The Lonely Crowd
Literary journal — thelonelycrowd.org
https://linktr.ee/thelonelycrowd
@hollypeckitt.bsky.social
PhD Creative Writing Student at Bangor University researching family sagas and genealogy in historical fiction. Fan of dogs, books, and Gilmore Girls
@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.
@arusbridger.bsky.social
Editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk / Former EiC the Guardian/ @reutersinstitute ARusbridger.com/ Speaking: karen@chartwellspeakers.com.
@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
@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. All 📸 mine, unless stated
@sheribenning.bsky.social
Writer | Field Requiem (Carcanet), The Season's Vagrant Light: New & Selected (Carcanet), et al. | Words in The Paris Review, The TLS, PN Review, Poetry Review, Brick, et al. https://www.sheribenning.com/
@itstomshiels.bsky.social
Writer, currently working as a comms manager in academic publishing. Interests include food, coffee, books and music. Irish living in Yorkshire. itstomshiels.substack.com
@machapress.bsky.social
attuned to marginal poetries: experimental, formally hybrid, intercultural or in translation, and recovered work: machapress.com
@thebookshopie.bsky.social
A Tipperary, Ireland based indie bookseller of new, old and inbetween books. Spend €20 & get free shipping ! Gaeilge agus fáilte. www.thebookshop.ie linktr.ee/thebookshop.ie https://www.instagram.com/thebookshop.ie/
@shannonsavvas.bsky.social
Winner: WTR Phyllis Grant Zellmer Prize for fiction 2023; Fish SS Prize 21/22, Cuirt NWP 2019, Flash500 (2019), Reflex FF (2018). Pushcart nominated 2020. Kiwi in exile. Heart all over the place.
@jenfalkner.bsky.social
she/her Author of SUSANNA HALL, HER BOOK (Fish Gotta Swim Editions) and ABOVE DISCOVERY (Invisible Publishing) Trying to learn Welsh, obsessed with standing stones linktr.ee/jenfalkner
@em-words.bsky.social
She/her. Words in The Forward Book of Poetry, Propel, Mslexia, Strix, Arachne Press & more. Redbubble: MenagerieGray 🌱FTA. Dyspraxia. Foxes.
@fuzzynick.bsky.social
Library manager. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️-reviewed short stories collection 'POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE' (Ad Hoc Fiction), available now from me or from your local Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Negative-Nick-Black/dp/1915247128/
@catrionashine.bsky.social
Writer, architect, occasional actor. Debut novel, Habitat, published March 2024 by the Lilliput Press http://bio.site/CatrionaShine
@karenjmcdonnell.bsky.social
Writer | Broadcaster | Bookish | West of Ireland This Little World, pub. Doire Press | Irish Poem of the Year 2021 shortlist | artscouncil.ie award | karenjmcdonnell.com
@colmgbrennan.bsky.social
Poet & Writer Poetry Ireland Review • The Waxed Lemon • Sonder • The Cormorant • Profiles • The Ogham Stone • Arts Council Literature Bursary • MA in creative writing from UL colmgbrennan.com
@maryodonnell.bsky.social
Fiction & poetry, I participate in lit fests & conferences. New short story collection 'WALKING GHOSTS' (Mercier) May 2025. NO DMs PLEASE
@pjordan-writer.bsky.social
* PhD, BBC Radio 4 & BBC Radio Ulster, Shortlist Bridport (etc). 50+ stories published. Working class, Autism & ADHD
@polyscribe70.bsky.social
Short story writer, delinquent poetry reader. @FictiveDream, @thelonelypress, @Confingo, @FragmentedVoic1, @structo, @nightjarpress, @saltpublishing polyscribe.co.uk
@ensfr.bsky.social
We aim to provide a forum and resources for European-based researchers into the practice, criticism and transmission of short fiction in its diversity of forms and to facilitate collaboration in both critical and practice-led research.
@durreshahwar.bsky.social
Writing/researching autofiction, creative praxis, hybridity, nature, language, moving image. Editor: Gathering @404ink.bsky.social. Rep @nurnbergagency.bsky.social
@julwe1.bsky.social
Neurodivergent poet and editor. Steering editor for 'Lighthouse'. Latest collection 'The Telling' (Nine Arches press, 2022). https://juliawebb.org/ https://visual-poetics.blogspot.com/ https://storymachines.co.uk/portfolio/lighthouse/
@nancyforde.bsky.social
(she/her) Writer/Documentary Photographer | all opinions here are my own | Settler in Kjipuktuk 🇨🇦📷 🇮🇪mamaí 🌈I dig with my pen/lens. MA Doc Photography & Photojournalism (2021) | MFA Creative Nonfiction (Class of 2026) b. 322ppm. linktr.ee/nancyforde
@lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social
Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction and art. https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/p/submission-guidelines.html
@michaelwaltersauthor.com
Literary genre fiction. North Yorkshire. Published by Salt. The Complex: https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/the-complex-9781784631628 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/michaelwaltersauthor Website: https://www.michaelwaltersauthor.com
@stewartcarswell.co.uk
mostly poet | Earthworks (2021, Indigo Dreams) & Knots and branches (2016, Eyewear) | no writer, yet he writes | always be within reach of a forest 🌐 linktr.ee/stewartcarswell
@niamhgarvey.bsky.social
Autistic Author Editor of Bestselling 'Wired Our Own Way; An Anthology of Autistic Irish Voices'. @newislandbooks Author of: 'Looking After Your Autistic Self' JKP For kids: 'Being Autistic (and what that actually means)' JKP She/her niamhgarvey.com
@marshallsmoore.bsky.social
Southern (American) writer academic gay guy living in Cornwall by way of Hong Kong and Korea. Immigrant. Recovering publisher. NCSSM87. I write books and essays and things. Horror-adjacent. Had a very excellent cat until recently. Hello. 🏳️🌈🇭🇰
@rhystimson.bsky.social
Writer and editor. https://rhystimson.wordpress.com. Stories in 3:AM, Liars' League, Popshot, Litro, Structo, Lighthouse, To Hull & Back, Retreat West
@chrissiegittins.bsky.social
Poetry Poetry for Children Short Stories Radio Drama Drawing
@alysconran.bsky.social
Writer. Novels 'Pigeon' (Parthian Books) & 'Dignity' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) Represented by Jenny Hewson Senior Lecturer @ Bangor Cymraeg, English, Català, Español.
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen' Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth' Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
@ryanwrites.bsky.social
Writes CNF & short fiction www.ryantpozzi.com Rep: The Anderson Literary Agency https://andersonliteraryagency.com Debut: The Mess That Made Them Appears in Across the Margin, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Villain Era, Northern New England Review, and elsewhere
@tomvowler.bsky.social
Word-botherer. Winner V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize 2024. www.tomvowler.co.uk Free 🇵🇸
@jaywulee.bsky.social
Actor.Writer.Promoter. PEN INTERNATIONAL (Young Peoples Representative for Wales)
@jtstories.bsky.social
Fiction: The Stinging Fly, Mechanics Institute Review, The Forge Literary Magazine, Litro, Shooter Literary Magazine, Fictive Dream, Lunate Literary Journal & elsewhere. Commended Bath Flash Fiction Award. Lifelong Newcastle United fan.
@susanrichardson.bsky.social
Nature writer & poet. Latest book 'Where the Seals Sing' (William Collins). 4th poetry collection shortlisted Ted Hughes Award. Lives on a cliff in the far west of Wales, making kin with the more-than-human world https://linktr.ee/susan_richardson_writer
@jeremyjenkins.net
Writer | Chocolatier | Baker | Gardener 🇫🇷 living in 🇬🇧 / AuDHD Latest recipes and chocolate shop: https://jeremyjenkins.net
@premthakker.bsky.social
reporter @zeteo.com Any tips or info you’d like to share? Signal premthakker.35 Prem@zeteonews.com https://linktr.ee/premthakker
@archelect.bsky.social
Aspiring writer, obsessive reader, amateur human. Home is the beautiful city of Oxford.
@arinsproject.bsky.social
Analysing and Researching Ireland North and South. Authoritative, independent & non-partisan research on constitutional, institutional & policy options for Ireland north & south. Neither pro or anti unification. arinsproject.com
@drdawnmiranda.bsky.social
┃Queen's University Belfast, Institute of Irish Studies ┃Public Diplomacy ┃Markievicz Award Winner, Arts Council of Ireland https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/46faa-film-music-theatre-and-traditional-arts-represented-among-markievicz-award-2023-recipients
@lisasticepoet.bsky.social
poet, mother, mil-spouse: author of 'Letters from Conflict,' 'Forces,' 'Permanent Change of Station,' 'Uniform,' 'Desert'
@serenbooks.bsky.social
Wales’ leading independent English-language publisher 📚 Winner Small Press of the Year Wales 2025 🏴
@channel-lit.bsky.social
Words that connect 🍃 Ireland's journal of ecological embeddedness, funded by the Arts Council.