Michelle Penn @michpenn.bsky.social Poet
RETABLO FOR A DOOR (shearsmanbooks, 2026)
PAPER CRUSADE (arachnepress, 2022)
SELF-PORTRAIT AS A DIVINER, FAILING (paper_swans_press, 2018)
michellepennwriter.com
Nathaniel King @nathanielking.bsky.social Poet | Ghost Clinic, Broken Sleep Books | Eric Gregory 2024 | PhD research in hauntology at Royal Holloway |
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
Paul Nash | Paul atten Ash @northseanavigator.bsky.social WRITER:
Sampler (Black Cat Press 2027)
'Searchlight Seasons' (Atomic Bohemian 2024)
Instagram: @north_sea_navigator
campsite.bio/northseanavigator
Ella B. Winters @ella-b-winters.bsky.social Writer, research, social worker, lecturer, eternal student, working on my PhD.
Artemesia Arts shortlist; Forward prize nominated; Pushcart prizes nominated x2
Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social I’m a library assistant and poet with work published in The Dirigible Balloon, Disabled Tales, Dreambeast Poems, and featured on Brian Moses’s blog. My poems are forthcoming in Scaryness Express.
simonjamesbrady.bsky.social @simonjamesbrady.bsky.social Simon James Brady is an Irish poet and writer.
See https://simonjamesbrady.com/
Sameer Kankali Ⓥ☮✌🏼🌱💚🍉🐸🐮🐷📚📖♟️✊🏼 @sameerkankali.bsky.social MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS 💙🦋
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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
Strider Marcus Jones @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social Poet. Five published books.DMU Law graduate. Pushcart Prizex4/Best of the Netx4 Nominations. Founder/Editor/Publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.co https://stridermarcusjonespoet.blogspot.com/p/about-strider.html
@stitchfan1980.bsky.social @stitchfan1980.bsky.social NO WOMEN Big soaps and gladiators fan
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David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk Senior editor (print) Cycling Weekly
Curricular and extracurricular work here: dbfreelance.co.uk
Unruly eyes: tinyurl.com/BitBlind
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social 
Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk Online poetry magazine posting daily. We publish & review poetry, prose, filmpoems, word & image and print publish as IS&T Press. Editing internships. Posts by Sabine Wilson-Patrick & Kate Birch.
Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io (they/he) nonbinary, poet, father, husband, gardener, *retired* game-dev from Sumo Digital...
Sarah Frideswide @sjfrideswide.bsky.social Published poet. Fiction Writer. MA Creative Writing Distinction. Working class writer with ADHD and C-PTSD. Author of One-Armed Nick and the Nuns of Osyth, here: https://sarahfrideswide.substack.com/p/6-double-barrelled-flintlock-pistol
Lost Muttley my Westie broken @lordcollins.bsky.social Liverpool fan Muttley my Westie has gone over the rainbow bridge.
Tax the rich FFS
Won’t follow traders or young ladies/ men selling their body thank you
Hannah Linden @hannahl1n.bsky.social Poet Devon, UK
1st Cafe Writers Poetry Competition 2021, 2nd Leeds Peace Poetry Prize 2024, H Comm. Wales Poetry Award 2021. Shortlisted Best Poetry Pamphlet Saboteur Awards 2023 https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-beautiful-open-sky.html 
D H Fowles @danielharveyfowles.bsky.social Artist, naturalist and social scientist
East Anglia
Helena C. Aeberli @helenaaeberli.bsky.social Writer and researcher. DPhil @ Oxford researching early modern eating disorders. Funded by AHRC & Clarendon Scholarships. Writing in Tribune, LARB, London Mag, History Today, etc.
https://www.helenaaeberli.co.uk
Michelle Bailat-Jones @mbailatj.bsky.social novelist/translator/reader, here for the sharpened pencils, books & writing talk, for all things language and foliage, for all the shiny things & shadows. (Eng, Fr, 日本語, Ital) Rep'd by Simon Trewin.
www.michellebailatjones.com
Kathryn Aldridge-Morris @kazbarwrites.bsky.social COLD TOAST Dahlia Books. Republic of Consciousness Prize 'Book of the Month'. Shortlisted for International Rubery Book Award. Wigleaf Top 50, Bath Flash Fiction Award, Mancs. Writing School QMD Prize, The Forge CNF prize
www.kamwords.com
Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social Berlin-based Scottish writer. Words in New Flash Fiction Review, Vestal Review, Trampset and elsewhere. Featured in Best Small Fictions 2024. My pen name came to me in a dream. You can find a selection of my writing here: https://linktr.ee/ruralunease
Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social Plays, poems, prose http://danobrien.org
Austin Allen @aawriting.bsky.social Writer.
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
Daily Submittable Deadlines @submittabledaily.bsky.social Best writing and poetry festivals to submit to each day on submittable.
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/projects
@alphasaul00.bsky.social @alphasaul00.bsky.social 
Brigitte de Valk @brigittedevalk.bsky.social Winner of the Cúirt New Writing Prize (adjudicated by Claire-Louise Bennett) & the Royal Holloway Art Writing Competition.
brigittedevalk.com
Steven B @stee2h2o.bsky.social 
Patrick Cash @paddycash.bsky.social Writer | Working on a novel ‘Fireworks’ | Creative Future 2024 Platinum Short Fiction | Hachette Grow Your Story 2024 | Felicity Bryan New Voices 2024 
Avishek ghosh @avishekcolours.bsky.social 
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
e.r. de siqueira @erdesiqueira.bsky.social poet
https://linktr.ee/erdesiqueira
Alan Humm @alanhumm.bsky.social Editor of the online arts journal One Hand Clapping. Novelist, poet, teacher and father but not necessarily in that order. You can find my writing here: https://www.alanhummswriting.com/
I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social Anti-Smoker My Website campralquitsmoking.net See How I Quit 20 Years Ago Fought Nicotine 35 Years Supporting others who Quit 🚭 STL MO ❤️To Promote Authors 📚 & Ozarks 🌄 Photographer 📷 Pez Add @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social 💙
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Alexander Thomas @thomastellstales.bsky.social British short story writer and librarian dabbling in #litfic and #horror
https://duotrope.com/profile/@thomastellstales
Eva Wyles @evawyles.bsky.social Writer from Aotearoa New Zealand, based in London
Deliverywoman (2025, Influx Press)
Agent: Kirsty McLachlan, morgangreencreatives.com
evawyles.com
Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social linktr.ee/victoriaspires
BotN, Pushcart & Forward nominated. Shortlisted/commended in various comps: Winner Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize
Finalist Mslexia Women's Comp
Rube Goldberg Machine out with Shadow and Sax.
Joanna Piechowska @ashapiechowska.bsky.social Linguist, reader, educator and a beginning writer. Lover of non-fiction and translated fiction. University of Nottingham graduate - BA Hons Modern Languages & PGCE.
Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social John McGahern Literature Award | DLR Emerging Writer In Residence 2024 | Poetry Ireland Introductions | Cúirt New Writing Fiction Award | Art Council Literature Bursary Award |
sonyagildea dot com
Robert Loyko-Greer @robertloyko-greer.bsky.social Book publicist:
@profilebooks.bsky.social
@serpents-tail.bsky.social
@viperbooks.bsky.social
I co-edited an anthology called 22 FICTIONS:
https://bricklanebookshop.org/product/22-fictions/
@desperatelit.bsky.social @bricklanebookshop.bsky.social
Interpret Magazine @interpretmagazine.bsky.social A new magazine of international writing, featuring winners of the International Booker, Neustadt Prize and US National Book Award 🏴
Writers & Artists @writersandartists.bsky.social The best industry advice for writers & artists!
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
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
Laura Sheahen @lsheahen.bsky.social On writing and literature
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
Kate Wakeling @katewakeling.bsky.social Poet & Musicologist • The Rainbow Faults (The Rialto) • poetry collections for children (The Emma Press & Otter-Barry Books) • writer-in-residence – Aurora Orchestra
Joshua Mehigan @joshuamehigan.bsky.social writes poems and prose
Jo Gatford @jmgatford.bsky.social Write-abouter | editor | scriptwriter | fiction all over the shop | Shakespeare nerd | writing thoughts & workshops @ The Joy of Fixion
https://www.jogatford.com
https://fixioning.substack.com
Alan Beard @alanbeard.bsky.social Short Story/Flash writer. Third collection Afternoon Drinking out now from Floodgate Press, UK. Previous collections: Taking Doreen out of the Sky (Picador, 1999); You Don’t Have to Say (Tindal Street Press, 2010).
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
New Nottingham Journal @nottinghamjournal.bsky.social An annual print literary journal featuring short fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction from around the world.
Sam Pyrah @timeonfeet.bsky.social Journalist and author, runner and walker, writing about movement, mind and place. Cairngorms, Scotland. The Guardian | BBC Countryfile | Runner's World. Formerly @SamMurphyRuns Website: www.sampyrah.com Substack: https://timeonfeet.substack.com/
Chris @happyyellowball.bsky.social West London + Alpes Maritimes
Stephen Whatcott @stephenwhatcott.bsky.social Painter & draughtsman | United Kingdom
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
Tobias Jones @tobiasjones.bsky.social Italy-based journalist & award-winnning writer: Ultra, The Po, Blood on the Altar, A Place of Refuge, The Dark Heart of Italy, Utopian Dreams etc. Carpenter, listener, teacher - always co-building communities (Windsor Hill Wood, Common Home etc.) NSNO
Lynsey Black @lynseyblack.bsky.social Doing history, gender, punishment, postcolonialism, borders at Maynooth University. PI on Research Ireland Laureate Award, CONSPACE - Contested Space: Penal Nationalism & the Northern Ireland Border.
Houman Barekat @houmanbarekat.bsky.social ‘Après le déluge, moi’ - French flooding investigator
https://www.houmanbarekat.com
So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press 🐉 THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 🌳 Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
Nicola Spurr @nicolaspurr.bsky.social Interested in journalism, literature, freedom of expression and human rights. Born in Jo’burg, now in London.
Jimin Kang @jiminkanggg.bsky.social Now: PhD Comp Lit at Stanford. Prev: geography & comp lit at Oxford, Princeton ('21), Reuters in 🇧🇷. Born 🇰🇷 raised 🇭🇰. https://www.jimin-kang.com/
Emma Copley Eisenberg @emmaceisenberg.bsky.social writer & full fattie 🍦• author of 📚 HOUSEMATES (2024) & 📚 THE THIRD RAINBOW GIRL (2020) • ✍🏻 NYT, Time, Esquire, The Atlantic, Granta, The Cut etc 🌈 she/her
https://www.emmacopleyeisenberg.com- Z Zuhri James @zuhrijames.bsky.social PhD student from Hackney
blog: https://zuhrijames.wordpress.com
Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social 📸 Photographer | capturing life's candid moments with my camera 📸
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Liz Hollis @lizhollis.bsky.social Journalist, editor, media consultant, content creator
Damien Pine @pinebyline.com Science/tech journalist and former NASA engineer
Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social Writer. All My Precious Madness published by Galley Beggar 2024; Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist, Authors Club Prize Shortlist, James Tait Black Prize shortlist. How Do People Stay the Same published 2026, Galley Beggar.
https://www.creativewritingtuition.com/
Bedford Square Publishers @bedsqpublishers.bsky.social An independent publisher of fiction and non-fiction, founded in 2022.
Ruth Donnelly @rudotranslates.bsky.social Literary translator from Spanish, bookworm, cat lover...
https://ruthdonnellytranslates.co.uk/
Kieran Wyatt @kieranstories.bsky.social Best British Short Stories 2026, The London Magazine, Free Flash Fiction, Eunoia Review, Blood+Honey. Fylde Coast. https://kieranstorieswriter.blog/about/
Robert Postings @robertpostings.bsky.social | Freelance journalist in London | Previously in China + Jordan |
Written for The Times, Time Out Shanghai, The PIE, The Defense Post + more.
Rasha Aly @rashaalywriter.bsky.social Egyptian American.
Having a love affair with words.
Middle East Expert.
Legal enthusiast.
Comedy writer.
True Crime Scripter.
Based in Indiana. Land of cornfields.
Ellen Sheng @ellensheng.bsky.social Writer/Editor/Content strategist. 2x WSJ alum. Mom to boys and cats. Indoor enthusiast.
ellensheng.com
Gary Kaill @garykaill.bsky.social lunate.co.uk
@tnanders.bsky.social @tnanders.bsky.social 
The Odhracle @theodhracle.bsky.social I recommend music and movies in a newsletter that you can read for free on Substack
https://theodhracle.substack.com/
📍London via Derry
Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social Ted Hughes' and Daniel Weissbort's international poetry translation magazine. Edited by Janani Ambikapathy.
modernpoetryintranslation.com
Deborah K Ajia @deborahajia.bsky.social Freelance Marketer | Digital & Social | Volunteering addict | Sketcher, Painter, Potter https://deborahajia.com/
Anne Frost @anne64.bsky.social 
David Hebblethwaite @davidheb.bsky.social Adventures in reading, small publishers and fiction in translation especially. Yorkshireman down south.
www.davidsbookworld.com 
Carol Ballantine @cballantine.bsky.social Slow. Learner.