Barbara Lock
Writer, Editor, Teacher, and Physician. I write spec-y lit fic, edit at Variant Lit, and practice/teach at CU P&S. There's more about me at barbaralock.com.
@notatawp.bsky.social
NAWP is for writers who, for whatever reason, can't go to AWP. AWP attendees are welcome too, of course. NAWP is for everyone. NAWP loves you. Co-founded by @readinstead.bsky.social & @mitchnobis.bsky.social.
@mixedmetaphors.bsky.social
reader, writer, vegan, techie, shiba inu, mixer of metaphors. He/him. I'm a sucker for a line in a book that functions both as a well-crafted, character-defining piece of poetry and also as meta-textual code for how the overall story works.
@cold-signal.com
https://cold-signal.com Issue Three: Underworld, out now! ///a weird genre & indie lit online anthology series exploring the existential questions of today & tomorrow/// EIC: @johnchrostek.com
@sarahgwrites75.bsky.social
Welsh teacher, artist and writer of YA, A Fantasy, usually with a twist of romance and quite likely a dragon or animal buddy. Currently querying an adult second chance gothic romantasy with a visually impaired MC . Chronically ill and tired Mum of 4
@sarahromeguerra.bsky.social
writing/theater arts~LMT~grieving husband’s recent passing (complications derived from 30 yrs of living w/ Parkinson’s)~mother of a beautiful being w/ immune deficiency + AuDHD~in Lima, Perú~time to return to the States, but…??~bilingüe~ www.sarahrome.com
@crobertswriter.bsky.social
Writer. Words: Flash Frog, Trampset, HAD, Ghost Parachute, Bending Genres, Maudlin House, Gone Lawn, Tiny Molecules etc. Flash Ed: Variant Lit
@pleomorphic2.bsky.social
Flash fiction/cnf only. Best Microfic 2024. Trauma writing workshops. Yeah Nah Reading Series. Will probably rearrange your dishwasher. 🇦🇺🇲🇾🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ sumitrasingam.squarespace.com CHAPBOOK Are You Willing w Amy Marques: https://bottlecap.press/products/willing
@vicnogaywrites.bsky.social
reader, writer, specter micro editor @identitytheory.bsky.social prose reader @thedodgemag.bsky.social Naming a Dying Thing (Yellow Arrow, Oct 2025) under fire, under water (tiny wren, 2022) ohio forever she/her vicnogay.com
@claraelenadice.bsky.social
Paraguayan Poet & Published Author 🇵🇾 SEVEN LEGENDARY MONSTERS 2025 • JUEGO DE PALABRAS 2023 • Rep: @atifabooks.bsky.social at Crescent Literary 🌙 www.claraelenawrites.com
@erinmizrahi.bsky.social
poet | educator | eic of Cobra Milk | adjunct prof debut chapbook forthcoming from Faint Line Press If we break, where we break, how we break https://ghostcitypress.com/2023-summer-series/if-we-break-where-we-break-how-we-break
@bamars.bsky.social
Poet, assistant editor at Gyroscope Review, photographer, animal lover, struggling optimist. Better description coming eventually.
@rinapalumbo.bsky.social
Ph.D. (JHU - history); Italian-Canadian expat. Writer, Editor, avid reader. Writing in Hopkins Review, Identity Theory, Ghost Parachute, et al. https://rinapalumbowriter.com/ EIC Third Street Review https://third-street-review.org/
@maxiejanef.bsky.social
Writer, flash fiction, educator, editor, reader. Gourmet meal provider to geriatric beloved animals. Work in Switch, Cleaver Magazine, Booth, Bath Flash Fiction, SoFloPoJo, Collateral Journal. Mighty Mule Editing.
@kiptain.bsky.social
Poet, writer, photographer. MFA U. of Alaska Fairbanks. Author of FAMILY HAUNTS (Louisiana Literature Press). Wigleaf Top 50 2024. Best Microfiction 2024.
@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://emilyrinkema.wixsite.com/my-site
@lowermelody.bsky.social
submerging poet, dad, editor ~ place, bodies, belonging, the end of the world ~ edits for @LibreLit.bsky.social @DivinationsMag.bsky.social reads for @VariantLit.bsky.social @CosmicDaffodil.bsky.social ~ he/him ~ 🪐💀🏳️🌈🍃 https://www.dwbakerpoetry.com
@variantlit.bsky.social
Variant Literature is a small press and magazine. http://variantlit.com/ Next issue coming Summer 2025 ✨️
@erica-abbott.bsky.social
Writer | Poet | Randolph MFA student | poetry editor for Variant Lit, Revolute ✨Author of SELF-PORTRAIT AS A SINKING SHIP✨
@simonepdx.bsky.social
Writer of weird fantasy and horror, games, and grocery lists; lover of life and the world we live it in; owned by the fur- fin- and leaf-creatures. Appreciator of the Pacific Northwest. stories in The Cozy Cosmic, Even Cozier Cosmic, and Art Born Words
@jenippensen.bsky.social
reader, writer, editor, librarian basically, all the word things oscillating between hope and despair, new here (she/her)
@froid.bsky.social
Writer, reader, desert-dweller, and minor demon. Chapbook: MY HOME IS NOT THERE (Bottlecap Press). Stories in Nightmare, Lightspeed, Post Road, Black Warrior Review, elsewhere. 😈🏳️🌈 danielfroid.com
@dominicpileggi.bsky.social
Unlicensed writer and father; licensed plumber and pharmacist. Here to be a good citizen in the world of writing and reading! Leave Twitter. #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity
@opentank.bsky.social
Writer. Seeker. Swimmer. Bard. I make maps and tell stories. Words in Post Road, Grist Journal, PRISM International, and elsewhere. https://robertwalikis.com
@thebrandonhaff.bsky.social
Writer, prof, etc. | Stories: Sewanee Review, Harvard Review, New Orleans Review, Carolina Quarterly, etc. | VCCA '23, '24; KHN '24; Hambidge '25 | #RVA | @Richmonder.bsky.social | Reader @Variantlit.bsky.social https://thebrandonhaff.com/
@djhuppatz.bsky.social
Writer. Reader. Follower. He/him. Literature, design, music, architecture, art, history, philosophy, and politics, in any combination or order.
@dmartincampbell.bsky.social
The only people who have been successfully cancelled are Isabel Fall and anyone fired or arrested for supporting Palestine. Writing links: https://linktr.ee/derrickmartincampbell
@theprideroars.bsky.social
A collective of women's voices -2025 social media posts by @delgeo14.bsky.social and @mlmcguinness.bsky.social https://theprideroars.blogspot.com
@kjy1066.bsky.social
Putting the hater in creator. Stories in Strange Horizons, BCS, khōreo, more. Host of Podside Picnic. He/Him
@johnnyjohnny77.bsky.social
Democrat Vermin, Mental Healthcare, Socialist, Guitarist, Punk. Member of The Manson Family Orchestra noise band. Proud Ubuntu user. Web: https://www.reverbnation.com/Sel_Lore_MFO
@elizabluth.bsky.social
writer & higher ed professional 📍Los Angeles | dog & cat mom | MFA @ The New School; MEd @ USC Rossier
@alice-stirling.bsky.social
Hysterical magic realist & thinly veiled urban fantasy writer. Bisexual. Pittsburgh. Submissions reader for Fusion Fragment. Works forthcoming from UP Magazine, Menhara Post-2020, and Thirteen Podcast. Substack: https://alicestirling.substack.com/
@nershwood.bsky.social
our father, who art in heaven, baja be thy blast // words in HAD, Uncharted, Bewildering Stories, etc. // editor at @stringphone.bsky.social // https://linktr.ee/noahisherwood
@dmdealwis.bsky.social
Author 🇨🇦🇱🇰🍀 In this life or the next... blending mythology with fantasy. I also write Children's books.🦁👹 https://dmdealwis.com/quick-links/ 2nd-generation Canadian; open-source circles know me as dcor.
@manchesterreview.bsky.social
The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing. https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
@beachsloth.bsky.social
Support Each Other Music Blogger Writer Poet https://beachsloth.substack.com/
@rachel-kowalsky.bsky.social
Writer, essayist, and pediatric ER doctor. Passionate about children’s health and the power of language. Opinions my own. Read my work at rachelkowalskymd.com.
@shaunaexplores.bsky.social
rep @mira-landry.bsky.social words in @gonelawn.bsky.social @variantlit.bsky.social @chestnutreview.bsky.social @theforge.bsky.social @vestalreview.bsky.social +more shaunafriesen.mystrikingly.com/ reader @fracturedlit.bsky.social
@vitainprosa.bsky.social
#Poetry #PoesiaItaliana https://www.amazon.com/author/stefanoporrino
@colourofpoetry.bsky.social
Author of The Places We Empty (Kelsay Books), The Jolt and Breath Ablaze: Twenty-One Love Poems in Homage to Adrienne Rich, Volumes I and II (Bottlecap Press), Rooming with Elephants (Kelsay Books, 2025) 🏳️🌈💜https://www.julieweisspoet.com
@jesselkercheval.bsky.social
Poet, writer, translator (UY poetry), comics. Pitt Poetry Series, Fieldmouse Press, etc. Editor, Wisconsin Poetry Series, UW Press. Emerita CW Prof, UW-Madison, Rep Gail Hochman. Graphic memoir FRENCH GIRL, WaPo 10 Best Graphic Novel 2024
@nadiaborn.com
✍️ Fiction writer | 📝 in LitMag, New Letters, New Orleans Review & more | ❤️🔥 #flashfiction #fairytales #speculative | 🔗 www.nadiaborn.com
@funfunfunicular.bsky.social
Short fiction • Flash • Poetry // Editor: @bellyofawhale.bsky.social // SUBSCRIBE: https://www.funicularmagazine.com/shop/funicular-infinite //SUBMIT: https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/funicular-magazine-ne9F2
@carcionejay.bsky.social
Fiction: The London Magazine, The Forge, Lunate, Epoque Press, elsewhere Best of the Net 2024 finalist Deputy Production Editor: Irish Examiner Cork via New York
@abigailoswald.bsky.social
writing about art, fame, and connection | marketing director at Split/Lip Press | monthly newsletter on pop culture rabbit holes: http://abigailoswald.substack.com
@mytwords.bsky.social
Poet (BULLETPROOF - Jacar Press in 2019 and LITTLE JOY - Cornerstone Press in 2026), retired school librarian, and Midwest transplant from Florida long, long ago. he/him/his More at https://www.matthewmurrey.net/ #poetsonbluesky