John L. Williams @johnelwilliams.bsky.social Writer, festival organiser, CLR James biographer, winner of 'most improved player' award Tilburg Regents CC 2023. New book Heatwave, on the summer of 76, out this May
A Meal of Thorns @mealofthorns.bsky.social A speculative book club, where critics, writers, and scholars join us to talk about thorny, interesting titles. A podcast from the Ancillary Review of Books.
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/amealofthorns/
Ian Mond @mondyboy74.bsky.social I write reviews for Locus Magazine. I had a podcast called Writer and the Critic which I co-hosted with Kirstyn McDermott. The episodes are out there. I love the Carlton Football club. What more do you need to know!?
Beth Hickling-Moore (she/her) 🍉 @bethangharad.bsky.social Literary translator 🇧🇷 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 to EN. Words in The Stinging Fly, Wasafiri, MPT, Circumference, Asymptote, & more. PEN America Grant Winner 2025 & English PEN Presents 2026 ✨
Languages are my jam🫙🍓, opinions my own. Send dog pics. 🐕
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Laura Bennett @losbennett.bsky.social Literary Agent at the Liverpool Literary Agency with a focus on underrepresented SFF writers.
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Becca Parkinson @beccap1502.bsky.social 📍Manchester
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Ústav slovenskej literatúry SAV @uslit-sav.bsky.social With its history going back to 1942, the Institute of Slovak Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava is the main centre for the research of Slovak literature.
Chorlton Arts Festival @cafchorlton.bsky.social A cornucopia of all the arts taking place in Chorlton, M21
Sarah Schofield @saraheschofield.bsky.social 
David Hartley @davidhartley.bsky.social Writer of weird tales | FAUNA, with Fly on the Wall | INCORCISMS, with Arachne Press | Writer-in-residence for Prima Vista in Tartu, Estonia | Manchester, UK
Louisa Hann @louisahann.bsky.social Research comms * Writer * NBN host * Internet scroller
My new book is out with LUP: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781835537596
Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🌒 @chronicleflask.katday.com Science & Fiction editor/writer. Krawalloger. Chemistry PhD ⚛️ Co-Editor at PseudoPod 🦑 Writer: The Crash Course Organic Chemistry & various DK science books 🧪 Short fiction ✒️ thefictionphial.wordpress.com
Liz O @lizottosson.bsky.social Eclectic reader, writer and book tragic; stories and songs make my heart go round. NE England via south coast, Sweden, Australia and London. She/her. Need a proofreader or editor? https://betterworldwords.com/
Peter Adrian Behravesh @behravesh.bsky.social Miller Award-winning writer of Persian monstrosities and naftpunk. BFA-winning and Hugo/Ignyte-nominated audio producer. Co-editor of IRAN+100. ایرانی He/him.
Story game designer for MTG at Wizards of the Coast. Opinions are my own. #WotCStaff
Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE IS AN IGNYTE FINALIST! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️Iranian Chicagoan author: THE BRUISING OF QILWA (adult queernorm Persian fantasy; Crawford, Locus, World Fantasy finalist) & THE GLADE (🏳️🌈🍄MG horror, Ignyte finalist). Worker-owner at Sword & Kettle Press. Newsletter, teaching, & more: lnk.bio/jamsternazzy
Allison Pottern @apottern.bsky.social Speculative writer, reader, marketing coach, tea drinker | SFWA | VP '23 | Stories in Strange Horizons, Haven Spec, Trollbreath, Ghastling |
Digging: hibiscus tea, space opera, summer peaches | she/her #specfic #sff
linktr.ee/allisonpottern | pottern.com
Oxford Translates @oxfordtranslates.bsky.social Literary Translation Summer School, online, 6 - 10 July 2026
Applications now open!
https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtranslates
Directors: Ros Schwartz & Holly Langstaff
Nick Rosenthal @nickrosenthal.bsky.social Translator. Crime fiction fan. Cyclist. Ancien du PBP
Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social The magazine of international literature since 1984. Order our latest issue, Wasafiri 126: Impossible Returns — The Spain Issue
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Max D. Stanton @max-d-stanton.bsky.social Horror writer • Morbid oddball • Pocket full of 20-sided dice • Bloodstream and brain full of toxoplasmosis parasites • Proud Philadelphian • Author of A SEASON OF LOATHSOME MIRACLES and FRANKENSTEIN ENTERPRISES
www.frankenstein-enterprises.com
Publishers for Palestine @pubforpalestine.bsky.social Global solidarity collective.
publishersforpalestine.org
IG:@publishers4palestine #ReadPalestine 
Jonny Diamond @jonnydiamond.bsky.social Editor of Lit Hub, writer, not-so-secretly Canadian.
Jennifer Bew Orr 📖🖊️📷 @jenniferbeworr.bsky.social American/British Swiss resident. Builders tea, indie publishers, and editing till it hurts ❤️🔥♾️
Dr. Ashok Karra @akarra.bsky.social Political philosophy and ethics. Currently working on Nietzsche, Heidegger, and problems of freedom & authenticity. I teach community college & you'll hear plenty about it.
Let me know how you are and how I can help.
https://www.ashokkarra.blog/
George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social Managing Editor @titanbooks.bsky.social. Ran multiple award-winning Unsung Stories. Writer: HINTERLANDS @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social. European (yes, still). Empathy, compassion & ice cream pls. He/Him.
AGENCY out now https://shorturl.at/iqPUx
Jan Hicks @dustystacks.bsky.social Archivist. Book reader. Persistent.
I write down my thoughts about books here https://thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/
The Electronic Intifada @intifada.bsky.social Palestine's weapon of mass instruction. http://electronicintifada.net
Chorlton Bookshop @chorltonbookshop.bsky.social Family-owned independent bookshop, est. 1983. Browse our range of fiction, non-fiction and children's titles. Plus fast, free ordering service. (0161) 881 6374
Jay King @jay-king-art.bsky.social Athens-based writer, performer & translator from the Republic of Croydon.
Crime novels, audiobooks and drama, bouzouki, neurodivergence, migraines, G.O. 💚🍉
Now also Greek.
I wrote Common Charges, the Exarcheia murder mystery
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Olivia Snaije @oliviasnaije.bsky.social Paris-based journalist interested in books, Middle East, African continent | work in The Africa Report, New Lines Magazine, Livres Hebdo and others | oliviasnaije.com
The TLS @thetls.bsky.social The Times Literary Supplement. Subscribe here: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/buy
Mahmud El Sayed @mahmudelsayed.bsky.social Writer | Arabfuturist | SFF | Cat dad 🐈⬛️ |
THE REPUBLIC OF MEMORY out now with Gollancz & Saga Press.
Rep: @jjbker.bsky.social
linktr.ee/mahmudelsayed
Originate Literary Agency @originateliterary.bsky.social A multi-media agency representing a diverse range of writers, creatives and original content creators making social change through storytelling.
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Hamza Jahanzeb (isn't here, contact via email) 🚫 Kindly NO DM 🚫 @hamzajahanzeb.co.uk 📕 The Rise & Rise of #ChappellRoan
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Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social Writer on archive TV and film. Currently working on a book about the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas. Produced The Quatermass Experiment (2023) and Children of The Stone Tape (2024). Podcasts on Nigel Kneale and Giallo.
Folk 'n' Hell @folknhell.bsky.social Three chums, one microphone, and a whole world of folk horror. The Folk n Hell podcast unearths delights from around the world and tries to agree if they're worth our (and your) time.
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Eddie Robson @eddierobson.bsky.social Novelist, scriptwriter, journalist, incompetent guitarist. I span the genres.
https://eddierobson.wordpress.com
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.
Kat Kourbeti @darthj.uno SF/F writer & narrator, Hugo Award-winning senior podcast editor @strangehorizons.bsky.social, host @thewritesong.co.uk. Lapsed film critic; now BSFA's theatre columnist. Team ADHD. Greek!
📍 London, UK
✨ she/her 🏳️🌈
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Biblioasis @biblioasis.bsky.social Award-winning independent literary press.
Read independently. https://linktr.ee/biblioasis_books
CTIS Manchester @ctis-manchester.bsky.social New account (migrated from @ctismanchester) for the Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies @ University of Manchester.
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Steve Beresford @lostinmilbury.bsky.social Writer.
Over 800 short stories published + some non-fiction
+ couple of scripts optioned.
BOOKS. TV & FILM.
PKD - SF - horror - mystery - time travel.
Stories are everything.
Currently constructing a time machine in a basement lab.
No to GenAI.
Ewan M Hannah @ewanmh.bsky.social Survivor from another millennium. Scottish living in Manchester. I like: reading, writing, old Hollywood, Gothic fiction, vintage clothes, Scottish literature, film noir, avant-garde art and writing...lots of other things...
Bradford Culture Company @bradfordculture.co.uk This is Bradford. Unfiltered. Unstoppable. Unmissable.
We were the UK City of Culture in 2025.
Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social Official account of all things Malachi Whitaker, Yorkshire author, b. Bradford (1895-1976). Moderated by Whitaker's Literary Executor, Valerie Waterhouse (PhD researcher, Salford University. Winner of Biographers Intl Org Kitty Kelley Fellowship, 2025)
Kasia Szymanska @kaszyma.bsky.social Assoc prof at the Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies UoM | Translation Multiples (Princeton UP, 2025) | Literature, translation, multilingualism, Central & Eastern Europe, Cold War writing
Matt Blairstone @mattblairstone.bsky.social Publisher/Founder @tenebrouspress.bsky.social
Shirley Jackson Award-nommed editor.
Illustrator of slimy things.
Comix devotee.
Guitar & vox for Cult Racer.
Thou shalt worship no god but Rock.
He/him
Portland OR
Alex Woodroe @alexwoodroe.com Shirley Jackson Award-nominated EIC of @tenebrouspress.bsky.social. Dark specfic writer, Romanian folklore nerd, optimistic nihilist.
she/her
WHISPERWOOD out now
THE NIGHT SHIP out now
TATRATEA coming Oct 2026
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Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social Bookshop
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net For 20 years, Mondoweiss has covered the powers that sustain Israeli apartheid – and how people resist it, from Palestine to the U.S.
Banner: Palestinian children with a donkey cart on the beach in Gaza before the Israeli genocide.
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Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social writer
Dooneen - out now from Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions
previously - A Shock / Hawthorn & Child / Animals / etc
PseudoPod 🎙️ @pseudopod.org The oldest short-fiction horror podcast. We have always lived in the tower. We/they/them 🦑 Co-Editors: Kat Day & Alex Hofelich | Host: Alasdair Stuart | Asst Eds: Scott Campbell & Joshua Tuttle | Audio: Chelsea Davis & Graeme Dunlop 🎙️ PseudoPod.org
Val Nolan @vallescurarule.bsky.social Co-author of Spec Fic for Newbies 1, 2, 3; author of Neil Jordan: Works for the Page; Sturgeon/BSFA/BFA finalist; Locus Rec List; articles in Irish Uni Review, symplokē, Science Fiction Studies, Irish Studies Review, JGNC; fiction in many venues... He/Him
Laura Robertson @doublenegativel.bsky.social Critic. Writer. Editor. Lecturer. Writing about art, teaching others how to write about art. Scouser, RCA alum, cofounder @TheDoubleNegative.co.uk. Freelance critic for BBC, Art Monthly etc.🌱💀🍄🦇😼
laurarobertsoniswriting.cargo.site
thedoublenegative.co.uk
Frankenstein's Podcast @frankenpodcast.bsky.social A creature-feature podcast about monsters and why we love them. Hosted by Joe Praska and Kalid Hussein.
Chloe @cdelull.bsky.social Cacoethes - a bisexual sugar baby coming-of-age novel - out now: https://www.northodox.co.uk/product-page/cacoethes-paperback 🩷💜💙
🌻 I'm like if an old man was a girl. She/her.
📍Manchester(ish)
NC Maha @ncmaha.bsky.social Short fiction and science writer from India. Love reading/writing weird speculative fiction and poems. Stories in Inner Worlds, The Khaotic Good, SpecPoVerse, & Intrepidus Ink.
Rowan @scatterbones.bsky.social he/they 🏳️⚧️
librarian 🐀 occasional poet ✨
writing: linktr.ee/scatterbones
geordie in greater manchester 🖤🤍
Northern Books @northernbooksblog.bsky.social Looking at the Northern publishing industry through the lens of our best books
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https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/191685168-northern-books
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Claire Squires @clairesquires.bsky.social Professor of Publishing Studies at Stirling. Ullapoolist. 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. She/Her.
After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers.
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Neda Toloui-Semnani @nedats.bsky.social Exhausted journalist. Journalism prof at Penn State.
Nedasemnani.com 
thedoublenegative.co.uk @thedoublenegative.co.uk Contemporary, independent arts & culture criticism since 2011 💫 posts by co-founders Mike & Laura
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Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social Writer | Editor | Art Criticism | Writing the City | Class | Science Fiction | Popular Culture | PhD student | Lecturer | Incorrigible Buyer of Books
https://mikepinnington.cargo.site/
https://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/
Bram E. Gieben @bramegieben.bsky.social Writer and critic ✨ linktr.ee/bramegieben ✨ Author of THE DARKEST TIMELINE and CRISIS MASCULINITY. Host of Strange Exiles. Editor at Revol Press.
Glasgow Review of Books @glasgowrevbooks.bsky.social Online literary journal in English, Gaelic, and Scots | glasgowreviewofbooks.com | Writing from Glasgow to the world
The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social Enjoy The Observer journalism in print every Sunday, and digitally, seven days a week 🗞️
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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival @lpoolarabartsfest.bsky.social We are the UK's longest running festival of Arab arts and culture, with a year-round engagement programme.
arabartsfestival.com
Kamila Shamsie @kshams.bsky.social Writer
New Writing North @newwritingnorth.bsky.social The writing and reading development agency for the North of England.
Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb' the Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice: "some of the most moving, restrained, memorable and technically adroit poetry of our times" --- TLS, 3/25
Galen Gower - Writer @galengower.com I write stories. Some weird, some funny, all poorly, like a child armed with nonsense words and heavily sugared coffee.
Christina Hennemann @christina-writer.bsky.social poet & writer
www.christinahennemann.com
Eleanor Fuller @eleanorfuller.bsky.social Winner Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction 2023; finalist Fiddlehead Short Fiction Prize 2023 & Cambridge Short Story Prize 2024. Edith Wharton WiR 2024. Words: The Waxed Lemon, The Moth, Malahat, The New Quarterly & other lovelies. CCA-funded sabbatical!
Sleepy Bean @beanother.bsky.social Just crying from desire for fried egg crisps
Jenna Tang @jennathesoup.bsky.social Taiwanese Literary translator from Mandarin & Spanish/ Travel Writer/ Translator of Fang Si-Chi’s First Love Paradise (HarperVia)/ Educator/ 2025 TEDx Middlebury Speaker
The People's Letters @peoplesletters.bsky.social Worker-led, cooperatively run bookshop 📚 born from the ashes of union-busting. Building collective power, one book at a time. Open daily, 11am-7pm
395 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9RA, UK.
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Dan Bradley @danielgbradley.bsky.social Writer
Bass @urzah.bsky.social
http://www.dan-bradley.co.uk
shaun @shaunvids.bsky.social https://www.twitch.tv/shaun_vids
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Christine Poulson @christinepoulson.bsky.social Writer of the Katie Flanagan medical mysteries and of short stories, art historian. Blogging now and then at http://christinepoulson.co.uk/a-reading-life/
thethinkingthread @thethinkingthread.bsky.social 
University of York Events @uoyevents.bsky.social Events Office at the University of York - providing free open lectures, York Festival of Ideas, #YorkTalks and more...
Watch previous talks - #YorkIdeas on YouTube
International Literature Festival Dublin @ilfdublin.bsky.social Ireland's premier literary event, #ILFD celebrates international and Irish writing. Returns 15 - 24 May 2026.
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The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social Biannual journal, edited in Belfast, publishing writing from Ireland and overseas. Publisher of The Irish Pages Press. Edited by Chris Agee and Kathleen Jamie.
labournetTV @labournettv.bsky.social labournet.tv is an internet platform for films on workers' struggles, from the point of view of the workers themselves. Last film: #TheLoudSpring
Alice Flinta @aliceflinta.bsky.social 📚 Doctoral Candidate for Euterpe: European Literatures and Gender from a Transnational Perspective. euterpeproject.eu
Centre for Women's Studies & Department of English and Related Literature, University of York
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San Alland (they/San) @san-alland.bsky.social Writer, artist, curator. Latest publication: Sore Loser...on queer disabled grief. www.blissfultimes.ca
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(Photo: me masked; white person, short hair, smiling. Banner: Free Falasteen sign on a bookshelf)
Ben Wilkinson @benwilko85.bsky.social Writer, poet, “refreshingly honest” critic, tutor. Poems: Way More Than Luck (2018), Same Difference (Seren Books 2022). Criticism: Don Paterson (LUP 2021). Writing has appeared in Guardian, New Statesman, Spectator, TLS, etc. Lifelong Red. Likes a jog.
Chris McDonald / Chris Frost @cmacwritescrime.bsky.social Author: Erika Piper, Stonebridge, Little Ghost. THE KILLER’S CHRISTMAS LIST. Represented by David Headley. Co-founder of Stockport Noir.
Swara A.S. ☀️🍉🌊🧿 @spiderswarz.bsky.social He/Him, Data Waterbender. 🇮🇶🇬🇧🇺🇸Kurdish Muslim. 🍅 approved critic. Words @ The Nerds of Color, But Why Tho?, io9, The New Arab, Nerdist. Host of The Middle Geeks Podcast. Views do not represent my employer. Pic by SangledHere
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888
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Andrew M Leber @andrewleber.bsky.social Asst. Prof. of political science, Tulane U
MENA politics, some photography, some translation
New Orleans, LA ⚜️
Laura Kasinof @kasinof.bsky.social writer & journo
editor // Book of Sanaa (Comma Press 2025)
author // Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets: An Accidental War Correspondent in Yemen (Arcade 2014)
Writing on the Wall @wowfest.bsky.social Writing on the Wall celebrates writing, diversity, & storytelling through controversy, inquiry & debate | Liverpool, Toxteth
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PN Review @pnreview.bsky.social The UK's most stimulating literary journal, where the many worlds of poetry converse. Published by @carcanet.bsky.social. Subscribe here: http://goo.gl/QNqGCH
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The Writing Squad @thewritingsquad.bsky.social Creating the next generation in the north of England. www.writingsquad.com
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
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Creative Manchester @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social A University of Manchester research platform, developing and championing interdisciplinary research in Creativity and Creative practices.
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For general enquiries please email creative@manchester.ac.uk.
Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
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