Pavilion Poetry @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of the best in contemporary poetry, from @livunipress.bsky.social. Not currently accepting submissions.
https://linktr.ee/pavilionpoetry
Sameer Kankali Ⓥ☮✌🏼🌱💚🍉🐸🐮🐷📚📖♟️✊🏼 @sameerkankali.bsky.social MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS 💙🦋
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The Rookery @crowslight.bsky.social Fireman,
Dragon, Rats
Parrfin fumes
And animal death,
It's a mess
At the Landican
Tonight.
Nowhere for flight
Crow,
This is the
Last night,
Midnight to
The long goodnight
Midlands Fringe @midlandsfringe.bsky.social Midlands Fringe AYIT!
📍 Wolverhampton
🗓️ 17-26 July 2026
💡 Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists
💷 Arts Council England
🌐 https://linktr.ee/midlandsfringe
Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social writes poetry
RufusJuice @rufusjuice.bsky.social My account got hacked and then they posted pussy
Baby Richman @babyrichmanband.bsky.social Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/babyrichmanbandbsig
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Darien @darien-u.bsky.social 
Ben Vince @prettywittyandgay.bsky.social PhD student researching queer retreat, ecological loneliness, and erotic idiorrhythmy (Uni of Bristol) 🌿
Poet and performer (of foul deeds) 🔮
Dan Dicks @danieldicks.bsky.social PhD in Woolf and Queer Phenomenology. Also, sometimes poet. He/Him
Life in Common @arthursmid.bsky.social Writer and illustrator in Portland, Oregon
Open for commissions and illustration projects: arthursmid.com
@audreynff.bsky.social @audreynff.bsky.social 
Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social Poet published in magazines & anthologies in the UK, US, Ireland & Canada. Debut pamphlet: Fledglings (Red Squirrel Press, 2016). First collection: Crippled (Red Squirrel Press, 2025).
Hakan Sonok Antalya @flowmeow1812.bsky.social Hakan Sonok Antalya
@flowmeow1812.bsky.social
Swiftie HAKAN SONOK
@SonokHakan
John Castillo @bozo76.bsky.social Poet, Chimney Sweep, Printer, Soundboard Operator, Humanitarian, Friend, Brother. My work can be found on Facebook group Talking To Flowers In Low Gear. Michigan-born. Bald. USN Boatswain's Mate 2nd class. Irreverent. Bunny model.
Rachael Scotson @rachaelscotson.bsky.social Making it up as I go.
MAWYP @BathSpaUni.
@bathnovelaward.co.uk and The Bedford Competition longlistee. Book reviewer, librocubicularist, wobbly pot thrower and owner of “officially” the prettiest dog.
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Richard Kemp @richardmskemp.bsky.social Podcaster for Bristol University Press & Policy Press. Writer. MA: UoG. Bylines: PopMatters & Bristol24/7. Posts about writing, music and pro wrestling. 🍉
✍🏻 & 🎧 https://muckrack.com/richardmskemp/portfolio
(he/him)
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
This Space Is Art @thisspaceis.art This Space Is Art is a non-profit initiative to fill unused outdoor advertising space in the UK with art.
https://thisspaceis.art
Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social Undiscovered Voices Winner ‘26
Poems on the Move ‘26.
Pushcart Prize Nominated. Cheshire Novel Prize SL‘25, Guppy Open LL’25
Write Mentor Picturebook SL’23/LL’24
Poetry - The Dirigible Balloon, Northern Gravy, Tyger Tyger, The Toy, LTP, BBC Upload.🏴
I King73 @kingian73.bsky.social Proliferate writer of thoughts on the edge of my understanding, watching observations where ideas blur.
Poems ➡️ https://substack.com/@ianjosephking?r=7vqv7b&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=stories&shareImageVariant=image
Poetry By Heart @poetrybyheart.bsky.social National schools poetry recitation competition, open to all schools and colleges in England, re-igniting a love of poetry. poetrybyheart.org.uk
Matthew Rice @matthew-rice.bsky.social Poet-PhD-Anti-racist. ‘Plastic’ forthcoming in January 2026 with Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) & Soft Skull Press (US), available here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790542/plastic-by-matthew-rice/
Scott Lilley @poetrytalkingguy.bsky.social writing many bad poems but good ones sometimes
studying for PhD in creative writing at Lancaster University
Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social Novelist. Poet. Reader.
🏺OVID’S HEROINES 🍼INCARNATION 🐇FIERCE BAD RABBITS 🔮 DELPHI 🏰THE UNTAMEABLES 🧚🏾THE MODERN FAIRIES, ✍️LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS 🌊THE OTHERNAUTS, etc
Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle
Katherine Single @katherinesingle.bsky.social Head of Marketing & Digital at CTSI. Writing about #Marketing, #Feminism, #Horror and life’s messy joys.
Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social Teacher and Poet. Pamphlets - Walrussey (The Black Cat Poetry Press, 2023) and Circulaire (Written off Publishing, 2025).
Circulaire available to purchase here: https://writtenoffpublishing.com/shop/p/circulaire-bex-hainsworth
Olivia @imoliviaaaaa.bsky.social What are you going to do if our opinion is not the same as yours.... let's find out.
Work with me https://interview-prep-class.getrewardful.com/signup
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Staff @AMF
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.
Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social A group campaigning against the closing of Redland Library in Bristol. We want to retain a library service for all communities and all areas of Bristol.- B Beefmandu @beefmandu.bsky.social Just trying to work out which text-based social media platform is worth bothering with (he/him)
@blackartz.bsky.social @blackartz.bsky.social 
Rebecca Shamash @rebeccashamash.bsky.social 
Bristol Walk Fest @bristolwalkfest.bsky.social Explore Bristol on foot!
Bristol Walk Fest has run every May since 2013, with guided walks for all ages & abilities. Boost wellbeing, enjoy the outdoors & celebrate National Walking Month with us this May.
www.bristolwalkfest.com
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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.
Stephen Lightbown @stephenlightbown.bsky.social Adult and children's poet. Picture book writer. Adaptive surfer. Yoga teacher. Northerner. Wheelchair user. Represented by Alice Williams.
Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social Prof at Uni of Liverpool and artist. I write on photography, media, museums, ISOTYPE, modernism, environment & atmosphere. Photography: The Unfettered Image (2018) & A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog & Empire, Chicago UP (Fall 2025)
The Sock Poet @sockpoet.bsky.social I’ve got an iambic foot.
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
Michael Marks Awards @michaelmarksawards.bsky.social The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets celebrate work published in the UK. The 2025/26 Awards are opening for submissions soon.
Our partners are @britishlibrary.bsky.social, Wordsworth Trust, @thetls.bsky.social and The British School at Athens.
@jolly-angelina @jolly-angelina.bsky.social .. And when I die I will be the scattered ashes that attach themselves to the lashes and blind the eyes of tyrants and racists and fascists ..
I just want a better world for everyone. Life is too short
Adriana Janaína Poeta @adrianajanainapoet.bsky.social Adriana Janaína Poeta, CPF.:01233034782/ Adriana Janaína Alves de Oliveira. Escritora, editora, casada com Marcelo Bernardo de Oliveira. Criadora/ fundadora e proprietária do Clube de Leitura dos Poetas.
adrianajanainapoeta01233034782@gmail.com
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.
https://festivalforpoetry.com
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.
Mariah Whelan @mwhelanwrites.bsky.social Poet, Teacher & Editor at @poetrybyheart.bsky.social
Edge Street Live @edgestreetlive.bsky.social Established promoters of live shows across the UK. Artist management including John Cooper Clarke & Freya Beer. https://edgestreetlive.com/
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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@dorotheasmartt.bsky.social @dorotheasmartt.bsky.social 
@medwayriverlit.bsky.social @medwayriverlit.bsky.social 
Macha Press @machapress.bsky.social experimental / formally hybrid / intercultural / recovered poetries
Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland & Shared Island Civic Society Fund, DFAT machapress.com
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Mireille Mathlener @mm-hq.bsky.social Singer-songwriter. Poet. Band.
Everyman visionary in Converse.
https://linktr.ee/MireilleMathlener
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
Marc L. Bernstein @marclesbernstein61.bsky.social Born 1961 - Lifelong Neutral observer of Politics & Current Affairs UK, USA & World. Love Audio Books, Podcasts, stand up Comedy, Tottenham Hotspur FC.
Message me if you want to be friends.
Finished Creatures Poetry Magazine @finishedpoetry.bsky.social Independent, printed poetry magazine: ecopoetry and the environment; climate justice and politics; beauty and daring.
Issue nine - trespass - just published
Please see website for order details.
finishedcreatures.co.uk
Holly Corfield Carr @hollycorfieldcarr.bsky.social writer | poet | lecturer
https://hollycorfieldcarr.co.uk/
Milena Williamson @milenawilliamson.bsky.social Poet & academic | Charm for Catching a Train http://tinyurl.com/bdcx2ka5 | Into the Night that Flies So Fast http://tinyurl.com/38tb8kzt
Miranda Lynn Barnes @luminousjune.bsky.social poetry & science, writer, researcher. she/her/ they is fine, too.
https://mirandalynnbarnes.wordpress.com/
For OA & digipres, follow: https://bsky.app/profile/mirandab-oa.bsky.social
The Reader Berlin @thereaderberlin.bsky.social ✍️ Berlin's Platform for Creative Writers since 2011 ✍️
www.thereaderberlin.com
Creative Writing Workshops & Writing Classes / Mentoring / Readings / The Berlin Writing Prize
Immersive Arts UK @immersiveartsuk.bsky.social A brand new funding and support programme for UK-based artists, designed to help them develop their art by using immersive technologies. https://immersivearts.uk/
The Poetry Kiosk @thepoetrykiosk.bsky.social The Poetry Kiosk is a small press and exhibition platform of visual poetry run by Astra Papachristodoulou. Browse our shop and online exhibitions: www.thepoetrykioskcom
Daily Short Story Deadlines @shortstorycontests.bsky.social Submit your short story to the relevant genre. All of these contests are guaranteed acceptances. Your story gets a video performance reading made!
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-short-story-contest-deadlines/
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
Persistent Theatre Productions @persistenttheatre.bsky.social 🎭 “Lifting Women Through Untold Stories”
📍International all female led theatre UK and US
🎟️ https://www.thedraytonarmstheatre.co.uk/the-end-is-near
www.persistenttheatreproductions.org
AyaRay @ayaraywords.bsky.social A Poet, a storyteller. These are my insides, raw and unfiltered. Not always pretty. Always real. Maybe one lands where no one else could.
Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social Poet, wannabe artist, and zinester from WV. Married, mother of two. Definately a cryptid in disguise. Poetry found in Broken Spines, Penstricken, and SixtyOddPoets, among others. Zines in kofi below. Enjoy 🤗
https://ko-fi.com/poetrywithhart
Natasha Ryan @justplainscrambled.bsky.social Poems by day, prose by night. Préfère l'impair.
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
Jack Belloli @frgiacbelloli.bsky.social priest in the church of england | theology, poetics, activism | he/him
UK's HowToEnjoy @howtoenjoycouk.bsky.social DISCOVER JOY in UK (England, NI, Scotland, Wales) events, biz, health, music, tourism, on linktr.ee/HowToEnjoyCoUk. Unleash fun nationally, from villages to cities and tourist hotspots. Embrace togetherness through the four home nations | HowToEnjoy.co.uk
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
OTB 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @oliverkennett.bsky.social Author 🖋. #BathSpaUniversity MA Creative Writing alumni 👨🎓. Musician 🎸🎤. #3dPrinting lover 🤖. totally Blind 👨🏻🦯..
LEGEND!!
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
https://linktr.ee/europeanwriterssalon
Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry @innovativepoetry.bsky.social A journal of avant-garde, underground, late Modernist, non-mainstream and/or experimental British and Irish poetries since the late 1950s
https://poetry.openlibhums.org/
Image courtesy of the Anna Mendelssohn estate
Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social linktr.ee/victoriaspires
BotN, Pushcart & Forward nominated. Shortlisted/commended in various comps: Winner Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize
Finalist Mslexia Women's Comp
Seeking publisher for new work.
Rushika Wick @rushikawick.bsky.social Writer. Poet. Books - Afterlife as Trash (Verve 2021) Highly Commended in Forward prizes, Horse (Broken Sleep 2024).
George @georgejourneyman.bsky.social I think, therefore I am.” – René Descartes
have done a spot of travelling, restless really 🤔 just joined from another planet 😂 thanks for sharing following ❤️ 🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧
Black Nore Review @blacknorereview.bsky.social Poetry and flash fiction from Portishead, North Somerset every Monday and Thursday - https://blacknorereview.wordpress.com. Edited by @benbanyard.bsky.social
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
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
Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social Poet, editor, critic
https://liverpooluniversitypress.blog/tag/pavilion-poetry/
https://www.serenbooks.com/seren-author/deryn-rees-jones/
https://thamesandhudson.com/paula-rego-the-art-of-story-9780500021378
T. S. Eliot Prize @tseliotprize.bsky.social Home of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry for the best collection published in the year.
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
Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social Poet and Neonatologist.
Debut pamphlet “Hatchery” published with V. Press - you can buy hatchery here https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/hatchery.html?m=1
https://linktr.ee/elizabeth.osmond
Danielle M Cahill @daniellec.bsky.social Author | Reader
Burnt Offerings out now on Amazon (Alien Buddha Press).
Words all over, Virago Books, Quarter Press, MoonLit Getaway, Micromance Mag etc.
Winner Caledonia Novel Award 24, Bridport Prize shortlist 25, Pushcart Prize nominee 26.
The Hidden Clinic @handle.invalid I write from the fracture lines—where empire meets memory, where medicine forgets, and policy gasps for breath. Diaspora-touched, clinically trained, spiritually disobedient. This is a hidden clinic for systems in collapse and souls in transition.
@drelainemonaghan.bsky.social @drelainemonaghan.bsky.social NHS Dr 35 years. Slave to golden retriever. Dinghy sailor (occasional swimmer). Views my own.
Ola Majekodunmi @olamajekodunmi.bsky.social Broadcaster. Writer. Producer. Facilitator. Board member on Foras na Gaeilge. Naija- Gaeilgeoir babe. Co-founder of Off The Scéal.
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