Sudden Flash @suddenflash.bsky.social Flash fiction, microfiction, keeping it succinct.
https://yoursuddenflash.blogspot.com/
#writingcommunity #writers
CWPates @cwpates.com #Artist, #Painter and #Writer @ https://substack.com/@downthewoodedpath
https://www.cwpates.com/
#Hoarderofrarebirds, #permaculture
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yohi @yohin.bsky.social 
@randy39.bsky.social @randy39.bsky.social Military veteran with the belief of equality for all… I’m kinda addicted to tattoos… I love wine..I believe U2 is one of the greatest bands ever… and I’m probably way too much into Batman
Donna L Greenwood @donnalgreenwood.bsky.social A writer. Of sorts.
Gillian Isaacs Russell @girussell.bsky.social British psychoanalyst and writer living in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Non-fiction: "Screen Relations" https://a.co/d/05glvAML . Published in Persimmon Tree. Shortlisted for Fish Publishing Flash Fiction prize. Writing speculative fiction novel.
Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social a publisher of niche speculative fiction and poetry
angrygablepress.com
This Exquisite Topology available now!
https://a.co/d/4b4OElO
Katabatic Circus
@katabaticcircus.bsky.social
@jamiewriteshorror.bsky.social @jamiewriteshorror.bsky.social #amwriting #amquering I love books and movies. I love horror: novels/movies/series. I write horror comedy, horror, & creative nonfiction. #thelastdrivein #mutantfam.
Fin Farmer (they/them) @finifarmer.bsky.social big fan of slinkies and poetry and bad at social media
J. Alexander Cohen | Design and Fantasy @jalexandercohen.com Just crazy enough to work (for money).
Designer, speaker, caregiver.
https://www.jalexandercohen.com
David Saia @gentilidiot.bsky.social ❤️>😱 David Saia is the author of the Native Human column on Substack. He is a proud member of the sui generis pigeon hole. Temporarily located in Texas since 2007, he has his reasons.
Vee @ldvee.bsky.social Writer, activist, youth worker. A member of the Féile Vegan crew. Grassroots Irish vegan music fest.
🇺🇸**°•.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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Tiffany S. @tiffanysciacca.bsky.social 
Dave Blackwell @daveblackwell.bsky.social Medical Engineer and Indie Author from Kent, UK. I am profoundly deaf and write comedy based on my experiences.
The Hospital is now available - check it out.
Eric Taylor Roth @erictroth.bsky.social Engineer | Screenwriter | Dad | Sleepy
@TrishaWrites4#writingsomethingsomewhere#onquery#readingbooks @mindingmybizness.bsky.social Author , Mom, Wife , #SCBWI Businessowner, public education supporter , former ESL, disability advocacy ,
Speak up even if it’s uncomfortable.
Kathryn Kulpa @writesofkathryn.bsky.social Will write for coffee. Mostly flash, mostly fiction.
Work in BULL, Centaur, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, HAD, Milk Candy, SmokeLong, TrashCat, Wigleaf, YIV.
Chapbooks: A Map of Lost Places; For Every Tower, a Princess; Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted.
Sam @sammyzorba.bsky.social Words. Books. Quotes. Dogs. Horses. All living creatures. Trees! Photography, especially B&W film, painting, drawing. Baseball.
Food: married to a great cook. Prefer to follow positive, upbeat people posting bout daily life. Embarrassingly emotional.
Lainey @laineymarks.bsky.social ✍️
Kent Koprowicz @kentkoprowicz.bsky.social Kent Koprowicz is a poet and biostatistician based in Seattle, Washington. His work moves between statistical reasoning and lyric perception, exploring how systems of measurement shape attention, memory, and uncertainty.
Ranked News @rankednews.bsky.social Ranked News is the most diverse, unbiased/uncensored free news platform. Articles ranked, summarized and translated in +200 languages. More in the iOS/Android app.
iOS app https://apps.apple.com/app/ranked-news/id6753876990
Website: https://Ranked.News
Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social Publisher
Books Made in Berlin since 2023
www.sacredparasite.com
Gary Martin Hughes @hugheskky.bsky.social Writing Photography Music Art Film and Corvids.
All things indie.
Kathleen Latham @lathamwithapen.bsky.social Writer/closet cat lady. HC Bridport I Bath Flash🥉
SL: @Fish Flash @NewFlashFicRev @firstpagesprize @WelkinPrize
LL: @FracturedLit @Reflex Fiction @Mslexia
Words in @Cincinnatireview @MastersReview @Fictive Dream
KathleenLatham.com
nicholascelt.bsky.social @nicholascelt.bsky.social Storyteller 🎬 Bringing the epic fantasy saga of Nick Celt to life. Every world, every battle, created with Technology. Follow the adventure ⚔️
thecenote.bsky.social/OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS @thecenote.bsky.social A new poetry review, open for submissions (June 30-November 1). http://thecenotepoetryreview.org
Belinda Rowe @belindarowe.bsky.social Flash writer. Teacher. Night gardener
Recent pubs: Literary Namjooning, Unbroken, NFFR, Fractured Lit, Bending Genres, Vestal Review, Flash the Court, Centaur, BULL, Okay Donkey, BSF 2025
SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellow 2025
@david499.bsky.social @david499.bsky.social 
Matt Lanark @mattlanark.bsky.social ✍️ probably not writing the Great American Novel
📚 Great-ish Books on @substack
🏀 Undrafted NBA free agent since 2012
📌 Washington, DC
mattlanark.substack.com/welcome
Jacinta @jaymcee.bsky.social 
M. Rob @oedipalschmedipal.bsky.social In the sober light of day it's a little too bright out |
Will be mean to people you hate for food | Writer | Ball Knower
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
Finn Cassidy @finncassidy.bsky.social An occasionally enlightened earthling muddling through the mayhem, madness and magic of our chaotic cosmos, dabbling in life for it to become poetry.
🇫🇷 France 🇮🇪 Ireland
Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social Poet, painter, translator (mainly from modern Greek & German). Originally from Boston, Lincolnshire, I now live in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds.
https://wisdomsbottompress.wordpress.com/peter-j-king
Independent Lit @independentlit.bsky.social Celebrating the UK's independent literature. For those who read adventurously.
https://substack.com/@independentlit
@royakhatiblou.bsky.social et al.
Independentlituk@gmail.com
ellipsis zine @ellipsiszine.bsky.social Literary magazine and independent press, publishing beautifully written flash and microfiction. 1,000 words or fewer.
Est. 2017-2024. Relaunched in 2026.
https://www.ellipsis-zine.com
Christine Collinson @collinson26.bsky.social Historical Fiction Author
Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social 
Brandy O’Briant @brandyo71.bsky.social 54. American in England. Beagle mom. Writer. Literary fiction. MFA. INFJ.
Shortlist, The Virginia Prize for Fiction
Finalist, Wildhouse Fiction Prize
Longlist, Mslexia Novel Award
Honourable Mention, Craft Literary 1st Chapters
brandyobriant.com
M Nesce Drake @nesce.bsky.social SFF writer, fan, and dork - now published in Gallus: A Glasgow SF Writers' Circle anthology! (it's NESH-uh but I actually answer to Maggie) she/her. Disabled.
Support my work: https://buymeacoffee.com/mnescedrake
Ewan Downie @ewandownie.com Theatre-maker, writer, dad;
joint artistic director of @companywolves.org
Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social Scurrying through the mire of existence. #AmQuerying a novel about a trip through the lives of ancestors.
NYC! 🏙️
Follow me at Medium.com/@edwardrstapleton
Keith Roysdon @keithroysdon.bsky.social Writer of fiction, true crime and pop culture. Out now: My crime novel SEVEN ANGELS, winner 2021 Hugh Holton Award for Best Unpublished Novel from MWA-Midwest. Previous: THAT OCTOBER. Member MWA, SinC. keithroysdon dot com
Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social Michigan writer & stuff. auDHD. gender noncompliant. Fuck AI & Subst*ck.
https://aniking.net
— Family Night (Mason Jar Press, 2026) https://tinyurl.com/2jtf6t63
— SmokeLong Subs Editor
— EiC: syntaxandsalt.com (closed)
Barbara Stocker 💙📚 @bluebirdbhs.bsky.social Activist Democrat Missourian living in Virginia @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social @melrea.bsky.social Team Site
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
Mandira Pattnaik @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social Author of 8 published/forthcoming chapbooks, Wigleaf Top 50 (2023), Best Small Fictions (2021 & 2024), Best Micro Anthology (2024), The Rumpus, IHLR, McNeese Review, Emerson Review, Penn Review, 300+ publications, #amquerying
Michelle Furnace Brosius @michellefb.bsky.social Cat lover, reader of books (life is not long enough to read them all), hiker of the hills, writer, wine enthusiast, recovering actor, travel-holic, and occasional speaker of French. Living in beautiful Oregon. Also on https://letterboxd.com/watchtalkies/
CaseyAD @caseychavis.bsky.social Child of God, Proud Liberal, Brother, Uncle, Baker,Short Story Writer, Published Author, Cat Owner, World wide Traveler, Architect in a past (or future) life, Proud New Yorker living in Wisconsin. Introvert struggling to become more of an extrovert
DAR @darbooks.com Author/Writer/Dreamer - DA RASMUSSEN
Pandore Series
Katrina Powers @katrinapowers.bsky.social 
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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Kallie Hunchman @calicoproud.bsky.social She/They. Child of the 20th century.
Mother of four fuzzy meowing children. Passionate about books and their designs. Watercolor artist on the side, I suppose.
📚 Design Inquiries --> kallie.hunchman@gmail.com
🎨 Art Inquiries --> kalliedoesart@gmail.com
Kevin J Fellows @kevinjfellows.bsky.social Writer and poet. Recovering technologist. Poet and author of the novel At the End of the World. Words in One Art, 34 Orchard, Strange Horizons, Translunar Travelers Lounge and others. Runner. https://kevinjfellows.com
Penny Blackburn @pennyblackburn.bsky.social Yorkshire born writer and teacher now based in the North East.
Elowyn Merriweather @elowynmerriweather.com Writer
On an adventure to take a childhood hobby into something more.
Humor • a little darkness • a dash of sass
📖 my work ⤵
https://www.elowynmerriweather.com/
Vanessa Global @vanessaglobal.bsky.social 209K LIBRARY: universities,libraries,politicians,scientists,academics, lawyers,economists,linguists,historians,writers,BLUE, ANTIFA!
Me: brown NA,Oregonian,veteran,globetrotter,critical thinker,linguist,teacher,reader,atheist,constructive,ANTI-TRUMPIST
Nancy Freund @nancyfreund.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Wife, Mom & Mum. #T1D. Mostly vegan. Cambridge & UCLA & just finished year 1, CW PhD @Brunel! 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇭 My mom painted the above. She was amazing.
Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
Heather @heatherdnorton.bsky.social (she/her) | 🖤 | ace | writes SFF and lit fic | words @lunastation.bsky.social and @edinburghawards.bsky.social | first reader at @translunartl.bsky.social |
https://writteninmoss.blogspot.com/
Rae Patterson @rae-patterson.northsky.social Canadian, Writer, Queer, She/they
I have friends everywhere.
https://raepatterson.ca
Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social (re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
Brian Howell @brianh61.bsky.social Teacher, novelist, short story writer, published by Salt, Zagava, and Raphus Press. Possibly mad about art, film, fiction, and cycling.
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
Jim Toal @jtstories.bsky.social Fiction in The Stinging Fly and elsewhere. Seeking representation. Story collection ready to go. Novel in progress. Lifelong Newcastle United fan.
Lit Match Collective @litmatchcollective.com A writers’ community led by editors 🔥
Helping members connect and grow.
Join us ➡️ litmatchcollective.com & our community, open to all!: https://discord.gg/cxSdvE2EfN
TM Upchurch @tmupchurch.bsky.social Lives on a big, wet rock by the sea.
Mother, scientist, writer.
https://www.instagram.com/traceyupchurch (nature, book reviews, life)
https://tmupchurchwriting.wordpress.com/ (reads and writes)
Dina Strasser @dinaeliz.bsky.social Writer, teacher, semi-Luddite. I follow authors, educators, and lit mags.
Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social Crone, wastrel, lapsed (but twitching) novelist. Posts about art & lit.
Me: https://www.writersunion.ca/member/anne-denoon
My book: Back Flip, a novel about art & the 1960s: https://t.co/m7fQSOo6At or (with reviews) https://tinyurl.com/4dzwzpdp
Jane French @janefrench.bsky.social Writer of medical and caregiving reports | published widely in email streams | family caregiver | advocate for low-income older adults
Colman Rushe @colmanrushe.bsky.social Writer/Musician/Occasional Self-Publisher. Irishman living on the Mediterranean coast of Spain.
The Agnes Owens Archive @aowensarchive.bsky.social Opening 16.01.26, a new public resource dedicated to the Scottish writer Agnes Owens. This archive is housed within agrayarchive.bsky.social
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
Aud Auder @cbauder.bsky.social Paper collages from junk mail, some digital stuff. No AI. Poetry, prose, essays & hybrid work. Wildlife & climate. Small but furious. Still masking, still persisting. Reader for @fracturedlit.bsky.social, blog at cbauder.com 🅥
Abigail Williams @abbywilliams.bsky.social Writer of short stories, flash and other stuff. SL Bridport. Winner Molotov Cocktail, Flash500, CrankedAnvil, Exeter Writers Short Story. 3rd BFFA, 3rd Oxford Flash, SL Wells, Frome, UnchartedMag. Pushcart Nom.
B(RYN)N💋a goddamn national treasure🏳️🌈 @ryn-rehnard.bsky.social 💋30s author
🧶handcraft artist
🏳️🌈queersadilla
❤️pure of heart & dumb of ass
🔞NSFWish
🔪Billy Butcher apologist
🐄Dairy Queen
🕷️&🐛&🐈 mom
🦃Cornbread knows my sins
📚Read more smut & horror
📍Wisconsin
🚫NO AI
https://linktr.ee/ryn_rehnard
https://RYN-REHNARD.COM
The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com 🏺 literary magazine retelling myths + classics
🏹 bringing the "then" to our "now"
🖋️ READING SUBS
https://www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submit
Brian O’Dea @brian-odea.bsky.social http://brianfrancisodea.com/
Perfect God = Lexa Gates @mx-j.bsky.social https://shop.capitolmusic.com/collections/lexa-gates
Karen G Berry @karentheberry.bsky.social I'm a writer in Portland, Oregon who turns a sharp eye to the foibles of humanity. I'm also getting old. These two attributes complement each other nicely.
I blog here when I blog: https://karengberry.mywriting.network/
Lou @babalouie1.bsky.social Light-hearted. Tough-minded. Mostly harmless. Lilium inter spinas. INFJ-A. Inner sanctums: Gryffindor, Númenor, Westeros, Houyhnhnmland, HMS Surprise, Watership Down, NCC-1701, Donwell Abbey, Martello Tower. Likes to shave with Occam's razor
MSU Roadrunner Review @roadrunnerreview.bsky.social Literary journal produced by the Creative Writing Program at Metropolitan State University of Denver https://sites.msudenver.edu/roadrunnerreview/
CNM @carleynmiller.bsky.social writing & reading & witchcraft
Lothlorien Poetry Journal @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction and art.
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines.html
Strider Marcus Jones @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social Poet. Five published books.DMU Law graduate. Pushcart Prizex4/Best of the Netx4 Nominations. Founder/Editor/Publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.co https://stridermarcusjonespoet.blogspot.com/p/about-strider.html