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
Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social PhD. Assistant Professor of English at Ursinus College. Contemporary Literature. Writing a book about the War on Terror and domesticity. I know hundreds of Bollywood songs by heart. he/him. Views are my own.
https://www.jayshelat.com
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
takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social Aotearoa’s longest-running independent journal of poetry, fiction, art, comics, and culture in review. Since 1989. https://linktr.ee/takahemagazine
Pippa @pippaesque.bsky.social Prune Juice Editor. I write short things and long things. Zines, poems, art. I like birds.
Buy me a ko-fi: Ko-fi.com/pippaesque. 🏳️🌈
Newtown Review of Books @newtownbooks.bsky.social Sydney's original online review of books, established March 2012 by Jean Bedford and Linda Funnell. We are a free and independent site for book reviews. Find us at https://newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/
On Gadigal land. Posts by LF. 
Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social She/her. Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies ~ femininities, queer theory, beauty culture, crushes. Writer, advocate, infamous bisexual, wannabe poet. Views my own and not that of my university. Another world is possible 💅🏻🙇🏻♂️
www.hannahmccann.com.au
Melissa Goorie @melissagoorie.bsky.social Indigenous. Socialist. Pro-choice. 
Brigitta Olubas @brigittaolubas.bsky.social Professor of English UNSW Sydney | Australian Literature | Biographer
The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social The UK's oldest literary journal: a review of literature and the arts, est. 1732, published bi-monthly.
thelondonmagazine.org
https://linktr.ee/thelondonmagazine
Kate Larsen @katelarsenkeys.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Arts, cultural and non-profit consultant and rabble-rouser.
📚 An Apology to the Librarian, Our Hybrid Future, Public.Open.Space., The Relationship is the Project
https://linktr.ee/katelarsenkeys
Island Magazine @islandmag.bsky.social Stories. Poems. Essays. Art. From Tasmania, for the world.
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social Poets | Anniversaries | Poems
www.marcchamberlain.net
Ralph Wessman @garradunga.bsky.social based Launceston Tasmania, literary interests, small press publisher
walleahpress.com.au
Jane O'Sullivan @sightlined.bsky.social Writer / Art writing, cultural criticism & fiction in Art Guide, Vault, Apollo, Sydney Review of Books, Island, Adroit Journal, Flash Frog & Okay Donkey / Secret 🪡 habit
janeosullivan.com.au
English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social Official Bluesky account of the English Department of The Australian National University 📚✍🏽🤓
Tamlyn Avery @tamlynavery.bsky.social Snr Lecturer in English, Adelaide University| C19/20 lit, modernism| Regional Development of American Bildungsroman (‘23)| Ed. Women of 1922 (‘25)| ARC Discovery Grant Chief Investigator, “Australia’s Modernist Print Heritage” (26-9)| Treasurer, AMSN
The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org Maggie Smith delivers a different way to see the world – through poetry. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Sign up for our daily poem newsletter --> bit.ly/3AWdEMl
Produced in partnership with the Poetry Foundation.
T. S. Eliot Prize @tseliotprize.bsky.social Home of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry for the best collection published in the year.
Wild & Precious Life Series @wplseries.bsky.social Wild & Precious Life is a virtual poetry reading series. Visit wildandpreciouslifeseries.com for more information.
Diane Seuss @dseuss.bsky.social Author of Modern Poetry, frank: sonnets, Still Life w Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, Four-Legged Girl, all from Graywolf Press, and Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (Univ. of Massachusetts Press), Chancellor for Academy of American Poets.- R Rebecca Croser @rebeccacroser.bsky.social Lecturer, Graduate Researcher Development at Deakin University
Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social Bloodaxe Books, Britain's leading international poetry publisher.
www.bloodaxebooks.com
Poems on the Underground @poemsonthetube.bsky.social Poems on the Underground offering poetry old and new, familiar and unfamiliar, to three million daily travellers on London’s Underground system since 1986. www.poemsontheunderground.org
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
Poetry Wales @poetrywales.bsky.social The Welsh home of international poetry
Dr. Eleanor Hooker FLS @eleanorhooker.bsky.social Poet & Writer | PhD non-naturalistic narratives of trauma | RNLI Lifeboat Press Officer | Fellow of Linnean Society | Michael Hartnett & Markievicz Awards | Of Ochre and Ash (DedalusPress) | Where Memory Lies(Bonnefant Press) www.eleanorhooker.com
North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social Noticeboard and live commonplace book of North Sea Poets. We run online masterclasses, workshops and webinars.
northseapoets.com
Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social Scottish poet and musician
Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social Poet, essayist. Author of 'Findings', 'Sightlines', 'Surfacing' and 'Cairn'. Erstwhile National Poet of Scotland. Terrible at art, alas. What else? Today is all low winter sun and jackdaws.
Anna MacDonald @annamacdonald.bsky.social reader, writer, bookseller
Erin Gough 🏳️🌈🍉 @eringough.bsky.social Writer. She/her. Books, culture, queer stuff, social justice, climate justice, TV, film, art. The Flywheel, Amelia Westlake, Into the Mouth of the Wolf https://linktr.ee/eringough
Tiffany Tsao @tiffanytsao.bsky.social Author & Literary Translator | Deputy Editor, Sydney Review of Books.
I am not very active here!
http://tiffanytsao.com
Jane Sullivan @janesully.bsky.social 
Jen Benka @jenbenka.bsky.social Executive Director of the Literary Arts Fund @literaryartsfund.bsky.social
Literaryartsfund.org
Chris Tse @chrisjtse.bsky.social New Zealand Poet Laureate, 2022-25.
Anne Elvey @afelv.bsky.social Poet, editor, researcher
Ecological poetics, ecological hermeneutics
Living on unceded Bunurong Country
Irish, Scottish, English ancestry
@nicmoore.bsky.social @nicmoore.bsky.social Lit and cultural history stuff - Australian in particular. Plus book and print censorship. Teaching and research at UNSW Canberra, ex-Australian Studies Prof at UTokyo. https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/nicole-moore
Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social Poet | First collection, ‘Midnight at the Saltmarsh’, published by The Gallery Press, May 2026
Dr. Karen Lowry @kazzalow.bsky.social 📚 Australian Spec Fic Author. Experimental Poet > > > >
Writing about disability and trauma.
📓✏️🍰Journalling. Books. Stickers. Baking.
🇦🇺🇳🇿 Aussie/Kiwi | Ngai Tahu || she/her.
www.kazzalow.com
Donna Ward writer @donnawardwriter.bsky.social Writer, editor, advocate for single people everywhere. You can find out about my writing life at donna-ward.com.au and about my advocacy work at singlehoodaustralia.org
Jocasta Suzannex @jjsuzannex.bsky.social 
Rachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social Poet. Private scholar. (HOTEL IMPERIUM, DICK OF THE DEAD.) Forthcoming in UNSUNG MASTERS (Wesleyan). Journal of the Plague Years, New American Writing, Paris Review &c. Profile image from Ana Teresa Fernández
Brenda Shaughnessy @brendashaughnessy.bsky.social Poet, friend. Wrote Sensorium Ex, an opera, with composer Paola Prestini (2025.) Books of poetry: TANYA (Knopf 2023) The Octopus Museum (Knopf 2019) So Much Synth (2016) Our Andromeda (2012) Human Dark w/ Sugar (2008) Interior with Sudden Joy (1999).
Daniel Hinds @danielghinds.bsky.social Poetry collection New Famous Phrases @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social, UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award, Ilkley New Northern Poet, New Writing North North East Poet, BBC New Creative
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/daniel-hinds-new-famous-phrases
Dave Graney @davegraney.bsky.social Musician-songwriter-author-Melbourne. Album LABURNUM OF THE MIND out now. On tour from May onwards.
Kim Salmon @kimleithsalmon.bsky.social A cliché for sure but I am the art school dropout who defected to Rock and Roll. I HAVE been feverishly painting for the last 10 years however.
The Poetry School @poetryschool.bsky.social The Poetry School is the UK's largest provider of poetry education and a proud Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.
🏝️ Book Summer Courses: https://poetryschool.com/new-courses/summer-2026-quick-course-guide/
Gracia Haby & Louise Jennison @gracialouise.bsky.social We have been collaborating since 1999, making artists’ books and more.
Tiny but Wild, wildlife shelter
Andres Rojas. @okaporia.bsky.social You know, poetry. EAT Poems, Paper Nautilus, Trio House Press. @ AGNI, Barrow St, Colorado R, Diode, Massachussets R , New England R, Poetry NW.
sander pleij @sanderpleij.bsky.social co-founding editor
www.europeanreviewofbooks.com
Vanessa Berry @vanessaberry.bsky.social Writing, drawing, thinking; living and working on Gadigal land. 
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
Dr Susie Walsh @susiewalsh.bsky.social Varuna Writer's Space Fellowship recipient 2024 (Australia) Non-fiction and Hybrid • Autistic • Non-Binary • Irrepressible • PhD Film Studies • Bushfire Survivor • Volunteer Bush Firefighter (NSW RFS) •
They/Them/Susie
#MDANT
#Accessibility Advocate
Michelle Cahill @michellecahill.bsky.social Writer, flaneur, Letter to Pessoa, Daisy & Woolf
Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust). www.medhawrites.com
David Ambery @dambery.bsky.social Reader. Listener. Watcher. Sometimes photographer.
Settler. Living on what always was, always will be Dharug and Gundungurra land.
Amanda Golden @plathpoem.bsky.social Associate Professor of English; Author of Annotating Modernism; Co-Editor of The Poems of Sylvia Plath (2026), a new edition of Plath’s Collected Poems.
The Wheeler Centre @wheelercentre.bsky.social Australia's first dedicated centre for Books, Writing and Ideas. 
@redroompoetry.bsky.social @redroompoetry.bsky.social 
J Lee @jleewriting.bsky.social Trying to write good.
My work obliges some discretion.
Scott-Patrick Mitchell @spmpoet.bsky.social 
Nadia Rhook @nadiarhook.bsky.social writer, poet, historian, mother, stone thinker 
Westerly Magazine @westerlymagazine.bsky.social The flagship lit mag of Western Australia, since 1956 📚
Westerly 69.2 out now! Get yours at link below ⬇️
All things Westerly: https://linktr.ee/westerlymagazine
Sati Mookherjee @sati-m.bsky.social Poet: Deś (forthcoming from Tupelo Press, 2027), Eye (Ravenna Press, 2022) and Ways of Being (Albiso Award, MoonPath Press 2023). Recent work in Gulf Coast, Michigan Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, SWWIM, MER, RHINO.
satimookherjee.com
Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social Peggy Poole Winner 2022 |
Prose: Flare and Falter, Splice |
Poetry: These Are Not My Dreams, Nine Pens
https://mickconley.substack.com/
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies @imas-utas.bsky.social Located at the gateway to the Southern Ocean and Antarctica, IMAS is internationally recognised as a centre of excellence for marine and Antarctic research and teaching: www.utas.edu.au/imas
CRICOS provider code: 00586B
University of Tasmania @utas.edu.au Stories, research and more from the University of Tasmania. #1 in climate action globally.
CRICOS Code 00586B
Meg Brayshaw @megbrayshaw.bsky.social John Rowe Lecturer in Australian Literature @ USYD. Editor, Aust Lit at Sydney UP. Co-editor, Australian Literary Studies. Current projects: resource extraction & settler colonial spatial imaginaries; Dymphna Cusack & literary commitment in the Cold War
judithbishop.net @judithbishopauthor.bsky.social I am a poet, creative non-fiction writer, linguist, and ex-AI industry leader with a passion for raising awareness about AI technology development and ensuring that it leads to beneficial, not harmful, outcomes.
Steve Lambert @gsliii.bsky.social Writer, librarian, adjunct. Seven books.
Winner, Nancy Dew Taylor Poetry Prize; finalist,Terry J. Cox Poetry Award.
P&W listing: https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/steve_lambert
Australian Poetry @australianpoetry.bsky.social Based in Melbourne on Wurundjeri lands of the Kulin nations, we run publications, events and programs to strengthen poetry and poets across the nation.
australianpoetry.org
Readings Books @readingsbooks.bsky.social Independent Australian booksellers.
Copyright Agency @copyright.com.au We keep creators creating, connecting our 40,000 members working across literature, visual arts, publishing, surveying & media with users of copyright material.
🌐: www.copyright.com.au
Brisbane Writers Festival @briswritersfest.bsky.social Have we got a story for you!
9–12 October 2025
Kathy Fagan @kathyfagan.bsky.social Poet, prof, she/her. Books at @MilkweedEditions @W.W.Norton (forthcoming) #resist
https://kathyfagan.com
🏳️🌈 🇵🇸🇺🇦
Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social
"Are you okay?"
MN, January 2026
New book: “Killing Spree”,Carcanet (UK); FSG (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).
Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social My Hollywood & Other Poems (Paul Dry Books); translate Babel, Zoshchenko, Kurkov, et al.; odds & ends @nybooks.com, @thetls.bsky.social, etc.; teach at @utulsa.bsky.social; EiC @nimrodjournal.bsky.social
Montreal International Poetry Prize @montrealprize.bsky.social The Montreal Poetry Prize is committed to poetry and poets around the world. For our 2024 winner and finalists, visit us at:
https://www.montrealpoetryprize.com/
Submit to the 2026 competition at https://montrealpoetryprize.awardsplatform.com/
Leah Browning @leahbrowning.bsky.social Reader, writer, editor.
https://www.leahbrowninglit.com/ 
Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social Poet, Alumna of @CBSNews @60Minutes @BBCWorld @FaberAcademy. Shortlisted by @bridportprize.bsky.social Love @britishlibrary & @VanguardRead #amwriting #poetry #visual #journal #travellingwithdevices 🧶 #crochet #StitchingTogether for the #CommonGood
Mirandi Riwoe @mirandir.bsky.social Riwoe/Tjia, sometimes other. Author, Sunbirds, Stone Sky Gold Mountain, The Fish Girl, The Burnished Sun
Jock Serong @jockserong.bsky.social jockserong.com
clothes hearse
Gunditjmara country, southwest Vic
Rep'd Melanie Ostell Literary
Michael Winkler @micwink.bsky.social Writer, reader, swimwear model. Last book Grimmish. Next book Griefdogg.
michaelwinkler.com.au
Australian Society of Authors @asauthors.bsky.social The national peak organisation promoting and protecting the professional interests of Australia's authors and illustrators since 1963.
Patricia Smith @poetpatriciasmith.bsky.social THE INTENTIONS OF THUNDER, Scribner, 9/30! Poet/Princeton CW prof, Ruth Lilly & Kingsley Tufts, NAACP Image Award, Pulitzer finalist, Guggenheim, Chgo Literary Hall of Fame. Love Cubs, Lou Malnati's, Portillo's & the peppermint stick/hot pickle mashup.
Southerly @southerlylitmag.bsky.social Southerly is Australia’s oldest literary journal. Founded in 1939, it is the journal of The English Association (Sydney).
Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social Author, he/him
David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social Host of the Between the Covers podcast & Crafting with Ursula series, co-author of Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing.
Podcast: https://milkweed.org/between-the-covers
YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@BetweentheCovers-DavidNaimon
@davidterelinck.bsky.social @davidterelinck.bsky.social 
Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social Poet, wordplayer, musician, editor, bassist, guitarist, backgrounds in physics & publishing
KNIT INK (AND OTHER POEMS): https://store.deepvellum.org/products/knitink
AnthonyEtherin.com
Charles Jensen @charlesjensen.bsky.social Author of SPLICE OF LIFE: A MEMOIR IN 13 FILM GENRES, poetry coll. INSTRUCTIONS BETWEEN TAKEOFF AND LANDING, & more. EIC: @villaineralit.bsky.social. Genre is a construct. Opinions mine. He/him. https://charles-jensen.com
Bara the Bard @barathebard.bsky.social Bard as in poetry. Not bard as in tabletop gaming — sorry to the hot, gay nerds
Nathan mudyi Sentance @saywhatnathan.bsky.social Wiradjuri (Aboriginal) fulla whose trying to write more.
Often yarns about museums, libraries and archives
https://linktr.ee/Saywhatnathan?utm_source=linktree_admin_share