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/
Coyote / J. Stryker | Memento Vivere 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social Not the violent artist. | UofG alumnus. DV survivor & victim advocate. Dislikes liars and bullies. | Good trouble, narrativity, biopsychology, wildlife, plants, trees. They/them.
Franco Amati @francoamati.bsky.social writer, poet, SFWA & Codex, ViableParadise 2024,
new collection WORK IS WORK out now: https://www.amazon.com/Work-Franco-Amati/dp/B0HCCQF9YP/
and for all published fiction visit francoamatiwrites.com
Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social celebrating, promoting, & nurturing mama writing & writers at https://literarymama.com/ since 2003
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Author M. I. Verras (She/Her) @miverrasauthor1.bsky.social Gothic author, corp.associate, singer, composer, keyboardist, designer, university graduate, sports fan, existential seeker. Author of two metaphysical, symbolic fantasy-mystery novellas. Novella plots and covers are in English and NOT AI.
Juleigh Howard-Hobson @juleigh.bsky.social Formalist Speculative Poet. Heathen. 6 books. The usual nominations. I sometimes write prose. My 140 year old house is haunted. That's why I bought it. I follow back creatives.
Kate Ertmann @katelovesmath.bsky.social Researcher, explorer, writer, whisperer, and speaker on #MathIRL 💖 - w/ an occasional sprinkle of nascar & mlb.
Long Island’r by birth, Oregonian 4life 🌊🏎️⚾️ #SmashThePatriarchy
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VO XO @voxo-wav.bsky.social Ride the wav 🌊
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zachspruce @zachspruce.bsky.social Rochester, NY. Trashpoet.
Author of the chapbook Vanishing Sun (2024) from Bottlecap Press.
Steph Warren @bookshineblog.bsky.social Bookblogger. Editor. Proofreader. Mum. MECFS. Spoonie.
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Kirsten Miles, Author 🌹 @kirstenmiles.bsky.social Author 🖊 Vegan 🥬 Libra ♎️
EDM forever 🪩 Write Your Heart Out ❤️
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Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social Wild eyed Welsh poet. Anti-discrimination, democracy, rights, transcendence.
Elena Again @elenaagain.bsky.social #hike #travel published poet and author 🩷
#cancersurvivor 💙 #autoimmune 💜 #SCA10min ❤️ Army Vet
Here I am, again 🦋 love must triumph
#loveofblsky
substack.com/@elenaagain
*all pictures & writings are mine unless RP, quoted or cited; no AI
Melissa Fitzpatrick @melissafitz.bsky.social Words in Five South, Flash Fiction Online, Atlas + Alice, Lunch Ticket, Flash Fiction Magazine, Roi Faineant, and elsewhere.
Website: https://melissa-fitzpatrick.com/
Substack: https://melissafitz.substack.com
Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social Berlin-based Scottish writer. Words in New Flash Fiction Review, Vestal Review, Trampset and elsewhere. Featured in Best Small Fictions 2024. My pen name came to me in a dream. You can find a selection of my writing here: https://linktr.ee/ruralunease
Angela Narciso Torres @gelatopoet.bsky.social typewriters. dogs. cats. books. fountain pens. author of two poetry collections: Blood Orange (Willow Books) and What Happens is Neither (Four Way Books) and a chapbook, To the Bone (Sundress Publications). Reviews editor at RHINO Poetry.
devon. @devminor.bsky.social Writer, lately.
Jeffrey Hecker @heckheck03.bsky.social Poet, Teen Writers Fellowship Poetry Teacher (The Muse Writers Center), Poetry Staff Reader for Quarterly West and Okay Donkey Magazine.
Rough Diamond Poetry @rough-diamond1.bsky.social Rough Diamond is an online and in print poetry journal. roughdiamondpoems@gmail.com
EIC - Charlotte Cosgrove
http://ko-fi.com/roughdiamond open for subs
Steve Silas Hendrickson (No No No No) @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social "Mamunduong tawo" 🌈🇵🇭
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Mary Magdalen @mary-magdalen.bsky.social Southern California writer with words in The Write Launch, Blood + Honey, Leon Literary Review, BULL, and others.
slips slips @slipsslips.bsky.social We are a free, print-only broadsheet art and literary publication based out of Brooklyn, NY. If that sounds too cool for you, don't worry - we're middle-aged!
Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social Board member, Autumn House Press
Debut story collection 'Impossible Children' won the Mary McCarthy Prize, out now from Sarabande Books
Core faculty, West Virginia Wesleyan College Low-Res MFA in Creative Writing Program
www.robertyune.com
Gone Like a Goldfish @gonelikeagoldfish.bsky.social This is an account to promote my anonymously-published book, Gone Like a Goldfish, about suicide, addiction, mental illness, and child loss. I'm told that it's transgressive literature. Free on Kindle Unlimited.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8L8GB2X
Scott Westcott @westcottwriter.bsky.social Poet & Ponderer
Baby Richman @babyrichmanband.bsky.social REMEMBER TO HIT THE BELL (🔔+ ) 👆
William Ladislaw, Songwriter @williamladislaw.bsky.social I'm a Philadelphia-based songwriter, now working with the amazing artist and musician Josef El Baz of Sweden. 🌊
Rahul @rahulchaudhary0008.bsky.social Perth/WA📌
Explorer | Cricket | News | Education | Political & History 🙊🧏🏼♂️✌️☠️
Nurain Ọládèjì @nurainoladeji.bsky.social Writes. Edits. Curates. Interested in language, ecological narratives, etc.
"Home Is a Heart That Flees" chapbook by African Poetry Book Fund. Poems and stories in Poetry Wales, Transition, OlongoAfrica, etc.
Dan Godston @dangodston.bsky.social husband & father, educator & writer
shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social Author of The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India), and most recently, Cajun South Brown Folk (Belle Point Press). Represented by Teffanie Thompson of Falkin Literary. 2019-2025 Series Editor of The Wigleaf Top 50. Lafayette, LA. shomedome.com
Steve Nash @stevenashwrites.bsky.social Writer, lecturer, suspected vampire. Latest poetry collection Nearly Man out now. Debut novel Remington Platypus out with Northodox Press
https://linktr.ee/steveywrites
Shelly Blake-Plock @shellyblakeplock.com Writing horror fiction, making music, building weird things. Oh, and baseball. And open source. Also, I've lived in a haunted house for 23 years, which is fun.
Robin Zlotnick @robinzlotnick.bsky.social 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/
Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social 
GW @garrywatters.bsky.social enjoying life it's busy at times 😂 I also enjoy the sport of rugby and have a website for that on www.intouchrugby.com and i will post ideas here for that. Have a nice day xx
Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social Michigan writer & stuff. auDHD. gender noncompliant. Fuck AI & Subst*ck.
https://aniking.net
— Family Night (Mason Jar Press, 2026) https://tinyurl.com/2jtf6t63
— SmokeLong Subs Editor
— EiC: syntaxandsalt.com (closed)
The Haysom Review @thehaysomreview.bsky.social Book reviewer and aspiring literary editor. Reading Elizabeth Haysom’s essays. https://substack.com/@thehaysomreview
Luanne Castle @luannecastle.bsky.social Poet, writer, artist. Now out: Hybrid flash memoir Scrap: Salvaging a Family (ELJ Editions 2026)! Best Microfiction 2026. 4 award-winning poetry collections. https://www.luannecastle.com/ Hunting the Cosmos forthcoming 2026 from Shanti Arts
PerfectGod = S. Cyn = L. Gates = J. Glacier = L. Simz = Ziwe +c. @blackswanborges.bsky.social Mx Józef ≈ M.
Lonely + Looking for
Poetry Fiends and Friends...
[ I wake up *wishing* that I was:
Gertrude Stein + Ursula K. Le Guin. ]
Mx M— Józef ≈ M. J. Le Tölm...
Cover credit to Samara Cyn.
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And stay safe :)
Terry O. Scott-Bond @terryoscott-bond.bsky.social Please follow Terry on Medium: medium.com/@terryoscottbond
True Democracy's poet—from the world's longest-running constitutional democratic republic—who loves and believes in the People. A human being. Doing something different. Posts read as a lit thread.
Sisters of Sci-Fi Podcast @sistersofscifi.bsky.social Podcast about female & non-binary sci-fi writers, STEM interviews, the Earth Crew 2042 radio play, the monthly micro-fiction series Sci-Fi Snack Stop, and more. 🚫AI🚫
Hosted & created by L. Stephanie Tait 🏳️🌈 🤖
http://www.sistersofscifi.com
Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social Writing hazy cosmic jive until I really make the grade ✴︎ Yeah, I mean SciFi, but with more fiction than actual science ✴︎ Some laughs, lots of heart
https://linktr.ee/rexburke
monaiv @monaiv.bsky.social Poetry editor at https://cicadasongpress.com. Author of 7 poetry books. Indiana Co-Leader of Authors Against Book Bans. Trekkie. I am nothing if not prolific.
https://monamehas.com/
Wonderful Travels @wonderfultravels.bsky.social I love posting travel adventures. I will try to post regularly. Hope you enjoy my page. Thank you for your support. See you in the comments.
Marina Corner ♥︎ @marinacorneres.bsky.social 🦋 Spain-based Marina fan page
Guess what? I’m not a robot, ‘cause I’m a Primadonna
FRANK'S FILM REVIEW @franksfilmreview.bsky.social Frank Gaimari, a writer from the Pacific Northwest, has captivated audiences worldwide with his novels, movie reviews, and screenplays.
www.FranksFilmReview.com
@frankgaimari.bsky.social
www.FrankGaimari.com
Joanna Park @joannalouisepar.bsky.social 📚Bookseller for RossiterBooks 🥳🎉
Book blogger.
Proof reading student.
NG &Amazon reviewer
Sharing the love one book at a time!
https://linktr.ee/Jojosovertherainbowblog?fbclid=PAAaYjKfUZrTNLw26w2-61WFrJlSq1wF6MdcvBxrrdoOZIC_j2TaJPMIb7
Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social Scurrying through the mire of existence. #AmQuerying a novel about a trip through the lives of ancestors.
NYC! 🏙️
Follow me at Medium.com/@edwardrstapleton
Ted Cornwell @teddycornwell.bsky.social Writer living in Minneapolis. Spent a few decades in DC and NYC. Interested in connecting with poets, fiction writers, drama queens and drama kings, etc. (Oh, and I'm also a big tennis fan.) Author of poetry chapbook, Gotham Gray. And queer to boot.
Leicester Locke @leicesterlocke.bsky.social Writer and author. Member of the Society of Authors. I write about music usually as a reviewer. I also write novels and poetry. My website is https://www.writertrevorlocke.com/
Readit Club @readit.club If you’re into books - welcome 🤗
Everything about books, writers, reviews, literature discussions.
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James Montgomery @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social Flash writer ✍️ | Latest: Crow & Cross Keys, Fictive Dream, FlashFlood, The Bulb Region, 100 Word Story, NFFD Micro Comp ‘26 | 📖 Best Small Fictions ‘25, Wigleaf Top 50 ‘25 | 💫 Welkin People’s Prize ‘25 | He/Him 🌈 www.jamesmontgomerywrites.com
Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social Writer, nurse. SmokeLong Quarterly, Cincinnati Review+. Senior flash fiction editor @jmww. Sucker for a good barn.
“We'll Be Birds" chapbook available at Sand and Gravel Press
lisathorntonwriter.com
June Gemmell @junegemmell.bsky.social Scottish. Writer. Reader for Fractured Lit. Published in Trash Cat Lit, Frazzled Lit, Moonlit Getaway, Gone Lawn, The Phare, Gutter, Hooghly Review, and National Flash Flood.
Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Writer of short things. Reader of all things flash. Dog lover. Words in SLQ, XRAY, Flash Frog, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf. Winner of 2024 Lascaux Prize & Cambridge Prize. She/her https://www.emilyrinkema.com/
Vintage Bookkeeper @vintagebookkeeper.bsky.social 25 year old stuck in 1949. I post about the past, collect vintage books and watch vintage films, with a particular interest in the 1940s.
Kirk Wilson @kirkwilson.bsky.social Author of the story collection Out of Season, the poetry collection Songbox, the poetry chapbook The Early Word, and the crime study Unsolved. http://www.kirkwilsonbooks.com
Bulb Culture Collective @bulbculture.bsky.social
Submissions OPEN for CHANDELIER: GLOWERING! 🎃
online lit space ○ light bulb bunch ○ send us your previously published writing
Editors: L.M. Cole & Jared Povanda
https://www.bulbculturecollective.com/chandelier-zine
alice f.z. @faith2fleurs.bsky.social phd candidate in english & medieval studies (ucsb) • middle english, gender, sexuality • she/her • playful scholar • uu • unceded chumash land • heretic • ~poet~
Faunalia out on Sul Books now!
“the book of dame ærney” out now on fifth wheel press!
Tracie Renee (she/her) @tracierenee.bsky.social Librarian in sort-of Chicago.
PW book reviewer.
#Amquerying #SCBWI writer/poet.
Winner: #50PreciousWords, Highlights scholarship, ElegantLit, IAmWritingMG.
HM: #PBParty.
WTMP mentee, RisingTalent finalist, BOTN.
https://linktr.ee/tracie.renee
midshipnews.org @midshipnews.org Author of Naval Fiction, Freelance Defence Journalist – Naval & Aeronautical History
MASKIROVKA my first novel is out !
5.0 out of 5 stars: Page turner, brilliant new Cold War thriller.
Grey ships, black boats
https://www.midshipnews.org/
Glenda Funk @gmfunk.bsky.social Retired ELA & speech teacher | blogger | NBCT | poet | reader | dog & cat mom | traveler | #EDUsky | NCTE Children’s Poetry Awards Committee | NEA Better Lesson Master Teacher Project | Folger TSI Alum: www.glendafunk.wordpress.com
thelonghand @thelonghand.bsky.social Screenwriter. Poet. Professor.
Books: Eidolon. The Getty Fiend. Middlemost Constantine. Films: Winter in the Blood. Wed the Dark.
Simone Nespolo @simonenespolo.bsky.social Friuli, Italy.
Award-Winning Writer with International Recognition
Astra inclinant non necessitant
Aurum nostrum non est Aurum vulgi
Martin Kennedy Yates @martinkennedyyates.bsky.social Writer - Artist - Tutor
I make things with words, paints & stuff.
Winner of Broken Spine Chapbook Comp 2024 - debut poetry pamphlet out now - DM me for signed copy.
Poems in Rialto, Stand, Poetry Wales, Magma, Butcher's Dog, Finished Creatures & others.
Sandra Daigle ✍️ @sandradaigle.bsky.social Author of Elliot and the Map in the Moonlight. Writing children’s adventure & Fantasy. Editor & publisher. Book reviewer 🌳 🚫 NO PORN
https://linktr.ee/WriterSandra
Colin Alexander @colincalexander.bsky.social Dad, writer, sometimes attorney. Used to write for fun, now for revenge. Stories in Analog, Orion’s Belt, Phano, and Radon Journal.
Novella available for presale: https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/suicide-valley-trail-maintenance
Pigsinpie @pigsinpie.bsky.social Indie low fi band from Chihuahua México--
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