Old & Weird (ie cute and popular) Writers To Know
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@writesloud.bsky.social
@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
@spicybits.bsky.social
Vinyl Collector. 4AD goth. Autofiction writer. Chewy ice connoisseur. Black.
@zoebossiere.bsky.social
Writer | Managing Editor at brevitymag.com | CACTUS COUNTRY: A BOYHOOD MEMOIR out now from Abrams Books | Indies Introduce & Indie NEXT | rep’d by @frecklywench.bsky.social | they/she 🏳️⚧️🏜 | https://linktr.ee/zoebossiere | zoebossiere.com
@justinaoba.bsky.social
hi poetry editor: identitytheory.com hybrid editor: bleatingthingmagazine.com a guy at: syzygyworkshop.org/slow-orbit extimateothers.com
@eveettinger.com
Writer. Kids have rights. they/them 🏳️⚧️ go follow @responsiblehs.bsky.social
@rgvaughan.bsky.social
Author of 6 books, newest is ASKEW. I am the EIC of Bending Genres, LLC. Work in Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2019. Norton's Exceptionally Short Fictions 2018. www.robert-vaughan.com. www.bendinggenres.com
@iandenning.bsky.social
Writer || NY Center for Fiction fellow || Repped by Sophie Bark and Sian-Ashleigh Edwards at WME || Retro games, beer, horror, sci-fi || Dad to dogs and babies || NJ and PNW || He/him
@callistabuchen.bsky.social
poet, author of Look Look Look: blacklawrencepress.com/books/look-look-look, "Taking Care": https://poems.com/poem/taking-care/
@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
@lisawv.bsky.social
🇨🇴 • PEN / Dau • Best Debut Short Stories 2023, MQR, Nimrod, Ghost Parachute, others; forthcoming: Cutleaf • @UcrossFdn • 🏳️🌈
@mckenzo.bsky.social
Hewer of word, drawer of (bath) water Aging (aged?) & useless poet, recovering politico, decency practitioner Ottawa, Canada
@joannatheiss.com
Writer of small, weird things, sitting with cat in Washington, DC she/her
@christenkauffman.bsky.social
Poetry, Prose, and Visual Art. THE SCIENCE OF THINGS WE CAN BELIEVE (Ghost Peach Press, 2024) Poetry Editor at Driftwood Press www.christennoelkauffman.com
@eleekg.bsky.social
bostony. vancouvery. poet laureate of Vancouver, Canada as of Jan ‘25 for 3yrs. eleekg.com It’s pronounced ELLY!
@emmasloley.bsky.social
Writer, gadabout, author of a novel I think you'll like -- THE ISLAND OF LAST THINGS -- out August 12, 2025. Preorder: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-island-of-last-things-emma-sloley/K4KD2ktViQqEW3A8?ean=9781250329257&next=t&digital=t
@mordecaimartin.net
He/him. Writer. איבערטייטשער. Fifth generation New Yorker. Mad man and Psychiatric Survivor. Hairy AND over-share-y. MFA from Randolph College
@doslauren.bsky.social
Writer of SFF, poetry, and other weird stuff Currently reading for Black Lily Zine Work in HAD, Liminality, Partisan Hotel, and others
@jenpmeadows.bsky.social
Creative Nonfiction Writer. Essays. Memoir in Progress. Work in Lit Hub, The Rumpus, Fourth Genre, Brevity, Denver Quarterly, Hobart. Sacramento Valley via SoCal. jenpalmaresmeadows.com
@jameygallagher.bsky.social
AMERICAN ANIMISM out now! https://bookshop.org/p/books/american-animism/19e3bcc5fc6e8b6c?ean=9781960329714&next=t&next=t Community college writing teacher I read and write: literary stuff, crime stuff, weird stuff https://jameyg0.wixsite.com/jameygallagher
@lorisambolbrody.bsky.social
Wanderer, Writer, woman-about-town. Stories in various places. She/Her. https://linktr.ee/lorisambol?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=71379331-22c9-439f-8370-50899eb7f35a
@hcohen.bsky.social
She/her. hot sad jewish lady. writer sometimes, mostly tired. poems, essays, etc. found elsewhere. my author website is hannahcohen.carrd.co
@micahchatterton.bsky.social
Writing Instructor. Former-ish librarian. Waiting for a new heart. Author of GO TO THE LIVING. http://amazon.com/author/micahchatterton
@nomad-sw18.bsky.social
Queer writer l #FlashFiction l Climate change l Contrib ed @nnffr.bsky.social SL Bridport, Bath, Oxford & WestWord Prizes. BSF BMF & Pushcart noms. Published stories: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12OLycEkDPIHts-GvyZpoSmdbYLBzyTYTfSjfGQmsECs/edit?u
@pamschmid.bsky.social
Minnesota transplant. Words are my medicine. ✨️📚 CNF ed., Sleet Magazine. Find me: Barren Magazine, Belleview Literary Review, River Teeth, The Common, more.
@sarahwolfson.bsky.social
Poet. Teaching Artist. A Common Name for Everything (Green Writers Press). UmichWriters MFA. Montreal & Vermont. wordplay. cuttlefish. writing pedagogy. ferns.
@djwolfinsohn.bsky.social
a writer in austin, tx poetry & movies bad at knitting debbywolfinsohn.com Lost Balloon, Maudlin House, HAD, Gone Lawn, Variant Lit, Brawl, Jake, Memoir Mixtapes, Hog River Press, Vestal Review, Roi Fainéant Press, The Engine(Idling ✨
@leepottspoet.bsky.social
EIC of Stone Circle Review (stonecirclereview.bsky.social) | Poems in various places | Pushcart & BotN Nominee. New chapbook, We'll Miss the Stars in the Morning: https://tinyurl.com/wellmissthestars leepotts.net
@wordperv.bsky.social
Poet. Feminist. Dog mom. Books: Her Dark Everything (Riot in Your Throat), Her Whole Bright Life (Write Bloody), Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart (Riot in Your Throat), Beautiful & Full of Monsters (VA Press). she/her www.courtneyleblanc.com
@kcgrifant.bsky.social
~Award-winning author of horror, fantasy, scifi & weird west stories in podcasts, magazines & Stoker-nominated anthologies ~Author of Monster Gunslinger series & SHROUDED HORROR ~HWA San Diego co-founder/chair ~SFWA member https://linktr.ee/kcgrifant
@chrisrose.bsky.social
Spec fiction writer, engineer, owl. Stories in Asimov's, F&SF, Interzone. Avionics in NASA spacecraft. #ViableParadise #SFF #VP23 #SFWA #Codexian #SciFi #CharmCitySpec #writingcommunity BLM 🇺🇦
@eshanisurya.bsky.social
debut novel RAVISHING 💄💉 ✨ coming 11.11.2025 from Roxane Gay Books/Grove Atlantic | disabled & chronically ill | philly-based | surya means sun ☀️ | eshani.surya@gmail.com https://linktr.ee/eshanisurya
@lespdoyle.bsky.social
Writer--essays and fiction in NYT, Electric Literature, The Forge, Cutleaf, Brevity Blog, Sunlight Press, Phoebe Journal, and elsewhere. BAE Notable, Pushcart Prize nominee. Environment, New Jersey, Mets, books, kayaking, biking, kindness. Doting grandma.
@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/
@cherylpappas.bsky.social
Writer. Book: THE CLARITY OF HUNGER Word West Press (2021). MacDowell Fellow ‘23. Email: fabulistpappas@gmail.com Novel-in-progress: Abandon www.cherylpappas.net
@lisaframe.bsky.social
Appalachia born/bred NC Native. Genx Writer. SPJ Science Comms Voracious Reader. Coffee Drinker. Zoom influencer. Slava Ukraini! Leadership @sheresistsnation.bsky.social Writing about Widow's Bullshit and Midlife https://chickenfriedmascara.substack.com
@lauraleighwrite.bsky.social
Appalachian, prison reform advocate, mother, author of The Stone Catchers: A Novel (UP Kentucky, 2024) and Jaws of Life: Stories (West Virginia UP, 2018). Words in STORY, North American Review, Florida Review, others. www.lauraleighmorris.com
@ldoyleowens.bsky.social
Fiction writer and bleeding heart liberal. Author of The Other Side of Everything (S&S). Mother through adoption. #woolfer https://www.laurendoyleowens.com/
@allielarkinwrites.bsky.social
Author of The People We Keep and several books as Allie Larkin. Obsessed with my dog. she/her
@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
@ajfields.bsky.social
writer/prof/writing center director/midwesterner/mama/phd/mfa she/they art & rhetorical study StoryGraph @amandafields EIC @literarymama.bsky.social Co-host, This Mama Is Lit! MY CAESAREAN @experimentpress #binders #teamrhetoric rep J Thompson, Nordleyset
@shelleybuck.bsky.social
Author. From Amherst to Portland via everywhere. Books: FLOATING POINT, EAST, INDIA BOUND #cnf #travel Photos on IG: shelleybuckauthor
@greenskeptic.bsky.social
Award-winning author of WINE-DARK SEA, AZOREAN SUITE/SUITE AÇORIANA, FALLING UP: A Memoir of Second Chances, and DWELLING: an ecopoem. RTs≠endorsed https://www.scottedwardanderson.com
@heathersweeney.bsky.social
Author of CAMOUFLAGE (Post Hill Press, fall 2025). Bylines: NYT, WashPo, TODAY, HuffPost, Newsweek, Business Insider, Good Housekeeping, Next Avenue, Brevity, etc.
@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
@kiklodge.bsky.social
Writer. THE BULLY IN MY PILLOW (Stanchion Books, 2026) SCREAM IF YOU WANT TO (Alien Buddha Press, 2023) Words in trampset | Milk Candy Review | Ghost Parachute | Smokelong | Bending Genres | Gone Lawn | Organising @saloneurope.bsky.social www.kiklodge.com
@tcboudreau.bsky.social
All We Knew Were Our Hearts (novel, ELJ Editions) & Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever (stories, Stanchion Books) coming in '26 Editor at The Loveliest Review. timothyboudreau.com. He/him
@julievickwriter.bsky.social
Humor writer and author of a humorous advice book for introverted parents. Words in New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and my phone’s notes app. Substack with funny stuff and writing tips: https://julievick.substack.com/
@bluebelletrist.bsky.social
Writer, former prof, sometime forest witch. Work in Blue Earth Review, Belletrist, Sierra Nevada Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, AJC. Books, coffee, & dogs. Democrat, not a felon.
@luaz.bsky.social
I write poems and I garden. Already in recovery from whatever this is. https://kylahoubolt.us My most recent collection here: https://cccpchapbooks.bigcartel.com/product/the-ghost-of-it-by-kyla-houbolt
@spencerfleury.bsky.social
Author, THE SHITBIRD (Stanchion Books, 2026), I BLAME MYSELF BUT ALSO YOU (Malarkey Books, 2024) (https://malarkeybooks.com/store/iblamemyself) and HOW I’M SPENDING MY AFTERLIFE. Hat enthusiast. Former Florida man. My Erdos number is four. SF, CA.
@mocounderground.bsky.social
MoCo Underground is a free, bimonthly get-together in Sandy Spring, MD, where awesome writers can share their work with a live audience. More info: https://justscribbling.com/mocounderground/ OR mocounderground@gmail.com.
@hmwendt.bsky.social
Novel HEADING NORTH (Braddock Avenue Books) out now! Free newsletter: hmwendt.beehiiv.com. Words in Shenandoah, Fourway Review, Memorious, & c. Writer, educator, enthusiast. they/them
@bookbent.bsky.social
THE BELLES (Simon & Schuster / Atria, Sept. 2025), a dark academia novel with a Southern gothic twist, is available for preorder: https://linktr.ee/laceyndunham
@miriamgershow.bsky.social
Writer w FOMO. SURVIVAL TIPS: STORIES (Propeller). THE LOCAL NEWS (Spiegel & Grau). Next: CLOSER (Regal House June 3 2025). www.miriamgershow.com 📚💙 Wrangling “100 Notable Small Press Books 2025” into existence. #100smallpress
@howler0502.bsky.social
My name's Shawn. I'm disabled, a sometimes poet, sometimes writer. Gen-X. Philosophically absurdist. My interests are wide, varied, and inconsistent. Mostly harmless. He/him.
@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/
@abbys480.bsky.social
Healthcare writer. Journalist. Essayist. Memoir in progress. Pushcart and BOTN nominee. Bylines WaPo, NYT, HuffPost, WIRED, AARP, HAD, Hippocampus, Citron Review, Brevity and others. linktr.ee/abbys480
@monikacassel.bsky.social
Poet, translator from German, unsure of what clever third attribute to list.
@vickymharris.bsky.social
Work in: @janusliterary.bsky.social @strangehorizons.bsky.social @ellipsiszine.bsky.social @Greatlakesreview @paragraphplanet.bsky.social @whaleroadreview.bsky.social Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, @rfpress.bsky.social http://linktr.ee/vickymharris
@dominicpileggi.bsky.social
Unlicensed writer and father; licensed plumber and pharmacist. Here to be a good citizen in the world of writing and reading! Leave Twitter. #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity
@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
@ewenglass.bsky.social
Screenwriter | Lecturer | Poemer (BOTN & Pushcart Nom. Debut chapbook ‘The Art of Washing What You Can’t Touch’ from Alien Buddha) www.ewenglass.com
@mprask.bsky.social
Writing in @havehadhavehad @rejectionLit @WestBranchMag @fivesouth and @cottonxenomorph https://linktr.ee/mprask Won't rest till Side 2 of The Wild, the Innocent, and the E St Shuffle is our national anthem.
@jacgorelick.bsky.social
Writer. Overthinker. Dogs, Music, Books & Sometimes People. she/her ✍🏼 estrangement, found family, motherhood MAP OF A HEART about ❤️s (medical & metaphorical)VineLeavesPress '26 Website www.jacquegorelick.com
@jsavrankelly.bsky.social
Debut novel ENDPAPERS (Algonquin 2023), writer, cat person, #AuthorsAgainstBookBans, #5amWritersClub, production editor at Cornell University Press, she/they | jennifersavrankelly.com
@stephiosaurus.bsky.social
Writes things, waters plants. 🦖🦕 Words in Pithead Chapel, Stone Circle, Door Is A Jar, The Evergreen Review, Roi Faineant, Bayou Mag, ONE ART, Third Wednesday, Juked, SmokeLong Quarterly, No Contact, Passages North, etc. Asst Ed American Short Fiction.
@mynachang.bsky.social
📖 THE POTENTIAL OF RADIO AND RAIN ✏️ Locus Rec List, Rhysling HM, Flash Fiction America, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction 💫 MicroVerse Recommended Reading ⚡Electric Sheep SFWA, HWA, SFPA https://mynachang.com
@elegystreet.bsky.social
po collections, eco-po anthologies, Revolute Litmag, 2022-25 Black Earth Institute fellow, river rat bird nerd linktr.ee/lauragraystreet
@mrdecember.bsky.social
My Ear is a Sieve (2017) || Do Us A Favor (2021) || You Thought This Was Just Gonna Be About Cleveland, Didn't You (2022) || There's No Future Where We Don't Have Fire (2025) www.kevinarisner.com
@ben-pike.bsky.social
Hiker, carpenter, hobbyist writer, climber, SUP on flat water, sunfish sailboat. Was once a weekly Polk Street Beans & Cafe featured open mic reader in 1996 and I still have the mug. Words in the hamper, under the couch, alongside baseboard, and elsewhere.
@christinens.bsky.social
Poetry, art, nature, climate, justice. Making little books is my passion. She/her. Más amor, por favor. http://balancedonedge.blog
@hillaryu.bsky.social
oh hi, i was told there were snacks here but have yet to find any. i’ll probably leave early 😘 🇧🇿 + 🇺🇸
@adrianf.bsky.social
Pushcart Nominated Poet. Editor. Reader. Gamer. Former chef. Occasional pebble. Lives in a shell. MFA in Poetry (Randolph). Gay af. words -> http://adriandallas.com
@barlowadams.bsky.social
Writer. Pie enthusiast. Historically preserved beard site. Cheese poet. Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, Cinnamon Challenge: honorable mention.
@tom1walsh.bsky.social
Writer/editor. Words in Hobart Pulp, HAD, Dead Mule, Lost Balloons, Litro, Janus Literary, Welkin Prize and elsewhere. Fan of Flash Fiction Online, where I learned how much dedication it takes to produce a quality mag. Recent move to Cambridge MA
@monostich.bsky.social
Poet. Author of Said No One Ever (2021) and Walking Away From Explosions in Slow Motion (2018). https://buttondown.email/gregorycrosby
@jackmmorris.bsky.social
All round jolly good egg. Writes a bit, reads a lot. Drama (on-stage, mostly) Editor: https://www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/ @neitherfishnorfoul.com my published stuff via: https://thewavingnotdrowningblog.com/
@amygcb.bsky.social
Child Craft (bellepointpress.bsky.social) | @therumpus.net (1/7) | Soon: @bansheepress.bsky.social @hypertextmagazine.bsky.social | Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social | Assistant Editor: @literaryruby.bsky.social | Co-editor: @gonelawn.bsky.socia
@pennyzang.bsky.social
English prof + writer + Tori Amos fan. Debut novel, Doll Parts, forthcoming from Sourcebooks in 2025. Substack & more: http://linktr.ee/PennyZang
@jillkitchen.bsky.social
poems & stories, music & landscape. in DC. co, nyc, & london still hold pieces of my heart. writing in ecotone, crab creek review, four way review, iowa review, night heron barks, poet lore, split lip, west trade review. i dream in italian. she/her
@lyfaulk.bsky.social
Ly Faulk (they/she) is a queer artist and an all-around weirdo. Their work has appeared in Ghost City Press, Prose Online, Jake the Magazine, and many others. Learn more at https://lynnceefaulkcom.wordpress.com/
@chrissystegmanpoet.bsky.social
Baltimore poet/writer. Words everywhere. BOTN/Pushcart nom. Reader at Fractured Lit. Reader at Atlanta Review. My chapbook Somewhere, Someone Is Forgetting You is coming out in May from Alien Buddha Press. www.chrissystegman.com
@stephstephking.bsky.social
Former Philadelphian living in Montréal Supports public schools Wrote some short stories & then some even shorter ones https://stephanieking.neocities.org/
@jeremyjohnparker.bsky.social
Writer, Editor-in-Chief for @outlooksprings.bsky.social , Book Designer, Mystagogue, Antagonist. Stories in The Normal School, December Magazine, Midwest Gothic, Cheap Pop, Coachella Review, and elsewhere. jeremyjohnparker.com △
@lorimbarrett.bsky.social
she/her Writer/Tutor Work in Citron Review/JMWW/Laurel Review/Peatsmoke/Identity Theory/Maudlin House Wondering if my dog is depressed
@theoward.bsky.social
Writer. Fetal Irish emigrant. Looking beyond the peephole of rage. 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 http://instagram.com/londontheo
@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/
@katharinewhitcomb.bsky.social
Poet, writer: HABITATS (Jan 2024) from Poetry NW Editions, THE DAUGHTER’S ALMANAC @UnivNebPress & 4 other 📚Prof @cwuenglish she/her www.katharinewhitcomb.com Living in VT.
@keef.org
Horror / fairy tale writer, dipshit, he/him. The wolf inside me is the Baba Yaga. Stories in Coffin Bell, X-Ray, Five on the Fifth, &c. Links to writing at horriblelittlefables.com & weird sound collage podcast at uhid.net Avatar by James Kochalka.
@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.
@rpmirabella.bsky.social
Writer, reader, office potato. I'm queer. Author of Brother & Sister Enter the Forest. Lambda Award Finalist. NY Times Editors' Choice. Real human. No, really. richardmirabellawriter.com
@laurapike.bsky.social
Mother, writer, veteran, reluctant Floridian. It's tough out there, so please be kind. Work in Janus Literary, Versification, Roi Faineant, Profane Journal, and elsewhere.
@avparodi.bsky.social
Teacher, believer in social justice, lover of film, music & literature. “The world is the shadow of a transient, blue dream.” Miyazawa Kenji
@mlensheffer.bsky.social
Author of THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES (Nov 2024, Iowa Short Fiction Award from U of Iowa Press) writer and teacher in New Orleans stories in Asimov's, Lit Hub, The Dread Machine, The Pinch and others