Helen Rye @helenrye.bsky.social Writer, editor. UEA Prose MA and fledgling PhD researcher. Won some writing things. Published some writing things. @smokelong.bsky.social senior ed. She/her. AuDHD
Alizee @alizeeyeezy.bsky.social bad youtuber, bad romance writer
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Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social Writer of short stories, poetry, and CNF - I don't much like to choose (read: bisexual)
autistic & chronically ill 🥄
🌊 Folkestone-dweller
genres: literary, horror
Andrea Bishop @andreabishop.bsky.social Writer. Salt Spring Island & Vancouver, 🇨🇦. Stories in/coming: New Ohio Review, Malahat Review, Masters Review, Cleaver, Grain, BULL, PRISM...
Knows: healthcare, psych & change
Appreciates: dogs, quests, diversity & curiosity
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Meredith Wadley🇨🇭🇺🇸 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
Hopeful News @hopefulnewshq.bsky.social The newsletter full of good news. Start your day with a smile!
Linda M. Bayley @lmbayley.bsky.social Words in BULL, FlashFlood, Does It Have Pockets, Frazzled Lit, Trash Cat Lit, Urban Pigs Press, Fictive Dream. Genrepunk Awards nominee. Shortlisted for the 2026 Bath Novella-in-Flash Award. She/her. @lmbayley at the other place.
Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9
Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤
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Fahmidan Group @fahmidangroup.bsky.social Diversity in Action.
EIC A.R. Arthur Team: Managing Editor Yasmine Dashti
Proud member of @CLMPorg
yohi @yohin.bsky.social 
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
Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social PFP by Terijian
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BSF 2025
Have you ever seen me and Kali in the same room? Thought not
Bi (2) x Demi (1/2) = 1 Sexual
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Lemon Ride @lemonride.bandcamp.com Lemon Ride is the name on everyone’s lips — and no one knows who’s behind it. Blending shimmering melodies with earth-shaking basslines, Lemon Ride crafts a sound that defies definition, balancing emotion and innovation in every track.
Eileen Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social Writer, Librarian, Jerseyan ✍🏻 Baltimore Review, Hunger Mtn, X-R-A-Y, Lost Balloon, Okay Donkey, Pithead Chapel, Passages North, OSU The Journal, Maudlin House, Fractured Lit | BSF 2023 | Wigleaf Top 50 2026
https://eileentomarchio.webnode.page/
Chris Otto @chrisg-sergeant.bsky.social A single father with dignity and good values and never compromise with necessities.
Whimsy @whimsyfiction.bsky.social A monthly microfiction contest celebrating the lighter, more peculiar side of storytelling. Yes, our alpaca travels by quill 🦙🪶
https://www.whimsyfiction.com/
Dr Craig Buchanan FSAScot @buchanan.today Academic, writer and commentator, living on unceded Whadjak Noongar Boodja; Hon Research Fellow (UWA).
Once dubbed “a ganja smoking hippy” by PHON’s James Ashby on Sky News.
Fighting to live in a community, rather than exist in an economy. 🚫 DMs.
Charlotte @bilautaly.bsky.social Not everything I post represents my personal opinion. I enjoy following news, politics, and events around the world.
Jen Michalski @socalwritergirl.bsky.social Writer, EIC, @jmwwjournal.bsky.social. Rep: Esty Loveing-Downes at Howland Literary. Latest: ALL THIS CAN BE TRUE (@TurnerPub, June 2025).
@dgalef.bsky.social @dgalef.bsky.social 
Strange people @rosymelody136885.bsky.social Just documenting life and sharing thoughts.⚖️ Politically neutral🚫 No crypto / Web3 / gift cards
Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social Quarterly print literary magazine & small book press in the Philly 'burbs. Founder & EIC Jeff Bogle. linktr.ee/StanchionZine
Kik Lodge @kiklodge.bsky.social Writer. THE BULLY IN MY PILLOW (Stanchion Books, August 2026).
https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/the-bully-in-my-pillow
Best Microfiction 2026.
Hosts literary open-mics @saloneurope.bsky.social
www.kiklodge.com
Daily Screenplay Festival contests @dailyscreenplays.bsky.social Daily Screenplay Contest Deadlines
All of these top screenplay contests offer full feedback on each submitted works.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-screenplay-contest-deadlines/
Anca L. Szilágyi @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social Author of DAUGHTERS OF THE AIR, called “a striking debut from a writer to watch” by Shelf Awareness & DREAMS UNDER GLASS, called “a novel for our modern times” by Buzzfeed Books. ancawrites.com.
Sherry Morris 💙🇺🇦💛 @uksherka.bsky.social Prize-winning flash & short story writer in the Scottish Highlands. Words in Longleaf Review, Fictive Dream, TBQuarterly +BBC Scottish Voices. Presents Sherry's Shorts on Highland Hospital Radio: https://bit.ly/4kUFZYq Published work: Uksherka.com
Allison @zaelct.bsky.social Usually somewhere between coffee and a good book
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social I'm the author of 80+ books and an established editor who has helped more than 400 authors achieve their publishing dreams. My books include writing guidebooks, a novel, children's books and more. Visit inventingrealityediting.com
YAHU SHUA, HA MASIA @yahushuahamasia-tv.bsky.social I am an author, a song writer or composer and a singer. I am also destined to preach the word of the MOST HIGH YAHU, His HOLY SHALIYAELS and His son "YAHU SHUA, HA MASIA" for the repentance, righteousness and salvation of all humanity irrespective of race.
Elissa Field @elissafield.bsky.social Lit noir novels + flash | SmokeLong Submission Ed | Runner Up Killer Claymore Best Mystery | Stories in/coming SmokeLong trampset HAD Moon City Ghost Parachute Monkeybicycle Citron Review Peatsmoke CRAFT Conjunctions ++ | IG FB elissalaurenfield.com
@ronnie19871.bsky.social @ronnie19871.bsky.social A love of skiing, pushing limits and challenging oneself.
giorgio_inlove @inlove1.bsky.social A love of sailing, each gust of wind bringing new possibilities.
Andrea Damic @damicandrea.bsky.social #artist / #author / associate fiction editor - @jmwwjournal.bsky.social. I spend many an hour tinkering with my website https://damicandrea.wordpress.com/.
June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social Scottish. Writer. Reader for Fractured Lit. Published in Trash Cat Lit, Frazzled Lit, Moonlit Getaway, Gone Lawn, The Phare, Gutter, Hooghly Review, and National Flash Flood.
Nathalie @nathalie87.bsky.social Anti-imperialism.
Muhammad Khalid @mkhalid.bsky.social ECO at Bluelane News https://bluelanenews.com- A Apfy — Automation Actors @apfy.bsky.social Automated Apify actor promotion. Actors for web scraping, data extraction, lead generation & automation.
Hakan Sonok Antalya 0553 802 52 86 @flowmeow1812.bsky.social Hakan Sonok Antalya
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Sand and Gravel Chapbooks @sandandgravelpress.bsky.social Slowly dipping our toes in the water. https://www.sandandgravelpress.com . More often sighted at
https://www.instagram.com/sand_and_gravelpress/
Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • Blood Type: Curry • Leeds United • Anti-AI
#LUFC
jmthornberry.wordpress.com
sandandgravelpress.com/store/the-finish-line-jason-thornberry
thedrevlow @thedrevlow.bsky.social editor-in-chief BULL, author of the book of rusty, a good ram is hard to find, ina-baby: a love story in reverse, & bend with the knees and other love advice from my father (thedrevlow-olsonshow.com)
Lily Lachance 🏳️⚧️🚀✍️ @lilylachance.com Trans 🏳️🌈, adventurer, author, poet, filmmaker. 🇨🇦
Unagented but seeking.
Words in Phano, Gavagai, Bullet Points, and more. Anti-gen-AI absolutist. (No both-siders, ever.)
Upward... Ever upward. 🙂🚀🌌
Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social Writer, nurse. SmokeLong Quarterly, Cincinnati Review+. Senior flash fiction editor @jmww. Sucker for a good barn.
“We'll Be Birds" chapbook available at Sand and Gravel Press
lisathorntonwriter.com
Fantasy/Sci-Fi Film & Screenplay Festival @scififantasyfest.bsky.social This is a HYBRID film festival with live screenings for the audience feedback video, optional virtual 2nd showcase, and blog & podcast interviews with filmmaker
http://fantasyscififestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/FantasySciFiFilmScreenplayFestival
Elsa Nova @elsanovaaa.bsky.social I create Webtoons, comics, manga panels, character designs, and cover art.If you want to see your story brought to life visually,I’d love to work with you.
Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social Queer writer l #FlashFiction l Smokelong Fellow 2026 l Contrib ed @nffr.bsky.social
Pushcart, BSF, BMF & Monarch noms
Read my stories:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17zj1W2pXZsP1aZZ3vR4vbV4Cra9eZ15F6lwU5lc2tKA/edit?usp=sharing
@jhealer146.bsky.social @jhealer146.bsky.social 
Lucy Berbeo @lucypaulina.bsky.social Writer. “Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.” ―Douglas Adams
Daily Stage Play Festival Contests @stageplaycontests.bsky.social Submit to these contests via Submittable. Full feedback on every submissions. Winners get their play performed by professional actors and made into a promotional video.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-stage-play-contest-deadlines/
Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-novel-festival-contests/
Horror Underground Film Festival @horrorfilmfestival.bsky.social Various options to submit to the Festival. A HYBRID model. Cinema screenings for audience feedback video.Blog and podcast interviews. And bonus Virtual screening (optional!).
https://filmfreeway.com/horrorunderground
https://festivalforhorror.comi
Coleman Bigelow @cbigs.bsky.social pushcart and best microfiction nominated writer | recent stories: ghost parachute| cleaver| BULL | your impossible voice | new chapbook: http://InRareCases.com
@inkreader06.bsky.social @inkreader06.bsky.social 
@carlalow1954.bsky.social @carlalow1954.bsky.social 
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social Lover of coffee, chocolate, reading & writing 
Frazzled Lit *Closed for Submissions* @frazzledlit.bsky.social We are Frazzled Lit! 🥓 🔥
Looking for Flash, Poetry, CNF and Prose.
Eds @lozzawriting.bsky.social and @jmcm.bsky.social
www.frazzledlit.com
https://ko-fi.com/frazzledlit
socials by Laura
🇬🇧🏴🇮🇪 Edinburgh/Dublin
National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand @natflashficdaynz.bsky.social New Zealand's biggest celebration of the smallest form of fiction -- 22 June
shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social Author of The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India), and most recently, Cajun South Brown Folk (Belle Point Press). Represented by Teffanie Thompson of Falkin Literary. 2019-2025 Series Editor of The Wigleaf Top 50. Lafayette, LA. shomedome.com
igloomag @igloomag.bsky.social Igloo Magazine ::
Experimental Electronic Music
igloomag.com
Established December 2000
Addison Zeller @addisonzeller.bsky.social writer / bruising for @bruisermag.com
https://linktr.ee/addisonzeller
Olga Katsovskiy @writingincurves.bsky.social Writer/Editor/Educator
EIC: @jmwwjournal.bsky.social
writingincurves.substack.com
San Antonio Review @sanantoreview.bsky.social International literary, arts and ideas journal. Read at sanantonioreview.org
https://linkin.bio/sanantonioreview/
Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social An online journal publishing classically inspired short stories. Now open for submissions, 1000-8000 words. Edited by @CourtlandAvenue (Dave Gregory)
https://doric-literary.com/
Kathy Stevens @kathystevens91.bsky.social Short stories mostly 
Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social Michigan writer & stuff. auDHD. gender noncompliant. Fuck AI & Subst*ck.
https://aniking.net
— Family Night (Mason Jar Press, 2026) https://tinyurl.com/2jtf6t63
— SmokeLong Subs Editor
— EiC: syntaxandsalt.com (closed)
Melissa Llanes Brownlee @lumchanmfa.bsky.social Native Hawaiian writer living in Japan
https://www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/
Bitter over Sweet https://tinyurl.com/5hd7u63r
Hard Skin http://tinyurl.com/yc53
Kahi&Lua http://tinyurl.com/3ryfzvwh
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.
linktr.ee/adelegallogly
Dr Arish / आरिश 🏳️🌈 @arishmrl.bsky.social Researcher in neuroscience and psychiatry @EdinUniNeuro.bsky.social interested in HIV mental health & inflammation. I also do other stuff.
www.arishmrl.com
Abigail Williams @abbywilliams.bsky.social Writer of short stories, flash and other stuff. SL Bridport. Winner Molotov Cocktail, Flash500, CrankedAnvil, Exeter Writers Short Story. 3rd BFFA, 3rd Oxford Flash, SL Wells, Frome, UnchartedMag. Pushcart Nom.
Sonya Huber @sonyahuber.bsky.social Writer & Professor. Voice First, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, Love & Industry, etc. Memoir, essays, chronic pain, labor, disability activism, Midwestern tater tot. A few beads, a loud laugh. www.sonyahuber.com she/her/they/them
Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social Former Philadelphian living in Montréal
Supports public schools
Wrote some short stories & then some even shorter ones
https://stephanieking.net
Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social Writer.
Recent Words in Iron Horse, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, Scaffold, others… see—>
https://travisflattblog.com/
Hinterland Magazine - open for submissions @hinterlandnf.bsky.social Hinterland is a triannual print magazine showcasing the best in creative non-fiction writing. Issue 16 out now! Edited by @andrewkenrick.bsky.social @ionamacduff.bsky.social and @yinflim.bsky.social. Based in Norwich. https://linktr.ee/hinterlandnonfiction
Amanda @akscotland.bsky.social Co-host of the Not Quite Write Podcast and judge of the Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction.
Writes in the tiny spaces in between.
The Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social Always hungry, always curious.
Born Greek, love Wales, and Londoner by choice!
An archaeogastronomical podcast.
By Thom Ntinas. (Pronounced Dinas)
Sound Engineer, Podcaster, Broadcast Sound Supervisor.
Love food, history, music.
Stuart Cavet @stuartcavet.bsky.social ✍️ writer & sometime lawyer ⚖️|🥈QuietManDave | HC FFF | SL Bridport Prize | LL SmokeLong 'Mikey', Bath, Farnham, Cranked Anvil | Debut novel, Something Kind Of Strange | 🚫No DMs
https://www.amazon.com/author/stuartcavet
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.
Lit Match Collective @litmatchcollective.com A writers’ community led by editors 🔥
Helping members connect and grow.
Join us ➡️ litmatchcollective.com & our community, open to all!: https://discord.gg/cxSdvE2EfN
Kathy Fish @kathyfish.bsky.social Ploughshares | Best American Nonreq'd | Copper Nickel Editors' Prize | The Norton Reader | ElectricLit | Flash Fiction America | Swamp Pink | Wigleaf | Five Points (forthcoming) | The Art of Flash Fiction https://artofflashfiction.substack.com
🌿Aspen Harding | Author✨ @aspenharding.bsky.social 🌿WEEDIE WISDOM🌿
🔆Modern Philosophy | Spiritual Insights📿
I had a break-up.
I had a breakdown.
I had a breakthrough.
Crawling my way back up from rock bottom.
Sharing insights learned along the way.
WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
Euan Taylor Author @euantaylorauthor.bsky.social The Hard Times: Prison Diaries: A book about crime, punishment, rehabilitation, greed, and putting a newspaper to bed before the editorial team gets locked up: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hard-Times-Prison-Diaries-ebook/dp/B0DPVH8HFF/
Obsidian Voices @author.bsky.social Featuring poets from around the world.
Daily spotlights, interviews, and unforgettable poems.
Because every voice deserves to be heard.