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Terry Pitts (Vertigo) @vertigoterry.bsky.social Since 2007, I have written about W.G. Sebald, literature with embedded photographs, and literature at the challenging end of the spectrum. I write at https://sebald.wordpress.com/.
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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social Writer, poet, editor, musician.
Ghost Signs (Bluemoose 2022)
Keshed (Ortac Press, 12.02.26)
Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, 2027)
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Valeria Vescina @valeriavescina.bsky.social Author 'That Summer in Puglia' (2018). Creative-writing tutor, runs writing retreats in the Alps. Founder member & co-manager @WomenWritersNet. #HistFic novel inspired by true events in 16th-century Italy will be out in 2026. Women's history nerd.
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Misha Honcharenko @michgonch.bsky.social SKIN OF NOCTURNAL APPLE (Pilot Press, 2023); TRAP UNFOLDS ME GREEDILY (Sissy Anarchy, 2024); FAILED REVOLT (TBA)
Benedict Sangster @benedictsangster.bsky.social Writer, Norwich, UK. Lover of all animals. Books and nothing else
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Laura Surynt @laurasurynt.bsky.social born in aotearoa/living in oxford
Ben Morgan @benjlmorgan.bsky.social Medea in Corinth - 2nd edition 2025 from Poetry Salzburg
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Alex Rieser @rieseralex.bsky.social Poetry. Fiction. MFA @ USF. Dr @ UCSD.
EMANCIPATOR (New Fraktur Press).
Rhys Owain Williams @rhysowainwilliams.bsky.social Writer of poetry, fiction and other things | That Lone Ship (Parthian Books) | Hay Festival Writer At Work | He/Him | https://linktr.ee/rhysowainwilliams
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.
Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social Poet. Reader. Plums, raspberries, apricots. Recently in Asymptote, New Welsh Review, Finished Creatures, Cyphers. Troubadour Prize. Jt runner-up Keats-Shelley prize. He/him.
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.
David Morley @profdavidmorley.bsky.social Professor at Warwick Uni, Poet at Carcanet, Ted Hughes Award for The Invisible Gift, PBS Choice for FURY, Forward Prize finalist, Writer of The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing, Fellow Royal Society of Literature,Thought Fox.
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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 😊
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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social July 2026: What Lies Ahead and Other Essays, Black Herald Press: https://www.blackheraldpress.com/what-lies-ahead
Own Sweet Time, CB editions (2022)
Sovetica, CB editions (2021)
Saying Yes in Russian, Agenda Editions (2012)
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jonathan kinsman @manykinsmen.bsky.social he/him. trans boy/glorious twink does poems. sub poet laureate. debut poetry collection the fireman’s daughter out with @brokensleepbooks.
Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social Writes a bit (Pushcart nom x 2, Best Microfiction ‘26, Fish 3rd prize ‘26), reads a lot. Drama (on-stage, mostly) 🏳️🌈
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(Dr) Zosia Kuczyńska @zosiasamosia.bsky.social Poems with The Emma Press | Monograph with Palgrave | Digital Exhibition at MoLI | Teaching Fellow at Edinburgh | personal account | she/her.
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
Mark Bowles @markabowles.bsky.social Writer. All My Precious Madness published by Galley Beggar 2024; Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist, Authors Club Prize Shortlist, James Tait Black Prize shortlist. How Do People Stay the Same published 2026, Galley Beggar.
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Brandon Nadeau @bnadeauwriter.bsky.social Writer. Stories in The New Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, Literally Stories, NōD Magazine, Shift, and others.
Executive Editor: @MGLiterary.bsky.social
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Rebecca Ruth Gould @rrgould.bsky.social Writer. Global poetics+politics @SOAS|Books: Strangers (2026) Erasing Palestine (2023)The Persian Prison Poem (2021) Writers & Rebels (2016) 🇵🇸academic freedom| Non-aligned leftist rgould.substack.com rrgould.hcommons.org & @balaghas.bsky.social Bristolian
Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social Teacher and Poet. Pamphlets - Walrussey (The Black Cat Poetry Press, 2023) and Circulaire (Written off Publishing, 2025).
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Victor Tapner @victortapner.bsky.social British poet published by Broken Sleep Books, Salt, Southword Editions, Templar Poetry
Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
Pratyusha (she/her) @pairedaeza.bsky.social writer, poet, reader 🌿 southbank new poets collective / ledbury critic 🪻 🏳️🌈 pratyusha.co.uk
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
Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social Lecturer, workshopper and creative writing events organiser - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis-events-17318878423
dino_flamingo @dinomahoneypoet.bsky.social London & Greek island based. Collections - Tutti Frutti (SPM) & The Great Comet of 1996 Foretells (Live Canon). One of the Poetic Flamingos.
Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social Skin the Rabbit (The Braag) Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed (Verve). Writing long poems about rivers, absurdity & time +Arts Council £. Runs Sub Club for Manchester Poetry Library. Half poet, half tutor, half clown. Sheffield www.susiewilsonpoet.com
Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social Writer. University Lecturer. North Cornwall Book Festival Director.
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Untold Narratives @untold-narratives.bsky.social A development programme for writers structurally marginalised by community or conflict.
Out now: My Dear Kabul
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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.
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Megan Bradbury @meganbradbury.bsky.social Writer, editor, creative writing mentor, tutor @ National Centre for Writing. EVERYONE IS WATCHING / Picador / Neri Pozza / Czarna Owca / Elsinore. Repped by Sophie Lambert. www.meganbradbury.com.
John Field | Poor Rude Lines @johnfield1.bsky.social I blog about poetry at Poor Rude Lines: https://johnfield.org 
Michael Scott Author @flamelauthor.bsky.social Author of the New York Times' bestselling series, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel http://dillonscott.com 
Liz Beth Turner @lbtpoet.bsky.social Reader and writer of poetry, follows poets, writers, lit mags, blocks boob-bots and silver-fox-bots. Poetry featured in Guts Publishing's Transformative Power of Tattoo and Gingko Prize AONB Best Poem of Landscape Anthology @poetsofbluesky
Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social London author. Latest novel Phantom at the Feast out now on No Exit Press. Tony White is an RLF Fellow. CWA member. Views my own. No DMs. Mailing list etc.👇🏼
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PeterUrpeth @peterurpeth.bsky.social Writer | poet | development editor | pianist | improviser | Journalist |
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Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social Professional explicator and maker of soothing sounds. I'd rather make furniture than go to midnight mass.
Author of "The Inaccessible Rail" (2026)
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and "Un-ruined" (2022) from Malarkey Books
Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com A webjournal publishing short fiction, book reviews, a weekly newsletter, & whatever else happens at http://www.necessaryfiction.com. Doing our best since 2009.
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UEA MA Creative Writing (Poetry)
Norwich
Brian Bergstrom @brianbergstrom.bsky.social Lecturer & Literary Translator JPN -> ENG
Current: DILEMMAS OF WORKING WOMEN by Fumio Yamamoto
21 July 26: CAPITAL FROM ZERO by Kōhei Saitō
Soon: LOVEAHOLIC by Fumio Yamamoto
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Em Taylor @emwrote.bsky.social words • words • words
climate & community advocate | poet | founder Queer Poetry Collective | founder Islington Stanza of @poetrysociety.bsky.social
Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social Poet, novelist, Reviewer, published in one hundred and seventy journals magazines, including Wild Court, The York Literary Review, Aesthetica Magazine . Husband, father, hankering after peace in a protected planet www.abookatberntime.uk
Matt Greene @arealmattgreene.bsky.social Van Occupanther Party Liaison. New novel, THE DEFINITIONS, coming 2025 with Dead Ink / Henry Holt
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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social Writer. New novel is THE PROOF OF MY INNOCENCE. Previous titles include WHAT A CARVE UP!, THE ROTTERS' CLUB, MIDDLE ENGLAND, MR WILDER AND ME ...
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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social Books Editor of The Irish Times; author of Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place (Merrion Press)
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Jo McMillan @jomcmillan.bsky.social Fan of alphabets and characters - complex and simplified. Have called Beijing, Melaka and London home. Looking for Utopia. Currently in Berlin.
4th Estate Books @4thestatebooks.bsky.social Books for the independent reader. Bookseller Imprint of the Year, and publishers of Hilary Mantel, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Elizabeth Day and Nigel Slater.
Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway; Editor @ Osmosis Press & Resurgence and Ecologist poetry feature; ask me about the RHUL Poetry MA pathway!
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