Benjamin Judge
Writer. Reader.
I have decided to draw every species of bird even though I'm not very good at drawing birds. Why not, eh? Birds are cool.
benjaminjudge.com
@crankedanvil.bsky.social
Writing Prizes | Critique/Feedback Service | Indie Press | New Writing | Est. 2012. | https://crankedanvil.co.uk/ | EIC: Paul Dunn https://bsky.app/profile/pauldunnwriter.bsky.social
@mcrlitfest.bsky.social
Save the dates for our 20th Festival! #MLF25 runs 10-26 October 2025. www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk
@oldhamjaz.bsky.social
Phone photography 🤳 Music & Gigs 🎶 Writing & Reading 📚 The arts in general💚Being creative
@ardeear.bsky.social
Writer (playwright/screenwriter), producer, actor/director, reader of things & viewer of stuff, LGBT+ charity co-chair: he/him, dog-dad 🐕🦺 Contact card: https://gravatar.com/ardeear
@rowanthewriter.bsky.social
Writer + Book Reviewer lutruwita / Tasmania https://linktr.ee/rowmac
@bristolshortstory.bsky.social
Annual short story prize housed at the University of Bristol and coordinated by Dr Carrie Etter (carrieetter.bsky.social). https://bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk Open for entries until 31 January 2025 with judges Jan Carson, Peace Adzo Medie, and Kate Johnson
@sarahclareconlon.bsky.social
Less able to stand ✍️ Writer | Literature Editor Creative Tourist | 📚 Poetry Book Society Selections | cache-cache (Contraband) | Marine Drive (Broken Sleep) | Using Language (Invisible Hand) | Lune (Red Ceilings) | 🐦⬛ Wanderland (Red Ceilings) available now
@elizabethbaines.bsky.social
Writer of short stories, novels, plays. http://www.elizabethbaines.co.uk Astral Travel, a novel, published by Salt Books https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/astral-travel-9781784632199
@ransomedhearts.bsky.social
She / Her / Were Dark fantasy / horror / sf / urban romance Author of the Ransomed Hearts series. https://amzn.to/3CsaF0s Born at 319 ppm Lancashire, England www.bloginbasket.com
@shelleyr-j.bsky.social
Writer of short fiction and dramatic monologue, connoisseur of cake, coveter of cats, lecturer of creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University. https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/shelley-roche-jacques
@edgehillprize.bsky.social
The official account of the Edge Hill Prize. £10,000 for the best published, single-authored short story collection from the UK & Ireland. Facilitated by FiN, Edge Hill University's narrative research group. Convener @saraheschofield.bsky.social
@kierenking.bsky.social
Award winning performance poet and creative producer based in Manchester. Confident onstage, quite shy off it.
@markcorrinmusic.bsky.social
Manchester based producer, musician and DJ recently featured on BBC6 Music Freak Zone and more! #markcorrin #electronica #ambient #musicsky #manchester #microtonal https://open.spotify.com/artist/7CDg1594UOvJgxZnE1XlM9?si=sXfX0GUhTVynMdqv6DPrOQ
@clairedean.bsky.social
Writer & maker of zines & artist books. Day job as a conservator, mostly to be found repairing old manuscripts, maps & plans in an archive. Lancashire, UK
@drjamesbailey.bsky.social
Writer who lives in Manchester. Rep’d by Creative Artists Agency. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, is out in April 2026 🐈⬛ Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
@haileypiperfights.bsky.social
Make horror gay AF, Stoker Award winner Aug 12: A GAME IN YELLOW Sept 16: TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS she/her; rep: Lane Heymont haileypiper.com
@sofiaajram.bsky.social
Queer horror writer 🏳️⚧️ all pronouns Jewelry designer & metalsmith sofiazakia.com Editor of Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror Coup de Grâce 🚇 (Titan Books) out now! https://linktr.ee/sofiaajram
@jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social
Writer • Disability Advocate • Blood Type: Marmite Recent: World Lit Today, Maryland Lit Review, Maudlin House. Soon: Grub Street, FOLIO Lit, Mikrokosmos #epilepsy #disability #noAI jmthornberry.wordpress.com pw.org/directory/writers/jason_m_thornberry
@carpelibrum.bsky.social
Baltimore-based indie bookstore. Fan of small/indie publishers. Currently online until we get a new space for the bookstore. Generally doesn't DM people. https://carpelibrumbaltimore.com/
@bnadeauwriter.bsky.social
Writer. Always plotting something. Published in mags you’ve never heard of. Executive Editor: @MGLiterary.bsky.social moonlitgetaway.com/brandon-nadeau
@johnnycordova.bsky.social
Poet and co-editor of @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social Poems in Atlanta Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Louisiana Literature, New York Quarterly, Salt Hill Journal, and elsewhere. Johnnycordova.com
@lmichelcassidy.bsky.social
Writer, poet, artist, houseboat-dweller, open-water swimmer. Collection, When We Were Hardcore, 2025 from Eastover Press. Senior reviews editor at Tupelo Quarterly. More at lmichelcassidy.com
@saramoorewagner.bsky.social
Poet: Books: Lady Wing Shot (Blue Lynx Prize, 2024), Swan Wife (Cider Press Review Editors Prize, 2022), Hillbilly Madonna (Driftwood Press, 2022) Loved working with Driftwood so much, I became Managing Poetry Editor in 2023 www.saramoorewagner.com
@hannaswork.bsky.social
Editor in Chief, The Belfast Review | Editor, Yellow House Publishing | Writer Artist Filmmaker in Belfast | Freelance Editing & Proofreading | Linktr.ee/hannaswork
@christafairbrother.bsky.social
Gulfport, FL poet laureate ☀️ (she/her) chronic illness warrior writing embodied poems 💪 Author of Water Yoga (Singing Dragon 2022) I love to connect with poets & poetry lovers Lover of tea and avocados 🥑 christafairbrotherwrites.com
@caseymulliganwalsh.bsky.social
THE FULL CATASTROPHE memoir, Motina Feb 25 | In a Flash founding editor | ✍️@nytimes @HuffPost @nextavenue @splitlipthemag etc. | @familyheartfdn amb/board ♥️ | Grief & joy walk hand in hand 🤝
@julieannablackwell.bsky.social
Stories in Stonecoast Review, MoonPark Review, Lunch Ticket Flash Fiction Editor 805lit WordSmitten Workshop Director Elements & Arcs Classes Instructor More Stuff at www.julieannablackwell.com
@addisonzeller.bsky.social
writer / edits fiction for @thedodgemag.bsky.social & bruises for @bruisermag.com https://linktr.ee/addisonzeller
@eleanorball.bsky.social
library professional by day, writer by night | poetry, essays, & spec fic @ eleanorball.carrd.co
@barbarabyar.bsky.social
Writer Debut Novel: IN THE DESERT coming Spring 26 from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social Collection: Some Days are Better than Ours (Reflex Fiction) Fiction Editor: Variant Lit https://barbarabyar.wordpress.com Kerry via San Francisco
@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
@katiemanningpoet.bsky.social
Poet, parent, professor. Editor-in-Chief of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social https://www.katiemanningpoet.com/
@saraschaff.bsky.social
2025 NYSCA Support for Artists Grant Recipient; 2024 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction; Author of THE INVENTION OF LOVE and SAY SOMETHING NICE ABOUT ME; Professor of Creative Writing; Editor of Saranac Review https://www.saraschaff.com
@christopherallen.bsky.social
Publisher and EIC of SmokeLong Quarterly. 2023 Flash Fiction Judge Bridport Prize. #BestSmallFictions #FlashFictionAmerica. Nomad. Very much a back-office guy. He/him
@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social
Writer, tea drinker & Uni Lecturer | Latest Short Stories, Flash Fiction & Poetry - Bridport, Bath, Oxford Flash, Strix, Fictive Dream | Novels - William Morrow & Harper Collins | Editor @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social https://www.katehorsley.co.uk
@thebeliever.net
A quarterly literature, arts, and culture magazine. https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the-believer-subscription-bm4 thebeliever.net
@petermcallister.bsky.social
Flash and short story writer. Reviewer and editor/co-founder at @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social. Best small fictions nominee. Creative writing lecturer. Literary Festival committee member.
@luckyjefferson.com
we're the sugar to publishing's kool-aid; publishing emerging writers & artists everywhere. OPEN FOR SUBS 👉🏽 luckyjefferson.com
@flowlitmag.bsky.social
A new literary magazine for the love of drink. ☕️ ISSUE 1 COMING JUNE 1 ☕️ subs always open ☕️ flowlitmag.com/submit EIC ashjenn6.bsky.social
@tamarindlit.co.uk
A #litmag for #writing on science and art. London-based but shipped globally. We look at fiction, poetry and narrative non-fiction as tools for interrogating science and its relationship to society. Find our past issues at tamarindlit.co.uk - we pay!
@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
@thehooghlyreview.bsky.social
Editors: @tejaswineerc.bsky.social & @ankitrajojha.bsky.social • Murals Editor: @fbereaud.bsky.social • Contributors from 56 countries • https://linktr.ee/thehooghlyreview
@identitytheory.bsky.social
Classic online lit mag (founded 2000). Interviews, fiction, CNF, micro, poetry, etc. We may or may not be edited by a corgi. Read us at identitytheory.com.
@flashfrog.bsky.social
Small. Brightly colored. Deadly to the touch. ⚡️🐸 New story every Monday. EIC: @ericscottryon.bsky.social https://flash-frog.com/