The air in your lungs remembers being a storm. The iron in your blood, a sword.
Banner by @thxnywy.art
We've been robbed. Dethrone the bastard!
Goal: Safety for ALL, in home, food, water and identity.
https://youtube.com/@electiontruthalliance?si=Qe9vNAlnwbA3tf7H
#womeninSTEM
hex editor, video game player, dad bod haver, glizzy guzzler (the Glizzard of Oz)
Purveyors of the rare and strange. Independent publishing in Philadelphia. Genre boundaries are so 20th century.
god’s favorite cowgirl 💒
senior staff writer @ total film & gamesradar+
UNLIKABLE FEMALE PROTAGONIST 2027 @ clashbooks
📍brooklyn, ny
linktr.ee/motelsiren
SFF writer. | #PitchWars '18. | Words in Pseudopod, Escape Pod, Radon Journal | Where to find me: https://linktr.ee/alexis.ames. | Member SFWA and Codex.
author of WHAT THE DEAD CAN DO (out 08.26.25 from @crookedlanebks) / FUTURE SKINNY / MY DEAD FRIEND SARAH / rep'd Jake Lovell at SDLA / co-host of WWKWWD on 94.3 KWVH in Wimberley, TX
A podcast for all writers (especially BIPOC writers) on their publishing journeys. We aim to take a closer look at publishing without rose-colored lenses. Hosts: Peace Zodanou & Elle Taylor
Flash Reader @ Split Lip, MFA from Emerson College, Publishing Assistant @ Harvard Education Press. 🖋️ literary horror. 🏳️🌈🇧🇪
A national literary magazine based at Northern Michigan University.
Site: passagesnorth.com
Merch: stores.yoopershirts.com/passages_north/shop/home
📚 Multi-genre author 💄 OUT NOW! The First Wives: an addictive domestic thriller 💔 PRE-ORDER The First Widows 🖤 Storm Publishing
🔗 https://linktr.ee/writingwithreed
SFF/middle-grade fiction/satire writer. Strategy/marketing consultant. Bagel the Dog's emotional support human. Dadjoke teller. Sentence-fragment lover. Disabled with #MECFS She/her effieseiberg.com/stories (or @effies@wandering.shop on Mastodon)
words in Rejection Letters and Barren Magazine
📖 writer | querying literary fantasy isekai | ✍🏼 adult & na lit | words in All My Relations, Light ‘Em Up, Reverent, etc. | tok/stagram @authort_lee
Mystery writer for adults & teens | A SPOONIE's GUIDE TO SELF-ACCEPTANCE (poetry chapbook) @bottlecappress | freelance editor | 💜🥄 | EIC: @flarelitmag.bsky.social 🔥| layout: Anahita Karthik | she/her
https://linktr.ee/kellyesparza
Literary magazine about chronic illnesses, mental health, & disabilities written by disabled & chronically ill creatives
Send us your flares!
EIC: @kellyesparza.bsky.social
Contest opens 1/1/26 and ends on 3/1!
https://linktr.ee/flare_magazine
Writer, poet, photographer, hiker, supporter of the arts
Freelance editor | fiction in The Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere | MCC Artist Fellow + Bread Loaf Scholar 2022 | repped by @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social | (she/her)
kithaggard.work
Just a girl trying to write love stories the whole world wants to read. 💕 I love blending relatable characters with humor, heart, and spice to create a happily ever after you still think about long after you’re done reading. 📚
Writer, editor, coach. She/her. Pittsburgh. My writing trends lyrical, peculiar, melancholy, existential. Books: MILLIONS OF SUNS (2023). THE HEIGHT OF LAND (2025). Covid cautious/airborne aware. Rep: Naomi Davis, BookEnds. linktr.ee/mchristinebd
Writer, binge reader, and science nerd. Johns Hopkins MA in Science Writing. 2x Pushcart Prize nominee. Words in Electric Lit, Pinch Journal, Catamaran, Variant Lit, Gone Lawn, Tiny Molecules, and more.
https://amethystloscocco.com
Kirkus ★ THE LOVELY DARK out April '26 🇺🇸 | Financial Times Best Children's Books '23 | Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist '24 | Rep'd: Bell Lomax Moreton | No AI |🌱
linktr.ee/mattfoxwriter
Poet, writer, editor, too many hobbies-haver, etc. Shortlisted Ginkgo Prize, Heroines Prize. Writing a book (very slowly).
UK born, Aotearoa-based, holder of slightly too many English degrees. Enjoys a good walk.
https://linktr.ee/nh_l
Writer. Straight Down the Road (Ad Hoc Fiction) | The Wind, It Swirls (Cowboy Jamboree Press) | Blur (Cowboy Jamboree Press).
Stories appear in very nice places.
https://dancrawley.com/
Writer living with multiple sclerosis. Often very tired. Best Microfiction ‘24 Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist ‘24.
Read my work: www.suzannehickswrites.com
“Give me your tired, your poor, your Submittable rejects yearning to breathe free...”
🍒 Author of EVERY SWEET THING IS BITTER (Crooked Lane, 4/22/2025)
💌 Rep: Johanna Castillo (Writers House)
🫀A lesbian gremlin with cats
Preorder my debut novel here ⤵️
https://msha.ke/shelvesofsamantha
Writes sometimes. Has always lived by the sea.
Send interview pitches for X-R-A-Y to Rebecca at: rebecca@xraylitmag.com
THE AFTER HOURS out now! ⏳✨
https://linktr.ee/aspenandersen
Author. Potter. Mom. THE BELOVED WILD (Feiwel & Friends, 2018) & UNLEAVING (Feiwel & Friends, 2019) Rep’d by Faye Bender. melissaostrom.com
💕Mother of one, loves books, video games and sci-fi 🪐 Writing a novel. Flash fiction published in The Broken Spine 📚
Northern Girls: True Stories (Baraka Books). 2026 Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. MFA (UBC). Mother bear.
Northern Girls Preorder: https://www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/northern-girls/
Author's website: www.michellewillms.com
Appalachian poet/writer, TAKE ME HOME (@BellePointPress), LIGHTNING IS A MOTHER (ELJ, 2025), Best Small Fictions 2024, Best Spiritual Literature 2023, Nominations: Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, 100+ pubs.
Writer. Worrier. Full-time coffee chugger. Eric Hoffer Book Award Finalist. “I’m Never Fine,” a memoir, OUT NOW from Vine Leaves Press
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🔗: https://linktr.ee/josephlezza
Trying this writing thing. Started with scribbling stories on my nightstand as kid, to publishing essays and pieces in Huffington Post, TodayShow.com, Deep Wild Journal, Bright Flash Lit, Multiplicity Magazine, Detroit Metro Times and more.
Writer & gardener obsessed with the small: flash cnf, bees, soil microbes—pls no small talk. Give me grief. Give me love stories. Growing on the unceded swiyah of the shíshálh people. Thanks for having me. She/her
matchbook is an online literary journal that publishes one piece of short prose accompanied by an author's note every two weeks.
https://matchbooklitmag.com
literary catgirl | author of Deliver Me, Gag Reflex, Nudes, & Animals Eat Each Other | phd candidate at university of glasgow | editor @thecreativeindependent.com 🌀
“i’m the bigger dog only for now.” —peter christopher
🐇linktr.ee/ellenash
Disabled (8 chronic illnesses) & neurodivergent ♿ Queer🏳️🌈 Book reviewer📚 DC & Star Wars fan 🎞️ #FFXIV 🎮 Reviews closed until Jan.
https://direct.me/justgeekingby
http://geeking-by.net
Writer, runner | Nonfiction Editor at Pithead Chapel | MFA Emerson College | Short story collection: The Girl and the Fox Pirate | kategehan.com
Tiny poems & strange fictions // 🚫🤖 // EIC at @pizamapress.bsky.social // books w. X-R-A-Y & Okay Donkey // writing prompt every Sunday via Substack (neonpajamas)
I write (very) short fiction. LL: Bath Flash Fiction Award, Welkin Writing Prize • SL: NFFD Competition • Honorable Mention: Scribes Writing Prize • Finalist: Five Minutes Micro Contest ✍️ Fiction Reader @okaydonkeymag.com
Long Covid, ME/CFS, POTS…. For now
Author: TACOMA; A KIND OF IN-BETWEEN; YEAR OF THE BUFFALO; STEPHEN KING'S THE BODY; BACKSWING
Editor: HAD; Short Story, Long (on Substack)
https://linktr.ee/aaronburch
She/her. Flash writer. Everything's Changing (Thirty West, 2023) & Breaking Points (Black Lawrence, 2021).
https://linktr.ee/chelseastickle
Writer of the weird and experimental flash. Words @FracturedLit, @Xraylitmag, @NecessaryFic, @TBQuarterly, and elsewhere.
Debut flash fiction collection, THESE WORN BODIES, out now @MoonCityPress.
Read more at http://avitusbcarle.com
Writer, THIS. THIS. THIS. IS. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. She/her.
Fiction writer, EIC/ Fiction Editor of Pithead Chapel, adjunct professor www.kimmagowan.com
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
Bath Flash Fiction Winner • Smokelong Fellow • Storyknife • Wigleaf Top 50 LL • 2025 Best Small Fictions • words in Pithead Chapel, Flash Frog, Ghost Parachute, Fractured Lit, The Forge • dawntasakasteffler.com
Native Hawaiian writer living in Japan
https://www.melissallanesbrownlee.com/
Bitter over Sweet https://tinyurl.com/5hd7u63r
Hard Skin http://tinyurl.com/yc53
Kahi&Lua http://tinyurl.com/3ryfzvwh
Chartered EHP with long covid.
Writer. Work in or forthcoming: SmokeLong Quarterly,'s blog, Roi Fainéant, Emerge Literary Journal,, Cowboy Jamboree, The Argyle, Necessary Fiction and Heavy Feather Review. Reader for Story Magazine. She/her.
Love You, Miss You, Goodbye Forever (stories, Stanchion), & Stepdad on the Dance Floor (stories, Unsolicited) coming in '26.
All We Knew Were Our Hearts (novel, Unsolicited) coming in '27.
Editor at The Loveliest Review.
timothyboudreau.com.
He/him
Retired sailor, writer, gardener.
Editor: Doric Literary
Fiction Editor: Exposition Review.
Writer. Editor in Chief of Lost Balloon. Lover of books and scary movies, lifting weights and petting dogs.
bleating thing • she/her • author of 3 chapbooks, most recently ANGELS & INSECTS ARE CREATURES WITH WINGS
Poet: Books: Lady Wing Shot (Blue Lynx Prize, 2024), Swan Wife (Cider Press Review Editors Prize, 2022), Hillbilly Madonna (Driftwood Press, 2022)
Loved working with Driftwood so much, I became Managing Poetry Editor in 2023
www.saramoorewagner.com
Louisiana Poet Laureate 2017-19. Books from Mercer University Press. Work included in Best Microfiction and Best Spiritual Lit. EIC: @louisianalit.bsky.social
www.jackbbedell.com
language, longing, music & landscape. DC. co, nyc, & london still hold pieces of my heart. words in asterales, crab creek, HAD, four way, iowa, poet lore, split lip. soon in AQR, NAR, & Vassar Review. social media @ SWWIM she/her linktr.ee/jillkitchen
Writer, reader, editor, cat convert, spoonie
links to stories at
https://coffeeandpaneer.wordpress.com/
Flash collection at Reflex Press
https://www.reflex.press/product/families-and-other-natural-disasters/
Author of THE INSATIABLES from @ChiReviewPress, Managing Editor at @pitheadchapel, future ghost
www.BrittanyTerwilliger.com
Writer of short stories and flash fiction. Words in Molotov Coctail, Ellipsis Zine, Raw Lit and others. Green fingers and plant whisperer.
Author of THE BEDTIME EMPTYING OF OUR WORLD (Feb 2026, Moon City Press + Short Fiction Award)
Forever writing fairy tales in speculative/weird/SFesque disguises.
Dad-ing.
Materializing @astrolabe.ooo.
https://joelhans.com
Poet with dogs. 🖤
Words in: SWWIM | McNeese | Door Is A Jar | HAD | “Don't Worry About Me“ (Bottlecap Press). "The Last Girl” (Finishing Line Press).
Writer. Mother. Mood reader. Genre floozy.
WIPs: a speculative literary novel and a YA urban fairytale. Often bunking off with forays into flash.
📍Brighton, UK.
An ally, always 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
No DMs please.
Freelance editor, creative writing faculty at The New School and The Loft Literary Center. Animal enthusiast. Minneapolis. She/her
Writer.
Words: Flash Frog, Trampset, HAD, Ghost Parachute, Bending Genres, Maudlin House, Gone Lawn, Tiny Molecules etc.
Flash Ed: Variant Lit
Two stray dogs fighting over nachos.
https://www.daviddruryauthor.com/
Author - Poet
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
writer, yoga therapist, Bowie fan | asst cnf editor Pithead Chapel | Best Microfiction nom | Pushcart Prize nom | BOTN nom | wigleaf LL | stage NED | ope
Writing: www.esfletcher.com
a writer in austin, tx
poetry & movies
knitting & old radios
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 🎉WIGLEAF TOP 50🎉
Colgate University Nonfiction Fellow, PEN/Faulkner Writer in Residence, host of Awakeners Podcast on Lit Hub Radio, book editor at Autofocus, words in Guernica, Gulf Coast, Narratively, The Rumpus, etc. she/her ✨ X & IG: @which_is_to_say
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
Horror and fantasy author, award-winning newspaper journalist, and U.S. Army gulf war veteran. lionelraygreen.com
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.
Writer, Mom, Polyglot. 아포방포. Editor @lit-namjooning.bsky.social, Subs Editor @Smokelong. Words: BSF'23 @hexliterary,@tinymolecules @barrelhouse @BoothAJournal @wigleaf
Published work here: linktr.ee/hemanataraju
Journalist & essayist. Co-host of The Women’s Current pod.
https://linktr.ee/mollywadzeck
Disabled writer/author. Author of Pari needs a mobility aid and I am the one thing I can control
Words in Wigleaf Top 50, Bending Genres, Cincinnati Review, Gone Lawn, Milk Candy, New Ohio Review, Pithead Chapel
Reader, Fractured Lit.
Nominated Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, BOTN.
Award-winning chapbook, Good Mother Lizard.
Writer. Teacher. PhD candidate UofU. Fiction Editor Waxwing. Social Media & Assistant Prose Editor Pithead Chapel. Poetry collection ALL THAT BLUE (forthcoming) Chapbooks: STITCH (forthcoming), EDGE OF THE SEA & WITHOUT WOMAN OR BODY
allisonfieldbell.com
Former doc filmmaker/cinematographer/teacher, current full-time sick person, occasional poet
Poet. Author of HOW TO BURY A BOY AT SEA. Copywriter and editor at Amazon Web Services. Cat and dog dad. Partner. Nice Jewish Boy. Dork.
https://linktr.ee/philgoldstein
Recovering adjunct, Current grant writer
AZ based writer, poet, and humorist.
SFWA, Reader @ Uncharted Magazine
Work in Radon Journal-McSweeney's-Utopia Science Fiction-Wergle Flomp
TTRPG: https://ajmaust.itch.io/far-from-the-fairgrounds
Not good at writing bios but I write other things. Editor of fiction and flash at JMWW and The Hopper. jacqueline-parker.com
Writer of bittersweet love stories | no HEA | disability advocate | https://linktr.ee/majaurukalo
(disabled) writer | WHERE WAS I AGAIN (Essay Press) | I FEEL FINE (Switchback Books)
oliviamuenz.com
slipstream simulacrum || writing @ House of Vlad, X-R-A-Y, HAD, Misery Tourism, Rejection Letters, Best British Short Stories @ Salt Publishing || fiction editor @ X-R-A-Y || EIC @ bodyfluids.org || painter || nuclear physics obsessive || pronouns: ae/aer
Writer:
Nose Ornaments, Runner-up Bath NIF '24; Things I Can't Tell Amma (Ad Hoc, UK, '21).
Pubs: Adroit Journal, Doric Lit, CRAFT,SmokeLong, Fractured
Best Microfic, Best Small Fic, Wigleaf Top 50.
BathFlash HC/Shortlisted; Series Editor: Wigleaf Top 50
🦘 the kangaroo girl of the indie writing scene 🦘
Indie author and film analyst. Author of Amissis Liberis and Hypochondria. http://sarahrnew.wordpress.com
sarahrnew.wordpress.com
linktr.ee/sarahrnew
they/them. writer, noisemaker, fermenter, teacher. words in catapult, foglifter, autostraddle, bedfellows, & others. jake sun, marceline moon, b-mo wannabe. reader @ split lip mag www.zkennedylopez.com/
Author "The Daddy Chronicles-Memoir of a Fatherless Daughter" from Whisk(e) Tit Books & "Tender Cuts" a collection of microfiction from Vine Leaves Press. Lover of animals over humans. Currently in California, but moving to Paris. jaynemartin-writer.com
Writer, mother, Berliner. Ex-Detroiter, recovering designer. Words in Columbia Journal, Fourth Genre, The Forge, Hippocampus, Lunch Ticket, MsMagazine #binders
Poet, Wife, Mom, LongCovid/MECFS. Looking to connect and learning to advocate. EIC, Poetry @epistemiclit.Bsky.social, @nimblewitlit.bsky.social. Micropoetry chapbook Lift the Mask available widely. www.kristinhoulihan.com
Fiction writer & artist. CHURN (Texas Review Press 2023) Words: Split Lip Magazine. Free State Review. LitMag. Opinions my own. MFA at UMKC. she/her https://linktr.ee/chloe_chun_seim
Debut essay collection PIECES OF THE NIGHT forthcoming (Cornerstone Press, 2027)
Recovering newspaperman
“Realist of a larger reality”
Promised to Holly
Wants to be with you alone and talk about the weather
He/him
https://aarikdanielsen.com
