The Hoolet’s Nook @thehooletsnook.bsky.social Where microfiction and poetry linger long past the final word. www.thehooletsnook.com
Submissions OPEN until October 15.
Managed by G.R. LeBlanc (you can call me Gisele)
Tip Jar for THN💌-> https://ko-fi.com/grleblanc
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/
Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com A webjournal publishing short fiction, book reviews, a weekly newsletter, & whatever else happens at http://www.necessaryfiction.com. Doing our best since 2009.
Posts by http://shimmer.bsky.social. 
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
@rodmickleburgh.bsky.social @rodmickleburgh.bsky.social Former reporter for the Globe and Mail, including four years in China…also a former labour reporter (sigh) and ever a fan of the Montreal Expos (sigh)
Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com Magazine of speculative fiction; stories of horror, wonder, and the weird since 1999. https://3lobedmag.com
Wild Hyacinth Magazine @wildhyacinthmag.bsky.social Wild Hyacinth is a Canadian literary pocket for difficult feelings & seasons, publishing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Submissions open.
http://bio.site/wildhyacinthmag
Amber Ken @amberken.bsky.social Writer of short stories, poetry, and CNF - I don't much like to choose (read: bisexual)
autistic & chronically ill 🥄
🌊 Folkestone-dweller
genres: literary, horror
Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social Everything would be great if The Smiths would just get back together.
Words: Wigleaf, HAD, Roi Faineant, Does it Have Pockets? Pithead Chapel, Your Impossible Voice, Trash Cat Lit, and BSF 2017, 2019. 2018 Pushcart recipient. www.keithawoodruff.com
SF Layzell @sflayzell.bsky.social I write queer stories & edit books sometimes https://sflayzell.com/
Buy Cottonopolis, a MG set in 1840s Manchester, shortlisted for Little Rebels https://sflayzell.com/cottonopolis/
Views mine, contact via website
Louise @louisehurrell.bsky.social 🏴
Writer. Producer. Cake lover.
Chris Doty-Dunn @chrisdotydunn.com Writer of weird and/or gay and/or spec fiction. Words in Crepuscular Magazine, Rat Bag Lit, Dream Theory Media, and more + forthcoming at Drabblecast. PhD in linguistics. ✡️🏳️🌈👬
Newsletter signup and stories: chrisdotydunn.com
Jesse Binger @jessebinger.bsky.social Author | 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴
Rep'd: Tommy Dean, Rosecliff Lit
Pub'd: Bending Genres, Bristol Noir, LitGarage, Revolution John, Pistol Jim Press
www.jessebinger.com
Literary Garage @literarygarage.bsky.social Writing with a serrated edge.
Like the rock and roll garage bands of the 1960’s and 1970's (as well as the modified versions that showed up in the 1980’s) – straight ahead story telling with a purpose.
www.literarygarage.com
KGarrison @katherinegarrison.bsky.social Hiking Enthusiast||
Writer of Poetry and Prose 🦔||
Freelance Chef and Baker||
Best Microfiction Nominee||
Words in Variety Pack, Superlative Literary Journal, Baubles from Bones, WordFire Press, Utopia SF Mag, HAD.
Forthcoming with tiny wren, Tadpole.||
Denise Bayes @deniseb.bsky.social Flash fiction and short story writer. Free Flash. Ellipsis zine. 100 Word Story. Firewords.Roi Faient. NFFD Anthology. Temple in a City. Thin Skin. Flash Amiga.
Table Salt Press @tablesaltpress.bsky.social 🍳 an indie lit mag passing stories across the table
🌾 prose • poetry • nonfiction • essays • art • photography
📮 subs open for issue no. 1 𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒌
Elissa Field @elissafield.bsky.social Lit noir novels + flash | SmokeLong Submission Ed | Runner Up Killer Claymore Best Mystery | Stories in/coming SmokeLong trampset HAD Moon City Ghost Parachute Monkeybicycle Citron Review Peatsmoke CRAFT Conjunctions ++ | IG FB elissalaurenfield.com
Cormorant Books @cormorantbooks.bsky.social Cormorant books is a Canadian independent book publisher of fiction and nonfiction. We’ve been publishing diverse Canadian voices since 1986.
Thistledown Press @thistledownpress.bsky.social A literary trade publisher, publishing poetry and fiction by Canadian authors since 1975.
Rona Altrows @ronaaltrows.bsky.social Writer, editor, bubby, animal lover, social democrat.
Human rights for all.
Giller Prize @gillerprize.bsky.social Canada's first word in fiction.
Natalie Zed @nataliezed.bsky.social Author of HENCH and VILLAIN. She/her. Spec fic, videogames, heavy metal, horror, MMA, comics, TTRPGs, LARP. CanLit Tank Girl. Extremely unlikely. Rep'd by Ron Eckel at CookeMcDermid.
Lisa MacDonald @lisamacdonald.bsky.social Lifelong journalist, CanLit fan, cat lady, dog lover
Celia Cores-Antepazo @celiacores.bsky.social PhDing @usal @english_usal @projectRESHAP • memory, resilience, ethnicity, gender • #CanLit #AmLit • she/her/ela • formerly @UofT @UniofOxford 📚🎨💐🐈
Graham Jensen @grahamhjensen.bsky.social Modernism, CanLit, DH (any order). Also: food, travel, cocktails, general nerdery // Asst. Director + Mitacs Postdoc, Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, U Victoria // PI, Canadian Modernist Magazines Project (http://modernistmags.ca). He/him.
River Street @riverstreetwriting.bsky.social A ragtag team of creatives celebrating amazing CanLit. Join the party, pals!
Est. 2010.
Renée Harper @reneeharper.bsky.social Poet, Artist and College Professor | PhD in CanLit | Lives in Nelson, B.C., Canada, Sinixt territory | she/they | Author of Boundary Territory (2024) | reneeharper.ca | reneeharperart.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.
Lena Kinder @happilylenaaa.bsky.social Mediocre Maven | MA in Fiction at the University of Southern Mississippi | MFA in Poetry at Hollins University | Editor-in-Cheese of @folklorereview.bsky.social
https://www.folklorereview.com/
Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca On a journey trying to find new worlds while sending joy into the ether.
Human 🎧 Shazam 🎧. Sports fan. Anti-racist. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️LGBTQ2S+ Supporter 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈. From Tkaronto.
She/her.
Co-curator of @womensart2.bsky.social.
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
Okay Donkey Magazine @okaydonkeymag.com A literary magazine for the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. 🫏
Est. May 2018.
Re-designed site!: okaydonkeymag.com
Newsletter: okaydonkeymag.beehiiv.com
Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/okaydonkey
Sofi P. @sofip.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Tired.
https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/radium-girl?fbclid=IwY2xjawHiwnxleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHXygvf1GdC9XqrKQH8rOKqVfgiOcUaR66kk5FwRFULvR9lhGs8HOjNiXjQ_aem_mLm1_goqGeZiFk125HZGNw
@bookhugpress @bookhugpress.bsky.social Book*hug Press is a radically optimistic Canadian-owned publisher working at the forefront of contemporary book culture.🍁
Emily Pohl-Weary @kissmachine.bsky.social Author of books, comics, weirdness. Tiny Aussie Shepherd's devoted human. Toronto --> Vancouver. Teach creative writing at University of British Columbia (Canada)
https://emilypohlweary.com/
Latest novel: https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/H/How-to-Be-Found
Lydia Kwa @lydiakwa.bsky.social She/Her. Queer, racialized writer of fiction and poetry. Living and working on unceded Coast Salish territories in the county known as Canada.
Keith Maillard @keithmaillard.bsky.social Keith Maillard is the author of fifteen novels, a book of poetry, and two of creative non-fiction. He teaches in the UBC's School of Creative Writing and is the 2024 winner of the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence in British Columbia.
Assembly Press @pressassembly.bsky.social Independent publisher of ambitious literature.
Invisible Books @invisibooks.bsky.social We make books.
Gaspereau Press @gaspereaupress.bsky.social ¶ One of Canada’s most innovative and tenacious literary publishers
¶ http://linktr.ee/gaspereaupress
Catherine Owen @cowenwriter.bsky.social Poet, writer, maker of things. Seventeen collections of poetry and prose. Born and raised Vancouverite now living in Edmonton. ANTI-artificial thievery. Editor, reviewer, teacher of poetic forms. Loves: books, cats, gardening, family, real life. #canlit
Jeff Miller @theghostpine.bsky.social Writer, reader, punk | MFA UBC | He/him
Novel: Temporary Palaces (House of Anansi, out now!) Non-fiction: Ghost Pine: All Stories True (Invisible)
Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social Award-winning independent literary press.
Read independently. https://linktr.ee/biblioasis_books
Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
Radiant Press @radiantpress.bsky.social An indie press on the prairies. Submissions open Sept. 1 to
July 1. We publish fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction.
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...
@jowitabydlowska.bsky.social @jowitabydlowska.bsky.social 
Waubgeshig Rice @waub.bsky.social Latest novel MOON OF THE TURNING LEAVES is available via Random House in Canada and William Morrow in the USA
Mixed Bag @m-ixedbag.bsky.social Writer, Mom, Polyglot. Editor @lit-namjooning.bsky.social, Subs Editor @Smokelong. Words: BSF'23 @hexliterary,@tinymolecules @barrelhouse @BoothAJournal @wigleaf
Published work here: linktr.ee/hemanataraju
@laurieember.bsky.social @laurieember.bsky.social 
NYC Midnight @nycmidnight.bsky.social Inspiring challenges for storytellers. Next up is the Scary Story Challenge on October 16th at https://nycmidnight.com/scary.
Rind & Root Journal @rindandroot.bsky.social A literary review and journal. Run by emerging writers for emerging writers
Website: rindandroot.org
Nathan Pettigrew @nathanpettigrew.bsky.social Writer. Author of TALES FROM TERREBONNE, forthcoming in 2026 from @rhppress.bsky.social. Managing Editor at Mythic Picnic. Awarded 2nd Place in the 22nd Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition for his story "Yemma."
Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Flash fiction writer | 2025 Highly Commended Bridport Prize & Finalist New Millennium Writings | Published in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Flash the Court, Writers’ Hour, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and elsewhere.
linktr.ee/adelegallogly
James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social Poet, journalist, novelist. Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Poetry chapbook SUDDEN SHADOWS published last fall.
European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social Travelling salon and writing community - connecting writers across Europe and beyond. Posts by @royakhatiblou.bsky.social and @deborahzafer.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/europeanwriterssalon
B. Luke Wilson @blukewilson.bsky.social Writer and editor. Words out in The Rumpus, ONLY POEMS, HAD, ect. Hollins MFA alum. Poetry Editor @chestnutreview.bsky.social.
Anne Howkins @anneh23.bsky.social Charity worker, writer, gym-bunny, rambler. Discovering the joys of grand-parenthood.
Ann Graham @ann-graham.bsky.social Reader, writer of short stories and poems.
I comment on short stories at http://www.ann-graham.com/
Polycraftual @polycraftual.bsky.social Creative, nerd, co-director, teacher. (She/her)
Mary Magdalen @mary-magdalen.bsky.social Southern California writer with words in The Write Launch, Blood + Honey, Leon Literary Review, BULL, and others.
P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social 2x Nebula finalist. Aurora, and World Fantasy-finalist. Chilean-Canadian writer. Winner Short Works Prize. SFWA, CSFFA, ALCiFF Chile. Odyssey ’02. Codex. Stories in Apex, Fantasy, Lightspeed, and others. Linktree: http://linktr.ee/pacornell
Jupiter Jones @jupiterjonz.bsky.social Writes short stuff
Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
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
C. Oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social Poet, thinker, dreamer, scribbler… in ascending order
For my recent posts: #Oulens
Winner, 3rd Annual Poe-it Like Poe Poetry Contest 2025 by sixdegreesofpoe
Lucy Berbeo @lucypaulina.bsky.social Writer. “Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.” ―Douglas Adams
Christine H. @csquareh.bsky.social Lover of Science, Art, Words | Best Microfiction | Best Small Fictions | Wigleaf Top 50 2023| Stories: CRAFT, SmokeLong Quarterly, Fractured Lit, Atticus Review, Vestal Review, Ghost Parachute,Time & Space Magazine +
christinehchen.com
Catherine O'Brien @catherineobrien.bsky.social Writer/Scríbhneoir. Gaeilge - gar dod’ chroí 's beimid mar chairde. BOTN’23 nominee @JanusLiterary
BSF ‘23 nominee @BendingGenres
Donald A. Sansom @donaldasansom.bsky.social Science fiction writer from Canada living in Europe. Author of the novel Slide-Backers. Short fiction has appeared in Starfarer's Cafe, The Accidental Time Travelers Collective III, and Tickled by Thunder. 🚀 |🪐📚 🚀 Sci-fi |🪐📚 #Author #fiction #WeirdFiction
Leia Butler @leiabutler.bsky.social Writer from London. Studying MA at Royal Holloway. Tear and Share (brokensleep) - Thoughts I lost in the Laundry (stanchion) - make up my mind (steelincisors) other work in Streetcake magazine - she/her
Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social Poetry, prose, art. Submit it.
https://www.fullhouseliterary.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
Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social Journalist and author. @HoFoCo.org board member.
My newsletter, the Long Game, is about baseball, creativity, and mental health. You can find it here: https://mollyknight.substack.com.
My dog is named Canelo.
Guan Un @thisisguan.bsky.social Aurelias-nominated writer of speculative short stories. Words in Levar Burton Reads, Year’s Best Fantasy and many more. Australian/Chinese via Malaysia. Sentence enthusiast. Dumplingmancer. Look at you all mythicalogical.
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/.
Langley Advance Times @advancetimes.bsky.social Local newspaper of record in Langley, British Columbia since 1931. Visit at www.langleyadvancetimes.com, sign up for newsletters at https://www.langleyadvancetimes.com/newsletters.
Marijean Oldham @marijean.bsky.social Writer. Entrepreneur. Baker. www.marijeanoldham.com
Nick Black @fuzzynick.bsky.social #amwriting Library manager. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️-reviewed short stories collection 'POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE' available now from me https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/267521176850 or from your local Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Negative-Nick-Black/dp/1915247128/
j r @osageorange.bsky.social low-rent ‘merican beat scribbler
Christine Collinson @collinson26.bsky.social Historical Fiction Author
Emorra (EM-er-uh) @wordsfromemorra.bsky.social Sometimes writer. Always dreamer.
Social media makes me awkward.
So does life.
she/her. Kitty mama x2.
X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social the best writers on earth
www.xraylitmag.com
Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social Author of THE DISAPPEARED (Knopf), THE THEORY OF LIGHT AND MATTER (Vintage), IN BETWEEN DAYS (Knopf), and THE IMAGINED LIFE (Knopf, forthcoming 2025) CW Prof.
www.andrewporterwriter.com
Kate Axeford @kateaxeford.bsky.social Flashy writer/ social worker/ gig goer and ditherer. Lives in Brighton. Loves the sea.
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
Angela Joynes @angelajoynes.bsky.social She/her Short Fiction writer, 🇨🇦 in TN. Pub in ILANOT REVIEW, WEST TRESTLE REVIEW, FICTIVE DREAM,SUSURRUS, SOUTH 85+. BA,MD, Certificate Creative ✍️, Nom Pushcart, Best Microfiction, Best Small Fictions
Terry Holland @terryholland.bsky.social https://terryholland.carrd.co/
https://substack.com/@tfholland
Order 13tracks Issue 2: https://13tracks.com/products/13tracks-issue-2
Michael Anthony @mj-anthony.bsky.social Writer/Photographer
Cindy Ana 🇳🇿 @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social Would rather write than talk. Sometimes I don’t read skeets properly, especially pre-coffee. Rāmere is my favourite day. Work can be found in Broken Spine Arts, takahē, Voicemail Poems
Special mention in Given Words 2025
Laura Leigh Morris @lauraleighwrite.bsky.social Appalachian, prison reform advocate, mother, author of The Stone Catchers: A Novel (UP Kentucky, 2024) and Jaws of Life: Stories (West Virginia UP, 2018). Words in STORY, North American Review, Florida Review, others.
www.lauraleighmorris.com 
Laila Miller @lailamiller.bsky.social Author. Scientist. Canadian. Australian.
Fantasy. Windows. Flash. Gnomes. SciFi. Turnips. Micros. Puddles. Bees.
Flash Frontier. FlashFlood. Best Microfiction 2024.
Member, Peter Cowan Writers Centre, Electric Sheep, Codex
Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social 🚀Dancer & Writer.
✨Brit based in Zurich.
⚡️Words in Fractured Lit, X-RAY Literary, LEON Literary, Bending Genres, Gone Lawn, JMWW, Your Impossible Voice…Nom BSF & BMF 2025
🎖️Bath Flash Fiction Short List
Sarah Lynn Knowles @sarahspy.com Fiction writer, Storychord.com founding editor, Tin House Winter '24 & One Story Summer '23 alum || eavesdropper, signal booster, she/her, Massachusetts || https://sarahlynnknowles.com
Allison Renner @allisonwrites.bsky.social Writer // Editor // @forgetcool.bsky.social
www.allisonrennerwrites.com
Shrutidhora P Mohor @shrutidhora.bsky.social Author
Christy Hartman @christyhartman.bsky.social I write teeny tiny little stories and hope people like them.
Chloe Paige @chloepaige.bsky.social 📚 Writer of many things. Reader of even more things
🏆 Winner of the Elegant Literature Award, The Booby Prize & NYC Midnight
✏️ Found here and IG: @chloepaigeauthor
Jay H @jayhonstetter.bsky.social Writer with a bone to pick. Writing in, or forthcoming from, Close to the Bone, Cowboy Jamboree, Broken Hearts Gallery Literary, The Yard: Crime Blog, 96th of October.