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Wandering Aengus Press @wapress.bsky.social Wandering Aengus Press and its imprint, Trail to Table Press, publish literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
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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/
and for all published fiction visit francoamatiwrites.com
Michael Russell Jones @michaeljonas.bsky.social Word nerd.
Neurodivergent autodidact.
Proud survivor of childhood S.A.
Psych ward philosopher.
Resides and writes in Skokie, Illinois.
Poems: https://whiskeytit.com/article/five-poems/
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)
EiC Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table. Here for lit community & Caturday
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Erin Vachon (they/them) ๐ @erinvachon.bsky.social Senior Reviews Editor @smokelong.bsky.social | Multigenre & Chapbook Editor @splitlippress.com | Providence menace | I write weird shit. | Fuck ICE. | More of us than there are of them.
Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social Lover of coffee, chocolate, reading & writing 
Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social Author - Poet
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
Haley Souders @haley-souders.bsky.social Writer
Emerson College โ23
BGSU โ25
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Samuel C'Blake @samuelc70.bsky.social 
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phoebe journal @phoebejournal.bsky.social A journal of literature and art published by George Mason University. Submissions open NOW. Issue 55.2 out!
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Joshua Palmatier/Zombies Need Brains @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social Joshua Palmatier is an epic fantasy writer and the founder of the small press Zombies Need Brains. ZNB does NOT use AI imagery in its covers and does NOT accept AI-generated stories. Visit the store: https://zombies-need-brains-llc.square.site
Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social Writer, nurse. SmokeLong Quarterly, Cincinnati Review+. Senior flash fiction editor @jmww. Sucker for a good barn.
โWe'll Be Birds" flash chapbook available at Sand and Gravel Press
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Graham (Gray) Scott @graythebruce.bsky.social PhD. Professor of English. Pushcart nom. BSF noms (x2). Stories in Split Lip, Pithead Chapel, HAD, Barrelhouse, Necessary Fiction, JMWW, others. Large Language Human.
For now at https://hemicyon.wordpress.com/
Olga Katsovskiy @writingincurves.bsky.social Writer/Editor/Educator
EIC: @jmwwjournal.bsky.social
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Ashtonrussell @ashtonrussell.bsky.social Writer, mother. Work in JMWW, Pithead Chapel, Southeast Review, and elsewhere. What The Living Has Done (Bottlecap Press 2025) Bennington MFA โ24. Associate editor at Iron Horse Literary Review and reader for Fractured Lit and Glossy Planet
Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social Anti-Zionist Free Palestine Ukraine Solidarity Anti-Racist Anti-Carceral Abolitionist Anti-Genocide Anti-Colonial Anti-War Anti-Imperialist Intersectional Feminist Queer LGBTQI+ Green Eco-Socialist People Planet Peace Interfaith Seeker of Beloved Community
Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
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Lindy Biller @lindybiller.bsky.social Best Small Fictions 2024, Best Microfiction 2024, & Wigleaf Top 50 ๐ธ Winner of the Fractured Literary 2021 Flash Fiction Contest and the Welkin Prize ๐ป Author of LOVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD, published by The Masters Review ๐ทlindybiller.com
Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill
Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/
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Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social Author of time travel stories BLUE SKIES (in The Accidental Time Travelers Collective Volume 1) and FROM NOW ON (Vol. 3). Working on PBs, MG Sci-fi, and haiku as @haikuformykids.bsky.social (he/him)
Daily Submittable Deadlines @submittabledaily.bsky.social Best writing and poetry festivals to submit to each day on submittable.
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Bookshelfie โญ๏ธ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
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Postscript (Book Formatter, Cover Designer and Socials Post Maker): https://book-shelfie.com/postscript
Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social ๐จ๐ฆ Flash fiction writer | 2025 Highly Commended Bridport Prize & Finalist New Millennium Writings | Published in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Flash the Court, Writersโ Hour, MacQueenโs Quinterly, and elsewhere.
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Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
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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River River Books @riverriverbooks.bsky.social Where Poetry Moves. Two editors, publishing (at least) two exceptional poetry titles a year & the Plainwater Nonfiction Series. Poetry submissions open in May. Posts by editors @hanvanderhart.bsky.social and @amorak.bsky.social
www.riverriverbooks.org
Rachel M. Hollis (she/her) @rachelmhollis.bsky.social Writer of strange little heartbreaks. Sometimes I share them with people who arenโt my mom.
rachelmhollis.com
Kirsten Miles, Author ๐น @kirstenmiles.bsky.social Author ๐ Vegan ๐ฅฌ Libra โ๏ธ
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The Reader Berlin @thereaderberlin.bsky.social โ๏ธ Berlin's Platform for Creative Writers since 2011 โ๏ธ
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Creative Writing Workshops & Writing Classes / Mentoring / Readings / The Berlin Writing Prize
The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the worldโs best new writing.
http://theberlinliteraryreview.com
Nadia Born @nadiaborn.com โ๏ธ Writer & fabulist | ๐ in Electric Lit, LitMag, New Letters, SmokeLong Quarterly, Augur Magazine, Small Wonders & more | โค๏ธโ๐ฅ #fairytales #fantasy #speculative #flashfiction | ๐ www.nadiaborn.com
Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social Poet with autism and a cat.
Author of ADULTHOOD (Anxiety Press, 2026).
Here to connect with fellow writers and/or fellow neurodivergent people and/or fellow anti-fascists.
he/him โข NJ โข www.brandondiehl.net
SearchSwitchSave.com @searchswitchsave.bsky.social Helping UK households switch broadband, mobile, and TV the easy way. No jargon. No pressure. Just trusted deals, smart filters, and faster savings. Check your postcode and compare in seconds at SearchSwitchSave.com. Built by real people, not bots. ๐
Hannah Goss @hannahlizgoss.bsky.social She/her โข Writer โข BGSU mfa candidate โข Winter Wheat Coordinator ๐พ๐ฟโ๏ธ๐
@megchan16.bsky.social @megchan16.bsky.social 
Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois Universityโs Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
Alibaba @alibaba8.bsky.social https://best4you.cloud/
Kelly Pedro @kellypedro.bsky.social Winner TWUC '26 Short Prose, CRAFT '24 Flash prizes โข Shortlisted: SmokeLong '25 Flash Award, ROOM '22 Fiction Prize โข Words: PRISM international, The New Quarterly, Moon City Review, TLR, FracturedLit, The Fiddlehead+ โข Associate Flash Editor jmww
Timothy Boudreau @tcboudreau.bsky.social Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever (stories, Stanchion), & Stepdad on the Dance Floor (stories, Unsolicited) out now.
All We Knew Were Our Hearts (novel, Unsolicited) coming in '27.
Editor at The Loveliest Review.
timothyboudreau.com.
He/him
Debra Spark @debraspark.bsky.social Gumby wearing a Debra Spark costume
Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social language, longing, music, landscape. DC. co, nyc, & london still hold my heart. words in asterales, crabcreek, fourway, iowa, NAR, poetlore, split lip, vassar. soon in AQR, birdcoat, citron, june road. social media @ SWWIM she/her linktr.ee/jillkitchen
SZ Estavillo @szestavilloauthor.com Crime Thriller Author | The Serpent Series |@OliverHeberBooks | MA: TV, Radio & Film | Multi-Genre Reader
The Serpentโs Bridge (๐1)
The Serpent Woman (๐2)
Twilight of the Serpent (๐3)
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@efremseeger.bsky.social @efremseeger.bsky.social ๐โ๏ธ Former TV writer (Fresh Prince, Queer as Folk and others) turned novelist. Working on fifth thriller. Repped by Victoria Skurnick at LGR. #booksky #author #thrillers
Justine Sweeney @justine1902.bsky.social Writing wee stories about Belfast and other bits and pieces. Bath Novella-in-Flash S/L 2025. Words in places like @theDublinReview.bsky.social @thecitronreview.bsky.social @mooncityreview.bsky.social @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social
Mike Piero ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @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. ๐ฉท๐๐
@abigailcloud.bsky.social @abigailcloud.bsky.social 
Mid-American Review @midamericanreview.bsky.social Publishing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translations, and reviews since 1980. Based at Bowling Green State University.
Gwen E. Kirby @gwenekirby.bsky.social author of SHIT CASSANDRA SAW // stories in One Story, Guernica, Tin House, Smokelong, and elsewhere // corgis, baking, knitting, swearing // she/her
gwenekirby.com
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
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poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia โฉ
Katrina Spillman @katrinaspillman.bsky.social Debut YA Sci-fi author. Watch for Promise The Sky, coming out April 2027 with Ooligan Press.
Check me out at katrinaspillman.com.
Scribo, disco, memini. 
MicheleAlouf.bsky.social @michelealouf.bsky.social Writer. Co-founder @storystreetwriters.com. Harvard Extension Creative Writing ALM. Writing in: Potomac Review, New World Writing, Vestal Review, Gulf Stream, Bridge Eight, and others. Nominated for 2026 Pushcart Prize #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.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
trampset @trampset.bsky.social A literary journal for the tramps in all of us. We accept poetry, CNF, flash, micro, and short fiction on a rolling basis.
All posts by @lmariharris.bsky.social
www.trampset.org
Jesse Lee Kercheval @jesselkercheval.bsky.social Poet, writer, translator (UY poetry), comics. Pitt Poetry Series, Fieldmouse Press, etc. Editor, Wisconsin Poetry Series, UW Press. Emerita CW Prof, UW-Madison, Rep Gail Hochman. Graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL, WaPo 10 Best Graphic Novel 2024
Blue Sword, Resist @blueswordresist.bsky.social We are the Democratic resistance.
Eric Scot Tryon @ericscottryon.bsky.social IโM THE UNDERTOW (Central Avenue, 2026)
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EIC: @flashfrog.bsky.social
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Dig It Dan @digitdan.bsky.social Uncovering history across Maine. I detect properties for owners to showcase their history by finding items lost by past inhabitants. Credited with discovering a Militia/Civil War muster field in ME. Posts about Maine history and things that interest me.
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kyleforsalem @kyleforsalem.bsky.social Salem City Councilor At Large ๐น
LittleThink.001 @darleneheartecho.bsky.social Inspiring minds, one quote at a time ๐ฑ | Sharing motivation, dreams & self-improvement โจ |Follow me for more Darlene thoughts. True quotes & motivation reels โจ๏ธ
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Michael K. Falciani @michaelkfalciani.bsky.social Epic fantasy author | Steampunk Dwarves | Fantasy Romance | 3x Imajinn award winner | High Aces Author of the Year 2024 | Avid reader | Educator | Hiker | Lover of irony and Cricket |
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09717GFMQ
Lawrence Coates๐๐ฆ๐๐๐๐๏ธ๐ @lwcoates.bsky.social Writer, teacher, walker of many trails. Novels published with @unvpress.bsky.social. Novella published with @miamioh-press.bsky.social. Novella forthcoming with @regalhouse.bsky.social. #authorsguild https://lawrencecoates.com/
Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social Loyola gradโs dad. BGSU dad. Poet. BGSU prof/director of creative writing. Union member. Co-founding editor @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. He/him. It's pronounced uh-MOR-ack. https://amorakhuey.com
Nate @nfako.bsky.social he/they // loser // poems findable
Meredith Wadley๐จ๐ญ๐บ๐ธ writer @meredithwadley.bsky.social Mildly friendly, Swiss-based US writer of litfic, working on debut novel. Latest pubs, longform & flash, realism & offbeat: @ghostcitypress @emergejournal @acrossthemargin @TheWoolf @offbeatlit @SubniveanMag & @fiveonthefifth. www.meredithwadley.com
Streunende Hunde Nation @streunendehunden.bsky.social WIR WIDMEN UNS DER RETTUNG,REHABILITATION UND VERMITTLUNG STREUNENDER HUNDE IN NOT.
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Jaden Gootjes @jadengootjes.bsky.social ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐
poet โพ vegan โพ queer โพ fuck generative ai โพ join a union and go outside
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โพ nmu english grad '24
โพ bgsu mfa grad โ26
Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) โข Blood Type: Curry โข Leeds United โข Anti-AI
#LUFC
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Amy Barnes @amygcb.bsky.social Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social
Brecht De Poortere @brechtdp.bsky.social ๐งโ๐ฆฑ "Some guy who ranks all the lit journals youโve ever heard of"
๐ฅ 3rd prize The Hudson Review Short Fiction Contest
โ๏ธ Missouri Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Baltimore Review, X-R-A-Y, The Forge Literary Magazine ...
๐ https://www.brechtdepoortere.com- N ๐บ๐ธ @n976wow.bsky.social
melayna pongratz @mmelayna.bsky.social they/them ๊ฉ artist ๊ฉ mfacw candidate ๊ฉ mid-american review poetry editor