Jessica Smith
Mom, poet, + artist in Alabama
FT Instructor of English + Gender Studies Adjunct
Former k12 + YA librarian, archivist
PhD student in Comms/Book History
(Posts don’t reflect my institution)
🔗https://linktr.ee/thedaybooks
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Feeds, key people, and stuff I like
Southern Writers/Artsy People
People making art and poetry and stuff in the Southeast US. Stop telling us to secede.
@hollyanderson.bsky.social
✨ Aquarius ⛰ Appalachian 🛸 ATLien priors: EDSBS, Sports Illustrated, Grantland, MTV, and a million other dead newsrooms now: @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social & @channel6.bsky.social, American Coonhound Rescue volunteer, miscellaneous hellraising
@angelicahankins.bsky.social
Art critic based in Washington, D.C. Writing in Artforum, Humanities, and Smithsonian magazine. AngelicaHankins.com
@markwheelerii.bsky.social
Candidate from Alabama - US Senate 2026. Directly opposing Tommy Tuberville Together, we win! www.MarkWheelerForSenate.com
@jessdutschmann.bsky.social
🧑🎓 Interdisciplinary Academic, VR/XR Staff, MFA Fine Arts, Writer and Maker 🔗 jessdutschmann.carrd.co ©️ All personal creative output licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 Intl License.
@monicafrederick.substack.com
🔸Avid reader & writer and occasional gamer 🔸Exploring the threads of mythology, history, psychology, spirituality, and culture that make up the tapestry of today’s world 🔸Rewriting Myth on Substack: 🔗 https://monicafrederick.substack.com/ She/Her
@andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social
Literary editor - Leftlion Magazine Words in Under the Radar, Comma Press, Nottingham Post Writer-in-residence with Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature '24 Tall, dark and haggard.
@ceyingst.bsky.social
researcher, often around the 18th century, but sometimes earlier, sometimes later. novels, books, bibliography, media, gender, periodicals, & more. they/he. currently between Edinburgh & the US currently Bibliography Fellow @ The Linda Hall Library
@zinelibraries.bsky.social
Sharing the zine library love. ✂️💖 Find Zine Pavilion at the American Library Library Association in Philadelphia, June 27-30, 2025. #ALAAC25
@yannoehl.bsky.social
creative-errant | “artist” | meta-plagiarist | bricoleur | proudly degenerate | bad poet | unintentional curator | confabulator | intellectually barren [insert appropriate virtue signal here] https://linktr.ee/yannoehl
@cindy-apodaca.bsky.social
Eh. Not much to tell. Retired but busy. Try to be decent, fair, charitable. Love not hate. Dogs, cats, Alabama 🏈
@translifeline.org
Peer support & crisis hotline for the trans community. 🇺🇸 877-565-8860 🇨🇦 877-330-6366 website: translifeline.org donate: https://give.translifeline.org
@runeverdeep.bsky.social
She/her Trans rights 🏳️⚧️ Poetry, hope, and encouragement #lgbtq+ #hope #poetry #transandnonbinarypoetry
@robedmunds.bsky.social
I'm a Welsh writer of two novels about the ancient Numidian King Masinissa set during the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage. 🏴 ⵜⴰⵏⵎⵎⵉⵔⵜ https://linktr.ee/robedmunds
@durhamwriter.bsky.social
creative writing, comedy, cats, crafts, cooking, charity shops, collector of curiosities, castles and cathedrals, coast and countryside, coffee and conversation.
@ucmarxistinstitute.bsky.social
@jennylangin.bsky.social
Shut Up, Goblin! I Don't Know You! Happy Fun Ball™. 🫧 Painfully earnest. She/Her. @jennylangin.bsky.social 🤓 🏳️🌈 🐈 📚 ✒️ 🌓 💊 🚪 🛣 🌃 🌌
@inperfectwander.bsky.social
Teacher in NJ, Emerging Poet Published in various Lit Mags / Working on manuscript! Photography for my own delight After Beauty & Wonder 🏳️🌈 Here to share, connect, encourage and create! https://www.surprisedbyjoyphoto.com/blog Insta @inperfectwander
@mxjonescn.bsky.social
non-binary middle school history teacher in the bay area 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 ❤️ my dog and spouse BAWP Fellow: Cohort 50 Guerrilla Cartography board member. learning to play drums. trying to write things. oh, and protect trans kids. free palestine. end the occupation.
@halseanderson.bsky.social
Forest creature who writes books & champions libraries. American heart, Danish soul. Author of YAs: Speak, Shout & many more Historical adventure novels: Chains, Forge, Ashes & Fever 1793. Rebellion 1776 comes out April 1, 2025.
@rosemarymosco.com
Nature comics (Bird and Moon). Books about nature. Talks. Bird facts. rosemarymosco.com She/her.
@kasteeltracey.bsky.social
Writer and editor specialising in family stories and histories, biographies, autobiographies and memoirs https://traceyhawthorne.weebly.com/
@thehiddenclinic.bsky.social
I write from the fracture lines—where empire meets memory, where medicine forgets, and policy gasps for breath. Diaspora-touched, clinically trained, spiritually disobedient. This is a hidden clinic for systems in collapse and souls in transition.
@blbalthaser.bsky.social
Assoc prof of multiethnic US lit; au of Dedication (2011), Anti-Imperialist Modernism (2016), Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism & the Cultures of the US Jewish Left (forthcoming). He/him. 🕎🌹😷 Chicago 🐢 https://iusb.academia.edu/BenjaminBalthaser
@cvrsecatcher.bsky.social
Poet, writer, & tinkerer living in Portland, OR. Writer in Residence with Chateau Orquevaux, May 2024 Grown in the Midwest — Home on the West Coast. www.vincenzocreative.com
@reading2learn.bsky.social
School Librarian-Wife-Mom-Educator-Tech-Books #TLsky #tlchat #digcit #mglit #EDUsky #futurereadylibs #istelibs #aasl #ncte #elachat #ELLs #BookPosse 🌈ally #WeNeedDiverseBooks ☮️
@osiyo7.bsky.social
Cherokee Nation Citizen, Vietnam Veterans Against the War #landback #reader, #writer, #poet, #harmonicaplayer, #DEI, lover of art, music, and democracy Lifelong activist No DMs
@neiu-cw.bsky.social
Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more! https://www.neiu.edu/academics/college-of-arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
@forgottenpoets.bsky.social
❖ Poems & Pictures ❖ #ForgottenPoets edited by Dick Whyte #dwpoems, a newsletter of pre-1930s poetry ❖ ❖ Poetry Newsletter ❖ https://forgottenpoets.substack.com ❖ Poetry New Zealand ❖ #PoetryAotearoa ❖ Haiku Translations ❖ @dailyhaikai.bsky.social
@shadesofgreen.bsky.social
A Thousand Shades of Green is a Literary podcast celebrating contemporary writers. Join Susan Richardson to hear her read an array of Gorgeous poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction from writers all over the globe! https://athousandshadesofgreen.com
@epistemiclit.bsky.social
Fully digital anthology series celebrating knowledge, connection, and growth through poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. EICs @melruthwrites.bsky.social and @kristinwrites.bsky.social Epistemiclit.com
@everscribemag.bsky.social
Everscribe is a non-profit digital literary magazine for poems, fiction, and nonfiction publishing monthly issues. Submissions are always open! everscribemag.com
@tomblake17.bsky.social
Some atoms in the shape of an elongated hominid. Poems. Writing reviews for KLOF mag. Buy my book here https://www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/product-page/%C6%A8-tom-blake
@mattnicholson365.bsky.social
Poet, performer, pedant. One quarter of The 4 Johns. For more info and to buy my books, please visit and browse www.mattpoet.com (hoping to have a fifth collection out in 2025 so please feel free to invite me to read at your poetry events xxx)
@spiropoetry.bsky.social
I work with Winchester Poetry Festival, Open University Poetry Society and Winchester Muse - a spoken word event in Winchester. I write poetry and sometimes it gets published. https://www.spiropoetry.com/ Hedgehog Press Pushcart nominated Dandarabilla.
@traceyrhys.bsky.social
Poet (Parthian, Green Bottle Press), short stories from Honno. Freelance editor & proofreader (The Royal Mint, Seren Books, Poetry Wales) & artist. No weird DMs (I shouldn't have to say it). 'Bathing on the Roof' due out Spring 2025 from Parthian Books.
@sarahleavesley.bsky.social
Prize-winning poet, fiction writer, journalist and photographer. Author of 9 poetry titles, 2 novellas & a poetry-play. More at http://sarah-james.co.uk. Also, editor at V. Press, award-winning poetry & flash fiction. (Profile pic by Gary Carr.)
@northseanavigator.bsky.social
Poet: 'Searchlight Seasons' (Atomic Bohemian, 2024) | Alpine Fellowship Prize SL '23 | Ginkgo Prize SL '22 & '21 Composer: North Sea Navigator | Holmes + atten Ash Art-photographer: Paul atten Ash Bristol, Europe https://campsite.bio/northseanavigator
@robmilespoetry.bsky.social
Words & Pictures Poet, Broken Sleep Books; academic, University of Leeds More here: https://shorturl.at/IYmT1
@markconnors.bsky.social
A widely published poet, novelist and creative writing tutor, based near Skipton. Co-managing editor of Yaffle Press and Yaffle's Nest. Running and music take up much of my spare time. Website: www.markconnors.co.uk.
@drjrad.bsky.social
Writer/Editor/Poet. Re-emerging poet after a decade+ break from writing/submitting. What do I do with all these SASEs? Words in Boulevard, Copper Nickel, The Journal, and countless responses to federal government RFPs. josephradke.com
@jennymitchellgo.bsky.social
Winner of the Gregory O'Donohue Prize, the Poetry Book Awards etc. 3 poetry collections - 'Map of a Plantation' on the syllabus at Manchester Metropolitan Uni. Widely published. Facilitate poetry workshops for the British Library and British Museum.
@armillner.bsky.social
Fiction writer, sometimes poet. Killing my inner demons one word at a time while navigating the hardships of middle age. https://linktr.ee/armillner She/They non-binary weirdo