Jessica Sherburn's Starter Pack
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@jessicasherburn.bsky.social
@pronounced-ing.bsky.social
Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. celesteng.com
@nnedi.bsky.social
*THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
@ambersparks.bsky.social
Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I ♥️ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; wrote AND I DO NOT FORGIVE YOU; HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE in October; rep’d by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey linktr.ee/ambernoellesparks
@kellybarnhill.bsky.social
I used to be an author. But that was in another life. Books, brain injuries, adorable animals, rhubarb recipes, nature facts, human rights, and how we can make this world safe and kind and good. You are precious to me, and I love you. kellybarnhill.com
@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
@ellyzoe.bsky.social
Multidisciplinerdy. Lit & language lover, Comp Sci PhD (AI), teacher of many subjects. Jack of all trades. Jewish hillbilly in the PNW. 🏳️🌈 Fix your hearts or die. she/they/elle/iel. English/Français 🌩️👀 9MDQTEGZfpxH
@barrelhouse.bsky.social
Proudly independent literary magazine & small press, established in 2004. Books + print issues + online issues + conferences + writing retreats + other stuff. https://barrelhousemag.com/
@toddedillard.bsky.social
“Ways We Vanish” from Okay Donkey, “Ragnarök at the Father Daughter Dance” from Variant, poetry editor of The Boiler, poems in Threepenny, Southern Review, APR, HAD, etc.
@briankspears.bsky.social
Senior Poetry Editor at The Rumpus (Ret.), author of A Witness in Exile (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011) and Another Poem to Love https://brian-spears.com I also crochet stuff.
@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
@smokelong.bsky.social
Dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web, by widely published authors or those new to the craft. Est.2003. Paying up to $150. www.smokelong.com. No Trump supporters.
@writesloud.bsky.social
First Kicking, Then Not (Stanchion Aug 2025) Writer/Editor/Prof Columnist at WCP hgrieco@washingtoncitypaper.com she/they 🏳️🌈 ❤️ www.hgrieco.com
@amorak.bsky.social
Loyola dad. BGSU dad. Poet. BGSU professor & proud union member. Co-founding editor at @riverriverbooks.bsky.social. Auburn fan. Dodgers fan. I like board games and ttrpg. He/him. It's pronounced uh-MOR-ack. https://amorakhuey.com
@havehashad.com
We had an idea that started as a joke. We had an affinity for that minimalist look and feel of early online journals. We had a couple drinks. https://www.havehashad.com
@stonecirclereview.bsky.social
A relatively new poetry journal always open for submissions. Sharing poems that find a seam and take root. EIC @leepottspoet.bsky.social. Member CLMP. https://stonecirclereview.com/
@mattkendrick.bsky.social
Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50 Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/ Craft newsletter: https://prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/
@grousehollow.bsky.social
Editor at Merriam-Webster // Poems and essays in Orion, Antiphony, Prairie Schooner, Poetry, EcoTheo, Blue Mountain Review, Bad Lilies, Kenyon Review, African American Review, Bennington Review, Columba, more // he/him // Vermont // MichaelMetivier.com
@ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social
Kitchen table conversations with poets. Hosted by Han VanderHart. www.OfPoetryPodcast.com
@covingtonedu.bsky.social
Dad. Iowan. Former HS social studies teacher. Creative Director @ Human Restoration Project 🛸 www.humanrestorationproject.org
@moistpoetryjournal.bsky.social
SUBMISSIONS OPEN / A high humidity journal of poetry / Home to the Full Moon Haiku Contest / 🏳️⚧️ https://moistpoetryjournal.com/ EIC: Han VanderHart.
@natallman.bsky.social
Poetry Ambassador for Miami 🌴 Author of FERSACE ⚜️ Poetry & Interviews Editor for The Blue Mountain Review & South Florida Poetry Journal ☀️ Editor of Redacted Books 🖤 Website: nicoletallman.com 🌈
@karlymoura.com
Social Media Manager/Blog Editor at Ditch That Textbook🗑️ 🔑 Creator of VirtualEscapeRooms.org Teacher at ❤️ Wife, Mom #BRCA1 Previvor 💗 (she/her)
@coupletpoetry.bsky.social
Online lit journal publishing a “couplet” (pair) of related poems per author. www.coupletpoetry.com EIC @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social
@mitchnobis.bsky.social
Writer. Doofus. Old man hooper. Pretty much anything you want to know is at http://mitchnobis.com. Posts are my own, obviously—that's why I said it & not my employer, parents, dog, or whoever. Also: WNS: @wns-at-ksf.bsky.social NAWP: @notatawp.bsky.social
@thirtywestph.com
Est. 2015 in Pennsylvania | Escape the Mundane Poetry, novels, stories, & hand-made chapbooks Afterimages is OPEN for Submissions thirtywestph.com | asterismbooks.com/publisher/thirty-west
@djvorreyer.bsky.social
Poet, artist, music lover. (She/her) Poetry collections Unrivered (coming 2025),To Everything There Is, Every Love Story is an Apocalypse Story, & A House of Many Windows all at @sundresspub.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/djvorreyer
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
@marcwatkins.bsky.social
Assistant Director of Innovation at the University of Mississippi training faculty in AI literacy. Teaching, #OER, #OpenPedagogy, #AIED marcwatkins.org
@minilebowski.bsky.social
Associate Lecturer, part time primary teacher, ex Head, Chartered College Fellow, outdoor learning (Dandy Lions), author. 🚫DMs 🏳️🌈 safe space
@pdkindig.bsky.social
Asst Prof of English. Lit crit: Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernity (2022). Poetry: fascinations (2025) / all the catholic gods (2019) / Dry Spell (2016). pdkindig.wordpress.com.
@flashfrog.bsky.social
Small. Brightly colored. Deadly to the touch. ⚡️🐸 New story every Monday. EIC: @ericscottryon.bsky.social https://flash-frog.com/
@asv.bsky.social
Educator & author. Books: Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education & Becoming an Everyday Changemaker. Vermont explorer in the #251club. Working on a memoir!
@mehpoeting.bsky.social
Boston based educator, editor, poet, & prose dabbler 🧐| Author of 6 poetry collections 📚| Holder of 3 graduate degrees worth of debt (MFA, MATS, PhD)🎓| Installer of rage in racists ✊🏾 https://www.mehpoeting.com
@identitytheory.bsky.social
Classic online lit mag (founded 2000). Interviews, fiction, CNF, micro, poetry, etc. We may or may not be edited by a corgi. Read us at identitytheory.com.
@readinstead.bsky.social
teacher, poet, father, husband | WHO WILL CRADLE YOUR HEAD (ELJ 2023) | Ed. POETS OF QUEENS 2 | EIC of @porcupinelit.bksy.social | Co-Founder of monthly reading series and poetry community get togethers, @notatawp.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/jbeloff
@emergejournal.bsky.social
501(c)(3) nonprofit literary press. Home of Emerge Literary Journal (http://emergeliteraryjournal.com).
@porcupinelit.bsky.social
A journal by and for teachers. We publish writing about the hard, the beautiful, the exhausting, the outrageous, the moving, the maddening, the anything-but-perfect teaching and teacher world. Read us: https://www.porcupineliterary.com/
@megnev.bsky.social
📍Cleveland | she/her | Educator | Writer | Consultant | Department Chair | Xennial | Catmom 🐈⬛ | Plant nurturer 🪴 | The Fallow (Trio House Press 2022) | https://megannevillepoetry.com/poems/
@humrespro.bsky.social
Non-profit: restoring humanity to education. Promoting progressive ed. https://linktr.ee/humrespro
@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/
@welkinprize.bsky.social
Free-to-enter writing prize | micros up to 100 words | deadline 2nd January 2024 | run by @mattkendrick.bsky.social Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize/welkin-mini
@derekischmitz.bsky.social
Derek, 20, disabled, chronically ill, non-binary, and queer. Lead Advocate @ Derek Schmitz: Advocacy, author, and Paralegal student @ Gadsden State Community College! Views mine, not a lawyer. go.derekschmitz.com
@frankhudson.bsky.social
Founder of the Parlando Project — “Where Music and Words Meet.” Composes, records, researches, writes, & those things feedback into each other.
@asteralesjournal.bsky.social
A new quarterly literary journal publishing 5 poems, 2 prose works, and original visual art. Issue One Coming in January of 2025 Co-founders/editors @djvorreyer.bsky.social and @rebunting.bsky.social http://www.asteralesjournal.com
@marcusluther.bsky.social
HS English teacher still clinging to what the legendary Gwendolyn Brooks wrote: "we are each other's / harvest:" (though that line break feels heavier than ever these days) Also: I share writings/thoughts on education at thebrokencopier.substack.com!
@pitheadchapel.bsky.social
Pithead Chapel (ISSN 2324-6243) is a monthly online literary journal and small press. We publish gutsy fiction, nonfiction, and prose poetry. Founded 2012.
@jessicasherburn.bsky.social
Michigan farm girl at heart. Chicago Public Schools English teacher. Poet & writer. Clumsy hiker. She/her/hers. https://www.chillsubs.com/user/JessicaSherburn