Montreal International Poetry Prize @montrealprize.bsky.social The Montreal Poetry Prize is committed to poetry and poets around the world. For our 2024 winner and finalists, visit us at:
https://www.montrealpoetryprize.com/
Submit to the 2026 competition at https://montrealpoetryprize.awardsplatform.com/
Martyn Crucefix @mcrucefix.bsky.social Poet, blogger on poetry, translator. See my website https://martyncrucefix.com/ + Editor of Young Poets Page Acumen Poetry magazine https://acumen-poetry.co.uk/young-poets/
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
lililimonada @lililimonada.bsky.social 
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
Paul Nash | Paul atten Ash @northseanavigator.bsky.social WRITER:
Sampler (Black Cat Press 2027)
'Searchlight Seasons' (Atomic Bohemian 2024)
Instagram: @north_sea_navigator
campsite.bio/northseanavigator
Black Herald Press @blackheraldpress.bsky.social Éditeur indépendant / independent press
poésie, essais, textes courts / Poetry books, essays, short texts (in English or mostly bilingual) since 2010 / éditrice-publisher Blandine Longre @blandinelongre.bsky.social
https://www.blackheraldpress.com
Sati Mookherjee @sati-m.bsky.social Poet: Deś (forthcoming from Tupelo Press, 2027), Eye (Ravenna Press, 2022) and Ways of Being (Albiso Award, MoonPath Press 2023). Recent work in Gulf Coast, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, SWWIM, MER, RHINO.
satimookherjee.com
Hippo Potato @twicelost.bsky.social Foodie but not for food
https://chanchal-k.tumblr.com/
https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0H61K1SD5
Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com ✍🏾 Jacqueline Nyathi, librocubicularist, friendly neighbourhood "You *Must* Read This" person.
https://hararereview.com
📝📚 @thecontinent.org, @strangehorizons.bsky.social etc
(Incidentally, also @shonatiger.hararereview.com)
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
Stephanie McCarter @stephaniemccarter.bsky.social Classics professor, writer, and translator (of Horace, Ovid, and Catullus, with more Ovid on the way). she/her stephaniemccarter.com
Simon Philip Oswitch @sposwitch.bsky.social Philosophy, literature, poetry, theater, photography, music, the visual arts... Plant-based, pro-animal, inclusive human rights.
Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social Publisher
Books Made in Berlin since 2023
www.sacredparasite.com
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social Author, he/him
Shane McCrae @akasomeguy.bsky.social Tries to write. You can see how that's working out. Harvard Law School '07
Ivy Grimes @ivygrimes.bsky.social Writer of dreamlike fiction | she/her | www.ivyivyivyivy.com 
Benedict Sangster @benedictsangster.bsky.social Writer, Norwich, UK. Lover of all animals. Books and nothing else
benedictsangster.com
Alex Heron @heronalex.bsky.social Short-story writer. Very fond of marzipan, chocolate, sherry trifle. Chekhov. The idea of a parrot.
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social 
Richard Skinner @richardnskinner.bsky.social Novelist, poet, essayist. Director @FaberAcademy • Founder #VanguardEditions • Editor #14magazine.
Most recent publication: ‘Crossing Paths’ (Poetry) (Black Cat, 2026).
Legal Storyteller @bohemianslaw.bsky.social Lawyer / Univ. Lecturer in Japan / Humanizing the law through stories (fiction, music, photography) /弁護士 / 大学教員 / 法 x 物語 x 教育
instagram.com/bohemianslaw
Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social Bloodaxe Books, Britain's leading international poetry publisher.
www.bloodaxebooks.com
Diane Seuss @dseuss.bsky.social Author of Modern Poetry, frank: sonnets, Still Life w Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, Four-Legged Girl, all from Graywolf Press, and Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (Univ. of Massachusetts Press), Chancellor for Academy of American Poets.
ｐｅｔｒｉｃｈｏｒ @petrichorlit.bsky.social Text & image depository. Digipoetics since 2016.
Editors: Seth Copeland, Caleb Jordan, Amanda Ngoho Reavey
https://petrichormag.com/
(art: Annalynn Hammond; Michael Paulukonis)
Deborah J. Shore @deborahjshore.bsky.social Poetry. Free verse & form. Severe ME/CFS. The London Magazine, Columbia Journal, Nashville Review, THINK, Thimble Lit, ballast, Pensive, Prelude, Ekstasis, Reformed Journal, Amethyst Review, Christian Century, Christianity & Literature, Relief Journal...
Genevieve DeGuzman @gendeguzman.bsky.social Poet & writer based in Portland, OR. Tin House Workshop. StoryStudio. Oregon Lit Fellowship. KARAOKE AT THE END OF THE WORLD (JackLeg Press).
https://linktr.ee/genevievedeguzman
Jessica E. Johnson @jessejohnson.bsky.social Poetry and nonfiction / art and communit(ies) / plants, animals, kids /community college / co-host Constellation Reading Series / she/they
In Absolutes We Seek Each Other (Diagram ‘14)
Metabolics (Acre Books ‘23)
Mettlework (Acre Books ‘24)
Kay Greenacre @maminkwink.bsky.social …scribbler/stitcher/plant-loving/bookish beastie who lives with her 4kids, 6chooks, 3bunnies & blue dog in the sleepy beachside town of Freo…
Jennifer Bullis @jenniferbullis.bsky.social Poet, essayist, recovering academic in Bellingham, WA. Work in Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Iron Horse, Potomac Review, RHINO Poetry, Terrain.org, Whale Road Review. Chapbook: IMPOSSIBLE LESSONS (MoonPath Press). https://jenniferbullis.wordpress.com
Rebecca S @grongar.bsky.social the poet laureate of these four square feet • in the path of totality
https://www.grongar.com/
Tracy Shawn @tracyshawn.bsky.social #Author ✍🏻Novels: Floating Underwater and The Grace of Crows, Second Edition. Querying third novel📖 Member of The #AuthorsGuild 📚She/Her https://www.tracyshawn.com/novels-by-tracy-shawn/
Joanna Lambert @jjlambert.bsky.social Queer Welsh YA novel 'Found Wanting' published by Black Bee Books in June. Writer, hospital domestic, workshop facilitator, researching the stories of Twm Siôn Cati, dysgu Cymraeg (yn araf), she/her. 
Chris Banks @chrisbanks6625.bsky.social I’m a Canadian poet with eight collections of poems - Bureau of Useless Splendour forthcoming ECW press (Fall 2026). https://www.onlypoems.net/poets/chris-banks https://linktr.ee/royal.banksy
Tim Blackwell @timblackwell.bsky.social You can't handle the moon. But you want to.
words: https://www.badlilies.uk/tim-blackwell
Georg Trakl @trakl100.bsky.social 1887-1914, österreichischer Dichter, Austrian poet, poète autrichien, poeta austríaco, poeta austriaco, rakouský básník, Oostenrijkse dichter
JJulianBeach 📚🌻🌊 @jjulianbeach.bsky.social University Instructor of Lit, Writing, early ret! ✍🏼📚Writing, Lit, Music, Nature🎶🌲Chaucer, ShakespeareSunday, 19th C Brit Lit💙"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air”~Emerson💙Embrace kindness💙#SlavaUkraini💙💛 Blue dot in Texas 💙
Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social Writer | Chicago | Work in The Offing, X-R-A-Y, Wigleaf + more | Pushcart Prize and BotN nom | Best Microfiction ‘24, '25, '26
https://elenalzhang.wordpress.com/writing/
joseph p. derosier @derosierjoseph.bsky.social medievalist always thinking about the present, gender, and race.
this account has no affiliation and reflects my perspectives, not those of my employer or any professional organizations to which i belong.
Helen Carroll @helenenen.bsky.social Into stuff, more stuff. And things.
On Cinema at the Cinema head.
I do a lot of 🎶 challenges. Just mute the hastag if you don't vibe.
Anti-anti-science, anti-misinformation, anti-antidisestablishmentarianism, anti-ants living in my stove.
Mark Harris @marksirrah.bsky.social Poet / you can read some of my poems here: https://www.markharrispoet.com/publications
Amie Souza Reilly @amiesouzareilly.bsky.social she/her/hers. writer, artist, mom. lecturer & writer-in-res. sacred heart university. free Palestine 🇵🇸
Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays out April 2025, Wilfrid Laurier U Press
More info at http://amiesouzareilly.com/
Jen Moore @jenmoore.bsky.social Poet, professor, Gemini, mom || Easy Does It (Akron, 2021) || Smaller Ghosts (Seven Kitchens, 2020) || The Veronica Maneuver (Akron, 2015)
Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social Prof in 18th Century & Romantic Literature at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington, she/her, Pākehā/settler scholar, #toitūtetiriti, 🏀
Books on Romanticism + settler colonialism + Indigenous studies
https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/nikki.hessell
Dominic Leonard @dominicleonard.bsky.social Poet, teacher & drummer. Reviews in the TLS.
https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/dirt-by-dominic-leonard
Susan Robertson @snullr.bsky.social Borderline Luddite. Sometimes writes.
Anna Lena @aproflection.bsky.social Poet/teacher/editor/printer/plant person. Might Could, winner of the Anthony Hecht Prize, 3/2026 / Ornament, UNT Press / Editor, @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social / Opinions my own; reposts ≠ endorsements
linktr.ee/alpb
Adam Trotter @astrotter.bsky.social North Carolinian, former astronomer. Enjoying gardening, nature photography and hiking the local trails. he/him 🏳️🌈
Julie Weiss (she/her) @colourofpoetry.bsky.social Author of The Places We Empty (Kelsay Books), The Jolt and Breath Ablaze: Twenty-One Love Poems in Homage to Adrienne Rich, Volumes I and II (Bottlecap Press), Rooming with Elephants (Kelsay Books, 2025) 🏳️🌈💜https://www.julieweisspoet.com
Vasiliki Katsarou @solitudehill.bsky.social Poet publisher @Solitude Hill Press, with a focus on poetry, film & visual art. I've lived in #cambma & Paris, now halfway between NYC & Philly. Email: books [at] solitudehill [dot] com. www.solitudehill.com. Also, dachshunds
Maya Detwiller @omayagawd.bsky.social MIT Center for Constructive Communication Prototype Manager and Poetry Open Mic Attender
Whitney Rio-Ross @whitlynnrioross.bsky.social writer, author of Birthmarks (Wipf & Stock), poetry editor at Fare Forward
she/her
https://www.whitneyrioross.com
RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social Writer visual artist publisher. Now Available IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS (Ice Floe Press, 2025), FATHER TECTONIC (ETHELZINE Press,2025). In tons of journals incl Winged Moon, Otoliths, Storms Journal, Pissoir, Cable Street, ballast, Acropolis, Grain, ARC- L K. L. Davies @llewjones.bsky.social commie poetaster
Nathaniel Gardner @tkdcoach.bsky.social American (#AmRev) with unalienable rights. Not into wannabe tyrants or their power hungry yobs.
Battle of Camden avatar is for Nathaniel (my 5th GGF) & Heath (4th GGF), VA Militia. First, they ran.
Rob Klippel @robklippel.bsky.social I'm beginning to think this is all just a Kobayashi Maru.
DorothyBendel @dorothybendel.bsky.social Writer. Essays in The Believer, Threepenny Review, Lithub, Catapult, NYTimes, Bright Wall / Dark Room, and more. dorothybendel.com
Lalén Ríos Luna @lalenriosluna.bsky.social Experimental music, Noise, cutups,
always here:
https://porouscollective1.bandcamp.com/
Mar Vincent @marofthebooks.bsky.social Weird little stories in Analog, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and other fantastical places. Always seeking human creativity (NO AI), coffee, and petrichor. https://www.marvincent.com/
Currently in the liminal space known as novel revisions. 📝✍️✍️
Kevin @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social Research scholar, 17th-19th C. Chinese literature (especially caizi jiaren xiaoshuo 小說). Global history of the novel. Rereading the Stone: https://bsky.app/profile/rereadingstone.bsky.social
research & updates https://www.patreon.com/kmichaelwilson
Annika Bärwald @annikabaerwald.bsky.social Historian & teacher | PostDoc at the University of Lucerne, early modern hair | PhD'ing in Bremen, slavery and people of color in Hamburg | banner: Tariq Safieh
Faye Rapoport DesPres @fayerd.bsky.social Author of 7 books and sometime poet, Best Microfiction 2023 winner, animal advocate, amateur wildlife photographer. www.fayerapoportdespres.com
#WritingCommunity #WritersCoffeeBar #WritersCoffeeClub #Wildlife #5amwritersclub
Ryan F. Love @rflove.bsky.social HS English teacher who does some writing (unpublished histfic novels, some shorts, some poetry), dad. he/him
www.ryanflovewriter.com
Frank Hudson @frankhudson.bsky.social Founder of the Parlando Project — “Where Music and Words Meet.” Composes, records, researches, writes, & those things feedback into each other.
gehnmy @gehnmy.blacksky.app genderqueer poet
GRSTALT Comms @grstaltcomms.bsky.social Literary content for dead readers:
https://linktr.ee/grstaltcomms
http://grstalt-comms.itch.io
Andrew @andrew20.bsky.social I take pics of things that catch my eye, enjoy abstract art | processes | nature | science. Life long European 🇪🇺🇬🇧 believer in democracy and of living sustainably.
Shannon @shannonfego.bsky.social Reader. English professor. Follow books, film, foreign affairs/history, baseball (Bucs),and soccer (Everton). Partial to hounds.
Nicholas Yingling @nyingling.bsky.social Poet. Author of THE FIRE ROAD (Barrow Street 2024): https://barrowstreet.org/press/product/the-fire-road-nicholas-yingling/
Lynn Huggins-Cooper @hugginscooper.bsky.social Horror maven. Co-host of Northern Horror Hub. Thanatologist. Creative Writing lecturer at Falmouth. Author. She/her, ADHD. Views all mine...mine I say!
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social Snr. Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Writes poetry & short fiction.
unwashed53207 @unwashed53207.bsky.social "Unwashed," a creative writing and art journal based in the Bay View neighborhood of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. unwashed53207@gmail.com
https://www.unwashedmke.com
Micah James Bauman @micahjamesbauman.gosixers.online Poet. Philly sports fan. Proficient recorder and tambourine player. Published in Whale Road Review, South 85 Review and Anti-Heroin Chic. Co-wrote Mapping the Valley: Hospital Poems (Seven Kitchens Press).
Bernie McCarthy 🏳️🌈 @berniemccarthy.bsky.social Writer of Irish historical fiction and craftswoman.
Toby Litt @tobylitt.bsky.social Writer. Mentor. Activist.
I teach Creative Writing at Southampton University.
https://awritersdiary.substack.com/
Steven William Rimmer @stevenwilliamrimmer.com Author of scurrilous novels, including Dragonsbane, Coven, Legacy, The Order (frightens the horses, that one...) Darkmatter, et al. Saxophone god.
Anastasia Kashian @yaga1000.bsky.social "Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name..." Dinosaur Frankenstein & Baba Yaga documentarist. Time traveller. Recently spent a year in 19th century Italy.
Cheryl Pappas @cherylpappas.bsky.social Writer. Books: A THOUSAND WAYS TO DISAPPEAR (Cornerstone Press, 2028)/THE CLARITY OF HUNGER (Word West Press, 2021). Fiction instructor: Harvard Extension School. MacDowell Fellow ‘23. Email: fabulistpappas@gmail.com
www.cherylpappas.net
Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
Teresa Burns Murphy @teresaburnsmurphy.bsky.social Author of The Secret to Flying (TigerEye Publications)
https://www.teresaburnsmurphy.com
Writing in Chicago Quarterly Review, Evening Street Review, Gargoyle Magazine, Literary Mama, The Opiate, Slippery Elm Literary Journal, The Write City Review . . .
Micah Dean Hicks @micahdeanhicks.com Author. Academic. NEA Fellow. New book VULTURE GOLD out now! Lover of stories and story games. He/Him. Never AI.
Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.
micahdeanhicks.com
Yank in DK @sauldk.bsky.social Translator, editor, photographer, artist, cook (and telecook) for friends. Old guy, kept all of my LPs and CDs. Also kept all of my cameras.
I block anyone who restricts replies.
Dr Sweet Machine @sweetmachine.bsky.social Supernova with human skin. Author of We the Destroyers & Borrowing Your Body (Riot in Your Throat) & All Sex and No Story (Rabbit Catastrophe). she/her. http://linktr.ee/laurapassin
John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social Poet, birder. Used to bloviate at Isola di Rifiuti.
Karin @drivelikekarin.bsky.social Writer, poetry workshop facilitator, collagist, and birder based in Portland, Oregon. Author of See You Never (2024).
she/they 🌈
Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of modern, classic and translated poetry, and the bi-monthly literary journal @pnreview.bsky.social.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/CarcanetPress
lost boy @apolinariotk.bsky.social lost boy do twitter/x now here
brasil 🇧🇷
pt/en
Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social Haiku etc.. Also, Jewish Studies, Christianity, Buddhism, art and cool science stuff. Some politics . . .
She/her.
ET Charles @etcharles.bsky.social Read, write, sketch. Writer, librarian.
Honored to have The Dirigible Balloon publish my poems.
#SCBWI #kidlit #MG https://bethsbiblio.blogspot.com/ 
Steph Gaunt @steffogrunt.bsky.social Writer, eclectic blogger, wise (hopefully) old warrior woman, lives in Hastings UK. Ex-Brummie, married to the Philosopher, grandmother, Cosy crime novels available from Amazon. I am the Hastings Battleaxe! https://www.hastingsbattleaxe.com.
Esmeralda @mesmeralda.bsky.social Your average queerfemme, PhD candidate, immigrant.
#Economics
ESP/ENG/FRA/(ITA?)
Based in Nottingham 🏹 , born and raised in 🇦🇷🧉
She/them 🏳️🌈✨💅🏼
Lauren Parker @laurenparker.bsky.social I have never heard of punk music.
Dark Way Down (Animal Heart Press, Feb, 2025)
Spells for Success (Simon and Schuster, Jan, 2025)
laureneparker.com
Andrew Thompson @antimacassar.bsky.social Music lover, Cardiff dweller, provisional licence poet, cackhanded sketcher. A fondness for both Arsenal and Swindon Town. On a whisky journey. MDANT.
ana @thousandfollies.bsky.social ________, ________ & ________