writing + paintings here, there + all over the place | DOMESTICATED CREATURES coming Aug 2026 | James Tate Poetry Prize | Pushcart, BoTN + Best Microfiction noms | Best Small Fictions 2025
Paintings, books + other writings: thaddevassie.com
Academic Libraries
Open Education
Social Justice
Technology Systems
Artificial Intelligence
And so on...
Filmmaker / Writer / Visual Poet
Capturing what moves me, breaks me, remakes me.
Posting thoughts, films, dreams, and whatever won’t leave me alone.
🎞️ mojmrtzvi.com
✍️ Essays on Substack https://substack.com/@mojmrtzvi?r=22uyqp&utm_medium=ios
I take up space, even when the world says I shouldn’t.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. 💙
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
Writer, caregiver, crone, that kinda gal. Work @ Event, The New Quarterly, Rust & Moth, American Lit Review, anti-heroin chic, Gone Lawn, Full Mood &&&
❡ Poet, teacher
❡ St Paul MN
❡ inventions (above/ground 2026)
❡ Vessels (Unsolicited 2024)
❡ This Folded Path (above/ground 2023)
❡ Mostly offline for the ’25–’26 school year
❡ Blog: www.letterspace.org
❡ Homepage: www.robertvanvliet.com
❡ Abolish ICE
I'm what you call shy - William Steig/me
Debut book forthcoming with @invisibooks.bsky.social
Words in Brick, CV2, Fractured Lit, Grain, and the Literary Review of Canada
making lives better, making better lives, for everyone. retired #mentalhealth professional #haiku #peace #writingcommunity #buddhism #pagan #longcovid. old. they/she.
unceded, traditional, ancestral musqueam, squamish & tsleil-waututh lands aka vancouver.
I think I'm getting smarter
birdsandbeesandblooms.com
Poet. Yukoner. Knitter. Book hoarder. Author of Northerny (University of Alberta Press, 2024). Reviewing older books alongside new stuff at https://reviewsofbooksigotforfreeorcheap.substack.com/
Creativity | Dialogue and civic engagement | Community resilience | Arts and coffee Friday mornings @ CKCUFM.com
Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust) / Ed-at-large, Pen and Anvil Press, MA / Afterbody, Blue Diode Press, Edinburgh: tinyurl.com/afterbodybluediode
Poet, music distro, cultural worker, abolitionist, educator. Benefitting from occupied indigenous land. Sissy vegan for spaceship Earth.
A luminous space for listening
Each month: one poet, one moment
Hosted by Kyeren Regehr
7th Poet Laureate of Victoria
www.kyerenregehr.ca/poetlaureatepodcast
Recorded at Haus of Owl on lək̓ʷəŋən homelands (Victoria BC)
New to this platform!
Literary Poet (author of Cult Life)
www.kyerenregehr.ca
Artistic Director of Planet Earth Poetry
www.planetearthpoetry.com
Host of The Poet Laureate Podcast
@poetlaureatepdcast.bsky.social
7th Poet Laureate of Victoria (2025-2027)
Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9
Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Vf4w9Ze38rLniADBEGKSp?si=AcWduGX
Author: Forgetfulness, My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat, Night Window, New York Hotel (TLS Book of the Year), Makers of Empty Dreams. Translator: Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob, Gëzim Hajdari, Ivano Fermini. www.ianseed.co.uk
Part Gucci part intestinal parasite, Ethel publishes handmade chapbooks, sewn with sword and talon since 2018.
www.ethelzine.com
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Poet - Mom - Reader - Tree Hugger - Bird Watcher - Mushroom Hunter.
Poet | Editor (he/him)
Author of My Breath Floats Away from Me (FutureCycle Press, 2022). Associate poetry editor @okaydonkey.bsky.social
https://ericedits.wordpress.com
Working with (or have worked with) indie presses including KERNPUNKT, Black Herald, Shearsman, Carcanet, PN Review, Sublunary Editions, CB editions, Stone Corpse, Hanuman, Vanguard & more!
Founding Director: Vik Shirley
@vikshirley.bsky.social
Tiny poems & strange fictions // 🚫🤖 // EIC at @pizamapress.bsky.social // books w. X-R-A-Y & Okay Donkey // writing prompt every Sunday via Substack (neonpajamas)
Poet, Teen Writers Fellowship Poetry Teacher (The Muse Writers Center), Poetry Staff Reader for Quarterly West
poet. queer. dirt-farmer. trailer-trash. they/them
unceded Wolastoqiyik/Mi'gmaw territory
work currently or forthcoming in: ARC Poetry, Queen's Quarterly, Touch the Donkey, The Temz Review, Talking About Strawberries All The Time, and elsewhere.
Indie press showcasing the strange & the surreal. The weirder, the better. https://asterismbooks.com/publisher/pizama-press | Editor: neonpajamas.bsky.social
i make things in time and space mainly with objects, like words.
www.jdpluecker.com
Learner, listener, poet.
https://marianchristiepoetry.net/
Writer | Chicago | Work in HAD, X-R-A-Y, Wigleaf + more | Pushcart Prize and BotN nom | Best Microfiction ‘24, '25, '26
https://elenalzhang.wordpress.com/writing/
Poet, teacher, music nerd | Chapbook: 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘋𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘰𝘯 via Pinhole Poetry, Spring 2026 | Poems in CV2, The Malahat Review, QWERTY, ROOM, Crab Creek Review, The New Quarterly.
| BLM 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉🌻 | jessicaleemcmillan.com
My novel, Skin Hunger, is coming in 2026. In the meantime, my latest poetry books are Openwork & Limestone (2022) & Light-carved Passages (2024). Prairie-raised author of Seeking Shade (stories 2020), Tower (novella 2018) etc.
www.francesboyle.com
writer, assistant professor | poetics, media, public sphere | andrewmichaelgorin.info, organismforpoeticresearch.org
Person living in Winnipeg/Treaty 1 territory. Winsome combo of giddy farm girl, smartass former punkette, & intransigent pseudo-intellectual. Love the show, Steve. Hello to Jason Isaacs. New novel coming soonish. Interwebs: suesorensen.net
The Least Important Man (poems), Army of the Brave and Accidental (a novel), editor: Best Canadian Essays
https://boydwords.wordpress.com
Representing the range and diversity of writers' voices, Allium publishes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry - from traditional to experimental.
allium.colum.edu
Defending freedom of expression and promoting literature worldwide since 1921.
Northampton Poetry Review. A literary journal of poetry and writing from Northamptonshire, UK
https://linktr.ee/npoetryreview
Author. Podcast host of Stardust and Courage. Intuitive coach for creative people.
poet. nerd. performer. critic. phd in poetry and brain injury.
located in Ōtepoti Dunedin. from Canada.
Poet & perambulator. Unruly in queer suburbia, living on unceded Kaurna land. Out now: Acrobat Music: New & Selected Poems (Puncher & Wattmann). Also: Wild Curious Air, A History of What I'll Become, Viva The Real, and others
poet | Derelict Bicycles (Anvil Press, 2022) | creative humanities | environmental humanities | she/her
Writer and poet, environmental and climate justice advocate. https://www.allisoncobb.net/
SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at @siatsfu.bsky.social
PhD in Art and Biotech, UWA (Aus).
I work with menstrual stem cells + bioprinting.
whitefeatherhunter.ca
The Witch in the Lab Coat / BioartCoven #witchesinlabs ☣️
Spandex-free cycling enthusiast.
Poet, organizational consultant, researcher, and author
Publishing fiction, poetry, essays, interviews and reviews. Proudly awarding The Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence.
https://linktr.ee/ex_puritan
Coach House Books is an independent Canadian publisher of poetry, fiction, drama & nonfiction. Good on paper since 1965. https://linktr.ee/chbooks
Surreal absurd stories. Irish. Author of Dream Dust (Broken Sleep Books). Recent stories in Maudlin House, Broken Antler, Bending Genres, Your Impossible Voice, and others. Co-edits Surreal-Absurd Mercurius Mag. www.nevermindthebeasts.com
Writer, gardener, librarian. She/Her
artist, writer, professor. writing, making art & teaching in and thru collapse. intense biophillic desire, lover of all species. we breathe together. ✨🌱🌸🌈✨
Poetry, fiction, song lyrics, music-theater. Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete, Dustblown Side of the Journey, Wavelengths of Your Song and forthcoming Rush of Wingspan (2026, MQUP).
https://eleonoreschonmaier.com
“When you have no facts, the only government that can survive is a dictatorship.” —Maria Ressa
Writer, mom, here to stay informed in our currrent hellscape. http://www.rachelmoritz.com
they/them queer writer, author of knot body (2020) and The Good Arabs (2021) and editor of El Ghourabaa (2024)
Leading 🇨🇦 indie publisher of LGBTQ2S+ & BIPOC stories | Literary fiction, non-fiction, graphic novels, poetry, and YA & children’s books 📚🏳️🌈
arsenalpulp.com
Writer, teacher, editor.
Chair, The Writers' Union of Canada
The Donoghue Girl (Latitude 46, 2024)
The Pollination Field (Turnstone, 2025)
www.kimfahner.com
he/him | il * transmasc poet & community organizer * bec & call w/ Nightwood Editions 2018 * former Fredericton poet laureate * 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
TV writer/novelist. My latest books: No Credit River, Wild Failure, & The Fake. The Best Kind of People was shortlisted for The Giller Prize. Canadian Screen Award winner. Available to staff on your TV show. https://linktr.ee/Zoewhittall
Senior editor at The Tyee. Author of the essay collections Hearty: On Cooking, Eating and Growing Food for Pleasure and Subsistence (ECW Press) & Like a Boy but Not a Boy (Arsenal Pulp). Co-editor of the BC bestselling Points of Interest.
Writer, performer, facilitator, somatic coach & dreamer. Author of FIERCE FEMMES & NOTORIOUS LIARS, I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE, FROM THE STARS IN THE SKY TO THE FISH IN THE SEA, and FALLING BACK IN LOVE WITH BEING HUMAN. https://linktr.ee/kaichengthom
Writer/Prof/Other. They/Them. Fantasy, queer medievalism, 18thc shenanigans, YA lit, disability and neurodiversity. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/jbattis
Writer, storyteller, performer. Author of Care Of, Tomboy Survival Guide, Rebent Sinner and 10 other books. Kindling chopper, berry picker, snow shoveler, Yukoner. I like to build things. PLAYLIST is the name of my new show. www.ivancoyote.com
SWOLLENING (2022, Arsenal Pulp Press) | Treaty 6. | they/them | http://jasonpurcell.ca
Pre-eminent unknown trans writer and Grendel’s emergency contact. Call me Jes. [They/She]
📚: BAD HOUSES, MY VOLCANO, VANISHING MONUMENTS, JUNEBAT
Next: GUEST SERVICES AT THE MUSEUM OF SEXUAL DEVIANCE (novel, spring 2028).
linktr.ee/jestintzi
writer, editor, creative writing instructor | she/they |
author of If I Were in a Cage I'd Reach Out for You (Nightwood, '16) & Renaissance Normcore (Nightwood '19)
working on: cnf, fiction, poetry
That writer performer filmmaker radical faerie professor curator consummate host and adorable gender-radical queerdo guy.
haunted swamp femme, PhD // author of sulphurtongue (2021) & antibody (2025) // (she/they) 🇨🇴🤎🇵🇸
i’m like sorta a writer, sorta a dream girl (evil), i’m like kinda bisexual but like a whole lot crybaby. i’m pretty & some of u will have a crush on me & that’s okay, i’m just emotionally unavailable unless ur also bisexual // from SCN 🧡
FAIRY (Fall 2026) kirbyfairy.ca POETRY IS QUEER @palimpsestpress.bsky.social SHE #KFB THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF #PermanentSleep Publisher @knifeforkbook.bsky.social
https://alightzachary.com/
Award-winning author of fiction/poetry/memoir/criticism. Editor. Journalist. Columnist. Professor. Forthcoming novel is titled little girls. Niagara child.
Author of poetry chapbook ZIPLESS (845 Press), finalist for two Bisexual Book Awards. Chinese Canadian. Banff Centre and Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio alum. Tin House ‘25. she/her/hers
Vancouver, Canada
linktr.ee/cat_writes_604
t4t butch lesbian & cultural worker. 1v1 me or organize with me (ask me about national democracy in the philippines and/or youth harm reduction in toronto!)
she/her, 32 🔞
Poet and human. 3rd collection, ‘House Anthems’ out now with Valley Press. Studying PHD at the University of Huddersfield. Editor at www.northerngravy.com
Poet, essayist. Author of 'Findings', 'Sightlines', 'Surfacing' and 'Cairn'. Erstwhile National Poet of Scotland. Terrible at art, alas. What else? Today is all low winter sun and jackdaws.
poet, musician, place writer, beachcomber / edgelander, sarahlander, north briton / middle-aged enby babe / legacy fan / high-functioning anxiety doughnut / chive lying flat / wrongly tagged as twee
Sheffield
they/them please, ta 💖
petegreensolo.com
poet . sound artist . fiction maker . re- thinker . speaks and writes . in various ways . walker . balancer . stroller . climber ...
Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis.
https://longbarrowpress.com
Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: stuart@brokensleepbooks.com | Founded: 2018
Website: brokensleepbooks.com
Poet. Parent. Plant eater.
Writer, Lake-swimmer, Bookseller.
FRSL
hEDS/Haemochromatosis/all the comorbs
she/her
rep @PortyLiterary
Basic Nest Architecture
Much with Body
Recovering Dorothy
Some Of Us Just Fall
The Company of Owls
https://linktr.ee/pollyatkin
Spoken word poet, novelist, poetry filmmaker. Professor of Creative Enterprise, co-director of Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival. Loves trees.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0034P8U64
https://canceralleyproject.com
https://thebookofhours.org
Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Professor of Creative Pedagogies | Poet | Game Designer | Slow AI
#SciComm #HigherEd #Poetry #GenAI
https://theslowai.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/sam.illingworth
Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
Poet/Writer/Editor. PhD Dark Humour and the Surreal. Some Deer (Broken Sleep) Strangers Wave: Joy Division Photo Poems (zimZalla) & Corpses (Sublunary Editions). Persona Digitalia forthcoming w/PhotoWorks. Co-edits Surreal-Absurd @ Mercurius Magazine. 🪩 👻
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. Crepuscular/ Chaucerian/ enamoured of rot.
Read more of other people’s poems, that’s all I’m saying. Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. Published by the magnificent Longbarrow press. I share a house through the summer with nesting swifts. Podcast:
https://twowaypoetry.podbean.com/
Biannual online eco-poetry magazine. Edited by Kristian Evans and Zoe Brigley, with Taz Rahman, Sian Melangell Dafydd, and Glyn Edwards. http://ModronMagazine.com
London’s Leading Poetry Magazine. Autumn 2023 Issue 106 OUT NOW.
https://poetrylondon.co.uk/
Welsh poetry press based in Swansea with a focus on imagist poetry. Edited by Matthew M C Smith
Poet, performer, wage slave, dog slave, mum. Has somehow been put in charge of Trowbridge Poetry Stanza. Collection ‘Split, Twist, Apocalypse’, Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2022.
artist, writer, researcher, fossil hunter, PLA licensed mudlarker, and lecturer in the School of English at University of Leeds https://luckysoap.com
Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize winner 2023, ‘Backalong’ out now with Bloodaxe. Poet in Residence at Painshill Park with ACE. Co-Head of English. Brass bander. Somerset sonneteer. Cheese fan. Hi!
I'm a husband, dad and reader & writer of poems, from Ireland. I have poems in various journals and a couple of published pamphlets. You can buy them here https://niallmoliverpoetry.bigcartel.com/
Poet & writer ✍️ sharing words to wash the worries away, find the 🌈through the heaviest rain☔. Even in the darkest of days, Hope Gently Whispers you could try again. (Mum to an Angel, and Author of Finley's Footprints 👣)
Poet, teacher and co-host of Rise Up!
Northern Writers’ Award: Debut Poet.
York, UK
Some words: https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/scorpion 🦂