Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social Writes epic and contemporary fantasy novels along with varied shorter fiction. She/her. All opinions absolutely my own. For more, see www.julietemckenna.com
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Danielle Simpson @daniellesimpson.bsky.social Writer & Editor | Working on 1st Novel | Lived in the desert. Missed conkers. Came home | Cheshire Novel Prize: Top 100 | Jericho Writers LFOW SL | https://daniellesimpson.wordpress.com/
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Drew Dalton (He/Him) @drewdalton.bsky.social Part-time CEO of ReportOUT ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
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Jane Friedman @janefriedman.com I report on the publishing industry through my paid newsletter, The Bottom Line, and educate writers on the business of authorship in THE BUSINESS OF BEING A WRITER (University of Chicago Press).
Dr. Suzanne Simard @drsuzannesimard.bsky.social Mother | Forester | Professor | Author | Bushwhacker
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Rhode Island Authors Against Book Bans @aabbri.bsky.social The Bluesky home of Authors Against Book Bans Rhode Island , a coalition of book creators united against the deeply unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. Learn more and join at https://www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/
Chani Nicholas @chaninicholas.bsky.social Your astro bestie. Cofounder of the CHANI app. NYT best-selling author of You Were Born For This.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirensโ Call: How Attention Became the Worldโs Most Endangered Resource out now.
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Salharris @salharris.bsky.social Writer of ghost stories and gothic fiction.
Haverscroft, http://amzn.to/3hI2yVe.
Seahurst, https://bit.ly/3X3gmKz
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Rowan Brighton Brown @rowanbrightonbrown.bsky.social โQueer Southern Novelist ๐ฟ
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Dr Shauna Gilligan @shaunagilligan.bsky.social Writer, Educator, Feminist, full of heart, cats, literacy for all, creativity always, Irish PEN.
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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. Opinions mine, not my employerโs. He/him.
Sadie Hartmann (Mother Horror) @sadiehartmann.bsky.social Co-Owner of Night Worms. Bram Stoker Award winner of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered. New book: 2025
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Michael Langan @michaellangan.bsky.social Liverpudlian-Lisboeta, writer, editor, teacher, mentor, feminist, anti-fascist, ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ sissy, trans-affirming, anti-racist, pro-Palestine, etc. https://www.lumebooks.co.uk/book/shadow-is-a-colour-as-light-is/
Anna Biggs @writebiggs.bsky.social Reader, writer, sleeper agent
Loves history, folklore & growing things
ME + expansion packs
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LL Lucy Cavendish Prize โ24,
won: Greene Door โ25, Curtis Brown Breakthrough โ24, Jericho Writers Mentorship โ24, Novelry Octopus โ23
Cole Beauchamp ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ @nomad-sw18.bsky.social Queer writer l #FlashFiction l Smokelong Fellow 2026 l Contrib ed @nffr.bsky.social
Pushcart, BSF, BMF & Monarch noms
Read my stories:
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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). ๐ณ๏ธโ๐โฎ๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐
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๐คด๐พ Kingsley Pearson ๐ @kingsley-pearson.bsky.social Clinical Psychologist & Writer.
London-based.
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Flat 401: https://www.klpearson.net/flat-401
Out now with Orion Fiction.
The Therapist's Secret available to pre-order: https://amzn.eu/d/0fzFuRVu
Niki Bond @nikibond.bsky.social Writer ๐, Aspiring Voice Actor, Apprentice Optician
She/Her, 30+, atheist with social anxiety and likely ADHD
Asexual, demiromantic #aspecauthors
WIP: Silent Suspension (YA SFF series): https://nikibond.com/silentsuspension/index.html
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Founder & Editorial Director, Michelle Kenneth Media
HWA Member
NYC ---> Paris
Horror | Books | Culture
Perfectionistwannabe.com
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social Writing in the New Statesman, Liberal Currents, New Socialist, Tribune, Vulture, Aftermath. Host of Death Sentence podcast.
Wayne Berkeley Herbert @berkeley34.bsky.social Writer, PhD student, director of Hastings Book Festival and proudly LGBT+
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On And Off The Pitch Podcast @onandoffthepit1.bsky.social A podcast that loves sport but will talk about pretty much anything.
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Hardline Feminist. Argue with your mother.
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David Rowinski @djohnrowins.bsky.social Part time author
Full time painter
Any lit agents out there?
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Bliss @blisskissed.bsky.social Nurse, salty, writer of verse, a certain sort of madness.
Cormac Kinsella @cormackinsella.bsky.social Publicity. Posts mainly about books, sometimes food. Eats mainly food ... https://www.instagram.com/cormac.kinsella/
Emma @hestiarising.bsky.social Crochet ๐งถ Crafts. D&D. Clinical Research. Plants. BOOKS ๐
P.E. PRIDEAUX ๐จ๐ฆ @peprideaux.bsky.social Constructing a cross-tradition literary retelling of the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
Catholic Omnist. Newfoundlander. Dreamer. Storyteller. Cat Lover. Family Man.
Call me Paul.
Apaulogetics is my blog. โ
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Oisรญn McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social Over 30 years in commercial art and more than 20 as a published author โ mostly children's and young adult. No hope of ever getting a proper job. Lifelong nerd who's concerned about climate change. No AI slop wanted. He/Him. http://oisinmcgann.com/
Jan Stannard @janstannard.bsky.social A life with someone I love, made two beloved daughters, founded Heal Rewilding. โTo take action, you have to actually do something.โ Yvon Chouinard.
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social PhD Researcher in small press publishing & diversity at University of Stirling
Operations @charcopress.comโฌ
Freelance typesetter
Ex-publisher at 404 Ink
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Heather McDaid @heathermmcd.bsky.social Professional dork. Ex-publisher, current books and puzzle person. Always tired.
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social books, beauty, history, folklore. fan of Dickens & @littleseamstress. gets dressed up like a pillow so she's always in bed. patreon.com/sketchesbyboze, https://linktr.ee/sketchesbyboze
Andrea Lawlor @anderlawlor.bsky.social parent, partner, cat dad, writer, prof, etc.
arms embargo now & forever!
IG: @anderlawlor
website: www.anderlawlor.com
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Sundeep Braich @sundeepbraich.bsky.social Scatty Seeker | Uncovers | Writes | Talks
History โข Legends โข Heritage โข Light โ๏ธ
Koh-i-Noor diamond: a storied stone ๐
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Polari Press @polari.press Queer publishing and design studio. Not affiliated with any other Polari-named things.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social Opinions are my own // comms @ aclu
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Badger5000 @badger5000.bsky.social Sexy Robot Olympian
Ted Northodox @tednorthodox.bsky.social Sheffield, UK. Dreamer. Metalhead. General nuisance. Co-owner of Northodox Press. ๐ถI like big books and I cannot lie๐ถ
Eleven Films @elevenfilms.com ๐ Award-winning, pro-democracy content
๐๏ธ Hosts: @thedangerousones.com podcast
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Eleanor Anstruther @eanstruther.bsky.social Writer. Latest novel, FALLOUT, available for preorder now https://linktr.ee/eleanoranstruther
The Local Mythstorian @elilewislycett.bsky.social Eli Lewis-Lycett is an independent folklorist and history writer from Cheshire - described by the BBC as โone of the definitive voices on Cheshire and Staffordshire folklore."
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halfmagical @halfmagical.bsky.social Shares content about the great outdoors.
Loves old-growth trees and boreal forests.
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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social Hello lovelies. This is my official account.. ๐๐
Glad to be over here from the "other place"๐
It's like breathing clean air again ๐๐ผ
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of Mother Jones/Center for Investigative Reporting/Reveal. Past president of the American Society of Magazine Editors. Mom. Upzoning, street tree, and rescue dog enthusiast. Views, mine.
Arnold Thomas Fanning @arnoldtfanning.bsky.social Writer, Walker, Photographer, Record Collector. Essays & Stories in The Dublin Review, Banshee, The Stinging Fly, The Lonely Crowd & elsewhere. Author of Mind on Fire (Penguin Ireland, 2018).
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The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social Official account of The Folklore Podcast. 2 million downloads worldwide. Created by folklorist and author Mark Norman. Find us online at http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com
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The Book Corner @bookcornerhx.bsky.social Independent bookshop in Halifax's The Piece Hall.
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01422 414443
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Aidan Cottrell Boyce @aidancb.bsky.social The End of Nightwork | @grantabooks | @matthewmarland
David Lloyd @davidlloyd1.bsky.social Devon based writer,
Co- Curator of Word Kitchen www.wordkitchen.org.uk
- celebrating the spoken word in East Devon and Exeter
-I write about hidden histories including queer ones - with a novel and memoir in development -current Faber
Academy student
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
๐ https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Joe Colacrai @ageofuprising.bsky.social Walt Disney Imagineer, Singer/Songwriter, Aspiring Author