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Suzanne Hicks @suzannehicks.bsky.social Writer living with multiple sclerosis. Often very tired. Best Microfiction ‘24 Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist ‘24.
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Mary Lou Buschi @maryloubuchi.bsky.social Mary Lou Buschi (she/her) Mary Lou has 3 full length poetry collections. Her 3rd book, BLUE PHYSICS came out in February 2024 (Lily Poetry Review). PADDOCK, (2021) was also published by (LPR). 
Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social Poet, essayist, recovering academic in Bellingham, WA. Work in Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Iron Horse, Potomac Review, RHINO Poetry, Terrain.org, Whale Road Review. Chapbook: IMPOSSIBLE LESSONS (MoonPath Press). https://jenniferbullis.wordpress.com
Fiona McKay @fionamckay.bsky.social Writer | THE TOP ROAD (AdHoc Fiction 2023) | DRAWN AND QUARTERED (Alien Buddha Press 2023) | THE LIVES OF THE DEAD (AdHoc Fiction July 2025) | Words in places | Autistic + ADHD
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Beth Kanter @beekaekae.bsky.social Writer, teacher, workshop leader.
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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/
Kim Steutermann Rogers @kimsrogers.bsky.social Writer. Photographer. Journalist. Covering science, nature, Hawaii, life. Bylines in NatGeo, SmithsonianMag, AudubonMag; prose (CNF and fiction) in Ghost Parachute, Moon City Review, Gone Lawn, Milk Candy Review, Fictive Dream, and elsewhere.
Dirk Bannion, Author @author-dirkbannion.bsky.social https://dirkbannionbooks.com/
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Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social Writer. Books: A THOUSAND WAYS TO DISAPPEAR (Cornerstone Press, 2028)/THE CLARITY OF HUNGER (Word West Press, 2021). Fiction instructor: Harvard Extension School. MacDowell Fellow ‘23. Email: fabulistpappas@gmail.com
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Rebecca Bernard @ohheyrebecca.bsky.social Our Sister Who Will Not Die: Stories (Mad Creek Books, 2022) | Asst. Prof @ East Carolina University | Fiction Ed. @ The Boiler |teeth pal | rebeccaibernard.com
Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social Author: Pardon Me for Moonwalking (Unsolicited Press), Wild Plums (ELJ).
Contributor: Flash Fiction America (Norton)
Wigleaf 50 2024, 2025; Best Small Fictions '23, '24; Best Microfiction '23
Rosaleen Lynch @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social ☘️ Irish community worker, writer
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Gary Dalkin @garydalkin.bsky.social UK editor & writer. I write every month for Writing Magazine. Bournemouth Writing Festival. Organising Chaos. Author Events. Editor-at-large at Cadence Publishing.
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Phoebe Lostroh @profphoebe.bsky.social Microbiologist, feminist, dog and cat lover, LGBTQIA+ communities, Grinnell College and UWC grad; she/her 🏳️🌈🥖🌹https://tinyurl.com/Virosphere
Cammie Basseri @cammiebasseri.bsky.social CNF Writer, essays, flash. Forthcoming memoir IT MUST HAVE BEEN BEAUTIFUL. Stringing words along the coasts of the US and Ireland—w/a good cuppa.
I bake things when I'm pissed.
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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
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
SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social Dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web, by widely published authors or those new to the craft. Est.2003. Paying up to $150. www.smokelong.com. No Trump supporters. Follow also @heyflashvillage.bsky.social
Adeena Reitberger @adeena.bsky.social Sometimes writer, editor at American Short Fiction, tennis person, animal friend. ~~ https://adeenareitberger.com/ ~~
Jory Mickelson @poetryphone.bsky.social poet | author of
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ALL THIS DIVIDE | Spuyten Duyvil Press
WILDERNESS//KINGDOM | Floating Bridge Press
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Wes Blake @wesblake.bsky.social Award-winning author. 📍Kentucky
HAZELGREEN & OTHER HAUNTS (WVU Press, ‘27)
PINEVILLE TRACE (Etchings Press, ‘24)
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Virginia Quarterly Review @vqr.bsky.social An award-winning national magazine at the University of Virginia. Established in 1925. vqronline.org
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Meakin Armstrong @meakin.bsky.social Fiction | Ghostwriter | Guernica fiction ed 2006-2022 | NYPL Young Lions Readers’ Committee | Work/words: Lit Hub, New Yorker, Forbes, Business Insider 📍Portland, OR
Kristen Arnett @kristenarnett.bsky.social “Orlando's Reigning Big Time Celebrity Author” - The Orlando Weekly
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Mostly Dead Things & WITH TEETH & STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE
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Martha Silano @marthasilano.bsky.social Poet
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Rina Palumbo @rinapalumbo.bsky.social Ph.D. (JHU, History); Italian-Canadian expatriate. Writer, Editor, avid reader.
Writing in Hopkins Review, Identity Theory, Ghost Parachute, et al.
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Chaya Bhuvaneswar @chayab77.bsky.social Writer. Doctor. @nytimes. WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS. PEN/ Bingham Finalist. Find me: www.chayabhuvaneswar.com
Phil Chacko @philchacko.bsky.social I do internet and AI things. I also have political opinions. | thepossible.io
Kar Johnson @karjohnson.bsky.social They/them. Writer. Bookseller. Events for Green Apple Books in SF. Oakland-based.
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Amanda Chemeche @achemeche.bsky.social Writer, Opera Nerd and Drag King (They/Them)
Bylines: Jezebel, Lithub, Michigan Quarterly Review, Tribune, Harper’s Bazaar, Harvard Review, them., BOMB, The Forward
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Trinity Dublin, Yale & Columbia Alum
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Rosana Francescato @theeflowerchild.bsky.social I write about #cleanenergy by day, everything else on evenings & weekends. Semicolon lover; will fight for the Oxford comma. A real Flower Child, my name for the generation some call Jones. More at flowerchild.substack.com.
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Kip Knott @kiptain.bsky.social Poet, writer, photographer. Author of FAMILY HAUNTS (Louisiana Literature Press). Wigleaf Top 50 2024. Best Microfiction 2024.- M @mowalsh.bsky.social @mowalsh.bsky.social
Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social Author of some books & more, professor, translator, artist+ 🏳️🌈 🖤💚❤️ 🏳️⚧️ (Avatar: c/o I.D. Mag/photo © Mario Sorrenti)
Amy Barnes @amygcb.bsky.social Child Craft: bellepointpress.bsky.social | Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social | Co-editor: @gonelawn.bsky.social |
Sarah Fawn Montgomery @sfmontgomery.bsky.social Author of ABBREVIATE, NERVE, HALFWAY FROM HOME, QUITE MAD, and three poetry chaps. FATHOM forthcoming. Editor Nerve to Write. Associate Prof. ♿🏳️🌈
J T Frost @jtfrostwrites.bsky.social Author of really queer stories| demiguy, gay| He/they. insta: jtfrostwrites
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Jimin Han @jiminhanwriter.bsky.social Writer
DREAMT I FOUND YOU (4/26)
THE APOLOGY
A SMALL REVOLUTION
Porter Shreve @portershreve.bsky.social Novelist at HarperCollins and LSU Press; articles and book reviews in NYT, WaPo, SFChron, ChiTrib; Director of Creative Writing at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social Former 30-year-old. Used to be in punk bands but super boring now. English PhD student. He/him.