Michael Preis @michelinbam.bsky.social Musikredakteur
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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026) geni.us/TMtMT. Two-time Best of the Net nominee. | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social The magazine for people who love books | We also publish limited-edition memoirs & biographies and produce a well-loved literary podcast.
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Mark M. Turner @markturner25.bsky.social Retired soldier, historical researcher, and college educator. All views and opinions here are my own. Democracy is never finished.
Chris Emery @chrisemery.me Poet. Five collections from Arc and Salt, most recently Wonder (2025). Manchester-born, Irish citizen, living in Cromer. I publish other people’s books at Salt. Newsletter: chrisemery.me
Tony Riches @tonyriches.bsky.social Historical Fiction Author from Pembrokeshire, Wales 🏴 www.tonyriches.com Visit my #Writing #Blog The Writing Desk https://tonyriches.blogspot.com/ #Podcast https://tonyriches.podbean.com/ #Tudors #Elizabethan #HistoricalFiction
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Rosemary Griggs @ragriggsauthor.bsky.social Author and speaker who spends a lot of time in the sixteenth century. I make and wear historical clothing. Love old buildings , churches, needlework and Devon. Ever hopeful gardener #history #tudor #HistoricalFiction #devon #Books #needlework 🪡✍️🌱📚
Patrick Allies @patrickallies.bsky.social Musician. DPhil candidate at @ox.ac.uk. Visiting Artist and Researcher at KCL.
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Judith Harbinson @judithesther.bsky.social 
Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social Writer, FRSL. Prof, RHUL. Literature and science fiction.
https://profadamroberts.substack.com/
"Frankenstein Rex" coming in October:
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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social Heritage & conservation professional & enthusiast, usually found exploring old places 😃
Curator of Properties for English Heritage, & freelance heritage consultant.
Studying p/t for PhD in lime finishes.
Nicole Hayes @nicolehayes.bsky.social PhD. YA author (Penguin Random) jnr fiction (Hardie Grant) non-fiction (Black Inc / The Guardian). Podcaster with The Outer Sanctum / The Writers' Retreat. Living on Wurundjeri land with 2 humans & 1 dog. She/her. https://linktr.ee/nicolehayes
Terry Trueman @ttrueman.bsky.social Award-winning author, father & grandfather, Wikipedia, or Google. Trueman & Triola Newsletter, Just Weighing. Spokane WA. 78, loves his wife & life; not looking for love, etc. will Re to DMs. I'm FAR left & impractical. No bio/No posts, why would I fol?- P @philippalmer.bsky.social @philippalmer.bsky.social
Penelope Price @penelopegprice.bsky.social Writer and editor, based in Bristol.
Ewen Glass @ewenglass.bsky.social screenwriter | lecturer | poemer
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Writing about books and 19th-20thc women's history in 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com
Essays & reviews also in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today etc
Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social Publisher
Books Made in Berlin since 2023
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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social Humanities, history of art, architecture & landscape; museums, libraries & collections
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Kamand Kojouri @kamandkojouri.bsky.social Professor. PhD. Emirates Lit Fellow.
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Claire Reynolds @clairereynolds.bsky.social DFA Researcher in Creative Writing UofG
Co-host of the podcast Let Them Eat Books!
Highly commended Scottish Podcast Awards 2026
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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social Professor of English & Scottish Literature, Head of School, Critical Studies, University of Glasgow.
Research working-class literature & Romantic-period cultures.
Editor, John Clare Society Journal.
Louise Welsh @louisewelsh00.bsky.social Writer, The Cutting Room, Plague Times Trilogy, To the Dogs & more. Prof Creative Writing, Glasgow University. Hon Prez Scottish PEN. Podcast Who Owns the Clyde. Librettist Anthropocene. Theatre, movies, cats, life 🏳️🌈
Papatango Theatre Company @papatangotc.bsky.social Olivier Award-winning makers of new writing. We find, develop and launch new playwrights. All you need is a story.
https://papatango.co.uk/
New Writing Prize 2026: https://prize.papatango.co.uk/
Playwrights' Studio: https://papatango.co.uk/studio/
Ciaran De Buitlear | Gardeningwell @gardeningwell.ie Author of Nature’s Acre. Founder, Gardeningwell.ie — wildlife gardening in Ireland (Stamullen, Co Meath).
Walled garden + school/community projects.
Peat-free, pesticide-free. Native plants, pollinators. Media: gardeningwell.ie/press/media
Philippa Perry @pperry.bsky.social Author, Agony Aunt, Artist, Psychotherapist philippaperry.substack.com
Erica Wagner @ericawgnr.bsky.social Writer, reader, cook, friend, lover. Contributing Editor, Observer. Contributing Writer for the New Statesman, Consulting Lit Ed for Harper's Bazaar. Podcaster, various. www.ericawagner.co.uk
Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social Writer in residence, at my house. To look upon my works, ye mighty, visit my website:
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Bad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social A digital poetry journal, edited by @kathryngray.bsky.social and @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social Enjoy our blooms! badlilies.uk
Jenny McAuley @jennymcauley.bsky.social Writer, literary historian, book reviewer based in Oxford, UK
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Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton) @lisacolton.bsky.social Musicologist, parent, fair-weather gardener
Head of Music Department at University of Liverpool
Simon Funnell @sfunnell.bsky.social Dad, husband, freelance radio producer, choir tenor, Twitter refugee. Proud member of the metropolitan liberal elite (except I don’t willingly eat tofu).
History Scientist @historyscientist.bsky.social Professional scientist. I like reading books about history. Editor of the Bluesky edition of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
http://historybooksreview.co.uk/
https://beautyscientist.github.io/GSDIANOZAS/
George Harris @historylecturer.bsky.social Retired history teacher. Enjoys Lake District, painting, grandchildren, nature, history - lots really. Oh, and wildlife gardening. Still interested in education.
Maarten Ornstein @maartenornstein.bsky.social A life in music. Clarinetist and composer. Has a camera. Amsterdam. maartenornstein.com
Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social Aluminium Cladding. Attentive. Courteous. Reliable. Also will take on writing/broadcasting
Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social I’m not terrific but I’m competent
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Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social Writer, historian. FRHistS. Recent work: History Today, The Spectator, Slightly Foxed, New Humanist, Engelsberg Ideas.
Parthian Books @parthianbooks.bsky.social Welsh Independent Press, established in 1993. Based in Aberteifi/Cardigan
A Carnival of Voices in independent publishing. Our titles reflect a diverse and contemporary Wales that cast a keen eye on the wider world.
@joycecaroloates.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social 
toutoungic.bsky.social @toutoungic.bsky.social Writer, not fish - poems/plays - Emotional Support Horse/Two Tongues/Smoothie (Carcanet) The Voice in my Ear, Sense and Sensibility, Brat Farrar on BBCSounds
Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social An Eddie some way behind the magnificent Mair, Vedder, Izzard, Marsan, The Eagle, and Munson. #Boro #UTB
The Voice of the Listener and Viewer (VLV) @vlvuk.bsky.social Charity making sure ALL citizens benefit from quality TV & radio content/Impartial news/Programmes set in the UK/Kids TV that reflects our society/ Join us
Summersdale @summersdalebooks.bsky.social Books to inform, entertain and inspire 📚
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Michael Quinn @quinnfreelance.bsky.social Theatre director, writer and editor.
Booklet Editor: National Symphony Orchestra, Ireland;
Associate Writer/Obituaries Editor: @thestage.co.uk
Programme consultant: @porticoards.bsky.social.
Lolita Chakrabarti @lolitachakrabarti.bsky.social Actress & Writer.
https://www.lolitachakrabarti.com
Actor - most recently in Summer 1954. Writer of plays - Life of Pi, Hamnet, Red Velvet, Hymn, Invisible Cities.
Jenny Edwards CBE @jennyedwards.bsky.social Personal capacity. Chair People's Health Trust, Trustee Affinity Trust. Fellow Fac Public Health. Mental Health, Arts, Learning Disability, Health Inequalities, Mindfulness, Peace, Nature Connection, Swans. Studied Archaeology & Anthropology. Typos galore
Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social Museums, galleries, medieval and Irish literature, folklore, poetry, botany, Cumbrian walks, Oxfam bookstores. Remainer trying to do the right thing in a world that's going/gone off balance. All 📸 mine, unless stated
Leslie Hills @skylinefilm.bsky.social Film producer. Book 10 Scotland Street - an opinionated history of one house over two centuries now out in paperback
N u z h a t B u k h a r i @nuzhatbukhari7.bsky.social Brilliant Corners (CB Editions)
Views & Reviews: https://cbeditions.com/bukhari.html
Contributing Editor at Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal
Mary-Ann Ochota (she/her) @maryannochota.bsky.social Broadcaster, author, campaigner and advisor to organisations working in the outdoors, environment and social justice.
TV and radio documentaries
Author: Secret Britain & Hidden Histories books
President: CPRE the Countryside Charity
Nanna B Karlsson @icymatters.bsky.social Research Professor at The Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland / Affialited Professor at DTU Space. Researching ice sheets and climate change. Opinions are my own.
Orla Joelsen @orlajoelsen.bsky.social I’m born and raised in Greenland. I love to promote Greenland in pictures.
Michiel van den Broeke @mrvandenbroeke.bsky.social Professor of Polar Meteorology at Utrecht University. Mass balance of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Views are my own.
Alison Banwell @alibanwell.bsky.social Glaciologist | Antarctica and Greenland | Research Scientist, CIRES, University of Colorado Boulder 🇺🇸 | Professor, CPOM, Northumbria University 🇬🇧 | Protect Our Winters Science Alliance | National Geographic Explorer
William Colgan @glacierbytes.bsky.social Science hustler into ice-sheet and sea-level research. Canadian living in Denmark and working in Greenland. 'The Color of Ice' documentary is now streaming open-access on WaterBear Network!
www.williamcolgan.net
Ruth Mottram @ruthmottram.eurosky.social Climate scientist at DMI, Greenland, Antarctica, polar regions in general.
Now migrated to eurosky.social on here.
Mostly on mastodon though @ruth_mottram@fediscience.org
Blogging at sternaparadisaea.net
UK Arctic Station @ukarcticstation.bsky.social Open to all UK-based researchers, their international partners & beyond. Funded by UKRI-NERC and operated by the British Antarctic Survey. Here to support you. Located in Ny-Alesund, Svalbard.
NERC Arctic Office @ukarcticoffice.bsky.social The Natural Environment Research Council's Arctic Office. We support the UK Arctic research community through engagement; advocacy and delivery.
Maryam Moshiri @bbcmaryam.bsky.social BBC News Chief Presenter.
The World Today with Maryam Moshiri
Doug Naylor @dougrdnaylor.bsky.social Red Dwarf co-creator and writer/co-writer of all 74 Red Dwarf eps.
Author of Sin Bin Island. Represented by @pbjmanagement
https://linktr.ee/DougNaylorRD
OpenARC Research Centre @openarc.bsky.social OpenARC, The Open University Arts & Humanities Research Centre, is the hub for research in the School of Arts and Humanities at The Open University. It hosts a broad range of research groups, and facilitates disciplinary and interdisciplinary research.
Jennifer Wong @jennywcreative.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor / author of Light Year (Nine Arches Press), Letters Home (Nine Arches Press), Time Difference (Verve) & Writing Identity, Home & Elsewhere (Bloomsbury)
linktr.ee/jennywcreative
Tim Fellows @timfellows.bsky.social Writer, editor, runner, sports fan, dad and granddad. Editor of The Fig Tree poetry webzine.
Tamar Yoseloff @tamaryoseloff.bsky.social Poet, lecturer, festival curator.
Suffolk / London
Andrea Reece @reeceandrea.bsky.social Mostly reading. Managing Editor Books for Keeps, administrator Klaus Flugge Prize and Branford Boase Award plus other book-y stuff.
Micheline Steinberg Associates @steinbergassocs.bsky.social Micheline Steinberg Associates represent new and established writers for stage, television, film, radio and opera, books to screen, as well as writer-directors https://www.steinplays.com/
Sophia Smith Galer @sophiasgaler.bsky.social Author of The Sunday Times' book of the week How To Kill A Language, all about language loss and linguicide. I have won and lost a bunch of journalism awards too but more importantly I won Xmas University Challenge twice and Rosalía follows me on TikTok
Ruby Colley @rubycolleymusic.bsky.social Composer | Sound Artist
Exploring Classical | Folk | Found Sound.
Climate | Nature | Advocacy.
Newsletter: https://www.rubycolley.com/contact
https://www.rubycolley.com/
Joel Phillip Friedman @joelfriedman.bsky.social
"Constructing thought one note at a time."
Composer: concert-theater-dance-film (bit o' jazz & rock). Educator: Catholic Univ/Stanford Continuing Studies. Speaker/host/writer on musical topics (including The Beatles & Sondheim) www.joelfriedman.com
David Barral @thoreaupeutic.bsky.social Thoreau studies | American Lit
Latest in ESQ: “Radical Resistance” (pinned post)
English/Research Skills teacher (high school)
Union ftw
Dr Amelia Dowler @ameliadowler.bsky.social National Officer FDA Union; Non-Stipendiary Research Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies; Researcher in numismatics; Poet
Famous Welsh Minds @famouswelshminds.bsky.social Welsh history, culture, and politics.
Exploring Welsh figures past and present - what we know, what we don’t, and how it shapes modern Wales.
✍️ Long-form on Substack: https://substack.com/@famouswelshminds
https://www.instagram.com/famous_welsh_minds/
Charlotte Smith @charsmiffy.bsky.social Climate comms and all things German/ ex BBC/CNN/DWTV Journo. Currently clean on OPSEC
Jonathan Ellis @jonathansellis.bsky.social Author/editor of things on Elizabeth Bishop. Yes, I still write letters & postcards. Paid and sometimes unpaid academic. He/him.
The Fiction Podcast Weekly @fictionpodcastwkly.bsky.social Newsletter for creators and audiences of audio drama and fiction podcasts, with resources and news to help them thrive and share great stories. Learn more at https://www.thepodcasthost.com/fictionpodcastweekly.
Simon Mackie @simonmackie.uk Content pro. I also make electronic music: http://soundcloud.com/simonmackie he/him
Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social Cheerleader for other poets' poems | Founder of Conscious Writers Collective | www.consciouswriterscollective.com
Richard Price @paintedspoken.bsky.social Richard Price, poet (Lucky Day, Small World, Moon for Sale, Late Gifts all from Carcanet) and novelist (The Island, from Salt)
Bridport Arts Centre @bridportarts.bsky.social Art & Exhibitions | Books, Writing & Literature | Classical | Comedy | Family | Film | Gigs | Performance. We are a charity serving audiences since 1973.
https://linktr.ee/bridportarts
Terri Paddock @terripaddock.bsky.social Promoting UK #theatre since 1996. Queen of post-show Q&As. Founded MyTheatreMates, StageFaves, WhatsOnStage. Ex-novelist. Politics geek. Dog lover and owner of world's cutest cockapoo, Lottie.
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
𝑬𝒍𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑹𝒂𝒅𝒕𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒓 @tarot-secrets.bsky.social 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨, 𝐈'𝐦 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐞. German-English author, writer, painter & artist. Born in the late '50s.
Books: pressenet.info/rider-waite-tarot.html
I like pets & support writers, artists & tarot lovers. #booksky #tarot #tarotsky #writing #reading #literature
@kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social American poet residing in India / Corbel Stone Press
Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social 'dust in the air suspended,
marks the place where a story ended'
Find me at http://www.simonknott.co.uk
Also available on X/Twitter. All 📷 by me unless otherwise stated.
Sarah J @sajarjar.bsky.social She/hers/her. Book lover. Scottish Canadian. Ally. Liberal Anglican. Doctor Who love. Podcasting about writing and publishing in Windsor/Detroit with allwriteinsincity.com
Peter McAllister @petermcallister.bsky.social Writer. University Lecturer. North Cornwall Book Festival Director.
Editor & Co-founder at @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social.
@chloesackur.bsky.social @chloesackur.bsky.social Co-host of Total 90s Recall podcast.
MA Podcasting graduate of City St George's University of London
Children's & YA book editor
Podcasts, films, TV, books ... and cats
Rebecca Goss @gosspoems.bsky.social More on Instagram @gosspoems
Poet & mentor. Books with Carcanet Press. Poet-in-Residence for CW+, the official charity for Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals. Writing for Life Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund.
Sue Wilkes @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social FRHistS. Europhile. Author of Regency Spies, A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England, and more. Young Workers of the Industrial Age, out now! Please be kind. https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Sue-Wilkes/a/1893
Ann-Str-Dav @annettestrdavey.bsky.social Siarad Cymraeg ...
... Science runs on good Data.
Germany runs on Excuses.
2026.
& tief im Westen 😊😍🎧🎶🎶
https://www.uni-wh.de/forschung/uwh-forschungsdatenmanagement
Dani Garavelli @danigaravelli.bsky.social Freelance journalist & writer. Bylines at the Herald, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the Big Issue, Prospect Magazine et al. Radio 4 documentaries, including Waiting for the Van & Prosecuting Polmont. Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.
John Simpson @johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social BBC lifer since 1966, international affairs editor since 1982. Presenter of ‘Unspun World’ on BBC Two, BBC World & World Service. Two daughters, one son, six grandchildren, a loving wife, lots of books, and an Irish terrier. Defender of the Oxford comma.
Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social C19th literature. Victorian Poetry. Pre-Raphaelitism. Caregiving / Care. Editing Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti (Longman). Visit the Poetry By Carers project website https://carerspoetry.org/ for poems by caregivers.
Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social Dubliner, Ex-Berliner, Editor at Internationale Politik Quarterly
@ipq.bsky.social. Doing an MPhil in literary translation at TCD. @tclctdublin.bsky.social she/her