Alan Lessik
Berlin-based Novelist, Zen practitioner, figure skater, 🌈
Member of Berlin Queer Writers Circle
Alanlessik.com
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Queer Fiction Writers and Filmmakers
Fiction writers, filmmakers, editors, television writers
@drawcansir.bsky.social
Lapsing academic. Books, theatre, opera. Often early modern; always out of time. Book: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009324120
@rowanthewriter.bsky.social
Writer + Book Reviewer lutruwita / Tasmania https://linktr.ee/rowmac
@authorgreysonmccoy.bsky.social
I write gay romantic fiction books with a literary twist. If you liked Steel Magnolias, Virgin River, or Beaches (the movie) you'll likely enjoy my books.
@amzomac.bsky.social
I'm Amy. I spend time running, protesting, asking questions, finding beauty in the mundane and refusing to be neutral in situations of injustice. Socialist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 📍🏴
@lucianchilds.bsky.social
Author of Dreaming Home (Fred Kerner Book Award winner, Rakuten Kobo Prize shortlist). Contributing editor of Lammy Award finalist, Building Fires in the Snow. Work in Grain, The Ex-Puritan, Prairie Fire and more. Reader, queer culture craver. New here.
@avery-bridge.bsky.social
Author of cozy + steamy🌈💜queer stories. www.averybridgeauthor.com NO 🚫AI
@meganriley.bsky.social
🇺🇸 in 🇪🇪 and around the 🌎 • Book nerd 📚🤓 • Traveler ✈️⛴️ • Mom of Monkey&Peanut ♥️ • Drinker of champagne 🥂 • Game changer 💪💣 • All-around Wonder Woman⭐️ • Absolutely no f*cks left to give
@mjuhae.bsky.social
Author of STARRY FIELD: A Memoir of Lost History (Melville House). Journalist, public speaker, waning soccer mom, enthusiastic dog owner, my own social media manager, Writers Grotto member. www.margaretjuhaelee.com
@kandersonwriter.bsky.social
Novelist. Short Story Writer. Author of THE NEW TOWN LIBRARIAN (NineStar Press), BULL AND OTHER STORIES (Autumn House Press), VAMOOSE:STORIES (forthcoming June 2026 from Vine Leaves Press). kathyandersonwriter.com
@johncopenhaver.bsky.social
Award-winning author. Educator. HALL OF MIRRORS out now! Order link in Linktree. http://linktr.ee/johncope74 (he/him) muckrack: http://bit.ly/3Uxxm9E
@obvious-lia.bsky.social
🏳️⚧️ pronoun collector 🏳️🌈 queer 🌈 rainbow coalition 🎨 artist 🐈⬛ cat mom 🐈Texas 😭 dialectical materialist 📚 free Palestine 🇵🇸 not into "debate" but thank you ❤️🩹 trying to interact gently with others 🤗
@wormbug-dot-biz.bsky.social
NB butch 🏳️🌈 Never the same pronoun twice 🏳️⚧️ artist, reader, writer, thinker, stinker 🦨
@davidflemingwrites.bsky.social
Irish writer. Fiction debut in The Honest Ulsterman - https://humag.co/prose/death-valley - Mostly interested in writing about how people’s experiences, memories, hopes, dreams, and fears combine to create an often contradictory and fluid sense of self.
@nummist.com
I write novels, poems, tech books, and computer programs. I live in a Nova Scotian fishing village with my cats, honeybees, and hardy fruit trees. Read about my fiction at https://nummist.com/stories/.
@magscampbell.bsky.social
Lover, and writer, of myths, folklore, legends, fables, fairy tales, sci-fi, horror and fantasy. Scribbling spin-offs of novels I haven't written yet.
@authorshaneschmidt.bsky.social
✍🏻 fantasy writer 📚 new work in progress www.ShaneSchmidt.com
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
Writer Longlisted for Orwell Prize Shortlisted twice for Bridport Poetry Prize Longlisted for Bridport Novel Prize Looking for help to move things on
@jamellebouie.net
The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group. Send me your mutual aid requests.
@kashana.bsky.social
TV writer. Author of the novels THE SURVIVALISTS and THE PAYBACK (July 2025). Deadly with a butter knife. Preorder THE PAYBACK here 👉🏾 https://kashanacauley.com
@kimkelly.bsky.social
labor journalist and author of ‘FIGHT LIKE HELL’ 🏴 big on metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. my books: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kim-Kelly/178891913 my lefty heavy metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io rep: The Shipman Agency
@xoxogossipgita.bsky.social
im gita they/them cofounder of aftermath.site gita@aftermath.site
@ericajoy.astrel.la
southern roots, oakland blossoms 🌸 tech leader (ex google/slack/msft/github/dccc/parkwood) @b.astrel.la’s weirder half Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. -John Lewis there will be typos
@sjjphd.bsky.social
I study race, media, activism, feminism, tech and politics but not always in that order. Co-Director @miccenter.bsky.social Opinions definitely my own
@samthielman.com
Sam Thielman | Seen NYT Book Review, New Yorker, Slate, Flaming Hydra foreverwars.ghost.io | he/him | 741.5 (Comic books, strips, etc.) | NC>Brooklyn | cat subordinate | DC COMICS: THE STORY OF A UNIVERSE with Sean Howe forthcoming from HarperOne
@janecoaston.bsky.social
Host of Crooked Media’s “What A Day.” Contributing writer at the New York Times. Previously: host of The Argument. Go Blue means Go the University of Michigan.
@angryblacklady.bsky.social
3 dogs. 2 kitchens. Zero chill. | Lawyer | Journalist | co-host of Boom! Lawyered podcast | Editor-at-Large at @rewirenewsgroup.com | abortion rights are, like, 80% of my personality | skeets are the opinion of your employer. | Colorado, America.
@kendrawrites.com
What's the opposite of apocalypse? Trying to chronicle that. Climate reporter based in NYC. Only speaking for myself. Tips? Reach me on Signal kendrawrites.04
@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
@sulliview.bsky.social
Columnist at GuardianUS. Thinking/teaching at Columbia J School. Author of NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL and GHOSTING THE NEWS. (Join me at ‘American Crisis’ on Substack)
@franklinleonard.bsky.social
The Black List founder. Film & TV producer. Politics & Football person. Vanity Fair contributing editor.
@jduffyrice.bsky.social
i write things and think about prisons. i live in atlanta. i read a lot.
@sifill.bsky.social
Civil rights lawyer; democracy warrior, dedicated to racial justice & equality. Fmr President & Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
@nameshiv.bsky.social
Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in @strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net.
@tananarivedue.bsky.social
Lifewriting Podcast - Exec Producer #HorrorNoire: A History of Black Horror, Writer: Twilight Zone. UCLA Lecturer. Vanity Fair. Author: American Book Award #BLM #blacksky She/Her - https://linktr.ee/tananarivedue
@mattnegrin.bsky.social
The Daily Show, Roy Wood Jr.'s 2023 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trevor Noah's 2022 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Hardball on MSNBC
@joolia.bsky.social
senior reporter at the guardian us / julia.wong@theguardian.com / juliacarriewong.11 on Signal
@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Absolution. Repped by Joe Veltre at Gersh. Gigs: The Tuesday Agency. he/him