Stone Cold’s 2025 Literary Salon
These are my favorite literary accounts to follow.
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@abbyhiggs.bsky.social
@smashfizzle.bsky.social
Author of the bestselling memoir, Somebody’s Daughter. Podcast host. I deserve it all. https://linktr.ee/SmashFizzle
@tabithabee.bsky.social
The rise and fall of a Pacific Northwest Princess. 🌈 Substack: https://tabithablankenbiller.substack.com Essays in Salon, Tin House, Electric Lit, etc. Former columnist and teacher at Catapult
@susanrukeyser.bsky.social
New novel out now: The Worst Kind of Girl 🌈🌵(Braddock Avenue Books) susanrukeyser.com
@kendraffe.bsky.social
Author, gardener, yogi, cloud-collector. (ATX) Tag me in your cloud pics! I'm chasing Kelvin-Helmholtz. 🌊🌊
@kellyjford.bsky.social
Author of Anthony-nominated REAL BAD THINGS, COTTONMOUTHS, and THE HUNT. She/Her.
@socalwritergirl.bsky.social
Writer, EIC, @jmwwjournal.bsky.social. Rep: Esty Loveing-Downes at ArtHouse Lit. Latest: ALL THIS CAN BE TRUE (@TurnerPub, June 2025).
@trustpunch.bsky.social
she/they, tenants’ rights proselytizer, police scanner enthusiast, bylines elsewhere // opinions my own, etc. etc. 📍baltimore
@kurtbaumeister.bsky.social
Novels: TWILIGHT OF THE GODS (EARLY '25) + PAX AMERICANA (both Stalking Horse) Ed: 7.13 Books SRQ: Vol. 1 Brooklyn Words: Google Me: He/Him TNBCC
@jillchristman.bsky.social
Author of IF THIS WERE FICTION (U Nebraska Press). Editor at RIVER TEETH (riverteethjournal.com) & BEAUTIFUL THINGS: follow us here @riverteeth.bsky.social! NEA Prose Fellow. Ball State Professor. Raised up by hippies. Kind of witchy. jillchristman.com
@ivanaknapp.bsky.social
Listening to books counts as reading! Well tolerated kook —-> https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kfmtqxh6jfria7fv2ve66gfn/feed/aaao6idjk67ra
@brandiwells.bsky.social
debut novel CLEANER Wildfire Books August 2023 | Hanover Square Press January 2024 (they/them)
@write-or-die.bsky.social
Writer Mad as hell and fighting for democracy and sanity. An actual real person, and member of the "Hard Left." Here to resist the freefall of fascism and to spread some good trouble. Feeling "Excessive." 🌊 MARRIED LIKE HARD to Batman and Robin
@skatingtomato.bsky.social
Still your friendly neighborhood geek/“propogandist.” Baltimore/Maryland correspondent for GGW. He/him. Vocal advocacy classist. Tranist. #ActuallyAutistic
@janstinchcomb.bsky.social
Dark/Horror/Speculative Fiction VERUSHKA is out now (JournalStone) Stories in Gamut Magazine, Bourbon Penn, Tales to Terrify, Wigleaf janstinchcomb.com
@jamiegp.bsky.social
Digital Strategy at CAP @americanprogress.bsky.social Powered by tacos. Lives and believes in Baltimore. Opinions all my own.
@brianoliu.bsky.social
former bama higher ed / current mn hunger relief comms / former egan’s dj / current cool dad / former bad poet-athlete / current bad poet-athlete
@tashacoryell.bsky.social
Thriller writer. Author of LOVE LETTERS TO A SERIAL KILLER. St. Paul resident. TV watcher. Greyhound owner. Roll tide. Repped by Katie Greenstreet at Paper Literary. MATCHMAKING FOR PSYCHOPATHS forthcoming in July 2025.
@stephenfarrow.bsky.social
Writer, reader, grammarian, shower singer, theatre addict, news junkie, eyeball-roller. European. Powered by Vimto. Love language, hate sushi. #FBPE Void where prohibited. Cannot be successfully delivered to your location. Please think responsibly.
@adamjfarrer.bsky.social
Essayist, Editor @ The Real Story, Winner NorthBound Book Award for COLD FISH SOUP (Saraband, 2022). BROKEN BISCUITS (HarperNorth, 2025) MD ANT https://linktr.ee/adamjfarrer
@housleydave.bsky.social
Writer of The Other Ones, Looney, Howard & Charles at the Factory, This Darkness Got to Give, more. Editor @ Barrelhouse, primary organizer of the Barrelhouse conference in DC in the Spring. Web @ PSU. Goofy gentleman. He/him.
@mensah.bsky.social
editor in chief, soft skull press. profile “in process”. what have i done www.regulargenius.co
@rahnealexander.com
The most beloved dyke in Baltimore Intermedia artist, irritable trans lady, certified game changer, ordained minister I love the block button https://linktr.ee/RahneAlexander
@maxthegirl.bsky.social
Editor of Baltimore magazine, film and pop culture critic, cellist, enemy of dangling modifiers.
@minyoungleeis.bsky.social
Cat person. Writer. Nomad. 📕 CLAIM YOUR SPACE 🏠 @Tin_House @breadloafwriter @asfmag @antennaworks @sfsucw 📝 @TriQuarterlyMag @PassagesNorth + she/her
@gabriellemoss.bsky.social
author of PAPERBACK CRUSH; talking head who kept saying "masturbation" in JUDY BLUME FOREVER; writer of whatever this is: https://bloggerindecline.substack.com/
@demisty.bsky.social
Mother of twins, wife of dude, writer of stuff, prof. of student, PhD. Website at demistybellinger.com. Story collection All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere (U-Nebraska Press: Zero Street Fiction: https://tinyurl.com/prdacfrt)
@gregmania.bsky.social
📚author of the memoir, BORN TO BE PUBLIC 📝writes SOS (Save Our Serotonin) on substack 🎤co-host of Empty Trash, an LA reading series 🤪DSM-5 darling https://linktr.ee/gregmania
@iamragesparkle.bsky.social
On a general writing/artistic break until the kids get older. Still a person who likes things and is delightful at dinner parties. Email: Michaelbtager1@gmail.com Website: michaelbtager.com Delightful: yes
@maureenlangloss.bsky.social
Writer in NYC. Former Attorney. EIC Split Lip Magazine. Copper Nickel Editor's Prize | BASS Distinguished Story | Kenyon Review | Ploughshares | Harvard Review | Next up: Wigleaf | http://maureenlangloss.com/
@sarcher.bsky.social
Design, cats, Philly, NYC. Author of The Midcentury Kitchen, Midcentury Christmas, and Catland; writing in Architectural Digest, NYT and elsewhere. www.sarah-archer.com
@splitlippress.com
publisher of boundary-breaking prose books come get us @ splitlippress.com and https://linktr.ee/splitlippress posts by yrs truly @suburbanprairie.bsky.social
@knownforms.bsky.social
She/her, they/them. Writer, Researcher. Work in Strange Horizons, Tin House, Electric Lit, and more. OM is the Other Melissa, my wife. UBI now.
@lambdaliterary.org
Lambda Literary, celebrating LGBTQ+ storytellers since 1985. Home of the Lammy Awards, Writers in Schools, the Emerging Writers Retreat for LGBTQ Voices, and the Lambda Literary Review. lambdaliterary.org lambdaliteraryreview.org
@coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social
Writer / Librarian. HWA. Work in Electric Literature, the Deadlands, Strange Horizons, Nightmare Magazine, etc… Repped by Marie Lamba of Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency. Novel: Living in Cemeteries Collection: Haunted Ecologies CoreyFarrenkopf.com
@danziger.bsky.social
OED researcher. Professor, film and American Studies. Writer. I expect to die without seeing the Jets win the Super Bowl.
@benjaminharnett.com
Sometime poet, historian, software engineer, novelist, union man. https://www.benjaminharnett.com https://thehappyvalleynovel.com
@reeamilcarscott.bsky.social
Camouflage fatigues & dashikis. Somewhere in between Ralph Ellison and PE 📚:🔥INSURRECTIONS🔥(PEN/Bingham winner) and THE W🌍RLD DOESN’T REQUIRE YOU I write love notes to black people & dis songs to white supremacy. 90% love. 10% dis. I deserve it all.
@tkiramadden.bsky.social
author: Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls & forthcoming Whidbey • hapa kanaka ‘ōiwi dyke • soup enthusiast & magician • land back • aloha 'āina • she/her
@sequoian.bsky.social
Prof & Writer - How High We Go in the Dark, a National Bestseller and NYT Editors’ Choice & Where We Go When All We Were is Gone. Minneapolis by way of the SF Bay Area and Hawai’i http://SequoiaNagamatsu.com - Star Trek 💫 and wristwatch ⌚️ obsessed.
@robmclennan.bsky.social
poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc. out now: On Beauty: stories, (University of Alberta Press) https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ https://www.patreon.com/robmclennan http://robmclennanauthor.blogspot.com/ https://robmclennan.substack.com/
@lisasnowden.bsky.social
Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of @baltimorebeat.bsky.social, a nonprofit newsroom in beautiful Baltimore City.
@thebookmaven.bsky.social
NEW PODCAST: The Book Maven: A Literary Revue https://thebookmavenpodcast.substack.com/ Critic @LATimesBooks LIFE B memoir: https://bookshop.org/p/books/life-b-overcoming-double-depression-bethanne-patrick/1874245 https://linktr.ee/bookmaven
@ilanaslightly.bsky.social
Writer and critic for hire. Author of the novel "All My Mother's Lovers" and "Beings," forthcoming from Bloomsbury, 9/23/25. Pre-order links (and hopefully other stuff soon): https://linktr.ee/ilanaslightly
@benloory.bsky.social
📚 Tales of Falling and Flying, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day benloory.com
@cariluna.bsky.social
Author of THE REVOLUTION OF EVERY DAY (Tin House Books), winner of the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction. Words in The Nation, Guernica, Salon, Jacobin, etc. https://linktr.ee/cari.luna
@sarahpinsker.bsky.social
Hugo & Nebula winning SFF Writer, singer/songwriter, dog person, horse person, queer, Baltimorean by choice, mediocre but enthusiastic gardener and artist. New book HAUNT SWEET HOME out September 2024 from Macmillan/Tordotcom. She/her.
@saribotton.bsky.social
Bestselling Author/Editor/Teacher/Oldster Memoir: And You May Find Yourself… Anthologies: Goodbye to All That and Never Can Say Goodbye Newsletters: @oldstermag.bsky.social, @memoirland.bsky.social, Adventures in *Journalism* http://saribotton.com
@baltimorebeat.bsky.social
Baltimore Beat is the city’s paper of record. A Black-led, Black-controlled nonprofit newspaper and online media outlet for all of Baltimore.
@judedoyle.bsky.social
"Be Not Afraid," with Lisandro Estherren, is due June 4 from Boom! Studios. "DILF: Did I Leave Feminism," is coming from Melville House in October 2025. Pre-order it here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/801936/dilf-by-jude-doyle/
@aubreyhirsch.bsky.social
GRAPHIC RAGE on Substack. Writer & illustrator of stories, essays and feminist comics. '22 NEA fellow. Work in TIME, Vox, New York Times, Washington Post, etc. Very charming IRL. she/her
@erinkeane.bsky.social
Writer, editor, poet, critic | Chief Content Officer at @salonnewsroom.bsky.social | Author of Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me | Faculty at Naslund-Mann MFA | KY Colonel | Blair Water Literary Society chair | https://linktr.ee/eekshecried
@svershbow.bsky.social
Writer: NY Mag, Esquire, The Atlantic, Vogue, etc. Head of Social Media @ tech job. Mostly posting about dogs & books. Opinions all mine. vershbowiswriting@gmail.com https://www.sophievershbow.com/writing
@focusfronting.bsky.social
opinions are not my own and represent those of noam chomsky if he were in law school. she/her.
@andizeisler.bsky.social
Writer, editor, culture crone. Formerly Bitch Media. Currently some stuff and some other stuff (inquire within). Show me your dog.
@maureenjohnsonbooks.com
she/her Author. Not the one from Rent. https://linktr.ee/maureenjohnson
@gabino.bsky.social
Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer (NPR, Locus, etc)/freelancer/photographer/PhD/New York Times horror columnist. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me! https://linktr.ee/gabinoiglesias
@jasondiamond.bsky.social
“Writer" - The New Yorker. “Author” - New York Times. “A fabulous old soul” - Russ & Daughters Instagram account. “Unlikely model” - BBC. My novel “Kaplan’s Plot” is out fall of 2025 on Flatiron.
@ihavethatonvinyl.com
it's always baseball season in my heart curator of record collecting stories. inthefade from twitter long island forever free palestine, protect trans kids, she/her http://ihavethatonvinyl.com https://www.patreon.com/c/IHaveThatonVinyl
@colindickey.com
Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. He/him.
@tacobellquarterly.org
Taco Bell Quarterly is a Literary Magazine more prestigious than the New Yorker and Paris Review. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
@swordsjew.bsky.social
journalist, author, sword collector, schmoe. newsletter: buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich buy my new book!! https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia-lavin/wild-faith/9780306829192/ contact: talialavinwrites@gmail.com
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
DC. political philosopher at Georgetown. rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. Spurs fan #COYS
@katelynburns.com
Freelance journalist. MSNBC and Xtra Magazine columnist. Co-founder: The Flytrap. Cancel Me, Daddy podcast co-host. Formerly: Vox For story leads, my signal is kab.80
@bcdreyer.social
America's Copy Editor® author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his • abstruse in the sense of recondite • 🏳️🌈 benjamindreyer.com
@tananarivedue.bsky.social
Lifewriting Podcast - Exec Producer #HorrorNoire: A History of Black Horror, Writer: Twilight Zone. UCLA Lecturer. Vanity Fair. Author: American Book Award #BLM #blacksky She/Her - https://linktr.ee/tananarivedue
@nicolechung.bsky.social
author of A LIVING REMEDY (a New York Times Notable Book) and ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW. the dog is Peggy and she loves you already. linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
@abbyhiggs.bsky.social
The OG. Feral essayist. Genderclear. They/Thembo. Instructor/Professor: @MorganStateU Words: @MarieClaire_sa @Guardian @The_Rumpus etc.🖖