London’s Leading Poetry Magazine. Autumn 2023 Issue 106 OUT NOW.
https://poetrylondon.co.uk/
Author of 'The Attitudes' and 'My Shrink is Pregnant'. Strumming member of Fells and Such.
Poet, coach, healer, by the sea. Fairly short.
Flash fiction writer in 🇨🇦 | Highly Commended Bridport Prize and Finalist for New Millennium Writings 2025 | Stories in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Writers’ Hour, The Hoolet’s Nook, and elsewhere.
linktr.ee/adelegallogly
Writer of short fiction and dramatic monologue, connoisseur of cake, coveter of cats, lecturer of creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University.
https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/shelley-roche-jacques
Award-winning publisher of the best in contemporary poetry, from @livunipress.bsky.social. Not currently accepting submissions.
https://linktr.ee/pavilionpoetry
Publishing independently since 1929.
linktr.ee/faberbooks
Functions adequately.
New poetry published by Red Ogre, 'The Usual Apologies '
(https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DYVL2PZC )
Short story collection coming with Acid Bath Press later in the year. May contain smut.
Heritage, archaeology, cooking, art, fashion, Gaelic, Berneray. Ex-librarian, champion of orphan data sets. I have my books, and my poetry to protect me. 💙 NHS
I’m a chronically ill artist, writer and poet living in beautiful Orkney with a passion for folklore, myth and magic. Visit my website: www.ellenforkin.co.uk
A digital poetry journal, edited by @kathryngray.bsky.social and @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social Enjoy our blooms! badlilies.uk
Writer, poodle fancier, Australian in Scotland. Author of Earth Girls (2016) & The Round Ring (2021). Both Pitt Street Poetry.
Neurodivergent poet and editor. Steering editor for 'Lighthouse'. Latest collection 'Grey Time' (Nine Arches press, 2025).
https://juliawebb.org/
https://visual-poetics.blogspot.com/
https://storymachines.co.uk/portfolio/lighthouse/
Poet/Editor | Debut collection 'Mephistopheles' | longlisted for Scotland's National Book Award | Founding partner with off-page, Glasgow-based visual poetry practice | https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/mephistopheles-by-cd-boyland
https://scotlit-iassl.org | Promoting Scottish literatures globally
Scottish centre of @pen_int. Committed to promoting literature and defending freedom of expression. RTs ≠ endorsement. Join: http://bit.ly/201zvHC
Biannual journal, edited in Belfast, publishing writing from Ireland and overseas. Publisher of The Irish Pages Press. Edited by Chris Agee and Kathleen Jamie.
We are internationally renowned for our innovative undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research programmes in Culture and Heritage, Orkney and Shetland Studies, Highlands and Islands Literature, Scottish Heritage, Viking Studies and Island Studies.
Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Poet. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize for Literature with Reckless Paper Birds. Forward & Costa-shortlisted. Working-class writer. Next book: Crowd Voltage (Bloodaxe, March 2026). He/him. 🏳️🌈
Author of THE NORTH ROAD (2025) // COMMON GROUND (2015) // THE HEEDING (2021) // and others...
Writer // journalist // poet
Poet, Reader. Scots/Irish/Yorkshire. Supports St Mirren F.C. & Bradford City. A.F.C.
(You probably call me Remy.) Author / Poet.
This House, out now from @TheEmmaPress. In a previous life, I was shouting about books & authors to anyone interested.
Currently less shouty but still all about books and authors. I go outside sometimes.
Poems with The Emma Press | Monograph with Palgrave | Digital Exhibition at MoLI | Teaching Fellow at Edinburgh | personal account | she/her.
Writer & Poet
'Between the salt and the ash: a journey into the soul of Northumbria' (MUP, March 2025)
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175373/
A widely published poet, novelist and creative writing tutor, based near Skipton. Co-managing editor of Yaffle Press and Yaffle's Nest. Running and music take up much of my spare time. Website: www.markconnors.co.uk.
Poet, writer, editor, lecturer, RLF Advisory Fellow. Latest book - Neither Here Nor There - SurVision. 5 poetry collections and interests in nature, moss, birds, prose poetry and education annecaldwell.net
Poet shortlisted for Bridport and National Poetry competitions. First pamphlet about to be published. Teacher, Headteacher, Senior lecturer in education.
Poet - ‘What the House Taught Us’ Emma Press 2021. Member of ‘Café Writers’ Committee organising monthly poetry events live in Norwich and on Zoom.
Poet. Plums, raspberries, apricots. Recently in Asymptote, New Welsh Review, Finished Creatures, Cyphers. Troubadour Prize. Jt runner-up Keats-Shelley prize. He/him.
Poet (Healing the Pack, Verve Poetry Press 2024) Winner of RSL Jerwood Poetry Award for Wales 2024
BBC Radio Poetry Progs, Translation, Collaboration, Creative Facilitation, Cymres, Chapbook: Nôl Iaith (Cyhoeddiadau'r Stamp 2025)
Writer of many parts, but the heartland is poetry – head to https:/www.philipgross.co.uk to see the range of 40 years of writing life.
Poet and Producer based in Derby.
Founder of Salty/She Speaks and co-Director of Derby Poetry Festival. Trustee, Women's Football Fan, enjoy a convo about social-political themes, arts and theatre. Unapologetically Queer & LGBTQIA+.
Wanna be friends?
Poet and writer. Teaches at Exeter University and the Poetry School. PhD: intimacy and distance in Edward Thomas’s poetry. Published in most leading magazines.
http://www.suzanneconway.co.uk.
Image from the Edward Thomas archive at Cardiff University.
Sheffield Poet Laureate 2024-6. The Pretence of Understanding published 2023 by The Poetry Business. Librarian by day. Appreciator of pretty skies and dogs in little coats.
Just me and words.
Link to bookshop: https://linktr.ee/nickallenpoet
Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award for poetry, 2024. Lecturer at UHI Shetland. Anthropologish. Teaches on MA Art and Social Practice etc. From (the real) Newcastle, County Down.
https://www.siuncarden.com
Poet. Theatre Maker. Arts Educator. Stirling Makar. Kevin P. Gilday & The Glasgow Cross. Probably on holiday.
www.kevinpgilday.com
Scottish poet, fiction writer, editor, plantsman, musician, ex-librarian and information scientist.
Poet, author and community organiser
#Debone&Fold out now with @brokenspinearts.bsky.social
Representing Wales 24-25. Words in @classworkproject.bsky.social @icefloepress.bsky.social linktr.ee/sigriffiths
Poet. PhD on the Ecopoetics of Robert Frost. Waterfalls and fell walking. Wrestling fan.
Poetry. Films. Photographs. Plays. Novels. Images my own unless a repost. Writing in English/Ulster-Scots. I chase words and the light. Available on tour, in books and on BBC Radio/TV. New work autumn 2025. Never too many cats.
Derry girl, Dorset woman. Debut Poetry Collection (Cinnamon Press) 2025, Arts Council Award 2024. Website: gillmbarr.wixsite.com/gillbarr
Poems 'The Grief of The Sea' @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social + 'New Poetries VIII' @carcanet.bsky.social / Head of UK Sales @headofzeus.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social / Grow veg 🌱
jenniferedgecombe.weebly.com
Visitor, scriever, ex-prof/-makar/-you name it, loser. Still seeking your poems for endlessly subdividing online/print projects: Ghost Furniture Catalogue; New Boots and Pantisocracies (Art Sonnet Chain); New Gude & Godlie Ballatis (Dundee Renga), etc.
Editor of @themilkhouse.bsky.social, author of novel The Beasts They Turned Away and memoir Barn Gothic from @IslandPress.bsky.social.
An Tobar and Mull Theatre Cafe and Gallery will re-open 3 March 2025 then Mon-Fri 10am-4pm. Serving soups, coffees, teas, cold drinks and snacks.
https://www.antobarandmulltheatre.co.uk/
A home for working-class readers and writers
https://thebeemagazine.com
poet, professor, ecofeminist
https://www.kathrynkirkpatrick.org/
Some atoms in the shape of an elongated hominid. Poems. Writing reviews for KLOF mag. Buy my book here https://www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/product-page/%C6%A8-tom-blake
Cardiff based Poet, Writer, Academic 'Octopus Mind' (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
Associate Professor of English Literature at @micireland.bsky.social
Poems @eatthestorms.com @thebelfastreview.bsky.social @theargylelitmag.bsky.social @hogriverpress.bsky.social @juniperpoetry.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
poet
MadVerse.com
linktr.ee/jdnelson
poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder Denver Colorado
Christus Super Omnia ☩
Poet, writer, editor/judge with The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press. Lives in the UK.
Dabbles in Flash Fiction, speculative genres. Writing a novel. Mini poetry pamphlet out in late 2026.
Poet. 🇺🇸 immigrant in 🇳🇴 Writing something every day, even if it’s bad. My work is available in Rattle: Poetry, The Brussels Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, and others. My poetry has also been featured on Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield
possible poet.
Lucky enough to be published by
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social @theemmapress.bsky.social @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social @finishedpoetry.bsky.social etc
Poet. Appearing in anthologies including Faber, Broken Sleep and Against the Grain. Published by Seren, BLER and Against the Grain. Recent work up at BerlinLit, the Manchester Review and Finished Creatures. https://share.google/24BDXUZwrWpPLfE7O
Senior Lecturer in Heritage & MSc Heritage Programme Director, University of Stirling. Own views. UK / NZ. Museums, ethnography, emotional labour, collecting, methods. https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/265599
Occasional writer of poetry; counsellor & psychotherapist; interested in more things than I have time for. Based in Strathspey in the Scottish Highlands.
https://www.tonikeartoncounselling.co.uk/
Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out 9 April in UK / 9 June in US (pre-order at the link below!) 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doc
Kids:
Minou Moonshine 2023/ Sam Singh 2024 @zephyrbooks.bsky.social
Poetry:
Empirical 2026
@thebraag.bsky.social
Siren 2022 @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
A Terrible Thing 2020
Bad Betty Press
https://linktr.ee/gitaralleigh
Mom, consultant in palliative medicine, Gaeilgeoir, pulmonary capillaritis. Interested in: whole person care, narrative-based medicine. Poems featured in @closler.Bluesky.social, Sparks of Calliope, Pocket Fiction, The Afterpast Review etc
Professor of Historic Environment Management at Heriot-Watt University. #heritage #tourism #archaeology #experience For some reason the business school employed an archaeologist. Does governance and committee things with various heritage organisations.
Poet. Shelley Memorial Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, Guggenheim Fellow, NEA Fellow. Books available through @graywolfpress.bsky.social.
Poetry, Sex, Music, Food, Politics. 🏳️🌈
http://poets.org/poet/d-powell
Founded in 1974, Graywolf Press publishes risk-taking, visionary writers who transform culture through literature.
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
Freelance writer, novelist, performance poet and lover of all things Black Country. Editor of The Blackcountryman magazine. One third of Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists.
Poet, scientist, artist. Lifelong Science Fiction fan. SFPA. My debut pamphlet ‘Messages from the Road’ is available from Palewell Press. https://palewellpress.co.uk/bookstore/lost-wellbeing/mftr/
A free spirit. Also crime writer & co-founder of the @BloodyScotland international crime writing festival.
Twitter: Lin_Anderson
Instagram: LinAndersonWriter
Threads: LinAndersonWriter
Web: http://www.lin-anderson.com
(I don't use Bluesky for DMs)
I was brought up to treat others as I would be treated myself. Apparently that’s called ‘woke’ these days and to be despised.
He/Him
✍️Author & Speaker | Exploring love + possibility in caring services
💡 Background in health & social care
❤️ Helping staff deliver compassionate care without burnout
🌟Empowering teams to feel their best while giving their best and speaker.
Heritage, Archaeologist, solidarity, she/her - hoping for more kindness, often anxious and sharp. Professionally garrulous. Living in Cardiff. Ageless, so no DMs
Place-names, maps, languages dgplacenames.wordpress.com
auldnorse.wordpress.com/owersettins/
poet, teacher, PhD student. Wild swimmer. Editor at Yaffle/Yaffle's Nest
Living, working and writing in The Yorkshire Dales
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
Prize-winning flash & short story writer in the Scottish Highlands. Words in Longleaf Review, Fictive Dream, TBQuarterly +BBC Scottish Voices. Presents Sherry's Shorts on Highland Hospital Radio: https://bit.ly/4kUFZYq Published work: Uksherka.com
famous Welsh poet in English language 1913-2000
“…catching this / one truth by surprise / that there is everything to look forward to…”
#RSThomas #poetry #barddoniaeth
📍 yng Nghymru, wrth gwrs
facebook.com/groups/RSThomas/
Flash fiction, short stories and longer fiction. YA ms going out on submission. Rep: Al Guthrie, The North Literary. 2026 Scriever for the Federation of Writers (Scotland).
Author of memoir Call Mother a Lonely Field. Haiku poet (first collection Belfast Twilight just published by Salmon Poetry). Director of IMRAM Féile Litríochta Gaeilge/Irish-language Literature Festival.
Independent publisher.
fitzcarraldoeditions.com
🏞 Taking the long way round.
🎶 Joining the dots between people, places & music.
🙃 Occasionally contrary. Often perplexed.
Folk & Roots | Folklore | Lover of Trees | Night Sky | Books | Wildlife
Publisher of Glass Chapbook Series, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Crucible: An Online Reading Series. Subs always free. Posts by anthonyframe.bsky.social
www.glass-poetry.com
Glass Poets Starter Pack: https://go.bsky.app/EicS1Aa
Writer/poet/optimist. Rep'd by @bigjcowen. THE SHIPWRIGHT AND THE SHROUDWEAVER OUT NOW from Gollancz. Acad. work with Bloomsbury Politics. They/them.
https://linktr.ee/RafaelTorrubia
Scottish writer. Not sure about this at all.
Professor Emeritus of Sustainable Rural Development at the University of the Highlands and Islands. Islander, Scot, & European. Anything relevant to birds, geology, ecology & landscape, human ecology. Also Gaelic/Celtic culture, history & archaeology.
Independent researcher & collaborator in the Scottish Highlands, working on role of cultural heritage in nature recovery & climate action. Here to seek out & share glimmers of more hopeful futures. ✍️Substack: https://substack.com/@mairimcfadyen
Trust of the first Scottish poet laureate, Edwin Morgan.
Poet, novelist, short story writer, social worker.
Latest book: Belfast to Baillieston (Red Squirrel Press, 2023) www.charliegracie.scot
Poet, nature-lover, community gardener, scone-baker and medical statistician.
I run Edinburgh school of poets, and have two wonderful grown up kids.