@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
@rebeccamakkai.bsky.social
Pulitzer finalist for THE GREAT BELIEVERS; new novel, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, out now. Artistic Director at StoryStudio Chicago. Trying to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. You should, too. rebeccamakkai.substack.com https://rebeccamakkai.com
@michaelzapata.bsky.social
Author of the novel THE LOST BOOK OF ADANA MOREAU. Faculty at StoryStudio Chicago & Northwestern University. Descended from Andean farmers, poets, and union organizers. michaelzapata.com
@chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
A @storystudiochicago.bsky.social publication! Editor-in-Chief @mbwwelch.bsky.social
@jamesklise.bsky.social
reader/h.s. educator/writer I’ll Take Everything You Have, The Art of Secrets (Algonquin/Hachette), rep Jennifer Laughran at ABLA. Teaches at StoryStudio in Chicago
@elizabethniarchosneukirch.com
🇬🇷 Fiction writer & nonprofit PR consultant 📝 Modern life + Greek myths, folk stories and women’s oral histories Tin House Summer Workshop '23 Rep: Emily Forland (Brandt & Hochman) 📷: Diane Alexander White
@mbwwelch.bsky.social
EIC at @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social. Words in Electric Lit, Prairie Schooner, Kenyon Review, North American Review, & more.
@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
@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 +
@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
@stevetrumpeter.bsky.social
Fiction writer, painter, musician. Recent short stories in Southern Review, Chicago Tribune, Tahoma Literary Review, etc. http://stevetrumpeter.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.
@cynthiapelayo.bsky.social
Bram Stoker Award & Int’l Latino Book Award winning author| VANISHING DAUGHTERS, Thomas & Mercer| GHOSTS OF WHERE WE ARE FROM, Atria/Primero Sueño| LOTERÍA & CHICAGO SAGA, Hachette| School of the Art Institute MFAW, PhD English candidate | Rep-Lane Heymont
@finejuli.bsky.social
Wrote MADDALENA AND THE DARK (Flatiron), THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE and WHAT SHOULD BE WILD (Harper). The witch from next door.
@ignatius2u.bsky.social
Host/Curator: sundaysalon-chicago.com > Ragdale, Board of Trustees member & Co-Chair, Curatorial Bd. Writer & poet. Books: Fishhead. Republic of Want (novel) & Salt Pruning (poetry) https://linktr.ee/ignatius.valentine.aloysius
@awolfson.bsky.social
Writing memoir, poetry, essays, and performance-stuff, etc., in Chicago. I also do software. If you wanna keep up with me: newsletter.aaronjacobwolfson.com
@andymboyle.bsky.social
Chicago person. Nonfiction books with Penguin Random House. Journalism in Esquire, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Boston Globe, elsewhere. Fiction in some hip spots. 2023 Hugh Holton award winner. Medium tall.
@czaerra.bsky.social
(they/them) author of Pisces Urges (Sampaguita Press, 2023), tito of Luya, poet laureate of my parents’ backyard, very from Chicago
@eirencaffall.bsky.social
Lyrical dispatches from the apocalypse. Words in Orion, Guernica, The Rumpus, LARB, Al Jazeera, memoir THE MOURNER’S BESTIARY (Row House, 2024), and novel ALL THE WATER IN THE WORLD (St. Martin’s, 2025)
@gaylebrandeis.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, gentle rabble rouser. Co-proprietor of Secret World Books in Highland Park, IL.
@nupress.bsky.social
Northwestern University Press is dedicated to publishing books of enduring scholarly and cultural value, from philosophy, to poetry, to lit crit, to translations, and beyond. We are home to TriQuarterly and Curbstone Books.
@bookends.bsky.social
Evanston's independent bookstore 1620 Orrington Ave. Open every day! 10-6 Sunday-Tuesday 10-8 Wednesday-Saturday
@roscoebooks.bsky.social
We are your friendly neighborhood bookstore located in Chicago's Roscoe Village. Order online at www.roscoebooks.com.
@kathleenmrooney.bsky.social
Poet / novelist / essayist in Chicago Professor at DePaul University & Editor at Rose Metal Press Writings at https://kathleenrooney.com/ Typewritings at http://poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com
@purelyfiction.bsky.social
I teach at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Here for writing: experimental, fictional, constrained, with images, with music. My book reviews are on Goodreads. All the art stuff is over on Academia.
@adnauman.bsky.social
I am an author and educator in Chicago. My latest novel is DOWN THE STEEP, a Great Group Reads 2024 pick for book clubs. I teach literacy education at Northeastern Illinois University. Also, I have a cat.
@mxfaylitahicks.bsky.social
Grammy-nominated Writer, Performer, Interdisciplinary Artist. Author of A MAP OF MY WANT (Haymarket Books , 2024) and HOODWITCH (Acre Books, 2019).
@windycitytimes.com
Windy City Times: Your go-to source for LGBTQ+ news, culture, and community stories in Chicago. Founded 1985.
@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
@robertloerzel.bsky.social
Chicagoan, journalist, photographer, author, copy editor, flâneur. https://www.robertloerzel.com/
@mpmthewriter.bsky.social
Author of the Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery series; DEATH IN THE CARDS (May 13, 2025) Filipino American 🇵🇭🏳️🌈 She/her https://linktr.ee/mpmthewriter
@haymarketbooks.org
radical publisher of politics, culture, current events haymarketbooks.org
@observacious.bsky.social
Writer, dabbler, daydreamer. Halloween queen. Chicago by way of a lot of places. She/her
@pilsencommbooks.bsky.social
Established 2016, worker owned and operated since 2020. Always Carry A Book
@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
@urrealism.bsky.social
Author and reader, husband & grandpa, scribbler in notebooks, wanderer. Team Urrea is always on the scenic route.
@martinseay.bsky.social
Author of The Mirror Thief (Melville House 2016). Suspicious of brevity.
@jarvissquarebooks.bsky.social
Small used & new bookstore in Rogers Park, Chicago. 1522 W. Jarvis Tuesday-Sunday, 11-6 Posts most often by @kateharding.bsky.social
@jesskeller42.bsky.social
Reader, writer, dog lover, traveler. Formerly always in motion, I'm learning how to stand still and I love it.
@rosemetalpress.bsky.social
Rose Metal Press is a non-profit publisher specializing in the publication of hybrid genre books. Founded in 2006. Posts by co-founders Abby Beckel and Kathleen Rooney. Check out our books and amazing authors here: www.rosemetalpress.com
@eveewing.bsky.social
I’m a Chicagoan and a prof and I write a lot of things like books [Original Sins, Electric Arches, 1919, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, Maya and the Robot] and comics [Exceptional X-Men, Black Panther, Ironheart] and more + I love my dog so so much
@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