🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social Make horror gay AF, Stoker Award winner
out now: THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT
Oct 27: SHE ISN'T HERSELF TONIGHT
she/her; rep: Lane Heymont
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Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Writer of short things. Reader of all things flash. Dog lover. Words in SLQ, XRAY, Flash Frog, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf. Winner of 2024 Lascaux Prize & Cambridge Prize. She/her https://www.emilyrinkema.com/
Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldn’t.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. 💙
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
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J. C. Jones @thejcjones.bsky.social Author of the best selling Louisa Moss detective series.
Ex-nightclub boss and, due to carelessness, owner of only half a lung.
Poems and Limericks daily.
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REMAINS @remainsmagazine.bsky.social Magazine of new fiction edited by Andy Cox with art by Richard Wagner. Issue 5 out now. https://remains.uk
Koffiart37 @koffiimageworks.bsky.social
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Jane French @janefrench.bsky.social Writer of medical and caregiving reports | published widely in email streams | family caregiver | advocate for low-income older adults
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Subito Press @subitopress.bsky.social https://www.colorado.edu/journal/subito/
Patrick Wall @patrickwwall.bsky.social Novelist, lover of words, conversation, and ideas. Musician, creative technologist. Champion of the preposterous and wildly unfeasible. Comments appreciated.
Jack Wright @jackwrightauthor.com Horror author from the North of England. Reyt Spooky.
Stories of grief, folklore, and the things that move when they shouldn’t.
Duskfield Pines — ???
Anna’s Veil — ???
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Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A free blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social
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Govneh Jalapeno @thebigleblueski.bsky.social Menace.
Generally can be found in the woods.
Daily Submittable Deadlines @submittabledaily.bsky.social Best writing and poetry festivals to submit to each day on submittable.
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com Author of novels fantastical & historical, avid gardener, co-founder of SFWA's pub industry watchdog Writer Beware. Casting a small light in a wilderness of writing scams (plus an occasional cat pic)
https://writerbeware.blog
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Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social Press & online rag dedicated to grit lit & rural writing with rough edges. Survival is triumph enough. We dig Folk & Old Country music: @npcountrycovers.bsky.social. EIC: @vanwinkle.bsky.social
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Omar Hussain @omarhussain10.bsky.social Author | A THOUSAND NATURAL SHOCKS (Blackstone Publishing)
Available Now | shorturl.at/pAfc3
omarhussainauthor.com
Eryk Pruitt @erykpruitt.bsky.social Author of SOMETHING BAD WRONG and BLOOD RED SUMMER. Co-owner of YONDER in Hillsborough, NC. Not responsible for that smell.
Scott Hallam @shallam1313.bsky.social Speculative fiction writer; horror/SFF/Weird/Noir. Stories in Cosmic Horror Monthly, @dreamforgemagazine.bsky.social, @darkpenpress.bsky.social, and more
Pedro Iniguez @pedroiniguez.bsky.social Bram Stoker, Elgin, and Dwarf Stars Award-winning Horror/SF and children's book author.
THE BUILD-A-MONSTER WORKSHOP (Out Now!)
ECHOES AND EMBERS (Out Now!)
THE FIB (Out Now!)
Repped by Peter Steinberg, UTA
www.pedroiniguez.com
CrimeReads @crimereads.bsky.social A daily culture site featuring the best crime, mystery, and thriller writing. From the makers of @lithub.
Marc Zammit @marczammit.bsky.social Director🎬 | Producer 🎥| Actor 🎭 CEO Aptitude Films, Skylark Vision.
Homeless Ashes, Witch, JITTERS
David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social Walking pics, stories, poems, essays. & Piero, Fra A, Nabokov, Sebald, Dickinson, Rilke, Loy, HD, Ozu, Akerman, Tanaka, Pasolini, Sirk, Varda, Demy, Dead, Mahler, Jameses… & some Dharma
www.six18sfoundry.com
Nurture Junk Birds
Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social USA Today bestselling horror noveler (MARY; NESTLINGS; REST STOP; WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME). TV actor. Musician. Out now: I KNOW A PLACE, May 5, 2026, Shortwave Books. (he/him)
Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning and USA Today best-selling author, narrator, and professional puppeteer. Also has a talking cat. Latest title: Apprehension.
NECKSNAP MAGAZINE @necksnapmag.bsky.social Issue Three: FRINGE 🦇 out now!
Horror lit mag with a love for Gothic haunts, body horror, strong experimental voices, and even stronger characters. EIC: johnhanleywrites.bsky.social
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Agatha Grimke ✒️📚🏺🫏🟦🐈⬛️🦆🌹 @agathagrimke.bsky.social Someone positively pleased with the wonders and mysteries of the universe, a good book, cats, and hot cocoa. #WritingCommunity
She/her
Very pleased to have a story included in:
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Underbelly Press @underbellypress.bsky.social Uncomfortable, unfiltered pieces that aren’t afraid to investigate the underbelly of existence. Narratives exploring the overlooked, the mundane, the human.
https://linktr.ee/underbellypress
Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social Crime writer. Author of DOPE THIEF, coming to Apple TV+ in 2025.
www.dennistafoya.com
Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social Poet with autism and a cat.
Author of ADULTHOOD (Anxiety Press, 2026).
Here to connect with fellow writers and/or fellow neurodivergent people and/or fellow anti-fascists.
he/him • NJ • www.brandondiehl.net
Thriller/Suspense Film Festival @thrillersuspense.bsky.social Entering its 10th year, this festival is a showcase of Thriller/Suspense Films & Screenplays from around the world, using the popular audience feedback video.
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Horror Underground Film Festival @horrorfilmfestival.bsky.social Various options to submit to the Festival. A HYBRID model. Cinema screenings for audience feedback video.Blog and podcast interviews. And bonus Virtual screening (optional!).
https://filmfreeway.com/horrorunderground
https://festivalforhorror.comi
Claudine: A Literary Magazine @claudineliterary.bsky.social Curious. Clever. Quick. 🐈⬛
Monthly Magazine for Micro Prose
Free to sub. Paying market.
Claudineliterary.com
matchbook literary magazine @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social matchbook is an online literary journal that publishes one piece of short prose accompanied by an author's note every two weeks.
https://matchbooklitmag.com
Shonna White @shonnathewhite.bsky.social Author, artist, gamer & GIANT GEEK (she/her) 🇨🇦
LOST INFERNAL - Now available: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HBLTY4TJ
Learn more at Lostinfernal.com
Tortured soul behind the writer's resource
@descriptionary.bsky.social | descriptionary.wordpress.com
Horror Writers Association, New York Chapter @hwany.org We’re the horror and dark literature authors from the Tri-State area. Our chapter hosts meetings and local events. We are committed to the professional development and growth of our members. Find out more here:
https://horror.org/
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Horror Writers Association @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social Official Account of the Horror Writers Association. The oldest literary organization serving writers and publishing professionals around the world, dedicated to promoting dark literature and the interests of those who write it.
David D. West @davidwestwrites.bsky.social Horror writer. English Teacher.
Published in Sans Press, October Nights Press, and Black Hare Press.
On all socials @DavidWestWrites
davidwestwrites.wixsite.com/home
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."
Datura Books @daturabooks.bsky.social CRIME IS IN OUR BONES 🦴
Crime fiction imprint of @angryrobotbooks
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/daturabooks
Bristol Noir @bristolnoir.bsky.social Indie publisher of curiously dark fiction, poetry, noir and dirty realism.
#shortstories #flashfiction #poetry #noir #dirtyrealism
Magazine: http://bit.ly/BristolNoirMag / Submissions: http://bit.ly/BNoirSubs
Dr. Kellie D. Brown @kelliedbrown1.bsky.social Professor of Music, violinist, conductor, writer, poet, Holocaust researcher, UMC lay minister kelliedbrown.com
jrblanes @jrblanes.bsky.social JR Blanes is the author of Portraits of Decay and the upcoming short story collection, The Skeleton Closet. You can visit him at https://linktr.ee/jrblanes76. Please do not contact me about unsolicited paid advertising.
micah @nemerevermore.bsky.social Author of THESE VIOLENT DELIGHTS (the other one), now working on a novel about chess that I never shut up about. he/him 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
https://patreon.com/micahnem
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Etch @etchfilm.bsky.social We are Etch. An independent finance, production and distribution house putting the dark magic back in to moving images.
🎬 NOW STREAMING: #FirstWordOnHorror
Matthew King @flexfishgames.bsky.social Artist/Game Developer @ Flex Fish Games. We're makin' a BAD-ASS, Pac-Man-styled, hand-drawn, 2D Arcade Game called SUPER PUNKS N GUTS. It's our love letter to nostalgic movement-focused arcade gameplay. Join us on our development journey!
Stanchion @stanchion.bsky.social Quarterly print literary magazine & small book press in the Philly 'burbs. Founder & EIC Jeff Bogle. linktr.ee/StanchionZine
Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social Horror/Fantasy writer. Mom of two semi-feral girls and a pack of mutts.
Follow for books, short stories & random things I find interesting.
Work in LCRW, Uncharted, Abyss & Apex
Member of HWA, Codex, SFWA
Eugie Award Finalist
tammykomoff.com
#writer
Mar Vincent @marofthebooks.bsky.social Weird little stories in Analog, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and other fantastical places. Always seeking human creativity (NO AI), coffee, and petrichor. https://www.marvincent.com/
Currently in the liminal space known as novel revisions. 📝✍️✍️
Trent Reznor @treznor.bsky.social 
Jo @jo183.bsky.social nerd, geek, bookworm, cat person, nd
they/she
Peter Jordan PhD @pjordan-writer.bsky.social
BBC Radio 4 & BBC Radio Ulster.
Anne de Marcken @annedemarcken.com Writer • It Lasts Forever & Then It’s Over • The Accident: An Account • Editor/publisher @the3rdthing.press • Website https://annedemarcken.com
Free Reading @jakelehman.bsky.social Independent Journalist
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☠️ x.com/_Jake_Lehman
🐘 cyberplace.social/@aldergeshem
🌐 aintnoseagull@protonmail.com
Jamey Gallagher @jameygallagher.bsky.social Author of BODIES IN BAGS, I AM IDRIS ELBA, and AMERICAN ANIMISM.
https://jameyg0.wixsite.com/jameygallagher
Community college writing teacher
I read and write: literary stuff, crime stuff, weird stuff
From NH, living in Baltimore.
Charles Reyna Art @charlesreynaart.bsky.social Hi, I'm Charles Anthony Reyna, Abstract Visual Artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. My inspiration comes from nature as well as urban areas.
Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • Blood Type: Curry • Leeds United • Anti-AI
#LUFC
jmthornberry.wordpress.com
sandandgravelpress.com/store/the-finish-line-jason-thornberry
P. L. Klein @plkleinauthor.bsky.social A dreamer, a storyteller, an artist, and photographer, with a lack of technical skills and a passion for travel and enthusiastically singing off-key. 
Peter Bertlessen @peterbertlessen.bsky.social Lover of books and films, especially those in the genres of Transgressive Fiction, Western, Horror and Punk. A counterculture enthusiast who writes sometimes.
https://www.instagram.com/peterbertlessen?igsh=em5wM3lnZXJ4MDU2
David Baldacci @davidbaldacci.bsky.social 
The Offing @theoffingmag.bsky.social Online lit mag. Authoring change. From the people who built these cities.
theoffingmag.com
Virginia Quarterly Review @vqr.bsky.social An award-winning national magazine at the University of Virginia. Established in 1925. vqronline.org
Weekly email newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hiepvn
Weekly poetry newsletter: http://eepurl.com/ilfAh1
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
Tahoma Literary Review @tahomareview.bsky.social We publish poetry, fiction, and nonfiction twice a year. Professional pay rates.
All online since 2024!
Current issues, submission periods, etc. at tahomaliteraryreview.com
Granta @grantamag.bsky.social The Magazine of New Writing.
https://granta.com/
After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers.
Links: https://bio.site/afterdinner
Daniel NS @derrickfromtexas.bsky.social Obedience is Futile
#Humanism #DemocraticSocialismSavesLives #PrivatizeTrump
Pamela @azhoosiergirl.bsky.social Fifty-something INFP ADHD mom, wife, aspiring supernatural romance/romantic horror author, amateur photographer (all photographs I post are my own), and crow whisperer. Uninvited DMs are creepy and will get you blocked.
Pamela Helton @pamelahelton.bsky.social I write steamy romance, horror, and often a blend of both. Amateur photographer (all photographs I post are mine). 50-something, ADHD, INFP, happily married, mom of two amazing young ladies.
Richard Krauss @richard-krauss.bsky.social Maker, marker, mourner. larquepress.com
Lauren Leach-Steffens @lleachie.bsky.social Associate Professor of Human Services, quirky writer of Christmas romance and contemporary fantasy, loves human rights, cats, and being pleasantly surprised. Quaker.
Jeff Esterholm @jesterholm.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Up North Sconnie.
The Effects of Urban Renewal on Mid-Century America and Other Crime Stories (Cornerstone Press/UW-Stevens Point, 2023)
Tollund Man: Stories (Cornerstone Press) is scheduled for October, 2026.
Richie Narvaez @richienarvaez.bsky.social Adjunct as well as Agatha- and Anthony-award–winning author of HIPSTER DEATH RATTLE | HOLLY HERNANDEZ & THE DEATH OF DISCO | NOIRYORICAN | 🇵🇷 | The songs I punched are dreaming
https://linktr.ee/richienarvaez
Colin Brightwell @cbwell.bsky.social Fiction writer. Shenanigan enjoyer. Scooby-Doo enthusiast.
Mark Westmoreland @itsmarkyall.bsky.social Southern BS artist
Rep: Chris Bucci, Aevitas Creative
Frank Reardon @frank212.bsky.social Short stories in Stand, Bull, Tough, Starlite Pulp, CJ, Enclave, a bunch of other places. Columns in Hobart & Bull. Five collections of poetry w/ Punk Hostage, Blue Horse, NeoPoiesis.
Lee Matthew Goldberg @leematthewgoldberg.bsky.social Author of 16 📚 including ANCESTOR, MENTOR and the GREAT GIMMELMANS.
Lit Rep: Josh Getzler @ HG Literary
Screenwriter and publisher of Fringe Press.
Native New Yorker. LeeMatthewGoldberg.com
Travis Wade Beaty @traviswbeaty.bsky.social Reformed misanthrope. Writing crime, horror, and fantasy. Sometimes all three at the same time!
https://traviswadebeaty.wordpress.com/
Amina Akhtar @amina.bsky.social Author of Almost Surely Dead (out 2/2024 by Mindy’s Book Studio), Kismet, and #FashionVictim. Skincare junkie. I live in a forest surrounded by animals. I’m obsessed with my dog. 
Sean Dillon @seanadillon.bsky.social Host for #beyondthemicpod Like, Share & Subscribe Please!
Radio #963klll #mix100 #rock101lubbock
Dir/Prod/Talent Red Raider Outfitter Rockin' Pregame covering #TexasTech
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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social author of TURMERIC & SUGAR (Thirty West). stories in Wigleaf, Short Story Long, Berkeley Fiction Review, HAD, Craft, Fractured, etc.
annavangalajones.com
Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social The place for writers
Dr. Hello Bonjour @hellobonjour.bsky.social Mother of 4, Business owner, Medical writer and translator (Eng-Fr), Politically left (Lib/NDP), No patience for conspiracies, Got my doctorate in my 50s (AI in healthcare communications), Ontario 🍁
Daniel Rolph Author @danielrolphauthor.bsky.social Daniel Rolph grew up in the UK foster care system, experiencing firsthand the challenges that come with it. Now, he's channelling those experiences into his debut novel, Shattered Paths
Buy Now: https://geni.us/OEi75Gh
Jack Finn @therealjackfinn.bsky.social 🩸 Folk Horror • Dark Fantasy
📚 Finding dark things you haven't read yet
🌲 Author of IT PIERCES, WILSON & more
👇 Enter the dark woods
www.therealjackfinn.com
Life-long believer that the Tooth Fairy is proof body parts can be traded for cold hard cash.
Frank Gaimari @frankgaimari.bsky.social Best-selling author, film critic, and screenwriter. Award-winning scripts: Vincent and Paul: Unspoken Brotherhood, Mary Reid, and La Famiglia. I love movies and my two golden retrievers.
www.FrankGaimari.com
www.FranksFilmReview.com
@absat41.bsky.social @absat41.bsky.social BlueSkywalker, Sushi maker, ManUnited follower; NDP Toronto supporter; Lover of my wife's art person, Slava Ukraini and ARK: Survival with my son
American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Empowering and advocating for libraries and library workers to ensure equitable access to information for all. 🌎’s largest library association.
Find us at https://ala.org.
We follow the ALA Code of Conduct: https://www.ala.org/user-guidelines
Reader of Banned Books @readerofbannedbook.bsky.social The Library is my refuge from Fascism.
Beth Kanter @beekaekae.bsky.social Writer, teacher, workshop leader.
Hand holder
Words in: X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, Unbroken, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Cease, Cows and others.
Pushcart nominee.
www.bethkanter.com
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