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Julie 🐱 @raccf.bsky.social new here, still setting things up :)
Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social Writer and critic, Emerita Professor of Short Fiction at Edge Hill University UK.
Short stories, Precipitation, https://www.confingopublishing.uk/
https://www.routledge.com/Writing-Short-Stories-A-Routledge-Writers-Guide/Cox/p/book/9781032582481.
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Nastasya Parker @nastasyaparker.bsky.social Writer with stories in The Phare, Funny Pearls, and featured in Stroud and Bristol Short Story Anthologies. Immigrated from New England to Old. I work in secondary education. Inexplicably drawn to not entirely pleasant characters.
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Phil Olsen @liverpolsen.bsky.social Writer of s(h)orts | Continuing Education Creative Writing Tutor at Uni of Liverpool | Contributing Editor at Vestal Review | Stories in Cōnfingō #16, Strix #8 | https://polsen.co.uk | https://linktr.ee/liverpolsen
Chris Emery @chrisemery.me Poet. Five collections from Arc and Salt, most recently Wonder (2025). Manchester-born, Irish citizen, living in Cromer. I publish other people’s books at Salt. Newsletter: chrisemery.me
Zach Breneman @zmbreneman.bsky.social 
Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social Everything would be great if The Smiths would just get back together.
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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)
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Clare O'Brien @clareobrien.bsky.social Writer. Retired music industry person.
2025 Poet in Residence, Inverewe Garden, Scotland.
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SF Layzell @sflayzell.bsky.social I write queer stories & edit books sometimes https://sflayzell.com/
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Sara Hills @sarahillswrites.bsky.social THE EVOLUTION OF BIRDS (Ad Hoc Fiction, 2021)
Best Small Fictions | Wigleaf Top 50
SmokeLong Mikey, Bath Flash Fiction Award, QuietManDave CNF
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sarahillswrites.com
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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com a journal of ends and beginnings
https://psychopomp.com/deadlands/
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J. D. Hellen @jdhellenwrites.bsky.social 🖋️✨🐌 Speculative fiction writer near Philadelphia, PA, USA. Here to follow writers, lit mags, and podcasts. No AI slop, please.
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Almond Kellacher @almondkellacher.bsky.social Retired filmmaker and video producer, currently spending my time working on a novel and writing short stories and flash fiction.
Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social Writer and Literary Critic. Work in Gooseberry Pie Lit, Passages North, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story, Bending Genres, and FlashFlood. Best Small Fictions ‘27 Nom.
Contemporary Anglophone Lit PhD.
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A.J. O'Toole @scribblerotoole.bsky.social Writer - working on short fiction and my novel "Half A Lie".
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Black Country state of mind.
Wilson Koewing @wilsonkoewing.bsky.social notable, Best American Essays. distinguished, Best American Mystery and Suspense // books JADED, QUASI and ROLLING ON THE BOTTOM // editor of Bottle Rocket Literary Magazine
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Linda Daunter @lindadaunter.bsky.social
Still don't know what I want to do when I'm grown up.
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Megan @ Sugar Pig @sugarpigblog.bsky.social Mother, sometime writer, mediocre flute player, misplaced Texan. Words in more than two dozen literary magazines and counting.
Catherine Buck @catherinebuck.bsky.social Stories in CRAFT Literary, Vestal Review, Bending Genres, more. 🐈⬛ Learned from Rutgers-Camden MFA '18, Tin House '22, and Lambda Literary '25. Fiction reader for Okay Donkey. catherinebuck.com
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Zoe Davis @meanerharker.bsky.social Writer and avid doodler with words in the likes of Strix, Ink Sweat and Tears and Dust. 2x BotN nom. Forward Prize Nom. Lives in Sheffield UK. Interested in comics, computer games and sports. Member of Sheffield Eagles Wheelchair Rugby Club.
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Kathy Prokhovnik @kathyprokhovnik.bsky.social Writing fiction and nonfiction. But you can’t make this stuff up can you?
Michael Staniforth @staniforthmick.bsky.social Author featured in A Coup of Owls, 4 horsemen pubs, and U is for Unexplained. Bisexual. He/They Trans rights are human rights.
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Domingos @domingosmcc.bsky.social I know not what tomorrow will bring…(Pessoa)
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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.
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Chris Lawrence @chrislarry33.bsky.social Nonprofit lifer. Pop & counter culture anthropologist. Writer, carver, podcaster, gardener, animist, trash rocker. Opinions from folklore to networks & beyond. My 100 Word Pop Culture review blog: https://write.as/larrys100/
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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/
Renee Guill AI Systems Writer🖖🤖💻 @reneeguillclimate.bsky.social A systems-focused publication that uses science fiction as a diagnostic framework to analyze automation, digital infrastructure, and the hidden energy costs of modern life. DM is for work only.
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@mimisfbay @mimisfbay.bsky.social Liberal, proud mom/nana to wonderful people. We didn’t fight like hell for this. No DMs
Alan Beard @alanbeard.bsky.social Short Story/Flash writer. Third collection Afternoon Drinking out now from Floodgate Press, UK. Previous collections: Taking Doreen out of the Sky (Picador, 1999); You Don’t Have to Say (Tindal Street Press, 2010).
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ARAston @araston90.bsky.social He/him
35 years old
Writer of hobgoblins & assorted weird little guys
Author of the upcoming Savage Oaths Saga. More info on my website:
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Shira Musicant @shiramusicant.bsky.social I live with one black cat and five chickens. They rule my life.
Veblen Director Programme @veblendirectors.bsky.social Helping ambitious people get their first board seats. Regardless of your background.
Jupiter Jones @jupiterjonz.bsky.social Writes short stuff
@bsherm36.bsky.social @bsherm36.bsky.social Author of HOW TO GET THERE FROM HERE (Ad Hoc). Stories @Smokelong, Flash Frog, Gone Lawn, Bending Genres. Subs editor @Smokelong. BMF 2024, 2026. BSF 2025. Noms: Pushcart, BOTN. Author of five mystery novels. PhD from CUNY Grad Center.
Gillian O’Shaughnessy @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social ▪️Relentless optimist.
▪️Salt City Runaway, debut story collection out in 2026
▪️Sub Editor- SmokeLong Quarterly
▪️Best Small Fictions 23, 24, 25.
Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social This is a storybook. All of us are in it. Here are some tales.
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https://templeinacity.com
In: AHC, Claudine, DIHP, Bull, Frazzled, Fish Barrel, Dog Throat, Blood & Honey, ANMLY Whimperbang. Pushcart, best short fiction nom.
Joanna ✅ Theiss @joannatheiss.com Writer of weird things sitting with a cat in Washington, DC
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Emma Phillips @words-outwest.bsky.social Flash fan, poet, short fiction writer. Likes actual and imaginary travel. Words: 2nd place Bath Flash June 2021, Best Microfiction 2022, Free Flash Fiction Competition Winner. 
Stephen @wordsinspacetime.bsky.social Stephen Barrett is an emerging fiction writer. His work explores the darker aspects of the human condition, often through a surreal or speculative lens. He is currently working on a collection of short fiction.
https://substack.com/@wordsinspaceandtime
Farhana Khalique @hanakhalique.bsky.social Writer, VO Artist, Teacher, & PhD candidate from London, UK
Subs Editor @ SmokeLong Quarterly
Words in Flash Fusion, Best Small Fictions, 100 Voices, Spread the Word, Arachne Press, Word Factory, & more
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Dr Carrie Etter @carrieetter.bsky.social Poet, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Poems in Iowa Review, Poetry London, TLS, The New Republic... | Academic | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the 🐈⬛! | Foodie | Dem 🇺🇸 expat in Bristol, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
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Tom Preston @tomp-reston.bsky.social Spec-fic writer
Words in The Ghastling, @bruisermag.com, Litro Online, DUMBO Press, Hearth & Coffin
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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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Tope Hall @topehall.bsky.social Adventures of Slothy and Lord Thrilling
H.V. Patterson @hvpatterson.bsky.social Writes horror/speculative fiction, poetry, and plays. Loves folklore, spooky science, and baking/cooking. Cofounder Horns and Rattles Press she/her
Find me: linktr.ee/hvpatterson
Ian Johnson @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social Writer. Northerner. Sausage. Words in Trash Cat Lit, Bull, The Bulb Region, Literary Garage, and that. BotN and Best Microfiction nominee.