever
she/her
vicnogay.com
Karen Crawford @karenc.bsky.social Exorcising demons one word at a time.
🇵🇷 ✍🏽 BestMicrofiction 2025, PushcartNoms, BOTN Nom, Longlists, Wigleaf Top 50
NYC → LA
Mandy Keifetz @besecretandexult.bsky.social Inky, impatient, and left of you. I write books which can be purchased or borrowed from libraries. If you'd care to buy one for your weirdest friend, I’d appreciate it.
"das Entsetzen über die Reden des Anstreichers" BB
Josh Dale @joshdale.co Writing, publishing, cats, nature, metal.
Read good books by Thirty West.
Order RAGE:
thirtywestph.com/shop/rage
Jen Michalski @socalwritergirl.bsky.social Writer, EIC, @jmwwjournal.bsky.social. Rep: Esty Loveing-Downes at Howland Literary. Latest: ALL THIS CAN BE TRUE (@TurnerPub, June 2025).
Patrick Barb @patrickbarb.bsky.social Writer/Editor/Awesome (he/him); patrickbarb.com
Treasurer, Horror Writers Association
Rep: Pam Gruber at High Line Literary Collective
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.
Iva Cheung @ivacheung.com Certified Professional Editor • cookbook indexer • plain language trainer • mental health researcher • adjunct prof • #AngryJellyDonut • #LyricsPrompt prompter • #ParticipateInResearch booster • author, #AfterTheFeast • she/her • www.ivacheung.com
Adam Houle @houle.bsky.social Poet (STRAY, Lithic Press); poems in Agni, Shenandoah, The Pinch, elsewhere. Husband, assoc prof, fan of kindness. A steady deckhand. Still and listening. Darlington, SC.
www.adamhoule.com
Profile pic: me with a cat shirt on
Banner: faint rainbow
Cara Benson @carabensonwriter.bsky.social Author of AN ARMSFULL OF BIRDS: A PERSONAL FIELD GUIDE TO LOVE, LOSS, AND COMMITMENT. Other words in Orion, Sierra Magazine, NY Times, Boston Review, Best American Poetry.
Fun at parties.
www.carabensonwriter.com
Rosanna Landis Weaver @landisweaver.bsky.social A career focused helping shareholders combat overpaid CEOs. I post about income inequality, social justice, aging, bargains, books, politics, gardens, adoption, humor, hope. Always curious.
Sarah Burke Cahalan @sarahbc.bsky.social caregiver
header: green beans
Lia Swope Mitchell @liaswopemitchell.bsky.social reader, writer, translator. PhD French. I like running, gardening, baking, and outdoorsy stuff. I live in Minneapolis.
liaswopemitchell.com
Marie @mariecloutier.bsky.social Writer of womanhood& girlhood, love & loss. איך האָב ליב ייִדיש. Words in Five Minute Lit, Bending Genres, Dorothy Parker's Ashes, Neologism Poetry, Corvus Review, etc. #wellesley 📖 my work ⤵
https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/mariekathleen
jenni @msjennimiller.bsky.social writer and editor and whatever. aging goth getting weird with it. NYC by way of TX.
she/her. no terfs, no swerfs.
James Yates @jamesyates.bsky.social Writer, runner, basketball fan, baseball fan, animal lover, pessimistic optimist, he/him
Michael Broussard @michaelbroussard.myatproto.social Playwright, poet, storyteller, and performing artist. Democratic Socialist. He/Him/They/Them.
Patreon.com/MichaelBroussardArts
https://ko-fi.com/MichaelBroussardArts
michaelbroussardarts.com
Karin Hedetniemi @karinhedet.bsky.social Writer, wanderer. Finding quiet beauty in life✨Creative nonfiction, photography, poetry and haiku • Just being human here.🇨🇦
agoldenhour.com
Jupiter Jones @jupiterjonz.bsky.social Writes short stuff
Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social writing + paintings here, there + all over the place | DOMESTICATED CREATURES coming Sept. 2026 | James Tate Poetry Prize | Pushcart, BoTN + Best Microfiction noms | Best Small Fictions 2025
Paintings, books + other writings: thaddevassie.com
Zoe Davis @meanerharker.bsky.social Writer and avid doodler with words in the likes of Strix, Ink Sweat and Tears and Dust. 2x BotN nom. Forward Prize Nom. Lives in Sheffield UK. Interested in comics, computer games and sports. Member of Sheffield Eagles Wheelchair Rugby Club.
Rachel Abbey McCafferty @ramccafferty.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Reporter. Editor.
https://rachelabbeymccafferty.com/
Judy Darley @judydarley.bsky.social Writer & daydreamer living by the Somerset coast. Author of fiction collections #TheStairsAreASnowcappedMountain, #SkyLightRain (https://bit.ly/3zlfK7Q) & #RememberMeToTheBees. Workshop leader/journalism/brand engagement.
Jeff Chon @jeffchon.bsky.social It just doesn't feel real yet.
https://linktr.ee/jeffchon
Josh Denslow @joshdenslow.bsky.social High-functioning slacker.
Jennifer Mulligan 🇨🇦 🍀 ⚜️ @mizmulligan.bsky.social Born in the wilds of West Quebec. Writer. Director. Cat herder. Dog companion. Authentic hillbilly bloodlines. Future 6th Generation Farmer. Distant relative of famous Mulligan Golf Dude! Opinions mine. 🚫 DMs.
B. Pladek @bpladek.bsky.social Ben. Literature scholar & writer; Ass. Prof. of English at Marquette University. He/him, boring transsexual. DRY LAND (2023, UWP): https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/D/Dry-Land; other stuff elsewhere.
website: bpladek.net
Games by Sam @cluesbysam.com 
Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social Writer. Eater of Books. Lover of Comics. Library Tech. Drummer. Burrito enthusiast. He/Him husband.
Author of TRVE CVLT, Midwestern Chrome (2026), Help! I Can't Stop Shitting Snakes (2027).
www.michaelbettendorfwrites.com.
Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social American/British Swiss resident. Builders tea, indie publishers, and editing till it hurts ❤️🔥♾️
Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social Writes a bit (Pushcart nom x 2, Best Microfiction ‘26, Fish 3rd prize ‘26), reads a lot. Drama (on-stage, mostly) 🏳️🌈
Editor: https://www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/ @neitherfishnorfoul.com
my published stuff via: https://thewavingnotdrowningblog.com/
Susan Stinson @susanstinson.bsky.social Novelist. Author of Martha Moody, Spider in a Tree, and Venus of Chalk from Small Beer Press. Essays in The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies and The Portable Feminist Reader. Triker. 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.
Arthur Mandal @arthurmandal.bsky.social Brit/US writer of uncanny fiction. Best Small Fictions 2025. Over 40 stories in The Barcelona Review, LITRO, Southeast Review, The Forge, The Los Angeles Review and others. @nightjarpress Based in Eugene, Oregon (but grew up in UK). www.arthurmandal.com
Cari Luna @cariluna.bsky.social Author of THE REVOLUTION OF EVERY DAY, winner of the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction. Words in The Nation, Guernica, Street Roots, Salon, Jacobin, etc.
https://linktr.ee/cari.luna
Catherine O'Brien @catherineobrien.bsky.social Writer/Scríbhneoir. Gaeilge - gar dod’ chroí 's beimid mar chairde. BOTN’23 nominee @JanusLiterary
BSF ‘23 nominee @BendingGenres
Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social I write poems and I garden. *Becoming Altar*, new and selected poems, available here: https://asterismbooks.com/product/becoming-altar-new-and-selected-poems
https://kylahoubolt.us/becoming-altar.html *Mapless* forthcoming soon from SHINE.
Anna Menta @annamenta.bsky.social Senior film writer @Decider and writer of other things, too. 🇵🇸
Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social Bath Flash Fiction Winner • Smokelong Fellow • Storyknife • 2025 Best Small Fictions • Anthology of Rural Stories by Writers of Color • words in River Teeth Beautiful Things NWWQ Cutleaf and others • dawntasakasteffler.com
Dom @sinacolad.bsky.social If it hadn't been for Cotton Eye Joe... film critic: @portlandmercury.com, other stuff; Werner Herzog blog: wernerherzblog.substack.com; lb: https://boxd.it/9sMh; member: @portlandcritics.bsky.social and @cascadiacritics.bsky.social
Mark Yarm @markyarm.bsky.social Exec ed, features & special projects, PCMag ❤️🔥 adjunct, Columbia Journalism School ❤️🔥 bylines: the New Yorker, NYT Mag, Flaming Hydra, etc. ❤️🔥 author, EVERYBODY LOVES OUR TOWN ❤️🔥 markyarm@gmail.com; Signal: markyarm.99 ❤️🔥 https://markyarm.journoportfolio.com
Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social Dallas-based writer. Subscribe to America's oldest and only country music newsletter, Don't Rock The Inbox: www.dontrocktheinbox.com
natalie.l.weiner at gmail
Firkinho Gaucho @pastaben.bsky.social america’s first and only socialist playwright®
i like having fun on the Computer
It’s me, Ed @youroldbuddyed.bsky.social Run, read, do surgery stuff
Comics cartoons horror
Whovian Twin Peaks X Files Browncoat
Bake and hang with cats
Baltimore/DC
Richard Lawson @rilaws.bsky.social NEWSLETTER: https://www.premiereparty.com/ | Partnerships & sponsorships 📩 sarah@collective.media
Paul @mondosalvo.com I used to do things.
• Atlanta, GA
• Marginally Aquarian
• Love movies and records, and especially naps
• He/Him
@bobbker.bsky.social @bobbker.bsky.social Freelance writer and editor in Maine. Music. Film. Non-profits. Heads. Visual arts sometimes. https://linktr.ee/bobbker
Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social Author of The Freaks Came Out To Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper that Changed American Culture.
https://linktr.ee/tromano_writer
Brianna Ashby @briannaduggan.bsky.social Analog illustrator, vintage collector, dark horse. Wife guy.
http://www.brianna-ashby.com/
https://ko-fi.com/briannaashby
Libby Cudmore (SHE/HER) @libbycudmore.bsky.social Eminent Hipster. Detective novelist (Wade & Jacks series, THE BIG REWIND.) Beligerent Co-Host, @ostparty.bsky.social. Swing revival scholar & Crime Fiction Bimbo. www.libbycudmore.com
Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music out August 19, 2025 on Repeater Books / shipley.al@gmail.com
http://westernblot.bandcamp.com
Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social Author, Y2K: How the 2000's Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was). The NYT called me “lean, nimble, and profoundly depressing,” but I think I’m pretty fun. I have a black cat named Camus and I live in Ann Arbor.
Rob Hatch-Miller @robhatchmiller.bsky.social Director of documentaries (Other Music, Syl Johnson: Any Way The Wind Blows) and Producer of things like the Elephant 6 doc & the comedy Micro Budget.
Chuck Eddy @chuckeddytor.bsky.social I write about stuff (books = Stairway to Hell, Accidental Evolution of R&R, R&R Always Forgets, Terminated for Reasons of Taste.) Here's where I mostly write now:
https://chuckeddy.substack.com/
Marc Hogan @marchogan.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Bylines: FT, NYT, NPR, etc. Past lives: Pitchfork, SPIN, BusinessWeek. marchogan at gmail dot com. He/him. Iowa since 2009, but ex–NY, IL, MA, AZ, TN; CA native. https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-hogan-00b34b1a photo by Erol Reyal
Josh Luft @joshuazluft.bsky.social Let’s rock!
Bryan Alistair Charles @bryanacharles.bsky.social Writer in midst of disorienting midlife free fall / Author of a novel, a memoir, and a book about Pavement written for 33 1/3 / Broken Hearts Are Blue guitarist / Amateur Proust scholar bryanalistaircharles.com
Alyx Vesey @alyxvesey.bsky.social Feminist music geek
Website | https://sites.ua.edu/avesey/
Substack | https://substack.com/@alyxvesey
PMBIP | https://www.youtube.com/@ericweisbard8091
Extending Play | https://global.oup.com/academic/product/extending-play-9780190085643
Lauren O'Neal @laurenoneal.bsky.social Nonfiction editor at Penguin Random House. I put the chic in Chicago Manual of Style.
Ewen Glass @ewenglass.bsky.social screenwriter | lecturer | poemer
Courtney Pasko @cpasko.bsky.social Reader, writer, library girl
Country mouse living in Baltimore
she/hers
https://www.courtneypasko.com/
Cassandra Whitaker @casswhit.bsky.social Poet, Writer, Educator 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (She/they/Mx). NBCC, Wolf Devouring A Wolf Devouring A Wolf available from Jackleg Press. https://queerthewolves.wordpress.com/
Neurospicy
Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social
Author of LAKE OF URINE and THE COAST OF EVERYTHING
Executive editor at www.exactingclam.com
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/books/review-lake-of-urine-guillermo-stitch.html
Millions of Dead Chris @thecorlew.bsky.social writer | musician | co-host, The Line Break podcast | fiction reader, Cotton Xenomorph | 1/2 Lazy & Entitled | basketball junkie | Chicago Over Everything | exhausted dad | he/him
https://www.lazyandentitled.org/?page_id=41
Suzanne (writing as S A Greene) @sagreene1.bsky.social SOCIAL MEDIA BREAK 2026 (except for shameless self-promotion) DMs deactivated. Writer: GoneLawn trampset TempleInACity GooseberryPie BlinkInk Mslexia Liars'League MythicPicnic NewFlashFicReview FictiveDream BulbCulture Phare MaudlinHouse FreeFlashFiction
Richard Mirabella 🐝 @rpmirabella.bsky.social Writer, reader, office potato. Author of Brother & Sister Enter the Forest. Lambda Award Finalist. NY Times Editors' Choice. Real human. No, really.
richardmirabellawriter.com
Insta: @rpmirabella