Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social Jonathan Wolff,
Political Philosopher.
Fellow British Academy
Emeritus Professor Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford
Wolfson College
President The Royal Institute of Philosophy
THFC supporter in 'what's football again?' mode.
#academic
Undiscovered Voices @uvcompetition.bsky.social Undiscovered Voices is an initiative by @SCBWI_BI to help find fresh, new voices in children's literature - #UV26 coming soon
Find out more and read extracts from the previous winning entries at at www.undiscoveredvoices.com
Sheaf Poetry @sheafpoetry.bsky.social Poetry group in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK
Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social 🍏 Green MP for North Herefordshire and leader of the Green Party MP group in Parliament. Mum, activist, optimist!
Abbi Flint @draflint.bsky.social Researcher and poet #archaeology #envhist #folklore #envhum #peatlands #moss #heritage #poetry #reindeer #sheffield #footpaths #RightsOfWay
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
Addison's Disease Self Help Group (ADSHG) @addisonsdisease.bsky.social The UK charity for all affected by Addison’s disease & adrenal insufficiency. 🗓 29 May: #AddisonsDiseaseDay 🎉#TeamAddisons 📲Learn more: #AddisonsQA
Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival @poetryinaldeburgh.bsky.social A poetry festival by the sea under the big skies of East Anglia. Thurs 5th to Sunday 8th November 2026. ☀️📚🩵
Website: https://www.poetryinaldeburgh.org/
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Dominique Cameron RSW @bourbonandwolfe.bsky.social Artist
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Garth Martens @garthmartens.bsky.social Poet. Palmero. Member of Palabra Flamenco. Producer of Dark Sounds. Author of Prologue for the Age of Consequence (Anansi, 2014) and Who Else in the Dark Headed There (Biblioasis, 2026). Pronouns: he / him. 🇵🇸 🌈 🍉
Our Favourite Places @ourfaveplaces.bsky.social A Sheffield culture guide written by in-the-know locals.
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From Eleven Design: https://elevendesign.co.uk.
Organisers of Photomarathon Sheffield: http://photomarathonsheffield.co.uk.
Festival for Poetry @poetryfestival.bsky.social Daily Poetry Deadlines
Submit for a free posting.
Submit for a poetry reading video.
Submit for your poetry to be made into a film.
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Sheffield Swift Network @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social Taking action to reverse the decline of Sheffield's swifts
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Sorby Natural History Society @sorbynathissoc.bsky.social We cover a full range of natural history interests in Sheffield (UK) and the surrounding area, with activities for both interested beginners and specialists.
http://www.sorby.org.uk/
Ian Rotherham @ianthewildside.bsky.social Environmental researcher, writer, campaigner, and lecturer 
Wardsend Cemetery Heritage Park @wardsendcemetery.bsky.social A long term project to engage the community and sensitively conserve the previously neglected Victorian Wardsend Cemetery, on the banks of the River Don.
Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust @wildsheffield.bsky.social Protecting the wildlife and wild places you love in Sheffield and Rotherham. Join us today - http://wildsheffield.com 📷 Jon Hawkins/SurreyHills Photography
David Bocking @bbobillsmothers.bsky.social It’s Looking A Bit Black Over Bill’s Mother’s - the out there magazine for Sheffield, the Outdoor City. http://abitblackoverbillsmothers.com/
Shelly Dennison @dennisonshelly.bsky.social I help not-for-profits write things. I also write other stuff.
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Mary Earnshaw @maryearnshaw.bsky.social Writer. Worrier. Tree whisperer.
Lives on England's northwest coast.
Has spent a lot of time in Zambia and Eswatini with her live-in archaeologist. Can cook for dozens over an open fire if bribed with wine. But would rather write poetry.
Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social Nautilus Island's hermit heiress (settler, she)
Books, bread, cloth, cyclamen, snow, roses, rooms
Walking—looking—liberation
PINK THEORY! (Milkweed, 2027), PATTERN-BOOK(Carcanet, 2025); rep: Wylie
profile, Corita print; banner, campion/gorse
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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social President of Magdalen College, Oxford. Barrister. Speaking only for myself.
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.
DamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social Dr Megan Dixon: (retired) teacher, leader and researcher. PhD, Psychology. All things education and research - literacy, English, research into practice, curriculum, SEND.
MTNBC Stage4. Still here.
https://meganjanedixon.co.uk/2026/01/02/pivoting/
WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social Award-winning independent not-for-profit investigative journalism in the public interest.
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Watershed is:
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Kathleen @sandalfaun.bsky.social Artist,photographer with interest in geology, astronomy.
I enjoy walking through forests and beaches, very long hikes inner city, swimming, gardening, dancing, and good music!
Anyone else out there getting a little bit frightened with what’s going on?
TandemKate @tandemkate.bsky.social Active travel enthusiast, mobility impaired, enjoy outdoors, making stuff, reading, games, music
I work for Wheels for Wellbeing - all views here are my own 
Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Routledge) @joaesth-phenom.bsky.social Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology aims to encourage and promote research in aesthetics that draws inspiration from the phenomenological tradition as broadly understood
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfap20/
@creativetourist.bsky.social @creativetourist.bsky.social 
Sarah-Clare Conlon @sarahclareconlon.bsky.social Less able to stand ✍️ Writer | ✏️ Editor | 📚 Poetry Book Society Selections |🍂ACE-funded DROUGHT THOUGHTS | 🐦⬛ Wanderland (Red Ceilings) | 🌝 Lune (Red Ceilings) | 📕 Using Language (Invisible Hand) | 🇫🇷 cache-cache (Contraband) | ⛵️Marine Drive (Broken Sleep)
Reuben Tozer-Loft @reubenmusic.com /ɹuːbən/ 🪶 composer and pianist 🌱
sheffielder unibirmingham conservatoriomartini
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Anne Adams @notmortitia.bsky.social Taught science mostly in FE. Trade Union rep. Managed A levels, business planning, quality assurance. Love gardening, have an allotment. Trustee of three music charities. Run a composer competition, help run a biennial music festival. Sing in three choirs.
Tamsin C Russell @tamsincrussell.bsky.social Leader: Changemaker: Ally: Facilitator: Action Learning Facilitator: Mentor: Trainer: Cheerleader: #Museums : #Heritage : #Culture : Realising the potential of others: Keep safe, keep well, keep learning: She/Her
GLAM Cares @glamcares.bsky.social A care and support network for people who work with communities in galleries, libraries, archives and museums.
Dr Alexandra Woodall @alexandrawoodall.bsky.social Beautiful things, culture, creativity, curiosity, care. Chesterfield Art Foundation course student. Museum and gallery consultant and mentor. Trustee of Create Sheffield. Co-founder of GLAM Cares. She/her. 🇪🇺 💚
Matt Abbott 🍉 @mattabbottpoet.com ✍️🏻 Poet, novelist & educator
📚 3 full-length poetry books 📕 1 novel
📍 Leeds, UK 🦚 #lufc ♂️ He/him
🧠 AuDHD 🎤 @livewirepoetry.org
🌐 mattabbottpoet.com
Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com Lyra runs Bristol's Poetry Festival, City Poet, Young City Poet & community collabs. Festival supported by ACE.
Next Festival: 17 - 26 April
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Miggy Angel @miggyangel.bsky.social Poetry Is Fuckeries
5publishedbooksofpoetry/editorofburninghousepress/
Graffiti On A Burning House forthcoming from Salo Press 2026
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filmphotography:
StreetPoetryIsMyEveryday
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Paul Evans Artist @paulkevans.bsky.social Artist based in Sheffield, England. Specialist in creative public engagement.
Jo Dacombe @jodacombe.bsky.social Artist. Writer. Publishes IMMINENT, contemporary art and poetry on environmental themes.
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Disrupted Blue Indie Press Publicity @disruptedblue.bsky.social Working with (or have worked with) indie presses including KERNPUNKT, Black Herald, Shearsman, Carcanet, PN Review, Sublunary Editions, CB editions, Stone Corpse, Hanuman, Vanguard & more!
Founding Director: Vik Shirley
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Lee Spracklen @leespracklen.bsky.social
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
Lisa Brockwell @lisabrockwell.bsky.social Writer, poodle fancier, Australian in Scotland. Author of Earth Girls (2016) & The Round Ring (2021). Both Pitt Street Poetry.
Erika Glenday @erikaglenday.bsky.social European. Südeifler. Needles & hooks. Poetry critic. Drives vehicles up to 7.5t. 🇪🇺🇩🇪🏴🇨🇭🇮🇹
North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social Noticeboard and live commonplace book of North Sea Poets. We run online masterclasses, workshops and webinars.
northseapoets.com
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. 🏳️🌈
Lisa Kelly @lisadmkelly.bsky.social Poet. @carcanet.bsky.social. A Map Towards Fluency (shortlisted for Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021) The House of the Interpreter (Poetry Book Society Recommendation) BSL Level 6 
Mark Spray @markspray.bsky.social www.markspray.com
Natasha Ryan @justplainscrambled.bsky.social Poems by day, prose by night. Préfère l'impair.
Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social I’m a poet and photographer inspired by landscapes, shortlisted for Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the year 2023 winner of The Charles Causley International Poetry Prize 2025, shortlisted for The Wigtown Poetry Competition 2025
pennysharman.co.uk
@desireereynolds.bsky.social @desireereynolds.bsky.social Creative Director Dig Where You Stand
Curator/Writer
South Londoner up north
Working class histories
Repp: Rachel Mann @CAA
Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social Six museums and historic sites across the city, creating life-shaping, eye-opening, joy-filled memories with you ✨
Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing and powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Shoshana Zuboff and Francis Fukuyama.
And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social Not-for-profit press led by readers, writers & translators. Consider subscribing to help us take publishing risks. http://andotherstories.org/subscriptions/
Vicky Morris @vickymwriter.bsky.social British/Welsh Poet, editor, teacher, neurodivergent jack of creative trades, mentor of emerging young writers, founder
www.hivesouthyorkshire.com | www.vickymorris.co.uk
Music in the Round @musicintheround.bsky.social One of the UK's leading promoters of chamber music
Based in Sheffield at the unique Playhouse at The Crucible
- Box Office 0114 249 6000
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Off the Shelf Festival of Words @otsfestival.bsky.social Celebrating books, words, and ideas. We’re one of the UK’s longest-running literary festivals, delivered by @sheffielduni.bsky.social
🌐 offtheshelf.org.uk
Robin Houghton @robinhoughton.bsky.social Author. Poet. Podcaster @planetpoetry.bsky.social First full poetry collection 'The Mayday Diaries' Pindrop Press May 1st 2025. Sings in choirs. Yogi.
Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana @corrintachibana.bsky.social Author of ‘Sing me down from the dark’ (SALT; 2022).
Worked in higher ed. in U.K. and Japan. Poems in P.N. Review, The North, MAGMA, Poetry Wales, The Interpreter’s House & The Madrid Review.
Lover of Things Japanese and proud mother of teenager.
Podling 🤘🏻🚵🏻♀️🍵🍷📚 @podling.bsky.social Librarian @Hallamlibrary, mountainbiker, climber, wine/tea drinker, reader, blogger, 80s rock chick. Black Country Wench in the Peaks. All views my own.
Jim Jepps! @jimjepps.bsky.social I was rather hoping capitalism would have finished by now. It doesn't even rhyme.
https://jimjepps.substack.com/
Beth Davies @bethdaviespoet.bsky.social Sheffield Poet Laureate 2024-6. The Pretence of Understanding published 2023 by The Poetry Business. Librarian by day. Appreciator of pretty skies and dogs in little coats.
Nightjar Press @nightjarpress.bsky.social Single short story chapbooks since 2009. Uncanny, dark, experimental. Manchester/London. Editor @nicholasroyle.bsky.social. Design @johnoakey.bsky.social.
Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social Writer. Latest: Paris Fantastique from @confingopublishing.bsky.social and Finders, Keepers from @saltpublishing.com
Also runs @nightjarpress.bsky.social nightjarpress.weebly.com
Uncanny Magazine @uncannymagazine.bsky.social Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine Edited by Michael Damian Thomas. 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2025, 2026 Hugo & 2024 Locus Award Winner. uncannymagazine.com
Leicester Writers Club @leicwritersclub.bsky.social Leicester Writers Club run weekly hybrid meetings, masterclasses, social events, an annual weekend writing retreat and speaker events at Leicester's Phoenix and via Zoom.
Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social Academic. Work on First World War literature (Assoc Ed., FWW Studies); modernist studies (former BAMS Chair); noncanonical literature; rural modernity; late style. Grumbles my own.
The Poetry Archive @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social With over 2000 free poems, 500 poets’ work and 5 million visitors a year, the Poetry Archive represents a rich diversity of both poets and poetry.
Exact Editions @exacteditions.bsky.social The premium magazine platform for publishers, libraries and readers.
Find out more here: http://linktr.ee/exacteditions 
The Emma Press @theemmapress.bsky.social small press | big dreams
Birmingham-based independent publisher of poetry, children's books, short-form prose and translations.
www.theemmapress.com
Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social Ted Hughes' and Daniel Weissbort's international poetry translation magazine. Edited by Janani Ambikapathy.
modernpoetryintranslation.com
Inpress Books 📚 @inpressbooks.bsky.social Reaching readers on behalf of 50+ independent publishers. Funded by Arts Council England. Follow us on socials @inpressbooks📚 linktr.ee/inpressbooks 
@thealchemyspoon.bsky.social @thealchemyspoon.bsky.social 
Manchester Literature Festival @mcrlitfest.bsky.social Manchester Literature Festival presents inspiring live literature, poetry & culture. Check out our Spring & Summer events at www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk
Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social When the revolution comes I'll be in bed reading or playing a video game. Lecturer in film & media, writer, editor, feminist (NOT a terf), UCU rep. She/her
#WIASN #WalkingSimulators 
Café Writers @cafewriters.bsky.social Live lit events online and in Norwich
cafewriters.co.uk
@juliekenn.bsky.social @juliekenn.bsky.social 
helena forn ells @helenaetc.bsky.social Poet, potter(ish), and creative researcher @ Uni of Glasgow on Scottish ecopoetics & land politics
Barnaby Harsent @jahshabby.bsky.social Writer and occasional DJ. Supplying poetry and music to rooms of largely indifferent drunks.
https://linktr.ee/jahshabby
@mariaisakova.bsky.social @mariaisakova.bsky.social 
The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social Smith|Doorstop Books • New Poets List • International Book & Pamphlet Competition • New Poets Prize • Writer Development Agency
https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/
Nick Gray @nfgray.bsky.social Environmental scientist and wastewater engineer based at Trinity College Dublin, working as advisor and writer on all things to do with the environment. Author of 17 books and numerous research papers, author of 'Facing upto Global Warming'.
Nettle @nettlejelly.bsky.social Climate, nature, science, photography, cinema, art, reading, writing, rithmetic. Tall and short stories, good humour and all good brain food. UK based, open to the world.
tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social tiny wren lit focuses on tiny poems + tiny issues (2-3 times per year). Readers can download each issue in a zine format. Home of the tiny zine. Subs open.
Web: https://www.tinywrenlit.com/
Philip Gross @vaikuspg.bsky.social Writer of many parts, but the heartland is poetry – head to https:/www.philipgross.co.uk to see the range of 40 years of writing life.
Keith Jebb @keithjebb.bsky.social Writer, poet, reviewer, sometime creative writing lecturer, turn left at Labour and keep going.
Leafe Press @leafepress.bsky.social Leafe Press was launched at a reading in Nottingham in 2000 and has published a wide range of poetry. Editor: Alan Baker
John Goodby @gobygoodby.bsky.social 
PosthumousFairy @kitty-donnelly07.bsky.social Raven at your window with a broken wing.
Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social Postdoctoral Researcher (elle/she) • Internet & Cultural Studies • Legal Knowledge & Environmental Law • Social & Climate Justice • Brussels Sprouts Appreciation Society • Arts & Crafts • Gardening • Sailing
FR/EN (Belgium/Luxembourg)- D DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social "Modern medicine is not a line where you left your fossils." NHS professional and pretty good music writer. Blogs: https://nobilliards.blogspot.com, https://uncorrectedboundproof.blogspot.com/ and https://funthirty.blogspot.com/
Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social Creator of The Marginalian (once upon a time called Brain Pickings). Lover of books and tress. Petter of moss. Wonderer. Also: almanacofbirds.org
Liars' League @liarsleague.bsky.social Writers write, actors read. Top 10 Story Night (@TheGuardian.com) Account by LL Director Katy Darby
NEXT SHOW: Liars' League X @fitzroviafutures
Mon 7 Sep @7.30pm
Tickets £5 online / £7 door
Venue: Fitzrovia Chapel, W1
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social I make ice cream and do science and suck at fly fishing. YYC
glaciers - geohazards - climate - geomorphology - geomatics - gelato
He/him
Fellow, @rcgssgrc.bsky.social
Christos Hadjiyiannis @christoshad.bsky.social Assistant Professor of British Literature at the University of Regensburg | New book on Louise Glück: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/about-suffering/442DE8B942EB7E546F41CE5470E947D0🪻
Hilary @penny4it.bsky.social Botany, ecology, FISC 4, Biological Recording, gardening, mountains, dogs. Proud Mum. Northumberland, UK. 💚🇬🇧
@reddoorpoets.bsky.social @reddoorpoets.bsky.social 
Rue Collinge @thewordtinker.bsky.social Disabled poet & community artist. North East. Writing about hope with dragons in it, and hEDS. Pre-order debut pamphlet with Verve Poetry Press! linktr.ee/thewordtinker
Now Then magazine @nowthenmag.bsky.social A magazine for #Sheffield by Opus. Local news and culture. Online only (for now). Got a tip-off or want to write? Get in touch.
👉 nowthenmagazine.com