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/
LindaAnn LoSchiavo @ghostlyverse.bsky.social Poet. Writer. New Yorker. Member: BFS, HWA, SFPA, Dramatists Guild.
2024 bks: Apprenticed to the Night; Felones de Se; Always Haunted.
2025 bks: Cancer Courts My Mother + Vampire Verses.
YouTube @lindaannliterary8035
https://ko-fi.com/lindaann_loschiavo
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
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
CC @cchakraborty.bsky.social writer, photographer, dancer
Andrija Popovic @andrian6.bsky.social Customer Success by day. Writer, photographer, geek, and #NoirAlley buff off hours. Also on Twitter. I write spicy stories as A.J. Harris and SFFH work as, er, myself.
https://biomechanoidblues.com/
Lynne M. MacLean @lynnemmaclean.bsky.social SFF Writer/Poet, former community & mental health researcher, and forever a firefly wrangler. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She/her. https://www.lynnemmaclean.com
Netmouse @netmouse.bsky.social Singer, dancer, artist, mom. Historian, Engineer, grant writer, township Commissioner.
Habla conmigo sobre todas las cosas.
C.D. Brown/Dirty Magick Magazine @cdbrown.bsky.social writer, filmmaker, and professor in New Orleans who is now publishing a monthly fantasy magazine
he/him
dirtymagickmagazine.com
Latifa Ayad @latifaayad.com 
Katabatic Circus @katabaticcircus.bsky.social an anthology of speculative poetics
https://duotrope.com/anthology/katabatic-circus-36036
[open to submissions for volume 3]
EIC @nsborwein.bsky.social
Ares J Benoit @aresjb.bsky.social Poet and writer of weird stories
Queer / nb / chronically ill / neurodivergent.
Body of a cyborg with the heart of a forest demon.
🏳️🌈 🇨🇦 |🟨⬜️🟪⬛️| 💉
Words in or forthcoming from Heartlines Spec, Claudine, M E N A C E mag, Plenitude, and others.
NC Maha @ncmaha.bsky.social Short fiction and science writer from India. Love reading/writing weird speculative fiction and poems. Stories in Inner Worlds, The Khaotic Good, SpecPoVerse, & Intrepidus Ink.
L. Acadia @acadialogue.bsky.social Lit prof, Berkeley PhD, Fulbright. Published in Kenyon Review, New Orleans Review, peatsmoke, Strange Horizons; Codex & Taipei Poetry Collective member. 1 dog & hoping. Into pretext, SF, & sea creatures
acadiaink.com
Micaiah Johnson @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social Author. Scholar. Enthusiast of ancient robots and overweight rodents. The Space Between Worlds and Those Beyond the Wall available now. The Unhaunting out this Fall. Yes, a Dr. No, not that kind.
dirt @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app poet, visual artist, & nyeusiphile
entering my fifth intermediate period of poetry
Gwynne Garfinkle @gwynnega.bsky.social My short fiction collection SINKING, SINGING is available from Aqueduct Press. Work published in Strange Horizons, Fantasy, Escape Pod, and Uncanny. she/her. gwynnegarfinkle.com
Karen Cline-Tardiff @karenthepoet.bsky.social Poet. EIC of Gnashing Teeth Publishing. Book dragon. Cool mom. Political junkie. Soup maker. Improv sillyhead. General badass.
Rachel Aaron @rachel-aaron.bsky.social Author of a lot of books! www.rachelaaron.net
Michael Hessel-Mial @mrpoemguy.bsky.social Poet and scholar, college writing instructor, wife guy, dad to Melody. I’m an editor at specpoverse.org. Science fiction, PDFs, socialism, Jewish mysticism. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Pauline Barmby @pbarmby.bsky.social LLM-free science: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2767-0090, fiction: https://www.galacticwords.com. Words in Year’s Best Cdn F&SF, Utopia SF, Analog, OnSpec, MNRAS, ApJ, etc. Knitter, curler, sometime runner. 🇨🇦 & minor planet 281067. She/her.
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. Writing Star Trek: Zero Point for IDW Comics.
@lauramd.bsky.social @lauramd.bsky.social 
Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com Engineer | Writer | Editor
Enjoyer of Equations, Ideas & Assorted Nonsenses
Hugo, Nebula, Locus & Caine Prize finalist
Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY now: buff.ly/X3CHaZk
Radon Journal @radonjournal.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of short stories & poems relating to science fiction, transhumanism, anarchism, and cyberpunk dystopia. Pays semi-pro rates. Foofaraw dual sub partner. CLMP member. Like Black Mirror but more political.
RadonJournal.com
Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social I write books and post too many cat pictures. She/her, only.
Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social Lifewriting Podcast - Exec Producer #HorrorNoire: A History of Black Horror, Writer: Twilight Zone. UCLA Lecturer. Vanity Fair. Author: American Book Award #BLM #blacksky She/Her - https://linktr.ee/tananarivedue
Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social Doing what I dreamed of since I was a kid.
Books: Lone Women, The Changeling, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Devil in Silver.
TV: The Changeling (EP), The Terror: Devil in Silver (Creator, Showrunner)
Comics: Destroyer, Eve, Sabretooth, Black Panther
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
rivers solomon @riverssolomon.bsky.social half boy/half milf. (non-degenerates, do not interact)
Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
Astrobiology @astrobiology.bsky.social Astrobiology.com - Exploring the living universe since 1996. Life Looks For Life. Vita quaerit vitae.
Emily Tesh @emilytesh.net Author. Hugo, Astounding, and World Fantasy Award winner; Nebula, Clarke and Le Guin finalist. Rep: Kurestin Armada at Root Literary.
Out now: THE INCANDESCENT - https://tinyurl.com/theincandescent
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