Franco Amati @francoamati.bsky.social writer, poet, SFWA & Codex, ViableParadise 2024,
new collection WORK IS WORK out now: https://www.amazon.com/Work-Franco-Amati/dp/B0HCCQF9YP/
and for all published fiction visit francoamatiwrites.com
World Peace @jaozxy.bsky.social Believe in common sense and science 💼 Focus on local economic development, education investment, and infrastructure construction 🚫 Reject extremism and return to civilized politics.
No cryptocurrencies, no pornography, no vulgar language 🚫
The Ubergroup @theubergroup.bsky.social a 501(c)3 nonprofit providing low cost education for writers. Prose, poetry, stage, screen, nonfiction, journalism, comics, animation, podcasts, you name it. If it has a writer at any stage, we teach it.
theubergroup.org
Dr Madeline Hough✨✊🏻🖤 @dr-madeline-hough.bsky.social Dr Madeline Hough (PhD)| Founder, HOUGH 🖤 Sociologist, race scholar & activist. Anti-racist. Decolonial. Pro-Black. Institutional transformation, reparative governance & structural reform. Confronting racism. Redistributing power.
Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social In-depth reporting on issues affecting disabled people in the UK since 2009. www.disabilitynewsservice.com
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Anna Stenning @annastenning.bsky.social Companion to cats. State school educated. Medical humanities, literature & disability studies. Against techno-authoritarianism. Allotmenteer.
Something Chronic @somethingchronic.bsky.social Mostly bedbound by severe #ME/CFS #POTS #EDS #MCAS + more. Chronically hopeful for better days. Determined to fight against injustice so people with ME + Long Covid are treated with the same belief, respect + kindness as any other serious physical illness
Too Tired To Make @tootiredtomake.bsky.social Too Tired To Make: An act of thinking in public about how creativity actually happens under constraint.
#M.E.
#CFA
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis
#ChronicFatigueSyndrome
#ADHD
#Creators
#Makers
@violet-rose58.bsky.social @violet-rose58.bsky.social 4 years cancer survivor who loves to make people laugh
Love of animals
Rebecca @rebeccalws.bsky.social Medical-Environmental Humanities. Poetry. Illness and Disability. BA English Literature, MA Medical Humanities. she/her 🌱
Libby Banks @libbyiscomplex.bsky.social Autistic therapist/writer/thinker. She/They. POTS/hEDS/MCAS. Bisexual goofball. Developer of Contextual Systems Therapy. Happily partnered to my AuDHD dreamboat. http://www.libbyiscomplex.com
Pillow Writers @pillowwriters.bsky.social Pillow Writers is a free international online writing group for the ME/CFS community. All welcome.
Alex @admiringbog.bsky.social person with ME/CFS
professional slug
Erin Ryan Hey ♿️ @erinryanhey.bsky.social disabled writer, speaker, educator, and creator | 🏳️⚧️
Profile:  white person with glasses and brown hair, smiling
Banner: my life has always been a continuous struggle with ill health and ambition, and I have mastered neither.
Emma 🛏️♿🌱☮️♻️🍉 @veganmua.bsky.social She/her. Severe ME, CCI/AAI, hEDS & co, AuDHD. Ex makeup artist, ethical vegan, socialist. #BlackLivesMatter
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
Support striking workers
Lothlorien Poetry Journal @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction and art.
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines.html
Walk for ME @walk4me.bsky.social We are an awareness and fundraising event for biomedical research into ME/CFS.
Mads @blueforpwme.bsky.social 🇬🇧DxwM.E.1995-EBV.ex-dancer,⛱️lifeguard,performer,working on writing my 1st novel to rep #pwME! #PAIS I’m a dreamer,nature lover & surfer 🏄♂️🛹1-2 times a yr if I’m lucky. AuDHD Many undiagnosed comorbidities! Ie.MCAS.OI/DYSAUTONOMIA.EDS. GASTRO.CHIARI/SPINAL🦋
DisabledWorld @disabled-world.com The Disabled World disability community website encompasses a broad spectrum of issues and experiences faced by the approximately 1.3 billion people (around 16%) worldwide who live with significant disabilities - https://www.disabled-world.com
Sam 🍉 😷 @spoonsnroses.bsky.social Arty, lefty tree-hugger and fat catlady. Yes to disability solidarity, no to discrimination in healthcare. She/her. Not all those who wander are lost, but I am.
Lyndsey @lyndseydoob.bsky.social Constantly battling between needing to be informed, and having a good day.
Vegan 🐷, leftie, Chronic sufferer (ME CFS)
Always on the side of the underdog.
Free 🇵🇸🇨🇬🇸🇩🇸🇸🏴
Petition pusher
Shine some sunshine on ever darkening days.
🚫DMs. 🚫 go fund me.
Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social 💜 ♾️ AuDHD | Monotropic | Neuro-affirming Autism advocate & consultant.
Interests: monotropism, flow, burnout & neuroqueer theory.
Writer • Trainer • Resource Creator | Former SEND EY/Primary teacher ♾️ 💜
https://www.autisticrealms.com/
Eleanor @eleanoralbaugh.bsky.social Crafter by necessity to stay occupied whilst dealing with health issues. MCAS PoTS Hypothyroidism (need T3 for life) ME. Please entertain me and let’s connect.
In a previous life xcountry skier, hen and beekeeper, keen gardener and HCW.
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Beth F W @omfcharitymugs.bsky.social Severe ME/CFS patient since 2006, fundraising for the Open Medicine Foundation, all proceeds from all sales go directly to OMF, Worldwide shipping🩵
https://omfcharitymugs.teemill.com
me with ME 🇬🇧 📷 🍂 ❤️☮️ 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇨🇦 @me-with-me.bsky.social Just a #pwME/CFS, an #unpaidcarer for my wife who has rheumatoid arthritis and for our #SEN son, navigating my way through life and #ElectiveHomeEducation. In an increasingly volatile society.
#childloss #stillbirth #rainbowbaby #miscarriage
oceans_of_mona 🏳️⚧️ @vanillablue.bsky.social They/She
Queer + trans + non-binary
Tri-Cities, WA ➡️ Bellingham ➡️Columbus
AuDHD
Seattle Seahawks
Columbus Crew + Blue Jackets
Film dork/Blankie
Born into indie rock, moulded by it
Letterboxd https://boxd.it/2I4Dj
Sampler playlist http://bit.ly/3YZSNUd
Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social Anti-Zionist Free Palestine Ukraine Solidarity Anti-Racist Anti-Carceral Abolitionist Anti-Genocide Anti-Colonial Anti-War Anti-Imperialist Intersectional Feminist Queer LGBTQI+ Green Eco-Socialist People Planet Peace Interfaith Seeker of Beloved Community
Marushka-T @marushka-t.bsky.social PwME since 2000. Focused on queer & disability rights & advocacy. Allergic to pseudoscience. Looking forward to the decline and fall of the neoliberal empire. No DMs pls.
#ME/CFS #🏳️⚧️ #🏳️🌈 #SlavaUkraini #FreePalestine #COVIDaware #EatTheRich
@ravenfingers.bsky.social @ravenfingers.bsky.social They/them. Against oppression, patriarchy + psychopaths in positions of power. Egalitarian. Democratic eco-something. Lover of all wildlife, not a lover of homo sapiens. Unwell neurodivergent zebra. Love 60s/70s/90s culture
Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social Talks, writes, teaches. "The Ha-ha" & "The Ends" might make you laugh. Patreon https://patreon.com/Tomtalksdisabillity?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=join_link
Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social British Writer, speaker, artist, filmmaker, working class, queer, interested in disability & the madness that is given to us by the world. She/They
Women Writers Network @womenwritersnet.bsky.social Supporting and promoting #WomenWriters. On insta at womenwritersnetwork and Twitter (X) @womenwritersnet.
Niko Suvisto @nikosuvisto.com Life on hold by severe #MECFS, currently 99% bedbound 🛌
Documenting my life like it is now, advocacy through photography 📷
📍Finland
https://nikosuvisto.com/
Laura Elliott @tinywriterlaura.bsky.social Disabled writer of things. Bad at being on BlueSky. Debut sci-fi horror novel AWAKENED out now with Angry Robot Books.
‘An impressive debut worth losing sleep over’ - New York Times
Tahneer Oksman @tahneeroksman.bsky.social Teach journalism; cultural critic, esp of memoir and graphic novels/comics, for NPR and others; some books on some things; Brooklyn, NY. Opinions mine.
The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social The VILLAGE 🏘 is a place where the world 🌍 feels a tiny bit smaller. Founded by SMOKELONG for the Global Flash Community
Follow 150+ flash publishers.
Read editor interviews.
Enjoy discounts on collections.
Get regional news.
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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)
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript (Book Formatter, Cover Designer and Socials Post Maker): https://book-shelfie.com/postscript
@paulaclarke.bsky.social @paulaclarke.bsky.social
Eleanor Fielding @meownersclub.bsky.social ‘We’re driving in the dark with our sunglasses on!”
#RLS #ME #PEM
Retired lecturer/therapist
Open University, CCCS B’ham, feminism, politics, culture, disability, science, music, languages.
meownersclub@bsky.social
Maker of #FanningTheFlames
@sickroll.bsky.social @sickroll.bsky.social Part time artist, full time sick person
@notgoingback2024.bsky.social @notgoingback2024.bsky.social Horrified German interpreter & translator and lover of democracy watching the US sleepwalk into an autocracy if there is no serious resistance and debunking of myths. These past few years have been a steep learning curve. Let us keep learning together!
#MEAction Scotland @meactionscotland.bsky.social
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
Fully featured garden planner vegplotter.com
Frost dates and growing zone calculator frostdates.com
University of Atypical @universityofatypical.org Belfast based disabled-led charity developing, showcasing & promoting work by D/deaf, disabled & neurodivergent artists. Atypical Gallery, Bounce Arts Festival & much more!
www.universityofatypical.org
Northampton Poetry Review @npoetryreview.bsky.social Northampton Poetry Review. A literary journal of poetry and writing from Northamptonshire, UK
https://linktr.ee/npoetryreview
鬼翠たくみ@Vtuber @sikuisumire.bsky.social 👹齢5022歳の鬼姫Vtuber👹
ゲーム🎮廃人
栄養源はコーヒー☕
✨9月4日生まれ✨
好物は焼鳥🐓と和菓子🍡🍘
目指せ受肉‼️
応援よろしくなのじゃ👹✨
⚠️DMは変なのがいっぱい来るので
基本見てません。皆も変なURL踏まないように気をつけてな❓
X https://x.com/takumi_kisui
Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@kisuitakumi
Renegade Research @renegaderesearch.bsky.social Patient-led 501c3 nonprofit focused on #MECFS & #LongCovid 💙 https://linktr.ee/renegaderesearch • Runs @remissionbiome.bsky.social
Judith Alder @judithalder.bsky.social Artist. Mostly drawing at the moment. Guildford House Open 2024. Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize shortlist 2023-4. Sussex Contemporary 2024. ING Discerning Eye 2023. Website: www.judithalder.com
Abriel Louise Young (Abe) 🌱 @abelouise.bsky.social Poet, writing coach & mutual aid worker. Documenting lives outside, charting the resistance, helping people reclaim words.
Substack: The Breathing Field || Vegan Cookbook: Magical Foods & The Mason Jar Life || Poetry: Heaven to Me (Headmistress Press)
Louis Bailey @louisbailey.bsky.social Writer. Researcher. Night Runner.
sfella87 @sfella87.bsky.social Ceramic sculptor, drawer and curator (+digital photos and movies) in Brighton, uk - Persist Resist Exist
Colin-Roy Hunter aka criquaer @criquaer.bsky.social Queer, humanist, pantheistic Quaker.
Politically non-partisan.
Disabled & chronically ill
#pwME #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #SevereME
🇪🇺🗣️ 🏴🇦🇹🇩🇪🇪🇸🇫🇷🇵🇹
Dione Green @dione1andonly.bsky.social Journalist, producer, community radio host, activist. bayfm.org & CBAA
thewire.org.au/team/dione-green
Critical thinker, democratic socialist. Sci-fi, RPGs, dystopia, satirical comedy, indie rock/punk. they/them
@bayfm999.bsky.social
🇦🇺 Arakwal land 🖤💛❤️
Marina Van Heusen @marinavanheusen.bsky.social Writer, dog person, blue dot in a red state
Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldn’t.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. 💙
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
https://www.amazon.com/Least-Weird-Person-Awake/dp/B0GT1262KP
Karen Denmark @kmdenmark.bsky.social Mostly just crocheting these days. Former USAF and maternity RN. #ME/CFS
Christine H. @csquareh.bsky.social Lover of Science, Art, Words | Best Microfiction | Best Small Fictions | Wigleaf Top 50 2023| Stories: CRAFT, SmokeLong Quarterly, Fractured Lit, Atticus Review, Vestal Review, Ghost Parachute,Time & Space Magazine +
christinehchen.com
Powerd Media @powerdmedia.bsky.social Powerd partners with content makers sharing authentic stories of disability. Sharing these stories drives society forward on the path to inclusion.
https://powerd.media/
@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
Andy Charman @andyandz.bsky.social Author of Crow Court. published by @unbounders.bsky.social. Longlist Desmond Elliott 2021. Shortlist CWA Historical 2022. Laureat Festival du Premier Roman 2022. Researching 1983 and philosophers in WWII. Assistant Editor of Thin-Skin.com
Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social Writes a bit (Pushcart nom x 2, Best Microfiction ‘26, Fish 3rd prize ‘26), reads a lot. Drama (on-stage, mostly) 🏳️🌈
Editor: https://www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/ @neitherfishnorfoul.com
my published stuff via: https://thewavingnotdrowningblog.com/
Stacy @stacysp.bsky.social Former healthcare worker #MECFS #FM
Katie M. Zeigler @katiemzeigler.bsky.social Writer/Professor/Freckled
www.katiemzeigler.com
https://linktr.ee/katiemzeigler
Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Writer of short things. Reader of all things flash. Dog lover. Words in SLQ, XRAY, Flash Frog, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf. Winner of 2024 Lascaux Prize & Cambridge Prize. She/her https://www.emilyrinkema.com/
Kik Lodge @kiklodge.bsky.social Writer. THE BULLY IN MY PILLOW (Stanchion Books, August 2026).
https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/the-bully-in-my-pillow
Best Microfiction 2026.
Hosts literary open-mics @saloneurope.bsky.social
www.kiklodge.com
@bsherm36.bsky.social @bsherm36.bsky.social Author of HOW TO GET THERE FROM HERE (Ad Hoc). Stories @Smokelong, Flash Frog, Gone Lawn, Bending Genres. Subs editor @Smokelong. BMF 2024, 2026. BSF 2025. Noms: Pushcart, BOTN. Author of five mystery novels. PhD from CUNY Grad Center.
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
Sea Minor/Irving Benitez @seaminor.bsky.social Poetry and Fiction writer. Disabled and Queer. Crowned in Blood and Birthright. A horror genre and tangerine enjoyer. Really weird.
Carrd: seaminor.carrd.co/
itch.io: https://sea-minor.itch.io/
Mennonite Mom (she/her) ❤️🩹🥄💙🌊💙 @mennonitemom.bsky.social Follower of Jesus, Cranky Old Broad, Mennonite mom&wife, lover of books, world, peo, poetry & art. Disabled Spoonie🥄(MCTD, RA, Sjogrens,lupus) Fierce Mama Bear 🏳️🌈 of lesbian daughter (33) and pan & autistic son(28) 🖤🤎❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Dr Jo Greer @drjogreer.bsky.social Mum, Carer, Educational Psychologist
www.theredtreeandME.com- M @mariasevereme4.bsky.social @mariasevereme4.bsky.social
Jo Hatty @johatty.bsky.social Sculpture, drawing...that sort of thing
christina4hope @christina4hope.bsky.social 👋ME/CFS ,Fibromyalgia , lyme Boriliose,Longcovid,MCS ,Vax Injured (not corrona vax),Hearing loss ect… Posts English and German.
Bavaria ,Germany
Evelyn Scott @evelynscott.bsky.social Author and Disability & Women’s Health Advocate (Rep’d by Orli at DHA @davidhighambooks)
A Bloody Scandal - ‘an explosive investigation into gynaecological neglect’ - to be published by 4th Estate/HarperCollins in August 2026
♿️ 🏳️🌈
A Darkened Room @adarkenedroom.bsky.social One of the #millionsmissing || Raising awareness of the most severe form of #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis
Anna Biggs @writebiggs.bsky.social Reader, writer, sleeper agent
Loves history, folklore & growing things
ME + expansion packs
ADCI network ♿️ | she/her
LL Lucy Cavendish Prize ‘24,
won: Greene Door ‘25, Curtis Brown Breakthrough ’24, Jericho Writers Mentorship ‘24, Novelry Octopus ‘23
Selina Laurie @selinacfs.bsky.social Owned by four cats, serial knitter, now learning about Ecotherapy, once geologist, ecologist now getting by one day at a time despite ME and Menieres Disease.
Germaine Hypher - Crafting A Path Through Illness @germainehypher.bsky.social 🧵🧶✍🏻🎨📷🌱🐈⬛📚
Author of Crafting A Path Through Illness - exploring creativity while chronically ill. Available worldwide (the book, not me 😆).
Disabled by M.E & fibromyalgia since childhood. Enabled by humour & creativity.
www.germainehypher.weebly.com
Alive with Chronic Illness @awchronicillness.bsky.social Exploring what it's like to live with and not "in spite of" chronic illness.
Selina Lock @selinalock.bsky.social Crafter, research librarian, lapsed writer, former editor of The Girly Comic, watcher of kdrama, jdrama, tdrama, has ME/CFS, based in Leicester UK
https://factorfictionpress.co.uk/
Devin S. Turk @devinsturk.bsky.social Autistic, trans & nonbinary psychiatrized writer, artist, zinester, & Disability Studies grad student. Possibly two cats in a trench coat…Fiddling with LEGO.
https://linktr.ee/devinsturk
Paul Swann (he/him) @pauldjswann.bsky.social Christian, early retired, priest living with ME/CFS. Author of Sustaining Leadership (BRF). Spirituality. Inclusivity. Vulerability and Grace. Photography. Nature. Politics. Husband and father.
Sara Wasson @sarawasson.bsky.social Reader at Lancaster University. Gothic, science fiction, medicine, ecology, plant studies, the Arctic. Books: Urban Gothic; Gothic SF; Transplantation Gothic. She/her.
Pam Bishop, PhD @pamelarbishop.bsky.social Was research professor, now disabled by #LongCOVID (12/7/20) & subsequent #POTS #MECFS #MCAS #SFN #cSVD Patient advocate when able. Tell your story if you can.
Snowball @snowballcommunity.bsky.social
What’s is Snowball??…Think TripAdvisor for the disabled community.
Apple https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/snowball-community/id1624679548
Android https://play.google.com/store/search?q=snowball+community&c=apps&hl=en&gl=US
Alison Colwell @alisoncolwell.bsky.social Writer, weaver of fairy tales and other creative non-fictions, food security activist, mom to two teens and a houseful of cats. Currently searching for a literary agent to represent my memoir.
Dr Alison Allam @alisonallam.bsky.social Qualitative researcher - interested in lived experiences of chronic illness/ energy limiting conditions #PPI #spoonie
Kerry Mead 🍉 @kerrymead.bsky.social I'm sorry, I don't know my personality type.
Writing memoir, essays, fiction, place, & neurodivergence. Curae Prize '23 & Bristol Short Story Prize '25 shortlisted.
#ADHD. Complete lefty.
linktr.ee/kerrymeadwriter
Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social artist and poet; ecological remediation and human recuperation; landscape, tea, limit and creativity; lives by the sea in Edinburgh; mostly sharing a daily poem here.- M Martin @martinmecfs.bsky.social ME/CFS & chronic illness since 2019
Catherine Hale @catherinehale.bsky.social Founder, Disability Insight. Independent research and policy consultant on disability employment and social security. Founded Chronic Illness Inclusion. #pwME and survivor of medical abuse.
Paula Peters @paulapeters19.bsky.social Disability Rights Activist - DPAC
Co founder of Bromley & Croydon DPAC
Disability Rights Advocate
Trade Unionist - Unite
NHS Activist
Geoff Allen @binman.bsky.social Bit poorly. Campaigning for ME research and awareness. Music. Sport. Films. Animals. Spurs. Thomas Dolby. Janey.