Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social Bookshop
34 Main Street, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland
info@ravenbooks.ie ¦ (01) 278 9509 ¦ 086 3390231
Mon-Sat 10-6, Sun 12-5
monkeelino @monkeelino.bsky.social Design. Write. Art. Read. Repeat.
Land and Climate Review @landclimate.bsky.social Investigations, features and opinion on land-use and the climate crisis.
Listen to The Land & Climate Podcast every other Friday: www.landclimate.org/podcast
La Biblioteka @labiblioteka.bsky.social Staff recs, good books & other essentials, from our Sheffield indie bookshop for locals all over the world.
Come say hi!
labiblioteka.co
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/labiblioteka
Strand Bookstore @strandbooks.com Legendary home of 18 miles of new, used & rare books since 1927. Located at Union Square and UWS.📚 Shop online at http://strandbooks.com
Matthew Linton @theindiereader.bsky.social 
Translating Women @translatingwomen.bsky.social Helen Vassallo 🇲🇹
Researching the translated literature sector of the UK publishing industry
Writing about intersectional gender bias in translation
Translating women writers
Always learning
https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/translatingwomen/
LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
Visit us at 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL, or browse at https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social Journalist, author, filmmaker and broadcaster. Writer at Large with @heraldscotland.bsky.social
Made in Ireland, found in Scotland
MDANT🎖️
AKA ‘the kind of strutting cosmopolitan socialist who’s made for Bluesky’
Dublin Literary Award @dublinlitaward.bsky.social #DublinLitAward #DLA2026 - Celebrating excellence in world literature.
https://dublinliteraryaward.ie/
Drew Broussard @drewsof.bsky.social he/him
writer of stories and such
professional bookman for Rough Draft Bar & Books
contributing editor at Literary Hub
occasional guitarist and singer
Publishing Scotland @publishingscotland.bsky.social Trade assoc & charity supporting book publishing.
Foillseachadh Alba in Gaelic.
https://www.publishingscotland.org/
Jenny Croft @jenniferlcroft.bsky.social writer | translator | friend | out now: THE EXTINCTION OF IRENA REY | HOMESICK | up next: NOTES ON POSTCARDS | croftwork.net | https://bookshop.org/lists/books-i-ve-translated-or-written
Canongate @canongate.co.uk Publisher. Always independent.
https://canongate.co.uk
Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social Physician. Honorary Professor of Geriatric Medicine. Delirium. Dementia. Quality improvement. Book lover. Northerner. Mum to daughter with PKU.
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Shakespeare and Company @shakespeareandcompany.com Indie bookshop in Paris📚Online store ships to the world 🌎 Listen to our podcast here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-company 🎧
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Marc David Johnson (FuLinHyu) @fulinhyu.com So my actual given name is Marc
I don’t bite, but I do often bark
I write limericks for fun
Any acclaim, I have none
Just a fat and a tired old Fark
Spacecraftprojects @spacecraftprojects.bsky.social 
Lit Inspired @litinspired.bsky.social Lover of literature and literacy. 25 yrs teaching HS English in Fl. A blue dot in a sea of red. My dad (retired carpenter) and I are making neighborhood libraries…using our hearts & hands to spread literacy. www.litinspired.com
London Reads the World book club @ldnreadsworld.bsky.social A friendly group reading world lit in English translation, formerly meeting in London pubs, now online. Open to all. Next: Mon 3rd August 19:00 BST. DM to join!
Our backlist: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/136083.London_Reads_The_World_book_club
Brew Book & Candle @brewbookcandle.bsky.social A book box subscription with everything a reader needs! Coffee or tea! A book by an indie author! A handmade scented candle!
https://brewbookcandle.com/
Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social 
Inpress Books 📚 @inpressbooks.bsky.social Reaching readers on behalf of 50+ independent publishers. Funded by Arts Council England. Follow us on socials @inpressbooks📚 linktr.ee/inpressbooks 
Claudia Piñeiro @claudiapineiro.bsky.social Qué problema la eñe, siempre.
Escritora.
DUA LIPA @dualipa.bsky.social RADICAL OPTIMISM, THE ALBUM, OUT NOW 🌊
https://dualipa.lnk.to/radicaloptimism
Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social ugh, who invited this guy 
Brad Johnson @ahablives.bsky.social A part of the Twitter Diaspora.
Also run East Bay Booksellers in Oakland, CA - @ebbooksellers.bsky.social
La Tuerca Andante Magazine @latuercaandante.bsky.social Horror & science fiction literature magazine from Argentina to the world.
Editor: Maximiliano Guzmán
Traducciones: Matías Bragagnolo
Soundtrack: Néstor Dario Figueiras
Ilustraciones: SHUEL DUO
https://latuercaandante.wixsite.com/inicio
AC @ac0040.bsky.social U.S. Army Veteran. Paratrooper. Democrat. Runner.
https://medium.com/@drinkcoffeewrite82
𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social Woods. Words. Birds. Birch. Beech. Bach.
Reviewer of translated fiction for
@irishtimes.bsky.social
Co-curator of the poetry festival Circling The Square.
@circlingpoetry.bsky.social
Leland Cheuk @lelandcheuk.bsky.social Author of 3 books, including the novel NO GOOD VERY BAD ASIAN. Work in The Washington Post, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Salon, etc. Runs the indie press 7.13 Books.
Bethanne Patrick @thebookmaven.bsky.social SUBSTACK:
The Book Maven Unbound
https://thebookmavenunbound.substack.com/
Critic @LATimesBooks
LIFE B memoir: https://bookshop.org/p/books/life-b-overcoming-double-depression-bethanne-patrick/1874245
https://linktr.ee/bookmaven
FORUM Books / the bound / The Accidental Bookshop @forumbooks.bsky.social Three lovely, friendly, award-winning independent bookshops in Corbridge, Whitley Bay + Alnwick
https://www.forumbooksshop.com
Events: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/forumbooks
Two Lines Press @twolinespress.com Two Lines Press is a book publisher committed to daring and original literature in translation. We're part of @catranslation.org. Browse our books at www.catranslation.org/books/.
Two Dollar Radio HQ @twodollarradiohq.bsky.social Indie bookstore/bar/vegan restaurant in Columbus, OH. 🌴
Sarabande Books @sarabandebooks.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of poetry, short fiction, and essay. Headquartered in Louisville, KY.
linktr.ee/sarabandebooks
Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com A webjournal publishing short fiction, book reviews, a weekly newsletter, & whatever else happens at http://www.necessaryfiction.com. Doing our best since 2009.
Posts by http://shimmer.bsky.social. 
Grove Atlantic @groveatlantic.bsky.social Independent publisher of exceedingly good books. Founded in 1917. We can’t go on, we’ll go on.
🔗 lnk.bio/3fz3
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.
Unnamed Press @unnamedpress.bsky.social We publish literature from around the world. UNlikely voices and UNexpected stories. Smith & Taylor Classics. Based in Los Angeles since 2014.
↪️ linktr.ee/unnamed.press 
Melville House @melvillehouse.bsky.social An independent publisher based in Brooklyn, US and London, UK. https://linktr.ee/MelvilleHouse
Seven Stories Press @sevenstories.bsky.social Political non-fiction, world literature, social justice children’s books, and other works of the radical imagination ✨
sevenstories.com
Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache! @pressfuturist.bsky.social Academic, fourth class.
Publishing Lecturer at the University of Stirling. Researcher of smartphone storytelling. Author of books on Paris, London, Scotland, cemeteries, chess, & dragons. Erstwhile doer of other things. Often mediocre. He/Him
Southwest Review @southwestreview.bsky.social Dallas, TX | Quarterly print mag and weekly content online | www.southwestreview.com
Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com
Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction
You can order books here : www.bluemoosebooks.com 
Bookshop Crawl UK @bookshopcrawluk.bsky.social We run bookshop crawls around the UK, events for booklovers to meet up, explore, celebrate & support bookshops! London annually in Feb, roaming events through the year.
Ink @ 84 Bookshop @ink84books.bsky.social 📚 Indie bookshop and café bar in North London
🛒Shop online for collection or postal delivery
📅 Mon-Sat 10-6 Sun 12-5
https://linktr.ee/ink84books
Dana P. Rowe @danaprowe.com Audiobook VO • Author • Theatre Composer, 2X Olivier Nominee • Exec Coach: CPCC, PCC • Father • Husband • Co-Grandpa • NYC/Provincetown (he/him) • 🏳️🌈 • SAG-AFTRA/AEA • No DMs
https://linktr.ee/danaprowe
Poshita @poshita.bsky.social Literary Translator, Hindi to English
#art
https://batteredbooks11.blogspot.com
She/her
Rebecca Gray @rebecca-gray.bsky.social Freelance books and arts PR. Formerly of Orion Publishing and Glyndebourne. Autism and ADHD advocate, mother of two, gay, just so we're clear on everything. www.rebeccagraypr.co.uk
London Lit Lab @londonlitlab.bsky.social Find your story at the city's friendliest creative writing workshops, where writers teach writers. @lilydunn.bsky.social and Zoe Gilbert - and also find us here: https://londonlitlab.substack.com/ and here londonlitlab.co.uk
Bookshop.org UK @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social The online store supporting independent bookshops 📚 Certified B Corp | Carbon Neutral Delivery 📚 5 star Trustpilot rating.
uk.bookshop.org
Fox & Ink Books (formerly UCLan Publishing) @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social Northern indie publisher | Winner of the IPG Nick Robinson Newcomer Award 2019 | Publishing the very best books in all genres | Home to NYALlitFest
Interpret Magazine @interpretmagazine.bsky.social A new magazine of international writing, featuring winners of the International Booker, Neustadt Prize and US National Book Award 🏴
Pushkin Press @pushkinpress.com Publishes the world's best stories – to be read and read again.
Follow the all new @pushkinchildrens.bsky.social 🎈
Newsletter, IG & more: https://linktr.ee/pushkin_press
Granard Booktown Festival @granardbooktown.bsky.social A National Booktown in the Heart of Ireland
April 17 - 19, 2026
Proudly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, Creative Ireland and Longford County Council
granardbooktownfestival.ie
#books #festival #ireland #literature #writers
Translators Aloud @translatorsaloud.bsky.social The Voice of Translated Literature: a YouTube channel featuring translators reading from their own work | Founded in 2020 & run by Charlotte Coombe & Tina Kover 👯 | www.translatorsaloud.com
Caroline Wintersgill @carowintersgill.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Publishing at University of Stirling. Researches contemporary literature, fictional endings and small press publishing. Just moved to Edinburgh.
Neil Mackenzie @nmackenzie.bsky.social Books, music, technology.
San Francisco, CA
W. J. Davies @wjdavies.bsky.social Writer. Essays, fiction and reviews in the Times Literary Supplement, Slightly Foxed, Exacting Clam, Review 31, Poetry Birmingham, minor literature[s]. Author of Beckett and the Second World War (Bloomsbury)
https://linktr.ee/wjdavies
JD Waterhouse @jdwaterhouse.bsky.social Upcoming UK based Screenwriter | ADORE TV 📺 and Audio Drama 🔉 | Formally Writing MA 🎭 @ University of Warwick | Trying to watch everything ever made before the world ends 🌍😭 Secretly reality TV obsessed 👀
Firefly Press @fireflypress.bsky.social Independent publisher of quality fiction for children & teens. WINNER Branford Boase first children’s novel Award, Yoto Carnegie Medal, Wales Book of the Year
www.fireflypress.co.uk
Salò Press @salopress.bsky.social Independent publisher of poetry & prose. An obscurity of poets. Updates by Sophie 💖 Norwich, UK.
Independent Publishers of New England @ipne.org Publishing nonprofit where the cool indies hang and collaborate to "make better books and sell more of them." IPNE.org. Please add to relevant lists. 🙏🏻📖
🪦🦇 Sirius Lee 🦇🪦 @sirius-lee-me.bsky.social #spooky mom. #Author wife, married to the love of my life 🥰 Trying to get out of my own head. I design book covers as a side quest. DMs for book cover stuff only, pls say more than hello. I don't solicit via dm. 🇺🇲
The Book Corner @bookcornerhx.bsky.social Independent bookshop in Halifax's The Piece Hall.
bookcornerhalifax.com
01422 414443
Link to our events: https://bookcornerhalifax.com/events/
Beyond the Book Festival @beyondbookfest.bsky.social A book and writing festival curated by Brighton authors. Early bird tickets available now for a limited time. COMING 10 MAY 2025.
https://www.beyondthebookfestival.org/
Jamie Garwood @nexttotheaisle.bsky.social Film, music, TV, books. Blog on it all
https://boxd.it/14C8b
https://nexttotheaisle.blogspot.com/
Orenda Books @orendabooks.bsky.social Indie publisher of bold, unforgettable international fiction, half in translation. Shortlisted IPG Best Newcomer 2015/16. CWA Crime & Mystery Publisher of the Year 2020. Nibbies Finalist Small Press of the Year. Visit us at www.orendabooks.co.uk.
Dead Ink Books @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of bold new fiction and non-fiction, based in Liverpool
https://linktr.ee/deadinkbooks
Jason Arthur @jasonarthur.bsky.social Associate Publishing Director at Granta Books. Late of the parishes of Routledge, Jonathan Cape, Vintage and William Heinemann.
Andrea🏳️🌈📚 @overstuffedbook.bsky.social She/her, library worker, book nerd, artist, writer, crocheter. Black Lives Matter. Trans Lives Matter. 🇵🇸
Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social Yale University Press in London https://yalebooks.co.uk/
Publishing books that champion arts & humanities 🏰 home of history!
⭐️ For book updates & UK OFFERS join the Yale in London newsletter: bit.ly/YaleBookNews ⭐️
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social A literary meetingplace since 1953, City Lights is a landmark bookstore and publishing house, known for our commitment to innovative writing and progressive ideals.
Erik Pedersen @erikpedersen.bsky.social Books + Entertainment Editor (TV, Music, more) at 11 Southern California News Group outlets
Get the free Book Pages Newsletter featuring authors, bestsellers, more:
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Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social Journalist in Christchurch, New Zealand. Senior writer with The Press newspaper. Reviewer of the year (Voyager Media Awards 2022). Author of The Quiet Hero (2023), the story of a peaceful NZ volunteer's death in Ukraine.
Tiffany Troy @tiffanytroy.bsky.social Author of Dominus (BlazeVOX), Managing Editor at Tupelo Quarterly, Associate Editor at Tupelo Press, Book Review Co-Editor at the Los Angeles Review and Ass. Poetry Editor at Asymptote
Gutter Dalkey @gutterdalkey.bsky.social Dalkey branch of The Gutter Bookshop at 20 Railway Road (opp. Finnegan's). Local bookshop with books, gifts & stationery. Marta & May post randomly.
Hannah Have You Read ✨🏳️🌈🌱📚 @hannahhaveyouread.bsky.social I'm a professor, reader, hobby collector, and parent to a very large dog. Stick around for library hauls, reviews of arcs, and lots of conversations about book banning and the dystopia we live in.
Logan Puck @loganpuck.bsky.social Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington. Policing, private security, democracy, Mexico.
Chris @filmmaker4life.bsky.social Filmmaker (Producer, Cinematographer, Sound), Podcaster, active in air and ground search and rescue
Molly Openshaw @mollyopenshaw.bsky.social Marketing & social media at The Bookseller📱📚 Lover of all things green, bookish, fantastical & cosy ☕️✨🕯️🌙🍂
Katie King @kktranslation.bsky.social Journalist, Literary Translator
@worldkidlit.bsky.social @worldkidlit.bsky.social 🌟non-profit helping readers of all age discover diverse, translated and global children's books and YA
🌟anti-racism through reading
🌟year round, and especially September #WorldKidLitMonth
Paul Deane @rhunedhel.bsky.social Editor of Forgotten Ground Regained (https://alliteration.net), a website devoted to modern English alliterative verse. If you like Beowulf, or Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, or Tolkien's Fall of Arthur or Sigurd and Gudrun, you're in for a treat.
Britta Stromeyer @brittastromeyer.bsky.social Author and National Book Critics Member
www.dreamdraftdiscover.com
Mel @nichollsm86.bsky.social I post about queer and translated fiction, small press, manga, and pretty books 📚✨
Laurence Laluyaux @laurencelaluyaux.bsky.social Literary agent at RCW
Needs coffee
tony @tonyreads.bsky.social a Texan in Norway, stereotypical coffee-drinking book nerd, works in tech for the Norwegian Refugee Council
Jamie Lee Searle @jamielsearle.bsky.social Translator, Editor and Mentor
Royal Literary Fund Fellow
Translating: Kim de l'Horizon, Joachim B. Schmidt, Anna Kim, Urs Faes and more
jamieleesearle.com
Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org Book indexer, editor, boss at baindex.org | Society of Indexers Chair and Fellow | CIEP APM | Cryptic crossword novice setter Pixie | Stockport, UK
🧚🏻 www.mycrossword.co.uk/Pixie
See also
@indexers.bsky.social
www.indexers.org.uk
#IndexSky