Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • Blood Type: Curry • Leeds United • Anti-AI
#LUFC
jmthornberry.wordpress.com
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landdance @outsiderartist1.bsky.social Publicist, artist, mom living in Santa Fe, New Mexico
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
Carolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social Books books books. Editor, writer, reader, clumsy DIYer.
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
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/
One Bright Book @onebrightbook.bsky.social A podcast where three friends read all the books, one book at a time. Links & notes at https://onebrightbook.com
Find us here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-bright-book/id1614302344
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
Author M. I. Verras (She/Her) @miverrasauthor1.bsky.social Greek-American gothic author, singer, composer, keyboardist, designer, university graduate, sports fan, existential seeker. Author of two metaphysical, allegorical, symbolic fantasy-mystery novellas. Novella plots and covers are all in English and NOT AI.
Adam Sleper @adamsleper.bsky.social Dad, hubby, writer. Illinois artist grants, Chicago Writers Assoc, Horror Writers Assoc, Page/AFF finalist, PEN Emerging Writers. Black List 8+. Shakespeare/R.E.M.
USMNT/Huskers/Red Sox.
Rep: Mark Gottlieb@Trident
www.adamsleper.com
AdamSleper.substack.com
Farai D. Sibanda @faraidesignlabs.bsky.social logo, icon and brand design
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Andrea Feldman @visaforviolet.bsky.social Curmudgeon. Lapsed zine publisher. Cat person. Armchair traveler. https://warpedrealitymagazine.com
Nancy Pearl @nancybooklustpearl.bsky.social Reader, writer, and librarian. Author of George & Lizzie: A Novel; the Book Lust series, and The Writer's Library (with Jeff Schwager)
franco luís @francoluis.bsky.social I like books a lot, maybe too much. I live in the desert. Don Quixote is the best book.
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/94092891
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
L Herman @gohermanator.bsky.social MM romance writer | experimental filmmaker | pathologically loyal | currently querying
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
Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social Writer, poet, editor, musician.
Ghost Signs (Bluemoose, 2022)
Keshed (Ortac Press, 2026)
Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, 2027 tbc)
#MDANT
https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/stu-hennigan
https://stuhennigan.substack.com/
Leviathan Bookstore @leviathanbookstore.bsky.social An independent bookstore for all kinds of independent readers, near Tower Grove Park in St. Louis.
https://leviathanbookstore.com/
Amanda Scott @amandascott2023.bsky.social Jungian. Cinéphile. Lawyer. Chess fanatic. CEO NanoApps Medical, Creative Dir. Alias... Inquisitive.
“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”
Charles Bukowski
Megan Rubiner Zinn @mrzinn.bsky.social Copyeditor: fiction (especially romance & historical), memoir, communications. Writer: humor, essays. Host of Writers' Block on WHMP Radio. Per elementary school report cards: loquacious. www.cherryandparsons.com
Crown Inn Reading Series @crowninnreadings.bsky.social Readings in backyard of Crown Heights bar The Crown Inn, First & Third Mondays. Emerging Writers series + Poets Nights. Affiliate of Franklin Park Reading Series. Email: crowninnreadingseries@gmail.com.
Cal Morgan @calmorgan.bsky.social Worshipful Company of Book Folk 📚
Senior Literary Agent, Enliven Endeavors ✨
“Please read.”
Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social My Hollywood & Other Poems (Paul Dry Books); translate Babel, Zoshchenko, Kurkov, et al.; odds & ends @nybooks.com, @thetls.bsky.social, etc.; teach at @utulsa.bsky.social; EiC @nimrodjournal.bsky.social
GW @gwoltjer.bsky.social Read books. Touch grass. Enjoy sunshine.
Husband. Father. Professor. PRPL Director. Baseball fan. Jesuit.
Arthur Mandal @arthurmandal.bsky.social Brit/US writer of uncanny fiction. Best Small Fictions 2025. Over 40 stories in The Barcelona Review, LITRO, Southeast Review, The Forge, The Los Angeles Review and others. @nightjarpress Based in Eugene, Oregon (but grew up in UK). www.arthurmandal.com
Stephen Hayes @stephenaytch.bsky.social #Pro-choice #liberal, but NOT neoliberal. #Anticapitalist #ModernMonetaryTheory #VenusProject #VacuumEnergy #Limitarianism
No DMs please, I never look at them.
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Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social • Novelist: The Great Eastern, Destiny Express.
• Screenwriter: Joe Gould's Secret, Savage Grace.
• VP, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
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Ben O'Connell @benjaminoc.bsky.social Dad, husband, promiscuous reader, former music geek, wannabe movie nerd, Montanan, NE DC Canine Knucklehead Ward co-founder, C-SPAN director of editorial operations
Kazoo magazine @kazoomagazine.com Quarterly Print Magazine for girls. National Magazine Award-winner. “Smart & beautiful” -NYT. "For little girls who want to grow up to be president” -Vogue. Made in Brooklyn. Ships worldwide. www.kazoomagazine.com
Sabir @sabirsultan.bsky.social He/him. Books & events at PEN America. Previously Strand Bookstore & B&N. Views my own.
Evening House Books @eveninghouse.bsky.social an indie bookstore in downtown Buffalo, NY, focusing on new small press titles, books in translation, unsung classics, manga & much more
run by Amanda & John
website: http://www.eveninghousebooks.com
The Doylestown Bookshop @doylestownbookshop.bsky.social Bucks County‘s largest independent Bookshop. Supporting the community and it’s Authors for over 28 years.
Aldiyarkhan @rewersize123.bsky.social universal developed
JustMe @justmegi.bsky.social Trying to survive the polycrisis #DisabilityJustice #CovidIsAirborne #LandBack #BlackLivesMatter 
Ryan Ruby @ryanruby.bsky.social oh well, okay
Dr Walsh @laurelwalsh.bsky.social Composition professor, writer, editor, author and all around troublemaker. Ask me about my amazing stand-up show about grammar: Stammer! Conjugation celebration!
Emily Grant @emilymg91.bsky.social lawyer & LA Public Library superfan.
reading, thinking (and maybe writing) about a progressive Jewish future, civil rights, courts, and where justice, spirituality, and belonging intersect. plus literary fiction.
views are mine.
Joey Hedger @joeyhedger.bsky.social Author living in Alexandria, VA | Deliver Thy Pigs (Malarkey Books) | stories in Saw Palm, Complete Sentence, Variant Lit, HAD, and more | he/him
www.joeyhedger.com
Betty Books @bettybooks.bsky.social Books by women for everyone.
An imprint of @wtawpress.bsky.social
https://www.wtawpress.org/betty
Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Joe Frank PhD @drjoefrank.bsky.social St Louis.
Nicholas Jack Marino {Nick} @nickjackmarino.bsky.social ATTORNEY OHIO (1981)-NEW YORK (2003)-MUSIC ARTIST (1970)-ARTIST-COMPOSER-BMI & HFA PUBLISHER-Over 300 Published Songs at BMI & at Apple-Pandora-Amazon-Spotify-YouTube Music-Others http://NIcholasJackMarino.com -NickJackMarino@gmail.com -Text 330 620-8163
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
Gazala Anver @gazala.bsky.social Writer (debut WIP Imperial). 
Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social senior editor at the new republic and box-to-box midfielder @goldengoalmag.bsky.social
Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com staff writer, @newrepublic.com // author, A WOMAN IS AGAINST THE LAW (2KTK, @littlebrown.bsky.social) + PLAYING THE WHORE (Verso)
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Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social Nonfiction about weird fiction at Seize the Press, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nightmare, and Ancillary Review of Books, where I am also an editor. Also jazz, metal, leftism. he/him
https://doomsdayer.wordpress.com/writings/
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Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). www.lydiakiesling.com
Craig Patrick @craigpatrickmedia.bsky.social writer, musician, laugher in the face of adversity https://craigpatrick.substack.com/
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Ty Holter @tyholter.bsky.social Poet. Teacher. Work in @sublunary.bsky.social (Firmament), @minorliteratures.bsky.social, and elsewhere. Host of Vernon, Greenfield.
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Michael Northrop @michaelnorthrop.bsky.social NY Times–bestselling author of novels, comics, and graphic novels for young readers, starting a new chapter with my 1st mystery series for adults! Rep’d by @saracrowelit.bsky.social. Research editor at Dance Magazine. More coffee, please!
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@sandorfpassage.bsky.social @sandorfpassage.bsky.social Sandorf Passage publishes work that creates a prismatic perspective on what it means to live in a globalized world. It is a home to writing inspired by both conflict zones and the dangers of complacency.
https://sandorfpassage.org
Neil Serven @neilserven.bsky.social Fiction & essays, novel in progress. Co-owner @federalstbooks.bsky.social . Candlepin bowler. Language stuff. A lot of crank air. Used to write the dictionary.
Western Massachusetts. 
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Dorian Stuber @ds228.bsky.social Reader; newly in St Louis; always as Canadian as possible under the circumstances
https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/
Maureen Gibbon @maureengibbon.bsky.social Novelist: Lost Notebook of Edouard Manet, Paris Red, Thief, Swimming Sweet Arrow. Poet: Magdalena.
Rep'd by Nicole Aragi.
www.maureengibbon.com
Sarah Lynn Knowles @sarahspy.com Fiction writer, Storychord.com founding editor, Tin House Winter '24 & One Story Summer '23 alum || eavesdropper, signal booster, she/her, Massachusetts || https://sarahlynnknowles.com
Marc Zammit @marczammit.bsky.social Director🎬 | Producer 🎥| Actor 🎭 CEO Aptitude Films, Skylark Vision.
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Mia Quagliarello @miaq.bsky.social Curation, creativity, community, culture, connection || My heartbeat has a bassline⚡️🪩⚡️|| https://about.me/miaquagliarello
Stacey Resnikoff @staceyresnikoff.bsky.social Writer with a Substack for writers https://staceyresnikoff.substack.com
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/staceyresnikoff
gaby iori @gabyiori.bsky.social baltimore / washington capitals "fan" / union rabblerouser / audio editor and producer / gabyiori.com
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social Author of SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS (2022) and TOUGH LOVE (March 2027) / tajjaisen.com
Deborah Kalb @deborahkalb.bsky.social DC area. Ex-journalist, writer, editor, book blogger, podcaster, author of OFF TO JOIN THE CIRCUS and other books.
Jenn Jordan @jennlynnjordan.bsky.social Strange but not a stranger. Comicsmith. Medievalist. Podcasting librarian selecting media (@SPLTurnthePage.bsky.social). Face/Off (1997) enthusiast. She/her. 🖖
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Jamie Guiney @jamesgwriter.bsky.social WRITER.
The Lightning (novel)
The Wooden Hill (stories)
Work Broadcast BBCRadio4
Nom 5 x Pushcart Prize
Judge 2025 Best in Rural Writing
L-list Irish SS of the Year
Husband. Dad. Tay drinker.
N Ireland.
www.jamieguiney.com
https://ko-fi.com/jamesgwriter