Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
simonjamesbrady.bsky.social @simonjamesbrady.bsky.social Simon James Brady is an Irish poet and writer.
See https://simonjamesbrady.com/
Paula McGrath @paulamcgrath.com 
Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social Publisher
Books Made in Berlin since 2023
www.sacredparasite.com
Sara Crowley @saracrowley.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Human. Managing editor for The Forge. Winner of the Excellence in Prison Libraries Award.
Vicky McKay @slopingvertical.bsky.social Words, paint and making, mainly.
Skein Press @skeinpress.bsky.social Independent publisher of stories underrepresented in Irish literature
📚Contentious Spaces by Rosaleen McDonagh & The Posthumous Book of Shahrazad by Raquel Menéndez trans by Robin Munby
🎤In the Half Light:Voices from Black Ireland curated by Phil Mullen
Sean McNulty @thispersona.bsky.social Writer. Poet. Pox.
Irish Novel Fair Finalist. Maker of weird and untrustworthy fictions.
https://linktr.ee/Sean_McNulty
Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966
| new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts |
Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
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Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social London-based independent publisher of fiction, poetry, anthologies & interdisciplinary projects, committed to championing the work of new voices in free-form contemporary literature.
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Dalkey Archive @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social Books, since 1984
MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture @maifeminism.bsky.social MAI is a peer-reviewed, open-access publication for feminist scholars, writers, artists and activists who address visual culture at large.
A K Blakemore @akblakemore.bsky.social drinking spider, author of peasantcore
Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
Les Fugitives @lesfugitivespress.bsky.social Contemporary literary fiction & non-fiction translated from the French. Modern classics and English originals.
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Emma Bolland @emmabolland.bsky.social artist/writer/lecturer (they/them).
co-editor at intergraphia.
'Showily abstruse'
https://linktr.ee/emmabolland?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=8cf1d5e1-11dc-4194-80c5-73c01e6e7072
Sabina Stent @sabinastent.bsky.social Writing about women and surrealism and cinema. Cat worshipper. Small Brummie. Tired.
https://linktr.ee/SabinaStent
The Baffler @thebaffler.com Political and cultural criticism. Since 1988. Online and in print. https://thebaffler.com/
Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social Publisher of award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For the workshop, head to @mccormackwc.bsky.social.
Deep Vellum @deepvellum.bsky.social Nonprofit publishing house & literary arts center bringing the world together in conversation through literature. Deep Ellum, Dallas TX. deepvellum.org
Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social Radiant ambiguity/unclassified residuum/ enigmatic relief/seasoned harridan (historian of age, gender, reproduction, opinions my own and not my employer’s etc.)
https://www.colby.edu/people/people-directory/sarah-duff/
Rosie Schaap @rosieschaap.bsky.social Author, teacher, maker of excellent soups, proud chairperson of the Glenarm Wildlife Group. 🐿️
My new book is THE SLOW ROAD NORTH: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country
rosieschaap.net
Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social St. Louis-based literary press distributed by New York Review Books. Publishes Renee Gladman, Leonora Carrington, Cristina Rivera Garza, Amina Cain, Giada Scodellaro, Kate Briggs, Brais Lamela, Denise Rose Hansen, etc. Est. 2009. dorothyproject.com
A. N. Devers (Allison!) @andeversagain.bsky.social Writer and editor. Proprietor of The Second Shelf, a feminist rare bookshop focused on first editions, ephemera, manuscripts, and collectable but often overlooked works by women and queer folks. First book, Train, forthcoming from Bloomsbury. She/her. 
Desperate Literature @desperatelit.bsky.social International bookshop in the heart of Madrid!
Home of the Desperate Literature Prize for Short Fiction (NOW CLOSED FOR 2026)
Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social Author - THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE - Feb 25 (UK) May 25 (US) with Dialogue and Legacy Lit
🌈☎️✨ I like games, books, art & crafts ✨newsletter/blog: the tiny narrative ✨ she/her
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Dnote • for the best of art in Ireland @dnoting.bsky.social Dnote sends weekly mailshots covering much of the best of art and art venues on the island of Ireland.
Run by Peter FitzGerald, artist, who is currently doing a PhD in the Media & Entertainment Lab at University College Dublin; former lots of things.
Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social July 2026: What Lies Ahead and Other Essays, Black Herald Press: https://www.blackheraldpress.com/what-lies-ahead
Own Sweet Time, CB editions (2022)
Sovetica, CB editions (2021)
Saying Yes in Russian, Agenda Editions (2012)
https://carolineclark.carrd.co/
Leeds Lit Fest @leedslitfest.bsky.social 6 - 14 June 2026. Returning for its eighth year, the award-winning festival of words aims to bring together, and help develop, the city’s literary scene, with writers, poets and performers from Leeds, Yorkshire and beyond!
#LLF26. www.leedslitfest.co.uk
Futch Journal: The journal of experimental poetics @futch-journal.bsky.social The journal of experimental poetics.
SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
A place for prose that listens as much as it speaks.
Based in Nottingham, UK, with a global readership.
https://www.futchpress.info/
Bristol Short Story Prize @bristolshortstory.bsky.social The Bristol Short Story Prize is an international writing competition hosted by the Department of English at the University of Bristol.
https://bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Killian Beashel @killianbeashel.bsky.social PhD candidate at UCL researching artists' books and small press publishing in Ireland
How we laughed on our way to the Burns Unit!
Pauline Clooney @paulineclooney.bsky.social Learning to be an herbalist, a drummer, a writer, my own website designer...patient, practical, and 🤞post menopausal, oh, and, accepting of my limits! Slowly!
Maynooth University English Department @maynoothenglish.bsky.social 
Bullaun Press @bullaunpress.bsky.social New independent publisher. Ireland's first press dedicated to literature in translation.
#artscouncilsupported
CLS INFRA: Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure @clsinfra.bsky.social https://clsinfra.io
Building a shared and sustainable infrastructure for literary studies in the digital age. Funded by @HorizonEU (Horizon 2020, grant agreement No 101004984)
TripFiction @tripfiction.bsky.social Love to travel? Love to read?
TripFiction.com matches books with 2,890 locations around the world
See a destination through the eyes of an author
Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social Writing. Reading. Making.
Boppin’ round Europe in a van with m’cats. Working on a novel that for now I'll just call "the Post Office book." It has vampires & poets.
Reading 📖 A Ghost in the Throat
deborahrosereeves.com
https://usps-teach-in.carrd.co/
BookBlast® Official @bookblast.org Championing world literature since 1997. Book Club ; reviews, interviews, podcasts by publishing insider Georgia DC & friends & special events. Instagram @bookblastofficial www.linktr.ee/bookblast Accept no imitations
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
David Valley @sonicdave2112.bsky.social Film Composer, Songwriter, Progressive coffee enthusiast and music nerd, Ally to all. No DM's🚫 No crypto🚫
Ask me about the Black Sheep Social Club!
It's finally out!
#Blueresisters
Heather Treseler @htreseler.bsky.social poet & critic, author of AUGURIES & DIVINATIONS, PARTURITION, and HARD BARGAIN; poems/essays/rambles in Boston Review, LARB, Harvard Review, Narrative, and PN Review; heathertreseler.com 
Fergal Lenehan @fergallenehan.bsky.social Books on The European Idea and German images of Ireland. Co-ed Reclaiming the European Street by MDH. Contributor https://thecurrency.news
Member @redico.eu www.redico.eu
Join the research hub: hub.redico.eu
M. K. Martin @mkmartinwriter.com #Writer - mostly #SFF * #Editor * #Veteran * SJW * Linguistics * Will work for tea, but not before 9:30 am
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Patricia Caspers @patricia-caspers.bsky.social Writer, reader, eic @ West Trestle Review, librarian, UU, mama, rider of bicycles. 🚲 🚲
Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Independent publisher.
fitzcarraldoeditions.com
Gutter Dalkey @gutterdalkey.bsky.social Dalkey branch of The Gutter Bookshop at 20 Railway Road (opp. Finnegan's). Local bookshop with books, gifts & stationery. Marta & May post randomly.
Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social lit mag & small press | supported by the Arts Council of Ireland | issue 21 (spring/summer 2026) out now | latest book: Render by Billy Ramsell | https://bansheepress.org/
PVA Books @pva-books.bsky.social PVA Books is a Dublin- and Berlin-based publisher.
Our latest non-fiction collection, AS IF NOTHING COULD FALL, is now available for pre-order via our website.
www.pva-books.com
Henry St Leger @henrywriteswords.bsky.social gamer poet + technology reporter | words for TechRadar, GamesRadar, The Times, NBC, Healthline, Independent, Dicebreaker, and more
Lee Ballard @leeballardbooks.bsky.social Novice Writer of Chapter Book Series, Experienced Grandmother, Almost Graduate of SNHU, Gladly Retired, Shivering Chicago Resident, Extreme Novice Website Developer (mine only), Longtime lover of life!
www.LeeBallardBooks.com
Lee Anne Gallaway-Mitchell @gallawaymitch.bsky.social Writer. Gardener. Giver of care. Tired.
Words in Boulevard, Arts & Letters, Bat City Review, Florida Review.
Find me on substack: https://leeannegallawaymitchell.substack.com
Roger Vaillancourt @rogerjva.bsky.social Professional explicator and maker of soothing sounds. I'd rather make furniture than go to midnight mass.
Author of "The Inaccessible Rail" (2026)
(PREORDER! https://malarkeybooks.com/store/inaccessiblerail)
and "Un-ruined" (2022) from Malarkey Books
Sofie @sofiedesmyter.bsky.social reads writes eats talks watches listens walks remembers breathes
words in Profiles, Aesthetica Creative Writing Award, Sans.Press, Litro, Frustrated Writers, Belfield Literary Review, Chewin' The Fat
Zinnie Harris @zinnieh.bsky.social Playwright, theatre director, prof and mum.
Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social Skin the Rabbit (The Braag) Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed (Verve). Writing long poems about rivers, absurdity & time +Arts Council £. Runs Sub Club for Manchester Poetry Library. Half poet, half tutor, half clown. Sheffield www.susiewilsonpoet.com
PeterUrpeth @peterurpeth.bsky.social Writer | poet | development editor | pianist | improviser | Journalist |
peterurpeth.com | peterurpeth.bandcamp.com | poetry collection - The 4000 Nights of New York in 1988 peterurpeth.com/4000nights | Cockney living in the Outer Hebrides
Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social Some atoms in the shape of an elongated hominid. Poems. Writing reviews for KLOF mag. Buy my book here https://www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/product-page/%C6%A8-tom-blake
Si Mack @xsimac.bsky.social I write a bit, read a bit, teach a bit, and library a bit.
Writer in residence at The Outsiders Project
https://gotbeaf.co.uk/beaf/our-work/outsiders-project/
page wicks @pagewicks.com She/They. Photographer, artist, cultural worker and writer. Not only work here.
pagewicks.com
Kate Sutherland @katesutherland.bsky.social Law prof, poet, collage artist.
https://linktr.ee/poetryartmagic
𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social Woods. Words. Birds. Birch. Beech. Bach.
Reviewer of translated fiction for
@irishtimes.bsky.social
Co-curator of the poetry festival Circling The Square.
@circlingpoetry.bsky.social
Jennifer Yvette Brown @jenniferyvette.bsky.social Books 📚 Music 🎧 Nature 🌱Space 🪐 Human rights for every mother and our descendants 🕊️ Aspiring dirt farmer Writing like my life depends upon it ✍️
Jenni Milward 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉🦓♿ @jrmilward.bsky.social Writer | VO actor | OU BSc (Hons) | AMRSB @RoyalSocBio | Lefty/Social justice | LGBTQ+ | EDS Zebra | Disability/chronic illness | Tomb Raider AoD PotBA novelist | Woke AF | She/Her 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉🦓♿
jrmilward.com
Little James Baldwin @nnemmanuels.bsky.social I should have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, but I could not stop pressing my phone.
Melanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social Creative writing & literature prof, romance author, lover of books, & poet of the ginger life. www.melaniedusseau.com
Associate Professor of English, U Findlay (she/her), MFA, analog researcher, dog-loving, traveling teller of love stories. Human writer.💗
Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind)
#writer #historian #Lesbian #sapphic #wlw #Hispanic #feminist #goth #vampires #jpop #bibliophile
NO DMs | Terfs & Narcissists DNI
Jess Lowe | Belfast Photographer @jesslowephoto.bsky.social Relaxed headshot photographer based in Ireland | Published NYT, Observer, Reuters, Telegraph and many more.
Get in touch hello@jesslowephotography.com
https://www.jesslowephotography.com
Dr Gráinne Rice @grainnerr.bsky.social Adult Programme Coordinator, @Natgalleriessco
All views my own etc.
Board dir: @SCampbellTrust & @WeAreUpland Writing about Steven Campbell & art.
linktr.ee/grainnerr
profiles @profilesjournal.bsky.social Publishing portraiture in prose and visual art
https://linktr.ee/profilesjournal
Dan O'Connor @danjamesoc.bsky.social Academic Librarian. Former bookshop manager and pub manager(long story). Loves history, politics, camping, cricket, and people being kind to each other. Personal account, views my own. He/him
After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers.
Links: https://bio.site/afterdinner
Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social Writer. University Lecturer. North Cornwall Book Festival Director.
Editor & Co-founder at @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social.
Doreen Duffy @doreenduffy13.bsky.social MA in Creative Writing. Creative Writer & Tutor. Pushcart Prize Nominated Writer. (all views my own)
http://doreenduffy.blogspot.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
Genrepunk Magazine @genrepunkmag.bsky.social Literary magazine for weird little experiments. 🏳️🌈 ♿️ 🇵🇸 🤘🏻
Run by Audrey T. Carroll (https://bsky.app/profile/audreytcarroll.bsky.social).
Genrepunkmag.wordpress.com
Submissions will be closed starting April 1st.
Eoin Rogers @eoieoin.bsky.social Programme Manager @ The Stinging Fly
Professional Goblin
JP Maney @j-p-m.bsky.social My three most recent books are now available online. "Ireland Feeds My Soul", "A Booklover's Last Stand" and "It's Your Day, Make it your Tao" are all available on the Big A. You can also order Tao from your local bookshop. More at www.jpmaney.com
Shelley Day @shelleyday.bsky.social Author. Geordie riff-raff. Based in Paris/Edinburgh. Very annoyed about a lot of things atm.
Michael Scott Author @flamelauthor.bsky.social Author of the New York Times' bestselling series, The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel http://dillonscott.com 
Katherine Mezzacappa @katmezzacappa.bsky.social Irish historical novelist living in Italy, published by Fairlight (Oxford), Histria (LV) and Stairwell (York). Writes too as Katie Hutton (Zaffre Books) and Kate Zarrelli (Romaunce). katherinemezzacappa.com
Claire Denelle Cowart @clairedenelle.bsky.social Literature professor specializing in Irish lit, Jane Austen, detective fiction and modern Brits. Twitter refugee (was ccowart1). Live close to NOLA. Married with grown children and grandchildren. Eyeing retirement. she/her
mark stephen [surname stolen] @markmwahwords.bsky.social Poet, music distro, cultural worker, abolitionist, educator. Benefitting from occupied indigenous land. Sissy vegan for spaceship Earth.
Paul Stubbs @paulrstubbs.bsky.social Poet
The Icon Maker / The End of the Trial of Man / Lost Songs of Gravity / Beast: The List Chronicles / The Carbonized Earth, essays on Rimbaud
https://poetpstubbs.wixsite.com/paulstubbs
Sharon Keely @sharonkeely.bsky.social Fiction only please
Elizabeth Kate Switaj @ekswitaj.bsky.social http://www.elizabethkateswitaj.net/
📚The Articulations, Kernpunkt Press http://www.kernpunktpress.com/store/p43/articulationsamouroboros.html
📚The Bringers of Fruit, 11:11 Press https://1111press.com/the-bringers-of-fruit
🇲🇭Majuro, Marshall Islands
Jennifer Branigan @jenbranigan.bsky.social Archivist at DCU Library SC&A
Matt Lanark @mattlanark.bsky.social ✍️ probably not writing the Great American Novel
📚 Great-ish Books on @substack
🏀 Undrafted NBA free agent since 2012
📌 Washington, DC
mattlanark.substack.com/welcome
Dan Thompson @mrdanthompson.bsky.social Writer of fiction, creative non-fiction and stories for the media.📚🖥️📰 ✍🏻
Creative Writing Alumni University of Cambridge.
Interested in writing of all kinds including for the screen, stage, prose, poetry and VSS.
M Brown @mbrown007.bsky.social Friendly writer of thrilling SF, Fantasy, Horror. Screenwriter/Novelist. TTRPG enthusiast. Architecture/Design nut. Biography and history fiend. All around lover of art. Shouldering the burden of one massive TBR!
Kelly Creighton @kellycrimebooks.bsky.social Northern Irish author. DI Harriet Sloane series, State of Fear, Souls Wax Fair, Unbecoming, The Bones of It, etc.
I don't respond to anonymous accounts.
European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social Travelling salon and writing community - connecting writers across Europe and beyond. Posts by @royakhatiblou.bsky.social and @deborahzafer.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/europeanwriterssalon
The Four Faced Liar @the4facedliar.bsky.social The Four Faced Liar is an Irish literary journal that publishes fiction, poetry, creative non fiction, art, photography and work in translation from all over the world.
Granta @grantamag.bsky.social The Magazine of New Writing.
https://granta.com/
Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org CAT champions literature in translation and global voices. We program events with authors and translators in the Bay Area and beyond, publish books @twolinespress.com, and run an education program (Poetry Inside Out). More at www.catranslation.org.