Jonathan Brennan Art @jonathanbrennanart.bsky.social Multidisciplinary artist based in Belfast. Member of Vault Artist Studios and Belfast Print Workshop.
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Vanessa Global @vanessaglobal.bsky.social 207K LIBRARY: universities,libraries,politicians,scientists,academics, lawyers,economists,linguists,historians,writers,BLUE, ANTIFA!
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Geoff Cain @geoffcain.bsky.social Geoffrey B. Cain is a writer, artist, bon vivant et flâneur.
Dare to be random!
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Yet Water Was 🇨🇦 @yetwaterwas.bsky.social Poet (Brussels Review, Merion West, Pictura, Poets.ca & more), community acupuncturist in #YYJ. Add alt-text to images if you want me to follow you.
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Sheelagh na Gig: Books Coffee Gifts Wholefoods in Cloughjordan @sheelaghnagig.bsky.social Independent book and wholefoods shop offering the best in fiction for all ages and nonfiction on permaculture, sustainability, activism. Local and organic foods too. Open 6 days 1pm to 6pm. Closed Tuesdays.
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.
Sue @choccycake.bsky.social I retired a while ago wished I’d done a degree in politics try to play golf and bridge. Love Ian Rankin enjoyed all 8 of the Slow Horses books!
@orladg.bsky.social @orladg.bsky.social Bit worried about the bees.
Rory N @gasgossip.bsky.social Anaesthetist. Papa. Dublin.
Sean Paul Bedell @seanpaulbedell.bsky.social father, husband, fountain pen user, horibell spelar, retired paramedic, former firefighter, lover of Canadian Literature. My novel, Shoebox, is coming soon to your favourite bookseller. www.seanpaulbedell.ca
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Writing about books and 19th-20thc women's history in 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com
Essays & reviews also in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today etc
Anna Scaife @whatelseanna.bsky.social Author of ‘Hush’ from Ugly Hill Press out now.
Creative Writing PhD Candidate at @modernletters.bsky.social
Short fiction in Landfall, ReadingRoom, Flash Frontier, At The Bay | Te Kokuru, Turbine | Kapohau
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
The Laureate for Irish Fiction @laureateirishfict.bsky.social Celebrating Ireland's finest writing. The Laureate for Irish Fiction is an initiative of the Arts Council.
Fred Stenson @ftstenson.bsky.social Author; SW Albertan; columnist at Alberta Views Magazine; novelist (The Trade, Who By Fire, The Great Karoo; Lightning)
𝕳𝖔𝖗𝖗𝖔𝖗𝖈𝖚𝖑𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖙 🇨🇦🦇🥀🕸 @horrorculturist.bsky.social Gothic gardening, goblincore, dark art, horror, weird music. 🌿🍁🍂🎃
Agnostic atheist. Nyctophile. AuDHD. Demi-Pan. They/them. | Contrary to internet lore, I am not lost, sorrowful, despairing, trapped, drowning, falling, or stuck in a maze. (You OK?)
Dilek Ozturk @dilekozturk.bsky.social Istanbul Technical University/Postdoctoral Research Fellow at School of English, Trinity College Dublin.
Contemporary Irish Drama, theories of space and place ❤️
Dr Shauna Gilligan @shaunagilligan.bsky.social Writer, Educator, Feminist, full of heart, cats, literacy for all, creativity always, Irish PEN.
hmmmphilly @hmmmphilly.bsky.social 
Anodyne Handle @tommyg.bsky.social 'But doubts and loves/ Dig up the world' - Amichai
'It is not my nature to join in hate, but in love' - Sophocles
'stones, flesh, stars, and those truths the hand can touch' - Camus
Honorary moon.
Makes stuff.
Av: A dog looks mournfully to left.
Paul Sandars🏴 @paulsandars.bsky.social Born in England, but would much rather be a Celt. I only seek Celtic followers.Lives in Neath Port Talbot. Survivor of a brain haemorrhage. Plaid Cymru,was Labour cllr.
I shall always love my late partner Nikki Thomson and our late daughter Eilidh Thomson.
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Nessa O’Mahony @nessao.bsky.social I am a poet and novelist from Dublin. I’ve edited anthologies and teach creative writing
TAKE NOTE 👇 @alexman1.bsky.social Curious☆Metalhead☆Biker☆Work☆Not a fan of Trump☆NO DMs
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Madra Uisce @madrauisce5.bsky.social Mom, biologist, Gaeilgeoir-wanna be, lover of life, fabric, yarn and dogs!
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Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan @chandrikanm.bsky.social Writer, Performer & Cultural Consultant, Multidisciplinary Messer, #STEAM dreamer. She/🤷🏾♀️🏳️🌈♾️ www.chandrika.ie
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Siobhán Burke @wordhoarding.bsky.social Researching & developing tourism or editing conflict studies articles - activities not as dissimilar as they might seem to be. Professional enthusiast. She/her.
Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social Formerly a productive member of society. Denied a 2023 Hugo, probably.✒️
#journalist #writer
Occasionally here, but mostly https://mastodon.ie/@faduda
Recent(ish) project https://guth.ie/space-navigator/
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Colman Jackson @collijackson.bsky.social Politics. Books. Media.
Simon Geraghty @sigeraghty.bsky.social Writer | IWC NMP 26
Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social Books Editor of The Irish Times; author of Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place (Merrion Press)
poparhi @poparhi.bsky.social What's the OPPOSITE of a role model?
she/her - umich and lomas grad - michigander in portland, or
Aoife Bhreatnach @aoifeb.bsky.social Swears, writes, Gaeilge is fáilte. She/í
Makes Censored, a podcast about dirty books and films https://shows.acast.com/censored
Research interests: sex and death- C @ctnolan.bsky.social @ctnolan.bsky.social
Anne O'Brien @whereisthesea.bsky.social Wasafiri 2021 Life Writing and Bath Short Story Award winner. Hennessy New Irish Writer. Stories in RA pindrop A Short Affair, The London Magazine, The Irish Times, Crannóg...
Janina Franck @xilaya.bsky.social Irish-German Author, Photographer, Adventurer
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Ciaran O'Neill @ciaranon.bsky.social Historian at TCD, interested in Ireland and Empire, Public History, and lots of other things. Co-lead for Trinity's Colonial Legacies. 
Rod & Clay @rodclay.bsky.social Dispatches from Ireland. Some observed, some leaked, none official. By a casual observers with no qualifications and a conviction that the obvious is more interesting than anyone admits.
@johnmcevoy.bsky.social @johnmcevoy.bsky.social 
@octaviakingsley.bsky.social @octaviakingsley.bsky.social A Londoner living in Catalunya. Staunch advocate of the comfort zone. Likes books, TV, art, birds, crisps
Anne K @annekenny.bsky.social I live in Chicago; my heart belongs in Ireland. I strive to be kind and brave; lots of room for improvement there. Doing what I can to fight this administration & help those who need it.
Nigel Kneale’s Crow @darkandlonelywater.bsky.social Folklore, folk-horror, Old English, Old Norse, runic transliterator, pre-Christian archaeology, mythology, counterculture, Lovecraft, Howard, Tolkien, Tarkovsky, Bela Tarr, occulture, shamanism, psychogeography, Old Irish manuscripts, Chaos Magic, Kafka.
Bernadette Murphy @bernadetmurphy.bsky.social Author at Spiegel & Grau + others. NYT-bestselling collaborative writer. First/bio mom, advocating for reproductive justice.
Mac Giolla Fhearga @cumannachasgaelach.bsky.social Tá Gaeilge agam! Labhair líom! | Landback | Saoirse don Phalaistín. 🇵🇸 | Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 | Oileán an Turtair.
Proudly anti-AI. If you can't make art or write yourself, then that's a skill issue.
Argent @warden-010.bsky.social #base44 #deepai #chromebook
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Niall Murphy @niallm.bsky.social Entrepreneur-in-residence. Speaking in personal capacity. Author/instigator SRE books, Reliable Machine Learning, History of the Irish Internet. Photography at http://www.edge-cases.photos
Ali Isaac @aliisaac.wsocial.eu Author of Imperfect Bodies, a memoir published by Héloïse Press.
Agent: Charlotte Seymour.
Founder of H A G, a Substack publication arising from the intersection of literature and landscape. I live in the house on the hill in the heartlands of Ireland.
Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social Opti-mystic writer & futurist; father of two. Author with Richard Rohr of 'The Divine Dance.' Co-founder, Wild Goose Festival . Curator, TheSpeakeasy.info Read my stuff @ MikeMorrell.org/BonusChapter
ROCKY LASTER🌱🦍 @rockylaster.bsky.social Feral Alaskan Hoosier. 17% Sasquatch DNA. High Priestess of the Leguminati 🫘. Allegedly Afraid of🐀 Mice. Watermelon Enthusiast 🍉. Awesome Dad🎖. Adoring Husband. Impossibly Humble. Susceptible to Flattery, 🥑's, and Wizardry. Balding Vegan Earthling 🌎
odubhda @odubhda.bsky.social Music enjoyer from Sligo town, living in Dublin town.
https://www.instagram.com/0dubhda/
Grievous Devious @furikake-pancake.bsky.social 
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Lothlorien Poetry Journal @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction and art.
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines.html
BHoswell [Money doesn't change men. It unmasks them.] @benhoswell.bsky.social Proud Australian living in New Zealand. Artist. Reader. Gamer. I love animals and nature. Tolkien lover. Cat whisperer.
Former AI art creator. Dismayed at what the AI data centres are doing to our world.
Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social Publisher
Books Made in Berlin since 2023
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Jo Simons (she/her) @josimons.bsky.social Dr. Jo, Pākehā, Academic Librarian in Aotearoa NZ, Plant enthusiast, fibre crafter, hoarder of pens, herder of children and cats
Working with Digital Library team at Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland, opinions mine not my employers
Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social Teacher and Poet. Pamphlets - Walrussey (The Black Cat Poetry Press, 2023) and Circulaire (Written off Publishing, 2025).
Circulaire available to purchase here: https://writtenoffpublishing.com/shop/p/circulaire-bex-hainsworth
Silver Locust Press @silverlocustpress.bsky.social A new press from Ireland publishing poetry and flash-fiction chapbooks with bespoke cover art. Est'd. 2026. Available at www.silverlocust.press
thecenote.bsky.social/OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS @thecenote.bsky.social A new poetry review, open for submissions (June 30-November 1). http://thecenotepoetryreview.org
Matt Lanark @mattlanark.bsky.social ✍️ probably not writing the Great American Novel
📚 Great-ish Books on @substack
🏀 Undrafted NBA free agent since 2012
📌 Washington, DC
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@primroses23.bsky.social @primroses23.bsky.social 
Susan Park @susanfirghilpark.bsky.social writer, poet, nature lover and complete book geek living in the Pacific Northwest surrounded by forest, birds, squirrels, chipmunks and chickens. Member SCBWI.
@robertcesaretti.bsky.social @robertcesaretti.bsky.social 
Akash Bhat 🚀🤘 @akashb.bsky.social Runs Marketing at Compport. Writer, reader and Pickleball Power Player. Always looking for great new scifi novels. Based out of BLR, India.
Miriam Rasmussen @miriamsr85.bsky.social 
Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social Ireland's premier review of intellectual inquiry for two decades. Published quarterly (www.drb.ie), entire archive since 2007 available. Everything on totally free access but donations of course welcome to keep us going.
@gnnrbttm.bsky.social @gnnrbttm.bsky.social 
Damon Romaro @damonromaro.bsky.social Author of dark romance, sci-fi, and horror, exploring obsession, fear, and the darker corners of human imagination.
Dirk Biesinger - Author - aka Saravji @dirkbiesinger.com Speculative Fiction & Optimistic SFF Author.
Rejecting narrative nihilism.
Exploring recursion in humanoid societies shaped by the constraints they continuously internalize.
Head Curator: Boreas' Tribes Saga
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Chris White @chrisw101.bsky.social Married to Amaya Naomi, father to Augustus, cat dad. Follow me for posts about writing, books, movie reviews, and of course cats.
A.P. Laesch @aplaesch.bsky.social Writer, art lover, anti-moralist.
Roanna "Rowan" Floyd (aka Petty Davis) @roanna.bsky.social Litcom writer (Rowan Floyd). Author of TOO MUCH HEAVEN, available for preorder everywhere. Was once called the Dorothy Parker of Austin, TX. They might have been drunk. She/Her but not H.E.R (sadly). Learn more at https://linktr.ee/rowanfloyd
@kawalker.bsky.social @kawalker.bsky.social Draws. Paints. Writes short. Is short. Has a tall dog. Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fiction & Best Microfiction noms. 2025 Best Microfiction Anthology
Kik Lodge @kiklodge.bsky.social Writer. THE BULLY IN MY PILLOW (Stanchion Books, August 2026).
https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/the-bully-in-my-pillow
Best Microfiction 2026.
Hosts literary open-mics @saloneurope.bsky.social
www.kiklodge.com
Lucienne Cummings @lucimcummings.bsky.social Writer of tiny things. Fiction: NFFD, Mslexia, Neither Fish Nor Foul, Funny Pearls, Trash Cat Lit. Gags: Breaking The News, Noising Up, The Skewer, Newsjack. She/her
https://luciennecummings.com/
https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/lucienne-cummings/
Xander's Skyscape @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social Wandering Egyptologist/writer/wildlife gardener. Openly Womble. Likes: conservation, archaeology, the natural world, beautiful words, art, and writing 18th Century fantasy.
Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social Previously @eliot_north on Twitter/X. ND mum-doctor-writer of poetry & prose. Living in Valencian Country, working as NHS GP Weston-super-mare.
#Moth Hybrid Mini-Book Ethel Zine - second edition 🚀 July 2026
Pubs below 👇
https://linktr.ee/eleanorholmes
treeskulltown @treeskulltown.bsky.social Artist Author • Make Subrealism • https://treeskulltown.com • Handmade art 🙌 : mixed media animation • Art for peace > culture against fascism 🌈
𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social Woods. Words. Birds. Birch. Beech. Bach.
Reviewer of translated fiction for
@irishtimes.bsky.social
Co-curator of the poetry festival Circling The Square.
@circlingpoetry.bsky.social
Katie Furze @katiefurze.bsky.social Kidlit writer from Aotearoa New Zealand. Books include: KEKENO CURIOUS EXPLORER (2026), PEKAPEKA SECRET FOREST BAT (2025), RURU NIGHT HUNTER (2024), TUATARA A LIVING TREASURE (2023) from Scholastic NZ. #STEM #12x12PB #SCBWI https://www.katiefurze.com
Sara Crowley @saracrowley.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Human. Managing editor for The Forge. Winner of the Excellence in Prison Libraries Award.
Nick Holdstock @nickholdstock.bsky.social Author of The Casualties, China's Forgotten People, et al. Shortlisted for Novel Prize. Rep'd by Pew Literary https://www.the-tls.com/authors/nick-holdstock www.nickholdstock.com Porcupine, a novel, out in December. Substack: https://tinyurl.com/mbze39az
Write4Eddie @write4eddie.bsky.social Scurrying through the mire of existence. #AmQuerying a novel about a trip through the lives of ancestors.
NYC! 🏙️
Follow me at Medium.com/@edwardrstapleton
Mars le fay @mulhollnddriver.bsky.social Mars and Gráinne. Sé/í. Library + info student. Nsfw reskeets and interaction.
22.
Rory Mullins @rorymullins.bsky.social Mostly just tree-besotted…..
Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social Award-winning storyteller, writer, workshop facilitator. Taught 150+ workshops including Second City, Smokelong Quarterly, Clarion West. Stories published in Barrelhouse, Baltimore Review, Apex, Fractured Lit etc. www.tyrtle.com. #HumanMade
Terry O. Scott-Bond @terryoscott-bond.bsky.social Please follow Terry on Medium: medium.com/@terryoscottbond
True Democracy's poet—from the world's longest-running constitutional democratic republic—who loves and believes in the People. A human being. Doing something different. Posts read as a lit thread.
Hagioptasia: Perception & Meaning @hagioptasiatheory.bsky.social Exploring the hidden force of perceived 'specialness' - a natural illusion shaping human belief, behaviour, & culture.
https://hagioptasia.wordpress.com
Linda Ann Strang @lindaannstrang.bsky.social Poet, writer, artist. Words in New Ohio Review, Image, Gone Lawn. Star Reverse was shortlisted for the Glenna Luschei Prize for African poetry: https://dryadpress.co.za/product/star-reverse/
Barbara Stocker 💙📚 @bluebirdbhs.bsky.social Activist Democrat Missourian living in Virginia @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @fpwellman.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social Team Site
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Suite (212) @suite212.bsky.social Podcast that looks at the arts in their social, cultural, political and historical contexts.
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Seán - Cicada Wave @cicadawave.bsky.social Horror gamer, book lover, occasional YouTube guy. Mostly shouting into the void.
Find me elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/cicadawave
Helen G Blake @helengblake.bsky.social Irish visual artist/painter |
Represented by Molesworth Gallery, Dublin | Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast |
Too many books, and proud of it
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https://www.helengblake.com/
Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social Master of Some 🤷🏻♀️
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