Andre Bagoo (he/him) @abagoo.bsky.social “Andre Bagoo is a fearless, brilliant mind.” – Ilya Kaminsky
Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social The magazine of international literature since 1984. Order our latest issue, Wasafiri 127: Solidarities
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Lauren Kayes @midheavens.bsky.social writer & diviner. words at The Rumpus, Allure, etc; studying Creative Writing at the University of Cambridge.
Asian American Writers' Workshop @aaww-nyc.bsky.social Celebrating over 30 years of amplifying Asian American & Asian diasporic literature to mobilize for a more just future. Subscribe → http://eepurl.com/gNlHV1
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mira mattar | ميرا مطر @hermoth.bsky.social writer, unbecoming.
i wrote yes i am a destroyer, affiliation, the bow & and most of all i would miss...
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se ldn via yafa, amman, beirut
Annie Rutherford @annierutherford.bsky.social Translator, writer and cultural project leader. Artistic director at Highlight Arts. Particularly interested in collaborative working and creating communities. 2025 BCLT translator-in-residence. (she/they)
annietranslates.wordpress.com
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social Poet, writer, (col)lapsed academic (he/him). Work in: @badlilies.bsky.social, @propelmagazine.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social Queer disabled writer, artist, & scholar aka Dr. Heffers.
Lover of nature, sitcoms, libraries, & coffee.
EIC, Genrepunk Magazine (@genrepunkmag.bsky.social)
📚 What Blooms in the Dark (2024)
She/they
https://linktr.ee/audreytcarroll
Michael Marks Awards @michaelmarksawards.bsky.social The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets celebrate work published in the UK. The 2025/26 Awards are opening for submissions soon.
Our partners are @britishlibrary.bsky.social, Wordsworth Trust, @thetls.bsky.social and The British School at Athens.
Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social I write poems and I garden. *Becoming Altar*, new and selected poems, available from asterismbooks.com. *Mapless* available from SHINE Poetry. See https://kylahoubolt.us/ for all kinds of more. Oh, and NO AI at all.
Pumpkin Spiced Hannah 🖤🩶🤍💜🇵🇸 @tooriekep.bsky.social Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2021. She / her / hers / shö. Shetlander in Aberdeen. Writer, library assistant, archivist, book and music enthusiast, views my own because who else's would they be? https://linktr.ee/tooriekep
Dr M. I. Matthews-Schlinzig @whatisaletter.bsky.social poet, human, dog lover
academic & literary editing/translation, and writing (ENG/GER)
MSt & DPhil (University of Oxford)
Instagram: schicketanz_books
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Kate Simpson @kate-elspeth.bsky.social writing through extinction
'Out of Time: Poetry from the Climate Emergency' (2021)
steph @thenowofmylife.bsky.social She/Her // 🏹♠️ // New ENGENE and LUNÉ 🥰 // Re(re)reader 📚 // Occasional poet ✍️ // 한국어 배우기 📓
Extra Teeth @extrateethmag.bsky.social A literary magazine with bite
Guest illustrator for each issue
Words from Scotland + everywhere else
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Jessica Gaitán Johannesson @jessjohannesson.bsky.social Writer, organiser, working with uncertainty | 'How We Are Translated' (2021), 'The Nerves & Their Endings' (2022) | ella/hon/she
Amogha @amoghaaa.bsky.social the /gh/ is aspirated • umich helen zell writers' program '27
Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest.bsky.social The annual Bocas Lit Fest (30 April - 03 May 2026) and a year-round calendar of events and programmes for readers and writers of all ages. 🔗 linktr.ee/bocaslitfest
Anthropocene @anthro-poetry.bsky.social fresh poems: wednesday & sunday.
editor:
charlie baylis
Emilia Phillips @emdashphillips.bsky.social Poet. 5 books, University of Akron Press. Memoiring. Translating. Gardening. Educator. Trans Nonbinary. OCD/hEDS/Long COVID. Views mine. They (Eng.)/Elle (Esp.)
Lesa @lesalionheart.bsky.social Metadata witch
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Daphne Harries @daphneharries.bsky.social 🏴🇦🇺 | she/her | English student @ Oxford | ‘Three Strikes’, my poetry pamphlet around Llŷn y Fan Fach, out now with Lemon Jelly Press (2026) | this is my sort-of digitial creative and academic journal :)
Monisha Rajesh @monisharajesh.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author of Moonlight Express: Around the World By Night Train, Around the World in 80 Trains and Around India in 80 Trains
inthewakebook @inthewakebook.bsky.social Writer. Professor.
Joy Priest @dalai-mama.bsky.social Poet | Professor | Scholar | Curator @ Center for African American Poetry & Poetics (CAAPP)
Silver Press @silver-press.bsky.social A feminist press feat. Ursula K. Le Guin, Audre Lorde, & Leonora Carrington. Announcing: Spiral House! An imprint for art, poetry & ways of knowing 💫 silverpress.org
Join our mailing list: https://mailchi.mp/silverpress/silver-press-mailing-list
Jennifer Saunders @magpiedays.bsky.social Poet, author of Tumor Moon 🌖 Co-editor of Stained: an anthology of writing about menstruation🩸(Querencia Press). Immigrant. Hockey fan. She / her. 🇺🇸/🇨🇭in 🇨🇭
http://www.jennifer-saunders.com
https://concretewolf.com/publications/publications.htm
Alex @admiringbog.bsky.social person with ME/CFS
professional slug
Simon 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦 @mirthematician.bsky.social Book addict, user of recreational maths. Green Party member. Wildlife buff. Plant-based happiness. Not unpartial to the odd dram.
Elizabeth M. Castillo | Poetry, Writing & Workshops @emcwritesthings.bsky.social • 🇬🇧🇲🇺Multilingual British-Mauritian Poet, Writer & Educator
• Author of "Cajoncito" & "Not Quite An Ocean"
John McCullough @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social Poet. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize for Literature with Reckless Paper Birds. Forward & Costa-shortlisted. Working-class writer. Next book: Crowd Voltage (Bloodaxe, March 2026). He/him. 🏳️🌈
Eileen Chong @eileenchongpoet.bsky.social Poet. Author of 11 books, most recently
🌸 We Speak of Flowers (UQP, 2025) 🌸
eileenchong.com.au (she/her) 🍉
Natalie Linh Bolderston @natlinhbolderston.bsky.social Vietnamese-Chinese-British poet. 2020 Eric Gregory Award Recipient, Rebecca Swift Women Poets Prize winner, 2021 Forward Prizes shortlistee. Contact: NatalieLinhBolderston@gmail.com
Tupelo Press @tupelopress.bsky.social Literary non-profit. Publishing works of poetry, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and established writers since 1999.
ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social 💙 Fall in love with poetry again
📩 Submit poems, book reviews & fever dreams
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Lisa Kelly @lisadmkelly.bsky.social Poet. @carcanet.bsky.social. A Map Towards Fluency (shortlisted for Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021) The House of the Interpreter (Poetry Book Society Recommendation) BSL Level 6 
Joe Mungo Reed @joemungoreed.bsky.social Writes novels and stories and teaches writing.
TERRESTRIAL HISTORY out April 8th 2025
https://bookshop.org/a/113939/9781324079378
https://www.joemungoreed.com/
Heidi Seaborn @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social Poet + Executive Editor The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social
Books: TIC TIC TIC (9/25); MARILYN: ESSAYS & POEMS (An Insomniac's Slumber Party with Marilyn Monroe); GIVE A GIRL CHAOS
NYU mfa
heidiseabornpoet.com
Rebecca Salazar Leon @rsalazar.bsky.social haunted swamp femme, PhD // author of sulphurtongue (2021) & antibody (2025) // (she/they) 🇨🇴🤎🇵🇸
Martin Reed @iammartinreed.bsky.social Plant-based, leftist, cyclist, northernist writer. Angel Caging (2017). What You Do With The Trees (20??). Troll muter. Views mine. He / him.
themby @todder.bsky.social Nonbinary they/them motherfucker
Protect trans kids
Tim Tim Cheng @timtimtmi.bsky.social Poet, Translator, Editor, Lecturer
🦥 The Tattoo Collector (Nine Arches Press, 2024)
🐸 Tapping At Glass (Verve Poetry Press, 2023)
🐙 2025 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program
🐌 glasgow / hk / IG@mymothercalls / timtimcheng.com
Janel Pineda @janelpineda.bsky.social poet. salvi. scholar of U.S. Central American literature. author of LINEAGE OF RAIN (Haymarket 2021). PD Soros fellow PhDing @ ucla.
Elsa // Freddie Hercury @elsawonderful.bsky.social 
Elisávet Makridis @elisahhhvet.bsky.social 🕊 hybrid poet & lecturer, Cornell MFA ‘21 | poems in Indiana Review, canthius, Hayden’s Ferry Review, amongst others
https://elisavetmakridis.com/
Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social My novel, Skin Hunger, is coming in 2026. In the meantime, my latest poetry books are Openwork & Limestone (2022) & Light-carved Passages (2024). Prairie-raised author of Seeking Shade (stories 2020), Tower (novella 2018) etc.
www.francesboyle.com
Dr Durre Shahwar @durreshahwar.bsky.social Writer, artist, creative writing lecturer. Editor: GATHERING: WoC on Nature (2024). Cardiff/London.
Roshni Gallagher @roshnigallagher.bsky.social Poet based in Edinburgh 🐋
Even the Trees (Bloodaxe, Sep 2026) shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection
https://roshnigallagher.com/
Gale Marie Thompson @thegalester.bsky.social Author of: Mountain Amnesia (CLP Colorado State University), Helen or my Hunger (@yesyesbooks), Soldier On (@tupelopress)
👩🏼🏫 Assoc. Professor
Books, baking, music, animals
Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social A political education collective engaging with decolonial, abolitionist and socialist texts, both classic and contemporary.
Education is a communal practice!
Farah 🌿 @farahghafoor.bsky.social poet and author of Shadow Price (House of Anansi, 2025) 🌿 | she/her | Tkaronto | farahghafoor.com | farah.substack.com | IG @/shadowpricepoems
Rosa Campbell @rosacampbell.bsky.social “writer” & “academic” (poetry, poetics, archives, gender, failure) // British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @ St Andrews // co-director Network for New York School Studies // Houghton Library Visiting Fellow, Harvard // she/her // 🧂 // linktr.ee/rosacampbell
Annie Brechin @anniebrechin.bsky.social Poet, bellringer. The Mouth of Eulalie currently out from Blue Diode Press https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/the-mouth-of-eulalie-by-annie-brechin-isbn-9781915108012
Rushika Wick @rushikawick.bsky.social Writer. Poet. Books - Afterlife as Trash (Verve 2021) Highly Commended in Forward prizes, Horse (Broken Sleep 2024).
J B @fakebay.bsky.social Recovering poet, dog dad, adventurer.
Gearing up for the next 4 years by getting active in the resistance.
Meryl Pugh @merylpugh.bsky.social (She/her) London UK, writing thinking & skulking. Latest: Feral Borough, 2022, Penned in the Margins. https://furtive11.wordpress.com
Sheniz J @shenizpoetics.bsky.social Writer, Arts Educator, Friend to Nature
shenizjanmohamed.com
Rachel Cleverly @rachelcleverly.bsky.social Poetry, plays, producing.
Cal Flyn @calflyn.bsky.social Author of the Sunday Times bestseller ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT: LIFE IN THE POST-HUMAN LANDSCAPE—a book about the ecology and psychology of abandoned places. Currently at work on THE SAVAGE LANDSCAPE, expected early 2026
James McPherson @suplexicon.bsky.social chronic illness || fiction || pro wrestling
Nikesh Shukla @nikeshshukla.bsky.social Author. Wrote a Spider-Man comic. He wears a mask just to cover the raw flesh. A rather ugly brother with flows that’s gorgeous.
Amina Khan @aminakhan.bsky.social 
Pratyusha (she/her) @pairedaeza.bsky.social writer, poet, reader 🌿 southbank new poets collective / ledbury critic 🪻 🏳️🌈 pratyusha.co.uk
Greg Gerke / Socrates on the Beach @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social In the Suavity of the Rock (novel)with
@thisissplice
https://tinyurl.com/3dthp3u2
Editor: http://socratesonthebeach.com
Jennifer Cooke @jenniferacooke.bsky.social 📚 Prof of Contemporary Literature & Theory.
🐈⬛ Poet, Londoner, ashtangi, beleaguered cat-feeder.
📕 Author of Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity.
Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social Novelist, poet, lecturer at University of Birmingham. Latest novel BLACK BAG out March 12th 2026.
https://linktr.ee/lukekennard
Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social Writer, Artist, Psychologist
MOVING MOUNTAINS
PhD candidate at Centre for Place Writing, Manchester Met Uni.
Exploring the Romney Marshes & its coastline through post-viral illness. https://louisekenward.substack.com
Rep'd by @portyliterary.bsky.social
Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social Postdoc at Cambridge working between book history & early modern lit. Current project 'provenance: early modern books in/against time'
Volunteer for Abortion Support Network
Book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
Asa Drake @asaldrake.bsky.social Maybe the Body (Tin House, 2026), Beauty Talk (Noemi Press, 2026), One Way to Listen (Gold Line Press, 2023)
Fossil Free Books @fossilfreebooks.org Book workers organising in solidarity with Palestine, and against fossil fuels ✊📖🍉
fossilfreebooks.org
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opencollective.com/fossil-free-books
Template letter: https://bit.ly/4kDo2O4
Astra Papachristodoulou @heyastranaut.bsky.social Poet ★ Artist ★ Astranaut ★
www.astranaut.co.uk
Sanna Wani @sannawani.bsky.social poetry, pottery, publishing
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!
https://linktr.ee/brihughespoet
Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social
"Are you okay?"
MN, January 2026
New book: “Killing Spree”,Carcanet (UK); FSG (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).
The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social Independent Cultural Journalism from Scotland. Free monthly magazine, website, podcasts, and more. DMs not monitored, send us an email.
theskinny.co.uk
Adelheid @adelheidbjornlie.bsky.social 
Alicia Wright @aliciawright.bsky.social Poet, PhD, Editor @annulet.bsky.social, a literary journal and soon a small press // Managing Editor of The Iowa Review // Author of You're Called By The Same Sound (Thirdhand Books, August 2025) // Takes are mine, all mine
Shze-Hui Tjoa @shzehuitjoa.bsky.social 🔮 Author of THE STORY GAME: A MEMOIR (Tin House Books, 2024)
🧠 Senior Nonfiction Editor, Guernica magazine
📍A Singaporean in Edinburgh
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
Polari Press @polari.press Queer publishing and design studio. Not affiliated with any other Polari-named things.
polari.press | polari.com
David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social Host of the Between the Covers podcast & Crafting with Ursula series, co-author of Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing.
Podcast: https://milkweed.org/between-the-covers
YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@BetweentheCovers-DavidNaimon
Cat Chong @marbledmayhem.bsky.social Poet, publisher, essayist, crip—PhD on gender, genre & disability at NTU, Singapore.
Vising PhD Fellow: IMH, Durham.
Digital Editor at Osmosis Press.
Debut collection: 712 Stanza Homes for the Sun (2023)
(they/them)♿️🏳️⚧️
Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social author of A LIVING REMEDY and ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW • words in NYT Mag, Time, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
Sana Goyal Kotecha @sanagoyal.bsky.social Editor & Publishing Director, Wasafiri magazine. Writing in The Guardian & elsewhere. PhD in literary prizes from SOAS, University of London. 2025 International Booker Prize judge. From Bombay, based in Birmingham, UK. She/her.
Natasha Brown @natashabrown54.bsky.social Managing Editor | she/her | opinions very much my own . . .
Rachel Edelman @rachelsedelman.bsky.social poet & teacher. author of DEAR MEMPHIS (River River Books, 2024). living in seattle. learning yiddish. rachelsedelman.com.
Myles Howard @myleshoward.bsky.social
working for @haymarketbooks in london
Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social Diana fan, scorpio, & very serious leftie novelist. stubborn archivist (2019) & there are more things (2022)🌙 🌎
doing a phd on novels + abolition at Leeds
she/they
https://linktr.ee/yrodriguesfowler
Victoria Bennett @beewyld.bsky.social Disabled writer, carer & apothecary gardener. 🧙🏼♀️Founder/Host Wild Women Writers’ Salons 🏆Shortlist World of Books Sustainable Story Awards 2025📚PreOrder THE APOTHECARY BY THE SEA (2026) Debut memoir ALL MY WILD MOTHERS (2023- Nautilus Award Winner) 🦭Orkney
lkiew.bsky.social @lkiew.bsky.social Poet, accountant, dancer. Debut collection MORE THAN WEEDS out with Nine Arches Press. https://linktr.ee/lkiew
N.S. Nuseibeh @nswriting.bsky.social Writer/feeder/eater. East Jerusalemite 🍉🏳️🌈. Buy my book so that my publishers don't get sad: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/namesake-reflections-on-a-warrior-woman-n-s-nuseibeh/7592027?ean=9781838852634
Titilayo @titiiilayo.bsky.social Free Free 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🇱🇧
In Wolf's Skin 💛 @Stewed Rhubarb Press
Coming🌱 But We Did ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽 @404 Ink
Tinderbox Poetry Journal @tinderboxpoetry.bsky.social A quarterly online journal devoted to uplifting vibrant voices in poetry.
EIC: @LaurenK_Carlson | Poetry Editors: @geramee_ @ThreaWrites & @emilywolahan | Social Media Editor: @jacquiz
(cover photo by Darya Jum via Unsplash)
Jo Gilbert @mucklewriting.bsky.social Spikks Doric. Avid scribbler o wirds. https://linktr.ee/jogilbert
Peter Scalpello @pscalpello.bsky.social Mirrorstage // Limbic @cipherpress.bsky.social