Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social Literary agent @shawliterary.bsky.social, formerly head book buyer at Readings Books, Melbourne. Kafka, Sebald, the Antipodes.
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/
Model Millennial Migrant @model-migrant.bsky.social PL>AU settler on bidjigal land
housing 1st
liberation for all
from the river to the sea 🔻
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
Meg Brayshaw @megbrayshaw.bsky.social John Rowe Lecturer in Australian Literature @ USYD. Editor, Aust Lit at Sydney UP. Co-editor, Australian Literary Studies. Current projects: gold, colonial exploration & literary speculation in the Pacific; realism & radical women writers in the Cold War
Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social Australian biographer, writer, reader, gardener, muse, dirty lefty and terrible cook.
Working on Louisa Lawson biography.
SPIRIT OF THE CROCODILE (A&U, 2025), SO FAR, SO GOOD (Pantera 2022), ELIZABETH MACARTHUR (Text 2018).
www.MichelleScottTucker.com
g o wearAhat @gowearahat.bsky.social A listening colonist on un-ceded Djugan/Yawuru Country
Frank Exon @danceswith.bsky.social Writer, gardener, lover of life and all good things.
As a person of European heritage I acknowledge the sacrifice of my grandparents and ancestors who migrated to Australia.
He/him.
Dave @davejeeping.bsky.social 🌞
Sap Zine @sapzine.bsky.social Queer erotica zine with an ecofeminist bent🪱🫧🌿 based in Naarm/Melbourne, featuring writing and art from around the world.
sapzine.org
created by @emilybeige.bsky.social
Elena Macdonald @elenalowana.bsky.social Paredarerme lowana, Trouwunna / lutruwita
salt water mob
abolitionist / disability justice / knowledge bearer / story teller
Rivqa Rafael @rivqa.bsky.social I used to be a writer like you, then I took a psychology PhD to the knee
Queer, neurodivergent, antizionist Jewish psychologist and lapsed writer/editor on unceded Gadigal/Wangal land. Views my own. Pronouns: she/her/king. https://linktr.ee/rivqarafael
SayLessBrodoMore @ecoaisok.bsky.social One struggle
One fight
🌱 landback
Anna B @gardenchick333.bsky.social MND carer, reader, writer in hibernation, gardener, doggo mum , librarian, digital curator in Lutruwita / Tasmania #mndresearch #alsresearch #volunteer #librarian #lakelandterrier #scottishterrier #endemicgardening
https://substack.com/@annab333
icpschildsafety.bsky.social @icpschildsafety.bsky.social We are dedicated to research that aims to improve child protection practices, promote child wellbeing, and contribute to the creation of safe and supportive environments for children and young people.
priya chand @priyachand.bsky.social Food Influencer of Worldcon 2024 (TM)
Reckoning staff, words, birds
priyachandwrites.wordpress.com
fatbirdpics.tumblr.com
avatar is from Clemente Susini's studio at La Specola di Firenze, profile image is a tree hyrax in Ngorongoro Crater
Simon Constable @realconstable.bsky.social Broadcaster | Columnist | Commentator | Award-winning Author
Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Institute of Applied Economics
If you are an author or an aspiring one, feel free to contact me
Laura Christine @lcodonnell.bsky.social PhD psychology + physiology, physiotherapy. Healer, researcher, writer, poet, editor, educator. Truth, justice, compassion—not just for humans. Consciousness, integrative knowing. Education, Nature, sciences, arts, culture, languages, myth. Global citizen.
Kee’ahn @keeahn.bsky.social yalanji, jirrbal, badhulayg.
singer songwriter saltwater bby
on wurundjeri biik
Prada 🇵🇸🍉♥️ @pradaprada.bsky.social Former adviser President Republic of Indonesia. I used to get paid to catch all these blunders, now I do it for free. Also Free 🇵🇸🇵🇸. (Former) admin Germanyiam (I forgot changed bio, Danke Katalyst 😭😻🍉🇩🇪)
prada.substack.com
Josephine Browne, PhD, MA @drejosephine.bsky.social Researcher - Critical Animal Studies - Men & Masculinities
📖 👇
https://www.routledge.com/Human-Animal-Relationships-in-Times-of-Pandemic-and-Climate-Crisis-Multispecies-Sociology-for-the-New-Normal
💜 rabbits, oceans #pigoneer
Unceded Bundjalung Country
C. C. Turner (she/they) @ccturner.bsky.social On Wadawurrung Country. Emerging writer. Arts, Cultural & Heritage leader. 3rd gen war veteran. Servant to Penny & Molly. #gothecats #animelover Opinions are my own. Repost ≠ agreement. #freepalestine. #raisetherate
BLynn @lyjobro.bsky.social Mum & Gma from Australia.
Trying to make sense of it all🤷♀️
💕Animals (Rescue Dogs )Food Gardens Books(Orwell, Kerouac)
Music (Bob Dylan,Future Islands)
Politics (to the left)Science and Human Rights.
Glenda Gregory @linguau.bsky.social Librarian and linguist living on Biripi Country
Xander Lee @alexthelazykat.bsky.social Amateur activist and photographer from Boorloo [Perth], WA living on stolen Wadjuk noongar boodja in so-called Australia. Always Was, Always Will Be
He/they 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
https://www.facebook.com/XanderLeePhotography
Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social Digital Project Manager for Scottish Book Trust. Children’s books and comics enthusiast. Dyslexic. ME/CSF. Here for the kids book chat. All views my own. #KidsBooksFriday 📚🏴
alison evans @alisonevans.bsky.social author, zinester 👽 they/them 🏳️⚧️ Wurundjeri land 🍃 alisonwritesthings.com 🛸 is mise Alison, is scríbhneoir mé, siad/iad ✨ (can't access DMs, pls @ me)
Jennifer Mills @jennifermills.net.au Writer, reader. On Kaurna land.
Books incl SALVAGE, A Concise Compendium of Wonder, The Airways, Dyschronia &c
Chair @asauthors.bsky.social, opinions my own
jane phượng, Ph.D (she/her) Ngunnawal Country @janephuong.bsky.social Education is kindness
All photos are mine except reposts
Our articles
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03128962231180261
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1748-8583.70033
My research
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yOzjAop3gU
@whothefami.bsky.social @whothefami.bsky.social Hierarchy only exists in the minds of those who have not broken free of such illusions. https://whothefami.substack.com
Martin Langford @martinlangford.bsky.social Poetry, essays, reviews. Aphorism. Sydney, Aus. Most recent: The Boy from the War Veteran’s Home (Puncher and Wattmann, 2022). Co-ed (with J. Beveridge, J. Johnson and D. Musgrave), Contemporary Australian Poetry (2016).
Steve Pratt @prattsteve.bsky.social 
@annitad1.bsky.social @annitad1.bsky.social 
Jaketoothandnail @jaketoothandnail.bsky.social I’m an illustrator, screen printer, dad, volunteer firefighter, game designer.
Currently working on a graphic novel, and making games for fun
Kate Larsen @katelarsenkeys.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Arts, cultural and non-profit consultant and rabble-rouser.
📚 An Apology to the Librarian, Our Hybrid Future, Public.Open.Space., The Relationship is the Project
https://linktr.ee/katelarsenkeys
Ziggy Vamp @ziggyvamp.bsky.social 
Brent Hodgson @brenthodgson.bsky.social “Strike at the roots, not the branches.”
At the intersection of people, data and politics.
Using data to know them, love them, and work it better.
Trouble. But good trouble.
“Kooyongkoot”, Wurundjeri Land. (Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.)
Nabil Hamzaki @nhamzaki.bsky.social Reader. Progressive politics. Social justice. Voted Yes. Free Palestine.
@pstuarts.bsky.social @pstuarts.bsky.social 
NinaLang @ninawasaballerina.bsky.social Living on Gunditjmara country. Old girl survivor. Voted Yes, Greens, AJP, Teal. Activist for this planet & truth in politics. I despise Advance, LNP, PHON, IPA & RWNJs. Always Was Always Will Be. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Ban Weapons.
kc@austcrimefiction @austcrimefiction.org Reads a bit of crime fiction. AustCrimeFiction.org since 2006. Owned by lots of Aussie Terriers, cats & farm animals. Gin drinker, whinges about weather, too old for this. Dja Dja Wurrung country.
All sites at: https://linksta.cc/@austcrimefiction
Dr Laura Smith-Khan @lawandlanguage.org Senior Lecturer (Law,UNE)
Convenor LLIRN lawandlanguage.org
CoEiC Aus J Human Rights (UNSW)
External CESSMIR (UGent)
@languageonthemove.bsky.social
Asylum, migration, disability, human rights, legal ed/prac, access to justice
ENG, FR, ES, IT, اردو, پښتو
Steven Bird 🍉 @steven-bird.bsky.social Living and working with First Nations people who are keeping their ancestral languages strong. He/they.
📍Larrakia, Bininj, and Miriwoong country
http://linktr.ee/stevenbird
Jude FireSong, aka Fabulous Phoenix Boy @fabulousphoenixboy.bsky.social (gender)queer [he/him]
AuDHD mad disabled survivor
citizen of the world
Scotland
🎭 poet
🦄 SFFH
🎨 art
📸 pics
🎲 TTRPGs
🔞 at times NSFW
🚫 AI/NFT
in: Broken Spine,Unicorn Teeth,en*gendered,Madrid Review,man made//made man,rainy weather days,S*x Gap,new words
rbkh @eatyourgarden.bsky.social
On the coast, south of Adelaide. 
WA Forest Alliance @waforests.bsky.social Working towards protection for WA's Southwest forests.
Find us everywhere @waforests or at wafa.org.au
Authorised by Jess Boyce, WA Forest Alliance, 2 Delhi St, West Perth, WA, 6005.
Adele @theartofcharts.bsky.social Screenwriter specialising in tense thrillers. Nicholl Finalist with NO GHOSTS TONIGHT. Page finalist with DUST ON DIRT. Available for commission.
See my work at: https://artofcharts.com/screenplays/
Bruce Topperwien @btopperwien.bsky.social Legal practitioner - health law, veterans law, administrative law. Musician. Conductor of ANU Chinese Classical Music Ensemble. Canberra, Australia.
💧💦🌊🐟🌴KMackenzie🌿🦋🦜🐨🐾🔥 @keimacken.bsky.social The only reliable #system is the #ecosystem
semi-professional shutter upper @fairlysmall.bsky.social colonialism hater
bass lover
they/them
The Steph Bowe Prize for Young Writers @stephboweprize.bsky.social Established in memory of beloved YA author Steph Bowe, the Prize is designed to support an unpublished Australian YA writer under 25. www.stephboweprize.com
Fay Helfenbaum @fayhelfenbaum.bsky.social Editor at Thames & Hudson, recommender at fayrecommends.substack.com
Leinad Arbz @danielarbilla.bsky.social Supporting people with pain, mental health concerns and strength training
Mentor and supervisor for clinicians in private practice
Host of ‘Honest Health Chats’ on Spotify 🎧
Alisru @alisru.bsky.social I must scream but I need more mouths :W
Truly hell is overthinking
Behold, I am doing a new thing;
now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness
and rivers in the desert.
https://www.youtube.com/@Alisru.Alisaru- M @mimzarella.bsky.social @mimzarella.bsky.social
Courtney Jaye @sunnycaffeine.bsky.social [-o-]
ngarrindjeri - sometimes a writer - phd student
addicted to coffee and generally tired.
Nicole Wittenberg @nicolewitt.bsky.social Lets talk about greed
Jena Oakford @oakyjoaky.bsky.social A queer multidisciplinary artist, lover of large dangly earrings and many postcards 💕💕
Michelle 🌻 Peace Path 🕊️ @michellepeacepath.bsky.social Born 320.23 ppm. Living on Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung land, progressive, geopolitics, educational psychology, ADHD, birdsong, ecotherapy, mindfulness, writing.
“Empathy is the oxygen of democracy.” - Jon Meacham
Yinarr @yinarr.bsky.social Dharawal, Gamilaraay, Weilwan
Proudly of the matrilineal & matriarchal. Woman who's borne & breastfed. Leftie. Community Development Worker. Creative.
❌👑
Profile pic + banner: stylised gymea lily.
Opinions definitely don't reflect workplace.
Sarah @sarahrosina.bsky.social 26 | she/they | demiromantic asexual
Writer | Editor | Bilingual
Berlin | Naarm (Melbourne)
pendulum.beehiiv.com
@neighneigh.bsky.social @neighneigh.bsky.social Scientist with an interest in global food security, agriculture, environmental issues and animal welfare.
Kendal @kendald.bsky.social Interested in many things. Here to listen and learn.
Kimmaree @kimmaree.bsky.social Bit Wonky & Geeky, Progressive. Perth WA. Ex Byron Bay & Sydney #authentically #local #creativeindustries #auspol | kimmareethompson.com | amazon.com/author/kimmaree-thompson |
influencing.com/app/u/kimmaree-thompson
Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social #HumanRights #ClimateAction #auspol #USPolitics #journalism #SciFi #history #books #RefugeesWelcome #FreePalestine
Sydney, Australia http://linktr.ee/peterwmurphy1
Johannes Jakob @jojojakob.bsky.social commissioning editor at Penguin Random House Australia
Catherine Hainstock 🐨🦫 @cathyinoz.bsky.social Teacher librarian📚, reader, writer, gardener, plant lover, iNaturalist 🌿, concerned about climate and food security. Expat Canadian 🇨🇦 living in Naarm/Melbourne. No DMs
Accounts with no profile, no posts get a block from me. Sorry, bots.
Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social 🇬🇧 ♠️ An oft' anxious yet optimistic nihilist, eclectic dyscalculic and ND nerd
🍊🐲
Poetry Dabbler: 3Lines/Tanka/Ekphrasis
🖋️📖🍿🎮🎧🎭
Ailuro-Biblio-Historio-Logo-Melo and Mythophile
✨💀
My posts: https://tinyurl.com/4xhe3r4x
☕ https://ko-fi.com/kumquat90 ☕
ITS A WRAP WITH RAP PODCAST @rrap.bsky.social Inspirational podcast of people overcoming life's challenges
and the podcast of useful information to better our daily life
and mental wellbeing.
https://itsawrapwithrap.com
Dominique Chen @dominiqueachen.bsky.social Gamilaroi academic I mother I art maker I food grower I Indigenous Engagement at The University of Queensland. Views are my own.
www.growingoncountry.com.au
www.yuruwan.org.au
www.theblaklaundry.com.au
www.walkingstory.com.au
Captain @gazztron.bsky.social Prematurely grey. Former Fukushima resident. Born on Bindal country, grew up on Jinibara/Gubbi Gubbi country, now living on Ngunnawal/Ngambri country. Fandom Old. Prolonging myself out of weakness.
Jake @jakekvz.bsky.social Drinks, sport, food, photos, books, and a lot of whinging.
(she/they)
Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
No alt text no repost, and barely a begrudging like.- F Dew Droppin' Deity @freshwaterdeity.bsky.social Nonbinary. Art. Pokémon. Dragonball Z. Naruto & Boruto. Fashion. Queer. Neurodivergent. Sex work is work. Views are my own & not that of my employer.
libbb @violabetonicifolia.bsky.social On Turrbal land.
I know a bit about dog and cat behaviour and welfare. I like learning about libraries, knitting and sewing, ecosystems, butterflies and moths, active transport too.
My blood is red out of fury - Lisa O’Neill
Palestine will be free.
Mx. Fee @mxfee.bsky.social They/fae, bi, and queer~
Invisible illness, disabled. AuDHD, OCD.
Support: http://ko-fi.com/mx_fee
Streaming: https://twitch.tv/Mx_Fee
#AltTalk - Accessibility info tag.
Accessibility is important to me and I won't share posts without alt text 💜
Community Publishing in Regional Australia @communitypubinaus.bsky.social Researching how community groups in regional Australia are using digital technology to publish and distribute books. 2023-2025.
https://linktr.ee/communitypublishinginaus
Art Cotterell @artcotterell.bsky.social Power, policies and politics of emerging technology | Space and nuclear | Former policy advisor + lawyer turned academic
@kat90004.bsky.social @kat90004.bsky.social 
Lilly @lillyjade.bsky.social Autistic. Interested in autism and broader neurodivergence/disability topics + misinformation. Former cog neuro/psych researcher. Attempting to write.
She/her
Curates @autisticbooks.bsky.social
On Gadigal Land.
Taking social media break.
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
MARION @marion-writers.bsky.social MARION is a not-for-profit, member-driven literary organisation dedicated to championing the rights and interests of writers in the ACT region and beyond. Unceded Ngunnawal and Ngambri country.
MARION.ink
Blissful Herbs @blissfulherbs.bsky.social Nurse 🏥 Doula 🤰Herbalist 🌿 Blissful Herbs 🌿 Homebirth 🏡 Birth Supplies 👶 Health 🥑 Breastfeeding 🤱 Parenting 👨👩👧👧 Not MAHA though! Pro-Science, evidence & facts! 💉🩺🧪👩🔬👩💻
https://www.blissfulherbs.com.au/
nadia (he/they) @corrruption.bsky.social poem guy/bass player/hobby collector
📍Kaurna Yerta
https://linktr.ee/nadiapatterson
Spoken Word SA @spokenwordsa.bsky.social Facilitators of the South Australian leg of the Australian Poetry Slam, Poet-in-Residence, workshops and more
On the unceded land of Kaurna Yerta
Adelaide, South Australia
https://spokenwordsa.com.au
That's Rights! RIGHTS 20|20 @thatsrights.bsky.social Professional IT solutions for rights managers, publishers, literary/rights agents and other publishing & licensing professionals.
Jackie 🇦🇺🇵🇭🇲🇾🌈 @jackieyap.bsky.social emerging mystery & kidlit writer
✨2025 #CYA Aspiring YA Winner
✨2025 #WeNeedDiverseBooks #KillYourDarlings
🌈 adhd, tck, solar-powered, dog mama, shaved iced enthusiast
📍Australia
linktr.ee/jackieyapwrites
John Purcell @bookeboy.bsky.social Bookseller, reviewer, interviewer and author - The Girl on the Page, The Lessons & The Secret Lives of Emma trilogy. The Amateur's Guide to Killing Bad Guys out Sept 2027.
My blog (yes eople still have blogs): https://www.johnpurcellauthor.com/blog
Jude Bowler @patflick.bsky.social Performing Artist, Writer, raconteur, loud laugher🏳️🌈She/Her🥊🦘🖤💛❤️
•repost/like/fol ≠ endorsement•
Pamela Ueckerman @melalouise.bsky.social Children's Author | Poet | Middle Grade Mavens Podcast.
Rep'd by Silvia Molteni of PFD Agents.
Ayla's Christmas Wish 2023
New book out 2026 with Scholastic Australia.
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