This is a podcast hosted by Tyler Burn. I chat with writers.
Chicago
Writer, Musician, Creative Technologist
🖊️ in Michigan Quarterly Review, PodCastle, Skeptic Magazine, Peatsmoke Journal, etc
🎶 at http://redspotrhythmsection.com
Also: game design, software dev, making things in general
http://joshuasiegal.org
Writer. Teacher. Student. My collection of poetry, subhuman., is out now from Wayfarer Books. Words in/soon in Poetry Mag, The Offing, The Poetry Lighthouse, and more. kashawntaylor.com
Editor in Chief, Taco Bell Quarterly. Bylines: VICE, Bon Appetit, Eater. Forthcoming - JUNK: The Brands That Raised Us, the Stuff that Shaped Us, and What We Leave Behind (Scribner). This is my junk.
writer/designer
EIC: Y2K Quarterly y2kq.com
@y2kq.com
Blog: https://jetgirl.art/
weird fiction & sci-fi writer // LARS BREAXFACE: WEREWOLF IN SPACE (novel) // STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE (stories) // he/him // Pittsburgh
brandongetz.com
SOCIAL MEDIA BREAK 2026 (except for shameless self-promotion) DMs deactivated. Writer: Gone Lawn trampset TempleInACity GooseberryPie BlinkInk Mslexia MythicPicnic NewFlashFicReview FictiveDream BulbCulture Phare MaudlinHouse FreeFlashFic FlashFlood
Brit/US writer of uncanny fiction. Best Small Fictions 2025. Over 40 stories in The Barcelona Review, LITRO, Southeast Review, The Forge, The Los Angeles Review and others. @nightjarpress Based in Eugene, Oregon (but grew up in UK). www.arthurmandal.com
Fiction & CNF writer. Recent stories in Gooseberry Pie, Los Angeles Review, Coachella Review, Ekphrastic Review; forthcoming from V&Q Books. Criticism in TLS, Paris Review Daily. Based in Berlin, originally from California, frequently in Poland.
Managing editor @theforge.bsky.social Words Threepenny, Epiphany, elsewhere. Marathoner with #epilepsy ⚡️ starrmurphy.com she/her
he/him, writer, former swimmer, slow runner, sourdough baker, cactus parent, mushroom admirer, etc
Fiction Reader at @okaydonkeymag.com
Poetry. Free verse & form. Severe ME/CFS. The London Magazine, Columbia Journal, Nashville Review, THINK, Thimble Lit, ballast, Pensive, Prelude, Ekstasis, Reformed Journal, Amethyst Review, Christian Century, Christianity & Literature, Relief Journal...
Walks further than people think. Humanities teacher & fiction writer with words in Bomb, McSweeney’s, Evergreen Review, Fugue, Gargoyle and more. USC BA/Columbia University MA/Brooklyn College MFA. she/her/hers www.margaretzamosmonteith.com
I'm the author of A Lifetime of Men (2020, Propertius Press) and Blood At the Root (2021, Atmosphere Press) with fiction and essays published in Columbia Review, Gone Lawn, and elsewhere.
🇲🇾 | Writer by day, still a writer by night. In that weird space between writing for startups and fiction. | words: Spellbinder, Gone Lawn, NFFD
https://yijunphung.blog/
poems in Gone Lawn, Roi Faineant Press (BotN nom), Shooter Lit, Sein und Werden, Bridge Eight; fan of basic human decency and hem tape; fear of FOMO; waiting for this pear to ripen
Poet residing in FL and VA. Dedicated sewist. Avid Janeite. Pushcart & BotN nominee.
Words in The Waxed Lemon, Gone Lawn, Soul Poetry, The MacGuffin, West Trade Review, Identity Theory, San Antonio Review, etc.
Writer & Poet | 2x BOFN nom| Words in DMQ review, HAD, Hex, SoFloPoJo, Ballast, Unbroken, Bending genres, Gone Lawn, Red Ogre Review, etc...| EiC: Orion’s Belt | PhD in Anthropology (Durham Uni, UK) | she/her.
Website: https://www.gessicasakamoto.com/
Writer: Flash Frontier. HAD. Heavy Feather Review. Gone Lawn. The Indianapolis Review.
Assistant Poetry Editor: Parentheses Journal. Submissions Editor: Uncanny Magazine.
writer, worrier
Pubs: Gone Lawn, X-R-A-Y, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Rejection Letters, Identity Theory, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Belladonna, etc.
https://robinzlotnick.com/
https://a-sentence.beehiiv.com/
Absurdist, writer, explorer, escape artist.
Writer of poetry, prose & flash fiction.
Words in @epistemiclit.bsky.social, Pure Haiku, From One Line Vol.7, The Survivor Zine
British, moves a lot, currently living in Italy. 🇮🇹🇬🇧
Mostly goo, leftist goo. Books: Invisibilia, Fierce Pretty Things.
tomhowardfiction.com
flash writer | educator | computer & application techie | kitchen witch | long-distance runner🏃🏼♀️👟
Words in Emerge Literary (Pushcart nominated), HAD, Flash Flood
I typically only follow writers.
Writer, poet, reader, cinephile, art-fiend, hiker, board gamer.
Boston-based, Pushcart-nominated writer and sometimes tall ship sailor with work in Poetry Lighthouse, Outdoors Unlimited, The Acentos Review, and Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts
www.kirarambles.com
kirarambles.substack.com
Books, short stories, music, and a sometimes broken website. Based in Toronto.
Web: https://www.turnandwork.com/links
Newsletter: https://www.turnandwork.com/news/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/turnandwork
Writer. Coauthor of award-winning biography “W.G.” (Sunbury). “Otherwise Wretched” 2025 (Catamount) Finalist American Fiction Short Story Award. Second-Rounder Austin Film Festival. Authors Guild.
www.williamburtch.com
oakland writer/teacher/mother/reader
wordworker / writer / translator / developmental editor / educator / co-editor & co-founder Best Literary Translations
Author of environmental fiction and nonfiction. Climate activist and lover of animals, especially my rescue pigs. New novel is Arroyo Circle out by Green Writers Press, 2024.
Writer, paper artist, teacher, believer in the good that will one day overcome, National Book Award finalist, and a Substacker (The Hush and the Howl). Due in April 2025, Tomorrow Will Bring Sunday's News, with Tursulowe Press.
Author of BODIES IN BAGS, I AM IDRIS ELBA, and AMERICAN ANIMISM.
https://jameyg0.wixsite.com/jameygallagher
Community college writing teacher
I read and write: literary stuff, crime stuff, weird stuff
From NH, living in Baltimore.
https://nancyjanemoore.com/
Latest novel: For the Good of the Realm from Aqueduct Press. https://t.co/DwcGwH7Hhe
Blog: https://treehousewriters.com/wp53/
she or they
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers
New novel out November 4 titled A COMPLETE FICTION (Ig Publishing). Author of novel Other People's Pets, winner of Colorado Book Award, and short story collection We Love Anderson Cooper. Assistant to white cat and big-eared dog. Knitter. 🧶
writer, photographer, chit-chatter // lauracgill.com:
Switch hitting witch. Cubs poet. Books at TAMU Press & Sundress Publications. Writing: Ecotone Magazine, Blackbird, Fansided. Former Poetry Ed at River Styx. George Mason MFA.
writer, wanderer, theatre person
Associate Poetry Editor at Identity Theory
Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize
Pushcart Prize nominated
Writer. Author of Terrestrial (Malarkey Books 2026), Being Seen (Ethel 2025), Commuting (Ghost City Press). Managing editor long fiction Variant Lit.
https://malarkeybooks.com/store/terrestrial
stories: http://suzyeynon.com/
fiction writer + editor + keithlesmeister.com + https://read-short-stories.com/ + cutleafjournal.com
Irish writer and writing teacher. Talks a lot about Story Energies @ storyenergies.substack.com
Ly Faulk (they/she) is a queer writer, artist, and an all-around weirdo. They are the author of Hippie Speedball, a poetry chapbook from Querencia Press. Learn more about their writing at lyfaulk.com.
Author / oil painter / community goblin / assistant competition director @ NYC Midnight / US born, French livin'
Get oil painting commissions, peep my work @ www.nikitaandester.com
(I am hardly ever on here)
Analog illustrator, vintage collector, dark horse. Wife guy.
http://www.brianna-ashby.com/
https://ko-fi.com/briannaashby
I wrote books about Jimmy Buffett and Bruce Springsteen. I write other things too. Free newsletter: Portfolio of Enthusiasms https://portfolio-of-enthusiasms.beehiiv.com/
Writer. Reader. Reporter. Editor.
https://rachelabbeymccafferty.com/
writer | etc
https://linktr.ee/jonmcconn
writer/idiot, rules for escaping (stories)
www.nickfarriella.com
Author, THE SHITBIRD (Stanchion Books, 2026), I BLAME MYSELF BUT ALSO YOU (Malarkey Books, 2024) and HOW I’M SPENDING MY AFTERLIFE. Hat enthusiast. Former Florida man. My Erdos number is four. SF, CA (for now). I block for genAI slop.
Angry writer, eager editor, devoted dad
I like books and music and things like that. Design Flaw (Acre), The Invisibles (University of Georgia). Novel forthcoming from 7.13 in 2027. Beacon, NY (He/Him)
Author: San Diego Stories @cowboyjamboree, A Question of Family @Stanchion
Husband. Dad. Math Prof. Mentor. Fiction Editor @thetwinbill.
francoisbereaud.com
Husband. Father. Former Writer. Current Stay at Home Dad.
Author of Radio Iris and Coldwater Canyon, more at annemariekinney.com
Hiya!
Fiction Chapbook w/Black Lawrence Press! https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/horsemouth-and-aquariumhead/
Poetry Chapbook: The Tales of Flaxie Char @dancinggrlpress.
she/her
can u hear me
sign up for (free) newsletter + links to writing @ www.shywatson.com
writer, thinker, coffee drinker. she/her. (if you know me from elsewhere, it might be as bravenewlady on the other site or from my Prairie Schooner days)
writer • endurance artist • creative dir. • curator /// managing editor @poolpartymag /// fallgirls.com • ryanashleyanderson.com
Writer, Storyteller, Cat Snuggler. Loves to talk about the history of dressing rooms and the behaviors of Canada Geese.
Background as arts non-profit program director, podcast host/producer (npr/KPBS, La Jolla Playhouse), and theatre critic.
Author of six lil books. Fiction editor at XRAY. Stories in Wigleaf, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Forever Mag, HAD, etc. clairehopple.com
Author of four books; the most recent: the poetry collection, SACRIFICIAL STEEL (Driftwood Press, 2025) & the essay collection, WRITING IS REVISION (Brill, 2024). Also, a story collection & novel.
PhD/MFA. Go Johns Hopkins!
https://linktr.ee/cate.mcgowan
Award-winning poet w/ difficult last name.
https://acre-books.com/titles/dual/
Neutral good hedge wizard. I write about writing and games: https://matthewjsimmons.substack.com
https://troublednecromancer.bandcamp.com/album/rushes
memoir: Blind Man's Bluff (W.W. Norton, NYT Editors' Choice)
novel: Academy Gothic (Nilsen Prize for a First Novel)
editor: The Writer's Chronicle & Monkeybicycle
agent @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social
WV native
still living in 1986
jamestatehill.com
Writer, runner, basketball fan, baseball fan, animal lover, pessimistic optimist, he/him
Writer, retired teacher, sometime sage. 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship. Stories in Kenyon, Witness, Zyz, AQR. 3 collections from small presses. “The Divide” from Cornerstone Press, 2026. MFA from Montana, long time ago.
evanmorganwilliams.com
Author of THE DISAPPEARED (Knopf), THE THEORY OF LIGHT AND MATTER (Vintage), IN BETWEEN DAYS (Knopf), and THE IMAGINED LIFE (Knopf, forthcoming 2025) CW Prof.
www.andrewporterwriter.com
Writing in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, etc. Contributing Editor, Yale Review. President, National Book Critics Circle. Rep: Duvall Osteen
Formerly the writer formerly known as Matthew Salesses
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
Poet & NYT bestselling author.
Next book: A SUIT OR A SUITCASE: POEMS (March 24, 2026)
Host of @slowdownshow.org
writes, teaches, edits. paris review, american poetry review, boston review, copper nickel, best american poetry. licorice. tennis.
Poet, parent, professor.
Editor-in-Chief of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social
https://www.katiemanningpoet.com/
Lawyer / Writer. Published in Ploughshares, The Sun, Chicago Quarterly Review, Asia Literary Review, American Literary Review and Variant Lit.
Fiction Ploughshares, ChicagoQReview, Storylitmag. Kenyonreview, BASS 2024, OneStoryMag, NPR, Marketplace, Boston Globe,
breadloafwriter susanshepherd.com repd by Susan Golomb at the Writer's House.
Story Collection "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories" - Aspen Lit Award Winner - National Book Award for Fiction Finalist - Stories in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Zoetrope, and The Best American Short Stories.
Poet. A Brief History of Accidental Inventions (TRP, 2026). Plunder (Bauhan, 2020). Poems in Blackbird, Copper Nickel, Narrative, Pleiades, Ploughshares. Agni Assistant Poetry Editor. Lecturer at UNF. Dreamboat Poetry Series Co-organizer.
Queer, nonbinary writer in rural MI. BLISS ROAD (Seven Kitchens Press, 2025)
Poetry editor for @longandshortlit.bsky.social
Poems fc in Ploughshares, Foglifter, wildness, The Shore, & more
https://linktr.ee/joshuazeitler
Writer. Musician. Editor | 📚 Ploughshares, Witness, Michigan Quarterly Review, Meridian, Greensboro Review etc. | 🎓MVICW Fellow, Sewanee Scholar | mimimanyin.com
Stories at CBC, AQR, @fiddlehd.bsky.social, @subterrain.bsky.social, The Threepenny Review, Witness, elsewhere.
More self-promotion here: willrichter.ca
Teacher. Reader. Writer. Runner.
2025 Elizabeth George Foundation grantee. Words: @pshares.bsky.social, Threepenny Review, @northwestreview@bsky.social, @atticusreview.bsky.social, and elsewhere. Best American Essays Notable, 2023.
Writer, book critic, prof. MIGRATING FICTIONS (Ohio State UP 2018). RIPPLES INTO THE WILD (Cornerstone Press 2027). Pushcart Prize winner. Writing at Threepenny Review, LitHub, Mass Review, Pleiades, and HAD. https://abbymanzella.weebly.com/
English Professor - Writer - Father - Husband - Christian
My fiction has appeared in journals such as The Threepenny Review, North American Review, Indiana Review, Third Coast, CutBank, Ilanot Review, and Redivider, among others.
He/Him. Quaker. BSF '21, ANMLY, Hopkins R, SoFloPoJo, Fourth River, Heavy Feather R, Bending Genres, Identity Theory, Ilanot R, Sugar House R, Psaltery & Lyre, Kissing Dynamite, YIV, NDQ, Atlanta R, elsewhere. Poetry reader at West Trade Review.
Fiction: The Stinging Fly, Mechanics Institute Review, The Forge Literary
Magazine, Litro, Shooter Literary Magazine, Fictive Dream, Lunate Literary Journal & elsewhere. Commended Bath Flash Fiction Award. Lifelong Newcastle United fan.
Short story writer, nature, landscape, birds. Published by Nightjar Press, Best British Short stories (Salt) Confingo, Fictive Dream
Short story writer, delinquent poetry reader. Fictive Dream, The Lonely Press, Confingo, Fragmented Voices, Structo, Nightjar Press, Salt Publishing, Exacting Clam
polyscribe.co.uk
Writer of fiction. Published by Mslexia, NFFD, Dead Ink Books, Fictive Dream, Arachne Press. Features ed God Is In The TV:
https://bsky.app/profile/godisinthetvzine.bsky.social Infrequent DJ. Was trophy wife, now Andy's widow. cathbore@gmail(.)com.
#Flashfiction writer and collage artist. Stories in Gooseberry Pie, Fictive Dream, Gone Lawn, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story & others. Based in Brighton, UK
www.anikacarpenter.com
Earthling. Writer (Salt Publishing, Fictive Dream, The Incubator), Runner, Walker, Psychogeographer, owned by Border Collie and Welsh Sheepdog, PhD in Creative Writing
She/her Short Fiction fanatic & novel writer, 🇨🇦 in TN. Pub in ILANOT REVIEW, WEST TRESTLE REVIEW, NFFD UK ANTHOL 23,24, FICTIVE DREAM +. BA,MD, Certificate Creative Writing
Queer, shy and anxious. Pigeon-chested, takes frequent naps and seldom goes far. Writes tiny things. 2025: Exposition Review, Pangyrus, Flash the Court, Your Impossible Voice, Fictive Dream, Flash Flood, Winged Moon, Eunoia Review, Switch, Trash Cat Lit
Author | Reader
Burnt Offerings out now on Amazon (Alien Buddha Press).
Words all over, Virago Books, Quarter Press, MoonLit Getaway, Micromance Mag etc.
Winner Caledonia Novel Award 24, Bridport Prize shortlist 25, Pushcart Prize nominee 26.
Pushcart Prize Nominated. Cheshire Novel Prize SL‘25, Guppy Open Submission LL’25
Write Mentor Picturebook SL’23/LL’24
Poetry - The Dirigible Balloon, Northern Gravy, Tyger Tyger, The Toy, The Yorkshire Times, Motherhood Uncensored, LTP, BBC Upload.🏴
Featuring the best short stories, poems, essays annually since 1976.
http://pushcartprize.com/
Writer in Missoula, MT. Love child of Anne Sexton and Nick Hornby.Words at xraylitmag, Pigeonholes, BendingGenres, SavantGardeMag &more. Nominated for Best of Net and Pushcart Prize. New work forthcoming. Suspiciously Happy .
30s Writer. Amateur photographer.
Non-fiction Editor at JAKE.
I was nominated for a pushcart prize once. I ran a Flyers blog once. Sorry.
linktr.ee/victoriaspires
BotN, Pushcart & Forward nominated. Shortlisted/commended in various comps: Winner Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize
Finalist Mslexia Women's Comp
Pamphlet available from Salo Press:
https://www.salopress.com/store/soi-meme/
