Lynne S @ghirlandia.bsky.social Curiouser and curiouser. Art and Literature
Foolish Steve @foolishsteve.bsky.social Compassionate Misanthrope. Absurdist. Existentialist. Dudeist. Humanist. Buddhist. Lover of literature, photography, philosophy, nature, history, music, birding, poetry, science, Fußball/soccer, and mysticism. Heathen. At war with fibromyalgia. 🌛😎🌜
Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social Regularly I’ll post a non-paywalled link to a short story by an interesting author. Afterwards I will repost your feedback to the stories. Throughout the month I’ll post literature related links and images. 
Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social International concert pianist
Welcome!
Rhodri Lewis @rhodrilewis.bsky.social Literature, ideas, history, the arts | Reading & writing & teaching | Bylines here & there | At work on a life of Frank Kermode | bit.ly/2vbBoIN
Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social Writer & translator. Art, music, the natural world, the state of the world.
"Smile, breathe, and go slowly."
~ Thích Nhất Hạnh
The Petersfield Bookshop @pfieldbookshop.bsky.social Sending books to every corner of the known universe since 1918
Lucy Antal aka Grab Your Spoon @lucyantal.bsky.social Cook, occasional writer, https://finom.home.blog/ campaigner for fair food access for all https://www.alchemickitchen.org
Lorna the Sloven @duffycaramole.bsky.social Goddess of Slovens, Queen of Procrastinators; cat-slave; gardener. Life is better in nightclothes. DMs only by invitation or you'll be blocked!
Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social Writer, director.
NYC / London
Wow's the Word @wandering-wow.bsky.social Pretty obviously undoctored travel snapshots of mine.
No filters or AI. No DMs please.
."..strange and ragged like the Prophet who has walked across the land to bring the Dark Word, and the only word I had was "Wow!'" - Kerouac
www.tonygentry.com
beth death & the dumb-belles @dumb-belles.bsky.social The hag in hagiography. Not really a Beth or an incarnation of death.
Wordy stuff: @dayofthedodo.bsky.social
pfp: Angela Lansbury as Salome Otterbourne in Death on the Nile.
header: Odilon Redon, Birth of Venus
Jane Dougherty @janedougherty47.bsky.social Writer of fiction and poetry, lives in a green fortress. Not interested in 'communities'. Learn to live together, the rest of the natural world manages to.
Visit my website https://thefourswans.fr/ for short fiction and poetry.
Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social Associate Director, Head of Special Collections at @theul.bsky.social | Co-Chair, @camglamresearch.bsky.social | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries | Wildflowers, hoverflies, photography
Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social A culture and education website that tries to make the web a more intelligent place. Features free courses, movies, audio books, ebooks & thought-provoking daily posts.
Find us at: https://www.openculture.com/
EveryHeron 𓅣 @everyheron.bsky.social We are the quiet unnoticed Heron, inspiring Heroneers all over Planet Earth, as you encounter Heronkind for 1st or 1000th time.
"Nature is reported in the fullness of life... To the full heart she is all but a figure of speech"-Thoreau www.everyheron.com
David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE AUSTEN? (French & Saunders, BBC Radio 4) writer. AND OTHER STORIES collection: https://tinyurl.com/msmv7amc. IMAGINE A FRIEND:
https://www.starsandsabers.com/books/imagine-a-friend/
Signe Maene @signemaene.com Belgian writer of stories inspired by Flemish folklore. Loves spooky woods, fairies, selkies, poetry and pretty shoes :-) BookWormSat with Rachel Deering.🖤 OUT NOW: Flemish Folktales Retold. signemaene.com/links/
Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne
@gerardbeirne.bsky.social
TraceyT @traceytaylor.bsky.social Rabid gardener, massive bookworm, amateur chocolatier, Paralegal, AuHD. Happily married, mother of twins, co-owned by 4 large rescue hounds.
🇨🇦 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Love all animals, especially dogs & cats.#SussexSquad #INFJ
Gardening Zone 8b
NO UNSOLICITED DMs(I will block)
Arsenault @ea75.bsky.social 🇨🇦Proud Canadian, 😊Acadien, avid reader, love ✈️travelling, my family🧑🧑🧒🧒friends, enjoying retirement and spending my winters in Peru 🦙🤘👍💕🥂Everyone deserves to be happy and free! No DMs please!
Shirls @holmfirthartist.bsky.social Tea drinker, band lover, Tortie wrangler, dog botherer. Like art, books, birds, animals, music, gardening and the North. Usually either too cold or too hot. I live near the moors, I long for the sea.
@pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social 
Megan Nichols @megjnic.bsky.social Poems in Threepenny, Poetry Daily, Plume
Managing Editor for Variant Lit
https://megannicholswriter.com
Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social Half Man, Half Bookshop.
Moved to Hastings in 2018 to start a wild new adventure with my family.
Not the inventor of the word "brainbow"
https://www.biggreenbookshop.com/
Cosi Fan Tastic @cosistone.bsky.social Londoner, film lover. Dabbling in poetry, black coffee, long walks & Italian/Indian food 🪦🥀
🎬 youtube.com/@corinstone
Peg @ethnobot.bsky.social Hardscrabbler. Native Vermonter. Writer. Bereaved mother. Food producer. Wood-splitter. Weed-eater. 60+ triathlons long ago. Kindness, community.
Moksha @nellymoksha.bsky.social Artist and reader. Lover of all things francophone. WNBA fan. Go Birds. Also, by virtue of my super fan gf (fiancée!): ice skating. 🏳️🌈
Patrick Kincaid @patrickkincaid.bsky.social Doctor of Shakespeare, Master of Writing. Author of THE CONTINUITY GIRL (“A wistfully entertaining romantic comedy” Jonathan Coe). Workshops for Prisoners for Stratford Literary Festival.
The Merlins in Berlin @themerlins.bsky.social Wife, momma, coffee drinker. Still finding glitter from last Mardi Gras. Life as an immigrant in Berlin.
she/her
Rebecca S @grongar.bsky.social the poet laureate of these four square feet • in the path of totality
https://www.grongar.com/
Music-and-Books 📚🎶 @musicandbooks.bsky.social Library assistant who loves reading, playing dulcimers, arranging music, and writing. She/her. Liberal. Main account. 💙
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
Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social Poet and writer. Bourne Chair of Poetry at Georgia Tech and Director of Poetry@Tech.
Keith Jebb @keithjebb.bsky.social Writer, poet, reviewer, sometime creative writing lecturer, turn left at Labour and keep going.
Saint Vespaluus @saint-vespaluus.bsky.social Cambridge alumnus; vegetarian; voracious reader; humanist; Spoken Word artist and Everton fan!
Tim Rding @timrding.bsky.social I spend most of my time teaching. Outside of that I read an awful lot, watch old movies, and love Doctor Who. I also like walking, cathedrals and eating well. As Rocky once said: “I’ve got gaps”
Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social Independent scholar: research interests in hermeneutics, textual criticism, and the classical tradition; aurum in stercore
(I don't use Chat)
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social Poet & academic. Author of ‘A Spell in the Wild'& 'Modern Craft'. Queer as a bent penny, likes the sea, silk stockings, an excess of green. 🏳️🌈 she/they. Crepuscular/ Chaucerian/ enamoured of rot.
Janie Harrington 🌸🌿🕊️ @madlyjane.bsky.social Artist. Reader. Writer. ~ Writing a novel. 1960s-70s Counterculture. Studied 19 c Lit & History. Student of Magic, Folklore, Religion.
Blog: girlsandgoblins.blogspot.com
MercuRea @mercureabrand.eurosky.social Weird auntie owner of that little shop where you find poetry, magic and fashion. Spanish in Netherlands. Secretly a hobbit https://mercurea.carrd.co/
*Plus size alt fashion
*Thrift&sewing
*Bunnos
*Witchcraft
*Human made arts&crafts
*Anti capitalist
Lewis H @lewishodgson.bsky.social Books, Music, Writing
Hull.
MDANT
tracy bass, dma @notnavordur.bsky.social orchestra librarian, hornist, pencil snob, and queer lit enthusiast living in reykjavík
Lauren Laverne @laurenlaverne.bsky.social Broadcaster. Slow eater, fast reader.
Kaye Smith @smithskaye.bsky.social Scientist exploring the arts. I like wildlife, walking, history, books and meeting people…care about the planet 🌎🌍🌏🌳
tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social tiny wren lit focuses on tiny poems + tiny issues (2-3 times per year). Readers can download each issue in a zine format. Home of the tiny zine. Subs open.
Web: https://www.tinywrenlit.com/
David Elliot Eisenstat @eisenstat.bsky.social Managing Poetry Editor @variantlit.bsky.social (not my day job). Poems at https://www.davideisenstat.com/poetry/.
Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social Writer | Chicago | Work in The Offing, X-R-A-Y, Wigleaf + more | Pushcart Prize and BotN nom | Best Microfiction ‘24, '25, '26
https://elenalzhang.wordpress.com/writing/- E Erin Coppin @erincoppin.bsky.social Artist, sometime writer.
www.erincoppin.co.uk
Solidarity RPM @solidarityrpm.bsky.social Darren Mark Skilton - Brighton & Hove. Left. Supporting activism, social action, and activist organisations. Collective Action.
Socialist. LGBTQIA+. Anti-facism. Anti-racism. Climate activism. Free Palestine. NHS. Love and Solidarity.
Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social Poet, critic of recent formally innovative poetry & poetics, emeritus prof at Edge Hill, and all that follows. Books from Shearsman, KFS, Salt, Broken Sleep, Palgrave, LUP, & all that follow. Blog: www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com
MartynJS @cllrmartynjs.bsky.social Grandfather Anti racist/fascist Marxist Psychotherapist, Cosmology and Astronomy ,Writer Philosopher Pagan European Cllr Eco Socialist United Ireland indy Wales and Scotland free Palestine [he,him, his] Republican political/cultural astrologer
D.W. Baker @lowermelody.bsky.social submerging poet, dad, editor ~ place, bodies, belonging, the end of the world ~ masthead @VariantLit.bsky.social @PhillyChapbook.bsky.social ~ he/him ~
🪐💀🏳️🌈🍃 https://www.dwbakerpoetry.com
@nicolamira.bsky.social @nicolamira.bsky.social Translator, writer, reader.
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library." J.L. Borges
elizabite @elizabite.bsky.social Avid reader
she/her
Danny Daly @rebels4ever.bsky.social Love GAA, rugby, European history, European football, Renaissance art, Baroque art, francophile, italophile, RFK, Caravaggio, Donatello, Michelangelo, Bernini, Borromini. 
Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings @kaggsy59.bsky.social Loves books and arts and culture and vegan food, and sharing thoughts about them! Blogs at https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/
Katherine Mendelsohn @katherinemend.bsky.social Theatre dramaturg and stage-play translator (french-english). Mum. Word-lover. Reader.
She/her. 
Doc Sarah Lonsdale @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social Books, history & nature. Politics, 48%. Writer, Lecturer, History of journalism City University. My book Wildly Different, about women and nature is now in paperback!
Financial Times "Best Books" Summer 2025
Of course I'm a feminist!
I Never use AI
Angela O'Brien / GrecianGirly @greciangirl.bsky.social Avid book collector/Dreamer/ Recent MA graduate. Half-English / Half-Greek
Posts:Archaeology/Ancient History/Classics🏺🏛 Expect typos and photos of sheep 😊🐑
Regina John Hakmann 🏳️🌈 @reginajohnhakmann.eurosky.social Danish, socialist (Ø), feminist, lesbian (She/her), pacifist. Loves reading, politics, music, history, free Palestine, free Ukraine, stop fascism
Suzanne Evans Wagner @suzanneevanswagner.bsky.social Linguistics professor at Michigan State University. Co-PI of mi-diaries.org. Poetry, food, flowers, music.
Ralph Butler @elkeringhausen2025.bsky.social Kultur, Kunst, Musik ...
Corrinne F @traviata.bsky.social “There is a time for the evening under starlight/A time for the evening under lamplight/(The evening with the photograph album)/Love is most nearly itself/When here and now cease to matter”
Songdog LP Mirabilia Mundi out now https://orcd.co/mirabiliamundi
Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social Music, Art, Books, Wildlife, Films.
Joined November 2024.
Brendan Kennelly Literary Trust (BKLT) @bkltrust.bsky.social The BKLT celebrates & promotes the life & work of Brendan Kennelly, one of Ireland's foremost poets, educators, & writers. Our vision is to ensure that his poetry & literary scholarship continue to inspire twenty-first-century audiences around the world.
Manchester Literature Festival @mcrlitfest.bsky.social Manchester Literature Festival presents inspiring live literature, poetry & culture. Check out our Spring & Summer events at www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Fiona Stuart @fionalstuart.bsky.social Arts producer, Festival Director, Head of Creative Engagement, musician, teacher. Works @rncmlive Views all my own. 🌈
Julian Huppert @julianhuppert.bsky.social Former MP for Cambridge
Now running an interdisciplinary centre at @jesuscollegecam
Scientist, Liberal, Environmentalist, Cyclist, and much more.
Gaylestorming @gaylestorming.bsky.social Writer, reader, coffee drinker…dark brews & dark chocolate. A cozy horror creative searching for my place in the universe. 19th Annual Writer’s Digest poetry award winner 🏅 USAF Veteran
https://www.gaylestorming.com
Anna Cza @globalpoetics.bsky.social Global Poetics podcast (looking for a new home)
Art, books, poetry, boiling twigs in a pot of citrus rinds purely for divination purposes
Current project: edited volume on universal repro rights x IVF x creative writing
Bookdwarf aka Megan @bookdwarf.bsky.social Really into books and reading and cooking and traveling
Brian U. Garrison @bugthewriter.bsky.social poet
he/him
president sfpoetry.org
managing editor eyetothetelescope.com
not nearly as young as I look in my picture
www.bugthewriter.com
Elgin Winner (3rd Place): Micropoetry for Microplanets
bugthewriter.etsy.com
winsome https://cara.app/winsome @winsomesmith.bsky.social Artist, writer. https://cara.app/winsome Creative: No AI. No fascism, sexism, misogyny, or racism here; no chat without invite. LGBTQIA+ safe. I live in Boorloo on the Boodja of the Whadjuk Nyoongar people on the banks of the Derbal Yerrigan: Never ceded.
Doomguy Fieri 🔪 @princxporkchop.bsky.social Black queer femme and humorless tankie. He/they.
Kat Lehmann @songsofkat.bsky.social A Beloved Fire Becomes the House (Red Moon Press, July 2026)🏠
Co-EIC @whiptailjournal.bsky.social🦎 Winner 2024 Rattle Chapbook Prize 🐦 Creator of the multi-haiku form sudo-ku.
Hampshire F87 🦄 & Ph.D. Biochem #haibun #haiku https://katlehmann.weebly.com
Andy Adams @flakphoto.news Culture guy in Madison, Wisconsin. I run media at Outrider.org. In my free time, I publish https://www.flakphoto.news/. Do you like pictures? Read my newsletter!
📬 https://www.flakphoto.news
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Andrew Sparling @awsparling.bsky.social Ph.D., history. Hist. of sci. & med.; Paracelsus; c16 Germany. Husband & father. 𝕏-pat. Hobby: learning about & not catching brain-eating bat viruses. In public indoor spaces, wear a high-quality mask (N95 or better). Clean the air!
📍Melbourne, VIC
gabriela 💙📚 @gabrielaallthetime.bsky.social Reading all the time
Latinx stories, romance, lit fic, gothic lit
Latina 🇩🇴🌴☀️
26/52 📚
IG: @gabrielareadsallthetime
Full reviews:
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/gabrielaallthetime
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/43963935
Simone Beach @simonebeach.bsky.social Headteacher of the primary school I went to when I was little. Worked here for over 20 years and still love it. We were evacuated 16/01/23. Can’t wait to be back together as one school. Also love books.
Sarah @pongopongo.bsky.social In the right circumstances, humans can be collaborative, compassionate and kind. Humanist. Cancer survivor so far. Unpaid carer. Library volunteer. Love books. She/her. 🇵🇸🇺🇦 Please don't contact me asking for money - I don't know you and I'll block you.
Maria Taylor @mariadtaylor.bsky.social Poet, reader, lecturer, sometime reviewer. 'Dressing for the Afterlife' out with Nine Arches Press. Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes. Lover of jam and clouds.
Tullia @tulliatulliola.bsky.social Retired librarian.
Seamus Heaney HomePlace @shhomeplace.bsky.social Seamus Heaney HomePlace in Bellaghy offers an inspiring journey through the life and literature of one of Ireland's greatest literary voices.
https://seamusheaneyhome.com/upcoming-events/
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.
Róisín Leggett Bohan @leggettbohan.bsky.social Writer💥
Patrick Kavanagh Award 2025
Fool for Poetry Prize 2025
'We Fall We Carry' Chapbook (Southword Editions, 2026)
Ed. at HOWL New Irish Writing ✍️
Website: https://inkstainedwings.com/
Christodoulos Makris @cmakris.bsky.social poet & writer
“one of Ireland’s foremost avant-garde poets” - The Irish Times
yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com
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
Cherry b @cherrybpoet.bsky.social Poet, author, psychotherapist, woke, vegan, leftie, compassionate and fair - qualities disliked by right wingers!
Aelred John @aelredjohn.bsky.social Bit of Politics, bit of Art, bit of Real Ale, bit of Opera, bit of Reading, bit of Poetry, bit of Swimming, bit of Cycling. You know the sort of thing. Oh, and the Beautiful Game. Odds and sods. 
David Bruce 🇳🇬🏴 @dab13rp.bsky.social Grandad, retired, fae Edinburgh y’ken, Hibby.
Dugs x 2. Music. Books. Reluctant gardener.
Scottish and European.
Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social Passionate about archives, archaeology and the medieval past.
Reynout @reynout.bsky.social Father of six. Legal professional at university. European at heart, with a soft spot for Ireland. Reader of literature. Horseman minding his head.
Lesley Watts @ljwattswales.bsky.social Retired librarian with 27 years in the rip-roaring world of libraries (last 13 years in a school library) Books, films, gardens, nature and fretting about climate emergency.
https://mrswatts101.edublogs.org/
Andrew Richards @andrewwr235.bsky.social Energy, mathematics, forecasting, analysis. Wine, cooking, reading, music. Generally curious. Hopeful that my country, the UK, will one day come to its senses again
A Plunge Into Calvino @aplungeintocalvino.bsky.social This account is dedicated to Italo Calvino.
The views expressed here are personal, and not that of my employer.
Literary Review @litreview.bsky.social Britain's leading monthly literary magazine. For people who devour books. Read our latest: literaryreview.co.uk
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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social Writer
Colin Gorrie @colingorrie.bsky.social English is weirder than you think. Every week I dig into the hidden history of everyday words: etymology, Old English, and the accidents that shaped how you speak. Linguistics PhD. deadlanguagesociety.com