Cheri Thriver @cherithriver.bsky.social Always curious. Writer. #PBRisingStarsCollective #12x12PB #amquerying #kidlit Recipe developer. Product designer. Funma! (she/her) Blog: http://cooking2thrive.com
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/
Daily Screenplay Festival contests @dailyscreenplays.bsky.social Daily Screenplay Contest Deadlines
All of these top screenplay contests offer full feedback on each submitted works.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-screenplay-contest-deadlines/
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.
https://filmfreeway.com/crimemystery
www.crimemysteryfestival.com
Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social She/Her. I Love LA. Viviana Valentine Gets Her Man, Viviana Valentine Goes Up the River, & Viviana Valentine & the Ticking Clock. The NYT says I "write with flair." I podcast about movie sleuths. New Haven Pizza Evangelist. More: linktr.ee/msemilyedwards
Jeanna Kadlec @jeannakadlec.bsky.social queer ex-evangelical; HERETIC: A QUEER REVOLT AGAINST EVANGELICALISM, EMPIRE, AND THE LIES WE ARE SOLD (Harper) & ASTROLOGY FOR ARTISTS (forthcoming 2027, Hachette); NYC, she/her
fuck AI
sign up: https://learn.jeannakadlec.com/book-deal-breakthrough-ii
Lacy Phillips, author @lacyphillips.bsky.social Author | Brand Manager | 🇺🇸➡🇳🇱 Immigrant | #VirtualJaneCon Contributor | Feminist Killjoy | 🥄 Spoonie | 💜🩶🤍🖤 Demi | 🗑🏚Hoarding Survivor
lacyphillips-author.com
Doug Engstrom @dougengstrom.bsky.social (he/him) Author of CORPORATE GUNSLINGER and other SFF works. SFWA Member. Lover of cycling, travel, and photography. Iowan.
Scylla Publishing @scyllapublishing.bsky.social Australian publisher of sapphic specfic
SEPT 4 2026 - "Who Am I? Sapphic Spec Fic of Identity and Purpose" anthology! https://www.scyllapublishing.com/whoami
No AI now or ever.
Fay @faywin.bsky.social 📍Minnesota, eh? | 💫 Aspiring author |🌳 Environmentalist | 🏴☠️They/them
Recent Master of Science graduate trying to find their place in this world 🌟
Les is writing @lesleyariel.bsky.social SF & F romance writer living by the sea in Massachusetts. she/her
The Bone Mask - a high-heat romantasy is coming out September 28th
https://linktr.ee/writinglahughes
Taylor Sosa @taylorquills.bsky.social Genre writer and tea addict. Creator of Bitty Book Nook Book Reviews. MA in English.
#amwriting #amediting #amrevising #writesky #WritingCommunity #booksky
Coral Vega is revising ✍️ @authorcoralvega.bsky.social Teacher, mom, author of
Dawnfeather 🌅🪶
A Dance of Fire 💃🏼🔥
and
The Heir of Water 🐉🌊
https://linktr.ee/authorcoralvega
Essie Brammer @essiebrammer.bsky.social Writer of MG. Finalist Mslexia C&YA Novel '24, SL Wells Book 4 Children '24, Yeovil Lit Prize C&YA '23 & Firefly Press '22, LL Guppy MG '21 & Mslexia C&YA '20 📚. Member of #MGnificents, #MGPugFish and #MiddleGradeHub. Neurodivergent. STEM IRL 🧮. She/her.
brookehberry.bsky.social @brookehberry.bsky.social Querying: DIVIDED WE FALL, a 91k romantic fantasy.
Insta: brooke.h.berry
✨️an AI-free, neuro-spicy space✨️
"Flavius, hold me." @percywainwright.bsky.social Lowkey always thinking about The Americans. I am a one-woman hype machine for Armand from Interview with the Vampire/The Vampire Lestat/Queen of the Damned (!!!), Lord John from Outlander, and The Realm of the Elderlings series by Robin Hobb.
Stephanie Ronco @stephanieronco.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Voracious Reader.
She/her/hers
Chai @2fortea.bsky.social Foodie who loves TEA! 🫖
Shari MacDonald Strong @sharimacd.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor (nonfiction) at Broadleaf Books (www.broadleafbooks.com). Editor of THE MATERNAL IS POLITICAL (Seal Press). Freelance fiction editor (www.strong-words.com). Fiction writer. Located in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. 
Millie Abecassis @millieabecassis.com Author of SFFH · French & American · THE COLOR OF TIME out now at @shirakipress.com · Rep: @ajvanbelle.bsky.social · 📍 California
🌐 millieabecassis.com/link-in-bio
🌊 @smallpitch.org Founder
🏆 @specawards.bsky.social Co-Founder
Liz (E.M. Morrissey) @lizardskinshoujo.bsky.social Pursuing the peccary with pardine limers.
Lapsed academic. PhD in Japanese Art History. Viable Paradise 2024. Short fiction in The Daily Tomorrow, Old Moon Quarterly. She/her. No AI.
www.elizabethmorrissey.com
Tiff @tiff-d.bsky.social Writer.
✍️ debut- dark, emotional psychological suspense.Toxic female friendship.
✍️Book 2- dark, emotional psychological suspense. Sibling trauma under public gaze.
Repped by Bethany Jett
Kelly Young @kyoungwrites.bsky.social 🌠 YA romantic fantasy
📖 writer, reader, disney nerd
💌 rep: Susan Velazquez Colmant
Mister Hand @misterhand1.bsky.social Query trench lifer. Featured in McSweeneys: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/authors/david-wulatin
Jill Terlep @jillterlep.bsky.social Author 📚 (SCBWI - PAL). NCHMA Analyst + 📊 Economic Editor. ❤️Wife+Mom+Dog-Lover❤️ Boilermaker! 💛🖤 Querying MG 📖
Alison Weiss @alioop7.bsky.social Editorial consultant at Alison Weiss Editorial. Causing all sorts of mayhem in the publishing world.
www.alisonweisseditorial.com
Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social Professing literature in Philadelphia. MIDDLEMEN: Literary Agents & the Making of American Fiction (April ‘26).
laurabmcgrath.substack.com
tabatha @tabmitch.bsky.social she/her. writer, reader, lions, hurricanes, reality tv, pokémon, wife, mama, vaguely witchy
📚🦁🌀😘🐶⚡️🪄
Sara Axelbaum (she/her) @bysaraaxelbaum.bsky.social RevPit 2026 Short List.
Aspiring published author of Middle Grade children's novels. Mom. Fan of inclusion and kindness. Doer of all the things. Lover of all the life.
Always tired. Never bored.
www.SaraAxelbaum.com
JJ Lubinski (she/her) @jjlubinskiwrites.bsky.social ✨🏳️🌈ally🏳️⚧️✨writer✨school counselor✨cat mom✨video games✨reading✨Lover of all things SFF✨
#amquerying an upper YA soft sci-fi with found family and slow burn romance
Lubinskijj.wordpress.com
Jeanette Fazzari Jones @thefelttippen.bsky.social bit.ly/jeanettefazzarijones
Meatballs for Grandpa (Two Lions Press, 2024)
Duck, Duck, Groove (The Little Press, 2026)
Ava's Chalk (Ever Imagine Press, 2026)
Author. Teacher. Baker. Former ninja.
Seeking new rep due to the sad & sudden closure of BRLA.
Íde “of March” Hennessy @ideofmarch.bsky.social 📝Sci-fi/Horror Author. 🔮Opossummoner. 🎹Lyricist, Keys & Vocals in Control Voltage, as Vibra Steel. 💊Chronically illin’ in Humboldt County.🌲 🐈⬛Cat worshipper. 🚫Anti-genocide. 🚫Anti-AI. She/They.
Paula Henson @paulahenson.bsky.social Award-winning author of WHO NEEDS A FOREST FIRE #NautilusAward #SkippingStoneAward #IndieExcellenceAward #middlegrade #nonfictionkids #picturebooks #educator #kidlit #12x12 www.paulahenson.com www.terrabellabooks.com
Inimitable Books | Book Publisher @inimitablebooks.com Uplifting marginalized voices without pigeonholing authors into writing about their trauma. Founded by @zarahoffman.bsky.social.
CLOSED TO ALL (agented and unagented) QUERIES
https://inimitablebooks.com/links/
Linh Nguyen, is writing @dreahun.bsky.social Author of action-adventures featuring unapologetically bad women. Revising: The Shadow Divide (spy thriller).
Former physician. MS in Stem Cell.
Jacqueline Thérèse @jackietwrites.bsky.social Prize winning #author of your future favorite #romance. Let’s chat #writing and your favorite #romancenovel! #lunchtimewriter #blackromancewriter #icedance (Virtue/Moir 4ever) #HeatedRivalry 🏒 Get more of my thoughts at pagesofpassion.substack.com
Write Query Hook @writequeryhook.bsky.social Find the right agents. Fast. Purpose driven tools to help writers out of the query trenches and onto agent client lists. Your agent is calling - try it free: www.writequeryhook.com/
Charlotte Dolman @charlottedolman.bsky.social Yorkshire based writer and actor.
Morgan Shaw | Author @authormorganshaw.bsky.social I write fantastical stories about worlds I want to explore and people I want to meet.
Heidi @themapidraw.bsky.social Professor. Boxer. U2 fan. Traveler. Writer of books about self-discovery and aging powerfully. 🩷 Author of debut travel memoir, The Map I Draw: A Memoir of Travel as a Passport to Self. 🌏
https://www.heidikristinbrown.com/travel-memoir
A.M.Sahu 🧚 SFF Author @amsahubooks.bsky.social ✨crafting delicious n delightful tales
🫶love all things love
🥂celebrating books n writers
@joypit_pitch_event host on IG - July 1st, 2026
#writingcommunity #booksky #amwriting
Ivy T. Woods @ivytwoods.bsky.social Romantic Fantasy Author | She/her
Canadian 🩷💜💙
Co-host of the With Series Potential Podcast
Repped by Kira Watson of Janklow & Nesbit Associates
Free Palestine 🍉
https://linktr.ee/IvyTWoods
Kamilla Milligan @kamillamilligan.bsky.social Kidlit writer exploring how humans grow and change through relationships and connections with nature. kamillamilligan.com
Thomas E Mayhew (Author/Investor/Recovered) is Trending @authorthomasmayhew.bsky.social After 11 years losing every battle I ever fought to change and be at peace, I win the last one every day. https://linktr.ee/thelastbattle
Stephanie Austin @stephanieaustin.bsky.social Formerly @lucysky on Twitter
IG: @stephanie.d.austin and @mugshot_writers2
SOMETHING I MIGHT SAY, essays, WTAW Press
BURN, a novel, out now from Cowboy Jamboree Press
stephanieaustin.net
Jamie Novak @jamienovak.bsky.social Professional declutterer & author of KEEP THIS TOSS THAT: the practical guide to tidying up, turned PB author & SCBWI member http://www.JamieNovak.com
Laura Stanfill @laurastanfill.bsky.social Author, THE NEIGHBORHOOD DAMES (Ooligan Press, Nov. 2026). Publisher, Forest Avenue Press. Publishing consultant. Delete Key is my roller derby name.
MorningWriter @morningwriter.bsky.social Researcher by day, SF writer by morning.
Rachel North - querying @rachelnorthauthor.bsky.social YA historical fantasy author | writing hopeful stories for a grim world | POTSie
CM Heels is querying & NOT sleeping @cmheels.bsky.social Currently querying 3rd manuscript & recently obsessed with character art!
Hidden Bog Press @hiddenbogpress.bsky.social The Hidden Bog Press features human-written #fiction #stories, available on #Amazon & #TikTokShop.
Now featuring #psychologicalthriller Crack Open the Sky by Laure LaChance.
Read & connect: https://hiddenbogbookstore.com/
Support human-made art <3
Natalie Nee📚 @novelnatalie.bsky.social Multi-genre writer, latte enthusiast, stacker of TBR piles. Nerdy. Best of Across the Margin ‘23 In: Rejection Letters, Maudlin House, tiny wren lit, Hooghly Review, & Cowboy Jamboree Press. Forthcoming: BULL
Rep: Michelle Jackson/Jackson Literary Agency
Amy Pepin @appleseed-amy.bsky.social Writer of YA horror. 🩸Gluten is out to get me. French Canadian.
Tinyscribe @tinyscribe.bsky.social Romance Writer. Bisexual Libra w/ ADHD. She/Her #KissPitch22 Mentee. Fairy Pokemon are the best Pokemon #amwriting #amquerying
https://linktr.ee/tinyscribe
C. Cameron Martin @c-cameron-martin.bsky.social Author, #amquerying 💻
Librarian 📚
Farm Wife 🚜
Currently reading: WHAT WE CAN KNOW, by Ian McEwan 📖
https://www.instagram.com/c.cameron.martin?igsh=ZndwcHZjZWI5cTVh&utm_source=qr
Ella Crean - Querying Author @ellacreanauthor.bsky.social ⚔️ querying: The Trail of Blood Red Stars ⚔️
📝 posting: publishing updates! 📝
🖼 art by @ mishoru on Instagram 🖼
🎓 MA Novel Writing 🎓
Meghan Spelbrink @mspelbrinkwrites.bsky.social ✍️ Romantasy Writer.
❤️ President, Bay Area Romance Writers.
📚 The Villains Club Anth.
⚔️ I write stories for millennial women learning how to unapologetically love what they love: magic, romance, and MCs whose feminine power is their greatest weapon.
Sondra Rosenberg @sondrarosenberg.bsky.social Artist, art therapist, and author repped by @clgeisler
Amy Guglielmo @amy-guglielmo.bsky.social 📚🌈 Author of 20+ #nf picture books about #art + #artists
Artist, Educator, Public Art Advocate living in #Mexico #ADK #LakeChamplain #kidlit #pb #ArtEd #OutsideArt #SCBWI #STEAM #artbooksforkids #NY21 www.amyguglielmo.com
Annika (Nicky) Lee 李俏玲 @chiuling.bsky.social Writer & pitch deck designer. MA Serial Storytelling @ International Film School Köln. Tin House/McCormack '25 & 26. Chinese American, she/her/he/him
https://www.annikalee.com/
Allison Alexander @aealexander.bsky.social Book editor | Fantasy, sci-fi, & horror | Writer | Gamer | Co-host of The Worldbuilder's Tavern podcast | #RevPit editor | Chronic illness mage | Bi | She/Her ♿🌈 aealexander.com
@littlemighty.bsky.social @littlemighty.bsky.social 
Lorraine McCown @mcclowny.bsky.social Engineer➡️Stay @ home Mom➡️HS physics teacher➡️And now...
Writing picture books for ages 0 to 110!
#KidLit #PB #StoryStorm #PBParty #PBPitch #PictureBooks
Tommy Dean is open to queries @tommydeanwriter.bsky.social Lit Agent Talcott Notch, AALA Member, Editor, Teacher, Writer of Flash Fiction Editor at @fracturedlit.bsky.social Publications: Harpur Palate, Laurel Review, Monkey Bicycle, Ghost Parachute
https://linktr.ee/tommydeanwriter
Michelle Ogilvy @michelleogilvy.bsky.social Australian writer of fantasy and romance stories about LGBTQIA+ characters with lots of angst and banter.
COMING IN available now.
https://michelleogilvy.com/
Kathryn Thornwood @kathrynthornwood.com 🌘 She/Her 🌗 Bisexual 🌖 ADHD 🌕 Stargazer 🌔 Ph.D. 🌓 Writer🌒
find me at https://kathrynthornwood.com, avatar by Sayuri Liu
They call authors omnipotent, my characters beg to differ.
Ask me about the cosmos ⭐️ and demons 😈 and magic 🔮
AI kills the planet
Daelyn Morgana 🥀 @daelynmorgana.bsky.social Dark Spec Fic Author • Words in Livina Press, Prosetrics, Suburban Witchcraft Mag, & more • Lover of all things fantasy & dark-natured • Introvert • Witch • Horsewoman • AuDHDer • She/Her
https://linktr.ee/daelynmorgana
Danielle Render Turmaud, PhD @drenderturmaud.bsky.social Kidlit Author (Rep: Amy Nielsen) + Trauma Therapist | THESE BOOTS WERE MADE FOR MARCHING (2029)| Psychology Today Expert Blog Author| SCBWI |Host of the You, Me, & the Writing Journey Podcast (@YMWJPodcast) and @YouDeservepIt Pitch Event
Jean Schwab @jeanschwab.bsky.social Avid reader, aspiring writer, excellent knitter, okay crocheter. Writing center person.
I'm the kind of person who reads about book design for fun.
Beth Deitchman @bdeitchman.bsky.social Reader, Writer, Knitter, Slayer, Crone
Dog Mom to Ralphie
PDX
Lauren Whitney (she/her) is querying! @laurenem6.bsky.social Mom of two, #kidlit writer, elementary school librarian, movie-lover, crazy LEGO lady
she/her
Z.K.A. (she/her) @pegasusunder.bsky.social MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (Amistad, Aug '27)
THESE HOLLOW BODIES (Neon Hemlock, Nov '26)
writer & psychiatrist M.D. (she/her)
zkabraham.com
rep @clgslr.bsky.social
Cinema Worms podcast!
❤️ @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
opossum avenger @opossumavenger.bsky.social Aaaaaaaaah
Kirk Rafferty ✨is editing✨ 📖 @kirkrafferty.com Award-winning author of THE COSMONAUT on shelves summer 2027, Crooked Lane Books
Links: https://linktr.ee/kirkraff
Co-host of the podcast @badlitfriends.bsky.social
with @thecrumpet.bsky.social
"Villain, I have done thy mother"
Julian Kennedy- Thriller Author is querying @jkennedyauthor.bsky.social 💻Author-The Forgotten Series
🍁🍂🍃preorder WALKING ON DEAD LEAVES now
🏳️🌈NB(they) & AuDHD
📣Subscribe to Substack
Preorder: https://tinyurl.com/3ekkkwrn
Substack: https://substack.com/@juliankennedyauthor
Haley ✨ @halphelan.bsky.social romance + fantasy writer | she/her 🩷💜💙
rep’d by Cathie Hedrick-Armstrong
Lori Knutsen: Kidlit Writer, Teacher and Photographer @lknutsenkidlit.bsky.social I write #PB #YA to uplift, inspire, and entertain kids.❤️ Boy mom. Teacher. Dreamer. #kidlitfirefly #ND 💫📝🌈
Seeking Rep https://loriknutsen.com
#50Preciouswords ‘26‘25 HM
#springflingkidlit ‘25 Winner
#Halloweensie ‘25 HM
#SCBWI
#12X12
#PBRS Col
Mikala is ✨ Querying ✨ @mikalanoe.com ⚖️ Lawyer/Insurance
⚽️ Watch way too much soccer
🎫 Love live music
🐶 Have two pups
📖 Querying a Fantasy with Romance
📝 WIP Romantasy
Paola Thomas 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 #fbpe @paolathomas.com Food photographer + writer, about to query a romcom with recipes. In the Cotswolds/London after many years in Seattle. UK/US dual citizen. Follow for pro-EU, anti-Tory ranting and insights into US politics. #FBPE #amquerying
Laura L. Benn | Gooseberry Studios @gooseberrystudios.bsky.social Commercial photographer, brand strategist + writer
12+ years building brands that become beloved
Author of Beautiful Everydays
IndigoSkyRyder @indigoryder2125.bsky.social 
kate is here! @akatepockett.bsky.social the ‘a’ is for author | current wip: AN UNLIKELY PATCH, adult small-town romcom 🍁
S.E. Reed @writingwithreed.bsky.social 📚 Multi-genre author 🐊 OUT NOW: Black Water Bones💄The First Wives 💋 The First Widows 🖤 Storm Publishing 🔪 Rep Jenna Satterthwaite at Storm Literary Agency
🔗 https://linktr.ee/writingwithreed
AT Plumm @atplummauthor.bsky.social SFF author (in training)
Deanna Winters is Querying @deannaunwritten.bsky.social Mom | writer | sewing enthusiast
#Q : Veins of Calris, a dark fantasy
#WIP : A Poisonous Devotion, a dark romantasy
Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social Writing - archaeology - heritage.
British Iraqi.
Faber Academy 'Writing Your Novel' graduate.
Winner: EAA Book Prize 2025.
Working Classicist of the Year 2025.
She/her
@fieldofhearts.bsky.social @fieldofhearts.bsky.social 
Kiara Talley @kiaratalley.bsky.social author | rep by alex d’amico | photographer and florist 💐 | australian living in portland, or 🤍
kiararoseauthor.com
Autumn Seybert @autumnseybert.bsky.social Author/Illustrator who enjoys drawing monsters, animals, robots, dinosaurs, mythical creatures and children. Currently seeking representation and work.
linktr.ee/autumnseybert
Tiana Hartwood @tianahartwood.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Admirer of artfully entangled words and love stories. 🍁
Jason Kucherawy designed the logo
Amy Nielsen @amynielsen.bsky.social Literary Agent, Freelance Editor, Author, Autism Advocate, LGBTQ+, BIPOC & 🇨🇦 Ally
Emilia Young | Author @emiliayoung.bsky.social 🍁 THE THINGS WE RUN FOR - On Sub Soon!
🐦⬛ MARK OF A MAGPIE - On Submission!
•~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~•
📚 Rep: Amanda Wooden @sbr_media
https://linktr.ee/authoremiliayoung
Nikki Carrero ~ Closed to Queries @nikkigetsliterary.bsky.social Literary Agent at The Rights Factory… looking forward to reading phenomenal stories 💕
https://linktr.ee/nikkicarrero
A.B. Bookster @abbookster.bsky.social Fantasy writer, keeper of random facts, 3x Queer Champion
https://writerabmartin.wordpress.com/
Bruce Buchanan @bbuchananwomble.bsky.social Writer of fiction. New Adult fantasy novel THE BLACKSMITH'S BOY (2025) and THE RETURN OF THE CERULEAN BLUR (2026), both from Wild Ink Publishing.
https://brucebuchananauthor.com/
Jennie Baldry @jenniebaldry.bsky.social