Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing @bloomsburylit.bsky.social Book news from the Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing team in London and New York. 📚 Home of the Object Lessons series.
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Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org The official Bluesky account of the Nobel Prize.
Celebrating the work and discoveries that have had the greatest benefit to humankind.
The Ubergroup @theubergroup.bsky.social a 501(c)3 nonprofit providing low cost education for writers. Prose, poetry, stage, screen, nonfiction, journalism, comics, animation, podcasts, you name it. If it has a writer at any stage, we teach it.
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Swift Press @swiftpress.bsky.social Award-winning Independent publisher of your next read.
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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
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
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Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social Online creative nonfiction magazine est. 2010: memoir essays, flash cnf, articles, reviews, interviews + books, events, conference & community. Posts by Donna.
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
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This Is Done By Humans @thisisdonebyhumans.bsky.social Welcome to Done By Humans, a certification entity where businesses, organizations and individuals can self-certify and get a badge of recognition that their product/service/art is human-made without generative AI.
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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social Sometimes I do graphic design stuff for telly and film. Other times I make spooky lino prints and things you can buy if you want...
📍Black Country (middle of the UK)
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Richie Narvaez @richienarvaez.bsky.social Adjunct as well as Agatha- and Anthony-award–winning author of HIPSTER DEATH RATTLE | HOLLY HERNANDEZ & THE DEATH OF DISCO | NOIRYORICAN | 🇵🇷 | The songs I punched are dreaming
https://linktr.ee/richienarvaez
Solstice Literary Magazine @solsticelitmag.bsky.social Fiction. Nonfiction. Poetry. Graphic Literature. Translation. A Magazine of Diverse Voices.
Ultramarine Literary Review @ultramarinelitrev.bsky.social Submissions open!
Chilean bilingual literary magazine
Community of Literary Magazines & Presses (CLMP) @clmporg.bsky.social Ensuring a vibrant, diverse literary landscape by helping small literary publishers work better. www.clmp.org
Balfron Book Festival @balfronbooks.bsky.social A celebration of books and storytelling in the Scottish Stirlingshire village of Balfron.
3rd to 6th September 2026
www.balfronbookfestival.com
Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social Earthquake geologist 🧪⚒️ | Scicomm specialist 🎙️| Formerly USGS, IRIS, NASA | she/her | Views are mine | website: https://wendybohon.com/
“A delightful blend of scientific rigor and domestic chaos.”
Cymera Festival @cymerafestival.co.uk Scotland's Festival of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Writing.
🖊️ 2026 Festival 5-7 June, in Edinburgh & online. Tickets on Sale 1 March 2026
www.cymerafestival.co.uk
Granta Books @grantabooks.bsky.social Independent literary publishers. Discover our books here: http://granta.com/books/. 
Robert Paul Weston @rpweston.bsky.social Writer of stories and novels for Penguin Random House and others // Lecturer in Creative Writing at University of Lincoln // Faculty Fiction Editor of the Lincoln Review // Agent: Westwood Creative Artists
Blackwell's Manchester @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social Your friendly neighbourhood bookshop on Oxford Road, Manchester 📚 Bookchat, events and silly things. Bleets (?!) by @rednewsom.bsky.social
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York Literature Festival @yorklitfest.bsky.social Charity promoting literature, poetry and spoken word in York 📗
TripFiction @tripfiction.bsky.social Love to travel? Love to read?
TripFiction.com matches books with 2,890 locations around the world
See a destination through the eyes of an author
Amy Lilwall @amylilwall.bsky.social Writer. Novelist. Very bad at social media.
amylilwall.co.uk
Cliftop Publishing @cliftop.bsky.social Independent UK publisher and author consultancy (since 2017) for literary and climate-aware fiction. Interested in place, consequence and how environmental change reshapes everyday life. www.cliftop.co.uk
Fly on the Wall Press @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social Manc independent publisher with a conscience.
M.D. Isabelle Kenyon
2024 North England Winner Small Press of Year!
Sustainable, political and accessible
www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk
The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.
https://www.theparisreview.org/
https://theparisreview.substack.com/
Serpent's Tail @serpents-tail.bsky.social Lighting up our readers' minds and opening spaces for them to think differently. Bringing you brilliant, award-winning new and classic fiction and non-fiction.
Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social Independent poetry publisher 📧press@outspokenpress.com
outspokenpress.com
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Hajar Press @hajarpress.bsky.social independent political publishing house by and for people of colour
Peepal Tree Press @peepaltreepress.bsky.social Publisher of Caribbean and Black British books. Proudly decolonising bookshelves since 1985.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/peepaltreepress
Ortac Press @ortacpress.bsky.social Independent publisher of non-fiction and novels
#MDANT
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SI Leeds Literary Prize @sileedslitprize.bsky.social SI Leeds Literary Prize is a biennial national award for unpublished fiction by UK based Black and Asian women writers. 2024 winner: Maeve Clarke. 2026 prize judging underway.
https://www.sileedsliteraryprize.com/
WritersMosaic @writersmosaic.bsky.social An online magazine and developmental resource reflecting the changing reality of contemporary Britain, from its past and into its future. www.writersmosaic.org.uk. 
Royal Society of Literature @rsliterature.bsky.social The RSL celebrates and nurtures reading and writing of all kinds. We're a charity that believes literature is for everyone. ✨ 200 years young. 🌟
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
Tentacular Magazine @tentacularmag.bsky.social Tentacular is a magazine for poetry, arts and responses, now in its 11th issue, edited by Jonathan Catherall. Currently once-yearly, until the day job permits otherwise. www.tentacularmag.com
Santa Fe Literary Review @santafereview.bsky.social An annual journal of arts + letters produced by faculty + students at Santa Fe Community College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Submit writing + art free at https://santafecommunitycollege.submittable.com/submit
The Ilse Schwepcke Prize @theisprize.bsky.social The world’s most valuable travel writing prize for women.
https://www.ilseschwepckeprize.co.uk/
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/the-ilse-schwepcke-prize
SLAS - Society for Latin American Studies @slaslatam.bsky.social The Society for Latin American Studies was founded in 1964 and is one of the leading Latin American Studies organisations in Europe.
https://linktr.ee/SLASLatAm
Exiled Writers Ink @exiledwritersink.bsky.social As a literary organisation dedicated to human rights and intercultural dialogue, we take pride in being that safe, welcoming space where established and developing wordsmiths from migrant, refugee and exilic backgrounds come together to create since 2000.
Andrew McDougall @andymcd90.bsky.social Literary translator from Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan
Center for the Art of Translation (CAT) @catranslation.org CAT champions literature in translation and global voices. We program events with authors and translators in the Bay Area and beyond, publish books @twolinespress.com, and run an education program (Poetry Inside Out). More at www.catranslation.org.
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored
Open Borders Press @openborderspress.bsky.social Founded by Christopher MacLehose, OBP specialises in publishing literary fiction, non fiction and crime fiction from around the world exclusively in English translation.
Global South Literary Studies @globalsouthls.bsky.social Global South Literary Studies (GSLS) is dedicated to examining the literary and cultural expressions that respond to and emerge from the Global South.
To submit an article, review, or interview go to:
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rgsl20
Endangered Languages Project @e-l-p.bsky.social Sharing knowledge and building international networks to support language revitalization and documentation.
https://endangeredlanguages.com
The Bloomin’ Onion | **SUBMISSIONS ALWAYS OPEN** @bloominonionlit.bsky.social A Literary Magazine with Layers. Est. 2024. Helping new and emerging writers find their way. Posts by the EIC.
Subs: https://www.thebloominonion.com/submission-guidelines
Comma Press @commapress.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of short fiction from the UK & beyond. Championing the next generation of writers & translators. Shares do not equal endorsements.
Find us at: https://commapress.co.uk/
Human Writes Now @humanwritesnow.bsky.social Sharing stories from the margins, truth from between the lines 🔆 I promote underrepresented stories/creators 🔆 The antidote to the official narrative 🔆 Mixed-race storyteller/editor 🔆 Yonsei 四世 Daburu ダブル Rejisuto レジスト Nidoto nai yoni 二度とないように
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.
Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social Read Issue 8! Epistemiclit.com
Digital anthology series celebrating knowledge, connection, and growth through poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction.
EICs @melruthwrites.bsky.social and @kristinwrites.bsky.social. CNF Editor @gcbwrites.bsky.social
Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social Advancing knowledge, fostering collaboration, informing the future
https://www.pennpress.org/
Women's Writing Association @womenswritingassoc.bsky.social Women's writing Association is a community of women focused on celebrating and uplifting women in writing and academia.
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Faversham Literary Festival @favlit.org Book talks. In a brewery!
10-days of author talks and book events taking place annually in a Kentish medieval market town
20 Feb – 1 Mar 2026
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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social Independent publisher of contemporary poetry since 2008, home of Under the Radar magazine. Made in the Midlands.
https://ninearchespress.com/
Writers & Artists @writersandartists.bsky.social The best industry advice for writers & artists!
Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social The magazine of international literature since 1984. Order our latest issue, Wasafiri 127: Solidarities
https://linktr.ee/wasafiri
Silver Press @silver-press.bsky.social A feminist press feat. Ursula K. Le Guin, Audre Lorde, & Leonora Carrington. Announcing: Spiral House! An imprint for art, poetry & ways of knowing 💫 silverpress.org
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Frank Cottrell-Boyce @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social Waterstone's UK Children's Laureate
Ideas lead to idols. Only wonder leads to truth.
Swinging a hammock on the Island of Brilliant podcast
https://islandofbrilliant.podbean.com/
Board Game Addict UK @boardgameaddictuk.bsky.social Daniel Fullard - Board Game reviewer, content creator and fanatic from Sunderland, UK
This months sponsor is ‘Trilogy of 2k48’ - a card shedder coming to Kickstarter soon!
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/
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
https://filmfreeway.com/WILDsoundFilmandWritingFestival
Disrupted Blue Indie Press Publicity @disruptedblue.bsky.social Working with (or have worked with) indie presses including KERNPUNKT, Black Herald, Shearsman, Carcanet, PN Review, Sublunary Editions, CB editions, Stone Corpse, Hanuman, Vanguard & more!
Founding Director: Vik Shirley
@vikshirley.bsky.social
Fionn Petch @elusiveword.bsky.social Ootlin. Scotland→Mexico City→Berlin.
Translator. Senior editor @charcopress
elusiveword.com
LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
Visit us at 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL, or browse at https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
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University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk Changing the world since 1451 🌍 | #TeamUofG #WorldChangingGlasgow https://www.gla.ac.uk/
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.org.uk
Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social Artist, writer, sweetheart, battleaxe, she/her
Novels This Is Yesterday & Birding with Corsair Books
Rep: Becky Thomas at Lewinsohn Literary
Chair of The Adamson Collection Trust: work created in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital during the C20th
Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social Edinburgh University Press is the premier Scottish publisher of academic books and journals in the humanities and social sciences. edinburghuniversitypress.com
Clare - The Fallen Librarian Reviews 😄📚💖 @fallenlibrarian.bsky.social She/Her💖📚☕️🌿🌳UK 🇬🇧Book blogger, Librarian📚, Trainer, Book worm, cross stitcher, mad knitter, cake baker, garden lover xxx
Blog www.thefallenlibrarian.wordpress.com
The Empire Cafe @the-empire-cafe.bsky.social The Empire Café explores Scotland & Empire through events, places, writing & conversation. Co-created by Louise Welsh & Jude Barber. Podcast 'Who owns the Clyde?', co-produced with Halina Rifai out now. https://podfollow.com/who-owns-the-clyde/view
The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social Scottish Charity SC052417 caring for Gray’s studio & visual/literary material. Education & New Commissions. Inclusive Community. Custodian sorchadallas.bsky.social
Rodge Glass @rodgeglass.bsky.social Dad. Writer. Cheerleader at Strathclyde Uni. Author of 8 books inc Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography, Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs & Joshua in the Sky (Taproot 2024). Big fan of praise. (Giving & receiving) www.rodgeglassauthor.com https://linktr.e
The Bookseller @thebookseller.com At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com If you’re reading this, you’re in the right place.
Beautiful books you won't forget. Available in all good bookshops.
RCSEd Library & Archive @rcsedlibandarchive.bsky.social News, collection highlights and heritage stories from the Library & Archive at Surgeons' Hall/Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh #histmed
https://archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk
https://www.rcsed.ac.uk/career-hub/learning-resources/library-and-archive
The Letters Page @theletterspage.bsky.social 💌 A literary journal celebrating the timeless art of letter writing
📖 Latest issue at: tinyurl.com/tlp-vol-6
📪 Please note: The Letters Page is currently taking a short break and is temporarily closed for submissions
CREATe @create-glasgow.bsky.social Centre for Regulation of the Creative Economy, University of Glasgow
Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social Associate Prof @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
Helensburgh Book Festival @hburghbookfest.bsky.social Reading Minds - a literary festival with a difference! Join us for a weekend of wellbeing through books on the West coast of Scotland 🏴
Horror Studies Research Group @ Northumbria @horrorstudies.bsky.social The Horror Studies Research Group at Northumbria University (UK): the Home of Horror Studies
horrorstudies.com
#horrorNU
Cristina Delgado-García @cdelgadogarcia.bsky.social Lecturer in Theatre & Performance at the University of Glasgow. Contemporary British/European playwriting, performance, dramaturgy and political theory. Next book is on Tim Crouch (MUP). Also: 🌿🚴🌈🎉 Orgullosament xarnega. Hola!
Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social The UK's national festival of the humanities. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the @britishacademy.bsky.social.
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
The Celtic House @theceltichouse.bsky.social Bookshop/giftshop/coffee shop situated in Bowmore, Isle of Islay, Scotland, since 1959. Visit our Bookshop.org page: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/theceltichouse.
The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social Small but mighty, award-winning indpendent bookshop in the heart of Edinburgh's lovely Bruntsfield area
https://www.edinburghbookshop.com/
The Edwin Morgan Trust @edmorgantrust.bsky.social Trust of the first Scottish poet laureate, Edwin Morgan.
Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social Ted Hughes' and Daniel Weissbort's international poetry translation magazine. Edited by Janani Ambikapathy.
modernpoetryintranslation.com
SGSAH @sgsah.bsky.social The Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities, based at the University of Glasgow, offers world-leading support for doctoral researchers in the Arts & Humanities across Scotland. 🎓✨
Director: Professor Maria Fusco
UofG Culture @uofgculture.bsky.social 
Lucy Weir @lucygweir.bsky.social Reader and Head of History of Art @edincollegeofart.bsky.social
📚 Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury - out now
📚 A Global History of Modern Dance - out 2026
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Agata Masłowska @agatamaslowska.bsky.social Poet, writer, translator {she/her} / debut poetry collection “Woman : Plant : Language” out with Bad Betty Press / https://agatamaslowska.co.uk / Maslowska = mass + love + ska
Balancing the Books @balancingthebooks.bsky.social A podcast to help writers balance the books … along with everything else in life ⚖️
Hosted by @caileansteed.bsky.social
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University of Glasgow English Language & Linguistics @uog-ell.bsky.social English Language & Linguistics at the University of Glasgow. Find out more about us here: https://t.co/0f1EpnqR2n
International Association for the Study of Scottish Literatures @iassl.bsky.social Promoting Scottish literatures globally | https://scotlit-iassl.org | scotlit.iassl@gmail.com