Michael Staniforth @staniforthmick.bsky.social Author featured in A Coup of Owls, 4 horsemen pubs, and U is for Unexplained. Bisexual. He/They Trans rights are human rights.
Author website: https://mickstaniforth.wordpress.com/
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.
GORK aka Renn Hubbuck-Melly @gorkverse.bsky.social Spreading unkempt yeasty verse on the burnt crusts of some eggy bread. Gourmandizing on sibilance sandwiches stuffed with synchronicities and dunk-dolloped in dreamside signs.
Ashley Mangtani @writerash.bsky.social Slipstream Writer ✍️
Published or forthcoming in Strange Horizons | LITRO | Washington Square Review | Boudin | Neon Dystopia | Expat Press | HAWKEYE etc
Short story collection ⬇️
ashleymangtani.com
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
Hes Bradley @hesbradley.bsky.social lecturer in english and creative writing at @uniofbuckingham.bsky.social
writer, community gardener,
into vampires and the moon atm
they/them
Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social Anti-Smoker My Website campralquitsmoking.net See How I Quit 20 Years Ago Fought Nicotine 35 Years Supporting others who Quit 🚭 STL MO ❤️To Promote Authors 📚 & Ozarks 🌄 Photographer 📷 Pez Add @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social 💙
Eve Xin 心 @suitcaseofpoetry.bsky.social poetry / fiction / spoken word / migrant / exile
linktr.ee/suitcaseofpoetry
Charlotte Lunn (she/her) @charlottelpoet.bsky.social 🌙Queer, disabled, poet
✨📖 seller @scarthinbooks
🌙Co-host of Rebel Riot Poetry
✨Metamorphosis with Verve Poetry Press
🌙Specialist Academic Notetaker 📝
Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social Poet, Editor, Educator & Performer.
Sixth pamphlet ‘Patient L1’ out Feb 2025.
Debut collection with Out-Spoken Press, Feb 2026.
https://linkin.bio/simonmaddrell
@ezzzza.bsky.social @ezzzza.bsky.social 
Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social Small independent, inclusive, award-winning UK publishing house. Mostly poetry and short fiction, with the occasional fantasy/sci-fi novel. Prioritising LGBTQ+, Global Majority, Disabled, Welsh poets, and geographically isolated and Older Women writers.
Fahmidan Group @fahmidangroup.bsky.social Diversity in Action.
EIC A.R. Arthur Team: Managing Editor Yasmine Dashti
Proud member of @CLMPorg
The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social thebraag.co | carmenerror.com | trickster figure | poetry & spec fic press and journal | selling you books in the end times | NO AI
The Writing Squad @thewritingsquad.bsky.social Creating the next generation in the north of England. www.writingsquad.com
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Caleb Nichols @calebnichols.bsky.social Poet Laureate of San Luis Obispo County, California 💐 music and poetry on Kill Rock Stars, Bottlecap, Broken Sleep, Gasher, and others. PhD from Bangor University in North Wales. 🫖
calebnicholsis.gay
Rachel Handley 🏳️🌈 @rachelahandley.com Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.
SFF Author. Poet. 🦉
Possible Worlds and Other Stories (2022)
They/Them.
rachelahandley.com
Dan Draper @dandraper.bsky.social Writer: flash; short stories; audio drama; having another crack at a novel.
Maths teacher: mostly in the classroom; occasional freelance bits; some ITT roles with fancy job titles.
danieldraper.uk
Emily Chabra @emchabra.bsky.social First girl ever, hopefully I don't mess this up 🤞🏼
Hesse Phillips @hessephillips.com 🏳️🌈 Historical fiction | Queer history | Theatre history | Early modernist | USian in Spain. 💯 Human-made art or it isn't art.
Debut novel LIGHTBORNE
(LA TRAICIÓN DE CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE)
Rep: Brianlangan.bsky.social.
More at hessephillips.com
Alice Frecknall @alicefrecknall.bsky.social Poet, short fiction writer & fine artist.
Poetry collection: Somewhere Something is Burning (Out-Spoken Press). linktr.ee/alicefrecknall
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).
en•gendered @en-gendered.bsky.social neck deep in pronouns and the water is fine
submissions reopen SEPTEMBER 1st
engenderedlit@gmail.com
engenderedlitmag.com
S.H. Woodgeard @woodgeard.bsky.social English teach. Ohio State grad. Words: https://linktr.ee/shwoodgeard
snow. ◡̈ @snowyjay.bsky.social tv critic. taker of bad selfies and writer of terrible jokes.
PNW. he/him. 🌈
subscribe, if you wish: snowwatch.beehiiv.com
K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social They/She | Writer | The Death of the Cult Classic, out now from kith books | https://www.kblair.co.uk/ | pfp: Ray Roberts
@paulspoems.bsky.social @paulspoems.bsky.social 
Serge ♆ 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
beestung @beestung.bsky.social a quarterly mag of non-binary & genderqueer & two-spirit writers that’s sweet & stings | imprint of
sundress publications | eic sarahclark.bsky.social
http://www.beestungmag.com
https://beestungmag.com/newsletter
Vic Brooks @vicbrooks.bsky.social Writer. SILICONE GOD (MOIST Books, UK) // (House of Vlad, US). they/them https://www.victoriathewriter.com https://houseofvladpress.com
https://www.moistbooks.com/books/p/silicone-god
Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social he/him. associate prof, poet, writer, host of “books up close” and coeditor of seaford review journal 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏴🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/chrislloyd
jake @jakestefan181.bsky.social irish. phd at KCL. queer/trans stuff and the contemporary medieval. attempts at poet-ing. genderqueer. they/them 🏳️⚧️
Polis Loizou 🦊 @polisloizou.bsky.social Writer, performer, storyteller, both bi and curious • A GOOD YEAR (Fairlight Moderns) 📚 • East Med to East Mids 🇨🇾🇬🇧 (he/him)
http://linktr.ee/polisloizou
Dan Dicks @danieldicks.bsky.social PhD in Woolf and Queer Phenomenology. Also, sometimes poet. He/Him
Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social Nuisance, writer, publisher - the devil's dandy - poetry & weird fic - tarot - https://linktr.ee/kymdeyn - she/they with MECFS. In books and in bogs.
Rowan @scatterbones.bsky.social he/they 🏳️⚧️
librarian 🐀 occasional poet ✨
writing: linktr.ee/scatterbones
geordie in greater manchester 🖤🤍