K.C. Mead-Brewer @kcmeadbrewer.com writer. she/her 🌈🦇 heart's delight: Bmore, bats, & tattoos; Clarion & Tin House '18⚡️ kcmeadbrewer.com
fuck AI & fuck fascism
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@stark2152.bsky.social @stark2152.bsky.social Dad, atheist, polymath, scientist, and free thinker. I never twitted much, so this whole thing is kinda new and weird to this old guy.
@livion462.bsky.social @livion462.bsky.social 
Molly McCracken @mollyfmccracken.bsky.social Mixed media collage artist and arts educator working with color and shape in northern Virginia. Find me at www.artistmolly.com.
Nic Anstett @nicanstett.bsky.social she/her 🏳️⚧️ Writer of queer things. Lover of dinosaurs
Stories in One Story, Witness Magazine, Michigan Quarterly Review, Passages North, Lightspeed, and other cool places.
Represented by Erin Harris @ Folio Literary
nicanstett.com
Monica Judge @monicaljudge.bsky.social Essays in/soon: Blackbird, AGNI, Fourth Genre, Southern Humanities Review, Off Assignment, River Teeth, New Delta Review, etc.
'24 Jack Hazard Fellow, '23 Best American Essay Notable, '23 Winner Michael Steinberg Memorial Prize.
DMV via NYC via ATX.
Ellen Harrold @ellenharrold.bsky.social Artist, writer and editor-in-chief of @metachrosismagazine. Fagging out on occasion. Eating vegetable tempura in my limited spare time🌼.
Cindy Ana 🇳🇿 @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social Would rather write than talk. Sometimes I don’t read skeets properly, especially pre-coffee. Rāmere is my favourite day. Work can be found in Broken Spine Arts, takahē, Voicemail Poems
Special mention in Given Words 2025
Traci @tracihug.bsky.social I’m writing my first novel. I also love to read and will go mama bear for humanity when threatened. Current state of humanity: threatened.
Devjani Bodepudi @dbodepudi.bsky.social Poet. Novelist. Mum. Teacher. Comino Poet in Residence. PhD-ing at Man Met-the poetics of Language Loss and Identity. Interested in Postcolonial research from a British diasporic POV.
Tad Garish @tadgarish.bsky.social Lawyer, #poet, shipwreck, excitable boy
I follow (back) poets, writers, artists, & other creatives, jokesters, academics, autodidacts, & other lost souls
#TTS friendly
@addstone.bsky.social @addstone.bsky.social 
Maureen Minard @maureenminard.bsky.social Abstract painter and textile artist with Idylwood Studios.
www.maureenminard.com- N 🇺🇸 @n976wow.bsky.social
The Yellow Bells @theyellowbells.bsky.social Singer-songwriter duo out of Bend, OR. Practitioners of Poetic Pop. Harmonizing Life. Music, Poetry, Art, Books, Nature, Gardening,
Dogs, Food, Grace. 🐶🦋🐠🪵🌿 in
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Michael @michaelsten.bsky.social A books📚, films🎬, photography📸, music🎶, and knowledge📖 lover from Malta (Europe). I’m always happy to follow back and get to know people 😊.
Sue Watling @suewatling.bsky.social poet with pagan heart, allotmenteer, beekeeper, author of 'Heaving with the dreams of strangers' & 'Thetis' https://suewatling.com/thetis-a-poetic-narrative-now-available-online/ Also #walkthroughthetarot
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Paul @paulwritespoems.bsky.social Poet, Husband, Northumbrian, Sax novice.
Forward/Pushcart/BOTN nominated
Work in FH Lit, Dust, IS&T, The Winged Moon, Black Bough and more
https://paulwritespoems.com/unwhispered-legacy/
https://linktr.ee/paulwritespoems
Kristen Proctor @kristenproctor.bsky.social 💙 American living in Barcelona. Freelance growth strategy consultant. Founder of 6-Figure Freelancing on Upwork. Neurodivergent with a growth mindset. Into books, journaling, nature, travel, and doing whimsical things when my chronic illnesses allow.
Alan Parry He/Him @alanparrywriter.co.uk Independent Writer
Spoken-Word Artist
EiC @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Workshop Facilitator
Podcast & Events Host #PromoteIndieLit
The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk Independent poetry press + cultural review platform. We publish narrative-led work with edge. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs
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Almadhoun in gaza 🍉 @almadhounfamily.bsky.social •We are the Madhoun family from Ga@a🍉
where Ki11ing never stops💔
and hunger afflicts every person here🥹This is Gaza🍉
•Help my family with everything you can so we can survive this genoc1de. Please share
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Courtney LeBlanc @wordperv.bsky.social Poet. Feminist. Dog mom. Books: Her Dark Everything (Riot in Your Throat), Her Whole Bright Life (Write Bloody), Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart (Riot in Your Throat), Beautiful & Full of Monsters (VA Press). she/her
www.courtneyleblanc.com
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