Pride in Leadership @prideinleadership.bsky.social The UK’s LGBTQ+ leadership community. We work to ELEVATE, CONNECT and SUPPORT LGBTQ+ leaders, and make them more visible. http://www.prideinleadership.co.uk
Kiki the Uppity Negress @uppitynegress.bsky.social Ki-lessi. The unbothered. Mother of draggings. Sic gorgiamus subjectatos nunc. Play with your momma or your genitals, not me. Poe’s law 😉
Fruit Salad @fruitsaladwriters.bsky.social A queer community writing group 😊
We’re based in Manchester UK, with regular relaxed writing meet ups at Social Refuge.
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#queer #writingcommunity #manchester
Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com Nature Portfolio’s high-quality products and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences is dedicated to serving the scientific community.
The Christie Institute for Cancer Education @christieinstitute.bsky.social The Christie Institute for Cancer Education offers life-enhancing cancer education to healthcare providers internationally. As part of The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, we believe that better cancer care, starts with better cancer care education.
Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org
Critical Role @criticalrole.bsky.social The home of storytelling around the table! From our Campaign 4 saga in Aramán to Daggerheart and beyond - join the actual play adventure on Beacon.tv, YT, & Twitch
DiaryOfABloomsburyWriter @susannahjbell.bsky.social I live in Bloomsbury. I write. Sometimes it goes quite well. 📚🧡🤔
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My books on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/3hncmj29
Laurie Penny @pennyred.bsky.social 
The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com Independent news website. Only publishes articles written by academics and researchers. No paywall, no ads. All Creative Commons licensed.
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Things to Write About. @thingstowriteabout.bsky.social A writing prompt to inspire poems and stories, thoughts and wanders. Tag #thingstowriteabout. Hosted by @hermiteveryday.bsky.social #writingcommunity
Shakespearean Insult Bot @shakespeareinsults.bsky.social classics straight from the Bard & remixed bangers, every 6 hours.
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Manchester Histories @mcrhistories.bsky.social Manchester Histories is an award-winning charity that works collaboratively to reveal, share and celebrate Greater Manchester’s diverse histories and heritage.
https://linktr.ee/manchesterhistories
Game Therapy UK @gametherapyuk.bsky.social Game Therapy UK is a charity set up to promote Therapeutic Gaming and Game Therapy for the public benefit.
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
David Cooper @drdavidcooper.bsky.social Literary geographer writing about writing about place. Co-Director of the Centre for Place Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. 
Kate Pahl @katepahl.bsky.social Professor of Arts and Literacy at Manchester Met. In the Voices of the Future project funded by NERC- a transdisciplinary collaboration exploring children and young people’s relationship to Treescapes. Member of the Centre for Place Writing at Man Met.
Helen Mort @helenmort.bsky.social Poet, author, Sheffield-er. Mountaineering literature specialist, running enthusiast, part time Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social Yet another writer: THE GHOST WHO BLED (2017), THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY (2018), THE REPUBLIC OF BREATH, THE SPOILS & other stories, SWEENEY'S PROGRESS (forthcoming). Environmentalist. Lives in Sheffield. https://substack.com/@gregorynorminton
Anjum Malik @anjummalik.bsky.social Senior lecturer, scriptwriter, poet
Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social Writer, Artist, Psychologist
MOVING MOUNTAINS
PhD candidate at Centre for Place Writing, Manchester Met Uni.
Exploring the Romney Marshes & its coastline through post-viral illness. https://louisekenward.substack.com
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Jane Samuels @janesamuels.bsky.social Mancunian artist and writer. Geography, ecology, place and politics, prolific drinker of cheap whiskeys. Inventive dancer.
PhD Candidate at the Centre for Place Writing, MMU. Never AI.
Joe Shute @joeshute.bsky.social Writer and journalist. Daily Telegraph weather columnist. PhD researcher MMU. Author (Bloomsbury): Stowaway (2024) Forecast (2021) A Shadow Above (2018)
Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal @supriyadhaliwal.bsky.social NWCDTP-funded PhD student at Centre for Place Writing, MMU. Author of The Yak Dilemma, out now with Makina Books.
https://linktr.ee/supriyakaurdhaliwal
@drjodiematthews.bsky.social @drjodiematthews.bsky.social 
Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social mostly in Gloucestershire but often elsewhere • research @ Centre for Place Writing • https://www.rachael-de-moravia.com/ 
Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE FIREARM REVOLUTION out now. Previous books include THE BEAUTY AND THE TERROR; ROADS TO ROME.
Sarah Jasmon @itssarahbythesea.bsky.social Either a writer who powerlifts or a powerlifter who writes 📒💪 With added vegan ADHD and chihuahuas 🐶
Dr of the PhD kind 🤓
Dr Marta F Suarez @martafsuarez.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. Screen Studies. Researching film, TV and computer games. Transmedia. Streaming media. Popular culture. 
Liam Bates @liambatespoet.bsky.social Funded PhD student @ MMU (ecopoetry, friendship & the more-than-human city)/ Northern Writers’ Award winner/ Human Townsperson (Broken Sleep Books)
www.liambatespoet.com
Oliver Harris @oliharris.bsky.social Writer - crime novels, thrillers. Teaches creative writing at MMU.
Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social Poet. Manchester. Buildings. NWCDTP-funded PhD @MMU, Centre for Place Writing. Latest: Stay Awhile (Knives Forks & Spoons) & This Now Extends to My Daughter (Blue Diode)
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
Granta @grantamag.bsky.social The Magazine of New Writing.
https://granta.com/
People's History Museum @phm.org.uk Explore the UK’s national museum of democracy. Open every day (except Tues). Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3ER.
phm.org.uk
Suzanne Zeedyk @suzannezeedyk.bsky.social Academic turned activist because I think everyone deserves to understand that human beings are born already connected.
Always keen to talk ACEs, trauma and attachment -- especially through the lenses of Tigers&Teddies and Fierce Curiosity.
Mythcreants @mythcreants.bsky.social An online publication for speculative fiction storytellers. To better understand and tell the stories we love, we analyze popular works, theorize on storytelling craft, and explore the technical aspects of writing.
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Manchester Literature Festival @mcrlitfest.bsky.social Manchester Literature Festival presents inspiring live literature, poetry & culture. Check out our Spring & Summer events at www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk
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