Independent Publishers Guild @independentpublishersguild.com The IPG is the UK's largest association of independent publishers, supporting 600+ members with events, resources, training and much more.
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Law of Fairness @lawoffairness.bsky.social Could life be literally fair for everyone? Learn more about the global research project evaluating if conscious experience obeys a law-like closure condition. Watch the videos on TikTok: https://linktr.ee/LawOfFairness
Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social We offer high-quality lectures and courses on English literature and Classics, online and in person. We study Homer, Shakespeare, George Eliot, Tennyson, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Zora Neale Hurston, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, and many others.
Clove @clove59.bsky.social Leadership dynamics
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Gresham College @greshamcollege.bsky.social Free public lectures across the Arts & Sciences | Since 1597
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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social Chief football writer at the Independent. Author of 'States of Play'
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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social Keep Your Head Up ☀️
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Sarah Fitzpatrick @sfitz787.bsky.social Staff Writer at The Atlantic covering DOJ and National Security
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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social Image / Word / Orientation / Action
The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.
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Alan Eyre @alaneyre.bsky.social Former US foreign policy senior official (Iran/MENA /energy); now focused on foreign policy in the Anthropocene.
The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk We're the Crick, a biomedical research lab in London working to figure out how life works.
Home to more than 2,000 scientists and a free public exhibition space.
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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social I’m not terrific but I’m competent
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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social Cultural talk and typing. And singing.
Biographer of Stephen Sondheim.
Variety, London theatre critic.
The Stage, Associate writer.
Tristram Hawkshaw in The Archers.
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Sean Carlson @sean-carlson.bsky.social work: independent projects
writing: family memoir of migration
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
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Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social Complete fiction
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Novara Media @novaramedia.com 📺 📰🎙🚩 People-powered media. https://linktr.ee/novaramedia
Aaron Bastani @aaronjbastani.bsky.social Co-Founder @novaramedia / Author of Fully Automated Luxury Communism. Next book on politics and economics of an ageing planet.
Doire Press @doirepress.bsky.social Award-winning publisher based in the west of Ireland.
Free worldwide shipping on all orders over €60.
Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Nick Bryant. @nickbryantoz.bsky.social History Never Ended Substack. Author The Forever War: America’s Unending Conflict with Itself. Host ABC Saturday Extra. Former BBC US correspondent
Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social Poet &c | rishidastidar.com | linktr.ee/betarish
Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social The Discerning Mollusk's Guide to Arts and Ideas. From @saggingmeniscus. Quarterly, in print and online, since 2021.
Writing Community @writingcommunity.bsky.social #WritingCommunity reposts book publication news, great reviews, literary nominations & awards, and new work in journals, magazines & anthologies.
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HNS 2026 @hns2026.bsky.social The Historical Novel Society 2026 conference will take place at Maynooth Campus, Co Kildare, Ireland, with a theme 'Print the Legend', exploring how we discover, claim, refine, and publish legends in historical fiction. Website: https://hns2026.com
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Weatherglass Books @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social We publish critically acclaimed literary fiction. We are currently seeking novellas for our 3rd Novella Prize, judged by Ali Smith. https://weatherglassbooks.com/novella-prize-2027
National Theatre @nationaltheatre.org.uk 🎭 On Stage on the South Bank
💻 Online with National Theatre at Home
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social Writer. Latest: Paris Fantastique from @confingopublishing.bsky.social and Finders, Keepers from @saltpublishing.com
Also runs @nightjarpress.bsky.social nightjarpress.weebly.com
Guillemot Press @guillemotpress.bsky.social Small press publisher of beautiful books.
Ice Floe Press (OPEN for Subs June - July 2026) @icefloepress.bsky.social indie poetry publisher based in Canada with an international focus. we publish books and we have an online website with series and blogs w/poets, fiction writers, visual artist, experimental projects www.icefloepress.net EIC/publisher Robert Frede Kenter
Dartmoor Collective @dartmoorcollective.org Community Interest group supporting and promoting the visual arts on Dartmoor.
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Dave C @duckpondsreview.bsky.social Retired and reading quite a lot in a quiet corner of Australia.
Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social I write the Guardian’s Politics Live blog 
European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social Travelling salon and writing community - connecting writers across Europe and beyond. Posts by @royakhatiblou.bsky.social and @deborahzafer.bsky.social
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The Milk House @themilkhouse.bsky.social Literary journal of rural writing and experience, edited by @penofryandennis.bsky.social
The Book Corner @bookcornerhx.bsky.social Independent bookshop in Halifax's The Piece Hall.
bookcornerhalifax.com
01422 414443
Link to our events: https://bookcornerhalifax.com/events/
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)
#MDANT
https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/stu-hennigan
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London Writers Centre @ldnwriterscentre.bsky.social Opening doors to great storytelling. Founded in 1995 as Spread the Word, now London Writers Centre.
Museum of the Home @museumofthehome.bsky.social Revealing and rethinking the ways we live in order to live better together.
Open Tuesday to Sunday and Bank Holidays, 10am–5pm. Closed on Mondays.
136 Kingsland Road, London E2 8EA
Charlotte Nichols MP @charlotte2153.bsky.social Labour MP for Warrington North 🌹
Jewish, book worm, happiest outdoors
Email: charlotte.nichols.mp@parliament.uk
Humber Street Gallery @humberstgallery.bsky.social Contemporary art space, Hull
Mon/Tue: Closed
Wed: 10:30 - 5
Thurs: 12 - 7
Fri-Sun: 10:30 - 5
Creative engine for contemporary visual arts in Hull
Eloise Kane @eloi.se Archaeology, writing, research, cheese. PhD in hares.
📖 Wilderlands: The Human History of Wild Britain (April 2026)
Ferrier of children. Normally lost.
University of Liverpool @liverpooluni.bsky.social One of the UK’s leading research institutions and a centre of world-class teaching and learning. Posting weekdays 9am – 5pm.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social Co-Founder Momentum Training Institute, IfNotNow, More Perfect Union. Formerly Warren, Justice Democrats, etc. Tottenham until they kill me.
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
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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.
Donie O’Sullivan @donie.bsky.social CNN Senior Correspondent
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Blackwater Press @blackwaterpress.com International small press based in West Virginia, publishing beautifully crafted stories in fiction, history, and memoir for readers everywhere.
Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social Incoming Washington bureau chief at The Economist. Previously defence editor for eight years.
Visiting Fellow at Department of War Studies, KCL. For speaking engagements: https://chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/shashank-joshi
Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in https://verdur.in - cultural project and event space, concept store, and soon publisher in London.
https://petitpoi.net - art criticism and writing by Pierre d'Alancaisez.
Daunt Books @dauntbooks.bsky.social 
The Londoner @the-londoner.bsky.social London's new quality newspaper. Join our free mailing list - all our journalism comes via ✉️
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James Crawford @jdcrawf.bsky.social THE VANISHING EARTH @bloomsbury @scribeuk PRE-ORDER NOW https://geni.us/vanishingearth | WILD HISTORY @BirlinnBooks | Presenter @BBCRadio4 TAKE FOUR BOOKS | Editor @PolygonBooks | CHAIR of the Board @edbookfest jamescrawford.space
Dymphna Flynn @dymphnaflynn.bsky.social Development producer Pier Productions. Ex BBC Radio 4 producer. Former Costa Prize judge. Love to read in Brighton, London and the South of France
Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social Research centre specialising in the history of the book, manuscript and print studies, textual scholarship, digital editing and new critical approaches to literary history at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Institut français du Royaume-Uni @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social Promoting French language & culture, the French Institute in London comprises a Language Centre, Ciné Lumière I & II, a multi-media library and a cafe-restaurant.
Darren Maughan @darrenm1973.bsky.social "life started to be obscured by miasmic clouds of cowardice and treachery."
Sibyl Pietzsch, movie script writer in Berlin 1931.
A Teessider in Vauxhall, London (UK).
I like science fiction, 20th century architecture, football (Middlesbrough) and politics.
Survival International @survivalinternational.org We are the global movement for Indigenous peoples' rights.
#DecolonizeConservation #UncontactedTribes
The Irish Cultural Centre @irishculturalcentr.bsky.social The home of Irish Arts & Culture in London since 1995 - featuring Ireland’s best live music, film, literature, theatre & art events.
Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social Chief political commentator and executive
editor, Financial Times
https://www.ft.com/robert-shrimsley
https://www.chartwellspeakers.com/speaker/robert-shrimsley/
Isabel Berwick @isabelberwick.ft.com I head up the FT's Working It brand - we do audio, newsletters, video and events. All the non-trad things. All things workplace, management and leadership, for a broad audience. Author, The Future-Proof Career. Often found @LinkedIn - DM me here or there
Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org The Resolution Foundation is an independent think-tank dedicated to lifting living standards in the UK.
Fictionable @fictionable.bsky.social The online literary magazine with short stories and comics from all around the world.
Find us at https://fictionable.world
Dingle Literary Festival @dinglelit.bsky.social Arguably the best book festival in the west!
#DingleLit will take place again on November 21st, 22nd & 23rd 2025
Sagging Meniscus @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social Independent publisher of nonconformist literature.
Chatham House @chathamhouse.org The Royal Institute of International Affairs - Chatham House. Independent thinking since 1920.
Website🔗: chathamhouse.org
Podcast🎙️: https://apple.co/45Bbbny
Magazine: @theworldtoday.org
Journal: @iajournal.bsky.social
Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social Institute of Irish Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. An interdisciplinary research institute for all aspects of Irish culture, history, politics and society. See 'Lists' for more info. Find us at https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/
Frank Wynne @terribleman.com Irish literary translator, editor, writer, 2022 International Booker Chair. he/him/oi, you! 🌈
Fallow Media @fallowmedia.bsky.social Adventurous Publisher, since 2015. Dublin, Ireland.
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Bodleian Humanities Library @bodhumslib.bsky.social The Bodleian Humanities Library, part of the Bodleian Libraries, covering English, Music, Philosophy, Theology, Film Studies, History of Medicine, and Internet Studies
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
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Wigmore Hall @wigmore-hall.org.uk "The leading international home of chamber music" (The Times) 💫
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Kathryn Cowles @kathryncowles.bsky.social Poet/Artist, The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor (Fence Modern Poets Prize), Maps and Transcripts (Milkweed)
Editor “Beyond Category”@SenecaReview
HWS Prof
Trias Writers Residency Director
www.kathryncowles.com
Corey Atad @coreyatad.com Toronto-based freelance writer @ The Star, GQ, Defector, The Baffler, Gawker, Esquire, Hazlitt. Air Bud admirer. Favourite cheese: Gouda. coreyatad@gmail.com / www.coreyatad.com
James Barr @jamesbarr.bsky.social I write history. Last book: LORDS OF THE DESERT; before that: A LINE IN THE SAND. In the seventh year of my four year project, THE ARENA.
More at/contact me via https://www.historythatmatters.org
Currently reading Geoff Dyer / Homework
Bethlem Museum of the Mind @bethlemmuseum.bsky.social A museum dedicated to the history of mental healthcare. Free admission.
Current exhibition - Kindred 16 January - 27 June 2026
Tom Gatti @tomgatti.bsky.social Literary Editor, the Observer | Formerly New Statesman | Editor, Long Players (Bloomsbury)
Air Mail @airmail.news A digital weekly arriving every Saturday morning. News and culture at a civilized pace. Start reading now via the link below
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Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social It may look to the untrained eye, I'm sitting on my arse all day.
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Henry Zeffman @hzeffman.bsky.social BBC Chief Political Correspondent
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