Action/Crime/Mystery Film & Screenplay Festival @crimemystery.bsky.social This festival now takes place every single month, giving filmmakers 4 tiers to showcase and promote their film. In-person public events also take place.
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Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
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WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
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Julia Tagliere @juliatagliere.bsky.social Maryland-based writer | editor, @baltimorereview.bsky.social | Permanently Midwestern| Bread Loaf, VCCA, Johns Hopkins Writing alum
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Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social Poet. Reader. Plums, raspberries, apricots. Recently in Asymptote, New Welsh Review, Finished Creatures, Cyphers. Troubadour Prize. Jt runner-up Keats-Shelley prize. He/him.
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Alyson Foster @estlin.bsky.social Novelist, editor, fiction addict. Author of GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT (film coming in 2025!) and HEART ATTACK WATCH. Opinions expressed here are my own, as far as I know.
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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
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Brown Bag Lit @brownbaglit.bsky.social An online writing community with classes, events and more with @shastagrant.bsky.social and @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social
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Louis Shalako @louisshalako.bsky.social Louis Shalako, founder of Long Cool One Books, is the author of twenty-seven books, available from major online retailers. Louis studied Radio, TV and Journalism at Lambton College, later studying fine art.
Sandra Marchetti @sandrapoetry.bsky.social 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.
Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
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Christina Daub @christinadaub.bsky.social Poet
Co-editor of the forthcoming poetry anthology, Turning Poetry into Food: A Collection
of Poetry X Hunger poems
Co-founded The Plum Review
Taught poetry at George Washington U.
Translates poetry from Spanish & German
Teresa Burns Murphy @teresaburnsmurphy.bsky.social Author of The Secret to Flying (TigerEye Publications)
https://www.teresaburnsmurphy.com
Writing in Chicago Quarterly Review, Evening Street Review, Gargoyle Magazine, Literary Mama, The Opiate, Slippery Elm Literary Journal, The Write City Review . . .
Norah Vawter @norahvawter.bsky.social Fiction writer, journalist, and editor. Stories make us human. Kindness is the point. Cofounder and Fiction/Nonfiction Editor of Washington-Unbound.com Rep'd by Victress Literary. Find me at norahvawter.com
Chance Durant @chancedurant.bsky.social Author, Game Designer, TTRPG player, Nerd, Father, Husband, Christian, lover of all things Shenanigan, Co-Creator of Carbyne Jungle & LokDown TTRPGs, Author of Sci-Fi Novel Construct, Believer in Nazi Punching, Guillotined my Twitter account for blue skies
Shonna White @shonnathewhite.bsky.social Author, artist, gamer & GIANT GEEK (she/her) 🇨🇦
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WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
StepAway Magazine @stepawaymag.bsky.social An established online literary quarterly publishing the best urban poetry and fiction by writers from across the globe. www.stepawaymagazine.com
Rob Banes @rsb1213.bsky.social Scientist, artist, educator, chef, fisherman, outdoor enthusiast, bookworm, linguist, peacemaker, volunteer, etc. in no particular order.
Please don't ask because I will not date you, I will not send you money, and I will not be your disciple. Thanks.
Sara R Burnett @srburnett.bsky.social Writer, Poet, Teacher, Parent
Author of Seed Celestial (winner of the Autumn House Press Poetry Prize)
Curator of Poems to Carry You e-letter
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Chuckabilly Clay @chuckabilly.bsky.social I like rockabilly music. I hate fascists.
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Amanda @wordwitchery.bsky.social Appalachian Creatrix. Organizer. Witch. Passionate about community, creative expression, collective liberation, & kindness. 🍉 
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Richard Peabody @peabody.bsky.social French Toast Addict, Gargoyle Magazine/Paycock Press, DC Native/Inner Beltway Kid, Mondo Barbie, et al., Books @Salmon, @ASP, @Broadkill, @Mint Hill.
Kim Roberts Meikle @kimroberts-dc.bsky.social Two new books! "Q&A for the End of the World," a poetry collaboration with Michael Gushue, and "The District's Departed: A Guidebook to DC Cemeteries."
Vijay Joshi @vjwords.bsky.social Poet...Poems are a very constructive channel for inner self, to link it with the world out there...
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Moira King @moiraeking.bsky.social Once again, we meet at last✨
Fantasy Author on Sub | The Arrow Trilogy
Repped by Ellen Levine
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Cynthia Marie Hoffman @cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social Poet. Exploding Head (an OCD memoir in prose poems), Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones, Paper Doll Fetus, Sightseer.
Essays in TIME, The Sun, Lit Hub. (she/her) www.cynthiamariehoffman.com
Washington Writers’ Publishing House @wwph.bsky.social Washington Writers’ Publishing House is the longest, continuously operating cooperative nonprofit literary press in the US. More details at www.washingtonwriters.org
Robert Bettmann @robertbettmann.bsky.social Moving over from Twitter (finally.) Founder arts non-profit Day Eight. Father and husband. “They do these things when the tree is green what will they do when it is dry?”
Melanie S. Hatter @mshatter.bsky.social Editor/Proofreader: accepting new clients. Author: MALAWI'S SISTERS. THE COLOR OF MY SOUL. LET NO ONE WEEP FOR ME.
Archie @artemwriting.bsky.social UPenn. MBA. Books 📚 Writing ✍️ Art 🎨 Cooking & Gardening 🌱 Photos my own 📸 Married. From California ☀️ Got a Wacko Immune System 😅 Connecting here 🤗 https://substack.com/@archartem
Ike Walker @ikewss.bsky.social Researcher, writer, journalist…
Transformative Justice | Green Finance | Legal analysis | Systems Change | Participatory Research | Education | Media & Culture
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@kristinnoelle.bsky.social @kristinnoelle.bsky.social 
Alan W. King @alanwking.bsky.social I'm a Caribbean American writer, motion graphics & 3D artist, and award-winning documentary filmmaker. I'm also the author of Crooked Smiling Light, Point Blank, and Drift. #AddToBlacksky
Gráinne @grainne9.bsky.social Queer student of abolition and public defender fighting for families. Here for politics, soccer, and medieval history tidbits. She/her. 🏴🏳️🌈🇵🇸
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Lauren D. Woods @ladiwoods.bsky.social Author of The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe (Autumn House Press Book Prize). Winner of Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction from the TX Institute of Letters. Longlisted for PEN/Bingham Prize. DC based. laurendwoods.com
Rina Palumbo @rinapalumbo.bsky.social Ph.D. (JHU, History); Italian-Canadian expatriate. Writer, Editor, avid reader.
Writing in Hopkins Review, Identity Theory, Ghost Parachute, et al.
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Ryan Vine @ryanvine.bsky.social poet | prof | deep north | books: The Cave (Best Poetry Books of 2025, California Review of Books), To Keep Him Hidden (Northeastern Minnesota Book Award), WARD & Distant Engines (Weldon Kees Award) | poems: APR, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, NPR ...
Michelle Togut @5miriam9.bsky.social Political junkie who also rescues cats and studies Torah & Hebrew. Loves books, coffee, wine, and justice. In my former life, worked as an attorney, editor, real estate agent. Married with one stepkid and two grandchildren.
Leona Sevick @lsevick.bsky.social Lover of beaches, books, dogs, yoga, and the Oxford comma. Author of Lion Brothers and The Bamboo Wife. Work in The Southern Review, The Sun, Pleiades, The Threepenny Review. Board member: Furious Flower and Longleaf Writers Conference.
@maryonsaturn.bsky.social @maryonsaturn.bsky.social Poet. Cat lover. Here at the intersection of consciousness, energy, and UFOs. 🪐🛸🙌💥🐈⬛💕
@dnangels.bsky.social @dnangels.bsky.social 
Anne Leigh Parrish @anneleighparrish.bsky.social Author, Poet, Photographer. Lives in a forest in the Pacific Northwest. Find me at www.anneleighparrish.com and my photography at www.laviniastudios.com
After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers.
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Jef L Littlejohn @jefljohn.bsky.social Poet, Gardener & Animal Lover. An atheist by some measures, as I find my gods in nature. Blue-blooded liberal in red Oklahoma mourning the current demise of rights, the rule of law and, quite possibly, democracy.
No Chats/No Dms!
High in Drublic @fiestamule.bsky.social making menace
Scott Ferry @scottferry.bsky.social sings to invisible harpies in dollar stores
vomits poems
Patricia Knight Meyer - www.myadoptedlife.com @myadoptedlife.bsky.social #Journalist, #Author, Black Market Baby #adoptee not #adopted, #writer #memoirist with #memoir about being sold as an infant. #amquerying, X-expat, 💙 #writingcommunity, #litagent, #adopteerights #feminist, #LBGTQ. Blog: www.myadoptedlife.com ✈️☕️🍷 🦋
Surazeus Simon Seamount @surazeus.bsky.social Surazeus Astarius Συράζευς Αστάριος.
Cartographer. Epic Poet. Author.
Hermead epic poem about Philosophers
in 126,680 lines of blank verse.
Historical Fiction.
http://tinyurl.com/AstarianScriptures
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Lothlorien Poetry Journal @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction and art.
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines.html
Mary Lou Buschi @maryloubuchi.bsky.social Mary Lou Buschi (she/her) Mary Lou has 3 full length poetry collections. Her 3rd book, BLUE PHYSICS came out in February 2024 (Lily Poetry Review). PADDOCK, (2021) was also published by (LPR). 
Serena Agusto-Cox @sagustocox.bsky.social Poetry evangelist, poet, editor of The Mid-Atlantic Review, Gaithersburg, Md. Book Festival poetry programming lead, swim-ma: Echoes Carry pre-order link: https://amzn.to/3YQN6Z5
Jay @bluejay825.bsky.social Jones Valley/ Shenandoah Valley. Red Mountain / Blue Ridge Mountains. Arty, literary. Yellowdog Democrat. Quaker. Queer. Auburn alumnus. Little bit hillbilly but not in the elegy way.
Hon. Jared Morningstar, Kentucky Colonel @kycoloneljstar.bsky.social Educator. State of Michigan Beat Poet Laureate (2026-2028). Lord of Sealand. Kentucky Colonel. Writer. SVSU Distinguished Alumnus. Dudeist Priest.
B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social Writer/Editor/Coach—editor of the anthology Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship; Founder, Severancemag.com
Katie Herman @katiehh.bsky.social Independent book editor at www.katieherman.net. Sometime poet. Lefty. Brooklyn, NY.
"Love is still the only revenge. It grows each time the earth is set on fire."
—Ayisha Siddiqa
Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social poet and novelist
http://www.linktr.ee/rustybarnes23
Paulette Turcotte @pauletteturcotte.bsky.social Poet, Artist, editor of Banned Poetry
my blog https://pauletteturcotte.wixsite.com/bannedpoetry/blog
https://pauletteturcotte.wixsite.com/pauletteturcotte
Belinda Subraman @belindasubraman.bsky.social State of Texas Beat Poet Laureate (2023-2025) Poet, artist, editor of GAS: Poetry, Art & Music journal and arts show: http://gaspoertyartandmusic.blogspot.com and Interviewer for BeatLife: http://beatlife.org/about/masthead/
Bernadette Geyer @bernadettegeyer.bsky.social I write. A lot. About lots of things.
Author of What Haunts Me (April Gloaming) and The Scabbard of Her Throat (The Word Works).
Recent writing in @swwim.bsky.social, stadtsprachen, Quibble Lit, and elsewhere.
https://linktr.ee/bernadettegeyer
Raymond Luczak | deafwoof @raymondluczak.com Deaf gay Yooper writer and editor. 40+ books published. 25+ plays performed. 3 full-length DVDs produced. Perpetually inquisitive in Minneapolis, MN.
raymondluczak.com