Kate Wakeling
Poet & Musicologist • The Rainbow Faults (The Rialto) • poetry collections for children (The Emma Press & Otter-Barry Books) • writer-in-residence – Aurora Orchestra
@mickiepoet.bsky.social
Pushcart nominee. Gay poet. Baltimore. POETRY, Threepenny, TSR, Gulf Coast, Copper Nickel. First book Worth Burning coming Feb. '26 Black Lawrence Press. https://mickiekennedy.com
@sparkbookaward.bsky.social
Sparking the imaginations of young readers! Now in our 5th year, we are excited to welcome schools across the country to join our awards & vote for the winners. www.sparkbookawards.co.uk
@juliesargent.bsky.social
Independent Primary English Consultant based in Oxfordshire. Co-author of Opening Doors to Ambitious Primary English: Pitching high and including all. www.innovateducation.co.uk
@atriumpoetry.bsky.social
Online poetry mag edited by @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social and @hollyannepoet.bsky.social www.atriumpoetry.com
@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.
@jeremyover.bsky.social
Poet. New book 'Fourth & Walnut' due out Feb 2025 with @carcanet.bsky.social
@evalynlee.bsky.social
Poet, Alumna of @CBSNews @60Minutes @BBCWorld @FaberAcademy. Love @britishlibrary & @VanguardRead #amwriting #poetry #visual #journal #travellingwithdevices 🧶 #crochet #StitchingTogether for the #CommonGood
@ohmary.bsky.social
Poet, author of QUANTUM HERESIES. Writing in Massachusetts Review, Colorado Review, MQR, AQR, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry Daily, Poetry Review (UK)
@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
@robmclennan.bsky.social
poet, fiction writer, publisher, critic, papa, etc. out now: On Beauty: stories, (University of Alberta Press) https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/ https://www.patreon.com/robmclennan http://robmclennanauthor.blogspot.com/ https://robmclennan.substack.com/
@reeceandrea.bsky.social
Mostly reading. Managing Editor Books for Keeps, administrator Klaus Flugge Prize and Branford Boase Award plus other book-y stuff.
@johnkenny13.bsky.social
Writer, Editor, Creative Writing Tutor at the Irish Writers Centre. Poetry: Everyday Poets, Smashing Times, StepAway, Prole. Fiction: The Galway Review, Revival, Emerald Eye, Fear the Reaper, Albedo One.
@helen-evans.bsky.social
Poet, and facilitator of two poetry projects: Inner Room & Poems for the Path Ahead. Published by HappenStance Press and Mariscat Press. www.helenevans.co.uk
@anne-bailey.bsky.social
Poet - ‘What the House Taught Us’ Emma Press 2021. Member of ‘Café Writers’ Committee organising monthly poetry events live in Norwich and on Zoom.
@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.
@watsoncomedian.bsky.social
Comedian, author, producer. Your mum is a fan. But not like THAT.
@theemmapress.bsky.social
small press | big dreams Birmingham-based independent publisher of poetry, children's books, short-form prose and translations. www.theemmapress.com
@poemsnotbombs.bsky.social
Monthly poetry open mic in #Walthamstow & #Soho 3rd Thu, 1.30pm Spice Of Life, Soho Last Thu, 7pm, Walthamstow Trades Hall https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/forest-poets-events-2261639 Hosted by @paulmcgrane.bsky.social ForestPoets.bsky.social
@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
@laurencewrites.com
Dubliner in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Writer at https://www.LaurenceWrites.com/. 2025 Cúirt New Writing Fiction Prize. English/Français/Svenska. (He/Him/YerMan)
@poetryod.bsky.social
2021 UK Poetry Slam Champion 🏆 Poet • Editor • Mentor • Event Organiser House of O’Driscoll ✨✌️ 🏳️🌈♿️🥄☘️🇮🇪⚔️📝🇬🇧🍉
@heloisewerner.bsky.social
Soprano & Composer - Associate Artist at Wigmore Hall - singer in The Hermes Experiment
@regretteruane.bsky.social
Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
@lottebettsdean.bsky.social
singer of allsorts | represented worldwide by Askonas Holt | Ambassador of Donne UK | Associate Royal Academy of Music | 2024 Young Artist Winner - Royal Philharmonic Society www.lottebettsdean.com
@poetrybrum.bsky.social
PBLJ is a biannual print magazine of contemporary poetry, rooted in Birmingham. Engage with thought provoking essays, interviews and in-depth reviews. Subscribe Now! https://poetrybirmingham.com/
@stingingfly.bsky.social
Magazine established in 1997 to publish & promote the very best new Irish and international writing. Stinging Fly Press was launched in 2005. Winter 2024-25 Issue #51 available now https://stingingfly.org/product/winter-2024-25/
@charlottecosgrove.bsky.social
Poet / Lecturer / Socialist / Wellbeing / Editor of Rough Diamond poetry journal love writing, reading, cats, learning, and sitting down.
@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.
@hannahcopley.bsky.social
Writer and SL in Creative Writing at Uni of Westminster. Author of Speculum (Broken Sleep Books, 2021) and Lapwing (Pavilion Poetry, 2024). 2nd in the Laurel Prize 2024 . Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024. Hosts poetry nights at the Soho Poly.
@damianbarr.bsky.social
Writer & broadcaster. 🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃 He/Him 📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel (Sept 2025). I’m also curating a show about them for Charleston. 📕 Maggie & Me. 📕 You Will Be Safe Here. 📺 Big Scottish Book Club on BBC iPlayer. PhD, FRSL, FRSE.
@pamthompson240.bsky.social
Leicester-based poet, educator and reviewer and visual artist. PhD poetry and holography. Show Date and Time (Smith Doorstop) Strange Fashion (Pindrop Press) forthcoming pamphlet, Sub/urban Legends (Paper Swans Press). Hawthornden Fellow.
@openingdoors.bsky.social
Educator, presenter and author of the award winning ‘Opening Doors’ series of books. www.searchingforexcellence.co.uk
@garethprior.bsky.social
Poet. By day, Bursar at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, and trustee at The Poetry Society.
@katenoakes.bsky.social
Writer, Artist, Critic Author of ten books Goldhawk Road (Two Rivers Press, 2023), Chalking the Pavement (Broken Sleep Books, 2024) and Real Hay-on-Wye (Seren, 2022) www.boomslangpoetry.blogspot.com Lives in Bristol No book promoters or god bothers thanks
@chrisemery.me
Chris Emery, born in Manchester in 1963, lives on the Norfolk coast. He is the author of four poetry collections, a writer’s guide, and an anthology of poems and art. His work explores memory, loss and joy, blending the visionary with the everyday.
@helenmort.bsky.social
Poet, author, Sheffield-er. Mountaineering literature specialist, running enthusiast, part time Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
@jobellwriter.bsky.social
Poet, digital salonniere. Host of The Poetic Licence (Patreon) - monthly prompts, famous poet interviews, a creative community. Memoir, BOATER out with HarperNorth in summer '25. https://linktr.ee/BoaterJoBell
@writerscentre.bsky.social
The National Centre for Writing is a place of discovery, exchange, ideas and learning for writers, translators, readers and everyone who loves words.
@sharalessley.bsky.social
Poet, essayist, lover of insects & trees | 📚: The Explosive Expert's Wife, Two-Headed Nightingale, The Poem's Country: Place & Poetic Practice (co-edited w/Bruce Snider) | CNF Ed: West Branch | Consulting Ed: Acre Books | Mentor / 🐾 & human mama | 🏳️🌈
@abridgedmagazine.bsky.social
Poetry / Art Magazine Edited by Susanna Galbraith and Gregory McCartney. Abridged since 2004. A Derry Magazine. www.abridged.zone
@jacquelinecrooks.bsky.social
Born in Jamaica 🇯🇲 Riddim Lover Shortlisted: Women’s Prize, Jhalak Prize, Authors’ Club 📚 Top debut The Guardian FIRE RUSH book available to order
@josephfinlay.bsky.social
Historian of British Jews and race relations. Composer and Musical Director. Socialist and דאָיִקער
@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: [email protected] | Founded: 2018 Website: brokensleepbooks.com
@marrrtha.bsky.social
Editor, writer and translator. The Poems of St John of the Cross forthcoming (Penguin Classics, 2026) marthasprackland.co.uk
@revrachelmann.bsky.social
Priest. Poet. Writer. Broadcaster. Trans. Tired. Disabled. Neurodiverse. (Private Passions: Military History, Austen, Golden Age Detective Fiction) T.S. Eliot Prize Shortlisted 2024 Archdeacon of Salford & Bolton 15 Books. www.rachelmann.co.uk
@josiedefalco.bsky.social
Children’s Poet | West Yorkshire, UK | Poems Published in Little Thoughts Press, Parakeet Magazine, The Dirigible Balloon, The Toy and Nature Anthology: Picture Perfect Poetry https://www.amazon.com/Picture-Perfect-Poetry-Anthology-Ekphrastic/dp/B0D12XDVTS