Hearts of Down @heartsofdown.bsky.social An arts, heritage and media collective from County Down
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Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social Manc independent publisher with a conscience.
M.D. Isabelle Kenyon
2024 North England Winner Small Press of Year!
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Catriona Shine @catrionashine.bsky.social Writer, architect, occasional actor. Debut novel, Habitat, published March 2024 by the Lilliput Press http://bio.site/CatrionaShine
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Sue Divin @suedivinwriter.bsky.social Derry Girls meets mother in Young Sheldon. Writer. Peace worker. Guard Your Heart. Truth Be Told. Is it Friday yet?
Angela Graham @angelagraham.bsky.social Film maker / writer EXPOSURE: war, media democracy 2026 Culture & Democracy Press https://angelagraham.org/exposure/. Nominee S. Heaney Award for New Writing 2025. STAR poetry C & D Press; SANCTUARY & A CITY BURNING Seren Books angelagraham.org
Seanín @seaninhughes.bsky.social AuDHD. Does words.
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Ulster University @ulsteruni.bsky.social Recognised as @timeshighered.bsky.social University of the Year 2024.
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Fiona Handley @fionahandley.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Surrey - women travellers in the nineteenth century who used the polite science of botany in their journals and correspondence to create professional authority.
Mum to four grown up children 
Ewen Glass @ewenglass.bsky.social screenwriter | lecturer | poemer
Anne McMaster @annierose25.bsky.social Poetry. Films. Photographs. Plays. Novels. Images my own unless a repost. Writing in English/Ulster-Scots. I chase words and the light. Available on tour, in books and on BBC Radio/TV. New work autumn 2025. Never too many cats.
Sheena Wilkinson @sheenawriter.bsky.social Award-winning author of novels for children and adults. Royal Literary Fund Fellow, writing tutor, bookworm, animal lover. First Term at Fernside out now from O'Brien Press. 
Shirley-Anne McMillan @shirleyannemcm.bsky.social Writer and things.
Niamh Mcnally @niamhymcnally.bsky.social Belfast-based poet | @Translink_NI & @HerstoryIreland Writer-in-Residence | Facilitator @SHHomePlace | 'Line Work' https://youtu.be/RNrCiW97ym8?si=yXwr7G4044QR
Eli Davies @elidavies.bsky.social Writer and researcher of home, memory, conflict & Ireland.
The Spinster Cookbook: Culture, Politics & Pleasure in the Single Woman’s Kitchen, Indigo Press OUT NOW
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Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social Poetry / Art Magazine Edited by Susanna Galbraith and Gregory McCartney. Abridged since 2004. A Derry Magazine. www.abridged.zone
Steve Griffiths @writersteve.bsky.social Writer, editor, lover, eejit.
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Kerry P (Author & Editor) @kerrypwrites.bsky.social 💻 Editor. CIEP professional member.
💞 Author of contemporary romance and romcoms with heart, heat & HEA.
💜 WIP: Hearts Adrift.
🧠 Neurodivergent.
Kelly Creighton @kellycrimebooks.bsky.social Northern Irish author. DI Harriet Sloane series, State of Fear, Souls Wax Fair, Unbecoming, The Bones of It, etc.
I don't respond to anonymous accounts.
Erik @egveitikkje.bsky.social English professor丨slow cyclist 丨aging punk rocker 丨leftist丨sports fan: Bengals, Cavs, Yankees, Canadiens丨 wanna-be Scandinavian丨skeptic丨English, Norsk, & Français
Amanda Ferguson @amanda.ie North Belfast woman. Freelance journalist c2010. NUJ member. Writer. Talker. Events. Consultant. Reasonable. A wee bit fancy.✌🏻❣️#BeanUltach Also Director @wimbelfast.bsky.social And everywhere else: https://linktr.ee/amanda.ie
Leanne C. Powner @leannecpowner.bsky.social Coach/Developmental Editor for social science academics, including dissertators. Sometimes methods prof; author of _Empirical Research & Writing: A Pol Sci Student's Practical Guide_. Accepting manuscripts for summer & coaching clients year round.
Dr Andrew S. Roe-Crines 🏳️🌈 @andrewcrines.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Communication | PhD Pol. Sci. | MA Acad. Prac. | Award-winning book author & editor, peer review articles, & media comments.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/staff/andrew-crines/
Liverpool | Yorkshire | United Kingdom
Eithne Gallagher @eithneg.bsky.social Irish writer musing through life from a remote hilltop in Italy.
Morna Sullivan @mornawriter.bsky.social Award winning writer in English, Scots and Ulster Scots. Avid reader. Keen baker. Crafter. SCBWI member, SCBWI Ireland Regional Advisor
http://mornawriter.blogspot.com/
Archie @artemwriting.bsky.social UPenn. MBA. Books 📚 Writing ✍️ Art 🎨 Cooking & Gardening 🌱 Photos my own 📸 Married. From California ☀️ Got a Wacko Immune System 😅 Connecting here 🤗 https://substack.com/@archartem
Dyscluded @dyscluded.bsky.social Auto/Biographical PhD research on mothering and autistic children. Creative research methodologies. University of Plymouth. Advocate for SEND, mental health & neurodevelopmental conditions. ADHD. MBA (Exeter).- S Shirley Tang @shirleyatang.bsky.social
Bernadette Ann @bernadetteann.bsky.social 
Angelseyrie1901 @angelseyrie1901.bsky.social Author of Source published by Story Machines. Stories in Honest Ulsterman, MIRonline, Howl, Galway Review, Belfast Review
Byddi Lee 📚 Author |🎭Playwright |🎬 Screenwriter @byddi.bsky.social Irish Writer - 📚 fiction, 🎭 stage and 🎬 screen. Writes about nature, climate, and local history. Sometimes funny - usually unintentionally. Love my cats and my garden.
📖 Read my latest book & more www.ByddiLee.com
Rina McCann @rinammc.bsky.social Systems thinker and reader of things. Detester of jellyfish, mushrooms, marshmallows & bellybuttons.
Telizmary Pinales Roussel @telizmarypr.bsky.social 🎓 MBA HR | 🎓 B.Sc. BA Mgmt | Journeying through UK, France, Italy, Greece & Egypt—immersed in history, art, theater & journals of timeless beauty
Jess Bates @jessicabates.bsky.social Research on education, libraries & information. Course Director, Library & Information Mgmt at Ulster (online course). Rathlin Island resident. Coastguard volunteer. Wife and mum.
Katie Ward @katiewardwriter.bsky.social Neuroscience novel PATHWAYS, Fleet (UK 2024). Art novel GIRL READING, Virago (UK 2011). Award-winning author. katieward.co.uk
#WolseyWriters creative writing at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, Suffolk wolseytheatre.co.uk/whats-on/ 
Strider Marcus Jones @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social Poet. Five published books.DMU Law graduate. Pushcart Prizex4/Best of the Netx4 Nominations. Founder/Editor/Publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.co https://stridermarcusjonespoet.blogspot.com/p/about-strider.html
Eleanor Fuller @eleanorfuller.bsky.social Winner Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction 2023; finalist Fiddlehead Short Fiction Prize 2023 & Cambridge Short Story Prize 2024. Edith Wharton WiR 2024. Words: The Waxed Lemon, The Moth, Malahat, The New Quarterly & other lovelies. CCA-funded sabbatical!
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
Lothlorien Poetry Journal @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction and art.
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines.html
Bay Tales @baytales.bsky.social Visit http://baytales.com
Bay Tales Live 2026 happening in Whitley Bay on 27/02/27 tickets available now!
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hollowaywriter.bsky.social @hollowaywriter.bsky.social The Language of Remembering, my debut novel, out in February 2025. Work in The Stinging Fly, The London Magazine, Irish Times, Irish Examiner. Winner of Bath Short Story Award 2023. Agent Eleanor Birne, RCW
https://bio.site/patrickholloway
Colm Brennan @colmgbrennan.bsky.social Poet & Writer
Poetry Ireland Review • Banshee • The Waxed Lemon • Sonder • The Cormorant • Profiles • The Ogham Stone • Arts Council Literature Bursary • MA in creative writing from UL
colmgbrennan.com
PhD Voice @phdvoice.bsky.social Amplifying the voices of PhD Students. Tag us with @phdvoice.bsky.social- M NOT a spam. I just followed many people. @miverras.bsky.social
Tom Shiels @itstomshiels.bsky.social Writer of reflective essays on memory, music, and place. Attempting to live slower in the middle of the chaos. Irish living in West Yorkshire.
https://storiessongsseasons.substack.com- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
Kim Sharkey @kimsharkeyart.bsky.social Artist… head, hands, heart.
Multi-disciplinary Artist, award winning illustrator. Making art for books, films, performances and exhibitions from West Donegal, Ireland. 
Keira Gomez @keiragomez.bsky.social Birkbeck PhD student - The Narrative Inheritance of the "Ceasefire Babies": An Oral History of Conflict-Era Family Storytelling in Northern Ireland
Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social Irish Times writer & author of OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea & now, out in June, Experts in a Dying Field. You can preorder here: https://linktr.ee/expertsinadyingfield
Ian Rankin @ianrankin1.bsky.social Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet. 
Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social 🇮🇪 Writer Hagstone | Constellations | This Woman’s Work (with Kim Gordon) | Agent: Peter Straus at RCW | Newsletter: momentsofrecognition.substack.com
Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social Literary journal of formally promiscuous non-fiction. Publishing essays, memoir, autofiction and the overflow. Supported by the Arts Council.
tolkajournal.org
The Pig's Back @thepigsback.bsky.social The Pig's Back is a literary journal based in Donegal. Edited by Dean Fee + Emily Cooper. Produced by the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny.
colin clark @profcolinclark.bsky.social associate dean (r&i)+ prof of sociology & social policy @ UWS. interested in mobility, borders, identity, roma rights. fond of vinyl, cassettes, coffee, cats, swimming, autumn. glasgow.📍
Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. New book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador, out now. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ
Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social Writing in The Times Thursday and Saturday, talking on Times Radio Monday-Thursday. Also, other things. Latest novel, Rabbits, found here: https://amzn.eu/d/hUQTsSW
Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social It may look to the untrained eye, I'm sitting on my arse all day.
https://www.patreon.com/c/NeedleMythology
David Butler @davidbutlerbray.bsky.social Novelist, poet, short-storyist, playwright, also writes as Dara Kavanagh
June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social Writing Place Writing Planet, UCD / iCRAG 2026 | Lamplight Fellowship 2025 | Literature Bursary Award 2025 | Moth Short Story Prize 2024 | 'Somebody' expo MoLi 2020-2021 | Room Little Darker 2018/17 | https://www.airbnb.ie/h/pinkhousedublin
Sara Emmerton @sarawrites.bsky.social Writer. Carer. Sea swimmer. Cats. Longlist @MoniackMhor Emerging Writer award '22. Shortlist #Curae Prize '23.
dr nicole 🕷️🕸️ @nicolehamilton.bsky.social academic in lit and film 📚 YA lit/horror films/queer rep 🩷🤍🧡 | sharon stone enthusiast and real housewives aficionado 📺 she/they 
Amy Key @amykey.bsky.social Writer - Arrangements in Blue, Isn't Forever, Luxe. My substack is So Glad I'm Me https://amykey.substack.com/
Jon McGregor @jonmcgregor.bsky.social I write novels and stories . (Recentlyish: Lean Fall Stand.)
There is a Substack: https://classnotesbyjonmcgregor.substack.com/
Also learning Dutch - kom maar bij mij en nederlands met me spreken, alstublieft x
Sam Slote @samslote.bsky.social Professor, School of English, Trinity College Dublin. Writes about Joyce, Beckett, Modernism. Quondam New Yorker. Co-author of Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses http://bit.ly/3Gngb2L He/him/his
badaude @badaude.bsky.social does things with words
writer/artist, books @ Verso, Semiotext(e), Bloomsbury, Tramp, Transit, Joan+++, writing @ Art Review, Spike Art, more @ joannawalsh.ie
Kate Caoimhe Arthur @katecaoimhearthur.bsky.social poetry in iamb / Stinging Fly / Blackbox Manifold / After
winner Spelt poetry competition 2023
Patrick Kavanagh award Commended 2023
Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social Poet & Writer | PhD non-naturalistic narratives of trauma | RNLI Lifeboat Press Officer | Fellow of Linnean Society | Michael Hartnett & Markievicz Awards | Of Ochre and Ash (DedalusPress) | Where Memory Lies(Bonnefant Press) www.eleanorhooker.com
Louise Rogers Lalaurie @louiserl.bsky.social Writer (Matisse, art, travel, interiors...), translator (French fiction, art, travel, comité Colbert), landlady (Seine-side retreat in France). British, Welsh, European, Irish, French (in that order) https://louiserogers.blog
Grace Tierney @wordfoolery.bsky.social Word history - books, blog, LMFMRadio
Comedyfic - Channillo
Love to read, craft, garden in Ireland
My Books - wordfoolery.wordpress.com/my-books/
Weekly Word Blog - http://www.wordfoolery.wordpress.com/
Newsletter - subscribepage.io/wordfoolerywhispers
Birgit Sommer @alsergrundlerin.bsky.social Die Seite umblättern. Mit dem ganzen Leben.
(Claire-Louise Bennet)
Bücher, Katzen, Wien.
Sehnsucht nach Hamburg
Magda Birkmann @magdarine.bsky.social "She found time also to read the best novels, and even the second best..." (George Eliot, Middlemarch)
magdarine.substack.com.
Works @lettretage.de
Cis (she/her). DE/EN.
Portfolio: www.magdarine.com
Insta: magelankaminbrand
Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social An annual anthology for the arts in Ireland and beyond.
www.winterpapers.com Supported by the Arts Council
Posts by Olivia.- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
Dara McAnulty @naturalistdara.bsky.social 20 ~ autistic ~ award winning author of ‘Diary of a Young Naturalist’ and the ‘Wild Child’ series ~ Nature Nerd and biology student ~ University of Cambridge. He/him
📍Co Down / Cambridge
https://daramcanulty.com/
Aimée Walsh @thereadparts.bsky.social Irish writer. Author of Exile (a novel) & Writing Resistance (a monograph)
Commentator of the Year finalist 2025 @ Media Freedom Awards.
Columnist and U35 Deputy Editor @ the Mirror.
Agent: Eleanor Birne @ RCW
Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social Writer of short story collections Multitudes, Intimacies, Openings, Devotions and novels inc. These Days. Regular masterclass series at Faber Academy.
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
Little Island Books @littleislandbooks.bsky.social Independent press publishing the best new Irish writing for young readers. Supported by Arts Council Ireland. Repped in UK by Bounce Sales & Marketing.
Books create waves.
Lucy @starwilde.bsky.social Books, Jazz, Wildflowers, Ireland, New York
Taryn de Vere @taryndevere.bsky.social Joy Bringer. Writer/Artist/Fashion Activist/Creative Producer/Occasional performer. TEDx speaker. Married 8 times (7 to the same person). Also find me on substack taryndevere.substack.com
She/They
Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne
@gerardbeirne.bsky.social
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Marian Keyes @mariankeyes.bsky.social Reads books. Watches telly. Wrings hands over the state of the world.
FORUM Books / the bound / The Accidental Bookshop @forumbooks.bsky.social Three lovely, friendly, award-winning independent bookshops in Corbridge, Whitley Bay + Alnwick
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Events: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks