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Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social Author of The Lunatics' Ball (Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press, forthcoming) and The Missing Girl (Black Lawrence Press). Wigleaf Top 50. 9 Notables, Best American Essays, CNF Flash editor, CRAFT Lit Journal. www.jacquelinedoyle.com
Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social Poet. Poems in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Five Points, swamp pink, The Florida Review & DIAGRAM.
Jonathan T. Bailey @baileyimages.bsky.social π³οΈβπ Queer / neurodivergent poet & conservation photographer. Winner of Reading the West and Foreword Indies awards. Find me in the NYT, HCN, & others.
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Kashawn Taylor @kashawntaylor.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Student.
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Gotham Writers Workshop.
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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social
IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS 2nd edition (IceFloe Press 2026)
WHERE SANDS RUN FINEST (DarkWinter Press 2024)
Bridport Prize 2025 shortlist.
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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!
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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
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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.
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Judith Nangala Crispin @judithnangala.bsky.social Poet & visual artist on unceded Yuin Walbunga Country in Australia. Afterlife portraits of animals & birds. Alternative darkroom with drawing & painting. Grainger Gallery and Anima Mundi. Poetry collections with Puncher & Wattmann. Member of FNAWN & Oculi.
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Ken Brydon @prison-stories.bsky.social My award-winning Prison Short Stories, all written at San Quentin. ποΈ Joyce Carol Oates published one. I served 39 years, 23 of them at San Quentin. There, I discovered that words can heal.
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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social Pulitzer finalist for THE GREAT BELIEVERS; new novel, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU, out now. Artistic Director at StoryStudio Chicago. Trying to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. You should, too.
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
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Catherine Trundle @catherinetrundle.bsky.social Medical anthropologist @ La Trobe University Public Health, climate justice and heat stress, nuclear afterlives, contested illness, ethnographic methods, poetry
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Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill
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Angela Chaidez Vincent @angelacv.bsky.social ARENA GLOW (Tourane Poetry Press). Writer, ponderer, saunterer.πon everything. Critter enthusiast. Poems in Oxford Review of Books, NAR, 32 Poems. Poetry reviewer: #100smallpress. AssocEd. for Scrub Jay Press.
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Susan Lewis @susanlewispoet.bsky.social Author of Zoom, winner of the Washington Prize, & 10 other books & chapbooks, founder & editor-in-chief of Posit Journal, co-host of KGB Monday Night Poetry: susanlewis.net
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