Chris Emery @chrisemery.me Poet. Five collections from Arc and Salt, most recently Wonder (2025). Manchester-born, Irish citizen, living in Cromer. I publish other people’s books at Salt. Newsletter: chrisemery.me
Neil Schofield-Hughes @neilschofield.bsky.social Retired Civil Servant, choral singer, opera lover. Left, green, liberal.
The moment this choir practice ends the revolution begins.
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Robert @maestrordw.bsky.social Singer, conductor. Probably driving my children to something.
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Mike Stevens @mikestevens72.bsky.social Writer, musician, songwriter. Co-winner of the Irish Writers Centre's International Debut Novel Competition 2026. linktr.ee/mikestevens72
Marshall Bood @marshallbood.bsky.social poet and author of Spring Cleaning(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021)
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Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
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simonjamesbrady.bsky.social @simonjamesbrady.bsky.social Simon James Brady is an Irish poet and writer.
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Lynn Buckle @lynnbuckle.bsky.social 🤘🏻🦻Irish author of What Willow Says + The Groundsmen. Pub by époque press, Calman Levy, Profilkitap.Climate writing, trees, leaves, more 🍃Translated into English, Irish, Turkish, French, Japanese, Welsh, Polish, Irish Sign Language, & Oxford commas please
Silver Locust Press @silverlocustpress.bsky.social A new press from Ireland publishing poetry and flash-fiction chapbooks with bespoke cover art. Est'd. 2026. Available at www.silverlocust.press
Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈 @misskitty.art 👉🏻 MissKitty.art
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Paul Quin @paulquin.com Committed to integrity, fairness, inclusivity, and justice. Against racism, prejudice, and propaganda.
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Sandy McIntosh @sandymcintosh.bsky.social Author of twelve volumes of poetry, a Chinese cookbook, and three computer software programs.
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Timothy J. White @whitetimothyj.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
Patricia Conboy @patriciaconboy.bsky.social Policy on ageing & older people in Ireland & globally • Also politics, media, international affairs • Previously HelpAge International, Older & Bolder • Now Irish Centre Social Gerontology, University of Galway.
Annalisa Crawford @annalisacrawford.bsky.social Writing ghost stories for people who don't believe in ghosts. Wishing Shelf Book Awards silver winner, Rubery Book Award finalist, and Costa Short Story Award 3rd placer.
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Bridget Whelan @bridgetwhelan.bsky.social Reader, writer, tutor, London Irish living in Brighton & Hove. Passionate about British and Irish history, creative writing, community education, Leonard Cohen, my sons & granddaughter. Not in that Order.
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Native Dialogs in German @nativedialogsde.bsky.social Practice #German by chatting to virtual humans.
Kieran Wyatt @kieranstories.bsky.social Best British Short Stories, The London Magazine, Free Flash Fiction, Eunoia Review, Blood+Honey. Fylde Coast. https://kieranstorieswriter.blog/about/
Tim Craig @timcraig.bsky.social Manc | Writer of short fiction | ‘Now You See Him’ Long List Edge Hill Prize 22, short list Int Rubery Prize | multiple placed Bath Flash Award | prev winner Bridport Prize flash.
Wayne Ferrebee @hieronymo.bsky.social Brooklyn-based artist, writer, and toymaker
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Eleanor Fitzsimons @eleanorfitzsimons.bsky.social Writer/Researcher. KeatsShelley Essay Prize, Rubery Book Award. Author Wilde's Women. Life & Loves of E. Nesbit, Selected Articles from The Woman’s World. Here for books, art, nature, laughter & tranquility.
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Peter Salisbury @petersalisbury.bsky.social Screenwriter, daydreamer, and Dad to a lively border collie called Sam.
Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social Writer
The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies (UK)
Something Wonderful (US)
Winner BBC National Short Story Award #bbcnssa
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Scott Elder @scottelder.bsky.social Writer, musician, living in Auvergne, France.
Raff @raffez.bsky.social I am a human working in the field of human services. I love dogs, nature, mystery books, strong coffee, long walks and Jazz music. I practice mindfulness and meditation.
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Andrew Spacey @andrewspacey.bsky.social Stories in The Madrid Review. Poems in The Starbeck Orion&others. Lived in Australia, Spain and the Netherlands. Ex coalminer. Guardian Country Diarist, 21 Bird Poems. Sonnets, Green Balk Lane. Dutch partner. Walker. Gardener. AntiFascist. EU. YNWA
Sandy Seeber-Quayle @sandyseeberquayle.bsky.social #writer, #poet, exploring the #human experience inside-out.
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Tadhg Carey @tadhgcarey.bsky.social Writer: Westmeath Artist Bursary Award, Freedom to Write awardee, Southword, The Stony Thursday Book, Skylight 47, Honest Ulsterman & others. Cúirt International Festival of Literature New Writing Showcase 2024. Highly Commended Fool for Poetry Chapbook.
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Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social Poet & broadcaster. New non-fiction prose book, 'Village', OUT!
Witches and wheelbarrows: women's history in my village, 1841-1971: cheerful survival!
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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social Working-class writer, complexity wrangler, dirtbag lefty, salty rescue swimmer, climate refugee on ironic Warm Beach in the Pacific Northwest. All typos intentional.©
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Rosanne V. Gallenne @rosannev-gallen.bsky.social Breton, Dr in modern and contemporary poetry, UCD / "Representation(s) of the Garden in the Poetry by Women in Ireland" / Comparatist: researches women's poetry and antifascist artistic networks in 🇫🇷, 🇮🇪 and 🇮🇹 / cat-mother, plant-carer 🐈⬛🪴
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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
Sunday Miscellany @sundaymiscellany.bsky.social New writing for radio with complementary music, broadcast every Sunday morning on RTÉ Radio 1, Irish public radio, since 1968. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/sunday-miscellany and the RTÉ Radio app
Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social Poet and translator in a very bad time for Lyrik
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The Strongbox, Carcanet, 2024
Lee Matthew Goldberg @leematthewgoldberg.bsky.social Author of 16 📚 including ANCESTOR, MENTOR and the GREAT GIMMELMANS.
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KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social We take care of KU Leuven Libraries' heritage collections housed in the University Library: rare books, lecture notes and other manuscripts, graphics... We also have a reference collection of more than 65.000 titles on book history.
Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
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Rosie O’Donnell @rosieodonell.bsky.social 
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Amy Macrae @damnfinelines.bsky.social Writer, designer & dram enthusiast 🥃📚🏳️🌈
Edinburgh Short Story Award longlist 24// Scottish Story Award finalist 22 //Allen Wright Award finalist 19 //NYC Midnight flash finalist 22
Rob Gotobed @robgotobed.bsky.social Stand-up philosopher, scribe, bongo drummer and professional time-traveller. (Once dated Anne Boleyn)
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Author of SUSANNA HALL, HER BOOK (Fish Gotta Swim Editions) and ABOVE DISCOVERY (Invisible Publishing)
Trying to learn Welsh, obsessed with standing stones
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Shannon Kelly Donahue @shannonkellydonahue.com Writer ~ Editor ~ Advocate
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Words in Catamaran, Forum, Writers Rebel
2025 Evangeline Atwood Fellow at Storyknife
Honored to live in Alaska on Jilkáat Aani
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Jenna Johnson @jennajohnson115.bsky.social Author of the books 'The Wind Knows Where You Live' and 'Come Inside The Fire Is Warm'.
James D'Emilio @demiliopics2.bsky.social Bronx born Medievalist, Art Historian, Hispanist, Lover of Italy and Antiquity
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@thegreenlefty.bsky.social @thegreenlefty.bsky.social Tall lad with a tendency to ask people to vote Green!
Chloe N. Clark @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social Multimodal af. Collective Gravities, Every Galaxy a Circle, Patterns of Orbit, Escaping the Body, & more
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Dr Shauna Gilligan @shaunagilligan.bsky.social Writer, Educator, Feminist, full of heart, cats, literacy for all, creativity always, Irish PEN.
Eoghan Carrick @eoghancarrick.bsky.social Artist and theatre director based in Dublin, Ireland.
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Female Feedback Film Festival @femalefilmfestival.bsky.social The FEEDBACK Female Film Festival (FFFF) was created for women filmmakers and screenwriters. The goal is to showcase the best of female talent from around the world.
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Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social Poet | First collection, ‘Midnight at the Saltmarsh’, published by The Gallery Press, May 2026
Zoë Comyns @zoecomyns.bsky.social Producer/Presenter/Writer:@keywordspod, BBC R3, BBC R4, BBC WS, RTÉ R1. Writing: John McGahern Lit Award 2019, RIA Podcaster in Residence 2022.
Ciarán Mc Mahon @cjamcmahon.bsky.social taking care of ancient lore
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
Fee Thomas @feethomas.bsky.social Author of two poetry books: Owning the Color Blue, Dreams Never Die.
Poet, Artist, Activist, Photographer, Student, Mental Health Advocate. feethomas.blue
Eric @ericdeckofficer.bsky.social ⚓️ Deck Officer - Oficial de Náutica
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Niamh Boyce @boycie.bsky.social Irish Writer. Humourless Hag. Author of Her Kind, The Herbalist & Inside The Wolf 
meli @melionstreet.bsky.social when in doubt, mumble.
Eirene Eleni @eireneeleni.bsky.social This is a storybook. All of us are in it. Here are some tales.
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https://templeinacity.com
In: AHC, Claudine, DIHP, Bull, Frazzled, Fish Barrel, Dog Throat, Blood & Honey, ANMLY Whimperbang. Pushcart, best short fiction nom.
Rob Edmunds @robedmunds.bsky.social I'm a writer of three novels, the most recent about the conflict in Burma during World War II. My previous two novels are both about the ancient Numidian King Masinissa, set during the Second Punic War. 🏴
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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social Published by Blackbough Poetry, The Storms Journal, FolkHeart Press. Featured writer in Patricia's Pen, and on A Thousand Shades Of Green podcast and a regular guest reader on Eat The Storms podcast. Best of The Net nominated.
Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social Studies is a cultural journal of the Irish Jesuit province, founded and in continuous publication since 1912. It examines Irish social, political, cultural and economic affairs.
www.studiesirishreview.ie
Instagram: @studiesirishreview
Katie Donovan @katiedpoet.bsky.social Poet, writer, nature lover, six collections published by Bloodaxe Books. Winner of O'Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry 2017. www.KatieDonovan.com
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
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The Lonely Crowd @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social Literary journal — thelonelycrowd.org
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