Bill Merklee
Writer of very short things.
In Best Microfiction 2021. Nom Best Small Fictions 2022 & 2024. Short-listed for Bath Novella-in-Flash Award & Fractured Lit Chapbook Prize. Wigleaf Top 50 long list. But enough about me. How are you?
http://billmerklee.com
@thecausecoach.bsky.social
Proud liberal. RRCA running coach. Fundraiser. Team Leader, Mercy Home Heroes. Staying fit; creating a better world through running. Find me, blog & poscast: linktr.ee/thecausecoach
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@streetweeter.bsky.social
Author of The Mall Men (release June 2025) and Children’s Author of the Paper Dog Bob series, The Periodicals & Tales from the Toy Store. tinyurl.com/3x2hwdzf
@judehwriter2.bsky.social
Founder Bath Flash Award, directs AdHocFiction + Flash Fiction Festival Flash collection Clearly Defined Clouds out now s/l Bridport x 4, s/l SmokeLong Mikey x2, Best Microfictions x2 Pushcart nominated
@francesgapper.bsky.social
Queer, shy and anxious. Old, pigeon-chested, takes frequent naps and rarely goes far. Writes tiny things. 2024: Atlas and Alice, Splonk, Gooseberry Pie, Switch, SoFloPoJo, Best Microfiction, Southword, Literary Namjooning, Neither Fish Nor Foul, Trash Cat
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Literary arts organization based in Western MA (and virtually), founded by writer @joybaglio.bsky.social! We host writing workshops, craft classes, readings, & events with authors of all genres! www.PioneerValleyWriters.org
@eileentomarchio.bsky.social
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@sarpsozdinler.bsky.social
Writer, Designer • Words: Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Masters Review, Fractured, Los Angeles Review, HAD, Hobart, X-R-A-Y, Maudlin House • Rep'd by Mina Hamedi / Janklow & Nesbit sarpsozdinler.com
@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
@blacklawrence.bsky.social
New York-based publisher of contemporary poetry and prose. Founded in 2004, CLMP member. Home to annual contests, open reading periods, and the Immigrant Writing Series. We offer manuscript consultations, free monthly writing workshops, and more.
@toddclaystuart.bsky.social
Poet • Writer • Excitable Boy • Words in well-lighted places • Noms Pushcart BOTN Best Small Fictions Best Microfiction Wigleaf 50 More words @ toddclaystuart.com
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Author of I Wouldn't Say That, Exactly, Lucky Animals, de/tonations, Pink X-Ray, No. Wait. I Can Explain. WordinEdgewise, and Momentary Turbulence. https://bradrosepoetry.com/
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Writer, poet, editor, musician. Ghost Signs (Bluemoose 2022) Keshed (Ortac, Feb 2026) Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, pub. tbc) #MDANT https://stuhennigan.substack.com/ https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/author/4207/stu-hennigan
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Award-winning storyteller, writer, and workshop wizard. Moth GrandSLAM champ. NPR/CBC/PBS contributor. Taught 150+ workshops for Second City, Clarion West, and Afghan Women’s Assoc. Work in Apex Mag, The Offing. Helps writers dig up stories that stick.
@rivalimage.bsky.social
We perform caricatures written by our rivals at patreon.com/rivalimage - humour, music, lit.
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Honorary Ziegfeld Girl Honorary IATSE Local 1 Jersey girl banner 📸Christopher Calkins
@jankaneen1.bsky.social
Award-winning writer, blogs here https://jankaneen.com/ '24 SL Rubery Award & First Pages Prize. 8/25 Short story collection, Hostile Environments pre order: https://www.northodox.co.uk/product-page/hostile-environments-paperback-pre-order
@lmart-i.bsky.social
🇦🇺 journalist in Copenhagen 🇩🇰via 🇹🇭 Fiction writer represented by Naher Agency. Also answers to Aunty Isa. Jeg lærer dansk og vil gerne kunne tale flydende som 👑Mary.
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He/Him. Quaker. BSF '21, Hopkins R, So Flo Po Jo, Fourth River, Heavy Feather R, Bending Genres, Identity Theory, Ilanot R, Sugar House R, Psaltery & Lyre, Kissing Dynamite, YIV, NDQ, Atlanta R, elsewhere. Poetry reader at West Trade Review.
@postcardlit.bsky.social
A biannual magazine featuring 10 poems by 10 poets printed on 10 postcards with original art for each poem. Think of us as broadside-minis. EIC: @mrwojorising.bsky.social www.postcardlit.com
@kateog.bsky.social
Best Small Fictions selection 2025, New Writers Flash Fiction Shortlist 2025, 1st Prize Fish Publishing Flash Award 2024, Bridport Short Story, Laurie Lee Short Story Prize Shortlists 2024, Bath Flash Fiction Longlist 2024.
@rough-diamond1.bsky.social
Rough Diamond is an online and in print poetry journal. [email protected] EIC - Charlotte Cosgrove http://ko-fi.com/roughdiamond open for subs
@santisugi.bsky.social
Writer, reader, and teacher of poetry, fiction, Asian American/Asian diasporic literature, and sound. CalArts, formerly UST. Books: Tula (2016), Small Wars Manual (2025) Husband and dad with (sorry) dad jokes. https://t.co/U0opNqf5yO
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Cat person, writer, presenter, Star Trek fan. THE PRICE OF COOKIES, flash fiction collection. Novels repped by Stacey Kondla. Queer AF. Definitely not cool. They/them/tired. #flashfiction finnburnett.com
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The Self-Pub Hub (Indie Book Review Site) Accepting book submissions now! https://book-shelfie.com/submit-book/
@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 Books: No Access DC & Great Food Finds DC…
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The Anti-Literary Mag. Here to ruin your feeds. Usually open for submissions at duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/jake-anti-literary-magazine-QvF7M. Read the mag at jakethemag.com. Bargain brand tweets by @beansbaker5.bsky.social or @zreayellers.bsky.social
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Hugo, World Fantasy, and Ignyte Award finalist online magazine of literary adventure fantasy, since 2008. Read/listen online: https://beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
@perversemag.bsky.social
poetry magazine responding to a call for “deliberate, obstinate, unreasonable or unacceptable poems, contrary to the expected practice” ed. @chrissywilliams.bsky.social Sign up free for https://perverse.substack.com/ Archive at perversepoetry.tumblr.com
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Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis. https://longbarrowpress.com
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Poetry. Well-served. 2025 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE FINALIST DALE MARTIN SMITH The Size of Paradise NEW SADIQA DE MEIJER Fieldwork knifeforkbook.shop Find us: asterismbooks.com/publisher/knife-fork-book + knifeforkbook.com
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Text & image depository. Digipoetics since 2016. Editors: Seth Copeland, Caleb Jordan, Amanda Ngoho Reavey Submissions reopen April 1, 2025. https://petrichormag.com/ (art: Annalynn Hammond; Michael Paulukonis)
@stonecoastreview.bsky.social
A literary arts journal publishing innovative fiction, poetry, nonfiction, genre fiction, drama, experimental fiction, and visual art.
@mcsweeneys.net
The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books. .
@versobooks.bsky.social
Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
@literarymama.bsky.social
celebrating, promoting, & nurturing mama writing & writers at https://literarymama.com/ since 2003 Podcast, This Mama Is Lit! at: https://literarymama.substack.com/s/this-mama-is-lit Subscribe for our newsletter at: https://literarymama.substack.com
@anthropocenemag.bsky.social
Nonprofit journalism dedicated to creating a Human Age we actually want to live in. Newsletters: https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/newsletters/
@ballastjournal.bsky.social
a journal of poetry and more poetry and more poetry | editors @jacobschepers.bsky.social & Sara Judy | submissions always open | issue 3.1 out now | ballastjournal.com
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Queen of Swords Press is a small press publisher of stories from out of this world. Queer AF. Catherine Lundoff, publisher. Minneapolis, MN. https://www.queenofswordspress.com
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Award-Winning Publisher of New Weird Horror + More. @AlexWoodroe.com, Editor in Chief. @MattBlairstone.bsky.social, Publisher. SUPPORT INDIE. Hail the Tenebrous Cult🖤☠️ https://linktr.ee/TenebrousPress
@penumbricmag.bsky.social
New old speculative fiction magazine, relaunched June 2k20! Looking for work on the ever-moving edge of its kind--fiction, art, graphic narrative, animation. www.penumbric.com. For submissions info, see www.penumbric.com/subs.html