Josephine Lay

@blackeyespub.bsky.social

@vespertine4.bsky.social

Cardiff poet. Best of the Net nominee. Author of two poetry collections - 'Spectrum of Flight' published in 2020 & 'Dawn's Incision' in 2024. Co-Poetry Editor @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

@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.

@juliepatchouly.bsky.social

Psychologist, Clinical Therapist, Writer, Avid Reader and Lover of Humanity. I am salt and light.

@lucyedward1302.bsky.social

Experienced book promoter helping authors boost visibility, grow readership, and increase sales. Let’s work together to make your book stand out!

@triciadearborn.bsky.social

Poet. Writer. Editor | Best of Australian Poems 2024 | Guest poetry editor Cordite 112: TREAT (2024) | Latest book Autobiochemistry | Editor at http://triciadearborneditor.com

@poetryfestival.bsky.social

Daily Poetry Deadlines Submit for a free posting. Submit for a poetry reading video. Submit for your poetry to be made into a film. https://festivalforpoetry.com

@bluevilla.org

Literary mag 📖 Est. 2023 🏙️ Bluevilla.org 🔗 Discord.gg/xVkWr5BJjk 👾 It’s a privilege to study sonder. 📖

@andotherpoems.bsky.social

Poetry magazine edited by Tom Bailey and Laurie Ogden. Issue Six out now. Currently open for submissions.

@jackprestonking.bsky.social

Author of In Defense of Magical Thinking: Essays in Defiance of Conformity to Reason and other books for rebels against the spiritual, creative, and cultural status quo. Writes unruly poems, short stories, and novels, too. jackprestonking.com

@jmaxwell-author.bsky.social

Poet ▪️Fantasy author▪️Social Work Student ▪️mental health advocate ▪️PTSD ▪️ ADHD ▪️recovering addict▪️ dnd and video game player ▪️husband ▪️pet dad (3 dogs, a cat, and a parrot) ▪️LGBTQ ally ▪️recovering philosophy student ▪️I do not respond to most DMs.

@caldwell10.bsky.social

Poet, writer, editor, lecturer, RLF Advisory Fellow. Latest book - Neither Here Nor There - SurVision. 5 poetry collections and interests in nature, moss, birds, prose poetry and education annecaldwell.net

@dtheherring.bsky.social

Beckett & Dante my rocks; Anne Carson, Judith Butler & Angie Estes my muses. I dream of a liveable planet for our futures - so ❤️ XR. I'm Lead Editor of indie poetry press Dithering Chaps which I post about here. He/him. https://www.ditheringchaps.com

@daraghfleming.bsky.social

Writer, poet, silly goose. A BRIEF INHALATION OUT NOW with @brokensleepbooks | writer | PK Award highly commended | FFP PRIZE highly commended | Duncairn Comp winner @daraghfleming everywhere else

@gjgreenlea.bsky.social

American-Australian poet, novelist, muso, counselor for survivors of sexual & gender violence. Black Bough Poetry, Fevers of the Mind, Ice Floe Press, SAR, Kalonopia, Headline Poetry & Press, Rebelle, Wombwell Rainbow. #BLM #LGBTQIA #Climate #Disability

@atriumpoetry.bsky.social

Online poetry mag edited by @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social and @hollyannepoet.bsky.social www.atriumpoetry.com

@rickdove.bsky.social

Poet | UK Poetry Slam Champion 2021 | Creative Writing Workshop Facilitator | Activist 🏳️‍🌈♿️ ☮️ | 🔗 https://linktr.ee/rickdove |

@purelypoetry.bsky.social

poet / editor / sound artist / creative human thing. Edits Poem Alone blog. Publisher at Rancid Idols Productions. Co-runs Purely Poetry open mic night in Belfast. Latest collection 'with the lakes' available from above/ground press.

@dmurphy.bsky.social

dad/poet/educator/tradesman/gardener/bodhrán player/former boxer 🇮🇪🇸🇮 Winner, The Agha Shahid Ali Prize in poetry, 2024 (ESTATE SALE: University of Utah Press, 2025) https://uofupress.com/books/estate-sale/ www.dmurphy.online

@mjseyesopened.bsky.social

Poet and visual artist. Political junkie. Disabled. Fibro warrior. MFA, UARK. Managing Editor, Ice Floe Press. "Wiregrass and Other Poems" (Ethel, chapbook, 2022). Contact: icefloeprojects@gmail.com https://ko-fi.com/mjsaucer

@jacqdoyle.bsky.social

Author of The Missing Girl (Black Lawrence Press). Longlist, Wigleaf Top 50. 9 Notables, Best American Essays, CNF editor, CRAFT Literary Journal. www.jacquelinedoyle.com

@bigjosh84.bsky.social

Poet. Bard. Pragmatist. Spiritual Nomad. A soul untamed and a heavy heart, making sense of the madness. Searching for truth, peace, and answers until all humankind is free. .

@abrackenbury.bsky.social

Poet & broadcaster. 10th collection 'Thorpeness', Carcanet, 2022. Currently finishing non-fiction prose book 'Village,including 'witches', wheelbarrows and a pioneering woman archaeologist with a houseful of treasures in Long Lane...

@lowhangingfruiter.bsky.social

LHF is a literary arts magazine established in march 2024, and is printing their second edition this new years. Subs open! More info at www.fruithanginglow.com

@rosiehadden.bsky.social

Poet, weaver, End of Life Doula, conservationist. Living a creative wild life in Cornwall

@rakelrank.bsky.social

Scottish poet | NOR-ENG Translator | Work in The Poetry Review / Modern Poetry in Translation / Magma / Gutter / The Scotsman | Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award 2019 | Grierson Verse Prize 2023 / Wigtown Poetry Prize Runner-Up 2023

@andywilliamson.com

Writer, poet, creative thinker & architect for democracy / Sgrìobhadair, bàrd, neach-smaoineachaidh cruthachail agus ailtire airson deamocrasaidh | Aotearoa & Isle of Skye | urbanbadgercollective.com http://andywilliamson.com

@rough-diamond1.bsky.social

Rough Diamond is an online and in print poetry journal. roughdiamondpoems@gmail.com EIC - Charlotte Cosgrove http://ko-fi.com/roughdiamond open for subs

@roguestrands.bsky.social

Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.

@hollyannepoet.bsky.social

Poet. The Becoming of Lady Flambé - Indigo Dreams Publishing 20 - Drunk Muse Poetry Co-edits www.atriumpoetry.com Loves snoods, tea, crime (reading, not doing).

@eoinflannery.bsky.social

Associate Professor of English Literature at @micireland.bsky.social Poems @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social, @the-engine-idling.bsky.social, @hogriverpress.bsky.social @ogre.red, @juniperpoetry.bsky.social, @librelit.bsky.social, and elsewhere.

@forestpoets.bsky.social

We meet monthly at the Rose and Crown pub, Walthamstow for reading, writing, performing... PLUS @PoemsNotBombs.bsky.social open mic; Waltham Forest Poetry Comp http://bit.ly/wfpoetrycomp Run by @paulmcgrane.bsky.social

@poetrysociety.bsky.social

A charitable organisation promoting and advocating poets & poetry since 1909. Publishes #ThePoetryReview, supports young poets @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social. poetrysociety.org.uk linktr.ee/poetrysociety22

@scripthavenltd.bsky.social

Thriving independent bookshop, coffee shop, event venue, safe community haven in Worcester, UK! scripthavenltd@gmail.com https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/scripthaven 104 High St, Worcester, WR1 2HW scripthaven.co.uk Also on Insta, Facebook and Twitter!

@charlieulyatt.bsky.social

'Charlie Ulyatt is one of our most accomplished poets of the minimal' (Billy Mills, poet, editor, formerly literary journalist at http://guardian.co.uk) Books from https://charlieulyatt.bandcamp.com/ Sign up to receive email poems eepurl.com/b4DGj5

@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

@scottacoe.bsky.social

Poet & Artist. Former Stamford Poet Laureate. Spalding Poetry Slam wordsmith award winner 2024. scottcoe.co.uk #PoetsOnBlueSky #poetry #spokenword Mostly found in #Stamford & #Peterborough

@byleaveswelive.bsky.social

The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk

@kevwilliamson.bsky.social

Writer, author, poetry, editor, publisher. Founder of Rebel Inc. Co-founder of Bella Caledonia. Co-founder of Neu! Reekie! Co-founder of Push The Boat Out international poetry festival. MDANT. Love poetry, books, chess, volcanoes, Hibs. Citizen of Leith

@favlit.org

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

@aaronwright2.bsky.social

Poet, spoken word, music shenaniganner, managed by Erasmus Croc, the world’s first Poetry Crocodile .

@nathanael73.bsky.social

Irish-Australian poet. TERMINALS, SEPARATION BLUES: POEMS 1994-2024, DUBLIN WANDERING, LANDMARKS & 13 other books. Best of the Net nominee. Creative writing professor. Poetry editor for Antipodes. Husband, father, immigrant, runner, music-lover. 🇦🇺 🇮🇪

@charlottecosgrove.bsky.social

Poet / Lecturer / Socialist / Wellbeing / Editor of Rough Diamond poetry journal love writing, reading, cats, learning, and sitting down.

@alexchand.bsky.social

MFA @ Mississippi / MA @ Leeds / poet and writer / https://alexchand.com / recent poems in The Offing

@doreenduffy13.bsky.social

MA in Creative Writing. Creative Writer & Tutor. Pushcart Prize Nominated Writer. (all views my own) http://doreenduffy.blogspot.com

@theprosepoem.bsky.social

An online journal of prose poetry. Ekphrastic poetry call open until 15 December. https://theprosepoem.com/

@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.

@harrymanonbluesky.bsky.social

Poet, Co-Artistic Director, Fully Booked Theatre, Translator | RLF Fellow, Newcastle University | CW MSt Tutor, Oxford University | Stephen Spender Prize, UNESCO Bridges of Struga & Northern Writers Award | Opinions own, etc. www.manmadebooks.co.uk