J.S. Watts
Writer (poet, novelist, short story writer and sometime reviewer) amateur photographer and very amateur musician. Website: https://www.jswatts.co.uk/
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@neiu-cw.bsky.social
Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more! https://www.neiu.edu/academics/college-of-arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
@euantaylorauthor.bsky.social
The Hard Times: Prison Diaries: A book about crime, punishment, rehabilitation, greed, and putting a newspaper to bed before the editorial team gets locked up: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hard-Times-Prison-Diaries-ebook/dp/B0DPVH8HFF/
@derickijohnson.bsky.social
Wanderer, writer, reader Ambassador for daily writing prompt, #vss365, and inquisitive human.
@andrewtuckerleavis.bsky.social
Literary editor - Leftlion Magazine Words in Under the Radar, Comma Press, Nottingham Post Writer-in-residence with Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature '24 Tall, dark and haggard.
@emory-f8.bsky.social
I write darkly tragic Victorian fiction. She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind) ☺️ #writer #Victorianist #historian #Lesbian #LGBTQI #Hispana #feminist #annewithane #classical #goth I block "Ai Artists" and "Ai Writers".🙂↔️ DMs (mutuals only) | TerfsDNI
@justine1902.bsky.social
Writing wee stories about Belfast and other bits and pieces. Bath Novella-in-Flash Award shortlistee 2025. Words in places like @theDublinReview.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social FlashFictionMagazine
@windandbones.com
Independent publisher | We also run writing and philosophy for social change projects | A Scottish organisation based in Taiwan 🏴🇹🇼 | Directed by Hannah Stevens & Will Buckingham || https://links.windandbones.com ||
@shotscarecrow.bsky.social
Undercover skeleton. 💀 Writer/researcher/lecturer. Ludokinetic/interactive poetry 🃏, collaborative and amalgamatic writing. Editor at @SidekickBooks. 📚 He/him. www.gojonstonego.com
@stevemcormond.bsky.social
Author of four books of poetry, most recently Reckon (2018). New chapbook forthcoming in Fall 2025 from Baseline Press.
@jaydradawn.bsky.social
Master of Arts. Trans Woman. Ace. BDSM Practitioner & Scholar. Optimistic Nihilist. Amateur nuclear physicist. An aging punk who believes violence is necessary to fight oppression. Muay Thai and workouts, still not Super Saiyan. #NAFO 🔞🍁☢️
@joseph-landi.bsky.social
Poet and medical writer. Poems in North American Review, The Southern Review, South Carolina Review, Midwest Quarterly, Notre Dame Review, Rhino, etc. Looking for my 3,000 Twitter followers.
@helenmort.bsky.social
Poet, author, Sheffield-er. Mountaineering literature specialist, running enthusiast, part time Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
@jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social
Poet, apparently. Forward Prize, BOTN and Pushcart nom. Occasional horseman, remote rural Spain. Words in blackbough, iambapoet, eatthestorms, Modron, Madrid Review, Bad Lilies, Dark Mountain project and more. https://linktr.ee/jamesmcconachiepoet
@terrybirdgenaw.bsky.social
Award-winning author of The Antunite Chronicles (Antifascist Allegorical Fiction), Satirist, Professor, Humanist, Democracy Defender, Resister to Authoritarian Rule, Writing for freedom, Check out my humorous Orwellian stories. Terrybirdgenaw.wordpress.com
@marymackeyauthor.bsky.social
Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter. https://marymackey.com/
@mikepiero.org
Bi. Writer. Novelist. Game Studies Scholar. Repped by Mark Gottlieb @ Trident. Fiction and poetry have appeared in J Journal, Midway Journal, Moveable Type, Impost, Sandy River Review, and Oak Tree Journal. More at www.mikepiero.org. He/Him.
@karanchambers.bsky.social
Order my pamphlet ‘woman | folk’ from @SaloPress now! Highly Commended Cheltenham Comp ‘23. Poems: Butcher’s Dog, Gutter, Mslexia, Propel.
@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. .
@malformed-poetry.bsky.social
Poet. 🇺🇸 immigrant in 🇳🇴 Writing something every day, even if it’s bad. My work is available in Rattle: Poetry, The Amazine, Anti-Heroin Chic, Tvergastein, and others. Watch all my Poetry Videos here: https://www.instagram.com/malformed_poetry
@jr-placitas.bsky.social
Poet in NM, retired English prof, editor, Poetry Playhouse Publications, author, Tubbables. Blue Team! 🇺🇦! No DMs. Spoutible: JRPlacitasPoet Website: https://www.poetryplayhouse.com/
@coreypoetry.bsky.social
36. Poet & writer. Queer. ROBOTĂ - https://stanislavandthelion.bandcamp.com/ Find my poetry in: Queering the Dots, Vita & the Woolf, Impostor: A Poetry Journal, Black Lily Zine, Querencia Press' "We Were Seeds" anthology (available @ querenciapress.com)
@john1811.bsky.social
Poet. Keats House poetry ambassador. Wide range of interests. On the left politically. A kind of hermeticist philosophically.
@bethosmond.bsky.social
Poet and Neonatologist. Pushcart nominated. Work in IS&T, After…, Atrium, The Alchemy Spoon, Dust poetry, Intima, Black Bough and Hippocrates Anthologies.
@yaffles-nest.bsky.social
Publisher of poetry collections and pamphlets. Yaffle and Yaffle's Nest Online workshops and courses.
@poetbex.bsky.social
Teacher and Poet. WALRUSSEY, my debut pamphlet of ecopoetry, is now available from The Black Cat Poetry Press: https://www.blackcatpress.co.uk/product-page/walrussey
@gerrymoynihan.bsky.social
Playwright/Screenwriter/🦮🐾/🎸/🥁 #DruidDebut 2023 with my play 'LEGACY' via the #DruidTheatre #NewWriting Program from 500+submissions. Writer of 'CONTINUITY' ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Guardian. Click on the link to watch 'CONTINUITY' now: 👉 https://t.co/xz22glhjYz 👈
@talesinscarlett.bsky.social
Every woman has a story. Time hunts us all. Tick. Tock. https://talesinscarlett.com/
@jackhillside.bsky.social
Illustrator 🎨 | Based in Bordeaux, France 📬 contact@jackhillside.com 🌎 Rep. (except FR) Aida Jalali : aidjalali@gmail.com https://jackhillside.com/ 👉️ Online Shop : https://shop.jackhillside.com/ 🫶 Support my work : https://ko-fi.com/jackhillside
@mckenzielynntozan.bsky.social
EIC of @litsharkmag.bsky.social, www.litshark.com • Editor & Book Designer • Essayist • Book Reviewer • Poet & Horror Writer, www.mckenzielynntozan.com Midwestern Mom in Coastal Croatia: https://substack.com/@mckenzielynntozan 2025: BANNED BOOK REVIEW
@fhpowellwriter.bsky.social
I'm an artist, musician, poet, writer, a creative being. I live in France, but born in the UK. I have written anything from horror books to a children's book. Vegetarian, dog lover, anti war maybe a bit woke Follow me if you can. #vss365 #writingcommunity
@authorandie.bsky.social
Indie author of eco-fantasy with a touch of romance. The Laughter of the Sun series. 1. 🐳 The Mermaid's Wrath 2. 🐝 The Sorrow of Bees 3. 🐻❄️ Coming this summer! Find links at https://andieholman.com
@magedah.bsky.social
Nonfiction writer/editor interested in #haiku and micropoetry Author of ‘Techniques of Propaganda’ and ‘Rhetoric, Logic, & Argumentation’ (Prestwick House)
@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/
@julietwest.bsky.social
Author of BEFORE THE FALL (Pan Macmillan, 2014) and THE FAITHFUL (Pan Macmillan, 2017). Poetry in Magma (2024) Hippocrates Prize anthology (2024). Books, gardening, cats. https://www.julietwest.com/
@alixeharrow.bsky.social
hugo-award winning and NYT-bestselling author in charlottesville va; agent: kate mckean; she/her
@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
@marshallbood.bsky.social
poet and author of Spring Cleaning(Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021) Order here: https://uglyducklingpresse.org/publications/spring-cleaning/
@robinince.bsky.social
Latest book - Normally Weird & Weirdly Normal out 1st May Robinince.com
@kirkwellor.bsky.social
Author / Futurist Climate+Historical+Quantum Fiction http://kirkwellor.com 💙🏳️🌈🌎🇺🇦🧸🇨🇦💚🇨🇷❤️🇺🇸🤔 AI will comprehend 5D fields in 4D spacetime helping humans avert the 6th Mass Extinction, but there’s an EPIC catch - The means to think OUTSIDE our 3D Box.
@ravenized.bsky.social
📚Author- 📈Marketing Exec- 👩🏼💼Small Business Owner- 🌶️Neuro-Spicy - ☕️Coffee Addict Currently #amQuerying Gravewater- 75k Gothic Erin Brockovitch Currently writing Catalyst: The Helm of the Awakening- Dystopian Cyberpunk Pirate Adventure
@emmalee1.bsky.social
Poet, reviewer, short story writer based in Leicester, UK. No DMs unless I know you IRL.
@seanjbates.bsky.social
writer/poet/educator UMassAmherst MFA alum three poems a week: https://substack.com/@seanjbates poems in: Stone Canoe Rising Phoenix Review "What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump", Curbstone Books. https://tinyurl.com/44yksnmp
@8rid6et.bsky.social
Here ye here ye: my poems shall be plentiful and free 🍃poems & photos©️me (except «reposts») 🐕 Friendly. 💙 ally to 🌎 🖤 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🇵🇸✡️
@janedismore.bsky.social
Biographer; writer royalty/history. FRHistS. Out now: No Country for a Woman: The Adventurous Life of Lady Dorothy Mills, Explorer & Writer (The History Press). Radio/TV. Web: www.janedismore.com
@salmanshaheen.bsky.social
Author of forthcoming thriller novel Freebourne. Cabinet Member for Culture, Leisure & Public Spaces on Hounslow Council. Journalist. Pundit. FRSA salmanshaheen.com Promoted by Ted Wall on behalf of Hounslow Labour councillors at 367 CHR
@jwtba.bsky.social
Q&A interviews with the Author - Book Recommendations - Book Reviews - Future Reads https://linktr.ee/jwt_bookadventures
@fionalarkin.bsky.social
Winner of National Poetry Competition 2024. Debut collection Rope of Sand Pindrop Press (2023). Pamphlets Vital Capacity (Broken Sleep, 2022) and A Dovetail of Breath (Rack Press, 2020). Corrupted Poetry projects.