Tristan J Barber @tristanjbarber.bsky.social HIV/GUM doc @ICDCRoyalFree | Hon Assoc Prof @UCLGlobalHealth | Chair @BritishHIVAssoc | Incoming IAS Governing Council Member 2026-2030 (Europe) | he/them | ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ช๐บ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotlandโs Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! ๐ช๐ธ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social Poetry magazine edited by Tom Bailey and Laurie Ogden.
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Silver Press @silver-press.bsky.social A feminist press feat. Ursula K. Le Guin, Audre Lorde, & Leonora Carrington. Announcing: Spiral House! An imprint for art, poetry & ways of knowing ๐ซ silverpress.org
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Erica Gillingham @ericareadsqueer.bsky.social writer โข poet โข bookseller โข hella queer
pamphlet THE HUMAN BODY IS A HIVE
substack CALL ME MAMA โข PhD in YA
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Mattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social New novel, TERRY DACTYL, out now from Coffee House in US & Cipher in UK!โก๐ทSOCIAL DISTANCING out March 2027 from Semiotext(e)๐ ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK out Fall 2027 from Haymarket ๐ธ https://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/
Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social Writer. Debut novel, Poor Ghost! out in paperback from Sceptre July 2026. Doing a PhD on Adorno & novel theory. Co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Berlin & UK.
Natalie Linh Bolderston @natlinhbolderston.bsky.social Vietnamese-Chinese-British poet. 2020 Eric Gregory Award Recipient, Rebecca Swift Women Poets Prize winner, 2021 Forward Prizes shortlistee. Contact: NatalieLinhBolderston@gmail.com
@gaystheword.bsky.social @gaystheword.bsky.social LGBT+ Bookshop, London
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Giada Scodellaro @giadascodellaro.bsky.social
Writer, Some of Them Will Carry Me 
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Diane Seuss @dseuss.bsky.social Author of Modern Poetry, frank: sonnets, Still Life w Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, Four-Legged Girl, all from Graywolf Press, and Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (Univ. of Massachusetts Press), Chancellor for Academy of American Poets.
LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
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John Vincler @jvincler.bsky.social Library Director, POETS HOUSE; Co-Chief Art Critic, CULTURED Magazine
RP @rrrrphoenix.bsky.social
~ an omelette of disease awaits your noontime meal ~
charlotte shevchenko knight @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social poet, unfortunately. Food for the Dead (Jonathan Cape). Lecturer @ University of Hull. NWCDTP-funded PhD on authotheory and anorexia @ Manchester Writing School. repโd by Peter Straus @ RCW Literary Agency
Misha Honcharenko @michgonch.bsky.social SKIN OF NOCTURNAL APPLE (Pilot Press, 2023); TRAP UNFOLDS ME GREEDILY (Sissy Anarchy, 2024); FAILED REVOLT (TBA)
WriteBack @writeback.bsky.social WriteBack is a new quarterly events series at the British Library, inviting writers to speak on topics of their choosing. Curated by poet Anthony Anaxagorou and producer Tom MacAndrew
Anthony Anaxagorou @aanaxagorou.bsky.social poems
Ali Graham @aligraham.bsky.social (More-than) human geography PhD on peatlands, poetry, and alterity at the University of Edinburgh
@eadaoinlynch.bsky.social @eadaoinlynch.bsky.social 
Aidan Cottrell Boyce @aidancb.bsky.social The End of Nightwork | @grantabooks | @matthewmarland
Brian Mullin @bamullinspeaks.bsky.social Queer theatre-maker. Writer, dramaturg & creative facilitator. Blatantly imitating Vito Russoโs politics โ and his mustache.
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Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social Literary journal of formally promiscuous non-fiction. Publishing essays, memoir, autofiction and the overflow. Supported by the Arts Council.
tolkajournal.org
Adam Zmith @adamzmith.bsky.social Writer, podcast producer, etc
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Yara Rodrigues Fowler @yararf.bsky.social Diana fan, scorpio, & very serious leftie novelist. stubborn archivist (2019) & there are more things (2022)๐ ๐
doing a phd on novels + abolition at Leeds
she/they
https://linktr.ee/yrodriguesfowler
Andrea Lawlor @anderlawlor.bsky.social parent, partner, cat dad, writer, prof, etc.
arms embargo now & forever!
IG: @anderlawlor
website: www.anderlawlor.com
substack: https://pocketlawlor.substack.com
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
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Gary Michael Perry @gmperry.bsky.social London-based bookseller and book marketing person. Books in English, Portuguese and, occasionally, Spanish. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Kat Dixon @dixonkat.bsky.social (she/they) Queer poet & performer ๐ค Debut book 'eat the glitter' out with Broken Sleep Books
Digital inclusion advocate & social researcher. Data nerd.
Samuel Fisher @fishersam.bsky.social Writer
Publisher - Peninsula Press
Bookseller - Burley Fisher Books
Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2027). Black. Still. Life. (2028) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
fourteen poems @fourteenpoems.bsky.social Queer poetry publisher!
๐ซ anthologies 3x year
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Piero Toto @pierototo.bsky.social ๐ฉ๐จ๐๐ญ | ๐๐ | ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐จ๐ซ | ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ข๐
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Dawid Mobolaji @dawidmobolaji.bsky.social Literary translator (Polish - English), writer and resident doctor
Translations of prose and poetry in Words Without Borders, Asymptote, The Dial and elsewhere
London, UK
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Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.
Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social he/him. associate prof, poet, writer, host of โbooks up closeโ and coeditor of seaford review journal ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐ต๐ธ
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Palestine Solidarity Campaign @pscupdates.bsky.social Official account of Palestine Solidarity Campaign. We campaign for peace & justice for Palestinians in support of international law & human rights & against all racism. RTโ endorsement
tuck woodstock @tuck.bsky.social host of grindr's 5th-favorite podcast // edited a fast & furious book for freaks // Sex Change & the City on sale now! (thisistrans.info)
Kyle Dillon Hertz @kyledillonhertz.bsky.social The Lookback Window: a novel (2023)
K. Iver @ivertownandcountry.bsky.social (they) | Short Film Starring My Belovedโs Red Bronco (Milkweed, 2023) ๐ฅ
Scott Broker @scottjbroker.bsky.social queer writer & bookseller | debut novel THE DISAPPOINTMENT (catapult books, forthcoming)
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nat raha @fullnommunism.bsky.social poet & activist-scholar
๐ Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds @plutopress.bsky.social
๐ apparitions (nines), Nightboat Books
Queer.party/@fullnommunism
she/her
Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Independent publisher.
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Phil Samba @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social ๐London, England.
35. Sierra Leonean. He/him.
Social activist. Health promoter. Writer. Researcher.
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Mia You @miayou.bsky.social New book: Festival (Belladonna 2025). Current research project: Poetry in the Age of Global English (NWO Veni).
David Coates @oziasmidwinter.bsky.social Bangs on about Taylor Swift and books a lot. Was events manager for Blackwellโs Manchester, now with @serenitybookshop.bsky.social Nero Book Awards Fiction Judge 2023. He/him
Cat Chong @marbledmayhem.bsky.social Poet, publisher, essayist, cripโPhD on gender, genre & disability at NTU, Singapore.
Vising PhD Fellow: IMH, Durham.
Digital Editor at Osmosis Press.
Debut collection: 712 Stanza Homes for the Sun (2023)
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Equality Network @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social The Equality Network is a leading Scottish lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) equality and human rights charity
(garielle lutz) @garielle.bsky.social 
Conor @cdeceapog.bsky.social Architect
๐London
Derek Owusu @derekowusu.bsky.social Writer
Granta Best of Young British Novelists
Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social I read books, write books (Mothers, A Lonely Man) and write about books (Observer, LRB, Guardian etc)
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social A literary meetingplace since 1953, City Lights is a landmark bookstore and publishing house, known for our commitment to innovative writing and progressive ideals.
Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social charismatic megafauna at Defector
books How Far the Light Reaches & Dyke (geology)
newsletter Creatures NYC ๐ค https://buttondown.com/simbler/
signal: simbler.88
David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social Host of the Between the Covers podcast & Crafting with Ursula series, co-author of Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing.
Podcast: https://milkweed.org/between-the-covers
YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@BetweentheCovers-DavidNaimon
Daunt Books Publishing @dauntbookspub.bsky.social a home of brilliant writing from across the decades and around the world (follow @dauntbooks.bsky.social for all things Daunt Books *shops*) 
Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social St. Louis-based literary press distributed by New York Review Books. Publishes Renee Gladman, Leonora Carrington, Cristina Rivera Garza, Amina Cain, Giada Scodellaro, Kate Briggs, Brais Lamela, Denise Rose Hansen, etc. Est. 2009. dorothyproject.com
Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
David Nash @davidofnash.bsky.social Poet and translator
The Islands of Chile 2022 (14 poems) / Las Islas de Chile 2024 (Saposcat)
No Man's Land 2023 (Dedalus Press)
- winner of Seamus Heaney Prize, shortlisted Ondaatje Prize, Piggott Prize, Laurel Prize
Eddie Bruce-Jones @ebj.bsky.social Professor of Law and Dean of College of Law at SOAS, University of London | Writing on British Colonial Indentureship, Race, Migration eddiebrucejones.com
Eric Yip @metapheric.bsky.social ่ๆ็ (he/him) โข poems ๐
https://eric-yip.com
Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social Author of RAINBOW TRAP and QUEER DATA ๐ Researching LGBTQ data at the University of Edinburgh ๐ he/him/his โก๏ธ linktr.ee/kevinguyan
Jstheater @jstheater.bsky.social Author of some books & more, professor, translator, artist+ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ค๐โค๏ธ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ (Avatar: c/o I.D. Mag/photo ยฉ Mario Sorrenti)
the87press @the87press.bsky.social South London-based publishing collective focused on experimental literatures at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, & neurodiversity. We also run online journal theHythe!
linktr.ee/the87press
https://www.the87press.co.uk/
Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space.
Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster.
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He/Him
www.damianbarr.com
๐ The Two Roberts is my new novel. Iโve curated an exhibition about them for Charleston in Lewes which is now in Nottingham.
๐ Maggie & Me.
๐ You Will Be Safe Here.
PhD, FRSL, FRSE
The Common Press Bookshop @thecommonpress.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ London's queer intersectional bookshop! A sanctuary for storytelling, queer literature & culture.
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We are open Tues - Sun 11 am - 6.30 pm | Events 7 pm-late
118 Bethnal Green Rd, Shoreditch, London, United Kingdom E2 6DG
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Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social poet ๐
free ๐ต๐ธ
she/her
Tash Walker @tashwalker.bsky.social (They/She)
Podcasts Aunt Nell incl. thelogbooks.org
Archive Switchboard LGBTQIA+ Helpline
Co-Founder Get In Her Ears
DJ Soho Radio
#transrightsarehumanrights
Linktr.ee/TashWalker
Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social Wrote FAIR / GOBLINHOOD / VEHICLE / DUST SUCKER, translate German lit, publish Maltese lit at Praspar Press. Tutor, Granta Writersโ Workshop. www.jencalleja.com
jackie ess @essj.bsky.social Music and opinions
The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social We're a London, UK based non-profit promoting health + wellbeing of underserved communities. Weโre the muther-ship of PrEPster, Queer Health, Queers Beyond Borders, & Long Time No Syph.
www.thelovetank.info
Wayne Koestenbaum @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social writer / artist
D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social.
Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of modern, classic and translated poetry, and the bi-monthly literary journal @pnreview.bsky.social.
๐ https://linktr.ee/CarcanetPress
Semiotexte @semiotexte.bsky.social Semiotext(e) publishes works of theory, fiction, madness, economics, satire, sexuality, science fiction, activism and confession.
https://www.semiotexte.com
So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press ๐ THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social ๐ณ Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
Donika Kelly @donikakelly.bsky.social Author of Bestiary and The Renunciations and The Natural Order of Things | Graywolf Press | Kate Tufts | Hurston/Wright | Anisfield-Wolf |NEA | Iowa English | she/her/dr.
Shane McCrae @akasomeguy.bsky.social Tries to write. You can see how that's working out. Harvard Law School '07
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?) ๐
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Rich @warer.bsky.social poet & writer | fourteen poems (issue 13)| Impossible Archetype (issue 16) | co-founder of Queer Poetry Collective
Troy Cabida @troycabida.bsky.social NEON MANILA (Nine Arches Press, 2025)
Black Lives Matter UK @ukblm.bsky.social Official page for #BlackLivesMatterUK A coalition of people from across the UK struggling for racial justice and equality. #BlackLivesMatterUK
๐ ukblm.org
Eva Griffin @evagriff.bsky.social Irish poet & arts worker
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)
Cipher Press @cipherpress.bsky.social An independent press publishing queer and trans authors
perversemag @perversemag.bsky.social poetry magazine responding to a call for โdeliberate, obstinate, unreasonable or unacceptable poems, contrary to the expected practiceโ ed.
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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: stuart@brokensleepbooks.com | Founded: 2018
Website: brokensleepbooks.com
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/
Serge โ Neptune @mermanpoet.bsky.social queer non-binary poet / baba-yaga stan / DYCP recipient / poems in Poetry Review & elsewhere / "Mother Night" @TheEmmaPress
(he/they)
www.linktr.ee/mermanpoet
Kostya Tsolakis @kostyatsolakis.bsky.social Poet | ๐ ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ (Nine Arches Press), PBS Recommendation, shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize โ24 & Runciman Award โ24 | Editor ๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ต๐ณ๐บ
David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social the sea is completely written for me
https://www.transitbooks.org/books/darker