Fiction. Poetry. Essays. Reviews. Interviews. The flagship literary journal of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
https://linktr.ee/mqr
I cry a lot but I am so productive!
The Poetry Foundation transforms lives through the power of words. Publisher of POETRY magazine. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
journo, producer & comms whiz kid. she/her ✨ www.reemasaleh.com
💼 @peopleslobbyusa.bsky.social
🖋️ @chicagoreader.com @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social and elsewhere
📚 policy trained at uchicago
Occasional book publisher. Not the obvious popular hits, just the sneakily enduring songs. Chicago, IL.
www.bsideeditions.com
Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobama.com
debut novel RAVISHING 💄💉 ✨ out now from Roxane Gay Books/Grove Atlantic | disabled & chronically ill | philly-based | surya means sun ☀️ | eshani.surya@gmail.com
https://linktr.ee/eshanisurya
a literary magazine publishing single-sentence prose since 2020
twitter refugee since 2025
https://completesentencelit.com/
Writer & EIC for @completesentence
United States Artists is a national funding nonprofit in Chicago that believes in advancing the well-being of artists and cultural practitioners.
Learn more about us at unitedstatesartists.org
Artists. All ways. Always.
Breaking news since 1847.
senior culture editor @ elle magazine (books, tv, movies, music, and arts)
https://linktr.ee/laurpuckett
writer, freelance book editor, ghostwriter, and book coach | formerly Books and Fiction Editor at Esquire
adriennewestenfeld.com
writer, editor at [redacted], previously @gawker @eater. i am not jenny zhang
jennygzhang.substack.com
jennygzhang.com
A daily magazine on the web.
America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
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Author of AN ARMSFULL OF BIRDS: A PERSONAL FIELD GUIDE TO LOVE, LOSS, AND COMMITMENT (now available for pre-order). Other words in Orion, Sierra Magazine, NY Times, Boston Review, Best American Poetry.
Fun at parties.
www.carabensonwriter.com
Writing memoir, poetry, essays, performance stuff (etc.) in Chicago
newsletter.aaronjacobwolfson.com
Culture journalist @Esquire, @WIRED, and elsewhere. Author of A DANGER TO THE MINDS OF YOUNG GIRLS (Simon & Schuster, 2025).
https://linktr.ee/adamm0rgan
Contact: adam@adam-stephen-morgan.com
Chicago. Bikes. Books. Writes sometimes. Drums sometimes.
www.andrewhertzberg.com
Book publisher, est. 1925.
Director of Career Programs, The New York Times. Find me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/theotypes/
Dyslexic Book Critic | Writer | Traveler
She/Her
Lawrence Kansas 🌻
Stand-up philosopher, scribe, bongo drummer and professional mermaid. Previously one half of Grammy Award-winning duo Simon & Garfunkel.
Amazon: bit.ly/4hA0B7W
Apple: http://bit.ly/3K6WdB9
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2992620/
Theater and Dance Editor for the Chicago Reader. Usual disclaimer that all opinions are my own alone. . .
Writer and publisher of revenuerulebreaker.com producing stories and events on how solopreneurs make a living. Creator of The Legends Network. @outpost.pub partner.
📍 Bogotá 🍑 Atlanta 🏳️🌈 they/them
Website designer/dev, Benevolent Overlord of @UpsweptCreative.bsky.social
I write about online marketing for bleeding hearts at theradicalmarketer.com.
BIPOC small business owner, costumed weirdo, barbell enthusiast, parent, roller derby ref. She/they.
I have friends everywhere
movement building reporter @us.theguardian.com
member @transjournalists.org
linktr.ee/lexmcmenamin
tips: Lex_mcmenamin.68 on Signal
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
Photographer & writer & avid rock climber based in Chicago. Latest work: Leaf Town Forever. You can pre-order it here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917371/leaf-town-forever/
Editor at Rose Metal Press & Professor at DePaul
Writings: https://kathleenrooney.com/
Typewritings: http://poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com
Man Overboard!: A Novel (July '26): https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Man-Overboard!/Kathleen-Rooney/9781668212387
Author of this book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/crawl-stories-max-delsohn/22144102
Writer / Book Reviews Editor at The Rumpus / Filmmaker
Author of:
I Can Tell You The Version That
Will Make You Take My Side
(Driftwood Press 2026)
Jbrookewrites.com
Cat Stepdad
Michigander in the South
Michigan Notable Book Author
ENOUGH TO LOSE from Wayne State University Press
Prof. & Coordinator of Creative Writing at Austin Peay State University
Author of the novel THE LOST BOOK OF ADANA MOREAU. Faculty at StoryStudio Chicago & Northwestern University. Descended from Andean farmers, poets, and union organizers.
michaelzapata.com
A non-profit literary magazine with a penchant for journeys and a fascination with strangers.
Subscribe: https://mailchi.mp/offassignment/off-assignment-newsletter
writer, editor, teacher, axe-thrower 🪓
meganstielstra.com
Founder/Editor-in-Chief, Nowruz Journal
Editor-at-Large, Chicago Review of Books
Board Member, National Book Critics Circle/VP Barrios Book in Translation Prize
President of the Board, The Flow Chart Foundation
زنان. زندگی. آزادی
Prep, American Wife, Eligible, Romantic Comedy, etc.
Show Don't Tell: Stories out 2/25/25
“Writer" - The New Yorker. “Author” - New York Times. “A fabulous old soul” - Russ & Daughters Instagram account. “Unlikely model” - BBC. My novel “Kaplan’s Plot” is out fall of 2025 on Flatiron.
Poet & writer based in Portland, OR. Tin House Workshop. StoryStudio. Oregon Lit Fellowship. KARAOKE AT THE END OF THE WORLD (JackLeg Press).
https://linktr.ee/genevievedeguzman
Dad, hubby, writer. Illinois artist grants, Chicago Writers Assoc, Horror Writers Assoc, Page/AFF finalist, PEN Emerging Writers. Black List 8+. Shakespeare/R.E.M.
USMNT/Huskers/Red Sox.
Rep: Mark Gottlieb@Trident
www.adamsleper.com
AdamSleper.substack.com
Fractured Lit publishes flash fiction with emotional resonance. Open year-round and is available to all writers. https://fracturedlit.com/ Posts by @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social
writer in Chicagoland. all publications here:
https://www.evanderlang.com/
reader for @fracturedlit.bsky.social and Hypertext Magazine
Reader, writer, dog lover, traveler. Formerly always in motion, I'm learning how to stand still and I love it.
🇬🇷 Fiction writer & nonprofit PR consultant
📝 in Newcity, Mississippi Review, Chicago Review of Books, Third Coast Review & others
Rep: Emily Forland
📷: Diane Alexander White
Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
Author • Jerusalem Beach • Debby’s Dream House •
Columbia University • Forbes 30 Under 30
Writer in beautiful Roanoke, VA
Some of my work here: https://linktr.ee/patjameson
poet
MadVerse.com
linktr.ee/jdnelson
poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder Denver Colorado
Christus Super Omnia ☩
Books et Veritas. Bringing truth to light for more than one hundred years.
Publishing in its current form since 1957, Wesleyan UP focuses on poetry, music, dance, and the arts. See weslpress.org for new poetry!
Writer in Chicago. I covered comics for NPR for a long time; doing other stuff these days. Bylines: Inc., The New York Times, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, the LA Review of Books. https://etelkawrites.com/
Imagen Seinfeld was never canceled and still NBC comedy program today?
Comedian and writer, year-round iced coffee drinker.
The UK’s Jewish literary platform, presenting the best in contemporary literature and ideas.
Hosts Jewish Book Week, London’s longest-running literary festival:
https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/jewish-book-week
Nonprofit organization
https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/
🎉 #NationalJewishBookAwards
🗣JBC Network—platform for authors to connect with programmers
📘PAPER BRIGADE—annual print #litmag
📖Book reviews + essays
Writer, TV critic, creator of realityblurred.com, TCA president, writing coach, husband, cat dad, improviser, runner, lover of em dashes and roller coasters. More at andydehnart.com! 🏳️🌈 He/him
writer. performer. kvetch.
📍Chicago
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Established 2016, worker owned and operated since 2020. Always Carry A Book
My seventh book, SONG SO WILD AND BLUE: A LIFE WITH THE MUSIC OF JONI MITCHELL, is out now from HarperOne. 🏳️🌈🦌🐊🦀
🇵🇭🇮🇳 roller-skater since I was ten • school supplies • gardens • bioluminescence • axolotls • Buckeye • NYT bestselling author • NIGHT OWL (Ecco, Spring 26) aimeenez.net
Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
A literary meetingplace since 1953, City Lights is a landmark bookstore and publishing house, known for our commitment to innovative writing and progressive ideals.
your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school.
Host/Curator: sundaysalon-chicago.com > Ragdale, Board of Trustees member & Co-Chair, Curatorial Bd. Writer & poet. Books: Fishhead. Republic of Want (novel) & Salt Pruning (poetry)
https://linktr.ee/ignatius.valentine.aloysius
A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
Grammy-nominated Writer, Performer, Interdisciplinary Artist. Author of A MAP OF MY WANT (Haymarket Books , 2024) and HOODWITCH (Acre Books, 2019).
n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics. nplusonemag.com
Empowering and advocating for libraries and library workers to ensure equitable access to information for all. 🌎’s largest library association.
Find us at https://ala.org.
We follow the ALA Code of Conduct: https://www.ala.org/user-guidelines
The Magazine of New Writing.
https://granta.com/
We are Authors Against Book Bans. We stand united against the deeply unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. We unequivocally support diverse voices on our library shelves, in our schools, and in our culture.
www.authorsagainstbookbans.com
I make Dad jokes on NPR and also write books and other things.
Our mission is to excite audiences about the impact of American writers—past, present, & future—in shaping our collective histories, identities, & daily lives.
Making literature exciting, relevant and inclusive
electricliterature.com
Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.
The Chicago Writers Podcast is the official podcast of the Stories Matter Foundation. Hosted by @danfinnen.bsky.social and @mbwwelch.bsky.social. https://chicagowriterspodcast.libsyn.com/
For over 30 years, the Music Box Theatre has been the premiere venue in Chicago for independent, foreign and classic films.
Chicago arts & culture, curated
Chicago's alternative newsroom since 1971 🗞
chicagoreader.com
Taco Bell Quarterly is The World's Most Prestigious Literary Magazine. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
Literary/Arts Journal for Dreamers, Lovers, Dissatisfied Old People, Teething Babies and You.
https://linktr.ee/theadroitjournal?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaY2AGldWsnSz9H-OoEtXxJjk02NLV0fG0wkmOIITzjlxRYq8R2lWo6jrIU_aem_BU_jPktWCVqyJRazMLp4sA
A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative || Where good writing counts and facts matter.
Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.
https://www.theparisreview.org/
https://theparisreview.substack.com/
A quarterly literature, arts, and culture magazine.
https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the-believer-subscription-bm4
thebeliever.net
We’re a literary journal that’s totally bonkers-in-love with voice-driven writing, pop culture, and the kind of honesty that gets you right in the kidneys.
Posts: @carolinamata.bsky.social, AJ Jolish & @emotes206.bsky.social
https://splitlipthemag.com/
Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
Follow The New Yorker’s writers and contributors: https://go.bsky.app/Gh5bFwS
Non-profit publisher of fiction, poetry, essays & art. Since 2003, where readers, writers, teachers & students meet. Our free library is always open.
narrativemagazine.com
EIC at @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social. Words in Electric Lit, Prairie Schooner, Kenyon Review, North American Review, & more.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux has published award-winning fiction, nonfiction, & poetry since 1946. Home of MCD Books, FSG Originals, and AUWA Books.
Author of CRAFT: STORIES I WROTE FOR THE DEVIL forthcoming @torbooks in 2024 (available for pre-order)
& MOTHER/LAND (Black Lawrence Press)
Rep: Sarah Bowlin (Aevitas)
Work in the American Poetry Review, Poets.org, Kenyon Review Online, Gulf Coast +
writer | editor | social worker
runs on anxiety and wide-eyed optimism
managing director @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social
debut novel HOW WE SEE THE GRAY (May 2026)
editor of THE ROCKFORD ANTHOLOGY
(she/they)
https://linktr.ee/rachelleon
(they/them) author of Pisces Urges (Sampaguita Press, 2023), tito of Luya, poet laureate of my parents’ backyard, very from Chicago
