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. 🇮🇹🇬🇧
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
Sweary ginger designer with side hustle drawing naughty but niche greetings cards to shove up yer post boxes. Also #kittyditties
Naughty but niche cards/prints: Dippyfishcards.etsy.com
Art: ArtOfNote.sumupstore.com
Misc/tips: https://ko-fi.com/dippyfish
Prizewinning poet
Harlow Stanza founder
Judge Harlow Open🏆
2 chapbooks & 2 forthcoming- Hedgehog Press, Alien Buddha Press & Parlyaree Press
Widely published & anthologised inc by Macmillan|Beatles|90s nostalgia
https://www.carmella-de-keyser.com/about
Poet. Musician. Pagan. Salt doll measuring the ocean's depth. Transcendental Situationist traveling @ the Speed of Now. Onstage since 1975. There's a lot of Nothing to it. A groove requires a bass player. Or a tree. WYSIWYG💙#Resist www.radicaldruid.com
Alien Buddha Press has been publishing emerging writers and artists since 2017. Open for submissions at abuddhapress@yahoo.com
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
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. 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.
Publisher of poetry collections and pamphlets. Yaffle and Yaffle's Nest
Online workshops and courses.
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Suggestion Box: https://forms.gle/1CP83J3YV2jbTLwy9
Poet, bellringer. The Mouth of Eulalie currently out from Blue Diode Press https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/the-mouth-of-eulalie-by-annie-brechin-isbn-9781915108012
Writer. Poetry and other things. Bridport Prize shortlisted. “delicious musicality” FringeReview “hard not to feel your own re-emergence” Arts Dispatch
Publishing independently since 1929.
linktr.ee/faberbooks
Noticeboard and live commonplace book of North Sea Poets. We run online masterclasses, workshops and webinars.
northseapoets.com
Poet, Screenwriter, Filmmaker www.photography.mariusgrose.co.uk
Poet | Ghost Clinic, Broken Sleep Books | Eric Gregory 2024 | PhD research in hauntology at Royal Holloway |
fresh poems: wednesday & sunday.
editor:
charlie baylis
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
Children's poet. Poems in The Caterpillar, Little Thoughts Press, PaperBound, The Dirigible Balloon, Paddler Press, Parakeet, Charles Causley Trust, Northern Gravy, Candlestick Press, The Toy, Brian Moses' Blog, Tyger Tyger and anthologies.
I'm David Herring, Lead Editor of indie poetry press, Dithering Chaps, based in Dorset, UK. We publish thematically-linked sequences of poems: works that riff on a core conceit, event or narrative voice. He/him. https://www.ditheringchaps.com
Forward Prize, Pushcart & BOTN nominated Poet, Author, Educator, Performing Artist. Co-Editor @thewingedmoon substack magazine. Lover of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, tomes, trees, all things purple.INFJ.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/saraswatinagpal
Creative maverick. Writer of poetry and dark fiction. Co-hosts and co-produces the Planet Poetry podcast.
Disabled poet & community artist. North East. Writing about hope with dragons in it, and hEDS. Pre-order debut pamphlet with Verve Poetry Press! linktr.ee/thewordtinker
• 🇬🇧🇲🇺Multilingual British-Mauritian Poet, Writer & Educator
• Author of "Cajoncito" & "Not Quite An Ocean"
Author of 'Little Universe' and 'Small' | Content Marketing Manager at Synergy Learning | Runner | T1D | 'Wild Running' out September 2025 📚🏃♀️
We publish, perform, produce & promote poetry! We also run online & in-person courses. #poetry
https://www.livecanon.co.uk
Poet, carer and freelance HR consultant from Yorkshire. Published in The North, Butcher’s Dog, Strix,The Frogmore Papers, Northern Gravy, Propel and others. Longlisted National Poetry Competition 2023 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦
linktr.ee/victoriaspires
BotN, Pushcart & Forward nominated. Shortlisted/commended in various comps: Winner Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize
Finalist Mslexia Women's Comp
Pamphlet available from Salo Press:
https://www.salopress.com/store/soi-meme/
a throwaway poet
lives in Sheffield
has never been a lover of slip-on-shoes
writes poetry for people who don’t read poetry
his pamphlet “My C&A Years” published by Dreich
my best review
“My husband loves this but he doesn’t know anything about poetry”
Poet/Author, EIC at SHINE poetry series. Links to books & more at: http://www.SamanthaTerrell.com & http://www.SHINEpoetry.com
Reader, writer, cat fan. Historical fiction, crime fiction, weird fiction, poems. I'm one half of D. K. Fields (fantasy crime series) & co-editor of Bending The Arc: A Thrutopian Magazine which imagines thriving & liveable futures into being
Humanist. Midlander. Liberal. Xennial. Quondam Classicist. Chief Executive @humanists.uk | Ambassador @humanists.bsky.social
Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk
YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
Guardian writer, but one time I said something inflammatory to the US right & they called me a Diseased Pitmommy. So that's what I go by now
Writer, comedian, podcaster, stone-clearer, snookerist, ventriloquist
Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
Archaeologist, word-witcher, scicomm, consultancy
📚 KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death & Art
🖋️ MATRIARCHA: Prehistory Re-imagined
🏛️ Honorary Researcher U. Cambridge & U. Liverpool
1/4 @trowelblazers.bsky.social
Rep: PEW Literary
Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Poet | Writer | Freelance Art Historian
UK https://juliabiggs1.wixsite.com/juliabiggs
Writer, Writer's HQ, feminist, just about hanging in there. Any photos my own unless stated otherwise.
All things poetry. Co-editor of Black Iris https://www.blackirispoetry.com
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. 🏳️🌈
Independent publisher of contemporary poetry since 2008, home of Under the Radar magazine. Made in the Midlands.
https://ninearchespress.com/
Festival of Poetry & Spoken Word ✨#Brum and online✨ Online Multi-press Poetry-only Bookshop @vervepoetryshop✨
https://vervepoetryfestival.com
Prize-winning #Brum based poetry indie making high octane collections and vervey pamphlets. Related to
@Vervepoetryfest (did you guess?) 😍
https://vervepoetrybookshop.com/vpp
Charity changing the world through books written by women📚
Women's Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction supported by Audible, Baileys, Findmypast
🔗 linktr.ee/womensprize
Smith|Doorstop Books • New Poets List • International Book & Pamphlet Competition • New Poets Prize • Writer Development Agency
https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/
📝 Worldwide creative writing comp
📝 Over £20K prize pot
📝 Alumni inc Kate Atkinson
📝 Honorary Patron Kit de Waal
📝 Raises funds for Bridport Arts Centre
The views of contributors do not reflect the views of The Bridport Prize.
bridportprize.org.uk
Diversity in Action.
EIC A.R. Arthur Team: Managing Editor Yasmine Dashti
Proud member of @CLMPorg
The Magazine of New Writing.
https://granta.com/
Manc independent publisher with a conscience.
M.D. Isabelle Kenyon
2024 North England Winner Small Press of Year!
Sustainable, political and accessible
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk
The UK's bestselling magazine for women who write.
Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis.
https://longbarrowpress.com
Online poetry mag edited by @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social and @hollyannepoet.bsky.social
www.atriumpoetry.com
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.
Spiky author person with a rad jewelry shop. They/She. Queer, AuDHD, and probably watching a horror movie. Black Trans Lives Matter.
I swear too much.
Official cat herder of the @peculiarityshop.bsky.social.
Creator of the Universe.
thegodshow.com
Poet.
linktr.ee/lukewrightpoet
Writer / Editor / Lecturer
www.lukeathompson.com
www.guillemotpress.co.uk
Poet. Proser. Middlesbrough historian. Terraced house lover. Outsider artist/musician. Photographer etc
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).
Paramedic. Autism dad. Rabbit rescue volunteer. Basset Hound friend. Dogs are better than most people.
Penn State Alumni
⛔️ MAGA, ⛔️ Crypto, ⛔️ Sexbots, ⛔️ Gambots, will be blocked.
Hate DJT. 8647. Blue Always!
No bio, no picture, no posts = no follow/block
Your garbage mom; writer; she/her; I ♥️ unions; essayist on film, books, fairy tales, and horror; author of HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE; rep’d by Kent Wolf; I just want you to be happy, honey
linktr.ee/ambernoellesparks
feral woman • writer • librarian • bi af • on a constant quest for comfortable silence • engaged to another writer • gonna talk about art & literature for the rest of my life
PBLJ is a biannual print magazine of contemporary poetry, rooted in Birmingham. Engage with thought provoking essays, interviews and in-depth reviews. Subscribe Now!
https://poetrybirmingham.com/
Author. Poet. Podcaster @planetpoetry.bsky.social First full poetry collection 'The Mayday Diaries' Pindrop Press May 1st 2025. Sings in choirs. Yogi.
Wales’ leading independent English-language publisher 📚 Winner Small Press of the Year Wales 2025 🏴
Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
prize-winning poet in 2 languages (writing in 3) | in
@poetrysociety.bsky.social @mptmagazine.bsky.social @magmapoetry.bsky.social @poetrywales.bsky.social
| Author: Unlock (2023) @Veer_Books | @uclalumni.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
Poet - Scottish poetry library bursary ward 2025 chapbooks include carbon, mind mathematics, wild chamomile and soon to be released becoming a witch she/her
poet with pagan heart, allotmenteer, beekeeper, author of 'Heaving with the dreams of strangers', 'Thetis' https://suewatling.com/thetis-a-poetic-narrative-now-available-online/ #walkthroughthetarot subscribe to my blog at https://suewatling.com
Editor, writer and translator. Dark Night: Poems & Selected Prose of John of the Cross (Penguin Classics, 2026)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/462137/dark-night-by-cross-st-john-of-the/9780241699294
marthasprackland.co.uk
Journal featuring poets yet to publish a full collection / Est. 2022 / EIC @aanaxagorou.bsky.social / Issue 14, Ed.
@susannahdickey.bsky.social OUT NOW / Subs closed.
propelmagazine.co.uk
Writing for nature, writing for wellbeing
Poet, copywriter, creative.
artist, writer, researcher, fossil hunter, PLA licensed mudlarker, and lecturer in the School of English at University of Leeds https://luckysoap.com
Poems forthcoming in: London Review of Books, Free Bloody Birds.
Poems appearing in: Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, New Republic, Poetry Review & Poetry London.
https://linktr.ee/tarnmacarthur
Poet, Reading, Writing (Vagabond Voices/ Mariscat Press) Most likely to be found walking the dog in Glasgow, Southside she/her 🏳️🌈🇵🇸 vickihusband.wordpress.com
Poet & librarian. Two collections with Picador ‘Furniture’ & ‘There Will Be No More Nonsense’, also writing poems for children. Works at the National Poetry Library. Edited some 10 Poems About… for Candlestick Press. Powered by tea across all platforms.
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
Award-winning poet, novelist, art critic. Five poetry collections. Latest God’s Little Artist, poems on Gwen John, Seren. Four novels including Rainsongs (Duckworth), Flatlands (Puskin Press, Mercure de France). Sunday Times list best historical fiction
reading, looking, listening carefully; paying attention; writing
clarebest.co.uk
also @cbestphd.bsky.social posting bits and pieces around my doctoral research
#poetry #memoir #lifewriting #teachingwriting #CSA #OUPGR #opera #libretto #materialculture
Poet Over the Moon, Shadow Reader
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
Poet, writer, freelance science journalist, and current chair of the Friends of Hugh Miller charity ✨
Poet, writer, wonderer, wanderer
