Entries from the journal that C19th English poet John Clare kept from Sep 1824 - Sep 1825, posted on the day of the year they were written.
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Writing, reading, running.
Poetry PhD: vital instability in the 2nd generation Romantics.
Am actually writing.
Interested in the amplification of working class voices, northern voices, & kind & talented voices.
Writing, I swear.
Meliorist, still.
Professor, LSE. Philosophy of science, animal consciousness, animal ethics. Director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience.
Wading around at the confluence of arts / nature / culture since 2007
Regular posts at caughtbytheriver.net 🐟 Irregular printed matter, record releases & events via rivertones.bandcamp.com and our Friday newsletter
Ex-headteacher, ex-HMI, ex amicitia pax, ex-X. Physicist, philosopher, traveller, reader, foodie and drinkie.
Neuroscientist: consciousness, perception, and Dreamachines. Author of Being You - A New Science of Consciousness.
Research Ecologist working on birds, mammals, forests, farms, hedgerows, woodland natural colonisation. Marsh Tit & Wood Warbler studies. Editor-in-Chief of the journal Bird Study: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tbis20
Views are mine.
Poetry, prose, art. Submit it.
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A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
Short story writer, delinquent poetry reader. Fictive Dream, The Lonely Press, Confingo, Fragmented Voices, Structo, Nightjar Press, Salt Publishing, Exacting Clam
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📚 Max Wallis | Author of the Polari Prize-shortlisted Modern Love (2011) & Everything Everything (2016).
🖋️ Poems in The Rialto, Poetry Scotland, Spectator
✍️ Freelance journalist (The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph).
🌈 Gay, disabled, survivor.
Poet | Researcher | Co-editor at Dust Poetry. Room 204 writer. Words in Magma, Under the Radar, Propel. Pre-order my debut poetry collection at https://theemmapress.com/shop/poetry/poetry-collections-poetry/the-way-the-water-held-me/
Author of ‘Sing me down from the dark’ (SALT; 2022).
Worked in higher ed. in U.K. and Japan. Poems in P.N. Review, The North, MAGMA, Poetry Wales, The Interpreter’s House & The Madrid Review.
Lover of Things Japanese and proud mother of teenager.
Recent Masters degree in Archaeological Practice at Birkbeck, University of London.
Here to share my love of archaeology.
contemporary poetry magazine with a love of folklore, nature and place and writing that goes beyond the surface. we publish in print and online with amazing art and a vibrant weekly newsletter www.wingedmoon.com
I run a newsletter/podcast called Volts about clean energy & politics. Subscribe & join the community at http://volts.wtf!
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
European 🇪🇺
Newbury, Berkshire based - previously Lichfield, South London, Sheffield, Kent, Sussex.
Likes: travel eg Belgium; railways; art; music eg Americana; film eg Noir & beer.
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Elsewhere: @timofnewbury
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WRITER:
Sampler (Black Cat Press, 2027)
'Searchlight Seasons' (Atomic Bohemian, 2024)
HEXING THE 💩 OUT OF MY GRID:
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Baltimore poet/writer. Words everywhere. BOTN/Pushcart nom. Reader at Fractured Lit. Reader at Atlanta Review. My chapbook Somewhere, Someone Is Forgetting You is available from Alien Buddha Press. www.chrissystegman.com
A digital poetry journal, edited by @kathryngray.bsky.social and @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social Enjoy our blooms! badlilies.uk
New old speculative fiction magazine, relaunched June 2k20! Looking for work on the ever-moving edge of its kind--fiction, art, graphic narrative, animation. www.penumbric.com. For submissions info, see www.penumbric.com/subs.html
I post daily(ish) facts about toads! My profile photo is an Anaxyrus americanus by Simon Pierre Barrette! Also find us at @toadfacts@toad.social on Mastodon!
Dubliner in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Writer. https://www.LaurenceWrites.com/. 2025 Cúirt New Writing Fiction Prize. Posts in English/Français/Svenska. (He/Him/YerMan)
An independent publishing house based in Chennai, India. Indian pulp novels in translation, ghostlore, anti-caste sf, graphic novels, street signs, weird stories, & picture books about young women in love with gruesome monsters.
https://blaft.com
Writer - Artist - Tutor
I make things with words, paints & stuff.
Winner of Broken Spine Chapbook Comp 2024 - debut poetry pamphlet out now - DM me for signed copy.
Poems in Rialto, Stand, Poetry Wales, Magma, Butcher's Dog, Finished Creatures & others.
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E pluribus unum.
We are one from many. 🇺🇸
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This is my anti-ICE account.
No posts = No follow
Keep your nudes/DMs to yourself
A writing prompt to inspire poems and stories, thoughts and wanders. Tag #thingstowriteabout. Hosted by @hermiteveryday.bsky.social #writingcommunity
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🏅 Independent Bookshop of the Year for SW England
🏆 Wainwright judges ‘23 & ‘24
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Digital accessibility in HE library person. Fan of animals, accessibility, gardening, making things and whimsical nonsense. She/her.
Belgian writer of stories inspired by Flemish folklore. Loves spooky woods, fairies, selkies, poetry and pretty shoes :-) BookWormSat with Rachel Deering.🖤 OUT NOW: Flemish Folktales Retold. signemaene.com/links/
Poet, biographer, critic—bear of very little brain, troubled by long words. Rudimentary bass player. Pre-raphaelite wannabe. Aesthete, always.
Writer (Lore of the Wild, Hyphens & Hashtags &c). Big fan of books, libraries, folklore, history. Also have a PhD on the folklore of death and dying in 19th century England
Best Foreign Correspondent in Spain Prize-winner, roamed the world for @Reuters. @nytimes.com acclaimed translator. Anglo-Spaniard in Madrid. Cyclist. Replies≠endorsements. YNWA.
Premio al Mejor Corresponsal Extranjero en España, traductor literario
Writer of very short things.
In Best Microfiction 2021. Nom Best Small Fictions 2022 & 2024. Short-listed for Bath Novella-in-Flash Award & Fractured Lit Chapbook Prize. Wigleaf Top 50 long list. But enough about me. How are you?
http://billmerklee.com
Absurdist, writer, explorer, escape artist.
Writer of poetry, prose & flash fiction.
Words in @epistemiclit.bsky.social, Pure Haiku, From One Line Vol.7, The Survivor Zine
British, moves a lot, currently living in Italy. 🇮🇹🇬🇧
An online journal publishing classically inspired short stories. Now open for submissions, 1000-8000 words. Edited by @CourtlandAvenue (Dave Gregory)
https://doric-literary.com/
An independent bookshop for Barnsley, UK. Eclectic ranges of fiction and non-fiction for all ages.
I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
Poet. Teaching Artist. A Common Name for Everything (Green Writers Press). UmichWriters MFA. Montreal & Vermont. wordplay. cuttlefish. writing pedagogy. ferns.
www.sarahwolfsonwriter.com
Scottish Landscape Photographer and Deputy Picture Editor at the Herald,Times & National. Prints and enquiries at www.damianshields.com
THE BENEFACTORS Sceptre. Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. Shortlisted Irish Novel of the Year, Best British Audio Book. It’s out now. dance move/sweet home/stinging fly/picador/well I just kind of like it/PVA Books/ Manifesto of Bliss zine
Painter, writer, trying to follow a zen path in East Lothian, Scotland. #MDANT
Novel, Giselle and Mr Memphis available from www.vagabondvoices.co.uk
www.jerrysimcock.com for art, writing etc
Author living in Alexandria, VA | Deliver Thy Pigs (Malarkey Books) | stories in HAD, Bull, Islandia Journal, and more | he/him
www.joeyhedger.com
Writer Crofter Grandmother Geographer
Author of #WINDSWEPT: life, nature & deep time in the Scottish Highlands
"An instant classic of British nature-writing"
Blog: https://notesfromasmallcroftbythesea.wordpress.com/
https://www.annieworsley.co.uk/
Wildlife, trees, terrestrial ecology, dark skies, night, corvids, coffee, cats. | Expressive Language Disorder. AuDHD. Nonverbal. Mutism (“situational”, “selective”).
You do NOT have my permission to speak for me. Please don’t.
Woodland wanderer in awe of trees, fungi & moss. Trail Runner. Searching for beauty in Nature. Clinical Psychologist & Ecotherapist. Artist 🏴
My posts=my own 📷 No DMs
Retired teacher, lover of the natural world, the arts & science. Determined to outlive these autocratic leaders intent on screwing over the planet and ordinary people in the process.
Still clinging on to the last shreds of my optimistic nature 🇪🇺🕊️
Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance
Posting Environmental Info, Inspirational Words & Images to Motivate Humans to Individually & Collectively Engage in Personal, Societal & Environmental Healing & Progressive Change
EITHER WE CHANGE OR MOTHER EARTH WILL FORCE CHANGE ON US
Author of Verushka (JournalStone), The Blood Trail (Red Bird Chapbooks) & stories in many places (Gamut, Bourbon Penn, Tales to Terrify, Wigleaf, hex, etc.)
janstinchcomb.com
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
Writes, reads, watches, worries. 1st novel Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves - SL for Walter Scott prize. LL for V S Pritchett Short Story. Second novel, A Fire of Stalks and Feathers, coming soon I hope
https://linktr.ee/rachel.malik99
Yorkshireman. Train Driver. Coffee
Mostly photos of trains I’ve driven and the railway I work on, especially the old bits that really should be in a museum. And other things.
Poet. Books- collection - The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk and new verse novel - Flow published by Verve.
Also maker of stories, cake, chutney and interesting things to wear - wild swimmer - very fond of a limestone landscape.
Mainly poetry (Butcher's Dog,The Madrigal, Broken Spine, BlackBough, W Moon & counting), art, glass & (theatre) people playing. Allotment life. York with Glasgow links. UK. Not every act of kindness is part of a plan.
Website :www.sarahowriter.com
Human Remains Conservator at Surgeons’ Hall. Snake charmer. Beagle feeder. All-round general necromancer
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
Writer. Published in Your Impossible Voice, The Dodge, Minor Literature[s], Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere.
Healthy WFPB Vegan. Child Advocate. Atheist. LGBTQI friendly. Pro-Democracy. #BlueResisters Anti-MAGA, Anti-Trump.
Retired software engineer, grandfather who likes to build & fix things. Loving relationship with a sweet woman. Lifelong learner. Prankster.
Magazine of speculative fiction; stories of horror, wonder, and the weird since 1999. https://3lobedmag.com
Edinburgh-based artist/illustrator. Folio Society Book Illustration Award 2022 Shortlist. Heraldic artist for the Lyon Court. Rep’d by Paul Moreton at @belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social Linktree: https://linktr.ee/sarahcoomer
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The online literary magazine with short stories and comics from all around the world.
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Birds, Butterflies & Moths are my big passions
💙 RSPB & Barn Owl Project Volunteer🦉
🦋 Butterfly Surveyor & Moth-er
💍 Trainee Bird Ringer
📍East of England 🏴
Artist–author creating nature-rooted art and wild tales from her Dorset studio.
Exploring creativity as a healing practice while tending land, story and well-being.
clothofnature.com
Environmental Humanities researcher. @LeedsUniEnglish @LeedsEnvHums
#Wordsworth #JohnClare #Romanticism
#walking #birdwatching #naturewriting
Ascending with the Earth 🌍.
Leading independent poetry magazine and award-winning poetry publisher.
https://therialto.co.uk
Inviting readers into a community of caring for the planet—justly, sustainably, and joyously. orionmagazine.org
Founded in 1653, we are the oldest public library in the English speaking world. This Bluesky account is for connecting with researchers and institutions.
Artist/Writer/Postman appearing from behind a rhododendron and cursing loudly #MDANT
Website: https://kevinboniface.co.uk
Sports and Social: https://tinyurl.com/2xmnxh38
Round About Town: https://tinyurl.com/24bwnh2b
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.
Winner Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction 2023; finalist Fiddlehead Short Fiction Prize 2023 & Cambridge Short Story Prize 2024. Edith Wharton WiR 2024. Words: The Waxed Lemon, The Moth, Malahat, The New Quarterly & other lovelies. CCA-funded sabbatical!
Here to enjoy nature, photography and any garden tips along with laughs and positive vibes! 🕊️ Joined #teamtypo 😎
Not interested in Politics or Porn. 🙏
We are a small press with a quarterly e-journal
Science Comms and ornithology. New Naturalist author. Wildlife. Books. Alternative Music. Runner (He/him).
Independent publisher of poetry & prose. An obscurity of poets. Updates by Sophie 💖 Norwich, UK.
Poet. Yukoner. Knitter. Book hoarder. Author of Northerny (University of Alberta Press, 2024). Reviewing older books alongside new stuff at https://reviewsofbooksigotforfreeorcheap.substack.com/
The place for writers
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Variant Literature is a small press and magazine.
http://variantlit.com
Open for submissions for our Summer issue! ☀️
Writer. Author of Terrestrial (Malarkey Books 2026), Being Seen (Ethel 2025), Commuting (Ghost City Press). Managing editor long fiction Variant Lit.
https://malarkeybooks.com/store/terrestrial
stories: http://suzyeynon.com/
The art of the East London Group. Also on Instagram:- http://instagram.com/eastlondongroup/ & Facebook http://facebook.com/EastLondonGroup. All images: copyrighted. Find out more about the Group here:- https://www.eastlondongroup.co.uk/
Writer and independent scholar.
Used to be a vicar.
Writing in Spelt, Black Bough Poetry, BB journal, Frost Magazine, The Clearing,The Pilgrim, Landlines for Nature ,The Church Times.
Fellow of the Linnaean Society and the Zoological Society of London,
Writer, editor, artist, folklorist. Winner of ten World Fantasy Awards, the Mythopoeic Award (for The Wood Wife), the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFWA Solstice Award. Wanderer of the deep, dark forest of story in language and paint.
Dartmoor, Devon, UK
Corporate consultant in Europe turned fiction writer, studying creative writing in the UK | stories in Fictive Dream, Maudlin House, FlashFlood, 101 Words, CafeLit, Flash Festival Anthologies 6 & 8 | Masters Review LL Summer 2025
Collected Works in Contemporary Prose and Art
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#TBR #poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #photography
author of TURMERIC & SUGAR (Thirty West). stories in Wigleaf, Short Story Long, Berkeley Fiction Review, HAD, Craft, AAWW, etc.
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Palliative care doctor 👩🏻⚕ Author 📚 Winner: 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 🫀 Founder: Hospice Ukraine 🇺🇦 Rep: Clare Alexander at Aitken Alexander 📝
www.drrachelclarke.com
Mostly nature photography, especially wildflowers. Bit of art and history too.
Durham born but living in Yorkshire. Interested in archaeology.
Love a good map! 🦋
Author of bestselling true crime books Deadly Heist, Murder on Birchleaf Drive, Evil at Lake Seminole, and Extreme Punishment StevenBEpstein.com #truecrime
🦋 Write What I Want
🌛 Dream of the Cosmos
💃🏻 Dance at the Pyramids
#Artist Joined April 2025
💗Create #Art #Photos #Writing
💗Host #RetroArtPrompt (On Hiatus)
💗Raise #Earth Vibrations
✍️🎨📸©️ #Seranya 🦄 #CubistPoet #ArtBySeranya #SeranyaArt