Elen Caldecott @elencaldecott.bsky.social I write children's fiction. I puppy-wrangle. Hoffi coffi. If there's dancing, I'm in. Senior Lecture, Creative Writing at Lancaster. Published Bloomsbury, OUP, Andersen Press. All jokes my own. She/her
Josephine Kavanagh @ourhaus.bsky.social Blackpool grown. Join a Union. Retired public health researcher and former librarian. Woke AF.
As an Irish atheist I believe in science, reason & the power of St Anthony.
Cannot see DMs.
#Parkinson's #MDANT ☘️ #AbolishICE
I block ruthlessly.
Emily Munro @emilymunro.bsky.social emilymunro.co.uk
Writer, filmmaker, curator
THE LIMITS novel (2027)
Alpine Fellowship runner up; Caledonia Novel Award LL; Best of the Net nom; Winner Briefly Write 10
Nom FOCAL International Award for Living Proof: A Climate Story
IG: @smugafgardening
Angela Last @mutablematter.bsky.social Cultural geographer interested in materialism, histories of theory, political ecology, geopoetics, antiracist pedagogy and censorship. Visiting researcher at FU Berlin. mutablematter.wordpress.com
Creatrix Cymraes @creatrixcymraes.bsky.social Artist, maker and mother from Caerdydd, Cymru ✨
Queer, disabled, siaradwyr 🏴♿️🏳️🌈
Join me for collage club events at Unstable Arts in Roath!
Following ≠ support; I’m doing social outreach at the moment x
Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social Lecturer in Mod Lit, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Donegalian. AHRC PhD at Exeter/BL on archive of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.@unigroningen@bsky.social
Zain Rishi @zainrishi.bsky.social Brummie Poet 📚🌈
26 / Edinburgh (mostly)
NOON out now with the Emma Press
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Llinos Anwyl @llinosanwyl.bsky.social Sgwennwr. Welsh writer.
Llinos.substack.com
swati arora @swatiarora.bsky.social performance • visual culture • writing • pedagogy // linktr.ee/swatiarora
Ema @traumaandcompany.bsky.social Pakistani-American, based in London
traumaandcompany.substack.com
trace press @tracepress.bsky.social Literature from the global south & diasporas.
tracepress.org
Tkaronto/ elsewhere
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Jon Doyle @jondoyle.bsky.social COMMUNION out now via Atlantic Books
Coming May 2027 via Graywolf Press
Rep: Emma Paterson, Aitken Alexander
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Olivia Katrandjian @okatrandjian.bsky.social Writer & Founder of the International Armenian Literary Alliance (@armenianliterary)
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
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Hajar Press @hajarpress.bsky.social independent political publishing house by and for people of colour
Ruth Thomas @ruthiesthomas.bsky.social Latest novel The Snow and the Works on the Northern Line (a BBC Book at Bedtime) @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social
Agent Georgia Garrett @RCWLitAgency
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Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal.
Based in West Dorset
www.littletoller.co.uk
Instagram / @littletollerbooks
Olivia Fitzsimons @oneflawediris.bsky.social Writer. 
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/
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
The Reader Berlin @thereaderberlin.bsky.social ✍️ Berlin's Platform for Creative Writers since 2011 ✍️
www.thereaderberlin.com
Creative Writing Workshops & Writing Classes / Mentoring / Readings / The Berlin Writing Prize
Flowerpot Press @flowerpotpress.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/FlowerpotPress?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaaZQmBZ_Y6qYnYhXF_LnLB0rhXx6Yk2eOXGpeWSdOlEvbPmdj3bSB3cOjI_aem_9f5V8D-luwQvK325lHbrDA
Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social Writing + teaching. The Writer's Room OUT NOW; new project on professionalism and amateurism. Co-editor of @c21literature.bsky.social
Rep @charlotteseymour.bsky.social. kdclewin.com
Shasta H Ali @shastahali.bsky.social Writer. Poet. Dreamer. Racial Equity at Corra. Communities. Chai for the win.
Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social Writer
The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies (UK)
Something Wonderful (US)
Winner BBC National Short Story Award #bbcnssa
O Henry
Stories in Zoetrope, Southern Review, Ploughshares, BBSS, &&
She/her
Ally
Hilary Watson poet @poetryhilary.bsky.social Poet, dog lover, feminist. Editor at Bending The Arc. www.hilarywatson.co.uk. First collection 'Menagerie Street' out now from Seren Books. Available at https://www.serenbooks.com/book/menagerie-street
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
Farhana Khalique @hanakhalique.bsky.social Writer, VO Artist, Teacher, & PhD candidate from London, UK
Subs Editor @ SmokeLong Quarterly
Words in Flash Fusion, Best Small Fictions, 100 Voices, Spread the Word, Arachne Press, Word Factory, & more
W: www.farhanakhalique.com
Tw & IG: @HanaKhalique
Madeehah 🍉 ORPHAN PLANET OUT NOW! @madeehahwrites.bsky.social spec fic writer / sometimes a pharmacist / ORPHAN PLANET (2025) / Future Worlds Prize 2021 shortlist / best of the net nominee / editor of Overtly Lit
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Angela Graham @angelagraham.bsky.social Film maker / writer EXPOSURE: war, media democracy 2026 Culture & Democracy Press https://angelagraham.org/exposure/. Nominee S. Heaney Award for New Writing 2025. STAR poetry C & D Press; SANCTUARY & A CITY BURNING Seren Books angelagraham.org
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
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Poetry with Linda @poetrywithlinda.bsky.social poetry, nature, writing, reading, art, culture, languages, photography, travelling 🎨🖌️🖼️
Let's also be friends on Substack:@poetrywithlinda
Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social Cardiff based Poet, Writer, Academic 'Octopus Mind' (Seren Books) - a Guardian Best Poetry Book of 2023 https://linktr.ee/createdtoread Teach creative writing, writing on/around ekphrasis, neurodiversity, creativity, climate crisis, art
PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social Defending freedom of expression and promoting literature worldwide since 1921.
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Dr Eve Johnson (she/her) @eve-johnson.bsky.social Medievalist.
📍 Cymru
Interpret Magazine @interpretmagazine.bsky.social A new magazine of international writing, featuring winners of the International Booker, Neustadt Prize and US National Book Award 🏴
Lucy English @lucyenglish.bsky.social Spoken word poet, novelist, poetry filmmaker. Professor of Creative Enterprise, co-director of Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival. Loves trees.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0034P8U64
https://canceralleyproject.com
https://thebookofhours.org
Tracey Rhys @traceyrhys.bsky.social Poet (Parthian, Green Bottle Press), short stories from Honno. Freelance editor & proofreader (The Royal Mint, Seren Books, Poetry Wales) & artist. No weird DMs (I shouldn't have to say it).
'Bathing on the Roof' due out Spring 2025 from Parthian Books.
University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social Publishing Wales and the World since 1922. 🏴 📚 Cymraeg:
@gwasgprifcymru.bsky.social
🔗 www.uwp.co.uk
Shivanee Ramlochan @novelniche.bsky.social Poet, Essayist, Ungovernable.
She/Her/Hers.
clare e. potter @clare-e-potter.bsky.social Poet (Healing the Pack, Verve Poetry Press 2024) Winner of RSL Jerwood Poetry Award for Wales 2024
BBC Radio Poetry Progs, Translation, Collaboration, Creative Facilitation, Cymres, Chapbook: Nôl Iaith (Cyhoeddiadau'r Stamp 2025)
Nia Davies @niapolly.bsky.social Poet, new book Votive Mess (Bloodaxe)
Carole Burns @writercaroleburns.bsky.social Author of “The Same Country.” Wales-based American ex-pat figuring out how to take action. www.caroleburns.com
sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social Writer | Senior Investigative Reporter at openDemocracy | Bylines in i; Observer; Guardian; The Times | BWLF | Book: Bodies Under Siege, Verso | Got a story? Email sian.norris(at)opendemocracy.net
Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social Endotic traveller. Recent books: Blood Feather 2023; Ghost Stations 2025. FRSL. Prof French & Comp Lit, Oxford. Rep'd Peter Straus RCW.
@kbohata.bsky.social @kbohata.bsky.social 
Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social Writer, editor, publisher. Science fiction and fantasy, also queer history. Welsh. May rant about rugby.
Sarah Morse @sarahmorse.bsky.social 
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.
Jackie Kirkham @jackiekirkham.bsky.social Author (The Calm Place, The Wizard of Flanders Moss), research nurse, nerd, Scotland. Into books and nature. Lefty. Appreciates a good rant. https://books2read.com/thecalmplace
Tasha @drofnub.bsky.social Librarian, believer in society and social justice.
Hammad Rind @hammadrind.bsky.social Writer and translator working across English, Urdu, Welsh, Persian and more. Novels پانچویں درویش کا قصہ, Four Dervishes (Seren Books), translation الجھا غم Uljha Gham (Zuka Books), co-translation Nodiadlyfr bach y wawr (Cyhoeddiadau'r Stamp)
Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust). www.medhawrites.com
New Voices in Postcolonial Literature Network @nvpoco.bsky.social New Voices is a PGR-led network co-directed by Soph Harris-Nijmeijer and Juni Kvarving. Watch this space for news about our upcoming events and publications. Feel free to get in touch if you want to get involved!
https://newvoicespocostudies.wordpress.com
Lee Farley @allownstunts.bsky.social Books, music, film…
Making theatre and general arts stuff in the Shire🕺🏿
Nyasa Books @nyasabooks.bsky.social Independent publisher.
Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks @remakingbritain.bsky.social Bluesky account for the Bristol University, Queen Mary University of London and British Library AHRC project, Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1830s to the present'
Gareth Leaman @garethleaman.bsky.social Writer. See garethleaman.com for published work.
Gruff @gruffydd-sion.bsky.social Dylunydd 🎨 Awdur achlysurol 🎭 Cyfarwyddwr Creadigol yn y BBC 💻
Designer 👨🎨 Occasional author 📝 Creative Director for Service Design and UX at the BBC 👨💻
📍Caerdydd | Cardiff
Emily Vanderploeg @emily-vanderploeg.bsky.social Writer, cat person, 🇨🇦 in 🏴, “Strange Animals” (Parthian, 2022). “Suppertime” (Substack) for hot takes on books, dinner, and pop culture of the past! https://substack.com/@emilyvanderploeg
The Lonely Crowd @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social Literary journal — thelonelycrowd.org
https://linktr.ee/thelonelycrowd
Jayson Carcione @carcionejay.bsky.social Fiction: The London Magazine, The Forge, Lunate, Epoque Press, elsewhere
Best of the Net 2024 finalist
Deputy Production Editor: Irish Examiner
Cork via New York
Richard Martin @mimosacymru.bsky.social Producer, Welsh Politics commentary, Welsh Politics Pod/Hiraeth/Yr Hen Iaith 🏆 Pods. Nerth gwlad ei gwybodaeth.
Cymro, Pontypriddian, Proxy Canadian & Æresdansker 🏴 🇨🇦 🇩🇰
(cyfrif personol/personal account)
Dr Elizabeth Mackintosh @drelizabethmac1.bsky.social Lecturer of Philosophy & Theology. Visiting Research & Knowledge Exchange Fellow. Educational Partnerships. Philosopher in the Wild. Happiest in Pembrokeshire.
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/
West Cork Literary Festival @wcorklitfest.bsky.social * We are most active on Instagram * Thanks for joining us and making this year our biggest, buzziest festival yet. Save the dates: July 9-16 2027
https://linktr.ee/westcorkliteraryfestival
Aiysha Jahan @aiyshajahan.bsky.social Writing, cats, cake. Lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff University
Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social Author - Poet
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
Beth🌻 Spectrum Scribbles🌻 @bethanreesnd.bsky.social 🌻 Autistic & ADHD
🌻 MA Creative Writer
🌻 Policy & Comms @ldwales
🌻 Writing featured in @mslexia Happiful @the-independent @bbccymruwales
🌻Writing creatively about my neurodivergence both in work & life. All views my own (& my Westie’s)🐶
Daniel G. Williams @danielgwydion.bsky.social Athro Llenyddiaeth Saesneg Prifysgol Abertawe / Sacsoffonydd gyda Burum
Pam Common Art Collective @pamcommonart.bsky.social casgleb celf bara menyn
working out of East Cardiff / artist run / community org
low cost studios, community darkroom, library & residency programme
linktr.ee/madeinroath
Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social he/him. associate prof, poet, writer, host of “books up close” and coeditor of seaford review journal 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏴🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/chrislloyd
Fazana @fazanaf.bsky.social Senior Lecturer: Teacher Education (Secondary English & EAL/Multilingualism). NALDIC ITE Lead & ‘EAL Journal’ Conference Editor.
*Increasingly informed; increasingly rebellious.*
All views my own.
Karolina Rosiak @karolinar.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Interested in indie music, books, cats and everything Welsh.
Ellena D @eld208.bsky.social PhD at the University of Exeter on conjoined twins in literature and film. Disability studies, embodiment.
Currently working at Medify.
Chronically ill. Enjoys poetry, film photography and crafting. Nerd. Views own.
Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social Writer. Global poetics+politics @SOAS|Books: Strangers (2026) Erasing Palestine (2023)The Persian Prison Poem (2021) Writers & Rebels (2016) 🇵🇸academic freedom| Non-aligned leftist rgould.substack.com rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian
Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social crip journalist, historian, editor, organizer
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Carmen Wiigwaas Craig @carmunist.bsky.social Learning and teaching my language—Nishnaabemwin. Jijaak ndoodem. Consultant at Oodenaw.com. Award-winning short fiction author and poet. Developmental editor at DarlingAxe.com. Kidlit, YA, hist fic, women's lit. She/they
Luca Paci @lucapaci.bsky.social Poet, lecturer and translator.
https://www.parthianbooks.com/products/tempo-excursions-in-21st-century-italian-poetry
martha o'brien @marthalobrien.bsky.social writer & singer 😌 Caution, Horses! out now 🐀
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
Dr Michelle Deininger 🌈 @drdeininger.bsky.social Interim Director of Lifelong Learning at Cardiff University | Writes on Lit, Environment & Apocalypse; YA; short fiction; Wales; class | 1st gen HE | 🌈 she/her | sweary
https://www.walesartsreview.org/redux-working-class-voices-michelle-deininger/
Association for Welsh Writing in English @awwe.bsky.social Cymdeithas Llên Saesneg Cymru - scholarly association for the anglophone literatures of Wales.
AWWE.org
Taylor Strickland @taylor-strickland.bsky.social Poet. Translator. Winner of 2023 Saltire Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Get a copy of DASTRAM/DELIRIUM now -> https://linktr.ee/taylorstricklandarts
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
Sophia Arnold @sophia-arnold.bsky.social phd at the uni of kent with Incomindios UK.
environmental and climate justice in Turtle Island | Indigenous art | protest aesthetics
Shalimar Books @shalimarbooks.bsky.social South Asian book specialist based in London. Fine art and handmade fair-trade craft products from across the sub-continent. Est. 1968.
Insta: @shalimarbooks
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/shalimar
www.indianbooksuk.com
Open Monday-Saturday 11.30 to 6pm
Tatevik Ayvazyan @tatevik.bsky.social Writer and Producer at Rebel Republic Films
Guest Editor at Wasafiri Magazine
Cofounder of Armenian Film Festival London
Board Member IALA | Azad Archives
https://linktr.ee/Tatevik_A 
Florian Stadtler 🦀 @flostadt.bsky.social Associate Prof at Bristol Uni, researching British South Asian history, film, literature and Indian popular cinema; world lit and postcolonial studies | trustee Wasafiri magazine | love all things theatre 🎭 |black cat magnet 🐈⬛
Dr Lizzy Attree @lizzyattree.bsky.social Trusts Officer @tht.org
Writer, lecturer, critic. Lit Tutor @CityLit
Co-founder #KiswahiliPrize
www.lizzyattree.co.uk
Blood on the Page: Interviews with African Authors writing about HIV/AIDS https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-4438-2077-6
Asian Booklist @asianbooklist.bsky.social Asian Booklist helps readers discover new books by British-Asian authors. Sign up to our monthly newsletter: http://asianbooklist.com/newsletter.