Amanda Edmiston, Botanica Fabula @botanicafabula.bsky.social Herbal storyteller, folklorist, creative practitioner, writer. The Time Traveller’s Herbal published by David and Charles. Botanica Fabula school of herbal storytelling 💚🌲🌱💫 #botanicafabula #timetravellersherbal
Kate LaDew @kateladew.com 🖋️ North Carolina author of short stories and poetry. Dedicated to civil rights & women's history.🪦 Inspired by historic cemeteries & forgotten lore. 🌊 Democrat. 🦢📄 Lover of origami. 🌐 kateladew.com #NCwriters #HistFic #CemeteryResearch #CivilRights #BlueNC
Kaye Inglis @kayeinglis.bsky.social Writer, editor, dog walker. Manager of the band yourgardenday. Autistic so sometimes over-enthusiastic. Huge fan of all things horror, folklore, and dark comedy. Book “The Devil’s Dastard”currently in progress. https://ko-fi.com/kayeingliswriter
Shayne Laughter @shaynel.bsky.social Writer, novelist, short stories, scripts, random remarks. Traveler, Hoosier, Trekkie. My DMs are for CONVERSATION, be inventive! Blog: sane-almanack.ghost.io , earth regeneration topics and other stuff that keeps me SANE
James Kee @crowscratch.bsky.social Screenwriter Night of the Zoopocalypse; author Tales From The Haunted Library series
Folklore of Scotland @folklorescotland.bsky.social A book of Scottish folklore by Ayrshire-born Druid and Bard, Stephen G. Rae. Available in print and ebook. Published by The FolkLore Press.
Elizabeth Crowder @thelizcrowder.bsky.social Writer, editor, librarian
Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social Syntaxer. Poet. Editor. Columnist. Gaymer. Ex-chef. Occasional pebble. Feelings Laminated. MFA in Poetry (Randolph).
words -> http://adriandallas.com
2nd Brother @2ndbrotherpoems.bsky.social Publishing the very best in contemporary poetry since 2026
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Didi Wood @didiwood.bsky.social 💙😷🌏
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Chandra Steele @chandrasteele.bsky.social Writer and editor
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Katie Robinson @ktrobinson.bsky.social poetry, fiction, & creative nonfiction
grappling with themes of motherhood, dystopias, mental unraveling, grief, & more.
words in JMWW, Stone Circle Review, Harpy Hybrid Review, & Heimat Review.
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June Phung @j4prez.bsky.social 🇲🇾 | Writer by day, still a writer by night. In that weird space between writing for startups and fiction. | words: Spellbinder, Gone Lawn, NFFD
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Lee Hamblin @hamblin1.bsky.social writer of short fiction/ teacher of yoga
Mario Aliberto 3 @marioaliberto3.bsky.social 💢ALL THE DEAD WE HAVE YET TO BURY out now w/ @ChestnutReview.bsky.social ➡️ https://a.co/d/7KbGazX 💢Shorts in @FracturedLit.bsky.social @smokelong.bsky.social @pinchjournal.bsky.social & more
Tamra Wight @tamrawight.bsky.social MG Author ~ Middle School Ed Tech ~
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Char Hamrick @charhamrick.bsky.social Managing Editor @reckonreview.bsky.social
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Arielle Kaplan @ariellemkaplan.bsky.social Poet • educator • ariellemkaplan.com • editorial team & newsletter @agnimagazine.bsky.social
Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social http://mitchnobis.com
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Also: WNS @wns-at-ksf.bsky.social & NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social
Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social Poet, artist, music lover. (She/her)
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Chris Scott @iamchrisscott.bsky.social ClickHole contributor. Writer. Person. An actual human being. In DC. chrisscottwrites.com
Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social Writer. Wine taster.
Chapbook prize winner. Memoirist.
Words in Josephine Quarterly, Thin Skin, Taos Journal of Poetry, Thimble, Mom Egg Review, Literary Orphans, The Fourth River, Marbled Sigh, Lime Hawk Review... Found in Europe + Florida.
Ramona Reeves @ramoreeves.bsky.social Author, It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories, Drue Heinz Lit Prize | Editor, Writing Coach | 🌈
David Luntz @dluntz.bsky.social Words in Hobart Pulp, X-R-A-Y, Bruiser, HAD etc.
Sarah Ward @sarahward595.bsky.social Proofreader, Copy Editor (Diploma accredited)
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Mat Bradley-Tschirgi @matwbt.bsky.social Author of Doom Video Games, The Films of Eddie Murphy, Star Trek Video Games.
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Tony Hill @tonyhill.bsky.social Psychology – reports • occasionally also PR / journalising – some writing • (she)
https://tonyhillwrites.wordpress.com/
M. David Scoble @mdavidscoble.bsky.social M. David writes about the worlds of supernatural creatures, high science, and the cybernatural world to come.
He can be found at:
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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social Wrote FAIR / GOBLINHOOD / VEHICLE / DUST SUCKER, translate German lit, publish Maltese lit at Praspar Press. Tutor, Granta Writers’ Workshop. www.jencalleja.com
Muad Dyb Dyb Dob Dob @thebitterguy.bsky.social Old nerd. Just four bad ideas in a trenchcoat.
Half the weirdos on Is That Some Kind of Japanimation Thing? and regular contributor to Ghost Show Press’s Everyone’s Gone to the Movies series.
They say I cannot be killed by normal means. He/him
Sarah Drew @sarah-drew.com Writing about romance & red tape in 1819. Unbalanced accountant, voracious reader, few fixed opinions, slightly Scottish.
https://sarah-drew.com
Amazing cover art ©www.claremelinsky.co.uk
Miriam Krause @mirk47.bsky.social science, books, geekery (she/her)
owner of @catalystbooks.bsky.social, day job with @umnchemistry.bsky.social, formerly @sustainablenano.bsky.social
47 is about Pomona College and I refuse to abandon it
Michael vs. 2026 @thepmann.bsky.social Boy from Oklahoma, now in New England. Writer of fantasy. Repped by @suddenlyjen.bsky.social of https://bsky.app/profile/ldlainc.bsky.social. #amrevising Nerd. Neurodivergent. Anti-fascism. Friend to dogs. He/him.
🌈 Romie glows in the dark 📽 @romiesays.bsky.social Author Romie Stott, who is the same person as filmmaker and musician Romie Faienza. Poetry editor at Strange Horizons. Texan in Massachusetts. Capisco italiano un po. ⚥ Sign up for my mailing list at romiesays.kit.com.
Mixed Bag @m-ixedbag.bsky.social Writer, Mom, Polyglot. Editor @lit-namjooning.bsky.social, Subs Editor @Smokelong. Words: BSF'23 @hexliterary,@tinymolecules @barrelhouse @BoothAJournal @wigleaf
Published work here: linktr.ee/hemanataraju
Patience Mackarness @patiencemackarness.bsky.social Writer, grandmother, tree-hugger. Born in Hampshire, now in rural Brittany, with pitstops in Leeds, Portugal, Wales, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Liverpool. I write flash fiction and other things.
Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social Undercover skeleton. 💀 Writer/researcher/lecturer. Ludokinetic/interactive poetry 🃏, collaborative and amalgamatic writing. Editor at @SidekickBooks. 📚 He/him.
www.gojonstonego.com
Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social Poet, market researcher, husband, father, knobhead.
Book called Collecting The Data out via Red Squirrel Press or me. The "Aldi Stanley Tucci".
https://t.co/eJeeqVdmvz
Gary Barwin @garybarwin.bsky.social writing, multimedia, music, art, Hamilton ON Canada https://linktr.ee/garybarwin
“There’s a wisecrack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social slow-lane poet, insect- & fungi-portraitist Good Omens DT & MS fan, rabid reader & writer in Quebec Canada
www.pearlpirie.com
🏳️🌈 gender costume: she/they Alt image: white person in glasses. long wavy greying hair, wonder woman bracelet
Matt Uhler @matt-uhler.bsky.social San Francisco fanboy, former editor, current nonprofit exec, wanderer, and sometimes poet. Frequent seeker of kindness and nuance.
The Writer of Dragons @writerofdragons.bsky.social I'm a published author. I'm happily married. 🚫DMs. I am an artist & illustrator. I have an associate of arts in Psychology & a background in the medical field. I am a Christian Democrat who values education & kindness.🌹💙
I am big on literacy📚 & nature🦋.
foofaraw press @foofarawpress.bsky.social a zine of surreal storytelling and worldly observations
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J Poetry @j-poetry.bsky.social Poet | Writer
🚫AI - all words are my own
email for inquiry: j.thoughtpoetry@gmail.com
TikTok: @j_poetry_
he/him/they/them
Chain Story Online @chainstoryonline.bsky.social ✍🏻 A free, collaborative, online writing app where you can join the #WritingCommunity, take turns and write great stories 100 words at a time #FlashFiction #ChainStory
Keira Mae @hippifern.bsky.social Author || Copywriting • Ghostwriting • Editing
Owner @ https://freelancewritersgazette.substack.com/
Available for freelance projects ↓
https://msha.ke/keiramae
Literary Pug @literarypug.bsky.social Lit·er·ar·y Pug /ˈlidəˌrerē puhg/ rearranging words, watching 𝐴𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒 🐶#poetry #5amwritersclub🐶 Editing 2024 poems. Life is Star Trek. Be mindful.
Ellen T McKnight @eltmck.bsky.social Writer, poet, gardener, hiker, ex-lawyer. Student of human nature. Humor helps.💙 ellentmcknight.com
Author Valerie Fox @authorvaleriefox.bsky.social I'm a self-published author.
Melissa Stevens @melissatstevens.bsky.social NYT Bestselling author of steamy contemporary and paranormal romance.
More than 70 books published.
More coming out all the time.
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S.L. Harris @slharris.bsky.social Writer, educator, sometime archaeologist | husband & dad | roots and beginnings | fiction website: ifchanceyoucallit.wordpress.com
Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social Author (The Ember of Elyssia Quartet, Fortune's Calling Trilogy, THE BRIDAL PARTY, THE PRINCE WITH SIX FACES). Dice roller. Disabled in the library. All opinions mine. All around nerd.
https://linktr.ee/annaholmeswritesbooks
(She/they) ♿️🏳️🌈
Jarrett @darkwebtofu.bsky.social Lecturer, UMiami // GRATITUDE LIST (Bull City, 2024) out now! // Poems: AGNI, Ploughshares, Poets.org, POETRY Magazine, Baltimore Review, elsewhere
Mel Malton @melmalton.bsky.social 🇨🇦Gardener, cook, scribbler and god-botherer. Author of the Polly Deacon mysteries.
Black Herald Press @blackheraldpress.bsky.social Éditeur indépendant / independent press
poésie, essais, textes courts / Poetry books, essays, short texts (in English or mostly bilingual) since 2010 / éditrice-publisher Blandine Longre @blandinelongre.bsky.social
https://www.blackheraldpress.com
Gwendolyn Kiste @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social Horror Author. 4x Bram Stoker Award Winner. Lambda Literary Award Winner. Potato Chip Connoisseur.
Courtney Pasko @cpasko.bsky.social Reader, writer, library girl
Country mouse living in Baltimore
she/hers
https://www.courtneypasko.com/
Jane @janestecyk.bsky.social I write always weird sometimes funny sometimes dark stuff. 1st & 2nd places at Writing Battle, Twisted Champion, 3rd Place in Woodland Writers. Published in Elegant Lit, Rat Bag Lit and by TL;DR Press. Rejected by 100s of Other Places.
Tymber Dalton aka Lesli Richardson @tymberdalton.bsky.social (She/Her) Snarky, mostly harmless USAT bestselling author of 🌶️📚 HEAs. Geek, ♉️Pagan witch, Oxford comma ♥️er. Fiber artist. 🧶🧵🪡 Gives good brain. Spoonie. Neurospicy. #AuDHD #Romancelandia 🦄🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally. Liberal. 🖕ïçẽ
🚫AI - I write my own books.
tymberdalton.com
Kaily Harumi Daida @kailyhdaida.bsky.social She/Her | Yonsei/Gosei Japanese-American | SFFH Writer | 🚫 GenAI
yasmeen / ياسمين @yasmeenfahmy.bsky.social sff writer / toddler mama / clarion west '26
stories in/coming to khōréō, night shades mag, saros sf, hex, sprawl mag, if there's anyone left
yasmeenfahmy.com / NJ / صباح الحرية
R. S. Mot @motthepaladin.bsky.social Colorado based spec-fic author, hobby photographer, voracious reader, and dice collector.
Human created content only!
aro/ace | it/they | Not-so-secretly a dragon 🐉
https://r-s-mot.carrd.co/
J. Y. Zhang @jyzh.bsky.social sentient entity + occasional writer of words | clarion 2026 | 🇨🇦
https://jyzhang.ca/
Leigh Loveday @leighloveday.bsky.social Another writer fleeing Twitter. 30 years of videogame-adjacent scrawling and also, these days, weird short stories. Pics of cats, books and foxes likely.
Quotidian Bagatelle @quotatelle.bsky.social a micro imprint from Foofaraw Press
currently open for submissions https://foofaraw.press/quotidian-bagatelle/
Verdell Walker, Writer @vwalkerwrites.bsky.social Word Mistress / Producer & Host of “The Book Up” podcast
Your Personal Odyssey Writing Workshop 2025 | Clarion West 2026
Website: https://verdellwalkerwrites.mystrikingly.com/
IG: @verdellwalkerwrites
All links: https://linktr.ee/verdellwalkerwrites
Mixeduppainter @mixeduppainter.bsky.social You may know me as the one who kept writing monster romances (and also won't stop talking about Beyond Evil)
Writing as J. Emery
Spiritual Successor out 2024
Elliot Kang @elliotkang.bsky.social SFF Writer | Tokyo | Clarion '26
12 Indie Novels, Working on 13-15
elliotkang.com
Mitch M @mitchicism.bsky.social A weird collection of sentences prone to bouts of whimsy. I write, shoot film, and make art.
Words/photography forthcoming/in: Steam Ticket, TheBiteNM, Barren Magazine.
Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social @onyxaminedlife on Twitter. Chicago trans woman/entity/entities. She/her or they/them. A short story writer and all around pretentious person. Weird jokes, political rants, some positivity. Friendly!
Night Shades ⏾ @nightshadesmag.bsky.social 🛸 500 Word Speculative Stories. $0.15/word. nightshadesmag.com
J.J. Silkwood @jjsilkwood.bsky.social upmarket spec fic author ‧
lover of nature, aliens, & Moby-Dick
🏠: zürich 🇨🇭
🥳: Elegant Literature Award winner (“Predator & Prey” issue)
Siobhan Logan @siobhanloganwriter.bsky.social Writer, doodler, former editor & publisher at Space Cat Press. She/Her. Currently VP of Leicester Writers Club, a lovely writers community. Dabbles in Art classes for joy.
https://spacecatpress.co.uk/
David Hanlon @vespertine4.bsky.social Cardiff poet. Best of the Net nominee. Author of two poetry collections - 'Spectrum of Flight' published in 2020 & 'Dawn's Incision' in 2024. Co-Poetry Editor @brokenspinearts.bsky.social
C Maxfield @pickledp3.bsky.social Published via The Broken Spine, Blood+Honey, DarkWinter Literary Magazine, RiversSide and Silly Goose Press
Merc Fenn Wolfmoor @mercwolfmoor.bsky.social queer non-binary SFFH writer. ace/aro. ADHD. they/them.
author of THE WOLF AMONG THE WILD HUNT | SO YOU WANT TO BE A ROBOT | & more coming
http://tiny.cc/recordedantho
https://linktr.ee/mercfennwolfmoor
Jonathan Louis Duckworth @jduckwriter.bsky.social Author of Have You Seen the Moon Tonight? & Other Rumors. Horror Writer, regular type dude, Lecturer at University of North Texas.
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
Edward L. Canavan @edwardlcanavan.bsky.social Poet. Overthinker. Ex-drinker. Lone Wolf.
https://linktr.ee/EdwardLC71
Alex Z @alexzoubine.bsky.social Writer, Author, Poet | Producer of BIOME | First Reader @ The Colored Lens | Story Reviewer | Dog lover | Analytics Aficionado
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
The next NFFD will be Saturday 12 June 2027.
https://www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
Stan J Wild @stanjwild.bsky.social Short fiction, CNF, lit mags.
Sharing writing I like — and some of my own.
Stories in Vestal Review, Hinterland, Wallstrait, Neon&Smoke and others
Kelly E. Sullivan @real-immirage.bsky.social Writes poetry, fiction and academic-y things. PhD. modernism, Irish Literature. kellyesullivan.com.
Toledo Blade (poems) with DGP; Moose Lottery(novel) with https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/the-moose-lottery
T Guzman @tguzman.bsky.social Writer or close approximate. Chapbook, Ghost Mom, from Stanchion Press. Exclamation point user extraordinaire. Zebra Cake connoisseur.
Chicanx. He/Him.
www.tguzmanwrites.com
CA💛/MI💜/STL♥️
Tom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social Author of 5 books, most recently the essay collection IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE. New novel REVEAL! forthcoming in Spring '28
Former Book Fight podcast co-host. @Barrelhouse.bsky.social NF Editor. Rutgers-Camden MFA faculty. South Jersey.
Tom.mcallister.ws
Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social Author, THE SHITBIRD (Stanchion Books, 2026), I BLAME MYSELF BUT ALSO YOU (Malarkey Books, 2024) and HOW I’M SPENDING MY AFTERLIFE. Hat enthusiast. Former Florida man. My Erdos number is four. I block scolds and AI sloppers.
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
mere rain @mererain.bsky.social Author of speculative fiction of all genres.
Pubbed by JMS Books, Mischief Corner, Flametree, CossMass, Mad Scientist Journal, Astral, Things in the Well...
Scribbler Johnny He/him @scribblerjohnny.bsky.social Romantasy and Horror author and voice actor. I write stories about healing and redemption. Usually polyamorous. Audiobooks read by me. https://youtube.com/@Scribblerjohnny?si=OA_C5ot07y7sJ4v6
https://inkitt.com/scribblerjohnny
Shaawan Francis Keahna @shaawan.com he/him. words in Never Whistle At Night Part II: Back for Blood, hex, ALOCASIA, and more. filmmaker & full time college student. pfp by eleanora hyde.
James Chase Sanchez @jamescsanchez.bsky.social Director of Writing & Rhetoric at Middlebury College
Documentaries: Man on Fire (2018), North Putnam (2024), The Spiritual Advisor (2025), and In Loco Parentis
www.poundofsnow.com
The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to prose, poetry, comics, essays, humor, hybrid, and everything in-between.
www.bulbregion.com
haylie swenson @hayliebswenson.bsky.social Loves rats, pigeons, cockroaches, public libraries and pools, and DC, the 51st state. Loathes GenAI from my deepest soul. A novelist with a day job and two cats, once three. RIP Creature, I will love you forever. Repped by Heather Carr (Friedrich Agency)
Catherine Rockwood @martin65.bsky.social she/they, poet/critic. www.catherinerockwood.com/about
John Lechner @johnlechner.bsky.social I'm an author, illustrator, animator & puppeteer. I write stories and comics about nature, especially insects! Currently seeking an agent. he/him www.johnlechner.com 🍃
penfold @penfold.bsky.social writer of things, stories, & other wordments. no AI, none of the time. he/they. could be Heat Miser. read me at http://justpenfold.com/stories, editor @TLDRpress.bsky.social
Jon Chaiim McConnell @jonmcconn.bsky.social writer | etc
https://linktr.ee/jonmcconn
Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social she/her 🏳️⚧️ Writer of queer things. Lover of dinosaurs
Stories in One Story, Witness Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, Passages North, Lightspeed, and other cool places.
Represented by Erin Harris @ Folio Literary
nicanstett.com
B. Chris (B.C.) Bell @bc30000.bsky.social Author of the Tales of the Bagman series and some dozen pulp novellas. Bluespunk musician. Pulp, punk rock, cult movies, comics and books. History, fun facts, weird research, Taoism, politics, and brain farts. No DM's w/out request.
Lydia @elliswkim.bsky.social Writer, strategist, editor| McCormack Writing Center (Fellow 24-25), Kenyon | in Ploughshares! | i don't like it when you do that |🕺🏽