Literary Fiction Writers
A starter pack of literary fiction writers. Follow to keep track of all your literary fiction faves! Emerging writers welcome :) #literaryfiction
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@zoebflavin.bsky.social
@mariewriter1963.bsky.social
Published writer 📖🖊️ Mother of two artists/illustrators 🎨🖌️ Children's books, speculative fiction, sci-fi, haunted houses, paranormal, fantasy, humor, poetry 📚 My heart is 💙💙💙 Not looking for agents! 🚧 #writer #writingcommunity #booksky #author #kidsbooks
@chiomatic.bsky.social
Just my imagination. Running away with me. Author of lit fic. Foodie. Cat momma. (Not necessarily in that order.) WATER BABY (Quercus) available where books are sold only you have to ask a bookseller cos mid-list titles can't be found on the shelves!😆 🙊
@martyessen.bsky.social
Multi-award-winning author of eight books (3 nonfiction & 5 fiction), talent agent, college speaker, activist, adventurer, and photographer. Website: https://martyessen.com Blog: https://marty-essen.com
@adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social
Writer, horror enthusiast, good-time Charlie. Work published in JMWW, Soundings Review, Hot Metal Bridge.
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
Writer Longlisted for Orwell Prize Shortlisted twice for Bridport Poetry Prize Longlisted for Bridport Novel Prize Looking for help to move things on
@judahmahay.com
Alaskan SFF author who revels in subverting genre into the literary. English Professor by day. Hockey player by night. SFWA Member ✨ Vegan 🌱 Rep’ed by Lukas Ortiz https://linktr.ee/judahmahay https://www.judahmahay.com
@clancysteadwell.bsky.social
The mustachioed pseudonym of a contemporary fiction author. Read my lit-fic at https://www.persona-non-propria.com/
@cat1957.bsky.social
Born again writer, organic hypnosis practitioner, data nerd, fact finder, avid reader 📚🦋💫 #writer #books #shortfiction #mysterywriting #writingcommunity #writing #poetrycommunity #poetry #storyteller #writesky #achypnotherapy #organicunconsciousprocessing
@isabelkaplan.bsky.social
Author of the national bestselling novel NSFW and that viral essay “My boyfriend, a writer, broke up with me because I’m a writer,” among other things. Substack: isabelkaplan.substack.com / Happiest underwater or surrounded by dogs.
@tbolt.bsky.social
Writer. O. Henry Prize (via n+1): http://bit.ly/InversionOfMarcia Contributing ed @ BOMB. Rome Prize for Literature, Yale YP Vol 84. http://tbolt.com. Fiction in n+1: https://nplusonemag.com/issue-27/fiction-drama/inversion-of-marcia/
@scarletnightwrites.bsky.social
I am a fiction author specializing in contemporary gothic literature. I am working on a collection of gothic short stories that explore themes of trauma, identity, and folklore.
@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
@bdiggswrites.bsky.social
Writer, fiction and non. Highly Commended, Bridport Prize and Bath Flash Fiction. Nom for Pushcart & Small Fictions. Finalist BOTN. Work in SmokeLong, Fictive Dream, FlashBack Fic, and many other lovely journals. Ex-attorney. Mother of Boys.
@bobbymillertime.com
Author of SITUATION NOWHERE out March 25, 2025 - Filmmaker (The Cleanse, TUB, Critters Attack!) Book - SituationNowhere.com Substack - BobbyMillerTime.com
@laurenalwan.bsky.social
fiction/essays • O.Henry Prize Stories • novel in progress • Notable BAE • WTAW Press board • laurenalwan.com
@acxtrilla.xyz
Horror and SFF writer, latest work is Songs of the Unfathomable https://books2read.com/Unfathomable https://amazon.com/author/callummatthews Horror work posted here: https://talesofdespair.substack.com 📍London 🏴
@beverleylee.bsky.social
♱ I write atmospheric horror/creeping dread/haunted broken boys - sometimes altogether! ♱ Lover of male vampires kissing and all the Feels. ♱ Ally 🏳️🌈 www.beverleylee.com beacons.ai/beverleylee
@mateooxley.bsky.social
Whimsical, swarthy actor/cat dad of 3. Songs on Spotify/AppleMusic Scribbling folktales at Oxford.
@wesblake.bsky.social
Writer | PINEVILLE TRACE (Etchings Press, 2024) |💙 music, cats, & trees | ✍️Words in Electric Literature, storySouth, more | wesblake.com | linktr.ee/wesblake |📍Kentucky PINEVILLE TRACE, book club kit, & teaching guide: wesblake.com/pineville-trace-2
@aimeeliu.bsky.social
#Author, #MFA prof, photopainter, Substacker. Find me: https://aimeeliu.substack.com/ https://aimeeliu.net/ Some #Books: GAINING, CLOUD MOUNTAIN, GLORIOUS BOY, SOLITAIRE.
@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/
@annekorkeakivi.bsky.social
Author of novels AN UNEXPECTED GUEST and SHINING SEA (Little, Brown). Reader, writer, traveler, New Yorker abroad. Anne not Anna. annekorkeakivi.com
@sarawrites.bsky.social
Writer. Carer. Sea swimmer. Cats. Longlist @MoniackMhor Emerging Writer award '22. Shortlist #Curae Prize '23.
@ladydolby.bsky.social
Author of joyful historical books. Rep'd by @Diana_Beaumont. Victorian Lady Detective novels #NoLifeForALady and #HowtoSolveMurdersLikeALady out NOW!!!. 💃
@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
@diamondgbraxton.bsky.social
Queer Black & Mexican Writer & Editor 🌈 Founder @abodepress / MFA @txstmfa Lambda Literary, Tin House, Hedgebrook 25’ www.diamondgizellebraxton.com
@bradleybooks.bsky.social
Maps of Imaginary Towns available NOW in all bookshops! Also: Uneasy Listening podcast. PGcert Teaching Creative Writing, Cambridge (First Story bursary), K Blundell Trust Award. Short story writer, novelist, audio playwright. linktr.ee/bradleybooks
@evanderlang.bsky.social
writer in Chicagoland. all publications here: https://www.evanderlang.com/ reader for @fracturedlit.bsky.social and Hypertext Magazine
@venavis.bsky.social
Writer of fantasy and science fiction. Occasionally poetry but I promise I always wash my hands afterwards. Author Profile - https://www.amazon.com/author/vincentavis Blog - https://worldlessvisible.wordpress.com/
@brandyo71.bsky.social
53. American in England. Beagle mom. Professional marketeer. Former bookshop owner. Signed 1st edition collector. Northwestern University MFA. Literary fiction. Debut novel forthcoming from Wildhouse Publishing. INFJ.
@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.
@sgfhoffman.bsky.social
Librarian, writer, poet, reader, singer, actress, cat lover. Working on YA fantasy novel. (instagram.com/sgfhoffman)
@marijkebuys.bsky.social
✨A mom✨ ✨A teacher ✨ ✨An author✨ First novel releasing soon! ✨What is your worth?✨ Still following my own path, I don’t care what other people think…..
@gathcreator.bsky.social
🏳️🌈(she/they) | Mexican ESL writer born of Poe | Interview Editor at Hypertext Mag | Words at La Piccioletta Barca, ANMLY Lit, Tint Journal, Beyond Queer Words, Fauxmoir, The Selkie. www.jaelmontellano.com
@neilserven.bsky.social
Fiction & essays, novel in progress. Co-owner @federalstbooks.bsky.social . Candlepin bowler. Language stuff. A lot of crank air. Used to write the dictionary. Western Massachusetts.
@vkenv.bsky.social
Former actor now writing. Progressive, Canadian, warrior against gaslighting “conservatives,” and billionaire parasites. Husband to my love, a Creator of Joy & Beauty. Enhancing & Refining, within & without, is the Ultimate Answer.
@truantmemphis.com
Author & worker. Recreational painter. Check out my novels: Littlethumb Sneezed, Daffodil, and Post Oh!pocalypto Poppycock. Blended genre humor, litfic/specfic. They’re funny & sad & other stuff. Available all over the internet. www.truantmemphis.com
@katjolewis.bsky.social
I write books and video games 🎮 | GOOD PEOPLE forthcoming from Simon & Schuster (2026) | Writing Craft Lessons on Substack | Rep: Robin Rue @ Writers House | Views = my own | she/her
@sharleenmondal.bsky.social
English prof, fiction writer @ Ashland University. Ph.D. University of Washington. Bread Loaf/VONA alum. Reposts/likes aren't endorsements; opinions are solely mine.
@ccohanlon.bsky.social
vagabond. sea-dweller. diarist. wreck. https://linktr.ee/ccohanlon #nobots "The sea drives truth into a man like salt." - Hilaire Belloc
@angelshartz.bsky.social
poet novelist orb enthusiast www.caitlinannettejohnson.com
@brigibee.bsky.social
29. Appalachian. KY. Poet and fiction author. Future counselor. Raising a tiny herd of animals with my sweet husband.
@jebanach.bsky.social
Original Yale Writers Workshop Faculty|Writings: The Paris Review, Granta, TIME, The Atlantic, Story, Vogue, Oprah Daily, Electric Lit etc.|Author of 100+ guides to world literature for PRH, S&S, HMH, HC, GA📚 "Doesn't look sick" https://linktr.ee/jebanach
@clairecameron.bsky.social
Author of How to Survive Bear Attack, out now — Recently in The Globe & Mail, Outside Magazine, and The New York Times. I write about wild things, I run, I read. 🍁 https://www.claire-cameron.com
@zoharjacobs.bsky.social
Migrant Jewish intellectual. Writer, historian, mystic | Fiction in Sunday Morning Transport, Analog, Asimov's & Clarkesworld | Oxford, UK
@profmurdoch.bsky.social
Professor of History @mhafhs.bsky.social Research: Britain & the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) & The British Civil Wars (1639-1660). Maritime Warfare (1513-1713) Teaching: History of Military Thought, 500BC-2000AD 🗃 #Dyslexic in several languages.
@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.
@scturnerfiction.bsky.social
Writer. Short stories in: Sonora Review, J Journal, Shooter Lit Mag, London Magazine, Fictive Dream, LEON, Litro, The Phare & others | SL Bridport SS 2023 www.scturnerfiction.com
@dannyramadan.com
He/Him- 🏳️🌈 - Syrian-Canadian author Crooked Teeth, The Foghorn Echoes, The Clothesline Swing, and The Salma Books. Lambda winner 🏆. Governor General Finalist 🏆. Former refugee. I don’t bite, unless you ask nicely! https://linktr.ee/dannyramadan
@buckwilde1.bsky.social
Old as Dirt / Novelist / Journalist / Thinker-Too-Mucher / Being normal has never been a goal of mine/ Left of Center/ She/Her American History 2027 is available on Amazon and Itchio https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSCBMCS4 https://kdlang1999.itch.io/
@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
@sheilakillian.bsky.social
Author, writer, teacher, researcher, that kind of thing. Words. You know yourself. Limerick Ireland www.sheilakillian.com
@uhume.bsky.social
Author of An Uncertain Age and House of Miracles. Labyrinth guide. . www.ulricahume.com . Read poem: https://ricjournal.com/2024/09/28/hollow-heart-ulrica-hume/
@royakhatiblou.bsky.social
Writer | Editor | she/her | mommy | 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧 | work: Salon, Litro, Reflex Press, Chicago Rev + Assoc dir @saloneurope.bsky.social | roya-khatiblou.com | rep: Salma Begum @greyhoundliterary.bsky.social
@jamesgwriter.bsky.social
WRITER. The Wooden Hill (short stories) The Lightning (novel), coming 2026! Work Broadcast BBC Radio 4 Nom 4 x Pushcart Prize S-list Best in Rural Writing L-list Irish SS of the Year Husband. Dad. Tay drinker. N Ireland. https://ko-fi.com/jamesgwriter
@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
@julialeebarclay.bsky.social
Author THE MORTALITY SHOT (hybrid collection), coach, editor, artist, certified yoga teacher, theater maker, now working on researched memoir about liberation of discovering at 57 I'm #Autistic: TheUnadaptedOnes.com
@rchetypes.bsky.social
Novel about pirate queen: Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea. Indie Next, Barnes & Noble Discover, Good Morning America Buzz Pick. Stories in Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, One Story, Conjunctions, Clarkesworld, etc. rchetypes.com she/they
@kkwiltshire.bsky.social
Reader in Creative Writing, love reading, love writing! Programme Leader for Creative Writing and convenor for the Fiction Writer’s Network research group at EHU, former British Academy Innovation Fellow - but views all my own.
@louisesblack.bsky.social
Author. Reader. British-Iranian living in Ibiza and London. 📚POMEGRANATE SKY (2010), THE WATER GARDEN (2021), DARKNESS FALLS IN JAKARTA (2024). Winner of the Virgina Prize for Fiction 2009. Rep’d by @megancarrollagent.bsky.social @watsonlittle.bsky.social
@carcionejay.bsky.social
Fiction: The London Magazine, The Forge, Lunate, Epoque Press, elsewhere Best of the Net 2024 finalist Deputy Production Editor: Irish Examiner Cork via New York
@virginiahall.bsky.social
Writer, literary and women’s fiction, poet, border collie slave and ocean activist - roots in science, wings in sentence craft.
@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
@theferocity.bsky.social
Poet and cultural critic. Also, I co-host the podcast VIBE CHECK. Artist-in-residence at Harvard rn. BOOKS: Prelude to Bruise, How We Fight for Our Lives, Alive at the End of the World. saeedjones.substack.com
@vajra.me
Writer. Revenant. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023 Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus first novel winner) & RAKESFALL (2024 Nebula finalist) http://vajra.me/books Colombo, Sri Lanka. https://vajra.me
@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
@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
@heatherhigdon.bsky.social
Lover of Human Story. ❤️ Literary fiction writer represented by Kat Foxx at The Rights Factory. IG: heatherhigdonwrites
@stephstephking.bsky.social
Former Philadelphian living in Montréal Supports public schools Wrote some short stories & then some even shorter ones https://stephanieking.neocities.org/
@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
@isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social
New York Times bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts (plus others) who often talks books on the Today Show. Next up? American Dionysus. 🍎 I walk a lot.
@polisloizou.bsky.social
Writer, performer, storyteller, both bi and curious • A GOOD YEAR (Fairlight Moderns) 📚 • East Med to East Mids 🇨🇾🇬🇧 (he/him) http://linktr.ee/polisloizou
@meredithwadley.bsky.social
Mildly friendly, Swiss-based US writer of litfic, working on debut novel. Latest pubs, longform & flash, realism & offbeat: @ghostcitypress @emergejournal @acrossthemargin @TheWoolf @offbeatlit @SubniveanMag & @fiveonthefifth. www.meredithwadley.com
@rachellayown.bsky.social
writer | editor | social worker managing director @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social editor of THE ROCKFORD ANTHOLOGY debut novel HOW WE SEE THE GRAY both forthcoming (she/they) https://linktr.ee/rachelleon
@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
@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
@claudiamonpere.bsky.social
San Francisco Bay Area writer and educator. Flash fiction and cnf in SmokeLong, Bending Genres, Atlas and Alice, The Forge, Ghost Parachute, Craft & elsewhere.Poetry in journals such as New Ohio Review, Plume, Hunger Mountain and Cincinnati R. (she/her)
@vanessahua.bsky.social
FORBIDDEN CITY | A RIVER OF STARS| DECEIT AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES| Rona Jaffe| Bylines @sfchronicle @nytimes & elsewhere | NEAarts Fellow | forthcoming EL NIDO
@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.