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Rebecca Hutcheon @drbekahutcheon.bsky.social Research Fellow @USW, C19th literature, spatial theory, digital humanities, walking, black metal, black coffee and animals.
Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social Poet. Reader. Plums, raspberries, apricots. Recently in Asymptote, New Welsh Review, Finished Creatures, Cyphers. Troubadour Prize. Jt runner-up Keats-Shelley prize. He/him.
Alexander Clapp @alexclapp.bsky.social journalist. author of WASTE WARS. alexdclapp@gmail.com
Graham Mort @grahammort.bsky.social Poet, short fiction writer, essayist, writer BBC drama. Emeritus Prof Lancaster University; Extraordinary Prof University Western Cape; National HE Teaching Fellow. Eric Gregory Award, Bridport & Edge Hill Prizes. Photography, blues & jazz enthusiast.
Simon Price @simonprice.bsky.social Biographer of The Cure & Manic Street Preachers
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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social journalist and writer. author of BEYOND MEASURE, a history of measurement; a New Yorker, Economist, Times book of the year. former senior editor at The Verge. buy my book here: https://linktr.ee/BeyondMeasureBook. website: jamesvincent.info
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
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Katy Mack @katymack.bsky.social Poet | First, I Turn Off the Light (Broken Sleep Books, 2024) | Research Associate at U of Sussex
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social Writer. New novel coming in November: LESSONS IN HARMONY. Previous titles include What a Carve Up!, The Rotters' Club, Middle England, The Proof of My Innocence ...
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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.
Holly Corfield Carr @hollycorfieldcarr.bsky.social writer | poet | lecturer
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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social Cardiff based Poet, Writer, Academic 'Octopus Mind' (Seren Books) - a Guardian Best Poetry Book of 2023 https://linktr.ee/createdtoread Teach creative writing, writing on/around ekphrasis, neurodiversity, creativity, climate crisis, art
Sheri Benning @sheribenning.bsky.social Writer | forthcoming Civil Twilight (Carcanet); Field Requiem (Carcanet); The Season's Vagrant Light: New & Selected (Carcanet); et al. | Poems in The Paris Review, The TLS, PN Review, Poetry Review, Brick, et al.
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Caroline Bracken @carolinebracken.bsky.social Irish poet Winner Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition 2024 'Boy, Mother' published by Smith Doorstop
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Gray Harper @graycarsonharper.bsky.social poet, weather enjoyer
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
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The Lonely Crowd @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social Literary journal — thelonelycrowd.org
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Robert Selby @reselby.bsky.social Writer | The Coming-Down Time (2020): http://bit.ly/3FQ0wLU | The Kentish Rebellion (2022): http://bit.ly/3aIGJkL
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Zakia Carpenter-Hall @zcarpenterhall.bsky.social Writer, tutor, editor, critic.
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Thomas Chatterton Williams @chatterton.bsky.social Writer (The Atlantic). Current 📕: SUMMER OF OUR DISCONTENT (Knopf). Non-resident fellow (AEI). Senior fellow, visiting prof. of humanities (Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College). Representation (APB; Wylie). Student & Teacher. Instagram: @chattertonwilliams.
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 
Saraswati Nagpal @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social Forward Prize, Pushcart & BOTN nominated Poet, Author, Educator, Performing Artist. Lover of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, tomes, trees, all things purple. Poetry: 'Drench Me in Silver' (Black Bough, 2025)
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Keeks Mc @keeksmc.bsky.social Scots language poet 🏴
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Shash Trevett @shashtrevett.bsky.social Poet & Tr | ‘The Naming of Names’ (Smith|Doorstop 2024) | ‘Out of Sri Lanka’ (Bloodaxe 2023)| Ledbury Critic | Trustee Modern Poetry in Translation
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bloomer disguised as a doomer.
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Peter Kenny @peter-kenny.bsky.social Creative maverick. Writer of poetry and dark fiction. Co-hosts and co-produces the Planet Poetry podcast. 
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Irene @derbren.bsky.social books, bikes, cats, cheese, and cinemas. Non-practising German. Unreliable narrator, ready for my close-up. Probably have a crush on you. For more, go here: https://linktr.ee/DerBren
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Dr Durre Shahwar @durreshahwar.bsky.social Writer, artist, creative writing lecturer. Editor: GATHERING: WoC on Nature (2024). Cardiff/London.
Livia Franchini @twoseriousladies.bsky.social It's pronounced like Frankenstein.
The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social We're an international literary magazine in Madrid. We connect English and Spanish speaking literary cultures through fiction, poetry, essays and interviews.
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Meryl Pugh @merylpugh.bsky.social (She/her) London UK, writing thinking & skulking. Latest: Feral Borough, 2022, Penned in the Margins. https://furtive11.wordpress.com
Tracey Rhys @traceyrhys.bsky.social Poet (Parthian, Green Bottle Press), short stories from Honno. Freelance editor & proofreader (The Royal Mint, Seren Books, Poetry Wales) & artist. No weird DMs (I shouldn't have to say it).
'Bathing on the Roof' due out Spring 2025 from Parthian Books.
Rhys Owain Williams @rhysowainwilliams.bsky.social Writer of poetry, fiction and other things | That Lone Ship (Parthian Books) | Hay Festival Writer At Work | He/Him | https://linktr.ee/rhysowainwilliams
Rehema Njambi @rehema.bsky.social (You probably call me Remy.) Author / Poet.
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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social Author of 'Salacia' & 'Pearl and Bone' 📚
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Rae Howells @raehowells.bsky.social Journalist & poet. Shortlisted Wales Book of the Year 2023.
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Natalie Ann Holborow @natholborow.bsky.social Author of 'Little Universe' and 'Small' | Content Marketing Manager at Synergy Learning | Runner | T1D | 'Wild Running' out September 2025 📚🏃♀️
Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social linktr.ee/victoriaspires
BotN, Pushcart & Forward nominated. Shortlisted/commended in various comps: Winner Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize
Finalist Mslexia Women's Comp
Rube Goldberg Machine out with Shadow and Sax.
Suna @sunaafshan.bsky.social Poet & Translator
Editor of Pallina Press
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Sarah Wedderburn @sarahwedderburn.bsky.social Poet and other kinds of writer - Poetry Ireland Review, PN Review, Oxford Poetry, Narrative Magazine, Perverse, etc. Dog devotee. Marsh roamer. Art lover. City dweller living in the sticks. Poetry collection THE I OF MY STORM (Green Bottle Press) 2026
Daniel Hinds @danielghinds.bsky.social Poetry collection New Famous Phrases @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social, UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award, Ilkley New Northern Poet, New Writing North North East Poet, BBC New Creative
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Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social Ted Hughes' and Daniel Weissbort's international poetry translation magazine. Edited by Janani Ambikapathy.
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Rachael Clyne @rachaelclyne.bsky.social
UK poet and writer. Latest collection: 'You'll Never Be Anyone Else' - https://www.serenbooks.com/book/youll-never-be-anyone-else/ https://rachaelclyne.blogspot.com/ @rachaelclyne Substack
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Ness Owen @nessowen.bsky.social Poet, lecturer,Cymraes #ForwardPrizeHighlyCommended Books-Moon Jellyfish Can Barely Swim #ParthianBooks Mamiaith #ArachnePress-co-editor of A470 +Afonydd-Welsh Rivers. Winner #Greenpeace 's #PoemforthePlanet 2022 #YnysMon New collectionNaming the Trees 🏴
Soozerama @soozerama.bsky.social Susie Wild | Poet/Writer | Books include: Windfalls, Better Houses, The Art of Contraception | Wales, UK
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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. 🏳️🌈
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal