Franco Amati @francoamati.bsky.social writer, poet, SFWA & Codex, ViableParadise 2024,
new collection WORK IS WORK out now: https://www.amazon.com/Work-Franco-Amati/dp/B0HCCQF9YP/
and for all published fiction visit francoamatiwrites.com
Rodney Wood @rodneywood.bsky.social Poet, performer, paints the odd watercolour, grandad. Co-host an open mic in Woking and goes to many others. Wrote a poem a day on a 101-night world cruise and getting a book ready. Lives in Farnborough with Frances.
jennieowen.bsky.social @jennieowen.bsky.social Poet and writer, working in Higher Education. Latest publication "Tips for Collectors of the Macabre" Yaffle Press.
Writing The Dawn @writingthedawn.bsky.social Where biodiversity, neurodiversity & creativity meet | Writing, creative workshops & coaching|For every kind of bodymind | Neurodivergent-affirming | Anti-racist| LGBTQIA+ affirming | Anti-oppression
Sandy McIntosh @sandymcintosh.bsky.social Author of twelve volumes of poetry, a Chinese cookbook, and three computer software programs.
https://sandymcintosh.info
Steve Silas Hendrickson (Mlem) @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social "Mamunduong tawo" 🌈🇵🇭
| Gay Widower | Bicolano Poet | Bibliophile | Gamer
Monthly Host: #PoetsOfDoom
Daily Host: #7SyllableSquad
Currently Sponsored by Ramen, Audacity, and Coffee 🍜 👻 ☕
Chronic Pop Culture Illiterate
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Siobhan Logan @siobhanloganwriter.bsky.social Writer, doodler, former editor & publisher at Space Cat Press. She/Her. Currently VP of Leicester Writers Club, a lovely writers community. Dabbles in Art classes for joy.
https://spacecatpress.co.uk/
andre/a losi, poetry & art @scrivolosi.bsky.social Queer poet & mixed media artist. Works focus on natural and urban spaces, presence and loss. Love free libraries, independent bookshops and good decaf.
©️poetry, photos and artwork mine; contact for pricing.
No AI please.
Jennifer 📚🎧❣️ @jdawson001.bsky.social ♿️🏳️🌈American SFF author, poet, editor, & book reviewer living in England. She/her. The Poetry Society & The British Fantasy Society. Old OWW member.
Online at: WorldsOfMayhem.com
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/dawson001
🏳️⚧️ rights = human rights.
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
Rosie Johnston @rojohumanwriter.bsky.social Writer, mentor, poet published in UK, Ireland & USA living by the sea in UK. New non-fiction soon from Colorful Crow, USA. Five published poetry books since 2010: latest 'Safe Ground', Mica Press 2025. Reviews for londongrip.com
rosiejohnstonwrites.com
Maria Taylor @mariadtaylor.bsky.social Poet, reader, lecturer, sometime reviewer. 'Dressing for the Afterlife' out with Nine Arches Press. Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes. Lover of jam and clouds.
@livvyhanks.bsky.social @livvyhanks.bsky.social 
Dr. Mohan Prasad Joshi @mohan-prasad-joshi.bsky.social Awareness • Silence • Nature • Poetry • Spirituality
MD, MSc • Former Professor & Global AMR Consultant
Author of A Hundred Flowers to Awareness and Death
Photos/videos/GIFs are original & shot by me (except RTs)
No DMs • No politics
Richelle C. Flores @richellecflores.bsky.social Writer & Editor
Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Writer of short things. Reader of all things flash. Dog lover. Words in SLQ, XRAY, Flash Frog, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf. Winner of 2024 Lascaux Prize & Cambridge Prize. She/her https://www.emilyrinkema.com/
Roland Allen has a protagonist for Chapter XVII @zibaldoni.bsky.social 山人. Publisher by day, author by night. The Notebook: a History of Thinking on Paper is out there, and I'm currently writing a book about books. Here for: writers, books, historians, bicycles, notebooks, human intelligence.
nina theda black @ninathedablack.bsky.social art saves
ninathedablack.com
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allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com ✂️ handy with a pair of scissors
📍 queer artist in mpls, mni sota makoce
💌 collage, design, mail art, publishing, mutual aid
♊️ they/them
🗃️ folio + monthly zines: allisonanne.com
🛑 no ai / nft / crypto
Lori Jones @lorijonespoetry.bsky.social Dreamer. Artist. Poet.
(she/her)
My debut poetry collection, The Sweetening, is available now.
https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params=tNc4PEbsbvaXfnA9b8WVRq1j2CfnRZBZCDjCL053p8L
Jon Doble @jon26.bsky.social Cornwall based and lover of poetry. Two volumes so far: “Caged Birds & Spirit Levels” 2022 and “My name is …. (displaced poems for invisible people)” 2023. Available on Amazon.
The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social The VILLAGE 🏘 is a place where the world 🌍 feels a tiny bit smaller. Founded by SMOKELONG for the Global Flash Community
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K.R.Rose @k-r-rose.bsky.social Blind poet, artist, storyteller. Always involved in a project.
Currently obsessed with clown fish and freshwater salmon
https://krrosewrites.com/
Stephen Paul Wren @moleculesunlimited.bsky.social Poet. PINE/NEEDLES out Sept ‘26. BOtN nominated. Director of Molecules Unlimited. Leads Wren research group. University of Cambridge PhD. AFC. Chiefs.
Robert J. Tiess @robertjtiess.bsky.social Poet Author Writer 1980s-now
31+ Years in Libraries
Conscious Writers Collective Member
Advocate of Poets & Poetry
My poetry collections:
+ Gracious Nature
+ May We Learn from the Earth
+ The Humbling and Other Poems
Website: robertjtiess.wordpress.com
Clare Bonetree @blooyonder.bsky.social poet; trees, radical hope, fairness, equality, Herefordshire, arthritis mental health, disability, anarchism. Join a union!
elizabethcusackpoetry @poetry32.bsky.social Elizabeth Cusack, writer/editor/performer. California to New Mexico. Author of books, Lovers Leap and Nothing But the Sea. Poetry on the Rocks for Lonely Hearts.™️
clareluck.bsky.social @clareluck.bsky.social Prolific wanderer, photographer, occasional poet and dilly-dallyer.
No AI thanks.
Stowmarket Suffolk
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/
Liz Champion @lizchampion.bsky.social Writer, coach, teacher. I write Midlife Without a Map on Substack about the highs, lows and laughs of midlife. Founder member @womenwritersnet.bsky.social
Todd Watson - Writer @toddwatsonauthor.bsky.social Writer
Book Enthusiast
Railway Enthusiast
🏳️🌈 He/They
Autistic and Queer
UK 🇬🇧 (Living in Warrington)
Seeking Agency Representation
Favourite book? A Bear Called Paddington
https://www.instagram.com/toddwatsonauthor?igsh=NnQxdXVpN3VnbjE%3D&utm_source=qr
Kaspa Thompson @kaspalita.bsky.social Buddhist Minister, IFS Psychotherapist (http://www.kaspathompson.co.uk) writing at http://kaspa.substack.com
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.
Sarah Warden @sarahwarden.bsky.social Poet. Socialist.
"Fight like there is no night so dark that liberty cannot light it."
#poetsonbluesky #NoKings
http://sarahwarden.substack.com
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
Stephen Lightbown @stephenlightbown.bsky.social Adult and children's poet. Picture book writer. Adaptive surfer. Yoga teacher. Northerner. Wheelchair user. Represented by Alice Williams.
National Association of Writers in Education @nawewriters.bsky.social
The National Association of Writers in Education advocates for Creative Writing as a subject, supporting writers & good practice in teaching & facilitation in all settings. Conference, journal & more.
Lee Chottiner @leechott.bsky.social Award-winning journalist, published poet, under-radar kind of guy. It’s the under-radar types who will save the world.
Survivors' Poetry 🎤📚🌈 @survivors-poetry.bsky.social Survivors’ Poetry was founded in 1991 by poets with first-hand experience of the mental health system. We host monthly live open mic meetings 2nd Tuesdays of the month at The Harrison in King's Cross and 4th Tuesdays via Zoom https://survivorspoetry.co.uk/
Katie Griffiths @kmngriffiths.bsky.social Author of 'The Attitudes' and 'My Shrink is Pregnant'. Strumming member of Fells and Such.
Al Hatch @alhatchauthor.bsky.social Slice of life novel "Meltdown Expected" coming soon. Set over 3 decades from 80s, about punk rock, coding, philosophy, radicalisation, love, weakness, growing up. Also write poetry, songs and non-fiction. #actuallyaustistic #leftist #lgbtq ally UK he/him
In Three Poems @inthreepoems.bsky.social Each episode is a conversation in three poems with a different guest poet, examining how poems connect us and how they communicate with each other.
inthreepoems.com
Hosted by @davidjbauman.bsky.social
@poetsonbluesky.bsky.social @poetsonbluesky.bsky.social 
Matthias (watering thoughts) 🦄🧚♂️🐉 @ignorantfairy.bsky.social poet, visual artist, educator, queer
🏳️⚧️ ally, he/him,
nd, married, poemosexual
Poetry is how I translate realities
Some work can be found at SixtyOddPoets
Pictures & poems by me if not credited otherwise. Interaction is 🗝
https://ko-fi.com/ignorantfairy
Tim Tim Cheng @timtimtmi.bsky.social Poet, Translator, Editor, Lecturer
🦥 The Tattoo Collector (Nine Arches Press, 2024)
🐸 Tapping At Glass (Verve Poetry Press, 2023)
🐙 2025 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program
🐌 glasgow / hk / IG@mymothercalls / timtimcheng.com
Rebecca Loveday @rebeccaloveday.bsky.social Poems for everyone 📚
www.rebeccalovedayrhymelady.com
Josie De Falco @josiedefalco.bsky.social Children’s Poet | West Yorkshire, UK | Poems Published in Little Thoughts Press, Parakeet Magazine, The Dirigible Balloon, The Toy , Tyger Tyger Magazine and a Nature Anthology: Picture Perfect Poetry.
Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social Children’s poet, picture book author and micropoetry fiend. I write for children, adults and everyone in between.
📕 🦘My picture book, Out Now: The Klangaroo https://t.ly/TdXh-
My Website & Blog: dreambeastpoems.com/blog
Paul McMahon @paulmcmahonpoet.bsky.social Poet, musician. https://www.paul-mcmahon.com/
Zoe Davis @meanerharker.bsky.social Writer and avid doodler with words in the likes of Strix, Ink Sweat and Tears and Dust. 2x BotN nom. Forward Prize Nom. Lives in Sheffield UK. Interested in comics, computer games and sports. Member of Sheffield Eagles Wheelchair Rugby Club.
Jonathan Butcher @jondbutcher.bsky.social Poet based in Sheffield. Editor of Fixator Press
https://fixatorpress.home.blog/
Kathryn Beevor @kathrynbeevor.bsky.social Poet Educator (children and adult), TEDx Youth speaker, editor, charity trustee (Kids at School in Nepal) and fundraiser. My work has been published by Little Thoughts Press, Yorkshire Times Publishing, Dream Well Writing Ltd, and the Dirigible Balloon
Kat @katlyonsartist.bsky.social Writer, performer, creative producer, wkshop facilitator, fungi-friend, hedgewitch, QueerAF 🍄🌈 🍉
https://linktr.ee/katlyons
Former Bristol City Poet, co-host w. Raise the Bar, collection Love Beneath the Nails published by Verve Poetry Press.
Naomi Head @naomieah.bsky.social she/they
Writer, poet, creative facilitator & digital media professional based in Edinburgh 🏴
Writer of The Good Egg Project Newsletter sharing events and open calls for writers 🐣
See more: linktr.ee/naomieah_
Dean Tsang @tsangman93.bsky.social Spoken Word poet based in Edinburgh!
Photo credit Jack Hinks Photography
C Maxfield @pickledp3.bsky.social Published via The Broken Spine, Blood+Honey, DarkWinter Literary Magazine, RiversSide and Silly Goose Press
Erica Gillingham @ericareadsqueer.bsky.social writer • poet • bookseller • hella queer
pamphlet THE HUMAN BODY IS A HIVE
substack CALL ME MAMA • PhD in YA
bookseller @gaystheword.bsky.social
www.ericagillingham.com 🏳️⚧️💖🏳️🌈
Kirstie Millar @kirstiemillar.bsky.social Founding editor of Ache, an intersectional feminist publisher on illness, health bodies and pain. My poetry book The Strange Egg is out now! 🥚🩸
Daniel Duggan @danieldugganwriter.bsky.social Pushcart nominated, published writer pouring words in the Scottish Borders
Sarah Raybould @sarahraybould.bsky.social Compulsive writer, poet, doctor.
Commissioned to write & perform by English Touring Opera
Published in Black Bough Poetry, Ink Sweat and Tears, IceFloePress
2 Pushcart Nominations
Ira Lightman @iralightman.bsky.social https://substack.com/@iralightman1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1n0v50
Laura Warner @menstrualpoetic.bsky.social (she/her) Poet, PhD-ing at University of Exeter, researching menstrual poetry and endometriosis. Works in alternative provision for children and young people.
Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social Story Teller, Word Juggler, all round good egg,
Poet from the North of England.
ADHD, cPTSD, LGBTQ+ Ally (I'm sure I have more letters)
Anti Fascist, quite left wing
Part of the #PoetsOfDoom collective
Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social ✏️Writer, birder, boater, poet
🌱 #DailyNature 🌊Water Book Club 🚢 Mess In A Boat Substack
🚂#TravelWriter 🛶#UKCanals
🏆 In The Dark LL 25
WC NatureWriting SL 24
Porthleven SL 23
📰 IntrepidTimes, WaterwaysWorld Telegraph
#NatureWriting
#NaturePoetry
Morwenna Griffiths @morwennag.bsky.social Retired academic (education, feminism, social justice, research methods, etc). Now likes writing poetry, taking photographs and reading books. 
Ayesha Chouglay @ayeshachouglay.bsky.social • writer, facilitator, curator, artist, deaf •
🌷 former writer for Nature Calling 🌷
current Creative Fellow for Plantlife 🌱 | FRSA | Probably writing poems!
Barney Ashton-Bullock @barney-ashton.bsky.social Music re-issue consultant / master tape archivist / songwriter and playwright / published poet / member of ‘Andy Bell is Torsten’ / contributing poet to ‘Downes Braide Association’.
James Carter Poet @jamescarterpoet.bsky.social Children's poet / non-fiction writer / musician / visitor to 1400+ Primary schools. Ambassador for National Poetry Day. Illus by Neal Layton
Aoife O'Connor @aoifepoconnor.bsky.social Poet and Producer based in Derby.
Founder of Salty/She Speaks and co-Director of Derby Poetry Festival. Trustee, Women's Football Fan, enjoy a convo about social-political themes, arts and theatre. Unapologetically Queer & LGBTQIA+.
Wanna be friends?
Jimmy Bowman @jbopenspoems.bsky.social South London poet and @peoplespoetrypod.bsky.social host with a cockney twang.
Claire Miller @claiyah.bsky.social Notts-based ecopoet with some words in Magma, Structo, Popshot Quarterly, and Firewords. Co-owner of @flompstudio.bsky.social and creator of https://ecoetry.co.uk/
Daily Submittable Deadlines @submittabledaily.bsky.social Best writing and poetry festivals to submit to each day on submittable.
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/projects
Shannon Kelly Donahue @shannonkellydonahue.com Writer ~ Editor ~ Advocate
Wildlife, Banshees, Climate, Language, Grief, Music, Gaeilge
Ciarraí Abú!
Words in Catamaran, Forum, Writers Rebel
2025 Evangeline Atwood Fellow at Storyknife
Honored to live in Alaska on Jilkáat Aani
shannonkellydonahue.com
Women Writers Network @womenwritersnet.bsky.social Supporting and promoting #WomenWriters. On insta at womenwritersnetwork and Twitter (X) @womenwritersnet.
Natalie Linh Bolderston @natlinhbolderston.bsky.social Vietnamese-Chinese-British poet. 2020 Eric Gregory Award Recipient, Rebecca Swift Women Poets Prize winner, 2021 Forward Prizes shortlistee. Contact: NatalieLinhBolderston@gmail.com
Clare Painter @clarepainter.bsky.social Happily untangling copyright, digital & AI licensing, publishing rights. Practical contracts & permissions. Fluent Italian with a Milanese twang. Poetry. Also cats.
Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social Previously @eliot_north on Twitter/X. ND mum-doctor-writer of poetry & prose. Living in Valencian Country, working as NHS GP Weston-super-mare.
#Moth Hybrid Mini-Book Ethel Zine - second edition 🚀 July 2026
Pubs below 👇
https://linktr.ee/eleanorholmes
Katy Mack @katymack.bsky.social Poet | First, I Turn Off the Light (Broken Sleep Books, 2024) | Research Associate at U of Sussex
Shelley Day @shelleyday.bsky.social Author. Geordie riff-raff. Based in Paris/Edinburgh. Very annoyed about a lot of things atm.
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
Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social Alaskan poet, teacher, parent. Books: Text Messages from The Angel Gabriel (Gnashing Teeth 2024), Another Life (Riot in Your Throat 2025)
https://linktr.ee/francesklein
Weirdre Lee 🌙💞✨️🍂 @deirdrelee.bsky.social poet & performer
neurodivergent baddie
cat parent
exists in Mi'kma'ki
she/her/girrrrl
I love my Trans homies
From the river to the sea 🇵🇸
Acropolis @acropolis.bsky.social Addicted to great writing. Brexit hating.
Interested in world cuisines. Love football, partial to Manchester City F.C.
Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social Deep Woods of Philly | Sometimes Writer | Spoonie Crew | Accidental Startupper | Words in New Letters, Wild Roof Journal, etc.| NO DMs
https://linktr.ee/lisadellaporta
Sophie Dumont @sophiedumont.bsky.social Poet | Editor | Copywriter
Debut poetry collection out with Corsair (Little, Brown Book Group) 📘🛶 Featured in The Guardian, Financial Times & Sunday Times Style.
“a book of watersheds - love, death and rivers” - Linda France
📍Bristol/Bath, UK
The Failing Writers Podcast @failingwriters.bsky.social A podcast for anyone who’s ever dreamed of being a writer… then got distracted by a video of a cat being frightened by a cucumber.
https://podfollow.com/the-failing-writers-podcast
dogyard @dogyardmag.com Just a mag chasin’ tales.
We accept all types of work from all (leashed) walks of life: poetry, fiction, essay, art, nonfiction, and more.
Read & Submit 👇
dogyardmag.com
Account ran by @edithkrone.bsky.social
Marshall Bood @marshallbood.bsky.social poet and author of Spring Cleaning(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021)
Order here:
https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/spring-cleaning/
Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Flash fiction writer | 2025 Highly Commended Bridport Prize & Finalist New Millennium Writings | Published in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Flash the Court, Writers’ Hour, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and elsewhere.
linktr.ee/adelegallogly
Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social Writer, editor, artist, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award. Wanderer of the deep, dark forest of story in language and paint.
Dartmoor, Devon, UK
Christopher Mollison @chrismollison.bsky.social Writer | Editor | Escapism Artist | Investigative Journeyist
👣 Founder of Urban Mole (urbanmole.is)
📗 Child, The Chronicles of Cyneburg, Book 1 (querying)
📘 Salt (short stories: the forgotten & overlooked of Portsmouth, autumn 2026)
🎲 Forever GM
Anita Karla Kelly @anitakarlakelly.bsky.social Playwright, poet, rest advocate, ME,
bi-sexual, mental health, script reader.
Tom Allsopp @tommytalltales.bsky.social Poet, Playwright, Recovering Comedian and teacher of things. Powered by hope, beer and laughter.
Mattea Gernentz @thewhimsicalowl.bsky.social art curator • poet fascinated by memory & landscape • PhD student researching Impressionism & women artists in parks & gardens 🪷 (she/her)
https://linktr.ee/matteagernentz
Madelaine Culver @fromxthextower.bsky.social Writer, poet + horror scholar 💫
Debut poetry book: The Second Dream
Research: woman-led British horror film + intertextual poetics 💋🔪
www.notesfromthetower.info
@brettprole.bsky.social @brettprole.bsky.social 
Wendy Dossett @wedossett.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Chester. Addiction Recovery Spirituality, Buddhism, Religious Education/Religion & Worldviews. Poetry, Cymru, Kingfishers, Corncrakes, Curlew, Coastguarding. She/her. www.wedossett.com