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WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
Mal Morgenstern @malmorgenstern.bsky.social writer and artist: fiction and spoken word trapped in the late 90s, media journalism about the implicit eroticism of violence/a really dirty bassline, and comix to make you nostalgic and sad.
I make edgy music: @dantealexander.bsky.social
they/them.
Veblen Director Programme @veblendirectors.bsky.social Helping ambitious people get their first board seats. Regardless of your background.
@catha-rinebell.bsky.social @catha-rinebell.bsky.social 
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
Get Launched @getlaunched.bsky.social Make yourself the 'Go To' person in any industry and earn a side income from running small networking events.
Earn through entrance fees, membership fees, sponsorships & deals. GetLaunched.org
Nathan Kelly @nathankellyedu.bsky.social Leader, Educator, Curriculum specialist FE/HE, Advocate for the Creative Industries
Daily Submittable Deadlines @submittabledaily.bsky.social Best writing and poetry festivals to submit to each day on submittable.
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/projects
Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social 📸 Photographer | capturing life's candid moments with my camera 📸
🌍 https://rupertrivett.photoshelter.com 🌍
#RealStreetPhotography #Photojournalism|
Skilled in unobtrusive, authentic #storytelling
📣NEW SUBSTACK 📔
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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/
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
Poetry Emma Meier @poetryemmameier.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Reader. Thinker. ✍️📖
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Young Identity @youngidentitymcr.bsky.social Manchester's premier spoken-word collective combined arts charity developing young writers and creatives.
Email enquiries@youngidentity.org for more information or bookings.
🔗 linktr.ee/youngidentity
Daily Short Story Deadlines @shortstorycontests.bsky.social Submit your short story to the relevant genre. All of these contests are guaranteed acceptances. Your story gets a video performance reading made!
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-short-story-contest-deadlines/
@hossam1254.bsky.social @hossam1254.bsky.social 
David Gaffney @ggaffa.bsky.social Writer, Arts Council manager, musician. Concrete Fields (Salt 2023) Out Of The Dark (Confingo 2021) graphic novel Rivers (Top Shelf 2021) www.davidgaffney.org
Lizzie Coombes / Betty Lawless @bettylawless.bsky.social Photographer Artist Researcher Runner Outdoor Soul posting #photoaday
Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
Lewis Brown Poet @lewisbrownpoet.bsky.social Writer, performer, creative freelancer and proprietor of the Spooky Poet Club.
Website: https://lewisbrownpoet.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lewisbrownpoet/
Suzannah Evans @suzannahevans.bsky.social space baby
Off the Shelf Festival of Words @otsfestival.bsky.social Celebrating books, words, and ideas. We’re one of the UK’s longest-running literary festivals, delivered by @sheffielduni.bsky.social
🌐 offtheshelf.org.uk
Alex Croft @alexrobertcroft.bsky.social CEO at Bradford Arts Centre. Chair of West Yorkshire Music Hub. Board member balletLORENT & Bradford Producing Hub. Dad. Otleynesian. Bradvocate.
The Portico Library @porticolibrary.bsky.social The Portico Library is Manchester’s original 19th-century home of literature and learning. Uncovering, imagining, and sharing new histories together.
Kate Feld @katefeld.bsky.social Poet and essayist. Journalism lecturer at the University of Salford. Vermonter in Manchester, UK. Debut chapbook DEERYARD out with Death of Workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers. katefeld.com
ImtiazDharker @imtiazdharker.bsky.social Poet Over the Moon, Shadow Reader
Elizabeth Gibson (they/them) 🌈 @grizonne.bsky.social Queer, neurodivergent Manchester poet, performer, zine-maker, and workshop facilitator 🐝 Poems in Atrium, Banshee, Butcher's Dog, Dust, Magma, The North, Under the Radar. First collection, 'A love the weight of an animal', out now with Confingo 😊
weavercarolyna @weavercarolyna.bsky.social same as on the other app
First Story @firststory.bsky.social England's leading creative writing charity for young people empowering young writers with the skills and confidence to tell their own stories. firststory.org.uk
MacRunner @macrunning.bsky.social Running, music, happily retired and married to Dr Lynn
Leeds Big Bookend & Northern Short Story Festival @bigbookend.bsky.social Writers, books, small publishers, readers - that's what we are about! Here to engage with and platform writers, books and all things lit. Leeds Lit Fest founder partner. Champions Leeds, Yorkshire and the North.
@yorkshiredance.bsky.social @yorkshiredance.bsky.social 
Andrew @macrunner.bsky.social Music, books, running, culture. Happily retired and married to Dr Lynn
THE LAST DAYS OF TRUMP (A Liberal Fantasy for the Stage) @trumplastdays.bsky.social I am the best play. There is no better play. Not even Hamlet by that loser Shakespeare!
Next up: London ONE NIGHT ONLY Sep 1st
Tickets on sale NOW! Follow link.
It's going to be INCREDIBLE!
👉👉👉 https://linktr.ee/trumplastdays
Beth Davies @bethdaviespoet.bsky.social Sheffield Poet Laureate 2024-6. The Pretence of Understanding published 2023 by The Poetry Business. Librarian by day. Appreciator of pretty skies and dogs in little coats.
One to One Development Trust @onetoonedevtrust.bsky.social Award winning UK creative arts organisation using Film - Immersive Media - Games for positive social change
Tony Wade @tonywade.bsky.social Artist, maker of stuff, painter, bad mandolin player. Sometimes says no.
www.tonywadeart.com
@markhollander.bsky.social @markhollander.bsky.social 
SJ @sarahjanemcr.bsky.social Avid reader. Festival lover. Coffee drinker. Wanderer. Passionate about storytelling, the arts, people and our planet. @Mcrlitfest.bsky.social Co-Director 📚
@europebyrail.eu @europebyrail.eu EUROPE BY RAIL: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE. By Nicky Gardner & Susanne Kries. 19th edition published 22 June 2026. #EuropebyRail. Published by @hiddeneurope.eu
Inpress Books 📚 @inpressbooks.bsky.social Reaching readers on behalf of 50+ independent publishers. Funded by Arts Council England. Follow us on socials @inpressbooks📚 linktr.ee/inpressbooks 
Helen Tookey @helentookey.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Based in Liverpool, UK. Published by Carcanet Press, Longbarrow Press and Liverpool University Press.
Gregory @gregorykearns.bsky.social Poet in theory, Neurodiversity in the Workplace trainer, host of The Poems We Made Along the Way, your new best friend.
Esther Richardson @estherichardson.bsky.social Artistic Director, Pilot Theatre
@pilottheatre.bsky.social
Zena Barrie @zenabarrie.bsky.social Author & co-director of Camden Fringe
Writes things, reads things, goes to watch things
www.zenabarrie.com
Imran Ali @imranali.bsky.social Twitter-exile, formerly @imran!
Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social Write your way to a more positive outlook on life! Guided writing activities to foster personal growth, increased mindfulness, and emotional wellbeing. Online anywhere, and in-person in North East England. writingforwellbeing.co.uk
Sallyanne Rock @sallrock.bsky.social queer, neurodivergent poet and access support worker
www.sallyannerock.com
FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
Jenny Harris @jennyjetharris.bsky.social Programme Director at #Bradford2025, UK City of Culture. 🐑🧶🌧️🍛🕌🎼🎬🐴🚴♀️🛒⛸️⚽🌳🦆
Gloria Lindh @glorialindh.bsky.social Do I need another social network I ask myself. Culture and theatre, all points North. Public transport complaints. Emerging gardening. Relationship Manager, Touring. Views all my very own. 
Clancy Mason @clancym.bsky.social Regional Development Manager for Libraries Connected.
Book loving, sci-fi consuming, judo playing, Rush listening, Jane Austen fan-girl and Blackpool sandgrowner. Vegetarian coeliac.
Alex Chisholm @amcchisholm.bsky.social Director
Dramaturg
Frazzled
Cole Green @cggr2001.bsky.social 📚☕️🎭
Adrian Sinclair @adriansinclair.bsky.social Accompanist...UNION: The Northern School of Creativity and Activism. Sheffield UK
Dibs @lroxby.bsky.social Comic artist, writer, in the astrophysics vortex
Cluny Macpherson @clunym.bsky.social Dad. Carer for our Rosie. Chair of Leeds Museums and Galleries Development Trust & Vice-chair of Leeds Conservatoire. Volunteer for British Trust for Ornithology. Latest score: Cluny 2 Cancer 0
Nigel Briggs @lawlecturer.bsky.social Human rights, criminal law, space law, books, films and F1. Allotments. Leeds fan MOT.
"listen: there's a hell
of a good universe next door; let's go"
e.e.cummings
Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social Poet, editor, critic
https://liverpooluniversitypress.blog/tag/pavilion-poetry/
https://www.serenbooks.com/seren-author/deryn-rees-jones/
https://thamesandhudson.com/paula-rego-the-art-of-story-9780500021378
Jo Bell @jobellwriter.bsky.social Poet, digital salonniere. Host of The Poetic Licence (Patreon) - monthly prompts, famous poet interviews, a creative community. Memoir, BOATER out now with HarperNorth. https://linktr.ee/BoaterJoBell
Helen Featherstone @hjfeathers.bsky.social Director, England North @heritagefund.org.uk Trustee @henrymoorefoundation Passionate about Art, Nature & Heritage
@andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social Mayor of Greater Manchester
Wieke Eringa @eringa.bsky.social Dance, music, art; culture & nature. Adoptive mum. European. LGBT.
Hana Kapetanovic @hanakappy.bsky.social Lead Researcher at Demos / Lead Researcher @ Reddit forums of reality TV shows
Tom Walters @detritivore-core.bsky.social Barely corporeal; poet, writer, creature 🌱💀🌻
trans/cripple/queer/fat/not fucking sorry
They/them
Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social Nuisance, writer, publisher - the devil's dandy - poetry & weird fic - tarot - https://linktr.ee/kymdeyn - she/they with MECFS. In books and in bogs.
Chloe Elliott @chloelliott.bsky.social encyclopaedia (New Poets Prize 2022)
DREAMSIMULATON (The Braag, 2024)
scrap & surrealism at University of Cambridge / 🍊views my own
Kath @itsmekathy.bsky.social Part-time writer; full-time twat
All Pronouns.
Daneet Steffens @daneetsteffens.bsky.social Books, science, more TK. Bookish words for Boston Globe, CrimeReads, LitHub, LARB, etc. Also: swimfan.
Katie Hale - writer @katiescribbles.bsky.social ❄️ THE EDGE OF SOLITUDE ❄️ / WHITE GHOSTS (2023) / MY NAME IS MONSTER (2019) / Northern Writers' Award 21 & 22 / Aesthetica Prize 23
Emma Adams @emmabob3.bsky.social Playwright/Screenwriter, Dramaturg & Core Team Member at The Writing Squad. Will sometimes share my sketches here too. Returning runner after a long time out. Agent: Meg Davis at The KiAgency. Links 👉🏻 https://bio.site/Emmabob3 . 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
Beth Westbrook (she/her) @bethbwestbrook.bsky.social writer facilitator performer wee bit auDHD endo pisces
rep: Maddie Berlin Associates
top 35 bruntwood, write wild, bbc writers, name dropper
https://linktr.ee/bethbwestbrook
Gavin @gavhuds.bsky.social Gay, board games, F1, basketball, vinyl, nice food, restorative practice, photography
Deconstructing culture here:
Medium.com/@gavhuds
Kayleigh Jayshree @kayleighjayshree.bsky.social poet & short story writer & publishing workerer 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ chihuahua lover 🥭🌌
debut pamphlet w/ fourteen poems🧡✨
https://www.fourteenpoems.com/shop/mango-starblush-by-kayleigh-jayshree
all views mine 👁️👄👁️
A.J. Allsopp @a11sopp.bsky.social Writer, film nerd, YGO and occasional MTG player.
The Writing Squad @thewritingsquad.bsky.social Creating the next generation in the north of England. www.writingsquad.com