Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
Ira Socol @irasocol.bsky.social Education Innovation Leader. Believer in Children. Ex-Public School CTO. Ex-NYPD. UDL+ champion. Author of Designed to Fail [education] and The Drool Room [fiction]. Co-author of Timeless Learning [education]. 
Paper and Ink @paperandink.bsky.social Retired teacher, now working at the library. Books, art, music, science, history interests.
Lost Muttley my Westie broken @lordcollins.bsky.social Liverpool fan Muttley my Westie has gone over the rainbow bridge.
Tax the rich FFS
Won’t follow traders or young ladies/ men selling their body thank you
april @april-now.bsky.social i love literature and hate transphobes
she/her
Simon Huddlestone @huddy99.bsky.social Interested in all sorts. Including weather, trains, UK politics & current affairs, old cars, maps, history, ships, planes, computers, cycling, public transport, nostalgia, Yorkshire & jokes!
Aloha Koala @hellokoalabear.bsky.social ❤️🩹🌊🙋🏻♀️
Progress requires a diversity of perspectives that is only possible through a diversity of humans.
Danielle writes @danilove1245.bsky.social I’m Danielle and I like reading writing, creativity and funny things. I also like motivational content. I write on Medium and Wattpad. Welcome to
my page!
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UKICE. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. https://jonathandportes.github.io/
John C. @johnsstateofmind.substack.com Journalism | Analysis | Community | Stories That Matter | Context Over Chaos | Facts Over Outrage
A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social The Fourth Estate should not be the Fifth Column | linktr.ee/avdeggar
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
Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social New Book out this summer: Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home.
Other things of mine: Bea Wolf, A City on Mars, and SMBC
Website: www.smbc-comics.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersmith?ty=h
Jeanine @jnastar70.bsky.social USN Veteran💙 Massachusetts public educator💙Mom to sons&dogs💙married to my best friend💙FIGHTER for equity and opportunity for EVERY HUMAN!🌏🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🫘💙 💪🏻🙌🏻💙 🚫DM's, 🚫BOTS, 🚫PORN-will block ALL! #STRONGERTOGETHER #DEMOCRACY #WOMENSRIGHTS
Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libéral
markcarney.ca 
D. J. Runnels — author 📚💙 @djrunnels.bsky.social Almost published by HarperCollins, went Indie, hit the Amazon top 150 in US humor and top 100 in Absurdist Satire. Litfic disguised as ghost stories. Vonnegut meets Du Maurier. Chicago. ND. #SkyWriters 🚫AI
Linktr.ee/LifesAnExpedition
@textualaquatic.bsky.social @textualaquatic.bsky.social 
Jen , the MT liberal bird lady @liberal-jen.bsky.social Progressive in MT. Vaxxed masked introverted atheist bird lady. Interests - Science, medicine, politics, critical thought, tea, houseplants, food, art, snark, and social justice. Ally is a verb - She/Her - I bite
RAWilliams @rawilliams.bsky.social One curious little Curiosity Rover, wandering this strange new Planet BlueSky. Writer, editor, designer, activist, ex-archaeologist but still forever digging stuff up. #BlueWave #DarkWoke #FuckTrump #FuckAI #FuckGOP
Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social When the revolution comes I'll be in bed reading or playing a video game. Lecturer in film & media, writer, editor, feminist (NOT a terf), UCU rep. She/her
#WIASN #WalkingSimulators 
JustJane @deludedtrot61.bsky.social Green Lefty- living in hope 🙂 UK
🚫 No DMs thankyou 🚫
Anthony ♾️🌏💡❤️🏳️🌈 @anthonymagee.com Neurodivergent AuDHD ♾️ (he/him, “Anth-o-knee”) | Data + tech for good 💡 | Heart-first ❤️ | System-aware 🌍 | Inclusion advocate 🏳️🌈 | Quiet joys, bold ideas.
Here for the big questions, quiet joys, and real connection.
Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social writes poetry
Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social Author, Campaigner, Broadcaster.
Ellena D @eld208.bsky.social PhD at the University of Exeter on conjoined twins in literature and film. Disability studies, embodiment.
Currently working at Medify.
Chronically ill. Enjoys poetry, film photography and crafting. Nerd. Views own.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Jessica Wranosky @jessicawranosky.bsky.social Distinguished Professor of DH & History-
All sorts of history.
Auntie Maime, “Life is a banquet. Most poor suckers are starving to death.Live!Live!Live!”
Posts are my own 1st Amendment.
www.jessicabrannonwranosky.com
A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social We call upon your boss.
Author of the novel THE REVISIONARIES (2019) and the essay collections VERY FINE PEOPLE (2024) and FIGHTING IN THE DARK (2026).
He/him.
Author site: armoxon.com
Weekly essays on my free newsletter, The Reframe.
EveryHeron 𓅣 @everyheron.bsky.social We are the quiet unnoticed Heron, inspiring Heroneers all over Planet Earth, as you encounter Heronkind for 1st or 1000th time.
"Nature is reported in the fullness of life... To the full heart she is all but a figure of speech"-Thoreau www.everyheron.com
Danny Yee @dannyyee.bsky.social Oxford (ex Sydney), books, transport, education, science, mathematics, gamelan. Probably mostly posting about Oxford transport, with the odd book review and some pathological polymathy.
Owen Massey @oweninoxford.bsky.social /'əʊɪn 'mæsiː/
librarian・pedestrian・own views・they/them・Net Zero・Vision Zero・pro-trans・pro-trains・not my king・no gods・no masters・no borders・no statues・no heroes・❄️
@ousa06.bsky.social @ousa06.bsky.social Not everyone you meet is fighting a battle you can see. Be kind, forgive often, and never underestimate the power of a helping hand. A little kindness can change someone’s entire world.
Antony Pickthall @antonpick.bsky.social Playwright, Screenwriter, Poet, Author and Arts Marketer. Proud member of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain.
Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social My new album LIAR (Love Isn't A Right) out NOW!
Get LIAR: http://tt.bio.to/LIAR
All things Tanita: https://linktr.ee/tanitamusic
Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social Writer! TV: Yellowjackets. Novel: Woodworking (out now). Podcasts: Arden. Journalism: Vox, A.V. Club, NYT, etc. Like a large language model but for my formative trauma. Newsletter here: https://episodes.ghost.io/
BETH BAE 🚫DMs @yolowinr.bsky.social Ashes to ashes dust to dust
Trump is going to kill all of us.
Errors are not mine they are SPELLCHECKS
❤️ Michigan
People are generally good few exceptions. Love animals & science.
Not a fan of the Circus 🥜 that currently holds office.
Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social Poet, (Five collections, Red Squirrel Press) editor, occasional translator, blogs about place, plants, poetry, woke indy grandmother. https://linktr.ee/Burnedthumb. Scouse, Scottish and Woke AF #placeplantspoetry
Dr Allison Andrews @doctorallisona.bsky.social Astronomer-turned-biophysicist
Aspiring writer
She/her, trans🏳️⚧️, neurodiverse♾️, bri’ish🇬🇧
Cats, coding, reading, and all things nerdy
Expect either wholesomeness or chaos, there is no in-between!
Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social I do comedy, lecturing, journalism, radio and writing. I like beaches, books and buildings. Probably writing a bit too much about ovarian cancer at the moment because of reasons.
Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social Early modernist at the University of York | A GOLDEN WORLD (Faber, 2026) | TEMPEST for Oxford World's Classics (2024) | BBC Radio 3 New Gen Thinker | Rep'd by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn.
Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social "Top egghead neuroscientist" - The Daily Star
Author, science communicator/pundit, former psychiatry lecturer, occasional wit, frazzled parent, balding
The Idiot Brain 10 Year Anniversary Edition : https://amzn.eu/d/3GVTx02
Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social Distinguished Lecturer, Composition/FYWriting * Provost Faculty Fellow *
Teacher/Learner/Writer/Maker. Ungrader & AI Refuser
Cleveland Baseball Fan, cradle to grave.
Jessica Grene @jgrenewriter.bsky.social Irish writer. Reader. Mother of redheads. Leftie nerd. She/her.
https://www.jessica-grene-writer.com
https://humag.co/prose/the-egg-that-split
Chelsea @chelseasprite.bsky.social Higher ed. Community College. Belonging in higher ed. Grower of things. I used to run a tutoring center now I do student success stuff. PhD student, research on belonging in the college classroom. She/her. Views my own.
Gabby @gabliotecaria.northsky.social 🇵🇷 in 🇬🇧. She/her. B with the T. Proud trade union organiser & rep. Former public library worker. Views here are my own, not my employer's.
Melissa Good & Feral 😾🇺🇦🇨🇦 @meltart.bsky.social Liberal Dem| Feral Buddhist | Somatic and Ashtanga Yoga | Scorpio | Anti-fascist | Bibliophile | Wanderer | Champagne guzzler 🍾
Robert Poole @robertjrp.bsky.social Historian improbable on permanent research leave
Paul @paulwritespoems.bsky.social Poet, Husband, Northumbrian, Sax novice.
Forward/Pushcart/BOTN nominated
Work in FH Lit, Dust, IS&T, The Winged Moon, Black Bough and more
https://paulwritespoems.com/unwhispered-legacy/
https://linktr.ee/paulwritespoems
Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social Shop asst. Poet and interviewer. Work broadcast on BBC Radio Three, The Verb. Edits The Wombwell Rainbow. #PromoteIndieLit Recent work: The Drey Skin. Forthcoming: "Miner Wattas", "Mashing" https://ko-fi.compaulthewombwellrainbow
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 and Eros Prize Finalist. Commended Mist & Mountain, Shortlist Artemesia Arts
jenevievecarlyn.com
Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social Working Class Poet/Writer | Publisher of @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social | The Working Classic (2023, the87press) | Awen Medal | Stroke Survivor | he/him | Agent: Kate Rizzo (Greene & Heaton)
Alan Parry He/Him @alanparrywriter.co.uk Independent Writer
Spoken-Word Artist
EiC @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Workshop Facilitator
Podcast & Events Host #PromoteIndieLit
Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social Wild eyed Welsh poet. Anti-discrimination, democracy, rights, transcendence.
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
Seeking publisher for new work.
Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social Previously @eliot_north on Twitter/X. ND mum-doctor-writer of poetry & prose. Living in Valencian Country, working as NHS GP Weston-super-mare.
#Moth Hybrid Mini-Book Ethel Zine - second edition 🚀 July 2026
Pubs below 👇
https://linktr.ee/eleanorholmes
Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social Poetry stuff only. Nominated for a Forward Prize, Best Of The Net (Twice) and Two Pushcart Awards.
Black Bough (Silver Branch Poet), East Ridge Review (Featured Poet), Joint 1st BB New Simile Competition.
Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social
Creator of Solivagant Wisdom -
Author & Coach
#poetry #photography
Member of the #PromptCombo Team
#introvert #neurodivergent #GenX #DepthPsychology #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
🚫DM - unless I know/invite you
John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social Pine Barrens Poet
Dr. Rachel Turney @rachelturney.bsky.social Educator and artist based out of Denver. 🌄 @turneytalks
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
Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social Undiscovered Voices Winner ‘26
Poems on the Move ‘26.
Pushcart Prize Nominated. Cheshire Novel Prize SL‘25, Guppy Open LL’25
Write Mentor Picturebook SL’23/LL’24
Poetry - The Dirigible Balloon, Northern Gravy, Tyger Tyger, The Toy, LTP, BBC Upload.🏴
Jane @janecornwell.bsky.social This is my fun account. 📚🐾🕊🏴
Work: Janes-Studio
Instagram: jane_cornwell_studio
Jane's Studio @janes-studio.bsky.social Jane Cornwell is an artist, illustrator & book designer. Bibliophile.
Publishing Scotland Network Member.
www.janecornwell.co.uk
Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social "Delightfully bleak."
In real life, I'm a working mother of two, with a boring job in IT.
On here, I am a poet, writer, artist, and crafter!
Member of the #PoetsOfDoom crew.
Member of the #PromptCombo team.
Survivors' Poetry 🎤📚🌈 @survivors-poetry.bsky.social Survivors’ Poetry was founded in 1991 by poets with first-hand experience of the mental health system. We host monthly live open mic meetings 2nd Tuesdays of the month at The Harrison in King's Cross and 4th Tuesdays via Zoom https://survivorspoetry.co.uk/
Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social Poetry, prose, art. Submit it.
https://www.fullhouseliterary.com/
Leia Butler @leiabutler.bsky.social Writer from London. Studying MA at Royal Holloway. Tear and Share (brokensleep) - Thoughts I lost in the Laundry (stanchion) - make up my mind (steelincisors) other work in Streetcake magazine - she/her
Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social Poet &c | rishidastidar.com | linktr.ee/betarish
Gill Barr @gillbarr.bsky.social Derry girl, Dorset woman. Debut Poetry Collection (Cinnamon Press) 2025, Arts Council Award 2024. Website: gillmbarr.wixsite.com/gillbarr
Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social Mainly poetry in independent presses, art, glass, theatre & people playing. Allotment life. York with Glasgow links. UK.
Not every act of kindness is part of a plan.
Website :www.sarahowriter.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
Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com Canadian writer in Scotland (via Denmark (got lost on the way home (sorry mom))) | Pushcart nominated | Placed/listed: BFFA, Bridport Prize, Welkin Prize, others | Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig | She/Her
erinbondo.com
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
Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social ✏️Writer, birder, boater, poet
🌱 #DailyNature 🌊Water Book Club 🚢 Mess In A Boat Substack
🚂#TravelWriter 🛶#UKCanals
🏆 In The Dark LL 25
WC NatureWriting SL 24
Porthleven SL 23
📰 IntrepidTimes, WaterwaysWorld Telegraph
#NatureWriting
#NaturePoetry
Wren Wood @wrenwoodwrites.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Poet, nature educator, and natural materials artist from London.
IG: @earth.ink.etc
X: @wrenwoodwrites
Iamb: https://www.iambapoet.com/wave/22-wren-wood
𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁: @subruria.com
𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿: @iamb.uk / @afterpoetry.com
𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿: Reading at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival | Oct 6th: bit.ly/3TvBbRa
Ruairí de Barra @paperneverrefusedink.com Procaffinator. Veteran. Artificer. Bodger. #Author. #Poet. Lost #Mayo Man.
www.paperneverrefusedink.com
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
@elizafevwrites.bsky.social @elizafevwrites.bsky.social Poems etc.
Barnaby Harsent @jahshabby.bsky.social Writer and occasional DJ. Supplying poetry and music to rooms of largely indifferent drunks.
https://linktr.ee/jahshabby
Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social Writer and independent scholar.
Used to be a vicar.
Writing in Spelt, Black Bough Poetry, BB journal, Frost Magazine, The Clearing,The Pilgrim, Landlines for Nature ,The Church Times.
Fellow of the Linnaean Society and the Zoological Society of London,
Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social Pericollapse poet/author. Game/Book reviews. I write short stories, essays and novel mostly in verse across genre, but typically horror adjacent. Check media tab for latest from me.
Buy my ebooks at https://jordanriverwrites.itch.io/
Sarah Raybould @sarahraybould.bsky.social Compulsive writer, poet, doctor.
Commissioned to write & perform by English Touring Opera
Published in Black Bough Poetry, Ink Sweat and Tears, IceFloePress
2 Pushcart Nominations
Frank Hudson @frankhudson.bsky.social Founder of the Parlando Project — “Where Music and Words Meet.” Composes, records, researches, writes, & those things feedback into each other.
Alice Stainer @alicestainer.bsky.social Poet; lecturer; Victorianist; singer; Scottish dancer; nature lover; wine or tea, that is the question; the sea, the sea; land of the mountain & the flood.
Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social Art. Nature. Poetry. Life.
She/Her.
Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social Welsh poet and writer in exile on Tyneside. Poems in Anthropocene, Dreich, The Ekphrastic Review, Impossible Archetype, These Pages Sing and elsewhere including Broken Spine’s Coffeehouse podcast. Stories in Gwasg Honno anthologies
Merril D. Smith @merrildsmith.bsky.social Poet, Historian, Lover of river walks and the sea. Cat Lady. Poetry Collection: River Ghosts (Nightingale & Sparrow Press) New Poetry Collection: Held Inside the Folds of Time (Jane's Studio Press).
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
Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social BEAST April 2025 (Bloodaxe),’Tiger Girl’ shortlisted Forward Prize, ‘Mama Amazonica’ won Ondaatje & Laurel prizes. 1st novel ‘My Hummingbird Father’ from Salt 2024 http://www.pascalepetit.co.uk
J.S. Watts @j-s-watts.bsky.social Writer (poet, novelist, short story writer and sometime reviewer) amateur photographer and very amateur musician. Website: https://www.jswatts.co.uk/
Dana Delibovi @danadelibovi.bsky.social Poet, essayist, translator, lapsed philosopher. Consulting Poetry Editor, Cable Street, https://cablestreet.org. My book: Sweet Hunter: The Complete Poems of St. Teresa of Ávila.
Beth Brooke @bethbpoet.bsky.social Poet, Quaker, retired teacher, socialist, runner (just) , proud Omi . She/her
Strider Marcus Jones @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social Poet. Five published books.DMU Law graduate. Pushcart Prizex4/Best of the Netx3 Nominations. Founder/Editor/Publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.co https://stridermarcusjonespoet.blogspot.com/p/about-strider.html
Lucy Heuschen (she/her) @petitecreature1.bsky.social Pushcart & Jerwood Prize-nominated poet ~ Pamphlets with Hedgehog & The Broken Spine ~ Commended in Poetry Society Stanza Comp 2024 & 2025 ~ First Collection "Daughter of Fire" Yaffle Press 2025 ~ www.lucyheuschen.co.uk ~ IG: LucyHeuschenPoetry
Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social Poet | First collection, ‘Midnight at the Saltmarsh’, published by The Gallery Press, May 2026
Mike O’Brien @zoomburst.substack.com Sixty odd years old - Sixty Odd Press
zoomburst.substack.com sixtyoddpoets.substack.com
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
Daniel Hinds @danielghinds.bsky.social Poetry collection New Famous Phrases @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social, UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award, Ilkley New Northern Poet, New Writing North North East Poet, BBC New Creative
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/daniel-hinds-new-famous-phrases
Ben Morgan @benjlmorgan.bsky.social Medea in Corinth - 2nd edition 2025 from Poetry Salzburg
poetrysalzburg.com/medea.htm
https://www.instagram.com/benmorganwriter/
https://benmorganwriter.wordpress.com/