Chris Emery @chrisemery.me Poet. Five collections from Arc and Salt, most recently Wonder (2025). Manchester-born, Irish citizen, living in Cromer. I publish other people’s books at Salt. Newsletter: chrisemery.me
The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social Our Oak Trees & their Sweet Chestnut chums in our ancient bluebell woodland in the Weald of Kent. Also pictures and facts about trees
twitter.com/TheKentAcorn
SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social A photo diary of the sea and sky, taken from my window.
Also known as Mick Oxley, artist, follower of Newcastle United, cycling , wheelchair user, lover of Northumberland.
Irreplaceable @irreplaceableorg.bsky.social 
PauseAI @pauseai.bsky.social Community of volunteers who work together to mitigate the risks of AI. We want to internationally pause the development of superhuman AI until it's safe.
https://pauseai.info
Mandy Garratt @mandygarratt.bsky.social Objects Conservator specialising in ceramics at Glaze Conservation Ltd. MSc Conservation Practice 2020. MA Preventive Conservation 2015. Fine art and miniature painter 🇬🇧- L lizred26.bsky.social @lizred26.bsky.social
Jonathan Gibbs @jonathangibbs.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at City St George's, Uni of London. I curate the short story project apersonalanthology.com. Novels are Randall or The Painted Grape, and The Large Door. Poetry is Spring Journal. https://linktr.ee/jonathangibbs
Explore Your Archive @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social 
Uni of Sheffield Special Collections, Heritage and Archives SCHA @uoscollections.bsky.social 🎪National Fairground and Circus Archive
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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
Breakthrough Books @breakthroughbook.bsky.social An award-winning indie publisher putting creatives and readers first, with lovingly made, quality books… and a fair deal! E-shop now open on our website!
https://www.breakthroughbookcollective.com
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British Deaf Association @bda.org.uk The national representative organisation of British Sign Language (BSL) and Irish Sign Language (ISL) in the UK. Member of WFD & EUD. Est 1890 #TakingBSLForward
Museums Association @museumsassociation.org Membership organisation and network for everyone working in museums and heritage 🤝 based in the UK 📍 museumsassociation.org
Culture Jobs @culturejobs.bsky.social The job board for arts, heritage and museums. Visit CultureJobs.org for the latest opportunities.
Dan Lockton @danlockton.com Utrecht, NL + Norwich, UK
Prof of Design & Imagination, Norwich University of the Arts ⦿ Director, Institute for Sustainable Worlds https://sustainableworlds.org.uk ⦿ Design⸻imagination⸻climate⸻futures ⦿ http://imaginari.es ⦿ he/him ⦿ Not employer's views
Vicky Grut @vickygrut.bsky.social Writer. Short story collection 'Live Show, Drink Included' shortlisted for 2019 Edge Hill Awards. Pushcart nominated, 2023. Work in Masters Review XIII in 2025 and Best British Short Stories 2026. www.vickygrut.com
Livi Michael @livimichael.bsky.social writer, teacher, superhero...
@fromsarahspen.bsky.social @fromsarahspen.bsky.social 
Luisa Fernanda @luisafernm.bsky.social Drawing Artist, Writer.
https://luisafernandanino.kit.com/profile
Based in Montreal
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Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social Northumbrian in the Netherlands | Writes about connections between Britain & its North Sea neighbours | Historical linguist turned writer & editor
Writing: https://northseanexus.substack.com
Website: https://hannahmarybooth.com
Alexis Butterfield @takealineforawalk.bsky.social Art and architecture Liverpool VAO 2026 finalist 🏳️🌈
instagram.com/take_a_line_for_a_walk website www.alexisbutterfieldart.com
David Brown @dbrownprintmaker.bsky.social Printmaker and artist in East Anglia. Art, architecture, music & poetry. Borromini and Hawksmoor. Rembrandt and Hepworth. Work in the V&A & other public & private collections.
Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social Author of 'Winter's Wishfall'. Folklorist. Mum. Northerner. Lecturer in Folklore & History. Eater of cake.
Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social Uncharismatic megafauna.
Too fat to ride a horse, too poor to own a carriage.
https://linktr.ee/causticcovercritic
Eli n/a @hautarauha.bsky.social artist (MLitt) ♠ finland ♠ rajataide ♠ GSA 23
hautacrafts.bsky.social
pixelfed.social/hautarauha
lithography, bookbinding, deep ecology, punk, sighthounds
Linden Davis @linden-davis.bsky.social Queer Graphic Novelist | Animator | Librarian | Ok Opinion Haver. Regional Winner in Literature at the 2025 Global Undergraduate Awards. Longlisted for the 2025 Puffin Graphic Novel Award. I once got a score of over 330,000 in Tetris for NES. He/Him
Tom Abba @tomabba.studio Professor of Narrative Technologies and Pervasive Media Studio Resident.
Artist, writer and publisher. Opinions are all my own. Usually making something.
liz blum @lizblum.bsky.social Multidisciplinary artist. Squeezing the digital. Abstracting art from technology as it relates to the environment, ecology, and the climate crisis. You can find me on the Lizzy line.
https://lizcooperblum.com/
Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social 📚 Artists' Books projects CFPR | UWE Bristol: Artists' Book Yearbook, Book Arts Newsletter, Bristol Artist's Book Event | MA Fine Art Printmaking Subject Lead. https://linktr.ee/sarahbodman 📚
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!
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Mike Fox @polyscribe70.bsky.social Short story writer, delinquent poetry reader. Ballerini Book Press, Fictive Dream, The Lonely Press, Confingo, Fragmented Voices, Structo, Nightjar Press, BBSS18 Salt Publishing, Exacting Clam
polyscribe.co.uk
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture.
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The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social Registered Charity No: 1203418. Patrons: Michael Rosen, Joanne Harris.
Preserving traditional heritage and folklore materials for the future, and delivering these through open access. Focus on at-risk heritage.
Online at www.folklorelibrary.com
Johanna da Rocha Abreu @johannaabreu.bsky.social Writing a novel set in Berlin in 1949.
Short story writer (words in Green Hills Literary Lantern, Amarillo Bay, Paragraph Planet, Visual Verse)
Berlinerin, Mom, winter swimmer, improv comedy beginner...
Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright. Retired wanderer.
Author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay, (Little Toller); Deliria, (Rough Trade Books)
Wild Twin, (Little Toller)
ARA Preservation and Conservation @arapcg.bsky.social 
Rebecca Summerling (she/her) @rlsummerling.bsky.social Writer and reader of the strange.
Assistant editor at Seize the Press. Associate editor at Violet Lichen Books
My stories can be found in The Dark, Nightjar Press, Interzone, ergot.
www.rlsummerling.com
Banner art by John Chrostek
charlotte @charlhyde.bsky.social Museum meme enthusiast & deaf accessibilty advocate.
Personal account, so opinions my own.
she/her
Jen Jones (sign name Red)🦻🤟🏳️🌈🩷💜💙 @jenjlibrarian.bsky.social #Librarian, #deaf. Head of User Engagement and Communication at Cardiff Met. Interested in Student experience and EDI, #disability and deaf awareness. #BSL user. Will mostly post about #dogs, gin and #knitting. Views my own
Stoo @studeafears.bsky.social Deaf
Tony Barlow @saltbar.co.uk Deaf / BSL user / Derby (You Rams 🐏) / born bred Gloucester / Director of Signing Network CIC, iNet Interpreting ltd & CWBSLI Ltd. Manager for Leicester Deaf Centre.
Lydia Turner @lydiaturner97.bsky.social Managing Editor of Broken Frontier comic reviews/coverage team • Co-organiser of Small Press Day 2025 & 2026
Published in The Comics Courier Issue 2 - Sept 2025!
www.brokenfrontier.com/author/lydiat/
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/
Leila Martin @bookishleels.bsky.social Writer, reader, next-level procrastinator. What time is it? 
Katy Wimhurst @sylphsea.bsky.social writer, visual poet.
An Orchid in my Belly Button (Elsewhen 2025) https://books2read.com/AnOrchidInMyBellyButton
Fifty One Trillion Bits (Trickhouse Press)
100% housebound #mecfs and #POTS #disability https://
whimsylph.wordpress.com
wetconservatrix (Claire Smith) @wetconservatrix.bsky.social PhD researcher and Graduate Teaching Assistant (AFHEA) at the Cole Museum of Zoology. (She/her)
Talk to me about Things In Jars!
(Particularly if they're in propylene phenoxetol or liquid paraffin!)
Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social Poetry, prose, publishing, art.
https://tomjenks.uk/
https://substack.com/@tomjenks
Arts Emergency @artsemergency.bsky.social We redistribute opportunity, information, and useful connections in culture.
https://www.arts-emergency.org/get-involved/
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
www.alcs.co.uk
Ian Critchley @iancritchley.bsky.social Writer and Editor | Winner Hammond House, HISSAC | Stories in Best British Short Stories, Mechanics Institute Review, Structo, Lighthouse, Litro, Fiction Desk and others | Short story chapbook published by Nightjar Press
iancritchley.com
Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social Writer, web dev, runner
Felix John Taylor @felixjrt.bsky.social Writer, librarian by day. Author of The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (Thames & Hudson) and a forthcoming Arthur Machen biography
Irregular blog posts at felixtaylor.org
Royal Drawing School @royaldrawingschool.bsky.social Draw from life, for life.
Over 350 courses for everyone, from children to postgrad level.
Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social Avery Hill helps aspiring creators reach their potential and is a home for those geniuses the mainstream has yet to recognise.
Posts generally by Ricky
https://averyhillpublishing.bigcartel.com/
Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social AKA the accidental ecologist
Fine Artist living on a rewilding farm in Pembrokeshire commissions undertaken worldwide.
Website LizaAdamczewski.art
Small Press Day @smallpressday.bsky.social Official account of the UK and Ireland's annual Small Press Day, uniting self-published comics creators with shops in a celebration of our vibrant small press comics scene📚 July 25th 2026!
smallpressday.co.uk
Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social A queer feminist zine and bookshop and tiny press, based in Manchester UK since 2015.
penfightdistro.com
Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal.
Based in West Dorset
www.littletoller.co.uk
Instagram / @littletollerbooks
J B Banks & Son Ltd @jbbanks.bsky.social We are a friendly, family run hardware store based in Cockermouth, Cumbria. We've almost 200 years of experience and have a traditional, heritage museum in the back.
https://www.jbbanks.co.uk/
Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social Prole art threat. Something to do with @colossive.com. Guerrilla historian of Croydon Spaceport. Writing a memoir on class and culture.
Mayo ☘️ / Chorley 🌹/ Penge 🔥
Colossive.com
Profile pic drawn in 60 secs in the pub by Hannah Lee Miller
Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist @pharology.bsky.social All things lighthouse-related, with the occasional detour into maritime history, heritage preservation, and related fields, by an indifferent photographer, incorrigible bibliophile, and unlicensed pharologist. Remember -- typo's mean its real!
LDComics @ldcomics.bsky.social We’re changing the world through comics. Our monthly talks are in-person and online.
LDComicsfair.com
Dominic Kelly @dominicjkelly.bsky.social Storyteller touring performances, directing, training, delivering projects and bringing 'storyraids' to schools
Judy Birkbeck @judybirkbeck.bsky.social Writer. Novel: Behind the Mask is Nothing publd. by Holland House Books, + many short stories in litmags. Passionate about wildlife gardening. judybirkbeck.co.uk
Etelka @etelkal.bsky.social Writer in Chicago. I covered comics for NPR for a long time; doing other stuff these days. Bylines: Inc., The New York Times, the Atlantic, the Washington Post, the LA Review of Books. https://etelkawrites.com/
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.
Litfest, Lancaster @litfest.bsky.social Lancaster's literature festival and development agency. Established 1978.
Jenny McAuley @jennymcauley.bsky.social Writer, literary historian, book reviewer based in Oxford, UK
jennylmcauley@gmail.com
NatSCA @natsca.bsky.social The Natural Sciences Collections Association is a charity that supports natural science collections and the people who work with them.
Dr Jennie 🐝 (she/her) @jenruthbailey.bsky.social #HEinFE library lass, writer, wanderer, story slinger, benign menace to society. Refuse to outsource my intellect to generative AI.
Looking for fun, creative workshops? Hit me up: https://www.jenbee.me.uk
James McConnachie @jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social Writer. Reviews non-fiction for the Sunday Times, edits The Author magazine. Books about the Kamasutra, Conspiracy Theories, Nepal and, next, a Himalayan mountain. Books, singing, wildlife, languages, running... 
English and Creative Writing Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsenglish.bsky.social English & Creative Writing, Goldsmiths, University of London. Where creative daring meets critical rigour, discover the world of literature & language.
https://www.gold.ac.uk/ecw/
European Network of Short Fiction Research @ensfr.bsky.social We aim to provide a forum and resources for European-based researchers into the practice, criticism and transmission of short fiction in its diversity of forms and to facilitate collaboration in both critical and practice-led research.
Amy Lilwall @amylilwall.bsky.social Writer. Novelist. Very bad at social media.
amylilwall.co.uk
Gareth Southwell @garethsouthwell.bsky.social Self-employed writer, illustrator, philosopher. All views are those of my employer. 🏴
Runs woodpigpress.com, woodpigpress.bsky.social
Sci-fi, philosophy and illustration: garethsouthwell.com
Diary of a Micro-Press: https://woodpigpress.substack.com/
JuliefaithmcmurrayArt @juliefaithmcmurray.bsky.social Artist, long term sick, campervan adventurer, adopted Pomskies and married to a wonderful Hubby.
Ko-Hi
https://ko-fi.com/snowdragonsart0782
Mastadon
https://wandering.shop/@juliefaithmcmurrayart
Linktree
https://linktr.ee/SnowdragonArt
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/
Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social https://sites.google.com/view/adamcschembri/home
Australian professor of linguistics at the University of Birmingham, UK
Hearing person interested in sign languages & signing communities
🏳️🌈🇦🇺🇲🇹🇪🇺
Lauren Kindle @laurenkindle.bsky.social Artist and day-dreamer...
www.laurenkindle.com
Vera-Simone Schulz @verasimoneschulz.bsky.social at the crossroads of African, Islamic, European art histories and critical museology; co-convener of "Planetary Patchwork", "Material Migrations", and "Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies and Aesthetics"
Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social Online seminar series coming May 2025, organised by Sam Grinsell (UCL) and Giulia Champion (University of Southampton). More details coming soon!
Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social Mover. Shaker. Comic book maker. UK Comics Laureate for a while. Peaked too soon. (She/her)
Krystian Morgan @kmog.bsky.social (Thinks of words, writes them down)
Stories in Open Pen, Idle Ink, W.A.R, on paper and in the head.
When not writing, you’ll find me playing the guitar, fussing in the kitchen or doing graphic design to pay the bills.
www.krystianmorgan.com | Wales, UK 🏴
Charlotte Tierney @charlieratpig.bsky.social https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-cat-bride/charlotte-tierney/9781784633622
Best British Short Stories ‘26 / Best Weird Fiction of the Year ‘25 / Conjunctions / The London Magazine / 3:AM / NER / Weird Horror.
All ‘moor, no snore.
@chiippy.bsky.social @chiippy.bsky.social maps, geo, psychogeography
Grim Art Group @grimartgroup.bsky.social #GrimArt - the beauty & value of the everyday, the ordinary & the overlooked; industrial landscapes, whippets & wastelands, red bricks & rust. #art #photography
Holly Wilson @holelizaw.bsky.social Marketing at Orion 📚✨
Writer, debut coming soon...
Reader at bookology
Notts
Valentina Gindri @valenceolingindri.bsky.social Writer – freelance Journalist
I sometimes paint!
Based in Brazil
https://www.valentinagindri.com/
Arthur Mandal @arthurmandal.bsky.social Brit/US writer of uncanny fiction. Best Small Fictions 2025. Over 40 stories in The Barcelona Review, LITRO, Southeast Review, The Forge, The Los Angeles Review and others. @nightjarpress Based in Eugene, Oregon (but grew up in UK). www.arthurmandal.com
Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social Lecturer in Design Policy and Futures Thinking at Lancaster University, researching technology and society, and sometimes fandom. Co-Director of @Imaginationlanc.bsky.social. Wrote for @blackarchive.co.uk. She/her.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2079-1658
Paul Young @pjyng.bsky.social Climate and risk | Head of Science, JBA Risk Management | Visiting Prof, Newcastle Uni | Ex full time Academic
Views my own | Hot takes are probably someone else's
Johnny Unger @johnnyunger.bsky.social he/him, linguist, critical discourse analyst, tea anarchist extraordinaire, dadcore, vegan, foodie, ❄️, dad, intersectional feminist, D&D nerd (not necessarily in that order)
Latest publication: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2023.101825
Michael Stead @michaelstead.bsky.social Lecturer (Asst Prof/PhD) in Sustainable Design Futures @ Lancaster University School of Design + Imagination Design Lab - Circular Economy/Net Zero/Digital Technologies - https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/people/michael-stead
Serena Pollastri @seremiru.bsky.social Design for posthuman coastal futures @ Lancaster University (ImaginationLancaster). All terrain knitting. Mamma. ITA/ENG. She/her.