Catherine Rossi @catrossauth.bsky.social Published author of creative nonfiction essays. Community advocate/volunteer. Amateur Musician. Proud UMich alum. Canes hockey fan. Lover of cheese. https://catherinerossi.com/
Alexander Thomas @thomastellstales.bsky.social British short story writer and librarian dabbling in #litfic and #horror
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Social Justice @supergamer1234.bsky.social 🕊️I initially came to see the cat emojis, but later stayed for the sake of social justice.
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Susan L DeMiller @susanldemiller.bsky.social Author, weaver, photographer, certified yoga teacher, past shepherd, knitter, birdwatcher, level 69 in Pokémon Go she/her
Born in Chicago- Northwest Side-now lives in South Dakota
Emperor Norton @ashleynaftule.bsky.social Playwright. Associate Artistic Director at Space55 in downtown Phoenix. Freelance journalist.
Check out my radio play "Radio Free Europa":
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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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Ella B. Winters @ella-b-winters.bsky.social Writer, research, social worker, lecturer, eternal student, working on my PhD.
Artemesia Arts shortlist; Forward prize nominated; BOTN nominated; Pushcart prizes nominated x2
Anteroom (formerly The Winged Moon) @anteroompoetry.bsky.social Poetry through the cracks; we publish in print and online with amazing art and a vibrant weekly newsletter.
Poetry competition with a cash prize opens on 14 Sept '26
EIC @jaimichellepoet.bsky.social
Website: www.anteroompoetry.com
glassknuckles.bsky.social @glassknuckles.bsky.social Glass Knuckles is an independent literary press publishing raw, gritty, provocative poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art.
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Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social writes poetry
Linda Daunter @lindadaunter.bsky.social
Still don't know what I want to do when I'm grown up.
In the meantime, I write short stories, flash fiction & unfinished novels, draw, paint, take photos, garden, daydream and dance when nobody's watching.
📍NW England
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@niketruthsays.bsky.social @niketruthsays.bsky.social 🔞 she/her
Creative Poet Storyteller https://ko-fi.com/niketruth
Rhys Howell @ghop56.bsky.social Writer based in the South West of England
Pete Ward @phenryward.bsky.social Books, art, theatre, telling people I liked the thing they made. Weird / Gothic / Noir short stories published or forthcoming in Rock and a Hard Place, Cosmic Horror, Macabre, Frost Zone, Rat Bag and elsewhere. Editorial reader at Gavagai.
Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social Writer and Literary Critic. Work in Gooseberry Pie Lit, Passages North, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story, Bending Genres, and FlashFlood. Best Small Fictions ‘27 Nom.
Contemporary Anglophone Lit PhD.
https://linktr.ee/emhall47
Female Feedback Film Festival @femalefilmfestival.bsky.social The FEEDBACK Female Film Festival (FFFF) was created for women filmmakers and screenwriters. The goal is to showcase the best of female talent from around the world.
https://femalefilmfestival.com/
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DARKRECONSTRUCTION @darkreconstruction.bsky.social Eco-brutalist abstract expressionist art from Queens NY
darkreconstructionart.com
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Anti-AI
Anti-NFT
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Roughhouser @roughhouser-mag.bsky.social Online poetry mag. Submissions open.
Based in Chicago.
EIC: @willrusso.bsky.social
https://roughhouser.neocities.org/
Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doc
Kids' novels:
Minou Moonshine / Sam Singh @kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social
Poetry:
Empirical
@thebraag.bsky.social
Siren @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
A Terrible Thing Bad Betty Press
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@JenMaezing aka Jennifer Mae Nicholson @jenmaezing.bsky.social Recently migrated to BlueSky. * Writer * WeScreenplay Quarterfinalist * Former Nat'l #OLTL Examiner * Small Business Owner ✍️ Ask me about my characters. www.IWriteDiamonds.com
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Jeremiah @jeremiahsp.bsky.social Peculiar husband. Dorkiest of dads. Middling Horror Writer. Probably cooking dinner.
Antwan Crump @antwancrump.bsky.social Writer / Author. Mostly talking shop and random thoughts. Novel: "APOSTATE". Recent works (2025): "The Suicide Pod," "BUTTERFLIES," & "The ORB." (2026): "Veal" (https://a.co/d/098cBUuq)
Website: https://www.atcrump.com
Duosuma @duosuma.com Duosuma is @duotrope.com's Submission Manager platform for publishers. https://duotrope.com/duosuma
Lyndsie Manusos @lmanusos.bsky.social She/Her | Indie Bookseller - Wild Geese Bookshop | Pushcart Nominee | Fiction in Reactor, F&SF, The Deadlands, Lightspeed, etc. | Sr Contributor for Book Riot
Rep: Eric Showers at Morhaim Literary
Debut novella FROM THESE DARK ABODES available now!
Daniel_Obal @obal-writes.bsky.social Author||Overthinker||Godling|| Currently Querying.
Y2(are you o)K? Zine @y2areyouok.bsky.social [ CURRENTLY ONLINE ]
A 90s/00s zine 😎
.:~^* Submissions Are Open! *^~:.
Issue 2.0 is all about Cyberspace and web 2.0!
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Independent Lit @independentlit.bsky.social Celebrating the UK's independent literature. For those who read adventurously.
https://substack.com/@independentlit
@royakhatiblou.bsky.social et al.
Independentlituk@gmail.com
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
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VIRIDINE ☆ @viriyvel.bsky.social 22, any pronouns, white, intersectional feminist + socialist
todos pronomes, branco, feminista interseccional e socialista
@wolfezolfe.bsky.social meu luar :)
r. p. singletary @rpsingletary.bsky.social W(e)i(r)dely published in so-called 'underground publications,' or so they said. www.rpsingletary.com
Charlotte Tracey @ctraceywrites.bsky.social Irish-American Writer | he/she/they | Asexual ♠️/Aromantic 🏹/Currently querying my novel Sadie Collapsing, a socialist-aligned dystopian SFF
Blog: https://ctraceywrites.wordpress.com/
Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/charlottetracey0496
Elizabeth Kate Switaj @ekswitaj.bsky.social http://www.elizabethkateswitaj.net/
📚The Articulations, Kernpunkt Press http://www.kernpunktpress.com/store/p43/articulationsamouroboros.html
📚The Bringers of Fruit, 11:11 Press https://1111press.com/the-bringers-of-fruit
🇲🇭Majuro, Marshall Islands
Jetboy Jetgirl @jetboyjetgirl.bsky.social Middling writer/mediocre musician/overconfident 😂
Emmy Award Winner (for real!)
Dragging my feet making a documentary about Jet Boy Jet Girl!
Recently had my first short story published!! Woo hoo!
https://linktr.ee/jetboyjetgirl
Dr Han-kenstein 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2021. She / her / hers / shö. Shetlander in Aberdeen. Writer, library assistant, archivist, book and music enthusiast, views my own because who else's would they be? https://linktr.ee/tooriekep
K.R.Rose @k-r-rose.bsky.social Blind poet, artist, storyteller. Always involved in a project.
Currently obsessed with geese (again).
https://krrosewrites.com/
Barbara Stocker 💙📚 @bluebirdbhs.bsky.social Activist Democrat Missourian living in Virginia @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social @melrea.bsky.social Team Site
The Rotting Leaf @rottingleafmag.bsky.social A literary space for the eco-gothic, the eco-horrific, the eco-surrealist, and the eco-weird | Fiction section of @briefecology.bsky.social
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Submit: https://www.briefecology.com/submissions
@the-writingschool.bsky.social @the-writingschool.bsky.social The Writing School Online was founded by Kathryn Bevis in 2020 and we are here to help you find your creative voice and build a writing community.
Ashley Mangtani @writerash.bsky.social Slipstream Writer ✍️
Published or forthcoming in Strange Horizons | LITRO | Washington Square Review | Boudin | Neon Dystopia | Expat Press | HAWKEYE etc
Short story collection ⬇️
ashleymangtani.com
Cooper Reilly @sussingham.bsky.social Just a writer from San Diego, posting short stories as often as I can.
Fascinated by magical realism, frogs, flawed characters, altered states, Ween, finding transcendence in the mundane, absurd humor, gross stuff, maximalism…
sussingham.com
Metachrosis Magazine (Subs open from 12 Dec - 01 Mar) @metachrosismag.bsky.social Irish literary magazine celebrating the arts, sciences, and the humanities. Queer run
Submission open 20 Dec - 28 Feb
Issue 6 is out now!
https://metachrosislitmag.com/
https://ko-fi.com/metachrosismagazine
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
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
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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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
TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social #Scientist, #advocate, and #educator in the field of #climatechange. #Author of uplifting #climatefiction novel "A New Faith." Read or download the novel for free at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
#booksky #books #sciencefiction #solarpunk #hopepunk
Vanessa Global @vanessaglobal.bsky.social 209K LIBRARY: universities,libraries,politicians,scientists,academics, lawyers,economists,linguists,historians,writers,BLUE, ANTIFA!
Me: brown NA,Oregonian,veteran,globetrotter,critical thinker,linguist,teacher,reader,atheist,constructive,ANTI-TRUMPIST
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🌿Aspen Harding | Author✨ @aspenharding.bsky.social 🌿WEEDIE WISDOM🌿
🔆Modern Philosophy | Spiritual Insights📿
I had a break-up.
I had a breakdown.
I had a breakthrough.
Crawling my way back up from rock bottom.
Sharing insights learned along the way.
Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social Award winning poet/writer/artist Chaps: Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs, Moon kissed Earth wrought Vision drunk, RavenSong, Down River with Li Po etc. Art: BirdSong, Women of Babylon, etc. More: linktr.ee/KPGFolkHeart NO MAGA No solicitation
Francesca Astraea @francescaswords.bsky.social 🌙 Want to escape into another world for a while? Let's escape together.
🧿Novels, scripts, authenticity reading.
📍Southend, Bath, the fiction section.
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Reese @puppylove23.bsky.social 🐶 Woof! I'm Reese , a Boston Terrier with a black belt in snuggles. My human, BRETT CULBERT– you know, my actor papa who's on TV and all that? – thinks he's the star, but let's be real, I'm the real leading role here.
Micky Jo Myers @mickyjomyers.bsky.social Folklore PhD interested in personal experience narratives
| Estrangement · First-Gen College Students · Folklore Studies |
Jane French @janefrench.bsky.social Writer of medical and caregiving reports | published widely in email streams | family caregiver | advocate for low-income older adults
Chris Dolan @mcdolan.bsky.social I am angry about the nitrate levels in Iowa’s drinking water. My writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Maudlin House, The Disappointed Housewife, and others. www.dolanchris.com
The Bloomin’ Onion | **SUBMISSIONS ALWAYS OPEN** @bloominonionlit.bsky.social A Literary Magazine with Layers. Est. 2024. Helping new and emerging writers find their way. Posts by the EIC.
Subs: https://www.thebloominonion.com/submission-guidelines
Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social associate professor of English at Hartwick College | criticism: C20-21 lit. & culture | poetry: The Rocking Chair (2015), The Shape of Things (2017), & 2013–2017: Sonnets (2024) | https://bradleyjfest.com
Rab @rabgreen.bsky.social An ill-thought-out mash-up of
rabgreen.co.uk (writing)
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https://justfor.fans/rablondon (videos)
and Doctor Who.
Audrey Howitt @audreyhowitt.bsky.social Poet, voice teacher, recovering attorney, licensed psychotherapist, lover of life
Please no DMs. I will block you. 
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/
Kallie Hunchman @calicoproud.bsky.social She/They. Child of the 20th century.
Mother of four fuzzy meowing children. Passionate about books and their designs. Watercolor artist on the side, I suppose.
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Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social Lover, and writer, of myths, folklore, legends, fables, fairy tales, sci-fi, horror and fantasy.
Scribbling spin-offs of novels I haven't written yet.
Tom Guzzio @tomguzzio.bsky.social Husband, father, teacher, writer, birder, progressive💙 and Vegas kid living north of Boston📍Writing is my personal practice; teaching is my public service. The opinions here are mine alone—no homework required.
Elizabeth Fletcher @esfletcher.bsky.social writer, yoga therapist, Bowie fan | asst cnf editor Pithead Chapel | Best Microfiction nom | Pushcart Prize nom | BOTN nom | wigleaf LL | stage NED | ope
Writing: www.esfletcher.com
Michael Janairo @mjanairo.bsky.social Writer, reader, and I once jammed with The Washington Squares
Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social Writer, nurse. SmokeLong Quarterly, Cincinnati Review+. Senior flash fiction editor @jmww. Sucker for a good barn.
“We'll Be Birds" flash chapbook available at Sand and Gravel Press
lisathorntonwriter.com
Sorren 🐺 @sorrenbriarwood.com he/him | “sorren, stop talking about dragons for one second.” | cofounder at planar prod | host on the hidden bookcase podcast
Rawhead @rawheadjournal.bsky.social Open to submissions of creative nonfiction and visual art. We believe in the power of art and literature as form of resistance.
Now on Submittable:
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Allyson Rice (Producer & Author) @allysonrice.bsky.social Producer, Author/Narrator, Artist, Photographer, Thing Maker, PEZ Collector, Bacon Eater. (Award-winning documentary BANNED TOGETHER & award-winning novel&audiobook THE KEY TO CIRCUS-MOM HIGHWAY). #Resist 💙
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Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social Philly writer. Debut chapbook “Ghost in the Rain: Stories,” Bottlecap Press, 2026.
https://bottlecap.press/products/ghosmj
Stories in Best Microfiction, Identity Theory, DIHP, Claudine, Some Words, Flight, FlashFlood, BULL.
www.mattjakubowski.com
C.W. Reeve @cwreeve.bsky.social Pushcart-nominated author of weird tales & folk horror, co-host of #WyrdWednesday (He/Him) 👻
cwreeve.com
Katherine Pickett, Editor (she/her) @popediting.bsky.social I help writers achieve their dreams of publication. Owner of POP Editorial Services LLC. Award-winning author, #editor, writing coach, workshop leader, avid cyclist, amateur painter. #Resist
blog: www.thePOPnewsletter.com
Editing: www.POPediting.net
@mikefarren.bsky.social @mikefarren.bsky.social 
Julia @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social Poet | Writer | Freelance Art Historian
UK https://juliabiggs1.wixsite.com/juliabiggs
Pamphlet available from Salò Press: https://www.salopress.com/store/nasty-objects-julia-biggs/
The Icarus Writing Collective @icaruswritingcollective.com 🏺 literary magazine retelling myths + classics
🏹 bringing the "then" to our "now"
🖋️ READING SUBS
https://www.icaruswritingcollective.com/submit- C Carsten ten Brink @carstentenbrink.bsky.social Wanderer without a country, writer in search of a phrase, visual artist hunting inspiration, geometer encircling polygons, photograph maker-taker. Uncontrolled dancer and struggling blues harmonica player.
#writer #writingcommunity #fiction #non-fiction
Sapiosexual Guy @sapio-sexual-guy.bsky.social B4 you block me, SapioSexual means attracted to intelligence
Happily married & waiting to retire…love my wife, love my cats, 🐈⬛ my Kids and Grandkids… escaped from the bird site as it was so toxic, really liking life here though! 🚫dms please 🙏🏼 NO PORN 🚫
Perfect God = Lexa Gates @mx-j.bsky.social https://shop.capitolmusic.com/collections/lexa-gates
Lee Chottiner @leechott.bsky.social Award-winning journalist, published poet, under-radar kind of guy. It’s the under-radar types who will save the world.
Joe Couture @rjcouture.bsky.social I'm here for publications and political memes.
Feminecronomicon 🏳️⚧️ @imaginesirikeeton.bsky.social Sasha (she/they) 31, lesbianochka, Jewish anti-Zionist, probably marked as a rude account 🧜♀️ 🏳️⚧️
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“Serving cunt has its consequences”- Lestat De Lioncourt
writing a weird fiction trilogy
Get Launched @getlaunched.bsky.social Make yourself the 'Go To' person in any industry and earn a side income from running small networking events.
Earn through entrance fees, membership fees, sponsorships & deals. GetLaunched.org
Kashawn Taylor @kashawntaylor.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Student.
Prison Journalism Project.
Gotham Writers Workshop.
book: subhuman. out now.
Ian MacClayn @ianmacclayn.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/ianmacclayn
Writer. Debut novel THE HOLLOW OF EVENING out Feb 9 2027 with Dundurn Press/Rare Machines
Santa Fe Literary Review @santafereview.bsky.social An annual journal of arts + letters produced by faculty + students at Santa Fe Community College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Submit writing + art free at https://santafecommunitycollege.submittable.com/submit
Karina Lutz @karinalutz.bsky.social Eco-Poet, novelist, editor, etc. Author: Preliminary Visions and Post-Catholic Midrashim. Peacenik, permie, retired enviro activist. karinalutz.wordpress.com. Ex @theRealWOTUS
Stephen Komarnyckyj @komarnyckyj.bsky.social PEN award winning poet and translator at Kalyna Language Press, who is trying to save every abandoned dog on earth and return lost Ukrainian authors to the world. #FBPE #Ukraine #Poetry
June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social Writing Place Writing Planet, UCD / iCRAG 2026 | Lamplight Fellowship 2025 | Literature Bursary Award 2025 | Moth Short Story Prize 2024 | 'Somebody' expo MoLi 2020-2021 | Room Little Darker 2018/17 | https://www.airbnb.ie/h/pinkhousedublin
justin nicholes @justinnicholes.bsky.social KILL SUIT, crime-thriller novella, forthcoming (New Pulp Press). Stories in Argyle Literary, Cleaver, Flash Boulevard, *82 Review, Dread Literary, + more. He, him, his. 📖 my work ⤵
🔗 https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/justinnicholes
Elliott Coates @elliottcoates.bsky.social Writer, photographer, musician, hockey coach, traveler, chronic pain; fan of birds, esoterica, Dada, beekeeping, Toronto sports. Canadian expat in VA. 2021 SAIC Writing Fellow. First poetry collection, “Day 3 of a 5 Day Headache” (2nd ed.) sold out.
Fiftywords @fiftywords.bsky.social Thinks too much and tries to make sense of the world’s chaos, beauty, and commas; mostly through poetry.
Azalea Dunn/A.Z. Dunsworth 🇯🇲 🇳🇬 🍉 @azaleadunn.bsky.social Island girl 🌺
African princess 👑
Queer & proud 🏳️🌈
Writer of interracial/multicultural romance (as Azalea) & sci fi/fantasy (as A.Z.) http://books2read.com/u/38MPwV
Currently based in Jamaica.