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
Ally
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
jessicaklimesh.com
https://jekwrites.substack.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@JessicaKlimeshWrites
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.
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
mcairone.bsky.social @mcairone.bsky.social I write short stories and microfiction.
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
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
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
Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social HS English teacher who does some writing (unpublished histfic novels, some shorts, some poetry), dad. he/him
www.ryanflovewriter.com
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
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/
Matthew Brewmiller @matthewbrewmiller.bsky.social 
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 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
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
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
Jared W @phaserj.bsky.social Writer & Foodie. Gold Wake. Author of Valency (BlazeVox). “Well, that’s just like your opinion, man.” - The Dude 🇺🇸
@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
Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social 
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
Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social Queer disabled writer, artist, & scholar aka Dr. Heffers.
Lover of nature, sitcoms, libraries, & coffee.
EIC, Genrepunk Magazine (@genrepunkmag.bsky.social)
📚 What Blooms in the Dark (2024)
She/they
https://linktr.ee/audreytcarroll
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
Nicole Hart @nrhart.bsky.social Writes tiny stories
T. Ryan Day @tryanday.bsky.social Author and Professor of Shakespeare and creative writing at Saint Louis University’s Madrid campus.
www.tryanday.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
Koss (she/they/Aquarian) @kossworks.bsky.social Poet, artist, writer. Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect, Diode Editions. Lammy Poetry Finalist 25, BSF 20, Wigleaf Top 50 longlist. Granta Memoir Bursary
Website: https://koss-works.com
Book: https://koss-works.com/dancing-backwards-towards-pluperfect/
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
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!
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.
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
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/
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
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
Jack Apollo Hartley @jackaharts.bsky.social BOTN-nom’d OH-based trans poet, writer, and bug lover (!) • edited HELL IS REAL (2022) • tanka fan
JR Walsh @itsjrwalsh.bsky.social JR Walsh is the Online Editor at The Citron Review. He teaches poetry and fiction at SUNY Oswego. Find his writing on itsjrwalsh.com.
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
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
Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
Jim C @jimcolella.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Former blogger, journo, & short story writer. Words in Flash Fiction Magazine & The London Economic. Now focused on creative nonfiction.
https://substack.com/@jimcolella
https://instagram.com/jimcwriter
📍UK
SuperShortFiction @supershortfiction.bsky.social Playful, genre-bending vignettes, stories and memes. Influenced by urban fantasy, scifi, horror and dad humor. I do not use AI.
https://www.instagram.com/supershortfiction/
#urbanfantasy #scifi #horror #flashlit #speculativefiction
Laura Nagle @lauralnagle.bsky.social 🙋♀️: fiction writer, poet, translator, high school language teacher, cat paparazzo, fun aunt
🗣️: English, français, español, Gaeilge
✍️: Adela Zamudio’s CONFIDENCES (Bucknell U Press) is out now!
🔗: lnlanguage.com, lauranagle.substack.com
Vonnie G. Clemens Jr. @whogetstobelong.substack.com Queer writer in science fiction and fantasy. | Focused on who gets to belong, and what body do they get to bring? | whogetstobelong.substack.com
Keith Pilapil Lesmeister @keithlesmeister.bsky.social Author of the forthcoming story collection ASK ME ABOUT THE MONEY | keithlesmeister.com
Alison Lubar @theoriginalison.bsky.social poet & aspiring queer elder & mixed CA transplant 🌹 poetry collections w @thirtywestph '22 || Bottlecap '22 || @mouthfeelpress '23 || @stanchion '23 || METAMOURPHOSIS @fifthwheelpress ‘24 (they/themme) https://linktr.ee/theoriginalison
The Bloomin’ Onion | **SUBMISSIONS ALWAYS OPEN** @bloominonionlit.bsky.social A Literary Magazine with Layers. Est. 2024. Helping new and emerging writers find their way. Posts by the EIC.
Subs: https://www.thebloominonion.com/submission-guidelines
Neil Blackman @n3il4real.bsky.social Writer of fiction. Heart that you call home. Movie stuff. Music junk. Mental Health. Still chasing the highs of discovering AOL and finding the lows of everything since.
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/.
Chris Hallenbrook @challenbrook.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Political theorist. Educator. Hobbes Scholar. Opinions my own.
Tony Dunnell @tonydunnell.bsky.social Writer of fact and fiction ( #scifi mainly, some horror). English but living in the high jungle of Peru. Short stories published in Escape Pod, Fusion Fragment, Fission, Sci Phi Journal and more. I also post about #movies. https://tonydunnell.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.
Rawhead @rawheadjournal.bsky.social Open to submissions of creative nonfiction and visual art. We believe in the power of art and literature as form of resistance.
Now on Submittable:
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Complete Sentence @completesentence.bsky.social a literary magazine publishing single-sentence prose since 2020
https://completesentencelit.com/
The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social The VILLAGE 🏘 is a place where the world 🌍 feels a tiny bit smaller. Founded by SMOKELONG for the Global Flash Community
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Adam Sleper @adamsleper.bsky.social Dad, hubby, writer. Illinois artist grants, Chicago Writers Assoc, Horror Writers Assoc, Page/AFF finalist, PEN Emerging Writers. Black List 8+. Shakespeare/R.E.M.
USMNT/Huskers/Red Sox.
Rep: Mark Gottlieb@Trident
www.adamsleper.com
AdamSleper.substack.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/
Betty Stanton @fadingbetty.bsky.social EdD, MFA, poet, author, speech & debate coach, director, teacher, editor, rpg nerd, game designer, bad at social media, located in Oklahoma
Great Novel Reads @greatnovels.bsky.social Fiction-only book discovery platform.
Authors: List your novel.
Readers: Explore stories worth reading.
No noise. Just novels.
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Tiny Prophecies @mercurialsilver.com Online lit journal of hearth, ruin, & whimsy.
Free to submit—poems & tiny fiction. 🌈
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Curated by @perilpoet
✣ mercurialsilver.com ✣
The Bulb Region @bulbregion.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to prose, poetry, comics, essays, humor, hybrid, and everything in-between.
www.bulbregion.com
Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social EIC @the-engine-idling.bsky.social
https://www.d-mcmahon-writes.net
author of 4 poetry chapbooks & 2 microchaps
latest: rowhouse song (Ghost City Press '25) | irl (Stanchion '26)
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@vinylnpages.bsky.social @vinylnpages.bsky.social 
Flooded Pine Press @floodedpinepress.bsky.social Flooded Pine Press, founded in the wake of the 2024 turn toward far-right politics in the United States, gathers and circulates writing that imagines local actions for a livable tomorrow.
www.floodedpinepress.com
https://substack.com/@floodedpinepress
Frances Orrok @francesorrok.bsky.social Writer. Drawn to the wild ones.
https://www.francesorrok.co.uk
Pithead Chapel | Wigleaf | Smokelong Quarterly | Gone Lawn | New Ohio Review
r. p. singletary @rpsingletary.bsky.social W(e)i(r)dely published in so-called 'underground publications,' or so they said. www.rpsingletary.com
Sally Vardaman @sallyvardaman.bsky.social Writer. Minneassippian. Humanist.
sallyvardaman.com
Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Writer
Poetry: Debut collection due Spring ‘27
(Broken Sleep Books)
Forward Prize/BOTN nominee
100+ poems in Agenda, Stand, Poetry Salzburg, Chiron Review, IS&T etc & on BBC
Charles Causley & Bridport shortlists
Prose: Orwell Prize/Bridport Novel longlists
And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social Not-for-profit press led by readers, writers & translators. Consider subscribing to help us take publishing risks. http://andotherstories.org/subscriptions/
Anvil Press @anvilpress.bsky.social Independent Vancouver book publisher. anvilpress.com
Asterism Books @asterismbooks.bsky.social Trade distributor and online bookstore representing more than 160 independent literary publishers from around the world!
Astrophil Press @astrophilpress.bsky.social Publisher of fine independent books.
www.astrophilpress.com
Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social Avery Hill helps aspiring creators reach their potential and is a home for those geniuses the mainstream has yet to recognise.
Posts generally by Ricky
https://averyhillpublishing.bigcartel.com/
Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social New York-based publisher of contemporary poetry and prose. Founded in 2004, CLMP member. Home to annual contests, open reading periods, and the Immigrant Writing Series. We offer manuscript consultations, free monthly writing workshops, and more.
Bold Strokes Books @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social We're a midsized independent publisher with a diverse collection of LGBTQ+ general and genre fiction (romance, intrigue, crime, erotica, sci-fi/fantasy/horror), adult & YA. Shop our webstore and our sales! https://linktr.ee/boldstrokesbooks
Catapult Book Group @catapultbooks.bsky.social Catapult, Counterpoint, Soft Skull, & Hawthorne Books.
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social A literary meetingplace since 1953, City Lights is a landmark bookstore and publishing house, known for our commitment to innovative writing and progressive ideals.
Dalkey Archive @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social Books, since 1984
Feral House / Process @feralhouse.bsky.social We publish non-fiction books focused on micro-history, pop culture, occult, high-weirdness, unique memoirs, and more. We explore the dark and musty corners of culture and tell stories of forgotten creators and thinkers. (Posts by Christina.)
Game Over Books @gameoverbooks.bsky.social Founded in 2017, Game Over Books is a small Boston-based press run by nerdy artists.
www.linktr.ee/gameoverbooks
Graywolf Press @graywolfpress.bsky.social No longer active here. Find us on IG and TikTok @graywolfpress!
Host Publications @hostpublications.bsky.social Host Publications is an award-winning, women-led independent publisher. Devoted to our mission to elevate historically marginalized writers, Host publishes radical poetry & fiction by emerging LGBTQ+, BIPOC, intersectional feminist, and immigrant voices.
Ig Publishing @igpublishing.bsky.social Literary Fiction. Check. Resistance Politics. Check. Social and LGBTQIA+ Justice. Check. And some kids books too! www.igpub.com
June Road Press @juneroadpress.bsky.social Tiny, friendly poetry press based in Pennsylvania. Just two great books a year for now. More at juneroadpress.com and linktr.ee/juneroadpress
Melville House @melvillehouse.bsky.social An independent publisher based in Brooklyn, US and London, UK. https://linktr.ee/MelvilleHouse
NineStar Press @ninestarpress.bsky.social NineStar Press is an LGBTQIA+ publisher owned and managed by LGBTQIA+ people. We adore romance and erotic romance, but we also have an enormous interest in showcasing amazing literary works about characters less represented in fiction.
Open Letter Books @openletterbooks.bsky.social Publishing world voices that are extraordinary and influential, works that we hope will become the classics of tomorrow!
Second Story Press @secondstory.bsky.social Publishing diverse, inclusive, feminist books that entertain, educate, and empower. Follow us on Instagram & TikTok: @_secondstory
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Subterranean Press @subpress.bsky.social Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing luxurious specialty, limited editions and groundbreaking original works in the science fiction, fantasy, and horror genres. Dispatches from the warehouse and other news. http://linktr.ee/subterraneanpress
Underland Press @underlandpress.bsky.social Publisher of speculative and weird fiction. Home of Underland Arcana. underlandpress.com
Unnamed Press @unnamedpress.bsky.social We publish literature from around the world. UNlikely voices and UNexpected stories. Smith & Taylor Classics. Based in Los Angeles since 2014.
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Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social Variant Literature is a small press and magazine. http://variantlit.com
Summer 2026 issue out now!
Vine Leaves Press @vineleavespress.bsky.social We blur the line between experimental and commercial literature. Publisher: Jessica Bell. Publishing Director: Amie McCracken