SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (@sharpweb.org).
Read Bookish Feature Articles, Book Reviews, Pedagogical Materials, and Bibliographies here: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews
Action/Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Thriller Festival @actionfantasyscifi.bsky.social A showcase of the best Action/Adventure/Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Thriller Films and Screenplays from around the world.
Festival takes place every single month.
https://filmfreeway.com/ActionAdventure
Petro Hrys @petrohrys.bsky.social Building SaaS, AI & digital infrastructure.
I ship products and write what actually works.
petrohrys.com
Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social Yang Visiting Scholar in World Christianity at Harvard Divinity School
Author of “Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire” (2025)
www.candacelukasik.com
@kjellblank.bsky.social @kjellblank.bsky.social 
Tanja Grubnic @tanjagrubnic.com Doing a postdoc @ Duke. Currently writing a book about authors and influencers; thinking a lot about contemp and digital literary culture! Lover of emojis in emails. Learn more about me at tanjagrubnic.com.
Thriller/Suspense Film Festival @thrillersuspense.bsky.social Entering its 10th year, this festival is a showcase of Thriller/Suspense Films & Screenplays from around the world, using the popular audience feedback video.
https://filmfreeway.com/ThrillerSuspenseFestival
https://thrillersuspensefestival.com
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
JM @contiego.bsky.social Early riser
Matthew Pressman @mattpressman.bsky.social Journalist, historian, professor, former media-league softball coach.
NEW BOOK! The People's Paper: The Rise and Fall of the New York Daily News
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/
Gone Like a Goldfish @gonelikeagoldfish.bsky.social This is an account to promote my anonymously-published book, Gone Like a Goldfish, about suicide, addiction, mental illness, and child loss. I'm told that it's transgressive literature. Free on Kindle Unlimited.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H8L8GB2X
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
Romance & Relationships Film Festival @romancefestival.bsky.social Submit your ROMANCE or RELATIONSHIP Film or Screenplay.
Get your short or feature film showcased and receive an audience feedback promotional video.
-Submit for a guaranteed acceptance.
https://filmfreeway.com/RomanceFestival
www.festivalforromance.com
Daily Free Film Festivals @freefilmfestivals.bsky.social Watch Daily FREE Film Festivals on www.wildsound.ca at 8pm EST. No repeats. Best of NEW films from around the world today.
www.wildsound.ca/browse
Daily FilmFreeway Festival Discount Codes @filmfreewaycodes.bsky.social Daily discount codes for various festivals to submit to on FilmFreeway
https://filmfreeway.com/festivals/discounts
Female Feedback Film Festival @femalefilmfestival.bsky.social The FEEDBACK Female Film Festival (FFFF) was created for women filmmakers and screenwriters. The goal is to showcase the best of female talent from around the world.
https://femalefilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/FEEDBACKFemaleFilmFestivalFFFF
Festival Reviews .org @festivalreviews.bsky.social Daily posts about film & film festivals. From mainstream to Indy movies.
https://festivalreviews.org
Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social Book worker at University of Texas Press | Formerly a bookseller, at Paris Review | Occasional writing at places like Defector, LARB, Full Stop, The Millions, elsewhere | joelpinckney@gmail.com
Lida Zeitlin-Wu @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social Author of How Color Became a Technology: The Making of Chromatic Capitalism (forthcoming from Duke UP in 2027). Assistant Prof at Notre Dame. Past and present Chicagoan. www.lidazeitlinwu.com
🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social ✍️ RogerEbert, Indiewire, Letterboxd, etc. | 📧 maryag7@gmail.com | CFCA | creator #Noirvember #AYearWithWomen | Programmer, Must-Watch Indies @ FACETS Chicago | buy my book CINEMA HER WAY out now from Rizzoli | Free 🇵🇸| https://maryaegates.com/cinemaherway/
Ägü Nägü @naguagu.bsky.social I'm here to check out your philosophy and other non-fiction book recommendations.
Here's a Google Drive folder where I upload all the Open Access books I've reposted on my timeline, chopped up into chapters: http://bit.ly/46dsE7S
Eddie Selover @eddieselover.bsky.social Author, storyteller, TED speaker, coach. My bio of Basil Rathbone is coming from UPK in 2027. Love the arts, spiritual seeking, touching grass. Dislike fascism, late-stage capitalism, monosexism, orthodoxy (they're all the same thing). 🍸♊️🦄
Tori Holmes @toririo.bsky.social Researching digital culture, data activism, documentary - in Brazil. Fan of places where the mountains meet the sea.
http://go.qub.ac.uk/toriholmes
Also at https://bsky.app/profile/rebracweb.bsky.social
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
@redword8.bsky.social @redword8.bsky.social 
Dr. Ishaan @reluctantmicroblog.bsky.social Literary scholar for my sins
Academic prole
English and Cultural Studies PhD
Animal studies, Marxism, indie rock, cinema
https://ishaanselby.owlstown.net/
https://bandcamp.com/edsays
Andra Maves @andramaves.bsky.social fantasy & sci-fi author ~ narrative dev
@spacefaerer
Andrey @avvcan.bsky.social #HardyScience #safeAi
#avvyxz
https://mobile.facebook.com/avvxyz
Experimental/Dance/Music Festival @dancemusicexper.bsky.social Festivals take place in downtown Toronto, Canada, for the audience feedback video.
The festival has created 4 tiers to enhance your festival experience.
https://filmfreeway.com/ExperimentalFilmMusicVideoFestival
https://experimentalfilmfestival.com
Mr. Pimo @mrpimo.bsky.social SMART = Science + Math + 🌟Art🌟
I Post Post Movies/Shows/Anime news #PostPost
Follow me, I follow back
Tyler Curtain @tylercurtain.bsky.social 
Daily Stage Play Festival Contests @stageplaycontests.bsky.social Submit to these contests via Submittable. Full feedback on every submissions. Winners get their play performed by professional actors and made into a promotional video.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-stage-play-contest-deadlines/
Phil Nugent @philnugent.bsky.social A cool rebel with no friends
Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social Associate Professor of U.S. History @unibirmingham.bsky.social. Wrote a book about world's fairs in Atlanta (1895) and Nashville (1897). Just finished another one about Americans, bicycles, and the world.
Horror Underground Film Festival @horrorfilmfestival.bsky.social Various options to submit to the Festival. A HYBRID model. Cinema screenings for audience feedback video.Blog and podcast interviews. And bonus Virtual screening (optional!).
https://filmfreeway.com/horrorunderground
https://festivalforhorror.comi
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
@reisingerart.bsky.social @reisingerart.bsky.social Our paintings are the result of teamwork. Henriëtte envisions the concepts. She composes and chooses from a multitude of ideas the most potential ones. Roman paints, this technique enables him to paint realistically and in great detail.
Kennedy Dragt @kennedydragt.bsky.social lichen lover, PhD candidate and FNRS research fellow
@UCLouvain_be
religion, eco-spirituality, climate change literature
Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social Darby Fellow (Simon and June Li) in English Literature at Lincoln College, Ox. Interested in the medieval Ovid, forgeries, exile, Chaucer, Gower, medievalism.
Aïssatou Mbodj-Pouye @satoumbodj.bsky.social Anthropologist, Mali, Sénégal, France. Popular culture, languages, media esp. radio.
Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org Historian. Writer. Small farmer. Nebraskan. Outdoorsman.
Here for the books. And dogs. GBR.
Senior dev @ rrchnm.org | Adjunct prof @ GMU | jasonheppler.org
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/
kay slater @kslater.bsky.social information worker + critical scholar | DJ | research network @libraryfutures.bsky.social | AI + Planetary Justice Alliance | Chicago, of course
views my own!
letterboxd: https://boxd.it/etsK7
gray-film @gray-film.wsocial.eu Magazine for those who want to program #films.
Revista para quem quer programar #cinema.
https://6.gray-film.eu/
Director: @machado.wsocial.eu
Ahana (she/her) @antisanitygirl.bsky.social insane transsexual borderline bunnygirl, essayist, Mad studies, transMad/crip studies, Foucauldian-Butlerian anarchocommunist, advocate for personality disorder liberation
Essays: https://tenderlyborderline.substack.com
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/ahana16698
Graham Dutfield @grahamdutfield.bsky.social Once a geographer, avid practitioner of slow scholarship, Leeds Uni prof, teaches law & health, biotech, food, nature. Preferred habitats: Greece, gardens, mountains, coasts, London, pubs https://grahamdutfield.substack.com/
Vanessa Meyers @nokpav.bsky.social I give respect to human. Respect nature.
Dale Cressman @cressman.bsky.social Husband, dad, papa. Cyclist, swimmer, and dog lover. Historian, recovering journalist, retired professor, hockey fan. 🇨🇦
Baby Richman @babyrichmanband.bsky.social Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Rflnb0WvYeuK5B6AHVSXE?si=UUprpuvURT6fW6SAVEo6rA&utm_source=copy-link
⬇️ PRE-SAVE SHADOWS ON THE WALL
https://hypeddit.com/9m8n9w
The Institute for Independent Journalists @indiejournalists.bsky.social An education, professional development, and mutual support organization for independent journalists, focusing on BIPOC. Our mission is financial and emotional sustainability for independent journalists of color.
theIIJ.com
➡️ @narrativegigs.bsky.social
PequodPod @pequodpod.bsky.social Welcome to PequodPod! The podcast on the wonder-world of Herman Melville. Find us wherever you enjoy podcasts!
We're currently reading Moby-Dick and talking about each chapter. We also enjoy and discuss Melville's other works.
https://linktr.ee/pequodpod
Joseph Cermatori @cermatori.bsky.social criticism & theory - literature, art, performance, politics and culture 🌿
assoc. prof. @ Skidmore College
author: “Baroque Modernity” (JHUP 2021)
www.josephcermatori.com
Maggie Bryant @maggiebryant.bsky.social Interested in literacy identity, sociality, & reading communities🤓
7 years teaching HS English 👩🏻🏫 Book lover 📚 ~ @sdstate B.A. & @vupeabody M.Ed. & @baylor Ph.D.
Jean Barré @jbarre.bsky.social PhDone ! in Computational Literary Studies at LaTTiCe lab & École normale supérieure in Paris.
I study French genre fiction (1860–1945) using quantitative and network-based approaches.
https://jeanbarre.eu/- T @tktomorrow.bsky.social @tktomorrow.bsky.social
GSS 2027 @gendercongress.bsky.social Looking for researchers, speakers & experts in Gender & Sexuality Studies
🎓 Join GSS 2027 – 12th Global Congress
📍 Barcelona, Spain | 📅 May 13–14, 2027
📩 DM us for speaking & collaboration opportunities
Website: https://genderstudycongress.com/
Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social For you
I've saved the descriptions of chicken sandwiches,
teaches at UChicago | editor & indexer | proud member of SEIU local 73
Mariah Schaefer @mariahms.bsky.social Acquisitions editor for music, dance, and Women's Media History Now! @illinoispress.bsky.social
A Moveable Feed @talentx.bsky.social Moveable Feed: sharp, biased dispatches from Trump’s America and the AI future. Ex‑DC comms hack, still talking. Read + subscribe here → https://buttondown.com/amoveablefeed
Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social Professor of Publishing Studies at Stirling. Ullapoolist. 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. She/Her.
Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social 
Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social Academic in Dublin. Contemporary literature & publishing.
Block Guard: Spam Call Blocker @blockguardapp.bsky.social Download for FREE and take back control of your phone. 🛡️ Privacy-first spam blocking and spoofing protection. 100% local processing—your data stays on your device. Get it today: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.radstormtech.blockguard
Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social Reader in English Literature and Film •
International Gothic Association co-president (2022-2026) • Manchester #Gothic Centre founding member • #Horror Studies book series editor • Profile: https://tinyurl.com/2czvabnz
University of Washington Information School @ischool.uw.edu One of the world's top schools in information science. Offering degrees in Informatics, Library and Information Science (MLIS), Information Management (MSIM), and Museology, and doctorates in information science. Seattle, WA.
https://ischool.uw.edu/
Z.K.A. (she/her) @pegasusunder.bsky.social MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (Amistad, Aug '27)
THESE HOLLOW BODIES (Neon Hemlock, Nov '26)
writer & psychiatrist M.D. (she/her)
zkabraham.com
rep @clgslr.bsky.social
Cinema Worms podcast!
❤️ @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
Mirca Madianou @madianou.bsky.social Prof @Goldsmiths U of London | digital infrastructures, tech & AI in global south | New Book: 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' https://tinyurl.com/4ceyvc3s | New project: reimagining digital ID https://tinyurl.com/bdfawt64 
Catriona Menzies-Pike @catrionamp.bsky.social Editor and critic at large. SYD →YVR. I write a newsletter about literature and the internet called Infra Dig.
https://infra-dig.ghost.io
African American Puzzles @sepiafeatures.bsky.social Entertainment
Engagement
Education
Enlightenment
Excitement
Edification
Carmen Thong @carmenthong.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities @ National University of Singapore
|| Postcolonial/World Literature, Computational Literary Studies, Contemporary Book Studies
carmenthong.com
Rob Dale @robdale.bsky.social Historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. Cyclist, marathon runner, train traveller. Based in Newcastle and York. Osbaldwick cricket club cap no.247
Hettie O’Brien @hettieobrien.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian: First Edition and Guardian Long Reads | Author of THE ASSET CLASS
Ardath Whynacht @ardathjean.bsky.social Health & Transformative Justice
Radical pedagogy & creative methods
Sociology Prof.
Suburban Dad.
www.ourpublicsafety.ca
www.imaginingfutures.ca
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/insurgent-love
Karl Makepeace @makepeace.bsky.social Proteomics 🩸 Mass Spectrometry ✨ Structural Biology 🧬 Network Biology 🕸️ Bioinformatics 💻 Canada 🍁 Columbia University 🗽 @ionsbyfriday 𝕏
Katharine Mershon @profdognerd.bsky.social Associate Professor of Religion in NC | Author of Dogs Save: Stories of Canine Redemption in the US: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/dogs-save/9780231206969/ | Co-Chair of the AAR’s Animals and Religion Unit. Views my own. (she/her)
Javier Padilla @jpadillar.bsky.social Assoc. Professor @ Colgate Univ. interested in poetry, postcolonial, Irish, and Latin American Literatures.
DMovies @dmovies.bsky.social your platform for thought-provoking cinema- P @pinkflyonawall.bsky.social @pinkflyonawall.bsky.social
Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind)
#writer #historian #Lesbian #sapphic #wlw #Hispanic #feminist #goth #vampires #jpop #bibliophile
NO DMs | Terfs & Narcissists DNI
Julie Patchouly @juliepatchouly.bsky.social Psychologist, Clinical Therapist, Writer, Avid Reader and Lover of Humanity. I am salt and light.