Susie Wilson
Disabled Poets Prize 2024 ‘Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed’ https://bit.ly/3X1A8aQ ‘Skin the Rabbit’ out @The Braag 26/3/25.
Writes about rivers, absurdity & time +Arts Council £. Half poet, half tutor, half clown. Sheffield. www.susiewilsonpoet.com
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Poets looking for other poets. People who run presses. Keeping the conversation going. Good eggs.
@maxwallis.bsky.social
📚 Max Wallis | Author of the Polari Prize-shortlisted Modern Love (2011) & Everything Everything (2016). 🖋️ Poems in The Rialto, Poetry Scotland, Spectator ✍️ Freelance journalist (The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph). 🌈 Gay, disabled, survivor.
@damsoned.bsky.social
Dr Megan Dixon: teacher, leader and researcher. PhD, Psychology. All things education and research, with a focus on literacy, English, research into practice, curriculum, SEND. TES columnist. Based in the UK. Often found in schools and reading research.
@watershed-i.bsky.social
Award-winning independent not-for-profit investigative journalism in the public interest. https://watershedinvestigations.com/ Watershed is: @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social @leanahosea.bsky.social Posts by Chloe
@sandalfaun.bsky.social
Artist,photographer with interest in geology, astronomy. I enjoy walking through forests and beaches, very long hikes inner city, swimming, gardening, dancing, and good music! Anyone else out there getting a little bit frightened with what’s going on?
@tandemkate.bsky.social
Active travel enthusiast, mobility impaired, enjoy outdoors, making stuff, reading, games, music I work for Wheels for Wellbeing - all views here are my own
@joaesth-phenom.bsky.social
Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology aims to encourage and promote research in aesthetics that draws inspiration from the phenomenological tradition as broadly understood https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfap20/
@sarahclareconlon.bsky.social
Less able to stand ✍️ Writer | Literature Editor Creative Tourist | 📚 Poetry Book Society Selections | cache-cache (Contraband) | Marine Drive (Broken Sleep) | Using Language (Invisible Hand) | Lune (Red Ceilings) | 🐦⬛ Wanderland (Red Ceilings) available now
@reubenmusic.com
/ɹuːbən/ 🪶 composer and pianist 🌱 sheffielder unibirmingham conservatoriomartini www.reubenmusic.com
@tamsincrussell.bsky.social
Leader: Changemaker: Ally: Facilitator: Action Learning Facilitator: Mentor: Trainer: Cheerleader: #Museums : #Heritage : #Culture : Realising the potential of others: Keep safe, keep well, keep learning: She/Her
@glamcares.bsky.social
A care and support network for people who work with communities in galleries, libraries, archives and museums.
@alexandrawoodall.bsky.social
Beautiful things, culture, creativity, curiosity, care. Live in Sheffield. Trustee of Create Sheffield. Co-founder of GLAM Cares. She/her. 🇪🇺 💚
@mattabbottpoet.com
✍️🏻 Poet, educator & activist 📍 Leeds, UK 🦚 #LUFC 📚 Two Little Ducks • A Hurricane in My Head ♂️ He/him 🎙 @livewirepoetry.org 🔗 https://linktr.ee/mattabbottpoet
@lyrafest.com
Lyra runs Bristol's Poetry Festival, City Poet, Young City Poet & community collabs. Festival supported by ACE. Next Festival: 25 Apr - 4 May '25 www.lyrafest.com
@miggyangel.bsky.social
Poetry Is Fuckeries 5publishedbooksofpoetry/editorofburninghousepress/ ~~~ filmphotography: StreetPoetryIsMyEveryday >@nottinghamburgers< https://linktr.ee/miggyangel
@paulkevans.bsky.social
Artist based in Sheffield, England. Specialist in creative public engagement.
@jodacombe.bsky.social
Artist. Writer. Publishes IMMINENT, contemporary art and poetry on environmental themes. https://www.etsy.com/shop/JoDacombeGB
@disruptedblue.bsky.social
Working with (or have worked with) indie presses including KERNPUNKT, Black Herald, Shearsman, Carcanet, PN Review, Sublunary Editions, CB editions, Stone Corpse, Hanuman, Vanguard & more! Founding Director: Vik Shirley @vikshirley.bsky.social
@lisabrockwell.bsky.social
Writer, poodle fancier, Australian in Scotland. Author of Earth Girls (2016) & The Round Ring (2021). Both Pitt Street Poetry.
@erikaglenday.bsky.social
European. Südeifler. Needles & hooks. Poetry critic. Drives vehicles up to 7.5t. 🇪🇺🇩🇪🏴🇨🇭🇮🇹
@northseapoets.bsky.social
Noticeboard and live commonplace book of North Sea Poets. We run online masterclasses, workshops and webinars. northseapoets.com
@mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social
Poet. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize for Literature with Reckless Paper Birds. Forward & Costa-shortlisted. Working-class writer. New book: Panic Response (Penned in the Margins). He/him. 🏳️🌈
@lisadmkelly.bsky.social
Poet. @carcanet.bsky.social. A Map Towards Fluency (shortlisted for Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021) The House of the Interpreter (Poetry Book Society Recommendation) BSL Level 6
@justplainscrambled.bsky.social
Education Manager @poetrysociety.bsky.social Poems by day, prose by night. Préfère l'impair.
@blossoms21.bsky.social
Hello, I’m a poet and photographer inspired by landscapes and human relationships shortlisted for Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the year 2023 my books are available here pennysharman.co.uk
@sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social
The independent charity that operates Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, Graves Gallery, Kelham Island Museum, Millennium Gallery, Shepherd Wheel & Weston Park Museum.
@profilebooks.bsky.social
Independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing and powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Shoshana Zuboff and Francis Fukuyama.
@andotherstories.bsky.social
Not-for-profit press led by readers, writers & translators. Consider subscribing to help us take publishing risks. http://andotherstories.org/subscriptions/
@vickymwriter.bsky.social
British/Welsh Poet, editor, teacher, neurodivergent jack of creative trades, mentor of emerging young writers, founder www.hivesouthyorkshire.com | www.vickymorris.co.uk
@musicintheround.bsky.social
One of the UK's leading promoters of chamber music. Based in Sheffield at the unique Crucible Playhouse @crucibletheatre - Box Office 0114 249 6000 www.musicintheround.co.uk/whats-on
@otsfestival.bsky.social
Celebrating books, words, and ideas. We’re one of the UK’s longest-running literary festivals, delivered by @sheffielduni.bsky.social 🌐 offtheshelf.org.uk
@robinhoughton.bsky.social
Author. Poet. Podcaster @planetpoetry.bsky.social First full poetry collection 'The Mayday Diaries' Pindrop Press May 1st 2025. Sings in choirs. T****er veteran, looking for an alternative.
@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.
@podling.bsky.social
Librarian @Hallamlibrary, mountainbiker, climber, wine/tea drinker, reader, blogger, 80s rock chick. Black Country Wench in the Peaks. All views my own.
@jimjepps.bsky.social
I was rather hoping capitalism would have finished by now. It doesn't even rhyme. https://jimjepps.substack.com/
@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.
@nightjarpress.bsky.social
Single short story chapbooks since 2009. Uncanny, dark, experimental. Manchester/London. Editor @nicholasroyle.bsky.social. Design @johnoakey.bsky.social.
@nicholasroyle.bsky.social
Writer. Latest: Shadow Lines (Salt). Also runs @nightjarpress.bsky.social nightjarpress.weebly.com
@uncannymagazine.bsky.social
Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine Edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas. 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 Hugo & 2024 Locus Award Winner. uncannymagazine.com
@leicwritersclub.bsky.social
Leicester Writers Club run weekly hybrid meetings, masterclasses, social events, an annual weekend writing retreat and speaker events at Leicester's Phoenix and via Zoom.
@afrayn.bsky.social
Academic. Work on First World War literature (Assoc Ed., FWW Studies); modernist studies (former BAMS Chair); non-canonical literature; rural modernity; late style. Grumbles my own.
@thepoetryarchive.bsky.social
With over 2000 free poems, 500 poets’ work and 5 million visitors a year, the Poetry Archive represents a rich diversity of both poets and poetry.
@exacteditions.bsky.social
The premium magazine platform for publishers, libraries and readers. Find out more here: http://linktr.ee/exacteditions
@theemmapress.bsky.social
small press | big dreams Birmingham-based independent publisher of poetry, children's books, short-form prose and translations. www.theemmapress.com
@mptmagazine.bsky.social
Ted Hughes' and Daniel Weissbort's international poetry translation magazine. Edited by Janani Ambikapathy. modernpoetryintranslation.com
@inpressbooks.bsky.social
Reaching readers on behalf of 50+ independent publishers. Funded by Arts Council England. Follow us on socials @inpressbooks📚 linktr.ee/inpressbooks