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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social Writes and sings for Josimar, The Guardian and Tapete Records
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
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Luke P @owenleftchat.bsky.social Working on debut novel, 'Owen Left the Chat', a millennial coming-of-age story and satire of 00s-10s pop culture.
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Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
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Valerie Sirenko @valeriesirenko.bsky.social Speculative Fiction Writer
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Daniel Carey @danielmcarey.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher. Former journalist. Media history. Oral history. Currently researching the (Catholic) Standard newspaper (1928-1978). Funded through the Research Ireland Government of Ireland scheme. Based at Dublin City University
Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social Author of 8 books of fiction & poetry. Recent:The Thickness of Ice (novel, Baraka Books, 2024);The Death Poems (Salt, 2023).Winner of Rubery Award for Fiction. Shortlisted Danuta Gleed Award, Bord Gais Irish Book Awards, & Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.
Declan Lynch @declynchwriter.bsky.social Journalist, Sunday Independent. Author "Tony 1O"
Deirdre Flynn @deirdreflynn.bsky.social Lecturer in 21st Literature - Secretary of IASIL - Member of Young Academy of Ireland
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Laurence Lumsden @laurencewrites.com Dubliner in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Writer. https://www.LaurenceWrites.com/. 2025 Cúirt New Writing Fiction Prize. Posts in English/Français/Svenska. (He/Him/YerMan)
Tadhg Carey @tadhgcarey.bsky.social Writer: Westmeath Artist Bursary Award, Freedom to Write awardee, Southword, The Stony Thursday Book, Skylight 47, Honest Ulsterman & others. Cúirt International Festival of Literature New Writing Showcase 2024. Highly Commended Fool for Poetry Chapbook.
Rosanne V. Gallenne @rosannev-gallen.bsky.social Breton, Dr in modern and contemporary poetry, UCD / "Representation(s) of the Garden in the Poetry by Women in Ireland" / Comparatist: researches women's poetry and antifascist artistic networks in 🇫🇷, 🇮🇪 and 🇮🇹 / cat-mother, plant-carer 🐈⬛🪴
Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social Poet & broadcaster. New non-fiction prose book, 'Village', OUT!
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Scott Elder @scottelder.bsky.social Writer, musician, living in Auvergne, France.
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Kieran Wyatt @kieranstories.bsky.social Best British Short Stories, The London Magazine, Free Flash Fiction, Eunoia Review, Blood+Honey. I also post a new story on my blog every month. Fylde Coast. https://kieranstorieswriter.blog/about/
Tim Craig @timcraig.bsky.social Manc | Writer of short fiction | ‘Now You See Him’ Long List Edge Hill Prize 22, short list Int Rubery Prize | multiple placed Bath Flash Award | prev winner Bridport Prize flash.
Annalisa Crawford @annalisacrawford.bsky.social Writing ghost stories for people who don't believe in ghosts. Wishing Shelf Book Awards silver winner, Rubery Book Award finalist, and Costa Short Story Award 3rd placer.
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Mary O'Donnell @maryodonnell.bsky.social Fiction & poetry, I participate in lit fests & conferences. New novel is SWEEP THE COBWEBS OFF THE SKY (Epoque UK, March 2026)
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Pat Wahler @patwahlerauthor.bsky.social Award-winning author and avid reader of historical fiction and women's stories. Advocate for rescued animals and nature. Big fan of kindness and humor.
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Eileen Gunn * Keep hovering to play. * @eileengunn.bsky.social "You can dream the American Dream, but you sleep with the lights on and wake up with a scream...."
–– Warren Zevon
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Kevin John Smith @odyssey53.bsky.social I'm an author of new age/spiritual fiction. My author website is https://nahannigatepublish.wixsite.com/my-site-2
Melissa Brooks @melissa-brooks.bsky.social A memoir writer, writing about my experiences and childhood as a form of personal therapy.
Hunter @yourfriendlyhunter.bsky.social Their is no love for rain🌧 or rainbow🌈 in a hearts of a greedy person...
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Venetia Welby @vvwelby.bsky.social Novelist: DREAMTIME, MOTHER OF DARKNESS Escape artist | Shapeshifter | Cat demon www.venetiawelby.com
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
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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
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Lydia Gray @lydiajgray.bsky.social Historian of the British empire, political activism and the Cold War. PhD researcher, University of Southampton.
Gemma Morris-Conway @gemma2.bsky.social Historical Novelist | Tudor & Plantagenet Researcher | Lead Campaigner for DNA Testing of the Princes in the Tower | Public Historian & Speaker Author, The Reflection in the Mirror and The Wolf of Whitehall, currently working on two new novels out in June.
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