Looking for Deaf-centred stories for the reader in your family? Check out these authors: @novicsara.bsky.social @sageravenwood.bsky.social @rossshowalter.com @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social Keep an eye on this page. I’ll be recommending Deaf & Disabled authors & artists throughout the month. 🤟🏼

A creative funding opportunity! If you qualify—apply! 🌈 ✍️

A learning opportunity! Check out the info below ✍️

Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.

A submission opportunity! If you qualify don’t be shy — apply! As always read the guidelines and don’t be a jerk 🌈 ✍️

An event opportunity! Come to WOTS in Saskatoon at the Refinery, 15 Saturday. The fabulous Adam Pottle will be there and others! I’ll be there too as a volunteer! Come and say hi

A poetry submission opportunity! You know what you have to do — submit to the West Trade Review!

A get yourself to an event opportunity!! If you’re in the Bay Area in the USA don’t miss this free, public event ✍️ 📖

A submission opportunity final call. Submit before midnight tonight! ✨ 🌙

A submission opportunity! @theberlinreview.bsky.social is open for submissions. If you’re the right fit go ahead and submit

A micro~grants opportunity! Submit if you are the right fit 🌈 ✍️

An opportunity! Today’s the day! If you’re in Waterloo say hi to the crew from TNQ 🌈 📖

A writing opportunity! More deets to come! Stay tuned

It’s nearly midnight! 🐈‍⬛ 🎃 Get those poems in now! A submission opportunity. If you qualify—apply!

Another writing opportunity! This time it’s a call for chapbooks by the fab @thirtywestph.com As usual, check if you qualify before you apply 🌈

A submission opportunity. Time’s almost up! Send your subs to the fab @bansheepress.bsky.social Again, before you apply make sure you qualify!

Of course! Why is it that the solution to everything is AI?! Maybe the plan could be to look after and support writers so that AI isn’t the answer? 🤷

A writing prize opportunity from the fab Cúirt! www.cuirt.ie/cuirt-new-wr...

A reading opportunity! If you qualify, apply 🌈

A poetry publishing opportunity! Submit if the rules fit

So jealous! Seems like a fab night 🤩

Hello new people of Bluesky! Please use alt text for all of your lovely images and gifs 🙏 It not only helps people with vision impairments, it also makes your images searchable! Win-win situation 💛

Apply if you qualify! Pamphlet submissions open till 30 November at the fab @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

So why hasn’t this happened already? A Glen Carter spin off. All he wants is a holiday!! He goes on a holiday in search of a safe. Every episode a different safe a different holiday

Unhinged thought of the day:

Another opportunity. Apply if you qualify! 💫

Wowzah! 🛸 👽 Check out this fab issue of Prairie Fire. Delighted to have found a home in this fine mag for my non-fiction. It means a lot 🥰

A writing grant opportunity for select European countries! Apply if you qualify. Deadline fast approaching 🌈

More writing opportunities for October!

Get subbing! Check out the mighty list for calls from the fab @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social 🤩

Another opportunity! This time in Winnipeg. Check it out

Ireland has lost a mountain of libraries with the passing of Manchán Magan. A brilliant, gentle, inspiring treasure of a spirit. As a friend said last night, “He described the Irish language as potent and infinite, but that was him too.” Seol go réidh, mo chara.

An opportunity. If you qualify—apply! 📖

I’ve got a reading! Delighted to be included in such a fab line up. If you’re in the neighbourhood please join us for Poetry and a Pint 9 October 7:30-9pm (SK time)

Submit fab work to a fab journal now!

Another fabulous read from fly on the wall press. Kept my interest and not a slow burn at all 🔥

Who else indeed! 💃 A Guardian article no less on the fab CMAT 💚

A reminder that your voice is unique from the fab Kathy Hepinstall Parks. R.I.P.

A submission call will be around our way shortly! A fab publication! Keep an eye out

An opportunity! Read the sub guidelines and submit no later than 12 October 2025.

A lovely Sunday read! I’d love a peach

“Doyle said, ‘It was a challenge…to write about the silenced, the hidden, the lost, and bring them alive on the page…’" Read more on my project in this article on THE LAB: EXPERIMENTS IN WRITING ACROSS GENRE, which includes my flash “The Lunatics’ Ball” and my craft essay on hybrid writing.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... ‘How can I find meaning from the ruins of my life?’: the little magazine with a life-changing impact | Poetry | The Guardian

Devouring the latest issue of @bansheepress.bsky.social

Submission window open for children’s books for 5 - 12 years. Details in link. Please share :)

Tiny part.

Can’t wait to get my copy!

“I’ve been on this crusade against metaphor for years,” Yiyun Li tells Manjula Martin in this conversation. “I think metaphors are not helpful when you are writing about things that are very hard to tackle.” For garden lovers, metaphor haters, and those learning to accept grief.

‘What is grief but a word, a shortcut, a simplification of something much larger than that word? Thinking about my children is like air, like time. Thinking about them will only end when I reach the end of my life.’