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@celaina.bsky.social
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@meghamaj.bsky.social
Author of the novel A Burning, nominated for the National Book Award, the NBCC John Leonard Prize, and the ALA Carnegie Medal
@magdabartkowska.bsky.social
Immigrant from Gdańsk, Poland | Writer & Editor @ magdalenabartkowska.com | Author of THIS PLACE WHERE YOU ARE (forthcoming from @bettybooks.bsky.social, an imprint of @wtawpress.bsky.social)
@sarahspy.com
Fiction writer, revising a coming-of-age novel; Tin House Winter '24, One Story Summer '23 alum 🙈 http://Storychord.com founding editor 🙉 eavesdropper, signal booster, she/her, Massachusetts 🙊 sarahspyblog@gmail | https://sarahspy.com
@exploringallgenres.bsky.social
Book blogger. Manga and Anime. Japanese snack enthusiast. Writer. Gardener. #booksky https://exploringallgenres.com/
@volcanojess.com
That volcanologist you saw on TV. Ran for Congress, wrote MS. ADVENTURE, did the world's longest horse race. Host of CATASTROPHE! & THIS IS SCIENCE. Mohawk-haver, punk rock devotee, WFR, super into protecting democracy.
@eckslibris.bsky.social
PFP: a white person w/a flo mask, on an airplane. Cover: 2 horses sniffing noses. I work with horses & make mosaics. Black Lives Matter. Support Trans Folks. I’m in Texas but not of it. Fat is an adjective, not an insult. Covid is not over. They/them
@ruthmensch.bsky.social
disability justice, education law attorney despite the best wishes of some Free Palestine, forever anti-Zionist Jew via El Paso
@ryanwrites.bsky.social
Writes CNF and short fiction www.ryantpozzi.com Rep: The Anderson Literary Agency https://andersonliteraryagency.com Author of The Mess That Made Them Appears in Across the Margin, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Villain Era, Northern New England Review, others.
@sarahceniaminor.bsky.social
visual essayist, hype man, collaborator, prof Author of Carousel (Yale University Press, 2026), Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit (Noemi Press, 2021), Bright Archive (Rescue Press, 2020) www.sarahceniaminor.com
@rosalindtatewriter.bsky.social
Rosalind is an award-winning bestselling fantasy author. Expect brave female protagonists, animal side kicks, humour, and a slow-burn love triangle over centuries to swoon over 💗
@laurasell.bsky.social
I promote books at Duke University Press. Reader, cat lover, messy cook and lazy gardener. Will plunge into any nearby body of water.
@sfwp.bsky.social
Santa Fe Writers Project - globally distributed publisher of fiction & CNF since '98. Subrights repped by Susan Schulman. Distributed by IPG. Find out more at sfwp.com
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Horror bitch. HORROR FOR WEENIES on sale now. Reviews etc in the NYTBR, Vulture, Slate, Reactor, & more. She/her. 🍉 readjumpscares.com
@jhannahart.bsky.social
Judith Hannah Weiss began writing at Time Magazine, freelanced for 25 years, and was then hit by a truck. Post-truck, she has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best American Essay. https://judithhannahweiss.substack.com/
@mlamont.bsky.social
Harvard social scientist, author of #SeeingOthers #GettingRespect #DignityofWorkingMen and more. Curious mind, mother, friend, mentor, professor, sociologist www.michelelamont.org
@pauldrybooks.bsky.social
Indie publisher est. 2000. Essays, philosophy, science, and the cult smash of 1930, His Monkey Wife.
@milligannoah.bsky.social
Author & Co-founder of the Writer's Co-op at @literatipress.bsky.social Books: An Elegant Theory (2016), Five Hundred Poor (2018), & Into Captivity They Will Go (2019) Find them here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Noah-Milligan/220312813
@marybattenauthor.bsky.social
Author, nature/science books, articles, TV documentaries. Emmy nominee for work on Children’s Television Workshop’s series, 3-2-1 CONTACT. Recent book, Life in Hot Water: Wildlife at the Bottom of the Ocean. #AuthorsGuild Website: MaryBatten.com
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📘 Author of 'New Day, My Way, Your Life' 🎯 To Inspire & Motivate 📨 Over 500,000+ Newsletter Readers https://tomer-rozenberg.com/
@pappyparki.bsky.social
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming Wow! What a Ride
@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.
@maryannaise.bsky.social
I write about climate change/grief/justice. Author of Troubled Waters (novel) & The World is Ours to Cherish (children’s book). Birmingham bred me, Mississippi fed me. ❤️🌍💚🌎🖤 https://www.maryannaiseheglar.com/
@nsborwein.bsky.social
Horror scholar, poet, PhD, HWA, Co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social, EIC Katabatic Circus, Global Indigenous Horror (@upmississippi.bsky.social, 2025). Words in Utopia Science Fiction, Space & Time, Lovecraftiana, and more
@levistahl.bsky.social
Editor of The Getaway Car: A Donald Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany and The Daily Sherlock Holmes. Marketing Director at the University of Chicago Press. Board member of the Uptown People’s Law Center.
@michelleephraim.bsky.social
Professor of English. Mom of 4. McSweeney's. The Moth Radio Hour + podcast. Author of GREEN WORLD: A Tragicomic Memoir of Love & Shakespeare (Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction). Cohost of the Everyday Shakespeare podcast. www.michelleephraim.com
@nightowlfreelance.bsky.social
Vanessa Anderson, MFA Creative Writing; Professional Certificate in Editing, UC Berkeley | Fiction & Nonfiction Editor | Writing Consultant | Publishing Coach | DMs—about Editing & Publishing Services—Welcome 👍 Website: NightOwlFreelance.com, Est. 2010
@europaeditions.bsky.social
We are an independent publisher of literary fiction, high-end mystery and noir, and narrative non-fiction from around the world. europaeditions.com
@kathyfish.bsky.social
Ploughshares | Best American Nonreq'd | Copper Nickel Editors' Prize | The Norton Reader | ElectricLit | Flash Fiction America | Swamp Pink (fmrly Crazyhorse) | Wigleaf | The Art of Flash Fiction https://artofflashfiction.substack.com
@karitrescott.bsky.social
Chief Trouble-Maker @ #5GOODThings 📍 North Oregon Coast 🌊 GenX Progressive Dem 💜 She/Her 🌈 Demi-Ace🧷 Crochet Artist 🧶Late diagnosed AuDHDy🌻Disabled ♿️ Spoonie🥄Relearning Social Media 📸 Usually lost in 🧶 #TangledTales 😜 Etsy https://tangledtalesco.etsy.com 🫂
@vickymackenzie.bsky.social
Writer, cat lady, John Ruskin obsessive, wrote a novel about medieval mystics. Aspiring anchoress. https://victoriamackenzie.net/ Substack: https://victoriamackenzie.substack.com/
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Lefty, plant based, Buddhist, nature, culture, art, science Multipotentialite LGBTQIA2S+ ally NYCFC! Mets, Gotham FC, FC St Pauli, Everton https://letterboxd.com/kamuka https://friendshipwithshams.blogspot.com/ https://hikinginnature.blogspot.com/
@fwcollaborative.bsky.social
The Freedom Writers Collaborative is truly a grass roots operation providing messaging and social media content inspired by our progressive allies. https://freedomwriterscollaborative.org
@profbrucedorsey.bsky.social
Historian, writer. Professor of History, Swarthmore College. Most recent: MURDER IN A MILL TOWN (Oxford UP). Rep'd by Mullane Literary Associates.
@judashman.bsky.social
Mayor - @GburgMD | Founder & Chair - @gburgbookfest Twitter handle: @judashman All-around fan of my fellow man. Also I 💚 the Miami Heat & you may hear about that sometimes. 🔥
@europeanreview.bsky.social
A magazine about culture and ideas, from Europe, for the world, with essays, reviews, stories, profiles and other adventurous writing.
@samthebookseller.bsky.social
Bookseller. Opinionated. Likely suspect. 📚 🧀 🐈⬛️ Would love to read yr nwsletter but no to substack. Also nope to spotify playlists.
@mollyken.bsky.social
Living in Ireland with an eclectic collection of Dogs, cats, birds, plants and humans. Published works include; Seven Steps to Birth a Crone, Into the Grey, Splinters, Catching Bats Takes Patience, From the Stones, Sunny Spells Scattered Showers.
@amykaufmanburk.bsky.social
Therapist turned author. Love reading, writing, libraries, bookstores. Indie author. Hollywood Pride, a novel supporting LGBTQ+ and racial equality, against bullying. Available as an ebook and paperback. YA, Historical Fiction. She, her. amykaufmanburk.com
@theatticmouse.bsky.social
Writer. Lover of words. Stories. Lyrics. Big words, little words. Swear words. #writing #fiction #author (in progress) Just migrated here from ‘the other place’ and need some new like-minded friends x
@propublica.org
Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts. Got a tip for us? Go to: https://www.propublica.org/tips/
@saltybeth.bsky.social
Actor stand in, dog lover, avid buyer of books my friends write that I will never read because my nose is firmly up the social media orifice