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 peopleโs books at Salt. Newsletter: chrisemery.me
chris johnson @ceeeejohnson.bsky.social he/him : white settler : managing editor, @arcpoetry.bsky.social : editorial assistant, @nightwoodeditions.bsky.social : opinions are my own : say hi
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Books Made in Berlin since 2023
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Kevin Shaw @kevinshaw84.bsky.social Writer | Ottawa | www.kevinshaw.ca
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Sheelagh Caygill ๐จ๐ฆ @sheelaghcaygill.bsky.social Founder OnCreativeWriting.com - podcast and author interviews. Writer, reader, podcaster, journalist. ๐ MA Contemporary Creative Writing, NN London | OnCreativeWriting.com | SheelaghCaygill.com | https://linktr.ee/Sheelagh_Caygill
Jumoke Verissimo @awapointe.bsky.social New Book Alert ๐ข Circumtrauma - out in Fall 2025 with @CoachHouseBooks!
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thepoetofcuisine @thepoetofcuisine.bsky.social Writer of "Digital Cicero: A Silk Road Novella", award winning "the Fry Up Triptych", and "Victorian Fast Food", THE dissertation on commercial food in East London
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Marcella Durand @mdurandpoet.bsky.social Poet, birder
Brook Farm Institute for Critical Studies @brookfarm.bsky.social brookfarminstitute.com
Utopian perambulations in the prefigurative humanities. Online and in-person seminars in Boston/Cambridge.
Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social slow-lane poet, insect- & fungi-portraitist Good Omens DT & MS fan, rabid reader & writer in Quebec Canada
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Scott Jackshaw @scottjackshaw.bsky.social managing editor, differences | sometimes poet | Stigmata (Talonbooks, 2025) | they/them
Chaudiere Books @chaudierebooks.bsky.social Ottawa's most beloved literary publisher (2006-2017): posting poems every April for National Poetry Month, and ongoing "six questions" interviews with current/former Ottawa-based writers,
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Chris Dolan @mcdolan.bsky.social I am angry about the nitrate levels in Iowaโs drinking water. My writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Strange Horizons, Maudlin House, The Disappointed Housewife, and others. www.dolanchris.com
Christina Wells @cgwells.bsky.social Poet, writer of fiction, musician, educator, mother of 3 โ sometimes makes linocuts. Aims to someday live in a cabin with a woodstove, somewhere near a small, babbling brook.
@canadianfiction.bsky.social @canadianfiction.bsky.social 
Elizabeth Johnston Ambrose @poetlady74.bsky.social Iโm a poet, animal lover, camping fanatic, and educator living in Rochester, NY. Medusa scholar. Author of Imago, Dei ( Rattle Chapbook Prize, 2021) and Wild Things (Main Street Rag, 2021). 2025 Betsy Colquitt Poetry Award.
@combatradio.bsky.social @combatradio.bsky.social Survived Warner Bros Studios/Now Exec Director of Combat Radio/Brigade-Radio-One based at NBC/Universal Studios. MMA practitioner. Terrorist attack survivor. Monk. https://linktr.ee/ethandettenmaier
Isabella @isabellawangbc.bsky.social 
sider0xylon press @sider0xylon.bsky.social a mono-press of pithy handmade limited edition mini/micro chapbooks and broadsides.
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One Fall Review @onefallreview.bsky.social An online literary journal dedicated to professional wrestling themed poetry.
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Any Pascual | indie author & poet @anyespiritual.bsky.social My new book โVerses till midnightโ out now!
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IanHall24959 @ian24959.bsky.social Came 4th out of 5 in an under 9 race at Pakenham; not much after that. No dms thanks. ๐
MartynJS @cllrmartynjs.bsky.social Grandfather Anti racist/fascist Marxist Psychotherapist, Cosmology and Astronomy ,Writer Philosopher Pagan European Cllr Eco Socialist United Ireland indy Wales and Scotland free Palestine [he,him, his] Republican political/cultural astrologer
Jodi @jcfineartphoto.bsky.social Searching for beauty, goodness and truth. I am a non-apologetic liberal. Don't bother trying to DM. Also, for fuck's sake, spare me the porn. I love art, photography, poetry.
Anj Baker @anjbaker.bsky.social They/them from Appalachia now in suburban Illinois. Clarion 2024. First reader at Fusion Fragment. Friend to guinea pigs. anjbaker.neocities.org
Aviva Rubin - Author @avivarubin-author.bsky.social I am a Toronto-based writer of memoir, essays and social commentary. My work has been broadly published. WHITE is my debut novel. Follow me on Substack!
Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social Booklover, blathering at http://www.bookgaga.ca - literary news, reviews, discussion, poetry posted daily (aka #TodaysPoem http://bit.ly/2J4ym4C), member of a thriving silent book club group (aka #SilentBookClub http://bit.ly/2NSBVtw) ... oh, and I crochet
Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social He collected things, each of a holy intention in isolation, but pagan in the variety of his choice.
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Joanna Lilley @joannalilley.bsky.social Author of books including the extinction poetry collection Endlings and the novel Worry Stones. From the UK, now living in Yukon, Canada. 
Alberta Views Magazine @albertaviews.bsky.social Citizens for the Common Good.
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Dawn Macdonald @yukondawn.bsky.social Poet. Yukoner. Knitter. Book hoarder. Author of Northerny (University of Alberta Press, 2024). Reviewing older books alongside new stuff at https://reviewsofbooksigotforfreeorcheap.substack.com/
Josiah Nelson @josiahnelson.bsky.social I'm what you call shy - William Steig/me
Debut book forthcoming with @invisibooks.bsky.social
Words in Brick, CV2, Fractured Lit, Grain, and the Literary Review of Canada
Matthew King @cincinnatusc.bsky.social What d'ya mean, "normal men"
birdsandbeesandblooms.com
isabella mori @moritherapy.bsky.social making lives better, making better lives, for everyone. retired #mentalhealth professional #haiku #peace #writingcommunity #buddhism #pagan #longcovid. old. they/she.
unceded, traditional, ancestral musqueam, squamish & tsleil-waututh lands aka vancouver.
Janet Kvammen @janetkvammen.bsky.social Poet Laureate of the City of New Westminster.
Visual Artist, Mixed Media.
Robert van Vliet @letterspace.org Poet. St Paul, MN.
Offline for September 2026.
inventions (above/ground 2026)
Vessels (Unsolicited 2024)
This Folded Path (above/ground 2023)
Blog: www.letterspace.org
Homepage: www.robertvanvliet.com
โDonโt give her money back.โ
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Nancy Huggett @nancyhuggett.bsky.social Writer, caregiver, crone, that kinda gal. Work @ Event, The New Quarterly, Rust & Moth, American Lit Review, anti-heroin chic, Gone Lawn, Full Mood &&&
Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social indie poetry publisher based in Canada with an international focus. we publish books and we have an online website with series and blogs w/poets, fiction writers, visual artist, experimental projects www.icefloepress.net EIC/publisher Robert Frede Kenter
Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldnโt.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. ๐
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
https://www.amazon.com/Least-Weird-Person-Awake/dp/B0GT1262KP
Glyn Edwards @glynedwards.bsky.social How to make a Paper Grenade - Verve
In Orbit - Seren Books
Writer in Res - North Wales Wildlife Trust
Moj Mortazavi @mojmrtzvi.bsky.social Filmmaker / Writer / Visual Poet
Capturing what moves me, breaks me, remakes me.
Posting thoughts, films, dreams, and whatever wonโt leave me alone.
๐๏ธ mojmrtzvi.com
โ๏ธ Essays on Substack https://substack.com/@mojmrtzvi?r=22uyqp&utm_medium=ios
EASTMAN @eastmanblue.bsky.social Social democrat. Vegetarian. Science. Baseball.
Humor. Books. Atheist. Dog rescuer. Advocate.
Fan of critical thinking. I write about politics and religion.
Alibaba @alibaba8.bsky.social https://best4you.cloud/
Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee โ23 (Scottish Book Trust). www.medhawrites.com
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
allison / collage, zines, mail art @allisonanne.com โ๏ธ handy with a pair of scissors
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mark stephen [surname stolen] @markmwahwords.bsky.social Poet, music distro, cultural worker, abolitionist, educator. Benefitting from occupied indigenous land. Sissy vegan for spaceship Earth.
Melissa Rea Author ๐๐๐ @melrea.bsky.social Four novels written. Fun novels about strong women with a pinch of magic. https:// @iquitcigs.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social Team Site StL Mo ๐ญ
@eraygnc.bsky.social @eraygnc.bsky.social 
Kyeren Regehr @byallmeanswrite.bsky.social New to this platform!
Literary Poet (author of Cult Life)
www.kyerenregehr.ca
Artistic Director of Planet Earth Poetry
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Host of The Poet Laureate Podcast
@poetlaureatepdcast.bsky.social
7th Poet Laureate of Victoria (2025-2027)
The Poet Laureate Podcast @poetlaureatepdcast.bsky.social Hosted by Kyeren Regehr and featuring poets laureate from across the country and beyond.
www.thepoetlaureatepodcast.com
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Ethel, a Micro Press @the-ethelzine.bsky.social Part Gucci part intestinal parasite, Ethel publishes handmade chapbooks, sewn with sword and talon since 2018.
www.ethelzine.com
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Erin Brown-John @eebeejay.bsky.social Writer, science communicator, maker/mender. I like to spin yarns.
Ian Seed @ianseedauthor.bsky.social Author: Forgetfulness, My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat, Night Window, New York Hotel (TLS Book of the Year), Makers of Empty Dreams. Translator: Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob, Gรซzim Hajdari, Ivano Fermini. www.ianseed.co.uk
Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social Poet, critic of recent formally innovative poetry & poetics, emeritus prof at Edge Hill, and all that follows. Books from Shearsman, KFS, Salt, Broken Sleep, Palgrave, LUP, & all that follow. Blog: www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com
Jeffrey Hecker @heckheck03.bsky.social Poet, Teen Writers Fellowship Poetry Teacher (The Muse Writers Center), Poetry Staff Reader for Quarterly West and Okay Donkey Magazine.
russell carisse @russellcarisse.bsky.social poet. queer. dirt-farmer. trailer-trash. they/them
unceded Wolastoqiyik/Mi'gmaw territory
work currently or forthcoming in: ARC Poetry, Queen's Quarterly, Touch the Donkey, The Temz Review, Talking About Strawberries All The Time, and elsewhere.
Shaw P @shawp.bsky.social Former 30-year-old. Used to be in punk bands but super boring now. English PhD student. He/him.
Piลผama Press @pizamapress.bsky.social Indie press showcasing the strange & the surreal. The weirder, the better. https://asterismbooks.com/publisher/pizama-press | Editor: neonpajamas.bsky.social
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Ben Niespodziany ๐๐ช @neonpajamas.bsky.social tiny poems & strange movies // ๐ซ๐ค // EIC at @pizamapress.bsky.social // chapbook soon with @gasherpress.bsky.social // writing prompt every Sunday via Substack (neonpajamas)
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Author of My Breath Floats Away from Me (FutureCycle Press, 2022). Associate poetry editor @okaydonkey.bsky.social
https://ericedits.wordpress.com
Marian Christie @marianchristie.bsky.social Learner, listener, poet.
https://marianchristiepoetry.net/
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Mari Ellis Dunning ๐๏ธ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social Author of 'Salacia' & 'Pearl and Bone' ๐
'Witsh' available now ๐
Lecturer in Creative Writing ๐๐๏ธ
PhD in Welsh Witchcraft ๐
'Obstinate, headstrong girl'โ๏ธ
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Marcus Silcock @postpran.bsky.social Surreal absurd stories. Irish.ย Author ofย Dream Dust (Broken Sleep Books). Recent stories in Maudlin House, Broken Antler, Bending Genres, Your Impossible Voice, and others. Co-edits Surreal-Absurd Mercurius Mag. www.nevermindthebeasts.com
Alex Boyd @alexboydwriter.bsky.social The Least Important Man (poems), Army of the Brave and Accidental (a novel), Take This for the Pain: Essays on Writing and Life.
https://boydwords.wordpress.com
Elena Zhang @ezhang77.bsky.social Writer | Chicago | Work in The Offing, X-R-A-Y, Wigleaf + more | Pushcart Prize and BotN nom | Best Microfiction โ24, '25, '26
https://elenalzhang.wordpress.com/writing/
@thetemzreview.bsky.social @thetemzreview.bsky.social 
Missy Marston @marstonshmelzer.bsky.social Novelist.
Sheila E. Murphy @shemurph.bsky.social Poet, organizational consultant, researcher, and author
Dale Tracy @daletracy.bsky.social poet | Derelict Bicycles (Anvil Press, 2022) | creative humanities | environmental humanities | she/her
Andrea H. @andreahubley.bsky.social Poet - Mom - Reader - Tree Hugger - Bird Watcher - Mushroom Hunter.
Jessica Lee McMillan @jessicaleemcmillan.com Poet, civil servant, music nerd | CV2, Malahat Review, QWERTY, ROOM, Crab Creek Review, The New Quarterly & others. jessicaleemcmillan.com
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Frances Boyle @francesboyle19.bsky.social My novel, Skin Hunger, is coming in 2026. In the meantime, my latest poetry books are Openwork & Limestone (2022) & Light-carved Passages (2024). Prairie-raised author of Seeking Shade (stories 2020), Tower (novella 2018) etc.
www.francesboyle.com
WhiteFeather Hunter, PhD @whitefeatherhunter.bsky.social SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at @siatsfu.bsky.social
PhD in Art and Biotech, UWA (Aus).
I work with menstrual stem cells + bioprinting.
whitefeatherhunter.ca
The Witch in the Lab Coat / BioartCoven #witchesinlabs โฃ๏ธ
Spandex-free cycling enthusiast.
Nate @nateduty.bsky.social Old white guy. Retired Calif Deputy Sheriff, vet, Fort Bliss, TX, 1962-1965, Spec 5. HQ Combat Support Group. Don't care for liars, thieves, or bigots like Trump. Car nut, old drag racer. ๐ซ No hot ladies (too old). Christians OK ๐ซ Phony Christians ๐ซ Chats
Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor.
Chair, The Writers' Union of Canada
The Donoghue Girl (Latitude 46, 2024)
The Pollination Field (Turnstone, 2025)
www.kimfahner.com
โA republic, if you can keep it.โ @silverliningunited.bsky.social Everything shared here is rooted in the Constitution and nonviolent civic resistance. This is about restoring democratic norms. Withdrawal of consent means refusing unlawful abuses of power, peacefully. Thatโs how free people protect democracy.
Stephanie Mathis, MLS(ASCP) ๐ท๐ @stephmu00mls.bsky.social USA nationally certified Medical Laboratory Scientist who has traveled to 11 states in 20 years,
works overnight shift, and loves Microbiology and Blood Bank!
(Also singing, reading, cooking/baking, & cuddling/playing with her Mom's kitties! ๐ป)
Katie Ives @katie-r-ives.bsky.social Mountain writer and editor, follower of the art of galumphing, climber against fascism. Author of Imaginary Peaks: The Riesenstein Hoax and Other Mountain Dreams. (she/they)
Bill Mitchell @modalbluesky.bsky.social Musician
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Love deserts, oceans and mountains
Atheist and Buddhist (they can coexist)
Retired senior executive, Information Security & Privacy
Nathaniel Swift @writernatswift.bsky.social Author of time travel stories BLUE SKIES (in The Accidental Time Travelers Collective Volume 1) and FROM NOW ON (Vol. 3). Working on PBs, MG Sci-fi, and haiku as @haikuformykids.bsky.social (he/him)
TSK @curiousreadingguy.bsky.social Just a curious old dude exploring social media. I am more of a consumer than producer of social media content. I may contribute from time to time if inspiration strikes.
Keith Brindle Writer @kb-writer.bsky.social Writer... Runner... Supporter of climate action... Always try to be woke...
Novels available on Amazon: 'Circles on the Sand' and 'How Was It For You, Mr Pilgrim?'
Check out www.keithbrindlewriter.com
Malachy Moran @malformed-poetry.bsky.social Poet. ๐บ๐ธ immigrant in ๐ณ๐ด Writing something every day, even if itโs bad. My work is available in Rattle: Poetry, The Brussels Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, and others. My poetry has also been featured on Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com Writer, poet, creative thinker & architect for democracy / Sgrรฌobhadair, bร rd, neach-smaoineachaidh cruthachail agus ailtire airson deamocrasaidh | Aotearoa & Isle of Skye | https://urbanbadgercollective.com/links/