the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social the engine(idling is an online literary magazine for the restless. unique themed issues.
www.engineidling.net
EIC Danielle McMahon (@dehm000.bsky.social)
Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social writes poetry
J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social artist, writer, researcher, fossil hunter, PLA licensed mudlarker, and lecturer in the School of English at University of Leeds https://luckysoap.com
Ben Blench @benblench.bsky.social Magical person. Actual published poet. Freelance copywriter.
kevin hunt @kejhu.bsky.social Writer + Researcher / Culture + Senses. Director of PhDs in Art & Design, NTU. Interested in Film, Painting, Photography, Design, Embodied Knowledges, Ecology, Technology, Space/Time, Touch, Sound & Vision… 👨🎤✊🏼🌎
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1985-4351
@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social 
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/
Colm O'Shea @colmoshea.bsky.social [Untitled]: A Meditation, available from LJMcD Communications
Work in gorse, The Stinging Fly, Winter Papers, 3AM Magazine, The Tangerine among others
Winner of The Aleph Writing Prize 2019
www.astainonsilence.com
Ian Waites @ianwaites.bsky.social Historian and writer of the dreams and memories of postwar England: council estates, Radburn layouts, rural modernism, pop music. Trainee A&R man for Asylum Records in my dreams.
Andrew Keedle @apkeedle.bsky.social old, grey and grumpy
Slightly less grumpy now I've pivoted from software to photography. Studying Photography at University of Suffolk
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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social Writer
The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies (UK)
Something Wonderful (US)
Winner BBC National Short Story Award #bbcnssa
O Henry
Stories in Zoetrope, Southern Review, Ploughshares, BBSS, &&
She/her
Ally
Betsey Micawber @betseymicawber.bsky.social 
Michael @michaelsten.bsky.social A books📚, films🎬, photography📸, music🎶, and knowledge📖 lover from Malta (Europe). I’m always happy to follow back and get to know people 😊.
Jim MacMillan (he/him) 🇮🇪 @jimmacmillan.com Journalist, educator and researcher. Student of peace and justice. CMAT superfan. Born in Boston. Shaped by 35 years in Philadelphia and one in Baghdad. Recently relocated to the People’s Republic of Cork. Pax et Lux | Signal: JRM.353 | JimMacMillan.com
Таран Михаил Вячеславович @taranm029.bsky.social Hi everyone!
My name is Mykhailo Taran (born November 14, 1990).
I’ve been an objectophile since 2000.
My wife is Always Ultra.
We’ve been in a civil marriage since November 14, 2000.
I’m from Ukraine — the city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, Odesa Oblast.
Eleanor Carpenter @eleanorcarpenter.bsky.social Poet
What they say in the shadows @saidintheshadows.bsky.social Their words. Minus the padding.
Sheaf Poetry @sheafpoetry.bsky.social Poetry group in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK
Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry @innovativepoetry.bsky.social A journal of avant-garde, underground, late Modernist, non-mainstream and/or experimental British and Irish poetries since the late 1950s
https://poetry.openlibhums.org/
Image courtesy of the Anna Mendelssohn estate
Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social Historian trying to help build better worlds 🇵🇸🌈✊🏳️⚧️
Blog here https://samgrinsell.hcommons.org/writing/
Buy me a brew https://ko-fi.com/samgrinsell
Pierce Press @piercepress.com Publisher, podcaster, sculler, book shepherd, once & future farmer. VP at IPNE.org. Publisher, 🇺🇦 author OlegVeretskiy.com. Submissions ➡️ PiercePress.com/contact. Approved DMs only.
The Artel Press @artelpress.bsky.social Independent book publisher since 2013. Experimental writing from new authors and artists #poetry | Liverpool, UK
www.theartelpress.co.uk
Dissecting Poetry @dissectingpoetry.bsky.social 
Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social Reader in English Literature and Film •
International Gothic Association co-president (2022-2026) • Manchester #Gothic Centre founding member • #Horror Studies book series editor • Profile: https://tinyurl.com/2czvabnz
Pedro Viaja por todo el mundo @pedrotravels.bsky.social Me: Atheïst Retired
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social #Scientist, #advocate, and #educator in the field of #climatechange. #Author of uplifting #climatefiction novel "A New Faith." Read or download the novel for free at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
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Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival @poetryinaldeburgh.bsky.social A poetry festival by the sea under the big skies of East Anglia. Thurs 5th to Sunday 8th November 2026. ☀️📚🩵
Website: https://www.poetryinaldeburgh.org/
Facebook: poetryinaldeburgh.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/poetryinaldeburgh/
Semper Anticus Press @semperanticuspress.bsky.social Indie publisher launching soon!
Main site: www.book-shelfie.com/submissions
semperanticuspress@gmail.com
Mariah Whelan @mwhelanwrites.bsky.social Poet, Teacher & Editor at @poetrybyheart.bsky.social
BradynDraconis @bradyndraconis.bsky.social Writer, dude, sometimes I think good, sometimes I talk good. Other times it is not so great. Trying to chill and let my work speak for me in this new self-aware era of my life.
Geoff Barker @spritebark.bsky.social Add in equal parts - History, Photography, Music, Wikis - digitise - then serve chilled. Library/Museum Curator. Works @ State Library NSW. Shared views mine own. https://geoffbarker.wordpress.com/ & Q64778919
Michael Marks Awards @michaelmarksawards.bsky.social The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets celebrate work published in the UK. The 2025/26 Awards are opening for submissions soon.
Our partners are @britishlibrary.bsky.social, Wordsworth Trust, @thetls.bsky.social and The British School at Athens.
Ber Mtuni @gaijen.bsky.social 
Kit Fryatt @kitfryatt.bsky.social diminuitivegiant smallsmallth
Books:
forthcoming: All Things That Are Passing, with Ellen Dillon (Spite Press, 2026)
Book of Inversions, with Harry Gilonis,(Veer2, 2025)
Bodyservant (Shearsman, 2018)
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
LycopeneDream @bonnievivante.bsky.social Reading and sharing art, literature and poetry. Also here for the cute 🐶 🐱 and memes. Sometimes I scribble.
JESUS THE APOLLO 🌞🌙 @jesustheapollo.bsky.social Musician | Actor | Scientist | Poet | Author | Philosopher|
Multi faith
“To live to surf the silvers of the moon”- JESUS THE APOLLO
28 -📍UK
https://linktr.ee/stefanoark
Betty Stanton @fadingbetty.bsky.social EdD, MFA, poet, author, speech & debate coach, director, teacher, editor, rpg nerd, game designer, bad at social media, located in Oklahoma
The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social We're an international literary magazine in Madrid. We connect English and Spanish speaking literary cultures through fiction, poetry, essays and interviews.
SUBS NOW OPEN & WELCOME
B(RYN)N💋a goddamn national treasure🏳️🌈 @ryn-rehnard.bsky.social 💋30s author
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Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
@emiliaturner.bsky.social @emiliaturner.bsky.social 
Sam Godfrey @skgodfrey.bsky.social Artist & practice-based PhD researcher
Exeter & Bath Spa (SWW DTP)
textiles/diy technology/kelp/trans studies
(they/them)
sarahkgodfrey.com
Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social Undiscovered Voices Winner ‘26
Poems on the Move ‘26.
Pushcart Prize Nominated. Cheshire Novel Prize SL‘25, Guppy Open LL’25
Write Mentor Picturebook SL’23/LL’24
Poetry - The Dirigible Balloon, Northern Gravy, Tyger Tyger, The Toy, LTP, BBC Upload.🏴
LED Architects @ledarchitects.bsky.social RIBA Chartered Practice founded in the mid-1950s with extensive experience across: Education, Healthcare, Residential, Community, Later Living, Sport and Leisure.
www.ledarchitects.co.uk
Neal Romanek @nromanek.bsky.social Founder of publishing company ¡AU! & media biz journalist of many years - plus sustainability. Used to write for the pictures. Author of scifi swashbuckler SKIES OF VENUS & graphic novel BOUDICCA.
Dayton to L.A. to London
https://linktr.ee/nealromanek
Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
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
Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social A community of kindred poets, performers, artists and creative activists raising their voices to engage with climate emergency. https://poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/poets4theplanet
Image credit: Henny Beaumont
Jay Besemer @divinetailor.bsky.social poet•author•artist•fool. aging, tr^ns, qu♾️r, sick/disabled, autistic. he/they.
🛑DO NOT ADD TO STARTER PACKS WITHOUT CONSENT!🛑
http://www.jaybesemer.net
Global Majority Press @globalmajoritypres.bsky.social Small indie lit press run by and for PoGM
Empowering marginalized creatives to tell their own stories
Editor: @mxchristalbot.bsky.social
Home of: thebkmagazine.bsky.social
bio.site/globalmajoritypress
@cturnbull.bsky.social @cturnbull.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
Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social 📚 Artists' Books projects CFPR | UWE Bristol: Artists' Book Yearbook, Book Arts Newsletter, Bristol Artist's Book Event | MA Fine Art Printmaking Subject Lead. https://linktr.ee/sarahbodman 📚
Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social celebrating all forms of small-scale publishing in Ireland (+ abroad)
call for 2026 vendors: June
2026 DSPF = 27/28 Nov., Pearse St. Library
info and mailing list sign-up: dublinsmallpressfair.com
we use alt text and repost images with alt text
Version (9) Magazine @version9magazine.bsky.social A journal of contemporary poetry and poetics. Submissions open.
ISSN 2818-4874
#roonbyok - #ecoworksphere @refiner-of-thought.bsky.social I bury power lines.
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https://adventureforge.games/
Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Archinode @archinodestudio.bsky.social A curated archive of architecture, furniture and design.
Based in Stockholm, Sweden.
linktr.ee/archinodestudio
t.m.d. lee @tmdlee.bsky.social Dark words | Bright lines
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Exact Editions @exacteditions.bsky.social The premium magazine platform for publishers, libraries and readers.
Find out more here: http://linktr.ee/exacteditions 
Trans Hellen🏳️⚧️ @magalaa.bsky.social What can we do to save life of trans women
Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social Historian of global feminism & believer in 🏃💗 🦭🕊📚🏊♀️ 🌹 🍉
Author of The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared (April '26)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College.
PhD from Cambridge. Homesick Australian.
www.rosa-campbell.com
A P Pullan @the-wee-pencil.bsky.social https://theweepencil.wordpress.com/ ; writer of kids books; self-publisher; studier of Diploma in CBT; sails Pica Belleau; walks Gubbins & Mavis; scone gobbler; drawn in Yorkshire; coloured in by Scotland; Ayrshire; #lufc; driftwood clockmaker; teacher
@elenathekondor.bsky.social @elenathekondor.bsky.social 
Cleoprene @cleoprene.bsky.social 
Anastasia Schaadhardt @sleepystasia.bsky.social PhD in information science from UW | health informatics + psych hospitalization | she/her | 👩🏼🎓👩🏼🏫👩🏼💻
Adam Rowan @shinjutnt.bsky.social Black lab dad. Writer and ambient musician. The Dynasty of the Divine out now!
www.adamrowan.ccard.co
Read my book (free in Kindle Unlimited): https://www.amazon.com/Dynasty-Divine-Adam-Rowan-ebook/dp/B0FS3G3WWH/ref
Dr Helen Boden @helenboden.bsky.social Poet & Independent Literature Professional. A Landscape To Figure In (Red Squirrel Press). Best Scottish Poems 2022. ND. She / they. helenbodenliteraryarts.com
Kate Wise @katewise.bsky.social possible poet.
Lucky enough to be published by
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social @theemmapress.bsky.social @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social @finishedpoetry.bsky.social etc
Marta Bilkova @martabilkova.bsky.social Logician, poet, occasional photographer. Words in @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. Senior researcher at the Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences.
Benjamin Judge @benjaminjudge.bsky.social Writer. Reader.
I have decided to draw every species of bird even though I'm not very good at drawing birds. Why not, eh? Birds are cool.
benjaminjudge.com
Tommy Welty @tommywelty.bsky.social All shall be silly, and all shall be silly, and all manner of thing shall be silly.
Poet-pastor
Julie A Jenson @julieajenson.bsky.social Listening and Poetry
Researcher in Healthcare and Healthcare Systems
www.juliejenson.com
Janell Turley @janellturley.bsky.social artist | wigmaker | hair + makeup designer
life drawing, holga, sculpture, printmaking, riso
insta: @janell.draws
she/her | weirdo lesbian 🌈
kittensinspired.neocities.org
M Brown @mbrown007.bsky.social Friendly writer of thrilling SF, Fantasy, Horror. Screenwriter/Novelist. TTRPG enthusiast. Architecture/Design nut. Biography and history fiend. All around lover of art. Shouldering the burden of one massive TBR!
Derek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social • Helping writers get into print since 1991.
• Poets on Poetry Series Editor (Univ. of Michigan Press): https://poets-on-poetry.carrd.co
• Author of ‘On the Verge of Something Bright and Good’ (Barrow Street) & ‘Inconsequentia’ (BlazeVOX).
Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social Here for poetry chat and curious thoughts.
Nicole Dake - Author @nicoledakeauthor.bsky.social Blogger, author, life coach, social justice activist.
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Death to the Patriarchy.
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#spirituality #mentalhealth #domesticviolence #PTSD #selfimprovement #voteblue #lgbtq
My books: https://smart.bio/millenialmomblog_official
Msiagirl @msiagirl.bsky.social Poet, book & art lover, photographer, aromatherapist, traveller. (She/her) UK Bathonian Malaysian. I like books. I like trees. I like deserts. I'm on IG/Threads. Flarestack Poet Pey Oh. MPhil USW. Photographer. Aromatherapist. I make potions.
J. L. Yocum @jlyocum.com NYC Poet.
BA in English Comp/Poetry, University of North Texas. Poetry reader for 𝙌𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙒𝙚𝙨𝙩.
Poems in &/or forthcoming in 𝘼𝙡𝙗𝙖𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨, 𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙨𝙥𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚, 𝘽𝙞𝙜 𝙒𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬, $ 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝙞𝙨 𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙮, 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙘𝙠 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬, 𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘭.
jlyocum.com
masto.nyc/@jlyocum
Erik Anderson @erikcreatesart.bsky.social 
@whdd77.bsky.social @whdd77.bsky.social 
Norb Aikin @norbaikin.bsky.social 2x Writing.com Best Poetry Collection Quill Award winner and blogger. 3x published author. Former child. Hemmed up by JGM. #BillsMafia #Sabres #LGM #NDIrish Don't mind me; I hate everything. Norbaikin.com/blog
CA Schulz @c-schulz.bsky.social Book-reader and knitter with an interest in everything.
Tim Kiely @timkiely1.bsky.social 💚 Irish; barrister; poet; Green Party member. Chat on all of the above - views my own.
📚 Buy my books at timkielybooks.bigcartel.com
Blue Poppy Publishing @bluepoppypub.bsky.social Nano-publisher & provider of self-publishing services based in Ilfracombe, Devon.
Submissions open for books with a strong focus on Devon and the South West.
https://www.bluepoppypublishing.co.uk 
@olgaviota.bsky.social @olgaviota.bsky.social Ando volando bajo.
📚 Fieldstone Hill Press 📚 @fieldstonehill.bsky.social Books for life. Home of Voelker Books and TellTail Books. 
Jeffrey @thestamberger.bsky.social jeffreystamberger.com/links
Writer. Former educator. PNW. Made in NJ. Hobbyist extraordinaire. Suffering Mets fan 💙🧡💙. Let's go Devils 🏒😈. Green Party member turned Blue 💙. Cat afficionado 😺.
Gene Justice @genejustice.bsky.social 
Mike Ferguson @mferguson-writer.bsky.social teacher/writer/poet ~ for more info, go to 'About' at https://gravyfromthegazebo.blog/
Poems on Shuffle @peotry.bsky.social A wee poetry library on shuffle. Poems daily-ish when able. Biased towards poems that fit in photos!
Kathryn O’Driscoll (she/her) @poetryod.bsky.social 2021 UK Poetry Slam Champion 🏆
Poet • Editor • Mentor • Event Organiser
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John Kellden @johnkellden.bsky.social Cards for Insight: How to play
Add your thoughts to and between the cards.
Cultivate understanding as generative closure.
Jenny Meehan Poet-Artist @jennymeehanart.bsky.social #Artist - #Poet #visualart + #poetry are part of a narrative alongside my #artjournal https://jennymeehan.wordpress.com/jenny-meehan-jennyjimjams-exhibitions-page/
#spirituality #contemporaryart #feministart
https://www.youtube.com/@jennymeehanart
X @metal666head420.bsky.social Late 20s, NSFW account. 18+ only