adam @skalt0ne.me deaf nature lover who reads books and writes poetry. love meeting new people
Damn Jones @damnjones.bsky.social Author of lyrical, voice-driven literary fiction & poetry.
https://linktr.ee/damnjones
Editorial/Reading Assistant at @thirtywestph.com
Chasing the numinous.
@hubbsd.bsky.social @hubbsd.bsky.social Poet. Venus at the Arms Fair (Alien Buddha Press, 2024) / Pushcart & BOTN nom / Poetry Editor at Blood+Honey @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
@dwakaun-known.bsky.social @dwakaun-known.bsky.social 
Genevieve DeGuzman @gendeguzman.bsky.social Poet & writer based in Portland, OR. Tin House Workshop. StoryStudio. Oregon Lit Fellowship. KARAOKE AT THE END OF THE WORLD (JackLeg Press).
https://linktr.ee/genevievedeguzman
Evan Williams @pahoehoe.bsky.social Writer, retired teacher, sometime sage. 2024 Oregon Literary Fellowship. Stories in Kenyon, Witness, Zyz, AQR. 4 collections from small presses. “The Divide” from Cornerstone Press, 2026. MFA from Montana, long time ago.
evanmorganwilliams.com
Dr. Martha Johnson-Olin @peronelle.bsky.social Medievalist/composition prof, fairy tales and sci-fi (She/her) Editor of The Cinderella Bibliography https://d.lib.rochester.edu/cinderella. Also M. Weigel. All views mine. 
Cul-de-sac of Blood @culdesacofblood.bsky.social 🎃🔪A horror poetics journal 🔪🎃
https://www.culdesacofblood.com/
https://linktr.ee/culdesacofblood
Scream Kings Podcast @screamkings.bsky.social Occult expert Max George, literature expert Nathaniel Darkish, & author and ER doctor N.J. Gallegos talk movies, books, folklore, occult, & interview horror pros. Check us out at screamkingspodcast.com or wherever you listen to podcasts!
@aliabbasali.bsky.social @aliabbasali.bsky.social 
Jeff Cottrill @jeffcottrill.bsky.social Jeff Cottrill is a novelist, Pushcart Prize-nominated poet, journalist and spoken-word artist based in Toronto.
Madi; fighting myself to stay alive 🇵🇸 @madi-faith.bsky.social my urge to create became fiercer than my urge to self-destruct ♡
poetry | creative writing –> https://www.instagram.com/fighting.myself.to.stay.alive
sarcasm | synonyms | semi-colons
anorexia recovery | eating disorder awareness | surviving out of spite
Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Flash fiction writer | 2025 Highly Commended Bridport Prize & Finalist New Millennium Writings | Published in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Flash the Court, Writers’ Hour, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and elsewhere.
linktr.ee/adelegallogly
Gillian O’Shaughnessy @gilloshaughnessy.bsky.social ▪️Relentless optimist.
▪️Salt City Runaway, debut story collection out in 2026
▪️Sub Editor- SmokeLong Quarterly
▪️Best Small Fictions 23, 24, 25.
Jeremy Eagan ⊬ 📘 @jeagan.bsky.social Author, have ASD, love baseball, Trek, and TØP. The Sleep Directive out now.
jeremyeagan.com
Anteroom (prev The Winged Moon) @anteroompoetry.bsky.social POETRY THROUGH THE CRACKS. we publish in print and online with amazing art and a vibrant weekly newsletter www.anteroompoetry.com editor @jaimichellepoet
Jason O’Toole @operationriskyou.bsky.social Poet of some reputation.
Randall Mann @randallmann.bsky.social SF. Poet @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social. Faculty @benningtonwriting.bsky.social. 💜
Lucille Lang Day @lucillelangday.bsky.social Poet, memoirist, publisher of Scarlet Tanager Books
Hanna Nielson @hannaswork.bsky.social EIC The Belfast Review | Editor Uí Néill Press | Writer Artist Filmmaker in Belfast | Editorial Services | Novel: Did You Pay the Piper Man?
Gina Ruiz @ginaruiz.bsky.social She/her/ella. Native Angeleno and Chicana writer who occasionally gets around to writing stories. Bibliophile, stationary fiend, dog person, baker, foodie, and scholar.
Karrie @karriehiggins.bsky.social Writer, Artist, Ink-Maker, Psychogeographer. Two Best American Essays notables; Schiff Award; NEA/Iowa Arts Council grantee. http://www.karriehiggins.com
Mary Hrovat @maryhrovat.bsky.social Essayist and poet. Autistic. Books, trees, clouds, sky.
https://slowquiet.substack.com
https://maryhrovat.com
Signe Maene @signemaene.com Belgian writer of stories inspired by Flemish folklore. Loves spooky woods, fairies, selkies, poetry and pretty shoes :-) BookWormSat with Rachel Deering.🖤 OUT NOW: Flemish Folktales Retold. signemaene.com/links/
Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é
Buy my work here: https://robbohan.etsy.com
Kik Lodge @kiklodge.bsky.social Writer. THE BULLY IN MY PILLOW (Stanchion Books, August 2026).
https://www.stanchionzine.com/product-page/the-bully-in-my-pillow
Best Microfiction 2026.
Hosts literary open-mics @saloneurope.bsky.social
www.kiklodge.com
Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot 🏳️🌈 author and activist in 🏴
Software engineer, TTRPG GM, and author of dark fantasy books
(he/they)
💜💗💙
https://tgraywrites.carrd.co/
Mae Diansangu @vavapoetry.bsky.social Day job☀️ ASN classroom assistant
Creative practice✍🏾 Poet [Scots + English]
Drag alter ego🕺🏾👑 Uncle Tony
vavapoetry@gmail.com
Michael Lee Richardson 🦡 @hrfmichael.bsky.social Working class writer, director and One to Watch. Mocatriz. Rep'd by Louisa Minghella at Revolution Talent.
WG Saraband 🏴🇵🇹 @wgsaraband.bsky.social Portuguese turned Scot. Artist. Pro-indy Scotland. 🏳️🌈LGBTQ+. Husband. Books. Games. MA Medieval Islamic History. Sweary. Owned by 2 cats. He/Him
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
My artwork: wgsaraband.com
CL Hellisen | Preorder The Shape of Monsters @clhellisen.com Writer, artist, occasional table. Cast Long Shadows (Luna Press) The Shape of Monsters (Audible, TorUK) A Million Points of Light (Audible)
Preorder The Shape of Monsters - https://geni.us/TheShapeofMonster
They/them
clhellisen.com
Katie ♥️💜💙 @katiebruce.bsky.social She/Her. Bi/Omni. Yorkshire lass. Reader of books. Writer of books. Lover of happy metal
Mairi @mairi-white.bsky.social Writer (unpublished) of SFF. 40+ Panromantic Asexual. She/Her
Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social SFF author; EXTREMOPHILE & THE ROTSTORM trilogy out now with HoZ books/Ad Astra; PhD in epigenetics; ᛉᚷᛏᚫ; www.ianthegreen.com; https://geni.us/extremophile
M☿th @monroetempleton.bsky.social Often miserable ✨ writer, miniature painter 💅🎨 Glasgow 🏴 Queer as folk (they/them, she/her) 🌈 29
My novellette: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CPX6VJ54 (Amazon) https://books2read.com/u/meO2Zz (elsewhere)
Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz bit wrangler ~ poet ~ film/noisemaker ~ mask enthusiast ~ they/them
webassembly @fastly
📍🏴 edinburgh
Grace Knight @grace-knight.co.uk Glasgow based writer with credits across film, TV, audio drama, and theatre. www.grace-knight.co.uk. Current project for Choice of Games:https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/magic-at-the-masthead-by-grace-knight-wip-thread-60k-word-demo/178096
🏳️🌈🚲📺🪡🎮🏕🫖🚀🐀🥔
Danni Rowan @dannirowan.bsky.social Music! Comedy! Horror! Content!
Co-composer: The People's Joker.
(She/her)
SJ Groenewegen @sjgroenewegen.co.uk SFF author, trans-inclusive feminist, gay, non-binary, autistic. BEM.
Website: https://www.sjgroenewegen.co.uk - includes links to all my publications.
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/sjgroenewegen - new posts so often on politics and/or writing.
Lola Keeley @lolakeeley.bsky.social Author, screenwriter, professional lesbian. Edinburgh based, for my sins. Kitty mama to four fluffy idiots. #LFC fan and theatre nerd
Ms Chatelaine @theelaineg.bsky.social She/her: Writer, Greens councillor, trans person, cancer survivor, living with fibromyalgia
My novella, Unexploded Remnants, is available wherever you can buy Tor.com books
AJ, EdFringe edition @uisgebeatha.bsky.social Writer @lothianlife.bsky.social. Duolingo nerd (NB/SV/FI/ZH). TV shitposter/ @keepdancingpodcast.bsky.social podcaster. Runs #COVIDEO film club on Discord. Gymbro. Forager. #Sjögrens. Bi. Nonbinary (they/them).
Colm @colmmmm.bsky.social ☆ Pen name pending... ☆ they/he
Queer, Scot, Chemist and Writer. Drawn to the fantastical and mythological. Probably pumping iron and petting cute cats 😼
Polly Mairead Davies @pollydee.bsky.social Tea & wine drinker, cake lover. Reads a lot, writes a bit 🚀 Trans Femme 🏳️🌈She/They. Scot. Eòrpach/European🇪🇺.
Maya Evan MacGregor / Eamhair MacGriogair @maigheach.bsky.social Nebula finalist. Writes as Eamhair MacGriogair, Maya MacGregor, Emmie Mears, & more mysterious names. Evan/Eòghainn to pals. Gàidhlig speaker.
Sgrìobhadh, ceòl, cànan. Agender void. she/they. i/ise. Autistic.
Rep: Keir Alekseii
http://mayamacgregor.com
Evan Crow @iamacr0w.bsky.social Bi, ace, transmasc, sometime poet, lives in Glasgow 🏴 they/he
Likes bookshops, brunch and Bronski Beat
M. Vixen @mvixen.co.uk Scottish-based author of The Druid's Bindings. With Midnight Tide Publishing. Also a queer hippy, bird whisperer, academic, GM, and full-time nerd. Find me online: http://mvixen.co.uk/
Mark Spencer Turner @marcasmac.bsky.social Marcas Mac an Tuairneir. Gaelic Editor Northwords Now / Poet, Cultural Commentator and Singer-Songwriter / Polaris, Cruinneachadh, Speactram OUT NOW / #Gàidhlig 🏴 #Gay #Genderqueer 🏳️🌈 / My views, here (he/him/e/esan) marcasmac.scot
Carrie plays guitar 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @carriem.co.uk Writer, parent and guitar wrangler from Glasgow. Author of Small Town Joy and Carrie Kills A Man, singer in Unquiet Mind. Trans, she/her. https://linktr.ee/carrieplaysguitar. Pic: Omar Salam
Jen Bites @jenbitespeople.bsky.social In Edinburgh. Director, playwright, librettist, acting coach & dramaturg. Possible revenant. Prone to biting. Site: www.jenmcgregor.com.
genevieve jagger @catgorl.bsky.social Catgirl / writer / witch / tearful simp
Author of FRAGILE ANIMALS out with @404ink 🦢 📕
🐈🐈⬛🐈🐈⬛🐈🐈⬛🐈🐈⬛🐈🐈⬛🐈🐈⬛
www.genajag.com
Jack MacGregor @jmacr.bsky.social playwright, director, highlander / messages from the deep (they/them)
represented by Brennan Artists, IASH/Traverse Creative Fellowship 2026
Ross McFarlane @rossdmcfarlane.bsky.social Poet, promoter, project manager. Producer of Folxlore. Production Manager of Camlann. Founder of In The Works spoken word theatre company. (he/him)
EC Hallewell @echallewell.bsky.social Writer of stories, dreamer of dreams, parent of child, and so on...
I like shiny things 🌟
@em.h.writes.things on Instagram 🦋
Chronic Historian ♾️♿️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💜🖤💛🦓🏴🍉🐺🐈⬛🧑🌾🌱🌳 @enbycriphistorian.bsky.social Disabled autistic antifascist queer nonbinary early modern historian and writer. Husky&cat pawrent. Chronically ill. Social Justice Druid. Disabled Not Disposable. Trans Rights are Human Rights. Free Palestine (They/them)
https://enbycriptid.wordpress.com
James @pendingonpends.bsky.social Writer ✍🏼 Filmmaker 🎬 Gamer 🕹 Photographer 📷 Gotham City Siren ♦️ He/Him 🏴🏳️🌈 - 👨🏻🤝👨🏼☀️🦋
Scott Agnew @scottagnew.bsky.social Scottish, Glaswegian, Comedian, ex-journalist, Gay, HIV+ (U=U). Back from the dead three times.
Listen to my BBC R4 series here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0021p0h?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
Ken Alexander @kenalexdirect.bsky.social Scottish Theatre Director currently based in Sydney, Australia 🏳️🌈
ken-alexander.com
Rep: http://www.caryparsons.co.uk
Caitlin @caitlinlogan.bsky.social Writer 🖋 Queer 🏳️🌈 Scottish 🏴 Interested in social justice and a better future ⚖️ 🌎
Rhoda Meek @wodieskodie.bsky.social Scottish island dweller with strong opinions about the future. SAAS CX, PM and Comms. Wrangler of tireetea.co.uk and isledevelop.com, @ScotNational columnist. Gàidhlig. Geek. Crofter. She/her/tired. Go shopping at scottishislandgifts.com.
Jem Milton @jmiltondraws.bsky.social (they/them) Illustrator, comic artist and cat lover based in Glasgow
I make illustrations, queer comics and art, including The Flying Ship Comic and Hungry Heart both on Tapas.
Represented by Tamara Kawar
Faye Stacey @pondi.bsky.social Ignatz Nominated Comic Artist - Skeleton Knight - Draws Bums - Glasgow - They/Them - Disabled
Organiser of @sequential-scot.bsky.social
https://www.fayestacey-illustration.co.uk
⚠️ eve g ⚠️ @evegwood.com eve greenwood, they/he, scotland
⚡ director @quindriepress.com
⚡ co-director @smallpress.scot
⚡ creator inhibitcomic.com & visagecomic.com
⚡ curator knifebeetle.neocities.org
⚡ evegwood.com evegwood@yahoo.co.uk
Layla McCay @laylamccay.bsky.social By day: Health Policy. By night: Author. Posts here on NHS / health policy plus a little book chat / random musings. For lots more book/author content, also join me on Instagram. Posting in personal capacity.
Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social Professor of English & Scottish Literature, Head of School, Critical Studies, University of Glasgow.
Research working-class literature & Romantic-period cultures.
Editor, John Clare Society Journal.
Jolene McIlwain @jolenemcilwain.bsky.social Writer ✏️| SIDLE CREEK (Melville House) NPR & Library Journal Best Books of 2023📕 | Outside Kid 🌿| Motocross Fan 🏁 | HipCamp | Gardener 🪴| Scuba Mom 🤿 | www.jolenemcilwain.com
Mike Sanders @bronterre1.bsky.social #Chartism #C19thRadicalism #Cooperation #TradesUnions, #WorkingClassLiterature with forays into #Cricket #Punk & #Reggae & a reviving interest in Torquay United FC #COYY
"In things essential, unity; in things doubtful, liberty; in all things, charity."
Warwick EMECC @emeccwarwick.bsky.social The Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre In the Warwick History Department, for the encouragement, study, and exchange of ideas and research.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc
John Gardner @profjohngardner.bsky.social Professor of English Literature and Dean of the Doctoral School at ARU. Working on www.engineeringromanticism.com a Leverhulme Trust Research Project. 
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/
Jenny Harper @jennyharper.bsky.social SWW DTP (AHRC) funded English Literature PhD student researching Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, the working classes, Walt Whitman, British ethical socialists, non-anthropocentric relationships with nature, ecoscocialism, modernism.
Alfonso de Zamora @perurealfonso.bsky.social Al lasso, fuerça: https://ephe.academia.edu/Jes%C3%BAsdePradoPlumed
In the Other Place: @perurealfonso
Working Classicists @workingclassicists.bsky.social www.workingclassicists.com
🏺A hub of resources, support & solidarity
⚡️Representing the working class in classics
🏛️ Run by @miri.bsky.social & @misterconnor1.bsky.social
✍️ Platforming working class academics
❤️ Woke AF
email us: info@workingclassicists.com
Jenny Knight @jennyknight.bsky.social Author | Writer | Editor
*WILD MOON RISING* - 06/25 @akan_books @HarperCollins
Kit de Waal's #CommonPeople
Ed & Dev Ed @JerichoWriters
Assoc Artist @WritersCentre
Twitter/X @knightjennyk
Ig @jennyaknight
Katherine Greenwood @drkatherinelucyg.bsky.social Lecturer in Publishing & Creative Industries at York St John University. Researches class in contemporary British literature and publishing. Ex-editor and festival organiser.
Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social Writer of To Rise in the Dark (2024) and Hunter (2025)
“He speaks in your voice, Salfordian, and there’s a pie in his hand bought half-price from the Co-op.”
Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social Cacoethes - a bisexual sugar baby coming-of-age novel - out now: https://www.northodox.co.uk/product-page/cacoethes-paperback 🩷💜💙
🌻 I'm like if an old man was a girl. She/her.
📍Manchester(ish)
Peter Bennett @pbennett.bsky.social Writer. Novel — Liberties, available now: https://www.rymour.co.uk/liberties.html & the usual places. Extracts in New Writing Scotland 40 and other publications.
linktr.ee/peter_bennett
Nick McLoughlin @nickmacwrites.bsky.social Reader, writer, runner. Tea, trees, and cats.
My debut novel Slings and Arrows was published on the 28th March 2024. 📚💙
Geoff Cox @geoffcox.bsky.social Working class author (memoir, NNF and folk-horror), better kept outdoors (whatever the weather) and well watered. Ageing runner with a passion for words, wild places and archeology.
"Traceless" (2020) Pub. Little Peak
Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright. Retired wanderer.
Author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, (Little Toller); Deliria, (Rough Trade Books)
Wild Twin, (Little Toller)
Dr Rachel Broady @drrachelbroady.bsky.social Working class feminist academic. Research epistemic injustice, anti-poverty activism, media representations of poverty. NUJ activist. Admired Danny Dyer before it became fashionable. Views are my cat's.
It's not 'intolerant' to defend women's rights!♀️
Richie Jones @richiejones.bsky.social Writer, reader. Scouse-Irish.
Recent fiction and non-fiction in The London Magazine, HOWL New Irish Writing. Runner-up in the Desperate Literature Prize 2024 and shortlisted for The London Magazine Short Story Prize and the Bridport Prize.
Adam Barrett @adambarrettwrites.bsky.social Northern Writers' Award winner 2024.
Poetry: THE FIRST THIRTY YEARS EP (Broken Sleep Books).
Rep: Peters Fraser + Dunlop.
https://coaldust.substack.com
Michael Jarvie @michaeljarvie.bsky.social Samizdat novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, poet, editor.Translator of Georg Trakl and Gerhart Hauptmann. Working Class. Marxist. Atheist. Coming in 2026 Transformer: Writing the Black Country by Zero Books. linktr.ee/michaelkjarvie
R W Owen @iviesofinkribbons.bsky.social Writer. Fiction in Literally Stories, Five on the Fifth, In Another Time, etc.
Typewriters, writing communities, cats, photography, and hiking
Member of AWP, NHWP, Pen Parentis
https://forgottennewengland.com/portfolio/published-short-fiction/
Mary Camarillo @marycamel.bsky.social Works at a desk. Novelist. Cat servant. Music lover.
Mark Burrow @markburrow.bsky.social Writer of Coo, a novella, published by Alien Buddha. Short stories in Frazzled Lit. Punk Noir. Underbelly. Urban Pigs. Roi Fainéant. Flight of the Dragonfly. AEOS Mag. The Selkie. Spinners. Pushcart & BotN noms. Brighton, UK https://linktr.ee/markburrow
Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com Scarlett & Sophie: sisters who make graphic novels together, including Eisner nominated The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, No Surrender and This Slavery with SelfMadeHero
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally
NonWayne @nonwayne.bsky.social Literary critic in a library. Scholarly publishing, egoism, manifestos, and modernism. My book, The Ego Made Manifest, is available from Bloomsbury. Views my own and mostly on the other one.
https://x.com/NonwayneWayne?t=8_wAuQkxi3mzXY2lgoWUbQ&s=09
Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social University-Policy Engagement & ARIs at UPEN/UCL ∣ Impact at the RCA ∣ Researches Victorian literature, social history, freethought periodicals ∣ Book: Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher, Poet ∣ she/her
https://clarestainthorp.wordpress.com/
Matt Waldram @mattwaldram.bsky.social Writer, idiot, has bad knees.
Believes in carbs, monsters, and scrumping.
He/him.
Alan Lessik @lessikwriter.bsky.social Berlin-based Novelist, Zen practitioner, figure skater, 🌈
Member of Berlin Queer Writers Circle
Alanlessik.com
Sharna Jackson @sharnajackson.com Writer of books and games mostly about art, mystery and murder for you and the kids in your life. Lives on a ship in Rotterdam. Used to work in museums and galleries for ages. Miss it. Addicted to Reddit and Beat Saber.
https://www.sharnajackson.com
Jo Gilbert @mucklewriting.bsky.social Spikks Doric. Avid scribbler o wirds. https://linktr.ee/jogilbert
Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social 1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/)
2. Obsessed with lists
3. COMMON PEOPLE
4. THE CORRECT ORDER OF BISCUITS
5. THE WHEEL IS SPINNING BUT THE HAMSTER IS DEAD (http://geni.us/yDxa)
David Hinchliffe Bradford @dbfreelance.co.uk Senior editor (print) Cycling Weekly
Curricular and extracurricular work here: dbfreelance.co.uk
Unruly eyes: tinyurl.com/BitBlind
📍Lewes, UK | 🇵🇸 🏳️🌈
Eve Ainsworth @eveainsworth.bsky.social Award winning working class author. Writes children’s books and adult romance/suspense.
Safeguarding Lead. Part time Lady Stardust.
Somebody I Used To Love - 2024
Pieces of Us - 2025
Loves football, fudge and fascinating fascinations.
The Agnes Owens Archive @aowensarchive.bsky.social Opening 16.01.26, a new public resource dedicated to the Scottish writer Agnes Owens. This archive is housed within agrayarchive.bsky.social
Lennard J. Davis @lendavis.bsky.social First gen professor of disability studies, poverty and working class studies, novel criticism and theory. Currently Emeritus Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.