Phil Whitaker @pwhitakerwriter.medsky.social Doctor, novelist, medical commentator, medical editor of the New Statesman. 'What Is a Doctor?' a narrative non-fiction exploration of the trouble with medicine today - and how to put it right - is published by Canongate.
Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social Writer. Latest: Paris Fantastique from @confingopublishing.bsky.social and Finders, Keepers from @saltpublishing.com
Also runs @nightjarpress.bsky.social nightjarpress.weebly.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
Michael Walters @michaelwaltersuk.bsky.social Creative writing. Literature. Films. Genre and weird stuff.
The Complex: https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/the-complex-9781784631628
Website: https://www.michaelwalters.uk/
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WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
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Daily Stage Play Festival Contests @stageplaycontests.bsky.social Submit to these contests via Submittable. Full feedback on every submissions. Winners get their play performed by professional actors and made into a promotional video.
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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
Mr. Pimo @mrpimo.bsky.social SMART = Science + Math + 🌟Art🌟
I Post Post Movies/Shows/Anime news #PostPost
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Amantine.B (Literary Gypsy) @amantineb.bsky.social EIC. Reader. Editor. Poet. Gogyōshi-practioner. Memoirist. Amateur Photographer. Thalassophile. Opacarophile. Tao Traveller. I-Ching Practitioner
Substack: https://literarygypsy.substack.com/
JR Fenn @jrfenn.bsky.social Writer, teacher, parent, dreamer | TINY VESSELS out from Red Mare Press | Words in or forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Orion's Belt, DIAGRAM, Split Lip, Witness, Boston Review, Gulf Coast | Ucross Fellow | Syracuse MFA | Prof at SUNY ESF | www.jrfenn.com
P.C. Evans @pcevans.bsky.social Poet, writer and translator.
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
Coyote vs. Epistemic Assholes / J. Stryker 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social Not the violent artist. | Psychology nerd. DV survivor & victim advocate. Dislikes liars and bullies. | Coyote pedagogy. Good trouble, nature, neuroscience, terrestrial ecology, wildlife, plants, trees. They/them.
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
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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
GORK aka Renn Hubbuck-Melly @gorkverse.bsky.social Spreading unkempt yeasty verse on the burnt crusts of some eggy bread. Gourmandizing on sibilance sandwiches stuffed with synchronicities and dunk-dolloped in dreamside signs.
Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social Anti-Zionist Free Palestine Ukraine Solidarity Anti-Racist Anti-Carceral Abolitionist Anti-Genocide Anti-Colonial Anti-War Anti-Imperialist Intersectional Feminist Queer LGBTQI+ Green Eco-Socialist People Planet Peace Interfaith Seeker of Beloved Community
ABU KAISAR @abukaisar.bsky.social Student | Striving for Excellence in Islamic Studies | Passionate Learner | Devoted to Knowledge
Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social Publisher
Books Made in Berlin since 2023
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Nathalie @nathalie87.bsky.social Anti-imperialism.
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/
Ana María Caballero @anamariacaballero.bsky.social award-winning literary artist | digital poetry revolution | cofounder theVERSEverse | author of 6 books | harvard | colombiana
https://linktr.ee/anacaballero
Noris Roberts @norisroberts.bsky.social Lawyer who graduated from Santa María University in Caracas, Venezuela. She holds a Ph.D. in Literature and a Master’s degree in Civil and Mercantile Law.
Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright. Retired wanderer.
Author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, (Little Toller); Deliria, (Rough Trade Books)
Wild Twin, (Little Toller)
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Dilys Wyndham Thomas @dilyswt.bsky.social British-Belgian writer and poet.
Words in Chestnut Review, Mslexia, New Flash Fiction Review, Shooter, X-R-A-Y, etc.
Was assistant poetry editor at Passengers Journal.
Almost always accompanied by two very clingy cats. (Haarlem, Netherlands)
Hank Moore @hankmoore.bsky.social Author 14 books: Pop Music Legends, Big Picture of Business, Classic TV Reference, Non-Profit Legends, Pop Icons & Business Legends. Nominated for 7 Pulitzer Prizes. 100+ awards. Speaker. Business guru. Corporate Strategist. Humanitarian. Pop Culture Maven
Gessica Sakamoto Martini @gessicasakamoto.bsky.social Writer & Poet | 2x BOFN nom| Words in DMQ review, HAD, Hex, SoFloPoJo, Ballast, Unbroken, Bending genres, Gone Lawn, Red Ogre Review, etc...| EiC: Orion’s Belt | PhD in Anthropology (Durham Uni, UK) | she/her.
Website: https://www.gessicasakamoto.com/
Lesley Bungay Author @lesleyjayneb.bsky.social Writer of novels, short stories, flash fiction and the occasional Haiku. Debut novel, A Year Without a Summer, published 7th May 2026 by barnardpublishing.co.uk Rep’d by Intersaga.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/lesleyjayneb
Eileen Tomarchio @eileentomarchio.bsky.social Writer, Librarian, Jerseyan ✍🏻 Baltimore Review, Hunger Mtn, X-R-A-Y, Lost Balloon, Okay Donkey, Pithead Chapel, Passages North, OSU The Journal, Tiny Molecules; soon in Fractured Lit | BSF 2023 | Wigleaf Top 50 2026
https://eileentomarchio.webnode.page/
Jennifer Steil @jfsteilauthor.bsky.social Novelist, memoirist, essayist, short story writer, freelance editor, book coach, and mentor. Books: Exile Music, The Ambassador's Wife, and The Woman Who Fell From the Sky. Work has appeared in The New York Times, Kenyon Review, World Policy Journal, etc.
Andrew Bertaina @andrewbertaina.bsky.social 
Kate Davis @katedavispoet.bsky.social Poet. Books- collection - The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk and new verse novel - Flow published by Verve.
Also maker of stories, cake, chutney and interesting things to wear - wild swimmer - very fond of a limestone landscape.
Shelley Hastings @shelleyhastings.bsky.social Writer | Producer | Artist Facilitator | Kitchen Raver | Arts & Dementia: Resonate Arts | Winner: Sean Ó Faoláin Prize & Aurora Prize | Stories: Irish Times, Desperate Literature, Southword, Miro, Chroma Editions…
www.shelleyhastings.co.uk
DonalProsePoet @donalconaty.bsky.social Irish writer in Sligo. Sharing prose poems, fragments and readings from two works in progress – Splintered and Splinters. Bewildered Man on Substack.
Emily Hogg @emilyjhogg.bsky.social here for weird art. associate professor of literature. writing/teaching about contemporary literature & gender, work, precarity, drinking. 
Mariah Whelan @mwhelanwrites.bsky.social Poet, Teacher & Editor at @poetrybyheart.bsky.social
Sam Hacking @samhacking.bsky.social Artist & Writer: BA Hons Slade School of Fine Art Writer | MA Distinction Creative Writing UEA 2022| Escalator Prize ‘19 | Shortlisted BSSP ‘23 | Longlisted UEA New Forms ‘21 | Longlisted Bath Short Story ‘25 | samhacking.com | @samhackings
Anne Berkeley @anneberkeley.bsky.social UK based
writes poems sometimes
Latest collection: Object Permanence
https://www.michaellaskey.co.uk/product-page/object-permanence
Earlier: The Men from Praga
https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/the-men-from-praga-9781844714223
Vesna Main @vesnamain.bsky.social Novelist and short story writer. European. Vegan. Cake baker. Swimmer. London and rural France.
Waiting for a Party (Salt, 2024), a novel about an older woman’s desire for sexual intimacy
Jude Cook @judecook.bsky.social Novelist (Byron Easy, Jacob's Advice, Time Being @saltpublishing.com Sept 2026) & critic. Words Guardian, TLS, Literary Review. Radio plays BBC R3. Associate lecturer in Creative Writing Westminster University. judecook.com
https://judecook.substack.com/
Tobias Jones @tobiasjones.bsky.social Italy-based journalist & award-winnning writer: Ultra, The Po, Blood on the Altar, A Place of Refuge, The Dark Heart of Italy, Utopian Dreams etc. Carpenter, listener, teacher - always co-building communities (Windsor Hill Wood, Common Home etc.) NSNO
Mark Burrow @markburrow.bsky.social Writer of Coo, a novella, published by Alien Buddha. Short stories in Frazzled Lit. Punk Noir. Underbelly. Urban Pigs. Roi Fainéant. Flight of the Dragonfly. AEOS Mag. The Selkie. Spinners. Pushcart & BotN noms. Brighton, UK https://linktr.ee/markburrow
Natalie Whittaker @natalie-whittaker.bsky.social Poet and Teacher.
Book: 'The Point Is You Are Alive'
Pamphlets: 'Tree' and 'Shadow Dogs'
Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social 🌲🧚👻 Writer of strange & unusual tales. Ghosts, folklore & history from Wiltshire and beyond. Earth & nature lover. 👻🧚🌲 ☕ www.weird-wiltshire.co.uk
Hugh Behm-Steinberg @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social Writer
Carmella de Keyser @carmellapoetry.bsky.social Prizewinning poet
Harlow Stanza founder
Judge Harlow Open🏆
5 books published/forthcoming|Hedgehog Press|Alien Buddha Press|Parlyaree Press|Seventh Quarry
Widely published inc
by Macmillan
Beatles|90s nostalgia
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Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social Writes, reads, watches, worries. 1st novel Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves - SL for Walter Scott prize. LL for V S Pritchett Short Story. Second novel, Belvedere, coming soon.
https://linktr.ee/rachel.malik99
Jane Yager @janewords.bsky.social Fiction/CNF writer. Winner of Fractured Lit Elsewhere Prize. Recent stories in Los Angeles Review, Gooseberry Pie, Coachella Review, Ekphrastic Review. Criticism in TLS, Paris Review Daily. Based in Berlin, originally from California, frequently in Poland.
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social Writer of stories. 'We Live Here Now.' 'Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea,' 'The Blind Accordionist,' 'Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else,' 'The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure.' (@melvillehouse.bsky.social)
@FrancesC.bsky.social @franapunk.bsky.social 💙📚Writer and Glasweigan chancer. 📖A BAD BAD PLACE Agents:
Euan Thorneycroft & Oli Munsen @AMHeath
Editor: Finn Cotton Transworld Penguin
Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social art, architecture, environment & politics | former UKHE worker | GPEW (but here as a civilian) | chief distractions: novels, poetry, botany, buildings | he/him | Green Light (2006)
Cathy McGlynn @cathymcglynn.bsky.social Music therapist, Parkinsongs choir, Melodies Memory dementia choir. Devourer of books, recovering academic, PhD on James Joyce. Fierce feminist mama. 🏳️🌈 🇵🇸
Guillermo Stitch @guillermostitch.bsky.social
Author of LAKE OF URINE and THE COAST OF EVERYTHING
Executive editor at www.exactingclam.com
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/books/review-lake-of-urine-guillermo-stitch.html
Rachel @vignettes.bsky.social Absurdist, writer, explorer, escape artist.
Writer of poetry, prose & flash fiction.
Words in Literary Revelations: Haiku for Soul Mates @epistemiclit.bsky.social, Pure Haiku, From One Line Vol.7, Survivor Zine, #BOTN nominee '26
British, lives in Italy
Emma Lee @emmalee1.bsky.social Poet, reviewer, short story writer based in Leicester, UK. No DMs unless I know you IRL.
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Sheila Hurst @sheilahurst.bsky.social Dreamer, writer, ocean lover looking for beauty everywhere. Author of Ocean Echoes. Photos are my own unless reposted or credited. https://sheila-hurst.com/
Mar Vincent @marofthebooks.bsky.social Weird little stories in Analog, Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, and other fantastical places. Always seeking human creativity (NO AI), coffee, and petrichor. https://www.marvincent.com/
Currently in the liminal space known as novel revisions. 📝✍️✍️
Stephen Delaney @stephendelaney.bsky.social Writer, editor, human. Words in New World Writing, Bending Genres, South Florida Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Author of the chapbook OUR PLACE IS IN BETWEEN. 💙 #foreignlit #frogs
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https://stephen-delaney.com
Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social American/British Swiss resident. Builders tea, indie publishers, and editing till it hurts ❤️🔥♾️
Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social Poet, writer, (col)lapsed academic (he/him). Work in: @badlilies.bsky.social, @propelmagazine.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
Emily Hall @emhall47.bsky.social Writer and Literary Critic. Work in Gooseberry Pie Lit, Passages North, The Disappointed Housewife, 100 Word Story, Bending Genres, and FlashFlood.
Prose editor for Pictura Journal. Contemporary Anglophone Lit PhD.
https://linktr.ee/emhall47
Kathy @tortiegirl601.bsky.social New Orleans
Writer, professor
The Hanged Man: Stories (Black Lawrence Press, 2026)
https://blacklawrencepress.com/books/the-hanged-man/
Katherineconner.info
Nate Callaway @natecallaway.bsky.social Writing literary fiction about a man who builds furniture by hand in Wicker Park and figures out the rest as he goes. Queer. Five volumes. Vol III — Almost Exactly — out June 15, 2026.
Sage Tyrtle 🇨🇦 @sagetyrtle.bsky.social Award-winning storyteller, writer, workshop facilitator. Taught 150+ workshops including Second City, Smokelong Quarterly, Clarion West. Stories published in Barrelhouse, Baltimore Review, Apex, Fractured Lit etc. www.tyrtle.com. #HumanMade
@the-writingschool.bsky.social @the-writingschool.bsky.social The Writing School Online was founded by Kathryn Bevis in 2020 and we are here to help you find your creative voice and build a writing community.
Ashley Mangtani @writerash.bsky.social Slipstream Writer ✍️
Published or forthcoming in Strange Horizons | LITRO | Washington Square Review | Boudin | Neon Dystopia | Expat Press | HAWKEYE etc
Short story collection ⬇️
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The Memory Pools @memorypool.bsky.social https://memorypool.bearblog.dev/blog/
Chris Dodds @liquid-chicken.bsky.social I write things. And make things. All the things. chrisdodds.net
My debut, Necessary Cuts (https://necessarycuts.com), won the @miamioh-press.bsky.social Novella Prize and will land in 2027. Other work in Pithead Chapel, Marrow Magazine, and BULL.
Kate Nicholls @katenicholls1.bsky.social Author, homeschool consultant. Lives in Rome. No DM’s pls.
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https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/the-maternal-element-9781784633998
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Tony Dunnell @tonydunnell.bsky.social Writer of fact and fiction ( #scifi mainly, some horror). English but living in the high jungle of Peru. Short stories published in Escape Pod, Fusion Fragment, Fission, Sci Phi Journal and more. I also post about #movies. https://tonydunnell.com/
Jude P @judepickledplum.bsky.social Tea drinking fool, storyteller, humanist, voluptuary. Easily distracted by cats and reverb. Quiet voice, loud hands. Likes writers, books and awful puns.
Carrie Chappell @chapp010.bsky.social Poet | Translator | Researcher | Bessettienne. Loving Tallulah Bankhead (Paris Heretics 2022). Quarantine Daybook (Bottlecap 2021). PhD at CY Cergy Paris Université. She/her.
IG: @chapp010