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Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
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Dawn McLachlan @deemclachlan.bsky.social Poet, author, bookseller, allotmenteer - for hire or loan. Won some poetry prizes. Account is stuff from a small rural town in NE Scotland.
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Genevieve Carver @gen-carver.bsky.social ✍️ Writer of poetry and children’s fiction
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Dr Louise Powell @louisepowell.bsky.social Author of UNDERDOGS (JM Originals: John Murray Press) 2nd July 2026
Sid Chaplin Northern Writers' Award Winner 2023.
#CommonPeople Anthology. PhD in English.
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Attie Lime @attielime.bsky.social Children's Poet.
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Sarah Colvin @sarahcolvin.bsky.social Professor / literature / social justice / prisons / Germany / and things. Representing myself not my institution. Mostly reading & reposting here.
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Emma Purshouse @emmapurshouse.bsky.social Freelance writer, novelist, performance poet and lover of all things Black Country. Editor of The Blackcountryman magazine. One third of Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists.
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Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social I’m a library assistant and poet with work published in The Dirigible Balloon, Disabled Tales, Dreambeast Poems, and featured on Brian Moses’s blog. My poems are forthcoming in Scaryness Express.
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Jon Dunn @jondunn.bsky.social Leftist in Leeds. Leeds United supporter. Cat person. Vegan. Green Party member. Motorsport enjoyer.
Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social Poet.
Portrait in Mustard - Seren Books.
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Creative Writing & Art History - MMU.
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Saraswati Nagpal @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social Forward Prize, Pushcart & BOTN nominated Poet, Author, Educator, Performing Artist. Lover of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, tomes, trees, all things purple. Poetry: 'Drench Me in Silver' (Black Bough, 2025)
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Keeks Mc @keeksmc.bsky.social Scots language poet 🏴
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Lacey Reid @adhd-poetry.bsky.social Poet, scientist, songwriter, daydreamer, nerd
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📍Vancouver, BC
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Christine Michael @christinemichael.bsky.social Writing novel #3, editor of the Wellesbourne and Walton News, hapless gardener, AVFC, @booksineverycorner on Insta. Hello!
Louise Mather @louisemather.bsky.social Editor of Acropolis Journal | Writer |
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Nick Gott @nickgott.uk Living the dream from a back bedroom in Leeds
Will Almond @wrjalmond.bsky.social writer. dreamer. lover. @thesquareball + others. #lufc
Lisa Kelly @lisadmkelly.bsky.social Poet. @carcanet.bsky.social. A Map Towards Fluency (shortlisted for Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021) The House of the Interpreter (Poetry Book Society Recommendation) BSL Level 6 
Hannah Lavery @hannahlavery.bsky.social Poet. Playwright. Performer. Director. Dancing in my kitchen. hannahlavery.com
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Kevin P. Gilday @kevinpgilday.bsky.social Poet. Theatre Maker. Arts Educator. Stirling Makar. Kevin P. Gilday & The Glasgow Cross. Probably on holiday.
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Hannah Craig @hrcraig.bsky.social writer • printmaker • Pittsburgh • she/her • latest poems in greensboro review, the dodge, nimrod, & saranac review • hrcraig.com
Troy Cabida @troycabida.bsky.social NEON MANILA (Nine Arches Press, 2025)
Mind @mind.org.uk Fighting for mental health – for support, for respect, for you ✊
John Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social Recent US Beat Poet Laureate
Founding editor, Crisis Chronicles Press
Past Vice President, Ohio Poetry Association
Hillbuckeye. Skeptic. Creative. Better woke than asleep.
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Stephen Komarnyckyj @komarnyckyj.bsky.social PEN award winning poet and translator at Kalyna Language Press, who is trying to save every abandoned dog on earth and return lost Ukrainian authors to the world. #FBPE #Ukraine #Poetry
david @gledhillmusic.bsky.social musician aka SOULS & lover of science, logic & kindness.
Nathalie Tasler 🏴🇩🇪 @drntasler.bsky.social Faculty Development, Academic Development, creative learning and teaching, SoTL, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Creativity, #creativeHE, OA, OER, ADHD & forever Punk
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https://writingforhealing.blog/- E Ecotopian @ecotopian.bsky.social
Peter Kenny @peter-kenny.bsky.social Creative maverick. Writer of poetry and dark fiction. Co-hosts and co-produces the Planet Poetry podcast. 
Beth Davies @bethdaviespoet.bsky.social Sheffield Poet Laureate 2024-6. The Pretence of Understanding published 2023 by The Poetry Business. Librarian by day. Appreciator of pretty skies and dogs in little coats.
Annie Brechin @anniebrechin.bsky.social Poet, bellringer. The Mouth of Eulalie currently out from Blue Diode Press https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/the-mouth-of-eulalie-by-annie-brechin-isbn-9781915108012
Bryn Law @brynlaw.bsky.social I cover Leeds United for LUTV. I also watch Wrexham AFC as a lifelong fan. I also teach at Leeds Beckett Uni and coach coaches for the FA of Wales. And other stuff, lots of other stuff…
Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
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@calthepoet.bsky.social @calthepoet.bsky.social All enquiries: callumwrites@gmail.com 
YorkshireRoots @yorkshireroots.bsky.social Leeds United fan, Yorkshire lass living in Lincoln, DJ and producer of trance, house and hard dance music, big animal lover, and unapologetically into all things technology, so watch out for the geek posts!
Leeds Lit Fest @leedslitfest.bsky.social 6 - 14 June 2026. Returning for its eighth year, the award-winning festival of words aims to bring together, and help develop, the city’s literary scene, with writers, poets and performers from Leeds, Yorkshire and beyond!
#LLF26. www.leedslitfest.co.uk
Ben Morgan @benjlmorgan.bsky.social Medea in Corinth - 2nd edition 2025 from Poetry Salzburg
poetrysalzburg.com/medea.htm
https://benmorganwriter.wordpress.com/
Not The Top 20 @ntt20.com The #1 EFL podcast. Also: The England Pod.
Alison Lock @alil.bsky.social North Wales. Dysgu Cymraeg. Author of 8 books, and pamphlets. Writer of short stories, poetry, non-fiction. Latest book - Thrift (2024) Palewell Press. Poetry/music/art collaborations. Qigong. BBC Radio 3, Between the Ears: Lure
Heather Wastie @heatherwastie.bsky.social Poet, singer songwriter, keyboard & accordion player, actor, Worcestershire Poet Laureate 2015/16 https://wastiesspace.co.uk/ https://linktr.ee/heatherwastie
Leeds Big Bookend & Northern Short Story Festival @bigbookend.bsky.social Writers, books, small publishers, readers - that's what we are about! Here to engage with and platform writers, books and all things lit. Leeds Lit Fest founder partner. Champions Leeds, Yorkshire and the North.
Nigel Pamenter @nigelpamenter.bsky.social Pottering on, writing my story.
🧩🙃
If I keep procrastinating, you'll see pugs. 🫣🐾
Grecophile. 🇬🇷
Zac Connolly @zacconnolly.bsky.social Dad, Leeds nut, fan of rational thought and behaviour
Robin Brooks @robinbrooks.bsky.social Writer from Nova Scotia.
Stories about regret, redemption, & how it's never too late to make peace with your ghosts.
www.robinbrooksauthor.com
Published in Door Is A Jar.
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Poetry Emma Meier @poetryemmameier.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Reader. Thinker. ✍️📖
Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social Ted Hughes' and Daniel Weissbort's international poetry translation magazine. Edited by Janani Ambikapathy.
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ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social Bloodaxe Books, Britain's leading international poetry publisher.
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Natalie Scott @nataliescottwriter.bsky.social writer / educator / poet / certified facilitator / ACE awarded / creator of Pen Power - Writing for Wellbeing / NE England / neurodivergent / Edgar's mum / releasing words into the wild since 1999. www.nataliescottwriter.com
SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice) @seagoatscreams.bsky.social A bit earnest
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BotN/Pushcart/FwdPrize nom
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Chris Cambell @chriscambell.bsky.social Creative Studio by day, Poet by night!
Queer/Nonbinary/Neurodivergent/Native American. (They/he)
Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social Retro tech, early web & vintage computing. 80s, 90s, 2000s nostalgia. Follow for daily posts.
Josh @lufcjosh.bsky.social Leeds. Leeds. Leeds.
Tony Wade @tonywade.bsky.social Artist, maker of stuff, painter, bad mandolin player. Sometimes says no.
www.tonywadeart.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
Rose Condo @rose-condo-poet.bsky.social Award-winning prairie-born poet living in Manchester 🇨🇦 | Lover of travel 🌎 | www.rosecondo.net | she/her
Bradley Taylor | Poet @bradleytaylorpoet.bsky.social Roundhouse Poetry Slam Champion 2024
Host of The Big Gay Poetry Night
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