Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com Dubliner in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Writer. https://www.LaurenceWrites.com/. 2025 Cúirt New Writing Fiction Prize. Posts in English/Français/Svenska. (He/Him/YerMan)
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Female Feedback Film Festival @femalefilmfestival.bsky.social The FEEDBACK Female Film Festival (FFFF) was created for women filmmakers and screenwriters. The goal is to showcase the best of female talent from around the world.
https://femalefilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/FEEDBACKFemaleFilmFestivalFFFF
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
Katie Donovan @katiedpoet.bsky.social Poet, writer, nature lover, six collections published by Bloodaxe Books. Winner of O'Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry 2017. www.KatieDonovan.com
Ola Majekodunmi @olamajekodunmi.bsky.social Broadcaster. Writer. Producer. Educator. Board member on Foras na Gaeilge. Naija- Gaeilgeoir babe. Co-founder of Off The Scéal.
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The Aftershock Review (Max Wallis) @maxwallis.bsky.social 📚 Max Wallis | Author of the Polari Prize-shortlisted Modern Love (2011) & Everything Everything (2016).
🖋️ Poems in The Rialto, Poetry Scotland, Spectator
✍️ Freelance journalist (The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph).
🌈 Gay, disabled, survivor.
Paul McMahon @paulmcmahonpoet.bsky.social Poet, musician. https://www.paul-mcmahon.com/
Rémi Forte @rmfrt.com Poetic Program, Typographic System
https://www.rmfrt.com/
Waterford Vinyl Players Association @waterfordvinyl.bsky.social Embracing all things vinyl on the final Friday of the month in Downes' Bar, Waterford's oldest pub. Cherish your vinyl collection and become part of the #VinylFriday experience.
Haiku Poetry @haiku-poetry.bsky.social Haiku Poetry (written by myself)
📍Switzerland
Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social Campaigning for freedom, justice and equality for the Palestinian people. R/T does not equal endorsement
Ann Marie @annmariedunne.bsky.social Poet, love books, boats, and hikes
Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social Author - Poet
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
Gerry Thibeault @gerrythibeault.bsky.social Poet
Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust). www.medhawrites.com
JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social bold. vibrant. authentic.
www.jacklegpress.org
Query Us @ https://jacklegpress.submittable.com/submit
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
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poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
Arlen House @arlenhouse.bsky.social New Writing from Ireland for the World
Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social MP for Islington North
Jessica Boatright @oh-so-boatie.bsky.social Creative Project Manager by day, writer by night. Advocate for the power of community and the arts. Big fan of sunsets!
Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social Giving the best contemporary poems from Africa, Asia and Latin America a new life in the English language.
Books | Events | Workshops | Podcasts
https://www.poetrytranslation.org/
Fintan O'Toole @fotoole.bsky.social Writer, Irish Times columnist, New York Review of Books contributor, We Don't Know Ourselves author.
The Bristol Poetry Institute @bristolpoetry.bsky.social Official account of the Bristol Poetry Institute at the University of Bristol. Blog https://poetry.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/. Insta @ thebristolpoetryinstitute. Events on #UoBrisBPILive
The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social Registered Charity No: 1203418. Patrons: Michael Rosen, Joanne Harris.
Preserving traditional heritage and folklore materials for the future, and delivering these through open access. Focus on at-risk heritage.
Online at www.folklorelibrary.com
Sean Thomas Dougherty @stdougherty.bsky.social Poet. Recent books with BOA Editions, Jacar Press. I work as a Medtech and caregiver, and teach part-time in the Western Connecticut State U MFA Program. Disability rights advocate, father, husband, obsessive Cleveland Cavs fan.
Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Writer
Poetry: Debut collection due Spring ‘27
(Broken Sleep Books)
Forward Prize/BOTN nominee
100+ poems in Agenda, Stand, Poetry Salzburg, Chiron Review, IS&T etc & on BBC
Charles Causley & Bridport shortlists
Prose: Orwell Prize/Bridport Novel longlists
Brandon Nadeau @bnadeauwriter.bsky.social Writer. Stories in The New Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, Literally Stories, NōD Magazine, Shift, and others. 🇨🇦
Executive Editor: @MGLiterary.bsky.social
MoonLitGetaway.com/brandon-nadeau
Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social I was that @theirishfor guy on Twitter.
"Calling 353" on @thejournal.ie
Author of Motherfoclóir & Craic Baby. He/Him. Wink in bio 😉
PATRICIA SCANLAN Author @patriciascanlan.bsky.social Author. Series Editor Open Door books. Half Dub half culchie. Loves Wickla and country life. Hates book snobbery. Also on @patriciascanlanauthor@mastodon.ie
Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social Scottish poet and musician
The Argyle Literary Magazine @theargylelitmag.bsky.social The Argyle is BACK with our 9th & final issue on 9/25!!! NEW POETRY, FICTION, CNF, and DIGITAL ART!!! CLOSING on 12/15/26!
EIC: @davidestringel.bsky.social
www.theargylelitmag.com
Helen Evans @helen-evans.bsky.social Poet, and facilitator of "Poems for the Path Ahead". Published by Mariscat Press, and HappenStance Press. www.helenevans.co.uk
North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social Noticeboard and live commonplace book of North Sea Poets. We run online masterclasses, workshops and webinars.
northseapoets.com
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
@monicadebhailis.bsky.social @monicadebhailis.bsky.social 
Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social Over 30 years in commercial art and more than 20 as a published author – mostly children's and young adult. No hope of ever getting a proper job. Lifelong nerd who's concerned about climate change. No AI slop wanted. He/Him. http://oisinmcgann.com/
Ilya Kaminsky @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social www.IlyaKaminsky.com
Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social Author: Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (UNP, 2027), Larks (OUP, 2025), What Pecan Light (BCP, 2021).
Editor: @riverriverbooks.bsky.social
Host: @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social
Southern. PhD Duke. they/them. Durham, NC.
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🇵🇸
Clare O'Brien @clareobrien.bsky.social Writer. Retired music industry person.
2025 Poet in Residence, Inverewe Garden, Scotland.
Poetry chapbooks 'Breathing Out Becomes White And Snowfall' & 'Who Am I Supposed To Be Driving?' & novelette 'Airloc' out now.
Links: clarevobrien.weebly.com
Máire Logue (a Maura) @mairelogue.bsky.social Artistic Director, @stjohnstheatre
#TheSoulofListowel. Loves all things arts, books, food, news. The Kingdom that is Kerry 
Tadhg Carey @tadhgcarey.bsky.social Writer: Westmeath Artist Bursary Award, Freedom to Write awardee, Southword, The Stony Thursday Book, Skylight 47, Honest Ulsterman & others. Cúirt International Festival of Literature New Writing Showcase 2024. Highly Commended Fool for Poetry Chapbook.
Bullaun Press @bullaunpress.bsky.social New independent publisher. Ireland's first press dedicated to literature in translation.
#artscouncilsupported
David Hanlon @vespertine4.bsky.social Cardiff poet. Best of the Net nominee. Author of two poetry collections - 'Spectrum of Flight' published in 2020 & 'Dawn's Incision' in 2024. Co-Poetry Editor @brokenspinearts.bsky.social
Natalie Crick @natalieiswriting.bsky.social Poems in The Poetry Review, The Moth, Banshee, The Rialto, New Welsh Review, SAND journal, Mslexia🍄
Poetry Editor: Fragmented Voices🩶
Tramore Eco Group @tramoreecogroup.bsky.social To heighten awareness about the beauty & diversity of Tramore's ecological environment. Even the "small things" can contribute to saving the planet.
🌎🌿🐦🐋🐝 https://t.co/B3Zh596qES
Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social #Poetry without pretension since 1995. Rattle is a publication of the Rattle Foundation, an independent 501(c)3, and not affiliated with any other organization.
$15,000 for a single poem: rattle.com
Eoin Flannery @eoinflannery.bsky.social Associate Professor of English Literature at @micireland.bsky.social
Poems @eatthestorms.com @thebelfastreview.bsky.social @theargylelitmag.bsky.social @hogriverpress.bsky.social @juniperpoetry.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social Poet & broadcaster. New non-fiction prose book, 'Village', OUT!
Witches and wheelbarrows: women's history in my village, 1841-1971: cheerful survival!
To buy, search for
ALISON BRACKENBURY VILLAGE AMAZON
Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social A literary nonprofit bringing you great poetry from across places, eras, and traditions.
https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/
Skein Press @skeinpress.bsky.social Independent publisher of stories underrepresented in Irish literature
📚Contentious Spaces by Rosaleen McDonagh & The Posthumous Book of Shahrazad by Raquel Menéndez trans by Robin Munby
🎤In the Half Light:Voices from Black Ireland curated by Phil Mullen
Viviana Fiorentino @vivianafiorentino.bsky.social writer, PhD candidate @seamusheaneycentre Poems @thelondonmagazine @stingingfly @banshee.lit @poetryirelandreview @munsterliteraturecentre
Novel @transeuropaedizioni
Poesie @zonacontermporanea @ilsemebianco @italianpoetryreview
#IrishPEN blog @leortique
Róisín Leggett Bohan @leggettbohan.bsky.social Writer💥
Patrick Kavanagh Award 2025
Fool for Poetry Prize 2025
'We Fall We Carry' Chapbook (Southword Editions, 2026)
Ed. at HOWL New Irish Writing ✍️
Website: https://inkstainedwings.com/
Dean Kelly @deankelly.bsky.social Irish, creative sort • painting, poetry, photography • own notions https://www.deankelly.ie
Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social A literary magazine publishing poetry, translations, fiction, interviews, essays, photography, and fine arts. Follow AR Tunes on Spotify.
amsterdamreview.org
EIC @danielnemo.bsky.social
Managing Editor @phebel.bsky.social
The Hudson Review @hudsonreview.bsky.social Quarterly magazine of literature and the arts, founded in 1948. Poetry, fiction, essays, and more.
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
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
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/ 
Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social Ted Hughes' and Daniel Weissbort's international poetry translation magazine. Edited by Janani Ambikapathy.
modernpoetryintranslation.com
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/
Limerick Literary Festival @limericklitfest.bsky.social The Festival will run in Limerick 27.02.26 - 01.03.26 at the Belltable, O’Connell Street. The event continues to honour the life and works of the Limerick author, Kate O’Brien while attracting prominent writers from all over the world.
The Adroit Journal @adroitjournal.bsky.social “The Adroit Journal is where I go when I want to know what the kids are reading.”
—The Paris Review
https://linktr.ee/theadroitjournal?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaY2AGldWsnSz9H-OoEtXxJjk02NLV0fG0wkmOIITzjlxRYq8R2lWo6jrIU_aem_BU_jPktWCVqyJRazMLp4sA
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
Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social Connecting Poetry and People. Proudly funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland National Lottery Funding. www.poetryireland.ie
Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social Nature. Writer. Reader. Radical Rural.
Guardian Country Diary, BBC Countryfile, RSPB.
Award winning author, On Gallows Down & Ghosts of the Farm
Climate Fic Prize Judge 2025
North Wessex.
https://nicolachester.com/
https://linktr.ee/nicolachesterwriting
Forward Prizes for Poetry @forwardprizes.bsky.social The best new poetry published in the UK & Ireland
Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social Poet and filmmaker. "Blood Atlas" forthcoming from Arlen House (May 2025). Winner of O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry. www.lukemorgan.ie
Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social Journal featuring poets yet to publish a full collection / Est. 2022 / EIC @aanaxagorou.bsky.social / Issue 14, Ed.
@susannahdickey.bsky.social OUT NOW / Subs closed.
propelmagazine.co.uk
Laura Strickland @l-strickland.bsky.social Poet, carer and freelance HR consultant from Yorkshire. Published in The North, Butcher’s Dog, Strix,The Frogmore Papers, Northern Gravy, Propel and others. Longlisted National Poetry Competition 2023 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦
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
Marie Gethins @mariegethins.bsky.social Flashy Writer, Workshop Leader, Critiques, Flash Editor Banshee, Co-editor Splonk; Best Microfictions, Best Small Fictions, Hawthornden Fellow
Lauren O’Donovan @laurenodonovanw.bsky.social Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award | Fool for Poetry Chapbook Comp | Cúirt New Writing Prize | Southword Poetry Prize | Howl New Irish Writing & Lime Square Poets | Arts Council Supported
Edward Denniston @pausesilence.bsky.social Poetry: 'The Point of Singing', 'The Scale of Things',
'For Crying Out Loud', 'VITAL'.
Other: 'Interacting' (Drama), 'Word To Image' (Exhibit), 'Hospital Voices', 'Entry & Exit Wound (Texts for composers)
Christine O’Connor @chrispoconnor.bsky.social MFA26@BenningtonWritersSeminairs; Progressive Voter; Government Attorney; editor@Trasna; Mainer; library Trustee; loves coffee.
Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • Blood Type: Curry • Leeds United • Anti-AI
#LUFC
jmthornberry.wordpress.com
sandandgravelpress.com/store/the-finish-line-jason-thornberry
Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social Teacher and Poet. Pamphlets - Walrussey (The Black Cat Poetry Press, 2023) and Circulaire (Written off Publishing, 2025).
Circulaire available to purchase here: https://writtenoffpublishing.com/shop/p/circulaire-bex-hainsworth
Paul Duffy @pdufaigh.bsky.social Archaeologist/Author of Run with the Hare, Hunt with the Hound @CynrenPress; Ireland and the Crusades @FourCourtsPress; Carrickfergus to Carcassonne @Brepols www.paulduffywritings.com
Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é
Buy my work here: https://robertbohan.etsy.com
Fidel Walsh @dragonslayerma.bsky.social Writing poetry. 3 poetry collections, Living with Love, Time & Out There. Short stories, Thrice Remembered an Anthology.
I'm 1 of the #PromptCombo hosts
Tathagata @dipamkara.bsky.social 
Afric McGlinchey @itosha.bsky.social Irish poet. À la Belle Étoile (Salmon Poetry) https://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=631&a=221). Tied to the Wind (Broken Sleep Books) https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/afric-mcglinchey-tied-to-the-wind-ebook). www.africmcglinchey.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
Sinéad Griffin @sineadgriffin.bsky.social Poet, Dublin. Co-editor for poetry @the4facedliar.bsky.social
Martina Devlin @martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social Book lover, novelist, reader, newspaper columnist, occasional lecturer in literature, Irish www.martinadevlin.ie
@daraghbyrne.bsky.social @daraghbyrne.bsky.social 
Sarasvatī @natureofmind.bsky.social A transient inhabitant of this ephemeral world
Believer in Karma
Christodoulos Makris @cmakris.bsky.social poet & writer
“one of Ireland’s foremost avant-garde poets” - The Irish Times
yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com
David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social Walking pics, stories, poems, essays. & Piero, Fra A, Nabokov, Sebald, Dickinson, Rilke, Loy, HD, Ozu, Akerman, Tanaka, Pasolini, Sirk, Varda, Demy, Dead, Mahler, Jameses… & some Dharma
www.six18sfoundry.com
Nurture Junk Birds
Russ Parsons @russparsons.bsky.social Blow-in to Waterford, Ireland from Los Angeles. Yes I like the weather. Write about food for the Irish Times, once upon a time, the Los Angeles Times. Also interested in histories, mysteries and archaeology. 
Open Buddhism @openbuddhism.org The investigative platform Open Buddhism aims to contribute to open-minded, public debates across the Buddhist world.
To this end, Open Buddhism invites contributions by freethinkers who develop tough, probing questions and dare speak truth to power.
Buddhism Now @buddhismnow.bsky.social Buddhism Now is an online Buddhist magazine, giving advice on how to practise Buddhism.
Philosophy Matters @philosophymatters.bsky.social 
Philosophy Bites @philosophybites.bsky.social Philosophy Bites podcast - co-hosted by David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton
Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social The home for international literature since 2003. Winners of the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize.
https://linktr.ee/wordswithoutborders
Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social ‘signs and characters from the type-case of forgotten things‘ Sebald
Late Heaney (https://bit.ly/40oRn76)
Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social Irish Writer. Art Critic. Author, art/divorce memoir Negative Space; RHA From Ten Till Dusk. Fiction, non-fiction, journalism: RTÉ Culture, Irish Arts Review, Winter Papers. Hybrid texts, collaborations. 20yrs ✍🏻 Sunday Times. https://linktr.ee/cristinleach
Ploughshares Literary Journal @pshares.bsky.social The award-winning literary journal based at Emerson College. Publishing established and emerging writers since 1971. mtr.bio/pshares
Chrissy Knight-O’Connor @chrissyknightoc.bsky.social Works at Adviser/Advocate.
Local Historian, Author, Blogger: History/Folklore/Community Archaeology
Subscribe to my blog: Echoes from the Déise https://echoesfromthedeise.blog/subscribe
Waterford history chat Wednesdays: WLRFM with Gemma Delaney #livewire