Jean-Luc Maire @jlmaire.bsky.social Hey I’m an author, I write poetry and advocate for literacy and self-expression. Three books in Link below. HMU if you want a free pdf
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Sameer Kankali Ⓥ☮✌🏼🌱💚🍉🐸🐮🐷📚📖♟️✊🏼 @sameerkankali.bsky.social MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS 💙🦋
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Francis-Xavier Mukiibi - Poetry @fxmpoetry.bsky.social 📚 Mutabani & [ ]ther Poems out 12th June 2025 (Bad Betty Press) | Poet & Performer | Eric Gregory Award | Creative Future Writers' Award
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Gabriel Akamo @gabrielakamo.com ☦ 🍉
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Rep: Divergent Talent Group 💥
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Eve Xin 心 @suitcaseofpoetry.bsky.social poetry / fiction / spoken word / migrant / exile
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Molly Knox (she/they)🌀🪩🌈🌸 @mollykmoon28.bsky.social Research Assistant at The Audience Agency | Durham University MA Ethnomusicology graduate | poet | theatre maker | reviewer
Brian Cutts @briancutts.bsky.social South Yorkshire to Catalonia. ELO fan. Failing Mediterranean diet. Once a physicist. Permanently perplexed. Uhtceare. Frantumaglia. Memorial Device MDANT. Woke AF. Rants on Tannu Tuva blog if you can find it.
@stewmull.bsky.social @stewmull.bsky.social 
Tom Marshall @tommarshall-writer.bsky.social Teaching & learning guy, card-carrying journo, proud husband & dad, weekend novelist, poet in training, travel writer. International educator in Europe, Middle East, and Asia. My math: inspirational people + great storytelling = better world.
Everything Poetry Night @everythingpoetry.bsky.social A monthly spoken word poetry night, every first Monday of the month
Next event: Monday 7th September 2026, The Oystercatcher, Greenwich
Semper Anticus Press @semperanticuspress.bsky.social Indie publisher launching soon!
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Festival for Poetry @poetryfestival.bsky.social Daily Poetry Deadlines
Submit for a free posting.
Submit for a poetry reading video.
Submit for your poetry to be made into a film.
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Submissions open now:
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Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space.
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@dorotheasmartt.bsky.social @dorotheasmartt.bsky.social 
The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social Small but mighty, award-winning indpendent bookshop in the heart of Edinburgh's lovely Bruntsfield area
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Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social Director of the Royal Society of Literature @rsliterature.bsky.social; previously @theUL.bsky.social; Clore Fellow; FRSA. I like books, libraries, culture and cake.
Royal Society of Literature @rsliterature.bsky.social The RSL celebrates and nurtures reading and writing of all kinds. We're a charity that believes literature is for everyone. ✨ 200 years young. 🌟
Slyvia Rose (Aimie McAllester) @slyviaroseam.bsky.social Eventually I plan to be a functional adult. Until then, mind indulging in my fantasy of becoming an official Poet?
I guess that I’m considered a writer now? Just perpetually trying to leave the small town buried in the piney woods of Texas
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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
Conrad Wili @conradwili.bsky.social Journalist aus Berlin, Politics and Pop culture
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust). www.medhawrites.com
People’s Poetry Podcast @peoplespoetrypod.bsky.social A travelling poetry and spoken word podcast.
Hosted by @jbopenspoems.bsky.social 🎙️
Submit poetry to feature via our email: peoplespoetrypodcast@hotmail.com
Jimmy Bowman @jbopenspoems.bsky.social South London poet and @peoplespoetrypod.bsky.social host with a cockney twang.
Quantum Sauce @quantum-sauce.bsky.social 🧠 Bring your brain and pull up a pint! 🍻 It’s Science Cabaret in our Leeds-based research nights, at Farsley’s @oldwoollen.bsky.social Club! @geophysics-adam.bsky.social hosts!
@gddave.bsky.social @gddave.bsky.social 
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?
Ikarah Woodvine @ikarahswoodvine.bsky.social Poet, creative mind, student, lover of literature! @IkarahSWoodvine
The Independent Author Network @ianauthornetwork.bsky.social Welcome to the Independent Author Network at Bluesky. Promoting and Supporting Indie Authors since 2010. Our Book of the Year Awards program features $6,000 in cash prizes. #IAN1
Shaun Barr @shaunbarr.bsky.social Poet, photographer, gardener, Cumbria, UK. Longlisted National Poetry Competition 2025. The Manchester Review, Dream Catcher, The Frogmore Papers, The Madrid Review, Orbis.
shaunbarrphotography.co.uk
National Association for Poetry Therapy @poetry-therapy.bsky.social Promoting growth & healing through language, symbol, and story. #poetry #expressivearts
Learn more about us at https://poetrytherapy.org/
We also publish the Journal of Poetry Therapy quarterly —> https://poetrytherapy.org/Journal-of-Poetry-Therapy
Guntis Brazma @guntisb.bsky.social poet, comedian, open mic maniac with a certain amount of side hobbies
Charlotte Lunn (she/her) @charlottelpoet.bsky.social 🌙Queer, disabled, poet
✨📖 seller @scarthinbooks
🌙Co-host of Rebel Riot Poetry
✨Metamorphosis with Verve Poetry Press
🌙Specialist Academic Notetaker 📝
Rother Writes @rotherwrites.bsky.social [My words] "are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only" [I could interest them], Sylvia Plath
First Story @firststory.bsky.social England's leading creative writing charity for young people empowering young writers with the skills and confidence to tell their own stories. firststory.org.uk
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FEO @feoswald.bsky.social Poet, lover of words and flowers, retired academic. “We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Overhear @overhearapp.bsky.social Putting poetry and prose on the map with geolocated audio📍🗺️🎧 download the app at https://www.theoverhear.app/
Northampton Poetry Review @npoetryreview.bsky.social Northampton Poetry Review. A literary journal of poetry and writing from Northamptonshire, UK
https://linktr.ee/npoetryreview
Gwyneth Box @gwynethbox.bsky.social Thoughts, poetry & pics from a writing life lived in English & Spanish.
Also cats.
Writing coach for poetry, non-fiction & business writers.
https://gwynethbox.com
Jules @julesvergara.bsky.social Writer, small business owner, coach, lover of cooperatives, joy, herbalism, public health, social democracy, trees, hiking, nature, cats, dancing and glass art (she/her) 💙✊🏽
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Sam J. Grudgings @samjgrudgings.bsky.social Host at Large.
Occasional artist. Horror Laureate. Sober AF. Loud Yelling. He/they.
Books with Verve Poetry Press & Broken Sleep
Read my Poems -
https://linktr.ee/samjgrudgings
Danny Carlo @dannycarlo.com • Writer • Poet • Rapper • Workshop Facilitator • Cultural Producer • Commissions
Director: @rtbspokenword.com & @lyrafest.com
Coordinator: Bristol Palestine Film Festival
Website: www.dannycarlo.com
Raise the Bar @rtbspokenword.com 🔵 South West England's acclaimed poetry and live arts events.
✍️ 2025 Artist Development Programme funded by @artscouncilengland.bsky.social
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Nina Nazir @ninanazir.bsky.social Poet, writer, artist, blogger. Bibliophile. Activist. Tree hugger. Caffeine connoisseur. Neurodivergent. Creative af. Room 204 Writer with Writing West Midlands. www.sunrarainz.wordpress.com / ninasnazir.substack.com
Rob Reed @robreed.bsky.social Writer, Doctor Who fan, educator.
Was ‘@Priglit’ in the Twitter place
https://linktr.ee/RobReedWriter
Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social We make the arts more diverse. We work nationally with underrepresented creatives & specialise in working with writers through our Writers' Award. #CFWA
www.creativefuture.org.uk
Hudson Library at Alexandra Park School 📚 @apslibrary1.bsky.social Hudson Library at Alexandra Park School. A north London comprehensive school encouraging reading for pleasure. 📚
@colin-b-osborn.bsky.social @colin-b-osborn.bsky.social 
alf1red @alf1red.bsky.social Proud Barnsley born Yorkshireman and Socialist. Loves mother nature, beer making/drinking hates racists, facism and Nazis. One world One love. 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈 ☮️
Kevin P. Gilday @kevinpgilday.bsky.social Poet. Theatre Maker. Arts Educator. Stirling Makar. Kevin P. Gilday & The Glasgow Cross. Probably on holiday.
www.kevinpgilday.com
Nicole Vanderbilt @nmvandy.bsky.social MD at Bookshop.org in the UK, formerly Etsy. American living in London, usually reading in English and speaking bad French. 📚 Nation of Strangers by Ece Temelkuran
Manchester Literature Festival @mcrlitfest.bsky.social Manchester Literature Festival presents inspiring live literature, poetry & culture. Check out our Spring & Summer events at www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk
Jake Salazar 🏳️🌈 @jakesalza.bsky.social Kissing boys in the street. St. Louis ⚜️
@juliesheridanpoet.bsky.social @juliesheridanpoet.bsky.social 
Jason Conway @daydreamacademy.bsky.social Professional daydreamer & award-winning creative - designer, poet, writer, artist & mentor - MA Creative Writing Bath Spa - AuDHD - forest bather
Editor Steel Jackdaw Magazine
Director Gloucestershire Poetry Society
https://bio.site/jasonleeconway
Young Poets Network @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk's online platform for young people aged 5-25 worldwide. Challenges, features, writing opportunities and more!
Dylan Bragg @dylanbragg.bsky.social Poet, riddle writer, bass player, cat dad, software developer, classics major, book designer, reader.
Creator of a whole slew of eight-line riddle-poems.
https://mastodon.social/@dylanbragg
https://www.facebook.com/dylbud/
@dylanjohnbragg@threads.net
Jim Higo @jimhigo.bsky.social Writer, performer and maker of noise.
“It ain’t about playing the right chords.”
Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal @booksforkeeps.bsky.social Launched in 1980, we review hundreds of new children’s books each year and publish articles on every aspect of writing for children. Explore new issues and our 40 year archive for free on our website www.booksforkeeps.co.uk
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
Ross Wilcock @rosswilcockmedia.bsky.social Gay/ disabled Scottish poet, writer and activist. 🏳️🌈🏴 open mics 2 times a month. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
The Book Vault @thebookvault.bsky.social An independent bookshop for Barnsley, UK. Eclectic ranges of fiction and non-fiction for all ages.
@jofearz.bsky.social @jofearz.bsky.social Poet, lyricist, rock/punk/metal/folk music fan. Barnsley, South Yorkshire UK based. MDANT🏅 if you know you know.
Serge ♆ Neptune @mermanpoet.bsky.social queer non-binary poet / baba-yaga stan / DYCP recipient / poems in Poetry Review & elsewhere / "Mother Night" @TheEmmaPress
(he/they)
www.linktr.ee/mermanpoet
Annie Brechin @anniebrechin.bsky.social Poet, bellringer. The Mouth of Eulalie currently out from Blue Diode Press https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/the-mouth-of-eulalie-by-annie-brechin-isbn-9781915108012
Candi M @candisays.bsky.social Writer. Tutor. Northern Writers Award. MA Writing and Wellbeing. Social History. Inclusion. Nature. Mudlarking.
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/
Rob Gee @robgeepoetry.bsky.social Comic, poet, very good egg
Leeds Lit Fest @leedslitfest.bsky.social 6 - 14 June 2026. Returning for its eighth year, the award-winning festival of words aims to bring together, and help develop, the city’s literary scene, with writers, poets and performers from Leeds, Yorkshire and beyond!
#LLF26. www.leedslitfest.co.uk
Emma @emmajc11.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🌱♎️📚🏃♀️
Writer| Lit grad | Film fanatic | Vegan | Foodie | Arsenal WFC fan | Runner | Hybrid training | Growth investing | "Yes" mindset
📍United Kingdom
Leeds Big Bookend & Northern Short Story Festival @bigbookend.bsky.social Writers, books, small publishers, readers - that's what we are about! Here to engage with and platform writers, books and all things lit. Leeds Lit Fest founder partner. Champions Leeds, Yorkshire and the North.
Speaking Volumes @speaking-volumes.bsky.social A live literature organisation getting underrepresented voices heard, reaching diverse audiences and finding exciting ways to present writers.
https://linktr.ee/speakingvolumes?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=b591d9c3-0f16-46cd-a964-600542abf00d
Poetry Emma Meier @poetryemmameier.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Reader. Thinker. ✍️📖
Charlotte Cosgrove @charlottecosgrove.bsky.social Poet / Lecturer / Socialist / Wellbeing / Editor of Rough Diamond poetry journal
love writing, reading, cats, learning, and sitting down.
Andrea Reece @reeceandrea.bsky.social Mostly reading. Managing Editor Books for Keeps, administrator Klaus Flugge Prize and Branford Boase Award plus other book-y stuff.
Rose Condo @rose-condo-poet.bsky.social Award-winning prairie-born poet living in Manchester 🇨🇦 | Lover of travel 🌎 | www.rosecondo.net | she/her
HalfBeardHalfPoet @halfbeardhalfpoet.bsky.social Cheshire based rhyme slinger for hire.
AKA Ben Zahl. YouTube.com@BenZahl-Poet Facebook.com@bj.zahl halfbeardhalfpoet@writeme.com
Kieren King @kierenking.bsky.social Award winning performance poet and creative producer based in Manchester.
Confident onstage, quite shy off it.
Tyrone Lewis @tyronelewis22.bsky.social Poet/Photographer/Video Editor/Camera Man
'Jedi Grandmaster Poet'
‘Vanguard of the spoken word community’
‘Legendary creature’
Martin Figura @martinfigura.bsky.social Photographer, Writer and performer living in Norwich with Helen Ivory and sciatica.
Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social Mainly poetry in independent presses, art, glass, theatre & people playing. Allotment life. York with Glasgow links. UK.
Not every act of kindness is part of a plan.
Website :www.sarahowriter.com
Dean Wilson @deanwilson.bsky.social Poet living in Withernsea
New Book - https://tinyurl.com/3rhajmz2
New CD - https://tinyurl.com/mpwyh728
DeanWorld.org
Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social Published by Blackbough Poetry, The Storms Journal, FolkHeart Press. Featured writer in Patricia's Pen, and on A Thousand Shades Of Green podcast and a regular guest reader on Eat The Storms podcast. Best of The Net nominated.
Victoria McNulty @victoriamcnultygla.bsky.social Glaswegian writer, educator, and shameless 90s Indie casualty.
Navigating a recent ME/CFS diagnosis.
Paul McGrane @paulmcgrane.bsky.social 81% Welsh, 18% Irish, 100% poetry. Co-founder of ForestPoets.bsky.social, Walthamstow, and host of PoemsNotBombs.bsky.social open mic, Walthamstow & Soho. Big fan of #thefall & #LOFC https://indigodreamspublishing.com/paul-mcgrane
Katie Ailes @katieailes.bsky.social Poet, researcher, educator, dancer. Co-Director, I Am Loud CIC. 2023 Glastonbury Poet in Residence. she/her.
Kayla (Martell) Feldman @kaylatmf.bsky.social Director & Playwright (Rep: Berlin Associates)
Poet (Same Story out now from Verve Poetry Press)
they/she www.kaylafeldman.com
dino_flamingo @dinomahoneypoet.bsky.social London & Greek island based. Collections - Tutti Frutti (SPM) & The Great Comet of 1996 Foretells (Live Canon). One of the Poetic Flamingos.
Dr Kate Noakes @katenoakes.bsky.social Writer, Artist, Critic
Author of ten books Goldhawk Road (Two Rivers Press, 2023), Chalking the Pavement (Broken Sleep Books, 2024) and Real Hay-on-Wye (Seren, 2022)
www.boomslangpoetry.blogspot.com
Lives in Bristol
No book promoters or god bothers thanks
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 
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.