Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social Ireland's premier review of intellectual inquiry for two decades. Published quarterly (www.drb.ie), entire archive since 2007 available. Everything on totally free access but donations of course welcome to keep us going.
Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social Academic in Dublin. Contemporary literature & publishing.
Ira Lightman @iralightman.bsky.social https://substack.com/@iralightman1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1n0v50
Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social
Author of LAKE OF URINE and THE COAST OF EVERYTHING
Executive editor at www.exactingclam.com
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/books/review-lake-of-urine-guillermo-stitch.html
Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social 🇮🇪 Writer Hagstone | Constellations | This Woman’s Work (with Kim Gordon) | Agent: Peter Straus at RCW | Newsletter: momentsofrecognition.substack.com
maija @maijasofia.bsky.social
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Fallow Media @fallowmedia.bsky.social Adventurous Publisher, since 2015. Dublin, Ireland.
https://fallowmedia.com/
Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social July 2026: What Lies Ahead and Other Essays, Black Herald Press: https://www.blackheraldpress.com/what-lies-ahead
Own Sweet Time, CB editions (2022)
Sovetica, CB editions (2021)
Saying Yes in Russian, Agenda Editions (2012)
https://carolineclark.carrd.co/
Reuben Gelley Newman @joustingsnail.bsky.social Poemsong person! Librarian! Singing C2s in NYC
DEAR DEAR from @triohousepress.org in July 2026. Preorder: https://shorturl.at/KGJ2e
Chap FEEDBACK HARMONIES out from Seven Kitchens Press
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Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social Established 1976. Reviews, news, features on Irish books and writing, database of all upcoming books each month. Podcast #BurningBooks. Editor
Ruth McKee.
@colm-keegan.bsky.social @colm-keegan.bsky.social 
Barry O'Halpin @barryohalpin.bsky.social Composer, Guitarist, Arranger in Dublin.
Member of @crashensemble.bsky.social
and @alarmistband.
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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social lit mag & small press | supported by the Arts Council of Ireland | issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) out now | latest book: Render by Billy Ramsell | https://bansheepress.org/
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Serena Braida @serenabraida.bsky.social 🎀 grammar inundated
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Christine McNair @christinemcnair.bsky.social Book person — read them, bind them, fix them, write them. I like type. Author of Conflict (2012) and Charm (2016) & Toxemia (poetic non-fiction) from Book*hug (fall 2024). President of CBBAG. Former co-organizer of the Ottawa Promise Walk for Preeclampsia.
Christina Hennemann @christina-writer.bsky.social poet & writer
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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social Artist | Author of THE LANGUAGE OF TREES | Host of Sunday Salons | Rights of Nature 🌍 Long COVID 😷 Dysautonomia | Irish in NYC / Ardee | Born @331ppm | Climate Justice
Bio: https://www.katieholten.com/about
Language of Trees: https://bit.ly/LanguageTrees
Riverbank Arts Centre @riverbankarts.bsky.social Riverbank Arts Centre is the county arts centre based in Newbridge, Co. Kildare, funded by The Arts Council and Kildare County Council.
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Louis Armand @louisarmand.bsky.social www.louis-armand.com
Praxis the Artists' Union of Ireland @praxisunion.bsky.social Empowering artists power in their places of work and committed to improving their living and working conditions.
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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
Books Upstairs @booksupstairs.bsky.social Dublin’s Oldest Independent Bookshop | D’Olier St, Dublin 2
Bookshop open Mon-Sat 10-6; Sun 1-5
Café open Tues-Sat 10.30-4.30; Closed Sunday & Monday
Catriona Shine @catrionashine.bsky.social Writer, architect, occasional actor. Debut novel, Habitat, published March 2024 by the Lilliput Press http://bio.site/CatrionaShine
Kildare Readers Festival @kildarereaders.bsky.social Books, talks and good vibes 📖
Every October in County Kildare
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Marcus Silcock @postpran.bsky.social Surreal absurd stories. Irish. Author of Dream Dust (Broken Sleep Books). Recent stories in Maudlin House, Broken Antler, Bending Genres, Your Impossible Voice, and others. Co-edits Surreal-Absurd Mercurius Mag. www.nevermindthebeasts.com
MoLI – Museum of Literature Ireland @molimuseum.bsky.social Where Irish writing comes alive.
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Sue Rainsford @suerains.bsky.social Irish novelist & art writer | Follow Me To Ground & Redder Days | From Out My Heart forthcoming with Lilliput Press | https://apennyspinning.substack.com/ | rep’d International Creative Agency | she/her
Catherine Gander @catgander.bsky.social Academic and such.
Latest book: Beyond Ourselves: Contemporary Poets on Muriel Rukeyser
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Irish Writers Centre @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social Leading support and development organisation for writers in Ireland. Programmes | Resources | Courses | Events | #InternationalDebutNovelCompetition 📚
Supported by Arts Council of Ireland.
RCP 🧿♾️⚫ @morelikethat.bsky.social Wicked eye. Mcluhan like zeal. Ascetic by nature.
I'm on here, LinkedIn, and maybe going back to Substack.
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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
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
Festival in a Van @festivalinavan.bsky.social Festival in a Van gets the show on the road, bringing live performance to your door. Supported by Creative Ireland and by the Arts Council Ireland.
Dr Andrew Demetrius @demetrius-art.bsky.social Public art and New Towns. Scotland and elsewhere.
Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social Ted Hughes' and Daniel Weissbort's international poetry translation magazine. Edited by Janani Ambikapathy.
modernpoetryintranslation.com
Charles Bernstein @l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social The Kinds of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
Molly Twomey @mollytwomey.bsky.social Arts Council supported poet. ‘Raised Among Vultures’ & 'Chic to be Sad' published by The Gallery Press. Host of ‘Just to Say’ international poetry event. https://mollytwomey.com/ 💫
Sandra Collins @collinssandra.bsky.social Loving being back at UCD as University Librarian 📚
Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: stuart@brokensleepbooks.com | Founded: 2018
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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social London-based independent publisher of fiction, poetry, anthologies & interdisciplinary projects, committed to championing the work of new voices in free-form contemporary literature.
https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/
Finola Cahill @finolacahill.bsky.social Writer/musician mostly in Mayo, often à Paris, and now in Belfast. 🥇 2023 Waterford Poetry Prize, 2024 Single Poem Award at Listowel Writers Week, 2025 Cúirt New Writing Poetry Prize.
www.finolacahill.com
Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social Writer and publisher (CB editions, 2007 to now: www.cbeditions.com)
Doire Press @doirepress.bsky.social Award-winning publisher based in the west of Ireland.
Free worldwide shipping on all orders over €60.
Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press 🐉 THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 🌳 Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com If you’re reading this, you’re in the right place.
Beautiful books you won't forget. Available in all good bookshops.
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
The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social Literary magazine established in 1997 to publish & promote the very best new Irish and international writing. Stinging Fly Press was launched in 2005. Summer 2026 Issue #54 available to buy now:
https://stingingfly.org/product/summer-2026/
Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com Dublin's independent local newspaper, since 2015. Reader-funded through subscriptions. Wednesdays and Fridays online, monthly in print.
Andrew Hodgson @andrewhodgson.bsky.social Writing in various capacities, based at Université Paris Cité
www.andrewhodgson.fr
The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk A charitable organisation promoting and advocating poets & poetry since 1909. Publishes #ThePoetryReview, supports young poets @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social.
poetrysociety.org.uk
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Eoin Rogers @eoieoin.bsky.social Programme Manager @ The Stinging Fly
Professional Goblin
UCD Archives @ucdarchives.bsky.social We curate private paper collections documenting the modern Irish State; UCD; and many elements of the Franciscan manuscript patrimony. www.ucd.ie/archives
Nicky Melville @nickymelville.bsky.social 'avant-radge' | Power Cuts (zimZalla) | sounding ... out (Essence Press) | Imperative Commands (Dostoyevsky Wannabe) | Decade of Cu t s (Blue Diode Press) | ABBODIES & ABBODIES COLD (Sad Press) + Fuck This 🎧
http://fuckthis1.bandcamp.com
Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social Poet, editor, author of DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY; Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre; Poet Laureate of Calgary (2014-2016) and Banff (2022-2024) -- located in Banff, Alberta, Canada. He/him.
online at: www.derekbeaulieu.ca
Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social Poetry / Art Magazine Edited by Susanna Galbraith and Gregory McCartney. Abridged since 2004. A Derry Magazine. www.abridged.zone
@zoeskoulding.bsky.social @zoeskoulding.bsky.social 
Vik Shirley @vikshirley.bsky.social Poet/Writer/Editor. PhD Dark Humour and the Surreal. Some Deer (Broken Sleep) Strangers Wave: Joy Division Photo Poems (zimZalla) & Corpses (Sublunary Editions). Persona Digitalia forthcoming w/PhotoWorks. Co-edits Surreal-Absurd @ Mercurius Magazine. 🪩 👻
Dr Tapasya Narang @tapasyanarang.bsky.social Research Ireland and National Library of Ireland funded postdoctoral candidate, based at UCD School of English, Drama and Film.
Marcel Krueger @marcelkrueger.bsky.social Run out the boat, my broken comrades. Books & essays on memory and place, especially about Ireland, Germany, Poland. Walter Benjamin Ultra, has friends everywhere. I live in Berlin.
Editor of @elsewherejournal.bsky.social
https://www.marcelkrueger.eu/
Gary Barwin @garybarwin.bsky.social writing, multimedia, music, art, Hamilton ON Canada https://linktr.ee/garybarwin
“There’s a wisecrack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
Amanda Earl @amandaearl.bsky.social she/her: sharing Ottawa -area sugar crone (tinyurl.com/ottawamandy) literary, spoken word, storytelling & nonfiction events daily ish. Out now!: Beast Body Epic, Autumn 2023. https://linktr.ee/amandaearl.
Timglaset Editions @timglaseteditions.bsky.social Publisher of visual poetries. www.timglaset.com
rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc.
out now: edgeless (Caitlin Press)
https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/
https://www.patreon.com/robmclennan
http://robmclennanauthor.blogspot.com/ https://robmclennan.substack.com/
The AI Literary Review @ailiteraryreview.bsky.social Quarterly poetry journal, exploring new avenues of human creativity with AI-powered tools | ailiteraryreview.co.uk | Editor: @danpower.bsky.social
Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com Home to The Storms journal, now open for submissions, Eat the Storms, the poetry podcast and creator & writer Damien B. Donnelly
Amanda Bell @gagebybell.bsky.social Poet, author, editor: new fiction and poetry titles forthcoming in 2027, from Salt Publishing and Doire Press. Funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.
www.amandabell.ie
Ruth McKee @ruthmckee.bsky.social Debut novel, Wild Iris (Dedalus)
"...filled with luminous detail and a voice that is tender, intimate and pitch perfect."—Catherine Dunne.
ruthmckee.org
Elina Siltanen @elinasilta.bsky.social PhD; researcher with a focus on poetry, University Lecturer @ University of Eastern Finland. Posts on academic life, literature. Personal opinions. she/her
Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social Irish poet. Most recent book is "Her Red Songs" (Turas Press, 2024).
Website: https://textworksite.com
My Internet Archive : https://archive.org/details/@christine-elizabeth
Website 2008-2021: poethead.wordpress.com & its archive: https://ph1.omeka.net
The Poetry Kiosk @thepoetrykiosk.bsky.social The Poetry Kiosk is a small press and exhibition platform of visual poetry run by Astra Papachristodoulou. Browse our shop and online exhibitions: www.thepoetrykioskcom
Siobhan Campbell @poetrysiobhan.bsky.social Irish poet. Collections include Heat Signature & Cross-Talk (Seren). Co-ed Eavan Boland Inside History. Researches CW practice in post-conflict & social care. Awards in Templar, Troubadour, National etc.
Eva Griffin @evagriff.bsky.social Irish poet & arts worker
Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social John McGahern Literature Award | DLR Emerging Writer In Residence 2024 | Poetry Ireland Introductions | Cúirt New Writing Fiction Award | Art Council Literature Bursary Award |
sonyagildea dot com
Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social Reader | writer | teacher. Been there, done that, got the T. rex.🦖 Researching death, famine, and apocalypse. Irish Studies and beyond. Reviews books. Also writing about Moomins, because why not. Asst Prof at Radboud University, NL. He/him.
Trevor Joyce @trevorjoyce.bsky.social 'Poet' from central Dublin, now Shandon, Cork.
Co-founder New Writers' Press, Dublin & SoundEye Festival, Cork.
Language, climate, history, art, music, travel, China, hist. of science, hist. of photography.
Two cats, many thousand books, small garden.
Astra Papachristodoulou @heyastranaut.bsky.social Poet ★ Artist ★ Astranaut ★
www.astranaut.co.uk
Archifsain @archifsain.bsky.social
"Hen bryd i mi roi'r crwban yn y blwch carbord eto" DATBLYGU
Nia Davies @niapolly.bsky.social Poet, new book Votive Mess (Bloodaxe)
Sophie Herxheimer @sophieherx.bsky.social Artist, Poet, Londoner, Mother, Teacher, Draw-er of Stories, Maker of Books, Ink Enthusiast, Collagist, co-anthologist with Bill Herbert
@ghostfurniturecatalogue, submit?
www.sophieherxheimer.com
www.poetryteapot.wordpress.com
(More settled on instagram)
Sarah Clancy @sarahmaintains.bsky.social Poet, Community Worker, LGBTQIA+ Politics, Climate Action
FREE PALESTINE 
Mark Ward @dogwithoutlegs.bsky.social Poet. Books: Real Estate (@salmonpoetry 2026), Nightlight (@salmonpoetry 2023). Pamphlet: Masters (@TheEmmaPress, 2025) 🏳️🌈 https://linktr.ee/markwardpoet
Nessa O’Mahony @nessao.bsky.social I am a poet and novelist from Dublin. I’ve edited anthologies and teach creative writing
Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social Poetry and other bits of writing | Pit Lullabies with Bloodaxe Books and The Quick and Liffey Swim with Dedalus Press | Essays in Tolka, The Stinging Fly and The Dublin Review | Poetry editor at Banshee | New Arcana forthcoming Sept 25 from Bloodaxe Books.
Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social Experimental Poet—Experimental Lit Prof—Experimental Musician
Curator @ bpNichol.ca — Literary Arts Residency Lead @ The SETI Institute
David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social the sea is completely written for me
https://www.transitbooks.org/books/darker
Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social Poet &c | rishidastidar.com | linktr.ee/betarish
Lucy Furlong @lucyfurleaps.bsky.social writing ~ mapping ~ walking ~ snapping
clew~ (Hesterglock Press) Villiers Path, Sward, Amniotic City 2nd ed. (Sampson Low)
Setting Sundays lucyfurlong.substack.com
Amniotic City film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E25IOgfD4Q
www.lucyfurlong.com
Angela T. Carr @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social Poet | Architect | Creative Writing facilitator at Wordbox | AuDHD
🏆 Arts Council Literature Bursary 2021
🏆 iYeats International Poetry Competition 2019
🏆 Poetry Business 2018 Laureate's Prize
www.thisiswordbox.com
https://linktr.ee/wordbox
Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social artist and poet; ecological remediation and human recuperation; landscape, tea, limit and creativity; lives by the sea in Edinburgh; mostly sharing a daily poem here.
Maria Johnston @mariaj.bsky.social Poetry reader and critic. VRF @ Trinity College Dublin. Co-editor of Irish Women Poets Rediscovered (Cork University Press, 2021). 
Jessica Bundschuh @jessicabundschuh.bsky.social lecturer in English Literatures & Cultures at Universität Stuttgart
/ Irish poetry enthusiast / https://uni-stuttgart.academia.edu/JessicaBundschuh / https://www.ilw.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/team/Bundschuh/
PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social The UK's most stimulating literary journal, where the many worlds of poetry converse. Published by @carcanet.bsky.social. Subscribe here: http://goo.gl/QNqGCH
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