New Books Network @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social The Academic Audio Library. 30,000+ interviews with experts and authors on new scholarly, non-fiction, and literary books. New episodes every day! Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts
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Rebecca Swift Foundation @foundationswift.bsky.social Advancing the craft, creativity and wellbeing of women poets in the UK
Prof. Bethan Evans @drbevans.bsky.social Professor of Human Geography at Uni of Liverpool, research on chronic illness, energy limiting conditions, fat embodiment. Feminist, Fat Activist, Spoonie, PwME, Friend, Sister, Daughter, Person. Hobbies: SF, cats, knitting/crochet. she/her or they/their 🏳️⚧️
Dr Naomi Walker @drnaomiwalker.bsky.social Lecturer in English Literature. Interests - women writers walking in rural spaces. Currently co-editing The Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine - co-organiser @placeperiodical.bsky.social
The Society for the History of War @sochistorywar.bsky.social SHoW is an academic society aimed at understanding the history of war across time, spaces & cultures.
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Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social Independent publisher.
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Emmie Alderson @emmieaalderson.bsky.social Performance Maker based in the Peak District
PhD student University of Salford exploring Pilgrimage as performance in contemporary performance and walking arts practice.
Dr Lauren Cullen @laurenicullen.bsky.social writes about 19th/20th literature and culture, animals, and the environment.
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at UBC
📍Vancouver / London / Oxford
Christabel Scaife @christabelscaife.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Literary Studies and Irish Studies @livunipress.bsky.social
Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social Reader in English Literature and Film •
International Gothic Association co-president (2022-2026) • Manchester #Gothic Centre founding member • #Horror Studies book series editor • Profile: https://tinyurl.com/2czvabnz
Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social Poet, critic of recent formally innovative poetry & poetics, emeritus prof at Edge Hill, and all that follows. Books from Shearsman, KFS, Salt, Broken Sleep, Palgrave, LUP, & all that follow. Blog: www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com
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.
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Brontë Schiltz @bronteschiltz.bsky.social 🖊: @bigissue.com @bigissuenorth.bsky.social 👻 PhD on the BBC’s Televisual Gothic @manmetuni.bsky.social 👩💼 Members Coordinator @igagoths.bsky.social
UK-Ireland DH Association @ukiedh.bsky.social The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association - working together to build a collaborative vision for the #DH field.
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The British Society for Literature and Science @thebsls.bsky.social bsls.ac.uk
Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social Writing + teaching. The Writer's Room OUT NOW; new project on professionalism and amateurism. Co-editor of @c21literature.bsky.social
Rep @charlotteseymour.bsky.social. kdclewin.com
York Festival of Ideas @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social Annual award-winning Festival with more than 150 free events. York Festival of Ideas 2026 took place 30 May to 12 June under the overarching theme of ‘Place and Space’.
Jon Moses @jon-moses.bsky.social Co-director of Right to Roam 🥾
Co-editor of WILD SERVICE: Why Nature Needs You 🌿
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The Stinging Fly @stingingfly.bsky.social Literary magazine established in 1997 to publish & promote the very best new Irish and international writing. Stinging Fly Press was launched in 2005. Summer 2026 Issue #54 available to buy now:
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Rebecca Madgin @imadgination03.bsky.social Place - Heritage - Emotion - Urban History
Professor of Urban Studies at University of Glasgow
Arts & Humanities Research Council Place Programme Director
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PhDForum @phdforum.bsky.social A supportive community of practice of mostly doctoral students and postdocs on Twitter since 2012. Our free online quiet study room opened 24/7 in 2020 and is filled with wonderful people. www.thephdforum.com 
John McCullough @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social Poet. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize for Literature with Reckless Paper Birds. Forward & Costa-shortlisted. Working-class writer. Next book: Crowd Voltage (Bloodaxe, March 2026). He/him. 🏳️🌈
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Gregory @gregorykearns.bsky.social Poet in theory, Neurodiversity in the Workplace trainer, host of The Poems We Made Along the Way, your new best friend.
Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval English and AFY English Subject Lead (Ox) ¶ Author of BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing ¶ Being critically creative @guildmedmak.bsky.social ¶ Liker of material texts, medieval folk horror, university access & print making ¶ She/her
Writing Support @writing.support Showing how academic English is used in real texts
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Kate Davis @katedavispoet.bsky.social Poet. Books- collection - The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk and new verse novel - Flow published by Verve.
Also maker of stories, cake, chutney and interesting things to wear - wild swimmer - very fond of a limestone landscape.
Rebecca Goss @gosspoems.bsky.social More on Instagram @gosspoems
Poet & mentor. Books with Carcanet Press. Poet-in-Residence for CW+, the official charity for Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals. Writing for Life Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund.
Intellect Books @intellectbooks.bsky.social Intellect is a fiercely independent academic publisher for scholars and practitioners teaching and researching in the arts, media and creative industries.
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival @poetryinaldeburgh.bsky.social A poetry festival by the sea under the big skies of East Anglia. Thurs 5th to Sunday 8th November 2026. ☀️📚🩵
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University English @univeng.bsky.social Represents university and college English depts in the UK
Environment Magazine @environmentmag.bsky.social Science and Policy for Sustainable Development
📚 Peer-reviewed articles presented in a readable and concise format
🌱 Covering topics across environmental science and policy
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Rachel Handley 🏳️🌈 @rachelahandley.com Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.
SFF Author. Poet. 🦉
Possible Worlds and Other Stories (2022)
They/Them.
rachelahandley.com
JHSE New Generation Group @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social An international group of early career scholars interested in #JewishStudies and #JewishHistory. Proud to be part of the Jewish Historical Society of England.
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Susan Rudy @susanrudy.bsky.social Academic & Writer | London & Wivenhoe | QMUL researcher | former creative writing teacher at Birkbeck and English Professor at University of Calgary | queer feminist theory | experimental writing
Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social The home for international literature since 2003. Winners of the Whiting Literary Magazine Prize.
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Dr Gul Sen @guel-sen.bsky.social Historian. Senior Lecturer. early modern & maritime history & unfree labor & Ottoman history & German local history & connected history || hiking 🌄
SEJ — Society of Environmental Journalists @sejorg.bsky.social SEJ is a membership association of professional journalists dedicated to environmental issues. Our mission is to strengthen the quality, reach and viability of journalism that advances public understanding of environmental issues. linktr.ee/sejorg
Thangam Debbonaire @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social CEO UK Opera Association.
Cellist. Various boards.
Labour Member, House of Lords.
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Falling Tree Productions @fallingtreeprod.bsky.social We make documentaries and audio art for radio, podcasts and public spaces.
Our free archive of more than 900 documentaries is available at -
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David Morley @profdavidmorley.bsky.social Professor at Warwick Uni, Poet at Carcanet, Ted Hughes Award for The Invisible Gift, PBS Choice for FURY, Forward Prize finalist, Writer of The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing, Fellow Royal Society of Literature,Thought Fox.
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Dilek Ozturk @dilekozturk.bsky.social Istanbul Technical University/Postdoctoral Research Fellow at School of English, Trinity College Dublin.
Contemporary Irish Drama, theories of space and place ❤️
Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social 🔹️metascience - philosophy of science - social psychology - higher education
🔹️Professor at Durham University, UK. He/him.
🔹️Website: https://sites.google.com/site/markrubinsocialpsychresearch/
🔹️Substack: https://markrubin.substack.com/
Rob St John @robsaintjohn.bsky.social Scribbles and sounds | robstjohn.co.uk
Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social One-woman press based in Berlin. EIC @missyerem.bsky.social
https://sidhe-press.eu Trans rights are human rights.
Free Palestine!
Norman Nicholson Society @nnicholsonpoet.bsky.social The Society was formed in 2006 to promote, study and discuss the work of the English poet and writer Norman Nicholson who lived in the Cumbrian coastal town of Millom his whole life, 1914 - 1987. Plenty more information at www.normannicholson.org 
Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: stuart@brokensleepbooks.com | Founded: 2018
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Global Maritime History @globalmarhist.bsky.social GMH is a forum for discussions of maritime history, broadly conceived. Get in touch if you'd like to post an article, blog, CFP or podcast. Social media run by @canadianerrant
No ChatGPT or AI art permitted for content on our website.
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Live to Your Living Room @livetoyourlr.bsky.social Listen to the artists you love, live from the comfort of your living room. The best of folk, roots, and acoustic music.
Okka (Khairani Barokka; she/her/dia) @mailbykite.bsky.social Cultural worker/buruh seni. Disabled, from JKT. ANNAH, INFINITE out now ❤️🔥 Also wrote amuk, ULTIMATUM ORANGUTAN, ROPE, INDIGENOUS SPECIES, & I make art.
https://www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infinite/
Scottish Jewish Heritage Centre @sjhcscotland.bsky.social We aim to increase access to Scotland’s Jewish history & encourage engagement with the collections of the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre.
Join us for a Guided Tour or book an Educational Visit with your school.
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GEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social Predicting the unpredictable!☯ Founded by http://newsaboutturkey.com, GEOPOLIST is your premier source for comprehensive analysis of global & regional geopolitical developments. Op-eds are welcomed. ➔ https://geopolist.com/submit-an-op-ed/
International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social What's it going to be then, eh? All things Anthony Burgess (author of A Clockwork Orange) from his Estate and Archive in Manchester, UK.
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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
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Dr Khawla Badwan @khawlabadwan.bsky.social A scholar of language, culture, education and social justice. A poet: https://sidhe-press.eu/books/keep-telling-of-gaza/
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social 125 Anniversary Fellow & Associate Prof, University of Birmingham • UKRI Metascience AI Fellow • Contrastive/Corpus Linguistics • Discourse • ELT • Co-Editor Routledge Applied Corpus Linguistics & Corpus Linguistics Guides
➡️ https://linktr.ee/niallrcurry
Derek Bousfield @derekbousfield.bsky.social Father, Husband, Cat Slave, Linguist. Academic. Researcher. Author. Raconteur.
Reader in Pragmatics and Communication at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social Researchers in Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University
https://mcrl.mmu.ac.uk/
Emily Cuming @emilycuming.bsky.social Associate Professor in Literature and Cultural History; author of Maritime Relations (CUP, 2025) and Housing, Class and Gender in Modern British Writing (CUP, 2016)
https://profiles.ljmu.ac.uk/11398-emily-cuming
Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social Published by Blackbough Poetry, The Storms Journal, FolkHeart Press. Featured writer in Patricia's Pen, and on A Thousand Shades Of Green podcast and a regular guest reader on Eat The Storms podcast. Best of The Net nominated.
Stefanie John @stjohn1819.bsky.social Research Associate in English Literature @unipotsdam.bsky.social
Principal Investigator DFG Project 'Decorative Materialities'
• the fin de siècle • literature and material culture • textiles • decorative arts • environmental humanities
IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social Newly on 🦋! A long standing seminar at @ihr.bsky.social. We’re interested in all perspectives on the society, culture and belief of the early modern period. https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/society-culture-belief-1500-1800 
Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social A community of kindred poets, performers, artists and creative activists raising their voices to engage with climate emergency. https://poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/poets4theplanet
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Alina Botezatu @alinanbotezatu.bsky.social AHRC PhD University of Stirling and Historic Environment Scotland
Uncovering hidden stories of Trinity House, Leith and its portable objects collection 
Arash Zeini @arashzeini.com Researcher @mantrams.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk; FRHistS; Iran, Zoroastrianism, late antiquity, philology; Founder of @biblioIranica.info; AIS inaugural Book Prize for Ancient Iranian Studies 2022. Personal account, my views.
https://linktr.ee/arashzeini
Katy Mack @katymack.bsky.social Poet | First, I Turn Off the Light (Broken Sleep Books, 2024) | Research Associate at U of Sussex
Claire Bartram (BookcultureCCCU) @drcbartram.bsky.social Early modernist, Steering Group Lead for Centre for Kent History and Heritage.
Shahira Hathout, Ph.D. @shahirahathout.bsky.social Interdisciplinary Research: Posthumanism / New Materialism / Cultural Studies / Aesthetics / 18th & 19th C. (World) Literature/ Anthropocene discourses. Visiting Scholar @ Centre for Feminist Research @York University, Toronto, Canada.
Morag Rose @thelrm.bsky.social Walking artist-academic-activist The LRM (Loiterers Resistance Movement). #Psychogeography, Vegan, Crip, #OurIrwell. Maker of Creative Mischief. Lover of public space, sad songs, DIY maps + Doctor Who. She/they The Feminist Art of Walking 20/10/25 (Pluto)
UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social The UHI Institute for Northern Studies is a hub for world-class research and teaching on all aspects of the culture, heritage, and history of the Highlands and Islands, including their wider connections across the world.
Maíra Mendes Galvão @mmendesgalvao.bsky.social Translator. PhD candidate @ UMass Amherst. Early Modern Iberia, Translation Theory, Premodern Women. FLAD/BNP Summer Fellow 2025.
Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social PhD Chelsea College of Arts. Work in: Partisan Hotel, gorse journal, Mercurius Magazine, Sublunary Editions, 3AM Magazine, Essence Press, Vanguard Readings. Chapbooks with Gordian Projects & Nightjar Press, book with Rossi Contemporary
Joshua Hurtado @joshuahh.bsky.social PhD, University of Helsinki. Studying environmental politics, specifically degrowth and the Pluriverse. As a Futures researcher, I also study futures of death and immortality. Views my own.
Ángela Rivera-Izquierdo @angelariviz.bsky.social PhD in Literature and Gender Studies. Currently working at the University of Granada, Spain.
Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social Researcher and environmental historian
Oxford Road Corridor @oxrdmcr.bsky.social A world-class knowledge quarter, transforming lives through research, innovation, skills, and education—a place where knowledge, business, and culture thrive.
Laura Greenfield @lauragreenfield.bsky.social Director of the Royal Society of Literature @rsliterature.bsky.social; previously @theUL.bsky.social; Clore Fellow; FRSA. I like books, libraries, culture and cake.
Royal Society of Literature @rsliterature.bsky.social The RSL celebrates and nurtures reading and writing of all kinds. We're a charity that believes literature is for everyone. ✨ 200 years young. 🌟
Migration Museum @migrationmuseum.org Building the UK’s Missing Museum. We explore how the movement of people to and from the UK has made us who we are.
Community guidelines → https://www.migrationmuseum.org/community-guidelines/
Elliott & Thompson @eandtbooks.bsky.social 📚 Independent Publisher of creative non-fiction and thrilling crime fiction
📖 Beautiful, insightful and informative books
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University of Exeter Department of English and Creative Writing @uniofexeterecw.bsky.social Exeter ECW is a large and dynamic department that is international in outlook. Colleagues come from around the world, making us an academic community in which different cultures and languages intermingle and thrive.
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Ear to the Ground @eartothegroundlab.bsky.social Listening as method. Co-creation, counter-archiving & cultural mapping. A living lab in development. Grounded in place, open to possibilities.
https://www.eartotheground.art/
The Nature Chronicles Prize @naturechronicles.bsky.social A global, biennial £10k prize, originating in the Lake District for essay-length, non-fiction nature writing.
www.naturechroniclesprize.com
New Writing North @newwritingnorth.bsky.social The writing and reading development agency for the North of England.
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Anthony Anaxagorou @aanaxagorou.bsky.social poems
WriteBack @writeback.bsky.social WriteBack is a new quarterly events series at the British Library, inviting writers to speak on topics of their choosing. Curated by poet Anthony Anaxagorou and producer Tom MacAndrew
Sarah Butler @sarahbutlerwriter.bsky.social I write novels (www.panmacmillan.com/authors/sarah-butler/6668). I dabble in audio. I care about stories - how we use them to understand ourselves, each other and the places we inhabit.
www.sarahbutler.org.uk | www.urbanwords.org.uk
Hannah Copley @hannahcopley.bsky.social Writer and SL in Creative Writing at Uni of Westminster. Author of Speculum (Broken Sleep Books, 2021) and Lapwing (Pavilion Poetry, 2024). 2nd in the Laurel Prize 2024 . Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024. Hosts poetry nights at the Soho Poly.
Monisha Rajesh @monisharajesh.bsky.social Author of Moonlight Express: Around the World By Night Train, Around the World in 80 Trains and Around India in 80 Trains
Istoria Travel @istoriatravel.bsky.social A tour company that specialises in small group tours and bespoke trips built around history. Particularly #WW1 and #WW2 www.istoriatravel.org
Festival of Nature @festofnature.bsky.social The UK's largest celebration of the natural world, in Bristol, Bath & online every June. Stay with us all year round to discover wildlife on your doorstep and take action for nature 🔎🦔🌱🐝
Department of Environment and Geography @uoyenvironment.bsky.social 🧭 Creating a world we want to live in, together.
🏫 Based at the University of York.
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