Action/Crime/Mystery Film & Screenplay Festival @crimemystery.bsky.social This festival now takes place every single month, giving filmmakers 4 tiers to showcase and promote their film. In-person public events also take place.
https://filmfreeway.com/crimemystery
www.crimemysteryfestival.com
Becky Masson @easyrecipesdash.com Easy, #healthy & delicious #recipes to inspire your daily #cooking! 🍜🍽️👨🍳📸
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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
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
Rosie Johnston @rojohumanwriter.bsky.social Writer, mentor, poet published in UK, Ireland & USA living by the sea in UK. New non-fiction soon from Colorful Crow, USA. Five published poetry books since 2010: latest 'Safe Ground', Mica Press 2025. Reviews for londongrip.com
rosiejohnstonwrites.com
Angry Gable Press @angrygablepress.bsky.social a publisher of niche speculative fiction and poetry
angrygablepress.com
This Exquisite Topology available now!
https://a.co/d/4b4OElO
Katabatic Circus
@katabaticcircus.bsky.social
@mrwamble.bsky.social @mrwamble.bsky.social 
Martin Figura @martinfigura.bsky.social Photographer, Writer and performer living in Norwich with Helen Ivory and sciatica.
The Poetry School @poetryschool.bsky.social The Poetry School is the UK's largest provider of poetry education and a proud Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.
🏝️ Book Summer Courses: https://poetryschool.com/new-courses/summer-2026-quick-course-guide/
Kate Wakeling @katewakeling.bsky.social Poet & Musicologist • The Rainbow Faults (The Rialto) • poetry collections for children (The Emma Press & Otter-Barry Books) • writer-in-residence – Aurora Orchestra
Anna Davidson @annadavidson.bsky.social Writing, editing, publishing.
Poetry as A. K. Davidson. Links:
https://linktr.ee/akdavidson
Nia Broomhall @niaandthepoems.bsky.social Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize winner 2023, ‘Backalong’ out now with Bloodaxe. Poet in Residence at Painshill Park with ACE. Co-Head of English. Brass bander. Somerset sonneteer. Cheese fan. Hi!
David Morley @profdavidmorley.bsky.social Professor at Warwick Uni, Poet at Carcanet, Ted Hughes Award for The Invisible Gift, PBS Choice for FURY, Forward Prize finalist, Writer of The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing, Fellow Royal Society of Literature,Thought Fox.
Alison Manning @alisonmanning.bsky.social Poet, poetry film maker, author of World Without Endless Sheep and occasional lemon grower.🍋
https://alisonmanningwriter.wordpress.com/
Devjani Bodepudi @dbodepudi.bsky.social Poet. Novelist. Mum. Teacher. Comino Poet in Residence. PhD-ing at Man Met-the poetics of Language Loss and Identity. Interested in Postcolonial research from a British diasporic POV.
Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social Author of 8 books of fiction & poetry. Recent:The Thickness of Ice (novel, Baraka Books, 2024);The Death Poems (Salt, 2023).Winner of Rubery Award for Fiction. Shortlisted Danuta Gleed Award, Bord Gais Irish Book Awards, & Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.
Tricia Dearborn @triciadearborn.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Editor | New collection Goatscape out with Cordite Books in 2027! | Editor at http://triciadearborneditor.com
Anne Graue (she/her) @amgraue.bsky.social Poet, editor, reviewer, prose writer, human
Poetry Editor at The Westchester Review
Author of Full and Plum-Colored Velvet (Woodley Press) and Fig Tree in Winter (Dancing Girl Press)
Ellie @ellenkrupich.bsky.social Writer ✍ Short prose. Poetry. Haiku 📚 #vss365 #writingcommunity
My posts:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2wcalufrs3gx7wi4px22l2yd/feed/aaafkf472bdu2
Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social Poet. Author of Said No One Ever (2021) and Walking Away From Explosions in Slow Motion (2018). https://buttondown.email/gregorycrosby
Rachel McDonald @softlywild.bsky.social Poet; writer; imagination is everything. 💫
Lover of shapes left over from cutting out shapes; the sea; humming and the rain.
Michael Broussard @michaelbroussard.myatproto.social Playwright, poet, storyteller, and performing artist. Democratic Socialist. He/Him/They/Them.
Patreon.com/MichaelBroussardArts
https://ko-fi.com/MichaelBroussardArts
michaelbroussardarts.com
Jose Padua @josefpadua.bsky.social Writer, poet, author of A Short History of Monsters, winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. https://linktr.ee/josepaduawriter
Eunoia Review @eunoiareview.bsky.social Online literary journal publishing new writing daily since October 2010. Edited by Ian Chung. Typically 24-hour turnaround for responses.🇸🇬
https://eunoiareview.wordpress.com
Jim Lawrence @jimzovich.bsky.social Wordslayer, guitar strangler, art botherer, armchair psychogeographer. Amanuensis to anarchist philosopher Crofton Wingwalker.
It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of The Archers.
Southampton, UK.
Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb' the Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice: "some of the most moving, restrained, memorable and technically adroit poetry of our times" --- TLS, 3/25
Fiona Larkin @fionalarkin.bsky.social Winner of National Poetry Competition 2024. Debut collection Rope of Sand Pindrop Press (2023). Pamphlets Vital Capacity (Broken Sleep, 2022) and A Dovetail of Breath (Rack Press, 2020). Corrupted Poetry projects.
https://fionalarkinpoetry.wordpress.com
The Bridport Prize @bridportprize.bsky.social 📝 Worldwide creative writing comp
📝 Over £20K prize pot
📝 Alumni inc Kate Atkinson
📝 Honorary Patron Kit de Waal
📝 Raises funds for Bridport Arts Centre
The views of contributors do not reflect the views of The Bridport Prize.
bridportprize.org.uk
The Rialto @rialtopoetry.bsky.social Leading independent poetry magazine and award-winning poetry publisher.
https://therialto.co.uk
Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social Writer | audio maker | poetry pusher. Editor Drama, Arts & Classical Music, BBC Audio Wales & West of England. Debut novel: The Berliners/Friedrichstrasse 19 https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/emma-harding/the-berliners/9781529376203/
Poetry South @poetrysouth.bsky.social An annual international poetry magazine published by the low-residency MFA at Mississippi University for Women.
Read free back issues, subscribe, or submit your poems at http://www.poetrysouth.com
Lucy Coats @lucycoatswriter.bsky.social Writer/Poet/Myth witch. Classical Association Prize 2017. Latin Programme Poetry Prize 2022. Bridport Poetry Shortlist 2024. Holy rage Feminist/Animist. 🐝 🐍
Lover of owls & goddesses.
ADHD/ND & ME\CFS🥄
Free 🇵🇸
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Threads: @lucywriter
Web: lucycoats.com
Clare O'Brien @clareobrien.bsky.social Writer. Retired music industry person.
2025 Poet in Residence, Inverewe Garden, Scotland.
Poetry chapbooks 'Breathing Out Becomes White And Snowfall' & 'Who Am I Supposed To Be Driving?' & novelette 'Airloc' out now.
Links: clarevobrien.weebly.com
Martyn Crucefix @mcrucefix.bsky.social Poet, blogger on poetry, translator. See my website https://martyncrucefix.com/ + Editor of Young Poets Page Acumen Poetry magazine https://acumen-poetry.co.uk/young-poets/
Mona Arshi @monaarshiwrites.bsky.social Poet-Novels-Essays.
The Writing Squad @thewritingsquad.bsky.social Creating the next generation in the north of England. www.writingsquad.com
Poetry London @poetrylondon.bsky.social London’s Leading Poetry Magazine. Autumn 2023 Issue 106 OUT NOW.
https://poetrylondon.co.uk/
Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social Bloodaxe Books, Britain's leading international poetry publisher.
www.bloodaxebooks.com
Adam Horovitz @adamhorovitz.bsky.social Writer and performer. Poetry in particular.
Books published: Turning, A Thousand Laurie Lees, The Soil Never Sleeps, Love and Other Fairy Tales. Slow Migrations coming soon from Indigo Dreams. 
Sarah Doyle @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social Poet, reader, workshop leader, weather watcher, moon gazer. Pre-Raphaelite Society Poet-in-Residence. Widely published, inc. Something so wild and new... (2021) & (m)othersongs (2023), V. Press.
Web: sarahdoyle.co.uk
https://buymeacoffee.com/poetsarahdoyle
Pratibha Castle Poetry @poet-pratibha1.bsky.social Award winning poet. Pushcart/BOTN nom. Miniskirts in The Waste Land PBS winter 2023. Bridport s’list, Welsh Comp highly commended, 3rd prize Cannon also Plaza comps. Indigo Dreams l’list. Agenda, Stand, Tears in the Fence, Orbis forthcoming Under The Radar
Steph Morris @herr-morris.bsky.social poet, artist, gardener, translator
he/him
impaired energy (ME)
ACE-Funded
@annasaund.bsky.social @annasaund.bsky.social Author of 7 collections with Pindrop Press, Wild Conversations Press and Indigo Dreams. New book Eurydice in the Ruined House due May 2025 Indigo Dreams. Founding Director Cheltenham Poetry Festival 
Jessica Mookherjee @jessmookherjee.bsky.social Poet and Author
Bronwen R. Evans @wennieevans.bsky.social Poet, bird lover, creative naturalist. Pushcart noms, Guernsey International Poetry Comp 2025. Editor with The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press. Upcoming sampler with The Black Cat Poetry Press. Find me looking for ghosts and nightjar across a fen somewhere.
Zakia Carpenter-Hall @zcarpenterhall.bsky.social Writer, tutor, editor, critic.
Upcoming Course "Into Greater Fields of Possibility" Online Masterclass: https://poetryschool.com/courses/into-greater-fields-of-possibility-masterclass/
Julian Dobson @juliandobson.bsky.social Place, poetry, a dash of policy. Books on civic universities, urban nature, town centre futures and urban policy. Poems on anything. Imposter geographer. Also at juliandobson.net
Ian Seed @ianseedauthor.bsky.social Author: Forgetfulness, My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat, Night Window, New York Hotel (TLS Book of the Year), Makers of Empty Dreams. Translator: Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob, Gëzim Hajdari, Ivano Fermini. www.ianseed.co.uk
Paul O’Prey @pauloprey.bsky.social Poetry. Editor at Dare-Gale Press. www.pauloprey.com
Mike Ferguson @mferguson-writer.bsky.social teacher/writer/poet ~ for more info, go to 'About' at https://gravyfromthegazebo.blog/
Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social Shortlisted for Ted Hughes Award for ‘The Immigration Handbook’(Seren). Refugee caseworker. Lives in Wembley. ‘Bycatch’ published by Nine Arches Press Oct 2025. Hawthornden Fellow. http://www.carolinesmithpoet.com
Kate North @katenorth.bsky.social Writer, academic, allotmenteer, cat wrangler
Kate Simpson @kate-elspeth.bsky.social writing through extinction
'Out of Time: Poetry from the Climate Emergency' (2021)
Nathaniel King @nathanielking.bsky.social Poet | Ghost Clinic, Broken Sleep Books | Eric Gregory 2024 | PhD research in hauntology at Royal Holloway |
Zain Rishi @zainrishi.bsky.social Brummie Poet 📚🌈
26 / Edinburgh (mostly)
NOON out now with the Emma Press
https://theemmapress.com/shop/poetry/pamphlets/noon/
Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social Poet. Only in it for the money.
(And now also a CHASE-funded PhD student working on the blank spaces of 20th century poetry at UEA.)
Ailbhe Darcy @ailbhedarcy.bsky.social Pomes, penyeach.
Keren Dibbens-Wyatt @honeycombhermit.bsky.social Christian contemplative, author, poet, artist. Existing with severe M.E. Seeking rep for a torrent of books and art. Trad pubbed with Paraclete Press, Herald Press, Mogzilla, forthcoming at Signum. Redbud. Views my own. https://www.kerendibbenswyatt.com
Michelle Penn @michpenn.bsky.social Poet
RETABLO FOR A DOOR (shearsmanbooks, 2026)
PAPER CRUSADE (arachnepress, 2022)
SELF-PORTRAIT AS A DIVINER, FAILING (paper_swans_press, 2018)
michellepennwriter.com
Rebecca Goss @gosspoems.bsky.social More on Instagram @gosspoems
Poet & mentor. Books with Carcanet Press. Poet-in-Residence for CW+, the official charity for Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals. Writing for Life Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund.
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
Raf ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ @rtorrubia.com Writer/poet/optimist. Rep'd by @bigjcowen. THE SHIPWRIGHT AND THE SHROUDWEAVER OUT NOW from Gollancz. Acad. work with Bloomsbury Politics. They/them.
https://linktr.ee/RafaelTorrubia
Sarah Raybould @sarahraybould.bsky.social Compulsive writer, poet, doctor.
Commissioned to write & perform by English Touring Opera
Published in Black Bough Poetry, Ink Sweat and Tears, IceFloePress
2 Pushcart Nominations
Barney Ashton-Bullock @barney-ashton.bsky.social Music re-issue consultant / master tape archivist / songwriter and playwright / published poet / member of ‘Andy Bell is Torsten’ / contributing poet to ‘Downes Braide Association’.
Sarah Wallis @wordweave.bsky.social Poet Seabird Island @boatsagainstmag
UK: https://rb.gy/tra0bq / US: https://rb.gy/9hlhwt
http://sarahwallis.net/
www.iambapoet.com/wave/23-sarah-wallis
UNESCO Poet in Res, Skara 🇸🇪
2026: Gutter, Stand, Full Mood, Ampersand
Hélène Demetriades @helenedemetriades.bsky.social 2nd Place Poetry London Comp. '25, Winner, Silver Wyvern, Poetry On Lake, Debut collection 'The Plumb Line', '22, Hedgehog P. Bridport SL, National Poetry LL, '23, Fool for Chapbook HC, 23 & 24
Luke Morgan @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social Poet and filmmaker. "Blood Atlas" forthcoming from Arlen House (May 2025). Winner of O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry. www.lukemorgan.ie
Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social Poet and translator in a very bad time for Lyrik
Lover of lurchers and other thieving dogs
The Strongbox, Carcanet, 2024
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.
Dr Patrick Wright @arainbowpoet.bsky.social Poet/Writer | Lecturer, English Literature and Creative Writing @OpenUniversity | SFHEA | Nullaby and Full Sight of Her @EyewearBooks | Exit Strategy @brokensleep | www.patrickwright.co.uk
Sarah Persson @sarahperssonauthor.bsky.social Author 🐺 Poet. English teacher ♥️ Writing for pleasure. Folklore of Sweden 🇸🇪 and Wales. 🏴 Host of ‘First Draft’ at Bro Radio 📻 Co-founder of These3Streams arts festival ✍️ MA in creative writing from Swansea. www.sarahpersson.com
Sarah Wimbush @sarahwimbush.bsky.social Poet. Contact clairewimbush1997@gmail.com for enquiries.
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Patreon.com/robinince for blog posts and podcasts
Kerry Darbishire @kerrydarbishire.bsky.social Cumbrian. Poet. Latest collections: Jardiniere. River Talk - HedgehogPress. What Love Is Feb 2026 ✨️
@alicehiller.bsky.social @alicehiller.bsky.social 
Helen Calcutt @helencalcutt.bsky.social ‘There is no toxic optimism here – just truth, body and life.' @Mslexia — Feeling all / Artistic Director: https://www.beyondwordsdancetheatre.com/
Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social Nature writer & poet. Latest book 'Where the Seals Sing' (William Collins). 4th poetry collection shortlisted Ted Hughes Award. Lives on a cliff in the far west of Wales, making kin with the more-than-human world https://linktr.ee/susan_richardson_writer
Colin Bancroft @colin-bancroft.bsky.social Poet. PhD on the Ecopoetics of Robert Frost. Waterfalls and fell walking. Wrestling fan.
Romalyn Ante FRSL @romalynante3.bsky.social AGIMAT (Chatto, 2024)
Antiemetic for Homesickness (Chatto, 2020)
Black Country 🔁 Batangas
www.romalynante.com
Claire Booker @clairebooker.bsky.social Nature lover, Brighton-based poet. Collections include 'Pedestrian in the Multiverse' (Waterloo Press), 'A Pocketful of Chalk' (Arachne Press), 'The Bone That Sang' (Indigo Dreams). More info and blog at www.bookerplays.co.uk
Emily Vanderploeg @emily-vanderploeg.bsky.social Writer, cat person, 🇨🇦 in 🏴, “Strange Animals” (Parthian, 2022). “Suppertime” (Substack) for hot takes on books, dinner, and pop culture of the past! https://substack.com/@emilyvanderploeg
Gill Barr @gillbarr.bsky.social Derry girl, Dorset woman. Debut Poetry Collection (Cinnamon Press) 2025, Arts Council Award 2024. Website: gillmbarr.wixsite.com/gillbarr
Jennifer McGowan @arimala.bsky.social poet, medievalist, calligrapher, illuminator, archer, indifferent seamstress. Some say fey.
Abi Curtis @abicurtiswriter.bsky.social Professor of Creative Writing York St John University . Writer of fiction and poetry .
Meryl Pugh @merylpugh.bsky.social (She/her) London UK, writing thinking & skulking. Latest: Feral Borough, 2022, Penned in the Margins. https://furtive11.wordpress.com
Vanessa Lampert @nessalampert.bsky.social 
Bobby Parker @bobzparker.bsky.social Outsider Art | Poetry | Writing | - works: Blue Movie, Working Class Voodoo, Honey Monster, Longing is the Grace; debut novel in progress
Natalie Ann Holborow @natholborow.bsky.social Author of 'Little Universe' and 'Small' | Content Marketing Manager at Synergy Learning | Runner | T1D | 'Wild Running' out September 2025 📚🏃♀️
Ann-Marie Foster @annmariefoster.bsky.social Write, mostly poetry. Used to be BBCNI journalist and newsreader. 
Vicky Morris @vickymwriter.bsky.social British/Welsh Poet, editor, teacher, neurodivergent jack of creative trades, mentor of emerging young writers, founder
www.hivesouthyorkshire.com | www.vickymorris.co.uk
Ashley @ashleyedge.bsky.social Queer Trans Poet, performer, host, publisher, editor, all round fulfiller of their AuDHD. And cats. Always something CAT 🐈 https://linktr.ee/ashleyedge , Chief Editor at Poetic Edge Publishers, co-host of Prickly Pear Open Mic
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
fionaowen @fionaowen.bsky.social Latest book is Anima/l. Poetry/Writing. Song/Cân. Animals. Rhwng/Between. Eco-means-home. Wales/Cymru. Eye of the Storm. Retired Arts/Humanities Associate Lecturer OU.
Interdisciplinary. www.rhwng.com
Kate Innes @kateinnes.bsky.social Writer, trained in Archaeology. Author of Medieval 'Arrowsmith Trilogy’ for adults,& historical fantasy/paranormal adventures for young people.
If it's old, I'm interested.
https://linktr.ee/MindforestBooks
ROB COWEN @robcowen.bsky.social Author of THE NORTH ROAD (2025) // COMMON GROUND (2015) // THE HEEDING (2021) // and others...
Writer // journalist // poet
Sue Millard @suemillard.bsky.social writer, singer, harper, Fell pony person...far too many hats and only one head
Laura Fyfe @lauraswriting.bsky.social Poet, writing tutor, former Stirling Makar. Lapsed parachutist with a chronic low-boredom threshold.
‘Truth Lies’ - Red Squirrel Press
‘Endless Blue’ - Stewed Rhubarb Press
‘Wellspring’ - Figment Books
‘Magpie Mind’ - Figment Books
figmentcreativity.com
@stephenkeeler.bsky.social @stephenkeeler.bsky.social 
Caroline Gill @carolinegillpoetry.bsky.social 'Driftwood by Starlight' (The Seventh Quarry Press, 2021) is my first full poetry collection. Website: https://www.carolinegillpoetry.com/