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
Sap Zine @sapzine.bsky.social Queer erotica zine with an ecofeminist bent๐ชฑ๐ซง๐ฟ based in Naarm/Melbourne, featuring writing and art from around the world.
sapzine.org
created by @emilybeige.bsky.social
Sage Tyrtle @sagetyrtle.bsky.social Award-winning storyteller, writer, workshop facilitator. Taught 150+ workshops including Second City, Smokelong Quarterly, Clarion West. Stories published in Barrelhouse, Baltimore Review, Apex, Fractured Lit etc. www.tyrtle.com
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Rhiannon Neal @rhiannonneal.bsky.social Writing. Studying. Puns. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Nicholas Jack Marino {Nick} @nickjackmarino.bsky.social ATTORNEY OHIO (1981)-NEW YORK (2003)-MUSIC ARTIST (1970)-ARTIST-COMPOSER-BMI & HFA PUBLISHER-Over 300 Published Songs at BMI & at Apple-Pandora-Amazon-Spotify-YouTube Music-Others http://NIcholasJackMarino.com -NickJackMarino@gmail.com -Text 330 620-8163
@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
Kate Larsen @katelarsenkeys.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Arts, cultural and non-profit consultant and rabble-rouser.
๐ An Apology to the Librarian, Our Hybrid Future, Public.Open.Space., The Relationship is the Project
https://linktr.ee/katelarsenkeys
Gabe McGrath @gabemcgrath.bsky.social ๐ฆAussie ๐ Writer ๐ป Radio Creative ๐ค Writing a memoir about Melbourneโs youth-run Hitz FM. ๐ "Those pesky 90s kids that turned Australian radio upside down."
Jessica Hoadley @jhoadleyedits.bsky.social ๐บ Australian professional editor (IPEd)
๐คธโโ๏ธ Middle grade and young adult specialist
โ๏ธ Also writing a witchy YA series
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jessicahoadley.com
charles ๐ PROTECT TRANS PEOPLE ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ @alekasdyingpoet.bsky.social A. Dying Poet. 25 he/him trans + queer ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐๏ฟผthe attic artist/poet/writer Emily Dickinson: And then the pretty sunshine comes โ
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
@hornzby.bsky.social @hornzby.bsky.social 
Semper Anticus Press @semperanticuspress.bsky.social Indie publisher launching soon!
Main site: www.book-shelfie.com/submissions
semperanticuspress@gmail.com
Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social I help ambitious people raise capital, get board seats, take companies public. Let's get more entrepreneurs and builders on bsky!
Author of 4 best selling business books
Southerly @southerlylitmag.bsky.social Southerly is Australiaโs oldest literary journal. Founded in 1939, it is the journal of The English Association (Sydney).
Stevie Lane @stevielane.bsky.social Scholar activist & writer | Human rights & social justice | Higher ed | Advisor for Rainbow Futures WA | LGBTIQA+ law reform ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | Living on stolen Whadjuk Noongar land ๐ค๐โค๏ธ Free Palestine ๐ต๐ธ
Daily FilmFreeway Festival Discount Codes @filmfreewaycodes.bsky.social Daily discount codes for various festivals to submit to on FilmFreeway
https://filmfreeway.com/festivals/discounts
Jeza Belle @jezabelle.bsky.social Drag Queen | Author | Comedian
The Presence Collection | Queer Historical Fiction
Jezaโs Jesus Juice ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
2026 SAS Finalist
Host of BOOK-A-LICIOUS ๐๏ธ
www.iamjezabelle.com
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival @mdff.bsky.social ๐ฌ Melbourneโs Local Doco Fest
๐ Documentary Month | 1โ31 July 2026
๐๏ธ Tickets on Sale
๐ฅ Celebrating the best in documentary storytelling
๐ mdff.org.au
Toronto/LA Documentary Film Festival @docfestival.bsky.social 4 tiers to enhance your film.
- in person fest
- audience feedback video
- podcast interview
- virtual showcase
https://documentaryshortfilmfestival.com/toronto-festival/
https://filmfreeway.com/TorontoDocumentaryFilmFestival
Orlando Silver @orlandosilver.bsky.social Writer. ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธโค๏ธโ๐ฅโจ ๐ Director of Incision Press. ๐๐๐proudly fostering queer & transgender writers for the revolution ๐ช incisionpress.com
Bookshelfie โญ๏ธ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
Fully featured garden planner vegplotter.com
Frost dates and growing zone calculator frostdates.com
panopticlown @panopticlown.bsky.social tracking: media power โข big tech platforms โข surveillance + data extraction
defending: digital rights โข privacy โข sanity
starring: you and me, two clowns trying to outstare the panopticon ๐ง
Save Meanjin @savemeanjin.bsky.social The closure of Meanjin has triggered outrage across Australiaโs literary and academic communities.
The solution is straightforward โ transfer the journal to new custodians who can ensure its future.
More at https://savemeanjin.org
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
Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social Historian of global feminism & believer in ๐๐ ๐ฆญ๐๐๐โโ๏ธ ๐น ๐
Author of The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared (April '26)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College.
PhD from Cambridge. Homesick Australian.
www.rosa-campbell.com
Bamboowade @bamboowade.bsky.social Conservationist on the edge - the North West edge. Living on Wudjuk Noongar Country
Laura @lucytartan.bsky.social Spolit ilder in the gadren of knolwedge (qoute from Neitzshce). Trade unionist and graphic novelist lmao. My views are just that, my views and definitely not those of my employer. Narrm
She/her
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vitocosta โ๏ธ @vitocostaofficial.bsky.social Aspirante attore con la testa tra le stelle e i piedi sul palco Creo, condivido, ispiro ๐
Instagram / Facebook: @_vitocosta
Jason Croot @jasoncroot.bsky.social Bradfordian actor, filmmaker, and author of the Bradford Back in the Day Memories series ๐ Bradford, Eh? & ๐ Bradford, Ye What?
https://www.jasoncroot.com
J Lee @jleewriting.bsky.social Trying to write good.
My work obliges some discretion.
Jessica Ralli @jessicaralli.bsky.social Manager of #EarlyLiteracy Programs & Special Initiatives @ Brooklyn Public Library | #KidLit Writer @ RISE X Penguin Workshop | LJ Mover and Shaker 2020 |
Peter Blazey Fellowship @peterblazey.bsky.social The Peter Blazey Fellowship is awarded annually to further a work in progress for those writers in the non-fiction fields of biography, autobiography and life writing. https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/scholarships/prizes-and-scholarships/peter-blazey-fellowship
S France Thomason @france-thomason.bsky.social only thinks straight after teaโจShortlisted in 2026 #IAmInPrint Commercial Fiction Competition โจ๐โจYeovil Literary Prize LL 2025 โจ3rd in 2024 #IAmInPrint SFF competitionโจ @cbcreative alumna
#scifi โจ #fantasylitโจ #WritingCommunity โจ
๐ซ OnlyFans, GoFundMe, DMs
@emilycelkins.bsky.social @emilycelkins.bsky.social 
alison evans @alisonevans.bsky.social author, zinester ๐ฝ they/them ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ Wurundjeri land ๐ alisonwritesthings.com ๐ธ (can't access DMs, pls @ me)
Esther Anatolitis @anatolitis.bsky.social art โ tenacity โ democracy
Writer
Strategy and policy, Test Pattern
Curator, Frameworks for Practice
Adj Industry Prof, RMIT
Cultural Policy, NIDA
Council, National Museum of Australia
Co-Chair, Australian Republic Movement
linktr.ee/estheranatolitis
Emma Miller ๐๐๐ @emmadmiller.bsky.social Canadian Author & Creator of "The Doonies" children's book series! ๐๐ https://thedoonies.ca
- Follow on: Bluesky, LinkedIn, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Threads, Spotify
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Shandiya Balasubramaniam ๐ @shandiya.bsky.social Biodiversity data scientist โข Decision Support Program Lead at Atlas of Living Australia โข she/her โข Views my own
๐ shandiya.com
๐Wurundjeri Country
Mark Truscott @marktruscott.bsky.social (He/him) Three poetry books. Winner of the inaugural Nelson Ball Prize. Recent poems in CAROUSEL, Dialogist, the Fiddlehead, Hampden-Sydney Review, etc. New chapbook, Rain. Hello. marktruscott.ca
Euan Taylor Author @euantaylorauthor.bsky.social The Hard Times: Prison Diaries: A book about crime, punishment, rehabilitation, greed, and putting a newspaper to bed before the editorial team gets locked up: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hard-Times-Prison-Diaries-ebook/dp/B0DPVH8HFF/
Dan @danldixon.bsky.social academic, writer (Meanjin, Sydney Review of Books, The Guardian, Overland, Canberra Times, etc.)
Michael Helquist @mhelquistwriter.bsky.social Activist, historian, author, "Marie Equi: Radical Politics & Outlaw Passions," Stonewall Honor Book for bio of 1900s lesbian doctor & activist., worked for CDC WHO, served as director of AIDSCOM.
#women'shistory, #LGBTQ, #AIDS #gayhistory #memoir #USAID
David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social Host of the Between the Covers podcast & Crafting with Ursula series, co-author of Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing.
Podcast: https://milkweed.org/between-the-covers
YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@BetweentheCovers-DavidNaimon
James Ley @jamesley.bsky.social Deputy Books and Ideas Editor, The Conversation. Contributing Editor, Sydney Review of Books. Author of The Critic in the Modern World. Words in various other places.
Ricki Spencer @rickspencer68.bsky.social Indigenous Health Sociologist with an interest in health consumers partnering in research
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Esther Linder @estherlinder.bsky.social photojournalist & writer in australia
Gene Smith @gene-reads.bsky.social Head of Programming at The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne, Australia. Like reading. ๐
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
AV @alanvaarwerk.com word rearranger
@sal-rose.bsky.social @sal-rose.bsky.social 
Jaidyn (The Street Poet) @jaidynpoetry.bsky.social Author / Poet from Melbourne/Naarm
I read books, write books, and work in a bookstore. Itโs bloody awesome.
THE STREET POET is available for order in all good bookstores!
@jaidynpoetry on IG
Tash @natashaseymour.bsky.social Advocate for Australian books + writing, Managing Editor (@overlandlitmag), writer, scared of AI, cat mum. Part settler-Australian, part Indo-trinidadian. ๐น๐น Living and working on unceded Wurundjeri Country. Always was, always will be. #freepalestine ๐ต๐ธ
stuart everly-wilson @basicwriter.bsky.social stuarteverlywilson.com
Published author of 2 novels.
My second, 'THE MASKEYS' - Transit Lounge - is out there...now...somewhere. Maybe its in your favourite bookshop. Why don't you go in and ask for it?
Wilfrid Laurier University Press @wlupress.bsky.social WLU Press publishes books in the humanities and social sciences in Waterloo, Ontario. Member of the Association of University Presses. www.wlupress.wlu.ca
@jeffmilgate.bsky.social @jeffmilgate.bsky.social 
elese @elese.bsky.social reckoner, writer ๐ elesedowden.com
Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
Kylie Moppert @lykiemop.bsky.social Having tried to pretend I wasn't, I've finally admitted it's a memoir I'm creating, and now it all makes sense. ๐ค
https://islandmag.com/read/the-hairy-iceberg-by-kylie-moppert
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
NewSouth Publishing @newsouthpublishing.bsky.social Books that make you think. ๐
Franco de Rocco @francoderocco.bsky.social Gay Erotica Novelist
Frank Gaimari @frankgaimari.bsky.social Best-selling author, film critic, and screenwriter. Award-winning scripts: Vincent and Paul: Unspoken Brotherhood, Mary Reid, and La Famiglia. I love movies and my two golden retrievers.
www.FrankGaimari.com
www.FranksFilmReview.com
FRANK'S FILM REVIEW @franksfilmreview.bsky.social Frank Gaimari, a writer from the Pacific Northwest, has captivated audiences worldwide with his novels, movie reviews, and screenplays.
www.FranksFilmReview.com
@frankgaimari.bsky.social
www.FrankGaimari.com
Ez ๐ดโโ ๏ธ @ezietslur.bsky.social ๐ชถ Charrรบa ๐ดโโ ๏ธ Queer ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ Tranz
beestung @beestung.bsky.social a quarterly mag of non-binary & genderqueer & two-spirit writers thatโs sweet & stings | imprint of
sundress publications | eic sarahclark.bsky.social
http://www.beestungmag.com
https://beestungmag.com/newsletter
Darling Axe Editing @darlingaxe.com Novel development & editing services. Our editors are industry experts and award-winning writers. Take your manuscript to the next level.
DarlingAxe.com
almajor.bsky.social @almajor.bsky.social Director of Online Programs @tinhouse.bsky.social | rep'd by Jin Auh @ Wylie | they/them
#EnbyLife Journal @enbylife.bsky.social Journal for non-binary & gender diverse creatives ๐ Founding editor: @raewhite.bsky.social ๐
SciFi AL @scifi-al.bsky.social Reader, Writer, Reviewer.
https://supernova.reviews/
@strawberryenergy.bsky.social @strawberryenergy.bsky.social 
Ned Hirst @nedhirst.bsky.social Lawyer. Writer. Hobbies include turning in the widening gyre
Peta @discursivep.bsky.social Health/Arts/Auspol/Science
Tinonee Pym @tinonee.bsky.social Researcher @ Adelaide University, living in Naarm/Melbourne.
Interested in LGBTIQA+ health, queer screen audiences and LGBTIQA+ young people's relationship to queer histories. queeryouthhistories.com
Authora Australis @ausauthora.bsky.social Authora Australis, blind review poetry, stories, artwork. Insta: @authoraoz Eds: @rpatulny.bsky.social @psycarlogy.bsky.social
Claire turbo chook @clairekoolkat.bsky.social Currently running naked down your street. Writer, copywriter and general bozo.
Writers Victoria @writersvictoria.bsky.social Writers Victoria supports & connects writers at all stages.
https://linktr.ee/writersvictoria
Dr Susie Walsh @susiewalsh.bsky.social Varuna Writer's Space Fellowship recipient 2024 (Australia) Non-fiction and Hybrid โข Autistic โข Non-Binary โข Irrepressible โข PhD Film Studies โข Bushfire Survivor โข Volunteer Bush Firefighter (NSW RFS) โข
They/Them/Susie
#MDANT
#Accessibility Advocate
Shu-Ling Chua @hellopollyanna.bsky.social 
Yen-Rong Wong | ้ปๅฝฅ่ @yenrongwong.bsky.social Between unceded Jagera/Turrbal & Yugambeh lands.
Writer, tea lover, cat cuddler, tattoo enthusiast, backyard gardener.
๐ ME, HER, US - UQP, Sep 2023
Eugen Bacon @genni.bsky.social African Australian author, editor. Winner: Solstice, Ignyte British Fantasy, Locus Awards. Finalist Shirley Jackson, PK Dick, World Fantasy Award. Twice Otherwise honoree for exciting work in speculative fiction. eugenbacon.com
Rep: Bieke van Aggelen
Ruby ๐ @rubysusan.bsky.social glitter gremlin & local bicon
They/them
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I do human rights and politics
Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social The latest writing on arts, culture and society from across Australia, along with resources and awards for writers. 
Emerging Writers' Festival @emergingwriters.bsky.social #EWF26 10-18 Sept 2026
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Meanjin Quarterly @meanjin.bsky.social 
northey@bsky.social @wendynorthey.bsky.social Flaneuse, denizen of the universe: Narrm (Melbourne๐ฆ๐บ) โฎ๏ธ Social Justice/Rule of Law: People/Environment before profits๐๐ณ๐จ
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Petra Crispin @petracrispin.bsky.social Createy person and Maremma friend
artstation.com/petra_crispin
Noah Riseman @noahriseman.bsky.social Australian-American historian who specialises in LGBTIQ+ and Indigenous histories. Author. Amateur ice hockey player. Hablo espaรฑol. Views expressed are my own.
https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/nriseman/publications
Owen From Ohio @owenfromohio.bsky.social I am a lifelong liberal, a huge EV Fan, and am currently driving my 9th, a 2026 Caddy Optiq RWD... None of them were Teslas. I thought Elmo was an idiot from the get-go! ๐Progressive๐Pro-choice๐Anti-Fascism๐Humanist๐Cat Dad๐ซNO DMs!!๐ซ
Emily Jane @msemilyjane.bsky.social Lefty living in Muloobinba/Newcastle on unceded Awabakal Country. She/her. Voice Treaty Truth.
Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social Lake kayaker. Small-medium mountains OK too.
On Ngunnawal/Ngambri country - #Canberra, Australia.
Household cats are sucked in by progressive media. Views are theirs; sometimes mine. 
VerifiedBangerz @verifiedbangerz.bsky.social 
Maria Blackman Creates @mariablackman.bsky.social She/her
Artist ๐๏ธ
Writer โ๏ธ
Reader ๐
On Noongar Whadjuk Boodjar (Perth, Western Australia)
Ken Brydon @prison-stories.bsky.social My award-winning Prison Short Stories, all written at San Quentin. ๐๏ธ Joyce Carol Oates published one. I served 39 years, 23 of them at San Quentin. There, I discovered that words can heal.
Katie Purvis @katiemelb.bsky.social Editor, proofreader, feminist, optimist, radio presenter, Melbourne Demons tragic. My enduring loves are words and music. 
Johanna Wiggers @johannawiggers.bsky.social ๐ MPhil student in Comparative Literature at JCU - researching Vicki Baum and Irmgard Keun, the Modern Girl, Weimar literary and print culture
Catherine Hiccups @catherinehiccups.bsky.social I'm not really a librarian but I do play one in real life
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beau @beau.im