Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival @poetryinaldeburgh.bsky.social A poetry festival by the sea under the big skies of East Anglia. Thurs 5th to Sunday 8th November 2026. ☀️📚🩵
Website: https://www.poetryinaldeburgh.org/
Facebook: poetryinaldeburgh.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/poetryinaldeburgh/
LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social Writer's writer's writer.
📚 STILL ALIVE (2024), longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award. https://eveninghousebooks.com/product/still-alive/
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/
Festival for Poetry @poetryfestival.bsky.social Daily Poetry Deadlines
Submit for a free posting.
Submit for a poetry reading video.
Submit for your poetry to be made into a film.
https://festivalforpoetry.com
aswirl @aswirl.bsky.social a quarterly poetry zine celebrating brevity
edited & handmade by Robin Boothroyd
aswirlzine.com/shop
Elsewhen Press @elsewhen.press A small independent publisher specialising in Speculative Fiction, based in the South East of England, established in 2011.
Posts here will be by Peter, Editorial Director and general factotum.
#SFF
Victoria Ling 🌱 🎓 🪐📚 @vrling.bsky.social Recovering academic (archaeology/evolution).
NEW SCI-FI “Paradox Lost” OUT NOW!
https://elsewhen.press/index.php/catalogue/author/v-r-ling/
No access to DMs
Classic ghost story writers, Gothic buildings, Old books, Vegan, Classic Who
Julia Bird @juliamarybird.bsky.social Lover of words, music, cahoots and escapades
TOTO - Visual Artist / Concrete Poet / Typewriter Art @sebastianandresvis.bsky.social “It’s the sounds that keep me coming back”
➦ Visual Artist / Concrete Poet making works on my Typewriter
➦ Open for Collaborations!
➦ Check out my work below
Site: Sebastianandres.site
Insta: https://shorturl.at/N098J
Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social Priest. Poet. Writer. Broadcaster. Trans. Tired. Disabled. Autistic. (Private Passions: Military History, Austen, Golden Age Detective Fiction) T.S. Eliot Prize Shortlisted 2024
Retired Archdeacon
16 books. www.rachelmann.co.uk
Anthony Anaxagorou @aanaxagorou.bsky.social poems
VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social Festival of Poetry & Spoken Word ✨#Brum and online✨ Online Multi-press Poetry-only Bookshop @vervepoetryshop✨
https://vervepoetryfestival.com
Magma Poetry @magmapoetry.bsky.social The poetry magazine with a different editor every issue. Join #TheMix
https://magmapoetry.com/
Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social Celebrating books by artists, poets, writers, book designers and their publishers. The next fair will take place in 2027.
linktr.ee/small_publishers_fair
Jordan @summerfeld.bsky.social I Am Beautiful
UCL Art Librarian @uclartlibrarian.bsky.social Located at UCL Main Library and UCL Special Collections. History & theory of fine art, film, sound, artists' magazines, artists' books, alternative presses, word/image.
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com If you’re reading this, you’re in the right place.
Beautiful books you won't forget. Available in all good bookshops.
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
Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social artist and poet; ecological remediation and human recuperation; landscape, tea, limit and creativity; lives by the sea in Edinburgh; mostly sharing a daily poem here.
The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk A charitable organisation promoting and advocating poets & poetry since 1909. Publishes #ThePoetryReview, supports young poets @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social.
poetrysociety.org.uk
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Rushika Wick @rushikawick.bsky.social Writer. Poet. Books - Afterlife as Trash (Verve 2021) Highly Commended in Forward prizes, Horse (Broken Sleep 2024).
Steel Incisors @steelincisors.bsky.social VISUAL POETRY WITH TEETH. Independent press. EIC @badbadpoet.bsky.social
www.steelincisors.com
Nicky Melville @nickymelville.bsky.social 'avant-radge' | Power Cuts (zimZalla) | sounding ... out (Essence Press) | Imperative Commands (Dostoyevsky Wannabe) | Decade of Cu t s (Blue Diode Press) | ABBODIES & ABBODIES COLD (Sad Press) + Fuck This 🎧
http://fuckthis1.bandcamp.com
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
Cambridge Writing Centre 🖋️ @aruwriting.bsky.social We're a creative writing research centre based at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, organising and posting both research and community writing events. We repost lit subs calls!
https://creativeshowcase.aru.ac.uk/research/cambridge-writing-centre/
Greg Thomas (he/him) @gregchthomas.bsky.social Arts writer critic poet artist. Wrote a book on concrete poetry. Words in lots of places (gregthomas.online). Poem objects: oo-press.com. Board member, Edwin Morgan Trust, comms manager, Humanist Society Scotland. Democratic socialism & dungeon synth.
Jo Bell @jobellwriter.bsky.social Poet, digital salonniere. Host of The Poetic Licence (Patreon) - monthly prompts, famous poet interviews, a creative community. Memoir, BOATER out now with HarperNorth. https://linktr.ee/BoaterJoBell
eff-able anthology @eff-able.bsky.social A spicy anthology of queer crip poetry 🌶️
✨BOOK OUT NOW!✨
https://effable.uk
Editors: JP Seabright & George Parker
Publisher: fourteen poems
Funder: Arts Council England
Iona Fyfe @ionafyfe.bsky.social Rector of University of Aberdeen 🎓 Scottish singer | MG ALBA Musician of the Year | @rcstweets alumna | Join my Patreon for exclusive content: http://www.patreon.com/ionafyfe
the87press @the87press.bsky.social South London-based publishing collective focused on experimental literatures at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, & neurodiversity. We also run online journal theHythe!
linktr.ee/the87press
https://www.the87press.co.uk/
@lauratansley.bsky.social @lauratansley.bsky.social 
Disrupted Blue Indie Press Publicity @disruptedblue.bsky.social Working with (or have worked with) indie presses including KERNPUNKT, Black Herald, Shearsman, Carcanet, PN Review, Sublunary Editions, CB editions, Stone Corpse, Hanuman, Vanguard & more!
Founding Director: Vik Shirley
@vikshirley.bsky.social
The AI Literary Review @ailiteraryreview.bsky.social Quarterly poetry journal, exploring new avenues of human creativity with AI-powered tools | ailiteraryreview.co.uk | Editor: @danpower.bsky.social
Timglaset Editions @timglaseteditions.bsky.social Publisher of visual poetries. www.timglaset.com
rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc.
out now: edgeless (Caitlin Press)
https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/
https://www.patreon.com/robmclennan
http://robmclennanauthor.blogspot.com/ https://robmclennan.substack.com/
Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social est. March 2020 : editor/publisher rob mclennan https://bsky.app/profile/robmclennan.bsky.social
built as a curious extension of above/ground press (b. 1993
https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/
member of Literary Magazines Canada Collective,
Braydon Beaulieu @ludoclast.bsky.social Writer and game designer. Narrative Designer at Ubisoft Toronto. Instructor at Toronto Metropolitan University. PhD in English from the University of Calgary. Bad at everything else. Latest: “The Event Horizon of Honey” in Augur 8.2 🍕 he/him
Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social Author of ENTERING SAPPHO, TRANSLINGUAL POETICS, DOWN, & SECURITY POSTURE.
My newest book is HERE IS A FIGURE: https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810147904/here-is-a-figure/
Rose Knapp 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @roseknapp.bsky.social Experimental Poet • Sound Artist
• Neurodivergent •
Queer Nonbinary Trans Woman
Poetry Collections: Lulu.com/spotlight/lulucomroseknapp
Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/starving-poet/1645151664
Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social Artist; have written, and curated, also. Head of Programme, Writing MA, at the RCA, London.
jeremymillar.org
Profile: https://jeremymillar.org/Notes-on-Gesture-for-H-C-2015
Header: https://jeremymillar.org/Neutral-Diluted-2007
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
Alycia Pirmohamed @alycia.bsky.social poet 🌙
free 🇵🇸
she/her
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
Susan Tomaselli 🍉 🏳️🌈 @stomaselli.bsky.social WiP: TRACES (novel in essays) | former writer-in-residence at Maynooth 2020/21 | current editor gorse journal & Gorse Editions. She/her.
*Won't follow you back if you have zero posts or no profile, sorry*
Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of modern, classic and translated poetry, and the bi-monthly literary journal @pnreview.bsky.social.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/CarcanetPress
Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social Il/lui/him/he. Écrivain & writer (philosophy, poésie, sciences sociales). Translator. Prof @ University of Regina. Desires new forms and contents. Livres : Prairiales; En d'sous d'la langue (Prise de parole); La politique dans l'adversité (Metispresses).
Chris Piuma @wordgarbler.bsky.social podcasts (on MST3K, "great books", old trivia): megaphonic.fm || songs with bitter words: theminorthirds.bandcamp.com || instrumentals: themesquad.bandcamp.com || crosswords, poetry, photography, and more: chrispiuma.com || pronouns: 🤷
gorse journal @gorsejournal.bsky.social Art in words | Journal | Publisher (Gorse Editions) | New issues: gorse 12: Language; gorse 13: Taboo | Forthcoming: gorse 14: Form | Gorse Editions 3: New Green Fool by Alan Cunningham | Funded by Arts Council Ireland | http://gorse.ie
Julia Polyck-O’Neill @juliapoly.bsky.social Assistant Professor Communication & Media Studies, Memorial University, Newfoundland | Feminist Archives & Tech | Artist Archives & Networks | Digital Archives | Critical DH | Curator-poet-critic | they/she
Mark Truscott @marktruscott.bsky.social (He/him) Three poetry books. Winner of the inaugural Nelson Ball Prize. Recent poems in CAROUSEL, Dialogist, the Fiddlehead, Hampden-Sydney Review, etc. New chapbook, Rain. Hello. marktruscott.ca
Stuart Ross (the Canadian one) @razovsky.bsky.social Writer, editor, publisher, writing instructor. 2023 Trillium Book Award winner. 2019 Harbourfront Festival Prize winner. Author of The Book of Grief and Hamburgers — and 21 other books of poetry, fiction, memoir, and essay.
Trevor Joyce @trevorjoyce.bsky.social 'Poet' from central Dublin, now Shandon, Cork.
Co-founder New Writers' Press, Dublin & SoundEye Festival, Cork.
Language, climate, history, art, music, travel, China, hist. of science, hist. of photography.
Two cats, many thousand books, small garden.
Leigh Nash @nashls.bsky.social Publisher @pressassembly.bsky.social, lapsed poet, occasional tarot reader
Christodoulos Makris @cmakris.bsky.social poet & writer
“one of Ireland’s foremost avant-garde poets” - The Irish Times
yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com
Rémi Forte @rmfrt.com Poetic Program, Typographic System
https://www.rmfrt.com/
Andrew Faulkner @ahfaulkner.bsky.social Owner/operator @pressassembly.bsky.social. Bookmaker. Poet. Editor.
Joe Devlin @joedevlin.bsky.social Artist based in Manchester and Leeds
Nutsandboltspublishing.com 
Ben Robinson @bengymen.bsky.social poet / musician / librarian
benrobinson.work
mIEKAL aND @memexikon.bsky.social Burning bridges to a culture sinking into the swamp.
linkto.link/memexikon
Mark Laliberte @originobscure.bsky.social Artist/Author/Designer • Book Fiend • Clutter Cultist • Collaborationist • Curiosity Hunter • Gentle Extremist TM — Co-founder of MA|DE (debut collection ‘ZZOO’ out Feb ‘25) — http://ma-de.ca + @madeprojects.bsky.social
mla @mlachernoff.bsky.social squelching, citing, sighing poetess in repose
mlachernoff.com
Kasey Mohammad @deathrockroadtrip.bsky.social Poet, teacher, cat dad. I like both kinds of music.
Michael Orr @orzechowski.bsky.social Intermedia
michaelorr.org
https://michaelorr.org/shop/ols/products/yuge-condoms
K. Lorraine Graham @klorraine.bsky.social Artist poet hero, card-reader & harried techno courtier. Things I like: mixed-media fiber art & line breaks. Tarot. Impossible taxonomies. Beans. https://www.klgstudio.com/divination-philosophy/
Jason Christie @jasonchristie.bsky.social Canadian poet, technical writer.
Downingfield Press @downingfield.bsky.social Publishing books for the enquiring mind since 2017. Specialising in non-fiction and poetry.
We accept submissions year round. Emerging writers welcome.
Melbourne • Montréal and London
downingfield.com
Ken Hunt @jkchunt.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Publisher, PhD Candidate at Western University. Order "The Manhattan Project" from U of C Press: https://press.ucalgary.ca/books/9781773850542/
Geof Huth @geofhuth.bsky.social A poet, visual poet, artist, and onetime archivist.
Kathryn Mockler @themockler.bsky.social fiction writer | experimental filmmaker | poet | Author of Anecdotes @bookhugpress.bsky.social
Send My Love to Anyone: http://sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com
https://linktr.ee/kathrynmockler | https://www.kathrynmockler.com
Bradley David Waters @bradley-david.com bradley-david.com
Substack: “Go Sit In The Corner”
Danielle Zaccagnino Maes @daniellezacc.bsky.social English teacher, new mom, EIC of Fast Flesh Literary Journal, and author of Suppose Muscle, Suppose Night, Suppose This in August.
G.S. Brouwer @gsbrouwer.bsky.social Greg. A writer lost in a wilderness of words that are so clever, they're probably lilac.
; haver, — lover
IG: g.s.brouwer
https://gsbrouwerauthor.wixsite.com/home
Alycia Calvert @alyciacalvert.bsky.social (She/Her) 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ | #Typos | Writes weird hybridy things | EIC @HarperPalate | Res '22 & '24 | MFA '22 | PhD '26 | @hecatemagazine @thebansheejournal @writersrebel 🇵🇸🇨🇩
https://linktr.ee/alycia.calvert
Laura Kerr @sedserio.com Canadian Artist & Experimental Poet-
#sedserio #QuantumPoetry #forensicPoetry https://sedserio.com Critical AI—Forensic Poet 🇨🇦
Nick Steel @thenicksteel.bsky.social Creative multimedia designer - writer - optimist - lover of all things artistic.
Stephen Sunderland @stephensunderland.bsky.social Poetry prose & things inbetween // PhD on surrealist women’s fiction // film-novel: The Cinema Beneath the Lake // Poetry: Eye Movement/ Oneiroscope/ Refrains/
https://linktr.ee/stephen.sunderland
www.everydaymarvellous.com
Kasper @shootingpoetry.bsky.social amateur
without style and focus
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 📍Copenhagen
⠀⠀⠀ all words are made up
Shooting poetry
He/him
Sophie Herxheimer @sophieherx.bsky.social Artist, Poet, Londoner, Mother, Teacher, Draw-er of Stories, Maker of Books, Ink Enthusiast, Collagist, co-anthologist with Bill Herbert
@ghostfurniturecatalogue, submit?
www.sophieherxheimer.com
www.poetryteapot.wordpress.com
(More settled on instagram)
Dr Rachel Smith @rachelartsmith.bsky.social Artist | Poet | Lecturer Producing Vispo and Artists books using Drawing, Photography, and Writing.
Co-Editor of intergraphia books
www.rachelartsmith.com
Stalina Villarreal @profstalina.bsky.social Xicanx poet, essayist, translator, and artist. Author of Watcha (Deep Vellum). All opinions are my own. https://www.stalinavillarreal.com/
abbatial @aobate.bsky.social hello it's me, I'm a bird and a writer, etc
(author of “Evie of the Deepthorn”; PhD in annihilation; more here: www.andrebabyn.com)
Sharon Harris @sharonharris.bsky.social Writer, artist, activist, poet, public space & plant enthusiast, (sorry in advance) might go off about MLB & women’s sports
One of “12 extraordinary Toronto women changing the city’s public realm.” —Spacing Magazine
intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social Publishing at intersections and edges. Editors @emmabolland.bsky.social and @rachelartsmith@bsky.social
https://intergraphia.cargo.site/
Eric Schmaltz @eschmaltzzz.bsky.social possibles, infinites, gaps, nothings, in-betweens
new book in fall 2025 (Coach House Book)
Assistant Professor, Dalhousie University
https://ericschmaltz.com/
Pearl Pirie @pearlpoet.bsky.social slow-lane poet, insect- & fungi-portraitist Good Omens DT & MS fan, rabid reader & writer in Quebec Canada
www.pearlpirie.com
🏳️🌈 gender costume: she/they Alt image: white person in glasses. long wavy greying hair, wonder woman bracelet
EleeKG @eleekg.bsky.social bostony. vancouvery. poet laureate of Vancouver, Canada as of Jan ‘25 for 3yrs. eleekg.com It’s pronounced ELLY!
RobertFredeKenter @rfredekenter.bsky.social Writer visual artist publisher. Now Available IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS (Ice Floe Press, 2025), FATHER TECTONIC (ETHELZINE Press,2025). In tons of journals incl Winged Moon, Otoliths, Storms Journal, Pissoir, Cable Street, ballast, Acropolis, Grain, ARC
Francesco Levato @levato.bsky.social Poet, professor, literary translator, new media artist, and writer of speculative fiction. M.F.A., Ph.D., HWA, SFWA #horror #scifi #fantasy #booksky
Web: https://francescolevato.com/
SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social Reluctant non-smoker
Author of Hotel Almighty 
Orchid Tierney @orchidtierney.bsky.social Ph.D. | poet | NZ in Ohio | no person is illegal | Essay Press and Calamari Archive author | William P. Rice Associate Professor of English at Kenyon College | Senior Editor Kenyon Review | She/her | BEI Fellow | www.orchidtierney.com
Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway; Editor @ Osmosis Press & Resurgence and Ecologist poetry feature; ask me about the RHUL Poetry MA pathway!
https://linktr.ee/brihughespoet
Dona Mayoora @donamayoora.bsky.social Text/ Visual/ Experimental Poet & Artist - CT/USA. Published author: India & Sweden.VISPO exhibited in 9 countries at International exhibits.
Karen Massey @karenemassey.bsky.social Poet & artisan. Lives in Ottawa, Canada on unceded Algonquin Anishinabe territory.
3 chapbooks from above/ground press Ottawa
2020 ARC Diana Brebner Award winner
2024 Finalist MIPP; Longlist 3-Day Novel Contest
karenmassey.wordpress.com
Karla Van Vliet @karlavanvliet.bsky.social I’m an artist, a poet, a writer of asemics… I believe in kindness, and in caring… and in truth speaking…
Bethany Jarmul @bethanyjarmul.bsky.social Appalachian poet/writer, TAKE ME HOME (@BellePointPress), LIGHTNING IS A MOTHER (ELJ, 2025), Best Small Fictions 2024, Best Spiritual Literature 2023, Nominations: Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, 100+ pubs. 
𝕋𝕒𝕪𝕝𝕠𝕣 ℂ𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕤 @taylorcollins.bsky.social Writer/artist maintaining public gallery/studio because madness should be a spectator sport. Avid journaler, poet & essayist. Advocate for women, arts, cats, & love. My muse anchors me or I’d stay in these clouds. He’s cute—cooks, & gardens.