VCCA
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) provides time and space to writers, visual artists, and composers at artist residency programs in Virginia and France. #VCCAFellows
@beckyblake.bsky.social
Writer of true and made-up stories. Author of the novel Proof I Was Here and Truly Important, a newsletter for CNF writers
@laurahulthenthomas.bsky.social
Writer, reader, teacher. https://laurahulthenthomas.com/
@staranise99.bsky.social
Born in NYC. Immigrant, settler, writer. Dog behaviour geek. Precedented Parroting 🦜 (poetry) Finalist, Canada's 2024 Governor General's Literary Award #anstrutherbooks | @palimpsestpress.bsky.social barbaratran.com | https://linktr.ee/barbaratran
@paulawhyman.bsky.social
Author, BAD NATURALIST: One Woman's Ecological Education on a Wild Virginia Mountaintop, Jan 2025 from Timber Press/Hachette. Website: https://paulawhyman.com Newsletter: https://badnaturalistnewsletter.beehiiv.com/
@kristenradtke.bsky.social
Creative Director at The Verge, author of books incl SEEK YOU: A JOURNEY THROUGH AMERICAN LONELINESS
@amychenwrites.bsky.social
Writer, editor, dog mom Repped by Alicia Brooks, Martin Literary Management
@penparentis.bsky.social
Pen Parentis Nonprofit organization Building community for parent-writers • Connect with us #readatpenparentis • Offering meetups, fellowship, networking, mentorship, and more linktr.ee/penparentis
@harrigansharon.bsky.social
Writer, editor, teacher in Charlottesville, Virginia. Author of the memoir Playing with Dynamite and the novel Half.
@larapayne.bsky.social
Poet, artist, native plants, clay, textiles, crafts, parenting, costuming. Would rather be outside.
@mcbattiste.bsky.social
Poet, conservationist, writer of oracles and grant proposals. Author of four books, including Waiting for the Wreck to Burn and the forthcoming The Elsewhere Oracle. www.michelebattiste.net
@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 mocounderground@gmail.com.
@ndbookshop.bsky.social
Charlottesville's independent bookshop since 1924. Shop local and support your community bookstore!
@dcwritersroom.bsky.social
Washington, DC's 24/7 co-working studio for writers located in the heart of Tenleytown https://www.dcwritersroom.com/
@michaelmontlack.bsky.social
NYC Poet, Writer, Photographer, Traveler, Camper, Educator (City College)
@katoya.bsky.social
Writer | Editor @ Lookout Books | Professor @ UNCW CRW | Dream’s mom | Very Peachy 🍑 | Oh So Spelman-y 💁🏽♀️🩵🤍|
@beekaekae.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, workshop leader. Hand holder Words in: X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, Unbroken, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Cease, Cows and others. Pushcart nominee. www.bethkanter.com Books: No Access DC & Great Food Finds DC…
@moyetteg.bsky.social
Writer. Winner HachetteUK Debut Author Bursary 2023. Rep'd by Hannah Schofield at LBA Books. Comms @BlackGirlWriters. Steering Committee @saloneurope, and helping to organise @genevawriters Conference 2025. Londoner in🇨🇭📚📚
@iaawc.bsky.social
Indigenous-Aboriginal American Writers imparting field-related craft, pedagogy, celebrations, & concerns nativewriterscaucus.wordpress.com
@twolinespress.bsky.social
Two Lines Press is a book publisher committed to daring and original literature in translation. We also publish the Calico series, collections of work curated around a particular theme, region, style, or moment. We are part of @catranslation.bsky.social.
@dorothyproject.bsky.social
St. Louis-based press distributed by New York Review Books. Fiction & near fiction. Two books every Fall. Renee Gladman. Leonora Carrington. Cristina Rivera Garza. Nathalie Léger. Amina Cain. Giada Scodellaro. Pip Adam. Kate Briggs. Etc. dorothyproject.com
@jbkeener.bsky.social
Author of Nat'l bestselling novel, Night Swim| Indie Next pick & SIBA bestseller, Strangers in Budapest| award-winning stories, Women In Bed| Co-founder of Writers for Blue| Believes in positive change
@markdanowsky.bsky.social
EiC of ONE ART: a journal of poetry >>> @oneart.bsky.social ⬇️ Daily Poems ⬇️ ~ oneartpoetry.com ~ ⬇️ Stay Curious ⬇️ ~ markdanowsky.substack.com ~
@cliffgarstang.bsky.social
Writer The Guy Who Does the Lit Mag Rankings CliffordGarstang.com
@andrewmcknight.bsky.social
Lucky to be human, a dad, touring #singersongwriter, recording artist, author, filmmaker?, #familyhistorian & most of all a "storytender" - please visit http://andrewmcknight.net. #UU, former Enviro Engr., go #Caps & #Nats!, #nativegarden, ❤️ 2 cook
@ellenpcampbell.bsky.social
info on novels, stories, reviews www.ellencampbell.net and see Girl Writing Blog:https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/portal-to-the-past
@elissafield.bsky.social
Lit noir novels + flash | SmokeLong Submission Ed | Stories in/coming SmokeLong, Reckon Review, HAD, Hypertext, Ghost Parachute, Monkeybicycle, Citron Review, Peatsmoke, CRAFT, Conjunctions ++ | IG FB elissalaurenfield.com
@memonteith.bsky.social
Walks further than people think. Humanities teacher & fiction writer with words in Bomb, McSweeney’s, Evergreen Review, Fugue, Gargoyle and more. USC BA/Columbia University MA/Brooklyn College MFA. she/her/hers www.margaretzamosmonteith.com
@kristaeastman.bsky.social
Writer. Person. // Recent work here: https://www.newletters.org/school-children-by-krista-eastman/ And here: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/26/article/941455/pdf
@belmontbooks.bsky.social
The biggest independent bookstore in Belmont, MA! (Also, the only one.) Loves: Books, readers, teachers, schools, kids, parents, dogs, cats, mythical creatures and desserts of all kinds! Visit us at https://belmontbooks.com or on Instagram!
@emilyskaja.bsky.social
Poet, professor, dog enthusiast. Author of BRUTE (Graywolf 2019). CW faculty at Memphis MFA.
@chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social
Baltimore poet/writer. Words everywhere. BOTN/Pushcart nom. Reader at Fractured Lit. Reader at Atlanta Review. My chapbook Somewhere, Someone Is Forgetting You is coming out in May from Alien Buddha Press. www.chrissystegman.com
@esfletcher.bsky.social
writer, yoga therapist, Bowie fan | asst cnf editor Pithead Chapel | Pushcart nom | BOTN nom | wigleaf LL | stage NED | ope Writing: www.esfletcher.com
@annalindsey.bsky.social
Writer. Currently querying contemporary YA. Bibliophile. Fueled by wine and chocolate chip cookies. Dolly Parton stan account. #PR/comms by day. Hamline MFAC alum and Penn State instructor. she/her/hers https://www.annalindsey.com/
@catharinacoenen.bsky.social
Bio Prof. Essayist. Books, plants, dogs. First essay collection on family, fascism, science, and war coming out from Restless Books in Fall of 2025.
@dustinbrookshire.bsky.social
4 chapbooks. Editor of When I Was Straight: A Tribute To Maureen Seaton. Co-editor of Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology. Founder/curator of the Wild & Precious Life Series. Founder/editor of Limp Wrist.
@poetcamp.bsky.social
I’m a poet, teacher and free-range librarian, and the founder of Poet Camp. #wompo *And brand new to Bluesky as of 9/5! PoetCamp.com
@cabockwrites.bsky.social
✍️Writer. The Other Beautiful People, a novel, (Regal House Publishing), publication date: June 2, 2026. 📚Co-President/editor with the Washington Writers’ Publishing House Reader, Theater-reviewer, Small Talk columnist, lifelong 💙 and ally to all 🏳️🌈
@jenjblackburn.bsky.social
poet, author of Girl in a Bear Suit (Elixir Press 2024) and Disambiguation (Salamander/Suffolk U 2024). Program and Outreach Coordinator at Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College #binders
@jodyhobbshesler.bsky.social
Writer & Writing Teacher Without You Here, Finalist Southern Literary Rvw novel of the year, 2025 What Makes You Think You're Supposed to Feel Better, story collection https://linktr.ee/jodyhobbshesler www.jodyhobbshesler.com She/her
@abbymanzella.bsky.social
Writer, book critic, prof. MIGRATING FICTIONS (Ohio State UP). Pushcart Prize winner. Writing at Threepenny Review, LitHub, Indianapolis Review, Superstition Review, Colorado Review, Star Tribune, and HAD. Flash & longform https://abbymanzella.weebly.com/
@andreabishop.bsky.social
Writer with words in The Masters Review, trampset, Grain, The Fiddlehead, Orca, & elsewhere. Thanks to Canada Council for the Arts. Tin House Workshop Alumna. Knows: healthcare, psych, change. Endorses: forests, dogs, quests. 🇨🇦 andreabishop.ca
@therealmarceline.bsky.social
ED of Economic Action Maryland. Writer. Pushcart & Best of the Net nominated poet. Advocate. Leftist.Tarot reader. chronically ill, perpetually bi, sometimes snarky. Good cook, bad gardener. www.marcelinewhitewrites.com, www.econaction.org
@andimuse.bsky.social
Poet. Teacher. Mother. Trouble maker. Museum of the Soon Departed (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2024).
@maiaevrona.bsky.social
Poet, prose writer, translator of Yiddish poetry, tanguera, Leonard Cohen enthusiast. #NEAarts fellow "From a Bird's Cage to a Thin Branch; The Selected Poems of Yosef Kerler" out now from White Goat Press www.maiaevrona.com
@caitlinmandrews.bsky.social
Writer and cottagecore queer based in Seattle. Heart in Dublin. Novel-in-progress: queer historical espionage in Ireland. Electric Lit, New Square, Short Édition, etc. Hugo House & DigiPen pay the bills.
@tenacious-oz.bsky.social
Nʉmʉnʉʉ (Comanche) Secret Agent, Artist, & Wordsmith ED of Puha Hubiya Author of Arachnid Verve shaunaosborn.com