Liz deBeer @lizdebeerwriter.bsky.social Writer, Reader, Beach Walker, Trying My Best
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glassknuckles.bsky.social @glassknuckles.bsky.social Glass Knuckles is an independent literary press publishing raw, gritty, provocative poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art.
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
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Caitlin O'Halloran @caitlinohalloran.bsky.social She/Her. Writer in Rochester, NY.
Coeditor of Gone Lawn.
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Sophie? @sophontrack.bsky.social Writer. Love ghosts and justice and also trains. 🍉. All people are friends.
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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/
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Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social Multi-genre lit journal & community
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Daily Screenplay Festival contests @dailyscreenplays.bsky.social Daily Screenplay Contest Deadlines
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@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
Author M. I. Verras (She/Her) @miverrasauthor1.bsky.social Gothic author, corp.associate, singer, composer, keyboardist, designer, university graduate, sports fan, existential seeker. Author of two metaphysical, symbolic fantasy-mystery novellas. Novella plots and covers are in English and NOT AI.
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
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Liminal Space Creative @liminalspacecreative.substack.com Aspiring Métis writer drawn to the grey areas of the human condition. Places we bury deep, where love and sorrow quietly pool together. Spaces that hold both our capacity for sincere kindness and our potential for extreme cruelty.
Whimsy @whimsyfiction.bsky.social A monthly microfiction contest celebrating the lighter, more peculiar side of storytelling. Yes, our alpaca travels by quill 🦙🪶
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Jenna Martin-Trinka @jennamartintrinka.bsky.social Writer, flash fiction and CNF
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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Sarah McPherson @summermoth.bsky.social HE manager by day. Writer, crafter, LARPer, runner. Procrastinator extraordinaire. Lover of the fantastic. Definitely not a grown up. She/her.
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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.
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
fionajanemack@bsky.social @fionajanemack.bsky.social Scottish-American writer. Flash collection "The Yet Unknowing World." Stories in Best Small Fictions 2019 and 2023. Historical novel "Ancestral Virgins" out in June 2026! www.fionajmackintosh.com #writer #flashfiction
Kerry Byrne @kerrybyrne.bsky.social Writer & editor. Fen wanderer. Collie wrangler. Words in BULL, Ellipsis Zine, Lucy Writers, Maudlin House, National FlashFlood, Pidgeonholes, Roi Fainéant Press, streetcake magazine & other fine places. BOTN nominee. Assistant Editor at Frazzled Lit.
Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social Philly writer. Debut chapbook “Ghost in the Rain: Stories,” Bottlecap Press, 2026.
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Stories in Best Microfiction, Identity Theory, DIHP, Claudine, Some Words, Flight, FlashFlood, BULL.
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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
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https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/lucienne-cummings/
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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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill
Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50
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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 💗
National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social Celebrating flash fiction worldwide. Co-directed by Ingrid Jendrzejewski @lunchontuesday.bsky.social and Diane Simmons @scooterwriter.bsky.social
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Lit Match Collective @litmatchcollective.com A writers’ community led by editors 🔥
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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
WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
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Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social Authors / Writers / Lovers of Words...
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Hugh Behm-Steinberg @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social Writer
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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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
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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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@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.
The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the world’s best new writing.
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Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social This is a storybook. All of us are in it. Here are some tales.
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https://templeinacity.com
In: AHC, Claudine, DIHP, Bull, Frazzled, Fish Barrel, Dog Throat, Blood & Honey, ANMLY Whimperbang. Pushcart, best short fiction nom.
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/
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
Nick Fogg @nickfoggwords.bsky.social Writer. She/her. Mslexia Novel Comp LL, Aurora Metro Virginia Prize LL, ACE DYCP & WriteMentor Mentoring Prog. BFI Network x BAFTA Crew alumna
Vicky Heath @doctor-dolittle.bsky.social Writer, Editor and Paddington Bear enthusiast. Pushcart Prize nominee. GICF First Time Funnies Class of '26. Posts about a few of my favourite things.
Writing: https://doctordolittle.substack.com/
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. 
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
www.anikacarpenter.com
Jessica Boatright @oh-so-boatie.bsky.social Creative Project Manager by day, writer by night. Advocate for the power of community and the arts. Big fan of sunsets!
Jude Higgins @judehwriter2.bsky.social Founder Bath Flash Award, directs AdHocFiction + Flash Fiction Festival Flash collection Clearly Defined Clouds out now s/l Bridport x 4, s/l SmokeLong Mikey x2, Best Microfictions x2 Pushcart nominated
Kathryn Aldridge-Morris @kazbarwrites.bsky.social COLD TOAST Dahlia Books. Republic of Consciousness Prize 'Book of the Month'. Shortlisted for International Rubery Book Award. Wigleaf Top 50, Bath Flash Fiction Award, Mancs. Writing School QMD Prize, The Forge CNF prize
www.kamwords.com
Mike Piero 🏳️🌈 @mikepiero.org Writer. Novelist. Poet. Game Studies Scholar. Writing in J Journal, Midway Journal, Rain Taxi, Moveable Type, Impost, Sandy River Review, & Trash Cat Lit. *Views are my own.* Monarch and Best Small Fictions noms. More at www.mikepiero.org. He/Him. Bi. 🩷💜💙
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
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Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Peter Jordan PhD @pjordan-writer.bsky.social
BBC Radio 4 & BBC Radio Ulster.
Neither fish nor foul 📖 @neitherfishnorfoul.com Www.neitherfishnorfoul.com an online magazine where craft and quirk meet
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Electra Rhodes @electrarhodes.bsky.social Writer. Digger. Rustic. Thief.
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Best Small Fictions 2023
Emerging Writers The London Library 22/23
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