33 | they/them | queer af | writer | gamer | drag | food | drinks | manga/comics | published numerous places (The Normal School, BRAWL Lit, Synkroniciti, Anti-Heroin Chic, more) | always in need of a nap | fussy dog parent | Emerson 2014
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
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/
Facebook: poetryinaldeburgh.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/poetryinaldeburgh/
The Third Wheel is a lit mag conceived as a hub for literary translators.
https://thethirdwheel.org/
The UK podcast about poets and poetry, founded 2020. Interviews, discussion, pints. Hosted by Peter Kenny & Robin Houghton. http://planetpoetrypodcast.com
🇺🇦 Poet, nature lover, County Derry native living in Oxfordshire.
Magma Poetry Prize 2024, Commended.
iOTA Shot Awards Winner 2023 for Attachments (Templar, June 2024): https://templarpoetry.com/collections/templar-pamphlets-1/products/attachments
Autistic autism & ageing consultant.
Contact me for training & conference speaking.
Poet
#AutisticElders #ActuallyAutistic #Poetry
An online literary magazine for extra pungent poetry and prose. 🧄 Submissions open!
garlicpresslit.com
Dublin born. Retired from IT career. Created Rainbow Manuscripts in 70s publishing Brendan Kennelly & Peter Fallon. More recently published in Black Nore Review, A New Ulster, Ink Sweat & Tears, Causeway Cabhsair, The Broken Spine, Atrium and Eunoia Review
Occasional writer of poetry; counsellor & psychotherapist; interested in more things than I have time for. Based in Strathspey in the Scottish Highlands.
https://www.tonikeartoncounselling.co.uk/
Creative Project Manager by day, writer by night. Advocate for the power of community and the arts. Big fan of sunsets!
Compulsive writer, poet, doctor.
Commissioned to write & perform by English Touring Opera
Published in Black Bough Poetry, Ink Sweat and Tears, IceFloePress
2 Pushcart Nominations
Poet/Writer | Lecturer, English Literature and Creative Writing @OpenUniversity | SFHEA | Nullaby and Full Sight of Her @EyewearBooks | Exit Strategy @brokensleep | www.patrickwright.co.uk
The cultural feverdream that walks like a magazine. 2014-2017, 2025+
The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore us.
https://dirgemagazine.com/
Discord: https://discord.gg/CNR6KVAQSs
The Self-Pub Hub (Indie Book Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submit-book/
Book tours:
https://book-shelfie.com/book-tour
Acropolis Journal | Home for temples, ruins, darkness and myth | Online Poetry & Art Journal | EIC Louise Mather | OPEN FOR PROPOSALS
https://acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjournal
Independent, printed poetry magazine: ecopoetry and the environment; climate justice and politics; beauty and daring.
Issue nine - trespass - just published
Please see website for order details.
finishedcreatures.co.uk
Poetry and flash fiction from Portishead, North Somerset every Monday and Thursday - https://blacknorereview.wordpress.com. Edited by @benbanyard.bsky.social
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
Poet, writer, editor/judge with The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press. Lives in the UK.
Dabbles in Flash Fiction, speculative genres. Writing a novel. Mini poetry pamphlet out in late 2026.
Writer from London. Studying MA at Royal Holloway. Tear and Share (brokensleep) - Thoughts I lost in the Laundry (stanchion) - make up my mind (steelincisors) other work in Streetcake magazine - she/her
Poet. Coach. #ElasticBandPhotos. Loves coasts, peculiar things and the scent of ice-cream freezers. ‘Magnifying Glass’ and ‘Welcome to the Museum of a Life’ published by Black Eyes Publishing UK.
https://suefinch.co.uk/
National Outdoor Book Awards: Recognizing outstanding writing & publishing in the outdoor field.
Awards given in: Outdoor Literature, Nature & Environment, History-Biography, Children's, Art/Photography. etc.
Posts by Ron Watters.
I’m a chronically ill artist, writer and poet living in beautiful Orkney with a passion for folklore, myth and magic. Visit my website: www.ellenforkin.co.uk
Poet, Lawyer (non adversarial), author of How Women Become Poems in Malabar
Literary magazine exploring character-and-theme-driven speculative fiction. Submissions CLOSED. #litmag
Read stories at www.allworldswayfarer.com
Duotrope is an award-winning writers' resource. Search for publishers and agents, track your submissions & more! https://duotrope.com
@duosuma.com is our submission manager.
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
Writer, Editor, Creative Writing Tutor at the Irish Writers Centre.
Poetry: Live Encounters, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, The Madrid Review, Poem Alone, Smashing Times, StepAway.
Fiction: The Galway Review, Revival, Emerald Eye, Fear the Reaper, Albedo One.
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
Magazine & Press edited by @katehorsleywriter.bsky.social @petermcallister.bsky.social | short fiction | flash | non-fiction | concrete, vispo, experimental | prose, poetry & hybrid chapbooks
https://inkfishmag.com
🌀SUBS OPEN🌀
Intersectional feminist journal of language + art since 1992. We publish poetry, fiction, nonfiction & visual art exploring gender, race, class & sexuality.
Leading figure of the Disability Poetics movement
and academic contributor of a decidedly minor stature. I miss the Catoctin Mountains.
Every Place on the Map bit.ly/3IUmzpk
Poetry Foundation bit.ly/3BydKOn
Ordinary dog woman.
Creativity is my passion. Poetry, writing, pottery, sewing, knitting, woodturning, cooking ...I'm not highly skilled but I don't let that stop me.
Raised in Hong Kong, now living in south Wales, UK
Creepy men will be 🚫
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.
Onemorething on ABCtales, Bath Poet. First collection Crown of Eggshell pub. 2020. @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. Literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering
https://ko-fi.com/kofisupporter68929
Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
Me: student herbalist, sen teaching assistant and loves sewing by machine or by hand.
Poetry Press, publishing books, broadsides, and other beautiful things, since 1969.
Find us at: ashlandpoetrypress.com
Reading for Ashland Poetry Broadside Contest Sept 1 to Nov 15
ashlandpoetrypress.submittable.com
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
Nature writer & poet. Latest book 'Where the Seals Sing' (William Collins). 4th poetry collection shortlisted Ted Hughes Award. Lives on a cliff in the far west of Wales, making kin with the more-than-human world https://linktr.ee/susan_richardson_writer
The Argyle Literary Magazine is BACK with Issue #6. NEW LOOK! NEW FOCUS! NEW POETRY, FICTION, CNF, and DIGITAL ART! STILL VERY COOL AF!!! Stay tuned for shared content and updates!
EIC: @davidestringel.bsky.social
www.theargylelitmag.com
Independent poetry press.
Editors Satya Bosman & Catherine Balaq.
www.blackcatpress.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/blackcatpress
Author of 'A Spotter's Guide To Invisible Things', 'Introduction To Cloud Care', etc.
https://www.livecanon.co.uk/store/product/a-spotters-guide-to-invisible-things-by-laura-theis
#poetsonbluesky
Poet, Fiction Writer
Placed @reflexfiction + elsewhere,
@Wigleaf Top50...
Poetry: Winner@anthro_poetry
Finalist @Mslexia
Poet behind beloved classics like 'Sick Power Trip' (2025) and 'Another Beautiful Day Indoors' (2022), @thwupbooks.bsky.social. Leading voice of millennial vegan socialist cat-fancying indie pop kids.
📍 Ōtautahi Christchurch
http://www.erikkennedy.com
Gave myself permission to be a poet; Love books, mountains and tea; working at the intersection of process documentation and qualitative research in India
Family, Poetry. Gardening, Nature, Politics, Springsteen fan, Female
The University of Leicester's annual festival of literature, featuring free lectures, talks and readings.
Save the date 18-21 March 2026!
Poet published in magazines & anthologies in the UK, US, Ireland & Canada. Debut pamphlet: Fledglings (Red Squirrel Press, 2016). First collection: Crippled (Red Squirrel Press, 2025).
V. Press publishes poetry and flash fiction that is very very
run by @sarahleavesley.bsky.social
https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/
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
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
fresh poems: wednesday & sunday.
editor:
charlie baylis
Writing poetry | Debut collection: 'The Bone Folder', Drunk Muse Press 2024 | Shortlisted for Saltire Awards & Bridport 2025 | Winner McLellan Prize 2025, Saboteur Award 2023 | Board Moniack Mhor | Poet in Residence UHI | linktr.ee/caitjomac
groups 🔄 activist research ✍ #welcometheboats ⛵ #antiracistpractice ✊ #traumanotpd ❌ Gaia theory 🌍 psychosocial studies 📚 practices of equality 🤝 open mic poetry 🎤 Bob Dylan 🎸 Brixton 🧡 https://barrelblog.org https://open.substack.com/pub/johnadlampoems
Independent publisher of stories underrepresented in Irish literature
📚Contentious Spaces by Rosaleen McDonagh & The Posthumous Book of Shahrazad by Raquel Menéndez trans by Robin Munby
🎤In the Half Light:Voices from Black Ireland curated by Phil Mullen
Poetry ✒️ Nature 🍄 Cannock Chase 🌳
'September' & 'The Taste of Rain' from Offa's Press 🍂 🌧️
The Local Festival for Local Authors
Affordable, accessible, and tremendous fun. Main festival Saturday 20th September, evening events 12th June & 18th Sept Leamington Spa Warwickshire www.southwarwickshireliteraryfestival.com
Poetry bothering, blog tinkering, place pondering, musically promiscuous, book-loving freelance copywriter. Likely to moan & rail at the unfairness & absurdity of life. Poetry links https://richlyevocative.net/articles-reviews-first-published-elsewhere/
tiny wren lit focuses on tiny poems + tiny issues (2-3 times per year). Readers can download each issue in a zine format. Home of the tiny zine. Subs closed.
Web: https://www.tinywrenlit.com/
Derry girl, Dorset woman. Debut Poetry Collection (Cinnamon Press) 2025, Arts Council Award 2024. Website: gillmbarr.wixsite.com/gillbarr
Northampton Poetry Review. A literary journal of poetry and writing from Northamptonshire, UK
https://linktr.ee/npoetryreview
Lyrical writing about working class people. Magic in the mundane 🔮💄📚 Arts for social change ✊🌈💚
The go-to place for writers in Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire
https://gloswriters.org.uk/
Irish writer musing through life from a remote hilltop in Italy.
Poems in Magma, Propel, Unlost Journal and Fly on the Wall Press. Outspoken Press Emerging Poets Development Scheme Mentee 2024-25.
A journal of literature and art published by George Mason University. Submissions are OPEN for the spring 55.2 edition!
https://linktr.ee/phoebejournal
https://phoebe.submittable.com/submit
The Jawbone Collective is in the SouthWest of the UK, a not for profit organisation, independent small press publisher & events organiser. Embracing & uplifting voices from LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, disabled, marginalised & under-represented communities.
Award Winning Independent Press. www.seacrowpress.com
#indiepublishing #Booksky
Reading's Longest-Running and Best-Loved Poetry Reading Series!
Find us the second Friday of the month at South Street Arts Centre, RG1 4QU
www.poetscafereading.co.uk
NewPages.com is your best guide to literary magazines, indie publishing, university presses, creative writing programs, writing and literary events, writing contests and submissions, independent bookstores, and more.
#indiebookstores #litmags #booksky
Diode Editions and Diode Poetry Journal
Our mission is to amplify diverse voices. We are committed to justice, inclusivity, anti-racism, and equity. We strive to craft beautiful books and fanatically support our authors.
Poet. Author of 'Solving the Puzzle' and 'The Second of August' both published by AlienBuddha Press.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Second-August-Peter-J-Donnelly/dp/B0BV4JF13Y
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Solving-Puzzle-Peter-J-Donnelly/dp/B0C9SK19RV
6 - 14 June 2026. Returning for its eighth year, the award-winning festival of words aims to bring together, and help develop, the city’s literary scene, with writers, poets and performers from Leeds, Yorkshire and beyond!
#LLF26. www.leedslitfest.co.uk
Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize winner 2023, ‘Backalong’ out now with Bloodaxe. Poet in Residence at Painshill Park with ACE. Co-Head of English. Brass bander. Somerset sonneteer. Cheese fan. Hi!
We make the arts more diverse. We work nationally with underrepresented creatives & specialise in working with writers through our Writers' Award. #CFWA
www.creativefuture.org.uk
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
Poet, novelist, short story writer, social worker.
Latest book: Belfast to Baillieston (Red Squirrel Press, 2023) www.charliegracie.scot
Poet, one-time English language teacher, lives near his Bristol allotment. Two collections https://dominicfisherpoetry.co.uk/
Poems 'The Grief of The Sea' @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social + 'New Poetries VIII' @carcanet.bsky.social / Head of UK Sales @headofzeus.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social / Grow veg 🌱
jenniferedgecombe.weebly.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.
Poetry and milky tea - ‘Magpie’s Nest’, won the Frosted Fire First Pamphlet Award 2023
Manchester based poet, published on Flapjack Press. Co-editor @AftershockReview My work encompasses love, loss, madness, eco-poetry, place writing and the surreal. Lots of hats.
A Longform Literary Journal. Issue III is out NOW! Read it at: lastsyllablelit.com
Lincs-born, London-based poet, editor and voiceover. Crows! Folklore! Viz!
Co-founder of indie press @sidekickbooks.bsky.social
w/ @shotscarecrow.bsky.social.
'Hot Cockalorum' available from @guillemotpress.bsky.social.
https://linktr.ee/kirstenirving
Poet, Writer, Editor, Indie Bookshop Reviewer
Hobo Camp Review + The Bookshop Hunter
Website: jameshduncan.com
Hobo Camp: hobocampreview.blogspot.com
The Bookshop Hunter: thebookshophunter.com
Poet and former translator, living in Edinburgh, publishing here and there.
Magical person. Actual published poet. Freelance copywriter.
Writer living in North Yorkshire. Poetry in The Friday Poem, Púca Magazine, Wishbone Words and Spelt. Regular blog in 'Moodscope' https://moodscope.com. Poetry and art. Poetry as therapy.
🇲🇽🇺🇲 indie words and audio works. arts calling podcast. coalitionworks lit journal. coalitionist mag. artscalling.com
Lit mag for the weird, muddy, & messy. EIC: Melissa Martini | Account run by Taro W. | Submissions for Issue 10 open January 1, 2026!
"Alas, the poet can only say so much.
So very much."
Leominster, Here(&Now)fordshire, UK.
Posting random thoughts on poetry, on mythology, Paganism, Heathenry.
Oh, and that also.
https://linktr.ee/mathjones
the engine(idling is an online literary magazine for the restless. unique themed issues.
www.engineidling.net
EIC Danielle McMahon (@dehm000.bsky.social)
Writer, editor, runner, sports fan, dad and granddad. Editor of The Fig Tree poetry webzine.
Poetry person. Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis (Penned in the Margins). Screen (Paper Tigers Books). Limit.less_an assembly of the sick (Litmus). ed board [ΦΡΜΚ].
Some of my work here: http://www.greekpoetrynow.com/poet_poems_eng/chiotis_poems.html
