K.A. Hela ✨ Finally Querying✨ @jundlife.bsky.social Published by Crooked Spine
https://crookedspinepress.com/store?issue=6
Mediocre Magic: The Gathering player, Bar Trivia Teammate, Reader of Weird Books, Paint By Number Master, Documentary Hound, Owner of a three-legged cat.
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Hopeful News @hopefulnewshq.bsky.social The newsletter full of good news. Start your day with a smile!
IPBES @ipbes.net Intergovernmental Platform on #Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services. Denialism/trolling/profanity may result in banning. Re-skoots ≠ endorsements.
www.ipbes.net
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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.
Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social writes poetry
RP Babin @rpbabin.bsky.social Away somewhere. Professional Imposter. Writer. Photographer. Musician. Dreamer. Be and do what you want, just don’t hurt anybody.
Writing The Dawn @writingthedawn.bsky.social Where biodiversity, neurodiversity & creativity meet | Writing, creative workshops & coaching|For every kind of bodymind | Neurodivergent-affirming | Anti-racist| LGBTQIA+ affirming | Anti-oppression
@ron-kichurchak.bsky.social @ron-kichurchak.bsky.social I'm a wetland ecologist and conservation biologist with the NYS DEC. Obsessed with reptiles, amphibians, spiders, insects, and other creepy crawlies.
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social Publisher
Books Made in Berlin since 2023
www.sacredparasite.com
Matt Lanark @mattlanark.bsky.social ✍️ probably not writing the Great American Novel
📚 Great-ish Books on @substack
🏀 Undrafted NBA free agent since 2012
📌 Washington, DC
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Nick Wenderski @nickwenderski.bsky.social What are you willing to sacrifice for your goals?
Southern Gothic & Supernatural Horror
Querying THIRTEEN YEARS
Sandy McIntosh @sandymcintosh.bsky.social Author of twelve volumes of poetry, a Chinese cookbook, and three computer software programs.
https://sandymcintosh.info
James Elkins @purelyfiction.bsky.social I teach at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Here for writing: experimental, fictional, constrained, with images, with music. My book reviews are on Goodreads. All the art stuff is over on Academia.
Aron J. Rausgard-Writer @aronjrausegard.bsky.social Author of grimdark fantasy. Centrist. I'm a guy, so my pronouns are obvious. Strictly chickly. I'm tired of the lack of quality fiction for men like me, so I'm writing it.
Richelle C. Flores @richellecflores.bsky.social Writer & Editor
Philip Miller @philipmiller.bsky.social Five novels, including The Diary of Lies: A Wall St Journal and Airmail Mystery Book of 2025. Poetry collection: Blame Yourself (Nine Pens). The Goldenacre won a Shamus. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/E8G/a-shona-sandison-investigation/
Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io (they/he) nonbinary, poet, father, husband, gardener, *retired* game-dev from Sumo Digital...
Troy Preston Dillon @troyprestondillon.bsky.social The official page of Troy Preston Dillon, author of fantasy and young adult/coming-of-age stories (often a fusion of both!)
https://sites.google.com/view/troyprestondillon/home
Timby2 @timby2.bsky.social It's not how much you're given, it's what you do with what you've got. Folk music, archaeology, football and lefty views. Semi-retired, the boss will be furious when she finds out. Looking for hope and laughter.
Blue Villa @bluevilla.org Literary mag 📖
Est. 2023 🏙️
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It’s a privilege to study sonder 📖
@countycricket.live @countycricket.live Bot account (and sometimes its creator) detailing when live streams of first class and one day matches begin on YouTube. See all live matches on a single page: https://countycricket.live
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Cumbria @cumbriauk.bsky.social News and updates from the county of Cumbria, UK - we originally started this service on another app in 2012 and now here on Bluesky
swadeshine☀️ @swadeshine.bsky.social Wade Aaron Inganamort · sf writer · gardener · student of Buddhist philosophy · friend to all cats📍FL #amwriting · #Booksky📚💙
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social Poet | Critic | Queer
www.marcchamberlain.net
First Novel Prize @firstnovelprize.bsky.social Writing competition for unpublished and independently published novelists. Entries close on the 31st of May. Judged by Sally Williamson (Transworld) and Hayley Steed (Janklow & Nesbit). Organised by the Literary Studio. Bloomsbury, London
firstnovel.co.uk
Daniel Price @danieljprice.bsky.social Previously: Researcher (soft matter, magnetochemistry, crystallography).
Currently: Educator (Chemistry, University of Glasgow).
Prefer to be: Outside (West of Scotland)
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Rawhead @rawheadjournal.bsky.social Open to submissions of creative nonfiction and visual art. We believe in the power of art and literature as form of resistance.
Now on Submittable:
https://rawhead.submittable.com/submit
Wendy Waring @wendywaring.bsky.social writer, editor, prof, traductrice
Queer ecofiction novel forthcoming @Stelliform.press: The Hunger of Those Who Built It
🌹 grew up in the Hammer, raising rabble world-wide 🌹
she | they | dr 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈 🇦🇺 🇫🇷
Queen's | UofT | ISTI | Clarion
Stuart Aken @stuartaken.bsky.social UK writer of fiction (12 books published). Photographer. Environment, science, atheist, humanist, walker, happily married. Find me here: https://stuartaken.net/ I DO NOT follow DMs, selfie promos & users w/o profiles or posts. Porn will be blocked.
Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social Podcast https://mountainstoriesmountainfutures.buzzsprout.com/
Web https://msmf.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
Curated
@mountainsofgreece.bsky.social
@jonwestaway.bsky.social
@profpitches.bsky.social
#MountainHums #MountainHist #EnvHums #EnvHist
Brown Hound Press @brownhoundpress.bsky.social A small press in Lexington, KY that publishes offbeat mystery, dark humor, southern gothic & literary fiction. A free story each week! We pay authors.
brownhoundpress.com
Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social Previously @eliot_north on Twitter/X. ND mum-doctor-writer of poetry & prose. Living in Valencian Country, working as NHS GP Weston-super-mare.
#Moth Hybrid Mini-Book Ethel Zine - second edition 🚀 July 2026
Pubs below 👇
https://linktr.ee/eleanorholmes
🧿 Nya 💙 @seranyabeck.bsky.social 🧿 Seranya Beck ✌️ Artist | Author | Cosmic Architect
Building @-Social™ — creators keep 100%, forever → https://at-social.social/
🦋 Write What I Want
🌛 Dream of the Cosmos
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✍️🎨📸©️ #ArtBySeranya #CubistPoet #Seranya
SKP Guy @skpguy.bsky.social Writer, Geographer, Traveller. Human human being
Books I’ve Read @booksiveread.bsky.social #Books I have ACTUALLY read!
A Coffee for A Story @acoffeeforastory.bsky.social I explore what it is to be human & what it means to have this shared human experience. 💙 Writer and dreamer. Poetry. Nature. Good conversation over coffee. PhD (philosophy). --Tiffany
WIP:
Gently Down the Stream: Reclaiming Meaning After Religion
Obsidian Voices @author.bsky.social Featuring poets from around the world.
Daily spotlights, interviews, and unforgettable poems.
Because every voice deserves to be heard.
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
Josh Morsell @joshmorsell.bsky.social Writer. Private investigator. Green transitionist. Northern Californian. joshmorsell.com. @greenintel.bsky.social.
Mark Damon Brooks @brookswritesbooks.bsky.social I write books my mom says are the best books she's ever read in her life. So, I'm kind of a big deal.
https://linktr.ee/brooks_writes_books
Philip Murray @murraypj.bsky.social Writer, Teacher, Father. Dog Dad. Angler.
Granta Writing Short Fiction alumnus
MA Creative Writing, Lancaster University
Mike Davis Writes @mikedaviswrites.bsky.social www.MikeDavisWrites.net
Published author of short stories. My first novel - BENEVOLENCE, an Urban Fantasy (Highlander x American Gods) will be published by Foundations Books
A serial wanderer, trying out “Retirement” in Costa Rica.
N.J. Gallegos is Dr. Spooky (she/her) @drspookyer.bsky.social I like big cats. ER doc. Horror author. Artist. Cohost of The Scream Kings Podcast. Member of HWA. Pro-choice. BLM. I voted for her. Star Wars & BravoTV fanatic. She/her. 🌊🏳️🌈
Personal site: https://njgallegos.com
Podcast: https://www.screamkingspodcast.com
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
Steve Cobbin 'Cobbart' @stevecobbin.bsky.social Ex educator fighting entropy by treading the pathways of Somerset and elsewhere. Occasionally splash paint on canvasses in an attempt to make coherent images
Alice Brockway @alicebrockway.bsky.social Creative type and mental health researcher. Founder of Playing Sane. Lived Experience work with NSPA, Rethink Mental Illness, & GMMH. Part way through a never ending PhD. Generally interested.
WriteStats @writestats.bsky.social Data-Driven Insights for Writers and Publishers.
https://writestats.com/
Johnny Campbell @johnnycampbell.bsky.social Folk musician, freelance writer at Country Walking Magazine, Right to Roam Sheffield
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ MOJO
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Songlines
www.johnnycampbell.co.uk
Ally Tea @allytea2024.bsky.social NHS worker by day but here on Bluesky for nature, wildlife, history and art. Love learning and following interesting and positive accounts Based Birmingham UK
Sheila Ritchie @europesheila.bsky.social 🔶Former MEP. Electoral Commissioner. Scottish Lib Dem. Papy’s mum. Gardener. Birdwatcher. Conservationist. Outdoor swimmer. Rugby. She/her.🏳️⚧️ally. DMs with IRL friends only- that last bit went a bit wonky....🤪
Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Natalie Whittaker @natalie-whittaker.bsky.social Poet and Teacher.
Book: 'The Point Is You Are Alive'
Pamphlets: 'Tree' and 'Shadow Dogs'
Simon Wolfe @sgwolfeauthor.bsky.social Simon Wolfe | Independent Sci-Fi Romance Author. Writer of Galactic Seductions & Ariana Takes Command. 🚀 Claim a FREE space-opera short story here: simonwolfeindependentauthor.eo.page/s5h1m
Keep Pushing @picklesmom.bsky.social Musical sponge. Progress doesn’t always feel like progress. Motto: Forward.
GGCarroll @ggcarroll.bsky.social Author of the Trisha Carson Mystery series set in the beautiful San Francisco Bay area. Trish is an amateur sleuth who gets herself in way too much trouble.
Jane Copland @janecopland.bsky.social Writer repped by Sara Langham at David Higham Associates. National swimming champ 🇳🇿, sub-40 10K club, marathon runner, rugby faithful 🌹
In: The Independent, Brick Lane Bookshop, Witness Magazine, Newsroom, Hayden's Ferry+more. https://janecopland.com/
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social Poet, Memoirist, Translator, Expat, Lover of Life
dogyard @dogyardmag.com Just a mag chasin’ tales.
We accept all types of work from all (leashed) walks of life: poetry, fiction, essay, art, nonfiction, and more.
Read & Submit 👇
dogyardmag.com
Account ran by @edithkrone.bsky.social
Gaylestorming @gaylestorming.bsky.social Writer, reader, coffee drinker…dark brews & dark chocolate. A cozy horror creative searching for my place in the universe. 19th Annual Writer’s Digest poetry award winner 🏅 USAF Veteran
https://www.gaylestorming.com
Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social Author of 'Winter's Wishfall'. Folklorist. Mum. Northerner. Lecturer in Folklore & History. Eater of cake.
H. Perry Horton @hperryhorton.bsky.social New Novel Available Now:
DON'T LET THE DARKNESS EAT YOU UP
https://www.amazon.com/DONT-LET-DARKNESS-EAT-YOU/dp/B0FVT8VWKS
Books: https://shorturl.at/AuKlV
Lisa @lisadellaporta.bsky.social Deep Woods of Philly | Sometimes Writer | Spoonie Crew | Accidental Startupper | Words in New Letters, Wild Roof Journal, etc.| NO DMs
https://linktr.ee/lisadellaporta
Caz Binstead BA MA AdvDip PGDip @cazbinny.bsky.social Therapist & Author (Routledge). Founder #TraineeTalk #TherapistsConnect , & #TherapistsCreate. Project lead e.g BACP PP Toolkit.
Visiting Lecturer & Facilitator; Relational Activist.
Creative 📷 ✍️
www.cazbinstead.com
Shut Out The Light Films @sotl-films.bsky.social Independent film company. Five feature documentaries released in the UK to date. Current project: Iron Ladies.
BlencathraTim @blencathratim.bsky.social 'Not all those who wander are lost' -often said in our campervan. Always a Geographer now a Trustee for Futureproof Cumbria (formerly CAfS). FRGS.All views are my own.
Lake District UK
The Berlin Literary Review @theberlinreview.bsky.social Home to some of the world’s best new writing.
http://theberlinliteraryreview.com
Ronnie C @from-rons-desk.bsky.social A little bit of this and a little bit of that. Also some other stuff too 😊👍
T Arnson @sirscribblesalot.bsky.social Writer-Producer ✍️
Here to check-out other creatives 🎭
Sharing my stories ✉️ Growing subscribers 📈
https://neuroticencounter.com/mailing-list/
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Martin Brown @martinbr.bsky.social Traveller on a regenerative journey.
Sharing Stories, Nature Writing & Watercolour
Host @ Zoom Regenerative
Writer: @ Regen/Notes +
Author: FutuREstorative +
Place: Forest of Bowland
More at
https://fairsnape.substack.com/
https://linktr.ee/martin_brown
@efremseeger.bsky.social @efremseeger.bsky.social 📚✍️ Former TV writer (Fresh Prince, Queer as Folk and others) turned novelist. Working on fifth thriller. Repped by Victoria Skurnick at LGR. #booksky #author #thrillers
Kate Davis @katedavispoet.bsky.social Poet. Books- collection - The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk and new verse novel - Flow published by Verve.
Also maker of stories, cake, chutney and interesting things to wear - wild swimmer - very fond of a limestone landscape.
Writing About Writing About Writing @writingabtwriting.bsky.social A free blog about writing books, and books about writing, and reading books about writing.
Writing About Writing About Writing is a project by @thatemilymunro.bsky.social
Find it at Writingaboutwritingaboutwriting.com
John Jarrold @johnj.bsky.social Literary agent for SF, Fantasy and Horror, after 15 years as a publisher in London.
http://www.johnjarrold.co.uk/
Ghostcards @ghostcards.bsky.social We're all ghosts now. Curated by @pastpostcard.bsky.social. Represented by http://morgangreencreatives.com
Flex Fish Games @flexfishgames.bsky.social Artist Matthew king and programmer Rami Bukhari, teaming up to develop nostalgic hand-drawn 2D games.
The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social Socialism & sit-down satire #ridicule #resist #rebel #remove
There are alternatives: greenparty.org.uk / www.yourparty.uk
Socialist Book Club: https://bsky.app/profile/shakethescales.bsky.social/post/3lumtxnfz7c2c
Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social Eco-socialist, 75+ disabled MH survivor
Anti-Reform Green+Your Party electoral pact
#FreePalestine #TaxTheRich #BLM #Feminist
Songwriter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AGDJDrklwM&list=
Elizabeth Dale @cornishbirdblog.com Cornish Writer, bit obsessed with local history, check out my blog The Cornish Bird
Al Hatch @alhatchauthor.bsky.social Slice of life novel "Meltdown Expected" coming soon. Set over 3 decades from 80s, about punk rock, coding, philosophy, radicalisation, love, weakness, growing up. Also write poetry, songs and non-fiction. #actuallyaustistic #leftist #lgbtq ally UK he/him
Stewart Guy @stewartguy.bsky.social Naturalist. Wildlife Photographer.
Aka StewRat. Founder of Wildlife.net
Share, Inspire, Protect.
Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social Wildlife Community for those who care about species & habitat conservation. Photography, Art, Videos of Birds,Mammals,Reptiles,Plants,insects
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61578489868735
https://www.tiktok.com/@wildlife.net?_t=ZN-8yV9vhsHk0c&_r=1
Shellie Kalinsky @sheshellwrites.bsky.social Writer | Editor | Mama Bear & Gigi
ShellieKalinsky.com
This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social I post daily about something that is “this many years ago”. This account is a hobby project. Time zone is GMT+2.
𝙉𝙤𝙞𝙧 𝙃𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙘𝙠 ♬ @noirbeachshack.bsky.social Celebrating film noir, from the classics to the obscure. Vinyl records. Art. Coffee. Old diners. Classic TV shows and movies.
DarkHolmePublishing @darkholmepub.bsky.social 🔪 Indie Horror & Dark Fiction Publisher
👁️🗨️ Anthologies · Magazines · Micro-Horror
🔦 New darkness delivered every month
💀 Your next horror obsession starts here ⬇️
https://www.hopp.bio/darkholmepublishing
Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social Author of Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland. Also, Steeple Chasing: Around Britain By Church, & A Tomb With A View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards. Substack: https://smallfinds.substack.com
Dr Penny Hay @penahay.bsky.social Artist, Researcher, Professor of Imagination Bath Spa University, National Teaching Fellow, Cofounder Forest of Imagination, FRSA, FCCT 💚🦋
https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/penny-hay/
Teaching with my eyes shut @eyesshutteacher.bsky.social Recently retired Primary Teacher in 🏴 teaching since 2009 in a wide range of roles & schools. Hoping to make you smile, increase your positivity & find your focus.
Often answers to Sarah, Mum or coffee
My views.
#EduSky #ScotEdu #UKEdu #EduSkyPrimary
Rick Marriner @rickmarriner.com Houston. Nothing much ado anymore, not by trade, writer by remedial action. Daily #vss365, #senryu & #micropoetry. Learning to make words in public after decades of consuming them in private.
Phil Watson @frenchmegaliths.bsky.social Field work in Iraq for 5 years, 34 years curating ancient Egyptian, Near Eastern, Pre-Columbian American and Prehistoric antiquities. Since retiring have been publishing my collection of old French postcards of Megaliths (see pinned post).