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 π·πΈπΊ
Zoe Davis @meanerharker.bsky.social Writer and avid doodler with words in the likes of Strix, Ink Sweat and Tears and Dust. 2x BotN nom. Forward Prize Nom. Lives in Sheffield UK. Interested in comics, computer games and sports. Member of Sheffield Eagles Wheelchair Rugby Club.
Suze Kay @suzchef.bsky.social Poet & pastry chef
Madeleine Armstrong @madeleinewrite.bsky.social Writer, runner, trying to keep up with another social media platform
Courtenay Schembri Gray β° @courtenaywrites.bsky.social Writer β’ @carouselmag @anthro_poetry etc β’ THE MAPLE MOON https://themaplemoon.substack.com β’ Autistic π§©
Gayle J. Greenlea @gjgreenlea.bsky.social American-Australian poet; Pushcart and Best of Net nominee; Black Bough Poetry, Fevers of the Mind, Ice Floe Press, San Antonio Review, Kalonopia, Headline Poetry & Press, Rebelle Society, Wombwell Rainbow⦠#BLM #LGBTQIA #Climate #Disability
Joyce Bingham @joycebingham.bsky.social Writer of short stories and flash fiction. Words in Molotov Coctail, Ellipsis Zine, Raw Lit and others. Green fingers and plant whisperer.
Sylvie Liebert @sqliebert.bsky.social Trans π³οΈββ§οΈ (she/her, per/pers, they/them)
Oregon
Writing as Selby Liebert
Renaissance woman with wifi, a killer playlist, and more optimism than is sensible
Website:
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Merlin Flower @merlinflower.bsky.social Writer/Artist. Free Palestine!
Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social Cardiff based Poet, Writer, Academic 'Octopus Mind' (Seren Books) - a Guardian Best Poetry Book of 2023 https://linktr.ee/createdtoread Teach creative writing, writing on/around ekphrasis, neurodiversity, creativity, climate crisis, art
Dr Patrick Wright @arainbowpoet.bsky.social Poet/Writer | Lecturer, English Literature and Creative Writing @OpenUniversity | SFHEA | Nullaby and Full Sight of Her @EyewearBooks | Exit Strategy @brokensleep | www.patrickwright.co.uk
Chris Y. @ccyurkoski.bsky.social Policy, Poetry & Pints
Keren Dibbens-Wyatt @honeycombhermit.bsky.social Christian contemplative, author, poet, artist. Existing with severe M.E. Seeking rep for a torrent of books and art. Trad pubbed with Paraclete Press, Herald Press, Mogzilla, forthcoming at Signum. Redbud. Views my own. https://www.kerendibbenswyatt.com
Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social Poet, writer, (col)lapsed academic (he/him). Work in: @badlilies.bsky.social, @propelmagazine.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
Alice Stainer @alicestainer.bsky.social Poet; lecturer; Victorianist; singer; Scottish dancer; nature lover; wine or tea, that is the question; the sea, the sea; land of the mountain & the flood.- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
Nina Parmenter @ninaparmenter.bsky.social Poet, performer, wage slave, dog slave, mum. Books: βSplit, Twist, Apocalypseβ, Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2022. βKiss Chase with Darwinβ forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books, Nov 2026.
p.a. morbid @bleroom.bsky.social Poet, Run The Black Light Engine Room Press. Middlesbrough Historian. Outsider artist/musician. 
Jayant Kashyap @jaydkash.bsky.social Buy NOTES ON BURIALS: http://bit.ly/3EBKSXb β’ Toto Awards 2025 β’ New Poets Prize 2024 β’ Young Poets Prize WellsLitFest β21 β’ Pamphlets (β19, β20, β25) β’ Zine (β21) β’ 2x Pushcart Nom. β’ 2x BotN Nom. β’ 2x Dan Veach Prize Honourable Mention
Jack Bedell @jackbedell.bsky.social Louisiana Poet Laureate 2017-19. Books from Mercer University Press. Work included in Best Microfiction and Best Spiritual Lit. EIC: @louisianalit.bsky.social
www.jackbbedell.com
East Ridge Review @eastridgereview.bsky.social A poetry platform dedicated to featuring striking new work by poets. βοΈπEditor @andrewraywill.bsky.social
Patricia M Osborne @pmosbornewriter.bsky.social She/her
MA Graduate in Creative Writing. Liverpudlian born, family saga novelist, short story writer, and poet. Paints pictures with words.
Member of RNA and ALLi
Rhona Greene @rhonagreene.bsky.social Poetryβ¨Poetryβ¨Poetry
Sub-ed Storms Journal Vβ‘οΈ
Pushcart nominee
Dublin Ireland
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@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
@shadesofgreen.bsky.social
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Amaleena DamlΓ© @amaleenadamle.bsky.social Associate Prof in French, Durham University. Poet, in Acropolis, Atrium, After, Dust, Dreich, IceFloePress, Indigo Dreams, Ink, Sweat & Tears, others. Editor at Paragraph, EUP.
Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social Author: The Ghost Lake
Poet: Blackbird Singing at Dusk
Editor: Spelt Magazine
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Angela T. Carr @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social Poet | Architect | Creative Writing facilitator at Wordbox | AuDHD
π Arts Council Literature Bursary 2021
π iYeats International Poetry Competition 2019
π Poetry Business 2018 Laureate's Prize
www.thisiswordbox.com
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Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social Lover of coffee, chocolate, reading & writing 
Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social A Journal of Poetry & Short Prose
Edited by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social
https://www.whaleroadreview.com/
πΎππππβ¨ΧΧΧΧ (she/her) @galiamelon.bsky.social Teacher. Writer. Musician. IG: @galia_melon
Poems in places: https://linktr.ee/galiamelon
Nikki Dudley @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social #Thriller Volta / Poetry (KFS & Hem & BSB) / @streetcakemag editor / loves travel. Views my own.
Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social Poet and dog mum often lost in the mire of poor mental health. Debut collection, Lifeβs Stink & Honey #CinnamonPress 2022. Scots Language pamphlet, A Glimmer o Stars @ HedgehogPoetryPress 2021. Working on next collection with #CinnamonPress. She/her
Liam Bates @liambatespoet.bsky.social Funded PhD student @ MMU (ecopoetry, friendship & the more-than-human city)/ Northern Writersβ Award winner/ Human Townsperson (Broken Sleep Books)
www.liambatespoet.com
Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social Published by Blackbough Poetry, The Storms Journal, FolkHeart Press. Featured writer in Patricia's Pen, and on A Thousand Shades Of Green podcast and a regular guest reader on Eat The Storms podcast. Best of The Net nominated.
J-T Kelly @j-tkelly.bsky.social poet - Chapbooks: https://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/06/new-from-aboveground-press-more-of-how.html https://cccpchapbooks.bigcartel.com/product/like-now-by-j-t-kelly - Poems: http://www.ucityreview.com/30_Kelly_JT.html
Briony Collins @brionycollins.bsky.social Writer & publisher | 5 books & counting | PhD | Runs Cape Magazine and Atomic Bohemian | What would Buffy do?
Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway; Editor @ Osmosis Press & Resurgence and Ecologist poetry feature; ask me about the RHUL Poetry MA pathway!
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social He collected things, each of a holy intention in isolation, but pagan in the variety of his choice.
βWilliam Gaddis
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Katy Wimhurst @sylphsea.bsky.social writer, visual poet.
An Orchid in my Belly Button (Elsewhen 2025) https://books2read.com/AnOrchidInMyBellyButton
Fifty One Trillion Bits (Trickhouse Press)
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Tania Hershman π³οΈβπ @taniahershman.bsky.social Queer writer of odd things. 10th book, "It's Time", a hybrid chronomemoir, out now. Permissioner, founder of Unbox Your Words. She/they π³οΈβπ www.taniahershman.com; https://taniahershman.substack.com/; https://www.instagram.com/tania_hershman_writes
Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social Poet. Manchester. Buildings. NWCDTP-funded PhD @MMU, Centre for Place Writing. Latest: Stay Awhile (Knives Forks & Spoons) & This Now Extends to My Daughter (Blue Diode)
Jo Clement @joclement.co.uk Poetry, Print & People π
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Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social Writer, traveler, and occasional business analyst. Currently missing the ocean and being a voiceover artist. π¨π¦
SHIFTINGS & OTHER COORDINATES OF DISORDER (Pinhole Poetry, 2024).
LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA (Bull City Press, 2026)
jenwithwords.opencorners.ca
Sue Finch (she/her) @suefinch.bsky.social Poet. Coach. #ElasticBandPhotos. Loves coasts, peculiar things and the scent of ice-cream freezers. βMagnifying Glassβ and βWelcome to the Museum of a Lifeβ published by Black Eyes Publishing UK.
https://suefinch.co.uk/
SalΓ² Press @salopress.bsky.social Independent publisher of poetry & prose. An obscurity of poets. Updates by Sophie π Norwich, UK.
SΓdhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social One-woman press based in Berlin. EIC @missyerem.bsky.social
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Gaynor Kane @gaynorkanepoet.bsky.social Generally creative (she/her) likes writing, reading, art and photography.
Published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press.
Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social indie poetry publisher based in Canada with an international focus. we publish books and we have an online website with series and blogs w/poets, fiction writers, visual artist, experimental projects www.icefloepress.net EIC/publisher Robert Frede Kenter
Catherine Redford @catherineredford.bsky.social Poet | Researcher | Co-editor at Dust Poetry. Forward-shortlisted debut poetry collection, βThe Way the Water Held Meβ, out now. Magma Selected Poet.
https://linktr.ee/catherine_redford
streetcake magazine @streetcakemag.bsky.social An online mag publishing innovative & experimental writing. Bi-monthly issues. SUBS OPEN. www.streetcakemagazine.com
Samuel Tongue @samueltongue.bsky.social Poet, Editor (samueltongue.com) and Co-Director of Kalewater Cottage Creative Retreat kalewatercottage.co.uk
Rachel Handley π³οΈβπ @rachelahandley.com Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.
SFF Author. Poet. π¦
Possible Worlds and Other Stories (2022)
They/Them.
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Anthony Anaxagorou @aanaxagorou.bsky.social poems
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@iamb.uk Poetry. Seen and heard. Four times a year. Enjoy new and previously published work from established and emerging talent.
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Stuart McPherson @stumcpherson.bsky.social Prize Winning Poet | END CEREMONIES via BrokenSleepBooks| Graphic Artist at TRIED / FAILED
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JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social genderqueer genrefluid writer of things #pwME π³οΈβππͺπΊπ
Latest book: Solitary Hotel π€ Check links for all the others!
Co-editor of https://effable.uk
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Lucy Holme @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social Writer | Work in The Stinging Fly, Banshee & more | Shortlisted | Brotherton Prize & MairtΓn Crawford Award β24 |π₯CΓΊirt New Writing Award & Southword Editorβs Prize β24 | ππππ‘π π£ππ£πͺ ππ₯ππ€ππ€ & πΉππ¦π π»ππππ ππππ€ | Broken Sleep Books
Natasha Holmes @telltaleheart.bsky.social Writer, Theatre Director, Performer, Puppeteer. I play with stories and different ways of sharing them on the street, in theatres, schools, libraries, festivals and as books, plays or spoken word.
Mo Schoenfeld @moschoenfeld.bsky.social Published poet, writer, parent, married. Human rights are non-negotiable.
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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: stuart@brokensleepbooks.com | Founded: 2018
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk Independent poetry press + cultural review platform. We publish narrative-led work with edge. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs
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Electra Rhodes @electrarhodes.bsky.social Writer. Digger. Rustic. Thief.
Wait...
*Taps mic*
Is this thing working?
Work on/in/with
BBC Radio 4
Best Small Fictions 2023
Emerging Writers The London Library 22/23
W/C
ND
She/Her.
Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social Poet.
Portrait in Mustard - Seren Books.
PhD candidate: Barbara Hepworth,
Creative Writing & Art History - MMU.
Agent: Laetitia Rutherford at WatsonLittle.
Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social Working Class Poet/Writer | Publisher of @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social | The Working Classic (2023, the87press) | Awen Medal | Stroke Survivor | he/him | Agent: Kate Rizzo (Greene & Heaton)
Taz Rahman @tazrahman.bsky.social Jerwood Poetry Prize 2024 shortlisted, Laurel Prize 2024 longlisted poetry collection 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' published by Seren Books: https://www.serenbooks.com/book/east-of-the-sun-west-of-the-moon/
Butcher's Dog Publishing @butchersdog.bsky.social Canny. Inclusive printed bi-annual magazine and anthologies for emerging and established poets in UK/ROI. Best Magazine 2022 + 2023, Saboteur Awards. Editor @joclement.co.uk
Amanda Earl @amandaearl.bsky.social she/her: sharing Ottawa -area sugar crone (tinyurl.com/ottawamandy) literary, spoken word, storytelling & nonfiction events daily ish. Out now!: Beast Body Epic, Autumn 2023. https://linktr.ee/amandaearl.
James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social Poet, artist, performer and publisher based in the UK. Prolific maker of visual poetry. Recent books: COSMIC HORROR (Hem Press), WHATβS THIS FLESH? (Intergraphia), WASTES / WRAITHS (Atomic Bohemian). https://t.co/QoN4GHLvNE
Emma Bolden @emmabolden.bsky.social Just trying to put words together. God Elegy forthcoming from BOA Editions 2028. The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis (Soft Skull), House Is an Enigma (Bull City). TMI in your inbox here: https://substack.com/@emmabolden
ABCtales @abctales.bsky.social http://ABCtales.com is the place for writers to share, discuss and develop their talent.
Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social Northern writer. Author of The Disappeared. Stories in The London Reader, Reflex Press, Palm-Sized Press. Finalist: Mslexia Short Story Comp/Dinesh Allirajah Prize. Arts marketer. Writer in residence Durham Writes & Crossing the Tees.
amylordauthor.com
Charlie Ulyatt @charlieulyatt.bsky.social 'Charlie Ulyatt is one of our most accomplished poets of the minimal'
(Billy Mills, poet, editor, formerly literary journalist at http://guardian.co.uk)
Books from https://charlieulyatt.bandcamp.com/
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Katie Manning @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social Poet, parent, professor.
Editor-in-Chief of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social
https://www.katiemanningpoet.com/
Madelaine Culver @fromxthextower.bsky.social Writer, poet + horror scholar π«
Debut poetry book: The Second Dream
Research: woman-led British horror film + intertextual poetics ππͺ
www.notesfromthetower.info
Anna Shelton @annashelton.bsky.social Mum of 3, teacher, writer, editor. My pamphlet was longlisted in the Disabled Poets Prize 2025. Poems in @AfterPoetry @PropelMagazine @Covenpoetry @streetcakemag @SidhePress Performed my song Black Fen Club Blues at the Cambridge Folk Festival. 
Karan Chambers @karanchambers.bsky.social Order my pamphlet βwoman | folkβ from @SaloPress now!
Highly Commended Cheltenham Comp β23. Poems: The London Mag, Under the Radar, Butcherβs Dog, Gutter, Mslexia, Propel.
Lawrence Moore @lawrencemoore.bsky.social Poet. Pushcart, Forward nominated.
This Joyful Interlude out now with @janes-studio.bsky.social ποΈ
UK link: amazon.co.uk/dp/1068432330
Vegan, BLM
Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social Novelist: books 'Where the Willows End, In Red Blood' 'One of Our Own,' Poetry: 200 poems published worldwide. old friend's description of him, 'I've known this idiot most of my life.'
Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social EAL teacher. Tree lover. Likes to write poems. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/parole_de_reveuse
Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social Poet. #ReadMorePoetry Collections: Crown of Eggshell, In the Shadow of Gods @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. Literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. πͺπΊ She/her ππ³οΈββ§οΈ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering
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Robert Pegel @bobopegs.bsky.social Husband and father. Poet and dreamer. Debut poetry chapbook available now from Bottlecap Press.
https://bottlecap.press/products/sixteenyears
donated words poetry @donatedwords.bsky.social poems/experiments by K Weber (she/her) featuring 900+ donated words (& more!) from 370+ people since 2018! 8 FREE online collabs: kweberandherwords.com
Rother Writes @rotherwrites.bsky.social [My words] "are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only" [I could interest them], Sylvia Plath
Nathan Anderson/Submersible Press @njapoetry.bsky.social Experimental poet and artist from Mongarlowe, Australia. Member of the C22 experimental writing collective. Publisher of Submersible Press.
nathanandersonwriting.home.blog
c22press.wordpress.com
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Robert Schechter @robertschechter.bsky.social Children's Poet. Author of THE RED EAR BLOWS ITS NOSE: Poems for Children and Others (Word Galaxy 2023). Starred reviews in Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, and School Library Journal. Common Sense Media Selection. Bank Street Selection.
Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social Teacher and Poet. Pamphlets - Walrussey (The Black Cat Poetry Press, 2023) and Circulaire (Written off Publishing, 2025).
Circulaire available to purchase here: https://writtenoffpublishing.com/shop/p/circulaire-bex-hainsworth
BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught @bookwormvaught.bsky.social Author of many books, teacher, mentor, #Curae, campaigner, doctored, mum of 3. Wilts, Wales, Southern US https://linktr.ee/bookwormvaught?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=00043ddf-6cad-43e1-8c8a-d89 rep. Clare Coombes at Liverpool Literary Agency π΅πΈ
jonathan kinsman @manykinsmen.bsky.social he/him. debut poetry collection the firemanβs daughter out with @brokensleepbooks.
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/
Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social teacher, poet, father, husband | WHO WILL CRADLE YOUR HEAD (ELJ 2023) | Ed. POETS OF QUEENS 2 | EIC of @porcupinelit.bksy.social | Co-Founder of monthly reading series and poetry community get togethers, @notatawp.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/jbeloff
Anushri Nanavati @anushrinanavati.bsky.social Writer of "Birds, Bones, & Melancholia" a poetry collection and founder of Haiku & Hymns Creativity Classes for Children (Ahmedabad, India)
SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice) @seagoatscreams.bsky.social A bit earnest
Poet, runner, sea, goat
Fae-wed
BotN/Pushcart/FwdPrize nom
PoetryArchive PAN winner
Mastheads: IceFloe/BarrenMag/SΓdhe
#SkyPoem foundergoblin
He/him
https://tinyurl.com/GoatPoems
The Water Engine: https://bit.ly/2Zpbtl4
Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson.bsky.social Poet person. New poems in The Bulb Region here: https://bulbregion.com/Three-Poems-by-Maureen-Thorson
Victorina Press @victorinapress.bsky.social Independent UK Publisher celebrating bibliodiversity.
Publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, childrenβs books.
Saboteur Awards 2022 β Most Innovative Publisher.
British Book Awards - Small Press of the Year - Regional Finalist.
www.victorinapress.com
Anika Carpenter @stillsquirrel.bsky.social #Flashfiction writer and #collage artist. Stories in Gooseberry Pie, Fictive Dream, Gone Lawn, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story & others. Based in Brighton, UK
www.anikacarpenter.com
Fiona McKay @fionamckay.bsky.social Writer | THE TOP ROAD (AdHoc Fiction 2023) | DRAWN AND QUARTERED (Alien Buddha Press 2023) | THE LIVES OF THE DEAD (AdHoc Fiction July 2025) | Words in places | Autistic + ADHD
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