Marie DesYeux @tesyeux.bsky.social evolving, responding, understanding in an evolving world
my first days here, where the sky is wide & blue again, w hope
my art is not AI,
It is multilayered or not, digital or analog photography or other
Joanna Garbutt @joannagarbutt.bsky.social Writer and Editor. PhD in Applied Linguistics. Published in Fictive Dream, Orange Blossom Review, Literary Mama, Porridge, The Phare, amongst others. Associate Editor with Short Fiction and Audio Editor for This Mama is Lit!
Hannah Glickstein @hannahglickstein.bsky.social Writing in small gaps: stories, articles, half-finished novels.
hannahglickstein.blog
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannah-glickstein-16190478/
Rik Worth 👻 @rikworth.bsky.social Author of…
📚Pets Tell Tales Series 🐈⬛📜
📚Eisner-nom’d HOCUS POCUS👻🔮
Comics oik. Sci Comm.
Working class. Union man.
Servant of the secret flame.
Skionar @skionar.bsky.social Roger Clarke. Author of A Natural History of Ghosts, published by Penguin Books (2012). Former writer for the Independent Newspaper, Sunday TimesUK, Sight & Sound. In it for the long haul with severe chronic illness, dealing with NHS on a weekly basis
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
Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social Writer, book reviewer for Yorkshire Times, and grateful national park resident. https://yorkshiretimes.co.uk/
🍎 Taylor Twins 🍏 @thirstytwins.satan.social 🦋Taylor Twins TWINS BING TWINS🦋
🌀gemelos Taylor Gemelos siendo gemelas🌀
⓸ 泰勒双胞胎 双胞胎就是双胞胎 ⓸
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Sameer Kankali Ⓥ☮✌🏼🌱💚🍉🐸🐮🐷📚📖♟️✊🏼 @sameerkankali.bsky.social MUNDUS SINE CAESARIBUS 💙🦋
#Activist #HumanRights #AnimalRights #UBI #ClimateChange #Books #Tech #Poker #Chess
He/Him/His
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Mountain & Myth Fantasy Cartography @mountainandmyth.bsky.social Bringing your fantasy world to life! We create hand drawn maps for your D&D/Pathfinder or other ttrpg games.
Commissions are OPEN: https://tally.so/r/obEbob
https://mountainandmyth.com
Elizabeth Botsford @elizabethbotsford.bsky.social Middle grade novel writer. Longlisted, Yeovil Literary Prize 2026. Shortlisted, Jericho Writers Friday Night Live.
Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social Publisher
Books Made in Berlin since 2023
www.sacredparasite.com
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.
Check our Linktree for upcoming dates:
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#queer #writingcommunity #manchester
LogosFan @logosfan.bsky.social Logo Artist / Since 2020-2026 (6 years ago)
I'm a logo artist of making logos in Paint since 2020, I'm only making logos in Paint that brings everyone nostalgia, and behind the scenes how I made these logos! and more! If you are new here, follow me!
Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social Uncharismatic megafauna.
Too fat to ride a horse, too poor to own a carriage.
https://linktr.ee/causticcovercritic
Dave C @duckpondsreview.bsky.social Retired and reading quite a lot in a quiet corner of Australia.
Black Herald Press @blackheraldpress.bsky.social Éditeur indépendant / independent press
poésie, essais, textes courts / Poetry books, essays, short texts (in English or mostly bilingual) since 2010 / éditrice-publisher Blandine Longre @blandinelongre.bsky.social
https://www.blackheraldpress.com
@thewindtrapp.bsky.social @thewindtrapp.bsky.social 
A.J. O'Toole @ajotoole.bsky.social Ex-drinker, still not a fighter. Speed reader, slow writer.
Black Country exile under Northern skies.
This is an anecdote, sir, not a problem for you to solve.
Luca Zani @lucazani.bsky.social Writer at zaniluca.substack.com. Works in: The Hooghly Review, Clockwise Cat, Academy of Heart and Mind, Down in the Dirt, Megacity Review, The Slash, Querencia Press, The Pett Review, The Memorious, and more here: chillsubs.com/profile/lucazani.
James Ward @jamesdavidward.bsky.social Even more boring on this platform than all the other platforms
Kathryn Aldridge-Morris @kazbarwrites.bsky.social COLD TOAST Dahlia Books. Republic of Consciousness Prize 'Book of the Month'. Shortlisted for International Rubery Book Award. Wigleaf Top 50, Bath Flash Fiction Award, Mancs. Writing School QMD Prize, The Forge CNF prize
www.kamwords.com
Hannah Linden @hannahl1n.bsky.social Poet Devon, UK
1st Cafe Writers Poetry Competition 2021, 2nd Leeds Peace Poetry Prize 2024, H Comm. Wales Poetry Award 2021. Shortlisted Best Poetry Pamphlet Saboteur Awards 2023 https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-beautiful-open-sky.html 
David Perlmutter @davidperlmutter.bsky.social Canadian white male autistic writer. Author of America 'Toons In: A History of Television Animation and The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Also author of speculative fiction, superhero fiction and anthropomorphic ("furry") fiction.
Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings @kaggsy59.bsky.social Loves books and arts and culture and vegan food, and sharing thoughts about them! Blogs at https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/
Tim Craig @timcraig.bsky.social Manc | Writer of short fiction | ‘Now You See Him’ Long List Edge Hill Prize 22, short list Int Rubery Prize | multiple placed Bath Flash Award | prev winner Bridport Prize flash.
Michael Bird @michaelbirdwrites.bsky.social Writer: Short Fiction on 💔 ⛧ 💀/ Journalist: Investigations on 🐻🤖💰 michaelbirdjournalist.com / Read 'Modern Gothic' out now https://shorturl.at/33aUY / Watch www.animalhustlers.com
Anne Denoon @annedenoon.bsky.social Crone, wastrel, lapsed (but twitching) novelist. Posts about art & lit.
Me: https://www.writersunion.ca/member/anne-denoon
I wrote a book: Back Flip, a novel about art & the 1960s: https://t.co/m7fQSOo6At or (with reviews) https://tinyurl.com/4dzwzpdp
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
VOID VOID VOID @burnyourbones.bsky.social autist artist typist anarchist and pylon enthusiast
ᗗ ѧ ᗗ
seeing an unbearable light at the edge of everything & trying to trap it in ink ѧ ѧ ᗗ
Chris Wade-Evans @cwadeevans.bsky.social #FBPE left leaning semi retired sound engineer, after forty something years travelling the world, now interested in expanding my horizons from the comfort of my room in West London!
Chill Subs @chillsubs.bsky.social The place for writers
Scott Gleason, PhD @buddytwo.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor, Grove Music @academic.oup.com Author of *Composing Modernism* https://tinyurl.com/3sjezuy7 published by @ucpress.bsky.social on the Princeton composer-theorists. #Arsenal. Views my own.
Chris Parker @chrisparkerwriter.bsky.social Writer of TV and books for adults and children. Nameless Lake (Salt Books), The Yes Bunny (Magic Cat)
Seán Padraic Birnie @seanbirnie.bsky.social seanbirnie.com
https://undertowpublications.com/shop/i-would-haunt-you-if-i-could
Short stories in ergot, Weird Horror, Interzone, Remains & elsewhere
me/cfs
Gary Kay (empty kettle) @atgeekay.bsky.social Writer // Civil Servant // he/him
Work in Nat Brut // Strange Horizons
Pushcart Nom + BoN Nom
NYC // https://linktr.ee/garykay
Also, I take pictures: https://bsky.app/profile/garyqueens.bsky.social
Charles Reyna Art @charlesreynaart.bsky.social Hi, I'm Charles Anthony Reyna, Abstract Visual Artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. My inspiration comes from nature as well as urban areas.
Maylin @blithespirit4.bsky.social Canadian living in Liverpool, UK. Knitter, reader, hiker, lover of all textiles and the great outdoors. Once a bookseller, always a bookseller.
Aleksandra Ugelstad Elnæs @aleksandraue.bsky.social Writer, historian & reclusive escapist haunted by all things lost, fragmented and shipwrecked. Lapsed 18th centuryist interested in queer classical reception, gothic fiction & the sea.
https://linktr.ee/aleksandraue
Robin Munby @robmunb.bsky.social Translator. Raitán. Swappin' yarns tae cowe the gowan.
tits andronicus @tambourine.bsky.social 🥞 🫖 📚
sick poet / library mole
london
Bert @zapperzap.bsky.social 
Libby Hartwell @libbyhartwell.bsky.social Children’s writer. 🏆Winner of Little Tiger IAmInPrint Picture Book Prize ‘23. 🏆Winner of SCBWI Slushpile Challenge ‘24. Runner-up Write Mentor Chapter Book Award ‘24. SL for Searchlight Awards ‘24. SL for Write Mentor PB Award ‘24 & ‘25 #MAWYP
Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social Author, attorney, translator. Teaching law ~and society~ at NYU Gallatin. Make the Road NY legal alum.
Kiran @ktrivv.eurosky.social Leeds United supporter from Ayrshire working in sustainability. Living in london. Love to enjoy normal hobbies such as football and board games with my friends and family.
Hels Babs @hels8.bsky.social Inverness Dweller
Nature Lover
Bird Liker
Childless cat lady 😻
John-Paul Flintoff @jp.flintoff.org Writer and artist.
Portraits:
Flintoff.org/contain-multitudes
Latest book:
Flintoff.org/speccy-breakdown
🗞️ ex FT Magazine writer and editor. Bylines: Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times
Agent: Jaime Marshall
Signal: jpflintoff.11
Matthew De Abaitua @mdeabaitua.bsky.social The Red Men, IF THEN, The Destructives and Self & I. Science fiction, yes.
Harehunterfield @harehunterfield.bsky.social Lover of the North Wind. Former DJ at WZBC. Interests in all things
More to follow 
Alan Beard @alanbeard.bsky.social Short Story/Flash writer. Third collection Afternoon Drinking out now from Floodgate Press, UK. Previous collections: Taking Doreen out of the Sky (Picador, 1999); You Don’t Have to Say (Tindal Street Press, 2010).
Jo Rigg @jorigg.bsky.social Writer, web dev, runner
Fran Moldaschl @franmoldaschl.bsky.social https://buymeacoffee.com/franmoldaschl
Kelpies Prize for Writing Winner
Former #archaeology student
Children's book reviewer
Neurodivergent
inquisitivenewt.com
(Any pronouns)🏳️🌈
Kieran Wyatt @kieranstories.bsky.social Best British Short Stories 2026, The London Magazine, Free Flash Fiction, Eunoia Review, Blood+Honey. Fylde Coast. https://kieranstorieswriter.blog/about/
SarahC_loves_reading @sarahmclayton.bsky.social Avid book reader/blogger 📚& reviewer, lover of family🥰, animals🐾 theatre 🎭 and music 🎶
Robert Welbourn @robertwelbourn.bsky.social Books:
https://srlpublishing.co.uk/authors/w/robert-welbourn
Newsletter:
https://buttondown.com/RobertWelbourn
He/him
Skyla Baily @blueskyla.bsky.social 🌱
Comms officer @ GDI
Writer
Melanie Carvalho @meldelune.bsky.social Writer, artist, obituarist. Leicester Writes 24, winner; Short Fictions ISP longlist; Brick Lane Bookshop short story prize shortlist; Pushcart nominated, Liars League; London Library EWP 22/23. Wotcha.
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.
D. A. Hosek @dahosek.bsky.social Dad»Writer of fiction&poetry»🦻🏻»Utopian socialist»Catholic Woke Marxist»Chicago boy»less jiggery, more pokery»He/him
https://dahosek.com
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript (Book Formatter, Cover Designer and Socials Post Maker): https://book-shelfie.com/postscript
Paul M. Cray @pmc.bsky.social 'A plain, unvarnished Preston man.' Permanent resident alien in Seattle, Wash. Writer, AGI researcher, wine industry professional. Interests: books, futurology, historiographic metafiction, sf, technoeconomic paradigm shifts, the Technological Singularity
Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social PhD Chelsea College of Arts. Work in: Partisan Hotel, gorse journal, Mercurius Magazine, Sublunary Editions, 3AM Magazine, Essence Press, Vanguard Readings. Chapbooks with Gordian Projects & Nightjar Press, book with Rossi Contemporary
A P Pullan @the-wee-pencil.bsky.social https://theweepencil.wordpress.com/ ; writer of kids books; self-publisher; studier of Diploma in CBT; sails Pica Belleau; walks Gubbins & Mavis; scone gobbler; drawn in Yorkshire; coloured in by Scotland; Ayrshire; #lufc; driftwood clockmaker; teacher
BOObara Byar 👻👻 @barbarabyar.bsky.social Writer
Debut Novel: IN THE DESERT, OUT NOW
from @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social
Buy Here: https://a.co/d/0bucj1Yn
Collection: Some Days are Better than Ours (Reflex Fiction)
https://substack.com/@barbarabyar?utm_source=user-menu
Kerry via San Francisco
Exact Editions @exacteditions.bsky.social The premium magazine platform for publishers, libraries and readers.
Find out more here: http://linktr.ee/exacteditions 
t.m.d. lee @tmdlee.bsky.social Dark words | Bright lines
Belfast, Northern Ireland
John Saul @johnsauluk.bsky.social Born and grew up in Liverpool. Attempting to write innovative short fiction. 150 short fictions in (the serious, paying kind of) magazines and anthologies.
THE ANOINTED ATHEIST @theanointedatheist.bsky.social Welcome to my little corner of heaven. This is where I write about politics and religion with a dose of humor. However, you may find my posts offensive - if you do, just turn the other cheek. Have a blessed day!
Gill James @gillj.bsky.social Writer, publisher, book and story lover. Love how I'm allowed to spend my working day. Surprise fact: I sing tenor in a choir. 
Michael Brandon @michaeljbrandon.bsky.social Writer. Inventor of the Tyne Bridge fancy hat.
Rebecca Field @rebeccafwrites.bsky.social Flash writer living in Derbyshire U.K.
Words in Milk Candy Review, Ghost Parachute, Sunlight Press, Bull Magazine, Phare Magazine, Hooghly Review, Gone Lawn and others. Pushcart and Best Small Fictions nominee. No longer using X
Bernadette Geyer @bernadettegeyer.bsky.social I write. A lot. About lots of things.
Author of What Haunts Me (April Gloaming) and The Scabbard of Her Throat (The Word Works).
Recent writing in @swwim.bsky.social, stadtsprachen, Quibble Lit, and elsewhere.
https://linktr.ee/bernadettegeyer
Annabookbel @annabookbel.bsky.social Book lover, blogging about them since 2008! Oxford environs. Blog: https://annabookbel.net/. Proud Co-founder of https://shinynewbooks.co.uk/
Josephine Galvin @josephinegalvin.bsky.social 
Mandy-Suzanne Wong @mandysuzannewong.bsky.social Author, THE BOX, DAUGHTER OF MOTHER-OF-PEARL
@graywolfpress.bsky.social
www.mandysuzannewong.com
🌊
Northern Books @northernbooksblog.bsky.social Looking at the Northern publishing industry through the lens of our best books
https://www.northernbooks.org/
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/191685168-northern-books
https://www.instagram.com/northernbooksblog/
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
Cooper Lee Press @cooperleepress.bsky.social Bridging the gap between craft development and published work, Cooper Lee is an independent press and school of writing and theory founded in 2025 by Dr Craig Snelgrove.
cooperleepress.co.uk
@talkingbytelephone.bsky.social @talkingbytelephone.bsky.social 
word diver @theworddiver.bsky.social Writer, editor and podcaster. Design for Sustainability @MMU. Latest novel: Adrift (Pine Goat).
Heather Washwood @heatherwashwood.bsky.social Poetry and prose mixing memory and desire.... (stirring dull roots with spring rain)
https://linktr.ee/heatherwashwood
Based North West, UK
Alex Calder @dralexjcalder.bsky.social ECR in Contemporary Lit | teaching at University of Cambridge | writing Ali Smith and the Politics of Connection (Edinburgh UP) | co-editor Ali Smith: Critical Essays (Routledge) | Membership Secretary @bacls.bsky.social | from Caithness, Highland; he/him
Poetry with Linda @poetrywithlinda.bsky.social poetry, nature, writing, reading, art, culture, languages, photography, travelling 🎨🖌️🖼️
Let's also be friends on Substack:@poetrywithlinda
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
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
LJ @lj-is-writing.bsky.social 21 | Ncl
☆Creative Writing☆
Ryan Bourassa😅 @grandtheftginger.bsky.social Comedian┃Actor┃Photographer┃Ginger 😎
Touring as Ed Gein in @serialkillerspeakeasy! ☠️🍹
Dr Amelia Dowler @ameliadowler.bsky.social National Officer FDA Union; Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies; Researcher in numismatics; Poet
Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doc
Kids' novels:
Minou Moonshine / Sam Singh @kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social
Poetry:
Empirical
@thebraag.bsky.social
Siren @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
A Terrible Thing Bad Betty Press
https://linktr.ee/gitaralleigh
Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social Reading, writing, rabbits 🐇 ✡️
Director of European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social
London
www.deborahzafer.com
https://substack.com/@deborahzafer
Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social Creative practice research about dementia.
'Picturing Clouds of Unknowing: Photography, Lostness, and Cognitive Decline' DOI: https://doi.org/10.22501/rc.1862857
European (English origin, sorry). Mainly fair: good occasionally rough.
Daily Short Story Deadlines @shortstorycontests.bsky.social Submit your short story to the relevant genre. All of these contests are guaranteed acceptances. Your story gets a video performance reading made!
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-short-story-contest-deadlines/
Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social July 2026: What Lies Ahead and Other Essays, Black Herald Press: https://www.blackheraldpress.com/what-lies-ahead
Own Sweet Time, CB editions (2022)
Sovetica, CB editions (2021)
Saying Yes in Russian, Agenda Editions (2012)
https://carolineclark.carrd.co/
BIGGSGGIB @ridebikeseatspuds.bsky.social Writer | Poet | Conservationist | Rider of Bikes | Occasional Musician | etc.
mitchellbiggs.blogspot.com
Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social Writer, medievalist, research fellow @einsteinforum.bsky.social, co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Writing a book about medieval imperfection.
irinadumitrescu.com
The Letters Page @theletterspage.bsky.social 💌 A literary journal celebrating the timeless art of letter writing
📖 Latest issue at: tinyurl.com/tlp-vol-6
📪 Please note: The Letters Page is currently taking a short break and is temporarily closed for submissions