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/
Baby Richman @babyrichmanband.bsky.social STREAM OUR DEBUT SINGLE "LIGHTS DOWN" ↙️
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Rflnb0WvYeuK5B6AHVSXE?si=F93EswKVR5ehFffDiFfCuw&utm_source=copy-link
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/babyrichmanband?igsi=MWFldWJsOG1pdDl2bA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
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
Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social Writer & translator. Art, music, the natural world, the state of the world.
"Smile, breathe, and go slowly."
~ Thích Nhất Hạnh
Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social Professional explicator and maker of soothing sounds. I'd rather make furniture than go to midnight mass.
Author of "The Inaccessible Rail" (2026)
(PREORDER! https://malarkeybooks.com/store/inaccessiblerail)
and "Un-ruined" (2022) from Malarkey Books
Lydia Pyne @lydiapyne.bsky.social Writer, Historian, Tortoise Enthusiast. Currently writing about ochre. Author of ENDLINGS ('22.) Also, GENUINE FAKES, BOOKSHELF, & SEVEN SKELETONS, etc.
giorgio_inlove @inlove1.bsky.social A love of sailing, each gust of wind bringing new possibilities.
Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social Writer of dreamlike fiction | she/her | www.ivyivyivyivy.com 
shome dasgupta @shomedasgupta.bsky.social Author of The Seagull And The Urn (HarperCollins India), and most recently, Cajun South Brown Folk (Belle Point Press). Represented by Teffanie Thompson of Falkin Literary. 2019-2025 Series Editor of The Wigleaf Top 50. Lafayette, LA. shomedome.com
Mike Andrelczyk @mikeandrelczyk.bsky.social Submarines - a novel out 7/21. Order here: https://malarkeybooks.com/store/submarines
Books at ghostcitypress.com and https://gobpilepress.bigcartel.com/product/pre-order-tennis-leg-by-mike-andrelczyk
Alexander J. Wood 📖🪴🌠☮️ @alexanderjwf.bsky.social Literary Editor, Beta Reader, Plant Dad
& future writer for PBS Digital Studios 🤞
Ed Harrison @oldheloguy.bsky.social Husband, responsible citizen, taxpayer, humanist, retired USN helicopter pilot, writer. Interested in literature, politics, news, language, woodworking, guitar, typewriters, outdoors in Montana, fairness, human rights and human decency. 💙
Edward R. Morris Jr @eighthsamurai.bsky.social World Fantasy Award/BSFA/Rhysling/Sidewise/Pushcart Prize-nominated author. Witch. Queer. Activist. Bouncer. Protest Medic. #autism #multiplesclerosis #ehlersdanlos #Horror #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #writer #specfic
Sabrina Hicks @sabrinahicks.bsky.social Author of Coyote Girl, available now (CJ Press), desert dweller, hiker, word wrangler. Work in Best Sm Fiction, Best Micro, Wigleaf Top 50, pubs listed at sabrinahicks.com
Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social anarcho-communist; calling upon the aid of Hell
books: Toadstones (Malarkey Books 2022); Night Fears: Weird Tales in Translation (Paradise Editions, 2023)
website: geoliminal.com/writing/
Will Musgrove @willmusgrove.bsky.social Writer, jazz enthusiast, bibliophile, plant dad, and cartoon aficionado. Website: williammusgrove.com
Mason Jar Press @masonjarpress.bsky.social A publisher of prose and poetry based in beautiful Baltimore, MD. http://masonjarpress.com/
banner pic by Stephanie Gibson
Blake Bell @blakebell.art Teacher, writer, dog-food-plant-enthusiast
One Fall Review @onefallreview.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to professional wrestling themed poetry.
www.onefallreview.com
Submit: https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/one-fall-review-0g27j
Will Klein @ketchiklein.bsky.social Writer of stories and novels. 
Tom Howard @dcprose.bsky.social Mostly goo. Leftist. Books: Invisibilia, Fierce Pretty Things. Writing, tennis, baseball, football (the kind played with feet), philosophy, law.
tomhowardfiction.com
Lit Match Collective @litmatchcollective.com A writers’ community led by editors 🔥
Helping members connect and grow.
Join us ➡️ litmatchcollective.com & our community, open to all!: https://discord.gg/cxSdvE2EfN
🌿Aspen Harding | Author✨ @aspenharding.bsky.social 🌿WEEDIE WISDOM🌿
🔆Modern Philosophy | Spiritual Insights📿
I had a break-up.
I had a breakdown.
I had a breakthrough.
Crawling my way back up from rock bottom.
Sharing insights learned along the way.
Brett Biebel @brettbbl.bsky.social Writer, teacher, sports fan. Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50.
m shafiqul islam @msijewel.bsky.social poet, translator, and professor of English literature
Suzy Eynon @suzyeynon.bsky.social Writer from the desert. Terrestrial from Malarkey Books, Being Seen from Ethel. Managing ed long fiction Variant https://malarkeybooks.com/terrestrial
http://suzyeynon.com/
Jamey Gallagher @jameygallagher.bsky.social Author of BODIES IN BAGS, I AM IDRIS ELBA, and AMERICAN ANIMISM.
https://jameyg0.wixsite.com/jameygallagher
Community college writing teacher
I read and write: literary stuff, crime stuff, weird stuff
From NH, living in Baltimore.
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
NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social NAWP is for writers who, for whatever reason, can't go to AWP. AWP attendees are welcome too, of course. NAWP is for everyone. NAWP loves you. Co-founded by @readinstead.bsky.social & @mitchnobis.bsky.social.
Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social Press & online rag dedicated to grit lit & rural writing with rough edges. Survival is triumph enough. We dig Folk & Old Country music: @npcountrycovers.bsky.social. EIC: @vanwinkle.bsky.social
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com
Jonathan Danielson @jonathanin2k.bsky.social College edumakator. Regular idiot. THE LOWEST BASIN: ARIZONA STORIES (Cowboy Jamboree, 2025). Longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Fiction. Southwest Books of the Year.
@fbereaud.bsky.social @fbereaud.bsky.social Author: San Diego Stories @cowboyjamboree, A Question of Family @Stanchion
Husband. Dad. Math Prof. Mentor. Fiction Editor @thetwinbill.
francoisbereaud.com
Fun Book Person @alexmiller77.bsky.social Author of White People on Vacation (Malarkey Books) and some other things. Taking up space in Denver
https://alexmillerperson.weebly.com/
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Barbara Barrow @barbarabarrow.bsky.social New mom, fiction writer, lit studies, ecocriticism, feminism, and the blue humanities. AN UNCLEAN PLACE out now from Lanternfish Press!
Wednesday Night Sessions Reading Series @wns-at-ksf.bsky.social Wednesday Night Sessions is the literary reading & conversation series for KickstART Farmington, hosted by @mitchnobis.bsky.social. Episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5LuF_sU6cwQPAzEmxupFFg/videos
Feed-ops.com @feed-ops.bsky.social Providing global, updated news feeds.
Alan @alanallanallen.bsky.social Beloved Literary Institution
Christopher Stevenson @chrisstevenson.bsky.social Born in TX, raised in FL and PA. Splits time between DC and WV.
Librarian. PT old man. FT Struggling Writer.
Part toddler, part cowboy. Baba Yaga fan boy.
https://linktr.ee/christopherstevenson
Trent Brown @joshuatrentbrown.com i have a book
https://malarkeybooks.com/store/thewallsareclosinginonus
Sarah Layden @sarahlayden.bsky.social Writer, professor, reader. https://sarahlayden.com/
https://www.bonfire.com/store/stay-real-make-art/
Jennifer Wortman @wrefinnej.bsky.social Writer, THIS. THIS. THIS. IS. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. She/her.
Sheldon Birnie @badguybirnie.bsky.social Writer, dad, etc
Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social http://mitchnobis.com
Writer (poetry & fiction). Doofus. Old man hooper. Metro Detroit. Posts are my own, obviously—that's why I said it & not my employer, parents, or dog.
Also: WNS @wns-at-ksf.bsky.social & NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social
Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social Author, THE SHITBIRD (Stanchion Books, 2026), I BLAME MYSELF BUT ALSO YOU (Malarkey Books, 2024) and HOW I’M SPENDING MY AFTERLIFE. Hat enthusiast. Former Florida man. My Erdos number is four. I block scolds and AI sloppers.
Amie Souza Reilly @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social she/her/hers. writer, artist, mom. lecturer & writer-in-res. sacred heart university. free Palestine 🇵🇸
Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays out April 2025, Wilfrid Laurier U Press
More info at http://amiesouzareilly.com/
Donald Ryan @dryan.bsky.social http://donaldryansolelyexistsonline.com/
Justin Bryant @justinwriter.bsky.social ‘Thunder From A Clear Blue Sky’ Malarkey Books 2023. Short fiction/flash here and there.
LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social Writer's writer's writer.
📚 STILL ALIVE (2024), longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award. https://eveninghousebooks.com/product/still-alive/
Jeff Chon @jeffchon.bsky.social It just doesn't feel real yet.
https://linktr.ee/jeffchon
Zachary Kocanda @zacharykocanda.bsky.social Illinois’s favorite son. Malarker retweeter.
zacharykocanda.com
John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com Co-owner @eveninghouse.bsky.social
Writer:
FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN
BOXCUTTERS
EIC @cold-signal.com
Buffalo, NY
johnchrostek.com
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
Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social Horror writer startled by most sounds. The Barre Incidents and Kill Radio (both genre-bendy Horror) available thru Malarkey Books.
My website: https://www.laurenbolger.com/
Jewish / Free Palestine
Backgrd image quote: “Helloooo? My water dish is empty!”
the Jarvis Cocker of the Chicago lit scene @yoadrianididit.bsky.social Poet / Polski kurczak w amerykańskim stylu. / Chicago.
Buy: HAIR SHIRT
https://malarkeybooks.com/store/hairshirt
Buy: The Life of the Party is Harder to Find Until You're the Last One Around (Malarkey Books): https://bit.ly/3cTeXxH
Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social Books and such
https://malarkeybooks.com/