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.
Laura Keohane (she/her) @laurakeohane.bsky.social Kidlit writer and reader
Debut MG Novel Spring 2026
WIP Irish Mythology MG
PMEP student taking a break from dentistry
Anja Murray @miseanja.bsky.social Ecologist, nature enthusiast, broadcaster, create #NatureFile @RTElyricfm, make radio docs, weekly column in The Examiner.
Author of Wild Embrace
Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social Writer, artist, stylite.
Fair to middling spinster.
Magpie apologist.
Good at everything.
Northwestern Ireland.
Also Instagram, and X.
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Howard Beck @howardbeck.bsky.social Senior NBA Writer at TheRinger.com | Co-host, the Real Ones | #NBASky evangelist
Previously: SI.com, BleacherReport.com, NYTimes.com, DailyNews.com, VCStar.com, DavisEnterprise.com
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Breda Spaight @bredaspaight.bsky.social Collection: Watching for the Hawk, finalist in the Farmgate Cafe National Poetry Award '24. Arts Council Lit. Bursary. Forward Prize s/list Best Poem Written '23.
Sue Rainsford @suerains.bsky.social Irish novelist & art writer | Follow Me To Ground & Redder Days | From Out My Heart forthcoming with Lilliput Press | https://apennyspinning.substack.com/ | rep’d International Creative Agency | she/her
Simon Constable @realconstable.bsky.social Broadcaster | Columnist | Commentator | Award-winning Author
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Laureate na nÓg @laureatenanog.bsky.social Laureate na nÓg is an initiative of the Arts Council. It is managed and delivered on Council’s behalf by Children’s Books Ireland. The eighth Laureate na nÓg is author and illustrator Chris Haughton
Jen Wallace @jenwallacecreates.bsky.social Writer, children's author, facilitator, nature guide. Dinosaur Pie for age 6+ out now from Little Island Books. She/her (mostly) AuDHD
Molly Harris @mollyharris.bsky.social Author of stories for young’uns
THE BIG SQUEEZE (HarperCollins out now!)
WHIRBY (HarperCollins 2/17/2026)
I NEED SPACE (McElderry fall 2026)
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Jordyn Darling @darlingdemure.bsky.social Writer ✍️
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Marcia Clayton @marciaclayton.bsky.social Author of The Hartford Manor Series - a heartwarming family saga set in Victorian Devon. I'm a wife, mum, and granny and my other interests include gardening, walking, floral art, and family history.
@lclaraauthor.bsky.social @lclaraauthor.bsky.social Award winning-Zon International Best Selling-Indie Romance Author📚
Ludovico's Vengeance out NOW!
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Madeleine Roux @authoroux.bsky.social MADELEINE ROUX is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than twenty books for teens, adults, and children.
Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Romance, IP
Emily Cadwalader @emilycadwalader.bsky.social MG & YA Fantasy Writer . she/her . same handle in various places
Writinggroupjonz @writinggroupjonz.bsky.social Writing as Judith Vila, I'm the author of BLOOD & WOLF--#gothic, #paranormalromance & #horror. 🖤 🕷️🐈⬛ 🦇 Check out my darker self at https://substack.com/@judithvila
Morgan Wallace @morganwallace.bsky.social Writer of minimalist stories, knower of obscure and useless things. Member of PNWA and Hugo House.
Ber @berschein.com Writer, Illustrator and enjoyer of ramen, space, and speculative/science fiction.
No hate. No bigotry. We share this rock, let’s act like it.
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Colin Corrigan @storyenergies.bsky.social Irish writer and writing teacher. Talks a lot about Story Energies @ storyenergies.substack.com
Aoife Walsh @aoifewalsh.bsky.social Writes books; likes books; likes country music; likes Transformers and Real Housewives; likes a lot of semi-colons. Still hanging out in dark bars (in my mind). ND. She/her. Pretty marvellous.
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Hazel Katherine Larkin @hazelklarkin.bsky.social Mum; Writer; Facilitator; Mentor; Researcher; ADHD; cPTS; Incest, trafficking, rape, IPV, narcissistic abuse survivor. Proud Paddystinian.
www.traumarecovery.ie
Ali Baker @alisonbaker01.bsky.social BA Primary lecturer at UEL. Children's fantasy literature researcher. Podcast host at Fantasy Book Swap. Trans rights are human rights.
No DMs without asking first. I am a prolific blocker.
Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social Author (The Ember of Elyssia Quartet, Fortune's Calling Trilogy, THE BRIDAL PARTY, THE PRINCE WITH SIX FACES). Dice roller. Disabled in the library. All opinions mine. All around nerd.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk Legal researcher, writer, journalist | Trans Rights Lead @ Good Law Project | PhD student @ University of Leeds
Views my own. Not your lawyer; not legal advice.
They/them
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Lilesosanna @lilesosanna.bsky.social Vegan. Gardener. Artisan Beekeeper. Writer. Vintner of country wines. Batik Artist. Conservationist. Bibliophile. Renovating old cottage in Ireland. Current affairs. Neurodiverse.
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Kat La Ronde @katlaronde.bsky.social Writer. Elder Millennial. My personality is “from Boston”
Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social Leading national organisation, working to prevent and address the impact of domestic violence and abuse. 24hr National Freephone Helpline 1800341900 www.womensaid.ie. RCN: 20012045 
Dubray Books @dubray-books.bsky.social Independent Irish bookstore since 1973. Bray, Blackrock, Cork, Dundrum, Dun Laoghaire, Galway, Grafton St, Liffey Valley, Mary St. Rathmines, Stillorgan, Swords, Waterford.
Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social Pulitzer-winning investigative journo at New Yorker. Documentaries at HBO. Ex-diplomat. Bad lawyer. Disused phd. Tips: ronan_farrow@newyorker.com.
Áine Greaney, author @ainegreaney.bsky.social Irish writer in Boston area. Words: New York Times, Boston Globe, Books Ireland, Best American Essays, et al. 5th book, "Trespassers" available now. Free wellness and writing resources + workshop list (and my 5 books!) at https://linktr.ee/ainegreaney
Simply Books @simplybooks1791.bsky.social Sam Hanna.
Books, writing & other odds & ends - some Northern Irish thoughts.
Focusing on and promoting Irish literature and, sometimes, other writers as well 🙂
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Jessica Grene @jgrenewriter.bsky.social Irish writer. Reader. Mother of redheads. Leftie nerd. She/her.
https://www.jessica-grene-writer.com
https://humag.co/prose/the-egg-that-split
Nigel Quinlan @nigellicus.bsky.social Writer, The Maloneys' Magical Weatherbox and Cloak Of Feathers. Repped by The Nuremberg Agency. 
B. Luke Wilson @blukewilson.bsky.social Writer and editor. Words out in The Rumpus, ONLY POEMS, HAD, ect. Hollins MFA alum. Poetry Editor @chestnutreview.bsky.social.
Michael Dolan @michaeldolan.bsky.social Author/Raconteur
Founder/Editorial Director of Winding Road Stories
Former CondeNast, AQ Mag
Boxer/bodybuilder
Cooking/art/fashion/music/books/travel
Writers Festival of Belgium @writefestbe.bsky.social Annually on the first weekend of October. Itinerant - all details ➡️ writefest.be write to us info@writefest.be / Short Stories of Belgium competition and book #ShortStoriesBE
Elaine Beckett @elainebeckett.bsky.social Mostly poetry 'Faber New Poets 13' (Faber&Faber 2016) 'Sea Creature Regrows Entire Body' (Verve Poetry Press 2021) www.elainebeckett.com
Literary Review @litreview.bsky.social Britain's leading monthly literary magazine. For people who devour books. Read our latest: literaryreview.co.uk
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David M. Hoyle @david-m-hoyle.bsky.social Poetry reader and writer. Poems in Rough Diamond Press, Alien Buddha themed anthologies, Iota, MIDLVLMAG and others. Music transcriber. Art, history, outer space. Lives on south coast, UK.
Naomi Jaffa @naomijaffa.bsky.social Poet, producer, editor, founder/director of Poetry People CIC, singer, recent lurcher-lover, lifelong horse-adorer.
Marshall Bood @marshallbood.bsky.social poet and author of Spring Cleaning(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021)
Order here:
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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
Caroline Davies @carolinemdavies.bsky.social Poet and poetry enthusiast
Tamar Yoseloff @tamaryoseloff.bsky.social Poet, lecturer, festival curator.
Suffolk / London
IRANZYE ART @iranzye.bsky.social Landscape Artist / writer
More curated artworks on Instagram 👆🏽👇🏽
Instagram.com/Iranzyee
Vicky Morris @vickymwriter.bsky.social British/Welsh Poet, editor, teacher, neurodivergent jack of creative trades, mentor of emerging young writers, founder
www.hivesouthyorkshire.com | www.vickymorris.co.uk
Alexandra Dawe @alexandradawe.bsky.social Writer and artist in Devon, UK. Inconsistent poster. Dawe is pronounced 'door'. No AI in my art or writing, ever.
Rep'd by @belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social
The Stitchwort Curse published by @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/alexandradawe
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
Burrenbeo Trust @burrenbeotrust.bsky.social Connecting People & Place
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Rob Edmunds @robedmunds.bsky.social I'm a writer of three novels, the most recent about the conflict in Burma during World War II. My previous two novels are both about the ancient Numidian King Masinissa, set during the Second Punic War. 🏴
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Tomica Bajsić @tomicabajsic.bsky.social Writer, Poet & Artist
President of Croatian PEN Centre
Todd Temkin @toddtemkin.bsky.social Poet, author, Patagonian alpaca farmer. A Wisconsin boy living in Chile between Valparaiso & Futaleufú. New book coming in 2027! All llamas, alpacas & Icelandic horses are Green Bay Packers fans. No DMs. No porn. No crypto.
Tara A. Elliott @tara-a-elliott.bsky.social Poet, Teacher, Executive Director of Eastern Shore Writers Association, Host of Thursdays with ESWA Writing Zoomcast, Chair of Bay to Ocean Writers Conference
Catherine Redford @catherineredford.bsky.social Poet | Researcher | Co-editor at Dust Poetry. Forward-shortlisted debut poetry collection, ‘The Way the Water Held Me’, out now. Magma Selected Poet.
https://linktr.ee/catherine_redford
Melody Carroll @melodycarroll.bsky.social Melody Carroll is a writer, poet, and Human Rights Activist from the USA. (Blue American)
#author, #authors, #booksky, #writers #writing , #writingcommunity, #read, #literature,, #fiction, #thriller, #horror, #adventure, #scifi, #vampire
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
https://linktr.ee/gitaralleigh
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 
Jessica Mookherjee @jessmookherjee.bsky.social Poet and Author
Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social I'm a poet. Cancer survivor. Feminist. Reader OBR. Writes in Baja, MX & Los Angeles. MFA CalArts. Multiple BOTN & Pushcart nominations. Penn Review. Mantis. Pinch Journal. Frontier Poetry. Redivider. The Maine Review. Poetry Salzburg Review. 150 + journals
The European Review of Books @europeanreview.bsky.social A magazine about culture and ideas, from Europe, for the world, with essays, reviews, stories, profiles and other adventurous writing.
ImtiazDharker @imtiazdharker.bsky.social Poet Over the Moon, Shadow Reader
Aldo Amparán @skygoneout.bsky.social Author of BROTHER SLEEP (@AliceJamesBooks 2022) & THE HOUSE HAS TEETH (AJB, 2026) | NEA & CantoMundo Fellow | they/them
https://skygoneout.carrd.co
Donika Kelly @donikakelly.bsky.social Author of Bestiary and The Renunciations and The Natural Order of Things | Graywolf Press | Kate Tufts | Hurston/Wright | Anisfield-Wolf |NEA | Iowa English | she/her/dr.
Dr. Karen Lee Street @karenleestreet.bsky.social Author: the Edgar Allan Poe mystery trilogy; Writing and Selling Crime Film Screenplays; Tattoos and Motorcycles.
Rep’d by AM Heath Literary Agency
Screenwriting lecturer & script editor.
Books, film, art, folklore, cats, vintage baubles.
Paddy Woodworth @paddywoodworth.bsky.social Author, broadcaster, journalist, tour guide
West Waterford Arts Group @westwaterfordag.bsky.social A cross-pollinating community of artists meeting in West Waterford with a multi-disciplinary approach to creativity.
#waterford #ireland #arts #poetry #visualarts #novelists #photoartists #collage #playwrights #musicians #songwriters #sculpture #speirgorm
Shash Trevett @shashtrevett.bsky.social Poet & Tr | ‘The Naming of Names’ (Smith|Doorstop 2024) | ‘Out of Sri Lanka’ (Bloodaxe 2023)| Ledbury Critic | Trustee Modern Poetry in Translation
Róisín Leggett Bohan @leggettbohan.bsky.social Writer💥
Patrick Kavanagh Award 2025
Fool for Poetry Prize 2025
'We Fall We Carry' Chapbook (Southword Editions, 2026)
Ed. at HOWL New Irish Writing ✍️
Website: https://inkstainedwings.com/
ÍdeB Amherst @idebamherst.bsky.social Author. Feminist. Gaeilge abú. www.ocainternational.com
Ron Charles @roncharles.bsky.social I write about books at https://roncharles.substack.com/
Katie Donovan @katiedpoet.bsky.social Poet, writer, nature lover, six collections published by Bloodaxe Books. Winner of O'Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry 2017. www.KatieDonovan.com
Marisa Yeaman @marisayeaman.bsky.social Songwriter, Live musician, Author, Visual Artist, Genealogist and historian. Organic lavender grower. Australian, lives in rural Burgundy,France.
Erin Coughlin Hollowell @beingpoetry.bsky.social Poet, artist, apprentice to light. 3rd poetry collection CORVUS AND CRATER (2023) ED: Storyknife Writers Retreat & Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference. BEI Fellow. At the end of the road in Alaska.
http://www.beingpoetry.net
The Rialto @rialtopoetry.bsky.social Leading independent poetry magazine and award-winning poetry publisher.
https://therialto.co.uk
Dithering Chaps - submissions open @ditheringchaps.bsky.social I'm David Herring, Lead Editor of indie poetry press, Dithering Chaps, based in Dorset, UK. We publish thematically-linked sequences of poems: works that riff on a core conceit, event or narrative voice. He/him. https://www.ditheringchaps.com
Mael Brigde - 𝘢𝘬𝘢 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘺 🇨🇦 @maelbrigde.bsky.social Brigit; birds, bugs, & plants; SF; #TheArchers
Author: A Brigit of Ireland Devotional - Sun Among Stars
She/her
Please don’t follow me just to sell me something; I only follow back if we seem to be compatible souls.
DMs from actual friends only. 💚🐌🍂
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
The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the world’s best new writing.
http://theberlinliteraryreview.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
Niamh Garvey @niamhgarvey.bsky.social Autistic Author, Irish.
Books published with New Island Books, and Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Rep'd by Jessica Killiney at the Bks agency, London.
She/her
niamhgarvey.com
Jane Clarke @janeclarke.bsky.social Poet: 'The River', 'When the Tree Falls', 'A Change in the Air', 'Coracle' (Bloodaxe 2015, 2019, 2023 &2026) https://www.janeclarkepoetry.ie/
Liveright @liveright.bsky.social Books that live, for 100 yrs and counting. Precocious offspring of @wwnorton.com. IG: @liverightbooks | FB/YT: @liverightpublishing | Twitter: @liverightpub | wwnorton.com/liveright
@limerickwriters.bsky.social @limerickwriters.bsky.social The Gerald Griffin Competition for First Original Adult Fiction 2025
Limerick Writers’ Centre announces that entries for The Gerald Griffin Competition for First Original Adult Fiction 2025 are now being accepted.
Beth Barany (she/her/they) @bethbarany.bsky.social 🎙️Writing Teacher, Book Coach, specialized in Science Fiction & Fantasy.
☕️ Edit Your Novel checklist: http://edityournovelchecklist.com
🚀 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novelist #kickassheroines
🎧 How To Write The Future podcast
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
Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social Poet | First collection, ‘Midnight at the Saltmarsh’, published by The Gallery Press, May 2026
Dana.Ranga @danaranga.bsky.social I'm a poet / Ich bin ein Dichter
#poetrycommunity
#lyrik
Poems:
"Cosmos!", "Wasserbuch", "Hauthaus", "Stop", "Genesis 51-52"
http://www.danaranga.com
https://www.suhrkamp.de
https://www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de
Darren Mark Skilton @darrenmarkskilton.bsky.social Collective Action Brighton & Hove. Left/Green. Solidarity RPM. Give Street Project. Vegan. Gooner. LGBTQIA ally. He/Him.
Cormac O Caoimh @cormaco.bsky.social singer-songwriter from Cork, Ireland
Mojo **** Irish Times **** My mam *****
www.cormaco.bandcamp.com
www.cormaco.net
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5tTI635bEYNCY5PDx79cvt?si=_DwrDqRnTLC1ZgYGaAqiiQ
renaissance princess @mothermarx.bsky.social writer and researcher for money, professional messer and pervert for fun
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Louise Donlon @ldonlon.bsky.social Executive Director Lime TreeTheatre | Belltable, Limerick. Chair of Culture Ireland. Member of Seoda Chamber Choir. Longford native in east Clare.
Anne-Marie Silbiger (happimess73) @happimess73.bsky.social
Professional cat sitter.
Studying feline behaviour.
Poet, sometimes.
Founder of W.A.N.G.
Walthamstow Adults Neurodivergent Group.
https://www.threads.net/@happimess73
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Folklore Presents… @folkloreuk1.bsky.social Alt, Indie, Folk, Rock, Psych music. Events and Artists in London Uk. Website here: https://folkloreuk.com/ ... Shop here: https://ko-fi.com/folkloreuk
John Higgins @johnhiggins.bsky.social Filmmaker, Documentary maker, Writer, he/him
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈A Fancy Whimsy - Kindle @samhanepublishing.bsky.social Queer, HIV+U Gaymer who writes gay fiction and occasionally posts some NSFW content
https://linktr.ee/samhane.publishing
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Koss (she/they/Aquarian) @kossworks.bsky.social Poet, artist, writer. Dancing Backwards Towards Pluperfect, Diode Editions. Lammy Poetry Finalist 25, BSF 20, Wigleaf Top 50 longlist. Granta Memoir Bursary
Website: https://koss-works.com
Book: https://koss-works.com/dancing-backwards-towards-pluperfect/
Stephen Komarnyckyj @komarnyckyj.bsky.social PEN award winning poet and translator at Kalyna Language Press, who is trying to save every abandoned dog on earth and return lost Ukrainian authors to the world. #FBPE #Ukraine #Poetry
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