@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social Reviews of fiction and non-fiction by an impressive line-up of author and bookseller guests, hosted by Adele Geras, Linda Newbery and Celia Rees. Q&As with authors. Writers Review Publishing launching in 2025. www.reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com
Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social Reformation historian, immigrant, birder, dochter van Nederlanders, author of REFORMATION IN THE LOW COUNTRIES, 1500-1620 (Cambridge UP, 2022). Working on a book on the year 1572 in (mostly) Europe. Opinions all mine, and I speak only for myself.
Daniel Addercouth @ruralunease.bsky.social Berlin-based Scottish writer. Words in New Flash Fiction Review, Vestal Review, Trampset and elsewhere. Featured in Best Small Fictions 2024. My pen name came to me in a dream. You can find a selection of my writing here: https://linktr.ee/ruralunease
Hannah Wickes @hannahwickes.bsky.social Studying History & Archaeology of the Highlands & Islands at UHI. Non-Exec Director for Fair Tax Foundation, UK Community Foundations and Impress: the media regulator. Advisor @ Creatives for Climate. She/Her.
J Richards @jrichardsme.bsky.social Writers & writing, wild places, slow food, stories, art, poetry, nature. UK international. Constantly curious.
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
Katherine Stansfield @kstansfield.bsky.social Reader, writer, cat fan. Historical fiction, crime fiction, weird fiction, poems. I'm one half of D. K. Fields (fantasy crime series) & co-editor of Bending The Arc: A Thrutopian Magazine which imagines thriving & liveable futures into being
Dr Nasia Sarwar-Skuse @nsarwarskuse.bsky.social Lawyer. Writer. Artist. PhD: Creative & Critical Writing: The Hybrid Aesthetic as Decolonial Practice
Winner of Queen Mary Wasafiri Prize 2023. Co Ediitor: Gathering (2024). Nasiasarwarskuse.com
Drs. Mark Beumer @markbeumer.bsky.social Historian of Medicine | PhD-Candidate Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages | Voorzitter @medhistoddemoulin.bsky.social | Directeur @kleiohistoria.bsky.social
Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction & Non Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social ✍🏼WRITER
📖13 PARK LANE historical crime novel - an Amazon best seller + others
🩰Late onset ballet dancer
🐕🦺Dog lover
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
Louise Nyholm Kallestrup @witchykallestrup.bsky.social Professor, Head of Doctoral School, SDU, #earlymodernist, witchcraft persecutions, Christian 4., dog person
Dr Andrew Sneddon @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social Historian of medicine, religion, and the supernatural. Joint editor, Irish Historical Studies. Senior Lecturer in History at Ulster University. Research profile: https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/persons/andrew-sneddon
Co PI Islandmagee Witch Project: w1711.org
Diane Purkiss @janetanderson.bsky.social I love books, reading, eating, cooking, and my French bulldog Bunty. I write history and I teach English at Oxford University.
@drlaurakounine.bsky.social @drlaurakounine.bsky.social 
Valeria Vescina @valeriavescina.bsky.social Author 'That Summer in Puglia' (2018). Creative-writing tutor, runs writing retreats in the Alps. Founder member & co-manager @WomenWritersNet. #HistFic novel inspired by true events in 16th-century Italy will be out in 2026. Women's history nerd.
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
Virginia Reinburg @vreinburg.bsky.social Historian. Feminist. Boston. France. Hawai’i. Author of Storied Places (Cambridge UP 2019). Abolish ICE
Katrina Naomi @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social Poet & performer. Battery Rocks (Seren 2024). 'dance as if' out with Verve Sept 25. Winner of Keats-Shelley Prize, Arthur Welton Award & Saboteur Award. Swimmer & walker. Loves dance & art. Vegan. PhD - Goldsmiths. Also on insta.
www.katrinanaomi.co.uk
Mia Farlane @miafarlane.bsky.social novelist #LiteraryFiction 🖋️📚
1st novel (Viking/Penguin) set London/Paris ('Seinfeld meets Dorothy Parker' - Bidisha)
2nd novel: AND HOW ARE THINGS WITH YOU forthcoming from Mākaro, Oct 2026 🎗️
Read more + newsletter info
https://miafarlane.com/about
Amy Ryall @amyryall.bsky.social Academic-related staff in HE, UCU member, Trustee, Eyam Museum.
Would rather be in Wales, Berlin and/or out of Higher Education.
@wiccafenian.bsky.social @wiccafenian.bsky.social Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.
Don't DM me or add me to starter packs 💕
Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social Historian of early modern religion, working on witches and saints. Loves hikes and risotto.
Women Writers Network @womenwritersnet.bsky.social Supporting and promoting #WomenWriters. On insta at womenwritersnetwork and Twitter (X) @womenwritersnet.
Debbi Weaver @debbiweaver.bsky.social Retired academic, dog lover, gardener, volunteer. Yarra Valley, Victoria.
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
itsclembrulee @clemflanagan.bsky.social Clem Flanagan. Fiction editor at B&W Publishing / BBUK
Clare Bullock @clarerbullock.bsky.social Editorial Director at Duckworth Books
Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Guardian Country Diarist. Author of LAND BENEATH THE WAVES (one of BBC Wildlife Best Books of 2025): https://shorturl.at/PFJPF
MA, PGCE, FBNA, Patron #JohnClare Countryside, Trustee of British Naturalists' Assoc. Rep: Joanna Swainson
Kate Oldfield @kateoldfield.bsky.social Writer | Mama | Mentor | Poet | Facilitator at The Writing Well workshops & events | Oxford-dweller | Yorkshire lass | escapes to Hebrides
Founder @thewritingwell.bsky.social
https://the-writing-well.com
Lou Gibson @lougibson.bsky.social Public and private sector PR and Communications, CIPR chartered | LGcomms Exec Committee | Accessibility | Gardening | Deaf | Welsh - not in that order.
Sarah Lupton @sarahlupton1.bsky.social Writer rep'd by Alice Lutyens at Curtis Brown
SL Exeter Novel Prize 2022
Runner up Retreat West First Chapter Comp '23
Curtis Brown Creative Alumni
Chris Bridges @chrisbridgeswriter.bsky.social Chronicaly ill crime writer.
Debut novel: Sick to Death shortlisted for the McDermid Debut Award.
Agent: Hannah Schofield at LBA
1950s, Elizabeth Taylor and poodle obsessive, vegan.
Former nurse, living with MS
Links: https://tr.ee/1vaOIH2gP2
Clare Marchant Author @claremarchant.bsky.social USA Today Bestseller dual timeline historical fiction author. Rep’d by Ella Kahn at DKW Lit Agency. Pub’d by Boldwood Books. RNA SoA
Fred Sked @fredsked.bsky.social Smaller than you'd imagine.
https://letterboxd.com/ledbetter
https://open.spotify.com/user/skedmeister?si=nC5xvK_MQv2Cths3Y4aFmg
BBNYA @bbnya.bsky.social The Book Bloggers’ Novel of the Year Award
Www.BBNYA.com
Michelle Willms @michellewillms.bsky.social NORTHERN GIRLS: TRUE STORIES (Baraka Books). 2026 Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Mother bear.
Northern Girls: www.barakabooks.com/catalogue/northern-girls/
TSR Review: www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/northern-girls-true-stories-by-michelle-willms
Yvonne Battle-Felton @whyiwrite.bsky.social Author of Remembered and Curdle Creek, former editor at John Murray, Academic at Cambridge Uni, event host and podcaster. I also write kidlit, short scripts, nonfiction essays, poems
Dominic Ridley-Moy @dominicridleymoy.bsky.social The go to behaviour change expert for social good. Former indie kid, father of two lovely daughters and coffee drinker. CIPR fellow and chartered PR practitioner. #behaviouralscience #publicsector #communications www.behaviourchangenetwork.com
Anne Brooke Books @annebrookebooks.bsky.social Book lover. Writer of MM romance & women's fiction. My latest novel is The Honeymaker's Daughter. All my books are available at Amazon. Find out more at: www.annebrooke.com
Paula Greenlees @paulagreenlees.bsky.social Authorof #HistoricalFiction & #HistoricalRomance #theforgottenpromise #journeytoparadise rep’d @LittleHardman @arrowpublishing @penguinukbooks
Author Warwickshire.
Loves dogs, walking and chocolate.
linktr.ee/PJG1
www.paulagreenlees@me.com
MurphyNovels @murphynovels.bsky.social Dagger winning crime & thrillers, Murder Squad
founder. Writing as Margaret Murphy, M.K. Murphy, A.D. Garrett & Ashley Dyer. Agent: Felicity Blunt & Rosie Pierce at Curtis Brown Books.
Katie Sadler @katiemorwenna.bsky.social Book marketing, single mum, freelance life, from 🇹🇹 now in SW London 🇬🇧
✉️ katiemorwenna.substack.com
Dee Cowburn @deecowburncomms.bsky.social Crisis communications & media relations consultant.
Director of Dee Cowburn Communications.
Andy Ashcroft @nhsguy.bsky.social Director of Comms & Engagement: NHSSYICB. Sunday League CB. Former journalist. Hike the odd Mountain path. All views are my own.
M. W. Craven @mwcraven.bsky.social Chatter of 💩, writer of books. Author of Sunday Times bestselling #WashingtonPoe & #TillyBradshaw / #BenKoenig / #JamesBond and the Secret Agent Academy series. Winner of CWA Gold/Steel Dagger/ #Theakstons OP Crime Novel of the Year Award #mwcraven
Charlotte Duckworth / Rixon @charduck.bsky.social 📚USA Today bestselling author of 7 novels
Purveyor of writer merch: https://tinyurl.com/y4xmbtsh
Rep: @littlehardman.bsky.social •
https://www.charlotteduckworth.com/
Suzy A @suzyaspleybooks.bsky.social Crime writer. Geordie in Scotland with a dash of Danish. Debut novel Crow Moon out. Shortlisted for good stuff. @OrendaBooks Agent Euan Thorneycroft @AMHeath 🖤💫📚
‘Dr’ Dorothy Koomson @dorothykoomson.bsky.social 📚Award-winning, Sunday Times Bestselling Author | Writer ✍🏾 l Reader 📖 | TV & Film Lover 📺 | Podcaster 🎙️| Latest book Give Him To Me out now 📚⚡️
Elly Griffiths @ellygriffiths.bsky.social Crime-writer 
Clare Mackintosh - Author @claremackwrites.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Ex cop. ✏️ 2 million+ books sold 🎲 #AGameOfLies out now https://claremackintosh.com/me/
Iain Broome @iainbroome.com Freelance content designer currently working with NHS England. Author of the novel, A is for Angelica. Sender of newsletters. 💌
Freelance work: verymeta.com
Fiction: iainbroome.com
Blog and newsletter: clearlanguage.club
pseudograph @pseudograph.bsky.social Comms. Culture. Customers. Gig goer. Bad runner. Crashing bore. North of here. 
Andrea Mullaney @andreamullaney.bsky.social Writer, lecturer, recovering journo, constant reader, mother, cailleach èibhinn living in Glasgow.
Literary agent @llmonts.
"All of the birds are laughing, come on, let's all join in."
Dr Joanna Clare Dobson @joannacdobson.bsky.social Writer of creative nonfiction; researcher in the environmental humanities. Based in Sheffield, lover of allotments and trees. joannaclaredobson.com
https://wreckageandshimmer.substack.com/
Tania Hershman 🏳️🌈 @taniahershman.bsky.social Queer writer of odd things. 10th book, "It's Time", a hybrid chronomemoir, out now. Permissioner, founder of Unbox Your Words. She/they 🏳️🌈 www.taniahershman.com; https://taniahershman.substack.com/; https://www.instagram.com/tania_hershman_writes
Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster.
🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃
He/Him
www.damianbarr.com
📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel. I’ve curated an exhibition about them for Charleston in Lewes which is now in Nottingham.
📕 Maggie & Me.
📕 You Will Be Safe Here.
PhD, FRSL, FRSE
Flora Johnston @florajowriter.bsky.social Scottish fiction writer.
The Endeavour of Elsie Mackay and The Paris Peacemakers available now.
Represented by Jenny Brown Associates.
@kaarbs78.bsky.social @kaarbs78.bsky.social 
Joanne Craven @joannecraven.bsky.social I love reading (mainly crime fiction and thrillers), watching good stuff on tv and at the cinema, cooking, eating out and trying new food, especially a bit of fizz and some cheese. Peloton fan. From the north ❤️
Dayal Kindy @dayalkindy.bsky.social Writer. Ma. Chickpea-appreciator.
♡ Bridport Writer-in-Resident 24 ♡
◇ Manchester Fiction Prize: S/L 23 ◇
∆ Mo Siewcharran: Runner up 22 ∆
Charlotte Dimond @lottied.bsky.social Chartered PR. Director at Sidekick PR. Associate Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. PhD student at Leeds Beckett University (Public trust and misinformation)
Sarah Lupton @sarahlupton.bsky.social Writer rep’d by Alice Lutyens at Curtis Brown
SL Exeter Novel Prize 2022
Runner up Retreat West First Chapter Comp ‘23
Curtis Brown Creative Alumni
Graham Bartlett @gbpoliceadvisor.bsky.social 🚔 Advising authors, TV writers, doc makers.
✍️ Award-winning crime writer: BAD FOR GOOD, FORCE OF HATE & CITY ON FIRE. Repped by DHH Literary Agency.
🤓 Mentor with Jericho Writers.
🕵️♂️ Retired police C/Supt.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/grahambartlett
Sarah Hilary @sarahhilary.bsky.social THE DROWNING PLACE | ‘Happy Valley, but haunted’ Anna Mazzola | Out now from Harvill | ND. She/her | www.sarahhilary.com
CL Taylor @callytaylor.bsky.social British crime author. Sunday Times bestseller. Richard & Judy pick. Mum, dog owner, knitter, crocheter, maker, watches a lot of TV.
Sophie Hannah @sophiehannah.bsky.social Bestselling crime writer
Coach for writers (dreamauthorcoaching.com)
Host of ‘How to Hold a Grudge’ podcast
Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social Writer. Very small. Books normal size. THE CLOCKWORK GIRL, BOOK OF SECRETS etc. Writes thrillers as Anna Sharpe.
Also a criminal justice lawyer and a dark history geek.
Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
www.joanne-harris.co.uk
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming July 2027…
Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com Release the bats
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
Nadine Matheson @nadinematheson.com Bestselling Author👩🏾💻 | Host of ‘The Conversation’ Podcast 🎙️| All Views My Own 💬
www.nadinematheson.com
Podcast: apple.co/3RSKsxK |Spotify spoti.fi/3DVDB0G
📗OUT NOW: ‘THE SHADOW CARVER’ - https://linktr.ee/Nadine_Matheson
SHADOW OF MADNESS out now! @dvbishop.com Writes historical thrillers set in Renaissance Italy • SHADOW OF MADNESS out now: https://linktr.ee/D.V.Bishop • Free newsletter: https://dvbishop.substack.com • Rep: @jennybrownagency.bsky.social • Ex-Tharg
Simon Cowdroy @lockedinatardis.bsky.social Storyteller. Reader. Flash Fiction addict. Usually lost in a dream world but it’s a nice place. Dogs. Kindness. Bad puns.
Christian Cerisola @christiancerisola.bsky.social Independent PR / DPR consultant. Bit of footy (QPR), bit of golf (bang average), bit of running (lumbering), bit of this, bit of that. From the south. In the north.
Stephanie Merritt/SJ Parris @stephmerritt.bsky.social Author & journalist. Sunday Times #1 best-selling Giordano Bruno series. Reviews for The Observer. Sometimes on the radio. Rep’d by Jonny Geller/Curtis Brown 📚🗞️🎙️✍🏼
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
Elodie Harper @elodieharper.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author of The Wolf Den trilogy, about the women of ancient Pompeii 🏛️Boudicca’s Daughter (August 2025)
Published by @headofzeus.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/Elodie_Harper
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored
@womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social The original & only WomensArt created/ curated by art historian/author PL Henderson to celebrate/promote women in the arts.
Real art...real artists...No AI
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Ailie Holland @ailieholland.bsky.social Author, writer, traveler, Acting and Improv teacher, voice over actress. Environmentalist. 🌱🦋🌱
Tracy Trail Wong @tracywong.bsky.social Writing Historical Fiction of Henry Wynd Young, Stained Glass Artist and credited with the Neo Gothic Stained Glass Movement in the US; born in Bannockburn Scotland in 1874
Sue Purkiss @suepur.bsky.social I write books for children, and other things too. Like gardening, museums and art galleries, nature, and looking at things and listening to people…
Paul Masterman @interimboy.bsky.social Man. Comms. Books. Films. Art. Sun. Sweet-toothed.
Mandy Pearse @mandypearse.bsky.social Award winning PR & Comms consultant, speaker & trainer. Amateur 📸.
Previous CIPR president & Board member Global Alliance (GA) for PR. GA European Council, iProvision Board Member and Vice chair @ciprlps.bsky.social Founder: www.seashellcommunications.com
Adam Driver @adamdriver.bsky.social Missed Twitter, came here. Always Authentic | Chartered CIPR, founder & director Authentic Comms, strategic digital marketer, SEO, content | GIFs & memes | Brentford FC 🐝
comms2point0 @comms2point0.bsky.social Flying a flag for communications and communicators.
Bespoke training I Comms consultancy I Comms reviews I Cool events I UnAwards I Recruitment support I Interims I Mentoring. Since 2011.
Created and owned by Darren Caveney.
comms2point0.co.uk
Ben Capper @bencapper.bsky.social I do comms. I live in and support Liverpool.
Georgia Turner Chart.PR MCIPR @georgia-turner.bsky.social Comms and engagement consultant bringing EXPERTISE WITH ENERGY
Communications advisor | Strategy | Leadership | Engagement | Capacity | Mentor | Trainer | Public sector advocate
Www.georgiaturnercommunications.co.uk
Rebecca Roberts @rebeccaroberts.bsky.social Marketing and comms, specialising in youth audiences. Sport, higher Ed, youth and other chatter. Host of The Hear It Podcast and founder of Thread & Fable
https://www.threadandfable.com/
Katie Marlow @ktmarlow.bsky.social Internal communication specialist, revealing the hidden power of communication, culture and people to achieve strategic and people goals. Listening and working with colleagues and leaders to help workplaces work better
Abir Mukherjee @radiomukhers.bsky.social Author. Scottish, Bengali, generally confused. “The Godfather of Anglo-Asian Crime Writing” (Daily Express) Rep’d by @stubbleagent
From Glasgow.
More here: abirmukherjee.com
and here: https://www.amazon.com/author/abirmukherjee
L.C.Winter @lcwinter.bsky.social Writer of historical gothic. 'Spider, Spider' out now.
Links here. https://linktr.ee/LCWinter?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=b1799b03-281d-4d43-a3ee-0dbd8abf2d60
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