Arthur Mandal @arthurmandal.bsky.social Brit/US writer of uncanny fiction. Best Small Fictions 2025. Over 40 stories in The Barcelona Review, LITRO, Southeast Review, The Forge, The Los Angeles Review and others. @nightjarpress Based in Eugene, Oregon (but grew up in UK). www.arthurmandal.com
Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026) geni.us/TMtMT. Two-time Best of the Net nominee. | ๐ Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
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)
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Emily Austin @emilyraustin.bsky.social 
Josiah Nelson @josiahnelson.bsky.social I'm what you call shy - William Steig/me
Debut book forthcoming with @invisibooks.bsky.social
Words in Brick, CV2, Fractured Lit, Grain, and the Literary Review of Canada
Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social Writer of dreamlike fiction | she/her | www.ivyivyivyivy.com 
Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social 
deredordica @deredordica.bsky.social Author of Shagduk and Ursula of Ulm (De re dordica, Books One & Two) from Pilum Press. Music freak, aesthete, and '70s aficionado.
Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social The finest fiction, poetry, and essays since 1985. Paying market.
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North American Review @northamerreview.bsky.social As the oldest literary magazine in the nation, our selected works reflect the breadth of the American experience, and encompass any voices that are committed to telling rich narratives that challenge the status quo. https://northamericanreview.org/- D Dฤshaun Washington @dashaundub.bsky.social
Elizabeth Svoboda @svobodster.bsky.social Author of WHAT MAKES A HERO? and THE LIFE HEROIC. Contributing writer, Boston Globe Ideas. Words in Scientific American, Psychology Today, Atlas Obscura, NYT, etc. New book: THE ART OF PACING.
Unbound Edition Press @unboundedition.bsky.social We champion honest, original voices and publish thoughtfully challenging work. Learn more about our critically acclaimed and bestselling titles, literary journal, and podcast here: https://linktr.ee/UnboundEditionPress
REVEL @revelliterary.bsky.social Featuring the best new poetry, fiction, literary essays, criticism, and art, Revel is published twice yearly. EIC is Peter Campion. Publisher is Unbound Edition Press: @unboundedition.bsky.social linktr.ee/RevelLiterary
Latria Graham @latriagraham.bsky.social โ๐ฝ: Afar Magazine's Unpacked column, Garden+Gun's This Land column. Words in OutsideMagazine, Smithsonian &others
Maggie Mertens @maggiemertens.bsky.social Journalist
Author: BETTER FASTER FARTHER, 2024, @algonquinbooks.bsky.social
Radio Host: The Forecast Seattle's Weekly Women's Sports Show www.kvru.org/shows/the-forecast/
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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social Eritrean American writer from Miami. Books, housing, immigration, climate. Probably thinking about sound. Cofounder of @coyotemedia.org and talkscratch.com ๐ In Open Country forthcoming from Little, Brown.
Oakland, CA | she/her
www.rahawahaile.com
manjula martin @manjula.bsky.social writer/rocker/Luddite
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Fun Book Person @alexmiller77.bsky.social Author of White People on Vacation (Malarkey Books) and some other things. Taking up space in Denver
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Tomas Moniz @tomasmmoniz.bsky.social Less Honkinโ More Tonkinโ
POB 3555
Berkeley CA 94703
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The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to prose, poetry, comics, essays, humor, hybrid, and everything in-between.
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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)
Poets & Writers @pw.org Official account of Poets & Writers, the primary source of information, support, and guidance for creative writers since 1970. Sign up for our newsletter: at.pw.org/newsletter
Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social Coach House Books is an independent Canadian publisher of poetry, ๏ฌction, drama & nonfiction. Good on paper since 1965. https://linktr.ee/chbooks
J. Robert Lennon @jrobertlennon.com Recent books include CRITICAL HITS (with Carmen Maria Machado), HARD GIRLS, BUZZ KILL, SUBDIVISION, LET ME THINK. Lits in English prof at a regime collaborator institution. EPOCH editor.
Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social author of TURMERIC & SUGAR (Thirty West). stories in Wigleaf, Short Story Long, Berkeley Fiction Review, HAD, Craft, Fractured, etc.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
@reenashah.bsky.social @reenashah.bsky.social Writer, editor, teacher. Author of EVERY HAPPINESS forthcoming from Bloomsbury Pub. Senior Editor at The Rumpus. Trying my best out here. 
Patricia Smith @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social THE INTENTIONS OF THUNDER, Scribner, 9/30! Poet/Princeton CW prof, Ruth Lilly & Kingsley Tufts, NAACP Image Award, Pulitzer finalist, Guggenheim, Chgo Literary Hall of Fame. Love Cubs, Lou Malnati's, Portillo's & the peppermint stick/hot pickle mashup.
Ian MacClayn @ianmacclayn.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/ianmacclayn
Writer. Debut novel THE HOLLOW OF EVENING out Feb 9 2027 with Dundurn Press/Rare Machines
Samantha Stevens @samanthaswrites.bsky.social Poet
Alternating Current Press @altcurrent.bsky.social Indie press dedicated to challenging, status-quo-busting literature to change your lightbulb. Founder: Leah Angstman @leahangstman.bsky.social. Interns: German Shepherds. altcurrentpress.com
elie lichtschein @eliethewriter.bsky.social writer of horror, lover of sharks, believer in aliens
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Bookshelfie โญ๏ธ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
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Julie from StoryADay @storyaday.bsky.social Hosted by Julie Duffy, StoryADay.org has run the StoryADay May challenge each year since 2010, and is home to a writers' community, creativity lab, and podcast. FInd out more at storyaday.org
Evan @efghannon.bsky.social Alaskan in Texas
My fiction appears in Conjunctions, EPOCH, Bat City Review, X-R-A-Y, HAD, and is forthcoming with Pithead Chapel
Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social We're an author-run, not-for-profit publisher of artistically adventurous, non-traditional fiction, committed to finding fresh & experimental works, both through member-sponsored submissions & two annual contests! https://fc2.org/ SUBMISSIONS OPEN NOW!
sophie klahr @sophieklahr.bsky.social wrote TWO OPEN DOORS IN A FIELD (University of Nebraska), MEET ME HERE AT DAWN ( YesYes Books) and co-wrote THERE IS ONLY ONE GHOST IN THE WORLD ( Fiction Collective Two ). For online poetry classes, manuscript consultation & more ---> sophieklahr.com 
Jamie @jamieyouwere.bsky.social https://jamieewer.com
Pia Hinckle @piahinckle.bsky.social I am a San Francisco writer, editor, small business owner and open water swimmer. 
Marthine Satris @msatris.bsky.social Bay Area words & book person. Oakland. Associate Publisher at Heyday, Calendar compiler at ORB.
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www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
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the #BookSky account ๐๐ @booksky.club #BookSky (est. 2023) is bluesky's home for readers and writers with 20+ literary feeds for every genre. โ๏ธ a project by @clarabelle.xyz
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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
David Wojo @mrwojorising.bsky.social Writer | Freelance Designer | Educator | Baker | Full-length with Gold Wake Press | Chapbook with Greying Ghost | Hi
The de Groot Foundation @degrootfoundation.bsky.social A private foundation passionate about investing in writers and the literary arts ๐
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Sakinah Hofler @blackquisition.bsky.social Writer, Reader, Engineer. Manchester Fiction Prize Winner. Hurston/Wright Award. Analog Emerging Black Writer. TED Speaker. Lecturer @ Princeton University. Social Media is very confusing but figured I'd give this a try...
Litquake @litquake.bsky.social San Francisco's literary festival runs every October with year-round events, service projects, & Lit Crawls worldwide.
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(Re): An Ideas Journal @reideasjournal.bsky.social A biannual publication featuring idea makers in all genres and disciplinesโincluding poetry, fiction, CNF, art, music, and more. Felice Neals, Founder/Publisher/Co-editor/Visualist. @hefisher EIC.
Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social A literary journal presenting four pieces in each issue, a sampling of the best writing out there. EICs: @fklein907.bsky.social and @ketchiklein.bsky.social
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J. L. Yocum @jlyocum.com NYC Poet.
BA in English Comp/Poetry, University of North Texas. Poetry reader for ๐๐ช๐๐ง๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ก๐ฎ ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ.
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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
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San Francisco Review of Whatever @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social In print only โซ๏ธ Issue Two is here โซ๏ธ Subscriptions are available at the link below ๐ Everyone is a critic โซ๏ธ
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Stephen Beachy @livingjelly.bsky.social 
Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social Meat blood, bees, things of that nature
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
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Angry Persian Gardener โ๐ผ๐โโฌ๐ค๐ผ @angrypersiangardnr.bsky.social Who couldnโt use a little terror in the garden? โ ๏ธ Building gardens for 27 years ๐ด Lived through a civil war, escaped a totalitarian theocracy, canโt believe Iโm living through this shit again ๐๐จ
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Isaac Pickell @isaacpickell.bsky.social https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-smallest-mistake-we-call-human/
poet & phd student in Detroit | books and chaps @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social @blacklawrence.bsky.social @deadmallpress.bsky.social | just very glad to be here.
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois Universityโs Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
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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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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social TV & standup & improv & podcasts, hardly any movies
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social The OG. Feral essayist. Genderclear. Publicist. They/Thembo. Instructor/Professor. Words: @MarieClaire_sa @Guardian @The_Rumpus etc.๐
Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov Proudly serving the people of New Jersey in the U.S. Senate. 
Will Craven @wkcraven.bsky.social writing novels
playing the hits of the bay area every monday on BFF.fm: https://bff.fm/shows/i-luv-mondays
Climate/Renewables, for hire.
~Oakland, from North Carolina~
Susan Kegeles, PhD @motherkegs.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Medicine (i.e., retired). Social/behavioral scientist, public health. Career focused on HIV prevention, mostly gay men, ethnic/racial minorities. Called "gray-haired bad ass granny." Mother of two. 
50501 DC @50501dc.bsky.social We proudly stand for ending executive overreach, upholding
the Constitution, and embracing joy and community as resistance.
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Moss @mosslit.bsky.social A journal of the Pacific Northwest, established in 2014. Poetry, prose, and thought.
Gark Mavigan @garkmavigan.bsky.social Prose-fessional | RAPscallion | Welfarian | Words: n+1, HuffPost, Taco Bell Quarterly, EARMILK, etc.
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Sarah Dohl โ๐ @sarahdohl.bsky.social Co-founder, Chief Campaigns Officer at Indivisible. Storyteller. Former congressional speechwriter. Aldenโs mom.
Karen Palmer @karenpalmer.bsky.social Writer, editor, teacher, karenpalmer.com. Memoir SHE'S UNDER HERE (Algonquin Books). NEA, Best American Essays, Pushcart Prize. If I had to choose between reading and eating, I'd be dead in a week. She/her
Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social author of SEARCHES, THIS IS SALVAGED, & THE IMMORTAL KING RAO. pulitzer finalist. journalist. mentor at the lighthouse writers workshop's book project. contact me: dm, signal (@vauhinivara.82), or my website (vauhinivara.com).
Joseph Bien-Kahn @josephbienkahn.com Senior Editor, Esses Magazine
Ryan D. Matthews @rydmatthews.bsky.social Winner of NYSCA and de Groot Courage to Write Awards. Fellowships from Hawthornden, LMCC, Lighthouse Works, Tin House. Nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize & 2x semifinalist for Bennett Fellowship. Work in Lit Hub, Litro, Joyland, and MQR.
Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
Ben Perkins @longdistancecaller.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/benstagram81
new dad, memoirist, essayist, occasional journalist, birder, herper, artist's spouse, baker of cinnamon rolls, already in-recovery from whatever this is
Lina Ramona Vitkauskas @linarvitvideopoet.bsky.social Video poem in human form.
Canadian-Lithuanian-American.
INSTEAD OF COMMUNITY WE GOT THE ALGORITHM.
Alter ego / activist: @linarvit Fuck Fascism.
Bio: https://linaramona.com/about-2/
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
Ling @ling.bsky.social designer + writer
learning jewelry making in public ๐
read long-form at https://painchips.substack.com/ 
The Florida Review @theflreview.bsky.social Publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, graphic narrative, interviews, & book reviews since 1972 | โจhttps://linktr.ee/theflreview ๐๐ผ
5 Calls @5calls.org Your issues, scripts and representatives all in one place. Spend 5 minutes, make 5 calls: http://5calls.org
Zoรซ Fay-Stindt @zoefaystindt.bsky.social queer, land-based, bicontinental poet & essayist (france/US) / pushcart, BNP, BotN noms / work in Terrain, Muzzle, Ninth Letter, Poet Lore & elsewhere / Hellbender Gathering of Poets Fellow / resident at Santa Fe Art Institute / they/she
Phil Nugent @philnugent.bsky.social A cool rebel with no friends
Stone Cold Jane Austen @cofactorstrudel.bsky.social Just a passing housewife. NB She/They/Mum ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Erstwhile esports journalist. Former otome game narrative writer. Former film makeup and sfx artist. Former I.T. guy. One day it'll say "author" here, but hopefully never "former author"
Live cringe and die free.
Anthony Martin @anthony-martin.bsky.social Fictions. Work in The Dodge, Funicular Magazine, and Maudlin House most recently.
Paul Wilson @bibliopaul.bsky.social Co-host of The Mookse And The Gripes podcast with @mookse | 2023 @USRofC judge | Slowly and happily burying myself in books
Shmadler @shmadler.bsky.social 
Sarp Sozdinler @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social Writer, Designer โข Words: Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Masters Review, Fractured, Los Angeles Review, HAD, Hobart, X-R-A-Y, Maudlin House โข Rep'd by Mina Hamedi / Janklow & Nesbit โข Editor at The Bulb Region
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Eileen Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social Writer, Librarian, Jerseyan โ๐ป Baltimore Review, Hunger Mtn, X-R-A-Y, Lost Balloon, Okay Donkey, Pithead Chapel, Passages North, OSU The Journal, Tiny Molecules; soon in Fractured Lit | BSF 2023 | Wigleaf Top 50 2026
https://eileentomarchio.webnode.page/
Sarah Seybold @sarahseybold.bsky.social Poems appearing or forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, ZYZZYVA, The Dodge, SWWIM, Thimble, and elsewhere.
Sanat Tarihi @sanatintarihi.bsky.social Art historian
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Nicole Cuffy @nicolethecuffy.bsky.social Writer | Balletomane | Mama
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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
Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social My new special Night Thoughts is out NOW on Hulu.
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