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/
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
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
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
Baby Richman @babyrichmanband.bsky.social STREAM ➡️ SAVE ➡️ FOLLOW ➡️ PLAYLIST 💛
Marvine @mphamner.bsky.social Not Marvin! - she/her! Always speak truth to power! Democrat, wife of Vietnam vet, professional (D.Sc.) woman still working FT in education, not going back! Opinions are my own!
🇺🇸 💔 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 💙 📎🧪
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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
LELambert @l3lambert.bsky.social Mom, LGBTQ+ ally, poet, labyrinth walker, PhD immunology & infectious diseases, writing circle facilitator
@1camisha.bsky.social @1camisha.bsky.social 
No Vote For Novick PDX @novotefornovick.bsky.social No Vote For Novick is seeking some PDX organizers and artists to join our group now — get involved early — so that by election season this fall, we are ready to roll out a Don't Rank Rene-sized campaign against him.
Lupe Mendez @thepoetmendez.bsky.social 🇲🇽Writer | Artivist | Editor |
Books: We Exist in the Whisper, Prayer Holding Night, Why I am Like Tequila
Founder, Tintero Projects
TX Poet Laureate Emeritus (2022-23)
linktr.ee/the.lupemendez
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Terry O. Scott-Bond @terryoscott-bond.bsky.social Please follow Terry on Medium: medium.com/@terryoscottbond
True Democracy's poet—from the world's longest-running constitutional democratic republic—who loves and believes in the People. A human being. Doing something different. Posts read as a lit thread.
Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social Scurrying through the mire of existence. #AmQuerying a novel about a trip through the lives of ancestors.
NYC! 🏙️
Follow me at Medium.com/@edwardrstapleton
Sunu P. Chandy @sunuchandy.bsky.social Civil rights attorney & poet / author of My Dear Comrades
https://www.sunuchandy.net/
Chloe Yelena Miller @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social Writer & Writing Teacher in Washington, D.C.
Co-founder of @brownbaglit.bsky.social
Author of Perforated ('26) and Viable ('21) from Lily Poetry Review Books
Black Warrior Review @blackwarriorreview.bsky.social We publish experimental fiction, nonfiction, poetry, hybrid works, comics, and visual art.
Issue 52.1 out now!
Poetry Foundation @poetry.foundation The Poetry Foundation transforms lives through the power of words. Publisher of POETRY magazine. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
Sarpong Osei Asamoah @sarpongoseiasamoah.bsky.social Author of YAANOM, Finalist—Evaristo Prize for African Poetry, @ObsidianFnd Alumn, Editor at @Tamperedpress, host of @Canon_Podcast
Eve Xin 心 @suitcaseofpoetry.bsky.social poetry / fiction / spoken word / migrant / exile
linktr.ee/suitcaseofpoetry
Critical Exposure @criticalexposure.bsky.social Photography, Youth Organizing, and Storytelling in the District of Columbia
https://criticalexposure.org/
Meilin @msaha.bsky.social 🐾 A true animal lover — my pets are my best companions. ❤️🐶🐱
Aishatu Ado @aishatuado.bsky.social AUTHOR. ARTIST. PEACE TECHNOLOGIST.
Clarion West '25 | Alumna: Tin House, VONA, Hurston/Wright, RWW, Voodoonauts
https://aishatu.carrd.co/
Member: Codex & BSFA
Co-founding member at Àrokò Cooperative
@aroko.bsky.social
betsyfagin.bsky.social @betsyfagin.bsky.social Poet :: guide :: conspirator
Zine maker, author of self-driving (Autumn House), Fires Seen From Space (Winter Editions) & All is not yet lost (Belladonna)
https://tomorrow-never-happens.ghost.io/
KT Herr @ktherr.bsky.social Poet / Musician / Educator / Curious Person
PhD / University of Houston
Poetry Editor / Gulf Coast Journal
Board member / Four Way Books
Words in Foglifter, Grist, ALR, Mass Rev, Black Warrior Rev, Frontier, etc....
https://linktr.ee/kt_herr
Tracy Royce @tracyroyce.bsky.social Writer, poet, reader, cinephile, art-fiend, hiker, board gamer. She/her.
Ra Avis @rarasaur.substack.com Achingly human. Writer, illustrator & helper. Also, always, Rarasaur. 🦖💕 Co-founder @biggestlittlezinefair CNO @worthrises | Views are my own.
The Times They Are A-Changin’-Dylan @soccerdawgz.bsky.social Retired Substance Use Disorder Counselor; long term recovery; NC Dem; Kamala supporter; soccer player & fan; everyone watches women's sports; NC Courage & NCFC supporter; NWSL, USWNT, USMNT, USL; music; nature; healthy resistance!
Chalk Girl @chalkgirl.bsky.social trans angel in Portland, OR // writer-poet, ex-music critic
I do chalk art for political stuff like strikes, protests, etc.
ICE out of America
Chinga La Migra
Tear down the walls of Europe & America's too
FASCISMO NUNCA MAIS!
Clever Resistance @cleverresistance.bsky.social Featuring resistance efforts, big and small. Scroll-worthy.
Hope. Humor. Resources.
Jill Kitchen @jillkitchen.bsky.social language, longing, music, landscape. DC. co, nyc, & london still hold my heart. words in asterales, crabcreek, fourway, iowa, NAR, poetlore, split lip, vassar. soon in AQR, birdcoat, citron, june road. social media @ SWWIM she/her linktr.ee/jillkitchen
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/
Kashawn Taylor @kashawntaylor.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Student.
Prison Journalism Project.
Gotham Writers Workshop.
book: subhuman. out now.
Rough Diamond Poetry @rough-diamond1.bsky.social Rough Diamond is an online and in print poetry journal. roughdiamondpoems@gmail.com
EIC - Charlotte Cosgrove
http://ko-fi.com/roughdiamond open for subs
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
Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social Writer. Mom. Xeric gardener. OPENING (Glass Poetry, 2026). REMAINDER (Bull City Press, 2025). FRUITFUL (Driftwood Press, 2024). Poems in Best of the Net, West Branch, phoebe, Cincinnati Review, etc. More poems at https://linktr.ee/stefaniekirbypoetry
chrysanthemum @chrysanthemum.bsky.social poet / chrysanthemvm.com
isabella mori @moritherapy.bsky.social making lives better, making better lives, for everyone. retired #mentalhealth professional #haiku #peace #writingcommunity #buddhism #pagan #longcovid. old. they/she.
unceded, traditional, ancestral musqueam, squamish & tsleil-waututh lands aka vancouver.
beestung @beestung.bsky.social a quarterly mag of non-binary & genderqueer & two-spirit writers that’s sweet & stings | imprint of
sundress publications | eic sarahclark.bsky.social
http://www.beestungmag.com
https://beestungmag.com/newsletter
Callie Jennings @aporianautics.bsky.social Heaven bless the babe. What queer books she must have read.
she | threemachineexpression.substack.com
charlotte york finding out about gooning (they/them) 🇵🇸 @stringtheory.bsky.social capybara enthusiast, them-about-town, and literal doctor. i hate music more than you like it
Lindsay Wilson @lindsay-wilson.bsky.social Poet & Professor in Reno, NV. Author of The Day Gives Us So Many Ways to Eat and No Elegies. Poetry editor at The Meadow
www.lindsaywilson.net
Hard On News @bluebirdnews.bsky.social Getting deep into the stories that matter. Delivering stiff, unpenetrated reporting from the heart of the action. We're committed to keeping you fully informed
C. L. Kagmi @clkagmi.bsky.social She/her. Futurist inspired by Asimov, Butler, and Clarke. Continually figuring out how to re-forecast the future. Thinks fiction should expand your mind and writes weird, intense plotlines featuring moral dilemmas and character transformations accordingly.
Jack Frazier @jfrazierwrites.bsky.social Writer, reader, and so much less.
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Closed-door mysteries & peculiar people.
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Join my cult (c'mon, live a little.)
jfrazierwrites.substack.com
jackfrazierwrites.com
Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.com Queer, trans, nonbinary poet, writer, performer, artist, activist, & abolitionist. 18+ 🙏🏼
Work published in Poetry, Water~Stone Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, et al. First collection "This Body, This Fruit" @ Feb 2027 (@triohousepress.org).
Burgi Zenhaeusern @burgi.bsky.social Loves books. Writes poems.
She/her
For everything else, incl. WHITE DOOR order link: https://linktr.ee/burgitree
PS: DM for signed/review copies
Banner: shadows of cast-iron chair & plant on flagstones.
Headshot: white woman (long hair, glasses) smiling
tj (THEY/THEM) go watch invincible fight girl 😷😷😷 @atjscreams.blacksky.app they/them. black cripplepunk writer.
usually screaming
i talk a lot about rape culture, abuse, trauma, covid (caution vs. denialism)/physical masking/ableism, homo/transphobia, misogynoir and anti-blackness, and the intersections of the aforementioned
Thirteen Bridges Review @thirteenbridges.bsky.social Thirteen Bridges Review is a Literary Arts Journal produced by the Department of English and Philosophy at Auburn University at Montgomery. Our mission is to publish work that is as exciting as it is groundbreaking.
https://www.thirteenbridgesreview.com
Alan @alanwd40.bsky.social I’m a recovering alcoholic and I’m trying to understand what my life meant to me then and now
Jessica Piscitelli Robinson (she/her) @jessica-p-robinson.bsky.social Jessica Robinson is Executive Director of Better Said Than Done, a storyteller, the co-author of Roar: True Tales of Women Warriors, author of the novel Caged (JP Robinson), and the memoir Stages: My Life in Stories.
https://jessicapiscitellirobinson.com/
Better Said Than Done @bettersaidthandone.bsky.social Storytelling shows, workshops, presentations, and coaching. And the Women’s Storytelling Festival.
https://bettersaidthandone.org/events/
Camisha Jones @1camishaj.bsky.social 
Makaela 🦻🏻😷🖖🏻 @miadove.bsky.social multiply disabled. intersectional justice. work doesn't define me.
Profile pic: a tree with pink leaves in shape of a heart.
Profile banner: wispy branches with flower buds against a pale blue sky.
Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) @travisclau.bsky.social (he/him/his) Associate Professor, Crip Queer Poet: c18/c19 British Literature and Culture / Disability Studies / Health Humanities / History of Medicine (immunity and vaccination)
travisclau.com
Apostasy Now! @apostasynow.bsky.social A mostly harmless (they/them, 3?, disabled) thing.
David W Janey @dwjaney.bsky.social 
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
David Elwell @drelwell.bsky.social Inputs: words & music, pictures too. Outputs: not so much.
When I'm working: editorial & publications. When I'm not: aimless.
JoAnn Balingit @balingit.bsky.social Poet. Kapampángan German American. Mother of four grownass adults. 2023-2024 Fulbrigiht Scholar🇵🇭always on a journey. Writing family love & trouble. Once a school librarian ❤️, once poet laureate of Delaware. Linktr.ee/Balingit
Elf Like God @elfbetcom.bsky.social 🔥 Hey everyone
MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social 50 Years of the MFA Program for Writers—the first low-residency MFA in the US and the world.
Poetry | Fiction | Creative Nonfiction
App deadlines: September 1 | March 1
https://linktr.ee/warrenwilsonmfa
alyssa froehling @catropto.bsky.social nervous pisces, poet, asst. poetry editor of Sundog Lit. she/her 🩷💜💙
@noa-lysander.bsky.social @noa-lysander.bsky.social 
Millicent Borges Accardi @topangahippie.bsky.social NEA Poetry| CantoMundo |Fulbright | Calif Arts Council | Author of 4 poetry books. Work in Paris Review, Witness, APR, Laurel Review and Nimrod. #Portuguese #poetrycommunity #Binders #Yaddo https://www.millicentborgesaccardi.com/
Kathryn Kysar @darklake.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Professor. Friend. Minnesotan. She/They. Poetry Books: Pretend the World, Dark Lake. Recent words in Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Mollyhouse, Voicemail Poems, Water~Stone Review.
Patricia Smith @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social THE INTENTIONS OF THUNDER, Scribner, 9/30! Poet/Princeton CW prof, Ruth Lilly & Kingsley Tufts, NAACP Image Award, Pulitzer finalist, Guggenheim, Chgo Literary Hall of Fame. Love Cubs, Lou Malnati's, Portillo's & the peppermint stick/hot pickle mashup.
yanyi @yanyiii.com writer
Mandianne @mandianne.bsky.social MFA student, poet, tarot reader, mostly introverted, book lover
Read A Little Poetry @readalittlepoem.bsky.social Holding poets to the light • A passion project by @andhow.bsky.social • est 2005 • https://readalittlepoetry.com/ • https://ko-fi.com/readalittlepoem • Poet's Field Notes (tdelosreyes.substack.com)
Blake Lynch @blakelynchpoet.bsky.social Author of Hanging the Angels (FLP, 2025).
Poet. Survivor. Game dev & ghost collector.
I sleep beside a Ouija board and a barrel of Legos.
www.blakelynchwriter.com
linktr.ee/Blake_Lynch
Haley (they/them) @talkinghyphae.bsky.social Moss. Poems. Probably talking to your child about life and death.
https://www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/aurora-comes-online-haley-boss
Eman Hassan @eman-hassan-23.bsky.social Poet, educator. Dis/passionate observer. Author of Raghead (New Issues Poetry&Prose, 2018).
🌶️as @wwjcd.bsky.social writer, death doula, avid reader
irl cherub 👼🏾
on a quest for liberation for us all
Pamir Kiciman @lunamothcreations.bsky.social Word/Performance/Movement/Lens Artist. Arts Editor & Arts Writer. VisualCV: https://my.visualcv.com/pamirkiciman/ Artist Site: https://pamirkiciman.start.page/ Meditation & Healing Teacher & Practitioner. Triangle, NC.
cam 🌙🦚🕊 @handle.invalid dubiously sane artisan-scholar-witch-bitch • proponent of positive obsession • 2much4mostppl • ⚫️ & 🏳️⚧️ • queen of organized madness • personal account
aja (prn. aya) aka camara aka ya-ley-ah she/her
21+ MDNI
natalie d.c. (she/her) @nataliedc.bsky.social artist by day, writer by night 🇲🇦🪬🍉
https://nataliedc.carrd.co/
Words for Wording (Maria DiFrancesco, she/they) @mariadifrancesco.bsky.social Professor, poet, writer. Thoughts I share here are my own and do not reflect the thoughts or values of my employer. No DMs, please. I welcome reposts, but please credit me on writing! 🏳️🌈🦄
https://substack.com/@wordsr4wording?utm_source=user-menu
@themaninblackfled.bsky.social @themaninblackfled.bsky.social Classically trained pianist living in Portland. Oregon. Veteran: Former Navy SWCC. Current social services middle management guru. Proud Dad. Cat owner. I am afraid of slugs and orcas. Slinger of lead and Death. I choose violence daily.
Cadence @cadencemc.bsky.social Luna Priestess of CSM
Former Mayor of Hell
Glass Walking Hoodooisant
Tributes accepted🧟♀️
DC Writers Room @dcwritersroom.bsky.social Washington, DC's 24/7 co-working studio for writers located in the heart of Tenleytown
https://www.dcwritersroom.com/
Annie Przypyszny @apryps.bsky.social Poetry MFA @ UMD // intern at the DC Writers Room // reader at Bicoastal Review // poems in Sugar House Review, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Tupelo Quarterly, Tampa Review, Bear Review, SWWIM, The Shore, The Emerson Review, etc. // annieprzypyszny.com 🌷🌸🌺
Emma Morris @curtainlecture.bsky.social Aspiring Sacred Monster. Astro Literate. Acquisitions Manager @ Newberry Library. She/her. Opinions mine & with apologies to the collective unconscious.
Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social Ensuring a vibrant, diverse literary landscape by helping small literary publishers work better. www.clmp.org
Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy, Author, Folklorist, Scholar @saloy1.bsky.social Mona Lisa Saloy, Ph.D. Louisiana Poet Laureate (2021-2023), is an author, folklorist, Louisiana Folklife Commissioner, educator, and scholar of Creole culture in articles, documentaries, and poems about Black New Orleans before and after Katrina.
Rae De Vine @voicedevine.bsky.social Audiobook Narrator. Storyteller. Poet (they/she) Black. Queer. Indigenous. Neurospicy.
SAG-E | AEA
Rhizome DC @rhizomedc.bsky.social community space in Takoma DC // art * learning * diy culture // rhizomedc.org
Amy Bowles Reyer, Ph.D. @free2beadhd.bsky.social Depressed student of the human condition. Ph.D in American Studies from G.W. M.A. from Yale. B.A. U-W Badger. Writer. Meditator. ADHD. OG staffer of The Onion. Women’s programming producer for radio/tv.
Roy Duffield @drinking-traveller.bsky.social Writing in 3:AM, Feminist Review, @riseupreview.bsky.social, Diode, @partiallyshymag.bsky.social, Ink Sweat & Tears, Lucent Dreaming… First book: Bacchus Against the Wall (Chicago: Anxiety Press, 2023)
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
🪼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/
Jennifer Wiren @jenniferwiren.bsky.social Trans poet and novelist.
LeAnne, who is not high in this photo, but unsure about the cat @ennael.bsky.social Poet, writer, proofreader, leftist, the embodiment of social awkwardness--lowered GPA with ballroom dance--see definition for gaffe. Bi, ND, she/her. Very married. Publishes a blog of writing prompts and apologies at https://leannehunt.com/
Trio House Press @triohousepress.org Publishing diverse, distinct poetry since 2012 - and, in 2024, creative nonfiction and more! @KrisBigalk.bsky.social - executive editor; @NatashaKane.bsky.social - marketing/acquisitions editor
https://www.triohousepress.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/
Adi Magazine @adimagazine.bsky.social Adi is an international literary magazine rehumanizing policy. New pieces weekly! adimagazine.com- B @bigwhitepup.bsky.social @bigwhitepup.bsky.social
Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.com Earthling, she/her, educator, reader, tabletop gamer, and more. Avatar by Corinne Roberts.
If you want my views and zines on AI, check out padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI