Brian J. Smith
Horror writer from Ohio who can’t wait for Valloween and Halloween. I’m the author of ten novels and over fifty short stories
@wesblake.bsky.social
Writer | PINEVILLE TRACE (Etchings Press, 2024) |💙 music, cats, & trees | ✍️Words in Electric Literature, storySouth, more | wesblake.com | linktr.ee/wesblake |📍Kentucky PINEVILLE TRACE, book club kit, & teaching guide: wesblake.com/pineville-trace-2
@alexanderchee.bsky.social
Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. Agent: Jin Auh, The Wylie Agency. alexanderchee.net
@pronounced-ing.bsky.social
Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. celesteng.com
@emilymandel.bsky.social
Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
@gwenda.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author * dog and cat person * moon and pet photographer * gwendabond.com * gwendabond.substack.com * linktr.ee/GwendaBond
@garthgreenwell.bsky.social
What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | Eeyore at the gay club | Distinguished Writer in Residence at NYU | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
@cassmorriswrites.com
Author: Aven Cycle | Story Editor: Mythik Camps | Podcast Cohost: Worldbuilding for Masochists | novels, short fiction, & immersive xp | Shakespeare nerd, once & future educator, rhetorician, geek chic | she/her | Virginia, USA linktr.ee/cassrmorris
@dintywmoore.bsky.social
Editor of Brevity, a small magazine with big ambitions. Author of various books. Often can't decide if I am posting as myself or as the magazine.
@andrewporter01.bsky.social
Author of THE DISAPPEARED (Knopf), THE THEORY OF LIGHT AND MATTER (Vintage), IN BETWEEN DAYS (Knopf), and THE IMAGINED LIFE (Knopf, forthcoming 2025) CW Prof. www.andrewporterwriter.com
@joshaboldt.bsky.social
Writer of crime, mystery & Southern Gothic (MONEYMAKER published June 2024). 4th novel in process. Lexington, KY. joshboldt.com #writing #nature #books #dogs
@charlesoddwhite.bsky.social
Award-winning writer and naturalist living in East Tennessee. Newsletter: https://substack.com/@charlesdoddwhite
@rgransden.bsky.social
Writes sometimes. Has always lived by the sea. Send interview pitches for X-R-A-Y to Rebecca at: rebecca@xraylitmag.com
@vanessahua.bsky.social
FORBIDDEN CITY | A RIVER OF STARS| DECEIT AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES| Rona Jaffe| Bylines @sfchronicle @nytimes & elsewhere | NEAarts Fellow | forthcoming EL NIDO
@jodyhobbshesler.bsky.social
Writer & Writing Teacher Without You Here, Finalist Southern Literary Rvw novel of the year, 2025 What Makes You Think You're Supposed to Feel Better, story collection https://linktr.ee/jodyhobbshesler www.jodyhobbshesler.com She/her
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social
San Francisco Bay Area writer and educator. Flash fiction and cnf in SmokeLong, Bending Genres, Atlas and Alice, The Forge, Ghost Parachute, Craft & elsewhere.Poetry in journals such as New Ohio Review, Plume, Hunger Mountain and Cincinnati R. (she/her)
@kristenarnett.bsky.social
writer, librarian, huuuuge lesbian. dad. floridian. New York Times Bestselling author. Mostly Dead Things & WITH TEETH & STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE https://www.kristenarnettwriter.com
@klagodzki.bsky.social
#Author. Words in Invisible City, Storm Cellar, elsewhere. Controlled Conversations, a novel (2024), finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. In love with a painter. Father of strange children. He/him. Next novel seeking literary representation.
@nicolechung.bsky.social
author of A LIVING REMEDY (a New York Times Notable Book) and ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW. the dog is Peggy and she loves you already. linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
@sherrieflick.bsky.social
Writer / Editor - I HAVE NOT CONSIDERED CONSEQUENCES: SHORT STORIES, Autumn House, 2025- HOMING - essay collection, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2024 - Co-editor FLASH FICTION AMERICA, W. W. Norton, 2023 - Sr Editor SLQ
@rachellayown.bsky.social
writer | editor | social worker managing director @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social editor of THE ROCKFORD ANTHOLOGY debut novel HOW WE SEE THE GRAY both forthcoming (she/they) https://linktr.ee/rachelleon
@isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social
New York Times bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts (plus others) who often talks books on the Today Show. Next up? American Dionysus. 🍎 I walk a lot.
@heatherhigdon.bsky.social
Lover of Human Story. ❤️ Literary fiction writer represented by Kat Foxx at The Rights Factory. IG: heatherhigdonwrites
@morgantalty.bsky.social
Writer / pαnawάhpskewi from the Penobscot Indian Nation / NIGHT OF THE LIVING REZ and FIRE EXIT: A NOVEL (Tin House 2024) Founder & Director of Talty Literary morgantalty.com
@vajra.me
Writer. Revenant. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023 Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus first novel winner) & RAKESFALL (2024 Nebula finalist) http://vajra.me/books Colombo, Sri Lanka. https://vajra.me
@rchetypes.bsky.social
Novel about pirate queen: Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea. Indie Next, Barnes & Noble Discover, Good Morning America Buzz Pick. Stories in Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, One Story, Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, etc. rchetypes.com she/they
@julialeebarclay.bsky.social
Author THE MORTALITY SHOT (hybrid collection), coach, editor, artist, certified yoga teacher, theater maker, now working on researched memoir about liberation of discovering at 57 I'm #Autistic: TheUnadaptedOnes.com
@jamestatehill.bsky.social
Memoir: Blind Man's Bluff (W.W. Norton, NYT Editors' Choice); Novel: Academy Gothic (Nilsen Prize for a First Novel); Editor of The Writer's Chronicle and Monkeybicycle; native of WV; agent: Eric Smith; still mostly living in 1986 jamestatehill.com
@cherylstrayed.bsky.social
Writer. Mom. Portlander. Traveler. Cat/dog lady. Author of Wild, Tiny Beautiful Things, Torch, and Brave Enough. Also: Dear Sugar.
@marksarvas.bsky.social
American Book Award winning author of MEMENTO PARK (FSG) and HARRY, REVISED (Bloomsbury). @UGMAN June 2025 from ITNA Press. “ … ceaselessly intelligent” - Joseph O’Neill. Ex-blogger. NBCC & PEN America. Scold-proof. He/Him/His www.marksarvas.com
@mhendrixwrites.bsky.social
Ⓜ️ is for EMpathy ✍️ Author of THE CHAPERONE (Sourcebooks Fire) 📍Jersey Girl ➡️ Kentucky Colonel 📚 booksky https://www.mhendrixwrites.com
@kfergusonwrites.bsky.social
Third-culture kid from Brazil 🇧🇷 ✍️ latest writing in JMWW, Bellevue Literary Review, @whaleroadreview.bsky.social, @rfpress.bsky.social & others 📖 read CNF for @triquarterlymag.bsky.social ✨ linktr.ee/kristiferguson ✨
@rebeccafishow.bsky.social
writer | reader | artist | educator The Trouble With Language (TRNSFR, 2020) | The Opposite of Entropy (Proper Tales Press, 2018)
@jessieglenn.bsky.social
Director/Mindbuck Book Publicity, occasional prof, freelancer @NYT, Salon, WaPo, others. They/them.
@vidajames.bsky.social
a messy bitch who lives for commas | Boricua | she/her | AFAB | ACAB | stegner, center for fiction, NEA, periplus| stories in NER, Witness, Epiphany, Story | http://vidajames.com 🏴
@chadluibl.bsky.social
book dad. metal and hockey. lit agent at Janklow & Nesbit. www.chadluibl.com
@weswritesstuff.bsky.social
2024 KTA Playwright Winner. Writer of HARD JUSTICE, HOWL OF THE WEST and TEETH & TREASON. MBA & MFA, part-time marketing professor.
@dylanfisher.bsky.social
The Loneliest Band in France (Texas Review Press, 2020) ¶ Colorado Book Award, American Library in Paris Coups de Cœur, Clay Reynolds Prize ¶ www.dylanfisher.net ¶ he/him ¶ T1D ¶📍ATL
@mdbell79.bsky.social
Writer, teacher. Out now: APPLESEED, a novel (2021, @marinerbooks). REFUSE TO BE DONE, a guide to novel revision (2022, @soho_press). He/him.
@anandalima.bsky.social
Author of CRAFT: STORIES I WROTE FOR THE DEVIL forthcoming @torbooks in 2024 (available for pre-order) & MOTHER/LAND (Black Lawrence Press) Rep: Sarah Bowlin (Aevitas) Work in the American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast +
@hdossantos.bsky.social