Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social Just trying to put words together. God Elegy forthcoming from BOA Editions 2028. The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis (Soft Skull), House Is an Enigma (Bull City). TMI in your inbox here: https://substack.com/@emmabolden
Erika Meitner @rika99.bsky.social poet • professor • parent • perambulator • erikameitner.com | also keeper of https://post-mfa.tumblr.com
@jennyirish.bsky.social @jennyirish.bsky.social 
Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social poet, teacher, sometimes essayist. chapbook, Love That For Us, out now @andchangepoetry.bsky.social. craft book forthcoming @noemipress.bsky.social. two books @boa-editions.bsky.social.
abolish the police & free palestine.
https://www.chenchenwrites.com
Penguin Books @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social We publish fiction and nonfiction adorned with the famous dignified but flippant logo.
Alison L Fraser @catholicked.bsky.social fiction writer. maker of weird things. currently into insect collecting, but not killing, just finding dead insects.
they/she.
https://alisonfraser.space
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
Carolene Kurien @carolenekurien.bsky.social Update: I don't use Bluesky anymore, sorry! If you would like to read more of my work, please visit carolenekurien.com.
Poet • Words in Poetry London, Bennington Review, North American Review, Passages North, Sixth Finch, etc
Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social Writer. Mom. Xeric gardener. OPENING (Glass Poetry, 2026). REMAINDER (Bull City Press, 2025). FRUITFUL (Driftwood Press, 2024). Poems in Best of the Net, West Branch, phoebe, Cincinnati Review, etc. More poems at https://linktr.ee/stefaniekirbypoetry
Rachel Abbey McCafferty @ramccafferty.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Reporter. Editor.
https://rachelabbeymccafferty.com/
The New Yorker @newyorker.com Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
Follow The New Yorker’s writers and contributors: https://go.bsky.app/Gh5bFwS
Christian Livermore @chlivermore.bsky.social The Los Angeles Review of Books called my memoir, We Are Not Okay, ‘ineffably important...relentless and courageous and entertaining and upsetting.’ New novel Execution of Tertius Lafontaine out from Meat for Tea Press in spring ‘25. Plague Remedy Podcast.
stuti @cyborgstuti.bsky.social stand up comedian & writer
Marimacha Monarca press
Tin house 23-24 Reading Fellow
I run a stand up comedy show called Blue Collar Comedy.
Ingrid Rojas Contreras @ingridrojasc.bsky.social Author of THE MAN WHO COULD MOVE CLOUDS & FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE @doubledaybooks. Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Finalist. Descended from shamans and ghost whisperers
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Ananda Lima @anandalima.bsky.social Author of CRAFT: STORIES I WROTE FOR THE DEVIL forthcoming @torbooks in 2024 (available for pre-order)
& MOTHER/LAND (Black Lawrence Press)
Rep: Sarah Bowlin (Aevitas)
Work in the American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast +
Leone Ross @leoneross.bsky.social Author. Writing coach.
Latest: THIS ONE SKY DAY/POPISHO. Pointillist. Joyfully maximalist. Jamaican/British 🇯🇲. Black, FYI.
Goldsmiths, Edge Hill, Ondjaate & Women’s Prize noms. Won Manchester Prize for Fiction.
Rep: Nicola Chang, DHA.
Sherrie Flick @sherrieflick.bsky.social Writer / Editor - I HAVE NOT CONSIDERED CONSEQUENCES: SHORT STORIES, Autumn House, 2025- HOMING - essay collection, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2024 - Co-editor FLASH FICTION AMERICA, W. W. Norton, 2023 - Sr Editor SLQ 
Audrey Niven @nivenaudrey.bsky.social EIC The Propelling Pencil, Creative Coach and business consultant. Exploring new forms in writing and visual art.
Christopher Allen @christopherallen.bsky.social Publisher and EIC of SmokeLong Quarterly. 2023 Flash Fiction Judge Bridport Prize. #BestSmallFictions #FlashFictionAmerica. Nomad. Very much a back-office guy. He/him
Laurie Biggs Marshall @lauriemmarshall.bsky.social I write and make art and fight fascism in Arkansas. MFA candidate - class of 2027
“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” - George Eliot
Meghan Phillips @mcarphil.bsky.social former NEA fellow. chapbook ABSTINENCE ONLY (Barrelhouse).
https://meghan-phillips.com/
Sergio Muro @sergiofmuro.bsky.social writer 🇲🇽🦅// senior editor & insider prize director: american short fiction // editor: the rumpus // austin
Cassie Mannes Murray @cassmannes.bsky.social Writer. Founder & director at Pine State Publicity. Mom to P & E. 🐝
http://pinestatepublicity.com
Pinestatepublicity.substack.com
Kelli Short Borges @kelliborges2.bsky.social Writer. Words in many lovely places. Into travel, photography, kind people. Best Microfiction 24’ 25’ 26’ Wigleaf Top 50 LL. Pubs and more info: https://www.kellishortborges.com
Xueyi Zhou @xueyizhou.bsky.social Chinese. PhD & VP Fellow @UUtah Associate Prose Editor @QuarterlyWest Former Editor @witnessmag Fiction MFA @MFAUNLV
https://www.xueyizhou.com/publications
Rudri Bhatt Patel @rudribhattpatel.bsky.social Attorney turned Writer, Editor and Educator
Co-Founder and Editor of The Sunlight Press
Find out more at https://rudribhattpatel.com/
Tod Goldberg @todgoldberg.bsky.social Crooks. Gangsters. Rabbis. Burned spies. Noir holidays.
todgoldberg.com
Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social CNF Editor Pithead Chapel • Smokelong Fellow • Bath Flash Fiction Winner • Storyknife • Anthology of Rural Stories by Writers of Color • Best Small Fictions • Words in River Teeth Beautiful Things, In Short, NWWQ, Cutleaf, Waxwing, 100 Word Story & more
Nina Sudhakar @ninasudhakar.bsky.social Writer | Poet | Lawyer | Author of WHERE TO CARRY THE SOUND (UNT Press, 2024) | Dispatches/Book Reviews Ed @ The Common | she/her | www.ninasudhakar.com
Kathryn Kulpa @writesofkathryn.bsky.social Will write for coffee. Mostly flash, mostly fiction.
Work in BULL, Centaur, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, HAD, Milk Candy, SmokeLong, TrashCat, Wigleaf, YIV.
Chapbooks: A Map of Lost Places; For Every Tower, a Princess; Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted.
David Cazden @dcazdn.bsky.social New Poetry Book: DM for signed copies--
https://www.davidcazden.net/books/
https://linktr.ee/davidcazden
New Republic, Passages North, Rattle, McNeese Review, etc. Former poetry editor, Miller's Pond.
Jeneva Burroughs Stone @jeneva22.bsky.social Writer, Disability Advocate. She/her. MacDowell, Millay Arts, VCCA fellow. Vermonter at heart. Midd ‘86. Caregiver. PhD in Renaissance Literature. Life’s a mystery box.
Julia Ruth Smith @juliaruthsmith.bsky.social #flashfiction Flash Frog | Full House Lit | Vestal Review | New Flash Fiction Review | Bath Flash Fiction Award | Popshot | Chaotic Merge | Miniskirt Mag | Seaside Gothic | NFFD - Puschcart/Best of the Net
Adrienne Marie Barrios @adriennemarie.bsky.social Writer, editor (ReservoirRoad.bsky.social, novels, collections), apparent dog person, fickle, autistic, sometimes very ill, always trying my best 
Jamie Etheridge @lescribbler.bsky.social Winner @fracturedlit Anthology II
Long List Wigleaf Top 50
Words: @xraylitmag @jmwwjournal @bendinggenres @essayingdaily @reckonreview @antiheroinchic @pitheadchapel @storySouth +
LeScribbler.com
Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social Poet Laureate of Miami 🌴 Author of Dolce Vita⚜️Poetry & Interviews Editor for South Florida Poetry Journal ☀️ Director and Editor for JackLeg Press 💙 Website: nicoletallman.com 🌈
Dr. Matthew E. Henry (MEH) @mehpoeting.bsky.social Boston based educator, editor, poet, CNFer & fiction dabbler 🧐| Author of 7 poetry collections 📚| Holder of 3 graduate degrees worth of debt (MFA, MATS, PhD)🎓| Installer of rage in racists ✊🏾 https://www.mehpoeting.com
sara lippmann @saralippmann.bsky.social dunno
Elissa Lash @elissalash.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Feminist. Witch. Find my work in The Rumpus, CRAFT, Atticus Review, Tangled Locks, Silver Rose and at my website: Elissalash.com.
Mover. Shaker. Magic Maker.
Working on a memoir about sex work and motherhood.
Luke Rolfes @lukerolfes.bsky.social Author of SLEEP LAKE, IMPOSSIBLE NAKED LIFE, and FLYOVER COUNTRY. Co-editor of LAUREL REVIEW.
Earl Carrender @nuflashprose.bsky.social Writer person
Queer Elder
I wanna be me when I grow up
BA/Marian University
MFA/Butler University
Pronouns: He/him
Charlie Kondek @charliekondek.bsky.social Marketing professional and short story writer from metro Detroit. Kendo enthusiast. Autism dad. Child of God. CharlieKondekWrites.com
Paul J. Garth @pauljgarth.bsky.social BAMS Distinguished Story writer (twice!)
Midwestern Gothic and Nebraska Noir. Crime fiction. Doom metal. Editor for Rock and a Hard Place magazine. Shotgun Honey alum. Should probably be writing. Might be playing Warhammer
Samuel Autman @samuelautman.bsky.social Writer l Professor l Foodie l Traveler I Meditator l Flâneur l 🏳️🌈
🇦🇷🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇸🇫🇷🇲🇽🇨🇺🇵🇳🇵🇹🇳🇱🇩🇪🇦🇼🇧🇸🇺🇸🇵🇫🇮🇹🇰🇭🇱🇻🇱🇦🇳🇮🇻🇳🇨🇿🇨🇱🇵🇪
✍️🏾 essays, fiction & more
📽 https://vimeo.com/921531391
www.samuelautman.com
@nodghosh.bsky.social @nodghosh.bsky.social 
Susmita Bhattacharya @susmitab.bsky.social Writer. Educator. Dreamer.
Sabrina Hicks @sabrinahicks.bsky.social Author of Coyote Girl, available now (CJ Press), desert dweller, hiker, word wrangler. Work in Best Sm Fiction, Best Micro, Wigleaf Top 50, pubs listed at sabrinahicks.com
Kim Samek @kimsamek.bsky.social O. Henry Prize-winning author of debut story collection I AM THE GHOST HERE with Dial Press, out now. Pushcart Prize winner, Emmy nominated tv writer.
Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social Poet & NYT bestselling author of A SUIT OR A SUITCASE, YOU COULD MAKE THIS PLACE BEAUTIFUL, DEAR WRITER, GOOD BONES +📚 Host of @slowdownshow.org
Saudamini Deo @saudaminideo.bsky.social humanities, writing, translation / PhD candidate Université Paris Cité / ECHELLES
https://beyondsixrivers.fr/
Sari Botton @saribotton.bsky.social Bestselling Author/Editor/Teacher/Oldster Memoir: And You May Find Yourself… Anthologies: Goodbye to All That and Never Can Say Goodbye Newsletters: @oldstermag.bsky.social, @memoirland.bsky.social, Adventures in *Journalism* http://saribotton.com
Margo Griffin @67mgriffin.bsky.social I like to write stuff. Longtime Boston-area educator. Mom of daschund-pug mix rescue. Words in Literary Namjooning, Roi Fainéant Press, Bending Genres, Bright Flash Literary, Literally Stories, etc. Upcoming-Brilliant Flash Fiction, Reckon Review & Jake.
Archie @artemwriting.bsky.social UPenn. MBA. Books 📚 Writing ✍️ Art 🎨 Cooking & Gardening 🌱 Photos my own 📸 Married. From California ☀️ Got a Wacko Immune System 😅 Connecting here 🤗 https://substack.com/@archartem
@bathflashaward.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social 3 times a year Flash Fiction Award. £1460 prize fund. Anthology. Founded in 2015. 32nd Award results out now. 33rd Award open. Judge Writer and writing tutor . Alison Woodhouse Closes June 7th 2026
Jen Palmares Meadows @jenpmeadows.bsky.social Creative Nonfiction Writer. Essays. Memoir in Progress. Work in Lit Hub, The Rumpus, Fourth Genre, Brevity, Denver Quarterly, Hobart. Sacramento Valley via SoCal. jenpalmaresmeadows.com
Joe Koch @horrorsong.blog Joe Koch writes literary horror and surrealist trash.
Website: horrorsong.blog
Preorder: Dead Boys Don't Cry https://bookshop.org/p/books/dead-boys-don-t-cry/840db6f4b7160b5e?ean=9781968043568
Books!
The Wingspan of Severed Hands
Invaginies
Convulsive
Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced! @bogiperson.bsky.social Writer, editor, critic, scholar. Lambda + Hugo winner. Hungarian / Jewish / agender / neuroatypical. E/em/eir/emself or they. טומטום. Intersex. 100% migráncs in Lawrence, Kansas. Metroidbrainia enjoyer. Opinions my own & do not represent anyone else
Lydi Conklin @lydiconklin.bsky.social "Rainbow Rainbow" story collection 2022 and "Songs of No Provenance" a novel forthcoming in June 2025!
Anuja Varghese @anuja-v.bsky.social Author of CHRYSALIS (2023) and A KISS OF CRIMSON ASH (coming May 2026)
Denne Michele @thedennemichele.bsky.social den (she/her) 🏳️⚧️ • EIC @ElectricLit • WHEN THE HARVEST COMES (Random House, ‘25) • BOTH/AND (HarperOne, ‘25) • Views Mine • ⛸️ • 🎻• ✍🏾
Nate Xie @nathanrxie.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 | he/they/yours | rep’d by Kent Wolf | nathan-xie.com
Mac Crane (they/them) @mcrane12.bsky.social parent. jock to writer pipeline. author of I KEEP MY EXOSKELETONS TO MYSELF, A SHARP ENDLESS NEED (May, 2025), PERVERTS (2026)
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya @kaylakumari.bsky.social gay
Mariah Rigg @riggstah.bsky.social they call the wind | samoan-haole from Oʻahu | author of EXTINCTION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD (Ecco, 2025) | www.mariahrigg.com
Summer Koester @summeralaska.bsky.social Writer, artivist, teacher, culture disruptor
Substack bestseller w/ the Feral Stack
https://open.substack.com/pub/summerisferal
Attawoman @attawoman.bsky.social Irish lass living in Berlin.
Catch my improv shows at the Comedy Café Berlin.
Find my writing at JAKE and Lost Balloon.
(Also open to jobs: UX, research, copywriting, voice/acting, TRY ME!)
Ewen Glass @ewenglass.bsky.social screenwriter | lecturer | poemer
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
Claire Cameron @clairecameron.bsky.social Author of How to Survive a Bear Attack, winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award in Non-Fiction | I write about wild things, I run & I read
https://www.claire-cameron.com
Hamish Morjaria @hamishmorjaria.bsky.social Bestselling Author | 🏴🇮🇳The Curse of Muziris | Pan Macmillan Historical Thriller | Promoting diversity in publishing | Probably watching cricket
Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social Prof & Writer - How High We Go in the Dark, a National Bestseller and NYT Editors’ Choice & Where We Go When All We Were is Gone. Minneapolis by way of the SF Bay Area and Hawai’i http://SequoiaNagamatsu.com - Star Trek 💫 and wristwatch ⌚️ obsessed.
Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social This is a storybook. All of us are in it. Here are some tales.
https://eirenegentle.com
https://templeinacity.com
In: AHC, Claudine, DIHP, Bull, Frazzled, Fish Barrel, Dog Throat, Blood & Honey, ANMLY Whimperbang. Pushcart, best short fiction nom.
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me Writer, Colombo. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023, Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards) & RAKESFALL (2024, Le Guin Prize and Otherwise award.) https://vajra.me
Ulrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social Author of An Uncertain Age and House of Miracles. Labyrinth guide.
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www.ulricahume.com
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Read story: https://psalteryandlyre.org/2025/10/13/call-us-not-weeds/
Sheila Killian @sheilakillian.bsky.social Author, writer, teacher, researcher, that kind of thing.
Words. You know yourself.
Limerick Ireland
www.sheilakillian.com
Emma Sloley @emmasloley.bsky.social Writer, gadabout, author of a novel I think you'll like called THE ISLAND OF LAST THINGS. Buy it here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-island-of-last-things-emma-sloley/K4KD2ktViQqEW3A8?ean=9781250329257&next=t&digital=t
Del LeBow @dellebow.bsky.social Writer of literary fiction | Bi | Washington, DC
Kat Lewis @katjolewis.bsky.social I write books and video games 🎮 | GOOD PEOPLE forthcoming from Simon & Schuster (2026) | Writing Craft Lessons on Substack | Rep: Robin Rue @ Writers House | Views = my own | she/her
Virginia Hall @virginiahall.bsky.social Writer, literary and women’s fiction, poet, border collie slave and ocean activist - roots in science, wings in sentence craft.
Zoe Flavin @zoebflavin.bsky.social writer & sex educator | NYU mfa
zoebflavin.substack.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/
Liam Quane 🏳️🌈 📖 @specificityarchives.com Filmmaker
Author | SPSFC Quarter-finalist
Comic writer
Sloth on the run
www.liamquane.com- N 🇺🇸 @n976wow.bsky.social
Johannah @johannah.bsky.social Multi-Genre, Midwest, GenX writer, who also is an office workin' careering, adjunct professor, avid papercrafter, boardgamer and mom. Find my work at --> thewritingtype.com
Sambam37 🇿🇦🏳️🌈 @sambam37.bsky.social She/her. A lover and a fighter, proudly part of the Alphabet Mafia. Creator of safe spaces and cozy chats. Loud in both support and defiance.
Amie Souza Reilly @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social she/her/hers. writer, artist, mom. lecturer & writer-in-res. sacred heart university. free Palestine 🇵🇸
Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays out April 2025, Wilfrid Laurier U Press
More info at http://amiesouzareilly.com/
Debbi Voisey @dublinwriter.bsky.social Writer. Pushcart and Best Micro Fictions 2025 nominee. Published @fairlightbooks & @shortstorymag. Mentor. Tutor. Novel THE RESET published 2025 with Bloodhound Books. Email dublinwriter@hotmail.co.uk
Fiftywords @fiftywords.bsky.social Thinks too much and tries to make sense of the world’s chaos, beauty, and commas; mostly through poetry.
stschorey @stschorey.bsky.social writer | editor | PhD, UNC Chapel Hill | 🏳️🌈
Matt Barrett @mbarrettwriter.bsky.social Writer. Stories in: The Sun, Threepenny Review, TriQuarterly, Cincinnati Review, West Branch, Wigleaf, Baltimore Review, The Forge, Cutleaf, Best Microfiction, & Best Small Fictions. Soon: Prairie Schooner
https://mbarrettwriter.wixsite.com/stories
Jeff Harvey @jhhwriter.bsky.social Writer: work appears in
@trampset.bsky.social
@mooncityreview.bsky.social
@moonparkreview.bsky.social
@soflopojo.bsky.social
@whaleroadreview.bsky.social
@bendinggenres.bsky.social
Editor: gooseberrypielit.bsky.social
jhhwriter.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 ...
Anna Scaife @whatelseanna.bsky.social Author of ‘Hush’ from Ugly Hill Press out now.
Creative Writing PhD Candidate at @modernletters.bsky.social
Short fiction in Landfall, ReadingRoom, Flash Frontier, At The Bay | Te Kokuru, Turbine | Kapohau
M.R. Mandell @mrmandell8.bsky.social Poet with dogs. 🖤
Words in: Hayden’s Ferry | SWWIM | McNeese | Door Is A Jar | HAD | “Don't Worry About Me“ (Bottlecap Press). "The Last Girl” (Finishing Line Press).
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
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.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
@ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social Author: IN THIS RAVISHING WORLD, AFTERWORD, THE TRANSLATOR, THE PAINTING; HOW TO WRITE STUNNING SENTENCES; Lover of lemons, dogs, snails.
Instructor: Stanford Continuing Studies
website: ninaschuyler.com
Stunning Sentences: ninaschuyler.substack.com