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/
Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social Writer, book reviewer for Yorkshire Times, and grateful national park resident. https://yorkshiretimes.co.uk/
Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social Poet, critic of recent formally innovative poetry & poetics, emeritus prof at Edge Hill, and all that follows. Books from Shearsman, KFS, Salt, Broken Sleep, Palgrave, LUP, & all that follow. Blog: www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com
Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social Uncharismatic megafauna.
Too fat to ride a horse, too poor to own a carriage.
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Dave C @duckpondsreview.bsky.social Retired and reading quite a lot in a quiet corner of Australia.
Simon Thomas @stuckinabook.bsky.social Stuckinabook.com, Tea or Books? podcast
Books, cats, Jesus, Neighbours
Duotrope @duotrope.com Duotrope is an award-winning writers' resource. Search for publishers and agents, track your submissions & more! https://duotrope.com
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Literary Review @litreview.bsky.social Britain's leading monthly literary magazine. For people who devour books. Read our latest: literaryreview.co.uk
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GossamerWight Literary Magazine @gossamerwight.com A UK-based literary magazine dedicated to dark & unconventional storytelling & poetry, centred on its quarterly digital anthologies.
Prose and poetry submissions open for our Deep Roots anthology on Thursday 1 October.
Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social Just poetry. Digital UK-based poetry magazine.
New, international and marginalised poets always welcome.
Edited by Catherine Redford and Tara Wheeler
http://dustpoetry.co.uk
The London Magazine @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social The UK's oldest literary journal: a review of literature and the arts, est. 1732, published bi-monthly.
thelondonmagazine.org
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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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New Writing North @newwritingnorth.bsky.social The writing and reading development agency for the North of England.
Centre For New Writing @newwritingmcr.bsky.social Home to a range of programmes in creative writing & contemporary literature at the University of Manchester. Staff include author Jeanette Winterson.
For more information: https://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/centrefornewwriting/
Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture.
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The Portico Library @porticolibrary.bsky.social The Portico Library is Manchester’s original 19th-century home of literature and learning. Uncovering, imagining, and sharing new histories together.
Blackwell's Manchester @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social Your friendly neighbourhood bookshop on Oxford Road, Manchester 📚 Bookchat, events and silly things. Bleets (?!) by @rednewsom.bsky.social
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PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social A British contemporary art press.
Publisher of critical dialogues, innovative lit & photography. Slow, often archival
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The Provinces / Stepney | Est. 2014 M/cr
#AnthonyBurgess #MelissaLeeHoughton #LindenArchives
404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social Your favourite book publisher, obvs.
We used to publish books.
July 2016 - July 2026.
We were @heathermmcd.bsky.social & @laurafjones.bsky.social
www.404ink.com
Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher.
Leeds.
Publishing director: Ariell Cacciola @ariellcacciola.bsky.social
🖤🌈https://www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/bookshop
Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social Manc independent publisher with a conscience.
M.D. Isabelle Kenyon
2024 North England Winner Small Press of Year!
Sustainable, political and accessible
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk
Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of modern, classic and translated poetry, and the bi-monthly literary journal @pnreview.bsky.social.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/CarcanetPress
Scratch Books @scratchbooks.bsky.social A small press dedicated to the short story. Claustrophiles…
@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social Galley Beggar Press is an independent publisher from Norwich. Citizens of the world. And foreign.
Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social Indy publisher of award winning literary fiction
You can order books here : www.bluemoosebooks.com 
Dead Ink Books @deadinkbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of bold new fiction and non-fiction, based in Liverpool
https://linktr.ee/deadinkbooks
Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of short fiction from the UK & beyond. Championing the next generation of writers & translators. Shares do not equal endorsements.
Find us at: https://commapress.co.uk/
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
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.
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.
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 
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/
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
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.
The TLS @thetls.bsky.social The Times Literary Supplement. Subscribe here: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/buy
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.
RSPB Action @rspbaction.bsky.social The latest from the RSPB’s campaigning and policy work from across the UK.
Sign up to and become a RSPB Campaigner - https://rspb.org.uk/actionfornature
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
Josephine Galvin @josephinegalvin.bsky.social 
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
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.
Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social Reading, writing, rabbits 🐇 ✡️
Director of European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social
London
www.deborahzafer.com
https://substack.com/@deborahzafer
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
Dr Amelia Dowler @ameliadowler.bsky.social National Officer FDA Union; Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies; Researcher in numismatics; Poet
Elizabeth Stott @elizabethstott.bsky.social Writer - fiction, poetry, things. Physics degree. Interested in science, arts, life and the natural world (not just on Earth!) Like to draw, paint and make a mess. Some of my inky doodles on Instagram @elizabethstott7
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
Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social Writer, medievalist, 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
Graham Mort @grahammort.bsky.social Poet, short fiction writer, essayist, writer BBC drama. Emeritus Prof Lancaster University; Extraordinary Prof University Western Cape; National HE Teaching Fellow. Eric Gregory Award, Bridport & Edge Hill Prizes. Photography, blues & jazz enthusiast.
Azalea Dunn/A.Z. Dunsworth 🇯🇲 🇳🇬 🍉 @azaleadunn.bsky.social Island girl 🌺
African princess 👑
Queer & proud 🏳️🌈
Writer of interracial/multicultural romance (as Azalea) & sci fi/fantasy (as A.Z.) http://books2read.com/u/38MPwV
Currently based in Jamaica.
The Poet Laureate Podcast @poetlaureatepdcast.bsky.social Hosted by Kyeren Regehr and featuring poets laureate from across the country and beyond.
www.thepoetlaureatepodcast.com
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Christine Morgan @bookwormchris.bsky.social Reads a lot & writes too. Love all things literary. Interests include the sea, Art & Design, Education, Health & Disability issues.
@carmentapoetry.bsky.social @carmentapoetry.bsky.social 
Livi Michael @livimichael.bsky.social writer, teacher, superhero...
Gaia Jane @gaiajane.bsky.social Disabled poet and artist. American roots music enthusiast. Revolucionísta del corazón.
Poetry Foundation bit.ly/3BydKOn
Every Place on the Map tinyurl.com/yvkjezzm
Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org Book indexer, editor, boss at baindex.org | Society of Indexers Chair and Fellow | CIEP APM | Cryptic crossword novice setter Pixie | Stockport, UK
🧚🏻 www.mycrossword.co.uk/Pixie
See also
@indexers.bsky.social
www.indexers.org.uk
#IndexSky
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
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
Paul Cheney @halfmanhalfbook.bsky.social Reader | Non-Fiction Reviewer | Blogger | Book Collector | Dad | Development Engineer | Geek | Beer Lover | All views mine
http://halfmanhalfbook.co.uk/
Latitude 46 Publishing @latitude46pub.bsky.social Literary publisher based in Northern Ontario, Canada
Visit our website: https://latitude46publishing.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.
Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com Writer, scientist, bug. she/her. #yeg. 🇨🇦 🇬🇾 Winner of a Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award! Rep: Michael Curry 📚🪲 Tips for cat treats! https://ko-fi.com/premee
Rémi Forte @rmfrt.com Poetic Program, Typographic System
https://www.rmfrt.com/
Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social Northern writer. Author of The Disappeared. Stories in The London Reader, Reflex Press, Palm-Sized Press. Finalist: Mslexia Short Story Comp/Dinesh Allirajah Prize. Arts marketer. Writer in residence Durham Writes & Crossing the Tees.
amylordauthor.com
Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social The Discerning Mollusk's Guide to Arts and Ideas. From @saggingmeniscus. Quarterly, in print and online, since 2021.
Sarah Turner @scturnerfiction.bsky.social Writer. Short stories in: The Rumpus, Sonora Review, J Journal, Shooter Lit Mag, London Magazine, Fictive Dream, LEON, Litro & others | SL Bridport SS | Read my work at: www.scturnerfiction.com
Stuart Tarrant @stutar.bsky.social Head of Comms; film and music lover; cycling fan and AFC Bournemouth supporter.
Abi Hynes @afahynes.bsky.social Drama and fiction writer. GANGS OF LONDON S4. MONSTROUS LONGING out with Dahlia Books.
Agents: Independent Talent / The Ampersand Agency
Brit List 2022 / BAFTA Connect member
https://linktr.ee/abifahynes
Claire Dean @clairedean.bsky.social Writer, maker & conservator. Short stories, zines, book arts. Used to be an academic, retrained in conservation. Repairs & cares for old manuscripts, maps, plans, photographs & the curious objects that end up in archives.
📍Lancashire, North of England- N 🇺🇸 @n976wow.bsky.social
@helenvicanderson.bsky.social @helenvicanderson.bsky.social Writing in the North East of England. Appreciating my crazy spaniel, bleak beaches, and cheese.
@imogen3.bsky.social @imogen3.bsky.social 
Katie 🦇📚 @thebookvampire.bsky.social Friendly neighborhood vampire and book lover. I accept ARCs!
Current Read: The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass
Current 🎧📚: Dungeon Crawler Carl
https://linktr.ee/thebookvampire
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Georgia Reads @georgiarybanks.bsky.social Reading books from around the world.
Lifting. Painting. Walking dogs. Watching sport.
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com If you’re reading this, you’re in the right place.
Beautiful books you won't forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Thomas Hübner @thomashuebner.bsky.social Former Twitter/X user. Occasionally blogging about books and other stuff at www.mytwostotinki.com
James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
https://james-topham.com
Ruby Cowling @rubycowling.bsky.social THIS PARADISE: Short stories // Boiler House Press // http://tinyurl.com/RCTParadise // Shortlisted Edge Hill Prize; Longlisted Orwell Prize //
Full of state and woe
nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social don't dream it's over • 🇨🇦🇮🇪 mamaí (she/they) • Writer. Photographer. Settler. Kjipuktuk | SSHRC CGRS M Winner • MFA Creative Writing (2026) • MA Photojournalism & Doc Photography (2021) | ✨noli timere✨ b.322ppm linktr.ee/nancyforde
Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social Open research person | feminist | writer
Loves books and cats
Elizabeth Baines @elizabethbaines.bsky.social Writer of short stories, novels, plays.
http://www.elizabethbaines.co.uk
Latest publication: Five Different Stories About One Thing (Confingo). https://www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page/five-different-stories-about-one-thing-by-elizabeth-baines
The Edge Hill Prize Short Story Award @edgehillprize.bsky.social The official account of the Edge Hill Prize. £10,000 for the best published, single-authored short story collection from the UK & Ireland. Facilitated by FiN, Edge Hill University's narrative research group. Convener @saraheschofield.bsky.social
C.D. Rose @cdrose.bsky.social Writer of stories. 'We Live Here Now.' 'Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea,' 'The Blind Accordionist,' 'Who's Who When Everyone is Someone Else,' 'The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure.' (@melvillehouse.bsky.social)
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
Linda Hill @lindasbookbag.bsky.social Book blogger at https://lindasbookbag.com and fanatical tea drinker
X Lindahill50Hill Insta ljh50hill 📚❤️
Incendiary Books @incendiarybooks.bsky.social Independent. Manchester/Salford.
Debut release, To Rise in the Dark (2024)
Second release, Hunter (2025)
Vik Shirley @vikshirley.bsky.social Poet/Writer/Editor. PhD Dark Humour and the Surreal. Some Deer (Broken Sleep) Strangers Wave: Joy Division Photo Poems (zimZalla) & Corpses (Sublunary Editions). Persona Digitalia forthcoming w/PhotoWorks. Co-edits Surreal-Absurd @ Mercurius Magazine. 🪩 👻
Anne Worthington @anne-worthington.bsky.social Writer Photographer
Novel The Unheard awarded Michael Schmidt Prize https://www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page/the-unheard
Documentary photography https://britishculturearchive.co.uk/east-manchester-in-the-2000s-regeneration-anne-worthington/
Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright.
Author of:
Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay (Little Toller)
Deliria (Rough Trade Books)
Wild Twin (Little Toller)
Latchkey (Sacred Parasite)
Northern Fiction Alliance @northernfiction.bsky.social We are a radical publishing collective of over 30 independent publishers that showcases creativity and diversity. Head to our website to browse publishers and find your new favourite book: http://northernfictionalliance.com/
Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social Writer and critic, Emerita Professor of Short Fiction at Edge Hill University UK.
Short stories, Precipitation, https://www.confingopublishing.uk/
https://www.routledge.com/Writing-Short-Stories-A-Routledge-Writers-Guide/Cox/p/book/9781032582481.