Rachel @vignettes.bsky.social Absurdist, writer, explorer, escape artist.
Writer of poetry, prose
Words in Literary Revelations: Haiku for Soul Mates @epistemiclit.bsky.social, Pure Haiku, From One Line Vol.7, Survivor Zine, #BOTN nominee x 2 2026
British, lives in Italy
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
Amelia Clark - Lover of Flagons @gingertotty.bsky.social Sweary ginger designer with side hustle drawing naughty but niche greetings cards to shove up yer post boxes. Also #kittyditties
Naughty but niche cards/prints: Dippyfishcards.etsy.com
Art: ArtOfNote.sumupstore.com
Misc/tips: https://ko-fi.com/dippyfish
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
John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com Dropping pebbles & watching the waves. The only change possible is not out there. Not in your pockets. What is changing? Everything or nothing or both? Who says? #radicaldruid Most content from www.radicaldruid.com
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
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
Ben Banyard @benbanyard.bsky.social Dad, poet-type & editor of Black Nore Review (@blacknorereview.bsky.social). Birmingham City fan & Bristol Bears RFC season ticket holder. https://ben.banyard.wordpress.com
Anne McMaster @annierose25.bsky.social Poetry. Films. Photographs. Plays. Novels. Images my own unless a repost. Writing in English/Ulster-Scots. I chase words and the light. Available on tour, in books and on BBC Radio/TV. New work autumn 2025. Never too many cats.
Yaffle @yaffles-nest.bsky.social Publisher of poetry collections and pamphlets. Yaffle and Yaffle's Nest
Online workshops and courses.
disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social not AI! this bot is madlibs with rng, it does not do tricks or take commands, it just posts. Not LLM or Markov-based / created by @lawngnomesorceress.bsky.social, hosted by @bluebotsdonequick.com
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Annie Brechin @anniebrechin.bsky.social Poet, bellringer. The Mouth of Eulalie currently out from Blue Diode Press https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/the-mouth-of-eulalie-by-annie-brechin-isbn-9781915108012
Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social Poet, nature lover, Cymraes. 🏴 Widely published, nominated/winner of writing awards/prizes. Author of four poetry books. My fourth - Contemplation of Roses - is now available from Lapwing Publications on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HG7ZY1Z4
Pete Strong @petestrongpoet.bsky.social Writer. Poetry and other things. Bridport Prize shortlisted. “delicious musicality” FringeReview “hard not to feel your own re-emergence” Arts Dispatch
Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social Publishing independently since 1929.
linktr.ee/faberbooks
Jenevieve Carlyn @coastalpoet.bsky.social Evie | "The greatest journey begins with a single hoofbeat.” Connecticut Poet Laureate Award for Ecopoetry. Poetry of the Sacred Prize. Palette Poetry Love & Eros Prize Finalist. Commended Mist & Mtn, Shortlist Artemesia Arts
jenevievecarlyn.com
North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social Noticeboard and live commonplace book of North Sea Poets. We run online masterclasses, workshops and webinars.
northseapoets.com
@macromarius.bsky.social @macromarius.bsky.social Poet, Screenwriter, Filmmaker www.photography.mariusgrose.co.uk
Nathaniel King @nathanielking.bsky.social Poet | Ghost Clinic, Broken Sleep Books | Eric Gregory 2024 | PhD research in hauntology at Royal Holloway |
Anthropocene @anthro-poetry.bsky.social fresh poems: wednesday & sunday.
editor:
charlie baylis
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
Linda Middleton @lindapoet.bsky.social Children's poet. Poems in The Caterpillar, Little Thoughts Press, PaperBound, The Dirigible Balloon, Paddler Press, Parakeet, Charles Causley Trust, Northern Gravy, Candlestick Press, The Toy, Brian Moses' Blog, Tyger Tyger and anthologies.
Dithering Chaps - submissions open @ditheringchaps.bsky.social I'm David Herring, Lead Editor of indie poetry press, Dithering Chaps, based in Dorset, UK. We publish thematically-linked sequences of poems: works that riff on a core conceit, event or narrative voice. He/him. https://www.ditheringchaps.com
Saraswati Nagpal @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social Forward Prize, Pushcart & BOTN nominated Poet, Author, Educator, Performing Artist. Lover of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, tomes, trees, all things purple. Poetry: 'Drench Me in Silver' (Black Bough, 2025)
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/saraswatinagpal
@marymulholland.bsky.social @marymulholland.bsky.social 
Peter Kenny @peter-kenny.bsky.social Creative maverick. Writer of poetry and dark fiction. Co-hosts and co-produces the Planet Poetry podcast. 
Humira @digital-alchemist.bsky.social 
Rue Collinge @thewordtinker.bsky.social Disabled poet & community artist. North East. Writing about hope with dragons in it, and hEDS. Pre-order debut pamphlet with Verve Poetry Press! linktr.ee/thewordtinker
Elizabeth M. Castillo | Poetry, Writing & Workshops @emcwritesthings.bsky.social • 🇬🇧🇲🇺Multilingual British-Mauritian Poet, Writer & Educator
• Author of "Cajoncito" & "Not Quite An Ocean"
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 📚🏃♀️
Live Canon @livecanon.bsky.social We publish, perform, produce & promote poetry! We also run online & in-person courses. #poetry
https://www.livecanon.co.uk
Laura Strickland @l-strickland.bsky.social Poet, carer and freelance HR consultant from Yorkshire. Published in The North, Butcher’s Dog, Strix,The Frogmore Papers, Northern Gravy, Propel and others. Longlisted National Poetry Competition 2023 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦
Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social linktr.ee/victoriaspires
BotN, Pushcart & Forward nominated. Shortlisted/commended in various comps: Winner Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize
Finalist Mslexia Women's Comp
Rube Goldberg Machine out with Shadow and Sax.
roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social a throwaway poet
lives in Sheffield
has never been a lover of slip-on-shoes
writes poetry for people who don’t read poetry
his pamphlet “My C&A Years” published by Dreich
my best review
“My husband loves this but he doesn’t know anything about poetry”
Samantha Terrell @samanthaterrell.bsky.social American Poet, Curator of SHINE International Poetry Series
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
Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social Humanist. Midlander. Liberal. Xennial. Quondam Classicist. Chief Executive @humanists.uk | Ambassador @humanists.bsky.social
David Baddiel @realbaddiel.bsky.social On here too
Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk
YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social Guardian writer, but one time I said something inflammatory to the US right & they called me a Diseased Pitmommy. So that's what I go by now 
Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social Writer, comedian, podcaster, stone-clearer, snookerist, ventriloquist
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social Archaeologist, word-witcher, scicomm, consultancy
📚 KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death & Art
🖋️ MATRIARCHA: Prehistory Re-imagined
🏛️ Honorary Researcher U. Cambridge & U. Liverpool
1/4 @trowelblazers.bsky.social
Rep: PEW Literary
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Julia @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social Poet | Writer | Freelance Art Historian
UK https://juliabiggs1.wixsite.com/juliabiggs
Pamphlet available from Salò Press: https://www.salopress.com/store/nasty-objects-julia-biggs/
Penny Dedman @spanishtom.bsky.social Writer, Writer's HQ, feminist, just about hanging in there. Any photos my own unless stated otherwise.
@lauren-thomas.bsky.social @lauren-thomas.bsky.social All things poetry. Co-editor of Black Iris https://www.blackirispoetry.com
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. 🏳️🌈
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/
VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social Festival of Poetry & Spoken Word ✨#Brum and online✨ Online Multi-press Poetry-only Bookshop @vervepoetryshop✨
https://vervepoetryfestival.com
VERVE Poetry Press @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social Prize-winning #Brum based poetry indie making high octane collections and vervey pamphlets. Related to
@Vervepoetryfest (did you guess?) 😍
https://vervepoetrybookshop.com/vpp
Women's Prize @womensprize.bsky.social Charity changing the world through books written by women📚
Women's Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction supported by Audible, Baileys, Findmypast
🔗 linktr.ee/womensprize
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/
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
Fahmidan Group @fahmidangroup.bsky.social Diversity in Action.
EIC A.R. Arthur Team: Managing Editor Yasmine Dashti
Proud member of @CLMPorg
Granta @grantamag.bsky.social The Magazine of New Writing.
https://granta.com/
Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social Manc independent publisher with a conscience.
M.D. Isabelle Kenyon
2024 North England Winner Small Press of Year!
Sustainable, political and accessible
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk
Mslexia @mslexia.bsky.social The UK's bestselling magazine for women who write.
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
Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social Online poetry mag edited by @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social and @hollyannepoet.bsky.social
www.atriumpoetry.com
Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social They/She.
Wrote some books.
Then didn't.
Love animals, horror, and weird stuff.
Run a cool jewelry store for queer artists.
@peculiarityshop.bsky.social
www.peculiarityshop.com
God @thegodshow.com Creator of the Universe.
thegodshow.com
https://youtube.com/@thegodshowlive
Luke Wright @lukewrightpoet.bsky.social Poet.
linktr.ee/lukewrightpoet
Luke Thompson @lukeathompson.bsky.social Writer / Editor / Lecturer
www.lukeathompson.com
www.guillemotpress.co.uk
p.a. morbid @marcusagonistes.bsky.social Poet. Proser. Middlesbrough historian. Terraced house lover. Outsider artist/musician. Photographer etc
Holly Magill @hollyannepoet.bsky.social Poet.
The Becoming of Lady Flambé - Indigo Dreams Publishing
20 - Drunk Muse Poetry
Co-edits www.atriumpoetry.com
Loves snoods, tea, crime (reading, not doing).
🚑 Mike 🚑 @finleydbasset.bsky.social Paramedic. Autism dad. Rabbit rescue volunteer. Basset Hound friend. Dogs are better than most people.
Penn State Alumni
⛔️ MAGA, ⛔️ Crypto, ⛔️ Sexbots, ⛔️ Gambots, will be blocked.
Hate DJT. 8647. Blue Always!
No bio, no picture, no posts = no follow/block
Crystal @swampcrystal.bsky.social 
Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I ♥️ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; author of HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE; rep’d by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey
linktr.ee/ambernoellesparks
Holly Pelesky @hollypelesky.bsky.social feral woman • writer • librarian • bi af • on a constant quest for comfortable silence • tweets as if it’s all ephemeral
Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal @poetrybrum.bsky.social PBLJ is a biannual print magazine of contemporary poetry, rooted in Birmingham. Engage with thought provoking essays, interviews and in-depth reviews. Subscribe Now!
https://poetrybirmingham.com/ 
Robin Houghton @robinhoughton.bsky.social Author. Poet. Podcaster @planetpoetry.bsky.social First full poetry collection 'The Mayday Diaries' Pindrop Press May 1st 2025. Sings in choirs. Yogi.
Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social Wales’ leading independent English-language publisher 📚 Winner Small Press of the Year Wales 2025 🏴
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Kexin Huang @khuangwrites.bsky.social prize-winning poet in 2 languages (writing in 3) | in
@poetrysociety.bsky.social @mptmagazine.bsky.social @magmapoetry.bsky.social @poetrywales.bsky.social
| Author: Unlock (2023) @Veer_Books | @uclalumni.bsky.social
Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social Poetry - wildlife - music - India - Greece
New 📗 GIRL -
‘Dazzling lyric control’ (Kim Moore)
‘Rhapsodic’(Guardian)
'Girls from Delphi to Delhi haunted by the ‘loose tin can’ of misogyny.…' (Mid-Day Mumbai)
Www.ruthpadel.com
Liffy Elisabeth kelly @liffyeliskelly.bsky.social Poet - Scottish poetry library bursary ward 2025 chapbooks include carbon, mind mathematics, wild chamomile and soon to be released becoming a witch she/her
Sue Watling @suewatling.bsky.social poet with pagan heart, allotmenteer, beekeeper, author of 'Heaving with the dreams of strangers' & 'Thetis' https://suewatling.com/thetis-a-poetic-narrative-now-available-online/ Also #walkthroughthetarot
Subscribe to my blog at https://suewatling.com
Martha Sprackland @marrrtha.bsky.social Editor, writer and translator. Dark Night: Poems & Selected Prose of John of the Cross (Penguin Classics, 2026)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/462137/dark-night-by-cross-st-john-of-the/9780241699294
marthasprackland.co.uk
Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social Journal featuring poets yet to publish a full collection / Est. 2022 / EIC @aanaxagorou.bsky.social / Issue 14, Ed.
@susannahdickey.bsky.social OUT NOW / Subs closed.
propelmagazine.co.uk
Kelly in Cornwall @kellyincornwall.bsky.social Writing for nature, writing for wellbeing
AL Dugmore @aldugmore.bsky.social Poet, copywriter, creative.
J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social artist, writer, researcher, fossil hunter, PLA licensed mudlarker, and lecturer in the School of English at University of Leeds https://luckysoap.com
Tarn MacArthur @tarnnation.bsky.social Poems in: London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, The New Republic, Poetry Review, & Poetry London.
https://linktr.ee/tarnmacarthur
Vicki Husband @vichusband.bsky.social Poet, Reading, Writing (Vagabond Voices/ Mariscat Press) Most likely to be found walking the dog in Glasgow, Southside she/her 🏳️🌈🇵🇸 vickihusband.wordpress.com
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.
Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social Novelist. Poet. Reader.
🏺OVID’S HEROINES 🍼INCARNATION 🐇FIERCE BAD RABBITS 🔮 DELPHI 🏰THE UNTAMEABLES 🧚🏾THE MODERN FAIRIES, ✍️LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS 🌊THE OTHERNAUTS, etc
Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle
Sue Hubbard @suewriter.bsky.social Award-winning poet, novelist, art critic. Five poetry collections. Latest God’s Little Artist, poems on Gwen John, Seren. Four novels including Rainsongs (Duckworth), Flatlands (Puskin Press, Mercure de France). Sunday Times list best historical fiction
Clare Best @clarebest.bsky.social reading, looking, listening carefully; paying attention; writing
clarebest.co.uk
also @cbestphd.bsky.social posting bits and pieces around my doctoral research
#poetry #memoir #lifewriting #teachingwriting #CSA #OUPGR #opera #libretto #materialculture
ImtiazDharker @imtiazdharker.bsky.social Poet Over the Moon, Shadow Reader
Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Writer
Poetry: Debut collection due Spring ‘27
(Broken Sleep Books)
Forward Prize/BOTN nominee
100+ poems in Agenda, Stand, Poetry Salzburg, Chiron Review, IS&T etc & on BBC
Charles Causley & Bridport shortlists
Prose: Orwell Prize/Bridport Novel longlists
Larissa @ammonitesandstars.bsky.social Poet, writer, freelance science journalist, and current chair of the Friends of Hugh Miller charity ✨
Jodie Duffy @jodieduffy.bsky.social Poet, writer, wonderer, wanderer