Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966
| new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts |
Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️- B berlin lit @berlinlit.bsky.social Online journal for new poetry
Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
David Lewis @daviddaviddavid.com Horror Writer, Book Lover, Reader for Electric Literature’s The Commuter and Onetime Backup Dancer for Parisian Drag Queens. He/him
www.daviddaviddavid.com
Tom Vowler @tomvowler.bsky.social Word-botherer.
Winner V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize
www.tomvowler.co.uk
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Terry Holland @terryholland.bsky.social https://terryholland.carrd.co/
https://substack.com/@tfholland
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Dilys Wyndham Thomas @dilyswt.bsky.social British-Belgian writer and poet.
Words in Chestnut Review, Mslexia, New Flash Fiction Review, Shooter, X-R-A-Y, etc.
Was assistant poetry editor at Passengers Journal.
Almost always accompanied by two very clingy cats. (Haarlem, Netherlands)
Annemarie Cancienne @cancienne.bsky.social Art, nature, writing woes. Sometimes funny, often intentionally. New Yorker by birth, Londoner by practice.
Story ‘Nothing Compared to You’ out in the Book of Witty Women : https://bit.ly/3Q72ug0
Anna Polonyi @annapolonyi.bsky.social Author of debut novel TOMORROW WE'LL BE PREY (HarperCollins, forthcoming Feb. 2027). Co-founder of the Nantes Writers' Workshop. Cloud & lichen enthusiast.
Laila Amado @amadolaila.bsky.social Book lover and cat worshiper, I observe people and write words for a living. She/They. Codexian. SFWA. HWA. Best Small Fictions 2022. Best Microfiction 2024.
Moyette Gibbons @moyetteg.bsky.social Writer. Winner HachetteUK Debut Author Bursary 2023. Rep'd by Hannah Schofield at LBA Books. Comms @BlackGirlWriters. Steering Committee @saloneurope, and helping to organise @genevawriters Conference 2025. Londoner in🇨🇭📚📚
Robyn Dabney @robyntheauthor.bsky.social Author. Adventurer. Lover of rocks, LOTR, and obscure facts.
IG: @robyndabneyauthor
Nancy Freund @nancyfreund.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Wife, Mom & Mum. #T1D. Mostly vegan. Cambridge & UCLA & just finished year 1, CW PhD @Brunel! 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇭 My mom painted the above. She was amazing.
Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social Writer. All My Precious Madness published by Galley Beggar 2024; Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist, Authors Club Prize Shortlist, James Tait Black Prize shortlist. How Do People Stay the Same published 2026, Galley Beggar.
https://www.creativewritingtuition.com/
Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social Berlin-based Scottish writer. Words in New Flash Fiction Review, Vestal Review, Trampset and elsewhere. Featured in Best Small Fictions 2024. My pen name came to me in a dream. You can find a selection of my writing here: https://linktr.ee/ruralunease
Kik Lodge @kiklodge.bsky.social Writer. THE BULLY IN MY PILLOW (Stanchion Books, August 2026).
https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/the-bully-in-my-pillow
Best Microfiction 2026.
Hosts literary open-mics @saloneurope.bsky.social
www.kiklodge.com
Rachel Handley 🏳️🌈 @rachelahandley.com Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.
SFF Author. Poet. 🦉
Possible Worlds and Other Stories (2022)
They/Them.
rachelahandley.com
Cabinet magazine @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social Cabinet is a quarterly magazine of arts and culture that believes curiosity is the very basis of ethics.
www.cabinetmagazine.org
The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social A magazine founded on the suspicion that modern life is worth examining.
thepointmag.com 
Equator @equatormag.bsky.social A magazine of politics, culture and art
equator.org
Artforum @artforum.com Defining the world of contemporary art since 1962.
https://www.artforum.com/
Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social Democratic socialist since 1954.
dissentmagazine.org
fifth wheel press @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social very queer lit and art publishing space
learn more about us: fifthwheelpress.com/links
Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social Author of ENTERING SAPPHO, TRANSLINGUAL POETICS, DOWN, & SECURITY POSTURE.
My newest book is HERE IS A FIGURE: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147904/here-is-a-figure/
Sarp Sozdinler @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social Writer, Designer • Words: Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Masters Review, Fractured, Los Angeles Review, HAD, Hobart, X-R-A-Y, Maudlin House • Rep'd by Mina Hamedi / Janklow & Nesbit • Editor at The Bulb Region
sarpsozdinler.com
Russell Williams @rwilliamsparis.bsky.social Associate Prof of Comparative Literature and English, The American University of Paris; French Editor, The Times Literary Supplement. Thinking about French Weird.
Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social Author: Invisible Things, Loving Day, Pym, Incognegro, etc. Helped on The Fall of the House of Usher (Nflx) and Manhunt (🍎).
Philly-born; Oregon-thriving
Storytelling Guru at U of Oregon; Go 🦆!
Will block for pedantic responses to joke posts—gleefully
Erin Belieu @erinwriter.bsky.social Copper Canyon poet (Cocklebur: New & Selected Poems coming fall 2026), professor, Girl Scout from Omaha. She/her
Rachel Richardson @rbjrichardson.bsky.social Poet. Folklorist. Sometimes Professor. Planter of trees. SMOTHER (Norton 2025), Hundred-Year Wave (Carnegie Mellon 2016), Copperhead (Carnegie Mellon 2011).
Prince Bush @princebush.bsky.social Poet | Poems in The Cortland Review, The Drift, Northwest Review, etc | MFA @ Iowa Writers’ Workshop ⏭️ PhD CW/Poetry @ UC ❤️ (on hiatus 😴)
https://prince-bush.com
Beth Nguyen @bethnguyen.bsky.social Books: Owner of a Lonely Heart (Scribner); Stealing Buddha’s Dinner (Viking/Penguin); two novels. Guggenheim fellow. CW prof at UW-Madison
Nikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls.bsky.social Poet, photographer, occasional visual artist. Latest book of poems is Hold Your Own from Copper Canyon Press (2024).
https://www.patreon.com/nikkiwallschlaeger
Shane McCrae @akasomeguy.bsky.social Tries to write. You can see how that's working out. Harvard Law School '07
Adrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social Syntaxer. Poet. Editor. Columnist. Gaymer. Ex-chef. Occasional pebble. Feelings Laminated. MFA in Poetry (Randolph).
words -> http://adriandallas.com
Simona Crippa @simo-crippa.bsky.social Co-rédactrice en chef de la Revue Collateral, chercheuse et enseignante en littérature, autrice de Marguerite Duras, la tentation du théorique (Classiques Garnier/Minard, 2021) ; Marguerite Duras (essai de mythopoethique - PUV, 2020).
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
miRNA Kramar @mirnakramar.bsky.social Postdoc at Institut Curie in Paris, learning how cells communicate. MSCA Fellow. I like words.
Edie Roberts @edieroberts.bsky.social Queer writer and performer calling Detroit home. Often touring. Never boring. Way way better IRL.
Responsible for @bathmatics.bsky.social and half @pitymilkpress.bsky.social
Pitymilk Press @pitymilkpress.bsky.social small press 🍇poetry🌀illustrations🪱chapbooks✂️performance space The Bell Tower🫀🧠 MKE // DET//
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Alexandra Delbot @alexandradelbot.bsky.social Journaliste scientifique 🦖
Parle de sciences tous les jours à 16h sur France Culture @sciencecqfd.bsky.social 🔬
Et oui, les granules d’homéopathie c’est que du sucre 🍭
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett @luizagurley.bsky.social she/her | books: MUD IN OUR MOUTHS Northwestern University Press (2025), LOOK ALIVE Bull City Press (2021) | chaps: LOSSLAND Black Lawrence Press (forthcoming), FAMILIAR Madhouse Press (2024) + more | poetry editor Foglifter Press | luizaflynngoodlett.com
Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social Northwestern University Press is dedicated to publishing books of enduring scholarly and cultural value, from philosophy, to poetry, to lit crit, to translations, and beyond.
We are home to TriQuarterly and Curbstone Books.
Alisha Erin Hillam @aehillam.bsky.social Pushcart-nominated writer (she/her), with work at ONLY POEMS, Barrelhouse, Consequence Forum, & others. 2025 AIR Literature Västra Götaland Fellow, 2026 M.1 Arthur-Boskamp-Foundation Fellow. Historian, Hoosier, & traveler, now based in Europe.
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. 🌄
Maddie Barone @maddiebaronepoet.bsky.social Poet
USC MFA ‘25
Basile Lebret edits Cult of the Dog @evoripclaw.bsky.social Horror (screen)writer
The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the world’s best new writing.
http://theberlinliteraryreview.com
Brick, A Literary Journal @brickliterary.bsky.social To see all of Brick's content, follow us on Instagram @brickliterary, sign up for our newsletter (https://brickmag.com/newsletter/), and visit our website (https://brickmag.com/).
Adrian Van Young @bopgoth.bsky.social Fiction writer. Freelance Editor. Dad. Heavy metal dirtbag.
Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social
IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS 2nd edition (IceFloe Press 2026)
WHERE SANDS RUN FINEST (DarkWinter Press 2024)
Bridport Prize 2025 shortlist.
Pushcart, Forward Prize, BOTN, Best Spiritual Lit nominee
Guest Editor: IceFloe Press
linktr.ee/vikki_c._author
Sue Barry-Schulz @susanbarryschulz.com poetry, collage, disability, Crohn’s Disease, Covid Informed, very sad, Buffalo Sabres fan, 🇪🇪, #LGM, ModPo alum, IC grad, she/hers, physical therapist in another life, NY➡️NC
www.susanbarryschulz.com
#keepmasksinhealthcare
#abolishICE
Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social Tutor in English Lit at Univ, Oxford. Medievalist. Poet. She/her. Co-founder @guildmedmak.bsky.social.
Church as Sacred Space (2018). Encountering Margery Kempe (2021). Primers 7: Grendel’s Mother Bites Back (2024).
Next books on Du Maurier, & Beowulf.
Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social NYT bestselling and BSFA & Scribe award-winning writer. Cardassia’s resident anarchist. Intersectional feminist science fiction with Gold SF. Fighting the long defeat since December 1981. Chiefest and greatest of calamities.
https://linktr.ee/unamccormack
Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com The best art publication on Bluesky 🌞 with daily art news and reviews. hyperallergic.com
E.B. Schnepp @ebschnepp.bsky.social Poet, cryptid currently residing in Chicago, featured in Poetry Daily, work in Iron Horse, Nat. Brute, South Dakota Review, and more.
ebschnepp@weebly.com
Chapbook: Blueberries Stain Like Blood
Available from Bottlecap Press Features
Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Teacher | Author of First Kicking, Then Not (Stanchion 2025) | Columnist @ WCP
she/they 🏳️🌈 ❤️
www.hgrieco.com
Cari O. @cariwriting.bsky.social Writer. Wine taster.
Chapbook prize winner. Memoirist.
Words in Thin Skin, Taos Journal of Poetry, Thimble Literary Mag, Mom Egg Review, Literary Orphans, Spire Light, The Fourth River, Marbled Sigh, Lime Hawk Review, and more. Found in Europe + Florida.
Katherine Plumhoff @kplumhoff.bsky.social fiction @ places
elated Pushcart, BotN, BSF nominee
2025 fellow @smokelong.bsky.social
organizer @saloneurope.bsky.social
reader @splitlipthemag.bsky.social
katherineplumhoff.com
valencia, es
Gabriel Bump @gabrielbump.bsky.social Writer.
Everywhere You Don’t Belong
The New Naturals
Don’t Stop Snowing
Professor.
UMass MFA for Poets and Writers.
Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social 🌙 Joel. Book reviewer, poet, artist, baker, herbalist, and naturopath from Wellington, NZ (he/him)
Nominated for Pushcart Prize and Best of Net.
Bleah Patterson @littlemissbleah.bsky.social Phd student. MFA. Texas queer. Poet.
Tracy Neiman @tracyneiman.bsky.social Words in: Mississippi Review, Flash Fiction Magazine, American Literary Review | MFA BK College ’24 | Rep: Renée Zuckerbrot, MMQA Lit | She/her. ✈️🐈⬛🌈
Laura Cooney *Motherbunnet* on sale @lozzawriting.bsky.social Writer, Edinburgh.
Editor: @frazzledlitmag
BOTN nominated 2024. On all socials same name.
Writing for children: @lozzakidwriting
Website: https://lauracooneywriting.wixsite.com/website
Editing: www.kofi.com/lozzawriting
Jennifer McMahon @jmcm.bsky.social IRISH writer, repped by Brian Langan, Storyline Literary Agency. Winner, All-Ireland Scholarships Creative Writing Award (public caterory), Novel Fair '23. Shortlisted, Short Story of the Year at the Irish Book Awards '23. Words in many places.
Frazzled Lit *Closed for Submissions* @frazzledlit.bsky.social We are Frazzled Lit! 🥓 🔥
Looking for Flash, Poetry, CNF and Prose.
Eds @lozzawriting.bsky.social and @jmcm.bsky.social
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Assembly Press @pressassembly.bsky.social Independent publisher of ambitious literature.
Point Éphémère @pointephemere.bsky.social Musique • Fêtes • Rencontres • Spectacles Vivants • Expositions • Bar • Restaurant (…)
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/
Quentin Lafay @quentinlafay.bsky.social 📻 France Culture - Questions du soir de 18h à 20h 📺 Producteur 🖊️Auteur
Burnside Review @burnsidereview.bsky.social Independent literary publisher of books and chapbooks of poetry, based in Portland, Oregon. Since 2004.
➡️ www.burnsidereview.org
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social 7th/Newest book: Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings (June 24). Substack: honoreejeffers
Asa Drake @asaldrake.bsky.social Maybe the Body (Tin House, 2026), Beauty Talk (Noemi Press, 2026), One Way to Listen (Gold Line Press, 2023)
South Broadway Press @southbroadwaypress.bsky.social South Broadway Press is a publisher of weird, gorgeous, and revolutionary poetry.
www.southbroadwaypress.org
David Harrison Horton @unionherald.bsky.social Artist, curator, editor, and writer based in Beijing. Author of Necessary (Downingfield, 2025), Model Answers (CCCP Chapbooks, 2024) and Maze Poems (Arteidolia, 2022). Edits poetry zine SAGINAW.
Rodrigo Toscano @rodrigo-toscano.bsky.social Poet, Rhetor, Dialogist. Author of eleven books. National Poetry Series. Best American Poetry. Best Experimental Poetry. Edwin Markham prize. Labor Institute. United Steelworkers. New Orleans Poetry Festival. The Splice reading series. rodrigotoscano.com
American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) promotes literary translation through advocacy, education and services to literary translators.
https://literarytranslators.org/
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
Sixteen Rivers Press @sixteenrivers.bsky.social https://sixteenrivers.org/
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
Black Cat Poetry Press @blackcatpress.bsky.social Independent poetry press.
Editors Satya Bosman & Catherine Balaq.
www.blackcatpress.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/blackcatpress
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
Dirge Magazine @dirgemagazine.com The cultural feverdream that walks like a magazine. 2014-2017, 2025+
The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore us.
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April Michelle Bratten @aprilmbratten.bsky.social editor of @upthestaircase.bsky.social. bi. she/her. 🌨
Rebecca Hart Olander @rholanderpoet.bsky.social Poet: Singing from the Deep End (2026) & Uncertain Acrobats (2021) @cavankerrypress.bsky.social * Editor/Director: @perugiapress.bsky.social * writing teacher * mother * adorer of the Atlantic 🌊 * she/her
https://linktr.ee/rholanderpoet
Up the Staircase Quarterly @upthestaircase.bsky.social An online journal of poetry & art.
posts by editor @aprilmbratten.bsky.social
Cover art by Ricardo Jose Gonzalez-Rothi
http://www.upthestaircase.org
Lavender Ink / Diálogos @lavink-dialogos.bsky.social Publishers of poetry and fine literature from the US, Latin and South America, Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social Publisher of Glass Chapbook Series, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Crucible: An Online Reading Series. Subs always free. Posts by anthonyframe.bsky.social
www.glass-poetry.com
Glass Poets Starter Pack: https://go.bsky.app/EicS1Aa
Thirteen Bridges Review @thirteenbridges.bsky.social Thirteen Bridges Review is a Literary Arts Journal produced by the Department of English and Philosophy at Auburn University at Montgomery. Our mission is to publish work that is as exciting as it is groundbreaking.
https://www.thirteenbridgesreview.com
Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social Alaskan poet, teacher, parent. Books: Text Messages from The Angel Gabriel (Gnashing Teeth 2024), Another Life (Riot in Your Throat 2025)
https://linktr.ee/francesklein
Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social A literary journal presenting four pieces in each issue, a sampling of the best writing out there. EICs: @fklein907.bsky.social and @ketchiklein.bsky.social
https://flight-literary.ghost.io/
Will Klein @ketchiklein.bsky.social Writer of stories and novels. 
Seven Stories Press UK @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social Political non-fiction, world literature, social justice children’s books, and other works of the radical imagination ✨
https://linktr.ee/sevenstoriespressuk
Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Bestselling author of THE UNDERTOW: Scenes from a Slow Civil War; THE FAMILY, also a Netflix series; C Street; THIS BRILLIANT DARKNESS; & SWEET HEAVEN WHEN I DIE. AI stole them all. Professing @ Dartmouth. That's not my cat.
Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
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)
The Real News Network @therealnews.com Independent, viewer-supported news network. No corporate funds or advertising money.
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beestung @beestung.bsky.social a quarterly mag of non-binary & genderqueer & two-spirit writers that’s sweet & stings | imprint of
sundress publications | eic sarahclark.bsky.social
http://www.beestungmag.com
https://beestungmag.com/newsletter
Wendy Wisner @wendywisner.bsky.social Poet • Writer • IBCLC • Author of three books of poems, including The New Life (2024), a finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year • www.wendywisner.com
Eniko Deptuch Vaghy 🪞🦌 @persepheni.bsky.social Poet | PhD | Podcaster | Artist | I post photos under thequick_photography on Instagram| Founding EIC of @loverseyepress | All beast | Binghamton, NY + Chicago, IL
https://enikovaghy.wixsite.com/eniko-deptuch-vaghy