Ken Brydon @prison-stories.bsky.social Award-winning writer. 39 years incarcerated, 23 at San Quentin. PEN America recognized. Published by Joyce Carol Oates. I write about prison, redemption, loss, humor & hope—and the humanity found where most people never look.
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Dalkey Archive @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social Books, since 1984
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Anthony Addis @anthonyaddis.bsky.social I used to write, read and live in Cairo, KL, Jakarta and Riyadh. Now I do all that in Lichfield while placating two Indonesian streetcats.
My novel 'Do Not Keep Silent' is available on Amazon.
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The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the world’s best new writing.
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social My new book, How To Live Under Fascism: New Poems and Photos out now (https://tinyurl.com/How-To-Live-Under-Fascism)
Mark de Clive-Lowe @mdcl.bsky.social musiclovelife 🇯🇵🇳🇿 exploring culture through sound
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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 • NJ • www.brandondiehl.net
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
Mychal Denzel Smith @mychaldenzelsmith.bsky.social Books: Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching/Stakes is High/one in progress about Virginia. Smoking cigars, drinking coffee, playing chess. I dunno man, what even matters now?
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George Abraham 🍉 @intifadabatata.bsky.social Palestinian Poet | Editor @ Mizna | Teaching @ Amherst | 📖 BIRTHRIGHT (Button Poetry) & 🇵🇸 poetry anthology (Haymarket Books) | Bookings @TSP_Writing | they/هو
Two Dollar Radio @twodollarradio.bsky.social Independent publisher based in Ohio, bringing you ‘Books Too Loud To Ignore’ since 2005.
📚 imprint of Seven Stories Press
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Noemi Press @noemipress.bsky.social Noemi Press is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit publisher committed to publishing innovative writing. We have been a historically brown and queer press since our founding in 2002.
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Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social Dallas, TX | Quarterly print mag and weekly content online | www.southwestreview.com
Nick Estes @nicke.bsky.social ⚡️Oceti Sakowin. Kul Wicasa. Lakol Wicoun. The original Red Scare. The Red Nation. Red Media.⚡️ 
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Ilya Kaminsky @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social www.IlyaKaminsky.com
Deesha Philyaw @deeshaphilyaw.bsky.social Author of THE TRUE CONFESSIONS OF FIRST LADY FREEMAN (on sale 9.29.2026; pre-order: https://bit.ly/firstladyfreeman) and THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES.
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social writer / artist
Keith S. Wilson @keithwilsonpoet.bsky.social Poet / Faculty @spaldingwriting.bsky.social
Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social Lifewriting Podcast - Exec Producer #HorrorNoire: A History of Black Horror, Writer: Twilight Zone. UCLA Lecturer. Vanity Fair. Author: American Book Award #BLM #blacksky She/Her - https://linktr.ee/tananarivedue
The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social “The Adroit Journal is where I go when I want to know what the kids are reading.”
—The Paris Review
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Alice James Books @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social Alice James Books is an independent poetry press dedicated to publishing books that matter by poets who inspire.
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Martín Espada @martinespadapoet.bsky.social The page of the National Book Award-winning poet, essayist, translator, editor, and activist.
New Orleans Poetry Festival @nolapoetry.bsky.social We are an annual poetry festival bringing new authors to New Orleans, and showcasing New Orleans authors for our international audience. Learn more about us at https://www.nolapoetry.com/
Aricka Foreman @blkfemmepoetics.bsky.social Author|Artist|Community Weaver. She|They.
Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social Creator of The Marginalian (once upon a time called Brain Pickings). Lover of books and tress. Petter of moss. Wonderer. Also: almanacofbirds.org
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social Author, he/him
Ninth Letter @ninthletter.bsky.social Ninth Letter is a literary magazine edited and produced at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. We aim to present original literary writing of exceptional quality, illuminated by cutting-edge graphic design.
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The Sun magazine @thesunmagazine.bsky.social The Sun is a magazine that publishes roughly forty thousand words a month, about a dozen of which are funny. This is where we share those dozen.
Verse Daily @versedaily.bsky.social The largest daily poem anthology... 22 years of poems in our archives! You know you need a little more poetry in your life.
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The American Poetry Review @ampoetryreview.bsky.social Poetry all the time since 1972. We never close. aprweb.org
Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
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Mahogany L. Browne @mobrowne.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Alchemist.
Evie Shockley @seminewblack.bsky.social poet & literary scholar, people-oriented introvert, optimist of the will
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Brian Tierney @briantierney.bsky.social author of RISE AND FLOAT
from Milkweed Editions
“nothing short of exquisite” - Chicago Review of Books
Philly and Oakland and Scorpios 4ever
Atlantic Books @atlanticbooks.bsky.social Independent British publisher of literary fiction and non-fiction. Also the home of imprints Corvus Books, Allen & Unwin UK, and Grove Press UK.
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Tor Books @torbooks.bsky.social Publisher of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, and Other Speculative Fiction
Southern Review of Books @southrevbooks.bsky.social Exploring contemporary literature of the American South & beyond. Published by Queens University of Charlotte MFA. Editor-in-chief @crisley.bsky.social, founding editor Adam Morgan. linktr.ee/southrevbooks
Omotara @omotarajames.bsky.social 🌈 NAACP Image Award nominated debut, “Song of My Softening” OUT NOW 🌱 PaD Guest Editor @poetsorg
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The Black List @theblcklst.bsky.social The Black List connects writers, filmmakers, and storytelling industry professionals around the globe.
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Tommye Blount @tommyeblount.bsky.social Detroiter who is the author of the poetry collections FANTASIA FOR THE MAN IN BLUE (Four Way Books) and WHAT ARE WE NOT FOR.
Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social Your favorite nonprofit indie publisher of radical nonfiction since 1854.
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Prairie Schooner @prairie-schooner.bsky.social Literary Journal of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 100 years of poetry, essays, fiction, & reviews. Posts by staff & interns https://prairieschooner.unl.edu
Boulevard Magazine @boulevardlitmag.bsky.social The finest fiction, poetry, and essays since 1985. Paying market.
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The Pushcart Prize @pushcartprize.bsky.social Featuring the best short stories, poems, essays annually since 1976.
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Ploughshares Literary Journal @pshares.bsky.social The award-winning literary journal based at Emerson College. Publishing established and emerging writers since 1971. mtr.bio/pshares
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
Mary Biddinger @marybid.bsky.social Writer & professor | The Girl with the Black Lipstick (novella-in-flash, Black Lawrence Press) Order from BLP at https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-girl-with-the-black-lipstick/
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Protean Magazine @proteanmag.com An independent leftist magazine collecting criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, and art • Support our work at www.patreon.com/proteanmag • www.proteanmag.com/
YesYes Books @yesyesbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of poetry and fiction because art and literature make life better!
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Donika Kelly @donikakelly.bsky.social Author of Bestiary and The Renunciations and The Natural Order of Things | Graywolf Press | Kate Tufts | Hurston/Wright | Anisfield-Wolf |NEA | Iowa English | she/her/dr.
The Shipman Agency @shipmanagency.bsky.social The Shipman Agency offers complete literary services to writers at all stages of their careers: event booking, independent publicity, mss consultations, The Work Room. #KnicksinFive. she/her https://www.theshipmanagency.com/
Kima Jones @kimajones.bsky.social BUTCH forthcoming Knopf 📚
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Hoa Nguyen @peacehearty.bsky.social Poet. Educator. Aquarius stellium. Not really here.
Reginald Harris @reggieh.bsky.social "Don't leave the arena to the fools." - Toni Cade Bambara
Poet, writer, librarian, etc.
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.
Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2027). Black. Still. Life. (2028) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social Author of some books & more, professor, translator, artist+ 🏳️🌈 🖤💚❤️ 🏳️⚧️ (Avatar: c/o I.D. Mag/photo © Mario Sorrenti)
#PettyPendergrass @ashoncrawley.bsky.social here because formerly-twitter is trash. and still, just like a magazine, i got issues. artsy. writersy. professory.
Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social Reader, writer, teacher, gardener, seamstress, contrarian. Alice Griffin Professor Emerita of English, Former Director-Carter G. Woodson Institute, U of Virginia. Please, no DMs unless I know you. For professional matters, please contact me via UVA.
Tav Nyong’o @tavia.bsky.social Still waiting for the Sankofa emoji. 🐦🔥
petals (herself/ themself) @cathecticpetals.bsky.social 
Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social Aggregator of Black Culture. James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Duke University. Host of the Webby-nominated Left of Black. Author of several books, including forthcoming SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (on Black Fatherhood).
la grande dame du jazz & l'incomparable chanteuse @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app poet, visual artist, & nyeusiphile
entering my fifth intermediate period of poetry
big b and the b stands for bedour 🌙 @balagonline.bsky.social writer, professor | ✍🏽_the interminable catastrophe_ | strong from years of fantasy & study like amiri baraka | say mashallah bc i’m even hotter irl 🧿| https://linktr.ee/bedouralagraa
which josh are you? @ddhewty.bsky.social If you don’t already know, you don’t need to know.
Nikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls.bsky.social Poet, photographer, occasional visual artist. Latest book of poems is Hold Your Own from Copper Canyon Press (2024).
https://www.patreon.com/nikkiwallschlaeger
Alexis Pauline Gumbs @alexispauline.bsky.social Queer Black Feminist Love Evangelist. Author of SURVIVAL IS A PROMISE: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde.
Nalo Hopkinson - Jamaica Ginger & Other Concoctions @nalohop.bsky.social Award-winning author of prose & comics, maker of food and small objects she/her/hers http://nalohopkinson.com
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Paul db Watkins @paulwatkins.bsky.social ✍️🎥 Writer, English Lit, and Film Professor pauldbwatkins.com (he/him)
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🍉 "Now’s the Time” (MLK/Parker/Basquiat).
Anwar Uhuru, Ph.D. @auhuru.bsky.social Ooloi, philosopher, aesthete, writer, witchy autistic non-binary queer
John Drabinski @jdrabinski.bsky.social il y a là cendre
Professor of African American and Africana Studies, University of Maryland. Check out: blackstudiespodcast.substack.com
Elias Rodriques @rodriquese.bsky.social Repped by Jin Auh at Wylie. Novel, All the Water I've Seen is Running. Words in The Guardian, The Nation, and elsewhere.
David Barclay Moore @dbarclaymoore.bsky.social author & filmmaker. black & gay.
The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com ‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language.’
Trident Media Group @tridentmediagroup.bsky.social A leading literary agency headquartered in New York City.
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Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social Ensuring a vibrant, diverse literary landscape by helping small literary publishers work better. www.clmp.org
Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social "I'm so grateful Hammer and Hope exists. True Black leftist literary dispatches." - dream hampton.
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Aragi @aragiauthors.bsky.social Aragi, Inc. is a New York City-based literary agency founded by Nicole Aragi. // Instagram @aragiauthors
Andrew Colarusso @theprofessor.bsky.social 
The Dispatch @cdispatch.bsky.social Local print and digital media company serving Columbus, Starkville and the greater Golden Triangle area of Mississippi.
Milkweed Editions @milkweededitions.bsky.social Milkweed Editions is a nonprofit independent literary press. We serve authors and readers by publishing life-changing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Learn more at milkweed.org
M Freeman aka Cinema Divina @marilynfreeman.com Media artist | writer | contemplative | queer
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Arts + Literature Laboratory @artlitlab.bsky.social Community-driven arts center in downtown Madison. Art. Literature. Music. Film. Education. Artist Professional Development. Full event calendar at artlitlab.org/calendar
TriQuarterly Magazine @triquarterlymag.bsky.social Writing, Art, Video. Since 1958. Published by Northwestern University's Litowitz MFA+MA and the SPS MA graduate creative writing programs. www.triquarterly.org
Anne de Marcken @annedemarcken.com Writer • It Lasts Forever & Then It’s Over • The Accident: An Account • Editor/publisher @the3rdthing.press • Website https://annedemarcken.com
Paul Hlava Ceballos @paulhlava.bsky.social Author of banana [ ], winner of AWP Prize & PSA 1st Book Award. Finalist for Kate Tufts & National Book Critics. Editor Seattle Met, CantoMundista, echocardiographer
The 3rd Thing @the3rdthing.press https://the3rdthing.press
independent publisher of necessary alternatives
Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.