Democracy First @democracyfirstt.bsky.social 
Main Line Spy @mainlinespy.bsky.social Writer, Mother, Spy
#WritingCommunity
Spare The Heir @sparetheheir.bsky.social A novel in progress. When the heir to the British throne goes missing, the spare and his American wife must find him before the scandal threatens the entire Monarchy.
Rapid Adapter @rapidadapter.bsky.social Mostly links to Garage-Punk(& adjacent) stuff. We got: new releases, live video, articles, playlists, upcoming shows, zine history, blog roll, radio shows, old stuff, etc.
Playlists here: https://linktr.ee/rapidadapter
The Pentaxian @the-pentaxian.bsky.social Amateur photographer and general ne'er-do-well.
All photos are my own, no sense in blaming someone else.
@megajewell.bsky.social @megajewell.bsky.social 
@altompkins.bsky.social @altompkins.bsky.social 
Les Rose Syracuse @lesrose.bsky.social Father, friend, photojournalist, professor of practice in Broadcast and Digital Journalism @newhousesu.bsky.social 
@aajaofficial.bsky.social @aajaofficial.bsky.social 44 Years of #AAJAFamily & #AAJAKudos | Diversity in news industry & newsroom coverage | Innovation, leadership & training | #AAJA25 | aaja.org
LisaBrockTPA @lisabrocktpa.bsky.social Boomer. Business owner. News junkie. Empty nester. Trying to be a decent human.
Cindy O’Dell @cmodell.bsky.social Former journalist, happily retired, writing about this and that on Substack, playing lots of tennis and trying to make sense of it all. Find me on Substack at https://cindy613b6.substack.com
The Institute for Independent Journalists @indiejournalists.bsky.social An education, professional development, and mutual support organization for independent journalists, focusing on BIPOC. Our mission is financial and emotional sustainability for independent journalists of color.
theIIJ.com
➡️ @narrativegigs.bsky.social
wzuk11.bsky.social @wzuk11.bsky.social Quasi-retired Canadian (🇨🇦) former teacher librarian, former executive director at Manitoba Aviation Council; artist (created 2 sculptures), author (10 books in publication) and filmmaker (roles in 18 films). Website: lorimer.ca/adults/contributor/bill-zuk
msyinmei @msyinmei.bsky.social https://infosec.exchange/@msyinmei 
Cleanmind🇨🇦🇺🇸 @cleanminds.bsky.social Fueled by coffee, dogs, and anti-MAGA memes.
Politics junkie. 🇺🇸🇨🇦
#BlueCrew 🚫Drama
@jenniferchats.bsky.social @jenniferchats.bsky.social Consumer Education and Advocacy at Experian
Brian Benitez @b-double.bsky.social Husband, Father, Product Management Exec, and Tech Enthusiast
Bobby Caina Calvan @bobbycalvan.bsky.social From the Big Apple to The Big D. Deputy Government Accountability Editor at the Dallas Morning News. Grew up in the land of aloha and 'ohana. Berkeley alum. Inclusion champion. Mentor.
Tristy Makes @tristymakes.bsky.social (He/Him) Ally. 🏳️🌈⚧️❓️⬛️🟫
Subject-driven artist and maker, featuring things i love: Irish music, travel, equestrian sports, all things Michigan, football, etc
Known IRL as Tristan Pruss (@truferblue.bsky.social)
Shop: https://tristan-pruss.pixels.com/
CALYX Press @calyxpress.bsky.social Independent Publisher of Art and Literature by Women+ Since 1976
Open for general submissions! calyxpress.org
https://linktr.ee/calyxpress
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
Stevie Trujillo 💙🦋💃🏽 @stevietrujillo.bsky.social Writer, mama, American dreamer in despair. Fighting the good fight with words in The NYT, The Guardian, WaPo, Huff Post, Salon, Vogue, etc.
Drove The World's Longest Road. Resides in Spain. Huge crush on FDR. Votes BLUE 💙
Born + raised in L.A
KABUGO @kabugo.bsky.social ▪︎ Rotarian.
▪︎ Writer... ✍️🏽 I weave words.
▪︎ Scout.
▪︎ Vivamus, moriendum est.
Roy Sexton @roysexton.bsky.social '25 INvolve OUTstanding Top 100 LGBTQ+ exec 🏳️🌈| Legal Marketing Association International Past President - https://linktr.ee/roysexton
Nicole Graev Lipson @nglipson.bsky.social Author of MOTHERS AND OTHER FICTIONAL CHARACTERS (coming March 4, 2025) | Best American Essays 2024 | Pushcart Prize | Words in The Sun, Virgina Quarterly Review, LA Review of Books, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe + more
www.nicolegraevlipson.com
David K. Li @davidkli.bsky.social Native Californian in NYC. Watch lots of San Francisco Giants and Cal State Fullerton baseball. Herman Franks once slapped me on the back and said: "You're pretty tall for an Oriental!”
Tracey Lloyd Everett @teelynneverett.bsky.social Writer. Progressive. Mental health advocate. Cat mom. Hopeful US expat.
Julia Dahl @juliadahl.bsky.social Novelist, NYU journalism prof, boy mom, knifemaker’s wife. Born in Fresno, now the Hudson Valley.
www.juliadahl.com
CarolLee Kidd @clktrans.bsky.social "Once you're scared to talk about anyone, to criticize anyone, there is no freedom of speech." Omar Khashoggi
Resist and demand to be heard! 
Hallie Pritts @halliepritts.bsky.social Writer. Finalist, Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize ‘24, Sewanee Writers ’22. CHTQA fellow. NZ writer-in-residence. Words in Mcsweeneys, MissouriReview, LitMag, Barrelhouse, TheBelladonna, OffAssignment, etc. Rode a bike across the US once. #nativeplants
Laura Wheatman Hill @laurawheatmanhill.bsky.social Writer (?!)
2 dogs (!!)
Also 2 humans (...)
https://www.laurawheatmanhill.com/ 
Ramona Schindelheim @ramonawritesla.bsky.social Writer. Journalist. I love data, words, pencils, baseball, and birds. Not always in that order. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramonaschindelheim/ https://www.birdsandnerdspodcast.com/
Lyn Wheaton (Lynnie) @lynwheaton.bsky.social WRITER: CNF. Short Story. #binders.
Memoirs in Progress: THE DREAM LOTTERY & 3 unnamed.
Screenplays: Heaven in a Cup.
Featured monthly writer: Valley Voice-6 years.
Lighthouse Writers Workshop.
Coffee bogart. #Neurodivergent
Follows Back Creatives
Veronica @veronicaeye.bsky.social Chicago gal who wears many hats:
🗳 Councilor, 24th District
📚 Author, J is for Justice: An Activism Alphabet
📣 Pitch Your Peeps
🎙 Storyteller
🧗🏽♀️ Women's Sports Evangelist
She/They
Nina Weierman @nimo1782.bsky.social Recovered workaholic, SAHM and freelance writer. Lover of naps, concerts, and sometimes running.
Natalie Pascale Boisseau @npboisseau.bsky.social Writer - Ecrivaine. Montreal -Seattle
Acupuncture. Récit. Traduction.
CNF, poetry, memoir.
Trauma, adolescence.
Publications: Les Ecrits des Forges, Raven Chronicles, Isele Magazine, Crab Creek
farah faye @farahfaye.bsky.social writer
@scrappyreadingseries
Kirsten Eve Beachy @granolamennonite.bsky.social I write about backyard poultry, Mennonites, motherhood, infertility, disability, and strange magic. I read omnivorously, favoring dragons and politics.
Cindy Marie Jenkins (she/her) @cindyoutthinksmdia.bsky.social I grew up between a library and a theater. Now I teach digital literacy through art & open dialogue.
https://patreon.com/OutThinkMedia
Break generational structures this summer:
https://momentumrevolutions.com
Yeti Deals @yetideals.bsky.social ✨ Amazon Associate sharing top finds! 🛍️ Home essentials, gadgets, and daily deals to make life easier and more fun. Follow for curated picks and exclusive offers! 👇
Andrea Tate @andreatate.bsky.social Writer/Teacher
HuffPost, Brevity Blog, Manifest Station, Hippocampus. Antioch University MFA Alum. Speak your mind. Write your truth.
andreatate.net
Bethany Jarmul @bethanyjarmul.bsky.social Appalachian poet/writer, TAKE ME HOME (@BellePointPress), LIGHTNING IS A MOTHER (ELJ, 2025), Best Small Fictions 2024, Best Spiritual Literature 2023, Nominations: Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, 100+ pubs. 
Carter Gaddis @cartergaddis.bsky.social Writer. Father. Former sports journalist. Progressive. Tired but hopeful.
Jen Gilman Porat @jengilmanporat.bsky.social Writer of personal essays & memoir. Driven by uncertainty. Obsessed with time and memory. Bucket List: Dance with John Travolta.
Cristina @pastrygirl.bsky.social The voice of love needs to be louder than the screams of hate. Will amplify.
Technical Writer ~ Latina 🇨🇱 ~ she/her ~ owner of Bumbleroot Design sewing patterns + Tina Lucia Handbags
I hope to write a book someday that isn’t a user manual.
A.R.Morgera @a-r-morgera.bsky.social Author, Artist, Overcomer.
Just trying to make the world a better place one life at a time.
https://ko-fi.com/armorgera
Maura Sheehy @mauras.bsky.social Psychotherapist, Writer, Democracy-lover, Earth-defender. Co-Ed Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Memoir-in-prog re: mothers, daughters, girlhood, womanhood, chickens, and the 1970s.
Shana @shanawestlake.bsky.social Writer. Runner. Reader. Mom.
Former Brooklynite, former news producer, former event producer. Current NYer. She/her.
Rachel Kramer Bussel @rachelkramerbussel.bsky.social Writer on books, culture, my life. Editor, @opensecretsmag.bsky.social
https://opensecretsmagazine.com
Author, How to Write Erotica. Editing anthology about our attachments to our belongings. https://linktr.ee/rkbwriter and rachelkramerbussel.com
Jaclyn Greenberg @jaclynlgreenberg.bsky.social Mom of 3 and 🐶 | Disability Advocate | Caregiver | Bylines @nytimes @CNN @Wired @Parents
Disnerd Michelle @disnerd-michelle.bsky.social 💙She/Her/Hers, Mom, Dog mom, Feminist, Ally, Disnerd, WDW AP, DVC, Disney Cruise junkie🚢
Susanne Gruss @susannegruss.bsky.social English lit prof @uni-bamberg.de | pirate/collaborator/witch | law&lit-geek | 🍄 | reviews ed. Shakespeare JB | gen.ed. gender forum Cologne | assoc.ed. Neo-Victorian Studies | mum | colour-lover | doodler | she/her
https://www.wonderlink.de/@susannegruss
Jen @jens246.bsky.social Classroom teacher, writer, poet. Committed to public schools, all students, all books. 
Molly McDonough @mollymcdonough.bsky.social 
@meanqueenmk.bsky.social @meanqueenmk.bsky.social 
CoffeeObsessedMama @coffeeobsessedmama.bsky.social Mom • Dog mom • Coffee enthusiast • Thrift hunter • Living with purpose and learning to love myself again. Colorado based.
H.M. Joinville @hmjoinville.bsky.social Writer of horror & poetry, MLIS, history blogger, and recovering Midwesterner..ope #amquerying Words in Bookends Review, Athena Review & the upcoming WriteHive anthology "Surviving Humanity" out 2026. https://www.readex.com/blog
Joanne C. Gerstner @joannecgerstner.bsky.social Sports author, professor, speaker, word architect. joannecgerstner.com
👸 joannecgerstner.substack.com
👩🏼🏫 Michigan State Sports Journalism
👩🎓 Medill, Oakland U.
💜 🐈⬛, travel, 🌸, BTS, 📚. #Borahae
💻joannecgerstner.com
Alison Colwell @alisoncolwell.bsky.social Writer, weaver of fairy tales and other creative non-fictions, food security activist, mom to two teens and a houseful of cats. Currently searching for a literary agent to represent my memoir.
Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social Writer | Mother | Immigrant | Managing Editor @mlnjournal.bsky.social | PhD Hispanic Lit | Fulbright (Brazil) | Bylines WaPo, Time, Guernica, etc. (she/her)
Book forthcoming w Bloomsbury Academic
Human Generated: https://victorialivingstone.substack.com/
Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social Writer. Books: A THOUSAND WAYS TO DISAPPEAR (Cornerstone Press, 2028)/THE CLARITY OF HUNGER (Word West Press, 2021). Fiction instructor: Harvard Extension School. MacDowell Fellow ‘23. Email: fabulistpappas@gmail.com
www.cherylpappas.net
Bridget Crocker @bridgetcrocker.bsky.social River Explorer + Author, THE RIVER’S DAUGHTER (forthcoming June 2025 Spiegel & Grau)
🔞 Eldon Macwood | Author of Grimdark and Cyberpunk🏳️🌈 @eldonmacwood.bsky.social ✍🏼✨🐉🦄🔮🧙♂️🧝♀️🏹🛡️⚔️📚☕️🌆🌈☂︎
Blog: https://grimwood-notice-board.tumblr.com
Author of #Grimdark Fantasy and #Cyberpunk (I call it cybergrimpunk)
#writingcommunity #ProAI
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SJW 🇦🇺🌏 @sjw32142.bsky.social Social justice, equality, fairness, nature, writing, reading, creating, surviving
Posting from Wurundjeri country
PS: I have a tendency to block immediately if you DM me when I follow you.
Katarzyna Burzyńska @prof-burzynska.bsky.social Vegan literature professor working in feminist and queer studies, interested in depictions of pregnant people in early modern lit. (she/her) 🌱🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 🧘🏃🚵
Lost Muttley my Westie broken @lordcollins.bsky.social Liverpool fan Muttley my Westie has gone over the rainbow bridge.
Tax the rich FFS
Won’t follow traders or young ladies/ men selling their body thank you
Prof. Anna Catherine Hickey-Moody @annahm.bsky.social Professor of Media and Communication,
RMIT University
The Milliner of Bath @garyzajc.com 
Joyce Yee @joycedyee.bsky.social Believer, Wife, Mom to Cancer Warrior, Storyteller, Artist, Ballet Lover, Cat Grammy & Mills College Alumna ‘90
https://joyful-storyteller.com
Kristin Bonilla @kbonilla.bsky.social Writer | Contributing Editor JMWW
Tessa Torgeson @tessatorgeson.bsky.social Writer. Words in The Rumpus, Vol 1 Brooklyn, Brevity, formerly The Fix (RIP)etc. Harm reductionist. Mother to 2. Denverite.
Kelly Wright @omnikel.bsky.social Words, fiber crafts, singing, dogs, black tea, long naps, good books. Chicago adjacent. Serial comma 4ever. Fascists can fuck off. She/her.
left-handed hobbyholic @sgerald.bsky.social Blue dot in small town Mississippi. Into books, poetry, pets, arts, crafts, plants, etc. Gen-X Swiftie. Surviving alongside rheumatoid arthritis and its various pals. Recovering academic, adjunct retiree.
Marcus Constantino (@amtino) @marcusconstantino.com Photographer, social/comms, content creator, licensed drone operator, West Virginian / #wvpol. 🖥️ https://photos.marcusconstantino.com 📩 marcus(at)marcusconstantino.com
PAProf @paprof4.bsky.social 
Emily Ditto @emilyditto.bsky.social Voracious reader, insatiable learner. Researcher.
Archaeologist by training, book nerd mom by design. Full coverage x-stitch initiate.
Emily Schleiger @emilyschleiger.bsky.social Screenwriter and writer, popcorn thief, feminist, mom.
MFA from UCRPD
EmilySchleiger.com
Sailor Dog Handel @sailordoghandel.bsky.social If you perform Our Town without the two intermissions I WILL CALL THE GODDAMN POLICE
https://linktr.ee/handelnyc
Muffy Bolding @muffybolding.bsky.social Mother. Writer. Director. Suffragette. Witch. Knitter. Embroiderix. Cummari. Chingona. Siciliana. Latina. Filipina. Lyin’ Whore. Trollop. Shitkicker. Thief.
Withered Debutante.
“Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of my stature.”
Kate Simonson @katesimonson.bsky.social Full-time wife and mother, part-time writer, merely dabbles as a cancer patient. #binders she/her
Kim Kankiewicz @kimkankiewicz.bsky.social Author of Bellwether: A Telephone Operator, a Landmark Court Case, and the Women Whose Voices Connected a Nation (Union Square March 2027). History and culture writer. Words in The Atlantic, NPR, Salon, Washington Post. she/her
Kristi McKim @kmckim.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Film at Georgia Tech. Writes/reads about ecocrit, joy, cinephilia, time, kids, trees, justice, music(als). Clumsy but earnest yogi, pianist, gardener. “My heart is moved by all I cannot save" (Adrienne Rich) www.kristimckim.com (she/her)
Kerry H Alexander @languageartist.bsky.social Artist, writer, teacher, mom 🧡 Elementary literacy pedagogy and practice; Assistant Professor of Literacy Education at the University of Maryland College Park. ✨ www.languageartistry.com ✨
Arao Ameny @araoameny.bsky.social Reader | Writer | In my language Leb Lango, Arao means “to gather, to collect”, and Ameny is “to bring light” | Proudly Lango | 🇺🇬
📍Maryland, USA
🔗: araoameny.com
andrearoth888 @andrearoth.bsky.social mom~ actress- very concerned about our future
rescue me~13 reasons why
Renee Cramer @rcramer29.bsky.social Law and Society scholar of reproductive justice movements; Provost and Dean @ Dickinson College; faculty development through the career-span; writer-at-large. Mom to a late teen; 3 cats; 1 dog; I love live music, long walks, great books.
Jessie-rae @jraeos.bsky.social Blue dot in a red state, educator, mom, outdoorsy/indoorsy, reader, and writer
@jocelynjanecox.bsky.social @jocelynjanecox.bsky.social I write essays, humor, CNF. Memoir MOTION DAZZLE (9/2025): a birth, a death, figure skating, and zebras. MFA, Pushcart nom. Words in: The Offing, HAD, Colorado Review, Litro Mag, Belladonna, NYT, Slate, WIRED. https://www.jocelynjanecox.com
Writer/Artist#StopFemicide 🇨🇦📚🧑🏻🎨🇵🇸 @writerartisteh.bsky.social Visual art, writing
📚🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ♿️ 😷🇨🇦 AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic, MG, mason bees etc. General musings, rants, politics site for a Cdn artist and writer with 10 books. Happy to see resisters, but block if you block fundraisers. writing: @eatonhamilton.bsky.social
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/
N Silv @nsilv.bsky.social Whatever "what is", is,
is what I want.
Only that.
But that.
Lisa Yoder @lisli.bsky.social Front-end developer. Sometimes writes. Former farm kid/Dairy Princess. Loves books, travel, & cats. Very into quilts. Bee curious.
https://lisayoder.is/
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com Jewish, trans, abolitionist name-your-own-price IL lawyer. Forever loving @mistymotors.net. No legal advice; not your lawyer. Free Palestine. She/her.