Paul Nash | Paul atten Ash @northseanavigator.bsky.social WRITER:
Sampler (Black Cat Press 2027)
'Searchlight Seasons' (Atomic Bohemian 2024)
Instagram: @north_sea_navigator
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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.
Damhnait Monaghan 🇨🇦🇮🇪 @downith.bsky.social Writer|Namesplainer|2025 Commonwealth Short Story Prize shortlist|2022 Winner Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer|2020 Winner Saboteur Best Novella| Agent: Hilary McMahon @ Westwood Creative Artists
www.damhnaitmonaghan.com
Michael Marks Awards @michaelmarksawards.bsky.social The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets celebrate work published in the UK. The 2025/26 Awards are opening for submissions soon.
Our partners are @britishlibrary.bsky.social, Wordsworth Trust, @thetls.bsky.social and The British School at Athens.
Nikki Dudley @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social #Thriller Volta / Poetry (KFS & Hem & BSB) / @streetcakemag editor / loves travel. Views my own.
Jim Young @oyoguhito.bsky.social ~~ Bard of the Bays ~~
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.
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
Imogen Forster @imogenforster.bsky.social Poet and former translator, living in Edinburgh, publishing here and there. 
Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social EAL teacher. Tree lover. Likes to write poems. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/parole_de_reveuse
Richard Skinner @richardnskinner.bsky.social Novelist, poet, essayist. Director @FaberAcademy • Founder #VanguardEditions • Editor #14magazine.
Most recent publication: ‘Crossing Paths’ (Poetry) (Black Cat, 2026).
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
Script Haven LTD @scripthavenltd.bsky.social Thriving independent bookshop, coffee shop, event venue, safe community haven in Worcester, UK!
scripthavenltd@gmail.com
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5 Crown Passage, Worcester WR1 3LL
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Laura Del Col Brown (she/they) @lauradelcolbrown.com Author of The Bad Shodo Diaries: essays on life loosely inspired by Japanese kanji.
Grand Sumo lover and Fukuyama Masaharu otaku.
West Virginian by birth, Londoner by choice.
Black Cat Poetry Press @blackcatpress.bsky.social Independent poetry press.
Editors Satya Bosman & Catherine Balaq.
www.blackcatpress.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/blackcatpress
Bronwen Griffiths @bronwengriffiths.bsky.social Writer, flash fiction writer, photographer. Author of 2 novels & 2 collections of flash. New novel out this spring. My flash pieces have been published in many lovely magazines. Mslexia flash fiction prize winner, 2024. Website: http://bronwengriff.co.uk/
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
Alison Woodhouse @ajwoodhouse.bsky.social Writer | Teacher | funded PhD @SWWDTP | @bathspa | Team @BathShortStory | The House on the Corner, AdHoc Fiction, 2020 | Family Frames, V Press, 2021 www.alisonwoodhouse.com
Eleni Brooks @elenibrooks.bsky.social she/her // accidental heretic, deliberate hoper // apprentice to Jesus // James Acaster is my special interest // auDHD 🌈
Version (9) Magazine @version9magazine.bsky.social A journal of contemporary poetry and poetics. Submissions open.
ISSN 2818-4874
Emma Miller 😁📚🍁 @emmadmiller.bsky.social Canadian Author & Creator of "The Doonies" children's book series! 📚🍁 https://thedoonies.ca
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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
Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social Poet with autism and a cat.
Author of ADULTHOOD (Anxiety Press, 2026).
Here to connect with fellow writers and/or fellow neurodivergent people and/or fellow anti-fascists.
he/him • NJ • www.brandondiehl.net
@johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social Flaneur, eco-conscious, photographer, advocate, writer, doomer.
Matt Kendrick @mattkendrick.bsky.social Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill
Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/
Craft newsletter: https://prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/
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…
Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social "We'll Be Birds" chapbook release 9/24/26 https://www.sandandgravelpress.com/lisa-thornton-chapbook-release
Writer, nurse. SmokeLong Quarterly, Cincinnati Review+. Senior flash fiction editor @jmww. Sucker for a good barn.
lisathorntonwriter.com
Marcelle Newbold @marcellenewbold.bsky.social Poet- place and inheritance, Cardiff Wales
Bridport shortlist. Poems: Poetry Wales, Propel, IS&T, Iamb, Atrium, Fly on the Wall, Black Bough, Broken Spine, Ice Floe….
https://linktr.ee/marcellenewbold
Julia @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social Poet | Writer | Freelance Art Historian
UK https://juliabiggs1.wixsite.com/juliabiggs
Pamphlet available from Salò Press: https://www.salopress.com/store/nasty-objects-julia-biggs/
Amy Barnes @amygcb.bsky.social Associate Editor: @fracturedlit.bsky.social
Piglet @piglet2007.bsky.social I write. I have opinions.
Dezezusvan.wordpress.com
Draft2digital publisher.
Gina Harlow @writergharlow.bsky.social Californian. Essayist. Herstry | Narratively| Roi Fainéant Press | Austin Statesman| The Ekphrastic Review | SugarSugarSalt Lit
Nonfiction reader at Third Street Review. Memoir in progress, a long about a young horse. www.ginaharlowwrites.com
Mike Fox @polyscribe70.bsky.social Short story writer, delinquent poetry reader. Ballerini Book Press, Fictive Dream, The Lonely Press, Confingo, Fragmented Voices, Structo, Nightjar Press, BBSS18 Salt Publishing, Exacting Clam
polyscribe.co.uk
Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social Reading, writing, rabbits 🐇 ✡️
Director of European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social
London
www.deborahzafer.com
https://substack.com/@deborahzafer
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
linktr.ee/jdnelson
poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
Lauren Collett @laurencollett.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Napper. 
Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social Mainly poetry in independent presses, art, glass, theatre & people playing. Allotment life. York with Glasgow links. UK.
Not every act of kindness is part of a plan.
Website :www.sarahowriter.com
Cheryl Markosky @cherylmarkosky.bsky.social Journalist, theatre reviewer, short fiction writer, fan of The Archers and lighthouses especially on Prince Edward Island
Matthew Fox @mattfoxwriter.bsky.social THE LOVELY DARK is nominated for the Kirkus Prize 2026 🇺🇸 | Kirkus ★ | Financial Times Best Children's Books '23 | Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist '24 | No AI |🌱
linktr.ee/mattfoxwriter
Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social American/British Swiss resident. Builders tea, indie publishers, and editing till it hurts ❤️🔥♾️
Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social Small independent, inclusive, award-winning UK publishing house. Mostly poetry and short fiction, with the occasional fantasy/sci-fi novel. Prioritising LGBTQ+, Global Majority, Disabled, Welsh poets, and geographically isolated and Older Women writers.
Sarah Westcott @sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social Poet, PhD researcher (inter-species creatings). Books: Slant Light; Bloom (Pavilion poetry), Pond (The Braag). Currently into bats 🦇
https://sarahwestcott.co.uk
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com Writer, poet, creative thinker & architect for democracy / Sgrìobhadair, bàrd, neach-smaoineachaidh cruthachail agus ailtire airson deamocrasaidh | Aotearoa & Isle of Skye | https://urbanbadgercollective.com/links/
Laura Besley @laurabesley.bsky.social Lover of coffee, chocolate, reading & writing 
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
James Montgomery @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social Flash writer ✍️ | Latest: Crow & Cross Keys, Fictive Dream, FlashFlood, The Bulb Region, 100 Word Story, NFFD Micro Comp ‘26 | 📖 Best Small Fictions ‘25, Wigleaf Top 50 ‘25 | 💫 Welkin People’s Prize ‘25 | He/Him 🌈 www.jamesmontgomerywrites.com
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
Victoria @vjs411.bsky.social Writer of Flash, short stories and the occasional zine; lapsed photographer but thinking of getting the camera out again any day now…
Tania Hershman 🏳️🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social Queer writer of odd things. 10th book, "It's Time", a hybrid chronomemoir, out now. Permissioner, founder of Unbox Your Words. She/they 🏳️🌈 www.taniahershman.com; https://taniahershman.substack.com/; https://www.instagram.com/tania_hershman_writes
Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social Previously @eliot_north on Twitter/X. ND mum-doctor-writer of poetry & prose. Living in Valencian Country, working as NHS GP Weston-super-mare.
#Moth Hybrid Mini-Book Ethel Zine - second edition 🚀 July 2026
Pubs below 👇
https://linktr.ee/eleanorholmes
Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social Poetry scribbler, cricket lover, art appreciator living in the Midlands. (Not doing the Bluesky age verification protocols so please initiate any desired direct contact via open posting/tagging ( or by insta messaging) not via chat, thanks 😊)
Henshaw Press @presshenshaw.bsky.social Supporting new writing. Run by Hobeck Books. A new competition every quarter with the chance of winning publication and £200. PLUS our bespoke critique service. www.henshawpress.co.uk
Cindy Ana 🇳🇿 @kakapowhakatoi.bsky.social Would rather write than talk. Sometimes I don’t read skeets properly, especially pre-coffee. Rāmere is my favourite day. Work can be found in Broken Spine Arts, takahē, Voicemail Poems
Special mention in Given Words 2025
Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social Dual British/Irish citizen in Ireland. #FBPE Rejoiner. Cat lady. Lymphoma survivor. PhD Biochemist. Watercolour artist. Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Former pharma manager. Querying not one but two novels! www.judisutherland.com for more stuff.
Jodie Young, verray jangleresse @jangleresse.bsky.social Poet (reading more than writing atm) in Naarm | Melbourne, Australia
Poetry, books, art, history.
Resisting the urge to despair.
elly from earth -- Elly Nobbs @pleides.bsky.social Poetry, Micro-poems, Nature, Walking, Reading. East Coast Canada. No DMs. Banner Photo by me.
Helen Calcutt @helencalcutt.bsky.social ‘There is no toxic optimism here – just truth, body and life.' @Mslexia — Feeling all / Artistic Director: https://www.beyondwordsdancetheatre.com/
Ben Banyard @benbanyard.bsky.social Dad, poet-type & editor of Black Nore Review (@blacknorereview.bsky.social). Birmingham City fan & Bristol Bears RFC season ticket holder. https://ben.banyard.wordpress.com
Juliet Wilson (Crafty Green Poet) @craftygreenpoet.bsky.social Adult Education Tutor, Poet, Short Story writer, Wildlife Surveyor, Conservation Volunteer. Edinburgh, Scotland
Blog: http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com
Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CraftyGreenMagpie
Substack: https://craftygreenpoet.substack.com
Sarah Finn @herbalfinn71.bsky.social Me: student herbalist, sen teaching assistant and loves sewing by machine or by hand.
Judi Walsh @judiwalsh.bsky.social 
National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social Celebrating flash fiction worldwide. Co-directed by Ingrid Jendrzejewski @lunchontuesday.bsky.social and Diane Simmons @scooterwriter.bsky.social
The next NFFD will be Saturday 12 June 2027.
https://www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
Diane Simmons @scooterwriter.bsky.social Co-Directs NFFD.NIFs: ‘Finding a Way' (Ad Hoc Fiction), ‘An Inheritance' (V.Press), ‘A Tricky Dance’ (Alien Buddha Press), ‘William Prichard & Co’ (Arroyo Seco Press) & Bereft of Reason’ (V. Press). www.dianesimmons.co.uk
Anne Summerfield @summerwriter.bsky.social Writes flash and other fiction. 
Kathryn Aldridge-Morris @kazbarwrites.bsky.social COLD TOAST Dahlia Books. Republic of Consciousness Prize 'Book of the Month'. Shortlisted for International Rubery Book Award. Wigleaf Top 50, Bath Flash Fiction Award, Mancs. Writing School QMD Prize, The Forge CNF prize
www.kamwords.com
Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldn’t.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. 💙
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
https://www.amazon.com/Least-Weird-Person-Awake/dp/B0GT1262KP
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.
@paulspoems.bsky.social @paulspoems.bsky.social 
Benedicta Norell @benedictan.bsky.social Poet. Empowering midlife, eco & mother poetry. First collection coming 2027. Out now: Three Poems in Aftershock Issue 3| Debut Terrible Mother @theblackcatpoetrypress and Waterstones.com |Poems Linked Here:
https://linktr.ee/benedictanorell
National Poetry Day @poetrydayuk.bsky.social National Poetry Day: a UK-wide celebration that encourages all to enjoy, discover and share poetry on the first Thursday in October.
Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social Online poetry mag edited by @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social and @hollyannepoet.bsky.social
www.atriumpoetry.com
Holly Magill @hollyannepoet.bsky.social Poet.
The Becoming of Lady Flambé - Indigo Dreams Publishing
20 - Drunk Muse Poetry
Co-edits www.atriumpoetry.com
Loves snoods, tea, crime (reading, not doing).
✨ Mab Jones ✨ @mabjones.bsky.social Words ✒️ Wonderment ✨ Wellbeing 💖 Broadcaster 📣 Publisher 📚 Connector 🤝🏼
JinnynotJenny @jinnyf.bsky.social Poet, ex-violinist, retired psychotherapist, living in Glastonbury UK. Chemotherapy survivor and cat person. LGBTQ+ Ally.
@marymulholland.bsky.social @marymulholland.bsky.social 
Sarah James/Leavesley @sarahleavesley.bsky.social Prize-winning poet, fiction writer, journalist and photographer. Author of 9 poetry titles, 2 novellas & a poetry-play. More at http://sarah-james.co.uk. Also, editor at V. Press, award-winning poetry & flash fiction. (Profile pic by Gary Carr.)
Ruth Stacey @drruthstacey.bsky.social Poet who sticks emotions into all things. New collection 'Feel Everything!' out with KF&S Press April 2025. Just finished a fantasy novel and now writing short stories. I love books and writing. Lecturer at Worcester University.
Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social Novelist, poet, lecturer at University of Birmingham. Latest novel BLACK BAG out March 12th 2026.
https://linktr.ee/lukekennard
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.
Gram @gramjd.bsky.social Poetry, counselling and psychotherapy, photography, tabletop gaming, breathwork, nature and exploration, mindful inquiry, electronica/IDM
He/him/they/them | UK
Charles Lauder Jr @cglauder.bsky.social Poet, freelance editor, ex-pat, "The Aesthetics of Breath" (V.Press, 2019), "Year of the Rat" (Blueprint Poetry Press, 2025), www.charleslauderjr.com
Dr Carrie Etter @carrieetter.bsky.social Poet, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Poems in Iowa Review, Poetry London, TLS, The New Republic... | Academic | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the 🐈⬛! | Foodie | Dem 🇺🇸 expat in Bristol, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
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 
Jenny Hope @jennyhope.bsky.social Writer, poet, presenter, workshop facilitator. Wild Boar forthcoming from V. Press February 2026. YA novel in progress. I like exploring the liminal sense of time and place within nature, and the joy in the here and now.
Sarah Doyle @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social Poet, reader, workshop leader, weather watcher, moon gazer. Pre-Raphaelite Society Poet-in-Residence. Widely published, inc. Something so wild and new... (2021) & (m)othersongs (2023), V. Press.
Web: sarahdoyle.co.uk
https://buymeacoffee.com/poetsarahdoyle
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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