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.
Zain Rishi @zainrishi.bsky.social Brummie Poet ๐๐
26 / Edinburgh (mostly)
NOON out now with the Emma Press
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
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Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Manchester Metropolitan University @manmetuni.bsky.social 
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Subs are open Oct 1stโ31st annually for the following year.
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Created and curated by @markantonyowen.com
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@iamb.uk Poetry. Seen and heard. Four times a year. Enjoy new and previously published work from established and emerging talent.
Every poem read by its author. iamb.uk
iamb.uk/index/wave/25
@richardsiken.bsky.social @richardsiken.bsky.social 
Jane Clarke @janeclarke.bsky.social Poet: 'The River', 'When the Tree Falls', 'A Change in the Air', 'Coracle' (Bloodaxe 2015, 2019, 2023 &2026) https://www.janeclarkepoetry.ie/
The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social Smith|Doorstop Books โข New Poets List โข International Book & Pamphlet Competition โข New Poets Prize โข Writer Development Agency
https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Muswell Press @muswellpress.bsky.social Indie publisher of compelling books - crime, memoir, contemporary fiction, queer, travel. www.muswell-press.co.uk
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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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social Poetry Daily presents a poem each day from new books and journals, along with poetry news, announcements, and more. Est. 1997.
Poems.com
Rattle Poetry @rattlepoetry.bsky.social #Poetry without pretension since 1995. Rattle is a publication of the Rattle Foundation, an independent 501(c)3, and not affiliated with any other organization.
$15,000 for a single poem: rattle.com
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Timothy Green @timothygreen.bsky.social editor of @rattlepoetry | thoughts my own
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๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฟ: Reading at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival | Oct 6th: bit.ly/3TvBbRa
Jenny Mitchell @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social Winner of the Gregory O'Donohue Prize, the Poetry Book Awards etc. 3 poetry collections - 'Map of a Plantation' on the syllabus at Manchester Metropolitan Uni. Widely published. Poetry co-editor for the Morning Star.
Jen Feroze @jenferoze.bsky.social She/her. Poet, copywriter, general word nerd. Likes naps and cheese.
Lucy Heuschen (she/her) @petitecreature1.bsky.social Pushcart & Jerwood Prize-nominated poet ~ Pamphlets with Hedgehog & The Broken Spine ~ Commended in Poetry Society Stanza Comp 2024 & 2025 ~ First Collection "Daughter of Fire" Yaffle Press 2025 ~ www.lucyheuschen.co.uk ~ IG: LucyHeuschenPoetry
Mari Ellis Dunning ๐๏ธ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social Author of 'Salacia' & 'Pearl and Bone' ๐
'Witsh' available now ๐
Lecturer in Creative Writing ๐๐๏ธ
PhD in Welsh Witchcraft ๐
'Obstinate, headstrong girl'โ๏ธ
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https://linktr.ee/maridunning
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https://mariellisdunning.cymru/
David Hanlon @vespertine4.bsky.social Cardiff poet. Best of the Net nominee. Author of two poetry collections - 'Spectrum of Flight' published in 2020 & 'Dawn's Incision' in 2024. Co-Poetry Editor @brokenspinearts.bsky.social
Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social Poet. Living in Wisconsin. Author of Without a Prayer.
www.scottmcconnaha.com
Kevin Kane (fine art) ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ @kevin2kane.bsky.social Portrait artist, leftie, queer.
Elizabeth Gibson (they/them) ๐ @grizonne.bsky.social Queer, neurodivergent Manchester poet, performer, zine-maker, and workshop facilitator ๐ Poems in Atrium, Banshee, Butcher's Dog, Dust, Magma, The North, Under the Radar. First collection, 'A love the weight of an animal', out now with Confingo ๐
Malachy Moran @malformed-poetry.bsky.social Poet. ๐บ๐ธ immigrant in ๐ณ๐ด Writing something every day, even if itโs bad. My work is available in Rattle: Poetry, The Brussels Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, and others. My poetry has also been featured on Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
Erik Schuckers @erikjs.bsky.social Queer writer. Eldergoth. Fan of horror, torch songs, & fried mushrooms. He/him. https://sevenkitchenspress.com/keystone-chapbook-series/erik-schuckers-pretty-boys-in-trouble/
Caroline Bracken @carolinebracken.bsky.social Irish poet Winner Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition 2024 'Boy, Mother' published by Smith Doorstop
https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/boy-mother/
Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social Poet | First collection, โMidnight at the Saltmarshโ, published by The Gallery Press, May 2026
And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social Poetry magazine edited by Tom Bailey and Laurie Ogden.
www.andotherpoems.com
Serge โ Neptune @mermanpoet.bsky.social queer non-binary poet / baba-yaga stan / DYCP recipient / poems in Poetry Review & elsewhere / "Mother Night" @TheEmmaPress
(he/they)
www.linktr.ee/mermanpoet
Cliff Fleming (he/him) @cliffordfleming.bsky.social Writer โ๏ธ runner ๐ work in community resilience ๐ผ live in London ๐
Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social Poet.
Portrait in Mustard - Seren Books.
PhD candidate: Barbara Hepworth,
Creative Writing & Art History - MMU.
Agent: Laetitia Rutherford at WatsonLittle.
@bxngxld.bsky.social @bxngxld.bsky.social 
Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social Author: The Ghost Lake
Poet: Blackbird Singing at Dusk
Editor: Spelt Magazine
https://linktr.ee/wendypratt
Peter @peter.polari.com Founder of @polari.press queer publisher and design studio. Using this as a personal/professional account so let's see how that goes (expect mild chaos). ๐ณ๏ธโ๐โฎ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐
polari.com
The Aftershock Review (Max Wallis) @maxwallis.bsky.social ๐ Max Wallis | Author of the Polari Prize-shortlisted Modern Love (2011) & Everything Everything (2016).
๐๏ธ Poems in The Rialto, Poetry Scotland, Spectator
โ๏ธ Freelance journalist (The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph).
๐ Gay, disabled, survivor.
Rough Diamond Poetry @rough-diamond1.bsky.social Rough Diamond is an online and in print poetry journal. roughdiamondpoems@gmail.com
EIC - Charlotte Cosgrove
http://ko-fi.com/roughdiamond open for subs
Pascale Petit ๐ฟ๐
๐ฑ๐๐ฟ๐ฆ @pascalepetit.bsky.social BEAST April 2025 (Bloodaxe),โTiger Girlโ shortlisted Forward Prize, โMama Amazonicaโ won Ondaatje & Laurel prizes. 1st novel โMy Hummingbird Fatherโ from Salt 2024 http://www.pascalepetit.co.uk
Faversham Literary Festival @favlit.org Book talks. In a brewery!
10-days of author talks and book events taking place annually in a Kentish medieval market town
20 Feb โ 1 Mar 2026
Sign up for the festival newsletter to hear news about what's coming!
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
Em Gray @em-words.bsky.social She/her. Poet. Words in The Forward Book of Poetry, Propel, Mslexia, Strix, Arachne Press, Modron & more.๐ฑFTA. Dyspraxia. Foxes.
The Prose Poem @theprosepoem.bsky.social An online journal of prose poetry.
Ekphrastic poetry call open until 15 December.
https://theprosepoem.com/
Petra Kamula @petrakamula.bsky.social poet, editor, sea-witch, mother
Poet, writer, artist. @helenfinney.bsky.social Reader, writer, cat lover, great cook, diver, traveller.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21667081.Helen_Finney
Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social Poet, Editor, Educator & Performer.
Sixth pamphlet โPatient L1โ out Feb 2025.
Debut collection with Out-Spoken Press, Feb 2026.
https://linkin.bio/simonmaddrell
fourteen poems @fourteenpoems.bsky.social Queer poetry publisher!
๐ซ anthologies 3x year
๐ณ issue 15 out now
๐ pamphlets from emerging writers
๐ฅ๏ธ online chats and readings
Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social Author of RAINBOW TRAP and QUEER DATA ๐ Researching LGBTQ data at the University of Edinburgh ๐ he/him/his โก๏ธ linktr.ee/kevinguyan
William Hussey @whusseyauthor.bsky.social Award-winning author of the SCOTT JERICHO thrillers (KILLING JERICHO; JERICHOโS DEAD; BURYING JERICHO) and YA novels, including THE BOY I LOVE, BROKEN HEARTS AND ZOMBIE PARTS, and THE OUTRAGE among others
https://linktr.ee/williamhusseyauthor
Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social Your Party MP for Coventry South ๐น
coventrysouth@parliament.uk
Promoted by Zarah Sultana at CWU South Midlands, Coventry, CV1 3EG
Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Will Tosh @willtosh.bsky.social โญ๏ธDirector of Education at Shakespeareโs Globe
๐Author of STRAIGHT ACTING, and repโd by Eleanor Birne at RCW
๐จ๐ผโโค๏ธโ๐จ๐ป Hitched to @pierstorday.bsky.social
๐ https://linktr.ee/willtosh3
๐ https://lnk.to/StraightActing-HB
Liam Bates @liambatespoet.bsky.social Funded PhD student @ MMU (ecopoetry, friendship & the more-than-human city)/ Northern Writersโ Award winner/ Human Townsperson (Broken Sleep Books)
www.liambatespoet.com
Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social he/him. associate prof, poet, writer, host of โbooks up closeโ and coeditor of seaford review journal ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐ต๐ธ
https://linktr.ee/chrislloyd
Troy Cabida @troycabida.bsky.social NEON MANILA (Nine Arches Press, 2025)
Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social Working Class Poet/Writer | Publisher of @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social | The Working Classic (2023, the87press) | Awen Medal | Stroke Survivor | he/him | Agent: Kate Rizzo (Greene & Heaton)
Writing East Midlands @writingeastmidlands.com Supports, develops and champions writers from the East Midlands - supported by Arts Council England.
linktr.ee/writingeastmidlands
Polis Loizou ๐บ @polisloizou.bsky.social Writer, performer, storyteller, both bi and curious โข A GOOD YEAR (Fairlight Moderns) ๐ โข East Med to East Mids ๐จ๐พ๐ฌ๐ง (he/him)
http://linktr.ee/polisloizou
Jason Why @londonpoets.bsky.social This year weโre organising two book fairs: the Mayfair Mini Book Fair on 7 March and the Multicultural Book Fair on 5 September. Both offer a full day of readings and author talks โ and both are completely free to attend.
The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk Independent poetry press + cultural review platform. We publish narrative-led work with edge. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs
#PromoteIndieLit
Edited by @alanparrywriter.co.uk
www.thebrokenspine.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/brokenspinearts
The Common @commonmag.bsky.social The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, poetry, and art with a modern sense of place. Based at Amherst College, we highlight writers and work from around the world.
Narrative @narrativemag.bsky.social Non-profit publisher of fiction, poetry, essays & art. Since 2003, where readers, writers, teachers & students meet. Our free library is always open.
narrativemagazine.com
Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social โ #ForgottenPoets & #ForgottenPrints โ Pre-1930s poetry & art โ Edited by Dick Whyte #dwpoems โ https://forgottenpoets.substack.com
โ Poetry New Zealand โ
#PoetryAotearoa
โ Forgotten Press โ
https://linktr.ee/forgottenpoets
After Dinner Conversationยฎ @afterdinnerconversation.com Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers.
Links: https://bio.site/afterdinner
Ana @jaiycon258.bsky.social Social justice. Politics. Writing. Poetry. Ocean swimming. Tea. Silliness. ASD/Gifted. Just be kind. #auspol
Mark Ward @dogwithoutlegs.bsky.social Poet. Books: Real Estate (@salmonpoetry 2026), Nightlight (@salmonpoetry 2023). Pamphlet: Masters (@TheEmmaPress, 2025) ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ https://linktr.ee/markwardpoet
Frances โPoet Laureate of the Robot Allianceโ 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
Ghost City Press @ghostcitypress.bsky.social Mostly a poetry press โข Home of the annual Summer Micro-Chapbook Series
www.ghostcitypress.com
Kevin Bertolero @kevinbertolero.bsky.social ๐Portland, ME โข boxd.it/nNQH
Editor @andchangepoetry.bsky.social
Publisher @ghostcitypress.bsky.social
& Change @andchangepoetry.bsky.social A publisher of gay poetry
www.andchangepoetry.com
Dave Obscur | ๐ฎ Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave @daveyblahblah.bsky.social Probably talking about ARTPOP or Final Fantasy. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ฎ
Also @DaveyBlahBlah on Twitter
๐Birmingham
Wendell @rhodetolove.bsky.social gay boy
letterboxd.com/manilanight
Polari Press @polari.press Queer publishing and design studio. Not affiliated with any other Polari-named things.
polari.press | polari.com
Piero Toto @pierototo.bsky.social ๐ฉ๐จ๐๐ญ | ๐๐ | ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐จ๐ซ | ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ข๐
https://about.me/pierototo
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