Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social Writer. Debut novel, Poor Ghost! out in paperback from Sceptre July 2026. Doing a PhD on Adorno & novel theory. Co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Berlin & UK.
Seven Stories Press UK @sevenstoriesuk.bsky.social Political non-fiction, world literature, social justice children’s books, and other works of the radical imagination ✨
https://linktr.ee/sevenstoriespressuk
Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social Independent literary publishers. Discover our books here: http://granta.com/books/. 
Misha Honcharenko @michgonch.bsky.social SKIN OF NOCTURNAL APPLE (Pilot Press, 2023); TRAP UNFOLDS ME GREEDILY (Sissy Anarchy, 2024); FAILED REVOLT (TBA)
Ruth Donnelly @rudotranslates.bsky.social Literary translator from Spanish, bookworm, cat lover...
https://ruthdonnellytranslates.co.uk/
Catriona Shine @catrionashine.bsky.social Writer, architect, occasional actor. Debut novel, Habitat, published March 2024 by the Lilliput Press http://bio.site/CatrionaShine
Peter Barrett @peterbarrett.bsky.social Literature in Translation, Poetry, Photography, Kayaking, Forest Meandering, Adventures with Charlie.
Galiano Island, British Columbia, Canada
Rob Madole @robmadole.bsky.social Writer & translator in Berlin. ILLUSIONS by Ruth Rehmann forthcoming from Faber Editions
Quick Book Reviews Podcast @quickbookreviews.bsky.social I’m Philippa, I love books & biscuits. I host the CHART-TOPPING Quick Book Reviews Podcast, with author interviews & honest book reviews - no spoilers.
Email: quickbookreviews@outlook.com
Kaddy Benyon @kaddybenyon.bsky.social Poet: Robbergirls (Salt, 2023), The Tidal Wife (Salt, 2018), Milk Fever (Salt, 2012).
Rep’d by: Rosie Pierce at Curtis Brown.
205TF @205tf.bsky.social TF, two letters that stand for Type Foundry and Typographie Française (French Typography).
https://www.205.tf/
Dave Tynan @davetynan.bsky.social Writer & Director
Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA | Global Indigenous Horror (UPM, 2025) | Poetry Editor Orion’s Belt | Words in Future Fire, UtopiaSF, Space&Time, Lovecraftiana | EIC @katabaticcircus.bsky.social co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social
njstallard @natashastallard.bsky.social writer & editor.
work in bookforum, tank, TLS, etc
pamphlet: partus.press/products/her-fault
Ed Luker @edluker.bsky.social Writer, poet, critic.
Blog: http://belowdeck.substack.com
Links: http://linktr.ee/ed.luker
Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social writer
Dooneen - out now from Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions
previously - A Shock / Hawthorn & Child / Animals / etc
English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social English & Creative Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London. Where creative daring meets critical rigour, discover the world of literature & language.
https://www.gold.ac.uk/ecw/
Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social Artist and researcher. Academic Lecturer at University of Arts London. PhD from Middlesex University.
https://linktr.ee/Michael_Eden
leeza isaeva @leezaisaeva.bsky.social editorial assistant at jonathan cape, vintage @jonathancape.bsky.social
reading + other things
mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social Palestinian poet from Gaza. Author of Forest of Noise & Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
Chetna Maroo @chetnamaroo.bsky.social 
Daniel Fraser @harmlessfires.bsky.social Writer and critic. Work in Poetry London, Poetry Ireland Review, Mute, Aeon, Radical Philosophy, London Magazine +. Tutor & PhD Scholar at UCC. Mostly writing about Marx, Benjamin, Celan, Duras.
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE, demolish the arch.
Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social Author, biologist, cat herder | BFA & SoA winner, Clarke Award, BSFA, Kavya & Saltire Awards finalist | THE SALT ORACLE out now https://geni.us/saltorac | rep Julie Gourinchas | she/her 🏴
http://linktr.ee/raine_clouds
Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social Writer, Lake-swimmer, Bookseller.
FRSL
hEDS/Haemochromatosis/all the comorbs
she/her
rep @PortyLiterary
Books incl:
Recovering Dorothy
Some Of Us Just Fall
The Company of Owls
Emergency Dream
Swimming The Seasons
https://linktr.ee/pollyatkin
Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social assistant professor of comparative literature at utrecht uni. projects on post-partition lit & authorial politics. current research and writing at https://intervention.sites.uu.nl/. she/her.
fourteen poems @fourteenpoems.bsky.social Queer poetry publisher!
💫 anthologies 3x year
🐳 issue 15 out now
📚 pamphlets from emerging writers
🖥️ online chats and readings
Colin Grant @colincraiggrant.bsky.social Author, director of WritersMosaic
https://writersmosaic.org.uk/
Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social Writer, reader, thinker. Founder & director of the Jhalak Prize
Samara Linton @samaralinton.com Writer, Editor, Multidisciplinary Content Producer
Diane Abbott: The Authorised Biography / The Colour Of Madness
Former Doctor
she/her
samaralinton.com
Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social Author of RAINBOW TRAP and QUEER DATA 🌈 Researching LGBTQ data at the University of Edinburgh 📊 he/him/his ➡️ linktr.ee/kevinguyan
Lighthouse - Edinburgh's Radical Bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social Queer-owned and woman-led independent community bookshop. 🏳️🌈 An unapologetically activist, intersectional, feminist, antiracist, lgbtq+ community space.
Find us at https://lighthousebookshop.com/
Portobello Literary @portyliterary.bsky.social A literary agency based in Edinburgh.
https://linktr.ee/portobelloliterary
Annie Rutherford @annierutherford.bsky.social Translator, writer and cultural project leader. Artistic director at Highlight Arts. Particularly interested in collaborative working and creating communities. 2025 BCLT translator-in-residence. (she/they)
annietranslates.wordpress.com
Matt Abbott 🍉 @mattabbottpoet.com ✍️🏻 Poet, novelist & educator
📚 3 full-length poetry books 📕 1 novel
📍 Leeds, UK 🦚 #lufc ♂️ He/him
🧠 AuDHD 🎤 @livewirepoetry.org
🌐 mattabbottpoet.com
Peter @peter.polari.com Founder of @polari.press queer publisher and design studio. Using this as a personal/professional account so let's see how that goes (expect mild chaos). 🏳️🌈☮️🏳️⚧️🍉
polari.com
Roseanne Watt @roseannewatt.bsky.social Writer, filmmaker, musician from Shetland. She/shö/her. Author of multi award-winning poetry collection 'Moder Dy' (Polygon, 2019). RSL Jerwood Poetry Award Winner 2024. Midder tongues, folklore, islandness, illness.
Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social Working Class Poet/Writer | Publisher of @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social | The Working Classic (2023, the87press) | Awen Medal | Stroke Survivor | he/him | Agent: Kate Rizzo (Greene & Heaton)
Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social NEW novel 'The Life Of Life' publishes March 2027
'The Good Immigrant - 10th Anniversary Edition' out this month, September 2026, Canongate Books
https://salenagodden.substack
https://www.salenagodden.co.uk
Chitra Ramaswamy @chitgrrl.bsky.social Author: Homelands, Expecting. Journalist: The Guardian. Restaurant critic: The Times Scotland. Used to be a person whose profile said only 'don't conclude anything without cheese'. Still am, on the inside.
Mae Diansangu @vavapoetry.bsky.social Day job☀️ ASN classroom assistant
Creative practice✍🏾 Poet [Scots + English]
Drag alter ego🕺🏾👑 Uncle Tony
vavapoetry@gmail.com
The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social Independent Cultural Journalism from Scotland. Free monthly magazine, website, podcasts, and more. DMs not monitored, send us an email.
theskinny.co.uk
Arusa Qureshi @arusa.bsky.social Author of Flip the Script (404ink) and words sometimes in the Quietus, NME, Guardian, The Forty-Five etc.
Trustee @ Music Venue Trust & Hen Hoose
https://www.arusaqureshi.com/
Dr Diego Garcia @thediegogarcia.bsky.social Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham ✨ | Founder & Host of the Queer(y)ing Asylum Symposium & Podcast 🎙️ | Exploring the intersections of LGBTIQ+ asylum, faith, and health across borders 🌍 | Indonesia 🇮🇩 | Free 🇵🇸
Sam Swann @samgswann.bsky.social 
Thom Eagle @thomeagle.bsky.social I write and I cook and I grow things
Richard O'Brien @notrockyhorror.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Northumbria University and lapsed early modernist. Working on poetry, novels, & a music memoir/podcast about the Mountain Goats: thirtyyearslater.substack.com. I make music as Groundbird, groundbird.bandcamp.com.
Elizabeth @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social Author - THANK YOU FOR CALLING THE LESBIAN LINE - Feb 25 (UK) May 25 (US) with Dialogue and Legacy Lit
🌈☎️✨ I like games, books, art & crafts ✨newsletter/blog: the tiny narrative ✨ she/her
linktr.ee/elizabethlovatt
nicole froio @nicolefroio.bsky.social Doctor in Women's Studies | Reporter, editor, researcher | Co-founder of The Flytrap | she/her | hire me: nicolefroio@gmail.com | tip me on Signal: nicolefroio.57 | anarcho-feminist | Free Palestine
Laura Venning @lauravenning.bsky.social Film critic, author, queer, Jane Campion champion, words for Sight and Sound, BFI, Curzon, Little White Lies, Empire, BBC Culture.
✉️ venninglaura@gmail.com
✍️ lauravenning.com / https://lauravenning.substack.com / https://lnk.to/GretaGerwig
Max Shirley @maxrshirley.bsky.social Lecturer in Literature at a London uni. Research/write on avant-gardes, contemporary lit, the politics of form.
Paul Dobson @handle.invalid Journalist at @theferret.scot
Left Bank Books STL @leftbankbooks.bsky.social St. Louis City's Largest Indie Bookstore
Founded in 1969
Queer woman owned
Wayfaring Booksellers @wayfaringbooks.bsky.social Queer Bookstore in Lansing, MI
wayfaringbooksellers.com
At the REO Town Marketplace ~
Open: Thurs 11-5, Fri-Sat 11-6
New & Used Books
A Seat at the Table Books - Elk Grove's ONLY Indie Bookstore @seatbooks.bsky.social Inclusive, LGBTQ-owned "third space" bookstore w/ cafe, events, and free wifi in Elk Grove, just south of Sacramento
Cross & Crows Books @crossandcrowsbooks.bsky.social That queerly friendly neighbourhood bookstore in the community of East Van on unceded and occupied MST land. Offering new and used books, small gifts, and Cozy Chairs™ for the queer soul and beloved community since 2023. www.crossandcrows.com 
The Portal Bookshop @portalbookshop.bsky.social Sci-fi, fantasy, & LGBTQIA. Queer resistance. Always trying to help. Portalbookshop@gmail.com Mon-Sat 10-5.30, Sun 11-5:30; 5 Patrick Pool, York, UK
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/lalidoesbooks
The BookishType @thebookishtype.bsky.social Queer Indie Bookshop in Leeds
The Common Press Bookshop @thecommonpress.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 London's queer intersectional bookshop! A sanctuary for storytelling, queer literature & culture.
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We are open Tues - Sun 11 am - 6.30 pm | Events 7 pm-late
118 Bethnal Green Rd, Shoreditch, London, United Kingdom E2 6DG
commonpress.co.uk
Colette Townend @colettet.bsky.social Systems librarian at Lambeth Libraries (she/her) 🏴
Dan Hancox @danhancox.bsky.social Journalist and author from south London. Latest book: MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World (Verso 2024).
https://cursedobjects.podbean.com/
https://danhancox.substack.com/
Craig Gilmore @craiggilmore.bsky.social abolitionist organizing // land & housing // books & music.
Saqi Books @saqibooks.bsky.social A leading independent publisher of trade and academic books on the Middle East and North Africa.
Website: www.saqibooks.com
Linktree: https://shorturl.at/Yc9TY
Alex Niven @alexniven.bsky.social 
Elise Bell @eliseybell.bsky.social Arts Writer and Commentator with words in Guardian, FT, Plaster Magazine, Independent and Dazed.
You can pre-order My Opinionated Guide to Erotic Art here: https://www.hoxtonminipress.com/products/an-opinionated-guide-to-erotic-art
Script Haven LTD @scripthavenltd.bsky.social Thriving independent bookshop, coffee shop, event venue, safe community haven in Worcester, UK!
scripthavenltd@gmail.com
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/scripthaven
5 Crown Passage, Worcester WR1 3LL
scripthaven.co.uk
Also on Insta, Facebook and Twitter
The Poetry Bookshop @poetrybookshop.bsky.social The largest bookshop of its kind in the UK. Devoted entirely to poetry since 1979
Find us online or in person in heart of Hay on Wye the worlds first Booktown
Urmston Books & Board Games @urmstonbooks.bsky.social Book shop and board game cafe in Urmston, Manchester. Find us at 72 Flixton Road, Urmston M41 5AB. urmstonbooks.co.uk
RIAS Bookshop @riasbookshop.bsky.social Scotland's Architecture Bookshop offering wide range of contracts, books and gifts. Part of The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.
bookshop.rias.org.uk
uk.bookshop.org/shop/RIASBookshop
eventbrite.co.uk/cc/bookshoplates-1351289
Westwood Books in Sedbergh, Cumbria @westwoodbooks.bsky.social Bookshop in England’s official Booktown
www.westwoodbooks.co.uk
Gloucester Road Books @gloucesterroadbks.bsky.social Independent bookshop on Bristol's legendary Gloucester Road https://gloucesterroadbooks.com/
Little Deer Comics @littledeercomics.bsky.social An indie comic book shop in Stoneybatter! D07 KC80 Bringing small press comics to Ireland since 2019! By Matt Melis, founder of DCAF, The Dublin Comic Arts Festival
https://littledeercomics.ie
Little Acorns Bookstore @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social Award-winning Indie bookshop, Derry, North of Ireland. 70k new & used books. Est 2011. Two LegenDerry Chairs (380 signatures). Typewriter Museum due to open 2025. Donegal owner💚📚
Bigglestones Books @bigglestones.bsky.social Bookshop in Glasgow.
All Good Bookshop @allgoodbookshop.co.uk A community co-op bookshop in the heart of #Haringey, North London located at 35 Turnpike Lane. We do books and events and local.
http://linktr.ee/allgoodbookshop
The Rocketship Bookshop @rshipbshop.bsky.social Children’s Independent Bookshop in Salisbury. Open 9:30-4 Mon-Fri 9:30-5 Sat 11-3 Sun. Visit our website https://rocketshipbookshop.co.uk/online-shop/
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Write Blend Bookshop @writeblendbookshop.bsky.social We are an independent bookshop just outside Liverpool. We love all authors, trad or indie
TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social A Tipperary, Ireland based indie bookseller of new, old and inbetween books. Spend €20 & get free shipping !
Gaeilge agus fáilte.
www.thebookshop.ie
linktr.ee/thebookshop.ie
https://www.instagram.com/thebookshop.ie/
Bridge Books Dromore @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social A tiny world of books and bookish gifts. Come visit, bring chocolate! Owner is a delight, at times. Drinker of terrible tea (allegedly)
Www.bridgebooksdromore.co.uk
Belfast Books @belfastbooks.bsky.social Only working class bookshop in Belfast. Out of print books about 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland at our tiny York Rd store and new books are at www.belfastbooks.co.uk with audiobooks at https://libro.fm/belfastbooks and author services at willmybooksell.com
Owl Bookshop @owlbookshop.bsky.social Independent bookseller in Kentish Town, London.
🦉📚🎁
Mon-Sat 9am-6pm
Sun 11am-6pm
www.owlbookshop.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/OwlBookshop
owlbookshop@gmail.com
Tel. 020 7485 7793
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop @ylbooks.bsky.social In all our forms - bookshops in Gloucestershire, a festival or two, schools and libraries. Occasionally Hereward. Less often, Errol the dog.
The Book Vault @thebookvault.bsky.social An independent bookshop for Barnsley, UK. Eclectic ranges of fiction and non-fiction for all ages.
Tree House Second-hand Bookshop @treehousebookshop.bsky.social Read, Recycle, Rediscover
Second-hand bookshop and music venue in Kenilworth, Warwickshire run by Victoria Mier. Profits to charity. Patron is glorious Bad Seed Warren Ellis. Posts by Victoria.
Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social Britain's oldest anarchist publication and bookshop, founded in 1886. Occasionally disreputable.
freedomnews.org.uk for news, freedompress.org.uk for books
editor@ or shop@freedompress.org.uk to contact
https://linktr.ee/f_p
Big Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social Half Man, Half Bookshop.
Moved to Hastings in 2018 to start a wild new adventure with my family.
Not the inventor of the word "brainbow"
https://www.biggreenbookshop.com/
Sam Read Bookseller @samreadbookseller.bsky.social Est. by Sam Read in 1887. Award-winning small bookshop in the Lake District. Posts from @likewinterblue.bsky.social and @pollyrowena.bsky.social Insta: samreadbookseller Browse a selection from our virtual shelves: www.samreadbooks.co.uk
Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social Independent bookshop and art gallery in Galway, Ireland. Free delivery in Ireland and we ship worldwide. New, used and rare books.
www.kennys.ie | www.thekennygallery.ie
Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social Nottingham's city centre independent and radical bookshop, est. 2013
Publishing as Five Leaves since 1995
www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk, www.fiveleaves.co.uk
We organise about a hundred events a year. Fast ordering service. Four book clubs.
Dead Ink Bookshop @deadinkbookshop.bsky.social An independent bookshop exclusively stocking independent publishers, based on Smithdown Road in Liverpool.
https://linktr.ee/deadinkbookshop
Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal.
Based in West Dorset
www.littletoller.co.uk
Instagram / @littletollerbooks
Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social Bookshop
34 Main Street, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland
info@ravenbooks.ie ¦ (01) 278 9509 ¦ 086 3390231
Mon-Sat 10-6, Sun 12-5
paulftremlett @paulftremlett.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University & President of the British Association for the Study of Religions (BASR). Religions; places; literacies; alternative futures. Bad at chess, worse at table tennis.
Peter Scalpello @pscalpello.bsky.social Mirrorstage // Limbic @cipherpress.bsky.social
So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press 🐉 THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 🌳 Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
Prototype @prototypepubs.bsky.social London-based independent publisher of fiction, poetry, anthologies & interdisciplinary projects, committed to championing the work of new voices in free-form contemporary literature.
https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/
Dr Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou @hannahhg.bsky.social Writer (Prototype, The London Magazine, Art Monthly, Elephant, Wallpaper*, The Arts Desk, Worms, Plinth, Burlington Contemp. etc). Dr (PhD Wollstonecraft, Bodies). Literature Tutor at City Lit
For writing & Fane/Book events: https://linktr.ee/hhgsparkles