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
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
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.
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
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
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
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
linktr.ee/jdnelson
poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social Poet &c | rishidastidar.com | linktr.ee/betarish
PeterOConnell Media @peterocmedia.bsky.social Publicity for books, Judes Menshed, left back
Poems on the Underground @poemsonthetube.bsky.social Poems on the Underground offering poetry old and new, familiar and unfamiliar, to three million daily travellers on London’s Underground system since 1986. www.poemsontheunderground.org
profiles @profilesjournal.bsky.social Publishing portraiture in prose and visual art
https://linktr.ee/profilesjournal
Hetty Cliss @hettycliss.bsky.social (In)Habit 🏡 out now with fourteen poems: https://www.fourteenpoems.com/shop/inhabit-by-hetty-cliss
Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social Priest. Poet. Writer. Broadcaster. Trans. Tired. Disabled. Autistic. (Private Passions: Military History, Austen, Golden Age Detective Fiction) T.S. Eliot Prize Shortlisted 2024
Retired Archdeacon
16 books. www.rachelmann.co.uk
The Poetry School @poetryschool.bsky.social The Poetry School is the UK's largest provider of poetry education and a proud Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.
🏝️ Book Summer Courses: https://poetryschool.com/new-courses/summer-2026-quick-course-guide/
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.
Jane Yeh @janeyeh3.bsky.social Writer (DISCIPLINE, THE NINJAS, and MARABOU) & lecturer in London 🌷 Instagram: @janeyeh3 🌷 she/her 🌷 www.janeyeh3.com
A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social Dipping a toe in here... Oxford Professor of Poetry
Jenna Clake @jennaclake.bsky.social Novelist and poet; she/her
linktr.ee/jennaclake / jennaclake.com
A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social drinking spider, author of peasantcore
@isobeldixon.bsky.social @isobeldixon.bsky.social 
Rory Waterman @rorywaterman.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor, professor of Modern Literature & Creative Writing, co-editor of New Walk Editions. www.rorywaterman.com https://rorywaterman.substack.com/. Views yours; likes/RTs=marriage proposals. OTBC🔰/COYP
Zoë Brigley @zoebrigley.bsky.social Award winning poet, editor of Poetry Wales, poetry coeditor at Seren Books, a founding editor of Modron Magazine
jason allen-paisant @jallenpaisant.bsky.social Poet. Winner of the TS Eliot Prize. THE POSSIBILITY OF TENDERNESS out now. Feticeiro da Jamaica 🇯🇲.
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. 🏳️🌈
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/
Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social Lecturer in Creative Writing @ucc | Poet @salmonpoetry | 🏳️🌈 Mom @ Juno & Nova | Lover of certain women and tiny dogs
The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social Literary magazine established in 1997 to publish & promote the very best new Irish and international writing. Stinging Fly Press was launched in 2005. Summer 2026 Issue #54 available to buy now:
https://stingingfly.org/product/summer-2026/
Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb' the Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice: "some of the most moving, restrained, memorable and technically adroit poetry of our times" --- TLS, 3/25
VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social Festival of Poetry & Spoken Word ✨#Brum and online✨ Online Multi-press Poetry-only Bookshop @vervepoetryshop✨
https://vervepoetryfestival.com
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.
Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social Poet and non-fiction writer. Latest poetry collection "All The Men I Never Married" won the 2022 Forward Prize. Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Substack: https://shorturl.at/Ea3sI
Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social bon vivant
Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com Indie bookshop in Paris📚Online store ships to the world 🌎 Listen to our podcast here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-company 🎧
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.
Nuala O'Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social Writer. Irish. Autistic. Latest book: Menagerie (poetry).
https://nualaoconnor.com/
Declan Meade @declanmeade.bsky.social bookish
@dublinbookfest.bsky.social @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Premier book festival showcasing and celebrating Ireland’s writers, illustrators and publishers. Flagship festival 4 - 8 November with year-round events. Supported by the Arts Council.
https://linktr.ee/dublinbookfestival
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/
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
An Post Irish Book Awards @irishbookawards.bsky.social 🍀 Ireland's biggest celebration of Irish books & authors. Follow on #APIBA
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Books Upstairs @booksupstairs.bsky.social Dublin’s Oldest Independent Bookshop | D’Olier St, Dublin 2
Bookshop open Mon-Sat 10-6; Sun 1-5
Café open Tues-Sat 10.30-4.30; Closed Sunday & Monday
Eimear Ryan @eimearryan.bsky.social Lecturer in creative writing @ucc.ie | PhD student @unioflimerick.bsky.social | editor @bansheepress.bsky.social | 📚 Holding Her Breath (2021) & The Grass Ceiling (2023) 📚
WOW Presents Plus @wowpresentsplus.bsky.social ⬇️ New episodes weekly ⬇️
🇹🇭 Drag Race Thailand 🇬🇧 #DragRaceUK
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💼 #BigFreediaMeansBiz 💄 Painting With Raven
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
The Prompt @wearetheprompt.bsky.social Presented & produced by @zoecomyns.bsky.social, this series will be broadcast over 8 episodes on RTÉ Radio 1.
Our guest writers have set writing prompts and you can submit short pieces to the series, inspired by those prompts. www.wearetheprompt.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
Channel Press @channelpress.bsky.social Words that connect 🍃 Ireland's home for writing on ecological entanglement, funded by the Arts Council.
HOWL New Irish Writing @howlwriting.bsky.social New Irish writing from home and abroad | Subs now closed | https://linktr.ee/howlwriting
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
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.
The New Verse News (always open for newspoems) @newversenews.bsky.social Politically progressive poetry on current events every day since 2005. #7 limag for “Exceptional Reading” in ChillSubs poll.
https://newversenews.blogspot.com
Substack version: http://thenewversenews.substack.com
Ed: @JamesPenha.bsky.social
Granard Booktown Festival @granardbooktown.bsky.social A National Booktown in the Heart of Ireland
April 17 - 19, 2026
Proudly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Creative Ireland and Longford County Council
granardbooktownfestival.ie
#books #festival #ireland #literature #writers
Kildare Readers Festival @kildarereaders.bsky.social Books, talks and good vibes 📖
Every October in County Kildare
#KildareReadersFestival #KRF2025
fourteen poems @fourteenpoems.bsky.social Queer poetry publisher!
💫 anthologies 3x year
🐳 issue 15 out now
📚 pamphlets from emerging writers
🖥️ online chats and readings
Odin Meadows @odinmeadows.bsky.social author of weird horror and strange speculative fiction (and poetry). odinmeadows.com
Tethered Sky @tetheredsky.bsky.social Poet | current manuscript: Mélusine 🐍 | she/her
jake @jakestefan181.bsky.social irish. phd at KCL. queer/trans stuff and the contemporary medieval. attempts at poet-ing. genderqueer. they/them 🏳️⚧️
Eric Schnall @ericschnall.bsky.social www.ericschnall.com
Lauren Lawler @laurenlawler.bsky.social 
@monicadebhailis.bsky.social @monicadebhailis.bsky.social 
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
Jeffery Berg @jdbrecords.bsky.social Poetry, Film, Books, Tunes.
First book of poems, RE-ANIMATOR, now available from Indolent Books.
Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social Reader.
Multilingual author & literary translator. Kidlit. Poetry. SF/F/H. Comics. 🌈
He/él
I’ve translated: Maggie Nelson, Danez Smith, George Takei, Juan Villoro, Carmen Boullosa, Trifonia Melibea Obono, Koleka Putuma, etc.
John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social NBPF Beat Poet Laureate
Founding editor, Crisis Chronicles Press
Past Vice President, Ohio Poetry Association
Hillbuckeye. Skeptic. Creative. Better woke than asleep.
https://linktr.ee/johnburroughs 🏳️🌈
Ohio Poetry Association @ohiopoetry.bsky.social Hello #poets! We at the Ohio Poetry Association are thrilled to be joining you on Bluesky. We are an active group of poets and #poetry lovers who have a relationship with #Ohio. Join us at http://ohiopoetry.org.
Lauren O’Donovan @laurenodonovanw.bsky.social Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award | Fool for Poetry Chapbook Comp | Cúirt New Writing Prize | Southword Poetry Prize | Howl New Irish Writing & Lime Square Poets | Arts Council Supported
Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social Connecting Poetry and People. Proudly funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland National Lottery Funding. www.poetryireland.ie
Nessy V @nessyv1.bsky.social Published poet~Foodie~Wannabe Chef~ Reiki2~ Doxie Mom~Sober23yrs
#bluecrew #resist
Afric McGlinchey @itosha.bsky.social Irish poet. À la Belle Étoile (Salmon Poetry) https://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=631&a=221). Tied to the Wind (Broken Sleep Books) https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/afric-mcglinchey-tied-to-the-wind-ebook). www.africmcglinchey.com
Fidel Walsh @dragonslayerma.bsky.social Writing poetry. 3 poetry collections, Living with Love, Time & Out There. Short stories, Thrice Remembered an Anthology.
I'm 1 of the #PromptCombo hosts
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
Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana @corrintachibana.bsky.social Author of ‘Sing me down from the dark’ (SALT; 2022).
Worked in higher ed. in U.K. and Japan. Poems in P.N. Review, The North, MAGMA, Poetry Wales, The Interpreter’s House & The Madrid Review.
Lover of Things Japanese and proud mother of teenager.
Poetry Emma Meier @poetryemmameier.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Reader. Thinker. ✍️📖
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
Frederick Speers @frederickspeers.bsky.social Senior leader in high-tech learning | Poet & author of two books: So Far Afield; and, In the Year of Our Making & Unmaking | Proud husband & dog dad | Gaymer & geek | Wildlife fan | Colorado | Pronouns: he/him 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ Personal account: views are my own.
Susan Condon @susancondon.bsky.social Irish Writer & Poet | Winner of the Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Award | MA Creative Writing from DCU | 2024 Irish Writers Centre National Mentoring Programme
Susancondon.Wordpress.com
Naoise Dolan @naoisedolan.bsky.social Novelist. Author of EXCITING TIMES (2020), THE HAPPY COUPLE (2023), third novel coming 2027 ⁊ ag scríobh an 4ú ceann i nGaeilge
linktr.ee/naoisedolan
Arnold Thomas Fanning @arnoldtfanning.bsky.social Writer, Walker, Photographer, Record Collector. Essays & Stories in The Dublin Review, Banshee, The Stinging Fly, The Lonely Crowd & elsewhere. Author of Mind on Fire (Penguin Ireland, 2018).
https://about.me/arnoldthomasfanning
The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social International art & lit magazine. One of the world's biggest prizes for a poem. Short story, nature writing & art prizes. Also: @thecaterpillarmag
Nell Regan @nellree.bsky.social Poet, non- fiction writer, sea lover www.nellregan.com 
Splonk @splonk.bsky.social #flashfiction e-zine based in Ireland. Founded 2019. Bilingual. #Gaeilge & English. We love #microfiction too!
hollowaywriter.bsky.social @hollowaywriter.bsky.social The Language of Remembering, my debut novel, out in February 2025. Work in The Stinging Fly, The London Magazine, Irish Times, Irish Examiner. Winner of Bath Short Story Award 2023. Agent Eleanor Birne, RCW
https://bio.site/patrickholloway
Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social lit mag & small press | supported by the Arts Council of Ireland | issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) out now | latest book: Render by Billy Ramsell | https://bansheepress.org/
@michaelmagee.bsky.social @michaelmagee.bsky.social Novel: Close to Home
Hodges Figgis Dublin @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social Ireland's oldest bookstore, established 1768.
Follow us here to keep up with the day to day going-ons within the shop, our newest store features, as well as projects and news of the greater book community.
Arlen House @arlenhouse.bsky.social New Writing from Ireland for the World
@epoquepress.bsky.social @epoquepress.bsky.social époque press is an independent publisher of contemporary literary fiction - books you will love to read.
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.
National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social Sharing Ireland's stories through our unique collections/ Ag roinnt scéal na hÉireann tríd ár mbailiúcháin uathúla.
Explore our collections: https://www.nli.ie/collections/our-collections
Amy Gaffney @amygaffney.bsky.social It’s me!
🧡🧡🧡
Feminist. Poet. Writer~SL Irish Book Awards Short Story 2019~SL Dalkey Creates 2020~SL Penguin Christmas Love Story 2021~Dooligan~Feminist ~Avon Books 2023 & 2024
Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social Currently - Luke Haines and Peter Buck. Black Box Recorder. Minus 5 (when called into service) Swell Maps (occasionally)
Formerley - The Auteurs,
Writes a bit, paints a bit. Strums guitar.
Rémi Forte @rmfrt.com Poetic Program, Typographic System
https://www.rmfrt.com/
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
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