A poetry festival by the sea under the big skies of East Anglia. Thurs 5th to Sunday 8th November 2026. ☀️📚🩵
Website: https://www.poetryinaldeburgh.org/
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A literary magazine of queer writing from the LGBTQIA+ community. Submissions open annually from Jan 1st to March 31st.
Writer & performer. Editor at Inkandescent. Host of BOLD Queer Poetry Soirée. Debut collection of short fiction ALL TGE YOUNG QUEERS Feb 2025
Person-centred counsellor, Hakomi practitioner and trainer in Liverpool. Hakomi is a mindful, body-centred practice. Research on recovery from spiritual trauma
Househusband, cook, gardener, guitar player, composer, writer. Shortlisted for Manchester, Bath + Cambridge Short Story awards; fiction/poetry in numerous journals and anthologies. Owns huge number of cookbooks. Online Programme Mngr, @MKLitFest.
The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets celebrate work published in the UK. The 2025/26 Awards are opening for submissions soon.
Our partners are @britishlibrary.bsky.social, Wordsworth Trust, @thetls.bsky.social and The British School at Athens.
Books and zines for cultural resistance.
Free Community Editions • Freedom is a practice.
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Your friendly anarchist publisher & distributor, worker-run and collectively managed since 1990. No bosses, no bullshit.
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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
Writing everywhere, for the underappreciated.
Based in Scotland. #litmag
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https://lunarsealit.wordpress.com/lunar-sea-literary/issue-0/
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Inkandescent is a publishing venture from Justin David and Nathan Evans focussing on queer and outsider voices. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 🍉✊🏿✊🏾
Read Issue 7! Epistemiclit.com
Digital anthology series celebrating knowledge, connection, and growth through poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction.
EICs @melruthwrites.bsky.social and @kristinwrites.bsky.social. CNF Editor @gcbwrites.bsky.social
Small indie lit press run by and for PoGM
Empowering marginalized creatives to tell their own stories
Editor: @mxchristalbot.bsky.social
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bio.site/globalmajoritypress
Research project on spoken word poetry & literary history in the UK and Ireland.
Based at @univie.ac.at and collaborating with @applesandsnakes.bsky.social.
Careful reader, thoughtful writer, nature-lover, garden-potterer, history-dabbler. Distracted by birds. 🐦⬛
theunhurriedreader.substack.com
@the_unhurried_reader on Instagram (yes, I know that's confusing).
#InvisibleIllnessVisibleLives
#Nordlichtberaubt
✨💀✨ I make pictures, many of which are crow-adjacent
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the sardonicism of Herzog & the earnestness of Lynch with none of the filmmaking
🏴 Dysgwyr
🏳️⚧️ they/them/nhw
The premium magazine platform for publishers, libraries and readers.
Find out more here: http://linktr.ee/exacteditions
The FEEDBACK Female Film Festival (FFFF) was created for women filmmakers and screenwriters. The goal is to showcase the best of female talent from around the world.
https://femalefilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/FEEDBACKFemaleFilmFestivalFFFF
The National Association of Writers in Education advocates for Creative Writing as a subject, supporting writers & good practice in teaching & facilitation in all settings. Conference, journal & more.
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author of novels, children’s books, poetry and essays. This account is managed by her estate.
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/
Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.
SFF Author. Poet. 🦉
Possible Worlds and Other Stories (2022)
They/Them.
rachelahandley.com
Poet, dog lover, feminist. Editor at Bending The Arc (https://bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/). www.hilarywatson.co.uk.
Writer, curator, mentor, coach, artist. Imprint co-director of MAI Press, Punctum. Repped @portyliterary. Queer gardener. Certified DISCO DIVA (IYKYK). I do queer feminist film/art things and fight for disability justice.
International Poet, Playwright, Curator & Editor of KIN, an anthology celebrating Romany, Traveller & Nomadic Communities with Salmon Poetry Press, Founder of Writing as Sanctuary’. #Breast Cancer Survivor/ Chronic Illness/ Disability
Omniscribe, wood carver, tree whisperer, quiet revolutionary, Scottish Highlands.
Seeking lit agent for YA/NA fantasy and literary novella
www.geoffkingwriter.co.uk
https://www.patreon.com/GeoffKingWriter
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/geoffkingwriter
#AS/#BreastCancer survivor/Prize-winning #shortstory writer, #novelist, and - surprising even herself - a Pushcart Nominated #poet. Represented by @katiefulf.bsky.social Bell Lomax Moreton
Website: https://cathycoleauthor.com/
'Driftwood by Starlight' (The Seventh Quarry Press, 2021) is my first full poetry collection. Website: https://www.carolinegillpoetry.com/
Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK.
Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com
Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
Author of nine psychological thrillers. STOLEN is out now! Linktree: https://bit.ly/3OPgOsz Newsletter link: https://bit.ly/RubySpeechleyNews @Boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
Psychological thriller author published by Embla Books. Freelance journalist & Bronte Society trustee. Co-founder ADCI Literary Prize.
Writer and ditch-poker. First novel, Starling, published by @FairlightBooks 2022. Next book, The Many Lives of Rivers, due 2027. Agent Julia Silk/Greyhound. she/her; pwME https://linktr.ee/sarahjanebutler
Iranian activist, writer, artist
@freefromTorture
TEDx talk, Guardian ...
"One Woman’s Struggle in Iran: A Prison Memoir"
Novel, "The Secret Letters From X to A"
http://nasrinparvaz.org
I am a British novelist, writing "heartwarming, uplifting" women's fiction/romance, mainly for Avon, Harper Collins, US
I live with husband, grown-up children, dogs and chronic illness in a cottage with roses around the door.
https://poppy-alexander.
Author MG & Women's Fiction. Northern through and through.
rep'd Hannah Sheppard http://hs-la.com #amwriting
#ADCI #pwME #ambulatory #wheelchairuser
Freelance journalist and editor in London, hello! Only Connect Jilly and servant to v entitled animals. My books are on ADHD and infertility, but I’m 99% fuelled by The Archers and horse riding. www.katbrownwrites.com
Disabled writer, carer & apothecary gardener. 🧙🏼♀️Founder/Host Wild Women Writers’ Salons 🏆Shortlist World of Books Sustainable Story Awards 2025📚PreOrder THE APOTHECARY BY THE SEA (2026) Debut memoir ALL MY WILD MOTHERS (2023- Nautilus Award Winner) 🦭Orkney
Writer, sailor, general weirdo.
Author and Disability & Women’s Health Advocate (Rep’d by Orli at DHA @davidhighambooks)
A Bloody Scandal - ‘an explosive investigation into gynaecological neglect’ - to be published by 4th Estate/HarperCollins in August 2026
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She/they | Over caffeinated cat butler and autistic author my RomCom debut novel “Love, Rebooted” out now on Audible. | Repped by Emily Glenister at DHH Literary | RNA NWS 2024
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Author of Crafting A Path Through Illness - exploring creativity while chronically ill. Available worldwide (the book, not me 😆).
Disabled by M.E & fibromyalgia since childhood. Enabled by humour & creativity.
www.germainehypher.weebly.com
Historical novelist, book lover & freelance writer/editor with ME/CFS. Currently writing about a 1930s spirit medium.
📚 CBC breakthrough mentee 2024
📚 MMA mentee 2022
https://linktr.ee/katieandersonmorrison
Chronicaly ill crime writer.
Debut novel: Sick to Death shortlisted for the McDermid Debut Award.
Agent: Hannah Schofield at LBA
1950s, Elizabeth Taylor and poodle obsessive, vegan.
Former nurse, living with MS
Links: https://tr.ee/1vaOIH2gP2
MG author: Toby and the Silver Blood Witches, Max and Monty with Collins Primary
Winner of the Book Bloggers' Novel of the Year Award 2022
Owned by three-legged rescue dog
ME/CFS
https://linktr.ee/SallyDoherty
Author (THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN trilogy; THE WOLF AND HIS KING) and medievalist specialising in the Ulster Cycle. #1 fan of Láeg mac Ríangabra.
🏳️🌈 they/them | siad/iad
📍Cambridge, UK
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https://finnlongman.com
Author. Sociologist. Senior Research Fellow at Institute for Jewish Policy Research and Lecturer at Leo Baeck College but here in a personal capacity. Interested in metal, Jews and much else. https://linktr.ee/keithkahnharris
Reader, writer, sleeper agent
Loves history, folklore & growing things
ME + expansion packs
ADCI network ♿️ | she/her
LL Lucy Cavendish Prize ‘24,
won: Greene Door ‘25, Curtis Brown Breakthrough ’24, Jericho Writers Mentorship ‘24, Novelry Octopus ‘23
Writer, fashion academic. Features, fiction, non-fiction, poetry. Words at: BBC, The Author, The Bookseller, The Mechanics Institute Review, Prototype, 24 Stories, etc.
Writer, psychologist, likes to loaf around in Orkney seas
Author of A Blend of Magic, blogger, dreamer and book addict. Usually found wearing snuggly socks drinking tea.
Creator of the Enchanted Emporium's witches 🎃📚🧙🫖👻
https://linktr.ee/katekenzie
That freelance Audible-bestselling, British Fantasy Awards-losing SFF author with Very Tall Hair. Guitarist, singer, occasional DJ. (d)eaf, queer. He/him.
All queries to @losbennett.bsky.social at Liverpool Literary Agency
www.mikebrooks.co.uk
Author, biologist, cat herder | BFA & SoA winner, Kavya & Saltire Awards SL | THE SALT ORACLE out now https://geni.us/saltorac | rep Julie Gourinchas | she/her 🏴
http://linktr.ee/raine_clouds
Physicist, education researcher, gardener, bird watcher/photographer, chronic illness/ME
PhD. Novelist (Hild, Spear, Menewood). All things Early Medieval. Here: Cats, crips, queers. Books, beauty, beers. MS ♿️🧪📚
MUTING THOSE WHO DON’T ALT-TEXT
nicolagriffith.com
Banner ID: B&W image—pint of Guinness flanked by 2 books flanked by 2 tabby cat
Author, Editor, Guardian Country Diarist, BBC Gardeners' World Mag. Patron #JohnClare Countryside Project, Fellow British Naturalists' Assoc. MA PGCE. Rep: Cathryn Summerhayes
LAND BENEATH THE WAVES: https://shorturl.at/LOt7x
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Novelist. Sycorax out 27/02/25 pre-order now published by Quercus | A Girl Made of Air published by Quercus | Bowie fan | Chronic illness: RA | Cat friend.
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
Writer, Artist, Psychologist
MOVING MOUNTAINS
PhD candidate at Centre for Place Writing, Manchester Met Uni.
Exploring the Romney Marshes & its coastline through post-viral illness. https://louisekenward.substack.com
Rep'd by @portyliterary.bsky.social
Author, illustrator, comics creator
THE FACTS OF LIFE (Myriad) Kidlit Books x3
Words and pictures
https://linktr.ee/paulajknight
https://www.redbubble.com/people/PaulaJKnight
https://ko-fi.com/bedscapepaula
Bedridden #MEcfs ♿ TAC/ Migraine
Author of THE CHOICE. Winner of the Good Housekeeping First Novel Competition.
Founder of Authors with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses (ADCI). Winner of the RNA Inclusion Award.
♿️💜 She/her
https://linktr.ee/clairerwade
V. Press publishes poetry and flash fiction that is very very
run by @sarahleavesley.bsky.social
https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/
Queer, chronically ill, neurodivergent writer and reader. MLitt Publishing graduate from the University of Stirling. Current Patient Administrator. She/Her.
reading every book. no matter what.
physical book object joy.
This is a HYBRID film festival with live screenings for the audience feedback video, optional virtual 2nd showcase, and blog & podcast interviews with filmmaker
http://fantasyscififestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/FantasySciFiFilmScreenplayFestival
Publishing sources for the history of south Wales
Writer - fiction, poetry, things. Physics degree. Interested in science, arts life and the natural world (not just on Earth!). Like to draw, paint and make a mess. Some of my inky doodles on Instagram @elizabethstott7
Poetry and flash fiction from Portishead, North Somerset every Monday and Thursday - https://blacknorereview.wordpress.com. Edited by @benbanyard.bsky.social
Croeso // Welcome 👋.
Cyfrif swyddogol ar gyfer Gwasanaeth Llyfrgelloedd Prifysgol Caerdydd // Official account for the Cardiff University Library Service 📚🤫.
Bookshop and community space in Cardiff
Any questions or order inquiries send an email to lily@bookspacecardiff.co.uk
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Biologist/Interdisciplinary researcher, educator, writer in Alaska...aspiring polymath....and..and...and...(artwork: the great Katie Sevigny)
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
She/her | Codex | Rhsyling Award-nom poet | ✍️ in Haven Spec, Star*Line, Orion's Belt, Apex, PodCastle, Metaphorosis, PseudoPod, Small Wonders, Plott Hound, & more
Freelance writer, novelist, performance poet and lover of all things Black Country. Editor of The Blackcountryman magazine. One third of Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists.
small press + zine distro!
Tiohtià:ke // Montréal
transsexual-run // anti-ableist // pro-🇵🇸
https://sheerspite.ca/
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Where TV/Film Producers & Execs Scout New Pitches for Film, TV & Digital. Shows Discovered & Broadcast Globally on Discovery Channel, A&E, Lifetime TV, SyFy, Velocity & Others... Visit https://www.tvwritersvault.com
Independent poetry press.
Editors Satya Bosman & Catherine Balaq.
www.blackcatpress.co.uk
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Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
#LGBWithTheT Proud Queer 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Writer, cat person, 🇨🇦 in 🏴, “Strange Animals” (Parthian, 2022). “Suppertime” (Substack) for hot takes on books, dinner, and pop culture of the past! https://substack.com/@emilyvanderploeg
Faith community grounded in stillness. We believe in working together to create a more just, equal and peaceful world.
Quakers in Britain, Friends House, NW1 2BJ.
www.quaker.org.uk
Writer.
Novels. Poems. Stories. Essays. 'Pigeon' (Parthian Books) & Dignity' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Represented by Jenny Hewson
Senior Lecturer @ Bangor
Cymraeg, English, Català, Español.
Northampton Poetry Review. A literary journal of poetry and writing from Northamptonshire, UK
https://linktr.ee/npoetryreview
Writer, editor, speaker #Neurodiversity. Author (2 #Dyspraxia books): “Stumbling Through Space & Time: Living Life With Dyspraxia” & “Studying with Dyspraxia”. #Neurodivergent & living without a #Thyroid. https://linktr.ee/rosemary_richings
Manchester's premier spoken-word collective combined arts charity developing young writers and creatives.
Email enquiries@youngidentity.org for more information or bookings.
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An annual literary journal launching this year, featuring short fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction from around the world.
ink slinger—word scribbler—poet—(bipolar disorder | anxiety | fibromyalgia ) inking my way out of a hole i dug || they/ them, queer. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Scottish poet living in The Netherlands. Poetry Scotland, Dust Poetry, Acropolis, Crow and Cross Keys. Second chapbook ‘THE WEIGHT OF VAPOUR’ by Alien Buddha Press EIC of The Winged Moon
poetry and politics, dogs and dancing
Bardd; Chwarter Eiliad (Barddas); Cân y Croesi (Cyhoeddiadau’r Stamp); Cydlynydd Bardd y Mis;
Ffosfforws2-6; O Ffrwyth y Gangen Hon; Cerddi’r Arfordir; MODRON 4;🏴
Nature lover, Brighton-based poet. Collections include 'A Pocketful of Chalk' (Arachne Press) and 'The Bone That Sang' (Indigo Dreams). Winner of The Poetry Society's 2023 Stanza Competition. More info and blog at www.bookerplays.co.uk
Flooded Pine Press, founded in the wake of the 2024 turn toward far-right politics in the United States, gathers and circulates writing that imagines local actions for a livable tomorrow.
www.floodedpinepress.com
https://substack.com/@floodedpinepress
Book candy for readers, software candy for publishers and bookshops.
