Spireite. Grassroots football U16s coach. UEFA B licence. Francophile
Pushcart Prize Nominated. Cheshire Novel Prize SL‘25, Guppy Open Submission LL’25
Write Mentor Picturebook SL’23/LL’24
Poetry - The Dirigible Balloon, Northern Gravy, Tyger Tyger, The Toy, The Yorkshire Times, Motherhood Uncensored, LTP, BBC Upload.🏴
Dad, poet-type & editor of Black Nore Review (@blacknorereview.bsky.social). Birmingham City fan & Bristol Bears RFC season ticket holder. https://ben.banyard.wordpress.com
Poetry, Micro-poems, Nature, Walking, Reading. East Coast Canada. No DMs. Banner Photo by me.
Prize-winning poet, fiction writer, journalist and photographer. Author of 9 poetry titles, 2 novellas & a poetry-play. More at http://sarah-james.co.uk. Also, editor at V. Press, award-winning poetry & flash fiction. (Profile pic by Gary Carr.)
Poetry and flash fiction from Portishead, North Somerset every Monday and Thursday - https://blacknorereview.wordpress.com. Edited by @benbanyard.bsky.social
Poet, Quaker, retired teacher, socialist, runner (just) , proud Omi . She/her
“I didn't realise you wrote such bloody awful poetry” (The Smiths). Books include Lives Outgrown (Dancing Girl Press), Never Wear White (Alien Buddha Press), and Oracle of Snails (upcoming, Hedgehog Press).
Lorraine Caputo journeys through Latin America, listening to the voices of the pueblos and Earth.
Internationally published poet, travel writer and artist. Translator. Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee.
https://latinamericawanderer.wordpress.com
Poet Seabird Island @boatsagainstmag
UK: https://rb.gy/tra0bq / US: https://rb.gy/9hlhwt
www.iambapoet.com/wave/23-sarah-wallis
Frazzled Lit BOTN Nom - https://tinyurl.com/mry5pw8d
UNESCO Poet in Res, Skara 🇸🇪
Coming soon Gutter & Stand 2026
.. Ray Globe and David Harmer are the irrepressible Glummer Twins .. stand up spoken word comedy and music from the Beat Generation ..
From South Yorkshire, I've been a retired lecturer for a long time. I write songs/poetry and sing/recite them to eventually rule the world when nobody's watching!
Songs on YouTube if you're interested, but no rush! 😉
‘Those who find themselves ridiculous, sit down next to me.’
No DMs… please. ⛔️
Actor/Director represented by https://alexpriestleytalent.com/
Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
On a journey trying to find new worlds while sending joy into the ether.
Human 🎧 Shazam 🎧. Niche sports fan. Anti-racist. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️LGBTQ2S+ Supporter 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈. From Tkaronto.
She/her.
Co-curator of @womensart2.bsky.social with @tidbit.bsky.social.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Comedian, satirist, writer, actor
Smith|Doorstop Books • New Poets List • International Book & Pamphlet Competition • New Poets Prize • Writer Development Agency
https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/
Online poetry mag edited by @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social and @hollyannepoet.bsky.social
www.atriumpoetry.com
Sixty odd years old - Sixty Odd Press
zoomburst.substack.com sixtyoddpoets.substack.com
Our readers have understood the concept of Buyer's Remorse since 1979.
Buy the Profanisaurus or Subscribe here: https://lnk.bio/vizcomicofficial
MP for Birmingham Yardley
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
Composer, lyricist, author, broadcaster
Author, screenwriter, Lego builder. I’m @emmakennedy from the Bird Place.
Writer of fiction, poems, and arts journalism. Teacher and forever student.
Poet, one-time English language teacher, lives near his Bristol allotment. Two collections https://dominicfisherpoetry.co.uk/
Author of The Lunatics' Ball (Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press, forthcoming) and The Missing Girl (Black Lawrence Press). Longlist, Wigleaf Top 50. 9 Notables, Best American Essays, CNF Flash editor, CRAFT Lit Journal. www.jacquelinedoyle.com
Guitar with Blondie 50 years. Wrote those songs. Writer, photographer, animist etc
'Of what is past, or passing, or to come' 🌀
Pen name of Andrew Scott.
Bestselling author of Fake History, Fake Heroes and Notorious.
Represented by Pew Literary
Links:
https://linktr.ee/OttoEnglish
Old enough to know better. Still doesn't. Likes it that way.
Poet/stage manager/defiant square peg.
www.stevepottinger.co.uk
Thriving independent bookshop, coffee shop, event venue, safe community haven in Worcester, UK!
scripthavenltd@gmail.com
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/scripthaven
104 High St, Worcester, WR1 2HW
scripthaven.co.uk
Also on Insta, Facebook and Twitter!
#PerformancePoet, #playwright, #writer and #performer. 1/3rd of @pandemonialists.bsky.social. #AssociateArtist at Arena #Theatre, #Wolverhampton. #Discordian: Rev Tribble Flax #WorkingClassCreative #LGBTQI+ #Ally #Socialist #Woke #ActuallyAutistic
Poet / Lecturer / Socialist / Wellbeing / Editor of Rough Diamond poetry journal
love writing, reading, cats, learning, and sitting down.
Pandemonialising poetry in the Black Country since 2016.
We run poetry events, offer workshops, do commissions, and work closely with Wolves Lit Fest. And more.
Website: www.pandemonialists.co.uk
And on Substack: https://pandemonialists.substack.com/
Co-founder of North East for Europe
#FBPE
#RejoinEU
Pommelier Cider and beer SciFi Swimmer Man City
This is my fun account. 📚🐾🕊🏴
Work: Janes-Studio
Instagram: jane_cornwell_studio
Poet. Pushcart, Forward nominated.
This Joyful Interlude out now with @janes-studio.bsky.social 🕊️
UK link: amazon.co.uk/dp/1068432330
Vegan, BLM
Writer, Media, Druid, Experiencer, UAP, history nerd, family caregiver, disabled, Basic Income, lives in the PNW, USA. Plant More Native Trees everywhere. No DMs.
Let's write a better future. “Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." Rosa Luxembourg
linktr.ee/BenBruges
Irish poet living in Spain
Cacti & other poems
https://munsterlit.ie/bookshop/cacti/
Patrick Kavanagh Award 2021
http://iambapoet.com/wave-fourteen
Poetry, Art, Politics and Pedagogy
Poet, workshop facilitator, open mic host
Editor @funlovinliminals
President @greenockwritersclub
Board @federationofwritersscotland and Lapidus Scotland
Berserker!
Out now from all good bookshops, and bad ones, and ones in between.
Pushcart-nominated poet, scientist and children's writer. Yorkshire lass.
The Mechanics of Love | Smith Doorstop.
The Hawthorn Bride | Indigo Dreams
Alice Corrie Award winner 2025
Searchlight Awards PB shortlisted
WriteMentor Awards PB runner up
Every Friday we post a review or a feature on the website and on Substack, and send it to subscribers. 1796 subscribers, 7300 post reads in November.
Poet Over the Moon, Shadow Reader
✍️🏻 Poet, award-winning lyricist & educator
📚 3 full-length poetry books
📍 Leeds, UK 🦚 #lufc ♂️ He/him
🧠 ADHD 🎤 @livewirepoetry.org
🌐 mattabbottpoet.com
Your weird, AuDHD, trans auncle. Sometimes poems and stories, sometimes unsolicited info dumping.
I don't care if you talk about me as long as you do so using he/him or they/them pronouns.
Short fiction writer & poet. Feminist. Socialist. Northern England.
5 times Pushcart Prize nominated poet. Author of ‘Sent’, Fall’, ‘Benchwarmers’, ‘Unmuted’, Psychopathogen’ and ‘Saudade’ (all Hedgehog Poetry Press). 3 times shortlisted for the Saboteur Reviewer of Literature. Website: www.nigelkentpoet.wordpress.com
poet & author: latest books ‘Mrs Death Misses Death' 'Pessimism is for Lightweights' 'With Love, Grief and Fury' & ‘Springfield Road’
Substack:
https://salenagodden.substack
Links:
https://www.salenagodden.co.uk
Poetry scribbler, cricket lover, art appreciator living in the Midlands. (Not doing the Bluesky age verification protocols so please initiate any desired direct contact via open posting/tagging ( or by insta messaging) not via chat, thanks 😊)
Writer working across fiction, life writing, essays, non-fiction & poetry. Director @FaberAcademy • Founder #VanguardEditions • Editor #14magazine.
Most recent publication: ‘Crossing Paths’ (Poetry) (Black Cat, 2026).
She/her
MA Graduate in Creative Writing. Liverpudlian born, family saga novelist, short story writer, and poet. Paints pictures with words.
Member of RNA and ALLi
Poet. Writer. Reviewer. Swansea.
Poet ‘Love Me Do’ @saltpublishing.com Pamphlet under construction. Live on a wily windy moor. Gardening at 1300’ up. Remainer. Hate injustice. Girly swot. Never a Tory. I am LUCKY. Wind farms shouldn’t be built on protected peat.
Mancunian, Poet, Reader, Educator, Critic, UoM, Centre for New Writing. Collaborative pamphlet, The Words of Others are All We Have, Hedgehog Press, (2024). Collection, I Am Not Light, Black Bough Poetry (2025)
https://www.louisemachen.com
Stand-up poet. Radio 4’s The Verb regular. Northern, neurodivergent writer of Northernness and Neurodivergence. “On Sycamore Gap” & “Where There’s Muck There’s Bras” (Harper North). “Bigger on the Inside” (Smokestack).
Follow for poetry, random thoughts and new discoveries because poetry and the world is endlessly fascinating and I know nothing.
On tour now: www.holliepoetry.com/livedates
Poet, artist. Cholmondeley Award winner. Sixth Bloodaxe collection, 'Constructing a Witch' is a PBS Winter Recommendation. I make collage and shadowboxes from broken things. I shout poems at the moon about the dark.
Poet, Translator | RLF Reading Round Fellow | Tutor, Oxford University | Stephen Spender, UNESCO Bridges of Struga & Northern Writers 🏆 | Opinions own, etc. www.manmadebooks.co.uk || https://linktr.ee/harrymanoninstagram
How to make a Paper Grenade - Verve
In Orbit - Seren Books
Writer in Res - North Wales Wildlife Trust
poet, teacher, PhD student. Wild swimmer. Editor at Yaffle/Yaffle's Nest
Living, working and writing in The Yorkshire Dales
Generally creative (she/her) likes writing, reading, art and photography.
Published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press.
Scottish poet and musician
Bristolian. 6th collection, 'Love the Albatross', from Indigo Dreams Publishing. Letters after my name: BA, MA, AuDHD. She/her
https://theleapingword.com https://indigodreamspublishing.com/deborah-harvey
Poet. Loves a bacon sarnie.
York-based poet writing for both adults and children
Poet | Architect | Creative Writing facilitator at Wordbox | AuDHD
🏆 Arts Council Literature Bursary 2021
🏆 iYeats International Poetry Competition 2019
🏆 Poetry Business 2018 Laureate's Prize
www.thisiswordbox.com
https://linktr.ee/wordbox
Poet, artist & creative gardener. Collection In Between (our inner landscapes/relationships). Lefty, Quaker, environmental campaigner, worrier for our future.
Poet; lecturer; Victorianist; singer; Scottish dancer; nature lover; wine or tea, that is the question; the sea, the sea; land of the mountain & the flood.
Poet, writer, (col)lapsed academic (he/him). Work in: @badlilies.bsky.social, @propelmagazine.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
Writer and performer. Poetry in particular.
Books published: Turning, A Thousand Laurie Lees, The Soil Never Sleeps, Love and Other Fairy Tales. Slow Migrations coming soon from Indigo Dreams.
Writes poetry & short fiction. Latest is new collection ‘Out of Eden’. Pushcart and Best of Net nominated. 2024: Plaza Prose Poem 2nd, Patricia Eschen Award 3rd, won Metro poem Comp. Twice winner of Wildfire 150. Loves books,dogs, & crafting.
Poet, writer, editor, professor of Modern Literature & Creative Writing. Most recent poetry collection COME HERE TO THIS GATE (Carcanet, 2024). Co-editor of New Walk Editions. Views yours; likes/RTs=marriage proposals. OTBC🔰/COYP
Poet, author, Sheffield-er. Mountaineering literature specialist, running enthusiast, part time Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
PhD student at Hull University (she/her) 🦬🌳🦦🦫 Blue carbon storage in the Humber using rewilding and ecoengineering.
staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Green Party Member of the House of Lords. Environment, civil liberties, the ocean, and almost anything that interests me ...
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16
Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com
https://linktr.ee/jayrayner1
Writer, broadcaster, civil(sometimes) partner, mother, lesbian feminist, lover of libraries, vocalist with the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers. Once described as the ‘gobby shop steward of crime fiction’. Www.valmcdermid.com @quineofcrime on Insta
Guardian columnist. Presenter: BBC R4's The Long View, the Guardian's Politics Weekly America and Unholy, alongside Yonit Levi. Author: THE TRAITORS CIRCLE
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
Political Correspondent
ITV News Meridian 📺📡
📍Westminster | My views
Wales Rugby League | Rygbi'r Gynghraidd Cymru. The national governing body for rugby league in Wales. #CymruRL
The official Bradford Bulls Bluesky account.
#StrengthInNumbers
Confederation for the sport of Rugby League in Europe, Middle East & Africa, North & Central America and The Caribbean. #EuroRugbyLeague
🏉 #RugbyLeague in the UK! The Rugby Football League’s official Bluesky account. We’re also on Facebook | X | Instagram | Tik Tok. Follow for updates.