@mocounderground.bsky.social
MoCo Underground is a free, bimonthly get-together in Sandy Spring, MD, where awesome writers can share their work with a live audience. More info: https://justscribbling.com/mocounderground/ OR [email protected].
@rebkel.bsky.social
Artist Writer Professor Parent Citizen Human. Fulbright scholar, Pushcart Nominee, NEA award winner, Author of You Should Have Known/Crooked Lane; Excavating History /Stepsister press; professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
@lauracknapp.bsky.social
Fiction writer, cappuccino lover, and occasional insomniac...and none of these are related.
@jenstjude.bsky.social
A dude named Jude. They/them. & author of If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come ☄️
@jencoffeen.bsky.social
Events Director (StoryStudio Chicago) Writer (Pushcart Nominated flash fiction/ short stories, romance novels with Wild Rose Press), Co-host of the Creepy History Podcast. https://creepyhistory.buzzsprout.com/ @storystudiochicago.bsky.social
@stephanieronco.bsky.social
Writer. Editor. Voracious Reader. She/her/hers Repped by Lissa Woodson, The Seymour Agency.
@lisaad.bsky.social
Chicagoan. Dog Mom. Photographer. Writer. Interior Designer. Traveler. Diehard Cubs Fan. Attorney.
@barbnatividad.bsky.social
I’m always write! | Buckeye 🌰 | MFA - Poetry | Currently revising my Fil-Am contemporary fiction novel. | Mini book reviews. | Find me at: https://barbnatividad.substack.com where I write about mental health, writing, reading. | @barbflashes.bsky.social
@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
@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
@veronicaeye.bsky.social
Chicago gal who wears many hats: 🍎 Serial Academic Entrepreneur 🗳 Councilor, 24th District 📚 Author, J is for Justice: An Activism Alphabet 🤳🏽 #365feministselfie 🎙 Storyteller 🧗🏽♀️ Women's Sports Evangelist She/They
@iambrianwatson.bsky.social
Writer, memoir-in-progress. A little he, a little they, but definitely more queer than gay. Check out my newsletter at https://iambrianwatson.substack.com and find more at https://linktr.ee/iambrianwatson
@mattfo100.bsky.social
Writer of things. Maybe Mermaids and Robots are Lonely. Southwest Detroit.
@adamsleper.bsky.social
Dad, hubby, writer. Illinois artist grants, Chicago Writers Assoc, Horror Writers Assoc, Page/AFF finalist, PEN Emerging Writers. Black List 8+. Shakespeare/R.E.M. USMNT/Huskers/Red Sox. Rep: Mark Gottlieb@Trident www.adamsleper.com AdamSleper.substack.com
@toddsummar.bsky.social
Writer of supernatural & horror fiction. Editor. Marketing professional. Board member, Artists Book House. Work in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, @pankmagazine, @thelithub, & elsewhere. ToddSummar.com
@richard491.bsky.social
Been writing my first mystery novel for five years and counting. Library socialist. Down with white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy. Up with kindness and care. ❤️Chicago House
@eshanisurya.bsky.social
debut novel RAVISHING 💄💉 ✨ coming 11.11.2025 from Roxane Gay Books/Grove Atlantic | disabled & chronically ill | philly-based | surya means sun ☀️ | [email protected] https://linktr.ee/eshanisurya
@rgummere.bsky.social
"An agnostic ex-pastor on the hunt for God in a small RV with two big dogs. What could go wrong?" Memoir, essays. Words in HuffPost, TIME, Oprah Daily, Daily Beast, NYT, Boston Globe. NC Mystery, Memoir, and Meaning @ https://rebeccagummere.substack.com
@mattsing.bsky.social
Chicagoan; civil rights/employment lawyer; writer; enjoyer of sports, books, music, and the outdoors.
@storystudiochicago.bsky.social
We are a literary arts nonprofit focused on building a writing community. Classes and events online and in person. Come write with us! https://www.storystudiochicago.org
@danfinnen.bsky.social
Co-Owner of Polymyth Productions, producer/host of the Chicago Writers Podcast, analogue film photographer, producer/host of Super Gear Land, flailing writer, and Frenchie dad. Find me at http://danfinnen.com/
@ancaszilagyi.bsky.social
Author of DAUGHTERS OF THE AIR, called “a striking debut from a writer to watch” by Shelf Awareness & DREAMS UNDER GLASS, called “a novel for our modern times” by Buzzfeed Books. Repped by Howland Literary. ancawrites.com.
@madiluna.bsky.social
Abolitionist social worker, writer, bookworm, witch, sober, Mary Oliver devotee, buttered popcorn connoisseur, and believer that a better world is possible 🌱🔮💖🧚🏻♀️💐🌛🌈✨ 📍Chicago
@monicaleann.bsky.social
Disney fanatic. Friend of the Pod. Longing to become a beach bum. Blue in Red.
@es06x.com
Web developer, traveler, reader, cat dad, electric car lover, and Chicago resident. 📚🇺🇸🏳️🌈
@sarahkokernot.bsky.social
Fiction writer, essayist, teacher | Artist in residence at Northwestern. Consultant at StoryStudio | Words in NYT, Best American Short Stories, Tricycle, EPOCH | newsletter on Buddhism & creativity @ sarahkokernot.substack.com | Above my raisin’
@me3dia.bsky.social
✶✶✶✶ That guy with the sideburns. Ex-journalist, now PR exec and nonprofit ED. Host of 20x2 Chicago @[email protected] http://me3dia.com Need a Chicago star? http://me3dia.com/star.html
@rosamund.bsky.social
reading and writing and domestic life in Chicago. #amquerying a YA (?) novel about live action role-playing (LARP). // rosamund.co
@amyguth.bsky.social
Producer, screenwriter, writer-writer, journo, author. Order varies. (she/her) - Los Angeles https://www.amyguth.com
@jessicasherburn.bsky.social
Michigan farm girl at heart. Chicago Public Schools English teacher. Poet & writer. Clumsy hiker. She/her/hers. https://www.chillsubs.com/user/JessicaSherburn
@izatchu.bsky.social
Poet and dog mahm in Montana. ** Writer-in-residence 2024 Yellowstone Art Museum, poetry reader @TheRumpus.net, freelance writer, crafty community leader @wildwares Newsletter: anneattheyam.substack.com Goings on: linktr.ee/izatchu
@roscoebooks.bsky.social
We are your friendly neighborhood bookstore located in Chicago's Roscoe Village. Order online at www.roscoebooks.com.
@evanderlang.bsky.social
writer in Chicagoland. all publications here: https://www.evanderlang.com/ reader for @fracturedlit.bsky.social and Hypertext Magazine
@joeofalltrades.bsky.social
@dansavage.bsky.social
Host of the Savage Lovecast, author of Savage Love. "A deviant of the highest order!" — The Daily Caller
@chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
A @storystudiochicago.bsky.social publication! Editor-in-Chief @mbwwelch.bsky.social
@rsdeeren.bsky.social
Cat Stepdad Michigander in the South Michigan Notable Book Author ENOUGH TO LOSE from Wayne State University Press Prof. & Coordinator of Creative Writing at Austin Peay State University
@huntsy.bsky.social
Ex-theater critic, ex-Oregonian, ex-Chicagoan, ex-drinker, ex-smoker, current dad, suburbanite, and occasional writer. Never not a theater kid.
@benjalord.bsky.social
Digital refugee. Baker. Southern boy. Freak. Pug & Frenchie dad. American in Southeast Asia for 25+ yrs. Seeker of beauty. Chaser of waterfalls. Bibliophile. Plant obsessed. I'd rather be on my paddleboard, but here we are. 📍 Bangkok & Khao Tao, Thailand
@gregzimmerman.bsky.social
📚 Bookseller: @roscoebooks.bsky.social 🛠️ Daily Editor: @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social ✍️ Marketing and communications: @storystudiochicago.bsky.social 📝 Book Reviewer: open.substack.com/pub/thenewdorkreviewofbooks Chicagoan. Marquette alum. Runner
@rossb-brighton.bsky.social
Queer history. Queer science. Queer history of science! 📚Agent: @phi11y.bsky.social. He/him. Darwin's Closet: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 Mendel's Closet: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0036
@tomandlorenzo.bsky.social
Authors of “Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race & The Last Century of Queer Life,” publishers of tomandlorenzo.com, podcast: Pop Style Opinionfest. All skeets are by T unless signed by L.
@markharris.bsky.social
Writer, husband, etc. Books: Pictures at a Revolution (2008), Five Came Back (2014), Mike Nichols: A Life (2021), Untitled gay cultural history (2026). Journalism: New York, NYTimes Style Mag, etc. A long time ago: EW, Grantland, younger.
@judigunn.bsky.social
Bird nerd. Servant to cat. Bookworm. Liberal. Christian. Grandma. Retired. Good cook, decent baker. Adjunct prof at Naval Academy: Advanced Cussing.