Ebadul Haque @humanitarianwriter.bsky.social Humanitarian Writer and Human Rights Defender
Mark Payne @markpayne.bsky.social Greetings from Cumbria - mostly posting my own photographs, or re-posting other stuff I like - short story writer, short song writer, lapsed Physicist
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
Wayne Singleton @singletonwayne.bsky.social Endurance swimmer, ex-jogger, podcaster, event compere, HR-ist, lig-about
https://www.justgiving.com/page/soltosil2
ELTON CHIJIRI @eltonchijiri.bsky.social I am the Zimbabwean artist Sculptor do the African Stone sculptures, Wood sculptures, Metal sculptures, Crafts and Batiks. All my sculptures are the African original sculptures. All Sculptures i posted is AVAILABLE for SALE.
Email: chijirielton2@gmail.com
Festival for Poetry @poetryfestival.bsky.social Daily Poetry Deadlines
Submit for a free posting.
Submit for a poetry reading video.
Submit for your poetry to be made into a film.
https://festivalforpoetry.com
Daily Submittable Deadlines @submittabledaily.bsky.social Best writing and poetry festivals to submit to each day on submittable.
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/projects
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
Fully featured garden planner vegplotter.com
Frost dates and growing zone calculator frostdates.com
@ebrimasowe515.bsky.social @ebrimasowe515.bsky.social 
Resston @resston.bsky.social Brazilian photographer living in São Paulo.
Portfolio: bit.ly/3pz9cRK (look and download) or buy high-resolution, watermark-free photos directly from me at better prices via PIX or PayPal. Send me a message.
Instagram : @resston X : @RobResstonFo
Romance & Relationships Film Festival @romancefestival.bsky.social Submit your ROMANCE or RELATIONSHIP Film or Screenplay.
Get your short or feature film showcased and receive an audience feedback promotional video.
-Submit for a guaranteed acceptance.
https://filmfreeway.com/RomanceFestival
www.festivalforromance.com
Judith Pascoe @judithmpascoe.bsky.social Books: ON THE BULLET TRAIN WITH EMILY BRONTE, THE SARAH SIDDONS AUDIO FILES, THE HUMMINGBIRD CABINET
www.judithpascoe.com
Cumbria Guru @cumbriaguru.com 🌄 Cumbria Guru | Sharing the best of Cumbria's attractions, hidden gems, and local culture | Your guide to exploring the Lake District and beyond ✨ www.cumbriaguru.com
Avishek ghosh @avishekcolours.bsky.social 
Crossword Mart @crosswordmart.bsky.social A comprehensive marketplace of diverse Crossword Puzzle Sets with each dedicated to a specific subject such as English Vocabulary, General Knowledge, Biology. and more.
Jurretta Heckscher @jurretta.bsky.social Cultural historian & writer; ret. Early American Specialist, Main Reading Rm., Lib. of Congress. Orthodox Christian; politics follow Matt. 25:31-46. Lover of arts & natural world (N. America & Brit. Isles). Stop climate change, or little else will matter.
Friends of the Lake District @friendsoflakes.bsky.social The only membership organisation dedicated to protecting and enhancing Cumbria's landscapes. Join us today. www.friendsofthelakedistrict.org.uk
Thanks to John Macfarlane for providing us with our banner image.
https://linktr.ee/friendsofthelakedistrict
Kira Welland @kirawelland.bsky.social Doctoral researcher at the University of Cumbria, exploring the spatial contexts of Rydal Mount and the writing of Mary, Dorothy, and Dora Wordsworth | Conference Administrator for the Wordsworth Conference Foundation.
Nadia Asfar @nadiaasfarphotos.bsky.social Nature/Wildlife based photographer, a bit of an old soul, Doctor Who fan.
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social Traveller on a regenerative journey.
Sharing Stories, Nature Writing & Watercolour
Host @ Zoom Regenerative
Writer: @ Regen/Notes +
Author: FutuREstorative +
Place: Forest of Bowland
More at
https://fairsnape.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/martin_brown
Novelicious @novelicious.bsky.social ✨📖 My Gift 💝 To You: A FREE Leonardo da Vinci Gothic Horror Novella→ http://leo-di-lux.subscribepage.io 📚 A Painted Souls Prelude #Leonardo #horror #free
Jess Taylor @loadofolbobbins.bsky.social Textile artist and Illustrator in Portsmouth, UK. 🎨 Inspired by nature, books and coosplaying pigeons. 🐦 https://www.loadofolbobbins.co.uk/
Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social An outdoorsy photoshoppy mole- likes National Trust scones & Dartmoor. A bookish mole in a hole seeking the return of authentic integrity. #AltText - no AI🚫 (Internet searches were faster and more reliable *before* AI…)
Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social Nature. Writer. Reader. Radical Rural.
Guardian Country Diary, BBC Countryfile, RSPB.
Award winning author, On Gallows Down & Ghosts of the Farm
Climate Fic Prize Judge 2025
North Wessex.
https://nicolachester.com/
https://linktr.ee/nicolachesterwriting
Ashland Poetry Press @ashlandpoetrypress.bsky.social Poetry Press, publishing books, broadsides, and other beautiful things, since 1969.
Find us at: ashlandpoetrypress.com
Director: Chuck Carlise
Broadside Contest opens Sept 1 : ashlandpoetrypress.submittable.com
Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social Artist, illustrator and part time bookseller at Sam Read Bookseller, Grasmere. Author of Beginner's Guide to #Cyanotype - Search Press 2024
witchmountain.co.uk
Pam Chrispin @drpamchrispin.bsky.social Liverpool diehard, Mum, wife, ex-flying Granny, bad cyclist, worse tennis player, occasional doctor. Here mainly for Blake’s 7, the Archers and LFC
Sam Read Bookseller @samreadbookseller.bsky.social Est. by Sam Read in 1887. Award-winning small bookshop in the Lake District. Posts from @likewinterblue.bsky.social and @pollyrowena.bsky.social Insta: samreadbookseller Browse a selection from our virtual shelves: www.samreadbooks.co.uk
Elizabeth Tutty @tutty352.bsky.social Interested in wildlife, the countryside and all things historic.
Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social Writer, Lake-swimmer, Bookseller.
FRSL
hEDS/Haemochromatosis/all the comorbs
she/her
rep @PortyLiterary
Books incl:
Recovering Dorothy
Some Of Us Just Fall
The Company of Owls
Emergency Dream
Swimming The Seasons
https://linktr.ee/pollyatkin
Catherine Rose Maw @realityandreverie.bsky.social 18th/19th C. Literature and History: Poetry, Nature, Science, Medicine, and Emotion 🌿✨
Lover of Romanticism, Fantasy, Folklore, and the Gothic 🖤🥀
@paulspoems.bsky.social @paulspoems.bsky.social 
Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social Writing hazy cosmic jive until I really make the grade ✴︎ Yeah, I mean SciFi, but with more fiction than actual science ✴︎ Some laughs, lots of heart
https://linktr.ee/rexburke
Poetry with Linda @poetrywithlinda.bsky.social poetry, nature, writing, reading, art, culture, languages, photography, travelling 🎨🖌️🖼️
Let's also be friends on Substack:@poetrywithlinda
Heather Dawe @heatherdawe.bsky.social Writer, artist, climber, data scientist. Generally absorbed by mountains - literature, painting… - with occasional wanderings into AI.
Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social Poet, critic of recent formally innovative poetry & poetics, emeritus prof at Edge Hill, and all that follows. Books from Shearsman, KFS, Salt, Broken Sleep, Palgrave, LUP, & all that follow. Blog: www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com
Hope Bastine @hopebastine.com Champion of the Outsider, Listener to the Survivor! Loving slave to 🐶
@marlabastine.bsky.social
🧠Sleep/Trauma Psychologist
📕Set Me Free (06/27)
🎬Children of the Cult docuseries
🎓 SGA personality development
Kate Davis @katedavispoet.bsky.social Poet. Books- collection - The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk and new verse novel - Flow published by Verve.
Also maker of stories, cake, chutney and interesting things to wear - wild swimmer - very fond of a limestone landscape.
Michael Mitchell @michaelmitchell.bsky.social I'm running for City Council in Ward 14 Toronto-Danforth. https://toronto-danforth.ca
Quick, what’s the longest word you can find —> https://bsky.app/profile/michaelmitchell.bsky.social/post/3mvadd2s4ic2l
Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social Shelleyan 🍂 | Co-editor, Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum | Lecturer in English Literature | amandablakedavis.com
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!
https://linktr.ee/brihughespoet
C W A A S @cwaas.bsky.social Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society. Promoting Cumbrian History&Archaeology for over 150 years #TransactionsTuesday #NeolithicNovember
Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free... and look at cats. Author of Chloe Boston, Butterscotch Jones and Miss Henry mysteries, artist and animal lover. Not a fan of DM. No Crypto.
Julie Coldwell @livingtlol.bsky.social An English lakes dweller. Into long distance solo cycle touring. Walking, photography and writing. Currently working on regaining good health! 🚴♀️🏕️
https://livingthislifeoutloudblog.wordpress.com/
Instagram.com/livingthislifeoutloud
Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social Restoring a 630 hectare conifer plantation to native woodland. Partner in Upper Duddon Landscape Recovery.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/hardknottforest?fbclid=PAAaZlMeirNH_YVsg6Fdt4KfdgDi561v5SsBDh4I1fcrZeu3MRwn_r2eENsis
OldManinTights @oldmanintights.bsky.social Trail running, agriculture, UK politics, NE England, Francophone Africa, climate change and pictures of cows.
There may be the odd bit of theology, too.
Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social More left than right. I like looking at gaps, poetry, philosophy.
Geoff Cox @geoffcox.bsky.social Working class author (memoir, NNF and folk-horror), better kept outdoors (whatever the weather) and well watered. Ageing runner with a passion for words, wild places and archeology.
"Traceless" (2020) Pub. Little Peak
Robin Cooper @robincooper1.bsky.social Photographer, walker and socialist living in Coniston, love France and Switzerland.
Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social Museums, galleries, medieval and Irish literature, folklore, poetry, botany, Cumbrian walks, Oxfam bookstores. Remainer trying to do the right thing in a world that's going/gone off balance. All 📸 mine, unless stated
Katharine Norbury @katharinenorbury.bsky.social Curious, walker, swimmer, thinker; anam cara.
WOMEN ON NATURE
@Unbounders
THE FISH LADDER
@BloomsburyBooks
Shortlist
@WainwrightPrize
#neurodivergent
@UnitedAgents
Dr Sarah Whittingham FSA @drfrond.bsky.social Historian. Buildings, design, nature, landscape, gardens. Wrote ‘George Oatley: Architect of Bristol’, and ‘Fern Fever: The Story of Pteridomania’ among other books. Now writing social and cultural history of bracken in Cumbria. Mainly on Instagram.
Sam Johnson @analoguelass.bsky.social Film photographer documenting the working landscape of the English Lake District, half a frame at a time. Art lover. Art maker. All photographs taken and developed by me unless reposts and all rights are reserved©️ #believeinfilm
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Chris Routledge @chrisroutledge.bsky.social Writer, photographer, cyanotypist. Undergoing cosmic rearrangement. Born at 323ppm. https://chrisroutledge.pictures