Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk Online poetry magazine posting daily. We publish & review poetry, prose, filmpoems, word & image and print publish as IS&T Press. Editing internships. Posts by Sabine Wilson-Patrick & Kate Birch.
Rob Edmunds @robedmunds.bsky.social I'm a writer of three novels, the most recent about the conflict in Burma during World War II. My previous two novels are both about the ancient Numidian King Masinissa, set during the Second Punic War. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
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Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social indie poetry publisher based in Canada with an international focus. we publish books and we have an online website with series and blogs w/poets, fiction writers, visual artist, experimental projects www.icefloepress.net EIC/publisher Robert Frede Kenter
รine Fallon @afallon80.bsky.social Irish/Galway/Living in Roscommon
Post primary teacher of English B.Rel Sc./part-time farmer!/gym/reading and running!!
UCD Innovation Academy for Education
West Waterford Arts Group @westwaterfordag.bsky.social A cross-pollinating community of artists meeting in West Waterford with a multi-disciplinary approach to creativity.
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Sandy McIntosh @sandymcintosh.bsky.social Author of twelve volumes of poetry, a Chinese cookbook, and three computer software programs.
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland ๐ He/Him | Sรฉ/รฉ
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Breda Spaight @bredaspaight.bsky.social Collection: Watching for the Hawk, finalist in the Farmgate Cafe National Poetry Award '24. Arts Council Lit. Bursary. Forward Prize s/list Best Poem Written '23.
Doric Literary @doricliterary.bsky.social An online journal publishing classically inspired short stories. Now open for submissions, 1000-8000 words. Edited by @CourtlandAvenue (Dave Gregory)
https://doric-literary.com/
Salvador Ryan @salvadorryan.bsky.social Native of Moneygall. Professor of Ecclesiastical History at St Patrick's Pontifical University Maynooth. Loves teaching & writing, and has published widely on social, cultural and religious history, medieval to modern. Editor, Irish Theological Quarterly.
Colmcille Press @colmcille.bsky.social Publishing house in northwest Ireland, celebrating 1500 years of great writing from Derry and Donegal. Gaeilge agus fรกilte.
SUMMER 2025: The Handy Wee Guide to Derry (digital edition) is available for just a quid from: colmcillepress.com
Galway Advertiser @galwayadvertiser.bsky.social Galway's favourite newspaper - in shops, through your door & online every Thursday morning!
Shakespeare Okuni @ishakespeare.org Author of A Twist of Rotten Silk. Shakespeare designs.
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, โWhatever You Do, Just Donโtโ, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
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Literature & music teacher in the gaps of reality between words.
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Skein Press @skeinpress.bsky.social Independent publisher of stories underrepresented in Irish literature
๐Contentious Spaces by Rosaleen McDonagh & The Posthumous Book of Shahrazad by Raquel Menรฉndez trans by Robin Munby
๐คIn the Half Light:Voices from Black Ireland curated by Phil Mullen
SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social Dedicated to bringing the best flash narratives to the web, by widely published authors or those new to the craft. Est.2003. Paying up to $150. www.smokelong.com. No Trump supporters. Follow also @heyflashvillage.bsky.social
Zine Scene Magazine Archive @oldzinescene.bsky.social This is Greg McCartney's (an Abridged editor) little magazine archive for (mostly) old defunct Irish literary magazines. It's for education/research/enjoyment purposes and not for profit. Copyright remains with the original publishers/writers.
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Ryan Dennis @penofryandennis.bsky.social Editor of @themilkhouse.bsky.social, author of novel The Beasts They Turned Away and memoir Barn Gothic from @IslandPress.bsky.social.
Rough Diamond Poetry @rough-diamond1.bsky.social Rough Diamond is an online and in print poetry journal. roughdiamondpoems@gmail.com
EIC - Charlotte Cosgrove
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Kik Lodge @kiklodge.bsky.social Writer. THE BULLY IN MY PILLOW (Stanchion Books, August 2026).
https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/the-bully-in-my-pillow
Best Microfiction 2026.
Hosts literary open-mics @saloneurope.bsky.social
www.kiklodge.com
Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie Fostering excellence and scholarship to enrich society, e. 1785.
Home to the RIA Library, 8 research programmes & a publishing house.
www.ria.ie
Reg. Charity No. 20003524 - Reg. Revenue No. CHY 2795
Marie-louise McGuinness @mlmcguinness.bsky.social Words @ Fictive Dream, Banshee, Splonk, Bending Genres, Flash Frog, The Forge, Milk Candy Review, Gone Lawn, 2x Pushcart nominated, LL Bath Short Story Award, Best Microfictions 2025, BBC Radio 4, Co.Founder: The Pride Roars, Editor Raw Lit
Niall ร Siadhail @niallosiadhail.bsky.social Litrรญocht, ceol, Gaeilge. I ngach ord.
Dom Czapski @czapsticks.bsky.social Dancer turned dance critic. Improv performer and teacher.
Bylines: The List, Springback
Improv: Hoopla, Free Association, Blanche, Disco Disco, Two Chairs
London
Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social Poet. Dramatic but lazy. Wistfully nonchalant. Passionately disinterested in oxymorons.
Colm Brennan @colmgbrennan.bsky.social Poet & Writer
Poetry Ireland Review โข Banshee โข The Waxed Lemon โข Sonder โข The Cormorant โข Profiles โข The Ogham Stone โข Arts Council Literature Bursary โข MA in creative writing from UL
colmgbrennan.com
Diego D. Lomax @diegodlomax.bsky.social Dyslexic writer, tracing artist, and tone-deaf producer
My debut novel 'God of Fishes' is out NOW!
My graphic novel, [4-EVA], coming soon
Check out ny website for more info www.diegodlomax.com
Jayson Carcione @carcionejay.bsky.social Fiction: The London Magazine, The Forge, Lunate, Epoque Press, elsewhere
Best of the Net 2024 finalist
Deputy Production Editor: Irish Examiner
Cork via New York
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
Viviana Fiorentino @vivianafiorentino.bsky.social writer, PhD candidate @seamusheaneycentre Poems @thelondonmagazine @stingingfly @banshee.lit @poetryirelandreview @munsterliteraturecentre
Novel @transeuropaedizioni
Poesie @zonacontermporanea @ilsemebianco @italianpoetryreview
#IrishPEN blog @leortique
Shelley Hastings @shelleyhastings.bsky.social Writer | Producer | Artist Facilitator | Kitchen Raver | Arts & Dementia: Resonate Arts | Winner: Sean ร Faolรกin Prize & Aurora Prize | Stories: Irish Times, Desperate Literature, Southword, Miro, Chroma Editionsโฆ
www.shelleyhastings.co.uk
Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social InsideCroydon.com
As seen on TV. Publishing stuff people would rather not have published since 2010. Email us inside.croydon@btinternet.com
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Nuala O'Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social Writer. Irish. Autistic. Latest book: Menagerie (poetry).
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social 1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/)
2. Obsessed with lists
3. COMMON PEOPLE
4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS
5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (http://geni.us/yDxa)
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 โข NJ โข www.brandondiehl.net
Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social Independent bookshop and art gallery in Galway, Ireland. Free delivery in Ireland and we ship worldwide. New, used and rare books.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com Writer and Unconditional / Universal Basic Income (UBI) advocate
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Amanda Geard @amandageard.bsky.social Author of R&J pick THE MIDNIGHT HOUSE and THE MOON GATE, lover of big books ๐ THE GLASS KEY coming May โ26 ๐ Agent: AM Heath
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Daniel Rolph Author @danielrolphauthor.bsky.social Daniel Rolph grew up in the UK foster care system, experiencing firsthand the challenges that come with it. Now, he's channelling those experiences into his debut novel, Shattered Paths
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Oisรญn McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social Over 30 years in commercial art and more than 20 as a published author โ mostly children's and young adult. No hope of ever getting a proper job. Lifelong nerd who's concerned about climate change. No AI slop wanted. He/Him. http://oisinmcgann.com/
Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
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RTร One @rteone.rte.ie The BlueSky home of RTร One, Ireland's most watched TV channel.
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.
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JourneyDude in Scotland @scottishinsider.org ๐ชฌ๐งฟ Freemason | Traveller | Historian | Novel Author | Filmmaker & Photographer
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Sarah Turner @scturnerfiction.bsky.social Writer. Short stories in: The Rumpus, Sonora Review, J Journal, Shooter Lit Mag, London Magazine, Fictive Dream, LEON, Litro & others | SL Bridport SS | Read my work at: www.scturnerfiction.com
RTร Radio 1 @rteradio1.bsky.social The official Bluesky home of RTร Radio 1 โ๏ธ ๐ป
SubRosa )โฟ( Magick (chat to book a reading) @subrosamagick.bsky.social Rev Alicia Lyon Folberth โ Priestess of the Panthean Temple โ Witch โ Psychic โ Published Artist/Designer/Writer โ Radio/TV โ aka Psychic Medium Alycia Roseโ Readings over Zoom/Skype/Phone https://subrosamagick.etsy.com
bookanista @wearebookanista.bsky.social Literary blog packed with author interviews and discussion about books from around the world. Run by a team of book scouts for film & TV ๐๐
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Museum of Childhood Ireland, Mรบsaem รige na hรireann @museumofchildhood.bsky.social museumofchildhood.ie Est 2018. Groundbreaking first for Ireland. Award winning Historic to contemporary, Islandwide and Diaspora, museum of children and childhood. Championing every child. Charity: 20205452 #SeenAndHeard #CherishingAllTheChildren
Fiontan Fleming @fiontanfleming.bsky.social Writer, musician, optimist. Stories, tunes, happy outcomes. Long and shortlistings in writing competitions. Published in Scribble, Parracombe Prize anthology, and Gemini Magazine
#amwriting #amsubmitting
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
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David Hanlon @vespertine4.bsky.social Cardiff poet. Best of the Net nominee. Author of two poetry collections - 'Spectrum of Flight' published in 2020 & 'Dawn's Incision' in 2024. Co-Poetry Editor @brokenspinearts.bsky.social
Olivia Fitzsimons @oneflawediris.bsky.social Writer. 
Olga Nenazhivina Art ๐ฉโ๐จ @nenazhivina.com ๐ฉโ๐จ Artist๐Based in Florida ๐
Freehand dip pen ัontemporary ink on paper ๐๏ธ
Mostly drawings โ๏ธ
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Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
Jacqueline (Jay) K @scrubbling.bsky.social Risk delight (despite everything).
Human & Environmental Dignity | Considered Words | Mature Trees | Libraries & Quiet Public Spaces | No DMs, please.
So many great stories yet to be told.
Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social Irish Art Critic | The Irish Times, Frieze, Paper Visual Art | Philosophy & Aesthetics - Filosofia y Estรฉtica - Philosophie & รsthetik
tomlordan.com
Myriam Steinberg @myriamsteinberg.bsky.social Author of award winning graphic novel, Catalogue Baby: A Memoir of (In)fertility. Currently writing its follow-up, Stick, Stay, Grow. Mom of twins, artist, eclectic human. 
Ken Brydon @prison-stories.bsky.social Award-winning writer. 39 years incarcerated, 23 at San Quentin. PEN America recognized. Published by Joyce Carol Oates. I write about prison, redemption, loss, humor & hopeโand the humanity found where most people never look.
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
Tom Vowler @tomvowler.bsky.social Word-botherer.
Winner V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize
www.tomvowler.co.uk
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Jason Croot @jasoncroot.bsky.social Bradfordian, actor and author of the Bradford Back in the Day Memories Series: Bradford, Eh? & Bradford, Ye What? and the nostalgic football book Bradford or Leeds, Eh?
https://www.jasoncroot.com
John Creedon @johncreedon.bsky.social Broadcaster RTE,
Radio: rte.ie/johncreedon
TV: https://www.rte.ie/player/find?q=creedon
Mad for road, adventure, discovery and spaciousness.
I come in peace.
Email creedon@rte.ie
Insta. @johncreedonireland
No DMs please.
Garrett Carr @garrettcarr.bsky.social The Boy From the Sea is out now and translated into over a dozen languages. โFull of lightly worn wisdom and wit. It is a joy" โ Sunday Times. www.garrettcarr.net
Pรกdhraic Quinn @quinnpadhraic.bsky.social 2025 Irish Book Awards Winner for New Irish Writing Best Short Story
2025/26 London Library Emerging Writer
https://m.independent.ie/entertainment/new-irish-writing/new-irish-writing-all-the-birch-trees-were-waving-by-padhraic-quinn/a1765826609.html
Vati @xxxvatikinsxxx.bsky.social Life support system for the moยด
Gwen E. Kirby @gwenekirby.bsky.social author of SHIT CASSANDRA SAW // stories in One Story, Guernica, Tin House, Smokelong, and elsewhere // corgis, baking, knitting, swearing // she/her
gwenekirby.com
SHEALAN @shealan.com Sydney-based Software Engineer / Creative Technologist. Film & VFX nerd. Hot sauce addict.
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.
Crab Tales Magazine @crabtalesmagazine.bsky.social A SFF flash fiction magazine about crabs.
Art submissions: OPEN.
Fiction submissions: CLOSED.
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EIC @rachelhandley.bsky.social
Submit: crabtalesmagazine.com
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Dublin
@larrybear115.bsky.social @larrybear115.bsky.social Author, I write horror stories, into D&D and Pathfinder rpg. I am an unknown author because nobody reads my books. Read a book, people. I am learning while on my journey.
Roisin Meaney ๐๐ @roisinm.bsky.social Made in Ireland a long time ago. Cats, books, tea, spotty bananas. Trying to learn the ukulele.
Pub by Hachette Ireland and Sphere Books UK.
23 novels with my name on them - never gets less astonishing. Teasing out next.
Be kind, it's easy.
Felicity Hayes-McCoy @fhayesmccoy.bsky.social USA Today Bestselling Irish author
Fic/non-fic
The "Finfarran" novels
Standalone novel #AWinterWedding Hachette Sept 2026
Keynote speaker
London UK/Corca Dhuibhne Irl
Lit rep: Gaia Banks, Sheil Land Associates UK
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Writing.ie Online Writing Magazine @handle.invalid Award winning magazine for writers at all levels http://www.writing.ie - based in Ireland but for writers everywhere. Featuring book and writing news, tips, technique, competitions, submission opportunities and much more. We want to help! ๐๐
Steve Griffiths @writersteve.bsky.social Writer, editor, lover, eejit.
Freelance Editor at EARLY MORNING EDITS.
Kerry P (Author & Editor) @kerrypwrites.bsky.social ๐ป Editor. CIEP professional member.
๐ Author of contemporary romance and romcoms with heart, heat & HEA.
๐ WIP: Hearts Adrift.
๐ง Neurodivergent.
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com If youโre reading this, youโre in the right place.
Beautiful books you won't forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) โข Blood Type: Curry โข Leeds United โข Anti-AI
#LUFC
jmthornberry.wordpress.com
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Ryan B. Cruz | Author @poetrybooks.bsky.social Indie Author | Grief Advocate | Poet | Loves Photography | Painting | Mamas Boy
My Book links here ๐
https://linktr.ee/justnotwrite
James Doherty @jimsdarkhistory.bsky.social Historian interested in history of smuggling and dark History in Ireland