Gregory @gregorykearns.bsky.social Poet in theory, Neurodiversity in the Workplace trainer, host of The Poems We Made Along the Way, your new best friend.
ImtiazDharker @imtiazdharker.bsky.social Poet Over the Moon, Shadow Reader
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🔥
Beth Davies @bethdaviespoet.bsky.social Sheffield Poet Laureate 2024-6. The Pretence of Understanding published 2023 by The Poetry Business. Librarian by day. Appreciator of pretty skies and dogs in little coats.
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
Suzannah Evans @suzannahevans.bsky.social space baby
Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social Writer, Lake-swimmer, Bookseller.
FRSL
hEDS/Haemochromatosis/all the comorbs
she/her
rep @PortyLiterary
Books incl:
Recovering Dorothy
Some Of Us Just Fall
The Company of Owls
Emergency Dream
Swimming The Seasons
https://linktr.ee/pollyatkin
Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb' the Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice: "some of the most moving, restrained, memorable and technically adroit poetry of our times" --- TLS, 3/25
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
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
Stephen Paul Wren @moleculesunlimited.bsky.social Poet. PINE/NEEDLES out Sept ‘26. BOtN nominated. Director of Molecules Unlimited. Leads Wren research group. University of Cambridge PhD. AFC. Chiefs.
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.
Lothlorien Poetry Journal @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction and art.
https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines.html
Strider Marcus Jones @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social Poet. Five published books.DMU Law graduate. Pushcart Prizex4/Best of the Netx4 Nominations. Founder/Editor/Publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.co https://stridermarcusjonespoet.blogspot.com/p/about-strider.html
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
Emma Purshouse @emmapurshouse.bsky.social Freelance writer, novelist, performance poet and lover of all things Black Country. Editor of The Blackcountryman magazine. One third of Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists.
Geno Teofilo @genoteofilo.bsky.social NGO Aid Watch Founder and NGO Communications Professional. Former Oxfam, Norwegian Refugee Council & others. Coffee please!
Limerick Literary Festival @limericklitfest.bsky.social The Festival will run in Limerick 27.02.26 - 01.03.26 at the Belltable, O’Connell Street. The event continues to honour the life and works of the Limerick author, Kate O’Brien while attracting prominent writers from all over the world.
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
Sheaf Poetry @sheafpoetry.bsky.social Poetry group in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK
Spiralie Land @spiralie.bsky.social 𓇼 ℂ𝕆𝕄𝕄𝕀𝕊𝕊𝕀𝕆ℕ𝕊 𝕆ℙ𝔼ℕ 𓇼
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A Thousand Shades of Green @shadesofgreen.bsky.social A Thousand Shades of Green is a Literary podcast, a blog and a press, celebrating contemporary writers.https://athousandshadesofgreen.com
Michael Dechane @michaeldechane.bsky.social Poet. Jungian dream worker. Head Cook. Spoon carver. Author of The Long Invisible (2024, Wildhouse Publishing).
#poet #poetry #author #writer #jung #jungian #dream #woodcarving
The Piano Dad UK @thepianodaduk.bsky.social Introducing the UK's most original new jazz act!
The Piano Dad UK is a singer, pianist, songwriter, and father to three beautiful boys (and a dog).
Search for 'The Piano Dad UK' on YouTube, or visit the channel at https://youtube.com/@thepianodaduk
Tricia Dearborn @triciadearborn.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Editor | New collection Goatscape out with Cordite Books in 2027! | Editor at http://triciadearborneditor.com
@lauren-thomas.bsky.social @lauren-thomas.bsky.social All things poetry. Co-editor of Black Iris https://www.blackirispoetry.com
SAGE POETESS, WRITER, EDITOR @sagetaylorkingsley.bsky.social 🌊💙🌀Protest + Mystic POET *BEAUTIFUL LATE BLOOMER* Best-Selling Author EDITOR GHOSTWRITER 100 books. LoA~Self-Love~Lover of democracy, nature, dogs, life! Kindness is my religion 🙏
TONS of poetry ➡️ https://sagepoetess.substack.com
ME-CFS Spoonie Bibliophile
Only Solidarity Will Save Us. @mequashie.bsky.social My details don't matter now.
Here's what we must do:
1. Get to know as many of our neighbors as possible
2. Organize and prepare for a general strike
3. Uplift each other so we can all keep going.
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/
Norb Aikin @norbaikin.bsky.social 2x Writing.com Best Poetry Collection Quill Award winner and blogger. 3x published author. Former child. Hemmed up by JGM. #BillsMafia #Sabres #LGM #NDIrish Don't mind me; I hate everything. Norbaikin.com/blog
Jane Thomas @janethomas.bsky.social Writing with a slow pencil in Jericho.
Coracle, a philosophical, political and personal reflection on Alzheimer’s and care - out now with Live Canon
https://www.livecanon.co.uk/.../product/coracle-jane-thomas
Janethomas.org
Nik Perring @nikperring.bsky.social Screenwriter. Author.
Film: What Liba Felt.
Books: Not So Perfect; Freaks!; Ghost Reader (and others).
Paul McGrane @paulmcgrane.bsky.social 81% Welsh, 18% Irish, 100% poetry. Co-founder of ForestPoets.bsky.social, Walthamstow, and host of PoemsNotBombs.bsky.social open mic, Walthamstow & Soho. Big fan of #thefall & #LOFC https://indigodreamspublishing.com/paul-mcgrane
Jeanette Burton @nettie77.bsky.social Poet and littlest hobo 🐕 first prize McLellan 2021, Ware 2022, PPP 2023. Poems appear in Dust, Atrium, IS&T, The Friday Poem, Poetry Wales. Ostriches, published by Candlestick Press. Tutor with The Writing School and shadow writer with Beyond the Spectrum.
Rhianna Levi-Burton @rhiannalevi98.bsky.social Former Worcestershire Poet Laureate. Cover teacher. Youth worker. Social media manager. Published writer. Mental health advocate.
Coffee, cats, tattoos, movie fanatic. Tolkien enthusiast. 🖤
Worcester, UK
Beth Kanter @beekaekae.bsky.social Writer, teacher, workshop leader.
Hand holder
Words in: X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Emerge Literary Journal, Unbroken, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Cease, Cows and others.
Pushcart nominee.
www.bethkanter.com
Books: No Access DC & Great Food Finds DC…
Rough Diamond Poetry @rough-diamond1.bsky.social Rough Diamond is an online and in print poetry journal. roughdiamondpoems@gmail.com
EIC - Charlotte Cosgrove
http://ko-fi.com/roughdiamond open for subs
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.'
Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social Teacher and Poet. Pamphlets - Walrussey (The Black Cat Poetry Press, 2023) and Circulaire (Written off Publishing, 2025).
Circulaire available to purchase here: https://writtenoffpublishing.com/shop/p/circulaire-bex-hainsworth
Rae Howells @raehowells.bsky.social Journalist & poet. Shortlisted Wales Book of the Year 2023.
✍🏻 Poet in residence at Llanelli Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
📚 Books: 🐝 The Language of Bees 🌿This Common Uncommon (Parthian)
📌 Project Manager NUJ Training Wales
🏴 Cymraes
Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social Read more of other people’s poems, that’s all I’m saying. Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. Published by the magnificent Longbarrow press. I share a house through the summer with nesting swifts. Podcast:
https://twowaypoetry.podbean.com/
Syd Meats @sydmeats.bsky.social Syd Meats has performed at events and festivals around the UK. He has been commended and shortlisted in competitions including Verve Poem of the Month, the Charm Poetry Prize, and Hammond Hill Poetry Prize. He is half of harmonium duo Panda-monium.
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 
Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social Author of 'Salacia' & 'Pearl and Bone' 📚
'Witsh' available now 🌛
Lecturer in Creative Writing 📓🖋️
PhD in Welsh Witchcraft 🎓
'Obstinate, headstrong girl'♀️
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Adele Ward @adeleward.bsky.social Writer and book person
Rehema Njambi @rehema.bsky.social (You probably call me Remy.) Author / Poet.
This House, out now from @TheEmmaPress. In a previous life, I was shouting about books & authors to anyone interested.
Currently less shouty but still all about books and authors. I go outside sometimes.
Pratibha Castle Poetry @poet-pratibha1.bsky.social Award winning poet. Pushcart/BOTN nom. Miniskirts in The Waste Land PBS winter 2023. Bridport s’list, Welsh Comp highly commended, 3rd prize Cannon also Plaza comps. Indigo Dreams l’list. Agenda, Stand, Tears in the Fence, Orbis forthcoming Under The Radar
Paul Ings @ings4words.bsky.social Poetry
https://linktr.ee/paulings
Helen Evans @helen-evans.bsky.social Poet, and facilitator of "Poems for the Path Ahead". Published by Mariscat Press, and HappenStance Press. www.helenevans.co.uk
Rhys Owain Williams @rhysowainwilliams.bsky.social Writer of poetry, fiction and other things | That Lone Ship (Parthian Books) | Hay Festival Writer At Work | He/Him | https://linktr.ee/rhysowainwilliams
Natalie Ann Holborow @natholborow.bsky.social Author of 'Little Universe' and 'Small' | Content Marketing Manager at Synergy Learning | Runner | T1D | 'Wild Running' out September 2025 📚🏃♀️
Tracey Rhys @traceyrhys.bsky.social Poet (Parthian, Green Bottle Press), short stories from Honno. Freelance editor & proofreader (The Royal Mint, Seren Books, Poetry Wales) & artist. No weird DMs (I shouldn't have to say it).
'Bathing on the Roof' due out Spring 2025 from Parthian Books.
Patricia Debney @patriciadebney.com Writer/Survivor/Activist. Award-winning four poetry collections, novel. Next: memoir re coming of age thru child sexual abuse LEAVING LOCUST AVENUE. Extracts in blog. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 https://patriciadebney.com/
#CSA #ChildSexualAbuse #EDS #MCAS #writer #memoir
Alan Humm @alanhumm.bsky.social Editor of the online arts journal One Hand Clapping. Novelist, poet, teacher and father but not necessarily in that order. You can find my writing here: https://www.alanhummswriting.com/
Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social Welsh writer, poet, editor, ecological thinker & founder of Modron Magazine: @modronmagazine.bsky.social
https://www.serenbooks.com/book/100-poems-to-save-the-earth/
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/zo%C3%AB-brigley-kristian-evans-otherwor
Ness Owen @nessowen.bsky.social Poet, lecturer,Cymraes #ForwardPrizeHighlyCommended Books-Moon Jellyfish Can Barely Swim #ParthianBooks Mamiaith #ArachnePress-co-editor of A470 +Afonydd-Welsh Rivers. Winner #Greenpeace 's #PoemforthePlanet 2022 #YnysMon New collectionNaming the Trees 🏴
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
eve moriarty lloyd @evemoriarty.bsky.social a trenchant buffoon / alleged poet
Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social Poet. Reader. Plums, raspberries, apricots. Recently in Asymptote, New Welsh Review, Finished Creatures, Cyphers. Troubadour Prize. Jt runner-up Keats-Shelley prize. He/him.
Gillian Mellor @atomic51.bsky.social Writer and Consumer of Poetry. Donald Bagger. Transient Earth Inhabitant. Hello!
Katherine Stansfield @kstansfield.bsky.social Reader, writer, cat fan. Historical fiction, crime fiction, weird fiction, poems. I'm one half of D. K. Fields (fantasy crime series) & co-editor of Bending The Arc: A Thrutopian Magazine which imagines thriving & liveable futures into being
Tamar Millen @tamarmillen.bsky.social Tired.
Warrior/Worrier.
Freelance Culture organiser and producer. PhD researcher in Design at Sussex - Designing The Conditions for Hope.
Kinship carer to Nid1 & Nid2
Sheffield.
Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io (they/he) nonbinary, poet, father, husband, gardener, *retired* game-dev from Sumo Digital...
Candi M @candisays.bsky.social Writer. Tutor. Northern Writers Award. MA Writing and Wellbeing. Social History. Inclusion. Nature. Mudlarking.
Peter Kenny @peter-kenny.bsky.social Creative maverick. Writer of poetry and dark fiction. Co-hosts and co-produces the Planet Poetry podcast. 
Rowan Bell @rowanpoetry.bsky.social Writer living in North Yorkshire. Poetry in The Friday Poem, Púca Magazine, Wishbone Words and Spelt. Regular blog in 'Moodscope' https://moodscope.com. Poetry and art. Poetry as therapy.
Di Slaney @dislaney.bsky.social Animals, nature, poetry. Publisher/editor Candlestick Press. Founder http://www.manorfarmcharitabletrust.org / Winner Plough Prize 2022. New collection Hard Graft out 21.09.26
Andy N @andynartist.bsky.social Poet (Books inc. Changing Carriages at Birmingham New Street), Novel (1st two - Birth and Death), Ambient Musician, Podcast host, Co-hosts 'Speak Easy'. Likes to sleep on occasionally.
https://andynartist.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/andynartist
E. J. Nash @ejnash.bsky.social Things that bring me joy: Writing, reading, lasagna | Words in CBC, The Globe and Mail, Nature, and elsewhere | Say hi at ejnashwrites.com
Keeks Mc @keeksmc.bsky.social Scots language poet 🏴
Author of "Contermacious Temerity" and "Rede Wi Yer Hert" from Dreich Publications. Next collection coming 2026 with Drunk Muse Press.
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
Saraswati Nagpal @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social Forward Prize, Pushcart & BOTN nominated Poet, Author, Educator, Performing Artist. Lover of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, tomes, trees, all things purple. Poetry: 'Drench Me in Silver' (Black Bough, 2025)
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/saraswatinagpal
The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social Smith|Doorstop Books • New Poets List • International Book & Pamphlet Competition • New Poets Prize • Writer Development Agency
https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained (https://alliteration.net), a website devoted to modern English alliterative verse. If you like Beowulf, or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or Tolkien's Fall of Arthur or Sigurd and Gudrun, you're in for a treat.
Graham Woodruff @grahamwoodruff.bsky.social poetry and politics, dogs and dancing
Peakrill Press @peakrillpress.bsky.social stories - art - magic - surprises
🌳🪨🦉🕸️🥀👹🍄🌜🎲🪄💚
An independent publishing company, via Daniel Sumption
Peakrill.com
HelpSheffield @helpsheffield.co.uk Doing what we have done, on the other place, for the last 14 years. Ask us a #Sheffield question & we (or our followers) will answer it.
Next Sheffield Socials at Portland House 24th of September from 6.30pm. Meet n chat. No agenda. Any Qs ask.
Dave Kurley @badvibrations62.bsky.social Poet, writer, photographer. All my own work. All my own photos. All my own teeth, too. No DMs, please - unless I know you personally.
First book of poems: ‘Irritating the Silver Lining’ - available to order online.
Visit my website: www.davekurley.net
Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social Writer, cat lady, wrote a novel about medieval mystics, forthcoming novel about John Ruskin. Aspiring anchoress. https://victoriamackenzie.net/
Substack: https://victoriamackenzie.substack.com/
Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social Writing poetry | Debut collection: 'The Bone Folder', Drunk Muse Press 2024 | Shortlisted for Saltire Awards & Bridport 2025 | Winner McLellan Prize 2025, Saboteur Award 2023 | Board Moniack Mhor | Poet in Residence UHI | linktr.ee/caitjomac
Hiram Larew @hiramlarew.bsky.social Poet. Newest collection, "This Much Very," was published in 2025 by Alien Buddha Press. Founder of Poetry X Hunger -- bringing a world of poets to the anti-hunger cause. HiramLarewPoetry.com and PoetryXHunger.com
Gill Connors @gillcresearch.bsky.social poet, teacher, PhD student. Wild swimmer. Editor at Yaffle/Yaffle's Nest
Living, working and writing in The Yorkshire Dales
Fox and Star Books @foxandstarbooks.bsky.social We publish poetry and fiction chapbooks by UK debut authors with an emphasis on global majority writers. Founder/editor: @carrieetter.bsky.social; co-editor: Kaycee Hill Website: https://foxandstarbooks.org
Matthew Paul @matthewepaul.bsky.social Poems. Reviews. Essays. Latest poetry collection The Last Corinthians (https://crookedspirepress.com/the-last-corinthians-by-matthew-paul).
‘[…] an exceptionally well-crafted collection.’ - Acumen
www.matthewpaulpoetry.blog/books
Andrew C.A. Elliott @acaelliott.bsky.social Writing, Softwaring, Figuring, Photo-ing, Listening. Some sax playing. Trying to make sense of the time I've spent on this planet.
Writer: "Is that a Big Number?" & "What are the Chances of That?" - how we understand numbers and probability, respectively.
Hilary Watson poet @poetryhilary.bsky.social Poet, dog lover, feminist. Editor at Bending The Arc. www.hilarywatson.co.uk. First collection 'Menagerie Street' out now from Seren Books. Available at https://www.serenbooks.com/book/menagerie-street
Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social Poet, indie punk, optimistic rebel.
Buy my book, read my poems etc etc: https://linktr.ee/jamiewoods77
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social Gulfport, FL poet laureate
I write poems about bodies - ours, animals, water, our collective nature
Here to connect with poets & poetry lovers
Author of Water Yoga (Singing Dragon 2022).
Lover of tea & avocados 🥑
https://christafairbrotherwrites.com/
Frances Roberts Reilly @francespoesis.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Roma, Poet, Author, Podcaster, Playwright, Filmmaker, Storyteller, Documentarian, Harpist, Welsh Gypsy, Nan.
Author of Parramisha: A Romani Poetry Collection & Akekoi: A Romani Memoir
Poetry Wales & Firebird Awards.
Producer, Watershed Writers Podcast.
Kathryn Kirkpatrick @kathrynkirkpatrick.bsky.social poet, professor, ecofeminist
https://www.kathrynkirkpatrick.org/
Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social Some atoms in the shape of an elongated hominid. Poems. Writing reviews for KLOF mag. Buy my book here https://www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/product-page/%C6%A8-tom-blake
Alien Buddha Press @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social Alien Buddha Press has been publishing emerging writers and artists since 2017. Open for submissions at abuddhapress@yahoo.com
the engine(idling lit @the-engine-idling.bsky.social the engine(idling is an online literary magazine for the restless. unique themed issues.
www.engineidling.net
EIC Danielle McMahon (@dehm000.bsky.social)
Courtney DuChene @courtneyduchene.bsky.social Writer. Journalist. Poet.
MFA: University of Michigan
She/Hers
🖊️: The Philadelphia Citizen, Philadelphia magazine
Views my own.
Avishek ghosh @avishekcolours.bsky.social 
Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social linktr.ee/victoriaspires
BotN, Pushcart & Forward nominated. Shortlisted/commended in various comps: Winner Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize
Finalist Mslexia Women's Comp
Rube Goldberg Machine out with Shadow and Sax.
Steph Louise @ravenatadesk.bsky.social 29. English teacher in a college. Reader and hoarder of books, crochet artist, park runner.
She/her 🏳️🌈
ClaireBurnettWrites @claireburnett.bsky.social best stored outside