Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Poetry with Linda @poetrywithlinda.bsky.social poetry, nature, writing, reading, art, culture, languages, photography, travelling 🎨🖌️🖼️
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Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social Poetry Daily presents a poem each day from new books and journals, along with poetry news, announcements, and more. Est. 1997.
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E. LYNN ALEXANDER @elynnalexander.bsky.social ART POETRY ZINES MICROPUBLISHING FESTING CATS @collapsepress on IG/FB
Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social "We'll Be Birds" chapbook release 9/24/26 https://www.sandandgravelpress.com/lisa-thornton-chapbook-release
Writer, nurse. SmokeLong Quarterly, Cincinnati Review+. Senior flash fiction editor @jmww. Sucker for a good barn.
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CAPGRAS @capgrasmag.bsky.social capgras, or a delusion of doubles, is a misidentification syndrome
it is also a new poetry mag run by ellen boyette
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Sarah Stockton @sarahstockton.bsky.social Author of the poetry book: The Scarecrow of My Former Self (MoonPath Press 2024, finalist for the WA State Book Award) and 3 chapbooks: Time's Apprentice 2021, Castaway 2022, Pelican's Daughter 2026.
Kwame Opoku-Duku @kwamethethird.bsky.social Poet, Writer, Nature Boy
Author of DIVINE HOURS (Four Way Books, 2027)
Writing in The Atlantic, The Nation, The Yale Review
Kimberly Gibson-Tran @kdawn999.bsky.social Reader, poet, essayist, reviewer, cat person, Trekkie, ไทย speaker, book clubber, linguist, Texan/Floridian, missionary kid, she/they
https://kimberlygibsontran.wordpress.com
https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/kimberly_gibsontran
Seth Leeper @sethwleeper.bsky.social Poet. Teacher at Brooklyn Poets.
Work in/forthcoming: Adroit, Foglifter, Poet Lore, Prairie Schooner, waxwing, and more.
@sethwleeper on Instagram
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Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social Poet / Writer / Publisher of Sibling Rivalry Press / Very Gay / 🦁 / Latest Books: Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry Finalist Brotherful & Listen, Kid: Selected & New Poems 2010-2026 / Editor of Assaracus: A Journal of Gay & Queer Poetry
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shovda @shovda.bsky.social Poet (Sara Hovda) and SMW Kaizo streamer (shovda). I post about both.
Benjamin Percy @benjaminpercy.bsky.social Writer of novels (Ninth Metal, Red Moon), comics (Punisher, Deadpool), essays (Thrill Me), audio dramas (Exoplanet, Wolverine: The Long Night), film (13th Night, Summering), TV (Urban Cowboy), and dad jokes (Knock, knock…). www.benjaminpercy.com
Karen Berger @karenpberger.bsky.social Editor of Berger Books from Dark Horse Comics, Vertigo Comics Founding Editor 
Melissa Fite Johnson @mfitejohnson.bsky.social poet and high school English teacher living with her husband and dogs in Kansas
melissafitejohnson.com
@poetsorg.bsky.social @poetsorg.bsky.social 
Randall Mann @randallmann.bsky.social SF. Poet @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social. Faculty @benningtonwriting.bsky.social. 💜
Nerve to Write @nervetowrite.bsky.social A Magazine for Disabled, Chronically Ill, and Neurodivergent Writers.
Editor-in-Chief @sfmontgomery.bsky.social.
www.nervetowrite.com
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
Egan Garr @garr.bsky.social poet, translator, lit ed Versal Editions
lesbian avenger-at-large, butch dad
📍Amsterdam, NL
Lisa Zerkle @lisazerkle.bsky.social Poet•Editor•Reader
•Senior Editor at Painted Bride Quarterly
•Podcast Manager for PBQ Slush Pile
•Editor at Iron Oak Editions
•MFA from Warren Wilson
📖 my work ⤵
https://www.chillsubs.com/profile/lzerkle
Split Rock Review @splitrockreview.bsky.social Online journal publishing literature & art that explore place, environment, & the complex relationship between humans & the natural world since 2012. www.splitrockreview.org 
@bestofthenet.bsky.social @bestofthenet.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/bestofthenet2006
Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social Ensuring a vibrant, diverse literary landscape by helping small literary publishers work better. www.clmp.org
Patricia Smith @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social THE INTENTIONS OF THUNDER, Scribner, 9/30! Poet/Princeton CW prof, Ruth Lilly & Kingsley Tufts, NAACP Image Award, Pulitzer finalist, Guggenheim, Chgo Literary Hall of Fame. Love Cubs, Lou Malnati's, Portillo's & the peppermint stick/hot pickle mashup.
s w i f t s: a literary magazine @swiftslitmag.bsky.social an @accumulatequiet.bsky.social project edited by @jeremymichaelreed.bsky.social
www.swiftslitmag.com
Nate @nfako.bsky.social he/they // loser // poems findable
Amanda Conover @amandaconover.bsky.social poet – vegan – poetry editor at Carolina Muse – 🩷💜💙
M / Mack @mxmackpoet.bsky.social Poet. Trans. Disabled. AuDHD. Contract academic.
Matti B. @mattibl.bsky.social Nonfiction writer & poet who loves ampersands. Work in McSweeney's, Rumpus, X-R-A-Y, Jake, Ekphrastic Review, & elsewhere. CNF MFA candidate @George Mason ❤️
Mckendy Fils-Aimé @mrmack88.bsky.social Poet, teaching artist, cat-dad
leah holler writes @leah-holler-writes.bsky.social Writer & poet drafting YA solarpunk 🌱🌻
Actor & puppeteer living the skoolie life 🚌🎭
Here queer & not goin down without a fight 🏳️🌈🌟
mark r meyer / 3dotstudio @markrmeyer.bsky.social artist, photographer, published short-form poetry writer , ex-scientist, quasi-guitarist, meta-misanthrope
仕方がない❗ "...and I guess that I just don't know..." - Lou Reed
Julieanna Blackwell @julieannablackwell.bsky.social Stories in Stonecoast Review, MoonPark Review, Lunch Ticket
Flash Fiction Editor 805lit
WordSmitten Workshop Director
Elements & Arcs Classes Instructor
More Stuff at www.julieannablackwell.com
Marketa @marketadowling.bsky.social 🇨🇿 🇮🇪 Bohemian blown into the West of Ireland. Works in Film/Tv. Writes short stories. She/her. Mostly plant based 🌱.
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Mike Piero 🏳️🌈 @mikepiero.org Writer. Novelist. Poet. Game Studies Scholar. Writing in J Journal, Midway Journal, Rain Taxi, Moveable Type, Impost, Sandy River Review, & Trash Cat Lit. *Views are my own.* Monarch and Best Small Fictions noms. More at www.mikepiero.org. He/Him. Bi. 🩷💜💙
Ronita Chattopadhyay @ronita.bsky.social Gave myself permission to be a poet; Love books, mountains and tea; working at the intersection of process documentation and qualitative research in India 
Damn Jones @damnjones.bsky.social Author of lyrical, voice-driven literary fiction & poetry.
Vignette Editions
https://linktr.ee/damnjones
Editorial/Reading Assistant at @thirtywestph.com
Chasing the numinous.
Elizabeth Fletcher @esfletcher.bsky.social writer, yoga therapist, Bowie fan | asst cnf editor Pithead Chapel | Best Microfiction nom | Pushcart Prize nom | BOTN nom | wigleaf LL | stage NED | ope
Writing: www.esfletcher.com
Agathe Chave-Lucas 🇫🇷🇪🇸 @agathechavelucas.bsky.social Author, poet, scientist based in Paris/Ouessant (France)
Rep'd by Michelle Witte (@michellewitte.bsky.social)
PhD in Mathematical Ecology | Environment trail at the Louvre museum
Passionate about the environment, microbes, museums & women in STEM
The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org Maggie Smith delivers a different way to see the world – through poetry. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Sign up for our daily poem newsletter --> bit.ly/3AWdEMl
Produced in partnership with the Poetry Foundation.
Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social Philosopher & Clinical Ethicist | she/her | peds ethics, repro ethics, TIC, narrative med, feminist philosophy | Cincinnati (it’s cool despite Ohio) | Thoughts my own unless I am re-posting yours
Cody Shrum @cshrumly.bsky.social Just some guy. Author of Oakaville (Alien Buddha Press) and Green Acre (Choeofpleirn Press). Words in HAD, Maudlin House, BULL, Cleaver Mag, JMWW, et al. Fiction editor: Identity Theory. http://codyshrum.com
Shoestring Shane @shoestringshane.com Poet | Artist | Creator
www.ShoestringShane.com
The Langer's Ball @thelangersball.bsky.social The Langer’s Ball, the two-piece Irish Folk Punk band, has been writing, touring and performing for over 15 years. Playing their own brand of traditional drinking songs and original material, their sound is harder-hitting and bigger than you’d expect!
Todd Mercer @toddmercer.bsky.social Fiction writer, amateur scholar of languages, poet, catering cook, warm-up pianist to real event pianists, dog Dad.
Ingenue (2021) / Life-wish Maintenance (2015)
Box of Echoes (2007) / Sheets of Sound (2002)
Dark Streets @darkstreetsnyc.bsky.social Bringing the music of The Pogues to New York City!
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Amy Stuber @amystuber.com Writer, editor, worker bee: amystuber.com
SAD GROWNUPS (Stillhouse Press, Oct 2024), Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
Contributing Editor: splitlipthemag.com
Darby Price @darbyprice.bsky.social • Poet/Writer of All the Lands We Inherit https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/all-the-lands-we-inherit/
• Continuing Lecturer at UC Irvine
• Born on the bayou 🐊 Living in the (coastal) desert 🌴
• Also at darbyprice.com 📚
Lena Valencia @lenavalencia.bsky.social Author of MYSTERY LIGHTS: Stories (Tin House / Dead Ink Books 2024). Director of Edu. Programming at One Story. https://linktr.ee/lenavalencia
Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social GRAPHIC RAGE on Substack. Writer & illustrator of stories, essays and feminist comics. '22 NEA fellow. Work in TIME, Vox, New York Times, Washington Post, etc. Very charming IRL. she/her
Addie Tsai (any/all) 🏳️🌈 @addieisunwieldy.bsky.social Writer & dance film scholar. 💃 phd. 📕: Dear Twin, Unwieldy Creatures, Straight White Men Can’t Dance (9/25, Bloomsbury): https://shorturl.at/yyHZP. Shirley Jackson finalist. Rev ed: Anomaly. EIC: just femme & dandy. http://www.addietsai.com
Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social Poet | Translator | Researcher | Bessettienne. Loving Tallulah Bankhead (Paris Heretics 2022). Quarantine Daybook (Bottlecap 2021). PhD at CY Cergy Paris Université. She/her.
IG: @chapp010
richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com Author of THE LONG HALLWAY, a gay memoir about death | New York Foundation for the Arts and MacDowell Fellow in Nonfiction | National Book Critics Circle Member | 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
http://richardscottlarson.com
Aaron Burch @aaronburch.bsky.social Author: TACOMA; A KIND OF IN-BETWEEN; YEAR OF THE BUFFALO; STEPHEN KING'S THE BODY; BACKSWING
Editor: HAD; Short Story, Long (on Substack)
https://linktr.ee/aaronburch
Shelby Hinte @shelbyhinte.bsky.social Author of HOWLING WOMEN (2025) | Editor at Write or Die Magazine | she/her
Angela Chaidez Vincent @angelacv.bsky.social ARENA GLOW (Tourane Poetry Press). Writer, ponderer, saunterer.🍍on everything. Critter enthusiast. Poems in Oxford Review of Books, NAR, 32 Poems. Poetry reviewer: #100smallpress. AssocEd. for Scrub Jay Press.
www.angelachaidezvincent.com
Patricia Q. Bidar @patriciaqbidar.bsky.social Author: Pardon Me for Moonwalking (Unsolicited Press), Wild Plums (ELJ).
Contributor: Flash Fiction America (Norton)
Wigleaf 50 2024, 2025; Best Small Fictions '23, '24; Best Microfiction '23
Maud Lavin @maudlavin.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Chicago, always. Author MERMAIDS AND LAZY ACTIVISTS, CUT WITH THE KITCHEN KNIFE, CLEAN NEW WORLD, PUSH COMES TO SHOVE, SILENCES, OHIO, Ed 3 anthologies, Gugg Fellow
Linda Lenhoff @lindalenhoff.bsky.social Bay Area writer often found gushing about books. My new novel *Your Actual Life May Vary is coming from SFWP in '25! Also, cats.
Teresa Tumminello Brader @ttbrader.bsky.social Reader; tea adept; New Orleanian🖤⚜️ writer: LETTING IN AIR & LIGHT https://bellepointpress.com/products/letting-in-air-and-light; SECRET KEEPERS https://bellepointpress.com/products/secret-keepers Find the homes of my other words at https://teresabrader.com
mosh pit daria @gr8earlofhell.bsky.social poet laureate of the void • proud dad of @fifthwheelpress.bsky.social, Ramen Zine Distro, FRUITCAKE • mica photo '18/ubalt cwpa '24 • they
📍unceded piscataway + susquehannock land (baltimore)
visit me online @ natraum.com/links
Grace Loh Prasad @gracelp.bsky.social Writing about belonging & diaspora. Author of the memoir THE TRANSLATOR’S DAUGHTER (Ohio State Univ Press, 2024). https://linktr.ee/graceprasad?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=89b54520-7f8d-4182-91dd-cb30d74a6cd7
Marguerite Sheffer @mlensheffer.bsky.social Author of THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES (Nov 2024, Iowa Short Fiction Award from U of Iowa Press)
writer and teacher in New Orleans
stories in Asimov's, Lit Hub, The Dread Machine, The Pinch and others
Audrey T. Carroll @audreytcarroll.bsky.social Queer disabled writer, artist, & scholar aka Dr. Heffers.
Lover of nature, sitcoms, libraries, & coffee.
EIC, Genrepunk Magazine (@genrepunkmag.bsky.social)
📚 What Blooms in the Dark (2024)
She/they
https://linktr.ee/audreytcarroll
Vic Nogay @vicnogaywrites.bsky.social reader, writer, specter
micro editor @identitytheory.bsky.social
Best Microfiction 2026
Naming a Dying Thing (Yellow Arrow, 2025)
under fire, under water (tiny wren, 2022)
ohio forever
she/her
vicnogay.com
Raima Larter @raimalarter.bsky.social Writer & Scientist. Nonfiction Editor @utopiascifi.bsky.social Author of 4 novels, 2 collections & 1 nonfiction science book. Websites https://raimalarter.com/, raima.substack.com, https://writing.exchange/@raimalarter In Denver & loving it!
Ladz ❄️🖤🩸 @ladzwriting.bsky.social 🇵🇱 🔞
agender fucky dark fantasy & horror
cetacean needed
sad wanking connoisseur
upcoming release: THE GREAT AND THE GILDED Book 1: The Divine Right (2026)
https://ladzwriting.carrd.co
Ziggy Schutz @ziggyschutz.bsky.social she/he, I write about queer hope and disabled joy. Genderfucking butch. BRCA2+ and flat about it. You can find a bunch of my writing free to read over at https://linktr.ee/ziggyschutz .
Elijah Kinch Spector @elijahkinchspector.com Novelist. Dandy. British Fantasy Award finalist.
Bay Area counterculture kid, now New Yorker.
he/him
https://linktr.ee/elijahkinchspector
LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social Writer's writer's writer.
📚 STILL ALIVE (2024), longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award. https://eveninghousebooks.com/product/still-alive/
avery✨ @averytimmonsauthor.bsky.social chicago-based YA writer || author of THICKER THAN WATER and MAIMED (OUT NOW!) || rep: Gabriella Melendez at Great Dog Literary
Justin Carter @juscarts.com Author of Brazos (Belle Point Press, 2024) // women's basketball & motorsports writer // Texan living in Iowa // juscarts.com
Andy Bieman @subsumed.bsky.social Musician, writer, after school program worker. Debut novella Brocken Spectre forthcoming from Galileo Press. he/him
Music: http://subsumed.bandcamp.com
Drone/noise/ambient duo active from 2014-2016: http://inneraether.bandcamp.com
Voder of BORG @crosis101.bsky.social #author, Film Maker, Tech Head, Gamester, Space Man, #Queer #actuallyautistic #IT #cosplay #Warhammer40k
“Goddamn you all, I told you so.”—H.G. Wells, science fiction author, Desired Epitaph
John Hunter @johnhunter38655.bsky.social Author of the definitive biography of R.E.M., Maps and Legends, 3rd printing available now on eBay and Amazon: https://a.co/d/cCGWPQO I know the civilian name of every member of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
Theric Jepson @thmazing.bsky.social Untroubling and untroubled for a good fifteen minutes a day.
thmazing.com/thbiblio
thmazing.substack.com
public school teacher | writer | current editor of @irreantum.bsky.social
Burning Ambulance @burningambulance.bsky.social A website, a newsletter, a record label. All posts by Phil Freeman, co-founder/co-owner. BUY PHYSICAL MUSIC.
Jeff Giles @jefito.com Director of Curation and Editorial for @harmonic.fm. Proprietor of Jefitoblog. Writer, editor, author of several books. Podcast host. More info here: https://linktr.ee/jeffgiles
AJ Romriell @ajromriell.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Author of Wolf Act (UW Press, 2025). he/they. Queer. Neurodivergent. HIV+. Cat dad. Writing in Electric Lit, The Missouri Review, Black Warrior Review, Brevity, and more.
Spencer Fleury @spencerfleury.bsky.social Author, THE SHITBIRD (Stanchion Books, 2026), I BLAME MYSELF BUT ALSO YOU (Malarkey Books, 2024) and HOW I’M SPENDING MY AFTERLIFE. Hat enthusiast. Former Florida man. My Erdos number is four. I block scolds and AI sloppers.
Susan M. Schultz @susanmschultz.bsky.social Poet (in prose), Lilith walker, Cards fan, photographer. Recents: _Lilith Walks_ (BlazeVox); _Meditations (Dec 2019 - Dec 2020)_ (Wet Cement). _I and Eucalyptus_ (Lavender Ink), _More Lilith Walks_ (BlazeVox). Lives in Hawai`i.
Catherine Parnell @victoriancat.bsky.social Writer, editor, educator. Director of Publicity, Arrowsmith Press. Editor, MicroLit. CatherineParnell.com
Josh Rank @joshrank.bsky.social THE PRESENT IS PAST - 2023 Unsolicited Press
CHANCE TO FADE & OTHER STORIES - 2025 Running Wild Press
ESTUARY - 2026 Unsolicited Press
https://linktr.ee/joshrank
James Reich @jamesreich.bsky.social Writer, Research Psychologist, Existentialist, Friend to Cats. Author of SKINSHIP, THE MOTH FOR THE STAR, WILHELM REICH VERSUS THE FLYING SAUCERS etc.
The conversationalist @tompricebsky.bsky.social 
Andrea L. Hackbarth @thelostintent.bsky.social (she/her) writer and editor; piano tech; Minnesotan by birth, Alaskan by choice; mother (of the single sort); general skeptic; burn it all down
hybrid prose-poem chapbook, “waveforms: a short course in piano tuning,” available from @harboreditions
Christina Cooke @christinajcooke.bsky.social I wrote BROUGHTUPSY, yr next fav novel | Winner, Journey Prize | Finalist, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize | “Best of”—Elle, CBC Books, others | https://linktr.ee/christinajcooke | lemme at yr snacks
Chris James @therealcjauthor.bsky.social Author of The Repulse Chronicles, Time Is the Only God, Dystopia Descending and Repulse: Europe at War 2062-2064. Also a fan of prog-rock, snooker and wood carving.
#author #indie #FBPE
Sad Slut Suzy in a Sweather @suzanneberget.com She/her.
Scifi writer
Gamer goblin
GIF master
Bisaster🏳️🌈
Norwegian & English
Buy Let Slip the Beasts, it's got a hot sharkman and everything!
https://books2read.com/letslipthebeasts
No Good Night for Gentle Beasts coming October 1st
Chris Dugovich @dugovich.bsky.social ✍️ Writer
📍 Seattle, WA
👻 My book ”Brian the Ghost” out now! See link 👇:
http://www.amazon.com/familyfables/
Sam McCollough @sammccollough.bsky.social Author of DEBUNK: Arm Yourself With the Tenets of Critical Thinking
Buy the book: http://tiny.cc/htnrzz
Kevin A. Risner @mrdecember.bsky.social It's Easy To Lose Your Breath (Match Factory Editions, 2026) & There's No Future Where We Don't Have Fire (Unsolicited Press, 2027)
www.kevinarisner.com
https://matchfactoryeditions.com/books/Its-Easy-to-Lose-Your-Breath-p820224211
Aaron Sofaer ✍️🏳️⚧️ @aaronsofaer.bsky.social Web serialist & author, first book Quill & Still (cozy queer slice of life portal fantasy). SF Area software engineer, reader, gamer, she/her dad, liberal atheist half-Arab Jew. Gender is complicated, Blåhaj is soft.
https://aaron.sofaer.net/
Matt Broaddus @mattbroaddus.bsky.social I enjoy poems.
My new book is DEEPER THE TROPICS, available here: https://bunnypresse.org/product/bunny06-matt-broaddus-deeper-the-tropics-print-book/
My website: https://www.matt-broaddus.com/
Nick McLoughlin @nickmacwrites.bsky.social Reader, writer, runner. Tea, trees, and cats.
My debut novel Slings and Arrows was published on the 28th March 2024. 📚💙
Monica Macansantos, alias Butchay @missmacansantos.bsky.social Shearing Fellow, Black Mountain Institute, 2024-25. Author of RETURNING TO MY FATHER'S KITCHEN: ESSAYS (forthcoming from Northwestern University Press) and LOVE AND OTHER RITUALS: STORIES. Work in Colorado Review, The Hopkins Review, Bennington Review, etc