Attack of the Giant Retro Monsters π @monstersattack.bsky.social π Horror/Sci-Fi with an emphasis on giant monsters π
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Consequence Forum @consequencef.bsky.social Consequence Forum addresses the consequences of war and geopolitical violence through literature, art, and community events to promote a clearer and more nuanced understanding of the realities and experiences of conflict.
https://consequenceforum.org/
Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social Fine artist of Imaginative Realism. Retired illustrator of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Winner of 15 Hugo Awards. Inducted into the SF Hall of Fame in 2009.
Alan Summers @thehaikutec.bsky.social Founder of Call of the Page, and Pan Haiku Review
https://www.callofthepage.org
Margaret Walker @margaretbwalker.bsky.social 
Silly Goose Press @sillygoosepress.bsky.social online lit mag obsessed with craft-forward whimsy πͺΏ posts by EIC @lexirosenwrites.bsky.socialπͺΏ Offerings to the Sturgeon Moon IS HERE πͺΏ subs closed πͺΏ
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Lexi Rosen @lexirosenwrites.bsky.social writer of love stories + lusty little almostsπππ
afraid of geese
EIC @sillygoosepress.bsky.social
University of Redlands '21
Vermont College of Fine Arts β24
words: www.lexirosenwrites.com
Andrea Marcusa @andreamarcusa.bsky.social Gettysburg, Citron, Moon City, Cleaver, Ghost Parachute, Milk Candy, Centaur Lit. Best Microfiction. Semi-finalist Smokelong. Chapbook: "What We Now Live With." Writers Studio Faculty; Flash Editor-Cleaver
Jan Stinchcomb @janstinchcomb.bsky.social Author of Verushka (JournalStone), The Blood Trail (Red Bird Chapbooks) & stories in many places (Gamut, Bourbon Penn, Tales to Terrify, Wigleaf, hex, etc.)
janstinchcomb.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.
Rat Bag @ratbaglit.bsky.social π www.ratbaglit.com
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Haiku Northwest @haikunorthwest.bsky.social Haiku Northwest, founded in 1988 by Francine Porad, is a Seattle-based group that meets most second Thursdays to share and discuss haiku and related forms like senryu, haibun, haiga, tanka, and renku.
https://www.haikunorthwest.org/
C.X.Turner (Luci) @loverpoetic.bsky.social poet and co-editor WHJ @waleshaiku.bsky.social
2025
New Resonance 14 from cxturner.etsy.com
2024
evergreen from cxturner.etsy.com or Alba Publishing
2023
Building Sandcastles from https://a.co/d/7psrCFA
anemones from Yavanika Press
she/her/they/themπ³οΈβπ
Asterales: A Journal of Arts & Letters @asteralesjournal.bsky.social A new quarterly literary journal publishing 5 poems, 2 prose works, and original visual art. SUBS OPEN 2/1-3/15
Co-founders/editors @djvorreyer.bsky.social and @rebunting.bsky.social
http://www.asteralesjournal.com
Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk Online poetry magazine posting daily. We publish & review poetry, prose, filmpoems, word & image and print publish as IS&T Press. Editing internships. Posts by Sabine Wilson-Patrick & Kate Birch.
Eileen Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social Writer, Librarian, Jerseyan βπ» Baltimore Review, Hunger Mtn, X-R-A-Y, Lost Balloon, Okay Donkey, Pithead Chapel, Passages North, OSU The Journal, Tiny Molecules; soon in Fractured Lit | BSF 2023 | Wigleaf Top 50 2026
https://eileentomarchio.webnode.page/
Dawn Tasaka Steffler @dawnsteffler.bsky.social CNF Editor Pithead Chapel β’ Smokelong Fellow β’ Bath Flash Fiction Winner β’ Storyknife β’ Anthology of Rural Stories by Writers of Color β’ Best Small Fictions β’ Words in River Teeth Beautiful Things, In Short, NWWQ, Cutleaf, Waxwing, 100 Word Story & more
John Carpenter @thehorrormaster.bsky.social Filmmaker and Composer
Theofficialjohncarpenter.com
@stormkingcomics.bsky.social
Action/Crime/Mystery Film & Screenplay Festival @crimemystery.bsky.social This festival now takes place every single month, giving filmmakers 4 tiers to showcase and promote their film. In-person public events also take place.
https://filmfreeway.com/crimemystery
www.crimemysteryfestival.com
Common Dreams @commondreams.org News and opinion for a better world.
Nonprofit. Independent. Reader-supported.
https://www.commondreams.org/
Badass Teachers Association @badassteachersbats.bsky.social BATs is a pro-public education/social justice advocacy ACTIVIST group. 
Ranaroth @ranaroth.bsky.social Random postings of stuff on an ad-hoc basis.
All book covers scanned from my personal collection.
All non-archive photographs taken by me.
"All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension."
Vintage Fantasy Art - NOAI @vintagefantasyart.bsky.social Daily pictures of XIXth and XXth centuries fantasy illustration masters.
UNITE HERE @unitehere.org The union of hospitality workers in the US and Canada. We believe One Job Should Be Enough. unitehere.org
Use FairHotel.org to find union hotels, and to avoid staying in a hotel under a labor dispute.
SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction -- founded 1979, Hugo winner for 1979, 1993 and 2011 editions, now free online at https://sf-encyclopedia.com/ with principal editors John Clute and David Langford.
Chris Tannhauser @hivegod.bsky.social finger firmly on the pulse of the void
author of SCREAMS LIKE MEAT π€π
Bulb Culture Collective @bulbculture.bsky.social
Submissions opening for CHANDELIER: GLOWERING on SEPTEMBER 15
online lit space β light bulb bunch β send us your previously published writing
Editors: L.M. Cole & Jared Povanda
https://www.bulbculturecollective.com/chandelier-zine
π³ππππππππππππππ | The Tower, The Moon, The Gun π¨π¦π¦π₯πΈ @horrorculturist.bsky.social Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. πΏπππ
Agnostic atheist. Nyctophile. AuDHD. Demi-Pan. They/them. | Contrary to internet lore, I am not lost, sorrowful, despairing, trapped, drowning, falling, or stuck in a maze. (You OK?)
Coyote vs. Epistemic Assholes / J. Stryker π @easterncoyote.bsky.social Not the violent artist. | Psychology nerd. DV survivor & victim advocate. Dislikes liars and bullies. | Coyote pedagogy. Good trouble, nature, neuroscience, terrestrial ecology, wildlife, plants, trees. They/them.
Sue Sutherland, Author - TWELVE DAYS AT GLACIER @suemt.bsky.social Debut picture book author - TWELVE DAYS AT GLACIER, granola girl, weaver, quilter, traveler, photographer, 12x12, Montana SCBWI
Coming Soon - HOW HANNAH GOT HER LUMP OF COAL (2026), TWELVE DAYS AT YELLOWSTONE (2027), & NOTHING BUT NET TROUBLE
Eva Limbach @evalimbach.bsky.social Haiku Senryu Tanka Haibun
Blog: https://evamaria-limbach2.blogspot.com/?m=0
CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social When you absolutely, positively got to know every "On This Day" in movie history, accept no substitutes.
10+ years & 50,000 followers on Twitter, making a new home for ourselves here. (formerly Dates in Movies)
Dr. Bitch @ritamookerjee.bsky.social Agent of chaos, professor by day. Author of False Offering. Editor of Honey Literary and Split Lip Magazine. Board VP of Sundress Publications.
Anti-Heroin Chic @antiheroinchic.bsky.social AHC is a literary arts intentional community and healing space. Submissions open. Edited by
James Diaz. https://heroinchic.weebly.com/
James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social Poet, journalist, novelist. Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Poetry chapbook SUDDEN SHADOWS published last fall.
Political WatchDog @politicalwatchdog.bsky.social Anti trump anti fascism
Julie Bloss Kelsey @mamajoules.bsky.social Short-form poet, writer, mom of 3, naturalist. She/her. Likes dogs, kids, nature, travel, haiku, science, art, fanfic, & the Oxford comma. Also at @senecacreekcrafts.bsky.social
Links to my writing & Etsy shop: https://linktr.ee/julieblosskelsey
Stephen Delaney @stephendelaney.bsky.social Writer, editor, human. Words in New World Writing, Bending Genres, South Florida Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Author of the chapbook OUR PLACE IS IN BETWEEN. π #foreignlit #frogs
https://bottlecap.press/products/ourpsd
https://stephen-delaney.com
Pippa @pippaesque.bsky.social Prune Juice Editor. I write short things and long things. Zines, poems, art. I like birds.
Buy me a ko-fi: Ko-fi.com/pippaesque. π³οΈβπ
Jeff Lewonczyk @jeffisawesome.bsky.social I have no idea what I'm doing, but that's fine because I never have.
@datavandals.bsky.social @datavandals.bsky.social https://datavandals.com
The Data Vandals present data in exciting new ways, stopping people in their tracks and inviting them to learn more.
Emily Menez @emenez2.bsky.social Just another Filipina-Spanish Comedy Writer from Kansas,
CBS, McSweeney's,The New Yorker
NBC Late Night Writers Workshop, Slackjaw Editor (she/her)
Kawai Shen @kawaishen.bsky.social Read me and weep
she/her; if I like you, you can call me sir
http://www.kawaishen.com
slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social We are a free, print-only broadsheet art and literary publication based out of Brooklyn, NY. If that sounds too cool for you, don't worry - we're middle-aged!
David Perlmutter @davidperlmutter.bsky.social Canadian white male autistic writer. Author of America 'Toons In: A History of Television Animation and The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Also author of speculative fiction, superhero fiction and anthropomorphic ("furry") fiction.
Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social Reporter, Los Angeles Times. I cover the University of California and more in higher and K-12 education. Former national and foreign correspondent. Big fan of reporting on religion. Based in Los Angeles.
Sabrina Hicks @sabrinahicks.bsky.social Author of Coyote Girl, available now (CJ Press), desert dweller, hiker, word wrangler. Work in Best Sm Fiction, Best Micro, Wigleaf Top 50, pubs listed at sabrinahicks.com
Gavin Wade @gavinwade.bsky.social artist-curator www.eastsideprojects.org
Songs https://newrealityrecords.bandcamp.com/artists
Show: L is for Landscape https://divisionoflabour.co.uk/gavin-wade-l-type
Book: (555 Verses) https://www.setmargins.press/books/is-this-the-way-the-universe-works/
Cole Beauchamp π³οΈβπ π @nomad-sw18.bsky.social Queer writer l #FlashFiction l Smokelong Fellow 2026 l Contrib ed @nffr.bsky.social
Pushcart, BSF, BMF & Monarch noms
Read my stories:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17zj1W2pXZsP1aZZ3vR4vbV4Cra9eZ15F6lwU5lc2tKA/edit?usp=sharing
FIP en direct @fipnowplays.bsky.social Suivez en direct la programmation musicale de votre radio prΓ©fΓ©rΓ©e. Retrouvez-nous sur @fip.fr pour toutes nos autres actualitΓ©s πΆ
Rachael Dunlop @rachaeldunlop.com Writer of #FlashFiction, #ShortStories and a never-finished novel. Spaniel-wrangler. Curmudgeon. Forest dweller. #MDANT She/her/cis rachaeldunlop.com
Ben Niespodziany ππͺ @neonpajamas.bsky.social tiny poems & strange movies // π«π€ // EIC at @pizamapress.bsky.social // chapbook soon with @gasherpress.bsky.social // writing prompt every Sunday via Substack (neonpajamas)
National Disability Rights Network @ndrnadvocates.bsky.social We are the national membership association for the congressionally mandated Protection & Advocacy Systems and Client Assistance Programs. https://linktr.ee/ndrnadvocates
torrin a. greathouse @tagreathouse.bsky.social she/they | CripplePunk butch trans woman | author of Wound from the Mouth of a Wound & DEED | faculty at Rainier Writing Workshop | Bookings:
Blue Flower Arts
Into the Falls: A Gravity Falls Podcast @thefallscast.bsky.social Hosted by longtime fan @mabelpagepines.bsky.social and newcomer @uncaaj.bsky.social. Not affiliated with Disney or Alex Hirsch. Available anywhere you get your podcasts!
columbo out of touch thursday @ootcolumbo.bsky.social posting the columbo out of touch edit every thursday. original video by gimmieabowlofchili on tumblr, ran by @dialkforkaty on twtπ΅οΈββοΈ
Gill O'Halloran @quickasaflash.bsky.social First pub TrashCat Lit. NFFD Anthology Editors Award 25. Shortlisted for Fish. Stories in SmokeLong, BULL, DIHP, New Feathers, Bath+Oxford anthologies. LISP finalist + winner of Westword + Flash500. Poetry collection in Top 20 Small-Press Poetry awards
The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social A podcast about the fight against car culture. Hosted by Sarah Goodyear & Doug Gordon.
Our new book, "Life After Cars" is out now.
https://www.lifeaftercars.com/
https://www.patreon.com/thewaroncarspod
Darker Times @darkertimes.bsky.social A worker-owned horror culture magazine.
www.darkertimes.com
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
Arthur Mandal @arthurmandal.bsky.social Brit/US writer of uncanny fiction. Best Small Fictions 2025. Over 40 stories in The Barcelona Review, LITRO, Southeast Review, The Forge, The Los Angeles Review and others. @nightjarpress Based in Eugene, Oregon (but grew up in UK). www.arthurmandal.com
Leigh Therriaultπ« @leightherriault.bsky.social Canadian writer & poet πβ¨οΈ AuDHD β
A STRANGE PLACE FOR A GHOST π» coming Sep 2027 from Orca Book Publishers π
Rep: Liz Nealon at Great Dog Literary
leightherriault.com
I π Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social Dogs π can teach humans love and loyalty
If you are tired of American politics, here is a funny relaxing feed dedicated to manβs best friends; at times other animals are featured π π π π«
Avoiding AI generated videos, but at times one slips through
New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com We amplify voices on the issues that matter to you. Read on: https://www.nytimes.com/section/opinion
Travis Flatt @travisflatt.bsky.social Writer.
Recent Words in Iron Horse, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, Scaffold, othersβ¦ seeβ>
https://travisflattblog.com/
AΓ΄then Magazine @aothenmagazine.bsky.social A print+online #literarymagazine dedicated to creative works regarding Classics including ancient history, literature, anthropology, and archaeology. π
Posts by Samantha & Kaitlin.
linktr.ee/Aothenmagazine
https://aothenmagazine.com/
Reem Faruqi @reemfaruqi.bsky.social Award-Winning Children's Book Author of LAILAH'S LUNCHBOX, UNSETTLED, & more. 
Paranoid Tree Press @paranoidxtree.bsky.social π Hybrid lit mag & art zine
π New print issue every month
π¬ Submissions always free & open
β‘οΈ Proud to pay contributors
π Minneapolis, MN
linktr.ee/paranoidtree
Katherine Plumhoff @kplumhoff.bsky.social fiction @ places
elated Pushcart, BotN, BSF nominee
2025 fellow @smokelong.bsky.social
organizer @saloneurope.bsky.social
reader @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
katherineplumhoff.com
valencia, es
The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social Theatre actor, bookstore connoisseur, autumn enthusiast, cat rescuer, educator, explorer of cobblestone streets, and defender of the Oxford comma.
Libby App @libbyapp.com Libby is the award-winning and much-loved app for your local library. Borrow ebooks and listen to audiobooks, and support your library!
@LAhistory @lahistory.bsky.social Jogging the collective memory of Los Angeles through social media since 2009. Some people think LA has no history. They just don't know where to look.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Rowan Beckett Minor @waitingforrowan.bsky.social Melungeon | queer | genderless | disabled | progressive | writer | activist | feral
Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social Democratic strategist. Formerly Long Island Campaign Chair for Barack Obama; Majority Leader of the Suffolk County Legislature. Gay dad of five terrific kids. Writer and producer of echoesoftheunknownpodcast.com. Coffee addict. New York/Florida. π΄
@bathflashaward.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social 3 times a year Flash Fiction Award. Β£1460 prize fund. Anthology. Founded in 2015. 32nd Award results out now. 33rd Award open. Judge Writer and writing tutor . Alison Woodhouse Closes June 7th 2026
The Ubergroup @theubergroup.bsky.social a 501(c)3 nonprofit providing low cost education for writers. Prose, poetry, stage, screen, nonfiction, journalism, comics, animation, podcasts, you name it. If it has a writer at any stage, we teach it.
theubergroup.org
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
Paper Sigh @papersigh.bsky.social We celebrate poetry that makes us better people. // We founded Paper Sigh because important poetry does not need to be perfect to be perfect to be published. // Submission guidelines at https://www.papersigh.com/submit.
Penguin Random House @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social 
@bestofthenet.bsky.social @bestofthenet.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/bestofthenet2006
Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) β’ Blood Type: Curry β’ Leeds United β’ Anti-AI
#LUFC
jmthornberry.wordpress.com
sandandgravelpress.com/store/the-finish-line-jason-thornberry
More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social Nonprofit newsroom. Media that builds power for working people.
Join us: https://linktr.ee/moreperfectunion 
HOOT Review @hootreview.bsky.social Nonprofit litmag on a postcard (!). Tiny, monthly, zest-infused poetry/prose with art. Philly. Email us w/any ?s info@hootreview.com
Epiphany @epiphanylit.bsky.social Epiphany is a literary magazine and independent nonprofit 501(c)(3) that has supported writers at every stage of their careers for over 20 years.
Learn more at: https://linktr.ee/epiphanyliterary
Linda Ann Strang @lindaannstrang.bsky.social Poet, writer, artist. Words in New Ohio Review, Image, Gone Lawn. Star Reverse was shortlisted for the Glenna Luschei Prize for African poetry: https://dryadpress.co.za/product/star-reverse/
Judy Darley @judydarley.bsky.social Writer & daydreamer living by the Somerset coast. Author of fiction collections #TheStairsAreASnowcappedMountain, #SkyLightRain (https://bit.ly/3zlfK7Q) & #RememberMeToTheBees. Workshop leader/journalism/brand engagement.
ELJ Editions, Ltd. @emergejournal.bsky.social 501(c)(3) nonprofit literary press. Home of Emerge Literary Journal (http://emergeliteraryjournal.com).
Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social Posting human made Sci-Fi art
My band π All India Radio https://linktr.ee/allindiaradioband
https://linktr.ee/Scifiart
Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social An online journal publishing classically inspired short stories. Now open for submissions, 1000-8000 words. Edited by @CourtlandAvenue (Dave Gregory)
https://doric-literary.com/
@ninaschuyler.bsky.social @ninaschuyler.bsky.social Author: IN THIS RAVISHING WORLD, AFTERWORD, THE TRANSLATOR, THE PAINTING; HOW TO WRITE STUNNING SENTENCES; Lover of lemons, dogs, snails.
Instructor: Stanford Continuing Studies
website: ninaschuyler.com
Stunning Sentences: ninaschuyler.substack.com
Tom W. @tom1walsh.bsky.social Writer/editor. Words in Hobart Pulp, HAD, Dead Mule, Lost Balloons, Litro, Janus Literary, Welkin Prize and elsewhere. Fan of Flash Fiction Online, where I learned how much dedication it takes to produce a quality mag.
Recent move to Cambridge MA
The Light Ekphrastic @thelightekphrastic.bsky.social Est. 2010, quarterly web journal dedicated to the creation of new writing and artwork through collaboration between artists and writers.
thelightekphrastic.com
Greater Good Science Center @greatergoodmag.bsky.social Science-based resources for a compassionate and resilient society
Based at UC Berkeley
Joy Lanzendorfer @joylanzendorfer.bsky.social Author of RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM. Work in The New Yorker, New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, and others. www.ohjoy.org
Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.social Pop Culture Lives Here!
VoteHub @votehub.com Your hub for elections. πΊπΈ Detailed maps, live election night coverage, and analysis backed by deeper data.
votehub.com
Joanna β
Theiss @joannatheiss.com Writer of weird things sitting with a cat in Washington, DC
she/her
www.joannatheiss.com
Erica L. Williams @ericalash.bsky.social Writer. Published @Rumpus, Flash Fiction Magazine, Cutleaf Journal, Necessary Fiction, The Rumpus, Longlist Wigleaf Top 50
www.ericalwilliams.com
Member@deltasigmatheta