Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-novel-festival-contests/
Linda Daunter @lindadaunter.bsky.social
Still don't know what I want to do when I'm grown up.
In the meantime, I write short stories, flash fiction & unfinished novels, draw, paint, take photos, garden, daydream and dance when nobody's watching.
📍NW England
🚫NO AI
🚫DMs - I can't read them!
KNOWLEDGE PUBLISHING ZIMBABWE🇿🇼 @goodnews95.bsky.social
"We preach and speak only about Jesus Christ; we testify about Jesus Christ in the word; the teaching is only of Jesus
🌱 Let’s Grow Together in Faith, Wisdom, and the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ
Simon Guerrier @0tralala.bsky.social Writer and producer. Out now: David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television, a biography of the first story editor of Doctor Who. Currently working on a biography of Terrance Dicks. www.simonguerrier.com
#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social Author, journalist, editor and critic combining his time in Turin, Austin, Ibiza, Belgrade etc #BruceSterling
Phineas T. Wrinklyspoon (aka: Larry) @wrinklyspoon.bsky.social #books #music #sciencefiction #diversity #inclusion #literature #mysteryfiction #funk #nwsl
"It tis himself, it is!"
Living in Joplin, MO (it is not an oxymoronic phrase)
Ban sports gambling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Orangutan Land Trust @orangutanlandtrust.bsky.social Enabling sustainable solutions for the long-term survival of the orangutan in the wild.
Find us at www.orangutanlandtrust.com!
Michael Belfiore @michaelbelfiore.bsky.social Technology writer. Author of books on DARPA and space travel. Dad. Citizen.
Tasha Darcy (she/they) @tashadarcygrey.co.uk Multidisciplinary artist working in textiles, embroidery & printmaking.
I run a small shop to fund these projects https://folksy.com/shops/darcygreyheartstudios
DisasterTaxon @disastertaxon.bsky.social Biotic revolution lifestyle guru
Samit Basu @samitbasu.bsky.social Novelist. Out next, The Pictures of Darpan Ray, HarperCollins India. I also make films, comics, and other typing-based lifeforms. Currently running a novel-writing workshop.
https://samitbasu.com
Kellswitch @kellswitch.bsky.social I am an Aroace artist, tarot enthusiast, avid reader, SciFi/Fantasy fan, lover of animated movies, history, nature and science, computer games and RPG games, especially Fate based games. More may be added later. 
@larsismoon.bsky.social @larsismoon.bsky.social 
The USA has been hijacked. @wmtrant.bsky.social Time to fight back!
Dr Jen Colbourne 🇨🇦🏳️🌈 @raccoonologist.bsky.social Postdoc in Vienna specializing in tooling and object manipulation research 🦜🐒🦝 Urban wildlife nerd & bin animal aficionado. She/her. Manages @asab.org @araa.at @behaviour2027.bsky.social
Like My Anime | Podcast @likemyanime.bsky.social A Podcast and YouTube channel dedicated to helping you find more of the anime, manga, and other Japanese media you’ll love
Podcast: https://likemyanime.buzzsprout.com/
YouTube:
youtube.com/@likemyanime
The Terrible Dreadfuls @ttdredux.bsky.social Screenwriting and prose. ADHD and Autism. Horror of the folk and cosmic variety. Idle thoughts launched into the void.
Alexander Hay @alexanderhay.myatproto.social Writer of weird fiction. Querying away. Dank Goblin. NUJ member. That's definitely me in the profile photo. Blocks AI on sight.
alexanderhay.co.uk
alexanderhay.neocities.org/
instagram.com/alexanderhayauthor/
orcid.org/0000-0003-1965-9764
André E. R. Soares @andre2099.bsky.social Biólogo de computador. Paleogenomics & Bioinformatics.
Photography, noise making electronic machines.
pt-br/en-us @ 🇸🇪
Ele/Dele (He/Him)
Fediverse: @chordate@mastodon.nu
@chatsubo657.bsky.social @chatsubo657.bsky.social Content designer with focus on health. Dude who always knows where his towel is. Lives in UK.
Mightyzim @mightyzim.bsky.social Ancient sci fi fantasy fan. UK based. 
@molecule-mind.bsky.social @molecule-mind.bsky.social Centre left flexible voter. Really wouldn't want to have a pint with Nigel Farage. 🇬🇧🇺🇦
Shona Kinsella @shonak.bsky.social Scottish fantasy and horror author. Chair of the British Fantasy Society. Avid Reader. Vaguely gothic. She/her www.shonakinsella.com
Bryan @historytrek.bsky.social 
Electra Pritchett @electrapritchett.bsky.social I read a lot, and then I write about it.
She/her
https://electrapritchett.com/
Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social Writer
The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies (UK)
Something Wonderful (US)
Winner BBC National Short Story Award #bbcnssa
O Henry
Stories in Zoetrope, Southern Review, Ploughshares, BBSS, &&
She/her
Ally
Marianne Heaslip @marianneh.bsky.social Workingtonian in Liverpool(home)/Manchester(work), UK.
Working on tools and processes for better building retrofit, mostly in houses, mostly for coops and community energy orgs. Keen on the need to #stopburningstuff.
Bill Swainson @billswainson.bsky.social Freelance Editor & Literary Consultant. Currently Consultant Editor at MacLehose Press; formerly at Oneworld, Bloomsbury, Harvill Press, Allison & Busby and John Calder Ltd. Trustee of Litfest and the Cultural Philanthropy Foundation. OBE, Hon FRSL
MO-KAN HASH @mokanhash.bsky.social 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🌻 LET KANSAS GROW 🌻
Cannabis reform • Psychedelic awareness/Veterans Advocate
Education • Art • Community
Missouri + Kansas
🔵LAWRENCE, KS DEMOCRAT🔵
Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com ✍🏾 Jacqueline Nyathi, librocubicularist, friendly neighbourhood "You *Must* Read This" person.
https://hararereview.com
📝📚 @thecontinent.org, @strangehorizons.bsky.social etc
(Incidentally, also @shonatiger.hararereview.com)
Gail Marsella @gbcmars.bsky.social Chemistry, SFF, writing, teaching, art, babies, jazz, books, quilting, antiques, auctions, dogs, IPA, chocolate.
--Lehigh Valley Public Media (PBS): https://www.wlvt.org/
--Orcid ID: 0000-0002-6704-3465
No DMs
mashka @susminervamdocet.bsky.social 👩🏼 they/them or she/her, 38 y.o. from the Balkans
• 📚 enjoyer of all things #language and #literature
• 🐖 admirer of #animals, #plants and #nature
• 🐱 caretaker of #cats #adoptdontshop
• 🌱 powered by plants
• ✊🏼 antifascist & anticapitalist
The Ubergroup @theubergroup.bsky.social a 501(c)3 nonprofit providing low cost education for writers. Prose, poetry, stage, screen, nonfiction, journalism, comics, animation, podcasts, you name it. If it has a writer at any stage, we teach it.
theubergroup.org- H @hdj.bsky.social @hdj.bsky.social
Elias the Extraterrestrial @eliasvarden.bsky.social I bring posts from outerspace
Ellen Forkin @ellenforkin.bsky.social I’m a chronically ill artist, writer and poet living in beautiful Orkney with a passion for folklore, myth and magic. To be published: Twisted Orkney Tales ✨ www.ellenforkin.co.uk
Tobias River @tobiasriver.bsky.social Reader, writer, crafter, queer
They/them
🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🏳️🌈🐉
Steve @moseleyite.bsky.social Greying code-monkey (Data Engineer is more accurate)
#Brum
He/Him
Married
Owned by 4 #ragdolls
Looking to keep my mid-age brain youngish by slowly learning 🇯🇵 & maybe returning to #ttrpg after 30 years
Books, taking photos, cinema, comedy, going places
Alison Sampson is working @alisonsampson.bsky.social Artist, writes + draws comics in London UK. Image, Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, IDW/PRH, Oni, Boom, AWA, DSTLRY, Mad Cave, Tiny Onion & more. Open 4 writing, covers
Multiple Eisner nominee on team books
Contact alissamp at gmail
Portfolio: www.alisonsampson.com
LogosFan @logosfan.bsky.social Logo Artist / Since 2020-2026 (6 years ago)
I'm a logo artist of making logos in Paint since 2020, I'm only making logos in Paint that brings everyone nostalgia, and behind the scenes how I made these logos! and more! If you are new here, follow me!
Dr Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou @hannahhg.bsky.social Writer (Prototype, The London Magazine, Art Monthly, Elephant, Wallpaper*, The Arts Desk, Worms, Plinth, Burlington Contemp. etc). Dr (PhD Wollstonecraft, Bodies). Literature Tutor at City Lit
For writing & Fane/Book events: https://linktr.ee/hhgsparkles
Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com Award-winning voice actor and journalist. Narrative designer. Pop culture consigliere. Podcaster. Writes The Full Lid. ‘Fantastic Frontal Everything'-Matt Wallace. On the board of the Cool Wives Club. Joy and spite.
https://carrd.alasdairstuart.com
Jenny Warren | Fiction Editor @jennyeditor.bsky.social Freelance line/copyeditor/proofreader of fiction. Massive romance fan 💕 Professional Member of the CIEP. She/her. https://www.warrenproofreading.co.uk/
Nicholas Allott @nicholasallott.bsky.social Linguist, Oslo Uni. Migrant. Cat bed. Pragmatics, related philosophy, politics and cat photos, not necessarily in that order. Neotenous, crepuscular and thigmotactic.
NBDG MUSIC GROUP LLC @nbdgmusicgroup.bsky.social Musician | Actor | Designer
Founder | NBDG Music Group
Creator of “N.B.” Sneakers
Minneapolis, MN
Building legacy through ownership www.itsyaboiNB.com
@eftoysterash3.bsky.social @eftoysterash3.bsky.social Born at 356 ppm. 🇵🇷🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ No AI.
Nick Guthrie @nickguthrie.co.uk Nick Guthrie is a crime writer based in SW Scotland. His DI Bolam series is published by No Exit Press. Under other names, he is the author of more than twenty books. Represented by LBLA. https://nickguthrie.co.uk/
Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social Writer, editor, artist, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award. Wanderer of the deep, dark forest of story in language and paint.
Dartmoor, Devon, UK
Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social Short-story writer. Very fond of marzipan, chocolate, sherry trifle. Chekhov. The idea of a parrot.
Calum Barnes @balumcarnes.bsky.social melancholic resister | words Tribune, The Quietus and 3:AM | beats Shinlifter | keep cool but care
sigmaportfolio.substack.com
@capybara789.bsky.social @capybara789.bsky.social 
Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social Science Fiction. Constitutional Law. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference. Fortnightly newsletter on SFF, Indian spec fiction, and books: https://gautambhatia.substack.com
Melanie @celine2017.bsky.social ✨ Curious about the world. Kindness, honesty, and good humor go a long way.
Ed Finn @edfinn.bsky.social Director, Center for Science and the Imagination + Associate Professor at Arizona State University. I write, research and experiment for better futures. 
Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social Scottish writer. Not sure about this at all.
Max Puffins @maxpuffins.bsky.social Book reviews & reading-related thoughts from a literature lover and speculative fiction author / creative writing MFA. 100% HUMAN powered.
The Great Wild Word Substack : https://open.substack.com/pub/maxpuffins
Caitlin J.F. Friend, Author @caitlinjffriend.bsky.social 🇨🇦 dark fantasy author of Project Mistmane
Jennifer 📚🎧❣️ @jdawson001.bsky.social ♿️🏳️🌈American SFF author, poet, editor, & book reviewer living in England. She/her. The Poetry Society & The British Fantasy Society. Old OWW member.
Online at: WorldsOfMayhem.com
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/dawson001
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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press 🐉 THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 🌳 Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
LadyVotesBlue @ladyvotesblue.bsky.social 💙Woman's RightToChoose💙
WELL-BEHAVED WOMEN
RARELY MAKE HERSTORY
SnarKastic.Esprit
EastCoastKin.Arts.Collective
Photos.are.mine,unless.noted.or repost. Phone.Photos, oft B&W
TypoQueen
PottyMouth? Blame.him!
UO Ducks-KC Chiefs
NO.Dates-NO.DM's-NO.Cult
Matthew Adams @ythos.bsky.social Very unlikely, but almost certainly.
jacdaw @jacdaw.bsky.social Cyclist, tandemist, trail runner, cook, baker, cat servant. Leftish. British. 
Maylin @blithespirit4.bsky.social Canadian living in Liverpool, UK. Knitter, reader, hiker, lover of all textiles and the great outdoors. Once a bookseller, always a bookseller.
Edinburgh SFF @edinburghsff.com ESFF is an open writing community for Science Fiction and Fantasy writers in Scotland. Events, resources & support, writing sessions, critique + more.
Community website for writers:
https://EdinburghSFF.com
Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (Tor Nightfire, Titan). 5 Bram Stoker Awards. Shirley Jackson finalist. Work in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Asimov's, Pseudopod, etc. Clarion grad. 🏳️🌈
www.lucysnyder.com
Rep: @jord4nhill.bsky.social
Cats, aquariums and terrariums
Simone Nespolo @simonenespolo.bsky.social Friuli, Italy.
Award-Winning Writer with International Recognition
Astra inclinant non necessitant
Aurum nostrum non est Aurum vulgi
Dr Craig Buchanan FSAScot @buchanan.today Academic, writer and commentator, living on unceded Whadjak Noongar Boodja; Hon Research Fellow (UWA).
Once dubbed “a ganja smoking hippy” by PHON’s James Ashby on Sky News.
Fighting to live in a community, rather than exist in an economy. 🚫 DMs.
The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social The VILLAGE 🏘 is a place where the world 🌍 feels a tiny bit smaller. Founded by SMOKELONG for the Global Flash Community
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Gary Budden @handle.invalid Acquisitions editor @influxpress.bsky.social. (imprint of @diversionbooks.bsky.social)
Writer. London Incognita + Hollow Shores published by @deadinkbooks.bsky.social
From UK | Living in Brisbane Meanjin 🇦🇺- S Stan Billie @stan89487.bsky.social We Rise By Lifting Others
Richard Z. Gallant, Dr. phil. 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺 @richardzgallant.bsky.social independent scholar, medievalist, and award-winning author ... literary SF novel forthcoming
Black Coral Club by Niko Waesche @blackcoralclub.com 30 years in media, tech and venture. We are empowered to live longer, better and more sustainable lives than ever before. Black Coral Club is my column dedicated to the founders and investors enabling us to live the good life. https://blackcoralclub.com/
Dave Owen @wavenode.bsky.social I like Doctor Who, running, Freak Zone music, and the Scottish Green Party, and I love my cat Marvin and my wife Helen.
(he/him).
Mike Bonsall @mbonsall.bsky.social Ballardian | digitizer | concordancer | code art
https://fentonville.co.uk/digital-ballard/
Susie @bassoosie.bsky.social Bassoonist, cat wrangler, a bit of a mess. Also into genealogy, boats, knitting.
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social
I can explain
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ROCKY LASTER🌱🦍 @rockylaster.bsky.social Feral Alaskan Hoosier. 17% Sasquatch DNA. High Priestess of the Leguminati 🫘. Allegedly Afraid of🐀 Mice. Watermelon Enthusiast 🍉. Awesome Dad🎖. Adoring Husband. Impossibly Humble. Susceptible to Flattery, 🥑's, and Wizardry. Balding Vegan Earthling 🌎