Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social seanbirnie.com
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Short stories in ergot, Weird Horror, Interzone, Remains & elsewhere
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Stuart Evers @stuartevers.bsky.social Writer, reviewer, Columbo enthusiast
T.C. Boyle @tcboyle.com American fiction writer equally devoted to novels and short stories.
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John Oakey @johnoakey.bsky.social https://johnoakeydesign.wordpress.com/
Tony Dunnell @tonydunnell.bsky.social Writer of fact and fiction ( #scifi mainly, some horror). English but living in the high jungle of Peru. Short stories published in Escape Pod, Fusion Fragment, Fission, Sci Phi Journal and more. I also post about #movies. https://tonydunnell.com/
D H Fowles @danielharveyfowles.bsky.social Artist, naturalist and social scientist
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ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com Dubliner in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Writer. https://www.LaurenceWrites.com/. 2025 Cúirt New Writing Fiction Prize. Posts in English/Français/Svenska. (He/Him/YerMan)
Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
Alex Ekins @alexekins.bsky.social Artist + Climber + Instructor + Coach. Dirt + Rock + Wood. Patagonia Pro.
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Talking Scared Podcast @talkscaredpod.bsky.social A podcast of conversations with the biggest names in horror writing. Find out where your favourite scary stories came from.
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The Dickens Society @dickenssociety.bsky.social Bluesky page for the international Dickens Society www.dickenssociety.org
Dan Lockton @handle.invalid Utrecht, NL + Norwich, UK
Prof of Design & Imagination, Norwich University of the Arts ⦿ Director, Institute for Sustainable Worlds https://sustainableworlds.org.uk ⦿ Design⸻imagination⸻climate⸻futures ⦿ http://imaginari.es ⦿ he/him ⦿ Not employer's views
DickensYouSay @dickensyousay.bsky.social If these pages contain a great deal about me, I can only suppose it must be because I have really something to do with them and can't be kept out. - Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Xan Brooks @xanbrooks.bsky.social Novelist, journalist. THE CATCHERS (https://tinyurl.com/TheCatchers2024)
Royal Exchange Theatre @rxtheatre.bsky.social Bringing theatre in-the-round and in communities within Greater Manchester.
https://www.royalexchange.co.uk/
Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social Writer.
Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social PhD Chelsea College of Arts. Work in: Partisan Hotel, gorse journal, Mercurius Magazine, Sublunary Editions, 3AM Magazine, Essence Press, Vanguard Readings. Chapbooks with Gordian Projects & Nightjar Press, book with Rossi Contemporary
John-Paul Flintoff @jp.flintoff.org Writer and artist.
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Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social London author. Latest novel Phantom at the Feast out now on No Exit Press. Tony White is an RLF Fellow. CWA member. Views my own. No DMs. Mailing list etc.👇🏼
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Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social Dubliner, Ex-Berliner, Editor at Internationale Politik Quarterly
@ipq.bsky.social. Doing an MPhil in literary translation at TCD. @tclctdublin.bsky.social she/her
Black Herald Press @blackheraldpress.bsky.social Éditeur indépendant / independent press
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
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Rob Madole @robmadole.bsky.social Writer & translator in Berlin. ILLUSIONS by Ruth Rehmann forthcoming from Faber Editions
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Saraband Books @saraband-books.bsky.social Award-winning independent publisher of distinctive, unforgettable fiction and outstanding non-fiction.
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@hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social Founded in 1906 to support, promote, and celebrate the discipline of English Studies (registered charity 1124890). www.englishassociation.ac.uk/join-us/
David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social Autheur. Unfluencer.
'The Beckett List' (2027)
'A Crumpled Swan' (2025)
'Multiple Joyce' (2022)
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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social The literary prize rewarding mould-breaking fiction, launched and run by Goldsmiths UoL in association with the New Statesman
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Open Letter Books @openletterbooks.bsky.social Publishing world voices that are extraordinary and influential, works that we hope will become the classics of tomorrow!
Claire Harman @claireharman.bsky.social Biographer, critic, emeritus Professor. Books on Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, Fanny Burney, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Katherine Mansfield. Also Murder by the Book, a Victorian literary true-crime.
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Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Flas shqip.
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Erica Wagner @ericawgnr.bsky.social Writer, reader, cook, friend, lover. Contributing Editor, Observer. Contributing Writer for the New Statesman, Consulting Lit Ed for Harper's Bazaar. Podcaster, various. www.ericawagner.co.uk
Sharon Telfer @sharontelfer.bsky.social Writer. Editor. Keeps things short.
Here (mostly) to share #FlashFiction, #ShortStories, writing community.
My flash fiction collection, The Map Waits, is published by Reflex Press: https://www.reflex.press/product/the-map-waits/
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social Triple threat:
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Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social Author of 8 books of fiction & poetry. Recent:The Thickness of Ice (novel, Baraka Books, 2024);The Death Poems (Salt, 2023).Winner of Rubery Award for Fiction. Shortlisted Danuta Gleed Award, Bord Gais Irish Book Awards, & Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.
Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. New book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador, out now. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ
W. J. Davies @wjdavies.bsky.social Writer. Essays, fiction and reviews in the Times Literary Supplement, Slightly Foxed, Exacting Clam, Review 31, Poetry Birmingham, minor literature[s]. Author of Beckett and the Second World War (Bloomsbury)
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Barbara Renel @barbara-renel.bsky.social
Jonathan Buckley @jcbuckley.bsky.social Novelist
Juliet Butler @bookliterati.bsky.social Hi, I’m a book blogger and avid reader who loves talking about books. I am also obsessed with my four Cocker Spaniels who are my constant companions.
Hinterland Magazine - open for submissions @hinterlandnf.bsky.social Hinterland is a triannual print magazine showcasing the best in creative non-fiction writing. Issue 16 out now! Edited by @andrewkenrick.bsky.social @ionamacduff.bsky.social and @yinflim.bsky.social. Based in Norwich. https://linktr.ee/hinterlandnonfiction
Horatio Clare @horatioclare.bsky.social Award-winning author, broadcaster, journalist. Next book: WE CAME BY SEA: the true story of the small boat crisis. Latest: THE RECOVERY GUIDE TO MENTAL HEALTH, is a Times Self-help Book of the Year. Presents Is Psychiatry Working? on BBC Sounds
Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social Writer
My biography of Henri Bergson – Herald of a Restless World – is out now!
"The most intellectually stimulating book I read this year.” John Banville
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https://linktr.ee/eherring- A Alice Jolly @alicejolly.bsky.social Winner of the 2026 Walter Scott prize for 'The Matchbox Girl' (about Dr Asperger) published by Bloomsbury Books in 2025. Rep'd by Eleanor Birne at Rogers, Coleridge, White. Oxford University whistleblower. Active member of Just Stop Oil.
Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism.
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Kerri Andrews @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social Writer & academic at University College Cork, where I am also Director of Creative Writing. Author of Pathfinding and Wanderers. Editor of Way Makers + Nan Shepherd’s letters. Walker, reader and single mum. Signed copies of all books: kerriandrews.co.uk
Leila Martin @bookishleels.bsky.social Writer, reader, next-level procrastinator. What time is it?
LeftLion Magazine Nottingham @leftlion.bsky.social Where Nottingham Meets.
Shouting arts and culture in the home of Robin Hood since 2003.
Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social Northern writer. Author of The Disappeared. Stories in The London Reader, Reflex Press, Palm-Sized Press. Finalist: Mslexia Short Story Comp/Dinesh Allirajah Prize. Arts marketer. Writer in residence Durham Writes & Crossing the Tees.
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Cooper Lee Press @cooperleepress.bsky.social Bridging the gap between craft development and published work, Cooper Lee is an independent press and school of writing and theory founded in 2025 by Dr Craig Snelgrove.
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Jack Barron @jackbarron93.bsky.social Teaching Associate, University of Cambridge.
Literary Editor, The Arts Desk.
2024 Anthony Burgess/Observer Prize for Arts Journalism Shortlistee.
Gritstone Publishing @gritstonebooks.bsky.social Gritstone Publishing Cooperative is Britain’s first publishing company which is an author-run co-operative. We publish non-fiction and fiction titles relating to the landscape and the countryside.
Eleanor Fuller @eleanorfuller.bsky.social Winner Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction 2023; finalist Fiddlehead Short Fiction Prize 2023 & Cambridge Short Story Prize 2024. Edith Wharton WiR 2024. Words: The Waxed Lemon, The Moth, Malahat, The New Quarterly & other lovelies. CCA-funded sabbatical!
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REMAINS @remainsmagazine.bsky.social Magazine of new fiction edited by Andy Cox with art by Richard Wagner. Issue 5 out now. https://remains.uk
Chris Parker @chrisparkerwriter.bsky.social Writer of TV and books for adults and children. Nameless Lake (Salt Books), The Yes Bunny (Magic Cat)
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Eds: Irina Dumitrescu, Gabriel Flynn & Thomas Karshan
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Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social writer
Dooneen - out now from Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions
previously - A Shock / Hawthorn & Child / Animals / etc
Joanna Piechowska @ashapiechowska.bsky.social Linguist, reader, educator and a beginning writer. Lover of non-fiction and translated fiction. University of Nottingham graduate - BA Hons Modern Languages & PGCE.
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
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https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Arthur Mandal @arthurmandal.bsky.social Brit/US writer of uncanny fiction. Best Small Fictions 2025. Over 40 stories in The Barcelona Review, LITRO, Southeast Review, The Forge, The Los Angeles Review and others. @nightjarpress Based in Eugene, Oregon (but grew up in UK). www.arthurmandal.com
Ruth Thomas @ruthiesthomas.bsky.social Latest novel The Snow and the Works on the Northern Line (a BBC Book at Bedtime) @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social
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Danila Botha @danilabotha.bsky.social Author of Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness (Guernica 2024) A Place for People Like Us (Guernica 2025)
Vidal, At Bay Press, 2026
For All the Men... reissue (Guernica 2028)
Fiction and art enthusiast. Humber School for Writers faculty.
Thin Skin magazine @thin-skin.bsky.social Thin Skin is a literary magazine showcasing the work of writers over 50, the 'late bloomers' of the literary world. Find us at https://thin-skin.com/
Ann Morgan @annmorgan.bsky.social Internationally bestselling author, literary activist, podcaster and blogger who read the world
Renard Press @renardpress.com 🍃 An award-winning climate-positive indie publisher of classic & contemporary fiction, non-fiction, poetry & theatre. Also home to Hay Press.
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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social Wading around at the confluence of arts / nature / culture since 2007
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Sara Langham @saralangham.bsky.social Books, books, books at David Higham Associates.
THE LAST DAYS OF TRUMP (A Liberal Fantasy for the Stage) @trumplastdays.bsky.social I am the best play. There is no better play. Not even Hamlet by that loser Shakespeare!
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Michael Egan @northernashes.bsky.social Writer of speculative fiction. Sunday Times Book of the Year, Carnegie Nominee.
A Small, Good Thing @smallgoodpodcast.bsky.social "A Small, Good Thing" is the podcast about short fiction. Interviews with writers, academics, publishers, and anyone who shares a passion for short stories.
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Andrea Marzocchi @andeamarzocchi.bsky.social PhD Candidate, University of Surrey (UK).
Contemporary Literature, the American short story.
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Melville House @melvillehouse.bsky.social An independent publisher based in Brooklyn, US and London, UK. https://linktr.ee/MelvilleHouse
Cathy Galvin @cathygalvin.bsky.social Poet| Journalist| Forthcoming Bloodaxe Books https://tinyurl.com/3vn47pbb |Founder Word Factory| Director The Tablet
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