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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social I write the Daily column for Criterion's Current.
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Mark Walsh @markwalsh.bsky.social Books, Music, Art and Film. Exists in real life too.
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Old Movies @oldmoviespodcast.bsky.social Old Movies! A film and conversation podcast, hosted by Paul Martinovic, available on all good podcasting platforms. 
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
Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social Author, teacher, anti-authoritarian, media studies prof @ Utrecht Univ. New book – FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921088/fast-and-furious-franchising/
Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social Coffee House Press is an independent nonprofit publishing house based in Minneapolis. Literature forever.
Sofia Lampropoulou @sofialampro.bsky.social University of Liverpool. Storytelling and identity; story-critical (and story-abstinent); migration; language, power and social inequalities.
Evan Kindley @evankindley.bsky.social "The New York School: Poetry, Art, and Friendship in Midcentury Manhattan" forthcoming from Knopf, March 2027 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737462/th- N Neil Bahadur @neilbahadur.bsky.social
Jack Eason @jackeason.bsky.social Watcher of movies. Hoarder of Blu-rays. Drinker of tea. Live from Chicago.
machine gun kelly reichardt @lingo.bsky.social No knowledge, just vibes
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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social It’s Mr. Chau, that’s my name, that name again is Mr. Chau
Adam Nayman @brofromanother.bsky.social Let’s count the rings around my eyes
Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social Critic, editor, darling | RogerEbert, The Playlist, Paste Magazine, Filmmaker Magazine, Inverse, Chron, Letterboxd Journal, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe | CFCA
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F♯A♯∞, fka ☕️ @coopercooperco.bsky.social bluesky has yet to punish me for my sins but, just in case, I will never repent
Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social Modern-day folk hero. For a good time, call willsloan.ca
C.J. Prince @cjprince.bsky.social Sometimes film critic, sometimes film programmer.
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jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social film & culture & TV critic • associate programmer @mixnyc.bsky.social • repped by marya spence (janklow & nesbit)
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danielgorman20 @danielgorman20.bsky.social frequent bylines at www.inreviewonline.com
member CFCA
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Jake Tropila @jaketropila.bsky.social Film critic, editor, licensed troubleshooter, problem eliminator. May good luck plumb snow you under.
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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social https://www.johnconnorlikeintheterminator.com
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Violet Lucca @violetlucca.bsky.social Film critic. Author of DAVID CRONENBERG: CLINICAL TRIALS (Jan ‘25). My writing about film has appeared in the NYT, Art in America, Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Reverse Shot, and elsewhere. NYFCC member
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Justin Chang @justincchang.bsky.social Film Critic, The New Yorker and NPR’s Fresh Air | 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism | Chair, National Society of Film Critics | Programmer, New York Film Festival
morgan @spaceb0y.bsky.social painter
Sophy Romvari @sophyromvari.bsky.social Filmmaker, first made a bunch of short ones now working on my long one. Coming soon.
@bilgeebiri.bsky.social @bilgeebiri.bsky.social "I don't expect you to be as depressed as I am, but I don't think your happiness is quite appropriate."
Third Window Films @thirdwindowfilms.com One of the leading distributors of Japanese cinema
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R. Emmet Sweeney @robert-emmet.bsky.social Kino Lorber / occasional film critic at oldnew.substack.com 
Max Carpenter @solexyoghurt.bsky.social film programming (at Museum of the Moving Image, &c.), writing (at Reverse Shot, &c.), crossword editing (at @avcx.bsky.social+), mixing (https://soundcloud.com/solexyoghurt), and math
alex lei @alexlei.bsky.social lost in the sauce | “writer” and “filmmaker” | he/him
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Ryan Swen/孫天行/Sun Tien-hsing @swenryan.bsky.social Freelance film critic, lafilmcritics.bsky.social Secretary/Events Chair, list obsessive. Host of Catalyst and Witness, co-host of 24 hours don't make an ideology. USC JD, CAMS MA.
stale cooper @stalecooper.bsky.social Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein. 
Seán Costello @seanjcostello.bsky.social Editor at large
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Del Winters @del.winters.rodeo The aroma of Coca-Cola, melted M&M's, and stale popcorn marinating in a movie theater trash can.
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Deep Impact Crier @deepimpactcrier.bsky.social Corporate lettuce. Co-host of Hit Factory. OF babe. https://linktr.ee/clarissademilo
Juni Kvarving @juni-kvarving.bsky.social 🌿Environmental Humanities Researcher with a PhD in English Literature | Freelance Editor/Tutor
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Matt Whittle @drmattwhittle.bsky.social Lecturer, University of Kent
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📚Global Literature & the Environment (2024) • Post-War British Literature & the End of Empire (2016)
Ian Curtin @iancurtin.bsky.social 
ASAP/Review @asapjournal.bsky.social ASAP/Journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that explores new developments in post-1960s visual, media, literary, and performance arts. ASAP/Review is the journal's internet-focused publishing branch.
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David Tierney @writedavidwrite.bsky.social Creative Writing PhD at Uni of Liverpool, researching animal communication in SF through a novel, Ark set in a near-future Ireland (featuring a robot duck, dog, and many wonderful non-cyber animals). Aspiring pianist.
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
Dak @dak.bsky.social Goal for 2026 is ‘Cooperative health’.
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Dr Rhys Steven Jones @rhysteven.bsky.social asst prof film, media & culture @UvA_Amsterdam | historical materialism - critical theory - horror cinema - pop culture | he/him
Rosa Campbell @rosacampbell.bsky.social “writer” & “academic” (poetry, poetics, archives, gender, failure) // British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @ St Andrews // co-director Network for New York School Studies // Houghton Library Visiting Fellow, Harvard // she/her // 🧂 // linktr.ee/rosacampbell
Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social Print junkie. Librarian. Educator. Podcaster.
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Marta Zanucco @martaswriting.bsky.social PhD in English Literature from the University of Liverpool: autofiction / metafiction / collective authorship
Patrick Clarke @paddyclarke.bsky.social Deputy Editor and folk music columnist at The Quietus // my book Bedsit Land: The Strange Worlds Of Soft Cell is out now // cult classic, not best seller
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
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Boulder, Colorado
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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social Writer. Debut novel, Poor Ghost! out in paperback from Sceptre July 2026. Doing a PhD on Adorno & novel theory. Co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Berlin & UK.
Eva Wyles @evawyles.bsky.social Writer from Aotearoa New Zealand, based in London
Deliverywoman (2025, Influx Press)
Agent: Kirsty McLachlan, morgangreencreatives.com
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X-R-A-Y @xraylitmag.bsky.social the best writers on earth
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thedoublenegative.co.uk @thedoublenegative.co.uk Contemporary, independent arts & culture criticism since 2011 💫 posts by co-founders Mike & Laura
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The Bibliography @thebibliopod.bsky.social 📚 University of Liverpool English Department podcast 🎙 Hosts: David Tierney, Ellie Clayton-Harding, Jess White and Natalie Wall
Tramp Press @tramppress.bsky.social Independent book publisher. The Most Normal Woman by Roisin Kiberd forthcoming end of August! Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Pádhraic Quinn @quinnpadhraic.bsky.social 2025 Irish Book Awards Winner for New Irish Writing Best Short Story
2025/26 London Library Emerging Writer
https://m.independent.ie/entertainment/new-irish-writing/new-irish-writing-all-the-birch-trees-were-waving-by-padhraic-quinn/a1765826609.html
Farah Abdessamad @cosmofa.bsky.social olive pulp from 🇫🇷🇹🇳 reader, writer, critic. Ani is my writing disrupter 🐈⬛
Book on Folk Art ‘25. Also novel & series of essays in progress on postcolonial identities, expansive genealogies, and affective art.
www.farahabdessamad.com
Shelley Frisch @shelfrisch.bsky.social Translator from German, translation activist. Latest translation: NAPLES 1825, by Martin Mittelmeier (Yale UP). Current project: biography of Hannah Arendt, by Thomas Meyer (Penguin). Lives in Princeton, NJ.
Vincent Haddad @vincenthaddad.bsky.social Scholar of literature and popular culture.
Author of The Detroit Genre (Lever Press, 2024) and Next Time on Dragon Ball (U Minn Press, 2026)
sherri cola ✺ @sherricola.bsky.social vintage seller, art curator | @harpersbazaarus @nymag.com @wmagazine.com.web.brid.gy @interviewmag @marthaliving past Table of the Elements record label, Album 88, Criminal Records, Wuxtry Records, Deitch Projects. words: @burnaway.org nyc->athens ga
Europa Editions @europaeditions.bsky.social We are an independent publisher of literary fiction, high-end mystery and noir, and narrative non-fiction from around the world.
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sander pleij @sanderpleij.bsky.social co-founding editor
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@secondrun.bsky.social @secondrun.bsky.social 
Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @fivebooks.com Five Books is a book recommendation website where experts pick the five best books in their subject (as an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases) http://fivebooks.com
Josh Roiland @joshroiland.bsky.social Assistant Professor • Dept. of English • UNC Wilmington • Literary Journalism • 1898 • Writer • Minnesotan
Natalie Hanna @nataliehanna.bsky.social Medievalist at University of Liverpool
natalie @scaredofcustard.bsky.social English Lit PhD student @ UoLiverpool: contemporary trauma literature and theory, online reading communities and affects 💫 amateur internet archaeologist 🔎 writer: Refinery29, VICE, i Paper, Dazed
Alex Coupe @accoupe.bsky.social Lecturer in theatre and performance. Currently working on Ireland and the English literary imagination from post-war to Brexit. @ucu.org.uk rep. ‘Views own'. he/him
John Redmond @johnredmond.bsky.social Irish poet who lives in North Yorkshire. Teaches at University of Liverpool. Likes chess and rugby. https://www.johnredmond.co.uk/
Sam Solnick @samsolnick.bsky.social Lecturer in Literature @liverpooluni.bsky.social
Poetry | Environmental Humanities | Controlled Panic
New book TERROR FIRMA on horror + ecology for Fitzcarraldo
Hayley Campbell @hayleycampbell.bsky.social Writer: GQ, WIRED, Guardian, etc. Contributing editor, Empire. Must Watch on BBC 5 Live. Read my book, All the Living and the Dead. hayleycampbell.com
Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social Writing + teaching. The Writer's Room OUT NOW; new project on professionalism and amateurism. Co-editor of @c21literature.bsky.social
Rep @charlotteseymour.bsky.social. kdclewin.com
madeline lane-mckinley 🍉🍉🍉 @lalouverouge.bsky.social author of Solidarity with Children, Comedy Against Work, Fag/Hag
editor of The Return of the 90s
Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social Historian, writer. Professor of History, Swarthmore College. Most recent: MURDER IN A MILL TOWN (Oxford UP). Rep'd by Mullane Literary Associates.
Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social books, beauty, history, folklore. fan of Dickens & @littleseamstress. gets dressed up like a pillow so she's always in bed. patreon.com/sketchesbyboze, https://linktr.ee/sketchesbyboze
Matthew Fox @mattfoxwriter.bsky.social THE LOVELY DARK is nominated for the Kirkus Prize 2026 🇺🇸 | Kirkus ★ | Financial Times Best Children's Books '23 | Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist '24 | No AI |🌱
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Kiron Ward @kironward.bsky.social lecturer in modern & contemporary literature at @standrewsenglish.bsky.social
author of _Encyclopaedism and Totality in Contemporary Fiction_
co-editor of @c21literature.bsky.social w/ @kdclewin.bsky.social
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Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway; Editor @ Osmosis Press & Resurgence and Ecologist poetry feature; ask me about the RHUL Poetry MA pathway!
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Beckett at Reading @beckettreading.bsky.social News and Events from The Samuel Beckett Research Centre and the Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading, UK.- N 🇺🇸 @n976wow.bsky.social
Russell Williams @rwilliamsparis.bsky.social Associate Prof of Comparative Literature and English, The American University of Paris; French Editor, The Times Literary Supplement. Thinking about French Weird.
Mid Theory Collective @mid-theory.bsky.social the contemporary and its curiosities
https://mid-theory.com
sarah @moveablejaw.bsky.social Leo sun, Aquarius rising, Taurus moon, personal account #FreePalestine
Caleb Smith @c-also.bsky.social Critic. Thoreau’s Axe (2023), Haunted Convict (2016), The Oracle & the Curse (2013), The Prison & the American Imagination (2009). Writing about Foucault & the legacies of theory for WW Norton. Tending my garden.
https://campuspress.yale.edu/calebsmith/
Elise Bell @eliseybell.bsky.social Arts Writer and Commentator with words in Guardian, FT, Plaster Magazine, Independent and Dazed.
You can pre-order My Opinionated Guide to Erotic Art here: https://www.hoxtonminipress.com/products/an-opinionated-guide-to-erotic-art
anna @fritesflagey.bsky.social She/her. Yells about books. Frit Flagey over Barrière.
Madelyn Walsh @madelynwalsh.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Liverpool researching exaqua in contemporary creative responses to the Zong Massacre. Assistant Curator for the International Slavery Museum, Liverpool.
Jill Braithwaite @jillb.bsky.social Into art, film, literature, tennis, big bodies of fresh water, and dog walks.
Craig Robertson @craigrobertson.bsky.social thinking about the work needed to make paper work as paperwork; histories of the passport and filing cabinet https://bit.ly/2RMo1Qa; from Aotearoa; part-time Chris Knox biographer