Fred Connelly @brendonconnelly.bsky.social Working class writer. Invisibly disabled. Mystery plotter, heist consultant, lover of moving pictures. He/him. Fun things: http://brendonconnelly.carrd.co
WW2TV Paul Woodadge @ww2tv.bsky.social 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🎙️ YouTuber, battlefield guide and historian in Normandy. All opinions, comments and newsboy caps my own. Quite "Woke" and proud of it. #WW2TV #Normandy #IpswichTown #Rockabilly #Punk 🐈🍺⚽ https://www.youtube.com/c/WW2TV
Gamer Poet Jaimes @esk8jaimes.bsky.social 32, he/him, #Autistic #Poet, #Ska #Cyberpunk #Steampunk and #Esk8 enthusiast. Mainly #Nintendo gamer. Share the hype of #IndieGames and #Poetry Joined 27th Nov 24' UK
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B09N9KVH32
https://www.facebook.com/jaimeslikeswords
Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social Drama and fiction writer. GANGS OF LONDON S4. MONSTROUS LONGING out with Dahlia Books.
Agents: Independent Talent / The Ampersand Agency
Brit List 2022 / BAFTA Connect member
https://linktr.ee/abifahynes
Lisa Holdsworth @lisaholdsworth.bsky.social TV Writer: Midsomer, Midwife, ACGAS and Dreamers (still available to stream on C4).
WGGB, Slung Low Shorts and Leeds Care Leavers Christmas.
David Gaffney @ggaffa.bsky.social Writer, Arts Council manager, musician. Concrete Fields (Salt 2023) Out Of The Dark (Confingo 2021) graphic novel Rivers (Top Shelf 2021) www.davidgaffney.org
Benjamin Judge @benjaminjudge.bsky.social Writer. Reader.
I have decided to draw every species of bird even though I'm not very good at drawing birds. Why not, eh? Birds are cool.
benjaminjudge.com
Fat Roland @fatroland.bsky.social 🎵 Music writer for Electronic Sound, veteran blogger, short story author
🎤 Comedian (Title Fight, Glang Show, A Lovely Time)
🍊 Operations droog for Anthony Burgess Foundation
💢 Was a sentient tower (grrrrrr)
Read my blog: https://fatroland.blogspot.com.
Beth Underdown @bethunderdown.bsky.social Novelist with Penguin Viking, creative writing teacher with the University of Manchester and Faber Academy. Hiking, gardening, crochet, coeliac disease: old-person stuff.
Glen James Brown @glenjamesbrown.bsky.social Writer. New novel 💚 MOTHER NAKED 💚 out now! Also IRONOPOLIS (shortlisted for the Orwell Prize & Portico Prize & Winner Prix Millepages).
Adam Farrer @adamjfarrer.bsky.social Essayist, Editor @ The Real Story, Winner NorthBound Book Award for COLD FISH SOUP (Saraband, 2022). BROKEN BISCUITS (HarperNorth, 2025) MD ANT Rep'd by @charlotteseymour.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/adamjfarrer
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
Zena Barrie @zenabarrie.bsky.social Author & co-director of Camden Fringe
Writes things, reads things, goes to watch things
www.zenabarrie.com
Kate Feld @katefeld.bsky.social Poet and essayist. Journalism lecturer at the University of Salford. Vermonter in Manchester, UK. Debut chapbook DEERYARD out with Death of Workers Whilst Building Skyscrapers. katefeld.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
David Hartley @davidhartley.bsky.social Writer of weird tales | FAUNA, with Fly on the Wall | INCORCISMS, with Arachne Press | Writer-in-residence for Prima Vista in Tartu, Estonia | Manchester, UK
Isabelle Kenyon @isabellekenyon.bsky.social Editor & #bookmarketing consultant 📚 Poet and Novelist.
M.D. @fly_press
FutureBook Awards Future Leader Finalist 2024
Novel The Dark Within Them out now🔥
Rosie Garland @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social Writer, March Violet, secret medievalist, FRSL✨
Not cynical; just been taking notes.
Novels:The Fates(Quercus)
Palace of Curiosities, Vixen, Night Brother(Borough)
Poems:Nine Arches
March Violets: @marchvioletsband.bsky.social
http://www.rosiegarland.com
Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social Peggy Poole Winner 2022 |
Prose: Flare and Falter, Splice |
Poetry: These Are Not My Dreams, Nine Pens
https://mickconley.substack.com/
Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social Writer, poet, editor, musician.
Ghost Signs (Bluemoose, 2022)
Keshed (Ortac Press, 2026)
Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, 2027 tbc)
#MDANT
https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/stu-hennigan
https://stuhennigan.substack.com/
Conway McDermott @conwaaaaaaay.hauntedtrumpet.com https://conway.omg.lol
www.the-left-eye.com
✒️🌹💸Writer, Artist, Victim of the Cost of Living Crisis💸🌹✒️
They/Xe/He🏳️⚧️
- Lead Writer at Haunted Trumpet 🎺
- Screen/Play Award Winner
- EastEnders ❤️
- Now working on features, plays, and video games 💅
Clodagh Chapman @clochpmn.bsky.social writer + director / she/her
clodaghchapman.co.uk
Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social Writer. Latest: Paris Fantastique from @confingopublishing.bsky.social and Finders, Keepers from @saltpublishing.com
Also runs @nightjarpress.bsky.social nightjarpress.weebly.com
Phil Olsen @liverpolsen.bsky.social Writer of s(h)orts | Continuing Education Creative Writing Tutor at Uni of Liverpool | Contributing Editor at Vestal Review | Stories in Cōnfingō #16, Strix #8 | https://polsen.co.uk | https://linktr.ee/liverpolsen
Dave Haslam @davehaslam.bsky.social Hacienda DJ, journalist (Guardian, LRB, etc), writer (recent books about Sylvia Plath, Keith Haring, Picasso). “An exceptional writer” - Olivia Laing.
Jenn Ashworth @jennashworth.bsky.social Writer, reader, hiker https://linktr.ee/jenn_ashworth
Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social Northern correspondent, Financial Times
Experimental cook, purveyor of Andy Burnham content
“Cynical” - Boris Johnson
📍Manchester
Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social Poet and non-fiction writer. Latest poetry collection "All The Men I Never Married" won the 2022 Forward Prize. Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Substack: https://shorturl.at/Ea3sI
Richard V. Hirst @richardvhirst.bsky.social Another writer you've never heard of / books with Confingo and Dead Ink / runs Levenshulme Old Library
https://richardvhirst.co.uk/
Winter Writes @loufin.bsky.social Writer, mum, Manc. Posts in bursts when not exhausted. Manchester Fiction Prize finalist (ages ago) Stories with Fly on the Wall Press (currently) Working on novel (forever)
Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social Cacoethes - a bisexual sugar baby coming-of-age novel - out now: https://www.northodox.co.uk/product-page/cacoethes-paperback 🩷💜💙
🌻 I'm like if an old man was a girl. She/her.
📍Manchester(ish)
Matt Hill @matthill.bsky.social Writer. New novel LAMB out now from Dead Ink: mthill.co.uk/lamb
Emma White @emmavwhite.bsky.social Writer & Facilitator 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🥄
linktr.ee/emmawhitetheatre
Becky Prestwich @beckyph7.bsky.social Writer (TV, theatre, radio)
Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of short fiction from the UK & beyond. Championing the next generation of writers & translators. Shares do not equal endorsements.
Find us at: https://commapress.co.uk/
Dead Ink Books @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of bold new fiction and non-fiction, based in Liverpool
https://linktr.ee/deadinkbooks
Dead Ink Bookshop @deadinkbookshop.bsky.social An independent bookshop exclusively stocking independent publishers, based on Smithdown Road in Liverpool.
https://linktr.ee/deadinkbookshop
Dr Kim Wiltshire @kkwiltshire.bsky.social Reader in Creative Writing, love reading, love writing! Programme Leader for Creative Writing and convenor for the Fiction Writer’s Network research group at EHU, former British Academy Innovation Fellow - but views all my own.
Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social Manc independent publisher with a conscience.
M.D. Isabelle Kenyon
2024 North England Winner Small Press of Year!
Sustainable, political and accessible
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk
Clare Shaw @clareshawpoet.bsky.social Poet. I love moss, mudlarking and broken things. Proud to be Northern, non-binary and neurodivergent. 
Ilkley Literature Festival @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social The north of England's longest-running literature festival.
Coming in 2026: 2-18 October 2026.
#ILF26 | Produced by @thewordupnorth.bsky.social
Karen Powell @karenpowellwrites.bsky.social FIFTEEN WILD DECEMBERS shortlisted Nero Book Awards 2023; a best historical fiction book of 2023 (The Times); THE RIVER WITHIN (2020) Northern Writers' Award; @EuropaEdUK; https://linktr.ee/karenpowellwrites
David Coates @oziasmidwinter.bsky.social Bangs on about Taylor Swift and books a lot. Was events manager for Blackwell’s Manchester, now with @serenitybookshop.bsky.social Nero Book Awards Fiction Judge 2023. He/him
Andy Murray @mrgeetsromo.bsky.social Hairy ne'er-do-well. Would-be good egg. Pillock.
Nigel Kneale / Russell T Davies biographer.
New social media platform, same great content.
Est. 1972.
Ted Northodox @tednorthodox.bsky.social Sheffield, UK. Dreamer. Metalhead. General nuisance. Co-owner of Northodox Press. 🎶I like big books and I cannot lie🎶
Northodox Press 📖 @northodoxpress.bsky.social Indie Publisher of historical fiction, championing authors and stories based in Northern England and Scotland. SUBMISSIONS CLOSED
StokeyLitFest @stokeylitfest.bsky.social ‘One of the best book bashes in the UK’. The Quietus. 5-7 June 2026.
Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social A unique residential library in North Wales with beautiful Reading Rooms, Food for Thought restaurant, accommodation and more.
Read, write, rest!
linktr.ee/gladlib
Stockport Noir @stockportnoir.bsky.social Crime fiction festival in the North West. Saturday 31st January 2026 at Stockport Masonic Guildhall
Hull Noir @hullnoir.bsky.social A regional, national and international crime writing festival. Monthly evenings running at Hull Libraries featuring debut authors through to bestsellers.
Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Theatres @liveveryplay.bsky.social Two Great Theatres. One Creative Heart.
Registered charity #1081229
Sheffield Theatres @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social Our four theatres belong to this brilliant city. If it’s a great night out you’re after, you’ve come to right place.
sheffieldtheatres.co.uk
Live Theatre @livetheatre.bsky.social Official account for Live Theatre, Newcastle Upon Tyne - NE1 3DQ
Champions of risk.
Lovers of the new.
An epic space for the voices of the future.
https://www.live.org.uk/
Kat Rose-Martin @katrosemartin.bsky.social Actor/Writer - TV, Film & Theatre @unitedagents @bwhagency https://www.unitedagents.co.uk/kat-rose-martin
Cheshire Novel Prize @saranaidinecox.bsky.social www.cheshirenovelprize.com
Mhairi Ledgerwood @meledgerwood.bsky.social Playwright. Royal Court Writers Group (North). Live Theatre Bursary 2020. BBC NE Voices 2021. Bush Theatre Allotments 22/23. Box of Tricks Accelerate 2024. Grass Routes Prize Top 20%.
People's Theatre @peoplestheatre.bsky.social The North-East of England's leading non-professional theatre
https://linktr.ee/peoplestheatre
SI Leeds Literary Prize @sileedslitprize.bsky.social SI Leeds Literary Prize is a biennial national award for unpublished fiction by UK based Black and Asian women writers. 2024 winner: Maeve Clarke. 2026 prize judging underway.
https://www.sileedsliteraryprize.com/
Middle Child @middlechildhull.bsky.social A new writing theatre company rooted in Hull. We bring people together for unforgettable experiences full of big ideas.
middlechildtheatre.co.uk
Box of Tricks @boxoftrickstheatre.bsky.social Manchester theatre company.
The play makers. Every story told. Every voice heard.
https://boxoftrickstheatre.co.uk
Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction
You can order books here : www.bluemoosebooks.com 
Jo Shaw @bookmadjo.bsky.social Mancunian book blogger. I read rom, lit fic, historical + thrillers. #books #f1 #swfc #BookSky #Packers She/her, Cis, Ally 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ INFJ
Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social Creative-critical research centre, Manchester Metropolitan University. Exploring the relationship between writing & place to examine major contemporary issues
Co-directed by Dr David Cooper & Prof Rachel Lichtenstein
https://linktr.ee/centreforplacewriting
Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social Northern writer. Author of The Disappeared. Stories in The London Reader, Reflex Press, Palm-Sized Press. Finalist: Mslexia Short Story Comp/Dinesh Allirajah Prize. Arts marketer. Writer in residence Durham Writes & Crossing the Tees.
amylordauthor.com
Will Truefitt @willtruefitt.bsky.social Edinburgh-based script idioter/ vowel flattener
2022 Brit List / 2021 4Screenwriting,
Rep’d by Katie Battcock
@ Curtis Brown
All opinions my own stupid ones.
Francesca Brooks @francescabrooks.bsky.social Lecturer in Old English at University College Cork. Writer of poetry & prose. Early Medievalist, Late Modernist, Feminist. Author of 'Poet of the Medieval Modern'. Find more of my writing at https://francescabrooks.com/
Ian Brumpton @ianbrumpton.bsky.social Drama/Comedy/Children's Scriptwriter. Fully qualified Geordie. Shortlisted BAFTA Rocliffe 2023 Children & YA. BBC Writersroom 2023 Longlist (Top 3%). Asperger's Syndrome & Visually Impaired. 🌈
Saraband Books @saraband-books.bsky.social Award-winning independent publisher of distinctive, unforgettable fiction and outstanding non-fiction.
Visit our website https://saraband.net/ 
And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social Not-for-profit press led by readers, writers & translators. Consider subscribing to help us take publishing risks. http://andotherstories.org/subscriptions/
Peepal Tree Press @peepaltreepress.bsky.social Publisher of Caribbean and Black British books. Proudly decolonising bookshelves since 1985.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/peepaltreepress
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com If you’re reading this, you’re in the right place.
Beautiful books you won't forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of modern, classic and translated poetry, and the bi-monthly literary journal @pnreview.bsky.social.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/CarcanetPress
Honford Star @honfordstar.bsky.social Publisher of translated East Asian fiction 🌟 Buy our books/ebooks direct at http://honfordstar.com 🌟 Sign up to our newsletter: https://t.co/v9Oozdt652- I Iqbal Hussain @ihussainwriter.bsky.social Debut adult novel “Northern Boy” came out June 2024 (ABBA, Bollywood, cobbles) - rep Robert Caskie | working on debut children’s MG novel - rep Lucy Irvine @pfd | child of the 70s/80s
Helen Tookey @helentookey.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Based in Liverpool, UK. Published by Carcanet Press, Longbarrow Press and Liverpool University Press.
Stairwell Books @stairwellbooks.bsky.social Stairwell Books: Based in York, tales from all over. A book for everyone! YA/Children’s books, novels, genre fic, nonfiction, history, poetry & story collections: a book for everyone. Delighted STRIKE shortlisted for Forward Prize 2024.
Mon Dickson @mondickson.bsky.social Writer. Dentist try-hard. Cornflakes uptight. She/her.
#FlashFiction & #ShortStories at Temple in a City | Anti Heroin Chic | Splonk | jmww | X-RAY + more. Best small fictions nominee 2026. NSSF Academy graduate. https://writingandthelike.wordpress.com/
Andrea Mann @andreamann.bsky.social Screenwriter / Mentor / Landlocked yacht-rock lover. She/her. www.andreamann.com
Emily Devane @devaneemily.bsky.social Writer, teacher, editor, bookseller. Collector of oddities.
Words in various places, including Smokelong, Lost Balloon, Ellipsis, Best Microfiction & Ambit.
Levenshulme Old Library @levyoldlibrary.bsky.social A 1904 Carnegie Library building in Levenshulme now housing a community-powered art and culture charity.
https://levenshulmeoldlibrary.org.uk/
💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social Writer. Home: blank page, screen or stage. Chiefly here to discuss screenwriting, film + TV. Queen of typos. Partnered by my editor-in-chief, Tiggy (cat). Lover of cake, otters, owls, hares and wildlife/conservation.
David Allison @davidovitch.bsky.social TV Screenwriter in Leeds - THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR (C4/Starz). New series WINTER (ITV/PBS) coming v soon.
Agent/bio: https://www.jtmanagement.co.uk/clients/david-allison/
International Disco King. Presenter of Mondo Pop radio show: http://mondopop.uk
Natalie Mirosch @noomirosch.bsky.social The Network alum | Channel 4 Writing for Television Award winner | Former forensic anthropologist | utter calamity
📍 South Yorkshire
📸 https://www.instagram.com/noomirosch94
michelle @mickeypip.bsky.social ✏️ Writer, Artist, Narrative Designer (scripts, stories, games and other stuff)
👻 Lover of all things weird
📺 Channel 4 New Writers 24/25
📚 Trustee Manchester City of Literature
🎬 BAFTA Connect
✍️ WIP: spec fic collection
🔗 https://linktr.ee/mickeypip
David Nobbs Memorial Trust @nobbsmemorial.bsky.social Supporting new comedy writers in the UK. For information on how to enter the competition visit our website davidnobbsmemorialtrust.org.uk 
Dean ☕ 🤘🏻 @kaakaapo.bsky.social I listen to loud music for a living, I go to work to pay the bills.
https://linktr.ee/kaakaapo
Real Ale | Pubs | Walking | Running | Maps and GIS | Leeds
אף אחד אף פעם לא מקשיב
Game-Changing History @gamechanging.bsky.social Podcast about game-changing people and events in history Apple: http://shorturl.at/nEGK9 Spotify: http://shorturl.at/jtAJK
Pat G @patg63.bsky.social He/Him
Husband, dad, cook, wargamer, lover of history and books, model railroader.
"I’d rather be a pig than a fascist." - Porco Rosso
#SpreadTheLard
Oberst Wilhelm Klink | Alfredo Yu @oberstwklink.bsky.social "Der S4 des Diskurses" @hemicker | #MilHist | #Wargaming | "The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice." - Alfred Thayer Mahan | "My advice. Don't skip good hot dogs when you get them." - James T. Kirk #SNW
Singing River Brewery @singingriverbrew.bsky.social Homebrewer, neurodivergent, bi, MA medievalist.
❤️ - arts/media, history, languages/linguistics, ecology, travel, food, lots of books. UK. Francophile, European, Green Party. He/him.
LNR @lnr.bsky.social Geek, Cyclist, Parent, UCU, Goth, Knitter, Cis, Bi, Fat, Queer, she/her. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Other places you may know me from: https://lnr.dreamwidth.org/650568.html
Trans rights are human rights.
NearlyKnowledgeable @g0blinegg.bsky.social Amy
𖦹 Folklorist & Writer 𖦹
Ghostlore ● Witchcraft ● Devil Folklore
Rooted in Shropshire History & Lore 💀
Writer of 'The Best Of Men' -A Shropshire folk horror 🦇
Dr Daniella M Gonzalez @deegonz92.bsky.social Medievalist: London, urban history, political discourse, documentary culture📜
Archives and Records Management Professional 📚
Social Media Fellow at @harchivestrust.bsky.social 💻
Co-founder @memslibukc.bsky.social
Digital engagement
Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social Award-winning Historian & Genealogist ✍️🏻
Death, Wales and Psychiatry 💀
Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum 🧠
Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠
🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚
📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her
🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees
Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social Writer, historian, professor. Director @chppc.bsky.social and @vch-home.bsky.social. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, 2025): a Book of the Year in The Times, FT & BBC History Extra. Find me in my beach hut.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/
Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social Medieval historian interested in Wales, Somerset exile, inept cricketer, General Editor of the longest-running and largest local history project yet devised, the Victoria County History of England. Probably drinking tea.
Ant @antporter.bsky.social Nerd, geek, sports fan, history fan. Half assed political rants. Denizen of God's Own County. He/Him
Veles @menkvi.bsky.social One thought less, each year.
Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social SWE building decision intelligence for gov + health + social care / PhD 18c History / Social Democrat / gam zu l'tovah. ✡️ 🇬🇧 in 🇳🇿 (Waimauku)