Siobhan Logan @siobhanloganwriter.bsky.social Writer, doodler, former editor & publisher at Space Cat Press. She/Her. Currently VP of Leicester Writers Club, a lovely writers community. Dabbles in Art classes for joy.
https://spacecatpress.co.uk/
aardhramc.bsky.social @aardhramc.bsky.social 
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
Yaffle @yaffles-nest.bsky.social Publisher of poetry collections and pamphlets. Yaffle and Yaffle's Nest
Online workshops and courses.
Matt Gilbert @richlyevocative.bsky.social Poetry bothering, blog tinkering, place pondering, musically promiscuous, book-loving freelance copywriter. Likely to moan & rail at the unfairness & absurdity of life. Poetry links https://richlyevocative.net/articles-reviews-first-published-elsewhere/
Phil Vernon @philvernon.bsky.social Poetry, humanitarian issues, peacebuilding. Latest poetry collection Guerrilla Country (Flight of the Dragonfly Press, 2024): http://bit.ly/485JisV
Have finally quit the awful 'X' - why did I wait so long? - and landed here.
AdLibby @adlibby.bsky.social Writer of pantomimes, poetry, and flash fiction. Loves PG Tips, haiku, and challenging perceptions about ‘women of a certain age!’ 🏴
Nina Nazir @ninanazir.bsky.social Poet, writer, artist, blogger. Bibliophile. Activist. Tree hugger. Caffeine connoisseur. Neurodivergent. Creative af. Room 204 Writer with Writing West Midlands. www.sunrarainz.wordpress.com / ninasnazir.substack.com
National Book Tokens @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social A gift beyond words.
National Book Tokens and Bookily gift cards can be spent in bookshops and online.
https://www.nationalbooktokens.com
Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social 
Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social Small independent, inclusive, award-winning UK publishing house. Mostly poetry and short fiction, with the occasional fantasy/sci-fi novel. Prioritising LGBTQ+, Global Majority, Disabled, Welsh poets, and geographically isolated and Older Women writers.
Derek Allsopp @derall.bsky.social
Slouching towards retirement.
Sandy McIntosh @sandymcintosh.bsky.social Author of twelve volumes of poetry, a Chinese cookbook, and three computer software programs.
https://sandymcintosh.info
Jane Yeh @janeyeh3.bsky.social Writer (DISCIPLINE, THE NINJAS, and MARABOU) & lecturer in London 🌷 Instagram: @janeyeh3 🌷 she/her 🌷 www.janeyeh3.com
Jason Conway @daydreamacademy.bsky.social Professional daydreamer & award-winning creative - designer, poet, writer, artist & mentor - MA Creative Writing Bath Spa - AuDHD - forest bather
Editor Steel Jackdaw Magazine
Director Gloucestershire Poetry Society
https://bio.site/jasonleeconway
Jay Gao @jaygao.bsky.social Poet: Imperium (Carcanet, 2022). PhDing at Columbia. https://www.jay-gao.com
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
Jayne Stanton @jaynestanton.bsky.social A passion for poetry; books and reading; lifelong learning.
I love walking in nature, small island retreats, music, knitting. And cats.
Jeda Pearl @jedapearl.bsky.social 🖌️ Poetry • SFF • Fiction • Art
• https://linktr.ee/JedaPearl •
⚡ Disabled • Fibromyalgia 🥄
💫 Collaboration •Community • 🏴🇯🇲
Jen Feroze @jenferoze.bsky.social She/her. Poet, copywriter, general word nerd. Likes naps and cheese.
Jenna Clake @jennaclake.bsky.social Novelist and poet; she/her
linktr.ee/jennaclake / jennaclake.com
Jenny Mitchell @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social Winner of the Gregory O'Donohue Prize, the Poetry Book Awards etc. 3 poetry collections - 'Map of a Plantation' on the syllabus at Manchester Metropolitan Uni. Widely published. Poetry co-editor for the Morning Star.
Jenny Pagdin @jennypagdin.bsky.social Poet - The Snow Globe (Nine Arches 2024, poetry winner East Anglian Book Awards), pamphlet Caldbeck (2017, shortlisted Mslexia). Bridport shortlist 2023, Café Writers committee
Jeremy Michael Reed @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social writer, editor, professor | creative writing, 20/21C US lit & cultural studies | edits @swiftslitmag.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/jeremymichaelreed
Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
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.
Jessica Boatright @oh-so-boatie.bsky.social Creative Project Manager by day, writer by night. Advocate for the power of community and the arts. Big fan of sunsets!
JLM Morton @jlmmorton.bsky.social Poet / Writer
She / Her / Dr
#PoetryReview #Rialto #PBLJ #Magma etc| Winner Geoffrey Dearmer & Laurie Lee Prizes | Highly Commended @forwardprizes | RED HANDED @brokensleepbooks | Rep'd www.rcwlitagency.com | Chaotic good 💫 |www.jlmmorton.com
Jo Bell @jobellwriter.bsky.social Poet, digital salonniere. Host of The Poetic Licence (Patreon) - monthly prompts, famous poet interviews, a creative community. Memoir, BOATER out now with HarperNorth. https://linktr.ee/BoaterJoBell
Jo Bratten @jobratten.bsky.social Poet person. London. CLIMACTERIC (2022).
PhD St Andrews. Work in lots of places and in progress. NB: I tend to only follow UK-based poets and publishers here.
jobratten.co.uk
Jo Clement @joclement.co.uk Poetry, Print & People 🌈
🦉 Northern Writers Award Winner
🐕 Managing Editor Butcher's Dog
🍎 Lecturer in Creative Writing
📚 Poetry Book Society Selector
📖 Outlandish (Bloodaxe)
Proper Working Class Northerner 💪
Gypsy, Roma, Traveller 🐴
Sometime dodo 🦤
Jo Gilbert @mucklewriting.bsky.social Spikks Doric. Avid scribbler o wirds. https://linktr.ee/jogilbert
Jo Shapcott @jo-shap.bsky.social 
Joanne Limburg @jlimburg.bsky.social Writer, poet, creative writing lecturer, autistic, Jewish, likes cats. Latest book Letters to my Weird Sisters: on Autism, Feminism and Motherhood.
John Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social Writer. Poetry.
https://www.johnglenday.com
https://www.northseapoets.com
John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social British poet (The Interpretation of Owls: Poems 1977-2022 ed. Gardner, Baylor UP). Also editor of anthologies & editions of Blunden, Grigson, Crichton Smith, a new selected UA Fanthorpe & a forthcoming Matthew Arnold. Not forgetting a Rilke 'New Poems'
John Looker @johnlooker.bsky.social Poems highly commended in competitions by Daljit Nagra and Cilla McQueen and included in the anthology of the Austin Poetry Festival. Journals incl Magma, Poetry Salzburg, Artemis USA. Books by Bennison Books.
Lives in SE England. johnlooker.wordpress.com/
John Siddique @johnsiddique.bsky.social Sacred Teacher, Author, & Photographer
4M Listeners +50K Students - insighttimer
Project Coordinator: Royal Literary Fund & WritersMosaic - North
Author Website - www.johnsiddique.com
Sacred Work & Teachings - www.authenticliving.life
John Snelling @john1811.bsky.social Poet. Keats House poetry ambassador. Wide range of interests. On the left politically. A kind of hermeticist philosophically.
John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social 🇺🇦 Poet, nature lover, Co. Derry native, Oxfordshire-based. iOTA Shot Awards Winner 2023 for Attachments (Templar, June 2024): https://templarpoetry.com/collections/templar-pamphlets-1/products/attachments
Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social Undercover skeleton. 💀 Writer/researcher/lecturer. Ludokinetic/interactive poetry 🃏, collaborative and amalgamatic writing. Editor at @SidekickBooks. 📚 He/him.
www.gojonstonego.com
Jonathan Davidson @jonathandavidson.bsky.social Poet, writer, etc. 'Downland', from https://tworiverspress.com/shop/downland-subscriber-package/
Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at City St George's, Uni of London. I curate the short story project apersonalanthology.com. Novels are Randall or The Painted Grape, and The Large Door. Poetry is Spring Journal. https://linktr.ee/jonathangibbs
jonathan kinsman @manykinsmen.bsky.social he/him. debut poetry collection the fireman’s daughter out with @brokensleepbooks.
Jonathan Totman @jonathantotman.bsky.social Poet and Clinical Psychologist. Collections "Night Shift" and "The Sessions" both published by Pindrop Press.
Blogs on poetry, therapy and mental health:
https://www.jonathantotman.co.uk/
Josephine Corcoran @andotheritems.bsky.social Writer. Reader. I dabble with VisPo and collage. Liberation theology inclined Catholic. Wife & Mum.
Website https://josephinecorcoran.org/
Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/andothernotes?r=36enk&utm_medium=ios
Josephine Dickinson @shepherdpoet.bsky.social poet
Josephine Lay @josephinelay.bsky.social Poet & writer. BA & MA Creative English
3 collections most recent
'A Quietus'
Debut Novel 'Creating Stanley'
Dir of Ops of the Gloucestershire Poetry Society 2020 - 2023
Editor & Mentor
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social genderqueer genrefluid writer of things #pwME 🏳️🌈🇪🇺📚
Latest book: Solitary Hotel 🖤 Check links for all the others!
Co-editor of https://effable.uk
https://linktr.ee/jpseabright
https://jpseabright.com
Julia Bird @juliamarybird.bsky.social Lover of words, music, cahoots and escapades
Julie Gardner @juliebird.bsky.social PhD student (NTU), poet, retired primary-school teacher. Avoiding bucket lists. My poetry pamphlet 'Remembering' published by @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social September 2024. 
Julie McNeill @juliemcneillwrites.bsky.social Poet
Love Goes North and We Are Scottish Football @LuathPress
A Most Unsuitable Game @TippermuirBooks
Mission Dyslexia @JKPBooks
Storyteller @C-ChangeScotland
Editor @Drunk Muse Press
Gaffer @TheHampdenCollection
Poet @SMFC
Juliet Wilson (Crafty Green Poet) @craftygreenpoet.bsky.social Adult Education Tutor, Poet, Short Story writer, Wildlife Surveyor, Conservation Volunteer. Edinburgh, Scotland
Blog: http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com
Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CraftyGreenMagpie
Substack: https://craftygreenpoet.substack.com
Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social Poet. Novelist. Essays. Nature geek & speaker addict. Author Top Doll 2024. TS Eliot Prize Shortlist. Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar UCLA. FRSL. Teaches at Goldsmiths. Faber Academy. 🎶🐿️ 🪐
Kate Fox @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social Stand-up poet. Radio 4’s The Verb regular. Northern, neurodivergent writer of Northernness and Neurodivergence. “On Sycamore Gap” & “Where There’s Muck There’s Bras” (Harper North). “Bigger on the Inside” (Smokestack).
Kate Horsley @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social Queer writer & Uni Lecturer | fiction in Smokelong, Wigleaf, Cincinnati Review, Citron Review, Vestal Review, Bridport, Bath, Oxford Flash | Novels - William Morrow & Harper Collins | Editor @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social
https://www.katehorsley.co.uk
Dr Kate Noakes @katenoakes.bsky.social Writer, Artist, Critic
Author of ten books Goldhawk Road (Two Rivers Press, 2023), Chalking the Pavement (Broken Sleep Books, 2024) and Real Hay-on-Wye (Seren, 2022)
www.boomslangpoetry.blogspot.com
Lives in Bristol
No book promoters or god bothers thanks
Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social Poet, essayist. Author of 'Findings', 'Sightlines', 'Surfacing' and 'Cairn'. Erstwhile National Poet of Scotland. Terrible at art, alas. What else? Today is all low winter sun and jackdaws.
Kathryn Anna Poet @kathrynanna.bsky.social Writer, poet, columnist, gardener, cat staff.
Kathryn O’Driscoll (she/her) @poetryod.bsky.social 2021 UK Poetry Slam Champion 🏆
Poet • Editor • Mentor • Event Organiser
House of O’Driscoll ✨✌️
🏳️🌈♿️🥄☘️🇮🇪⚔️📝🇬🇧🍉
Kathy Pimlott @pimlottkathy.bsky.social Poeting in Seven Dials. 
Katie Ailes @katieailes.bsky.social Poet, researcher, educator, dancer. Co-Director, I Am Loud CIC. 2023 Glastonbury Poet in Residence. she/her.
Katie Hale - writer @katiescribbles.bsky.social ❄️ THE EDGE OF SOLITUDE ❄️ / WHITE GHOSTS (2023) / MY NAME IS MONSTER (2019) / Northern Writers' Award 21 & 22 / Aesthetica Prize 23
Katrina Naomi @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social Poet & performer. Battery Rocks (Seren 2024). 'dance as if' out with Verve Sept 25. Winner of Keats-Shelley Prize, Arthur Welton Award & Saboteur Award. Swimmer & walker. Loves dance & art. Vegan. PhD - Goldsmiths. Also on insta.
www.katrinanaomi.co.uk
Katy Evans-Bush @katyevansbush.bsky.social Poet, blogger, freelance editor, UK. I mean there's a lot more obviously. Politics, movies, silly jokes, knitting, the end of the world, etc. My latest book is Joe Hill Makes His Way into the Castle (CB Editions) & I write at katyevansbush.substack.com
Katy Mahon @kmahonpoet.bsky.social Poet/pianist. ‘Cry’ available to buy from Valley Press and all good bookstores online.
Kevin Mclean @kevoutloud.bsky.social Creative Director I Am Loud Productions,
Spoken Word Artist, Wrestling Fan. Socialist.
Email: kevin@iamloud.co
He/Him
Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social Poet and non-fiction writer. Latest poetry collection "All The Men I Never Married" won the 2022 Forward Prize. Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Substack: https://shorturl.at/Ea3sI
Kim Squirrell (O'Loughlin) @kimsquirrell.bsky.social
Writer, artist poet in love with narrative, all things handcrafted and the sea...from the land!
SkyArts/ RSL Fiction Award
Bridport Prize Dorset Award
James Berry Poetry Prize shortlist.
Agent: Peter Straus RCW
Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
Laura Theis @lauratheis.bsky.social Author of 'A Spotter's Guide To Invisible Things', 'Introduction To Cloud Care', etc.
https://www.livecanon.co.uk/store/product/a-spotters-guide-to-invisible-things-by-laura-theis
#poetsonbluesky
Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social Tutor in English Lit at Univ, Oxford. Medievalist. Poet. She/her. Co-founder @guildmedmak.bsky.social.
Church as Sacred Space (2018). Encountering Margery Kempe (2021). Primers 7: Grendel’s Mother Bites Back (2024).
Next books on Du Maurier, & Beowulf.
Laurie Ogden @ogdenlaurie.bsky.social Poet, Playwright, Actor, Access Support Worker. Represented by The Artist Partnership. Published by flipped eye. Co-editor of And Other Poems. www.laurieogden.co.uk
Leia Butler @leiabutler.bsky.social Writer from London. Studying MA at Royal Holloway. Tear and Share (brokensleep) - Thoughts I lost in the Laundry (stanchion) - make up my mind (steelincisors) other work in Streetcake magazine - she/her
Len Pennie @lenniesaurus.bsky.social Aspiring poet, growing problem. My books POYUMS, and POYUMS ANNAW are available to order now. https://buythebook.online/poyums-annaw
🏴💙
Lesley Quayle @mrslq1.bsky.social Poet, editor, co-founder 4Word poetry. Wife, mother, grandma, owner of big old Labrador - Finn the Fearless. Retired sheep farmer, border collie trainer. Folk and Blues singer. Lives in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales.
Lexi Pelle @lexipelle.bsky.social Poet
Author of the poetry collection Let Go With The Lights On (Write Bloody Publishing, 2023)
Liam Bates @liambatespoet.bsky.social Funded PhD student @ MMU (ecopoetry, friendship & the more-than-human city)/ Northern Writers’ Award winner/ Human Townsperson (Broken Sleep Books)
www.liambatespoet.com
Linda McKenna @lindamckenna.bsky.social Poet. Two poetry collections with Doire Press, 'Four Thousand Keys' (2024), 'In the Museum of Misremembered Things' (2020). Lives in Downpatrick. Man Utd fan
Liv Torc @livtorc.bsky.social Poet and project weaver. Director of Hot Poets, Haiflu, Banana Poems, Hip Yak Poetry… runs poetry stage at WOMAD, UN Consultant.
Liz Beth Turner @lbtpoet.bsky.social Reader and writer of poetry, follows poets, writers, lit mags, blocks boob-bots and silver-fox-bots. Poetry featured in Guts Publishing's Transformative Power of Tattoo and Gingko Prize AONB Best Poem of Landscape Anthology @poetsofbluesky
Liz Brownlee @lizpoet.bsky.social I'm a children's poet, I love writing animal and shape poems, and the children's poetry world! National Poetry Day Ambassador. Dog Owner. Book reader. Coffee drinker. Friend. Between Bristol and Bath.
Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social Writer, Artist, Psychologist
MOVING MOUNTAINS
PhD candidate at Centre for Place Writing, Manchester Met Uni.
Exploring the Romney Marshes & its coastline through post-viral illness. https://louisekenward.substack.com
Rep'd by @portyliterary.bsky.social
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
Lou Mach @louloumach.bsky.social Mancunian, Writer, Reader, Educator, UoM, Centre for New Writing. Collaborative pamphlet, The Words of Others are All We Have, Hedgehog Press, (2024). Collection, I Am Not Light, Black Bough Poetry (2025)
https://www.louisemachen.com
Lucy Lepchani @lucylepchani.bsky.social Adult Education tutor, writer, poet.
Gardening, ethnobotany, community radio, etcetera.
Devon, UK.
Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social Novelist, poet, lecturer at University of Birmingham. Latest novel BLACK BAG out March 12th 2026.
https://linktr.ee/lukekennard
Lydia Macpherson @afreshafresh.bsky.social Poet ‘Love Me Do’ @saltpublishing.com Pamphlet under construction. Live on a wily windy moor. Gardening at 1300’ up. Remainer. Hate injustice. Girly swot. Never a Tory. I am LUCKY. Wind farms shouldn’t be built on protected peat.
Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social Poet. Manchester. Buildings. NWCDTP-funded PhD @MMU, Centre for Place Writing. Latest: Stay Awhile (Knives Forks & Spoons) & This Now Extends to My Daughter (Blue Diode)
Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social Poet and dog mum often lost in the mire of poor mental health. Debut collection, Life’s Stink & Honey #CinnamonPress 2022. Scots Language pamphlet, A Glimmer o Stars @ HedgehogPoetryPress 2021. Working on next collection with #CinnamonPress. She/her
Madeleine F White @madeleinefwhite.bsky.social #poet: #horseandgirl & #maidenmothercrone collections + editor #writeon magazine + #author #Motheroffloods. Passionate about creating safe digital, physical and natural places for people and their stories. Anglo-German, born in Saarbrücken.
Mae Diansangu @vavapoetry.bsky.social Day job☀️ ASN classroom assistant
Creative practice✍🏾 Poet [Scots + English]
Drag alter ego🕺🏾👑 Uncle Tony
vavapoetry@gmail.com
Maggie Reed @maggiereed.bsky.social Malvern based writer, photographer, bookart creator and a passionate advocate for the natural world.
Maggie Sawkins @magpieisle.bsky.social Poet living on the Isle of Wight. I work in the Quarr Abbey bookshop. Latest collection Flyweight published by Culture Matters.
Mariah Whelan @mwhelanwrites.bsky.social Poet, Teacher & Editor at @poetrybyheart.bsky.social
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/
Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social poet . sound artist . fiction maker . re- thinker . speaks and writes . in various ways . walker . balancer . stroller . climber ... 
Mark Russell @markruss.bsky.social Poetry, art, maybe other stuff