WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
Gregory @gregorykearns.bsky.social Poet in theory, Neurodiversity in the Workplace trainer, host of The Poems We Made Along the Way, your new best friend.
@jackyaxley.bsky.social @jackyaxley.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
NellNelson.bsky.social @nellnelson.bsky.social This and that. Now and then. Often metrical.
Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social Poet. Reader. Plums, raspberries, apricots. Recently in Asymptote, New Welsh Review, Finished Creatures, Cyphers. Troubadour Prize. Jt runner-up Keats-Shelley prize. He/him.
Tarot 78 Fates 🔥Launching on Kickstarter today!🔥 @tarot78fates.bsky.social I’m Max, the creator of the Arcanum Academy Tarot deck. This is a unique Tarot deck. Only as an exclusive collector’s edition.
➡️ http://kck.st/4kCBwL0 ⬅️
Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social Poet & broadcaster. New non-fiction prose book, 'Village', OUT!
Witches and wheelbarrows: women's history in my village, 1841-1971: cheerful survival!
To buy, search for
ALISON BRACKENBURY VILLAGE AMAZON
Norman Nicholson Society @nnicholsonpoet.bsky.social The Society was formed in 2006 to promote, study and discuss the work of the English poet and writer Norman Nicholson who lived in the Cumbrian coastal town of Millom his whole life, 1914 - 1987. Plenty more information at www.normannicholson.org 
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
Luca Paci @lucapaci.bsky.social Poet, lecturer and translator.
https://www.parthianbooks.com/products/tempo-excursions-in-21st-century-italian-poetry
Robert Bloomfield @lunebread.bsky.social Poetry lurker
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.
Chijirie Art & Crafts @chijirielton.bsky.social I am the African Artist/Sculptor doing the Superb African stone sculptures and Crafts. I do supplies the African stone sculptures, wood sculptures, metal sculptures, crafts and Batiks. Thank you
GOD BLESS YOU ALL 🙏
EK Krone 🌸 @edithkrone.bsky.social A jailhouse preacher’s daughter. EiC @dogyardmag.com, 26 y/o MFA candidate @ UofArk.
Words in HAD, Barely South, wildness, Arkana, manywor(l)ds, and elsewhere.
she/her 🏳️⚧️
ekkrone.com
Bob Varettoni @bvar.bsky.social Dad, writer; loves poetry, photography, music, art, and the Mets; Notre Dame alum; career in Public Relations - NYC & NJ - https://linktr.ee/bvar
Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social Poet with autism and a cat.
Author of ADULTHOOD (Anxiety Press, 2026).
Here to connect with fellow writers and/or fellow neurodivergent people and/or fellow anti-fascists.
he/him • NJ • www.brandondiehl.net
Sixteen Rivers Press @sixteenrivers.bsky.social https://sixteenrivers.org/
Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • Blood Type: Curry • Leeds United • Anti-AI
#LUFC
jmthornberry.wordpress.com
sandandgravelpress.com/store/the-finish-line-jason-thornberry
Arabella Milbank Robinson @arabellamilbank.bsky.social Dean of Chapel and Chaplain, Selwyn College Cambridge | medium aevum | seeker after words | 'only another head I have, another heart and breast'
Mike Piero 🏳️🌈 @mikepiero.org Writer. Novelist. Poet. Game Studies Scholar. Writing in J Journal, Midway Journal, Rain Taxi, Moveable Type, Impost, Sandy River Review, & Trash Cat Lit. *Views are my own.* Monarch and Best Small Fictions noms. More at www.mikepiero.org. He/Him. Bi. 🩷💜💙
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
Angela Allan @angelaallancomms.bsky.social Communications Consultant in Publishing & The Arts
Harry Man @harrymanonbluesky.bsky.social Poet, Translator | RLF Reading Round Fellow | Tutor, Oxford University | Stephen Spender, UNESCO Bridges of Struga & Northern Writers 🏆 | Opinions own, etc. www.manmadebooks.co.uk || https://linktr.ee/harrymanoninstagram
T. S. Eliot Prize @tseliotprize.bsky.social Home of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry for the best collection published in the year.
Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust). www.medhawrites.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
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
linktr.ee/jdnelson
poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
PetGrommer @petgrommer.bsky.social PetGrommer shares simple grooming tips, trusted product insights, and everyday pet care inspiration to help dog parents keep their furry companions happy, healthy, and looking great 🐾
Judith Nangala Crispin @judithnangala.bsky.social Poet & visual artist on unceded Yuin Walbunga Country in Australia. Afterlife portraits of animals & birds. Alternative darkroom with drawing & painting. Grainger Gallery and Anima Mundi. Poetry collections with Puncher & Wattmann. Member of FNAWN & Oculi.
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
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Skein Press @skeinpress.bsky.social Independent publisher of stories underrepresented in Irish literature
📚Contentious Spaces by Rosaleen McDonagh & The Posthumous Book of Shahrazad by Raquel Menéndez trans by Robin Munby
🎤In the Half Light:Voices from Black Ireland curated by Phil Mullen
Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social Author / editor of books on travel writing. Poet. Interests in visual art, especially that of Gurminder Sikand.
Taylor Strickland @taylor-strickland.bsky.social Poet. Translator. Winner of 2023 Saltire Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Get a copy of DASTRAM/DELIRIUM now -> https://linktr.ee/taylorstricklandarts
Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldn’t.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. 💙
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
https://www.amazon.com/Least-Weird-Person-Awake/dp/B0GT1262KP
PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social Defending freedom of expression and promoting literature worldwide since 1921.
Clarissa Aykroyd @stoneandthestar.bsky.social 
David Hanlon @vespertine4.bsky.social Cardiff poet. Best of the Net nominee. Author of two poetry collections - 'Spectrum of Flight' published in 2020 & 'Dawn's Incision' in 2024. Co-Poetry Editor @brokenspinearts.bsky.social
Magpie Miller @magpiemiller.bsky.social A.K.A.: Kim. See also: poems; books; trees (fruit & family); Appalachia (east TN, KY). Likewise, melodious felines, unfounded optimism. Confounding hounds. Further reading: science-adjacent, spirit-curious. Vintage. Allergies: DMs, bigots.
Gareth Evans @garethhevans.bsky.social Writer on the rich area of plants, medicine and poets.
"Unrivalled knowledge of the medical botany of Keats's time."
On a long wandering within an alarming post-Covid body.
Website: www.garethhevans.com
Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social The magazine of international literature since 1984. Order our latest issue, Wasafiri 127: Solidarities
https://linktr.ee/wasafiri
Rowyda Amin رويدة أمين @aminrowyda.bsky.social Poet. NYC. Instagram: @aminrowyda
We go Wandering at Night and are Consumed by Fire @sidekickbooks
Desert Sunflowers @flippedeye
Poems in New England Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, swamp pink etc.
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
Jen Hamilton-Emery @jenhemery.bsky.social Publisher at Salt, editor, CBT-Hypnotherapist at Re:New Hypnosis. Likes words and brains. 
c22 @c22press.bsky.social An experimental publishing collective focusing on Dada, Surrealism, and the avant-garde. Nathan Anderson, Lachlan J McDougall, Vernon Frazer, Joshua Martin
https://c22press.wordpress.com/
Joshua Martin @jmartinpoetry.bsky.social to make everything clear / live backwards
Experimental writer and filmmaker from Philadelphia, USA. Member of C22.
joshuamartinwriting.blogspot.com
https://c22press.wordpress.com/
submersiblepress.wordpress.com
https://epilepticmeasles.wordpress.com/
Naomi Jaffa @naomijaffa.bsky.social Poet, producer, editor, founder/director of Poetry People CIC, singer, recent lurcher-lover, lifelong horse-adorer.
Dean Parkin @deanparkin.bsky.social Most easterly writer, poet & performer, workshop leader, general doodler, moocher & dog walker.
www.deanparkin.co.uk
Julia @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social Poet | Writer | Freelance Art Historian
UK https://juliabiggs1.wixsite.com/juliabiggs
Pamphlet available from Salò Press: https://www.salopress.com/store/nasty-objects-julia-biggs/
Stephen Fothergill @stephenfothergill.bsky.social Baby Boomer, born in a pub beside the River Don at Attercliffe. Lover of blancmange, dark-brown tea, and penguins! Increasingly apolitical.
The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk Independent poetry press + cultural review platform. We publish narrative-led work with edge. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs
#PromoteIndieLit
Edited by @alanparrywriter.co.uk
www.thebrokenspine.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/brokenspinearts
Michael Mitchell @michaelmitchell.bsky.social I'm running for City Council in Ward 14 Toronto-Danforth. https://toronto-danforth.ca
Quick, what’s the longest word you can find —> https://bsky.app/profile/michaelmitchell.bsky.social/post/3mvadd2s4ic2l
Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social Ted Hughes' and Daniel Weissbort's international poetry translation magazine. Edited by Janani Ambikapathy.
modernpoetryintranslation.com
Astrid Alben @astridalben.bsky.social Writer on Bluesky recovering from X. 
Collin Kelley @collinkelley.bsky.social Poet, novelist & journalist. “Wonder & Wreckage: New & Selected Poems” out now. www.collinkelley.com
Jon Turney @jonturney.bsky.social Writer & editor, past lives in science policy, sci-comm etc. Retirement pastimes include managing climate anxieties. New writing at UKjazznews.com and @theartsdesk.bsky.social
jonturney.wordpress.com
See also https://bristoljazzlive.co.uk
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Stu @clough.fyi Marketer. Dad. Poet. Data enthusiast. Footie fan. No particular order, combinations possible.
MA Poetry alum. | Manchester Writing School
Currently pitching debut collection, The Premiad
Kelly E. Sullivan @real-immirage.bsky.social Writes poetry, fiction and academic-y things. PhD. modernism, Irish Literature. kellyesullivan.com.
Toledo Blade (poems) with DGP; Moose Lottery(novel) with https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/the-moose-lottery
Chrissy Williams @chrissywilliams.bsky.social Poet & Comic Book Writer | GOLDEN RAGE from Image Comics ("Battle Royale meets The Golden Girls”) | BEAR & LOW from Bloodaxe Books | PERVERSE magazine editor | https://open.substack.com/pub/chrissywilliams
Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social More left than right. I like looking at gaps, poetry, philosophy.
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
Dr Simon Crosbie @simon-books-art.bsky.social PhD: 'Trauma, dissociation and the boarding school experience'. Interested in art and psychoanalysis, trauma studies, art history, and cemeteries. Survivor of institutional abuse. No DMs. Opinions are my own.
Website: http://simon-crosbie.squarespace.com
Lesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social Poetry Ed of Shenandoah. Author of Mycocosmic, Poetry’s Possible Worlds, Unbecoming, The State She’s In, & Radioland—poetry, fantasy fiction, CNF, scholarship. She/they. linktr.ee/lesleymwheeler
Laura Minor, poets<poems 😘 she/her 🤘💪 #writer #poetry @lauralminor.bsky.social 2024 Silver Medal Florida Book Awards, Poetry 🥈
Book 2: Bright Life, Animal Heart, winner of the 2023 Minds on Fire Open Book Prize, out now!, conduit.org
Book 1: Flowers as Mind Control, winner of The 2020 John Ciardi Prize,
at uapress.com
*no DMs pls*
Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social Poet | First collection, ‘Midnight at the Saltmarsh’, published by The Gallery Press, May 2026
Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social Editor, anthologist, reviewer, professor. Alexander Pope | John Betjeman | contemporary poetry. 
Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social A literary magazine publishing poetry, translations, fiction, interviews, essays, photography, and fine arts. Follow AR Tunes on Spotify.
amsterdamreview.org
EIC @danielnemo.bsky.social
Managing Editor @phebel.bsky.social
Martha Sprackland @marrrtha.bsky.social Editor, writer and translator. Dark Night: Poems & Selected Prose of John of the Cross (Penguin Classics, 2026)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/462137/dark-night-by-cross-st-john-of-the/9780241699294
marthasprackland.co.uk
PJ White @petewhite.bsky.social Onetime freelance writer & journo. Currently learning Old English, reading poetry and getting used to Linux. Leicester, UK.
Edward Lineberry @elineberry.bsky.social I write stuff
http://www.elineberry.com
Rob Hawley @roberthawley.bsky.social Snowboarder, bourbon drinker, Star Trek nerd. Also, I have a short attention span, so this is...Oh! Look, a squirrel.
Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana @corrintachibana.bsky.social Author of ‘Sing me down from the dark’ (SALT; 2022).
Worked in higher ed. in U.K. and Japan. Poems in P.N. Review, The North, MAGMA, Poetry Wales, The Interpreter’s House & The Madrid Review.
Lover of Things Japanese and proud mother of teenager.
Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
Angela Arnold @angelaarnold777.bsky.social Poet/artist living in Wales. Collections: In Between (Stairwell Books, 2023) and another forthcoming with TPL. Pamphlet: Otherdays (ABP, 2026). Lefty, Quaker, environmental campaigner, worrier for the world's future.
Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social Visitor, scriever, ex-prof/-makar/-you name it, loser. Still seeking your poems for endlessly subdividing online/print projects: Ghost Furniture Catalogue; New Boots and Pantisocracies (Art Sonnet Chain); New Gude & Godlie Ballatis (Dundee Renga), etc.
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/
John McCullough @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social Poet. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize for Literature with Reckless Paper Birds. Forward & Costa-shortlisted. Working-class writer. Next book: Crowd Voltage (Bloodaxe, March 2026). He/him. 🏳️🌈
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 Closed.
Siobhan Campbell @poetrysiobhan.bsky.social Irish poet. Collections include Heat Signature & Cross-Talk (Seren). Co-ed Eavan Boland Inside History. Researches CW practice in post-conflict & social care. Awards in Templar, Troubadour, National etc.
Njal Nova @njalnova.bsky.social My Page is about sharing Art.
But, about me….
I float through the arts as the muse dictates;
Photography - Art - Music - Dance - Poetry- Writing.
Passion for Nature, Vintage Film, Books, Sculpture, Painting.
@With1v @with1v.bsky.social Find stuff here Currently #OnlyConnect grids.
Deaf To The Truth @deaftothetruth.bsky.social A metal band from Lahti, Finland
https://linktr.ee/deaftothetruth
Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social Dealer in Everything
Mr. Henry Fate, dealer in utensils and pots and pans, liniments and potions. A fanciful little man in a black frock coat who can help a man climbing out of a pit—or another man from falling into one.
Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social Priest. Poet. Writer. Broadcaster. Trans. Tired. Disabled. Autistic. (Private Passions: Military History, Austen, Golden Age Detective Fiction) T.S. Eliot Prize Shortlisted 2024
Retired Archdeacon
16 books. www.rachelmann.co.uk
Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social EIC @ https://www.amsterdamreview.org/
danielnemo.com