Kirsty McLachlan @thestormboy.bsky.social 
University Church @universitychurch.bsky.social The official church of the University of Oxford.
A house of prayer
A centre of learning
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Manderley Press @manderleypress.bsky.social Indie publisher of beautiful titles inspired by buildings, cities and landmarks. Sometimes wears a book as a hat
ManderleyPress.com
Insta @manderleypress
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Fiona Sampson @fionasampson.bsky.social Writer, poet, Romanticist, critic, librettist, literary translation. Agent: mail@wylieagency.co.uk
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
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.
Erin Jean Warde @erinjeanwarde.bsky.social Episcopal Priest. Writer & Author. Spiritual director. Comedy, cats, chaos. Nashville, TN & Charlevoix, MI. She/Her. ๐ฎ๐ช
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Charlotte Gauthier @faraiunvers.bsky.social Historian of late medieval/early modern religious conflict and diplomacy. England and Christendom, the crusades, and the Reformation. Also: digital humanities, early music, historical theology, and public history. www.charlottegauthier.com
Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doc
Kids' novels:
Minou Moonshine / Sam Singh @kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social
Poetry:
Empirical
@thebraag.bsky.social
Siren @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
A Terrible Thing Bad Betty Press
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Blood+Honey @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social Blood+Honey is a new lit mag that revels in the experimental & the avant-garde, dirty and kitchen sink realism. SUBMIT your poetry, fiction, CNF, and digital art!!! SUBS Currently CLOSED!!!
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The Argyle Literary Magazine @theargylelitmag.bsky.social The Argyle is BACK with our 9th & final issue on 9/25!!! NEW POETRY, FICTION, CNF, and DIGITAL ART!!! CLOSING on 12/15/26!
EIC: @davidestringel.bsky.social
www.theargylelitmag.com
John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social ๐บ๐ฆ Poet, nature lover, Co. Derry native, Oxfordshire-based. iOTA Shot Awards Winner 2023 for Attachments (Templar, June 2024): https://templarpoetry.com/collections/templar-pamphlets-1/products/attachments
Forward Prizes for Poetry @forwardprizes.bsky.social The best new poetry published in the UK & Ireland
Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social A literary magazine publishing poetry, translations, fiction, interviews, essays, photography, and fine arts. Follow AR Tunes on Spotify.
amsterdamreview.org
EIC @danielnemo.bsky.social
Managing Editor @phebel.bsky.social
Driftwood Press @driftwoodpress.bsky.social Est. 2013. Driftwood Press is a press and annual journal devoted to finding the best in fiction, poetry, comics, and experimental forms.
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Chelsea Explains @chelsea-explains.bsky.social Michael Jordan of Babysitting | Professional life-hacker | avid crafter
Jen @jefner.bsky.social Curate | creator and enjoyer of holy chaos | feminist | mum | perpetual questioner | caffeine connoisseur
She/ Her
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
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social We're an international literary magazine in Madrid. We connect English and Spanish speaking literary cultures through fiction, poetry, essays and interviews.
Subs Closed.- P Philip Pullman @philippullman.bsky.social
Dave Haslam @davehaslam.bsky.social Hacienda DJ, journalist (Guardian, LRB, etc), writer (recent books about Sylvia Plath, Keith Haring, Picasso). โAn exceptional writerโ - Olivia Laing.
Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social EIC @ https://www.amsterdamreview.org/
danielnemo.com
Charlie Ulyatt @charlieulyatt.bsky.social 'Charlie Ulyatt is one of our most accomplished poets of the minimal'
(Billy Mills, poet, editor, formerly literary journalist at http://guardian.co.uk)
Books from https://charlieulyatt.bandcamp.com/
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Catherine Redford @catherineredford.bsky.social Poet | Researcher | Co-editor at Dust Poetry. Forward-shortlisted debut poetry collection, โThe Way the Water Held Meโ, out now. Magma Selected Poet.
https://linktr.ee/catherine_redford
Dr Carrie Etter @carrieetter.bsky.social Poet, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Poems in Iowa Review, Poetry London, TLS, The New Republic... | Academic | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the ๐โโฌ! | Foodie | Dem ๐บ๐ธ expat in Bristol, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
Clare Shaw @clareshawpoet.bsky.social Poet. I love moss, mudlarking and broken things. Proud to be Northern, non-binary and neurodivergent. 
Callum Robert Forbes Irvine @crfirvine.bsky.social Poet, Academic, former President at St Andrews School of English, Oxford Faculty of English, and St Leonardโs College at St Andrews. Interested in Late Style, and Modern Irish and Scottish Literature. Sins my own, unless footnoted.
Caleb Parkin @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social Poet ๐ก PhDing, Exeter RENEW Biodiversity ๐ฟ 'Mingle' - Nine Arches โฃ๏ธ 'The Coin' - Broken Sleep ๐ช Bristol City Poet, '20-22 ๐ฆ Ecopoetry, queer ecologies ๐ Music, dancing, DJing ๐ถ Say hello ๐๐ผ
https://linktr.ee/CalebParkin
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.'
Benedicta Norell @benedictan.bsky.social Poet. Empowering midlife, eco & mother poetry. First collection coming 2027. Out now: Three Poems in Aftershock Issue 3| Debut Terrible Mother @theblackcatpoetrypress and Waterstones.com |Poems Linked Here:
https://linktr.ee/benedictanorell
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. 
@annasaund.bsky.social @annasaund.bsky.social Author of 7 collections with Pindrop Press, Wild Conversations Press and Indigo Dreams. New book Eurydice in the Ruined House due May 2025 Indigo Dreams. Founding Director Cheltenham Poetry Festival 
Angela T. Carr @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social Poet | Architect | Creative Writing facilitator at Wordbox | AuDHD
๐ Arts Council Literature Bursary 2021
๐ iYeats International Poetry Competition 2019
๐ Poetry Business 2018 Laureate's Prize
www.thisiswordbox.com
https://linktr.ee/wordbox
Alice Stainer @alicestainer.bsky.social Poet; lecturer; Victorianist; singer; Scottish dancer; nature lover; wine or tea, that is the question; the sea, the sea; land of the mountain & the flood.
AE @anthonyvahni.bsky.social ๐ถ๐ฅ
A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social Dipping a toe in here... Oxford Professor of Poetry
Ilkley Literature Festival @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social The north of England's longest-running literature festival.
Coming in 2026: 2-18 October 2026.
#ILF26 | Produced by @thewordupnorth.bsky.social
Daniel Hinds @danielghinds.bsky.social Poetry collection New Famous Phrases @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social, UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award, Ilkley New Northern Poet, New Writing North North East Poet, BBC New Creative
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/daniel-hinds-new-famous-phrases
DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social Poet (Salt 2019, Broken Sleep 2026), fiction writer and academic at University Centre Peterborough. Lives in Norwich. Travels by train. Parents by exhaustion.
Hannah Linden @hannahl1n.bsky.social Poet Devon, UK
1st Cafe Writers Poetry Competition 2021, 2nd Leeds Peace Poetry Prize 2024, H Comm. Wales Poetry Award 2021. Shortlisted Best Poetry Pamphlet Saboteur Awards 2023 https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-beautiful-open-sky.html 
The Regency Cook @theregencycook.bsky.social Helping you to discover 18th & 19th century food & history. www.paulcouchman.co.uk
Tara Wheeler @tarawheeler.bsky.social Co-Editor at Dust Poetry, writer, researcher, mother of two small people. She/her ๐ชด
Taidgh Lynch @taidgh.bsky.social Poet, book lover, former carer, and vilomah from KY ๐ฎ๐ช living in SK ๐จ๐ฆ Poetry: thewaxedlemon drawnpress PrairieFireMag TNOlitmag untethered FreeFall Pamphlet w/JackPinePress Supported by SaskArts Poetry Ed: GrainLitMag he/him ๐ซ ai
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Porcupine Literary @porcupinelit.bsky.social A journal by and for teachers.
โWe publish writing about the hard, the beautiful, the exhausting, the outrageous, the moving, the maddening, the anything-but-perfect teaching and teacher world.
Read us: https://www.porcupineliterary.com/
Dr. Matthew E. Henry (MEH) @mehpoeting.bsky.social Boston based educator, editor, poet, CNFer & fiction dabbler ๐ง| Author of 7 poetry collections ๐| Holder of 3 graduate degrees worth of debt (MFA, MATS, PhD)๐| Installer of rage in racists โ๐พ https://www.mehpoeting.com
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Subs are open Oct 1stโ31st annually for the following year.
Why not also enjoy quarterly sister journal iambapoet.com?
Created and curated by @markantonyowen.com
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@iamb.uk Poetry. Seen and heard. Four times a year. Enjoy new and previously published work from established and emerging talent.
Every poem read by its author. iamb.uk
iamb.uk/index/wave/25
@thimblelitmag.bsky.social @thimblelitmag.bsky.social quarterly lit mag. online & print. shelter from the storm.
Jen Feroze @jenferoze.bsky.social She/her. Poet, copywriter, general word nerd. Likes naps and cheese.
Sarah Law @sarahpoet.bsky.social Writer, reader, editor, tutor. Cat Lady. Anglo-mystic.
The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social A "micro" press for "micro" stories. Run by @mattkendrick.bsky.social
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press
Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill
Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/
Craft newsletter: https://prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/
ImtiazDharker @imtiazdharker.bsky.social Poet Over the Moon, Shadow Reader
Helen Mort @helenmort.bsky.social Poet, author, Sheffield-er. Mountaineering literature specialist, running enthusiast, part time Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
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
MoonPark Review @moonparkreview.bsky.social a quarterly journal of short prose
Editors: Mary Lynn Reed and Lesley C. Weston
https://moonparkreview.com
Josh Gabbatiss @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Associate editor at Carbon Brief ๐ธ
josh.gabbatiss@carbonbrief.org โ๏ธ
Neil Gaiman @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet. 
Michelle Wiese Bockmann @michellewb.bsky.social Michelle Wiese Bockmann, London-based maritime intelligence analyst & writer. Tanker tracker & subject matter expert in deceptive shipping practices, the 'dark fleet' & global trade with experience spanning 25 years across 3 continents. Views my own.
Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social Writer, editor of poetry, including Poetry Scotland and Whaleback City Press. Knee-deep in assorted poetry-related malarkey including New Boots & Pantisocracies, the Otwituaries, Double Dactyl of the Week, Project Abeona and more.
Sigel Literary Press @sigelliterarypress.bsky.social A Swiss indie press and bookstore.
https://ballerinibookpress.ch/
https://kariflickingermemorialprize.com/
Jessica Mookherjee @jessmookherjee.bsky.social Poet and Author
Last Syllable: A Longform Literary Journal @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social A Longform Literary Journal. Issue III is out NOW! Read it at: lastsyllablelit.com
Alan Parry He/Him @alanparrywriter.co.uk Independent Writer
Spoken-Word Artist
EiC @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Workshop Facilitator
Podcast & Events Host #PromoteIndieLit
Johnny Cordova @johnnycordova.bsky.social Co-Editor @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social โข Author of The Broken Buddha (Roadside Press) โข Former poker dealer โข Retired Bikram Yoga instructor
Johnnycordova.com
Dominique Ahkong @domkeykong.bsky.social AZ-based slow poet. Co-edits @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social
dominiqueahkong.com
Circling The Square @circlingpoetry.bsky.social A vibrant celebration of poetry in memory of Thurles-born poet Dennis O'Driscoll held annually at The Source Arts Centre, Thurles, Co. Tipperary and other venues in the town.
This year's festival will take place on October 16th, 17th & 18th.
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, โWhatever You Do, Just Donโtโ, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Dithering Chaps - submissions open @ditheringchaps.bsky.social I'm David Herring, Lead Editor of indie poetry press, Dithering Chaps, based in Dorset, UK. We publish thematically-linked sequences of poems: works that riff on a core conceit, event or narrative voice. He/him. https://www.ditheringchaps.com
Sorrel Shamel-Wood @sorrelmay.bsky.social Church of England priest. Increasingly
confused millennial. Toddler and baby Mum.
Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com Owner of MSW Media, host of The Daily Beans, UnJustified, and Cleanup on Aisle 45 podcasts. #Leguminati. Veteran. She/Her Substack: muellershewrote.com
Signal: muellershewrote.23
Podcast: https://the-daily-beans.simplecast.com/
Natalie Shaw @natalieshaw.bsky.social โExuberant and anarchicโ
Dirty Martini available from @brokensleepbooks
https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/dirty-martini-by-natalie-shaw
Sophie Herxheimer @sophieherx.bsky.social Artist, Poet, Londoner, Mother, Teacher, Draw-er of Stories, Maker of Books, Ink Enthusiast, Collagist, co-anthologist with Bill Herbert
@ghostfurniturecatalogue, submit?
www.sophieherxheimer.com
www.poetryteapot.wordpress.com
(More settled on instagram)
Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social Visitor, scriever, ex-prof/-makar/-you name it, loser. Still seeking your poems for endlessly subdividing online/print projects: Ghost Furniture Catalogue; New Boots and Pantisocracies (Art Sonnet Chain); New Gude & Godlie Ballatis (Dundee Renga), etc.
Planet Poetry @planetpoetry.bsky.social The UK podcast about poets and poetry, founded 2020. Interviews, discussion, pints. Hosted by Peter Kenny & Robin Houghton. http://planetpoetrypodcast.com 
Robin Houghton @robinhoughton.bsky.social Author. Poet. Podcaster @planetpoetry.bsky.social First full poetry collection 'The Mayday Diaries' Pindrop Press May 1st 2025. Sings in choirs. Yogi.
Jeremy Heuslein @jeremybanters.bsky.social determined and hopeful | anglican priest | franciscan novice | phd in philosophy | he/him | jeremyheuslein.substack.com
The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk A charitable organisation promoting and advocating poets & poetry since 1909. Publishes #ThePoetryReview, supports young poets @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social.
poetrysociety.org.uk
linktr.ee/poetrysociety22
Granta @grantamag.bsky.social The Magazine of New Writing.
https://granta.com/
charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social poet, unfortunately. Food for the Dead (Jonathan Cape). Lecturer @ University of Hull. NWCDTP-funded PhD on authotheory and anorexia @ Manchester Writing School. repโd by Peter Straus @ RCW Literary Agency
Rust & Moth @rustandmoth.bsky.social Lit journal, cellar door knocker, sic semper tyrannis. Work reprinted in Best of the Net. Open for poetry submissions now (September 1st - 20th)!
www.rustandmoth.com
www.duotrope.com/listing/13546/rust-and-moth
Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social Publisher of award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For the workshop, head to @mccormackwc.bsky.social.
Protean Magazine @proteanmag.com An independent leftist magazine collecting criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, and art โข Support our work at www.patreon.com/proteanmag โข www.proteanmag.com/
Shล Poetry Journal @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social Arizona-based nonprofit print journal. We publish an eclectic stew of poetry and award prizes for each issue. Submissions reopen December 15. Ed. @domkeykong.bsky.social + @johnnycordova.bsky.social. shopoetryjournal.com
Navy Lookout @navylookout.bsky.social Independent Royal Navy news and analysis
www.navylookout.com
Victoria Grigson @victoriagrigson.bsky.social 
Fr Kieron Rowley SMMS @kieronrowley.bsky.social Anglican priest, music lover, cook, and dog person. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Director of Youth Ministry in Communion Southwark.
Associate Priest in the parish of Putney.
Veiws my own
Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social Independent publisher of contemporary poetry since 2008, home of Under the Radar magazine. Made in the Midlands.
https://ninearchespress.com/
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
Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author: how nature & craft improve #mentalhealth |
BBC Springwatch | Etsy (silverpebble)| Creative & mental health workshops #AuDHD ๐ณ๏ธโ๐| Agent: Juliet Pickering
Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social Poet and web publisher from the northern tip of southern Appalachia specializing in erasure poetry, ecopoetry, videopoetry and modern haiku. Books include Ice Mountain: An Elegy; Failed State: Haibun; and Breakdown: Banjo Poems.
https://davebonta.com