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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, โWhatever You Do, Just Donโtโ, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
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TP Blakewell @tpblakewell.bsky.social This is an old account from 2025 when the 1st edition of Light Up The Darkness was published. The posts herein are associated with that edition only and have nothing to do with the completely different 2026 2nd edition on LightUpTheDarknessBook.com
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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. | ๐ Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Claire Gill @clairegill.bsky.social Journalist, Editor, Reviewer, Podcaster - Ex My Weekly - Ex BBC clairegillwrites.com
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Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social Theological Monsters (University of Wales Press), The Roma (The Bodley Head/Harper Collins, 2025) | 19thC Gothic
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