jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online Director at Library Futures, a project of NYU Law Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy. MPA, MLIS. Words at Flaming Hydra and other places sometimes. she/her
Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com Known for Old Skies, Blackwell, Technobabylon, Primordia, Unavowed, Hob's Barrow, and more! Working on: Nighthawks, Gilt, [REDACTED], [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]. Discord: http://discord.com/invite/kj2mkWs
Emma Styles author @emmastyles.bsky.social NO COUNTRY FOR GIRLS
'A breathless outback chase'
Winner Wilbur Smith #AdventureWritingPrize ‘23
Shortlisted #CWADaggers #NedKellyAwards ‘23
#TheakstonsCrime New Blood ‘22
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The Common Room @thecommonroomgn.bsky.social The Common Room in Newcastle upon Tyne is a heritage venue, library and archive. It has a cafe bar called 5|Quarter.
Standard Reader @standard-reader.app Read and discover standard.site publications on the Atmosphere. Follow the writers you love and find new long-form voices across the network.
https://standard-reader.app
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
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nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
CLPE @theclpe.bsky.social The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) is a UK based charity that creates and delivers award-winning literacy training and resources for the teachers of early years and primary school children.
DHDexter @dhdexter.bsky.social Associate Professor of International Politics (interested in feminist peace), mum, knackered. Here to learn and avoid marking. She/her.
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine @3lobedmag.com Magazine of speculative fiction; stories of horror, wonder, and the weird since 1999. https://3lobedmag.com
Emily Rinkema @emilyrinkema.bsky.social Writer of short things. Reader of all things flash. Dog lover. Words in SLQ, XRAY, Flash Frog, Variant Lit, Fictive Dream, Pithead Chapel, Wigleaf. Winner of 2024 Lascaux Prize & Cambridge Prize. She/her https://www.emilyrinkema.com/
Peter M. Ball @petermball.bsky.social Genrepunk. Writing/Publishing Nerd. Writing neo-pulp stories at GenrePunk Books and publishing outstanding genre fiction at BrainJarPress. He/him.
Debbie Ridpath Ohi @debbieohi.com 🇨🇦 Author/illustrator. Illus books by Judy Blume, Michael Ian Black, others. Author news, more: https://debbieohi.com/links/ Atmosphere updates: https://debbieohi.com/standard-reader
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Standard.site @standard.site Open standards for long-form & site lexicons. We build reusable schemas so the ecosystem can grow together.
To start, view definitions → https://standard.site
Docs → https://standard.site/docs
danielleyuhan @danielle.bsky.team Product designer @bsky.app
Full-time cat servant to 3 Persians
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Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Barlow Adams @barlowadams.bsky.social Writer. Pie enthusiast. Historically preserved beard site. Cheese poet. Best of the Net, Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, Cinnamon Challenge: honorable mention. 
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Bluesky Status @status.bsky.app https://status.bsky.app/
@epoquepress.bsky.social @epoquepress.bsky.social époque press is an independent publisher of contemporary literary fiction - books you will love to read.
Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social Interested in libraries, charities and the social sector and how together they can fix everything.
Once & future ultra runner. Macclesfield. Gay adopter. 🏳️🌈
Commercial Director, Libraries Connected
www.librariesconnected.org.uk
He/him
Lesley Pitman @lesleypitman.bsky.social Librarian at large. Chair of CILIP ILIG. Used to be a Slavonic librarian. Posts a random mix of libraries, Russia, food (gluten free) and the joys of life in Tooting.
https://hcommons.org/members/lesleypitman/
National Acquisitions Group (NAG) @uklibrariesnag.bsky.social An organisation for everyone interested in the acquisition, management and development of library resources.
https:/nag.org.uk
Journal of Information Literacy @jinfolit.bsky.social The Journal of Information Literacy is the international, peer-reviewed, diamond open access journal of CILIP’s Information Literacy Group. Our comms do not represent CILIP policy. https://journals.cilip.org.uk/jil/index #InfoLit #OpenAccess 💎🔓
FairLibraryJobs @fairlibraryjobs.bsky.social Fair Library Jobs is a group of library workers aiming to improve recruitment & employment practices in libraries in the UK https://linktr.ee/fairlibraryjobs
CILIP RPG (for those outside full time work) @cilip-rpg.bsky.social Our members include library, information and knowledge professionals on career breaks, part-timers, retired and semi-retired, portfolio-career people, consultants, the unemployed, volunteers and those on parental leave https://tinyurl.com/CILIPRPG
CILIP North West @cilipnw.bsky.social Regional network for CILIP members in the North West of England
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
CILIP International Library & Information Group @cilip-ilig.bsky.social ILIG is the International Library and Information Group of CILIP: the library and information association.
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
rafael @rafael.my software developer @bsky
Sally Beaumont |BAFTA Breakthrough|Voice Actor & Writer @sallybeaumont.bsky.social BAFTA Breakthrough
British VA (remote studio) & Game Writer
Voice: Old Skies| Hob’s Barrow| Harold Halibut| Dread Delusion| Loco Motive| Heartspell| Rogue Trader| Earth Must Die| Blake Manor| El Paso 2
She/Her 😷
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SallyBeaumont.com
The Welkin Press @welkinpress.bsky.social A "micro" press for "micro" stories. Run by @mattkendrick.bsky.social
Website: https://www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-press
Cult Manchester @cultmanchester.bsky.social Cult things happen in Manchester.
https://www.cultmanchester.co.uk
Ian Rankin @ianrankin1.bsky.social Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social Classics and discoveries from around the world, thematically programmed with special features, on a streaming service brought to you by Criterion.
Fan account ready to be claimed by Criterion.
Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social MINNEAPOLIS. ALSO: SAINT PAUL. This is the ideal BlueSky bio. You should copy it. ALT: Circle is hot dog man putting ketchup on himself. Banner is me as Jimmy Carter. /j /hj /s
Patrice Lawrence @lawrencepatrice.bsky.social Writer, Feminist, Furious.
Rhianna Levi-Burton @rhiannalevi98.bsky.social Former Worcestershire Poet Laureate. Cover teacher. Youth worker. Social media manager. Published writer. Mental health advocate.
Coffee, cats, tattoos, movie fanatic. Tolkien enthusiast. 🖤
Worcester, UK
notanotheranthology.bsky.social @notanotheranth.bsky.social We publish anthologies to raise money for charity!
Check out our first one: Not/Coming Out
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Bronwyn @mythalive.bsky.social Autistic special education teacher.
Reader, traveler, gamer.
Amateur photographer and comedian.
Anna ZenKen Stephens @annasmithwrites.bsky.social THE SPORT OF WINGS, Oct'26.
AN HONESTY OF THIEVES, Apr'27. Godblind, Songs of the Drowned.
Dungeon Master
Magic & Mayhem Author Academy www.anna-stephens.com
Rep @harryillingworth.bsky.social
Zen, Shotokan, antifa, no AI in art, #WorkingClass
She/They
Sarah Feldman @sarah-feldman.bsky.social Poet & philosophy prof living in New Brunswick
Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social Creator of @scarfolk.bsky.social. "This guy, who apparently saw the future" - Edward Snowden. Running an ASD/ADHD operating system.
https://www.richardlittler.com
Scrounge @scrounge.bsky.social My special arm... there is no other like it!
He/him
📚Hazel Meredith-Lloyd 📚 @novelcharacters.bsky.social 💕Be kind, be inclusive, make a better world🌈
📚Novels on Amazon, Poems in your ears. https://amzn.eu/d/bqAIA4d
📘On longlists & shortlists & hopefully on shopping lists!
Sunburnt Saints Publishing @sunburntsaints.bsky.social Big things from small books - single short story chapbooks, available on subscription.
“Get em on your radar” — Stu Hennigan
National Flash Fiction Day @natflashfictionday.bsky.social Celebrating flash fiction worldwide. Co-directed by Ingrid Jendrzejewski @lunchontuesday.bsky.social and Diane Simmons @scooterwriter.bsky.social
The next NFFD will be Saturday 12 June 2027.
https://www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk
Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social Author of horror and weird fiction. Martial Artist. Whisky drinker. Dog lover.
He/him.
Trans rights are human rights.
Fuck AI.
https://alanbaxter.com.au/contact/
Lemuel Lyes @lemuellyes.bsky.social Documentary filmmaker. Archive Producer. History geek and ephemera collector, researcher and storyteller. Kiwi living in Cornwall. May contain vintage stuff.
Jess Bradley @jessbradley.bsky.social Illustrator, comic artist and writer!
Rep'd by Lydia Silver at The Soho Agency.
Sand and Gravel Chapbooks @sandandgravelpress.bsky.social Slowly dipping our toes in the water. https://www.sandandgravelpress.com . More often sighted at
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Offprint @offprint.app Publishing infrastructure for the open web. Easily build your audience, monetize your work (soon™), and take it all with you if you ever move.
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pckt.blog @pckt.blog 🌱🌈🌤️
The internet's cutest blogging site (probably). A home for your half-baked thoughts and bright ideas 🎨😌🖍️🎳
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read.pckt.blog - Read 📖
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Jenny Mitchell @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social Winner of the Gregory O'Donohue Prize, the Poetry Book Awards etc. 3 poetry collections - 'Map of a Plantation' on the syllabus at Manchester Metropolitan Uni. Widely published. Poetry co-editor for the Morning Star.
Rachel Handley 🏳️🌈 @rachelahandley.com Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Liverpool.
SFF Author. Poet. 🦉
Possible Worlds and Other Stories (2022)
They/Them.
rachelahandley.com
BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk We are the UK’s largest children’s reading charity. We get millions of children & families reading together from the earliest possible age.
Find out more: booktrust.org.uk
Paul at SuperDeluxeEdition.com @super-deluxe.bsky.social Runs SuperDeluxeEdition.com a website that celebrates physical music, reissues & immersive audio. Also, theSDEshop.com.
Post-Heist @postheistgame.bsky.social Steal, sabotage, and synergize your way to the biggest share of the loot in this drafting card game for 2-6 players!
Kickstarter is LIVE NOW:
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Andrea Sengebusch @andreasengebusch.bsky.social she/they | nerdy scientist | introvert | not rude but maybe a bit too German
Coherent Comedy @coherentcomedy.com A free, mixed bill comedy night on Zoom every month. Hosted by Hare (@harelockwood.com) & Chris (@chrisjack.bsky.social).
coherentcomedy.com 🍓 > get tickets, sign up to perform
Neill Cameron @neillcameron.bsky.social ✏️ Comics writer and artist
🍩 Creator of AWARD-WINNING and/or BEST-SELLING comics such as MEGA ROBO BROS and DONUT SQUAD!
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🍩 www.neillcameron.com
Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social Funniest Joke Edinburgh Fringe 2019-2022. Comedian, kids book author, illustrator, Art person. All my stuff is here: https://linktr.ee/Ofalafel
Amanda @akscotland.bsky.social Co-host of the Not Quite Write Podcast and judge of the Not Quite Write Prize for Flash Fiction.
Writes in the tiny spaces in between.
Liv Abegglen @livabegglen.bsky.social Writer | Madison WI | AI can tear the em dash from my cold dead hands
https://livabegglen.carrd.co/
Naomi Novik @naominovik.bsky.social author, coder, fangirl, geek. 🌕🌖🌗🌑 Author of Spinning Silver, Uprooted, Temeraire, & The Scholomance. Latest Release: THE SUMMER WAR
https://lnk.bio/naominovik
noun @nounsense.bsky.social part of speech
MLIS
he/him
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
Little Alex Horne @alexhorne.bsky.social from Taskmaster, The Horne Section and Chesham United, mainly.
Jen Hillyard @mininglibrarian.bsky.social Library & Archives Manager at The Common Room in Newcastle and Business Development Manager for NAG. Ex Carnegie-Greenaway judge. Mobility issues thanks to MCTD - I’m the one with the purple crutches...
Disabled 🏳️🌈 parent.
The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social The VILLAGE 🏘 is a place where the world 🌍 feels a tiny bit smaller. Founded by SMOKELONG for the Global Flash Community
Follow 150+ flash publishers.
Read editor interviews.
Enjoy discounts on collections.
Get regional news.
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Marlaina @lionsroar.bsky.social 32; they/them; queer & fat & full of love
CILIP Information Literacy Group @infolitgroup.bsky.social The Information Literacy Group provides a cross-sector forum for debate & knowledge exchange in all aspects of information and digital literacy. Come and join the discussion!
💻: https://infolit.org.uk
▶️ Our comms do not represent CILIP policy
The Buzz @thebuzzsocial.bsky.social First class news, gossip and entertainment from the @murderbastard.bsky.social universe.
(A fictional gossip platform from the podcast's world.)
Miro Board with all posts
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social Award-winning poltergeist and comedian | Writer of the Montgomery Bonbon mysteries | Pronouns like a butler coughing: he/him | linktr.ee/misterabk
UK TOUR 2026 (Extended!): www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
Cole @cole-amity.bsky.social she/they
bit of a nuisance, really. Australian.
“Clearly grasping onto select media in lieu of developing a personality,” followers rave.
general fandom account wankery ahoy
|| Taskmaster 💌 || NMJ 🐧 || The Horne Section 🎷🎺|| MOAFB 🐦⬛ ||
Ortac Press @ortacpress.bsky.social Independent publisher of non-fiction and novels
#MDANT
ortacpress.com/shop
Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social My new special Night Thoughts is out NOW on Hulu.
linktr.ee/kumailnanjiani
Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social Writer, comedian, podcaster, stone-clearer, snookerist, ventriloquist
Alan Davies @alandaviescomic.bsky.social Book here https://linktr.ee/alandaviesbook?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=a7a5ef2c-1017-4662-b4ed-1858460b7546
Stand up tours of the UK, Ireland here alandavies.live and New Zealand here
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Sean Watkin @seanwatkinauthor.bsky.social Author of “Black Water Rising” available now. McDermid Debut Award 2025 finalist.
Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social Lawyer, Filmmaker, Big Issue top 100 Changemaker 2024, CEO CAMPAIGN FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE https://www.cfsj.co.uk/
Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social 🌈 Feminist Senior Lecturer in data politics and social justice at City st. George's, Uni of London, UK. She/her.
https://elinorcarmi.com/
Working on data&AI governance/data&AI literacies/data justice/digital rights/ad tech industry/surveillance.
Branford Boase Award @branfordboaseaward.bsky.social Set up in memory of award-winning author Henrietta Branford and her editor Wendy Boase, one of the founders of Walker Books, the Branford Boase Award is given annually to the author and editor of the year’s outstanding debut novel for children.
Arts Council England @artscouncilengland.bsky.social Your national development agency for creativity and culture
• Awarding @dcmsgovuk & @tnluk funds
• Got a question? ☎️ artscouncil.org.uk/contact
Jane Friedman @janefriedman.com I report on the publishing industry through my paid newsletter, The Bottom Line, and educate writers on the business of authorship in THE BUSINESS OF BEING A WRITER (University of Chicago Press).
Clare Mackintosh - Author @claremackwrites.bsky.social Writer. Mother. Ex cop. ✏️ 2 million+ books sold 🎲 #AGameOfLies out now https://claremackintosh.com/me/
Pebble @repebble.com www.repebble.com
Suzanne Hicks @suzannehicks.bsky.social Writer living with multiple sclerosis. Often very tired. Best Microfiction ‘24 Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist ‘24.
Read my work: www.suzannehickswrites.com
Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social Award winning science fiction author. Cat furniture. Horse patsy. Almost certainly two ornimegalonyxes in a trenchcoat.
🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈
https://buttondown.email/matociquala
THE FOLDED SKY https://books2read.com/u/mBB0QZ
ANGEL MAKER https://books2read.com/u/3kzy2W
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
https://stuhennigan.substack.com/
Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social Scottish comic/writer/actor with confusing accent, absolutely not insecure about it. She/her. My book out now! Show for '26: The Mermaid https://linktr.ee/eleanormorton
Eleanor & Alasdair Read That on Spotify
support me: https://ko-fi.com/eleanormorton
Bob Cox @openingdoors.bsky.social Educator, presenter and author of the award winning ‘Opening Doors’ series of books.
Fellow of The English Association.
Contact me for support for routes to ambitious English for all.
www.searchingforexcellence.co.uk
Murder Of A Famous... @murderbastard.bsky.social A weekly murder mystery podcast, written and narrated by Mark Watson and featuring many guest stars. SECOND SERIES COMING SORT OF FAIRLY SOON.
Join the investigation: https://discord.gg/2eD3ZJ5UGN
Cassandra @wecassandra.bsky.social Open water swimmer, feminist, dog-lover, snooker fan, lackadaisical ecogardener, transfriendly, frequent napper. Embroidery novice. Originally from California, now in UK.
Laura Woods @woodsiegirl.bsky.social Book lover, tea drinker, trainee Yorkshire lass. She/her. Librarian and PhD student. Interested in gardening, feminism (intersectional or gtfo, trans women are women), scifi, books and cats.
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk Leader of @LibDems.org.uk, husband, father, carer, and MP for Kingston & Surbiton.
Promoted by Liberal Democrats, 66 Buckingham Gate, SW1E 6AU.