Chris Emery @chrisemery.me Poet and book designer, born in Manchester, living in Cromer. Co-founder of Salt Publishing. Five collections from Arc and Salt, most recently Wonder (2025). Newsletter: chrisemery.me
Dr Kate Thagrinus 🏴 @katelaity.eurosky.social Professional Dilettante • Arcane Artist • Fulbrighter • Uberskiver • x💀SLAC Medievalist • Tarotist • Owl-Blasted Surrealist | she/her |Dundee & Hudson| https://linktr.ee/katelaity
nodYESYES @nodyesyes.com Writer, photographer, blogger.- B Battles @battles.bsky.social I used to be a ballerina but now I'm in cyber
Ellen Forkin @ellenforkin.bsky.social I’m a chronically ill artist, writer and poet living in beautiful Orkney with a passion for folklore, myth and magic. Visit my website: www.ellenforkin.co.uk
Sam Szanto @samszanto.bsky.social Poet, short story writer, PhD researcher. Books with Hedgehog Press, Dreich, Alien Buddha. Best of the Net and Pushcart nominated. Workshop 13th Sept: https://poetryschool.com/courses/microchimerism-loss-connection-writing-absence-attachment-in-parenthood/
Paul Nash | Paul atten Ash @northseanavigator.bsky.social WRITER:
Sampler (Black Cat Press 2027)
'Searchlight Seasons' (Atomic Bohemian 2024)
Instagram: @north_sea_navigator
campsite.bio/northseanavigator
Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social writes poetry
Joseph Landi @joseph-landi.bsky.social Poet and medical writer. Poems in North American Review, The Southern Review, New Ohio Review, Tar River Poetry, South Carolina Review, Rhino, Louisville Review, Notre Dame Review, Sugar House Review, etc.
Another Cinna @anothercinna.bsky.social Mugged Poet. Should've stayed at home. They'll win in the end: it's the only victory we've got left. A plague on all your houses.
Andrew Haglington @andrewhaglington.bsky.social #Author #Scifi #Fantasy 📚 Andrew Haglington
#Environment #Climate #SocialNetworking
#Photographer #Artist #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #Progressive
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Eileen Farrelly @eileenfarrelly.bsky.social Scottish poet based in Glasgow. Occasional runner, printmaker, songwriter photographer…
Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social Story Teller, Word Juggler, all round good egg,
Poet from the North of England.
ADHD, cPTSD, LGBTQ+ Ally (I'm sure I have more letters)
Anti Fascist, quite left wing
Part of the #PoetsOfDoom collective
Evan Jones (Ευριπίδες Ιωάννου) @evanpjones.bsky.social Post-Canadian poet, Cavafy translator, author of Men of the Same Name (Carcanet 2025). I’ve published in the Guardian, TLS, Malahat Review and PN Review.
moocat.net @moocat.net This is the official account for the literary magazine, moocat.net (2001-present)
Ultonia Press @ultoniapress.bsky.social Ambitious independent publisher, Belfast • Contemporary poetry, critical essays, experimental writing. Submissions opening September ’26.
Reading Raindoe @readingraindoe.bsky.social Poetry: #♡ᝰ.🖋️
(𝘢𝘳𝘵, 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘴 & 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘦)
#booksky 💙📚🪐
Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social Horror/Fantasy writer. Mom of two semi-feral girls and a pack of mutts.
Follow for books, short stories & random things I find interesting.
Work in LCRW, Uncharted, Abyss & Apex
Member of HWA, Codex, SFWA
Eugie Award Finalist
tammykomoff.com
#writer
The Bohemian Star @thebohemianstar.com No DMs, No MAGA. No Porn. Sights, sounds, stories & cosmic curiosities. Based in Birmingham, Al. Follow the signal: https://thebohemianstar.com #IDWP
Richelle C. Flores @richellecflores.bsky.social Editor & writer of speculative fiction and poetry.
Gene Twaronite @genetwaronite.bsky.social A Tucson poet and the author of six poetry collections. His latest collection is "Watch Us Burn: Poems for a Lost Earth" (Kelsay Books).
Follow more of his writing @genetwaronitepoet.com.
Lori Jones @lorijonespoetry.bsky.social Dreamer. Artist. Poet.
(she/her)
My debut poetry collection, The Sweetening, is available now.
https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=tNc4PEbsbvaXfnA9b8WVRq1j2CfnRZBZCDjCL053p8L
Raymond Bevilacqua-Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social Seattle-born farmboy,
Madrid-forged,
Europe-tempered,
Poet & Prose Smith,
Spinner of songs,
Wanderer of words.
All rights reserved.©
Founder of: @ThreeWordGenre @Dyadigmas @TrilisyPoetry @BlueSkyPoetry @BlueSkyRemnant
Web: raymondstowers.wordpress.com
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.
mreid@bsky.social @mreid.bsky.social poet, gardener, intelligence expert
former Managing Editor at Arc poetry Magazine
former Director at VerseFest
books with Brick, Chaudiere, Anansi, rdc, etc
new book coming from University of Calgary Press
Paula Green @paulajoygreen.bsky.social poet, blogger, children's author
Tamar Yoseloff @tamaryoseloff.bsky.social Poet, lecturer, festival curator.
Suffolk / London
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social Poets | Anniversaries | Poems
www.marcchamberlain.net
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
Eoghan Carrick @eoghancarrick.bsky.social Artist and theatre director based in Dublin, Ireland.
www.eoghancarrick.com
Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social Published by Blackbough Poetry, The Storms Journal, FolkHeart Press. Featured writer in Patricia's Pen, and on A Thousand Shades Of Green podcast and a regular guest reader on Eat The Storms podcast. Best of The Net nominated.
Richard Price @paintedspoken.bsky.social Richard Price, poet (Lucky Day, Small World, Moon for Sale, Late Gifts all from Carcanet) and novelist (The Island, from Salt)
Lawrence Moore @lawrencemoore.bsky.social Poet. Pushcart, Forward nominated.
This Joyful Interlude out now with @janes-studio.bsky.social 🕊️
UK link: amazon.co.uk/dp/1068432330
Vegan, BLM
Matthew Fox @mattfoxwriter.bsky.social THE LOVELY DARK is nominated for the Kirkus Prize 2026 | Kirkus ★ | Financial Times Best Children's Books '23 | Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist '24 | No AI |🌱
linktr.ee/mattfoxwriter
Shakespeare Okuni @ishakespeare.org Author of A Twist of Rotten Silk or Words to That Effect (2026). Actor. Director. Linguist. Cymbelinism and Other Things of the Imogenation, Stories of the Bundle and the Box, The Bread and Cloth Company (2027).
Betty Stanton @fadingbetty.bsky.social EdD, MFA, poet, author, speech & debate coach, director, teacher, editor, rpg nerd, game designer, bad at social media, located in Oklahoma
Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social Artist, writer and editor-in-chief of @metachrosismagazine. Fagging out on occasion. Eating vegetable tempura in my limited spare time🌼.
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
The Carrying Stream @thecarryingstream.bsky.social The Carrying Stream — a podcast for Scottish words and ideas.🎙️🏴
https://pod.link/1865430519
Sarah Warden @sarahwarden.bsky.social Poet. Socialist.
"Fight like there is no night so dark that liberty cannot light it."
#poetsonbluesky #NoKings
http://sarahwarden.substack.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/
Prof David Wraith @cameron-wraith.bsky.social Erstwhile immunologist still working on designing antigen-specific immunotherapies for autoimmune diseases
Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social Carer Gardener Poet Reader
Give me time to think!😀
John Roche @jr-placitas.bsky.social Poet in NM, retired English prof, editor, Poetry Playhouse Publications, author, Tubbables. Blue Team! 🇺🇦! No DMs. Spoutible: JRPlacitasPoet
Website: https://www.poetryplayhouse.com/
MK Hardy @mkhardywrites.com Sapphic Scottish specfic duo E&M. Fungi fanatics, lurcher lovers, gin guzzlers.
The Needfire NOW OUT out with Solaris Books!
PREORDER The Haunting of Avis Lovelock TODAY!
Repped by John Baker @ PFD.
https://www.mkhardywrites.com/links/
J. C. Jones @thejcjones.bsky.social Author of the best selling Louisa Moss detective series.
Ex-nightclub boss and, due to carelessness, owner of only half a lung.
Poems and Limericks daily.
Based in Hereford, UK.
Provenance Integrity Institute @provenanceii.bsky.social 🏛 Provenance Integrity Institute Limited (NGO)
💻 Global Scholars DAO Discord → https://discord.gg/ctstmGQWKv
🔗 PII LinkedIn → https://linkedin.com/company/provenanceintegrityinstitute
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Jo Fox @joxfoxo.bsky.social I like writing poems and reading other people’s too. Picture Book writer - currently querying 🤞Published writer of short fiction in national women’s press. Novice knitter.
Maker of sensory tools and fidgets. Powered by ADHD⚡️
No DM’s
AyaRay @ayaraywords.bsky.social A Poet, a storyteller. These are my insides, raw and unfiltered. Not always pretty. Always real. Maybe one lands where no one else could.
The Street Library @streetlibrary.ataxia.scot The Street Library. Where books get social 📚
Use YOUR books - to raise funds for YOUR favourite charity.
http://StreetLibrary.co.uk
Main Bluesky account: @ataxia.scot
dogyard @dogyardmag.com Just a mag chasin’ tales.
We accept all types of work from all (leashed) walks of life: poetry, fiction, essay, art, nonfiction, and more.
Read & Submit 👇
dogyardmag.com
Account ran by @edithkrone.bsky.social
Jude P @judepickledplum.bsky.social Tea drinking fool, storyteller, humanist, voluptuary. Easily distracted by cats and reverb. Quiet voice, loud hands. Likes writers, books and awful puns.
@rabidbadger1.bsky.social @rabidbadger1.bsky.social Husband. Dad. Traveler. Avid reader. Shakespeare. Poe. Stephen King. Tolkien. Joe Abercrombie. Landscape gardener. Democracy lover. Cat lover. Music lover. Nature lover. Pizza . Very amateur photographer. Birder. Treehugger. Hiker. Love over hate.💙
Author GRF @mythoversal.bsky.social 2025: Poem every day
2026: Poem and art every day
2027: ???
Standard AI scraper license applies—if you train an AI on my content, you owe a licensing fee!
gfishbone.com (he/him)
@heroncrosswords.bsky.social @heroncrosswords.bsky.social Cryptic crossword setter: back page Daily Telegraph, Heron (Times Quick), Turnstone (Guardian).
Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social Socially inept but likes to sing in front of strangers. Wow published by THWUP in NZ http://teherengawakapress.co.nz/wow/ & Carcanet https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170049/wow/ in the UK.
Toitū Te Tiriti!
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
Chelsea Britain @chelseabritain.bsky.social Author and lover of all things cephalopod, philosophy, science, philosophy OF science, other animals, forests, oceans, and etc. 
Jason Bentsman @jasonbentsman.bsky.social Wayfaring Writer & Photographer
// Debut photobook out now from 89Books Italy ➨
limited signed copies ➨ www.tinyurl.com/WhichCannotBeSeen
// Bklyn Review, Offing, LitroMagUK, Mercurius, Tiny Mcules, AmBystander, MTL Review, HAD, Amstdm Qtrly, FStop, et al
FWC Indivisible @fwcindivisible.bsky.social FWC is a multi-state Indivisible Group and a grassroots operation providing messaging and social media content inspired by our progressive allies.
https://indivisible.org
Paul Sherratt @globaljukeboxer.bsky.social
Staying curious
Alien Buddha Press @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social Alien Buddha Press has been publishing emerging writers and artists since 2017. Open for submissions at abuddhapress@yahoo.com
The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the world’s best new writing.
http://theberlinliteraryreview.com
Astrid Aillume @aillume.bsky.social A detective. Astrid Aillume's New Case: A Billionaire's Mystery
Cracking a case is like salty liquorice.
Surprising at first,but ultimately addictive.
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
Strange Worlds of Jason Kilgore - Author @worldskilgore.bsky.social (he/him) Author who transports you to strange worlds of #fantasy, #paranormal / #horror, #scifi, #poetry. Loves chocolate & cats. http://linktr.ee/WorldsKilgore
🚫No AI
** NO, I DON'T WANT TO HIRE YOU FOR MY WRITING STUFF **
Maggie Russell @magpierussell.bsky.social Editor + Proofreader + Writer.
Former attorney. Editor @dearfear.bsky.social
Storytelling, Editing & Content: www.maggierussellwriter.com
Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social Cardiff based Poet, Writer, Academic 'Octopus Mind' (Seren Books) - a Guardian Best Poetry Book of 2023 https://linktr.ee/createdtoread Teach creative writing, writing on/around ekphrasis, neurodiversity, creativity, climate crisis, art
European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social Travelling salon and writing community - connecting writers across Europe and beyond. Posts by @royakhatiblou.bsky.social and @deborahzafer.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/europeanwriterssalon
J.S. Watts @j-s-watts.bsky.social Writer (poet, novelist, short story writer and sometime reviewer) amateur photographer and very amateur musician. Website: https://www.jswatts.co.uk/
DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social Wanderer, writer, reader
Ambassador for daily writing prompt, #vss365, and inquisitive human.
Andrew Fox Ⓥ @foxphorescence.bsky.social Reader, writer, book collector, and all-around biblophile.
Learning to channel the soft whisper of the muses.
Autodidact.
INFJ
#WritingCommunity
#Shelley #Keats #Tennsyon #HartCrane #Stevens #Whitman #Dickinson #Bloom.
Vegan FTA
Good vibes only. ~ ~ ~
EASTMAN @eastmanblue.bsky.social Social democrat. Vegetarian. Science. Baseball.
Humor. Books. Atheist. Dog rescuer. Advocate.
Fan of critical thinking. I write about politics and religion.
Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social I'm the author of 80+ books and an established editor who has helped more than 400 authors achieve their publishing dreams. My books include writing guidebooks, a novel, children's books and more. Visit inventingrealityediting.com
Mirkka @mirkkawrites.bsky.social Poet. Bingewatching something from the nineties.
"Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically."
linktr.ee/mirkkawrites
Jim Young @oyoguhito.bsky.social ~~ Bard of the Bays ~~
alex antics @alexeverette.bsky.social Poet, Editor, Farmer, Herbalist, Queer as hell.
He-Berry (he/him)
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
George Orwell, 1984
FORUM Books / the bound / The Accidental Bookshop @forumbooks.bsky.social Three lovely, friendly, award-winning independent bookshops in Corbridge, Whitley Bay + Alnwick
https://www.forumbooksshop.com
Events: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks
Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social Poet. #ReadMorePoetry Collections: Crown of Eggshell, In the Shadow of Gods @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. Literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering
https://ko-fi.com/kofisupporter68929
Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social Read Issue 8! Epistemiclit.com
Digital anthology series celebrating knowledge, connection, and growth through poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction.
EICs @melruthwrites.bsky.social and @kristinwrites.bsky.social. CNF Editor @gcbwrites.bsky.social
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
Tope Hall @topehall.bsky.social Adventures of Slothy and Lord Thrilling
Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism.
Website: https://private-eye.co.uk
Subscribe: http://subsonline.co.uk
Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social Poet with autism and a cat.
Author of ADULTHOOD (Anxiety Press, 2026).
Here to connect with fellow writers and/or fellow neurodivergent people and/or fellow anti-fascists.
he/him • NJ • www.brandondiehl.net