Chris Emery @chrisemery.me Poet. Five collections from Arc and Salt, most recently Wonder (2025). Manchester-born, Irish citizen, living in Cromer. I publish other people’s books at Salt. Newsletter: chrisemery.me
Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk Online poetry magazine posting daily. We publish & review poetry, prose, filmpoems, word & image and print publish as IS&T Press. Editing internships. Posts by Sabine Wilson-Patrick & Kate Birch.
Cipher Press @cipherpress.bsky.social An independent press publishing queer and trans authors
Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival @poetryinaldeburgh.bsky.social A poetry festival by the sea under the big skies of East Anglia. Thurs 5th to Sunday 8th November 2026. ☀️📚🩵
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The Poetry School @poetryschool.bsky.social The Poetry School is the UK's largest provider of poetry education and a proud Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.
🏝️ Book Summer Courses: https://poetryschool.com/new-courses/summer-2026-quick-course-guide/
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
T. S. Eliot Prize @tseliotprize.bsky.social Home of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry for the best collection published in the year.
charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social poet, unfortunately. Food for the Dead (Jonathan Cape). Lecturer @ University of Hull. NWCDTP-funded PhD on authotheory and anorexia @ Manchester Writing School. rep’d by Peter Straus @ RCW Literary Agency
Maya Caspari @mayacaspari.bsky.social Ideally writing or napping. Lecturer @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social, working on memory, touch & ethics/politics of representation in contemporary writing, among other things. Sometimes poet. Based in London/York. Here v sporadically. www.mayacaspari.com
Rebecca Goss @gosspoems.bsky.social More on Instagram @gosspoems
Poet & mentor. Books with Carcanet Press. Poet-in-Residence for CW+, the official charity for Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals. Writing for Life Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund.
The BookishType @thebookishtype.bsky.social Queer Indie Bookshop in Leeds
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.
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RoughTradeBooks @roughtradebooks.bsky.social Printed Matter for the Counter-Culture
Daunt Books @dauntbooks.bsky.social 
Queerlings Magazine @queerlings.bsky.social A literary magazine of queer writing from the LGBTQIA+ community. Submissions open annually from Jan 1st to March 31st.
Jonathan Cape @jonathancape.bsky.social Publishing the best writers since 1921.
Hannah Copley @hannahcopley.bsky.social Writer and SL in Creative Writing at Uni of Westminster. Author of Speculum (Broken Sleep Books, 2021) and Lapwing (Pavilion Poetry, 2024). 2nd in the Laurel Prize 2024 . Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024. Hosts poetry nights at the Soho Poly.
Everything Poetry Night @everythingpoetry.bsky.social A monthly spoken word poetry night
Next event: Tuesday 6th October 2026, The Oystercatcher, Greenwich
bookhaus @bookhaus.bsky.social Contemporary bookshop located in the heart of Bristol's vibrant Wapping Wharf. Member of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers. 
Aesthetica Magazine – The Art & Culture Magazine [Unofficial] @aestheticamagazine.com.web.brid.gy Aesthetica is a worldwide destination for art and culture. In-depth features foreground today’s most innovative practitioners across art, design […]
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Mayada Ibrahim @mayadamayadamay.bsky.social Arabic literary translator & managing editor at 52 Walker
Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social lit mag & small press | supported by the Arts Council of Ireland | issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) out now | latest book: Render by Billy Ramsell | https://bansheepress.org/
Festival for Poetry @poetryfestival.bsky.social Daily Poetry Deadlines
Submit for a free posting.
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Submit for your poetry to be made into a film.
https://festivalforpoetry.com
Acropolis Journal @acropolisjournal.bsky.social Acropolis Journal | Home for temples, ruins, darkness & myth | Online Poetry & Art Journal | Projects | EIC Louise Mather | SUBS OPEN
https://acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjournal
Sophie Dumont @sophiedumont.bsky.social Poet | Editor | Copywriter
Debut poetry collection out with Corsair (Little, Brown Book Group) 📘🛶 Featured in The Guardian, Financial Times & Sunday Times Style.
“a book of watersheds - love, death and rivers” - Linda France
📍Bristol/Bath, UK
Desperate Literature @desperatelit.bsky.social International bookshop in the heart of Madrid!
Home of the Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction (NOW CLOSED FOR 2026)
Andrea Gibson @andreagibson.bsky.social Colorado Poet Laureate • 'You Better Be Lightning' • 'Lord of the Butterflies' • 'Things That Don't Suck' andreagibson.substack.com
Finished Creatures Poetry Magazine @finishedpoetry.bsky.social Independent, printed poetry magazine: ecopoetry and the environment; climate justice and politics; beauty and daring.
Issue nine - trespass - just published
Please see website for order details.
finishedcreatures.co.uk
City Lit Writing Dpt @citylitwriting.bsky.social Creative and non-fiction writing courses, workshops and special events in the heart of London and online at City Lit.
➡️ www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/writing
Extra Teeth @extrateethmag.bsky.social A literary magazine with bite
Guest illustrator for each issue
Words from Scotland + everywhere else
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Salò Press @salopress.bsky.social Independent publisher of poetry & prose. An obscurity of poets. Updates by Sophie 💖 Norwich, UK.
Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social Wales’ leading independent English-language publisher 📚 Winner Small Press of the Year Wales 2025 🏴
Out-Spoken @outspokenldn.bsky.social Out-Spoken: London's premier poetry & music night at
Southbank Centre 🎙️
City Lit @citylit.bsky.social INSPIRING PASSIONS · REALISING AMBITIONS. City Lit is the ultimate destination for evening, weekend and daytime courses, delivered online and face-to-face.
https://www.citylit.ac.uk/
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social Ensuring a vibrant, diverse literary landscape by helping small literary publishers work better. www.clmp.org
Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org Book workers organising in solidarity with Palestine, and against fossil fuels ✊📖🍉
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opencollective.com/fossil-free-books
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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
#PromoteIndieLit
Edited by @alanparrywriter.co.uk
www.thebrokenspine.co.uk
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London Independent Story Prize C.I.C @londonistoryprize.bsky.social London Independent Story Prize (LISP) is a Community Interest Company that prioritises the interests of writers and filmmakers, founded by storytellers for storytellers. 
Tim Craig @timcraig.bsky.social Manc | Writer of short fiction | ‘Now You See Him’ Long List Edge Hill Prize 22, short list Int Rubery Prize | multiple placed Bath Flash Award | prev winner Bridport Prize flash.
Philippa Bowe @philippabowe.bsky.social Flash fiction, poetry, translation / Micro nouvelles, poésie, traduction. Ghost City Press, NFFR, Reflex Fiction, Bath Flash Fiction, Spark2Flame, Neither Fish Nor Foul, The Hooghley Review. Pushcart Prize nom. Dance, LFC, la belle vie. Elue municipale. 🌄
Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social Queer writer l #FlashFiction l Smokelong Fellow 2026 l Contrib ed @nffr.bsky.social
Pushcart, BSF, BMF & Monarch noms
Read my stories:
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Brooklyn Academy of Music @bambrooklyn.bsky.social Brooklyn’s hub for cutting-edge creativity and connection. Home of #Next Wave, #DanceAfrica, #BAMFreeMusic, and that thing you heard about.
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WriteBack @writeback.bsky.social WriteBack is a new quarterly events series at the British Library, inviting writers to speak on topics of their choosing. Curated by poet Anthony Anaxagorou and producer Tom MacAndrew
Emma Leahy @emmal42.bsky.social 
Kat @katlyonsartist.bsky.social Writer, performer, creative producer, wkshop facilitator, fungi-friend, hedgewitch, QueerAF 🍄🌈 🍉
https://linktr.ee/katlyons
Former Bristol City Poet, co-host w. Raise the Bar, collection Love Beneath the Nails published by Verve Poetry Press.
⛅️ katie o’pray @opraykt.bsky.social ‼️ poet & facilitator 💥
☄️ ruled by mars & glucose 🩸
🟠 APRICOT 🧡 (Out-Spoken Press) 📙
📌 BEDS
Sana Goyal @sanagoyalkotecha.bsky.social Deputy & Reviews Editor, Wasafiri magazine
PhD in literary prizes
Freelance book critic 
Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social Independent literary publishers. Discover our books here: http://granta.com/books/. 
Katie Greenall @katiegreenall.bsky.social Director | Theatre Maker | Writer | Queer Fat Attention Seeker
Resident & Young Company Director at Bush Theatre
Maker of FATTY FAT FAT & BLUBBER
Currently: Associate Director on Barcelona at Duke of York's Theatre
Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social We make documentaries and audio art for radio, podcasts and public spaces.
Subscribe to the Falling Tree podcast to listen to audio docs and radio features from our three decades of radio-making - https://podfollow.com/6812121787
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Almeida Theatre @almeida.co.uk 
Magma Poetry @magmapoetry.bsky.social The poetry magazine with a different editor every issue. Join #TheMix
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Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social a home of brilliant writing from across the decades and around the world (follow @dauntbooks.bsky.social for all things Daunt Books *shops*) 
Poems on the Underground @poemsonthetube.bsky.social Poems on the Underground offering poetry old and new, familiar and unfamiliar, to three million daily travellers on London’s Underground system since 1986. www.poemsontheunderground.org
The Wingate Prize @thewingateprize.bsky.social The only UK literary award to recognise authors and writing that explore the idea of Jewishness to the general reader. Established in 1977.
http://www.wingatefoundation.org.uk/literary_prize.php
Tilted Axis Press @tiltedaxispress.bsky.social Independent publisher of literature from the Global Majority.
Read international. Read intersectional.
Ian Irwin @mrirwin.bsky.social Out-Spoken Press Emerging Poet 2022.
Published in Poetry Review, Propel, Alchemy Spoon, Outcrop, berlin lit, Carmen et Error, Trasna.
Photographer.
Jane Yeh @janeyeh3.bsky.social Writer (DISCIPLINE, THE NINJAS, and MARABOU) & lecturer in London 🌷 Instagram: @janeyeh3 🌷 she/her 🌷 www.janeyeh3.com
Troy Cabida @troycabida.bsky.social NEON MANILA (Nine Arches Press, 2025)
Penguin Random House @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social 
The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social thebraag.co | carmenerror.com | trickster figure | poetry & spec fic press and journal | selling you books in the end times | NO AI
Leeds Lit Fest @leedslitfest.bsky.social 6 - 14 June 2026. Returning for its eighth year, the award-winning festival of words aims to bring together, and help develop, the city’s literary scene, with writers, poets and performers from Leeds, Yorkshire and beyond!
#LLF26. www.leedslitfest.co.uk
Poetry Pharmacy @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social Poetry place-the World's 1st Poetry Pharmacy prescribing poetry & more in Bishop's Castle & Oxford Street, London. Poetry on Prescription since 2012
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Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social We're a creative writing research centre based at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, organising and posting both research and community writing events. We repost lit subs calls!
https://creativeshowcase.aru.ac.uk/research/cambridge-writing-centre/
A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com Poet, performer, children's author.
The Imaginary, The Worlds We Leave Behind, Fizzlebert Stump, Greta Zargo and others.
www.afharroldkids.com
Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social Independent publisher of contemporary poetry since 2008, home of Under the Radar magazine. Made in the Midlands.
https://ninearchespress.com/
The Friday Poem @thefridaypoem.bsky.social Every Friday we post a review or a feature on the website and on Substack, and send it to subscribers. 1796 subscribers, 7300 post reads in November. 
Mary Morris @maryelmorris.bsky.social Reader, writer-enabler, ex-editor. Artistic Director, @arvonfoundation. Same handle on Insta
Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
sl grange @slgrange.bsky.social Poet * Queer historian * Mary Frith obsessive * Audio describer * Creative facilitator * Research associate @ Improbable
Chen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social Book of craft essays, IN CAHOOTS WITH THE RABBIT GOD, out December 1st. Preorder now ⬇️
www.noemipress.org/catalog/infidel-poetics/in-cahoots-with-the-rabbit-god
@thealchemyspoon.bsky.social @thealchemyspoon.bsky.social 
London Writers Centre @ldnwriterscentre.bsky.social Opening doors to great storytelling. Founded in 1995 as Spread the Word, now London Writers Centre.
Gabriel Akamo @gabrielakamo.com ☦ 🍉
Actor • Poet • Educator • Creative Producer
Rep: Divergent Talent Group 💥
https://gabrielakamo.com
Maria Ferguson @mlferg.bsky.social Poet. Playwright. Performer.
Swell (Penguin 2025)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/459719/swell-by-ferguson-maria/9781802064353
David Morley @profdavidmorley.bsky.social Professor at Warwick Uni, Poet at Carcanet, Ted Hughes Award for The Invisible Gift, PBS Choice for FURY, Forward Prize finalist, Writer of The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing, Fellow Royal Society of Literature,Thought Fox.
The Emma Press @theemmapress.bsky.social small press | big dreams
Birmingham-based independent publisher of poetry, children's books, short-form prose and translations.
www.theemmapress.com
The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social The UK's oldest literary journal: a review of literature and the arts, est. 1732, published bi-monthly.
thelondonmagazine.org
https://linktr.ee/thelondonmagazine
Robin Houghton @robinhoughton.bsky.social Author. Poet. Podcaster @planetpoetry.bsky.social First full poetry collection 'The Mayday Diaries' Pindrop Press May 1st 2025. Sings in choirs. Yogi.
Kostya Tsolakis @kostyatsolakis.bsky.social Poet | 📖 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 (Nine Arches Press), PBS Recommendation, shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize ‘24 & Runciman Award ‘24 | Editor 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘺
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
ImtiazDharker @imtiazdharker.bsky.social Poet Over the Moon, Shadow Reader
Serge ♆ Neptune @mermanpoet.bsky.social queer non-binary poet / baba-yaga stan / DYCP recipient / poems in Poetry Review & elsewhere / "Mother Night" @TheEmmaPress
(he/they)
www.linktr.ee/mermanpoet
Andrew Neilson @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social Little Griefs out now. Director of Campaigns @thehowardleague.bsky.social Co-florist @badlilies.bsky.social andrewneilson.uk
Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social Scottish poet and musician
Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social Poetry - wildlife - music - India - Greece
New 📗 GIRL -
‘Dazzling lyric control’ (Kim Moore)
‘Rhapsodic’(Guardian)
'Girls from Delphi to Delhi haunted by the ‘loose tin can’ of misogyny.…' (Mid-Day Mumbai)
Www.ruthpadel.com
Helen Mort @helenmort.bsky.social Poet, author, Sheffield-er. Mountaineering literature specialist, running enthusiast, part time Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Kathryn Gray @kathryngray.bsky.social Poet. Film fanatic. Editor @badlilies.bsky.social. Hollywood or Home, a Sunday Times Poetry Book of the Year, out now: https://www.serenbooks.com/book/hollywood-or-home/ and https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hollywood-Home-Kathryn-Gray/dp/1781727120
Martha Sprackland @marrrtha.bsky.social Editor, writer and translator. Dark Night: Poems & Selected Prose of John of the Cross (Penguin Classics, 2026)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/462137/dark-night-by-cross-st-john-of-the/9780241699294
marthasprackland.co.uk
Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social Ted Hughes' and Daniel Weissbort's international poetry translation magazine. Edited by Janani Ambikapathy.
modernpoetryintranslation.com
Robert Sharp @robertsharp.bsky.social Everyone has the right to my opinions.
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
Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal @poetrybrum.bsky.social PBLJ is a biannual print magazine of contemporary poetry, rooted in Birmingham. Engage with thought provoking essays, interviews and in-depth reviews. Subscribe Now!
https://poetrybirmingham.com/ 
Arji @arjimanuelpillai.bsky.social Published Poet. Accomplished Performer. Lifelong Facilitator.
www.arji.org