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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
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The Epilogue @theepilogue.net Author interview show that delves deeper into the craft of writing.
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Fibonacci Sequins @brentwaggoner.bsky.social Monocule. Socialist. Coder. Christian Liberationist. Neurodivergent. He/him. Partnered w Liz. I like to read many books and I also have a Telecaster. I am one half of the Fifty Books Project. pfp by @imagining-sisyphus.
Redwood Rhetorica @redwoodrhetorica.bsky.social I scour the Internet looking for any and every scrap of writing lore I can find
"We pride ourselves on knowing everything that can be known... and most of the rest" - a technomage, Babylon 5
Beverly L. Anderson @beverlylanderson.bsky.social From the Ashes, Rise. From the Shadows, Be. Queer Stories About Rising from Darkness, Striving for the Light. A proud Phoenix Voices Publishing author. Cancer Sucks.
Joni Page Author @jonipageauthor.bsky.social Wild child. Optimist.
Writer of captivating, happy tales.
Author of Beach Shorts - a Sandthology & The Feminist EarthMother PartyGirl.
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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026) geni.us/TMtMT. Two-time Best of the Net nominee. | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social Writer of To Rise in the Dark (2024) and Hunter (2025)
“He speaks in your voice, Salfordian, and there’s a pie in his hand bought half-price from the Co-op.”
David Gladwin @dlgladwin.bsky.social My novella Coldwell is published by Road Song - https://roadsongbooks.com/product/coldwell/
Environmental modernism:
Wensum Literary Magazine https://wensumlit.co.uk/issue-4-autumn-2023/
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Anika Carpenter @stillsquirrel.bsky.social #Flashfiction writer and #collage artist. Stories in Gooseberry Pie, Fictive Dream, Gone Lawn, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story & others. Based in Brighton, UK
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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.
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Matt Holland Author Dot Com @gallaethamatt.bsky.social Glorious amateur. Writer. Pulp Idol 2023 finalist. He/Him
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ELA Literary @elalitmag.bsky.social The literary team for everything out of the ordinary. Working with writers who want more from what they read and write.
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Andrew Careaga (writer) @andrewcareaga.bsky.social Writer of fiction and creative (?) nonfiction. Pocho. Half-assed guitarist. Retired #highered marketing/PR guy (Missouri S&T). Writing about writing and my WIPs at andrewcareaga.com. No DMs. #writingcommunity
A.J. O'Toole @ajotoole.bsky.social Ex-drinker, still not a fighter. Speed reader, slow writer.
Black Country exile under Northern skies.
This is an anecdote, sir, not a problem for you to solve.
@googlyeyecat.bsky.social @googlyeyecat.bsky.social I think we've hit a critical desalinization point. It would explain what's driving this extreme weather. Unemployed shoe critic. Brandishing a Scouse accent. Mainly tired. I'm in the game.
EveryHeron 𓅣 @everyheron.bsky.social We are the quiet unnoticed Heron, inspiring Heroneers all over Planet Earth, as you encounter Heronkind for 1st or 1000th time.
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On Viewless Wings @onviewlesswings.bsky.social Writing, reading, running, teaching.
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Writing, I swear.
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Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social Big things from small books - single short story chapbooks, available on subscription.
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Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social Writing about nature, science, history & sexual violence. Multiple books, multiple mischief.
Latest: TANGLED IN VOW & BESEECH (poems)
Next: LEARNING TO SPAR (memoir)
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Michelle Artistry @michelleartistry24.bsky.social I’m an illustrator who loves bringing ideas to life through art. I enjoy creating characters, telling stories visually, and bringing imagination to life in a way that people can connect with.
Eunoia Review @eunoiareview.bsky.social Online literary journal publishing new writing daily since October 2010. Edited by Ian Chung. Typically 24-hour turnaround for responses.🇸🇬
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Madeleine @madeleine1016.bsky.social 
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.
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Andy Humphrey @andyhumphrey11.bsky.social Mildly left-wing Norwich based author of Trick of the Light, Debris, A Punch to the Heart and others
Nathan Pettigrew @nathanpettigrew.bsky.social Writer. Author of TALES FROM TERREBONNE, forthcoming in 2026 from @rhppress.bsky.social. Managing Editor at Mythic Picnic. Awarded 2nd Place in the 22nd Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition for his story "Yemma."
KjM @kevinjmackey.bsky.social Transplanted Irishman in love with the music of language - Northeast, US
ellipsis zine @ellipsiszine.bsky.social Literary magazine and independent press, publishing beautifully written flash and microfiction. 1,000 words or fewer.
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Wilson Koewing @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social notable, Best American Essays. distinguished, Best American Mystery and Suspense // books JADED, QUASI and ROLLING ON THE BOTTOM // editor of Bottle Rocket Literary Magazine
JP Relph @therelphian.bsky.social Cumbrian writer. Loves cats, tea, apocalypses and dark botany.
Noms for Pushcart, BOTN, Best Small Fics and Best Microfics, Wigleaf longlisted
All print publications on Amazon
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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:
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Charlie Kondek @charliekondek.bsky.social Marketing professional and short story writer from metro Detroit. Kendo enthusiast. Autism dad. Child of God. CharlieKondekWrites.com
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
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
Anti-Heroin Chic @antiheroinchic.bsky.social AHC is a literary arts intentional community and healing space. Submissions open. Edited by
James Diaz. https://heroinchic.weebly.com/
New Writers @newwritersuk.bsky.social Through our website (https://newwriters.org.uk/) and the socials, we aim to discover and promote new writing talent from the UK and across the globe. 
New Flash Fiction Review (subs closed) @nffr.bsky.social New Flash Fiction Review is an online magazine devoted to flash fiction. Read more: https://newflashfiction.com
Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Flash fiction writer | 2025 Highly Commended Bridport Prize & Finalist New Millennium Writings | Published in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Flash the Court, Writers’ Hour, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and elsewhere.
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Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social Writer of tiny things. Fiction: NFFD, Mslexia, Neither Fish Nor Foul, Funny Pearls, Trash Cat Lit. Gags: Breaking The News, Noising Up, The Skewer, Newsjack. She/her
https://luciennecummings.com/
https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/lucienne-cummings/
AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social Writer of pantomimes, poetry, and flash fiction. Loves PG Tips, haiku, and challenging perceptions about ‘women of a certain age!’ 🏴
Madeleine Armstrong @madeleinewrite.bsky.social Writer, runner, trying to keep up with another social media platform
Rosaleen Lynch @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social ☘️ Irish community worker, writer
& teacher living in London with work selected for the Wigleaf Top 50, Best of the Net & Best Small Fictions, now researching the impact of story on social change & can be found @ http://52quotes.blogspot.com
The Bloomin’ Onion | **SUBMISSIONS ALWAYS OPEN** @bloominonionlit.bsky.social A Literary Magazine with Layers. Est. 2024. Helping new and emerging writers find their way. Posts by the EIC.
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Trash Cat Lit @trashcatlit.bsky.social Online magazine for flash and short fiction.
Chill Subs 2024 Community Favourites Flash Fiction #7
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Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social Writer of The Lodger, Me and Mickie James, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel. Lambda Award Finalist. Leicestershire Short Story Prize winner. Saltburn - Feb 2025.
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Bridge @astlebridge.bsky.social Solvitur ambulando. Warmer, Sweeter be. Expanding microcosm Venn Diagram enthusiast. Thalassophile.
Between beards.
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MIDLVLMAG @midlvlmag.bsky.social Submissions are OPEN for issue no. 9: Human Capital
Literary Magazine deconstructing our relationships with the personal/professional
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Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A free blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social
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One Fall Review @onefallreview.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to professional wrestling themed poetry.
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Villain Era 🖤🔪 @villaineralit.bsky.social A literary magazine obsessed with revenge. Open for submissions! https://www.villaineralit.com Mastermind: @charlesjensen.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.
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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.
Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social Deep Woods of Philly | Sometimes Writer | Spoonie Crew | Accidental Startupper | Words in New Letters, Wild Roof Journal, etc.| NO DMs
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Elise Blackwell @eliseblackwell.bsky.social Novelist interested in arts, sciences, curiosities.
Steven Lemprière @stevenlempriere.bsky.social Jumbler of letters, baker, sometimes in two minds, and always in one of two locations, SW France and the West of Ireland.
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WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
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Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social Nano-publisher & provider of self-publishing services based in Ilfracombe, Devon.
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Toby Litt @tobylitt.bsky.social Writer. Mentor. Activist.
I teach Creative Writing at Southampton University.
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Andrea Bishop @andreabishop.bsky.social Writer. Salt Spring Island & Vancouver, 🇨🇦. Stories in/coming: New Ohio Review, Malahat Review, Masters Review, Cleaver, Grain, BULL, PRISM...
Knows: healthcare, psych & change
Appreciates: dogs, quests, diversity & curiosity
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Fahmidan Group @fahmidangroup.bsky.social Diversity in Action.
EIC A.R. Arthur Team: Managing Editor Yasmine Dashti
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Hugo Brady Brown @aodhbc.bsky.social Books, radio, music, newspapers, magazines; all as a consumer. Of no interest.
Posts that were obviously no good are deleted. Not posting is the shorter route to the same result. Often only reading Bluesky.
writerharrison @harrisonwriter.bsky.social 🍁 #Canadian - #Author - #Poet 🍁
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Ken Armstrong @kenarmstrong.bsky.social I think in low and linear dimensions.
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dogyard @dogyardmag.com Just a mag chasin’ tales.
We accept all types of work from all (leashed) walks of life: poetry, fiction, essay, art, nonfiction, and more.
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Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social Read Issue 8! Epistemiclit.com
Digital anthology series celebrating knowledge, connection, and growth through poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction.
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Kieran Wyatt @kieranstories.bsky.social Best British Short Stories 2026, The London Magazine, Free Flash Fiction, Eunoia Review, Blood+Honey. Fylde Coast. https://kieranstorieswriter.blog/about/
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Michael Downing @kmwriter01.bsky.social Writer. Literacy advocate. Playwright ("Still Black Remains"). Surfer. Activist. Everything New Jersey- attitude, edginess & Springsteen songs. 3X Pushcart Nominee.
Author of SAINTS of the ASPHALT.
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Stian Bøe @bobba50.bsky.social Katter. Vindbjart, film, øl, Start, WBA, Minnesota etc. Fotballfotograf, banehopper.
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Alexander Thomas @thomastellstales.bsky.social British short story writer and librarian dabbling in #litfic and #horror
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Alan Beard @alanbeard.bsky.social Short Story/Flash writer. Third collection Afternoon Drinking out now from Floodgate Press, UK. Previous collections: Taking Doreen out of the Sky (Picador, 1999); You Don’t Have to Say (Tindal Street Press, 2010).
Diego D. Lomax @diegodlomax.bsky.social Dyslexic writer, tracing artist, and tone-deaf producer
My debut novel 'God of Fishes' is out NOW!
My graphic novel, [4-EVA], coming soon
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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.
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