Up the Staircase Quarterly
An online journal of poetry & art.
posts by editor @aprilmbratten.bsky.social
http://www.upthestaircase.org
@terraoliveira.bsky.social
writer & visual artist founding editor of recenter press 📚 preorder my poetry book: itinerant songs https://www.recenterpress.com/store/p15/itinerantsongs.html 💌 newsletter http://terraoliveira.substack.com
@hool415.bsky.social
Nominated for a Forward Prize and Two Pushcart Awards. Black Bough (Silver Branch Poet), East Ridge Review (Featured Poet), Frogmore Papers, Full House Literary, Dreich, Dream Catcher, Starbeck Orion, Pulp Poets Press, Broken Spine, Frazzled Lit.
@melpsoul.bsky.social
Mom, poet, @txstmfa grad. She/her. GIRL FILLING THE SKY coming Jan ‘26. Work in SWWIM, Poetry South, Phoebe, Minnesota Review, SweetLit, Thimble, others. Strong opinions my own. www.melissamhuckabay.com
@caitlinohalloran.bsky.social
She/Her. Writer (Poetry and Flash Fiction) Millennial. Rochester, NY. Recently published in Gone Lawn, Lost Balloon, North of Oxford, EAP Magazine, and The Prose Poem. www.caitlinohalloran.com
@perugiapress.bsky.social
Founded in 1997, Perugia Press is a nonprofit feminist press supporting women poets, including all gender-expansive definitions of that term, in print & beyond. https://linktr.ee/perugiapress
@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.
@kitikins.bsky.social
human, existing. :This is a Pamela A. McClure fan account EIC @thepinkpoetryclub
@meganmiskiman.bsky.social
poet. artist. dog enthusiast. struggler of many things. current read: sea of tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel
@vicnogaywrites.bsky.social
reader, writer, specter micro editor @identitytheory.bsky.social prose reader @thedodgemag.bsky.social Naming a Dying Thing (Yellow Arrow, Oct 2025) under fire, under water (tiny wren, 2022) ohio forever she/her vicnogay.com
@hannahnahar.bsky.social
poet & writer & elsewhere poems in West Branch, Best New Poets, Mississippi Review, Salt Hill, & other places hannahnahar.com/writing
@davigray.bsky.social
Queer, trans, nonbinary poet, writer, performer, artist, activist, and abolitionist. Website: davigray.com. 18+ 🙏🏼 Work published in Poetry, Water~Stone Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Rogue Agent & elsewhere.
@hanvanderhart.bsky.social
Hollis Summers Poetry Prize: Larks (Ohio U Press, 2025). What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021). Co-Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social EIC: @moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸
@k-gray.bsky.social
Author of Instructions for An Animal Body (Moon Tide), Mating Calls //of the// Specter (Tusculum Review Chapbook Prize). Work in Witness, Passages North, Southern Humanities, Permafrost, Pithead Chapel, Heavy Feather, Rust+Moth, etc. writekgray.com
@wirewormmagazine.bsky.social
submissions closed like the Paris Review but... wormier dedicated to the best of the worst 🪲 💙 wirewormmagazine.com
@amybaskin.bsky.social
Poet. Connectress. Aunt Beast. SKULL (The Poetry Box, Dec 2024) NIGHT HAG (Unsolicited Press, 2023) HYSTERICAL CAKE (Dancing Girl Press, 2022)
@stridermarcusjones.bsky.social
Poet. Five published books.DMU Law graduate. Pushcart Prizex3/Best of the Netx3 Nominations. Founder/Editor/Publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.co https://stridermarcusjonespoet.blogspot.com/p/about-strider.html
@ashleyjjwhite.bsky.social
⬅️Leftist 🩷Mama 📚Reader 📝Writer 🎶Musichead 🧘♀️Yogi 🤘Punk 🌈Queer 🎤Host 🖼️Arts worker 📋Community organizer ✌️ & ❤️
@kdawn999.bsky.social
Reader, poet, essayist, reviewer, cat person, Trekkie, ไทย speaker, book clubber, linguist, Texan/Floridian, missionary kid, she/they https://www.chillsubs.com/user/kdawngibson https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/kimberly_gibsontran
@floodedpinepress.bsky.social
Flooded Pine Press, founded in the wake of the 2024 turn toward far-right politics in the United States, gathers and circulates writing that imagines local actions for a livable tomorrow. www.floodedpinepress.com https://substack.com/@floodedpinepress
@lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social
Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction and art. https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines.html
@kmagee29.bsky.social
Writer, mom, lefty, queer. Author of The Neighborhood, With Animal. Professor at Western Washington University.
@j-s-watts.bsky.social
Writer (poet, novelist, short story writer and sometime reviewer) amateur photographer and very amateur musician. Website: https://www.jswatts.co.uk/
@legoverleg.bsky.social
Poet, mail carrier, educator, bipolar disorder/mental health advocate, MtG player, https://poesyjeffpearson.com Previous editor to Blood Orange Review, 5x5 Litmag, and Fugue Trying to make this my commonplace book
@roanokereview.bsky.social
Home for new and established authors writing in traditional and experimental forms since 1967. Based in Salem, VA; run by Roanoke College students.
@crresetarits.bsky.social
quiet but for the sound of scissors https://crresetarits.wordpress.com/
@nathanael73.bsky.social
Irish-Australian poet & creative writing professor. Author of TERMINALS, SEPARATION BLUES: POEMS 1994-2024, DUBLIN WANDERING, LANDMARKS & thirteen other books. Poetry editor for Antipodes. Husband, father, immigrant, runner, music-lover.
@calabrian.bsky.social
Poet, artist and sociologist. Not necessarily in that order. Enjoys, classic film noir, science fiction and classic rock and roll. My poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Adirondack Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review; Eclectica and Stirring amongst others.
@hillarygonzalez.bsky.social
Poet & Author of, Seasons | hEDS | AuDHD | Wild, Unfelt Word coming 2026 | ecopoetry | love poems | grief poet | Baltimore 📍
@silicasun.bsky.social
Author - Poet Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies https://www.silicasun.wordpress.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
@croaklit.bsky.social
Croak is an independent literary magazine dedicated to publishing frog literature and art. Learn more and submit here: https://croaklit.com
@trpoulson.bsky.social
University of Nevada alum and proud Wolf Pack fan. Blue collar worker and writer of fiction and formal poetry (with some free verse mixed in). Ocean lover. Seeking a publisher for my first book, tentatively titled Birds Never Nest Here. www.trpoulson.com
@victoriaspires.bsky.social
linktr.ee/victoriaspires Commended/shortlisted: Ledbury, TPW Prize. Aesthetica Arts, Artemesia Arts. Third - Rialto. Contributing editor - The Winged Moon. Debut pamphlet Soi-même available from Salo Press: https://www.salopress.com/store/soi-meme/
@helen-evans.bsky.social
Poet, and facilitator of two poetry projects: Inner Room & Poems for the Path Ahead. Published by HappenStance Press and Mariscat Press. www.helenevans.co.uk
@hillaryleftwich.bsky.social
Author of Saint Dymphna’s Playbook (Limit Zero, 2025) Aura, & Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock. Owner at Alchemy Author Services & Writing Workshop. Pro Tarot Reader. Death Worker. Speaks with the dead. www.hillaryleftwich.com
@katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social
Mother, writer, public servant. Poetry co-editor @brokenspinearts.bsky.social
@poetryfestival.bsky.social
Daily Poetry Deadlines Submit for a free posting. Submit for a poetry reading video. Submit for your poetry to be made into a film. https://festivalforpoetry.com
@saltpublishing.com
WELCOME to Salt, one of the UK’s great independent publishers, established in 1999. Directors: @chrisemery.me & @jenhemery.bsky.social