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Best writing and poetry festivals to submit to each day on submittable.
https://wildsoundwritingfestival.submittable.com/projects
Poet - New book Something In Nothing out in Feb 26, previous books Owl Unbound (published by Indigo Dreams Pub) and Fool's Paradise (Black Eyes Pub). Cheltenham Poetry Festival Online organiser. Website: https://www.zoebrookspoet.co.uk
Writing psychological short fiction with a twist in the tale. Comments on my work more than welcome 🐻❄️
An award-winning hub for creativity and the arts in the Outer Hebrides. We're a multi arts venue – at one and the same time a contemporary art gallery, theatre, cinema, dance studio, concert hall, platform for poetry & literature, studio and cafè/bar.
Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
Cumbrian. Poet. Latest collections: Jardiniere. River Talk - HedgehogPress. What Love Is Feb 2026 ✨️
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.🏴
The Times Literary Supplement. Subscribe here: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/buy
Welsh poet and writer in exile on Tyneside. Poems in Anthropocene, Dreich, The Ekphrastic Review, Impossible Archetype, These Pages Sing and elsewhere including Broken Spine’s Coffeehouse podcast. Stories in Gwasg Honno anthologies
Poet, reviewer, short story writer based in Leicester, UK. No DMs unless I know you IRL.
Writer. Journalist. Mother. Amazon no. 1: The Process of Poetry. The Making of a Poem. Features and author interviews in The Guardian, The Independent, The Weekend Australian, SMH and Salon.com
Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
Always open for submissions (guidelines on our website)
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
Independent publisher of contemporary poetry since 2008, home of Under the Radar magazine. Made in the Midlands.
https://ninearchespress.com/
Just poetry. Digital UK-based poetry magazine.
New, international and marginalised poets always welcome.
Edited by Catherine Redford and Tara Wheeler
http://dustpoetry.co.uk
We are Frazzled Lit! 🥓 🔥
Looking for Flash, Poetry, CNF and Prose.
Eds @lozzawriting.bsky.social and @jmcm.bsky.social
www.frazzledlit.com
https://ko-fi.com/frazzledlit
socials by Laura
🇬🇧🏴🇮🇪 Edinburgh/Dublin
Poetry place-the World's 1st Poetry Pharmacy prescribing poetry & more in Bishop's Castle & Oxford Street, London. Poetry on Prescription since 2012
Www.poetrypharmacy.co.uk
Welsh poetry press based in Swansea with a focus on imagist poetry. Edited by Matthew M C Smith
Poetry magazine edited by Tom Bailey and Laurie Ogden.
www.andotherpoems.com
One-woman press based in Berlin. EIC @missyerem.bsky.social
https://sidhe-press.eu Trans rights are human rights.
Free Palestine!
A literary magazine from the edge of the sea. Edited by @SebReilly.com. Buy #SeasideGothic Issue 13 now!
seasidegothic.com
Poetry. Seen and heard. Four times a year. Enjoy new and previously published work from established and emerging talent.
Every poem read by its author. iamb.uk
iamb.uk/index/wave-24-winter-2025
Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis.
https://longbarrowpress.com
Quarterly print literary magazine & small book press in the Philly 'burbs. Founder & EIC Jeff Bogle. linktr.ee/StanchionZine
the engine(idling is an online literary magazine for the restless. unique themed issues.
www.engineidling.net
EIC Danielle McMahon (@dehm000.bsky.social)
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
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
A literary magazine for the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. Flash fiction & poetry that may or may not contain animals. 🫏
Est. May 2018.
Mag: okaydonkeymag.com
Newsletter: okaydonkeymag.beehiiv.com
Discord: discord.gg/H59VjYGfas
Open for submissions. Sharing poems that find a seam and take root. EIC @leepottspoet.bsky.social. Member CLMP. https://stonecirclereview.com/
Lit journal, cellar door knocker, sic semper tyrannis. Open for poetry submissions March 1st - 20th!
www.rustandmoth.com
www.duotrope.com/listing/13546/rust-and-moth
In the heart of literature since 1939. journal | workshops | fellowships
https://linktr.ee/KenyonReview
Multi award-winning poet /screenwriter | Winner Broken Spine's Reader’s Choice Award 2025 | Winner Loft Books Poetry 2024 | Winner HoHx2, Waltham Forest & FofHCS | Second Shelley Memorial & N2tS 2024 | Nominations BoNx2, Forward Prize & Children's Bafta
WRITER:
Sampler (Black Cat Press, 2027)
'Searchlight Seasons' (Atomic Bohemian, 2024)
HEXING THE 💩 OUT OF MY GRID:
@north_sea_navigator
campsite.bio/northseanavigator
Poet- place and inheritance, Cardiff Wales
Bridport shortlist. Poems: Poetry Wales, Propel, IS&T, Iamb, Atrium, Fly on the Wall, Black Bough, Broken Spine, Ice Floe….
https://linktr.ee/marcellenewbold
Latest full-length poetry collection (Parlyaree Press), mini-pamphlet (Atomic Bohemian, in 2026) | Co-founder/host of Kiss The Sky poetry night (Bristol) | Poems in The Rialto, Magma, Prole | Oxford | https://linktr.ee/bychriscampbell
Poet / Lecturer / Socialist / Wellbeing / Editor of Rough Diamond poetry journal
love writing, reading, cats, learning, and sitting down.
Pushcart Prize nominated, award-winning poet. 4th collection "The How in the World" winner of Hedgehog Poetry Press' "Proper Poetry Pamphlet prize" NOW AVAILABLE https://witchbottlepoetry.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/the-how-in-the-world/
genderqueer genrefluid writer of things #pwME 🏳️🌈🇪🇺📚
Latest book: Solitary Hotel 🖤 Check links for all the others!
Co-editor of https://effable.uk
https://linktr.ee/jpseabright
https://jpseabright.com
Writer of fiction and poetry, lives in a green fortress. Not interested in 'communities'. Learn to live together, the rest of the natural world manages to.
Visit my Substack https://substack.com/@janedougherty47 for short fiction and poetry
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
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
Pushcart nominated, published writer pouring words in the Scottish Borders
York-based poet writing for both adults and children
IN THE BLUEPRINT OF HER IRIS (IceFloe Press)
WHERE SANDS RUN FINEST (DarkWinter Press)
Bridport Prize 2025 S/L
Pushcart, Forward Prize, BOTN, Best Spiritual Lit nominee
Contributing Ed: The Winged Moon
Guest Ed: IceFloe Press
linktr.ee/vikki_c._author
Cyclist-Photographer-Writer-Teacher
Debut Chapbook ‘Along the Home Roads’ Available Now!
https://bottlecap.press/products/roads
Poet 3x Pushcart & Best of Net nominations.
Winner of Black Bough Poetry Chapbook contest, shortlisted for Broken Spine Arts Chapbook contest. Book of the Month at The East Ridge Review.
Children’s fiction & short stories.
https://linktr.ee/helen.laycock
Poet. Writer. Reviewer. Swansea.
Author: The Ghost Lake
Poet: Blackbird Singing at Dusk
Editor: Spelt Magazine
https://linktr.ee/wendypratt
Winner of Southeast Review’s 2023 World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest, 2025 Best Small Fictions. Lapsed scholar/ Pun Perpetrator/ Montana Expat. Words in HAD, Wigleaf, Stanchion, Five South, etc.
https://mooninabucket.com
Writer, Edinburgh.
Editor: @frazzledlitmag
BOTN nominated 2024. On all socials same name.
Writing for children: @lozzakidwriting
Website: https://lauracooneywriting.wixsite.com/website
Editing: www.kofi.com/lozzawriting
Writer | editor | teacher | joyful Ninja Turtle | chronically ill
Words: Craft Literary, Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, Wigleaf Top 50
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/
Craft newsletter: https://prattlefogandgravelrap.substack.com/
Poet, novelist, Reviewer, published in over one hundred and fifty journals magazines, including Wild Court, The York Literary Review, Aesthetica Magazine . Husband, father, hankering after peace in a protected planet www.abookatberntime.uk
Independent poetry press + cultural review platform. We publish narrative-led work with edge. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs
#PromoteIndieLit
Edited by @alanparrywriter.co.uk
www.thebrokenspine.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/brokenspinearts
Leading independent poetry magazine and award-winning poetry publisher.
https://therialto.co.uk
Online poetry magazine posting daily. We publish & review poetry, prose, filmpoems, word & image and print publish as IS&T Press. Editing internships. Posts by @zcarpenterhall.bsky.social & Kate Birch.
Writer
Poetry: Forward Prize & BOTN nominee
100+ poems in Agenda, Stand, Poetry Salzburg, Chiron Review, IS&T etc & on BBC
Walking at Night finalist
Charles Causley & 2 Bridport shortlists
Magna Carta Comp (3rd)
Prose: Orwell Prize/Bridport Novel longlists
Novelist. Poet. Reader.
🏺OVID’S HEROINES 🍼INCARNATION 🐇FIERCE BAD RABBITS 🔮 DELPHI 🏰THE UNTAMEABLES 🧚🏾THE MODERN FAIRIES, ✍️LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS, etc. 🌊THE OTHERNAUTS coming 2026
Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle
Waterstone's UK Children's Laureate
Ideas lead to idols. Only wonder leads to truth.
Swinging a hammock on the Island of Brilliant podcast
https://islandofbrilliant.podbean.com/
Poetry stuff! Nominated for a Forward Prize, Best Of The Net (Twice) and Two Pushcart Awards.
Black Bough (Silver Branch Poet), East Ridge Review (Featured Poet), Frogmore Papers, Full House Literary, Dream Catcher, Dreich, Broken Spine, Frazzled Lit.
Writer (poet, novelist, short story writer and sometime reviewer) amateur photographer and very amateur musician. Website: https://www.jswatts.co.uk/
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. Novelist. Mum. Teacher. Comino Poet in Residence. PhD-ing at Man Met-the poetics of Language Loss and Identity. Interested in Postcolonial research from a British diasporic POV.
Poet Devon, UK
1st Cafe Writers Poetry Competition 2021, 2nd Leeds Peace Poetry Prize 2024, H Comm. Wales Poetry Award 2021. Shortlisted Best Poetry Pamphlet Saboteur Awards 2023 https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-beautiful-open-sky.html
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
🌍 Cumbria, UK
✅ Software engineer, cyclist, mountaineer, beer drinker. Not always in that order, rarely all at once.
💭 Neurodivergent: I think in rows, everyone else seems to think in columns.
Scottish living in France. Poet, lover of art and nature. Retired from the world of smash and grab.
Poet & performer. Battery Rocks (Seren 2024). 'dance as if' out with Verve Sept 25. Winner of Keats-Shelley Prize, Arthur Welton Award & Saboteur Award. Swimmer & walker. Loves dance & art. Vegan. PhD - Goldsmiths. Also on insta.
www.katrinanaomi.co.uk
Poet, short story writer, PhD researcher at York St John University. Books with Hedgehog Press, Dreich and Alien Buddha. Best of the Net and Pushcart nominated. Blog interviewing writers. Southerner in Durham
samszanto.com
Poet. Writer. Based in Liverpool, UK. Published by Carcanet Press and Liverpool University Press.
An online journal of prose poetry.
Ekphrastic poetry call open until 15 December.
https://theprosepoem.com/
Poet. New-ish collection available from Live Canon https://www.livecanon.co.uk/store/product/try-to-find-me-tessa-foley
The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
A charitable organisation promoting and advocating poets & poetry since 1909. Publishes #ThePoetryReview, supports young poets @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social.
poetrysociety.org.uk
linktr.ee/poetrysociety22
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.
Writer, poet, “refreshingly honest” critic, tutor. Poems: Way More Than Luck (2018), Same Difference (Seren Books 2022). Criticism: Don Paterson (LUP 2021). Writing has appeared in Guardian, New Statesman, Spectator, TLS, etc. Lifelong Red. Likes a jog.
We meet monthly at the Rose and Crown pub, Walthamstow
for reading, writing, performing... PLUS
@PoemsNotBombs.bsky.social open mic; Waltham Forest Poetry Comp http://bit.ly/wfpoetrycomp
Run by @paulmcgrane.bsky.social
Poetry * wildlife * music * India * Greece *
New 📗 GIRL -
‘Dazzling lyric control’ (Kim Moore)
‘Rhapsodic’(Guardian)
'Crafted for deep engagement: girls from Delphi to Delhi haunted by the ‘loose tin can’ of misogyny.…' (Mid-Day Mumbai)
Www.ruthpadel.com
I work with Winchester Poetry Festival, Open University Poetry Society and Winchester Muse - a spoken word event in Winchester. I write poetry and sometimes it gets published. https://www.spiropoetry.com/
Rough Diamond is an online and in print poetry journal. roughdiamondpoems@gmail.com
EIC - Charlotte Cosgrove
http://ko-fi.com/roughdiamond open for subs
Poet.
The Becoming of Lady Flambé - Indigo Dreams Publishing
20 - Drunk Muse Poetry
Co-edits www.atriumpoetry.com
Loves snoods, tea, crime (reading, not doing).
Co-Editor of @atriumpoetry.bsky.social.
Poet - publications include Collision (Against the Grain Press) and Somewhere Between Rose and Black (V. Press).
MA Creative Writing student at University of Birmingham.
Scottish poet | NOR-ENG Translator | Work in The Poetry Review / Modern Poetry in Translation / Magma / Gutter / The Scotsman | Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award 2019 | Grierson Verse Prize 2023 / Wigtown Poetry Prize Runner-Up 2023
Poetry ✒️ Nature 🍄 Cannock Chase 🌳
'September' & 'The Taste of Rain' from Offa's Press 🍂 🌧️
Poet & broadcaster. New non-fiction prose book, 'Village', OUT!
Witches and wheelbarrows: women's history in my village, 1841-1971: cheerful survival!
To buy, search for
ALISON BRACKENBURY VILLAGE AMAZON
Poet and former translator, living in Edinburgh, publishing here and there.
Writer | Mama | Mentor | Poet | Facilitator at The Writing Well workshops & events | Oxford-dweller | Yorkshire lass | escapes to Hebrides
Founder @thewritingwell.bsky.social
https://the-writing-well.com
Poet and visual artist. Political junkie. Disabled. Fibro warrior. MFA, UARK. Managing Editor, Ice Floe Press. "Wiregrass and Other Poems" (Ethel, chapbook, 2022). Contact: icefloeprojects@gmail.com
https://ko-fi.com/mjsaucer
An inspirational & productive space for creative writing & writing for wellbeing. Workshops, mentoring, spoken word events, writing circles, retreats. Host @KateOldfield.bsky.social #writingcommunity
https://the-writing-well.com
British/Welsh Poet, editor, teacher, neurodivergent jack of creative trades, mentor of emerging young writers, founder
www.hivesouthyorkshire.com | www.vickymorris.co.uk
Online poetry mag edited by @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social and @hollyannepoet.bsky.social
www.atriumpoetry.com
Small independent, inclusive, award-winning UK publishing house. Mostly poetry and short fiction, with the occasional fantasy/sci-fi novel. Prioritising LGBTQ+, Global Majority, Disabled, Welsh poets, and geographically isolated and Older Women writers.
Poet. @carcanet.bsky.social. A Map Towards Fluency (shortlisted for Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021) The House of the Interpreter (Poetry Book Society Recommendation) BSL Level 6
Festival of Poetry & Spoken Word ✨#Brum and online✨ Online Multi-press Poetry-only Bookshop @vervepoetryshop✨
https://vervepoetryfestival.com
Poet and littlest hobo 🐕 first prize McLellan 2021, Ware 2022, PPP 2023. Poems appear in Dust, Atrium, IS&T, The Friday Poem, Poetry Wales. Ostriches, published by Candlestick Press. Tutor with The Writing School and shadow writer with Beyond the Spectrum.
