Faversham Literary Festival
Book talks. In a brewery!
10-days of author talks and book events taking place annually in a Kentish medieval market town
21 Feb – 2 Mar 2025
Programme here
https://www.favershamliteraryfestival.org
Or here: https://favlit.org
@folklorepod.bsky.social
Official account of The Folklore Podcast. 2 million downloads worldwide. Created by folklorist and author Mark Norman. Find us online at http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com Film/TV rep: Past Preservers Author for various publishers
@edwardross.bsky.social
Comic artist. Creator of Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film and Gamish: A Graphic History of Gaming. New book Graphic Novel Builder - The Illustrated Guide To Making Your Own Comics OUT NOW! He/Him
@chartor.bsky.social
#CERN Physicist exploring video game programming and picture book writing, and training in Wado Ryu #Karate.
@suewatling.bsky.social
poet with pagan heart, allotmenteer, beekeeper, author of 'Heaving with the dreams of strangers', 'Thetis' https://suewatling.com/thetis-a-poetic-narrative-now-available-online/ #walkthroughthetarot subscribe to my blog at https://suewatling.com
@wooperark.bsky.social
✒️Writer of prose and poetry. 📚Published in Stand, Grist, Pennine Platform, Allegro Poetry, et al. PhD student. 💻Website ⬇️ https://linktr.ee/josephblythewriter
@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.
@calledterry.bsky.social
poet published in Acumen, Allegro, Blithe Spirit, Dream Catcher, Dreich, Green Ink, Orbis, Pennine Platform, Reach, Cannon's Mouth, Seventh Quarry. terrysherwood.substack.com
@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.
@silverbowsteph.bsky.social
Retired, school governor. Poetry, writing, readings and workshops. Ex Labour
@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
@georgettoouli.co.uk
Poet, gardener, environmental activist, teacher, editor, recovering academic. www.georgettoouli.co.uk Green Party - London Regional Officer (non-portfolio); Barnet Green Party comms; sporadic policy wonk; London 2024 manifesto writer. #Goodgym Barnet
@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
@maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social
Also credited as Maithreyi Hughes. I write fiction and poetry in English and translate from Kannada. I live in Wales.
@msiagirl.bsky.social
Poet, book & art lover, photographer, aromatherapist, traveller. (She/her) UK Bathonian Malaysian. I like books. I like trees. I like deserts. I'm on IG/Threads. Flarestack Poet Pey Oh. MPhil USW. Photographer. Aromatherapist. I make potions.
@kostyatsolakis.bsky.social
Poet | 📖 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 (Nine Arches Press), PBS Recommendation, shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize ‘24 & Runciman Award ‘24 | Editor 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘺
@ireneintheworld.bsky.social
Irene Cunningham. Possible novelist if poetry didn't keep on the kidnapping thing. Poems in many mags and anthologies, a couple of chapbooks Hedgehog Press and Dreich, a few created on Amazon.
@trailerstar.bsky.social
Firebirds will be a collection of of my eco poems written over 40 years. Eco literature in a time of ruined ecology a book and accompanying cd of soundworks and readings. https://soundcloud.com/trailerstar/sets/firebirds
@phantomsspleen.bsky.social
head chog my posts: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sdkxyw2r7xlx5kjhsolgagv6/feed/aaadfcljyh3iw
@maryearnshaw.bsky.social
Writer. Worrier. Tree whisperer. Lives on England's northwest coast. Has spent a lot of time in Zambia and Eswatini with her live-in archaeologist. Can cook for dozens over an open fire if bribed with wine. But would rather write poetry.
@garvansam.bsky.social
Poet. Plums, raspberries, apricots. Recently in Asymptote, New Welsh Review, Finished Creatures, Cyphers. Troubadour Prize. Jt runner-up Keats-Shelley prize. He/him.
@matthew-rice.bsky.social
Poems-Running-PhDing-Anti-racist. ‘Plastic’ forthcoming in January 2026 with Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) & Soft Skull Press (US). First book available here: https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/the-last-weather-observer-by-matthew-rice
@rosebonecrone.bsky.social
Shouty performance poet, forensic/physical anthropologist, small press publisher, currently floating between UK & Amerikkka. I can't believe we still have to protest this shit! Ally. She/her. The revolution will be televised til the power stations burn
@cov-art.bsky.social
Art School Mod Poet / Founder of Tonic Sta Press / Drums & Vocals with Three Clicks Left artschoolmodpoet.com
@cmdoet.bsky.social
Poetry ✒️ Nature 🍄 Cannock Chase 🌳 'September' & 'The Taste of Rain' from Offa's Press 🍂 🌧️
@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
@anthonyetherin.bsky.social
Writer & musician. Formal poet. KNIT INK (AND OTHER POEMS): https://store.deepvellum.org/products/knitink AnthonyEtherin.com
@emilycotterill.bsky.social
Poet on unnecessary themes. Significant Wow out now with Seren Books.
@stephenclaughton.bsky.social
Writes and reviews poetry. Chairs Ver Poets. stephenclaughton.com
@ianseedauthor.bsky.social
Author: My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat, Night Window, New York Hotel (TLS Book of the Year), Makers of Empty Dreams. Translator: Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob, Gëzim Hajdari, Ivano Fermini. www.ianseed.co.uk
@milliethepoet.bsky.social
Poet/childless/dyspraxic/owned by cats.Sheffield, England. Debut pamphlet 'Imprint' out now from https://fawnpress.co.uk/ (as Kathryn Millington)
@jeremyover.bsky.social
Poet. New book 'Fourth & Walnut' due out Feb 2025 with @carcanet.bsky.social
@karendownsbarton.bsky.social
Writer, Minx (@chattobooks), Didicoy (The Poetry Business), Elise Dillsworth agency, I am a mentor, Creative Future steering committee, @kcl.ac.uk, workshop leader Shakespeare and Race. Proudly working class and neurodiverse. #PoetsOnBluesky #MinxOnTheRoad
@casparwortpoet.bsky.social
Poet, Doctoral Researcher at Loughborough University, website: https://casparwortpoet.uk/
@azjackson.bsky.social
Writer, editor of poetry, including Poetry Scotland and Whaleback City Press. Knee-deep in assorted poetry-related malarkey including New Boots & Pantisocracies, the Otwituaries, Double Dactyl of the Week, Project Abeona and more.
@simoneverett.bsky.social
Founding Editor, Muscaliet Press (shortlisted for Michael Marks Publisher’s Award 2022). Managing Editor for @openlibhums.bsky.social and of its flagship Open Library of Humanities Journal. Poet, translator, InDesign nerd. 🏳️🌈he/him.
@bbruise.bsky.social
Let's write a better future. “Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." Rosa Luxembourg Ben Bruges, poet, works in education. benbruges.medium.com/i-didnt-know-you-wrote-poetry-e0b25651ca62 https://linktr.ee/BenBruges
@alayanabeth.bsky.social
Wordsmith and poet, Indie author, Tolkien nerd, kiwi in the Inner Hebrides, she/they. River Daughter (meander phase) Relationship status: single [malt] 🥃 #RingsofPower #Tolkien #LOTR #Poetry #Poem #IsleofMull https://mybook.to/OnWildAir
@coliverpoet.bsky.social
'Dressing Gown' (Dreich), Ilkley Lit. Festival 'New Northern Poet'. 'Big Ideas By The Sea' Festival Poet 2024. South Cliff Gardens' Writer in Residence. She/her
@bottonowriter.bsky.social
Poet, writer and workshop facilitator discussing #disability, #grief and #mentalhealth Based in SW England http://theartypoet.substack.com
@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
@angelacleland.co.uk
Poet | Novelist (as Cleland Smith) | Audiobook Narrator | She/her | 🤖🦄🚀🍸
@kazbel.bsky.social
Reader, writer, questioner - based in the East Midlands. Loves public libraries, public transport, free access to the arts and quiet places in nature. Published as Kathleen Bell (mostly poetry) including by Shoestring and Leafe Press.
@afharrold.com
Poet, performer, children's author. The Imaginary, The Worlds We Leave Behind, Fizzlebert Stump, Greta Zargo and others. www.afharroldkids.com
@owzat.bsky.social
Poems here 👉 From One Line To Another (2023) The Unseen (2024) (Kobayaashi Studios) Poems also at Lothlorian (2023) Unheimlich (Soyos books) (2022) https://thefiddlersbow.blogspot.com/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/195700905@N05/