Linda Newbery ๐โ๏ธ๐ณ๐ ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ทโ @lindanewbery.bsky.social Author: The One True Thing, Lob, Set in Stone, The Shell House & more. Campaigner on animal & environmental issues. Green Party, vegan, amateur photographer; hosts Writers Review blog. www.lindanewbery.co.uk & www.reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com
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Carol Waterkeyn @carolwater.bsky.social Former feature writer and editor, now writing fiction - women's and children's novels, and short stories. Loves travel, gardening, crafts, the coast and countryside. Cat owner. Married. UK-based.
Zee Author Artist Reviewer ๐๐๐ @zeamee1.bsky.social Author, Illustrator, Digital & Graphic Design Artist, Content Writer, Proofreader; Book Reader, Reviewer & Book Promotion; I luv NATURE, GARDENS, ART, MUSIC, FILMS, TRAVEL, FOOD #Followback
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BookishPerseus @bookish-perseus.bsky.social 22yrs
Book Count: 2002
TBR: 6770
2026 Reading Challenge: 171/200
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.
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Ehren Keen @ehrenkeen.bsky.social Nightmare Author | Probably Possessed | Not to be Fed After Midnight | keenarchive.com
Zoe @zoewriter.bsky.social Writer of children's stories. SCBWI-BI Undiscovered Voices 2022 winner. Represented Hannah Shepherd.
Finn O'Callaghan-Doyle @demibroseph.bsky.social They/He | 24 | UK | Irish descent
Writer, poet, queer, reviews, languages
Free Palestine, BLM, Trans Rights, Stop Asian Hate
Depressed Spinster Hermit in all but age
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Christine Thomas @ctthomas29.bsky.social Artist, PhD Candidate at UoD, and Community Artist, AuDHD. #audhd
PhD Research Project - An Isolated Incident: Domestic Abuse in Rural Liminal Spaces- A practice led research practice.
Rosemary Richings @rosemaryrichings.bsky.social Writer, editor, speaker #Neurodiversity. Author (2 #Dyspraxia books): โStumbling Through Space & Time: Living Life With Dyspraxiaโ & โStudying with Dyspraxiaโ. #Neurodivergent & living without a #Thyroid. https://linktr.ee/rosemary_richings
Alex Davis @alexdavis1981.bsky.social Lecturer, workshopper and creative writing events organiser - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/alex-davis-events-17318878423
Julie Swanson @jules9swan.bsky.social MG & YA author, SCBWI, Authors Guild, she/her; I love reading, long walks, beaches/water, kids, making things... interested in gender, dreams, psychology, spirituality. Find me at my website www.julieswanson.com or blog https://julieaswanson.wordpress.com
Chris Bonnello - Autistic Not Weird @chrisbonnello.bsky.social Autism and neurodiversity advocate, speaker and former teacher, author of the Underdogs series.
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School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social #1 UK children's booklisting website according to Ubersuggest. We recommend childrenโs and YA books to teachers, parents, librarians and schools. Free resources, free reviews and no paywall. #GoAllIn
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K. R. Raye @krraye.bsky.social Author, screenwriter, and marketer.
Repped by Hesperides Literary.
Kathleen Moran @kittymo1.bsky.social National Coordinator JCSP Library Project https://jcsplibraries.com/
Chair LAI School Libraries group https://schoollibrariesireland.com/
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JCSP Library Project @jcsplibraries.bsky.social JCSP Demonstration Library Project. School library project supporting literacy and learning in Irish schools.
Info@jcsplibraries.ie
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Claire Hatcher-Smith @clairehatchersmith.bsky.social MG Author/Speech Therapist
The Mizzy Mysteries
(Feb 2025 @farshorebooks Aug 2025 @tundrabooks)
Rep'd by Chloe Seager @ Madeleine Milburn
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Kate โจ๐ฑ @magickitten.bsky.social โ๏ธ https://linktr.ee/kate.neilan
๐โโฌ Cat lover ๐ชท Outdoors appreciator
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Cymru am byth ๐ Stories or death
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Patrick Samphire ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ @patricksamphire.bsky.social Fantasy writer | Freelance developmental editor | Former physicist. #SPFBO/#BBNYA finalist. He/him.
Around the web and my books: http://linktr.ee/patricksamphire
๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ rights are human rights
No generative AI ever.
Naomi Simone Borwein @nsborwein.bsky.social Horror scholar, PhD, HWA, CSFFA | Global Indigenous Horror (UPM, 2025) | Poetry Editor Orionโs Belt | Words in Future Fire, UtopiaSF, Space&Time, Lovecraftiana | EIC @katabaticcircus.bsky.social co-EIC @angrygablepress.bsky.social
A P Pullan @the-wee-pencil.bsky.social https://theweepencil.wordpress.com/ ; writer of kids books; self-publisher; studier of Diploma in CBT; sails Pica Belleau; walks Gubbins & Mavis; scone gobbler; drawn in Yorkshire; coloured in by Scotland; Ayrshire; #lufc; driftwood clockmaker; teacher
Rachel Delahaye @racheldelahaye.bsky.social Childish writer. ๐ฌ๐ง + ๐ฆ๐บ. Carnegie-nominated.
Rep: @agentalicewilliams.bsky.social
My type on paper
YA: Splinters ๐ช Electric Life โก
MG: Last Hope Highway, Day of the Whale, Mort the Meek, Animal Rescue
School talks / workshops KS1-KS3
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Blair N Williamson, Children's Author @theislandwriter.bsky.social Award-winning #kidlit author / Ocean Activist / Retired Scuba Instructor and Boat Captain bringing a unique voice from the ocean. Rep'd by Andie Smith and CMA Lit
Lauren St John @laurenstjohn.bsky.social Children's author & conservationist. @BornFreeFDN ambassador & @manechance patron. She/her. THE LION CUBโS SECRET out on 9 October 2025
Carmella de Keyser @carmellapoetry.bsky.social Prizewinning poet
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Judge Harlow Open๐
5 books published/forthcoming|Hedgehog Press|Alien Buddha Press|Parlyaree Press|Seventh Quarry
Widely published inc
by Macmillan
Beatles|90s nostalgia
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Britta Stromeyer @brittastromeyer.bsky.social Author and National Book Critics Member
www.dreamdraftdiscover.com
Katherine Tomlinson @kattomic.bsky.social Fictionista known by many names. Screenwriter. Reader. Voter. Fond of photography, travel, fall foliage, cats, chocolate, and science. 
Dan Thompson @mrdanthompson.bsky.social Writer of fiction, creative non-fiction and stories for the media.๐๐ฅ๏ธ๐ฐ โ๐ป
Creative Writing Alumni University of Cambridge.
Interested in writing of all kinds including for the screen, stage, prose, poetry and VSS.
Ellen Hopkins @ellenhopkins.bsky.social NY Times bestselling, often banned author. MARRIED feminist. Mom. Grandma. German shepherd lover. Joy seeker midst the chaos. Staunch ally. Democracy defender. Fighting for our kids' future. Not here to be sold anything. #blueresister 
Emm ๐ฆ๐๐ฌ๐ง @emmhenderson.bsky.social Developmental editor. Addicted to politics, crime fiction and black coffee.
MA Creative Writing (Brunel)
Writing workshops and 1:1โs.
Lit event organiser.
CIEP ๐ฆ๐
๐ Harrogate, UK
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Sally Ashworth @sallybooks.bsky.social Writing, reading, teaching. Bath Spa MAWYP 22-24, Golden Egg Academy. Currently researching PhDs. Particularly interested in autism rep in childrenโs fiction ๐ ๐ ๐๏ธ
Half Baked Prompts @halfbakedprompts.bsky.social Random story stuff to get you writing. Run the gauntlet by responding to all 150 prompts, found here -> https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5czgnb5wwkj2jlu7mdqciavg/feed/aaahxs3zqd77m
Helen Mort @helenmort.bsky.social Poet, author, Sheffield-er. Mountaineering literature specialist, running enthusiast, part time Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
badly drawn bee ๐ @soapachu.bsky.social Swish swish motherfucker.
AuDHD | alphabet mafia ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | rugby player ๐ | scuba diver ๐คฟ | cis | she/her until something better comes along.
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London & Liverpool, UK
Lauren Collett @laurencollett.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Napper. 
Maggie Christensen @maggiechriste33.bsky.social Author of later in life romance and historical novels.
Loves reading, coffee and walking along the beach.
Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social Nottingham's city centre independent and radical bookshop, est. 2013
Publishing as Five Leaves since 1995
www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk, www.fiveleaves.co.uk
We organise about a hundred events a year. Fast ordering service. Four book clubs.
Marisa Urgo @marisaurgo.bsky.social Author, writer, book nerd โจ debut: The Gravity of Missing Things (Entangled Teen) ๐๐๐ rep: Moe Ferrara
Jo Clark @thejokelark.bsky.social writer, reader, linguist.
knitter, nomad, procrastinator.
Sarah Hagger-Holt @sarahhaggerholt.bsky.social Award-winning children's author and freelance writer/editor. School visits. Empathy Lab trained. She/her. www.sarahhaggerholt.com
Inclusive Outsource @inclusiveoutsource.bsky.social Empowering neurodivergent young people & families to thrive ๐ | 1:1 mentoring, workshops, & family support tailored to you ๐ก | Letโs celebrate strengths & build futures. ๐
Amy Stone @amyfleurstone.bsky.social Sheffield Correspondent for Northern Soul. Author of YA and adult fiction. Arnold Bennet Book Prize longlist, Bridport Prize shortlist. Puschart nominee. Find me on https://www.instagram.com/a.f.stone
Niamh Rose @niamhrosewrites.bsky.social โ๏ธI write my maladaptive daydreams down
โ๏ธFate of the Five -OUT NOW
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Helen Peatfield @helenpeatfield.bsky.social ๐ง Welcome to Antifascism, ADHD, and Dogs!
๐ฑ ADHD Coach building tools to help neurodivergent people
Simon Wolfe @sgwolfeauthor.bsky.social Indie author, I write #spicy #scifi #SFF. 5 novels & many short stories. My recent novel The Celurian Connection is available on Amazon, free to read with KU. #booksky
50+
https://simonwolfeauthor.itch.io/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FR8V47CY
Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY is out now! @lindzmcleod.bsky.social Scottish writer/editor. Queer AF. Terrible workaholic.
PhD student in Creative Writing. Cinema Worms podcast co-host. She/they
Repped: @lzats.bsky.social (literary) Kim Yau at Echo Lake (film/TV)
Wife: @pegasusunder.bsky.social
www.lindzmcleod.co.uk
Z.K.A. (she/her) @pegasusunder.bsky.social MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (Amistad, Aug '27)
THESE HOLLOW BODIES (Neon Hemlock, Nov '26)
writer & psychiatrist M.D. (she/her)
zkabraham.com
rep @clgslr.bsky.social
Cinema Worms podcast!
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PaulArtwork @paulartwork.bsky.social #FBPE #Artist - Scouse (Liverpool) artist in France ... detests the Tories.
18 years in Japan, now living in France.
Realist painter of, mainly, still life.
https://www.paul-artwork.com
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Dawn McLachlan @deemclachlan.bsky.social Poet, author, bookseller, allotmenteer - for hire or loan. Won some poetry prizes. Account is stuff from a small rural town in NE Scotland. Kitten content warning! Once a librarianโฆ.
#FridayPoem
She/Her
https://dawnmclachlan.com/
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
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Safie Maken Finlay @safiemf.bsky.social Author of The Frozen Man // Autistic // Doesn't Feed the Trolls
Classical Art Memes - Ancient Cringe @ancientcringe.bsky.social here to make your day by posting a classical art meme every day.
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Iain Sarjeant @iainsarjeant.bsky.social Photographer & publisher based in the Scottish Highlands
iainsarjeant.com
Editor of @anotherplacemag.bsky.social and runs @anotherplacepress.bsky.social
Rob Hudson @robhudson.bsky.social Conceptual landscape photographer. Co-founder Inside The Outside Collective. Green, organic gardener.
Cardiff, Cymru, UK. He/him.๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
http://www.robhudsonlandscape.net/
Deborah Parkin @deborahparkin.bsky.social Photography - Art - Literature - Womenโs Photo History - Bookbinding - Printing - Women Artists - Gardening - Walking
Living on the moors in Northumberland with family, animals & camera.
Jevon Carey @jevoncarey.bsky.social Sometime amateur photographer.
Fen dweller in the frozen eastern wasteland of Cambridgeshire.
Link to my website.
https://jevoncarey.myportfolio.com/
Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social look / draw / repeat - works nights - author / artist - flint / chalk etc 
Lee Madgwick @leemadgwick.bsky.social UK based fine artist. Painter (mostly). Dog person (obviously). Abandoned/derelict building enthusiast. Wayfarer. Visionary. Procrastinator.
No NFTs. No AI.
http://www.leemadgwick.co.uk
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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social #Podcast. Landscape sound postcards in 3D immersive sound. Best with earphones. Listen while reading, resting or being mindful. Launched 2020. #SlowRadio
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Guy Dickinson @tracing-silence.bsky.social architect / wanderer
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www.johnpawson.com
Marianne Braca ๐ฑ๐๐ท๐จ๐ฆ @mcbraca.bsky.social Mom, wife, Secondary Geography teacher, #NatGeoCertified, #OntEd, #OAGEE, Pope Leo Catholic, hobby photographer, lover of the outdoors, books, optimism and hope. ๐๐ป Living in SW Ontario. Treaty 29. ๐ท are my own unless stated otherwise. No DMs please.
Katie Ward @katiewardwriter.bsky.social Neuroscience novel PATHWAYS, Fleet (UK 2024). Art novel GIRL READING, Virago (UK 2011). Award-winning author. katieward.co.uk
#WolseyWriters creative writing at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, Suffolk wolseytheatre.co.uk/whats-on/ 
Lea Elm @leaelm.bsky.social Photographer and writer living by the sea. Always looking for places to photograph and books to read. Won't say no to a hike either.
www.leaelm.com
Tanya Shadrick @tanyashadrick.bsky.social Author The Cure for Sleep: a late-waking life (Weidenfeld)| Creator Wild Patience mile of writing | Founder Selkie Press | FRSA
Teo Georgiev @teowithdoodles.bsky.social โ๏ธ Independent Illustrator
๐ง๐ฌ Bulgarian based in Finland ๐ซ๐ฎ
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Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social โ #ForgottenPoets & #ForgottenPrints โ Pre-1930s poetry & art โ Edited by Dick Whyte #dwpoems โ https://forgottenpoets.substack.com
โ Poetry New Zealand โ
#PoetryAotearoa
โ Forgotten Press โ
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Tabitha Potts @tabithapotts.bsky.social โ๏ธ UK Writer, host on Story Radio Podcast ๐๏ธ. Longlisted #PMJWritersPrize. Quarter-finalist Vail Screenplay Contest ๐ ๐ป Horror novel 2026 with @rowanprosepub.bsky.social
๐ https://linktr.ee/tabithapotts
After Dinner Conversationยฎ @afterdinnerconversation.com Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers.
Links: https://bio.site/afterdinner
Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social Publisher of award-winning fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. For the workshop, head to @mccormackwc.bsky.social.
Granta @grantamag.bsky.social The Magazine of New Writing.
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New England Review @newenglandreview.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine published by Middlebury College since 1978.
https://www.nereview.com/
ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social Award-winning, indie lit journalโmade in San Francisco since 1985. Our Issue 132 is now available. Subscribe: zyzzyva.org/subscribe/
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
n+1 @nplusonemag.com n+1 is a print and digital magazine of literature, culture, and politics. nplusonemag.com
Virginia Quarterly Review @vqr.bsky.social An award-winning national magazine at the University of Virginia. Established in 1925. vqronline.org
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Kenyon Review @kenyonreview.bsky.social In the heart of literature since 1939. journal | workshops | fellowships
https://linktr.ee/KenyonReview
Electric Literature @electricliterature.com Making literature exciting, relevant and inclusive
electricliterature.com
The Rumpus @therumpus.net Independent since 2009. Read The Rumpus Magazine. Become a Member. Receive Letters in the Mail from Authors. Join a dynamic, global community.
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TriQuarterly Magazine @triquarterlymag.bsky.social Writing, Art, Video. Since 1958. Published by Northwestern University's Litowitz MFA+MA and the SPS MA graduate creative writing programs. www.triquarterly.org
Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org Taco Bell Quarterly is The World's Most Prestigious Literary Magazine. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
Ecotone Magazine @ecotonemagazine.bsky.social A biannual magazine that seeks to reimagine place. Founded & made at UNCW. Winner, 2022 AWP Small Press Publisher Award & 2023 Firecracker Award
Fractured Lit @fracturedlit.bsky.social Fractured Lit publishes flash fiction with emotional resonance. Open year-round and is available to all writers. https://fracturedlit.com/ Posts by @tommydeanwriter.bsky.socialโฌ
Clarkesworld @clarkesworldmagazine.com Neil Clarke: Editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, The Best Science Fiction of the Year series, and more. Four-time Hugo Award Winner for Best Editor Short Form. Four-time Chesley Award-winning art director.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
neil-clarke.com
Terrain.org @terrainorg.bsky.social Terrain.org is the world's first online literary journal of place. An award-winning environmental magazine, we publish poetry, nonfiction, fiction, artwork, editorials, interviews, reviews, community case studies, and more, all free to access + ad-free.
The New Quarterly @thenewquarterly.bsky.social Literary magazine that has been publishing Canadian Writers & Writing for over 40 years.
Proud presenter of the Wild Writers Literary Festival!
The Ampersand Review of Writing & Publishing @theampersandreview.bsky.social 
The Offing @theoffingmag.bsky.social Online lit mag. Authoring change. From the people who built these cities.
theoffingmag.com
Exacting Clam @exactingclam.bsky.social The Discerning Mollusk's Guide to Arts and Ideas. From @saggingmeniscus. Quarterly, in print and online, since 2021.
Tahoma Literary Review @tahomareview.bsky.social We publish poetry, fiction, and nonfiction twice a year. Professional pay rates.
All online since 2024!
Current issues, submission periods, etc. at tahomaliteraryreview.com
Exposition Review @expositionreview.bsky.social Multi-genre lit journal & community
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