Writing The Dawn @writingthedawn.bsky.social Where biodiversity, neurodiversity & creativity meet | Writing, creative workshops & coaching|For every kind of bodymind | Neurodivergent-affirming | Anti-racist| LGBTQIA+ affirming | Anti-oppression
Chris Emery @chrisemery.me Poet and book designer, born in Manchester, living in Cromer. Co-founder of Salt Publishing. Five collections from Arc and Salt, most recently Wonder (2025). Newsletter: chrisemery.me
BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social Britain's leading website for birders. Live sightings, breaking news and trusted content.
Bobby Gant @bobbygant.bsky.social Conservation and Development Officer, Scarborough Bird Network.
Also.. Writer.. sometimes. A Decade of Drinking With Ghosts out with @razurcutsmag. Buy it here: https://razurcuts.com/shop/a-decade-of-drinking-with-ghosts-bobby-gant
#MDANT
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.
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
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https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Cooper Lee Press @cooperleepress.bsky.social Bridging the gap between craft development and published work, Cooper Lee is an independent press and school of writing and theory founded in 2025 by Dr Craig Snelgrove.
cooperleepress.co.uk
Sheaf Poetry @sheafpoetry.bsky.social Poetry group in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Stephen Paul Wren @moleculesunlimited.bsky.social Poet. PINE/NEEDLES out Sept ‘26. BOtN nominated. Director of Molecules Unlimited. Leads Wren research group. University of Cambridge PhD. AFC.
David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social the sea is completely written for me
https://www.transitbooks.org/books/darker
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/
Ben Potts @benjaminsteven.bsky.social Local Gov. Archaeology, Books, Art, Mountains. Birmingham City, Post-Punk, Films. Usually found in the Yorks, Worcs, and Pembs Tri-State area. History and Philosophy @ UWL. https://thefastflowingriver.wordpress.com/
Cal Sutherland @calsutherland.bsky.social —PhD Researcher at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
—Wordsworth, Property, and Marxist Ecocriticism
Abbi Flint @draflint.bsky.social Researcher and poet #archaeology #envhist #folklore #envhum #peatlands #moss #heritage #poetry #reindeer #sheffield #footpaths #RightsOfWay
Dr Victoria Xiaoxiao Ma @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social Environmental Humanities researcher. @LeedsUniEnglish @LeedsEnvHums
#Wordsworth #JohnClare #Romanticism
#walking #birdwatching #naturewriting
Ascending with the Earth 🌍.
Caroline Venezia @caroline-venezia.bsky.social Happily retired, reading, eating, drinking, snoozing. Author's wife, cat's mother, she/her.
🇪🇺 Still European, proud new Italian 🇮🇹
🏳️🌈 Ally of all good-hearted people 🏳️⚧️
Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social Novelist, poet, lecturer at University of Birmingham. Latest novel BLACK BAG out March 12th 2026.
https://linktr.ee/lukekennard
Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social Novelist. Poet. Reader.
🏺OVID’S HEROINES 🍼INCARNATION 🐇FIERCE BAD RABBITS 🔮 DELPHI 🏰THE UNTAMEABLES 🧚🏾THE MODERN FAIRIES, ✍️LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS 🌊THE OTHERNAUTS, etc
Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle
David Chance @davidchance.bsky.social ‘Resting’ journalist. Cat is Bob and we live in Liverpool. He likes chasing things, eating and sleeping. I like LFC, The Archers and making my way round on a bike. 🚲
N u z h a t B u k h a r i @nuzhatbukhari7.bsky.social Brilliant Corners (CB Editions)
Views & Reviews: https://cbeditions.com/bukhari.html
Contributing Editor at Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal
J-T Kelly @j-tkelly.bsky.social poet - Chapbooks: https://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/06/new-from-aboveground-press-more-of-how.html https://cccpchapbooks.bigcartel.com/product/like-now-by-j-t-kelly - Poems: http://www.ucityreview.com/30_Kelly_JT.html
@fayay.bsky.social @fayay.bsky.social Poetry, history, social justice
Land Class Nature
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com News, analysis and commentary on environmental stories from @theguardian.com
The New Yorker @newyorker.com Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
Follow The New Yorker’s writers and contributors: https://go.bsky.app/Gh5bFwS
The Atlantic @theatlantic.com Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social Nature. Writer. Reader. Radical Rural.
Guardian Country Diary, BBC Countryfile, RSPB.
Award winning author, On Gallows Down & Ghosts of the Farm
Climate Fic Prize Judge 2025
North Wessex.
https://nicolachester.com/
https://linktr.ee/nicolachesterwriting
Sina Toossi @sinatoossi.bsky.social senior fellow at the @CIPolicy.bsky.social | write a lot about Iran, US foreign policy, Middle East | bylines Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the Guardian & elsewhere | check out my substack: dissidentforeignpolicy.com
Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social Award-winning photographer and writer. Big Issue Top 100 Changemaker 2026.
Website is https://marcdavenant.com
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
New Writing North @newwritingnorth.bsky.social The writing and reading development agency for the North of England.
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
Neal Romanek @nromanek.bsky.social Founder of publishing company ¡AU! & media biz journalist of many years - plus sustainability. Used to write for the pictures. Author of scifi swashbuckler SKIES OF VENUS & graphic novel BOUDICCA.
Dayton to L.A. to London
https://linktr.ee/nealromanek
Martin Ferguson @honorius.bsky.social DREICH Classic Pamphlet competition winner 'Stone Age Howl',
Runner (10k PB 35'49") Professional English language Trainer, Qualified Photographer, father
Rebecca Goss @gosspoems.bsky.social More on Instagram @gosspoems
Poet & mentor. Books with Carcanet Press. Poet-in-Residence for CW+, the official charity for Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals. Writing for Life Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund.
Norman Nicholson Society @nnicholsonpoet.bsky.social The Society was formed in 2006 to promote, study and discuss the work of the English poet and writer Norman Nicholson who lived in the Cumbrian coastal town of Millom his whole life, 1914 - 1987. Plenty more information at www.normannicholson.org 
Centre for Modern British Studies @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Birmingham.
MBS2026 conference, June 3-5 2026. Registration now open!
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/mbs
Feminist inter/Modernist Association @fimassociation.bsky.social The Feminist inter/Modernist Association (#FiMA) is the professional organization for the journal Feminist Modernist Studies. Account managed by @secornish.bsky.social.
Check out FMS: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfmd20/current
Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social This is the official MSA Bluesky account run by @kweingarten.bsky.social. Find us at moderniststudies.org for more information about future conferences and other events.
West Midlands Ringing Group @westmidlandsrg.bsky.social National Award Winning Bird Ringing Group. Pioneered Thermal Imaging Technology for bird surveys, specialising in Farmland species #thermalimaging #bewareofimitations
https://www.westmidlandsringinggroup.co.uk/
Farisa Khalid @drfarisakhalid.bsky.social PhD in English. Art historian. English professor specializing in British literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, genre studies (science fiction, spy fiction), and the environmental humanities. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/734326
Ben Wilkinson @benwilko85.bsky.social Writer, poet, “refreshingly honest” critic, tutor. Poems: Way More Than Luck (2018), Same Difference (Seren Books 2022). Criticism: Don Paterson (LUP 2021). Writing has appeared in Guardian, New Statesman, Spectator, TLS, etc. Lifelong Red. Likes a jog.
British Ornithologist's Club @britornitholclub.bsky.social We are passionate about educating on all things ornithological including avian systematics, taxonomy and species distributions. We provide a platform for the publication of open-access scientific information, and host discussions on ornithological issues.
The Linnean Society of London @linneansociety.bsky.social
Working towards a world where nature is understood, valued and protected.
https://www.linnean.org/
British Mycological Society @britmycolsoc.org.uk Fungal research, education, recording and conservation. https://www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/
> Supporting & publishing mycological research & field studies
> Share your finds & get help with fungus ID: on.fb.me/1FF9eI
🍄#UKFungusDay - 10 October 2026🍄
Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social Scottish poet and musician
Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social Writer, book reviewer for Yorkshire Times, and grateful national park resident. https://yorkshiretimes.co.uk/
Daniel Fraser @harmlessfires.bsky.social Writer and critic. Work in Poetry London, Poetry Ireland Review, Mute, Aeon, Radical Philosophy, London Magazine +. Tutor & PhD Scholar at UCC. Mostly writing about Marx, Benjamin, Celan, Duras.
Tarn MacArthur @tarnnation.bsky.social Poems in: London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, The New Republic, Poetry Review, & Poetry London.
https://linktr.ee/tarnmacarthur
Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social Surprised historian, not surprised eels.
Doctor of medieval things. Talkin’ eels, history, and maps. Spaniel mourner. Alt-text artist.
I draw custom maps and artwork on commission:
https://surprisedeelmaps.com/
Support me here: patreon.com/SurprisedEel
Rob Marchant @rob-marchant.bsky.social I am a professor of tropical ecology at the University of York. I have a passion for Mountain ecosystems and cultures across the Global South, particularly in Kenya and Tanzania where I work with many Universities, NGOs and Government organisations.
Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social Poet, painter, translator (mainly from modern Greek & German). Originally from Boston, Lincolnshire, I now live in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds.
https://wisdomsbottompress.wordpress.com/peter-j-king
Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social Poet published in magazines & anthologies in the UK, US, Ireland & Canada. Debut pamphlet: Fledglings (Red Squirrel Press, 2016). First collection: Crippled (Red Squirrel Press, 2025).
Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social That’s not me asking for money, it’s someone spoofing me. I promise.
Non-stop book reviewing lady! Also writer, editor, aunt, godmother, curmudgeon. I love books and birds.
No DMs, sorry! I am extremely shy.
Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social Academic in Dublin. Contemporary literature & publishing.
Annemarieke Willemsen @amwillemsen.bsky.social A medieval art historian & archaeologist @ Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden, Dr, FSA, loves Rome & Roma, birds & books, proprietor of the Rose & Parrot 🐺📚🦤
"History is an illusion caused by the passing of time" (Douglas AdAms)
helen @hejparry.bsky.social writer of children's books, wrangler of cats, waster of time
A Scrap of Moss & Magick, my MG debut, is out in October 2026 with @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social (now available to pre-order! From all good bookshops & bad ones too)
British in Belgium
she/her
Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social Environmental campaigner & author, The Lie of the Land (William Collins, 2024), The Lost Rainforests of Britain (2022), & Who Owns England? (2019). Forthcoming: The Ghosts of Chalk Country (2027). Agent: @jmlockhart.bsky.social
David Frankel @daveyfrankel.bsky.social Prize-dodging writer of stories. Here despite popular demand. 'Forgetting is How We Survive' pub'd Saltpublishing.bsky.social . Shortlisted @edgehillprize.bsky.social. Chapbooks @nightjarpress.bsky.social & @salopress.bsky.social .
www.davidfrankel..co.uk
Mother Jones @motherjones.com Investigative journalism 🕵️, politics 🗳️, chart-tastic 📊, and sometimes sarcastic 🙄😌🤪
Join our people-powered nonprofit newsroom: motherjones.com/subscribe
Oxford Poetry Library @oxpoetrylibrary.bsky.social Community-powered poetry in Oxford. Workshops, events, open mics and a lending library of poetry open on Saturdays from 12pm-3pm. Entirely volunteer-run. Currently based at The Community Works, 21 Park End St, OX1 1HU
https://linktr.ee/oxfordpoetrylibrary
C. S. Mills @cscottmills.com Writer and walker in the world of generation. Author of ‘Drift Gestures’ (The Lune, 2023).
cscottmills.com/polylith
Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social Stage haunter, writer, Addick in Dundee. Attention All Shipping live show coming to a theatre near you as long as you're near a theatre where it's on.
All Worlds Wayfarer (Literary Magazine) @awwlitmag.bsky.social Literary magazine exploring character-and-theme-driven speculative fiction. Submissions CLOSED. #litmag
Read stories at www.allworldswayfarer.com
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social Poetry Critic for the Sunday Times. Anglican Priest. Poetry Collection, "Dirt Rich", out from Carcanet. TLS contributor since 2010. All views very much my own.
Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social Research Ecologist working on birds, mammals, forests, farms, hedgerows, woodland natural colonisation. Marsh Tit & Wood Warbler studies. Editor-in-Chief of the journal Bird Study: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tbis20
Views are mine.
Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social Editor, anthologist, reviewer, professor. Alexander Pope | John Betjeman | contemporary poetry. 
Jason Ioannou @iioannou.bsky.social all things under heaven ought to be common
Kim Whysall-Hammond @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social Poet, scientist, artist. Lifelong Science Fiction fan. SFPA. My debut pamphlet ‘Messages from the Road’ is available from Palewell Press. https://palewellpress.co.uk/bookstore/lost-wellbeing/mftr/
Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social Poet and translator in a bad time for Lyrik
Lover of lurchers and other thieving dogs
The Strongbox, Carcanet, 2024
Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social Teacher and Poet. Pamphlets - Walrussey (The Black Cat Poetry Press, 2023) and Circulaire (Written off Publishing, 2025).
Circulaire available to purchase here: https://writtenoffpublishing.com/shop/p/circulaire-bex-hainsworth
Jonathan Woods @jonathanwwoods.bsky.social Operations manager, @c20society.bsky.social
Editor
Here for theatre, books, art and food
London
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Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social Poet. Only in it for the money.
(And now also a CHASE-funded PhD student working on the blank spaces of 20th century poetry at UEA.)
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
linktr.ee/jdnelson
poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
Adelle Stripe @adellestripe.bsky.social Average enthusiast. Scribe for hire. Author of Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, Ten Thousand Apologies, Base Notes and all the rest …
https://www.adellestripe.co.uk/
Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social ...fled hellscapes, virtual and hardcopy, residing now in a shoebox of a garret, under the shadow of a castle. Between these book-lined walls, I read arcana, drink champagne, and write. angelisawood.blogspot.com and ko-fi.com/angelisa
Delicate Emissions Poetry Zine @delicatezine.bsky.social A hand-made, heart made, 8-panel poetry zine publishing small poems by poets of many sizes since 2021. Proud CLMP member; listed on ChillSubs & Duotrope. Read us at https://delicateemissions.com/. Contact: DelicateEmissions@gmail.com.
Dave Kurley @badvibrations62.bsky.social Poet, writer, photographer. All my own work. All my own photos. All my own teeth, too. No DMs, please - unless I know you personally.
First book of poems: ‘Irritating the Silver Lining’ - available to order online.
Visit my website: www.davekurley.net
Ruth Winden @ruthwinden.bsky.social #Careers with #Research Consultant | Fascinated by all things work and careers | European based in Sheffield | Facilitator | Adventurer at ❤️
Give our Research Culture Uncovered podcast a listen https://research-culture.captivate
Niamh Hollis-Locke @niamhvh-l.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor, too many hobbies-haver, etc. Shortlisted Ginkgo Prize, Heroines Prize. Writing a book (very slowly).
UK born, Aotearoa-based, holder of slightly too many English degrees. Enjoys a good walk.
https://linktr.ee/nh_l
Lisa Brockwell @lisabrockwell.bsky.social Writer, poodle fancier, Australian in Scotland. Author of Earth Girls (2016) & The Round Ring (2021). Both Pitt Street Poetry.
ClaireBurnettWrites @claireburnett.bsky.social best stored outside
Deirdre Shanahan @deirdre2.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Lots in between.
deirdreshanahan.com
'Caravan of the Lost and Left Behind' @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social
'Carrying Fire and Water' Splice Books
awards -@societyofauthors.bsky.social @wasafirimag.bsky.social
tits andronicus @tambourine.bsky.social 🥞 🫖 📚
sick poet / library mole
london
markruddy @markruddy.bsky.social Data science and Geospatial @Arup.
Liveable cities.
Music!
Ex-palaeo and archaeo person. Views from my brainbox.
SUFC:UTB; CCFC:Tons
Dr A. T. Hartley @athartley.bsky.social Research interests: gender performance in speculative and gothic fiction/ folk horror.
Working in academic publishing. Finding the South East flatter than preferred.
She/Her
James Kennedy @jameskennedy.bsky.social Musician, author & podcaster
Album : http://linktr.ee/makeanger
Book : http://linktr.ee/noisedamage
Podcast : http://linktr.ee/jameskennedypodcast
Official site: http://jameskennedyofficial.com
Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social Writer, web dev, runner
Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social Connecting Poetry and People. Proudly funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland National Lottery Funding. www.poetryireland.ie
@lauren-thomas.bsky.social @lauren-thomas.bsky.social All things poetry. Co-editor of Black Iris https://www.blackirispoetry.com
Rhianna Levi-Burton @rhiannalevi98.bsky.social Former Worcestershire Poet Laureate. Cover teacher. Youth worker. Social media manager. Published writer. Mental health advocate.
Coffee, cats, tattoos, movie fanatic. Tolkien enthusiast. 🖤
Worcester, UK
Keith Jebb @keithjebb.bsky.social Writer, poet, reviewer, sometime creative writing lecturer, turn left at Labour and keep going.
Valerie Estelle Frankel📚👩🏫🌌🎲🎮🏰📜🧷🧛🏻♂️🦇🎭✡️✍️🧙🏻🎃 @valeriefrankel.bsky.social 👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/jewish-science-fiction-and-fantasy/
Peter Devonald @pdevonald.bsky.social Multi award-winning poet /screenwriter | Winner Broken Spine's Reader’s Choice Award 2025 | Winner Loft Books Poetry 2024 | Winner HoHx2, Waltham Forest & FofHCS | Second Shelley Memorial & N2tS 2024 | Nominations BoNx2, Forward Prize & Children's Bafta