Munster Literature Centre https://munsterlit.ie/ @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social Cork based non-profit arts organisation promoting Irish and international literature since 1993.
Website: https://munsterlit.ie/
Eithne Gallagher @eithneg.bsky.social Irish writer musing through life from a remote hilltop in Italy.
S. Bhattacharya-Woodward @storyshaoni.bsky.social Writer/reporter. Shortlisted Dinesh Allirajah Prize 2025. 3rd place DRFWritersPrize 2020 and BristolPrize2019. Agent: Matthew Turner, RCW Literary Agency
Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social Essayist, Editor @ The Real Story, Winner NorthBound Book Award for COLD FISH SOUP (Saraband, 2022). BROKEN BISCUITS (HarperNorth, 2025) MD ANT Rep'd by @charlotteseymour.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/adamjfarrer
Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social Deep Woods of Philly | Sometimes Writer | Spoonie Crew | Accidental Startupper | Words in New Letters, Wild Roof Journal, etc.| NO DMs
https://linktr.ee/lisadellaporta
Ben Hinshaw @benhinshaw.bsky.social EXACTLY WHAT YOU MEAN
benhinshaw.com
Elizabeth Baines @elizabethbaines.bsky.social Writer of short stories, novels, plays.
http://www.elizabethbaines.co.uk
Latest publication: Five Different Stories About One Thing (Confingo). https://www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page/five-different-stories-about-one-thing-by-elizabeth-baines
Marie Day @mariedaywriting.bsky.social Teacher, writer. Stories have been published in Bath Flash Fiction, National Flash Fiction Day, Oxford Flash Fiction, Paper Lanterns, Paper Bound, Writementor Magazine. SL Bridport 2024 Winner Henshaw Press Mar 2024
Bristol | Yorkshire
Tom Vowler @tomvowler.bsky.social Word-botherer.
Winner V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize
www.tomvowler.co.uk
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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.
John McCullough @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social Poet. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize for Literature with Reckless Paper Birds. Forward & Costa-shortlisted. Working-class writer. Next book: Crowd Voltage (Bloodaxe, March 2026). He/him. 🏳️🌈
Cathie Mullen @cathiemullen.bsky.social Irish in Germany. International educator, lover of words and stories and trees and cats! Stinging Fly Summer School, The Mersey Review. Currently finishing a memoir.
Eileen Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social Writer, Librarian, Jerseyan ✍🏻 Baltimore Review, Hunger Mtn, X-R-A-Y, Lost Balloon, Okay Donkey, Pithead Chapel, Passages North, OSU The Journal, Tiny Molecules; soon in Fractured Lit | BSF 2023 | Wigleaf Top 50 2026
https://eileentomarchio.webnode.page/
The Pride Roars @theprideroars.bsky.social A collective of women's voices -2025 social media posts by @mlmcguinness.bsky.social
https://theprideroars.blogspot.com
Laura Dobson @laurarose13.bsky.social PGDip Children's Wellbeing Practitioner; MSc Psychology (conversion); Writer of flash fiction and creative non-fiction with words in Hinterland Magazine, Ellipsis Zine, The Birdseed, The Phare
David Gaffney @ggaffa.bsky.social Writer, Arts Council manager, musician. Concrete Fields (Salt 2023) Out Of The Dark (Confingo 2021) graphic novel Rivers (Top Shelf 2021) www.davidgaffney.org
Nancy Freund @nancyfreund.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Wife, Mom & Mum. #T1D. Mostly vegan. Cambridge & UCLA & just finished year 1, CW PhD @Brunel! 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇭 My mom painted the above. She was amazing.
Nicholas Petty @nicholaspetty.bsky.social Writer-ish.
Stories in The Stinging Fly, New England Review, Story, The London Magazine, The Moth Magazine, Galley Beggar Prize, Desperate Literature, The Forge and elsewhere.
nicholaspetty.co.uk
Elizabeth Fletcher @esfletcher.bsky.social writer, yoga therapist, Bowie fan | asst cnf editor Pithead Chapel | Best Microfiction nom | Pushcart Prize nom | BOTN nom | wigleaf LL | stage NED | ope
Writing: www.esfletcher.com
Kate Oldfield @kateoldfield.bsky.social Writer | Mama | Mentor | Poet | Facilitator at The Writing Well workshops & events | Oxford-dweller | Yorkshire lass | escapes to Hebrides
Founder @thewritingwell.bsky.social
https://the-writing-well.com
Ali Mckenzie-Murdoch @yallaalia.bsky.social 🚀Dancer & Writer.
✨Brit based in Zurich.
⚡️Words in Fractured Lit, X-RAY Literary, LEON Literary, Bending Genres, Gone Lawn, JMWW, Your Impossible Voice…Nom BSF & BMF 2025
🎖️Bath Flash Fiction Short List
@bathshortstory.bsky.social @bathshortstory.bsky.social 
Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social Yep, that one.
Caoilinn Hughes @caoilinnhughes.bsky.social Irish writer.
Novels: THE ALTERNATIVES, THE WILD LAUGHTER and ORCHID & THE WASP. Short stories about the place.
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Neil Hegarty @neilhegarty.bsky.social Writer, Dublin & Derry. Worlds, words.
Novels: The Jewel•Inch Levels.
Essays (ed.): Impermanence.
Dublin Review•Stinging Fly•Banshee•PVA•
Tangerine•Cyphers•Irish Times
📖 & 🌿 & 🏳️🌈 & 🎂
neilhegarty.com
Eoin Rogers @eoieoin.bsky.social Programme Manager @ The Stinging Fly
Professional Goblin
Al Kratz @alkratz.bsky.social Reading and writing in Indianola, Iowa.
Working art full time now.
Got a lot of projects in flight.
I'm here right now,
I'm not dead yet.
alkratz.com
Dr Karen Jane Cannon @karenjanecannon.bsky.social Poet//Author//PhD (Ecopoetics of Place/Body) Novel: Powder Monkey (W&N & Phoenix). Poetry: The Curfew Bell & Emergency Mints. Hamish Canham Prize 2022. Bridport shortlist 2019 & 2024. New Forest Dweller. #poetry #place #nature www.karenJaneCannon.com
Sarah Ann Winn | Poet Camp @poetcamp.bsky.social I’m a poet, teacher and free-range librarian, and the founder of Poet Camp. #wompo
*And brand new to Bluesky as of 9/5!
PoetCamp.com
Julia Webb @julwe1.bsky.social Neurodivergent poet and editor. Steering editor for 'Lighthouse'. Latest collection 'Grey Time' (Nine Arches press, 2025).
https://juliawebb.org/
https://visual-poetics.blogspot.com/
https://storymachines.co.uk/portfolio/lighthouse/
Atlantic Books @atlanticbooks.bsky.social Independent British publisher of literary fiction and non-fiction. Also the home of imprints Corvus Books, Allen & Unwin UK, and Grove Press UK.
Sign up for our newsletter: https://atlantic-books.co.uk/
Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • Blood Type: Curry • Leeds United • Anti-AI
#LUFC
jmthornberry.wordpress.com
sandandgravelpress.com/store/the-finish-line-jason-thornberry
Frances Gapper @francesgapper.bsky.social Queer, shy and anxious. Pigeon-chested, takes frequent naps and seldom goes far. Writes tiny things. 2025: Exposition Review, Pangyrus, Flash the Court, Your Impossible Voice, Fictive Dream, Flash Flood, Winged Moon, Eunoia Review, Switch, Trash Cat Lit
Judith Wilson @judithwrites.bsky.social Author & journalist. My book ‘Beautifully Casual Home’ was published May 2024. Writer of short stories, novel in progress. Books, interiors, writing and the sea. www.judithwilsonwrites.com
The Cover Collection @thecovercollection.bsky.social We provide high quality, affordable book covers for both publishers and self published authors www.thecovercollection.com
Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social Author. Potter. Mom. THE BELOVED WILD (Feiwel & Friends, 2018) & UNLEAVING (Feiwel & Friends, 2019) Rep’d by Faye Bender. melissaostrom.com
Yvonne Battle-Felton @whyiwrite.bsky.social Author of Remembered and Curdle Creek, former editor at John Murray, Academic at Cambridge Uni, event host and podcaster. I also write kidlit, short scripts, nonfiction essays, poems
Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social Lawyer. Writer. Artist. PhD: Creative & Critical Writing: The Hybrid Aesthetic as Decolonial Practice
Winner of Queen Mary Wasafiri Prize 2023. Co Ediitor: Gathering (2024). Nasiasarwarskuse.com
Kelli Short Borges @kelliborges2.bsky.social Writer. Words in many lovely places. Into travel, photography, kind people. Best Microfiction 24’ 25’ 26’ Wigleaf Top 50 LL. Pubs and more info: https://www.kellishortborges.com
Devon Fredericksen @devonfredericksen.bsky.social Author of HOW TO CAMP IN THE WOODS
Environmental science journalist with words in the New York Times, The Atlantic, High Country News, Hakai, bioGraphic
devonfredericksen.com
Rosie Garland @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social Writer, March Violet, secret medievalist, FRSL✨
Not cynical; just been taking notes.
Novels:The Fates(Quercus)
Palace of Curiosities, Vixen, Night Brother(Borough)
Poems:Nine Arches
March Violets: @marchvioletsband.bsky.social
http://www.rosiegarland.com
Inkfish Magazine @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social Magazine & Press edited by @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @petermcallister.bsky.social | short fiction | flash | non-fiction | concrete, vispo, experimental | prose, poetry & hybrid chapbooks
https://inkfishmag.com
Susmita Bhattacharya @susmitab.bsky.social Writer. Educator. Dreamer.
Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social A literary magazine publishing poetry, translations, fiction, interviews, essays, photography, and fine arts. Follow AR Tunes on Spotify.
amsterdamreview.org
EIC @danielnemo.bsky.social
Managing Editor @phebel.bsky.social
Mslexia @mslexia.bsky.social The UK's bestselling magazine for women who write.
Literary Mama @literarymama.bsky.social celebrating, promoting, & nurturing mama writing & writers at https://literarymama.com/ since 2003
Podcast, This Mama Is Lit! at: https://literarymama.substack.com/s/this-mama-is-lit
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🖤Ghosts & Daisies 🌸 @ghostsanddaisies.bsky.social ✨short story writer 🖋️ book lover 📖 horror fan 👻 cat mum 🐈🐈⬛ cosy gamer 👾✨
Mariah Rigg @riggstah.bsky.social they call the wind | samoan-haole from Oʻahu | author of EXTINCTION CAPITAL OF THE WORLD (Ecco, 2025) | www.mariahrigg.com
@nodghosh.bsky.social @nodghosh.bsky.social 
@bathflashaward.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social 3 times a year Flash Fiction Award. £1460 prize fund. Anthology. Founded in 2015. 32nd Award results out now. 33rd Award open. Judge Writer and writing tutor . Alison Woodhouse Closes June 7th 2026
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
The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social International art & lit magazine. One of the world's biggest prizes for a poem. Short story, nature writing & art prizes. Also: @thecaterpillarmag
Nicole Reineke @nicreineke.bsky.social Amazon Best Selling Author, top 1% of inventors, maker of things.
Currently posting The Penguin Games novel.
Full novel copyright Nicole Reineke 2024
All rights reserved. Like what you see? Buy now: https://a.co/d/dlwl7xQ
Anna Regeniter @annaregeniter.bsky.social A Westphalian in Manchester.
www.bio.site/annaregeniter
Rachael Clyne @rachaelclyne.bsky.social
UK poet and writer. Latest collection: 'You'll Never Be Anyone Else' - https://www.serenbooks.com/book/youll-never-be-anyone-else/ https://rachaelclyne.blogspot.com/ @rachaelclyne Substack
#PoetsOnBluesky #PoetryCommunity
#poets #ukpoets
Maggie Rainey-Smith @at-the-bay.bsky.social Novelist and Poet
(also writes essays, short stories and loves Friday #rāmereshorts) Favourite title 'Grams/Halmoni/Nana
I blog at acurioushalfhour.com
http://www.maggieraineysmith.com/
Andrew Tucker Leavis @andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social EIC + founder - New Nottingham Journal
Words in Radio Times, Under the Radar, Nottingham Post
Lucy Heuschen (she/her) @petitecreature1.bsky.social Pushcart & Jerwood Prize-nominated poet ~ Pamphlets with Hedgehog & The Broken Spine ~ Commended in Poetry Society Stanza Comp 2024 & 2025 ~ First Collection "Daughter of Fire" Yaffle Press 2025 ~ www.lucyheuschen.co.uk ~ IG: LucyHeuschenPoetry
Jayne Stanton @jaynestanton.bsky.social A passion for poetry; books and reading; lifelong learning.
I love walking in nature, small island retreats, music, knitting. And cats.
Sue Barnard @authorsusanb.bsky.social Novelist, poet, linguist, rebel without a clue. 50% Celt, 50% Cockney, 200% anti-Brexit 
Martin Figura @martinfigura.bsky.social Photographer, Writer and performer living in Norwich with Helen Ivory and sciatica.
Tracy Fells @theliterarypig.bsky.social WRITER. 2017 WINNER Commonwealth Prize Can & Eur. Author novella-in-flash Hairy On The Inside (Ad Hoc Fiction) S/L '22 Rubery Book Award. Short Story collection out now from Fly On The Wall Press. Buy now: rb.gy/esxcc. www.tracyfells.com
Sharon Larkin @sharlark.bsky.social Writer, poet, photographer, editor, workshop leader, Stanza Rep, occasional anthology publisher, linguist. Loves Wales, nature/countryside and above all God.
Poetry books:
Interned at the Food Factory, Indigo Dreams, 2019
Dualities, Hedgehog Press, 2020
Helen Dewbery @helendewbery.bsky.social Poetry, Poetry Film, photography www.poetryfilmlive.com
Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social Poet, market researcher, husband, father, knobhead.
Book called Collecting The Data out via Red Squirrel Press or me. The "Aldi Stanley Tucci".
https://t.co/eJeeqVdmvz
Rhianna Levi-Burton @rhiannalevi98.bsky.social Former Worcestershire Poet Laureate. Cover teacher. Youth worker. Social media manager. Published writer. Mental health advocate.
Coffee, cats, tattoos, movie fanatic. Tolkien enthusiast. 🖤
Worcester, UK
Tristan Moss @tristan-moss.bsky.social Poetry, Art, Politics and Pedagogy- C Chrissie Gittins @chrissiegittins.bsky.social Poetry
Poetry for Children
Short Stories
Radio Drama
Drawing
Lydia Macpherson @afreshafresh.bsky.social Poet ‘Love Me Do’ @saltpublishing.com Pamphlet under construction. Live on a wily windy moor. Gardening at 1300’ up. Remainer. Hate injustice. Girly swot. Never a Tory. I am LUCKY. Wind farms shouldn’t be built on protected peat.
Emma Lee @emmalee1.bsky.social Poet, reviewer, short story writer based in Leicester, UK. No DMs unless I know you IRL.
Hedgehog Poetry Press @hedgehogpress.co.uk Hedgehog is a teeny one-man-band of a poetry press nobody knows about - shhh!
www.hedgehogpress.co.uk
Charles Lauder Jr @cglauder.bsky.social Poet, freelance editor, ex-pat, "The Aesthetics of Breath" (V.Press, 2019), "Year of the Rat" (Blueprint Poetry Press, 2025), www.charleslauderjr.com
Iris Anne Lewis @irisannelewis.bsky.social Writer (mainly poetry). Poems in Black Bough, High Window, Ink Sweat and Tears, Iamb, Poetry Wales. First collection 'Amber' published 2024. Founder of the poetry group 'Wordbrew'.
Rosie Hadden @rosiehadden.bsky.social Poet, weaver, conservationist. Living a creative wild life in Cornwall
Mark Watson @markwatsonbooks.substack.com Mark Watson, #1 best-selling, multi-award-winning author. Author of Milo & Ze, The Shark in the Park, Santa Claus & YOU! and many more.
Follow me HERE: https://markwatsonbooks.substack.com/
Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social Poet, novelist, teacher, charity worker, carer, ex American. A STRANGER IN BAGHDAD (AUC) LL/Bridport, 2024 SIBF award for Best International Fiction. Best New Poets 2025. I write all by myself, and it shows. www.elizabethloudon.com.
Zarina Dara @zarinadara.bsky.social sneaking poetry into the corners of the day, and telling stories to myself in grasp of sanity
Donall Dempsey @donall7.bsky.social Sometimes poet...almost person...working on both.
Mark Rutterford @markrutterford.bsky.social Writer-Performer.
Stories. Love. Props.
Badgers. Lucy. Daylight and fresh air.
Theo Chiotis @selfcoding.bsky.social Poetry person. Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis (Penned in the Margins). Screen (Paper Tigers Books). Limit.less_an assembly of the sick (Litmus). ed board [ΦΡΜΚ].
Some of my work here: http://www.greekpoetrynow.com/poet_poems_eng/chiotis_poems.html
Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social Here for poems & other beauties. Writing in Poetry, The Southern Review, Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, The Poetry Review (UK), & elsewhere. Co-editor for book reviews at Plume. First collection of poems forthcoming with Orison Books in fall 2025.
event chilly @tristanbergh.bsky.social #BLM curious & curiouser. room fancier. they/them/he
#FreePalestine
antithesis. my tweets: https://twitter.com/search/from:tristanbergh(Exclude:replies)
here on khoi san land
Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social EIC @ https://www.amsterdamreview.org/
danielnemo.com
Rob Miles @robmilespoetry.bsky.social Words & Pictures
Poet, Broken Sleep Books; academic, University of Leeds
More here: https://shorturl.at/IYmT1
Em Gray @em-words.bsky.social She/her. Poet. Words in The Forward Book of Poetry, Propel, Mslexia, Strix, Arachne Press, Modron & more.🌱FTA. Dyspraxia. Foxes.
Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social Poet and dog mum often lost in the mire of poor mental health. Debut collection, Life’s Stink & Honey #CinnamonPress 2022. Scots Language pamphlet, A Glimmer o Stars @ HedgehogPoetryPress 2021. Working on next collection with #CinnamonPress. She/her
Sallyanne Rock @sallrock.bsky.social queer, neurodivergent poet and access support worker
www.sallyannerock.com
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Benedicta Norell @benedictan.bsky.social Poet. Empowering midlife, eco & mother poetry. First collection coming 2027. Out now: Three Poems in Aftershock Issue 3| Debut Terrible Mother @theblackcatpoetrypress and Waterstones.com |Poems Linked Here:
https://linktr.ee/benedictanorell
Eoin Hegarty @eoinsheg.bsky.social “I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.” Szymborska. It's where I start each day.
Anne Worthington @anne-worthington.bsky.social Writer Photographer
Novel The Unheard awarded Michael Schmidt Prize https://www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page/the-unheard
Documentary photography https://britishculturearchive.co.uk/east-manchester-in-the-2000s-regeneration-anne-worthington/
Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social "We'll Be Birds" flash chapbook https://www.sandandgravelpress.com/store/well-be-birds-lisa-thornton-425-x-55
Writer, nurse. SmokeLong Quarterly, Cincinnati Review+. Senior flash fiction editor @jmww. Sucker for a good barn.
lisathorntonwriter.com
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Anne Rasmussen @whatll-i-do.bsky.social Writer, editor, dreamer, schemer, petter of dogs. Co-Fiction Editor, Split Lip Magazine. whatll-i-do.com
Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social Irish poet. Most recent book is "Her Red Songs" (Turas Press, 2024).
Website: https://textworksite.com
My Internet Archive : https://archive.org/details/@christine-elizabeth
Website 2008-2021: poethead.wordpress.com & its archive: https://ph1.omeka.net
Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal @writerclaytonb.bsky.social (they/them) Writer, Teacher, Editor | Managing Editor at the Best of the Net Anthology
www.writerclaytonbradshaw.com
Amy Marques @amymarques.bsky.social Art & Words
Flash - Poetry - ProsyPoems
Book: PARTS
Chapbook: Are You Willing?
Curator & artist for DUETS anthologies
https://amybookwhisperer.wordpress.com/
Beth Gilstrap (she/her) @bettysueblue.bsky.social Author of 2 story collections & There Is News Along The Ohio River, a hybrid/flash CNF collection out now from River River Books. Editor. Copywriter. Anti-fascist. EIC/Pub Black Lily Zine. Living w C-PTSD & neurospiciness.