Ellen Forkin @ellenforkin.bsky.social I’m a chronically ill artist, writer and poet living in beautiful Orkney with a passion for folklore, myth and magic. Visit my website: www.ellenforkin.co.uk
WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
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
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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@farehamboy.bsky.social @farehamboy.bsky.social 
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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. Best Small Fictions ‘27 Nom.
Contemporary Anglophone Lit PhD.
https://linktr.ee/emhall47
Elena Again @elenaagain.bsky.social #hike #travel published poet and author 🩷
#cancersurvivor 💙 #autoimmune 💜 #SCA10min ❤️ Army Vet
Here I am, again 🦋 love must triumph
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Clare Painter @clarepainter.bsky.social Happily untangling copyright, digital & AI licensing, publishing rights. Practical contracts & permissions. Fluent Italian with a Milanese twang. Poetry. Also cats.
Clare Bryden @clarebryden.bsky.social Born at 325ppm
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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
— Mary Oliver
May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.
— John O’Donohue
Glengarry Glen Rachel @chrispb.bsky.social Future Criterion closet thief. Poetry, pints, fries. M/WNBA. Songs missing bridges. Shawarma connoisseur. Older than some dirt. Open to kindness.
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
Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social Wild eyed Welsh poet. Anti-discrimination, democracy, rights, transcendence.
Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social Novelist & poet. Latest novel COLE THE MAGNIFICENT
https://linktr.ee/tonywilliamswriter
Liminal Space Creative @liminalspacecreative.substack.com Aspiring Métis writer drawn to the grey areas of the human condition. Places we bury deep, where love and sorrow quietly pool together. Spaces that hold both our capacity for sincere kindness and our potential for extreme cruelty.
DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social Wanderer, writer, reader
Ambassador for daily writing prompt, #vss365, and inquisitive human.
Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social Family, Poetry. Gardening, Nature, Politics, Springsteen fan, Female
Kaz_the_Kumquat @odragonku.bsky.social 🇬🇧 ♠️ An oft' anxious yet optimistic nihilist, eclectic dyscalculic and ND nerd
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Ailuro-Biblio-Historio-Logo-Melo and Mythophile
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David Hanlon @vespertine4.bsky.social Cardiff poet. Best of the Net nominee. Author of two poetry collections - 'Spectrum of Flight' published in 2020 & 'Dawn's Incision' in 2024. Co-Poetry Editor @brokenspinearts.bsky.social
@revkevwrites.bsky.social @revkevwrites.bsky.social Poet and priest.
Poet in Residence All Hallows by the Tower for September 2025.
Inaugural Poet in Residence for the Cuckmere Pilgrim Path.
www.kevin-scully.com
Joshua Seigal - 'YAPPING AWAY' out now! @joshuaseigal.bsky.social Poet/Performer/Author. Winner: People’s Book Prize & Laugh Out Loud Award (twice). Books by Bloomsbury, HarperCollins etc. Loves lemurs. Dowload my debut poetry book for adults, for free: https://archive.org/details/the-relationship-expert-by-joshua-seigal
Laura Sheahen @lsheahen.bsky.social On writing and literature
Bel Rimmer @belrimmer.bsky.social PhD, Women's Voices in Poetry, MMU. Poet and short story writer. Joint winner of Indigo-First pamphlet competition (2018). Second pamphlet published by New Walk Editions (2022). Three times short-listed for the Laurie Lee Prize for Writing.
Jack Morris @jackmmorris.bsky.social Writes a bit (Pushcart nom x 2, Best Microfiction ‘26, Fish 3rd prize ‘26), reads a lot. Drama (on-stage, mostly) 🏳️🌈
Editor: https://www.neitherfishnorfoul.com/ @neitherfishnorfoul.com
my published stuff via: https://thewavingnotdrowningblog.com/
Dezmond Davanti @dezmonddavanti.bsky.social neither here nor there
Matthew Rice @matthew-rice.bsky.social Poet-PhD-Anti-racist. ‘Plastic’ forthcoming in January 2026 with Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) & Soft Skull Press (US), available here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790542/plastic-by-matthew-rice/
AM @annamaeve.com Writer | Poet | Screenwriter | Digital Artist
Published Fiction: "Cambion's Prey" & "Automato"
Screenplays: PRISMA & TMFF Awards Finalist and The Red List
http://annamaeve.com
Cole Beauchamp 🏳️🌈 📖 @nomad-sw18.bsky.social Queer writer l #FlashFiction l Smokelong Fellow 2026 l Contrib ed @nffr.bsky.social
Pushcart, BSF, BMF & Monarch noms
Read my stories:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17zj1W2pXZsP1aZZ3vR4vbV4Cra9eZ15F6lwU5lc2tKA/edit?usp=sharing
Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social Poet published in magazines & anthologies in the UK, US, Ireland & Canada. Debut pamphlet: Fledglings (Red Squirrel Press, 2016). First collection: Crippled (Red Squirrel Press, 2025).
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.
Rebecca Goss @gosspoems.bsky.social More on Instagram @gosspoems
Poet & mentor. Books with Carcanet Press. Poet-in-Residence for CW+, the official charity for Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals. Writing for Life Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund.
T. E. Niemi @teniemi.bsky.social Poems (https://bottlecap.press/products/atnight), screenplays (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4661531/) and stories.
Ewen Glass @ewenglass.bsky.social screenwriter | lecturer | poemer
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
Eleanor Carpenter @eleanorcarpenter.bsky.social Poet
Dawn Colclasure Wilson @dmcwriter.bsky.social Writes as Dawn Colclasure. Author, Book Reviewer, Freelance Writer. Loves animals, astronomy, books, coffee, horror and writing.
Writing Website: https://www.dmcwriter.com/
Author site: https://dawnsbooks.com/
https://dawnreviewsbooks.blogspot.com/
Colm Brennan @colmgbrennan.bsky.social Poet & Writer
Poetry Ireland Review • Banshee • The Waxed Lemon • Sonder • The Cormorant • Profiles • The Ogham Stone • Arts Council Literature Bursary • MA in creative writing from UL
colmgbrennan.com
Eileen Farrelly @eileenfarrelly.bsky.social Scottish poet based in Glasgow. Occasional runner, printmaker, songwriter photographer…
nosed @nosedmag.bsky.social Every Monday at Midnght GMT, nosed publishes work on philosophy, culture, literature. nosed.substack.com.
@jeffnuggetz.bsky.social @jeffnuggetz.bsky.social 
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Shelley Roche-Jacques @shelleyr-j.bsky.social Writer of short fiction and dramatic monologue, connoisseur of cake, coveter of cats, lecturer of creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University.
https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/shelley-roche-jacques
Bill Merklee @bmerklee.bsky.social Writer of very short things.
In Best Microfiction. Best Small Fictions noms. Highly commended for Bath Novella-in-Flash Award. Fractured Lit Chapbook Prize short list. Wigleaf Top 50 long list. BOTN nom. But enough about me. How are you?
billmerklee.com
Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
nevastopswoopin @nevastopswoopin.bsky.social He/Him
Educator
Singer/player of many instruments
Almost good at MTG
deadblondewalking @deadblondewalking.bsky.social Retired California attorney now living in North Carolina to be near my son. The accounts I follow are political, COVID-cautious, and animal. Please don't include me in starter packs; otherwise, I will block.
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
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Kim Whysall-Hammond @kimwhysallhammond.bsky.social Poet, scientist, artist. Lifelong Science Fiction fan. SFPA. My debut pamphlet ‘Messages from the Road’ is available from Palewell Press. https://palewellpress.co.uk/bookstore/lost-wellbeing/mftr/
ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social Prof History Ed & Head of Department Curriculum Pedagogy & Assessment @ UCL’s Institute of Education. Editor HistEd Research Journal & International Rev of HistEd. Vice-Chair OHTE SAC. FRHistS. FHA. Co-Chair HEIRNET. Blog: thecamelsback.org. Own views.- L @louwatts.bsky.social @louwatts.bsky.social
Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana @corrintachibana.bsky.social Author of ‘Sing me down from the dark’ (SALT; 2022).
Worked in higher ed. in U.K. and Japan. Poems in P.N. Review, The North, MAGMA, Poetry Wales, The Interpreter’s House & The Madrid Review.
Lover of Things Japanese and proud mother of teenager.
lisadiana @lisadiana.bsky.social Cultural Political Warrior🇮🇪🇲🇽
Human Rights Activist 💙
Refugee-Migration Studies
Planner Architect
Is this the world we created?
Is this the world we devastated?
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PerfectGod = S. Cyn = L. Gates = J. Glacier = L. Simz = Ziwe +c. @blackswanborges.bsky.social Mx Józef ≈ M.
Lonely + Looking for
Poetry Fiends and Friends...
[ I wake up *wishing* that I was:
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Mx M— Józef ≈ M. J. Le Tölm...
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Nikki Dudley @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social #Thriller Volta / Poetry (KFS & Hem & BSB) / @streetcakemag editor / loves travel. Views my own.
S P Clark @spclarkwriter.bsky.social S P Clark is a writer of poetry, prose, plays, essays and articles. www.simonclarkwriter.com
Linda Daunter @lindadaunter.bsky.social
Still don't know what I want to do when I'm grown up.
In the meantime, I write short stories, flash fiction & unfinished novels, draw, paint, take photos, garden, daydream and dance when nobody's watching.
📍NW England
🚫NO AI
🚫DMs - I can't read them!
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
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.
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
David Perlmutter @davidperlmutter.bsky.social Canadian white male autistic writer. Author of America 'Toons In: A History of Television Animation and The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Also author of speculative fiction, superhero fiction and anthropomorphic ("furry") fiction.
UK's HowToEnjoy @howtoenjoycouk.bsky.social DISCOVER JOY in UK (England, NI, Scotland, Wales) events, biz, health, music, tourism, on linktr.ee/HowToEnjoyCoUk. Unleash fun nationally, from villages to cities and tourist hotspots. Embrace togetherness through the four home nations | HowToEnjoy.co.uk
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
Shaun Barr @shaunbarr.bsky.social Poet, photographer, gardener, Cumbria, UK. Longlisted National Poetry Competition 2025. The Manchester Review, Dream Catcher, The Frogmore Papers, The Madrid Review, Orbis.
shaunbarrphotography.co.uk
sjbutler06.bsky.social @sjbutler06.bsky.social SJ Butler is an author and writer from Ireland. He has recently published with numerous online magazines. His style is quirky, funny, and self-deprecating. The stories are carefully crafted and flow naturally to a very human conclusion.
Jenny Higgins @jennyhiggins.bsky.social Translator from French and Italian - literature, music, history, arts
J.S. Watts @j-s-watts.bsky.social Writer (poet, novelist, short story writer and sometime reviewer) amateur photographer and very amateur musician. Website: https://www.jswatts.co.uk/
Karen Goodwin @mssgoodwin.bsky.social Poet and journalist. Poetry Editor at Sabotage Reviews. Teacher Trailblazer at The Poetry Society. She/her
moocat.net @moocat.net This is the official account for the literary magazine, moocat.net (2001-present)
In lieu of direct messages to this account, please use the Contact Us form on the website:
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Iain Aire @iainaire.bsky.social Word alchemist, the quest for the unobtainable. EcoFiction, Fantasy, SciFi, Crime & Book Binder. The borderland of worlds. www.iainaire.com The Grey Pilgrim’s Gambit https://thegreypilgrimsgambit.laterpress.com Seeds anthology https://seeds.laterpress.com
Abbi Flint @draflint.bsky.social Researcher and poet #archaeology #envhist #folklore #envhum #peatlands #moss #heritage #poetry #reindeer #sheffield #footpaths #RightsOfWay
Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social I work with Winchester Poetry Festival, Open University Poetry Society and Winchester Muse - a spoken word event in Winchester. I write poetry and sometimes it gets published. https://www.spiropoetry.com/
West Waterford Arts Group @westwaterfordag.bsky.social A cross-pollinating community of artists meeting in West Waterford with a multi-disciplinary approach to creativity.
#waterford #ireland #arts #poetry #visualarts #novelists #photoartists #collage #playwrights #musicians #songwriters #sculpture #speirgorm
June #FBPE @jayngelle.bsky.social Poet, Animal lover, Art lover
Saboteur Awards @saboteur-awards.bsky.social Established in 2010, the Sab Awards are dedicated to celebrating indie publications (poetry and short fiction) and spoken word. On hiatus 2024 & 2025.
Mary Magdalen @mary-magdalen.bsky.social Southern California writer with words in The Write Launch, Blood + Honey, Leon Literary Review, BULL, and others.
Jen Falkner @jenfalkner.bsky.social she/her
Author of SUSANNA HALL, HER BOOK (Fish Gotta Swim Editions) and ABOVE DISCOVERY (Invisible Publishing)
Trying to learn Welsh, obsessed with standing stones
linktr.ee/jenfalkner
@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.
Claire Booker @clairebooker.bsky.social Nature lover, Brighton-based poet. Collections include 'Pedestrian in the Multiverse' (Waterloo Press), 'A Pocketful of Chalk' (Arachne Press), 'The Bone That Sang' (Indigo Dreams). More info and blog at www.bookerplays.co.uk
Liz deBeer @lizdebeerwriter.bsky.social Writer, Reader, Beach Walker, Trying My Best
Www.ldebeerwriter.com
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/
The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social The VILLAGE 🏘 is a place where the world 🌍 feels a tiny bit smaller. Founded by SMOKELONG for the Global Flash Community
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Judy Darley @judydarley.bsky.social Writer & daydreamer living by the Somerset coast. Author of fiction collections #TheStairsAreASnowcappedMountain, #SkyLightRain (https://bit.ly/3zlfK7Q) & #RememberMeToTheBees. Workshop leader/journalism/brand engagement.
Imogen Forster @imogenforster.bsky.social Poet and former translator, living in Edinburgh, publishing here and there. 
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.
@kayryder.bsky.social @kayryder.bsky.social 
Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Writer of short things. Reader of all things flash. Dog lover. Words in SLQ, XRAY, Flash Frog, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf. Winner of 2024 Lascaux Prize & Cambridge Prize. She/her https://www.emilyrinkema.com/
Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social EAL teacher. Tree lover. Likes to write poems. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/parole_de_reveuse
Perfect God = Lexa Gates @mx-j.bsky.social https://shop.capitolmusic.com/collections/lexa-gates
Beck The Feminist Lawyer @beckduff.bsky.social Soft heart.
Curious mind.
Big mouth.
Books by Beck Duffield available at most major booksellers.
Not your lawyer. Views are my own.
Jean Atkin @jmatkin.bsky.social British, mostly Scottish, poet in education + community projects / The Poetry Wire online courses / 'Crossing Paths' with Richard Skinner, Black Cat Press, 2026/ out walking / plagued by the cat / www.jeanatkin.com
Zoe Brooks @zoebrooks.bsky.social Poet - New book Something In Nothing out in Feb 26, previous books Owl Unbound (published by Indigo Dreams Pub) and Fool's Paradise (Black Eyes Pub). Cheltenham Poetry Festival Online organiser. Website: https://www.zoebrookspoet.co.uk
Catherine Redford @catherineredford.bsky.social Poet | Researcher | Co-editor at Dust Poetry. Forward-shortlisted debut poetry collection, ‘The Way the Water Held Me’, out now. Magma Selected Poet.
https://linktr.ee/catherine_redford
Robert Bloomfield @lunebread.bsky.social Poetry lurker
Christine Collinson @collinson26.bsky.social Historical Fiction Author