Franco Amati @francoamati.bsky.social writer, poet, SFWA & Codex, ViableParadise 2024,
new collection WORK IS WORK out now: https://www.amazon.com/Work-Franco-Amati/dp/B0HCCQF9YP/
and for all published fiction visit francoamatiwrites.com
Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social Novelist: books 'Where the Willows End, In Red Blood' 'One of Our Own,' Poetry: 200 poems published worldwide. old friend's description of him, 'I've known this idiot most of my life.'
Chris Emery @chrisemery.me Poet. Five collections from Arc and Salt, most recently Wonder (2025). Manchester-born, Irish citizen, living in Cromer. I publish other people’s books at Salt. Newsletter: chrisemery.me
Jennifer Thomas @jthomasabc.bsky.social Word fan having a blast writing #poetry, mostly for kids. Explorer of very old dictionaries.
jenniferthomaswords.com
Paul Nash | Paul atten Ash @northseanavigator.bsky.social WRITER:
Sampler (Black Cat Press 2027)
'Searchlight Seasons' (Atomic Bohemian 2024)
Instagram: @north_sea_navigator
campsite.bio/northseanavigator
Katrina Swenson @katrinaswenson.bsky.social Children’s author and poet. Poems at The School Magazine, Little Thoughts Press, The Dirigible Balloon, and Highlights’ High Five. My debut picture book, LOVE, GRUMBLE (illustrated by Charles Santoso, published by Little, Brown) arrives in 2026!
Andy Spearman @andyspearman.bsky.social Writing for kids 🇨🇦+🇮🇪+🇬🇧 @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social, @thecaterpillarmag.bsky.social, @thetoypress.bsky.social, @lemonjellypress.bsky.social, @littlethoughtspress.com, dirigibleballoon.org, Bag of Bones Press
Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social In-depth reporting on issues affecting disabled people in the UK since 2009. www.disabilitynewsservice.com
Ella B. Winters @ella-b-winters.bsky.social Writer, research, social worker, lecturer, eternal student, working on my PhD.
Artemesia Arts shortlist; Forward prize nominated; Pushcart prizes nominated x2
Kay Medway @kaymedway.bsky.social I’m a library assistant and poet with work published in The Dirigible Balloon, Disabled Tales, Dreambeast Poems, and featured on Brian Moses’s blog. My poems are forthcoming in Scaryness Express.
simonjamesbrady.bsky.social @simonjamesbrady.bsky.social Simon James Brady is an Irish poet and writer.
See https://simonjamesbrady.com/
Marc Zammit @marczammit.bsky.social Director🎬 | Producer 🎥| Actor 🎭 CEO Aptitude Films, Skylark Vision.
Homeless Ashes, Witch, JITTERS
Sue Sutherland, Author - TWELVE DAYS AT GLACIER @suemt.bsky.social Debut picture book author - TWELVE DAYS AT GLACIER, granola girl, weaver, quilter, traveler, photographer, 12x12, Montana SCBWI
Coming Soon - HOW HANNAH GOT HER LUMP OF COAL (2026), TWELVE DAYS AT YELLOWSTONE (2027), & NOTHING BUT NET TROUBLE
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.
Kenny @surfingiantsfan.bsky.social Surfing Pro. BS,BA. Former VP Big Stick Surfing Assoc. Ride A Wave Foundation Escort for Disabled Kids. Professional Surf Contest Judge. Legendary Surfers & Board Builders HOF. Baseball Player/ Coach. Charity Fundraiser. Martial Arts. Girls dad, cat dad. 
Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io (they/he) nonbinary, poet, father, husband, gardener, *retired* game-dev from Sumo Digital...
Marianne Doherty @mariannedoherty.bsky.social Digital Project Manager for Scottish Book Trust. Children’s books and comics enthusiast. Dyslexic. ME/CSF. Here for the kids book chat. All views my own. #KidsBooksFriday 📚🏴
eCitizen ⓌⒻⓅⒷ Ⓥ Ⓐ @ecitizen1.bsky.social Healthy WFPB Vegan. Child Advocate. Atheist. LGBTQI friendly. Pro-Democracy. #BlueResisters Anti-MAGA, Anti-Trump.
Retired software engineer, grandfather who likes to build & fix things. Loving relationship with a sweet woman. Lifelong learner. Prankster.
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
Sarah Frideswide @sjfrideswide.bsky.social Published poet. Fiction Writer. MA Creative Writing Distinction. Working class writer with ADHD and C-PTSD. Author of One-Armed Nick and the Nuns of Osyth, here: https://sarahfrideswide.substack.com/p/6-double-barrelled-flintlock-pistol
Lorraine Mariner @lorrainemariner.bsky.social Poet & librarian. Two collections with Picador ‘Furniture’ & ‘There Will Be No More Nonsense’, also writing poems for children. Works at the National Poetry Library. Edited some 10 Poems About… for Candlestick Press. Powered by tea across all platforms.
Annelies Judson @babybookdel.bsky.social Children’s writer and poet. TURKEY HURLY-BURLY due August 2025. Reviewer of children's books from a feminist perspective. Lover of science, words, and the em dash.
Simon Enright @simonenright.bsky.social Director of Comms, Ministry of Defence . Formerly, Freuds, King, Queen and NHS England. Learned my trade as Editor at the BBC
Lost Muttley my Westie broken @lordcollins.bsky.social Liverpool fan Muttley my Westie has gone over the rainbow bridge.
Tax the rich FFS
Won’t follow traders or young ladies/ men selling their body thank you
Pitch My Project @pitchmyproject.com Helping filmmakers and production teams turn creative ideas into market-ready presentations with pitch decks, script coverage, and pre-production guidance. 🎬
Letterboxd: boxd.it/jIiyP
#FilmSky #MovieSky
Ashley Simmons @yelhsa-snommis.bsky.social Aspiring scholar, author, artist,
photographer, & philanthropist.
Pursuing a double major in Psychology & Philosophy
Focus in Neuroscience and Cognition
@ Florida Gulf Coast University
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript (Book Formatter, Cover Designer and Socials Post Maker Web App): www.pscript.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Hannah Linden @hannahl1n.bsky.social Poet Devon, UK
1st Cafe Writers Poetry Competition 2021, 2nd Leeds Peace Poetry Prize 2024, H Comm. Wales Poetry Award 2021. Shortlisted Best Poetry Pamphlet Saboteur Awards 2023 https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-beautiful-open-sky.html 
Sue Hardy-Dawson @suehardy-dawson.bsky.social 💙Award winning&CLiPPAshortlist, Dyslexic, Poet/illustrator, picture book writer Moon Child #Hachette #WhereZebrasGo @OtterBarryBooks
If I Were Other Than Myself #Troika
#NSTBA18ApestoZebras @BloomsburyBooks @TroikaBooks @AuthorsAbroad_
🌿Aspen Harding | Author✨ @aspenharding.bsky.social 🌿WEEDIE WISDOM🌿
🔆Modern Philosophy | Spiritual Insights📿
I had a break-up.
I had a breakdown.
I had a breakthrough.
Crawling my way back up from rock bottom.
Sharing insights learned along the way.
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
iWIC-featured-books @iwic-book-features.bsky.social You write ... we tell the world about it!
www.writersinspiringchange.com
Bristol Walk Fest @bristolwalkfest.bsky.social Explore Bristol on foot!
Bristol Walk Fest has run every May since 2013, with guided walks for all ages & abilities. Boost wellbeing, enjoy the outdoors & celebrate National Walking Month with us this May.
www.bristolwalkfest.com
linktr.ee/bristolwalkfest
DadMovie Dad @dadmovie-dad.bsky.social Hey Kids, Dad here.
Every movie is a dad movie if I watch it, and once I figure out this danged DVD player, there’s something to learn from each and every one of them.
Follow me here and on letterboxd for movie wisdom!
https://boxd.it/gh5pp
Championship Again @pcbdailypod.bsky.social Championship News & Podcast
Jonathan Sellars @jsellarslieshere.bsky.social Award entering children’s author and poet. Lover of chocolate milkshakes. Searching for a word that rhymes with Jonathan.
Author of Polly Plum: Brave Adventurer and Listen To Your Vegetables.
www.jonathansellars.co.uk
Sue Lancaster 🦏 Why No Rhino? - out in October 🦏 @writessue.bsky.social Children's writer.
Coming soon: Why No Rhino? (Oct '26 New Frontier)
Out now: Outside the Box (May '25 HB Publishing)
Out now: Supermoon (Nov '24 Tielmour Press).
Also: The Perfect One (2024 Mayo Clinic Press)
Hand Puppet Pals (2023 Imagine That)
Carole Bromley @carolebromley.bsky.social York-based poet writing for both adults and children
Claire Lewis @clairelewiswrites.bsky.social Hi! I write & illustrate PBs/poems/MG & work for @thebookery.bsky.social. Words/pics in The Toy, PaperBound, The Dirigible Balloon, Little Thoughts Press & Tyger Tyger. Debut PB:The Go Away Rain Dance, HB Publishing House
https://linktr.ee/claire_f_lewis
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.
Angela Jelf @angelajelf.bsky.social Writes stories & poems for kids of all ages. Pub’d: Toy Press, Dirigible Balloon & Keys For Kids. Occasional art-dabbler. Loves nature, travel, music & tea!
Val Harris - Poet @valpoet.bsky.social Children’s poetry published in The Toy Press, Paperbound Mag, Little Thoughts Press, Caterpillar and lots on the Dirigible Balloon.
A CLASSROOM OF STARS first collection
Website - www.valharrispoet.co.uk
(Also writes poetry for grownups - same name 📕)
Sam J. Grudgings @samjgrudgings.bsky.social Host at Large.
Occasional artist. Horror Laureate. Sober AF. Loud Yelling. He/they.
Books with Verve Poetry Press & Broken Sleep
Read my Poems -
https://linktr.ee/samjgrudgings
@shouldbeasleep.bsky.social @shouldbeasleep.bsky.social Woke but sleepy, except at night.
Workaholic MarTech geek turned stay at home mum.
Reliant on 90% Lindt.
Always neurodivergent, painfully Gen X, furiously perimenopausal & too bendy. Intoleraces: intolerance, gluten, lactose, histamine, stress & exercise
Gaynor Andrews @gaynorandrews.bsky.social Children's author and poet | 'Pandora and the Story Forge' pub by Rocket Bird Books | @scbwi | Based in NE Scotland
https://gaynorandrews.online/
Jumping Jules Poetry @jumpingjulespoetry.bsky.social Julie Stevens, MS, poet. Forest Girl, Journey Through the Fire, Step into the Dark, Stickleback and Quicksand. Writes for adults and children.
www.jumpingjulespoetry.com
Chris White @mrchriswhite.bsky.social Writer, Poet, and Illustrator from Derby, UK. Doodling & Poeting across the globe. Seen a million faces, rocked one or two of ‘em.
CK (They/Them preferred but any) @ckwritesbooks.bsky.social Born Intersex (Bigender easier for peeps to understand ) Autie///Chkee/Chsaw/white///HI///Repped by Page Turner///POPI'S ALL SOULS SONG///A COSTUME FOR CHARLY (Crystal Kite Finalist)///#kidlit #12x12 Insta: https://www.instagram.com/ckmalonewrites/
Christiana Doucette @doucette515.bsky.social Author | Poet | SDWF Kids Write Judge | MGpies | SCBWI Mentee: Joy McCullough | Agent: Leslie Zampetti | #KidLitChat [Tuesdays 9pm ET] | MG Hub | Highlight’s Kay Yoder Scholarship for US History ‘24 | Intern for Kaitlyn Sanchez | https://bit.ly/3Zf7FiH
A. Woodley @awoodley.bsky.social Books by A. Woodley
http://author.to/AmazonUS
Crime. Murder. Ghosts. Witches. Tarot. Poetry. Children's & more. 
@colinwest.bsky.social @colinwest.bsky.social 
Jonathan Humble @northernjim.bsky.social Editor of The Dirigible Balloon (Submissions Closed)
A Poetry Bank for Children
#PoetryForChildren
dirigibleballoon.org
northernjim.wordpress.com
#Cumbria #Poetry
Stefan Karlsson @stefankarlsson.bsky.social Poet & kidlit writer. Marbling & book artist.
Based in Portland, OR 🌲
https://stefankarlssonwrites.wixsite.com/author
https://linktr.ee/nautiluspaperco
Shaun Jex @shaunjexauthor.bsky.social Writer. Father. Husband. Pickle connoisseur.
he/him
@marise85.bsky.social @marise85.bsky.social 
Brian Moses @brianmosespoet.bsky.social Writer, children's poet, anthologist, percussionist.
website www. brianmoses.co.uk
Blog for teachers/children brian-moses.blogspot.com
Fiona J Halliday @fhalliday.bsky.social Teacher, preacher, poet, wife, mother, friend!
Tracie Renee (she/her) @tracierenee.bsky.social Librarian in sort-of Chicago.
PW book reviewer.
#Amquerying #SCBWI writer/poet.
Winner: #50PreciousWords, Highlights scholarship, ElegantLit, IAmWritingMG.
HM: #PBParty.
WTMP mentee, RisingTalent finalist, BOTN.
https://linktr.ee/tracie.renee
Mark Bird @dreambeastpoems.bsky.social Children’s poet, picture book author and micropoetry fiend. I write for children, adults and everyone in between.
📕 🦘My picture book, Out Now: The Klangaroo https://t.ly/TdXh-
My Website & Blog: dreambeastpoems.com/blog
Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social Undiscovered Voices Winner ‘26
Poems on the Move ‘26.
Pushcart Prize Nominated. Cheshire Novel Prize SL‘25, Guppy Open LL’25
Write Mentor Picturebook SL’23/LL’24
Poetry - The Dirigible Balloon, Northern Gravy, Tyger Tyger, The Toy, LTP, BBC Upload.🏴
Joshua Seigal - 'YAPPING AWAY' out now! @joshuaseigal.bsky.social Poet/Performer/Author. Winner: People’s Book Prize & Laugh Out Loud Award (twice). Books by Bloomsbury, HarperCollins etc. Loves lemurs. Dowload my debut poetry book for adults, for free: https://archive.org/details/the-relationship-expert-by-joshua-seigal
Sophie Dumont @sophiedumont.bsky.social Poet | Editor | Copywriter
Debut poetry collection out with Corsair (Little, Brown Book Group) 📘🛶 Featured in The Guardian, Financial Times & Sunday Times Style.
“a book of watersheds - love, death and rivers” - Linda France
📍Bristol/Bath, UK
Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social Independent publisher of contemporary poetry since 2008, home of Under the Radar magazine. Made in the Midlands.
https://ninearchespress.com/
QuartoKids @quartokids.bsky.social We make beautiful books that educate, entertain and enrich the lives of kids worldwide. 👶🏽💗📚
Ali @alibutterfly.bsky.social Mother, sister, daughter, teacher, caregiver, knitter, crafter, fair weather gardener. Seeking some joy after a super difficult year. Thankful for the poetry community on Bluesky and the distraction of the arts challenges 💕.
👩🏫 📚 📘 🧶 🧵🪡 🩺 🪴🌼 💔 ✍️ 🌱
Chris Young @squarepegsuk.bsky.social There’s Nothing About us Without us
Every day massive, life changing, decisions are made by those in power without us
Together, people like us can use the power of collective action to bring about change
Join us
https://squarepegsuk.substack.com
Euan Taylor Author @euantaylorauthor.bsky.social The Hard Times: Prison Diaries: A book about crime, punishment, rehabilitation, greed, and putting a newspaper to bed before the editorial team gets locked up: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hard-Times-Prison-Diaries-ebook/dp/B0DPVH8HFF/
Caleb Parkin @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social Poet 💡 PhDing, Exeter RENEW Biodiversity 🌿 'Mingle' - Nine Arches ☣️ 'The Coin' - Broken Sleep 🪙 Bristol City Poet, '20-22 🦄 Ecopoetry, queer ecologies 🐙 Music, dancing, DJing 🎶 Say hello 👋🏼
https://linktr.ee/CalebParkin
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social Here for poetry chat and curious thoughts.
Julia Webb @julwe1.bsky.social Neurodivergent poet and editor. Steering editor for 'Lighthouse'. Latest collection 'Grey Time' (Nine Arches press, 2025).
https://juliawebb.org/
https://visual-poetics.blogspot.com/
https://storymachines.co.uk/portfolio/lighthouse/
@paulspoems.bsky.social @paulspoems.bsky.social 
Attie Lime @attielime.bsky.social Poet. 99% Children's Poetry.
Schools. Events. Festivals.
Poems on Toast Sept 2026 🎉
Blue Jelly and Strawberries
A Welly Full of Christmas
Mum. Ex-teacher. Notebooks. Tea.
East Midlands now, Northumberland then.
www.attielime.co.uk
DMovies @dmovies.bsky.social your platform for thought-provoking cinema
Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social BEAST April 2025 (Bloodaxe),’Tiger Girl’ shortlisted Forward Prize, ‘Mama Amazonica’ won Ondaatje & Laurel prizes. 1st novel ‘My Hummingbird Father’ from Salt 2024 http://www.pascalepetit.co.uk
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social Poet. Bristolian. 6th collection, 'Love the Albatross', from Indigo Dreams Publishing. Neurodishevelled. She/her
https://indigodreamspublishing.com/deborah-harvey
Weird Bristol @weirdbristol.bsky.social The weird and lesser-known history of Bristol.
My four WEIRD BRISTOL books are available on Amazon.
My murder/mystery novel SUSPENSION is here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Suspension-Franklin-Charlie-Revelle-Smith-ebook/dp/B0GFY674NN
Neal Zetter @nealzetterpoet.bsky.social Award-winning performance poet, author, educator, entertainer and superhero. I work with all ages visiting schools, libraries etc, in-person and virtually. Latest poetry books: 'Chicken in the Kitchen' and 'Small Poems for Big Imaginations'.
Jeff @jeffchacon.bsky.social 
Dr Carrie Etter @carrieetter.bsky.social Poet, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Poems in Iowa Review, Poetry London, TLS, The New Republic... | Academic | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the 🐈⬛! | Foodie | Dem 🇺🇸 expat in Bristol, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social Anti-Zionist Free Palestine Ukraine Solidarity Anti-Racist Anti-Carceral Abolitionist Anti-Genocide Anti-Colonial Anti-War Anti-Imperialist Intersectional Feminist Queer LGBTQI+ Green Eco-Socialist People Planet Peace Interfaith Seeker of Beloved Community
Lawrence Moore @lawrencemoore.bsky.social Poet. Pushcart, Forward nominated.
This Joyful Interlude out now with @janes-studio.bsky.social 🕊️
UK link: amazon.co.uk/dp/1068432330
Vegan, BLM
Liz Brownlee @lizpoet.bsky.social I'm a children's poet, I love writing animal and shape poems, and the children's poetry world! National Poetry Day Ambassador. Dog Owner. Book reader. Coffee drinker. Friend. Between Bristol and Bath.
Emily Ashmore @emilyashmore.bsky.social