Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social Read Issue 8! Epistemiclit.com
Digital anthology series celebrating knowledge, connection, and growth through poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction.
EICs @melruthwrites.bsky.social and @kristinwrites.bsky.social. CNF Editor @gcbwrites.bsky.social
Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social Publisher
Books Made in Berlin since 2023
www.sacredparasite.com
Junior Einsteins Science Club® @junioreinsteins.bsky.social Award-winning Science events for kids. Founded Ireland☘️ Scientist, Mum, speaker United Nations 🇺🇳 Fun, messy, screen-free hands-on, STEM fun Ireland 🇮🇪 UK 🇬🇧 Canada 🇨🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 Ukraine 🇺🇦 International Schools partnerships. Franchise.
Dan Dicks @danieldicks.bsky.social PhD in Woolf and Queer Phenomenology. Also, sometimes poet. He/Him
Macha Press @machapress.bsky.social experimental / formally hybrid / intercultural / recovered poetries
Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland & Shared Island Civic Society Fund, DFAT machapress.com
Kevin MacAlan @kevinmacalan.bsky.social Poet/writer/ditherer. MA in Creative Writing. Living in rural West Waterford. Contributor of stuff to books and mags and the occasional live event.
Mentored by the best.
Hes Bradley @hesbradley.bsky.social lecturer in english and creative writing at @uniofbuckingham.bsky.social
writer, community gardener,
into vampires and the moon atm
they/them
Brandon Getz @brandongetz.bsky.social weird fiction & sci-fi writer // LARS BREAXFACE: WEREWOLF IN SPACE (novel) // STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE (stories) // he/him // Pittsburgh
brandongetz.com
Inkspiral Design @inkspiraldesign.bsky.social Creative, commercial and affordable book and cover design, for print and digital.
inkspiraldesign.com
Limerick Literary Festival @limericklitfest.bsky.social The Festival will run in Limerick 27.02.26 - 01.03.26 at the Belltable, O’Connell Street. The event continues to honour the life and works of the Limerick author, Kate O’Brien while attracting prominent writers from all over the world.
LycopeneDream @bonnievivante.bsky.social Reading and sharing art, literature and poetry. Also here for the cute 🐶 🐱 and memes. Sometimes I scribble.
N.J. Gallegos is Dr. Spooky (she/her) @drspookyer.bsky.social I like big cats. ER doc. Horror author. Artist. Cohost of The Scream Kings Podcast. Member of HWA. Pro-choice. BLM. I voted for her. Star Wars & BravoTV fanatic. She/her. 🌊🏳️🌈
Personal site: https://njgallegos.com
Podcast: https://www.screamkingspodcast.com
Female Feedback Film Festival @femalefilmfestival.bsky.social The FEEDBACK Female Film Festival (FFFF) was created for women filmmakers and screenwriters. The goal is to showcase the best of female talent from around the world.
https://femalefilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/FEEDBACKFemaleFilmFestivalFFFF
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
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
Daily Submittable Deadlines @submittabledaily.bsky.social Best writing and poetry festivals to submit to each day on submittable.
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/projects
InkandescentUK @inkandescentuk.bsky.social Inkandescent is a publishing venture from Justin David and Nathan Evans focussing on queer and outsider voices. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 🍉✊🏿✊🏾
Francesca Brooks @francescabrooks.bsky.social Lecturer in Old English at University College Cork. Writer of poetry & prose. Early Medievalist, Late Modernist, Feminist. Author of 'Poet of the Medieval Modern'. Find more of my writing at https://francescabrooks.com/
Adam Rowan @shinjutnt.bsky.social Black lab dad. Writer and ambient musician. The Dynasty of the Divine out now!
www.adamrowan.ccard.co
Read my book (free in Kindle Unlimited): https://www.amazon.com/Dynasty-Divine-Adam-Rowan-ebook/dp/B0FS3G3WWH/ref
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript (Book Formatter, Cover Designer and Socials Post Maker Web App): www.pscript.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
@theobservantwriter.bsky.social @theobservantwriter.bsky.social A poet makes notes on humanity, one atom and twitch at a time.
Lorcán Black @lorcanblack.bsky.social Poet. Author of ‘Strange Husbandry’, a Forward Prize, Dylan Thomas Prize, Rooney & Pigott Prize nominee. He likes pizza.
And videos of cats being weird.
Ste Gen Mo Dem 💙📚 🐕🌳 @stegenmodem.bsky.social Supporting Dems Everywhere SG 60 miles South of St Louis @piperformissouri.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @fpwellman.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @labarnitz.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social 📚🚭💙
Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social Poet. Dramatic but lazy. Wistfully nonchalant. Passionately disinterested in oxymorons.
Tope Hall @topehall.bsky.social Adventures of Slothy and Lord Thrilling
Carl Hudson @watchingpreacher.bsky.social Frustrated queer and neurodivergent writer, burning in the embers of creation. Caretaker of culture. Twin Peaks is my guiding light.
Stories are humanity's collective dreams. We live to witness and share our experiences and beliefs.
Dive deeper. NOR/ENG
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained (https://alliteration.net), a website devoted to modern English alliterative verse. If you like Beowulf, or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or Tolkien's Fall of Arthur or Sigurd and Gudrun, you're in for a treat.
The Emma Press @theemmapress.bsky.social small press | big dreams
Birmingham-based independent publisher of poetry, children's books, short-form prose and translations.
www.theemmapress.com
Alien Buddha Press @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social Alien Buddha Press has been publishing emerging writers and artists since 2017. Open for submissions at abuddhapress@yahoo.com
DREAMPLIFY @dreamplify.bsky.social amplifying the American dream. join us!
Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social Poet. Living in Wisconsin. Author of Without a Prayer.
www.scottmcconnaha.com
Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social Landscape with Question (Carcanet Press, 2026).
Before You (2012) & Some Lives (2020) are published by Dedalus Press.
(she/they)
Layla Hawke - author @laylahawke2.bsky.social Human Writer who cares abt the environment, fairness, equality, animals...
Navigations series-dystopian, fantasy, romance, also sweet romance, fantasy. Reader
NO DMs-It can said on a post-I mute or 🚫
Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social Poet / Writer / Publisher of Sibling Rivalry Press / Very Gay / 🦁 / Latest Books: Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry Finalist Brotherful & Listen, Kid: Selected & New Poems 2010-2026 / Editor of Assaracus: A Journal of Gay & Queer Poetry
www.bryanborland.com
Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social Lecturer in Creative Writing @ucc | Poet @salmonpoetry | 🏳️🌈 Mom @ Juno & Nova | Lover of certain women and tiny dogs
Julene Tripp Weaver @trippweavpoet.bsky.social Poet—latest book: "Slow Now with Clear Skies." Writer. Herbalist—Green Witch. Therapist. Systemic or Family Constellation. Health Artist. #WOMPO https://www.julenetrippweaver.com
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
linktr.ee/jdnelson
poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
Ryan Lawrence - Author @ryanlawrenceauthor.bsky.social Storyteller 📖 Canadian Husband 👬L(G)BTQ 🏳️🌈 Winner of a literary award no one cares about—but huzzah!! Check out my website www.ryanlawrenceauthor.ca for book reviews, author interviews & more.
TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social A Tipperary, Ireland based indie bookseller of new, old and inbetween books. Spend €20 & get free shipping !
Gaeilge agus fáilte.
www.thebookshop.ie
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https://www.instagram.com/thebookshop.ie/
Wallace Heatherly @wallaceheatherly.bsky.social Writing and doodling
Nell @theatticmouse.bsky.social Writer. Lover of words. Stories. Lyrics. Big words, little words. Swear words.
#writing #fiction #author (in progress) on insta too @theatticmouse22
Just migrated here from ‘the other place’ and need some new like-minded friends x
Incertezza Inc. @incertezza.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/incertezza
Music Lover, Bassist, Screamer, Doomer, Ableton User, Soundseeker, based in Berlin
The Four Faced Liar @the4facedliar.bsky.social The Four Faced Liar is an Irish literary journal that publishes fiction, poetry, creative non fiction, art, photography and work in translation from all over the world.
Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social Artist Autist(ic) woman person parent.
‘De Kooning and Bacon mashed together’ - John Musker, director of The Little Mermaid
In Norwich UK
deaf in one ear
Buy my art: https://www.chloecumming.com
Support me here: https://ko-fi.com/chloecumming
Dr Tapasya Narang @tapasyanarang.bsky.social Research Ireland and National Library of Ireland funded postdoctoral candidate, based at UCD School of English, Drama and Film.
Nuala O'Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social Writer. Irish. Autistic. Latest book: Menagerie (poetry).
https://nualaoconnor.com/
Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social Poet and filmmaker. "Blood Atlas" forthcoming from Arlen House (May 2025). Winner of O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry. www.lukemorgan.ie
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. 🏳️🌈
Alanná Celeste 💎 @alannag.bsky.social Artist, Music Maker, Writer, & Champion of Compassion & Authenticity ✨️
2/4 Projector in Human Design
Curious Nerd 🤓
📍Flavortown, OH
Alumna: U of Dayton | Alfred U | IBO
d h @deeholloway.bsky.social Library worker & writer. Floridian in upstate NY. Codex. Work in Ancillary Review, Bloodletter, Malarkey & more. HAUNT / OLOGY out now from Bottlecap. THE MERMAID'S PURSE forthcoming from NineStar.
find all the details here: deeholloway.carrd.co
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Caleb Bethea (they/them) @calebbethea.bsky.social Author of DISCO MURDER CITY and Fever Clowns | Dirty South Enby Punk | No AI
https://shop.maudlinhouse.net/#disco-murder-city
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.
Jim Young @oyoguhito.bsky.social ~~ Bard of the Bays ~~
Channel Press @channelpress.bsky.social Words that connect 🍃 Ireland's home for writing on ecological entanglement, funded by the Arts Council.
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Pig Roast Publishing, LLC @pigroastpublishing.bsky.social A book publisher from Providence, RI specializing in outsider literature. 
Roger Patulny @rpatulny.bsky.social Sociology Professor HKBU. Research emotions, loneliness, men, networks, urban themes. Part time writer and poet, dad, befriender of English teachers,
Editor, Authora Australis @ausauthora.bsky.social
Research, poems, stories - http://rpatulny.com/
Eibhlís Carcione @eibhliscarcione.bsky.social Children's writer-Carnegie nominated. Irish poet. BLACK GABLES. THE MIDNIGHT HOUSE. WELCOME TO DEAD TOWN RAVEN MCKAY Rep'd by Silvia Molteni PFD
eibhliscarcione.com
Cork, Ireland
Róisín Leggett Bohan @leggettbohan.bsky.social Writer💥
Patrick Kavanagh Award 2025
Fool for Poetry Prize 2025
'We Fall We Carry' Chapbook (Southword Editions, 2026)
Ed. at HOWL New Irish Writing ✍️
Website: https://inkstainedwings.com/
HOWL New Irish Writing @howlwriting.bsky.social New Irish writing from home and abroad | Subs now closed | https://linktr.ee/howlwriting
Royston Tester @enochjones.bsky.social Poems, short stories, rural SE Spain ... with animals
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/history/2018/08/ns-poem-grief
https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/author/tester-royston
http://www.roystontester.com/about.html
Louisa Flynn @theglimmeringtide.bsky.social Notes on our place within ‘nature’, motherhood in the middle years amidst climate breakdown, and the ache for collective wellbeing.
Dorset, UK
https://linktr.ee/louisaflynn
Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social Senior Editor @ Epiphany Lit. Stories in EPOCH, Carolina Quarterly, Bridge Eight, Sequestrum, McSweeney's Internet Tendency et al. Video creations (Richard Hell, Nancy Wilson, et al) www.jeffbond.nyc www.chillsubs.com/profile/jeffbondnyc
Tadhg Carey @tadhgcarey.bsky.social Writer: Westmeath Artist Bursary Award, Freedom to Write awardee, Southword, The Stony Thursday Book, Skylight 47, Honest Ulsterman & others. Cúirt International Festival of Literature New Writing Showcase 2024. Highly Commended Fool for Poetry Chapbook.
Kildare Readers Festival @kildarereaders.bsky.social Books, talks and good vibes 📖
Every October in County Kildare
#KildareReadersFestival #KRF2025
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
ivallan’s books @ivallansbooks.bsky.social Second-hand and exceptional English language books in Kreuzberg, Berlin
Slasher Film | Horror Movie @slasherfilm2024.bsky.social WATCH THE TEASER TRAILER NOW on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/ebbrwb6f (Warning: 18+)
Movie coming soon. Calling all #HORROR fans.
#horrorcommunity
Ottawa, ON, Canada 🇨🇦
Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/yf2e6vr8
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Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social author of weird horror and strange speculative fiction (and poetry). odinmeadows.com
Benjamin Dodds @benjamindodds.bsky.social 
HERE SHE IS @heresheisalexis.bsky.social 📺 HERESHEIS linktr.ee/heresheisalexis
🎙 HEARSHEIS on GO EXPLORE RADIO Saturday 1pm-4pm
🎙 CONTRIBUTOR on TALK TV & BBC RADIO LONDON
SpoonFellas#NAFO NC Gen❌🦋🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇪🏳️🌈🇨🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰🇦🇺🌈💙democrat 💛 @spoont51.bsky.social We stand together with these nations and the people of these nations 🇨🇦🇬🇪🇲🇽🇲🇽🇺🇦 #NAFO #FAFO .
jake @jakestefan181.bsky.social irish. phd at KCL. queer/trans stuff and the contemporary medieval. attempts at poet-ing. genderqueer. they/them 🏳️⚧️
Rose Knapp 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social Experimental Poet • Sound Artist
• Neurodivergent •
Queer Nonbinary Trans Woman
Poetry Collections: Lulu.com/spotlight/lulucomroseknapp
Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/starving-poet/1645151664
priya @lettersofpriya.bsky.social associate production editor at hachette book group & proud member of @hbgworkers.bsky.social 💘 i like comic books and evil vampires. they/them
Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social Poet | current manuscript: Mélusine 🐍 | she/her
Harry King @hncking.bsky.social 
Marcus Silcock @postpran.bsky.social Surreal absurd stories. Irish. Author of Dream Dust (Broken Sleep Books). Recent stories in Maudlin House, Broken Antler, Bending Genres, Your Impossible Voice, and others. Co-edits Surreal-Absurd Mercurius Mag. www.nevermindthebeasts.com
Petra Crispin @petracrispin.bsky.social Createy person and Maremma friend
artstation.com/petra_crispin