Ellen Wade Beals @weighedwords.bsky.social Poetry, prose, etc
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/
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/
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
@k-h-h.bsky.social @k-h-h.bsky.social 
Daily FilmFreeway Festival Discount Codes @filmfreewaycodes.bsky.social Daily discount codes for various festivals to submit to on FilmFreeway
https://filmfreeway.com/festivals/discounts
Experimental/Dance/Music Festival @dancemusicexper.bsky.social Festivals take place in downtown Toronto, Canada, for the audience feedback video.
The festival has created 4 tiers to enhance your festival experience.
https://filmfreeway.com/ExperimentalFilmMusicVideoFestival
https://experimentalfilmfestival.com
Fantasy/Sci-Fi Film & Screenplay Festival @scififantasyfest.bsky.social This is a HYBRID film festival with live screenings for the audience feedback video, optional virtual 2nd showcase, and blog & podcast interviews with filmmaker
http://fantasyscififestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/FantasySciFiFilmScreenplayFestival
Horror Underground Film Festival @horrorfilmfestival.bsky.social Various options to submit to the Festival. A HYBRID model. Cinema screenings for audience feedback video.Blog and podcast interviews. And bonus Virtual screening (optional!).
https://filmfreeway.com/horrorunderground
https://festivalforhorror.comi
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
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
TomSQC @thomassqc.bsky.social Bibliophile. Would-be linguist. Ardent moderate.
Ubi amor et caritas Deus ibi est.
'Pour que de notre amour naisse la poésie'
(Mountain Laurel by Donal)
Worthy of Imagination @worthyofimagination.substack.com I write, teach highschool filmmaking, homeschool 4 kids. I am a Christian, husband, father, localist, Appalachian-in-exile.
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@jarauthor.bsky.social @jarauthor.bsky.social It has always been a passion of mine to write. This is the right time in my life to sit down and pick up the pen. After years of traveling like a gypsy around this beautiful planet we all have the privilege to experience each day, 
@bethpartin.bsky.social @bethpartin.bsky.social Lover of words, birds, permaculture, food forests, rewilding, and the idea that gender and sexuality are on a spectrum. 
David Livewell @dwellphilly.bsky.social Author of two poetry collections: Shackamaxon (2012 T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize, Truman State University) and Pass and Stow (Paul Dry Books @pauldrybooks.bsky.social, 2026).
Fred Bubbers @fbubbers.bsky.social Writer
Fiction | Creative Nonfiction | Memoir | Criticism
https://fredbubbers.com/
I block followers with blank profiles. No DMs.
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
John Michael @whatsbetter.today Kingdom Formation Architect. The system did not break you; it formed you. I help corporate refugees and soul hungry misfits rebuild their inner architecture. Your burnout is an OS error. What's Better Today? Join the resistance.
Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
Radical Left Scum Jeff @jeffreythomson.bsky.social Poet, memoirist, translator, and traveler...author of multiple books, including my latest: Museum of Objects Burned by the Souls in Purgatory (Alice James Books) https://www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/museum-of-objects-burned-by-souls-in-purgatory?srslt
James Knisely.bsky.social @james-knisely.bsky.social Novelist-in-Residence Emeritus at Seattle's legendary Blue Moon Tavern, an honor shared for a time with Tom Robbins, and where Dylan Thomas and Theodore Roethke once toasted the muse.
Veblen Director Programme @veblendirectors.bsky.social Helping ambitious people get their first board seats. Regardless of your background.
Robert Jensen @robertjensen.bsky.social Emeritus Professor, University of Texas at Austin. rjensen@austin.utexas.edu
@painsreal.bsky.social @painsreal.bsky.social Treats on me, smiles guaranteed!- P P @publicfrenemy.bsky.social Software Engineer
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Get Launched @getlaunched.bsky.social Make yourself the 'Go To' person in any industry and earn a side income from running small networking events.
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Joseph Radke @josephradke.com Re-emerging poet. None of my e's are silent!
Poems in Copper Nickel, Bellevue Literary Review, Boulevard & Southeast Review (forthcoming)
📖 my work ⤵
www.josephradke.com
Cheryl A. Ossola @caossola.bsky.social Writer, author, immigrant, art lover, semi-recovering introvert. Life is short, so do the thing.
Alexander Pyles @pylesofbooks.bsky.social What are we doing now?
http://linktr.ee/alexanderpyles
@susanbearman.bsky.social @susanbearman.bsky.social 
Wallenstein Appreciator @marbleliberal.bsky.social Wallensteinposting on main
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Mythy the Kitty @mythiot.bsky.social A better world is possible. Fan of David Lynch, Studio Ghibli, and Cartoon Saloon. Cat furry. Nazi geeks fuck off. He/him
MSVH @matthunte.bsky.social https://matthewhunte.com
(Dilettante-connoisseur, Luftmensch of the mind, Roamer among theories.)
Tony Woodlief @tonywoodlief.bsky.social Reader, writer, smiter, father
https://substack.com/@tonywoodlief
Jenna Barnett @jbarnett.bsky.social writer, audio producer, culture editor for @sojo.net, emo cowboy
she/her
Kevin J. Jones @kevinjjones.bsky.social Sometime journalist. Coloradan transplanted to NW Minnesota.
Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social Screenwriter and Emmy nominee. Author of LA Times bestseller & Thurber Prize for American Humor finalist “AMP'D." Smartest of pants. Repped @ WME
kenpisani.com
Alan @alanteew.bsky.social 
Sharon Mollerus @clairity-org.bsky.social In Minneapolis
Peter Lilly Poetry @plpoetry.bsky.social Pushcart & BoTN nominated Poet
1st collection: "An Array of Vapour" with TSL Pubs:
https://tslbooks.uk/product/an-array-of-vapour-peter-lilly/
2nd: "A Handful of Prayers" with Wipf & Stock.
https://wipfandstock.com/9798385204373/a-handful-of-prayers
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Mike Piero 🏳️🌈 @mikepiero.org Writer. Novelist. Poet. Game Studies Scholar. Writing in J Journal, Midway Journal, Rain Taxi, Moveable Type, Impost, Sandy River Review, & Trash Cat Lit. *Views are my own.* Monarch and Best Small Fictions noms. More at www.mikepiero.org. He/Him. Bi. 🩷💜💙
I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social Anti-Smoker My Website campralquitsmoking.net See How I Quit 20 Years Ago Fought Nicotine 35 Years Supporting others who Quit 🚭 STL MO ❤️To Promote Authors 📚 & Ozarks 🌄 Photographer 📷 Pez Add @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social 💙
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Darren Cools @darrencools.bsky.social Writer, illustrator, designer. Author of the young adult novel: Light in the Canyon. Searching for the ghost.
www.darrencools.com
www.x.com/darrencools
www.instagram.com/d.j.cools
www.instagram.com/wearesuperdrive
Nikki Grimes @poetnikki.bsky.social Poet, novelist, general word-nerd, gardener, photographer, foodie, film lover. My favorite people on the planet are children, which is why I write for them. Oh! And I'm a freak for roses, watercolor, and collage. Author of Ordinary Hazards, a memoir.
Tony Baker @anthonydbaker.bsky.social Theology Professor at Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, Texas. Theologian in residence at St Julian of Norwich Episcopal Church, Round Rock, Texas.
Collectibles Now @evibrations.bsky.social Retired MLB BASEBALL PLAYER - Collector Enthusiast Shop Owner / Media Producer / Writer - Subscribe
Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social Author: Pardon Me for Moonwalking (Unsolicited Press), Wild Plums (ELJ).
Contributor: Flash Fiction America (Norton)
Wigleaf 50 2024, 2025; Best Small Fictions '23, '24; Best Microfiction '23
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
New Verse Review @newversereview.bsky.social Founding Editor: Steven E. Knepper
Weekly Newsletter: newversereview.substack.com
Poetry Journal: newversereview.com
Mary Ann Gwinn @gwinnma.bsky.social Book critic. Kirkus Prize juror for 2024; reviewer for LA Times, Kirkus, Star Tribune. NBCC board. Pulitzer winner. Read to live, live to read.
@bmorebooks.bsky.social @bmorebooks.bsky.social 
John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social I write about books and edit others’ writing about books, previously for NY Times and Washington Post. Apollonian/Order Muppet. Highly sociable misanthrope. (Photo: Larry McMurtry's Booked Up, 2018.)
John Thorn @johnthorn.bsky.social Official Historian, Major League Baseball. Since 2011, I have posted a story a week at ourgame.mlblogs.com. Views are my own, not those of MLB.
Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social Writing on books, movies, the arts: NYT Magazine, Baffler, Washington Post, Atlantic, Liberties, Commonweal, Mubi, Paris Review, Nation, etc. robjrub@gmail.com
Nadya Williams @nadyawilliams81.bsky.social Homeschool mom, historian, author, perpetually sleep-deprived. Writing books, editing book reviews for Mere Orthodoxy. Weekly newsletter: https://nadyawilliams.substack.com/
Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social Writer, mostly about books. Designed with American values in mind. www.markathitakis.com
Artur Rosman @arturrosman.bsky.social University of Notre Dame Associate Research Professor, Editor-in-Chief of Church Life Journal, translator (most recently, of Tischner's Philosophy of Drama) artist, dog-lover, and avid reader.
Comment @commentmagazine.bsky.social A magazine of public theology. Pull up a chair to our long and unruly banquet table. Learn more at comment.org/subscribe.
Taylor Strickland @taylor-strickland.bsky.social Poet. Translator. Winner of 2023 Saltire Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Get a copy of DASTRAM/DELIRIUM now -> https://linktr.ee/taylorstricklandarts- N 🇺🇸 @n976wow.bsky.social
Short Poem of the Day @shortpoems.bsky.social Daily short poems from the past and present. 🙂
Anthony Domestico @tonydomestico.bsky.social Critic and associate professor of literature at Purchase College, SUNY
Drew Calvert @drwclvrt.bsky.social Writer and teacher
https://www.drew-calvert.com
@perpetualpest.bsky.social @perpetualpest.bsky.social 
Susann Gerstein @susann18.bsky.social A believer in truth, justice, & (what could have been) the American way
Married since ‘71, raised 3 great kids, ran a community shop for 38 years, opened a storefront museum, retired at 70 to help save the world for my grandkids, & yours, sigh
Ciera McElroy @cieramcelroy.bsky.social Novelist, Film Marketer. If literature, faith, and pop culture had a group chat, I’d be in it.
Anna Leahy @amleahy.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Teacher.
Author of If in Some Cataclysm, Tumor, etc.
https://amleahy.com
Smartish Pace @smartishpace.bsky.social Poetry magazine that publishes poems & translations, & hosts The HOT L Poets Series; est. 1998 by editor Stephen Reichert. Baltimore, MD. Smartishpace.com
Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social Opti-mystic writer & futurist; father of two. Author with Richard Rohr of 'The Divine Dance.' Co-founder, Wild Goose Festival . Curator, TheSpeakeasy.info Read my stuff @ MikeMorrell.org/BonusChapter
Dammit Doug Smith @dammitdougsmith.bsky.social Retired Curmudgeon at Large. Ne’er do well of questionable morals. Proud purveyor of unmitigated tommyrot. Prone to exaggeration and totally unnecessary embellishment.
David James Poissant @djpoissant.bsky.social Author of LAKE LIFE, a NYT Editor's Choice, and THE HEAVEN OF ANIMALS, a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the PEN/Bingham Prize. In print in nine languages. Editor of The Florida Review @theflreview.bsky.social
Ben Roffelsen @benroffelsen.bsky.social Geek culture enthusiast, photography lover, proud dad, and devoted Lego aficionado, always exploring creativity and imagination.
Andrew Hemmert @andrewhemmert.bsky.social Florida poet living in Denver. No Longer at This Address and Blessing the Exoskeleton from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Sawgrass Sky from Texas Review Press.
https://andrewhemmertpoetry.com
Jenny Shank @jennyshank.bsky.social Representing Jenkind. Writer, reader, eater. Books: MIXED COMPANY & THE RINGER. Teach: Lighthouse Writers Workshop. Words: The Atlantic, Washington Post, McSweeney’s. Newsletter: The Tumbleweed, jenny.shank.substack.com