Blue Villa @bluevilla.org Literary mag 📖
Est. 2023 🏙️
Bluevilla.org 🔗
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It’s a privilege to study sonder. 📖
sider0xylon press @sider0xylon.bsky.social a mono-press of pithy handmade limited edition mini/micro chapbooks and broadsides.
launching june 20th @ the ottawa small press book fair!
eic: @russellcarisse.bsky.social
SUBMISSIONS OPEN, see sider0xylon.carrd.co for guidelines.
alexis @objetautre.com 
Ross (RJ) 🖤🐇🤖 @rjvoidrabbot.bsky.social Chaos goblin. Technomage. Primary of @acausalqualia.bsky.social
Rabbit by day, Wolpertinger by night
🏳️⚧️ Trans man
🩷💜💙 bisexual
#FAFO #Occultist #Queer #Furry #Kink #BDSM #TransMasc
Pronouns: He/Him
LJMcD Communications @lachlanjmcdougall.bsky.social Publishing house focusing on abstract, out there, and experimental poetry, art, and other writing.
Have a look at the catalogue at lachlanjmcdougall.wordpress.com
Shelter @sheltercharity.bsky.social We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Join us in ending the devastating impact the housing emergency has on people and our communities. #FightForHome
sara matson (she/her) @saramatson.bsky.social poetry! cats! goats! host of Words // Friends online reading series 
≠matthew←kinlin●●◯♜ @matthewkinlin.bsky.social Glasgow // he/him // Teenage Hallucination (2021), Curse Red, Curse Blue, Curse Green (2021), The Glass Abattoir (2023), Songs of Xanthina (2023) // Psycho Viridian (2025) So Tender a Killer (2025) https://linktr.ee/matthew_kinlin
a.a. de levine @aadelevine.bsky.social ♦️ work in taco bell quarterly, new gothic review, psycho holosuite, elsewhere
♦️ computer boy, poppy church, stimulation clicker
♦️ fiction editor at @theargylelitmag.bsky.social
♦️ linktr.ee/aadelevine
Ryan @nicedragonshirt.bsky.social Geometric Meat
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Getting high off Literature 
Sofia Ajram @sofiaajram.bsky.social Bram Stoker Award-winning writer. Metalsmith.
Books: Coup de Grâce (Titan Books), Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror (Ghoulish)
www.sofiaajram.com
https://sofiaajram.substack.com
Danika Stegeman @danikastegeman.bsky.social Ablation | 11:11 Press (11/1/23); Pilot | Spork Press (2020)
more at https://www.danikastegeman.com/
thelonghand @thelonghand.bsky.social Screenwriter. Poet. Professor.
Books: Eidolon. The Getty Fiend. Middlemost Constantine. Films: Winter in the Blood. Wed the Dark.
Any Pascual | indie author & poet @anyespiritual.bsky.social My new book “Verses till midnight” out now!
I write cozy poetry books for deep feelers.
Indie Bestseller Author. Highly Sensitive Poet ✝️🌷🇪🇸
Autora, poeta Altamente Sensible.
Un abrazo de Luz ✨
Okay with DMs about writing.
https://linktr.ee/AnyPascual
Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9
Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Vf4w9Ze38rLniADBEGKSp?si=AcWduGX
D H Fowles @danielharveyfowles.bsky.social Artist, naturalist and social scientist
East Anglia
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
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
Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
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
Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social Writer. Poet. Editor. Nerd. Managing Editor Interstellar Flight Press. Author of NUMINOUS STONES, THE SMALLEST OF BONES, GLIMMERGLASS GIRL. She/They
Website: www.Hlwalrath.com
Acropolis Journal @acropolisjournal.bsky.social Acropolis Journal | Home for temples, ruins, darkness and myth | Online Poetry & Art Journal | Projects | EIC Louise Mather |
https://acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjournal
Women's Writing Association @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social Women's writing Association is a community of women focused on celebrating and uplifting women in writing and academia.
Dr M. I. Matthews-Schlinzig @whatisaletter.bsky.social poet, human, dog lover
academic & literary editing/translation, and writing (ENG/GER)
MSt & DPhil (University of Oxford)
Instagram: schicketanz_books
http://patreon.com/whatisaletter
Julia Webb @julwe1.bsky.social Neurodivergent poet and editor. Steering editor for 'Lighthouse'. Latest collection 'Grey Time' (Nine Arches press, 2025).
https://juliawebb.org/
https://visual-poetics.blogspot.com/
https://storymachines.co.uk/portfolio/lighthouse/
Anna Starkey @imaginaryastronaut.xyz orbiting art and science | tall ish | they/them 🏳️🌈
imaginaryastronaut.xyz
Tentacular Magazine @tentacularmag.bsky.social Tentacular is a magazine for poetry, arts and responses, now in its 11th issue, edited by Jonathan Catherall. Currently once-yearly, until the day job permits otherwise. www.tentacularmag.com
Horror Studies Research Group @ Northumbria @horrorstudies.bsky.social The Horror Studies Research Group at Northumbria University (UK): the Home of Horror Studies
horrorstudies.com
#horrorNU
Rue Collinge @thewordtinker.bsky.social Disabled poet & community artist. North East. Writing about hope with dragons in it, and hEDS. Pre-order debut pamphlet with Verve Poetry Press! linktr.ee/thewordtinker
Sue Pearson @soupie.bsky.social I love words, soaking them up and writing them down. The smell of leaf mould and green things sprouting. The texture of bark. Fussing song birds, and the roar and drama of wind and waves. And humans; complex like layers of rock laid down over millennia.
Simon Williams @greatbigbadger.bsky.social Retired journalist. Practicing poet
Oatleaf Poetry @oatleafpoetry.bsky.social An online poetry publication.
Submissions are open year-round!
oatleafpoetry.com
Andi Leigh @andileighwrites.bsky.social Poet, novelist, short story writer, & visual artist.
💛🤍💜🖤 🌻 🖤🩶🤍💜
EIC: @oatleafpoetry.bsky.social
andileighwrites.com
Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social Author of 'Salacia' & 'Pearl and Bone' 📚
'Witsh' available now 🌛
Lecturer in Creative Writing 📓🖋️
PhD in Welsh Witchcraft 🎓
'Obstinate, headstrong girl'♀️
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https://linktr.ee/maridunning
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https://mariellisdunning.cymru/
@thealchemyspoon.bsky.social @thealchemyspoon.bsky.social 
@reddoorpoets.bsky.social @reddoorpoets.bsky.social 
@marymulholland.bsky.social @marymulholland.bsky.social 
Yann Oehl @yannoehl.bsky.social creative-errant | “artist” | meta-plagiarist | bricoleur | proudly degenerate | unintentional curator | confabulator | machine collaborator
[insert appropriate virtue signal here]
https://linktr.ee/yannoehl
Charlotte Jung @jungcharlotte.bsky.social concrete poet and playwright
www.charlottejungwriter.com
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
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.
Danielle McMahon @dehm000.bsky.social EIC @the-engine-idling.bsky.social
https://www.d-mcmahon-writes.net
author of 4 poetry chapbooks & 2 microchaps
latest: rowhouse song (Ghost City Press '25) | irl (Stanchion '26)
https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/irl
Laura Minor, poets<poems 😘 she/her 🤘💪 #writer #poetry @lauralminor.bsky.social 2024 Silver Medal Florida Book Awards, Poetry 🥈
Book 2: Bright Life, Animal Heart, winner of the 2023 Minds on Fire Open Book Prize, out now!, conduit.org
Book 1: Flowers as Mind Control, winner of The 2020 John Ciardi Prize,
at uapress.com
*no DMs pls*
April Ridge @aprilridge.bsky.social Poet, complicated meat sack searching for simplicity.
Stephen Emmerson @tothemadpoets.bsky.social Writer / Artist
https://eightox.org/books/
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/stephen-emmerson-big-song
Café Writers @cafewriters.bsky.social Live lit events online and in Norwich
cafewriters.co.uk
c.c. o'hanlon @ccohanlon.bsky.social vagabond. mendicant. diarist. wreck.
Un de ces féroces infirmes retour des pays chauds.
"So here is us, on the raggedy edge..."
(from the film 'Serenity', 2005)
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.
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
r.g. vašíček @rgvasicek.bsky.social lo-fi samizdat artist & machine elf in the noösphere
https://rgvasicek.com
Pfudalmda Dadamag @pfudalmda.bsky.social A Dadaist literary magazine publishing monthly tomes of pwoermds.
https://www.pfudalmda.xyz
David Estringel @davidestringel.bsky.social Writer+EIC @The Argyle @Blood+Honey🖊The Opiate, Punk Noir, The Gorko Gazette, BULL, Mythic Picnic, Citywide Lunch, Street Cake, Cowboy Jamboree, Fevers of the Mind, Apocalypse Confidential, Literary Heist, and The Daily Drunk.
www.davidestringel.com
@lauren-thomas.bsky.social @lauren-thomas.bsky.social All things poetry. Co-editor of Black Iris https://www.blackirispoetry.com
@annieblanchette.bsky.social @annieblanchette.bsky.social 
Rachel @vignettes.bsky.social Absurdist, writer, explorer, escape artist.
Writer of poetry, prose & flash fiction.
Words in Literary Revelations: Haiku for Soul Mates @epistemiclit.bsky.social, Pure Haiku, From One Line Vol.7, The Survivor Zine
British, living in Italy. 🇮🇹🇬🇧
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.
Paul McGrane @paulmcgrane.bsky.social 81% Welsh, 18% Irish, 100% poetry. Co-founder of ForestPoets.bsky.social, Walthamstow, and host of PoemsNotBombs.bsky.social open mic, Walthamstow & Soho. Big fan of #thefall & #LOFC https://indigodreamspublishing.com/paul-mcgrane
alexis @objetautre.bsky.social mostly over at @objetautre.com due to technical issues with this account
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
Seeking publisher for new work.
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
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.
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com If you’re reading this, you’re in the right place.
Beautiful books you won't forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Steve Griffiths @writersteve.bsky.social Writer, editor, lover, eejit.
Freelance Editor at EARLY MORNING EDITS.
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Dr. Alexandra Hildebrandt @alex270.bsky.social Freie Publizistin und Autorin, Nachhaltigkeitsexpertin, Keynote Speaker
„Meine Aufgabe ist es, meinem Leben Gestalt zu geben. Das ist mein einziger Beruf, meine einzige Sendung.“ - Stefan Zweig
russell carisse @russellcarisse.bsky.social poet. queer. dirt-farmer. trailer-trash. they/them
unceded Wolastoqiyik/Mi'gmaw territory
work currently or forthcoming in: ARC Poetry, Queen's Quarterly, Touch the Donkey, The Temz Review, Talking About Strawberries All The Time, and elsewhere.
Dr Jamie Stephenson @audioontology.bsky.social ambient metaphysics | music aesthetics |
sontology | poetics of resonance | drone monism | aural hermeneutics |postphenomenology | auditioning
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8211-6586
👹Blackened grindgaze as HERMETIC ABYSS:
hermeticabyss.bandcamp.com
Jen Cooke @jenniferjtcooke.bsky.social Online digital media researcher (horror) with the worst taste in movies that you’ll ever see.
@ Newcastle University 💜
Tom Mason @tommason.bsky.social Newcastle University Film Theory and History
Surrealism, Hollywood, Horror, and Bond
Tobias Ryan @tobiasvryan.bsky.social writer, translator | editor @minorliteratures.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/tobiasvryan
Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social [in the manuscript]
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Disrupted Blue Indie Press Publicity @disruptedblue.bsky.social Working with (or have worked with) indie presses including KERNPUNKT, Black Herald, Shearsman, Carcanet, PN Review, Sublunary Editions, CB editions, Stone Corpse, Hanuman, Vanguard & more!
Founding Director: Vik Shirley
@vikshirley.bsky.social
Joshua Martin @jmartinpoetry.bsky.social to make everything clear / live backwards
Experimental writer and filmmaker from Philadelphia, USA. Member of C22.
joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com
https://c22press.wordpress.com/
submersiblepress.wordpress.com
https://epilepticmeasles.wordpress.com/
Emma Kinsley @kinsleywrites.bsky.social Writer, editor, proofreader, and book nerd.
Specializing in romance, fantasy, speculative fiction, and more.
She/her. DMs currently closed. Watch this space!
Laura Schmitz-Justen @schmitzjusten.bsky.social PostDoc @unimuenster.bsky.social | former Visiting Fellow @ Centre for British Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | c18 poetry | law and literature | disability studies | women's suffrage literature | occasional ornithologist
Louis Armand @louisarmand.bsky.social www.louis-armand.com
ballast journal @ballastjournal.bsky.social a journal of poetry and more poetry and more poetry | editors @jacobschepers.bsky.social & Sara Judy | submissions always open | issue 3.1 out now | ballastjournal.com
Astra Papachristodoulou @heyastranaut.bsky.social Poet ★ Artist ★ Astranaut ★
www.astranaut.co.uk
Kenneth M Cale @kennethmc.bsky.social lapsed scot. makar of word/image things:
Oberon's Zoetrope [w/Matthew Kinlin] (Submersible, 2026) Greater Vegas Bleeds Into the Dreams of My Cryogenic Slumber (Steel Incisors, 2022) Midnight Double Feature (C22, 2025/SDP, 2020).
Karen Press @kipress.bsky.social Mostly teach college writing and herd teenager. Four long-forgotten books of poetry including Types of Canadian Women (Gaspereau) and Exquisite Monsters (Turnstone). Originally Albertan, long time in Winnipeg.
Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social Poetry prose & things inbetween // PhD on surrealist women’s fiction // film-novel: The Cinema Beneath the Lake // Poetry: Eye Movement/ Oneiroscope/ Refrains/
https://linktr.ee/stephen.sunderland
www.everydaymarvellous.com
Chris Stephenson @tuplatulpa.bsky.social Books / Poetry \ Text / Art \ Collage / Cut Ups \ VISPO / Oulu, Suomi.
strangerpress.com
Books:
Revenge Of The Mirror People - Stranger Press
Napoli Metro Bad Dream Sequence - Blart
Constellations - zimzalla
No Ideas But In Things - Dark Windows
Kate Egan @kte75.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Northumbria University. Co-Investigator, AHRC Youth & Horror network. Co-editor of Hidden Horror Histories book series. Lover of horror and British cinema, cats and strong tea. She/her.
Arrowsmith Press @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social Arrowsmith Press publishes poetry, prose, works of translation, memoir, and a series of online columns. Support the literary world by checking out our website!
Rami @ramischandall.com Interdisciplinary artist, writer, designer & yogi
https://ramischandall.com
Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social Experimental Poet—Experimental Lit Prof—Experimental Musician
Curator @ bpNichol.ca — Literary Arts Residency Lead @ The SETI Institute
The Poetry Kiosk @thepoetrykiosk.bsky.social The Poetry Kiosk is a small press and exhibition platform of visual poetry run by Astra Papachristodoulou. Browse our shop and online exhibitions: www.thepoetrykioskcom
Leonard Zinovyev @leonardzinovyev.bsky.social Digital art director. Visual artist, poet & fiction writer. Surreal and satire. ⚠️
-My not-so-official website
https://leonardzinovyev.ucoz.com
-Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/leonard.z.artist/
-Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/leonardzinovyev/
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@michael-sikkema.bsky.social @michael-sikkema.bsky.social 
Jonathan @jonathanld.bsky.social He/him. Editor/Writer/Translator. European citizen. All views expressed here are my own. Interaction is not endorsement.
Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social Queer disabled writer, artist, & scholar aka Dr. Heffers.
Lover of nature, sitcoms, libraries, & coffee.
EIC, Genrepunk Magazine (@genrepunkmag.bsky.social)
📚 What Blooms in the Dark (2024)
She/they
https://linktr.ee/audreytcarroll
Line Stockford @linecaro.bsky.social Turkish poetry translator
Poet, writer
Cymraes she/they
Caroline Stockford
https://palewellpress.co.uk/bookstore/human-rights/wtwt/
Poetry translations: https://estoniacordfrock.wordpress.com/
Nicole @nicoleallensworth.bsky.social Poet + writer | editorial reader | academic librarian | she/her
Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social artists' books, concrete poetry, perception, slowness, quietness, circles & lines, grey, Japan, Agnes Martin, moon jars, green tea, bit of a minimalist www.juliejohnstone.com