Seeking the wonderful and the bizarre, the beautiful and the dark.
Home to all things dark and lovely.
crowcrosskeys@gmail.com
EIC: @keychild.bsky.social (she/her)
https://linktr.ee/crowcrosskeys
@onyxaminedlife on Twitter. Chicago trans woman/entity/entities. She/her or they/them. A short story writer and all around pretentious person. Weird jokes, political rants, some positivity. Friendly!
Tiny poems & strange fictions // 🚫🤖 // EIC at @pizamapress.bsky.social // books w. X-R-A-Y & Okay Donkey // writing prompt every Sunday via Substack (neonpajamas)
New Flash Fiction Review is an online magazine devoted to flash fiction. Read more: https://newflashfiction.com
Scottish-American writer. Flash collection "The Yet Unknowing World." Stories in Best Small Fictions 2019 and 2023. Historical novel "Ancestral Virgins" out in June 2026! www.fionajmackintosh.com #writer #flashfiction
Author of novel: Instructions For the Working Day
WOLFSONG (stories) ROOTS OF THE BANYAN TREE (YA novel). Atticus, Citron, CRAFT, Dribble Drabble, Emerge, Ghost Parachute, Gooseberry Pie, New Flash Fic Rev, Pithead Chapel, RUBY Lit. Best Microfic, Best Small Fics, BOTN, Pushcart noms, Wigleaf longlist
Writer, PT-EN literary translator | 2024 Sundial House Literary Translation Award | Translations in Words Without Borders, Michigan Quarterly Review, LALT, Asymptote Journal | Author-Member at Betty Books | ilzeduarteliterarytranslator.com
she/her
Writer/Tutor
Work in Citron Review/JMWW/Laurel Review/Peatsmoke/Identity Theory/Maudlin House
Wondering if my dog is depressed
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/
Wildly under-appreciated fiction writer / emo dad 👻 🖤🍸
https://www.ricketywhite.com/
(she/her)
Berlin based writer, Granta Workshop Alum, words in ECO24, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Nightmare Magazine & more.
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Rep'd: @transatlanticagcy.bsky.social
My website! tyndall.earth
Flash fan, poet, short fiction writer. Likes actual and imaginary travel. Words: 2nd place Bath Flash June 2021, Best Microfiction 2022, Free Flash Fiction Competition Winner.
Writer of fiction and fact. Englishman living in the high jungle of Peru. Short stories published in Escape Pod, Fusion Fragment, Fission, Sci Phi Journal, and more. Also posting movie stuff (no spoilers, I promise). Find me at https://tonydunnell.com/
Work in animal conservation
Short fic author/editor with work in A&N Press, Interzone, Tenebrous, From Beyond Press, LSQ, Sentinel Creatives, Baubles from Bones, Hyphenpunk, Mythaxis, All Worlds Wayfarer, + more
https://jenniferjeannemcardle.blogspot.com
Writer, editor, graphic designer. Irony enthusiast, amateur taxidermist, roller girl. Short story collection LIVING FOREVER & OTHER TERRIBLE IDEAS. Get postcard stories @ www.patreon.com/skaftun.
Writer from Central Virginia. Words out or forthcoming in The Rumpus, ONLY POEMS, HAD, Moon City Review, Blue Earth Review, etc. MFA-ing at Hollins University.
Poetry Editor @chestnutreview.bsky.social
Website - https://blukewilson.com
Stories in CRAFT Literary, Vestal Review, Bending Genres, more. 🐈⬛ Learned from Rutgers-Camden MFA '18, Tin House '22, and Lambda Literary '25. Fiction reader for Okay Donkey. catherinebuck.com
Art writing & fiction in Vault, Meanjin, Apollo, Art Guide, Art Monthly, Okay Donkey, Milk Candy Review & New Flash Fiction Review
Secret sewing habit 🪡
janeosullivan.com.au
We publish experimental literary speculative fiction, poetry, reviews & translations. Read us at http://orions-belt.net. Support us at http://patreon.com/orionsbeltmag. EiC: @gessicasakamoto.bsky.social
Writer, runner, trying to keep up with another social media platform
Not good at writing bios but I write other things. Editor of fiction and flash at JMWW and The Hopper. jacqueline-parker.com
Flash fiction and short story writer. Free Flash. Ellipsis zine. 100 Word Story. Firewords.Roi Faient. NFFD Anthology. Temple in a City. Thin Skin. Flash Amiga.
Short story writer. Editor at The Baltimore Review.
🏳️🌈✊🧡 (She/Her) Lit and lit-genre crossover author, work in Agnes and True, Broken Pencil, the BK, and many more. Editor at the Baltimore Review. Managing Editor at Li Isprii.
Banff, AB, 🇨🇦 / Treaty 7 / Homeland of the Red River Metis
www.estrempler.com
a pile of ginkgo leaves in a trench coat. author of FABLEMAKER (Gaudy Boy, 2025), UNSPRUNG (Newfound, 2023), and MONSOON DAUGHTER (Thirty West Publishing House, 2022).
~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
I like to write stuff. Longtime Boston-area educator. Mom of daschund-pug mix rescue. Words in Literary Namjooning, Roi Fainéant Press, Bending Genres, Bright Flash Literary, Literally Stories, etc. Upcoming-Brilliant Flash Fiction, Reckon Review & Jake.
Writer. Salt Spring Island & Vancouver, 🇨🇦. Stories in: Masters Review, trampset, Cleaver, Peatsmoke, Grain, PRISM...
Slowly moving socials to here from there.
Knows: healthcare, psych, change.
Endorses: forests, dogs, quests.
andreabishop.ca
A place where the world feels a tiny tiny bit smaller.
- Founded and supported by the Global SmokeLong Community.
Words in Five South, Flash Fiction Online, Atlas + Alice, Lunch Ticket, Flash Fiction Magazine, Roi Faineant, and elsewhere.
Website: https://melissa-fitzpatrick.com/
Substack: https://melissafitz.substack.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
Writing in Booth, Barrelhouse, Milk Candy Review, Jake, MudRoom, and other fun places. Fiction collection And There Came Forth a Great Fish out now.
Science- & nature-loving writer, dad, & fitness buff in ATX. ❤️🔥 of a hype man. Happily partnered. Intersectional feminist & LGBTQ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally. ⚽️. (he/him)
Get into using alt text. Get WAY into it.
Av: bearded middle-aged guy
Banner: wall map of world weather
Essayist and poet. Autistic. Books, trees, clouds, sky.
Etsy shop: https://slowquietimages.etsy.com/
Newsletter: https://slowquiet.substack.com
https://maryhrovat.com
Writer & daydreamer living by the Somerset coast. Author of fiction collections #TheStairsAreASnowcappedMountain, #SkyLightRain (https://bit.ly/3zlfK7Q) & #RememberMeToTheBees. Workshop leader/journalism/brand engagement.
https://linktr.ee/bestofthenet2006
Writer. Wife. Community Leader. Teacher. Seeking my wild. Words in Gone Lawn, Cabinets of Heed, Spelk, Five on the Fifth, Fiction Berlin Kitchen, and others.
Writer of strange little heartbreaks. Sometimes I share them with people who aren’t my mom. I’ll never tell you to wash your face.
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
Writer in NYC. Former Attorney. EIC Split Lip Magazine. Copper Nickel Editor's Prize | BASS Distinguished Story | Kenyon Review | Ploughshares | Harvard Review | Wigleaf | http://maureenlangloss.com/
Flash writer,Teacher, Night gardener
Work in: Lost Balloon, Fictive Dream, Literary Namjooning, Unbroken, New Flash Fiction Review, Fractured Lit, Bending Genres, Vestal Review, Flash the Court, Centaur Lit
SmokeLong Quarterly Emerging Writer Fellow 2025
Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out 9 April in UK / 9 June in US (pre-order at the link below!) 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
fiction @ places
elated Pushcart, BotN, BSF nominee
2025 fellow @smokelong.bsky.social
organizer @saloneurope.bsky.social
reader @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
katherineplumhoff.com
valencia, es
Aspiring #scifi writer writing #vss #sff stories daily and #haiku when I can. Bartleby B. Boar award nominee #SciFanSat 🏴 living in 🏴
dc via apollo, pa | she/her | words @ Best Microfiction, Bending Genres, Lost Balloon, Milk Candy Review, Flash Fiction Online, Cold Signal, hex literary & more | http://www.laurenkardos.co/
No rest for the morbid! Still Wish You Were Here, 222 Cemeteries to See Before You Die, Death's Garden Revisited, This Morbid Life: Essays, Lost Angels, & Unsafe Words: Stories. she/her
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)
writer !!
https://www.valhughes.com
Poet / Musician / Educator / Curious Person
PhD / University of Houston
Poetry Editor / Gulf Coast Journal
Board member / Four Way Books
Words in Foglifter, Grist, ALR, Mass Rev, Black Warrior Rev, Frontier, etc....
https://linktr.ee/kt_herr
Writer, aesthete, reprobate.
Writes as A W Earl (and, previously, Alys Earl) but you can call me Fred.
Has sword, will travel. They/them.
writer & video games producer
https://linktr.ee/ckliu
A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative || Where good writing counts and facts matter.
SFF author; EXTREMOPHILE & THE ROTSTORM trilogy out now with HoZ books/Ad Astra; PhD in epigenetics; ᛉᚷᛏᚫ; www.ianthegreen.com; https://geni.us/extremophile
Speculative fiction writer & narrator. Words in Flash Fiction Online, Haven Spec, and Small Wonders. Odyssey grad 2013. Codexian. Monthly Newsletter: https://shorturl.at/BPJxo
I read, write, teach, mom. WOTF winner, children's author, poet, playwright, novelist. Editor for Tales and Feathers, first reader for Augur. Stories somewhere.
Wannabe poet/novelist. Poetry Editor at Folklore Review. I try to write things sometimes!
Writer, Librarian, Jerseyan ✍🏻 Baltimore Review, Hunger Mountain, X-R-A-Y, Lost Balloon, Tahoma Literary Review, Flash Frog, Passages North. Soon in OSU The Journal, The Bulb Region | BSF 2023
https://eileentomarchio.webnode.page/
up-and-coming harridan 🖊 uncanny magazine, fairy tale review, black warrior review, the comics journal, etc. https://linktr.ee/julietkahn
🚀 SFFH writer from MN ✨HWA, SFWA, Codex 🌿 sometimes moss
✏️ Work in Apex, The Dark, Flame Tree Press, Nature: Futures, The Saturday Evening Post, gavagai & more
AbigailKemske.com 🌳 https://linktr.ee/abigailkemske
reader of all the things, writer of a few things. assistant professor and wrangler of other bookish things in the dmv. words at karaoakleaf.com
Writer of flash and other short forms; tutor at OxUni Continuing Education. 🏆 Edinburgh FF, Scottish Story Awards; recent pubs Mslexia, Best Women’s Short Fiction 2024, New Writing Scotland, New FF Review. Haunter of charity shops. www.gailanderson.com
Author, editor, professor, family participant. Retired altar boy, pizza chef, and beer vendor.
publisher - @thedeadlands.com
🇺🇸 in 🇪🇸
🛸 500 Word Speculative Stories. $0.15/word. nightshadesmag.com
Writer of weird + gay spec fic. Words in Crepuscular Magazine, Dream Theory Media, and more + forthcoming at Drabblecast. PhD in linguistics. 🏳️🌈👬
Newsletter signup: patreon.com/chrisdotydunn
More: chrisdotydunn.com
A literary space for the eco-gothic, the eco-horrific, the eco-surrealist, and the eco-weird | Edited by @benlockwood.bsky.social
Read: https://www.briefecology.com/the-rotting-leaf
Submit: https://www.briefecology.com/submissions
For outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the fantastic.
https://www.hannya-kay.com/
(NOT HERE FOR NOW) SFF writer | Codex | Words @naturefutures.bsky.social, @blackharepress.bsky.social, Manawaker Podcast, Abyss&Apex | Reads at https://translunartravelerslounge.com/ & @factorfourmagazine.com | No AI
Poet, Writer, Photographer. SFPA/SFWA/MWA. Rhysling nom. mfrostwords.com
Photos/poems copyright M. Frost (CC-NC w/ attribution), unless noted
Cover art: Walter Crane, "The Fate of Persephone" (1877), detail for The Women of Myth, Island of Wak-Wak (2025)
Queer Canadian writer who lives with a mischievous cat called Scout | アリス九號. | Rose March | Verde/ | V系♡Bookwormery | Groove Grammarian | en/fr/jp ⛧🌿💀
I'm a second rate writer 🚮 from outer-space 🚀 a burrito lover 🌯 queer 🌈and a human disaster|
jjpena.com
Folklore Review is a literary journal for magic enthusiasts. We love unique works born from magic, myths, and legends. The weirder, the better. https://www.folklorereview.com/submit
Words in Apex, Lightspeed, Fusion Fragment, Kaleidotrope, Haven Spec, Flash Fiction Online, The Deadlands, &c • 2024 Wigleaf Top 50 • pfp by @evelynepark.bsky.social
cressidaroe.wordpress.com
writer. she/her 🌈🦇 heart's delight: Bmore, bats, & tattoos; Clarion & Tin House '18; rep'd by @ericshowers.bsky.social ⚡️ kcmeadbrewer.com
ALT pfp: white, blond woman; nervous but anxious
ALT banner: a black cat peeks from around a corner
Duosuma is @duotrope.com's Submission Manager platform for publishers. https://duotrope.com/duosuma
Κλεοπάτρα 🇨🇾 Writer, reader, editor | swamp pink, HAD, Tiny Molecules, Flash Flood, Maudlin House, Raw Lit | Shortlisted, Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction, Best Small Fictions & Best of the Net nominee | She/her.
kleopatraolympiou.com
Your favorite BIPOC SFFH author's favorite award. Celebrating excellence and inclusivity in the genre. Brought to you by L.D. Lewis and Suzan Palumbo. 2025 medallion art (pfp) by Nilah Magruder https://ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/
Intern & First Reader with the Augur Society. Aspiring author, exhausted collegiate, and queer with a bone to pick. Prone to talking a lot. Watch this space.
https://theodoregrace.tumblr.com/
2024 Best Small Fictions | 2023 Smokelong Fellow. Nom: Pushcart, BotN, Best Microfiction, Best American Short Stories. I love your cat. Are you gonna eat your pickle?
British award-winning author writing weird/ comtemp. fantasy. Inspired by a surrealist word game played live on podcast, Brainstoryum. Join the creative mayhem! annatizard.com.
Stories are doorways into the mind. 🌟✍️📚
No DMs unless u know me 😉
Writer, reader, office potato. Author of Brother & Sister Enter the Forest. Lambda Award Finalist. NY Times Editors' Choice. Real human. No, really.
richardmirabellawriter.com
Insta: @rpmirabella
Writing weird fiction—from gothic to cyberpunk—that's visceral, unsettling, and fiercely alive.*
*Even when the characters are dead
📝Sci-fi/Horror Author. 🔮Opossummoner. 🎹Keys & Vocals in Control Voltage, as Vibra Steel. 💊Chronically illin’ in Humboldt County.🌲 🐈⬛Cat worshipper. 🚫Anti-genocide. 🚫Anti-AI. She/They.
Workshops for people who are serious about writing.
Speculative Fiction | Clarion West Six-Week Workshop | Online Classes & Workshops | Programs for Speculative Fiction Writers | Readings & Author Events
Find us at clarionwest.org
She/her, SFF writer, narrative video game designer/developer. Not AI.
📖 Querying my queer science fiction heist novel.
🎮 Making After Work, a game about rummaging around in your coworkers' desks: https://cornonthecob.games
https://catherinewinters.com
Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA. Global Indigenous Horror (UPM, 2025) | poetry reader Orion’s Belt | Words in The Future Fire, Utopia SF, Space & Time, Lovecraftiana, etc | co-eic @angrygablepress.bsky.social eic @katabaticcircus.bsky.social
she/they | 🏳️🌈 | Freelance Editor, http://www.hmarinliterary.com | Novelette Editor, @foofarawpress.bsky.social | Former Managing Editor, @radonjournal.bsky.social | MFA ‘26 | find my words in various places
Poet behind beloved classics like 'Sick Power Trip' (2025) and 'Another Beautiful Day Indoors' (2022), @thwupbooks.bsky.social. Leading voice of millennial vegan socialist cat-fancying indie pop kids.
📍 Ōtautahi Christchurch
http://www.erikkennedy.com
🖋️✨🐌 Speculative fiction writer near Philadelphia, PA, USA. Here to follow writers, lit mags, and podcasts.
https://linktr.ee/Jdhellen
A better way to buy books online where every purchase supports local bookstores ☀️📚
https://bookshop.org/
fiction writer · stories in Fairy Tale Review, Wigleaf, HAD, Hunger Mountain, Fractured Lit · MFA Columbia
https://linktr.ee/skyskkyy
Author of DAUGHTERS OF THE AIR, called “a striking debut from a writer to watch” by Shelf Awareness & DREAMS UNDER GLASS, called “a novel for our modern times” by Buzzfeed Books. ancawrites.com.
Online and in person flashfiction events. Next online festival day Oct. Next in person festival 17-19 July 2026 flashfictionfestival.com
20 years an archaeologist, 10 years an educator, now an aspiring and hopefully inspiring writer with an interest in social issues and environmental causes.
