Gone Like a Goldfish @gonelikeagoldfish.bsky.social This is an account to promote my anonymously-published book, Gone Like a Goldfish, about suicide, addiction, mental illness, and child loss. I'm told that it's transgressive literature. Free on Kindle Unlimited.
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Alastair Morrison @alasmorrison.bsky.social Psychiatry resident, poet, tolerated parent. PhD English Lit, Columbia. MD McMaster. #medicalhumanities
esther song @songofthelioness.bsky.social bookseller, animal lover, nature defender living in the PNW 📖🐈⬛🌈
Geoff Cain @geoffcain.bsky.social Geoffrey B. Cain is a writer, artist, bon vivant et flâneur.
Dare to be random!
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Van Kohl @vankohl.com Writer, Reader, & Dreamer. Exploring the profound and the primal through #GayRomance #mmromance #QueerLit. Writing stories of soul and truth, with no small amount of heat.
Looking for a publisher of my debut! 🌊✨
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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social Writer
The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies (UK)
Something Wonderful (US)
Winner BBC National Short Story Award #bbcnssa
O Henry
Stories in Zoetrope, Southern Review, Ploughshares, BBSS, &&
She/her
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Jessica Klimesh @jekwriter.bsky.social creative writer/writing coach/editor
flash, flash, and more flash! #flashfiction #microfiction
Best Microfiction 2025 | Best of the Net 2025
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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
thealternative.social @creatinganewworld.bsky.social I created a social network in which 50% of the profits will be given to homeless charities. The social network is www.thealternative.social Please join and invite people to it.
Melissa Westbrook @missmdubs.bsky.social Writing songs badly until I learn to write them well.
Poetry, books, film, music, lyrics & piano. Currently learning songwriting one chord at a time.
SteveH @sghendricks.bsky.social Screenplay tips and comedy videos at: https://www.youtube.com/@ScreenwritingConfidential
The Word Psychic - "Your Fortune Is in the Words": https://wordpsychic.com/
Reiht Aug 🍁❤️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈⚧️ @reiht-aug.bsky.social Trans woman, bisexual, Atheist. I rarely leave my home. I have a love / hate relation with myself. 🚫MAGA 🚫DM 🚫Porn 🚫Crypto
Instant block if asking for money or no BIO and relevant posts. Opinions are my own
🇺🇸**°•.FAFO.•°**🇺🇸 🌊🌊🌊 @fafo-ez-one.bsky.social Oppression breeds rebellion. I'm a defender of democracy. We have fought against fascism many times and won. Truth and justice matter because they form the bedrock of human society.
Pro-choice. Woke AF. Anti-fascist. Resist MAGA.
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D. J. Runnels — author 📚💙 @djrunnels.bsky.social Almost published by HarperCollins, went Indie, hit the Amazon top 150 in US humor and top 100 in Absurdist Satire. Litfic disguised as ghost stories. Vonnegut meets Du Maurier. Chicago. ND. #SkyWriters 🚫AI
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Sandy McIntosh @sandymcintosh.bsky.social Author of twelve volumes of poetry, a Chinese cookbook, and three computer software programs.
https://sandymcintosh.info
Sophie? @sophontrack.bsky.social Writer. Love ghosts and justice and also trains. 🍉. All people are friends.
activehumanity.substack.com
Brett Pribble @brettpribble.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Founder and Editor-in-chief of Ghost Parachute literary journal. Inflatable flamingo supervisor. I knew a girl once.
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.
Emily Mitchell @elbmitchell.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor, apprentice curmudgeon. Novel FAR OCEAN forthcoming March 2027 from Black Lawrence Press. Fiction editor New England Review. Stories in The Sun, Missouri Review, Southern Review, AQR and elsewhere. Free DC, ffs. New here.
LeeAnn Pickrell @leeannp.bsky.social Poet, editor, and coffee, cat, and book lover. Author of Tsunami and Gathering the Pieces of Days. Managing editor of Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche.
www.leeannpickrell.com
leeannpickrell.substack.com
The Creative Studio @thecreativestudio.bsky.social Build your creativity, five minutes at a time. ✦ AI-guided practice for writing, poetry, comedy & acting. Your creative journey begins here.
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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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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- 4 Calm @416mlac.bsky.social Never take Democracy for granted
Former bird app user (deleted now)...
We are all in this together and need to support one another...many interests
Duane Simolke @duanesimolke.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 I wrote scifi Sons of Taldra, the free scifi ebook Degranon, and slice-of-life fiction The Acorn Stories. Cowrote fantasy adventure The Return of Innocence. 📚🪐 https://linktr.ee/DuaneSimolke
mcairone.bsky.social @mcairone.bsky.social I write short stories and microfiction.
Mitchell Ny @mitchellny.com 非人非鬼 🫠 | lyric essay, fiction
in: trampset, Bending Genres, Maudlin House, Same Faces Collective, Blood+Honey, [...]
American Literary Review's 2026 Nonfiction Finalist
Fractured Lit's 2026 Micro Prize Shortlist
mitchellny.com
SmartPushti @smartpushti.bsky.social
https://smartpushti.com/
A decentralized platform for publishing, discussion, research, collaboration, and fund allocation in health and wellness.
@silicology.bsky.social
JR Fenn @jrfenn.bsky.social Writer, teacher, parent, dreamer | TINY VESSELS out from Red Mare Press | Words in or forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Orion's Belt, DIAGRAM, Split Lip, Witness, Boston Review, Gulf Coast | Ucross Fellow | Syracuse MFA | Prof at SUNY ESF | www.jrfenn.com
Robert Ellison @robert-ellison.bsky.social Writer in the Deep South. Loves stories about plausibly real people dealing with plausibly real life situations with plausibly real emotions.
Superheroes and robots need not apply.
Monsters, unfortunately, still abound.
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/
WordSmitten Writers WorkShop @wordsmittenwrkshop.bsky.social WordSmitten Workshop is a virtual roundtable where writers critique long projects - from page one to publication. We also offer education, reading, and salons to the Southwest Florida writing & reading community. www.wordsmittenworkshop.com
Summit County Libraries @summitlibraries.bsky.social #1 Most Followed Library in the USA!
https://summitcountylibraries.org/
Located in beautiful Summit County, Colorado.
Paul Van den Brande | Jason Noble @jasonnoblebooks.bsky.social
Creator and writer of Jason Noble e-Thrillers https://jhykqp.short.gy/s6qHse
Bedenker en schrijver van Jason Noble e-Thrillers https://sites.google.com/view/jasonnoble/het-noble-archief
#BookSky #Thriller #eBooks #IndieAuthor ⚡📚
Jeremiah Root @jeremiahroot.bsky.social Jeremiah Root is a writer and musician from Paradise, CA. His work has appeared in Muleskinner Journal and BULL. He is at work on his first novel, The Vincent. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, three children, and hound dog.
Matthew Brewmiller @matthewbrewmiller.bsky.social 
Matthew Zanoni Müller @matthewzmuller.bsky.social Writer, educator. First Aid for Choking Victims (Malarkey books). Writing in Denver Quarterly, Cottonwood, Southeast Review, and others.
www.matthewzanonimuller.com
Heain Joung @heainjoung.bsky.social Writer. Originally from South Korea, lives between in the UK and South Korea. Pushcart Prize nominee. Story collection, The Myth of an Unknown Girl will be out in Summer 2027 by @thirtywestph.com
Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social 
Geenie1234@bluesky.com @geenie1234.bsky.social
“I won’t Keep Quiet”
“One Nation Under Duress”
“F with the Bull and you’ll get the horn!”
#Rebel
#LeftIsAlright
#QueenOfSnark
#RoamingLife
Stephen Hayes @stephenaytch.bsky.social #Pro-choice #liberal, but NOT neoliberal. #Anticapitalist #ModernMonetaryTheory #VenusProject #VacuumEnergy #Limitarianism
No DMs please, I never look at them.
Prog, Classic Rock, Classical, Jazz, Avant Garde, 80s New Wave, Synth Pop, Ambient, Darkwave
PaulOakley @horatorus6.bsky.social RVT
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
Matt Tice @ticewrites.bsky.social Fiction writer represented by Falkin Literary. My debut novel, SEAFLOWER, is currently looking for a home.
Duxbury, MA
Fiction and other projects here: Ticewrites.com
PerfectGod = S. Cyn = L. Gates = J. Glacier = L. Simz = Ziwe +c. @blackswanborges.bsky.social Mx Józef ≈ M.
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Poetry Fiends and Friends...
[ I wake up *wishing* that I was:
Gertrude Stein + Ursula K. Le Guin. ]
Mx M— Józef ≈ M. J. Le Tölm...
Cover credit to Samara Cyn.
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And stay safe :)
@flashficfestuk.bsky.social @flashficfestuk.bsky.social Online and in person flashfiction events. Next online festival day Oct. Next in person festival 17-19 July 2026 flashfictionfestival.com
Jared W @phaserj.bsky.social Writer & Foodie. Gold Wake. Author of Valency (BlazeVox). “Well, that’s just like your opinion, man.” - The Dude 🇺🇸
Brown Hound Press @brownhoundpress.bsky.social A small press in Lexington, KY that publishes offbeat mystery, dark humor, southern gothic & literary fiction. A free story each week! We pay authors.
brownhoundpress.com
D.E. Hardy @dehardy.bsky.social EIC of @claudineliterary.bsky.social
On staff at The Offing and Chestnut Review.
Links to words at dehardywriter.com.
Nicole Hart @nrhart.bsky.social Writes tiny stories
Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social Award-winning storyteller, writer, workshop facilitator. Taught 150+ workshops including Second City, Smokelong Quarterly, Clarion West. Stories published in Barrelhouse, Baltimore Review, Apex, Fractured Lit etc. www.tyrtle.com. #HumanMade
T. Ryan Day @tryanday.bsky.social Author and Professor of Shakespeare and creative writing at Saint Louis University’s Madrid campus.
www.tryanday.com
Ashley Mangtani @writerash.bsky.social Slipstream Writer ✍️
Published or forthcoming in Strange Horizons | LITRO | Washington Square Review | Boudin | Neon Dystopia | Expat Press | HAWKEYE etc
Short story collection ⬇️
ashleymangtani.com
Cooper Reilly @sussingham.bsky.social Just a writer from San Diego, posting short stories as often as I can.
Fascinated by magical realism, frogs, flawed characters, altered states, Ween, finding transcendence in the mundane, absurd humor, gross stuff, maximalism…
sussingham.com
SZ Estavillo @szestavilloauthor.com Crime Thriller Author | The Serpent Series |@OliverHeberBooks | MA: TV, Radio & Film | Multi-Genre Reader
The Serpent’s Bridge (📚1)
The Serpent Woman (📚2)
Twilight of the Serpent (📚3)
The Serpent’s Order (📚4)
amazon.com/dp/B0CW6KP433- K Koss @kossworks.bsky.social
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
Nancy Stone @nancystone.bsky.social - Writer of dark(ish) fiction and verse at ndstonewrites.substack.com
- Also writes for young people at nancystonewrites.com (GLOW, Marble Press, June 2026)
-Rep'd by Ammi-Joan Paquette at Aevitas Creative
- Asst. Editor @identitytheory.bsky.social
Dan O’Mahony @danoauthor.bsky.social I was raised in a library by a pack wild fantasy novels who brought me up as if I was one of their own.
Lisa Oliver | Author, Editor, Entrepreneur, World Traveler @itslisaoliver.bsky.social 📚Author • Book Editor • Hustler • Wanderer
📝 I love words and languages
🙏 Believer #TGBTG
🤍 Spread love and positivity!
The Liberty Pear @thelibertypear.com https://www.TheLibertyPear.com
NO MAGA, Pro Democracy. Populism, working class advocacy, democratization of the economy, & Democratic Socialism.
Based in NYC.
News, economics, politics, holding power to account, & open discussion.
The Memory Pools @memorypool.bsky.social https://memorypool.bearblog.dev/blog/
Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social Author. Potter. Mom. THE BELOVED WILD (Feiwel & Friends, 2018) & UNLEAVING (Feiwel & Friends, 2019) Rep’d by Faye Bender. melissaostrom.com
Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social writer, editor, axolotl with a pretty good throwing arm
Out now: Songs from the Blimp Ruins, a flash collection. Published by Silverbacked Punk: https://qgyjj4z.s.gy/sTuEPy Inscribed copies available (message me).
https://neutralspaces.co/patforan/
MIDLVLMAG @midlvlmag.bsky.social Submissions are OPEN for issue no. 9: Human Capital
Literary Magazine deconstructing our relationships with the personal/professional
https://midlvlmag.com | https://linktr.ee/midlvlmag
Rahy Books @rahybooks.bsky.social Beta Reader & Book Editor | Helping authors polish their words
Chris Dolan @mcdolan.bsky.social I am angry about the nitrate levels in Iowa’s drinking water. My writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Maudlin House, The Disappointed Housewife, and others. www.dolanchris.com
Chris Dodds @liquid-chicken.bsky.social I write things. And make things. All the things. chrisdodds.net
My debut, Necessary Cuts (https://necessarycuts.com), won the @miamioh-press.bsky.social Novella Prize and will land in 2027. Other work in Pithead Chapel, Marrow Magazine, and BULL.
One Fall Review @onefallreview.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to professional wrestling themed poetry.
www.onefallreview.com
Submit: https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/one-fall-review-0g27j
Rae @seaglasscritter.bsky.social she/her. bi. poet. fandom old. not worksafe. reptiles, inverts, plants, with a side of writing, ffxv, general geeking out, and bitching about mental health.
pocketshrike on steam/twitch/discord
@jessiesandra270.bsky.social @jessiesandra270.bsky.social 
Kara Kahnke @karakahnke.bsky.social I’m a writer with a passion for micro and flash fiction. Published in BULL, The Citron Review, Under the Gum Tree, Raw Lit, Micromance Magazine and other places. Pushcart and Best Small Fictions nominated.
Mon Dickson @mondickson.bsky.social Writer. Dentist try-hard. Cornflakes uptight. She/her.
#FlashFiction & #ShortStories at Temple in a City | Anti Heroin Chic | Splonk | jmww | X-RAY + more. Best small fictions nominee 2026. NSSF Academy graduate. https://writingandthelike.wordpress.com/
Lisa Piazza @lmpiazza.bsky.social oakland writer/teacher/mother/reader
Rose @nebraskaredrose.bsky.social A nurse who finally retired after 46 years DNP, RN. Long Covid changed my life. Mask up. Completed LC PT/OT and it helped a little. Now planning to experiment with an auricular vagus nerve stimulator. Hope it takes me further along in my recovery!
Domingos @domingosmcc.bsky.social I know not what tomorrow will bring…(Pessoa)
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I reject fanaticism and outdated orthodoxies!
Cathryn The Almost Great @cathy-shea.bsky.social Poet and ex-corporate serf. Latest poetry book “Ghost Matinee“ 2025! “Genealogy Lesson for the Laity” 2020; both with @UnsolicitedP, http://unsolicitedpress.com/store/p292/cat… #poetry see www.cathrynshea.com