Julie Johnstone @essencepress.bsky.social artists' books, concrete poetry, perception, slowness, quietness, circles & lines, grey, Japan, Agnes Martin, moon jars, green tea, bit of a minimalist www.juliejohnstone.com
Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social Poet, editor, author of DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY; Director of Literary Arts at Banff Centre; Poet Laureate of Calgary (2014-2016) and Banff (2022-2024) -- located in Banff, Alberta, Canada. He/him.
online at: www.derekbeaulieu.ca
Jaap Blonk @jaapblonk.bsky.social 
John Coulthart @johncoulthart.com Artist, designer, occasional writer.
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mark sinker @hiddenlandsc8pe.bsky.social this is mark sinker's professional account
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bat020 @bat020.bsky.social coder / ranter / raver
rodrigo silveira @rodrigosilveira.bsky.social marxist free jazz
author of Coisa Nenhuma (@editoraurutau, 2024)
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abby @mlejnas.bsky.social Good at books, terrible at the world.
Iain Mew @superchartisland.com Writing a British history of popular video games one UK sales chart #1 at a time. Now in 1988. Also into pop music and writing on The Singles Jukebox. He/him. http://www.superchartisland.com
Out of the Past @filmclassics.bsky.social Cuenta de cine clásico sin complicaciones, todo muy simple, sin críticas ni spoilers. No sigo cuentas con posts de política.
Michael Thomsen @michaelthomsen33.bsky.social Gen X. Movies/music/modern art/comics/mystical shit & weird stuff. Lives in Copenhagen. Music librarian in a former life. All round confused He/Him.
Music: indie-rock, folk-rock, modern classical, etc
Faust-Bot @faust-bot.bsky.social Zitate aus Goethes Faust - Der Tragödie erster Teil. Sechsmal am Tag.
"Komm! Folge mir!"
Tracey Thorn @traceythorn.bsky.social Singer, songwriter, writer
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David Gaffney @ggaffa.bsky.social Writer, Arts Council manager, musician. Concrete Fields (Salt 2023) Out Of The Dark (Confingo 2021) graphic novel Rivers (Top Shelf 2021) www.davidgaffney.org
Richard Shaw @richards7370.bsky.social Creator of the popular #5albums music polls. Family, friends, music obsessive, real ale / craft beer, Potters / Bears, whippets #MDANT 🏅 #musicsky 🎶 ‘In 1984 I was hospitalised for approaching perfection’ 🎶
Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social Artist and researcher. Academic Lecturer at University of Arts London. PhD from Middlesex University.
https://linktr.ee/Michael_Eden
John Angus Spencer-Barnes 🏳️🌈 @johnbarnes.org Freelance who reads the news on BBC Radio 5 Live & all 40 BBC local radio stations from MediaCityUK in sunny Salford.
Bewhiskered ex-academic historian, folkie, morris dancer & geek.
Bellman of the City of Preston.
Husband of @davespenceruk.bsky.social.
David Wright @davwright.bsky.social Researching and teaching about creative industries and cultural policy at the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, SCAPVC, University of Warwick.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/ccmps/staff/david/
If you want me, I'll be at the cricket.
Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social Writer. Debut novel, Poor Ghost! out in paperback from Sceptre July 2026. Doing a PhD on Adorno & novel theory. Co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Berlin & UK.
Stone Club @stoneclub.bsky.social Stone Club believes the journey is as important as the destination and encourages people to pause and think about place in new ways; connecting ancient sites through community and conversation.
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#MDANT
Lisa Ehlin @lisaehlin.bsky.social PhD in digital visual culture. Lecturer at Beckmans College of Design. Writer, editor, researcher, curator, confused.
Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social Historian of 19th-c France—incarceration, prisons, settler/penal colonies (esp New Caledonia) 📕Dangers of Youth www.mqup.ca/dangers-of-youth-products-9780228024330.php
Professional editor www.brionyneilson.com
Sydney, Australia
Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social Surrealist, Writer/Artist, Media Editor
Galaxist, Tulpa at-large
Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social It's pronounced PECK-a-check. Artist, Crawford Award-winning writer of THE WEST PASSAGE, third thing now and then. He/him. Seattle. https://linktr.ee/jpechacek repped by Jennifer Azantian. Preorder WHERE FIRE REIGNS, out February 2027 from Tor!
your friend oriana @schwindter.bsky.social WGAE writer of television and film
@bythebywater.bsky.social cohost
Queens
Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social Hi! I write about music at various spots (@thequietus.com, @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, Shfl and my Patreon, also in the past @allmusic.com, @pitchfork.com, @bandcamp.com etc. etc.). Plus podcasting about #Tolkien with friends at @bythebywater.bsky.social
Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social Icelandic writer.
The Night Guest // Dead Weight // Down Where Monsters Dwell coming in March 2027!
Cecilia Kahn @cclkahn.bsky.social Vill ni veta något om svensk bankreglerings historiska politiska ekonomi eller aktuella finansiella regeringsfrågor kan ni säga till.
jú @joolischka.bsky.social 
Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social at mecum raucis, tua dum uestigia lustro,
sole sub ardenti resonant arbusta cicadis
Clare Archibald @archieislander.bsky.social variant practice model
words sounds images place: stuff
ask to use/share images please
Burntisland, Fife
https://clarearchibald.com/
Rémi Forte @rmfrt.com Poetic Program, Typographic System
https://www.rmfrt.com/
Yoon Kim @yoonkim.bsky.social 
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
Joanna Hastings @joannahastings.bsky.social Writer, editor, lover of dreams and folktales. BLM. Trans Rights. Women's Rights. Refugee Rights. Human Rights. Green Party member. We're all just walking each other home.
She/her
Paulo da Fonseca @paulodafonseca.bsky.social sound artist/ poesia/ paysan
west Iberia/ eu
lesondouble.bandcamp.com
https://c.im/@lesondouble
Uniformbooks @uniformbooks.bsky.social Edited and published by Colin Sackett.
colinsackett.co.uk / uniformbooks.co.uk
Point Reyes Books @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social "The best nature and environmental bookstore in the U.S." -- William duBuys
Tamál-Húye | Marin County, CA | www.ptreyesbooks.com 
AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social Reader; Emperor of Solitude; self-ironising Don of #NorthJozi; Anarchosyndicalist Czar of All Tolstoyan Russian Multiverses; House Fuller-Hallim; Mr Havisham.
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Obsolescent isolate losing hearing & sight at the end of this brief life.
Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social Curmudgeonly artist, writer and gamedev from Austria.
2023 IGF Nuovo Award Nominee. Worked on: An Outcry, There Swings A Skull, OFF.
Now: Blanksword
Opinions are my own.
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jw ♌️ @farwent.net Mystic, McLuhanite, erstwhile copy editor. If I sound ridiculous, I’m not done yet. Madison, WI.
Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social Registrar by day, movie watcher by night. #ClassicMovies Blogger #Películas She/Her #ClassicHollywood #BanAssaultWeapons #TCMParty original
Redo @dreamredo.bsky.social 35|m|from Poland| Humanities and anime
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Edgar Allan Poe™ @deraltepoet.bsky.social Vorleser, Autor, staunender Wanderer zwischen den Welten. ☮️ Euchzender Bücherwurm mit Stimme. 📚🎧 Macht Hörbücher mit Solarstrom vom Balkon.
J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social avid reader, cinephile, theater and opera lover, artist wrangler
Dan Alter @arlozoroff.bsky.social Poet translator father man of many trades - My Little Book of Exiles, Eyewear 2022. Take A Breath, You're Getting Excited (translations) Ben Yehuda, 2024. Hills Full of Holes, Fernwood 2025.
danalter.net
frozen reeds @frozenreeds.com in short everything has conspired against the work
Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social Promoting Irish writers and writing - maintained by Gerard Beirne
@gerardbeirne.bsky.social
Sanat Tarihi @sanatintarihi.bsky.social Art historian
ottawa small press book fair @ottawasmallpress.bsky.social twice a year since 1994 : the best of the small press in Ottawa,
lovingly organized/curated by rob mclennan
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The Nu Review @thenureview.bsky.social 
Elizabeth Hadaway @flinthill.bsky.social Highland Virginian in Buffalo, New York; poet (Fire Baton from U of Arkansas Press, chapter of WVU’s Appalachian Reckoning, etc) priest (Episcopalian) 
Lasse Marhaug @lassemarhaug.bsky.social Arctic sound amateur.
Daniel Kane @dkanepoetry.bsky.social Living in Copenhagen, working in Uppsala. European editor for Textual Practice, associate editor for Studia Neophilologica.
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/love-joe/9780231203425
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/do-you-have-a-band/9780231162975/
Brandon Haffner @thebrandonhaff.bsky.social Writer, prof, etc. | Stories: Cincinnati Review, Sewanee Review, Harvard Review, New Orleans Review | VCCA '23, '24; KHN '24; Hambidge '25 | #RVA | @Richmonder.bsky.social | Prose editor @Variantlit.bsky.social
https://thebrandonhaff.com/
Michael Kevin Spencer @aisupremacy.bsky.social Canadian in Taiwan. Emerging tech writer, and analyst with a flagship Newsletter called A.I. Supremacy reaching 115k readers
Also watching Semis, China, robotics, Quantum, BigTech, open-source AI and Gen AI tools.
https://www.ai-supremacy.com/archive
Susan L. Leary @susanlleary.bsky.social Poet | SENTENCE (Nine Syllables Press, 2026) | MORE FLOWERS (Trio House Press, 2026) | DRESSING THE BEAR (Louise Bogan Award, Trio House Press, 2024) + 3 📚| Mayah 🐶 | Indianapolis, IN | www.susanlleary.com
Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
Robin Houghton @robinhoughton.bsky.social Author. Poet. Podcaster @planetpoetry.bsky.social First full poetry collection 'The Mayday Diaries' Pindrop Press May 1st 2025. Sings in choirs. Yogi.
@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social 
Shona Grant @monde.bsky.social Artist, photographer & maker of artists' books. Pro member of Society of Scottish Artists. Consumer of crisps. Cocker spaniel owner. Learning to get by in French.
www.ShonaGrantsArt.com
Stephen Hicks @stephenrhicks.bsky.social Social work academic at University of Manchester, Morgan Centre https://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centre/ and Creativity, Health & Wellbeing Lead for Creative Manchester https://www.creative.manchester.ac.uk 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social Bleep bloop! I am a bot that shares art from the Guggenheim collection. Not associated with the Guggenheim Museum.
Kjell Rønningsbakk @kjellron.bsky.social Redaktør emeritus. Interresert i samfunn, politikk, kunst, litteratur, hage, blomster, øl og lage det vakkert rundt oss. Alle bilder tatt med mobilkamera.
Six-Eyed Kitten @andrewkozma.net A writer of poems, plays, stories, novels, and essays. Rep'd by Jessica Sinsheimer.
Edits for Reckoning
http://www.andrewkozma.net/
http://patreon.com/thedrellum
Louise K Wilson @louisekwilson.bsky.social Artist/sound/researcher/ lecturer at Uni of Leeds (art and design) / cold water swimming/ West Yorkshire
Futch Journal: The journal of experimental poetics @futch-journal.bsky.social The journal of experimental poetics.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
A place for prose that listens as much as it speaks.
Based in Nottingham, UK, with a global readership.
https://www.futchpress.info/
Liz Hanks @lizhankscello.bsky.social Cellist + composer, debut album ‘Land’ out now on Hudson Records. Touring with Cara Dillon and Martin Simpson / co-director Up North Session Orchestra / remote cello sessions
Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social Writer. Journalist. Mother. Amazon no. 1: The Process of Poetry. The Making of a Poem. 100 + features and author interviews in The Guardian, The Independent, The Weekend Australian, SMH and Salon.com.
Em Taylor @emwrote.bsky.social words • words • words
climate & community advocate | poet | founder Queer Poetry Collective | founder Islington Stanza of @poetrysociety.bsky.social
Gloucester Road Books @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social Independent bookshop on Bristol's legendary Gloucester Road https://gloucesterroadbooks.com/
Turning Circle @turningcircle.bsky.social Music & books. The home of The Winter Journey & Suzy Mangion. https://suzymangion.wordpress.com https://thewinterjourney.bandcamp.com https://suzymangion.bandcamp.com
The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk A charitable organisation promoting and advocating poets & poetry since 1909. Publishes #ThePoetryReview, supports young poets @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social.
poetrysociety.org.uk
linktr.ee/poetrysociety22
Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social Independent publisher of contemporary poetry since 2008, home of Under the Radar magazine. Made in the Midlands.
https://ninearchespress.com/
Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social Wales’ leading independent English-language publisher 📚 Winner Small Press of the Year Wales 2025 🏴
Laurence Mitchell @eastofelveden.bsky.social Writer. Doom stroller. Travel and landscape, also archaeology and wildlife. Author of various Bradt and Cicerone guides, also Westering (Saraband). https://eastofelveden.wordpress.com. Latest book: Flint Country https://saraband.net/sb-title/flint-country/
Dr A. T. Hartley @athartley.bsky.social Research interests: gender performance in speculative and gothic fiction/ folk horror.
Working in academic publishing. Finding the South East flatter than preferred.
She/Her
Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social Here for poetry chat and curious thoughts.
Epidote Press @epidotepress.bsky.social Publishing imprint based in the Point Reyes Peninsula. Art & writing concerned with translation, folklore, natural history, and the poetics of place. www.epidotepress.com
Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social Read more of other people’s poems, that’s all I’m saying. Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. Published by the magnificent Longbarrow press. I share a house through the summer with nesting swifts. Podcast:
https://twowaypoetry.podbean.com/
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social poet 🌙
free 🇵🇸
she/her
Gary Needham (they/them) @garyneedham.bsky.social website: www.gary-needham.com Film and Screen Media, University of Liverpool & currently writing 'Sex, Guys, and Videotape: American Independent Cinema and the AIDS Crisis' and co-authoring the Queer Film Classic on 'Buddies' (1985)
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
Dr Rachel Smith @rachelartsmith.bsky.social Artist | Poet | Lecturer Producing Vispo and Artists books using Drawing, Photography, and Writing.
Co-Editor of intergraphia books
www.rachelartsmith.com
Jean Atkin @jmatkin.bsky.social British, mostly Scottish, poet in education + community projects / The Poetry Wire online courses / 'Crossing Paths' with Richard Skinner, Black Cat Press, 2026/ out walking / plagued by the cat / www.jeanatkin.com
Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social poet . sound artist . fiction maker . re- thinker . speaks and writes . in various ways . walker . balancer . stroller . climber ... 
Marguerite Alexandre @margueritealex.bsky.social "One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways." - Edith Wharton
Curiously Alive: margueritealexandre.substack.com
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
SurrenderPink @surrenderpink.bsky.social PHL 215
ASL 🤟 🧏♂️ deaf
🏳️🌈 queer & nonbinary male presenting
BLM
🌹 leftist
🇵🇸 liberation for all
Single poly big bear bottom
Gillian White @gillywhite8.bsky.social soft g. poetry, poetics, public power. _Lyric Shame_https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674734395 
Audun Lindholm @audunlindholm.bsky.social Chief editor and publisher of the Norwegian cultural journal Vagant.
https://www.vagant.no
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social writer / artist
Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social Poet, writer, (col)lapsed academic (he/him). Work in: @badlilies.bsky.social, @propelmagazine.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social Poetry prose & things inbetween // PhD on surrealist women’s fiction // film-novel: The Cinema Beneath the Lake // Poetry: Eye Movement/ Oneiroscope/ Refrains/
https://linktr.ee/stephen.sunderland
www.everydaymarvellous.com
Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online "Meaningless to heaven, and of no interest to hell." | literary translator | feral philosopher | becoming inimical | Fulbright Scholar 🇵🇱 | FLAS Fellow 🇺🇦 | BDS | LGBTQIA+
kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net Unheil-bringer. lithium prince. architecture critic @thenation.com
my blogs are https://late-review.com, https://wehwalt.net and mcmansionhell.com
she/they
Benjamin Flowers @benjy-flowers.bsky.social Professor of Architecture, Knowlton School, The Ohio State University. Research and write about stadiums, sport architecture, and skyscrapers. Fmr. Exec. Board member IAKS. Arsenal supporter/sufferer. Opinions mine.