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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
Daily FilmFreeway Festival Discount Codes @filmfreewaycodes.bsky.social Daily discount codes for various festivals to submit to on FilmFreeway
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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
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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
Environmental Film & Screenplay Festival @environmentalfest.bsky.social A festival designed to showcase the best of new environmentally themed films (shorts, features) and screenplays (shorts, features, TV pilots) from around the world. We accept any genre.
https://filmfreeway.com/EnvironmentalFestival
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
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
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
Anecdote Young Writers Camp @anecdotewriters.bsky.social A summer day camp for writers in grades 6-12
Formerly a part of @redoakwriting.bsky.social
Milwaukee, WI
https://anecdoteyoungwriters.webflow.io/
Submitme.app @submitme.bsky.social SubmitMe is your querying headquarters. Find and match with agents, send email and QueryTracker submissions directly from SubmitMe, and manage every stage of the query process from first send to Offer Call.
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David Perlmutter @davidperlmutter.bsky.social Canadian white male autistic writer. Author of America 'Toons In: A History of Television Animation and The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Also author of speculative fiction, superhero fiction and anthropomorphic ("furry") fiction.
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
Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social Scurrying through the mire of existence. #AmQuerying a novel about a trip through the lives of ancestors.
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Jose Hernandez Diaz @josehernandezdz.bsky.social Former Writer in Residence at U of Tennessee - author of The Fire Eater, Bad Mexican, Bad American, The Parachutist, Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man.
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Lisa Stringfellow @engagereaders.bsky.social Author. KINGDOM OF DUST (8/20/24), A COMB OF WISHES, HarperCollins/Quill Tree Books. Educator integrating literacy, equity, & social justice. Rep @lindsaydauld
Tom Murphy @tommurphe.bsky.social Episcopal priest in Baltimore suburbs / Jersey City forever / Baptismal Covenant / Poetry
tommurphe.blogspot.com
Jedediah Berry @jedediahberry.bsky.social Books, tea, omens, ink. KILL ALL WIZARDS is out now. Coming soon: two new volumes of the Wildendrem adventure game setting (Phantom Mill Games) and DEVOURING GODS (Tordotcom Publishing).
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John Brown 3 @johnbrown3-m6z.bsky.social Writer's Therapy
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ObindoMag @obindomag.bsky.social Welcome to Obindo Magazine, where stories find a home. We are a resting place for stories, poems, and art from far and wide. Submissions are open! https://obindomag.com/issue-two/
After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers.
Links: https://bio.site/afterdinner
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Hector Rodriguez III @hecrodriguez3.bsky.social I write, illustrate and produce comics! I’m also the creator of El Peso Hero, Founder of Texas Latino Comic Con / Creative Director @MaskedRepublic/ Editor in Chief/ Publisher of @ChispaComics @MuchoMasMedia and NCS Member.
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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Postscript: www.pscript.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Perceptivity Albums @perceptivityalbums.bsky.social Poet. Creative Writer. Sharing excerpts from my pieces.
In love with creative nonfiction. Passionate about self-love and the beauty of seeing the word mudita out in reality.
On Instagram: @albumsofperceptivity
Daily Submittable Deadlines @submittabledaily.bsky.social Best writing and poetry festivals to submit to each day on submittable.
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/projects
Variant Literature @variantlit.bsky.social Variant Literature is a small press and magazine. http://variantlit.com
Summer 2026 issue out now!
Literary Boston @literaryboston.bsky.social The hub for Boston's literary community: news, the biggest events calendar in town, local authors, history, and more. Find more at literaryboston.com.
Pete Ward @phenryward.bsky.social Books, art, theatre, and telling people I liked the thing they made. Weird / Gothic short stories published or forthcoming in Cosmic Horror, Macabre, Frost Zone, Rat Bag and elsewhere. Editorial reader at Gavagai.
Adrian (xe/xir) @askresnak.bsky.social Sad character doing weird art. Find my website at ASKresnak.carrd.co
Next Wave Civic @nextwavecivic.bsky.social 🌊 The next wave of civic power is here.
🗳️ Youth-led, action-driven, future-focused.
#NextGen #DemocracyInMotion
Zoe Korte (they/them) @mostlymosspoetry.bsky.social queer mad poet educator in stl 🌾
Slyvia Rose (Aimie McAllester) @slyviaroseam.bsky.social Eventually I plan to be a functional adult. Until then, mind indulging in my fantasy of becoming an official Poet?
I guess that I’m considered a writer now? Just perpetually trying to leave the small town buried in the piney woods of Texas
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
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Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
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/
Savannah Writing Workshops @savannahworkshops.bsky.social Savannah Writing Workshops provides the greater Savannah community with an inclusive learning environment for writers and creators.
Marie @mariecloutier.bsky.social Writer of womanhood& girlhood, love & loss. איך האָב ליב ייִדיש. Words in Five Minute Lit, Bending Genres, Dorothy Parker's Ashes, Neologism Poetry, Corvus Review, etc. #wellesley 📖 my work ⤵ www.mariecloutier.com, substack @mariecloutier
Stephen G. Eoannou @stepheneoannou.bsky.social Author of the novels The Falling Woman (SFWP 2027), After Pearl (SFWP 2025), Yesteryear (SFWP 2023), Rook (Unsolicited Press 2022), and the short story collection Muscle Cars (SFWP 2015). Made man in Bills Mafia.
Derek JG Williams @derekjgwilliams.bsky.social expat American writer, PhD
Reading Water (Lightscatter, 2025)
Poetry Is A Disease (Greying Ghost, 2022)
http://www.derekjgwilliams.com/
Elizabeth Gonzalez James @egjames.bsky.social Screenwriter and author of The Bullet Swallower, Mona at Sea.
“Middling” — The Michigan Daily
Willy Palomo @boombowsfinest.bsky.social 📚 Mercury in Reggaetón, winner of the Light Scatter Prize
📚Wake The Others, 2023 Foreword Indie Prize
📚Translator, Tres Tercas Trincheras by Marielos Olivo
🎤 Enter Da BoomBow
✊🏾 Plumas Colectiva
https://linktr.ee/willypalomo
Michael Czyzniejewski @mczyzniejewski.bsky.social Author, editor, professor, family participant. Retired altar boy, pizza chef, and beer vendor.
Ariana Brown @arianathepoet.bsky.social Helping writers unlearn the harmful beliefs and practices from MFAs + reclaim the joy of writing
Books: Sana Sana + We Are Owed.
Classes + more ⬇️
bio.site/arianathepoet
Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social The Air Contains Honey
Artistic Director of PME-ART
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Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Desire Without Expectation
https://radicalcut.blogspot.com
SFWP @sfwp.bsky.social Santa Fe Writers Project - globally distributed publisher of fiction & CNF since '98. Subrights repped by @susanschulman.bsky.social
Distributed by IPG. Find out more at sfwp.com
Daryl Farmer @darylfarmer.bsky.social Writer, poet, bicyclist. Gentle spirit, but capable occasional mayhem. Author of BICYCLNG BEYOND THE DIVIDE and WHERE WE LAND. Creative writing Prof at U of Alaska Fairbanks.
RHINO AUTHOR @rhinoreads.bsky.social Out Now:
💀- To Touch a Reaper
🌵- No Shade in the Desert
https://linktr.ee/Sherhino
NewPages @newpages.bsky.social NewPages.com is your best guide to literary magazines, indie publishing, university presses, creative writing programs, writing and literary events, writing contests and submissions, independent bookstores, and more.
#indiebookstores #litmags #booksky
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Roger Patulny @rpatulny.bsky.social Sociology Professor HKBU. Research emotions, loneliness, men, networks, urban themes. Part time writer and poet, dad, befriender of English teachers,
Editor, Authora Australis @ausauthora.bsky.social
Research, poems, stories - http://rpatulny.com/
Dig It Dan @digitdan.bsky.social Uncovering history across Maine. I detect properties for owners to showcase their history by finding items lost by past inhabitants. Credited with discovering a Militia/Civil War muster field in ME. Posts about Maine history and things that interest me.
Quixotic Darby @darbylthomas.bsky.social Writer.Weird.🙋🏻♂️
Life is: Horror Films & Smart wickedly funny Brunettes
Emily Ratajkowski’s next husband 😍
Harold & Maude:Best Film on Life
Suck my Dick MAGAs/DHS/ICE/TRUMP/PATEL
Flag List:🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Darkness/A Flashlight/A bit of humor:
www.ashadowdancer.com💚
Suz Carter @suzbert.bsky.social Happy li'l cyborg.
Likes: science
Dislikes: smog
Red Oak Writing (we, us, our) @redoakwriting.bsky.social 
Abriel Louise Young (Abe) 🌱 @abelouise.bsky.social Poet, writing coach & mutual aid worker. Documenting lives outside, charting the resistance, helping people reclaim words.
Substack: The Breathing Field || Vegan Cookbook: Magical Foods & The Mason Jar Life || Poetry: Heaven to Me (Headmistress Press)
Hocusyourpocus @hocusinyourpocus.bsky.social Pronouns: He/They
Tired writer, disabled art figure model, cat assistant and all around pretty boy.
Will nap on any given occasion.
One more inconvenience away from bursting into flames
Magpie Miller @magpiemiller.bsky.social A.K.A.: Kim. See also: poems; books; trees (fruit & family); Appalachia (east TN, KY). Likewise, melodious felines, unfounded optimism. Confounding hounds. Further reading: science-adjacent, spirit-curious. Vintage. Allergies: DMs, bigots.
BarbH (Writer/poet) @bhunting.bsky.social Poet, writer. Barbara Weeks Huntington
Jess McSwain @jesmcswain.bsky.social She/Her - Fiction Writer
Solstice MFA Alum
Stephens College Alum
Dog Mom 🐕 & Mega Nerd 🎲
@bellsummers.bsky.social @bellsummers.bsky.social 
Alexis M. Wright @alexismwright.bsky.social Writer | Educator | Tin House Scholar '23, Reading Fellow '24 I Rep:Julia Kim I Pubs: The Common, The Maine Review, Shenandoah I Instructor: The Loft, GrubStreet, midnight & indigo I Interests: estrangement, discarding, lyric essays I www.alexismwright.com
Lisa Ko @iamlisako.bsky.social 📚 MEMORY PIECE (2024)
📚 THE LEAVERS (2017)
Nationally bestselling novelist • National Book Award finalist • New Yorker
http://lisa-ko.com
Rebecca Kirk Connors @aprilist.bsky.social Poet, story-teller, addicted to regency romances & houseplants. Zinester. Author of the chapbook, Split Map. Co-director of the thenotebookscollective.com (@notebookscltv.bsky.social).
Mckendy Fils-Aimé @mrmack88.bsky.social Poet, teaching artist, cat-dad
Kim Suhr @kimsuhr.bsky.social author, writing coach, literary citizen
Jeri Theriault @jeritheriault.bsky.social Poet and collage artist. Author of SELF-PORTRAIT AS HOMESTEAD, (M)OTHER, RADOST, MY RED and editor of WAIT: POEMS FROM THE PANDEMIC. https://www.jeritheriault.com/
Nathan McClain @nathanhmcclain.bsky.social Author of PREVIOUSLY OWNED and SCALE from Four Way Books. Food and wine lover. Edits poetry for the Massachusetts Review.
🪼Jellyfishlines 🔜 PaxU🪼 @jellyfishlines.itch.io Pfp: @wifeclipse
He/Him. ENNIE nom’d ttrpg designer Guy. 25. Disabled. Queer. Writer @ Fandomentals. Made 25 ttrpgs in 1 year.
Contact:
jellyfishlines@proton.me
https://jellyfishlines.com/
https://jellyfishlines.itch.io
https://jellyfishlines.carrd.co/
Tara Campbell @taracampbell.bsky.social Writer, teacher, speculative fiction and flash fiction
Books, events, and classes at https://www.taracampbell.com
#WritingCommunity #scifi #sff #speculativefiction #flashfiction
Rich Tombeno @richtombeno.bsky.social Teacher, writer, reader, father, hunter, home cook, handyman, gardener.
Annie Wenstrup @akwenstrup.bsky.social Dena’ina poet. The Museum of Unnatural Histories, Wesleyan University Press, March 2025. Here for the fish.
Surazeus Simon Seamount @surazeus.bsky.social Surazeus Astarius Συράζευς Αστάριος.
Cartographer. Epic Poet. Author.
Hermead epic poem about Philosophers
in 126,680 lines of blank verse.
Historical Fiction.
http://tinyurl.com/AstarianScriptures
https://surazeus.blogspot.com
Maya Williams @emmdubb16.bsky.social (Ey/They/She) // Poet & Prose Writer in Maine // Judas & Suicide // Refused a Second Date // What’s So Wrong with a Pity Party Anyway? // Feminine Morbidity (chap) // Feminine Morbidity (full; ‘28)
https://linktr.ee/mayawilliamspoet
Sarah Kersey @sk-poet.bsky.social Poet. X-ray technologist. RESIDENCE TIME is out now with Newfound
John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social NBPF Beat Poet Laureate
Founding editor, Crisis Chronicles Press
Past Vice President, Ohio Poetry Association
Hillbuckeye. Skeptic. Creative. Better woke than asleep.
https://linktr.ee/johnburroughs 🏳️🌈
Jennifer Franklin (she/her) @jfranklinpoet.bsky.social Poet, author of 4 poetry collections including A Fire in Her Brain (Princeton University Press, Jan 27) Teaches at M’ville MFA, 24Pearl St, Poets House, The Frost Place & privately on Zoom
Aldo Amparán @skygoneout.bsky.social Author of BROTHER SLEEP (@AliceJamesBooks 2022) & THE HOUSE HAS TEETH (AJB, 2026) | NEA & CantoMundo Fellow | they/them
https://skygoneout.carrd.co
Ohio Poetry Association @ohiopoetry.bsky.social Hello #poets! We at the Ohio Poetry Association are thrilled to be joining you on Bluesky. We are an active group of poets and #poetry lovers who have a relationship with #Ohio. Join us at http://ohiopoetry.org.
Joel Dias-Porter (DJ Reneg8d) @diasporter.bsky.social “IDEAS OF IMPROVISATION” (2023) from Thread Makes Blanket Press, Poet, autistic mystic atheist & Johnny Black velvet rumbler, HyperQbic colorpuntalist, self-unemployed—Pi is my spirit guide, if it isn’t black—it isn’t liquorice.
Aaron Caycedo-Kimura @aaroncaycedokimura.bsky.social Poet/Painter/Teacher | COMMON GRACE (Beacon Press) | UBASUTE (Slapering Hol Press) | Macdowell Fellow | Words in Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO, Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, Poetry Daily, Salamander | http://aaroncaycedokimura.com |
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo @marcelohcastillo.bsky.social Undocupoets co-founder author of📚Cenzontle (BOA Editions) 📚Children of the Land (Harper Collins) & Co-Editor 📚Here To Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora (Harper Collins)
Tommye Blount @tommyeblount.bsky.social Detroiter who is the author of the poetry collections FANTASIA FOR THE MAN IN BLUE (Four Way Books) and WHAT ARE WE NOT FOR.
Leah Umansky @leahumansky.bsky.social
Writer/ Poet/ Educator/ Artist/
Host + Curator of @coupletseries.bsky.social in NYC since 2011
Creator of #staybrave substack
📚: Delicate Machine (Dzanc Books, 2027)
Ordinary Splendor (Etruscan Press, 2028)
https://linktr.ee/leahumansky
Michael Mercurio @poetmercurio.bsky.social Poet. Founder and curator of What The Universe Is: A (Virtual) Reading Series, which happens monthly on Zoom. Also writes A Slight Case of Overthinking at https://damncurious.substack.com/
Find out more at https://www.poetmercurio.com