Adrian Astur Alvarez @adrianasturalvarez.bsky.social Writer of literary fiction & poetry.
Work in JMWW, Soundings Review, Hot Metal Bridge.
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Substack Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Steve Silas Hendrickson (Nakagyo Kokoro Clinic For The Soul) @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social "Mamunduong tawo" 🌈🇵🇭
| Gay Widower | Bicolano Poet | Bibliophile | Gamer
Monthly Host: #PoetsOfDoom
🚫 DMs 🚫 Generative AI
nīcro @nicropoet.bsky.social Poet writing against the authoritarian takeover of the world and for the things that make life beautiful. ✒️
Chicagoan Coloradan. Progressive on all issues.
🚫 Never "AI" 🚫 No hate (unless it's "AI")
There is always someone you can help today. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
On Viewless Wings @onviewlesswings.bsky.social Writing, reading, running.
Poetry PhD: vital instability in the 2nd generation Romantics.
Am actually writing.
Interested in the amplification of working class voices, northern voices, & kind & talented voices.
Writing, I swear.
Meliorist, still.
Todd Allen Fischer - Actor/Director/Writer @toddallenfischer.bsky.social I have ADHD and went to college for 6 years for a 4 year degree, so I can do a lot of things really well. #performer @characterconnectionco. #Actor #Author #Director #Teacher #Maker #Cosplayer #VoiceoverArtist #MakeupArtist #Science #poet
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
@patriciajvs.bsky.social @patriciajvs.bsky.social 
Avery Lark ✨ @thebisylarke.bsky.social Poet / devoted dabbler in many a craft / self-appointed jester to my own court / lover of learning / cat owner & appreciator / enjoyer of art and stories and silliness / chronic convalescent (they/she)
Dana.Ranga @danaranga.bsky.social I'm a poet / Ich bin ein Dichter
#poetrycommunity
Poems:
"Cosmos!", "Wasserbuch", "Hauthaus", "Stop", "Genesis 51-52"
http://www.danaranga.com
https://www.suhrkamp.de
https://www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de
@mrwamble.bsky.social @mrwamble.bsky.social 
Cyndee Emm (she/her) @cynshineonleith.bsky.social Serial Volunteer: Organiser, Bookseller, Little Libraries Restocker, Food Project Helper, Teacup Washer, Death & Dying Event Holder, Campaigner, ESOL Tutor (soon) and more. Also into cinema, animals and neurodivergence. Edinburgh. 35% Scottish.
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Dr. Mohan Prasad Joshi @mohan-prasad-joshi.bsky.social Awareness • Silence • Nature • Poetry • Spirituality
MD, MSc • Former Professor & Global AMR Consultant
Author of A Hundred Flowers to Awareness and Death
Photos/videos/GIFs are original & shot by me (except RTs)
No DMs • No politics
The Real David Rogers @davidrogersbooks.bsky.social davidrogersbooks.wordpress.com. Writer. Reader. Cat person. "I bought some dehydrated water . . . I don't know what to add." --Steven Wright.
@librarianadhd.bsky.social @librarianadhd.bsky.social Disorganized librarian. Love reading, if I can find the book I just put down. Knits in random moments. Fascinated by genealogy, archaeology. Cats 🐈 ✡️. Fibromyalgia. ADHD. Map geek. Recreational spreadsheets. Fueled by tea.
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social Poet, Memoirist, Translator, Expat, Lover of Life
L Pepin @leighpepin.bsky.social Teacher/writer in Scotland, Dad, Husband, sometime musician, love books, films, Liverpool FC, Scotland National Team, football, photography,
Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social US Fed writer/editor, progressive, history buff, husband, proudest girl dad 🥰 with my amazing wife, pessimist, proudly ANTIFA, dark humor, wildly introverted, athiest. USAF DAV. Proud Democratic Socialist! 8647!
Jef L Littlejohn @jefljohn.bsky.social Poet, Gardener & Animal Lover. An atheist by some measures, as I find my gods in nature. Blue-blooded liberal in red Oklahoma mourning the current demise of rights, the rule of law and, quite possibly, democracy.
No Chats/No Dms!
Agnes Kormendi @tapsiful.bsky.social Used to translate books, now a manual software tester. I write sad poems in English and sff stories in my native Hungarian. I make Celtic knotwork inspired animal drawings and take too many photos of the same hills and vales. Trans rights are human rights.
Amith Hegde @amithhegde.bsky.social Seeker, Learner, Creator, #Poet, #Writer|
#Entrepreneur #Strategist, #Leadership, #Consulting, Innovation, #Branding | Into Social & Environmental Causes
AvaTeedro.com @avateedro.bsky.social 🚫DMs - Ava writes propulsive, upmarket and historical fiction that explores friendship, family ties, and love.
seedsignal @seedsignal.bsky.social seedsignal@mastodon.social (where to find me)
Val McDermid @valmcdermid.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, civil(sometimes) partner, mother, lesbian feminist, lover of libraries, vocalist with the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers. Once described as the ‘gobby shop steward of crime fiction’. Www.valmcdermid.com @quineofcrime on Insta
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@paulrapley.bsky.social @paulrapley.bsky.social 
Clare Painter @clarepainter.bsky.social Happily untangling copyright, digital & AI licensing, publishing rights. Practical contracts & permissions. Fluent Italian with a Milanese twang. Poetry. Also cats.
Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social Curmudgeon, poet, writer, ex stand-up comic, European, playwright, woke lefty Grauniad reader, Irish trad mandolin player and blues harp playing anarchist and agnostic. Also happen to be a recovering Catholic. Website www.mikeharding.co.uk
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
Barnaby Harsent @jahshabby.bsky.social Writer and occasional DJ. Supplying poetry and music to rooms of largely indifferent drunks.
https://linktr.ee/jahshabby
@elizafevwrites.bsky.social @elizafevwrites.bsky.social Poems etc.
Ruairí de Barra @paperneverrefusedink.com Procaffinator. Veteran. Artificer. Bodger. #Author. #Poet. Lost #Mayo Man.
www.paperneverrefusedink.com
Wren Wood @wrenwoodwrites.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Poet, nature educator, and natural materials artist from London.
IG: @earth.ink.etc
X: @wrenwoodwrites
Iamb: https://www.iambapoet.com/wave/22-wren-wood
Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social ✏️Writer, birder, boater, poet
🌱 #DailyNature 🌊Water Book Club 🚢 Mess In A Boat Substack
🚂#TravelWriter 🛶#UKCanals
🏆 In The Dark LL 25
WC NatureWriting SL 24
Porthleven SL 23
📰 IntrepidTimes, WaterwaysWorld Telegraph
#NatureWriting
#NaturePoetry
Laura Theis @lauratheis.bsky.social Author of 'A Spotter's Guide To Invisible Things', 'Introduction To Cloud Care', etc.
https://www.livecanon.co.uk/store/product/a-spotters-guide-to-invisible-things-by-laura-theis
#poetsonbluesky
Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com Canadian writer in Scotland (via Denmark (got lost on the way home (sorry mom))) | Pushcart nominated | Placed/listed: BFFA, Bridport Prize, Welkin Prize, others | Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig | She/Her
erinbondo.com
Penny Walker @penny-walker-sd.bsky.social Speculating…
…in fiction and non, eco hopeful. Likes: compost, air, salvage. Dislikes: AI slop, shouting.
Writer in residence walklistencreate.org 25/6
https://linktr.ee/pennywalker
Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social Poetry, prose, art. Submit it.
https://www.fullhouseliterary.com/
Survivors' Poetry 🎤📚🌈 @survivors-poetry.bsky.social Survivors’ Poetry was founded in 1991 by poets with first-hand experience of the mental health system. We host monthly live open mic meetings 2nd Tuesdays of the month at The Harrison in King's Cross and 4th Tuesdays via Zoom https://survivorspoetry.co.uk/
Jane's Studio @janes-studio.bsky.social Jane Cornwell is an artist, illustrator & book designer. Bibliophile.
Publishing Scotland Network Member.
www.janecornwell.co.uk
Jane @janecornwell.bsky.social This is my fun account. 📚🐾🕊🏴
Work: Janes-Studio
Instagram: jane_cornwell_studio
Dr. Rachel Turney @rachelturney.bsky.social Educator and artist based out of Denver. 🌄 @turneytalks
@antjp01.bsky.social @antjp01.bsky.social Poet, Teacher, Archaeology grad, Mancunian. Wanting to make a difference. Available for poetry commissions.
Sarah Raybould @sarahraybould.bsky.social Compulsive writer, poet, doctor.
Commissioned to write & perform by English Touring Opera
Published in Black Bough Poetry, Ink Sweat and Tears, IceFloePress
2 Pushcart Nominations
Richelle C. Flores @richellecflores.bsky.social Writer of speculative fiction and poetry.
Sean Eaton (Poet) @nomdelamer.bsky.social 🍉 Official Bluesky of Sean Eaton, poet from New England, USA.
https://www.writerscafe.org/sea2sea
https://www.writing.com/main/portfolio/view/sea2sea
Mo @iremgo.bsky.social Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Irish ☘️ Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses (Nabokov). You do you, shine bright!
Ps - AI has a real value but only if done in concert with human and environmental impacts
Lori Jones @lorijonespoet.bsky.social Dreamer. Artist. Poet.
(she/her)
My debut poetry collection, The Sweetening, is available now.
https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=tNc4PEbsbvaXfnA9b8WVRq1j2CfnRZBZCDjCL053p8L
Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social EIC @the-engine-idling.bsky.social
https://www.d-mcmahon-writes.net
author of 4 poetry chapbooks & 2 microchaps
latest: rowhouse song (Ghost City Press '25) | irl (Stanchion '26)
https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/irl
Saraphir Camille @saraphircamille.bsky.social Singer songwriter, poet, writer 🎵📝
Earth lover 🌍 diversity advocate ✨
Urban gardener 👩🌾 Nature 📷
Danish Scot 🇩🇰🏴
https://linktr.ee/Saraphircamille
Jon Doble @jon26.bsky.social Cornwall based and lover of poetry. Two volumes so far: “Caged Birds & Spirit Levels” 2022 and “My name is …. (displaced poems for invisible people)” 2023. Available on Amazon.
@maddymarcotte.bsky.social @maddymarcotte.bsky.social My husband, Jamie, makes the best sandwiches. My house is currently a mess. I always kind of feel a little bit like I just want to go back to bed.
Stephen Paul Wren @moleculesunlimited.bsky.social Poet. 7th book coming soon. Founder of Molecules Unlimited. Leads Wren research group. University of Cambridge PhD.
Marshall Bood @marshallbood.bsky.social poet and author of Spring Cleaning(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021)
Order here:
https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/spring-cleaning/
AllAuthor @allauthor.bsky.social AllAuthor Official Account. 
B. Luke Wilson @blukewilson.bsky.social Writer and editor. Words out in The Rumpus, ONLY POEMS, HAD, ect. Hollins MFA alum. Poetry Editor @chestnutreview.bsky.social.
Canette Books @canettebooks.bsky.social Children's books for parents who get it 📚
"You're Only Two Once" — celebrating toddler magic
👇 Get the book
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Sunlit @sunblissful.bsky.social Poetess, musician, snaps photography. Also posts a lot of random music because music is life :)
All posts by myself except REposts.
No starter packs. I block political profiles.
Scott Westcott @westcottwriter.bsky.social Poet & Ponderer
Rob @unixwhisperer.bsky.social Retired IT. Veteran. Music. Books. Coffee. Birds. Beach. Nature. Futurist. #democracy #SCOTUSreform #nevertrump #nocults #followthemoney #dueprocess #equalrights #RESIST #nogenocide
poetry32.bsky.social @poetry32.bsky.social Elizabeth Cusack, writer/editor/performer. California to New Mexico. Author of books, Lovers Leap and Nothing But the Sea. Poetry on the Rocks for Lonely Hearts.™️
One Fall Review @onefallreview.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to professional wrestling themed poetry.
www.onefallreview.com
Submit: https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/one-fall-review-0g27j
Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
sider0xylon press @sider0xylon.bsky.social a mono-press of pithy handmade limited edition mini/micro chapbooks and broadsides.
launching june 20th @ the ottawa small press book fair!
eic: @russellcarisse.bsky.social
SUBMISSIONS OPEN, see sider0xylon.carrd.co for guidelines.
Diego D. Lomax @diegodlomax.bsky.social Dyslexic writer, tracing artist, and tone-deaf producer
My debut novel 'God of Fishes' is out NOW!
My graphic novel, [4-EVA], coming soon
Check out ny website for more info www.diegodlomax.com
C. J. Anderson-Wu @cjanderson-wu.bsky.social A Taiwanese writer whose third fiction collection Endangered Youth—Taiwan, Hong Kong, Ukraine, and first poetry collection Clear My Name—Taiwan, Hong Kong, Ukraine are launched in 2025.
clareluck.bsky.social @clareluck.bsky.social Prolific wanderer, photographer, occasional poet and dilly-dallyer.
No AI thanks.
Stowmarket Suffolk
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social Poet | Critic | Queer |
www.marcchamberlain.net
Stuart Aken @stuartaken.bsky.social UK writer of fiction (12 books published). Photographer. Environment, science, atheist, humanist, walker, happily married. Find me here: https://stuartaken.net/ I DO NOT follow DMs, selfie promos & users w/o profiles or posts. Porn will be blocked.
Three Word Genre @threewordgenre.bsky.social Share a photo, poem, reflection, or title—using just three words. Safe content only.
Let our Daily Prompts inspire, or create your own “Three Word Genre.”
Always tag #ThreeWordGenre.
Genre ideas to explore:
https://tinyurl.com/Genre-Inspiration-List
Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. PhD Candidate @ USC. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
Stella Wolf Poetry @stellawolfpoetry.bsky.social I'm just an emo, depressed furry who finds catharsis in expressing my thoughts and feelings through the medium of poetry.
I also have a Wattpad for longer (and arguably better) poetry: wattpad.com/user/StellaWolfPoetry
Artwork by Krinh on Discord
Jenny's Poems @fractalpatter.bsky.social Poetess (amateur) - Ally - Ace/Demi - She/Her - Thought Poster - Person - Place - Time - No AI - All work mine (excluding reposts of course) - Just trying to be me - Thanks for being you
Richard Lin @richardlin1215.bsky.social DSA, PNW, observer and writer, history and law, art and literature, dogs and cats
Michelle DiSarno @michelledisarno.bsky.social Poet / Photographer/ Teacher in NJ
Writing about Beauty, Longing, Grief, Tension, Mystery
First poetry collection coming out next fall with Aldrich Press
Here to share, encourage and create!
Substack @michelledisarno
David Toms @daithitoms.bsky.social Writer. Hold Over Fire (2026) coming soon from Veer2.
Pacemaker (Banshee Press, 2022). Northly (Turas Press, 2019). Writing recently in Magma, DRB, aswirl, Banshee, Gorse.
🇮🇪 living in 🇳🇴.
Matthew Fox @mattfoxwriter.bsky.social Kirkus ★ THE LOVELY DARK out April '26 🇺🇸 | Financial Times Best Children's Books '23 | Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist '24 | Rep'd: Bell Lomax Moreton | No AI |🌱
linktr.ee/mattfoxwriter
Caroline Fielding @cazapr1.bsky.social Chartered School Librarian, CILIP @YLGLondon Committee, National conference exhibition manager, Bea keeper. She/her
Gerry Moynihan @gerrymoynihan.bsky.social Playwright
Writer of 'CONTINUITY':
⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Utterly gripping drama" The Guardian
"you do not know whether to feel reassured-or alarmed" #NewYorkTimes
Click to watch 'CONTINUITY':
👉 https://t.co/xz22glhjYz 👈
👀 https://geraldmoynihan890.wixsite.com/writer 👀
Robin @incompletecricket.bsky.social Quiet field notes of consciousness, passing through the day.
Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social 🐺 Wolf Twin Author 📖
Author of VANISHED ROADS
104 haiku on grief, renewal, and attention.
Available now:
https://www.wolftwin.com/product-page/vanished-roads
RachelChurcherWriting @rachelchurcher.bsky.social Award-winning YA author. Indie editor, YA reviewer, co-founder of www.forewordfestival.uk
LGBTQ+ novel 'Angels' available now from bookshops, plus Amazon, Waterstones, B&N, Kobo, Apple, Smashwords, Allstora.
www.tallerbooks.com
freebook.tallerbooks.com
KerreeAM @candkwords.bsky.social Human - Writer - Lawyer - Book Keeper - Music and Poetry - Often lost in books and stories - Travelling through spaces and places that shape my words and images
https://wordpress.com/view/candkwords.com
@Victoria, Australia
@sunnydayfilter.bsky.social @sunnydayfilter.bsky.social A poet just trying to romanticize their one wild and precious life | San Francisco 🏳️🌈
Emily Foster @emilyfoster.bsky.social Writer of fiction, non-fiction (memoir) & poetry. Loves reading, walking, visiting art galleries and new places. Hot chocolate lover too. LFC Supporter. No DMs.
Peigi MacKillop @peigibheag.bsky.social Heritage, archaeology, cooking, art, fashion, Gaelic, Berneray. Ex-librarian, ex Oracle admin. I have my books, and my poetry to protect me. 💙 NHS
Scrivener Creative Review @scrivener1980.bsky.social Scrivener is a literary journal published at McGill University in Montreal, founded in 1980. https://scrivenerreview.com/
Submit to issue 48: http://tinyurl.com/scrivener48.
JeggyPo @jeggypo57.bsky.social Artist, Reader, Poet, Amateur Photographer
Joanna Bourke @joannabourke.bsky.social Historian curious about violence, the emotions, and what it means to be human. Currently writing a book on Women and Wine! See joannabourke.com
Tiny Prophecies @mercurialsilver.com Online lit journal of hearth, ruin, & whimsy.
Free to submit—poems & tiny fiction. 🌈
✣
Curated by @perilpoet
✣ mercurialsilver.com ✣
Cormac Stagg @cormacstagg.com Cormac Stagg is an Irish-Australian Christian Mystic, Poet, Storyteller, and Author of: The Quest for a Humble Heart. https://cormacstagg.com/
PoetiCalli @poeticalli.bsky.social My name is CalliMulligan. I'm an author, poet, and dreamer who finds inspiration in nature. I'm also on Substack, CalliMulligan@substack.com
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul"-Emily Dickinson
Doug B @flip89db.bsky.social #poet ND✨haiku
IG_flippoetry
𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘏𝘢𝘪𝘬𝘶
𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘏𝘢𝘪𝘬𝘶 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘯’𝘴 𝘕𝘦𝘴𝘵
𝘗𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘑𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘦…
he/him
Touchstone nominee
Amy Borgman @ireneaddie.bsky.social To cross an ocean
You must love the ocean
Before you love the far shore.
— Suzanne Buffam
All photos I’ve taken with my iPhone unless I’m reposting others’ lovely work.
Susan Blackwell Ramsey @blackramazoo.bsky.social Poetry in The Southern Review, 32 Poems, Ecotone, Poetry Northwest, Best American Poetry … Gardening, knitting, inessential information and digressions. Geriatric MFA from Notre Dame. Book is A Mind Like This (University of Nebraska) she/her
Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social Reading, writing, rabbits 🐇 ✡️
Director of European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social
London
www.deborahzafer.com
https://substack.com/@deborahzafer
Malcolm Timperley @malcolmtimperley.bsky.social Scotland-based writer and teller of unsettling tales (horror & comedy, the two closest genres), heritage railway signaller, photographer, recovering psychiatrist, international man of mystery. Bio available on request (Terms & Conditions apply).
Alastair Morrison @alasmorrison.bsky.social Psychiatry resident, poet/poetry bore, tolerated parent. PhD English Lit, Columbia. MD McMaster. #medicalhumanities