Frances Orrok @francesorrok.bsky.social Writer. Drawn to the wild ones.
https://www.francesorrok.co.uk
Pithead Chapel | Wigleaf | Smokelong Quarterly | Gone Lawn | New Ohio Review
Sally Young @sallyyoungwriting.bsky.social Writer. Currently working on fiction, short stories, flash fiction, poetry.
Former magazine journalist.
Finalist Exeter Poetry Prize.
Finalist Garden Photographer Of The Year.
books, pens, trowels, minor detail makes me happy
Dog & Wolf Press @dogandwolfpress.bsky.social Sideways fantasy and cozy horror from the hour between dog and wolf — when you can't tell the tame thing from the wild one. A press in the making; for now, notes from the workbench. Night is falling.
isabella jakobsen szállás @isabellajsz.bsky.social translator
isabellajakobsenszallas.com
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based in budapest/uk
Adrian Markle @amarkle.bsky.social BA English/Creative Writing Course Leader at Falmouth University. Fiction editor for Aethlon journal. 🇨🇦 in 🇬🇧. Author of many stories and the novel BRUISE. Writing about class, gender, pedagogy, and sometimes sport.
https://linktr.ee/adrianmarkle
Ram Gulrajani Author 📚 @rockape65.bsky.social From suspense to soul-stirring stories I writes them all Love the arts, writing, painting, strumming my guitar & generally being creative. From Gibraltar originally Website: https://t.co/8gSEmJ7TCu Team Site @iquitcigs.bsky.social
Jennifer 📚🎧❣️ @jdawson001.bsky.social ♿️🏳️🌈American SFF author, poet, editor, & book reviewer living in England. She/her. The Poetry Society & The British Fantasy Society. Old OWW member.
Online at: WorldsOfMayhem.com
https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/dawson001
🏳️⚧️ rights = human rights.
Danielle Evans @daniellevalore.bsky.social Writer, professor, lady with lapcats
Charlotte Tierney @charlieratpig.bsky.social https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-cat-bride/charlotte-tierney/9781784633622
Best British Short Stories ‘26 / Best Weird Fiction of the Year ‘25 / Conjunctions / The London Magazine / 3:AM / NER / Weird Horror.
All ‘moor, no snore.
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY Press, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Kazuo Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at UNSW | Modernism, novels, specialisation, media, bildungsroman &c | Chair Australasian Modernist Studies Network
University Press of Mississippi @upmississippi.bsky.social Founded in 1970, UPM is the publishing arm of Mississippi’s state universities.
📚 Publishing books in African American studies, popular culture, and more.
💻 Learn more at https://www.upress.state.ms.us/!
transcript Verlag @transcript-verlag.bsky.social Independent Academic Publishing | #WissenschaftStattFakeNews
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Meg Brayshaw @megbrayshaw.bsky.social John Rowe Lecturer in Australian Literature @ USYD. Editor, Aust Lit at Sydney UP. Co-editor, Australian Literary Studies. Current projects: resource extraction & settler colonial spatial imaginaries; Dymphna Cusack & literary commitment in the Cold War
Alex Hubbard @alhub.bsky.social Curriculum Development Consultant at Aberystwyth University. I write about literature’s relationship to politics, and weird little stories about weird little lives. My novel, Storm, will be published on the 8th of October with Seren Books.
Busra I. C. @buscopur.bsky.social Western University, Comparative Literature, Ph.D. Research on boredom in modern literature. https://post45.org/sections/contemporaries-essays/bored-as-hell/
Doriane Nemes @dodoriane.bsky.social PhDing on Oscar Wilde | fin-de-siècle art and literature; visual and material culture studies
Cowboy Jamboree @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social Press & online rag dedicated to grit lit & rural writing with rough edges. Survival is triumph enough. We dig Folk & Old Country music: @npcountrycovers.bsky.social. EIC: @vanwinkle.bsky.social
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com
Adam Van Winkle @vanwinkle.bsky.social founder & editor @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social; curator @npcountrycovers.bsky.social; curator @ArtArk.bsky.social; author Dylan Quick is a Dairy Queen Don Quixote & more; Minor Regional Novelist
www.adamvanwinkle.com
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com
The Failing Writers Podcast @failingwriters.bsky.social A podcast for anyone who’s ever dreamed of being a writer… then got distracted by a video of a cat being frightened by a cucumber.
https://podfollow.com/the-failing-writers-podcast
Margaret Atwood @margaretatwood.bsky.social Writer of this and that... www.margaretatwood.ca
and margaretatwood.substack.com;I also have an Instagram account, though I don't know how to use it much, beyond posting pictures...
Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social Writer of The Lodger, Me and Mickie James, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel. Lambda Award Finalist. Leicestershire Short Story Prize winner. Saltburn - Feb 2025.
Indie Press supporter.
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MD ANT
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A l i c e @astoehr.bsky.social short story collection "again, harder" out now from feminist press ✨☠️ aliceostoehr@gmail.com https://feministpress.org/collections/coming-soon/products/9781558613898-again-harder
Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com Author: Aven Cycle | Story Editor: Mythik Camps | Podcast Cohost: Worldbuilding for Masochists | novels, short fiction, & immersive xp | Shakespeare nerd, once & future educator, rhetorician, geek chic | she/her | Virginia, USA
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Ploughshares Literary Journal @pshares.bsky.social The award-winning literary journal based at Emerson College. Publishing established and emerging writers since 1971. mtr.bio/pshares
Nachtdufter @nachtdufter.bsky.social Literaturwissenschaftlerin. Dr. phil.
Paperghosts collector. Nighttime gardener. New Romantic. Noticer. Nature methodised. Interested in the encounters of psychopathology and art.
Kashawn Taylor @kashawntaylor.bsky.social Writer. Teacher. Student.
Prison Journalism Project.
Gotham Writers Workshop.
book: subhuman. out now.
MadameBibiLophile @madamebibi.bsky.social I like books and I blog about books I like at https://madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/
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
Sritama Chatterjee @sritamabarna.bsky.social Writing on Indian Ocean Archipelagos, environmentalism, and pedagogy
https://www.sritamachatterjee.com/
Elsa Court @emacourt.bsky.social 
Ashley Stokes @ashleystokes.bsky.social Writer and Ghostwriter
Weird-Horror and Comedy
https://ashleystokes.net/
https://theghostingcompany.com/
Dan Lockton @danlockton.com Utrecht, NL + Norwich, UK
Prof of Design & Imagination, Norwich University of the Arts ⦿ Director, Institute for Sustainable Worlds https://sustainableworlds.org.uk ⦿ Design⸻imagination⸻climate⸻futures ⦿ http://imaginari.es ⦿ he/him ⦿ Not employer's views
Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9
Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Vf4w9Ze38rLniADBEGKSp?si=AcWduGX
Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social Writer, linguist. Slips of the tongue, uh & um (amzn.to/40GCOM3); hyperpolyglots (bit.ly/3AXLtAe); first & last words (bit.ly/4kN0PKa). NEW: An anthology, THE LANGUAGE BEAT (Apple: https://apple.co/4fK71SA; Google: https://bit.ly/4wARdY2)
Horror Writers Association @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social Official Account of the Horror Writers Association. The oldest literary organization serving writers and publishing professionals around the world, dedicated to promoting dark literature and the interests of those who write it.
Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: stuart@brokensleepbooks.com | Founded: 2018
Website: brokensleepbooks.com
Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis.
https://longbarrowpress.com
Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing and powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Shoshana Zuboff and Francis Fukuyama.
Moira Garland @moiragauthor.bsky.social Short fiction writer & poet. Feminist. Socialist. Northern England.
Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social The literary prize rewarding mould-breaking fiction, launched and run by Goldsmiths UoL in association with the New Statesman
https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-prize/
David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social Autheur. Unfluencer.
'The Beckett List' (2027)
'A Crumpled Swan' (2025)
'Multiple Joyce' (2022)
All published by www.saggingmeniscus.com
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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social Founded in 1906 to support, promote, and celebrate the discipline of English Studies (registered charity 1124890). www.englishassociation.ac.uk/join-us/
The Portico Library @porticolibrary.bsky.social The Portico Library is Manchester’s original 19th-century home of literature and learning. Uncovering, imagining, and sharing new histories together.
Carnyx Press @carnyxpress.co.uk Northern speculative fiction micropress • Northumberland, UK • Human made • Our first anthology: carnyxpress.co.uk/products/oaths-and-offerings
Rob Madole @robmadole.bsky.social Writer & translator in Berlin. ILLUSIONS by Ruth Rehmann forthcoming from Faber Editions
minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social https://minorliteratures.com/
Rosario Arias @rosarioariasuma.bsky.social Professor of English Literature, University of Málaga; President of Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies, and President of VINS Society💜📚🪴🎼👻
English and Media Centre @engmediacentre.bsky.social Award-winning charity supporting English and Media teachers with publications, CPD, consultancy + conferences. Putting curiosity + pleasure at the heart of learning.
www.englishandmedia.co.uk
https://www.instagram.com/engmediacentre/
Interpret Magazine @interpretmagazine.bsky.social A new magazine of international writing, featuring winners of the International Booker, Neustadt Prize and US National Book Award 🏴
Daily Short Story Deadlines @shortstorycontests.bsky.social Submit your short story to the relevant genre. All of these contests are guaranteed acceptances. Your story gets a video performance reading made!
https://festivalreviews.org/daily-short-story-contest-deadlines/
Helen Grant @helengrantsays.bsky.social Lives in Scotland & writes books. Order my new novella STEAL ME from Absinthe Books. Short story collection ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES available from Swan River Press. Perthshire Gothic. M.R.James fiend. Represented by John Jarrold.
Adele Gallogly @adelegallogly.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Flash fiction writer | 2025 Highly Commended Bridport Prize & Finalist New Millennium Writings | Published in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Flash the Court, Writers’ Hour, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and elsewhere.
linktr.ee/adelegallogly
Alan Humm @alanhumm.bsky.social Editor of the online arts journal One Hand Clapping. Novelist, poet, teacher and father but not necessarily in that order. You can find my writing here: https://www.alanhummswriting.com/
Free Flash Fiction @freeflashfiction.bsky.social Authors / Writers / Lovers of Words...
Got a flash fiction story within 500 words, of any interpretation, on any theme, that our readers should read? #flashfiction
https://freeflashfiction.com/
Walter Scott Prize @walterscottprize.bsky.social We're the world's foremost literary prize for historical fiction & run the Young Walter Scott Prize. http://linktr.ee/WalterScottPrizes
Somacomics Publishing @somacomics.bsky.social We are a indie, creator-owned publishing press that publishes YA & Adult manga/comics. We focus on character driven, emotionally gripping works.
http://www.somacomics.com
Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social Reading, writing, & thinking about cosmopolitanism, internationalism, decadence, anti-colonialism, anti-fascism, modernism – & Una Marson, Nancy Cunard, Edith Wharton, & other people & things like that. Leverhulme ECF in English at University of Edinburgh.
Bradford Culture Company @bradfordculture.co.uk This is Bradford. Unfiltered. Unstoppable. Unmissable.
We were the UK City of Culture in 2025.
Leap.Type @leap-type.bsky.social A versatile, creative book production studio specialising in thoughtful, ergonomic design for publishers, offering a range of services including book design, typesetting, production management, self-publishing guidance, and publishing consultancy.
Steve Beresford @lostinmilbury.bsky.social Writer.
Over 800 short stories published + some non-fiction
+ couple of scripts optioned.
BOOKS. TV & FILM.
PKD - SF - mystery - horror - almost anything with a good story.
Stories are everything!
No to GenAI.
Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social Literary journal of formally promiscuous non-fiction. Publishing essays, memoir, autofiction and the overflow. Supported by the Arts Council.
tolkajournal.org
Kirsten Mosher @kirstenmosher.bsky.social Writing & Arting and most recently Plea$e Steal Me for 100 Plus Dollar-zz, a plea in twenty-ONE panels. https://lilypoetryreview.blog/lily-poetry-chapbooks/pleae-steal-me-for-100-plus-dollar-zza-plea-in-twenty-one-panels/
KirstenMosher.com
CTIS Manchester @ctis-manchester.bsky.social New account (migrated from @ctismanchester) for the Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies @ University of Manchester.
Follow us for news about CTIS students & staff, research seminars, and all things translation and intercultural studies!
Simon Okotie @simonokotie.bsky.social Essayistic novelist (and vice versa). The Absalon novels are published by Salt: ‘Fiction as original as this deserves a long shelf life.’ (London Review of Books). The Future of the Novel is published by Melville House.
J. M. B. Wilcoxson @jmbw.bsky.social Starting out on an early - if late - journey in writing.
I tweet stories, compliments and sometimes hiking photos.
2026 challenge: 245 words of 50'000
Living in Didcot, Oxfordshire, England, UK, Europe, Earth. Not necessarily in that order.
Hi!
Laura Jones-Rivera @laurafjones.bsky.social PhD Researcher in small press publishing & diversity at University of Stirling
Operations @charcopress.com
Freelance typesetter
Ex-publisher at 404 Ink
lauraflojo.com
Global Majority Press @globalmajoritypres.bsky.social Small indie lit press run by and for PoGM
Empowering marginalized creatives to tell their own stories
Editor: @mxchristalbot.bsky.social
Home of: thebkmagazine.bsky.social
bio.site/globalmajoritypress
Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net brucespringsteen.net
Sara Langham @saralangham.bsky.social Books, books, books at David Higham Associates.
Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin @miseryvulture.bsky.social Irish dilettante and horror writer in Berlin.
Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social Wading around at the confluence of arts / nature / culture since 2007
Regular posts at caughtbytheriver.net 🐟 Irregular printed matter, record releases & events via rivertones.bandcamp.com and our Friday newsletter
Renard Press @renardpress.com 🍃 An award-winning climate-positive indie publisher of classic & contemporary fiction, non-fiction, poetry & theatre. Also home to Hay Press.
renardpress.com
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Ann Morgan @annmorgan.bsky.social Internationally bestselling author, literary activist, podcaster and blogger who read the world
Thin Skin magazine @thin-skin.bsky.social Thin Skin is a literary magazine showcasing the work of writers over 50, the 'late bloomers' of the literary world. Find us at https://thin-skin.com/
Ruth Thomas @ruthiesthomas.bsky.social Latest novel The Snow and the Works on the Northern Line (a BBC Book at Bedtime) @royalliteraryfund.bsky.social
Agent Georgia Garrett @RCWLitAgency
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Home-Corner-by-Ruth-Thomas/9780571230624
Arthur Mandal @arthurmandal.bsky.social Brit/US writer of uncanny fiction. Best Small Fictions 2025. Over 40 stories in The Barcelona Review, LITRO, Southeast Review, The Forge, The Los Angeles Review and others. @nightjarpress Based in Eugene, Oregon (but grew up in UK). www.arthurmandal.com
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Joanna Piechowska @ashapiechowska.bsky.social Linguist, reader, educator and a beginning writer. Lover of non-fiction and translated fiction. University of Nottingham graduate - BA Hons Modern Languages & PGCE.
Keith Ridgway @rid9way.bsky.social writer
Dooneen - out now from Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions
previously - A Shock / Hawthorn & Child / Animals / etc
@rncmlive.bsky.social @rncmlive.bsky.social 
Creative Critical @creativecritical.bsky.social creativecritical.net is an online journal for writing and teaching that explores the relationship between creative and critical practices
Eds: Irina Dumitrescu, Gabriel Flynn & Thomas Karshan
Submissions: editors@creativecritical.net
The Orwell Prize @orwellprize.bsky.social We share George Orwell’s vision of a decent society where thought is free, truth is valued and brave writing is celebrated. Sign up to our newsletter 👇 https://orwellfoundation.substack.com/
The Reader Berlin @thereaderberlin.bsky.social ✍️ Berlin's Platform for Creative Writers since 2011 ✍️
www.thereaderberlin.com
Creative Writing Workshops & Writing Classes / Mentoring / Readings / The Berlin Writing Prize
Chris Parker @chrisparkerwriter.bsky.social Writer of TV and books for adults and children. Nameless Lake (Salt Books), The Yes Bunny (Magic Cat)
@boilerhouse.bsky.social @boilerhouse.bsky.social 
Eleanor Fuller @eleanorfuller.bsky.social Winner Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction 2023; finalist Fiddlehead Short Fiction Prize 2023 & Cambridge Short Story Prize 2024. Edith Wharton WiR 2024. Words: The Waxed Lemon, The Moth, Malahat, The New Quarterly & other lovelies. CCA-funded sabbatical!
Gritstone Publishing @gritstonebooks.bsky.social Gritstone Publishing Cooperative is Britain’s first publishing company which is an author-run co-operative. We publish non-fiction and fiction titles relating to the landscape and the countryside. 
Jack Barron @jackbarron93.bsky.social Teaching Associate, University of Cambridge.
Literary Editor, The Arts Desk.
2024 Anthony Burgess/Observer Prize for Arts Journalism Shortlistee.
Cooper Lee Press @cooperleepress.bsky.social Bridging the gap between craft development and published work, Cooper Lee is an independent press and school of writing and theory founded in 2025 by Dr Craig Snelgrove.
cooperleepress.co.uk
Amy Lord @tenpennydreams.bsky.social Northern writer. Author of The Disappeared. Stories in The London Reader, Reflex Press, Palm-Sized Press. Finalist: Mslexia Short Story Comp/Dinesh Allirajah Prize. Arts marketer. Writer in residence Durham Writes & Crossing the Tees.
amylordauthor.com
LeftLion Magazine Nottingham @leftlion.bsky.social Where Nottingham Meets.
Shouting arts and culture in the home of Robin Hood since 2003.
Leila Martin @bookishleels.bsky.social Writer, reader, next-level procrastinator. What time is it? 
Kerri Andrews @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social Writer & academic at University College Cork, where I am also Director of Creative Writing. Author of Pathfinding and Wanderers. Editor of Way Makers + Nan Shepherd’s letters. Walker, reader and single mum. Signed copies of all books: kerriandrews.co.uk
Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism.
Website: https://private-eye.co.uk
Subscribe: http://subsonline.co.uk- A Alice Jolly @alicejolly.bsky.social Winner of the 2026 Walter Scott prize for 'The Matchbox Girl' (about Dr Asperger) published by Bloomsbury Books in 2025. Rep'd by Eleanor Birne at Rogers, Coleridge, White. Oxford University whistleblower. Active member of Just Stop Oil.
Horatio Clare @horatioclare.bsky.social Award-winning author, broadcaster, journalist. Next book: WE CAME BY SEA: the true story of the small boat crisis. Latest: THE RECOVERY GUIDE TO MENTAL HEALTH, is a Times Self-help Book of the Year. Presents Is Psychiatry Working? on BBC Sounds
Hinterland Magazine - open for submissions @hinterlandnf.bsky.social Hinterland is a triannual print magazine showcasing the best in creative non-fiction writing. Issue 16 out now! Edited by @andrewkenrick.bsky.social @ionamacduff.bsky.social and @yinflim.bsky.social. Based in Norwich. https://linktr.ee/hinterlandnonfiction
Juliet Butler @bookliterati.bsky.social Hi, I’m a book blogger and avid reader who loves talking about books. I am also obsessed with my four Cocker Spaniels who are my constant companions.