Author Discovery
@author.bsky.social
Spotlighting powerful writers • unforgettable books • Indie authors • small presses • amplifying marginalized voices.
Community-run, volunteer-curated.
Submissions⇩
https://forms.gle/DPHoimFqXCMLEoXH9
Community-run, volunteer-curated.
Submissions⇩
https://forms.gle/DPHoimFqXCMLEoXH9
Post 1/3
Small Press Spotlight 📖
Wild Hyacinth Magazine @wildhyacinthmag.bsky.social is a Canadian literary magazine devoted to difficult feelings and hard seasons, publishing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction with care and intention.
#SmallPress #LitMag #Booksky
Small Press Spotlight 📖
Wild Hyacinth Magazine @wildhyacinthmag.bsky.social is a Canadian literary magazine devoted to difficult feelings and hard seasons, publishing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction with care and intention.
#SmallPress #LitMag #Booksky
December 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Post 1/3
Small Press Spotlight 📖
Wild Hyacinth Magazine @wildhyacinthmag.bsky.social is a Canadian literary magazine devoted to difficult feelings and hard seasons, publishing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction with care and intention.
#SmallPress #LitMag #Booksky
Small Press Spotlight 📖
Wild Hyacinth Magazine @wildhyacinthmag.bsky.social is a Canadian literary magazine devoted to difficult feelings and hard seasons, publishing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction with care and intention.
#SmallPress #LitMag #Booksky
Here’s one of my latest. It’s called Fuck Father Time.
#IndiePoetry
#IndieWriter
#LitCommunity
#Literary
#SmallPress
#Booksky
#IndiePoetry
#IndieWriter
#LitCommunity
#Literary
#SmallPress
#Booksky
December 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Here’s one of my latest. It’s called Fuck Father Time.
#IndiePoetry
#IndieWriter
#LitCommunity
#Literary
#SmallPress
#Booksky
#IndiePoetry
#IndieWriter
#LitCommunity
#Literary
#SmallPress
#Booksky
Good morning. Coffee in hand. Bob Dylan on repeat.
There is something about his voice in the early hours that feels like a companion. One more cup, one more reason to slow down and listen.
Some mornings just belong to Dylan.
#GoodMorning #BobDylan #Desire #WritersLife #CoffeeAndWords #Booksky
There is something about his voice in the early hours that feels like a companion. One more cup, one more reason to slow down and listen.
Some mornings just belong to Dylan.
#GoodMorning #BobDylan #Desire #WritersLife #CoffeeAndWords #Booksky
December 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Good morning. Coffee in hand. Bob Dylan on repeat.
There is something about his voice in the early hours that feels like a companion. One more cup, one more reason to slow down and listen.
Some mornings just belong to Dylan.
#GoodMorning #BobDylan #Desire #WritersLife #CoffeeAndWords #Booksky
There is something about his voice in the early hours that feels like a companion. One more cup, one more reason to slow down and listen.
Some mornings just belong to Dylan.
#GoodMorning #BobDylan #Desire #WritersLife #CoffeeAndWords #Booksky
Post 1/4
Author Spotlight: Tommy Marcum
Southern Gothic, psychological horror, and supernatural fiction rooted in atmosphere, memory, and place. These are stories that don’t rush the scare, they let it settle in and wait.
#AuthorSpotlight #HorrorBooks #Booksky
Author Spotlight: Tommy Marcum
Southern Gothic, psychological horror, and supernatural fiction rooted in atmosphere, memory, and place. These are stories that don’t rush the scare, they let it settle in and wait.
#AuthorSpotlight #HorrorBooks #Booksky
December 15, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Post 1/4
Author Spotlight: Tommy Marcum
Southern Gothic, psychological horror, and supernatural fiction rooted in atmosphere, memory, and place. These are stories that don’t rush the scare, they let it settle in and wait.
#AuthorSpotlight #HorrorBooks #Booksky
Author Spotlight: Tommy Marcum
Southern Gothic, psychological horror, and supernatural fiction rooted in atmosphere, memory, and place. These are stories that don’t rush the scare, they let it settle in and wait.
#AuthorSpotlight #HorrorBooks #Booksky
Happy Monday, Bluesky
Fresh coffee. Clean page. New sentences waiting to be written.
Whether you’re drafting, revising, or just surviving the day, show up anyway.
Words don’t need perfection. They need presence.
Let’s do this.
#MondayMotivation #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #IndieAuthors #Booksky
Fresh coffee. Clean page. New sentences waiting to be written.
Whether you’re drafting, revising, or just surviving the day, show up anyway.
Words don’t need perfection. They need presence.
Let’s do this.
#MondayMotivation #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #IndieAuthors #Booksky
December 15, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Happy Monday, Bluesky
Fresh coffee. Clean page. New sentences waiting to be written.
Whether you’re drafting, revising, or just surviving the day, show up anyway.
Words don’t need perfection. They need presence.
Let’s do this.
#MondayMotivation #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #IndieAuthors #Booksky
Fresh coffee. Clean page. New sentences waiting to be written.
Whether you’re drafting, revising, or just surviving the day, show up anyway.
Words don’t need perfection. They need presence.
Let’s do this.
#MondayMotivation #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #IndieAuthors #Booksky
I’m a poet and this is how my drafts come out, scratched, rewritten, racing the pencil.
Anyone else’s brain move faster than their hand can keep up?
#poetry #writingprocess #writersofbluesky #amwriting #poets #Booksky
Anyone else’s brain move faster than their hand can keep up?
#poetry #writingprocess #writersofbluesky #amwriting #poets #Booksky
December 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
I’m a poet and this is how my drafts come out, scratched, rewritten, racing the pencil.
Anyone else’s brain move faster than their hand can keep up?
#poetry #writingprocess #writersofbluesky #amwriting #poets #Booksky
Anyone else’s brain move faster than their hand can keep up?
#poetry #writingprocess #writersofbluesky #amwriting #poets #Booksky
Every writer’s inner monologue when a rejection hits:
“Dear Sir… this rejection letter needs work.”
Petty? Maybe.
Accurate? Absolutely.
#writinghumor #writinglife #writersofbluesky #amwriting #rejectionletters #Booksky
“Dear Sir… this rejection letter needs work.”
Petty? Maybe.
Accurate? Absolutely.
#writinghumor #writinglife #writersofbluesky #amwriting #rejectionletters #Booksky
December 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Every writer’s inner monologue when a rejection hits:
“Dear Sir… this rejection letter needs work.”
Petty? Maybe.
Accurate? Absolutely.
#writinghumor #writinglife #writersofbluesky #amwriting #rejectionletters #Booksky
“Dear Sir… this rejection letter needs work.”
Petty? Maybe.
Accurate? Absolutely.
#writinghumor #writinglife #writersofbluesky #amwriting #rejectionletters #Booksky
Maya Angelou didn’t just write poems, she wrote survival into language.
Her work carried Black history, womanhood, pain, grace, and defiance with absolute clarity.
When she said “I rise,” it wasn’t metaphor. It was truth.
#MayaAngelou #BlackPoets #Poetry #LiteraryLegacy #BlackExcellence #Booksky
Her work carried Black history, womanhood, pain, grace, and defiance with absolute clarity.
When she said “I rise,” it wasn’t metaphor. It was truth.
#MayaAngelou #BlackPoets #Poetry #LiteraryLegacy #BlackExcellence #Booksky
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Maya Angelou didn’t just write poems, she wrote survival into language.
Her work carried Black history, womanhood, pain, grace, and defiance with absolute clarity.
When she said “I rise,” it wasn’t metaphor. It was truth.
#MayaAngelou #BlackPoets #Poetry #LiteraryLegacy #BlackExcellence #Booksky
Her work carried Black history, womanhood, pain, grace, and defiance with absolute clarity.
When she said “I rise,” it wasn’t metaphor. It was truth.
#MayaAngelou #BlackPoets #Poetry #LiteraryLegacy #BlackExcellence #Booksky
daisies don’t ask permission
they push up anyway
a small poem about choices
about what survives
about what we decide to cut
#poetry #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #indiepoet #amwriting #poetsofbluesky #Booksky
they push up anyway
a small poem about choices
about what survives
about what we decide to cut
#poetry #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #indiepoet #amwriting #poetsofbluesky #Booksky
December 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
daisies don’t ask permission
they push up anyway
a small poem about choices
about what survives
about what we decide to cut
#poetry #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #indiepoet #amwriting #poetsofbluesky #Booksky
they push up anyway
a small poem about choices
about what survives
about what we decide to cut
#poetry #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #indiepoet #amwriting #poetsofbluesky #Booksky
Seeing new names here every day, so thank you for following.
We’re still small, but growing, and the goal stays the same: spotlight good work, lift each other up, and never charge writers to be seen.
Glad you’re here.
#Booksky
We’re still small, but growing, and the goal stays the same: spotlight good work, lift each other up, and never charge writers to be seen.
Glad you’re here.
#Booksky
December 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Seeing new names here every day, so thank you for following.
We’re still small, but growing, and the goal stays the same: spotlight good work, lift each other up, and never charge writers to be seen.
Glad you’re here.
#Booksky
We’re still small, but growing, and the goal stays the same: spotlight good work, lift each other up, and never charge writers to be seen.
Glad you’re here.
#Booksky
December 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
We’re almost at 600 followers, just one more to go. Every follow helps extend our reach and gives more authors and small presses the visibility they deserve. Remember: we, never charge, and we’re here to help amplify your work.
#Booksky #AuthorDiscovery #IndieAuthors #SmallPress #WritersOfBluesky
#Booksky #AuthorDiscovery #IndieAuthors #SmallPress #WritersOfBluesky
December 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
We’re almost at 600 followers, just one more to go. Every follow helps extend our reach and gives more authors and small presses the visibility they deserve. Remember: we, never charge, and we’re here to help amplify your work.
#Booksky #AuthorDiscovery #IndieAuthors #SmallPress #WritersOfBluesky
#Booksky #AuthorDiscovery #IndieAuthors #SmallPress #WritersOfBluesky
We’re still a small writer-discovery page on Bluesky, but we’re growing. I see so many authors and small presses doing great work and not posting as regularly as they could. Those voices deserve to be seen. If that’s you, let us help.
#Booksky #AuthorDiscovery #IndieAuthors #SmallPress
#Booksky #AuthorDiscovery #IndieAuthors #SmallPress
December 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
We’re still a small writer-discovery page on Bluesky, but we’re growing. I see so many authors and small presses doing great work and not posting as regularly as they could. Those voices deserve to be seen. If that’s you, let us help.
#Booksky #AuthorDiscovery #IndieAuthors #SmallPress
#Booksky #AuthorDiscovery #IndieAuthors #SmallPress
Good morning, readers and writers of Bluesky.
This morning I want to spotlight: @rick-bie.bsky.social
Meet R. Bumblepoint Badger—an up-and-coming indie author with a sharp voice and a love for the long road.
#AuthorDiscovery #IndieAuthor #Booksky
This morning I want to spotlight: @rick-bie.bsky.social
Meet R. Bumblepoint Badger—an up-and-coming indie author with a sharp voice and a love for the long road.
#AuthorDiscovery #IndieAuthor #Booksky
December 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Good morning, readers and writers of Bluesky.
This morning I want to spotlight: @rick-bie.bsky.social
Meet R. Bumblepoint Badger—an up-and-coming indie author with a sharp voice and a love for the long road.
#AuthorDiscovery #IndieAuthor #Booksky
This morning I want to spotlight: @rick-bie.bsky.social
Meet R. Bumblepoint Badger—an up-and-coming indie author with a sharp voice and a love for the long road.
#AuthorDiscovery #IndieAuthor #Booksky
Reading from my latest poem, Blackbird.
I hope you enjoy it.
#poetry #poetryreading #spokenword #indiepoet #writersofbluesky #poetsofbluesky #Booksky
I hope you enjoy it.
#poetry #poetryreading #spokenword #indiepoet #writersofbluesky #poetsofbluesky #Booksky
December 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Reading from my latest poem, Blackbird.
I hope you enjoy it.
#poetry #poetryreading #spokenword #indiepoet #writersofbluesky #poetsofbluesky #Booksky
I hope you enjoy it.
#poetry #poetryreading #spokenword #indiepoet #writersofbluesky #poetsofbluesky #Booksky
Poets—how do you write your poetry?
🖊️ Pen on paper
📱 On your phone
💻 On your computer
🖨️ On a typewriter
🔀 Other (tell us)
Reply with your choice—or mix them.
I’m curious how the words find you.
Hashtags:
#Booksky #PoetryCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky #AmWriting #WritingProcess
🖊️ Pen on paper
📱 On your phone
💻 On your computer
🖨️ On a typewriter
🔀 Other (tell us)
Reply with your choice—or mix them.
I’m curious how the words find you.
Hashtags:
#Booksky #PoetryCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky #AmWriting #WritingProcess
December 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Poets—how do you write your poetry?
🖊️ Pen on paper
📱 On your phone
💻 On your computer
🖨️ On a typewriter
🔀 Other (tell us)
Reply with your choice—or mix them.
I’m curious how the words find you.
Hashtags:
#Booksky #PoetryCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky #AmWriting #WritingProcess
🖊️ Pen on paper
📱 On your phone
💻 On your computer
🖨️ On a typewriter
🔀 Other (tell us)
Reply with your choice—or mix them.
I’m curious how the words find you.
Hashtags:
#Booksky #PoetryCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky #AmWriting #WritingProcess
If you don’t know Breece D’J Pancake, you should.
One short story collection.
A handful of published works.
And prose so raw it feels unearthed rather than written.
Appalachia, poverty, silence, and people who don’t get rescued.
This is American literature.
#Booksky #HiddenWriters #LiteraryDiscovery
One short story collection.
A handful of published works.
And prose so raw it feels unearthed rather than written.
Appalachia, poverty, silence, and people who don’t get rescued.
This is American literature.
#Booksky #HiddenWriters #LiteraryDiscovery
December 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
If you don’t know Breece D’J Pancake, you should.
One short story collection.
A handful of published works.
And prose so raw it feels unearthed rather than written.
Appalachia, poverty, silence, and people who don’t get rescued.
This is American literature.
#Booksky #HiddenWriters #LiteraryDiscovery
One short story collection.
A handful of published works.
And prose so raw it feels unearthed rather than written.
Appalachia, poverty, silence, and people who don’t get rescued.
This is American literature.
#Booksky #HiddenWriters #LiteraryDiscovery
Blackbird
A poem about clipped wings, stolen voices, and the quiet rise of retribution.
The kind of truth we’re not supposed to say out loud.
#BlackVoices #RacialJustice #SystemicOppression #ResistancePoetry #PoetsOfBluesky #WritersOfBluesky #SocialCommentary #Booksky
A poem about clipped wings, stolen voices, and the quiet rise of retribution.
The kind of truth we’re not supposed to say out loud.
#BlackVoices #RacialJustice #SystemicOppression #ResistancePoetry #PoetsOfBluesky #WritersOfBluesky #SocialCommentary #Booksky
December 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Blackbird
A poem about clipped wings, stolen voices, and the quiet rise of retribution.
The kind of truth we’re not supposed to say out loud.
#BlackVoices #RacialJustice #SystemicOppression #ResistancePoetry #PoetsOfBluesky #WritersOfBluesky #SocialCommentary #Booksky
A poem about clipped wings, stolen voices, and the quiet rise of retribution.
The kind of truth we’re not supposed to say out loud.
#BlackVoices #RacialJustice #SystemicOppression #ResistancePoetry #PoetsOfBluesky #WritersOfBluesky #SocialCommentary #Booksky
This is why I’m here on Bluesky, as a poet, an author, and someone who believes in lifting up voices that deserve to be heard.
#WritingCommunity #IndieAuthors #PoetryCommunity #AmWriting #SmallPress #QueerWriters #BIPOCAuthors #AuthorSupport #BookDiscovery #WritersOfBluesky #Booksky
#WritingCommunity #IndieAuthors #PoetryCommunity #AmWriting #SmallPress #QueerWriters #BIPOCAuthors #AuthorSupport #BookDiscovery #WritersOfBluesky #Booksky
December 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This is why I’m here on Bluesky, as a poet, an author, and someone who believes in lifting up voices that deserve to be heard.
#WritingCommunity #IndieAuthors #PoetryCommunity #AmWriting #SmallPress #QueerWriters #BIPOCAuthors #AuthorSupport #BookDiscovery #WritersOfBluesky #Booksky
#WritingCommunity #IndieAuthors #PoetryCommunity #AmWriting #SmallPress #QueerWriters #BIPOCAuthors #AuthorSupport #BookDiscovery #WritersOfBluesky #Booksky
The hardest part is how relevant the song remains almost 40 years later. When a protest song ages into a documentary, the failure isn’t the art, it’s society.
Chapman’s work endures because she writes testimony, not metaphor.
#TracyChapman #SocialJustice #MusicAndPoetry #CulturalCritique #Booksky
Chapman’s work endures because she writes testimony, not metaphor.
#TracyChapman #SocialJustice #MusicAndPoetry #CulturalCritique #Booksky
December 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The hardest part is how relevant the song remains almost 40 years later. When a protest song ages into a documentary, the failure isn’t the art, it’s society.
Chapman’s work endures because she writes testimony, not metaphor.
#TracyChapman #SocialJustice #MusicAndPoetry #CulturalCritique #Booksky
Chapman’s work endures because she writes testimony, not metaphor.
#TracyChapman #SocialJustice #MusicAndPoetry #CulturalCritique #Booksky
Tracy Chapman has always been more than a musician, she’s a poet who chose a guitar. Talkin’ ’Bout a Revolution reads like protest poetry: spare lines, sharp repetition, nothing to soften the truth. Her restraint is the craft.
#TracyChapman #ProtestPoetry #MusicHistory #LiteraryAnalysis #Booksky
#TracyChapman #ProtestPoetry #MusicHistory #LiteraryAnalysis #Booksky
December 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Tracy Chapman has always been more than a musician, she’s a poet who chose a guitar. Talkin’ ’Bout a Revolution reads like protest poetry: spare lines, sharp repetition, nothing to soften the truth. Her restraint is the craft.
#TracyChapman #ProtestPoetry #MusicHistory #LiteraryAnalysis #Booksky
#TracyChapman #ProtestPoetry #MusicHistory #LiteraryAnalysis #Booksky
Baldwin later admitted he carried that book inside him so long that “it had to come out all at once.”
Sometimes the story isn’t written, it breaks free.
#WriterFacts #AmericanLiterature #Booksky
Sometimes the story isn’t written, it breaks free.
#WriterFacts #AmericanLiterature #Booksky
December 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Baldwin later admitted he carried that book inside him so long that “it had to come out all at once.”
Sometimes the story isn’t written, it breaks free.
#WriterFacts #AmericanLiterature #Booksky
Sometimes the story isn’t written, it breaks free.
#WriterFacts #AmericanLiterature #Booksky
James Baldwin wrote the first draft of Go Tell It on the Mountain in three fevered days at age 24.
He said it felt less like writing a novel and more like “an eruption.”
#LiteraryHistory #JamesBaldwin #Booksky
He said it felt less like writing a novel and more like “an eruption.”
#LiteraryHistory #JamesBaldwin #Booksky
December 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
James Baldwin wrote the first draft of Go Tell It on the Mountain in three fevered days at age 24.
He said it felt less like writing a novel and more like “an eruption.”
#LiteraryHistory #JamesBaldwin #Booksky
He said it felt less like writing a novel and more like “an eruption.”
#LiteraryHistory #JamesBaldwin #Booksky
This is one of my favorite pieces.
THE POOL PLAYERS.
SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
—Gwendolyn Brooks
#GwendolynBrooks #BlackPoetry #PoetryOfBluesky #BIPOCVoices #Booksky
THE POOL PLAYERS.
SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
—Gwendolyn Brooks
#GwendolynBrooks #BlackPoetry #PoetryOfBluesky #BIPOCVoices #Booksky
December 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is one of my favorite pieces.
THE POOL PLAYERS.
SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
—Gwendolyn Brooks
#GwendolynBrooks #BlackPoetry #PoetryOfBluesky #BIPOCVoices #Booksky
THE POOL PLAYERS.
SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
—Gwendolyn Brooks
#GwendolynBrooks #BlackPoetry #PoetryOfBluesky #BIPOCVoices #Booksky