Lou Mach
Mancunian, Poet, Reader, Educator, Critic, UoM, Centre for New Writing. Collaborative pamphlet, The Words of Others are All We Have, Hedgehog Press, (2024)
https://www.louisemachen.com
@createdtoread.bsky.social
Cardiff based Poet, Writer, Academic 'Octopus Mind' published by Seren Books (a Guardian Best Poetry Book of 2023) https://linktr.ee/createdtoread Teach creative writing, writing on/around ekphrasis, neurodiversity, creativity, climate crisis, art
@lizwilsondavies.bsky.social
@roblyates.bsky.social
Author, creative, and professor. "Son of God" was released via Spartan Press in 2024. Check it out for some deconstructive goodness https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/son-of-god-rob-yates/1145596380 (Migrating website/gallery, back with prints summer 2025)
@wildsoundwriting.bsky.social
Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels. Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
@maudiemichelle.com
Poet. Artist. Educator. Mother. Positive Existentialist. Based in Shreveport, Louisiana. EIC of @audilocus.bsky.social http://www.maudiemichelle.com/
@kaymedway.bsky.social
Library assistant & poet. The first poem I wrote in adulthood was a rondel poem that won a Scottish Book Trust competition. My poems have been published in The Dirigible Balloon & Disabled Tales #CurrentlyReading: Write It All Down by Cathy Rentzenbrink.
@lukejanicki.bsky.social
Best of the Net 2025 nom, @funfunfunicular.bsky.social, @trampset.bsky.social, @ghostcitypress.bsky.social, @themilkhouse.bsky.social, @labrc.bsky.social, @apricotpress.bsky.social, @quarterpress.bsky.social Seattle, WA https://www.lukejanicki.com/
@rburrows.bsky.social
Cheshire Novel Prize Shortlist ‘25 Write Mentor Picturebook SL’23/LL’24 Poetry - The Dirigible Balloon, Northern Gravy, Tyger Tyger, The Toy, The Yorkshire Times, Motherhood Uncensored and BBC Upload.🏴
@anniellewe.bsky.social
Oil painter, children’s author + illustrator | Published in Northern Gravy, The Toy Press, Dirigible Balloon, Little Thoughts Press, Cleaver Magazine
@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
@inannaihwa.bsky.social
Dreamer Poet Hopelessly Optimistic Träumerin Dichterin Hoffnungslose Optimistin www.instagram.com/inannaihwa For a world for everyone. Let’s be fierce and have some fun.
@eleanorholmes.bsky.social
Previously @eliot_north on Twitter/X. Mum-Doctor-Writer of poetry & prose Commended NPC & Hippocrates Pushcart Nom 2020 Black Bough, IS&T, IceFloe, iamb, Broken Spine, Acumen, Dovecote, Re-side, Structo, Firewords & Salt https://linktr.ee/eleanorholmes
@stevemcormond.bsky.social
Author of four books of poetry, most recently Reckon (2018). New chapbook forthcoming in Fall 2025 from Baseline Press.
@underbellypress.bsky.social
Uncomfortable, unfiltered pieces that aren’t afraid to investigate the underbelly of existence. Narratives exploring the overlooked, the mundane, the human. https://linktr.ee/underbellypress
@glawrence.bsky.social
Author, Archer, Erratic gardener, Kung Fu novice, Leftie Intersectional Feminist (who is hopefully always learning more). Curiousity is better than judgement. Indie author of historical fiction and fantasy, looking for new friends and old on Bluesky! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@medhawrites.bsky.social
Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust) / Ed-at-large, Pen and Anvil Press, MA / ‘Afterbody’ out soon through Blue Diode Press, Edinburgh / Posting fragments from antiquity to today.
@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
@rarebookschool.bsky.social
Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials. rarebookschool.org
@gregorykearns.bsky.social
Poet in theory, Neurodiversity in the Workplace trainer, host of The Poems We Made Along the Way, your new best friend.
@emmapurshouse.bsky.social
Freelance writer, novelist, performance poet and lover of all things Black Country. Editor of The Blackcountryman magazine. One third of Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists.
@sarahclareconlon.bsky.social
Less able to stand ✍️ Writer | Literature Editor Creative Tourist | 📚 Poetry Book Society Selections | cache-cache (Contraband) | Marine Drive (Broken Sleep) | Using Language (Invisible Hand) | Lune (Red Ceilings) | 🐦⬛ Wanderland (Red Ceilings) available now
@lydiaunsworth.bsky.social
Poet. Manchester. Buildings. NWCDTP-funded PhD @MMU, Centre for Place Writing. Latest: Arthropod (Death of Workers), Next: Stay Awhile (Knives Forks & Spoons)
@leahumansky.bsky.social
What brave new world is this? ☁️ Poet/ educator/ artist/ feminist/ OF TYRANT (Word Works 2024) Host + Curator of @coupletseries.bsky.social in NYC since 2011 Curator/creator of #staybrave substack Repped by Annie DeWitt https://linktr.ee/leahumansky
@poetrygal.bsky.social
Immersed in verse. The occasional picture postcard. A glimmer of a broken heart. Poetic licence. I share all kinds of poetry, writing and lyrics - including my own. Images all mine taken on iPhone 15 Pro 📲
@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
@carrieetter.bsky.social
Poet and novelist, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at U of Bristol | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the 🐈⬛! | Foodie | Dem 🇺🇸 expat in Bristol, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
@foxandstarbooks.bsky.social
We publish poetry and fiction chapbooks by UK debut authors with an emphasis on global majority writers. Founder/editor: @carrieetter.bsky.social; co-editor: Kaycee Hill; interns: Sophia Di Maida and Matt Thorpe-Coles
@meganloverdesavage.bsky.social
Writer, Community College Faculty, Fig Companion, Carolyn Moore Writers House Residency, PDX OR Work in The Rumpus, Tahoma Literary Review, Sixth Finch, Portland Review, Subtropics, etc. Called: “Story Witch,” “Pure Light in Human Form”
@john1811.bsky.social
Poet. Keats House poetry ambassador. Wide range of interests. On the left politically. A kind of hermeticist philosophically.
@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)
@gillcresearch.bsky.social
poet, teacher, PhD student. Wild swimmer. Editor at Yaffle/Yaffle's Nest Living, working and writing in The Yorkshire Dales
@shamana58.bsky.social
Writer, singer, photographer, carbon-based life form. I write poetry, magical reality fiction, and blues songs. Sensitivity consultant. Occasional juggler, and vexillologist, aspiring lamp shade.
@yaffles-nest.bsky.social
Publisher of poetry collections and pamphlets. Yaffle and Yaffle's Nest Online workshops and courses.
@jcfineartphoto.bsky.social
Searching for beauty, goodness and truth. I am a non-apologetic liberal. Don't bother trying to DM. I love art, photography, poetry. Here's a few of my photos. https://www.jodicombsfineartphotography.com/
@zoomburst.substack.com
Sixty odd years old. Running the Sixty Odd Press. I once wrote a book called Sixty Odd Songs, and have now almost completed Sixty Odd Poems, and am well on the way with the Sixty Odd Poets project. zoomburst.substack.com sixtyoddpoets.substack.com
@karenjanecannon.bsky.social
Poet & Author. PhD’ing at Uni of Southampton (Ecopoetics of Place/Body) Novel, ‘Powder Monkey’ (W&N & Phoenix). Hamish Canham Prize 2022. Bridport shortlist 2019 & 2024. Mslexia finalist 2017. Forest Dweller. #poetry #place #nature www.karenJaneCannon.com
@supriyadhaliwal.bsky.social
NWCDTP-funded PhD student at Centre for Place Writing, MMU. Author of The Yak Dilemma, out now with Makina Books. https://linktr.ee/supriyakaurdhaliwal
@chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social
Poet | Writer | Freelance Art Historian UK https://juliabiggs1.wixsite.com/juliabiggs
@pinkzombierose.bsky.social
Punk, weirdo, lefty & EiC of Cream Scene. Magical realism, existentialism, metaphysics. Theater of the absurd. Creator of Pink Zombie Rose, a Graphic series - Undead Psychonauts will either save the world or end it. 💀🥀
@mcrlitfest.bsky.social
Save the dates for our 20th Festival! #MLF25 runs 10-26 October 2025. www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk
@alvinlu.bsky.social
Novels: Daydreamers (Fiction Collective 2, July 2025), The Hell Screens. alvinlu.co
@galiamelon.bsky.social
Teacher. Writer. Musician. IG: @galia_melon Poems in places: https://linktr.ee/galiamelon
@salopress.bsky.social
Independent publisher of poetry & prose. An obscurity of poets. Updates by Sophie 💖 Norwich, UK.
@uomsalc.bsky.social
We are one of four Schools in the Faculty of Humanities at The University of Manchester.
@doorisajarmag.bsky.social
Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey. Always open for submissions (guidelines on our website) https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
@andrewmarkdavies.bsky.social
Professor of Modern Social History, University of Liverpool. Author of The Gangs of Manchester and City of Gangs: Glasgow and the Rise of the British Gangster.