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. Chiefs.
Any Pascual | indie author & poet @anyespiritual.bsky.social My new book “Verses till midnight” out now!
I write cozy poetry books for deep feelers.
Indie Bestseller Author. Highly Sensitive Poet ✝️🌷🇪🇸
Autora, poeta Altamente Sensible.
Un abrazo de Luz ✨
Okay with DMs about writing.
https://linktr.ee/AnyPascual
Sandy McIntosh @sandymcintosh.bsky.social Author of twelve volumes of poetry, a Chinese cookbook, and three computer software programs.
https://sandymcintosh.info
Debra J. Nordyke @dnwritespoetry.bsky.social Writer of poetry. To walk as a warrior, embracing grace, into the storms of darkness to breathe out light. Weaving the evil threads life hurls with the threads of wonder. Beauty is cultivated in darkness.
Lundy-creative @lundy-creative.bsky.social Link to my debut e-novel: A Brunch Tale payhip.com/NLundyM
Other Links (& FREE POEMS):
www.etsy.com/shop/NLundyM
www.instagram.com/lundy_nyc/
(Pictures that are not my own were sourced from: Pexels)
Marty Shambles @martyshambles.bsky.social Writer-in-residence and poetry editor @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
Writer at @ggtribune.com and @hwoodtimes.com
martyshambles.com
Daniel Trask — Building The Poetry Thing @thepoetrything.bsky.social Building a merit-first poetry platform. Weekly comps, fast feedback, real rewards. Launching January. Follow for updates.
Tom Joad™️ @theoriginaltomjoad.bsky.social His debut collection, Nine Miles, is a #1 Amazon Bestseller in New Releases in Anthologies. He's currently at work on a novel.
"Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there".
https://substack.com/@tomjoad3
Cathy Symes @cathysymes.bsky.social Socialist, feminist, poet and eco worrier. All views my own but I may change my mind or just sober up.
Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com Poet, civil servant, music nerd | CV2, Malahat Review, QWERTY, ROOM, Crab Creek Review, The New Quarterly & others. jessicaleemcmillan.com
𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘯 (Pinhole Poetry)
https://pinholepoetry.ca/product/shine-like-a-dime/
Penny Walker @penny-walker-sd.bsky.social Speculating…
…in fiction and non, eco hopeful. Likes: compost, air, salvage. Dislikes: AI slop, shouting.
Writer in residence walklistencreate.org 25/6
https://linktr.ee/pennywalker
Rosaleen Lynch @rosaleenlynch.bsky.social ☘️ Irish community worker, writer
& teacher living in London with work selected for the Wigleaf Top 50, Best of the Net & Best Small Fictions, now researching the impact of story on social change & can be found @ http://52quotes.blogspot.com
@elizafevwrites.bsky.social @elizafevwrites.bsky.social Poems etc.
Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com Canadian writer in Scotland (via Denmark (got lost on the way home (sorry mom))) | Pushcart nominated | Placed/listed: BFFA, Bridport Prize, Welkin Prize, others | Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig | She/Her
erinbondo.com
Rachel H @rachelape.bsky.social Writer, walker, storyteller, anecdoter, guinea pig scruffler, nature lover. Works with rescued primates. Loves wildlife, music, languages and books. Dorset, UK.
Ruairí de Barra @paperneverrefusedink.com Procaffinator. Veteran. Artificer. Bodger. #Author. #Poet. Lost #Mayo Man.
www.paperneverrefusedink.com
Alison McCrossan @alison-mc.bsky.social Paints for the pure joy hobby of it. Writes poetry and fiction-hard working and persistent it seems. Writing in Southword, Orbis, Prole, The Honest Ulsterman, Abridged, Stand, Anthropocene, elsewhere. LL, The National Poetry Comp. SL, Bridport
Elizabeth Ezra @elizabethezra.bsky.social Californian Edinburgher. Former academic; now writing novels and poetry. Kelpies Prize winner; Bridport Poetry Prize Highly Commended, etc
Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com Writer naval/aviation history. Words. Art. Photography. Silken Windhounds. He/him. Free Palestine.
Books on the Rise @booksontherise.bsky.social Bookshop, Record Shop, Art Gallery and Events Hub on Richmond Hill!
Home of Aurora Metro, Supernova Books and Amber Lane Press.
Checkout our website www.booksontherise.com
🧿 Nya 💙 @seranyabeck.bsky.social 🧿 Seranya Beck ✌️ Artist | Author | Cosmic Architect
Building @-Social™ — creators keep 100%, forever → https://at-social.social/
🦋 Write What I Want
🌛 Dream of the Cosmos
💃🏻 Dance at the Pyramids
📖 Leone Nor 💙
✍️🎨📸©️ #ArtBySeranya #CubistPoet #Seranya
Rebekah Teller 💙🏳️🌈 @rteller.bsky.social Midwestern Gen Xer #poet
http://www.kreativejoose.com
Norman Bissell @nbissell.bsky.social Poet, essayist, novelist & President of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics. Author of Slate, Sea and Sky, Barnhill and Living on an Island Expressing the Earth.
Ann Pelletier-Topping @annpelletiert.bsky.social 2nd prize National Poetry Competition 2019 for poem 'Granddaughter moves in'
Published in Lighthouse, Shearsman, Tears in the Fence, Obsessed with Pipework, Ambit
Isaac Pickell @isaacpickell.bsky.social https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-smallest-mistake-we-call-human/
poet & phd student in Detroit | books and chaps @blackoceanbooks.bsky.social @blacklawrence.bsky.social @deadmallpress.bsky.social | just very glad to be here.
Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover. 
Colin Bancroft @colin-bancroft.bsky.social Poet. PhD on the Ecopoetics of Robert Frost. Waterfalls and fell walking. Wrestling fan.
Marion Ashton @marionashton.bsky.social A poet member of Louth Writing Group. MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway. Well travelled. Lived in Houston, Texas for several years.
Find me on poetrypf.
Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social Writer. Pie enthusiast. Historically preserved beard site. Cheese poet. Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, Cinnamon Challenge: honorable mention. 
Ben Morgan @benjlmorgan.bsky.social Medea in Corinth - 2nd edition 2025 from Poetry Salzburg
poetrysalzburg.com/medea.htm
https://www.instagram.com/benmorganwriter/
https://benmorganwriter.wordpress.com/
C. Oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social Poet, thinker, dreamer, scribbler… in ascending order
For my recent posts: #Oulens
Winner, 3rd Annual Poe-it Like Poe Poetry Contest 2025 by sixdegreesofpoe
David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social SFF writer, poet, editor, leather crafter, gardener.
Milford SF Conference co-organiser,
5K Your Way Ambassador
2024 Nonsuch Parkrunner of the Year
Winning battles, losing the war.
Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social I'm an artist, musician, poet, writer, a creative being. I live in France, but born in the UK. I have written anything from horror books to a children's book. Vegetarian, dog lover, anti war maybe a bit woke Follow me if you can.
#vss365 #writingcommunity
DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social Wanderer, writer, reader
Ambassador for daily writing prompt, #vss365, and inquisitive human.
Cindy Ana 🇳🇿 @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social Would rather write than talk. Sometimes I don’t read skeets properly, especially pre-coffee. Rāmere is my favourite day. Work can be found in Broken Spine Arts, takahē, Voicemail Poems
Special mention in Given Words 2025
roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social a throwaway poet
lives in Sheffield
has never been a lover of slip-on-shoes
writes poetry for people who don’t read poetry
his pamphlet “My C&A Years” published by Dreich
my best review
“My husband loves this but he doesn’t know anything about poetry”
@dralyal.bsky.social @dralyal.bsky.social 
Black Cat Poetry Press @blackcatpress.bsky.social Independent poetry press.
Editors Satya Bosman & Catherine Balaq.
www.blackcatpress.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/blackcatpress
Pan Macmillan @panmacmillan.bsky.social We publish a broad and vibrant range of books for audiences of all ages.
winterroom @winterroom.bsky.social Cemetery studies, Cemetery Friends
In the distant past, an archaeologist
Haikuist and storyteller
Three score years and ten
Aurora Metro Books @aurorametro.bsky.social Finalist Small Press of the Year, British Book Awards. Imprints: Supernova, River Light, Amber Lane Press. Also known for campaign to erect statue of Virginia Woolf in Richmond. Find us at Books on the Rise, Richmond, Surrey. www.aurorametro.com
Richard Wyn Jones @richardwynjones.bsky.social Athro Gwleidyddiaeth Cymru
Amy Newlove Schroeder, PhD @amiableamy.bsky.social Writer, poet, college prof, democracy fan, cat mom, compulsive reader, feminist. Bi 🌈 💙 RESISTER 💙 🟦 💙 My poetry collection, The Sleep Hotel, is available from Oberlin. I teach engineers to think about words. 📖🌎📚
Carol Peace @carolpeace.bsky.social Hackney and Hay-on-Wye based sculptor, drawer, painter and poet.
https://beacons.ai/carolpeace
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.
Elise Kenny @elisekennyauthor.bsky.social Romance & speculative thriller writer. I love reading/writing weird and sweet books - don't make me choose!
https://www.elisekennywriter.com/
Elizabeth M. Castillo | Poetry, Writing & Workshops @emcwritesthings.bsky.social • 🇬🇧🇲🇺Multilingual British-Mauritian Poet, Writer & Educator
• Author of "Cajoncito" & "Not Quite An Ocean"
Rose Norman @roseinthehighlands.bsky.social Living in the Scottish Highlands 🦌 With a love of nature, mountains, animals, history and creative writing ✨
Sarah Tanburn 💙 📚 🖊️ @sarahtanburnwriter.bsky.social Writer, reader, sailor, hiker, based South Wales. Am querying BORN OF COURAGE, turning maritime histfic on its head. www.ladyturtlepress.cymru for Welsh fantasy collection Children of the Land. Also write essays & reviews.
Laura Davis @lauradavispoems.bsky.social Poet and textile artist https://poetry.lauradavis.eu My pamphlet of text and textile poems "Have Needle, Will" is out with Moormaid Press 
Café Writers @cafewriters.bsky.social Live lit events online and in Norwich
cafewriters.co.uk
PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social Defending freedom of expression and promoting literature worldwide since 1921.
Digital Inclusion Wales | Cynhwysiant Digidol Cymru @diwcdc.bsky.social Prosiect cynhwysiant digidol Llywodraeth Cymru, wedi'i ddarparu gan
@cwmpas.bsky.social / Welsh Government digital inclusion project, delivered by @cwmpas.bsky.social
Luca Paci @lucapaci.bsky.social Poet, lecturer and translator.
https://www.parthianbooks.com/products/tempo-excursions-in-21st-century-italian-poetry
Kris Spencer @krisspencer.bsky.social Writer and teacher. Poetry collections, Life Drawing (2022) and Contact Sheets (2024), published by Kelsay Books. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Debut novel Every Storm is a Message, out on July 31st,2025
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).
Phil Vernon @philvernon.bsky.social Poetry, humanitarian issues, peacebuilding. Latest poetry collection Guerrilla Country (Flight of the Dragonfly Press, 2024): http://bit.ly/485JisV
Have finally quit the awful 'X' - why did I wait so long? - and landed here.
Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social My novel, Skin Hunger, is coming in 2026. In the meantime, my latest poetry books are Openwork & Limestone (2022) & Light-carved Passages (2024). Prairie-raised author of Seeking Shade (stories 2020), Tower (novella 2018) etc.
www.francesboyle.com
Frank Podmore @frankpodmore.bsky.social Award-winning poet published in @pwritersu.com, @stanzacannon.bsky.social, @apparitionlit.com and others; occasional opinions for @roadcc.bsky.social, @labourlist.bsky.social and Sublation Magazine
Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social This is a storybook. All of us are in it. Here are some tales.
https://eirenegentle.com
https://templeinacity.com
In: AHC, Claudine, DIHP, Bull, Frazzled, Fish Barrel, Dog Throat, Blood & Honey, ANMLY Whimperbang. Pushcart, best short fiction nom.
Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social From Romania; I'm on both autistic and LGBT spectrums. Reading/writing/translating poetry. Working on Princeps Poesis, a database of poetry books from all around the world.
https://linksta.cc/@yigru-zeltil-ro
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
Dr. Colleen S. Harris 💙📚 #booksky #libraries #spoonie @warmaiden.bsky.social Poet, academic library scholar, chronic illness life. Author: The Light Becomes Us (Main Street Rag, 2025), Toothache in the Bone (boats against the current, 2025), more. See www.colleensharris.com
Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social Let's get this partly started.
Libraries / poetry / music / other. Cardigan enthusiast. Cat fan.
Hotel Familiar EP: https://gordonanderson.bandcamp.com/album/hotel-familiar
Cardiff. He/him.
Anne McMaster @annierose25.bsky.social Poetry. Films. Photographs. Plays. Novels. Images my own unless a repost. Writing in English/Ulster-Scots. I chase words and the light. Available on tour, in books and on BBC Radio/TV. New work autumn 2025. Never too many cats.
Lauren Stoolfire @sunsoar25.bsky.social Librarian, Reader, Book Blogger, Postcrosser, Geek, Cat Lover, INTJ, Leo, She/Her
https://never-anyone-else.blogspot.com/
Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust). www.medhawrites.com
Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social Poet. Author of More Than a Whisper and several chapbooks. #Vinyl lover. Library Cataloger. Co-creator of the Captain Janeway Statue. Unpaid Cat Herder https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSJLQ8DF?ref #vss365 #writingcommunity #poetry
Jason Bentsman @jasonbentsman.bsky.social Wayfaring Writer & Photographer
// Debut photobook out now from 89Books Italy ➨
limited signed copies ➨ www.tinyurl.com/WhichCannotBeSeen
// Bklyn Review, Offing, LitroMagUK, Mercurius, Tiny Mcules, AmBystander, MTL Review, HAD, Amstdm Qtrly, FStop, et al
Lizzie Gowans @lizziegowans.bsky.social 📚 Editor/Proofreader 📚 teacher in a previous life 🐶 dogs make the world better (well, they do try hard) 🐶 reading and more reading | 🏴 |
V.C. Myers @vcmyers.bsky.social author of Ophelia (Femme Salvé Books, 2023) & Give the Bard a Tetanus Shot (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2019) | Fmr editor/reader Muruch, Barren, Ice Floe, Frontier, Sarabande Books | work in EPOCH, Poet Lore, Bombay Gin, HAD, etc. http://vcmyers.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
Mehmet Izbudak @baudelairescat.bsky.social Urban Minotaur @LiveCanon. Poet & playwright. Translates. Dabbles in art. Too lazy to write a novel. Malika's Poetry Kitchen & Tideway Poets. 
Punk Dust @punkdustpoetry.bsky.social Micro poetry press from Swansea.
#PromoteIndieLit
Sreelekha Chatterjee @sreelekha2024.bsky.social Poet. Writer. More than 100 of my short stories and 100+ poems have been published in various national, international journals, magazines, & in several print anthologies.
Hannah Flynn @hannahflynn-poetry.bsky.social 🩷💜💙 Poet | 🧬 Science Editor
Liminal bodies
Political as personal
Cardiff Central Library Hub @cardiff-hub.bsky.social Rhannu'r Newyddion, Safbwyddiadau diweddaraf o #EichHybLlyfrgellGanolog
Sharing the latest News, Views, and Events from #YourCentralLibraryHub
Broad Ripple Review @broadripplereview.bsky.social Fiction | Nonfiction | Poetry | Reviews
Free submissions, always.
www.broadripplereview.com
https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/broad-ripple-review-vGnmj
Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social Poet / Writer / Publisher of Sibling Rivalry Press / Very Gay / 🦁 / Latest Books: Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry Finalist Brotherful & Listen, Kid: Selected & New Poems 2010-2026 / Editor of Assaracus: A Journal of Gay & Queer Poetry
www.bryanborland.com
Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Flash fiction writer | 2025 Highly Commended Bridport Prize & Finalist New Millennium Writings | Published in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Flash the Court, Writers’ Hour, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and elsewhere.
linktr.ee/adelegallogly
Phil Wood @blaurock.bsky.social Writer| Political Theology, history, poetry| Birder, Anabaptist-Mennonite, rejoiner, Marxist, Green| Trees should count as FB friends.
Bob Cullen @robertgcullen1.bsky.social An information professional who also happens to be a historian, writer, and reader. I wish all of you who have likewise landed here a wealth of peace and goodness!
one poet in the crowd @onepoetinthecrowd.bsky.social Poet, Earthling.
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.
Marie Studer @mariestuder.bsky.social Poetry Collection - Real Words - Winner Trocaire Poetry Ireland 2020
National Outdoor Book Awards @nobabooks.bsky.social National Outdoor Book Awards: Recognizing outstanding writing & publishing in the outdoor field.
Awards given in: Outdoor Literature, Nature & Environment, History-Biography, Children's, Art/Photography. etc.
Posts by Ron Watters.
Linda Eve Diamond @lindaeve.bsky.social Poetry & Photos - Editor of a free ebook, The Art of Listening anthology, filled with inspiring visual artists & poets! Find it at https://www.lindaevediamond.com/art-of-listening or on my free Patreon page. #TheArtOfListening 💖✨
Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social Art. Nature. Poetry. Life.
She/Her.
Alien Buddha Press @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social Alien Buddha Press has been publishing emerging writers and artists since 2017. Open for submissions at abuddhapress@yahoo.com
The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the world’s best new writing.
http://theberlinliteraryreview.com
akwe @akwe.bsky.social Program director and pod host with the Symposium on Strength and Solidarity for Human Rights@strengthandsol; poet; coach.
FWC Indivisible @fwcindivisible.bsky.social FWC is a multi-state Indivisible Group and a grassroots operation providing messaging and social media content inspired by our progressive allies.
https://indivisible.org
Gill Barr @gillbarr.bsky.social Derry girl, Dorset woman. Debut Poetry Collection (Cinnamon Press) 2025, Arts Council Award 2024. Website: gillmbarr.wixsite.com/gillbarr
Abe El-Raheb / Editor & Writer @eldashraheb.bsky.social https://www.abeelraheb.com
Egyptian-Irish-American
Editor and Writer (WGA West)
Desperately trying to learn Spanish
We are such stuff as dreams are made on.
Shelley Roche-Jacques @shelleyr-j.bsky.social Writer of short fiction and dramatic monologue, connoisseur of cake, coveter of cats, lecturer of creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University.
https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/shelley-roche-jacques
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Stephanie Branson @bransonela.bsky.social HS English Teacher, Reader, Writer, Advocate, Lover of all things words. Boy mom to the best little ever.
Jason VonGerichten @jvongerichten.bsky.social Librarian.
Writer.
Lives in Chicago.
Mostly woke. Open to being more woke.
Mostly cringe. Open to being less cringe, but not a priority.
My book, Icarus Is Dead: https://a.co/d/5kYoxoe
My substack: https://jasonvongerichten.substack.com/