PoetryID @poetryid.bsky.social The North Hertfordshire stanza of The Poetry Society.
https://poetryid.wordpress.com/
Posts by David Birkett
Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social Early modernist and Research Fellow in French at KCL
Writes on salons, exiles, libertinism, queer women, Huguenots ~ she/her
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/annalisa-nicholson
Bryan Talbot @bryan-talbot.bsky.social The official Bryan Talbot account, writer and artist of comics, graphic novels and illustrations.
Managed by James Robertson at https://bsky.app/profile/brumguvnor.bsky.social
Official fanpage at https://www.bryan-talbot.com/
Use #BryanTalbot to tag art.
Ashley R Pollard @ashleyrpollard.bsky.social Past: FASA freelance writer, CB psychotherapist
Present: SF writer, model-maker, painter, wargamer
Future: I have no idea what the future holds
リアルロボ mecha ミニチュアゲーム
https://linktr.ee/ARP6Actual
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com If you’re reading this, you’re in the right place.
Beautiful books you won't forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Victor Kisob @victorkisob.bsky.social Awe-struck vision,
Blind to derision,
Panic lesions,
Mindful excision.
Poet, Author, Artist, Photographer, former UN Assistant Secretary-General
©️Victor Kisob [poetry, paintings & photos]
Clover @cswinton.bsky.social Writer, artist and cat-wrangler
Colossive Press @colossive.com Wildly eclectic small press/zine publisher, based in Penge, SE London; keepers of the Gordon Gibbens photo archive; guerrilla historians of Croydon Spaceport; proud to support St Christopher's hospice
Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.com Fan Writer.
@nerdsofafeather.bsky.social Editor (HUGO WINNER)
@skiffyandfanty.com
& much more!
Part of @edmontonin2030.bsky.social bid.
I was AH #Photography at @laworldcon.bsky.social
Podcaster. #ttrpg I'm just this guy, you know? He/him
Strange Worlds of Jason Kilgore - Author @worldskilgore.bsky.social (he/him) Author who transports you to strange worlds of #fantasy, #paranormal / #horror, #scifi, #poetry. Loves chocolate & cats. http://linktr.ee/WorldsKilgore
🚫No AI
** NO, I DON'T WANT TO HIRE YOU FOR MY WRITING STUFF **
Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social I write sometimes
www.rabihalameddine.com
𝘋𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴 @d21p22.bsky.social 🌺 #FlowersOnSunday my feel-good place with my BlueSky besties 👯♀️
🔝 https://bsky.app/profile/d21p22.bsky.social/post/3kwolcetsrg2q 🌹
„Dream more, learn more, care more, and be more.“ - Dolly Parton 👼
🎼 "F- the patriarchy," - Taylor Swift 🎧 #myPlaylistToGo
John Kenny @johnkenny13.bsky.social Poetry: New Irish Writing, Live Encounters, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, The Madrid Review, Flare, The High Window, Poem Alone, Poems for Protest, Smashing Times, StepAway Magazine.
Fiction: The Galway Review, Revival, Emerald Eye, Albedo One.
Lou Nicholls @loujnicholls.bsky.social 🌿 Gardener & Creator
Pro gardener • Horti trainer • Speaker
Cut flowers • Walled & edible gardens 🌸🥬
Garden tips, seasonal advice & soil magic ✨
👇 Learn, grow, get inspired
www.linktr.ee/loujnicholls
Paul Lucas @plucas.bsky.social Writer and illustrator of scifi, fantasy, and erotica. Will post both mainstream and nsfw material. All creative work posted here is100% Human-Made. No AI! https://subscribestar.adult/plucas
Sloth & Envy Press @slothandenvy.com Small press. Fantasy, romance, horror. MN. Lots of swearing. Our handle is fubar until I fix the website issue so:
https://malloryglass.com/press-kit
We'd be deadlier if we weren't so lazy. Maybe.
Susan Knecht Author @susankne.bsky.social Novelist. New literary thriller forthcoming October 2025 from #seacrowpress!
www.susanknechtauthor.com
https://linktr.ee/sknecht
No DM’s please
SciTeacher @simiisme.bsky.social Mum, wife, Teacher, Equalities Champion. Loves: coffee, books, sunflowers, corvids, tea, dinosaurs, bats & seahorses. #UKTeaching #UKEd #EduSky She/her DMs may be ignored unless you're a: woman, gay man, fossil or moss enthusiast, talking about Science
Vera Brook @verabrook.bsky.social Neuroscientist turned science fiction & fantasy #writer. Stories in Analog, Escape Pod, Cast of Wonders, Utopia SF, Radon. BSFA & BFS member. Based in Edinburgh. verabrook.com. she/her
Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social Multi awards-shortlisted SFFH & non-fic author. Editor & typesetter. SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES 3 now in the wild! https://linktr.ee/tiffaniangusauthor Leftie, feminist, ex academic, ally, anti-AI. she/her. Now 🇬🇧 was 🇺🇸
Juliet Wilson (Crafty Green Poet) @craftygreenpoet.bsky.social Adult Education Tutor, Poet, Short Story writer, Wildlife Surveyor, Conservation Volunteer. Edinburgh, Scotland
Blog: http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com
Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CraftyGreenMagpie
Substack: https://craftygreenpoet.substack.com
Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social Thomas - poet and ecologist- plants, climate change, human geography. He/him and she/her. Buy my chapbook! https://bottlecap.press/products/causes
Prof. Gregory S. Gordon @profgsgordon.bsky.social Peking University STL, international criminal law (ICL) expert, biographer of Nuremberg prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz, leading authority on atrocity speech/incitement law, consultant on ICL speech-related crimes arising from Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine
Bookman 📚 @bookman.bsky.social Been reviewing books for more than 40 years (Booklist, the Winnipeg Free Press, others). Former radio playwright. Bookseller. Amateur smart-ass, hoping to turn pro. Bridgewater, Nova Scotia.
Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social Author, punster, baseball fan, whisky lover, cocktail maker. Limericks happen here. Written on the Dark now released in paperback, Canada, U.S., U.K. Print, ebook, audiobook.
JamesM @writerjamesm.bsky.social Poet. Horror writer. Macabre. Ghosts. Supernatural. General weird stuff. I never know what the story is going to be until it's done. 
Lothlorien Poetry Journal @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction and art.
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines.html
James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social Poet, apparently. Forward Prize, BOTN and Pushcart nom. Occasional horseman, remote rural Spain. Words in blackbough, iambapoet, eatthestorms, Modron, Madrid Review, Bad Lilies, Dark Mountain project and more.
https://linktr.ee/jamesmcconachiepoet
Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social Poet. #ReadMorePoetry Collections: Crown of Eggshell, In the Shadow of Gods @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. Literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering
https://ko-fi.com/kofisupporter68929
Skye Balou @skyebalou.bsky.social 🇺🇦🦋 #LocalHero Brit Awake
Likes: kindness & countryside; music & morality; decency & dunes; humour & hope, hopefully knowing when alliteration must simply stop
Dislikes: The obvious really. The antithesis of the above. Climate change denial/doomism is top.
Judith Nangala Crispin @judithnangala.bsky.social Poet & visual artist on unceded Yuin Walbunga Country in Australia. Afterlife portraits of animals & birds. Alternative darkroom with drawing & painting. Grainger Gallery and Anima Mundi. Poetry collections with Puncher & Wattmann. Member of FNAWN & Oculi.
Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA | Global Indigenous Horror (UPM, 2025) | Poetry Editor Orion’s Belt | Words in Future Fire, UtopiaSF, Space&Time, Lovecraftiana | EIC @katabaticcircus.bsky.social co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social
Assaph Mehr 📚⚔️🕵️👻🏺🏛️🤖 @assaph.bsky.social Author of Murder In Absentia, an historical-fantasy murder-mystery in a quasi-Roman Ancient World (see http://egretia.com); Mad genius behind http://TheProtagonistSpeaks.com
Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org We use the law to resist hate and bring hope. Injustice is not inevitable.
Support us: https://goodlaw.social/donate-bsky
Promoted by Good Law Project Ltd, 3 East Point, High Street, Seal, TN15 0EG
Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social The Boy From the Sea is out now and translated into over a dozen languages. “Full of lightly worn wisdom and wit. It is a joy" – Sunday Times. www.garrettcarr.net
Michael S Collins @pseudlit.bsky.social Glasgow writer/editor/teller of terrible jokes, mostly knackered.
Jo Beckford @jodiebeckford.bsky.social Writer of fiction that is somewhere between cosy and spooky. Also an artist and illustrator. Book designer. Academic on the down low. Avid hiker and lover of animals. Eater of plants. I drink tea by the pint. Will do many things for a Jammy Dodger.
Winter @luridcontext.bsky.social Mecha lover, toy photographer, former journalist, heavy machine operator, asian/slavic (she/her)
E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com Award-winning Scottish science fiction & fantasy writer. Podcastle, Strange Horizons, Shoreline of Infinity, ParSec, Best of British SF. More: emfaulds.com NEW HANDLE, bethkesh will still work.
#scruffyGarden
Runs @bibliotta.bsky.social
S. Naomi Scott ⚧️💙 @naomi72.bsky.social A sci-fi and fantasy writer and former member of the Campaign Trail podcast who just happens to be a trans woman. She/her.
The Last Jager out now : https://books2read.com/thelastjager
Links : https://linktr.ee/snaomiscott
Chris Ford, MD FACEP @doc4ord.bsky.social Emergency Room Doctor in need of more relaxing hobbies 😄
🎧 Host of the podcast Pulse Check WI (https://pulsecheckwi.com) 🎙️
https://bsky.app/profile/pulsecheckwi.bsky.social
#Democracy #HealthCareForAll #FairMaps #ReproductiveRights
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.
Cllr Salman Shaheen @salmanshaheen.bsky.social Author of bestselling novel Freebourne. Cabinet Member for Environment, Transport & Public Realm on Hounslow Council. CEO of Carter Fleet. Journalist. FRSA
Promoted by Ted Wall on behalf of Hounslow Labour cllrs
Gareth Prior @garethprior.bsky.social Poet. By day, Bursar at St Hugh’s College, Oxford.
Pages & Tea @pagesandtea.bsky.social Books, reading, reviews...
Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social Writer. University Lecturer. North Cornwall Book Festival Director.
Editor & Co-founder at @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social.
Tom Clews (He/Him) @misanthromantic.bsky.social Nemophilist, Goblin, Swordsman, Socialist. 36 summers to my name, here to learn interesting things, shoot the shit and have a space to just be myself.
Pfp alt text: an image of myself (headshot) close up, looking at the camera.
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Happy to receive simple work queries here; anything more involved contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him
Maple Mystery Games @maplemysterygames.bsky.social I'm Jan & I write scripted, downloadable murder mystery games. 11 fun themes. I love connecting with fellow writers & creatives.
Games are easy to run; host plays too; clues ARE there; high-quality printable kits. No DMs.
https://maplemysterygames.com
Hannah Sheppard @hannahlitagent.bsky.social Founder and Literary Agent at www.HS-LA.com @HSLANews.bsky.social
#WeNeedDiverseBooks.
Story lover. Vintage typewriter obsessed. Feminist. She/Her/Ms
https://linktr.ee/hannah_litagent
Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social Professor of English & Scottish Literature, Head of School, Critical Studies, University of Glasgow.
Research working-class literature & Romantic-period cultures.
Editor, John Clare Society Journal.
Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social Lover, and writer, of myths, folklore, legends, fables, fairy tales, sci-fi, horror and fantasy.
Scribbling spin-offs of novels I haven't written yet.
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966
| new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts |
Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social Writer. Makes books, games.
Co-founded Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Big Robot (Sir, You Are Being Hunted). Now: TEETH RPG, MILESHIPS. And https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/
email: jim at big-robot.com
Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social Essayist, Editor @ The Real Story, Winner NorthBound Book Award for COLD FISH SOUP (Saraband, 2022). BROKEN BISCUITS (HarperNorth, 2025) MD ANT Rep'd by @charlotteseymour.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/adamjfarrer
Adam Smethurst 🍉 @adamsmet66.bsky.social Thesp & Filmmaker 🎭 🎬
Green Party 🌿
Currently engaged in Canutish struggle with inevitability of walking football ⚽️
#mufc 🇾🇪
linktr.ee/AdamSmethurst
Rep: https://morwennapreston.com/contact
Shirley Day @writestuff2day.bsky.social Writer and teacher. Avid reader and film / TV lover
David Freedman @freedmanhp4.bsky.social World’s softest grandpa and worst jazz trumpeter. Cricket, rugby, music, history, books, theatre, politics and - above all - family. You’d probably describe me as woke. And if you did, that’d be OK. I was (still am, for now) @freedmanhp4 in t’other place.
John @johndeverill.bsky.social Wanderer, wonderer. Sailor, soldier. Biker. Philosopher, as are we all when we stop to think.
Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com I’ve got a beard
Books read: 89/100
📚 The Wax Child
📺 Lanterns
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
https://www.ephemeral.co.uk
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
Red Ogre Review @ogre.red We're an indie arts press:
https://ogre.red
Submissions:
https://redogrereview.submittable.com/submit
Books:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CH3QKYKX?binding=paperback
Poetry readings and music:
https://www.youtube.com/@redogrereview
Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com Shirley Jackson Award-nominated EIC of @tenebrouspress.bsky.social. Dark specfic writer, Romanian folklore nerd, optimistic nihilist.
she/her
WHISPERWOOD out now
THE NIGHT SHIP out now
TATRATEA coming Oct 2026
https://linktr.ee/AlexWoodroe
JudyKeith @judykeith.bsky.social Judy and Keith create stories. We started late in life by writing for our grandkids. The stories emphasize a moral & must pass the acid test--would we be happy if our kids read it? As they got older, we progressed to action-adventure, romance and #CR4U.
Malachy Moran @malformed-poetry.bsky.social Poet. 🇺🇸 immigrant in 🇳🇴 Writing something every day, even if it’s 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
Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, new book “Britain Is Better Than This” gavinesler.substack.com
Contact: lfennimore@noelgay.com
Peter Devonald @pdevonald.bsky.social Multi award-winning poet /screenwriter | Winner Broken Spine's Reader’s Choice Award 2025 | Winner Loft Books Poetry 2024 | Winner HoHx2, Waltham Forest & FofHCS | Second Shelley Memorial & N2tS 2024 | Nominations BoNx2, Forward Prize & Children's Bafta
Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social Novelist: books 'Where the Willows End, In Red Blood' 'One of Our Own,' Poetry: 200 poems published worldwide. old friend's description of him, 'I've known this idiot most of my life.'
JackLeg Press @jacklegpress.bsky.social bold. vibrant. authentic.
www.jacklegpress.org
Query Us @ https://jacklegpress.submittable.com/submit
Indigo Bay @indigobay.bsky.social Photographer of social change for over 50 years. The more things change, the more history repeats. Are you a publisher? Let me know your image needs. No fee, just a photo credit.
More here: https://bsky.app/profile/visionsofsolitude.bsky.social
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
www.alcs.co.uk
B. F. Galligan @bfgalligan.bsky.social Nearly burnt-out humanitarian and Indie author of some potentially terrible novels that no one seems to buy. I like them: Erga Omnes, The Sovereign Citizen Series (not what you think), Lightning Daughter, and a few others that might be meh.
Sandy McIntosh @sandymcintosh.bsky.social Author of twelve volumes of poetry, a Chinese cookbook, and three computer software programs.
https://sandymcintosh.info
Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social Premier Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 🇵🇱
Prime Minister of Poland 🇵🇱
Katie Ives @katie-r-ives.bsky.social Mountain writer and editor, follower of the art of galumphing, climber against fascism. Author of Imaginary Peaks: The Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams. (she/they)
Dr Karen Jane Cannon @karenjanecannon.bsky.social Poet//Author//PhD (Ecopoetics of Place/Body) Novel: Powder Monkey (W&N & Phoenix). Poetry: The Curfew Bell & Emergency Mints. Hamish Canham Prize 2022. Bridport shortlist 2019 & 2024. New Forest Dweller. #poetry #place #nature www.karenJaneCannon.com
Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social I helped make Moon, Source Code, Warcraft, Mute and just finished making ROGUE TROOPER, out in 2026!
Also made the graphic novel MADI and the kids Stenton & Zowie.
Cormac Culkeen @cormacculkeen.bsky.social Poet, writer, devourer of books. Amused/ bemused at the state of modern life. Fond of collecting malapropisms. Founding Editor of Ragaire literary magazine. Chipping away at a novel and second poetry collection. Prizes kindness.
Marcelle Newbold @marcellenewbold.bsky.social Poet- place and inheritance, Cardiff Wales
Bridport shortlist. Poems: Poetry Wales, Propel, IS&T, Iamb, Atrium, Fly on the Wall, Black Bough, Broken Spine, Ice Floe….
https://linktr.ee/marcellenewbold
Prasoon @prasoon-nsingh.bsky.social Professional daydreamer | Part-time doer | Trying to write✍️
Beth Brooke @bethbpoet.bsky.social Poet, Quaker, retired teacher, socialist, runner (just) , proud Omi . She/her
Gavin Turner @gtwriter.bsky.social Literary speculative fiction writer exploring systems where reality, identity and consequence fail in consistent, human ways
Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social Write your way to a more positive outlook on life! Guided writing activities to foster personal growth, increased mindfulness, and emotional wellbeing. Online anywhere, and in-person in North East England. writingforwellbeing.co.uk
Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Writer
Poetry: Debut collection due Spring ‘27
(Broken Sleep Books)
Forward Prize/BOTN nominee
100+ poems in Agenda, Stand, Poetry Salzburg, Chiron Review, IS&T etc & on BBC
Charles Causley & Bridport shortlists
Prose: Orwell Prize/Bridport Novel longlists
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social An award-winning indie publisher putting creatives and readers first, with lovingly made, quality books… and a fair deal! E-shop now open on our website!
https://www.breakthroughbookcollective.com
https://linktr.ee/breakthroughbooks
Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social Saarf-Londoner. Cat Dad. Assoc Prof at the Swedish Defence University. PhD from KCL. Associate, IWM Institute. Senior fellow at Global & National Security Institute, Uni of South Florida. ex-West Point fellow. FRHistS. Series editor @Hurst Publishers
Dr Sarah Brand @sarahgailbrand.bsky.social *Trombonist
*Music Therapist in forensic
mental health services
*Absolute Shower
📍Kent, UK.
Recordings of experimental improvised music:
https://sarahgailbrand.bandcamp.com
When nothing goes right, go left.
Join a union.
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social The Galaxy's Greatest Comic - in orbit every Wednesday!
🛒 Shop: http://shop.2000ad.com
📰 Newsletter: http://2000ad.com/thrillmail
🔊 Podcast: http://2000ad.com/podcast
Sunflowers and Potatoes 🌻🏳️⚧️🥔 @sunflowertaters.bsky.social She/It. Ansyn/Ancom
Arcane vibes but with an air of girltwink mystery
https://libcom.org/library/simple-sabotage-field-manual
@chmmagazine.bsky.social @chmmagazine.bsky.social 
Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social Publishing commentator. Founder of Meet The Booktokers, As Seen On Booktok, and The Empowered Author. Trying to disrupt book publishing for 15+ years. Not easy. 
Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social Award-winning powerhouse publisher of SF 🚀 Fantasy 🧜♂️ Spec Fic ✨, and Horror 🧟 Part of Profile Books 📚 https://linktr.ee/solarisbooks
Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social Writer (Secrets of the Bees; Black Crescent, White Hare, Sea Gate, Tenth Gift etc), publisher (GRRM, Hobb, Feist, Lawrence, Heartfield, Kaner, ex Tolkien), allotmenteer. History. Morocco/Cornwall. Covid is airborne 💙📚 #Writing #Books