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
Duke Sullivan @dukivan.bsky.social Writer of short stories, essays, and the occasional overshare. Skincare devotee, definitive recluse, husband, list maker, lover of the Roses. #NC
Dina Strasser @dinaeliz.bsky.social Writer, teacher, semi-Luddite. I follow authors, educators, and lit mags.
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
Jota @jonytekaxo.bsky.social Perdido en una selva de cemento
VO XO @voxo-wav.bsky.social Ride the wav ๐
Love Herself out now
listen / save / add to ur playlists ๐
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Jessica Roeder @jessroeder.bsky.social Writer, dancer, teacher, feminist, friend of rabbits
The Sam Hill! Review | SUBS OPEN @samhillreview.bsky.social Lit mag for historical fiction and poetry that makes you say: โnow that was good as SAM HILL!โ
SamHillReview.com | est. 2026 | Submissions for Vol. 1 are OPEN
Gillian OโShaughnessy @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social โช๏ธRelentless optimist.
โช๏ธSalt City Runaway, debut story collection out in 2026
โช๏ธSub Editor- SmokeLong Quarterly
โช๏ธBest Small Fictions 23, 24, 25.
Unknown Azimuth @scifidreaming.blacksky.app ๐ฏ๐ณ๏ธโ๐โฎ๏ธ๐ค๐ฆ๐จ๐ฝ๐๐พ๐ค๐ฉถ๐๐ง โจ๐โโฌ
"The vessel ยฐUnclassifiable Strangenessยฐ sighted off the port bow. They refuse to open a channel."
"Shields up!"
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"Wait, you can see me...?"
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"Watch that first step, it's a lulu!"
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Unidentified Anomalous Celestial Phenomena @weird-phenomena.bsky.social โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ
Quest: For personal entertainment purposes.
Level: Adult Humanoid. Special Edition.
Location: 1 AU from Sol.
Knowledge: Appreciated, especially How-To Guides on interplanetary hitchhiking ๐ธ
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Bonus Terrestrial Multiplied By Astral Projections @cosmicallybubbled.bsky.social ๐จThe Possibilities Are Endless๐จ
๐ Progress Over Perfection ๐
๐ Distant Phenomena ๐
๐ฝ...In The Making...๐ฝ
Brian Seemann @bseemann.bsky.social English professor, reader, writer | Colorado, USA | he/him
Justin Eger @fugitivecourier.bsky.social Writer-monkey, action-adventure enthusiast, inveterate smart-ass. Author of:
- The Ethan Shaw thrillers
- The John Ransom adventures
- Novels of the Underground
amazon.com/author/justin-eger
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/
LSU Press @lsupress.bsky.social Louisiana's premier academic publisher, established in 1935. #lsupress
Nicholas Common @nicholascommon.bsky.social Science fiction and fantasy novellas. Currently witing a novel about a society that solved aging, and the couple who chose it anyway.
zachspruce @zachspruce.bsky.social Rochester, NY. Trashpoet.
Author of the chapbook Vanishing Sun (2024) from Bottlecap Press.
Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social Syntaxer. Poet. Editor. Columnist. Gaymer. Ex-chef. Occasional pebble. Feelings Laminated. MFA in Poetry (Randolph).
words -> http://adriandallas.com
Elizabeth Botsford @elizabethbotsford.bsky.social Middle grade novel writer. Longlisted, Yeovil Literary Prize 2026. Shortlisted, Jericho Writers Friday Night Live.
Karen Keefe @greenkari.bsky.social Poet, Buddhist, Resist, never give up
Courtney Elizabeth Young @ceywriter.bsky.social AUTHOR โข ARTIST โข ANIMAL
WordSmitten Writers WorkShop @wordsmittenwrkshop.bsky.social WordSmitten Workshop is a virtual roundtable where writers critique long projects - from page one to publication. We also offer education, reading, and salons to the Southwest Florida writing & reading community. www.wordsmittenworkshop.com
Angรฉlique "Angel" Gravely @angelgravely.blacksky.app LGBTQ+ Educator/Advocate ๐
Professional Bisexual ๐ฉท๐๐
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School Counselor ๐ซ
Book Lover ๐
Writer โ๐พ
Christeene Alcosiba @christeene.bsky.social Poems, tech, liminal spaces, and good trouble.
Opinions are my own.
Michael Russell Jones @michaeljonas.bsky.social Word nerd.
Neurodivergent autodidact.
Proud survivor of childhood S.A.
Psych ward philosopher.
Resides and writes in Skokie, Illinois.
Poems: https://whiskeytit.com/article/five-poems/
Samuel Autman @samuelautman.bsky.social Writer l Professor l Foodie l Traveler I Meditator l Flรขneur l ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
๐ฆ๐ท๐จ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ง๐ช๐ธ๐ซ๐ท๐ฒ๐ฝ๐จ๐บ๐ต๐ณ๐ต๐น๐ณ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฆ๐ผ๐ง๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐ต๐ซ๐ฎ๐น๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฑ๐ป๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ป๐ณ๐จ๐ฟ๐จ๐ฑ๐ต๐ช
โ๏ธ๐พ essays, fiction & more
๐ฝ https://vimeo.com/921531391
www.samuelautman.com
David Everard @deverard.bsky.social
@dog-e-doo-doo.bsky.social
Elissa Field @elissafield.bsky.social Lit noir novels + flash | SmokeLong Submission Ed | Runner Up Killer Claymore Best Mystery | Stories in/coming SmokeLong trampset HAD Moon City Ghost Parachute Monkeybicycle Citron Review Peatsmoke CRAFT Conjunctions ++ | IG FB elissalaurenfield.com
Larry O. Dean @larryodean.bsky.social Flint-born, former San Franciscan, Chicago-based poet, educator, singer-songwriter, and kitchen sink sardonicist
https://www.larryodean.com
Capt.Ed @capt-ed.bsky.social Active duty during each of five decades. Drafted โ69.
Best coffee ever? Remembering the thermos 200 miles into a 3,000 mile road trip.
Unless you are here to push back against the authoritarian takeover of America, there is no need to follow.
#Alaska
Northwest Review @northwestreview.bsky.social Established in 1957, we are a literary magazine in Eugene, Oregon, publishing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.
Rusty Barnes @rustybarnes23.bsky.social poet and novelist
http://www.linktr.ee/rustybarnes23
@plummoonflower.bsky.social @plummoonflower.bsky.social 
Thomas William Brewer @scuzzlife.bsky.social Elevated basic
Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social Peggy Poole Winner 2022 |
Prose: Flare and Falter, Splice |
Poetry: These Are Not My Dreams, Nine Pens
https://mickconley.substack.com/
Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social
IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS 2nd edition (IceFloe Press 2026)
WHERE SANDS RUN FINEST (DarkWinter Press 2024)
Bridport Prize 2025 shortlist.
Pushcart, Forward Prize, BOTN, Best Spiritual Lit nominee
Guest Editor: IceFloe Press
linktr.ee/vikki_c._author
Jeffrey Hecker @heckheck03.bsky.social Poet, Teen Writers Fellowship Poetry Teacher (The Muse Writers Center), Poetry Staff Reader for Quarterly West and Okay Donkey Magazine.
Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois Universityโs 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
Blake Bell @blakebell.art Teacher, writer, dog-food-plant-enthusiast
LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social Writer's writer's writer.
๐ STILL ALIVE (2024), longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award. https://eveninghousebooks.com/product/still-alive/
E Ce Miller @ecemiller.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Words in DIHP, Liars' League, Lunch Ticket, Heavy ๐ชถ Rev, Pacifica Lit, more. Reads at Split/Lip Press, Four Way Review. Currently based in Washington D.C.
Bill Marsh @bcmearc.bsky.social City prof (Chicago), country poet, essayist, union+, angling for truth in a big lie pond. Words/doodles: petrichor, Potomac Review, Water-Stone Review, Copper Nickel, Word For/Word, Sonic Boom.
https://nodiff.com/
Genevieve DeGuzman @gendeguzman.bsky.social Poet & writer based in Portland, OR. Tin House Workshop. StoryStudio. Oregon Lit Fellowship. KARAOKE AT THE END OF THE WORLD (JackLeg Press).
https://linktr.ee/genevievedeguzman
janetTHEmcadams @janetthemcadams.bsky.social Poet
Translator
Geezer socialist
Queer as a happy Monday
Dogs live with me
Kerry Madden- Lunsford @kerrymadden.bsky.social I write books for kids and teach creative writing at UAB. My new novel is called WEREWOLF HAMLET with Charlesbridge Moves in 2025. Happily married to Kiffen with three beautiful grown kids and a grandchild, Bonnie Alfred. https://www.kerrymadden.com/
Domingos @domingosmcc.bsky.social I know not what tomorrow will bringโฆ(Pessoa)
๐๐ ะฃะบัะฐัะฝะฐ ัะบัะฐัะฝััะผ! ๐๐
๐ซ Nazifascists&Maga๐ซ Bitcoin ๐ซ Get-rich schemes
I reject fanaticism and outdated orthodoxies!
Black Lawrence Press @blacklawrence.bsky.social New York-based publisher of contemporary poetry and prose. Founded in 2004, CLMP member. Home to annual contests, open reading periods, and the Immigrant Writing Series. We offer manuscript consultations, free monthly writing workshops, and more.
Jeremy Michael Reed @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social writer, editor, professor | creative writing, 20/21C US lit & cultural studies | edits @swiftslitmag.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/jeremymichaelreed
Thomas Larson @nosralmat.bsky.social Journalist, memoirist, critic. www.thomaslarson.com
Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social Writer, nurse. SmokeLong Quarterly, Cincinnati Review+. Senior flash fiction editor @jmww. Sucker for a good barn.
โWe'll Be Birds" flash chapbook available at Sand and Gravel Press
lisathorntonwriter.com
moocat.net @moocat.net This is the official account for the literary magazine, moocat.net (2001-present)
In lieu of direct messages to this account, please use the Contact Us form on the website:
https://moocat.net/contact/
Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com bradley-david.com
Substack: โGo Sit In The Cornerโ
Tom Marcinko @tommarcinko.bsky.social He/him. Stories in Beneath Ceaseless Skies (forthcoming), Nature/Futures, Interzone, Rosebud, Triangulation, and elsewhere. tommarcinko.neocities.org/
West Waterford Arts Group @westwaterfordag.bsky.social A cross-pollinating community of artists meeting in West Waterford with a multi-disciplinary approach to creativity.
#waterford #ireland #arts #poetry #visualarts #novelists #photoartists #collage #playwrights #musicians #songwriters #sculpture #speirgorm
Michael Pershan @mpershan.bsky.social math teacher, writer in upper manhattan
substack: pershmail.substack.com
website with links to publications etc: michaelpershan.com
Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social Professional explicator and maker of soothing sounds. I'd rather make furniture than go to midnight mass.
Author of "The Inaccessible Rail" (2026)
(PREORDER! https://malarkeybooks.com/store/inaccessiblerail)
and "Un-ruined" (2022) from Malarkey Books
Andrew Huffman @landrewhuffman.bsky.social trans writer โข ABBA enthusiast โข landrewhuffman.com
Hallie Pritts @halliepritts.bsky.social Writer. Finalist, Jeffrey E. Smith Editorโs Prize โ24, Sewanee Writers โ22. CHTQA fellow. NZ writer-in-residence. Words in Mcsweeneys, MissouriReview, LitMag, Barrelhouse, TheBelladonna, OffAssignment, etc. Rode a bike across the US once. #nativeplants
Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social (re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com Co-owner @eveninghouse.bsky.social
Writer:
FEAST OF THE PALE LEVIATHAN
BOXCUTTERS
EIC @cold-signal.com
Buffalo, NY
johnchrostek.com
@sentientpenchant.bsky.social @sentientpenchant.bsky.social 
Michael Thรฉriault @mtheriaultsf.bsky.social Iโve done a few things. Iโm not quite done yet.
Anya Johanna DeNiro @adeniro.bsky.social Trans woman, writer, mom in St. Paul, Minnesota. Author of OKPsyche (novel) and From the Yew (poetry chapbook).
Shelly Blake-Plock @shellyblakeplock.com Writing horror fiction, making music, building weird things. Oh, and baseball. And open source. Also, I've lived in a haunted house for 23 years, which is fun.
@craterwalker.bsky.social @craterwalker.bsky.social Former Alaska pastor writing a memoir that blends humor, miracles, wilderness life, and the devastating reality of spiritual abuse.
This is the journey from laughter to loss to the CraterWalker rising.
T Guzman @tguzman.bsky.social Writer or close approximate. Chapbook, Ghost Mom, from Stanchion Press. Exclamation point user extraordinaire. Zebra Cake connoisseur.
Chicanx. He/Him.
www.tguzmanwrites.com
CA๐/MI๐/STLโฅ๏ธ
z kennedy-lopez @zkennedylopez.bsky.social they/them. writer, noisemaker, fermenter, teacher. words in catapult, foglifter, autostraddle, bedfellows, & others. jake sun, marceline moon, b-mo wannabe. editorial asst @ split lip mag www.zkennedylopez.com/
Henry Ciesla ๐บ๐ธ๐ @222henry.bsky.social Totally Blue; anti MAGA; retired, ex USAF, homo sapiens, many interests & hobbies. Trending toward olde age! But content, hoping for peaceful & pleasant next 4 years. ๐๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ฆ๐๐. pro choice. I've seen enough to know who the good ones are.
@significantdot.bsky.social @significantdot.bsky.social 
Damn Jones @damnjones.bsky.social Author of lyrical, voice-driven literary fiction & poetry.
Vignette Editions
https://linktr.ee/damnjones
Editorial/Reading Assistant at @thirtywestph.com
Chasing the numinous.
thepoetofcuisine @thepoetofcuisine.bsky.social Writer of "Digital Cicero: A Silk Road Novella", award winning "the Fry Up Triptych", and "Victorian Fast Food", THE dissertation on commercial food in East London
buymeacoffee.com/poetofcuisine
thelonghand @thelonghand.bsky.social Screenwriter. Poet. Professor.
Books: Eidolon. The Getty Fiend. Middlemost Constantine. Films: Winter in the Blood. Wed the Dark.
The Sierra Nevada Review @sierranevadareview.com Since 1990, SNR has been publishing daring new poetry, short fiction, and literary nonfiction from the shores of North Lake Tahoe. SNR is managed by the students in the low-res MFA program at UNR Tahoe.
Read & submit at https://sierranevadareview.com
Marianne Villanueva @2waystreet.bsky.social Writer, Book Addict - No DMs
Author of Ginseng and Other Tales from Manila (Calyx Press), Mayor of the Roses (Miami University Press)
Newest Collection: Residents of the Deep (Unsolicited Press -https://www.unsolicitedpress.com/shop/p/residentsofthedeep)
Dustin Shattuck @dustinshattuck.bsky.social 
Brett Harper @brettharper.bsky.social #Disabled anti #ChildAbuse and #TroubledTeenIndustry #author & #activist. #Musician & #poet. #Progressive living in #PDX. Check out my #books on #Amazon or my #blog on my website for more info. Brett-Harper.com
@susanbearman.bsky.social @susanbearman.bsky.social 
Nathan Willis @nathanwillis.bsky.social Writer. Stories in Swamp Pink, Moon City Review, Pithead Chapel, Split Lip, Passages North, X R A Y, & others.
nathan-willis.com
mbondhuswriter.bsky.social @mbondhuswriter.bsky.social
Neurospicy He/They. Purveyor of Poetry and Horror Fiction.
Newest book OCCULT HIGH SCHOOL REVOLUTION due out from Unsolicited Press January 2027!
https://MichaelBondhus.com IG @bondhuspoetry
Liz Fyne (she/her) @lizfyne.com Writer, recovering scientist. Debut novel forthcoming from She Writes Press, February 2027. Stories @xraylitmag.bsky.social, @pipelineartists.bsky.social, @molotovlitzine.bsky.social, @maudlinhouse.bsky.social. Find me at lizfyne.com
The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social The VILLAGE ๐ is a place where the world ๐ feels a tiny bit smaller. Founded by SMOKELONG for the Global Flash Community
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Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social Crone, wastrel, lapsed (but twitching) novelist. Posts about art & lit.
Me: https://www.writersunion.ca/member/anne-denoon
My book: Back Flip, a novel about art & the 1960s: https://t.co/m7fQSOo6At or (with reviews) https://tinyurl.com/4dzwzpdp
Elise LeSage @eliselesage.bsky.social Writer, daydreamer, and dreadfully much else.
The Literate Lizard @theliteratelizard.bsky.social An online-only & very woke bookstore in Arizona. Over 20 years in the book biz. We cater to the liberal point of view. Post as DebtorsPrison on Daily Kos. Books, politics, world travel, history. Support is appreciated: https://theliteratelizard.com 
Stuart Aken @stuartaken.bsky.social UK writer of fiction (12 books published). Photographer. Environment, science, atheist, humanist, walker, happily married. Find me here: https://stuartaken.net/ I DO NOT follow DMs, selfie promos & users w/o profiles or posts. Porn will be blocked.
shannon wolf @helloshanwolf.bsky.social british writer in the hudson valley
GREEN CARD GIRL - 2023, being reissued by @unsolicitedpress.bsky.social in 2027
Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social EIC @the-engine-idling.bsky.social
https://www.d-mcmahon-writes.net
author of 4 poetry chapbooks & 2 microchaps
latest: rowhouse song (Ghost City Press '25) | irl (Stanchion '26)
https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/irl
Davi Gray (she/they) @davigray.com Queer, trans, nonbinary poet, writer, performer, artist, activist, & abolitionist. 18+ ๐๐ผ
Work published in Poetry, Water~Stone Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, et al. First collection "This Body, This Fruit" @ Feb 2027 (@triohousepress.org).
Nancy Townsley @nancytownsley.bsky.social Retired newspaper journalist. Gramma who sews, walks, and writes. Author of SUNSHINE GIRL, Heliotrope Books, 2025, and CARSON McCLINTOCK IS NOT DEAD YET, forthcoming May 11, 2027 from Heliotrope.
Kakistocracy of TERROR! ๐ @crankypacifist.bsky.social I'm Jay โ she/him/y'all โ ADHD
Published & creative crap:
https://jayparr.neocities.org/
Typos are stylesheet.
"AI hater."
"Radically pro-transgender."
Fuck the war machine.
Geld the patriatchy.
House the unhoused.
pfp by Terijian Bearheart.
Patricia Knight Meyer - www.myadoptedlife.com @myadoptedlife.bsky.social #Journalist, #Author, Black Market Baby #adoptee not #adopted, #writer #memoirist with #memoir about being sold as an infant. #amquerying, X-expat, ๐ #writingcommunity, #litagent, #adopteerights #feminist, #LBGTQ. Blog: www.myadoptedlife.com โ๏ธโ๏ธ๐ท ๐ฆ
Yogmo Tovjstfs iykyk @itsjustmynametifni.bsky.social Likes: music, coffee, yummy food stuff, animals, comics, British mysteries and panel shows, graphic art, MCM design/art/architecture.
Just like everyone else, in Portland Oregon, Iโm not special
Dislikes: bigotry, Brussel sprouts, bananas
@ravensitka.bsky.social @ravensitka.bsky.social I donยดt like to be shush. Immigrant. Librarian. Host of Bulevar Latino at KCAW, Sitka. Opinions are my own.Exhausted. Libre, o intentรกndolo. From Spain to Alaska, and many other places in between. Books, always books. And dogs!
@brendanev.bsky.social @brendanev.bsky.social