@poetrybusiness.bsky.social
Smith|Doorstop Books • New Poets List • International Book & Pamphlet Competition • New Poets Prize • Writer Development Agency https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/
@foundationswift.bsky.social
Advancing the craft, creativity and wellbeing of women poets in the UK
@coinoppress.bsky.social
Coin-Operated Press CIC is a social enterprise working with the LGBTQ+ community and those with chronic illnesses. We publish monthly collaborative, community-made, zines and host zine-making and other creative workshops from the Zine-Makers Community Hub!
@islaybookfest.bsky.social
Fèis Leabhraichean Ìle: where whisky, birds and literature meet. Next festival taking place 28th August - 31st August 2025. 📚
@hotchdundee.bsky.social
Monthly open-mic for writers at Blend on Dock Street in Dundee. Follows or reposts are not endorsements. Follow the Standards of Behaviour at https://hotchdundee.org.uk.
@scotbpocwriters.bsky.social
Advocacy, networking, promoting Scottish & Scotland-based writers of colour, literary events & spaces. scottishbpocwritersnetwork.org
@poetrypharmacy.bsky.social
Poetry place-the World's 1st Poetry Pharmacy prescribing poetry & more in Bishop's Castle & Oxford Street, London. Poetry on Prescription since 2012 Www.poetrypharmacy.co.uk
@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.
@carcanet.bsky.social
Award-winning publisher of modern, classic and translated poetry, and the bi-monthly literary journal @pnreview.bsky.social. 🔗 https://linktr.ee/CarcanetPress
@iambapoet.com
iambapoet.com is where poetry is seen and heard – four times a year. Accepts new and published work from emerging and established poets. Created and curated by @markantonyowen.com. Want more poetry? Follow #ekphrastic sister journal @afterpoetry.com.
@chitgrrl.bsky.social
Author: Homelands, Expecting. Journalist: The Guardian. Restaurant critic: The Times Scotland. Used to be a person whose profile said only 'don't conclude anything without cheese'. Still am, on the inside.
@iamacr0w.bsky.social
Bi, ace, transmasc, sometime poet, lives in Glasgow 🏴 they/he Likes bookshops, brunch and Bronski Beat
@vavapoetry.bsky.social
Day job☀️ ASN classroom assistant Creative practice✍🏾 Poet [Scots + English] Drag alter ego🕺🏾👑 Uncle Tony vavapoetry@gmail.com
@glasgowrevbooks.bsky.social
Online review journal | Writing from Glasgow to the world | ISSN 2053-0560 | Enquiries to glasgowreview@gmail.com
@forwardprizes.bsky.social
The best new poetry published in the UK & Ireland
@hburghbookfest.bsky.social
Reading Minds - a literary festival with a difference! Join us for a weekend of wellbeing through books on the West coast of Scotland 🏴
@portybookfest.bsky.social
Portobello Book Festival is a volunteer run festival, taking place over the first weekend of October.
@ptbopoetry.bsky.social
Edinburgh's International Poetry Festival 21-23 November 2025 Festival, open mic, workshops, podcasts, and more. https://pushtheboatout.org/
@angelacleland.co.uk
Poet | Novelist (as Cleland Smith) | Audiobook Narrator | She/her | 🤖🦄🚀🍸
@fourteenpoems.bsky.social
Queer poetry publisher! 💫 anthologies 3x year 🐳 issue 15 out now 📚 pamphlets from emerging writers 🖥️ online chats and readings
@rattlepoetry.bsky.social
#Poetry without pretension since 1995. Rattle is a publication of the Rattle Foundation, an independent 501(c)3, and not affiliated with any other organization. www.rattle.com
@redrubyrose.bsky.social
Flora inspired small-batch textiles, plant-dyeing and landscape wanderings. redrubyrose.com
@jim-sutherland.bsky.social
Composer, producer, film maker. Is there no end to this man’s talent! ….(learning to tap dance.) Caithness boy, lives in Auchtermuchty, Scotland.
@helenboden.bsky.social
Poet & Independent Literature Professional. A Landscape To Figure In (Red Squirrel Press). Best Scottish Poems 2022. ND. She / they. helenbodenliteraryarts.com
@renardpress.bsky.social
🍃 An award-winning climate-positive indie publisher of classic & contemporary fiction, non-fiction, poetry & theatre. Also home to Hay Press. renardpress.com
@serenbooks.bsky.social
Wales’ leading independent English-language publisher 📚 Winner Small Press of the Year Wales 2025 🏴
@essencepress.bsky.social
artists' books, concrete poetry, perception, slowness, quietness, circles & lines, grey, Japan, Agnes Martin, moon jars, green tea, bit of a minimalist www.juliejohnstone.com
@charliegracie.bsky.social
Poet, novelist, short story writer, social worker. Latest book: Belfast to Baillieston (Red Squirrel Press, 2023) www.charliegracie.scot
@edmorgantrust.bsky.social
Trust of the first Scottish poet laureate, Edwin Morgan.
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
Bloodaxe Books, Britain's leading international poetry publisher. www.bloodaxebooks.com
@orkneylibrary.bsky.social
Books and Archives since 1683. Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
@dustpoetry.bsky.social
Just poetry. Digital UK-based poetry magazine. New, international and marginalised poets always welcome. Edited by Catherine Redford and Tara Wheeler http://dustpoetry.co.uk
@applesandsnakes.bsky.social
England’s leading organisation for #SpokenWord and #PerformancePoetry. #NoWordUnspoken #PoetryWithBite Follow us @applesandsnakes on other channels. Find us www.applesandsnakes.org We're new to this... give us a moment!
@kirstennorrie.bsky.social
Highland poet, MacGillivray at Bloodaxe Books. Fiction & non-fiction writer, Broken Sleep Books & Unbound. Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow, University of Cambridge, 2024-5
@bohdanpiasecki.bsky.social
Poet from Poland based in the UK. Lectures in Creative Writing at University of Birmingham.
@jenferoze.bsky.social
She/her. Poet, copywriter, general word nerd. Likes naps and cheese.
@magmapoetry.bsky.social
The poetry magazine with a different editor every issue. Join #TheMix https://magmapoetry.com/
@theemmapress.bsky.social
small press | big dreams Birmingham-based independent publisher of poetry, children's books, short-form prose and translations. www.theemmapress.com
@rebeccasharp.bsky.social
MAIDEN MOTHER MAGE // performances July & Sept 2025 & publication. Recent poetry: Long Field Loop (Tapsalteerie 2024), Rough Currency (Tapsalteerie 2021). www.rebeccajoysharp.com
@404ink.bsky.social
Your favourite book publisher, obvs 🏴 We're @heathermmcd.bsky.social & @laurafjones.bsky.social Improve your life with 404 Ink books: https://www.404ink.com/shop
@roshnigallagher.bsky.social
Poet from Leeds based in Edinburgh (she/her) Debut collection (Bloodaxe, 2026) Bird Cherry (Verve, 2023) https://roshnigallagher.com/
@antiheroinchic.bsky.social
AHC is a literary arts intentional community and healing space. Submissions CLOSED. On hiatus. Edited by James Diaz, Jenny Robbins & Roy Duffield. https://heroinchic.weebly.com/
@societyofauthors.bsky.social
The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. Fighting for a nicer industry since 1884. #societyofauthors Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training ✒️https://authr.uk/sp40
@eatthestorms.com
Home to The Storms journal, Eat the Storms poetry podcast and host, producer, editor-in-chief & writer Damien B Donnelly