Jacob Sam-La Rose @jacobslr.bsky.social Writer, reader, editor, facilitator, programme leader, artistic director. Geeks for mobile computing, creative coding, generative tech, ergomech keyboards, sci-fi & spec fic...
Niall O'Sullivan @rustyniall.bsky.social (in no particular order…) poet, essayist, lecturer, gamer, dad
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Jennifer Grigg @greenbottlepress.bsky.social Chief cook and bottle washer at Green Bottle Press; poet and procrastinator.
Eve Ellis @eveellis14.bsky.social Poet, educator, parent. Debut pamphlet SPIT VALVE available now from ignitionpress: https://shop.brookes.ac.uk/product-catalogue/faculty-of-humanities-social-sciences/poetry-pamphlets/spit-valve-by-eve-ellis
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.
Midas @midascampaigns.bsky.social Midas is an award-winning communications agency working at the heart of publishing, arts and culture, based in both the UK & US.
https://linktr.ee/midascampaigns
Richard Price @paintedspoken.bsky.social Richard Price, poet (Lucky Day, Small World, Moon for Sale, Late Gifts all from Carcanet) and novelist (The Island, from Salt)
Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social Poet. Reader. Plums, raspberries, apricots. Recently in Asymptote, New Welsh Review, Finished Creatures, Cyphers. Troubadour Prize. Jt runner-up Keats-Shelley prize. He/him.
Futch Journal: The journal of experimental poetics @futch-journal.bsky.social The journal of experimental poetics.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
A place for prose that listens as much as it speaks.
Based in Nottingham, UK, with a global readership.
https://www.futchpress.info/
Duff Cooper Prize @duffcooperprize.bsky.social A £5,000 annual prize for non-fiction, celebrating imaginative insight, compelling narrative, scholarship & good writing since 1956. Next awarded 2 March 26.
Black Cat Poetry Press @blackcatpress.bsky.social Independent poetry press.
Editors Satya Bosman & Catherine Balaq.
www.blackcatpress.co.uk
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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com Comic artist and illustrator
Portfolio: tomhumberstone.com
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis.
https://longbarrowpress.com
Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social Celebrating books by artists, poets, writers, book designers and their publishers. The next fair will take place in 2027.
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Canongate @canongate.co.uk Publisher. Always independent.
https://canongate.co.uk
Tapsalteerie @tapsalteerie.bsky.social An independent poetry publishing house based in rural Aberdeenshire | www.tapsalteerie.co.uk | join the Scottish poetry Discord: discord.gg/9bC6Gp2ZJM | & check out our imprint Stewed Rhubarb Press: https://stewedrhubarb.org/
Push the Boat Out Festival @ptbopoetry.bsky.social Edinburgh's International Poetry Festival 12-15 November 2026
Festival, open mic, workshops, podcasts, and more.
Next workshop - THU 10 SEP Maintaining an online presence as a writer: how, what and why? with Naomi Head
https://pushtheboatout.org/
Poetry Wales @poetrywales.bsky.social The Welsh home of international poetry
Oxford Poetry @oxfordpoetry.bsky.social Oxford Poetry is the oldest dedicated poetry magazine in the UK, and one of the oldest in the world. Est. 1910.
https://linktr.ee/OxfordPoetry
And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social Not-for-profit press led by readers, writers & translators. Consider subscribing to help us take publishing risks. http://andotherstories.org/subscriptions/
Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social Independent literary publishers. Discover our books here: http://granta.com/books/. 
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
North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social Noticeboard and live commonplace book of North Sea Poets. We run online masterclasses, workshops and webinars.
northseapoets.com
Arvon @arvonfoundation.bsky.social The Home of Creative Writing. Writing courses and retreats online and at three UK countryside homes. https://linktr.ee/arvon_
Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social Poetry, prose, publishing, art.
https://tomjenks.uk/
https://substack.com/@tomjenks
Paekakariki Press @paekakarikipress.bsky.social Letterpress printer and publisher.
Sarah James/Leavesley @sarahleavesley.bsky.social Prize-winning poet, fiction writer, journalist and photographer. Author of 9 poetry titles, 2 novellas & a poetry-play. More at http://sarah-james.co.uk. Also, editor at V. Press, award-winning poetry & flash fiction. (Profile pic by Gary Carr.)
V. Press @vpresslit.bsky.social V. Press publishes poetry and flash fiction that is very very
run by @sarahleavesley.bsky.social
https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/
Penny Sharman @blossoms21.bsky.social I’m a poet and photographer inspired by landscapes, shortlisted for Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the year 2023 winner of The Charles Causley International Poetry Prize 2025, shortlisted for The Wigtown Poetry Competition 2025
pennysharman.co.uk
Candlestick Press @candlestickpress.bsky.social Unique ‘Instead of a card’ poetry (and prose) pamphlets supplied in eco pack with envelope and bookmark. Publisher/editor @dislaney.bsky.social
Polari Press @polari.press Queer publishing and design studio. Not affiliated with any other Polari-named things.
polari.press | polari.com
intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social Publishing at intersections and edges. Editors @emmabolland.bsky.social and @rachelartsmith@bsky.social
https://intergraphia.cargo.site/
flipped eye publishing @flippedeye.bsky.social Fine literature, base prices: we are an independent literary publisher specialising in low-priced poetry and fiction
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
Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social Teacher and Poet. Pamphlets - Walrussey (The Black Cat Poetry Press, 2023) and Circulaire (Written off Publishing, 2025).
Circulaire available to purchase here: https://writtenoffpublishing.com/shop/p/circulaire-bex-hainsworth
The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social thebraag.co | carmenerror.com | trickster figure | poetry & spec fic press and journal | selling you books in the end times | NO AI
Kayleigh Jayshree @kayleighjayshree.bsky.social poet & short story writer & publishing workerer 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ chihuahua lover 🥭🌌
debut pamphlet w/ fourteen poems🧡✨
https://www.fourteenpoems.com/shop/mango-starblush-by-kayleigh-jayshree
all views mine 👁️👄👁️
Magma Poetry @magmapoetry.bsky.social The poetry magazine with a different editor every issue. Join #TheMix
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Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival @lyrafest.com Lyra runs Bristol's Poetry Festival, City Poet, Young City Poet & community collabs. Festival supported by ACE.
Next Festival: 17 - 26 April
www.lyrafest.com
Pavilion Poetry @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of the best in contemporary poetry, from @livunipress.bsky.social. Not currently accepting submissions.
https://linktr.ee/pavilionpoetry
Arts Council England @artscouncilengland.bsky.social Your national development agency for creativity and culture
• Awarding @dcmsgovuk & @tnluk funds
• Got a question? ☎️ artscouncil.org.uk/contact
Off the Shelf Festival of Words @otsfestival.bsky.social Celebrating books, words, and ideas. We’re one of the UK’s longest-running literary festivals, delivered by @sheffielduni.bsky.social
🌐 offtheshelf.org.uk
The Wainwright Prizes @wainwrightprize.bsky.social Stories that connect people & planet 🌱
#WainwrightPrize
🦆 2026 SHORTLISTS ANNOUNCED!
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Poetry Translation Centre @poetrytranslation.bsky.social Giving the best contemporary poems from Africa, Asia and Latin America a new life in the English language.
Books | Events | Workshops | Podcasts
https://www.poetrytranslation.org/
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
Romalyn Ante FRSL @romalynante3.bsky.social AGIMAT (Chatto, 2024)
Antiemetic for Homesickness (Chatto, 2020)
Black Country 🔁 Batangas
www.romalynante.com
Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social The magazine of international literature since 1984. Order our latest issue, Wasafiri 127: Solidarities
https://linktr.ee/wasafiri
Young Poets Network @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk's online platform for young people aged 5-25 worldwide. Challenges, features, writing opportunities and more!
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/
Hay Festival @hayfestival.bsky.social ...a world of different...
hayfestival.org 
The Bookseller @thebookseller.com At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
The Edwin Morgan Trust @edmorgantrust.bsky.social Trust of the first Scottish poet laureate, Edwin Morgan.
John McCullough @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social Poet. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize for Literature with Reckless Paper Birds. Forward & Costa-shortlisted. Working-class writer. Next book: Crowd Voltage (Bloodaxe, March 2026). He/him. 🏳️🌈
Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social Poet and writer. Bourne Chair of Poetry at Georgia Tech and Director of Poetry@Tech.
George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk Poet, gardener, teacher, editor, recovering academic. #Goodgym Barnet. Candidate, Barnet Green Party, Woodhouse ward.
www.georgettoouli.co.uk
Promoted by Joan Waterson on behalf of George Ttoouli (Barnet Green Party) both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
Oliver Fox @oliverfox.bsky.social Poems, mostly. Buy my pamphlet, Haptics, via Broken Sleep Books
@zoeskoulding.bsky.social @zoeskoulding.bsky.social 
Nii Ayikwei Parkes @niiayikwei.bsky.social Ga-speaking father. Happyfied self-hypnotist. Daydreamer, writer, editor, idea whisperer. Bylines: Guardian, Nat Geo, Vice, Financial Times, Condé Nast Traveller | Writes for kids as K.P. Kojo https://t.co/V3GydO5tbs
#BookSky #BlackSky #GhanaSky #Poet
Kirsten Irving @kirstenirving.bsky.social Lincs-born, London-based poet and editor. Crows! Folklore! Viz!
Co-founder of indie press @sidekickbooks.bsky.social
w/ @shotscarecrow.bsky.social. My deliciously weird collection 'Hot Cockalorum' is loose!
https://linktr.ee/kirstenirving
Rachel Cleverly @rachelcleverly.bsky.social Poetry, plays, producing.
Jennifer Wong @jennywcreative.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor / author of Light Year (Nine Arches Press), Letters Home (Nine Arches Press), Time Difference (Verve) & Writing Identity, Home & Elsewhere (Bloomsbury)
linktr.ee/jennywcreative
@isobeldixon.bsky.social @isobeldixon.bsky.social 
Tim Tim Cheng @timtimtmi.bsky.social Poet, Translator, Editor, Lecturer
🦥 The Tattoo Collector (Nine Arches Press, 2024)
🐸 Tapping At Glass (Verve Poetry Press, 2023)
🐙 2025 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program
🐌 glasgow / hk / IG@mymothercalls / timtimcheng.com
Helen Mort @helenmort.bsky.social Poet, author, Sheffield-er. Mountaineering literature specialist, running enthusiast, part time Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Lorraine Mariner @lorrainemariner.bsky.social Poet & librarian. Two collections with Picador ‘Furniture’ & ‘There Will Be No More Nonsense’, also writing poems for children. Works at the National Poetry Library. Edited some 10 Poems About… for Candlestick Press. Powered by tea across all platforms.
Jane Yeh @janeyeh3.bsky.social Writer (DISCIPLINE, THE NINJAS, and MARABOU) & lecturer in London 🌷 Instagram: @janeyeh3 🌷 she/her 🌷 www.janeyeh3.com
Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social Undercover skeleton. 💀 Writer/researcher/lecturer. Ludokinetic/interactive poetry 🃏, collaborative and amalgamatic writing. Editor at @SidekickBooks. 📚 He/him.
www.gojonstonego.com
Anja Konig @anjakonig.bsky.social Poet published by Bad Betty Press and Flipped Eye
Dai George @daigeorge.bsky.social Poet, academic, other writings. Young and easy under the apple boughs. How to Think Like a Poet (Bloomsbury Continuum), out now
Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social Scottish poet and musician
Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social Poet etc.
Books - Goodlord & Shine, Darling
Hosts Tears for Frears & Stress Test on Soho Radio
RLF Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art
Hannah Copley @hannahcopley.bsky.social Writer and SL in Creative Writing at Uni of Westminster. Author of Speculum (Broken Sleep Books, 2021) and Lapwing (Pavilion Poetry, 2024). 2nd in the Laurel Prize 2024 . Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024. Hosts poetry nights at the Soho Poly.
Harry Man @harrymanonbluesky.bsky.social Poet, Translator | RLF Reading Round Fellow | Tutor, Oxford University | Stephen Spender, UNESCO Bridges of Struga & Northern Writers 🏆 | Opinions own, etc. www.manmadebooks.co.uk || https://linktr.ee/harrymanoninstagram
A. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social Dipping a toe in here... Oxford Professor of Poetry
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. 
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
tits andronicus @tambourine.bsky.social 🥞 🫖 📚
sick poet / library mole
london
Jay Gao @jaygao.bsky.social Poet: Imperium (Carcanet, 2022). PhDing at Columbia. https://www.jay-gao.com
Anthony Anaxagorou @aanaxagorou.bsky.social poems
Brenda Shaughnessy @brendashaughnessy.bsky.social Poet, friend. Wrote Sensorium Ex, an opera, with composer Paola Prestini (2025.) Books of poetry: TANYA (Knopf 2023) The Octopus Museum (Knopf 2019) So Much Synth (2016) Our Andromeda (2012) Human Dark w/ Sugar (2008) Interior with Sudden Joy (1999).
Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social Independent poetry publisher 📧press@outspokenpress.com
outspokenpress.com
https://linktr.ee/outspokenpress
Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social Publishing independently since 1929.
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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social London-based independent publisher of fiction, poetry, anthologies & interdisciplinary projects, committed to championing the work of new voices in free-form contemporary literature.
https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/
Rory Waterman @rorywaterman.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor, professor of Modern Literature & Creative Writing, co-editor of New Walk Editions. www.rorywaterman.com https://rorywaterman.substack.com/. Views yours; likes/RTs=marriage proposals. OTBC🔰/COYP
Futurepoem @futurepoem.bsky.social Futurepoem is a NYC-based not-for-profit poetry press.
We champion innovative writing and writers.
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Jane Clarke @janeclarke.bsky.social Poet: 'The River', 'When the Tree Falls', 'A Change in the Air', 'Coracle' (Bloodaxe 2015, 2019, 2023 &2026) https://www.janeclarkepoetry.ie/
Tracey Herd @traceyherd-rio.bsky.social Poet (Bloodaxe Books) & snake mum. 🐍
Prolific. 3 books in 30 years. Last one -
Not in this World, 2015.
❤️ old films 1920s - 60s (Elizabeth Hartman), 50s & 60s music &, er, Showaddywaddy & Mud.
Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, Roberto Bolano, Plath...
ImtiazDharker @imtiazdharker.bsky.social Poet Over the Moon, Shadow Reader
Nia Davies @niapolly.bsky.social Poet, new book Votive Mess (Bloodaxe)
Poetry London @poetrylondon.bsky.social London’s Leading Poetry Magazine. Autumn 2023 Issue 106 OUT NOW.
https://poetrylondon.co.uk/
The Friday Poem @thefridaypoem.bsky.social Every Friday we post a review or a feature on the website and on Substack, and send it to subscribers. 1796 subscribers, 7300 post reads in November. 
Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
West Cork Literary Festival @wcorklitfest.bsky.social * We are most active on Instagram * Thanks for joining us and making this year our biggest, buzziest festival yet. Save the dates: July 9-16 2027
https://linktr.ee/westcorkliteraryfestival
The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social Smith|Doorstop Books • New Poets List • International Book & Pamphlet Competition • New Poets Prize • Writer Development Agency
https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/
Preti Taneja FRSL @pretitaneja.bsky.social Kumkum Malhotra + We That Are Young + Aftermath
Professor of World Literature and Creative Writing at Newcastle University
Contributing Editor, And Other Stories. Trustee at English PEN.
Agent: Emma Paterson, Aitken Alexander.
www.preti-taneja.co.uk
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Amy Key @amykey.bsky.social Writer - Arrangements in Blue, Isn't Forever, Luxe. My substack is So Glad I'm Me https://amykey.substack.com/
Chrissy Williams @chrissywilliams.bsky.social Poet & Comic Book Writer | GOLDEN RAGE from Image Comics ("Battle Royale meets The Golden Girls”) | BEAR & LOW from Bloodaxe Books | PERVERSE magazine editor | https://open.substack.com/pub/chrissywilliams
Jenna Clake @jennaclake.bsky.social Novelist and poet; she/her
linktr.ee/jennaclake / jennaclake.com
Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/