Chris Emery @chrisemery.me Poet. Five collections from Arc and Salt, most recently Wonder (2025). Manchester-born, Irish citizen, living in Cromer. I publish other people’s books at Salt. Newsletter: chrisemery.me
Writing The Dawn @writingthedawn.bsky.social Where biodiversity, neurodiversity & creativity meet | Writing, creative workshops & coaching|For every kind of bodymind | Neurodivergent-affirming | Anti-racist| LGBTQIA+ affirming | Anti-oppression
Cate McGowan @catemcgowan.com Author of four books: poetry collection—SACRIFICIAL STEEL, essay collection—WRITING IS REVISION, stories—TRUE PLACES NEVER ARE, & novel—THESE LOWLY OBJECTS. Prose & poems smattered everywhere. Em dashes rule!
PhD, MFA, MA.
https://linktr.ee/cate.mcgowan
Gavin Turner @gtwriter.bsky.social Literary speculative fiction writer exploring systems where reality, identity and consequence fail in consistent, human ways
James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social Poet, journalist, novelist. Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Poetry chapbook SUDDEN SHADOWS published last fall.
Paul Nash | Paul atten Ash @northseanavigator.bsky.social WRITER:
Sampler (Black Cat Press 2027)
'Searchlight Seasons' (Atomic Bohemian 2024)
Instagram: @north_sea_navigator
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Author GRF @mythoversal.bsky.social 2025: Poem every day
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gfishbone.com (he/him)
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@reisingerart.bsky.social @reisingerart.bsky.social Our paintings are the result of teamwork. Henriëtte envisions the concepts. She composes and chooses from a multitude of ideas the most potential ones. Roman paints, this technique enables him to paint realistically and in great detail.
Phil Nugent @philnugent.bsky.social A cool rebel with no friends
Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social Writer, cat lady, wrote a novel about medieval mystics, forthcoming novel about John Ruskin. Aspiring anchoress. https://victoriamackenzie.net/
Substack: https://victoriamackenzie.substack.com/
Easttide (by Wm) @easttide.bsky.social Nature, Poetry, Photography & Visual Soundscapes.
Sameer Kankali Ⓥ☮✌🏼🌱💚🍉🐸🐮🐷📚📖♟️✊🏼 @sameerkankali.bsky.social MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS 💙🦋
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@pussnine.bsky.social @pussnine.bsky.social 
Steve Silas Hendrickson (Mlem) @phylogeneticsteve.bsky.social "Mamunduong tawo" 🌈🇵🇭
| Gay Widower | Bicolano Poet | Bibliophile | Gamer
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Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social Publisher
Books Made in Berlin since 2023
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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
Holly Lyn Walrath @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social Writer. Poet. Editor. Nerd. Managing Editor Interstellar Flight Press. Author of NUMINOUS STONES, THE SMALLEST OF BONES, GLIMMERGLASS GIRL. She/They
Website: www.Hlwalrath.com
@kennedy007-67.bsky.social @kennedy007-67.bsky.social 
GSS 2027 @gendercongress.bsky.social Looking for researchers, speakers & experts in Gender & Sexuality Studies
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@charbelm.bsky.social @charbelm.bsky.social Building a cozy corner of like-minded friends. No crypto, no financial pitches, and absolutely no creeps. RTs are just for sharing, not endorsing. ☕✨
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. Chiefs.
John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social Tea and poetry.
Based in Cumbria UK.
More poetry & links at johnnorthwrites.blogspot.com
The Way of Tea:
https://theherbfarm.co.uk/page/the-way-of-tea
douwe @dwskkm.bsky.social ‘het leven is geen bessenvla'
#hashtagmaker #hashtagduider ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Tom Vowler @tomvowler.bsky.social Word-botherer.
Winner V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize
www.tomvowler.co.uk
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SmartPushti @smartpushti.bsky.social
https://smartpushti.com/
A decentralized platform for publishing, discussion, research, collaboration, and fund allocation in health and wellness.
@silicology.bsky.social
AcausalQualia @acausalqualia.bsky.social 🖤Dark Hearts🩶Grey Skies🤍Light Matter
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social Author of memoir Call Mother a Lonely Field. Haiku poet (first collection Belfast Twilight just published by Salmon Poetry). Director of IMRAM Féile Litríochta Gaeilge/Irish-language Literature Festival.
Alia Papageorgiou @eurocentrique.bsky.social Artistic Director writefest.be / Cyber MSc, newspapers , EU diplomacy / Board journalismfund.eu, displaced Melburnian ☕️ #amwriting first book ‘Ducks on the roof’ (c) out in 2025 🦆
https://t.mbjms.com/331727/4080/0?po=6456&aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
Nyla Matuk @nylam.bsky.social www.nylamatuk.ca
The valley’s thirty thousand olive trees stood like dignified victors on the land, each as self-possessed as a single rose.
Jonathan Butcher @jondbutcher.bsky.social Poet based in Sheffield. Editor of Fixator Press
https://fixatorpress.home.blog/
@maxgall1.bsky.social @maxgall1.bsky.social 
Paddy Brennan @paddy-brennan.bsky.social PhD in food consumption and self-starvation in 20th-21st century Irish fiction at the University of Liverpool's Institute of Irish Studies 🥔
Miranda L. Barnes @mirandab-oa.bsky.social Research Associate, Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences (MORPHSS), Uni. of Cambridge (Cambridge Digital Humanities & Cambridge University Library). Views my own.
[Find my poetry account at @luminousjune.bsky.social]
Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social Global nomad, translator (RO and DE to EN), writer and publisher, addicted to world literature. Blog at https://findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com, publish at https://corylusbooks.com
@samuelamadon.bsky.social @samuelamadon.bsky.social 
Angela Hirons @foxglove1977.bsky.social Liverpool-based DE-ENG literary translator & copy editor. Currently translating Simone Scharbert's 'Rosa in Grau' for Seagull Books. Art and photography. Jeg lærer norsk. www.angelahirons.com
Matthew Whitfield @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social buildings, politics, miscellaneous
Everybody's gay, Kimmy. It's the 90s.
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
John Adlam FRSA 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social groups 🔄 activist research ✍ #welcometheboats ⛵ #antiracistpractice ✊ #traumanotpd ❌ Gaia theory 🌍 psychosocial studies 📚 practices of equality 🤝 open mic poetry 🎤 Bob Dylan 🎸 Brixton 🧡 https://barrelblog.org https://open.substack.com/pub/johnadlampoems
Mary Earnshaw @maryearnshaw.bsky.social Writer. Worrier. Tree whisperer.
Lives on England's northwest coast.
Has spent a lot of time in Zambia and Eswatini with her live-in archaeologist. Can cook for dozens over an open fire if bribed with wine. But would rather write poetry.
Jack Frazier @jfrazierwrites.bsky.social Writer, reader, and so much less.
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Closed-door mysteries & peculiar people.
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Join my cult (c'mon, live a little.)
jfrazierwrites.substack.com
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@drjeffwilson608.bsky.social @drjeffwilson608.bsky.social 
Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind)
#writer #historian #Lesbian #sapphic #wlw #Hispanic #feminist #goth #vampires #jpop #bibliophile
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Raymond Bevilacqua-Steinmetz @raymonds-towers.bsky.social Seattle-born farmboy,
Madrid-forged,
Europe-tempered,
Poet & Prose Smith,
Spinner of songs,
Wanderer of words.
All rights reserved.©
Founder of: @ThreeWordGenre @Dyadigmas @TrilisyPoetry @BlueSkyPoetry @BlueSkyRemnant
Web: raymondstowers.wordpress.com
BlueSky Remnant @blueskyremnant.bsky.social Micro-poetry and micro-writing capturing the remnants and aftermath of fleeting moments, impressions, and events that linger. Share them in a single BlueSky post with the #BlueSkyRemnant hashtag.
Robert Bloomfield @lunebread.bsky.social Poetry lurker
RavenKellisWritesFiction @ravenkellis.bsky.social We all fear the darkness
Yet somehow always seek
The things which are the darkest
And the secrets that they keep
Hi everyone! I'm an upcoming author from [REDACTED] who writes horror, fantasy, queer romance, and [REDACTED]. If you like my work, follow!
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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social the sea is completely written for me
https://www.transitbooks.org/books/darker
Ryan Ruby @ryanruby.bsky.social oh well, okay
Vanessa Global @vanessaglobal.bsky.social 207K LIBRARY: universities,libraries,politicians,scientists,academics, lawyers,economists,linguists,historians,writers,BLUE, ANTIFA!
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Tommy van Avermaete @tommyvav.bsky.social Schrijver | Lezer | Essayist | Redacteur | Podcastmaker | Collectiespecialist |
Aan het lezen...
"Zal ik een wereld projecteren?"
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
Where Credit’s Due @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social Where Credit’s Due: Making Money for Ecosocial Justice. Reimagining public credit creation and building intersectional solidarity in and beyond Middlesbrough, UK: https://wherecreditsdue.org
Christopher @c007goat.bsky.social Vancouverite. 2001. Pescatarian. Screenwriter. Songwriter. Playwright.
Patreon.com/JustChristopher
Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
The Artel Press @artelpress.bsky.social Independent book publisher since 2013. Experimental writing from new authors and artists #poetry | Liverpool, UK
www.theartelpress.co.uk
Philip Cook @philipcook.bsky.social Learning about poetry, just beginning to write it. From South Wales valleys, now in Edinburgh.
James K. Tauber @jtauber.com Using computers to better understand languages, texts, and music.
Tolkien, Web, Python, AI/ML, DH, Corpus Linguistics, Narratology, Philology, Ancient Greek, Music Theory, Retro Computing, Physics
PhD candidate @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social
Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival @poetryinaldeburgh.bsky.social A poetry festival by the sea under the big skies of East Anglia. Thurs 5th to Sunday 8th November 2026. ☀️📚🩵
Website: https://www.poetryinaldeburgh.org/
Facebook: poetryinaldeburgh.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/poetryinaldeburgh/
Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social Official account of the Text and Language Lab led by @michamahlberg.bsky.social, part of @dhssfau.bsky.social
at @fau.de.
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Native Dialogs in Irish @nativedialogsga.bsky.social Practice your #Gaeilge by chatting to virtual humans.
Native Dialogs in French @nativedialogsfr.bsky.social Practice #French by chatting to virtual humans.
Zain Rishi @zainrishi.bsky.social Brummie Poet 📚🌈
26 / Edinburgh (mostly)
NOON out now with the Emma Press
https://theemmapress.com/shop/poetry/pamphlets/noon/
D H Fowles @danielharveyfowles.bsky.social Artist, naturalist and social scientist
East Anglia