Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
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Amber Baird @amberbairdpdx.bsky.social Literary thriller & horror writer. PDX/PNW.
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Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social Award winning poet/writer/artist Chaps: Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs, Moon kissed Earth wrought Vision drunk, RavenSong, Down River with Li Po etc. Art: BirdSong, Women of Babylon, etc. More: linktr.ee/KPGFolkHeart NO MAGA No solicitation
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Chel Campbell @chelcampbell.bsky.social ☀️ poet & BOTN-nominated collage artist
⚡️ EIC @memezine.bsky.social
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🪰 LOVEBUG (rinky dink press, 2025)
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Monica Sarkar @monicasarkar.bsky.social Senior Editor at CNN International. Aspiring novelist: #LondonWritersAward longlist, #Hachette mentee. Usually prefer animals to people 🙈🧿
Joseph Radke @josephradke.com Re-emerging poet. None of my e's are silent!
Poems in Copper Nickel, Bellevue Literary Review, Boulevard & Southeast Review (forthcoming)
📖 my work ⤵
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Katherine E. Young @katherineeyoung.bsky.social Poet Laureate emerita, Arlington, VA. Winner (w/ Akram Aylisli), 2026 EBRD Literature Prize. Translator of Akram Aylisli (fiction), Anna Starobinets (memoir), & Russian-language poets from Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine. https://katherine-young-poet.com/
Hiram Larew @hiramlarew.bsky.social Poet. Newest collection, "This Much Very," was published in 2025 by Alien Buddha Press. Founder of Poetry X Hunger -- bringing a world of poets to the anti-hunger cause. HiramLarewPoetry.com and PoetryXHunger.com
StephanieKMerrill @stephaniekmerrill.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Pianist. Words in UCity Review, Feral, Moist Poetry Journal, One Art, Rise Up Review, Amethyst Review, ZiN Daily, Eunoia Review, Trampoline Poetry, &tc. Retired English faculty. Pushcart & BOTN nominee. Ⓥ she/her
Austin
Melt @melissatuckey.bsky.social Poet, Editor, Activist. Tenuous Chapel, Ghost Fishing: Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology.
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Roy Griffin @roygg9.bsky.social .Dabbler in the arts and poetry.Unrecovered philosophy major. Democratic socialist. Large, sensitive ears. Quaint metaphysical optimist. Retired from state. Navy vet. No DMs, no porn. No crypto. No means no.
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Emmeline Chang @emmelineschang.bsky.social WRITER ⛥ | Taiwanese Am | Fiction, NF, MG | Seal Press HuffPost BigCityLit | Tin House VONA Kenyon Review Ragdale VCCA Millay | MFA Columbia | Rep: Erin Harris at Folio
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Fromthemixedupdesk @fromthemixedupdesk.bsky.social Indigenous (Ojibwe) book content creator.
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Rhodri Lewis @rhodrilewis.bsky.social Literature, ideas, history, the arts | Reading & writing & teaching | Bylines here & there | At work on a life of Frank Kermode | bit.ly/2vbBoIN
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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Writer
Poetry: Debut collection due Spring ‘27
(Broken Sleep Books)
Forward Prize/BOTN nominee
100+ poems in Agenda, Stand, Poetry Salzburg, Chiron Review, IS&T etc & on BBC
Charles Causley & Bridport shortlists
Prose: Orwell Prize/Bridport Novel longlists
intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social Publishing at intersections and edges. Editors @emmabolland.bsky.social and @rachelartsmith@bsky.social
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Minx Marple @minxmarple.bsky.social astrophel • a pearl scavenged from the toxic sludge • « botanical, celestial, erotic » • hedgehog chronicler • the thing is to dazzle
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Emma Bolland @emmabolland.bsky.social artist/writer/lecturer (they/them).
co-editor at intergraphia.
'Showily abstruse'
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Jen Feroze @jenferoze.bsky.social She/her. Poet, copywriter, general word nerd. Likes naps and cheese.
farsouthproject @farsouthproject.bsky.social Des Barry author Chivalry of Crime, A Bloody Good Friday, Cressida's Bed @JonathanCape; Far South @serpentstail. Shorter prose New Yorker, Granta, 3ammagazine. Butoh Performer. Film/poetry links
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Paul Robinson-Little @poeticfields.bsky.social Paragenerate poet | Archiving perturbations in poetic fields | CW PhD researcher University of Liverpool’s sotauol.bsky.social | Liverpool Workhouse Archives | Genesis|Terminus @hesterglock.bsky.social | littlerobinson.wordpress.com
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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social artist/mutant
editor @minorliteratures.bsky.social
Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne
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Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social feral woman • writer • librarian • bi af • on a constant quest for comfortable silence • tweets as if it’s all ephemeral
Kirsten Mosher @kirstenmosher.bsky.social Writing & Arting and most recently Plea$e Steal Me for 100 Plus Dollar-zz, a plea in twenty-ONE panels. https://lilypoetryreview.blog/lily-poetry-chapbooks/pleae-steal-me-for-100-plus-dollar-zza-plea-in-twenty-one-panels/
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social https://minorliteratures.com/
Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social the cleveland of reviews of books
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Katherine Everitt 🧨 @katherineveritt.bsky.social Philosopher, writer, poet, artist. ⛓ Hegel. ⛓ Philosophy of Space.
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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social Veteran film/TV/media maker; NYT bestselling author; storyteller; dog mom. Direct descendant John Alden & Priscilla Mullins 1620. My American ancestors were defending democracy since 1776. 🇮🇪🇺🇸 & #Ally 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Heather Thomas @heatherthomasaf.bsky.social Actress writer activist flyfisherwoman closet farmer
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Chris Emery @chrisemery.me Poet. Five collections from Arc and Salt, most recently Wonder (2025). Manchester-born, Irish citizen, living in Cromer. I publish other people’s books at Salt. Newsletter: chrisemery.me
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.
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Ted Ryker @tedryker.bsky.social Writer of hard-boiled, ruthlessly paced crime fiction. New stories and posts Tuesday and Thursday every week. Photo by Florian Klauer on Unsplash.
RAWilliams @rawilliams.bsky.social One curious little Curiosity Rover, wandering this strange new Planet BlueSky. Writer, editor, designer, activist, ex-archaeologist but still forever digging stuff up. #BlueWave #DarkWoke #FuckTrump #FuckAI #FuckGOP
Anton Peeters @antonpeeters.bsky.social Anton Peeters is a Dutch author who has made Thailand his home for almost 20 years. He draws inspiration from the country’s rich history and culture with a focus on Southern Thailand.
#Samurai #treasure #writer
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Sati Mookherjee @sati-m.bsky.social Poet: Deś (forthcoming from Tupelo Press, 2027), Eye (Ravenna Press, 2022) and Ways of Being (Albiso Award, MoonPath Press 2023). Recent work in Gulf Coast, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, SWWIM, MER, RHINO.
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serious-lit @seriouslitmag.bsky.social The rawer, the better.
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Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (Tor Nightfire, Titan). 5 Bram Stoker Awards. Shirley Jackson finalist. Work in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Asimov's, Pseudopod, etc. Clarion grad. 🏳️🌈
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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.
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Eunoia Review @eunoiareview.bsky.social Online literary journal publishing new writing daily since October 2010. Edited by Ian Chung. Typically 24-hour turnaround for responses.🇸🇬
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Paul Ryan O'Connor @paulryanoconnor.bsky.social Blogger & award-winning crime fiction author. MWA. Noir, pulp, monsters, fiction, jazz, writing, film, comics. Went by @LBoxGraveyard at that other place.
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Ben Niespodziany 📚🎪 @neonpajamas.bsky.social tiny poems & strange movies // 🚫🤖 // EIC at @pizamapress.bsky.social // chapbook soon with @gasherpress.bsky.social // writing prompt every Sunday via Substack (neonpajamas)
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Scott Miles @downriverhorseshoe.bsky.social A writer of sorts... Short stories in LIT, Cimarron Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Mystery Tribune, and forthcoming in BULL and Midwest Noir.
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Guitarist in Trucks to Byhalia. You haven’t heard of us, but we’re out there.
Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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Cat Meng @queviva.bsky.social reader, poet,
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knitter, & malcontent
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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social Chinese-American anc historian, Columbia. Antiochos III & the Cities of W Asia Minor (1999), Statues & Cities (2013), Aršāma and his World (2020, co-ed), Polis: A New History (2024). Guggenheim Fellow.
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Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social EIC @the-engine-idling.bsky.social
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author of 4 poetry chapbooks & 2 microchaps
latest: rowhouse song (Ghost City Press '25) | irl (Stanchion '26)
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Martin Rock @infinite-scroll.bsky.social Poet of the attention economy. Literary recovery fanatic.
Author INFINITE SCROLL (Tupelo Berkshire Prize, 2027) and RESIDUUM. Co-Editor OTHER LEGACIES (Wesleyan, 2026).
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Wendy Waring @wendywaring.bsky.social writer, editor, prof, traductrice
Queer ecofiction novel forthcoming @Stelliform.press: The Hunger of Those Who Built It
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Brown Hound Press @brownhoundpress.bsky.social A small press in Lexington, KY that publishes offbeat mystery, dark humor, southern gothic & literary fiction. A free story each week! We pay authors.
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Kaspa Thompson @kaspalita.bsky.social Buddhist Minister, IFS Psychotherapist (http://www.kaspathompson.co.uk) writing at http://kaspa.substack.com
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Betty Stanton @fadingbetty.bsky.social EdD, MFA, poet, author, speech & debate coach, director, teacher, editor, rpg nerd, game designer, bad at social media, located in Oklahoma
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Michael Wegener @michaelwegener.bsky.social Writer of prime crime and horror fiction. Former chemist (if there is such a thing) breaking bad on the page. Stories in Mickey Finn, Unnerving Magazine, Starlite Pulp, SNAFU, The Yard...