JR Fenn @jrfenn.bsky.social Writer, teacher, parent, dreamer | TINY VESSELS out from Red Mare Press | Words in or forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Orion's Belt, DIAGRAM, Split Lip, Witness, Boston Review, Gulf Coast | Ucross Fellow | Syracuse MFA | Prof at SUNY ESF | www.jrfenn.com
Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop @pvww.bsky.social Literary arts organization based in Western MA (and virtually), founded by writer @joybaglio.bsky.social! We host writing workshops, craft classes, readings, & events with authors of all genres!
www.PioneerValleyWriters.org
Beach Sloth @beachsloth.bsky.social Support Each Other
Music Blogger
Writer
Poet
https://beachsloth.substack.com/
Z.H. (Burial Magazine) @burialmagazine.bsky.social still bipolar | burialmagazine.neocities.org | thezhcorner.neocities.org | Orley Farm on xbox | much more active elsewhere
Doom Lover ( Has a New Record and It's Out Now) @doom-lover.bsky.social www.doomlover.com
Boston's Most Strange and Patient Band
More of a pop band than you're thinking, but still a band with three guitars.
Return to Mighty Moon OUT NOW!
contact: wearedoomlover@gmail.com
Vickie Hinkley @vickiehinkley.bsky.social "Is HE DEAD yet?" asked Piglet
Spelling/Typos DISOBEY in Advance
Former CA Banker
Former WA Regenerative Livestock Farmer
Banker to Pig Farmer
Volunteer Cook for Homeless food group
'91 Dodge packed 'n ready to GO
Mississippi #DATACenter heat signature
Jack Rainfield - Analog Artist @jackrainfield.bsky.social Sharing my love of art with the good people on Bluesky. #figurativeart #OilPainting #Impressionism #Art https://x.com/Art_Lives_On
periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social est. March 2020 : editor/publisher rob mclennan https://bsky.app/profile/robmclennan.bsky.social
built as a curious extension of above/ground press (b. 1993
https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/
member of Literary Magazines Canada Collective,
Charlotte Strawbridge @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social #Artist based in #Scotland • #Painter oils of nature, wildlife, light • #Writer #WhenBeastsSpoke stories and thoughts inspired by animals I paint, trying to listen to what they’d like to teach us.
www.CharlotteStrawbridge.co.uk/art
Simon Okotie @simonokotie.bsky.social Essayistic novelist (and vice versa). The Absalon novels are published by Salt: ‘Fiction as original as this deserves a long shelf life.’ (London Review of Books). The Future of the Novel is published by Melville House.
Thomas Sheridan @thomassheridan.bsky.social Fantasy writer. Working on a literary dark fantasy about fear, responsibility, and the Dead. M.Phil in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin
https://linktr.ee/Thomas_Sheridan
Anna Shelton @annashelton.bsky.social Mum of 3, teacher, writer, editor. My pamphlet was longlisted in the Disabled Poets Prize 2025. Poems in @AfterPoetry @PropelMagazine @Covenpoetry @streetcakemag @SidhePress Performed my song Black Fen Club Blues at the Cambridge Folk Festival. 
Clodagh Moynan @clodaghmoynan.bsky.social 
Ronan O’Hanlon @roohanlo.bsky.social Iarrthóir PhD sa fhealsúnacht agus sa litríocht in Ollscoil na Gaillimhe - PhD candidate in philosophy and literature at the University of Galway
Kit Fryatt @kitfryatt.bsky.social diminuitivegiant smallsmallth
Books:
forthcoming: All Things That Are Passing, with Ellen Dillon (Spite Press, 2026)
Book of Inversions, with Harry Gilonis,(Veer2, 2025)
Bodyservant (Shearsman, 2018)
JUNCTION READS @junctionreads.bsky.social Toronto Reading Series
September 13: Dina Del Bucchia (virtual)
📚📇
www.junctionreads.ca
Opinions shared are Alison's.
SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social Reluctant non-smoker
Author of Hotel Almighty 
Ciarán Walsh @ciaranwalsh.bsky.social Artist | Arts Management * Germany & Ireland. Currently working for Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
ciaranwalsh.studio
Brenda Romero @brendaromero.bsky.social Studio Director @ Romero Games. Writer @ The Stinging Fly, TOLKA, The Dublin Review and more. Metalhead. Nerd.
Tina O'Toole @isdoighliom.bsky.social Reader, writer, teacher of literature @unioflimerick.bsky.social. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Irreverent Cherrycoke @kralikbskysocial.bsky.social Dubliner in Prague.
Love, football, the arts, the occasional pint. 
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/
William Bryan Smith @williambryansmith.bsky.social Novelist/Writer. MFA in creative writing, Bennington College.
Author of Free Range Men (Mint Hill Books) and We Are Smoke (Carmelite Books)
https://www.williambryansmith.com/
Barry O'Halpin @barryohalpin.bsky.social Composer, Guitarist, Arranger in Dublin.
Member of @crashensemble.bsky.social
and @alarmistband.
Header image by @rouzbehrashidi. Headshot by @meghyland
https://barryohalpin.bandcamp.com/album/stonemired
www.barryohalpin.com
Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social Irish poet living in Spain
Cacti & other poems
https://munsterlit.ie/bookshop/cacti/
Patrick Kavanagh Award 2021
http://iambapoet.com/wave-fourteen
Lisa Stice @lisasticepoet.bsky.social poet, mother, mil-spouse: author of 'Letters from Conflict,' 'Forces,' 'Permanent Change of Station,' 'Uniform,' 'Desert'
Dana Halliday @danahalliday.bsky.social Working in Irish book publishing | Part-time writer | Full-time hoarder of books
Anne-Marie Creamer @amcreamer.bsky.social Exploring the interstitial spaces of #Artist-Researcher-Patient. Or, knowing from the body’s edge lands
Dear Friend -Soane Museum
R&D 🗣️Ghostbodies
IRL-Lived Experience Lab UAL
Better Making CSM
EURORDIS xERDERA Open Academy
https://amcreamer.net
@seanhiggins.bsky.social @seanhiggins.bsky.social 
Vicki Kaye @vickikaye.bsky.social writer and visual artist. Poetry pamphlet ‘Fractured Light’ pub. by Sampson Low Press 2002.
Gary Finnegan - writer @finnegag.bsky.social Winner: Frazzled Lit Short Story Awards
Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award
Dennis O'Driscoll Literary Award
2x Pushcart Prize noms 2025
Non-fiction: Beijing for Beginners (Liffey Press)
Novel in progress
The Lonely Crowd @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social Literary journal — thelonelycrowd.org
https://linktr.ee/thelonelycrowd
Red Rite Hand @redritehand.bsky.social Switzerland by way of Monaghan. Reader, writer, idler.
Writer of Small Victories: The True Story of Faith No More
and Red Rite Hand OUT NOW
James Lee @jamesleeauthor.bsky.social British writer drifting around Cambridge like Byron's ghost. ✨️ https://linktr.ee/jamesleeuk
Richard Skinner @richardnskinner.bsky.social Novelist, poet, essayist. Director @FaberAcademy • Founder #VanguardEditions • Editor #14magazine.
Most recent publication: ‘Crossing Paths’ (Poetry) (Black Cat, 2026).
Lourda Delaney @lourda.bsky.social Writer, Crafter & Cat Lover
MA in Creative Writing, University College Dublin 
Martin Horn @martinhorn.bsky.social 
Karen Massey @karenemassey.bsky.social Poet & artisan. Lives in Ottawa, Canada on unceded Algonquin Anishinabe territory.
3 chapbooks from above/ground press Ottawa
2020 ARC Diana Brebner Award winner
2024 Finalist MIPP; Longlist 3-Day Novel Contest
karenmassey.wordpress.com
Ann Marie @annmariedunne.bsky.social Poet, love books, boats, and hikes
Chris Fite-Wassilak @cfitewassilak.bsky.social writer, critic, editor, mycelial juicebag; writing nonfic book on cheese & hygiene. Associate Editor ArtReview; tutor RCA MA Writing, ‘23-24 London Library Emerging Writer. Books: Ha-Ha Crystal (Copy Press, 2016), The Artist in Time (Bloomsbury, 2020)
KM Elkes @kmelkes.bsky.social Author. Ginger. Potty mouth. #workingclasswriter Award-winning short fiction writer. Editing debut novel. Also writing tutor & editor.
http://linktr.ee/kmelkes
https://kmelkes.substack.com- H @handle.invalid @handle.invalid
Claire Murray @drclairemurray.com Irish scientist living in Berlin. Loves tea, travelling and the science. Occasional #Gaeilgeoir. Opinions mine. She/Her
https://drclairemurray.com/
Tadhg Ó hErodáin / Tim Heron @timheron.bsky.social Associate professor in Irish & British studies at Strasbourg university. Secretary of @SOFEIR.
SOFEIR @sofeir.bsky.social Société Française d'Etudes Irlandaises - French Society for Irish Studies. La SOFEIR fédère les chercheur·euses qui travaillent en France sur l’Irlande.
EFACIS @efacis.bsky.social The European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies (EFACIS) seeks to promote interest in and support the expansion of Irish Studies throughout Europe.
https://www.efacis.eu/
Laura Davis @lauradavispoems.bsky.social Poet and textile artist https://poetry.lauradavis.eu My pamphlet of text and textile poems "Have Needle, Will" is out with Moormaid Press 
Tom Shiels @itstomshiels.bsky.social Writer of reflective essays on memory, music, and place. Attempting to live slower in the middle of the chaos. Irish living in West Yorkshire.
https://storiessongsseasons.substack.com
Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social Makes poetry in multi-modes. Tenter (2020), Enclosures (2021), The Sleeping Place (2023), wastelands (forthcoming, Guillemot Press, 2025)
K Weber @midwesternskirt.bsky.social poetry, collaboration & sometimes digital photo collage. 12 self-published poetry collections (FREE/some in audio format!). kweberandherwords.com
Jennifer Lynn @terpsichoredubh.bsky.social Latina at large in Co Wicklow 🇵🇸
Salvadoran-Amer. Irish by Association. Writer. 'There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried.'
Andrew Lennon @aplennon.bsky.social You had me at hello world! Wannabe writer, lover of all things tech, and fan of an Oxford comma.
Turnaround Books @turnarounduk.bsky.social Book distributors for US & UK indie publishers including fiction, art, graphic novels, and everything in-between! Impudently independent since 1984 & employee-owned since 2022. 📚
https://linktr.ee/turnaround_books?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAab4W9C8mGvdr0Z
Max Phillips @signaltype.bsky.social Awful person
https://signalfoundry.com/
Ali Maria @alimariaart.bsky.social Writer and artist in training ☀️
Mum of a dog and a cat 💛
In love with @hctr.dev
oritgat.bsky.social @oritgat.bsky.social I write about art and now also football
www.oritgat.com
Niall McCormack @hitoneie.bsky.social Illustrator / Designer of book covers and record sleeves
Bobby Seal @bobbyseal.bsky.social psychogeographicreview.com
writing on the margins
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.
Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social Magazine & Press edited by @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @petermcallister.bsky.social | short fiction | flash | non-fiction | concrete, vispo, experimental | prose, poetry & hybrid chapbooks
https://inkfishmag.com
Morgan @morgannrose95.bsky.social I’m so happy you are here. Writing, motherhood, mental health, and more.
mel bartlett 🍉🇵🇸 @melbartlett.bsky.social kentucky-brewed, barrel-aged, 100 proof.
ROPES issue #33, Harrow House Journal #2
she/they | 27 | 🏳️🌈 | poetry + fiction writer | illustrator
CCAD BFA Animation '21
NUIG MA Writing '24-'25
Ewan Morrison @mrewanmorrison.bsky.social Author of How To Survive Everything + Nina X.
New novel: FOR EMMA. March 2025.
Essays on http://ewanmorrison.substack.com
Website: ewanmorrison.com
Cécile Archives @cecilearchives.bsky.social Senior Archivist at Military Archives of Ireland
Director @MSP-Archive.bsky.social
🇨🇵🇮🇪 🇪🇺
- LLM University of Galway
- Blue Shield Ireland @blueshield-ireland.bsky.social
- Transitional Justice, CPP, Human Rights, Conflict and Archives
Colmcille Press @colmcille.bsky.social Publishing house in northwest Ireland, celebrating 1500 years of great writing from Derry and Donegal. Gaeilge agus fáilte.
SUMMER 2025: The Handy Wee Guide to Derry (digital edition) is available for just a quid from: colmcillepress.com
Eva @evaduffy.bsky.social UK-based Dubliner 🇮🇪
Bookworm
Head of communications- chartered CIPR communicator - former journalist
Graham @onalifeglug.bsky.social Writer: Shock Doctrine of the Left (Polity) and Red Enlightenment (don't buy, boycotting publisher's owner re:Palestine) https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-shock-doctrine-of-the-left--9781509528547
JMWW Journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social jmww (https://jmwwblog.wordpress.com/guidelines/), a weekly journal publishing the best in fiction, poetry, flash, essays, and interviews. Our stories have appeared in Best American Essays, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, BIFFY, and Best of Net.
Eoin Flannery @eoinflannery.bsky.social Associate Professor of English Literature at @micireland.bsky.social
Poems @eatthestorms.com @thebelfastreview.bsky.social @theargylelitmag.bsky.social @hogriverpress.bsky.social @juniperpoetry.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
Siobhan McGee @siobhanmcgee.bsky.social 
Brian Wood-Koiwa @woodkoiwa.bsky.social Tokyo based dark fantasy novelist and editor. Co-founder of Urban Writing Haus https://urbanweird.com/studios.
Story Kraken Author Coaching: https://bwkeditorial.com/story-kraken
Serial novel newsletter: https://urbanweirdchronicles.substack.com
Fearghaloc @fearghaloc.bsky.social Business writer at the Sunday Independent. Dublin.
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
Andrew Hodgson @andrewhodgson.bsky.social Writing in various capacities, based at Université Paris Cité
www.andrewhodgson.fr
Literature Ireland @literatureireland.bsky.social Literature Ireland is the national agency in Ireland for the promotion of Irish literature abroad.
Funded by Culture Ireland & The Arts Council.
https://www.literatureireland.com/
Structo @structo.bsky.social A literary magazine and small press.
structomagazine.co.uk
Bristol Short Story Prize @bristolshortstory.bsky.social The Bristol Short Story Prize is an international writing competition hosted by the Department of English at the University of Bristol.
https://bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Irish Film Institute @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social The Home of Film in Ireland.
A historic 3-screen cinema in the heart of Temple Bar, with Ireland's only 70mm projector 🎞
Visit http://ifi.ie + watch online via http://ifiarchiveplayer.ie and https://www.ifihome.ie
Charity Number: 20021429
Mariah Feria @mariahferia.bsky.social Writer and reader. Amateur baker of bread.
Dr. Barry Houlihan @barryhoulihan.bsky.social Archivist at University of Galway.
Research on Irish theatre, memory, conflict, and digital cultures.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-74548-6
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com Writer, poet, creative thinker & architect for democracy / Sgrìobhadair, bàrd, neach-smaoineachaidh cruthachail agus ailtire airson deamocrasaidh | Aotearoa & Isle of Skye | https://urbanbadgercollective.com/links/
Elizabeth O’Connell-Thompson @eotwrites.bsky.social One of those poets.
Senior editor @rhinopoetry.bsky.social
Views are my own, and maybe a bit like yours.
https://linktr.ee/EOTwrites
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
BookBlast® Official @bookblast.org Championing world literature since 1997. Book Club @hatchards piccadilly; reviews, interviews, podcasts by publishing insider Georgia DC & friends & special events. Instagram @bookblastofficial www.linktr.ee/bookblast Accept no imitations
Kildare Readers Festival @kildarereaders.bsky.social Books, talks and good vibes 📖
Every October in County Kildare
#KildareReadersFestival #KRF2025
HOWL New Irish Writing @howlwriting.bsky.social New Irish writing from home and abroad | Subs now closed | https://linktr.ee/howlwriting
Jonathan Woods @jonathanwwoods.bsky.social Operations manager, @c20society.bsky.social
Editor
Here for theatre, books, art and food
London
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
The Indignataries @wildergoose.bsky.social You don't have to look up the word "biome" to know we're all connected. Science, science fiction writer. Music and book reviews. Music on co-operatively owned Subvert and (for now) Bandcamp.
Harper Dent @harperdent.bsky.social Writer of speculative fiction. Loves nature, dogs and chocolate. She/them
Eleanor Fuller @eleanorfuller.bsky.social Winner Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction 2023; finalist Fiddlehead Short Fiction Prize 2023 & Cambridge Short Story Prize 2024. Edith Wharton WiR 2024. Words: The Waxed Lemon, The Moth, Malahat, The New Quarterly & other lovelies. CCA-funded sabbatical!
gorse journal @gorsejournal.bsky.social Art in words | Journal | Publisher (Gorse Editions) | New issues: gorse 12: Language; gorse 13: Taboo | Forthcoming: gorse 14: Form | Gorse Editions 3: New Green Fool by Alan Cunningham | Funded by Arts Council Ireland | http://gorse.ie
Hongwei Bao (he/him) @queercomrades.bsky.social Queer Chinese writer and academic based in the UK; author of The Passion of the Rabbit God (Valley Press), Self-Portrait as a Banaba (Poetic Edge) and Queering the Asian Diaspora (Sage).
Jeanne-Marie Fleming @jeannemariefleming.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Editor. Mentor for incarcerated citizens. Here for all of it. www.jeannemariefleming.com
Jon Chaiim McConnell @jonmcconn.bsky.social writer | etc
https://linktr.ee/jonmcconn
mark leidner @markleidner.bsky.social new book of poems “Elegy for Pangaea” out 9/15/26. pre-order here: https://fonografeditions.com/catalog/fono-46-elegy-for-pangea-by-mark-leidner
Joseph Grantham @josephgrantham.bsky.social wrote Tom Sawyer and Raking Leaves
editing R&R: https://www.relegationbooks.com/journal/
https://southwestreview.com/volume-108-number-1/finder/
https://archwayeditions.us/three-poems-by-joseph-grantham/
Kevin Maloney @kevinmaloney.net Author of HORSE GIRL FEVER, THE RED-HEADED PILGRIM & CULT OF LORETTA. Co-founder & fiction editor: @poolpartymag.com. Married to @femmeintheory.bsky.social
shy watson 𓅯 @formermissnj.bsky.social can u hear me
sign up for (free) newsletter + links to writing @ www.shywatson.com
Dylan Smith @dylansmith.bsky.social writer/gardener working in brooklyn | serialized long story: @farewelltransmiss | reader: @xraylitmag
Babak Lakghomi @babaklak.bsky.social Author of SOUTH (2023, Dundurn Press) and Floating Notes (2018, Tyrant Books) https://linktr.ee/babakl