Chris Emery @chrisemery.me Poet. Five collections from Arc and Salt, most recently Wonder (2025). Manchester-born, Irish citizen, living in Cromer. I publish other people’s books at Salt. Newsletter: chrisemery.me
Sophie? @sophontrack.bsky.social Writer. Love ghosts and justice and also trains. 🍉. All people are friends.
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Writing The Dawn @writingthedawn.bsky.social Where biodiversity, neurodiversity & creativity meet | Writing, creative workshops & coaching|For every kind of bodymind | Neurodivergent-affirming | Anti-racist| LGBTQIA+ affirming | Anti-oppression
Sam Szanto @samszanto.bsky.social Poet, short story writer, PhD researcher. Books with Hedgehog Press, Dreich, Alien Buddha. Best of the Net and Pushcart nominated. Workshop 13th Sept: https://poetryschool.com/courses/microchimerism-loss-connection-writing-absence-attachment-in-parenthood/
Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social Wild eyed Welsh poet. Anti-discrimination, democracy, rights, transcendence.
Nigel Kent @kent-nj.bsky.social 5 times Pushcart Prize nominated poet. Author of ‘Sent’, Fall’, ‘Benchwarmers’, ‘Unmuted’, Psychopathogen’ and ‘Saudade’ (all Hedgehog Poetry Press). 3 times shortlisted for the Saboteur Reviewer of Literature. Website: www.nigelkentpoet.wordpress.com
Ella B. Winters @ella-b-winters.bsky.social Writer, research, social worker, lecturer, eternal student, working on my PhD.
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Strider Marcus Jones @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social Poet. Five published books.DMU Law graduate. Pushcart Prizex4/Best of the Netx3 Nominations. Founder/Editor/Publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.co https://stridermarcusjonespoet.blogspot.com/p/about-strider.html
Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk Online poetry magazine posting daily. We publish & review poetry, prose, filmpoems, word & image and print publish as IS&T Press. Editing internships. Posts by Sabine Wilson-Patrick & Kate Birch.
@the-writingschool.bsky.social @the-writingschool.bsky.social The Writing School Online was founded by Kathryn Bevis in 2020 and we are here to help you find your creative voice and build a writing community.
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
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Any Pascual | indie author & poet @anyespiritual.bsky.social My new book “Verses till midnight” out now!
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Fighting the good fight @elpeposo.bsky.social South FL resident, resisting our POS state government. Macro/Wall St/Tech guy but with empathy. Proud Puerto Rican and supporter of democracy vs the nightmare. Citizen of the world, anime/manga lover, RPG fan, go Chiefs, Knicks, and Mets.
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Film Milf 🌊💙Blue Dem. Resister. 🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ 📚 @filmilf.bsky.social Work @ TrixStarT Film Productions.
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Acropolis Journal @acropolisjournal.bsky.social Acropolis Journal | Home for temples, ruins, darkness & myth | Online Poetry & Art Journal | Projects | EIC Louise Mather | SUBS OPEN
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Astrid Aillume @aillume.bsky.social A detective. Astrid Aillume's New Case: A Billionaire's Mystery
Cracking a case is like salty liquorice.
Surprising at first,but ultimately addictive.
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
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
Grouchy Marx @grouchymarx57.bsky.social Refugee Solidarity
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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
Elmo Wigget @arjaylee54.bsky.social The names have been changed to protect me. There are no innocent.
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That which doesn’t kill you should piss you off enough to RESIST!
I work with special needs young adults. Medicare For All!
Be excellent to each other…
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Antonia Kearton @antoniakearton.bsky.social Occasional writer of poetry; counsellor & psychotherapist; interested in more things than I have time for. Based in Strathspey in the Scottish Highlands.
https://www.tonikeartoncounselling.co.uk/
Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust). www.medhawrites.com
Ben Scotton 🇬🇧 📚 ✝️ @bpscotton.bsky.social Husband. Artist. Pilgrim. Follower of Jesus Christ. Busy writing and building the Wanderer's Post magazine in merry old England.
*Apolitical. Insults will be ignored. Smut will be blocked.*
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Kim Whysall-Hammond @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social Poet, scientist, artist. Lifelong Science Fiction fan. SFPA. My debut pamphlet ‘Messages from the Road’ is available from Palewell Press. https://palewellpress.co.uk/bookstore/lost-wellbeing/mftr/
Jason Croot @jasoncroot.bsky.social Bradfordian, actor and author of the Bradford Back in the Day Memories Series: Bradford, Eh? & Bradford, Ye What? and the nostalgic football book Bradford or Leeds, Eh?
https://www.jasoncroot.com
Fox and Star Books @foxandstarbooks.bsky.social We publish poetry and fiction chapbooks by UK debut authors with an emphasis on global majority writers. Founder/editor: @carrieetter.bsky.social; co-editor: Kaycee Hill Website: https://foxandstarbooks.org
Gill Connors @gillcresearch.bsky.social poet, teacher, PhD student. Wild swimmer. Editor at Yaffle/Yaffle's Nest
Living, working and writing in The Yorkshire Dales
Yaffle @yaffles-nest.bsky.social Publisher of poetry collections and pamphlets. Yaffle and Yaffle's Nest
Online workshops and courses.
Kirsten Arcadio @kharcadio.bsky.social 📚 Reader and writer of speculative fiction and psychological thrillers.
✍️ PhD graduate of creative writing.
🏫 Digital Marketer at Morley College London.
📖 Currently querying my new speculative thriller.
Katie Ives @katie-r-ives.bsky.social Mountain writer and editor, follower of the art of galumphing, climber against fascism. Author of Imaginary Peaks: The Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams. (she/they)
Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social ...fled hellscapes, virtual and hardcopy, residing now in a shoebox of a garret, under the shadow of a castle. Between these book-lined walls, I read arcana, drink champagne, and write. angelisawood.blogspot.com and ko-fi.com/angelisa
Tess @tessaivorywrites.bsky.social Animal lover, and wannabe writer. Just me and my arthritic knee.
Alex McNab-Lundbäck @mcnab-lundback.bsky.social Bestselling Fantasy Author & Poet | Lover of musicals, trail runs, & a strong fika ☕ | Communications Coach
Author of Ellie & Ninja Cat and upcoming Child of Ice (2026–)
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Dave Kurley @badvibrations62.bsky.social Poet, writer, photographer. All my own work. All my own photos. All my own teeth, too. No DMs, please - unless I know you personally.
First book of poems: ‘Irritating the Silver Lining’ - available to order online.
Visit my website: www.davekurley.net
ClaireBurnettWrites @claireburnett.bsky.social best stored outside
The Piano Dad UK @thepianodaduk.bsky.social Introducing the UK's most original new jazz act!
The Piano Dad UK is a singer, pianist, songwriter, and father to three beautiful boys (and a dog).
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@lauren-thomas.bsky.social @lauren-thomas.bsky.social All things poetry. Co-editor of Black Iris https://www.blackirispoetry.com
SAGE POETESS, WRITER, EDITOR @sagetaylorkingsley.bsky.social 🌊💙🌀Protest + Mystic POET *BEAUTIFUL LATE BLOOMER* Best-Selling Author EDITOR GHOSTWRITER 100 books. LoA~Self-Love~Lover of democracy, nature, dogs, life! Kindness is my religion 🙏
TONS of poetry ➡️ https://sagepoetess.substack.com
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Only Solidarity Will Save Us. @mequashie.bsky.social My details don't matter now.
Here's what we must do:
1. Get to know as many of our neighbors as possible
2. Organize and prepare for a general strike
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Valerie Estelle Frankel📚👩🏫🌌🎲🎮🏰📜🧷🧛🏻♂️🦇🎭✡️✍️🧙🏻🎃 @valeriefrankel.bsky.social 👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/jewish-science-fiction-and-fantasy/
Saraswati Nagpal @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social Forward Prize, Pushcart & BOTN nominated Poet, Author, Educator, Performing Artist. Lover of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, tomes, trees, all things purple. Poetry: 'Drench Me in Silver' (Black Bough, 2025)
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/saraswatinagpal
Keeks Mc @keeksmc.bsky.social Scots language poet 🏴
Author of "Contermacious Temerity" and "Rede Wi Yer Hert" from Dreich Publications. Next collection coming 2026 with Drunk Muse Press.
Martin Kennedy Yates @martinkennedyyates.bsky.social Writer - Artist - Tutor
I make things with words, paints & stuff.
Winner of Broken Spine Chapbook Comp 2024 - debut poetry pamphlet out now - DM me for signed copy.
Poems in Rialto, Stand, Poetry Wales, Magma, Butcher's Dog, Finished Creatures & others.
Louise Mather @louisemather.bsky.social Editor of Acropolis Journal | Writer |
The Dredging of Rituals, 2021 | Published in The North | Broken Sleep Books | Fly on the Wall Press | Acumen Poetry | streetcakemag
Café Writers @cafewriters.bsky.social Live lit events online and in Norwich
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Amaya Gayle @amayagayle.bsky.social Lover of Life in all its many forms ... sweet to be here! Author of 6 books, the latest: Actuality: infinity at play. 
Peter Kenny @peter-kenny.bsky.social Creative maverick. Writer of poetry and dark fiction. Co-hosts and co-produces the Planet Poetry podcast. 
Falmouth Poetry Group @falmouthpoetrygp.bsky.social Poetry Group set up in 1972 by Peter Redgrove. Meet 5 Times a month to share critique and write together. Occasional events and festivals Now a Stanza Group
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Alison Lock @alil.bsky.social North Wales. Dysgu Cymraeg. Author of 8 books, and pamphlets. Writer of short stories, poetry, non-fiction. Latest book - Thrift (2024) Palewell Press. Poetry/music/art collaborations. Qigong. BBC Radio 3, Between the Ears: Lure
Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social Poet & Nurse & that
Works in Mental Health services
Helps run Cafe Writers
Most recently pub in Poetry Wales & 14 Poems
Knits, reads, runs. Likes Trade Unions
Studied at UEA (nursing & Creative Writing) & Aberystwyth (international Politics)
Non binary
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.
Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind)
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@marymulholland.bsky.social @marymulholland.bsky.social 
@reddoorpoets.bsky.social @reddoorpoets.bsky.social 
@thealchemyspoon.bsky.social @thealchemyspoon.bsky.social 
King of Cake Believe @504spyboy.bsky.social A speck of dust clinging to a speck of dust attempting to comprehend the limitless and timeless within a speck of time that is life.
Location: Potholed Elysian Field, just north of the Gulf of MEXICO, Earth, Milky Way.
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I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social Anti-Smoker My Website campralquitsmoking.net See How I Quit 20 Years Ago Fought Nicotine 35 Years Supporting others who Quit 🚭 STL MO ❤️To Promote Authors 📚 & Ozarks 🌄 Photographer 📷 Pez Add @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social 💙
Gillian Mellor @atomic51.bsky.social Writer and Consumer of Poetry. Donald Bagger. Transient Earth Inhabitant. Hello!
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
i am kara joy poetry @iamkarajoypoetry.bsky.social poet. paintist. pro-liberation. good trouble. organized chaos. trauma therapist. love. it's all about love.
🎨: @iamkarajoy.bsky.social
Patricia Debney @patriciadebney.com Writer/Survivor/Activist. Award-winning four poetry collections, novel. Next: memoir re coming of age thru child sexual abuse LEAVING LOCUST AVENUE. Extracts in blog. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 https://patriciadebney.com/
#CSA #ChildSexualAbuse #EDS #MCAS #writer #memoir
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.
Natalie Ann Holborow @natholborow.bsky.social Author of 'Little Universe' and 'Small' | Content Marketing Manager at Synergy Learning | Runner | T1D | 'Wild Running' out September 2025 📚🏃♀️
Rhys Owain Williams @rhysowainwilliams.bsky.social Writer of poetry, fiction and other things | That Lone Ship (Parthian Books) | Hay Festival Writer At Work | He/Him | https://linktr.ee/rhysowainwilliams
Rehema Njambi @rehema.bsky.social (You probably call me Remy.) Author / Poet.
This House, out now from @TheEmmaPress. In a previous life, I was shouting about books & authors to anyone interested.
Currently less shouty but still all about books and authors. I go outside sometimes.
Adele Ward @adeleward.bsky.social Writer and book person
Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social Author of 'Salacia' & 'Pearl and Bone' 📚
'Witsh' available now 🌛
Lecturer in Creative Writing 📓🖋️
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'Obstinate, headstrong girl'♀️
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Rae Howells @raehowells.bsky.social Journalist & poet. Shortlisted Wales Book of the Year 2023.
✍🏻 Poet in residence at Llanelli Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
📚 Books: 🐝 The Language of Bees 🌿This Common Uncommon (Parthian)
📌 Project Manager NUJ Training Wales
🏴 Cymraes
Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social Latest collection ‘Hotel Petroleum’ (Broken Sleep). Poet and creative director at large. Dubai, Barcelona, London and unmapped places in between. https://markfiddes.com/
Merrie @merriej.bsky.social 
Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social linktr.ee/victoriaspires
BotN, Pushcart & Forward nominated. Shortlisted/commended in various comps: Winner Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize
Finalist Mslexia Women's Comp
Rube Goldberg Machine out with Shadow and Sax.
Glory-B @gloryb.bsky.social 
Jon Gamble @jongrumble.bsky.social Grizzly Socialist, retired civil servant, PCS ARMs member, CAMRA member, jazz fan and movie buff. No war but class war. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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Genni Harlow ₊✩‧₊ @genni-harlow.swifties.social ur favourite Contests linker | Swiftie since 2017 | content creator | influencer | prompt engineer | computer programmer / mcdba / ciw / mous | investor | Rotarian | archer | scuba diver | resort worker / boats driver | my only account
Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social Poet, Alumna of @CBSNews @60Minutes @BBCWorld @FaberAcademy. Shortlisted by @bridportprize.bsky.social Love @britishlibrary & @VanguardRead #amwriting #poetry #visual #journal #travellingwithdevices 🧶 #crochet #StitchingTogether for the #CommonGood
Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social
Poetry, essays, memoir, fiction, reviews, journalism. Loss Adjustment, Sign Language for the Death of Reason. SL Bridport, Joy Harjo; runner-up Mslexia. MAs from UEA, IIML. NZ, UK, Asia, US publications. Introvert.
Barbara Farley @farleyba.bsky.social Humanist, writer, educator, gardener
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
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Simon Williams @greatbigbadger.bsky.social Retired journalist. Practicing poet
Stu @clough.fyi Marketer. Dad. Poet. Data enthusiast. Footie fan. No particular order, combinations possible.
MA Poetry alum. | Manchester Writing School
Currently pitching debut collection, The Premiad