Harry Saxon 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @harrysaxon.bsky.social He/Him. Trans man, Illustrator, Comic colourist (coloured works nominated for Eisner and GLAAD awards), neurospicy, Greek.
#noAI
harrysaxon.art
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Electronic Literature Lab @elitlab.bsky.social We grow and save things🌱💾
Preserving born-digital art, literature, and games.
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Andrew Michael Gorin @andrewgorin.bsky.social writer, assistant professor of poetics, media, public sphere andrewmichaelgorin.info, organismforpoeticresearch.org
Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival @poetryinaldeburgh.bsky.social A poetry festival by the sea under the big skies of East Anglia. Thurs 5th to Sunday 8th November 2026. ☀️📚🩵
Website: https://www.poetryinaldeburgh.org/
Facebook: poetryinaldeburgh.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/poetryinaldeburgh/
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
Comics in the Golden Age @comicsinthega.bsky.social The Comics in the Golden Age Podcast. And sometimes the Platinum Age. Celebrating comics books & comic strips of all genres & their creators (ESPECIALLY THEIR CREATORS) from the 1930s to the 1950s, & other comics history!
Mia You @miayou.bsky.social New book: Festival (Belladonna 2025). Current research project: Poetry in the Age of Global English (NWO Veni).
Ian MacClayn @ianmacclayn.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/ianmacclayn
Writer. Debut novel THE HOLLOW OF EVENING out Feb 9 2027 with Dundurn Press/Rare Machines
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
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The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the world’s best new writing.
http://theberlinliteraryreview.com
Daily Submittable Deadlines @submittabledaily.bsky.social Best writing and poetry festivals to submit to each day on submittable.
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/projects
The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, Wolfson College.
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Deleuzian Haiku @deleuzianhaiku.bsky.social
A Thousand #Poems
#Poetry made by slowly erasing 'A Thousand Plateaus' by #Deleuze & #Guattari word by word. Modelled on #haikai and in particular #tanka and #haiku. In Deleuzian terms, a #rhizome poetics of haeccities and multiplicities.
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James / BALF @balfnoise.bsky.social BALF
NOISE ARTIST FROM THE NORTH YORKSHIRE COAST.
RELEASES OUT NOW ON INDUSTRIAL COAST INCLUDING SPLIT W/ QUIET HUSBAND & COLLAB WITH WREN ADOBE. LOW FELL W/ TOMASZ C.
James
Dad of two.
Teacher for Post-16 SEND & SEMH.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org The Center for Democracy & Technology. Shaping technology policy and architecture, with a focus on equity and justice. @cdteu.org for our EU-based team.
https://cdt.org
Alien Buddha Press @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social Alien Buddha Press has been publishing emerging writers and artists since 2017. Open for submissions at abuddhapress@yahoo.com
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Juniper @juniperpoetry.bsky.social An online poetry journal, founded in 2017.
Have you read our current issue? Selected poems from Juniper have appeared in the Best Canadian Poetry anthology.
juniperpoetry.com
𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬𝐨𝐧 ✒️❤️🔥📚 @shoneljackson.bsky.social Author of Contemporary Romance 💘
Poetically inclined 📜 Former actress 🎭
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Vijay Joshi @vjwords.bsky.social Poet...Poems are a very constructive channel for inner self, to link it with the world out there...
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Norb Aikin @norbaikin.bsky.social 2x Writing.com Best Poetry Collection Quill Award winner and blogger. 3x published author. Former child. Hemmed up by JGM. #BillsMafia #Sabres #LGM #NDIrish Don't mind me; I hate everything. Norbaikin.com/blog
RobbieStar Poetry @robbiestar.bsky.social Music is my canvas, words my paintbrush. Language is my art form.
Singer/Songwriter/Poet/Lyricist.
All work posted is Original.
https://www.tiktok.com/@r0bbie_star
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Renee Liang @reneeliang.bsky.social Paediatrician, health researcher, writer, librettist and poet from Aotearoa. Child longitudinal studies, equity, intersectional youth health. Columnist on big-picture health issues, North and South. Staunch Cantonese aunty/mama.
Clive Culverhouse @cliveculverhouse.bsky.social Poet published in Popshot Magazine and The Dirigible Balloon. Plough Prize poetry long list. Fantasy author.
Benjamin Gorman @benjamingorman.bsky.social Author, publisher, teacher.
😁Please read my books!😁
Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA. Global Indigenous Horror (UPM, 2025) | poetry reader Orion’s Belt | Words in Future Fire, UtopiaSF, Space&Time, Lovecraftiana, etc | co-eic @angrygablepress.bsky.social eic @katabaticcircus.bsky.social
Todd Temkin @toddtemkin.bsky.social Poet, author, Patagonian alpaca farmer. A Wisconsin boy living in Chile between Valparaiso & Futaleufú. New book coming in 2027! All llamas, alpacas & Icelandic horses are Green Bay Packers fans. No DMs. No porn. No crypto.
Scott Trudell @scotttrudell.bsky.social my jams are poetry, drama, music, media studies, trans studies, and performance studies
Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social Booklover, blathering at http://www.bookgaga.ca - literary news, reviews, discussion, poetry posted daily (aka #TodaysPoem http://bit.ly/2J4ym4C), member of a thriving silent book club group (aka #SilentBookClub http://bit.ly/2NSBVtw) ... oh, and I crochet
Mike Stanton @convivir.bsky.social Lifelong socialist and writer - poetry, polemics and stories for children.
For more socialism,
poetry and creative writing - https://penumbrage.com
I don't take umbrage. I take up my pen.
Jacque S @arminthedoor.bsky.social Writer of things for money. Writer of other things for fun. Cats, tea, indie music, horror, sci-fi, Forteana, films, books, wordplay. Poet manky. #MDANT Scribbles at thecrone.co.uk
Shaun Barr @shaunbarr.bsky.social Poet, photographer, gardener, writer. Cumbria, UK. The Manchester Review, Dream Catcher, The Frogmore Papers, The Madrid Review, Orbis.
shaunbarrphotography.co.uk
John Kenny @johnkenny13.bsky.social Poetry: New Irish Writing, Live Encounters, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, The Madrid Review, Flare, The High Window, Poem Alone, Poems for Protest, Smashing Times, StepAway Magazine.
Fiction: The Galway Review, Revival, Emerald Eye, Albedo One.
Katrina Kimball @kimkat369.bsky.social ✨The Medium Who Writes✨
Transcendence (Rowan Prose Publishing)
#horror #thriller #paranormal
https://www.katrinakimball.com/
Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social Poet/editor • Monica Taylor Poetry Prize • NSW Poetry Prize • Dalkey Poetry Prize • Anamnesis (Eric Hoffer Book Awards Finalist & Rubery Book Award shortlist) • Currently Writer-in-Residence at Don Bank Museum • denise-ohagan.com
Maria Hoey @mariahoey.bsky.social Author, poet, shortstory writer. Dubliner living in lovely Leitrim. The Last Lost Girl published by Poolbeg, shortlisted for Kate O'Brien Debut Award. On Bone Bridge published by Poolbeg. When They Were Bad available from Amazon. Crazy about dogs!
Stefanie Kirby @msstefaniekirby.bsky.social Writer. Mom. Xeric gardener. OPENING (Glass Poetry, 2026). REMAINDER (Bull City Press, 2025). FRUITFUL (Driftwood Press, 2024). Poems in Best of the Net, West Branch, phoebe, Cincinnati Review, etc. More poems at https://linktr.ee/stefaniekirbypoetry
Holly Jahangiri @jahangiri.us Award-winning author and poet who draws inspiration from her family, from her own childhood adventures (some of which only happened in her overactive imagination), and from readers of all ages.
President, Poetry Society of Texas
Houston, Texas
she/her
Serena Agusto-Cox @sagustocox.bsky.social Poetry evangelist, poet, editor of The Mid-Atlantic Review, Gaithersburg, Md. Book Festival poetry programming lead, swim-ma: Echoes Carry pre-order link: https://amzn.to/3YQN6Z5
Nicholas Korn | The Wild Sonnets @wildsonnets.bsky.social For The Wild Sonnets books & downloads: www.wildsonnets.com
For The Wild Sonnets YouTube Channel (150+ videos): https://www.youtube.com/@wildsonnets
Sarah Warden @sarahwarden.bsky.social Poet. #poetsonbluesky #NoKings
http://sarahwarden.substack.com
Salem Islas-Madlo (ella/she/her) @deepsouldiver.bsky.social Chicana writer/poet/mental health advocate/holistic energy coach/trauma care practitioner/eclectic hedge witch
https://linktr.ee/DeepWildCoaching
You can also find me at
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Rema Jyothirmayi @remajyo.bsky.social Nature walks for well-being. Poet, amateur photographer, retired oncologist, karateka and gardener. Posts mostly on nature, poetry, wellbeing, and garden photos. ‘Rema rhymes with Emma’.
Candice M. Kelsey @feed-me-poetry.bsky.social Grateful educator, fledgling poet, bumbling mother, proud cat lady, and language-obsessed woman running coast to coast with hair on fire.
A. Woodley @awoodley.bsky.social Books by A. Woodley
http://author.to/AmazonUS
Crime. Murder. Ghosts. Witches. Tarot. Poetry. Children's & more. 
Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social The Boy From the Sea is out now and translated into over a dozen languages. “Full of lightly worn wisdom and wit. It is a joy" – Sunday Times. www.garrettcarr.net
Write or Die 🦕 @write-or-die.bsky.social Writer, basketball freak
Here to fuck shit up and to resist the freefall of fascism
“Good Trouble”
Devout Misandrist
💍🦞✨📎
Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social Books, corvids and the shakily cheerful evasion of despair. PHENGARIS
@nefariousbatpress.bsky.social PARCH MARKS out with @GoldSF.bsky.social in Sept 26.
Author website: https://annaorridge.com/ (thanks to @sonorataylor.bsky.social)
she/her
Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social Staff editor for The New York Times (in London). Previously writing for CNN and Time Magazine. One of those Brits who ended up in American media.
Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social Family, Poetry. Gardening, Nature, Politics, Springsteen fan, Female
Claire Miller @claiyah.bsky.social Notts-based ecopoet with some words in Magma, Structo, Popshot Quarterly, and Firewords. Co-owner of @flompstudio.bsky.social and creator of https://ecoetry.co.uk/
Yigru Zeltil @yigruzeltil.eurosky.social From Romania; I'm on both autistic and LGBT spectrums. Reading/writing/translating poetry. Working on Princeps Poesis, a database of poetry books from all around the world.
https://linksta.cc/@yigru-zeltil-ro
Lily Lawson @lifelovelily22.bsky.social Poet/writer/chocoholic/random human.
Music, books, poetry, writing, interviews, prompts and lilyfied waffle.
Everybody needs some Lily in their life!
https://linktr.ee/lilylawson22
nico @nicoxrette.bsky.social 🖤 poet | emotional physicist 🌌
a madwoman with a telescope,
crying in the observatory,
making out with language.
currently submitting my entire personality
(manuscript) to presses.
art is political—so am i.
sleep token + t swift 🔁
Philippa Bowe @philippabowe.bsky.social Flash fiction, poetry, translation / Micro nouvelles, poésie, traduction. Ghost City Press, NFFR, Reflex Fiction, Bath Flash Fiction, Spark2Flame, Neither Fish Nor Foul, The Hooghley Review. Pushcart Prize nom. Dance, LFC, la belle vie. Elue municipale. 🌄
Juliet West 📚💙🌱 @julietwest.bsky.social Author of BEFORE THE FALL (Pan Macmillan, 2014) and THE FAITHFUL (Pan Macmillan, 2017). Poetry in Magma (2024) Hippocrates Prize anthology (2024). Books, gardening, cats.
https://www.julietwest.com/
Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social I'm an artist, musician, poet, writer, a creative being. I live in France, but born in the UK. I have written anything from horror books to a children's book. Vegetarian, dog lover, anti war maybe a bit woke Follow me if you can.
#vss365 #writingcommunity
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
Christine Bode 🇨🇦 @bodaciouscopy.bsky.social Book Editor supporting indie authors by editing their words with uncommon magic! 🪄 | Writing, editing, publishing tips & more on my blog: bodaciouscopy.com/blog | Poet
Indie Aut. Stuart Miller (ASM) 📖✍️🤓 Writing book #3 @stuartmiller1.bsky.social 🧠 #MentalIllness🧩Neurodivergent #Autism
🧑🏫 #Teacher 🎒 #STEM #SPED⚕️#Nurse
♀️ #WomensRights🫂 #HumanRights ♿️ #DisabilityRights
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ #LGBTQIA
✍️ #Author #Poetry
StarWars🖖StarTrek👽SciFi
#Constitution📜 #DEI #VoteBlue🔵 USC A2S4 8647
🚫Porn🚫DM🚫Crypto/Bitcoin🚫Fascists
MegKearney.bsky.social @megkearney.bsky.social Award-winning author/poet w/ 8 books & 1 forthcoming (kids, teens, adults, megkearney.com); Founding dir, Solstice MFA Low-Residency Program, Lasell U (MA): dedicated to nurturing an inclusive, safe community of writers since ’06. 
Linda Máire @lindamaire.bsky.social Documentary filmmaking / books / learning Irish / poetry / cinema / art / cats / music / gardening / border collies / politics / yoga / Punjana tea / corvids / the sea
“If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.” — Agnès Varda
Fidel Walsh @dragonslayerma.bsky.social Writing poetry. 3 poetry collections, Living with Love, Time & Out There. Short stories, Thrice Remembered an Anthology.
I'm 1 of the #PromptCombo hosts
Beth Bonness @bethbonness.com Poet & writer | Creator of Thought Echoes 🎧 Podcast & Newsletter | How do the ripple effects of our thoughts and actions shape meaning in the lives we build over time?
Thought Echoes➚ https://bethbonness.com/newsletter
Audrey Howitt @audreyhowitt.bsky.social Poet, voice teacher, recovering attorney, licensed psychotherapist, lover of life
Please no DMs. I will block you. 
Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social Thomas - poet and ecologist- plants, climate change, human geography. He/him and she/her. Buy my chapbook! https://bottlecap.press/products/causes
DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social Wanderer, writer, reader
Ambassador for daily writing prompt, #vss365, and inquisitive human.
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
John Adlam FRSA 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social groups 🔄 activist research ✍ #welcometheboats ⛵ #antiracistpractice ✊ #traumanotpd ❌ Gaia theory 🌍 psychosocial studies 📚 practices of equality 🤝 open mic poetry 🎤 Bob Dylan 🎸 Brixton 🧡 https://barrelblog.org https://open.substack.com/pub/johnadlampoems
⛳ 🎭 Edward Rinaldi 🐐 🍉 @blindedbeatpoet.bsky.social be earnest
be you
in Love
and well
Madeleine Begun Kane @madkane.bsky.social #Humor #Writer, #Political #Poet: #Limericks, #Haiku, #Rhyme
Limerick-Off Host, Robert Benchley Society Humor Award Winner,
Retired #Lawyer & #Musician, based in #NYC. #Leguminati
#OG #Blogger & still at it here: http://www.madkane.com/
Jenny (Kowalczuk) Sanders @jennysanders.bsky.social On a quest for joy.
Mother of #psychosis experiencing adult child - Writer and #poet - living with #ME/CFS/LC.
Creative work shared on https://rewritepsychosis.org
Matt Gilbert @richlyevocative.bsky.social Poetry bothering, blog tinkering, place pondering, musically promiscuous, book-loving freelance copywriter. Likely to moan & rail at the unfairness & absurdity of life. Poetry links https://richlyevocative.net/articles-reviews-first-published-elsewhere/
Rachel Armes-McLaughlin @mother-poet.bsky.social She/Her | Poet | 🏳️🌈 | ✊️
🤩 Pushcart Nominated 2025
My work is published in The Chaos Section, where I am poetry co-editor; Loblolly Press; Medicine & Meaning; and a Central Arkansas Library System anthology, with one poem nominated for Best of the Net.
🔞
Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social Art. Nature. Poetry. Life.
She/Her.
Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust) / Ed-at-large, Pen and Anvil Press, MA / Afterbody, Blue Diode Press, Edinburgh: tinyurl.com/afterbodybluediode
John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social Pine Barrens Poet
David Birch @davidbirch.bsky.social Worked in education and mostly taken up with poetry these days: see some of my poems at https://wildfire-words.com/?s=David+Birch and in the latest @thebrokenspine.co.uk collection 'Beautiful Little Fools'.
Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social Award winning poet/writer/artist Chaps: Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs, Moon kissed Earth wrought Vision drunk, RavenSong, Down River with Li Po etc. Art: BirdSong, Women of Babylon, etc. More: linktr.ee/KPGFolkHeart NO MAGA No solicitation
Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social Carer Gardener Poet Reader
Give me time to think!😀
Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social He/Him Pro🏳️🌈 Social Democrat
Poetry, Art, Music. All my original work, unless stated otherwise.
© Applies.
Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social Poetry stuff only. Nominated for a Forward Prize, Best Of The Net (Twice) and Two Pushcart Awards.
Black Bough (Silver Branch Poet), East Ridge Review (Featured Poet), Joint 1st BB New Simile Competition.
Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social Poet, wannabe artist, and zinester from WV. Married, mother of two. Definately a cryptid in disguise. Poetry found in Broken Spines, Penstricken, and SixtyOddPoets, among others. Zines in kofi below. Enjoy 🤗
https://ko-fi.com/poetrywithhart
“Prof” Kiki Johnson @profkiki-poetry.bsky.social I am poet seeking to help other poets find their voice & keep the passion for the tradition & innovation of poetry alive & well in this dark age
Jane Dougherty @janedougherty47.bsky.social Writer of fiction and poetry, lives in a green fortress. Not interested in 'communities'. Learn to live together, the rest of the natural world manages to.
Visit my Substack https://substack.com/@janedougherty47 for short fiction and poetry
Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor/judge with The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press. Lives in the UK.
Dabbles in Flash Fiction, speculative genres. Writing a novel. Mini poetry pamphlet due late 2026.
One of the hosts of PromptCombo
Inanna Ihwa - The Poem Whisperer @inannaihwa.bsky.social Dreamer Poet Hopelessly Optimistic
Träumerin Dichterin Hoffnungslose Optimistin
www.instagram.com/inannaihwa
For a world for everyone.
Let’s be fierce and have some fun.
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
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
Ms. 🅰️Washington M.A. artist | author | activist 🖇️ @arwashington.bsky.social ❣️Liberator not Influencer❣️
#Solseed Joint #Haiku4u
#Arttrepreneur #Author
#Resistor 🖇️ 92%
#Poet 📚 #Playwright 🔞NSFW
🅱️lack 🅱️lerd | #GenX
#Neurodivergent ♾️ ActuallyAutistic 🥄
#Disability ❤️🩹 #BlackSkyRelay 🖤
Donate to Artwork 🍄
https://ko-fi.com/artissttree
Matt Guntrip @matt-guntrip-music.bsky.social Mammal
Biped
Guitarist
Songwriter
New Music Generator Award Nominee 2025, 2024, 2023, 2021
Sometimes write things
https://linktr.ee/matt_guntrip_music
Rachel @vignettes.bsky.social Absurdist, writer, explorer, escape artist.
Writer of poetry, prose & flash fiction.
Words in Literary Revelations: Haiku for Soul Mates @epistemiclit.bsky.social, Pure Haiku, From One Line Vol.7, The Survivor Zine
British, living in Italy. 🇮🇹🇬🇧
Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social Welsh poet and writer in exile on Tyneside. Poems in Anthropocene, Dreich, The Ekphrastic Review, Impossible Archetype, These Pages Sing and elsewhere including Broken Spine’s Coffeehouse podcast. Stories in Gwasg Honno anthologies