Midlands Fringe @midlandsfringe.bsky.social Midlands Fringe AYIT!
📍 Wolverhampton
🗓️ 17-26 July 2026
💡 Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists
💷 Arts Council England
🌐 https://linktr.ee/midlandsfringe
Ella B. Winters @ella-b-winters.bsky.social Writer, research, social worker, lecturer, eternal student, working on my PhD.
Artemesia Arts shortlist; Forward prize nominated; Pushcart prizes nominated x2
Chris Emery @chrisemery.me Poet and book designer, born in Manchester, living in Cromer. Co-founder of Salt Publishing. Five collections from Arc and Salt, most recently Wonder (2025). Newsletter: chrisemery.me
Laura Spinney @laurainparis.bsky.social 
Auntie Jellyfish @auntiejellyfish.bsky.social Re-distributor of your Unconsidered (and Considered) Trifles
"an obvious paragon of grammar and sentence structure"
Artist's Gopher
Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social Publisher
Books Made in Berlin since 2023
www.sacredparasite.com
Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk Online poetry magazine posting daily. We publish & review poetry, prose, filmpoems, word & image and print publish as IS&T Press. Editing internships. Posts by Sabine Wilson-Patrick & Kate Birch.
Kate Sheehan-Finn @katesfwriter.bsky.social Stories sprinkle stardust on our lives.
Writer, Archaeology, Roman Empire,
Ancient Greece
Winner Jericho Writers FNL24; LL Flash500 Novel Comp 2025; SL HNS First Chapters Comp 2026
@philsmithcross.bsky.social @philsmithcross.bsky.social ATHEIST / ARDENT FEMINIST / Put Women In Charge Now / I voted for her / Vaxxed / Secular Humanist / Progressive Liberal Dem / Blue Crew /Eat the Rich / Pro Union / Pro choice /Far Left / Woke AF / Ally / Tax Religion / 8647 /Antifa/ Resister
@jessicajesselynn88.bsky.social @jessicajesselynn88.bsky.social 
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
Cholmondley Warner 🇪🇺🔶 @chumleyprelude.bsky.social Was over there, now dabbling over here. I guess we'll see how things end up!
@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.
Ali McGrane @alimcg.bsky.social Flash fiction in various places | Welkin win, Bath SLs | "The Listening Project" flash novella Ad Hoc Fiction bit.ly/3ohYf67 (Special Mention '22 Sab Awards) | South West UK🦻🌱🌊
alimcgrane.com
Forward Democracy @fwddem.com We're helping Britain vote for a better future:
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The Lonely Crowd @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social Literary journal — thelonelycrowd.org
https://linktr.ee/thelonelycrowd
The Failing Writers Podcast @failingwriters.bsky.social A podcast for anyone who’s ever dreamed of being a writer… then got distracted by a video of a cat being frightened by a cucumber.
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Accounting. Member, UK House of Lords.
If with all your effort and might you do not reach the mountain top that is not failure; failure is that you did not even try.
Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social Retired; the blue dot in red state; midwest, volunteering & mentoring undergrads, grads, alums; Indiana Fever Fan. BS, PhD in engineering, MBA in strategy, fifty years employed in automotive electronics; Love Baroque music. Love travel, 2 kids, 7 grands.
The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social The VILLAGE 🏘 is a place where the world 🌍 feels a tiny bit smaller. Founded by SMOKELONG for the Global Flash Community
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Neither fish nor foul 📖 @neitherfishnorfoul.com Www.neitherfishnorfoul.com an online magazine where craft and quirk meet
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Editor @jackmmorris.bsky.social
Nathalie @nathalie87.bsky.social Anti-imperialism.
@flashficfestuk.bsky.social @flashficfestuk.bsky.social Online and in person flashfiction events. Next online festival day Oct. Next in person festival 17-19 July 2026 flashfictionfestival.com
Stephen Paul Wren @moleculesunlimited.bsky.social Poet. PINE/NEEDLES out Sept ‘26. BOtN nominated. Director of Molecules Unlimited. Leads Wren research group. University of Cambridge PhD. AFC.
Abigail Ottley @abigailottley.bsky.social Writes poetry & short fiction. Latest is new collection ‘Out of Eden’. Pushcart and Best of Net nominated. 2024: Plaza Prose Poem 2nd, Patricia Eschen Award 3rd, won Metro poem Comp. Twice winner of Wildfire 150. Loves books,dogs, & crafting.
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social Poets | Anniversaries | Poems
www.marcchamberlain.net
Hive.co.uk @hivestores.bsky.social Online store supporting local independent bookshops with each purchase 📚
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Sam Szanto @samszanto.bsky.social Poet, short story writer, PhD researcher. Books with Hedgehog Press, Dreich, Alien Buddha. Best of the Net and Pushcart nominated. Workshop 13th Sept: https://poetryschool.com/courses/microchimerism-loss-connection-writing-absence-attachment-in-parenthood/
streetcake magazine @streetcakemag.bsky.social An online mag publishing innovative & experimental writing. Bi-monthly issues. SUBS CLOSED. www.streetcakemagazine.com
Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social EAL teacher. Tree lover. Likes to write poems. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/parole_de_reveuse
Carmella de Keyser @carmellapoetry.bsky.social Prizewinning poet
Harlow Stanza founder
Judge Harlow Open🏆
5 books published/forthcoming|Hedgehog Press|Alien Buddha Press|Parlyaree Press|Seventh Quarry
Widely published inc
by Macmillan
Beatles|90s nostalgia
https://www.carmella-de-keyser.com/about
Annick Yerem @missyerem.bsky.social Poet, Pixie, Cake spy. EIC Sídhe Press. She/her. "Impressive luring". Trans rights are human rights. #TheChronicLife/CIAD. FREE PALESTINE!
Temple in a city @templeinacity.bsky.social Lit mag for flash fiction, poetry, art and letters. Throw it all at us. Reading is punk.
https://templeinacity.com
We Own It @weownit.org.uk After 40 years, privatisation of our public services has failed. It's time for public ownership. We use it, we pay for it, We Own It.
https://weownit.org.uk/people-not-profit
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/donate
Nairn Kennedy @nairnkennedy.bsky.social Former lecturer at Leeds Beckett now living life as an emerging poet. Examples at http://nairnkennedypoet.co.uk
European Network of Short Fiction Research @ensfr.bsky.social We aim to provide a forum and resources for European-based researchers into the practice, criticism and transmission of short fiction in its diversity of forms and to facilitate collaboration in both critical and practice-led research.
Karen Jones @karjon.bsky.social Writer. Editor NFFD Anthology. BSSA Team Member. First prize Reflex Fiction, TSS Publishing, Flash 500. 2nd prize Fractured Lit micro. Shortlist Bath Flash/Short Story, To Hull and Back and many others. Scottish Indy supporter.
Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social indie poetry publisher based in Canada with an international focus. we publish books and we have an online website with series and blogs w/poets, fiction writers, visual artist, experimental projects www.icefloepress.net EIC/publisher Robert Frede Kenter
Acropolis Journal @acropolisjournal.bsky.social Acropolis Journal | Home for temples, ruins, darkness and myth | Online Poetry & Art Journal | Projects | EIC Louise Mather |
https://acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjournal
Dr M. I. Matthews-Schlinzig @whatisaletter.bsky.social poet, human, dog lover
academic & literary editing/translation, and writing (ENG/GER)
MSt & DPhil (University of Oxford)
Instagram: schicketanz_books
http://patreon.com/whatisaletter
Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social Poet and Neonatologist.
Debut pamphlet “Hatchery” published with V. Press - you can buy hatchery here https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/hatchery.html?m=1
https://linktr.ee/elizabeth.osmond
Saddletramp🇪🇺 @saddletramp.bsky.social Traveller, anything nature, photographer, high shutter speed, low glycemic index.
Not fond of racists or right wing trolls. I like a nice Cabernet Merlot.
No DMs please.
Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social Helping you better understand web accessibility for people with disabilities. Created by @patrickmgarvin.bsky.social.
@dralyal.bsky.social @dralyal.bsky.social 
Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social Comedian and maker of nonsense.
T. S. Eliot Prize @tseliotprize.bsky.social Home of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry for the best collection published in the year.
Sylvia Booth @smfbooth.bsky.social Ex Treasury Manager for large UK Company - interested in Politics and Trade. Likes horses, cats, friends, fairness, logic, atheist, gardens, art, decency and kindness not necessarily in that order.
Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social Independent publisher of contemporary poetry since 2008, home of Under the Radar magazine. Made in the Midlands.
https://ninearchespress.com/
Katherine Stansfield @kstansfield.bsky.social Reader, writer, cat fan. Historical fiction, crime fiction, weird fiction, poems. I'm one half of D. K. Fields (fantasy crime series) & co-editor of Bending The Arc: A Thrutopian Magazine which imagines thriving & liveable futures into being
Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social Author - Poet
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
Susan Darlington @susandarlington.bsky.social “I didn't realise you wrote such bloody awful poetry” (The Smiths). Books include Lives Outgrown (Dancing Girl Press), Never Wear White (Alien Buddha Press), and Oracle of Snails (upcoming, Hedgehog Press).
RSPB Action @rspbaction.bsky.social The latest from the RSPB’s campaigning and policy work from across the UK.
Sign up to and become a RSPB Campaigner - https://rspb.org.uk/actionfornature
Laura-Gray Street @elegystreet.bsky.social po collections, eco-po anthologies, Revolute Litmag, 2022-25 Black Earth Institute fellow, river rat bird nerd
linktr.ee/lauragraystreet
The Fiction Desk @thefictiondesk.com We’ve been publishing anthologies of new short fiction since 2010. Based in Scotland.
Uncertain Stories @uncertainstories.com www.uncertainstories.com
Feisty Blue Gecko (Philippa Ramsden) @feistybluegecko.bsky.social 🦎Scot 🏴, formerly Global Dev professional, now gently unfurling, realising dreams of being a writer, poet and enjoying photographing tiny wonders. Breast Cancer survivor.
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
Vidyan Ravinthiran @poems-not-opinions.bsky.social Prof and poet, author of Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir and Avidya. Posting poems you may not have read.
Alien Buddha Press @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social Alien Buddha Press has been publishing emerging writers and artists since 2017. Open for submissions at abuddhapress@yahoo.com
Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk Northern speculative fiction micropress • Northumberland, UK • Human made • Our first anthology: carnyxpress.co.uk/products/oaths-and-offerings
Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social Cardiff based Poet, Writer, Academic 'Octopus Mind' (Seren Books) - a Guardian Best Poetry Book of 2023 https://linktr.ee/createdtoread Teach creative writing, writing on/around ekphrasis, neurodiversity, creativity, climate crisis, art
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
Astrid Aillume @aillume.bsky.social A detective. Astrid Aillume's New Case: A Billionaire's Mystery
Cracking a case is like salty liquorice.
Surprising at first,but ultimately addictive.
Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Flash fiction writer | 2025 Highly Commended Bridport Prize & Finalist New Millennium Writings | Published in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Flash the Court, Writers’ Hour, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and elsewhere.
linktr.ee/adelegallogly
Matthew Paul @matthewepaul.bsky.social Poems. Reviews. Essays. Latest poetry collection The Last Corinthians (https://crookedspirepress.com/the-last-corinthians-by-matthew-paul).
‘[…] an exceptionally well-crafted collection.’ - Acumen
www.matthewpaulpoetry.blog/books
@bathflashaward.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social 3 times a year Flash Fiction Award. £1460 prize fund. Anthology. Founded in 2015. 32nd Award results out now. 33rd Award open. Judge Writer and writing tutor . Alison Woodhouse Closes June 7th 2026
Debbi Voisey @dublinwriter.bsky.social Writer. Pushcart and Best Micro Fictions 2025 nominee. Published @fairlightbooks & @shortstorymag. Mentor. Tutor. Novel THE RESET published 2025 with Bloodhound Books. Email dublinwriter@hotmail.co.uk
Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust). www.medhawrites.com
Black Nore Review @blacknorereview.bsky.social Poetry and flash fiction from Portishead, North Somerset every Monday and Thursday - https://blacknorereview.wordpress.com. Edited by @benbanyard.bsky.social
Kim Whysall-Hammond @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social Poet, scientist, artist. Lifelong Science Fiction fan. SFPA. My debut pamphlet ‘Messages from the Road’ is available from Palewell Press. https://palewellpress.co.uk/bookstore/lost-wellbeing/mftr/
Fox and Star Books @foxandstarbooks.bsky.social We publish poetry and fiction chapbooks by UK debut authors with an emphasis on global majority writers. Founder/editor: @carrieetter.bsky.social; co-editor: Kaycee Hill Website: https://foxandstarbooks.org
Gill Connors @gillcresearch.bsky.social poet, teacher, PhD student. Wild swimmer. Editor at Yaffle/Yaffle's Nest
Living, working and writing in The Yorkshire Dales
HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk The UK’s leading campaign group against the far right | Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate LTD at 167-169 Great Portland St, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF.
🔗 https://hopenothate.org.uk
Tess @tessaivorywrites.bsky.social Animal lover, and wannabe writer. Just me and my arthritic knee.
Tim K 📎 🇺🇸🏳️🌈🇺🇦 @timzers.bsky.social Secular Humanist & social progressive who is completely aghast at how so many conservative friends, family and acquaintances have openly embraced the fascist policies of Trumpism. WTF is happening to our Republic?
Poetry with Linda @poetrywithlinda.bsky.social poetry, nature, writing, reading, art, culture, languages, photography, travelling 🎨🖌️🖼️
Let's also be friends on Substack:@poetrywithlinda
Laura Theis @lauratheis.bsky.social Author of 'A Spotter's Guide To Invisible Things', 'Introduction To Cloud Care', etc.
https://www.livecanon.co.uk/store/product/a-spotters-guide-to-invisible-things-by-laura-theis
#poetsonbluesky
Leeds Guild of Singers @leedsguildofsingers.org.uk One of Yorkshire's finest smaller choirs, renowned for very high performance standards, imaginative programming and many premières.
DalesBus @dalesbus.bsky.social DalesBus - connecting people with places in the Yorkshire Dales.
All the latest information about bus and train services in the Yorkshire Dales and surrounding area.
www.dalesbus.org
Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social I write the Guardian’s Politics Live blog 
Black iris poetry @blackirispoetry.bsky.social Aaand we’re here! Poetry journal www.blackirispoetry.com co-edited by Lauren Thomas and Sarah Gibbons.
@averilpam.bsky.social @averilpam.bsky.social 
Munster Literature Centre https://munsterlit.ie/ @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social Cork based non-profit arts organisation promoting Irish and international literature since 1993.
Website: https://munsterlit.ie/
@lauren-thomas.bsky.social @lauren-thomas.bsky.social All things poetry. Co-editor of Black Iris https://www.blackirispoetry.com
poets and prattlers @pandemonialists.bsky.social Pandemonialising poetry in the Black Country since 2016.
We run poetry events, offer workshops, do commissions, and work closely with Wolves Lit Fest. And more.
Website: www.pandemonialists.co.uk
And on Substack: https://pandemonialists.substack.com/
Josephine Corcoran @andotheritems.bsky.social Writer. Reader. I dabble with VisPo and collage. Liberation theology inclined Catholic. Wife & Mum.
Website https://josephinecorcoran.org/
Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/andothernotes?r=36enk&utm_medium=ios
Liz Brownlee @lizpoet.bsky.social I'm a children's poet, I love writing animal and shape poems, and the children's poetry world! National Poetry Day Ambassador. Dog Owner. Book reader. Coffee drinker. Friend. Between Bristol and Bath.
Keeks Mc @keeksmc.bsky.social Scots language poet 🏴
Author of "Contermacious Temerity" and "Rede Wi Yer Hert" from Dreich Publications. Next collection coming 2026 with Drunk Muse Press.
Café Writers @cafewriters.bsky.social Live lit events online and in Norwich
cafewriters.co.uk
Bel Rimmer @belrimmer.bsky.social PhD, Women's Voices in Poetry, MMU. Poet and short story writer. Joint winner of Indigo-First pamphlet competition (2018). Second pamphlet published by New Walk Editions (2022). Three times short-listed for the Laurie Lee Prize for Writing.
Barry Forshaw @barryf48.bsky.social Writer & journalist (newspapers, magazines); books on crime fiction & film (inc. Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide, British Gothic Cinema). Editor: Crime Time (www.crimetime.co.uk), Blu-ray Choice (www.dvdchoices.co.uk), Classical CD Choice
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/
Peter Kenny @peter-kenny.bsky.social Creative maverick. Writer of poetry and dark fiction. Co-hosts and co-produces the Planet Poetry podcast. 
Elizabeth Baines @elizabethbaines.bsky.social Writer of short stories, novels, plays.
http://www.elizabethbaines.co.uk
Latest publication: Five Different Stories About One Thing (Confingo). https://www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page/five-different-stories-about-one-thing-by-elizabeth-baines
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/
Falmouth Poetry Group @falmouthpoetrygp.bsky.social Poetry Group set up in 1972 by Peter Redgrove. Meet 5 Times a month to share critique and write together. Occasional events and festivals Now a Stanza Group
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
Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social A reader-funded newspaper that truly sits outside the established system and answers only to the public.
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