Novelists
Some writers of literary fiction I especially enjoy following
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@maudnewton.bsky.social
@aatifrashid.bsky.social
Novel PORTRAIT OF SEBASTIAN KHAN (2019). Short stories in The Adroit Journal, The Massachusetts Review, Arcturus, Pithead Chapel, Maudlin House, XRAY, The Ex-Puritan, Triangle House, etc. Nonfiction in The Kenyon Review, Lit Hub, Alta, LA Times.
@nicholsonbaker.bsky.social
Latest book: Finding a Likeness: How I Got Somewhat Better at Art. First book: The Mezzanine. https://linktr.ee/nicholsonbaker.
@emmagarman.bsky.social
@mdbell79.bsky.social
Writer, teacher. Out now: APPLESEED, a novel (2021, @marinerbooks). REFUSE TO BE DONE, a guide to novel revision (2022, @soho_press). He/him.
@htownjenny.bsky.social
Ugh, fine. Writer in Texas. I curse on the internet now. #HouSky www.jennystaffjohnson.com
@laurazigman.bsky.social
@mdermansky.bsky.social
Writer. My new novel HOT AIR is being released on March 18, 2025. https://marcydermansky.com/
@rebeccadonner.bsky.social
Author of ALL THE FREQUENT TROUBLES OF OUR DAYS • 2023/24 Harvard Radcliffe Institute • 2023 Oxford Visiting Scholar • 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
@victorlavalle.bsky.social
Doing what I dreamed of since I was a kid. Books: Lone Women, The Changeling, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Devil in Silver, Big Machine & more. TV: The Changeling (EP), The Terror: Devil in Silver (Creator, Showrunner) Comics: Destroyer, Eve, Sabretooth
@eowynivey.bsky.social
Alaskan, author of The Snow Child, To the Bright Edge of the World, and coming in Feb 2025 ... Black Woods Blue Sky
@vanessahua.bsky.social
FORBIDDEN CITY | A RIVER OF STARS| DECEIT AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES| Rona Jaffe| Bylines @sfchronicle @nytimes & elsewhere | NEAarts Fellow | forthcoming EL NIDO
@maazamengiste.bsky.social
Writes many words: Beneath the Lion's Gaze, The Shadow King, & the next one. Believes in film: mostly Tri-X, sometimes Portra. There's something out there, and it is us.
@maureengibbon.bsky.social
Novelist: Lost Notebook of Edouard Manet, Paris Red, Thief, Swimming Sweet Arrow. Poet: Magdalena. Rep'd by Nicole Aragi. www.maureengibbon.com
@megiddings.bsky.social
I wrote Meet Me at the Crossroads (Amistad 2025)The Women Could Fly (Amistad 2022) and Lakewood (Amistad 2020). www.megangiddings.com
@elainehsiehchou.bsky.social
Author of WHERE ARE YOU REALLY FROM: STORIES (2025) and DISORIENTATION (2022) from Penguin Press | she/her www.elainehsiehchou.com
@rakeshsatyal.bsky.social
Author of the novels Blue Boy and No One Can Pronounce My Name. Book Editor.
@yalitza.bsky.social
WICW Fellow | Rona Jaffe Award | Best American Short Stories | Steinbeck Fellow she/her www.yalitza.com
@ladeziree.bsky.social
MEXICAN AMERICAN.Writer. Educator. Altadena Latest novel: DISPOSSESSED Our hidden Californian history www.desireezamorano.com Latest short fiction: Alta https://www.altaonline.com/culture/fiction-and-poetry/a44016136/fiction-magdas-hen-desiree-zamorano/
@tadethompson.bsky.social
Writer: Rosewater, Murders of Molly Southbourne, Far from the Light of Heaven, Making Wolf, Jackdaw, shorts, screenplays. Arthur C. Clarke Award winner. Hugo nominated. Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Etcetera Opinions mine. He/him
@emmaceisenberg.bsky.social
writer & full fattie 🍦• author of 📚 HOUSEMATES (2024) & 📚 THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL (2020) • ✍🏻 NYT, Time, Esquire, The Atlantic, Granta, The Cut etc 🌈 she/her https://www.emmacopleyeisenberg.com
@shelbyvanpelt.bsky.social
Cat fan, writer, sometimes runner, mom. Author of REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES aka That Octopus Book 🐙
@pitchaya.bsky.social
Author of the novel BANGKOK WAKES TO RAIN, selected as a best book of the year by the NYT, WaPo, and Kirkus. psudbanthad.com
@mollymcghee.bsky.social
Reader. Novelist. Fiction nerd. Pro-worker. Anti-billionaire. I teach at Columbia. Extremely online for almost two decades.
@jedediahberry.com
Author of The Naming Song, The Family Arcana, and The Manual of Detection. Co-creator of the Ennie Award-winning Valley of Flowers adventure game setting. Publisher, Ninepin Press / Phantom Mill Games. linktr.ee/jedediahberry
@scribblepost.bsky.social
debut novel UPCOUNTRY (unnamed press 2023) IG: @scribblepost. words in electric lit, the rumpus, lit hub, the georgia review, joyland, etc. rep: pamela malpas/jennifer lyons literary https://linktr.ee/chinsunlee
@eliseblackwell.bsky.social
Novelist interested in arts, sciences, curiosities. Also: professor and host of The Open Book. (eliseblackwell.com)
@calebcrain.bsky.social
Into #birding, #CrossFit, and sometimes writing. Wrote the novels "Necessary Errors" and "Overthrow" More at https://calebcrain.substack.com and https://steamthing.com. New short story! https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/clay-fiction-caleb-c
@lydiakiesling.bsky.social
Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). Writing in NYTMag, The Nation, The Cut, and elsewhere. www.lydiakiesling.com
@morgantalty.bsky.social
Writer / pαnawάhpskewi from the Penobscot Indian Nation / NIGHT OF THE LIVING REZ and FIRE EXIT: A NOVEL (Tin House 2024) Founder & Director of Talty Literary morgantalty.com
@shteyngart.bsky.social
Gary Shteyngart is a book writer. garyshteyngart.substack.com http://facebook.com/shteyngart
@chelseagsummers.bsky.social
I like to write about terrible men, horrible things, and unlikeable women. Somehow my book is a bestseller. Repped by Kent D. Wolf at Neon Literary.
@harikunzru.bsky.social
Writer. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men +3. No kings | No slop | Never again for anyone
@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.
@madelinemiller.bsky.social
Writer (The Song of Achilles, Circe), reader, theater lover. Cats, Long Covid. She/her.
@abbottkahler.bsky.social
Time traveler, purveyor of weird and wicked history, NYT bestselling author. New nonfiction: EDEN UNDONE: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II. https://www.abbottkahler.com/
@tobiascarroll.bsky.social
Author: IN THE SIGHT; EX-MEMBERS; POLITICAL SIGN; REEL; TRANSITORY. Writes frequently about many things. There's a podcast called Framed & Bound and a comics review newsletter called Postcards From Komiksoj. NBCC Board. https://linktr.ee/tobiascarroll
@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
@emilyraboteau.bsky.social
Author of THE PROFESSOR’S DAUGHTER, SEARCHING FOR ZION, and LESSONS FOR SURVIVAL. Professor at CUNY.
@marksarvas.bsky.social
American Book Award winning author of MEMENTO PARK (FSG) and HARRY, REVISED (Bloomsbury). @UGMAN June 2025 from ITNA Press. “ … ceaselessly intelligent” - Joseph O’Neill. Ex-blogger. NBCC & PEN America. Scold-proof. He/Him/His www.marksarvas.com
@antoinewilson.bsky.social
Novelist (Mouth to Mouth, Panorama City, The Interloper), Contributing Editor (A Public Space), Photographer (Slow Paparazzo), Struggle Rapper.
@lucaseschaefer.bsky.social
Debut novel THE SLIP coming from Simon & Schuster on 6/3/25.
@urrealism.bsky.social
Author and reader, husband & grandpa, scribbler in notebooks, wanderer. Team Urrea is always on the scenic route.
@danchaon.bsky.social
Novelist and short story writer. New novel, ONE OF US, due out Sept. 23, 2025 Signed/personalized copies of my books here: https://www.macsbacks.com/dan-chaon
@emilymandel.bsky.social
Six books including Sea of Tranquility, The Glass Hotel, and Station Eleven. St. John is just my middle name; the books go under M.
@katemckean.bsky.social
Literary Agent at Morhaim Literary 📚 Newsletter: Agents & Books at agentsandbooks.com. 📚 WRITE THROUGH IT out June ‘25 📚📚 picture book called PAY ATTENTION TO ME out in ‘26! https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Write-Through-It/Kate-McKean/97816
@greatdismal.bsky.social
Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
@roxanegay.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/roxanegay Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
@rokwon.bsky.social
📚 nationally bestselling novels Exhibit & The Incendiaries • co-edited Kink • ✍🏻 NYT, New Yorker, Time, Vanity Fair, Guardian 🌈 she/her www.ro-kwon.com/exhibit
@matjohnson.bsky.social
Author: Invisible Things, Loving Day, Pym, Incognegro, etc. Helped on The Fall of the House of Usher (Nflx) and Manhunt (🍎). Philly-born; Oregon-thriving Storytelling Guru at U of Oregon; Go 🦆! Will block for pedantic responses to joke posts—gleefully
@kashana.bsky.social
TV writer. Author of the novels THE SURVIVALISTS and THE PAYBACK (July 2025). Deadly with a butter knife. Preorder THE PAYBACK here 👉🏾 https://kashanacauley.com
@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
@kellylink.bsky.social
unserious moonlight www.kellylink.net Always happy to make book recommendations if you tell me two writers you love & what you’re in the mood for. If you'd like signed copies of my books, you can find them at www.bookmoonbooks.com.
@garthgreenwell.bsky.social
What Belongs to You, Cleanness, & Small Rain | Eeyore at the gay club | Distinguished Writer in Residence at NYU | https://garthgreenwell.substack.com
@tricialockwood.bsky.social
@kristenarnett.bsky.social
writer, librarian, huuuuge lesbian. dad. floridian. New York Times Bestselling author. Mostly Dead Things & WITH TEETH & STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE https://www.kristenarnettwriter.com
@tayari.bsky.social
NYT Bestselling author of AN AMERICAN MARRIAGE. Atlanta born, Atlanta bred, when I die, I’ll be Atlanta dead.
@blklibrarygirl.bsky.social
Newest: Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings (June 24). Substack: honoreejeffers
@alexanderchee.bsky.social
Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. Agent: Jin Auh, The Wylie Agency. alexanderchee.net
@lailalalami.com
Author of five books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist THE MOOR’S ACCOUNT. Reader. Mutant. https://linktr.ee/lalami
@maudnewton.bsky.social
Wrote ANCESTOR TROUBLE. Most recently in Narrative, Baffler, Guardian, NYT. Opinions my own. NYC. She/her. https://linktr.ee/maudnewton