Ben Shahon @beansbaker5.bsky.social Author of SHORT RELIEF @406press.bsky.social
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Magic: the Gathering Substacker @ajohnnyspridemate.bsky.social
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Margot Stillings @maybemargot.bsky.social a bundle of stars floating on a cloud ☁️ photographer • cocktail napkin poet • generally ridiculous human being◾ all words and photos are my own ◽
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(all true, might as well leave this until I think of something better! Oh I guess I should add Lead Editor @rfpress.bsky.social)
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Kellie Scott-Reed @kelkel.bsky.social Writer, Songwriter, AEIC for Roi Faineant Press, Yoga Instructor
Suzy Henderson @suzyhenderson.bsky.social Writer of historical fiction, fantasy & romance. Lost in the 1940s. Copious tea drinker. Loving Lake District life. Published by DP Books & Northodox Press. Shortlisted for RetreatWest First Chapter Prize 2025.
Swetha Amit @swethaamit.bsky.social Writer/ interviewer/ Author of 1 memoir and 3 chapbooks- Fiction @ghostparachute @bendinggenres @soflopojo and others. Member @writersgrotto
Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social Poet &c | rishidastidar.com | linktr.ee/betarish
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
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Tom Vowler @tomvowler.bsky.social Word-botherer.
Winner V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize
www.tomvowler.co.uk
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Jenni @littlebird1898.bsky.social If I'd been born in the fifteenth century, they would've accused me of being a witch.
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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.
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Mythic Picnic @mythicpicnic.bsky.social Indie studio, born on YouTube
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Midgies • Straw • Behind • Isleanders • Mamahuhu
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social An Eddie some way behind the magnificent Mair, Vedder, Izzard, Marsan, The Eagle, and Munson. #Boro #UTB
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Jude P @judepickledplum.bsky.social Tea drinking fool, storyteller, humanist, voluptuary. Easily distracted by cats and reverb. Quiet voice, loud hands. Likes writers, books and awful puns.
Vast Chasm Magazine @vastchasmmag.bsky.social cultivating community and publishing bold work: flash, short fiction, cnf, poetry, and other nonconforming pieces
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Review 31 @review31.bsky.social An online literary review. Est. 2011
www.review31.co.uk
Darren Mark Skilton @darrenmarkskilton.bsky.social Collective Action Brighton & Hove. Left/Green. Solidarity RPM. Give Street Project. Vegan. Gooner. LGBTQIA ally. He/Him.
Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social Artist/Writer/Postman appearing from behind a rhododendron and cursing loudly #MDANT
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Chris Young @squarepegsuk.bsky.social There’s Nothing About us Without us
Every day massive, life changing, decisions are made by those in power without us
Together, people like us can use the power of collective action to bring about change
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N.J. Gallegos is Dr. Spooky (she/her) @drspookyer.bsky.social I like big cats. ER doc. Horror author. Artist. Cohost of The Scream Kings Podcast. Member of HWA. Pro-choice. BLM. I voted for her. Star Wars & BravoTV fanatic. She/her. 🌊🏳️🌈
Personal site: https://njgallegos.com
Podcast: https://www.screamkingspodcast.com
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.
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James Kennedy @jameskennedy.bsky.social Musician, author & podcaster
Album : http://linktr.ee/makeanger
Book : http://linktr.ee/noisedamage
Podcast : http://linktr.ee/jameskennedypodcast
Official site: http://jameskennedyofficial.com
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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
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
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https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Yousef Allouzi @americanbedouin.bsky.social Words in Pidgeonholes, Atticus Review, Blue Cactus Press, Scintilla Magazine, others.
Chapbook: THE BEDOUIN [Blue Cactus Press]
Magna Cum Laude BS in Economics
Master of Public Policy (MPP)
Data Analyst
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Writing about books and 19th-20thc women's history in 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com
Essays & reviews also in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today etc
David Beckler @davidbeckler.bsky.social Author, humanitarian, socialist.
Drinker of coffee and walker of city streets.
My next book, Trapped, is out 14th Aug 2026.
philwhiteland @philwhiteland.bsky.social Recent septuagenarian, have been writing stories all of my life but have only managed to publish some since 2005. Now focusing on humorous fiction because anything has got to be better than real life, currently!
Roy Duffield @drinking-traveller.bsky.social Writing in 3:AM, Feminist Review, @riseupreview.bsky.social, Diode, @partiallyshymag.bsky.social, Ink Sweat & Tears, Lucent Dreaming… First book: Bacchus Against the Wall (Chicago: Anxiety Press, 2023)
BRUISER @bruisermag.com web zine + micropress
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Addison Zeller @addisonzeller.bsky.social writer / bruising for @bruisermag.com
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J Brooke @jbrookewrites.bsky.social Writer | Editor | Filmmaker
Author of: I Can Tell You The Version That Will Make You Take My Side (Driftwood Press, 2026)
Book Reviews Editor: The Rumpus
Poetry Editor: Trans Poetics Archive
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SHINE Poetry @shinepoetry.bsky.social Est. in 2022, by American poet Samantha Terrell, SHINE is an international poetry series featuring both emerging & established poets. Learn more at http://www.SHINEPoetry.com.
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
The Forge Literary Magazine @theforge.bsky.social The Forge Literary Magazine publishes one prose piece a week. Literary excellence is our only criteria. https://forgelitmag.com/
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.
Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social Historian of work, energy, industry and protest. Author of An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class and Coal Country. Should be running or writing.
JWT_BookAdventures @jwtba.bsky.social Welcome to JWT_BookAdventures - I do Q&A interviews with Authors - I also do book reviews if I am interested in reading the book
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social.
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
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
CDBoyland @cdboyland.bsky.social Poet/Editor | Debut collection 'Mephistopheles' | longlisted for Scotland's National Book Award | Founding partner with off-page, Glasgow-based visual poetry practice | https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/mephistopheles-by-cd-boyland
Gearóidín Nic Cárthaigh @gearoidinc.bsky.social Dúil agam sna splancscéalta, sna gearrscéalta, is sa bhfilíocht.
Dan McNeil @themcvariations.bsky.social A STREAMLINED DOOMSDAY MACHINE ➡️ Writer of weird surrealistic words ➡️ My Exhibition Of Post-Agrarian Psychopathy is at https://linktr.ee/DanMcNeil and https://www.dan-mcneil.com/
Zak Mucha @zakmucha.bsky.social social worker, psychoanalyst, author of Swimming to the Horizon: Crack, Psychosis, and Street-Corner Social Work... and president of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis
Frank Gaimari @frankgaimari.bsky.social Best-selling author, film critic, and screenwriter. Award-winning scripts: Vincent and Paul: Unspoken Brotherhood, Mary Reid, and La Famiglia. I love movies and my two golden retrievers.
www.FrankGaimari.com
www.FranksFilmReview.com
LeftLion Magazine Nottingham @leftlion.bsky.social Where Nottingham Meets.
Shouting arts and culture in the home of Robin Hood since 2003.
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
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
https://linktr.ee/lithub_
Islay Book Festival @islaybookfest.bsky.social We are an annual autumn book festival on Scotland's whisky isle. Next festival taking place 27th - 30th August 2026. 📚
The Reader Berlin @thereaderberlin.bsky.social ✍️ Berlin's Platform for Creative Writers since 2011 ✍️
www.thereaderberlin.com
Creative Writing Workshops & Writing Classes / Mentoring / Readings / The Berlin Writing Prize
David Butler @davidbutlerbray.bsky.social Novelist, poet, short-storyist, playwright, also writes as Dara Kavanagh
SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social Dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web, by widely published authors or those new to the craft. Est.2003. Paying up to $150. www.smokelong.com. No Trump supporters. Follow also @heyflashvillage.bsky.social
Kathryn Aldridge-Morris @kazbarwrites.bsky.social COLD TOAST Dahlia Books. Republic of Consciousness Prize 'Book of the Month'. Shortlisted for International Rubery Book Award. Wigleaf Top 50, Bath Flash Fiction Award, Mancs. Writing School QMD Prize, The Forge CNF prize
www.kamwords.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
Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social Artist & writer. History & art buff. Museum of Photocopies. Quietus. Guardian. Observer. Louder than War. WORM, Rotterdam. Leiden. Write about music, NL, & my family history. #MDANT. 3rd book out March ‘27 https://linktr.ee/richardfoster
Ashton Macaulay (Author) @macashton.bsky.social Writer of nearly critically acclaimed novels, novellas, and short stories.
Purchase my nearly-critically acclaimed comedy sci-fi novel, One Night at Kedasi: https://linktr.ee/MacAshton
Joanna Piechowska @ashapiechowska.bsky.social Linguist, reader, educator and a beginning writer. Lover of non-fiction and translated fiction. University of Nottingham graduate - BA Hons Modern Languages & PGCE.
Manny Torres, novelist @mannytorres.bsky.social Author, Photographer, Herminaut, Artist, Ailurophile based in Atlanta. Published by Outcast Press, Anxiety Press, Starlite Pulp Review and Uncle B Publications. A Simmering Dissonance is out now! Follow the link 👇🏽
http://www.mannytorresnovelist.com
Cinnabar Moth Publishing @cinnabarmothpub.bsky.social We are a majority Black owned independent activist press. We publish books from underrepresented voices with underrepresented points of view.
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
Blood+Honey @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social Blood+Honey is a new lit mag that revels in the experimental & the avant-garde, dirty and kitchen sink realism. SUBMIT your poetry, fiction, CNF, and digital art!!! SUBS Currently CLOSED!!!
EIC: @davidestringel.bsky.social
https://www.bloodhoneylit.com/
New Nottingham Journal @nottinghamjournal.bsky.social An annual print literary journal featuring short fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction from around the world.
Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social Mental health/tech stuff. Sell ads for local newspapers, keeping local public interest news alive. Former writer in residence @centreforMH. Ask me to write MH things. Director Social Spider CIC. DMs open. Podcast @BBCOuch
(he/they)
Bookaholic Bex @bexbookaholic.bsky.social Book-obsessed, theatre-loving feminist with a liberal outlook on life. Mental health champion. Award winning book blogger.
https://bookaholicbex.wordpress.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
Tottenham Hotspur @tottenhamhotspur.com COYS 🤍
Paul @paulwritespoems.bsky.social Poet, Husband, Northumbrian, Sax novice.
Forward/Pushcart/BOTN nominated
Work in FH Lit, Dust, IS&T, The Winged Moon, Black Bough and more
https://paulwritespoems.com/unwhispered-legacy/
https://linktr.ee/paulwritespoems
Road Song Books @roadsongbooks.bsky.social OUT NOW - COLDWELL by David Gladwin https://roadsongbooks.com/product/coldwell
COMING SOON - THE LONGEST DAY by LISA WILLIAMS
We are a NORTH DEVON-based publisher specialising in literary fiction, short-story collections and narrative non-fiction.
Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social Unofficial Kneecap account that I hope the lads will come and claim. Let's build a following here in advance, folks! GRMA
The Bee @beelitmag.bsky.social A home for working-class readers and writers
https://thebeemagazine.com
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.
Jude Cook @judecook.bsky.social Novelist (Byron Easy, Jacob's Advice, Time Being @saltpublishing.com Sept 2026) & critic. Words Guardian, TLS, Literary Review. Radio plays BBC R3. Associate lecturer in Creative Writing Westminster University. judecook.com
https://judecook.substack.com/
theodore wallbanger 1/2 brother to Harvey @theodorewallbanger.bsky.social https://www.instagram.com/theodorewallbanger/
DIRECTOR OF SMILE CENTRAL 🤡😈
SMILE CENTRAL ENGINEERS SMILES HERE...some are twisted...but still categorized as SMileS, hiccup. 
Cassie Premo Steele, Ph.D. @cassiepremosteele.bsky.social ❤️ Bestselling author of 19 books
🧡 Trauma-informed teacher at The Loft
💛 Novels: Beaver Girl, The ReSisters, & Shamrock and Lotus
💚 Nonfiction: Earth Joy Writing, Moon Days, & We Heal from Memory
🩵 7 poetry books
💙 Writing Coach
💜 www.cassiepremosteele.com
James Jenkins @jamesjenkins.bsky.social Writer gritty noir. Author of “Parochial Pigs”@thealienbuddha and “Sun Bleached Scarecrows” @asliceofanxiety. Feature Editor @punk_magazine Co-Editor @urbanpigspress@bsky.social 
The Argyle Literary Magazine @theargylelitmag.bsky.social The Argyle Literary Magazine is BACK with Issue #6. NEW LOOK! NEW FOCUS! NEW POETRY, FICTION, CNF, and DIGITAL ART! STILL VERY COOL AF!!! Stay tuned for shared content and updates!
EIC: @davidestringel.bsky.social
www.theargylelitmag.com
Strider Marcus Jones @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social Poet. Five published books.DMU Law graduate. Pushcart Prizex4/Best of the Netx3 Nominations. Founder/Editor/Publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.co https://stridermarcusjonespoet.blogspot.com/p/about-strider.html
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
Jumping Jules Poetry @jumpingjulespoetry.bsky.social Julie Stevens, MS, poet. Forest Girl, Journey Through the Fire, Step into the Dark, Stickleback and Quicksand. Writes for adults and children.
www.jumpingjulespoetry.com
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
linktr.ee/jdnelson
poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
Dr Hannah Stevens @drhannahstevens.bsky.social Writer | Publisher | Editor | Director Wind&Bones Books @windandbones.com | Queer 🌈 | Scotland/Taiwan | She/Her.
hannahstevenswriter.com
books.windandbones.com