Identity Theory
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.
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Literary Magazines and Small Presses
Literary magazines and small presses.
A literary starter pack, sort of
These are some people who have contributed to Identity Theory in some way, either as interviewees, writers, or editors. That is it. That is all it is.
@ritabanerjee.bsky.social
Rita Banerjee is a writer and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She is author of Disobedient Futures, CREDO, Echo in Four Beats, A Night with Kali, and Cracklers at Night.
@newpages.bsky.social
NewPages.com is your best guide to literary magazines, indie publishing, university presses, creative writing programs, writing and literary events, writing contests and submissions, independent bookstores, and more. #indiebookstores #litmags #booksky
@davidestringel.bsky.social
Latinx author+BoN/Pushcart nom 🖊 The Opiate, Cowboy Jamboree, Cephalopress, Drunk Monkeys, Punk Noir Press, Dreich, Terror House Magazine, Literary Heist, Anxiety Press. EIC @theargylelitmag.bsky.social & @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social www.davidestringel.com
@sarahwolfson.bsky.social
Poet. Teaching Artist. A Common Name for Everything (Green Writers Press). UmichWriters MFA. Montreal & Vermont. wordplay. cuttlefish. writing pedagogy. ferns.
@sweettrashpress.bsky.social
This dumpster is lit. An imprint of House of Vlad Press founded by Jillian Luft. www.houseofvladpress.com
@charlesdotsteph.bsky.social
Writer based in ATL: MFA fiction student @randolphmfa, Tin House '24, VONA ‘24, Periplus '23
@softgothkitten.bsky.social
She/her, chronically ill, writer. Disability Studies student Anti-eugenics, pro-masking & clean air. RFK Jr & MAHA hater Free Palestine 🇵🇸 https://healthismandwellness.wordpress.com
@andrewbelfry.com
(Humor) Writer. Ph.D. candidate in English & Creative Writing. MFA. Words in McSweeney's, HAD, Points in Case, & elsewhere. Father of two. he/him. Tired. https://www.andrewbelfry.com/
@wired.com
At wired.com where tomorrow is realized || Sign up for our newsletters: https://wrd.cm/newsletters Find our WIRED journalists here: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/couts.bsky.social/3l6vez3xaus27
@alexismwright.bsky.social
Writer | Educator | Tin House Scholar '23, Reading Fellow '24 I 💬 Querying NF I Pubs: The Common, The Maine Review, Shenandoah I Instructor: The Loft, GrubStreet, midnight & indigo I Interests: estrangement, discarding, lyric essays I www.alexismwright.com
@heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social
Poet + Executive Editor The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social Books: TIC TIC TIC (9/25); MARILYN: ESSAYS & POEMS (An Insomniac's Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe); GIVE A GIRL CHAOS NYU mfa heidiseabornpoet.com
@jessicacarney.bsky.social
Writer & event planner querying a book filled with humorous stories about event plans gone awry. https://jessicacarneywriter.com/
@houseofvladpress.bsky.social
Iconic independent publishing house founded by author Brian Alan Ellis in 2003, known for its edgy, transgressive and unconventional approach to literature. Vlad Mag, an online literary journal, started in 2023. Visit: houseofvladpress.com
@tinymolecules.bsky.social
A quarterly literary journal. We love flash, we love experimental, we love saying something big in a small space. https://www.tinymolecules.com/ EIC @sdobbie.bsky.social
@summerjhart.bsky.social
interdisciplinary artist and writer 🌈🖤 author of BOOMHOUSE (2023, @the3rdthing.press) and Sky Burial, forthcoming from @jacklegpress in 2026 🐦⬛
@erinwriter.bsky.social
Copper Canyon poet (new book coming 2026), professor, Girl Scout from Omaha. She/her 🇺🇦
@mheyworthpoet.bsky.social
Poet. MA @ Manchester Writing School. Cheshire. Cat mother. 🐈⬛ https://madeleine-heyworth-poet.squarespace.com
@billhollands.bsky.social
Poet. Work in The Adroit Journal, New Ohio Review, The Southern Review, DIAGRAM, Rattle, The Greensboro Review, & elsewhere. Reader for Poetry Northwest. 2025 Jack Straw Writing Fellow. Debut collection Mangrove forthcoming (ELJ, 2025). he/him. 🏳️🌈
@adamkinzinger.bsky.social
Former US Congressman, Proud RINO, husband, and military man. Fighting the MAGA brain worms daily! Adamkinzinger.komi.io Adamkinzinger.substack.com
@number926.bsky.social
A NY-born caffeine-driven supermonkey. Interests include science fiction, technology, and hoping that end stage capitalism doesn't need my organs to power a machine. Podcast, newsletter, and other links: https://criticaldefiance.com
@liznorell.bsky.social
Political scientist, teacher, faculty developer, writer, bibliophile. I already love your dog(s). Opinions are mine. #ActuallyAutistic Out now, my book <The Present Professor>! https://www.oupress.com/9780806194691/the-present-professor/
@altnps.bsky.social
The official "Resistance" team of U.S. National Park Service. Our website: www.ourparks.org
@cincinnatusc.bsky.social
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain by the false azure in the windowpane birdsandbeesandblooms.com
@lailalalami.com
Author of five books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist THE MOOR’S ACCOUNT. Reader. Mutant. https://linktr.ee/lalami
@janicenortherns.bsky.social
Poet, CNF writer, reader of banned books, transplanted Kansan, believer in Democracy. Author of award-winning poetry collection Some Electric Hum. www.janicenortherns.com
@amleahy.bsky.social
Writer. Editor. Teacher. Author of If in Some Cataclysm, Tumor, etc. https://amleahy.com
@skylarcamp.bsky.social
skylarcamp.com Writer. MILF. Pushcart Prize and Best Microfiction Nominee she/her Bi & Polyam 🩷💜💙
@brokenspinearts.bsky.social
Independent poetry press + cultural review platform. We publish narrative-led work with edge. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky No time for pretence! Edited by @alanparry83.bsky.social www.thebrokenspine.co.uk https://linktr.ee/brokenspinearts
@typicalysha.bsky.social
writer and wannabe final girl 🔪 Sapphic 🪻🏳️🌈 Trans Lives Matter 🏳️⚧️ Free Palestine 🍉
@mfitejohnson.bsky.social
poet and high school English teacher living with her husband and dogs in Kansas melissafitejohnson.com
@carabensonwriter.bsky.social
Writing about love, loss, and commitment during climate crisis. Fun at parties. www.carabensonwriter.com
@wordsbyladonna.bsky.social
writer of true stories • american emigrant • portuguese immigrant • ex-christian • iced tea addict • raspberry aficionado • aspiring bog witch • breadcrumb follower • donkey rescuer • sometime hermit • she-her • free palestine
@juliametraux.bsky.social
Disability Reporter @ Mother Jones • jmetraux@motherjones.com • She/her • Berkeley Journalism alum • Signal: @juliametraux.49 Author page: https://www.motherjones.com/author/julia-metraux/ Free monthly newsletter: bit.ly/3Ee9lRO
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
Pulitzer prize winning Editorial Cartoonist Open Windows at http://anntelnaes.substack.com Archived work at http://anntelnaes.com
@earlgreysnail.bsky.social
writer, musician, multimedia artist 🐌 📝!🌱 MFA student, goofiness linktr.ee/ashleygilland
@aweathrs.bsky.social
Teacher, copy editor, anxious puddle. Accidental poet. Southerner. Coordinator: Spittoon Poetry Workshop. Birds & Trek 🐦🖖
@abigailraley.bsky.social
Author of Wet Specimen (Sundress, 2026). MFA UMT. Words forthcoming/published in The Offing, HAD, Hanging Loose Mag, Stone Circle Review, and elsewhere.
@jenasalon.bsky.social
Working to end homelessness. Writer of fiction and nonfiction. Harsher editor than I mean to be. Coffee Always. she/her opinions my own
@larastap.bsky.social
Author, The Ruin of Everything, Paloma Press. Prof., BMCC of CUNY. Mixed Filipino-Am. I love: books, my students who have excellent brains & deserve the world, historical linguistics, Austronesian brilliance, bingewatching, decent humans. Art is everything
@susanlitelerner.bsky.social
Assistant memoir editor at Split Lip Magazine, assistant editor at Brevity. Reader for River Teeth, Fourth Genre, TriQuarterly
@ladiwoods.bsky.social
Author of The Great Grown-Up Game of Make Believe (Autumn House Press Book Prize), short stories, coming Oct 2025. DC based. laurendwoods.com
@ecotonemagazine.bsky.social
A biannual magazine that seeks to reimagine place. Founded & made at UNCW. Winner, 2022 AWP Small Press Publisher Award & 2023 Firecracker Award
@elliottholt.bsky.social
Wrote a novel, YOU ARE ONE OF THEM. Working on another. Freelance editor (formerly at The Yale Review, The Kenyon Review, One Story). My name has two l's and two t's. Native Washingtonian, currently in New Haven (and often New York). elliottholt.com
@jessicawillingham.bsky.social
Editor, Five South ✏️ Reader, The Masters Review 📖 💌 BotN nominated ‘23, ‘24, Wigleaf Short Fictions Longlist ‘24. Nominated Best Micro Fictions 2025, semi-finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award Oklahoma📍🦬 https://www.jessicawillingham.com/
@brianamillslmft.bsky.social
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#134337)(#4930-R). Not your therapist. Bi. Specializing in disability, EMDR, and LGBT. Live in California or Nevada and would like to see a disabled therapist? Schedule a free consultation at BrianaMills.com