Insurgent Press @insurgentpress.bsky.social An independent press that walks like The Clash and sings like The Supremes.
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
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
David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com Horror Writer, Book Lover, Reader for Electric Literature’s The Commuter and Onetime Backup Dancer for Parisian Drag Queens. He/him
www.daviddaviddavid.com
Toronto/LA Documentary Film Festival @docfestival.bsky.social 4 tiers to enhance your film.
- in person fest
- audience feedback video
- podcast interview
- virtual showcase
https://documentaryshortfilmfestival.com/toronto-festival/
https://filmfreeway.com/TorontoDocumentaryFilmFestival
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/
Kevin Klehr @kevinklehr.bsky.social I write tall tales which celebrate love and friendship in enchanted worlds. Visit kevinklehr.com #author
Lives in Gadigal Country (Sydney, Aus) 🏳️🌈
#magicrealism #dystopia #urbanfantasy #gay
LGBTQ+ Toronto & LA Film Festival @lgbtlatoronto.bsky.social Monthly festival showcasing the best of LGBTQ+ films and screenplays from around the world, using the audience feedback format.
https://lgbttorontofilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/LGBTTorontoFilmFestival
Emma Parker @dremmaparker.bsky.social Lecturer in Lit & Gender, Uni of Bristol
📚Author: Life Writing & the End of Empire (24) https://bit.ly/4aoZrru
📝Co-editor: Janet Frame at 100 (25), British Culture After Empire (23) https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526159748/
Views my own
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
ILFU Boeken etc. @ilfu.com All things literature. Festival, Academy, Online magazine. Boeken, verhalen, ideeën. #nachtvandepoezie #boekfest #yalfu #exploringstories • https://ilfu.com/
Daniel Garrett @mistergarrett.bsky.social WRITER.
https://offscreen.com/contributors/view/daniel-garrett ...
https://compulsivereader.com/category/music-reviews/ ...
http://cinetext.phl.univie.ac.at/magazine/garrett/shakespeare-behind-bars/shakespeare-behind-bars.html
Beverley @bevfromcapetown.bsky.social Lover of music and art. Servant to a rescue cat and dog. Mostly Cape Town. Occasional Istanbul. Flâneur. Crafty person. Warning - Posts might contain typos.
Global Literary Theory @balaghas.bsky.social Global Literary Theory on @medium.com engages poetics and collective liberation from a multilingual perspective. Home of the Palestine Writers Workshop and Lighthouse Collective. EIC @rrgould.bsky.social. https://medium.com/global-literary-theory
south·lits @southlits.bsky.social A network for the literary Global South ·
Bringing readers, writers, publishers, academics, and institutions in conversation ·
By @jshelat1.bsky.social and @dissentum.bsky.social
Kate Thompson Davy @katetd.bsky.social “Pam Shortt’s broken both her legs and I want to dance with you”. Chock full of hoot, just a 🤏 bit of nanny... Professional word nerd. Cape Town, South Africa. She/her
Astrid Christofori @astridchristofori.eurosky.social Hier privat lesend, im anderen Leben Rechtsanwältin
Interessen: Social Media, KI, Erwachsenenbildung, Bücher, Theater, Kunst und Kultur, Ausflüge und Spaziergänge
Impressum wg. § 18 MStV:
https://www.kooperationsblog.de/impressum/
Threema-ID YC72YMRX
Livid Hieroglyph @livid-hieroglyph.bsky.social Language learner, book lover, awful gardener
Here to follow politics／probably won't post anything?
Theresa Kohlbeck Jakobsen @theresakjakobsen.bsky.social Fischige Literaturwissenschaft aka professioneller Spezi-Fisch 🐟🐋💙 FirstGen & AuDHD, Researcher, Translator, Artist & Writer: 📚Literature, 🎨Art, 🇫🇴Faroe Islands, 🌊North Atlantic, 🐟Fishery, 📝Academia. #Fischkanon https://reado.app/profile/spezifisch
Idris.WEB3🎙️ Afrobeats.WEB3🎵 AfroWarriors.NFT🪖 @rescueranjazz.bsky.social Recording artist: @OmogoReloaded. #Founder, ResQ Records, Indiana media production, publishing, entertainment public relations company. #AfroBeats music maker, creator of #AfroWarriors & #IndianaCrypto/Blockchain enthusiast. https://idris.base44.app
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)
Holly R. Valakresch @hollyvalakresch.bsky.social Author & Screenwriter | I 🩶 Arts & Sciences, Sculpting, Cartography, Cooking, Baking, Fashion, Fitness, Fairytales, & Historical Things.
https://linktr.ee/hollyvalakresch
Blair Trewartha @btrewart.bsky.social Poet with 3 chapbooks and one full-length book. Next full-length "Half-Earth" forthcoming in 2026 with Palimpsest Press. Chapbook editor at Anstruther Press. Learning Specialist & Instructional Designer at Western University. Father of two.
Indeed Books @indeedbooks.bsky.social Curated, loved. Indeed books. South African based collaborative publishing venture.
🌐 Indeed-Books.com
✉️ indeedbooks.publishers@gmail.com
Helen Moffett (Dr) @heckitty.bsky.social Author and hedgewitch.
Guyb12 @guyb12.bsky.social USAF Veteran , stroke survivor, husband, girl dad, cat and dog dad
No maga, lifetime democrat slow to answer DMs, NO PORN
PressPortal 🇿🇦 @pressportal.co.za ++ VERIFIED FREE PLATFORM (since 2002) distributing press releases to Southern Africa pressportal.co.za - Follow Hashtags » #mypressportal #pressrelease #AfricaNewsroom #bizcommunity #publicrelations #africa #southafrica
Comment & Opinion 🇿🇦 @commentandopinion.bsky.social 🇿🇦
News and views from South Africa.
Ungaze ulahle ithemba!
www.commentandopinion.co.za
@pensouthafrica.bsky.social @pensouthafrica.bsky.social 
Sarah Frost @sarahfrostpoet.bsky.social Poetry obsessed, looking for answers
Ruby Parker @rubyparker.bsky.social Recovering teacher. Sometimes writer. Full-time cat mom. 🇿🇦🇵🇸
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
Tiah Marie Beautement @mstiahmarie.bsky.social Writer, She/her, Bookworm, Lives w/dogs, cat(s), hens & humans, Rides horses & motorcycles
Karin April @karinapril.bsky.social 
Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social Oxford's English Faculty is the largest in the UK with a distinguished research and teaching record. Account managed by admin team.
Zapphire Martyr 🏳️⚧️ @zapphiremartyr.bsky.social I'm a Zapphire Martyr, a broke transgender woman writing my way out of exile.
My links: https://linktree.com/zapphiremartyr
✨ Drop a coin in my Ko-fi cauldron if my words cast a spell on you — http://ko-fi.com/zapphiremartyr ✨
James Whyle @jameswhylebooks.bsky.social South African writer. On a blue bay. In a time of monsters.
Just published by Jonathan Ball ...
We Two From Heaven.
Modjaji Books @modjajibooks.bsky.social Independent, feminist publisher of southern African women writers. African publishing activist. We have two other imprints under our roof - Pulani Press and Hands-On Books.
www.modjajibooks.co.za
Thomas J. Kitson @thatiliazdguy.bsky.social Translator from Russian to English. Iliazd, _Rapture_. 2019 NEA Translation Fellowship for Iliazd, _PhiloSophia_ (excerpts from Rab-Rab Press). Iliazd's _Speechless Sentence_ and excerpts from _parisites_ and _dUnkee fərEnt_ in _TYPO_ #7.
Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social Resisting the global rise of Fascism. Social impact writer. PhD in Creative Writing. Sixth book of poetry, Understorey, coming out February 2027 (uHlanga Press). Librettist and amateur artist. 🇿🇦 LLMs are a scourge. 🚫 NO AI SLOP
Elleke Boehmer @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social Writer, reader. To the Volcano 2019, Postcolonial Poetics 2018, Ice Shock 2026, Southern Imagining 2026. FAHA 2025. FRSL 2019, FRHistS 2019 http://ellekeboehmer.com
Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
@lizmcgregor.bsky.social @lizmcgregor.bsky.social 
Holland House Books @hollandhousebooks.bsky.social An independent UK publisher specialising in literary fiction and non-fiction, crime and historical fiction.
https://www.hhousebooks.com/
https://linktr.ee/hollandhousebooks
Maria @thismaria.bsky.social 🍂 Writes, acts
🍂 Easily distracted, overly interested
🍂 Cape Town, mostly; Birmingham, occasionally 
@wmv103.bsky.social @wmv103.bsky.social 
Angela Voges @theotheranimal.bsky.social Street dog chaperone
B Martin @e-transitions.bsky.social Southern Africa: Just Transitions in energy, economics, equality and equity. Also: oceans, bees, fungi and Dogs.
Thomas Hübner @thomashuebner.bsky.social Former Twitter/X user. Occasionally blogging about books and other stuff at www.mytwostotinki.com
@tc-krys.bsky.social @tc-krys.bsky.social 
Tessa Louw @tessalouw.bsky.social Running with scissors ...
Kudakwashe Vanyoro @kudavan.bsky.social Lecturer, Anthropology, Wits University | Fellow, Cambridge University | Writing 📕 Can Migration Studies be Decolonized?
Exclusive Books @exclusivebooks.bsky.social South Africa’s leading bookseller.
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Jean du Plessis @duplessisjean7.bsky.social Listen, learn, think, act…
Wordgathering @wordgathering.bsky.social Est. 2007. Biannual digital journal. #Disability #poetry #lit
EIC @DianeOctopod.bsky.social #BLM #CripLit #CripArts
#OpenAccess #OA
Wordgathering.syr.edu
Book Worm Jim @book-worm-jim.bsky.social 22 Bookworm 📚 Lover of dark fantasy, cozy mysteries, and everything in between ✨ Always chasing the next great story. Opinions are my own, but feel free to borrow them 😉
jannon @jannste.bsky.social jannon at the old place
Saqi Books @saqibooks.bsky.social A leading independent publisher of trade and academic books on the Middle East and North Africa.
Website: www.saqibooks.com
Linktree: https://shorturl.at/Yc9TY
Zwelethu @zwelethu.bsky.social 📍Azania to come
Sanet le Roux @sanetleroux.bsky.social Freelance Indexer since 2007. Mostly posts on indexing and books I indexed.
Vassilena Parashkevova @vsp7.bsky.social 
Kerry Hammerton @kerryhammerton.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Shaman. Wildly fabulous, imperfect & magical. Committed to cultivating & inspiring creativity. Trying to be nobleawesomeshiny. MA Creative Writing. https://linktr.ee/kerryhammerton
Twanji Kalula @twanjikalula.bsky.social Citizen of the World :: Communicator :: Producer of words, TV, online content & other things
@hazelduplooy.bsky.social @hazelduplooy.bsky.social 
Open Book Festival @openbookfestival.bsky.social Open Book dates for 2026
16 - 23 March | Youth Fest
1 - 6 June | Workshop Week
4 - 6 September | Open Book Festival
MyANC @myanc.bsky.social African National Corruption #Parody
Here for a good time. Not a long time.
Celebrating 30 Years of Corruption.
120 Years of Gaslighting.
Chief Albert Luthuli House
Johannesburg, South Africa 🇿🇦
Jon Keevy @jonkeevy.bsky.social Writer of games, film & fiction.
IGF nominated Narrative Excellence.
Father of Coco.
The Unwoven Warrior out now in South Africa. (Seeking reps in N America)
Open for consulting & commissions
@alexlatimer.bsky.social @alexlatimer.bsky.social Picture book author and illustrator.
https://alexlatimer.co.za
Henk Serfontein @henkserfontein.bsky.social Visual artist. Occasional writer. Community Arts facilitator. Charcoal and dirty feet. Fragile flora.
📍Cape Town. South-Africa.🇿🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Zayne 🇿🇦 @zayney.bsky.social ☯ Freelance Full-Stack Web Developer & Designer
Art ♥ Nature ☮ Design ☼ Sci-Fi
Cape Town, South Africa
#CapeTown Feed tracker: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nz2huaaaa6gwpxxgjowjuurm/feed/aaagddhg7chzk
Hagen Engler @hagenengler.bsky.social Word artist. Comms worker. Afro-positivist. 🍉Novelist| Ghostwriter | Musician | Editorial Director. Johannesburg, South Africa. Spoken-word acoustic album http://bit.ly/3KSbbe5
Gailgil @gailgil.bsky.social Reader writer interviewer
Heléne's Word Emporium @helenewordemporium.bsky.social A South African farm girl with a Sesotho name, Puleng, which means rain. Reluctant-townie-turned-city-girl-and-international-resident. Translator and editor. Cookbook compiler. Occasional Psychologist. Lapsed Musician. Insatiably curious.- M Marcus Low @marcuslowx.bsky.social Novelist, editor of Spotlight, aspiring epidemiologist, lover of labradors.
Andrea Nattrass @ajn13.bsky.social Family, friends, cats, pugs, climbing, swimming and all things book-related
The Book Lounge @thebooklounge.bsky.social An independent bookshop for independent thinkers, in the heart of Cape Town ✨
Opening Hours: Mon to Fri - 9am to 6pm Saturday - 9am to 4pm Sunday - 10am to 4pm
https://linktr.ee/bookloungecapetown
David Schmidt @david-schmidt.bsky.social Policy wonk. Poet. Gadfly.
Andre Vlok @andrevlok.bsky.social Conflict and employment dispute specialist, negotiator, mediator, arbitrator, author
Email : andre@conflict1.co.za
Blog : http://conflict-conversations.co.za
Martin Slabbert @martinslabbert.bsky.social Broadcasting & PR guru. Winner of the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from the PR Industry Association of Southern Africa (PRISA)
Stephen Langtry @stephenlangtry.bsky.social Writer
Debbie Florence @debbs-flo.bsky.social 
Anne Schlebusch @anneschlebusch.bsky.social 🇿🇦 Author of "Bloomer", various YA titles, text books, articles and short stories. Retired educator. Language activist. Choose your battles and fight hard. A bit addicted to DATA and such jolly stuff. Optimist.
Theatre Scene Cape Town @theatrescenecpt.bsky.social Sharing Cape Town’s #lovetheatre news, #sceneit reviews & more. Managed by @bloots. Submit info via email: theatrescenecpt@gmail.com
Penny Haw @pennyhaw.bsky.social Author of The Woman and Her Stars, Follow Me to Africa, The Invincible Miss Cust, The Woman at the Wheel, The Wilderness Between Us and Nicko. Dog walker. Runner. Former journalist.
More detail: linktr.ee/PennyHaw
Louis Viljoen @uncleloo.bsky.social Playwright & Director
Cape Town, South Africa
Exquisite Horror @exquisite-horror.bsky.social Elder millennial
Mother (she/her)
Fat
Pagan
Witch
Bi
Book nerd
Gray hair ftw
Sober
Tired but still hopeful