Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social Here for poetry chat and curious thoughts.
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/
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/poetryinaldeburgh/
Annie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author, “Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs.” Newest book: "Stevie Nicks in 50 Songs." Others on Duran Duran, Lady Gaga, Xmas songs, Cher. Trans + disability rights are human rights. apstudiozaleski@gmail.com; anniez.com.
Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social The magazine of international literature since 1984. Order our latest issue, Wasafiri 127: Solidarities
https://linktr.ee/wasafiri
Dhruti Shah @dhrutishah.bsky.social Writer/Journalist/Storyteller/ On an adventure. Bylines featured on The Guardian, The Washington Post, the BBC, The New Humanitarian, New Humanist. Podcaster and Newsletter Writer at Have You Thought About. Public Speaker and more. www.dhrutishah.com
Line Stockford @linecaro.bsky.social Turkish poetry translator
Poet, writer
Cymraes she/they
Caroline Stockford
https://palewellpress.co.uk/bookstore/human-rights/wtwt/
Poetry translations: https://estoniacordfrock.wordpress.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.
Holly Corfield Carr @hollycorfieldcarr.bsky.social writer | poet | lecturer
https://hollycorfieldcarr.co.uk/
KM Elkes @kmelkes.bsky.social Author. Ginger. Potty mouth. #workingclasswriter Award-winning short fiction writer. Editing debut novel. Also writing tutor & editor.
http://linktr.ee/kmelkes
https://kmelkes.substack.com
Making Trouble Podcast @mollynaylor.bsky.social The creativity podcast about the trouble we’re having with the things we’re making. Hosted by Molly Naylor. New episodes every Monday.
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Rikke Houd @rikkehoud.bsky.social Audio storyteller & editor
James Shield @jshield.bsky.social Audio producer/editor in London, EP of The Global Story at BBC News • made The Wargame for Tortoise and Sky News • previously at The Times • hello@jshield.co.uk • jshield.co.uk
Rob Rosenthal @rob-rosenthal.bsky.social Have mic, will travel. Radio/Podcast story editor, producer, and teacher. Listen: @soundschoolpodcast.bsky.social. https://www.linkedin.com/in/robrosenthalshunpikemedia/
Holly Hopkins @hollyhopkins.bsky.social The English Summer (Penned in the Margins) a Guardian poetry book of the year. Shortlisted: Forward Prize for Best First Collection, Seamus Heaney Prize, Laurel Prize; Poetry Book Society Special Commendation
https://hollyhopkins.co.uk
Ben Hinshaw @benhinshaw.bsky.social EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN
benhinshaw.com
Liz Buckley @lizbuckley.bsky.social Head of A&R at Ace Records. Resident music guest for Standard Issue podcast. Also a cat owner, so it’s mainly records and cats here, to be fair.
Dan Richards @danzep.bsky.social Writer & Broadcaster – Edinburgh
📚 Holloway • The Beechwood Airship Interviews • Climbing Days • Outpost • Overnight // 📻 Only After Dark / The Bare Necessities – BBC R4
👉 https://www.danrichards.uk/ 👈
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
Dr Magz Hall aka Radio_Mind @magzhall.bsky.social Artist: Soundart, expandedradioart, radio art, Multimedia, Oram Awardee, Ivors nominated, RadioArts #magzhall #immersiveart #artforenvironment #expandedradio Web https://magzhall.com/
Julien Manuguerra-Patten @julienmanu.bsky.social Audio Producer - Journalist - He/him 🇫🇷+🇨🇦+🏴
https://linktr.ee/JulienManuguerraPatten
Producer @Novel #Sideways @BBCRadio4
Hannah Copley @hannahcopley.bsky.social Writer and SL in Creative Writing at Uni of Westminster. Author of Speculum (Broken Sleep Books, 2021) and Lapwing (Pavilion Poetry, 2024). 2nd in the Laurel Prize 2024 . Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024. Hosts poetry nights at the Soho Poly.
Julia Forster | Write Within @writewithin.bsky.social ✨Writers' Cabin writer's retreat with sauna: Top 7 Retreat, The Sunday Times
✍️ Author Coach @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social
📸 http://instagram.com/_writewithin
www.writewithin.wales
David Morley @profdavidmorley.bsky.social Professor at Warwick Uni, Poet at Carcanet, Ted Hughes Award for The Invisible Gift, PBS Choice for FURY, Forward Prize finalist, Writer of The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing, Fellow Royal Society of Literature,Thought Fox.
Folding Rock Magazine @foldingrockmag.bsky.social New Writing from Wales and Beyond.
A bold magazine for writers and readers of the best creative prose | Issue 001: Roots out now | Eds. @kathryntann.bsky.social & @rjph91.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/foldingrock
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
James Crawford @jdcrawf.bsky.social THE VANISHING EARTH @bloomsbury @scribeuk PRE-ORDER NOW https://geni.us/vanishingearth | WILD HISTORY @BirlinnBooks | Presenter @BBCRadio4 TAKE FOUR BOOKS | Editor @PolygonBooks | CHAIR of the Board @edbookfest jamescrawford.space
Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social New York Times bestselling author.
Senior Writer, Race and Equity @theguardian.com.
Ellie Bury @elliebury.bsky.social Exec producer Guardian audio
honey i am a guy & i shrunk the kids @snowrespecter.bsky.social
type fast & never look back
#MDANT
I block without warning for sharing dogshit AI images
Beth @bethmccoll.bsky.social 1/3 of Everything Is Content pod. Author of Romanticise Your Life (2024) & How To Come Alive Again (2019). 🖊️ for hire.
Helen Mort @helenmort.bsky.social Poet, author, Sheffield-er. Mountaineering literature specialist, running enthusiast, part time Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Jolyon Jenkins @jolyonjenkins.bsky.social Ex-BBC, twitter refugee.
Sophie Heawood @heawood.bsky.social Journalist, including property for the FT. Wrote a bestselling memoir for Penguin Random House about the time I moved to Hollywood and accidentally became someone’s mother. heawood.substack.com
Kwojo @kwojo.bsky.social 
Sam van Geffen @samvangeffen.bsky.social 3x ARIA Gold-winning audio and content creator 🎶
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
Robert Nicholson @rbnicholson.bsky.social Director of Programmes for Whistledown Productions. Latest: "Derailed: The Story of HS2" for BBC Radio 4 and "Versuchslabor Kinderheim" for Deutschlandfunk. Audio Journalist in Berlin
Daniel Alarcón @danielgalarcon.bsky.social Radio Ambulante Studios / The New Yorker / Columbia Journalism School
Carolina Guerrero @nuncaduermo.bsky.social CEO & co-founder of Radio Ambulante Studios. NYC / Bogotá
radioambulante.org
elhilo.audio
centralpodcast.audio
Holly Casio @hollycasio.bsky.social Queer zines and DIY comics. I just really fucking love Bruce Springsteen. They/Them
https://coolschmool.com/
Radio Atlas @radioatlas.bsky.social Subtitled podcast for audio docs from around the world. Created in 2016. Also found at: radioatlasdocs (Facebook) radio.atlas (Instagram)
Anishka Sharma @anishka.bsky.social Multi-award winning Exec & Producer of investigative narrative series + audio drama . Producer of the Year 2023 (APAs) & Podcast of the Year 2024 (BPAs).
Thomas Curry @thomasadamcurry.com Creative Director of Development at BBC Studios (Audio). Previously Vespucci, Novel and Audible. Stories in Love + Radio, Criminal, Short Cuts and others. www.thomasadamcurry.com
Lisa Hack @hackista.bsky.social 🌈 Audio Producer, Senior Technical Practice Tutor Audio, Radio and Podcasting & Associate lecturer gold.ac.uk
Organiser & trustee multitrack.uk
Ex BBC WS. She/her.
Own Views. Music Fan!
Occasional photographer.
@beaduncan.bsky.social @beaduncan.bsky.social Podcasts, Storytelling & Audio Community • Founder of The Entry Level Audio Network • Senior Podcast Producer at Intelligence Squared • Producer of the Year Nominee 2023 • she/her 🌹
Julie Shapiro @jatomic.bsky.social Listening! A lot, always.
Also: @audioflux.bsky.social
Also: @thehorsethread.bsky.social
Previously: Radiotopia/PRX, Ear Hustle, ABC (down under),Third Coast Int'l Audio Festival, many record stores...
Peregrine Andrews @pezzatronic.bsky.social Award-dodging audio production for TV, radio, pod etc, all cooked up in the Moving Air studio
www.moving-air.com
Audio Flux @audioflux.bsky.social A home for short audio gems and big ideas in podcasting. www.audioflux.org // Donate to the cause (TY!) here: https://www.documentaries.org/films/audio-flux/
Elizabeth Alker @elizabethalker.bsky.social 
Steve Urquhart @listentosteve.bsky.social radio producer & sound artist ~ https://www.listentosteve.com
Jo Bell @jobellwriter.bsky.social Poet, digital salonniere. Host of The Poetic Licence (Patreon) - monthly prompts, famous poet interviews, a creative community. Memoir, BOATER out now with HarperNorth. https://linktr.ee/BoaterJoBell
Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social Wading around at the confluence of arts / nature / culture since 2007
Regular posts at caughtbytheriver.net 🐟 Irregular printed matter, record releases & events via rivertones.bandcamp.com and our Friday newsletter
Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social http://www.seanstreet.com/
Mark Burman @markburman.bsky.social Radio head, Gooner & Grandad.
Sophie Herxheimer @sophieherx.bsky.social Artist, Poet, Londoner, Mother, Teacher, Draw-er of Stories, Maker of Books, Ink Enthusiast, Collagist, co-anthologist with Bill Herbert
@ghostfurniturecatalogue, submit?
www.sophieherxheimer.com
www.poetryteapot.wordpress.com
(More settled on instagram)
Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social Poet and writer. Bourne Chair of Poetry at Georgia Tech and Director of Poetry@Tech.
Katrina Naomi @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social Poet & performer. Battery Rocks (Seren 2024). 'dance as if' out with Verve Sept 25. Winner of Keats-Shelley Prize, Arthur Welton Award & Saboteur Award. Swimmer & walker. Loves dance & art. Vegan. PhD - Goldsmiths. Also on insta.
www.katrinanaomi.co.uk
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Oliver Fox @oliverfox.bsky.social Poems, mostly. Buy my pamphlet, Haptics, via Broken Sleep Books
Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social Writer, author, poetry, editor, publisher. Founder of Rebel Inc. Co-founder of Bella Caledonia. Co-founder of Neu! Reekie! Co-founder of Push The Boat Out international poetry festival. MDANT. Love poetry, books, chess, volcanoes, Hibs. Citizen of Leith
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social Guardian writer, but one time I said something inflammatory to the US right & they called me a Diseased Pitmommy. So that's what I go by now 
Aletha Adu @alethaadu.bsky.social I write about politics for the Guardian. Also gym rat, musician and amateur yogi
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
Hettie O’Brien @hettieobrien.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian: First Edition and Guardian Long Reads | Author of THE ASSET CLASS
Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social Guardian columnist. Presenter: BBC R4's The Long View, the Guardian's Politics Weekly America and Unholy, alongside Yonit Levi. Author: THE TRAITORS CIRCLE
Tim Dowling @timdowling.bsky.social Guardian writer, sad sack. Police Dog Hogan's banjo player.
Simon Hattenstone @shattenstone.bsky.social Guardian interviewer/features writer, with a thing for prison and miscarriages of justice (well not a thing for them as such, a thing for writing about them). Proud Mancunian/Salfordian. City fan of some vintage
Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social Senior international correspondent at The Guardian. Author of the Secret Life of War. Orwell Prize winner.
Philip Oltermann @philipoltermann.bsky.social Culture editor for Europe, The Guardian. Ex-Berlin bureau chief. My book The Stasi Poetry Circle (Faber & Faber) is out now
John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social Guardian. Free Substack pieces at maybeimamazed.substack.com Plus music writing in MOJO. Maybe I'm Amazed, my new memoir about autism & music, out now. Order here https://linktr.ee/maybeimamazed
Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social Columnist at GuardianUS. Author of NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL and GHOSTING THE NEWS. (Join me at ‘American Crisis’ on Substack: https://substack.com/@sulliview?r=1yc91&utm_medium=ios) 
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Helen Pidd @helenpidd.bsky.social Host of Today in Focus, the Guardian’s daily news podcast. Former North of England editor. Nominated for best host at the 2025 British Podcast Awards. Contact me in confidence helen.pidd@theguardian.com
Talia Augustidis @taliaaugustidis.bsky.social Freelance audio producer | Listening events with In The Dark Radio | All Hear newsletter with Transom.org | She/her 🏳️🌈
Siobhan McHugh @siobhanmchugh.bsky.social Passionate about podcasts & audio storytelling as creative, critic, academic, consultant, speaker. Winner, 7 gold NYF. Author, The Power of Podcasting: telling stories through sound (CUP). Consulting Producer, The Greatest Menace https://siobhanmchugh.org/
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social Annoying journalist, bestselling author, sweary podcaster and so forth. New Book: 31 Inventions That Built Our World (UK, out now) / A Brief History of Cities in 32 Inventions (US, 13 October).
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
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Imogen West-Knights @imogenwk.bsky.social Writer and journalist in FT, Guardian, Slate, New York Times, Prospect etc. First novel, DEEP DOWN, came out in 2023. I also write video games with Motvind Studios.
https://authory.com/ImogenWestKnights
Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social Lawyer, Filmmaker, Big Issue top 100 Changemaker 2024, CEO CAMPAIGN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE https://www.cfsj.co.uk/
Tom Carlisle @tjcarlisle.bsky.social author of horrible things. One part John Steinbeck, two parts R.L. Stine.
my latest book is MARGINAL (Titan Books)... think of it like THE SUBSTANCE for people who read too many productivity books
Michael Hann @michaelhann.bsky.social Writer for newspapers and magazines, sleevenotes etc. Two books: Denim and Leather, and The Gospel of the Hold Steady. QPR supporter, hoping always that change really is possible
Emma Garland @emmaggarland.bsky.social music, sex & culture writer / editor.
first book TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF MAINSTREAM EMO (2000-2013) COMING 2026.
emmagarland.substack.com
emmaggarland.com
Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
The Quietus @thequietus.com Black Sky Thinking since 2008.
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Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com Indie bookshop in Paris📚Online store ships to the world 🌎 Listen to our podcast here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-company 🎧
Commonplace Podcast @commonplacepod.bsky.social Conversations with Poets and Other People
Hosted by Rachel Zucker
https://www.commonpodcast.com/
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Backlisted Podcast @backlisted.bsky.social Giving new life to old books since 2015. Bookshop.org Indie Champion. Find us: backlisted.fm, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Support us: patreon.com/backlisted.
Ryan Hunn @ryanhunn.bsky.social stadio and other things
Stadio @stadio.football Football, done differently.
patreon.com/stadio
Carmel Mc Mahon @carmelmcmahon.bsky.social Writer. Irish. Free Palestine.
In Ordinary Time (Duckworth, 2023)
Essays & reviews: The Guardian, The Irish Times, Longreads, Humanities Review etc.