Davis Eastwood @davis-eastwood.bsky.social History, reading, writing, and role-playing games
He/Him
WriteStats @writestats.bsky.social Data-Driven Insights for Writers and Publishers.
https://writestats.com/
Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social Writer, Teacher | helping people write and be heard | Founder, Fasano Academy, educating the whole human being
@the-writingschool.bsky.social @the-writingschool.bsky.social The Writing School Online was founded by Kathryn Bevis in 2020 and we are here to help you find your creative voice and build a writing community.
Louis Patterson @theboatend.bsky.social All-purpose nerd and "competitive" sailor. Australian, Melburnian, Footscrayite, Him.
Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social Book recs, reviews, and news. Supporting independent booksellers as a Bookshop affiliate. Thanks for helping us help local bookstores. 🙏🏼 #BooksMatter
https://bookshop.org/shop/matteristbooks https://matteristbooks.substack.com/
https://matteristbooks.com/
J. C. Jones @thejcjones.bsky.social Author of the best selling Louisa Moss detective series.
Ex-nightclub boss and, due to carelessness, owner of only half a lung.
Poems and Limericks daily.
Based in Hereford, UK.
Deborah Weeks/A Woman for An Eternity @deborah-10.bsky.social 🌟I’m a 73 year old Humboldt hippie, feminist, socialist democrat. Proud mother of two grown men. No grandchildren, 5 cats and 2 dogs plus 3 grand dogs with 1 grand cat. A Sagittarius put on this planet in 1952.
🚫NO DM’s🚫Porn🚫Solicition🚫😱
Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social Law professor
Native Dialogs in Irish @nativedialogsga.bsky.social Practice your #Gaeilge by chatting to virtual humans.
Chef Finney @cheffinney.bsky.social Executive Chef, Culinary Consultant, Guerilla Improv Comic, Anti-Fascist/Racist, Irish Polymath, Former Lots of Stuff, I am Stabby the MF Leprechaun. NSFW
(Ridire Créachta on Fashbook)
"I paint houses..."
"Tiocfaidh ár lá!"
"There is NO THEM!"
NO DM's
Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net brucespringsteen.net
Peter Welsh @peterwelsh68.bsky.social Green Party Member. NHS Worker. Wells. Somerset. Green Runner. Late Rosette Adopter. Hot Fuzz Superfan.
Mahoganygaspipes @mahoganygaspipes.bsky.social Slava Ukraini
IT drone, cat butler
"Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all"
ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.eurosky.social A lapsed moment of reasonableness
She/Her
Lover of utter randomness
Irish
(something pithy. poignant and wird will probably fill this space at some point, yes I am doing a little experiment)
"For I have manifested my darkness and become god"
Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social 🛩️ Aerial Archaeologist @ Royal Commission, Wales | Trustee: Cambrians & AARG | Author: HILLFORTS OF IRON AGE WALES | Prehistory | Landscape archaeology | Personal account
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-toby-driver-fsa-9394203b
@profduncan.bsky.social @profduncan.bsky.social Semi-retired Psychotherapist/Analyst, Professor, Air Force Brat. First/Birth Mother from the Baby Scoop Era (look it up!) Wonderer, explorer. Live theater & music are my oxygen, always curious, social justice activist since 1968. Onward…
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social Doctor/Strategic Innovator
⚕️XLII® Medicine/Psychol🧠ParaOncology®
BSc MBBS PhD MSc MBA CMgr
Genomics Immuno Microbiol Path Psych
Med Director Kids Cancer Charity, Person
Medicine/This Alarming Mess/Human Stuff
Rebuild from X
(anti-data-grab freq post cull)
Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social Poet.
Portrait in Mustard - Seren Books.
PhD candidate: Barbara Hepworth,
Creative Writing & Art History - MMU.
Agent: Laetitia Rutherford at WatsonLittle.
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/
Liz Hyder @londonbessie.bsky.social Writer type. Making it up as I go. 📖. #TheTwelve out now. Other books #TheIllusions #TheGifts & #Bearmouth. Fond of wanders. Lover of books, films, art & wildlife. Nerd.
Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social EAL teacher. Tree lover. Likes to write poems. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/parole_de_reveuse
Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social Poet, (Five collections, Red Squirrel Press) editor, occasional translator, blogs about place, plants, poetry, woke indy grandmother. https://linktr.ee/Burnedthumb. Scouse, Scottish and Woke AF #placeplantspoetry
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social Poet. Bristolian. 6th collection, 'Love the Albatross', from Indigo Dreams Publishing. Neurodishevelled. She/her
https://indigodreamspublishing.com/deborah-harvey
Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social Publisher of Glass Chapbook Series, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Crucible: An Online Reading Series. Subs always free. Posts by anthonyframe.bsky.social
www.glass-poetry.com
Glass Poets Starter Pack: https://go.bsky.app/EicS1Aa
Jo Shapcott @jo-shap.bsky.social 
Samuel Hewitt, PhD @samuelhewitt.bsky.social Technical Lead at Limbic
Building the next-generation of mental healthcare
ex Computational Psychiatry & Neuroscience @ UCL
Anna Shelton @annashelton.bsky.social Mum of 3, teacher, writer, editor. My pamphlet was longlisted in the Disabled Poets Prize 2025. Poems in @AfterPoetry @PropelMagazine @Covenpoetry @streetcakemag @SidhePress Performed my song Black Fen Club Blues at the Cambridge Folk Festival. 
𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁: @subruria.com
𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿: @iamb.uk / @afterpoetry.com
𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿: Reading at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival | Oct 6th: bit.ly/3TvBbRa
Poetry By Heart @poetrybyheart.bsky.social National schools poetry recitation competition, open to all schools and colleges in England, re-igniting a love of poetry. poetrybyheart.org.uk
Brian Cutts @briancutts.bsky.social South Yorkshire to Catalonia. ELO fan. Failing Mediterranean diet. Once a physicist. Permanently perplexed. Uhtceare. Frantumaglia. Memorial Device MDANT. Woke AF. Rants on Tannu Tuva blog if you can find it.
Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social Latest collection ‘Hotel Petroleum’ (Broken Sleep). Poet and creative director at large. Dubai, Barcelona, London and unmapped places in between. https://markfiddes.com/
Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social Novelist: books 'Where the Willows End, In Red Blood' 'One of Our Own,' Poetry: 200 poems published worldwide. old friend's description of him, 'I've known this idiot most of my life.'
Matthew Francis @mfrancispoet.bsky.social Poet, novelist and professor emeritus in creative writing at Aberystwyth University. Latest novel, Nocturne with Gaslamps out now from Neem Tree Press.
The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk Independent poetry press + cultural review platform. We publish narrative-led work with edge. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs
#PromoteIndieLit
Edited by @alanparrywriter.co.uk
www.thebrokenspine.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/brokenspinearts
Jonathan Totman @jonathantotman.bsky.social Poet and Clinical Psychologist. Collections "Night Shift" and "The Sessions" both published by Pindrop Press.
Blogs on poetry, therapy and mental health:
https://www.jonathantotman.co.uk/
Jeremy Dixon @jeremydixonpoet.bsky.social Poetry & Book Arts | he/him
THE BEAT THE PULSE THE WAVE
(Order: https://shorturl.at/Xc8PD)
BOLD IN THE LIFE
(Order: https://shorturl.at/BGTfA)
A VOICE COMING FROM THEN
(Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award 2022)
IN RETAIL
(Order: https://t.ly/qUcAE)
And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social Poetry magazine edited by Tom Bailey and Laurie Ogden.
www.andotherpoems.com
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
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Elizabeth Chadwick Pywell @chadpie.bsky.social Poet, teacher and co-host of Rise Up!
Northern Writers’ Award: Debut Poet.
York, UK
Some words: https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/scorpion 🦂
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social genderqueer genrefluid writer of things #pwME 🏳️🌈🇪🇺📚
Latest book: Solitary Hotel 🖤 Check links for all the others!
Co-editor of https://effable.uk
https://linktr.ee/jpseabright
https://jpseabright.com
Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social Priest. Poet. Writer. Broadcaster. Trans. Tired. Disabled. Autistic. (Private Passions: Military History, Austen, Golden Age Detective Fiction) T.S. Eliot Prize Shortlisted 2024
Retired Archdeacon
16 books. www.rachelmann.co.uk
Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social Writer, Lake-swimmer, Bookseller.
FRSL
hEDS/Haemochromatosis/all the comorbs
she/her
rep @PortyLiterary
Books incl:
Recovering Dorothy
Some Of Us Just Fall
The Company of Owls
Emergency Dream
Swimming The Seasons
https://linktr.ee/pollyatkin
Helen Laycock @helenlaycock.bsky.social Poet with 3x Pushcart & Best of Net nominations.
Recipient of the 2026 Kathryn Bevis Memorial Prize. Black Bough chapbook winner. Poetry Lighthouse chapbook winner.
2 new collections out in 2027.
https://linktr.ee/helen.laycock
Nina Parmenter @ninaparmenter.bsky.social Poet, performer, wage slave, dog slave, mum. Books: ‘Split, Twist, Apocalypse’, Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2022. ‘Kiss Chase with Darwin’ forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books, Nov 2026.
Gill Connors @gillconnors.bsky.social Poet, PhD student, mum and granny 
Kate Fox @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social Stand-up poet. Radio 4’s The Verb regular. Northern, neurodivergent writer of Northernness and Neurodivergence. “On Sycamore Gap” & “Where There’s Muck There’s Bras” (Harper North). “Bigger on the Inside” (Smokestack).
Nikki Dudley @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social #Thriller Volta / Poetry (KFS & Hem & BSB) / @streetcakemag editor / loves travel. Views my own.
Cassandra Whitaker @casswhit.bsky.social Poet, Writer, Educator 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (She/they/Mx). NBCC, Wolf Devouring A Wolf Devouring A Wolf available from Jackleg Press. https://queerthewolves.wordpress.com/
Neurospicy
Jo Bratten @jobratten.bsky.social Poet person. London. CLIMACTERIC (2022).
PhD St Andrews. Work in lots of places and in progress. NB: I tend to only follow UK-based poets and publishers here.
jobratten.co.uk
Jenny Swann @jennyswann.bsky.social Loves family and friends, books and baking (and dahlias). Lives in Nottingham.
Tessa Foley @tessafoley.bsky.social Poet. New-ish collection available from Live Canon https://www.livecanon.co.uk/store/product/try-to-find-me-tessa-foley
@olivergolding.bsky.social @olivergolding.bsky.social Executor for literary estate of Kathryn Bevis and administrator at www.thewritingschool.co.uk
Cindy Ana 🇳🇿 @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social Would rather write than talk. Sometimes I don’t read skeets properly, especially pre-coffee. Rāmere is my favourite day. Work can be found in Broken Spine Arts, takahē, Voicemail Poems
Special mention in Given Words 2025
Amelia Hodsdon @woollenwords.bsky.social Writer; editor. Admirer of pylon towers. Keen on islands. Gloucestershire. She/her.
Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social Author: The Ghost Lake
Poet: Blackbird Singing at Dusk
Editor: Spelt Magazine
https://linktr.ee/wendypratt
Jenny Mitchell @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social Winner of the Gregory O'Donohue Prize, the Poetry Book Awards etc. 3 poetry collections - 'Map of a Plantation' on the syllabus at Manchester Metropolitan Uni. Widely published. Poetry co-editor for the Morning Star.
Clare Shaw @clareshawpoet.bsky.social Poet. I love moss, mudlarking and broken things. Proud to be Northern, non-binary and neurodivergent. 
Joanne Limburg @jlimburg.bsky.social Writer, poet, creative writing lecturer, autistic, Jewish, likes cats. Latest book Letters to my Weird Sisters: on Autism, Feminism and Motherhood.
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social Author, musician. Co-founder and co-host of the Stadio football podcast. musaokwonga.com
angela readman @angelareadman.bsky.social Writer, autistic, daydreamer, greyhound owner. Poetry collection Bunny Girls published by Nine Arches. Short Story collection The Girls are Pretty Crocodiles & other fairy tales published by Valley Press.
Rick Dove @rickdove.bsky.social Poet | UK Poetry Slam Champion 2021 | Creative Writing Workshop Facilitator | Activist 🏳️🌈♿️ ☮️ | 🔗 https://linktr.ee/rickdove |
Charlotte Oliver @coliverpoet.bsky.social 'Dressing Gown' (Dreich), Ilkley Lit. Festival 'New Northern Poet'. 'Big Ideas By The Sea' Festival Poet 2024. South Cliff Gardens' Writer in Residence. She/her
LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
Visit us at 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL, or browse at https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
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Huw Gwynn-Jones @huwgwynn.bsky.social Poet, Dreamer, Welshman living in Orkney. Retired entrepreneur.
Femi @femi-oluwole.bsky.social Pushing back against Tories, regardless of what colour tie they wear.
Sharon Larkin @sharlark.bsky.social Writer, poet, photographer, editor, workshop leader, Stanza Rep, occasional anthology publisher, linguist. Loves Wales, nature/countryside and above all God.
Poetry books:
Interned at the Food Factory, Indigo Dreams, 2019
Dualities, Hedgehog Press, 2020
Dr Karen Downs-Barton SoA @karendownsbarton.bsky.social Minx (@chattobooks), Didicoy (@poetrybusiness), Elise Dillsworth agency, I am a mentor, Creative Future steering committee, @kcl.ac.uk, workshop leader Shakespeare and Race. Proudly working class and neurodiverse. #PoetsOnBluesky #MinxOnTheRoad
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/
Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social "Alas, the poet can only say so much.
So very much."
Leominster, Here(&Now)fordshire, UK.
Posting random thoughts on poetry, on mythology, Paganism, Heathenry.
Oh, and that also.
https://linktr.ee/mathjones
Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com Home to The Storms journal, now open for submissions, Eat the Storms, the poetry podcast and creator & writer Damien B. Donnelly
Modron Magazine @modronmagazine.bsky.social Biannual online eco-poetry magazine. Edited by Kristian Evans and Zoe Brigley, with Taz Rahman, Sian Melangell Dafydd, and Glyn Edwards. http://ModronMagazine.com
Gareth Writer-Davies @garethwd.bsky.social 
Carol @carolw44.bsky.social Writer, poet, author. Also goes under the pseudonym, Geraldine Ward and Carol Fenwick. Published in Sunday Tribune, International Times etc and has had poetry featured on BBC Radio Kent.
Paula R C Readman @grannywenlock.bsky.social Artist🎨, Author📚, pescatarian, slow living, busy enjoying nature & growing food in a small garden.
Katie Hale - writer @katiescribbles.bsky.social ❄️ THE EDGE OF SOLITUDE ❄️ / WHITE GHOSTS (2023) / MY NAME IS MONSTER (2019) / Northern Writers' Award 21 & 22 / Aesthetica Prize 23
Anna Comerford @annacomerford.bsky.social Public Health Programme Manager. @nihr.bsky.social INSIGHT scholar @sheffielduni.bsky.social. Brutalist Polly Pocket. She/her. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Dillon Jaxx @jaxxi.bsky.social •writer•vegan•sick for a living🌈🍀💙
debut collection available for preorder now from Nine Arches Press https://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/like-starlings-falling
Tony Noon @tonynoon642.bsky.social Cartoonist , Poet , Writer . Has opinions about most things , particularly television and comedy. All cartoons signed Nod are my own work.
https://tonynoon.bio.link/
Attie Lime @attielime.bsky.social Poet. 99% Children's Poetry.
Schools. Events. Festivals.
Poems on Toast Sept 2026 🎉
Blue Jelly and Strawberries
A Welly Full of Christmas
Mum. Ex-teacher. Notebooks. Tea.
East Midlands now, Northumberland then.
www.attielime.co.uk
Sarah Ziman (aka BardyMum) - Bison Rule, OK! is out now! @bardymum.bsky.social Poet, mainly for children (more fun!) but I occasionally adult…
Won YorkMix Poems for Children '21,
Kids’ collections: Why did my brain make me say it?
Bison Rule, OK!
School visits in Watford, St Albans, London & further afield
www.sarahziman.co.uk
Di Slaney @dislaney.bsky.social Animals, nature, poetry. Publisher/editor Candlestick Press. Founder http://www.manorfarmcharitabletrust.org / Winner Plough Prize 2022. New collection Hard Graft out 21.09.26
Kathleen Jones @kathleengjones.bsky.social I'm an author and poet from the English Lake District. Left wing, passionate environmentalist, hater of bullshit www.kathleenjones.co.uk
Rebecca Gethin @rgethin.bsky.social Gardener, poet, nature- watcher, novel reader, swimmer, other stuff 
Jenny Wong @jenwithwords.bsky.social Writer, traveler, and occasional business analyst. Currently missing the ocean and being a voiceover artist. 🇨🇦
SHIFTINGS & OTHER COORDINATES OF DISORDER (Pinhole Poetry, 2024).
LIGHT CHEMICAL SEA (Bull City Press, 2026)
jenwithwords.opencorners.ca
Paul Nash | Paul atten Ash @northseanavigator.bsky.social WRITER:
Sampler (Black Cat Press 2027)
'Searchlight Seasons' (Atomic Bohemian 2024)
Instagram: @north_sea_navigator
campsite.bio/northseanavigator
Ruth Stacey @drruthstacey.bsky.social Poet who sticks emotions into all things. New collection 'Feel Everything!' out with KF&S Press April 2025. Just finished a fantasy novel and now writing short stories. I love books and writing. Lecturer at Worcester University.
Sarah Davy @sarahdavywrites.bsky.social Writer, Mentor, Facilitator, Climber.
Usually writing short stories & scripts or watching telly.
https://linktr.ee/sarahdavywrites
Sumitra Singam @pleomorphic2.bsky.social PFP by Terijian
MOTHER KARMA NOVELLA! https://forms.gle/SN3EFQrGSg7CvUxs6
BSF 2025
Have you ever seen me and Kali in the same room? Thought not
Bi (2) x Demi (1/2) = 1 Sexual
🇦🇺🇲🇾🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
sumitrasingam.squarespace.com
Kathryn Anna Poet @kathrynanna.bsky.social Writer, poet, columnist, gardener, cat staff.
Paul Robert Mullen @paulrobertmullen82.bsky.social Published Poet with @brokenspinearts.bsky.social & @animalheartpress.bsky.social
Writer. Musician. Podcaster. Traveller. Lecturer. Bigfoot conspiracist. Sociable Loner. Friend. 🙌 From near Liverpool 🎶
Cherry Doyle @cmdoet.bsky.social Poetry ✒️ Nature 🍄 Cannock Chase 🌳
'September' & 'The Taste of Rain' from Offa's Press 🍂 🌧️
Richard O'Brien @notrockyhorror.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Northumbria University and lapsed early modernist. Working on poetry, novels, & a music memoir/podcast about the Mountain Goats: thirtyyearslater.substack.com. I make music as Groundbird, groundbird.bandcamp.com.
Josephine Dickinson @shepherdpoet.bsky.social poet
Caroline Bird @carolinebirduk.bsky.social Poet & playwright. 7th poetry collection, Ambush at Still Lake, out from Carcanet: https://shorturl.at/JXYCR. Winner of Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020
www.carolinebird.co.uk