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Jason Chapman @jasonchapman.bsky.social Author, illustrator, picture book maker
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Shop: https://jasonchapman.bigcartel.com/
Jill Johnson @writerjilljohnson.bsky.social 🥀Crime Writer🥀Creator of Toxic Botanical Mayhem🥀DEVIL’S BREATH+HELL’S BELLS+BELLA DONNA+BLOOD ROOT🥀
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Insta: jilljohnsonwrites
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Rave Down Radio 🎛️ @ravedownradio.bsky.social Weekly show on Future Radio playing shoegaze, alternative and electronic.
https://ravedownradio.co.uk
Book Off! @ohdobookoff.bsky.social A lighthearted book podcast hosted by Joe Haddow, where two authors discuss their work and get three minutes to pitch a book they absolutely love and think everyone should read!
Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social Independent literary publishers. Discover our books here: http://granta.com/books/. 
Jon Spurling @jonspurling.bsky.social Go To War: Football On The Brink In The '80s - out now. The sequel to Get It On: How The '70s Rocked Football. Freelance for 442, WSC, Blizzard.
National Book Tokens @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social A gift beyond words.
National Book Tokens and Bookily gift cards can be spent in bookshops and online.
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Jo Durrant @jodurrant.co.uk 🎧🎙 Award-winning presenter: Jo Durrant’s Beautiful Universe podcast (independent - arts/science) | Event host | Podcaster | Broadcaster | Love theatre, history, space
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Francesca Pridding @francambrian.bsky.social Welsh, feminist, political, literary, cryptic crossword wannabe, comedy...all of the above (she/her)
Big Thinking Publishing @bigthinkpublishing.bsky.social Indie Publisher. Bulb. 📚🍉🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
My boss has no idea what I do here.
Bookshop: https://inkbookshop.com
Website: https://www.bigthinkingpublishing.com
Poetry imprint: https://www.apoetical.com/
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com One of the UK's leading indie publishers. High-impact fiction and brand-led non-fiction. Beautiful books you won’t forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social The magazine for people who love books | We also publish limited-edition memoirs & biographies and produce a well-loved literary podcast.
foxedquarterly.com
Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social writer, journalist & broadcaster 📝
Author, I BELONG HERE (“a thing of beauty” - Sunday Times). Winner, Books Are My Bag Award, nominated Wainwright 🏆for Nature Writing, Great Outdoors Award, RSL Ondaatje.
Mancunian 🐝
anitasethi.com
WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
Historical Association Canterbury @canterburyha.bsky.social The Canterbury branch of the Historical Association.
Julie Wassmer @juliewassmer.bsky.social New to Blue Sky! TV drama writer, author & environmental campaigner. My Whitstable Pearl crime novels are now a recurring 6-part TV drama series starring Kerry Godliman, Howard Charles & Frances Barber. 
Bristol Short Story Prize @bristolshortstory.bsky.social The Bristol Short Story Prize is an international writing competition hosted by the Department of English at the University of Bristol.
https://bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Malcolm Dixon @malcolmdixon59.bsky.social Writer of short stories in The London Magazine, Aesthetica & elsewhere, and (as F.M.A Dixon) the prizewinning Everywhere Street YA novels.
Chapbooks: 'Death in the Cathedral' and 'Testament' out now.
Triple Pushcart Prize nominee. Bootle boy. Evertonian.
Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com Palliative care doctor 👩🏻⚕ Author 📚 Winner: 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 🫀 Founder: Hospice Ukraine 🇺🇦 Rep: Clare Alexander at Aitken Alexander 📝
www.drrachelclarke.com
Chipping Campden Literature Festival @chipcampdenlitfest.bsky.social 10/11 April Private Lives 4-10 May Literary Lunch, interviews & talks, film, jazz. History, Homer, nature, memoir, politics, fiction, poetry, cheffing, wine tasting. Main venue state of the art Cidermill Theatre
https://campdenmayfestivals.co.uk
Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social Printmaker, Artist & Human perpetually seeking wonder | Organiser of For the Love of Print | Printmaking Tutor | Commissions |
Shop etc at haggytea.com
Inpress Books 📚 @inpressbooks.bsky.social Reaching readers on behalf of 50+ independent publishers. Funded by Arts Council England. Follow us on socials @inpressbooks📚 linktr.ee/inpressbooks 
PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social Defending freedom of expression and promoting literature worldwide since 1921.
Foreword Festival UK @forewordfestivaluk.bsky.social Welcome to the Foreword Festival – the first literary fringe festival in the UK!
Join us for year-round literary events: http://forewordfestival.uk
Mercier Press @mercierpress.bsky.social Independently Publishing Extraordinary Books since 1944. Cork, Ireland
Jenna Butler @jennabutler.bsky.social Author, writing mentor, editor, farmer. she/her
Revery, A Profession of Hope, Magnetic North, and more. GG finalist. Acquisitions Editor, Barbour Books at NeWest Press
www.jennabutler.com
RozWo @rozwo.bsky.social Working hard to avoid feeling old and nothing works better than a good laugh. Love music, books, politics and films.
Lara Maiklem FSA - The London Mudlark @londonmudlark.bsky.social Found in the Thames by mudlark Lara Maiklem, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and bestselling author. NEW BOOK OUT NOW: https://bit.ly/3WqTsyu
Bullaun Press @bullaunpress.bsky.social New independent publisher. Ireland's first press dedicated to literature in translation.
#artscouncilsupported
Life is a Festival! @lifeisafestival.bsky.social Marketing Translator & Copywriter
Festival Reviewer & Travel Blogger
💚 Festivals, travel, live music, books, cultural events, animals, architecture, photography, positive things
Glasgow, Scotland 🏴 🇪🇺
My blog: https://lifeisafestival.wordpress.com/
Bowie Odyssey @bowieodyssey.bsky.social News/events listings for the Bowie Odyssey book series by Simon Goddard
Published by Omnibus Press ⚡ omnibuspress.com
Agent ⚡ kevin@thenorthlitagency.com
Press ⚡ millen.brownewens@wisemusic.com
The Spire @thefavershamspire.bsky.social The Spire is a satirical community magazine for the semi-imaginary town of Faversham. Often accurate, seldom true...
Alex Preston @alexpreston.bsky.social Novelist: Winchelsea, In Love and War, This Bleeding City. Words in Observer, FT and Harper’s.
Ariadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social I write recaps and reviews about British reality TV over at https://ariadnereviews.com/
Comics Outta Context 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @comiccontext.bsky.social Panels from #comics - out of context. That makes them funnier...sometimes. Your home for #ComicsOutofContextAfterDark and #HalJordanRuinsEverything.
Sue-the-Silkewoman @sue-the-silkewoman.bsky.social Demonstrating, teaching & making insanely time consuming historic silkwork. Decorative woven & braided textiles and trimmings for museums, historic sites & people.
Basically making tiny holes in silk because I can…
AlanR @alan2210.bsky.social “A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.”
― Jo Godwin
Don’t try and tell me how or what to post
Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright. Retired wanderer.
Author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, (Little Toller); Deliria, (Rough Trade Books)
Wild Twin, (Little Toller)
Jenny Hope @jennyhope.bsky.social Writer, poet, presenter, workshop facilitator. Wild Boar forthcoming from V. Press February 2026. YA novel in progress. I like exploring the liminal sense of time and place within nature, and the joy in the here and now.
Alia Volz @aliavolzzz.bsky.social Author of NBCC finalist HOME BAKED: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco. Nonfiction ghost story forthcoming with Avid Reader (Simon & Schuster). Freelance editor based in Portugal.
JaneAndersonWriter @janeandersonwritet.bsky.social Historical Fiction Author. The Girl Who Fled the Picture & The Paintress. The Orchid Hunters Daughter will arrive in 2025. Dogs. Books. Founder and Organiser Edinburgh Writers Forum & Edinburgh Women’s Fiction Festival
Website:https://jane-anderson.co.uk
Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social The gentle rumble of distant dub thunder.
https://www.rob-chapman.com
Boundless for Booksellers @boundlessbookshops.bsky.social Bookseller-exclusive news, proofs and POS from Unbound and Neem Tree Press, imprints of Boundless Publishing Group 📚
@unboundsocials.bsky.social
@neemtreepress.bsky.social
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Ali Jones @aliskjones.bsky.social Teacher, photographer, poet. I write a nature haiku every day as an act of creativity. All photos taken on walks around where I live. Interested in fairytales, folklore, botany, ecology, liminal places, and the more than human. Two published pamphlets.
Abigail Ottley @abigailottley.bsky.social Writes poetry & short fiction. Latest is new collection ‘Out of Eden’. Pushcart and Best of Net nominated. 2024: Plaza Prose Poem 2nd, Patricia Eschen Award 3rd, won Metro poem Comp. Twice winner of Wildfire 150. Loves books,dogs, & crafting.
A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social Dipping a toe in here... Oxford Professor of Poetry
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
Di Slaney @dislaney.bsky.social Animals, nature, poetry. Publisher/editor Candlestick Press. Founder http://www.manorfarmcharitabletrust.org / Winner Plough Prize 2022. Books at Valley Press.
Kev Harrison @kevharrison.bsky.social 40-something British writer of horror and dark fiction, living in Lisbon, Portugal with his better half & three cat overlords.
Love travel, food, rock & metal music, and running. This is Horror.
He/Him
Find out more at https://kevharrisonfiction.com
The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social Official account of The Folklore Podcast. 2 million downloads worldwide. Created by folklorist and author Mark Norman. Find us online at http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com
Film/TV rep: Past Preservers Author for various publishers
Edward Ross @edwardross.bsky.social Comic artist. Creator of Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film and Gamish: A Graphic History of Gaming. New book Graphic Novel Builder - The Illustrated Guide To Making Your Own Comics OUT NOW!
He/Him
Chartor @chartor.bsky.social #CERN Physicist exploring video game programming and picture book writing, and training in Wado Ryu #Karate. 
Sue Watling @suewatling.bsky.social poet with pagan heart, allotmenteer, beekeeper, author of 'Heaving with the dreams of strangers' & 'Thetis' https://suewatling.com/thetis-a-poetic-narrative-now-available-online/ Also #walkthroughthetarot
Subscribe to my blog at https://suewatling.com
Joseph Blythe @wooperark.bsky.social ✒️Writer of prose and poetry.
📚Published in Stand, Grist, Pennine Platform, Allegro Poetry, et al. PhD student.
💻Website ⬇️
https://linktr.ee/josephblythewriter
Philip Gross @vaikuspg.bsky.social Writer of many parts, but the heartland is poetry – head to https:/www.philipgross.co.uk to see the range of 40 years of writing life.
Terry Sherwood @calledterry.bsky.social poet published in Acumen, Allegro, Blithe Spirit, Dream Catcher, Dreich, Green Ink, Orbis, Pennine Platform, Reach, Cannon's Mouth, Seventh Quarry.
terrysherwood.substack.com
Frances Roberts Reilly @francespoesis.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Roma, Poet, Author, Podcaster, Playwright, Filmmaker, Storyteller, Documentarian, Harpist, Welsh Gypsy, Nan.
Author of Parramisha: A Romani Poetry Collection & Akekoi: A Romani Memoir
Poetry Wales & Firebird Awards.
Producer, Watershed Writers Podcast.
Stephanie Bowgett @silverbowsteph.bsky.social Retired, school governor. Poetry, writing, readings and workshops. Ex Labour
Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social Poetry - wildlife - music - India - Greece
New 📗 GIRL -
‘Dazzling lyric control’ (Kim Moore)
‘Rhapsodic’(Guardian)
'Girls from Delphi to Delhi haunted by the ‘loose tin can’ of misogyny.…' (Mid-Day Mumbai)
Www.ruthpadel.com
George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk Poet, gardener, teacher, editor, recovering academic. #Goodgym Barnet. Candidate, Barnet Green Party, Woodhouse ward.
www.georgettoouli.co.uk
Promoted by Joan Waterson on behalf of George Ttoouli (Barnet Green Party) both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
Julian Stannard @julianstannardpoet.bsky.social I’m the author of nine collections of poetry ; the most recent Please Don’t Bomb the Ghost of My Brother ( Salt , 2023 ) ; a novel
- The University of Bliss is published by Sagging Meniscus Press (2024 ) In 2024 I was awarded the Lerici Shelley Prize
Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social Makes up stuff.
Msiagirl @msiagirl.bsky.social Poet, book & art lover, photographer, aromatherapist, traveller. (She/her) UK Bathonian Malaysian. I like books. I like trees. I like deserts. I'm on IG/Threads. Flarestack Poet Pey Oh. MPhil USW. Photographer. Aromatherapist. I make potions.
Dale Booton @dalebooton.bsky.social Teacher. Poet. Queer. 🏳️🌈
www.dalebooton.com
Kostya Tsolakis @kostyatsolakis.bsky.social Poet | 📖 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 (Nine Arches Press), PBS Recommendation, shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize ‘24 & Runciman Award ‘24 | Editor 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘺
Sue Rose @suerrose.bsky.social Poet and translator, pickleball and tennis enthusiast
@melpryorpoetry.bsky.social @melpryorpoetry.bsky.social Poet, writer, Best British Short Stories, Poetry Review etc
ireneintheworld @ireneintheworld.bsky.social Irene Cunningham. Possible novelist if poetry didn't keep on the kidnapping thing. Poems in many mags and anthologies, a couple of chapbooks Hedgehog Press and Dreich, a few created on Amazon.
Shaun Belcher @trailerstar.bsky.social Writer / Songwriter / Artist and Gooner.
Syreeta @phantomsspleen.bsky.social head chog
she/her
brain pipes: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:axgsibufsipx4vtctg3xdefz/feed/aaaeb4v2jnfxy
fails (better): https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:axgsibufsipx4vtctg3xdefz/feed/aaaecg2eemgu4
Mary Earnshaw @maryearnshaw.bsky.social Writer. Worrier. Tree whisperer.
Lives on England's northwest coast.
Has spent a lot of time in Zambia and Eswatini with her live-in archaeologist. Can cook for dozens over an open fire if bribed with wine. But would rather write poetry.
Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social Poet. Reader. Plums, raspberries, apricots. Recently in Asymptote, New Welsh Review, Finished Creatures, Cyphers. Troubadour Prize. Jt runner-up Keats-Shelley prize. He/him.
Matthew Rice @matthew-rice.bsky.social Poet-PhD-Anti-racist. ‘Plastic’ forthcoming in January 2026 with Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) & Soft Skull Press (US), available here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790542/plastic-by-matthew-rice/
Rose @rosebonecrone.bsky.social Shouty performance poet, forensic/physical anthropologist, small press publisher, currently floating between UK & Amerikkka. I can't believe we still have to protest this shit! Ally. She/her. The revolution will be televised til the power stations burn
Mark Coverdale @cov-art.bsky.social Art School Mod Poet / Founder of Tonic Sta Press / Drums & Vocals with Three Clicks Left
artschoolmodpoet.com
Cherry Doyle @cmdoet.bsky.social Poetry ✒️ Nature 🍄 Cannock Chase 🌳
'September' & 'The Taste of Rain' from Offa's Press 🍂 🌧️
Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social Curmudgeon, poet, writer, ex stand-up comic, European, playwright, woke lefty Grauniad reader, Irish trad mandolin player and blues harp playing anarchist and agnostic. Also happen to be a recovering Catholic. Website www.mikeharding.co.uk
Tim Turnbull @timturnbull.bsky.social Poet, artist, malcontent
Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social Poet, wordplayer, musician, editor, bassist, guitarist, backgrounds in physics & publishing
KNIT INK (AND OTHER POEMS): https://store.deepvellum.org/products/knitink
AnthonyEtherin.com
Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social Poet on unnecessary themes.
Significant Wow out now with Seren Books.
Stephen Claughton @stephenclaughton.bsky.social Writes and reviews poetry. Chairs Ver Poets. stephenclaughton.com
Ian Seed @ianseedauthor.bsky.social Author: Forgetfulness, My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat, Night Window, New York Hotel (TLS Book of the Year), Makers of Empty Dreams. Translator: Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob, Gëzim Hajdari, Ivano Fermini. www.ianseed.co.uk
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)
jeremy over @jeremyover.bsky.social Poet. New book 'Fourth & Walnut' due out Feb 2025 with @carcanet.bsky.social
Dr Karen Downs-Barton SoA @karendownsbarton.bsky.social Minx (@chattobooks), Didicoy (@poetrybusiness), Elise Dillsworth agency, I am a mentor, Creative Future steering committee, @kcl.ac.uk, workshop leader Shakespeare and Race. Proudly working class and neurodiverse. #PoetsOnBluesky #MinxOnTheRoad
Caspar Wort @casparwortpoet.bsky.social Poet, Doctoral Researcher at Loughborough University, website: https://casparwortpoet.uk/ 
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.
Simon Everett @simoneverett.bsky.social Founding Editor, Muscaliet Press (shortlisted for Michael Marks Publisher’s Award 2022). Managing Editor for @openlibhums.bsky.social and of its flagship Open Library of Humanities Journal. Poet, translator, InDesign nerd. 🏳️🌈he/him.
Bruise @bbruise.bsky.social Let's write a better future. “Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." Rosa Luxembourg
linktr.ee/BenBruges
Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social Wordsmith and poet, Indie author, Tolkien nerd, kiwi in the Inner Hebrides, she/they. River Daughter (meander phase)
Relationship status: single [malt] 🥃
#RingsofPower #Tolkien #LOTR
#Poetry #Poem #IsleofMull
https://mybook.to/OnWildAir
Charlotte Oliver @coliverpoet.bsky.social 'Dressing Gown' (Dreich), Ilkley Lit. Festival 'New Northern Poet'. 'Big Ideas By The Sea' Festival Poet 2024. South Cliff Gardens' Writer in Residence. She/her
Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social Poet, writer and workshop facilitator discussing #disability, #grief and #mentalhealth
Based in SW England
http://theartypoet.substack.com
Nii Ayikwei Parkes @niiayikwei.bsky.social Ga-speaking father. Happyfied self-hypnotist. Daydreamer, writer, editor, idea whisperer. Bylines: Guardian, Nat Geo, Vice, Financial Times, Condé Nast Traveller | Writes for kids as K.P. Kojo https://t.co/V3GydO5tbs
#BookSky #BlackSky #GhanaSky #Poet
Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith @angelacleland.co.uk Poet | Novelist | Audiobook Narrator | She/her | 🤖🦄🚀🍸
Historical fantasy “Black Doe” OUT NOW!
Will Burns @troubledstriker.bsky.social Pub and poems…
kazbel @kazbel.bsky.social Reader, writer, questioner - based in the East Midlands. Loves public libraries, public transport, free access to the arts and quiet places in nature. Published as Kathleen Bell (mostly poetry) including by Shoestring and Leafe Press.
A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com Poet, performer, children's author.
The Imaginary, The Worlds We Leave Behind, Fizzlebert Stump, Greta Zargo and others.
www.afharroldkids.com