Downingfield Press @downingfield.bsky.social Publishing books for the enquiring mind since 2017. Specialising in non-fiction and poetry.
We accept submissions year round. Emerging writers welcome.
Melbourne • Montréal and London
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Bhavya Bhagtani @bhavyabhagtani.bsky.social Lead Poetry Editor at @blackbirdjournal.bsky.social
jane berg @janeberg.bsky.social Writer, Photographer, MFA @SJSU, science writing on NASA Earth & BAERI.org, stories and poetry in The Argyle, The Dodge, Superstition Review, and elsewhere.
https://jane-berg.com/
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
Caitlin Gildrien @cattail-caitlin.bsky.social Poet & visual artist in Vermont. she/her 🏳️🌈🍉🖤
http://www.cattailcreative.com/
Claire Taylor @clairemtaylor.com Writer. EIC of Little Thoughts Press (@littlethoughtspress.com)
clairemtaylor.com
otherthoughts.beehiiv.com
📍Baltimore
April and Back Again available now: https://www.publishinggenius.com/catalog/april-and-back-again-by-claire-taylor/
lindsay d'andrea @lindszd.bsky.social bookish, kinda
Damn Jones @damnjones.bsky.social Author of lyrical, voice-driven literary fiction & poetry.
Vignette Editions
https://linktr.ee/damnjones
Editorial/Reading Assistant at @thirtywestph.com
Chasing the numinous.
james o @jamesolearypoet.bsky.social James O'Leary / was Willow James Claire for a while / Poet Writer Reviewer / they / Assistant Poetry Editor for Anomaly / AZ / free palestine 🇵🇸
Suzanne Richardson @oozannesay.bsky.social Writer, Ph.D. Candidate CNF @ SUNY Bing CNF editor Midway Mag. “Three Things" & former poetry ed. @nocontactmag Coedited: D&D Anthology Roll for Initiative (Play Story Press)
Author: The Want Monster @ (NUP)
http://www-suzannerichardsonwrites.tumblr.com/
Dustin Brookshire (he/him) @dustinbrookshire.bsky.social 4 chapbooks. Editor of When I Was Straight: A Tribute To Maureen Seaton. Co-editor of Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology. Founder/curator of the Wild & Precious Life Series. Founder/editor of Limp Wrist.
Nicole Tallman @natallman.bsky.social Poet Laureate of Miami 🌴 Author of Dolce Vita⚜️Poetry & Interviews Editor for South Florida Poetry Journal ☀️ Director and Editor for JackLeg Press 💙 Website: nicoletallman.com 🌈
Kenyon Review @kenyonreview.bsky.social In the heart of literature since 1939. journal | workshops | fellowships
https://linktr.ee/KenyonReview
South Broadway Press @southbroadwaypress.bsky.social South Broadway Press is a publisher of weird, gorgeous, and revolutionary poetry.
www.southbroadwaypress.org
JR Walsh @itsjrwalsh.bsky.social JR Walsh is the Online Editor at The Citron Review. He teaches poetry and fiction at SUNY Oswego. Find his writing on itsjrwalsh.com.
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social Poets | Anniversaries | Poems
www.marcchamberlain.net
Amorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social Loyola grad’s dad. BGSU dad. Poet. BGSU prof/director of creative writing. Union member. Co-founding editor @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. He/him. It's pronounced uh-MOR-ack. https://amorakhuey.com
Jane French @janefrench.bsky.social Writer of medical and caregiving reports | published widely in email streams | family caregiver | advocate for low-income older adults
Jessica Goodfellow @jessicagoodfellow.bsky.social poet | author of Whiteout (Univ Alaska Press) | creative writing instructor in Japan | new to Bluesky and looking for the poets | www.jessicagoodfellow.com
𝚊𝚜𝚑 @ashleyvarela.bsky.social writer. {they/them}
katie @palindromese.bsky.social Michigan-raised, Chicago-claimed, Ope-filled
public health digital comms
my (mostly silly) opinions are my own
National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social Celebrating flash fiction worldwide. Co-directed by Ingrid Jendrzejewski @lunchontuesday.bsky.social and Diane Simmons @scooterwriter.bsky.social
The next NFFD will be Saturday 12 June 2027.
https://www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
David Luntz @dluntz.bsky.social Words in Hobart Pulp, X-R-A-Y, Bruiser, HAD etc.
Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social This is a storybook. All of us are in it. Here are some tales.
https://eirenegentle.com
https://templeinacity.com
Recent: Claudine, Does it have pockets, Frazzled, Fish Barrel, Dog Throat, Blood & Honey, ANMLY. Pushcart, best short fiction nom.
Donna Minkowitz @donnaminkowitz.bsky.social Lefty queer journalist, trickster, memoirist: The Nation, Salon, the Village Voice.
donnaminkowitz.com
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
Tadd Adcox @inauthenticity.bsky.social work in X-R-A-Y, 3:AM, Granta, n+1, forthcoming in Iowa Review // website jamestaddadcox.com, editor @alwayscrashing.bsky.social // ENNIE award winner, apparently? https://store.possibleworldsgames.com/product/tacklebox
🌈 J. G. Savv 🌈 @jgsavv.bsky.social Aspiring author, fanfic enthusiast | (They/he) | Always willing to admit that I have no idea what I'm doing | Big fan of that Jesus dude, and also queer as hell
almost 60 but boyish as fuck @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app poet, visual artist, & nyeusiphile
entering my fifth intermediate period of poetry
Shashanna @shashanna.bsky.social Mom, music therapist and multi-instrumentalist musician. breast cancer and domestic violence survivor. Feminist as f.
I write poetry- author of “Survival Haiku” and “Cancer Doesn’t Give A F*ck.”
Colin Alexander @colincalexander.bsky.social Dad, writer, sometimes attorney. Used to write for fun, now for revenge. Stories in Analog, Orion’s Belt, Phano, and Radon Journal.
Novella available for presale: https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/suicide-valley-trail-maintenance
Pat Foran @pdforan.bsky.social writer, editor, axolotl with a pretty good throwing arm
Out now: Songs from the Blimp Ruins, a flash collection. Published by Silverbacked Punk: https://qgyjj4z.s.gy/sTuEPy Inscribed copies available (message me).
https://neutralspaces.co/patforan/
Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social Punamu’kwati’jk|Dartmouth (formerly Tsalaguwetiyi|Nashville). Inventor #DSPBposts. Small press, 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 poli. I turn tea into words: novel AETHER AND EGO (Inanna, Sept 2026). https://linktr.ee/joannemerriam
Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social Open research person | feminist | writer
Loves books and cats
Philly Chapbook Review @phillychapbook.bsky.social Philly Chapbook Review is a home for writing about #chapbooks as well as original #poetry and #fiction. | ISSN: 2995-6447 | Member: CLMP
@arrost.bsky.social @arrost.bsky.social 
Sue Barry-Schulz @susanbarryschulz.com poetry, collage, disability, Crohn’s Disease, Covid Informed, very sad, Buffalo Sabres fan, 🇪🇪, #LGM, ModPo alum, IC grad, she/hers, physical therapist in another life, NY➡️NC
www.susanbarryschulz.com
#keepmasksinhealthcare
#abolishICE
Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social Author of The Lunatics' Ball (Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press, forthcoming) and The Missing Girl (Black Lawrence Press). Wigleaf Top 50. 9 Notables, Best American Essays, CNF Flash editor, CRAFT Lit Journal. www.jacquelinedoyle.com
shovda @shovda.bsky.social Poet (Sara Hovda) and SMW Kaizo streamer (shovda). I post about both.
Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social Gulfport, FL poet laureate
I write poems about bodies - ours, animals, water, our collective nature
Here to connect with poets & poetry lovers
Author of Water Yoga (Singing Dragon 2022).
Lover of tea & avocados 🥑
https://christafairbrotherwrites.com/
Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social 
Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social He collected things, each of a holy intention in isolation, but pagan in the variety of his choice.
—William Gaddis
📚 @anothernewcalligraphy.com, @ornithopterpress.bsky.social, @animalheartpress.bsky.social, @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social Hollis Summers Poetry Prize: Larks (Ohio U Press, 2025). What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021).
Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
EIC: @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social
Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social
Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC.
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toni g-b 🙇🏽♂️ (he/him) @diybody.bsky.social I write poems and stuff. Kinda sorta unserious social media.
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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
Kyle Joseph Kennedy @kylejoseph.bsky.social Writer. Former sadsack songwriter. Seeking a publisher / agent for a novel about christofascism and persecution. Support trans rights.
Links: https://tr.ee/bRnpqS
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
Dan Milo @danielemilo.bsky.social 🫧 🍉
Ecologies, urbanisms, systems virtual & concrete
berlin based queer
中文也可以
danielemilo.neocities.org
Nancy Stone @nancystone.bsky.social - Writer of dark(ish) fiction and verse at ndstonewrites.substack.com
- Also writes for young people at nancystonewrites.com (GLOW, Marble Press, June 2026)
-Rep'd by Ammi-Joan Paquette at Aevitas Creative
- Asst. Editor @identitytheory.bsky.social
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/
Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Teacher | Author of First Kicking, Then Not (Stanchion 2025) | Columnist @ WCP
she/they 🏳️🌈 ❤️
www.hgrieco.com
MIDLVLMAG @midlvlmag.bsky.social Submissions are OPEN for issue no. 9: Human Capital
Literary Magazine deconstructing our relationships with the personal/professional
https://midlvlmag.com | https://linktr.ee/midlvlmag
Chris Dodds @liquid-chicken.bsky.social I write things. And make things. All the things. chrisdodds.net
My debut, Necessary Cuts (https://necessarycuts.com), won the @miamioh-press.bsky.social Novella Prize and will land in 2027. Other work in Pithead Chapel, Marrow Magazine, and BULL.
Weird Al Gore Vidal Sassoon @lyfaulk.bsky.social Ly Faulk (they/she) is a queer writer, artist, and an all-around weirdo. They are the author of Hippie Speedball and Sick Sad Queer. Learn more about their writing at lyfaulk.com.
Jeff Pearson @legoverleg.bsky.social Poet, educator, bipolar disorder/mental health advocate, MtG player, Ex-Mormon, member of AFL-CIO
CALL ME OUT FOR MISINFORMATION
https://poesyjeffpearson.com
Previous editor to Blood Orange Review, fugue and 5x5 Litmag
A commonplace book
Fuck Doug Wilson
Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.com Queer, trans, nonbinary poet, writer, performer, artist, activist, & abolitionist. 18+ 🙏🏼
Work published in Poetry, Water~Stone Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, et al. First collection "This Body, This Fruit" @ Feb 2027 (@triohousepress.org).
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
Mud Season Review @mudseasonreview.bsky.social Mud Season Review is an international literary journal affiliated with the Burlington Writers Workshop. We seek to celebrate the full process of artistic creation, from inspiration to publication.
https://mudseasonreview.com
EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social Queer 🏳️🌈 Welsh 🏴 They/Them
Champion of silliness, here to give creative types a life raft 💙
https://linktr.ee/EM_Writing
Kate @ Rouge Aerie @rougeaerie.bsky.social she / her ⚝ frilly fashion fan ⚝ cat lady
'straya ⚝ sometimes illustrator ⚝ I reskeet a lot
married adult, stop being creepy
Owner/Designer of @social.rouge-aerie.com
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 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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Nick Dmytrow @nickdmytrow.bsky.social Writer of fantasy baseball articles, unpublished novels, and recently a short story (https://variantlit.com/something/). Tour guide at a local brewery. American in Ireland.
Jon Lai @jonjlai.bsky.social Personal account
Progress over perfection
Pronouns are he / him
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | Treaty 6 (1876)
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/
Dr Theadora Jean @tsjharling.bsky.social Gothic scholar & writer | 19th C | Romanticism | Dracula | Fin de Siècle | Adaptation | Anti-racism | Equity | Access | active bystander of UK HE | one of Sara Ahmed’s little ghosts 🖤
Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org Lambda Literary, celebrating LGBTQ+ storytellers since 1985. Home of the Lammy Awards, Writers in Schools, the Emerging Writers Retreat for LGBTQ Voices, and the Lambda Literary Review.
lambdaliterary.org
lambdaliteraryreview.org
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Alex Vigue @alexvigue.bsky.social He/ Him. Queer poet in Washington State. alexvigue.com
Caleb 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️📚🧶🎲 @extracandy.bsky.social professional book and craft goblin
school library worker ~ knitter ~ TTRPGer ~ occasional soccer fan
neurodivergent ~ demi bi, trans masc ~ jewish and latine ~ Chicago, IL, USA
beacons.ai/extracandy
Ali Morretta @alimorrettawrites.bsky.social Freelance editor and copywriter. Words in Citywide Lunch, Pacifica Lit, Flash Frog, and The Citron Review. Dogs love me.
Autumn House Press @autumnhouse.org Award-winning nonprofit publisher of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. | Pittsburgh, PA
Lisa Zerkle @lisazerkle.bsky.social Poet•Editor•Reader
•Senior Editor at Painted Bride Quarterly
•Podcast Manager for PBQ Slush Pile
•Editor at Iron Oak Editions
•MFA from Warren Wilson
📖 my work ⤵
https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/lzerkle
Poetry X Hunger @poetryxhunger.bsky.social Bringing a world of poets and their poems to the anti-hunger cause. We are using poetry to raise awareness, compassion and funding.
www.poetryxhunger.com
[Poetry X Hunger logo artwork by Diane Wilbon Parks]
West Waterford Arts Group @westwaterfordag.bsky.social A cross-pollinating community of artists meeting in West Waterford with a multi-disciplinary approach to creativity.
#waterford #ireland #arts #poetry #visualarts #novelists #photoartists #collage #playwrights #musicians #songwriters #sculpture #speirgorm
Trish Hopkinson @trishhopkinsonpoet.bsky.social Poet and Literary Advocate - Linktree: https://linktr.ee/trishhopkinsonpoet
Website: https://trishhopkinson.com/
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
Will Willoughby @willwilloughby.bsky.social Writer • Editor • Maine Literary Award winner • Short stories in Epiphany, Pithead Chapel, Pangyrus, etc. • Story collection WHILE I HAVE YOU coming from Littoral Books April 2027
www.willwilloughby.com
Christine Swint @christinens.bsky.social
Poetry, art, nature, climate, justice. Making little books is my passion. She/her. Más amor, por favor.
http://balancedonedge.blog
@bestofthenet.bsky.social @bestofthenet.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/bestofthenet2006
Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk Northern speculative fiction micropress • Northumberland, UK • Human made • Our first anthology: carnyxpress.co.uk/products/oaths-and-offerings
Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social A Journal of Poetry & Short Prose
Edited by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social
https://www.whaleroadreview.com/
The Bloomin’ Onion | **SUBMISSIONS ALWAYS OPEN** @bloominonionlit.bsky.social A Literary Magazine with Layers. Est. 2024. #1667 on the Second Annual FISH List. That’s right: we’re on a list. Posts by EIC.
Subs: https://www.thebloominonion.com/submission-guidelines
Dishsoap Quarterly @dishsoapquart.bsky.social Uncool & nerdy lit mag that's way too into dish-cleaning products. New piece every Tuesday. Subs always open!
https://dishsoap-quarterly.com 🫧
Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social We’re a literary journal that’s totally bonkers-in-love with voice-driven writing, pop culture, and the kind of honesty that gets you right in the kidneys.
Posts: @carolinamata.bsky.social, AJ Jolish & @emotes206.bsky.social
https://splitlipthemag.com/
Matt Leibel @mattleibel.bsky.social short fiction and who knows what else
mattleibel.com
Mizuki Yamamoto @mizuki-yama.bsky.social Prev. writing under Mizuki Yamagen.
Words in SmokeLong, hex, Lit Namjooning, Flash Frog, Does it have pockets? Lost Balloon & elsewhere. Soon in The Forge, The Baltimore Review.
✨ SmokeLong Smokey winner
🎗️ BOTN, BMF, Pushcart noms
mizukiwrites.carrd.co
Kashawn Taylor @kashawntaylor.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Student.
Prison Journalism Project.
Gotham Writers Workshop.
book: subhuman. out now.
Alyna Lim @alynalim.bsky.social University of Michigan '24 | Depression & Stress Mechanisms, Mental Health Disparities in Youths | 🇲🇾 Nascent Poet
Alexandra M. Matthews @alexandrammatthews.bsky.social Fiction in Tiny Molecules, Maudlin House, Fractured Lit, Milk Candy Review, MudRoom, etc. https://www.alexandrammatthews.com/
JC Reilly🐈🐈🐈⬛ @aishatonu.bsky.social Poet, cat lover, eater of cheese.
Books: La Petite Mort (Finishing Line), What Magick May Not Alter (Madville), Daughter of the Wheel and Moon (Red Mare), Amo e Canto (Sow's Ear).
Check out my Linktree: https://linktr.ee/aishatonu
Meaghan Townsend @meaghantownsend.bsky.social Nonfiction writer and English teacher who writes about high schools from within them. Currently on a Fulbright in Cork, Ireland 🇮🇪
Rebecca Karas @rebeccakaras.bsky.social poet & weird fiction writer. probably thinking about Tetris. she/they
https://linktr.ee/rebecca.karas
Justin @justin-gibson.bsky.social he/him, writer, former swimmer, slow runner, sourdough baker, cactus parent, mushroom admirer, etc
Fiction Reader at @okaydonkeymag.com
Lauren Doyle Owens @ldoyleowens.bsky.social Fiction writer and bleeding heart liberal. Author of The Other Side of Everything (S&S). Mother through adoption. #woolfer
https://www.laurendoyleowens.com/
Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
Sarah Turner @scturnerfiction.bsky.social Writer. Short stories in: The Rumpus, Sonora Review, J Journal, Shooter Lit Mag, London Magazine, Fictive Dream, LEON, Litro & others | SL Bridport SS | Read my work at: www.scturnerfiction.com
Pebble @pebblepress.bsky.social Founded in 2025, Pebble is a Chicago small press interested in nature, craft, regionalism, and obscure and unclassifiable excellence.
https://pebble-press.com/, https://www.instagram.com/pebble__press/
Mckendy Fils-Aimé @mrmack88.bsky.social Poet, teaching artist, cat-dad
Zoe Korte (they/them) @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social queer mad poet educator in stl 🌾
The Rumpus @therumpus.net Independent since 2009. Read The Rumpus Magazine. Become a Member. Receive Letters in the Mail from Authors. Join a dynamic, global community.
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