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.
Sol B River @solbriver.bsky.social Writer/Director/Producer - The eternal optomist.
Claire Chambers @clarachambara.bsky.social 'Scholar-adventurer'. Scholarship nowadays mostly in literature from South Asia and diaspora, postcoloniality/decolonization, & translation studies - Uni of York. Adventures are in food, Hindi/Urdu, Indo house, cycling, & (formerly) Zumba teaching
Rebecca Goss @gosspoems.bsky.social More on Instagram @gosspoems
Poet & mentor. Books with Carcanet Press. Poet-in-Residence for CW+, the official charity for Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals. Writing for Life Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund.
Angela T. Carr @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social Poet | Architect | Creative Writing facilitator at Wordbox | AuDHD
🏆 Arts Council Literature Bursary 2021
🏆 iYeats International Poetry Competition 2019
🏆 Poetry Business 2018 Laureate's Prize
www.thisiswordbox.com
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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Writer
Poetry: Debut collection due Spring ‘27
(Broken Sleep Books)
Forward Prize/BOTN nominee
100+ poems in Agenda, Stand, Poetry Salzburg, Chiron Review, IS&T etc & on BBC
Charles Causley & Bridport shortlists
Prose: Orwell Prize/Bridport Novel longlists
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social Writer of stories. 'We Live Here Now.' 'Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea,' 'The Blind Accordionist,' 'Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else,' 'The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure.' (@melvillehouse.bsky.social)
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
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Charlotte Rea-Patel @reapatel.bsky.social Writer, poet, cello player, garlic grower and gin infusion enthusiast.
Breaking Ground Ireland 2022, Foundation Programme participant Irish Writer’s Centre 2022 and Flash Fiction Armagh participant 2023. Substack handle @charreapatel
Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social Historian and Writer at Queen’s University Belfast.
Latest book - MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY (2024) - Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize
Agent: Salma Begum/Greyhound Literary
Website: https://www.kieranconnell.com
Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social Cardiff based Poet, Writer, Academic 'Octopus Mind' (Seren Books) - a Guardian Best Poetry Book of 2023 https://linktr.ee/createdtoread Teach creative writing, writing on/around ekphrasis, neurodiversity, creativity, climate crisis, art
Ruth Thomas @ruthiesthomas.bsky.social Latest novel The Snow and the Works on the Northern Line (a BBC Book at Bedtime) @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social
Agent Georgia Garrett @RCWLitAgency
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Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust). www.medhawrites.com
Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social Reading, writing, rabbits 🐇 ✡️
Director of European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social
London
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Fox and Star Books @foxandstarbooks.bsky.social We publish poetry and fiction chapbooks by UK debut authors with an emphasis on global majority writers. Founder/editor: @carrieetter.bsky.social; co-editor: Kaycee Hill Website: https://foxandstarbooks.org
Yaffle @yaffles-nest.bsky.social Publisher of poetry collections and pamphlets. Yaffle and Yaffle's Nest
Online workshops and courses.
205TF @205tf.bsky.social TF, two letters that stand for Type Foundry and Typographie Française (French Typography).
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A. M. Dassu (Az) @amdassu.bsky.social Award-winning, former World Book Day author | Carnegie Nom x3 | Books: BOY,EVERYWHERE | FIGHT BACK |BOOT IT | KICKED OUT and 12 others from pb - teen | PublishersWkly⭐️, ALA Notable Book, a Guardian & Kirkus & Booklist BOOK OF THE YEAR
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Michelle Teasdale (Yeshe Lhatso) she/they @michelleteasdale.bsky.social https://michelleteasdale.net
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TEND: an online sanctuary for seasonal embodiment and community
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Arvon @arvonfoundation.bsky.social The Home of Creative Writing. Writing courses and retreats online and at three UK countryside homes. https://linktr.ee/arvon_
Caroline Sanderson @carosanderson.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Associate Editor & #nonfiction previewer @thebookseller.com. Royal Literary Fund Writing For Life Fellow. Honorary President @indexers.bsky.social. Also on Substack: "What to Read Now"
Only Solidarity Will Save Us. @mequashie.bsky.social My details don't matter now.
Here's what we must do:
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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.
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Saraswati Nagpal @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social Forward Prize, Pushcart & BOTN nominated Poet, Author, Educator, Performing Artist. Lover of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, tomes, trees, all things purple. Poetry: 'Drench Me in Silver' (Black Bough, 2025)
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/saraswatinagpal
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Shadow Snacks @shadowsnacks.bsky.social Photographer in North Carolina Triad.
Father. Husband. "Elder Emo". I'll make a hobby out of just about anything.
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I shoot both film and digital.
Ruairi Dubh @ruairidubh.bsky.social Left-leaning working class dude who believes in a United Ireland, An Independent Scotland, a Free Wales, a Free Palestine and the Return of all Indigenous land to the Indigenous peoples of the world ☀️🍀🇮🇪🏴🏴🇵🇸🇬🇱
Falmouth Poetry Group @falmouthpoetrygp.bsky.social Poetry Group set up in 1972 by Peter Redgrove. Meet 5 Times a month to share critique and write together. Occasional events and festivals Now a Stanza Group
Martha Sprackland @marrrtha.bsky.social Editor, writer and translator. Dark Night: Poems & Selected Prose of John of the Cross (Penguin Classics, 2026)
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The Pentaxian @the-pentaxian.bsky.social Amateur photographer and general ne'er-do-well.
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Eye of Mud @iofmud.bsky.social Photography. Being made of mud. I think of mud.
I shoot film, mostly.
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@nelladellatorre.bsky.social @nelladellatorre.bsky.social Art Lover. Reader
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Manon Gagné @mollygagnier.bsky.social 🇨🇦-Québec,Qc💙-Globetrotter-🇬🇷🇰🇷🇯🇵 🇦🇲🇭🇷🇲🇫🇪🇦🇮🇹...Passionate-Amateur photographer, Arts, Nature, Painters, Medicine, Science, Foot, Dogs, Birds, Flowers...Hope for a more just world for all! Retired teacher. In a couple and happy=)
Jen Bites @jenbitespeople.bsky.social In Edinburgh. Director, playwright, librettist, acting coach & dramaturg. Possible revenant. Prone to biting. Site: www.jenmcgregor.com.
Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social Ted Hughes' and Daniel Weissbort's international poetry translation magazine. Edited by Janani Ambikapathy.
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This House, out now from @TheEmmaPress. In a previous life, I was shouting about books & authors to anyone interested.
Currently less shouty but still all about books and authors. I go outside sometimes.- S @synerge.bsky.social @synerge.bsky.social Life-long student of psychology, spirituality, law, politics. Too many degrees, too few answers, many interesting questions...
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Ali Jones @aliskjones.bsky.social Teacher, photographer, poet. I write a nature haiku every day as an act of creativity. All photos taken on walks around where I live. Interested in fairytales, folklore, botany, ecology, liminal places, and the more than human. Two published pamphlets.
Mark Connors @markconnors.bsky.social A widely published poet, novelist and creative writing tutor, based near Skipton. Co-managing editor of Yaffle Press and Yaffle's Nest. Running and music take up much of my spare time. Website: www.markconnors.co.uk.
Freedom Ahn @freedomahn.bsky.social Independent researcher, institutional Japan. Smarter than your average bear (but still occasionally outsmarted by a pic-a-nic basket).
Vamonti Cello 🗺️ @vamonticello1.bsky.social Let’s explore Virginia
📸 one moment at a time
JP Keating @jpkeating.com Irish Photographer of all things Documentary / Commercial.
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And so begins my Bluesky journey !
Here to support the photo community/ lovely people 🙌
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Anne Caldwell @caldwell10.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor, lecturer, RLF Advisory Fellow. Latest book - Neither Here Nor There - SurVision. 5 poetry collections and interests in nature, moss, birds, prose poetry and education annecaldwell.net
Bradford Literature Festival @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social explore words, discover worlds
11 - 20 June 2027
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Lala @veggiemusubi.bsky.social 510 - 808 - 310 - 520. Writer and teacher of writing, theoretically in that order. Looking for a shady place to rest.
European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social Travelling salon and writing community - connecting writers across Europe and beyond. Posts by @royakhatiblou.bsky.social and @deborahzafer.bsky.social
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes @niiayikwei.bsky.social Ga-speaking father. Happyfied self-hypnotist. Daydreamer, writer, editor, idea whisperer. Bylines: Guardian, Nat Geo, Vice, Financial Times, Condé Nast Traveller | Writes for kids as K.P. Kojo https://t.co/V3GydO5tbs
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The Nightmare Continues @mojorisin.bsky.social Freelance writer, dog-lover and avid reader. Perpetually punk. Meditation practitioner. Amateur flow artist. #DubNation
Colin Dardis @purelypoetry.bsky.social poet / editor / sound artist / creative human thing. Edits Poem Alone blog. Publisher at Rancid Idols Productions. Co-runs Purely Poetry open mic night in Belfast. Latest collection 'with the lakes' available from above/ground press.
Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doc
Kids' novels:
Minou Moonshine / Sam Singh @kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social
Poetry:
Empirical
@thebraag.bsky.social
Siren @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
A Terrible Thing Bad Betty Press
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Jim Richmond 🏴🇪🇺🏉⛳️📷🏏 @jamesrichmond.bsky.social Well balanced Scot with a chip on both shoulders. Retired cop, golf, grandweans, holidays, photography, fat, happy and all round boring b’strd. Mainly follow photographers. Serial reposter of photos. #independence
かろ @karo229.bsky.social Art Reviews & Photography 美術展の感想文、あと写真撮ってます。
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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social Poet, Alumna of @CBSNews @60Minutes @BBCWorld @FaberAcademy. Shortlisted by @bridportprize.bsky.social Love @britishlibrary & @VanguardRead #amwriting #poetry #visual #journal #travellingwithdevices 🧶 #crochet #StitchingTogether for the #CommonGood
Ben Johnson @bensonofjohn.bsky.social Poet
📷 Black and White and sometimes Color 📷 @thismaxpro.bsky.social Black and white photography captures the essence of the moment, reduced to shape and contrast. In their simplicity lies their timeless beauty. All pictures are made by me! 🎞️📷
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JK Scot @jakey-scot.bsky.social I still owe strangers now long dead for food they’ve shared & words they’ve said.
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MJ Saucer.bsky.social @mjseyesopened.bsky.social Poet and visual artist. Political junkie. Disabled. Fibro warrior. MFA, UARK. Managing Editor, Ice Floe Press. "Wiregrass and Other Poems" (Ethel, chapbook, 2022). Contact: icefloeprojects@gmail.com
https://ko-fi.com/mjsaucer
Peter Foden @ysgrifnlaw.bsky.social Opening the scroll and the scrawl to seek the soul of things (then and now). Archivist, palaeographer, interpreter, tutor. Family. Disability. Faith. Ideas. Politics. Music. Cymro ar ddewis. Dysgwr Cymraeg. Hanesydd sy’n gweithio ar fy liwt fy hun.
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
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Irish Writers Centre @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social Leading support and development organisation for writers in Ireland. Programmes | Resources | Courses | Events | #InternationalDebutNovelCompetition 📚
Supported by Arts Council of Ireland.
John Kenny @johnkenny13.bsky.social Poetry: New Irish Writing, Live Encounters, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, The Madrid Review, Flare, The High Window, Poem Alone, Poems for Protest, Smashing Times, StepAway Magazine.
Fiction: The Galway Review, Revival, Emerald Eye, Albedo One.
Amanda Earl @amandaearl.bsky.social she/her: sharing Ottawa -area sugar crone (tinyurl.com/ottawamandy) literary, spoken word, storytelling & nonfiction events daily ish. Out now!: Beast Body Epic, Autumn 2023. https://linktr.ee/amandaearl.
Eoin Flannery @eoinflannery.bsky.social Associate Professor of English Literature at @micireland.bsky.social
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Vicki Kaye @vickikaye.bsky.social writer and visual artist. Poetry pamphlet ‘Fractured Light’ pub. by Sampson Low Press 2002.
The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk A charitable organisation promoting and advocating poets & poetry since 1909. Publishes #ThePoetryReview, supports young poets @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social.
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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social Poet, apparently. Forward Prize, BOTN and Pushcart nom. Occasional horseman, remote rural Spain. Words in blackbough, iambapoet, eatthestorms, Modron, Madrid Review, Bad Lilies, Dark Mountain project and more.
https://linktr.ee/jamesmcconachiepoet
Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Faversham Literary Festival @favlit.org Book talks. In a brewery!
10-days of author talks and book events taking place annually in a Kentish medieval market town
20 Feb – 1 Mar 2026
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Alex Chand @alexchand.bsky.social MFA @ Mississippi / MA @ Leeds / poet and playwright / https://alexchand.com / recent poems in The Cincinnati Review and The Offing
Rhona Greene @rhonagreene.bsky.social Poetry✨Poetry✨Poetry
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Dublin Ireland
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