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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
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Ian Rankin @ianrankin1.bsky.social Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster.
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📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel. I’ve curated an exhibition about them for Charleston in Lewes which is now in Nottingham.
📕 Maggie & Me.
📕 You Will Be Safe Here.
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Sam Baker @theothersambaker.bsky.social One of the millions of journalists who’s defected to Substack and started a podcast. https://theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com/
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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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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)
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Angela Woods @literarti.bsky.social Director of the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities and Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities. Working on voice-hearing, psychosis, narrative, interdisciplinarity / Starting work on postpartum psychosis 
Doug Johnstone @dougjohnstone.bsky.social Writer & musician. 20th novel Ghost Notes out now. Tombstoning and The Ossians also re-published in 2026. Album Crow Hill out now. Drummer for Fun Lovin' Crime Writers. www.dougjohnstone.com
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Mathew Clayton @mathewclayton.bsky.social Connecting literary festivals with authors at https://spotlithub.com/. Over 40 publishers already using this service!
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Sarah Fortune @s-fortune.bsky.social 📚Work in publishing
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Jess Gulliver @jessgulliver.bsky.social Occasional publicist; accidental poet; proper doodler.
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Sharna Jackson @sharnajackson.com Writer of books and games mostly about art, mystery and murder for you and the kids in your life. Lives on a ship in Rotterdam. Used to work in museums and galleries for ages. Miss it. Addicted to Reddit and Beat Saber.
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Jo Clement @joclement.co.uk Poetry, Print & People 🌈
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Dead Ink Books @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of bold new fiction and non-fiction, based in Liverpool
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Anna Frame @annaframe.bsky.social Communications Director, @canongate.co.uk. Currently working with Miranda July, Omar El Akkad, Len Pennie, Damian Barr, Lily King, John Niven & many other talented folk.
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Evelyn Wilson @evelynwilson.bsky.social Co-Director National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange. Enjoy exploring, showcasing, supporting publishing and occasionally writing on ecologies and histories of cultural collaborations, and associated pursuits. And walking for the need to clear.
Saqi Books @saqibooks.bsky.social A leading independent publisher of trade and academic books on the Middle East and North Africa.
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The Book Corner @bookcornerhx.bsky.social Independent bookshop in Halifax's The Piece Hall.
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Jake Morris-Campbell @jakecampbell88.bsky.social Writer & Poet
'Between the salt and the ash: a journey into the soul of Northumbria' (MUP, March 2025)
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175373/
National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange @ncace.bsky.social National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange (NCACE). Supporting knowledge exchange and collaboration between Higher Education and the Arts
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Dr Louise Powell @louisepowell.bsky.social Author of UNDERDOGS (JM Originals: John Murray Press) 2nd July 2026
Sid Chaplin Northern Writers' Award Winner 2023.
#CommonPeople Anthology. PhD in English.
Represented by Elise Middleton (YMU Literary).
Image Credit: Rob Irish
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social 1. Writer (https://www.adamsharp.me/)
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