Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia)
Cultural worker/buruh seni. Disabled, from JKT. Latest book: amuk (2024), next: ANNAH, INFINITE (2025).
Also ULTIMATUM ORANGUTAN, ROPE, INDIGENOUS SPECIES, & I make art.
https://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/amuk
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Southeast Asian Literatures and Languages
Writers, performers, translators, scholars, publishers, et al… anyone who engages w Southeast Asian lit and languages!
@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
@inotherwordsbooks.bsky.social
Your translation library 📚 https://www.inotherwordsbooks.co.uk
@tiffanytroy.bsky.social
Author of Dominus (BlazeVOX), Managing Editor at Tupelo Quarterly, Associate Editor at Tupelo Press, Book Review Co-Editor at the Los Angeles Review and Ass. Poetry Editor at Asymptote
@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
@machapress.bsky.social
attuned to marginal poetries: experimental, formally hybrid, intercultural or in translation, and recovered work: machapress.com
@katymontgomerie.com
Born to lose, living to win I have a YouTube where I talk about trans rights and feminism https://youtube.com/@katymontgomerie
@gaiajane.bsky.social
Poet | Poetry Foundation: bit.ly/3BydKOn | PennSound: bit.ly/3DfAvHk | she/her ❦ In service of the heart.
@pocolit.bsky.social
Plattform für postkoloniale Literatur Magazin, Events, Podcast https://pocolit.com/
@diplomatofnight.com
"A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare." Unfortunately I try to write sometimes
@francesryan.bsky.social
Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? and Crippled. E: frances.ryan.freelance@guardian.co.uk
@moniquedhooghe.bsky.social
They, she ♿ peace & social justice activist anarchist Nothing about us without us
@monicacure.bsky.social
Romanian-American poet, writer, translator, and dialogue specialist. Latest translation: TOO GREAT A SKY by Liliana Corobca, Seven Stories Press Upcoming translation: THE SUMMER MY MOTHER HAD GREEN EYES by Tatiana Tibuleac, Deep Vellum, 2026
@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 Bath, 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
@flootzavut.bsky.social
https://flootzavut.carrd.co/ aka Sarah ze/zer, fae/faer Art @flootdraws.bsky.social eng fr ru heb white bi disabled genderqueer
@samatlounge.bsky.social
Publishing commentator. Founder of Meet The Booktokers, As Seen On Booktok, and The Empowered Author. Trying to disrupt book publishing for 15+ years. Not easy.
@gillcresearch.bsky.social
poet, teacher, PhD student. Wild swimmer. Editor at Yaffle/Yaffle's Nest Living, working and writing in The Yorkshire Dales
@necverbum.bsky.social
Independent scholar, sort of writing a novel. Interests: translation, historiography, revolutions. She/they.
@megapolisomancy.bsky.social
Nonfiction about weird fiction at Seize the Press, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nightmare, and Ancillary Review of Books, where I am also an editor. Also jazz, metal, leftism. he/him https://doomsdayer.wordpress.com/writings/
@21rosa.bsky.social
Museums, galleries, medieval and Irish literature, folklore, poetry, botany, Cumbrian walks, Oxfam bookstores. Remainer trying to do the right thing in a world that's going/gone off balance
@carmunist.bsky.social
Learning and teaching my language—Nishnaabemwin. Jijaak ndoodem. Consultant at Oodenaw.com. Award-winning short fiction author and poet. Developmental editor at DarlingAxe.com. Kidlit, YA, hist fic, women's lit. She/they
@afromantic.bsky.social
troublemaker, lovemaker, philosopher, fever dreamer, afromancer, black studies prof @uofmaryland, fellow @stanford. i'll teach you how to go mad without losing your mind. ✊🏾🌈 https://www.dukeupress.edu/how-to-go-mad-without-losing-your-mind
@atarbuck.bsky.social
Poet & academic. Author of ‘A Spell in the Wild'& 'Modern Craft'. Queer as a bent penny, likes the sea, silk stockings, an excess of green. 🏳️🌈 she/they.
@chronicillnessfc.bsky.social
An inclusive community, resource hub & mutual support for people w/chronic & invisible illness. Friendship & Digital hangouts! 📍SF #EDS #MCAS #POTS #MECFS #PMDD #AuDHD #PTSD Mental health advocate, indigenous #LGBTQIA+🍉 Sign up at the form below🤍✨
@cynthiamhoffman.bsky.social
Poet. Exploding Head (an OCD memoir in prose poems), Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones, Paper Doll Fetus, Sightseer. Essays in TIME, The Sun, Lit Hub. (she/her) www.cynthiamariehoffman.com
@katieam.bsky.social
Historical novelist, book lover & freelance writer/editor with ME/CFS. Currently writing about a 1930s spirit medium. 📚 CBC breakthrough mentee 2024 📚 MMA mentee 2022 https://linktr.ee/katieandersonmorrison
@littlebadger.bsky.social
Hi! I’m the bestselling author of Elatsoe & A Snake Falls to Earth & Sheine Lende. I <3 lifting heavy weights, playing video games, & writing stories. Sry I don’t check DMs. She/her. Lipan Apache.
@charlottelpoet.bsky.social
🌙Queer, disabled, poet ✨📖 seller @scarthinbooks 🌙Co-host of Rebel Riot Poetry ✨Metamorphosis with Verve Poetry Press 🌙Specialist Academic Notetaker 📝
@alpbeck.com
Writer and nightmare builder. Professional fibber. HWA geek. NYWIFT lurker. Accidental activist. Insomniac. I stay up all night writing, to keep you up all night reading. - I block all Crypto bros. No DMs. 🇺🇸 🇨🇦💙🏳🌈 AlpBeck.com - https://alpbeck.substack.com/
@hwany.org
We’re the horror and dark literature authors from the Tri-State area. Our chapter hosts meetings and local events. We are committed to the professional development and growth of our members. Find out more here: https://horror.org/ https://hwany.org/
@indrapramitdas.bsky.social
aka Indra Das, author of THE DEVOURERS and THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR, Lambda, Shirley Jackson & British Fantasy Award winner, Crawford Award finalist. he/they/she indradas.com
@vervepoetrypress.bsky.social
Prize-winning #Brum based poetry indie making high octane collections and vervey pamphlets. Related to @Vervepoetryfest (did you guess?) 😍 https://vervepoetrypress.com
@bullaunpress.bsky.social
New independent publisher. Ireland's first press dedicated to literature in translation. #artscouncilsupported
@sageravenwood.bsky.social
Deaf. Cherokee. Writer. My book ‘Everything That Hurt Us Becomes a Ghost’ is available from Gallaudet University Press. https://gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/E/Everything-That-Hurt-Us-Becomes-a-Ghost
@sfmontgomery.bsky.social
Author of HALFWAY FROM HOME, QUITE MAD, and three poetry chaps. Forthcoming craft book and flash nonfiction collection. Associate Prof. ♿🏳️🌈
@arvonfoundation.bsky.social
The Home of Creative Writing. Writing courses and retreats online and at three UK countryside homes. https://linktr.ee/arvon_
@oneaudhder.bsky.social
Queer, brown, disabled, and angry. In between bouts of raging about the state of things, I read books and play video games. #DisabledPeopleExist
@thestorygraph.com
An app for you to track your reading and choose your next book. Founded by @nodunayo.bsky.social. Built by her and @robfrelow.bsky.social. support@thestorygraph.com
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
Award-winning powerhouse publisher of SF 🚀 Fantasy 🧜♂️ Spec Fic ✨, and Horror 🧟 Part of Rebellion Developments 📚 https://linktr.ee/solarisbooks
@thellpsx.bsky.social
writer,The Future Is Disabled,Care Work,Bodymap,Dirty River co-ed w/@ejeris of Beyond Survival. transformative & disability justice structural engineer,1/3rd of http://cripsforesimsforgaza.org. older cousin w great tits & opinions,they/we brownstargirl.org
@annashelton.bsky.social
Mum of 3, teacher, writer, editor. My pamphlet was longlisted in the Disabled Poets Prize 2025. Poems in @AfterPoetry @PropelMagazine @Covenpoetry @streetcakemag @SidhePress Performed my song Black Fen Club Blues at the Cambridge Folk Festival.
@meemalee.bsky.social
One of the “coolest women in food” - Stylist magazine (no, they really did say this). Also writer, author of MANDALAY: Recipes & Tales from a Burmese Kitchen, tired af. https://linktr.ee/meemalee #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #MandalayBook
@miamingus.bsky.social
transformative justice. disability justice. pandemics. abolition. (she/her) https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com https://www.soiltjp.org
@nadmussen.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Chinese literature at Cornell, poet, translator. My current project is "On Stricture: Chinese Poetry and American Culture." More (incl links to open-access research) at nickadmussen.com.
@emmakersey.bsky.social
Disabled, queer, interdisciplinary artist living/dying for crip-led culture, access-centred activism, a free Palestine, Long COVID treatment, abolition, naps, and cats obviously #FreePalestine 🔻 #ACAB #LongCovid #DisabilityJustice she/they “australia” 🖤
@locusmag.bsky.social
Locus Magazine: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror. The Guide to the World's Imagination. https://locusmag.com
@finnwriter.bsky.social
ink slinger—word scribbler—poet—(bipolar disorder | anxiety | fibromyalgia ) inking my way out of a hole i dug || they/ them, queer. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️