Kerry Darbishire @kerrydarbishire.bsky.social Cumbrian. Poet. Latest collections: Jardiniere. River Talk - HedgehogPress. What Love Is Feb 2026 ✨️
Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social Shortlisted for Ted Hughes Award for ‘The Immigration Handbook’(Seren). Refugee caseworker. Lives in Wembley. ‘Bycatch’ published by Nine Arches Press Oct 2025. Hawthornden Fellow. http://www.carolinesmithpoet.com
Gaynor Andrews @gaynorandrews.bsky.social Children's author and poet | 'Pandora and the Story Forge' pub by Rocket Bird Books | @scbwi | Based in NE Scotland
https://gaynorandrews.online/
Candlestick Press @candlestickpress.bsky.social Unique ‘Instead of a card’ poetry (and prose) pamphlets supplied in eco pack with envelope and bookmark. Publisher/editor @dislaney.bsky.social
Clare Helen Welsh @clarehelenwelsh.bsky.social Former teacher, children's author, writing tutor and founder of #BooksThatHelp
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
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Reena Makwana @reenamakwana.bsky.social Illustrator
reenamakwana.com
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Arc Poetry Magazine @arcpoetry.bsky.social Canada's Poetry Magazine, founded in 1978. Arc Poetry #109 is available to order now. Subscribe today at arcpoetry.ca!
Gutter Magazine @gutter.bsky.social The magazine of new Scottish and international writing.
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The Hellebore Press @thehellebore.bsky.social A refuge for creative expression. Header by Nawze Design. 🌈
Poetry Scotland Magazine @poetryscotland.bsky.social Poetry Scotland is published twice-yearly as an A4 broadsheet, showcasing new poetry in English, Scots and Gaelic from Scotland and all around the globe. 
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
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Wychwood Festival @wychwoodfestival.bsky.social 
@monicadebhailis.bsky.social @monicadebhailis.bsky.social 
Bradley Taylor | Poet @bradleytaylorpoet.bsky.social Roundhouse Poetry Slam Champion 2024
Host of The Big Gay Poetry Night
bradleytaylorpoet.com
IG: @bradleytaylorpoet
Carrie Karnes-Fannin @carriekarnesfannin.bsky.social Author UNIVERSE PIE, Gnome Road Pub, Fall 2027 | Contributor NW GA Magazine | #InkedVoices, #12x12, #SCBWI | www.carriekarnesfannin.com Designer @ Archadeck of NW Georgia
Catherine Olver @thewordwoods.bsky.social Author & academic, Cambridge
Writing for a green future & proud LGBTQIA+ present.
www.catherineolver.co.uk
Poetry for kids, YA & adults in magazines. Sapphic fantasy fan & aspiring author.
PhD in kidlit, Uni of Cambridge. New article 'Nature's Puzzles'.
Liz Scott @lizscottpr.bsky.social Freelance children's & YA book publicist
Co-founder of @cbnnetwork.bsky.social
Treasurer @publicitycircle.bsky.social
Shortlisted for #FutureBook Freelancer of the Year 2024
Samantha Terrell @samanthaterrell.bsky.social American Poet, Curator of SHINE International Poetry Series
Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com I’ve got a beard
Books read: 89/100
📚 The Wax Child
📺 Lanterns
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.com
https://www.ephemeral.co.uk
Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social Cultural worker/buruh seni. Disabled, from JKT. ANNAH, INFINITE out now ❤️🔥 Also wrote amuk, ULTIMATUM ORANGUTAN, ROPE, INDIGENOUS SPECIES, & I make art.
https://www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infinite/
Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
Nikki Dudley @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social #Thriller Volta / Poetry (KFS & Hem & BSB) / @streetcakemag editor / loves travel. Views my own.
Nicky Kippax @nickykippax.bsky.social Aphantastic poet, even if I say so myself. Northern Writers’ Award winner & co-host of York poetry night, Rise Up! Recent words in Rialto Poetry, Oxford Poetry, The London Magazine & PN Review. Also: https://poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poets/nicky-kippax/
Niall O'Sullivan @rustyniall.bsky.social (in no particular order…) poet, essayist, lecturer, gamer, dad
buttondown.com/niall
niall.garden
Naush Sabah @naush.bsky.social Lecturer, Editor, cat lady in training.
Lentic out now with Guillemot Press!
https://www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry/naush-sabah
Natalie Shaw @natalieshaw.bsky.social ‘Exuberant and anarchic’
Dirty Martini available from @brokensleepbooks
https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/dirty-martini-by-natalie-shaw
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
Mo Schoenfeld @moschoenfeld.bsky.social Published poet, writer, parent, married. Human rights are non-negotiable.
#haiku #senryu #tanka #poetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity
Unless cited, writing, photos/videos are my ©, she/her, ally 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🧡 💙
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Morag Anderson @moraganderson.bsky.social Poetry lover, reader, writer.
Arvon Advanced Writing Programme
Winner of the 2023 Aryamati Poetry Pamphlet Prize. Published by www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk
Michelle Diaz @michelleadiaz.bsky.social #poet #singer #mother
Memoona Zahid @memoonawrites.bsky.social poet ; ledbury critic ; ma in poetry from uea ; goldsmiths grad ; london ; free palestine
https://msha.ke/memoonazahid
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/
Michael H Whitworth @profmhwhitworth.bsky.social Oxford, U.K. Prof of Modern Literature and Culture. Literature & Science, Modernism, Book History, Virginia Woolf, 1920s & 30s poetry. Also found on IG under the same name. All posts in a personal capacity.
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social Spoken word artist, Green Party member, lover of linguistics and cryptic crosswords, hater of plastic (she/her or they/them)
Mavis Moog @mavismoog.bsky.social Ordinary dog woman.
Creativity is my passion. Poetry, writing, pottery, sewing, knitting, woodturning, cooking ...I'm not highly skilled but I don't let that stop me.
Raised in Hong Kong, now living in south Wales, UK
Creepy men will be 🚫
Maya Caspari @mayacaspari.bsky.social Ideally writing or napping. Lecturer @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social, working on memory, touch & ethics/politics of representation in contemporary writing, among other things. Sometimes poet. Based in London/York. Here v sporadically. www.mayacaspari.com
Matthew Francis @mfrancispoet.bsky.social Poet, novelist and professor emeritus in creative writing at Aberystwyth University. Latest novel, Nocturne with Gaslamps out now from Neem Tree Press.
Matt Duggan @mattduggan.bsky.social Poet
Poems included in The Poetry Review, Stand Magazine, Poetry Wales. New Poetry Collection due 2027 [Broken Sleep Books]
Mark Russell @markruss.bsky.social Poetry, art, maybe other stuff
Mariah Whelan @mwhelanwrites.bsky.social Poet, Teacher & Editor at @poetrybyheart.bsky.social
Marion McCready @marionmccreadypoet.bsky.social Writer / poetry - Tree Language, Madame Ecosse (Eyewear Publishing), Look to the Crocus (Shoestring Press, 2023). Interests: poetry / art / jazz / politics
Madeleine F White @madeleinefwhite.bsky.social #poet: #horseandgirl & #maidenmothercrone collections + editor #writeon magazine + #author #Motheroffloods. Passionate about creating safe digital, physical and natural places for people and their stories. Anglo-German, born in Saarbrücken.
Mae Diansangu @vavapoetry.bsky.social Day job☀️ ASN classroom assistant
Creative practice✍🏾 Poet [Scots + English]
Drag alter ego🕺🏾👑 Uncle Tony
vavapoetry@gmail.com
Maggie Sawkins @magpieisle.bsky.social Poet living on the Isle of Wight. I work in the Quarr Abbey bookshop. Latest collection Flyweight published by Culture Matters.
Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social Poet. Manchester. Buildings. NWCDTP-funded PhD @MMU, Centre for Place Writing. Latest: Stay Awhile (Knives Forks & Spoons) & This Now Extends to My Daughter (Blue Diode)
Elizabeth Kemball🖋️🌛 @lizziekemball.bsky.social ♊ 29 | She/Her | South Wales
☕ From the Potteries.
🎓 Cardiff Uni MA | Warwick BA
🖋️ Writing a folk horror novel very slowly.
📚 Occasional poet & frequent reader.
📙 Bookstagram: devouring.words
Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social Poet and Neonatologist.
Debut pamphlet “Hatchery” published with V. Press - you can buy hatchery here https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/hatchery.html?m=1
https://linktr.ee/elizabeth.osmond
Fay Roberts @fayroberts.bsky.social Queer, disabled, Welsh(ish), progressive performance poet/ musician/ data (and project) manager/ event host/ musician/ award-winning voice actor. Lover of spreadsheets and creative writing. ze/zir or they/them/their https://linktr.ee/fayroberts
Ewen Glass @ewenglass.bsky.social screenwriter | lecturer | poemer
Estelle Price @estelleprice.bsky.social A poet for 10 years. Still love words. I’ve won a few things - 2024 Save as Writers Competition, 2023 Welshpool Poetry Competition & Mairtín Crawford Award, 2021 Welsh Poetry Competition. In 2022 I was published by Nine Arches in Primers 6.
Fiona Pitt-Kethley @fionapitt-kethley.bsky.social Alpha female. Writer who lives in Spain. I will sometimes post in Spanish.
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social She/her, Disability Justice, feminist, equalities consultant, writer, performance poet. Zines, physics, poetry, politics, cats, accessibility, landscape, Scotland, complexity 🏴❤️🦕
https://linktr.ee/FionaRobertson
Fiona Sampson @fionasampson.bsky.social Writer, poet, Romanticist, critic, librettist, literary translation. Agent: mail@wylieagency.co.uk
Gayle Smith @gayle7dgd.bsky.social Hi , I'm Gayle , an early 60's transwoman who likes what I like including fashion, football, karaoke, music, politics, shopping, spoken word poetry and theatre.
George Violet Parker @agparker.bsky.social Pushcart, Best of the Net, National Diversity Award & Space Crone Prize-nominated writer
Co-editor eff-able
Debut collection Gynandromorph 📚
Co-director Queer Stage Revolution
Disabled & Queer Artist of the Year 2022
EDS, etc.
https://linktr.ee/a.g.parker
@gbclarkson.bsky.social @gbclarkson.bsky.social - G Giles Turnbull @gilestwriter.bsky.social Poet, author, lover of cats and cake! Debut pamphlet Dressing Up, available from Cinnamon Press https://cinnamonpress.com/dressing-up/
Glyn Edwards @glynedwards.bsky.social How to make a Paper Grenade - Verve
In Orbit - Seren Books
Writer in Res - North Wales Wildlife Trust
Harry Man @harrymanonbluesky.bsky.social Poet, Translator | RLF Reading Round Fellow | Tutor, Oxford University | Stephen Spender, UNESCO Bridges of Struga & Northern Writers 🏆 | Opinions own, etc. www.manmadebooks.co.uk || https://linktr.ee/harrymanoninstagram
Dr Helen Boden @helenboden.bsky.social Poet & Independent Literature Professional. A Landscape To Figure In (Red Squirrel Press). Best Scottish Poems 2022. ND. She / they. helenbodenliteraryarts.com
Helen Tookey @helentookey.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Based in Liverpool, UK. Published by Carcanet Press, Longbarrow Press and Liverpool University Press.
Hollie McNish @holliemcnish.bsky.social Follow for poetry, random thoughts and new discoveries because poetry and the world is endlessly fascinating and I know nothing.
On tour now: www.holliepoetry.com/livedates 
Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io (they/he) nonbinary, poet, father, husband, gardener, *retired* game-dev from Sumo Digital...
Ian Glass @ianglass.bsky.social Programmer and Poet; not necessarily in that order and never at the same time. Pamphlet 'About Leaving' published by V-Press.
Iris Anne Lewis @irisannelewis.bsky.social Writer (mainly poetry). Poems in Black Bough, High Window, Ink Sweat and Tears, Iamb, Poetry Wales. First collection 'Amber' published 2024. Founder of the poetry group 'Wordbrew'.
Isabelle Kenyon @isabellekenyon.bsky.social Editor & #bookmarketing consultant 📚 Poet and Novelist.
M.D. @fly_press
FutureBook Awards Future Leader Finalist 2024
Novel The Dark Within Them out now🔥
Jacob Sam-La Rose @jacobslr.bsky.social Writer, reader, editor, facilitator, programme leader, artistic director. Geeks for mobile computing, creative coding, generative tech, ergomech keyboards, sci-fi & spec fic...
Jai Michelle Louissen @jaimichellepoet.bsky.social Scottish poet living in The Netherlands. Poetry Scotland, Dust Poetry, Acropolis, Crow and Cross Keys. Second chapbook ‘THE WEIGHT OF VAPOUR’ by Alien Buddha Press EIC of The Winged Moon 
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
James Knight @badbadpoet.bsky.social Poet, artist, performer and publisher based in the UK. Prolific maker of visual poetry. Recent books: COSMIC HORROR (Hem Press), WHAT’S THIS FLESH? (Intergraphia), WASTES / WRAITHS (Atomic Bohemian). https://t.co/QoN4GHLvNE
Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social Poet, indie punk, optimistic rebel.
Buy my book, read my poems etc etc: https://linktr.ee/jamiewoods77
Jan Norton @gladyspugh.bsky.social Welsh, poet, gardening lover, morning walker, chatty, generally interested and enthusiastic human. first pamphlet -‘Relief Map’ published by and available from Five Leaves Press Nottingham, https://fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk
@disleyrascal.bsky.social @disleyrascal.bsky.social I am a poet and writer, and run a small publishing enterprise called Beatnpress. I love Beat Generation literature, Jazz, Clobber and things of a Modernist nature.
https://www.beatnpress.co.uk/
Becky Nuttall Artist Poet @beckyartistpoet.bsky.social Artist, poet and writer. My work explores themes of personal identity, memory, history and the generation of women born in 1950s and formed in the 1970s ⚡️⚡️
Simon Williams @greatbigbadger.bsky.social Retired journalist. Practicing poet
afshan d’souza-lodhi @afshandl.bsky.social writer of TV, plays & poetry - WGGB rep for Manchester - represented by MMB Creative - funny (my mum says so) - constant resting bitch face - pro-Palestinian all the way from the river to the sea -
- all views & typos my own -
🍉 she/they
Titilayo @titiiilayo.bsky.social Free Free 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🇱🇧
In Wolf's Skin 💛 @Stewed Rhubarb Press
Coming🌱 But We Did ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽 @404 Ink
Q Manivannan MSP @qmanivannan.bsky.social Anthropologist of care 🌸
MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Greens 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🏴
https://linktr.ee/QManivannan
@dzifabenson.bsky.social @dzifabenson.bsky.social 
DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social Poet (Salt 2019, Broken Sleep 2026), fiction writer and academic at University Centre Peterborough. Lives in Norwich. Travels by train. Parents by exhaustion.
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
@janekite.bsky.social @janekite.bsky.social 
Niall Machin @niallmachin1.bsky.social In this age of grand illusion, you walked into my life out of my dreams. Mostly words and wings.
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
Lucy Lepchani @lucylepchani.bsky.social Adult Education tutor, writer, poet.
Gardening, ethnobotany, community radio, etcetera.
Devon, UK.
Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social Novelist, poet, lecturer at University of Birmingham. Latest novel BLACK BAG out March 12th 2026.
https://linktr.ee/lukekennard
Lucy English @lucyenglish.bsky.social Spoken word poet, novelist, poetry filmmaker. Professor of Creative Enterprise, co-director of Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival. Loves trees.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0034P8U64
https://canceralleyproject.com
https://thebookofhours.org
Lou Mach @louloumach.bsky.social Mancunian, Writer, Reader, Educator, UoM, Centre for New Writing. Collaborative pamphlet, The Words of Others are All We Have, Hedgehog Press, (2024). Collection, I Am Not Light, Black Bough Poetry (2025)
https://www.louisemachen.com
Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social Writer, Artist, Psychologist
MOVING MOUNTAINS
PhD candidate at Centre for Place Writing, Manchester Met Uni.
Exploring the Romney Marshes & its coastline through post-viral illness. https://louisekenward.substack.com
Rep'd by @portyliterary.bsky.social
Louise Mather @louisemather.bsky.social Editor of Acropolis Journal | Writer |
The Dredging of Rituals, 2021 | Published in The North | Broken Sleep Books | Fly on the Wall Press | Acumen Poetry | streetcakemag
Linda McKenna @lindamckenna.bsky.social Poet. Two poetry collections with Doire Press, 'Four Thousand Keys' (2024), 'In the Museum of Misremembered Things' (2020). Lives in Downpatrick. Man Utd fan
Liv Torc @livtorc.bsky.social Poet and project weaver. Director of Hot Poets, Haiflu, Banana Poems, Hip Yak Poetry… runs poetry stage at WOMAD, UN Consultant.
Liam Bates @liambatespoet.bsky.social Funded PhD student @ MMU (ecopoetry, friendship & the more-than-human city)/ Northern Writers’ Award winner/ Human Townsperson (Broken Sleep Books)
www.liambatespoet.com
Lexi Pelle @lexipelle.bsky.social Poet
Author of the poetry collection Let Go With The Lights On (Write Bloody Publishing, 2023)