Hopeful News @hopefulnewshq.bsky.social The newsletter full of good news. Start your day with a smile!
NinaLewis @ninalewis.bsky.social When I still did research, it was on Reformation drama. Now I teach EngLit and try to write some, too. I like kissing stories and history, preferably in one package. Pseudonymous. Vegan. Pigoneer. Introvert. - No unsolicited DMs, please.
Female Feedback Film Festival @femalefilmfestival.bsky.social The FEEDBACK Female Film Festival (FFFF) was created for women filmmakers and screenwriters. The goal is to showcase the best of female talent from around the world.
https://femalefilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/FEEDBACKFemaleFilmFestivalFFFF
Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-novel-festival-contests/
Shakespeare News @shakespearenews.bsky.social A weekly newsletter about the world's most popular playwright.
www.shakespearenews.com
Daniel Coo @danielcoo.bsky.social Husband, father, grandfather, actor
thepoetofcuisine @thepoetofcuisine.bsky.social Writer of "Digital Cicero: A Silk Road Novella", award winning "the Fry Up Triptych", and "Victorian Fast Food", THE dissertation on commercial food in East London
buymeacoffee.com/poetofcuisine
John Crowther @john-crowther7bsky.bsky.social Respect nature and biodiversity. In the fight to grow a fairer, greener, sustainable future. #BuildBackFairer #BuildBackGreener #MakeBritainWetAgain
Fantasy/Sci-Fi Film & Screenplay Festival @scififantasyfest.bsky.social This is a HYBRID film festival with live screenings for the audience feedback video, optional virtual 2nd showcase, and blog & podcast interviews with filmmaker
http://fantasyscififestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/FantasySciFiFilmScreenplayFestival
Action/Crime/Mystery Film & Screenplay Festival @crimemystery.bsky.social This festival now takes place every single month, giving filmmakers 4 tiers to showcase and promote their film. In-person public events also take place.
https://filmfreeway.com/crimemystery
www.crimemysteryfestival.com
Environmental Film & Screenplay Festival @environmentalfest.bsky.social A festival designed to showcase the best of new environmentally themed films (shorts, features) and screenplays (shorts, features, TV pilots) from around the world. We accept any genre.
https://filmfreeway.com/EnvironmentalFestival
Hollow Crown Fans @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social Fan group for BBC Shakespeare series #TheHollowCrown starring Ben Whishaw, Jeremy Irons, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch. Founded #ShakespeareSunday
Dr Andrew Higgins @ashiggins.bsky.social Director of Development at Imperial War Museums. Tolkien Scholar and author Live in Balham London 🏳️🌈
Scottish Network for Religion & Literature @religionlit.bsky.social Sharing knowledge & developing research around the dynamic relationship between literature and religions @uoedivinity.bsky.social
Deborah Cartmell @deborahcartmell.bsky.social I publish in Adaptation Studies and am co-editor and founder of the journals, Adaptation (OUP) and Shakespeare (Routledge).
Daily Stage Play Festival Contests @stageplaycontests.bsky.social Submit to these contests via Submittable. Full feedback on every submissions. Winners get their play performed by professional actors and made into a promotional video.
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-stage-play-contest-deadlines/
Experimental/Dance/Music Festival @dancemusicexper.bsky.social Festivals take place in downtown Toronto, Canada, for the audience feedback video.
The festival has created 4 tiers to enhance your festival experience.
https://filmfreeway.com/ExperimentalFilmMusicVideoFestival
https://experimentalfilmfestival.com
Gretel le Maître 🐘 @gretellemaitre.bsky.social Trying to be kind. Church and old buildings explorer; love words, cricket, history, theatre, books, art, music, nature, birds, manuscripts. 😊 Only here for gentle stuff.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2412300/episodes/16064942
STC @blobbystc.bsky.social build wind farms
and
solar arrays
write bad poetry
RT *everything*
Nathan Pensky @nathanpensky.bsky.social Writer. / First-gen CMU Ph.D. adjuncting at Pitt and Duquesne. / Host at Third Person Limited podcast. / Columnist at The Pittsburgh Review of Books. / He/him.
First book, 'Cartesian Theaters, Shakespearean Minds': https://tinyurl.com/2pxhu7cu
SBlandfo @sblandfo.bsky.social Poet. Nature, conservation, history, archaeology, art, architecture, politics & the pleasures of reading. Doyenne of #IronworkThursday. Still #yallmasking
MandyLoon @mandycmerciless.bsky.social Male, several decades old, queer, Star Trek not Star Wars, love chocolate.
Anthropology is our guide.
Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social interdisciplinary historian of early modern England; Leverhulme ECF at Sheffield, working on 'Performing the early modern English state into reality, 1558-1641'. socio-legal history, practice-as-research as historical method. mum of cats and a small human.
Matt @bestatfailing.bsky.social Shakespeare for brain rot
Current Shakespeare on Substack
The Oxford Marlowe Project @marloweproject.bsky.social The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works
http://research.kent.ac.uk/marlowe-works/
Image credit: Lorna May Wadsworth
The Joke Bot @thejokebot.bsky.social How do bots stay in shape?
They do circuit training!
Follow me for regular #jokes / #dadjokes 🎤🤖
I always #FollowBack too 🥳
Maintained by @whut.me
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iansdonnelly.bsky.social @iansdonnelly.bsky.social PhD candidate at the Shakespeare Institute. Researching classical tragedy and early modern English drama, particularly Senecan influences on Elizabethan Inns of Court dramas.
Dave @davejeeping.bsky.social 🌞
High Strangeness @bickernicks.bsky.social A full-cast audiobook podcast about a skeptical ufologist, a Cape Cod reporter, an alien-obsessed cult, and a very odd golden retriever. A fast sci-fi comedy of mystery, satire, and absurdity—Vonnegut meets Adams. #HSaudiobook https://linktr.ee/HSaudiobook
Dr Varsha Panjwani @drvarshap.bsky.social Podcaster, Women & Shakespeare
Author, Introduction, 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (OWC)
Current Writing: British South Asian Shakespeares on Stage
Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social Early modernist. Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Coventry University. Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance, University of Warwick. Views own. She/her.
Keith Lansdale @keithlansdale.bsky.social 
Sameer Kankali Ⓥ☮✌🏼🌱💚🍉🐸🐮🐷📚📖♟️✊🏼 @sameerkankali.bsky.social MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS 💙🦋
#Activist #HumanRights #AnimalRights #UBI #ClimateChange #Books #Tech #Poker #Chess
He/Him/His
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Twiglets @twigletsaregre.bsky.social Usually good natured, usually happy and likes Twiglets with grated cheese. She/her
shakespeareseminar@proton.me @shakespeareseminar.bsky.social Inspired by a conversation outside the globe with Andrew Jarvis in 2012, our seminars aim to reclaim the context of Shakespeare's work by getting practitioners and academics working together to make the context accessible, instead of intimidating.- J James Crawford @jimmymandrax.bsky.social
Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️🌈 @benwt.bsky.social Literary Historian. Working on Women's Writing, Book History, Material Culture, Dig Hums, Race, & Heritage.
Senior RA and PI, 'The Remarkable History of Barley Wood' @bristolunienglish.bsky.social
RA, 'Inclusive Histories', @royalholloway.bsky.social
Kropotke🖖 @kropotke.bsky.social "Wer gab den Wölfen die Kreide, das Mehl, stäubte die Pfoten weiß?" (Degenhardt)
John Boeren, LLM, MSc, QG 🇳🇱 @antecedentia.com Professional genealogist. Research in Netherlands and Belgium. Interest in early modern history. Member of APG and RQG. Graduate of University of Strathclyde. Scholar for New Netherland Settlers Project.
Business: https://www.antecedentia.com
Jacob Tootalian @jtootalian.bsky.social Scholar, teacher, parent. Interested in (early modern) literature, rhetoric, and the history of science. Co-General Editor of the Complete Works of Margaret Cavendish. Co-Director of Digital Cavendish.
Sue Wilkes @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social FRHistS. Europhile. Author of Regency Spies, A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England, and more. Young Workers of the Industrial Age, out now! Please be kind. https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Sue-Wilkes/a/1893
Jiamiao Chen @jiamiao.bsky.social 
Darryl Chalk @drdeelittle.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Theatre @ University of Southern Queensland | Shakespeare and early modern drama | conjuring, caregiving, and contagion (not always at the same time) | bonus points: Liverpool FC, record and video game collecting, tabletop board games
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence @rgmemss.bsky.social Dedicated to the love of books, manuscripts, written words in multiple media across the ages. Did we mention books?
Our website = https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/
Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies @csrs-scer.bsky.social Société canadienne d'études de la Renaissance
@1zachman.bsky.social @1zachman.bsky.social History Student, avid reader, depressive insomniac, humor depends on the mood.
Edward's Boys @edwardsboys.bsky.social King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon- M @mlueger.bsky.social @mlueger.bsky.social
Joseph Crespo @randomabstract.bsky.social New creator of audio drama at wheelwizardproductions.com
Tom Gething @thomgething.bsky.social Father, husband, educator, immigrant. Lower School Director in NC. Certainty is overrated.
Olivia @imoliviaaaaa.bsky.social What are you going to do if our opinion is not the same as yours.... let's find out.
https://buttondown.com/amoveablefeed
https://onlyfans.com/u592653470/c1
Staff @AMF
Reygar Bernal @reygarbernal.bsky.social IB MYP-DP Language and Literature teacher (ESP / ENG / POR / ITA / DEU), weekend biker, lifelong learner: "So long as man can breathe, or eyes can see, cantar a beleza de ser um eterno aprendiz" (Shakespeare meets Gonzaguinha).
Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University of London
@scottcruickshank.bsky.social @scottcruickshank.bsky.social 
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Tom Langham @probablynottom.bsky.social Doing a PhD on drum noise in early English Theatre (and also in other places 🥁🥁).
I watch too many films and talk about tennis.
He, Him. Uk, 26.
Randall Martin @rwfm.bsky.social Shakespearian. Ecocritic. Occasional dramaturge.
Tomoyston1 @toyst.bsky.social Music stuff:
Black Meadow
Writer:
Brown Window/The Orphan Frequency/
Clopper/Lights/The Civic Broadcast/
The ADHD Manager
Anders Edwards @andersedwards.bsky.social ✍️ Dystopian Author
📚 Erased & What Happened To Ava
➡️ https://a.co/d/9wxT23L
🌐 www.andersedwards.com
Theatre Muse UK @theatremuseuk.bsky.social Community platform in support of theatre-makers. Improv/Fringe/Festivals/Education/Features
*Recruiting reviewers - email: caroline.worswick@theatremuseuk.org*
https://linktr.ee/theatremuseuk
C🌻🏳️🌈 @caseyactual.bsky.social Student, scientist in training, solarpunk. I like making art/music and writing things. No war. (They/them)
I have friends everywhere.
Gina @ginabillyk.bsky.social Not in the mood to sum myself up. Looking forward to exploring Bluesky - still dreaming of and working for the blue wave.
Jason Westra-Hall @anotherdayjay.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Michigan. Former (but always a) Michigan English and Journalism Educator. Central Michigan and University of Michigan-Flint alum.
Sophable @sophable.bsky.social F@ck it. Again.
Hes Bradley @hesbradley.bsky.social lecturer in english and creative writing at @uniofbuckingham.bsky.social
writer, community gardener,
into vampires and the moon atm
they/them
@salonidesouza.bsky.social @salonidesouza.bsky.social Professional flossofer, expert napper, absurdity magnet, bluesky lurker. They/them; she/her; doctor/duck.
Robert Crighton @robertcrighton.bsky.social Performer, writer, producer - founder of Beyond Shakespeare, but I won't be doing much of that here. Mostly other stuff.
Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social Some time writer, educator, and curator; full time Mary Mag Hag | Currently lecturing @uomreligion
Katharine Craik @kcraik1.bsky.social Prof of Shakespeare and early modern lit, Research Director and Think Human Festival Director at Oxford Brookes. ‘Lifelike Shakespeare’ coming soon from OUP🏴
Stephen Watkins @drawcansir.bsky.social Lapsing academic. Early Modern literature and theatre. Poetaster. Tenor. Ciudadano.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/55dah8yw- L @louisewilson.bsky.social @louisewilson.bsky.social
Under 5 Minute Film Festival @under5minutefest.bsky.social Submit your short film that's 5 minutes or less and get it showcased at the FEEDBACK Short Film Festivals in Los Angeles and Toronto. A monthly film festival event!
http://under5minutefilmfestival.com/
https://filmfreeway.com/Under5minFilmFestival
HIDden Theatre @hiddentheatre.bsky.social HIDden Theatre produces work from and about the past, performing historically informed drama and bringing to life stories of times gone by.
hiddentheatre.com
@blueblack66.bsky.social @blueblack66.bsky.social 
Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social Londoner and writer on classical music. Interested in the arts, history, nature, reading, coffee, vegetarian food, and active travel infrastructure.
https://mosaicoftheair.substack.com/
Giles Sparrow is adrift in the vortex @gswrites.bsky.social Pop science writer/editor consultant for hire, specialising in astronomy and its history. Regular nerd with @somethingwho.bsky.social
Martiana ⁘ SARTRIX @martiana.bsky.social trans mulier perita sacrorum & litterarum
SARTRIX.org
JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk Crabby historian. Less crabby now blue skies beckon.
She/her • Agent: Bill Hamilton, amheath.com
helen @hejparry.bsky.social children's writer, cat wrangler, time waster
A Scrap of Moss & Magick out 8 October 2026 with @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social
pre-orders: https://tinyurl.com/4suv7bh9 | https://tinyurl.com/m9h8d2fe
cover art: Melissa Castrillón
British in Belgium
she/her
Lee Ward @leewardmister.bsky.social It's books and music all the way down.
Grise l’Indécis @wildobliquities.bsky.social small duck energy
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.- A @allysophy.bsky.social @allysophy.bsky.social
@shakespop.bsky.social @shakespop.bsky.social 
@alextheplaid.bsky.social @alextheplaid.bsky.social https://x.com/_plaidcat_ 🦉
Lemon Ride @lemonride.bandcamp.com Lemon Ride is the name on everyone’s lips — and no one knows who’s behind it. Blending shimmering melodies with earth-shaking basslines, Lemon Ride crafts a sound that defies definition, balancing emotion and innovation in every track.
Jokusatsu @joefriday37.bsky.social Joe Friday Higgins
Punk artist and art director based in Staffordshire
Horror - Comics - Punk Rock - Movies - Equality
He/They
Timothy Holden @timothy-holden.bsky.social "You gods, look down / And from your sacred vials pour your graces / Upon my daughter's head! Tell me, mine own. / Where hast thou been preserved? where lived? how found /
Thy father's court?"
Researching Shakespeare, motion, and perception.
Modern Humanities Research Association @themhra.bsky.social The MHRA publishes the Modern Language Review, Legenda, Texts & Translations, the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature, and other books and journals. It funds young scholars and edits #MHRAStyle. https://www.mhra.org.uk/
Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social Cultural historian of modern Britain. Senior Lecturer at the University of Derby and Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. All views my own.
🍎 Taylor Twins 🍏 @thirstytwins.satan.social 🦋Taylor Twins TWINS BING TWINS🦋
🌀gemelos Taylor Gemelos siendo gemelas🌀
⓸ 泰勒双胞胎 双胞胎就是双胞胎 ⓸
#instagram #threads #X #tumblr #bluesky https://0-info.my.canva.site/barcode-century-docx
SCLPostGrad2026 @sclpostgrad2026.bsky.social The Shakespeare Centre London’s postgraduate conference, hosted by King’s College London and Shakespeare's Globe. This year's theme is 'Networks'.
Vanessa R Barcelos @vanessabcs.bsky.social English PhD candidate, University of Miami
Renaissance literature, witchcraft, gender, and Critical Race Studies