Vesica Press @vesicapress.bsky.social Independent press publishing poetry, hybrid writing and creative-critical work at the collision of disciplines. The third thing. Journal: Hypnagogic Peacock. Based in the North of England.
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Rashmi Agrawal (she/her) || Thriller Writer @thrivingwordss.bsky.social Writer || Beta Reader || Reader
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Scott Weaver @scottweaver.bsky.social Dad, teacher, reader, driver, writer, Hoosier, GERD enthusiast, nostalgic, kitchen cleaner, dilettante. In the order. No. Wait. Let me try again …
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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.
Prose editor for Pictura Journal. Contemporary Anglophone Lit PhD.
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Jenny Raphael @jennyraphael.bsky.social Word person. Hustling for the first novel, writing my second. Professional Balabusta. Amateur ballerina. You could say I’m a balletbusta.
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Northern Horror Hub @northerhorrorhub.bsky.social Northern Horror Hub gathers writers, readers and thinkers drawn to the darkness. Explore all aspects of horror via our writing courses, retreats, conferences and events both online and in person. Watch this space for submissions to our upcoming zine.
M. Rob @oedipalschmedipal.bsky.social In the sober light of day it's a little too bright out |
Will be mean to people you hate for food | Writer | Ball Knower
Ale @aleebrija.bsky.social Writer and editor. Biological parent of a cat. The other two were adopted. Talk to me about horror.
Iain Aire @iainaire.bsky.social Word alchemist, the quest for the unobtainable. EcoFiction, Fantasy, SciFi, Crime & Book Binder. The borderland of worlds. www.iainaire.com The Grey Pilgrim’s Gambit https://thegreypilgrimsgambit.laterpress.com Seeds anthology https://seeds.laterpress.com
Jenna Martin-Trinka @jennamartintrinka.bsky.social Writer, flash fiction and CNF
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Christine H. @csquareh.bsky.social Lover of Science, Art, Words | Best Microfiction | Best Small Fictions | Wigleaf Top 50 2023| Stories: CRAFT, SmokeLong Quarterly, Fractured Lit, Atticus Review, Vestal Review, Ghost Parachute,Time & Space Magazine +
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James Penha @jamespenha.bsky.social Poet. Editor of @NewVerseNews.bsky.social at http://newversenews.blogspot.com and https://thenewversenews.substack.com . Expat New Yorker living in Bali. he/him 🌈 💙 Story collection—Queer As Folk Tales—out now https://a.co/d/9GkGz81. https://jamespenha.com
Larry O. Dean @larryodean.bsky.social Flint-born, former San Franciscan, Chicago-based poet, educator, singer-songwriter, and kitchen sink sardonicist
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Frances Orrok @francesorrok.bsky.social Writer. Drawn to the wild ones.
https://www.francesorrok.co.uk
Pithead Chapel | Wigleaf | Smokelong Quarterly | Gone Lawn | New Ohio Review
dread pirate roberts @dreadpiraterobbers.bsky.social Canadian Socialist in Alberta
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Richard Pounder @richardpounder.bsky.social https://richardpoundercom.wordpress.com/about/
Philly-based writer.
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.
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Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social 
Keith Woodruff @keithwoodruff.bsky.social Everything would be great if The Smiths would just get back together.
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Robin Zlotnick @robinzlotnick.bsky.social writer, worrier
Pubs: Gone Lawn, X-R-A-Y, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Rejection Letters, Identity Theory, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Belladonna, etc.
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Stacey C. Johnson @stacecjohnson.bsky.social I listen and make notes. 
JJ @jjhunter.bsky.social Proud Cal and La Salle alum.
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.
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Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social Award-winning storyteller, writer, workshop facilitator. Taught 150+ workshops including Second City, Smokelong Quarterly, Clarion West. Stories published in Barrelhouse, Baltimore Review, Apex, Fractured Lit etc. www.tyrtle.com
Nate @nateduty.bsky.social Old white guy. Retired Calif Deputy Sheriff, vet, Fort Bliss, TX, 1962-1965, Spec 5. HQ Combat Support Group. Don't care for liars, thieves, or bigots like Trump. Car nut, old drag racer. 🚫 No hot ladies (too old). Christians OK 🚫 Phony Christians 🚫 Chats
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University of Alberta Press @ualbertapress.bsky.social University of Alberta Press is a contemporary, award-winning publisher of scholarly and creative books distinguished by their editorial care, exceptional design, and global reach. https://ualbertapress.ca/
justin nicholes @justinnicholes.bsky.social Fiction writer. Never declined Budweiser past midnight in Dresden. Stories in Argyle Literary, Cleaver, Flash Boulevard, *82 Review, Dread Literary, + more. He, him, his. 📖⤵︎
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Elowyn Merriweather @elowynmerriweather.com Writer
On an adventure to take a childhood hobby into something more.
Humor • a little darkness • a dash of sass
📖 my work ⤵
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Ian Johnson @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social Trying (trying, very trying) writer/Dad/runner. Words in @trashcatlit.bsky.social @apricotpress.bsky.social @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social @freeflashfiction.bsky.social etc. 2026 Best of the Net nominee.
Cuyler @cuylermeade.bsky.social Husband and father of six (kids, not wives...one wife). Fiction in Elegant Literature, TL;DR, Intrepidus Ink, Trampset, Eggplant Emoji, Trash Cat Lit, Bullet Points, Rat Bag Lit, Temple in a City. Best Small Fictions nominee. A 🦔 of Quill Hollow.
ebru tutkal @ebrututkal.bsky.social 
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- H hughblanton.bsky.social @hughblanton.bsky.social
Ali Morretta @alimorrettawrites.bsky.social Freelance editor and copywriter. Words in Citywide Lunch, Pacifica Lit, Flash Frog, and The Citron Review. Dogs love me.
Mike Somes @illiterature13.bsky.social Just another dude yelling in Lowertown
Serhat Tutkal @serhattutkal.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher (political violence, dehumanization, racism, digital platforms) - Secihti, Mexico
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Main social media account: https://fediscience.org/@SerhatTutkal
Billy Head @wbthead.bsky.social Poet
Michael Janairo @mjanairo.bsky.social Writer, reader, and I once jammed with The Washington Squares
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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.
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The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social We're an international literary magazine in Madrid. We connect English and Spanish speaking literary cultures through fiction, poetry, essays and interviews.
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Caroline Shea @therealcshea.bsky.social She/her. Freelance writer and editor living in New York. Author of Lambflesh (Kelsay Books, 2019). Open to editorial clients now: https://caroline-fitzgerald-shea.squarespace.com/editorial-consultations
Tom Marcinko @tommarcinko.bsky.social He/him. Stories in Beneath Ceaseless Skies (forthcoming), Nature/Futures, Interzone, Rosebud, Triangulation, and elsewhere. tommarcinko.neocities.org/
LycopeneDream @bonnievivante.bsky.social Reading and sharing art, literature and poetry. Also here for the cute 🐶 🐱 and memes. Sometimes I scribble.
Betty Stanton @fadingbetty.bsky.social EdD, MFA, poet, author, speech & debate coach, director, teacher, editor, rpg nerd, game designer, bad at social media, located in Oklahoma
Stephanie Frazee @stephieosaurus.bsky.social Writes things, waters plants. 🦖🦕 Words in Centaur, Sundress Pubs, Midwest Weird, Variant Lit, Pithead Chapel, Marrow Mag, Stone Circle, Door Is A Jar, The Evergreen Review, Roi Faineant, Bayou Mag, ONE ART, Juked, etc. Asst Ed American Short Fiction.
Kent Kosack @kentkosack.bsky.social Stories | Essays | Reviews
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Nora Maynard @noramaynard.bsky.social Writer & editor in NYC. Fiction in Variant Lit., hex, Moon City Review, MoonPark Review, Gone Lawn, HAD, Pangyrus. Soon in Citron Review. Runner, movie lover, beginner violinist. Co-ed. -ette @ettereview.bsky.social
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Perfect God = Lexa Gates @mx-j.bsky.social https://shop.capitolmusic.com/collections/lexa-gates
Rei Magosaki @rmagosaki.bsky.social 孫崎玲 Associate Prof of English, Chapman U. |
Orange, CA | reimagosaki.info | 2026-2027 Society for the Humanities at Cornell U.
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-ette review @ettereview.bsky.social Let's get small. -ette loves fiction and prose poetry under 1000 words.
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Best Small Fictions
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gökalp @arrakistepiknik.bsky.social 
Lillie E. Franks @lilliekoi.bsky.social @onyxaminedlife on Twitter. Chicago trans woman/entity/entities. She/her or they/them. A short story writer and all around pretentious person. Weird jokes, political rants, some positivity. Friendly!
David Everard @deverard.bsky.social
@dog-e-doo-doo.bsky.social
Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social Writer. Pie enthusiast. Historically preserved beard site. Cheese poet. Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, Cinnamon Challenge: honorable mention. 
r. p. singletary @rpsingletary.bsky.social W(e)ide(r)ly published in so-called underground publications, proudly.
Wendy BooydeGraaff @onlybooyskies.bsky.social Reader, writer, sporadic gardener, fair-weather biker, Can/Am, SALAD PIE pb author, THE HAUNTED STATES OF AMERICA contributor, fiction & poems in various literary mags
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Mary Taugher @mtaugher.bsky.social Writer. Book lover. San Francisco.
BlueDotBubba@LesDepew.bsky.social @bluedotbubba.bsky.social 🔵 BLUEDOT in deep red Louisiana
Old enough to know better than the bullshit they’re pushing. We have fought the fight against fascism multiple times, I’m hoping it won’t take a war this time 😎✌️
Elder Michael @mldunigan.bsky.social Retired minister. Liberal, queer affirming, Ordained Elder in the COGIC.
Rose @nebraskaredrose.bsky.social A nurse who finally retired after 46 years DNP, RN. Long Covid changed my life. Mask up. Completed LC PT/OT and it helped a little. Now planning to experiment with an auricular vagus nerve stimulator. Hope it takes me further along in my recovery!
John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com Co-owner @eveninghouse.bsky.social
Books:
FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN
BOXCUTTERS
EIC @cold-signal.com
Buffalo, NY
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
Kashawn Taylor @kashawntaylor.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Student.
Prison Journalism Project.
Gotham Writers Workshop.
book: subhuman. out now.
LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social Writer's writer's writer.
📚 STILL ALIVE (2024), longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award. https://eveninghousebooks.com/product/still-alive/
Ùna M B @unaofthepeatbog.bsky.social Racking up the diagnoses 👑💊
writer | shetland isles
researching intersections of magic, Madness & the occult |
📚 Muses No More: Portraits of Occult Women (Hexen Press) 📚
she/they
unamariablyth.com
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Dan Milo @danielemilo.bsky.social 🫧 🍉
Ecologies, urbanisms, systems virtual & concrete
berlin based queer
中文也可以
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Susan Schirl Smith @sschirlsmith.bsky.social Writer. Photographer. Holistic nurse. I'll be In the woods or by the sea. Words: Reckon Review, Kind Over Matter, Cognoscenti, Pangyrus. Photos: Barren Magazine
Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social Writer, cat lady, wrote a novel about medieval mystics, forthcoming novel about John Ruskin. Aspiring anchoress. https://victoriamackenzie.net/
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Beegshotdeentcha @amityvandal.bsky.social Paint happy bastard. Caught. Hung up by my buster browns.