Rose Condo @rose-condo-poet.bsky.social Award-winning prairie-born poet living in Manchester 🇨🇦 | Lover of travel 🌎 | www.rosecondo.net | she/her
Daisy Green @daisygreenpoetry.bsky.social Poet, performer, founder of Llangollen Spoken Word. Creating spaces where voices are heard and stories matter. Through spoken word, poetry and creative workshops, I explore resilience, wellbeing, and the power of expression.Helping others find their voice
Midlands Fringe @midlandsfringe.bsky.social Midlands Fringe AYIT!
📍 Wolverhampton
🗓️ 17-26 July 2026
💡 Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists
💷 Arts Council England
🌐 https://linktr.ee/midlandsfringe
Marion McCready @marionmccreadypoet.bsky.social Writer / poetry - Tree Language, Madame Ecosse (Eyewear Publishing), Look to the Crocus (Shoestring Press, 2023). Interests: poetry / art / jazz / politics
Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
DarkAutumnWrites @whimsicalwraith.bsky.social Spare/alt account for my literary musings and geeky adventures. Forever lost in the pages of books and the worlds of games. I'm exploring the art of storytelling, one pixel and paragraph at a time! #Writer #Gamer #Reader
Martin Figura @martinfigura.bsky.social Photographer, Writer and performer living in Norwich with Helen Ivory and sciatica.
AzPotts @azpotts.bsky.social Funny things and fairness
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
Corin Rhys Jones @corinrj.bsky.social Actor, writer, producer, tour-guide, various other attributes too… 😜
Stuart Thomas @stuthejoke.bsky.social I’ve got jokes.
Waterstones Wolverhampton @waterstoneswton.bsky.social Wolverhampton's bookshop. A friendly community of book lovers on Victoria Street. Follow us for news of books, offers, and events! 📚
13-15 Victoria Street, Wolverhampton,
WV1 3NP.
Tel: 01902 427219
Email: wolverhampton@waterstones.com
Northampton Poetry Review @npoetryreview.bsky.social Northampton Poetry Review. A literary journal of poetry and writing from Northamptonshire, UK
https://linktr.ee/npoetryreview
Josie Alford @josiealfordpoet.bsky.social "Gateway drug to poetry" - stranger at a gig
Debut Collection: Faulty Manufacturing - www.josiealford.com
Check out my YouTube channel for all things poetry. https://www.youtube.com/@JosieAlfordPoet
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
Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social Poet published in magazines & anthologies in the UK, US, Ireland & Canada. Debut pamphlet: Fledglings (Red Squirrel Press, 2016). First collection: Crippled (Red Squirrel Press, 2025).
Alex Vann @alexvann.bsky.social Artist, runner, musician, father, husband, LGBT, business owner, BSL user, occasional triathlete, artist, graphic designer!
https://www.alexvann.net/
Dillon Jaxx @jaxxi.bsky.social •writer•vegan•sick for a living🌈🍀💙
debut collection available for preorder now from Nine Arches Press https://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/like-starlings-falling
Rotary Club of Tettenhall @tettenhallrotary.bsky.social We are a group of business people based in Tettenhall in Wolverhampton working within Rotary to help people locally, nationally and internationally - Join Us and help make a difference
www.TettenhallRotary.org.uk
Rachael Clyne @rachaelclyne.bsky.social
UK poet and writer. Latest collection: 'You'll Never Be Anyone Else' - https://www.serenbooks.com/book/youll-never-be-anyone-else/ https://rachaelclyne.blogspot.com/ @rachaelclyne Substack
#PoetsOnBluesky #PoetryCommunity
#poets #ukpoets
Overhear @overhearapp.bsky.social Putting poetry and prose on the map with geolocated audio📍🗺️🎧 download the app at https://www.theoverhear.app/
Strider Marcus Jones @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social Poet. Five published books.DMU Law graduate. Pushcart Prizex4/Best of the Netx4 Nominations. Founder/Editor/Publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.co https://stridermarcusjonespoet.blogspot.com/p/about-strider.html
Moira Garland @moiragauthor.bsky.social Short fiction writer & poet. Feminist. Socialist. Northern England.
Alex W 🇺🇦🏴 @koenig-jakob.bsky.social Aston Uni Politics & International Relations graduate, Administrator, Baggies fan (views my own)
Dudley near Birmingham, England
Слава Україні і героям слава! 🇺🇦 #NAFO
Cloud Head @cloudhead.bsky.social Head in the clouds and hands in the dirt. Likes to grow stuff and walk places.
Bridget Campbell @bridgetwolves.bsky.social Christian, physicist, socialist, Nan, SCFC, retired engineer, counsellor, singing, MBA, line dancing, yoga, swimmer, theatre lover, European
The Sunday Boys @thesundayboys.bsky.social Manchester’s LGBTQ+ low-voice choir | From small beginnings, we have grown to a choir 80+ strong and have performed across Greater Manchester, the UK and internationally
Alans_Planet @alans-planet.bsky.social Cyclist with @propelcc and original musician. Lover of art, music and lots and lots of sports. Random acts of kindness, too. Shropshire.
Guy Le Jeune 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 @guylejeune.eurosky.social Herder of Jabberwocks, #music maker, #theatre head, #writer of fables, #tree planter, too many #guitars
#Adopted #Autistic #ADHD #AuDHD #Quaker
Mostly #Irish, mostly harmless. Living in #Donegal. Born @ 320ppm.
https://linktr.ee/guylejeune
Multistory @multistory.bsky.social Community arts organisation based in Sandwell.
𓇢𓆸𓏲𓇬𑁍
Community building, reimagining place, environmental and social justice and the archiving of untold and everyday stories.
multistory.org.uk
Creative Future @creativefutureuk.bsky.social We make the arts more diverse. We work nationally with underrepresented creatives & specialise in working with writers through our Writers' Award. #CFWA
www.creativefuture.org.uk
Real Arts Workshops @realartsworkshops.bsky.social Providing high quality arts workshops for all ages and abilities.
www.realartsworkshops.co.uk
Michael Betteridge @mbetteridge.bsky.social composer/md. manchester. conducts @the_sundayboys. passionate about new music for all. he/him 🏳️🌈
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Patreon.com/robinince for blog posts and podcasts
Naomi Paul @naomipaulwrites.bsky.social 
Jodie Young, verray jangleresse @jangleresse.bsky.social Poet (reading more than writing atm) in Naarm | Melbourne, Australia
Poetry, books, art, history.
Resisting the urge to despair.
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
Daisy Black @daisyeblack.bsky.social Medievalist, English lecturer, storyteller, dramaturg, writer, folk dancer. BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Early drama specialist. she/her.
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
Rick Dove @rickdove.bsky.social Poet | UK Poetry Slam Champion 2021 | Creative Writing Workshop Facilitator | Activist 🏳️🌈♿️ ☮️ | 🔗 https://linktr.ee/rickdove |
Lesley Curwen @elcurwen.bsky.social Poet, broadcaster, journalist, ex-BBC presenter, sailor, sea-swimmer.
Nina Parmenter @ninaparmenter.bsky.social Poet, performer, wage slave, dog slave, mum. Books: ‘Split, Twist, Apocalypse’, Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2022. ‘Kiss Chase with Darwin’ forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books, Nov 2026.
Elizabeth Gibson (they/them) 🌈 @grizonne.bsky.social Queer, neurodivergent Manchester poet, performer, zine-maker, and workshop facilitator 🐝 Poems in Atrium, Banshee, Butcher's Dog, Dust, Magma, The North, Under the Radar. First collection, 'A love the weight of an animal', out now with Confingo 😊
Dominic Fisher Poetry @domfishpoet.bsky.social Poet, one-time English language teacher, lives near his Bristol allotment. Two collections https://dominicfisherpoetry.co.uk/
@calthepoet.bsky.social @calthepoet.bsky.social All enquiries: callumwrites@gmail.com 
Emma Finlayson-Palmer @finlaysonpalmer.bsky.social Author ✍️ Artist 🎨 Editor 📝 AuDHD 🏳️🌈
Tombstone tourist 🪦 Cryptid cultivator 👣
Writing strange stories from strange places 🖤
#ukteenchat • #WriteMentor
Substack: Notes from the Graveyard Shift 🪦
BOFFY @boffymufc.bsky.social Anarchist
MUFC
Willenhall
Grandad
Punk
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/
Stu @clough.fyi Marketer. Dad. Poet. Data enthusiast. Footie fan. No particular order, combinations possible.
MA Poetry alum. | Manchester Writing School
Currently pitching debut collection, The Premiad
Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social NEW novel 'The Life Of Life' publishes March 2027 / ‘The Good Immigrant - 10th Anniversary Edition' out this month, September 2026, Canongate Books
https://salenagodden.substack
https://www.salenagodden.co.uk
Fidel Walsh @dragonslayerma.bsky.social Writing poetry. 3 poetry collections, Living with Love, Time & Out There. Short stories, Thrice Remembered an Anthology.
I'm 1 of the #PromptCombo hosts
THE LAST DAYS OF TRUMP (A Liberal Fantasy for the Stage) @trumplastdays.bsky.social I am the best play. There is no better play. Not even Hamlet by that loser Shakespeare!
Next up: London ONE NIGHT ONLY Sep 1st
Tickets on sale NOW! Follow link.
It's going to be INCREDIBLE!
👉👉👉 https://linktr.ee/trumplastdays
Elena Thomas @elenathomas.bsky.social Artist. Songwriter. Singer. She/her. That’ll do.
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/
Ronan Murphy @ronanmurphymusic.com Jazz singer | Poet |
New single IDLE MOMENTS out now |
Album THE TEMPLE SESSIONS
ronanmurphymusic.com
Poetry collection forthcoming in 2026 |
With THE BROKEN SPINE
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
Just Stop Oil @just-stopoil.bsky.social 🎉 Demand 1: No New Oil and Gas Licences - WON
🔥 Demand 2: Just Stop Oil by 2030
🧡 We need a Fossil Fuel Treaty. Part of the A22 Network
linktr.ee/JustStopOil
@annasaund.bsky.social @annasaund.bsky.social Author of 7 collections with Pindrop Press, Wild Conversations Press and Indigo Dreams. New book Eurydice in the Ruined House due May 2025 Indigo Dreams. Founding Director Cheltenham Poetry Festival 
Writing West Midlands @writingwestmids.bsky.social We support creative writers in the West Midlands region. Follow us for the latest creative writing opportunities, events, courses & workshops for writers. https://linktr.ee/writingwestmids
Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
Old Joint Stock Theatre @oldjointstock.bsky.social The Home of Fringe Theatre in the Midlands 💙
Above the Old Joint Stock Pub 🍺
Producing #PremiumFringe in-house and hosting visiting companies! 🎭
Emma Louise Thompson @archaemma.bsky.social Archaeologist, Poet, Theatre Maker 🌼 She/Her 🌼 PhD in Viking Age mortuary identities at the School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester. Funded by Midlands4Cities.
Marry Waterson @marrywaterson.bsky.social Singer / writer / animator / serial collaborator on @olirecords
All things: http://linktr.ee/marrywaterson
West Midlands Railway @westmidrailway.bsky.social We’re here to help but please remember we’re human too. Available 24/7 except on Christmas.
westmidlandsrailway.co.uk
Louise Palfreyman @louisepalfreyman.bsky.social Writer, published in Best British Short Stories. Member of Writing West Midlands #Room204
Stuart Kenny @stuart-kenny.com Scottish outdoor travel writer 🌲
✏️: The Guardian, BBC etc.
Alternative Stories @storiesalt.bsky.social An award winning #audiodrama and #audiofiction production company making podcasts and radio programmes featuring the work of writers, dramatists and poets https://linktr.ee/AlternativeStories
City of Wolverhampton Council @wolvescouncil.bsky.social City of Wolverhampton - the City in the Black Country. To report an issue please visit: http://wolverhampton.gov.uk/contact-us 👍
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.
Martin Kennedy Yates @martinkennedyyates.bsky.social Writer - Artist - Tutor
I make things with words, paints & stuff.
Winner of Broken Spine Chapbook Comp 2024 - debut poetry pamphlet out now - DM me for signed copy.
Poems in Rialto, Stand, Poetry Wales, Magma, Butcher's Dog, Finished Creatures & others.
Jim Barrow @jimdrudge2024.bsky.social 
@thejanejames.bsky.social @thejanejames.bsky.social 
FranMarlowe @christinerambler.bsky.social Hopefully set up a home radio show set for Mixcloud and Twitch. Rebellion Punk Festival showed me how much I missed doing my radio show.
Kieren King @kierenking.bsky.social Award winning performance poet and creative producer based in Manchester.
Confident onstage, quite shy off it.
Garrie Fletcher @fletchski.bsky.social Writer, editor, publisher, trainer, teacher, working-class socialist. He/him. Based in the People’s Republic of Birmingham
Steve Pottinger @bigstevepoet.bsky.social Old enough to know better. Still doesn't. Likes it that way.
Poet/stage manager/defiant square peg.
www.stevepottinger.co.uk 
Emma Purshouse @emmapurshouse.bsky.social Freelance writer, novelist, performance poet and lover of all things Black Country. Editor of The Blackcountryman magazine. One third of Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists.
MartynJS @cllrmartynjs.bsky.social Grandfather Anti racist/fascist Marxist Psychotherapist, Cosmology and Astronomy ,Writer Philosopher Pagan European Cllr Eco Socialist United Ireland indy Wales and Scotland free Palestine [he,him, his] Republican political/cultural astrologer
Laura Cooney *Motherbunnet* on sale @lozzawriting.bsky.social Writer, Edinburgh.
Editor: @frazzledlitmag
BOTN nominated 2024. On all socials same name.
Writing for children: @lozzakidwriting
Website: https://lauracooneywriting.wixsite.com/website
Editing: www.kofi.com/lozzawriting
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.🏴
Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social Writer of poetry/fiction for children (Dirigible, Tyger Tyger, Little Thoughts, Nimblewitlit, The Toy) and adults (Shine, Viridine, Underbelly, Rough Diamond) | Pushcart nom '26, Times/CH LL | he/him
Date Night: The Improvised History of (nearly) Everything @datenightimprov.bsky.social Make history silly again! 💜
UK improv show from two history nerds; one with a degree and one who's a tree
@frocknrollbrummie.bsky.social @frocknrollbrummie.bsky.social Not everyone's cup of tea but definitely someone's single malt.
John Waters: Real wealth is never having to spend time with assholes.
(Nope, I'm not on chat.)
Hannah Platts @hplatts.bsky.social Actor, VO and improv lad making stuff up as we go ✨ They to the Them 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
hannahplatts.co.uk
Janey Colbourne @janeycog.bsky.social Peer support facilitator Brain Health Breakthrough CIC | Nonfiction Writer | Performance Poet | Embroidery Hobbyist | Gender Nonconforming | AuDHD | she/her
https://www.clippings.me/users/jlcolbourne
Jim Higo @jimhigo.bsky.social Writer, performer and maker of noise.
“It ain’t about playing the right chords.”
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/
@olivergolding.bsky.social @olivergolding.bsky.social Executor for literary estate of Kathryn Bevis and administrator at www.thewritingschool.co.uk
Hollie McNish @holliemcnish.bsky.social Follow for poetry, random thoughts and new discoveries because poetry and the world is endlessly fascinating and I know nothing.
On tour now: www.holliepoetry.com/livedates 
Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana @corrintachibana.bsky.social Author of ‘Sing me down from the dark’ (SALT; 2022).
Worked in higher ed. in U.K. and Japan. Poems in P.N. Review, The North, MAGMA, Poetry Wales, The Interpreter’s House & The Madrid Review.
Lover of Things Japanese and proud mother of teenager.
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
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
Voices Poetry @voicespoetry.bsky.social Showcasing the best poetry, spoken word and music in Walsall and the Black Country.
Monthly open mic - Voices from the Fountain
Exciting stuff coming soon 👀
Charlotte Cosgrove @charlottecosgrove.bsky.social Poet / Lecturer / Socialist / Wellbeing / Editor of Rough Diamond poetry journal
love writing, reading, cats, learning, and sitting down.- N 🇺🇸 @n976wow.bsky.social
Bearwood Parish Council @bearwoodcouncil.bsky.social Official account for Bearwood Parish Council. Not in Birmingham.
Paul Quigley @paulquigs.bsky.social Interested in democratic control of wealth and power. Trade-unionist. Urban-sketcher (https://instagram.com/paulquigs?ig). Birdlistener. Industrial/urban/landscape archaeology. Irish genealogy.
Rough Diamond Poetry @rough-diamond1.bsky.social Rough Diamond is an online and in print poetry journal. roughdiamondpoems@gmail.com
EIC - Charlotte Cosgrove
http://ko-fi.com/roughdiamond open for subs