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@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; interns: Sophia Di Maida and Matt Thorpe-Coles
@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 IB & Kate Birch. .
@fictivedream.bsky.social
Fictive Dream, the online #litmag dedicated to the #shortstory including #translations. Please send your submissions to fictivedream@gmail.com. Website https://fictivedream.com/
@yaffles-nest.bsky.social
Publisher of poetry collections and pamphlets. Yaffle and Yaffle's Nest Online workshops and courses.
@gitaralleigh.bsky.social
Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doctor. Kids: The Destiny of Minou Moonshine 🐘 The Voyage of Sam Singh 🦜 @zephyrbooks.bsky.social Poetry: Siren 🧜🏽♀️ @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social A Terrible Thing 🧝🏽♀️ (Bad Betty Press) https://linktr.ee/gitaralleigh
@thelonelycrowd.bsky.social
Literary journal — thelonelycrowd.org https://linktr.ee/thelonelycrowd
@tarawheeler.bsky.social
Co-Editor at Dust Poetry, writer, researcher, mother of two small people. She/her 🪴
@sophiasgaler.bsky.social
Journalist, author, creator. 170m video views. Winner of a British Journalism Award & the Georgina Henry Award for digital innovation. Writing a book on linguicide. Ex BBC & VICE. I also run language events at Casa Italiana 🇮🇹
@lindapoet.bsky.social
Children's poet. Poems in The Caterpillar, Little Thoughts Press, PaperBound, The Dirigible Balloon, Paddler Press, Parakeet, Charles Causley Trust, Northern Gravy, Candlestick Press, The Toy, Brian Moses' Blog and several anthologies.
@indigodreamspub.bsky.social
Poetry publishers rural Devon UK indigodreamspublishing.com Most Innovative Publisher Award 2017 & 2021. Publication, Competitions, Magazines Dawntreader quarterly, Reach Poetry monthly. Editors @ronniegoodyer.bsky.social / @wavelace.bsky.social
@nealzetterpoet.bsky.social
Award-winning performance poet, author, educator, entertainer and superhero. I work with all ages visiting schools, libraries etc, both in-person and virtually. My 12th/latest poetry book is 'The Shape of Rainbows'.
@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'.
@markpopham.bsky.social
"the Pepsi of Austrian writing." do not be weird at me online. buy bumper stickers, from me, at https://mplwdnoveltycistern.etsy.com/
@peter-kenny.bsky.social
Creative maverick. Writer of poetry and dark fiction. Co-hosts and co-produces the Planet Poetry podcast.
@wavelace.bsky.social
Yorkshire woman with her heart in the southwest & Kassiopi. Wears a rescue collie & a poet, occasionally puts words on pages, always wants to walk in the wavelace at sunset.
@cpsummit.bsky.social
The Children's Poetry Summit is a UK Network of individuals and organisations actively interested in poetry for children.
@elizabethbaines.bsky.social
Writer of short stories, novels, plays. http://www.elizabethbaines.co.uk Astral Travel, a novel, published by Salt Books https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/astral-travel-9781784632199
@falmouthpoetrygp.bsky.social
Poetry Group set up in 1972 by Peter Redgrove. Meet 5 Times a month to share critique and write together. Occasional events and festivals Now a Stanza Group
@abicurtiswriter.bsky.social
Professor of Creative Writing York St John University . Writer of fiction and poetry .
@merylpugh.bsky.social
(She/her) London UK, writing thinking & skulking. Latest: Feral Borough, 2022, Penned in the Margins. https://furtive11.wordpress.com
@bobzparker.bsky.social
Outsider Art | Poetry | Writing | - works: Blue Movie, Working Class Voodoo, Honey Monster, Longing is the Grace; debut novel in progress
@rnfskinner.bsky.social
Poet, novelist, writer/performer of sketch-based comedy, evolutionary psychologist
@carolinegillpoetry.bsky.social
'Driftwood by Starlight' (The Seventh Quarry Press, 2021) is my first full poetry collection. Website: https://www.carolinegillpoetry.com/
@jallenpaisant.bsky.social
Poet. Winner of the TS Eliot Prize. THE POSSIBILITY OF TENDERNESS out now. Jamaican striver 🇯🇲.
@niallpoetry.bsky.social
Moontide, Noctuary, The Island in the Sound. Bloodaxe Poetry London
@cdaventry.bsky.social
Normal person by day, poet at full moons. Currently writing out of Scotland. Which is in the UK. For now. Bridport, Ruskin, Hippocrates &c prizewinner. SPL co-chair. Solo chapbook The Oligarch Loses His Patience - Templar
@churchcat.bsky.social
Curmudgeon, poet, writer, ex stand-up comic, European, playwright, woke lefty Grauniad reader, Irish trad mandolin player and blues harp playing anarchist and agnostic. Also happen to be a recovering Catholic. Website www.mikeharding.co.uk
@julianstannardpoet.bsky.social
I’m the author of nine collections of poetry ; the most recent Please Don’t Bomb the Ghost of My Brother ( Salt , 2023 ) ; a novel - The University of Bliss is published by Sagging Meniscus Press (2024 ) In 2024 I was awarded the Lerici Shelley Prize
@ruthpadel.bsky.social
Poetry * wildlife * music * India * Greece * New 📗 GIRL - ‘Dazzling lyric control’ (Kim Moore) ‘Rhapsodic’(Guardian) 'Crafted for deep engagement: girls from Delphi to Delhi haunted by the ‘loose tin can’ of misogyny.…' (Mid-Day Mumbai) Www.ruthpadel.com
@vaikuspg.bsky.social
Writer of many parts, but the heartland is poetry – head to https:/www.philipgross.co.uk to see the range of 40 years of writing life.
@joshuaseigal.bsky.social
Poet/Performer/Author. Winner - People’s Book Prize & Laugh Out Loud Award (twice). Books by Bloomsbury, HarperCollins etc. MA Writing & Education. Loves lemurs. Website: www.joshuaseigal.co.uk
@rorywaterman.bsky.social
Poet, writer, academic, leader of AHRC Lincolnshire Folk Tales project (2024-5). New poetry collection COME HERE TO THIS GATE (Carcanet, 2024). Co-editor of New Walk Editions. Views yours; likes/RTs=marriage proposals. OTBC🔰/COYP
@helenmort.bsky.social
Poet, author, Sheffield-er. Mountaineering literature specialist, running enthusiast, part time Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
@marrrtha.bsky.social
Editor, writer and translator. The Poems of St John of the Cross forthcoming (Penguin Classics, 2026) marthasprackland.co.uk
@niiayikwei.bsky.social
Ga-speaking father. Happyfied self-hypnotist. Daydreamer, writer, editor, idea whisperer. Bylines: Guardian, Nat Geo, Vice, Financial Times, Condé Nast Traveller | Writes for kids as K.P. Kojo https://t.co/V3GydO5tbs #BookSky #BlackSky #GhanaSky #Poet
@emmaharding.bsky.social
Writer | audio maker | poetry pusher. Editor Drama, Arts & Classical Music, BBC Audio Wales & West of England. Debut novel: The Berliners/Friedrichstrasse 19 https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/emma-harding/the-berliners/9781529376203/
@grahammort.bsky.social
Poet, short fiction writer, essayist, writer BBC drama. Emeritus Prof Lancaster University; Extraordinary Prof University Western Cape; National HE Teaching Fellow. Eric Gregory Award, Bridport Prize, Edge Hill Prize. Blues & Jazz enthusiast.
@lorrainemariner.bsky.social
Poet & librarian. Two collections with Picador ‘Furniture’ & ‘There Will Be No More Nonsense’, also writing poems for children. Works at the National Poetry Library. Edited some 10 Poems About… for Candlestick Press. Powered by tea across all platforms.
@poetclare.bsky.social
Novelist. Poet. Reader. 🏺OVID’S HEROINES 🍼INCARNATION 🐇FIERCE BAD RABBITS 🔮 DELPHI 🏰THE UNTAMEABLES 🧚🏾THE MODERN FAIRIES, etc. ✍️LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS coming 2025. Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle
@suewriter.bsky.social
Award-winning poet, novelist, art critic. Five poetry collections. Latest God’s Little Artist, poems on Gwen John, Seren. Four novels including Rainsongs (Duckworth), Flatlands (Puskin Press, Mercure de France). Sunday Times list best historical fiction
@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/ Hedgehog Press Pushcart nominated Dandarabilla.