Rishi Dastidar 🔱🌊

@betarish

Consulting ed @RialtoPoetry | @TCWPOETS fellow | Chair @WasafiriMag | 'A hobby of mine’ @brokensleep | rishidastidar.com | linktr.ee/betarish

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Antony Dapiran

@antd

Writer/Lawyer/Photographer. Author of Walkley-nominated book “City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong” (@scribepub).

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Kris Cheng

@krislc

Hong Kong journalist covering local politics, Greater China, diplomacy, archives. Words @hkfp @foreignpolicy @washingtonpost @voacantonese

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Galileo Cheng

@galileocheng

Axed Award-winning photojournalist, @ubcjournalism, Mentee @roomupfront; Works @initiumnews @hkfrontline @hkfp @rfacantonese ChannelC HK

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The Poetry Society

@poetrysociety

A charitable organisation promoting and advocating poets & poetry since 1909. Publishes #ThePoetryReview. Also @youngpoetsnet, @poetryeducation & @poetrycafeldn

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Dr Francesca Brooks

@frangipancesca

Poet, writer & researcher living in Manchester. Early Medievalist, Late Modernist, Feminist. Teaching + Research Training & development at MMU. She/her

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Rich Ware

@warer

poet & writer | fourteen poems (issue 13) & Impossible Archetype (issue 16) | he/him | co-founder of Queer Poetry Collective 🌈

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Mat Riches

@matriches

Poet, market researcher, husband, father, knobhead. Collecting The Data out now. The "Aldi Stanley Tucci".

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Aoife Mannix

@aoifemannix

Writer/poet/teacher of creative writing/ novel Heritage of Secrets flippedeye.net/product/herita…

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Dr Nick Makoha

@nickmakoha

The New Carthaginians - is available for pre-order on Penguin Press in 2025 |@PenguinUKBooks Agent | Aparna | @dgaliterary

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Pascale Petit FRSL🐅🌳🦜🌳🐆

@pascalepoet

'Beast' | 'Tiger Girl' shortlist Forward Prize, ‘Mama Amazonica' won Laurel, Ondaatje prizes @BloodaxeBooks | 1st novel 'My Hummingbird Father' | rep @JonCurzon

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Alvin Lum

@alvinllum

Political reporter @mingpaocom, covering Hong Kong's political and justice system. RT = cares about, but not necessarily agrees.

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Jennifer Wong

@jennywcreative

writer, poet (she/her) / 回家 Letters Home @ninearchespress / Writing Elsewhere @Bloomsburylit / time difference @vervepoetrypres

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katereilly.bsky.social

@bobbiharlow

夜香・鴛鴦・深水埗 Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down co-writer and co-director with @hongkongkai. Best Screenplay, Hong Kong Film Critics Society

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Monica MacSwan

@monicamacswan

🌶️📚 Associate Agent @AitkenAlexander (she/her)

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Siu Heng (@siuheng.bsky.social)

@siuheng

arts administrator / film & cultural programme manager / communications professional / writer, translator & editor / MA grad @HKUniversity / manager @HKFF_UK

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John McCullough 🏳️‍🌈

@johnmccullough_

Poet. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize for Literature with Reckless Paper Birds. Forward & Costa-shortlisted. Just joined Bluesky: mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social

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Patrizia

@goldwildpoppy

she/her - with a funny Italian accent - queer poet and visual artist.

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟

@markantonyowen

𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁: @Subruria. 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿: @iambapoet / @after_poetry. 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿: Online open mics. I was here when it was Twitter. And it was better.

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Chris Campbell

@citizen_chris

Poems in @magmapoetry, @prolebooks | 2nd collection out in 2025 with Parlyaree Press | Highly Commended: 2024 Cobh Int'l Comp | One of @LitWorks' 2024-25 cohort

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derek guy

@dieworkwear

Menswear writer. Editor at @putthison. Creator of @RLGoesHard. Bylines at The New York Times, The Financial Times, Politico, Esquire, and Mr. Porter

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Vivienne Chow

@viviennechow

✍🏼London Correspondent @artnet; Co-author, The Asia Pivot, ArtnetPRO. Formerly @variety @qz @SCMPNews. @sopasia🏅. IJP Premium Fellow Berlin. Hong Konger.

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Andrew Jamison

@andrew_jamison

Poet | Teacher | PhD candidate @uniofreading | Baking Swans We Cannot See @TheGalleryPress Founder of #thepoetsworkshop, independent online poetry workshops

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Katrina Naomi

@katrinanaomi

Poet & performer. Battery Rocks (July 24, Seren). Winner of Arthur Welton Award, Keats-Shelley Prize & Saboteur Award. PhD @GoldsmithsUoL Also on Insta.

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Millie Guille

@millieguille

Junior Editor @EuropaEdUK | Formerly at @OxUniPress, @FaberBooks, & @BloomsburyBooks

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Jemilea Wisdom-Baako MA,

@poeticjemz

#LondonWritersAward Poet. Founder of @writerznscribez All opinions my own. Pamphlet forthcoming Spring 2024 iLove Jesus iLove Words iLove People

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Kat Dixon (she/her)

@katdixon2012

Poet & performer. digital inclusion advocate. 'eat the glitter' w/Broken Sleep Books (I have quiet-quit twitter. Find me on IG instead).

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Julia Webb

@julwe1

Editor @LighthouseJrnl blog: visual-poetics.blogspot.co.uk Latest book: The Telling she/her #Poetry #Mentor #Neurodivergent

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Marjorie Lotfi

@marjorielotfi

@Bloodaxebooks Poet (Forward & James Berry Prize, Shortlist Saltire Prize ) Founder/Dir Open Book, [email protected] (views my own)

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Jessie Pang

@jessiepang0125

@Reuters Breaking News Correspondent. @JMSCHKU Alum. Hongkonger. Keep reporting ✍🏻. Views are my own. RT ≠ Endorsement.

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Jennifer Edgecombe

@jenniedgecombe

Poems 'The Grief of The Sea' @brokensleep + 'New Poetries VIII' @Carcanet / Assistant Editor - Fiction @MtLeopardPress @headlinepg / Grow veg 🌱

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Poetry Pharmacy 🚑💊📚🇪🇺

@emergencypoet

Poetry place-the World's 1st Poetry Pharmacy prescribing poetry & more in Bishop's Castle & Oxford Street, London. Poetry on Prescription since 2011

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Jennifer Lim

@xanadujenn

A staunch participant in the art of make believe....actor/filmmaker.....Artistic Director @moongateprods jenniferlim.me Instagram: @xanadujenn

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Katie Donovan

@katiedon5

Poet, writer, Amatsu & Trauma therapist, animal & nature lover. 6 poetry collections, most recent, "May Swim" (Bloodaxe '24). O'Shaughnessy Award 2017

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Maya Caspari

@mayamnc

Ideally writing or napping. Lecturer @UoYEnglish, based in London / York. Sometimes poet. Rarely here.

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Mary Jean Chan

@maryjean_chan

FLÈCHE (2019) and BRIGHT FEAR (2023) @FaberBooks. 100 Queer Poems (2022) @vintagebooks. Departmental Lecturer (Poetry) @OxMst. Research Fellow @HMCOxford.

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Lisabelle Tay

@lisabelletay

Semicolon devotee

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@concordmoose.bsky.social

@concordmoose

Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed: Disabled Poets Prize 24. Propel Northern Gravy Black Bough. 1/2 poet 1/2 tutor 1/2 clown. susiewilsonpoet.com

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Samuel Bickett

@samuelbickett

Lawyer, researcher, human rights advocate | Bickett Law & Policy PLLC | Hong Kong Law & Policy Substack | Proud former Hong Kong political prisoner

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Hongwei Bao (he/him)

@patrickbao1

queer east asian writer and academic based in Nottingham. Author of The Passion of the Rabbit God (Valley Press) and Queering the Asian Diaspora (Sage).

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@rosannamcglone.bsky.social

@rosannamcglone

Mother, writer, journalist @guardian @smh. The Making of a Poem, sequel to Amazon No 1,The Process of Poetry. Available fr me if in UK. Feisty Females May '25.

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Katy Mack

@mackkatymack123

Poet | First, I Turn Off the Light @brokensleep | AHRC IAA Impact Research Fellow @SussexUni

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Pauline Rowe

@paulinerowe_

Poet & Writer, pamphlets with @MaytreePress, RLF Fellow for Reading Round in Liverpool, Associate Writer at Open Eye Gallery, PhD, mum of 6 (3 still at home)

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Seán Hewitt

@seanehewitt

Author of Rapture’s Road; 300,000 Kisses; All Down Darkness Wide; Tongues of Fire. Assistant Professor @tcdenglish. @matthewmarland looks after me. He/him.

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Andy Breckenridge

@drbafc

Lapsed Obanite. PTFC&CPFC Winner: Indigo Dreams Poetry Comp 2023. Book of poems The Fish Inside available here flightofthedragonfly.com/shop/

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Rob Miles @robmilespoetry.bsky.social 🪶

@robmilespoetry

Words and Pictures PhD #viewsmyown. Poet @brokensleep and academic, Film Studies @UniversityLeeds 🇬🇧🇪🇸🇫🇷🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 Find me on Facebook or Bluesky

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Murkrow𓅣 #ACAB

@ginkgogoes

i draw, i'm bird, i scream

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Julie Irigaray

@irigarayjulie

French Basque writer | Poetry book 'Whalers, Witches & Gauchos' (@nine_pens) | Sylvia Plath scholar | Writing tutor at @citylit & @mac_birmingham

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Kevin Yam 任建峰

@kevinkfyam

PhD candidate, @melblawschool. Senior Fellow @GeorgetownCAL. Activist/ex-lawyer, #HongKong. Cricket tragic. @hawthornfc fan. Foodie. Views my own.

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Martina Dalton

@_martinadalton

Poems @irishtimes @poetryireland @stingingfly @magmapoetry @RattleMag @dedaluspress @ArlenHouse @Independent_ie | @AnpostIBAS Poem of the Year 2022

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The Alchemy Spoon

@alchemy_spoon

Poetry magazine with special focus on 'new phase' poets. alchemyspoon.org

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poet john compton

@poetjohncompton

poet • buy my new full length book from @flowersongpress in linktree below • i can sell 700 books while sitting on my bed • poetry editor

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Francis-Xavier Mukiibi - Poetry

@fxmpoetry

North London Poet & Performer | Eric Gregory Award | Creative Future Writers' Award | Debut pamphlet forthcoming with Little Betty (Bad Betty Press, 2025)

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Gustav Parker Hibbett

@gustav_parker

black poet / essayist / mfa dropout • phd @tcddublin • @obsidianfdn alum • high jump as icarus story (@bansheelit, july 2024) • rep’d @ange_tranvan

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Andrew McMillan

@amcmillanpoet

Pity @canongatebooks /physical,playtime,pandemonium (@jonathancape) / 💯Queer Poems (@vintagebooks) / prof / agent: Chris Wellbelove

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Rebecca McCutcheon

@chickenbex

Poet 🐥🐻 First collection ‘Down’ out with @Outspoken_Press June 2024

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tim tim cheng 🐸 (she/they)

@timtimtmi

🦥 the tattoo collecter (2024) @NineArchesPress; tapping at glass (2023) @VervePoetryPres 🐌 IG @ mymothercalls 🦋 timtimtmi.bsky.social

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Hong Kong Film Festival UK

@hkff_uk

🎥 2nd HKFF(UK): Home Away From Home - Distance and disparity unveils a world of possibility. Visit hkff.uk for programme details and tickets. 🗓 March 2023.

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Eucalyptus Lit | OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS

@eucalyptuslit

Quarterly magazine of poetry, prose, and artwork (est. 2023). We are a 501(c)3 dedicated to supporting writers and artists. Submissions open for Issue 6!

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The Hong Konger

@hongkongerworld

We are an independent, global English-language online platform. Read our stories and sign up for our newsletter: hongkonger.world

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Words for Gaza

@words4gaza

A Southwest grassroots movement campaigning for a literary Palestine fundraiser. Led by book industry workers. Save the date: Oct 13 at @MXCCBristol.

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Poetry In Aldeburgh

@poetryaldeburgh

A poetry festival in the beautiful Suffolk coastal town of Aldeburgh under the big skies of East Anglia. From Thursday 6 to Sunday 9 November 2025

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Amanita_is_the_name💙

@davidhanlon13

Cardiff poet. Debut chapbook Spectrum of Flight available for purchase @PressAnimal. Co-poetry editor @brokenspinearts #blacklivesmatter🖤

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yong-yu

@yong_yuhuang

northwestern, managing @nuhelicon | words @SixthFinch @WaxwingMag @AdroitJournal @Britannica

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Ta-wei Chi / 紀大偉

@tawei_chi

#kalvot #membranas #membrane #perles #themembranes

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Holmes Chan

@holmeschan_

Covering Hong Kong for @AFP

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MK Lit Fest

@mklitfest

Milton Keynes Literary Festival: in-person and online events across the year in a fabulous festival of books, words, writers and ideas.

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Caroline Bird

@carolinebirduk

Poet & playwright. 7th poetry collection, Ambush at Still Lake, out from Carcanet: shorturl.at/JXYCR. Winner of Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020

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Milena Williamson

@milenaevening

Into the Night that Flies So Fast tinyurl.com/2p8j8c23 Charm for Catching a Train tinyurl.com/yck38at3 She/her. PhD from @HeaneyCentre.

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Sarah Corbett

@sarahcorbett70

Poet. 6th collection of poetry The Ishtar Gate ( Pavilion '25), A Perfect Mirror (Pavilion, 2018). ed. After Sylvia (Nine Arches, '22).

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