Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldn’t.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. 💙
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
https://www.amazon.com/Least-Weird-Person-Awake/dp/B0GT1262KP
Momo Mars @momomars.bsky.social They/them🌈 queer 🇲🇽 chicanx🍉genderfluid💖grief worker💀
Samuel Day Wharton @fakeourway.bsky.social (re)lapsed poet / winemaker / jack of some trades
mostly poetry / some wine stuff / a dog or two / hopefully not too much politics
Sacramento CA
Mat Winkelman @matwinkelman.bsky.social Handyman, veghead, indierock demsoc, prefers dogs over people, regularly suffers from debilitating ennui
Perfect God = Lexa Gates @mx-j.bsky.social https://shop.capitolmusic.com/collections/lexa-gates
Daily Submittable Deadlines @submittabledaily.bsky.social Best writing and poetry festivals to submit to each day on submittable.
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/projects
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
Victoria Dooley, MD @drdooleymd.bsky.social Your favorite Medicare For All advocate
Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
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.
https://festivalforpoetry.com
KidsWord & AllKidsBooks – Explore, Read & Share! @allkidsbooks.com 🌟 Join our vibrant community of children's book lovers!
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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com Tracking AIPAC and the entire Israel lobby’s anti-democratic influence on the United States. Donate to our PAC: Citizens Against AIPAC Corruption 🇺🇸
www.TrackAIPAC.com
Randall J. Greene @randalljgreene.bsky.social A writer, digital marketer, and spreadsheet enthusiast. Intersections: Christianity, feminism, anti-violence, and ally.
Yann Oehl @yannoehl.bsky.social creative-errant | “artist” | meta-plagiarist | bricoleur | proudly degenerate | unintentional curator | confabulator | machine collaborator
[insert appropriate virtue signal here]
https://linktr.ee/yannoehl
Dr. Andy Jones @andyojones.bsky.social A poet, ed-tech wonk, author, essayist, quizmaster, and academic director at UC Davis, Dr. Andy professes, hosts a poetry and technology radio show and poetry readings. He works to promote other authors, some of them former students. Also, Andy loves Kate.
Rémi Forte @rmfrt.com Poetic Program, Typographic System
https://www.rmfrt.com/
clinodev @clinodev.bsky.social Reader of SF/F, history, politics. Intermittent writer, engineer, Quaker. GameDev-adjacent-ish. 
mark stephen [surname stolen] @markmwahwords.bsky.social Poet, music distro, cultural worker, abolitionist, educator. Benefitting from occupied indigenous land. Sissy vegan for spaceship Earth.- L @lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social MBA. Interests: MMT, ecological economics, corruption, democracy, inequality. Western Bulldogs. Co-founder of Voices of Kooyong. Currently Bunurong land. Ex classical concert pianist.
Jamie "Clanker H8r" Dyer @jamiedcville.bsky.social Aging songster, scenester, vatic scop, tea enjoyer, geek. Sometimes bird pix.
Blow up your TV. Free Palestine. he/hmm
https://lovedeathcville.com
Katherine Montalto @katherinemontalto.bsky.social artist. writer. weirdo.
http://katherinemontalto.com/
#art #writing #music #fiction #poetry #zines
@larrypeach.bsky.social @larrypeach.bsky.social 
Jason Call 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩(former CM Stein/Ware ‘24) @callforcongress.bsky.social ♻️ D & R will both kill us; anti capitalist bass player, unapologetic agitator (he/him). Former Green candidate. Global revolution now
Kate Smith @milliethepoet.bsky.social Poet/childless/dyspraxic/owned by cats.Sheffield, England. Debut pamphlet 'Imprint' out now from https://fawnpress.co.uk/ (as Kathryn Millington)
Hillcrest Card Company 📬 🔥🍉🏳️⚧️🔥 @hillcrestcardco.bsky.social Discount Etsy agitprop since 2017.
Spicy greeting cards, vinyl decals, leftist postcards y más
owner-operated indie artist
she/they #LatinaYOrgullosa
✨ I've got 640+ five-star reviews!!! ✨
https://hillcrestcardcompany.etsy.com
Ay ✟ @carolinestark.bsky.social All hope abandon ye who enter here
Twitter @carolinecstark but I'm boycotting that place til Musk is gone
Virginia, USA
Cat and nature lover, Xennial, Russian disinfo account
AI and Crypto: DNI
Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social A useless humanist with a love for art, astronomy, history, literature, science, human rights and social justice. I hate oppression.
https://linktr.ee/raimokangasniemi
Mark J. Mitchell @mjmitchellwriter.bsky.social Poet, novelist (historical). Very married for 44 years and counting. I live in San Francisco and have for 46 years. Serious interests in Basenall. Medieval literature and XXth century poetry. Make a living giving tours in San Francisco.
Saul Williams @saulwilliams.bsky.social Poet
Jared Stanley @weedlet.bsky.social Poet. So Tough. Antifascist. Satan is a friend of mine.
https://jared-stanley.info
♏️
Nevada/California
LeafLee @leaflee.bsky.social Chronically ill,writhing in pain. Autistic🧶 medicareforall #greenNewDeal Cats #BLM Anarchist #greenParty #notmeus 4ever #hellscapeAnatomy #LeftistArtistMarket
Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social Academic in Digital Culture, University of York, UK. Exploring digital art, literature, and storytelling; ecology, materiality, and the more-than-human. Glider pilot. https://richardacarter.com/ Note: DMs unavailable as in UK
SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice) @seagoatscreams.bsky.social A bit earnest
Poet, runner, sea, goat
Fae-wed
BotN/Pushcart/FwdPrize nom
PoetryArchive PAN winner
Mastheads: IceFloe/BarrenMag/Sídhe
#SkyPoem foundergoblin
He/him
https://tinyurl.com/GoatPoems
The Water Engine: https://bit.ly/2Zpbtl4
Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social Poet, writer, (col)lapsed academic (he/him). Work in: @badlilies.bsky.social, @propelmagazine.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
Lucy Holme @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social Writer | Work in The Stinging Fly, Banshee & more | Shortlisted | Brotherton Prize & Mairtín Crawford Award ‘24 |🥇Cúirt New Writing Award & Southword Editor’s Prize ‘24 | 𝕋𝕖𝕞𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕒𝕣𝕪 𝕊𝕥𝕒𝕤𝕚𝕤 & 𝔹𝕝𝕦𝕖 𝔻𝕚𝕒𝕘𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕤 | Broken Sleep Books
Theo Chiotis @selfcoding.bsky.social Poetry person. Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis (Penned in the Margins). Screen (Paper Tigers Books). Limit.less_an assembly of the sick (Litmus). ed board [ΦΡΜΚ].
Some of my work here: http://www.greekpoetrynow.com/poet_poems_eng/chiotis_poems.html
Cat Chong @marbledmayhem.bsky.social Poet, publisher, essayist, crip—PhD on gender, genre & disability at NTU, Singapore.
Vising PhD Fellow: IMH, Durham.
Digital Editor at Osmosis Press.
Debut collection: 712 Stanza Homes for the Sun (2023)
(they/them)♿️🏳️⚧️
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.
Anthony Anaxagorou @aanaxagorou.bsky.social poems
James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social Poet, artist, performer and publisher based in the UK. Prolific maker of visual poetry. Recent books: COSMIC HORROR (Hem Press), WHAT’S THIS FLESH? (Intergraphia), WASTES / WRAITHS (Atomic Bohemian). https://t.co/QoN4GHLvNE
Caroline Bird @carolinebirduk.bsky.social Poet & playwright. 7th poetry collection, Ambush at Still Lake, out from Carcanet: https://shorturl.at/JXYCR. Winner of Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020
www.carolinebird.co.uk
Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social Poetry, prose, publishing, art.
https://tomjenks.uk/
https://substack.com/@tomjenks
Oisín Breen @oisinbreen.bsky.social Poet, Financial Journalist
www.oisinbreen.com
Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social Poet etc.
Books - Goodlord & Shine, Darling
Hosts Tears for Frears & Stress Test on Soho Radio
RLF Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art
Stuart McPherson @stumcpherson.bsky.social Prize Winning Poet | END CEREMONIES via BrokenSleepBooks| Graphic Artist at TRIED / FAILED
www.triedfailed.com
Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social Poet. Manchester. Buildings. NWCDTP-funded PhD @MMU, Centre for Place Writing. Latest: Stay Awhile (Knives Forks & Spoons) & This Now Extends to My Daughter (Blue Diode)
Andrea Mason @andreamason.bsky.social 🛑RU Desp Lit Short Story Prize 2023
✴️Fic pamphlet 'Waste Extractions' at Broken Sleep Books
🛜Service Providers frthcmng with Hem Press Books
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. 
Milena Williamson @milenawilliamson.bsky.social Poet & academic | Charm for Catching a Train http://tinyurl.com/bdcx2ka5 | Into the Night that Flies So Fast http://tinyurl.com/38tb8kzt
Dr Rachel Smith @rachelartsmith.bsky.social Artist | Poet | Lecturer Producing Vispo and Artists books using Drawing, Photography, and Writing.
Co-Editor of intergraphia books
www.rachelartsmith.com
Louise Mather @louisemather.bsky.social Editor of Acropolis Journal | Writer |
The Dredging of Rituals, 2021 | Published in The North | Broken Sleep Books | Fly on the Wall Press | Acumen Poetry | streetcakemag
j. archer avary 🌵🌵🌵 @joeyflash.bsky.social Simultaneously existing as emerging artist and washed out has-been
Debut short story collection about to launch into an unforgiving void. You can help by starting a podcast and bringing me on as a guest
Briony Collins @brionycollins.bsky.social Writer & publisher | 5 books & counting | PhD | Runs Cape Magazine and Atomic Bohemian | What would Buffy do?
Astra Papachristodoulou @heyastranaut.bsky.social Poet ★ Artist ★ Astranaut ★
www.astranaut.co.uk
Leia Butler @leiabutler.bsky.social Writer from London. Studying MA at Royal Holloway. Tear and Share (brokensleep) - Thoughts I lost in the Laundry (stanchion) - make up my mind (steelincisors) other work in Streetcake magazine - she/her
Jo Bell @jobellwriter.bsky.social Poet, digital salonniere. Host of The Poetic Licence (Patreon) - monthly prompts, famous poet interviews, a creative community. Memoir, BOATER out now with HarperNorth. https://linktr.ee/BoaterJoBell
Bruach Mhor @bruachmhor.bsky.social reader, writer, sea slug fan
Sam Sarmiento @poetrie.bsky.social i write, write, write!
NY ✈️ Baltimore City
“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥,
𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘪𝘵.” Anaïs Nin
Christiana Doucette @doucette515.bsky.social Author | Poet | SDWF Kids Write Judge | MGpies | SCBWI Mentee: Joy McCullough | Agent: Leslie Zampetti | #KidLitChat [Tuesdays 9pm ET] | MG Hub | Highlight’s Kay Yoder Scholarship for US History ‘24 | Intern for Kaitlyn Sanchez | https://bit.ly/3Zf7FiH
Electra Rhodes @electrarhodes.bsky.social Writer. Digger. Rustic. Thief.
Wait...
*Taps mic*
Is this thing working?
Work on/in/with
BBC Radio 4
Best Small Fictions 2023
Emerging Writers The London Library 22/23
W/C
ND
She/Her.
Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway; Editor @ Osmosis Press & Resurgence and Ecologist poetry feature; ask me about the RHUL Poetry MA pathway!
https://linktr.ee/brihughespoet
Kim Murdock @kimmurdock.bsky.social writer, a bit at sea
stories: Fractured Lit, New Flash Fiction Review, Tiny Molecules, Bending Genres, Crow & Cross Keys, 100 Word Story, and more.
kimmurdock.wordpress.com
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
Julia Webb @julwe1.bsky.social Neurodivergent poet and editor. Steering editor for 'Lighthouse'. Latest collection 'Grey Time' (Nine Arches press, 2025).
https://juliawebb.org/
https://visual-poetics.blogspot.com/
https://storymachines.co.uk/portfolio/lighthouse/
Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social Published by Blackbough Poetry, The Storms Journal, FolkHeart Press. Featured writer in Patricia's Pen, and on A Thousand Shades Of Green podcast and a regular guest reader on Eat The Storms podcast. Best of The Net nominated.
Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social Author: The Ghost Lake
Poet: Blackbird Singing at Dusk
Editor: Spelt Magazine
https://linktr.ee/wendypratt
Laura Kerr @sedserio.com Canadian Artist & Experimental Poet-
#sedserio #QuantumPoetry #forensicPoetry https://sedserio.com Critical AI—Forensic Poet 🇨🇦
Katy Wimhurst @sylphsea.bsky.social writer, visual poet.
An Orchid in my Belly Button (Elsewhen 2025) https://books2read.com/AnOrchidInMyBellyButton
Fifty One Trillion Bits (Trickhouse Press)
100% housebound #mecfs and #POTS #disability https://
whimsylph.wordpress.com
Sue Finch (she/her) @suefinch.bsky.social Poet. Coach. #ElasticBandPhotos. Loves coasts, peculiar things and the scent of ice-cream freezers. ‘Magnifying Glass’ and ‘Welcome to the Museum of a Life’ published by Black Eyes Publishing UK.
https://suefinch.co.uk/
Katy Naylor @voidskrawl.bsky.social Writer, editor, wannabe sea witch.
she/her
EIC @voidspacezine.bsky.social
pushcart-BOTN-Best Microfic
STOVETOP GHOSTS - Femme Salvé Press
SALT ASH - A Moonlit Café Press
GIRL/MIRROR/WOLF @bullshitlit.bsky.social
POSTCARDS FROM RAGNAROK - The Alien Bhudda
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
Liam Bates @liambatespoet.bsky.social Funded PhD student @ MMU (ecopoetry, friendship & the more-than-human city)/ Northern Writers’ Award winner/ Human Townsperson (Broken Sleep Books)
www.liambatespoet.com
Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social Experimental Poet—Experimental Lit Prof—Experimental Musician
Curator @ bpNichol.ca — Literary Arts Residency Lead @ The SETI Institute
Ronita Chattopadhyay @ronita.bsky.social Gave myself permission to be a poet; Love books, mountains and tea; working at the intersection of process documentation and qualitative research in India 
Devjani Bodepudi @dbodepudi.bsky.social Poet. Novelist. Mum. Teacher. Comino Poet in Residence. PhD-ing at Man Met-the poetics of Language Loss and Identity. Interested in Postcolonial research from a British diasporic POV.
Joshua Martin @jmartinpoetry.bsky.social to make everything clear / live backwards
Experimental writer and filmmaker from Philadelphia, USA. Member of C22.
joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com
https://c22press.wordpress.com/
submersiblepress.wordpress.com
https://epilepticmeasles.wordpress.com/
Paul Robert Mullen @paulrobertmullen82.bsky.social Published Poet with @brokenspinearts.bsky.social & @animalheartpress.bsky.social
Writer. Musician. Podcaster. Traveller. Lecturer. Bigfoot conspiracist. Sociable Loner. Friend. 🙌 From near Liverpool 🎶
𝔾𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕒✨גליה (she/her) @galiamelon.bsky.social Teacher. Writer. Musician. IG: @galia_melon
Poems in places: https://linktr.ee/galiamelon
Mariah Whelan @mwhelanwrites.bsky.social Poet, Teacher & Editor at @poetrybyheart.bsky.social- T Trini Decombe @trinid.bsky.social
Kevin R. Pennington @drunkenminotaur.bsky.social Author of Spacetime Nirvana, Poet, Gamer, Graphic Designer, living in Shawnee, OK.
Sadie Maskery @saccharinequeen.bsky.social Functions adequately.
Short story collection, 'Overboard', published by Acid Bath Publishing.
May contain smut.
Murray the Librarian @murkymurray.bsky.social Sulking in the back stacks at Shetland Library after a little bit of trouble with Jimmy Perez. Like tank tops. Hate people.
Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social A reader-funded newspaper that truly sits outside the established system and answers only to the public.
Subscribe for exclusive content in the Byline Times monthly print edition: subscribe.bylinetimes.com
Visit our website: bylinetimes.com
Comrade Gritty @grittyjgritterson.bsky.social 
Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. (One of those is THE CALAMITIES, out now.) Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 50-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.
Robert Allen Poet @robertallenpoet.bsky.social I write poems, take long walks, and seek beauty everywhere. I'm a poetry coach and tutor. 2x BotN nominee (2024).
New chapbook, "Aphasia" is out from Inkfish Press! $7!
www.robertallenpoet.com
www.x.com/RobertAllen
https://www.inkfishpress.co.uk/aphasia
𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com Read an exclusive new #ekphrastic or ‘after’ poem each new and full moon.
Subs are open Oct 1st–31st annually for the following year.
Why not also enjoy quarterly sister journal iambapoet.com?
Created and curated by @markantonyowen.com
afterpoetry.com
West Trade Review @westtradereview.bsky.social Publishing the best contemporary fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry since 2009. Literary magazine based out of Charlotte, NC.
https://westtradereview.com/
Publishers Lunch @publisherslunch.bsky.social Trade publishing's daily rundown, and sibling of the source of Deal Reports.
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