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Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldnโt.
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J. C. Jones @thejcjones.bsky.social Author of the best selling Louisa Moss detective series.
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Michael Everon @mikhaeleveron.bsky.social Author | Game-maker | Fate-hacker
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Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social Poetry / Art Magazine Edited by Susanna Galbraith and Gregory McCartney. Abridged since 2004. A Derry Magazine. www.abridged.zone
Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social Writer. University Lecturer. North Cornwall Book Festival Director.
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Anne Caldwell @caldwell10.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor, lecturer, RLF Advisory Fellow. Latest book - Neither Here Nor There - SurVision. 5 poetry collections and interests in nature, moss, birds, prose poetry and education annecaldwell.net
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Karen Farrington @karenfarrington.bsky.social Author. Journalist. Currently running Parracombe's short story competition (https://prize.parracombe.org.uk/) and Parracombe Arts and Literary Festival.
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Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
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Victor Tapner @victortapner.bsky.social British poet published by Broken Sleep Books, Salt, Southword Editions, Templar Poetry
Joe @lifeisnotanovel.bsky.social writer and critic for the TLS, Spectator, Tribune, etc / PhD from UEA on the university and literary culture / reviews editor at Critical Quarterly
Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social Lecturer in Literature @liverpooluni.bsky.social
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Rhys Owain Williams @rhysowainwilliams.bsky.social Writer of poetry, fiction and other things | That Lone Ship (Parthian Books) | Hay Festival Writer At Work | He/Him | https://linktr.ee/rhysowainwilliams
Kerry Byrne @kerrybyrne.bsky.social Writer & editor. Fen wanderer. Collie wrangler. Words in BULL, Ellipsis Zine, Lucy Writers, Maudlin House, National FlashFlood, Pidgeonholes, Roi Fainรฉant Press, streetcake magazine & other fine places. BOTN nominee. Assistant Editor at Frazzled Lit.
Martha Sprackland @marrrtha.bsky.social Editor, writer and translator. Dark Night: Poems & Selected Prose of John of the Cross (Penguin Classics, 2026)
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Falmouth Poetry Group @falmouthpoetrygp.bsky.social Poetry Group set up in 1972 by Peter Redgrove. Meet 5 Times a month to share critique and write together. Occasional events and festivals Now a Stanza Group
Dr Chiara Bullen @chiarab.bsky.social โจ๐๏ธ THE INN AT THE FOOT OF MOUNT VENGEANCE IS OUT NOW ๐๏ธโจ
sometimes author, sometimes academic. always anxious.
glasgow.
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Elizabeth Baines @elizabethbaines.bsky.social Writer of short stories, novels, plays.
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Saraswati Nagpal @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social Forward Prize, Pushcart & BOTN nominated Poet, Author, Educator, Performing Artist. Lover of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, tomes, trees, all things purple. Poetry: 'Drench Me in Silver' (Black Bough, 2025)
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Sarah Jane Butler @sarahjanebutler.bsky.social Reclaiming rivers for all of us. Next book, River Time, due soon. River campaigner, story gatherer, wanderer and swimmer My novel, Starling, published by @Fairlightbooks she/her; pwME https://linktr.ee/sarahjanebutler
Dipika Mummery @dipikam.bsky.social Writing a novel. Stories pub. by Comma, Arachne, Tasavvur, Fox & Windmill, Fly on the Wall. She/her. Manchester, UK. https://linktr.ee/dipikam
Jim Toal @jtstories.bsky.social Fiction in The Stinging Fly and elsewhere. Seeking representation. Story collection ready to go. Novel in progress. Lifelong Newcastle United fan.
Mike OโBrien @zoomburst.substack.com Sixty odd years old - Sixty Odd Press
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Wendy Sacks Jones @wendysacksjones.bsky.social Writer, journalist, ex-BBC. First novel The Candidate's Husband now out in paperback and as audiobook.
John Snelling @john1811.bsky.social Poet. Keats House poetry ambassador. Wide range of interests. On the left politically. A kind of hermeticist philosophically.
Gill Connors @gillcresearch.bsky.social poet, teacher, PhD student. Wild swimmer. Editor at Yaffle/Yaffle's Nest
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Pรกdhraic Quinn @quinnpadhraic.bsky.social 2025 Irish Book Awards Winner for New Irish Writing Best Short Story
2025/26 London Library Emerging Writer
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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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Greg Buzwell @gregbuzwell.bsky.social Curator of Contemporary Literary Archives at the British Library. Co-curator of Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination exhibition. Loves literature, Doctor Who, the Beatles, Marilyn Monroe and anything spooky.
Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee โ23 (Scottish Book Trust) / Ed-at-large, Pen and Anvil Press, MA / Afterbody, Blue Diode Press, Edinburgh: tinyurl.com/afterbodybluediode
Steve McOrmond @stevemcormond.bsky.social Author of four books of poetry, most recently Reckon (2018). New chapbook with Baseline Press: https://www.baselinepress.ca/#/jacaranda-trees-mexico-city-steve-mcormond-2025
Marjolein Rotsteeg @marjoleinrotsteeg.bsky.social Published writer and poet in English, Dutch & French.
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*Book: 'Cherchez la femme. Travestie als fenomeen'(Vassallucci,1996)
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Tracy Fells @theliterarypig.bsky.social WRITER. 2017 WINNER Commonwealth Prize Can & Eur. Author novella-in-flash Hairy On The Inside (Ad Hoc Fiction) S/L '22 Rubery Book Award. Short Story collection out now from Fly On The Wall Press. Buy now: rb.gy/esxcc. www.tracyfells.com
Jon Stone @shotscarecrow.bsky.social Undercover skeleton. ๐ Writer/researcher/lecturer. Ludokinetic/interactive poetry ๐, collaborative and amalgamatic writing. Editor at @SidekickBooks. ๐ He/him.
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Sidekick Books @sidekickbooks.bsky.social ๐ UK publisher of collaborative/hybrid poetry books since 2010, based in London and Cambridge. Editors: Kirsten Irving (@kirstenirving.bsky.social) and Jon Stone (@shotscarecrow.bsky.social).
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Amanda @akscotland.bsky.social Co-host of the Not Quite Write Podcast and judge of the Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction.
Writes in the tiny spaces in between.
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Lothlorien Poetry Journal @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social Lothlorien Poetry Journal is a literary journal featuring free verse/rhyming/experimental poetry, short stories, flash fiction and art.
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Chris Walsh @chriswalsh1.bsky.social Taxi/Writer, Kent, UK
Novel- The Dig Street Festival.
Memoir - Book of Jobs.
Find them on Amazon.
A Thousand Shades of Green @shadesofgreen.bsky.social A Thousand Shades of Green is a Literary podcast, a blog and a press, celebrating contemporary writers.https://athousandshadesofgreen.com
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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Anna Aslanyan @anna-aslanyan.bsky.social Reading, writing, translating, interpreting, etc.
Emma Brennan @emmaeditorial.bsky.social Editorial Director, Manchester University Press. Commissioning art and design history, British Pop Archive and creative writing guides. Big fan of cats.
Giselle Leeb @giselleleeb.bsky.social Short story collection, Mammals, I Think We Are Called (@saltpublishing.bsky.social), Edge Hill Short Story Prize '23 Longlist, Word Factory Apprentice '19, Best British Short Stories '17 https://giselleleeb.com/
Alexander Wells @ajbwells.bsky.social Freelance critic/essayist from Aus with bylines at Guardian, Drift, Baffler, European Review of Books, Meanjin, etc. Ex-Berliner Books editor, now at The Auflauf
https://sites.google.com/view/ajbwells
Melanie Carvalho @meldelune.bsky.social Writer, artist, obituarist. Leicester Writes 24, winner; Short Fictions ISP longlist; Brick Lane Bookshop short story prize shortlist; Pushcart nominated, Liars League; London Library EWP 22/23. Wotcha.
The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the worldโs best new writing.
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Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social Cardiff based Poet, Writer, Academic 'Octopus Mind' (Seren Books) - a Guardian Best Poetry Book of 2023 https://linktr.ee/createdtoread Teach creative writing, writing on/around ekphrasis, neurodiversity, creativity, climate crisis, art
Elizabeth Loudon @esloudon.bsky.social Poet, novelist, teacher, charity worker, carer, ex American. A STRANGER IN BAGHDAD (AUC) LL/Bridport, 2024 SIBF award for Best International Fiction. Best New Poets 2025. I write all by myself, and it shows. www.elizabethloudon.com.
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Alien Buddha Press @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social Alien Buddha Press has been publishing emerging writers and artists since 2017. Open for submissions at abuddhapress@yahoo.com
Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social Shop asst. Poet and interviewer. Work broadcast on BBC Radio Three, The Verb. Edits The Wombwell Rainbow. #PromoteIndieLit Recent work: The Drey Skin. Forthcoming: "Miner Wattas", "Mashing" https://ko-fi.compaulthewombwellrainbow
Michele Hutchison @michehut.bsky.social Translator, editor, writer, poet
Iamrobhughes @iamrobhughes.bsky.social Common Reader. 
Clickworlddaily ยท by Jon @clickworlddaily.bsky.social โ๏ธWriting for those who feel deeply, but quietly.
Moments that linger, questions that stay. Nurse grad, postgrad in HR & Soc. Serv. Manag, working in HR.
Collector of silences, seeker of meaning.
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com Smallholder, writer, erstwhile vetn'ry, PhD student, lexicographer, ADHD+ & alleged Pratchett witch.
Letterpress, bookbinding, (alt-process) photography.
Long Covid victim. She/they.
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@sarahhealeyeditor.bsky.social @sarahhealeyeditor.bsky.social Novelist and freelance editor. Drinks a lot of tea.
Published by Portland Press.
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Aristotelian Society @aristotsoc.bsky.social Hosting and publishing talks on philosophy since 1880.
http://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk
Mathematician Records @mathematicianrecords.com Experimental & Psychedelic music since 2012.
The Modern Counterculture.
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Bev @bevmorris.bsky.social Author, coach, creative consultant, ideas wrangler. Published by Double Dagger Books, Beautiful Dragons and Marvellous Minds https://bevmorrisauthor.com
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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social Professor of Global Politics @UCL. Author of โFluke." Writer @TheAtlantic. Host, Power Corrupts podcast. The Garden of Forking Paths Substack.
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Taking a break for the summer. Contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me.
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Rob Edmunds @robedmunds.bsky.social I'm a Welsh writer of two novels about the ancient Numidian King Masinissa set during the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
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