@lufepollyx7.bsky.social @lufepollyx7.bsky.social 
STOP MAKING SENSE 🇨🇦🦋 @davidbreakpar.bsky.social 🇨🇦 in 🇹🇭 🇭🇰Remembering my mom, who we lost to COVID-19 on 12.04.20. Sharing my journey through grief and finding joy with my family in Thailand. Recovering professional golfer. #BlueCrew #TwitterQuitter #NEVER51
Addicted to Haribo Gummie Bears. 🐻
@kindagerry.bsky.social @kindagerry.bsky.social ATTENTION PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: NOVEMBER WILL BE HERE BEFORE WE KNOW IT!!
Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @laura-babcock.bsky.social Passion for people, politics and progress. Proud Mom, advocate for social justice, PR communications expert @powergroup.ca, Current Affairs Pundit, former CBC Journalist, Host of The OShow Canada's Pro Democracy Podcast. Subscribe on YouTube and Spotify 🇨🇦
@faunius.bsky.social @faunius.bsky.social 
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social Blue in Arizona, forged in the Burgh.
1elizabethtjacobs1@gmail.com
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social
https://www.defendpublichealth.org
Nicole @nicole10l.bsky.social 
Social Justice @supergamer1234.bsky.social 🕊️I initially came to see the cat emojis, but later stayed for the sake of social justice.
No crypto, no money, no pornography
Fiery Red Birds 🐦 @limediamond.bsky.social 🎢 Professional Overthinker. Life's a bit chaotic, but my schedule's packed with posts. Looking for people who wake up earlier than me. If you enjoy late-night philosophy and unexpected trivia, follow me.
No crypto, no porn, no money.
Petraflint @petraflint.bsky.social I stand alone, not because I need no one, but because I have learned to become my own strength
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Sagewood @sagewood86.bsky.social There is a quiet wisdom in knowing that not everything we lose was meant to be kept, and not everything that stays is meant to be loved; sometimes life is simply teaching us the difference between holding on and belonging
Michael Companioni @spimichael.bsky.social Observer and adviser on planet Earth. Creator of multiple educational materials in the areas of psychology, spiritual concepts, and new discoveries.
@horchatasob.bsky.social @horchatasob.bsky.social 
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
Jen Grace 🇨🇦 @jen59.bsky.social “One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
~ Plato
Canadian 🇨🇦 @lovewildernessbsky.bsky.social A liberal in Alberta. Love the province, despise Smith and the UCP. Canada is not Broken. I enjoy photography, gardening,astronomy and just being out in nature.
#Antifascist #DanielleSmithIsATraitor #ForeverCanadian
#ItsTrumpsFault #StandWithUkraine 💙💛
AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social Vaccine scientist 25 yrs. Straight white middle aged guy who is an ally of everyone good and decent, bc fuck this shit.
JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social I enjoy taking photos and sharing them, mostly of nature. All genres from astro, landscape, macro, marine life, wildlife, insects, flowers, etc.
Carmine Starnino @cstarnino.bsky.social I edit for http://thewalrus.ca. Most recent book is Dirty Words: Selected Poems 1997-2016 http://bit.ly/3hZXOED
Aisling Walsh @aislingwalsh.bsky.social Writer & Researcher
Sociology post-doc at University of Galway
Fiction Reader at Anomaly Litmag
I write about movies and neurodivergence at: https://autcasts.substack.com
Proud #NeuroQueer (She/Her)
Sarah Clancy @sarahmaintains.bsky.social Poet, Community Worker, LGBTQIA+ Politics, Climate Action
FREE PALESTINE 
Sarah Davis-Goff @sarahdavisgoff.bsky.social Tramp, dweeb
she / her
Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social 🇮🇪 Writer Hagstone | Constellations | This Woman’s Work (with Kim Gordon) | Agent: Peter Straus at RCW | Newsletter: momentsofrecognition.substack.com
Jessica Grene @jgrenewriter.bsky.social Irish writer. Reader. Mother of redheads. Leftie nerd. She/her.
https://www.jessica-grene-writer.com
https://humag.co/prose/the-egg-that-split
Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social Poetry and other bits of writing | Pit Lullabies with Bloodaxe Books and The Quick and Liffey Swim with Dedalus Press | Essays in Tolka, The Stinging Fly and The Dublin Review | Poetry editor at Banshee | New Arcana forthcoming Sept 25 from Bloodaxe Books.
hollowaywriter.bsky.social @hollowaywriter.bsky.social The Language of Remembering, my debut novel, out in February 2025. Work in The Stinging Fly, The London Magazine, Irish Times, Irish Examiner. Winner of Bath Short Story Award 2023. Agent Eleanor Birne, RCW
https://bio.site/patrickholloway
Frazzled Lit *Closed for Submissions* @frazzledlit.bsky.social We are Frazzled Lit! 🥓 🔥
Looking for Flash, Poetry, CNF and Prose.
Eds @lozzawriting.bsky.social and @jmcm.bsky.social
www.frazzledlit.com
https://ko-fi.com/frazzledlit
socials by Laura
🇬🇧🏴🇮🇪 Edinburgh/Dublin
Splonk @splonk.bsky.social #flashfiction e-zine based in Ireland. Founded 2019. Bilingual. #Gaeilge & English. We love #microfiction too!
Tramp Press @tramppress.bsky.social Independent book publisher. The Most Normal Woman by Roisin Kiberd forthcoming end of August! Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social Bookshop
34 Main Street, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland
info@ravenbooks.ie ¦ (01) 278 9509 ¦ 086 3390231
Mon-Sat 10-6, Sun 12-5
Winter Papers @winterpapers.bsky.social An annual anthology for the arts in Ireland and beyond.
www.winterpapers.com Supported by the Arts Council
Posts by Olivia.
June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social Writing Place Writing Planet, UCD / iCRAG 2026 | Lamplight Fellowship 2025 | Literature Bursary Award 2025 | Moth Short Story Prize 2024 | 'Somebody' expo MoLi 2020-2021 | Room Little Darker 2018/17 | https://www.airbnb.ie/h/pinkhousedublin
Marian Keyes @mariankeyes.bsky.social Reads books. Watches telly. Wrings hands over the state of the world.
gorse journal @gorsejournal.bsky.social Art in words | Journal | Publisher (Gorse Editions) | New issues: gorse 12: Language; gorse 13: Taboo | Forthcoming: gorse 14: Form | Gorse Editions 3: New Green Fool by Alan Cunningham | Funded by Arts Council Ireland | http://gorse.ie
Susan Tomaselli 🍉 🏳️🌈 @stomaselli.bsky.social WiP: TRACES (novel in essays) | former writer-in-residence at Maynooth 2020/21 | current editor gorse journal & Gorse Editions. She/her.
*Won't follow you back if you have zero posts or no profile, sorry*
Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social Literary journal of formally promiscuous non-fiction. Publishing essays, memoir, autofiction and the overflow. Supported by the Arts Council.
tolkajournal.org
Crab Tales Magazine @crabtalesmagazine.bsky.social A SFF flash fiction magazine about crabs.
Art submissions: OPEN.
Fiction submissions: CLOSED.
🦀
EIC @rachelhandley.bsky.social
Submit: crabtalesmagazine.com
Support: https://ko-fi.com/crabtalesmagazine
Dublin
Rachel Handley 🏳️🌈 @rachelahandley.com Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.
SFF Author. Poet. 🦉
Possible Worlds and Other Stories (2022)
They/Them.
rachelahandley.com
Niamh Garvey @niamhgarvey.bsky.social Autistic Author, Irish.
Books published with New Island Books, and Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Rep'd by Jessica Killiney at the Bks agency, London.
She/her
niamhgarvey.com
Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social USA Today Bestselling Irish author
Fic/non-fic
The "Finfarran" novels
Standalone novel #AWinterWedding Hachette Sept 2026
Keynote speaker
London UK/Corca Dhuibhne Irl
Lit rep: Gaia Banks, Sheil Land Associates UK
Linktree: https://rb.gy/g9pf2
PATRICIA SCANLAN Author @patriciascanlan.bsky.social Author. Series Editor Open Door books. Half Dub half culchie. Loves Wickla and country life. Hates book snobbery. Also on @patriciascanlanauthor@mastodon.ie
Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social Irish writer. Leonard and Hungry Paul, Panenka, Ghost Mountain. Richard Heart Julianne out in summer 2027
www.ronanhession.com
Music as Mumblin' Deaf Ro https://mumblindeafro.bandcamp.com/
The Belfast Review @thebelfastreview.bsky.social Subs 1 Mar - 1 Apr or 1 Aug - 1 Sept | New literary magazine & blog (print & digital) | Art Writing Scripts & More | Feedback & Classes | EIC @hannaswork.bksy.social | linktr.ee/thebelfastreview
Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social Ireland’s biggest independent bookstore - new, secondhand & bargain books - where you find what you didn’t know you were looking for!
An Post Bookshop of the Year 🏆
Hanna Nielson @hannaswork.bsky.social EIC The Belfast Review | Editor Uí Néill Press | Writer Artist Filmmaker in Belfast | Editorial Services | Novel: Did You Pay the Piper Man?
Wendy Erskine @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social THE BENEFACTORS Sceptre. Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. Shortlisted Irish Novel of the Year, Best British Audio Book. It’s out now. dance move/sweet home/stinging fly/picador/well I just kind of like it/PVA Books
Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social I’m not terrific but I’m competent
All bookings via website www.jancarson.co.uk
Trevor Joyce @trevorjoyce.bsky.social 'Poet' from central Dublin, now Shandon, Cork.
Co-founder New Writers' Press, Dublin & SoundEye Festival, Cork.
Language, climate, history, art, music, travel, China, hist. of science, hist. of photography.
Two cats, many thousand books, small garden.
sheila armstrong @sheelanogig.bsky.social Writer & dog botherer
armstrongsheila.com
Louise Kennedy @louisekennedy.bsky.social Writer, galoot, sunscreen aficionado
north by northwest
Martina Durac @mdurac.bsky.social Film, Music, Writing, Running. Documentary film maker and artistic director of Ennis Book Club Festival, Ireland
Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social 🌱 IrishAsian Forager & Author
🗣️ Irish Language Creator. Artist.
📚 Writing Books. Writing for Games
⚔️ Game Master. Resident Bisexual. TTRPGer.
Award-Winning Game Dev https://unaminh.itch.io/
Creative Director - ORGANIC MATTERS
Writer - Good Folk Café
Mark O’Connell @mrkocnnll.bsky.social Writer and so forth
Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social Independent bookshop and art gallery in Galway, Ireland. Free delivery in Ireland and we ship worldwide. New, used and rare books.
www.kennys.ie | www.thekennygallery.ie
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social Author, very professional.
Buy my debut novel PRESTIGE DRAMA at https://geni.us/Prestige_Drama.
Get my extremely good memoir at www.mammybook.com
Clíodhna Bhreatnach @cliodhnabhreatnach.bsky.social “Pink Roses, Green” out now with Green Bottle Press. In Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, Propel, Forward Book of Poetry. Interested in feminism, anti-imperialism, socialism. 🇵🇸
https://cliodhnabhreatnach.com/
Rick O'Shea @rickoshea.bsky.social Presenter of RTE's Arts show Arena on @rteradio1.bsky.social.
Runs Ireland's largest book club, patron @epilepsyireland.bsky.social, board of Fighting Words NI.
Quizzer.
Rarely here...
Links: https://linktr.ee/rickoshea
TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social A Tipperary, Ireland based indie bookseller of new, old and inbetween books. Spend €20 & get free shipping !
Gaeilge agus fáilte.
www.thebookshop.ie
linktr.ee/thebookshop.ie
https://www.instagram.com/thebookshop.ie/
Angela T. Carr @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social Poet | Architect | Creative Writing facilitator at Wordbox | AuDHD
🏆 Arts Council Literature Bursary 2021
🏆 iYeats International Poetry Competition 2019
🏆 Poetry Business 2018 Laureate's Prize
www.thisiswordbox.com
https://linktr.ee/wordbox
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social Slow. Learner.
Cristín Leach @cristinleach.bsky.social Irish Writer. Art Critic. Author, art/divorce memoir Negative Space; RHA From Ten Till Dusk. Fiction, non-fiction, journalism: RTÉ Culture, Irish Arts Review, Winter Papers. Hybrid texts, collaborations. 20yrs ✍🏻 Sunday Times. https://linktr.ee/cristinleach
TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social Author and podcaster #ActuallyAutistic
Jennifer McMahon @jmcm.bsky.social IRISH writer, repped by Brian Langan, Storyline Literary Agency. Winner, All-Ireland Scholarships Creative Writing Award (public caterory), Novel Fair '23. Shortlisted, Short Story of the Year at the Irish Book Awards '23. Words in many places.
Elaine Feeney @elainefeeney.bsky.social Writer
Let Me Go Mad In My Own Way (2025)
Nominated for Booker Prize
Lectures: University of Galway
Agent: Peter Straus RCW Lit Agency
Amy Clarkin @amyclarkinwrites.bsky.social Powered mostly by coffee and vibes. Chronically ill (M.E), bisexual writer. The PSI Investigations series What Walks These Halls, Who Watches This Place & Where The Shadows Hide, published by The O’Brien Press, are in all good bookshops now. 👻 🏳️🌈
Elaina Ryan @elainaryan.bsky.social CEO of Children's Books Ireland. Co-artistic director of Towers and Tales Children's Book Festival. I swear I like things that aren't children's books too...
Sheila O’Flanagan @sheilawriter.bsky.social Writer, reader, armchair sportswoman. Secrets Between Friends out 26 March 2026
The Gutter Bookshop, Dublin @gutterbookshop.bsky.social Two lovely bookshops in Dublin, Ireland - named after that famous Oscar Wilde quote... Store Manager Marta posts here whenever she gets a moment.
Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social Established 1976. Reviews, news, features on Irish books and writing, database of all upcoming books each month. Podcast #BurningBooks. Editor
Ruth McKee.
Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and Everything She Didn't Say (out 16 July). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.
Lucy Holme @lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social Writer | Work in The Stinging Fly, Banshee & more | Shortlisted | Brotherton Prize & Mairtín Crawford Award ‘24 |🥇Cúirt New Writing Award & Southword Editor’s Prize ‘24 | 𝕋𝕖𝕞𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕒𝕣𝕪 𝕊𝕥𝕒𝕤𝕚𝕤 & 𝔹𝕝𝕦𝕖 𝔻𝕚𝕒𝕘𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕤 | Broken Sleep Books
Christine Breen & Niall Williams in Kiltumper @christinebreen.bsky.social In Kiltumper, we write, we garden, we read, we make art…Niall Williams’ most recent novel is ‘Time of the Child’
Four Letters of Love is out mid July
Byddi Lee 📚 Author |🎭Playwright |🎬 Screenwriter @byddi.bsky.social Irish Writer - 📚 fiction, 🎭 stage and 🎬 screen. Writes about nature, climate, and local history. Sometimes funny - usually unintentionally. Love my cats and my garden.
📖 Read my latest book & more www.ByddiLee.com
Niamh Dowdall @dowdalln.bsky.social (she/her) | libraries & publishing & open research | Irish women's writing/art/history/culture | dress and clothing in literature | labhair Gaeilge liom! | Views all mine!
S.C. Flynn @scyflynn.bsky.social Poet. The Colour of Extinction (@renardpress, October 2024) - Observer Poetry Book of the Month. An Ocean Called Hope (@downingfield, May 2025).
https://scflynn.com
Nessa O’Mahony @nessao.bsky.social I am a poet and novelist from Dublin. I’ve edited anthologies and teach creative writing
Jean @jeano.bsky.social JMOBrien_Dublin in the Bad Place. Reader & writer (Novel Fair 2024). Lover & hater. Day job: digital for non-profits, founder @digitalcharitylab.bsky.social
Dublin, Ireland. She/her ☺️
Emma Walsh @walshiewrites.bsky.social Reading, writing, rambling & growing things by the sea in Dublin. Half Dub, half Nordie. Getting more pagan in my old age. PR pro. News nerd. LUFC fan for my sins. She/Her.
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
Suzanne Walsh @zanbreathnach.bsky.social Irish artist (performance and audio), and writer, ag foghlaim Gaeilge arís, sometimes bird rescuer, they/them, siad/iad, Wexford/Dub
Www.suzannewalsh.ie
Jennifer Lynn @terpsichoredubh.bsky.social Latina at large in Co Wicklow 🇵🇸
Salvadoran-Amer. Irish by Association. Writer. 'There are many things that can only be seen through eyes that have cried.'
Marc de Faoite @marcdefaoite.bsky.social Herbivorous open-water-swimming snowflake bookworm, b. 323.05 ppm. Irish in France. Writer/editor/translator. Work in in Honest Ulsterman, Minor Lit, Irish Times, Courrier International, Cormorant, Incubator, Eastlit, Jaggery, Mekong Review, Esquire ...
Susan Maxwell @ Bibliothèque des Refusés @bibliorefuses.bsky.social linktr.ee/dr.susan.maxwell
Bibliothèque des Refusés is the imprint of independent author & scholar Susan Maxwell.
Fiction: Literary — Fantasy — Mystery (as R.S. Maxwell).
Non-fiction: academic themes related to archives & fiction. Reviews.
Brenda Romero @brendaromero.bsky.social Studio Director @ Romero Games. Writer @ The Stinging Fly, TOLKA, The Dublin Review and more. Metalhead. Nerd.
Máire T. Robinson @momomightymo.bsky.social Writer living in the West of Ireland. Most recent work in Banshee, Trasna, and on Sunday Miscellany 💚
Writing.ie Online Writing Magazine @handle.invalid Award winning magazine for writers at all levels http://www.writing.ie - based in Ireland but for writers everywhere. Featuring book and writing news, tips, technique, competitions, submission opportunities and much more. We want to help! 📚💙
Bernie McGill @berniemcgill.bsky.social Writer. Writing Fellow with Royal Literary Fund. Mentor at Irish Writers' Centre. Rep'd by Aitken Alexander. Winner of the 2023 Edge Hill Prize for This Train is For, available at https://noalibis.com/product/this-train-is-for-signed-paperback-edition/
Brian Dillon @briangdillon.bsky.social Writer. AFFINITIES, ESSAYISM & SUPPOSE A SENTENCE published by Fitzcarraldo & NYRB. GONE TO EARTH (on Hounds of Love) & AMBIVALENCE (on education) forthcoming.
The Pig's Back @thepigsback.bsky.social The Pig's Back is a literary journal based in Donegal. Edited by Dean Fee + Emily Cooper. Produced by the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny.
Aimée Walsh @thereadparts.bsky.social Irish writer. Author of Exile (a novel) & Writing Resistance (a monograph)
Commentator of the Year finalist 2025 @ Media Freedom Awards.
Columnist and U35 Deputy Editor @ the Mirror.
Agent: Eleanor Birne @ RCW
Olivia Fitzsimons @oneflawediris.bsky.social Writer. 
Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social Books Editor of The Irish Times; author of Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place (Merrion Press)
Patrick Freyne @patrickfreyne.bsky.social Irish Times writer & author of OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea & now, out in June, Experts in a Dying Field. You can preorder here: https://linktr.ee/expertsinadyingfield
Róisín Lanigan @roisinlanigan.bsky.social 
Molly Hennigan @mollyh.bsky.social Writer | The Celestial Realm
Writer in Residence University of Galway
Banshee nonfiction editor
Dean Van Nguyen @deanvannguyen.bsky.social Writer. Irish-Vietnamese. Author of Iron Age: The Art of Ghostface Killah (2019) and Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur (May 2025). Agent: Chris Clemans at Janklow Nesbit
Helen Cullen @wordsofhelen.bsky.social Irish writer. Author of The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually and The Lost Letters of William Woolf. Repd. by Peter Straus, RCW (UK) and Kim Witherspoon, Inkwell (USA). www.helencullen.ie
Lucy Caldwell @lucycaldwell.bsky.social Writer of short story collections Multitudes, Intimacies, Openings, Devotions and novels inc. These Days. Regular masterclass series at Faber Academy.
Aoife Barry @sweetoblivion.bsky.social Journalist, author of Social Capital, Corkonian in Dublin.