Nathaniel King @nathanielking.bsky.social Poet | Ghost Clinic, Broken Sleep Books | Eric Gregory 2024 | PhD research in hauntology at Royal Holloway |
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
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
Cal Doyle @caldoyle.bsky.social bon vivant
Connor Douglas Rice @connordrice.bsky.social poet • advocate • silly person
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/
John ‘the importance of ideas & information’ 🦋 @wjpme.bsky.social #ceasefire #nevervotetory Outsider | not in the Meursault way | Cymro #AntiTory since 62 | republican ‘…let’s exalt the importance of ideas and information.’ Loves reading & enjoys a pint or two! 🏴 🇵🇸 NOT WATCHING WORLD CUP
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.
Alan Davies @alandaviescomic.bsky.social Book here https://linktr.ee/alandaviesbook?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=a7a5ef2c-1017-4662-b4ed-1858460b7546
Stand up tours of the UK, Ireland here alandavies.live and New Zealand here
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Sophie Charara @sophiecharara.bsky.social freelance writer, former WIRED associate editor // she her // Mancunian in London, UK https://www.clippings.me/users/sophiecharara
Super.tennis @supertennisnews.bsky.social Tennis for those who DON'T play tennis. Daily news, drama, fashion, money & lifestyle from the world of professional tennis. super.tennis
Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io (they/he) nonbinary, poet, father, husband, gardener, *retired* game-dev from Sumo Digital...
Ward Valley @wardvalley.bsky.social I’m a linear park along the banks of the Ward River, next to Swords town. Heavily wooded areas. Impressive diversity of wildlife. Many ancient monuments. 🇮🇪🇵🇸
Niamh Cullen @niamhcullen.bsky.social Lecturer @ QUB history. Twentieth century Italy, history of emotions, family, motherhood. Creative approaches to history. Essays and stories in the Dublin Review @londonmagazine, Tangerine magazine
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
https://niamhcullenwriter.com/
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
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
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
Zain Rishi @zainrishi.bsky.social Brummie Poet 📚🌈
26 / Edinburgh (mostly)
NOON out now with the Emma Press
https://theemmapress.com/shop/poetry/pamphlets/noon/
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 
Till Raether @tillraether.bsky.social Muriel Spark Joy. Fiction writer in Hamburg, Germany. Jigsaw puzzle analyst. Yumi Matsutōya ultra (he/him)
"Meeresdunkel. Thriller", 4/2026
Header: @theresaheyd.bsky.social
Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social Author / editor of books on travel writing. Poet. Interests in visual art, especially that of Gurminder Sikand.
Milena Williamson @milenawilliamson.bsky.social Poet & academic | Charm for Catching a Train http://tinyurl.com/bdcx2ka5 | Into the Night that Flies So Fast http://tinyurl.com/38tb8kzt
Seamus Heaney HomePlace @shhomeplace.bsky.social Seamus Heaney HomePlace in Bellaghy offers an inspiring journey through the life and literature of one of Ireland's greatest literary voices.
https://seamusheaneyhome.com/upcoming-events/
Frank Podmore @frankpodmore.bsky.social Award-winning poet published in @pwritersu.com, @stanzacannon.bsky.social, @apparitionlit.com and others; occasional opinions for @roadcc.bsky.social, @labourlist.bsky.social and Sublation Magazine
@chairofpoetry.bsky.social @chairofpoetry.bsky.social 
Miranda Lynn Barnes @luminousjune.bsky.social poetry & science, writer, researcher. she/her/ they is fine, too.
https://mirandalynnbarnes.wordpress.com/
For open research, follow: https://bsky.app/profile/mirandab-oa.bsky.social
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Nathalie Lamprecht @paradisecitygal.bsky.social PhD candidate @ Centre for Irish Studies, Prague | Working on space & emotion in contemporary Irish women's novels | Brendan Behan enthusiast | Compulsive book buyer | she/her
The Madrid Review @madridlitmag.bsky.social We're an international literary magazine in Madrid. We connect English and Spanish speaking literary cultures through fiction, poetry, essays and interviews.
Subs Closed.
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
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
FEO @feoswald.bsky.social Poet, lover of words and flowers, retired academic. “We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social Poet, editor, critic
https://liverpooluniversitypress.blog/tag/pavilion-poetry/
https://www.serenbooks.com/seren-author/deryn-rees-jones/
https://thamesandhudson.com/paula-rego-the-art-of-story-9780500021378
Katie Donovan @katiedpoet.bsky.social Poet, writer, nature lover, six collections published by Bloodaxe Books. Winner of O'Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry 2017. www.KatieDonovan.com
@billguastalla.bsky.social @billguastalla.bsky.social 
S. Bhattacharya-Woodward @storyshaoni.bsky.social Writer/reporter. Shortlisted Dinesh Allirajah Prize 2025. 3rd place DRFWritersPrize 2020 and BristolPrize2019. Agent: Matthew Turner, RCW Literary Agency
Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal @supriyadhaliwal.bsky.social NWCDTP-funded PhD student at Centre for Place Writing, MMU. Author of The Yak Dilemma, out now with Makina Books.
https://linktr.ee/supriyakaurdhaliwal
Alex MacDonald @mapesburyroad.bsky.social Poet - latest published pieces here: http://linktree.com/selected_poems
Dean Browne @deanbrowne.bsky.social After Party (Picador, 2025)
Kitchens at Night (Smith|Doorstop, 2022).
https://www.deanbrownepoetry.com
lkiew.bsky.social @lkiew.bsky.social Poet, accountant, dancer. Debut collection MORE THAN WEEDS out with Nine Arches Press. https://linktr.ee/lkiew
Alyson Kissner @alykissner.bsky.social poetry, human rights.
https://linktr.ee/alykissner
Winner Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, 2nd Bridport Prize for Poetry and Highly Commended Forward Prizes // Communications Manager at Child Rights International Network (CRIN) - views my own // Born 357 ppm
Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social Reading, writing, rabbits 🐇 ✡️
Director of European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social
London
www.deborahzafer.com
https://substack.com/@deborahzafer
Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social Independent poetry publisher 📧press@outspokenpress.com
outspokenpress.com
https://linktr.ee/outspokenpress
Stephen McCauley @stephenmccauley.bsky.social Award winning radio presenter/producer
Music/film/books/cycling
Derry
@matthewdotward.bsky.social @matthewdotward.bsky.social 
June Caldwell @junec.bsky.social Writing Place Writing Planet, UCD / iCRAG 2026 | Lamplight Fellowship 2025 | Literature Bursary Award 2025 | Moth Short Story Prize 2024 | 'Somebody' expo MoLi 2020-2021 | Room Little Darker 2018/17 | https://www.airbnb.ie/h/pinkhousedublin
English PEN @englishpen.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/englishpen
Ian Irwin @mrirwin.bsky.social Out-Spoken Press Emerging Poet 2022.
Published in Poetry Review, Propel, Alchemy Spoon, Outcrop, berlin lit, Carmen et Error, Trasna.
Photographer.
Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social Poetry / Art Magazine Edited by Susanna Galbraith and Gregory McCartney. Abridged since 2004. A Derry Magazine. www.abridged.zone
S. @shereadsbooks.bsky.social reviews & books 🍐
mostly reading literary fiction
#bookstagram #booksky
Munster Literature Centre https://munsterlit.ie/ @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social Cork based non-profit arts organisation promoting Irish and international literature since 1993.
Website: https://munsterlit.ie/
Northampton Poetry Review @npoetryreview.bsky.social Northampton Poetry Review. A literary journal of poetry and writing from Northamptonshire, UK
https://linktr.ee/npoetryreview
Gary Grace @gary-grace.bsky.social Writing in The London Magazine, Irish Examiner and The Pig's Back.
📖 Rep'd by Steven Evans at Eve White Literary Agency.✍️
Debut novel forthcoming.
Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social John McGahern Literature Award | DLR Emerging Writer In Residence 2024 | Poetry Ireland Introductions | Cúirt New Writing Fiction Award | Art Council Literature Bursary Award |
sonyagildea dot com
Dr Amelia Dowler @ameliadowler.bsky.social National Officer FDA Union; Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies; Researcher in numismatics; Poet
Cal Ryder @calryder.bsky.social Much greater than my fear of the Giant Squid is my fear of the Colossal Squid.
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/
@garretandbasement.bsky.social @garretandbasement.bsky.social 
Cathie Mullen @cathiemullen.bsky.social Irish in Germany. International educator, lover of words and stories and trees and cats! Stinging Fly Summer School, The Mersey Review. Currently finishing a memoir.
Laura Morris @morrislau78.bsky.social 
Eimear Ryan @eimearryan.bsky.social Lecturer in creative writing @ucc.ie | PhD student @unioflimerick.bsky.social | editor @bansheepress.bsky.social | 📚 Holding Her Breath (2021) & The Grass Ceiling (2023) 📚
Houman Barekat @houmanbarekat.bsky.social ‘Après le déluge, moi’ - French flooding investigator
https://www.houmanbarekat.com
Silva Mirovics @silvamirovics.bsky.social My journey into poetry is underway. Still an infant in this space - hey, at least I've made a start.
Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social he/him. associate prof, poet, writer, host of “books up close” and coeditor of seaford review journal 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏴🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/chrislloyd
Sinéad Griffin @sineadgriffin.bsky.social Poet, Dublin. Co-editor for poetry @the4facedliar.bsky.social
@ameliau.bsky.social @ameliau.bsky.social 
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
Culture File @culturefile.bsky.social pods, links + such from: RTE lyric fm's audio things:
Culture File
— & — Culture File presents: The Comfort Zone
— & — The Culture File Debate
— & — Culture File Digital Singles
— & — Culture File Presents: Fictions
Linktr.ee/culturefile
Andrea Reece @reeceandrea.bsky.social Mostly reading. Managing Editor Books for Keeps, administrator Klaus Flugge Prize and Branford Boase Award plus other book-y stuff.
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/