Nigel Kent @kent-nj.bsky.social 5 times Pushcart Prize nominated poet. Author of ‘Sent’, Fall’, ‘Benchwarmers’, ‘Unmuted’, Psychopathogen’ and ‘Saudade’ (all Hedgehog Poetry Press). 3 times shortlisted for the Saboteur Reviewer of Literature. Website: www.nigelkentpoet.wordpress.com
PerfectGod = S. Cyn = L. Gates = J. Glacier = L. Simz = Ziwe +c. @blackswanborges.bsky.social Mx Józef ≈ M.
Lonely + Looking for
Poetry Fiends and Friends...
[ I wake up *wishing* that I was:
Gertrude Stein + Ursula K. Le Guin. ]
Mx M— Józef ≈ M. J. Le Tölm...
Cover credit to Samara Cyn.
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And stay safe :)
Franco Amati @francoamati.bsky.social writer, poet, SFWA & Codex, ViableParadise 2024,
new collection WORK IS WORK out now: https://www.amazon.com/Work-Franco-Amati/dp/B0HCCQF9YP/
and for all published fiction visit francoamatiwrites.com
Barbara Stocker 💙📚 @bluebirdbhs.bsky.social Activist Democrat Missourian living in Virginia @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @fpwellman.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @stegenmodem.bsky.social Team Site
Jon Doble @jon26.bsky.social Cornwall based and lover of poetry. Two volumes so far: “Caged Birds & Spirit Levels” 2022 and “My name is …. (displaced poems for invisible people)” 2023. Available on Amazon.
Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social Lover of coffee, chocolate, reading & writing 
Shelley Roche-Jacques @shelleyr-j.bsky.social Writer of short fiction and dramatic monologue, connoisseur of cake, coveter of cats, lecturer of creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University.
https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/shelley-roche-jacques
clareluck.bsky.social @clareluck.bsky.social Prolific wanderer, photographer, occasional poet and dilly-dallyer.
No AI thanks.
Stowmarket Suffolk
Lundy-creative @lundy-creative.bsky.social Link to my debut e-novel: A Brunch Tale payhip.com/NLundyM
Other Links (& FREE POEMS):
www.etsy.com/shop/NLundyM
www.instagram.com/lundy_nyc/
(Pictures that are not my own were sourced from: Pexels)
Any Pascual | indie author & poet @anyespiritual.bsky.social My new book “Verses till midnight” out now!
I write cozy poetry books for deep feelers.
Indie Bestseller Author. Highly Sensitive Poet ✝️🌷🇪🇸
Autora, poeta Altamente Sensible.
Un abrazo de Luz ✨
Okay with DMs about writing.
https://linktr.ee/AnyPascual
Sarah MacMillan @floweringvines.bsky.social tread softly
Betty Stanton @fadingbetty.bsky.social EdD, MFA, poet, author, speech & debate coach, director, teacher, editor, rpg nerd, game designer, bad at social media, located in Oklahoma
Sarah Warden @sarahwarden.bsky.social Poet. Socialist.
"Fight like there is no night so dark that liberty cannot light it."
#poetsonbluesky #NoKings
http://sarahwarden.substack.com
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/
Dr M. I. Matthews-Schlinzig @whatisaletter.bsky.social poet, human, dog lover
academic & literary editing/translation, and writing (ENG/GER)
MSt & DPhil (University of Oxford)
Instagram: schicketanz_books
http://patreon.com/whatisaletter
Stephen Komarnyckyj @komarnyckyj.bsky.social PEN award winning poet and translator at Kalyna Language Press, who is trying to save every abandoned dog on earth and return lost Ukrainian authors to the world. #FBPE #Ukraine #Poetry
Jonathan Butcher @jondbutcher.bsky.social Poet based in Sheffield. Editor of Fixator Press
https://fixatorpress.home.blog/
Len Lukowski @lenski666.bsky.social Writing / Dogs
Bodily Fluids (collection) and The Bare Thing (pamphlet) out with Broken Sleep Books
Glasgow/Limbo
linktr.ee/len_lukowski
(He/him)
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
Katie Jenkins @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social Mother, writer, public servant. Poetry co-editor @brokenspinearts.bsky.social
Elaine Beckett @elainebeckett.bsky.social Mostly poetry 'Faber New Poets 13' (Faber&Faber 2016) 'Sea Creature Regrows Entire Body' (Verve Poetry Press 2021) www.elainebeckett.com
Alan Humm @alanhumm.bsky.social Editor of the online arts journal One Hand Clapping. Novelist, poet, teacher and father but not necessarily in that order. You can find my writing here: https://www.alanhummswriting.com/
Katy Mack @katymack.bsky.social Poet | First, I Turn Off the Light (Broken Sleep Books, 2024) | Research Associate at U of Sussex
dogyard @dogyardmag.com Just a mag chasin’ tales.
We accept all types of work from all (leashed) walks of life: poetry, fiction, essay, art, nonfiction, and more.
Read & Submit 👇
dogyardmag.com
Account ran by @edithkrone.bsky.social
Dirge Magazine @dirgemagazine.com The cultural feverdream that walks like a magazine. 2014-2017, 2025+
The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore us.
https://dirgemagazine.com/
Discord: https://discord.gg/CNR6KVAQSs
Quill of Mnemosyne @sonnetsmith.bsky.social Welsh writer and Poet posting verse, and other writing. #WritingCommunity
Host of #WildWalkPrompt, #SomethingEveryday
and part of the #PoetsOfDoom crew!
https://linktr.ee/quillofmnemosyne
Michael Egan @northernashes.bsky.social Writer of speculative fiction. Sunday Times Book of the Year, Carnegie Nominee.
Jonathan T. Bailey @baileyimages.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Queer / neurodivergent poet & conservation photographer. Winner of Reading the West and Foreword Indies awards. Find me in the NYT, HCN, & others.
Preorder my new book 🌞
https://www.baileyimages.com/Book
Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social Dirt & Bone Witch. Feral. Woods. Ocean. Words. Books. The Weird. Poet. Magpie at heart. Mother of Squirrels and Magpies and Crows. Odd, strange little thing. 🇳🇴
🐺 Mor til Ailo 🐺. ❤️ Kona til 🐻 ♾️.
Laura Minor, poets<poems 😘 she/her 🤘💪 #writer #poetry @lauralminor.bsky.social 2024 Silver Medal Florida Book Awards, Poetry 🥈
Book 2: Bright Life, Animal Heart, winner of the 2023 Minds on Fire Open Book Prize, out now!, conduit.org
Book 1: Flowers as Mind Control, winner of The 2020 John Ciardi Prize,
at uapress.com
*no DMs pls*
Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social Poet. Living in Wisconsin. Author of Without a Prayer.
www.scottmcconnaha.com
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Stephanie Branson @bransonela.bsky.social HS English Teacher, Reader, Writer, Advocate, Lover of all things words. Boy mom to the best little ever.
Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social Deep Woods of Philly | Sometimes Writer | Spoonie Crew | Accidental Startupper | Words in New Letters, Wild Roof Journal, etc.| NO DMs
https://linktr.ee/lisadellaporta
Rhoen28 @rhoen28.bsky.social poet | language-tinkerer | ghost metaphor enthusiast | obsessed with the weird little gaps between words 👀
A.X. @axshaw.bsky.social Poet/writer/words guy in the Pacific Northwest. He/him. Website: https://axshaw.com
akwe @akwe.bsky.social Program director and pod host with the Symposium on Strength and Solidarity for Human Rights@strengthandsol; poet; coach.
LeftLion Magazine Nottingham @leftlion.bsky.social Where Nottingham Meets.
Shouting arts and culture in the home of Robin Hood since 2003.
Rother Writes @rotherwrites.bsky.social [My words] "are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only" [I could interest them], Sylvia Plath
Word Up North @thewordupnorth.bsky.social Word Up North is an Arts Council NPO arts charity that raises UP voices, stories and writers in the north ✍️ wordupnorth.org.uk
We also produce the longest-running literature festival in the north @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social 🍂
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
Bryan Borland @bryanborland.bsky.social Poet / Writer / Publisher of Sibling Rivalry Press / Very Gay / 🦁 / Latest Books: Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry Finalist Brotherful & Listen, Kid: Selected & New Poems 2010-2026 / Editor of Assaracus: A Journal of Gay & Queer Poetry
www.bryanborland.com
Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social Autistic, prob AuDHD. LGBTQ+ ally because obviously. Routine goblin. She/her. Sweary, sorry. Lecturer (UK), researcher in language development, psycholinguistics, autism. ♾️🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Patrisiabb13 @patrisiabb13.bsky.social Worshipper of all things Wallace Stevens, feline, and Cure related. 
Mark Goldstein @beautifuloutlaw.bsky.social Writing · Publishing · Design
"Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none."
—Jules Renard (Trans. Louise Bogan)
@hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123
Özge Lena @lenaozge.bsky.social Internationally published poet | Oxford Climate Society | Catapoetics | Catastrocene | LENORA
www.ozgelena.com & www.lenoralatin.org
Ian Irwin @mrirwin.bsky.social Out-Spoken Press Emerging Poet 2022.
Published in Poetry Review, Propel, Alchemy Spoon, Outcrop, berlin lit, Carmen et Error, Trasna.
Photographer.
alex antics @alexeverette.bsky.social Poet, Editor, Farmer, Herbalist, Queer as hell.
He-Berry (he/him)
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
George Orwell, 1984
❝𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜.𝐍𝟎𝐭𝐞❞ @blancn0te.bsky.social Canvas, progressively rewritten. (Philippians 3:13) #poet #poetry #sonnet #freeverse #haiku
'The Black Boy's Escape Guide'
https://escapeguide.n0te.art/bn
Loose Opinions Please Men
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRZ71RGH
Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social 🌙 Joel. Book reviewer, poet, artist, baker, herbalist, and naturopath from Wellington, NZ (he/him)
Nominated for Pushcart Prize and Best of Net.
Audrey Howitt @audreyhowitt.bsky.social Poet, voice teacher, recovering attorney, licensed psychotherapist, lover of life
Please no DMs. I will block you. 
Mirkka @mirkkawrites.bsky.social Poet. Bingewatching something from the nineties.
"Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically."
linktr.ee/mirkkawrites
Julia Bird @juliamarybird.bsky.social Lover of words, music, cahoots and escapades
Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social Shortlisted for Ted Hughes Award for ‘The Immigration Handbook’(Seren). Refugee caseworker. Lives in Wembley. ‘Bycatch’ published by Nine Arches Press Oct 2025. Hawthornden Fellow. http://www.carolinesmithpoet.com
Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social Dad. Science Teacher. Author of books including “Why Don’t Things Fall Up?”, "Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder" and “How to Find a Rainbow”. Lots of free stuff and more about me at alomshaha.com
David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social Cairngorm-regarder. Bairn-herder. 
Philip Cook @philipcook.bsky.social Learning about poetry, just beginning to write it. From South Wales valleys, now in Edinburgh.
Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social Poet with autism and a cat.
Author of ADULTHOOD (Anxiety Press, 2026).
Here to connect with fellow writers and/or fellow neurodivergent people and/or fellow anti-fascists.
he/him • NJ • www.brandondiehl.net
The Pentaxian @the-pentaxian.bsky.social Amateur photographer and general ne'er-do-well.
All photos are my own, no sense in blaming someone else.
Antonia Kearton @antoniakearton.bsky.social Occasional writer of poetry; counsellor & psychotherapist; interested in more things than I have time for. Based in Strathspey in the Scottish Highlands.
https://www.tonikeartoncounselling.co.uk/
Haiku Poetry @haiku-poetry.bsky.social Haiku Poetry (written by myself)
📍Switzerland
Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Cumbria. Latest book is ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’ (Bloomsbury Academic). Programme Leader for ‘MA Literature, Romanticism, and the Lake District’ at Ambleside.
Ruth Higgins @ruthhiggins.bsky.social Poetry fan
@battypoet.bsky.social @battypoet.bsky.social 
Chris Campbell @citizen-chris.bsky.social 2nd poetry collection (Parlyaree Press), mini-pamphlet (Atomic Bohemian) | Co-founder/host, Kiss The Sky poetry night (Bristol) | Co-managing editor, Anteroom | Poems in The Rialto, Magma, Prole | Oxford | https://linktr.ee/bychriscampbell
richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social Archaeologist, Mekon, Drinker
Sawston via Devon and Dartford
#aofoto AOfoto.art
Lothlorien Poetry Journal @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction and art.
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines.html
Marshall Bood @marshallbood.bsky.social poet and author of Spring Cleaning(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021)
Order here:
https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/spring-cleaning/
Jim Lawrence @jimzovich.bsky.social Wordslayer, guitar strangler, art botherer, armchair psychogeographer. Amanuensis to anarchist philosopher Crofton Wingwalker.
It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of The Archers.
Southampton, UK.
Vicky MacDonald Harris @vickymharris.bsky.social Work in: @janusliterary.bsky.social @strangehorizons.bsky.social
@ellipsiszine.bsky.social @paragraphplanet.bsky.social @whaleroadreview.bsky.social Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, @rfpress.bsky.social @bulbculture.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/vickymharris
Cormac Culkeen @cormacculkeen.bsky.social Poet, writer, devourer of books. Amused/ bemused at the state of modern life. Fond of collecting malapropisms. Founding Editor of Ragaire literary magazine. Chipping away at a novel and second poetry collection. Prizes kindness.
Julian Dobson @juliandobson.bsky.social Place, poetry, a dash of policy. Books on civic universities, urban nature, town centre futures and urban policy. Poems on anything. Imposter geographer. Also at juliandobson.net
andre/a losi, poetry & art @scrivolosi.bsky.social Queer poet & mixed media artist. Works focus on natural and urban spaces, presence and loss. Love free libraries, independent bookshops and good decaf.
©️poetry, photos and artwork mine; contact for pricing.
No AI please.
David Gullen @dergullen.bsky.social SFF writer, poet, editor, leather crafter, gardener.
Milford SF Conference co-organiser,
5K Your Way Ambassador
2024 Nonsuch Parkrunner of the Year
Winning battles, losing the war.
Jim Young @oyoguhito.bsky.social ~~ Bard of the Bays ~~
Reid Hepworth @reidhepworth.bsky.social Poet + Author
the improbability of sea monkeys (2025)
loss is a river (2024)
Rachel McDonald @softlywild.bsky.social Poet; writer; imagination is everything. 💫
Lover of shapes left over from cutting out shapes; the sea; humming and the rain.
Peter Kaczmarczyk @pkaczmar.bsky.social Poet. Author of More Than a Whisper and several chapbooks. #Vinyl lover. Library Cataloger. Co-creator of the Captain Janeway Statue. Unpaid Cat Herder https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSJLQ8DF?ref #vss365 #writingcommunity #poetry
Magpie Miller @magpiemiller.bsky.social A.K.A.: Kim. See also: poems; books; trees (fruit & family); Appalachia (east TN, KY). Likewise, melodious felines, unfounded optimism. Confounding hounds. Further reading: science-adjacent, spirit-curious. Vintage. Allergies: DMs, bigots.
J Brooke @jbrookewrites.bsky.social Writer | Editor | Filmmaker
Author of: I Can Tell You The Version That Will Make You Take My Side (Driftwood Press, 2026)
Book Reviews Editor: The Rumpus
Poetry Editor: Trans Poetics Archive
Jbrookewrites.com
Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org A nonprofit center for inspiration, education, publishing, and community in lettering, typography, and graphic design. We post items from our collection of over 100,000 objects. Visit, take a class, buy a book: https://letterformarchive.org
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
Melissa M @crankybaker.bsky.social I live too close to the ocean, read newspapers, and vote Blue. “You got no right to take my joy / I want it back”
Danielle M Cahill @daniellec.bsky.social Author | Reader
Burnt Offerings out now on Amazon (Alien Buddha Press).
Words all over, Virago Books, Quarter Press, MoonLit Getaway, Micromance Mag etc.
Winner Caledonia Novel Award 24, Bridport Prize shortlist 25, Pushcart Prize nominee 26.
eche poetry @echepoetry.bsky.social a new online poetry journal
www.echepoetry.co.uk
John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social Pine Barrens Poet
All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social Literary magazine exploring character-and-theme-driven speculative fiction. Submissions CLOSED. #litmag
Read stories at www.allworldswayfarer.com
Sue Ibrahim @sueimnw.bsky.social To keep in touch
Reading, writing, birds. Especially birds.
Also at sueimnw.blogspot.com (though not recently)
event chilly @tristanbergh.bsky.social #BLM curious & curiouser. room fancier. they/them/he
#FreePalestine
antithesis. my tweets: https://twitter.com/search/from:tristanbergh(Exclude:replies)
here on khoi san land
Sarah Le Blanc @sarahleblanc.bsky.social - NHS EPR project professional
- Founder, Sheffield Women’s Leadership Circle
- Anti-hate crime & mental health campaigner
- Building psychologically safe leadership
- MSc Management (mature student)
Disabled bookworm | unlikely gym fan | foodie
Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust). www.medhawrites.com
John Litzenberg IRL @radicaldruid.com Dropping pebbles & watching the waves. The only change possible is not out there. Not in your pockets. What is changing? Everything or nothing or both? Who says? #radicaldruid Most content from www.radicaldruid.com