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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RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social Writer visual artist publisher. Now Available IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS (Ice Floe Press, 2025), FATHER TECTONIC (ETHELZINE Press,2025). In tons of journals incl Winged Moon, Otoliths, Storms Journal, Pissoir, Cable Street, ballast, Acropolis, Grain, ARC
Sugar House Review @sugarhousereview.bsky.social Sugar House Review is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit poetry publisher based out of Utah. Our mission is to promote an eclectic range of poets through publishing and live events.
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JMWW Journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social jmww (https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/guidelines/), a weekly journal publishing the best in fiction, poetry, flash, essays, and interviews. Our stories have appeared in Best American Essays, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, BIFFY, and Best of Net.
Christodoulos Makris @cmakris.bsky.social poet & writer
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Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social cultivating community and publishing bold work: flash, short fiction, cnf, poetry, and other nonconforming pieces
Chestnut Review @chestnutreview.bsky.social International litmag ALWAYS open for submissions. Pays $120/piece. Responds in 30 days. Free subs in most genres. Free issues online. Paid feedback options. If you don't submit, we can't pay you.
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The Ex-Puritan @ex-puritan.bsky.social Publishing fiction, poetry, essays, interviews and reviews. Proudly awarding The Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence.
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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social Publishing great literature and art since 2003.
ANMLY @anmlymag.bsky.social www.ANMLY.org/
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Lit mag. International, intersecting, always interesting.
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beestung @beestung.bsky.social a quarterly mag of non-binary & genderqueer & two-spirit writers that’s sweet & stings | imprint of
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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
Janis La Couvée @lacouvee.bsky.social Writer and poet with a love of green spaces, dedicated to conservation efforts in Campbell River. Likʷal̓a language learner. Words in Book of Matches Isele Magazine, PaddlerPress AntiHeroinChic, among others. janislacouvee.com
DIAGRAM @eldiagram.bsky.social A journal of text, art, and schematic. Kicking it since 1999. Published by New Michigan Press. Edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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Helen McClory @helenmcclory.bsky.social Writer, Reader, Hybrid creature
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Chrissy Williams @chrissywilliams.bsky.social Poet & Comic Book Writer | GOLDEN RAGE from Image Comics ("Battle Royale meets The Golden Girls”) | BEAR & LOW from Bloodaxe Books | PERVERSE magazine editor | https://open.substack.com/pub/chrissywilliams
perversemag @perversemag.bsky.social poetry magazine responding to a call for “deliberate, obstinate, unreasonable or unacceptable poems, contrary to the expected practice” ed.
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social https://minorliteratures.com/
Astra Papachristodoulou @heyastranaut.bsky.social Poet ★ Artist ★ Astranaut ★
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Clare Archibald @archieislander.bsky.social variant practice model
words sounds images place: stuff
ask to use/share images please
Burntisland, Fife
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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social Makes poetry in multi-modes. Tenter (2020), Enclosures (2021), The Sleeping Place (2023), wastelands (forthcoming, Guillemot Press, 2025)
Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social Magazine & Press edited by @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @petermcallister.bsky.social | short fiction | flash | non-fiction | concrete, vispo, experimental | prose, poetry & hybrid chapbooks
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gorse journal @gorsejournal.bsky.social Art in words | Journal | Publisher (Gorse Editions) | New issues: gorse 12: Language; gorse 13: Taboo | Forthcoming: gorse 14: Form | Gorse Editions 3: New Green Fool by Alan Cunningham | Funded by Arts Council Ireland | http://gorse.ie
Tramp Press @tramppress.bsky.social Independent book publisher. The Most Normal Woman by Roisin Kiberd forthcoming end of August! Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social Wrote FAIR / GOBLINHOOD / VEHICLE / DUST SUCKER, translate German lit, publish Maltese lit at Praspar Press. Tutor, Granta Writers’ Workshop. www.jencalleja.com
Futch Journal: The journal of experimental poetics @futch-journal.bsky.social The journal of experimental poetics.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
A place for prose that listens as much as it speaks.
Based in Nottingham, UK, with a global readership.
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Heavy Feather Review @hfr.bsky.social Literary publisher & book reviews site, EST. 2011 #babyeatbooks
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Elsewhere. A Journal of Place @elsewherejournal.bsky.social Elsewhere is a European journal of place dedicated to writing and visual art that explores the idea of place in all its forms.
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Doubleback Review @doublebackreview.bsky.social 🐪 An online literary journal dedicated to the retired darlings of publishing
🌷 Our April 2026 issue is NOW LIVE!
⬇️ Check out our past issues below
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Afternoon Visitor @afternoonvisitor.bsky.social lit mag | visitor | enjoyer of afternoons | temporarily closed for submissions | editors: TR Brady & Maggie Nipps
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Kaleidotrope @kaleidotrope.bsky.social Kaleidotrope is a quarterly e-zine of sci-fi, fantasy & horror edited by Fred Coppersmith since 2006.
Read it at http://www.kaleidotrope.net
Support it at http://patreon.com/kaleidotropezine
Avatar and cover art by Brian Malachy Quinn
Dream Pop Press @dreampop.bsky.social 501(c)(3) nonprofit literary journal & small press based in Roanoke, VA. We publish experimental, fractured, and hybrid work. EIC: @isobelohare.bsky.social
Guillemot Press @guillemotpress.bsky.social Small press publisher of beautiful books.
Mandira Pattnaik @mandirapattnaik.bsky.social Author of 8 published/forthcoming chapbooks, Wigleaf Top 50 (2023), Best Small Fictions (2021 & 2024), Best Micro Anthology (2024), The Rumpus, IHLR, McNeese Review, Emerson Review, Penn Review, 300+ publications, #amquerying
Rose Metal Press @rosemetalpress.bsky.social Rose Metal Press is a non-profit publisher specializing in the publication of hybrid genre books. Founded in 2006. Posts by co-founders Abby Beckel and Kathleen Rooney. Check out our books and amazing authors here: www.rosemetalpress.com
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 Offing @theoffingmag.bsky.social Online lit mag. Authoring change. From the people who built these cities.
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Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social writer
Dooneen - out now from Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions
previously - A Shock / Hawthorn & Child / Animals / etc
Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Habs fan / Canadian in the South 🍁
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Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social Writing. Teaching. Mentoring. & hospitals...
Books: @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social @pressassembly.bsky.social @edlacroisee.bsky.social
Words: Guardian, Aeon, Vogue, Paris Review...
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Emily Strempler @estrempler.bsky.social 🏳️🌈✊🧡 (She/Her) Lit and lit-genre crossover author, work in Agnes and True, Broken Pencil, the BK, and many more. Editor at the Baltimore Review. Managing Editor at Li Isprii.
Banff, AB, 🇨🇦 / Treaty 7 / Homeland of the Red River Metis
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Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social Edited and published by Colin Sackett.
colinsackett.co.uk / uniformbooks.co.uk
Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social London-based independent publisher of fiction, poetry, anthologies & interdisciplinary projects, committed to championing the work of new voices in free-form contemporary literature.
https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/
Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social Unseamly Literature. https://www.doesithavepockets.com/
Posts by Cami(lle) Griep, EIC
Dr Carrie Etter @carrieetter.bsky.social Poet, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Poems in Iowa Review, Poetry London, TLS, The New Republic... | Academic | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the 🐈⬛! | Foodie | Dem 🇺🇸 expat in Bristol, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
Susmita Bhattacharya @susmitab.bsky.social Writer. Educator. Dreamer.
PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social A British contemporary art press.
Publisher of critical dialogues, innovative lit & photography. Slow, often archival
🌎 Distro
Antenne & Central
The Provinces / Stepney | Est. 2014 M/cr
#AnthonyBurgess #MelissaLeeHoughton #LindenArchives
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
Giant Rat of Sumatra @giantratsumatra.bsky.social That again.
Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social bleached like the skeleton of a stranded walrus
Susan Tomaselli 🍉 🏳️🌈 @stomaselli.bsky.social WiP: TRACES (novel in essays) | former writer-in-residence at Maynooth 2020/21 | current editor gorse journal & Gorse Editions. She/her.
*Won't follow you back if you have zero posts or no profile, sorry*
Minx Marple @minxmarple.bsky.social astrophel • a pearl scavenged from the toxic sludge • « botanical, celestial, erotic » • hedgehog chronicler • the thing is to dazzle
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@lauratansley.bsky.social @lauratansley.bsky.social 
Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social [Untitled]: A Meditation, available from LJMcD Communications
Work in gorse, The Stinging Fly, Winter Papers, 3AM Magazine, The Tangerine among others
Winner of The Aleph Writing Prize 2019
www.astainonsilence.com
Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social mostly in Gloucestershire but often elsewhere • research @ Centre for Place Writing • https://www.rachael-de-moravia.com/ 
Inside the Castle @incastellated.bsky.social Publishing Literature in the Expanded Field / Behind the Facade, More of the Same / Incipit 2014 / Our books are available through Asterism: https://asterismbooks.com/publisher/inside-the-castle
Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social Writer, poet, editor, musician.
Ghost Signs (Bluemoose, 2022)
Keshed (Ortac Press, 2026)
Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, 2027 tbc)
#MDANT
https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/stu-hennigan
https://stuhennigan.substack.com/
Megan Bradbury @meganbradbury.bsky.social Writer, editor, creative writing mentor, tutor @ National Centre for Writing. EVERYONE IS WATCHING / Picador / Neri Pozza / Czarna Owca / Elsinore. Repped by Sophie Lambert. www.meganbradbury.com.
Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social Experimental Poet—Experimental Lit Prof—Experimental Musician
Curator @ bpNichol.ca — Literary Arts Residency Lead @ The SETI Institute
Ginny Battson @seasonalight.com Symialosopher, ecologist, neologist. Rivers. Interdisciplinary.
www.seasonalight.com
CEP: https://thinkingintheworld.com/members/ginny-battson/
Alt Txt: butterfly wing (vector design)
Tucker Lieberman @tuckerlieberman.com 📚 ATTIS & ALEPH coming Dec 2026...
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Nerve. Verse. Snacks.
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Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social Writer. University Lecturer. North Cornwall Book Festival Director.
Editor & Co-founder at @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social.
RUBY @literaryruby.bsky.social RUBY features short-form food narratives that strive for voice & artistry. We want work that grabs us & doesn't let us go—fierce prose we wish we had written. We review fiction, creative nonfiction, & hybrid works up to 1,000 words. https://t.co/yAf49BIzsb
Neither fish nor foul 📖 @neitherfishnorfoul.com Www.neitherfishnorfoul.com an online magazine where craft and quirk meet
#writerscommunity
Editor @jackmmorris.bsky.social
Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social Poet, critic of recent formally innovative poetry & poetics, emeritus prof at Edge Hill, and all that follows. Books from Shearsman, KFS, Salt, Broken Sleep, Palgrave, LUP, & all that follow. Blog: www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com
Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social Writer. Journalist. Mother. Amazon no. 1: The Process of Poetry. The Making of a Poem. 100 + features and author interviews in The Guardian, The Independent, The Weekend Australian, SMH and Salon.com.
Drako @drakosden.bsky.social MM Romance author, editor, and podcaster 🌶️📚🎧
Author of the Dragon Hunters, the Coven, and Journeys series
Links to everything: https://linktr.ee/drakosden
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portfolio: https://drakosden.my.canva.site/
The Rebis 〰️ Literary Magazine @therebis.com Annual #tarot literary anthology. Each print issue explores a tarot card through art & creative writing.
The Devil issue shipping now ❤️🔥
We're a not-for-profit #litmag that redistributes sales profits to social justice orgs.
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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Guardian Country Diarist. Author of LAND BENEATH THE WAVES (one of BBC Wildlife Best Books of 2025): https://shorturl.at/PFJPF
MA, PGCE, FBNA, Patron #JohnClare Countryside, Trustee of British Naturalists' Assoc. Rep: Joanna Swainson
Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social Cultural worker/buruh seni. Disabled, from JKT. ANNAH, INFINITE out now ❤️🔥 Also wrote amuk, ULTIMATUM ORANGUTAN, ROPE, INDIGENOUS SPECIES, & I make art.
https://www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infinite/
Darby Price @darbyprice.bsky.social • Poet/Writer of All the Lands We Inherit https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/all-the-lands-we-inherit/
• Continuing Lecturer at UC Irvine
• Born on the bayou 🐊 Living in the (coastal) desert 🌴
• Also at darbyprice.com 📚
Dr Kim Wiltshire @kkwiltshire.bsky.social Reader in Creative Writing, love reading, love writing! Programme Leader for Creative Writing and convenor for the Fiction Writer’s Network research group at EHU, former British Academy Innovation Fellow - but views all my own.
Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social Writer. Books: A THOUSAND WAYS TO DISAPPEAR (Cornerstone Press, 2028)/THE CLARITY OF HUNGER (Word West Press, 2021). Fiction instructor: Harvard Extension School. MacDowell Fellow ‘23. Email: fabulistpappas@gmail.com
www.cherylpappas.net
Shelley Hastings @shelleyhastings.bsky.social Writer | Producer | Artist Facilitator | Kitchen Raver | Arts & Dementia: Resonate Arts | Winner: Sean Ó Faoláin Prize & Aurora Prize | Stories: Irish Times, Desperate Literature, Southword, Miro, Chroma Editions…
www.shelleyhastings.co.uk
Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social Access and nature campaigner, physicist, researcher/translator who writes. Keen climber/runner. Views are my own.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ebenmuse?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=jl6lw
Sue Barry-Schulz @susanbarryschulz.com poetry, collage, disability, Crohn’s Disease, Covid Informed, very sad, Buffalo Sabres fan, 🇪🇪, #LGM, ModPo alum, IC grad, she/hers, physical therapist in another life, NY➡️NC
www.susanbarryschulz.com
#keepmasksinhealthcare
#abolishICE
Sarah-Clare Conlon @sarahclareconlon.bsky.social Less able to stand ✍️ Writer | ✏️ Editor | 📚 Poetry Book Society Selections |🍂ACE-funded DROUGHT THOUGHTS | 🐦⬛ Wanderland (Red Ceilings) | 🌝 Lune (Red Ceilings) | 📕 Using Language (Invisible Hand) | 🇫🇷 cache-cache (Contraband) | ⛵️Marine Drive (Broken Sleep)
Ian Seed @ianseedauthor.bsky.social Author: Forgetfulness, My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat, Night Window, New York Hotel (TLS Book of the Year), Makers of Empty Dreams. Translator: Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob, Gëzim Hajdari, Ivano Fermini. www.ianseed.co.uk
Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social July 2026: What Lies Ahead and Other Essays, Black Herald Press: https://www.blackheraldpress.com/what-lies-ahead
Own Sweet Time, CB editions (2022)
Sovetica, CB editions (2021)
Saying Yes in Russian, Agenda Editions (2012)
https://carolineclark.carrd.co/
Tristan Moss @tristan-moss.bsky.social Poetry, Art, Politics and Pedagogy
Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social Wandering Egyptologist/writer/wildlife gardener. Openly Womble. Likes: conservation, archaeology, the natural world, beautiful words, art, and writing 18th Century fantasy.
Macha Press @machapress.bsky.social experimental / formally hybrid / intercultural / recovered poetries
Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland & Shared Island Civic Society Fund, DFAT machapress.com
Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social Curious, walker, swimmer, thinker; anam cara.
WOMEN ON NATURE
@Unbounders
THE FISH LADDER
@BloomsburyBooks
Shortlist
@WainwrightPrize
#neurodivergent
@UnitedAgents
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
Leone Ross @leoneross.bsky.social Author. Writing coach.
Latest: THIS ONE SKY DAY/POPISHO. Pointillist. Joyfully maximalist. Jamaican/British 🇯🇲. Black, FYI.
Goldsmiths, Edge Hill, Ondjaate & Women’s Prize noms. Won Manchester Prize for Fiction.
Rep: Nicola Chang, DHA.
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/
Giselle Leeb @giselleleeb.bsky.social Short story collection, Mammals, I Think We Are Called (@saltpublishing.bsky.social), Edge Hill Short Story Prize '23 Longlist, Word Factory Apprentice '19, Best British Short Stories '17 https://giselleleeb.com/
Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social Artist; have written, and curated, also. Head of Programme, Writing MA, at the RCA, London.
jeremymillar.org
Profile: https://jeremymillar.org/Notes-on-Gesture-for-H-C-2015
Header: https://jeremymillar.org/Neutral-Diluted-2007
Ulrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social Author of An Uncertain Age and House of Miracles. Labyrinth guide.
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www.ulricahume.com
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Read story: https://psalteryandlyre.org/2025/10/13/call-us-not-weeds/
Peakrill Press @peakrillpress.bsky.social stories - art - magic - surprises
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An independent publishing company, via Daniel Sumption
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Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social Poet | current manuscript: Mélusine 🐍 | she/her
Rebecca D 🇨🇦 @rmshanti.bsky.social 🇬🇾 🇮🇳 🏴 🇨🇦 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 | polsci anti-oppression decolonisation background | political commentary | former social worker | ESL teacher | writer | Lover of music, photography, animals, nature, & silliness | neurodivergent parent of 2 humans, guardian of many creatures
Aura Martin @auramartin.bsky.social Writer of Centos | Full-length BUTTERFLIES OVER FLAME at ELJ Editions | Published at Emerge Literary Journal, Kissing Dynamite, perhappened, and more | https://auramartin.weebly.com/
Adrian Slatcher @adrianslatcher.bsky.social Manchester-based writer. Short story collection "Loners" out now from Confingo publishing. More details adrianslatcher.wordpress.com or subscribe https://adrianslatcher.substack.com/
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained (https://alliteration.net), a website devoted to modern English alliterative verse. If you like Beowulf, or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or Tolkien's Fall of Arthur or Sigurd and Gudrun, you're in for a treat.
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