The Propelling Pencil
Short Fiction Journal | Competitions | Workshops
https://thepropellingpencil.com/
Editor in Charge: @nivenaudrey.bsky.social
@vesnamain.bsky.social
Novelist and short story writer. European. Vegan. Cake baker. Swimmer. London and rural France. Waiting for a Party (Salt, 2024), a novel about an older woman’s desire for sexual intimacy
@crowkeys.bsky.social
Seeking the wonderful and the bizarre, the beautiful and the dark. Home to all things dark and lovely. [email protected] EIC: @keychild.bsky.social (she/her) https://linktr.ee/crowcrosskeys
@magic-l-bearr.bsky.social
Occasional performance poet, a writer of one book of poetry thus far. Mainly making music of the EDM variety. Ambitions to sculpt more stone. A keeper of fish, chickens, one Lazarus, and a few rats and local wildlife. Artist perhaps!? Working at it anyway!
@thewoolfofficial.bsky.social
Howl-worthy words & art from Switzerland and beyond | Short fiction, prose poetry, CNF & visual art | https://thewoolfx.com/ | Issue 8-Bully is out now!
@asufferersdigest.bsky.social
A literary magazine exploring the dark, gritty, and meaningful. Intensely fascinated by the human condition. www.sufferer.online
@elizabethbaines.bsky.social
Writer of short stories, novels, plays. http://www.elizabethbaines.co.uk Astral Travel, a novel, published by Salt Books https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/astral-travel-9781784632199
@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
@cbbhattacharya.bsky.social
𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒖𝒕, 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒍, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒂 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆. 𝑷𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒎𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒂𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒔𝒐𝒖𝒍. 💙 https://bit.ly/barefootpoetessa #blueskypoetry #skypoets #poetrysky #blewcrew
@cbigs.bsky.social
pushcart and best microfiction nominated writer | recent stories: ghost parachute| cleaver| BULL | your impossible voice | new chapbook: http://InRareCases.com
@soupie.bsky.social
I love words, soaking them up and writing them down. The smell of leaf mould and green things sprouting. The texture of bark. Fussing song birds, and the roar and drama of wind and waves. And humans; complex like layers of rock laid down over millennia.
@aliavolzzz.bsky.social
Author of NBCC finalist HOME BAKED: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco. Nonfiction ghost story forthcoming with Avid Reader (Simon & Schuster). Freelance editor based in Portugal.
@kcmeadbrewer.com
writer. she/her 🌈🦇 heart's delight: Bmore, bats, & tattoos; Clarion & Tin House '18; rep'd by @ericshowers.bsky.social ⚡️ kcmeadbrewer.com ALT pfp: white, blond woman; nervous but anxious ALT banner: a black cat peeks from around a corner
@mattjakubowski.bsky.social
Writer, dad, skater in West Philadelphia. #flashfiction in Variant Literature (forthcoming), Bulb Culture Collective, JAKE magazine, Best Microfiction 2024, Milk Candy Review. Poems in Stone Circle Review & 3:AM Magazine📚🌿 www.mattjakubowski.com/about/
@nicanstett.bsky.social
she/her 🏳️⚧️ writer of queer things. Lover of dinosaurs Stories in One Story, Witness Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, Passages North, Lightspeed, and other cool places. Represented by Erin Harris @ Folio Literary nicanstett.com
@writesloud.bsky.social
First Kicking, Then Not (Stanchion Aug 2025) https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/first-kicking-then-not Writer/Editor/Prof Columnist at WCP [email protected] she/they 🏳️🌈 ❤️ www.hgrieco.com
@coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
Writer / Librarian. HWA. Work in Electric Literature, the Deadlands, Strange Horizons, Nightmare Magazine, etc… Repped by Marie Lamba of Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency. Novel: Living in Cemeteries Collection: Haunted Ecologies CoreyFarrenkopf.com
@dorsalstream.bsky.social
You know, for kids. Lapsed philosopher. I do have a (creative nonfiction) newsletter thanks for asking: http://howtotalk.substack.com. For just my posts, click this monstrosity: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:u4p4mzethzbuovsc55tzbdhw/feed/aaaae2trykso
@danbillyc.bsky.social
Writer. Giver of care. Straight Down the Road (Ad Hoc Fiction) | The Wind, It Swirls (Cowboy Jamboree Press) | Blur (Cowboy Jamboree Press). Stories appear in very nice places. https://dancrawley.com/
@avramargariti.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🇬🇷 writer, poet, editor /any pronouns words: Strange Horizons, The Deadlands, F&SF, Podcastle, Asimov's, Vastarien, Baffling, Nature, Gamut, FFO, Dark Matter, Best Microfiction 📧 [email protected] https://ko-fi.com/avramargariti
@lmanusos.bsky.social
She/Her | Indie Bookseller | 2 x Pushcart Nominee | Fiction in Reactor, F&SF, The Deadlands, Lightspeed, etc. | Senior Contributor for Book Riot | Rep: Eric Showers at Morhaim Literary Debut novella FROM THESE DARK ABODES available now!
@raimalarter.bsky.social
Writer & Scientist. Nonfiction Editor @utopiascifi.bsky.social Author of 3 novels, 2 collections & 1 nonfiction science book. Websites https://raimalarter.com/, raima.substack.com, https://writing.exchange/@raimalarter In Denver & loving it!
@literarysara.bsky.social
Reader, writer, environmental steward, recovering PhD. Philadelphia she/her literarysara.net
@sashabrown.bsky.social
Sasha Brown is a Stoker-nominated writer & gardener whose stories have been called “Creative! But in a bad way.” He’s in lit mags like X-R-A-Y and Split Lip, and in genre pubs like Bourbon Penn and Weird Horror. He’s online at sashabrownwriter.com.
@ericscottryon.bsky.social
Debut novel I’M THE UNDERTOW, forthcoming May ‘26 (Central Avenue) Rep’d by @clgslr.bsky.social at ArtHouse Literary Agency EIC: @flashfrog.bsky.social www.ericscottryon.com
@lumchanmfa.bsky.social
Native Hawaiian writer living in Japan https://www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/ Preorder Bitter over Sweet https://tinyurl.com/5hd7u63r Hard Skin http://tinyurl.com/yc53 Kahi&Lua http://tinyurl.com/3ryfzvwh
@chelseastickle.bsky.social
Flash writer. Everything's Changing (Thirty West, 2023) & Breaking Points (Black Lawrence, 2021). https://linktr.ee/chelseastickle
@megscarlson.bsky.social
Writer, activist, thinker // Stories in Pithead Chapel, X-R-A-Y, Bluestem, Quarter After Eight & others // www.megcarlson.com/stories
@skriptorium.info
Translator & flash sf writer (BSFA); likes travel, good coffee and bad puns; 🇨🇿/🇬🇧; happily married; he/him; 🏳️🌈/🏳️⚧️ ally No unsolicited DMs. 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 Collection 'Mars & More': https://books2read.com/MarsMore Links: https://linktr.ee/alastairmillar
@aijiang.bsky.social
🇨🇳🇨🇦 || she/her || Changle -> Toronto ||Ignyte, Bram Stoker, Nebula Winner || Hugo, Astounding, Locus nominee || Odyssey ‘23 || BA,MSc || rep: UTA & The Tobias Literary Agency || A PALACE NEAR THE WIND (Titan Books ‘25) https://aijiang.carrd.co/
@crankypacifist.bsky.social
he/them/y'all e pluribus unum sic semper tyrannis each person has inherent dignity don't follow me. i ain't gonna follow you. working class adhd academic in cackalacky (usa). i write crap for fun. jayparr.wordpress.com pfp by terijian bearheart
@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social
Multimodal af. Collective Gravities, Patterns of Orbit Escaping the Body, & more Every Galaxy Is a Circle forthcoming Co-EIC of @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social www.chloenclark.com Cover image: raspberry danishes Profile photo: a river heron
@marcc.bsky.social
I write short stories & drabbles, am a member of Codex and SFWA, carry on about Alabama (especially Huntsville), Fossils, metal detecting, some ill-mannered feline co-residents, and genealogy from my perch on #CedarGapMtn. https://kickin-the-darkness.com/
@renanbernardo.com
Nebula and Ignyte Finalist • Reactor, Clarkesworld, Apex • DISGRACED RETURN OF THE KAP'S NEEDLE - NOW OUT! • DIFFERENT KINDS OF DEFIANCE also OUT! • Codex • He/him • Brazilian author More: https://linktr.ee/renanbernardo1
@spencerorey.bsky.social
Writer | PhD anthropology | Odyssey '21 | Taos Toolbox '24 | Codexian | mostly SFFH things | Denmark | he/him find my stories here: https://spencerorey.com
@muteddragon.bsky.social
Chinese American short fiction writer in Fantasy, Cast of Wonders, Apex, Small Wonders, Worlds of Possibility WenWenWrites.com She/her. Codex, SFWA. Picture of Snow White from Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall
@bogiperson.bsky.social
Writer, editor, critic, scholar. Lambda + Hugo winner. Hungarian / Jewish / agender / neuroatypical. E/em/eir/emself or they. טומטום. Intersex. 100% migráncs in Lawrence, Kansas. Metroidbrainia enjoyer. Opinions my own & do not represent anyone else
@mariness.bsky.social
I write things. Occasionally they get published. Also occasionally on other sites, including marikness.wordpress.com, https://medium.com/@marikness, https://www.patreon.com/mari_ness. Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/mari_ness
@ghfinn.bsky.social
Author (Fiction & Nonfiction). Writes "Curious Forgotten Lore" https://bsky.app/profile/curious-lore.bsky.social & a mythmash of speculative fiction. Tweets on #Folklore, #Forteana & All Things #Wyrd & Wunderful
@matthandle.bsky.social
Reader and writer of horror and science fiction. Short stories can be found in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Dark Recesses Press, Bleed Error, and more.
@amulderwrites.bsky.social
SFFH author with shorts in Escape Pod, Fireside Fiction, & more. Somewhere in the middle of the Venn diagram of silly and scary. Dabbler in too many hobbies. ND. She/her. https://allisonmulder.wordpress.com/welcome/what-i-write/
@jennahanchey.bsky.social
"Badass fairy." SFWA & Codex. BSFA nominated writer. Ignyte & BF nominated narration. Poetry Ed @ Orion's Belt. Prof of Rhetoric & Critical/Cultural Studies. Researches African SFF & colonialism & development. she/her. https://jennahanchey.com
@powelleditorial.org
Christian | Author | Editor: www.powelleditorial.org | Founder: www.wocwriterscircle.org | Foodie | Support me on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/chyinap Other socials: https://powelleditorial.org/link-in-bio
@polenth.bsky.social
Fantasy and science fiction writer/artist with a tendency towards ecology and quietly strange things. Keeper of invertebrates and fish. Enjoys walking simulators and Second Life. Multiply marginalised. Website: http://www.polenthblake.com
@eggandcressida.bsky.social
Fiction + essays in/forthcoming: Apex, Lightspeed, The Deadlands, Fusion Fragment, Gamut, Factor Four, Kaleidotrope, The Baltimore Review, &c • 2024 Wigleaf Top 50 • Codex cressidaroe.wordpress.com
@writesofkathryn.bsky.social
Will write for coffee. Mostly flash, mostly fiction. Work in BULL, Centaur, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, HAD, Milk Candy, SmokeLong, Wigleaf. Chapbooks: A Map of Lost Places; For Every Tower, a Princess; Cooking Tips for the Demon-Haunted.
@patriciaqbidar.bsky.social
Author: Wild Plums (ELJ) Pardon Me for Moonwalking (Unsolicited Press, 12/25) Flash Fiction America (WW Norton) Best Short Fictions '23 and '24 Best Microfiction '23 Past Judge: Oxford Flash Fiction Prize
@slashnburnett.bsky.social
Doctor of food. Writer of stories. Neurospicy. Slush reader @flashfictiononline.bsky.social. Researcher at Fielden Whisky. Read my science&fiction: https://emmaburnett.uk Drabbleµ markets list: https://emmaburnett.uk/drabble-micro-markets
@mwithpen.bsky.social
Possible sea witch living by the Maine coast. Spec fic/fantasy writer of flash fiction, novels, and everything in between. Perpetually Exhausted Parent™. Forever a theater kid. Bi/demi she/her. melissaburkart.com
@fklein907.bsky.social
Alaskan poet, teacher, parent. Books: Text Messages from The Angel Gabriel (Gnashing Teeth 2024), Another Life (Riot in Your Throat 2025) https://linktr.ee/francesklein