Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social Here for poetry chat and curious thoughts.
Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social Writing poetry | Debut collection: 'The Bone Folder', Drunk Muse Press 2024 | Shortlisted for Saltire Awards & Bridport 2025 | Winner McLellan Prize 2025, Saboteur Award 2023 | Board Moniack Mhor | Poet in Residence UHI | linktr.ee/caitjomac
Julia Webb @julwe1.bsky.social Neurodivergent poet and editor. Steering editor for 'Lighthouse'. Latest collection 'Grey Time' (Nine Arches press, 2025).
https://juliawebb.org/
https://visual-poetics.blogspot.com/
https://storymachines.co.uk/portfolio/lighthouse/
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Graham Clifford @gclifford1.bsky.social Poet. Appearing in anthologies including Faber, Broken Sleep and Against the Grain. Published by Seren, BLER and Against the Grain. Recent work up at BerlinLit, the Manchester Review and Finished Creatures. https://share.google/24BDXUZwrWpPLfE7O
Graham Woodruff @grahamwoodruff.bsky.social poetry and politics, dogs and dancing
Dithering Chaps - submissions open @ditheringchaps.bsky.social I'm David Herring, Lead Editor of indie poetry press, Dithering Chaps, based in Dorset, UK. We publish thematically-linked sequences of poems: works that riff on a core conceit, event or narrative voice. He/him. https://www.ditheringchaps.com
Poetry with Linda @poetrywithlinda.bsky.social poetry, nature, writing, reading, art, culture, languages, photography, travelling 🎨🖌️🖼️
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Amber @ambermerenda.bsky.social Animals, plants, birds, rocks, nature, history, philosophy, photography and science. All photos are my own.
Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social Manc independent publisher with a conscience.
M.D. Isabelle Kenyon
2024 North England Winner Small Press of Year!
Sustainable, political and accessible
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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
Dave Hemming @davehemming.bsky.social I write words. I usually cross them out later. Poet and seahorse whisperer, haiku. Songwriter with @thenightherons.bsky.social
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
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
Mick Connick @mickconnick.bsky.social Scotsman. Husband and father of two, a boy and a girl. Celtic fan.
Kim Whysall-Hammond @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social Poet, scientist, artist. Lifelong Science Fiction fan. SFPA. My debut pamphlet ‘Messages from the Road’ is available from Palewell Press. https://palewellpress.co.uk/bookstore/lost-wellbeing/mftr/
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
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poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
Jamais Arrière @pankelo.bsky.social 
Alan Parry He/Him @alanparrywriter.co.uk Independent Writer
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EiC @thebrokenspine.co.uk
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk Online poetry magazine posting daily. We publish & review poetry, prose, filmpoems, word & image and print publish as IS&T Press. Editing internships. Posts by Sabine Wilson-Patrick & Kate Birch.
National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it. 
Gill Connors @gillcresearch.bsky.social poet, teacher, PhD student. Wild swimmer. Editor at Yaffle/Yaffle's Nest
Living, working and writing in The Yorkshire Dales
FEO @feoswald.bsky.social Poet, lover of words and flowers, retired academic. “We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Hannah Linden @hannahl1n.bsky.social Poet Devon, UK
1st Cafe Writers Poetry Competition 2021, 2nd Leeds Peace Poetry Prize 2024, H Comm. Wales Poetry Award 2021. Shortlisted Best Poetry Pamphlet Saboteur Awards 2023 https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-beautiful-open-sky.html 
Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social Gulfport, FL poet laureate
I write poems about bodies - ours, animals, water, our collective nature
Here to connect with poets & poetry lovers
Author of Water Yoga (Singing Dragon 2022).
Lover of tea & avocados 🥑
https://christafairbrotherwrites.com/
Wind&Bones Books @windandbones.com Independent publisher. Scotland, Taiwan & elsewhere. Directed by Hannah Stevens & Will Buckingham.
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Feisty Blue Gecko (Philippa Ramsden) @feistybluegecko.bsky.social 🦎Scot 🏴, formerly Global Dev professional, now gently unfurling, realising dreams of being a writer, poet and enjoying photographing tiny wonders. Breast Cancer survivor.
PeterUrpeth @peterurpeth.bsky.social Writer | poet | development editor | pianist | improviser | Journalist |
peterurpeth.com | peterurpeth.bandcamp.com | poetry collection - The 4000 Nights of New York in 1988 peterurpeth.com/4000nights | Cockney living in the Outer Hebrides
David Dodds @daviddoddsauthor.bsky.social Author of urban fantasy fiction. Semi-retired bat ecologist. Gliding instructor. Butler to a highly-opinionated Jack Russell.
Barbara Henderson (new WIP 6831) @scattyscribbler.bsky.social Author. Scottish historical fiction and eco- adventures for kids. 2x Young Quills Winner. 🎭 Teacher, ✝️, 🏴 🇩🇪, Highlands.
www.barbarahenderson.co.uk
Susan Elsley @susanelsley.bsky.social Writer of fiction & non fiction. People, places & natural environment. Scotland. 1st@ennisbookclubfestival SL BathShortStoryAward @alpinefellowship.
susanelsley.com
Audrey Niven @nivenaudrey.bsky.social EIC The Propelling Pencil, Creative Coach and business consultant. Exploring new forms in writing and visual art.
Dr Margot McCuaig @margotmcc.bsky.social Novelist and documentary filmmaker. Wrote a PhD.
Barry Litherland Author @bl-writer.bsky.social Lives in SW Scotland. Reviews selected indie book. Author of The Phil Tyler Thriller Series and paranormal crime novels set in the atmospheric Scottish Highlands. Also lit. fiction, YA and middle grade. 
Tyne & Esk Writers @tyneeskwriters.bsky.social Tyne and Esk Writers is an organisation that champions creative writing in groups across Midlothian and East Lothian.
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Karen MacLean @dee2dee.bsky.social Scottish Independence supporter
SNP member
Dog and Cat lover
Sometime writer
From the Highlands
Mckeedi @mckeedi.bsky.social Wannabe writer and photographer
All photos and writing my own unless stated otherwise
Joseph Gale Burns @galeburns.bsky.social Poet and climate activist 
North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social Noticeboard and live commonplace book of North Sea Poets. We run online masterclasses, workshops and webinars.
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Taylor Strickland @taylor-strickland.bsky.social Poet. Translator. Winner of 2023 Saltire Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Get a copy of DASTRAM/DELIRIUM now -> https://linktr.ee/taylorstricklandarts
Jonathan Wonham @jonathanwonham.bsky.social Scottish 🏴 indie poet, author of Poetry Introduction 7 (Faber & Faber), Steel Horizon (Incline Press), Ordinary Others, Vulgar Variants, The Ukraine Trilogy and Ceasefire Now! (Drizzle-Dazzle)
AlphaFold Unofficial @alphafold.bsky.social Unofficial account exploring the intersection of biology, molecules, science, AI and protein folding with AlphaFold.
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored
Rémi Forte @rmfrt.com Poetic Program, Typographic System
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Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social Arts writer critic poet artist. Wrote a book on concrete poetry. Words in lots of places (gregthomas.online). Poem objects: oo-press.com. Board member, Edwin Morgan Trust, comms manager, Humanist Society Scotland. Democratic socialism & dungeon synth.
Colin Bramwell @brambrella.bsky.social Writer fae the Black Isle.
Karen Campbell @writerkcampbell.bsky.social Book writer. Scottish. European. www.karencampbell.scot
Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social Maker of Books / Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate) / my novel Muckle Flugga is out now 💜📚💫 www.michaelpedersen.co.uk
John McCullough @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social Poet. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize for Literature with Reckless Paper Birds. Forward & Costa-shortlisted. Working-class writer. Next book: Crowd Voltage (Bloodaxe, March 2026). He/him. 🏳️🌈
Gordon Noble @rgordonnoble.bsky.social Antigravitist
I Am Loud CIC @iamloudpro.bsky.social Scotland's premier spoken word organisation, learn more about our work at iamloud.co
Loud Poets: Best Regular UK Spoken Word Night 2023
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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb' the Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice: "some of the most moving, restrained, memorable and technically adroit poetry of our times" --- TLS, 3/25
Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social Writer, Lake-swimmer, Bookseller.
FRSL
hEDS/Haemochromatosis/all the comorbs
she/her
rep @PortyLiterary
Books incl:
Recovering Dorothy
Some Of Us Just Fall
The Company of Owls
Emergency Dream
Swimming The Seasons
https://linktr.ee/pollyatkin
Amy Jo Philip @ambulancebox.bsky.social Poet. Author of “The Ambulance Box” and “The North End of the Possible”. New book coming in 2026. | Priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church Diocese of Edinburgh and member of general synod | she/her 🏳️⚧️ https://linktr.ee/amyjophilp
Kevin P. Gilday @kevinpgilday.bsky.social Poet. Theatre Maker. Arts Educator. Stirling Makar. Kevin P. Gilday & The Glasgow Cross. Probably on holiday.
www.kevinpgilday.com
Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social Writer, editor of poetry, including Poetry Scotland and Whaleback City Press. Knee-deep in assorted poetry-related malarkey including New Boots & Pantisocracies, the Otwituaries, Double Dactyl of the Week, Project Abeona and more.
Katie Ailes @katieailes.bsky.social Poet, researcher, educator, dancer. Co-Director, I Am Loud CIC. 2023 Glastonbury Poet in Residence. she/her.
L A Traynor @latraynor.bsky.social Writer, filmmaker, lover of archeological digs. Currently revealing late medieval Unst. Recipient of 2024 Dorothy Dunnett Centenary Award for historical fiction research.
Founder of Women With Fierce Words.
Scottish Book Trust @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social A national charity dedicated to changing lives with reading and writing. Home of Bookbug, Book Week Scotland and Reading Schools.
John Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social Writer. Poetry.
https://www.johnglenday.com
https://www.northseapoets.com
Charlie Gracie @charliegracie.bsky.social Poet, novelist, short story writer, social worker.
Latest book: Belfast to Baillieston (Red Squirrel Press, 2023) www.charliegracie.scot
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social Poet, essayist. Author of 'Findings', 'Sightlines', 'Surfacing' and 'Cairn'. Erstwhile National Poet of Scotland. Terrible at art, alas. What else? Today is all low winter sun and jackdaws.
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.org.uk
Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Paperboats Writers @paperboatswriters.bsky.social Paperboats is a collective of writers focussed on nature and environment in a time of climate and ecological breakdown. Scotland based and global in outlook, and write to affirm the astonishing life of this planet and how its future may yet be shaped.
Keeks Mc @keeksmc.bsky.social Scots language poet 🏴
Author of "Contermacious Temerity" and "Rede Wi Yer Hert" from Dreich Publications. Next collection coming 2026 with Drunk Muse Press.
Dr Dorothy Lawrenson @dorothylawrenson.bsky.social Writer, editor and proofreader. Honorary Lecturer at the University of St Andrews. www.dorothylawrenson.com
Rue Baldry @ruebaldry.bsky.social Author of Dwell (Northodox Press June ‘26) & Nice Things (Fly On The Wall Dec ‘26).
Winner of The First Novel Prize and Commonwealth Prize Region. 30 published stories. 2nd in Yeovil Prize. Discoveries longlist. Moniack Mhor & Arvon mentee. She/her
@angela-kilday.bsky.social @angela-kilday.bsky.social 
Dr Russell Jones @russjoneswrites.bsky.social Writer in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Books. Food. Dogs.
https://linktr.ee/russjoneswrites
Dr Helen Boden @helenboden.bsky.social Poet & Independent Literature Professional. A Landscape To Figure In (Red Squirrel Press). Best Scottish Poems 2022. ND. She / they. helenbodenliteraryarts.com
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Greg Michaelson @gjmichaelson.bsky.social An idle singer of an empty day
https://www.stairwellbooks.co.uk/product/solstice/
Debbie Cannon @debsca.bsky.social Scottish actor and writer.
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The Write Angle @writeanglefv.bsky.social The Write Angle:
Encouraging creativity, in all its forms, in the Forth Valley, and beyond!
Raf ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ @rtorrubia.com Writer/poet/optimist. Rep'd by @bigjcowen. THE SHIPWRIGHT AND THE SHROUDWEAVER OUT NOW from Gollancz. Acad. work with Bloomsbury Politics. They/them.
https://linktr.ee/RafaelTorrubia
Jeanette Castle @jeanettecastle.bsky.social University Librarian at the University of the West of Scotland, Doctoral Student, Historian and Photographer. Researching the impact of public libraries on loneliness and social isolation in communities. SCURL Vice Chair and Director at SUP.
Nat Hall @nordicblackbird60n.bsky.social Poet with words and pixels, educator, nestled at 60N between a sea and an ocean.
Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social Writer, author, poetry, editor, publisher. Founder of Rebel Inc. Co-founder of Bella Caledonia. Co-founder of Neu! Reekie! Co-founder of Push The Boat Out international poetry festival. MDANT. Love poetry, books, chess, volcanoes, Hibs. Citizen of Leith
Laura Fyfe @lauraswriting.bsky.social Poet, writing tutor, former Stirling Makar. Lapsed parachutist with a chronic low-boredom threshold.
‘Truth Lies’ - Red Squirrel Press
‘Endless Blue’ - Stewed Rhubarb Press
‘Wellspring’ - Figment Books
‘Magpie Mind’ - Figment Books
figmentcreativity.com
Pamela Ireland @pamela-i-d.bsky.social Poetry in French and English.
Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social Poet, (Five collections, Red Squirrel Press) editor, occasional translator, blogs about place, plants, poetry, woke indy grandmother. https://linktr.ee/Burnedthumb. Scouse, Scottish and Woke AF #placeplantspoetry
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